Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3279282-20140417121721/@comment-4912646-20140417192429

Seelentau wrote: Why? Kishimoto even designed the characters for those scenes, I'm pretty sure they're gonna be legit. Not canon, but sub-canon, just like the current arc. In the newest trailer, we see that Orochimaru, Deidara, and Hidan are all in Akatsuki at the same time, so it doesn't really fit well with canon. Regardless of whether Orochimaru leaving 7/10 years ago is accurate or not, he left long enough ago that Hidan and Deidara would be noticeably younger, and Deidara was implied to be Orochimaru's replacement.