Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20180928205249

@Loneninja

Peripheral vision is a thing, plus he was pretty far away from the smokescreen. the totsuka blade is also a fairly large object. It's impossible to miss an object like that coming out of the smokescreen. It is more accurate to say nagato barely had the time to even make a slight alteration to his eye position- that is the speed of the blade.

Lol kakashi can't do anything though even if he was full against kaguya. how is he gonna compete? how is he gonna do anything meaningful? it's basically the same situation with orochimaru. the best kakashi said he could do to oro was throw away his life, but you are neglecting the fact that he had a huge raikiri in his hand and was willing to fight if need be. kakashi isn't a coward. he has shown the ability to try and fight against impossible odds, even in the kaguya situation, but he also knows that there is a time to sit out a fight and there is a time to sacrifice your life. Jiraiya had that same circumstance when he decided to go back out and fight the 6 paths of pain for the last bit of intel even though he knew it was certain death.

kakashi fought itachi knowing itachi was superior to him because kakashi had nothing to lose. The fight is in konoha. there is no where to retreat to, but he has allies by his side. so might as well try and fight and stop the intruders. kakashi thought he had a chance to resist itachi's genjutsu, and he was right. Notice how itachi didn't bother using 3 tomoe genjutsu on him. itachi even stated kakashi resisted his tsykyomi a little despite not being an uchiha blood due to his skill with sharingan.

Obito was scared of itachi because obito only made his big moves when he knew itachi was about to die. I already told you why itachi didn't make a move on obito. first he has to find obito. then what is he gonna do if obito decides to stay intangible for 5 minutes and retreat/call for back-up? obito is wary of itachi. he would call nagato at minimum for back-up, and then itachi is stuck with a 2-1 on fight. itachi can take nagato, itachi can take obito, but he can't take them both at the same time without having a high chance of death. itachi would retreat from that fight or simply be killed, and then the whole akatsuki deal is over. itachi would go rouge and abide his opportunities to ambush an akatsuki member/use koto, and then the village would be in all out-war with the akatsuki. who is to say that itachi and naruto wouldn't teamup in this alternate storyline? but see, killing itachi, as you said, wouldn't be in obito's favour either, as itachi was useful for catching the bijuu and other stuff. also, you are forgetting that itachi genuinely thought obito was madara. but in an actual battle obito isn't on madara's level, he literally only has kamui allowing him to compete.and no, itachi wanted to die by sasuke's hand since the beginning. this was stated multiple times. it was just a matter of when. itachi waited until the akatsuki was down to half its strength, and itachi was also dying of his terminal illness, who knows how long he had left? he wanted sasuke to be the one to kill him since the night of the massacre of the uchiha clan. itachi if anything was cautious of "madara uchiha" not obito. he set the trap to kill "madara" and then had a backup trap in case it failed. his primary objective was making sure sasuke didn't learn the truth. his secondary objective was taking a shot at obito for konoha's sake. but obviously, he wanted konoha to do most of the heavy lifting, otherwise he wouldn't have waited until he was on the cusp of death due to his illness and guilt over sasuke to make a contingency.