For My Friend

For my friend launches the war's opening battles as the Allied Forces clash with Kabuto's reanimated dead. The episode delivers the Fourth Great Ninja War's first major combat — the living against resurrected legends, bonds tested against an enemy that wears the faces of the fallen. The theme that powers the whole war surfaces: fighting for the friends beside you and the ones already lost. It's the canon arc's pivot to open warfare, the alliance's first taste of the Edo Tensei's cruelty, the war beginning with friend forced to fight friend.