Chakra Thirst

In the end, capturing Roshi didn't require Takara to personally participate in the fight, which, if we're being honest, disappointed him a little.

A jinchuriki and it only cost him a single puppet?

If only it were that simple for the rest of them.

Although with Han, he planned to fight in person while the puppets maintained a perimeter to ensure a quick capture and escape.

There was a big difference between practicing the chakra mode of the Tenseigan on his own and using it in a fight. He needed real experience in using it.

And since the only remarkable thing about Kokuo's jinchuriki was the use of steam, he was the perfect subject to be his practice dummy.

Low risk and high endurance.

He just had to avoid taking his time and simply take the jinchuriki away, trapping him in his workshop with the help of Nakime in a specially prepared room to contain him and be able to fight without worrying about the space breaking.

Han fought in the Third Shinobi World War and made a name for himself in it, so he should have enough battle experience to satisfy his practice before snatching the Five-Tails from him.

He also knew that Han had a "normal" attitude as a jinchuriki, as he hated people because he was neglected and detested by his village for being a jinchuriki.

Finally, a reaction with common sense to an undeserved treatment!

Thanks to Son Goku's chakra display, his noxins began to search for the biju egg while Takara approached the territory of Iwagakure with extreme caution.

Patrols, lookouts, birds, traps, barriers, Zetsus...

He simply took every precaution possible to try to sneak in unnoticed.

He was just a few kilometers from the village, the most sensitive area, when he received a signal from a noxin even further north of his current position that caught his attention.

The Four-Tails' egg, his most recent acquisition, was located in an area with high volcanic activity.

Takara couldn't help but shake his head, feeling a bit amused by the events.

He had been searching for the Six-Tails' egg for so long that he found the Four-Tails' egg so quickly.

He set out without hesitation to claim it.

With it, he could finally wield powers over time!

Kidnapping Han would be child's play once he could use all his abilities; not even the jinchuriki himself could fight against temporal powers.

Not only that, he could also keep the Tenseigan active for as long as he wanted, enduring the cost in positive numbers. It was tight until he got the rest, but it was still better than his current condition where he could only use the Byakugan.

Interestingly, the North area of the Land of Earth was mostly ignored even by most of its inhabitants. Due to volcanic activity, boiling water, and black soil, there were rumors of the existence of demons and curses that kept people away as if stepping on that ground would infect them with the Black Plague or something worse.

Ignorant fools!

They have no idea how extremely fertile volcanic soil is. If the people of Sunagakure sent some ships to claim a portion by sea, no matter how small the plot secretly, they should never worry about food again.

They would even have excesses!

Onoki has no idea of the power he's ignoring while they keep playing their politics and clandestine intrigues; the moment other villages know the potential of this place and the amount of food the land could produce, the Fourth Shinobi World War will be declared.

As for the Four-Tails' egg, it naturally lies in the largest and most active volcano, but it's not at the summit as one would expect, but it's in the underground magma chamber.

And that's just the entrance to the barrier!

Takara wanted to curse the Sage of the Six Paths, no, he did curse out loud and creatively!

If Black Zetsu had been present, he would have burst into applause and whistles.

Isobu's egg already gave him headaches, and now he needed to prepare puppets capable of withstanding and swimming in magma?

At least there are quite a significant number of characters and creatures that can do that; it's just a matter of choosing. Or remembering them.

He could send a couple of Akantors from Monster Hunter; they would be more than enough to retrieve Son Goku's egg through sheer brute force, but their construction would take too much time, materials, and effort.

He needed something smaller!

"Using some Zakuro puppets could be much simpler," reflected Takara as he remembered said character.

Zakuro, a member of the true Six Funeral Wreaths of the Millefiore Family and the bearer of the Storm Killing Box.

The reason he thought of him was nothing special, quite simple actually; the first time his existence was revealed, he was bathing in the lava of a volcano while whistling as one would do submerged in hot springs.

Wasn't that exactly what he needed?

Although he didn't know if he would achieve a high enough affinity to obtain this resistance, it wouldn't take him long since it was a type of humanoid puppet he was more familiar with building.

The results were intermediate.

Yes, the affinity was high enough to make Zakuro withstand the magma, but it was still too low to be able to use his hybrid T-Rex/human form along with his special flames.

Enough to function.

He made four in total after estimating the weight of the egg from the previous ones and let them submerge to retrieve it.

None resurfaced.

It's not that he was wrong or they got lost; the puppets were still there.

Simply... He forgot the additional chakra consumption they would need to extract the Four-Tails' egg, so they drained their battery even before they could resurface.

He could only blame himself for being impatient, make more, and give them more chakra to achieve the goal.

He spent another three days recycling the Four-Tails after finishing the sealing work, and when he opened his eyes, the Tenseigan seemed to have mutated slightly to gain a certain resemblance to a gear wheel.