Chapter Summaries

Madara brought Izuna home, where Tobirama successfully reattached his left eye, and Konoha’s leaders met to decide how to handle the shaken foreign envoys after the recent battle. Hashirama revealed that the Daimyo had proposed a memorial service in three days, which the clan heads recognized as a way to repair Konoha’s standing with the visitors.

• Madara carried Izuna home and cleaned his face before Tobirama arrived with a Medical Kit.
• Tobirama reattached Izuna’s left eye and told Madara what symptoms to watch for after Izuna woke.
• Tobirama returned to the Hokage Building and resumed paperwork, later making Hashirama stay to review documents while a Wood Clone summoned the clan heads.
• The clan heads debated whether Konoha should continue its planned activities for the foreign envoys, end their visit early, or use the aftermath of the battle to build trust or deter future attacks.
• Hashirama told the clan heads that the Daimyo wanted a memorial service at the Dueling Arena in three days and had asked that the envoys attend.
• The clan heads recognized the service as the Daimyo’s way of helping Konoha recover its standing, while Hashirama and Madara praised its value for remembering the dead.

Hashirama and the clan heads settled plans for the Memorial Service, then used the first council meeting to address Konoha’s injured, defenses, compensation, and recovery. They reached several provisional agreements and assigned Madara Uchiha to compile the clans’ submissions and prepare the next implementation plan.

• Hashirama assigned Tobirama and Nara Shikahiko to consult the Daimyo and follow his arrangements for the Memorial Service.
• When the clan heads asked about Izuna’s condition, Madara said only that Izuna was still recovering.
• Tobirama raised plans for supporting the injured, restoring missions, strengthening defenses against Space-Time Ninjutsu, and compensating the fallen; the clans offered jobs and supplies for those affected.
• Hyuga Tennin proposed including the Byakugan in a new sensory barrier system, but the clan heads rejected bringing Uzumaki Clan personnel into Konoha’s defense work, so Tobirama deferred the technical decision.
• The council agreed on a trial compensation-fund rate, a mission-restoration timetable, and staffing for new facilities; Tobirama gave the clans three days to submit personnel and supply lists, while Madara Uchiha was assigned to compile them.

Hashirama and the clan heads decided to let the envoys choose whether to leave after the Memorial Service or stay for talks. At the hospital, Tadayo learned that Sarutobi Sasuke was worried about Izuna, then watched Miori bring her injured husband back to bed and care for him.

• The clan heads debated whether to send the envoys home or keep them in Konoha, and Madara proposed letting each envoy decide.
• Hashirama agreed to Madara’s plan and ended the meeting before asking Madara about Izuna’s condition.
• Tadayo went to Konoha Hospital and met the injured Sarutobi Sasuke, who said he had attended the meeting because he was concerned about Izuna.
• Tadayo told Sasuke that Izuna’s body should be all right, but his mental state had seemed abnormal on the battlefield.
• Miori caught Sasuke outside the hospital, dragged him back to his ward, and made him eat a roasted salamander before returning to work.

In the hospital, Sarutobi Sōun confronted Sasuke for risking his life to protect other Konoha Ninja and explained why the clans had sent him to befriend Uchiha Izuna. The conversation ended when Sōun told Sasuke that Hyuuga Haruhi was among the sixteen dead.

• Sōun brought Sasuke rice balls made by his mother and questioned why he had risked his life for Shimura Mu and the others.
• Sasuke argued that he had to protect Konoha Ninja, while Sōun insisted that Sasuke's life mattered to the Sarutobi Clan as its Young Clan Head.
• Sōun explained that the clans had sent Sasuke to approach Uchiha Izuna to discover Madara Uchiha's intentions.
• Sōun reflected on how Izuna and Hashirama Senju had transformed Konoha and inspired its people.
• Sōun told Sasuke that his Hyuga Branch Family friend, Hyuuga Haruhi, was among the sixteen dead.

Sasuke acknowledged Sōun’s warning to consider his family before risking his life. Tobirama and Rokuhiko planned Konoha’s memorial service with Yuan Yusheng, whose wife Wakako challenged Tobirama’s description of the ceremony as an opportunity, prompting him to recognize how casually he had treated the deaths of ninja.

• Sōun reminded Sasuke to think of Miori, Hiruzen, and his responsibilities before risking his life, and Sasuke said he understood.
• Tobirama and Rokuhiko asked Yuan Yusheng for guidance on arranging a memorial service, and Yuan proposed holding it at the Dueling Arena with an altar, speeches, and flowers.
• Tobirama outlined plans for crowd control and medical support, explaining that severely injured people would attend the service.
• Yuan apologized for assuming Tobirama was indifferent to fallen comrades, and Tobirama explained that Konoha had finally given them a chance to hold a collective funeral.
• Wakako told Tobirama that describing a memorial as an opportunity was inappropriate, and Tobirama bowed, realizing that he and other ninja had treated their comrades’ deaths like statistics.

