A Theory on What Disease Itachi and Kimimaro Had

[@matter06_98]

I always assumed, based on kabutos comments, that kinimaro was dying of a genetic disease belonging to the kaguya clan; however the bone cancer idea makes much more sense

[@darrellsimon4462]

That could work too

[@humanitysfinest9795]

I'm thinking it was a very, very diluted version of what Kaguya's bone projectiles do. More or less Kimimaro keeping it at bay with his replenishing bone spears. Or perhaps, he used up all his cells (can't create something from nothing, we all grow old and wrinkly cuz our body is running empty on cells that can replenish the dead ones) and died from old age. While still looking young.

[@darrellsimon4462]

Or maybe just a genetic mutation that sometimes shoes up in the clan. And because their bodies are so different due to their bones...kabuto would need to know how the clan dealt with such things in

[@tjxwheel7812]

@@humanitysfinest9795 age ing is due to mutations in dna causing a cell to no longer replicate right or to turn in to a different cell like a skin cell turning into a brain cell so it could be the bones replicated so much eventually his real bones forgot wtf they where and just stopped producing red blood cells

[@jackson3475]

But could Hashirama cells do the trick and cure him?

[@descendantofartorias2067]

They both died of "character too op" disease.

[@alexproctor524]

It’s simple lmao too strong to live throughout the series 😂

[@morax5015]

plot disease- a character dies from an illness for plot development

[@jamesoakes4842]

Ninja cancer. I know it well.

[@rican_921]

Itachi had HIV

[@animekingdommdm5951]

@@rican_921is this confirmation that Itachi Fucks

[@primordialious6945]

Itachi and Kimmimaro had a severe case of 'Chakra Deficiency'. 'Chakra Deficiency' is a very serious illness, that causes ones Base Chakra Pool to decrease over time. As Chakra is Life Force in the Naruto Franchise, they are literally dying. Unfortunately, Sasuke has also developed this illness too. Please, if you donate today your contribution can help save a Main Character today.

[@ruppelspoopels]

Isn't it probably just that their bodies can't handle their chakra? Kimimaru had a derivative of the strongest ninjutsu in Naruto and Itachi could've been the best Uchiha ever.

[@primordialious6945]

@@ruppelspoopels Itachi will never be the best Uchiha ever.

[@jackson3475]

Itachi killed 99,7% of all Uchihas during his time, that makes him the best where it matters most ---- SENJU Tobirama, probably.

[@primordialious6945]

@@jackson3475 Itachi is trash, and he killed mostly women and children. You do not want this conversation, you are literally bringing up everyone but the actually fighters. Bring up the Uchiha who were main characters in the story and you will see how Itachi is not even the top 3.

[@Bloopergrandson1]

@@jackson3475 How is Itachi the best Uchiha? probably the most gifted when it comes to intelligence but other than that no he needed Tobi to slaughter the Uchiha even Itachi himself stated this when he confronted Sasuke before their battle. Also when Itachi got revived as an Edo tensei zombie and met up with Sasuke to stop Kabuto he admitted his plan was wrong and he should've told Sasuke the truth about what happened to the Uchiha Clan from the beginning, had he done that he might've swayed Fugaku from going through with the clans plan to attack the Leaf.

[@BattleMaidAstarte]

These sorts of more lore focused videos are cool refreshers as far as Naruto videos go

[@Papriqa]

Yeah everyone likes a versus but there’s only so many matchups you can review in a series of limited characters

[@andyukmonkey]

I always thought Itachi was standing in the rain to hide the fact he is crying

[@paul_particularlyunhappynut]

Also rain and cold whether don't actually cause sickness. More people being together in the same proximity during the winter does

[@GaldenX]

@@paul_particularlyunhappynut Yah the cold weakens the immune system making it easier to get sick.

[@ashleeramey]

Same here

[@jbark678]

Given that chakra has an actual, physical circulatory system in universe, I've always assumed that Itachi had something like a lymphatic or venous disorder, but for the chakra network. If you have a disease that weakens your immune system, getting sick can be deadly. It follows that if a disease weakens the chaka network, using massive amounts of chakra could be similarly deadly.

