Journey of Desires

- Where did you get it from?

- Ke-ke-ke, Itachi-kun, does it matter?

Narrowing his eyes, which showed very mixed emotions, Itachi realized that in this battle he would have to give it his all, if Tsukuyomi did not work, then all other types of genjutsu would be useless.

- Katon: Fireball no Jutsu.

The flames that appeared at Itachi's mouth began to form into a fireball of enormous size, being more than ten meters in diameter, it completely blocked the view of Itachi.

Orochimaru continued to stand calmly and wait until the flames covered him.

Itachi expected the result of using the technique, but when the fire dissipated, his eyes appeared completely intact snake Sannin.

Frowning slightly, Itachi analyzed what had happened, Orochimaru's clothes weren't even scorched, that a direct hit from a technique of such power was something out of the realm of impossibility, and finally his thoughts were interrupted.

Without any words, a multitude of snakes appeared from Orochimaru's sleeves, there were so many of them that they filled the entire land as far as the eyes could reach, judging by the result, Itachi concluded that the Sannin had either previously held back greatly when using this technique, or that he had become much stronger recently.

The snakes headed towards Itachi, who was in no hurry to dodge, and attacked him and began to bite, the result was the destruction of Itachi's clone, who had turned into a crow.

The real Itachi appeared behind Orochimaru and decided not to hold back, preparing himself, he directed his gaze at the Sannin's back and used Amaterasu.

Black flames appeared around Sanin, but... This time Itachi was even more surprised, since even the black flames did not cause any damage, when it appeared around Orochimaru's body, it behaved as usual at first, but after a couple of seconds it began to deform, it was as if Amaterasu was just a small fire that was blown away by the wind.

Orochimaru calmly turned to Itachi, and pointing his hand towards him, an especially large snake crawled out from under his sleeve, which instantly got closer and wrapped itself around Itachi, starting to squeeze him, when Itachi was captured Sanin said.

- Don't you understand? Ke-ke-ke...

- Are you surrounded by some kind of protection, is this some kind of fuin?

Itachi looked very calm, such an expression on his face is definitely unusual for a person who is being held by a huge snake.

- You guessed wrong, this is my Mangekyo technique.

- I see...

The next moment, the captured Itachi disintegrated into crows, and the real one appeared from the side of Orochimaru, striking him in the side with a kunai, this time his attack was not blocked by something incomprehensible, but it was still not possible to cause damage since Itachi's kunai was blocked by the Kusanagi sword.

The sounds of metal were heard across the battlefield, Orochimaru and Itachi met in close combat, this continued for several minutes, until it became clear that Itachi using a kunai was clearly inferior to the Kusanagi blade.

The fire element does not work, as well as Amaterasu, it seems that ordinary techniques will not be effective, and therefore Itai came to only one conclusion, and broke the distance with a long jump, to which Orochimaru asked.

- Itachi-kun, are you really scared?

Orochimaru looked extremely cheerful and satisfied with the result of the beginning of their fight, at first he was upset that he did not get Tsukuyomi, but it seems that the Mangekyou Sharingan Fujin technique is even better.

Fujin is a technique that creates an immovable chakra cover resembling wind, in fact, it is a wind cover consisting entirely of chakra, its purpose is to protect the user from external chakra, if you attack the Fujin user with the same fireball, then the chakra that was used for the fire elemental technique simply stops and dissipates with the Fujin technique, which is why the technique stops working and cannot cause any damage. The weakness of the Fujin is that this technique cannot protect against physical objects and other types of energy.

Itachi, realizing that in physical condition they are approximately equal, but Orochimaru has much better weapons, and techniques based on chakra are useless, decided not to waste energy in vain on something that will not bring results.

Orochimaru had been an extremely dangerous opponent before, but now that he had received protection from genjutsu, Itachi was forced to summon Susanoo.

A red skeleton began to form around the Uchiha, and after ten seconds, Orochimaru's gaze was met with a huge red skeleton formed to the waist.

- Orochimaru-san, you have become much stronger, this time I do not intend to let you go.

- Boy, come on, try to defeat me.

Susanoo raised his hand and chakra began to gather in the skeleton's palm, sharply moving his hand as if throwing something, Itachi shouted.

- Yasaka no Magatama.

A strange object consisting of chakra flew towards Orochimaru, looking like several magatama connected to each other.

*BOOM*

A moment later, an explosion was heard, Orochimaru tried to dodge, but the speed of the magatama's flight was very high, and although Sanin did not try to dodge at maximum speed, but part of its speed cannot be ignored.

The magatama hit the target, and the dust that dissipated after about five seconds showed Orochimaru who did not use his healing technique, there was simply no reason, since although the Magatama tore off Orochimaru's left arm and part of the body, incinerating it into nothing, but the regeneration from the seal of immortality had already restored the torso and began to regenerate the arm.

- Hmmm...

