Itachi Uchiha’s death has left a gaping hole in the Naruto world. The village’s most powerful and respected member has been missing for weeks, and no one knows what happened to him. There are many theories about what may have happened to Itachi, but no one knows for sure what caused his death. Some say he was killed by Sasuke, while others say he was killed by someone else entirely. Whatever the case may be, Itachi’s death leaves a large hole in the village’s morale. No one knows how to fill it.


Itachi was killed twice in the manga. The first time he passed away during episode 138 in Naruto Shippuden. He was killed in the fight against His younger brother. He was revived in the next episode Episode 139. He was killed in the second time during the same episode, after breaking the repreincarnation jutsu.

What happened to him that caused him to be revived and then die the next episode? If you’re not familiar with Naruto through the years, the story may be a bit unclear. This article will provide clarity on the motives behind Itachi’s death as well as reincarnation and his permanent death in the Naruto series.

How Did Itachi Die the First Time?

Itachi passed away at the end of The Naruto Shippuden Episode titled ‘End. The episode ended with a part from Orochimaru that Sasuke was absorbing began to infiltrate his body and then attack Itachi. This triggers Itachi to make use of his Sword of Totsuka, which makes souls locked in Genjutsu.

Itachi was able to remove Sasuske’s possession as well as his cursed seal following his defeat of Orochimaru. However, the two combats have already begun to wear down Itachi’s body. At the moment, Itachi has little-to-no chakra left to fight. A bloody Itachi walks toward Sasuke and whispers his final word to Sasuke, his brother’s younger. He also poked him affectionately in the forehead, something that he would do in his youth prior to his injuries and disease finally took hold of him, and he ultimately passed away.

Why Did Itachi Poke Sasuke’s Forehead?

In addition to being a symbol of their early years as blood brothers The poke actually creates Amaterasu in the eyes of Sasuke. The seal was designed to work against Tobi’s Sharingan to help protect Sasuke.

Why Did Itachi Die Easily?

In the original manga Naruto at chapter 401 Itachi had contracted an illness. He was conscious of his imminent demise while He was an Anbu. Itachi was determined to help Sasuke to become the most powerful He made himself into a villain. He fought to stay alive by taking medications so that Sasuke could have the chance to end his life and bring the Mangekyo Sharingan back to life.

The details of his illness was never discussed in manga or the anime.

How Did Itachi Get Revived?

On episode 139 Itachi as well as the remainder of the Akatsuki members were renewed to join Tobi’s plot. In the end, Itachi manages to break away from Kabuto’s grip and join forces along with Naruto along with Killer B to defeat Nagato.

Following the fight, Itachi leaves Killer B and Naruto to take on Kabuto personally. While he is on his adventure to the lair Itachi meets Sasuke who chases the latter.

How Did Itachi Die the Second Time?

After forming a partnership with Sasuke and Kabuto, the two brothers are able to cooperate to stop this Impure World Reincarnation. But, Kabuto tries to turn Sasuke against his brother in the course of the battle. Kabuto exposes all the wrongs that his brother has committed against Sasuke in his past. Instead of denying everything, Itachi admits his faults and promises Sasuke that he’ll reveal something to him once Sasuke is able to get his Izanami to appear.

After a long struggle, Itachi manages to use an enjutsu to affect Kabuto and force him to use the hand seals in order in order to stop Impure World Reincarnation.

As Itachi starts in fading, Heachi offers Sasuke an ear bump and dispels all falsehoods he’s told his brother. He informs Sasuke that he will never want to be forgiven and promises that the love he has for him will never cease regardless of what he decides to do. Then the reincarnated body disintegrates and his soul travels into the afterlife.

What Was Itachi’s Influence on Sasuke?

Itachi could be the most influential person in the life of Sasuke. From being a brother Sasuke loved He was also someone he wanted to defeat and ultimately defeat.

When the brothers were at war and reconciled in Itachi’s reincarnation Sasuke gained respect for his brother. Itachi’s eyes also allowed Sasuke to engage his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan.

In the end, after having forgiven Sasuke’s brother Sasuke was determined to fight Konoha once more and then decide to join forces with Tobi as well as Madara to end from waging the Fourth Shinobi World War.

As a character in Boruto, Sasuke has adopted Itachi’s practice of poking foreheads to show his affection. He has been known to do this frequently with the woman he is married to, Sakura Haruno, and his daughter Sarada.

How Does Konoha View Itachi?

Itachi is regarded by Konoha as a villain throughout the entire series. After The World War, Naruto has attempted to restore the honor of Itachi. Naruto tried convince his friend Konoha Itachi did not fight for his village during the time of his Reincarnation.

It took a while for the village to get used to Itachi’s reputation as a villain started to fade slowly to be only found in the history books.

Itachi’s Influence Beyond Sasuke

Itachi has had an impact on characters that are not Sasuke within the novel. Hiruzen discovered that people with a heart of gold like Itachi do not fit to be an Anbu due to what they do in their work. This led Hiruzen to disqualify Kakashi from the position of an Anbu and make him the leader of a genin group. He made this change to prevent an occurrence similar to the Uchiha Clan downfall.

Itachi also played an important part as a character in the Shin movie. Shin became enthralled at Itachi, the Uchiha family, Itachi specifically. Shin was even adopting the clan’s name and wearing the traditional garb that the family wore. This obsession led Shin to harbor a grudge against Sasuke and blame Shin for the death of Itachi.

But, Sasuke noted that with the manner Shin did, the Orochimaru experiment was never able to determine who Itachi Uchiha was.

