Chapter Summaries

Naruto, Killer B, Kakashi, and Might Guy failed to destroy the Ten-Tails, while Sasuke held Uchiha Madara back until the Five Kage and Jiraiya arrived. Sasuke let Madara join the battle, then entered the fight himself as the other fighters were left injured and exhausted.

• Naruto and Killer B launched massive Tailed Beast Bombs at the Ten-Tails while Kakashi and Might Guy restrained Obito Uchiha, but the Ten-Tails survived and Obito climbed onto its head.
• Sasuke blocked Uchiha Madara from reaching the Ten-Tails and fought him until the Five Kage and Jiraiya arrived.
• The Five Kage and Jiraiya chose to help Naruto and Killer B fight the Ten-Tails, while Sasuke continued holding Madara back.
• Sasuke discussed their conflicting plans with Madara, then stepped aside and let him reach the Ten-Tails.
• Madara joined Obito atop the Ten-Tails and prepared to attack Sasuke, who had joined the battered fighters and told them to rest while he took over.

Sasuke attacked the Ten-Tails with a powerful Wind Release technique, then closed in and battered it with lightning and water attacks. Uchiha Madara broke away from controlling the beast to fight Sasuke directly, and Sasuke began forcing him back in close combat.

• Sasuke used Sage Art: Tai Chi Spiraling Storm Slash to split the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb and wound its face with Wind Blades.
• Uchiha Madara and Obito Uchiha strengthened their control over the enraged Ten-Tails as Sasuke flew in to attack it at close range.
• Sasuke struck the Ten-Tails' chest with False Darkness and Hard Vortex Water Blade, preventing it from gathering energy.
• Uchiha Madara severed his connection with the Ten-Tails and charged at Sasuke to drive him away.
• Sasuke and Uchiha Madara exchanged close-range attacks, with Sasuke's barrage pushing Madara backward.

Sasuke stalled Obito and Madara while the Ten-Tails transformed, then turned Obito’s Tailed Beast Bomb against the beast. He left Obito impaled with his blade, threatening Madara’s plan to become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki.

• Tsunade, the Tsuchikage, Mei Terumi, Gaara, and the others reacted to Sasuke’s strength, then began recovering so they could rejoin the fight.
• Obito used the Ten-Tails’ Wood Release: Impaling Technique to stall Sasuke while Madara considered using Rinne Rebirth to become alive and take control of the Ten-Tails.
• Orochimaru praised Sasuke’s power, and Kabuto said Sasuke’s example gave him a new direction.
• The Ten-Tails entered its second stage, and Obito fired a concentrated Tailed Beast Bomb at Sasuke.
• Sasuke used two Wood Release dragons to force the bomb into the Ten-Tails’ stomach, where it exploded and brought the beast down.
• Sasuke suddenly pierced Obito through the chest, leaving Madara’s plan to be revived in jeopardy.

Sasuke fought Uchiha Madara with Wood Release and revealed that he had awakened the ability without Hashirama Senju's cells. He let Obito absorb the Ten-Tails' Chakra so he could face the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, leaving Uchiha Madara stunned by Sasuke's ambition to surpass the Sage of Six Paths.

• Sasuke dodged Uchiha Madara's attacks and challenged him to recreate his battle with the First Hokage.
• Sasuke summoned the Wood Human Technique and a Wood Dragon, then told Uchiha Madara that his Wood Release came from his own Chakra rather than Hashirama Senju's cells.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the other Kage watched Sasuke's Wood Release and struggled to understand his strength.
• While Sasuke and Uchiha Madara fought, Obito formed hand seals and began absorbing the Ten-Tails' Chakra, prompting Naruto and Kakashi to try to stop him.
• Sasuke stopped fighting Uchiha Madara and revealed that he had deliberately left Obito alive so he could battle the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Sasuke declared that he intended to surpass the Sage of Six Paths, while Uchiha Madara questioned whether he could match that power.

Sasuke let Madara watch as he confronted Obito, whose struggle to control the Ten-Tails left him vulnerable to the Five Kage’s coordinated assault. After Obito stabilized and gained nine Truth-Seeking Orbs, Sasuke attacked him directly and slammed him into the ground with a Sage Art Rasengan.

• Madara dispelled his Susanoo and agreed to watch Sasuke fight Obito.
• The Five Kage attacked Obito together, but his two Truth-Seeking Orbs blocked their jutsu while the Ten-Tails destabilized him.
• Obito’s form changed, his Truth-Seeking Orbs increased to nine, and he stabilized the Ten-Tails.
• Obito challenged Sasuke, who explained the nature of the Truth-Seeking Orbs and rushed at him.
• Sasuke struck Obito with a Sage Art Rasengan and drove him into the ground.

