A New Wind

Reaching the place where Tsunade and the other Kage lie fallen, Suigetsu eyes Katsuyu and idly wonders aloud how much salt it would take to kill the slug, which sparks a quarrel with Karin, who still cannot decide whether she loves Sasuke after he once tried to end her life. Orochimaru cows the pair into line with a dose of intimidation, and the three turn their attention to the Kage. Katsuyu warily braces to attack, then stands down once Orochimaru declares they have come to help, since the healing had crawled along thanks to Tsunade's shattered state. Suigetsu fits the two halves of her severed body together, Karin mends her, and Katsuyu rejoins the pieces, leaving Tsunade whole and back on her feet.

Standing once more, Tsunade demands to know what her fellow Sannin is truly after. Orochimaru claims he has cast off his old hunger to reshape the world and now merely wishes to be present when a certain other person does, prompting Tsunade to remark that Jiraiya might still be alive had that change come sooner. Katsuyu offers to brief them on the war, startling Tsunade that the slug too has returned to the fighting. Over on the battlefield, Sai probes Sakura about Sasuke's homecoming and decides that, sincere as her words are, her smile is a mask.

As the Ten-Tails burns, Naruto tells Sasuke to smother the flames once the beast weakens so that he and Kurama can draw out the tailed beasts, but Sasuke refuses, vowing to burn everything down and forge a new order. Unwilling to go quietly, the Ten-Tails simply sheds the scorched portion of its body, to Sasuke's shock. The newly healed Kage ready themselves to head for the front, and within Kamui's dimension the fight between Kakashi and Obito grinds on, Kakashi driving his Lightning Cutter into Obito as Obito buries a large shuriken in him.

The installment is chapter 635 of the series, collected in volume 66 within the Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax storyline, first published in Japan in 2013.