What is the episode in which Itachi die in the first time?

Itachi died for the second time, in the episode 138 known as The End. The first time he died was following fighting with his own brother Sasuke when he makes use of the majority of his power to escape from the Orochimaru.

As the thunderclouds gather over the clouds, Zetsu realizes that they were created by Sasuke’s Release the Great Dragon’s Fire Technique paired with the intensity of Itachi’s unstoppable Amaterasu.

To kill Itachi, Sasuke utilizes his new Jutsu, Kirin, to make use of the lightning in the sky by using his chakra. He will completely eliminate The Uchiha Hideout.

Itachi stands up after surviving Kirin’s attack due to his Susanoo enormous chakra protector that is only available to people who have the Mangeky Sharingan between their eyes. Sasuke is relieved to have won.

As Itachi is advancing towards Sasuke who is completely free in chakra stifled Orochimaru fragment that Sasuke has taken in starts to become his body.

Orochimaru’s eight white snakes sprang from the cursed seal of Sasuke by using the Eight Branches Technique, with Orochimaru himself escaping through an opening in the mouth of one snake. thanks to Itachi for lowering the chakra of Sasuke to the point that it was possible to break free. He was thankful for another opportunity to become Sasuke’s savior.

Itachi kills 7 of 8 snakes by using Susanoo’s Sword of Totsuka, which is able to seal souls and bind them for eternity. It also closes off Orochimaru, eliminating Sasuke’s cursed seal during the process.

But, it causes too much chakra to be consumed and reduces The character Susanoo to its the most basic appearance. Itachi is prone to vomiting blood as he moves closer to Sasuke and is unable to escape from Sasuke. As Itachi is approaching Sasuke He says the final word to Sasuke. He pokes his forehead. He then falls to the floor, dead.

Sasuke thinks about Itachi’s last words, and looks at his brother’s corpse before he collapses close to him exhausted. Though he had many more important words to say the second time he passed away however, simply saying “Sorry Sasuke, this is it” was a favorite among his admirers.

The most common belief concerning the death of Itachi is that Itachi was killed by his brother. This isn’t the case. Both of them fought and while it is true that Sasuke would have wanted to be a vengeful brother to his brother over the deaths of his own clan and parents. However, however, he was unable to accomplish this.

A thing that is often overlooked is that Itachi was able to choose to fight his brother due to the fact that He suffered from a chronic illness. He kept this illness away from his brother to save him from suffering and was taking massive doses of medicine to keep his life going.

That’s why he decided to take on his brother as that way, he’d be able defeat him with ease. Their fight would also be a Mangekyo sharingan training for Sasuke and helped Sasuke to keep fighting adversaries.

What episode will Itachi die on the second occasion?

The Itachi who has reincarnated Itachi is killed in the exact same scene that he returns, episode 339. He dies when he is able to escape from the Itachi reincarnation Jutsu.

Five Kage struggle to stand their themselves against Madara’s Susanoo-clad wooden counterparts in the frontline. In spite of the odds overwhelming, Noki encourages the troops to go to war, insisting they must finish a mission that can’t be squandered.

Madara recognizes the fact that Noki is the problem and he has to defy his own willpower. In that moment, the Kage is back in the fight against Madara’s replicas.

The situation rapidly gets worse as Madara unleashes all his power by activating his final Susanoo and unleashing an attack with his sword against them.

Itachi gives orders to Kabuto to stop the impure World Reincarnation, which is located in the cave. Sasuke announces his plan to take down the town that has been tormenting his brother for too long. He also offers Itachi goodbye.

Itachi is able to approach Sasuke and makes use of his Sharingan to guide him through everything concerning The Uchiha Clan Downfall as the illuminations surrounding the reborn shinobi begin to illuminate the battlefield, before they disappear into shining pillars.

After finally disclosing what really happened to Sasuke, Itachi gives his goodbye words to his younger brother to tell him that regardless of the outcome or whatever happens to him from now on, he will always love Sasuke.

They have an extra significant moment when they exchange their final goodbye. Itachi admits that he couldn’t have protected his brother from all that was happening, and it, the result could be different.

The final words of his speech, “I’ve always lied to you and demanded that you be sorry for me by keeping your distance with my own hands because I didn’t want you get involved with any of this. But I’m beginning to think you could have been a different parents and dads as well as the rest of the Uchiha family if I’d only been there right from the beginning and looking directly into your eyes and shared the truth, with me who didn’t succeed, by telling you this from the top, it’s not going to be absorbed and take root. But I’d like to share at a minimum this truth to you , you will never have to ever forget me, and regardless of what you do from now to the end, I promise you that I’ll love you forever.” It made fans realize a completely new side to Itachi and earned him more admirers than he did before.

What episode did Itachi return to?

Itachi is renewed in the episode 339 known as Itachi is revived in episode 339, titled I Will always Love You. After the battle against Sasuke, Kabuto utilized the Reanimation Jutsu to bring him back in The Fourth Great Ninja War.

Fortunately, Itachi was able to get away from the influence of Kabuto due to his visual skills and joined forces with Sasuke to defeat Kabuto in order to undo his Reanimation Jutsu. Then, Sasuke chose to follow the footsteps of his brother as a member of his brother in the Allied Shinobi Forces, fighting with Naruto.

Does Itachi Show Up in Boruto?

As of now, Itachi has not shown himself in Boruto. While some of the characters we know have appeared to returned from the dead in the show, Itachi is not one of the characters. Although he doesn’t show in the show His name has been frequently mentioned throughout the series.