[@benedictjajo]

We all know Itachi's illness was, "Too cool to live" disease.

[@odysseusdadon1234]

Fax

[@pandacocoapuff]

literally

[@Based_Goddd]

They had RPA. Reverse plot armor

[@Drunk_Souls]

Ah, Advance-the-plot-itis. A well documented ailment.

[@jaredongsing]

If Itachi had AIDS, then Sasuke would also have it after transplanting Itachi's eyes.

[@spit-fire]

Orochimaru made him immune to AIDS 😂😂

[@laskurtanceixixii]

@@spit-fire damn

[@danielhobbyist]

@@spit-fire I don't get it...

[@nictibbetts]

he 100% had AIDs

[@timothy_Uchiha13]

😂😂😂

[@8Exceed]

I doubt Itachi would risk infecting Sasuke with AIDs in a fight if he had it.

[@blesskurunai9213]

Well I'd say AIDs is not that big of a deal in the Naruto universe and if it exists there. I'd guess that it's easily cure/treat able so Itachi didn't really cared for Sasuke getting infected. The only reason he died from it is because he wanted to. The illness wouldn't be able to kill him if he wasn't suicidal and hated himself already.

[@justmar07]

Maybe the medicine he was taking was becoming more and more ineffective and the disease was getting stronger and/or not getting “paused” as effectively.

[@zecikk_5651]

Damn bro..... I always thought they had ligma

[@BBagent6]

Who the hell is Steve Jobs?

[@binho6600]

@@BBagent6 Joe Mama

[@AMJ564]

Medically speaking the symptoms which Itachi displayed its COPD with Chronic Bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis with obstructive pulmonary disease.

[@ak47officialz94]

Bros big conclusion was aids 💀😭😭😭

[@virn333]

It could be an elaborate shit post

[@Mr-Opium]

Itachi could’ve been getting mad play once he left the village

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

@@Mr-Opium from who?

[@ak47officialz94]

@@Gold_Gamer_100 must have been a white zetsu 😭💀🤣

[@Mr-Opium]

@@Gold_Gamer_100 there’s a million different women out there in the naruto world could’ve been anyone

[@Rewwgh]

For Kimimaro, I assumed it was because his kekkei genkai is not fully compatible with soft tissue and organs. So reckless use of it would accidentally cause issues for internal organs. Like a wayward bone rubbing against a lung for example. For Itachi, my interpretation was stress related. Both his immense mental burden as well as frequent use of the Sharingan.

[@CRO-Palacinke-D.C]

if we go that route it's also extremely likely (when using real world logic) that the got constantly infected when growing the bones back into himself after using them. surgeons work in very sterile environements and this dude stabs people with bones and let's it all back into his body.

[@Rewwgh]

@@CRO-Palacinke-D.C Indeed and if it was something he could have contracted instead of something innate, then an interesting what if could have been to see Kabuto back track all of Kimimaro's victims and examine their health background.

[@lucasbakeforero426]

Or, wait for it, he didn't care about the rain not because of his illness, but because he didn't care about holding up appearances anymore.

[@xvingar6318]

It may be heart disease. Itachi suffered a great amount of stress dealing with the uchiha and village leaders & ofc all the other events at such a young age not even 18. The mangekyo could’ve made this case worst in some cases with the blindness effect and the high chakra usage as chakra is your life force in Naruto. But what makes me think it’s heart disease is the fact I believe Obito stated Itachi took medicine but it couldn’t be cured. Ultimately though, this is the world of Naruto so it could be something else but that was just a thought.

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

I actually have a vs. battle concept. Here's the skinny: Have the Hebi Sasuke who was going to fight Itachi like in the original, but instead of Deidara stopping him, replace him with other Akatsuki members (except Itachi for obvious reasons) and see how many Sasuke can defeat

[@Soren27]

He wouldn't beat any of the others at that stage other then konan. Obviously he'd beat kakuzo, hidan, and sasori but they are all dead already. But yea hebi sauske can't beat kisame or itachi for that matter, itachi was not trying to kill him, it was all to help sauske. He sure as hell can't beat pain either.

