Chapter Summaries

After Hanzō’s death, Yahiko established a new Amegakure with the Rain Daimyō’s recognition and began reorganizing the village. As suspicious outsiders gathered in the Land of Rain, Katsuki remained there with Konoha’s forces and prepared for trouble.

• The Akatsuki Organization took control of Amegakure, and the Rain Daimyō’s envoy recognized Yahiko’s new village and granted it reconstruction funds.
• The Rain Daimyō submitted to an envoy from the Land of Fire, while Yahiko worked to rebuild Amegakure and organize its forces.
• Katsuki stayed in the Land of Rain under the alliance pact, where he trained Kuyue in Ice Release as Yuki Yoizuki watched.
• Yuki Yoizuki reported that suspicious people had appeared in the Land of Rain and clashed with her clan, causing losses.
• Katsuki realized that foreign factions had begun investigating Hanzō’s death and Amegakure’s alignment with Konoha.

Katsuki ordered harsher patrols in the Land of Rain and anticipated a war with the Stone Ninja, while Kuyue continued training her Ice Release. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki learned that an envoy from Kirigakure had arrived and ordered Kitsuchi to bring him in.

• Katsuki ordered Yuki Yoizuki to increase patrols and kill any intruders they found.
• Katsuki told Kuyue to practice freezing falling rain while warning Yuki that war with the Stone Ninja was likely.
• Katsuki decided he would force the Stone Ninja into war so he could weaken them and focus on Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha.
• Ōnoki brooded over Hanzō's death and the loss of the Land of Rain, which left Iwagakure facing Konoha without a buffer.
• A Stone Ninja reported that an envoy from Kirigakure had arrived, and Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi to bring the visitor to him.

Uchiha Genso entered Iwagakure under the guise of a Kirigakure envoy, and Kitsuchi suspected that something was wrong with him. Meanwhile, Senju Zen trained with his newly acquired Rinnegan and began testing its powers, though he had not yet learned to control them.

• Uchiha Genso walked through Iwagakure with Kitsuchi and the Stone Ninja, observing the village and its people.
• Kitsuchi asked Uchiha Genso about Kirigakure, but Uchiha Genso coldly refused to answer, strengthening Kitsuchi's suspicion that the envoy was an impostor or hiding something.
• Uchiha Genso sensed a terrifying chakra upstairs in the Tsuchikage Building as he went to meet the Third Tsuchikage.
• Senju Zen trained Taijutsu while recovering from the pain of receiving the Rinnegan, which had begun to merge with his Wood Release bloodline.
• Senju Zen tried using Shinra Tensei on a pile of stones, and the smallest stone began to tremble under his pull.

Katsuki praised Kuyue for mastering a defensive Ice Release technique and told her that she needed battlefield experience. As the Mist Ninja went to war against Konoha and the Stone Ninja advanced through the Land of Grass, Nawaki brought news that revealed where Kuyue’s next combat assignment would be.

• Kuyue demonstrated that she could freeze raindrops before they reached her, impressing Katsuki.
• Katsuki praised Kuyue’s progress, then explained that she needed real combat experience.
• Katsuki told Kuyue that the Land of Water had declared war on Konoha and that Clan Head Hatsuzuki was leading a large force against the Mist Ninja along the eastern coast.
• Kuyue worried that Hatsuzuki might beat her, and Katsuki said her combat training would take place in the Land of Grass.
• Nawaki arrived with a secret letter reporting that the Stone Ninja had begun an attack through the Land of Grass.

Yuki Hatsuzuki ordered Uchiha No to send two hundred elite shinobi against the Mist Ninja at Xiyu Cape. In the Land of Earth, Ōnoki led the Stone Ninja south to attack Konoha, while Kitsuchi reluctantly accepted that war was necessary.

• Yuki Hatsuzuki learned that the Mist Ninja had landed at Xiyu Cape and defeated the local garrison.
• Hatsuzuki ordered Uchiha No to lead two hundred elite shinobi to Xiyu Cape and take no prisoners.
• Uchiha No gathered his force and set off through the forest toward the cape.
• Kitsuchi questioned why Ōnoki had agreed to send troops after dismissing the Mist Ninja envoy's claims.
• Ōnoki explained that the Mist Ninja's war with Konoha gave the Stone Ninja an excuse to act on their existing plan to invade.
• Kitsuchi accepted that the Stone Ninja had to fight Konoha and turned his attention to preparing for battle.

