Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Asuka and Hashirama Senju arrived in the Land of Iron for the Five Kage Summit, where the Five Kage gathered and tensions flared. Hashirama’s reunion with Ōnoki softened the Tsuchikage’s resolve, leaving him reflecting on how Hashirama’s sincerity could draw people to Konoha’s side.

• Uchiha Asuka and Hashirama Senju discussed the Land of Iron’s samurai and their disappointment over swordsmanship that relied on brute force.
• A squad of samurai welcomed the two Konoha guests as residents gathered to witness the arrival of the Five Kage.
• Rasa, the Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki made dramatic entrances, and the Raikage and Tsuchikage exchanged insults that stirred their Chakra.
• Uchiha Asuka stepped in front of Hashirama as the Kage gathered, but Hashirama recognized Ōnoki and recalled their past meeting.
• Hashirama apologized again for Uchiha Madara’s past actions, while Ōnoki remembered Hashirama’s kindness and reconsidered using the summit to undermine Konoha.

Kisame received Akatsuki’s food benefits and reflected on the intelligence he had sent to Kirigakure. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu brought Spiral Zetsu to Orochimaru’s hidden laboratory, where Orochimaru examined the improved Impure World Reincarnation data and prepared to show its results to Sarutobi.

• Black Zetsu delivered Kisame a scroll of stored food, and Kisame found Uchiha-branded fried chicken and luosifen inside.
• Kisame thought about the intelligence he had sent to Kirigakure and anticipated what might happen after the Five Kage Summit.
• Black Zetsu dragged Spiral Zetsu through a dark sewer passage to a brightly lit laboratory filled with dissected White Zetsu.
• Orochimaru told Black Zetsu that the improved Impure World Reincarnation data was authentic, though he could not remember writing it.
• Orochimaru continued his research and looked forward to showing Sarutobi the results of his experiment.

At the Five Kage Summit, Raikage Ai accused Sunagakure of causing the Third Raikage’s death by bungling a wartime alliance, and Asuka explained that Sunagakure’s detour had led its forces into Konoha. The Kage failed to agree on an alliance, so Hashirama promised Mifune he would handle the summit’s problems and went to ask Asuka for ideas.

• Raikage Ai confronted Rasa over Sunagakure’s role in the failed alliance that ended with the Third Raikage dying against Iwagakure’s forces.
• Asuka deduced that Sunagakure’s attempt to evade Iwagakure’s surveillance had taken its forces through the Land of Fire toward Kannabi Bridge, where they encountered Konoha’s ninja.
• Raikage Ai revealed that Kumogakure had been waiting for Sunagakure’s forces before engaging Iwagakure, while Rasa admitted the plan had been directed by Chiyo.
• Rasa, Raikage Ai, Ōnoki, and Mei Terumi failed to establish an alliance, and Mifune ended the morning’s discussion.
• Hashirama told Mifune he would handle the summit’s problems, then went to ask Asuka for advice.

At the Five Kage Summit, the villages failed to agree on uniting against Akatsuki, while Kisame’s fabricated report about Akatsuki’s strength alarmed Kirigakure. Hashirama and Uchiha Asuka revived Senju Tobirama to seek a plan, and Tobirama awoke to find Hashirama waiting for him.

• Mei Terumi and Ao discussed why the Five Great Ninja Villages distrusted one another and could not agree to join forces against Akatsuki.
• Mei Terumi read Kisame’s report claiming Akatsuki had one hundred thousand ninja and Uchiha Madara, and she and Ao realized they were in serious trouble.
• Kisame admitted to Black Zetsu that he had exaggerated Akatsuki’s strength to pressure the villages into cooperating, while Black Zetsu said Akatsuki would wait for the Five Kage Summit to end.
• Hashirama and Uchiha Asuka decided to summon Senju Tobirama for advice and obtained a death-row prisoner for the Impure World Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Asuka used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Senju Tobirama, who recognized the jutsu, condemned Asuka, and then saw Hashirama and exclaimed, “Damn, big brother!!”

