Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima to help him locate the invisible Nagato. The sages learned that Nagato was Jiraiya’s former disciple and the Child of Prophecy, while Nagato and Obito considered how Jiraiya’s Sage Mode changed the odds of battle.

• Jiraiya sent Gamaken away and knocked Nagato’s yak summoning beast flying after completing Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, who asked about the Rinnegan and searched for the hidden Nagato.
• Jiraiya explained that Nagato was concealed inside a transparent summoning animal, and Sage Fukasaku sensed someone nearby.
• Jiraiya recalled the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy, and Sage Fukasaku concluded that they would have to kill Nagato if he had chosen the wrong path.
• Nagato doubted he could defeat Sage Mode Jiraiya, while Obito weighed whether his Kamui and Uchiha Gunbai could protect him from Jiraiya’s senjutsu.

Jiraiya fought Nagato’s Six Paths in Sage Mode and discovered that their shared vision made his attacks easy to evade. The chapter left him realizing the three Rinnegan users could see through one another’s eyes.

• Sage Shima exposed Nagato, and the Animal Path summoned the Human Path and Preta Path, revealing three Rinnegan users on the battlefield.
• Rasa and Ōnoki were shocked by the Rinnegan, while Orochimaru grew curious about Nagato’s eyes and learned from Obito that Yahiko had invited him to join the Akatsuki.
• Jiraiya attacked the Human Path and Preta Path, but the Preta Path absorbed his Ninjutsu, including Sage Art: Goemon and Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
• Sage Fukasaku helped Jiraiya use smoke and a toad to create openings, but the Human Path caught Jiraiya’s attack and the Paths dodged his strikes.
• Jiraiya noticed that the three Paths shared the same eyes and realized they could share what each of them saw.

Jiraiya tried to learn Pain’s weaknesses and escape Amegakure, while Tsunade worried about his mission in Konoha. He trapped three of Pain’s bodies with sound-based Genjutsu, but another Pain ambushed him, tearing off his right arm and revealing that six bodies were involved.

• Jiraiya retreated from the three Pains and searched for a way to defeat them while gathering information for Konoha.
• Tsunade watched the rain in the Hokage’s office and feared Jiraiya would not return from Amegakure.
• Jiraiya realized Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku could use sound-based Genjutsu to counter the Rinnegan’s defenses.
• Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku trapped the Animal Path, Human Path, and Preta Path in a Genjutsu, and Jiraiya struck the Animal Path with a sword.
• Another Pain ambushed Jiraiya from behind, tore off his right arm, and revealed that the Six Paths of Pain had arrived.

Jiraiya fought the six Pains, discovered that their bodies were not Nagato, and returned to confront them despite his injuries. The Pains overwhelmed him, leaving him dying with the knowledge of their identities still unrevealed to Konoha.

• Nagato explained that Pain was the collective name for the six bodies, and Jiraiya fought them while questioning why Yahiko had Nagato’s eyes.
• Jiraiya lured the Animal Path into a barrier and defeated him with Sage Shima’s help, realizing that Pain’s bodies were not Nagato.
• Jiraiya insisted on returning to identify the remaining Pains and sent Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima away with the corpse and his intelligence.
• The remaining Pains surrounded Jiraiya, and the Asura Path seized him by the throat before the others stabbed him with iron rods.
• Jiraiya lost Sage Mode and consciousness while struggling to send Pain’s identity back to Konoha, as Tsunade reflected on her feelings for him.

Jiraiya reflected on his failures as he sank beneath the sea, but Minato’s memories of Jiraiya’s novel led him to recognize Naruto as the Child of Prophecy. Jiraiya accepted his fate and named his next story Naruto Uzumaki’s Tale.

• Jiraiya lamented that he had failed to protect his loved ones, stop the Akatsuki, and fulfill the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• Yahiko and Nagato expressed their respect for Jiraiya, while Jiraiya blamed himself for failing to guide Nagato.
• Minato recalled asking Jiraiya to use the name Naruto for his future child, and Kushina and the others realized Naruto was Minato and Kushina’s son.
• Obito told Kushina that he had met Naruto in the instance, and Orochimaru described Naruto’s poor condition and blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for it.
• Jiraiya remembered Naruto and declared him the Child of Prophecy before sinking into the sea and deciding to title his new story Naruto Uzumaki’s Tale.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha as the inventory revealed the Third Raikage’s legendary strength and his death fighting Iwagakure. The screen then showed a future joint army of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, leaving the villages wondering what enemy had united them.

