Something just dawned on me when I was re-watching the kakazu and hidan fight versus kakashi and ino-sika-cho trio and its why didn't Shikamaru and Kakashi just seal Hidan?
I think it would make much more sense because in one of those 1000 jutsus Kakashi has to know at least one decent sealing jutsu....
Shikamaru had all the info on both of them after fighting them the first time to come up with a way to seal Hidan instead of bringing him to the forest....
The only good explanation is Kishi wanted some more juicy plot no jutsu so Shikamaru could throw Asuma's lighter into Hidan's pit of "death" other than that it would make more sense I think to just seal him....
I think it would make much more sense because in one of those 1000 jutsus Kakashi has to know at least one decent sealing jutsu....
Shikamaru had all the info on both of them after fighting them the first time to come up with a way to seal Hidan instead of bringing him to the forest....
The only good explanation is Kishi wanted some more juicy plot no jutsu so Shikamaru could throw Asuma's lighter into Hidan's pit of "death" other than that it would make more sense I think to just seal him....