[@Musa-M8]

Very interesting

[@Gold_Gamer_100]

@@Musa-M8 I feel like Sasuke would not perform the best, 4 Tailed Naruto didn't either. And besides, it's mainly just for fun

[@Soren27]

Maayyybbbeee zetzu but he is basically kaguya.

[@spit-fire]

I think that sasuke beats: hidan, konan, sassori, kakuzu. Loses to Kisame, itachi, pain

[@Owen-sx4jj]

I think Itachi was sick well before the rain because of the statement of prolonging his life. It's just that kishimoto didn't show it before hand or most likely just forgot or used it as plot device.

[@yukiomishimafan]

I think Black Zetsu infected them with ninja HIV as part of his brilliant plan

[@0mnom519]

Bruh 💀

[@aboody8618]

Itachi-E and suge zetsu

[@D_Owo]

nigga wtf

[@killmongrel3621]

There is no ninja hiv just hiv

[@spit-fire]

@@aboody8618Killer Benis

[@spit-fire]

Video idea you might like: Artist duo (sassori & diedera) vs each one of the kage with their guards from the summit. The sannin vs duo’s video was cool cause they were all in character teams and so is this. How would each kage squad deal with an ambush from the two artists? Especially once they are in the air.

[@spit-fire]

The cloud has all lighting style users, but can’t fly. The stone has intel on diedera and actually can fly. the sand has good intel and good long range and garra could fly with his sand. the leaf with danzo would be a werid one. The mist also could use deep fog to make a long range battle tough, while with Ao’s byakogon he’d be able to tell where they are through the mist

[@B00MR0ASt3D]

Man Kisame is my favorite character and the biggest badass in the show. But it’s pretty disappointing to hear a shark man had to get out of the rain cuz he was scared to get sick

[@spit-fire]

I wish itachi just genuinely looked at him and said “what the fuck are you even?”

[@marikka9347]

I think he was worried about Itachi, not himself.

[@nicholasmosteller6760]

In my personal headcannon, Kabuto is responsible for giving illnesses to both Kimimaru and Itachi. Kabuto wanted to keep Orochimaru from becoming way to powerful so that he could absorb his power. He was unable to do this with Sasuke, hypothetically, because Orochimaru became suspicious and kept a closer eye on him. I just like this idea of a genius medical ninja plotting away in the background, bringing down some of the most OP ninja in the series. Then its less of an absurd jump when he gets to the power level he does when he joins Obito for the war.

[@romakorneev]

Great analysis)

[@The-Black-Death]

You know the reason why Itachi got sick after the Uchiha incident was because all that trauma and stress can actually make your immune system greatly weakened due to your brain and how it sends messages through out your body, it won't happen all the time to everyone however.

[@justmar07]

Reminds me of drastically changing your diet without consulting a doctor and having consequences for that because you didn’t know how that would work.

[@Rose-so5sk]

This video made me realise how immature I am.

[@Voxdalian]

Isn't it literally named as "chakra disease" in both cases? Some corruption in the chakra that can occur in people with kekkei genkai that depletes the chakra, and thus life force. Though for both of them it does seem to work as some type of auto-immune disease.

[@KingRumar]

When it comes to cancer, my friend’s brother in law was a healthy man, exercised, worked a physically demanding job at a warehouse, he was in the middle of an XBOX live session and started complaining of his neck hurting. They dismissed it. Couple days later he started having back problems. I think he had a physical sign of an issue on his neck at this point so he went to the hospital. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at this point. Immediately was told it was terminal and he was expected to pass in a month

[@felixlara2945]

I need to get checked-

[@jameshollister8294]

Wtf

[@catlike9444]

Any updates

[@eliandervalderen5849]

Well that makes more sense then I'm having sickle cell anemia which was one of my first thoughts. One of those blood diseases that can kill you right quick in a hurry if you aren't taking any medicine to suppress it

[@whiteflame24]

It always bothered me that kishimoto took such a weird way out of getting rid of these strong characters by just making them sick when he had plot points already baked into their character that could have killed them off in the same way anyways. Kimimaro could have just overused his curse mark to the point of death and itachi could have just used all of his chakra with the mangekyou against sasuke which as we know when you are totally out of chakra you die. That would have made the curse mark and the mangekyou also have more tangible consequences in the story.

