Naruto Chapter 390

[Mkadoza]

Madara (Tobi) knows what's going on with Sasuke and Itachi. He even went out of his way to stop the Leaf ninjas. He has also talked about Sasuke; I can't think of exact words, but when he was sitting on the statue he said something about remaining a snake or becoming a raven or something. My point being is if Madara wanted Sasuke dead, he would do it himself. He for whatever reason (In my opinion), wants whichever brother is stronger, or just doesn't want to kill Sasuke for some reason. he doesn't consider Sasuke a risk, he's continuing to play his game. There is no reason he would have Zetsu come in for the kill on a chakraless beaten Sasuke. If you recall Zetsu wasn't even originally going to go there until his other half said so.

I completely agree. We can gather that Madara wants to maximize the strength of one of these brothers, for what reason I don't know, but do you think that if Sasuke kills Itachi, there will be some type of jutsu acquisition? Considering the relationship-based nature of gaining the mangekyou, is it possible that Madara wants Sasuke to kill Itachi for this reason? And I'm still curious as to what Pein's role in all of this is.

Also looking forward to seeing what Sasuke's that jutsu is, and based on the build up, I'm betting its lightning based.

[Abdula]

I don't know what to make of this. Sasuke makes Tsukiyomi useless and then he uses a goddamn substitution on Ameterasu albeit Oro's trumped up substitution jutsu and now he admits that he is completely out of chakra but yet he is about to use "that jutsu" which he claims like Amaterasu is unavoidable. Something is just wrong here.

At least this battle hopefully, barring intervention, will be over next week, hopefully.

[Death BOO Z]

Very simple, Madare wants to level up (amplify, multipie, stack-up, boost, combine) his EMSharingan with another EMSharingan, there's no limit to how many lame power-ups the sharingan has by piting one uchiha against another.
here's an example.

anyways, the good part of the chapter is that Sasuke finally lost his duck wings, and if we're lucky, he won't have them on anymore.
the bad part, of course, is that they're still alive, both of them. this is not the battle we were looking for.
when we get a chapter about the other battles, it'd be a sign the battle is almost over, the studio is going to milk this battle-complex for all it's worth, an entire year which will end with the bad guys running away.

[DB_Hunter]

I suspect that the last fire jutsu that he used is somewhere up in the sky, becoming stronger or some shit like that and will rain down on Itachi when Sasuke commands it to.

[Xyches]

As much as I hate to say it I think Itachi is done.

Would have liked to have seen more from him.

My guess he runs away and Madara kills him.

[Abdula]

Itachi run really? Everything both Itachi and Sasuke have done has lead to this, so either Itachi kills Sasuke or Sasuke kills Itachi. Itachi's whole purpose was to take Sasuke's eyes so he could surpass Madara if he fails I'm sure he would be willing to die same for Sasuke. Failure means death and I highly doubt Kishi made us sit through this entire battle just to have one of them run away.

[Knives122]

Failure means death and I highly doubt Kishi made us sit through this entire battle just to have one of them run away.

You just described what Rumiko has been doing for 10 years with inuyasha. I highly doubt Kishimoto would stoop that low.

[Death BOO Z]

that's just kicking a dead body.. there's a time and a place for everything, and that belongs to the inuyasha thread in the manga section...

[Abdula]

I shed a tear everytime someone mentions Inuyasha. I would be happy if Itachi does some incredible new jutsu that no one has ever seen and insta-kills Sasuke to make up for him getting totally embarrassed earlier because seriously I haven't seen such a one sided fight in Naruto since Gaara was owning people during the Chuunin exams.

[joker-kun]

I am going to actually 'lol' if Sasuke calls out a "thunderbolt no jutsu". Only thing better is if it is in the shape of Pikachu.

In all honesty I don't mind how the fight has progressed. We have found out that Madara helped out with the assasination of the clan; meaning Itachi isn't as god-like as we once thought. That combined with his dumb arrogant ass and (from what it seems) always sitting there emotionless and taking his enemies out with Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu he deserves to be going blind. Guess he should have used his other who-knows-how-many jutsu's to take out some of his enemies instead of not stfu about MS. Think he would have learned from Madara.

