Chapter Summaries

Hoshiryu reunited with his family and friends, received a new home, and prepared for his inauguration as the Fifth Hokage. At the ceremony, attended by envoys from the other Four Nations, he formally took office and warned that anyone who threatened Konoha would be slain.

• Mito Uzumaki welcomed Hoshiryu and the others, sent away two would-be speakers, and let Nawaki postpone his homework while doubling it for the next day.
• Tsunade's father Yosuke Senju entrusted her to Hoshiryu, and Mito gave Hoshiryu a key to a home their elders had bought for the group.
• Hoshiryu and the women celebrated with their families, moved into their new home, and spent the following days on their various pursuits as Hoshiryu prepared for his inauguration.
• Envoys from the other Four Nations attended Hoshiryu's Hokage inauguration, which became the grandest in history.
• Hoshiryu appeared on a screen above the Hokage Tower, declared himself the Fifth Hokage, and vowed to slay anyone who violated Konoha.

Hoshiryu declared that the Second Chunin Exams would decide whether the other nations continued to exist, and demonstrated his power by erasing a forest with Spatial Banishment. After the representatives left to prepare, Hashirama Senju challenged Hoshiryu’s harsh methods, but Hoshiryu insisted that his task was to lead the world toward unification.

• Hoshiryu announced that the Second Chunin Exams would take place in one month and that losing nations would be erased.
• Hoshiryu demonstrated Spatial Banishment by making a distant forest vanish, leaving the representatives too frightened to object.
• Hoshiryu ended his address, and representatives from the other nations hurried away to prepare for the exams.
• Hashirama Senju questioned Hoshiryu’s threats and urged him to seek gentler relations with the other nations.
• Hoshiryu said the era’s task was unification, while Tobirama Senju agreed and Mito Uzumaki reminded Hashirama Senju that he was only an observer.

The four Kage met in secret to discuss Konoha’s threat, but an unexpected declaration of war by the Land of Rain redirected their attention. Hoshiryu sent Madara Uchiha to deal with the advancing Rain forces, while Izuna was left to handle the reports.

• The four Kage confirmed that Hoshiryu had erased a forest and gathered to consider how to resist Konoha.
• The Third Raikage proposed joining forces, and Ōnoki urged the Kage to reveal their hidden trump cards.
• An ANBU report revealed that the Land of Rain had declared war on Konoha, Sand Village, and the Land of Iron, after defeating the Land of Iron and advancing toward Konoha.
• Hoshiryu wondered why Hanzo the Salamander had dared to challenge Konoha, and Hashirama asked him to stop dragging him into the discussion.
• Madara Uchiha volunteered to face the Rain forces, and Hoshiryu told him not to wipe them all out so word of Konoha’s strength could spread.
• After the others left, Izuna Uchiha was left alone with the reports piled on the table.

After Madara Uchiha crushed the Land of Rain, the four Kage Level powerhouses considered how to oppose Hoshiryu Uchiha, and the Third Raikage proposed a plan. A month later, the remaining nations agreed to join Konoha’s Chunin Exams, but as Hoshiryu reviewed the entrants, he sensed a huge mass of Chakra rushing toward Konoha Tower.

• Ōnoki, Shamon, the Third Raikage, and Yagura discussed Madara Uchiha’s return and concluded that defeating Hoshiryu Uchiha was the real obstacle.
• The Third Raikage announced that he had a plan to solve the problem once and for all.
• Over the next month, the Land of Fire annexed the Land of Rain, and the remaining nations agreed to participate in the Chunin Exams.
• Hoshiryu reviewed registration forms bearing the names Hatake Sakumo and Izuna Uchiha, checked the four women’s forms, and planned one-on-one matches.
• Hoshiryu sensed an enormous mass of Chakra gathering outside Konoha and shooting toward Konoha Tower.

The Third Raikage revealed the Chakra Cannon and persuaded the other Kage to use it against Konoha and Hoshiryu Uchiha. After the cannon’s attack struck an unseen barrier around Konoha, Hoshiryu appeared and dismissed the weapon as ineffective.

• The Third Raikage explained that Kumogakure had developed the Chakra Cannon to destroy Konoha and laid out a plan to transport and fire it at Hoshiryu.
• The Third Raikage demonstrated the assembled cannon at a secret base, and the other Kage agreed to his plan after seeing its power.
• The Chakra Cannon fired at Konoha, but a transparent barrier repelled the beam and protected the village.
• Hoshiryu appeared before the four Kage, claimed his modified barrier could withstand a Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Ball, and accused them of choosing to become his enemies.

