Why did Itachi die again? because Sasuke killed him? huh, I wonder what happened there. I think Kishimoto was tired of Itachi being raped in fandoms and coming out as a butt-hole raping Sasuke, so he decided to kill him in a weak way to show he's a harmless sweet guy!

I don't think that Sasuke will ever surpass Itachi.
He might surpass Itachi at some point but he's dead so I don't think that count.
Plus as I recalled Itachi died of natural cause.
Face it Sasuke you will never surpass your brother!

Personally... I know Itachi is and always will be better then Sasuke, but for now i shall take a neutral stance to cut ppl.

Nocturnalist

Sasuke will never surpass Itachi because of the mental damage Itachi has already done to Sasuke.

Uhh... Itachi is dead. There is nothing to haunt Sasuke. In fact on his journey to fight him, when he fought him, and after Itachi died, Sasuke had no Psychological impairment which would have stopped him from his maximum potential, it only made him stronger. An example was when, without the Mangekyou Sharingan, he dispelled Tsukuyomi, the strongest genjutsu in the series.

Nocturnalist

Sasuke would always feel inferior ths making him inferior to Itachi.

Which would drive him to train harder!?

Nocturnalist

I mean I still failed to see Sasuke pull off a Tsukutomi

Uhh... he did cast it on the jinchuuriki Killerbee, however the Hachibi dispelled Tsukuyomi by way of cutting chakra, like any other genjutsu.

Nocturnalist

Pls Itachi was way more efficient with the eyes

Note that Sasuke is aware of the painful side effect of blindness. So he decided to stray away from using the MS, until everything including Tsukuyomi failed, for an Amaterasu.

Nocturnalist

he was wat 16 years old and could do both ameteratsu and tsukuyomi. Sasuke is about at that age and still cant even control when the ameteratsu comes out that well

Wats your point, he killed his best friend, and unlocked it. Note that Sasuke is also 16 at present, and has unlocked MS.

It was his first time using it!? It takes practice and experience to make it perfect. Cant expect him to just cast the most powerful technique, which hurts painfully for the first time, and expect it at full power. Since you have never seen Itachi cast Amaterasu for the first time, who knows, he may have cast a dodgy little flame as well. Furthermore Sasuke has learnt to remove the fire from the target!? Skills there!?

Cutting the 'pro' side... time to cut the 'against' side:

kaijou21

Why did Itachi die again? because Sasuke killed him?

Uhh... note that Itachi died because of the diseases he contracted, and that he was under the effects of 'polydrugging'*

*Polydrug refers to taking more than one drug at any one time.

Also note, Itachi was not fighting at maximum strength. This would denote Sasuke had an advantage because of that, and he would have lost if he was at full strength.

kaijou21

huh, I wonder what happened there.

Yep, uncurable diseases and drug abuse, kills everyone...

But yeh, Itachi is the more powerful shinobi. That still stands.

Poor Itachi, is dead for save Sasuke and his village, and his stupide little bro what he do? it wants to destroy the village mah...

...I still like Itachi better.

That battle was awesome
but as some of you said itachi died by natural causes .... maybe

Itachi was always more powerful than sasuke.
he died naturally...
but the way sasuke was shown in the beginning of shippuudden he seemed to much powerful..
well sasuke must be learning forbidden techniques but akatsuki was never a match to the one and only uchiha sasuke...

Its happening like with normal Naruto , Sasuke starts out much more stronger than Naruto and the balance shifts during the series , Sasuke is beign portrayed as weak right now , if Itachi would have wanted to kill him and was 100% healthy he would have killed Sasuke. And in the battle against 8 Tails he got saved by his team. Basically hes been going more and more downhill as the series goes on.

lifextyle

but as some of you said itachi died by natural causes ... maybe

No he did die via natural causes...