Granted; it is a little lame that he didn't learn from Madara, but I think this battle is more "realistic" (in the Narutoverse) than alot of people have allowed it to be.

Maybe the mistake isn't so much in the assumption that Sasuke is god-like, but in the assumption most people made about Itachi being god-like. Team 7 seems to be almost on par with Akatsuki members (aside from Pein, and Madara, MAYBE POSSIBLY Zetsu, I don't think Konan is strong at all, I just think she is Pein's bitch, and he has some emotional attatchment to her). Saskura beat a member (with help). if it were not for the fact he had six lives, Naruto would have killed a member. Hell Shikamaru even killed one pretty much on his own, so the fact of Itachi being an Akatsuki really doens't hold too much importance anymore.

[Abdula]

Its Naruto so theoretically anyone can beat anyone.

My problem is exactly what you mentioned, not that Sasuke is winning because thats what I expected but Itachi is completely dumb. The dude should easily know hundreds of techniques and from what I've seen of him he should be able to handle Sasuke atleast as far as taijutsu goes.

Instead of using any of those techniques he chose to only use MS which was not only predictable but it was exactly what Sasuke wanted. He already knew of Itachi's MS, he had experienced Tsukiyomi multiple times and was prepared to face Amaterasu. He pretty much begged Itachi to use MS against him because he knew he was prepared for it and that defeating it was his best chance at defeating Itachi.

Arrogant Itachi however got goaded into using MS and once Sasuke was able to nullify or counter it not only was his chakra depleted, but he is almost completely blind now, his eyes are bleeding and his reflexes are shot to shit. After their little genjutsu exchange in the beginning I really expected this to turn into a battle of high speed taijutsu, some quick well executed and well timed ninjutsus and a shit load of counters and fire techniques but no.

All Itachi did was get goaded into using MS over and over again and he became pretty much a one trick pony. I mean even dumbass Naruto figured out that you can't keep using the same techniques over and over again and you can't show your opponent all your cards. I mean isn't that what he told Kiba back when he beat him, even though Naruto himself doesn't listen to his own words but thats for another time.

Anyway I just expected better from Itachi, what happened to the guy who countered Kurenai's genjutsu, who used that water technique against Kakashi and exploding shadow clones although none of these could or would have worked here but I trust you see my point. I mean what the hell happened to the guy who fought Naruto and Kakashi using only 30% of his chakra and without MS no less. If he had acted like a regular ninja and not relied on MS so much I think we would have had a completely different battle.

I give all the credit in the world to Sasuke for not only becoming that strong but actually planning out this battle before hand and duping Itachi into using MS so much. He knew he was at a severe disadvantage going against Itachi but he planned and compensated for it. Itachi on the other hand was just relying on the fact that he is more experienced than Sasuke and had his MS to rely on but the dumbass got punk'd and he really should have known better.

Anyway Sasuke acted like a real ninja and he deserves to win this and I like that Kishi conveniently got rid of his wings hopefully we'll never see those thing again, hopefully.

-Isn't this the same strategy Sasuke used when he fought Naruto, he even used the same techniques? Well at least he is consistent.

[DDBen]

I'm still really disliking this entire fight I can agree with Abdula that Sasuke at this point will win because he planned it out but my real issue with this fight is there is nothing new in it. Sure next chapter Sasuke has some kind of finishing move to use but upto this point we have seen absolutely nothing new from either side in this highly anticipated fight. On top of that Itachi is only using things we have seen him do before with no trump card and frankly he's fighting like a retarded Genin at this point.

I also Agree Sasuke's wings need to be gone for good he really has to have paid some sort of price for this victory and the fact he could only use one in this chapter gives me hope this one is also gone. Of course I still am worried about what those wings were made of that is no big deal he lost a huge part of his own mass.

