Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28215006-20160423162352/@comment-25122992-20160423163426

You'd better scroll down the page. "The next iteration" means that Kisame survived to the Akatsuki already under the rule of Tobi (Obito) who stepped up instead of Pain. Of course, he died, but as a member of "Tobi's Akatsuki", not "Pain's".