Chapter Summaries

The Fourth Raikage stopped Ōnoki from threatening Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Hagoromo and Killer B’s battle escalated into a clash between Killer B’s Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and Hagoromo’s Yang Release technique. The chapter ended as Hagoromo’s golden chains pierced Killer B’s transformed body.

• The Fourth Raikage warned Ōnoki that Kumogakure would destroy Iwagakure if his actions provoked a war with Konoha, and Ōnoki backed down.
• Hagoromo and Killer B continued their fierce battle until Killer B and Gyuki agreed to use more power.
• Killer B activated his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and launched a Tailed Beast Bomb at Hagoromo.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Samui to raise a barrier, and Kumogakure ninja formed one around the battlefield.
• Hagoromo spotted an opening and used Yang Release: Yang God Binding to send golden chains toward Killer B.
• The chains pierced Killer B’s Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and plunged into his body.

Hagoromo restrained Killer B with chakra-absorbing chains, and the two unleashed powerful attacks that devastated the Kumogakure valley. Killer B survived the explosion and thought Hagoromo was defeated, but Hagoromo spoke from behind him.

• Hagoromo's chains suppressed Gyuki and pulled Killer B out of his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Killer B used Lightning Release to weaken the chains, then forced out enough Tailed Beast Chakra to fire an incomplete Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Hagoromo hurled a Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan at the Tailed Beast Bomb and vanished as their collision created a massive explosion.
• The blast shattered the sealing barrier and injured spectators, so the Fourth Raikage A sent Samui to check for casualties.
• Killer B survived with Gyuki's help, saw the chains dissolve, and assumed Hagoromo could no longer fight.
• As Killer B collapsed and claimed victory, Hagoromo calmly spoke from behind him.

Hagoromo defeated Killer B after a fierce battle, while holding back his Chakra Mode to avoid revealing his trump card. Killer B acknowledged the loss before collapsing, and Samui called for a medical ninja.

• Killer B used a tentacle substitution to escape Hagoromo's Kunai, but Hagoromo struck him with the Extreme Konoha Strong Whirlwind.
• Killer B and Hagoromo fought evenly until Killer B discarded his damaged blades and challenged Hagoromo to one final attack.
• Gyuki lent Killer B what Chakra he could, and Killer B charged with his final Lariat as Hagoromo unleashed Tiger Hunt.
• Hagoromo's Tiger Hunt shattered Killer B's Tailed Beast Chakra, and Hagoromo's follow-up punch sent Killer B crashing into the mountain.
• Shisui supported the exhausted Hagoromo while Samui went to Killer B, who admitted defeat before collapsing.
• Samui called for a medical ninja after seeing Killer B's severe injuries.

Hagoromo realized Kumogakure was sending Killer B and Samui to Konoha to seek its sealing techniques, while Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected the Raikage’s offer as insufficient. The alliance talks remained unresolved, with Kumogakure’s request for powerful sealing jutsu still at issue.

• Hagoromo told the talkative Killer B to be quiet, while Samui explained that she and Killer B would return to Konoha with the Konoha delegation.
• Samui recalled that Dodai had persuaded the Fourth Raikage to send Killer B as an open show of goodwill and to investigate Konoha’s tailed-beast sealing methods.
• Hagoromo suspected Kumogakure wanted Konoha’s sealing jutsu, especially the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, in exchange for sending Killer B.
• The Fourth Raikage asked Hiruzen Sarutobi whether Kumogakure had shown enough sincerity, but Hiruzen said its offer was not worth what it wanted.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Fourth Raikage A negotiated a Konoha–Kumogakure alliance, with the Heavenly Transfer Technique offered as a possible exchange. On the journey back, Killer B kept pestering Hagoromo to teach him catchy lines, while Hiruzen watched them become friends.

• Dodai urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to name further demands, and Shikaku said Konoha needed to see Kumogakure's sincerity.
• Fourth Raikage A offered Kumogakure's Heavenly Transfer Technique in exchange, and Hiruzen said Konoha would consider it.
• Hiruzen agreed to inform the daimyo and publicly announce the alliance after returning to Konoha.
• Killer B recited rhymes on the road and asked Hagoromo for more catchy lines.
• Killer B sat beside Hagoromo and called for them to talk more as friends, making Samui, Kakashi, and Shisui wary.

