Chapter Summaries

Might Duy fought Orochimaru to prove he deserved to go to the battlefield, unleashing the Sixth Gate and several taijutsu techniques. After Duy’s final attack began, the chapter left its outcome unresolved.

• Ran tried to stop Orochimaru from fighting Might Duy, but Orochimaru silenced him with his killing intent.
• Might Duy told Ran he was willing to fight for the village, and Orochimaru agreed to test him before allowing him to go to the battlefield.
• Might Duy opened the Sixth Gate and attacked Orochimaru with Youthful Power Prelude and Rankyaku, while Orochimaru countered with snake techniques and body replacements.
• Might Duy used Morning Peacock to stop Orochimaru’s shuriken barrage and Geppo to evade the Myriad Snake Formation and charge at him.
• Orochimaru wounded Might Duy with a sword, but Duy escaped and declared that his final attack was named after his son.
• Might Duy launched his final attack, Guy, at Orochimaru as green Chakra shaped like a Dragon surged around him.

Might Duy defeated Orochimaru in a spar with the Sixth Gate, then joined Orochimaru’s force heading to the battlefield in the Land of Rain. As the Konoha ninjas encountered Sand ninjas led by Ebizo, Orochimaru wondered what had happened to Sakumo Hatake.

• Might Duy shattered Orochimaru’s Triple Rashomon and nearly killed him with a kick before his Sixth Gate power faded.
• Orochimaru accepted Might Duy into his force and said he would report the transfer to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Ran questioned why Might Duy would risk leaving his wife and child to join the war, and Duy said he wanted to protect everyone.
• Orochimaru stopped the advancing force when Sand ninjas appeared, recognized Ebizo, and wondered what had happened on Sakumo Hatake’s side.

Orochimaru's forces clashed with Ebizo and a Sunagakure strike team, but Orochimaru and Might Duy turned the battle against them. After Ebizo escaped, Orochimaru ordered his men toward the Land of Rain battlefield, suspecting the attackers had come from the Land of Rivers.

• Ebizo confronted Orochimaru and demanded that he turn back, but Orochimaru attacked, and the two forces began fighting.
• Orochimaru used multiple bodies, a new Clone Technique, and Manda while Might Duy battered the Sunagakure forces.
• Ebizo's Mirage Sound Genjutsu incapacitated most of the Konoha ninja, but Orochimaru, Might Duy, and a few elites remained conscious and surrounded Ebizo.
• Ebizo recognized that his mission had failed, gathered intelligence about Orochimaru and Might Duy, and vanished in a puff of smoke.
• Orochimaru sent his forces toward the Land of Rain battlefield and worried that something significant had happened on the Land of Rivers battlefield guarded by Sakumo Hatake.

Konoha’s forces struggled against Chiyo’s poison on the Sunagakure front, while Sakumo Hatake requested reinforcements and support from Tsunade and Uchiha Jin. At the Iwagakure front, Jin received orders transferring him to face Sunagakure.

• Sakumo Hatake learned that Basic Inner Cultivation could purge Chiyo’s poison but depleted most of a ninja’s Chakra, and he asked the village to send Tsunade and Uchiha Jin.
• Chiyo heard from Ebizo that Orochimaru had mastered a troublesome ninjutsu and decided to redeploy forces from the Land of Rain to break through Sakumo Hatake’s front.
• Minato Namikaze, Jin, and Kushina intercepted and killed three Iwagakure scouts near Konoha’s defensive line.
• An Anbu messenger delivered orders transferring Uchiha Jin from the Iwagakure front to the Sunagakure front.

Uchiha Jin accepted a mission to help the Sunagakure front develop poison resistance in exchange for a chance to read the Forbidden Scroll. He left the Iwagakure front camp and headed toward Sunagakure.

• Uchiha Jin entered the command tent and learned that Tsunade was the main choice to address Sunagakure’s poison, with Jin as her backup.
• Jin agreed to go to Sunagakure after Jiraiya said he could apply for permission for Jin to read the Forbidden Scroll.
• Jin encountered the badly injured Hizashi Hyuga, who said his eye would heal in two or three days.
• Jin packed his gear, sent it to Ryūchi Cave with Reverse Summoning, and left the camp for the Sunagakure front.

Orochimaru and Might Duy helped turn the tide on the Land of Rain front as the battle intensified. Elsewhere, Uchiha Jin stopped to eat in a war-struck town, where he encountered Kakuzu and followed him outside the city.

