Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-29769110-20170115161829/@comment-25122992-20170115215106

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: then why didn't itachi use koto by himself on the village? if he did put shisui's eyes on himself, he would get an ems. Not necessarily. Firstly, there's no guarantee that Shisui's eyes were compatible for him - you need a close relative to achieve EMS, but we never heard that Shisui was a close relative for him. Secondly, Itachi himself mentioned why he couldn't use Koto back then - because of the 10-years cooldown.