Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yoru explored Obito’s emptied hideout, sensed a new power awakening in his eyes, and deduced that Kaguya Otsutsuki may have created two linked Shinobi Worlds. He then rescued Konan from Obito’s attack and exposed Obito’s fixation on Rin Nohara, leaving their confrontation underway.

• Uchiha Yoru absorbed the Sharingan’s Pupil Power, discovered his Rinnegan’s Almighty Push, and gave the Gunbai to Uchiha Hikari while the Hinatas collected scrolls and ninja tools.
• Uchiha Yoru theorized that Kaguya Otsutsuki had created two Shinobi Worlds, with one concealing the other from the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Konan detonated 600 billion Exploding Tags against Masked Obito, but Obito survived by using another Sharingan from his stockpile and attacked her as her Chakra ran out.
• Uchiha Yoru appeared using a Flying Thunder God mark, caught Obito’s steel pipe, and saved Konan as Nagato watched.
• Uchiha Yoru challenged Obito’s claim to the Uchiha name and revealed that he knew Obito kept Rin Nohara’s corpse, making Obito’s expression twist in anger.

Uchiha Yoru defeated Obito and Zetsu’s attempt to seize control in the Land of Rain, but Zetsu escaped with one Rinnegan while Obito recovered it. Obito gathered one hundred thousand White Zetsu and recruited Kabuto to prepare for war, as Kumogakure called for a Five Kage meeting.

• Obito attacked Uchiha Yoru after learning that Rin Nohara’s corpse was hidden in the base, while Black Zetsu stole Nagato’s Rinnegan during the battle.
• Uchiha Yoru wounded Black Zetsu and took the contaminated Rinnegan, but Obito and Zetsu escaped; Nagato later received ordinary replacement eyes and retained some abilities.
• Uchiha Yoru met with Nagato, Konan, and Orochimaru in Amegakure as Nagato recovered, and the rain briefly stopped over the Land of Rain.
• Obito discovered that Uchiha Yoru had emptied his base and taken Rin Nohara’s body, then revealed one hundred thousand White Zetsu and resolved to create a world with Rin.
• Black Zetsu brought the unconscious Kabuto Yakushi to Obito, who used the Impure World Reincarnation technique to awaken and control him.
• Kumogakure announced a Five Kage meeting in the Land of Iron after the Fourth Raikage publicized the Akatsuki Organization’s crimes.

Temari learned from her other-world counterpart and joined Gaara and Kankuro on the journey to the Five Kage Summit, while the other Kage also departed with the red book spreading from Konoha. Mei Terumi discovered photographs of her other-world self with a man and set out for the summit, determined to confront them.

• Temari of this world discussed Gaara's standing in Sunagakure with her other-world counterpart and resolved to protect him and the village.
• Temari, Gaara, and Kankuro left Sunagakure for the Five Kage Summit, and Gaara carried a copy of My Struggle.
• Third Tsuchikage Onoki departed Iwagakure with Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi after the villagers gave him an enthusiastic send-off.
• Mei Terumi left Kirigakure with Chojuro and C, carrying My Struggle and hiding photographs of her other-world self with a man.
• C used his Byakugan to glimpse the photographs, and Mei threatened him and Chojuro into silence.
• Mei recalled learning about the other world and the planned meeting, then rushed toward the Land of Iron to confront her other self and the man.

Mabui and Samui prepared to use the Five Kage Summit and the coming war to seize control of Kumogakure for the White people. As the Kage gathered in the Land of Iron, Uchiha Yoru advanced his larger plan while Naruto struggled with the village’s rejection and Gaara questioned his ideas about peace.

• Mabui explained to Samui that they would wait until the Five Kage Summit drew Kumogakure’s forces away before launching their plan to take the village for the White people.
• Tsunade left Konoha for the summit with Uchiha Yoru and Uchiha Hikari as her Kage Guards, while Yoru planned to let the villages and Akatsuki weaken each other before striking.
• Naruto complained that Kakashi’s squad had left him behind, and Jiraiya told him that the village and his companions blamed him for past recklessness before taking him to train at Mount Myōboku.
• Gaara read Temari’s book about peace through unification and wondered why mutual acknowledgment had not brought peace to his own village.
• Mei Terumi arrived at the Land of Iron, learned that Tsunade was coming, and prepared to meet the other female Kage despite her unease about Uchiha Yoru.

