The Incipient

Madara's agonized cry coincides with the sudden vanishing of his invisible shadows, which Naruto and Sasuke both notice. In the next moment, enormous streams of chakra erupt from the earth and rush toward him. Sasuke reasons that the surge is being drawn from every soul now trapped by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and its scale dwarfs even the Ten-Tails. The two race to stop Madara from swallowing it, but strands of the chakra snare them before they can reach him. Black Zetsu counters Naruto's fear, explaining that Kaguya once wielded the same jutsu without taking lives, instead using it to slowly transform its victims into the White Zetsu Army.

Madara's body swells from the flood of absorbed energy, and Black Zetsu abandons him by transferring itself into that form. Obito crumples to the ground as Kakashi looks on in alarm. When the chakra finally quiets, Kaguya Otsutsuki stands fully restored. Sensing the two young shinobi, she hurls them to the earth, and Sakura's attempt to intervene halts when the ancestor strides past her without notice. Studying them with her Byakugan, Kaguya identifies their chakra not as her sons' but as Indra's and Asura's, and grasps who bestowed those powers.

Mourning what he believes is Obito's death, Kakashi demands to know Kaguya's intentions, and she replies only that she will permit no further harm to her so-called nursery before whisking everyone into a separate realm awash with lava. The chapter falls within the Kaguya Otsutsuki Strikes arc in the seventieth volume, and Viz renders the title as She of the Beginning. The color spread that opened its magazine run was left out of the collected edition.