Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-44916514-20200123204114/@comment-9782468-20200211145857

All I see from those panels is that the crow came out of Naruto because Itachi was showing his MS. Then when it finally came all the way out, Itachi had already closed his eyes in preparation for Amaterasu (which mind you he isn't even in control of attacking) so the crow was non reactive. Then as soon as Itachi opened his eye again, the crow hit him with Koto.