Chapter Summaries

After Chiyue’s group cleared the White Zetsu from Kumogakure, Minato brought Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama to meet the village’s leaders. The Third Raikage agreed to help convene a Five Kage Summit to stop Uchiha Madara’s scheme.

• Black Zetsu watched from hiding after the White Zetsu were eliminated, waiting to see whether Kumogakure would reveal the Rinnegan’s location.
• Kumogakure welcomed Chiyue’s group after they cleared out the hidden enemies, and Senju Tobirama sent Minato to fetch the two Hokage waiting outside the village.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama to the Raikage’s office, startling Kumogakure’s leaders.
• Senju Hashirama explained that Orochimaru had revived him and Senju Tobirama with the Impure World Reincarnation so they could stop Uchiha Madara.
• Senju Tobirama asked Kumogakure to help call a Five Kage Summit, and the Third Raikage agreed after learning Senju Hashirama had surpassed his strength from life.

Chiyue explained why Senju Hashirama earned more respect than Uchiha Madara, while Nawaki repeatedly made tactless remarks and was beaten by Chiyue and then his grandfather. The chapter ended with Senju Hashirama enforcing Senju family discipline as Chiyue and Minato watched.

• Minato praised Senju Hashirama for persuading the Third Raikage to support the Five Kage Summit, and Nawaki smugly took pride in his grandfather's reputation.
• Chiyue explained that Hashirama was admired because he showed kindness and reasoned with others, while Uchiha Madara relied on threats and destruction.
• Nawaki compared Chiyue's unpopularity to Minato's warmth, prompting Chiyue to kick him for his blunt remark.
• Senju Hashirama found Nawaki bruised and learned that Chiyue had beaten him, then struck Nawaki after he joked about Hashirama being beaten by his wife.
• Kushina called for Chiyue when Senju Hashirama began beating Nawaki, and Chiyue and Minato watched from the window.

The other Kage accepted Kumogakure’s invitation to unite against Uchiha Madara, who decided to capture tailed beasts while they gathered. As the summit preparations continued, Black Zetsu set his sights on Sunagakure, whose Kazekage Rasa was away.

• Ōnoki agreed to attend the summit despite his back trouble and ordered Kitsuchi to prepare for their departure.
• Yagura left Kirigakure before sealing the Five-Tails, while Rasa entrusted Sunagakure to Chiyo and headed for Kumogakure.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that the other Kage were heading to the summit, and Madara chose to attack their villages and collect tailed beasts.
• Black Zetsu departed for the Land of Wind and chose weakened Sunagakure as his first target while Rasa was away.
• Chiyue, Kushina, and Nawaki enjoyed Kumogakure’s hospitality and ate the food delivered to their temporary residence.

Chiyue and the others finished eating and gathered to play Fight the Landlord, while Senju Tobirama kept Senju Hashirama from joining them. The Nine-Tails secured a seat by asking Kushina for an advance, and Senju Hashirama was left behind as Tobirama dragged him away.

• Senju Hashirama asked Chiyue again whether Uchiha Madara would come to Kumogakure, and Chiyue told him to stop asking.
• Senju Hashirama tried to join the card game, but Senju Tobirama warned him not to drag Chiyue into playing.
• Nawaki pointed out that Senju Hashirama had no money, then left the table when Chiyue asked him to make room.
• Chiyue called for the cards after Kushina and Minato finished eating, and Kushina agreed to lend the Nine-Tails 100,000 taels so its clone could play.
• Senju Tobirama dragged Senju Hashirama away to talk, while Senju Hashirama lamented being shut out of the game.

Chiyue avoided Senju Hashirama’s attempts to challenge him by keeping everyone occupied with cards. Two days later, Ōnoki and Yagura arrived in Kumogakure for the Five Kage Summit, where a misunderstanding over the Third Raikage’s secrecy left them expecting an ambush.

• Chiyue gathered Kushina, Minato, and Nawaki for cards to keep Senju Hashirama from asking him to spar, while Senju Tobirama’s discipline and Hashirama’s empty pockets kept Hashirama from interfering.
• Ōnoki and Yagura arrived in Kumogakure together and envied the village’s lavish reconstruction as the Third Raikage welcomed them.
• The Third Raikage told Ōnoki and Yagura that Konoha had two guests with special identities and barred their guards from entering the Raikage’s Office Building.
• Ōnoki and Yagura suspected the Third Raikage was planning an ambush and refused to enter with him.
• Chiyue arrived, easing the tension, then noticed the armed guards confronting one another and asked if they planned to spar there.

