Chapter Summaries

Yota looted Kumogakure's Raikage Building, recovered one of Hinata's Byakugan, and took the village's inheritance scrolls. After restoring Hinata's sight, he faced Yugito and explained that he had accepted Konoha's mission because the payment was too high.

• Yota used Universal Pull and Dark Space to seize the Raikage Building and drain the ninja inside of their Chakra.
• Mabui revealed that one of Hinata's eyes was in the building and the other had been transplanted into the Kumogakure Ninja who kidnapped her and went to the front lines.
• Yota found Kumogakure's inheritance scrolls, including techniques such as Lightning Release Armor and Black Lightning, and took them as spoils.
• Yota restored Hinata's Byakugan, but she refused to take an eye from a Kumogakure Ninja and vowed to reclaim her own eye.
• Yugito confronted Yota with fireballs and demanded to know why he was in Kumogakure, and he said Konoha had hired him to help win the war because it paid too much.

Yota defeated Yugito, captured her, and led the surviving experimental subjects away from Kumogakure. He planned to return for Hinata’s Byakugan, while the Fourth Raikage learned of the devastating attack and raged over Kumogakure’s losses.

• Yota drained Yugito’s Chakra, captured her in the Dark Space, and planned to use her in his God Tree plans after dealing with Black Zetsu.
• Yota left Kumogakure with his group and let the rescued experimental subjects choose whether to leave or follow him; about half joined him for the Sound Ninja Village.
• Yota sent Sara and the others ahead while he planned to return alone to the Kumogakure camp to retrieve Hinata’s Byakugan.
• The Fourth Raikage received news of Yota’s attack, Yugito’s abduction, and the deaths of several thousand Kumogakure Ninja, including most of the village’s jonin.

Kumogakure’s leaders decided to win one battle before negotiating peace with Konoha, while Yota approached their camp. Kamui detected him, and Yota met the Fourth Raikage and Killer B in battle, leaving the Eight-Tails wary of his power.

• Dodai questioned whether Kumogakure should continue the war, and the Fourth Raikage proposed winning a battle before negotiating with Konoha.
• Kamui, now leading Kumogakure’s reconnaissance ninja after receiving Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan, spotted Yota approaching the camp and alerted the others.
• Kumogakure’s ninja moved to surround Yota, but he sensed their deployment and dismissed their efforts as useless.
• The Fourth Raikage and Killer B struck Yota with lightning-wreathed fists, but his Haki-coated body remained unharmed while both attackers were blasted back.
• Killer B identified Yota’s defense as likely Steel Release, and Gyūki warned him that something about Yota felt wrong.

Yota overwhelmed the Fourth Raikage in a close-quarters fight and then knocked Gyūki away when Killer B intervened. With the Fourth Raikage badly injured and Kumogakure Ninja closing in, Yota prepared to face the surrounding forces while eyeing the Eight-Tails as a source of power.

• Yota recognized that the AB Combo’s Lightning Release Armor had forged bodies durable enough to withstand most of his strength.
• The Fourth Raikage pushed his Lightning Release Armor beyond its limits and traded blows with Yota, who reduced his own power to prolong the fight.
• Yota struck the Fourth Raikage hard enough to break several ribs and leave him unable to continue fighting.
• Killer B entered a partial Tailed Beast Transformation and attacked Yota with Gyūki, but Yota punched the Eight-Tails away.
• Yota decided not to spend the time dispersing Gyūki, and the Kumogakure Ninja who had surrounded him charged into the battle.

Yota defeated Kumogakure’s forces with the Dark-Dark Fruit and Dark Tree World Descent, then accepted the village’s surrender in exchange for Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan. He recovered the eye and spared Kumogakure from further slaughter.

• Yota absorbed Kumogakure’s ninjutsu with the Dark-Dark Fruit and sent the attacks back at the village’s ninjas.
• Gyūki blasted Yota with a Tailed Beast Ball, but Yota recovered and subdued Gyūki and Killer B with Dark Tree World Descent.
• Yota’s expanding trees drained Gyūki’s Chakra and captured the surrounding Kumogakure Ninja, leaving their forces nearly wiped out.
• Yota found Kumogakure’s remaining ninja kneeling with white flags, and Dodai declared the village’s unconditional surrender.
• Yota demanded Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan, and Kamui returned it before cutting his own abdomen with a Wakizashi.
• Yota kept the Byakugan and abandoned his intention to kill the remaining Kumogakure Ninja.

Kakuzu negotiated an 18-billion-ryo payment from Konoha for Yota’s mission, securing Akatsuki’s finances for years. Obito brought Hidan to join the organization, where the members reacted to his claim of immortality.

