Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30241447-20170503042327/@comment-734582-20170516180802

Rachin123 wrote: The problem here is Itachi never really fought a jinchuriki in the first place for him to have to seal a biju.

We've seen him and Kisame on a jinchuriki hunt before.

Rachin123 wrote: And we don't even know when he gained the blade. And we don't even know if Kisame knew about the blade's ability either. I'm quite sure nobody is hyping Itachi up to say he can easily beat Kisame, if beat him at all. Also, just because the blade may be able to seal away anything, and that is a big if, that doesn't mean you'd be able to. You gotta be fast enough. A big target would make it easy. Good points, but he was in at least one occasion in the presence of a jinchuriki who was down and beaten. So he did in fact have one opportunity at least, assuming he could beat Kisame. I guess you haven't seen Itachi threads before, because i can definitely recall people basically considering itachi a god. Including arguments whether Yata Mirror could stop Tengai Shinsei (and quite a few saying yes). Rachin123 wrote: I also would like to point out that Orochimaru may have been stationary but he did not see that attack coming. He of course was not worried about it for some reason, which means he did not even have enough information on the weapon to no it seals whatever it penetrates. He was comfortable enough to boast against Itachi, despite his carelessness nearly killing him last time. He's not stupid, so i don't think he was worried about being hurt, and was genuinely in the belief that Itachi couldn't kill him. Given itachi's condition and some deduction about Orochimaru's power and i'm inclined to believe him. He did have Sasuke as a host, so he had a fairly strong body to manifest his full power in (probably contrary to the last time, since he wasn't able to learn sage mode due to body weakness and if he had a strong enough body for sage mode, he'd have used it against Itachi). He makes it clear that Susanoo wouldn't be able to hurt him, so i think he did see the attack coming but simply didn't care. If having a cut from around your bellybutton to almost your neck, completely through your body, isn't going to kill you i'm not sure what would've killed him under normal circumstances. He survived a Four Tails Naruto with a body near death. With Sasuke as a fresh body, his power was clearly superior to before.