Recaps

Jiraiya learned that Pain was Yahiko and decided to investigate Akatsuki, while Nagato explained Akatsuki’s plan to revive Madara and sent Kisame on a secret infiltration mission. Kisame accepted the assignment to infiltrate Kabuto’s side as the conflict continued to draw attention toward Rain Ninja Village.

• Jiraiya returned from the Land of Rice, complained to Tsunade about the failed sealing technique, and learned that Pain led Akatsuki.
• Jiraiya recognized Pain as Yahiko and decided to travel to the Land of Rain to investigate Akatsuki.
• Nagato told Konan that Kabuto would help revive Madara and that Allen could copy Nagato’s Rinnegan for twenty-four hours.
• Konan said she would travel to Sound Ninja Village and warned Nagato that Rain Ninja Village might soon be targeted.
• Nagato called Kisame back and ordered him to infiltrate Kabuto’s side, and Kisame accepted the mission.

Allen put Kabuto in charge of rebuilding Sound Ninja Village with gentler selection methods and sent Karin and Neji to capture the Two-Tails Jinchuriki from Cloud Ninja. He then met the blacksmith brought by Konan and asked him to reforge Sulfuras into a blade.

• Kabuto pledged to manage Sound Ninja Village, and Allen ordered him to end Orochimaru-era selection methods based on killing.
• Allen told Karin and Neji to pressure Cloud Ninja and bring back the Two-Tails Jinchuriki alive.
• Konan arrived with the blacksmith Allen had requested.
• Allen showed the blacksmith Sulfuras and a collection of rare materials, then asked him to turn the hammer into a sharp blade without damaging its structure and offered one hundred million ryo.

Allen entrusted a master blacksmith with turning the Hammer of Flames into a blade while preserving its properties, then discussed a favor and Akatsuki’s plans with Konan. Konan left to report Allen’s advice to Nagato, while the hammer’s forging and the tailed beasts’ extraction remained underway.

• Allen gave the Hammer of Flames and materials to the master blacksmith, who promised not to damage its properties while forging it into a blade.
• Allen offered Konan one wish in return for finding the swordsmith, but she declined for the moment.
• Konan delivered Nagato’s intelligence scroll, and Allen agreed that Kisame should feign betrayal and infiltrate Kabuto’s side.
• Konan asked how Akatsuki should deal with the rebel regimes, and Allen advised them to avoid alliances and interference.
• Konan departed to convey Allen’s advice to Nagato, while Vilnalasath continued extracting tailed-beast mediums toward reviving the Ten-Tails Divine Tree.

Allen oversaw the forging of powerful weapons while secretly extracting more of the Ten-Tails’ mediums, and Neji and Karin arrived in the Land of Lightning to find the Two-Tails’ Jinchuriki. The chapter ended with Neji reaffirming that he wanted revenge on the Cloud Ninja for his father’s death.

• A master swordsmith forged more than a dozen enchanted blades for Allen, who looked forward to seeing Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker reforged.
• Allen continued extracting the Ten-Tails’ mediums from the tailed beasts, stopping at about ninety percent to avoid causing them to collapse.
• Neji and Karin reached a rebel-occupied town in the Land of Lightning while searching for the Two-Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Karin mocked the Cloud Ninja’s strength and reflected on how close her power was to Hashirama Senju’s.
• Neji said he would never forgive the Cloud Ninja for causing his father’s death and wanted to personally take revenge.

Neji and Karin tracked the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Yugito, through a rebel-controlled town and discovered she was using a false identity to approach a rebel executive. They followed her into a heavily guarded estate, where Neji used an invisibility potion to slip inside.

• Karin marveled at the rebel army’s new order, and Neji explained how its growth and new recruits were changing the ninja world.
• Karin proposed capturing the Two-Tails Jinchuriki in town, but Neji urged her to wait and learn what the woman intended.
• Neji recognized the violent Tailed Beast Chakra in a passing woman, and he and Karin identified her as Yugito.
• Neji suspected Yugito was using her appearance to approach a rebel executive and warned that other Cloud Ninja might be hiding nearby.
• Yugito entered a former noble’s estate guarded by more than thirty Nen users, and Neji drank an invisibility potion to sneak into the courtyard.

Neji and Karin confronted Yugito at the rebel headquarters, where Yugito’s identity was exposed and she killed a rebel leader. Neji began his revenge against the Cloud Ninja by breaking through Yugito’s Tailed Beast Cloak and attacking her.

