Chapter Summaries

Mikoto accepted that Sasuke needed Ingetsu as a strict teacher and potential father figure, while Ingetsu discovered that the Pink Pill strengthened spiritual power through cultivation with someone of the opposite sex. The chapter ended with Ingetsu and Mikoto cultivating together at the inn as Tsunade slept nearby.

• Ingetsu comforted Mikoto during the fireworks festival and suggested that she find Sasuke a new father and home.
• At a hot spring inn, Ingetsu asked Tsunade to examine Orochimaru's Pink Pill, then drank it after preparing Green Medicine as a safeguard.
• The Pink Pill let Ingetsu sense human emotions and revealed that spiritual power could be strengthened through cultivation with a member of the opposite sex.
• Tsunade entered the bath, and she and Ingetsu cultivated together until she fell asleep.
• Mikoto visited Ingetsu, agreed that he could become Sasuke's strict teacher and pass on his inheritance, and asked how she could atone for Itachi's crimes.
• Ingetsu told Mikoto to cultivate with him, and she felt her spiritual power increase as dawn approached.

After spending the night with Mikoto and Tsunade, Ingetsu delayed the group’s departure and discussed Iwagakure’s attack on the Leaf Village with Mei Terumi. He believed the Leaf Village had powerful reserves, while Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to consider using Impure World Reincarnation if the village faced defeat or annihilation.

• Ingetsu recovered in the hot spring after strengthening his mental power, then arranged to delay the group’s departure while Mikoto and Tsunade rested.
• Mei Terumi joined Ingetsu for breakfast, and he assigned Tamao a month of night-watch duty after overhearing him gossip about Ingetsu and the clan head’s wife.
• Shizune searched for Tsunade, and Ingetsu told her he had helped treat Tsunade’s hemophobia.
• Ingetsu and Mei Terumi read that Iwagakure had attacked the Leaf Village and that Hidden Cloud Village was mobilizing; Ingetsu said the Leaf Village might have enough hidden strength to survive.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen led Konoha’s forces toward battle with Ōnoki while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura urged him to use Impure World Reincarnation if the village faced peril.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to consider the forbidden technique if the battle went badly or Hidden Cloud Village threatened the Leaf Village’s survival.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura ordered the Root Organization Base sealed and planned to revive the former Hokage, while Sarutobi Hiruzen led Konoha's forces against Ōnoki's invasion. The chapter ended as Ōnoki attacked Sarutobi with Dust Release after demanding Hyuga hostages and accusing Konoha of abusing the Uchiha and Hyuga clans.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura decided to research Impure World Reincarnation, secure the Root Organization Base, and consider having Uchiha Itachi preserve a controllable Uchiha branch.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen led Konoha Ninja out of the village, worrying that trouble could arise at home and reviewing the threats posed by the other shinobi villages.
• Ingetsu used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control Tsunade after she awoke beside Mikoto, and the women dressed and ate before preparing to leave.
• At Kikyo Castle, Ōnoki annihilated Konoha's southwestern defensive force with Dust Release after the Stone Shinobi broke through the Land of Fire's border defenses.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Ōnoki exchanged attacks as Konoha and Stone forces clashed; Ōnoki demanded Hyuga hostages, invoked the Uchiha's possible move to Iwagakure, and accused Konoha of forcing Hizashi's death.
• Ōnoki fired Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique at Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Ōnoki defeated Sarutobi Hiruzen while Orochimaru escaped an ambush by Akatsuki members and went into hiding. Ingetsu's group reached the Land of Water, where Suikazan Fuguki and another swordsman attacked their ship.

• Ōnoki used Dust Release, a rock giant, and close combat to overpower Sarutobi Hiruzen, leaving the Hokage battered and exhausted.
• Zetsu led Orochimaru to a room where Kakuzu and Sasori confronted him over his actions and the Akatsuki's money.
• Orochimaru fought Kakuzu and Sasori, escaped using a snake clone, and decided he could not return to Akatsuki.
• Ingetsu offered Tsunade a way to revive the people she cherished, but Nonō soon shouted that enemies were attacking the passenger ship.
• A hidden attacker split Mei Terumi's ship apart, and Suikazan Fuguki appeared with Samehada to confront Mei Terumi and the Uchiha.

