"I'm a jinchuuriki, and my teacher wants me learning to use that, so we've been staying away from settlements a lot in case something happens which is boring, but makes sense 'cause jinchuuriki stuff's dangerous? I've not actually learned a ton of other stuff though, so I was hoping to stick some clones with my dad and maybe some of the Snow shinobi who felt like telling me stuff and all? And it's probably safer to go faster with the jinchuuriki stuff around the undead."

"What's a jinchuuriki?"

"We're when you seal something like a Tailed Beast into a human - I guess maybe the term might apply to sealing like spirits into humans too, but I haven't heard of anyone doing that? So I've got the Nine Tailed Fox in me, and he kind of hangs out in my head grouchily, but my seal's set up so his chakra leaks into mine."

"That... sounds uncomfortable on several levels."

"I don't really like the part where he's mad all the time, or the part where he sometimes makes me really mad, or the part where there's people trying to capture me to get at him, or the part where people don't like me because I'm a jinchuuriki, but it's not that bad? ...Okay it's not actually that good but I already yelled at dad over it?"

"Your dad did this?"

"Yeah. He was the Fourth Hokage, and the Nine Tails was attacking the Leaf, and he was one of the only two people who could do a strong enough seal in the Leaf, and the other person maybe wouldn't have been able to modify it to be a jinchuuriki seal?"

"Why on you?"

"He said it was cause he trusted me as his kid? And also I think a lot of it was me being an Uzumaki - both other jinchuuriki of the Nine Tails were same clan."

"Uzumaki have some kind of affinity for this?"

"My mom did, and she was actually selected specifically for it. In general we have really big chakra capacities and heal well, which helps."

"Well, I guess that's sort of an excuse."

He shrugs. "I'd like to someday become friends with the Nine Tails, but he won't talk to me except to yell stuff, so it's a work in progress."

"What does he yell about?"

"Mostly threats? And insults. But sometimes he says I'm interesting."

"I guess that's something. Where do these jobbies come from?"

"The Tailed Beasts? No one knows, and they've been around as long as anyone has records I think. I can try asking him, though."

"I'd be curious to know what he says even if it comes in yelled form, but don't put yourself out about it on my account."

"It'll be a good question to ask, though. Might distract him a bit."

"I'm also curious why the tails are significant. I myself have a tail and it's never seemed like a big deal."

"There's nine Tailed Beasts. They're called that I think because each of them has a different number of tails, and the more they have the more powerful they are? The One Tailed Tanuki through the Nine Tailed Fox."

"How weirdly tidy!"

"Yeah, there's a lot weird about them."

"Do they have any relationship to the talking extradimensional snakes?"

"Probably not? Summon animals are pretty common, and there's a lot more types than nine. I've got the toad contract."