• Neji discovered that Yugito had noticed him despite his concealment, and Karin joined him at the former noble residence.
• Karin revealed her power, drawing rebel Nen users to the scene and exposing Yugito as the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Yugito entered her Tailed Beast state and killed a rebel executive, prompting the rebels to attack her.
• Neji charged Yugito, shattered her Tailed Beast Cloak with his own technique, and sent her crashing into a wall.
• Yugito recovered with the Two-Tails’ power, while Neji declared that she would pay for the Cloud Ninja’s past actions against his father.

Neji defeated and captured Yugito after she fully transformed with Matatabi’s power, then sent Karin to take her to the Sound Ninja Village. He stayed behind to ambush the Cloud Ninja rescue force and avenge his father.

• Yugito called on Matatabi’s Chakra and transformed completely into the Two-Tails.
• Neji struck Yugito with a devastating attack that broke her spine and destroyed her abdominal organs, leaving her paralyzed but alive.
• Neji handed Yugito to Karin, who used Uzumaki sealing techniques to sever her connection to Matatabi.
• Neji and Karin agreed that she would take Yugito to the Sound Ninja Village while he waited to eliminate the Cloud Ninja rescue force.
• Karin departed with Yugito, and Neji stayed in the occupied town, expecting the Raikage to send rescuers within a day or two.

After learning that Yugito had been captured, the Fourth Raikage led an elite Cloud Ninja squad to confront Neji, who admitted his role and demanded revenge for the Hyuga incident. The chapter ended as Neji and the Raikage clashed, killing four jonin in the blast and leaving the other Cloud Ninja afraid to intervene.

• The Fourth Raikage learned Yugito had been captured and decided to lead the Raikage Guard and Anbu after Neji, despite an advisor's objections.
• Darui told the Fourth Raikage that Neji had defeated several Cloud Ninja, including veteran jonin, with strange, exceptionally fast attacks, so the Raikage summoned Killer B.
• After pursuing Neji for one or two days, the Cloud Ninja squad found him alone, and Neji revealed Yugito was headed for Sound Ninja Village.
• Neji accused the Fourth Raikage of arranging the attempt to seize the Hyuga Main Family's Byakugan and declared that he would kill him for the past crime.
• Neji and the Fourth Raikage charged at each other, and their collision devastated the surrounding ground and killed four Cloud Ninja jonin with its aftershock.

Neji used Allen’s Chakra Thread mode to overwhelm the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, demonstrating that he could threaten the Cloud Ninja Village on his own. After Neji unleashed a vast barrage of threads, the Raikage lost both hands and feet and fell crippled.

• The Fourth Raikage realized Neji’s Chakra Threads could shred flesh and bone, then attacked him with a powerful Lightning Style-enhanced kick.
• Neji repelled the Raikage and mocked his strength, prompting the Raikage to summon Killer B for their A and B combination.
• Killer B arrived rapping and wielded seven Lightning Style-charged swords to cut through Neji’s Chakra Threads while the Raikage moved in to strike.
• Neji released a massive burst of Chakra Threads across the surrounding area, overwhelming the Raikage’s Lightning Style Armor.
• The barrage tore away the Raikage’s lower legs and forearms, leaving him crippled on the ground.

Neji killed the Fourth Raikage and the Cloud Ninja pursuing him, then escaped Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bombs. Watching from the shadows, Black Zetsu and Obito agreed to revive Madara through Impure World Reincarnation, unaware of Allen’s growing power.

• Neji used Chakra Threads to kill the Cloud Ninja, including Mabui, C, and Samui, then asked the crippled Fourth Raikage for his last words.
• The Fourth Raikage tried to bite Neji, but Neji twisted off his head, prompting Killer B to transform and unleash several Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Neji escaped the valley, while Killer B recovered the Raikage’s head and returned to the Cloud Ninja Village as the pursuit force’s sole survivor.
• Black Zetsu and Obito watched the battle and discussed how Neji’s Yin-Yang Release and Allen’s strength threatened their plans.
• Black Zetsu proposed reviving Madara through Impure World Reincarnation, and Obito agreed while questioning whether Kabuto could be trusted.

Allen extracted the One-Tail from himself and warned Nagato that the tailed beasts’ Chakra now recovered much more slowly. After debating Nagato’s approach to governing the Resistance Army, Allen returned with news that Jiraiya had arrived, and Nagato decided to prepare a fatal welcome for his former teacher.