Sasuke used senjutsu to overpower Obito, the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and learned that Obito planned to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi through the Divine Tree. With Eagle Fury's help, Sasuke prepared to attack Obito but paused to consider how best to use his abilities.

• Sasuke explained that senjutsu could harm Obito and then battered him with a series of close-range attacks.
• Tsunade refused Naruto's offer to join the fight, while Jiraiya concluded that Sasuke's senjutsu and flight gave him an advantage over Obito.
• Obito released the Ten-Tails' Divine Tree and said its flower would cast Infinite Tsukuyomi over the world.
• Sasuke summoned Eagle Fury, who gathered senjutsu and carried Sasuke above the Divine Tree.
• Sasuke considered which Sharingan and Rinnegan abilities could help him attack Obito.

Sasuke defeated Obito and devastated the Divine Tree with a senjutsu Wind Fire Wheel, but refused to seal Obito because he was waiting for Madara to become the Ten-Tails’ jinchuriki. The arrival of the resurrected Hokage, the Itachi Squad, Orochimaru, and Kabuto left the others demanding explanations as Sasuke calmly waited for the battle to continue.

• Sasuke and Eagle Fury combined Amaterasu, Wind Release, and Shinra Tensei to launch the Wind Fire Wheel, which shattered Obito’s Truth-Seeking Orb shield and reduced the Divine Tree to a stump.
• The Divine Tree shed the sections burning with Amaterasu, while Sasuke approached the wounded Obito, who declared that the world was already dead.
• Naruto and the Five Kage approached, but Sasuke refused to seal Obito and said he was waiting for Madara to become the Ten-Tails’ jinchuriki.
• Tsunade charged at Obito, but Sasuke’s eye opened a vortex and Kakashi stopped her as seven figures appeared to separate the Kage from Obito.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, Minato, the Itachi Squad, Orochimaru, and Kabuto appeared, and Sasuke sat down to eat while the others questioned him.
• Orochimaru told Tsunade that Sasuke had killed and later revived him using the clone he had placed on Anko.

Sasuke kept the Allied Forces from attacking while he waited for Black Zetsu to make his move. Black Zetsu possessed Obito and used the Rinne Rebirth Technique to revive Uchiha Madara, then tried to take Obito to him as Kakashi intervened.

• The Raikage and Tsunade questioned Sasuke's actions, but the Fourth Hokage and Hashirama Senju confirmed they supported his plan.
• The Raikage agreed to stand down, and Tsunade assured the other Kage that Konoha would not betray the alliance.
• Black Zetsu approached Obito through the Divine Tree's roots and possessed him while Sasuke watched.
• Black Zetsu forced Obito to use the Rinne Rebirth Technique, reviving Uchiha Madara.
• Black Zetsu tried to take Obito to Uchiha Madara, but Kakashi blocked his path and demanded that he release Obito.

Sasuke separated Black Zetsu from Obito and allowed Madara to take Obito’s Rinnegan and the Ten-Tails while keeping Obito alive. Sasuke flew off to fight Madara, as Hashirama explained that Black Zetsu had altered the Uchiha stone tablet and warned the Kage of a greater threat.

• Sasuke bound Obito with Thunderclap Chains, pulled Black Zetsu out of him, and sent Black Zetsu to Madara.
• Madara came to Sasuke, agreed to leave Obito alive, reclaimed his Rinnegan, and extracted the Ten-Tails from Obito.
• Madara transformed into the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki and challenged Sasuke to fight him.
• Sasuke told Kakashi to take Obito away, warned the others to retreat, and flew off to face Madara.
• Hashirama told the gathered leaders that Black Zetsu had altered the Uchiha stone tablet and that Sasuke’s clues came from his Summoning Animals.
• Hashirama warned that a threat greater than Madara might endanger the world and that the Divine Tree’s origin remained unknown.

Sasuke fought Uchiha Madara with the Uchiha Gunbai and Limbo, keeping Madara on the defensive and provoking him to reveal more of his strength. The chapter left their battle escalating as Madara unleashed a massive fire technique and Sasuke answered with a towering water wall.

