Chapter Summaries

Sakura confronted Pain on Turtle Island after realizing Black Zetsu had sent Nagato to test her strength. She overwhelmed the Six Paths with immense speed and strength, and ended the chapter hurling a giant barrage of enlarged Rashomon gates at them.

• Obito and Konan watched Turtle Island as Nagato sent the Six Paths of Pain to breach its barrier.
• Sakura identified the intruder through the chakra-filled rain, ordered the patrol team to stand down, and went to meet Pain herself.
• Sakura realized Black Zetsu had sent Nagato to use Pain as a sharpening stone, then struck the Heavenly Path through Shinra Tensei and sent him flying off the island.
• The other Paths attacked Sakura with taijutsu and summoned beasts, but she used Rashomon as a giant weapon to bat away the beasts and sweep the Paths aside.
• Sakura caught a massive panda statue, hurled it at Pain, and enlarged and multiplied the Rashomon gates into twenty enormous iron gates that blocked the Paths' view.

The Fifth Hokage overwhelmed Pain’s Six Paths with her strength, destroying several bodies and their summoned beasts. Pain unleashed a Super Shinra Tensei that devastated the sea but left the Hokage unharmed, and she confronted the defeated Heavenly Path beneath the rain.

• The Heavenly Path used Banshō Ten'in to save the Hell Path and pull the Asura Path and Preta Path away as twenty Rashomon gates crashed down on him.
• The Heavenly Path unleashed a stronger Shinra Tensei to repel the gates, but the Fifth Hokage charged him and destroyed the Asura Path and Preta Path despite their attempt to stop her.
• The Animal Path summoned giant beasts, but the Hokage invoked Yang Release: Mountain Lord and annihilated the rhinoceros before striking down the other summoned creatures.
• The Animal Path and Hell Path intercepted the Hokage’s attack on the Heavenly Path, who then used Super Shinra Tensei to blast them and the Hokage across the sea.
• The Hokage remained unharmed, recognized the Heavenly Path’s despair, and said she hated the rain as it fell around her.

Haruno Sakura defeated Pain and dispersed the storm over the sea, while Tobirama Senju uncovered an Akatsuki plot involving a Water Country noble visiting Konoha. Nagato returned to Amegakure shaken by his defeat and questioned whether the Sage of Six Paths had truly been a god.

• Haruno Sakura flew into the sky and punched apart the clouds, stopping the rain and calming the sea as the Heavenly Path watched in awe.
• Haruno Sakura let the Heavenly Path leave, then returned to Turtle Island and rested while studying Yin-Yang Release material; Sasuke and Karin arrived and found her asleep.
• Anzu told Tobirama Senju that Kasumi Oji Ryutaku, a twelve-year-old noble from the Land of Water, had arrived in Konoha with Himura to visit the Daimyo.
• Kasumi Oji Ryutaku asked to meet Haruno Sakura, and Tobirama Senju agreed to a five-day wait while recognizing the visit as part of an Akatsuki scheme.
• Tobirama Senju sent Sakura a message and ordered Uzuki Yugao to seal the Daimyo’s temporary palace and refuse visitors until Sakura returned.
• Nagato remained silent and refused food and water after returning to Amegakure, while Konan worried over him and he questioned whether the Sage of Six Paths was truly a god.

After Nagato’s defeat by Haruno Sakura, Black Zetsu tempted him with the prospect of becoming a true God. Meanwhile, Naruto began his struggle to subdue the Nine-Tails, and his mother Uzumaki Kushina appeared in his consciousness as Namikaze Minato helped him face the beast.

• Nagato brooded over his defeat by Haruno Sakura and questioned whether the Rinnegan and his dream of becoming God had been enough.
• Black Zetsu visited Nagato and asked whether he wanted to become a true God, hinting that the path required hardship and trials.
• At Turtle Island, Sakura, Karin, Yugito, Sasuke, and Hikari prepared to support Naruto as he fought the Nine-Tails for control of its Chakra.
• Naruto removed the seal from the gate and tried to reach the Nine-Tails, but Namikaze Minato appeared, rescued him, and punched him into his consciousness.
• Matatabi sent blue-flamed rats to attack the Nine-Tails while Naruto encountered Uzumaki Kushina and recognized her as his mother.

