Naruto 575 to 577 Predictions

575 Fated Meeting

Chapter starts with a snake making its way to Kabuto telling him about Sasuke leaving Tobi's hideout. Kabuto is gleefully anticipating getting his hands on Sasuke and laughs at Tobi for not having kept an eye on Sasuke himself.

We go back to Naruto vs Tobi. The usual villain spiel of now getting serious. Tobi has GM dig itself out of the ground completely and is advancing towards Naruto. Naruto attempts to go into KCM, but it collapses and Kurama tells him he needs to recover some of his own chakra if he is to enter KCM again. Instead Gyuuki shoots a bijuudama at GM and GM is forced to block it.
Kakashi asks Naruto how long it would take to replenish his chakra with SM and Naruto tells him it would take five minutes. We get another of those pointlessly badass Kakashi scenes which get everyone thinking he's finally showing something awesome, but upon which Kishi fails to deliver, in which he tells Naruto to leave it up to the three of them to buy him the time he needs.

Back to Kabuto who is about to depart to intercept Sasuke when his buttsnake warns him and he turns around to face Itachi who had just arrived.

576 Evolution

Chapter starts with Naruto sitting in the lotus seat gathering natural energy as in the background Gyuuki is hard pressed to keep GM at bay. Gai and Kakashi talk about youth. Tobi notices Naruto attempting to recover and thinks to himself that it would be bad if he faced Naruto at full strength again. Gyuuki gets tossed aside by GM, but 6th gated Gai is there to block his path while Gyuuki regains his feet and only Kakashi remains next to Naruto.

Itachi and Kabuto talk for a bit, about Sasuke, Orochimaru and we get some more hints about Tobi's identity. Kabuto ends with saying that he's about to get Sasuke now and attempts to summon an Edo Tensei so he can continue undisturbed however Itachi stops him in middle of his hand seals by cutting off his hands with an Amaterasu shaped in the form of a sword.
Itachi tells Kabuto that what held true for Orochimaru also applies to Kabuto, that all of his jutsu are useless in front of Itachi's eyes, and moves in to stab his Amaterasu sword through Kabuto's chest. Kabuto escapes with the oral rebirth and says that while Itachi had been able to stand in Orochimaru's way he is going to prove that he has surpassed Orochimaru by defeating Itachi.

577 Amaterasu's weakness

Kabuto starts with Oro's trademark snake handattack and appears to ensnare Itachi, but his buttsnake warns him of approaching danger from behind and Kabuto barely evades as Itachi strikes from behind. The ensnared Itachi is revealed as a crow bunshin.
Snakes erupt from the ground at Itachi's feet, however Itachi burns them all up saying that in his undead body he isn't wrecked by illness and doesn't have to fear blindness from overuse. Itachi uses Amaterasu again and Kabuto blocks it by creating a wall of earth.
A moment later he rams the Kusanagi through the wall of earth trying to pierce Itachi. Itachi evades and Kabuto congratulates him on his decision since the blade was laced with a poison that would paralyze even an Edo Tensei for a little while. Itachi counters that there was nothing to it since a snake would always be a snake whether big or small.
Itachi now controls all the Amaterasu he had created since the start of the battle to spread out rapidly and encircle Kabuto and then all those flames compress in a ball around Kabuto. However, even as the flames appear to devour him Kabuto is smiling confidently and all of a sudden all the flames around Kabuto vanish.
Kabuto appears unscathed and tells Itachi not to underestimate him. Itachi doesn't look fazed in the least and uses Amaterasu again. This time Kabuto makes no move to evade the flames and again after burning for a moment the vanish.
Itachi explains Kabuto's defense to us saying that Amaterasu requires chakra to feed on to exist and that Kabuto had for a moment used a medical ninjutsu to stop all chakra from reaching the layers of cells closest to his skin. Kabuto ends the chapter by saying that the MS no longer poses a threat to him.

Well, that's the best counter to Amaterasu I could come up with for Kabuto. If he seriously intends to get Sasuke he has to have something prepared for to deal with the MS jutsu.