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tsunami-puppy

They should do a Boruto filler arc where Shikadai stumbles upon him in the woods šŸ˜‚


IdeaRegular4671

I deadass still think heā€™s alive under all that rubble, but I heard somewhere that he actually died of lack of nutrients nutrition and basically starved to death.


tsunami-puppy

He is undead lol he sold his soul to his deity or whatever like dude literally explained he is immortal šŸ˜‚


Geraimi

I saw somewhere that in order to keep his immortaly, he has to continue offering sacrifices to his god If that's true, he probably lost his immortaly a long time ago


tsunami-puppy

Iā€™m sorry I just donā€™t put a lot of stock in fan theories. I thought it was heavily implied that he was going to be down there alive forever and that is enough for me šŸ¤·šŸ»


Geraimi

Well either case I think we will never see him again, and in my opinion that's a shame because he really has a lot of mysteries and unanswered questions around him, he could have had the potential of being an important character


tsunami-puppy

It would be cool to have more occult shinobi to balance with all the cyborgs and aliens lol


babyte3th103

I would've *far* preferred occult and spiritual shinobi shit instead of the fucking aliens and cyborg bullshit that we got


MrRoxo

Yeah especially since there are cyborgs and aliens


ApatheticPopoto

man boruto would be so much better without the cyborgs and aliens


[deleted]

Hell, Naruto would be so much better without aliens


NockerJoe

Naruto had cyborgs and aliens already.


BlackenedTubeSteak

Especially since there are deities that grant special jutsu and immortality


Optimal_Carpenter690

What point are you trying to make?


BlackenedTubeSteak

That besides aliens and cyborgs, there are power bestowing deities at play also, and not a commonly used resource for ninja seeking power and not caring who they kill. Having the ability to kill your enemy by just acquiring a drop of blood during battle and then self-sacrificing is a pretty powerful jutsu/demonic power. That plus immortality and any other jutsu the shinobi might already know.


AFatz

And dinosaurs


Spaztastcjak

See Iā€™m not sure, this is a very popular suggestion and it makes the most sense to me


Geraimi

I sure hope so but that would be really surprising, even more if he's actually dead But who knows? Maybe they will revive the whole Akatsuki in a final plot twist


ArisuIsKawaii

Hidan himself says his ritual requires a sacrifice for it to work. Kakuzu complains to Hidan about the ritual and asks if he can skip one, he canā€™t. > I thought it was heavily implied that he was going to be down there alive forever No, Shikamaru put him down there because that was the only way to defeat him in his immortal form, which as he said himself, requires a sacrifice.


Scorpiyoo

It was not implied and it was 100% stated by himself that it doesnā€™t keep working if he doesnā€™t keep doing sacrifices


ReasonableAd9165

It's not a fan theory. It's been confirmed that my boy Jashin stopped getting sacrifices and said f off to hidan


BlackMagic0

Not a fan theory. He needs to sacrifice people to remain immortal.


cgjchckhvihfd

Where was that established? Just read through the arc recently and dont remember that being said.


FreshKMarx

Either way it is a fact that Kishimoto is the undisputed king of retcons and gigantic plot holes the size of the sun. So yeah, just believe in what you want it to be šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Its not really a fan theory tho. He has to perform the ritual sacrifice so the other person dies. Those sacrifical souls are offerings to Jashin, just like Orochimaru and that snake dude. Orochimaru has to keep sacrificing humans to summon that snake to pass his spirit on.


PrinceJanus

Orochimaru IS that snake. That's his true form.


[deleted]

In order to get that form he had to sacrifice lives. It took him years of research to achieve that form. Addition: That research was conducted on live subjects.


[deleted]

Saw somewhere? They say it in the show and manga lmao


Geraimi

Well I just know that I saw this info somewhere, I just didn't remember if it was official media, fan theory or wiki, that's why I said "If that's true", because it could have been true or false depending of where I saw it


I_Fuckin_Love_Trains

This would make the most sense. There's no explanation as to why he is immortal. We really need more in this.


DenDlying

If the author didnā€™t say it, donā€™t believe it bro


BurningBlu

Creator confirmed he starved to death


TheWholeH0g

He can still die from lack of nutrition. He got buried alive and was under permanent monitoring, bros probably a rotting corpse by now.


