Chapter Summaries

Impure World Reincarnation forces attacked across the battlefronts, leaving the Allied Forces struggling to hold their lines. At the newly established Fifth Battlefield, Konoha’s ninja fought their revived predecessors, and Tsunade and Kakashi began trying to restore their relatives’ consciousness.

• Hyuga Kei ordered the Allied Forces to use Orochimaru’s Fuinjutsu on powerful revived ninja, prioritizing the previous generation’s Kage.
• The Raikage, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, and Gaara struggled to reach their revived opponents and apply the Fuinjutsu.
• Tsunade confronted Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju, overcame her hesitation, and attacked Hashirama.
• Kakashi charged Hatake Sakumo while concealing a Fuinjutsu intended to restore his father’s clarity.
• Jiraiya fought Tobirama Senju using Sage Mode, while Might Guy, Choza Akimichi, Hayama Shirakumo, and other Konoha jonin held Sarutobi Hiruzen back.

Naruto freed Minato Namikaze from the Impure World Reincarnation control, and the father and son joined forces against Sarutobi Hiruzen. They nearly destroyed Hiruzen’s body, and Minato began another sealing technique as the fight continued.

• Minato Namikaze attacked the Ninja Allied Forces until Naruto confronted him and tried to break the enemy’s control.
• Naruto caught a Fuinjutsu meant to disrupt the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and forced it into Minato Namikaze’s body, freeing him from control.
• Naruto and Minato Namikaze reunited and charged together at the controlled Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Minato attacked Hiruzen with the Flying Thunder God Technique while Naruto used a Rasenshuriken and a Tailed Beast Bomb to create an opening.
• The Tailed Beast Bomb nearly shattered Hiruzen’s Impure World Reincarnation body, and Minato followed with Sealing Technique: Multiple Binding.

Minato sealed Sarutobi Hiruzen, then joined Naruto and Tsunade as the Allied Forces used Fuinjutsu to free reanimated shinobi across every front. With the battle turning in their favor, Hyuga Kei ordered the forces to regroup at the command center as Kabuto’s side began its plan to capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.

• Minato sealed Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Naruto took his father to help Tsunade fight Senju Hashirama.
• Kabuto learned that Minato and Rasa had been freed from Impure World Reincarnation control, then sent Obito and Sasuke to capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails while Madara dealt with Hyuga Kei.
• Killer B helped the Fourth Raikage seal and free the Third Raikage, while Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, and Gaara freed Chiyo, Mu, and Rasa on their respective fronts.
• Naruto, Minato, and Tsunade freed Senju Hashirama, who helped Jiraiya free Tobirama; Kakashi also freed his father, Hatake Sakumo.
• As reanimated shinobi were freed and sealed across the battlefields, Hyuga Kei ordered all forces to return to the command center and assemble.

Sasuke arrived on the Fifth Battlefield with ten Rinnegan puppets and attacked the shinobi, insisting the world needed to be reshuffled. Naruto confronted him in the sky while Hashirama and the others fought the puppets and Tailed Beasts below.

• Sasuke descended with ten Tailed Beast chakra-infused Rinnegan puppets and accused Orochimaru of severing their connection.
• Sasuke sent the puppets to attack, and Minato Namikaze, Tobirama Senju, and Senju Hashirama helped defend the group from their Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Naruto entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and charged at Sasuke, while Minato Namikaze helped propel him through the air.
• Naruto struck Sasuke’s skeletal Susanoo with a Rasengan and urged him to stop, but Sasuke rejected him and demanded the Nine-Tails.
• Senju Hashirama, Tobirama Senju, Hatake Sakumo, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Might Guy battled the transformed Tailed Beast puppets without giving ground.

Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and overwhelmed the Raikage brothers, Killer B, and allied reinforcements on the Eastern Front, while Nagato fought Gaara and Rasa on the Northern Front. Madara Uchiha emerged on the Western Front, recognized the people and Tailed Beasts gathered in the war, and prepared to face Ōnoki and Mu as they blocked his path.

• Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and fought the Third Raikage, Fourth Raikage, and Killer B.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path attacked the Ninja Allied Forces with lightning, forcing the Fourth Raikage to order them to retreat.
• Nagato emerged from a coffin on the Northern Front and warned Gaara that he could not control his body.
• Gaara and Rasa attacked Nagato, who summoned the Yata Crow and fired rockets at the Ninja Allied Forces.
• Madara Uchiha emerged from a coffin on the Western Front, sensed familiar figures and the Tailed Beasts, and realized he had been summoned ahead of schedule.
• Ōnoki and Mu blocked Madara Uchiha, who challenged them to fight.

