Since it is highly possible Itachi gave info to Jiraiya, Jiraiya knew that Orochimaru left akatsuki and hence then Jiraiya could start thinking about whats going to happen next. Itachi was not to blame for Jiraiya/Hiruzen to being strong enough/capable of defending the village.
itachi is responsible directly for thousands of peple being killed given he blatantly let oro go when he had a golden opportunity to end him with no reason at all for doing so. hiruzen had an excuse.
He couldnt kill an akatsuki partner because he would be deemed a traitor,
doesnt have to kill him. just capture him and drag his ass back to pain, informing him that oro struck first.
The purpose of Killing the Uchiha is to not let Konoha become in a state of civil war and become prone and vulnerable to attacks by other villages and start another great war, which had a great possibility of happening.
and konoha being in a state of war IS A GODDAMN CERTAINTY if itachi lets oro go or if itachi does nothing ot slow down akatsuki. moreover killing off the whole clan will make konoha just as vulnerable. thyey lost a huge amount of manpower by doign that.
would inevitably cause probably hundred times more casualties and destruction of the village.
what do you mean inevitably? everyrhing you just said is wild speculation. we dont know what would happen. but i daresay killing off a whole clan is damaging to konohas military power and will encourage others to invade
When he decided to go down that path, he thought about Konoha and Sasuke. No, not only Sasuke ^^
he couldnt have as he was prepared to have innocents killed just to make sasuke stronger, and robbed konoha of a powerful ally when he tortured sasuke to insanity
Reasons for joining Akatsuki was to spy on them, this mission was assigned by Hiruzen himself.
and he didnt do that, so it was a waste of time and a failed mission
And yes, its true, while he turned Sasuke into a criminal, it made him who he is today, well, without Hagoromo's buffs that is. Enabled him to become stronger and, ironically enough, if it wasnt for Itachi, Sasuke would not probably be fighting alongside Naruto now ^^
without itachi doing what he did, he would have gotten exactly the kind of sasuke he originally wanted, which was a hero loyal to konoha.
so all itachi did was make sasuke waste 3 years being an evil selfish vengeful douchebag. and what hashirama did was bring back the sauske he was originally. fixing your own stupid fukups doesnt mean your a hero.
And yes, its true, while he turned Sasuke into a criminal, it made him who he is today,
so your justifying horrific mental torture because it eventually turned out that sasuke helped the alliance?
he could have done the same thing but without any torturing sasuke and convincing him to devote so many years to revenge.
4th Great Shinobi War was probably inevitable, as history repeats itself, but Itachi had no part in it and chose to avoid it the first time it could be sparked, keeping his village safe for the time being instead of helping others do it.
itachi helped start the fourth war by choosing to help akatsuki hunt down the bijuus which was the objective of the whole organisation and of the war arc.
he chose to start a world war and helped annhialte konoha the first time it was in danger, when he murdered a whole clan which destablised and weakened konoha enough that orochimaru could capitalise on it and invade a few years later.
and then again when he could have beaten oro and chose not to.
and then agian hwne he could have killed sauske and didnt.
itachis life is nothing but making things ten times fukin harder for konohas army.
When Itachi had a choice, to take part of the death of tens of dozens of people and destruction of the village, he chose not to.
lol what?
he murdered an entire clan which could easily have led to village destruction as eaisly as a coup would.
either way konoha is losing much manpower and much military strength.
and yes he chose to take part in akatsuki murdering gaara and the other jins.
inb4 you say he was part of akatsuki and helped them capture tailed beasts, akatsuki didnt need his help, as they capture most other beasts, he wasnt especially needed. You think Akatsuki didnt have firepower to capture other bijuus?
so your saying that because he wasnt needed for them to achieve their goals, him helping them achieve their goals doesnt matter and hes totally innnocent of the deed?
just because a random runt wolf eats the leg of a deer doesnt mean hes not just as responsible for the kill as the lead wolf that ripped out the deer's throat. the wolf wasnt needed to make the kill but is nevertheless helping to eat it.
get it?
its the same as aizens espada. aizens way stronger than they are and they arent really needed for his plan but they helped nonetheless. tousen betrayed everyone for aizen to help him in his goal. he wasnt NEEDED as aizen was so damn strong on his own, but tousen neverthless is evil for helping him. and the discission isnt how strong itachi is but how evil he is.
they didnt need him to help start the war,but he did so nonetheless.
If Itachi was alive, he wouldn't help Obito but rather his own village.
where was this help when he was alive then?
oh right he was a "spy". even though konoha didnt get a single drop of useful intel and went into every akatsuki fight totally blind intel wise.
itachi helps whoeever he feels he has to for his own agenda.
after dying he realised he fuked up and tried to help the alliance instead. like he should have been doing from the start.
, if Itachi really wanted to help akatsuki, he would solo Jiraiya(if you dont like it, he had Kisame as backup. If you believe Kisame/Itachi couldnt beat Jiraiya, thats another story.)
i hate logic like this.
we dont know what itachi would reason as beneficial to akatsuki. but i reason that helping them seal the bijuus up is useful. helping them find and hunt jins is useful. never betraying anything hes learnt to konoha is useful.
i can turn your own logic on you and say
"if itachi really wants to help konoha, he would have picked off a few akatsukis with poison, given them more intel to work with, and sabotage/assassinate danzo."
konoha thought that capturing akatsuki for intel was a goal worth an entire arc trying to accomplish. if itahcis so smart why didnt he know this, turn himself in, let himself be tortured a bit to make it real and then give up everything he knows? that would help konoha immensely. especially since they initially thought akatsukis to all be fanatical psychos who wouldnt betray each other.
f you dont like it, he had Kisame as backup. If you believe Kisame/Itachi couldnt beat Jiraiya, thats another story.) and capture Naruto at that very moment, or at the very least try, and if Jiraiya was too strong, they would retreat. But he didnt.
so what about all the other jins? did itachi make up an excuse to spare roshis life and leave the area?
no. he let kisame butcher him and helped kisame drag roshi back to akatsuki base where he got murdered and his bijuu ripped out.
so whats itachis logic here, no jin is important UNLESS ITS FROM MY VILLAGE? thats selfish.
Itachi didnt tell him to kill Danzo
no but he did tell him to kill naruto indirectly