Ingetsu and the Uchiha force fought the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, defeating and capturing Suikazan Fuguki, Raiga Kurosuki, and Jūzō Biwa while claiming their swords. The group continued toward Kirigakure to confront the Fourth Mizukage, and Ingetsu remained wary of Obito’s next ambush.

• Suikazan Fuguki and Raiga Kurosuki confronted Mei Terumi’s group, while Jūzō Biwa emerged from the sea and proposed a temporary alliance with them.
• Tsunade kicked Suikazan Fuguki into the sea, but he recovered with Samehada and attacked Ingetsu, who burned the sword with Amaterasu and sealed Fuguki with the Totsuka Blade.
• Ingetsu captured Raiga Kurosuki with the Totsuka Blade, while Tamao’s team returned with Kubikiribōchō and the unconscious Jūzō Biwa, whom Ingetsu also sealed.
• Ingetsu kept Samehada, Kiba, and Kubikiribōchō, telling Mei Terumi they would settle Kirigakure’s payment after the mission.
• Ingetsu’s group headed toward the island and the Fourth Mizukage as Izumi offered to wipe the blood from his face.

Obito manipulated Karatachi Yagura and Kirigakure’s leaders into mobilizing against the approaching Uchiha, while Ingetsu’s group waited at an island inn near the village. The chapter left the Uchiha preparing to act as Ingetsu joined them and someone knocked at the door.

• Obito decided to use Karatachi Yagura’s Three-Tails power against Ingetsu, then chose to control Kirigakure’s leaders with genjutsu and force them to unite against the Uchiha.
• Obito learned that Kisame Hoshigaki had joined the Akatsuki but wanted Samehada returned to him.
• Obito placed the clan patriarchs and elders under genjutsu, then sent their forces to prepare for a fight against the Uchiha.
• At an inn near Kirigakure, Mei Terumi explained the abilities of Kiba, Samehada, and Kubikiribōchō, while Samehada chose Uchiha Izumi.
• Ingetsu returned from training, and a knock sounded at the hall door.

After a wounded Mist ninja warned that the Hidden Mist leaders were hunting Mei Terumi, Ingetsu uncovered White Zetsu surveillance and led the group into Kirigakure to confront the controlled Mizukage. As the battle began, Ingetsu’s Shadow Clone sealed Karatachi Yagura while his true body watched Obito emerge near a pier.

• A dying Hidden Mist ninja warned Ao and Mei Terumi that Genji and the other clan leaders had been mentally controlled and ordered to hunt them.
• Ingetsu found and killed five White Zetsu spies, then announced that the group would attack the Mizukage Building instead of fleeing.
• Mei Terumi led the Uchiha through a secret passage into the Mizukage’s office, where they fought Karatachi Yagura and the arriving Kirigakure Anbu.
• Ingetsu summoned Susanoo, but Karatachi Yagura’s Water Mirror Technique created a matching Susanoo; Tsunade then smashed the replica and attacked it.
• Ingetsu’s Shadow Clone pierced and sealed Karatachi Yagura and the White Zetsu controlling him, while Ingetsu’s true body watched Obito emerge from the Kamui Dimension at a pier with a young Hozuki Clan member.

Mei Terumi and the Uchiha uncovered Obito’s role in the Fourth Mizukage’s control and discovered that both the Three-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki were missing. Ingetsu recovered Suigetsu and tracked down the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, but Obito confronted him as he began removing the seal.

• Mei Terumi’s group found Genji under Genjutsu, freed him, and learned that the Three-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki had disappeared.
• Genji identified the Sharingan as the force behind the Fourth Mizukage’s control, while Ingetsu confronted Obito at the harbor and destroyed Obito’s escape ship.
• Obito sent Suigetsu into the Kamui Dimension, but Ingetsu secretly entered it and took the boy back, leaving Obito to discover Suigetsu’s disappearance.
• Ingetsu questioned a controlled White Zetsu, learned where the other White Zetsu were gathered, and followed it to the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ingetsu disguised himself as Obito and controlled the White Zetsu guards, but the real Obito appeared and began unsealing the Six-Tails, telling Ingetsu he would give him the Tailed Beast.

Obito released the Six-Tails in Hidden Mist, prompting Ingetsu to protect the village while absorbing Suigetsu’s Three-Tails Chakra and sealing the genjutsu-controlled clan leaders. As Saiken rampaged and Obito drove it berserk, Ingetsu descended in Complete Body Susanoo to capture it.

