Chapter Summaries

Sarutobi Hiruzen’s desperate attempt to save Konoha succeeded when Utatane Koharu revived Hashirama Senju, Senju Tobirama, and Danzo with Impure World Reincarnation. As the Hokage brothers headed for the battlefield, Hashirama condemned Hiruzen for abandoning the shelter, while an Uchiha arrived at the end of the chapter.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Utatane Koharu had revived Hashirama Senju, Senju Tobirama, and Danzo, and rushed to meet them.
• Hiruzen explained Konoha’s crisis, including the Nine-Tailed Fox Disturbance, the Uchiha Clan Massacre, and the attack by the Three Great Ninja Villages; Tobirama blamed the Uchiha and berated Hiruzen and Danzo for Konoha’s fall.
• Hashirama and Tobirama saw the devastated village and learned that Hiruzen and Danzo had abandoned the shelter beneath Hokage Rock to make the revival possible; Hashirama kicked Hiruzen and attacked Danzo.
• Hashirama said he had recovered only twenty percent of his strength, while Tobirama planned to modify Impure World Reincarnation and asked Hashirama to stall the enemy forces.
• The allied ninja villages spotted Hashirama and Tobirama, while Baki was cornered by Konoha ninja on the eastern side of the village; an Uchiha appeared, startling Uzuki Yugao and Gekko Hayate.

Ingetsu led the Uchiha through Konoha and defeated the Anbu blocking their way as the Leaf Village remained under attack. After killing and storing Baki and Gekko Hayate for later reanimation, Ingetsu headed with Kushina, Rin, and Nonō toward Shadow Rock Shelter.

• Konoha Anbu ambushed Ingetsu, but he used plants and genjutsu to make four of them kill one another before the Uchiha engaged the remaining defenders.
• Tamao, Nanfeng, and Izumi fought the Konoha forces while Ingetsu led Kushina, Rin, and Nonō toward the street exit.
• Ingetsu killed the wounded Baki and stored his corpse, prompting Kushina to question whether he was the Masked Man behind the Nine-Tails attack; Ingetsu denied it.
• Gekko Hayate pursued Ingetsu, but Ingetsu immobilized him and two Konoha Ninja with Yachihoko and stored Hayate's corpse.
• Ingetsu set out with the three women for Shadow Rock Shelter, where Nonō had scouted more than a hundred Konoha Ninja.

Tamao defeated Uzuki Yugao and abducted her for the Uchiha, while the reanimated First and Second Hokage ordered Konoha’s evacuation after assessing its losses. Ingetsu reached the shelter beneath Hokage Rock and, after Nonō detected Shinnō’s dark energy inside, faced an attack from the guards.

• Tamao broke Uzuki Yugao’s sword, trapped her with Sharingan genjutsu, and carried her away, insisting she join the Uchiha.
• Tamao handed Uzuki Yugao to Orochimaru, who was staying with Lady Tsunade, then left to search for Shinnō.
• At an emergency meeting, Tobirama judged Konoha unable to win and ordered the civilians evacuated to the Land of Fire’s capital, with the Sarutobi Clan covering the retreat.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered the Sarutobi and Shimura ninja to prepare for the retreat, despite Danzō’s protests.
• Ingetsu asked Nonō to inspect the shelter, and her Byakugan revealed a mass of black mist inside.
• Konoha’s guards surrounded Ingetsu and his group and hurled kunai, shuriken, and senbon at them.

Ingetsu used Susanoo to control nearby Konoha and Sand Ninja, then reached the shelter as Shinnō unleashed the Zero-Tails on its inhabitants. The chapter ended with Ingetsu’s Complete Body Susanoo crashing into the shelter and pinning the Zero-Tails beneath its blade.

• Ingetsu summoned Dark Red Susanoo, blocked the Konoha Ninja’s attack, and marked more than one hundred Konoha Ninja and Sand Ninja Puppet Masters with Eight Thousand Spears Imprints.
• Ingetsu ordered Rin and Nonō to heal him as he and Kushina headed toward Hokage Rock, where he told Kushina that Naruto had suffered under Konoha’s leadership.
• Shinnō released the Zero-Tails inside the shelter, where it killed Konoha Ninja and spread panic among the civilians and clans.
• Shinnō broke through the shelter’s outer wall to draw the Three Great Ninja Villages’ forces inside, and they began slaughtering Konoha’s clansmen.
• The Zero-Tails confronted Sasuke, but Ingetsu descended in Complete Body Susanoo, split Iwa Kage, and drove his flaming blade into the Zero-Tails’ neck.

