Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Chisen’s sun-like transformation shocked Konoha and led Sasuke, Mikoto, Hiruzen, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the Toad Sages to speculate about his power. The chapter left Jiraiya wondering whether Chisen could bring peace, as the heat of the sun threatened to turn the Land of Fire into a desert.

• Mikoto made Sasuke promise to study justice and avoid extreme ideas after they saw Chisen transformed into a sun.
• Sasuke asked whether Chisen’s power came from a new kekkei genkai or Uchiha Fire Style.
• Hiruzen and Tsunade discussed whether Chisen had created a kekkei tōta and whether his Wood Style and Lava Release came from combining chakra natures.
• Hiruzen wondered whether Chisen had surpassed every Hokage, while the Toad Sages and Jiraiya feared the sun’s heat.
• Jiraiya quietly suggested that the Toad Sages stop searching for the Child of Prophecy because Chisen might be able to bring peace.

Uchiha Chisen created Shine Release Chakra Mode and descended from the sky after appearing like a second sun over the Land of Fire. Obito and Black Zetsu suspected he had developed a new kekkei tōta and decided they had to steal the Tenseigan before he grew even stronger.

• Uchiha Chisen entered Shine Release Chakra Mode, flew high above Konoha, and realized he could survive in the sky and create immensely destructive Shine Release Balls.
• People across more than half the Land of Fire saw Uchiha Chisen shining above Konoha like a second sun.
• Obito asked Black Zetsu about the phenomenon, and Black Zetsu suspected Uchiha Chisen had created a new kekkei tōta.
• Black Zetsu reasoned that Uchiha Chisen's bloodline genius might explain his Wood Style, though his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan remained a mystery.
• Obito doubted he could defeat Uchiha Chisen even with the Tenseigan, but Black Zetsu insisted they had to steal it before Uchiha Chisen gained even greater power.

Black Zetsu decided that Uchiha Chisen had become a threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan as Chisen demonstrated his new Shine Release over Konoha. Chisen returned to the Uchiha compound, discussed teaching the technique to Izumi and Sasuke, and went to the Hokage Building for the Hokage election as Hiruzen wondered whether Chisen’s justice would target him.

• Black Zetsu resolved to eliminate Uchiha Chisen and planned to hasten his schemes involving the Akatsuki, Obito, and the other Great Nations.
• Neji, Hinata, Jiraiya, Hiruzen, and Kakashi reacted to Chisen’s immense power and the sunlike display of Shine Release.
• Chisen explained to Uchiha Izumi and Sasuke that Shine Release combined Lava Release and Explosion Release, and outlined what they would need to learn to attempt it.
• An Anbu Ninja summoned Chisen to the Hokage Building and announced that the Jonin vote to elect the Hokage was scheduled for that day.
• Chisen went to meet Hiruzen, who looked at him with unease and wondered whether he would have to die under Chisen’s absolute justice.

Sarutobi Hiruzen told Uchiha Chisen that chakra had erupted from the Hyuga Clan compound and asked him to spare Hinata if she attacked him. Chisen explained that Hinata was likely awakening the Tenseigan, demonstrated his new Dust Release, and left Hiruzen considering what retirement would mean for him.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen reported the chakra eruption at the Hyuga Clan compound, and Uchiha Chisen guessed that Hyuga Hinata's Tenseigan was awakening.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Uchiha Chisen to spare Hinata if she attacked him, but Chisen remained silent.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked whether the power at the Uchiha Clan compound had been a kekkei tōta, and Uchiha Chisen named it Shine Release, a fusion of Lava Release and Explosion Release.
• Uchiha Chisen produced Dust Release, surprising Sarutobi Hiruzen, who praised the discovery and discussed creating kekkei genkai after retiring.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed discussing kekkei genkai with Uchiha Chisen after retirement and privately watched for signs of whether he might join Shimura Danzō and Utatane Koharu.

Tsunade became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage while the Akatsuki Organization and Kumogakure responded to Uchiha Chisen’s growing power. Nagato ordered an operation against the Land of Earth, while Kumogakure faced pressure from its Daimyo to wage war on Konoha.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped down, and Tsunade accepted the Daimyo’s appointment as Fifth Hokage.
• Kakuzu reported that the Land of Earth had withheld its bounty payment and that Utatane Koharu had been killed by Hyuga Hiashi, who had gained a Sage Eye.
• Konan and Nagato questioned the origins of Nagato’s Rinnegan after hearing about the Hyuga Clan’s Sage Eye.
• Nagato sent Kakuzu, Sasori, and Konan to the Land of Earth to capture Ōnoki’s apprentice, who was likely learning Dust Release.
• Fourth Raikage Ai learned of Tsunade’s appointment and Uchiha Chisen’s apparent kekkei tōta, while the Land of Lightning’s Daimyo threatened to cut Kumogakure’s funding unless it fought Konoha and killed Chisen.

