yea. Itachi's non visible susanoo was able to block Kirin, Something that would've wiped garra off the face of anything. one of the most powerful jutsu in the series...gaara's sand will do nothing, Gaara was ONLY able to pull Madara out because he first used his sand to hold down the incomplete susanoo, then use his lightned sand to pull out madar, who was distracted by the other naruo and oonoki and some fodder. One on one, gaara would've never been able to pull him out. Same with itachi, Itachi would see the sand coming and just swipe it away with his sword, or block, and get closer and closer to gaara. Like someone stated before, launch those crows at gaara, end game. and if gaara is trying to avoid the crows, it'll give itachi just the brief opening he needs to close in on gaara. Come on dude, I mean, overrating itachi, sasuke, and Minato is bad enough, but now your'redoing it to gaara, who's power is measured perfectly by fans...smh