Chapter Summaries

Kaze gained Fugaku and the Uchiha clan’s support for his plan to hunt down Orochimaru, then prepared to investigate Kabuto Yakushi, whom he recognized as Orochimaru’s spy. He summoned Kakashi and Hizashi to join the mission, leaving the chapter as they arrived at his office.

• Kaze explained why he had to pursue Orochimaru, and Fugaku agreed to manage the Uchiha clan’s affairs while he was away.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi and the other clan members pledged to carry out Kaze’s assignments, including expanding the Police Force and creating a technical security department.
• Kaze reviewed Konoha’s Genin records and recognized Kabuto Yakushi as Orochimaru’s undercover agent.
• Kaze chose Hizashi for his Byakugan and Zoan Devil Fruit abilities, and Kakashi for his tracking skills and experience working with them.
• Kaze took his place as Fifth Hokage, reviewed Kabuto’s information, and summoned Kakashi and Hizashi to discuss the investigation.
• Kakashi and Hizashi arrived at Kaze’s office.

Kaze revealed that Orochimaru had planted a spy in Konoha and prepared to capture him with Kakashi and Hizashi. He summoned Kabuto Yakushi to the Hokage’s Office and activated his Sharingan as Kabuto stood before him.

• Kaze handed Kakashi and Hizashi information about Orochimaru and told them he would join the mission to capture him.
• Kaze explained that Orochimaru had stolen the Impure World Reincarnation and had likely used many people as sacrifices in his experiments.
• Kaze told Kakashi, Hizashi, and Hiruzen Sarutobi that Orochimaru had a spy inside Konoha, while Hizashi guessed Anko Mitarashi and Kaze rejected the guess.
• An Anbu ninja escorted Kabuto Yakushi into the Hokage’s Office, and Kaze activated his Sharingan as Kabuto approached.

Kaze used the Sharingan to make Kabuto Yakushi reveal his history and Orochimaru’s location, then set out with Kakashi and Hizashi to capture Orochimaru. Meanwhile, Obito approached a disillusioned Itachi at the Uchiha Compound, hoping to manipulate him.

• Kaze cast Sharingan Genjutsu on Kabuto Yakushi, who confessed that he had spied for Orochimaru and revealed Orochimaru’s plans and hideout near the border between the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire.
• Kabuto Yakushi offered to lead Kaze to Orochimaru’s laboratory, while Kaze explained that he had identified Kabuto from a Root spy list.
• Kakashi and Hizashi agreed to join Kaze, and the four left Konoha to capture Orochimaru with Kabuto still under Genjutsu.
• At the Uchiha Compound, Itachi practiced shuriken throwing alone after feeling excluded by his clan and distanced from Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Obito emerged from a space-time vortex and greeted Itachi, intending to exploit his loneliness and doubts.

Kaze led Kakashi, Hizashi, and the controlled Kabuto Yakushi to investigate Orochimaru’s hideouts, hoping to capture him and obtain his techniques and knowledge. They reached a desert laboratory, but Kabuto could not confirm whether Orochimaru was there, so Kaze asked Hizashi to search it with the Byakugan.

• Kaze reflected on how he had strengthened his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, mastered the Six Powers, advanced the Eight Gates, and improved his swordsmanship with Enma.
• Kaze formed a squad with Kabuto Yakushi, Kakashi, and Hizashi and set out from Konoha to find Orochimaru.
• Kakashi warned Kaze that Orochimaru might anticipate the mission and have prepared countermeasures, but Kaze refused to abandon the operation.
• After three days, the squad reached a desert hideout that Kabuto said was only one of several Orochimaru used and could not confirm whether Orochimaru was inside.
• Kaze used his Mind Net to sense people within the underground laboratory, then asked Hizashi to locate them with the Byakugan.

Hizashi used his Byakugan to discover Orochimaru’s vast underground hideout and witnessed the Sannin’s brutal human experiments. As Hizashi struggled to stop Orochimaru before another child was harmed, Kaze proposed making Orochimaru come to them.

• Hizashi scanned Orochimaru’s hideout and saw imprisoned people, including children, along with discarded corpses.
• Hizashi found Orochimaru experimenting on a boy, who died as branches grew through his body and burst through his skull.
• Hizashi tried to rush into the hideout, but Kakashi restrained him and warned that a reckless attack could alert Orochimaru and let him escape.
• As Orochimaru prepared to inject another blood sample into a little girl, Kaze noticed the hideout was encased in metal and suggested they make Orochimaru come up.

