</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Death BOO Z @ Feb 1 2004, 02:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> since Itachi doesn&#39;t want to ruin his reputation, he retreated.

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Its not because of reputation,its because of logic.Obviously if he stayed,more back up would come,meaning that they would cause commontion and be outnumbered.Which means they would risk exposing all of there missions plans.Remember before when they were talking about how the secret of the mission was more important than life itself.Just look at that one guys head with all the scars and drill marks from torture.