Chapter Summaries

The Fourth Shinobi World War erupted as Nagato led the Akatsuki against the reanimated Kage and the Shinobi Alliance, while Sasuke Uchiha, Minato Naruto, and Hozuki Suigetsu seized Turtle Island and dealt with fleeing nobles. On the battlefield, Kakashi identified weaknesses in Hidan’s curse technique as the war’s first clashes intensified.

• Nagato led the Akatsuki Organization against the Third Raikage A, Hozuki Gengetsu, Rasa, Mu, Hanzo, and the approaching Shinobi Alliance as fighting began on land and at sea.
• Minato Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hozuki Suigetsu found Turtle Island, defeated its guards, and discovered that most of the daimyo and nobles had escaped through underground tunnels.
• Sasuke Uchiha used Genjutsu to turn Turtle Island toward the Land of Fire, while Hozuki Suigetsu used sharks and violent waves to destroy the nobles’ fleeing ships.
• Hidan fought amid the battlefield chaos, and Kakashi observed that distance, sealing techniques, and superior Chakra could counter Hidan’s curse technique.
• Nuibari stitched Hidan’s wounded neck closed, and Hidan prepared to stab himself again as the war’s powerful combatants continued fighting.

Konoha’s forces routed the Kumogakure and White Zetsu armies with powerful attacks from Hinata Hyuga, Uchiha Mikoto, Kushina Uzumaki, Mei Terumi, and Pakura. Facing defeat, Uchiha Obito decided to summon Madara and other past Kage for a final battle, while Black Zetsu sensed a familiar presence connected to his mother.

• Hinata Hyuga used her enhanced Gentle Fist to devastate the White Zetsu and ordered her forces to capture clones and report the front’s victory.
• Uchiha Mikoto reflected the Edo Tensei Jinchuriki’s Tailed Beast Balls, then joined Kushina Uzumaki in forming an armored Susanoo Nine-Tails that cut through the enemy ranks.
• Mei Terumi and Pakura combined their techniques to rain magma fireballs across another battlefield, forcing shinobi to seek cover underwater.
• Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure to retreat and told Obito to act as Konoha’s powerful forces broke through their defenses.
• Obito decided to summon Madara and revealed coffins containing past Kage from the Five Great Shinobi Villages for the final battle.
• Black Zetsu sensed a familiar feeling and wondered whether his mother had escaped her seal in the moon.

Madara Uchiha emerged from Impure World Reincarnation and learned that Uchiha Yoru had become a powerful obstacle to his plan and a successor he admired. Mistaking Uchiha Hikari for Yoru and Tsunade’s daughter, Madara provoked Tsunade, who sent Hikari forward to face him; Yoru hinted that Hikari’s Mangekyo had taken an unusual path.

• Uchiha Obito summoned Madara Uchiha and other powerful figures with Impure World Reincarnation on the final battlefield against the Shinobi Alliance.
• Tobirama Senju recognized the conspiracy, while Hashirama Senju questioned Madara’s plans and urged him to let the next generation pursue peace.
• Madara Uchiha praised Uchiha Yoru as his outstanding successor, angering Obito by making clear that he had been only a pawn.
• Madara mistook Uchiha Hikari for Yoru and Tsunade’s daughter, and Hashirama Senju joined in praising her lineage.
• Tsunade Senju sent Hikari to teach Madara a lesson, and Yoru revealed that Hikari’s Mangekyo had taken a path that might surprise Madara and the former Hokage.

Uchiha Hikari fought Madara Uchiha and the reanimated Senju brothers, revealing powerful Mangekyo abilities and monstrous strength. Madara and Hikari’s battle turned personal after they misunderstood each other’s relationship to Uchiha Yoru and her parents.

• Uchiha Hikari unleashed a massive Fire Style attack, concealed Amaterasu within it, and used Kagutsuchi to shape the flames into a tornado that struck the reanimated shinobi.
• Hikari shattered Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo with a Monster Strength Punch, then trapped Madara, Hashirama Senju, and Tobirama Senju in Tsukuyomi.
• Madara objected when Uchiha Obito interfered with the battle, then challenged Hikari and exchanged blows with her as she wielded his Gunbai.
• Madara and Hashirama Senju mistook Hikari’s brutal fighting style as evidence that Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade Senju had raised her as a weapon.
• Hikari grew furious when Madara threatened to discipline her and invoked her parents, while Madara rejected Uchiha Yoru as a successor for supposedly training his daughter as a weapon.

