Chapter Summaries

Konoha remained under martial law as Uchiha Yoru consolidated control and negotiated with Jiraiya and Tsunade over the village's leadership. The chapter ended with Jiraiya accepting that Yoru had to become Fifth Hokage and asking how he would deal with the clans of the former Third Hokage faction.

• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to send half its wartime reserves to Uchiha Yoru, while Fourth Raikage Ay committed sixty percent of Kumogakure's reserves and other villages arranged supplies.
• The Konoha Military Police Force surveilled the Hokage-aligned clans, restricted ninja tools, and gathered the village's jōnin for another meeting.
• Uchiha Yoru told Jiraiya that Root would come under his command and that the Anbu would be investigated, with Kakashi and Itachi taking charge of them afterward.
• Uchiha Yoru offered Jiraiya supervision of Naruto Uzumaki if he supported Yoru's succession as Hokage.
• Jiraiya agreed that Yoru had to take power to prevent Konoha from descending into chaos, and asked how he would handle the former Third Hokage faction's clans.

After the False Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s rampage, Uchiha Yoru used the damage and Root’s crimes to justify relocating clans aligned with Hiruzen Sarutobi from Konoha’s center. Hiruzen arrived at the meeting as Yoru consolidated power and assigned allied clans to oversee the area, leaving the village’s political struggle unresolved.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that the Konoha Military Police Force had delivered Shimura Danzō alive, forcing him to choose between executing Danzō and bearing responsibility for sparing him.
• Hiruzen rejected Sarutobi Asuma’s suggestion that Shikaku Nara’s forces could influence events, then went to the Hokage Building carrying the Hokage Hat.
• Uchiha Yoru and Hatake Kakashi presented a relocation plan at the Jōnin meeting, citing Root’s hidden research facilities and the False Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s rampage as reasons to move major clans from Konoha’s center.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi joined the meeting and exchanged political courtesies with Uchiha Yoru as the relocation plan proceeded.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned the Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame Clans to the area under the pretext of scouting for security risks, while Hiruzen’s allied clans faced displacement.

At Konoha’s jōnin meeting, Hiruzen Sarutobi resigned but backed Tsunade as acting Hokage, blocking Uchiha Yoru’s bid for power. Yoru left with Konoha’s elites and ordered them to prepare for armed confrontation, while Tsunade and Jiraiya confronted Hiruzen over his maneuver.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi apologized for Root’s crimes, stepped down, and announced that Konoha needed a new Hokage.
• Uchiha Yoru took the Hokage Hat and declared it dirty, while Hatake Kakashi addressed him as the Fifth Hokage.
• Jirō delivered the daimyo’s suggestion that Tsunade become acting Hokage, prompting Uchiha Yoru to leave the meeting with his supporters.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to prepare for combat, directed Uchiha Shisui to take control of wartime supplies, and announced a decapitation strike as a possible response to civil war.
• Tsunade accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of using her to suppress the Uchiha, and Jiraiya declared that he supported Uchiha Yoru and would supervise Naruto.

Uchiha Yoru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya agreed to cooperate to strengthen Konoha and investigate the hidden force behind the Nine-Tails Night. As Konoha’s power struggle drew attention from other villages, Ōnoki moved to recognize Uchiha Yoru as Hokage and called for a Five Kage Summit to provoke conflict.

• Uchiha Yoru told Jiraiya and Tsunade that Madara Uchiha, or someone inheriting his legacy, likely controlled the Fourth Mizukage and was behind the Nine-Tails Night, and the three agreed to cooperate for five years.
• Uchiha Yoru offered Jiraiya leads involving Kannabi Bridge, the Akatsuki Organization, and the Fourth Mizukage, and Jiraiya agreed to investigate while steadying Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tsunade and Uchiha Yoru joined forces as Konoha’s rival factions formed around the two candidates for Fifth Hokage, while other villages publicly supported Uchiha Yoru.
• Ōnoki agreed to provide Uchiha Yoru with material assistance but ordered spies in Konoha to foment conflict between the factions.
• Ōnoki decided to invite the Raikage, Kazekage, Mizukage, and Uchiha Yoru to a Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, intending to recognize Yoru as Hokage and inflame Konoha’s power struggle.

Uchiha Yoru challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s authority as Konoha’s leadership remained divided, then prepared to attend the Five Kage Summit. He secured Tsunade’s demands, assigned his faction’s village defenses, and announced Orochimaru’s reinstatement and Sakumo Hatake’s posthumous recognition.

