Chapter Summaries

Sakura held Konan hostage and forced Nagato to choose between her life and the Rinnegan, but Uchiha Obito's sudden arrival led Sakura to kill Konan. Nagato cradled her body as Sakura blamed Obito, and the battle resumed around them.

• Sakura restrained Konan and demanded Nagato surrender the Rinnegan, while Konan urged him to protect the eyes.
• Nagato chose Konan over the Rinnegan and agreed to Sakura's terms, despite Kitsuchi questioning his decision.
• Uchiha Obito appeared and attacked Sakura, who dodged his strike and drove a kunai through Konan.
• Kitsuchi and Han ordered their forces to attack as Obito escaped Sakura's attention with Kamui.
• Nagato gathered Konan into his arms, and Sakura told him that Obito's arrival had changed her mind about the deal and suggested Obito was responsible for Konan's death.

Sakura and Nagato fought until Uchiha Obito joined Nagato, prompting Sakura to summon Inner Sakura and face them two against two. Inner Sakura provoked Obito with knowledge of his past and the Moon Eye Plan until his anger broke his focus and Kamui was released.

• Nagato removed Konan's corpse and attacked Sakura with Shinra Tensei, but she was pushed back only one step.
• Uchiha Obito joined Nagato, and Sakura summoned Inner Sakura to make the fight two against two.
• Sakura charged Nagato while Inner Sakura attacked Obito with silver knuckle dusters, forcing him to use Kamui.
• Inner Sakura taunted Obito about Rin Nohara, Uchiha Madara, the Moon Eye Plan, and his role in the Uchiha Clan Downfall.
• Inner Sakura invoked Kushina and called Obito her little brother, making him lose control just as Kamui was released.

Uchiha Obito snapped at Inner Sakura and fought her with a wooden spike, while Sakura noticed Inner Sakura seemed weaker than before. Sakura abandoned attempts to reason with Nagato and attacked him, revealing that his elemental skills were his own talent as the battle continued.

• Obito's anger overwhelmed him, and he attacked Inner Sakura with a wooden spike after deciding to kill her.
• Sakura noticed that Inner Sakura seemed weaker, but set aside her concern to face Nagato.
• Nagato rejected Sakura's words about Konoha and launched an attack using Earth and Lightning Release.
• Sakura struck Nagato with a powerful punch, then pursued him as he countered with Shinra Tensei, Banshō Ten'in, and elemental techniques.
• Nagato saw golden light beneath Sakura's skin as his flames failed to harm her, and realized he needed to act quickly.

Oishi discovered that his wife and daughter were entangled with a nobleman, then killed the nobleman and his wife in a rage. Sasuke revealed that he had engineered Oishi’s early departure from work to expose the truth, and he and Karin continued toward the Rain Country Battlefield to help Sakura.

• Oishi’s patrol finished early, and he recognized the scent of his daughter Kana’s new rouge on a nobleman leaving a tavern.
• Oishi returned home early and found the nobleman with his wife and Kana; his wife admitted her connection to the nobleman and urged Kana to see him off.
• Oishi killed the nobleman and his wife, then stood over their corpses until his patrol members stopped him.
• Sasuke told Karin he had exposed the truth to Oishi without using either Heavenly Dao’s Counter Mandate or Great God’s True Mandate.
• Sasuke and Karin traveled toward the Rain Country Battlefield to help Sakura defeat the Wind, Earth, and Rain Alliance.

Nagato used Planetary Devastation to trap the Fifth Hokage and revived Konan with the Rinnegan’s power. As the celestial sphere began to break apart, Konan begged him to abandon the fight and go home, but Nagato went forward to face the Hokage.

