Originally posted by: Sam98034
episode 85 at time 12:32...
He is slicing some long dangly things with his big sword. Maybe "tentacle things" aren't descriptive enough, I don't know what to call them.
And only a select few have the Sharingan?? In the show some old Uchiha dude was telling sasuke how his brother got the sharingan at a young age (9 or something) and that he was impressed. I assumed this meant that he was impressed that he got them at a young age and that most Uchiha eventually got them when they were older after lots of training or something. When does it say that only a few of the Uchiha clan ever got the sharingan? And I'm not positive, but wasn't Itachi a Chunin or whatnot before he got his Sharingan?
and skullchemist I like your idea. In this way, Itachi could be much stronger than Jiraiya, but Jiraiya could still beat him by opening a few gates, and AT BEST Itachi is strong enough so that Jiraiya would have to open up all gates to defeat him, killing himself in the process.