Itachi was babysitting Sasuke during that fight
In a fight to kill itachi solos easily.
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if you see here itachi activates izamami before kabuto even comes at him with his attack.
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this last page shows that izanami has already been activated if you look at itachi's eyes.
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we saw right there that itachi defends sasuke instead he could have saved himself with his susano.
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There it seems as if itachi was stabed through the chest but...
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he infacts uses his crow genjustsu effectively avoiding Kabuto.
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Here he could have beaten Kabuto but as we all know he coulld not as the the edo tensei would still be active.
so what do you think could Itachi have won the match by himself?
I can't believe people actually think itachi would be able to beat kabuto if he was alone. White Rage + Muki Tensei immobilizes itachi. Or white rage + sound genjutsu ends him. Then talisman to the head it is. Let's not even factor in that izanami needs prep time, something sasuke allowed itachi to have.
Yeah, it's pretty sad.
1. Kabuto has counters to all of Itachi's abilities.
2. Without Sasuke, Itachi could never even use Izanami since Sasuke played a big part in it's success.
3. Without being a zombie, Itachi would had been killed early in the fight.
4. Without Sasuke, Itachi would had been turned back under Kabuto's control.
5. All of Kabuto's other Edo Tenseis were sealed by the alliance so he couldn't use them.
6. Kabuto couldn't just undo Edo Tensei and get rid of Itachi or else he'd lose his ace against the alliance and Obito.
7. Kabuto couldn't risk killing Sasuke so he was using babygloves against him.