Itachi frowned deeply at the result, it seems Orochimaru has raised his survivability even higher.

- Well, Itachi-kun, it looks like it's my turn now... Susanoo!

A green skeleton began to form around Orochimaru, when the skeleton appeared waist-high, Susanoo's enhancement did not stop there and it began to become covered in skin, Orochimaru's Susanoo was in the second stage, and a katana appeared in his hand.

Itachi, seeing this scene, decided not to lag behind and in the same way launched the second stage of Susanoo, in the hands of the red Susanoo a flaming blade appeared in his hand coming out of a pumpkin, it was the Totsuka blade, and a round shield in his other hand, it was Yato's shield.

- Ke-ke-ke, Itachi-kun, you have collected very interesting toys!

Sanin recognized these artifacts at first glance, quite recently studying the powers of Susanoo and looking for information he learned about these artifacts, well, it looks like this information will be very useful.

Realizing that this weapon was already a serious danger, Orochimaru put his bitten finger to the ground and said.

- Kuchiyose: Rashomon.

A few seconds later, three Rashomon gates appeared around Itachi, blocking his view of all sides except Orochimaru himself.

- Kuchiyose no jutsu: Manda.

An equally huge purple snake appeared from a huge flash of white smoke, which immediately spoke.

- Orochimaru, you summoned me again, are the victims ready?

- Yes, there is no time now, attack!

Manda turned her head seeing the red Susanoo, and froze for a second in thought, Susanoo is very dangerous, and can kill him, but thinking that in extreme cases he would simply return back to the Ryuchi cave, he rushed towards Itachi.

Orochimaru didn't waste time and just as Manda attacked Itachi, he threw his Kusanagi sword up, the sword flew right up to Susano's green katana and hung in the center of the sword's huge chakra.

- Susano Kusanagi no Tsurugi: Ku no Tachi!

First, the Kusanagi sword glowed with bright chakra, and a second later, Susano's sword glowed too, turning from green to bright turquoise.

At the same time, Orochimaru heard a loud cry full of rage and despair, the mandu was pierced by Totsuka's blade and the snake began to be drawn into the pumpkin, sealing it.

Orochimaru looked at this calmly with coldness in his eyes, and Itachi, who had finished sealing, turned his gaze to Sanin.

The next moment, Orochimaru waved his hand up, and the glowing sword Susanoo flew up, combining the blade of Kusanagi Susanoo. Orochimaru was able to achieve the result when it is possible to use the Kusanagi sword technique and on the Susanoo sword.

Swinging his hand down, the huge blade went straight to Itachi, in response, the Uchiha raised Yato's mirror and blocked the blow, but at the same moment the huge sword flew up again, rising exactly on the red Susanoo, and turning the blade down began to fall.

Itachi simply raised Yato's mirror over Susanoo's head and blocked the blow, but at that moment he heard a word that made him tense up.

- Amaterasu!

A black flame appeared right in front of Itachi's face and began to burn Susanoo. At first, Itachi was surprised by this, but he regained his composure and began to extinguish the black flame using his powers to control Amaterasu.

At the same time, armor began to form around the green Susanoo, and another blade appeared in his second hand. Orochimaru moved closer to Itachi, and by the time he extinguished Amaterasu, a blow was dealt to the red Susanoo's right hand.

Orochimaru tried to cut off the hand holding the Totsuka blade, but nothing happened.

This action with convergence was risky, and did not justify itself, the next moment Itachi, controlling Susanoo, struck Orochimaru with the Totsuka sword, and although Orochimaru managed to dodge, the blade managed to touch Susanoo, beginning to absorb his chakra and seal it, due to which a significant amount of Orochimaru's chakra was taken away in a couple of seconds of contact.

The green Susanoo looked half destroyed, but began to quickly recover.

Orochimaru looked like he was losing, but at that moment the blade above Itachi began to shine brightly and disintegrated, creating a strong background of chakra, part of the chakra previously in Kusanagi was able to return to Orochimaru, and the blade itself fell to the ground at the edge of the Rashomon gate.

- Orochimaru-san, it looks like you have lost a lot of chakra, are you not going to retreat?

- Ke-ke-ke, forgive Itachi-kun, but no... Futon: Multiple vacuum waves.

A very loud sound was heard across the battlefield, making Itachi feel very uncomfortable, and a strong wind crashed into the red Susanoo, trying to move it, but nothing worked.

Orochimaru frowned at the result, and Itachi, watching his reaction, was about to go on the attack, when he sensed something was wrong.

*BOOM*

But he sensed it very late, an Orochimaru clone that jumped out from under the ground struck with a kunai, and the blow was very successful, since it inflicted a fatal wound.

Itachi's arm hung like a whip, and a whole stream of blood came from the artery on his neck...

Orochimaru's clone dissipated from the counterattack, but Itachi, already on the verge, made the only decision that could still save him.

- Izanagi!