• Kakuzu calculated Konoha’s compensation and agreed to an 18-billion-ryo payment in three installments after negotiating with Nara Shikaku, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado.
• Kakuzu reported the deal to Yota, and Deva Path Pain said the funds would keep Akatsuki running for ten years.
• Obito introduced Hidan as a new recruit, and Hidan asked the Akatsuki members to join Jashinism.
• Kakuzu and Sasori questioned Hidan’s place in the organization, while Hidan challenged them.
• Obito revealed that Hidan possessed an immortal body, drawing Orochimaru’s interest.

After Akatsuki’s meeting, Yota decided to travel to the Land of Water to obtain its valuable Bloodline Limits, while Obito Uchiha agreed to pursue the Three-Tails and Six-Tails. Yota promised Hinata Hyuga they would meet again and set out for Mist Ninja Village with Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand.

• Obito Uchiha proposed collecting the Tailed Beasts, but Yota said he had already recovered the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails’ Chakra and should be excused from the mission.
• Deva Path Pain assigned Obito Uchiha to retrieve the Three-Tails and Six-Tails from Mist Ninja Village, and Obito began plotting to recruit its Bloodline Limit ninja.
• Yota chose Mist Ninja Village as his next destination to acquire the Kaguya Clan’s, Yuki Clan’s, and Hozuki Clan’s abilities.
• Yota reassured Hinata Hyuga that they would meet again, and they made a pinky promise before she left for home.
• Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand decided to travel to Mist Ninja Village to pursue Bloodline Limits and Human Puppets, and Yota joined them.

Yota, Orochimaru, and Sasori of the Red Sand arrived in the Land of Water and learned that Yagura had begun attacking its bloodline clans. They decided to seek out the Kaguya Clan first, while Yota also planned to find the missing Yuki Clan and confiscate Kirigakure’s stolen Byakugan.

• Yota, Orochimaru, and Sasori of the Red Sand reached the Land of Water and witnessed Kirigakure Anbu fighting bloodline-clan ninja.
• Yota used his Sharingan to calm the Anbu, and the trio learned that Yagura had started targeting small bloodline clans about a week earlier.
• Yota concluded that Kirigakure’s deep clan divisions and the growing civilian ninja class had helped fuel the village’s internal conflict.
• Yota learned that the Hozuki Clan had nearly wiped out the Yuki Clan and considered synthesizing Ice Release if he could not find survivors.
• Yota decided to seek the Kaguya Clan first, and Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand agreed to go with him.

Yota, Sasori of the Red Sand, and Orochimaru infiltrated Kaguya Clan territory disguised as Kirigakure Anbu and began attacking the clan. The Kaguya Clan fought back, but Yota overwhelmed its ninja while the others struggled to conceal their abilities.

• Yota, Sasori of the Red Sand, and Orochimaru disguised themselves as Kirigakure Anbu and approached the Kaguya Clan settlement.
• Sasori of the Red Sand knocked out a guard with a poisoned needle, and Yota swallowed another guard with the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Yota changed his appearance with the Munch-Munch Fruit, Sasori of the Red Sand deployed Human Puppets disguised as Anbu, and Orochimaru prepared to impersonate a Mist Ninja.
• The trio entered Kaguya Clan territory and attacked, prompting the clan's ninja to charge them with bone blades.
• Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand struggled to fight without revealing their abilities, while Yota easily overpowered the Kaguya Clan ninja with his hardened body and superior strength and speed.

Yota overwhelmed the Kaguya Clan with a body and fighting style that surpassed their Shikotsumyaku, killing their Clan Head after withstanding his strongest technique. The surviving Kaguya ninjas fled after an elder warned them that the Fourth Mizukage was moving against the ninja clans.

• Yota killed Kaguya ninjas whose bone techniques could not harm him, and the clan members questioned how his body could be so durable.
• The Kaguya Clan Head challenged Yota and bound him with the Dance of the Clematis, then pierced him with a bone drill that barely wounded him.
• Yota snapped the Clan Head's spine-whip, blocked his next attack with Haki, and killed him with a single punch.
• The remaining Kaguya ninjas gave up fighting after seeing their Clan Head fall.
• An elderly Kaguya ninja urged his clan members to flee and spread word that the Fourth Mizukage was going to move against the ninja clans.

Yota, Sasori of the Red Sand, and Orochimaru looted the Kaguya Clan and Yota absorbed its Shikotsumyaku, while Orochimaru took Kimimaro Kaguya. In Kirigakure, Obito Uchiha realized the attack had disrupted his plans to control the Bloodline Limit clans and suspected the Black Shadow Ninja was responsible.