At the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, Mei Terumi and Uchiha Yoru’s familiar reunion sparks gossip and a misunderstanding that she and Tsunade are rivals for his affection. Qing tries to spy on the two Kage meeting with Yoru, but their barrier seal blocks his Byakugan.

• Tsunade arrived at the Land of Iron, where Mifune welcomed her and the assembled shinobi observed Konoha’s powerful Hokage.
• Tsunade criticized the absent Raikage, while Mei Terumi and Qing recognized Uchiha Yoru as the man connected to Mei in another world.
• Yoru greeted Mei warmly, but Qing misunderstood their exchange and accused Yoru of having deceived the Mizukage’s feelings.
• Tsunade and Mei traded teasing remarks about Yoru, and Mei told him to wait for her in her room that night before leaving.
• Ōnoki mistook the exchange for a possible Konoha–Kirigakure alliance, while Qing and Chojuro speculated about what the three were doing behind closed doors.
• Qing activated his Byakugan to look into the room, but a barrier seal concealed the meeting between Mei, Tsunade, and Yoru.

In the Land of Iron, Mei Terumi from another world prodded her counterpart toward joining Konoha’s effort to unify the Shinobi World, while Uchiha Yoru demonstrated her power and offered a Cursed Seal. Mei Terumi of this world accepted the seal but remained outwardly defiant, and her counterpart proposed that they ally with Uzumaki Kushina’s faction.

• Mei Terumi from another world taunted her counterpart about relying on Uchiha Yoru and compared their versions of Kirigakure.
• Tsunade signaled her support for Konoha’s unification plans, then used Yoru’s space-time ability to go rest with Uchiha Hikari.
• The other-world Mei entered Sage Mode and used her strength and teasing to push her counterpart toward making a choice.
• Yoru told Mei Terumi that he respected her decision but would capture her if she opposed him, then offered to give her a Cursed Seal.
• Mei Terumi of this world accepted the Cursed Seal despite protesting, and her counterpart suggested they join forces with Uzumaki Kushina.

At the Five Kage Summit, Tsunade and Mei revealed how deeply Akatsuki had infiltrated the Great Nations and how close it was to creating an ultimate weapon from the Tailed Beasts. Tsunade clashed with the Fourth Raikage A over Konoha’s role, then disclosed that Akatsuki’s weapon was nearing completion, leaving the other Kage stunned.

• Gaara warned the Five Kage that Akatsuki had captured all the Tailed Beasts except the Nine-Tails and said his earlier warnings had been ignored.
• Tsunade described Akatsuki’s attack on Konoha, explained the Six Paths of Pain, and suggested the masked man behind the Nine-Tails attack might control them and possess the Rinnegan.
• Mei revealed that the mysterious masked man had controlled the Third and Fourth Mizukage, helping cause the Blood Mist era.
• The Fourth Raikage A blamed the other villages for allowing Akatsuki to grow, and Tsunade and Mei pushed back against his accusations.
• Tsunade refused to commit Konoha to recovering the other villages’ Tailed Beasts and warned that Konoha could face Akatsuki alone.
• Tsunade disclosed that Akatsuki was combining the power of the Nine Great Tailed Beasts to create an ultimate weapon and had already obtained substantial Nine-Tails Chakra.

At the Five Kage Summit, Akatsuki disrupted negotiations with an attack involving White Zetsu, Impure World Reincarnation, and Obito. Obito demanded Rin’s corpse from Uchiha Yoru and threatened the assembled leaders, while Tsunade revealed Akatsuki’s army of one hundred thousand White Zetsu.

• Tsunade challenged the other Kage’s attempts to test Konoha and declared that Konoha and Kirigakure would face Akatsuki together.
• A White Zetsu clone appeared at the summit and taunted the Kage; after it mentioned Killer B, Fourth Raikage A rushed downstairs to save him.
• The Land of Iron’s samurai announced that Akatsuki had launched an assault with enemies summoned by Impure World Reincarnation, and Tsunade explained that Orochimaru’s stolen research had enabled it.
• Masked Obito appeared, and spores left by the White Zetsu clone began draining the Kage and their guards until they fought the growths off.
• Obito demanded the corpse of Rin from Uchiha Yoru, who identified him as Uchiha Obito and condemned his actions; Obito threatened to destroy the Shinobi World and target Konoha.
• Tsunade revealed that Akatsuki had cultivated one hundred thousand White Zetsu using First Hokage’s cells, warning the other villages of the scale of the threat.