Tobirama reflected on how Izuna had changed the way Ninja viewed grief and memorials, then encountered Madara searching for Izuna. A brilliant light and familiar Chakra appeared near Hokage Rock, and Madara raced toward it.

• Tobirama visited the envoys from the other four nations and invited them to the Memorial Service, which they agreed to attend.
• Walking home, Tobirama considered how Izuna had helped Ninja recognize grief and taught them to guide others out of numbness.
• Madara found Tobirama and demanded to know where Izuna was after discovering that Izuna had disappeared from the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• A bright cross-shaped light and familiar Chakra appeared near Hokage Rock, and Madara raced toward them, suspecting Izuna was there.

Izuna woke with enormous black wings and fled into the sky before Madara could see them. He followed a temporary system mission toward the area above Hokage Rock, while Madara searched for him below.

• In a dreamlike void, a boy with black wings raised his head as someone tried to prevent him from awakening.
• Madara bathed Izuna, cleaned their home, and prepared dinner while Izuna slept.
• Izuna woke when wings emerged from his back and discovered that he could make them flap and lift him.
• After a system prompt directed him above Hokage Rock, Izuna flew out of the courtyard as Madara came looking for him.
• Izuna watched Madara rush off to search the village, then decided to keep away until he understood the wings and glided toward Hokage Rock.

Izuna unlocked the Summoning System on Hokage Rock and used a Five-yen Coin to summon Mokushō, a yōkai who became his shikigami. Mokushō identified Izuna as a tengu, and Izuna discovered that he could retract his wings by thinking about it.

• Izuna found the Summoning System and saw that it required a Five-yen Coin to summon.
• Izuna discovered a coin in his cuff, found the projected Summoning Array, and tossed the coin into its money box.
• A boy named Mokushō appeared and introduced himself as a yōkai and Izuna’s new shikigami.
• Mokushō called Izuna a Lord Tengu because of his black wings and noble bearing.
• Izuna asked how to retract his wings, and they promptly shrank into his back when he thought about it.

After accepting Mokushō as his shikigami, Izuna showed an uncharacteristic lack of caution and casually reunited with Madara and Tobirama. The chapter ended with Izuna jumping off a cliff and landing safely on a roof, leaving Madara and Tobirama stunned.

• Izuna asked Mokushō what he planned to do, and Mokushō explained that he could go unnoticed by others.
• Madara and Tobirama arrived at the clifftop, and Madara checked on Izuna while Tobirama asked about his eyes.
• Izuna invited Tobirama home, thanked him for helping his eyes, and then jumped off the cliff.
• Izuna slowed his fall and landed safely on a roof, then waved up at Madara and Tobirama.
• Madara thanked Tobirama for Izuna's newfound strength and began climbing down the cliff, while Tobirama put away his Flying Thunder God Kunai.

Izuna revealed his newly awakened Tengu wings and his summoned Shikigami, Mokushō, after Madara mistook his strange movements for evidence that he was an impostor. Madara accepted that Izuna was his little brother, though he still wanted to know more about what Izuna was hiding.

• Izuna told Madara he had tried summoning, while Hashirama and Tobirama investigated a clean circle and a small clog print at Hokage Rock.
• Madara noticed Izuna moved unlike a Ninja and attacked him at home, accusing him of not being Izuna.
• Izuna revealed his black wings, and Mokushō explained that Izuna had awakened as a Tengu.
• Madara questioned Izuna about his wings, his survival after jumping off a cliff, and summoning Mokushō, while Izuna demanded compensation and dinner.
• Izuna accidentally knocked over a wind chime and a door panel with his wings, convincing Madara that he was his careless little brother.

Izuna, Madara, and Mokushō discussed Izuna’s supposed awakening as a Tengu and the powers Mokushō attributed to Tengu. They discovered that Izuna and Mokushō both knew Naruto, leaving Madara to wonder what Mokushō’s references to Amaterasu meant.

• Izuna ate a meal after recovering from several days of unconsciousness, while Madara questioned Mokushō about being Izuna’s Shikigami.
• Mokushō described Tengu as powerful, proud beings and said Izuna had awakened as one, leaving Izuna baffled and Madara skeptical.
• Mokushō said Tengu could fly and control the weather, and Madara teased Izuna by limiting him to one piece of Three-Colored Dango a day.
• Mokushō added that Tengu could conjure ordinary flames, prompting Izuna to ask how he knew about Amaterasu.
• Izuna tested Mokushō with a Naruto catchphrase, and they excitedly realized they had both watched Naruto.