• Sasuke challenged Uchiha Madara’s confidence and said he could change the world peacefully.
• Sasuke used the Uchiha Gunbai to block Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orb attack, then evaded his scythe strikes and found that Amaterasu was ineffective.
• Sasuke used Limbo: Border Jail to bind Madara’s four shadows, then attacked Madara with the gunbai and Taijutsu.
• Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orbs destroyed Sasuke’s shadows, but Sasuke seized the opening and battered Madara until he shielded himself with the orbs.
• Sasuke provoked Madara into fighting harder, and Madara unleashed Great Fire Annihilation before Sasuke countered with Water Formation Wall.

Sasuke and the Eagle King prepared a massive combined attack against Uchiha Madara after Madara unleashed the Divine Tree’s vines across the battlefield. The Allied Forces stabilized their defenses, while Sasuke began his final assault from the sky.

• Sasuke used Hidden Mist Technique, Border Jail, and Thunder Hell to restrain and strike Uchiha Madara, but Madara countered with Deep Forest Emergence and destroyed the shadows.
• Sasuke summoned the Eagle King and planned to crush Madara and the Divine Tree with a wind-powered Tai Chi Spiral Storm Slash infused with Amaterasu.
• The Divine Tree’s vines attacked the distant Allied Forces and cut off their communications, so Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi reported the situation to Tsunade.
• The Raikage ordered Shikamaru and his companions to rescue the Communications Corps, while the others continued fighting off the vines.
• Sasuke and the Eagle King rose high before diving toward Madara, who activated Susanoo and prepared his Truth-Seeking Orbs to intercept the attack.
• Naruto asked to help Sasuke, but Kakashi had repeatedly held him back.

Sasuke and the Eagle King’s combined Wind Release crushed the Divine Tree and nearly overwhelmed Uchiha Madara, but Black Zetsu saved him. Madara activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi, leaving Sasuke and a handful of others awake as he prepared to fight Sasuke again.

• Sasuke and the Eagle King strengthened the World-Destroying Grinding Wheel until it shattered Susanoo’s defenses and ground the Divine Tree into dust.
• Black Zetsu pulled Uchiha Madara underground, allowing him to evade Sasuke’s attack and survive.
• Naruto told Minato Namikaze that he felt far behind Sasuke, and Minato encouraged him to keep training.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Uchiha Madara to activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which put most of the world to sleep and bound them in the Divine Tree’s vines.
• Sasuke remained unaffected, sent the Eagle King away, and confronted Uchiha Madara, who claimed he could outlast him.

Sasuke let Black Zetsu revive Kaguya Ōtsutsuki so he could test his strength and learn where she came from. Kaguya appeared before him, and Sasuke asked her about her origins as they prepared to fight.

• Black Zetsu pierced Uchiha Madara and began using him to revive Kaguya Ōtsutsuki while Sasuke calmly ate and watched.
• Sasuke told Black Zetsu that he knew the Uchiha Clan's stone tablet had been altered and that Black Zetsu had spent thousands of years preparing to revive Kaguya.
• Sasuke explained that he had allowed Black Zetsu's plan to proceed because he wanted to meet Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Black Zetsu covered Uchiha Madara, whose body expanded and contracted until Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared.
• Sasuke faced Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and asked where she had come from.

Sasuke questioned Kaguya Ōtsutsuki about her origins, then fought her using Taijutsu, ninjutsu, and Yin-Yang Chakra. Kaguya trapped them in an ice dimension, where Sasuke escaped and attacked again, but she evaded him through a spatial gate.

• Sasuke demanded to know where Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and the Divine Tree had come from, and Black Zetsu refused to answer.
• Sasuke attacked Kaguya Ōtsutsuki with Taijutsu and a Water Dragon Bullet Technique, but she blocked and repelled his attacks.
• Sasuke formed a Yin-Yang Chakra Rasengan as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki unleashed her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Sasuke shaped the Rasengan into a Tai Chi disk that erased Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's Chakra fists, but she transported them into an ice dimension with Amenominaka.
• Sasuke broke free of the ice with Amaterasu and used Instant Air to attack Kaguya Ōtsutsuki from behind, but she evaded him through a spatial gate.

Sasuke fought Kaguya Ōtsutsuki in her ice dimension, evading her attacks and using Instant Air to strike her despite the crushing gravity. He returned to the battlefield after gaining the advantage, while the First Hokage and Tobirama Senju considered what his escape meant and wondered about Kaguya’s origins.

• Sasuke studied the ice dimension and concluded that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s Sharingan came from the Divine Tree rather than being her innate power.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki attacked Sasuke with rising ice spikes, then changed the dimension’s gravity and confronted him with All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Black Zetsu refused to explain Kaguya’s origins or her ability, and claimed that he and Kaguya had immortal bodies.
• Sasuke used Instant Air to dodge Kaguya’s bone spikes and kick her, explaining to Black Zetsu that human beings could evolve beyond their ancestors.
• Sasuke began gathering a Rasengan, then returned to the battlefield, where the First Hokage and Tobirama Senju inferred that Kaguya had suffered a setback.