The Third Raikage and A considered how to exploit the Stone Ninja’s advance, deciding to wait until Ōnoki and Katsuki clashed. In Konoha, Orochimaru reported that Ōnoki and both Jinchuriki were marching toward the Land of Grass, leaving the village’s leaders debating how to reinforce Katsuki’s small force.

• The Third Raikage agreed with A that Cloud should let the Stone Ninja and Katsuki clash before deciding when to act.
• A recognized Katsuki in a report and grew eager to fight him, but the Third Raikage calmed him down.
• An intelligence jonin told Orochimaru and Konoha’s leaders that the Stone Ninja had moved south.
• Orochimaru reported that Ōnoki and both Jinchuriki were leading the Stone Ninja toward the Land of Grass.
• Konoha’s leaders called for reinforcements, while a clan head warned that the village had few troops available with the Mist Ninja causing trouble in the east.

Orochimaru struggled to assemble enough forces to confront the Stone Ninja while other fronts strained Konoha’s manpower. Uchiha Fugaku and Tsunade pledged troops, and Orochimaru placed Katsuki in command of the northern defense.

• Clan heads and elders claimed they could not spare fighters because Konoha was already dealing with the Mist Ninja in the east and the Cloud Ninja in the north.
• Uchiha Fugaku silenced the complainers and pledged several hundred Uchiha, including twenty Jounin, to support Katsuki against the Stone Ninja.
• Tsunade pledged the same number of Senju fighters, determined to protect her younger brother Nawaki, who was serving on the front lines in the Land of Grass.
• Orochimaru decided that Katsuki would command the northern campaign against the Stone Ninja and then turned the meeting to the Sand Ninja and Cloud Ninja.

Katsuki’s army reached the Land of Grass, where the Grass Ninja offered support against the Stone Ninja. While Katsuki declined their combat assistance and trained with Kuyue, reinforcements from Konoha arrived, leaving him surprised by their size.

• The Konoha army arrived in the Land of Grass, and the Grass Ninja welcomed them and offered two thousand fighters.
• Katsuki declined the Grass Ninja’s offer and sent Rokuro to negotiate with them about handling their support tactfully.
• Kuyue practiced Ice Release: Grass Leaf Sword against Katsuki, who easily intercepted her attacks with lightning.
• A ninja reported that reinforcements from Konoha were approaching, and Katsuki ordered the Grass Ninja to prepare their campsite and handle logistics.
• Katsuki learned the reinforcements included experts from the Senju and Uchiha clans and forty jonin, and he was stunned by the deployment.

Katsuki prepared for the Stone Ninja’s invasion of the Land of Grass after Kuyue lost a sparring match to Kakashi. He went to meet the approaching enemy alone, and the chapter ended as the Stone Ninja vanguard arrived near the border.

• Kuyue attacked Kakashi with Ice Release, but Kakashi dodged her technique and nearly struck her from behind before Katsuki stopped his blade.
• Katsuki praised Kakashi’s Earth Release training and urged him and Kuyue to compete against the approaching Stone Ninja instead of arguing.
• A reconnaissance report warned Katsuki that the Stone Ninja were about to invade the Land of Grass, and he told Uchiha Otoha to plan defenses with Nawaki.
• Katsuki left camp to confront the Stone Ninja, whose vanguard advanced across the border toward him.

Katsuki faced Ōnoki and more than ten thousand elite Stone Ninja as they advanced toward him. Ōnoki opened the battle with Dust Release, but Katsuki survived and attacked him, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Katsuki sensed the Stone Ninja army approaching and recognized that Ōnoki, accompanied by two Jinchuriki, had committed an unusually large elite force.
• The Stone Ninja halted after detecting Katsuki alone on a hillside, and Ōnoki decided to attack him with Dust Release rather than risk capturing the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki alive.
• Ōnoki erased the hill with Dust Release, but Katsuki emerged in his Thunderclap Chariot and struck him with lightning.
• Katsuki recognized that Ōnoki had evaded the attack, then charged again and used Great Thunderclap to smash Ōnoki and a rock puppet into fragments.