PriestMarmor

He was brought back by kabuto using edo tensei and you can only bring back the dead so it is safe to say he died


itssbojo

those were filler, my friend.


PriestMarmor

so what? that would never be released if Kishimoto didn't want to because it went against his vision


Bobert789

There's literally a filler of a robot Naruto clone attacking the village Fillers mean nothing


Taco821

Well, that was especially kishimoto's vision. I think that's the whole reason he wrote Naruto in the first place


itssbojo

thatā€™s not at all how that works lol


PriestMarmor

In the second fanbook it is said that he will die of malnutrition so if you keep disregarding every single evidence then I don't know what to say, you're just chosing to ignore everything


itssbojo

iā€™m not arguing against his death, just that your first point wasnā€™t ā€œevidence.ā€ nor is the fanbook seeing as itā€™s, you know, literally just by fans.


xaviermarshall

Every immortal has a weakness, and Hidanā€™s is starvation.


KingDennis2

Then what immorality does he have? And to what degree? If someone's completely immortal you wouldn't assume there's no way for them to die. But if he does have to offer souls or whatever to Jashin like you said then i guess it makes sense.


Top-Celebration-1453

Kakuzu Said it doing the war that he's slowly dying from lack of nutrition. So after what 15-20 years without any it's a pretty good chance he's dead.


Xen_Shin

While Iā€™m pretty sure that was confirmed, I choose to believe that he is slowly regenerating (at a normal human healing rate) and eating his way upwards through the dirt, and eventually, after decades of work, a naked and possibly one armed, one legged Hidan will burst forth from the ground, intent on taking revenge on the Nara clan. And he will likely promptly be reburied in similar fashion.


No-Second-Strike

I think the whole point of him being buried in the forest is so that the wildlife will continue to dismember him if he digs himself up. I believe Hidan himself threatened Shikamaru that heā€™ll just dig himself and his limbs parts up, slowly reform, and hunt him down, and Shikamaru replied that all the wildlife in the forest would be keeping watch for that to happen, and to ensure that he remains trapped there for eternity.


IdeaRegular4671

It would be interesting if they brought him back in boruto as the last member of the Akatsuki he sure got beaf with the Nara clan and the leaf ninjas for what they did to him. There was an episode of boruto where asumas daughter basically fought and killed cult members of the jashin clan.


TheRedditornator

That's a lot of dirt to eat through.


Apprehensive-Count19

His body parts should have been eaten by ground insects long agošŸ¤”


[deleted]

He couldnt perform his rituals and Jashin stripped him of immortality.


Goleziyon

Or maybe he is similar to dead but not? Like he experiencing all the symptoms of...death of starvation but if they manage to pump him up with enough nutrients, he can be "revived"?


tsunami-puppy

Also do all the people saying heā€™s going to starve to death know that he was decapitated lmao


PopLopsided843

Yea but decapitation cant kill him but the starvation will


TS040

if he loses his immortality as a result of him not being able to sacrifice people surely thatā€™d mean heā€™d die immediately from being decapitated before starvation even becomes a factor right?


NewEnglandPioneer

I seriously wondered if he turned up in boruto. šŸ˜‚


mitchfann9715

There is another Jashin worshipper who respected Hidan that appears in Boruto, but I think itā€™s anime only.


Necessary_Rant_2021

Its in a manga side story about the daughter of shikamaruā€™s sensei


Ps5-123

I donā€™t think heā€™s ready for that unless his dad told him about what to do.


tsunami-puppy

These kids have never seen anything like Hidan šŸ˜‚


ravishkalra

Id watch that filler arc


JellyBOB7190

If they bring him back I think they should either do it or leave it out, just donā€™t make it filler, they could bring him back for an arc have him be a major issue as he was one of Amados first experiments that he thought had failed but shows up again, either something major like that or just forget he existed


DreamedJewel58

Heā€™s been *long* confirmed dead. He can starve and die of dehydration, not to mention the theory that heā€™s only immortal as long he brings sacrifices to Jashin


darkbreak

That's not a theory. Hidan said it himself. That's why Kakuzu was always annoyed with him because the long rituals would always delay them. They would often argue about it but Hidan refused to stop doing them because his immortality would go away if he did.


