Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-1018594-20150821001654/@comment-26773508-20150825085620

GreatestSin wrote: BakumatsuWarrior wrote:

4. Danzo had enough intel about Susanoo to at least know that attacking it with a kunai is useless. the bolded part is speculation.... He just got squashed like a bug a few seconds before attacking with the kunai. Even if Hashi and Tobirama never shared any info about Susanoo (highly unlikely) or if he didn't get any intel from his ANBU about Itachi's Susanoo (again, highly unlikely, since he was knew about Susanoo's existence before Sasuke squashed him the first time), that still doesn't change the fact that Danzo experienced Susanoo's power firsthand before attacking with the kunai. If being squashed like a bug with Izanagi active isn't an "intel" then I don't know what is. Hence, it was still stupid as fuck and totally unnecessary. The time and effort wasted while getting squashed for the second time could have been put to much better use by a shinobi of Danzo's caliber.

Uchihamasters said: as I stated earlier Danzo had infinite use of Izanagi for ten minutes he didn't only have ten uses of Izanagi. so him wasting it on shuriken really doesn't matter as much as you seem to think it does. Thanks for clearing that up.

However, had Danzo deflected the shurikens with his kunai, as he should have had it not been for Plot, he would have closed in on Sasuke and could possibly have landed a deadly blow on him during those precious few seconds before his ten minutes of infinite Izanagi finally ran out. Sasuke was exhausted and was unable to manifest the Susanoo, so Danzo deflecting the shurikens could have resulted in a totally different outcome, as his Izanagi was still active during that time.