• Uchiha Yoru arrived at the Hokage Office, mocked Hiruzen Sarutobi, and accepted a Hokage Hat while asking Hiruzen to accompany him to the Five Kage Summit.
• Uchiha Yoru proposed dividing Konoha’s rule with Tsunade, then declared that he would attend the summit as Hokage and left for the Uchiha Compound.
• Tsunade demanded the Wood Style Ninja and one billion in funding from Hiruzen Sarutobi before agreeing to go to the Daimyo’s Mansion.
• Uchiha Yoru named Uchiha Itachi and Might Guy as his guards for the summit, and entrusted village affairs to Uchiha Shisui, Hatake Kakashi, and Elder Setsuna.
• Uchiha Yoru revoked Orochimaru’s expulsion and restored his Konoha Jonin status, while ordering Konoha’s White Fang honored on the Memorial Stone.

At the Five Kage Summit, Uchiha Yoru demanded war supplies while the Kage debated the Mist Ninja Kekkei Genkai rebel force in the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools. The other four Kage backed a plan to recognize the force and bring it under Yoru, leaving Karatachi Yagura isolated and warning Yoru as Konoha remained divided.

• Mifune opened the summit, where Onoki accused Konoha's Root of experimenting on its own ninja and Yoru agreed that such acts were evil.
• Yoru said Konoha's instability made time urgent and demanded medical supplies, ninja tools, herbs, Explosive Tags, and food from the other villages.
• Karatachi Yagura accused Yoru and the Uchiha Clan of supporting Mei Terumi's rebel army, but Yoru denied interfering in Kirigakure's affairs.
• Onoki proposed recognizing the Mist Ninja Kekkei Genkai force in the Land of Whirlpools and incorporating it into Konoha, while the Raikage, Kazekage, and Yoru supported the plan.
• Yagura realized the other four Kage had coordinated against him and warned Yoru that expanding his influence could backfire.
• The chapter ended with Konoha still divided, as Tsunade drew support from the Third's faction, the Land of Fire Daimyo's Mansion, and neutral ninja.

Uchiha Yoru used the Five Kage Summit to secure advantages while the other villages anticipated Konoha's internal conflict, then met Mei Terumi at the border to coordinate their forces. On his return journey, Uchiha Obito ambushed him and claimed to be Madara Uchiha, but Yoru and his guards were unimpressed.

• At the Five Kage Summit, Uchiha Yoru demanded Sunagakure's mission quota and implied that Konoha faced internal opposition, while Ōnoki and Ay considered exploiting a coming civil war.
• After the summit, Ōnoki urged Karatachi Yagura to make peace with the Mist Ninja Rebel Army so they could recover while Konoha weakened itself.
• Uchiha Yoru arrived with Anko at the coast and met Mei Terumi, who introduced the rejected Kekkei Genkai clans; Konoha Ninja and Mist Ninja exchanged members and began cooperating.
• On the road back to Konoha, Uchiha Itachi and Might Guy spotted an ambush on a stone bridge, where Uchiha Obito confronted Uchiha Yoru.
• Obito declared that he was Madara Uchiha, but Might Guy did not recognize the name, Itachi noted that Madara had died long ago, and Yoru mocked Obito's disguise.

Uchiha Yoru confronted Masked Obito and the rescued Shimura Danzō, while Itachi and Might Guy fought to keep Obito occupied. Yoru exposed Danzo as a rogue ninja and struck him with his Kusanagi Sword, leaving Danzo staring at his slashed Konoha forehead protector as Yoru pronounced his death sentence.

• Uchiha Yoru explained Minato's intelligence about Masked Obito's Space-Time Ninjutsu and its weaknesses to Uchiha Itachi and Might Guy.
• Masked Obito summoned Shimura Danzō, whose hatred of Uchiha Yoru led him to agree to fight the Fifth Hokage.
• Uchiha Yoru unleashed Majestic Destroyer Flame as Danzo escaped the flames and sent a signal for Konoha reinforcements.
• Might Guy opened five Inner Gates and teamed with Uchiha Itachi to hold Masked Obito back.
• Uchiha Yoru revealed that his apparent struggle against Danzo's sealing technique was a Shadow Clone and restrained Danzo with Jiraiya's Shadow Manipulation Technique.
• Uchiha Yoru declared Danzo an S-rank Rogue Ninja, slashed his Konoha forehead protector with the Kusanagi Sword, and pronounced a death sentence.