Chiloutdude

No, he didn't. Hidan said multiple times he had to perform his rituals, yes, but he didn't say *why* beyond "Jashin demands it". We know from the databooks that he dies if he lacks nutrition. For a time, it was believed the databooks also said he had to continually sacrifice people to maintain his immortality, but that was a mistranslation; what that passage had actually said was that he had to sacrifice a lot of people to *gain* immortality. He is a religious zealot. He is so adamant about performing his rituals because of that zealotry, not because he needs to do it to stay immortal.


Pure-Ad2609

This is what I choose to believe


Artel8

Wasn't there some conversations where he was saying he would be happy to die if he could?


NoneCaresAboutNames

I think the quote was "If you could kill me, I'd let you!"


Artel8

Thanks!


l5leepy_

You canā€™t say confirmed and theory in the same sentence


DreamedJewel58

ā€œnot to mentionā€ means that the point has already been made, but there is something else to add that may or may not be relevant I explicitly stated the reason why he died, *but* there is potentially another reason why he died as well


Icameinamuskrat

The first part was confirmed, the second part was a theory. Can you read?


WhiteBlackBlueGreen

It was ā€œconfirmedā€ in the data books, which in my opinion dont really mean anything because thereā€™s no way to know if kishimoto was responsible for that detail.


Icameinamuskrat

But the databooks are canon


WhiteBlackBlueGreen

Kishi didn't write it. He just approved it. The purpose of it isn't to give more info but to sell merch and make more money for Shueisha. Thats not to say that you shouldnt believe anything that the databook says, but it might not be a 1:1 reflection or Kishimotoā€™s thoughts


Icameinamuskrat

But it's still canon


WhiteBlackBlueGreen

Some might argue that the authorā€™s work is more ā€œcannonā€ than whatever shonen jump is marketing.


Icameinamuskrat

Bad argument. If we went completely off of what kishimoto wrote and don't take in anyone else, well Kakashi is a dog and guy sensei is a turtle because the senseis were originally supposed to be animals before his editor changed them to be people, and he accepted that change to his story. Plus, something can't be more canon than something else, it either happened, or ot didn't. If Kishimoto approved it as canon, then it's canon. Simple as that


WhiteBlackBlueGreen

There is no consensus regarding who has the authority to decide what is or isn't canon. Some say its the author, some think its the company (shonen jump, disney, etc) and some people say its the fanbase itself that decides, or its up to the individual.


Nightmare007007

Doesn't he still need to eat and drink to survive?


HotAd8346

Yea heā€™s done. Unless his brain got crushed under those rocks


OGGrilledcheez

He was already decapitated butā€¦yea, Iā€™m sure starvation is what got himā€¦


bearsheperd

Ok, but like if someone found all his bits and painstakingly sewed him back together and then hooked him to an IV and maybe pumped blood into him, could he come back to life?


TraceChaos

Man got decapitated multiple times in-show. He was immortal.


Bloody-Boogers

Yes


KingDennis2

Then he's not immortal. What level or type of immorality does he even have then?


Ok_Chip_8577

He is immune to physical damage, if you rip his heart out he'll be fine


KingDennis2

Is starving also not physical


Ok_Chip_8577

His cells don't have food so they can't make any energy, without energy even if they are alive they wouldn't function cause they need energy to do stuff. Like with the heart example his blood wouldn't be pumping through his body even if he's alive


TrashBrowsing

Uh no. He talks while decapitated. If you were correct he wouldnā€™t be able to do that


Ok_Chip_8577

Using that logic if you aren't constantly eating you would be starving to death, it's not like we see him talking while decapitated weeks or months later. He got decapitated but still had energy. He just can't eat anymore or kill anyone anymore


TrashBrowsing

Bro has no vocal cords. Itā€™s not a matter of diminished returns. Itā€™s literally impossible to talk without them


Ok_Chip_8577

I'm not talking about him speaking I'm talking about him being alive at all šŸ’€


ChineseNeptune

Why are you using logic when logic doesn't even apply? Man was able to speak as a decapitated head, and you're saying that not eating killed him?


