Uchiha Itachi was a skilled prodigy of Leaf Village. He graduated the Ninja Academy at age 7 and passed the Chuunin Exam at age 10. By age 13 Itachi had become a captain in the special ANBU squad. Itachi began to grow disatified with his clan, feeling they were not using their gifts to their fullest extent. To test his potential he murdered his best friend Shisui. Doing so granted him the ability to use the Mangekyou Sharingan. A rare Sharingan form seen only in a few select clan members. To gain this form Itachi believed you had to kill your closest friend. It was this form that gave him the ability to use the Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu techniques. After murdering Shisui, Itachi turned against his clan. Itachi felt that Sasuke could also gain the Mangekyou, and felt that murdering the clan would drive Sasuke to his absolute limits, to one day gain the Mangekyou as well.
After wiping out his clan, Itachi fled Leaf and joined the Akatsuki Organization. Several years after leaving, Itachi returned with fellow member Hoshigaki Kisame. It was during this period it was revealed Akatsuki was seeking to obtain the Kyuubi demon from inside Naruto for their own ends. After appearing in Leaf Village, the Leaf Jounin Sarutobi Asuma and Yuuhi Kurenai went to stop the two. Itachi was able to get the upper hand until Hatake Kakashi appeared. Kakashi was also unable to stand up to Itachi's skill. Utilizing the Tsukiyomi technique, a special technique unique to Uchiha bloodline and the Sharigan Eye, Itachi cast an illusion that forced Kakashi to endure several days of stabbings in the span of a few seconds. Itachi and Kisame had the upper hand until Maito Gai appeared. Seeing they were beginning to be outnumbered, Itachi and Kisame fled.
A short time afterwards, Sasuke learned that Itachi had returned to the village. So Sasuke took off after Akatsuki's target, Naruto. Itachi and Kisame began to track and follow Naruto and Jiraiya who had left Leaf Village to find the Sennin Tsunade. While Naruto and Jiraiya had stopped to rest at a hotel, Itachi surprised and confronted Naruto. It was then Sasuke finally caught up and faced his brother for the first time in years. Sasuke attempted to use the Chidori against Itachi but Itachi avoided it easily and pinned his younger brother to the wall. He then used the same technique he utilized against Kakashi against Sasuke. Instead of days of stabbings, Itachi forced Sasuke to relive the moment of his parents murder over and over again. Surprised that Sasuke had still been able to gain much power, Itachi dismissed his little brothers growth. The reason being that after wiping out his clan, Itachi had demanded that Sasuke grow more powerful to one day defeat him. Though several years had passed, Itachi was unsatisfied with how much Sasuke had grown in power and skill.
Suddenly Jiraiya showed back up and he was able to utilize his Iwagama summoning technique to turn the hotel hallway into the inside of a toads esophagus, thereby trapping the two Akatsuki members. Seeing that the situation was turning more dangerous, Kisame and Itachi fled, cutting a massive hole in the esophagus walls with a mysterious black fire. Itachi and Kisame have not been seen since, but their goal of capturing the Kyuubi is still unfulfilled
Log in to comment