Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25516007-20141008201906/@comment-25464204-20141024042550

Mate, Itachi didn't suffer from the disease in the beginning of the fight. Sasuke had a good fight and he made Itachi to fight seriously, and then Itachi ran out of chakra plus the big impact from his disease. Itachi somehow let Sasuke got the upperhand of him in the whole battle

Ok so here is an example: You and your girlfriend play king chess, you play better than her but you don't want to win because you afraid of she will be upset, so you let her makes some moves which disadvantage for you and she eventually wins the match, so the factor here is that she won because you let her to, but if you played seriously from the beginning and she still won in the end so that mean she won by her own ability (that's another factor)

I didn't discuss The Gaara - Kimimaro match before but for me is different bcause Kimimaro fought seriously from the beginning to end, and that cause the disease killed him (that's a little bit different with Sasuke - Itachi battle)

Jiraiya came to hospital to visit Naruto. He asked Naruto to train for 3 years and told Naruto must let Sasuke go. Jiraiya doesn't want Naruto to follow his wrong path in the past (by stop Orochimaru left the village just like Sasuke did), and then a flashback came up, it showed Jiraiya-Orochimaru first fight although the fight was very short.