The White Zetsu incident ends

The Rebirth Technique.

It was the ultimate technique through which the Rinnegan could wield power over life and death, a forbidden art said to reverse death and awaken the dead.

This technique could bring the dead back into the world, rekindling the flame of life in bodies where it had already gone out.

All the caster needed to expend was chakra and life energy.

There was no need to trade one life for another, no need for a life to be paid for with a life.

In the original story, Nagato had died after using the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique not because the technique itself required the caster to sacrifice his life, but because his chakra and life energy had already been completely depleted. He simply could not hold on any longer.

Now, Satsuki stood beneath Konoha's wall, her hands forming that simple Snake seal as she felt the changes within her body.

Vast amounts of chakra were pouring out of her at a frantic pace.

The rate of consumption was astonishing, alarmingly fast.

An ordinary ninja, even someone at Kage Level, would not last long under such a drain. Nagato had died precisely because his body could not withstand it, his vitality sucked completely dry.

But Satsuki was different.

She possessed those unique eyes—the Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.

Just as her chakra began draining wildly, an even greater power stirred in the depths of those eyes.

[Tokoyo]—Time Control of All Phenomena Eye

It was Satsuki's own dojutsu, an ability unique to her eyes that allowed her to freely manipulate the time of any object.

Life had its own time.

Chakra had its own time, too.

And so—Satsuki rewound her own time to the moment when her chakra had been at its fullest.

Whenever she expended any, she rewound