[johntmh]

From Naruto manga volume 400
So, it was a mistake all long this time for Sasuke to kill his own blood brother, Uchiha Itachi. The truth has unveiled by the Uchiha Madara, that Itachi's mission from Kohona was to destroy the whole uchiha clan. Being double agent is really hard when he loves peace so much, but when considering the best option, ending the record book of his own clan was the only choice he could chose. Poor Sasuke. He is going to regret for hating his own brother so much after he was told the truth by Madara.

However, it's been a question on who actually won in the battle between the brothers? Well, the battle started on with two in genjutsu world, then they fought with ninjutsu in real world. It was unquestionable that Itachi did have problem in defeating Sasuke when his health condition had deteriorate due to excessive use of his Mangekyo Sharingan before. However, after reading volume 400, I am pretty sure that Itachi had no intention of taking his own brother's eyes. Maybe he was planning to plant his eyes to Sasuke during the battle, but Sasuke was too good for him at the moment and defensed it.

Nevertheless, after a hard and intense defence by Sasuke, Itachi still managed to control the battle with his Amaterasu and the final jutsu.

Therefore, from my abstract thought, Itachi won the battle against Sasuke but just right before he died, he planted all my eye techniques to Sasuke and fall in order to protect Sasuke from Madara. If Itachi has the intention to kill Sasuke from the beginning, then he surely has the opportunity to do just right before he fall. Sasuke was out of chakra and can't fend off Itachi's final jutsu. It's so obvious that Sasuke going to lose at the time.

From: Naruto Forum: Goodbye Itachi

[Species8472]

kol, good analysis

[Demontailedfox]

its i s a shame itachi died it is so gay ........

[Alpha_522]

umm yeah I think we kinda got that part...thanks anyway?

[AdanteYuroku]

This might not be true....but....I think Tobi might be Obito...think about it...they can't even make up a good name...Tobi is just Obito without the extra O....and his mask can only see out of his Right eye which the sharingan wasn't taken out of...but then again...it could be Madara cause he knows so freakin much about the past...but I don't know how he did it, but he could just be in Obito's body...I also think it was a kind of tie in the fight between Itachi and Sasuke...

[Demontailedfox]

tobi is not obito errr everyone noes that by now i think you a bit behind the story .....

[johntmh]

I think there's another reason why the battle dragged long. Itachi might probably tried to make Sasuke out of chakra so that Orochimaru will show himself. I quite convince that Itachi was waiting for this and then use the jutsu to put Orochimaru in genjutsu forever. Then, Itachi's final wish is to pass all his tehnique to his younger brother so that Sasuke will be stronger to be able to protect himself 'cos Itachi will not longer be there to protect his younger brother. A lovely brother.....
from johntmh: Itachi

[Sasukekun]

well if you look at it from another point of view itachi wanted sasuke to become stronger and push himself twords a goal that would cause himto push him self

[Juugo]

it would be cool for this fight to be some hour long special episodes because to break up this fight into a lot of half hour episodes would be just dreadful. this really would be a good fight to watch as a special though. i could only imagine how sasuke feels though about killing his brother. that sucks, but its cool though. i think that itachis death was really a way for itachi to get sasuke to build up anger and get stronger so that he can do something to konoha. maybe a way for itachi to seek revenge, through sasuke, on the leaf village for making itachi kill the uchiha clan. itachi probably didnt want sasuke to know until after his death. itachi would have known though that with madara still alive, sasuke was going to find out anyway. and now that sasuke has a new sharingan, he'll probably figure out how to control it and use it against the leaf village. yeah. makes it sound like sasuke is beginning to be more of a threat now that he knows the truth about his family, his brother, and more importantly, the leaf villages fear and resentment towards the uchiha clan.

[johntmh]

I truly think Madara is possessing Obito's body and is the leader of akatsuki since he is the one who founded the organisation but with one eye only since the other one is with Kakashi. Therefore, it made me jump to my hypothesis that Madara is trying to possess Sasuke's body now as Sasuke has great sharingan.

There is a possibility that Madara is trying to brain wash Sasuke to join him in order to get a revenge on Konoha. However, if the Madara is the true leader of Akatsuki, then what is the real objective of Akatsuki organisation? Even if he sounds like a good person, but I believe Itachi didn't really trust Madara since he was trying to prevent his conversation with Sasuke during his battle with Sasuke from Zetsu. There must be a reason why he is trying to prevent Zetsu from listening to all the conversation.

Sasuke will probably join Madara to achive Madara's goal. Madara probably will tell Sasuke about his good intention in restoring peace to the world but there's a utterior motives behind his acts and he is trying to use Sasuke to his advantage. This is because Madara is so worry about Sasuke being taken by the Konoha team which there is a possibility where Itachi had told Naruto something about what will happens if Sasuke is taken by Madara. Itachi may probably predicted his death beforehand and told Naruto to take care of his younger brother and advised Naruto to be more careful as he is targeted by the Akatsuki.
From:Naruto Forum: What will happen next?