Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-9782468-20160223232833/@comment-27233105-20160226020948

MlGshinobi - Tsukuyomi always has time distortion applied. Of course we know Itachi can adjust how much time will go by in the illusion, but the victim's misperception of time ALWAYS happens. There is no official exception saying otherwise. The following examples will finally demonstrate for you why.

- In chapter 385, Zetsu has dialogue and looks down on the fight here. His perception is only in reality so when the audience can see something from an aspect close to his, we know what we see is real. Note there are no shuriken on the floor yet.

- In chapter 387, the audience sees the shuriken throwing match.

- Again in chapter 387, the shuriken match is finished. Note the distance between Sasuke and Itachi. Also note the placement of the shuriken around Sasuke (since it's hard to see the shuriken around Itachi).

- In chapter 388, Zetsu has dialogue again, so the audience knows it has an aspect in reality. Again note the distance between Sasuke and Itachi. See something familiar? It's very close to, if not exactly, the distance in the previous reference.

From this we know that anything that happenend sometime during or immediately after the shuriken match (but only where Sasuke's distance from Itachi changes) is an illusion. This includes Sasuke being pinned to a wall, Itachi speaking, ripping out Sasuke's eye, CS activating, etc. This excludes Zetsu, whom I will bring up again.

Ultimately, those actions that happened AT THE DISTANCE CHANGE are an illusion that was perceived by Sasuke and Itachi to happen over a false amount of time, since we know their real distance was only approx. five meters from each other during and after the shuriken match.

- Also in chapter 388, during or immediately after the shuriken match, Zetsu notices something, but it's unclear to the audience exactly what he notices. My guess is he notices Itachi begin Tsukuyomi. Another reference from 388, to show that the shuriken match is real and this distance between the two also is real.

- This should clear up any opinion you have that Itachi can simply "turn off" time distortion during Tsukuyomi. Even if Itachi greatly reduces the amount of time distortion (which we don't even know if he did, because he never says so and more importantly the illusion WOULD'VE went on God knows how long, but Sasuke broke out), the time distortion itself isn't what's known to make Tsukuyomi hard to break. You believe it is, because of your own opinion, though I have no idea why you do.