Naruto: Naruto Hosted by the System

Sasuke stood motionless, letting the shuriken pierce his body and bleed profusely.

"What's wrong, Sasuke? Are you too scared to move?" Itachi Uchiha asked, then suddenly remembered something.

Sure enough, the world before his eyes began to crack, and the cracks spread until the world shattered completely.

Sasuke was still standing in front of him, perfectly fine, without the wounds from the shuriken earlier.

Itachi Uchiha remained seated on the stone bench, as if he hadn't stood up at all.

At that moment, a tear of blood rolled down his cheek.

"To be able to break Tsukuyomi, it seems your Mangekyou Sharingan is genuine, and your eye power is quite strong." Uchiha Itachi seemed oblivious to the blood and tears streaming down his face, sitting there and sighing.

Sasuke gave him a cold look and said in a heavy tone, "Stop trying to hold back, or you won't even be qualified to force out all my moves."

After saying that, Sasuke activated Susanoo directly. Without any foreplay or probing, the purple half-giant rose from the ground and enveloped him.

Now that Sasuke has received Hashirama's cells, his eye power is far greater than Itachi's, allowing him to use it more freely.

Although it will still be exhausted, at least it won't suffer irreversible damage like Itachi Uchiha, and its recovery ability will be much stronger.

The next moment, Sasuke controlled Susanoo to draw the bow and shot it at Uchiha Itachi with unstoppable force.

However, the moment the purple arrow struck Uchiha Itachi, his figure transformed into a flock of crows and scattered.

"Crow clone?"

Is it when the illusion is dispelled? Or was it from the very beginning?

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Several enormous fire dragons, wreathed in intense heat, hurtled toward Sasuke.

However, Susanoo is one of the ultimate eye techniques of the Mangekyou Sharingan. While this level of fire-style ninjutsu can cause some damage to Susanoo, it cannot harm Sasuke's main body.

"You can't even bear to use Susanoo? Is this all the magnanimity you always talk about is?!"

"Sage Mode, activated!"

Sasuke, who had been secretly accumulating natural energy for a long time, transformed it all into Sage Chakra at this moment, activating the Sage Mode he had learned in Ryuchi Cave.

As he moved, Sasuke himself did not change, but many black curse marks appeared on his Susanoo.

Logically, Sasuke should have snake-like features appearing on his body after activating Sage Mode.

However, his compatibility with natural energy was unexpectedly high. In addition, the powerful eye power of the Mangekyou Sharingan after transplanting the First Hokage's cells meant that the changes in his appearance only appeared on Susanoo.

"Sage Mode? I didn't expect you to have learned that technique." Itachi Uchiha was somewhat surprised.

Sasuke once again manipulated Susanoo to draw the bow, and a violent purple lightning bolt gathered on the arrowhead.

This attack, just by feeling it, was far stronger than the one before.

Seeing this, Itachi Uchiha knew that he couldn't cherish his eye power at this moment.

"Amaterasu!"

The black flames clung to Sasuke's Susanoo like maggots, threatening to devour it completely.

Sasuke ignored everything and made no attempt to defend himself, launching the arrow imbued with purple lightning directly.

Although part of the arrow was burned by Amaterasu, its power was still terrifying under the enhancement of Sage Chakra and Purple Lightning. It was probably impossible for an ordinary Susanoo to withstand it.

At that moment, a red skull tens of meters tall rose from the ground on Itachi Uchiha's body. The instant it appeared, chakra and eye power transformed into meridians and flesh to fill it, turning it into a giant clad in armor.

"Yata no Kagami!"

The red giant held a huge round shield horizontally in front of him.

The purple lightning arrows struck the round shield but could not penetrate it, and were eventually completely burned by Amaterasu.

At this moment, in order to avoid being affected by Amaterasu from Susanoo, Sasuke temporarily deactivated Susanoo and jumped into the air, seemingly planning to unleash some kind of ninjutsu.

Uchiha Itachi wanted to do something, but could only cough up a torrent of blood.

Two streams of bloody tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. At this moment, the disease in his body erupted, making his already near-collapsed body even worse.

Looking at Sasuke, who still had a strong voice, Itachi Uchiha couldn't help but smile wryly.

He had originally planned to go easy on Sasuke.

His initial plan was to test whether Sasuke's strength met his expectations, and then give him a painful defeat so that Sasuke would know that there are always people stronger than him and that he should not be complacent.

Now, he feels like he'll be beaten to death if he doesn't go all out.

"What an alarming rate of growth. It seems I don't need to worry about your life in Konoha," Uchiha Itachi muttered to himself.

Just then, Sasuke quickly finished forming the hand seals.

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Sasuke spat out several powerful fire dragons, but his target was not Itachi Uchiha, but the clouds in the sky.

The fire dragon instantly heated the surrounding air dramatically, creating an upward airflow.

At the same time, the rising air currents created cumulonimbus clouds that blotted out the sun, with thunder rumbling within them, as if they were about to fall from the sky at any moment.

Chapter 133 The Fourth Person to Suffer Misfortune

Sensing the energy contained in the lightning in the sky, Itachi Uchiha also put aside his distracting thoughts and took it seriously.

