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Now I'm rather confused. The timeline doesn't add up to me. I was hoping
someone to shed some light.

So here's how the events seemingly happened.

  1. The hidden cloud had, for a period, attempted to capture the nine-tails.
  2. As a result, the nine-tails ate the Kin/Gin Brothers.
  3. To survive, they ate the flesh from his stomach.
  4. The nine-tails spit them out, and they had his chakra when they were expelled.

That's all fine, but **it doesn't add up**.

  * It was said that between the five great villages, the Hidden Leaf was the first.
  * It was also said that after Madara's and Hashirama's battle, the nine-tails was sealed inside Hashirama's wife, Mito.
  * Shortly before Mito died, the nine-tails was transferred to Kushina.
  * During the short nine-tails attack on the village (after being freed from Kushina), the nine-tails was sealed again, inside of Naruto.

Now, we also know that the Kin/Gin brothers were at the same time as the
second Hokage, Tobirama. Given that they were the ones who killed him.

**When did they have time to get swallowed up by the nine-tails?**. The Hidden
Cloud village didn't exist before Konoha did, so it can't be _before_ Madara's
and Hashirama's battle, and right after that, the nine-tails was in constant
Leaf possession.

So when? When did the cloud try to get the nine-tails?


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When did the Kin/Gin Brothers get their Nine-Tails power?


According to [this Naruto Wiki
page](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kurama#Background) (second and third
paragraphs), **the brothers were swallowed by Kurama _before_ the battle
between Hashirama and Madara took place** (the battle after Madara's desertion
from Konoha, when he used the Sharingan to tame Kurama).  
This would mean they were swallowed before Kurama was ever sealed inside any
Uzumaki.

![Chapter 529, page 3](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LtdAK.jpg)  
Chapter 529, page 3

> Now, we also know that the Kin/Gin brothers were at the same time as the
> second Hokage, Tobirama. Given that they were the ones who killed him.

Although this is true, _I think_ Tobirama and Hashirama are almost the same
age, which would mean Kinkaku and Ginkaku's age is somewhere around both Senju
brothers.

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From what I understand, the timeline would go something like this (not sure
about how much time between each "step"):

  * Founding of Konoha; 
  * Founding of Kumo; 
  * Kinkaku and Ginkaku get swallowed, when sent to capture Kurama; 
  * Madara deserts and attacks Konoha, using Kurama; 
  * Hashirama wins the battle, and Uzumaki Mito seals Kuruma inside of her.


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