• Allen and Nagato sealed the One-Tail’s Chakra into the Gedo Statue, and Allen warned Nagato to use it sparingly because the tailed beasts’ Chakra recovery had slowed.
• Nagato asked whether they should purge Resistance Army members who fought over power and profit, but Allen argued that such behavior was human nature and criticized Nagato’s idealism.
• After Allen left, Nagato reflected on his lack of political understanding, while Konan said she trusted Allen’s detached planning to help them succeed.
• Nagato and Konan discussed how commoners had begun overthrowing established powers and governing occupied territories as Allen returned with news that Jiraiya had entered Rain Ninja Village.
• Nagato resolved to give Jiraiya, his former teacher, a grand welcome that would also serve as his funeral.

Jiraiya visited the Rain Ninja Village and was confronted by Nagato, who revealed that Yahiko was dead and attacked him with the Six Paths of Pain. Unable to summon his toad allies or counter Nagato’s abilities, Jiraiya faced death with no chance to send the intelligence he had gathered.

• Jiraiya relaxed in a pleasure house in the Rain Ninja Village instead of beginning his mission.
• Nagato entered with the Six Paths of Pain and told Jiraiya that Yahiko had died and that Nagato controlled Yahiko’s body.
• Nagato blamed the ninja villages for the deaths of innocents and declared that the Six Paths of Pain would capture Jiraiya.
• The Six Paths of Pain attacked Jiraiya, and he narrowly escaped the Asura Path before being overwhelmed by their abilities.
• Nagato revealed that Allen had learned Jiraiya’s abilities and that the Akatsuki Organization already had the other great nations in its sights.
• Jiraiya struggled against the Preta Path and the Rinnegan abilities, unable to summon Shima and Fukasaku or send a report.

Allen proposed using Jiraiya to reveal information about the Ten-Tails and force the ninja villages to choose how to respond. Konan and Nagato agreed to spare Jiraiya, while Kabuto completed his Sage Mode transformation and erased Orochimaru’s lingering will.

• Allen suggested revealing the Ten-Tails’ revival plan to Jiraiya so the ninja villages would face a difficult choice.
• Konan stopped Nagato from killing Jiraiya and explained that Akatsuki would use him to carry information back to the villages.
• Nagato decided to let Jiraiya live to witness the truth and the new era after the revolution.
• In the Sound Ninja Village, Kabuto used a special black liquid and senjutsu Chakra to overcome Orochimaru’s cells and lingering will.
• Kabuto declared that he had surpassed Orochimaru and made both his body and Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode his own.

Kabuto learned that Black Zetsu wanted him to revive someone with Impure World Reincarnation without a control talisman, confirming his suspicions about divisions within the Akatsuki Organization. Meanwhile, Allen witnessed the swordsmith forge the Ragnaros Sword and left its finishing work in his hands.

• Kabuto suspected the Akatsuki Organization had two factions, one led by Pain and the other by Black Zetsu and the man claiming to be Madara Uchiha.
• Black Zetsu asked Kabuto to prepare Impure World Reincarnation for an unnamed person and instructed him not to implant a control talisman.
• An explosion at the Sound Ninja facility was traced to the Land of Iron swordsmith, and a guard reported that Allen was there.
• The swordsmith finished forging a fiery blade, and Allen named it the Ragnaros Sword after inspecting its abilities.
• Allen returned the unsharpened blade to the swordsmith and asked him to complete the sharpening, hilt, and scabbard within half a month.

Karin returned with the captured Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Yugito, and told Allen that Neji had stayed behind to fight the Cloud Ninja pursuing them. Allen discussed Neji’s revenge and the path toward awakening the Tenseigan, then explained how Karin might eventually awaken the Rinnegan before confronting Yugito.

• Karin returned with Yugito and told Allen that Neji had stayed behind alone to hold off the Cloud Ninja pursuit force.
• Karin said Neji had broken Yugito’s spine, and Allen concluded that Neji’s hatred of the Cloud Ninja had driven him to unleash his anger.
• Allen explained that Neji might evolve the Byakugan into the Tenseigan and that Karin needed to master Yin Release to pursue the Rinnegan.
• Kabuto arrived and congratulated Allen on completing the Ragnaros Sword, then recognized Yugito as the Cloud Ninja’s Two-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Allen taunted Yugito about her capture, and she threatened him by invoking the Raikage.

Neji returned after killing the Fourth Raikage and destroying most of the Cloud Ninja pursuit force, while Allen extracted Yugito’s Two-Tails and gave her corpse to Kabuto. Allen and Neji discussed Black Zetsu’s plan to revive Madara and Sasuke’s impending attack on Konoha, then decided to go watch how Tsunade would respond.

