After coaxing Sasuke that they would start training tomorrow, Tetsuya finally left in the direction of the other jonin who were pursuing Itachi and Kisame.
As Tetsuya arrived nearby the battle site, he didn't mmediately show up but searched for an opportunity to sneak attack Kisame.
Kisame who was kept busy by Kurenai and Asuma finally showed an opening when Kakashi got hit by Itachi's Tsukiyomi.
Tetsuya immediately tried to cut Kisame's neck with his swords by using lightning chakra mode but unexpectedly, Kisame was able to block it with the Samehada and Tetsuya was flung back.
As I thought, it won't go as easily as Hidan.
Kisame was just amused by Tetsuya's attempt at a sneak attack. He was also quite surprised to see the Kiba in Tetsuya's hand but didn't think much of it since he wasn't friends with Kurosuki Raiga
Tetsuya tried to rush back again but Kisame was able to block all of his attacks and as he got blocked, his chakra was slowly being absorbed by Samehada.
Tetsuya could beat Kisame now if he fought seriously but they were now in the middle of the village so forcing Kisame to get serious wasn't a good move.
As Tetsuya was stalling for time occupying Kisame, Gai finally appeared.
Gai who saw the situation proposed that he would take care of Kisame while Tetsuya take care of Itachi.
Itachi who just stood there finally turned his attention towards Tetsuya.
While Itachi barely knew Tetsuya, he still had an impression of him since when he was in the academy, He always felt Tetsuya's glare on him whenever he took first place.
Tetsuya never looked into Itachi's eyes since he knew about the Tsukiyomi and he learned how to not watch the sharingan while fighting from Gai and by sparring constantly with Yuzume.
Tetsuya deactivated the lighting chakra mode and sheathed his swords since he didn't have any intention to kill Itachi for now.
They were now clashing in close combat with neither of them being able to take the advantage.
They took their distance from each other after confirming each other's level. They were able to confirm that neither of them wanted to kill the other for now.
As they were just standing there, Sasuke suddenly appeared.
Sasuke noticed that Tetsuya's behavior was weird so he decided to follow him from a distance but he didn't expect that he would find Itachi.
Itachi was surprised to see Sasuke appearing while Tetsuya was facepalming.
Sasuke then proceeded to ramble about how he lived with hatred for Itachi and activated the curse mark second stage without the hand wings and used the chidori to rush towards Itachi.
Tetsuya didn't stop him since reasoning with an angry Sasuke is a thankless endeavor.
As Sasuke rushed towards Itachi, his chidori was caught with one hand and Itachi crushed him on the ground while saying that his hatred wasn't enough.
"Uchiha Itachi, could you please not use the Tsukiyomi on him since he won't activate the Mangekyou that way."
Itachi was surprised hearing what Tetsuya said so he didn't use the Tsukiyomi since he knew that Tetsuya would probably get serious if he did so. He just proceeded to hit Sasuke on the face causing him to faint.
Itachi then told Kisame to retreat under the pretext that more and more ninja would show up.
Tetsuya just let them go since there was no reason to keep them here. He hoped to kill Kisame with the sneak attack he did but since he failed, he gave up trying to kill them for now.
As the two of them left, Tetsuya towed Kakashi and the unconscious Sasuke to the hospital while Gai, Asuma and Kurenai headed to where Naruto and Jiraya went since Itachi hinted at them that their objective was Naruto.
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Tetsuya finally dropped Kakashi at the hospital while Sasuke woke up when they arrived.
Yuzume soon arrived to check on Sasuke and to ask Tetsuya about Itachi.
Seeing that Sasuke had a very unwilling expression, Tetsuya decided to have a talk with him.
"You're too weak for now so don't bother searching for him again. He didn't even use any abilities of his Mangekyou and you were beaten to the ground helplessly without being able to do anything.
Even I need to be fully prepared and use my full power to kill him so don't be so disappointed."
Yuzume then asked Tetsuya if he knew Itachi's Mangekyou abilities.
Tetsuya didn't lie to them since while Itachi wouldn't kill Sasuke, it probably wouldn't be the same case for Yuzume.
Tetsuya then started to explain Itachi's Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu to the both of them while Kakashi was silently eavesdropping on his hospital bed.
All of them were listening intently with an ugly face after knowing how broken the abilities of the Mangekyou were.
"Already making an ugly face, huh? There is still the Mangekyou's ultimate technique which is called Susanoo. It's an armored giant made of the special chakra of the Mangekyou.
That technique is so broken that Gaara's so-called Ultimate defense is just child play in comparison. It is said that Uchiha Madara's Susanoo was at least 100 meters long in its complete form and that it was able to destroy mountains with a single slash of his sword."
Yuzume and Sasuke were despairing after hearing that the opponent they would fight has such a broken technique.
"Don't think too much, the Mangekyou has plenty of drawbacks, you know. If you keep using the Mangekyou, you'll eventually turn blind so it's a good plan to wait for a few years then he'll be blind by then and ready for plucking.
And Itachi can at most use a 20 meter Susanoo"
As the two of them saw a little sliver of hope, Tetsuya decided to bring them down again.
"Although, if you get the Mangekyou of a person with close blood ties with you and implant them on yourself, you can awaken what's called an Eternal Mangekyou, which doesn't make you go blind.
Madara's eyes were his brother's eyes and that's why he was able to use that 100 meter Susanoo I talked about. Normal Mangekyou's Susanoo is at most 20 meters if I'm not wrong."
Sasuke then began to ponder if that's why Itachi left him alive and wanted him to awaken the Mangekyou.