• Orochimaru led Konoha forces into the Land of Rain and fought off Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Amegakure forces.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi fought enemy ninja while Fudo Hyuga watched over them, and Kiyoshi resented Hiashi’s access to the Eight Trigrams Palms.
• An Iwagakure fighter charged at Orochimaru, Sunagakure targeted Might Duy with fireballs, and Amegakure ninja began withdrawing as the battle escalated.
• Uchiha Jin entered a town, ordered twenty bowls of ramen, and noticed Kakuzu arrive and quickly finish a bowl.
• Kakuzu left for the city outskirts and turned to look back as Uchiha Jin followed him.

Jin approached Kakuzu to arrange a way to hire him in the future, but Kakuzu attacked after learning that Jin knew his identity. After they fought to a standstill, Kakuzu agreed to hear Jin out about managing his future earnings.

• Jin told Kakuzu that he wanted a way to contact him so he could hire him later.
• Kakuzu attacked Jin after Jin revealed he knew about Kakuzu's past assassination attempt on Hashirama Senju.
• Jin used an Earth Clone Jutsu and explosive tags to evade Kakuzu's first attack, then fought him with his Kusanagi Sword.
• Kakuzu bound Jin and sent a masked creature to attack, but Jin used his Sharingan genjutsu to turn Kakuzu's attack against him.
• Kakuzu stopped fighting because Jin had no bounty and warned that he would seek him out if that changed.
• Jin offered Kakuzu the job of managing the money he earned, and Kakuzu asked him to explain further.

Uchiha Jin arrived at Konoha’s front line in the Land of Rivers and was escorted to Sakumo Hatake and Tsunade. He offered a way to save the poisoned patients but asked what he would receive in return.

• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka confronted Jin, but he escaped Shikaku’s Shadow Imitation Jutsu and disarmed him.
• Inoichi told Jin that Sakumo Hatake and Tsunade wanted to see him, then led him through a genjutsu barrier into the camp.
• Tsunade explained that Chiyo’s poison was difficult to treat and that she could save only a limited number of patients each day.
• Sakumo asked Jin if he could develop a technique to cure the poison, and Jin said he had another way to save the patients.
• Jin asked Sakumo and Tsunade what he would receive in return, leaving the two of them facing him in a tense silence.

Uchiha Jin offered to teach Tsunade a toxin-extracting ninjutsu in exchange for access to the Forbidden Scroll. Tsunade learned the first layer of the technique and began treating the poisoned patients.

• Jin asked Tsunade and Sakumo Hatake for permission to read the Forbidden Scroll, revealing that he had never received the access he was entitled to for creating Basic Inner Cultivation.
• Tsunade and Sakumo Hatake promised to apply for access if Jin helped resolve the crisis, and Jin offered to teach Tsunade a ninjutsu for extracting toxins.
• Jin explained the Thousand Spider Myriad Poison Hand, and Tsunade recognized that its seals and medical methods suited her skills.
• Jin asked Tsunade to go on a date after the war, and she punched him through a tent.
• Tsunade formed the technique's first seal, extracted toxins from a patient, and then used the Thousand Spider Myriad Poison Hand on another patient.

Tsunade used the Thousand Spider Myriad Poison Hand to treat the poisoned ninjas, enduring the pain and poison herself until she collapsed after finishing. With the wounded recovering and Tsunade unconscious, Sakumo Hatake prepared to lead a small team on a counterattack against the Sand ninja, requesting Uchiha Jin as a member.

• Jin fled after a woman from the Inuzuka Clan ordered Ghost Fang to attack him for interrupting her bath.
• Jin warned Sakumo Hatake that Tsunade was taking on the poisoned ninjas' suffering while treating them, though her Basic Inner Cultivation kept her mobile.
• Tsunade treated the poisoned ninjas from day until late at night, then collapsed after finishing the last patient and saying she would make an antidote the next day.
• Sakumo Hatake decided to lead a small team in a counterattack without waiting for Tsunade to wake up.
• Sakumo Hatake requested a capable sensory ninja and Uchiha Jin for his team.

Uchiha Jin and Aburame Mushihime accompanied Sakumo Hatake into the Land of Rivers to destroy a Sunagakure outpost. Sakumo Hatake wiped out the Sand ninja while Jin watched from a safe distance.

