Chapter Summaries

Kosuke and Minato realized Yemo and Kakashi had gone to the altar, but a mysterious attack of roots and vines devastated Uzushiogakure’s civilians and ninja. Black Zetsu watched the carnage, while Madara Uchiha learned of his plans and dismissed the value of the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodline.

• Chiyuki Uzumaki told Kosuke and Minato that Yemo and Kakashi had disappeared, and they suspected the pair had gone to the altar on the Sacred Mountain.
• Chiyuki ordered the altar guards to arrest Yemo and Kakashi, but Kosuke warned her that the enemy army was approaching.
• Enormous roots and draining vines erupted among the Uzumaki crowd, incapacitating and withering victims despite the ninja’s attacks.
• Minato identified that the vines drained blood and Chakra, while Chiyuki’s attempts to counter them failed and panic spread.
• Black Zetsu watched the attack from the mountain and said the plan was finally bearing fruit.
• Madara Uchiha learned that Black Zetsu was in Uzushiogakure, dismissed the Uzumaki bloodline’s value, and tore apart the White Zetsu who reported to him.

Yemo returned to the Sealing Space with the Uzumaki Clan being overwhelmed by the giant tree’s roots and joined Kakashi in preparing to destroy it. They attached Kakashi’s super bomb to the tree and fled the passage as its fuse burned.

• The giant roots restrained and drained most of the Uzumaki Clan, then surged toward the allied Kekkei Genkai clans, whose fighters struggled to break free.
• Kosuke saved Chiyuki Uzumaki from a root, while Minato and Kosuke prepared to defend themselves against its attacks.
• Yemo returned to the Sealing Space and told Kakashi that the roots were draining the Uzumaki Clan, so they needed to destroy the giant tree quickly.
• Kakashi explained that he had combined four hundred Explosive Tags with lightning release Chakra into a bomb powerful enough to collapse the Sacred Mountain.
• Yemo fastened the bomb to the giant tree, and he and Kakashi lit it before racing out through the passage.

Yemo and Kakashi survived the destruction of the Sacred Mountain, but discovered that the Grand Elder had also lived and confronted him over his crimes against the Uzumaki Clan. The Grand Elder attacked them and used the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura to locate Kakashi in the fog, leaving both men down.

• Yemo crawled from the rubble, called for Kakashi, and found him alive beneath a pile of stones.
• Yemo explained that the giant tree’s roots had already trapped and drained most of the Uzumaki Clan before the explosion.
• The Grand Elder burst from the rubble alive, protected by roots around the giant tree’s flower bud.
• The Grand Elder accused Yemo of betraying the Uzumaki Clan, and Yemo blamed him for sacrificing and killing clan members.
• The Grand Elder struck Yemo and then knocked Kakashi down after sensing him through the fog with the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.

Kosuke and Minato fought a regenerating root until Minato forced it to retreat, while Yemo and Kakashi accidentally destroyed the Sacred Mountain as they tried to blow up a giant tree. Black Zetsu lost his connection to the God Tree and vowed to find whoever had ruined his plan.

• Kosuke lured the root toward Minato, who used Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder to split it but stopped the technique when its Chakra cost proved too high.
• The Sacred Mountain exploded and collapsed, scattering rocks that killed some members of the Kekkei Genkai family alliance and leaving the surviving Uzumaki clansmen in shock.
• Minato noticed the root thrashing after the explosion and watched it retreat toward the Sacred Mountain.
• Yemo and Kakashi fled through the collapsing mountainside after their attempt to destroy the giant tree triggered the mountain's destruction.
• Black Zetsu realized the explosion had severed his connection to the God Tree and angrily swore to kill whoever had ruined his plan.

Yemo and Kakashi fought the Grand Elder, who revealed his plan to refine the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodlines through the God Tree and use the power for himself. Yemo realized the Grand Elder was only a pawn and suspected the hidden mastermind was nearby, waiting to claim the power.

