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The only flaw in your analysis is this: the technique does not specify which sensations are required. As such simple blocks, counters, or even near misses would suffice as bodily sensations.
The point of Izanami is to replay a sequence of events, but that does not.mean that these events have to come from blows that land on Itachi. For further proof, how would Izanami be used in the past when non Edo's used them... Simple, by replaying a set of bodily sensations that don't involve getting kill shotted.
It is rational to say that Itachi may have decided that being hit was his method of sensation; however, he'd only have started st it after he was hit the first time.
And yet even with this claim, if you watch the replay of events, it does not include a vast majority of the moments in which Itachi was one shotted. They were instead moments of bodily sensations ON KABUTO (his horn)
Regardless there still exists two pivotal points where without Sasuke, Itachi loses.
1. Kabuto was over riding the talisman; however, Sasuke protects him.
2. Kabuto's sound genjutsu soundly eliminated Susanoo meaning Itachi loses it as well as the Yata mirror and Totsuka blade.
Additionally, Kabuto wasn't fighting with his army of Edos...he was literally fighting the world AND the Uchiha brothers.
Itachi was killed multiple times in this fight even if it was a ploy for Izanami. Without Sasuke, Kabuto would have erased Itachi's talisman directive..
And if anything...EDO ITACHI beat Kabuto. Regular Itachi would lack the stamina.
As a final note, don't use "they couldn't kill him" as an excuse. Kabuto using his Edo army only adds a layer of complexity for his enemies and is his own advantage that he himself set into motion. Which also proceeds to counter the argument that Itachi wasn't going all out. He was going all out under the confines of his opponent's power.
So with that in mind, I'd say the COMBINATION of Itachi and Sasuke defeated Kabuto.
The point of Izanami is to replay a sequence of events, but that does not.mean that these events have to come from blows that land on Itachi. For further proof, how would Izanami be used in the past when non Edo's used them... Simple, by replaying a set of bodily sensations that don't involve getting kill shotted.
It is rational to say that Itachi may have decided that being hit was his method of sensation; however, he'd only have started st it after he was hit the first time.
And yet even with this claim, if you watch the replay of events, it does not include a vast majority of the moments in which Itachi was one shotted. They were instead moments of bodily sensations ON KABUTO (his horn)
Regardless there still exists two pivotal points where without Sasuke, Itachi loses.
1. Kabuto was over riding the talisman; however, Sasuke protects him.
2. Kabuto's sound genjutsu soundly eliminated Susanoo meaning Itachi loses it as well as the Yata mirror and Totsuka blade.
Additionally, Kabuto wasn't fighting with his army of Edos...he was literally fighting the world AND the Uchiha brothers.
Itachi was killed multiple times in this fight even if it was a ploy for Izanami. Without Sasuke, Kabuto would have erased Itachi's talisman directive..
And if anything...EDO ITACHI beat Kabuto. Regular Itachi would lack the stamina.
As a final note, don't use "they couldn't kill him" as an excuse. Kabuto using his Edo army only adds a layer of complexity for his enemies and is his own advantage that he himself set into motion. Which also proceeds to counter the argument that Itachi wasn't going all out. He was going all out under the confines of his opponent's power.
So with that in mind, I'd say the COMBINATION of Itachi and Sasuke defeated Kabuto.