Originally posted by: Sam98034
Is the translation correct with the esophagus??? The esophagus doesn't really have those tentacle things, thats more like the small intestine with all the little villi in there. Maybe mistranslation, maybe no.
And anyways the Sharingan gets way too much damn credit in this topic. Everyone in his village had the sharingan, but they weren't all genius ninjas. They didn't make Itachi a chunin(i think it was, whatever) at the age of 8 just because he could copy other peoples techniques. Itachi is bad ass without his Sharingan, they're just an added bonus. I doubt he'd be severely handicaped if e couldn't use them in a battle or something.
Anyways, according to what we have seen in the anime so far. Jiraiya "appears" to be stronger than Itachi simply because Itachi does not want to confront him saying it may lead to death.
This could be because Jiraiya is, in fact, stronger than he is. It can also be because Jiraiya has some good defense move that we haven't seen yet, so Itachi couldn't hurt him even with his powerful attacks. It can also mean that he is equal to Itachi and Itachi wouldn't wanna risk that kind of match. It might also mean that Itachi is just giving Jiraiya too much credit. It can mean a number of things. But yeah, the anime, right now, does kind of try to imply that Itachi would not win a fight against Jiraiya.