• Yemo and Kakashi attacked the Grand Elder together, but his Adamantine Sealing Chains and powerful defenses repeatedly drove them back.
• Kakashi wounded the Grand Elder with White Fang, then revealed that Konoha's White Fang was his father.
• The Grand Elder vowed to kill Yemo and Kakashi and claimed his plan would make the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodline stronger than the Senju Clan’s.
• Yemo deduced that the Grand Elder had gathered clan members’ blood through sacrifices and absorbed their blood and Chakra to strengthen his own bloodline.
• The Grand Elder revealed that the God Tree was refining bloodline power, and Yemo realized the plan sought power comparable to their ancestor Asura Ōtsutsuki’s.
• Yemo concluded that the Grand Elder was being used and that the mastermind was nearby, waiting to seize the refined power.

Yemo rejected the grand elder’s offer to share the bloodline power and fought to save Kakashi when the grand elder attacked. After Yemo rescued the badly injured Kakashi, Black Zetsu appeared from hiding.

• The grand elder offered Yemo a share of the bloodline power if he returned to the Uzumaki Clan, but Yemo rejected him because the plan had cost more than ten thousand clansmen their lives.
• The grand elder attacked Kakashi, who had been moving toward the glowing flower bud, and struck him hard before trying to stab him.
• Yemo used Lightning Release: Turbulence through their Kunai to paralyze the grand elder briefly, then pulled Kakashi away to safety.
• Yemo checked Kakashi’s injuries and looked for an escape route, while the grand elder warned them that they could not get away.
• Black Zetsu appeared on a nearby pile of rubble, startling Yemo, Kakashi, and the grand elder.

Black Zetsu revealed that he had manipulated the Uzumaki Clan and its Grand Elder, then demonstrated his resistance to their hereditary sealing technique. Yemo discovered that other ninjutsu could injure Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu regenerated completely, leaving Kakashi wondering what kind of monster he was.

• Black Zetsu appeared and claimed he had set the Grand Elder's plan in motion, planted the God Tree, and used the Uzumaki Clan as pawns.
• The Grand Elder rejected Black Zetsu's explanation and attacked him with eight Adamantine Sealing Chains, but Black Zetsu stopped and cast them aside.
• Yemo struck Black Zetsu with Lightning Release: Senbon Explosion, destroying much of his body.
• Black Zetsu regenerated his shattered limbs and face, astonishing Kakashi.

Yemo and the Grand Elder fought Black Zetsu, whose body regenerated from their attacks. Black Zetsu summoned White Zetsu and merged with one, leaving Yemo worried that the newly empowered Zetsu could overwhelm the Grand Elder.

• Yemo identified Black Zetsu as a bodiless manifestation of will and urged the Grand Elder to attack him.
• The Grand Elder battered Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu regenerated even after his head was smashed apart.
• Black Zetsu sent black tentacles underground and summoned ten White Zetsu from a buried root.
• Black Zetsu ordered some White Zetsu to attack Yemo and Kakashi while others guarded the flower bud.
• Black Zetsu merged with a White Zetsu to become Zetsu and challenged the Grand Elder, who remained confident he could defeat him.

The Great Clan Elder attacked Black Zetsu but was overwhelmed by a sudden increase in Black Zetsu’s strength. Meanwhile, Yemo and Kakashi raced to defeat White Zetsu for a wager of five hundred Explosive Tags, and Kakashi claimed victory after decapitating his opponent.

• The Great Clan Elder charged Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu struck him with enough force to send him flying and leave him coughing up blood.
• Yemo and Kakashi agreed to race to kill their respective White Zetsu, wagering five hundred Explosive Tags.
• Yemo cut off his White Zetsu’s arm and knocked it down, but its Wind Release blew apart his flames.
• Kakashi was blasted back by his White Zetsu’s lightning, then drew White Fang and cut off its leg.
• Kakashi vaulted onto the fallen White Zetsu and severed its neck, then declared that he had won the wager.

Kakashi and Yemo defeated their opponents but saw that Black Zetsu was overpowering the great clan elder, so they decided to destroy the flower bud and escape. Meanwhile, Minato and Kosuke fought alongside the few surviving Uzumaki clansmen and prepared to save some of them from the surrounding enemy clans.

• Kakashi discovered that Yemo had beaten him to defeating White Zetsu and agreed to pay him five hundred Explosive Tags or their value in ryo.
• Yemo and Kakashi watched Black Zetsu dominate the great clan elder and decided they needed to leave before the elder was defeated.
• Yemo and Kakashi agreed to destroy the nearly opened flower bud so its stored Uzumaki bloodline power would not fall into enemy hands, then charged its White Zetsu guard.
• Minato and Kosuke helped just over a hundred surviving Uzumaki clansmen resist ninja from several Kekkei Genkai clans who blamed them for the Sacred Mountain explosion.
• Minato told Kosuke that they could not save all the Uzumaki survivors, but he could take a few with him to preserve the clan's bloodline.