Jiraiya arranged for Hizashi Hyuga to be returned to Konoha and learned that Hiruzen Sarutobi had chosen to honor him as a village hero. Hiashi and Neji heard the decision, and Hiashi promised to keep the Hyuga Clan in line for the funeral.

• Jiraiya received Hiruzen Sarutobi's order to arrange a welcoming ceremony for Hizashi's body and summon Hiashi and Neji.
• Shikaku asked whether Hizashi's body should travel ahead, and Hagoromo advised keeping it with the group.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided Hizashi would be buried by the Memorial Stone as a hero of Konoha.
• Jiraiya told Hiashi and Neji about Hiruzen's decision and asked Hiashi to keep the Hyuga Clan in line.
• Hiashi thanked Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya, promised to prevent trouble, and Neji saw tears fall from his uncle's face.

Neji received Hagoromo’s letter promising his father would return and cried with relief, while Hagoromo brought Killer B and the Kumogakure delegation into Konoha. The village welcomed them with a large celebration, where Hagoromo saw Hiashi, Hinata, Neji, and Hanabi among the gathered villagers.

• Jiraiya gave Neji Hagoromo’s letter, and Neji went to the training ground to read it alone.
• Neji learned that his father’s body was intact and that Hagoromo would bring him home, then cried before joining the others for a meal.
• Hagoromo welcomed Samui and Killer B into Konoha and told the Kumogakure group to behave during their stay.
• Kakashi joked with Hagoromo about the villagers’ welcome and asked about Jiraiya’s books.
• Hagoromo entered Konoha with the delegation and saw Hiashi, Hinata, Neji, and Hanabi among the cheering crowd.

At his father's grave, Neji discovered that his Byakugan had begun its initial bloodline awakening, though the Caged Bird Seal still limited its power. Meanwhile, Hiruzen kept Jiraiya in Konoha because he feared Iwagakure might start a war, and Hagoromo told his disciples that Kumogakure's delegation would arrive soon.

• Neji visited his father's grave, thanked Hagoromo for bringing back the remains, and asked him to continue training him strictly.
• Neji revealed that his Byakugan's insight and mental pressure had increased, and Hagoromo identified it as an initial bloodline awakening while promising he could undo the Caged Bird Seal later.
• Hiruzen told Jiraiya that he needed him to stay in Konoha to prepare for Kumogakure's alliance visit and guard against a possible move by Ōnoki and Iwagakure.
• Jiraiya agreed to remain in the village and left Hiruzen's office.
• Hagoromo told Naruto and his other disciples that Kumogakure's people would arrive in a few days and that they could see them then.

Hagoromo and his students discussed the risk of war during a dinner, while Pain responded to Konoha’s planned alliance with Kumogakure by calling an Akatsuki meeting. The chapter ends with Deidara and Sasori joining the summoned Akatsuki members.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and the others shared a meal at Hagoromo’s house while Shikamaru asked whether Iwagakure would respond to Konoha’s alliance with Kumogakure.
• Neji asked Hagoromo whether he could graduate early, and Hagoromo told him they would consider it when the time came.
• Konan told Pain that Konoha planned to ally with Kumogakure and that Iwagakure had offered to cooperate.
• Pain condemned the Five Great Nations and ordered Konan to summon all Akatsuki members for a meeting.
• Sasori and Deidara received the summons through their rings and appeared with the other Akatsuki members.

Pain changed the Akatsuki’s plans as Konoha and Kumogakure prepared to ally, assigning members to disrupt the alliance and pursue the tailed beasts. Meanwhile, Hagoromo praised Sasuke and Naruto for their progress in ninjutsu training and urged Naruto to surpass Kitsuchi.

• Pain announced that he would personally capture the Six-Tails Jinchuriki and explained that Kumogakure and Konoha were nearing an alliance.
• Pain ordered Sasori and Deidara to cause chaos in Sunagakure, assigned Kakuzu and Kisame to watch the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, and told Zetsu to find the Three-Tails.
• After the meeting, Pain stood by a window in the Land of Rain and vowed that the world would feel pain.
• Sasuke demonstrated Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, and Hagoromo praised his control and progress.
• Naruto demonstrated a towering Earth-Style Wall, and Hagoromo recognized how far his Earth Release training had advanced.
• Hagoromo told Naruto about Kitsuchi’s exceptional Earth Release, and Naruto vowed to surpass him.

