Naraku's Temptation

Uzuki Yugao hovered in the air, her demonic aura seething, ready to strike a fatal blow against her former comrades trapped below.

Sasuke Uchiha, who had dodged aside and watched coldly, had already committed every detail of the battlefield to memory with his Sharingan.

He had quietly gripped the Rabbit Talisman in his pocket, planning to combine its extreme speed with Chidori for a surprise attack. But Yugao's height and the invisible field of psychokinesis around her offered him no safe opening.

In a flash, his figure blurred like a ghost. For the first time, the Rabbit Talisman's power was revealed to everyone!

Whoosh!

He appeared beside the struggling Naruto and Sakura and grabbed each by the shoulder.

"What?!"

"Sasuke?!"

Before either could react, the Rabbit Talisman activated again! The three vanished as if erased from the spot, then reappeared more than a hundred meters away at a speed the naked eye could not follow. They were completely beyond the reach of the Moonlight Ghost Hand and the effective range of the Rooster Talisman's psychokinesis!

"S-so fast!" Naruto fell to the ground and stared at Sasuke in the distance, dumbfounded. He had not even seen what happened.

Kakashi's Sharingan strained to track the afterimages, his mind reeling. That speed is far beyond the Body Flicker Technique! He's even faster than Shisui Uchiha, the man they called "Body Flicker Shisui"! What happened to him?

Sakura, meanwhile, gazed at Sasuke in admiration and instinctively found an explanation for him. "Idiot, Naruto! Sasuke-kun must have trained incredibly hard to gain that power!"

At the center of the battlefield, however, Uzuki Yugao paid the escape little mind. To her, the flight of a few insects meant nothing.

She tightened her grip on the demonic blade Oborozuki, and her cold killing intent settled once more