Itachi Uchiha
Itachi Uchiha is a male anime and manga character who features in Naruto.
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Biography
Origin
Itachi Uchiha (Japanese: うちは イタチ, Hepburn: Uchiha Itachi) was the son of Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha as well as had an older brother named Sasuke Uchiha with their family being a member of the Uchiha Clan in the Ninja World.
At the age of 13, he was noted to had become the head of the Anbu black ops in the village.
By the time Sasuke returned home, he found Itachi over the dead bodies of their parents. He then seemingly attempted to kill his younger brother with Sasuke begging to be spared with Itachi showing disgust at the younger Uchiha's action. He then told Sasuke to foster hatred in his heart and that only then would be able to kill him whereupon he left the village and was branded as a rogue shinobi.
He eventually came to find himself among the Akatsuki and joined the organization who normally operated in two-man teams with Itachi being partnered with Orochimaru. During one of their missions, Orochimaru attacked him with the intention of claiming the Sharingan for himself. However, Itachi placed his opponent in a genjutsu and wounded Orochimaru who was forced to flee where his betrayal made him an enemy of the Akatsuki.
After Orochimaru's failed attack on Konogakure, Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki secretly made their way to Konogakure in an effort to acquire the Nine-Tails. Whilst in the village, they were discovered by Kakashi Hatake who called on the aid of Kurenai Yuhl and Asuma Sarutobi. The three battled the two Akatsuki members but were unable to match the power of Itachi's Sharingan. In fact, Itachi's power allowed him to overwhelm Kakashi's Sharingan and left him badly injured as a result. It was only the arrival of Might Guy were the Hidden Leaf ninja able to escape whilst Itachi and Kisame continued on their quest in finding Naruto Uzumaki. They came to learn that the young shinobi was in the company of Jiraiya whose status as one of the legendary Sannin meant that he was a difficult foe for the two Akatsuki members. They bid their time until Jiraiya was separated from Naruto with Itachi approaching the hotel room of the Uzumaki boy. Using his genjutsu, Naruto could have easily been abducted had Sasuke Uchiha not arrived on the scene to delay the two Akatsuki for a moment. This allowed for Jiraiya to arrive on the scene where he fought the two Akatsuki members by entrapping them within the mouth of a giant toad. This led to Itachi deciding on a retreat where he blew a wall to the outside using his black flames so that he and Kisame could gather their strength for their next encounter.
After two years, the Akatsuki came to make their move to claim the jinchuriki from around the world and extract the Tailed-Beasts within them. This saw Deidara and Sasori being sent to Sunagakure to capture the Kazekage Gaara who was the host of the One-Tails. Bringing the sand ninja to their base, the Akatsuki were remotely gathered as they used their chakra to perform the jutsu to draw the spirit beast from Gaara. At this point, the leaf shinobi were in pursuit to recover their ally Gaara with the Akatsuki dispatching Itachi and Kisame to deal with the ninja. Using a fraction of their chakra and captured bodies as vessel, they battled the leaf ninja where Itachi fought against Team Kakashi. Despite his genjutsu, his host vessel was defeated at the same time as Kisame's though the delay they gave their pursuers allowed the extraction ceremony to be completed.
At some point, an experiment of Orochimaru named Shin came to learn of Itachi Uchiha and became enamoured with the story of him. Upon escaping his master, Shin came to refer to himself as Shin Uchiha and followed a set of principles that he claimed were based on Itachi. This led to him learning of his idol's younger brother Sasuke with Shin looking to kill him as he believed the sibling was a disgrace to the Uchiha name.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Due to his Sharingan, he came to be known as Itachi of the Sharingan (写輪眼のイタチ, Sharingan no Itachi, Literally meaning: Itachi of the Copy Wheel Eye) and after murdering his clan he was referred to as Clan Killer Itachi (一族殺しのイタチ, Ichizokugoroshi no Itachi).
On the surface, Itachi appeared as a rogue ninja where he seemingly murdered his clan in an effort to attain power. To his brother Sasuke, he claimed that he wanted a challenge to his abilities after awakening the Sharingan which was why he kill their family. He even said he wanted Sasuke to experience true hatred so that his Sharingan was to awaken and that the two of them could battle at their full respective strengths. During this fight, his seeming motivation was to steal his brothers Mangekyō Sharingan as his own were closing from years of use.
Though a member of the Akatsuki, ultimately it was shown that he had no loyalty to their leader. In fact, he believed the person who was thought to be 'Madara Uchiha' was not fit to lead anymore and that his time had passed. In one case, he implanted a genjutsu in his brother Sasuke as a booby-trap against Madara. This was to activate if Madara ever showed his sharingan to Sasuke whereupon an Amaterasu was to be cast on his the Akatsuki leader to kill him.
Itachi Uchiha was a member of the illustrious Uchiha Clan of Konohagakure where he was the son of Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha with him having a younger brother named Sasuke Uchiha.
Whilst growing up, one of his closest friends was his fellow clansman Shisui Uchiha.
Powers and abilities
He was noted for being a prodigy in the arts of the shinobi where he even from a young age he demonstrated incredible ninja skills. Due to being from the Uchiha Clan, he inherited his kin's kekkei genkai which was the Sharingan (写輪眼, Literally meaning: Copy Wheel Eye, Meaning (Viz): Mirror Wheel Eye) dōjutsu.
As a true Uchiha, his body was stronger and more capable of handling the power of the Sharigan. In fact, he came to activate its more advanced stage which was the Mangekyō Sharingan (万華鏡写輪眼, Literally meaning: Kaleidoscope Copy Wheel Eye). These were referred to as the heavenly eyes that see the truth of all of creation without obstruction and allowed him to perform powerful genjutsu such as the Tsukuyomi that distorted a target's perception of time.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Genjutsu: Sharingan (幻術・写輪眼, Genjutsu: Sharingan) : a genjutsu linked to the use of the Sharingan where he could trap a person within a powerful genjutsu where Itachi could cause; instant but instantaneous loss of consciousness or paralysis, extract information, relay memories, remove genjutsu or control a person's actions.
- Tsukuyomi (月読, Tsukuyomi) : one of the most powerful genjutsu in existence whereby Itachi could make his target suffer years worth of torture within a moment.
- Crow Clone Technique (烏分身の術, Karasu Bunshin no Jutsu) : a Shadow Clone technique where the medium involved the creation of crows whose smaller size meant that it required less chakra to accomplish this form.
- Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique (火遁・鳳仙火の術, Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu) : Itachi was able to focus his chakra to spit out a volley of small fireballs into the air.
- Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson (火遁・鳳仙花爪紅, Katon: Hōsenka Tsumabeni) :
- Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique (火遁・豪火球の術, Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu) : by kneading chakra in their body, he was able to turn it into fire and expel it from his mouth with the more energy used the greater the size of the fireball.
- Amaterasu (天照, Amaterasu) : the highest level of Fire Release and one performed through the use of the Mangekyō Sharingan dōjutsu. It created powerful black flames that were able to burn through almost anything and manifested wherever he could see his target.
- Susanoo (須佐能乎, Susanoo) : described as his trump card, Itachi was able to create a giant red-skinned humanoid being from his chakra with this power awakening after he unlocked his Mangekyō Sharingan and wielded the Amaterasu.
Notes
- Itachi Uchiha was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of the Naruto universe.
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