well id have to disagree with u on itachi being weaker than urochimaru{although as far as im concerned IM one of the few logical people who actually think that itachi is weaker than urochimaru} the manga states otherwise. it says that the reason why urochimaru left akatsuki was that initially he wanted to use itachi as his host body but itachi grew or was too strong for even urochimaru and urochimaru got scared of him{according to most sources}. my personal theory is that itachi although not much more stronger than urochimaru was still too strong for him to CONTROL. ofcourse theres a lot of debate on this. and theres also the fact that itachi is said to already know all jutsus except a very select few top level forbidden ones {like urochimaru's rebirth technique, final raasengan, possibly the seal of the death god} this info can also be seen on naruto fan's itachi biography. also with the mangekyo shaaingan he has shown to use the 2 most power genjutsus and currently the most deadly techniques in the naruto universe officially the tsukiyomi and ameterasu which are said to be completely undispellable. the only time of weakness shown on his part is when he bowed out of a fight with jiraya even with the aid of the most powerful shinobi sowrdsmen but personally i think there might have been some reason for that other than strength.
{on a side note itachi always specifically calls things like capturing naruto "just an order" making one think hes not in akatsuki for the purpose of aiding or being with the organisation like the others but has another gole in his mind}
oh yea btw, sasuke isnt as strong as the kyuubi YET but the kyuubi's comment tells us that sasuke might be potetnially stronger than the kyuubi{ofcourse i think its all part of the kuubi's master scheme to find freedom and become the ultimate evil }
I think Orochimaru is stronger than itachi just not strong enough to do what he did to saskue to itachi, also Orochimaru could mean itatchi has too strong of a mind, unlike saskue weak and young mind.
Orochimaru is on par with jayria and Itachi stated that Him and Sharkboy could beat jayria and they ran from him.
Also you can be afraid of someone and still be stronger than them. Itachi killed his entire village without remorse so he wouldn't think twice about killing Orochimaru and that could be a reason he's afraid of him.
yeah chapter 341 totally sealed the deal for naruto fuuton rasengan. did u see all that blood that came out. And that explosion is pretty big, like a mini spirit bomb
4th hokage you mean.
And Naruto hasn't even mastered rasengan yet and look at what he did last chapter.
I do think that Sasuke's Chidori would surpass Kakashi's if it already hasn't.
They are quite the same in a way. Only thing is if you remember when naruto was fighting saskue on the roof and kakashi wtf prwnd them the rasengan hole was tiny and the chidori was big. But when saskue leaves theres a huge hole at the back of the water tank, I dont get that. Also i think saskue will be to powerful for Orochimaru to do the rebirth technique when the time comes/ Naruto saves the day.