Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34656247-20180602151532/@comment-27089028-20180602203017

From a narrative standpoint, Itachi would still meet his demise like he did only this time it would be less a case of the tragic hero throwing the fight all in the name of protecting Sasuke and moreso Sasuke finally serving justice as Kishimoto would not kill off Sasuke. Sasuke probably wouldn't have reached that moral event horizon as Obito would have no big truth bomb to drop on him and I think Sasuke would probably make his way into becoming an Anti Hero or something less antagonistic as he did in Canon. Of course the series would definitely be notable altered with this alternative Sasuke and no Itachi pulling the hero in the War Arc but yeah from a storytelling standpoint Itachi was the obstacle for Sasuke to overcome.

I mean sure if you want to disregard the narrative yeah okay Itachi would kill Sasuke but he'd still be dying of that disease so really it's in Itachi's favour he wasn't written so one-dimensionally.