Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36300243-20180723092044/@comment-2043993-20180826111249

David Kibasennin wrote:

Now the question is: why do they want us to think it's Jiraiya?

Is that what the writers wants us to believe? Have KK been speculated in manga to be Jiraiya, or are you referring to fans who have a theory based on a few similarities? (A theory which they stick to despite a large amount of evidence/arguments against, which they seem to be ignoring or dismissing).

My guess is that KK turns out to be, if he has any relation to Jiraiya at all, that he's another former student we've never heard of, Jiraiya travelled for years so it's entirely likely that he taught others some of his tricks (Case in point the ame orphans).