Quote Originally Posted by Abdula
Since you mentioned the curse seal when I was reading this chapter one thing was bothering me. To break out of the technique Sasuke went CS2 within the genjutsu much like when Naruto tried to break out of Itachi's genjutsu before by using some of the Kyuubi's chakra. So does what the victim of the jutsu do within the jutsu really matter because I would expect that Sasuke himself would have transformed at that point but it doesn't appear that he did.
Well its a illusion I'm not even sure you need to be able to do the jutsu you use during it in real life in the first place. It would stand to believe you only have to imagine you can do it for it to happen in a genjutsu.

This is however exactly the kind of thing that bothers me. At curse seal level 2 I can at least imagine that Sasuke has managed to shorten the gap to Itachi's overall power but he's got him almost falling over when he's not even using curse seal level 1. Thats what seems absurd were talking about him beating Sasuke without even using a 3rd of his power and Itachi has to get serious to even keep from losing at his best skill with the MS? Come on thats just moronic. For Sasuke to not die to Diedara he had to go curse seal level 2, Summon Orochimaru's best summon and phase out of the dimension yet with Itachi he just stands there and stares at him.

I don't even see a reason for Itachi to be in this fight considering Sasuke lacks MS in the first place. Considering Kakashi leveled up someone else's Sharingen. But sasuke isn't full grown and one would imagine you can't transplant eye's of different sizes that easily you know empty space and all. So really when it comes down to it why is Itachi fighting in the first place if Sasuke's eye's are still worthless? The only reasonable explanation is his eye's have gotten so bad he will be blind without a transplant and thats likely why Sasuke will win this fight. Of course if that happens Sasuke likely won't kill itachi and Mandara will come and take Itachi's eye's to restore is EMS being Itachi claims he's a shell of his former self and its pretty likely he needs new eye's.