(Does anybody feel like crying today? I feel like we all need to have a good cry. I’m going to make you all cry so HARD.)
Team Seven was together again, fighting side-by-side-by-side the way it always should have been. They were at their strongest when they were together, and when Obito returned to them, taking Kakashi-sensei’s outstretched hand as another member of Konoha’s Team Seven, it seemed like it would be enough to win. In another world, maybe it was enough. In another lifetime, maybe they won, maybe Kaguya was beaten.
Battles can be won or lost in a heartbeat.
Reality was broken around them, warped by Kaguya’s powers. Up was backwards and down was sideways. Sasuke was laid out after being hit, Sakura holding him together with stubborn grit and the needlepoint precision of her chakra control, Naruto struggling to give them the time they needed to get back on their feet. They all saw Kaguya’s next attack coming, but Sasuke was paralyzed, Sakura was wrist deep in his guts, and Naruto, stubborn, stalwart Naruto, would rather die in their place than dodge for the sake of his own survival.