Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36019309-20190114073523/@comment-9782468-20190213003422

@BrainBrand

Then it wouldn't fly that they had to leave Konoha because it would take too long against the Jonin. It would make sense too; a long drawn out fight would attract attention and would expose more of the Akatsuki's goals to the public, which was a no-no. Itachi easily could have said that. But no, he said he couldn't beat Jiraiya.

I laughed when you noted Itachi's statement about only him being able to surpass Madara. Now you can accept that Itachi's words aren't ironclad? LOL exactly! Just because Itachi said it, it doesn't make it "2+2=4" as in your example.

We trust the English Translations for the message, but trying to translate our own grammar and ways of talking from Japanese is not directly possible. So you can't argue "he wouldn't say it like this" because in Japanese it might be normal. For example; Itachi said in the English translation that he could sense Kabuto. However, it was revealed that he meant Nagato could sense Kabuto, due to a trick in Japanese that implied Itachi could, but actually left it ambiguous.

Madara couldn't absorb Ninjutsu in that instance, he had no Rinnegan, did you read the part? That's why he had to remove his armour at all.

Itachi is clutching his eye in pain while Jiraiya does this because Itachi can't use Mangekyo lightly.

Or both translations are right and you're misinterpreting one wrong so you think the other one is wrong. Lol you're stretching so far, cmon