• Nagato attacked the Fifth Hokage with the Asura Path’s laser cannon, then used Planetary Devastation to draw her into a growing sphere of earth and stone.
• Nagato tried to capture Yugito as she retreated, but the Fifth Hokage’s kunai shattered the boulder threatening her.
• Nagato used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to build a towering tree structure around Planetary Devastation and contain the Fifth Hokage.
• Nagato summoned Konan’s body and used Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive her.
• A pebble fell from the celestial sphere, which began cracking as golden fire burst through it.
• Konan begged Nagato to go home with her instead of facing the Hokage, but he pushed forward, believing he could not retreat.

Sakura broke free of Nagato’s sealing techniques and defeated him with Sasuke’s help, while Uchiha Obito used Izanagi to survive her attacks. After Black Zetsu seized a Jinchuriki and Obito escaped with Konan, Sakura secured the Rinnegan with Katsuyu and prepared to leave for the Land of Frost Battlefield.

• Sakura escaped Planetary Devastation and joined Sasuke in cornering Nagato, taking both of his Rinnegan before Obito used Izanagi to save him.
• Nagato gave his remaining Rinnegan to Obito and charged Sakura, telling Konan to go home and asking Obito not to trouble her again.
• Nagato’s attack briefly held Sakura back, but she struck Obito; he used another Izanagi and escaped with Konan through Kamui.
• Karin told Sakura that Black Zetsu had taken control of Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki, revealing that Obito’s goal had been the Rinnegan and a Jinchuriki.
• Sakura entrusted Nagato’s Rinnegan to Sage Katsuyu, ordered the battlefield cleared, and prepared to head to the Land of Frost Battlefield.

After defeating the Land of Rain’s forces, Sakura hurried to Konoha so she could join the desperate battle in the Land of Frost. She learned that Inner Sakura was fading as her Yang Release grew stronger, then continued toward Konoha as the war neared its end.

• Sakura told Maki to return to Konoha with the troops and left the Land of Rain with Karin, Sasuke, and Yugito to reach the Land of Frost battlefield.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Mitokado Homura to oversee Konoha and instructed Uchiha Hikari and Tsunade to join the Land of Frost front after returning from their mission.
• Sakura used Sasuke’s Susanoo to travel toward Konoha and entered her inner world to confront Inner Sakura about her weakening existence.
• Inner Sakura explained that Sakura’s growing Yang Release was consuming her Yin Release and causing her to fade, and Sakura left after accepting what was happening.
• As the group neared Konoha, Sakura offered to restore Sasuke’s ocular power, but Sasuke refused and said he could recover on his own.

Sakura returned to Konoha, learned that the battle had pushed its forces to the Land of Fire Borderline, and discovered that Uchiha Obito had abducted the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, Kaede. She traveled with Karin, Sasuke, and Yugito to the battlefield, where Tobirama Senju confronted the Gold and Silver Brothers and tried to seize their Six Paths Tools.

• Mitokado Homura told Sakura that Konoha had been pushed back to the Land of Fire Borderline and that Tobirama Senju had gone there to fight.
• Mitokado Homura reported that Kaede had vanished from the heavily guarded Uzumaki Pavilion, and Sakura recognized Uchiha Obito as the likely culprit.
• Sakura apologized to Yugito for taking her to the battlefield, then accepted a black box from Mitokado Homura and teleported with Yugito, Karin, and Sasuke using the Flying Thunder God Squad.
• At the Land of Fire Borderline, Naruto and Mei Terumi fought reincarnated shinobi while Kakashi warned them to hold out for the Sealing Team.
• Tobirama Senju faced the Gold and Silver Brothers, countered Kinkaku's attack with Water Severing Wave, and moved to defeat them and take their Six Paths Tools.

