Well its funny to mention this, we got a big battle last year and the allaince won, only to enter this one in which they are about to die by madara.
So the story instead of being a fight is defensive survival right now. Really as the weeks go on, people still forget a lot of the time its only been like 10 or 20 minutes at best in the naruto world, the events that happen are much shorter than the length they are portrayed in the series itself.
As for how naruto will be revived, it all depends fully on what is used and how things turn out.
-Black Zetsu is holding the cards now, the rinnegan and yin kurama. Madara just arrived, things are looking grim for for the heroes.
-Minato lost his stronger power, now hes been reduced to what he was at death.
-Sakura is keeping Naruto alive as much as she can, without her naruto would already be dead.
-Gaara and Kakashi though they can fight, Gaara has only so much limited power and Kakashi looking wounded may not go much further.
Really you can sum the situation up like a simple WW2 situation, a small squad is trying to fight off a tank (Black Zetsu) without strong enough weaponry only for an enemy battleship to show up (Madara).
So while this is a big cliffhanger like when Obito stuck that bomb to Minato's right arm, this one is going to leave us wanting to know what happens next.
Sasuke's situaiton will in truth be easier to address, I mean its a physical wound Madara wasn't interested in Sasukes eternal Sharigan eyes either despite the good plot points it could have made. With the mysterous guy, (its got to be kabuto like how spiral zetsu has to be yamato, some of it is obvious at this point because of who have been left out for so long). Sasuke doesn't have anything madara wants and taka's situation isn't as dramatic or major as we see here, I mean Karin ruined what was just giving the allaince a lot of trouble. If anything I'm suprised Hiruzen hasn't moved at all since hes technically the strongest for the allaince right now.
Tenten is a funny one, she isnt releavent to the story but she did use the 5 star fan so she has knowledge of the sage's tools. Maybe her action would be to find out a way to reverse the mechanics of the sealing gourd and the pot of purficiation. I doubt Madara would be sealed, even his power should be enough to overwealhm it. The situation here is a big one though, these are the same objects that Obito used because of Kinkaku and Ginkaku, pesudo jinchurki who were empowered with kurama's chakra because they survived in his stomach for 2 weeks. Obito used them because he could not capture Naruto. This is why his juubi form was imperfect. The sealing gourd also has those cloud ninja so they may come back from this while the pot has one of the brothers. The deal is, if Madara gets Yin Kurama, then its all done. But we know the story doesn't end here, its not going too, its like the death star in star wars pointed right at Yavin in episode 4, the rebels didnt have the firepower to take out the battlestation, but then that infamous weakness came into play, due to the empire hiring the worst designer in the galaxy, they convinently had an opening that lead to the blowback effect from the exhaust port causing a catastrohpic explosion. AKA the deathstar was powerful but broken down when the right moment came. In Naruto, Madara's version of this was essentially what he just did by spitting out the sage tools. Kinkaku and ginkaku were orginaly plot armor for naruto so he wouldn't have kurama removed, this changed so now the hope may be in actually taking their kurama chakra.
Also, even though black zetsu has both the things madara needs, though its likely he will get both, something else may happen like he may instead use yin kurama to attack the heroes, not seal him in himself, I even thought of a possibility if there was a snag for madara's plan such as not being able to just directly take Yin Kurama in, what if its possible that he himself would need the gedo statue for that rather than just be able to eat him up lets say, it could be possible that some rebellion act from Obito may occur and he would try to impede madara 's action. Kishi has given us scares like this before, but they always turned out better in the end. Part of this one is really just seeing how the heroes will turn things around.
-Most likely its going to be team Guy, guy himself would definately be a good aid to Minato, Kakashi, and Gaara despite the powergap madara has on all 3 of them. But they are in the vacinity and they shouldn't be that far.
-Most likely, Madara isn't going to bother with naruto, nor sakura, again we may be able to count on that arrogence and pride of his just not being interested in others that he will just leave them be, he would think naruto is done anyways and not bother with sakura. Really Sakura already has her action this one, more than ever she CANNOT FIGHT, I'm stressing this enough, THIS IS THE ONE TIME SAKURA MUST NEVER NEVER FIGHT. I said before, her keeping naruto on life support is her plot armor, if she needs to keep the hero alive who needs to live for the series to continue, its one factor to another. There are many reasons sakura cannot die and reasons why it would be bad if she did, but again, all the development ends somewhere and I doubt kishi would just do it so suddenly on a character like her. Seriously she loves naruto just as she dies would be a literal cheap ending to her, like minato going away later, it needs to be meaningful when the time to leave comes. Even if Sakura died it would not garunenttee NH, Sakura dying wouldn't make naruto just go love Hinata, in fact in some cases, how could naruto ever come to love another girl at this point if Sakura actually died after all that? Sakura dying would not mean he just goes to love Hinata. Really yes there is a difference, even if Hinata had died in pain, it wouldn't have impacted the story, still this late as well if Hinata took the fatal hit, it wouldn't have been as impactful to the story. Sakura however, yes it would be like stricking a central support beam to a structure, take that out and many areas could collapse. I'll say it again, Sakura will be fine, that development isn't just going to vanish or go away, theres no reason for her to suddenly be struck down, stabbed, or beaten down by madara just because she is there, she has purpose and really yes, its all the development, being the heroine, and member of team 7 that is really keeping her safe for the most part. I always see the development and how far she has come, she isn't just going to die, otherwise this ruins the end aspect of team 7, no sakura, no team 7, etc. Sakura will be fine.