• Jiraiya returned to Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi hoped he would help handle village affairs and persuade Minato and Kushina.
• The inventory named the Third Raikage A as a top Kage-level fighter, prompting the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki to discuss his death after holding off Iwagakure’s forces.
• The inventory showed that Kabuto Yakushi later revived the Third Raikage with Impure World Reincarnation, angering the Fourth Raikage and other village leaders.
• The screen displayed a future joint army assembled from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, with Darui, Kitsuchi, Kakashi Hatake, Gaara, and Mifune commanding divisions.
• Hanzō identified Mifune as a samurai, and Kakuzu mocked Hanzō before he could boast.

The chapter recalled how Hanzō once spared Mifune after their duel, then showed the Allied Shinobi Forces’ division captains assembling under commander-in-chief Gaara. The gathered ninja marveled at the united villages, while Obito wondered why he was absent from the lineup.

• Hanzō recalled defeating Mifune, admiring his conviction, and giving him an antidote in exchange for sparing his comrades.
• The chapter described how Hanzō later lost his conviction after Nagato defeated him and he became afraid of death.
• Shikamaru introduced Darui, Kitsuchi, Kakashi, and Mifune as division captains of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Gaara appeared as commander-in-chief and captain of the Third Division, prompting Obito and Yahiko to question how someone so young had become a Kage.
• Obito praised the united shinobi forces and wondered why Kakashi was a captain while he himself was nowhere to be seen.

Gaara and Ōnoki faced an Impure World Reincarnation vanguard led by the Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage Mu, Second Mizukage Hozuki Gengetsu, and Rasa. Rasa clashed with Gaara’s sand using Gold Dust, and the chapter left them evenly matched as Rasa insisted he would defeat the young Kazekage.

• Gaara led the Allied Shinobi Forces across the desert while Ōnoki proposed confronting the approaching enemy from a distance.
• The Third Raikage, Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Rasa discussed their reluctance to fight shinobi from their own villages, though the Third Raikage trusted that his village’s younger generation had surpassed him.
• Mu spotted two opponents approaching, and the Kage saw a huge wave of sand surging toward them.
• Rasa summoned Gold Dust to collide with Gaara’s sand, and the attacks initially matched each other.
• Rasa explained that Gold Dust’s weight had slowed Gaara’s sand, then boasted that he would capture the Fifth Kazekage.

Gaara confronted his reanimated father, Rasa, while Ōnoki faced his former master Mū and the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared to attack. After Gaara and Rasa discussed their past, Gaara trapped the Kage in a sealing jutsu as the battle resumed.

• Gaara restrained Mū with sand, but Mū and Ōnoki countered each other with Dust Release while Rasa freed the Kage from the sand.
• Temari stopped the Third Division from rushing into the fight, and Ōnoki struggled with his age as Akatsuchi supported him.
• Gaara told Rasa that Shukaku had been extracted, that he had died and been revived, and that he no longer hated his father.
• The Second Mizukage criticized Rasa as a father, while the Third Raikage praised Gaara as a capable ninja.
• Kabuto ordered Mū to attack, and Gaara trapped the Kage with sand mixed with sealing tags.

Temari’s squad used a massive collective Wind Release attack against the Third Raikage, but he recovered instantly and defeated the sealing team. Dodai recognized his former partner and explained the limits of Wind Release against him, leaving Temari to consider how the Third Raikage had died.

• Temari ordered more than a hundred Wind Release shinobi to attack the Third Raikage with a collective technique.
• The Third Raikage survived the attack without lasting injury and knocked away two shinobi from the Sealing Squad.
• Dodai stepped forward, and the Third Raikage recognized his former partner.
• Dodai explained that only Wind Release could hit the Third Raikage, but that ordinary attacks lacked the power to kill him.
• Temari wondered how the Third Raikage had died, and Dodai recalled that he had fought ten thousand Land of Earth shinobi for three days and nights before dying of exhaustion.

Naruto joined the Allied Shinobi Forces and used a Wind Release: Rasengan to knock the Third Raikage down, but the reanimated Raikage rose again and attacked with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite. Dodai and Naruto escaped the attack, while the shinobi who charged the Raikage were killed.

