"Matatabi?"
Uchiha Minamoto spread his hands.
"Perhaps you don't know, but the Uchiha are all 'cat-person ninja.'"
What cat-person ninja!
This was discrimination!
This was blatant discrimination against tailed beasts!
Eight-Tails Gyuki grew even angrier, the severed stumps of several tentacles behind him thrashing wildly.
Kumogakure never practiced discrimination!
But soon.
Faced with Uchiha Minamoto's calm expression.
The anger in Eight-Tails Gyuki's eyes gradually faded nonetheless.
He knew very well that he had no right to bargain with this man.
Just like Isobu the Three-Tails before him.
"I... I can sign a Summoning Contract with you."
Eight-Tails Gyuki spoke slowly.
"But I have one condition."
Uchiha Minamoto regarded the bull-headed octopus monster at his leisure.
"Let's hear it."
"B, Killer B, my brother."
A hint of seriousness entered Eight-Tails Gyuki's voice.
"I hope you can spare him."
Uchiha Minamoto did not answer immediately, instead watching Eight-Tails Gyuki with interest.
He had to admit.
The atmosphere in Kumogakure really was better than in the other villages.
If Uchiha Minamoto remembered correctly.
Matatabi seemed to have been the same back then.
That big cat had also hoped Uchiha Minamoto would spare Yugito Nii's life.
As for Isobu the Three-Tails.
His situation had been completely different.
Isobu and Karatachi Yagura.
Both beast and man had been controlled by Obito Uchiha, with little communication between them.
Isobu had not felt particularly deeply attached to Karatachi Yagura, either.
But the Eight-Tails and Killer B were different.
The birth of a perfect jinchuriki meant that a rare bond of mutual understanding had formed between the tailed beast and its jinchūriki.
In the original story.
Killer B had survived even after Madara Uchiha extracted the Eight-Tails from his body.
Of course, this was not because he possessed a special constitution even more powerful than the Uzumaki Clan's.