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Some time ago, I considered these two quite seriously! Alas, unimportant is still unimportant and stuff happened anyway.

1. In such an important mission like it was rescuing his student Rin, who had been kidnapped by another village's ANBU, where could Minato have been if not dealing with another equally serious threat?

2. If you watched Utakata's filler arc, perhaps you remember Tsurugi? He was the ANBU captain tasked with bringing the runaway jinchuriki back to Kirigakure. He bears a strong resemblance with one of the members from the cypher unit. You know, the division that a younger Kisame was ordered to kill underhanded? Yes.

Thing is, when I rewatched the whole episode, we see Kisame directly killing every one of them except him. They were six: first one was paper-bombed, second was a direct stab, and the woman with the last two were cut down at the cliff right before Ibiki Morino reached them. But this Tsurugi wannabe? We don't really know, it's not shown. He suffered an explosion alongside the second dude, but there's no actual killing blow delivered.

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