Uchiha Yoru battled Shimura Danzō, outmaneuvering his Izanagi, Wood Release, and summon Baku before Danzō launched a final trap. The chapter ended with Danzō watching in disbelief as Yoru began turning into wood.

• Danzō used Izanagi to revive after killing himself, but Yoru restrained him with Susanoo and taunted him about his plans.
• Danzō summoned Baku and used its suction to hold Susanoo in place, then attacked with amplified Wind Release.
• Yoru controlled Baku with Mangekyō genjutsu and combined its wind with his Fire Release, engulfing Danzō in flames.
• Danzō revived again, attacked with Wind Release shuriken, and used Izanagi to trap Yoru in a Wood Release tree with four shuriken closing in.
• Yoru smiled as Danzō realized that Yoru was turning into wood.

Jiraiya and Orochimaru joined forces in Sage Mode to ambush Obito, who escaped after they identified him as the likely culprit behind Nine-Tails Night. On the bridge, Danzō used his final sealing technique against Yoru, but sealed only a Wood Clone before dying.

• A Wood Clone and Danzō were crushed beneath a rapidly growing tree during their battle with Yoru.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru trapped Obito with Sage techniques, then pierced him together after he became vulnerable.
• Obito escaped using Izanagi and Kamui after Orochimaru and Jiraiya confronted him with evidence connecting him to Nine-Tails Night.
• Orochimaru gave Jiraiya a sample of Obito’s flesh to compare with the arm left behind after Minato Namikaze fought the masked attacker.
• Danzō pretended to be near death, then activated the True: Four Symbols Seal against Yoru, who escaped by using a Wood Clone.
• The seal engulfed half the stone bridge, and Jiraiya and the others turned back after hearing Danzō’s final attack.

After Danzō’s death, Uchiha Yoru persuaded Jiraiya to support his efforts to change Konoha’s leadership, while the hidden enemy behind the Nine-Tails’ Rampage remained unidentified. The Five Kage Summit’s aftermath left Konoha with two Fifth Hokage, and foreign villages supplied Yoru as his alliance with the Mist Ninja Rebel Army pushed the Shinobi World toward war.

• Uchiha Yoru argued that Konoha’s decline and its past betrayals justified replacing the Third’s rule, and Jiraiya agreed to support him because of the dangerous enemy threatening the village.
• The other great nations recognized Uchiha Yoru as Fifth Hokage, while the Daimyo of the Land of Fire appointed Tsunade to the same position, leaving Konoha on the brink of civil war.
• After Uchiha Yoru was attacked on his return, Ōnoki promised Iwagakure’s support and one million Explosive Tags, while envoys sought aid from other villages.
• The Third Tsuchikage, Fourth Raikage, and Fourth Kazekage publicly backed Uchiha Yoru and sent supplies, while Kirigakure remained silent amid the turmoil.
• The Fifth Mizukage allied with Uchiha Yoru by signing the Defensive and Offensive Alliance Treaty and withdrawing from islands near Kirigakure, positioning the Mist Ninja Rebel Army to join Konoha’s conflict.

Konoha’s two Fifth Hokage, Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade, struggled to manage rival factions as the Mist Ninja’s Mei Terumi sought a place in the village’s leadership. As craftsmen began carving all three Kage together on Hokage Rock, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shikaku Nara faced the consequences of their faction’s choices.

• Uchiha Yoru’s faction integrated Konoha clans with Mist Ninja bloodline families, while Tsunade’s faction remained divided by clashes between civilian ninja and the Third’s entrenched supporters.
• Tsunade reprimanded Sarutobi Ichiro’s squad for mistreating a teammate, and she argued with Uchiha Yoru over his weapons shipments and his claim that power secured peace.
• Mei Terumi requested a portrait on Hokage Rock, and Uchiha Yoru agreed, leaving the sculptors to figure out how to depict three Kage together.
• An old master sculptor proposed overlapping the portraits of Uchiha Yoru, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi, and work began under a canvas ahead of the inauguration ceremony.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shikaku Nara discussed their faction’s predicament, with Shikaku acknowledging that the Ino-Shika-Cho clans had to bear the consequences of their long alliance with the Third.

Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to use the Reaper Death Seal to stop Konoha’s looming civil war, while Uchiha Yoru kept the conflict on hold and extracted supplies from the other villages. In Konoha, Yoru streamlined Hokage paperwork by delegating routine duties, leaving Tsunade impressed and frustrated by his many capable assistants.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shikaku Nara that the Fifth Hokage’s inauguration could trigger civil war and resolved to use the Reaper Death Seal against the Uchiha leadership.
• After three months without Konoha’s civil war beginning, Fourth Raikage Ay refused another request for supplies but promised Kumogakure would send more in a month.
• Uchiha Yoru reviewed a large stack of Hokage documents quickly and explained to Tsunade how he delegated routine approvals and used inspections to prevent falsified reports.
• Uchiha Itachi brought documents requiring Yoru’s approval, and Yoru described his responsibilities in reorganizing Root and the Anbu.
• Yoru praised Itachi while advising him to keep training, then listed his many assistants as Tsunade compared them with her sole assistant, Shizune.

Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade discussed Konoha’s power and the growing threat from other villages before Tsunade explained how his improved Forbidden Jutsu had awakened her Wood Release by activating dormant Senju genes. Yoru planned to use the technique to strengthen Konoha, while the story left the wider secrets of the Shinobi World and the coming Hokage inauguration unresolved.

• Uchiha Yoru told Tsunade that strength and order governed the Shinobi World, and he vowed to lead Konoha back to the top alongside the Uchiha and Senju.
• Tsunade warned Uchiha Yoru that Cloud Ninja, Stone Ninja, and Sand Ninja had infiltrated the Land of Fire, and he said the Hokage inauguration in half a month would end the current farce.
• Tsunade explained that the improved Oni-Me-Raku no Jutsu could repair and activate dormant genes, then demonstrated that it had awakened her Wood Release using Hashirama Senju’s cells.
• Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade discussed their shared Senju and Uchiha ancestry, and Tsunade said she would wait at least three years before attempting the technique again.
• Uchiha Yoru wondered about the Sage of Six Paths, the Tailed Beasts, and the origins of Chakra, while Tsunade reflected on why she had chosen to support his plans for Konoha.

Uchiha Yoru used Konoha’s upcoming Fifth Hokage succession ceremony to pressure visiting ninja villages into sending congratulatory gifts, while Hatake Kakashi helped collect promises of tribute. The envoys complied but planned to use the gifts to inflame Konoha’s rivalry between Yoru and Tsunade, hoping to watch the village’s power collapse.

• Uchiha Yoru angrily accused the ninja villages of abandoning peace by reducing their supply aid, and ordered Hatake Kakashi to publicly criticize them.
• After learning envoys had arrived, Uchiha Yoru suspected they had withheld their congratulatory gifts and ordered Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Uchiha Shisui to question them.
• Kakashi pressured the Bird Ninja Village envoy into promising that gifts from the village and its daimyo would arrive in three days.
• The Bird Ninja Village envoy blamed Konoha’s Third for Yoru’s demands and ordered his companions to prepare gifts so Konoha could not accuse them of hostility.
• The Bird Ninja Village envoy planned to deliver the gifts publicly to the Uchiha clan grounds, hoping to provoke jealousy and worsen the conflict between Yoru and Tsunade.

As Konoha gathered for a pivotal public announcement, Uchiha Yoru prepared to challenge the Shinobi World, while Tsunade and Jiraiya dealt with Hiruzen Sarutobi. The chapter ended as Mei Terumi appeared before the crowd wearing the Mizukage’s hat, with Uchiha Yoru’s public identity still unrevealed.

• Tsunade agreed to handle Hiruzen Sarutobi with Jiraiya, while Uchiha Yoru demanded seventy percent of the Sarutobi Clan’s ninja for his legion.
• Mei Terumi joined Uchiha Yoru in the Hokage Office and asked what would happen to her, and he said his eyes could control the Fifth Mizukage just as the Mangekyo controlled the Fourth.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade poisoned Hiruzen Sarutobi’s tea, and Jiraiya struck him with the Five Elements Seal, leaving him unable to control his Chakra.
• Yamanaka Fu used the Mind Body Switch Technique to take control of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s anesthetized body, while Tsunade and Jiraiya prepared for the coming announcement.
• Mei Terumi emerged from the Hokage Building wearing the Mizukage’s hat as the crowd and foreign envoys watched.