Ōnoki and Yagura discovered that Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama had been brought back to attend the Five Kage Summit. The leaders gathered in the Raikage’s office, where Chiyue explained that Orochimaru had revived the brothers with Impure World Reincarnation but failed to control them.

• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage cleared up their misunderstanding about the guards, then the Third Raikage escorted Ōnoki and Yagura into the office building.
• Ōnoki and Yagura saw Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama in the Raikage’s office and recognized the First and Second Hokage.
• Senju Hashirama greeted Ōnoki and remarked that he seemed shorter than he had been before, prompting Senju Tobirama to rebuke him.
• Ōnoki and Yagura joined the meeting, while Chiyue sat beside Yagura and said the Hokage brothers would make the decisions.
• Chiyue told Yagura that Orochimaru had used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama but could not control them.
• Senju Tobirama interrupted Chiyue and Yagura’s whispered conversation.

Senju Tobirama proposed uniting the Five Great Shinobi Villages against Uchiha Madara and gathering their military forces, tailed beasts, and Jinchuriki in Kumogakure. The summit agreed, and the Third Raikage revealed that Konoha would handle the transfer.

• Senju Tobirama called for the Five Great Shinobi Villages to unite against Uchiha Madara, and Ōnoki supported the proposal.
• Yagura asked how the villages would coordinate, and Senju Tobirama proposed gathering their strongest forces, tailed beasts, and Jinchuriki together.
• Chiyue warned that Uchiha Madara was effectively invincible, prompting Senju Tobirama to argue that the villages must unite and make him come to them.
• The Third Raikage proposed gathering the allied forces, tailed beasts, and Jinchuriki in Kumogakure, and Yagura and Ōnoki agreed.
• The Third Raikage revealed that Konoha would transfer the Jinchuriki and tailed beasts, a plan he had already discussed with the two Hokage.

While Chiyue and Yagura traveled to Kirigakure and Senju Tobirama headed for Iwagakure to relocate the tailed beasts, Black Zetsu infiltrated Sunagakure and abducted One-Tails. Sunagakure was left devastated, and the villages remained unaware that the attack had begun before they could unite.

• Chiyue agreed to handle Kirigakure with Kushina, while Senju Tobirama set out for Iwagakure with Kitsuchi and Rasa arrived in Kumogakure after the relocation plans were already settled.
• Yagura joined Chiyue, Kushina, Minato, and Nawaki aboard a warship bound for Kirigakure.
• Black Zetsu used a black vortex to enter Sunagakure unnoticed and followed White Zetsu's information to the dungeon holding One-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Black Zetsu killed the Sand Village guards who tried to stop him and entered the dungeon as the village alarm sounded.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path appeared, restrained One-Tails with purple chains, and absorbed it before vanishing with Black Zetsu into the Kamui space.

Black Zetsu stole the tailed beasts from Sunagakure and Takigakure, prompting the Five Great Shinobi Villages to prepare an alliance against Uchiha Madara. The Kage moved to gather tailed beasts and elite forces in Kumogakure, and the Third Raikage urged them to secure Takigakure’s Seven-Tails next.

• Black Zetsu stole Sunagakure’s tailed beast, then devastated Takigakure and seized the Seven-Tails.
• Rasa received news of Sunagakure’s attack in Kumogakure and told Ōnoki, the Third Raikage, and Senju Hashirama that an unknown enemy had taken the tailed beast.
• Senju Hashirama connected the attack to Madara’s Infinite Tsukuyomi plan and said moving the tailed beasts and Jinchuriki to Kumogakure had been the right decision.
• Chiyue and Senju Tobirama arranged for Yagura’s sealed Six-Tails to be transported by ship to Kumogakure, and Yagura began selecting elite Mist ninja to send there.
• Rasa ordered Chiyo to gather Sunagakure’s elite forces for Kumogakure, while the Third Raikage proposed securing Takigakure’s Jinchuriki and Seven-Tails.

Ōnoki sent Senju Tobirama and Kitsuchi to bring Rōshi and Han to Kumogakure, but Rōshi refused to obey and was beaten by Tobirama before fleeing. Black Zetsu killed Rōshi and took the Four-Tails, leaving Tobirama and the others to prepare for Uchiha Madara’s next move.

