Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34656247-20180804192033/@comment-34194151-20180806221120

Itachi and Kisame. Kisame will handle jiraiya while Itachi takes naruto. Up to this point, Naruto has encountered itachi twice and when Itachi willed it naruto was put under genjutsu really fast. I don't think he will mess around, he will immediately go for shadow clone jutsu and make his two clones and probably go right for a rasenshuriken. But in that time Itachi can capture the clones using anyone of his genjutsu. Kisame will run towards Jiriaiya in that time too and start pressuring him with samehada. Jiraiya hasn't been shown to use subterfuge without the use of his sage toads, and his hair techniques will just be struck by samehada and the chakra from his hair will be absorbed. His rasengans, also absorbed. Jiraiya is losing stamina while Kisame is gaining. Itachi takes out the clones with phoneix shuriken then puts the real naruto under tsukyomi. Jiraiya witnesses this and has an emotional whiplash, giving an opening for kisame to land a serious blow. If jiraiya starts with a summon, it could be more interesting, but Kisame's suitons hard counter jiraiya in both affinity and scale. Once Itachi is done with naruto he can seal Jiriaya's summon with the totsuka blade ( the same blade that was fast enough to blitz nagato from really far away, before he could mentally react to use shinra tensei, and for those who will claim Nagato was immobile, that's isn't true either. He has shown the ability to levitate using gravitation, and also can use the ashura path for rocket boosters, yet he seemingly didn't have time for any of those options). And since boss summon toad is a huge target totsuka blade wouldn't have trouble tagging it.