Uchiha Hikari fought Madara Uchiha and revealed that she had been born during the Warring States period, while Madara summoned two meteors to force Uchiha Yoru to act. Yoru split and repelled the meteors, and the chapter ended with him and Madara facing each other and acknowledging their history.

• Uchiha Hikari shattered Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo with her strength, but Madara activated his Rinnegan and absorbed her Rasengan.
• Uchiha Hikari revealed that she was an Uchiha born during the Warring States period, then used Sage Mode to strengthen her Susanoo.
• Madara Uchiha summoned two enormous meteors, prompting Uchiha Yoru to rise and cut them apart with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Uchiha Yoru used Shinra Tensei to redirect the meteor fragments, and Hashirama Senju and the other Edo Tensei Kage destroyed the remaining debris.
• Uchiha Yoru praised Madara Uchiha for leaving Wood Style cells behind, and Madara admitted he had given Yoru an opportunity and was impressed by how far he had surpassed his expectations.

Uchiha Yoru and Madara Uchiha ended their warm-up as the Shinobi Alliance engaged the Cloud Shinobi and their Edo Tensei forces. Tsunade Senju subdued Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, while Uchiha Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path; Orochimaru then reincarnated the two Hokage again, restoring their control.

• Uchiha Yoru and Madara Uchiha declared the warm-up over as the Shinobi Alliance attacked the Cloud Shinobi from both flanks and other fighters confronted Uchiha Obito and the Edo Tensei forces.
• Tsunade Senju revealed her Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo, battled Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, and used her space-time dojutsu to redirect Tobirama Senju into sealing chains.
• Uzumaki Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto attacked Hashirama Senju with a Nine-Tails clad in Armored Susanoo, while Tsunade Senju struck at the wooden Buddha statue.
• Uchiha Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which fired sealing chains at Uzumaki Kushina and Sasuke Uchiha; Uchiha Itachi protected Sasuke, and Kushina cut the statue's chains.
• Tsunade Senju restrained Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, and Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon them again with control of their bodies restored.

Uchiha Yoru fought Madara Uchiha while Uchiha Obito betrayed the Allied Shinobi Forces and evolved the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into the Ten-Tails. As Obito prepared to challenge Yoru, Uchiha Hikari cast an imprinted Tsukuyomi across the battlefield, and Yoru announced that the real war was beginning.

• Uchiha Yoru and Madara Uchiha battled at full strength, and Madara praised Yoru as the successor who had continued his path.
• Hashirama Senju and the others surrounded Madara, while Hashirama reflected on their failed attempt to bring peace to the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Obito broke the alliance by having the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path capture Killer B and absorb the Eight-Tails.
• Uchiha Obito revealed that the war had been meant to exhaust his enemies, then used the gathered tailed-beast chakra to evolve the statue into the Ten-Tails.
• Uchiha Hikari projected a blood-red Mangekyō pattern onto the moon and marked everyone touched by its light with an imprint.
• Uchiha Yoru told Obito the warm-up was over and activated Dojutsu: Yachimasa.

Uchiha Yoru used Hikari’s Yachimasa to drain the battlefield’s chakra, then redirected Obito’s Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Ball back at the Ten-Tails. Obito became its jinchuriki, and Yoru challenged Madara’s vision of peace while declaring that he would not die.

• Uchiha Hikari revealed that her Yachimasa let her mark people and control or transfer their chakra, and she drained chakra from more than a hundred thousand shinobi and White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Obito fired a massive Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Ball, but Uchiha Yoru opened a spatial rift that sent it back into the Ten-Tails, badly injuring Obito and devastating Kumogakure with the blast.
• Hashirama Senju and Tsunade Senju used the Gate of the God Tree to suppress the Ten-Tails, but Obito absorbed it and emerged as Six Paths Obito.
• Uchiha Yoru explained Madara Uchiha’s revival and Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, arguing that time would eventually endanger the world and that the plan depended on someone maintaining it.
• Madara Uchiha defended his plan by saying he would control the bodies of those in the illusion, but Yoru asked what would happen after Madara died.
• Uchiha Yoru declared that he would not die and said he would seek a future beyond the world, among the stars.