Kumogakure planned to pressure Konoha into war by seeking an alliance with Iwagakure, while Ōnoki learned Konoha had developed a new kekkei tōta. The Akatsuki attacked Iwagakure over an unpaid bounty, and Ōnoki confronted Deva Path Pain as Konan and Deidara fought.

• Fourth Raikage Ai, Darui, and Samui discussed Kumogakure’s dependence on the Daimyo’s Residence and agreed to seek a joint attack on Konoha with the Land of Earth.
• Kitsuchi confirmed reports that Uchiha Chisen had created a new kekkei tōta, and Ōnoki decided to take Deidara out to train.
• Explosions broke out in Iwagakure as Konan fought Deidara and Deva Path Pain hovered above the village.
• Ōnoki rose into the air to confront Deva Path Pain and demanded to know why the Akatsuki had attacked Iwagakure.
• Kakuzu accused Iwagakure of withholding the rest of the Akatsuki’s bounty and declared that the organization would no longer work with the village.

Ōnoki confronted Deva Path Pain over the Akatsuki Organization’s unpaid fee, but negotiations broke down and the two clashed. Pain blocked Ōnoki’s Dust Release with Shinra Tensei, and Ōnoki pushed his attack to its limit.

• Ōnoki realized Iwagakure’s subordinates had embezzled most of the Akatsuki Organization’s payment and promised to investigate after the confrontation.
• Deva Path Pain rejected Ōnoki’s attempt to explain the missing money and insisted that it was too late to settle matters peacefully.
• Deidara struggled against Konan’s Paper Clones and Exploding Tags, then urged Ōnoki to fight.
• Ōnoki attacked Deva Path Pain with Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, but Pain met it with Shinra Tensei.
• Pain warned that Ōnoki’s age and limited stamina would hinder a prolonged battle, so Ōnoki drew on all his chakra and greatly increased his Dust Release’s power.

Ōnoki faced Deva Path Pain while Konan overwhelmed Deidara with Exploding Tags. Deidara redirected his fight toward Ōnoki, and Konan turned to target Kakuzu and Sasori instead.

• Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Ōnoki toward him, but Kitsuchi raised an Earth-Style Wall that kept Pain's black rod from striking Ōnoki's heart.
• Ōnoki reduced his weight with Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique, evaded Pain's attack, and ordered Kitsuchi to lead Iwagakure's ninja away.
• Konan pursued Deidara with a torrent of Exploding Tags and Paper Clones, forcing him to flee on a clay bird.
• Deidara summoned his C2 Giant Dragon and charged toward Ōnoki's battlefield, hoping Konan would not risk using her explosives near Pain.
• Konan stopped pursuing Deidara and flew toward Kakuzu and Sasori, who had not yet joined the battle.

Ōnoki and Deidara tried to defeat Deva Path Pain with a trap and a concentrated Dust Release attack, but the Asura Path intervened. Ōnoki sacrificed his forearm to free himself and urged Deidara to escape as Pain gathered chakra to attack.

• Sasori planned to turn Ōnoki's corpse into a Human Puppet capable of using Dust Release while Kakuzu and Sasori pursued the retreating Iwagakure ninja.
• Ōnoki trapped Deva Path Pain inside a rock formation, and Deidara sealed it with clay bombs as Ōnoki charged with a focused Dust Release beam.
• Pain used Shinra Tensei to blast apart the rocks, but Ōnoki pressed his attack through the flying rubble.
• The Asura Path appeared and seized Ōnoki's wrist, stopping the Dust Release beam from reaching Pain.
• Ōnoki severed his own forearm to break free and shouted for Deidara to flee.
• Pain declared that Iwagakure would pay and began gathering an even greater surge of chakra.

Ōnoki fought Pain despite his severe injuries and lifted Iwagakure to shield it from Super Shinra Tensei. The attack obliterated the village’s original site, and Ōnoki was left wondering whether he had done all he could.

• Ōnoki interrupted Pain’s attempt to unleash Super Shinra Tensei, but Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull him close and Asura Path struck him down.
• Ōnoki survived Asura Path’s blade with Earth Release: Hardening Technique and vowed not to let Pain destroy Iwagakure.
• Pain began charging Shinra Tensei as Ōnoki used Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to lift all of Iwagakure into the air.
• Ōnoki raised earthen mountains to move the village, while Kitsuchi saw that his father was near death.
• Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, annihilating the ground where Iwagakure had stood before Ōnoki could move the entire village.

