Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31099706-20170327120301/@comment-26773508-20170412115424

@Rachin:

1) I think you're not understanding what most of us are actually saying. What we're saying is that Itachi most likely did use time-manipulation, but Sasuke broke out of it so quickly that it didn't look as if time manipulation even took place.

Let me explain our point a bit further. The very fact that people can experience 3 days, or 80 years worth of time inside their minds within a time-span of only 3 or 4 seconds in the actual world means that the brain of the victim is working fast enough to process information contained within 80 years of a person's life.

So if the victim's brain can work that fast to experience 80 years of false time within 3 seconds of real time, then that means that it is quite plausible for a skilled victim to use his brain processing speed to break out of Tsukuyomi within, say, 10 minutes of false time, which would result in him breaking out of Tsukuyomi in a nanosecond of real time.

If this is true, which it very well may be, then it is quite logical for us audience (who were witnessing many minutes of false time from Sasuke's point of view when he was under Tsukuyomi)to fall under the illusion that time manipulation wasn't used after all. And the reason why our opinion that time manipulation wasn't used could be a misinterpretation on our part is because the entire Tsukuyomi was broken by Sasuke in like 5 minutes of false time of Tsukuyomi. And we were witnessing false time when Itachi plucked out Sasuke's eye.

Now that I hope my first point is clear, let me once again reiterate Itachi's endgame for full-on Tsukuyomi in point 2.

2) Whether we agree time manipulation was used or not, at least we can agree that Itachi's main objective was to free Sasuke from Pedochimaru. Now let us try to analyze the fight with that in mind.

We know that Sasuke was suppressing and imprisoning Oro inside himself through the sheer domination of his superior chakra. Now, if Itachi used Susanoo right at the very beginning, the enormous strain would have greatly accelerated his demise, thus greatly reducing his chances to seal Oro. Sasuke had much larger reserves of chakra and was healthy, while Itachi was sick. It would have taken quite some time to exhaust Sasuke even with the use of Susanoo. But Itachi didn't have the health and the reserves to last long enough to seal Oro during that particular fight, which is not what Itachi wanted. On the other hand, a direct attack from Susanoo sword would just get Sasuke killed, which is also not what Itachi wanted. So using Susanoo right at the beginning or the middle of the fight was out of question for Itachi.

So his only other option was to use less chakra-taxing jutsus than Susanoo in a very precise and strategic manner, which is exactly what we saw in the fight. Since Itachi had very little time, he needed to fight using normal shuriken and katon jutsus along with taijutsu to preserve his chakra. But he also had just enough chakra to use Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu a couple of times. And Itachi did use those using precise timing.

But since those jutsus also deal high damage to the victim at the cost of considerably high chakra expenditure for Itachi, it would make sense for him to use those jutsus in the most effective way possible without killing or causing permanent damage to Sasuke. As we found out at the end of the fight, Itachi was only about 30-60 minutes away from death. Itachi himself would have been far more uncertain about when he would kick the bucket.

So watering down Tsukuyomi and wasting such a precious, strategically executed move would negate Itachi's primary mission to eliminate Oro. A well-placed Tsukuyomi would have severely disoriented Sasuke, making it easier for Orochimaru to dominate Sasuke's chakra earlier in time. This would have worked in Itachi's favour, as he would have been able to seal Oro earlier than what actually turned out. Given how uncertain Itachi's time on earth was, Itachi would be a dumbass to pass such an opportunity.

It is with these things in mind that I doubt that time manipulation was excluded during this particular fight. It seems to be the less logical move for a genius like Itachi.