Izuna learned that Mokushō could become useful by possessing an old object and teach him Onmyōji techniques. After Izuna used written characters to turn a stick into an iron-cutting weapon, Madara ordered him to study.

• Mokushō explained that he had lost his abilities as a tree spirit after becoming a Shikigami, but could change forms by possessing an old object.
• Mokushō refused to possess the crow Netsuke because a tsukumogami already inhabited it, then offered to teach Izuna Onmyōji techniques.
• Mokushō claimed that writing the characters for “Iron-Slaying Blade” on a stick would make it capable of cutting iron, and Madara brought Izuna a stick and a piece of armor to test it.
• Izuna wrote the characters on the stick and split the iron armor in two with a single blow.
• Madara saw the result and told Izuna to study.

Mokushō explained that forcing a concept onto an object exacted a price, and Madara realized Izuna had used his Light Blade to erase others’ distress at the cost of his own memories. Mokushō revealed that he could help Izuna use the power without harming himself, then left after Madara gave him money.

• Mokushō explained that Izuna’s Iron-Slaying Blade had broken because wood could not naturally cut iron, and that removing another person’s distress would make the user bear their pain.
• Madara recognized that Izuna had already used the Light Blade to clear bewitched people’s minds and had likely fallen unconscious from the cost, though Izuna could not remember doing so.
• Mokushō reassured them that people did not forget such experiences permanently, and Madara tried to comfort Izuna before Izuna changed the subject.
• Madara demanded that Izuna release Mokushō’s Contract after learning its backlash could harm Izuna, but Mokushō promised he could help remove negative emotions without a price.
• Mokushō explained the bond between Shikigami and Onmyōji, and Madara gave him money to stay at an inn before he departed.
• Madara brushed wood chips from Izuna’s clothes and avoided explaining the move he had mentioned as Izuna went to bed.

Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara questioned Jigen about Isshiki, and Jigen recounted how Isshiki took over his body a thousand years ago. He explained Isshiki’s plan to cultivate a God Tree and revealed that Black Zetsu was the manifestation of Otsutsuki Kaguya’s consciousness.

• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara visited Jigen at the temple and asked why Isshiki targeted Izuna, what Isshiki’s connection to Black Zetsu was, and whether Isshiki would return.
• Jigen thanked the three for their help and agreed to explain his history, beginning with how Isshiki entered his body as he tried to help a dying stranger.
• Jigen said Isshiki gradually took control of his body and that he learned of the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s practice of planting God Trees to harvest planetary life force.
• Jigen explained that Isshiki’s partner attacked him before being sacrificed to the God Tree, leaving Isshiki gravely injured and forced to survive inside Jigen for a thousand years.
• Jigen identified Black Zetsu as the manifestation of Otsutsuki Kaguya’s consciousness, revealing that she was the one who ambushed Isshiki.

Jigen explained Kaguya’s betrayal of the Ōtsutsuki, the origins of the White Zetsu and Tailed Beasts, and Isshiki’s plan involving Hashirama and Madara. The threat of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family remained in the future, while Hashirama promised to find a way to free Jigen from the place where he was trapped.

• Jigen explained that Kaguya made the White Zetsu from humans, and that her sons sealed her and the Ten-Tails’ empty shell in the moon after splitting its Chakra into the Nine Tailed Beasts.
• Jigen revealed that Black Zetsu sought to free Kaguya and that Isshiki had wanted Hashirama and Madara, whose Chakra descended from Asura and Indra, to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Tobirama said he had begun studying the White Zetsu samples, whose true purpose remained unknown.
• Jigen assured Hashirama that Izuna had completely erased Isshiki, including every Kāma, and explained how Kāma enabled an Ōtsutsuki to reincarnate through a host.
• Jigen warned that the Ōtsutsuki Main Family’s retrievers would eventually come to the planet seeking the God Tree’s fruit.
• Hashirama thanked Jigen and promised to find a way to free him from his confinement.

Madara told Hashirama and Tobirama that Izuna’s summoned Shikigami, Mokushō, had revealed the Uchiha were Tengu in another world, and they planned to examine him while keeping Izuna’s feelings in mind. Meanwhile, the Sarutobi elders debated how to repay their enormous debt to Izuna for saving their clan’s fighters, fearing Madara would eventually demand a costly repayment.