Ōnoki died after using his remaining life force to protect Iwagakure from the Akatsuki Organization, and Deidara vowed revenge. Meanwhile, Obito and Black Zetsu planned to identify who held the Hyuga Clan’s Great Tenseigan.

• Pain ordered Konan, Kakuzu, and Sasori to leave Iwagakure, and the Akatsuki Organization withdrew without taking Ōnoki’s body.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi to succeed him as Tsuchikage and asked Deidara to pass Dust Release on before dying from his injuries.
• Deidara mourned Ōnoki and vowed to find the Akatsuki Organization’s base and destroy it.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Uchiha Chisen had returned the Tenseigan to the Hyuga Clan and named the three remaining Main Family members.
• Obito and Black Zetsu decided to watch Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Hinata to discover who held the Great Tenseigan.

Obito agreed to Black Zetsu’s plan while Hinata stayed home to explore her newly awakened Tenseigan. Black Zetsu attacked Hinata and revealed that her father had sacrificed the Hyuga clan’s eyes to help awaken her, just as Naruto arrived outside her home.

• Obito told Black Zetsu to act when needed, and Black Zetsu went to investigate whether the Great Tenseigan was with Neji or Hinata.
• Hinata comforted Hanabi and explained that her Tenseigan might give Hanabi and Neji a chance to awaken their own.
• Black Zetsu emerged inside Hinata’s home, recognized her Tenseigan, and told her that Hiashi had used the clan’s eyes to help awaken it.
• Hinata attacked Black Zetsu with an Eight Trigrams Palm strike that pierced his body and the wall behind him.
• Naruto arrived outside Hinata’s home with ramen after Anko warned him that Hinata might be unwell.

Black Zetsu and Obito attacked Hinata to steal her newly awakened Tenseigan, but Naruto and Hinata could not stop them. Uchiha Chisen arrived after they escaped, while Hinata’s hostility toward him gave way to guilt over her father’s actions.

• Hinata fought Black Zetsu with her Eight Trigrams Sixteen Palms, and Naruto rushed upstairs after hearing her angry voice.
• Black Zetsu tried to get near Hanabi, while Obito left the Konoha Cemetery to help him.
• Obito emerged from thin air, grabbed Hinata, and stole the Great Tenseigan into the Kamui Dimension with Black Zetsu.
• Naruto cushioned Hinata’s fall, and Uchiha Chisen arrived but said he could not pursue Obito without Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Hinata felt guilty after remembering Black Zetsu’s claim that her father had created the Tenseigan for her.

After the Tenseigan was stolen, Uchiha Chisen identified Uchiha Obito as the culprit behind both the theft and the Nine-Tails' Rampage, then obtained the Flying Thunder God Technique to pursue him. Three days later, news from Iwagakure spread across the Shinobi World.

• Hyuga Neji asked Tsunade to ensure Konoha recovered the stolen Tenseigan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen connected the thief to the mysterious man who had caused the Nine-Tails' Rampage.
• Uchiha Chisen revealed that the culprit was Uchiha Obito and asked Tsunade for the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Tsunade gave Uchiha Chisen the technique, and he began studying it while continuing to enforce justice in Konoha.
• Three days later, news from Iwagakure spread throughout the Shinobi World.

After the Akatsuki Organization’s assault killed Ōnoki and devastated Iwagakure, Konoha decided to attend the coming funeral and meeting to learn more about the organization. At the Akatsuki base, Pain defended the attention their attack had drawn, while Kakuzu regretted missing Ōnoki’s bounty and the group wondered where Uchiha Obito, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu had gone.

• Tsunade, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Mitokado Homura read reports that the Akatsuki Organization had attacked Iwagakure and killed Ōnoki.
• Tsunade agreed that Konoha would attend Ōnoki’s funeral and the meeting Kitsuchi planned to hold about the Akatsuki Organization.
• Mitokado Homura revealed reports that the Land of Earth had hired the Akatsuki Organization to assassinate Uchiha Chisen, leaving Konoha confused about the sudden conflict between them.
• Kakuzu discovered that Ōnoki’s bounty exceeded seven hundred million and regretted not collecting it.
• Konan worried that the Akatsuki Organization had attracted too much attention, but Pain argued that their reputation could help recruit members.
• Pain asked Kakuzu and Sasori where Uchiha Obito, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu were, but they had no news.

Obito and Black Zetsu discovered that Obito could not fully control the Great Tenseigan, so they planned to find a Shikotsumyaku clansman to wield it and infiltrate the Akatsuki Organization. Meanwhile, Mei Terumi and Elder Genshi considered Kirigakure’s response to the Five Kage Summit and decided to consult Uchiha Chisen while staying out of it.

