Elsewhere.
The three soon entered the forest.
Seeing the two pursuing him relentlessly, Yakushi Kabuto spun around.
"Secret Technique: Spider Web Opening!"
White spiderwebs poured from his mouth like an enormous curtain, sweeping toward Itachi as he pursued him from behind.
Standing on a tree trunk, Itachi saw the web closing in. An orange Susanoo arm instantly took shape, its enormous skeletal palm raised to block it.
But the web was far stickier than he had expected. The instant it touched the Susanoo arm, it wrapped tightly around it like a living thing, binding its joints layer upon layer and preventing it from moving freely.
Itachi frowned slightly, then decisively activated Amaterasu.
Black flames ignited on the Susanoo arm, burning away the sticky web along with the parts tangled around it.
The severed web turned to ash and scattered through the air, but Itachi did not pause.
Tomoe rapidly formed in his hand. Combined with the black Amaterasu flames still burning on the Susanoo arm, they were hurled toward Yakushi Kabuto.
The three tomoe spun rapidly through the air, wreathed in black flames, racing straight toward Yakushi Kabuto like a burning serpent.
Sasuke did not remain idle in the air, either.
His Susanoo formed two complete arms behind him, holding a bow with an arrow nocked. His scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan slowly turned, taking in every movement Yakushi Kabuto made.
The moment he caught the perfect opening, he released the bowstring.
The purple arrow, wrapped in fierce chakra, shot precisely toward a point ahead of Yakushi Kabuto.
Yakushi Kabuto's sage perception detected the attack's trajectory the instant the arrow was released.
His lips twitched. At the instant the tomoe struck, he used Shedding without hesitation, slipping out of an empty husk like a cicada and reappearing several meters away.
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