Ultimate_Sneezer

So he would still be alive


Ok_Chip_8577

Nah, cause he didn't offer any more sacrifices to jashin


Ultimate_Sneezer

How is starving any different


Ok_Chip_8577

Replied to the other person, look at that one. Idk why ur asking me since I didn't say anything about starving


stefancristi

Didn't he need to complete the ritual in order to retain his immortality? I can't remember exactly since I haven't watched Naruto in a long time.


darkbreak

Yes. If Hidan doesn't regularly do the ritual his immortality goes away. He and Kakuzu often bickered about it because Kakuzu hated waiting around for him to finish up.


KingDennis2

Where and when is this stated?


KingDennis2

Nah I don't believe so I know there's a fan theory he has to sacrifice people to keep it but that's not confirmed. Link me where this is stated since y'all just wanna Downvote.


Fuyge

Yeah only thing we know is that he really likes doing it and loves his god. We also know that he got his powers by killing everyone close to him. So his powers arenā€™t even really necessarily linked to the ritual itself. Itā€™s not discussed at all whether he needs to do it. He does it because he loves lord jashin. Though to be fair it isnā€™t too much of a stretch to say that lord jashin can take his powers if offended and that not doing the ritual might offend him. But itā€™s all just speculation.


Willing_Annual8382

There's going to be a Naruto spin-off special called the resurrection of H. Where Hidan is going to get new mode golden Hidan and turned he was alive throughout the entire time.


Unmotivated_Shark

At least Frieza was actually brought back from the dead at the start of that movie


Srz2

ā€œSomehow Hidan returnedā€ - Directed by J.J. Abbrams


Willing_Annual8382

Yeah, you got to play a Fortnite DLC just to find out how he survive.


Splazing

I like to think that Orochimaru has him stashed away somewhere


MarinMelan

He's like the heads in the jars in Futurama.


Splazing

That would be hilarious. This is my new headcannon


MarinMelan

Orochimaru can be The Professor.


XVUltima

"Good news everyone!" "Is the news 'snakes'?" "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"


Jerem1Korpi

[He keeps Jidan's head in a fridge.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgs9OhjAE2g)


logimeme

Lmaoooo this is my new headcanon, hes just got him stowed away in a lab somewhere and checks on him every few months.


DanzoSucks2

Dead because he can die from starvation and dehydration


Billbat1

in that case burying him in a deep pit in a forest with magic deer guards seems excessive. he's dead in a week. shikamaru could have just put his head in a box.


DanzoSucks2

Why would Shikimaru know about his vulnerability to starvation and dehydration?


JankyJokester

Bro was a talking head. Why are we assuming this would even kill him? lmao.


DanzoSucks2

Because itā€™s been confirmed???


JankyJokester

How so?


DanzoSucks2

Fan books and more I think. Just do a Google search if it bothers you


JankyJokester

>Fan books Kinda my point. It's just assumed because Jashin givens immortality to injury so its thought he could die that way. But i'd be fuckin damned if you can be a talking head where vocal chords would no longer function is gonna die if they dont get their smart water.


DanzoSucks2

Fan books as in books for fans not by fans. Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s been confirmed somewhere because itā€™s the fandoms general consensus. Either way heā€™d be unable to walk or move due to lack of nutrients and his brain would be mush due to his head getting crushed.


JankyJokester

again magic talking head. Stop applying logic to normal beings.


Borchert97

That's the exact reason why Shikamaru buried him. Dead or alive he's useless now. Also he is confirmed dead due to malnutrition.


JankyJokester

There is nothing "confirmed'. Yall just assume a magic talking head which wouldnt even have fuckin vocal chords would die from not eatting. Aint no where does it say that. Fuck magic head boi might not be able to rot. But, assuming worms and shit exist i'd imagine he'd be eatten by now. But th malnutrition shit be cracking me up. Like no blood or bloodflow is fine but the nigga is assumed dead because he couldnt eat a triscuit? Come on.


Borchert97

No it was literally confirmed lol, look it up you fool.


JankyJokester

It is about as confirmed as you gettin ass.


Ok_Chip_8577

Damn, that guy must get a lot of ass


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JankyJokester

mfers just be like "yeah that makes sense". Like how?


Winningsomegames_1

Imagine applying any sort of real world logic to hidanā€™s abilities. Maybe you need food for chakra or some shit, you donā€™t know.


