Chapter Summaries

Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that the Daimyo had rejected Sakura’s appointment as Fifth Hokage, while Danzo revealed an edict appointing himself and took power with Root’s support. Sakura left Konoha for the Land of Waterfalls, planning to use the Seven-Tails and the Daimyo to overturn Danzo’s political advantage.

• Mitokado Homura showed Hiruzen Sarutobi the Daimyo’s denial of Sakura’s nomination, and Tobirama Senju revealed that Sakura had already left Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura reported that Sakura had departed with Second Pillar, Karin Uzumaki, and Uchiha Hikari after seeking the Seven-Tails’ location.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Danzo, who presented the Daimyo’s edict appointing him Fifth Hokage and ordered Root members to surround the Sarutobi Residence.
• Tobirama Senju let Danzo leave, and Hiruzen Sarutobi collapsed after Danzo announced his inauguration would be held in two days.
• Sakura forced her way through Konoha’s border with Karin, Sasuke, and Hikari and headed toward Takigakure to find the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Sakura planned to bring the Seven-Tails to the Daimyo’s Mansion, replace the Daimyo with an obedient successor, and obtain a new Hokage appointment edict.

Sakura’s group captured the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki Kaede, who later attacked the Daimyo’s Mansion under genjutsu and transformed into the Seven-Tails. Sakura met the Daimyo, obtained an edict naming her Hokage and another naming Gen Musashi as Daimyo, while the Seven-Tails destroyed the mansion and killed the Daimyo.

• Sakura’s group found Kaede near Takigakure, and Hikari defeated her with her Mangekyō Sharingan before the group carried her away.
• Sakura’s group returned to the Land of Fire, passed the border guard, and headed toward Konoha with Kaede in Sasuke’s sack.
• Kaede, controlled by an unseen force, killed the samurai guarding the Daimyo’s Mansion and transformed into the Seven-Tails, whose scales overwhelmed the mansion.
• Sakura met the Daimyo, who explained that Danzo had used a Sharingan Transcription Seal to manipulate him and requested that Sakura kill Danzo.
• The Daimyo issued an edict naming Gen Musashi as his successor and another appointing Sakura Hokage and condemning Danzo.
• Sakura left with the edicts, and the Seven-Tails killed the Daimyo with a Tailed Beast Ball.

Sakura secured Gen Musashi as the new Daimyo after destroying the Daimyo's Mansion and bringing the Seven-Tails under control, then returned to Konoha as Shimura Danzō began purging her allies and claiming the Hokage position. She confronted Danzō during his inauguration, accusing him of treason and declaring herself the true Hokage.

• Sakura gave Gen Musashi his father's final decree, staged a public battle to capture the Seven-Tails, and persuaded Musashi to return to Konoha with her.
• Shimura Danzō became the Fifth Hokage and had Mei Terumi, Ino, and Kakashi detained or targeted while Root monitored Sakura's allies.
• Jiraiya visited Kakashi, explained Danzō's purge, and watched Root take Kakashi into custody.
• Tsunade treated Hiruzen Sarutobi while they and Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu worried about Sakura's disappearance and Danzō's legitimate Hokage Edict.
• Danzō held his inauguration ceremony as Naruto questioned Sakura's absence, while Sakura returned to Konoha with Musashi, Karin, Sasuke, and Uchiha Hikari.
• Sakura confronted Danzō before the assembled crowd, accused him of attempting to assassinate Hiruzen Sarutobi and using genjutsu on the daimyo, and declared herself the true Hokage.

Haruno Sakura challenged Shimura Danzō’s claim to the Hokage seat by presenting Daimyo edicts that named her Hokage and Gen Musashi the new Daimyo, and Mitokado Homura recognized the documents as genuine and ordered Danzō executed. Sakura seized Danzō and confronted him at Hokage Rock, where he prepared to remove a seal while Sakura waited; she then recognized the Root member’s Chōjū Giga technique.