Sakura arrived at the Land of Fire battlefield and turned the retreating Konoha forces’ fortunes by overpowering the reanimated Raikage and other enemies. The battle continued as she broke through the Allied forces, while Killer B prepared to confront her and Mabui alerted Orochimaru.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju ordered Konoha’s forces to retreat into the Land of Fire while they waited for reinforcements.
• Killer B ordered Mabui to press the invasion forward and notify Orochimaru when Sakura arrived.
• Sakura descended onto the battlefield, blocked the Third Raikage and Fourth Raikage’s combined attack, and rallied Konoha’s troops.
• Uchiha Itachi’s Susanoo attacked the Allied forces as Hiruzen Sarutobi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Uzumaki Karin helped turn the fighting against the reanimated army.
• Sakura shattered the Fourth Raikage’s arm, sent the Third Raikage flying, and smashed the Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura with Enma’s Golden Staff.

Orochimaru used Manda and a fragment of bone to reincarnate Uchiha Madara while Sakura crushed the Allied Kage on the Land of Frost battlefield. The chapter ended with Madara appearing before Orochimaru as the war continued.

• Orochimaru and Kabuto prepared to summon a powerful figure, while Ichikishimahime warned that the Hokage could find them in Ryūchi Cave.
• Sakura confronted five Kage, taunted Gaara and Rasa over Temari’s death, and swiftly defeated Rasa and the Fifth Kazekage.
• The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Raikage attacked Sakura, but Enma, Matatabi, and Sakura’s counterattacks disrupted them as Yugito pleaded with the Fourth Raikage to surrender.
• Tobirama Senju arrived with the Six Paths Tools and told Sakura that he had sealed the Gold and Silver Brothers.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda and used Edo Tensei to reincarnate Uchiha Madara.

Sakura, the Fifth Hokage, confronted the revived Uchiha Madara on the Land of Frost battlefield and overwhelmed him with her strength. Madara unleashed Wood Release, genjutsu, and Shinra Tensei, but Sakura resisted and shattered his Edo Tensei body; as he was hurled away, he summoned a vast threat over the battlefield.

• The Fourth Raikage was sealed in the Crimson Gourd, and the Third Raikage stopped Killer B from rushing into the fight.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Madara that Nagato had died and that Sakura was the Shinobi World's strongest fighter, then sent Madara toward her.
• Sakura met Madara on the battlefield and knocked him back with one punch, while the other shinobi resumed fighting and followed her orders to divide their targets.
• Sakura charged through Mei Terumi's steam and destroyed Madara's Wood Release trees, ignored his pollen, and struck him despite his Sharingan genjutsu.
• Madara used Shinra Tensei, but Sakura withstood it and shattered his body; as he flew backward, he invoked Tengai Shinsei over the battlefield.

Sakura turned Uchiha Madara’s meteors against him and faced his Susanoo over the sea, while Hiruzen Sarutobi entered Ryūchi Cave to stop Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation. There, Hiruzen found Hashirama Senju conscious and learned that Hashirama intended to stop Sakura over the wars she had started.

• Sakura pierced both of Uchiha Madara’s meteors with Enma’s Golden Staff, lifted them in Sage Mode, and hurled them back at him, driving him into the sea.
• Killer B, apparently controlled by the Sharingan, sprinted toward Uchiha Madara as Sakura followed him into the ocean.
• Uchiha Madara emerged in his colossal Susanoo and challenged Sakura to fight.
• At Ryūchi Cave, Uchiha Itachi stayed to confront the mindless Namikaze Minato while Hiruzen Sarutobi pushed deeper inside to find Orochimaru.
• Kabuto Yakushi led Hiruzen to Orochimaru, where Hiruzen found Hashirama Senju conscious and playing dice with Orochimaru.
• Hashirama Senju told Hiruzen Sarutobi he intended to stop Sakura because she had led Konoha into war.

Hashirama Senju decided to stop Sakura from taking the Hokage position and prevent her from continuing the war, then left to confront her. At sea, Sakura shattered Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo crystal and seized him after a combined assault, while Uchiha Obito and Gyuki remained in the battle.

