Quote (Cyba @ Feb 11 2011 10:08pm)
niidaime and shodaime are brothers so they're close to the same age... the shodaime captured the 9 tails after his final battle with madara at the valley of the end, so it could've happened before their battle when madara summoned the 9 tails from its realm, or afterwards when shodaime captured it and was still looking for a host
the 1st was married to the uzamaki i would assumed the the wife sealed it asap
only thing i can come up with with some research is the brothers had to of tried and capture it before the fight with madara, the manga said the brothers attacked the 2nd and almost killed him with the fox chakara , then the brothers were apart of the group that killed the 2nd a little later
so it had to happen before madara captured the beast, i dont think a full powered EMS pre 1st fight madara would let any one get close to the fox