Ingetsu fought the Zero-Tails, discovered Shinnō was controlling it, and used Yachihoko to subdue Shinnō and absorb the beast into a mutated Armored Susanoo. After rescuing the Uchiha from the shelter, he reunited Sasuke with Mikoto, who told Sasuke to call Ingetsu “Father.”

• Kurama Yakumo watched her painted vision of the shelter’s slaughter fail to account for Ingetsu’s dark red Susanoo, while Hashirama and Tobirama decided Konoha’s people should retreat.
• Ōnoki urged the Lightning Shadow to flee, while Tsunade and Orochimaru watched the Susanoo’s battle from outside Konoha.
• Ingetsu tried to control the Zero-Tails with Yachihoko, but Shinnō revealed himself and restored the beast to its Complete Body form.
• Ingetsu marked Shinnō’s mind, absorbed the Zero-Tails’ Dark Chakra, and fused the beast into his Susanoo, creating a black-and-purple Mutated Armored Susanoo.
• Ingetsu’s Uchiha allies entered the Susanoo, and he carried Mikoto and other survivors from the shelter to Sasuke.
• Mikoto embraced Sasuke after their reunion and whispered that he should call Ingetsu “Father” from then on.

Ingetsu led the Uchiha through the shelter, where Kushina searched for Naruto and he explained the Uchiha rebellion and his debt to the clan. After finding the Sarutobi refuge already devastated, Ingetsu forced the reanimated Asuma to kill his own clansmen, while Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzō fought to reach them.

• Sasuke realized Ingetsu had become his father, and Mikoto reassured him that Ingetsu treated her well.
• Kushina asked to find Naruto, and Ingetsu gave her scrolls with Naruto’s picture so she could search the shelter.
• Ingetsu told Izumi that the Uchiha had planned a rebellion after suffering discrimination and suppression, and said the Leaf leadership had chosen massacre instead of negotiation.
• Ingetsu led the Uchiha to the Sarutobi refuge and found that ninja from the Three Great Ninja Villages had slaughtered many Sarutobi clan members.
• Ingetsu summoned Asuma’s Impure World Reincarnation Body and controlled him into killing his surviving clansmen.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzō fought their way toward the shelter, where Asuma emerged and called out to his father.

Asuma’s grief triggered a forbidden technique that destroyed Hiruzen and the Sarutobi forces, while Ingetsu’s Uchiha prepared to face the reanimated Danzo. The chapter ended with Izumi, Nanfeng, and Tamao cutting Danzo to pieces as Tobirama prepared thousands of prisoners for an unknown purpose.

• Asuma revealed that Ingetsu had controlled him into killing the shelter’s survivors, including Konohamaru, and Hiruzen broke down over his past role in the Uchiha massacre.
• Asuma’s seal unleashed Forbidden Technique: Raging Hair Heaven, annihilating Hiruzen, two thousand Sarutobi troops, and half the Hokage Building before Asuma re-formed through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Ingetsu told the Uchiha that their revenge was only the beginning as Danzo and the reanimated Shimura forces arrived; Nonō used her Byakugan to survey the area.
• Tobirama deduced that intense emotions could disrupt Ingetsu’s Yachihoko and sent Koharu to prepare more than three thousand prisoners, while learning that Hiruzen had died.
• Shimura survivors reported that the Sarutobi, Hyuga, Shimura, and other clans’ civilians had been killed, and Ingetsu ordered Tamao to attack Danzo.
• Izumi, Nanfeng, and Tamao struck Danzo together, cutting his reanimated body into pieces.

Ingetsu’s forces battled the Shimura Clan while he exposed the Leaf’s schemes and stopped Genma Squad from rescuing the sheltered children. After binding Reanimated Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo with Adamantine Sealing Chains, he faced their desperation as Kushina learned Naruto was at the Root Organization Base, then prepared to seal both men with Susanoo’s Totsuka Blade.

