Ch 73 : Sanada Vs. Itachi?

On Sanada's side, Sanada was currently talking with Itachi via genjutsu.

" And then... he looked up to me with that glimmering look in his eyes while saying: Sanada-Sensei, you are so cool!!!"

Yup, while the others were busy battling each other, Sanada and Itachi had their discussion inside Itachi's genjutsu world.

Maybe because he knew that Tsukuyomi would no longer work on Sanada, Itachi decided to just use normal Genjutsu, and the two have been chatting happily since then.

" Ugh... that should have been me...."

' Why Sasuke... It's my dream... not his...'

What could he say? Itachi was just too much of a Brocon, and after observing Sanada for a bit, he knew that Sanada was someone that he could trust.

Even though Sanada was a bit eccentric, once he decided to guide someone, he would go all the way for it. And Sasuke could be said as one of Sanada's disciples.

Itachi also could see the change in Sasuke's eyes. Sasuke indeed was still oriented in revenge and power, but Sanada's interference had made Sasuke a lot mellower, and now the risk of Sasuke defecting after learning the truth could be said as has been lessened a lot.

With that many happy memories in the leaf, at most Sasuke would only want to change Konoha from the inside.

Still, there was one thing that couldn't get out of Itachi's mind regarding Sanada.

" Sanada... just who are you?"

Since the time they met before, Itachi somehow had the feeling that Sanada was not from this world, and that feeling got even stronger when he saw Sanada could still chat happily with him like this.

Even if Sanada said that Itachi was not guilty, it didn't escape the fact that he was a mass murderer, and no normal guy would be comfortable speaking with someone who massacred his own family.

Hearing this question, Sanada could only smile.

What can he say? Worthy of Itachi, he was the first to find the anomaly and questioned Sanada's origin.

Nonetheless, Sanada didn't have any intention to respond. He just smiled at Itachi, and Itachi knew that he should not pursue things any longer.

The two then exchanged some details, like the secret bases of Akatsuki that Itachi knew or some information that could pose a danger to Konoha.

It was only thirty minutes later that Itachi finished exchanging information with Sanada that he proceeded to cancel the Genjutsu.

But then, something completely unexpected to him happened.

Sanada appeared right behind Itachi and stabbed him on some no vital part.

" Well, we need to keep the degree of realism, right? Ehe!!"

At this moment, Itachi really wanted to scream fuck you at Sanada....

Battle 2: Sanada Vs. Itachi.

Result: Sanada win (technically)

. . . . . .

On the other side of the battlefield, A giant toad fell from the sky.

Bang!

"Haha! I, Jiraiya the sage of mount Myoboku have come!!"

Jiraiya stood on top of Gamabunta'ss head, and in front of him was the tailless Tail-beast, Hoshigake Kisame.

Against someone like Jiraiya, Kisame knew he could no longer hold back.

He summoned a huge amount of water with his water attribute chakra manipulation, and..

"Water Style" Thousand Flood Shark Technique!"

Kisame quickly finished the hand signs as, one after another, sharks jumped up from the water he previously summoned to the direction of Jiraiya.

Faced with such huge scale ninjutsu.

Jiraiya didn't dare to be careless. Using his iconic technique, Jiraiya defended himself from the assaults of the sharks.

"Chaotic Lion Hair Technique!"

His vigorous white hair grow wildly and then turned into a cage that wrapped around his body, protecting him from any attacking ninjutsu.

BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

Numerous water sharks tried to breach Jiraiya's defense, but all of them were futile as Jiraiya's technique was just too strong.

On their side was Tsunade standing face to face with Orochimaru.

Tsunade, at this time still has her fear of blood.

Because Naruto was able to handle Kabuto without that much of a drama, Tsunade didn't get the chance to heal her fear of blood, and Orochimaru was able to take advantage of that.

One was injured physically, and the other one was injured psychologically. The battle hit a dead-end as both sides couldn't deal any fatal injury to the other sides.

" Come on, Tsunade. I know you want it.... Furthermore.. that little kid can deal with me once, right? If he can do it once, then there is no reason for him to not be able to do it twice. As long as he is in Konoha, I wouldn't have any idea of attacking Konoha.."

The Tsunade right here was not the strong fifth Hokage we know in the anime, but instead, a weak traumatized woman who was still not able to escape from her past trauma.

She could say that her will would not decay no matter what, and she would never fall to Orochimaru's temptation.

However, it was a lie if she said that her heart didn't shake a bit when she heard Orochimaru's words.

In the original plot, the third Hokage died, and there would be no one to handle Orochimaru if he was to launch another attack in Konoha.

But this time, Sanada had emerged and shown that he was more than capable to take down Orochimaru on his own or even injuring him.

Sanada's appearance might be so dazzling, but it also gave Tsunade a lot of room to compromise, and that was what Orochimaru was trying to utilize right now.

He was trying to make Tsunade compromised, thinking everything would be okay as long Sanada was there, and proceeded to heal him.

It was said that as long one will was shaken, it wouldn't be long until he fell into temptation, and from the looks of it, it seemed that Tsunade was not that far away until she eventually fell into Orochimaru's temptation.