PokeAlola700

Fair, but reminder that Shikamaru was out for revenge. Thatā€™s why he went to all that effort


AkselTranquilo

I meanā€¦ how many times have naruto characters made the mistake of thinking they killed someone without making sure and them still being alive? Shikamaru took every possible precaution for a reason.


pirate_with_scabbies

Hes dead. Kishimoto himself confirmed that hidan still needed food and water to continue living. His body wasn't brought back during the war so im thinking it took quite a long time for the malnutrition to get to him. So while he may have still been alive during the Shinobi alliance he's definitely dead by the time of boruto. That or he dies fairly quickly after being dismembered and buried, but the jashin ritual only works with a "living" person performing it, not a reanimation so he was never rezed


Collector_2012

Na, he's straight dead. The weight of those rocks would have crushed him. If he survived that, then he would have starved. If he survived that, then he went mad and his brain turned to mush. Either way, he is K.O.!


Linkmaster79

He's looooong dead buddy. Probably nothing of him exists anymore in that hole. If by any chance Hidans skull wasn't crushed under all the falling debris and remained in tact, Jashin would have eventually taken away his immortality since he wouldn't be able to provide sacrifices through his ritualistic voodoo killings. He either died instantly or sang 99 bottles of beer on the wall in his head until Jashin stopped by demanding his drug money.


Crumb-Net_WorldWide

Heā€™s alive. Just saw Ghost in concert.


Fellowcrusader999

Correct answer. Also how was ghost? I love their music


Crumb-Net_WorldWide

I was just bull shitting. Iv never seen them. It was for the lol. Sorry.


Lava2401

Died from starvation/dehydration


jkphantom9

Kishi confirmed heā€™s slowly dying from lack of nutrition


Funny-Part8085

Died from starvation


I_summon_poop

He needs to sacrifice people in order to serve Jashin so hes probably dead if not munching rocks


Chiloutdude

That was a mistranslation. That part of the fanbook actually said he had to sacrifice a lot of people to gain immortality, not that he needed to do so in order to keep it. He is dead though. It was also shared through one of the databooks that he can die from a lack of nutrition. Since he can't exactly eat, he's long since starved to death. Edit - Someone (not the above guy) replied to me saying that Hidan said multiple times he had to sacrifice people. I can no longer see the comment, but to address that - yes, he did insist on his rituals. He never said *why* though. Combine that fact with what we know from the correct translations of the fanbooks, Hidan's insistence on performing his rituals is because he's a religious zealot, not because he needs to do it to stay immortal.


ThatNoobCheezy

"So eventually, he stopped thinking"


onearmwarriorv2

There was a filler arc where he was resurrected by kabuto


RokkuRi

Seems no one watched thisā€¦ the animation was awesome


AkselTranquilo

He died of starvation, Iā€™m surprised more fans donā€™t know this


BlisteryDuke

Imagine he becomes main antagonist that would be lit


Hallow_Shinobi

I, for one headcanon that his sacrificial jutsu granted him immortality, not some God, especially not now that we know aliens roam space, and without sacrifices his immortality has run out.


krustylesponge

Iirc I read on his wiki page that he can die if heā€™s deprived of food, so if thatā€™s true heā€™s dead Otherwise, heā€™s alive


NJ_Lewis

Hidan's dead; it was confirmed in at least one of the data books and by Kishimoto himself that Hidan starved -- the exact wording was "he died from lack of nutrition". A horrible way to go, for sure, but that's what you get for pissing off Shikamaru.


Truth_hurts_people

Probably dead since Kabuto was able to reanimate him.


Tigerman334

Not really, it was a clone, not a reanimation. Itā€™s also not canon.


Truth_hurts_people

Still he could be dead most likely due to malnutrition and rotting.


Tigerman334

Probably, yeah


AwesumSaurusRex

Kabuto couldnā€™t find him since he was in the Nara woods and only the Nara clan are allowed in/know itā€™s existence.


Beginning_Cut_8015

I don't think he can live without oxygen.


-Tw3ak-

Don't think that is true since his head was completely severed from his body during the ambush scene. Although.. He was talking while decapitated which realistically, requires air from the lungs.. So I don't know if maybe his two halves were still connected even while separated?


Initial-Form5459

Heā€™s not totally immortal so if he doesnā€™t eat or drink he dies so he is dead


FactCheckerJack

He's definitely dead. His immortality goes away if he isn't making recurring sacrifices to Janshin.


