Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-3279282-20150504200737/@comment-26275777-20150505235014

Matako wrote: I highly doubt the new villain has anything to do with Hidan. My guess is that he is somehow related to Shisui or any other untypical Uchiha that defies the rule of gaining power through hate and destruction. The reason I believe that is because they called Sasuke a disgrace to the Uchiha clan and don't like the fact that he "murdered" Itachi. So while they obviously don't think about Itachi the same way as they do about Sasuke, we need to ask ourselves: "Judging by their general history, what was the biggest difference between Sasuke and Itachi?". It was obviously nothing like "lack of strength", as Sasuke is by now far stronger than Itachi ever was. What it can be, however, is the fact that Sasuke was, unlike Itachi, a true criminal. Itachi was a saviour who had only good intentions from the very start. Unlike the typical Uchiha, he didn't try to gain in strength with pure hatred either. He, like Shisui, was the kind of Uchiha not even Tobirama could have hated. Now Sasuke was different. Before the war ended, Sasuke had bad intentions all along, teamed up with criminals and proved Tobirama's prejudices towards Uchihas to be absolutely right. He was a prime example of Tobirama's bad image of an Uchiha. However, Sasuke was the only existing Uchiha that did not have to pay with his life for having these typical traits. He was simply forgiven instead. So my theory is that the new villain is an Uchiha himself who strongly disapproves of Sasuke tainting the Uchihas' name with his clichéd behaviour, which may have also tainted the names of unorthodox and untypically kind Uchihas like Itachi.

You do realise that only like ten people know the truth about Itachi? You're looking at it from the audience's perspective, as far as the Naruto world at large knows he's a scumbag villain. Where would this kid have heard the story from?

(To be fair, Orochimaru and Team Taka know and maybe they told him to troll Sasuke/Konoha)