He was a double spy and did his job anyway.
does whatever he did as a spy justify what he did as an akatsuki? no. he did entirely too little thats for konohas benefit
The coma wasn't permanent. 8 year old Sasuke woke up in a few weeks after the Uchiha massacre,
yes it was. it took the greatest medic in the world and her protege returning to konoha to heal him and kakashi. moreover itachi has no idea if it will be or not or if tsunade would ever come back.
Of course Itachi went after Kabuto, because at that point Itachi only knew of MS Obito being the other threat. He wasn't exactly caught up on current events. The guy had been dead for a while. -_-
it would do him well then to pump naruto and bee for informaiton as much as possible rather than going galivanting off half cocked. he thought he'd face base kabuto and thought that a mere genjutsu would be enough.
itachi should AT LEAST know the war's purpose. and not knowing it means hes not so good at obtaining information then is he?
You're saying that the Akatsuki killed thousands and millions, but the manga states no such numbers.
1. the people who died from juubis long range bombs
2. the alliance
should total over a million casualties
Itachi has the tools to take on everyone in Akatsuki at once?
what do you mean at once? they were never all in one place at any one time. kakuzu and hidan would have killed their way through konoha if pain allowed them to. or hell simply if kakuzu got killed and left hidan all alone. few jounins could fight hidan effectively.
Yes, but that was because he was a double spy.
he was a terrorist who ensured an entire city knew nothing about its greatest enemy and ensured obito had the nukes he wanted.
a double spy wouldnt let the worst and most powerful men in the world have 7 nukes. and if he does he would LET EVERY SINGLE NINJA ON EARTH KNOW ABOUT IT AND ORDER A STRIKE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Apparently he was a good spy for those 7 years, considering that Hiruzen praised him. The guy did his job.
so then how come all konohas high ranking ninjas like kakashi knew about akatsuki was they were hunting bijuus? and NOTHING else? isnt it his responsibility as an apparent good guy to earn the trust of akatsukis highest ranks and find out every single thing he can?
instead he was just another goon to nagato and konan.
He didn't declare war on anything and he only hurt Sasuke/Kakashi after he told them to stay away from him but they faced him anyway.
he attacked a group of konoha soldiers in cold blood which is a declaration of war on the entire fire country and an act of war in of itself. then he beat a genin into a coma while intending on kidnapping and murdering konoha's jinchuriki. i dont have to tell you this. the manga SHOWED us this. your telling me that hes loyal to konoha when he just launched a violent terrorist assault on the city with intent to grieviously harm one of its men and kidnap another? which would essentially have every single ninja there gunning for him if they werent already? only reason they werent is they didnt have the manpower to be fighting akatsuki just yet. all the more reason to warn them, not knock its men out of comission
He used reverse psychology on Sasuke which in turn made him decide not to kill Naruto at the VoTE.
he used brutal sociopathic disregard for human life at its worst. he advised an emotional grieving vengeful child that the path to getting justice involves severing off the heads of people he cares about. and your telling me he somehow knew sasuke would refuse to go through it it INCHES away from doing it?
also it failed. sasuke almost killed naruto and the ONLY reason naruto is not paste on the fukin rocks is kyuubis regneration. thats it. thats the sole reason. had sauske picked sakura or damn near anyone else as his closest companion they WOULD be dead.
and had orochimaru not arrived when he did, sasuke would ahve murdered naruto, sakura, sai and yamato.
Itachi wanted Sasuke to hate him so Konoha would be spared of that hatred. It worked for a good while.
but it wont be.
you think that konoha killing his family would be the only possible reaosn sauske would ever have to want konoha taken down?
torture someone into insanity long enough and hard enough and they will find a reason that wouldnt make sense to anyone else. like orochimaru and his " peace is boring" crap.
hate doesnt stop with one person. it seeps in, corrupts, turns you into someone you never thought you could be. ESPECIALLY if your an unstable motherfukin uchiha. is itachi so stupid that he didnt think a member of the same clan that had such a long and bloody history wouldnt embrace said destiny if he tortured him?
