Izanami's Activation

Summary
Regenerating, Itachi was able to call out to Sasuke as Kabuto moved to implant his talisman to rewrite Itachi's mind. Responding, Sasuke threw his sword at Kabuto. Kabuto's navel-snake catched the sword, however and gave Kabuto enough time to dodge the grasp of Sasuke's Susanoo. Sasuke launched a fireball at Kabuto who countered it with a torrent of water which knockes Sasuke off his feet. Out of the mist created from the two clashing techniques, Kabuto noticed that Itachi, who Kabuto stabed with the sword disappeared into a flurry of crows only to attack Kabuto with the sword he commandeered from him. Chastising him for using the same attack pattern he had used before to cut his horn off, to which Itachi rebuffs that he cannot be harmed also refuting Kabuto's claims that genjutsu cannot affect him, stating that it already had. This sequence of events repeats itself once again until Kabuto begins to notice the déjà vu, regardless of what did differently. It was ultimately revealed that the entire battle was taking place within Kabuto's head, as he was trapped within Izanami.