Uchiha Itachi looked at the gaping hole in the wall, his eyes dimming slightly.
This home was not just where Sasuke had grown up. It was his home too, but he might never be able to return.
The dimness in Itachi's eyes vanished in an instant. He stepped forward and looked down at Sasuke, who lay on the floor, seemingly unconscious.
Although Itachi knew he had carefully held back, his heart still lurched at the sight of Sasuke lying there, and his fingers trembled almost imperceptibly.
Just then, Sasuke suddenly dispersed into a cloud of smoke with a poof.
As Sasuke turned into smoke, a figure crackling with lightning suddenly charged at Itachi from his left.
The figure held a dense mass of lightning in his right hand and thrust it viciously toward Itachi's face.
Just as the lightning in Sasuke's hand cast flickering light across Itachi's face and was about to reach its target,
Sasuke suddenly saw a massive skeleton glowing red appear around Itachi, enclosing him completely.
Even when Sasuke pressed his Lightning Blade against the red skeleton, it failed to budge it in the slightest. His Lightning Blade merely crackled against the skeleton, locked in a stalemate.
Faced with this sudden turn of events, Uchiha Itachi seemed to have anticipated everything. His expression never changed, remaining as calm as still water.
Itachi tilted his head slightly, looking through his Susanoo at the furious Sasuke, who held his Lightning Blade aloft, and gently curled a finger.
A skeletal arm immediately appeared in midair and slammed Sasuke, who failed to dodge in time, against the wall with a deafening bang. The violent impact made him cough up blood.
Sasuke endured the agonizing pain throughout his body and struggled to raise his head toward Itachi, saying weakly:
"Su... Susanoo..."
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