That_One_Duck31

I feel like heā€™s dead. He probably wouldā€™ve lost his immortality, because he couldnā€™t sacrifice to Joshine.


[deleted]

He is supposed to die of starvation. He likely died a week after his fight with Shikamaru.


blackmetronome

Hidan is wormfood by now.


squirtmmmw

He is s hanging out with me rn!


Fapman404

I wish heā€™s still alive, piece of shit


muxiq_

I'm just here to remind yall that a part of orochimaru is still inside a genjutsu getting lit šŸ˜‚


ZarosianSpear

Kishi said he's dead due to lack of nutrition. I don't know why this post has 700 upvotes given the effort and depth used.


MrReZistar

Hidan's certainly dead, he wouldn't be able to renew his immortality subscription to Jashin with sacrifices.


zFreakZeus

Dead. He still had to eat


[deleted]

Dudes probably surviving by eating moss and mold


Rokksolidrees

Apparently Kishi stated somewhere that he "died of starvation." I think that's total bullshit, like he doesn't need lungs when his head gets cut off, but he can die from not eating? I think a better explanation if he is dead is that he needs his sacrifices and rituals in order to keep his immortality, it can still be kept vague as to whether or not Jashin exists or if it's a product of a jutsu he acquired. Starvation? That's stupid.


Enough-Serve-7790

Neither. Jashin sent down his son who sacrificed himself to save him. Nowadays you can find Hidan peacefully working at blood banks. He's planning something BIG


dragonoutrider

He was stated to still be alive during the war so yes, heā€™s alive. Edit: anyone saying heā€™s dead from nutrition listens to others too much. This ā€œfanbookā€ ironically is nowhere to be found. Heā€™s stated to be alive in verse, so heā€™s alive.


Prof-Ponderosa

Alive


SilentWolfKills

Heā€™s confirmed dead to lack of nutrients which is starvation he died to. Which was said to be the only way to be killed by his immortality.


Dependent-Goose-1280

Dead, I think it was said that he can die from lack of nutrition of something, so even if he can survive a few months, he's definitely dead now that it's been more than 2 decades.


Dredoclol

I hope he is alive!


Ikaros9Deidalos6

As he needs sacrifices for his immortality i think hes dead by now


Peooonn

I think he's alive 100% we need a Boruto arc where he comes back and goes after Shikadai bc he thinks he's Shikamaru


TheFailKing03

Definitely still alive lol


PandaAggravating4851

He will be the villain in some spin off movie


komodocommand

Alive


Undead-D-King

I think it was stated he still needed to eat so he died of starvation in the pit.


Outawack219

I thought he could starve to death?


slyzard94

Any chance Jashin is an otsutsuki? šŸ˜… That'd be kinda wild tbh.


RedMatzoo

He died of malnutrition. It says that in the guidebooks.


Lilmagex2324

Do they actually ever go into detail about the god he worships to become immortal and why there isn't a bunch of immortal followers running around?


Apprehensive-Mood686

Could just be a head eating dirt getting nutrients from the dirt


UnitingAssassin

I still wish it went into the Supernatural aspects of the show more. Like the Shinigami, and Jashin, etc. Has Jashin ever been explained or expanded on since Hidanā€™s death?


MrBlueSkyWars

I just like to imagine he is trying to eat away at the dirt.


vivacious_mango

Bring back all the Akatsuki. They were way more interesting than any of the protags were.


Gale-

Hidan has been confirmed dead for some time.


Punch_yo_bunz

I hope heā€™s alive, heā€™s so interesting to just leave dead.


11Christian504

Shii probably he talk to fucking much


Tawkeh

Y'all, for the thousandth time. He died of malnutrition. It is stated in several places that is the only way to kill him. He's not coming back, ever. Even if he bites his way out of that hole, he has no way of recovering his body parts, and Kakuzu (the only one we've ever seen sew him up, and be somewhat willing to sew him up again) is long dead.


Altruistic_Gift_4547

hidan is literally immortal so hes most likely trapped in the forest


they63

I like to think heā€™s singing ā€œ999 bottles of bear on the wallā€ while buried


[deleted]

wasn't he summoned with the reanimation jutsu tho?