Being a rogue ninja is worse than being Hokage.

Black Zetsu's answer changed White Zetsu's expression from confusion to astonishment: "So that means Itachi has already won this brotherly duel?"

"Itachi is very strong, and his strongest ability is undoubtedly the genjutsu he creates with his Mangekyou Sharingan... If the enemy were any other person, there would be no chance of victory if Itachi pulled them into Tsukuyomi."

Like White Zetsu, Black Zetsu acknowledges Itachi's genjutsu prowess.

However, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu have completely opposite views.

Black Zetsu's gaze lingered on Itachi and Sasuke, who were facing each other as if they were fast asleep in the genjutsu space.

Uchiha Itachi's genjutsu skills were rare even among Black Zetsu's extensive experience throughout his long life.

The word "genjutsu" seems to have been made for Itachi, who is meticulous, deep, and whose thoughts are hard to fathom.

"Unfortunately, Itachi Uchiha's current enemy is Sasuke Uchiha."

Itachi, who chose Konoha for "peace" and ruthlessly slaughtered the Uchiha clan, could not even sever the bond between himself and his "younger brother" Sasuke Uchiha.

"Although Tobi planned to use Sasuke as a bond to keep Itachi occupied here, judging from the current situation, Itachi doesn't seem to be holding back at all... If Itachi really intends to kill Sasuke, no matter how talented Sasuke is, how can Sasuke, without the Mangekyou Sharingan, be a match for Itachi now..."

White Zetsu raised the questions one after another.

Black Zetsu, who patiently provided answers, chose to remain silent on this issue.

Indeed, Itachi's current demeanor doesn't seem to contradict Obito's assessment that he would show Sasuke any mercy.

However, Zetsu and Obito shared the same thought regarding Itachi's inability to bring himself to kill Sasuke.

Therefore, Black Zetsu was also thinking about where the problem lay.

At that moment, Sasuke, who had been trapped in the genjutsu of Tsukuyomi and whose chakra had been circulating steadily, suddenly unleashed a brief but massive burst of chakra.

The tranquility of Tsukuyomi's genjutsu space was shattered by Sasuke at this moment!

This is the sign that the illusion duel has ended.

"Is it over? Sasuke really lost..."

Zetsu peered at Sasuke, whose weakness was visibly obvious to the naked eye.

Sasuke, trapped in Tsukuyomi, had clearly had a large amount of his chakra and Sharingan power depleted by Itachi.

Sasuke couldn't even stand up anymore, let alone continue fighting Itachi; he stumbled and knelt down in front of Itachi.

Itachi slowly approached Sasuke, whose signs of defeat were becoming apparent: "Now, let's make the future that I showed you in Tsukuyomi become reality."

Itachi stretched out his hand, his thumb, index, and middle fingers pointing straight towards Sasuke's eye socket.

Itachi's target was the Sharingan that Sasuke saw, which was inherited from him by blood.

The eyes of a blood relative that can transform the Mangekyou Sharingan, which gradually loses its sight and is sealed away with repeated use, into the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, which will never lose its sight.

"It failed. It seems Tobi will have to come up with a new plan involving Itachi... Hmm?"

Having witnessed everything, Jue was preparing to leave quietly when he was surprised to find that things had taken an unexpected turn.

Sasuke's Sharingan was within Itachi's reach, but Itachi involuntarily stopped his actions.

A venomous snake, the size of a python, seemed to grow out from under Sasuke's skin, bursting out from the cursed seal with the tomoe pattern on Sasuke's neck.

The venomous snake, which was hatching in this unconventional way, instantly coiled around the hand that Itachi was extending towards Sasuke.

"I didn't expect Sasuke to have chakra to use summoning jutsu... but Itachi's eyes should be able to see through this level of summoning and react immediately..."

I was utterly baffled.

"Itachi, it seems that what you see with your Tsukuyomi eyes isn't the real future."

Sasuke's weak appearance just now was a decoy to lure the enemy.

On the contrary, Itachi's previous nonchalant demeanor was just a facade.

Itachi used up too much of his eye power in Tsukuyomi's illusion space.

"It wasn't Itachi who broke Tsukuyomi, but Sasuke who broke it!"

Zetsu, who was watching the battle, found the answer to his question during the conversation between the two Uchiha brothers.

"That's enough, Itachi!"

As Sasuke spoke, the venomous snake wrapped around Itachi's hand began to bite towards Itachi's neck, its mouth opening as it moved along Itachi's arm.

As the crisis loomed, Itachi merely tilted his head slightly to create a little space behind him, allowing his third hand, holding the kunai, to slice along the snake's open mouth from its head to its tail.