• Yota devoured the fallen Kaguya ninja, absorbing their Bloodline Limits and gaining stronger bones, increased Chakra, and signs of Chakra merging.
• Yota, Sasori of the Red Sand, and Orochimaru searched the Kaguya Clan compound, where Orochimaru found Kimimaro Kaguya and brought him along.
• The group finished looting the compound and departed, leaving the Kaguya Clan devastated and Kirigakure's other Bloodline Limit clans on alert.
• Obito Uchiha blamed the Akatsuki for the attack and lamented that it had ruined his plan to push the Bloodline Limit clans toward his control.
• Obito Uchiha suspected the Black Shadow Ninja had participated after hearing reports of an attacker whose body resisted blades and spears.

Obito Uchiha decided to use Impure World Reincarnation to test the Black Shadow Ninja, while Black Zetsu secretly considered betraying him and reviving Madara Uchiha by another method. Meanwhile, Yota and his allies prepared to hide in the Land of Water as Kirigakure's elders gathered Mei Terumī, Mangetsu Hozuki, Zabuza Momochi, and others over suspicions about the village.

• Obito Uchiha agreed to retrieve Madara Uchiha's corpse and use Impure World Reincarnation to test the Black Shadow Ninja, while resisting Madara's full revival.
• Black Zetsu left to find Madara Uchiha's corpse but planned to control Nagato and revive Madara, and considered whether the Black Shadow Ninja could be a vessel for its mother.
• Yota, Orochimaru, and Sasori of the Red Sand prepared to lie low in the Land of Water after obtaining the Shikotsumyaku.
• Genshi summoned Mei Terumī, Jūzō Biwa, Ringo Ameyuri, and Ao to discuss a serious matter in Kirigakure.
• Mangetsu Hozuki and Zabuza Momochi arrived, surprising Mei Terumī.

Genshi gathered Kirigakure’s young fighters to discuss the destruction of the Kaguya Clan and assigned them to pursue those responsible. Meanwhile, Yota produced Shikotsumyaku materials that fascinated Sasori of the Red Sand.

• Mei Terumī learned that Genshi had advised Zabuza Momochi to oppose the Bloody Mist Policy by killing his classmates.
• Mangetsu Hozuki and Mei Terumī concluded that the Fourth Mizukage’s known subordinates could not have defeated the Kaguya Clan alone, while Ringo Ameyuri pointed out that the Mizukage had not denied responsibility.
• Genshi told Kirigakure’s younger generation to work together to capture the enemy and ordered them to block the Fourth Mizukage’s intelligence channels for three or four days.
• Yota complained about the damp weather in the Land of Water and produced Shikotsumyaku materials, which Sasori of the Red Sand regarded as ideal puppet material.

Yota, Orochimaru, and Sasori of the Red Sand faced a Kirigakure strike team after Sasori upgraded his puppets with Yota’s Munch-Munch Fruit. Sasori began testing his new Human Puppets against the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and their allies.

• Sasori of the Red Sand joined Yota after seeing his ability to alter living creatures’ Bloodline Limits, and Yota upgraded Sasori’s puppets, including the Human Puppet Sasori inhabited.
• Orochimaru warned Yota that a group had surrounded their base, and Yota sensed several powerful life signatures with Observation Haki.
• Yota, Orochimaru, and Sasori left the base wearing Akatsuki cloaks and confronted Mei Terumī, Zabuza Momochi, Ao, Ringo Ameyuri, Jūzō Biwa, and Mangetsu Hozuki.
• Sasori summoned two Human Puppets made from Kaguya Clan ninja, prompting Mei Terumī to recognize them and suspect Sasori’s involvement in the clan’s fate.
• Ringo Ameyuri attacked with lightning, but Sasori’s Human Puppets grew exoskeleton armor and blocked it.

Yota used his combined powers to absorb Kirigakure’s elite squad into the Dark Space after Mei Terumī’s Boil Release crippled Sasori of the Red Sand’s puppets. He spat the drained Mist Ninja back out and prepared to inspect what he had gained.

• Sasori of the Red Sand unleashed the Performance of a Hundred Puppets against the advancing Kirigakure ninja.
• Mangetsu Hozuki and Ringo Yurui fought through the puppets, while Mei Terumī’s acidic mist destroyed more than half of them.
• Yota stopped Sasori of the Red Sand from summoning the Third Kazekage puppet and introduced himself as the Black Shadow Ninja.
• Yota used Universal Pull—Original Darkness Termination to drain the squad’s Chakra and absorb Ao and the other Mist Ninja into the Dark Space.
• Sasori of the Red Sand watched Yota defeat the squad and resolved to wait until Yota grew old before turning him into a Human Puppet.
• Yota spat the Chakra-drained Mist Ninja back out and prepared to inspect his gains.

