Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-30881771-20170815144139/@comment-32874078-20170816172323

Kirameku wrote: Wasn't Shin Orochimaru's former experiment that escaped?

I highly doubt Orochimaru would clone Shin after the 4th war arc, also Shin has shown some knowledge about the Akatsuki, the Uchihas and Itachi. Indeed, it was made before the 4th Great Ninja War.. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to have obtained information about Itachi Uchiha and the Akatsuki in general, although Shin was obviously not well informed, because he stated that Sasuke Uchiha killed Itachi Uchiha and therefor is a disgrace to the Uchiha name.

But like everyone knows Itachi's plan was to let himself get killed by Sasuke from the begin. When Itachi and Sasuke faced eachother in battle Itachi was still more powerfull then Sasuke was (Not stating Itachi was stronger than Sasuke is now).

Also Yamato has been watching Orochimaru and he couldn't have created Shin, because obviously Yamato would've informed Naruto about it and Naruto probably wouldn't have allowed Orochimaru to continue his experiment.