Naruto Thread (Spoilers For Sure)

Eh. I'll just say http://www.mangareader.net/93-149-9/naru...r-144.html

That translation pineappleing sucks but they were reluctant to fight jiraiya and I remember itachi saying they would at least injury each other badly if they don't kill themselves WITH itachi and kisame v. Jiraiya.

1)the offical translation has kisame suggesting that itachi could have taken jiriya.
2) Why would Itachi have fought Jiriya when he didn't have to? He obviously wouldn't have wanted to take out one of the strongest allies the leaf had when basically everything he ever did was to protect the leaf village or sasuke.