Exactly! The doppelganger is also bestowed with all of the originals abilities as well!
You must be registered for see images
So thanks for proving my point for me. Samehada's clone has all of it's originals abilities. Not even mentioning the fact that Samehada realizing that Gai wasn't Kisame, as well as locating and swimming back to Kisame, is a sensory ability (An ability of the original [
You must be registered for see links
], not a personality trait. And no, your example of Samehada not absorbing the paper bombs seal of chakra, is not a viable reason as to why Samehada doesn't have it's absorption capabilities. As you can see in that very scan you provided, Kisame had no clue it was there. Unfortunately Samehada doesn't take it upon himself to absorb chakra; this was proven when the raiton pencil passed right by Kisame without being absorbed [
You must be registered for see links
] Kisame didn't see it coming, thus he didn't prompt Samehada to absorb it. This is also confirmed to be the case when Nagato was about to blast Bee with a chakra blast [
You must be registered for see links
] and Samehada didn't take it upon itself to absorb the chakra. So because Kisame didn't realize explosive tag until it was exploding, he didn't prompt Samehada to absorb the chakra, neither did Samehada take the initiative to do it himself either.