Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25516007-20141008201906/@comment-25464204-20141029203740

ItachiWasAHero wrote: Jiraiya was shown to have a contract with the toads way before he even had Nagato as a student, it was said already Jiraiya had the imperfect sage mode since his teens onward but did not use it often because it made him ugly. Itachi was already 95% blind when he started fighting Sasuke and was already sickly as shown in Kisame's flash back, Sasuke in no way truly defeated him at anything.

Agree, Sasuke at that time is still weaker than Itachi, but his effort in the fight was pretty impressive and Jiraiya had imperfect Sage Mode only on his appearance, his skill in Sage Mode is great