[It was a stupid plan, a damn fool's way to go, but..... he had planned for and controlled it. Itachi had chosen his own path as best he could, even if that meant a letting a teenager's ideas dictate the entire shape of his life. And since there was no changing what he had been forced to do before joining the Akatsuki.....

Kisame still wonders if there could have somehow been a different, better way. Some way to just talk to Sasuke, to tell him the truth, and pass on his legacy more gently. Would that have been kinder, though? Would knowing have eased the pain in Sasuke's heart, when Itachi inevitably succumbed to his illness even without their final battle? There's just know way to know. In the end, all he'd been able to do was honor and fulfill Itachi's last wish.]

It could be. Or it could just be a good old-fashioned kidnapping, if you don't remember anything like that? Reviving the dead is supposed to be a forbidden technique, but that doesn't necessarily mean people won't take advantage of it.