Why did Itachi let Orochimaru live?

[NinjaP00PandPEEJutsu]

Surely Itachi knew how dangerous to the world the guy was, yet he only took his hand.

Also did Orochi not have his shed skin jutsi by then? That would have negated the lose of the hand...

I guess it should be assumed that it would have been costly for Itachi to kill Orochi.

 

[JoanaTak]

It was mainly for the plot. Itachi could’ve easily explained what happened. A lot of Itachi’s choices and Itachi were stupid lol

Edit : Also, I would’ve guessed Itachi would realize Orochimaru would go after Sasuke when he got the sharington, if Orochimaru couldn’t get him. I honestly don’t think Itachi thought far ahead clearly

 

[minamoto]

same reason why he let kaboto live...

 

[minamoto]

Not really. Itachi sympathized with him, Orochimaru is a different case altogether.

OT: Orochimaru would have escaped anyway. According to his fight with Kabuto, yes, he was able to use oral rebirth at the time. As for why he simply didn't re-attach his hand, I don't know, his regenrative powers might not have been as strong as it is now or it's just a plot hole. We never got to learn what happened after that in the manga anyway.

Nice fanfic...

 

[Kakooli]

he kill his whole family especially babies to prevent kohoa destruction...then let one of kohoa biggest threats live when he have logic reason to kill him...

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[Chikombo]

Man you ask difficult questions, how am I supposed to keep my faith in this character when you point out so many flaws?

 

[Kakooli]

Man you ask difficult questions, how am I supposed to keep my faith in this character when you point out so many flaws?

lakookie have good explain...

hitachi have a lot of knowledge on curse seal as seen from saskey fight...he know that even death dont kill oro because he have escape route through curse seal... to kill oro u have to kill every experiment he infect curse seal with so he cant rebirth....

 

[Infant]

Same reason why Kakashi didn't kill Oro when he went after Genin Sasuke. . .

It's quite difficult to kill someone who is stronger than you.

 

[Infant]

Oh wow, there's actually somone else that believes Oro>>Itachi other than me in here!

Though, I personally would say Orochimaru surpassed him when he got his Zetsu body in the war arc.

Nice to see

I'd say he was always stronger. Kakashi feared an Orochimaru whom he only knew from Hanzo hype, yet after twice facing Itachi and Sasuke made no mention/indication of them being comparable to Sannin. This matters because he definitely made a comparison when he faced SoSP, saying he couldn't imagine how Jiraiya managed, implying he doesn't consider Jiraiya as SoSP level.

As for how things work out if even Jonin Orochimaru is stronger, a few details explain it but mainly: gaps in power are different from gap in space, such that there is no limit to how many characters can fill even the tiniest gap just as its possible for huge gaps to be filled by no one. But just to clarify, I consider Itachi stronger than Jonin Sannin individuals.

 

[Urda]

At the time they were both still in Akatsuki [Chapter 345]. Apparently, after targeting Itachi, Orochimaru eventually left.

 

[minamoto]

At the time they were both still in Akatsuki [Chapter 345]. Apparently, after targeting Itachi, Orochimaru eventually left.

u know??? i can dizprove u wrong and get many likes out of it...but im just not gonna do it becuz u never bashed tobidara..