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Do you think Itachi would have gotten sick if he never used his fire breathing powers, I heard that was what made him sick, smoke inhalation.

[[ Er, where did you hear that? If something like that was true, then a lot of the Uchiha clan would be suffering from the same illness. Katon is a signature Uchiha technique, they are expected to perform it to earn the right to earn the crest shamelessly. Madara’s been using it for a lot longer than Itachi had, and he’s certainly not sick. Sasuke never got sick, either. ]]

ik you’re an itachi analyst but this question is about tobirama i’m sorry… he was wrong on a lot of levels because he abused his authority and power (and also his position as hashirama’s brother) but at the very core of his point of view on the matter even before he were to have acted on it in such a way, would you call tobirama’s prejudice against the uchiha clan unjustified?

[[ Had Tobirama never acted on it, or abused his power as Hokage’s Advisor and Niidaime Hokage, no, I wouldn’t call his prejudice unjustified. Tobirama grew up in an era where clans went at each other’s throats. Uchiha killed his brothers, and eventually his parents, and a lot of his clansmen. Likewise, Senju killed many an Uchiha. In this sense, the prejudice is justified on both ends.

If he just held onto it and never enacted any laws that served to keep them out of certain positions, etc, it would’ve been fine. But that was not enough for him. ]]

21tailsofwoe:

Now I just have two questions about Itachi

1. What the fuck did he do in Akatsuki

2. Why did he still called himself a shinobi of the Leaf if he hated both shinobi and the Leaf

1. What the fuck did he do in Akatsuki

[[ Ran missions selected for Akatsuki like the rest of them. Akatsuki in canon is a group of mercenaries who does the jobs no other country wants their own shinobi to do for fear of immediately inciting a war (since they are high risk and involve stealing weapons, killing important figures, etc), and for much cheaper. Of course, most of these jobs were for collecting funds and eventually they started their real jobs, which is hunting down the nine Bijuu. He wasn’t just wandering with Kisame all day. ]]

2. Why did he still called himself a shinobi of the Leaf if he hated both shinobi and the Leaf

[[He calls himself a Leaf Shinobi because he is. Itachi never actually hated the Leaf and while he disliked the shinobi system’s effort to pit them against each other, he knew it was those skills he would need to eventually end the fighting. You’ve phrased it here like Itachi is inherently misanthropic (IE, he hates people), when that is fundamentally not true. Itachi’s loyalty lies in the bright future he sees for the Leaf, and he will readily admit the system is frought with issues. Perhaps you took his earlier statements when he was pretending to be a calculating mass murderer at face value? He’s had plenty of development since then, and characters do not always speak the absolute truth. It’s unreliable narration because it’s either through the lens of a characters’ beliefs, morals, code of ethics, etc, or they’re just lying. He never hated the Leaf.

**Edit based on some of the replies, in no order.

“What was he doing for a decade?”

It was eight years, not a decade. He was 13 when he fled the village, and about to turn 22  when he died to Sasuke.

“For whom was he spying?”

For Hiruzen, primarily. This is the only time Itachi was a true double-spy. He was working for Akatsuki but passing on information about them to Konoha. If Akatsuki was to become too big of a problem, Itachi would have tried to intervene. He died before he saw the bigger scope of Obito’s plans. He outright states to Hiruzen his intention is to join and to spy. He was never loyal to anything Akatsuki stood for. ]]

I’m reading through a lot of Itachi Chronicles tags from people who’ve read them, since I haven’t been able to attain them yet. I remember you from a while ago! Anyway, Madara warned the clan all those years ago, only for them to ignore him, and he ended up leaving the village, thinking he was a failure for being unable to keep him promise to Izuna to protect them since they wouldn’t listen to his advice and warnings about the village being against them. What do you think of it? Was he right?

[[ Considering that Danzo specifically worked to cage in and eventually kill the Uchiha at the soonest possible chance he got, Madara was right. 

It wasn’t Hashirama, no, but Tobirama put those steps in place, all because he hated Madara himself and thought the Uchiha having things like ~emotions~ was a matter of super srs village security. Tobirama was the classic example of wielding the Uchiha VS Senju hatred from before. The Uchiha had a right to stay in a village they felt safe in. Too bad Tobirama would fuck it up because of his prejudice, and pass that onto his students. ]]