At the Five Kage Summit, Uchiha Obito unleashed Edo Tensei against the assembled Kage, while Uchiha Yoru sent Uchiha Hikari to fight the resurrected Konoha F4. Hikari overwhelmed the resurrected ninjas with her powerful Fire Style, Mangekyo abilities, and taijutsu, leaving Obito stunned and Utatane Koharu crushed beneath her foot.

• Uchiha Obito summoned Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu with Impure World Reincarnation, and the four accused Tsunade and the Uchiha of seizing Konoha and destroying the Sarutobi Clan.
• The Fourth Raikage A fought the resurrected Killer B, while the Five Kage and their guards rushed into battle around the collapsing summit castle.
• Uchiha Yoru told Uchiha Hikari to face the Konoha F4, and she answered him immediately despite Tsunade being Hokage.
• Obito summoned more Edo Tensei fighters, including the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and several former Kage, but Hikari engulfed them in a vast Fire Style attack and intensified it with Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi.
• Hikari kicked the Third Raikage A away, cut down the Seven Ninja Swordsmen with her Gunbai, and stomped Utatane Koharu into the ground.

At the Five Kage Summit, Uchiha Hikari overwhelmed the resurrected shinobi with her Fire Release and complete-body Susanoo, while Tsunade unleashed a powerful Wood Release to restrain them. The battle continued as Hikari trapped Masked Obito in her Tsukuyomi and he saw someone he had longed for.

• Uchiha Hikari’s Fire Release changed the battlefield as the Five Kage and their allies fought the resurrected shinobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō attacked Hikari with the Five Elements Great Combined Attack, but she emerged in a complete-body pink Susanoo.
• Uchiha Hikari swung her Susanoo’s blade, flattening the battlefield and cutting away a distant mountaintop.
• Tsunade activated Curse Mark Sage Mode and used Wood Release to ensnare the Edo Tensei bodies in a vast forest.
• Uchiha Hikari cast Tsukuyomi on Masked Obito, who saw the person he had yearned for.

Uchiha Yoru and Uchiha Hikari struck Uchiha Obito with Tsukuyomi and Susanoo, forcing him to flee while the reanimated fighters withdrew. At the resumed Five Kage Summit, the villages agreed to form a Shinobi Alliance under Tsunade after she revealed the Akatsuki Organization had one hundred thousand White Zetsu.

• Uchiha Yoru trapped Uchiha Obito in Tsukuyomi, where visions of Rin Nohara and Uchiha Yoru broke down Obito's grasp on reality.
• Black Zetsu awakened Obito, but Uchiha Yoru and Uchiha Hikari attacked him with Susanoo, severing one of his arms and driving him to escape with Kamui.
• The Impure World Reincarnation fighters returned to their coffins, while General Mifune urged the shaken samurai to tend to the wounded and remember their own strength.
• Onoki proposed that the Five Great Shinobi Villages form a Shinobi Alliance with Tsunade as commander-in-chief, and Mei Terumi, Gaara, and the Fourth Raikage A agreed.
• Tsunade revealed that the Akatsuki Organization had one hundred thousand White Zetsu, and the villages and General Mifune joined the alliance.

Uchiha Yoru and his group arrived on the moon as Otsutsuki Toneri prepared to carry out his clan’s plan to destroy the world. Meanwhile, the Shinobi Alliance mobilized against Akatsuki, while factions in Kumogakure secretly planned to seize control during the war.

• Uchiha Yoru, Uchiha Hikari, and the two Hinatas arrived on the moon, where Otsutsuki Toneri sensed them and reaffirmed his intent to destroy the world created by the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Obito ordered Black Zetsu to start the war, gather tissue samples from dead shinobi, and prepare the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the White Zetsu army.
• The Five Great Shinobi Villages and smaller villages began forming the Shinobi Alliance, with Tsunade directing Konoha’s preparations and warning the other villages not to hold back.
• Onoki, Gaara, Mei Terumi, and the Fourth Raikage each prepared their villages for the alliance, with Gaara agreeing to reclaim the One-Tail and Temari volunteering to work with Konoha.
• Mabui instructed Samui to begin a plan to take Kumogakure while the Fourth Raikage and the village’s Black people were away, intending to restore power to the White people under Lord Yoru’s Will of Fire.