• Obito undid the Six-Tails Jinchuriki’s seal and escaped into the Kamui Dimension as Saiken emerged and began destroying Hidden Mist.
• Ingetsu revealed himself, protected Suigetsu, and joined Mei Terumi and the Hidden Mist shinobi at the port.
• Mei Terumi begged Ingetsu to save Hidden Mist, and he agreed while demanding a higher price.
• Ingetsu absorbed Suigetsu’s Three-Tails Chakra and used Complete Body Susanoo to seal the genjutsu-controlled Hidden Mist leaders with the Totsuka Blade.
• Obito used his Sharingan to drive Saiken berserk, then escaped into the Kamui Dimension as Ingetsu brought Susanoo down on the Six-Tails with the Totsuka Blade.

Ingetsu subdued the Six-Tails Saiken during its rampage through Kirigakure and drove Obito away, leaving the village in ruins but without its former leadership. After receiving the Perfect Jinchuriki Body reward, Ingetsu absorbed Saiken into his body.

• Saiken escaped underground and emerged in the center of Kirigakure, where Mei Terumi and the returning Mist ninja failed to stop its destructive advance.
• Mei Terumi rescued two girls from Saiken's acid rain, and Ingetsu's Complete Body Susanoo deflected the attack.
• Ingetsu used the Eight Thousand Spears to control Saiken while Xin Ya and Garaga kept Obito occupied until Obito escaped through Kamui.
• Ingetsu branded Saiken with the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint, ending its rampage, and the battle left Kirigakure heavily damaged and leaderless.
• Ingetsu received the Perfect Jinchuriki Body reward and absorbed Saiken into his body as Little Suigetsu watched.

Ingetsu absorbed the Three-Tails from Suigetsu and demanded both Tailed Beasts, all three ninja swords, and the Water Transformation Technique from Kirigakure as compensation. Kirigakure agreed on the condition that the Uchiha come to its aid if another village attacks, while Ingetsu privately planned to bring Kirigakure and the Land of Water under his future village.

• Ingetsu released the Three-Tails’ seal inside Suigetsu and absorbed the beast into his body alongside the Six-Tails.
• At the Mizukage Building, Ingetsu freed the Hozuki clan head and demanded both Tailed Beasts, the ninja swords, and a Water Transformation Technique scroll.
• Suigetsu revealed that he already knew the Water Transformation Technique, so Ingetsu sealed the Hozuki clan head back into the Totsuka Blade.
• Tsunade left the meeting troubled by Ingetsu’s growing influence and wondered whether he could revive Nawaki and Dan Katō.
• Ingetsu checked his mission to choose a territory and told the Uchiha that they would return to Rice Country.
• Mei Terumi told Ingetsu that Kirigakure accepted his demands in exchange for an alliance, and Ingetsu agreed to aid the village if it was invaded.

Ingetsu negotiated with Mei Terumi, agreed to help the Hidden Mist Village, and revealed his method for strengthening spiritual power as Mei asked him to train her. Their private moment was interrupted by news of infiltrators, and Ingetsu discovered that Hidden Sand Village was preparing to attack Kirigakure.

• Ingetsu asked Mei Terumi to find Shinnō, and said Karatachi Yagura would pay for his mistakes but would not be tortured.
• Mei Terumi asked Ingetsu to train her after explaining that she believed he had strengthened Tsunade and Uchiha Mikoto's spiritual power; she accepted his method and embraced him.
• A female Hidden Mist shinobi interrupted Ingetsu and Mei Terumi to report that border patrols had captured an infiltrating team.
• In the dungeon, Ingetsu used the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint to make a captured spy reveal that he was from Hidden Sand Village and that its main force was heading toward Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi left to discuss the threat with Genji, while Ingetsu returned toward the guesthouse and considered how Leaf Village and Iwagakure had shaped the unfolding situation.

Ingetsu learned that Shinnō had left the Hidden Mist for the mainland and departed with the Uchiha aboard the Three-Tails, Isobu. The chapter ended with the Hidden Cloud advancing toward the Land of Fire while Hiruzen Sarutobi faced mounting pressure at Kikyo Mountain.