Yemo and Kakashi fought off the White Zetsu while Yemo tried to destroy the flower bud before it fully opened. The bud’s force collided with Yemo’s lightning strike, sending him hurtling through the air as the blast halted the distant battle.

• Yemo killed a White Zetsu with his new Lightning Release technique, and Kakashi offered to teach him Chidori in exchange for learning it.
• Yemo used Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to keep the White Zetsu occupied while he moved to attack the flower bud.
• Yemo formed a lightning sword and plunged into the crater to slash the bud as its last petals opened.
• The lightning strike collided with a force erupting from the bud, creating a massive explosion that hurled Yemo into the air and blasted Kakashi away.
• The shockwave interrupted Black Zetsu and the grand elder, forcing them to stop fighting and brace against it.

Yemo survived the explosion and used Yin-Yang Release to heal his internal injuries, while Black Zetsu discovered that the power of the bloodline had been refined. The grand elder attacked Black Zetsu and claimed the power for himself.

• Minato and Kosuke heard the explosion and realized Yemo and Kakashi were likely still alive.
• Kakashi found Yemo unconscious in a crater and revived him with emergency resuscitation.
• Yemo woke, used Yin-Yang Release: Revival Technique, and healed his internal injuries until he ran out of Chakra.
• Black Zetsu found the damaged flower bud and celebrated that the power of the bloodline had been refined for his plan to become a true living being.
• The grand elder struck Black Zetsu with a boulder and declared that the power of the bloodline belonged to him.

Black Zetsu and the great clan elder unleashed super S-rank Ninjutsu that devastated the battlefield and swept up Yemo and Kakashi. As the explosion drew attention away from the siege of the Uzumaki survivors, Minato and Kosuke escaped with two clan members using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Black Zetsu revealed that White Zetsu's body could not be harmed by ordinary injuries and claimed the Uzumaki bloodline as a return of Ōtsutsuki property, but the great clan elder rejected his claim.
• The great clan elder unleashed Wind Release: Wild Whirlwind Breakthrough while Black Zetsu created four Shadow Clones.
• Black Zetsu and his clones combined five elemental dragon techniques into Five Dragon Combo Bullet, and it collided with the elder's tornado in a catastrophic explosion.
• Yemo and Kakashi tried to flee but were caught in the blast and swept into the smoke and gale.
• As the explosion distracted the enemies surrounding the last ten Uzumaki survivors, Minato and Kosuke used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape with two clan members.

Yemo, Kakashi, and the gravely wounded Grand Elder faced Black Zetsu after their battle devastated the plain. The Grand Elder trapped Black Zetsu long enough to bind and hurl Yemo away, then named him the Uzumaki Clan's leader.

• Yemo emerged from a pit and found Kakashi as Black Zetsu and the Grand Elder continued fighting.
• Black Zetsu approached Yemo, Kakashi, and the wounded Grand Elder, threatening to kill them all.
• The Grand Elder used four clones to cast the Four Holy Seals around Black Zetsu, buying himself time despite the barrier beginning to crack.
• The Grand Elder admitted that his ambition had helped destroy the Uzumaki Clan and said its bloodline power belonged in the clan's hands.
• The Grand Elder bound Yemo with Chakra threads, threw him away, and declared him the Uzumaki Clan's leader.

The grand elder used the Four Holy Seals to give Yemo time to reach the Uzumaki bloodline power, then summoned the Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal to capture Black Zetsu. As the dying grand elder’s strength failed and Black Zetsu began reclaiming his soul, he hinted that he had prepared another move.

• Yemo cursed the grand elder as he flew toward the flower bud, while Kakashi restored his Chakra from the sidelines.
• The grand elder explained that he wanted Yemo to inherit the Uzumaki bloodline power and avenge the clan against Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu shattered the barrier, but the grand elder summoned the Shinigami and seized Black Zetsu’s soul with the Reaper Death Seal.
• Black Zetsu struggled to pull his soul back as the grand elder weakened and spat blood.
• The grand elder admitted he had prepared to lose his soul and asked Black Zetsu whether he was prepared for the same.

