Kyomu breaks Sasuke’s spirit by revealing to him (and Sakura), that he was the one, who put the village and the Uchiha clan againts each others (conviced Obito to steal the fox and attack the village, created evidences about his attack for the konoha elders and about that the „Uchihas are againts the village” boosting their paranoia againts the clan, conviced the Uchihas againts the village, using Konoha’s mistrust againts them based on only their fear from Uchiha Madara and used Kushina’s death as a final trigger to put Uchiha Fugaku into insanity, rekindling his hatred that he fought againts years and giving „tips” to the konoha elders that the uchihas are try to take over the village), gloathing about how stupid the Uchihas were and how too emotional are they. Sakura gets angered and tries to kill him, only to end up in failure. Sasuke tries to save her but he is knocked out. Kyomu tries to kill Sasuke, Sakura tries to protect Sasuke, but from nowhere, Karin jumps and saves both of them with her life. Karin shares her last chakra with them, thanks Sakura for saving her life back then and asks Sakura to protect Sasuke, then tells Sasuke to value Sakura, because there are not so much girl like her who can sincerely love someone like him, then dies. Kyomu gloats about Karin’s death and how Sasuke could never ever protect anyone, neither his parents nor Itachi and now Karin, telling to a broken, shattered Sasuke to commit suicide for being a failure of everyone he ever loved, only to being silenced by Sakura by grabbing his tounge, ripping it off then punch him into a wall. Sakura quickly revives Sasuke’s soul and heart and together they defeat Kyomu, who, in his final moments, still gloating about Sasuke’s fears that he will never be able to protect anyone. Sasuke then tells to Sakura that what Kyomu said was true (the Uchiha clan massacare), and also tells her that the reason why he wanted to pushing her away, was because he both was scared to create new bonds and wanted to protect her from himself and the possibilty that she would die one day because of him, even if he had to make her hating him (revealing that he just pretended his „attempts” to killing her: at the first „attempt of kill” he saw Kakashi coming and wanted to make them believe he wants kill her, and that he knew that Sakura tried to stab him from behind under the bridge from the beginning, but wished to be killed by Sakura, allowing her a chance to do it until Naruto’s arrive, then, after notcied Naruto, tried to make Sakura hate him again by wounding her but he wounded Naruto instead – he just played he wanted to kill her, but in reality, he just wanted to make her hate him). After that, Sasuke confesses that he loved her since they were genins, and kneels down before her and asks Sakura’s forgiveness. Sakura says that she has forgiven him and she doesn’t blame his father for his action, since it has been revealed that Fugaku and the Uchihas were just victims of a mad man and a failed system, telling him that a new era will start soon, where nothing like this would ever happen, making Sasuke crying from both remorse and happiness. After Sasuke thanks Sakura, they decide to go to Naruto and Hinata. Nefore they leave, they thanks Karin for saving them and that they will never forget her. In the meantime, Kakashi, Yamato and Sai, with the sudden help of Ino, also defeats Shiori, but she escapes.
