Originally posted by: Neji-Aniki-sama
Originally posted by: Mcdougal
Not that i want to hijack this thread or anything, but seeing as how i am unwilling to clutter up the board with pointless threads,i'll just ask my question here instead, seeing as how it is, at the very least, partly related to the subject.

Sasuke ran of to Orochimaru to get stronger so he could defeat Itachi, which has gotten him a lot of critisism, and it is widely considered that he just should have stayed and trained in Konoha. My question is, how much stronger could sasuke really get by staying in the leaf village? I mean, the only person he could get any real beneficial training from would be Kakashi, but he really isn't that strong now is he? I mean, he got his butt kicked by Itachi, and all Itachi did was to give him a dirty look, literarly. So how is sasuke expected to be able to grow strong enough in Kakashi's care? Isn't the only for Sasuke to grow strong enough to be trained by one of the legendary sennin?
My guess is that Saska has potential to be like Itachi-nii-chan. But, even if Kakashi is, apparently, not as strong as Itachi, one has first learn to walk before how to rollerskate, and it doesn't seem to me that Sasky-kun knows the basics, yet. There's lot's of things he still could learn with Kakashi, among then, be less of the little ass he is.
Even so, Itachi is not invencible. And there must be thousands of other ways to defeat him other than through direct confrontation.
Shikamaru wins his battles with intelligence, so if little Sassy-kun could figure out how to kill Itachi in his sleep, he'd manage to get what he want.
But, if his goal is to get attention from his brother, or prove that he's stronger than his brother or whatever thing not directly related with killing his brother but that uses killing his brother as an excuse, he will be screwed. Why not get Naruto to kill Itachi? If Naruto wins, great. If Naruto dies in the process, better, he gets rid of Naruto and he himself lives to try another day.
Kakashi also may be pissed enough to be willing to kill Itachi, but Oro for example, is smart enough to know that he can't kill Itachi, so, why ask help from somebody who will never be up to it?
I am assuming that Sasky has a lot of money, since the whole Uchiha estate belongs to him and Itachi, and his bro doesn't seem to be willing to claim it. So, why not bribe Fishface into kill Itachi?
The Sharkey one once killed a feudal lord, maybe he had political ambitions, and money is a must to accomplish your political ambitions.
So, IMO, Sassy-kun has tons of choices to accomplish his dark goal. Why insist in taken the most difficult and stupid path? I mean, doesn't he get that an Itachi dirty look is enough to screw him for a considerable amount of time? Why insist in direct confrontation? My assumption is, Saska is stupid and his male pride doesn't help any. Well, is there a relation between stupidity and male pride? Well, I think I better leave that particular question open...
You are grossly simplifying the situation.
First of all, im not quite sure on what you mean with Sasu not knowing the basics, mind elaborating?

Second, the only, and i repeat, ONLY benefit he would have with chosing Kakashi over Oro would be that he could get some training with the Sharingan. That's pretty much it. Anything else Oro could probably teach him better, seeing how he IS one of the legendary sennin.

third, do you really, honestyl believe someone could actually KILL Itachi in his sleep? The man was head of an ANBU- squad at the age of 13! His current age is only 17 and yet he still scares the crap out of Oro, and he totally outclassed kakashi without even breaking a sweat, and you're telling me killing him is as simple as slitting his throat in his sleep? Come on. Since members of his organisation always move in pairs, we can assume that at least one of them always stays awake looking for trouble, and i think we can conclude that itachi is, at the very least, a light sleeper.
And getting someone else to kill Itachi is out of the question, he wants to kill him himself, mano y mano, sharingan to sharingan. Killing Itachi isn't enough, HE has to be the one to do it. Think about it, if some punk where to rape your girlfriend, what would be most satisfying, you hiring someone to kill him or you beating him to death with a baseball bat? No, even if there are a thousand ways to kill Itachi, Sasuke wants only one, and that is defeating him in a 1vs1 fight. And the only way to do that is to get equally o prefferbly more strong than his brother.
And besides, even if we assume that he has money, who is he going to hire who is capable of dealing with Itachi? Someone within the Akatsuki organisation? I think not, he hardly knows it exists, and even if he did, i sincerly doubt anyone within the organisation would want to take Iatchi down, even if they could, seeing as how money shouldn't be an issue for people so strong, and how Itachi is a valuable asset to them. So, who's left?

And lastly, people seem to forget that that very few people know about A)Oros disability, and B), that Itachi is stronger than Oro. What Sasuke DOES know, is that Oro was strong enough to take down the strongest of Kages, and is his best shot at gaining the greatest amount of power within the shortest amount of time.

So once again, i see Sasuke-kun's having only two viable option are to A) Stay with Kakashi, who we all know for a fact is weaker than Itachi, or B), go with the man who defeated the strongest Ninja in Konoha.

Unless there's something i've overlooked?