Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24347194-20150211225344/@comment-142748-20150404002410

ItachiWasAHero wrote: First off just NO. Hiraishin is too fast for Genjutsu, not Minato himself. Second off he used Izanami on Kabuto and that was basically 1 on 1 at that point. Thirdly, NO that is NOT how Izanami works, it only ends when you accept your failures and who you are, once you truly humble yourself and know who you truly are it ends and yes it may take 3 seconds for Minato to do that but GUESS WHAT JACK? a second is all Itachi needs.

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Also Itachi never tried to kill Obito, he only set a trap in Sasuke at the moment he died because he knew that ONLY when he is dead would Tobi(Obito) would attempt to persuade him over and tell him the truth. Obito and Orochimaru both knew not to fuck with Itachi, Minato though? They both didn't give two shits and Obito at age 14(He's the same age as Kakashi people..) even challenged Minato to a fight with no fear or anything. YET Obito never challenged Itachi to a fight did he? Orochimaru did TWICE and each time he was shut down with ease within a minute or so. Minato might be able to beat someone like a FOURTEEN year old Obito, but he can't beat Itachi, at his very best he may tie with him but thats it, nothing more. Minato's reflexes and Hiraishin are needed for either or. And Minato's shunshin speed is insanely fast to the point its mistaken for his Hiraishin.

Izanami is worthless against Minato. First of, it will never reach him. Itachi won't be able to touch Minato much less set it up. Secondly, even if he does...it doesn't work on people who aren't trying to do what Kabuto and Izanagi users do. Kabuto is in the one-percentage of people susceptible to the technique, Minato isn't.

Obito knew not to fuck with Itachi? He was playing Itachi the entire fucking time! He broke the promise not to touch Konoha through Akatsuki several times! Even when Itachi was alive, he sent Hidan and Kakuzu to try to catch Naruto and rampage through Konoha. Obito never feared Itachi. And Itachi's last attempt was to show that in life, he couldn't do anything to the man he thought was Madara (and he never figured out Tobi wasn't Madara), hence an after-the-death trap. Minato defeated Tobi however, doesn't matter if Tobi was 14/15, he had already achieved a power comparable enough to Madara that he could be mistaken for him.

I know you like Itachi a lot, but you're seriously overestimating him. The Orochimaru point doesn't work either since the only times Itachi faced Orochimaru was when Orochimaru had multiple handicaps.