Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170619154549/@comment-734582-20170626084354

Kakashisologod1 wrote: Didnt sasuke himself said that? Nope. At no point in the manga does sasuke himself say or otherwise imply that he's out of chakra. He just deactivates his Sharingan. At which Deidara says he understimated him and blows himself up.

TysonHurricane wrote: I think he used its natural durability considering he had to remake it from scratch afterwards. Natural lightning isn't THAT dangerous to warrant Yata. There are plenty of survivor stories. A simple Ribcage would be enough to block it. Of course that wasn't the point of Kirin, the point was that it can't be dodged, which Itachi proved by simply blocking it.

I find it hard to believe that during the entire exchange prior to the strike, Itachi just stood there and did nothing. He had one MS active during the entire thing as Kirin formed, he saw the dragon and he likely saw Sasuke's hand. There was lightning in it, he moved his hand up to call Kirin and moved it down to guide the lightning. Even with really bad eyesight Itachi would've been able to see the color of the lightning (Both in real or chakra-vision) and the motion going up and down. His eyes didn't have the milkyness in it that we saw Itachi had when he had used Susanoo. Plus it was preceded by "disappear with the Thunder" which gave away the timing anyway.