• Uchiha Jin learned Sakumo Hatake was taking him to reclaim the Land of Rivers outpost and met his teammate, Aburame Mushihime.
• Sakumo Hatake led Jin and Mushihime to a sand fortress near the Land of Fire, where they learned the visible outpost was a trap and the Sand ninja were underground.
• Aburame Mushihime transformed into insects to help Sakumo Hatake identify the targets, while Sakumo charged the fortress and told Jin to stay alive.
• Sakumo Hatake evaded the outpost’s explosion and weapons, severed the puppets’ Chakra Threads, and killed the Sand ninja with his sword and Taijutsu Secret Art.
• Sakumo Hatake defeated the last Sand ninja as Jin watched from nearby.

Uchiha Jin, Aburame Mushihime, and Sakumo Hatake advanced deeper into the Land of Rivers, where Sakumo killed a group of Sunagakure ninja. After waking and restoring her appearance, Tsunade uncovered a Root agent’s attempt to interfere with the front lines and prepared to lead the camp’s fighters back into battle.

• Sakumo Hatake led Jin and Aburame Mushihime through the forest, where Mushihime’s insects detected Sunagakure scouts and hidden reinforcements.
• Sakumo Hatake ambushed the Sunagakure ninja and killed them before Jin and Aburame Mushihime joined him.
• The team hid in a cave to rest as Sunagakure patrols grew more frequent, and Jin realized Sakumo intended to keep advancing toward their main force.
• Tsunade woke, used the Thousand Spider Myriad Poison Hand to restore her face, and began researching a new antidote.
• Tsunade learned that Sakumo had taken Jin and Aburame Mushihime deeper into the Land of Rivers and recognized the camp commander as a Root agent.
• Tsunade exposed the agent’s Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal, ordered her to warn Danzo against interfering, and called on the camp’s fighters to follow her into battle.

Jin, Sakumo Hatake, and Aburame Mushihime stealthily crossed Sunagakure’s patrols, and Jin taught Sakumo Thunder Breathing in exchange for the Hatake Swordsmanship manual. At a sand fortress, Sakumo launched an attack while Jin was trapped and confronted by two Sunagakure jonin.

• Jin, Sakumo Hatake, and Aburame Mushihime evaded Sunagakure patrols as they advanced through the forest.
• Jin taught Sakumo Thunder Breathing, and Sakumo gave him the Hatake Swordsmanship manual.
• The trio reached a sand fortress that Sakumo identified as another defensive line, and he ordered Jin and Aburame Mushihime to stay hidden.
• Sakumo attacked the fortress and fought through its defenders while Jin watched from the trees.
• Two Sunagakure jonin trapped Jin in an iron box, but he escaped and moved to attack a female Puppet Master.

Jin and Sakumo Hatake destroyed another Sand Ninja stronghold before learning that Tsunade had drawn the Sand forces away to defend against her advance. They seized the opening to attack a fortress, where the Sand Ninja Puppet Brigade had prepared a trap for Sakumo.

• Jin killed a male Sand Ninja and a female Puppet Master, using his Sharingan to overcome their traps and puppets.
• Sakumo Hatake routed the remaining Sand Ninja, whose terrified cries helped spread his name as White Fang.
• Aburame Mushihime learned that Tsunade had entered the Land of Rivers and that Chiyo was gathering Sand Ninja to defend against her.
• Sakumo Hatake, Jin, and Aburame Mushihime hurried deeper into the Land of Rivers and reached another sand fortress.
• The Sand Ninja Puppet Brigade surrounded Sakumo Hatake with puppets, and its red-haired leader declared that the fortress was a trap set for him.

Sakumo Hatake fought through the Sand Puppet Masters’ overwhelming puppet army and survived their fiery cage trap. He killed the Red-Haired Shanks and a woman, but ten white figures appeared as another enraged attacker charged toward him.

• Sakumo Hatake evaded the puppets’ attacks, cut through their ranks, and used a Shadow Clone to escape being buried.
• Sakumo Hatake disguised himself among the Puppet Masters and swiftly killed several of them.
• The Red-Haired Shanks trapped Sakumo Hatake and other Puppet Masters in a demon cage, where the woman unleashed fire and lava.
• Sakumo Hatake escaped underground, dragged the Red-Haired Shanks into the earth, and killed him and the woman with a lightning-fast strike.
• Ten white figures appeared as another attacker rushed toward Sakumo Hatake, vowing to kill him.

