Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30241447-20170503042327/@comment-734582-20170516193836

QuakingStar wrote: Itachi was too busy while in Konoha, he was swamped with missions and had to have had Susanoo to use the two spiritual weapons. So he def got it after he left Konoha. I think that's very likely, and his time with Akatsuki would've given him plenty of time and opportunity to go run around and find that weapon. At least, in the earlier days of joining Tobi's akatsuki. Later on he got teamed with Kisame, and i can't quite convince myself that Kisame wouldn't be highly suspicious of such a weapon.

I don't know, is there any timeline for when he met Kisame, as well as his early days? It could give us some indication for when he should've/could've had it. Seems to me that he couldn't have gotten it that recently (meaning past 3 years) since that was the period where Akatsuki was busiest accumulating information, resources and then Biju.

Kakashisologod1 wrote: @Thekillman itachi could not find a way,but oro might be able to.Whats so strange about that? It's a spirit weapon. If Itachi needed a Susanoo to manifest it (in case it really is a spiritual weapon), what exactly could Orochimaru do? All his jutsu are heavily based on physical things like snakes. I find it far more likely Itachi simply manifests the weapon through his Susanoo somehow, the same way Orochimaru manifests Kusanagi through his snake jutsu.