The black arrow grazed Naruto's chest as he fell.
Naruto did not even bother getting up. He stripped off his outer garment, then rapidly formed hand seals and unfurled a blank Sealing Scroll in midair with his left hand!
"Amaterasu!"
"Blaze Release! Kagutsuchi!"
Sasuke activated the separate visual jutsu of his left and right eyes. Once the Amaterasu flames shot from his left eye, he rapidly reshaped them with Kagutsuchi!
A tiny black arrow pierced through the blast's aftershocks, completely unaffected by them!
The light that flared at the instant of the explosion made Naruto instinctively cover his eyes.
And in that brief, instinctive moment, the black arrow formed from Sasuke's freshly unleashed Amaterasu flames struck the spectral Nine-Tails, then hurtled toward Naruto, who was encased within it!
Naruto had barely lowered his hand when he saw the Amaterasu flames right in front of him!
Without time to think, Naruto swiftly dismissed the spectral body and dropped from high in the air!
Although Naruto dodged in time, the dazzling white light had delayed him for an instant, and the arrow of Amaterasu flames still grazed his arm!
The Tailed Beast Cloak covering Naruto instantly caught fire. Having been Sasuke's teammate for so long, Naruto naturally knew these flames could not be extinguished by ordinary means.
Without the slightest hesitation, Naruto whipped out a kunai and sliced away the grazed patch on his arm, flesh and all!
Although the Nine-Tails' yang release chakra gave Naruto far greater regenerative power than an ordinary person, a chunk of missing flesh could not heal that quickly!
Naruto had effectively lost the use of one arm!
Naruto's injury had drastically reduced his fighting strength, but Sasuke had exhausted his ocular power and had little chakra left, so his combat strength had also plummeted.
Sasuke's eyes