"You hadn't noticed it yourself."
Madara looked at his right arm.
The wound there had already closed, and the Susanoo's armor plates covered it completely, but whenever he mobilized his chakra, his right shoulder lagged half a beat behind.
Sasuke gave him no time to correct it.
A Flying Thunder God Formula lit up beneath the scorched earth. Sasuke appeared before Madara, thrusting the Kusanagi Sword along the Susanoo's armor plates.
Madara raised his blade to block.
Sasuke turned his wrist, sliding his sword's edge along the blade, and thrust Chidori toward Madara's right shoulder.
Madara blocked with his left hand. Lightning pierced the chakra Battle Armor, and the Susanoo's right arm split open on the spot.
"You're testing me."
"I'm confirming something."
"Confirming what?"
Sasuke withdrew his sword and retreated. "Whether you're still qualified to hold a blade."
Madara raised his left hand, and both of his Susanoo's blades slashed down at once.
The slashes crossed dozens of yards, shearing through the ridge beside the coast first. Kakashi immediately ordered, "Everyone, get down! Sealing Squad, protect the water mirror!"
The Allied Forces' shinobi formed hand seals, raising earthen walls in front of their positions.
Two slashes skimmed past the earthen walls.
The first cut through the rock strata.
The second descended toward Sasuke.
Sasuke's Susanoo raised its longsword of Black Flames. The blade met the slash head-on, and a dull boom rang out from the center of the coast.
The Black Flames did not scatter, all of them clinging to the sword's edge.
Sasuke's Susanoo pressed forward. Lightning surged into the ground beneath its feet, striking back along Madara's slash.
Both arms of Madara's Susanoo sank at once.
"You're using Lightning Release to conduct chakra."
"You only just figured that out?"
"A petty technique like that won't work on