Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-26127155-20151016224114

@UltimaDude

Nagato is still meant to fight to the best of his abilities. Kabuto would not just sacrifice one of his strongest weapons, for no reason at all (if he was capable of dodging it, he would've).

We do not know how fast Orochimaru's snake form could move (Manda and Aoda are rather fast), because he didn't even have enough time to react to being attacked. It doesn't matter how fast either of them could have moved, if they can't even react to the attack in the first place.

Jiraiya would also have no clue about Itachi possessing such weapons as even Orochimaru who was obsessed over Uchiha (including Itachi) and who was looking for the sword itself, did not know that Itachi was in possession of both the Yata Mirror and the Totsuka blade.