Obito and Madara

Stripped of his mask, Obito is now flanked by Madara, whose arrival stuns those who believed he was still locked in combat against the five Kage. Naruto turns on Madara at once, demanding to know the fate of the leaders, and gets only a flippant admission that things went badly for them. Despite being cut in two, Tsunade draws on what strength remains to call forth Katsuyu, insisting she can still keep the wounded Kage alive. While the pair of Uchiha trade notes on how far their scheme has advanced, Madara asks why he was brought back in a lifeless form rather than a breathing one, and Obito explains that Nagato turned against them and spent the revival technique on the Konoha shinobi instead.

Boiling over at the misuse of Nagato, Naruto lunges at Madara, only for the older Uchiha to swat the attack aside with his gunbai, whose swing unleashes a flare of light that flings the attacker away and exposes it as nothing more than a shadow clone. Madara elects to handle Naruto himself and hands Guy and Kakashi over to Obito. The episode then drops into memory, replaying the moment a frail, aged Madara dug the buried Obito free. As the elder outlines his dream of drawing the whole world under a single design, the young Obito, indifferent to such talk, only wants to slip away and rejoin his teammates.

This installment sits within the Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax arc and adapts chapters 601 and 602. It first aired in Japan on January 9, 2014, with the English broadcast following on July 5, 2016. The opening theme is Size of the Moon and the closing theme is Rainbow. Two continuity slips appear: Gaara is missing from the screen when Naruto first asks after the Kage, showing up only once Katsuyu is summoned, and Obito's facial scar, normally on his right, is drawn on his left here.