The Battle Between Visual Jutsu

"Water Release - Great Shark Bullet!" Kisame sneered. His shark-like face looked sinister. A huge water shark crashed into Ryoha, bleeding him. He also felt that his chakra was getting absorbed.

"Sure enough, even if I performed beyond my level and utilized the terrain created by Kisame to strengthen my Water Release, other than the fact that they weren't familiar with my fighting style at the beginning and allowed me to face the two of them on equal footing, I would soon fall into a disadvantage."

Ryoha sighed. Sure enough, they were strong ninjas. One of them had the strength of Kage level ninja, while the other had enough strength to rival a Kage. It was really dangerous for him to face the two of them alone.

"Now that Itachi and Kisame are already familiar with Ryoha's fighting style. They are starting to counterattack. Ryoha might not be able to keep up with them."

Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief. Although he said so, Ryoha's performance was still beyond his expectations. He actually had an amazing fighting strength. He was able to keep up with two Kage-level ninjas for so long, and he even matched their strength at the beginning.

"Get lost!" Ryoha once again used the Rasengan to break the shark that attacked him. Just as he was about to counterattack, Itachi suddenly attacked him.

"Tsukuyomi!" How could Itachi let go of such a good opportunity? He also didn't care about the side effects of using Tsukuyomi twice. This was an opportunity to defeat Ryoha. Tsukuyomi would damage his spirit and freeze his movements. A second was enough for Kisame to kill Ryoha.

"Oh no, Susanoo!" Ryoha felt that his spirit suddenly blurred. The frantic rotation of his Mangekyo told him that Itachi was going all out with his Tsukuyomi in order to kill him at once. While resisting the Tsukuyomi by using his Inverted Cross Mangekyo, he quickly unleashed his Susanoo.

"Rumble!"

A burst of black and red chakra surrounded Ryoha, and a skeleton frame appeared around him. The incomplete Susanoo protected him from Kisame's attack.

It was not that Ryoha couldn't summon Susanoo's complete form, but there was no need for that. The complete form of Susanoo was very harmful to his eyes and body, and it also greatly exhausted his eyes' power.

Susanoo's incomplete form was enough to protect himself. Ryoha didn't want to exhaust his eye because it hadn't yet reached Eternal Mangekyo, so he wouldn't be able to replenish his eyes' power.

"Tsk, it's still a step too late. Even though Itachi managed to pull him inside the Tsukuyomi realm, it would not last for long. That brat even managed to use the Susanoo at the last moment... Tch, it seems that we can only leave."

Kisame didn't budge this time. Even if Ryoha only managed to use the incomplete Susanoo, even so, its defense was not easy to break. At least, Kisame wouldn't be able to break through its defense quick enough. Ryoha would wake up by then.

Inside the Tsukuyomi realm, Ryoha got tied to the cross again, while Itachi was constantly stabbing him with a katana.

"When you wake up, it will be your death." Itachi said.

"Naive, before I came in, I managed to use the incomplete Susanoo to protect myself. Pulling me inside your Tsukuyomi will only benefit me. No matter how long we spend our time here. The time will only move for just one second in the outside world. This is the perfect time for me to take care of you."

Ryoha's words made a flash of fear appear in Itachi's eyes. He didn't expect his plan would turn against him.

"Have a taste of the backlash from the Tsukuyomi once more!" Ryoha's Mangekyo stared at Itachi in front of him and rotated quickly. His Mangekyo released some kind of black hole that sucked everything around it, causing the Tsukuyomi realm to shatter. Itachi, who was standing on the water outside, immediately cried out in pain and covered his eyes.

Although Ryoha couldn't reproduce the same effect as before, the backlash from the Tsukuyomi was enough to decapacitate Itachi.

If Itachi and Kisame were a bit calmer, unless Ryoha could maintain the Susanoo for a long time, he would quickly lose. Unfortunately, Itachi was anxious. He was anxious to kill Ryoha. In the end, he was defeated by him.

"Ugh, it's painful." Breaking the Tsukuyomi was no easy task for Ryoha since he only relied on his own strength. Unlike Sasuke, who could break the Tsukuyomi with Itachi's secret help. In the original work, Itachi deliberately guided Sasuke to the weakest part of the Tsukuyomi to free him from his own genjutsu and draw Orochimaru's power.

Itachi didn't do anything to strengthen his spiritual energy and maintain the Tsukuyomi. He let Sasuke break his genjutsu deliberately, so there was no clash of spiritual energy at all.

So in the end, only Itachi got injured. Everything was orchestrated by Itachi himself. He did it on purpose to let Sasuke understand everything about the Tsukuyomi, and he took all the damage alone. Preventing Sasuke from hurting himself and finally separating him from Orochimaru.

Uchiha Madara wasn't lying. The battle between the two brothers was not a real battle at all. With Itachi's strength, killing Sasuke was a piece of cake. He was simply trying to teach Sasuke how to use the Sharingan and the mysteries behind the Mangekyo. He ended up getting injured by his own Tsukuyomi.

But now, Itachi was constantly increasing his power and spiritual energy to maintain the Tsukuyomi so that Ryoha would not be able to break it. Thus, their eye power and spiritual energy inevitably clashed. Although Ryoha won, he was also injured. His eyes and spirit were severely affected.

However, his injuries were not as bad as Itachi's. Genjutsu is really a double-edged sword. The stronger it was, the more powerful it was, but the backlash would also be greater.

"Die, Kisame! Amaterasu!" Ryoha aimed his Mangekyo at Kisame. This instantly alerted Kisame. Fortunately, his reaction speed in the water was faster. He raised his shark muscles to form a whirlpool in front of him, trying to block Ryoha's attack.

"Crash!"

Unfortunately, Amaterasu completely ignored the whirlpool and continuously burned everything in its direction, evaporating the water around it. Finally, it got through the whirlpool and landed on Kisame.

"Oh no, if something happened to Kisame, it's even more impossible for me to be Ryoha's opponent in my current state. Moreover, Jiraiya is still around. Well, forget it. Since my body is already like this, I should still be able to hold on. Amaterasu!" Ryoha said with a smile.