Yota considered what to do with the captured Kirigakure ninja when his Wood Clone revealed that Black Zetsu had exposed their deception and fled. The Akatsuki declared Tobi and Zetsu enemies, while Yota offered Mei Terumī a chance to become Mizukage by bringing Kirigakure into the organization.

• Mei Terumī woke to find herself and her companions bound, with Ao injured and his Byakugan taken by Yota.
• Yota’s Wood Clone reported that Black Zetsu had tried to control it to revive Madara Uchiha, realized it was a clone, and escaped.
• Yota decided to expel Obito Uchiha from the Akatsuki, and Deva Path Pain told the members that Tobi and Zetsu had defected and could be killed.
• Yota asked Mei Terumī whether she could become Mizukage, then proposed that Kirigakure join the Akatsuki and help her take the position.
• Mei Terumī rejected the idea of becoming an Akatsuki puppet, and Yota asked whether she had another choice.

Yota persuaded Kirigakure’s leaders to accept Mei Terumī as Mizukage and join Akatsuki, then led his group toward the village to confront the masked Uchiha who controlled the Fourth Mizukage. They saw smoke rising over Kirigakure and a giant three-tailed turtle roaring as they approached.

• Mangetsu Hozuki agreed that Mei Terumī should become Mizukage, reasoning that the Fourth Mizukage was likely controlled by genjutsu and Kirigakure had no better option.
• Yota told the Kirigakure group that a masked Uchiha calling himself Madara Uchiha had controlled their Mizukage and betrayed Akatsuki.
• Mangetsu Hozuki said he would support Mei Terumī’s claim to the Mizukage position, and Yota released the group’s restraints and restored their strength with Yang Release Chakra.
• Yota gathered Sasori of the Red Sand and Orochimaru and announced that Akatsuki would make Kirigakure its subordinate.
• Yota and his companions traveled toward Kirigakure and saw smoke rising from the village as a giant three-tailed turtle roared.

Yota and the Mist Ninja confronted Obito Uchiha after the Fourth Mizukage rampaged through Kirigakure under genjutsu. Yota captured the Mizukage and overwhelmed the Three-Tails, leaving the village to regroup and assess the damage.

• Yota carried Mei Terumī and the other Mist Ninja toward Kirigakure in his Complete Form Susanoo.
• The group found the Fourth Mizukage destroying the village while Obito Uchiha stood on the Three-Tails’ head, and Yota challenged him over his role in the Akatsuki.
• The Three-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Ball, but Yota split it with Susanoo’s blade and wounded the beast.
• Yota used an amplified Universal Pull to drag the Three-Tails and the Fourth Mizukage into a black hole, then descended and returned the Mizukage to the Mist Ninja.
• The Mist Ninja gathered around Mei Terumī as they surveyed Kirigakure’s destruction, while Yota’s attack had drained most of the Three-Tails’ Chakra from the Mizukage.

Yota defeated Obito Uchiha by using Obito’s stolen Sharingan to attack him inside the Kamui dimension, then drained his Chakra and took his remaining eye. The Mist Ninja watched as Yota mastered Kamui and left Obito helpless.

• Obito Uchiha attacked Yota with Wood Release, but Yota’s defense held and his punch forced Obito to evade with Kamui.
• Yota revealed that he had Obito’s other Sharingan and used it to send a Wood Clone into the Kamui dimension.
• Yota’s Wood Clone overwhelmed Obito with Almighty Push and Universal Pull, forcing him to escape back to the real world.
• Yota absorbed Obito into the Dark Space, drained his Chakra, removed his mask, and plucked out his Kamui Sharingan.
• Yota stored the eye and mastered Kamui while Sasori and Orochimaru watched and the Mist Ninja held back.

After Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand plundered Kirigakure’s records and departed, Yota stayed to help Mei Terumī and seek a Yuki Clan member. He found the young Haku and decided to collect samples gradually, then used his Dark Space to give Mei Sage Mode.

• Orochimaru and Sasori of the Red Sand copied Kirigakure’s ninjutsu and records, took materials and weapon-making methods, and left with Obito Uchiha.
• Mei Terumī told Yota that Kirigakure had searched for Kisame Hoshigaki but could not find him, though they had located Haku, who had awakened Ice Release three days earlier.
• Yota refrained from taking Haku’s Bloodline Limit at once because the child was too young, and proposed collecting small samples over time while treating him afterward.
• Yota told Mei Terumī he would strengthen her abilities, then modified her in the Dark Space with diluted Hashirama Cells and Jugo’s Cursed Seal Sage Body.
• Mei Terumī returned with increased Chakra and Sage Mode, and marveled at the power Yota had given her.