Sasuke, Hikari, and Karin helped restrain the Nine-Tails in Naruto’s sealing space, where Sakura reunited with Minato and Kushina appeared. Kushina mistook Karin for Naruto’s girlfriend, then joined Minato and Naruto’s friends in pulling the Nine-Tails’ Chakra from him.

• Sasuke and Hikari used their Mangekyō Sharingan to confront the Nine-Tails while Karin bound its tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Sakura recognized that Minato had chosen not to avoid his death, and Minato said his sacrifice had allowed Konoha’s younger generation to thrive.
• Kushina appeared from Naruto’s Chakra, recognized Sasuke from childhood, and mistakenly declared Karin Naruto’s girlfriend before leaving her a jade bracelet and naming their future children Boruto and Himawari.
• Kushina used Adamantine Sealing Chains to draw the Nine-Tails’ Chakra toward Naruto, and Minato joined her in the tug-of-war.
• Sasuke, Karin, Hikari, Yugito, Sakura, and Naruto grabbed the chains to help extract the Nine-Tails’ Chakra.

Naruto trained to master Nine-Tails Chakra Mode while Sakura transplanted Uchiha Itachi’s eyes into Sasuke and promised to restore Uchiha Hikari’s ocular power. In Konoha, Tobirama Senju faced pressure from nobles arriving from several countries and began considering how to respond to their apparent challenge.

• Naruto raced around the training ground on Turtle Island to get used to his new power as Karin and Yugito watched.
• Sakura knocked Sasuke unconscious and transplanted Uchiha Itachi’s eyes, using Yang Release to speed the formation of Sasuke’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Sakura offered to restore Uchiha Hikari’s ocular power in exchange for her help, while Hikari mistakenly believed Sakura was proposing a relationship and argued over their hypothetical child’s surname.
• Nobles connected to the Daimyo of the Land of Fire arrived in Konoha from several countries, and Tobirama Senju told Anzu to delay their meetings by claiming the Daimyo was ill.
• Tobirama Senju concluded that the nobles were preparing to rebel and considered deploying Konoha’s forces rather than continuing to appease them.

Sasuke and Karin received a mission from Sakura to use Sasuke’s fate-altering ocular technique against the noble class during the coming war, beginning with a target connected to Maki of Sunagakure. After returning to Konoha, Sakura assessed the looming conflict and its military shortages with Tobirama Senju, then asked him to improve Impure World Reincarnation.

• Sakura assigned Sasuke and Karin to select targets and act during the war, naming Maki of Sunagakure as their first target and explaining that Sasuke’s Great God's True Mandate suited the mission.
• Sakura promised to replenish Hikari’s ocular power, and Sasuke and Karin departed for the Land of Wind to prepare.
• Yugito told Sakura that Matatabi was willing to help her because of the Sage of Six Paths, and Sakura assured Yugito she would not make her fight Kumogakure.
• Sakura returned to Konoha, assigned Naruto, Yugito, and Hikari their next tasks, and went to the Hokage's Office to review Tobirama Senju’s intelligence.
• Sakura questioned Tobirama Senju about troop deployments, Chakra Armor, and Scientific Ninja Tool production, then asked him whether he had improved Impure World Reincarnation.

The Fifth Hokage received Gen Musashi and the nobles, while Kasumi Oji Ryutaku tried to frame the Land of Waterfalls noble as the culprit behind rumors that the Hokage had assassinated the Daimyo. The Hokage ordered him beheaded and then announced that she had a gift for Kasumi Oji Ryutaku.

• The nobles arrived at Gen Musashi's reception hall and found the Fifth Hokage seated beside him with Uzuki Yugao's sheathed blade on the tea table.
• Kasumi Oji Ryutaku praised the Hokage and urged her to punish those responsible for rumors that she had assassinated the Daimyo.
• Kasumi Oji Ryutaku named the Land of Waterfalls noble as the chief culprit, and Kamijou Futaro confessed that Takigakure had failed to guard the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and asked that his family be spared.
• The Fifth Hokage ordered Kamijou Futaro dragged out and beheaded, and the ninja returned with his head.
• The Fifth Hokage reprimanded the ninja for their handling of the execution and told Kasumi Oji Ryutaku she had a gift for her.