[@blesskurunai9213]

"Itachi could have used all of his chackra with Mangekyo against Sasuke" But obviously that couldn't be possible. Because if Itachi did that there's no way Sasuke would survive and Itachi doesn't want to kill Sasuke. Also I kinda like the fact that Itachi didn't die in a battle. It fits his character. A pacifist cursed with insanely deadly powers and responsibilities to kill. Forced to commit extreme acts of hatred while believing in nothing but love. A burning Uchiha by blood but a believer of Senju ideologies by heart. Strength and skills equal to Madara but heart equal to Hashirama. Itachi is someone who spent all his life in dark pit of self contradiction, always loathing himself while having powers compared to the mythical gods. Obviously an enemy could never kill him. Only thing that can beat him is something deep inside of himself. Something that eats him from the inside.

[@Sweetdude64]

Kimimaro had a pseudo bone ash jutsu and nobody can change my mind

[@carlosdavila8743]

Love your videos,when ever you have time can you do a video ranking the Konoha 12 including Sasuke ,strongest to Weakest for both part 1 and shippuden ,keep up with the awesome videos

[@wesley3447]

He literally used 87 years of life force to provide a good life for his girlfriend using tsukuyomi before killing her. That's how it could be something that typically shows up in the elderly or he simply cut his life by 87 years for his girlfriend unknowingly. He probably realized it was doing real damage to himself after a little while of using it. That's my opinion.

[@basedcommentor]

I assume both had Tuberculosis. Then I started thinking it may be an std. There's one character both Kimimimaro and Itachi fucked, Orochimaru 😂

[@ningenslayer6306]

LMAO

[@basedcommentor]

@@ningenslayer6306 If Sasuke gets sick my theory is confirmed 😤

[@Sweetdude64]

The medicine gave Itachi TB-like symptoms, but he did NOT have TB as confirmed in the novels

[@jbark678]

@@Sweetdude64 Did the novels say what he had?

[@Sweetdude64]

@@jbark678 It's a disease unique to the Naruto verse. It's the Sasuke Jinraiden Novel where Sasuke travels to a new land to learn about Itachi after hearing the truth from the masked man. Sasuke learns about Itachis sickness, blindness, the med he was on, and he behaviors etc

[@PersonalAccount-ud9kg]

Itachi caught AIDS from Shisui.

[@TuyetNguyen-bl1cb]

Why do you think that?

[@spit-fire]

Orochimaru always tests on people. He tested on sasuke. So maybe he tested on kimmimaru and something went wrong?

[@jackson3475]

Everytime an unknown disease takes out a fictional character in a world full of hax BS, super science, magic science and or straight up magic MAGIC I just assume they died of ligma.

[@jacobweatherford4696]

I remember reading that itachi got his disease shortly before visiting konoha with kisame.

[@YumYum820]

"What did Itachi die from? AIDS." yeah...

[@TheQueensAce719]

They had the "I'm way too strong, and the protagonists wouldn't live past this chapter if I didn't have this" disease.

[@silverhetch3383]

nobody talking about my man Hayate

[@seandaniels7938]

I always just assumed cancer or something like that cuz they say it's incurable but who knows

[@jamesoakes4842]

I always just referred to it as "ninja cancer" and left it at that.

[@Lemons28KZ]

My girlfriend and I always just call the disease that Kimimaro, Itachi, and Shin (Sai's brother) had "Ninja AIDs." We don't actually think it functions like AIDs, but it has no explanation other than "This character needs to die but the person they're fighting can't actually kill them." I should note Shin only dies from it in the anime, but it gives us a reason as to how he died before his fight to the death with Sai, and why Danzo let Sai in the Root. Danzo fully believed Sai killed him because no one knew about Shin's ninja AIDs, until he died during their deathmatch.

[@jassinbarth6375]

I have to disagree with itachi. If he actually had it then sasuke would have been infected after transplanting his eyes.

[@spit-fire]

What if orochimaru made sasuke immune to the disease. Orochi seems pretty confident on his immortality so I imagine he, with the help of a medical expert kabuto made a cure for it.

