what? Bee wasn't pretending, he just use karin as a bait to escape..., just bcuz sasuke couldn't keep up with bee doesn't mean itachi can't infact he was keeping up with km naruto. raikage was few inches away from amaterasu when he escaped it so don't even try to say jiraiya can outrun amaterasu because raikage clearly stated the he was the fastest ninja since the speed monster minato was dead.
He has susanoo to defend himself at the same time attacking with it.
You're forgetting that the fight wouldn't start with jiraiya already in sage mode and ma and pa already on his shoulders, infact it takes shit loads of time to summon them his fight with pain is proof of that. A fight always start with both opponent staring at each other so itachi has alot of advantage here even if he has ma and pa he would still fall for tsukuyomi bcuz he can't dispel it. We saw what happened to deidara when he fought itachi, he almost blew himself up without realizing it we also saw how easily he caught oro in a genjutsu unluckily ma and pa wouldn't be there to save him bcuz he needs time to summon them. Yeah i agree itachi has low stamina but during his fight with sasuke he used susanoo for 10 minutes, he burned an entire forest chasing sasuke with amaterasu(sasuke avioded a blind itachi), used tsukuyomi, fire style jutsus and genjutsus. No one was talking abt pain but that reminds me... pain (one akasuki member) single handedly killed jiraiya so that statement doesn't make sense bcuz it took just an akatsuki member to kill jiraiya so itachi, kisame, pain and one other akatsuki member will easily own jiraiya. Enuf said
Oh my god, you people are so blatantly inattentive to valid points.
As for the rest saying that itachi didn't want to hurt jaraiya feeling because he was protecting the village, that why he ran the first time. you need to stop making up speculation's because the writer never said anything about, how you read it is how it's stated. Tobi clearly said itachi went back to remind the council (which are sarutobi 2 elder's and danzo) that he was still alive period. also to make sure his younger brother was ok. aside from that risking a open scale war in the enemy territory would have been stupid because as skill of a ninja itachi is no one can handle (don't know the leaf village populations of ninja's but i am sure is a hell of alot seeing as how he would have to fight all the other clan's Hyuuga nara anbu etc nagato was only able to do so because he had 6body+the rennigan which give's him access to all ninjutus and aside from the fact that he use puppet's while he hide in a hidden. location ), if thing's were so simple for tobi and itachi sharingan the leaf village by uchiha's and the world can easily be taken. the best way to fight a sharingan user is have 2vs1 like kishi stated in his book. itachi woud be fighting 3 opponent that are in sage mode, and he can only focus his Genjutsu on one enemy at a time. kishi even showed MS tysu being broken by sakura and the old lady releasing Naruto from it, so how would ma and pa not do the same thing? (i guess maybe they are low fool's you don't think in battle so sage mode should be look down upon) as far as bee he was pretending to be trap in genjutsu and couldn't move on the floor-the true to that is he was in genjutsu and got help by his partner in mare second's out of it, so i guess sasuke being lavi was all made up image's kishi put in and animated. you say itachi can just simple black flames. ok mate listen up, since when have you seen your star keep's his ms open for long period of time? i'd say not for at least 5mins max, if your going to say jaraiya easily get's own, talk about what kind of thing's is happening with ms on the user(blur vision,lost of blood, extremely harsh amount of pain)all thing's that matter's in a fight, why you think he always play around with gentjusu logically? his ms ability cannot be compared with uchiha sasuke ms ability so as far as being able to use it long period's of time it's a no no, so he would have to rely on tai jutsu and ninjutus. taijutsu is another big no no, because that's sage mode strongest aspect(they feel no pain)-i need not to explain that because we all read and saw it.
"Jiraiya's weakness is women, sake"(and his sage mode strain/time limit)
You think if Itachi attacked Jiraiya, Jiraiya would say "Oh no women! Women! I can't think of what to do!"
We have only seen Itachi run from battle. other than his incident with the Uchiha clan, We have not seen Itachi take on anyone other than Kakashi and sasuke, but we could safely say Orochimaru could take on Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma just as easily if not easier.
Jiraiya was concerned with Tsunade when he fought Orochimaru and we haven't seen a clean fight between the two since then. We weren't saying Itachi vs. Jiraiya when Naruto is tied up to a railroad track, Tsunade is getting raped and Jiraiya is having erotic relations with a woman at the same time. This is an even, one on one battle between the two.
If you can still say that under those circumstances, Itachi would win, then you're all pretty ignorant to how powerful Jiraiya and Orochimaru are. Orochimaru and Jiraiya have VERY powerful summons. What's to say Jiraiya can't summon Gamabunta? He has never NEEDED to summon Gamabunta, and if he did, there's not a chance in hell Itachi can fight him.
If any of you say Itachi took on a clan, he can take on Gamabunta, then you are sadly, sadly misinformed, and you need to read the manga from page 1 to the newest issue again, because if you continue on, your misinformation will get you nowhere.
Itachi can easily be considered above Jounin class. Just because he's above Jounin class does not make him a strong adversary to any of the legendary sennin. Tsunade has a fear of blood, but she is the strongest physical fighter in the world. IN THE WORLD. Each one of the legendary sennin excels above all others in one field or another. Jiraiya, as I'm sure, is that he's the best all around ninja, while Orochimaru is the strongest of ninjutsu.( it was orochimaru foolish obsession to get control sasuke body that made him a thankless drone for power, and not focusing that's why he is forever sealed.) itachi realize on his gentjusu and not on his ms simple because he can't on-till he attain EMS which he never will.(every second his MS is active his life is as risk so go ahead put him at the top of the list say all you want your free to do so, god help him if there was a fight and jaraiya would summon a toad army+sagemode. (your just being a retard if you think sharingan is god-and all ninja's are doom, even as bad of a ninja's madara is, if kish wouldn't make him stupid to think by himself he could kill all the nation vs him-no one is god, no genjutsu is god, and as strong of a man he is, i hope he know's how to keep his ears close if you know what jutsu that is.
(i am finish with this thread, there is no end to a uchiha fan club who think irrationally)(itachi swallow his pride for the leaf along time ago- he choose that life and follow it with absolute, thats why he had no problem killing the leaf village guard with sharingan, and had every intention of killing Kakashi the first time if guy didn't set in(maybe not the second time tho) the point is tobi wouldn't never had take him in if he did not believe itachi was capable of going back to the leaf without his pride and kill anyone, so the say he did not want to fight because you believe it was because he love the village is only your opinion ontill kishi clearly state that-he only say itachi swallow his pride for leaf and murder his clan with the help of tobi, and couldn't kill his brother because he love's him very much. "not wanting to do it because of love for village "doesn't exist better you said sasuke")
