Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31337598-20180220093824/@comment-734582-20180222204612

HeroOfSacrifice wrote: He was never willing to capture Naruto. Do you even know Itachi's truth? I do. Itachi was fine with capturing other jinchuriki. If he wouldn't even stop adult, capable jinchuriki from being captured, why would he spare a useless child? Naruto wasn't strong back then. There was no reason for him to spare Naruto because he was secretly pro-konoha. If he was truly pro-konoha, he'd be concerned with stopping Akatsuki, he'd have speared a jinchuriki with his Totsuka blade and then died to Sasuke, ensuring they could never ever be turned into the Juubi.

He'd already set up a trap with Kisame and was willing to go quite far already for someone not intent on capturing Naruto. I mean sure he wasn't intending to kill Jiraiya either way, but even with combat he wouldn't have had to kill jiraiya.