Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200101053037/@comment-4961229-20200410041911

FlatZone wrote: Itachi "gathering chakra for Susanoo" is purely speculation. As shown in the series later a user can manifest Susanoo at a whim such as with vs Kabuto and vs Danzo. Susanoo def requires chakra as it is made of chakra, but it seems to be directly linked to the users chakra system instead of just being something they need to initiate first then use which is why it would be a reaction feat because if Itachi did not turn it on then he would be dead there. Besides Sasuke threw his hand down and Itachi was already looking upwards towards the extreme light, and Susanoo manifesting shows lines in it such as in the panel I showed with Itachi being blind from one Susanoo use. There were no lines from the Susanoo to the right or slightly behind Itachi in the one panel where he is looking up when Kirin is launched.

Oh and the whole point of Kirin was Sasuke had no chakra left for an actual jutsu which Itachi called him on it saying it was a bluff, as he has seen Sasuke using chidori and its variations multiple times already. Sasuke was not using any jutsu to initiate Kirin, he was using a small bit lightning natured chakra to initiate it. The statement "it seems to be directly linked to the users chakra system instead of just being something they need to initiate first then use" is purely speculation. There has never been any other method of initiating any jutsu ever described (other than scientific ninja tools or possibly the Ootsutsuki tech in Boruto) that I can recall. We can't just speculate up another method when it's convenient. All jutsu is manifested as a whim by top tier Shinobi. Minato manifested FTG at a whim. We never claim it's because it was directly linked to his chakra system. Do you have any corroborating evidence for this direct link?

I didn't say it wasn't a speed feat. It's just not as impressive as you claim.

I know Sasuke had no chakra left for an actual jutsu. Hence, the whole "you're out of chakra" Itachi quote. That's not even what I'm talking about. The whole and sole reason I (speaking purely for myself) keep calling it Chidori is because I have no wish to keep saying "The lightning nature chakra around Sasuke's hand." I'm not claiming Sasuke was using chakra in a jutsu. I'm just using "Chidori" as a shorthand for what he was doing.