Alright, so everybody knows I'm an Itachi fan, but you'll learn something new if you read.
1. Obito's Zetsu Body
Notice that the right side of Obito's body (his right) is where Madara replaced destroyed flesh with White Zetsu.
2. Obito's Zetsu Body Replacement Technique
As you can see, Obito can easily swap out injured Zetsu parts with fresh parts via Kamui.
3. Amaterasu Mechanics
Madara's soul says that Amaterasu ignites exactly where the user is looking.
4. Itachi's Fail-Safe Activation
As you can see, Itachi's design was to hit Obito's eye and face, which would remove Kamui & kill him.
5. Sasuke's shifting gaze
However, Sasuke moved his eye to look at Obito's (Zetsu!) shoulder. So Obito swapped it out.
6. Obito versus Itachi (read the entire scan carefully)
Now there's a lot here. I'll first focus on what nobody focuses on: "as a last-ditch effort to kill me.." Interesting, isn't it? That idiom, 'a last-ditch effort' has a strong implication of a final attempt, and implies that there were previous attempts. Itachi had been trying to kill him, but at the same time, we know Obito never even revealed Kamui's potential.
That, taken in conjunction with this what Obito later says, 'Itachi never ceases to amaze me.' and 'If I hadn't guarded my secrets closely (even Kamui,) I'd certainly be dead.' in conjunction with the scene Kishimoto wrote in his movie, where Obito chooses to teleport away from Itachi and not engage... all paints a clear portrait. Itachi had been actively trying to kill Obito, and cut off the snake's head so to speak, but that Obito kept his distance via teleportation.
Now, why else would Obito not show his face in Akatsuki, his own organization, until he knew Sasuke and Itachi were just about to have their final fight? Why else would he tell Zetsu that Itachi had been the only thing stopping him from attacking Konoha and capturing Naruto? Itachi was a great problem for Obito.
Also, before I'm attacked this has no true bearing on a battle between them, rather, it shows that Obito had such a high opinion of Itachi that he wasn't willing to risk his plans or his life by crossing Itachi, regardless of how well readers think Obito would do in those situations. After all, it's one thing to casually observe a fight, and another thing to risk everything to find out. Essentially, Obito didn't want to risk it against someone that continualy surpassed his expectations.
Itachi's huge impact on the war―saving Naruto and Bee, sealing Nagato, converting Sasuke, and arguably converting Kabuto and Orochimaru―shows how Itachi could literally tip the scales if Obito were executing his plans by himself. Perhaps not with raw power, but with knowledge and charisma i.e. talk no jutus. So whether you want to call it caution or fear, Obito was not going to cross Itachi because he knew how dangeorus Itachi was.
Hence why he let Itachi believe he was going to continue on with their pact, and Itachi instilled a fail-safes in the event (which he considered likely, given his conversation with Naruto before implanting Kotoamatsukami) that Obito would double-cross him and corrupt Sasuke with the truth after Itachi died deceiving Sasuke.
Basically, the first fail-safe not working was essentially cricrumstantial. Everything would have worked out perfectly if not for Sauske moving his eye, because Sasuke would never have learned the truth and would have returned to Konoha hero, with his vengeance satiated. The second fail-safe was similarly circumstantial, because while it was ultimately designed to persuade an EMS Sasuke to help Konoha, it instead allowed Itachi to save Naruto, Bee, and then use talk no jutsu on Sasuke, and possibly Kabuto and Orochimaru. So his plans were very well-designed, despite them not going as planned...
tl;dr: This is not a versus thread. It's an explanation of how Obito survived and the general situation of their relationship. Namely, that Obito was relatively unsure about Itachi's potential (as he said he was constantly amazing him) and thus chose to keep him safely at a distance and let the pact ride out before proceeding.
1. Obito's Zetsu Body
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Notice that the right side of Obito's body (his right) is where Madara replaced destroyed flesh with White Zetsu.
2. Obito's Zetsu Body Replacement Technique
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As you can see, Obito can easily swap out injured Zetsu parts with fresh parts via Kamui.
3. Amaterasu Mechanics
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Madara's soul says that Amaterasu ignites exactly where the user is looking.
4. Itachi's Fail-Safe Activation
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As you can see, Itachi's design was to hit Obito's eye and face, which would remove Kamui & kill him.
5. Sasuke's shifting gaze
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However, Sasuke moved his eye to look at Obito's (Zetsu!) shoulder. So Obito swapped it out.
6. Obito versus Itachi (read the entire scan carefully)
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Now there's a lot here. I'll first focus on what nobody focuses on: "as a last-ditch effort to kill me.." Interesting, isn't it? That idiom, 'a last-ditch effort' has a strong implication of a final attempt, and implies that there were previous attempts. Itachi had been trying to kill him, but at the same time, we know Obito never even revealed Kamui's potential.
That, taken in conjunction with this what Obito later says, 'Itachi never ceases to amaze me.' and 'If I hadn't guarded my secrets closely (even Kamui,) I'd certainly be dead.' in conjunction with the scene Kishimoto wrote in his movie, where Obito chooses to teleport away from Itachi and not engage... all paints a clear portrait. Itachi had been actively trying to kill Obito, and cut off the snake's head so to speak, but that Obito kept his distance via teleportation.
Now, why else would Obito not show his face in Akatsuki, his own organization, until he knew Sasuke and Itachi were just about to have their final fight? Why else would he tell Zetsu that Itachi had been the only thing stopping him from attacking Konoha and capturing Naruto? Itachi was a great problem for Obito.
Also, before I'm attacked this has no true bearing on a battle between them, rather, it shows that Obito had such a high opinion of Itachi that he wasn't willing to risk his plans or his life by crossing Itachi, regardless of how well readers think Obito would do in those situations. After all, it's one thing to casually observe a fight, and another thing to risk everything to find out. Essentially, Obito didn't want to risk it against someone that continualy surpassed his expectations.
Itachi's huge impact on the war―saving Naruto and Bee, sealing Nagato, converting Sasuke, and arguably converting Kabuto and Orochimaru―shows how Itachi could literally tip the scales if Obito were executing his plans by himself. Perhaps not with raw power, but with knowledge and charisma i.e. talk no jutus. So whether you want to call it caution or fear, Obito was not going to cross Itachi because he knew how dangeorus Itachi was.
Hence why he let Itachi believe he was going to continue on with their pact, and Itachi instilled a fail-safes in the event (which he considered likely, given his conversation with Naruto before implanting Kotoamatsukami) that Obito would double-cross him and corrupt Sasuke with the truth after Itachi died deceiving Sasuke.
Basically, the first fail-safe not working was essentially cricrumstantial. Everything would have worked out perfectly if not for Sauske moving his eye, because Sasuke would never have learned the truth and would have returned to Konoha hero, with his vengeance satiated. The second fail-safe was similarly circumstantial, because while it was ultimately designed to persuade an EMS Sasuke to help Konoha, it instead allowed Itachi to save Naruto, Bee, and then use talk no jutsu on Sasuke, and possibly Kabuto and Orochimaru. So his plans were very well-designed, despite them not going as planned...
tl;dr: This is not a versus thread. It's an explanation of how Obito survived and the general situation of their relationship. Namely, that Obito was relatively unsure about Itachi's potential (as he said he was constantly amazing him) and thus chose to keep him safely at a distance and let the pact ride out before proceeding.
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