Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34656247-20180602151532/@comment-26636534-20180615110551

Natrix Spiritual Cloak Gleam wrote:

The character(Itachi) possess the Sacred-Tools, plus great respect from Obito/Kabuto/Nagato/Hiruzen/Hashirama. There's almost no other character, on our series, who had the great respect, from other characters, to that extent, as far as I'm aware of, likely.

Uh, Hashirama, Hagoromo, Naruto and Hiruzen take that.