Hagoromo gave up on learning Flying Thunder God and received new jutsu from a teaching reward as worries about an approaching war spread. At the training ground, Hinata demonstrated a powerful defensive technique against Neji while Naruto and Sasuke watched.

• Hagoromo told Naruto that Wind Nature suited his fighting style best and promised to teach Naruto and Sasuke the Summoning Technique Formula after preparing it.
• Hagoromo abandoned his attempt to learn Flying Thunder God and decided to focus on Sealing Jutsu and strengthening his other abilities.
• Hagoromo received Earth Release: Earth Flow Divide and Water Release: Water Mirror Technique as rewards after completing a teaching session.
• Iruka asked Hagoromo whether war was approaching and worried that graduating children might be sent to the battlefield.
• Hinata used Guardian: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms against Neji, and Sasuke described her technique as an absolute defense while Naruto praised her strength.

Hagoromo taught the graduating class about ninja combat to prepare them for a possible war, then received Monster Strength as his lesson reward. Might Guy led the students through brutal physical training, leaving even Naruto and Sasuke stunned.

• Hagoromo began a two-week practical course by teaching the graduating students how ninja fought and how to respond.
• Hagoromo received the Monster Strength reward, which gave him detailed memories of Tsunade's training and greatly increased his striking power.
• Hagoromo asked Might Guy to lead the afternoon physical training and cautioned him to go easy on the students.
• Might Guy made the students run laps until they collapsed, then carried them and made them continue.
• Naruto and Sasuke watched the grueling training in shock as Might Guy called for fifty more laps.

Hagoromo took Killer B and Samui on a tour of Konoha, but a Ninja Hawk summoned him to an emergency Jonin meeting. He arrived at the meeting room and asked Kakashi what was happening, but Kakashi did not know.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Hagoromo to show Killer B around Konoha, and Samui accompanied them.
• Hagoromo led Killer B and Samui through Konoha, where Samui observed the village and Killer B sampled its food.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Hagoromo noticed a Ninja Hawk and realized an emergency Jonin meeting had been called.
• Hagoromo left for the Hokage Building while Uchiha Itachi escorted Killer B and Samui back to their guest quarters.
• Hagoromo joined Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and Kakashi at the meeting, but Kakashi said he did not know why it had been called.

Hiruzen Sarutobi convened Konoha’s Jonin after Sunagakure declared war, and Shikaku outlined measures to guard against a second front with Iwagakure. Hiruzen assigned Jiraiya to stall Iwagakure and sent Kakashi and Hagoromo to lead Konoha’s defense against Sunagakure.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told the Jonin that Sunagakure had declared war after accusing a Konoha spy of attacking the Fourth Kazekage and one of Sunagakure’s elders.
• Shikaku warned that Iwagakure might be involved and proposed taking the Land of Rivers, monitoring neighboring countries, and disrupting Kirigakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said he had contacted the Fourth Raikage and arranged for Kumogakure to distract Iwagakure while Konoha prepared for war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Jiraiya to lead a team to the Iwagakure border and delay its forces.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi appointed Shikaku supreme commander and ordered Kakashi and Hagoromo to lead the Sunagakure front, with Kakashi as commander and Hagoromo as deputy.

Hagoromo and Kakashi planned operations against three powers in the Land of Rivers, and Hagoromo led a hundred Konoha ninja to destroy the Poison Fang Group. After surrounding its Black Swamp base, Hagoromo and Choza launched a coordinated attack that set the compound ablaze.

• Kakashi explained that the Poison Fang Group, the Ibu Clan, and the Sea Serpent Group were the Land of Rivers' main threats, and outlined Konoha's plans to eliminate the first two and seize the third.
• Kakashi assigned Hagoromo a hundred ninja, put Choza under his command, and ordered them to finish within five days.
• Hagoromo's team surrounded the Poison Fang Group's base, while a Hyuga Chunin used the Byakugan to spot and bypass its swamp traps.
• Hagoromo and Choza began the assault, with Choza smashing through the gates using Partial Expansion Jutsu.
• Hagoromo unleashed Majestic Destroyer Flame as Konoha ninja amplified it with Wind Release, engulfing the base in flames.

Hagoromo split from Akimichi Chōza after the Poison Fang Group was destroyed and led twenty ninja toward Sealed Vault Canyon to attack the Ibu Clan. As Hagoromo prepared an assault, Ibu guards discussed the clan’s past and the limits of their Smoke Release.