Senju Tobirama was revived to advise Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Asuka on uniting the Five Great Ninja Villages against the tailed-beast mastermind. He proposed fabricating a credible threat to the whole world, leaving Hashirama dejected and Tobirama wondering how Konoha was doing.

• Senju Tobirama confronted Uchiha Asuka over using Impure World Reincarnation on Hashirama Senju, then verified that Hashirama was not being controlled.
• Hashirama and Asuka explained that the Five Great Ninja Villages were meeting because seven tailed beasts had been captured, and Hashirama asked Tobirama how to unite them.
• Tobirama argued that the villages needed a shared external threat rather than efforts to resolve their old grudges and competing interests.
• Asuka suggested threatening to destroy the Five Great Ninja Villages, and Tobirama said the threat had to encompass the nations, their leaders, and their people.
• Tobirama proposed claiming the mastermind sought to assemble the Ten-Tails and become like the Six Paths Sage, then persuading the other villages that this was true.
• Hashirama praised Tobirama's plan before becoming dejected at Tobirama's remark about his diminished strength, while Tobirama wondered whether Konoha was doing well.

Senju Tobirama proposed using Uchiha Madara as a supposed threat to unite the Five Great Ninja Villages, while Hashirama and Asuka considered the plan. Tobirama prepared to attend the Five Kage Summit in disguise and taught Asuka a modified Flying Thunder God technique, then reminisced with Hashirama about their past.

• Tobirama argued that the villages would unite if they believed Uchiha Madara planned to destroy the world, and advised Hashirama not to command the Allied Forces.
• Tobirama offered to teach Asuka a modified version of the Flying Thunder God technique.
• The next morning, Tobirama disguised himself as Hashirama's guard and prepared to attend the Five Kage Summit.
• Tobirama and Hashirama bought Fried Dough Sticks on the way to the meeting and discussed how Hashirama had once lacked spending money.
• Tobirama admitted he had secretly withheld Hashirama's allowance to fund the village, and Hashirama revealed he had earned money by sending clones on D-Rank Missions.

At the Five Kage Summit, Mei Terumi revealed intelligence that Akatsuki had gathered seven Tailed Beasts and was led by powerful figures, including Uchiha Madara, whom Hashirama confirmed was alive. As the Kage considered uniting against the threat, a Masked Man invaded the meeting and demonstrated space-time ninjutsu.

• Tobirama noticed Ao's Byakugan, and Mei Terumi said Konoha had attempted to assassinate him more than eighty times.
• Rasa urged the Kage to share intelligence, and the discussion turned tense when Ōnoki suggested the Raikage's brother might be Akatsuki's next target.
• Mei Terumi read Kisame's intelligence, describing Akatsuki's leaders, its plan to gather the Tailed Beasts, and its strength in Amegakure.
• Hashirama confirmed that Uchiha Madara had been alive during Nine-Tailed Night, shocking the Kage.
• Mifune proposed that the Five Great Nations unite, but a Masked Man burst into the hall and evaded the Kage with space-time ninjutsu.
• The Masked Man switched places with Ao, leaving the Kage wary that their attacks could strike their own allies.

Uchiha Asuka, disguised as a masked intruder, declared that his organization sought to gather the tailed beasts and conquer the world, then announced war on the Five Great Ninja Villages. After he vanished during Raikage Ai’s attack, the Kage and Mifune agreed that the villages had to cooperate against the threat.

• Samurai surrounded the conference room, and the Masked Man claimed to represent a mysterious organization before Senju Tobirama identified it as Akatsuki.
• Mei Terumi attacked the Masked Man, who evaded her technique, insulted her, and warned the Kage that they had missed their chance to change the Ninja World’s fate.
• Uchiha Asuka seized Mei Terumi by the throat, subdued her guard with genjutsu, and released her to Hashirama Senju.
• The Masked Man said his organization would collect the tailed beasts to form the Ten-Tails and declared that the Fourth Shinobi World War would begin.
• Raikage Ai struck at the Masked Man and destroyed the second-floor platform, but the Masked Man disappeared, leaving the Kage and Mifune to resolve to cooperate.

