Seeing Kimimaro's devotion, Sasuke launched into a furious tirade.
"Orochimaru, my ass! Orochimaru is a liar, a complete and utter fraud-"
Before Sasuke could finish, a bone spike shot out and blocked his mouth, wedging itself against the cage of bone spikes so he could no longer move his mouth or head.
"Don't you dare slander Lord Orochimaru! Someone like you doesn't deserve to be his student. Pah!
Lord Orochimaru taught you so much, and you turned around and attacked him. Spending all that time with someone like you was a stain on my life."
Seeing Kimimaro like this, Tetsuya couldn't help laughing.
"That's Orochimaru for you. He really does have a peculiar sort of charisma."
"Is this kid under genjutsu?"
Izuna studied Kimimaro curiously, instinctively activating his Rinnegan, but found no trace of genjutsu.
"Well, in a sense. Sometimes personal charisma can be more frightening than genjutsu."
Tobirama nodded in agreement at those words.
"Indeed. My elder brother had that same charisma back then, attracting countless shinobi clans to his side."
"You call what Hashirama Senju had charisma? All I saw was overwhelming power that kept an entire era in check."
"Nonsense! My brother had charisma."
"All right, all right, enough from you two. Let's find out what's wrong with this little fellow first."
Tetsuya took two steps forward, approached Sasuke, and crouched down to look at him, held firmly in place by the bone spikes.
As Tetsuya approached, Sasuke glared viciously at him with his Two-Tomoe Sharingan. The next instant, the two tomoe spun-the boy had launched Sharingan Genjutsu straight at Tetsuya.
"Hahaha! Interesting. A calf that doesn't know enough to fear the tiger, huh?"
Tetsuya couldn't hold back his laughter.
The next instant, Sasuke felt the world spin around him. Turning, he found himself in a strange