Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25349984-20140826061256/@comment-7292165-20140918130431

TricksterKing wrote: Surviving a battle doesn't count as winning if the reason you fight it doesn't happen. I already said that they both lost since neither of them got what they wanted out of the fight. That's true on a certain level. Sasuke's case he never got to kill Itachi himself the disease did that for him so he won by default you can't say he beat him himself when that wasn't the case like Deidara and Danzo. If Itachi somehow accidentally killed Sasuke though he never wanted to kill him he did so he won actually beating him but the outcome he wanted didn't happen so as far as that goes his goal failed but he won the battle if that was how it went.