The Five Great Ninja Villages confirmed the threat posed by Akatsuki and formed Allied Forces to declare the Fourth Shinobi World War. Nagato learned that the alliance had been manipulated into place, while Kisame discovered that his undercover mission now put him on the side targeted by the united villages.

• Hashirama and the other Kage reviewed evidence of the Sage's Eye and the Ten-Tails, then agreed to unite against Akatsuki and fight the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Nagato and Konan learned of the Five Great Ninja Villages' alliance, and Black Zetsu explained that Hashirama and Senju Tobirama had helped deceive the other nations into joining forces.
• Nagato decided to keep Kisame Hoshigaki in Akatsuki, unaware that Kisame had been sending false intelligence to Kirigakure.
• Kisame considered attacking Zetsu, then read the latest report and realized Akatsuki was the target of the Allied Forces while he was still undercover in the organization.

As news spread that the Five Great Ninja Villages were forming the Ninja Allied Forces, Uchiha Mikoto visited the Women's Tavern and discussed the looming war with Nara Yoshino and Moonlight Eri. She left wondering what she might do before the world ended, while the enemy behind the alliance remained unknown.

• News of the Ninja Allied Forces unsettled villagers, who feared war and began stockpiling necessities.
• Uchiha Mikoto entered the Women's Tavern and reunited with Nara Yoshino and Moonlight Eri, who worried that their children and families would be caught in the war.
• Yoshino urged Mikoto to keep Itachi from graduating early, while Mikoto wondered who could have prompted the Five Villages to unite.
• Yoshino revealed that Nara Shikaku had been investigating the Rain Country and contacting Jiraiya, but she dismissed Hanzo as too weak to be the cause.
• Eri and Yoshino joked about taking risks with their husbands before the end of the world, while Mikoto watched the anxious streets and wondered what she wanted to do.

Hashirama Senju and Senju Tobirama returned to Konoha as the village prepared for a Five Kage Summit and war against Akatsuki. Tsunade learned that Tobirama had been resurrected and, after the daimyo pledged support, Orochimaru and Black Zetsu prepared to summon more former Kage.

• Senju Tobirama registered in Konoha, complained about the village’s poor condition, and blamed the Uchiha for the potholes in the streets.
• Uchiha Asuka told Tsunade that he and Hashirama Senju had used Impure World Reincarnation to bring back Senju Tobirama, and Tobirama comforted her about her grief and war trauma.
• Tsunade, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, and Asuka planned Konoha’s preparations for the Five Kage Summit, including recalling Jiraiya to guard the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• The Land of Fire’s daimyo ordered Chakra batteries and weapons prepared, contacted the other daimyos, and agreed to send half the armory’s weapons to Konoha.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon the Third Raikage, while Black Zetsu listed other resurrected Kage and promised to bring Orochimaru more powerful remains.

Asuka told Uchiha Mikoto about Akatsuki’s overwhelming strength and the coming Fourth Shinobi World War, then assured her he would save the world. After Mikoto left with his old end-of-the-world notebook, she read his fifty wishes and discovered his repeated desire to stop being single.

• Asuka found Uchiha Mikoto outside his home and let her inside after she brought up their embarrassing past incident.
• Mikoto questioned Asuka about the Five Kage Summit, and he revealed Akatsuki’s formidable forces and the grave danger facing the Five Great Ninja Villages.
• Asuka told Mikoto to spend time with her son rather than fight, then showed her his notebook of things to do if the world ended.
• Asuka declared that he would save the world, and Mikoto said she believed in him before leaving with the notebook.
• Mikoto read Asuka’s fifty wishes at home and found several pages repeating his desire to lose his virginity, stop being single, and marry eight women.

Konoha’s Medical Department and village offices prepared for an approaching war while Uchiha Mikoto sought counseling and was mistakenly given aphrodisiac medicine. The chapter ended with Yu Yan, Hyuga Hanahana, and Iruka worrying that Uchiha Asuka would be sent to the most dangerous front, while joking about how to preserve his family line.

