Chapter Summaries

Issui and Gaara persuaded the Five Kage to set aside their old rivalries and form the Allied Shinobi Forces, with Mifune and the samurai joining them. The alliance then faced the question of who would lead, and the chapter compared the Fourth Raikage’s strength with Issui’s formidable abilities.

• Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage argued over their villages’ past atrocities until Issui and Gaara urged them to unite against Akatsuki.
• Issui criticized the Kage for hesitating, while Gaara spoke about protecting comrades and bonds, persuading the Raikage and Ōnoki to reconsider.
• The Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Gaara, and Issui each declared their village’s membership in the Allied Shinobi Forces, and Mifune joined on behalf of the samurai.
• Mifune announced that the Allied Shinobi Forces were established and called for them to choose a leader.
• The chapter weighed the Kage’s leadership prospects, then contrasted the Fourth Raikage’s speed and power with Issui’s elemental skills and Eye of Heaven.

At the Five Nations' Allied Shinobi Forces meeting, Issui claimed he was the strongest candidate for leader, prompting the Fourth Raikage to challenge him. Their spar began outside in the snow, and after Issui's opening trick failed to put the Raikage at a disadvantage, the Raikage countered with a powerful attack.

• Issui reviewed the powers of the Eye of Heaven and considered himself one of the Shinobi World's strongest shinobi.
• Ōnoki abstained from the leadership decision, and Issui voted for himself, claiming his strength qualified him to lead.
• The Fourth Raikage rejected Issui's claim and challenged him to prove his strength; the other Kage supported a spar to settle the dispute.
• Mifune refereed the match outside, where the Fourth Raikage promised to defend for the first three exchanges while Issui urged him to attack without holding back.
• Issui used Shadow Clones to charge the Raikage, who swiftly destroyed them, while Ōnoki realized the real Issui had hidden underground.
• Issui emerged and grabbed the Raikage's leg with an Earth Release technique, but the Raikage countered by dropping down with a lightning-charged Liger Bomb.

Issui used coordinated Earth and Fire techniques before unleashing an Ice Release field and a multilayered Genjutsu against the Fourth Raikage. The Raikage mistook real and illusory ice snakes for each other, leaving him exposed as the real attack appeared.

• Issui escaped the Fourth Raikage’s strike with a one-handed Substitution Technique, then attacked with combined Earth Release and Fire Style.
• The Fourth Raikage hit Issui with a lightning-fast Lariat, prompting Issui to cover the battlefield in ice that slowed movement.
• Issui concealed himself within the ice and trapped the Raikage and the spectators in a multilayered Genjutsu.
• The Raikage repeatedly destroyed illusory ice snakes before realizing they were fake and stopping his attacks.
• Mei Terumi and Ōnoki recognized that the ice snakes appearing around the motionless Raikage were real.

Issui Kanna defeated the Fourth Raikage, A Yotsuki, by exploiting the limits of his Genjutsu and overpowering him with Ice Release. After accepting the loss, the Raikage acknowledged Issui as a formidable ninja, clearing the way for the Allied Shinobi Forces discussion to continue.

• Issui's real ice snakes injured the Raikage, who destroyed them in anger while Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Gaara debated whether he was truly losing control.
• The Raikage realized Issui's Genjutsu only worked within eight meters above the ground, then escaped it in midair and attacked Issui with Super Liger Bomb.
• Issui unleashed Twin Dragon Ice Storm, forming two enormous ice dragons that collided with the Raikage's thundercloud attack.
• After the clash, Issui stood unharmed while the injured Raikage had lost the ability to fight, and Mifune declared Issui the winner.
• The Raikage accepted the defeat, withdrew his earlier insult, and recognized Issui as a formidable opponent and true ninja.

The Kage chose the Raikage to lead the Allied Shinobi Forces after Issui declined the position. Obito appeared, claimed to be Uchiha Madara, declared the Fourth Shinobi World War, and fought the assembled leaders as Issui prepared a counterattack.

• Mifune held a vote for the Allied Shinobi Forces leader, and Issui voted for the Raikage instead of himself.
• With the votes tied, Ōnoki cast the deciding vote for the Raikage, who accepted the leadership role.
• Obito warped into the conference room, evaded the Raikage's attack, and claimed to be Uchiha Madara.
• Issui and Mei Terumi connected Obito to the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha and Yagura's control in Kirigakure.
• Obito declared the Fourth Shinobi World War and exchanged attacks with the Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki.
• Issui used Eye of Heaven-Black-Distorting Light to appear behind Obito and attacked him with Amaterasu's black flames.

Issui fought Obito at the Five Kage meeting and revealed Obito’s plan to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi to impose peace. After Obito declared war and vanished, Issui exposed White Zetsu spies, and the Kage resumed planning the Allied Shinobi Forces.