• Haruno Sakura accused Shimura Danzō of manipulating the Daimyo and presented Gen Musashi, who read an edict naming Sakura Fifth Hokage and ordering Danzō’s clan destroyed.
• Gen Musashi revealed that the previous Daimyo, Gen Yota, was dead and that he had been appointed the new Daimyo; Danzō called him a fraud and ordered Sakura and Gen Musashi killed.
• Shimura Danzō sent Root members to attack, but Sasuke, Naruto, Karin, and Uchiha Hikari fought them off until Mitokado Homura arrived and authenticated the edicts.
• Mitokado Homura ordered Danzō executed, and Sakura rapidly seized him and carried him to Hokage Rock as the others pursued.
• Danzō asked his Root guards to buy time while he removed a seal, but Sakura told them to stand down and faced the attackers; she recognized a Root member’s Ninpō: Chōjū Giga as the technique of someone she knew.

Sakura subdued Sai and confronted Danzō while secretly securing support in Konoha’s Intelligence Division. Danzō revealed his Sharingan-covered arm and fought off Sasuke and Naruto with Izanagi before turning his focus to Sakura and activating Kotoamatsukami.

• Sakura defeated Sai, and Sasuke tied up the unconscious Root operative while Danzō worked to undo the seal on his arm.
• Sakura visited Tatami Iwashi, asked him to keep her past dealings secret, and promised to find him a better job after she became Hokage.
• Danzō defended his record before the gathered ninja, then exposed the ten Sharingan implanted in his arm.
• Sasuke attacked Danzō with a lightning-charged sword, and Naruto followed with Sage Art: Spiral Ring, but Danzō survived both strikes through Izanagi.
• Danzō revealed another Sharingan beneath his head bandages and used Kotoamatsukami while Sasuke's blade passed through him.

Sakura’s Yang Release Shadow Clone was hijacked by Inner Sakura after Danzō used Kotoamatsukami, and Inner Sakura maimed and attacked him before Sakura dispelled the clone. Sakura then told Sasuke the truth about the Uchiha coup and Itachi’s role, ending as she began explaining the massacre.

• Danzō used Kotoamatsukami on Sakura’s Yang Release Shadow Clone, believing he had made her his subordinate, and Sasuke bound him after Danzō surrendered.
• Inner Sakura emerged through the unstable clone, cut off Danzō’s Sharingan-covered arm, beat him, and fought Uchiha Hikari until Sakura arrived and dispelled the clone.
• Sakura explained that Danzō had disrupted her control of the clone, allowing Inner Sakura to surface, and agreed to let her appear occasionally under rules.
• Sakura and Sasuke stayed behind after Danzō was taken away, and Sasuke asked her for the truth about the Uchiha.
• Sakura explained the Uchiha’s growing resentment and said Itachi chose to work with Danzō, while Obito helped carry out the clan’s destruction.
• Sakura began recounting the night Itachi, Obito, and Danzō joined forces.

Sasuke struggled with the truth about Itachi and found comfort in Naruto, while Sakura discussed her plans to reshape the Land of Fire with Hiruzen Sarutobi. The chapter ended with Sakura letting Inner Sakura out through a Yang Clone and waking after Inner Sakura slept clinging to her.

• Sasuke told Naruto that someone had killed more than a thousand people, including Naruto's parents, to protect him, and Naruto vowed to stand by Sasuke and avenge his parents.
• Sasuke and Naruto returned to the Third Training Ground, where Naruto entered Sage Mode before they began their long-awaited spar.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Sakura about her plans for the daimyo and ordinary people, and Sakura explained how she would expand Konoha, train more ninja, and help ordinary people adapt.
• Sakura returned home, reassured Haruno Meiko, and spent time with Mirai before agreeing to let Inner Sakura emerge through her Yang Clone.
• Inner Sakura asked to sleep while holding Sakura, and Sakura woke the next morning with Inner Sakura sprawled over her before kicking her off the bed.

Sakura consolidated Konoha’s control over the Land of Fire, explored a dangerous method to revive Tobirama Senju, and reassigned Tenzo to agricultural research. Three days later, she was formally inaugurated as the Fifth Hokage and declared her ambition to lead Konoha to the summit of the Shinobi World.

• Sakura told Himura that Daimyo Gen Musashi would move the capital to Konoha and issue future decrees through the village.
• Tobirama Senju examined Dragon Life Reincarnation, and Sakura proposed combining it with a Hashirama Cells test subject, a Yamanaka clansman’s Mind Transfer, and Izanagi to revive him.
• Sakura assigned Tenzo to the Research Bureau to improve crop varieties, and he accepted after she offered triple pay and doubled benefits.
• Three days later, Sakura ascended to the Hokage rooftop as Konoha’s youngest and first female Kage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi entrusted Konoha to Sakura, and she declared that she would lead the village to the summit of the Shinobi World.