[toonice714]

hahahahahahaha sasuke is gong to reproduce a move?!?! hahahahahaha i hope you all know the unbeatable move he is going to use. lol its the rasengan! lol! how pissed would you all be if he used a naruto trademark with the last bit of his chakra. I think i might laugh so hard i would cry.

[SilentSnake]

oh come on, you still haven't figured it out??

it's obvious that it's sennen goroshi combined with chidori...

the unavoidable part of the move is just bluffing to crush last pieces of hope Itachi holds.

[Naruto_RNG]

If I'm not mistaken, and by the looks of it this new jutsu is coming from sky. With all that cloud and crap building up. Now my point is wut if itachi decides he'll go under ground? Would the jutsu still be unavoidable? afterall sasuke pretty much did the same thing.

Can some1 also tell me when was it stated that sharingan can sense how much chakra a person has left? or is that a mistranslation?

[Sidnne]

hahahahahahaha sasuke is gong to reproduce a move?!?! hahahahahaha i hope you all know the unbeatable move he is going to use. lol its the rasengan! lol! how pissed would you all be if he used a naruto trademark with the last bit of his chakra. I think i might laugh so hard i would cry.

Ummm... no. You misread. Sasuke is not going to reproduce a move. He said he is going to reproduce his vision of Itachi's death.

[toonice714]

whoops....well it would be hilarious if he did rasengan.. XD

[Y]

I don't get it; did people just now figure out Itachi is a shitty fighter? He used two Tsukuyomis and Amaterasu in previous appearances to do basically nothing productive. He rarely actually gets in and mixes it up with his opponents (and in fact never seemed to care about his supposed goal of capturing Naruto very much). In the intervening years since the end of the pre-Shippuden era Itachi used Mangekyou Sharingan enough times to permanently damage his eyesight in situations that obviously did nothing to further his goals.

I guess people are disappointed that Sasuke's cunning, guile, and deals for power actually succeeded. In that case, keep in mind that it still looks an awful lot like Itachi is trying to deliberately lose to Sasuke in a way that he won't see as a concession.

[Abdula]

I won't put that beyond him, you never really know what that guy's real motivations are, in any case it doesn't really matter. I don't think he is a shitty fighter the dude just never seems interested in actually fighting which I suppose is why he favors genjutsu so much. He justs seems lazy so he tries to end battles as quickly as possible. I guess thats why they partnered him with Kisame because they are complete opposites in that regard.

Speaking of Kisame, where the hell is my Hidden Mist Swordsmen battle, frankly I was looking forward to that battle more than I was this one.

Can some1 also tell me when was it stated that sharingan can sense how much chakra a person has left? or is that a mistranslation?

The sharingan can see chakra itself it can't actually "sense" how much chakra a person has left. Think of it kinda like the Byakugan but the Byakugan can only see "the flow of chakra" where as the sharingan "gives chakra color" so I suppose one would be able to tell how much chakra a person has left simply by looking at the amount of chakra that surrounds them. It was mentioned a few times, the first time I remember it being mentioned was when Naruto fought Sasuke in the Valley of End but I'm sure it was mentioned before then as well.

[February]

The first few pages with Amaretsu was really confusing at first because I'm bad at reading manga but overall, I thought this fight is progressing pretty well. I love how Itachi's bloodied MS looks and Sasuke's cursed seal visual effect.
I really like how Sasuke can use lots of Orochimaru's techniques now, I hope to see a Oro'd Kabuto fight Sasuke, they will probably use lots of similiar techniques.
Zetsu having 2 personality made him a perfect commentator for this fight, one can explain while the other side can ask questions that makes the readers wonder.
I really enjoyed the cursed seal level 2 look for Sasuke in the manga, but in the anime, he looks too purple to look cool.
And finally, I'm really curious to see the final jutsu, I bet its something ground-breaking...maybe Sasuke finally reveals that he can use MS or something, and he says there are other ways to gain it (unlikely but would be interesting)