Although one of its hands was pinned by a venomous snake, Itachi was extremely skilled at hand seals.

His other hand had already formed the hand seals for the Shadow Clone Technique!

In an instant, Itachi's shadow clones split the ferocious venomous snake's body in two, leaving it with no chance of survival.

Freed from the venomous snake's restraint, Itachi immediately leaped backward to create distance between himself and Sasuke!

At this moment, Itachi was still carefully observing Sasuke's every move with his left eye, which possessed Tsukuyomi, while his right eye had been completely closed as he retreated.

Itachi is focusing his eye power into his right eye!

The gathering of eye power takes time, so the "third hand" that helped Itachi deal with the poisonous snake earlier—Itachi's shadow clone, which had been lurking behind Itachi's main body—took over the main body's work and continued its attack on Sasuke without stopping after slicing off the poisonous snake with its kunai!

Launch a feint attack on Sasuke!

Before Itachi's shocked eyes, the kunai in the shadow clone's hand pierced through Sasuke's throat!

The shadow clones, used to buy time, feigned an attack and killed Sasuke!

But Itachi's thoughts became even heavier.

At the moment of Sasuke's "death," his body transformed into countless small snakes that fell to the ground, wriggling and fleeing.

Just like how Itachi's illusions in his genjutsu are countless crows.

Sasuke's phantoms are countless small snakes!

Illusion!!!

It must have been when Sasuke broke Tsukuyomi and escaped from the genjutsu space that he used genjutsu on Itachi during the backlash from the broken Tsukuyomi!

Itachi was stunned for a moment, but quickly looked up at the roof of the room based on his battle instincts!

The right eye, closed by focusing its pupil power, caused Itachi to lose half of his vision, but the field of vision of his left eye was enough for him to locate the real Sasuke.

Sasuke hung upside down on Itachi's head, his right hand covered in blue lightning.

Chidori—!

Under Itachi's gaze, Sasuke fell from above towards Itachi, the light emanating from the Chidori he held obscuring Itachi's vision.

Having lost sight, Itachi immediately threw out several explosive tag kunai to buy himself time to regain his sight.

Sasuke dodged the explosive tag kunai, but the explosive tag at the base of the kunai nailed to the roof still caught fire.

When the flames touched the "explosion" character at the center of the talisman, a chain of explosions easily blew the roof off.

The sunlight secretly poured into the dark room where Sasuke and Itachi were fighting.

Then... Sasuke felt the intense heat coming from him.

But this intense heat did not come from the sun.

It comes from the Fire Release technique used by Itachi.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!

Chapter 63 Wind Demon Shuriken

A massive fireball enveloped Sasuke, its intense heat even capable of consuming the light of Chidori.

Itachi deflected Sasuke's attack.

He regained his sight.

However, Itachi used the Mangekyou Sharingan for too long in this battle against Sasuke.

Even after regaining his vision, Itachi could only see blurry colors.

From now on, he will never be able to see clearly again.

As Itachi stared blankly at what lay before him, at the center of the fading Fireball Jutsu, a blurry, gray-black figure stood.

Huge, gray, fleshy wings grew from half of Sasuke's body, becoming a veritable meat shield that withstood the burning of the Great Fireball.

This allowed Sasuke to remain unharmed amidst the massive fireball...

But Sasuke's body was unharmed.

The fleshy wings that grew using the power of the cursed seal were even though Sasuke kept his cursed seal form in a state between Cursed Seal One and Cursed Seal Two in order to conserve chakra.

However, Sasuke still consumed a great deal of chakra during the sustained defense.

"This is the power Orochimaru has given you..."

Itachi's words made Sasuke's eyelids twitch instinctively.

Sasuke noticed the subtle twitching of Itachi's eyeball under his closed right eyelid.

This is an unconscious physiological reaction in preparation for opening your eyes!

This means that Itachi's right eye has gathered enough ocular power!

Sasuke, sensing something was wrong, didn't even have time to respond to Itachi. He immediately formed hand seals, trying to stop Itachi from opening his right eye!

Sasuke concentrated his chakra in his mouth, and then completed the nature transformation of the chakra the moment he exhaled it.

Sasuke also used Fire Release—

—Fireball Technique!

Sasuke's reaction speed was already fast enough, and his excellence was demonstrated time and time again in his battle with Itachi.

But Itachi Uchiha was also a genius.

He was also the older brother whom Sasuke had always tried to catch up with but could never catch up with.

Itachi watched as Sasuke unleashed the Great Fireball Technique.

The first Fire Release ninjutsu learned by the Uchiha clan, who are skilled in using Fire Release techniques.

Now, at sixteen years old, Sasuke has already surpassed Itachi in this technique.