I believe it is the fact that Tobi understood and respected Itachi's strength more than he was scared. He isn't as scared as he is concious of the risks he could be posed to were Itachi to go against him.
It's called honor so eat a hard d*ck you simple minded f*ckwhy would he keep a pact if he wasnt scared? huh, or it could be that he was weaker, itachi>tobi
Plot no jutsu thats why and i'm pretty sure the obito now can defeat itachi idk about back then though.If Tobi was truly as strong as you state - at that given time, can you tell me why he didn't just absorb Naruto in the woods when he recklessly attacked him? He could have captured him so easy, and it wouldn't matter since Itachi would be gone later. Also Nagato knew all along, and so did Zetsu, it would be easy to still hide his identity to the remaining members of akatsuki... In general his skill and way to act has just been too random.
Itachi is determined, and he wouldn't miss a chance to kill Obito/Tobi if it appeared, however, he also thought it was Madara, and Itachi wasn't sure about his skills, which is the reason he never risked trying to kill him, since if he failed he knew he couldn't keep akatsuki out of konoha any longer..
Itachi is no doubt one of the smartest and thereby most skilled shinobi in history. His genjutsu level would exceed Obitos as well, how would Obito ever be able to kill Itachi? His only chance is to absorb him, but genjutsu will pown him, and at the right moment itachi will just strike.
Stop saying Obito is way over Itachi, I say we haven't enough info on Obitos skill in genjutsu and in fighting other sharingan users, since these sort of fights are very different. From what is known it's obvious that Itachi is more skilled..
He was talking about that moment when Amaterasu took him by surprise, hence him saying right now and mentioning this right after he got hit by Amaterasu. He wasn't talking about all the time.I know some of you are smarter than you are making out to be. What does it mean by if he knew my secrets, I would be dead?
Gosh a freaking 8 year old knows what that means and how to make sense out of it. Why would he say that if he knew that he was stronger than Itachi? If you knew that there is no way that someone can whoop your ass would you say something like that? No way would I say such if I was stronger that him.
@bold1: Itachi may have more jutsu than Obito, but that one jutsu can render most of Itachi's jutsu useless.
@bold2: While he is intangible Genjutsu won't work since he is moving himself to the other dimension. Obito also has knowledge on Itachi's jutsu so he knows not to look in his eyes.
@bold3: Obito has 2 eyes, one MS and one normal Sharingan he can use for Izanagi.
@bold4: Itachi needs to touch his opponent multiple times for Izanami to work, to suck him in Tobi only needs one touch so if he tries Izanami Tobi will suck him in.
@bold5: Obito using his eye is better than Kakashi using Obito's eye.
I don't want to ague about that but you want it.Before telling me to deal with it, tell me how he wins? Until you come up with an argument (A good one.) Tobi>Itachi.
It's actually a huge deciding factor in determining the winner in a fight, to say that it doesn't matter whether or not Itachi knew Obito's secrets makes little sense.
Think about it this way, in the fight between Pain and Jiraiya, Pain said that Jiraiya could have defeated him if he knew of his secrets. But Jiraiya lost, and that is why...get what I'm saying? The connection is there, the point is the same.
omg:flaw: get the point! regardless of if he knew his secrets or not itachi could of killed him as in he had no reason to kill obito because he didnt knw his secrets but still could of if he ever felt the need so itachi>obitoI know he could have killed him only if he knew his secrets.
tobi has always been stroger than itachi, guys he alone attack the village and separated minato from his wife, also broke thru kohoha defence , mean while itachi was little back then carrying baby sakuke and also he cud ve sucked in minato if not dat he was fast with his teleportation justu,
guys r saying that he did not improve back and all he did was wait for itachi to grow up and b stronger than him no way.
remember he was trianed and taught all the secrets of uchiha by madara b4 itachi cud lay his hands on those secret also there r technique which only tobi knows bcos of madara. itachi cannot go to the five kage meeting and wistand the hit from raikage.
most fear tobi technique remeber guys, he only said that he would be dead by now since itach wud ve studied his move then attack him just the way sakuke studied orochimaro and attck him.
This lol. If Itachi knew the extent of Tobi's plan, he would have had a big part in ending it much sooner than it is being ended now.Tobi would of been dead if Itachi didn't know his plan and secrets.