• Hashirama Senju knelt before Hiruzen Sarutobi, apologized for the shinobi village system, and insisted Sakura had to be stopped without being killed.
• Uchiha Itachi used Kotoamatsukami to free Namikaze Minato from the Impure World Reincarnation’s control, and Hashirama Senju left to confront Sakura.
• Uchiha Madara attacked Sakura with his Susanoo, but she defeated the controlled Killer B with one punch and shattered Susanoo’s forehead crystal.
• Uchiha Obito arrived with the Rinnegan as Gyuki emerged, and Uchiha Madara used Shinra Tensei to propel himself away from Sakura.
• Sakura’s duplicate kicked Uchiha Madara back into her grasp, and a Tailed Beast Ball and Storm Dragon engulfed them in an explosion.
• Sakura held Uchiha Madara, whose body was bound by her golden chakra, while Uchiha Obito escaped with Kamui and resolved to capture the remaining Two-Tails and Nine-Tails.

Sakura defeated Uchiha Madara, then confronted Hashirama Senju over her plan to unify the Shinobi World and abolish the nobles’ rule. Hashirama rejected her authority and attacked, turning the battlefield against Sakura and her allies.

• Sakura restrained Uchiha Madara after surviving his Tailed Beast Ball, while Sasuke, Naruto, and Karin sealed Mu and Gengetsu Hozuki.
• Hashirama Senju arrived, followed by Hiruzen Sarutobi, Namikaze Minato, and Uchiha Itachi, and Hiruzen warned Sakura that Hashirama would oppose unification.
• Sakura and Hashirama argued over peace, the countries’ independence, the daimyo, and Sakura’s authority as Hokage.
• Hashirama declared Sakura unfit to be Hokage and said he would restore the countries and their daimyo, while Sakura called him a rogue ninja for opposing the Hokage.
• Hashirama unleashed Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, sending enormous trees surging from the sea to attack Sakura and everyone on the battlefield.

Sakura fought Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, overwhelming their combined attacks with her strength. As Hashirama’s necklace bound her and Orochimaru fired a destructive Chakra Cannon, Sakura unleashed her full power but faced a blast capable of destroying the moon.

• Hashirama Senju sent Wood Style clones after the others and challenged Sakura, who defeated him in taijutsu and forced him to enter Sage Mode.
• Hashirama Senju created multiple Wood Golems, freeing Uchiha Madara, who joined him with his Perfect Susanoo and Wood Dragon.
• Sakura activated her Yin Seal, shattered Madara’s Perfect Susanoo with a kick, and destroyed Hashirama’s Wood Dragon and Wood Golem with her fists.
• Hashirama Senju used the Chakra in his necklace to bind Sakura with the Hand of the Wood Spirit.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi appeared with a charged Chakra Cannon, and Orochimaru fired it at Sakura as she unleashed her full power.

Sakura survived Orochimaru’s Chakra Cannon but was left nearly drained, and she refused Hashirama Senju’s demand to stop. As Karin treated her, Sakura entered her inner world, where Inner Sakura disappeared and unleashed Sakura’s vast Yin Release Chakra, leaving her body cocooned in pink Chakra.

• Orochimaru’s Chakra Cannon struck Sakura, but Sasuke’s Great God’s True Mandate helped her survive, badly injured and almost out of Chakra.
• Sakura rejected Hashirama Senju’s offer to stop, then left with Karin while Naruto and Sasuke faced Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara withdrew.
• Namikaze Minato, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Uchiha Itachi confronted Orochimaru, who revealed that the Two-Tails Jinchuriki’s Chakra had disappeared.
• Uchiha Madara appeared before Namikaze Minato and demanded the Nine-Tails.
• Sakura entered her inner world, where Inner Sakura stabbed herself with a pink Yin Release Chakra blade and confessed her love before fading away.
• Sakura’s inner world collapsed as her Yin Release Chakra flooded it, and pink Chakra wrapped her body in a cocoon while Karin retreated.

Killer B discovered that Black Zetsu had impersonated Dodai and was about to kill him, while Naruto and Sasuke fought Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara revived the Ten-Tails. Sakura arranged for Rin Nohara to be revived, and Rin confronted Uchiha Obito about his crimes as the Ten-Tails began transforming.