The Akatsuki gathered to discuss Konoha’s rising strength, the tailed beasts, and the Box of Paradise, while Pain vowed to capture the Nine-Tails and Two-Tails himself. In Konoha, Kakashi chose to sacrifice Obito’s failing Sharingan to help revive Tobirama Senju, then learned Rin’s donated eyes could become his new light and left the cemetery with Might Guy.

• Zetsu briefed the Akatsuki on Haruno Sakura becoming Fifth Hokage, Tobirama Senju’s return, the villages’ jinchuriki, the Box of Paradise, and the Three-Tails’ expected revival.
• Pain declared that he would personally capture the Nine-Tails and Two-Tails, while Uchiha Obito silently reaffirmed his resolve to create a world with Rin.
• Kakashi rejected using Kotoamatsukami, chose to use Obito’s failing Kamui eye for Izanagi, and asked Tsunade to prepare a replacement eye.
• Tsunade showed Kakashi Rin’s posthumous eye-donation form, and Kakashi decided to accept Rin’s eyes after his Sharingan went blind.
• Kakashi placed white chrysanthemums at Rin’s grave, promised to look upon the world in her place, and raced Might Guy toward Konoha Gate.

Sakura was pressured into making a festive appearance as Hokage, and Ino, Karin, and Tsunade dressed her in pink palace robes to hand out New Year red envelopes at Konoha’s fireworks festival. The chapter ended with Sakura and her friends arriving at Sasuke’s home, where he had spent the evening waiting alone for Hikari.

• Homura told Sakura that the Hokage was expected to attend Konoha’s New Year fireworks festival, and Sakura reluctantly agreed to discuss her appearance with Ino, Karin, Naruto, and Sasuke.
• Naruto beat Sakura, Ino, and Karin at cards and drew tabby-cat faces on them as punishment.
• Ino and Karin took Sakura to Tsunade’s residence, where Tsunade helped them dress Sakura in pink palace robes and jewelry.
• Hikari gave Sasuke a New Year red envelope and offered to cook, but she found the market closed and went looking for Sakura instead.
• Sakura handed out red envelopes at the fireworks festival, where Hikari and Mirai joined her.
• Sakura and the others arrived at Sasuke’s home with groceries, finding him alone in the dark after he had waited for Hikari.

Sakura took Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin to Rōran by using Mukade as a guide, intending to reach the Dragon Vein and enlist Namikaze Minato’s help sealing it. After they plunged into its source, the chapter left Sakura arriving in Rōran in Konoha Year 46.

• Kaede urged Yugito to escape Uzumaki Pavilion, but Yugito dismissed the idea and kept her distance.
• Sakura received a report that Sunagakure rogue shinobi Mukade had entered the Land of Fire and ordered a team to pursue him toward Rōran.
• Sakura gathered Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin, explained that their real objective was Rōran, and led them after Mukade while Konoha misdirected the Sand Ninja pursuit force.
• Mukade reached the Rōran ruins and activated the Dragon Vein; Sakura’s team followed him into its purple Chakra torrent, aiming to find Namikaze Minato and seal it.
• In Konoha Year 46, Sakura crashed through a window in Rōran, then slipped away as a woman angrily demanded to know who had broken it.

Sakura reunited with Naruto and Karin in Rōran, where they mistook Namikaze Minato for Mukade’s accomplice. Sakura challenged Minato to a fight and wore him down until he ran out of Chakra, leaving her to replenish it.

• Karin sensed everyone in Rōran, destroyed several puppet attackers with her Adamantine Sealing Chains, and was rescued from their blades by Naruto.
• Naruto mistook the masked blond Anbu for Mukade’s accomplice and attacked him with Shadow Clones until Sakura intervened to protect Karin.
• Sakura recognized the masked ninja as Namikaze Minato and pursued him across Rōran, repeatedly dodging his Flying Thunder God Technique and overwhelming him with her strength and speed.
• Minato exhausted his Chakra after hundreds of Flying Thunder God jumps, and Sakura defeated him without landing a punch.
• Naruto and Karin arrived to find Minato drained on the ground while Sakura replenished his Chakra.