Uchiha Hoshiryu defeated the Kage and shinobi who had joined forces against Konoha, using his space powers and Six Tomoe Rinne Sharingan. The Ten-Tails annihilated the gathered enemies, leaving Hoshiryu to scold it for ending the fight before he could show off.

• Ōnoki proposed that the villages go their separate ways, but Hoshiryu trapped him in shattered space and swallowed him with a vortex.
• Hoshiryu told the surviving shinobi to submit or die and sent an Earth Ninja Village fighter crashing to the ground when he attacked.
• Yagura led dozens of shinobi in surrounding Hoshiryu, who revealed his Six Tomoe Rinne Sharingan and restrained them with overwhelming pressure.
• Hoshiryu transported the gathered enemies to an unfamiliar place, where the Ten-Tails unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball and annihilated them.
• Hoshiryu complained that the Ten-Tails had killed everyone before he could show off and lashed it with Susanoo.

After defeating the Four Kage, Hoshiryu returned to the Hokage's Office and learned that the Four Nations had officially declared war on the Land of Fire. He assigned Madara Uchiha to Amegakure and entrusted Tsunade, Nonō, Hinata, and Zhili with facing the invading armies.

• Hoshiryu forgave the Ten-Tails for attacking his enemies and returned to the Hokage's Office.
• Hoshiryu told Mito Uzumaki and the others that he had crushed all Four Kage, prompting Madara Uchiha to declare victory over Hashirama Senju.
• Hoshiryu said the Chunin Exams no longer mattered because the Four Nations had chosen war.
• An ANBU member delivered an urgent report that the Earth Ninja, Cloud Ninja, Mist Shinobi, and Sand Shinobi had reached the Land of Fire's borders and requested support.
• Madara Uchiha volunteered to confront the coalition, and Hoshiryu assigned him Amegakure while asking Tsunade, Nonō, Hinata, and Zhili to fight the invading forces.

Hoshiryu sent Tsunade, Nonō, Governance, and Hinata through portals to support the Allied Shinobi Forces, while Tsunade proposed a contest to see who could finish her battle fastest. Tsunade arrived at a tunnel where exhausted Konoha shinobi were surrounded by Sand Shinobi and rescued them by tearing open the ceiling.

• Hoshiryu reassured Mito and the women that he could monitor their Chakra through a crystal ball and reach them if danger arose.
• Tsunade, Nonō, Governance, and Hinata accepted Tsunade's wager and entered portals Hoshiryu opened to their battlefields.
• Trapped Konoha shinobi grieved a comrade killed by the Sand Shinobi, and one defended the Fifth Hokage after another blamed her.
• A Hyuga shinobi used the Byakugan and discovered that the Sand Village army had surrounded the tunnel.
• As the Konoha shinobi prepared to fight their way out, Tsunade ripped away the ceiling and appeared at the entrance.

Tsunade faced Black Sand and the Sunagakure army outside the tunnel, overwhelming them with her strength and Wood Release. After Black Sand ordered a retreat, Tsunade unleashed Verdant Dance to drain the Chakra of the fleeing forces.

• Tsunade appeared at the tunnel entrance and confronted Black Sand, who asked what she had done to Lord Shamon.
• Tsunade’s kick sent Black Sand flying and devastated the ground, then she fought off the Sand Shinobi’s attacks with powerful strikes.
• Black Sand ordered his forces to attack the Konoha shinobi in the tunnel, and Tsunade protected them with the Wood Human Technique.
• Black Sand realized Tsunade had not been fighting at full strength and ordered the puppet squad to hold back the others’ retreat.
• Tsunade used Verdant Dance, draining the Chakra of Sunagakure soldiers who came into contact with its green motes.

Tsunade defeated the Sand Village forces with Verdant Dance, while Nonō swiftly overwhelmed the Mist Shinobi using her five-senses genjutsu. At the Land of Earth border, Hinata faced more than ten thousand Stone Shinobi and broke free of their trap, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Tsunade used Verdant Dance to heal and restore Konoha's shinobi while draining the Sand Village forces, and Black Sand watched his troops fall as some logistical troops escaped.
• Tsunade found no Konoha troops remaining where Nonō, Zhili, and Hinata had fought.
• Nonō used her five-senses genjutsu to make the Mist Shinobi attack one another, ending her battle with most of them dead.
• Hoshiryu watched the battles through a crystal ball and felt gratified by Nonō's growth.
• Hinata tried to persuade more than ten thousand Stone Shinobi to stop fighting, but they trapped her inside an Earth-Style Wall.
• Hinata used Shinra Tensei to shatter the wall and rose into the sky as the Stone Shinobi's battle continued.

