Impure World Reincarnation Technique: Release

The assembled Kage recoil as Madara summons his Susanoo, and Tsunade, steadying the towering construct, marvels that Hashirama once stood against a foe this far beyond their combined might. Madara confirms that her grandfather was the only person capable of defeating him, then scatters the Kage with one stroke of his sword that flattens the mountain range at his back. Onoki, grasping the gulf in power, wonders aloud whether Madara had held back against him and Mu in the past.

Madara dismisses the idea, asking why an adult would bother fighting children in earnest, yet the Kage refuse to yield, hardening his resolve to break their convictions. On another part of the battlefield, Itachi orders Kabuto to form the seals that will end the reincarnation jutsu. Sasuke seizes the moment to declare that he will destroy the village for what it did to him and bids his brother farewell. As the technique lifts, resurrected fighters across the field begin to crumble.

Placed in volume 62 amid the war's climax, the chapter carries the title Edo Tensei no Jutsu: Kai. A battered Naruto and B thank Itachi and draw fresh motivation to finish off Tobi, while Itachi, fading away, reaches toward Sasuke insisting there is still time. It ran in the middle of 2012.