[@jassinbarth6375]

@@spit-fire if i remember correctly orochimaru did make sasuke poison resistant so it should be possible that this extends to diseases as well.

[@GameDevMadeEasy]

Well.. Naruto had The chakra virus (チャクラウイルス, chakura uirusu) is a very dangerous and rare virus that affects a person's ability to mould chakra, turning their own chakra into fever. For this reason, shinobi are very afraid of it. So, it is likely that Itachi and Kimimaro also had a version of it.

[@nobodyisnobody200]

basically what I found on Kimimaro is that everyone has different theories: chakra deficiency, tuberculosis, bone cancer, inability to stop splitting cells etc.

[@somegamer4071]

I always thought kimimaro died to some kind of blood poisoning, he grew out his bones during his fight with the 4th kazekage, and probably got some gold inside his body during the fight, with his clan likely having a special blood type kabuto could not find a way to cure him, and couldn't find a matching blood donor

[@Purpg]

Forgot Sai's brother sickness

[@ethanstahel4822]

Perhaps kiminaru had a disease that had to do with his bone marrow or the blood cells it produces causing him to not get enough oxygen to live.

[@ericklewis3786]

if I had to bet it was a naruto world specific disease like a chakra disease, makes more sense. maybe he through too many years of over exerting his chakra nodes or something. idk thats just my headcannon though

[@ruppelspoopels]

Chakra is something that isn't natural to humans. Makes sense that too much and potent chakra kills people who aren't direct descendants of aliens.

[@LaffyWaffy89]

Always wonder if kimimaro illness was his kekkai genkai played a role in it in some way or was main reason for illness from constant manipulating his cells and bones

[@BattleMaidAstarte]

I'd love a video on healthy Kimimaru vs mangekyo sharingan Sasuke

[@KolaTheBear]

Like... The one who fought Bee and The Five Kage summit?

[@Sweetdude64]

Kimimaro easily

[@giannixx]

You see, Genjutsu exists. Hebi Sasuke probably kills him.

[@korowong22]

Sasuke in the beginning of shippuden would kill kimimaru

[@Sweetdude64]

@@korowong22 L take just wrong not even close LOOOOL

[@madlucian4623]

Your videos are very interesting but it would be a little more livley if you had a little music softly in the background,not everyone can listen to someone speak this long no matter how educational without falling asleep

[@mirror857]

Bro, how f'ed up is your attention span if you can’t concentrate on a video for less than 18 minutes, it’s not that long

[@lenixforgot]

The plot disease or chronic nerf disease

[@artvandelay94]

Theory: Danzo had the Aburame root members use their insects to give Itachi something

[@kleatise52]

I don’t think this even makes sense

[@kleatise52]

I don’t think this even makes sense

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

Danzo respected Itachi lmao

[@J91Y]

it would sense considering all the exposure to blood he got from slaughtering his clan

[@spit-fire]

Good point

[@mwbwyatt]

considering he constantly coughed up blood young me always assumed itachi just had tuberculosis

[@briantesquivel2965]

Something about super humans catching a cold that makes me laugh

[@33_milly93]

You're explanation on Kimmimaro was perfect. I think Hashirama died similarly

[@draco8970]

He had cardiovascular heart disease is what i heard years ago

[@marijojakesevic7682]

it makes more sense that Itachi,Kinimaro,Hashirama and even the sage of six paths died of an in world disease. a lot of fans speculate it's an chakra disease just like Naruto had it in Sasukes light novel

[@ruppelspoopels]

Didn't Madara beat the 1st to death?

