Once Again

With the ground gone and lava waiting below, Sasuke calls out Garuda to break their descent. Naruto steers him toward the ledge where Kakashi, Sakura, and Obito wait, and the group briefly believes the danger has passed. Kakashi improvises, unrolling a scroll into a makeshift line and driving a kunai through Obito to keep him fixed against the rock. Naruto challenges Sasuke over how little regard he shows for the others, but Sasuke counters that the two of them are all humanity has left. Naruto concedes the point, adding that a person's body sometimes moves on its own to shield someone.

Furious that both survived, Kaguya fires a precise strike guided by her Byakugan, tearing into the hawk's wing even as Sasuke throws up a half-formed Susanoo. The lava's heat eats through the scroll and drops the team back into peril, until Naruto, now able to fly and reach out with chakra arms, snatches them clear. Kaguya escalates to an all-out attack, declaring that chakra belongs to her and that she will gather it all once more. Far off, the resurrected Hokage advance on the new battlefield as Madara's Truth-Seeking Balls and disruptive blades fade away.

The clash builds to Naruto and Kaguya trading blows with their chakra arms. When one of her strikes hurls Naruto aside, it leaves her exposed to Sasuke, who drops on her from overhead wrapped in Susanoo.