I am however happy that for now, the Sakura will sacrifice herself for naruto stuff will just end, even if Black Zetsu hadn't hijacked kurama, Minato was able to do it in the simplest way, just one hand, no reaper death seal needed. Maybe this was due to kurama being split up or as an edo tensei it was easier? Not sure but it doesn't matter at this point, seeing him transfer yin kurama with one hand after madaras hacked sussano when he was eyeless, not going to argue about it. I think I am happy in one part that Sakura isn't going to be a convinent one up at this point. Theres no way in hell she has chiyo's jutsu and otherwise its again, like Gaara's original plan to save Naruto blocked even the need for that, the fact madara may have literally dropped the next plot device from his mouth no less, we definately have an idea that naruto's salvation may lie with the edo tensei Kinkaku and GinKaku, so mypredictions of his recovery are like this based on what happens at the sites, basically it all currently depends on what happens with Yin Kurama and if Madara just takes Yin kurama in right then and there or isnt for some reason. The isnt reasons depend on if he cannot (such as if already being a jinchurki prevents this, he deciedes to use Yin Kurama as a weapon, if Obito gets control with his own sharigan to assist the others, or if he simply doesn't feel like it.
This scenario happens only if Yin Kurama isn't absorbed by Madara
-1. At the madara site, naruto would recover in someway if the heroes managed to take back Yin Kurama quick enough, this could be anything from Obito controlling Yin Kurama with his own sharigan (as a way to redeem himself, his last act against madara) and moving it to minato so he can seal it in naruto. Basically everyone at the site tries to get Yin kurama from Madara before he just seals it up (thats if he can or decides too, it would be a silver lining if madara just cannot convinently suck up Yin kurama without the gedo statue). In this scenario, it would be a struggle with Madara and Black Zetsu but Obito rebelling against Madara would be the key to this, likewise what if Black Zetsu actually gave control of Yin kurama to Obito without realizing it? Obito has that sharigan, it may be his only way of helping. All this happens while Minato, Kakashi, and Gaara try to protect Naruto while Sakura is keeping him alive.
This scene happens if Madara DOES take Yin kurama in
-2. Team Guy saves the day. In this situation, its basically if it wasn't just a pointless humor scene to see Guy and lee get bonked by Madara's spit. Basically this scene makes use of the tools he spit out and they arrive fast enough to save naruto most likely by Kinkaku's and Ginkauku's chakra. Now its not sure how this will be done but basically, this is the harder scene to envision despite it being also the more likely one. This will scene is harder to envision though because we don't know any means of actually reversing the seals on the gourd or pot. Not to mention even further that if the gold and silver brothers are brought out, how exactly would their chakra reserves be transferred to naruto? Would Minato be capable of a quick event from them? Its not clear but this is a hard one to envision depiste it being highly possible. We would get this one by sudden reveals in the chapter, but it still has its probability. Team guy saving the day in this one would be mostly action from Guy and Lee, but Tenten could ironically get a starring moment in which she somehow uses the tools, if possible the easist thing to imagine is she manages to find a way to release stuff from the gourd and pot uses the tools to unleash only the nine tails chakra from the brothers to naruto.
Things I don't see happening:
-Naruto being saved in limbo, seriously, if someone had managed to just save naruto spiritually, it would be hard to swallow, an incorperal save from the afterlife isn't something that would sit well for people. He is dying, some event from beyond the grave would be hard to imagine.
-Naruto seeing people in limbo can still occur, but no events from Kushina, Jiraya, Neji, etc, this shouldn't happen. Even if stuff occured like if Neji did make an appearence, It just doesn't do much good for him to say Naruto don't die cause Hinata loves you, if that happened it would really be a hard case of pairing stuff because we already have emphasis on NS a lot, so why throw stuff like this in and just state that yeah Hinata loves you, we even naruto knows that, its not like Sakura, Kakashi, and the rest of the cast don't see him as unimportant but no neji no, only Hinata needs him, the stuff sakura has though, the kushina foreshadow yeah not like that matters, naruto should get the will to live and overcome his extraction because Hinata loves him.
-Hinata indrectly saving Naruto via Neji, this just won't happen, Hinata had her moment but there is nothing herself she can do. I was just going to ask this that then did the Hygua have some magical beyond life jutsu that gives Huyga ghosts the power to revive someone? That makes no sense see, however though Naruto can end up in limbo and see people who died, its not his means of a save, it would be while the others ACTUALLY SAVE HIM BY SUCCEEDING IN THE PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW AROUND BLACK ZETSU AND MADARA, he has this moment basically where he sees people who died but they give him that "inner power and trust with friends speech" to continue on and he wakes up at that time the recovery takes place. So basically Naruto gets a short talk with those who died, thats fine but as for saving him, this is the combined efforts of Sakura, Minato, Gaara, Kakahi, and possibly obito and team guy. Mostly sakura for her continued life support.
Well that was a lot, i'm feeling better this week in someways and antipating others in the next. Sakura should be fine, Naruto will come back eventually, 3 chapters left this volume, Sasukes save is going to be sooner if anything, lets see where this goes. NS didn't get the Sakura-Minato interaction we hoped for, but it may come, theres always a chance. I'm still looking forward to the recovery event, I want to see Sakuras reaction to narutos recovery We got emotional over 662 and 663, I really want to see her reaction when she sees naruto is okay and standing again, that may be the biggest NS moment yet if she is reacting with a lot of relief to naruto recovered. Seriously a hug in the battlefield or something from her to him is what i'm counting on. I know all of you want to see it too.
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I really liked the dialogue and expressions in those panels. Oh, Kushina, you were so right about Naruto... Especially about his inability to understand girls, and his drive to be Hokage. 
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Is miracle winning actually unexpected or original at this point? Well besides the method? Not that I actually hate the concept but that I've seen it too many times in fiction land. 