• Ōnoki accepted the task of traveling to Iwagakure, while Senju Tobirama and Kitsuchi tried to persuade Rōshi to follow orders and go to Kumogakure.
• Rōshi challenged Senju Tobirama, who overwhelmed him with Water Style and left him injured; Kitsuchi then urged Rōshi to reconsider and sent for medical ninja.
• Rōshi disappeared before the medical ninja arrived, and a White Zetsu watching Iwagakure alerted Black Zetsu to his whereabouts.
• Black Zetsu attacked the injured Rōshi, took the Four-Tails, and left him dead; Senju Tobirama and Kitsuchi later found and collected his body.
• Ōnoki told Senju Tobirama that Takigakure had been devastated and the Seven-Tails taken, while Han returned obediently to Kumogakure with the others.
• Chiyue learned that Black Zetsu had taken the One-Tails, Four-Tails, and Seven-Tails, and concluded that Uchiha Madara would likely act next.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages' allied forces gathered in Kumogakure to prepare for Uchiha Madara, while the Third Raikage chose to protect the Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts inside the village. At the first leaders' meeting, Ōnoki pressed the Raikage to reveal where Killer B and the Rinnegan were hidden.

• The Third Raikage ordered Kumogakure's reconstruction halted and its villagers relocated so the village could face Uchiha Madara with the Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts kept nearby.
• Tsunade led Konoha's forces as elite shinobi from the Five Great Villages gathered in Kumogakure, totaling about twenty thousand.
• Chiyue refused to wear the allied forces' forehead protector, and Minato, Kushina, and Nawaki quietly put theirs away too.
• Chiyue kept Uchiha Mikoto close because he feared the Infinite Tsukuyomi might control her, while Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama joined Tsunade's delegation as assistants.
• Ōnoki asked the Third Raikage to disclose where the Rinnegan and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Killer B, were hidden.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages gathered in Kumogakure and learned that the Rinnegan and Killer B were hidden on Turtle Island, while Uchiha Madara decided to attack. Black Zetsu infiltrated Kumogakure with Madara, who headed for the Raikage Office Building; the chapter ended as a patrol recognized him and sounded the alarm.

• The Third Raikage revealed that Kumogakure had hidden the Rinnegan and Killer B on the constantly moving Turtle Island, but refused to give up control of the eyes.
• Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to prepare for his revival and said he would take the Rinnegan and pursue the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Black Zetsu brought Uchiha Madara into Kumogakure undetected, where Madara walked toward the Raikage Office Building.
• Chiyue told Tsunade that Uchiha Madara had entered Kumogakure and that a battle had already begun.
• A patrol recognized Uchiha Madara, and its captain sent up a distress signal that threw Kumogakure into turmoil.

Uchiha Madara faced the Allied Shinobi Forces, and Senju Hashirama confronted him in an attempt to stop his scheme. As the two old friends prepared to fight, their emotional reunion left the onlookers with the impression that they cared more about each other than their wives.

• Allied Shinobi Forces ninja surrounded Uchiha Madara, and Minato brought the others to watch from a nearby building.
• Senju Hashirama approached Uchiha Madara and tried to persuade him to abandon his scheme, while the Third Raikage ordered the other ninja to keep back.
• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama greeted each other with such excitement that Nawaki, Chiyue, and Tsunade remarked on their unusually close bond.
• Senju Hashirama refused to join Uchiha Madara's plan, and Madara challenged him to fight.
• Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara unleashed their chakra as they prepared to battle.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama launched into a fierce battle in Kumogakure, escalating from Taijutsu to Wood Release and Susanoo. As the village was swallowed by Hashirama’s forest and Madara unveiled his mountain-sized Complete Body Susanoo, Kushina asked Chiyue whether his Susanoo was just as large.

• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama greeted each other by charging into a Taijutsu battle while the onlookers watched in awe.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to create a vast forest, and Uchiha Madara fought back with his Sharingan and Susanoo.
• Senju Hashirama expanded the forest across Kumogakure, destroying the village and surrounding Uchiha Madara as the Third Raikage watched.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Release: Deep Forest Bloom, and Uchiha Madara answered by activating Complete Body Susanoo.
• Chiyue compared Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo to Uchiha Fugaku’s, and Kushina asked whether Chiyue’s was that large too.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama battled with their giant techniques while the allied shinobi watched in shock. Black Zetsu infiltrated the tailed beasts’ staging area and revealed a Susanoo, prompting Senju Tobirama to join the effort to capture him.

• Uchiha Madara unleashed his Complete Body Susanoo’s strike, splitting Kumogakure and a nearby mountain.
• Senju Hashirama summoned the Wood Human and Wood Dragon, then clashed with Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo.
• Black Zetsu infiltrated the area where the Five Great Shinobi Villages had stationed the tailed beasts and Jinchuriki, but Rasa and Yagura were waiting for him.
• Black Zetsu used Uchiha Obito’s body to manifest a miniature Complete Body Susanoo, and Rasa attacked with Gold Dust.
• Senju Tobirama took the Third Raikage and Ōnoki to the staging area to help capture Uchiha Obito.

