The Jutsu Master

Chapter 44: Kabuto Yakushi (Bullet With Butterfly Wings)

"No! Stop! Why are you doing this?!" A white Zetsu asks before he's stabbed by a purple Susano'o. He then explodes into black flames.

"Now to test these outside." The person says as the cave collapses around him. He fully undoes the bandages around his eyes. "I already know these eyes see the darkness quite well." Sasuke then breaks out of his building. He walks away into a nearby forest, little did he know, two were rapidly approaching him. He began walking, silently, alone. Walking as the rain began to pour down around him. He stops for a moment, and looks at the clouds. He walks through an empty village, abandoned, hastily abandoned. He continues walking silently, alone. He stops turning as a dozen and a half White Zetsu run after him. "You certainly wasted no time coming after me."

"What are you doing out here?"

"Or not, as it seems to me." Sasuke now turns fully to face the group. "I passed by two towns on my way here, but they were both completely deserted. It seemed really odd to me. Do you happen to know anything about what's going on?" He asks, frowning.

"First, you're gonna have to answer our question! Now how come your outside?!"

"What happened to our original that was with you?"

"If you hate it so much that I'm outside now, then you ought to capture me." Sasuke taunts. "After all, you do outnumber me this time."

"Hold on, you didn't kill our original, did you?!"

"With this many of you, now. I hope it's more of a challenge." His Sharingan morphs into the Mangekyo, then Eternal Mangekyo, as the White Zetsu force rushes his way. His Susano'o forms and from its hand it launches the black flames of Amaterasu at all but one. Before grabbing it and pulling it closer. He then uses his Sharingan Genjutsu to force Zetsu to explain to him the war to capture Naruto, and Killed Bee, and also to kill Sadao & Anzu. Sasuke chuckles wondering if Naruto even remembers his solitude. He decapitates the Zetsu. "I think that it's time for me to come and find you. It's time to cut you down." He grins, before hearing crows cry out nearby in a forest, along with the yipping of foxes close to them.

Itachi and Noda continue jumping from tree to tree, neither of them slowing down. Silently they travel, or rather they've silently agreed it'd be best not to talk. Sasuke runs into the first, as he does, he looks to the side, and spots the two, Itachi and Noda, side by side, neither spare him a glance, as he stops and turns to them, wide eyed. He pivots and chases the pair.

"Wait!" He shouts at them. "Is that you Itachi, Noda sensei?" They ignore him, he growls. "I told you to wait!" He summons his Susano'o, only for Itachi's to counter it, Noda sighs not reacting otherwise.

"That Susano'o, you are Itachi!"

Itachi looks back at Sasuke with his eyes. "I'm impressed. I didn't know you had been able to master it as well, Sasuke."

"But what are you even doing here?! You're dead! And with him as well?!" Sasuke points at Noda.

"Kabuto's Jutsu. I, along with father and Shisui, have become reanimated Shinobi. No time to talk right now. There's something important that Noda and I have to do." The two continue leaping, Sasuke trailing behind them.

"So what?! I don't care! You're here, right in front of me, right now! And I have questions for both of you!"

"Ask me later. But you-"

"Itachi!" Noda speaks. "You're dead, at this point, all you can do is ease his mind. Even if he's still my enemy." Noda glances back, Eternal Mangekyo active. "I'm sorry Sasuke, but you're not my main enemy right now. Father, sensei, my entire family... I won't let them be besmirched." 'Not again.' He thinks to himself.