• Neji told Yugito that he had killed the Fourth Raikage and wiped out the Cloud Ninja pursuit force, then showed the Raikage’s belt as proof.
• Neji told Allen that killing the Raikage had eased his grief, and Allen reassured him before extracting the Two-Tails from Yugito and giving her corpse to Kabuto.
• Neji warned Allen that Kabuto was using them, and Allen explained that Black Zetsu and Obito were manipulating Kabuto into reviving Madara Uchiha.
• Neji asked about Sasuke’s plan to attack Konoha, and Allen said Sasuke should be allowed to make the village answer for its past actions.
• Allen invited Neji to go to Konoha with him and watch how Tsunade handled Sasuke’s attack.

With Jiraiya unconscious and intelligence revealing the threat posed by Nagato and the Akatsuki, Tsunade learned that Sasuke Uchiha was approaching Konoha with more than a hundred followers. She barred Naruto from fighting and prepared the village for war as Naruto waited for a chance to confront Sasuke.

• Tsunade examined the decoded intelligence about the Akatsuki’s plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and resurrect the Ten-Tails.
• A ninja reported that Sasuke Uchiha was advancing on Konoha with over a hundred of Orochimaru’s followers and might have awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Naruto offered to stop Sasuke, but Tsunade ordered him to remain in the village, and he reluctantly obeyed while secretly waiting for a chance to intervene.
• Tsunade put Konoha on a war footing, activated the Barriers, and ordered civilians to take shelter.

Sasuke Uchiha led Orochimaru’s followers to attack Konoha, while Tsunade rallied the village’s clans and led its forces to meet them outside the village. As the ambush turned bloody, Sasuke confronted Tsunade and declared his hatred for Konoha, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Sasuke Uchiha brought Orochimaru’s remaining followers to Konoha and planned to attack after they rested.
• Tsunade received word of the invasion and urged Konoha’s clans to defend their home; Hiashi Hyuga and the other clan leaders pledged their support.
• Tsunade led Konoha’s forces out to fight, and they ambushed the enemy camp, killing nearly a third of its fighters.
• Sasuke dismissed the fallen followers as cannon fodder, then killed two jonin with his sword.
• Sasuke awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and condemned Tsunade, the Senju, the Third Hokage, and Danzō as targets of his vengeance.

Sasuke attacked Konoha to avenge the Uchiha, slaughtering the Hokage’s defenders until Might Guy struck him down. Allen and his companions arrived, with Allen claiming he would stay out of Sasuke’s fight while Neji addressed the Hyuga Clan’s main family.

• Tsunade condemned the Uchiha, and Sasuke charged into battle, killing Genma Shiranui, Aoba Yamashiro, and other Konoha defenders.
• Sakura began treating the wounded while Jugo, Guren, and Suigetsu fought Konoha ninja, and Might Guy battered Jugo.
• Sasuke unleashed Super Lightning Bird, killing more than thirty Konoha elites and opening a path to Tsunade.
• Might Guy opened seven of the Eight Inner Gates and kicked Sasuke through two trees, but Karin gave Sasuke a healing potion that restored him.
• Allen, Karin, and Neji appeared; Allen said Neji had family business with the Hyuga Clan and urged Tsunade not to interfere as he sought to recruit them away from Konoha.

Allen threatened Tsunade into accepting the Hyuga Clan’s separation from Konoha, but she responded by ordering a sealing squad to trap him and his companions. The chapter ended as the Inner Four Symbols Barrier closed around Allen, Sasuke Uchiha, Karin, and Neji.

• Sasuke Uchiha summoned his Susanoo and urged Allen to begin their attack on Konoha.
• Allen told Tsunade that the Hyuga Clan’s future depended on Neji and the Hyuga Main Family, then threatened to destroy Konoha if she refused.
• Allen revealed that Neji had killed the Raikage and that the Cloud Ninja leadership had suffered devastating losses.
• Tsunade considered her options, then signaled the four Sealing Squad members to act.
• The four Sealing Squad members formed a square around Allen, Sasuke Uchiha, Karin, and Neji and began the Inner Four Symbols Barrier Sealing Technique.

Allen destroyed Konoha’s sealing barrier with a devastating arrow, killing the sealing squad and many Konoha ninja. He spared Tsunade and left Neji to speak privately with Hiashi about the Hyuga Clan’s future as Konoha’s remaining forces watched.

