ok your pretty much of an idiot aren't you have you actually paid attention to those chapters? Itachi uses his mange sharingan twice with a small window of time between them and it had obviously exhausted him alot, the fact that jiraiya even dares to say that they couldn't escape from the toad mouth binding technique had me lmao Itachi burned a way out so easily and Jiraiya was amazed by the high level fire jutsu so far people who claim that Jiraiya is on the same level as Itachi are fools and should shut their mouths, Orochimaru is weaker, why would he fear some one when he is stronger???????? also the reason for Itachi and Kisame to run was already answered by Itachi, they just made sure that Naruto was the nine-tails so they could lay back rest and come back any time to get him there was obviously no reason to rush, conclusion is until they face eachother will Jiraiya be owned by Itachi it's a fact any and all jutsu used by Jiraiya will be copied and handled with or send back at him, why even try to defend the power of a charachter when obviously Itachi is way stronger he's a TRUE succesor or MASTER of sharingan he can read all nin, tai and gen-jutsu so Jiraiya isn't really gonna do anything without Itachi being able to read and counter it