• Obito told Black Zetsu he could draw only a little chakra from the Great Tenseigan, though its power was replenishing his Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu proposed finding a Shikotsumyaku clansman, possibly the person Orochimaru had discovered, to activate the Great Tenseigan.
• Obito agreed with Black Zetsu’s plan and suggested recruiting the clansman into the Akatsuki Organization as their inside agent.
• Mei Terumi asked Elder Genshi whether the Land of Water should attend the Five Kage Summit after hearing that the Akatsuki Organization had nearly destroyed Iwagakure.
• Elder Genshi decided Kirigakure should stay out of the summit and pass the news to Uchiha Chisen.

Rasa dismissed the news of Ōnoki of Both Scales’s death, while Fourth Raikage Ai agreed to attend the Five Kage Summit and meet Uchiha Chisen. Yakushi Kabuto set out with Kimimaro and Jūgo to pursue a way to resurrect Orochimaru, and Hozuki Gengetsu left Kirigakure for the Land of Rain.

• Rasa put aside the report about the Akatsuki Organization killing Ōnoki of Both Scales because he had village affairs to handle.
• Samui persuaded Fourth Raikage Ai to attend the Five Kage Summit, where he hoped to meet Uchiha Chisen.
• Yakushi Kabuto told Kimimaro that Orochimaru was dead and that the White Snake Sage had warned against using Impure World Reincarnation to bring him back.
• Yakushi Kabuto took Kimimaro and Jūgo toward an organization whose leader possessed the Rinnegan, intending to find a way to resurrect Orochimaru while secretly seeking to revive Yakushi Nonō.
• Yakushi Kabuto decided to visit the Land of Earth first and test Impure World Reincarnation on Ōnoki of Both Scales.
• Hozuki Gengetsu left Kirigakure with his younger brother and headed for the Land of Rain.

Hozuki Gengetsu left Kirigakure to seek the Akatsuki Organization's help in killing Uchiha Chisen, while Chisen prepared to travel to Ōnoki's funeral and Black Zetsu targeted Kimimaro as a potential vessel for the Great Tenseigan. The chapter left Chisen heading toward the Land of Earth as Obito and Black Zetsu followed Kimimaro and his companions.

• Hozuki Gengetsu decided to free Kirigakure from Uchiha Chisen and set off for the Land of Rain to find the Akatsuki Organization.
• Uchiha Chisen studied the Flying Thunder God Technique at home while Kijiro advised him about developing spatial aptitude through Reverse Summoning.
• Uchiha Izumi delivered Kirigakure's letter asking Chisen to represent the Land of Water at Ōnoki's funeral, and Chisen agreed to go.
• Black Zetsu and Obito tracked Kimimaro, who was traveling with Yakushi Kabuto, and Black Zetsu judged him a suitable vessel for the Great Tenseigan.

Uchiha Chisen and Kijiro arrived in the Land of Grass, where Chisen used his power to punish ninja and officials who preyed on civilians. After Kijiro rescued a civilian seeking revenge, Chisen took him to Konoha and questioned whether Lava Release was the right tool for dispensing justice.

• Uchiha Chisen and Kijiro traveled to the Land of Grass, where Chisen spotted dozens of people marked as evil.
• Uchiha Chisen attacked Grass Ninja, samurai, and other perpetrators with pillars of magma as the town’s civilians watched in resignation.
• A civilian charged into a magma pit to attack a Grass Ninja who had harmed his daughter, and Uchiha Chisen ordered Kijiro to rescue him.
• Kijiro pulled the civilian from the pit, and Uchiha Chisen used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take them to Konoha.
• After bringing the injured civilian to Konoha Hospital, Uchiha Chisen wondered whether Wood Style would suit his pursuit of justice better than Lava Release.

Uchiha Chisen continued his campaign of judgment in the Land of Grass as Kusagakure’s jonin debated how to survive his advance. After reaching the Land of Grass’s capital, he found nobles whipping starving civilians for amusement.

• Uchiha Chisen returned to the town where he had judged the wicked, then flew toward the Land of Grass to continue his campaign.
• Kusagakure’s jonin learned Uchiha Chisen was advancing through the Land of Grass and discussed disbanding, pressuring Konoha, or fighting him.
• A Grass Ninja suggested asking Mui for help or fleeing to Hozuki Castle, but the others hesitated over abandoning their property.
• Uchiha Chisen swept through towns and arrived at the capital of the Land of Grass, where nobles flogged skeletal civilians for amusement.