D: oh no!

I wasn't sure what to make of it from the panels. I hope we don't have to wait any longer then 1 more week to find out who this mysterious person is.

It's clearly Zaku, who has secretly been pulling the strings the entire time in an unbelievably elaborate revenge scheme against Sasuke he had planned for before either of them were even born

Did Kishimoto mess up?
To break out of Gaara's seal Madara used Susano'o, but he didn't have any eyes at the time....

Maybe he had such perfect control over his Susano'o that he didn't needed his eyes to manifest it.
Just my theory though.

Looks like Obito gets one last glorious f*** you moment. Good. I was hoping he wouldn't stay down.

Next week is Naruto 666... Which, given this is a Japanese comic, probably won't have any significance, but given there are a lot of Japanese writers who like to borrow western religious lore (Heck, the Chakra Tree and the talk of saviors is all VERY Judeo-Christian) it might end up being significant anyway. We shall see.

LOL, I recall some of my friends saying that Naruto 666 will be the very last chapter of Naruto.

Anyway, now we will see 2 shinobi Gods clashing each other, can't wait.

Kishimoto's very own twin brother has a manga titled "666 Satan" (It's pretty good, too)


Obito's back to his old self, didn't think i'd see the day

Ha, I actually did know about that, but it completely slipped my mind... So hell, 666 might be kind of a big deal. Guess we'll just have to see.

Last acts of defiance are some of my favorite moments in any narrative, so I have high hopes for this.

I also have to admit, I really don't think we're going to find out who came to Sasuke until after whatever they had in mind for him has happened.

Well, I highly doubt that the Naruto universe has a set of mystical "Sage of the Six Paths Spheres" that must be recollected to summon the Sage of the Six Paths for granting you any wish for resurecting Naruto if he ever dies.
Unless you mean that Kishi has some special plan to bring Naruto back to action, in which case I agree.

I dunno, he had no problem letting Nagato be the eternal dragon and bring everyone who died in that horrible slaughter back.

Kakashi is the only one who it really made a difference was dead. Seriously, even if the rest of those deaths were canon fodder, I'd at least have appreciated if that arc meant anything besides killing Nagato and getting Naruto his sage powers.

That arc was incredibly important to the series.... Possibly one of the most important arcs imo... That was the first arc where we got into the deep theme about war and true peace. That arc is one of the reasons why I love this series so much.

Also Jiraiya's death allowed Naruto to "know pain", and mature greatly.

Okay, upon re-reading, I can see just how extreme my post sounded. That arc, along with Naruto's battle, actually ties with the Sasuke and Itachi arc as my favorite parts of the series, but I really have a big problem with how a lot of it felt like it got swept under the rug.

The thing of it is though is Nagato destroyed damn near everything. Many people are dead, the village is a pile of rubble, destruction is everywhere. To him, the ends justify the means, while to Naruto, every person deserves to live and people are better understanding one another through compassion than fear and tyranny. And he actually wins Nagato to his side. Every bit of that I get and I support and I really really dig.

But it's the fact that Nagato and Yamoto could just undo all that damage like it was nothing that really throws it into a bad place for me. Look, read however you like into this, I am a f*** sadistic reader. The main character needs to experience a whole lot of suffering from the beginning of a story to the end. I am NOT saying they turn into a wangsty teenage brat, not at all, but a good character needs to feel implications HARD. And I am not saying good actions have no reward, but Naruto's reward for sparring Nagato's life could have been his surrender, and he could have maybe undone a little of his damage, but when the Leaf Village feels so much the same after Nagato's attack as it did before, it just cheats the experience.

And it makes me fearful death is going to be cheap again. Heck, we've been dealing with dead characters this entire damn arc, and one of them managed a full resurrection. In short, I said nothing was accomplished because a lot of the destruction was undone like it was nothing. But no, there was certainly more to that arc than just destruction, indeed.