He could sense that Sasuke's move not only utilized the lightning in nature but also combined it with Sage Mode, making its power potentially comparable to a full-force attack from Susanoo.

"This kind of move... Yata Mirror should be able to block it."

Itachi Uchiha clicked his tongue inwardly, feeling both gratified by Sasuke's growth and slightly worried.

He wasn't worried about dying at Sasuke's hands; in fact, he had already planned to make today his death day.

After all, he was afflicted with illness and didn't have much time left to live.

Just then, thunder rumbled from the clouds in the sky, and the natural energy in the air was naturally drawn to it, making the air seem to be filled with flashing lightning.

Soon, bolts of thunder struck down with unstoppable force.

However, to Itachi's surprise, Sasuke's attack was not aimed at him, but instead struck Sasuke himself.

"Did you lock onto the wrong target?" Itachi Uchiha was taken aback.

Although he had never tried similar ninjutsu, he could tell that utilizing the lightning of nature required an extremely high level of chakra control.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

The instant the thunder struck, wisps of purple electricity appeared around Sasuke's body, and he reactivated Susanoo.

The violent lightning struck Susanoo relentlessly, but instead of causing any harm, it was absorbed into Sasuke's body.

He activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode, quickly transforming the lightning into purple lightning before it could destroy his body, and then attached it to Susanoo, filling it with its internal meridians and flesh.

For a moment, Sasuke's Susanoo looked as if a purple, lightning-powered giant, clad in armor, stood inside.

"This is... the true Sage Art: Susanoo!"

Sasuke gave a low shout, and Susanoo drew its bow once more.

This time, the arrow was even crackling with purple lightning. The intensity of the purple lightning was so great that even Sasuke couldn't fully control it. It flew everywhere, and each time it landed, it shattered a rock.

"With your abilities, are you even capable of handling this move?"

Sasuke controlled the Sage Art Susanoo to fire arrows.

With the aid of Sage Mode, the arrow was so fast that it was invisible to the naked eye and even broke the sound barrier, striking Itachi Uchiha's crimson Susanoo before it could be heard!

The powerful impact forced the crimson Susanoo to retreat repeatedly, and the sheer power of the arrow alone made Itachi Uchiha feel almost exhausted.

Even the Yata Mirror, with its extremely strong defensive capabilities, almost couldn't withstand the pressure at this moment, and cracks appeared on its surface.

"Is this true immortal magic? It's truly terrifying..."

Uchiha Itachi looked at the nearly shattered Yata Mirror and couldn't help but sigh.

The Yata Mirror and the Totsuka Blade are different from Sasuke's bow and arrow; they are not weapons that come with Susanoo.

He obtained these two spiritual artifacts by chance, and even Orochimaru had searched for their whereabouts, but Itachi Uchiha beat him to it.

As legendary spiritual weapons, the power of the Yata Mirror and the Totsuka Blade is beyond doubt. The Yata Mirror can be used for defense, while the Totsuka Blade can be used to seal enemies, making them truly versatile.

However, at this moment, facing Sasuke's attack enhanced by Sage Mode, he still seemed somewhat powerless.

However, even with Sasuke's chakra, he couldn't unleash many attacks like that.

"There are probably two rounds left..."

Sasuke muttered to himself as he calculated the remaining chakra in his body.

He then glanced coldly at Itachi Uchiha and drew his bow again.

Whoosh!

Another arrow, breaking the sound barrier and imbued with purple lightning and sage magic, whistled towards Uchiha Itachi.

This time, Itachi Uchiha used Amaterasu ahead of time and focused it on the arrow in an effort to reduce the burden on the Yata Mirror.

However, faced with such a powerful attack, the Yata Mirror, which had just been damaged and had not been repaired by Itachi Uchiha's eye power, shattered at this moment, and Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo was also cut in half.

As a spiritual artifact, the Yata Mirror is not so easily destroyed, but it can't be used again for a while.

"Cough cough... Ugh!"

This depleted most of Itachi Uchiha's chakra and eye power, causing his physical condition to deteriorate further. With the Mangekyou Sharingan's exaggerated vision, he could barely see anything anymore.

But there's no time for him to rest; Sasuke's final arrow is coming.

Now that the Yata Mirror is unusable, how will Itachi Uchiha defend against this arrow?

The answer is to use the Totsuka Sword!

He squeezed out the last bit of chakra and eye power from his body, forcibly condensing Susanoo, picked up the red and yellow gourd at his waist, and pulled out a greatsword that seemed to be formed from flames.

At the same moment Sasuke fired that final arrow, Itachi Uchiha also thrust out his Totsuka Blade, directly countering the arrow.

The sealing power of the Totsuka Blade was activated instantly, causing the chakra, eye power, and natural energy inside the arrow to disintegrate and be gradually absorbed into the red and yellow gourd.

After the final clash, both Itachi and Sasuke had exhausted their chakra and ocular power, and were forced to dissipate their Susanoo.

Itachi Uchiha truly went all out this time, holding nothing back. Otherwise, he would have been killed if he had been careless, because the Sage Mode was indeed too terrifying. Moreover, Sasuke had also received Hashirama's cells, making his eye power far greater than Itachi's.