"Sharingan? Why do you have them too?" Sasuke froze.
Then he seemed to remember something and sneered. "I get it. Like that outsider Kakashi, you transplanted my clansmen's eyes, didn't you? The Sharingan is proof of being an Uchiha. A lowlife outsider like you has no business flaunting those eyes in front of me."
With that, Sasuke roared and drew his long blade, lightning flashing around his body. He then infused his weapon, the Kusanagi Sword, with lightning release chakra. The lightning-infused blade hummed as he thrust it forward at tremendous speed.
Watching from the side, Suigetsu could not help remarking, "The indefensible Chidori blade. Sasuke's going for the kill."
Anyo neither dodged nor retreated. Only when the blade was almost upon him did he flick a finger. The lightning spraying toward him abruptly contracted as though swept by a gale, and the entire blade stopped in midair. With a slight movement of Anyo's finger, a small vortex formed under Sharp Edge's control. Sasuke felt a powerful recoil through his sword hand. Before he could react, the blade streaked away, all the power within it under Anyo's control. The entire process unfolded without the slightest disturbance.
The sword was already in Anyo's hand, its point pressed directly against Sasuke's throat. Another inch, and blood would spill.
"What happened?"
The three members of Taka stared in shock. All they had seen was Sasuke charging forward, about to finish the newcomer with a single strike. The next instant, not only had his sword fallen into the enemy's hands, but his life was hanging by a thread.
Seeing Sasuke trembling all over, disbelief in his eyes, Anyo withdrew the sword and planted it in the earth between them. "That was the Weapon Control Technique. What, didn't Orochimaru teach you? Or did you never