Haruno Sakura humiliated the nobles by calling a fawn a horse, then openly broke with them and prepared Konoha for war. After Himura tried and failed to assassinate her, the nobles rallied the Shinobi World against Konoha, leaving Sakura facing an allied invasion.

• Haruno Sakura forced Kasumi Oji Ryutaku to call a fawn a horse, then dismissed the nobles and declared they were not on the same path.
• Kasumi Oji Ryutaku urged Gen Musashi to resist Sakura, but he left, unwilling to fight her.
• Sakura planned Konoha's defenses against Akatsuki and considered forming a squad led by Kakashi and Might Guy.
• Himura confronted Sakura in a maple forest and charged at Uzuki Yugao, who killed him; Sakura ordered him buried where he fell.
• The nobles returned to their countries and spread claims of Sakura's rebellion, prompting nations to condemn Konoha and form the Shinobi World Allied Forces.
• Konoha answered the demand to remove Sakura with two words: “Try it.”

The nobles of the Shinobi World declared war on Haruno for assassinating the Fire Daimyo, and the ninja villages began preparing to join the campaign against Konoha. At a meeting of village leaders and Konan, the alliance weighed the threat posed by Haruno and the Akatsuki, ending with Killer B naming Orochimaru as another force in the coming war.

• The four daimyo declared Haruno a traitor and ordered ninja across the world to exterminate Konoha unless she took her own life.
• Ōnoki ordered Han to recall Roshi and told the Iwagakure commanders to fight without worrying about supplies.
• Konan joined an online meeting with Ōnoki, Killer B, Temari, and Genji while Nagato remained shut away in a room.
• Konan revealed that the Rinnegan had fought Haruno five days earlier but escaped, prompting the leaders to recognize that Haruno had defeated it.
• Genji argued that the united alliance of nine nations had overwhelming numbers and could defeat Konoha, even with the Akatsuki's forces involved.
• Killer B added that Orochimaru was another powerful figure who would affect the coming conflict.

Orochimaru agreed to fight for the allied forces after Killer B offered him five billion, while Konoha prepared for the Ten Nations Allied Forces. The Hokage assigned forces to the two main battlefields and decided to personally lead the defense in the Land of Rain, leaving the Second Hokage and Hikari Uchiha to guard Konoha.

• Killer B traveled to the Land of Frost and recruited Orochimaru by offering him five billion to fight against Konoha.
• Shikaku Nara reported that Konoha faced nine enemy nations and had twenty-two thousand ninja against an allied force estimated at more than seventy thousand.
• Shikaku Nara revealed that Uzumaki Naruto and Yugito had been sent with Chakra Armor-equipped forces to attack the Lands of Waterfalls and Fields.
• Anzu reported that the Land of Iron had declared war, making the allied force ten nations.
• Shikaku Nara outlined the threats facing the Rain Country and Land of Frost battlefields, and Might Guy and Kakashi volunteered for the latter.
• The Hokage ordered Naruto to join the Land of Frost forces, said she would personally lead the Rain Country defense with Yugito, and assigned the Second Hokage and Hikari Uchiha to guard Konoha.

Naruto and Konoha’s forces destroyed Takigakure’s and Otogakure’s military forces as the Shinobi World’s armies converged for war. Sakura ordered Konoha’s forces toward the Land of Frost while heading alone to confront the Akatsuki in the Land of Rain, and the Sky Ninja fleet appeared off the Land of Fire.

• Naruto and Nara Suzaku led two hundred Chakra Armor ninja in destroying Takigakure’s military forces before withdrawing without taking prisoners or territory.
• Konan assumed command of the Akatsuki meeting and proposed targeting Konoha’s Tailed Beasts while preparing to delay Sakura.
• Sakura learned that Naruto and Yugito had destroyed Takigakure’s and Otogakure’s forces, then ordered Naruto toward the Land of Frost.
• Sakura directed Konoha’s forces to advance toward the Land of Frost and departed alone for the Land of Rain to confront the Akatsuki.
• Yugito led three hundred Chakra Armor ninja toward the Land of Rain as the Sky Ninja fleet appeared off the Land of Fire and triggered coastal alarms.