• The Uchiha fought the Shimura Clan, while the Three Great Ninja Villages withdrew from the front and surrounded the Root Organization’s eastern rear.
• Shikamaru realized Ingetsu had placed the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint on him and the other Leaf rookies, and Genma Squad arrived to evacuate them.
• Ingetsu killed Shiranui Genma and Namiashi Raidō, then killed Tatami Iwashi with his Mangekyo as the squad’s rescue attempt failed.
• Reanimated Sarutobi Hiruzen joined Danzo, but Ingetsu restrained both with Adamantine Sealing Chains and stopped Hiruzen’s Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
• Kushina confronted Hiruzen and Danzo after learning Naruto was at the Root Organization Base, then accepted Ingetsu’s promise to restore Naruto as an ordinary person.
• Ingetsu’s orange-red Complete Body Susanoo raised the Totsuka Blade and engulfed Hiruzen and Danzo in its sealing flames.

Ingetsu sealed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō, killed Enma, and defeated the Leaf forces, leaving the village civilians to witness the Uchiha’s victory. He spared Sasuke’s classmates at Sasuke’s request and made Sasuke responsible for keeping them as Uchiha prisoners.

• Ingetsu sealed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō with the Totsuka Blade, while the Leaf civilians watched in despair.
• Ingetsu killed Enma by disrupting his Chakra, and Shikamaru, Ino, and the other classmates remained helpless beside the stone wall.
• Izumi, Nanfeng, and Tamao joined the fight against the Shimura Clan shinobi, and the nine Uchiha defeated them all.
• Ingetsu asked Sasuke whether his classmates should live, and Sasuke argued that they could be useful as bargaining chips or future Uchiha ninjas.
• Ingetsu made Sasuke responsible for the classmates as Uchiha prisoners, and Sasuke thanked him after Mikoto prompted him to do so.

Ingetsu restored his strength and used Wood Release to save Natsu Hyuga from pursuing shinobi. Neji offered the Uchiha five pairs of Byakugan and asked Ingetsu to take in Hinata, Hanabi, and Natsu, leaving the girls grieving when they saw Nonō’s Byakugan.

• Ingetsu drank Green Medicine, recovering his Chakra and mental strength as he ordered the Uchiha to drive out the Leaf Village and other villages’ shinobi.
• A Stone Shinobi split the passage floor, sending Neji, Hinata, Hanabi, and Natsu into cracks as shinobi from three villages pursued them.
• Natsu stayed behind to protect the others, but a Stone Shinobi struck her and sent her crashing toward the Uchiha group.
• Tamao watched Ingetsu’s vines kill the pursuing shinobi, then recruited Natsu into the Uchiha Clan.
• Neji introduced himself, offered Ingetsu five pairs of Hyuga Main Family Byakugan, and asked him to take in Hinata, Hanabi, and Natsu.
• Ingetsu accepted the scrolls and directed Nonō to take the Hyuga children; Hinata and Hanabi saw Nonō’s Byakugan and cried out for their father.

Ingetsu recruited Kurama Yakumo after entering her Spiritual World and destroying the inner demon that had controlled her. He then declared that the Uchiha would take over Konoha, and used the Eight Thousand Spears to broadcast the truth of the Uchiha massacre and declare war on every shinobi village and ninja in the world.

• Nonō recognized that Hanabi and Hinata had their father’s eyes and promised to keep them close as they joined the Uchiha ranks with the other children.
• Kurama Yakumo asked to join Ingetsu, who entered her Spiritual World, destroyed her inner demon, and ordered the group to take her along.
• Ingetsu led the Uchiha toward the Root Organization Base in Complete Body Susanoo and asked whether they would accept Konoha as their territory.
• The Uchiha agreed to rebuild Konoha on their homeland, completing Ingetsu’s Main Mission and earning him the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Ingetsu transformed Susanoo and spread the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint across Konoha and the allied villages, while Rasa shielded the Cloud and Sand forces from its red light.
• Ingetsu broadcast the Uchiha massacre to the shinobi world, announced the Uchiha takeover and reconstruction of Konoha, and declared war on all major villages and ninjas until he reforged the world’s order.

Tobirama and Hashirama abandoned Konoha and formed a temporary alliance with the Lightning Shadow and Rasa to confront Ingetsu’s Complete Body Susanoo. As the Uchiha joined the battle and the alliance launched its attack, Hashirama restrained Susanoo with Wood Release while the Lightning Shadow and Rasa moved in from opposite sides.