Hyuga Kei confronted Madara Uchiha after Madara defeated Ōnoki and Mu, and the two began a fierce battle. Their clash ended with Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation arm shattered, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Madara Uchiha sent Ōnoki and Mu flying and continued toward his objective.
• Hyuga Kei arrived, told Ōnoki and Mu to support the other battlefields, and faced Madara alone.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Madara that Hyuga Kei was the strongest person in the Ninja World and asked him to remove the threat to their plan.
• Madara and Hyuga Kei exchanged fire and water techniques before closing in for hand-to-hand combat.
• Madara and Hyuga Kei traded blows until their clash shattered Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation arm.

Hyuga Kei challenged Madara Uchiha to a contest between the Byakugan and Sharingan, breaking Madara’s Susanoo with a series of techniques. When Madara summoned his Complete Body Susanoo, Hyuga Kei revealed his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and summoned one of his own, leaving the two giants facing off.

• Madara Uchiha recognized Hyuga Kei’s taijutsu and challenged him to show the limits of his Byakugan.
• Hyuga Kei used Gentle Fist techniques and an Eight Trigrams seal to restrain Madara’s Susanoo, then shattered it with a combination of attacks.
• Madara Uchiha praised Hyuga Kei before summoning his Complete Body Susanoo and attacking him.
• Hyuga Kei transformed his Byakugan into an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and summoned an azure Complete Body Susanoo.
• Hyuga Kei’s Susanoo struck Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo with a greatsword and sent Madara reeling back.

Hyuga Kei revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and Complete Body Susanoo, then defeated Madara Uchiha in their Susanoo clash. The Ninja Allied Forces celebrated as Madara recovered and vowed revenge.

• Madara Uchiha was shocked when Hyuga Kei summoned a Complete Body Susanoo, then charged him into battle.
• Hyuga Kei's Susanoo clashed with Madara's, and its Federation-forged greatsword cracked Madara's katana.
• Hyuga Kei read Madara's movements and pierced his Susanoo, shattering it and blasting Madara to the ground.
• Madara's Impure World Reincarnation body regenerated, and he angrily vowed that Hyuga Kei had truly enraged him.
• The Ninja Allied Forces cheered Hyuga Kei's victory, while Ōnoki watched in disbelief at Madara's defeat.

Hyuga Kei used the Tenseigan to catch Madara Uchiha’s meteors and send them crashing back at him, then attacked with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Madara’s Shinra Tensei only slowed the blow before its light engulfed him.

• Madara Uchiha summoned two meteors with Tengai Shinsei as Hyuga Kei dismissed his Susanoo and revealed his golden Tenseigan power.
• Hyuga Kei stopped both meteors with Attraction and hurled them back at Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, but the meteors shattered his trees and smashed apart more than half his body.
• Hyuga Kei combined his Truth-Seeking Orbs into a golden beam and charged Madara Uchiha with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Madara Uchiha tried to repel the attack with Shinra Tensei, but the force only slowed it before the light engulfed him.

Hyuga Kei defeated Madara Uchiha and led the Ninja Allied Forces toward the Northern Front, claiming he needed to conserve his strength to strengthen Nagato. Black Zetsu rescued Madara and began explaining Hyuga Kei’s origins while secretly continuing his own plans.

• Black Zetsu pulled Madara Uchiha out from beneath Hyuga Kei’s attack, while Hyuga Kei let the Allied Forces believe Madara had died.
• The Ninja Allied Forces celebrated Hyuga Kei’s victory, and Ōnoki thanked him before the fighters prepared to continue the war.
• Hyuga Kei led the forces toward the Northern Front and told Ōnoki and Mu that he planned to place Orochimaru’s Fuinjutsu inside Nagato to make him a combatant.
• Black Zetsu emerged with Madara Uchiha in an underground base, where Madara angrily demanded to know why he had been rescued.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Madara to reconsider confronting Hyuga Kei and promised that their plan remained under control.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu to explain Hyuga Kei and his eyes first, and Black Zetsu began recounting Hyuga Kei’s birth in Konoha’s forty-fifth year.

Black Zetsu concealed his alliance with Hyuga Kei while planning with Madara Uchiha to revive him and continue the Moon Eye Plan, and Orochimaru prepared to exploit the Fuinjutsu he had been ordered to make. At the Northern Front, Hyuga Kei joined the fight against Nagato, but Nagato’s controller made him blast apart a meteor above the Allied Forces.