Kaze used magnetic force to pull Orochimaru’s underground hideout out of the desert and lift it into the sky. Orochimaru realized someone had attacked and suspected Sunagakure’s Kazekage, while Kaze’s companions watched the rising hideout in shock.

• Kakashi questioned Kaze’s plan to draw Orochimaru out, but Kaze explained that he would dig up the hideout itself.
• Kaze used Mind Net and magnetic fields to locate and seize Orochimaru’s hideout beneath the sand.
• The desert shook and split open as Kaze began lifting the hideout, while Hizashi watched Orochimaru through his Byakugan.
• Orochimaru stopped his experiment, realized the entire hideout was rising, and suspected Fourth Kazekage Rasa had found him.
• Kaze raised the hideout dozens of meters into the sky as Kakashi, Hizashi, and Kabuto Yakushi stared in amazement.

Kaze used magnetic force to lift Orochimaru’s underground hideout and tear it open, exposing Orochimaru to Kakashi, Hizashi, and Kabuto Yakushi. Orochimaru identified Kaze as the one responsible and, intrigued by the Uchiha genius, walked toward him as Kaze’s group approached.

• Kaze carefully moved Orochimaru’s hideout above ground and set it down without harming the captives inside.
• Kaze asked Hizashi to locate Orochimaru, then used magnetic force to split the hideout apart.
• The broken hideout exposed Orochimaru, who recognized Kabuto Yakushi, Kakashi, and Hizashi before focusing on the unfamiliar Kaze.
• Orochimaru deduced that Kaze had brought down the hideout and that Kabuto had led the group there under Sharingan genjutsu.
• Kaze locked onto Orochimaru with his Sharingan and walked toward him with Kakashi, Hizashi, and Kabuto following.
• Orochimaru, intrigued by the Uchiha genius, leapt into the desert and approached Kaze’s group.

Kaze confronted Orochimaru to arrest him, but Orochimaru tried to capture him after becoming obsessed with Kaze’s body. Hizashi stopped the attack and charged Orochimaru, who was delighted to see him as another valuable experiment subject.

• Kaze met Orochimaru with Kakashi and Hizashi and demanded that he return to Konoha for planting spies.
• Orochimaru became eager to take Kaze’s body and attacked him with two summoned snakes.
• Hizashi transformed with his Cat-Cat Fruit and swiftly disabled both snakes before they could reach Kaze.
• Orochimaru was shocked by Hizashi’s strength and became excited by the prospect of experimenting on both him and Kaze.
• Hizashi used Soru and charged at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru summoned the Third Kazekage with Impure World Reincarnation, revealing that he could control the dead man as a weapon. As the Third Kazekage struggled against Orochimaru’s control, Orochimaru sent him to attack Hizashi.

• Orochimaru summoned a coffin that made Hizashi retreat after the Byakugan revealed who was inside.
• The Third Kazekage emerged from the coffin, and Kakashi concluded that Orochimaru had killed him.
• Orochimaru completed the Impure World Reincarnation by driving a talisman-bound Kunai into the Third Kazekage’s head.
• The Third Kazekage remembered being killed by Sasori of the Red Sands and realized Orochimaru controlled his body.
• Kaze warned Kakashi and the others as the Third Kazekage formed Iron Sand, and Orochimaru directed him to attack Hizashi.

Hizashi used the Uchiha Six Powers to destroy the Third Kazekage’s Sand Iron attack and defeat him, stunning Orochimaru and Kakashi. Orochimaru realized Kaze’s techniques might have made the entire Uchiha Clan terrifyingly strong.

• The Third Kazekage launched a magnetically charged Sand Iron Tri-Point Cone that pulled Hizashi toward him.
• Hizashi used Iron Body to smash the cone with his chest, then stayed aloft with Geppo.
• Hizashi spun the Sand Iron into a powerful attack and hurled it at the Third Kazekage and Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru escaped with Body Flicker, but Hizashi’s Sand Iron struck the Third Kazekage and reduced him to fragments.
• Kakashi recognized that Kaze’s Uchiha Six Powers had made Hizashi powerful enough to rival him.
• Orochimaru connected Hizashi’s techniques to the Uchiha Six Powers and wondered whether every Uchiha had mastered them.