Uchiha Yoru dominated Six Paths Obito, then summoned Rin Nohara through Impure World Reincarnation to confront him. The chapter ended with Rin failing to recognize Obito at first as he tried to justify his actions to her.

• The Fourth Raikage A urged the surviving Cloud Shinobi to flee, but enraged White Shinobi attacked them, and Samui trampled the powerless Raikage.
• Six Paths Obito attacked Uchiha Yoru, who caught his Truth-Seeking Orb and repeatedly outmatched him in battle.
• Madara Uchiha watched Uchiha Yoru’s power grow and reconsidered his own plan, while Hashirama Senju argued with him about peace.
• When Six Paths Obito threatened to kill everyone, Uchiha Yoru stopped his attack by presenting a coffin marked with Rin’s name.
• Rin Nohara emerged from the coffin, learned that Uchiha Yoru was Konoha’s Hokage, and respectfully greeted him.
• Uchiha Yoru identified Obito as their enemy and explained his deeds, leaving Rin shocked as Obito claimed he had acted to create a world with her.

Rin Nohara rejected Obito and condemned his crimes, driving him into a mental collapse as the Ten-Tails’ will began to overwhelm him. Uchiha Yoru fought the increasingly unstable Obito, who prepared to unleash the Infinite Tsukuyomi while Black Zetsu decided that Mother could wait no longer.

• Rin Nohara told Obito that they had only been teammates and that she was disgusted by what he had done to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yoru exposed Obito’s delusions and mocked his claim that he had acted for Rin, pushing Obito into a breakdown.
• Obito rejected Rin as fake, and his weakened control allowed the Ten-Tails’ will to fight against him.
• Uchiha Yoru transformed as the foreign Chakra he had received strengthened him, then attacked Obito with a relentless barrage.
• Obito counterattacked with a Truth-Seeking Orb, but Uchiha Yoru used the Flying Thunder God Technique and struck back with Chidori.
• Obito rose into the sky and began gathering power for the Infinite Tsukuyomi, while Black Zetsu concluded that Mother could wait no longer.

The Divine Tree drained the battlefield as Uchiha Yoru defeated Six Paths Obito and Madara Uchiha moved to take Obito’s Ten-Tails power. Uchiha Yoru revealed that Madara had been his target all along, but Madara acquired most of the Ten-Tails and began transforming into Six Paths Madara Uchiha.

• The Ten-Tails transformed into the Divine Tree and drained the shinobi around it, while Mabui used the Flying Thunder God Technique to evacuate Samui and the others.
• Uchiha Yoru’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion broke Six Paths Obito’s Amenonuhoko, and Rin Nohara stabbed Obito with a Kunai, weakening his resolve.
• Black Zetsu possessed Obito and forced him to use the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive Madara Uchiha, who took Obito’s Ten-Tails power.
• Uchiha Yoru attacked Madara Uchiha with the Totsuka Blade, severed the transfer, and removed Obito’s remaining Mangekyō Sharingan before using Forbidden Jutsu: Oniichigo no Jutsu to extract Obito’s power.
• Madara Uchiha retained more than eighty percent of the Ten-Tails’ power, sealed the rest within himself, and began transforming into Six Paths Madara Uchiha.

Uchiha Yoru transformed after absorbing Six Paths Obito’s power and fought Six Paths Madara, demonstrating that his strength surpassed Madara’s and that he could replicate ocular abilities. Meanwhile, the Sage of Six Paths deceived the dying Uchiha Obito into accepting his power, and Obito returned to the battlefield in Six Paths Sage Mode under his own control.

• Six Paths Madara emerged and celebrated Uchiha Yoru as the heir who had fulfilled Madara’s ideals, while Uchiha Yoru completed his transformation into a Six Paths sage.
• Uchiha Yoru blocked Madara’s attacks, used Kamui to evade Limbo, and explained that his eyes could replicate Mangekyo and Rinnegan techniques.
• Uchiha Yoru and Six Paths Madara clashed as Yoru argued against Infinite Tsukuyomi and Madara agreed to judge Yoru’s path to peace by fighting him.
• Black Zetsu left the nearly dead Uchiha Obito and focused on the battle, unaware that Obito’s power was beginning to return.
• The Sage of Six Paths showed Obito an image of Rin Nohara, convinced him that Uchiha Yoru had deceived him, and gave him Yin-Yang Power and temporary Rinnegan abilities.
• Uchiha Obito healed beneath the rubble, entered Six Paths Sage Mode, and discovered that he could control his new power.