• Ingetsu agreed to become Sasuke's father after Mikoto asked him to give Sasuke fatherly love, and he received a mission to earn Sasuke's recognition.
• Mei Terumi gave Ingetsu records showing that Shinnō had left the Hidden Mist a week earlier, last appearing at the Southwest Wharf, and reported that the Hidden Sand had withdrawn toward the Leaf Village.
• Ingetsu told Mei Terumi that the Uchiha would leave, then summoned Isobu at Northwest Harbor and led the group across the sea on its shell.
• Tamao asked Ingetsu whether they would establish a new shinobi village after finding Shinnō, and Ingetsu confirmed they would.
• At Kikyo Mountain, Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that the Hidden Cloud's main force had reached the Land of Fire's northeastern border and accused them of targeting the Leaf Village.

Konoha’s situation worsened as Hidden Cloud Village demanded territory and Hidden Sand Village joined Iwagakure’s attack, while Ingetsu’s allies brought the Uzumaki survivors and Tsuchigumo Clan to Otogakure. Orochimaru infiltrated Konoha to steal remains for Impure World Reincarnation, and Utatane Koharu moved to confront another intruder in the forbidden-technique room.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned Hidden Cloud Village would withdraw only if the Land of Fire ceded its border territories, then ordered Konoha’s forces to retreat after Hidden Sand Village advanced from the east.
• Ōnoki ordered Bunya to pursue Konoha’s retreating army and celebrated Rasa’s betrayal of the alliance with Konoha.
• Kurenai Yuhi led the Uzuki Clan into the Uzumaki survivors’ forest territory, where Yakushi Kabuto arrived and explained Ingetsu’s plan to bring them to Otogakure.
• Uzumaki China agreed to join the Uzuki Clan and Tsuchigumo Clan on their journey to Otogakure, while Kabuto said Ingetsu was on a mission to Hidden Mist Village and Orochimaru was in Konoha.
• Orochimaru caused disturbances across Konoha while his subordinates collected remains from the ninja cemetery, and he learned someone else had infiltrated the forbidden-technique storage area.
• Utatane Koharu heard that the forbidden-technique room’s barrier had been breached, ordered the area watched, and headed out as coffins marked one, two, and four stood in the corpse storage room.

Orochimaru escaped Konoha with Minato’s corpse after raiding the Root Organization Base, while the village’s defenders protected the other Hokage remains. At a training ground outside Konoha, Orochimaru discovered that Shinnō had invaded the Hokage Building and ordered his operatives to warn Ingetsu.

• Orochimaru attacked the Root Organization Base with venomous snakes and fought Konoha’s defenders, but his apparent raid on the corpse storage room was a decoy.
• Orochimaru stole the true Fourth Hokage’s corpse from an underground chamber and escaped through gaps in the base’s barriers, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura found that the First and Second Hokage’s corpses were safe.
• Naruto struggled with loneliness and wondered whether Konoha’s troubles had anything to do with him, while Neji resented the Hyuga clan system and waited for a chance to escape his fate.
• Sasuke watched the disturbance end before reaching the Uchiha grounds and wondered whether Ingetsu and his mother had come to collect him.
• At Mountain Training Ground No. 41, Orochimaru reviewed the stolen remains, including Rin Nohara and Kushina Uzumaki, and confirmed that Minato’s corpse was in the coffin he had taken.
• After learning that Shinnō had invaded the Hokage Building, Orochimaru ordered his intelligence operatives to warn Ingetsu.

After capturing the Three-Tails and Six-Tails, Ingetsu brought his group toward the mainland and agreed to let Suigetsu join them if he proved himself. An Otogakure message revealed that Shinnō was in Konoha, so Ingetsu headed there, while Shinnō secretly gathered Dark Chakra in the hospital.

• Genji and Ao surveyed the Hidden Mist Village's destruction, and Mei Terumi learned that Suigetsu was missing.
• Ingetsu's group traveled on the Three-Tails, and Tamao accidentally fished Suigetsu out of the sea.
• Suigetsu asked to join the Uchiha, and Ingetsu told him he would have to prove himself.
• An Otogakure squad delivered Orochimaru's message that Shinnō was in Konoha, so Ingetsu recalled the Three-Tails and set off for Konoha on Xin Ya.
• Disguised as a doctor in Konoha's hospital, Shinnō absorbed Dark Chakra formed from the patients' negative emotions.