Uchiha Yoru absorbed the moon clan’s Byakugan power while Uchiha Hikari battled Otsutsuki Toneri, then used his newly awakened power to destroy the meteor attack. The moon’s disturbance revealed a sealed presence, and Hikari brought a white-haired woman to Yoru just as she began to awaken.

• Uchiha Hikari fought Otsutsuki Toneri in the Moon Palace and used her dojutsu to drain his Chakra while defending Uchiha Yoru.
• Uchiha Yoru found the sphere made of countless Byakugan and began absorbing its power as the two Hinatas guarded him.
• Otsutsuki Toneri unleashed falling meteors, but Uchiha Yoru used Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to clear them and carve a vast ravine into the moon.
• Black Zetsu sensed the moon split open and recognized a fleeting aura he believed belonged to his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Uchiha Hikari found a white-haired woman wrapped in a sealing aura and brought her to Uchiha Yoru as she began to awaken.

Uchiha Yoru found Kaguya Otsutsuki on the moon, where she had awoken with her memories and power sealed, and persuaded her to join him. Back in Konoha, he prepared to unify the Shinobi World while responding to Obito’s alliance with Kumogakure and Nagato’s defection.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki awoke on the moon without her memories and mistook the two Hinatas and Uchiha Hikari for her daughters.
• Uchiha Yoru discovered that Kaguya’s Tsukuyomi had created two Shinobi Worlds, then gave her the name Kaguya and invited her to return with him.
• Uchiha Yoru returned to Konoha and learned that Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage had allied with a mysterious Akatsuki figure.
• Uchiha Yoru told Kurotsuchi to become Iwagakure’s Fourth Tsuchikage and ordered word sent to Onoki.
• Konan reported that Obito had taken one of Nagato’s Rinnegan and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Nagato and several Akatsuki members had defected to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yoru told Konan to signal that he would pursue the unification of the Shinobi World.

Kumogakure prepared for war against Konoha while Iwagakure welcomed Kurotsuchi back to inherit the Tsuchikage’s position. In Konoha, Kaguya Otsutsuki told Kushina she wanted to have many children with Yoru to build a family strong enough to face enemies from the stars, and Tsunade’s research revealed that Kaguya carried the ancient origins of the Shinobi World’s bloodlines.

• Masked Obito reassured Fourth Raikage A that Kumogakure had prepared White Zetsu and Impure World Reincarnation for its coming battle against Konoha.
• Ōnoki welcomed Kurotsuchi back to Iwagakure and worried that she had not become pregnant.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki told Uzumaki Kushina that she wanted to bear many children with Uchiha Yoru and build a powerful family to resist future enemies.
• Uzumaki Kushina helped Kaguya Otsutsuki prepare for a night with Uchiha Yoru, and Kaguya later said that having children felt pleasurable.
• Tsunade Senju discovered that Kaguya’s cells contained the ancient bloodlines associated with the descendants of the Sage of Six Paths and noted that Kaguya and Uchiha Yoru had physiques approaching immortality.

Uchiha Yoru’s household discussed Kaguya’s forgotten past and began planning to teach her ninjutsu, while Mei Terumi reported that the masked Akatsuki man had captured Isobu and Utakata. Yoru revealed that the man had colluded with Kumogakure, and the villages prepared for the coming operation.

• At lunch, Tsunade Senju and Uchiha Mikoto questioned Uzumaki Kushina about the previous night and realized Uchiha Yoru had spent it with Kaguya.
• Kaguya told Yoru she wanted to have children and establish a clan to withstand future crises, and he arranged for Tsunade and Mikoto to teach her ninjutsu.
• Mei Terumi told Yoru that the masked Akatsuki man had captured Isobu and Utakata, and Yoru said the loss of the Tailed Beasts did not concern him.
• Yoru told Mei that the masked man had colluded with Kumogakure and offered part of the Eight-Tails’ Chakra, while Sand Shinobi and Iwagakure prepared to join the operation.
• Mei told Yoru that Kirigakure was ready, and Yoru explained that Kurotsuchi had been appointed Fourth Tsuchikage after Ōnoki arranged for her to demonstrate her strength.

As Konoha gathered allies for the Fourth Great Ninja War, Uchiha Yoru’s long-planned reforms began overturning the old order across the Shinobi World, elevating powerful shinobi and displacing the Daimyo’s Mansions and noble houses. The chapter ended with Ōnoki accepting that Iwagakure’s era had changed, partly because he believed Yoru’s power could bring peace and even extend life.

