In short, Kisame Hoshigaki harbored a great deal of resentment toward the Fourth Mizukage.
Back when he was young, he had been a trusted subordinate of Suikazan Fuguki, Samehada's previous owner.
For a long time, Kisame Hoshigaki had carried out missions for Kirigakure conscientiously.
Kisame Hoshigaki had killed many teammates who had completed missions alongside him, fearing that they would fall into enemy hands and fail to withstand interrogation.
But later, Suikazan Fuguki had betrayed the village. That outrageous move had forced Kisame Hoshigaki to betray the village as well. He had had no choice in any of it.
"What about the Six-Tails, then?"
Uchiha Itachi asked as he looked at the stretch of sea where the Three-Tails had disappeared.
When he had first joined the Akatsuki, Uchiha Itachi had fought the Fourth Mizukage.
The Fourth Mizukage was also a jinchūriki capable of perfectly controlling tailed beast power, but Uchiha Itachi had ultimately defeated him with Amaterasu.
Yet the wild Three-Tails had just broken through Uchiha Itachi's Amaterasu with ease. Without a jinchūriki, the Three-Tails was actually harder to capture.
"He's a very laid-back man. Compared to us, he's the one really living."
Kisame Hoshigaki replied.
While most of Kirigakure's ninja worked themselves to the bone completing missions, that fellow alone always took things at an unhurried pace.
Hearing this, Uchiha Itachi said mildly, "Then he sounds like an interesting person. We can return to the organization. A village can possess no more than two tailed beasts, and Kirigakure already has two."
Kisame Hoshigaki put Samehada away. If Uchiha Itachi had said nothing, he would have swum back into the sea to fight the Three-Tails some more.
Uchiha Itachi saw what he was thinking, but he did not want to waste too much time here, so Kisame Hoshigaki had no