Umm wow at Manda dying, that was unexpected.
What is up with the leader lying to Itachi and Kisame about Sasuke's death? That was weird, I hope the main leader is not Uchiha Madera that Kyuubi was raving about.
The sasuke jutsu was a summon and he tricked the summon into teleporting away to its on dimension with Sasuke on it. It was kind of weird tho. Particular Sasuke teleported away before without using a summon.
Itachi things Sasuke is dead tho, I wonder how is that going to play out.
Anyway, the best way that I can explain how Sasuke survived is that he summoned Manda, used genjutsu on him so that he wouldn't know there was an explosion, and then entered his body. Manda took the blast from the explosion and poofed away to 'summons land' after feeling the pain from the explosion. Then Suigetsu re-summoned him with Sasuke.
Yeah that makes the most sense. It looks like Konoha and team snake are going to meet up soon. They were all headed in that direction. I doubt there will be a fight unless the second in command shows up and take Naruto.
I am pretty sure, Naruto is going to get captured and his bijuu is going to be taken out. And as a parting gift, Kyuubi will lend him a little chakra to regain life or Kakashi' copied Chiyo's jutsu because he was looking right at it when she did it.
edit: oh at Sasuke admitting the only reason he won against Oro because he was sick. Sasuke really had his ego bruised or something. I guess near death, will do that for you.