He warned Kakashi Asuma and Kurenai to stay away, did not harm Naruto or his crew, had the amaterasu activation in place for Obit
he warned kakashi what any villain would warn him of. "if you get in my way ill kill you". which confirmed to thjem his enemy status.
did not harm naruto? if jiraiya hadnt shown up when he did, naruto would be dead.
amaterasu didnt do dik nor would it. what happened to KA and izanami
On the part about Madara, he didn't even know who the real Madara was when he was an edo. He thought Madara was Tobi and as we know, DSM Kabuto is stronger than MS Obito. So in Itachi's mind, he was going after the bigger threat
lets look at the facts. itachi knew obito was collecting bijuus. 7 of them.
he didnt know kabuto has SM or edo madara or really any edos besides the edo he just took down with totsuka.
so base kabuto with unknown or no edos vs MS obito with 7 bijuus. yeah itachis a moron.
Obito also stated that he couldn't resume his plans until after Itachi died.
yeah but his plans were advancing, itachi or not. he had 7 bijuus when itachi died, and after that all he concerned himself with was continuing to be behind the scenes apart from corrupting sasuke and sending him after bee.
it was NAGATOs death that forced obitos hand and rushed his plans
Itachi is the reason that Sasuke did not gain hatred for Konoha much earlier on.
itachi is the reason sauske has hatred period. there were ways he could have handled the post massacre scene in a way that kept sasuke as a grieving but ultimately good hearted boy. sure he might lose the will to live later on but i bet he would have far fukin less reason to live once he finds out what kind of person his beloved brother apparently is.
He's a double spy for Akatsuki, he's not going to give them a hug and blow their cover.
what cover? he spent 7 years in akatsuki doing nothing except making akatsuki stronger and warning them about how strong konoha is. the moment thye got their first bijuu, itachi should have been like "ok. im gonna tell every ninja i meet that a group of psychopaths have a nuke. bad news guys. its war time". no point staying there any longer. it was war time. let them get any stronger and what happens? oh right exactly what DID happen. thousands dying.
You're blaming Itachi for not killing Oro, and yet Itachi was a 14 year old who knew nothing about Oro's abilities/background during their first encounter.
yes i am. the manga is trying to tell me that itachi as a 7 year old was some mega wise shinobi scholar researching everything he could and wasnt attached to things like clan loyalty.
but then it tries to tell me hes a sociopathic lazy idiot who lets the worst criminal in the world go for no reason, knowing full well hes on the bingo book and is a legendary fighter
Zetsu would know because he's everywhere and he is stated to be the only thing that is completely undetectable, to the point no sensor can realize he's there. He even knew that Deidara blew himself up in his fight with Sasuke when he was nowhere near the vicinity. He would know if Itachi killed Kisame and would alert the others.
the problem with this is kakuzu. the whole inner circle knows kakuzu slaughtered his partners and they kept right on keeping kakuzu around. kakuzu did more to stop akatsukis plans than the person apparently actually wanting them taken down. moreover itachi should know full well madara knows his true loyalties. itachi TOLD HIM THIS TO HIS FACE when he amde him leave konoha and sasuke alone.and obito would have told zetsu and nagato so theres really no cover at all to blow. the jig was up before it began
Itachi is the reason Obito didn't destroy Konoha earlier on.
hes the reason he was in a position to destroy everywhere else. no one cares if one city is safe when the entire world is suffering by losing the bijus
And as for Shikamaru being able to find a way to stop Zetsu within a year...well Itachi's not Shikamaru.
i know that. im explaining that itachi was far from even competant let alone smart
The reason they didn't do that for Kakazu is because he was a 100+ yr old man who was in it for the money and had no reason to betray Akatsuki. Itachi is someone they would be suspicious about, he was from Konoha which was the village that ruined Nagato's life and a part of Anbu in the past.
they knew all that already (meaning obito and zetsu). since itachi told obito to his face hes for konoha and nothing else. not killing him then means either obito doesnt want to or cant. and if he CANT then that means itachi > him and theres no reason not to kill him then and there.