The grand elder used the Reaper Death Seal to trap half of Black Zetsu’s soul, sacrificing his own life and entrusting the Uzumaki Clan’s future to Yemo Uzumaki. Yemo entered the red liquid in the God Tree’s flower bud, and its power began to alter his body.

• The grand elder sealed half of Black Zetsu’s soul with the Reaper Death Seal, and the Shinigami swallowed both Black Zetsu’s severed soul and the grand elder’s soul.
• As he died, the grand elder regretted his role in the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction, named Yemo Uzumaki as his successor, and hoped Yukieru would survive.
• Black Zetsu tried to burn the grand elder’s corpse, but Kakashi stopped him and drew his anger.
• Yemo freed himself from the chakra threads with Minato’s Kunai and landed on a petal of the broken God Tree flower bud.
• Yemo entered the pool of red liquid made from the Uzumaki Clan’s lives and blood, and its mysterious power began to flow into him.

As Yemo underwent a painful bloodline transformation, Kakashi fought Black Zetsu to buy him time. Kakashi was left paralyzed and facing death, while Yemo remained unconscious in the midst of his transformation.

• Yemo’s body was remade as the Uzumaki bloodline power flowed into him, and he lost consciousness from the agony.
• In a dark vision, Yemo fell through scenes of a giant tree becoming a monster and two people joining forces to seal it and another figure.
• Kakashi confronted Black Zetsu and said he would hold him off while Yemo completed the transformation.
• Black Zetsu overwhelmed Kakashi, who used a Shadow Clone to evade a Wood Release attack and countered with Chidori.
• Black Zetsu matched Kakashi’s Lightning Release, leaving the real Kakashi badly injured and unable to move.
• Black Zetsu raised a wooden spear over Kakashi, who feared for Yemo and accepted that he was about to die.

Black Zetsu killed Kakashi and moved to stop Yemo’s bloodline fusion, but Minato and Kosuke arrived in time to confront him. Minato destroyed White Zetsu’s body, though Black Zetsu escaped underground, leaving the group to face the dead grand elder, Kakashi’s uncertain fate, and Yemo’s critical condition.

• Black Zetsu killed Kakashi and approached Yemo, who was nearing the end of his bloodline fusion.
• Minato arrived with Kosuke, Chiyuki, and two Uzumaki Clan shinobi, and Chiyuki mourned her dead grandfather.
• Minato recognized that Black Zetsu was targeting Yemo and scattered Kunai marked with the Flying Thunder God technique around him.
• Kosuke attacked Black Zetsu, who dodged and rushed toward Yemo, but Minato struck him down with a kick and a Rasengan.
• Black Zetsu escaped underground after Minato destroyed White Zetsu’s head, and Minato and Kosuke turned their attention to the injured and dead.

Yemo emerged from the bloodline fusion as Minato and Kosuke struggled to keep the gravely injured Kakashi alive. Yemo realized Kakashi was near death, while the cause of the battle and the changes to Yemo remained to be examined.

• Yemo ran through darkness until he reached a golden gate and stepped through its light.
• Yemo's eyes opened inside the red flower bud as Minato and Kosuke failed to heal Kakashi's shattered heart.
• Minato stopped trying to save Kakashi as Kosuke warned that their remaining Chakra could only sustain him briefly.
• Yemo burst from the flower bud, awakening after the bloodline fusion had succeeded.
• Yemo surveyed the scene, saw Kakashi barely alive, and recognized that his perception had grown stronger.

Yemo used his newly gained power and a sealed flower bud to restore Kakashi’s heart and bring him back from the brink of death. Kakashi’s heartbeat returned, though he remained unconscious while he recovered.

• Yemo strengthened Kakashi’s fading life force and told Minato and Kosuke to place him in the pink flower bud.
• Yemo covered the bud with ancient seals and channeled his immense Chakra into it, activating the remaining restorative liquid.
• The liquid healed Kakashi’s wounds, and red vapor entered his chest as Yemo used Yin-Yang Release and the bloodline power to regenerate his heart.
• After half an hour, Kakashi’s heart beat strongly again, and Yemo, Minato, and Kosuke realized the rescue had succeeded.
• Kakashi remained unconscious as he recovered, while Yemo felt relief that he had survived.