• Black Zetsu told Madara Uchiha a distorted account of recent events and helped him plan to use Uchiha Obito and Second Pillar to gather the Tailed Beasts and restore his Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru learned about Madara Uchiha and Hyuga Kei through a white snake, then handed over the Fuinjutsu he had secretly tampered with.
• Hyuga Kei arrived at the Northern Front as Gaara and Rasa struggled to hold back Nagato’s Planetary Devastation meteor.
• Hyuga Kei used Repulsion to catch the meteor and sent the Allied Forces to fight the White Zetsu while Mu and Ōnoki attacked Nagato.
• Nagato warned Hyuga Kei that he could not control himself, but his arm cannon fired and shattered the meteor above the Allied Forces.

Hyuga Kei pretended to exhaust himself while holding back falling rocks until Konan arrived and saved him. After Konan and the Four Kage freed Nagato from Kabuto Yakushi’s control, the allied group prepared to support the other units, but the Ten-Tails appeared.

• Hyuga Kei acted as though he could no longer hold back the falling rocks, and Konan destroyed them with explosive paper cranes before catching him.
• Konan took over the fight against Nagato while the Four Kage withdrew to support her.
• Hyuga Kei restrained Nagato, and Konan overwhelmed him with Explosive Tags after his Shinra Tensei failed.
• Gaara and Rasa sealed Nagato and used a Fuinjutsu talisman to restore his control over his body and soul.
• Nagato helped the allied forces defeat nearby White Zetsu, then joined Hyuga Kei and the others to support the other units.
• A chakra beam appeared on the horizon, and Nagato sensed that the Ten-Tails had appeared.

Minato Namikaze, Naruto, and the Leaf Village's Elite fought Sasuke and the Tailed Beast puppets as Naruto tried to bring Sasuke back from his plan to use the Ten-Tails. Naruto reminded Sasuke of their shared past and the powers Brother Kishu had given them, while Sasuke secretly gathered strength.

• Naruto attacked Sasuke with Shadow Clones, but Sasuke's Rinnegan repelled them, and Minato tried to reason with him before Sasuke declared his plan to revive his family.
• Minato blamed himself for the tragedies that had led Naruto and Sasuke to this battle as Naruto and Sasuke clashed with Rasenshuriken and Amaterasu-charged Susanoo arrows.
• Minato attacked Sasuke with his Trident Kunai and Great Ball Rasengan, but Sasuke countered with Susanoo and the Yata Mirror.
• Naruto bound Sasuke's Susanoo with golden chains and struck it with a Rasenshuriken, cracking its defenses before Sasuke repaired them.
• Naruto told Sasuke that Brother Kishu had taught him Rasenshuriken and revealed their shared dreams of becoming strongest and reviving their loved ones, along with the powers Brother Kishu had given each of them.

Naruto and Minato tried to stop Sasuke from using the Ten-Tails to revive his family, but Sasuke rejected their pleas and attacked with his Complete Body Susanoo. Father and son coordinated a strike that cracked Susanoo’s forehead, though Sasuke still struggled to keep it standing.

• Naruto urged Sasuke to abandon his plans, but Sasuke revealed he had a technique to revive the dead and offered to bring Naruto’s parents back if Naruto surrendered the Nine-Tails.
• Minato and Naruto refused Sasuke’s offer, and Sasuke erupted in anger, declaring that he would use the Ten-Tails to destroy the Leaf Village higher-ups.
• Sasuke unleashed his Complete Body Susanoo, and Naruto and Minato entered complete Tailed Beast Transformation to fight him.
• Naruto and Minato attacked Susanoo with Tailed Beast Bombs, Flying Thunder God, and a Rasengan, but Sasuke’s defenses withstood their assaults and drained their strength.
• Minato distracted Sasuke while Naruto rushed toward Susanoo’s forehead, then Minato joined him and they struck together with an enormous Rasengan.
• The Rasengan split a massive crack across Susanoo’s forehead, and Sasuke spat blood but desperately tried to maintain its form.

Sasuke and Obito gathered the Tailed Beasts into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to revive the Ten-Tails, while Konoha's forces fought to stop them. As Sasuke declared victory, Minato and Naruto teleported in to attack him.

• Sasuke survived Naruto's Rasengan and rejected Naruto and Minato Namikaze's pleas to abandon his hatred.
• Obito arrived with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and told Sasuke to begin fusing the Ten-Tails.
• Sasuke used the statue's purple chains to pull the Tailed Beasts into it while Obito blocked Konoha's forces.
• The statue opened its eyes after gathering the beasts' chakra, and Sasuke announced that the Ten-Tails would revive and he had won the war.
• Obito used a half-body Susanoo and Kamui Shuriken to break Hashirama's Wood Dragon and keep the attackers at bay.
• Minato Namikaze and Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear before Sasuke as Naruto struck with a Rasengan.

