Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20190213044806/@comment-34656247-20190222235739

AsianReaper wrote: Itachi was on Konoha's side and? How do you figure that Itachi deduced he got his info from Jiraiya? That's speculation at best. What was stopping Itachi from engaging Jiraiya? Perhaps the fact that he couldn't beat him? I don't think Kishi was planning on having Itachi be a good guy. Itachi was shoving so much hatred down Sasuke's throat that Sasuke up and left his friends for more power. Doesn't seem like something Itachi would do, based on what we know of him. And he didn't want to kill a strong asset of Konoha..i keep saying it. Jiraiya was Naruto's bodyguard, that was perfect for stalling Akatsuki's plan in capturing the 9 tails which obviously works in Itachi's favour if Jiraiya is to be left alive. It's still funny how you think Jiraiya can beat both Itachi and Kisame at the same time, i mean what will he do? Jiraiya is only a threat when in sage mode. I believe you're still fooled by that statement which they made which is just bs man... for many reasons:
 * An already exhausted Itachi made that statement (used tsukuyomi plus other jutsus)
 * Itachi was talking based on hype which makes his statement a non-authentic one.
 * Itachi mentioning if he had more backup it wouldn't change the outcome of him dying together with Jiraiya, which is complete bs since the only backup he can be referring to is Akatsuki members, what if Obito or Pein becomes Itachi and Kisame's backup?😂 based on the statement; Jiraiya >> Itachi and Kisame plus any Akatsuki backup....to wank it a little;Jiraiya >>> Akatsuki.

And based on your last sentence..everything seems to fit kinda perfectly. So idk really.

He didn't kind of spam Amaterasu in his last battle. He used Amaterasu twice. One to smother Sasuke's fireball, and another to tag him after.And Youu can very obviously see how hard it strained Itachi's eyes to do so. You said 3 MS tech, Itachi using amaterasu on the toad stomach was considered as one. Now he used Tsukuyomi, used Amaterasu on the fire ball, then used amaterasu again to incinerate sasuke. That's 3 and guess what his mangekyou was still on unlike in part 1. Add to that the sole fact that he was much weaker at that point. Tsukuyomi is more chakra taxing.

Honestly i got nothing here. But i'll just stick to my itachi didn't wanna take down a potential future hokage' statement. [also he never said he couldn't beat jiraiya when escaping]

Itachi instead decided to escape Jiraiya instead of confronting him. Using one of his most chakra taxing techniques. Instead of using his less taxing tech to incapacitate the man looking right in his eyes (Sharingan Genjutsu). Yeah incinerate KONOHA'S jinchuriki bodyguard and possible future hokage...Jiraiya didn't even harm them dude, so obviously using genjutsu was pointless. Itachi's character is stated to be a type that hates fighting and would see to end it as quick as possible if he's in one, him retreating (this is me ignoring that he was drained after slapping sasuke with tsukuyomi) is a way of Itachi sticking to his character write up,avoiding fights.Pacifist.

So, in regards to this fight, Jiraiya is obviously a very serious opponent. He's give a hard fight to Bee or Ay, and with Minato I think they'd beat them handily. He poses no threat to either Ay or Bee in base. So it was a wise choice to start the match with sage mode Jiraiya. As we've seen Minato could've killed Ay i doubt Minato's Kunai could've penetrated Ay's lightning armour, Sasuke's chidori failed to, plus metal is a conductor for electricity and Minato was about to place metal on Ay, he was good as electrocuted ,that is if Naruto uses that much of real world sense.