Shattered wood chips flew from Sasuke's eye socket!
Before Sasuke's Wood Release Clone revealed its true form, he murmured, "Just as I thought... that ability Sakura mentioned is still there!"
As they passed each other, Obito looked at the eyeball that had turned to wood in his hand and realized he had been played.
"A Wood Release Clone actually fooled me..." Then he reconsidered. I see. Because he emerged from that black spatial portal, I almost instinctively assumed he was the real body. So that was his trick.
Whoosh! Suddenly, Yomotsu Hirasaka opened again directly above Obito's head!
"Ha." Obito's gaze burned. "Mixing the real with the false—a trick that never failed me. I'll bet this one's another Wood Release Clone..."
The oncoming purple figure passed straight through him... Obito gripped the Scepter behind his back and thrust it viciously into the Yomotsu Hirasaka portal before it could close!!
"Your real body is hiding behind this portal!!"
His forward momentum was too fierce... so fierce that his head and neck plunged into the portal as well!!
Crack!! "Urgh!!" The impact and muffled groan rang out together... Looking at Sasuke impaled on the Scepter, Obito smiled. "Too bad~ Your plan failed!"
Riiip...!! Suddenly, searing pain shot through his back.
"What!?" Obito's expression changed drastically.
"You really did hide your head and leave your rear exposed..." The real Sasuke stood right behind him, his left Mangekyō Sharingan and right Rinnegan both gleaming with sharp confidence!
What had raked viciously across Obito's back... leaving a hideous wound, was the great blade Samehada, clad in Susanoo's Majestic Attire down to its teeth, which Sasuke had swung hard with both hands!
He said in a low voice, "You're right, Obito... I'm just an ordinary little Six Paths fighter, so all I can do is rack