• Fourth Raikage A learned that Iwagakure, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Amegakure had aligned with Konoha, while Nagato exposed Uchiha Obito as the Masked Man behind the Akatsuki Organization’s plan to trap the world in Genjutsu.
• Pakura revealed to Elder Chiyo and Sunagakure’s Jonin that Yoru’s reforms had been prepared for over a decade and would replace the Daimyo’s Mansions’ supremacy with rule by people possessing extraordinary power.
• Powerful illegitimate sons and branch-family members helped displace the old rulers, while many angry daimyo and nobles fled toward Kumogakure and the families’ bloodlines remained in place.
• Kurotsuchi wore the hat of the Fourth Tsuchikage and told Ōnoki that Iwagakure’s future belonged to her generation and to Yoru’s planned unified Shinobi World.
• Ōnoki accepted that his era had passed and considered Yoru’s promise of peace and longevity as reasons to compromise with the new order.

The daimyo gathered in Kumogakure denounced Uchiha Yoru and rallied forces against his reforms, while Yoru’s supporters gained recruits and public backing through promises of food and a new order. The chapter ended with Yoru addressing a crowd beneath Hokage Rock, declaring his intent to unify the Shinobi World as people cheered “Ten Thousand Victories!”

• The daimyo of the Five Great Nations met on Turtle Island, condemned the Will of Fire, and pledged their assembled forces to Fourth Raikage A.
• The daimyo broadcast their accusations against Uchiha Yoru, while Will of Fire supporters offered flatbread and rogue ninja and samurai signed up for the Shinobi Alliance.
• After the broadcast, the daimyo privately called for the destruction of Konoha and its powerful clans, while Fourth Raikage A and Killer B returned to Kumogakure and considered exploiting the coming conflict.
• Uchiha Yoru appeared atop Hokage Rock before a crowd that included ninja from Konoha, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure, and his Rinnegan stunned onlookers.
• Uchiha Yoru vowed to unify the Shinobi World and end its wars, and the crowd answered with cries of “Ten Thousand Victories!”

As the Shinobi Alliance marched toward the Land of Lightning to confront Uchiha Obito, Kaguya Otsutsuki privately resolved to reclaim her power and face the Otsutsuki Clan without fear. The alliance’s commanders prepared for war, while the two Orochimaru identified clues about Obito’s use of Impure World Reincarnation.

• Uchiha Yoru reassured Kaguya Otsutsuki that he would face future enemies with her, and she concealed that she had recovered her memories.
• After Uchiha Yoru left, Kaguya Otsutsuki vowed to reclaim the Divine Tree Fruit’s energy from Hamura and Hagoromo and confront the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Minato Namikaze led Minato Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Shisui, and other ninja toward the battlefield, while Kakashi noted that Hinata Hyuga surpassed her peers.
• Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui declared that Uchiha Obito had been expelled from the clan and that they would reclaim his Sharingan, and Minato Namikaze accepted responsibility for his former subordinate.
• The two Orochimaru concluded that Obito’s Impure World Reincarnation had failed on powerful people because their souls were sealed or they had already been reanimated.
• The Shinobi Alliance marched toward the Land of Lightning, the final territory needed to unify the Shinobi World.

Nagato mobilized the Akatsuki Organization and Amegakure to join the Shinobi Alliance against Uchiha Obito, while the alliance prepared for a decisive battle at the Land of Lightning. Uchiha Yoru found a hidden cache that included a sealed corpse, and Obito discovered that Rin’s seal had been broken, vowing revenge.

• Nagato declared Uchiha Obito a traitor and sent the Akatsuki Organization and Amegakure forces to join the war as ninja armies converged on the Land of Lightning.
• Obito reassured the Fourth Raikage A that he had a grand gift prepared, revealing hundreds of coffins containing powerful ninjas revived with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Kakashi sent Team Seven—Minato Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hozuki Suigetsu—to find the resistance forces hiding on Kumogakure’s Turtle Island.
• Tsunade Senju, Nagato, and the other alliance leaders coordinated their preparations, including gathering intelligence on revived ninjas and integrating forces from different villages.
• Uchiha Yoru and Uchiha Hikari searched Obito’s secret base and found spare Sharingan and an ice-sealed female corpse, which Yoru called a gift for Obito.
• Obito sensed that Rin’s seal had been broken and blamed Uchiha Yoru, swearing that he would not forgive him.