Hizashi's Uchiha Six Powers let him challenge the Third Kazekage, but Orochimaru used Magnet Release to restrain him. Kaze freed Hizashi and countered the Third Kazekage's attack with a magnetic field, leaving the Kazekage astonished that Kaze possessed the same Kekkei Genkai as he did.

• Orochimaru marveled at Hizashi's Uchiha Six Powers and declared Kaze his ideal vessel.
• The Third Kazekage reassembled after Hizashi's attack, then used Magnet Release to restrain Hizashi with iron sand.
• Orochimaru threatened Kaze and the others while the Third Kazekage prepared Iron Sand Shower against Hizashi.
• Kaze generated a magnetic field that blasted the iron sand off Hizashi and intercepted the Third Kazekage's attack.
• The Third Kazekage realized Kaze had the same Kekkei Genkai as him and wondered how that was possible.

Kaze fought Orochimaru and the resurrected Third Kazekage, who resisted Orochimaru’s attempt to recruit him and instead urged Kaze to restrain him. Orochimaru forced the Third Kazekage into the air to attack, while Kaze shielded Kakashi and the others from the Iron Sand barrage.

• The Third Kazekage recognized Kaze’s strength after seeing the devastated base and crater, and Orochimaru revealed that Kaze was Konoha’s Fifth Hokage to try to gain his cooperation.
• Kaze told Hizashi to stand down and used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to control the Iron Sand and reach for the Third Kazekage.
• The Third Kazekage rejected Orochimaru’s offer, resisted his control, and called on Kaze to restrain him.
• Orochimaru overpowered the Third Kazekage’s resistance and used Iron Sand Wings to fly into the air with him.
• The Third Kazekage rained Iron Sand Feathers down on Kaze, who used Iron Sand to shield Kakashi and the others, leaving himself exposed.

Kaze revealed that the Third Kazekage’s iron sand could not harm him, struck Orochimaru with a Lightning Fist, and then restrained the Third Kazekage. He left the Third Kazekage sealed in iron sand and dove after the wounded Orochimaru.

• Kaze used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s Elementalization to pass unharmed through the Third Kazekage’s iron sand feathers.
• Kaze used Moonwalk to reach Orochimaru and struck him in the abdomen with a Lightning Fist, sending him flying and making him spit blood.
• Kaze used the iron sand he had drawn toward himself to wrap and restrain the Third Kazekage, preventing him from forming hand seals.
• Kaze ignored the Third Kazekage’s complicated feelings and dove toward Orochimaru.

Kaze kept the Third Kazekage immobilized and faced Orochimaru alone in the desert. Orochimaru survived Kaze’s attacks and tried to find a way to capture him, while Kakashi and Hizashi watched for an opening.

• Kaze compressed the Third Kazekage with Magnet Release, leaving Orochimaru as his only opponent.
• Orochimaru recovered from Kaze’s punch and praised Kaze’s strength and combat thinking before unleashing Shadow Snake Hands.
• Kaze’s Elementalization made the snakes unable to harm him, and his electric current killed them.
• Orochimaru shed his damaged body by crawling out of his mouth, restoring himself as the discarded body scattered into snakes.
• Kakashi and Hizashi admitted they could not intervene and used their ocular techniques to track Orochimaru.
• Kaze charged Orochimaru again, and Orochimaru drew a sharp longsword from his mouth and swung it at Kaze’s chest.

Kaze badly wounded Orochimaru but refused to kill him, while Orochimaru’s Living Corpse Reincarnation revealed that he had taken over a young maiden’s body. As Orochimaru prepared one final gamble, Kaze formed a lightning spear and aimed it at him.

• Orochimaru attacked Kaze with the Kusanagi Sword, but Kaze’s body healed instantly before Kaze punched through Orochimaru’s abdomen and kicked him away.
• Orochimaru regenerated his injuries and tore away his burned face, revealing the young maiden whose body he had taken over.
• Kabuto Yakushi explained that Orochimaru’s Living Corpse Reincarnation transferred his soul into another person’s body to grant him immortality, enraging Hizashi and Kakashi.
• Orochimaru realized his techniques were draining his Chakra and that he could not easily defeat Kaze, but decided to make one final gamble.
• Kaze gathered lightning and Chakra into a spear and aimed it at Orochimaru.

