All this talk about that bespectacled dude owning Itachi is a complete pile of BS. For gods sake, Itachi was clearly toying with him from the very, very, very start of the battle people! Kabuto was only able to land a hit, a lucky one at that, because Itachi had allowed him to for the sole purpose of enabling the activation Izanami. And since he was an Edo he wasn't too cautious about what Kabuto is capable of cause of his regenerating factor, do you honestly think that if he were, say, non--edo he was gonna allow for Kabuto to sever his body in half just like that? Do not joke around children! Besides, that scan some of you showed which is of Kabuto slashing Itachi in half was just an illusionary image, I beleive, as I think that he was already Izanami'd at that point of the story, so, owned!