"Boom, boom, boom!" Arrows bombarded the underside of the Ten-Tails' palm like a torrential rain of blossoms. The Susanoo armor covering it peeled away like fish scales, exposing the dark brown flesh beneath!
"Crack, crack, crack!" Just then, the purple Bone Bamboo rooted in the earth shot upward in a frenzy, all its towering stalks growing together. Countless sharp "bamboo skewers" plunged into the flesh of the Ten-Tails' palm!
Sasuke activated his skeletal Susanoo and raised the Susanoo Composite Bow. Aiming at the weakest point in the center of the Ten-Tails' fleshy palm, he fired an explosive arrow. "Boom!" It blasted a gaping hole straight through the palm!
"Whoosh!" Tenseigan Chakra Mode activated. Clad in a brilliant purple fire battle robe, Sasuke sprang off a nearby stalk of bone bamboo and slipped through the hole in the palm!
Breaking past the enormous hand that blotted out the sky, he swung the light sword of Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion skyward. It swept across thirty thousand feet and severed the arm to which that giant hand belonged!
"Roooar!" From deep within the red clouds of the dark night came the Ten-Tails' agonized howls!
Madara's fingernails dug deep into his palms.
A single splinter had forced him to flee with Flying Thunder God in disgrace, yet the moment Sasuke made his move, he had severed one of the Ten-Tails' arms with a stormlike onslaught!
They were both reincarnations of Indra. The overwhelming gap in their strength threw the proud Madara's heart into turmoil!
"Rumble!" The Ten-Tails' severed arm struck the ground, kicking up a sandstorm that filled the sky!
Sand and dust swept in every direction. Rather than retreat, Madara seemed to reach a firm resolve and charged into the wind!
"Though it's only one of the Ten-Tails' arms, the chakra it contains