Kaze struck Orochimaru with a lightning spear powerful enough to break through all three Rashomon gates, then pinned him down and tried to take him back to Konoha for trial. Orochimaru began using the Eight Branches Technique to escape.

• Kaze hurled an electromagnetically infused Spear of Thunder at Orochimaru, who summoned Triple Rashomon to defend himself.
• The spear pierced all three Rashomon gates and exploded beyond them, badly injuring Orochimaru with its shockwaves.
• Kaze used Soru to reach Orochimaru, drove the Kusanagi Sword into his chest, and paralyzed him with electricity.
• Kaze told Orochimaru he wanted to bring him back to Konoha for trial, but Orochimaru began producing Chakra and swelling into the Eight Branches Technique.

Orochimaru unleashed the Eight Branches Technique and emerged in a new body, intent on taking Kaze as his vessel. Kaze revealed a giant lightning Susanoo and severed one of Yamata no Orochi’s eight heads, leaving Orochimaru stunned by his speed.

• Orochimaru used the Eight Branches Technique to transform into Yamata no Orochi, while Kaze released Kabuto Yakushi from the Genjutsu.
• Orochimaru emerged from one of the White Snakes and sent it lunging at Kaze.
• Kaze created the Artificial Susanoo Technique, forming a giant armored Samurai from lightning.
• Orochimaru recognized the Susanoo and concluded that Kaze possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kaze drew the Rumble Chakra Katana and cut through the attacking snake’s skull, leaving Yamata no Orochi with seven heads.

Kaze used his lightning-based intangibility to evade Orochimaru’s attacks and cut down three more heads of Yamata no Orochi. As Orochimaru realized physical attacks could not harm Kaze, he covered the remaining creature in his Cursed Seal and prepared to test whether its Natural Energy could reach him.

• Orochimaru realized Kaze could turn his body into lightning and let physical attacks pass through him.
• Kaze restrained three White Snakes and cut off their heads, leaving Yamata no Orochi with four snakes.
• Kabuto Yakushi, Kakashi, Hizashi, and Orochimaru’s forces watched in shock as Kaze overwhelmed Orochimaru’s strongest Forbidden Jutsu.
• Orochimaru covered Yamata no Orochi in his Cursed Seal, hoping its Natural Energy could attack Kaze.

Kaze overwhelmed Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal-enhanced Yamata no Orochi, cutting down its sixth and seventh heads and forcing Orochimaru to flee. As Orochimaru split into countless snakes and burrowed into the desert, Kaze vowed not to let him escape.

• Kaze recognized Orochimaru’s Earth Cursed Seal transformation and tested whether Yamata no Orochi’s Natural Energy could harm his Elementalized body.
• Kaze blocked one snake’s bite with a Lightning Bracer, then severed Yamata no Orochi’s sixth head with his Chakra greatsword.
• Kaze cut the seventh head in two, leaving Orochimaru to realize that Yamata no Orochi could not damage him and that the battle was hopeless.
• Orochimaru used a technique that split him and Yamata no Orochi into tens of thousands of pythons, which burrowed into the desert to escape.
• Kakashi asked Hizashi to use the Byakugan to identify Orochimaru, but Hizashi could not pick him out among the moving snakes.
• Kaze reverted from Susanoo to his human form and declared that Orochimaru would not escape.

Kaze captured Orochimaru after locating him among the fleeing snakes and overpowering him with a Lightning Spear and Iron Sand. He secured Orochimaru with restraints and the Eight Trigrams Seal, leaving the defeated rogue ninja unable to escape.

• Kaze used his Mind Net to locate Orochimaru among the fleeing pythons and pierced him with a Lightning Spear.
• The Lightning Spear and Iron Sand subdued Orochimaru, and Hizashi, Kabuto Yakushi, and Kakashi witnessed his defeat.
• Orochimaru reverted to human form, and Kaze cauterized his wound after removing the Lightning Spear.
• Orochimaru tried to attack Kaze with a sword, but Kaze evaded it and bound him to an Iron Sand cross.
• Kaze applied the Eight Trigrams Seal to block Orochimaru's Chakra flow, leaving him restrained and stunned by Kaze's strength.