• Madara recounted how Izuna summoned Mokushō, a tree yōkai who described the Tengu and Onmyōji in Izuna’s world, and how Madara sent him to an inn.
• Tobirama objected to Madara letting Mokushō leave and proposed having the Yamanaka Clan probe his memories, while Hashirama urged caution for Izuna’s sake.
• Madara agreed to begin with an examination of Mokushō and watch him for suspicious behavior rather than immediately searching his mind.
• The Sarutobi elders reviewed how Izuna’s light technique helped all twenty-three clan reinforcements survive Isshiki’s attack, leaving the clan with a great debt of gratitude.
• Sarutobi Sasuke’s uncle complained that Madara refused to let the clan offset the debt, and an elder warned that such a debt might have to be repaid with their lives.

The Uchiha and Senju elders debated how to respond to the Uchiha’s role in saving Konoha and the possibility that Madara would compete to become the next Hokage. Both clans agreed to act cautiously, while tensions over the future Second Hokage remained unresolved.

• Sarutobi Sōun agreed to have Sasuke ask Uchiha Izuna about the Uchiha’s intentions, while Konoha’s clans considered how to repay the lives Izuna had saved.
• Uchiha Shigō and the other Uchiha elders argued over whether to seek benefits or build goodwill, then decided to send supplies, offer missions, and relinquish most village positions.
• Shigō told the Uchiha elders that Izuna’s arrangements were intended to prepare Madara to compete for Hokage, so the clan needed to avoid suspicion.
• Senju Kai objected when an elder claimed the Second Hokage should be Senju, and the Senju Elder defended the village’s rule that the successor would be chosen jointly.
• Kai argued that Izuna had saved gravely injured villagers who otherwise would have died, and the Senju Elder ordered the clan to treat the Uchiha fairly and avoid giving others grounds to criticize them.

Madara struggled to accept that the Izuna who returned was not his dead brother, but chose to protect him and preserve the stranger’s fragile sense of home. He left the Shrine’s basement resolved to shelter Izuna, despite the doubts and sacrifices that choice brought.

• Madara realized the returned Izuna had memories and relationships from a different world, but told Hashirama he would handle any threat himself.
• When Izuna removed his eye, Madara panicked and begged him not to leave; after Izuna explained that Tobirama had grown a replacement, Madara welcomed him back.
• Madara planned to kill Izuna during their walk by the Naka River, but abandoned that plan after Izuna punched him away with Monster Strength and rushed to help him.
• While recovering, Madara watched Izuna care for him and practice an unfamiliar sword style, and decided to protect him despite suspecting that Izuna knew something was wrong.
• Madara told Uchiha Hikaku that Izuna had returned and instructed the clan to treat him naturally as the Second-in-Command.
• In the Shrine's basement, Madara resolved to shelter Izuna and guard the fragile life he had brought into Madara's world.

Madara discovered that Izuna had awakened his Sharingan and Tengu powers, including an instinctive ability to control wind and fly. At work, Izuna read the memorial arrangements and learned about the deaths of Haruhi and Asari, but his muted reaction troubled Tobirama.

• Madara found Izuna celebrating his newly awakened Sharingan while an unrecognized wind swirled leaves around him.
• Izuna's wings appeared as he left home, and Madara yanked him down, then warned him to hide them from others.
• Madara told Izuna that Tobirama had completed the paperwork during his absence, and Izuna headed to the Hokage Building.
• Izuna greeted children on the way to work and gave them konpeito.
• Tobirama showed Izuna the memorial schedule, where Izuna recognized the names of Hyuuga Haruhi and Senju Asari among the dead.
• Izuna asked whether the deceased had left last letters so their unfulfilled wishes could be carried out, while Tobirama questioned why he did not seem sad.

Izuna arranged the Memorial Service and went to find Mokushō, who had been banned from a gambling den after winning repeatedly and turning a table into frogs. At a secluded training ground, Hideki thanked Izuna for saving Sōsuke, and Mokushō explained that Hideki could see spirits through his innate Yin-Yang Eyes before proposing that he learn Yin-Yang Jutsu with Izuna.

• Izuna told Tobirama he felt some regret over Kasuga and Asari’s deaths and began planning the Memorial Service, including checking on the victims’ families and drafting an opening speech.
• Hashirama agreed to preside over the service, while Izuna took responsibility for visiting the deceased’s families.
• Madara heard that Izuna had gone to visit the families, then realized he could not remember the name or identity of the person Izuna was seeking.
• Izuna found Mokushō outside a gambling den with winnings and supplies after Mokushō had won seventeen rounds, turned a table into frogs, and been permanently banned.
• Izuna took Mokushō and Hideki to a secluded training ground, where Hideki thanked him for saving Sōsuke and explained how he had encountered Mokushō.
• Mokushō said Hideki could see him through his innate Yin-Yang Eyes and proposed that Hideki stay and learn Yin-Yang Jutsu with Izuna.