• Tobirama condemned Utatane Koharu for helping Uchiha Itachi slaughter the Uchiha Clan, then left with Hashirama to carry out their plan.
• Tobirama and Hashirama offered to cooperate with the Lightning Shadow and Rasa, agreeing to confront Ingetsu while the other two attacked from the sides.
• Orochimaru took Garaga and Uzuki Yugao toward Konoha to join Ingetsu, while Tsunade refused to go with him.
• Tobirama sent the reanimated Sarutobi Clan ninjas to cover the retreat as Konoha’s clans withdrew and the Cloud and Sand forces prepared to fight.
• Ingetsu sent the Uchiha fighters, including Izumi, Nanfeng, Tamao, Nonō, and Mikoto, into the battle as Susanoo destroyed the Sarutobi Hiruzen reanimations and struck the Gold Dust Wall.
• Hashirama used Wood Release to bind Susanoo, while the Lightning Shadow climbed its armor and Rasa sent waves of gold sand toward it.

Ingetsu’s Complete Body Susanoo withstood the allied forces’ attacks, then he summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which devastated the battlefield in Konoha. Hashirama answered by summoning Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, setting up a clash among the three colossal beings.

• Raikage A struck Susanoo with his full-powered kick, but Ingetsu’s armor took no damage, and A evaded Ingetsu’s ocular technique.
• Rasa, Hashirama, and the allied ninja attacked Susanoo with Magnet Release, Wood Release, and other Ninjutsu, but Ingetsu remained unmoved.
• Ingetsu formed the Summoning Technique, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path burst from underground, crushing and scattering the Cloud Ninja and Sand Ninja.
• Raikage A and Rasa ordered their forces to flee, while the statue trampled the battlefield and crushed Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sarutobi Asuma, and Danzo.
• Hashirama summoned Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, bringing the Buddha statue face-to-face with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Complete Body Susanoo.

Ingetsu overwhelmed Hashirama and Tobirama in Konoha, destroying the Wood Release Buddha Statue and forcing them to escape. As the Uchihas took control of the ruined village, Ingetsu pursued the fleeing village leaders, aided by Ōnoki.

• Ingetsu’s Complete Body Susanoo broke free of Konoha’s attacks and charged Hashirama and Tobirama with the Black Sword Dark Moon.
• Ingetsu shattered the Wood Release Buddha Statue with Dark Moon and Earth Release defenses, then blocked Hashirama’s Top Transformed Buddha with the Yata Mirror.
• Ingetsu’s Orange-Red Susanoo attacked with the Totsuka Blade, but Tobirama escaped with Hashirama using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Ingetsu flew east after the retreating forces while Orochimaru and Garaga reached the ruined battlefield; the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path continued attacking stragglers.
• Tamao retrieved Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Asuma from the rubble, and Izumi led the Uchihas in clearing Konoha.
• Ōnoki told Ingetsu where the Lightning Shadow and Kazekage had fled, then used Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique to accelerate the Susanoo before falling away.

Ingetsu captured the fleeing Sand and Cloud forces while pursuing the Lightning Shadow, then abandoned the chase when a mission required him to capture Tobirama and Hashirama. After finding them with the retreating Konoha survivors, he sealed their souls inside the Space-Time Sealing Cage.

• Ōnoki returned to the Stone camp and decided his forces should wait rather than flee.
• Ingetsu used the Totsuka Blade to seal Rasa and the surviving Sand Ninja, then attacked the Cloud Ninja and severed the Lightning Shadow’s left arm.
• A mission gave Ingetsu one hour to capture Tobirama and Hashirama in exchange for a Space-Time Sealing Cage, so he left the Lightning Shadow and headed east.
• Tsunade and Shizune recognized Hashirama and Tobirama among the retreating Konoha survivors, and Susanoo sealed many of the fleeing ninjas.
• Ingetsu controlled Tsunade, Shizune, and Tonton with the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint, then drew Hashirama and Tobirama’s souls into the Space-Time Sealing Cage.

Tobirama and Hashirama awakened as spirits inside Ingetsu’s Space-Time Sealing Cage, where he pressured Tobirama to teach him the Flying Thunder God Technique. After revealing he had controlled Tsunade and intended for her to lead Konoha’s surviving forces, Ingetsu forced her to accept by threatening to hunt down the fleeing survivors, then took her back to New Konoha.

• Tobirama and Hashirama regained consciousness in a cramped, dark spiritual prison controlled by Ingetsu.
• Ingetsu offered Tobirama a request in exchange for teaching him the Flying Thunder God Technique, while Hashirama tried to persuade them to spare Konoha’s remaining clans.
• Ingetsu shrank the prison and revealed he had anticipated that Tobirama and Hashirama planned to support Tsunade as Hokage of the fleeing survivors.
• Ingetsu let Tobirama and Hashirama see Tsunade, then cut off their view and communication with the prison.
• Tsunade asked where Ingetsu had sent her grandfathers, and Ingetsu said they were probably happy before telling her the survivors would likely choose her as Hokage.
• Tsunade refused to cooperate until Ingetsu threatened to use Susanoo to hunt down the fleeing ninjas, so she accepted and returned with him to New Konoha.