Senju Hashirama entered Sage Mode and overwhelmed Uchiha Madara with True Several Thousand Hands, but Madara survived in his Reanimation Jutsu state and secretly activated the Rinnegan. As Hashirama approached to seal him, Madara engulfed the crater in scorching ash, obscuring sight and sensing.

• Chiyue told Tsunade that the other Kage and Senju Tobirama could handle Uchiha Obito, while Tsunade stayed ready to support the Allied shinobi.
• Senju Hashirama entered Sage Mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands, dwarfing Uchiha Madara's Complete Body Susanoo.
• Senju Hashirama's barrage shattered the Susanoo and left Uchiha Madara badly damaged in a crater, but Madara survived because of Reanimation Jutsu.
• Senju Hashirama approached to seal Uchiha Madara, unaware that Madara had changed his eyes from the Sharingan to the Rinnegan.
• Uchiha Madara used Fire Style: Hiding in Ash and Dust Technique to fill the crater with scorching ash and disrupt sight and sensory abilities.

Uchiha Madara summoned two enormous meteors toward Kumogakure, and Senju Hashirama tried to stop them with his giant Buddha. As Hashirama faltered, Chiyue revealed his Rinnegan and used Shinra Tensei against the falling meteors.

• Senju Tobirama's group forced Black Zetsu to retreat, while Uchiha Madara recovered in the crater and announced Tengai Shinsei.
• Minato arrived with Tsunade and Nawaki, and Chiyue warned them that two meteors were falling toward Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Madara invited Chiyue to join him, while Senju Hashirama demanded that Madara stop the attack and then summoned True Several Thousand Hands.
• Tsunade rallied the Allied shinobi forces around Chiyue as Hashirama's giant Buddha struck the meteors and slowed their descent.
• Senju Hashirama struggled to stop the second meteor, so Chiyue revealed his Rinnegan and shouted Shinra Tensei.

Chiyue redirected Uchiha Madara’s meteors away from Kumogakure, but Madara used the distraction to attack the Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts. He escaped with Black Zetsu after killing Yagura and sealing the Three-Tails, leaving the threat of the Ten-Tails closer.

• Chiyue used Shinra Tensei to divert the two meteors beyond Kumogakure, saving the village from destruction.
• Senju Tobirama noticed Uchiha Madara had vanished, and Senju Hashirama realized he was likely targeting the Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts.
• Minato transported Chiyue and Kushina to the Jinchuriki’s location, where they found Yagura dead and the Three-Tails sealed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Uchiha Madara revealed that he had used Black Zetsu and Kamui to slip away and seize the remaining Tailed Beasts while everyone watched the meteors.
• Senju Tobirama failed to stop Black Zetsu from escaping with Uchiha Madara, and Chiyue concluded that Black Zetsu was the real threat behind the scheme.

After Uchiha Madara devastated the Allied Forces and took the tailed beasts, Chiyue returned with Minato, Kushina, and Pakura. While he slept, the Sage of Six Paths summoned him and introduced himself as Hagoromo, founder of Ninjū.

• The Third Raikage, Ōnoki, and Senju Tobirama argued over the failure to protect the tailed beasts and the danger to Kirigakure.
• Minato took the wounded Rasa to Tsunade, while Chiyue left the aftermath to the others and returned with Kushina and Pakura.
• Kushina sat quietly after the battle, and Pakura comforted her as Chiyue fell asleep beneath the stars.
• The Sage of Six Paths appeared in Chiyue's dreamlike Sealing Space, and Chiyue repeatedly interrupted him to ask who he was and why he had summoned him.
• The Sage of Six Paths finally told Chiyue that his name was Hagoromo and that he had founded Ninjū.

Chiyue rejected the Sage of Six Paths’ request to stop Uchiha Madara, then realized Madara might already have been revived. Madara recovered his Rinnegan while the Five Great Shinobi Villages continued arguing over Turtle Island’s location.

• The Sage of Six Paths explained how his family and sons caused the conflict between the Uchiha and Senju, then asked Chiyue to stop Madara from activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Chiyue refused the Sage’s power and left, suspecting that Madara had already been revived.
• Black Zetsu used the Rebirth Technique to revive Uchiha Madara, while Obito died from using the technique.
• Madara told Black Zetsu he had found his Rinnegan and set out to retrieve it from Turtle Island.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage argued over Kumogakure keeping Turtle Island’s location secret, and Chiyue saw Tsunade return in a huff.