Hinata used her awakened Tenseigan to devastate the Stone Shinobi, while Zhili wiped out the Cloud Ninja Troop with her Seven-Tails power and lightning blade. Hinata was left watching the battlefield with conflicted feelings, and Zhili left no Cloud Ninja alive.

• Hinata reflected on the help she had received in the past and the power of her own awakened Tenseigan.
• Hinata unleashed Silver Wheel Rebirth Explosion, breaking through the Stone Shinobi's Earth Release: Ten-Thousand-Mile Earth Flow Wall and killing most of their forces.
• The surviving Stone Shinobi lost their will to fight as Hinata looked down at them in silence.
• Zhili used Susanoo against the Cloud Ninja, then dismissed it when their scattered attacks made it difficult to strike them.
• Zhili borrowed the Seven-Tails' power, sped across the battlefield with a lightning blade, and killed every Cloud Ninja, including those who tried to flee.

After Tsunade, Hinata, Zhili, and Nonō demonstrated their strength, Hoshiryu explained that he was waiting for a transformation on the moon before bringing peace to the Ninja World. He revealed that Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju were reincarnations manipulated by Black Zetsu, leaving Madara stunned by the truth behind his plans.

• Hoshiryu teleported Tsunade, Hinata, Zhili, and Nonō back after their performances, and praised them for becoming capable of standing beside him.
• Tobirama suggested wiping out the Four Nations, but Hoshiryu said the time was not right because a great transformation was brewing on the moon.
• Hoshiryu told the gathered shinobi how Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed within the moon by Hagoromo Otsutsuki and his brother.
• Hoshiryu explained that Black Zetsu sought Kaguya's resurrection and had manipulated Madara's understanding of the Rinnegan and the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Hoshiryu revealed that Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju were the reincarnations of Indra and Asura, leaving Madara shocked that Black Zetsu had engineered his actions.

Hoshiryu explained that the moon’s Otsutsuki descendants planned to destroy the Ninja World, and he intended to stop them, revive the dead, and use the crisis to unify the villages. After Konoha annihilated the armies of the Four Great Nations, unrest and calls for revenge spread, leaving Hoshiryu determined to give the villages another chance.

• Madara Uchiha recovered from his shock, while Tobirama asked Hoshiryu why the time was not right yet.
• Hoshiryu explained that the moon’s Otsutsuki descendants planned to carry out the World-Destruction Plan, and that their Tenseigan came from gathering many Byakugan.
• Hoshiryu comforted Hinata as she realized her bloodline connected her to the Tenseigan and the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hoshiryu said he would stop the plan, revive the fallen ninjas, and use the crisis to end the age of Ninja Villages; he warned that future rebels would receive no mercy.
• The Four Great Nations declared war on Konoha, but their ninja armies were wiped out on the same day, and Konoha did not pursue them.
• Calls for revenge spread through the other villages over the dead and missing Kage, and Hoshiryu decided to give them another chance to prevent further unrest.

The Four Nations Allied Army reached Konoha, but its commanders grew wary of the village’s silence and argued over how to launch their attack. Hoshiryu watched their division from the Hokage’s Office and decided he would handle the coming battle himself.

• Fifty thousand allied ninja approached Konoha, finding no resistance and mistaking the empty roads for a sign that the village feared them.
• Chiyo, Dodai, and Daiseki worried that Konoha’s silence and vanished spies signaled danger, then agreed to attack that night.
• Dokuyo Kaguya arrogantly volunteered Kirigakure as the vanguard, prompting the other villages to demand that Kirigakure lead the assault.
• Genji objected to Kirigakure bearing the burden alone, and the representatives argued over whether all four nations should serve as the vanguard.
• Hoshiryu and the others watched the commanders bicker, and after Hashirama Senju offered to act, Hoshiryu said he would handle the battle himself.

Hoshiryu Uchiha left the women who had blessed him and appeared over the Four Nations Allied Army, whose members panicked at his arrival. After Chiyo challenged him, Hoshiryu defended Konoha’s actions as revenge and killed Dokuyo Kaguya instantly, leaving the allied representatives terrified.

