He watched with his own eyes as Uchiha Itachi rose unsteadily and walked toward Sasuke Uchiha, step by step.
A skeleton seemingly formed from red flames enveloped Itachi, leaving Sasuke, who had just expended a vast amount of chakra, somewhat at a loss as to how to attack.
After all, Uchiha Itachi had received the Uchiha Clan's full education and understood and mastered his clan's forbidden techniques.
In that respect, Sasuke could not compare to Itachi.
So against Itachi, who had unleashed Susanoo, Sasuke had run out of tricks.
He might previously have learned of Susanoo's existence from scattered scraps of intelligence, but he certainly had no way of knowing the specifics of this ocular jutsu.
Without that information, he could not come up with a countermeasure.
On top of that, both Sasuke's stamina and chakra were exhausted.
Thump!
Sasuke's heart gave a violent beat, and a cold, sinister chakra suddenly surged up inside him.
The next second, that chakra began to boil violently.
Sasuke knew something was wrong, but he no longer had any way to stop it.
Boom!
The Eight-Headed Serpent emerged!
At the same time, Orochimaru, who had been hiding within Sasuke, appeared!
"Ugh, how disgusting," White Zetsu complained with some distaste, clearly looking down on Orochimaru's manner of making an entrance.
Still, Orochimaru's way of appearing-either a snake spat him out, or he spat out a snake-was indeed hard to like.
White Zetsu's disgust was perfectly normal.
"He's always been like this!" Obito said in an equally disdainful tone.
Black Zetsu's gloomy voice also rang out. "All that buildup earlier..."
"Itachi was forcing Orochimaru to show himself?!"
"Right!"
Obito nodded. He could now understand Uchiha Itachi's thinking a little.
After "testing" Sasuke's abilities, Uchiha Itachi, who had little time left to live, intended to eliminate the