Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30530312-20161118192616/@comment-30426414-20161222173042

By feats shown in the anime and manga is more than obvious that the joki boi is faster than the arena.

The speed feats of the joki boi don't exceed what itachi has done. Even if the joki boi is faster than itachi (which I highly doubt it is) gaara's sand was not able to keep up with it. The sand was only able to touch the joki after gaara mixed gold dust into it, making it heavier. So thats not even a speed feat for the sand.

Dragon universal wrote: Many are faster than gaara but few can compare to the speed of their sand, sasuke and rock lee could pass through her at age 12 however in shippuden the arena reacted at the speed of amateratsu and I doubt much that sasuke at 12 Years is faster than amateratsu.

Naruto is his base form was faster than amaterasu: like so(http://imgur.com/kexiSAO) Itachi was keeping up with naruto in KCM: like so(http://imgur.com/tCkQ9IJ) Therefore, going by scaling, itachi is faster than Amaterasu. Keeping up with KCM is a much greater speed feat than anything gaara's sand has ever done. Which means he can indeed dance around it like lee and sasuke did in part 1 like this(http://imgur.com/tBt1G4c) but instead of knee kicking him, itachi can use amaterasu or tsukuyomi, at such a close range its impossible to dodge. The only thing gaara can do is camp out in his sphere and throw techniques at itachi that will be tanked by susanoo. Itachi can then easily impale the sphere with the totsuka blade since gaara's mobility is lessened while in the sphere.

@AsianReaper I made those gifs from crunchyroll videos and legal copies of naruto episodes that I have so please don't remove them.