Katsuki and Ōnoki fought an aerial battle while the Stone Ninjas watched from a safe distance. Katsuki used the Thunderclap Chariot and Mind's Eye of the Kagura to evade Dust Release, then turned to charge directly at Ōnoki.

• Kitsuchi ordered the Stone Ninja army to retreat as Katsuki and Ōnoki's fight grew too dangerous to approach.
• The Stone Ninjas recognized Katsuki as Konoha's Calamity and watched him clash with the Third Tsuchikage.
• Ōnoki's Dust Release struck the Thunderclap Chariot and destroyed more than half of it, forcing Katsuki to flee and evade further attacks.
• Katsuki used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to track Ōnoki's chakra and narrowly dodge Dust Release while gauging its range.
• Katsuki executed Lightning Fork, turned the Thunderclap Chariot around, and charged toward Ōnoki.

Katsuki’s Lightning Fork failed to break through Ōnoki’s Dust Release, so he decided to wear the Third Tsuchikage down by stalling. At Konoha’s defensive line, Otoha, Rokuro, Yuki, and Nawaki waited for the Stone Ninja and discussed a rumor that Konoha’s leaders might invite the Sand Ninja into the war.

• Katsuki attacked Ōnoki with the Lightning Fork, but Ōnoki blocked it with Dust Release.
• Katsuki recognized Dust Release’s heavy chakra cost and began circling Ōnoki to exhaust him while avoiding his lethal attacks.
• At Konoha’s mountain defenses, Otoha, Rokuro, Yuki, and Nawaki waited for the Stone Ninja and discussed Katsuki’s strength.
• Otoha told the others he had heard Konoha’s leaders might invite the Sand Ninja into the war, and Nawaki resolved to investigate.

Orochimaru weighed Konoha’s growing war on several fronts and pressed the Sand Ninja to choose whether to honor their alliance. A researcher then reported that the Third Mizukage’s corpse had been stolen from Konoha’s Ninjutsu Research Department, leaving Orochimaru to suspect a skilled intruder.

• Orochimaru ordered Sakumo sent as an envoy to urge the Third Kazekage to decide whether the Sand Ninja would join the war.
• Orochimaru considered the threats from the Mist Ninja, Stone Ninja, and Cloud Ninja, and explained that he was forcing the Sand Ninja to declare their position before the northern conflict escalated.
• Orochimaru learned that the Mist Ninja had been driven back toward the sea and worried about Ōnoki acting personally and Madara Uchiha lurking in the shadows.
• A researcher told Orochimaru that the Third Mizukage’s corpse had vanished from the Ninjutsu Research Department, apparently during the previous night without alerting guards or nearby staff.
• Orochimaru questioned how anyone could steal the corpse from the heavily guarded department and concluded that the thief was no ordinary intruder.

Orochimaru ordered an investigation into the theft of the Third Mizukage's corpse while Katsuki was gravely wounded after fighting Ōnoki. Yuki Yoizuki slowed his fall and rescued him, leaving Nawaki to take him to safety.

• Orochimaru dismissed a researcher and ordered an Anbu to investigate how the Third Mizukage's corpse had been stolen.
• Katsuki fell from the sky after Ōnoki's Dust Release pulverized nearly half his body.
• Katsuki realized Ōnoki had almost no chakra left, but sensed two powerful chakra signatures approaching, including the Four-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Yuki Yoizuki summoned wind and snow to slow Katsuki's fall and guided him onto an ice track.
• Nawaki sent a Wood Clone to carry Katsuki away.

Ōnoki urged Kitsuchi to send more jōnin after Katsuki, while Nawaki Senju confronted Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki with his Wood Golem Jutsu. He dragged the Five-Tails away, then hurled it into the pursuing Four-Tails, leaving the two beasts tangled in battle as Rokuro Kaguya and Yuki Yoizuki escaped south.

• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi to gather more jōnin and kill Katsuki, but a roar from the battlefield interrupted them.
• Nawaki Senju used his Wood Golem Jutsu to stop a Tailed Beast Bomb and face the Four-Tails and Five-Tails.
• The Four-Tails and Five-Tails fully transformed as Rokuro Kaguya and Yuki Yoizuki clung to the wooden giant.
• Nawaki’s Wood Clone told Rokuro Kaguya and Yuki Yoizuki to flee south while the original body dragged the Five-Tails north.
• Nawaki’s wooden giant hurled the Five-Tails into the pursuing Four-Tails, and the two beasts crashed together.

