Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181031041550

What exactly is stopping itachi from spawning his crow clone behind them? No one has offered a sastifactory rebuttal for how itachi pulls those feints off, so I have no reason to believe he can't do it again. He got a clone behind kakashi out of nowhere. he changed places with himself and a clone without EMS sasuke or sage mode kabuto noticing, clearing his clone and substitution jutsu mastery are one of the best the manga has to offer. Match starts, clone appears behind orochimaru and friends. they sense it, and in that moment of distraction orochimaru gets blitzed by the totsuka blade. I doubt kimimaro can react to amaterasu, so he gets nailed by that as orochimaru is being sealed away. the crow clone casts a genjutsu on konan. the crow clone only needs to live long enough for the next totsuka blitz. then kimimaro is next. Itachi will have to cough up a bit of blood but there is a noticeable difference in speed of assassination here.