Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34656247-20180531072459/@comment-734582-20180604203919

Ninja Of War wrote: Since you are adamant about facts, please provide the proof that time dilation was applied in the Sasuke vs Itachi fight. The time dilation of Tsukuyome means that only a few fractions of second pass by when Sasuke breaks out in a minute or two. Meaning you'd never notice any passage of time when he breaks out. Unlike space manipulation though, time manipulation has always consistently been applied. Whether it was Sasuke or Kakashi. As a kid, as a teen, and as a rogue, sasuke has experienced time dilation. (and so has Kakashi, the time he got hit)

And like i said: Sasuke has experienced tsukuyome before. If he went easy on Sasuke all of a sudden, Sasuke would notice. Ninja Of War wrote: Yes, three days of torture would have been a full powered Tsukuyomi, time dilation is an integral part of Tsukuyomi, no one can say otherwise. There is no power level when it comes to tsukuyome. It's a genjutsu that, according to the databooks, "draws it's victims into a genjutsu world under the caster's full control". If you're caught, then that's it. What you experience in that genjutsu may differ, but has no bearing on the actual strength of the genjutsu, just on it's effect on the target.

Since itachi was going for breaking Sasuke's spirit by gouging out his eyes in Genjutsu, applying spatial manipulation would give away that it was genjutsu. Then again, we saw only the first few minutes of said torture, while Kakashi's torture was of a very different nature. Ninja Of War wrote: Itachi was going easy on Sasuke. The only part where Itachi goes easy is in his grand strategy: Rather than capitalize on the chances he gets, Itachi simply lets Sasuke roll out his strategy and goes along with it. Zetsu noticed that Itachi was weakened, implying that Itachi was truly fighting Sasuke to the best of his abilities. After all, it was Zetsu's job to spy on everyone and he would've known that Itachi was holding back if he did. And given his previous meetings with his brother, so would Sasuke.