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@Taynio-It only make sense if Gai dies. Like I said in my previous previous comment, hachimon tonkou no jin is known as the Shimon and it also specifically stated at the start of the series that the power is at expense of the user's life after the technique ended. If Gai don't die, the previous fight with madara to get naruto fans so hyped up will be meaningless, most of the efforts that is put in by Gai will go down the drain. The naruto fans knew that Gai is sarcrificing his own life to save his comrades, wouldn't saving him ruined his heroic moments of him dying for his comrades? Besides letting Gai die by exhausting his youthful energy protecting people he cared for is better than letting him rot by growing old spending the rest of his life not as a shinobi. Gai wants to follow his father’s footsteps and it will be very cruel of kishi to Gai if he does any of those things to not let Gai die.