Originally posted by: Mae
No, in the AonE translation of ep 82 (at 17 min) Jiraiya just said that after they lost Orochimaru they split up into 4 groups of 2 and went to collect "techiniques and other things." Kakashi asks if one of those things is Kyubi and Jiraiya says probably.
So Kyubi is just one of their targets. It's likely that the other teams are off after those other targets (like maybe Gaara). I don't think they even went after Naruto first. This is because Jiraiya shows up after Akatsuki splits up to start their collection and Itachi doesn't come for Naruto until a few months after that. Itachi probably crossed a few other items of Akatsuiki's wish list in that time and is just now getting to Naruto.
I also noticed when I was checking this that Jiraiya said they were "mostly" S-ranked criminals. So one or two must be something else. *shrugs* I was bored....
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