The Uchiha defeated Konoha’s remaining forces and took control of the ruined village, while the surviving clans fled east. As civilians faced the destruction of their home, Ingetsu prepared to rebuild Konoha and pointed out an approaching arrival who could help.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura led about 1,500 surviving clan ninjas east, while Shikaku told Akimichi Choza and Yamanaka Inoichi that Uchiha Ingetsu had spared them after the Uchiha Clan Massacre Night.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path charged the shelter, but Ingetsu arrived in his Complete Body Susanoo and calmed it before it could attack the civilians.
• Ingetsu branded the regenerating Sarutobi Clan Reanimation Ninjas with the Eight Thousand Spears Imprint, then absorbed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into his alternate space.
• Ingetsu allowed the civilians who had fled Konoha to leave and surveyed the village’s destruction as the remaining civilians mourned their ruined home.
• Tsunade and Hashirama questioned how the Uchiha would rebuild Konoha, while Tobirama criticized them; Ingetsu said someone skilled at rebuilding was approaching, and Tsunade spotted a short old man flying toward them.

Ōnoki arrived in ruined Konoha and offered to rebuild the village with Stone Shinobi Earth Release, honoring his agreement with Ingetsu. As the Stone Shinobi rapidly restored buildings, Konoha’s civilians saw hope in their homes returning, while Ōnoki reaffirmed that helping Ingetsu was worth it.

• Ōnoki arrived with the Stone Shinobi, and Ingetsu confirmed that they had come to rebuild Konoha under their earlier agreement.
• Ōnoki offered to rebuild the village for free, and Ingetsu gave him detailed maps while promising the Uchiha would return a future favor.
• Ingetsu admitted that the Uchiha elders had prepared the maps to plan assault and retreat routes, prompting Tobirama to condemn the clan.
• The Stone Shinobi used Earth Release to rebuild the Hokage Building and nearby structures, and Konoha civilians celebrated seeing their homes and Ichiraku Ramen restored.
• Bunya asked whether the effort was worth doing for the Uchiha, and Ōnoki assured him that it was.

After the war, Ingetsu took charge of rebuilding Konoha and planned to establish New Konoha around the Sky Ninja Village’s Flying Fortress. When Tsunade warned that the Uchiha lacked enough people to run a village, Ingetsu revealed that he had gathered and enslaved more than a thousand ninja, including the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

• The Lightning Shadow A escaped with Killer B and the remaining Cloud Ninja after losing an arm, then ordered them to return to Hidden Cloud Village.
• Orochimaru and Uzuki Yugao arrived in Konoha and saw Stone Shinobi rebuilding the village while Sarutobi Hiruzen, Asuma, Danzō, and other Reanimation Ninja labored under Ingetsu’s orders.
• Ingetsu reviewed Konoha’s mission and financial records as Mikoto helped organize the Hokage Building, and he planned to bring the Sky Ninja Village’s Flying Fortress to Konoha.
• Tsunade told Ingetsu that New Konoha could not function without enough reliable ninja to restore its mission system.
• Ingetsu released more than a thousand sealed ninja, including Rasa, placed Leaf Headbands on them, and declared them Uchiha ninja.

Ingetsu used the Yachihoko to recruit powerful ninja into the new Konoha and worked with Tsunade to rebuild the village. After leaving Tsunade with supplies, he set out with Shinno of the Ninja World for the Sky Ninja Village to retrieve hidden rewards.

• Ingetsu restored the controlled ninja's speech, revealed that the Uchiha had taken Konoha, and put them back into standby when they learned what had happened.
• Tsunade assigned the recruited ninja to village departments, while Ingetsu confirmed that the Yachihoko would keep them loyal.
• Tsunade, Ingetsu, and the others established plans for an independent new ninja village, secured funding and supplies, and agreed to let Orochimaru join with Otogakure.
• Ingetsu and Tsunade worked through the night on village plans, and Ingetsu gave her food before leaving the Hokage Building with Shinno of the Ninja World.
• Ingetsu headed for the Sky Ninja Village to retrieve hidden rewards, and Orochimaru and King Serpent Xin Ya hurried toward him.