"Bang!"
Shihōin Naraku opened the ANBU storeroom and immediately spotted the Kusanagi Sword sitting on a shelf.
"They really did just leave it lying around. Good thing I remembered, or Orochimaru would have summoned the Kusanagi Sword back sooner or later."
Shihōin Naraku picked up the sheathless Kusanagi Sword!
"Orochimaru's Kusanagi Sword never seemed to have a sheath. No, wait-Orochimaru himself was its sheath!"
Sunlight fell across the blade, and a cold gleam flashed over it.
This Kusanagi Sword was extremely sharp!
Even Enma, with his adamantine body, would find the pain unbearable if struck by the Kusanagi Sword.
The sword had another feature: it could change size at will.
It could shrink enough to fit inside Orochimaru's body or extend beyond a hundred meters, and even that was not its limit.
Of course, although the Kusanagi Sword had plenty of strengths, Shihōin Naraku did not intend to use it. Instead, he planned to feed it to his Zanpakutō.
Carrying the Kusanagi Sword, Shihōin Naraku returned to his ANBU office.
"Clang!"
Closing one hand around empty air, Naraku drew Kurikara and placed both blades on the desk.
"All right, get started!"
A black hole slowly emerged on Kurikara's pitch-black blade and began devouring the Kusanagi Sword.
Even though the Kusanagi Sword was forged from the hardest substance in the Ninja world, it could not withstand Kurikara's powerful devouring force. In the blink of an eye, it was consumed without a trace.
Just like that, Orochimaru's weapon, the Kusanagi Sword, was gone!
Still, while a Kusanagi Sword was certainly precious to Orochimaru, he could always find a new one.
Yes, in the Ninja world, Kusanagi Sword was not the name of a single sword, but a collective term for a category of swords.
Both Sasuke Uchiha's future Straight-Edged Sword and Uchiha