Tsunade exposed and killed a decoy posing as Chiyo, then realized Sunagakure had lured her away while the real Chiyo fought Sakumo Hatake. Sakumo shattered Chiyo’s shield and struck at her, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Tsunade noticed that Chiyo was using ninjutsu, exposed her as a decoy, and killed her with one punch.
• The Sunagakure ninja retreated, and Tsunade led Konoha’s forces into the Land of Rivers, suspecting Sakumo Hatake was the enemy’s target.
• Chiyo attacked Sakumo with the Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu, while Sakumo struggled to break through the coordinated puppets.
• Sakumo trapped three puppets with his Lightning Release technique, then rushed Chiyo and shattered her Mechanism Light Shield Seal.
• Sakumo swung his blade at Chiyo before the pursuing puppets could reach her.

The Third Kazekage arrived to save Chiyo and fought Sakumo Hatake as Sunagakure’s position in the Land of Rivers worsened. Sakumo feigned an escape, attacked Chiyo, then turned on the Kazekage, reaching him before his iron-sand defense activated.

• The Third Kazekage used Iron Sand Defense to shield Chiyo from Sakumo Hatake’s strike and revealed himself above the battlefield.
• Sakumo asked whether the Kazekage intended to begin an all-out war, and the Kazekage explained that killing Sakumo was necessary to stabilize Sunagakure’s failing front.
• Chiyo attacked Sakumo with Iron Sand Drizzle and her ten puppets, forcing him to evade and retreat beneath the iron-sand assault.
• The Kazekage and Chiyo pursued Sakumo through the air, but Sakumo suddenly charged Chiyo and drove her underground, causing her puppets to fall.
• Sakumo turned and attacked the Kazekage, reaching him before the Kazekage could raise his defense, as the Kazekage began Iron Sand World Method.

Sakumo Hatake was trapped between Chiyo and the Kazekage until Uchiha Jin intervened with a Spirit Gun explosion. Facing them again, Sakumo awakened a giant form powered by his will and unleashed a slash that split a distant mountain range, making the name White Fang resound through the ninja world.

• Sakumo Hatake struggled against Chiyo's puppets and the Kazekage's Iron Sand Barrier, realizing he was being worn down and preparing to fight to the death.
• Uchiha Jin arrived and used a self-destructing Spirit Gun to blast apart the battlefield, freeing Sakumo Hatake from the barrier.
• Sakumo Hatake thanked Uchiha Jin, then faced Chiyo and the Kazekage again as they renewed their attacks.
• Sakumo Hatake manifested a towering giant of white Chakra, saying he had found a way to achieve the Third Layer of Basic Inner Cultivation through sheer will.
• Sakumo Hatake's giant slashed through the Kazekage and Chiyo's attacks and cleaved a distant mountain range, proclaiming the name of White Fang.

White Fang’s devastating slash forced Sunagakure to retreat, but it left him exhausted and unconscious. Back in Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the village elders learned that the slash came from White Fang’s attempt to use the third layer of Basic Inner Cultivation, leaving them to decide how to treat Sakumo Hatake.

• White Fang revealed that his slash had exhausted his strength as Sunagakure’s main force arrived, and the Kazekage hesitated to attack him.
• Tsunade arrived with Konoha reinforcements and blocked Sunagakure from attacking White Fang.
• The Kazekage ordered a retreat, and Uchiha Jin caught White Fang when he collapsed and fell unconscious.
• Tsunade examined the severed mountain range and wondered whether Sakumo had reached Hashirama Senju’s level.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi shared White Fang’s secret letter with Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura, revealing that the slash came from forcibly condensing the third layer of Basic Inner Cultivation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked the elders how Konoha should treat Sakumo Hatake.

After Sunagakure’s defeat in the Land of Rivers, the Kazekage and his advisers weighed their next moves and discussed White Fang’s strength. Sasori confronted the Kazekage over his parents’ deaths, then wounded him and vowed to become Kazekage and take revenge on White Fang and Konoha.

• Ebizo reported that White Fang was severely wounded, and the Kazekage regretted retreating instead of killing him.
• The Kazekage learned that Uchiha Jin had created Basic Inner Cultivation and decided Sunagakure should hold the Land of Rivers while committing its forces to the Land of Rain.
• Sasori demanded to know where his parents were, and the Kazekage admitted he could not avenge them or protect Sunagakure from White Fang.
• Sasori accused the Kazekage and the others of weakness, blocked Chiyo and Ebizo with Iron Sand, and cut the Kazekage’s forehead with a kunai.
• Sasori vowed to become stronger than everyone, take the Kazekage’s position, and avenge his parents against White Fang and Konoha.