What If Itachi Never Got Sick?

What If Itachi Never Got Sick?

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Itachi is one of many tragic heroes of the Naruto series. Despite his name being a direct translation of the Japanese word for “Weasel”, his honor and heroics go down in the anime history books as one of the most popular and well received anti-heroes in the world, beaten out only by Vegeta because people know him better (Itachi is still better than Vegeta though). Itachi’s story is the story of a man who has been screwed all of his life. A pacifist by nature, he was forced into war by duty. His Sharingan cursing him with the hatred of the Uchiha. Not hatred from within though. The deep seated hatred within his comrades. Had to watch his best friend die, had to kill his entire clan, had to alienate himself from his home and force his little brother to hate him after staining his hands with his own parents’ blood. Do you think it ends there? Nope. Itachi is diagnosed with a terminal illness that killed him at the young age of 21 years old. Among that, Sasuke didn’t even get to kill him as he had planned. Sasuke never knew what Itachi was going through. Not until it was too late. Itachi is a tragic hero, one who served his village and forsook everything after his little brother was held hostage by Danzo. He lived quick, died hard, and left behind a beautiful corpse. Or so the fangirls tell me. Itachi was truly an interesting character, one who tried to look at the bigger picture, realizing that had he not done what he had, a new World War might start when the Uchiha attacked Konoha. He and Shisui had a plan, but Danzo, the low-key villain of the series, steps in and says “Hippity hoppity, your corneas are now my property”. Despite all of this, he had to deal with a terminal illness, one that we never really learned the details of. I’m sure there are many a doctor, or Naruto fan who THINKS they’re a doctor, who can tell you what it was, but it was never explained. And thus, his young life was cut short. He ended up perishing before he could do much of anything afterward. But I do sometimes wonder what would have happened if Itachi had survived. And so, much like with Kurama, I’m going to do one for Itachi now. We’re going to follow the series from his point of view, but we are going to alter thing slightly by removing his illness just to see what, if anything, will change. So sit right back and try not to fall into a genjutsu, because we’re going to get into another long video!

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