Konoha and Stone Ninja forces clashed in a battle of colossal monsters as Nawaki fought the transformed Four-Tails and Five-Tails with his Wood Style. The Stone Ninja’s Jinchuriki lost their rationality during full transformation, and Nawaki remained in danger as the tailed beasts attacked.

• Yuki Yoizuki and Rokuro Kaguya watched the giant monsters fight and compared the battle to the movie Godzilla 4.
• Nawaki used his wood golem and Water Release to suppress the Four-Tails’ lava and counter the Five-Tails’ charge.
• The Five-Tails unleashed its strength, lifted the wood golem, and hurled it through the air, forcing Nawaki to protect himself with Wood Locking Wall.
• The Four-Tails fired a barrage of magma bullets at the airborne wood golem.
• The chapter explained that the Stone Ninja sent fully transformed Jinchuriki into enemy-packed areas, where their animalistic instincts drove them to destroy and kill.

Nawaki struggled to withstand the Four-Tails and Five-Tails’ combined assault while Yuki Yoizuki and Rokuro Kaguya devised a way to disrupt the Five-Tails. Rokuro’s Early Fern Dance wounded the beast, but the technique triggered his bloodline disease.

• The Four-Tails and Five-Tails battered Nawaki’s wooden giant with magma bullets and repeated charges, breaking off its right forearm.
• Yuki Yoizuki created a thick Ice Mirror beneath the Five-Tails, and the charging beast slipped and crashed to the ground.
• Rokuro Kaguya used Early Fern Dance to drive bone spikes through the fallen Five-Tails.
• Rokuro collapsed coughing blood, and Yuki recognized his condition as a bloodline disease.

Rokuro Kaguya and Yuki Yoizuki disrupted the Tailed Beasts’ assault while Nawaki’s wooden giant recovered and fought back. Katsuki woke after his body regenerated, learned he had been unconscious for an hour, and found his chakra nearly depleted.

• Rokuro Kaguya’s Shikotsumyaku attacks slowed the Five-Tails, while Yuki Yoizuki helped interrupt the Tailed Beasts’ assault.
• Nawaki regenerated the wooden giant’s wounds and charged the Four-Tails, using Flying Wood to distract it before striking with the giant’s fists.
• Katsuki woke in a tent and found Kuyue and Kakashi sparring nearby.
• Kakashi told Katsuki he had been unconscious for an hour and that Nawaki was fighting the Stone Ninja’s two Tailed Beasts.
• Katsuki realized his chakra was nearly exhausted, and Kuyue explained that the medical ninja had left him in their care after his self-healing unsettled them.

After recovering enough strength to eat, Katsuki learned that the battle with the Stone Ninja had ended without either side gaining an advantage. When Nawaki told him Rokuro Kaguya was suffering from Bloodline Disease, Katsuki rushed to the medical ward.

• Katsuki ate a huge meal in the Grass Ninja mess hall and replenished some of his depleted vitality.
• Nawaki told Katsuki that the Four-Tails and Five-Tails had been retrieved by the Stone Ninja after both sides were badly hurt.
• Katsuki judged that Ōnoki was unlikely to raid that night but ordered the camp to keep watch.
• Nawaki told Katsuki that Rokuro Kaguya was in the medical ward with a strange condition, and Katsuki hurried to see him.
• Nawaki finished his soup and chased after Katsuki.

Rokuro Kaguya suffered a severe first outbreak of Bloodline Disease, and Katsuki examined him while worrying that he had only a few years to live. At the Stone Ninja camp, Ōnoki ordered extra guards and postponed action while his forces recovered.

• Rokuro Kaguya described his pain and chilling bones to Katsuki, who recorded his symptoms and reviewed Nawaki's report.
• Katsuki concluded that Rokuro Kaguya's severe symptoms made an estimate of only two or three years to live realistic, but urged him to recover.
• Rokuro Kaguya feared he would not survive the coming war, and Katsuki promised to deal with the Stone Ninja himself.
• Ōnoki learned that Roshi and Han had recovered physically but remained mentally exhausted.
• Ōnoki ordered every post to double its guards against a Konoha sneak attack and decided his weakened camp would not take action that night.