Well, I have been loving the recent amount of chapters focused around Itachi lately. With 393 spoilers, it looks like this roller coaster of an epic battle is at its end. *Sheds Tear* Itachi has shown a lot of emotion that most of us never imagined we'd see, and I suppose its a good thing we do. Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu, and Susanoo'u have shown to be perhaps the most powerful Jutsu's in existence, *I mean, come on. That Susanoo'u was a friggin BEAST!* and it's clear to me that in a fight to the death without regrets, Itachi would mop the floor with any other fighter in Naruto. Sasuke was lucky that Itachi wasent going for something so simple as the kill; it was the eyes.

Anyway, Itachi has shown a wide varitey of Jutsu, including Taijutsu, ninjutsu, and of course genjutsu. For all of the people saying he's a Mangekyo spammer, and that without genjutsu he is nothing, you obviously need a REALITY check When w clone of him using some 30% of chakra or so fought Naruto and Kakashi, he only used genjutsu because it was the fastest and easiest way to deal with Naruto. He uses genjutsu's on those it will work on; which is a damn good idea. When that failed due to Kakashi and Sakura's interference, he switched to badass ninjutsus including Grand Fireballs techniques, Housenkas, etc. Taijutsu? He's got that covered, using fast kicks, holds, and punches. He is a master, even with his eyes in the condition they are in, when it comes to kunai and other ninja based projectile throwing.

When your fighting someone whose been set to kill you for so long, and is such a threat, would YOU decide not to use your most powerful weapons in your arsenal, and rely on your decomposing eyesight? I say HELL no. You'd use a combination of all three Ninja techniques, and then use your bloodline limit if you damn well could. So enough Uchiha bashing, the sharingan may be the ultima cheap weapon, but its still just a tool. Same as Naruto with the Kyuubi, ETC.

*Ahem* Sorry bout that, just felt like getting that off my chest. Anyway, I loved Itachi's crows genjutsus. I believe that a few crows were real, and the rest fake to screw with the enemy so he could replace himself with a real one and beat the crap out of the enemy from close up *See Itachi Sasuke fight, RIGHT before Tsukiyomi* Those things look so cool, and once I get the hang of drawing bodies the animal I want to master is Crow's and Ravens. I felt like doing this, since Yunyin chan is being so nice and inking my other Itachi picture, and I have a lot of portraits of Itachi and his various moves to do.

As usual, my scanner killed it and I don't feel like cleaning it up with an eraser in photoshop for the next 5 hours. I may go over it later, but for now I'll let it lie and move it to scrapes or something later. I have an Amaterasu *DAMN do I love how that thing looks* and crow picture coming up later too.

For those nice enough to read through my little rant and explanation, please drop a comment by on either the drawing or my comments, or both ^^ Hope you liked the picture.
-Noah


I do not own Itachi, Naruto, etc. or those blobs I call Crows. They all belong to Masashi.