Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20200129184605/@comment-9782468-20200130142315

@Flatzone but that's the thing, when does the jutsu activate? Since the jutsu is supposed to work on eyecontact, it seems like it should just activate when it hits the Third Eye, instead of running through another chakra line to the user. So it would end up activating on the eye, before reaching Gaara.

I mean I could see it go either way though. Gaara still has other options, like clouds of sand, to obscure Itachi's vision. And just diving into Gaara's cloud of sand is not something Itachi could do and be unscathed.