• Issui struck Obito with the Flames of Amaterasu, but Obito used Izanagi to undo his injuries at the cost of a Sharingan.
• Issui explained Izanagi, and Obito acknowledged Issui’s power before revealing his plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Gaara and Issui rejected Obito’s vision of peace, and Obito declared war before escaping through Kamui.
• Ōnoki urged the Five Kage to unite against Obito, and Issui used Lightning Release: Needle Technique Hell to uncover White Zetsu spies beneath the conference room.
• The Raikage and Ōnoki agreed that the villages should submit their strategies so they could plan the Allied Shinobi Forces’ troop deployment.

Issui returned to Konoha, explained Obito's history, and rallied the village for the coming Fourth Shinobi World War. Meanwhile, Obito took charge of the Akatsuki remnants and revealed himself to Deidara as Madara Uchiha.

• Issui told Hashirama and Tobirama that the masked man was Obito Uchiha and recounted how Obito joined Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan after Rin's death.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Issui discussed the Uchiha's suffering and agreed that true peace required changing the shinobi world's roots of hatred.
• Issui announced to Konoha's shinobi that war with the Akatsuki was imminent and ordered them to prepare to leave for Kumogakure in five days.
• Deidara learned that Nagato had died and that Konan had left the Akatsuki, leaving Obito, Kisame, Black and White Zetsu, and Deidara in its ranks.
• Obito welcomed Deidara to the new base and revealed that his real name was Madara Uchiha.

Obito recruited Deidara for the coming Fourth Shinobi World War and recovered Nagato’s Rinnegan, while Issui discovered the eyes were stolen and met with the newly awakened Tsunade. Tsunade agreed to resume command of Konoha and began preparing its shinobi for war.

• Deidara accepted Obito’s offer to use the war as a stage for his explosive art after learning Obito claimed to be Madara.
• Black and White Zetsu told Obito they had recovered Nagato’s Rinnegan from a room at the Hyuga Clan’s place and warned him that Kabuto was approaching.
• Issui discovered the Rinnegan he had left on the table were missing and suspected Madara had stolen them.
• An Anbu informed Issui that Tsunade had awakened, and Issui left Hinata’s lunch to meet her at the Hokage building.
• Tsunade and the advisers praised Issui’s leadership, then Tsunade agreed to take charge of Konoha again.
• Tsunade ordered Shizune to bring the shinobi files so they could select combat personnel and assign teams.

Issui advised Tsunade on organizing Konoha’s forces for the war, while Obito accepted Kabuto as an ally after Kabuto demonstrated his Impure World Reincarnation summons. The alliance agreed that Kabuto would receive Sasuke after the battle, and Kabuto prepared to confront Issui.

• Issui proposed divisions for reconnaissance, logistics and medical support, intelligence, sensing, combat, surprise attacks, and the daimyo’s protection, and Tsunade praised his plan.
• Obito met Kabuto at the Graveyard of Mountains and demanded that he prove his strength before joining the fight against the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Kabuto summoned the reincarnated Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, and Itachi, then revealed another powerful summon that persuaded Obito to accept him as an ally.
• Kabuto asked Obito to hand over Sasuke after the battle, and Obito agreed.
• Kabuto warned Obito that Issui Kanna was a major threat, and Obito urged Kabuto to use his trump card against Issui.

Issui and Tsunade organized Konoha’s forces and supplies for the coming war, then led the troops toward the Land of Lightning to join the Allied Shinobi Forces. Issui brought powerful allies with him, while Naruto went ahead to train with Killer B, and the chapter left the war about to begin.

• Issui and Tsunade assigned Konoha’s ninja to reconnaissance, medical, intelligence, combat, special attack, and guard units, while leaving the sensory captain position vacant.
• Issui and Tsunade planned to procure war supplies and arranged for Naruto to train with Killer B in controlling the Nine-Tails’ power.
• Five days later, Issui and Tsunade led Konoha’s troops from the village toward the Land of Lightning, while Naruto had already gone ahead.
• Issui brought Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Rin Nohara, Guren, Haku, and Deidara to the battlefield, along with other powerful allies and summoned beasts.
• Issui considered Haku’s enhanced Ice Release abilities and resolved not to let her use the life-consuming Ice and Snow Goddess technique while he was alive.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages and the Land of Iron formed the Allied Shinobi Forces and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War begun. Obito Uchiha and Kabuto prepared their opposing forces, including nearly a hundred thousand White Zetsu, as the war began.