• The Vice Minister treated villagers alone, exposed Sarutobi Asuma’s heavy smoking, and realized that Konoha had transferred away most of its Medical Ninja and requisitioned much of its medicine.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Yu Yan that she felt lost and feared the coming war, while Yu Yan mistook her worries for regret about her divorce and gave her aphrodisiac medicine to take with Uchiha Asuka.
• Yu Yan visited Hyuga Hanahana at the Hokage Building and learned that civilians from neighboring small countries were being moved into the Land of Fire and that reconnaissance units had already departed.
• Yu Yan and Hyuga Hanahana watched Iruka teach, then invited him to eat before the war; Iruka worried that Uchiha Asuka might die on the battlefield.
• Yu Yan and Hyuga Hanahana jokingly discussed changing Iruka’s surname to Uchiha and finding him a Sharingan so Uchiha Asuka’s family line would continue.

Asuka attended the Uchiha clan’s final meeting before the Fourth Shinobi World War, where Uchiha Saburo rallied the clan to fight for its survival despite the danger and the village’s broken promises. The Uchiha shared fried chicken, took a group photograph, and closed Nanhe Shrine until the war ended, promising to meet again.

• Asuka learned from Ryoichi that Uchiha Saburo had called the clan together because many might not survive the coming war.
• Uchiha Saburo recalled how the village had broken promises to the Uchiha after the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars, and Asuka revealed that the Five Great Ninja Villages had less than a fifty percent chance of victory.
• A clan member proposed staging a coup, but Uchiha Saburo ordered Asuka to drag him away and beat him up.
• Uchiha Saburo explained that the Uchiha had joined Konoha to survive and urged the clan to fight the enemy threatening to destroy them; the assembled jonin pledged to follow him.
• Asuka handed out fried chicken, and the clan relaxed together before agreeing to take a group photograph.
• Uchiha Saburo announced that Nanhe Shrine would close until the war ended, and the assembled Uchiha promised, "We... shall meet again!!"

Asuka watched Konoha’s shinobi cope with anxiety before the Fourth Shinobi World War, while privately worrying about the plan to defeat Kaguya Otsutsuki and reduce casualties. He and Mikoto took medicine Yu Yan prescribed for anxiety, and Yu Yan told Iruka and Hyuga Hanahana that Mikoto planned to remarry after the war by having a child.

• Asuka met Kakashi and Might Guy, offered Guy a Sharingan, and heard Kakashi worry that Uchiha jonin were spending as if they did not expect to survive the war.
• At Teuchi’s Ramen Shop, Asuka heard Yuhi Kurenai, Morino Ibiki, Mizuki, and Hayate Gekko discuss the coming Five Villages Alliance, then warned them about the risk of dying with their bodies mutilated.
• Asuka brought ramen to Ryoichi, who refused to apologize to his son, then saw Mikoto jump into Asuka’s courtyard carrying vegetables.
• Mikoto told Asuka that Yu Yan had prescribed anxiety medicine and instructed her to take it with his assistance; Asuka admitted he was anxious too and told Mikoto to add the medicine to their food, including Kushina’s portion.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Yu Yan told Iruka and Hyuga Hanahana that Mikoto intended to remarry after the war by having a child.

Asuka, Kushina, and Mikoto shared dinner as Konoha prepared to send most of its ninja to war, but the anti-anxiety medicine in the meal caused unexpected physical reactions. After a pair of brief blackouts left them together in the dark, Mikoto accused Asuka of drugging her, and he was left stunned by the charge.

• Mikoto served Kushina and Asuka dinner and explained that only a little over thirty people would remain in Konoha while the rest deployed, with Kushina likely heading to the Land of Lightning.
• Kushina learned that Mikoto had added Asuka's anti-anxiety medicine to the food, while Asuka began suffering a strong physical reaction and tried to conceal it.
• Kushina insisted Mikoto stay after dinner, and Asuka tried to escape to the sofa when the lights went out, only for the power to return moments later.
• Kushina sat Asuka between herself and Mikoto, and the two women grew increasingly warm as the medicine's effects intensified.
• During another blackout, Mikoto slipped her hand beneath Asuka's blanket and whispered that he had drugged her; Asuka denied touching the cooking utensils and stared at her in disbelief.