Sasuke fought Naruto, Minato Namikaze, and the revived Hokage while Obito clashed with Kakashi over his plan to create a perfect world. Tsunade badly damaged Sasuke’s Susanoo before Shinra Tensei blasted her away, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Sasuke used genjutsu and Mirror of Outer Clouds against Naruto and Minato Namikaze, but Tobirama Senju interrupted his attack on them and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito and Kakashi fought as they argued over Obito’s plan, while Senju Hashirama and Hatake Sakumo attacked Sasuke.
• Sasuke’s Susanoo repelled attacks from Naruto, Minato Namikaze, Senju Hashirama, and Tobirama Senju, though Tobirama’s Water Drill cracked its armor.
• Tsunade seized Susanoo’s sword after it pierced her chest, broke the blade, and struck its weakened point with a powerful punch.
• Sasuke used Shinra Tensei to blast Tsunade away, and Senju Hashirama caught her as she admitted through her condition that the battle had exhausted her.

Naruto, Minato, and Hashirama nearly broke Sasuke’s Susanoo, but the Ten-Tails revived and restored Sasuke’s strength. Sasuke and Obito mounted the beast and attacked the Allied Forces, leaving Naruto and the others facing a devastating battle after many ninjas were killed.

• Naruto, Minato Namikaze, and Senju Hashirama trapped Sasuke and struck his Susanoo with Rasengan, but the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path revived as the Ten-Tails and replenished Sasuke’s chakra.
• Sasuke and Obito connected themselves to the Ten-Tails and declared that they would defeat the Konoha fighters while the beast evolved.
• Naruto, Minato Namikaze, Senju Hashirama, Tsunade, Kakashi, and Might Guy prepared the Konoha forces to fight the Ten-Tails.
• Naruto charged the Ten-Tails as Minato attacked and Hashirama tried to restrain it with Wood Dragons, but the beast shattered the dragons and deflected Minato’s Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The Ten-Tails fired an energy beam at Naruto, killing many Allied Forces ninjas, and Naruto angrily demanded to know what Sasuke and Obito had done.

The Ninja Allied Forces arrived to face the Ten-Tails, and Shikaku directed their coordinated attacks to restrain the beast. The Ten-Tails was bound in hardened cement, but Shikaku warned that the battle was not over.

• Gaara and Rasa cushioned the Ten-Tails’ tail strike, then the Ninja Allied Forces and their leaders arrived on the battlefield.
• Naruto reunited with Nagato and learned that Hyuga Kei had gone to find the person who could help resolve the crisis.
• Shikaku explained a plan to restrain the Ten-Tails, and Yamanaka clan ninja briefly seized Sasuke and Obito before their genjutsu injured them.
• Kumogakure and Iwagakure ninja blinded the Ten-Tails’ controllers and drove the beast into a pit with coordinated attacks.
• Kirigakure, Aburame, and Sunagakure ninja obscured Sasuke and Obito’s vision, while Lava Release, Water Release, and Fire Style ninja formed cement that bound the Ten-Tails.
• Shikaku urged the Allied Forces to keep attacking, while Senju Hashirama praised their unity and Tobirama told him to focus on the battle.

The Ten-Tails transformed into its second stage, broke free of its restraints, and overwhelmed the Ninja Allied Forces. Sasuke and Obito then launched a Tailed Beast Bomb at the Allied Forces' command headquarters, leaving everyone unable to stop it.

• Nagato warned that the Ten-Tails was still evolving as the Allied Forces and puppet army attacked Sasuke, Obito, and the beast.
• The Ten-Tails entered its second stage, escaped the cement restraints, and knocked the attackers away, injuring many of them.
• Obito and Sasuke connected themselves more firmly to the Ten-Tails, then decided to target the command headquarters where Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka were located.
• Sasuke accused Naruto of causing the destruction and ordered the Ten-Tails to fire a Tailed Beast Bomb at the headquarters.
• Naruto, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru, Nagato, Hashirama, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze failed to stop the bomb as it flew toward the headquarters.

Hyuga Kei arrived on the battlefield and stopped the Ten-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, giving the Ninja Allied Forces hope. He turned the attack back toward Sasuke and Obito, while Orochimaru escaped and the allied shinobi prepared to continue fighting.

• Hyuga Kei appeared and held the conical Truth-Seeking Orb in midair as Sasuke and the allied shinobi reacted to his arrival.
• Obito urged Sasuke not to give up, while the allied shinobi celebrated and Shikaku ordered them not to pursue the escaped Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kei told Sasuke and Obito their ambitions would end, then used Attraction to send the Tailed Beast Bomb back toward them.
• Naruto, Killer B, Mei Terumi, and others were stunned by Hyuga Kei’s power, while Ōnoki revealed that he had defeated Madara Uchiha.
• Senju Hashirama welcomed Hyuga Kei’s strength, but Tobirama Senju worried that it could threaten Konoha.