I am sick an tired of reading anything that relates to how itachi beat this person and that person. so far we have only seen him do ONE trick...the mange sharringan... if i can remember corectly jiraiya held his own against itachi and his partner...more over we have no idea of how gai would have faired against him. sure itachi may have killed the intire uchiha caln but that just makes him the best in the uchiha clan...itachi can (and will) be defeated like everyone else stop putting him on a higer pedistol than everyone else. as far as i am concerned he is on the same level as hiashi sandaime orochimaru tsunade and jiraiya