Mikoto and Kushina’s encounter with Asuka led to a frank discussion of his relationship with Pakura and the Akatsuki’s threat, while the reconnaissance team discovered Amegakure ninja at the Rain Country border. The chapter ended with Tsume’s unit fighting the Amegakure scouts as Mikoto and Kushina rested together after the effects of the drug faded.

• Mikoto realized she had been drugged, and she and Kushina became intimate with Asuka before discussing their growing feelings for him.
• Asuka told Mikoto and Kushina that Pakura had joined the Akatsuki and revealed that Uchiha Obito was alive and behind Konoha’s Nine-Tailed Night.
• Asuka described the Akatsuki’s forces and reassured Mikoto that the Allied Forces could win the coming war.
• Hyuga Hiashi’s reconnaissance team investigated Black Maru’s discovery of a dumpling scent underground, then Tsume led her unit out to search for the enemy.
• Tsume and Black Maru encountered Amegakure ninja and attacked them, while the outpost team learned that the Rain Country scouts claimed they were investigating the allied army.
• Mikoto and Kushina recovered as the drug’s effects faded, and Kushina suggested that Mikoto marry Asuka after the war.

Fei Fei discovered that Mikoto, Kushina, and Asuka had spent the night together, while Konoha mobilized its ninja for the Fourth Shinobi World War. As the army headed for the Land of Lightning, Tobirama revealed his plans to revive Hashirama for Konoha’s protection, and Hashirama agreed to fight with power beyond his prime.

• Fei Fei found Mikoto, Kushina, and Asuka asleep together and learned that Mikoto had willingly taken the initiative under the influence of drugs.
• Mikoto warned Fei Fei that she could cut off its cat food, and Fei Fei begged her to spare it.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha’s assembled ninja to move out for the Land of Lightning, including elderly fighters who expected heavy losses.
• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the war’s likely casualties and Tobirama’s past research into Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama revealed that he had secretly inspired Uchiha Ili to revive Hashirama and said he had prepared a version that would let Hashirama fight beyond his prime.
• Hashirama agreed to Tobirama’s plan and set his sights on ending the war.

As the Allied Forces assembled in Kumogakure, Asuka arrived and was attacked by Samui. The chapter ended with Asuka using Thousand Years of Death on her in the middle of the village.

• Asuka told Fei Fei that Uchiha Mikoto had accidentally given the others medicine after misunderstanding her dream-related problem.
• Rasa departed from Sunagakure after promising young Gaara that he would bring back fried chicken.
• Mei Terumi left Kirigakure for the war, frightened Zabuza into silence, and Elder Genshi told him that ninjas were people, not tools.
• Ōnoki discussed the Will of Stone with Kurotsuchi while preparing a grave before Iwagakure's departure.
• Ninjas from the major villages gathered in Kumogakure, where frequent fights worried Mabui and Raikage Ai; Samui said Killer B had refused to stay behind.
• Samui recognized Asuka on the street, attacked him with a kunai, and was struck by his Thousand Years of Death technique.

Uchiha Asuka confronted Samui in Kumogakure, humiliated her with a notorious ninjutsu, and took her to a restroom when she became ill. While trying to identify a future Kumogakure envoy for a system mission, Asuka asked Mabui for help, and she proposed staging a Gluttony Contest to find likely candidates.

• Samui attacked Uchiha Asuka, who defeated her and embarrassed her in front of the crowd with the Thousand Years of Death.
• Mabui helped Samui up, and Asuka explained that he had come early and checked the rewards for his system missions.
• Asuka noticed Samui could not hold in her upset stomach, carried her to a public restroom, and waited outside with Mabui.
• Asuka told Mabui he was trying to learn who Kumogakure would send as an envoy to Konoha seven years later so he could defeat one of them.
• Mabui offered to arrange a Gluttony Contest, proposing that Asuka pay her to rig the results and help him defeat many Kumogakure ninjas.