Danzō's Right Arm

Worried that Sakura lacks the strength to face Sasuke and might die trying to kill him, Kakashi has Sai's ink clone lead him toward her location. Naruto, still reeling from everything he has just learned, hyperventilates and collapses. The scene shifts to the Samurai Bridge, where Danzō peels the wrappings from his right forearm to expose ten Sharingan grafted into the flesh. Sasuke does not bother pressing for an honest explanation, deciding the answer changes nothing about his intent to end the old man's life.

Danzō charges, but Susanoo intercepts him and Sasuke uses the moment to ask whether Danzō was the one who told Itachi to wipe out the Uchiha. When Danzō lets the truth slip, Sasuke reads it as confirmation and crushes him inside Susanoo. Danzō resurfaces unharmed behind Sasuke through Izanagi, and each apparent death, including an Amaterasu that reduces him to ash, closes another eye on his arm, a pattern Karin catches. He fires wind bullets with Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere, grazing Sasuke and knocking him off the bridge, where blood from the wound summons the giant hawk Garuda. Danzō then launches shuriken-fused fan blades, but Sasuke slips past them, and Garuda uses a spinning shuriken to sever the Sharingan arm, letting Sasuke drive a blade home.

The victory proves premature, as Danzō and his cut-off arm blink out and reform atop a pillar. Sasuke answers with a Sharingan genjutsu, scattering into a swarm of crows that reassembles beside Danzō wearing the shape of Itachi. The episode adapts chapters 476 and 477 and belongs to the Five Kage Summit arc, pairing the opening theme Lovers with the closing song Freedom.