Sakura reached the Land of Rain as the war gathered pace, while Sasuke and Karin’s plan sparked a deadly conflict between Sunagakure’s ninja and nobles. With Iwagakure and Akatsuki negotiating an alliance, Sakura prepared to enter the Land of Rain and remained wary of Orochimaru; an unknown figure slipped into the Konoha camp after nightfall.

• Maki killed the daimyo’s envoy and his guards after learning what they had done to Tsurane, and Baki arrived to confront her.
• Sasuke told Karin that he had used Great God's True Mandate on himself to arrange the encounter, but Maki had killed the noble of her own will.
• Konan pressed Kitsuchi for Iwagakure’s commitment to the Akatsuki alliance while secretly anticipating a future betrayal.
• Sakura reached the border camp, learned that Kitsuchi’s forces had arrived and Sunagakure’s were two days away, and ordered her troops to rest before entering the Land of Rain.
• As night fell, a figure slipped into the Konoha border garrison’s camp.

Maki defected to Konoha after killing the Wind Daimyo’s envoy, while Nagato prepared to lead an allied assault against Sakura. At the Rain border, Sakura faced the gathered armies and presented Maki as a fierce tiger among them.

• Maki told Sakura she had killed the Wind Daimyo’s envoy and surrendered to Konoha, so Sakura ordered her placed under the Tongue-Root-Calamity-Sealing Jutsu.
• Yugito arrived at Sakura’s camp with three hundred Jonin in Chakra Armor, and Sakura welcomed her as part of Konoha’s force.
• Nagato emerged restored by Hashirama Senju’s Wood Style Cells, learned that the allied forces were gathering against Sakura, and agreed to let them weaken her before he entered the battle.
• Sakura led Maki, Yugito, and the three hundred Jonin to the Rain border, where the armies of Wind, Earth, and Rain demanded her surrender.
• Sakura’s pressure forced Ōnoki down, and after Temari challenged her, Sakura called Maki a fierce tiger with pride in her heart.

Sakura rejected Ōnoki’s defense of the aristocratic order and declared her intention to unite the Shinobi World into an empire, then faced the Allied Ninja army alone. She cut through the thirty-thousand-strong force and killed Temari with a single slash, leaving Ōnoki’s army in chaos.

• Sakura defended Maki’s resistance to the nobles and promised to build an empire that would bring peace across the Shinobi World.
• Ōnoki ordered the Allied Ninja to attack, and Sakura charged into their army, killing waves of ninjas with her fists and feet.
• Ōnoki urged his forces to exhaust Sakura with their numbers, while Konan watched her fight and Temari condemned the slaughter.
• Temari abandoned her Kazekage robe, took up her Scimitar Fan, and attacked Sakura with Kamatari and a tornado.
• Sakura split the tornado with one sword slash, killed Kamatari, shattered Temari’s fan, and cut Temari down.

The Fifth Hokage overwhelmed the Allied Forces with a water dragon and her genjutsu domain, forcing Ōnoki to send in the enemy experts. As the battle split into several clashes, the Fifth Hokage charged after Konan while Inner Sakura faced Hiruko, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Kisame Hoshigaki.

• The Fifth Hokage unleashed a massive water dragon, then used Yin Release: Mirage to trap the Allied Forces in a genjutsu that made their attacks turn against their comrades.
• Konan and Ōnoki recognized that human-wave tactics were failing, and Ōnoki fired a signal flare as the Allied Forces’ experts moved in.
• The Fifth Hokage summoned Enma and set her sights on Konan, while Inner Sakura appeared to confront Hiruko, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Kisame Hoshigaki.
• Three hundred Jonin in Chakra Armor combined their Fire Release with Matatabi’s flames to attack Kisame Hoshigaki, and Han transformed into the Five-Tails, Kokuō, to fight Matatabi.
• Kitsuchi led Iwagakure shinobi against the three hundred Jonin as the Fifth Hokage flew toward Konan with Enma transformed into a staff.
• Inner Sakura knocked Hiruko away with one punch and fought Sasori of the Red Sands’s Fourth Raikage Human Puppet, then mocked its mango-scented poison mist.

Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to lead an alliance of resurrected Kage and shinobi against Konoha in the Land of Frost, where Naruto and the others faced their former Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. Uchiha Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to free Hiruzen and Itachi from Orochimaru’s control, but Hiruzen sealed Shisui after using him as a shield; Hiruzen then took command of Konoha’s forces and ordered them to kill the enemy.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared with the allied forces, and Naruto and Kakashi recognized their former Hokage.
• Hiruzen realized Orochimaru had resurrected him and asked Naruto where Sakura was; Naruto said she was fighting at the Rain Country Battlefield alongside Yugito.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived and used Kotoamatsukami to free Hiruzen and Itachi from Orochimaru’s control.
• Hiruzen seized Shisui and used him as a shield against the Third and Fourth Raikage’s Absolute Liger Bomb, then sealed Shisui’s body and Chakra.
• Itachi told Konoha’s forces that he and Hiruzen had broken free of Impure World Reincarnation, and Hiruzen took command and ordered them to kill the enemy.

Tobirama Senju prepared Konoha to repel the Sky Ninja and planned to capture their flying devices, while Uchiha Obito abducted Kaede from Uzumaki Pavilion. In the Land of Rain, Sakura pursued Konan until an Impure World Reincarnation interrupted her attack.

• Tobirama Senju recognized the approaching Sky Ninja and ordered Konoha to use newly developed Scientific Ninja Tools to defend the village.
• Tobirama Senju assigned Tsunade and an Uchiha girl to lead eight hundred ninja after the Sky Ninja, leaving two hundred ninja to guard Konoha.
• Uchiha Obito appeared inside Uzumaki Pavilion, overcame its Anbu guards, and took Kaede away despite her cries for help.
• Sakura pursued Konan through the rain while Deidara and Ōnoki chased after them, and Ōnoki realized Sakura knew about Konan's secret technique.
• Sakura extended her Golden Staff to strike Konan, but the weapon vanished, and Sakura recognized Impure World Reincarnation.

The Hokage defeated Ōnoki and Deidara after Enma vanished, suspecting Orochimaru had used Impure World Reincarnation to bring back former shinobi. After Deidara fell, Sasori lost focus while fighting Inner Sakura, leaving her poised to attack.

• The Hokage realized Enma had vanished because his former contractor had returned through Impure World Reincarnation and worried that the Land of Frost Battlefield might face resurrected shinobi.
• Ōnoki attacked the Hokage with Dust Release, but she entered Sage Mode, shattered his arm, and killed him after evading another Dust Release strike.
• Deidara unleashed C4 Garuda, but the Hokage used Daytime Tiger to sweep the nano-bombs into the sky, then wounded and killed him when he refused to surrender.
• Sasori of the Red Sands noticed Deidara falling and lost focus during his fight with Inner Sakura, who charged him as he tried to defend himself with a steel cable.

Konan unleashed Dance of the Shikigami with six hundred billion Explosive Tags, believing she had trapped Haruno Sakura. Sakura revealed she had switched places with her clone, killed Kisame Hoshigaki, and emerged unharmed; as she moved to finish Konan, Nagato rushed in and Sakura took Konan hostage.

• Konan covered the battlefield with six hundred billion Explosive Tags and trapped the figure she believed was Haruno Sakura inside Dance of the Shikigami.
• Inner Sakura defeated Sasori of the Red Sands, while Haruno Sakura revealed herself to Kisame Hoshigaki and told him not to interrupt the explosions.
• Haruno Sakura killed Hiruko and Kisame Hoshigaki as Konan's explosive technique continued to detonate.
• After ten minutes, Konan's explosions ended, and Haruno Sakura appeared behind her unharmed.
• Haruno Sakura prepared to kill Konan, but Nagato rushed toward them, so Haruno Sakura seized Konan by the neck and threatened him.