• Naruto arrived on the battlefield in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and struck the Third Raikage with a Wind Release: Rasengan.
• Temari ordered the Sealing Squad to seal the fallen Raikage, but he tore free and stood back up.
• Dodai warned that the Third Raikage was being controlled and ordered the shinobi to defend themselves behind layered Earth Release walls.
• Dodai explained that the Raikage was using Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite as the Raikage broke through the walls.
• Temari ordered the shinobi to follow Dodai's retreat command, but several charged the Raikage instead.
• Dodai pulled Naruto to safety as the Third Raikage broke through the rubber barrier and killed every shinobi who had charged him.

Naruto tried to create a Tailed Beast Bomb to exploit the scar on the Third Raikage, who had once been wounded by the Eight-Tails, but he could not form it in time. As the Third Raikage pressed his attack, Naruto remained in danger, while Nagato reflected on his ties to Yahiko and their upcoming peace talks with Hanzō.

• Dodai explained that the Third Raikage's Three-Finger Nukite concentrated his power, and Naruto noticed a scar on his chest that Ōnoki said came from the Eight-Tails.
• Naruto realized that, as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he might be able to wound the Third Raikage with a Tailed Beast Bomb and began gathering Chakra.
• Temari sent Maki and Yukata back to the rear, while the Allied Shinobi Forces surrounded the Third Raikage to keep him occupied.
• The Third Raikage knocked away the front-line shinobi with Three-Finger Nukite before Naruto could finish forming the Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Nagato considered seeking forgiveness from Jiraiya and planned to attend Hanzō's peace talks with Yahiko, leaving Konan to look after the Akatsuki.

Naruto learned the Third Raikage’s weakness and helped the Allied Shinobi Forces seal him. In Konoha, Jiraiya gave Tsunade his savings to help revive Nawaki, and Tsunade kissed him after accepting his feelings.

• Dodai used a rubber ball to distract the Third Raikage while Naruto contacted Killer B and learned the Raikage’s weakness from the Eight-Tails.
• Naruto used Sage Mode and a Rasengan to turn the Third Raikage’s Three-Finger Nukite against the scar on his chest, destabilizing his body.
• Temari called in Maki and Yukata, who sealed the Third Raikage with Sunagakure’s sealing technique.
• Jiraiya found Tsunade drinking at a tavern and offered to lend her money for her plans to revive Nawaki.
• Tsunade accepted Jiraiya’s hundred thousand gold coins, thanked him, and kissed him.

Obito and Rin met the newly resurrected Nawaki while shopping and took him to Ichiraku Ramen. There, Teuchi recognized Nawaki, who had been dead for more than ten years.

• Rin and Obito met Nawaki at a mask shop, where Obito bought three fox masks after Nawaki challenged him to a duel.
• Nawaki introduced himself as a Senju and revealed he had been resurrected by Tsunade the day before.
• Obito and Rin took Nawaki to Ichiraku Ramen, where he was surprised by how much the shop had changed.
• Teuchi recognized Nawaki, and Nawaki greeted him as the old friend he remembered.

The ranking screen showed Tobirama Senju and his guard squad surrounded by Kumogakure forces, prompting Hiruzen and Danzo to volunteer as bait. Tobirama instead named Hiruzen the next Hokage and entrusted Konoha to him.

• Teuchi prepared ramen for Obito and the others as the ranking revealed Tobirama Senju in thirteenth place among Kage-level combatants.
• Tobirama and his six companions were surrounded by more than twenty Kumogakure elite Jonin, including Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Hiruzen volunteered to act as bait, and Danzo then insisted that he would take the role instead.
• Tobirama rebuked Danzo for hesitating and told his students to protect their lives and their comrades.
• Tobirama declared Hiruzen the next Hokage and entrusted Konoha to him.

Danzo clashed with Ōnoki over Konoha and Root as the viewing scene shifted from Tobirama Senju’s desperate final stand to Orochimaru’s confrontation with Hiruzen Sarutobi. Orochimaru summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju through Impure World Reincarnation, and the two Hokage attacked Hiruzen.