• The Kage of the Five Great Shinobi Villages reviewed their forces and debated how to assign them under unified command.
• The Fourth Raikage A Yotsuki announced the Allied Shinobi Forces' leadership and unit commanders, with Issui Kanna as supreme deputy commander and Tsunade Senju as chief of the general staff.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces formally declared the Fourth Shinobi World War begun and planned to locate the enemy before fighting in earnest.
• At the Graveyard of Mountains, White Zetsu reported that the allied forces numbered about eighty thousand experienced ninja.
• Obito Uchiha revealed that he had created nearly a hundred thousand White Zetsu using the Chakra of seven Tailed Beasts and the First's cells.
• Kabuto arrived and suggested celebrating their victory, while privately considering the battle a chance to use everyone as his pieces.

Obito warned Kabuto that Issui was the uncertain threat to their plans, and Kabuto read a scroll revealing secrets about the Eye of Heaven. Meanwhile, Issui reflected on his past and his growing unease before sharing an intimate moment with Hinata; the chapter ended as the scroll described the Eye of Heaven’s stages and deadly weaknesses.

• Obito told Kabuto that Issui had to be eliminated because his power could change the war, and Kabuto admitted he was wary of facing him.
• Obito gave Kabuto a scroll, and Kabuto discovered that it recorded the origins and weaknesses of the Eye of Heaven.
• Issui stood alone near the Allied Shinobi Forces’ main camp and reflected on his past life, his arrival in the Hokage World, and his happiness with Hinata.
• Hinata found Issui, comforted him about his unease, and embraced and kissed him.
• Kabuto read that the Eye of Heaven came from the God of Corruption and that using its stages under certain weather conditions triggered deadly punishments; the scroll’s explanation reached the Wind Stage.

Kabuto and Obito planned to capture a powerful Heaven Clan member using preserved frost, while Obito secretly hoped their target and Kabuto would weaken each other. After Kabuto left to prepare, Sasuke confronted Obito, who revealed more about the Eye of Heaven and explained how the Sharingan could evolve into the Rinnegan.

• Kabuto read the scroll about the Eye of Heaven’s punishments, and Obito judged its first six accounts reliable but doubted the final one attributed to the Sage of Six Paths.
• Obito gave Kabuto preserved frost to exploit their target’s Heaven Eye of Frost, and Kabuto agreed to capture the man in exchange for access to his Kekkei Genkai.
• Obito said White Zetsu would lure the target to Kabuto’s chosen battlefield, where Kabuto would tire and subdue him before bringing him to Obito for soul extraction.
• After Kabuto left, Sasuke emerged and accused Obito of misleading him and hoping the target and Kabuto would badly wound each other.
• Obito revealed that the Eye of Heaven’s Punishment was also called the Eye of the Heavenly God and claimed its trials could make its user stronger.
• Obito explained the Sage of Six Paths’ sons and said the Sharingan evolved through the Mangekyō and Eternal Mangekyō stages into the Rinnegan; he then predicted Kabuto would kill their target before the great war.

Sasuke left Obito to return to Konoha and kill Danzo, while Issui was lured from camp by a White Zetsu impersonator. Issui found four reanimated Kage waiting in a valley and prepared to fight the Second Mizukage.

• Sasuke told Obito he planned to eliminate Danzo and left, after Obito warned him to watch out for Kabuto and transplant Itachi's eyes.
• A disguised White Zetsu posing as a Konoha ninja tried to lure Issui away from camp by reporting an enemy nearby.
• Issui recognized the deception but continued to the valley, summoning Leins the Blazing Liger to wait outside and rescue him if needed.
• Issui identified the four Kage gathered against him as the Fourth Kazekage, Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage Mu, and Second Mizukage.
• The Second Mizukage became enraged when Issui called him a sleazy little mustache and challenged him to fight.
• Issui accepted the Second Mizukage's challenge and threw a Shuriken to the ground as the battle began.

Issui fought the Second Mizukage, overwhelming him at first until the Mizukage summoned the Giant Clam and concealed himself with its Hiding Technique. As the Mizukage’s supercharged water bubbles broke through Issui’s defenses and battered his Triple Rashomon, Issui continued searching for the genjutsu’s weakness.

• The Second Mizukage attacked Issui with water bubbles, but Issui evaded him with a log substitution and countered with earth techniques that forced the Mizukage onto the defensive.
• The Second Tsuchikage, Fourth Kazekage, and Third Raikage discussed Issui’s skill and the shifting morale of the battle.
• The Second Mizukage escaped Issui’s swamp, then summoned the Giant Clam and used its Hiding Technique to make his position and attacks difficult to discern.
• Issui tested the Mizukage’s apparent invulnerability with Stone Coffin, but the Second Mizukage emerged unharmed and launched a supercharged water-bubble attack.
• Issui raised an Earth Shore Return barrier, then summoned Triple Rashomon, but the bubbles smashed through the first gate and badly cracked the second.

Issui combined Water, Fire, and Lightning Release to create a battlefield-wide storm of lightning and defeat the Second Mizukage. The Second Mizukage unleashed his Steaming Danger Tyranny in a final attempt to take Issui down, but the attack failed and he was reduced to ash.