Sasuke tried to stop Kaguya Ōtsutsuki from reaching Naruto and learned that she had fled Mūzuki Land with its sacred tree. He used Sumeru to shift everyone to another world and struck Kaguya with the Tai Chi Diagram.

• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared beside the First Hokage and attacked Naruto, but the Hokage's defenses and the Second and Fourth Hokage's counterattack failed to stop her.
• Naruto broke through the Wood Lock Wall and hit Kaguya with a golden Chakra fist, freeing himself from the Infinite Tsukuyomi's control.
• Kaguya shifted everyone to a lava world and used Water Stream Whips to hold them over the chasm while Sasuke asked where she came from.
• Kaguya revealed that she was Mūzuki Land's Saintess, had fled with its sacred tree, and planned to use people caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi as servants.
• As Kaguya approached Sasuke, he activated Sumeru, moved everyone to a peaceful new world, and struck her back with the Tai Chi Diagram.

Sasuke freed the tailed beasts from Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and sealed her inside a sphere in the Sumeru space. After recovering his strength, he summoned Isobu and asked the tailed beasts to support his plan for an alliance.

• Sasuke evacuated Naruto and the others while Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's body swelled with chaotic Chakra.
• Sasuke used the Nine Dragon Seal to bind Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and create an opening for the tailed beasts to escape.
• Nine-Tails and the other tailed beasts pulled themselves free, and Sasuke sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki in a growing sphere with the Tai Chi Seal and Chibaku Tensei.
• Sasuke recovered his Chakra, summoned Isobu, and explained his plan to the tailed beasts.
• Sasuke argued that their combined strength would deter opposition to the alliance, which would later be dissolved.

Sasuke agreed with the tailed beasts’ plan to end the wars, but the Sage of Six Paths appeared in a physical body and used the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Technique on him. Sasuke awoke as newborn Naruto Uzumaki, forced to witness Minato and Kushina’s deaths, and the chapter ended with Danzō asking to take him and train him as Konoha’s weapon.

• Sasuke left Sumeru after the tailed beasts agreed with his plan and found the Sage of Six Paths waiting with Naruto and the three Hokage.
• The Sage of Six Paths said he had come because of Sasuke and scattered Sasuke’s Great Fire Annihilation before using the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Technique.
• Sasuke lost consciousness and awoke in an infant’s body as the Nine-Tails attacked Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Minato sealed the Nine-Tails’ Yin Release Chakra, while Kushina restrained its Yang Attribute Chakra with her sealing chains; both parents died after Minato completed the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
• The Third Hokage picked up the infant, and Shimura Danzō asked Sarutobi to hand Naruto over so he could train him as Konoha’s weapon.

After Hiruzen stopped Danzō from taking Naruto, Naruto accepted his new identity and grew up isolated as the Nine-Tails’ jinchūriki. At age three, he entered his spiritual space and approached the voice of the Nine-Tails.

• Hiruzen threatened Danzō for wanting to turn Naruto into a weapon, and Danzō agreed not to target him while insisting his parentage remain secret.
• Danzō leaked that Naruto was the Nine-Tails’ jinchūriki, leaving him shunned and alone in a small apartment after his caretaker left.
• Naruto resolved to live as Naruto and determine for himself who was controlling his fate.
• Three-year-old Naruto bought a boxed meal while villagers stared, then returned home and ate as Hiruzen watched him through a crystal ball.
• Naruto entered his spiritual space and followed the Nine-Tails’ beckoning voice, dismissing its attempt to lure him as a child.

Naruto met Kurama in his mindscape, told it about his mysterious reincarnation, and agreed to work with it while seeking a way to break free of his apparent cycle. He began refining Chakra and training in secret, and by age four he was ready to venture into the forest and plan for weight training.

• Naruto faced Kurama in the cage and calmly told it about his past life and the Sage of Six Paths sending him into this body.
• Naruto and Kurama agreed to cooperate, with Naruto planning to gather the power of all nine tailed beasts to break his shackles or dispel the Genjutsu.
• Naruto returned to his room and began refining Chakra, using his mental strength to ensure no one was watching him.
• Naruto trained his Chakra and body in secret for a year, nourishing his meridians, bones, and muscles.
• At age four, Naruto could play in the forest outside the village and began saving money for metal weights.