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[If this is how Kisame intends to play things, then Itachi will follow along. He has no reason not to. But he will not stand idly by and let Kisame assume that he is the same Itachi that he remembers--even if perhaps he is an Itachi he remembers from long ago.]
One named Hidan is here, but I have had yet to hear him over the network in some days. It is possible he has been lost.