Eye to Eye: Sharingan vs. Sharingan

Jonin versus Akatsuki, round one. Kisame's Samehada shaves chakra through Asuma's guard while Itachi turns Kurenai's own genjutsu back on her between blinks. Kakashi arrives — Sharingan against Sharingan — and learns the gap the hard way: Itachi deploys Tsukuyomi, the Mangekyou's torture dimension, and seventy-two subjective hours of blades compress into one real second. Kakashi survives with his mind cracked, extracting only the mission: the Akatsuki hunts what is inside Naruto. Guy's dynamic entrance saves the survivors.