Black Zetsu betrayed Six Paths Madara to revive Kaguya, while Uchiha Yoru stopped Six Paths Obito from interfering. Kaguya did not emerge from Madara, and her power vanished into the blood-red moon before its light struck the Shinobi Alliance.

• Six Paths Madara praised Uchiha Yoru after their battle, but Black Zetsu stabbed Madara through the chest and revealed that he was Kaguya's will.
• Six Paths Obito returned and warned that Kaguya's revival threatened the Shinobi World, but Uchiha Yoru refused to help him stop it.
• Black Zetsu urged Madara to accept Kaguya's return, and Madara saw memories of her peaceful rule before being swallowed by the gathering Chakra.
• The Chakra left Madara and shot into the moon without bringing Kaguya down, leaving Madara alive but powerless and Black Zetsu in despair.
• A beam of light from the blood-red moon descended onto the Shinobi Alliance, while Uchiha Yoru smiled.

Kaguya Otsutsuki returned to the battlefield and joined Uchiha Yoru, while the Sage of Six Paths appeared to oppose them. As the Shinobi Alliance rallied behind Yoru’s goal of unifying the Shinobi World, the four godlike fighters vanished to battle elsewhere.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki regained her power, joined Uchiha Yoru, and revealed that Black Zetsu was the son she had created.
• Black Zetsu accused Hagoromo Otsutsuki of betraying Kaguya and revealed that Hagoromo had devoured Hamura while seeking eternal life.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki appeared and summoned past Kage and heroes to oppose Uchiha Yoru’s ambition to unify the Shinobi World.
• Tsunade Senju rallied the Shinobi Alliance to fight for peace and their descendants, while Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya prepared to face Hagoromo and Six Paths Obito.
• Uchiha Yoru moved the battle to another space to protect the Shinobi World, and the Shinobi Alliance charged the summoned spirits.

Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki battled the Sage of Six Paths and Six Paths Obito in Kaguya’s Lava World, while Black Zetsu exposed Hagoromo’s motives for sealing his mother. After Yoru’s attacks weakened Obito, Kyouka Suigetsu lured him through a spatial passage and into Yoru’s trap.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki transported the fighters to the Lava World, where she and Uchiha Yoru coordinated attacks against the Sage of Six Paths and Six Paths Obito.
• Black Zetsu exposed Hagoromo’s desire to devour Kaguya’s energy and gain eternal life, and Kaguya declared that she would reclaim her energy from him.
• Uchiha Yoru used Tsukuyomi to torment Six Paths Obito with visions of Rin Nohara rejecting him, then struck him with Lava Style: Rasenshuriken.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki separated Six Paths Obito from the others by sending him into a frozen dimension, and he used Kamui to find a passage back to the Lava World.
• Uchiha Yoru’s Kyouka Suigetsu hypnotized Six Paths Obito into charging through the passage, where he realized he had fallen into Yoru’s trap.

Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki used the Core Dimension to separate and weaken the Sage of Six Paths and Six Paths Obito before confronting them again. Yoru unleashed his Eight Gates technique and struck Hagoromo with Night Guy, leaving the Sage facing a potentially fatal attack.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki transported the fighters to Super-Gravity Space, where Uchiha Yoru charged the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya attacked him and Six Paths Obito with All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Six Paths Obito escaped Kaguya's bone spike by opening Kamui, but it struck his left arm, forcing him to sever it before he and the Sage fled in separate directions.
• Uchiha Yoru used Adamantine Sealing Chains to seal the Truth-Seeking Orbs they left behind, then followed them with Kaguya into Endless Desert Space.
• Uchiha Yoru activated his Eight Gates and Yin Seal-enhanced Nintaijutsu, overpowering Hagoromo with a barrage of attacks despite the Sage's Six Paths: Super Shinra Tensei.
• Uchiha Yoru unleashed Eight Gates' Ultimate Technique: Night Guy, distorting space and leaving Hagoromo unable to escape with Space-Time Ninjutsu.

Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki defeated the Sage of Six Paths’ ambush and sealed him and Black Zetsu in the Core Dimension. The Sage of Six Paths escaped by transferring his will into Naruto Uzumaki, who fled to another Shinobi World, leaving Yoru and Kaguya in control of this one.

• The Sage of Six Paths summoned Six Paths Obito to shield him from Uchiha Yoru’s Night Guy, leaving Obito mortally wounded while the Sage regenerated.
• Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki faced the Sage of Six Paths until Naruto Uzumaki arrived with Six Paths Power and joined the fight.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Naruto Uzumaki tried to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki, but their target was Black Zetsu transformed to look like her.
• Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki activated Super Chibaku Tensei, trapping Black Zetsu and the Sage of Six Paths in a massive seal.
• The Sage of Six Paths transferred his will into Naruto Uzumaki, who escaped through a space-time rift to another Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki broke open the Planetary Devastation and revealed the sealed bodies of the Sage of Six Paths and Black Zetsu.

Uchiha Yoru defeated the Sage of Six Paths and unified the Shinobi World, while Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Naruto escaped to another world and planned to use Karasuki to gather help from the future. Yoru then met with Tsunade in that world as Naruto prepared to rally its shinobi against him.

• Black Zetsu used Izanami to torment Obito with repeating visions of Rin rejecting him, while White Zetsu cells transformed his body.
• Yoru absorbed the Sage of Six Paths' power, and the uncontrolled Impure World Reincarnation summons vanished as the Shinobi Alliance celebrated his victory.
• Yoru declared the Shinobi World unified and ordered its shinobi legions to conquer every nation, while Hagoromo and Naruto fled through a spatial passage.
• Hagoromo told Naruto that Karasuki could travel through time and proposed bringing his future self to fight Yoru and Kaguya.
• Naruto and Hagoromo resolved to rally the other world's shinobi, including Sasuke and the villages preparing to fight the Akatsuki.
• In Konoha, Yoru told Tsunade that he was still absorbing his new power and planned to conquer her world after opening the passage between them.

Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Obito, and the Sage of Six Paths recruited Gaara, Onoki, and Fourth Raikage A to oppose Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki. As the Sage prepared to seek help from another time, Uchiha Yoru’s infiltrators continued plotting inside Kumogakure.

• Uzumaki Naruto and the Sage of Six Paths persuaded Uchiha Obito to join their effort, promising to revive Rin Nohara and explaining that they needed to stop Uchiha Yoru and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Uzumaki Naruto told Gaara that Konoha’s Five Kage Alliance was part of Uchiha Yoru’s conspiracy, and Gaara agreed to help.
• Uchiha Obito warned Third Tsuchikage Onoki about the conspiracy; Onoki remained skeptical and secretly sent Kurotsuchi to investigate the Dragon Vein.
• Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Obito, and the Sage of Six Paths convinced Fourth Raikage A to consider their warning, and A secretly gathered trusted subordinates to prepare for unexpected developments.
• The Sage of Six Paths planned to use a space-time treasure to seek help from his future self and told Naruto and Obito to hide their intentions and stall for time.
• After Fourth Raikage A assigned Mabui to protect Kumogakure, Mabui revealed that she served Uchiha Yoru and planned a coup while A’s forces were away.

Mabui and Samui began a covert plan to weaken Kumogakure’s Black forces and turn the village against them while Uchiha Yoru’s allies prepared to replace Gaara in Sunagakure. The chapter ended with both villages’ armies moving toward the Shinobi Alliance battlefield under leaders loyal to Yoru, while Obito and Uzumaki Naruto remained unaware of the deception.

• Mabui and Samui activated the Cloud Hidden Black Collapse Plan and quietly arranged to remove Black shinobi from Kumogakure while provoking conflict between Black and White residents.
• After Kumogakure’s army departed, staged incidents culminated in a tavern riot and looting, which Samui helped suppress; Mabui then sent the Fourth Raikage a falsified report.
• In Sunagakure, Temari from another world drugged Gaara and helped the other-world Gaara capture and replace him, while Minato Naruto took the original Gaara away.
• The replacement Gaara donned the Kazekage Hat and led Sunagakure’s remaining elite toward the battlefield, as Uchiha Yoru appeared above the village with Black Zetsu.