• Ōnoki mocked Danzo, who vowed to prove that Tobirama Senju had been wrong to choose someone else as Hokage.
• The account described Tobirama Senju and the Second Raikage as gravely wounded while fleeing Kinkaku and Ginkaku, whom the Fourth Raikage identified as wielders of Six Paths blood and tools.
• The scene shifted to Orochimaru confronting Hiruzen Sarutobi inside a barrier, where Hiruzen attacked with Shuriken, Shadow Clone Technique.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, while the third coffin failed to emerge fully.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju stepped from their coffins under Orochimaru’s control and attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi from both sides.

Hiruzen Sarutobi fought Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju, who overwhelmed him with powerful Water Release and Wood Release techniques. Hashirama trapped Hiruzen in a tree forest that began absorbing his Chakra.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi blocked Tobirama Senju's attacks, threw him away, and used Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Tobirama Senju countered with Water Release, then flooded the rooftop with a seemingly endless Water Shockwave while Hiruzen Sarutobi raised an Earth Style Wall.
• Hashirama Senju closed in and struck Hiruzen Sarutobi, forcing the elderly Third Hokage to defend himself and flee across the water.
• Hanzō mocked Hashirama Senju's apparent strength, while Orochimaru suggested Impure World Reincarnation could not restore the dead's full power.
• Hashirama Senju used Wood Release secret technique: Tree Sea Descent, trapping Hiruzen Sarutobi in trees that drained his Chakra.

The Fourth Raikage mocked Hiruzen Sarutobi for claiming to be the strongest Hokage, while the ongoing footage showed Hiruzen trapped by Wood Release as Orochimaru and the Hokage faced off. When the Inventory System asked who would win, most participants chose the First and Second Hokage, and Danzo chose Hiruzen to lose.

• Konoha villagers questioned how Hiruzen Sarutobi could lose, and the Fourth Raikage joked that he was only the strongest “Fire” Hokage.
• Obito condemned the technique that controlled the dead, and Nawaki agreed before Tsunade pointed out that their grandfather, the Second Hokage, had invented it.
• Hiruzen summoned Monkey King Enma while Wood Release branches restrained him, and Orochimaru ordered the Hokage not to finish transforming.
• The Inventory System asked everyone to predict the battle’s outcome, and Orochimaru recalled that Hiruzen had not survived the earlier Konoha Crush Plan instance.
• Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, Homura, and Koharu chose the First and Second Hokage to win, while Danzo chose Hiruzen Sarutobi to lose.

Orochimaru won a perfected Impure World Reincarnation and chose a future version of Kimimaro as his subordinate, while Hiruzen and the others worried about Orochimaru’s new power. Obito lent Nawaki the gold coins he needed after they both lost a thousand, and Obito began imagining a future as Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi gloated after most Konoha Ninja chose him, but Orochimaru answered that he chose mutual destruction and won perfected Impure World Reincarnation and a parallel-world subordinate.
• Orochimaru chose Kimimaro from the system’s list, and the young Jonin appeared with a Cursed Seal and a powerful Shikotsumyaku.
• Ōnoki warned Hiruzen Sarutobi about Orochimaru’s new technique, and Hiruzen promised to discipline his student before Orochimaru took Kimimaro away to begin his research.
• Obito and Nawaki both chose the Second Hokage and lost a thousand gold coins, leaving Nawaki penniless.
• Obito lent Nawaki a thousand gold coins and imagined that he would become Hokage, marry Rin, and make Kakashi his Anbu Captain.

The Inventory System ranked Kakashi Hatake twelfth among Kage-level fighters and revealed that he would become the Sixth Hokage. His footage showed Root ninja Yamato ambushing him during a search of Orochimaru’s laboratory, exposing Yamato’s Wood Release and leaving Kakashi pinned against a wall.

• Mei Terumi questioned why Kirigakure had no one on the rankings, then the Inventory System revealed Kakashi Hatake at number twelve as the Sixth Hokage.
• Obito struggled with the revelation that Kakashi would become Hokage, while Kakashi wondered why his future self had taken the position.
• Hatake Sakumo rebuked Danzo for trying to claim Kakashi for Root, and Danzo backed down.
• In the footage, Kakashi and Root ninja Tenzo searched Orochimaru’s laboratory, where Tenzo suddenly slashed Kakashi and attacked him as Kinoe.
• Yamato used Wood Release to bind Kakashi and slam him into a wall, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to demand an explanation from Danzo.