"Seriously? You're kidding!"
Deidara was the first to cry out.
After all, when Akatsuki first came knocking, he had been a punk who thought he stood above everyone in heaven and earth.
Then a single glance from Itachi had left him so disoriented that he had nearly blown himself up.
As for the few times afterward when he had refused to accept defeat, the less said, the better. He knew Itachi was going to use genjutsu against him and had even guarded against it, yet he would inevitably fall for it in an unguarded moment. That sense of defeat had utterly crushed Deidara.
So to him, the fact that someone had managed to escape even when a monster like Itachi teamed up with Kisame, the man known as a human Tailed Beast, was simply unbelievable.
If it had been him, escape would have been impossible. At best, he could have taken them down with him.
When it came to being hardcore, you had to hand it to Deidara, nicknamed Patrick Star.
Deidara's exclamation pretty much spoke for everyone else too.
At that point, Kisame chuckled. "It's true, but it did have something to do with our opponent not having eyes."
"Not having eyes? What do you mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like."
"Huh? That..."
"Itachi's specialty, genjutsu, didn't work, and she really could take a beating. So we slipped up and let her get away."
Kisame wore a rather strange expression as he spoke-the sort that said he found it funny and wanted to laugh, but, after thinking it over, couldn't.
Who could have imagined that the first time he saw Itachi suffer a setback, it would be for such a ridiculous, absurd reason?
Sure enough, being blind really was the perfect answer to visual genjutsu!
Of course, neither he