[[ No, actually.

They don’t know the truth. The villagers were only told that Itachi helped during the war. and by this reason alone he should be considered a good person. I will show you the snippet. I do agree– it’s unfair. The villagers don’t even get to ask how it doesn’t make sense that Itachi would suddenly turn “good”, they’re just supposed to believe Naruto at face value.

They word it like admitting the coup d’etat would somehow sully the Uchiha name, not even mentioning the fact that the village worked to get the Uchiha killed. 

Also “there was no one that doubted Naruto.” It makes literally 0 sense that Itachi, an S-rank criminal, should have his name cleared on Naruto’s word alone. So you’re telling me a mass murderer who killed all of his own family just decided to cozy up to Naruto and help during the war? But it’s Naruto who’s saying it, why doubt him?? kljsdfklflkfll. 

Itachi didn’t want any sort of pardon. It’s Sasuke who deserved a much better pardon instead.

But we can’t have anything coming out that makes the village look bad. ]]

[[ That’s a NOTP for me. I used to be okay with it, but it’s most earnest shipper ended up ruining it for me, and now I just don’t want to deal with it at all. ]]

[[ Absolutely. It’s normal for adults to have children, so one day, he would raise his own family as well, with Izumi. He does include children when he gives Izumi her Tsukuyomi, and I’m sure he’d relish to raise children in a world which he could ensure was safe for them. ]]

[[ I can’t think of any right off the bat without like, very, very specific context. Does “none of the awful shit” include things like meeting the battlefield, having Tenma die and Shinko retire? I know you already mean the Kurama attack doesn’t occur (because that is what gets the Uchiha blamed for it), and by extension the massacre doesn’t, but I will need specifics. 

He might be less of a pacifist if he didn’t see the battlefield, which spurned him on to try to ensure people wouldn’t kill each other. His deep protection of Sasuke would still be there, though, and he’d still very much be awful at socializing. ]]

[[ I think I drew something for that a loooooong time ago. I probably wouldn’t like it anymore fjfjkslfk. 

But, if such a thing were to happen and Itachi came across Orochimaru parading in Sasuke’s  body, we would get to figure out if it was possible to extract Orochimaru from the host body. Itachi’s absolutely going to try. 

¯_(ツ)_/¯ ]]