Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27924662-20160409212201/@comment-34194151-20180106010114

Its not that the sword is unavoidable but it clearly has a very long range and is a very long blade. If you look at the manga, naruto, bee and itachi are all relatively small from Nagato's point of view, and you can see the totsuka blade extending all the way from itachi, piercing through nagato, and still managing to nearly pop out toward the reader out of the page. I would say its fast because Kabuto coudldn't even react to it, and its not like nagato was completely immobile to the point that he couldn't sidestep the blade. And as for orochimaru, the sword struck him in between syllables of a word during his speech. I think that that is pretty fast. Pair the totuska blade with a good feint and its lethal because its ethereal, meaning it can pierce through any object. If the sword didn't live up to its reputation then orochimaru wouldn't seek it out.