Chapter 158 - Orochimaru Joins

After his reveals, Obito continues explaining "To cast a Genjutsu on every human on this planet, to make this world one, and free of anyone, no war, no peace, nothing, a perfect world... There lies the truth in a singular consciousness that has abandoned all individuality! This world no longer needs heroes like hope or the future! If the Juubi is revived, even if incomplete, I'll be able to use infinite Tsukuyomi... And reality will end, all that will exist is a single neverending dream!!".

But Naruto takes control of his body once again and says "I... Had a father! A mother! And I have Ero-Sennin! All kids look up to heroes!! That's why I was able to keep running forward without getting lost!! I'm gonna become a Hokage that beats out all the previous generations!! That's my dream!!! You Idiot!!!!".

Obito looks at them and says "Individuality makes people blind to the truth, my words, the words of no one... Are the true words that will lead this world to the truth..." but Naruto doesn't let him finish and enters once again in Kyubi Chakra Mode, he quickly moves to attack the Gedo Mazo (Demonic Statue of the Outer Path), that is holding his head and screaming, with a Rasengan, but it is blocked by the gunbai thrown by Obito, who says "I will not let you touch the Gedo Mazo!".

But he notices too late that Sasuke and Itachi move to the sides of the Gedo Mazo at the same time as Naruto's attack, and using the Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique) they expel a big fireball from their mouth aiming at the Gedo Mazo's head, seeing that Obito 'Shit! I won't be able to stop both!!'.

As the two big fireballs are about to hit their target, two blasts of purple concentrated Chakra came from the sky and blow away the Uchiha brother's Jutsu, then an eerie familiar voice says "Oh... It seems that you are having some troubles here... need a hand?", and looking at the point of origin of the voice, everyone sees the figure of Orochimaru standing in the sky above the screaming Gedo Mazo looking down at them.

Seeing him Sasuke quickly reacts and yells "Orochimaru!!? How is this possible!? I saw you die!!" Orochimaru turns his gaze to Sasuke and says "Not really Sasuke, what you saw was me almost die... I admit that your friend's techniques took me by surprise back then, but thanks to that I finally found the perfect body I was always searching for... Now, all that I have to do is take care of some leftover business..." then he says to Obito "Madara-wannabe! I will take care of Itachi-kun and Sasuke and you deal with Naruto's lot, it shouldn't be too difficult for the great Madara right?".

Then he moves to attack Itachi, who quickly uses his Sharingan to make Orochimaru fall into a Genjutsu, but Orochimaru quickly frees himself and kicks Itachi away and says "I don't fall for the same trick two times! I didn't spend so much time studying the Sharingan for you to easily put me in your Genjutsu!" while taking advantage of this, Sasuke is about to hit him with a Chidori from behind.

At the same time, Naruto told the others what he knew about Orochimaru, the fact that he appeared together with a Vasto Lorde and seemed that he was the one leading the Hollows, then seeing that Orochimaru is fighting with Sasuke and Itachi, Kakashi quickly remind Naruto the details about Obito's Jutsu, and how to fight it by focusing on counterattacks.

And so while Naruto and Gai move forward to attack Obito, Kakashi stands on B's hand, and B in his Bijuu Form raises his hand to give a free view of the battlefield while Kakashi actives his Mangekyo Sharingan, at the same time Naruto attacks Obito with a punch but he passes right through Obito, who counter with his gunbai hitting Naruto in the ribs, but that Naruto explodes with a puff showing the fact that it was a clone.

At the same time from behind the real Naruto extend a Chakra Hand with a Mini-Bijuudama to attack Obito, and once again Obito's skillful use of Kamui enables him to make the attack pass right through him, and as this was happening he moves to grab Naruto, but just as his hand is about to touch him, from behind Gai attack his head with a nunchaku, but once again Kamui saves Obito.

While this back and forth is happening, Kakashi gathers enough Chakra to use his version of Kamui aiming at the Gedo Mazo, who is now leaking blood from 4 of his 9 eyes, but just as his Jutsu was taking effect, Obito notices this and blocks Kakashi's attempt, who then notices something and while charging his Raikiri in a kunai says "B-san! throw me at Madara!".

After Obito stopped Kakashi's Kamui, he used the surrounding rocks, that are flying around, caused by the Gedo Mazo's rampage, to disappear from Gai and Naruto's sight, and surprise attack Naruto from below, just as he was about to finally touch Naruto with his hand, Kakashi, who is quickly flying toward them, quickly throws his Raikiri imbued kunai at Obito, forcing him to use Kamui to dodge the attack, then he redirects the kunai towards Naruto with a kick.

Seeing this Kakashi yells "I'll take care of the kunai! Naruto! Just keep going!!" and he uses Kamui to make it disappears, while Naruto attacks Obito with a Chakra Hand, but the attack is once again made useless by Kamui, and after this quick exchange of offense and defense Kakashi, Naruto, and Gai regroups.

Meanwhile, Itachi and Sasuke's fight with Orochimaru isn't going much better, after Orochimaru easily dodged Sasuke's Chidori with a sidestep, he moves to grab his arm, but Sasuke quickly activates his Mangekyo Sharingan and looking at Orochimaru he uses Amaterasu, but before he could be hit by the black flames, Orochimaru uses Sonido to retreat and says "Amaterasu... Even in my current state is difficult that I'll come out unharmed by them...".

As soon as he finished saying this, Orochimaru finds Itachi behind him who quickly unleashes a volley of shuriken with one hand, and at the same time, exhales fire-infused Chakra onto them in order to increase the weapons' destructive potential "Katon: Hōsenka Tsumabeni (Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson)!".

But Orochimaru once again uses Sonido to dodge the attack and moves behind Itachi, attacking him from behind, but as soon as his hand touches Itachi, his body explodes raising a huge cloud of dust, that was in fact Itachi's Bunshin Daibakuha (Clone Great Explosion).

Sasuke and Itachi regroup and both keep their eyes on the cloud of dust, while Itachi raises his guard and says "Something feels strange... There is something wrong with Orochimaru", Sasuke nods and adds "Yeah... but I can't figure out what is it... That is for sure Orochimaru, his habits and manners are the same, but something is different... I'm not sure what...", and soon after Orochimaru walks out of the cloud unharmed and says "That was nice... I almost felt that!".