• Karin recognized Konoha’s barrier as a modified Inner Four Symbols Sealing, while Sasuke tried and failed to break it with Susanoo.
• Allen fired an arrow infused with Nen and Yin-Yang Release Chakra, destroying the barrier and the surrounding area and killing the sealing squad and many Konoha ninja.
• Sasuke and Tsunade were stunned by Allen’s power, and Tsunade accepted responsibility for the attack as Kakashi and Might Guy moved to protect her.
• Allen said he had no intention of killing Tsunade and told Sasuke to settle the Senju-Uchiha grudge himself.
• Neji asked Hiashi to speak privately about the Hyuga Clan’s future, and Hiashi followed him into the forest.

Allen explained to Sasuke why Konoha’s treatment of the Uchiha contributed to their downfall, then revealed that Naruto was the son of the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki, whom Konoha had neglected. The revelations shook the assembled shinobi and left Tsunade facing the collapse of their faith in the village.

• After Hiashi and Neji withdrew, Tsunade asked Allen why he would not kill her, and Allen said Sasuke should decide her fate while she considered the Senju-Uchiha grudge.
• Sasuke accused Tsunade and Konoha’s leaders of driving the Uchiha to rebellion, while Tsunade challenged him to explain why no one in Konoha had defended his clan.
• Allen told Sasuke that the Uchiha’s trauma and arrogance had contributed to their isolation, while Konoha’s leaders bore most of the responsibility for the clan’s downfall.
• Allen prompted Sasuke to consider Naruto’s parentage, and Sasuke realized Naruto was the son of the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Allen revealed that Naruto had been neglected despite his parents’ sacrifice, shocking the Konoha shinobi and prompting Sasuke to ridicule the Will of Fire.
• Tsunade recognized that Allen’s revelations were psychologically undermining Konoha more deeply than physical destruction could.

Allen exposed Konoha’s hidden truths, prompting Naruto to learn that the Fourth Hokage and his wife were his parents and that the village had concealed his identity. Naruto’s rage brought out the Nine-Tails, and Allen watched the resulting rampage from a distant mountain with Sasuke and Karin.

• Naruto emerged from the woods and asked Tsunade whether Allen’s claims, including that the Fourth Hokage was his father, were true.
• Kakashi tried to explain, but Naruto’s anger and the Nine-Tails’ Chakra grew as he confronted the village’s treatment of him.
• Sasuke invited Naruto to join him against Konoha, and Naruto fell into a frenzy under the Nine-Tails’ influence.
• Naruto struck Kakashi, who escaped with the Substitution Technique, while the Konoha ninja fought to protect themselves.
• Tsunade blamed Allen for helping destroy Konoha from within, but Allen said he had merely exposed the village’s secrets.
• Allen took Sasuke and Karin to a distant mountain, where they watched the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb devastate the forest.

Allen and Sasuke discussed Konoha’s imminent collapse as the rampaging Nine-Tails devastated the village. Neji arranged for more than half of the Hyuga clan to leave with him, while Allen instructed Obito to monitor the Three-Tails and help Karin bring Naruto to the Sound Ninja Village once he calmed down.

• Allen and Sasuke agreed that Konoha was finished after its leaders’ deceptions and failures were exposed.
• Neji told Allen that more than half of the Hyuga clan, including Hanabi and Hinata, would leave Konoha with him, while Hiashi would remain with the others.
• Neji and Sasuke prepared to kill anyone who interfered with the Hyuga clan’s departure, and Sasuke said he would settle a score with the Third Hokage’s advisors.
• Obito emerged from hiding and warned Allen that Black Zetsu was preparing to revive Madara Uchiha with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Allen told Obito to watch for the Three-Tails’ revival and to help Karin take Naruto Uzumaki to the Sound Ninja Village after he calmed down.

Naruto’s transformation as the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki sparked a furious uprising in Konoha, while Neji returned to the Hyuga compound to lead the younger clan members away. Hiashi named Neji the new clan head, and Hinata chose to stay behind and run toward Naruto.

• Konoha’s villagers surrounded the Hokage Building after learning Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and Sasuke invited Neji to join him in killing the Hokage Advisors.
• Neji declined Sasuke’s invitation and followed Hiashi to the Hyuga compound, where Hinata asked whether Naruto had gone berserk.
• Neji said he had come to take Hinata and Little Spark away, and Hiashi declared Neji the new clan head and ordered the younger generation to leave Konoha with him.
• Hinata refused to leave because she wanted to stay with Naruto, and she sent Little Spark away with Neji before running toward the battlefield.
• Neji assured Hiashi that Allen’s organization intended to bring Naruto back alive, and Hiashi bowed to Neji as the Hyuga Clan’s new leader.