Jinchūriki!
The Ten-Tails Jinchuriki!
The question Shihōin Naraku suddenly raised stunned everyone.
An ordinary tailed beast's jinchūriki could already serve as a weapon of war for any shinobi village. How powerful, then, would the jinchūriki of the Ten-Tails, formed by combining the chakra of the nine tailed beasts, be?
Some people even immediately began harboring unsavory thoughts.
If a ninja from their own village obtained the Ten-Tails, successfully sealed it, and became its jinchūriki, then...
The possibility was truly tantalizing.
Naraku rubbed his fingers together, taking in everyone's expressions. He knew that releasing this information would inevitably arouse some people's covetousness.
But knowing was one thing. If they really thought they could seize the Ten-Tails so easily, they were dreaming.
If nothing else, as the strongest person in the Shinobi World today, how could Shihōin Naraku possibly let them succeed so easily?
As Naraku watched the others' expressions, Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage, was actually the first among them to come to his senses.
That was hardly surprising. All Gaara had ever experienced from Shukaku, the One-Tail, was suffering.
Unlike the others who coveted the power of the tailed beasts, Gaara was somewhat inclined to keep his distance from such things.
Besides, he was still young and had relatively more faith in his own strength. He believed that even without a tailed beast, he could revive Sunagakure himself.
That was why he came to his senses first.
"The Sage of Six Paths, the Ten-Tails, jinchūriki..."
Gaara murmured to himself. These things churned endlessly through his mind, and soon he formed a conjecture.
"Lord Hokage, if what you said is true, could the Sage of Six Paths have once been the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki too?"
His sudden conjecture immediately drew the attention of the Tsuchikage and the others, who had been deep in