Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20200129184605/@comment-9782468-20200206143448

@Ninja I try ^-^

That's true. I suppose I can try to breakdown the fight and see where that goes. I can't off the top of my head say how one would outsmart the other, because their abilities are so different.

So, 10 meters start. Gaara, knowing that Itachi operates a lot of his jutsu via eye contact, goes on the offense and sends sand to try to immobilize him. At the same time, he forms his Third Eye to keep tabs on Itachi so it's harder for Itachi to feint with a Bunshin.

Itachi dodges the sand and goes on the defensive. He fires off Phoenix Flame jutsu at Gaara, who immediately defends and looks into his Third Eye, just in time to see a kunai fly into is, dispelling it. Gaara launches more sand attacks and forms a clone himself.

Itachi continues to maneuver around the sand, then throws several kunai out in all directions. The kunai ricochet off each other. Gaara blocks most but the unorthodox paths manage to land a a few cuts on him.

Gaara immediately launches a widespread tsunami style attack in an attempt to catch him. Itachi is immobilized and Gaara begins to seal him, only for Itachi to burst into crows, having been a clone since Gaara's Third Eye was destroyed. Surprised, Gaara whips around and finds himself looking into Itachi's eyes.

However, unbeknownst to Itachi, this is also a clone and Itachi uses Tsukuyomi on him. The clone crumbles and Itachi is on the defensive again as the real Gaara reveals himself.

Itachi, not wanting to waste anymore chakra, begins a Shuriken barrage. Gaara, recognizing that Itachi can ricochet the Shuriken to bypass his defense, forms his orb to defend on all sides. His third eye reappears in time to watch Itachi's eye begin to bleed.

Gaara immediately spreads his shield farther from himself, but Itachi was fast enough to graze through the shield and tag Gaara lightly with Amaterasu. Luckily for Gaara, he had is sand armour on and quickly removed it. Gaara realizes Itachi had given him an advantage; his sand now had Amaterasu on it as a means of offense. His understanding of Amaterasu was that it burned for 7 days and 7 nights, so it wouldn't eventually go out; he had eternally burning sand to attack with.

Itachi recognizes this and knows he could put the flames out but doesn't. Instead he activates Susanoo, while Gaara spreads the flames to the rest of his sand. Gaara begins to attack.

Itachi defends with the Yata mirror and attacks with Yasaka Magatama. Gaara defends, and strikes back. Itachi sttempts Totsuka, but upon drawing the blade, Gaara prepared his absolute shield, which barely manages to block stop the blade in time.

Itachi's Susanoo is eventually caught in Amaterasu. Knowing he'd burn in there unless he extinguished it, Itachi deactivates Susanoo, exhausted.

Gaare prepares a spear of Amaterasu sand, but right before he strikes, he notices that the spear of sand is nearly all of his sand. He looks around at the environment, and there's Amaterasu scattered on the landscape. He watches as his own spear eventually falls, creating a spear-shaped burning section of the ground.

Itachi appears before him and Gaara realizes his mistake; Amaterasu burned for 7 days and 7 nights, but it still burned. If Amaterasu ate through his sand, then Gaara could no longer control the fire via his sand, because there was no sand. Itachi providing Susanoo as his ultimate weapon, a large target to be attacked, made Gaara continue to shape his sand in different ways. This caused the fire to find more surface area to burn more quickly. Until eventually, Gaara had hardly anything left to manipulate.

With Gaara having nothing to defend himself, Itachi strikes him down. Itachi is left blind from his MS usage, but he has won the fight.

That's my scenario of Itachi winning. It was honestly hard to think up but I think that helped make it a tad more clever feeling lol. I can see more obvious ways for Gaara to win, but based on how the two characters were written and portrayed, I think Itachi would win in the the series if they ever fought.