• Hagoromo and Akimichi Chōza agreed to split up, with Hagoromo heading for Sealed Vault Canyon and Chōza searching for the Sea Serpent Group.
• Aburame Muta reported that the Ibu Clan lived in a foggy canyon with one guarded entrance and traps.
• Hagoromo ordered an operation as dusk fell and the Ibu guards approached their shift change.
• Yundou asked Kawajirō about the clan’s heightened alert, and Kawajirō said war was near and Sunagakure had recently sought the Ibu Clan’s help.
• Kawajirō explained that only the clan head possessed the most complete Smoke Release, a Kekkei Genkai formed from Chakra-infused wind and fire transformations.

Hagoromo and Aburame Muta infiltrated Sealed Vault Canyon by killing two guards and taking their identities. Hagoromo entered the Ibu Clan head’s residence and used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique on the young clan head as he paid respects to his parents.

• Hagoromo and Muta ambushed Kawajirō and Yundou after Muta subdued Yundou with Kikaichū.
• Hagoromo killed Kawajirō, and the two hid both bodies in a wall before taking their forms.
• Hagoromo and Muta passed the guard handover by using the proper birdcall signals and left the smoke-filled entrance.
• Hagoromo used the Earth Release, Mayfly Technique to travel beneath Sealed Vault Canyon and reach the Ibu Clan head’s residence.
• Hagoromo overheard the young clan head refuse to act as the Sand ninja’s vanguard, then followed him to an altar where he vowed revenge on Konoha and Sunagakure.
• Hagoromo cast the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique on the young clan head as he knelt before his parents’ portraits.

Hagoromo used Yin Release to control the Ibu Clan patriarch and make him dissolve the smoke barrier at Sealed Vault Canyon, allowing Konoha ninja to attack. As the battle spread through the canyon, Muta engaged an Ibu elder, who trapped him in a scorching smoke cage.

• Hagoromo used Yin Release: Spirit-Manipulating Threads to control the Ibu patriarch and interrogated him about his plans.
• The Ibu patriarch revealed that he intended to use Smoke Release to ambush Sand and Konoha ninja, and Hagoromo forced him to remove the smoke barrier at the canyon entrance.
• Two Konoha ninja killed the guards at the entrance, and their team entered Sealed Vault Canyon and attacked the Ibu clansmen.
• An Ibu elder rescued a clansman and used Smoke Release: Smoke Veil to obscure the battlefield and help the Ibu fighters regroup.
• Muta sent Kikaichū after the elder, but the elder poisoned the insects and trapped Muta inside Smoke Release: Hot Smoke Cage.

Hagoromo defeated Elder Ibu and helped wipe out the Ibu Clan, then regrouped his surviving ninja after learning Choza had located the Sea Serpent Group. Hagoromo hurried toward Choza while, offshore, a steel submarine surfaced.

• Hagoromo struck Elder Ibu with a chakra-charged punch, freeing Muta from the smoke cage.
• Hagoromo joined the battle and stopped fleeing Ibu clansmen at the canyon entrance, killing them with Wind Release.
• Hagoromo watched the Ibu Clan’s explosives ignite and learned that two of his twenty ninja had died from poison.
• Muta told Hagoromo that Choza had found the Sea Serpent Gang, and Hagoromo led the surviving ninja toward Choza’s location.
• Choza waited in the forest by the beach after tracking down the Sea Serpent Group, and a steel submarine surfaced offshore.

Hagoromo and Choza traced the Sand ninja’s missing supplies to the Sea Serpent Group, which was hiding beneath the sea using Glue-Steel Release. With a shipment expected that night, Hagoromo planned to attack from the sky using his summoning beast, Sansan.

• Choza explained that a Hyuga clansman had spotted a mass lurking beneath the sea after noticing a Chakra fluctuation.
• Choza identified the Sea Serpent Group’s Kekkei Genkai as Glue-Steel Release, a combination of water and earth that created a biological, fluid-like substance.
• Hagoromo learned that the Sand ninja’s next supply transport was expected that night and agreed they needed to eliminate the group.
• Hagoromo asked how much water oil remained and proposed setting the sea ablaze to attack the group.
• Choza worried the plan would expose their people, so Hagoromo said he would attack from above with Sansan.