• Black Zetsu revealed his deception to the dying Killer B and prepared to kill him.
• Naruto and Sasuke joined forces through Kurama Link and Perfect Susanoo: Beastly Calamity, but Hashirama Senju summoned True Several Thousand Hands to oppose them.
• Uchiha Obito captured Yugito, and he and Uchiha Madara extracted the Two-Tails and Nine-Tails to revive the Ten-Tails.
• Uchiha Obito told Namikaze Minato that he blamed him for Rin Nohara's death and planned to create a world where she loved him.
• Rin Nohara appeared on the beach after Sakura had arranged her revival, and she demanded that Uchiha Obito answer for killing Namikaze Minato, Kushina, and the Uchiha Clan.

Sakura absorbed vast Yin Release Chakra and fused it with her Yang Release, breaking the bloodline barrier and reaching the Six Paths. As she emerged in a storm of power, Madara took Obito’s eyes and prepared to become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki.

• Rin Nohara confronted Obito and rejected his claim that he was creating a world for her, while Tobirama Senju asked her to stall him.
• The Ten-Tails revived, and Madara urged Obito to help prepare the Infinite Tsukuyomi while Hashirama Senju tried to stop Madara from taking Naruto’s Nine-Tails.
• Sakura reflected on whether someone without Ōtsutsuki blood could reach the Six Paths and resolved to shatter the limits of bloodline and destiny.
• Hashirama Senju suppressed the Ten-Tails with red torii gates as Sakura’s Yin and Yang Release fused within the pink Chakra sphere.
• Madara used the Reanimation Jutsu to revive himself, took Obito’s Rinnegan and Kamui Mangekyo, and kicked him from the Ten-Tails’ head.
• Sakura emerged from the shattered sphere with overwhelming power, and Naruto and Sasuke recognized her as she looked down upon the battlefield.

Sakura revealed her Six Paths power, overwhelmed Hashirama Senju, and sealed the battlefield before fighting Uchiha Madara. After Madara became the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, Sakura easily countered his attacks and prepared to give him another Rinnegan so she could summon Kaguya Otsutsuki.

• Sakura summoned a colossal Wood Release King Kong and split Hashirama Senju's True Several Thousand Hands with one precise slash.
• Sakura formed the Twelve Sun Formation around the battlefield and asked Uchiha Madara whether he needed help awakening the Ten-Tails.
• Sakura slapped the Ten-Tails awake, and Uchiha Madara became its Jinchuriki and entered the Six Paths level.
• Sakura tested her powers against Madara with elemental attacks, while Madara defended himself with a Truth-Seeking Orb and used Planetary Devastation.
• Sakura crushed Madara's nine Planetary Devastation spheres and prepared a Dust Release attack as Madara began trying to summon the Divine Tree and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Sakura summoned Sage Katsuyu and asked whether she still had the Rinnegan, considering giving it to Madara and releasing Kaguya Otsutsuki.

Sakura revived Yugito, Hashirama Senju, and Uchiha Itachi, while Hiruzen Sarutobi, Namikaze Minato, and Rin Nohara chose to pass on. She returned the Rinnegan to Uchiha Madara and began fighting him, cutting down the Divine Tree as he prepared to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

• Sakura offered to revive Hiruzen Sarutobi and Namikaze Minato, but both refused, and Rin Nohara rejected Kakashi's request to bring her back to life.
• Sakura used the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive Yugito, Hashirama Senju, and Uchiha Itachi; Yugito awoke and discovered Matatabi was gone.
• Sakura returned the Rinnegan to Uchiha Madara and declared that he had no value if he could not entertain her.
• Uchiha Madara restored both Rinnegan and attacked Sakura with four Limbo clones, but she detected and struck them.
• Uchiha Madara rose to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, while Sakura used Wind's Gentleness to sever the Divine Tree at its roots.