[Theory] Wow, Itachi was right all along.

[Senju Bean]

Itachi was so scared of Gai that he decided to retreat immediately upon Gai's arriaval. Strange since Kisime wasn't able to sense a thing from Gai.

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He even tried to warn Akatsuki.

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Itachi knew that Gai was always stronger than him and now we see this prediction come true.

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Itachi not being a sensor and able to discern Gai's true strength is something really amazing. Itachi is a prophet!

 

[Made in Heaven]

Hell yeah!

I always said gai is stronger than itachi

 

[NArutouzzi]

im not an itachi fanboy or anything but itachi is an extremely talented ninja.

 

[kotoamatsukami]

Well yea itachi is from the leaf village an knows a lot about gai..but mom the less he would most likely still lose to Itachi thoe.

 

[SlamDunk1996]

Gai is strong but remeber itachi defeated sasuke when he used the sky lightling jutsu that is faster than a second

 

[Bimbonium]

Yeah, he was right.

 

[SlamDunk1996]

also gai has too keep itachi genjutsu at bay so he can never look up when he fight him so itachi is in my favour

 

[Clouds]

No , he's not stronger

Itachi takes everything up to 7 gates
8 gate kills gai so it shouldn't be counted

 

[kotoamatsukami]

If gai start off looking down he loses to Amaterasu easy.

 

[Senju Bean]

If gai start off looking down he loses to Amaterasu easy.

Ay dodged Amaterasu and Gai is much faster than Ay. Heck, even Minato is faster than Ay and he got pwned by Madara, who is slower than Gai.

 

[Beatrix]

Not really about who is stronger.

Just another example of Itachi's genius

I like it - Gai is dismissed immediately (or almost so) by pretty much everyone. That is until Itachi. You could brush it off and say well, he's a jonin and a specialist in taijutsu and has knowledge of fighting a sharingan user - but it's easy to see (now) that it's likely more than that.
Given Madara's comments, Itachi's thirst for knowledge about the village and the dynmaics therein I'm sure he's came across this (8 Gates) before - somewhere.

I wonder if Gai's father was well known, of legendary status?
But the kids never seem to know that shit - they had no idea about Kakashi's reputation, or had never heard of Jiraiya/Orochimaru etc - but then again, Itachi was an ANBU captain at 13 and Sasuke/Naruto/Sakura were... obnoxious little genin brats.

 

[Senju Bean]

No , he's not stronger

Itachi takes everything up to 7 gates
8 gate kills gai so it shouldn't be counted

It's a feat so it can be counted.

 

[Senju Bean]

also gai has too keep itachi genjutsu at bay so he can never look up when he fight him so itachi is in my favour

Who cares? Itachi has to think of using genjutsu. Well, 8th Gate Gai would vaporize Itachi before Itachi's brain cells even create a single thought. Thats how fast Gai is in 8th gate.

 

[ShiroShonen]

Heck yeah
Byt IMO it takes 8th gate Gai to beat Itachi

 

[NarutoSamaKama]

I'm not a fanboy of either, but I give it to Itachi. Unless Gai goes all out like 8th gate all out

 

[Fair Warning]

Gai has to die just to beat Itachi

 

[St Joseph]

I think Itachi could have defeated Gai, but maybe he didn't know the full extent of Gai's power. So he was cautious.

 

[drknght]

Seeing the depth of others' capacity was what Itachi was good at from the beginning.

I want to know how many of you think that Sasuke can meet with his parents or Itachi again in his dead-like state?

 

[Conspirator.]

Itachi beats gai-minus the 8th gate. In that case, it becomes a stalemate. Itachi is still above gai on my rankings list.

 

[Chie]

Itachi beats Gai quite handily, unless Gai commits suicide by using the 8 gates.

If Itachi wasn't a pacifist, was actually for Akatsuki, was there to fight, wasn't only there to have Danzo hear of his presence so he would remember to not lay a hand on Sasuke, and didn't have loyalties to Konoha and therefore its shinobi, then you know that he would have beaten Gai. He wanted to get out of Konoha as soon as possible in order to not cause problems and was making up many excuses in order to do so. Also, the databook gives Itachi a significantly higher score than Gai and MS wouldn't even be needed for the fight. U_U