Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150506190650/@comment-25093611-20150507173331

Mecha Naruto wrote: Danzo was confident and was just testing Sasuke because he had ten Sharingans for Izanagi, he is agile, experienced, and good with Taijutsu. If he was more serious he could have worn out Sasuke's Chakra and beat him with his wind and vacuum techniques, the best way to defeat Sasuke is by making him use his powerful techniques like Susanoo and Amaterasu and eventually he'll run out of chakra. Danzo had a chance to kill Sasuke, but Karin helped him. there are many people i want to reply to but your post seems to fit the most,

first, danzo is strong, he s nowhere weak, you can all see how suprised kakashi was after hearing of danzos defeat,

second, danzo wasnt tying around, he maybe thoguht to himself that he needed to hold back his strength in order to deal with obito but ultimatively he used everything he had,

third, danzo was overconfident with his izanagi, but he never took a attack head on only for the sake of "testing his strength", it is clear that he was using his abilitys to the utmost limits, he simply had no chance agaisnt sasuke that is all, example: the susanoo arrow, we had two times: once where danzo was hit while izanag was on, he didnt try to escape, it seems like many think of that example, and second: danzo was able to evade the arrow but it was clear how difficult it was, he wasnt holding back,

fifth, after shisuis MS was usuable danzo wasnt able to decide if he should have used it for izanagi or for kotoamatsukami, the problem was that if koto failed, danzo would have been defenseless, and if he wasnt able to survive the fight after being "reborn" he would have died too, he needed to long to take one of the two options which caused his downfall,

PS: yes, obitos presence caused danzo to become more nervous but i doubt it changed much for the fight ^_^