At Tsunade’s inauguration as Fifth Hokage, Uchiha Yoru revealed that Konoha and Mei Terumi’s Kirigakure forces had united under his rule and declared himself the God of the Shinobi World. He demonstrated Konoha’s overwhelming power before the foreign envoys and issued orders to defend his expanded territory, leaving the other villages furious and afraid.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi passed a white Kage hat to Uchiha Yoru after Tsunade became Fifth Hokage and Mei Terumi proclaimed herself Fifth Mizukage.
• Tsunade and Mei Terumi announced the end of the war between Konoha and Kirigakure, while Yoru declared that both villages and Mei’s territory would fall under his rule.
• Yoru stripped the Fourth Mizukage of his position and ordered all Mist Ninja to obey him and Mei Terumi, provoking furious protests from the foreign envoys.
• Yoru, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi unleashed their power, transforming Konoha with Wood Release and displaying their Susanoo, summoned beasts, and Mei’s Lava Release.
• Yoru declared that he would stand at the summit in the name of God, assigned commanders to guard the borders, and warned other villages that any violation of his territory would mean war.

After Konoha and Kirigakure submitted to Uchiha Yoru, reports of his power and the villages’ merger spread through the Shinobi World. Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to stop targeting Konoha, while Ay recognized that no single village could oppose it.

• Reports of Tsunade’s Wood Release, Yoru’s Susanoo, and the Konoha–Kirigakure merger shocked the Shinobi World.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to cease all actions against Konoha and warned that Wood Release and Mangekyo could threaten the great villages.
• Ōnoki explained that Tsunade Senju and Mei Terumi would retain their surnames and that Yoru’s union with them bound three factions together.
• Ay learned that Wood Release and Susanoo could restrain even the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, then angrily condemned Yoru’s maneuver.
• The Shinobi World fell silent as Yoru’s plan to lead the merged Konoha and Kirigakure became public.

Uchiha Yoru organized the integration of Kirigakure and Konoha, assigning leadership roles and setting policies while Mei Terumi and Tsunade planned to invite the Shinobi World to Yoru’s future wedding after Kirigakure was secured. Jiraiya visited the withdrawn Hiruzen Sarutobi, who remained vacant until a sharp glint appeared in his eyes after Jiraiya left.

• Uchiha Yoru appointed leaders for the integrated villages, established forehead protector rules, and assigned Mist Ninja and Konoha shinobi to key departments.
• Mei Terumi and Tsunade discussed how wandering clans and Kekkei Genkai ninjas helped the villages integrate and considered how the Shinobi World might react to their growing power.
• Tsunade and Mei Terumi proposed holding their wedding after Kirigakure was subdued so visiting envoys would bring more valuable congratulatory gifts, and Uchiha Yoru agreed.
• Jiraiya visited Hiruzen Sarutobi in the clan district and reflected on Konoha’s strength and the village’s transformation.
• Jiraiya left to carry out Uchiha Yoru’s orders, and a sharp glint appeared in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s vacant eyes after he was alone.

Hyuga Hiashi pledged the Hyuga Main Family to Uchiha Yoru and accepted a role in the coming Kirigakure campaign, while Nagato and Obito planned to capture the Tailed Beasts before Yoru could claim them. At Kirigakure’s front, Kisame Hoshigaki revealed Yoru’s plan, leaving the assembled commanders stunned by their unusual missions and the small number of reinforcements.

• Hyuga Hiashi submitted the Hyuga Main Family to Uchiha Yoru, agreed to follow Mist Ninja Jōnin Ao’s orders, and accepted assignments for the Main and Branch Families.
• Uchiha Yoru offered Hinata a chance to study Medical Ninjutsu under Tsunade alongside a girl from the Yamanaka Family.
• Nagato and Konan discussed Uchiha Yoru’s growing power, and Obito urged the Akatsuki Organization to recruit more members and target the Six-Tails and Three-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Mei Terumi’s forces gathered at the Land of Whirlpools ruins after sealing off Kirigakure, where Kisame Hoshigaki led the frontline commanders’ briefing.
• Uchiha Shisui announced that Uchiha Yoru would send only one thousand reinforcements, mainly Medical Ninja, and Kisame Hoshigaki distributed missions focused on persuading enemy ninjas to surrender and gathering defeated forces.