"Perhaps. But I've never heard of a kitsune pushing themselves to the next tail, spontaneously, shy of myself or Kyuubi dying and advancing to another. And that would be because you don't know our full history, dear. The nine-tailed kitsune was the<em>first,</em>and the lesser tails only came later,a lthough the original legends don't play up the first as being more powerful than a five or six is, now."