After Sakura revealed that Namikaze Minato was Naruto’s father, the two shared a painful farewell before Minato left to pursue Mukade. Sakura sent Sasuke with Sara to approach Anrokuzan, while she, Naruto, and Karin located the Dragon Vein’s palace and prepared to investigate its Chakra.

• Karin recognized Namikaze Minato as the Fourth Hokage, and Sakura told Naruto that Minato was his father.
• Naruto confronted Minato about the suffering caused by the Nine-Tails, and Minato apologized, comforted him, and left to continue his mission.
• Sakura revealed Sasuke and Sara, the princess of Rōran, and warned Sasuke not to interfere with the past.
• Sara agreed to take Sasuke to see Anrokuzan, while Sakura departed with Naruto and Karin to find the Dragon Vein.
• Karin sensed the Dragon Vein three kilometers to the west, and the group reached its palace, where she detected Chakra channels leading inside.

Sasuke confronted Mukade in Rōran and fought through his puppets, while Sakura and the others dealt with the enormous Dragon Vein Puppet. Sasuke and Naruto defeated Mukade together, and Sakura began healing Sasuke’s eyes and replenishing his ocular power.

• Sasuke exposed Anrokuzan as Mukade and fought off a hundred puppets while Sara watched.
• Mukade reconnected the puppets through the Dragon Vein tracks, and Sasuke told Sara to leave before activating Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Sakura sent Naruto to fight the giant Dragon Vein Puppet and took Karin to help evacuate civilians, while a youth resembling Kakashi handled the evacuation.
• Naruto’s Rasengan repeatedly damaged the giant puppet, but its Dragon Vein-powered tracks repaired it until Sasuke summoned Susanoo.
• Sasuke’s Susanoo tore apart the Dragon Vein Puppet, and Naruto struck Mukade with Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan.
• Sakura checked Sasuke after he dispelled Susanoo and used Yang Release medical ninjutsu to ease his eye pain and restore his ocular power.

Sakura discovered that the Dragon Vein drained life energy across much of the Land of Wind, but rejected using it to strengthen herself and decided it should be destroyed after she returned to her own time. Back in Konoha, she faced Mitokado Homura’s anger over her absence and presented Mukade under the name Anrokuzan.

• Sakura restored Sasuke’s ocular power with Yang Release, while Namikaze Minato sealed Mukade’s Chakra and learned Sakura was the future Fifth Hokage.
• Sakura sensed that the Dragon Vein gathered life energy from across nearly two-thirds of the Land of Wind, leaving the region barren.
• Sakura resisted the temptation to claim the Dragon Vein’s power, and she and Namikaze Minato agreed to consider destroying it after she returned to the future.
• Sakura left the past with Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Mukade as the Dragon Vein released life energy across the desert.
• Mitokado Homura confronted Sakura about disappearing from her Hokage duties, and Sakura introduced Mukade as Anrokuzan.

Sakura learned that the Three-Tails had revived, but prioritized reviving Tobirama Senju and preparing Kakashi for an eye transplant. Tobirama returned to life through Dragon Life Reincarnation, Yamanaka Inoichi survived with Kakashi’s Izanagi, and Kakashi’s suppressed Chakra erupted after losing his Sharingan.

• Tobirama Senju told Sakura that the Three-Tails had revived in the Land of Water, and Sakura ordered closer surveillance of the Akatsuki Organization while prioritizing Tobirama’s revival.
• Pain rallied the Akatsuki Organization, declared their plan to seize the Three-Tails and attack Sunagakure for the One-Tail, and inspired Deidara with his speech.
• Sakura, Tobirama Senju, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Kakashi performed Dragon Life Reincarnation using a condemned prisoner and Hashirama Cells, bringing Tobirama back to life.
• Yamanaka Inoichi appeared to die after the technique, but Kakashi used Izanagi to restore him, sacrificing his Sharingan in the process.
• Kakashi’s Chakra surged after the Sharingan’s suppression ended, and Sakura decided he needed to stabilize it before receiving a replacement eye.

Sakura arranged an elite squad led by Tobirama Senju to hunt the Akatsuki Organization while keeping Konoha’s forces from launching a politically dangerous assault on Amegakure. Kakashi began adapting to life without his Sharingan, and the new team assembled with Naruto replacing Asuma.

