User blog comment:Water Dragon Slayer/DREAM BATTLE CHRONICLES: SECOND MATCH!/@comment-4829046-20130724065721/@comment-7418318-20130725170233

I too want to see him dead.

He was an asshole straight from the very beginning (hell even "before" the beginning in the flashbacks). Unless he was answering a question he only ever opened his mouth to insult someone.

And now he's a criminal. He killed the acting Hokage, killed at least a dozen Samurai, tried to capture Bee (which would have resulted in Bee's death, if successful) and attacked the Raikage (costing him an arm), collaborated with both Orochimaru and Akatsuki turning himself into a traitor twice over and that's just the highlights. Also he tried to kill Naruto (three times) and Sakura.

Considering the severity and number of his crimes he either has to become a recluse living in some far away place, or he has to die. No matter how much he helps in the war, it just can't be enough to earn him a pardon in the face of all those crimes. Maybe a lessening of the sentence to life-long imprisonment, but certainly not a full pardon.

Also he's inconsistant in his motives. On one hand he refuses to kill Naruto for gaining the Mangekyo Sharingan, because it was his brother who told him to do so, but when Itachi told him to hate everyone to become stronger, he does so without a moments hesitation.