"Caw... caw..."
Amid the cawing, Uchiha Itachi's body, struck by the sword energy, scattered into a sky full of crows.
"Is this... the Crow Clone Technique?"
Shisui watched the crows filling the sky, never having expected Uchiha Itachi to have used the Crow Clone Technique without him noticing.
"Then where is he now..."
Suddenly, Shisui leaped from where he stood!
Almost at the same instant, an enormous fireball exploded behind him!
"Hmm?"
Uchiha Itachi had deliberately controlled the power of this Fire Release, afraid of hurting Shisui.
He had not expected Shisui to react in time.
"Itachi... your hand seals have gotten quite a bit faster, too."
Shisui looked at Uchiha Itachi with some amazement. He knew that Uchiha Itachi's hand seal speed had already been astonishing before.
He had not expected it to reach another level after just one trip to Amegakure.
His hand seals were now fast enough to elude even Shisui's Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
At their Kage Level, even the slightest improvement in strength required a long period of training.
Yet Uchiha Itachi had improved so rapidly in just these few months that Shisui was secretly amazed.
What he did not understand was that Ning Feng had already remedied Uchiha Itachi's greatest weakness.
That was why his strength had undergone such explosive growth.
It was like a barrel: apart from the stave representing his body, all of Uchiha Itachi's other staves had already reached impressive heights.
But because the stave representing his body was so pitifully short, Uchiha Itachi's overall strength had been severely held back.
Even so, Uchiha Itachi had still reached the pinnacle of Kage Level ninja through his mastery of ninjutsu and genjutsu.
Just how extraordinary was such talent!
"All right, let's stop here for now."
Shisui shook his head in frustration. He knew that