I respond with this bit from the end of chapter 11 of 'The Great Romantic':
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"Well, at the start of the fight he was drawing on the Kyuubi chakra, and gave me a good look at the seal on his stomach... It was the most absurd
seal I've ever seen! I don't think its actually possible to extract the Ninetails and live through the process. It's got so many safeguards that
I doubt both of us working in concert could survive the unsealing, and the resulting fight and capture of Kyuubi!"
Pain stared as Tobi continued to rant and wave his arms about. 'It can't be that bad...'
"I didn't get a good look at all of it, but not only would removing the seal cause the boy to actually turn into some crazy fox thingy as it went
on... But there was one part of it that looked like if you pulled off too much of the seal, the freakin Yondaime himself would somehow appear and stop you!
How the hell do you do that?"
"You... got all of that from looking at the seal once?"
"Pain, remember that you aren't the only one with a crazy doujutsu here..."
Pain rolled his eyes at that. As if Madara could go five minutes without mentioning his Sharingan, and how not only did he reach the highest level... But
he went beyond that into an even more ridiculous level!
"Anyway, my plan to capture all the biju obviously won't work now... And I was so looking forward to catching them all... At least I can still
get the Sandslash, Persian, and Lapras easily..."
Tobi wandered out of the meeting, muttering to himself.
Leaving Pain and Konan to stare at each other in confusion.
"What... What was he talking about at the end there?"
"I think some things are better left off to mystery. No, our bigger concern here now is how to succeed in our goals without the power of the
Kyuubi..."