As Stone, Cloud, and Sand forces besieged Konoha, Shinnō secretly fed the Zero-Tails on despair while Kakashi uncovered signs of a sinister presence in the hospital. Ingetsu's group neared the village as Tsunade confessed that she did not want to return to Konoha.

• Shinnō waited outside the emergency room as the Zero-Tails absorbed the hospital patients' despair, and he planned to use the coming war to awaken it and destroy Konoha.
• Kakashi sensed sinister Chakra in the hospital, suspected the intruder was hiding there, and heard from Might Guy that all three borders had fallen and the Third Hokage had retreated toward Konoha.
• Konoha's civilians hurried toward the Shadow Rock Shelter as explosions struck nearby, while Sarutobi Hiruzen returned behind the village barrier with the Stone forces pursuing him.
• Ōnoki, A, Killer B, and Rasa led their armies in an assault on Konoha's barrier, and Sarutobi Hiruzen prepared to use Impure World Reincarnation.
• Shinnō watched the encircled village from the shelter, while Orochimaru prepared a reincarnation ritual using two captured ANBU as sacrifices.
• Ingetsu's group traveled toward Konoha on King Serpent Xin Ya, and Tsunade told Ingetsu that she did not want to return to the village.

Ingetsu and the Uchiha approached Konoha as Ingetsu considered the Sky Ninja Village and the Zero-Tails, while Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Rin Nohara and Kushina. At Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen learned Orochimaru had taken Minato’s body, and Utatane Koharu asked whether they should use the forbidden jutsu.

• Ingetsu told Tsunade that he was searching for someone who could provide the Uchiha with territory, then considered Shinnō and the Zero-Tails as Garaga carried the group toward Konoha.
• Mikoto asked Ingetsu about Sasuke, and Ingetsu promised they would take Sasuke with them if they found him.
• Orochimaru successfully reincarnated Rin Nohara and Kushina, explained the technique to them, and told them to wait for someone.
• Kushina learned that Minato had died with her during the Nine-Tailed Fox Disturbance eight or nine years earlier, and Rin learned that Kakashi and many others had lived on without her.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned Orochimaru had raided the Root Organization base and taken Minato’s body, while Utatane Koharu asked whether Konoha should use Impure World Reincarnation.

Sarutobi Hiruzen approved using a Leaf shinobi as a sacrifice for Impure World Reincarnation while Ingetsu and Orochimaru gathered their forces to attack Leaf Village. As the village’s barrier collapsed and the invasion began, Ingetsu headed back to settle scores and capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Utatane Koharu to use Impure World Reincarnation, and the designated Leaf shinobi died as its sacrifice.
• Ingetsu arrived at the forest training ground with Garaga and gave Orochimaru the Hozuki Clan’s Water Transformation Technique in exchange for scrolls containing reanimated fighters.
• Kushina reunited with Mikoto, learned that Leaf Village’s leaders had engineered the Uchiha Clan’s destruction, and was placed under Ingetsu’s control alongside Rin Nohara.
• Ingetsu set off toward Leaf Village with Rin and Kushina, while Orochimaru stayed behind with Tsunade and Shizune.
• The Stone Shinobi and Cloud Ninja broke through Leaf Village’s barrier, and Sarutobi Hiruzen confronted Ōnoki and A at the village gate.

The Three Great Ninja Villages overwhelmed Konoha’s defenses, forcing Sarutobi Hiruzen to retreat to the Root Organization Base as Uchiha Ingetsu led the Uchiha through the eastern barrier. The chapter left Konoha surrounded and facing both the invading armies and Ingetsu’s return.

• Rasa sent the Hidden Sand Village Puppet Corps toward the Hokage Building while the allied armies stormed Konoha’s main entrance.
• After Konoha’s first defense line collapsed, Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered a retreat, but Ōnoki, the Lightning Shadow, and Rasa broke through the second line as well.
• Baki’s Sand Puppet Masters entered the eastern district, where Yugao, Gekko Hayate, and Konoha forces engaged them in battle.
• Ingetsu used Dark Moon to cut through Konoha’s eastern barrier and led the Uchiha into the village while Nonō searched for Shinnō.
• The remaining Konoha forces withdrew to the Root Organization Base, where Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Ingetsu had destroyed the eastern barrier and faced the leaders of the invading villages.