• Sakura restored Kakashi’s eye, and Tobirama Senju arrived resurrected to spar with him.
• Tobirama Senju defeated Kakashi and advised him to rebuild his fighting style with Hiruzen Sarutobi’s guidance.
• Sakura visited Hiruzen Sarutobi with Kakashi, and Hiruzen agreed to help him.
• Sakura decided Tobirama Senju would lead Kakashi, Sasuke, Might Guy, and Naruto on targeted hunts against the Akatsuki Organization.
• At the Hokage Building, Naruto and Might Guy eagerly accepted the mission while Tobirama Senju reacted to his unconventional teammates.

Tobirama Senju led a squad toward the Land of Water to find the Three-Tails and attack the Akatsuki Organization, while Sakura rejected Jiraiya’s plea to negotiate with Nagato and sent Asuma’s team to the Temple of Fire. At the lake, Deidara and Sasori of the Red Sands began their attack on the Three-Tails, with Sasori using a puppet of the Fourth Raikage to knock the beast off balance.

• Tobirama Senju departed for the Land of Water with Kakashi, Might Guy, Second Pillar, and Naruto on a mission to hunt the Three-Tails and Akatsuki members.
• Jiraiya confronted Sakura and asked to go to Amegakure to persuade Nagato, but Sakura refused and told him to stop interfering.
• Asuma showed Sakura an invitation from Chiriku, and Sakura ordered him to take Anko, Shirakumo Hayama, and Maruboshi Kosuke to the Temple of Fire as a team.
• Sakura created a Shadow Clone to remain in the Hokage's Office, then slipped away through a window.
• Deidara attacked the Three-Tails with clay fish bombs, but the beast retaliated and prepared a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Sasori of the Red Sands sent a puppet of the Fourth Raikage into a Liger Bomb that struck the Three-Tails, and Deidara followed with a giant Clay Dragon.

Pain and the Akatsuki prepared to defend their Three-Tails sealing site when Tobirama Senju's squad approached, and Orochimaru agreed to provide backup in exchange for rare materials. Tobirama's team broke the Five Seal Barrier, but an ambush began as a clone attacked Tobirama and Uchiha Itachi was identified over the radio.

• Pain learned that Tobirama Senju, Hatake Kakashi, Might Guy, Second Pillar, and Uzumaki Naruto were approaching the Three-Tails sealing site, so he arranged for clones and Orochimaru's support to buy time.
• Black Zetsu reported that Orochimaru demanded the Fourth Raikage's and Hanzo of the Salamander's skin tissue, along with Sasori of the Red Sands' puppet techniques, and Pain accepted the terms.
• Tobirama's squad followed the trail from the lake to the Five Seal Barrier, where Tobirama explained how to remove the talismans while weakening the barrier's attacking clones.
• Tobirama, Kakashi, Guy, Naruto, and Sasuke removed the five talismans simultaneously, but a clone used Tobirama's Flying Thunder God Kunai while a water-style attack swept toward him.
• Tobirama recognized the clone's attack as the barrier's trap, and a voice over the radio whispered Uchiha Itachi's name with hatred.

Sasuke confronted Uchiha Itachi’s clone while Tobirama Senju fought Kisame Hoshigaki and the Akatsuki at the Three-Tails’ extraction site. Tobirama disrupted the extraction and helped repel the Akatsuki, but Deidara escaped as Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Might Guy pursued him, leaving Tobirama to face Konan.

• Sasuke told Uchiha Itachi that he knew the truth and attacked him, while Tobirama Senju learned Sasuke was safe and prepared to fight Kisame Hoshigaki and his barrier clone.
• Tobirama Senju defeated Kisame Hoshigaki’s clone, broke through the cave entrance, and discovered the Akatsuki extracting the Three-Tails into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Pain revealed the Akatsuki’s plan to capture the Tailed Beasts, but Tobirama Senju attacked the statue, prompting the Akatsuki members to withdraw.
• Might Guy kicked Sasori of the Red Sands into the water, and Tobirama Senju severed one of Deidara’s arms before Orochimaru’s giant snake swallowed Sasori and escaped.
• Konan arrived to cover Deidara’s retreat, but Sasuke and Kakashi joined Tobirama Senju and used Lightning Release to destroy Deidara’s C4 Garuda.
• Konan stayed behind to hold off Tobirama Senju while Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Might Guy pursued Deidara.