• Issui used a Great Waterfall Technique followed by Great Dragon Fire to fill the sky with water vapor.
• Issui channeled chakra into the vapor clouds and summoned lightning dragons and snakes that covered the battlefield.
• The Second Tsuchikage, Fourth Kazekage, and Third Raikage withdrew from the storm’s range.
• The lightning destroyed the Giant Clam, exposed the Second Mizukage, and struck him as he activated Steaming Danger Tyranny.
• The Second Mizukage’s exploding clone failed to reach Issui, and the lightning storm continued until the Second Mizukage was reduced to ash.

Issui defeated the Second Mizukage and explained the Allied Shinobi Forces and Akatsuki’s threat to the three remaining Kage. Kabuto forced the Kage to attack together, and the chapter ended as the Third Raikage charged Issui with Lariat.

• Issui defeated the Second Mizukage, leaving the Second Tsuchikage, Third Raikage, and Fourth Kazekage shaken by his strength.
• The Fourth Kazekage asked Issui about the Shinobi World, and Issui explained that Gaara had become Kazekage and that Akatsuki had captured most of the Tailed Beasts.
• Issui told the Kage that the Five Great Nations had formed the Allied Shinobi Forces, with A Yotsuki as supreme commander and Issui as supreme deputy commander.
• Kabuto watched Issui and planned to make the three remaining Kage force him to reveal his Kekkei Genkai so Kabuto could take it for himself.
• Kabuto took control of the Kage, and the Third Raikage launched the battle by charging Issui with Lariat.

Issui fought the Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage, and Fourth Kazekage, using Hyuga techniques and Tai Chi-derived moves before activating Flame Body to exploit his brief immunity to physical attacks. He burned the Fourth Kazekage away and sent the Second Tsuchikage flying, while the Third Raikage remained in the fight and Issui’s five-minute transformation continued.

• Issui repelled the Third Raikage with Rotation, then pierced him with Air Palm, but the immortal Raikage began to recover.
• The Second Tsuchikage disintegrated Issui with Dust Release, but Issui reappeared and struck him with One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms.
• Issui caught and returned the Fourth Kazekage’s gold dust sword with Cloud-Swallowing Hands and Spear of the Abyss, while the recovered Third Raikage wounded Issui’s shoulder with Hell Stab.
• Issui activated Flame Body and used clones and Body Flicker to evade the Raikage’s attacks and burn the Fourth Kazekage to ash with black flames.
• Issui dodged the Second Tsuchikage’s Dust Release and kicked him away with Konoha Whirlwind while Flame Body still had two minutes remaining.

Issui defeated the Fourth Kazekage, then faced the Third Raikage and Second Tsuchikage working together. He summoned the Black Gold Demon God and used its spinning blades to destroy the Second Tsuchikage, while the Third Raikage resisted with his lightning-clad defense.

• Issui used Shadow Clones and the Escape Technique to outmaneuver the Raikage and Tsuchikage, then struck the Fourth Kazekage with Amaterasu Fire Style and eliminated him.
• The Third Raikage attacked Issui with Hell Stab, and Issui used Rashomon to block the strike and evade the lightning spears.
• The Second Tsuchikage raised an earth barrier to shield the Raikage from Issui's Amaterasu Phoenix Flower Jutsu, while the Raikage launched a stronger Hell Stab through Issui's three Rashomon gates.
• Issui summoned the Black Gold Demon God and used Blazing Flame Whirlwind Slash to slice apart the mountains raised by the Second Tsuchikage.
• The Second Tsuchikage split and turned one half invisible as the Third Raikage activated Lightning Release Body Protection, but the demon god's spinning black threads cut the Second Tsuchikage apart.
• Issui drove the Black Gold Demon God toward the two Kage, and the Second Tsuchikage vanished while the Third Raikage continued to withstand the attack.

Issui defeated the Third Raikage and sealed the Second Tsuchikage's soul, but Kabuto used Sage Art: White Rage Technique to immobilize him and applied frost that stopped his heart. Kabuto revealed he had engineered the Second Tsuchikage's return to make Issui use his sealing ability, and claimed Issui's body and soul as research materials.

• Issui destroyed the Third Raikage with the Black Gold Demon God, then restrained the Second Tsuchikage and sealed his soul into his soul space.
• Kabuto appeared and praised Issui before entering Sage Mode and attacking him with Sage Art: White Rage Technique.
• While Issui was blinded, weakened, and unable to move, Kabuto threw frost from a silver box onto his forehead, causing a beam of light to strike his vertical eye.
• The frost transformed Issui's soul and stopped all signs of life in his body.
• Kabuto revealed that he had arranged for the Second Tsuchikage to reappear so Issui would seal him, then declared that Issui's body and soul belonged to him.