Leaving a warning behind, Naruto departed the battlefield!
With its intended target gone, the poised Night Guy fell dormant as its blood-red aura burned out!
Reanimated through Impure World Reincarnation, Might Guy stood motionless. Dust swirled into his tattered clothes, concealing the secret!
Boom!
A coffin appeared behind Might Guy, enclosed him, and vanished!
Tap!
Kabuto's hands fell limply from their hand seals, and the upper body he had struggled to prop up collapsed onto the ground!
A lightning-shaped scar marked his back, left by Naruto's parting Lightning Release whip kick. It had bypassed Kabuto's Hydrification and severely damaged his spine. He had now lost all sensation below his chest-in plain terms, he had become paraplegic!
"Kabuto...!!" Before long, Sasuke returned to Kabuto's side and looked around. "Where's Naruto?"
Kabuto said weakly, "He already... left..."
Sasuke turned his gaze to Kabuto's empty left eye socket and asked gravely, "You used Might Guy's Impure World Reincarnation and still couldn't keep Naruto from taking that left eye?"
Kabuto Yakushi stated the facts helplessly. "Yes. His strength is on a completely different level now, and he'll probably enter a whole new realm soon. All the conditions are in place. He's about to awaken his own eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Cough, cough..."
A violent coughing fit seized Kabuto, and he spat blood!
Sasuke frowned. "Why didn't you use Orochimaru's Shedding Technique? Wouldn't that get rid of your injuries?"
The white snake extending from Kabuto's abdomen, which he used to perform the Shedding Technique, lay limp and unresponsive on the ground.
Kabuto Yakushi revealed the truth. "I've lost all sensation below my second thoracic vertebra, so I can't control this white snake to use Lord Orochimaru's Shedding Technique."
Sasuke pressed on. "But Orochimaru could shed his skin even when his body was cut in half!"
Kabuto