^ Tenten had the fan. It was taken away by Kumo ninja.
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can you imagine a bad guy who died and nothing was explained in a back story? it would be chaos. People would complain so much about how nothing was explained and since the bad guy is dead, his side of the story is lost.
so we need a back story, even if it doesn't match up with things established.
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Hidan and Kakuzu, unlike the other Akatsuki bad guys, went out with no back story. Kishi later expanded their stories in the databook with Kakuzu gaining a slight bit of sympathy given he was poor, set up against Hashirama in a no win mission, only to be later betrayed by his village when it failed. Hidan was a complete monster with no good qualities.
This was a case of Kishi not wanting you to feel sympathetic or give you reasons for their behavior as villains. They killed Asuma and ticked off Shikamaru. That was all that mattered to their characters. They were presented as monsters, albeit funny ones, and left the manga as monsters. When Kakuzu came back as a zombie, he was given no closure like Sasori or Zabuza, and only existed to taunt and then give exposition to Team 10.
I actually wouldn't have minded more villains like those two. Villains who were simply plot devices and whose only role was to be evil puppy kicking jerks with no back story. Not neutral or even good-natured characters who went down a dark road because of some sob story that has to be explained in a long flashback.