Eight Gates Released Formation

Pushing his body past its limits, Guy opens fire on Madara with the Evening Elephant, but the strain of the released gates forces him to cut the strike short. Delighted at the chance to face a fighter drawing on every one of the Eight Gates, Madara lifts back into the sky. Guy answers by kicking off the empty air to keep pace with him, winding up for another swing.

Watching from the ground, Minato decides the others have to back Guy up and hands Lee one of his marked kunai. When Guy launches the second Evening Elephant, Madara raises a Truth-Seeking Ball to guard himself and fires the same weapon back. Lee flings the kunai into the space between the two attacks, letting Minato teleport the orbs clear with the Flying Thunder God Technique. Gaara then hoists Kakashi within reach, and Kamui tears a gap through Madara's cover so Guy's final blow can drive straight into him, punching him out the far side of his own shield.

Even after that crushing hit, Madara climbs back to his feet, admitting that no opponent has thrilled him this much since his clashes with Hashirama. The scene then shifts to Naruto, who stirs and asks whether he has died. A figure hovering nearby assures him he has not. When Naruto presses him for a name, he learns the old man is Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, remembered as the Sage of Six Paths.

Hagoromo walks Naruto through the long chain of rebirth linking his two sons, Indra and Asura, dwelling on how the younger one lagged behind his gifted elder brother. As Naruto sees his own struggles mirrored in that story, the Sage tells him plainly that he carries the soul of the youngest son reborn.

The installment adapts material from chapters 669 and 670 of the manga and falls inside the Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki arc. It first aired in Japan on July 23, 2015, with the English broadcast following on January 9, 2018. The opening theme is Wind and the closing theme is Rainbow's Sky.