• Hoshiryu accepted the four women’s blessing and vanished to leave.
• The allied army’s representatives argued over who would serve as vanguard until deputies reported that Hoshiryu had appeared.
• Chiyo confronted Hoshiryu, who answered that the four nations had started the First Shinobi World War and Konoha was taking revenge.
• Dokuyo Kaguya challenged Hoshiryu, who killed him instantly with an unseen attack.
• The representatives beside Dokuyo Kaguya watched in fear, realizing Hoshiryu could kill them just as easily.

Hoshiryu overcame Genji’s appeal to peace by manifesting an immense Susanoo, forcing the Allied Forces to surrender. He then used Outer Path: Reincarnation Jutsu to summon the dead, bringing the Four Kage back to the battlefield.

• Genji urged Hoshiryu to take responsibility for peace, and his words briefly raised the Allied Forces’ morale.
• Hoshiryu formed a colossal Susanoo and declared that he would stand at the summit, silencing Genji and the Allied Forces.
• The Allied Forces dropped their weapons as Hoshiryu’s barrier enclosed them, and Chiyo asked whether he intended to kill everyone.
• Hoshiryu offered the Allied Forces one chance and cast Outer Path: Reincarnation Jutsu.
• The King of Hell released countless souls, and Hoshiryu summoned the Four Kage who had died within his space.

Hoshiryu revived the fallen Kage and terrified the Allied Forces by destroying the falling moon with Susanoo. When a powerful purple beam struck him, Susanoo deflected it without damage, and the Sage of Six Paths watched the battle from the Netherworld.

• The revived Kage panicked at memories of their deaths, while the Allied Forces feared Hoshiryu despite their leaders' return.
• A shinobi cried out that the moon was falling toward the world.
• Hoshiryu commanded Susanoo to cleave the moon apart, then cut its fragments into pieces and erased them with black flames.
• A powerful purple beam struck Susanoo and was deflected, causing a catastrophic explosion where it hit.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched from the Netherworld and wondered how anyone could have fought Hoshiryu if his mother had been as strong.

Hoshiryu destroyed the remaining Otsutsuki conspirator and summoned Kaguya Otsutsuki after she emerged from her seal. He offered her safety if she abandoned her past and lived as an ordinary person, but she refused, insisting that all chakra belonged to her.

• A moon-dwelling Otsutsuki used the Tenseigan to attack Hoshiryu, but Hoshiryu erased the attack and brought the man before him.
• Hoshiryu burned the Otsutsuki conspirator to ashes, frightening the allied ninjas who witnessed it.
• Hoshiryu called for the Rabbit Goddess, and Kaguya Otsutsuki appeared from hiding with less than a tenth of her power and an unusable Rinne Sharingan.
• Kaguya asked Hoshiryu who he was, and he introduced himself as Konoha's Fifth Hokage, Hoshiryu Uchiha.
• Hoshiryu offered to guarantee Kaguya's safety if she let go of past conflicts and lived as an ordinary person, but she refused and claimed all chakra in the world belonged to her.

Hoshiryu threatened to kill Kaguya after she refused to abandon her plan to reclaim Chakra, and Black Zetsu revealed that Hoshiryu had already defeated an Otsutsuki. Realizing she might truly die, Kaguya yielded and offered him the Ten-Tails, leaving Hoshiryu surprised.

• Hoshiryu summoned the longsword that had slain Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, while Kaguya found that she could not escape through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Black Zetsu appeared and begged Hoshiryu to give him time to persuade Kaguya.
• Black Zetsu told Kaguya that Hoshiryu had killed an Otsutsuki and that the clan could not defeat him.
• Kaguya bowed to Hoshiryu and apologized, hoping her submission would spare her life.
• Kaguya offered Hoshiryu the Ten-Tails, and Hoshiryu reacted with surprise.

Hoshiryu sealed Kaguya Otsutsuki and demanded the allied Ninja Villages disband after defeating them. He left the surrender negotiations to his subordinates, while Kaguya followed him and was caught spying on him the next morning.

• Hoshiryu offered Kaguya Otsutsuki a chance to live if she accepted his seal, and she agreed.
• Hoshiryu branded Kaguya Otsutsuki with a seal that would destroy her soul if she betrayed him.
• Hoshiryu demanded that the Ninja Villages disband, and Shamon and the other Kage surrendered unconditionally.
• Konoha's forces began reorganizing and settling the allied shinobi while Hoshiryu left to return home.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki followed Hoshiryu, and he discovered her the next morning after she had spied on him; she fled using Yomotsu Hirasaka when he approached her.