[@marijojakesevic7682]

@@ruppelspoopels no,he didn't. Hashirama beat him with a wood clone in the end by taking Madaras back and stabing him with his katana. Madara was the one who gave Hashirama the idea to catch the tailed beasts. If I remember well the first Kage summit was after their fight in the valley of the end where Madara came with Kurama in an Susano armor

[@evanwaters392]

Could u do a itachi vs jiraya vid (unless u already have 1)? People still seem to think someone in that fight has a chance

[@tjxwheel7812]

I had untreated atypical dubbel pneumonia for 6 weeks and survived but I was coughing up blood at night and my heartrate at rest was 145bpm temperature around 39 to 41.5 at its peak I got antibiotics collapsed on my way out of the hospital and basically survived of paracetamol aspirin and ibuprofen for a week because I was so fucked up of the antibiotics I lost 5 kg

[@xavierelmhorst145]

Weird theory, but give me a shot. In the novel, Shisui had been poisoned as well as in one of the games, and Itachi not only interacts with Shisui but holds on to Shisui's eye. Perhaps he had gotten ill from this instance? Also, perhaps it's more spiritual because, as we've seen when someone takes on a power that isn't their own. That had led me to believe perhaps that his illness eats away at his energy or that it is the cause of Itachi sealing away the Totska Blade and the OP shield to deal with anything unprecedented.

[@jonathanmcknight2453]

You should do one on Whitebeard and Gold D Roger from One Piece

[@impalerofwallachia2924]

Real reason for Uchiha massacre revealed

[@Musclingus]

Itachi’s sickness has been a topic of speculation for over a decade and you finally solved it 😂😂😂

[@IMBandz]

POV you Look at kinimaro and itachi You: You got dat shi don’t you 🗿

[@justmar07]

Maybe the body isn’t used to such things so it’s gonna have a drastic effect like if you give a donkey an apple it would kill it.

[@bobincognito]

Its hilarious, how the two most broken characters had an iLlNeSs

[@Gdrez]

Well keep it at Shinobi Aids til otherwise

[@Emperorwolf999]

N I n J a a I d s Basically they need magical dust from a meteorite to get it fixed according to the novels

[@azel.]

can u make a video about how naruto would excel in the academy if his parents never died

[@IllusorySpectre]

Everyone knows itachi had "ligma" Ligma balls.

[@catchdog]

Nice Vid New Horizons!

[@joemomma7500]

The favorite character sickness

[@justmar07]

I wonder if it has something to do with him being skinny. Maybe Itachi and Kimimaro have the same disease but with different symptoms or they are similar. Or one of them have a worse version. Or something to do with chakra. Maybe it is genetic.

[@Whoisthatguy906]

It’s obvious they had KillOffTheOPCharacterSoTheStoryCanHappen-itis. It’s a contagious pandemic that’s present in multiple shows

[@JayJay-de5jv]

Was hashirama death by cell division also?

[@MikeySavage21]

I had always thought Itachi died of illnesses that were caused by prolonged use of the Mangekyo Sharingan

[@justmar07]

Maybe his body was getting more and more dependent on the medicine like a addiction and the disease was eating away at him faster and faster, especially cause of the battle and his overuse of the Mangekyou and that killed him. Not to mention the fact that he let himself get hurt anyway and realistically I think he should’ve been in a hospital so it makes sense he would drop dead anyway. He planned it of course. I wonder if he was using his sickness as a variable.

[@JackieDamschroder]

I always just figured Itachi was sick from overusing his Sharingan Dude I fucking lost it when you said he had aids 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wasn’t expecting that at all lmfao

[@planetmac8586]

I disagree about the aids thing you’re overthinking it too much. If that’s the case why doesn’t sasuke have aids? He was literally exposed to itachi blood and he had cuts as well

[@dano639]

Orochimaru experimentation made him immune to a plethora of things, maybe AIDS was a part of that too

[@ruppelspoopels]

I thought it was obviously their chakra poisoning them. Like they had God tier chakra but human physiology. It's the reason why Madara implanted the first into his body. Only Uzumaki's and Senju's can handle chakra that potent.

[@laskurtanceixixii]

Did he say it was the reason ? Cuz people like to make stuff up

[@ruppelspoopels]

@@laskurtanceixixii he did that to get the rinnegan. But we also see how broken Senju/Uzumaki cells are. They're a requirement for most of the super high-level level jutsu in Naruto (and not dying right after).

[@laskurtanceixixii]

@@ruppelspoopels you're right but just dont make up stuff like "he did it to avoid chakra poisoning" with such confidence if it's just you're headcannon please

[@ruppelspoopels]

@@laskurtanceixixii is it head canon though? Pretty much from the beginning Naruto has established that jutsu was a balance of mind, body and spirit. Looking at the damage Itachi's and Kimmimaro jutsu's does to them, shows that one of those 3 things are not up to par. They're all highly intelligent, they all have immense chakra control. So it's obviously their bodies. They literally cannot handle their jutsu's. But if using logic is "head canon" go off.

[@kagekun1198]

The theory I subscribe to for Itachi's cause of death is old age. Now, hear me out. The first kill Itachi made during the night of the massacre was his girlfriend, Izumi. Now, the way Itachi killed her was most unusual. He put her through a Tsukiyomi genjutsu that had her live out an entire life within the span of one second. In that genjutsu, Izumi lived with Itachi in a peaceful life, working as Jonins, raising a family together, and dying at the age of eighty. Here's the thing: what if Itachi lived out an entire lifetime along with her as well? That would mean Itachi mentally aged 80 years in a single second as well. This means that by the time Itachi died at biologically 21, Itachi mentally would be age 91 (he was 14 during the massacre) by the time he faced Sasuke. It then would make sense for Itachi to take life-extending drugs even when he was in his teens. It would also mean he would be fighting with a geriatric's chakra capacity. It was established during the Hiruzen vs Orochimaru fight that a ninja's chakra capacity diminishes with age. However, Itachi was in a unique position in that his chakra capacity was lowered but his physical capabilities was still in his prime. The 7 years he was with the Akatsuki spamming Tsukiyomis and Amaterasus would definitely not have been kind on a guy in his late eighties. Basically, Itachi was holding on for the right moment before he passes on.

[@khali1092]

What if sasuke gets the same disease and in boruto this is how he dies he’s hiding it and they can also use this to cover the writing on why he is always out of chakra

[@makwafatmakwafat152]

I don’t think it’s AIDS because HIV takes 8-10 years to progress to AIDS which is the final and deadly stage and the medication used to treat HIV completely stops progress so if he did stop taking meds it would’ve meant that he stopped around the time of the uchiha massacre and the 2 year time period following that

[@iranutter2661]

I thought both had tuberculosis. Especially with both coughing up blood

[@bchannel5269]

I had assumed we all as a community just called it ninja aids

[@KPophome-j9u]

the both of them are so similar

[@CaribbeanCryptoTips]

Mehhh I still think the Sharingan over use killed him...He did have to use it on his whole clan

[@nickescobar6786]

Short answer: plot device

[@s.owl9]

If Itachi living to old age with his gf in Tsukuyomi is canon, Itachi could be like 90 years old (mentally, spiritually & any other way except appearance-wise)

[@sedrykleftwich2185]

Does that mean sasuke has aids since he has itachi’s eyes

[@tjxwheel7812]

Yeah so it can’t be but blood with aids doesn’t take that long for the aids to go away after the host is dead and his eyes where only transplanted weeks after itachi died

[@spit-fire]

@@tjxwheel7812or orochimaru made sasuke immune to a list of diseases. Including aids somehow

[@natenatenate10]

Itachi wasn't homosexual and he was likely a virgin regardless--there's no way he had aids.

[@KillZoneInc]

AIDS is primarily caught by heterosexual individuals. Also you can catch aids through the transferring of blood or infected blood going into you body not just sex.

[@natenatenate10]

@@KillZoneInc www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/gender/men/2020/cdc-hiv-men-diagnoses-bar-graph-700x318.png?_=96703

[@natenatenate10]

@@KillZoneInc Sorry, here's the entire CDC infographic: www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/group/gender/men/2020/infographics/cdc-hiv-men-diagnoses-transmission-category-infographic-1200x630.png

[@J91Y]

bruh to get aids and hiv all u need is exposure to blood in an open wound …. read your own damn article… and with the anout of blood he was exposed to on the night of his slaughter he’s got to have had some

[@KillZoneInc]

@@natenatenate10 that’s only for men where’s one for women

[@wayne6808]

Imagine if orochimaru finally gets his the bone body , and bamn! Bone cancer 😂

[@Intrepid_Explorer]

Ah yes, Ninja AIDS.