Chapter Summaries

Politician and Aburame Tetsumaru discussed Uchiha Itachi’s Mohist beliefs and speculated about his future Mangekyō Sharingan technique. At the exams, Darui defeated Kaede with Black Panther, while Weary Bird proposed a bet that the Land of Water would gain enough influence to host the Joint Chunin Exams in two years.

• Politician explained that Uchiha Itachi favored a localized form of Mohist philosophy, especially Universal Love and Opposition to Aggression, and guessed his Mangekyō technique might help people communicate their intentions.
• Darui and Kaede began the second-to-last match, and Kaede’s Ice Release froze and shattered Darui’s Storm Release beams.
• Darui used Lightning Release: Black Panther to paralyze Kaede, drawing attention to his use of the Third Raikage’s technique.
• Namikaze Minato claimed that the Joint Chunin Exams would only be held in Konoha, while Weary Bird proposed betting that the Land of Water would host them in two years.
• Weary Bird believed Zenith Civilization’s investment in infrastructure, resources, and education would soon let the Land of Water rise in strength and earn the other villages’ support.

Darui defeated Kaede, and Uchiha Itachi began the final match while Aburame Tetsumaru’s team carefully shaped the audience’s remarks to encourage Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan awakening. Itachi gained the upper hand over Darui, and the growing pressure and fear in his opponent left Itachi on the verge of ending the fight.

• Darui shattered Kaede’s ice mirrors, knocked him unconscious, and won the match; Rin treated Kaede’s injuries while Tsunade praised her medical skills.
• Uchiha Fugaku brought Sasuke to see Itachi, who expressed confidence that his Sharingan would let him defeat Darui.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and his companions arranged the comments entering Itachi’s earpiece to encourage his positive-emotion-driven Mangekyō awakening.
• Itachi and Darui fought at high speed with swords and ninjutsu, prompting Namikaze Minato to have the Anbu raise the Four Violet Flames Formation around the arena.
• Darui activated an incomplete Lightning Release Chakra Mode, but Itachi used his Sharingan to predict Darui’s attacks and blackened both of his eyes.
• Darui’s fear and self-doubt made Itachi’s heart race and his head grow dizzy as he decided it was time to end the fight.

Uchiha Itachi defeated Darui in the arena and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan amid cheers from Konoha and encouragement from his younger brother, Sasuke. He ended the chapter displaying his newly formed eyes as Namikaze Minato celebrated the awakening as proof that the Sharingan was not inherently evil.

• Uchiha Itachi exploited Darui’s injured hand to land a senbon in his lung, then countered Darui’s combined Black Panther attack with a blue-flame technique.
• Dodai surrendered, and Namikaze Minato protected the injured Darui from Uchiha Itachi’s Fire Release before declaring Itachi the winner.
• Konoha’s spectators celebrated Uchiha Itachi, while the Station Master relayed Sasuke’s praise and the other children’s cheers to him.
• Uchiha Itachi’s Sharingan began transforming as his Chakra surged, and an Anbu ninja told Namikaze Minato that Itachi was awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Itachi opened his eyes to reveal the completed Mangekyō Sharingan, and Namikaze Minato declared that the Sharingan was not evil.

After Uchiha Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, the village debated what it meant while Namikaze Minato and Politician learned about his eye techniques. Politician explained their risks and urged Itachi to study Sanae’s story about the Uchiha Clan’s fate.

• Ash Bone and the others discussed Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and Aburame Tetsumaru told Politician to ask about its abilities discreetly.
• After the Chunin Exams, Sasuke argued with Naruto and resolved to surpass him and Hinata, while the children headed for the market festivities.
• Namikaze Minato recalled that Itachi had named his techniques Ame-no-Koyane and Futo-Tama, then dismissed Mitokado Homura’s demands for countermeasures against the Uchiha.
• Itachi told Politician that Ame-no-Koyane could impose his thoughts on someone with weaker willpower, while Futo-Tama could restrict Chakra and punish disobedience with a painful seal around the head.
• Politician warned Itachi about the risks of Ame-no-Koyane and advised him to defeat opponents before trying to persuade them.
• Politician told Itachi to ask Sanae about “Legend of the Eyes” and study how knowledge and character could affect the Uchiha Clan’s fate.

Obito and Zetsu planned to infiltrate the Akatsuki by weakening its outer forces and recruiting their own operatives, while Zenith Civilization recovered Isshiki’s stored God Tree and prepared to study it. As its projects strained its limited manpower, Kakuzu took leave to hunt bounties, beginning with the Jinchuriki Utakata.

• Obito and Zetsu decided to harass the Akatsuki’s outer forces so Nagato would recruit more members, giving them a chance to infiltrate and take control of the organization.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Advents opened Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Daikokuten space, found a stunted God Tree among its contents, and decided to plant it on Purple Thunder Star for research.
• Aburame Tetsumaru complained that Zenith Civilization lacked manpower across its many projects, and the Advents discussed Kakuzu’s two-year leave to make money.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that Otsutsuki Toneri had never been born and planned to have Hyuga Hinata try controlling the Giant Tenseigan.
• Kakuzu visited a Bounty Station, rejected targets connected to his allies, accepted the bounty on Utakata, and collected every listing worth more than five hundred thousand ryo.

Kakuzu joined the Akatsuki as Zenith Civilization’s representative and helped Nagato and Konan reshape it into a well-funded political organization. Meanwhile, Shooting Star launched aboard a spacecraft through the Heavenly Transfer Gate for a fifteen-day faster-than-light journey toward Six-String Star.

• Konan recruited Kakuzu, who disclosed his Zenith Civilization affiliation and asked to join the Akatsuki as its observer and liaison.
• Nagato and Konan accepted Kakuzu after he explained the Akatsuki’s finances and proposed stable income sources, then asked him to teach them how to pursue peace.
• Kakuzu helped establish the Akatsuki’s financial system, action guidelines, and development plans, transforming it into a more organized and rapidly growing group.
• After Alchemy completed repeated safety checks, Shooting Star boarded a regenerative Mother Hive vessel carrying supplies and an Insect Swarm.
• The Heavenly Transfer Gate opened its launch window, and Shooting Star departed at faster-than-light speed toward Six-String Star as the Advents prepared to await his return in fifteen days.

Aburame Tetsumaru and the Avatars attempted to remove the Dragon Vein’s seals, but the light transported Eighth Master and Torch Dragon to different points in time. As the group investigated their possible return, Sunagakure sent two Jonin-led squads to Rōran.

• Aburame Tetsumaru prepared a colossal scroll containing 8,800 Earth Release Sealing Techniques to suppress the Dragon Vein during the unsealing.
• After an earlier attempt failed, Eighth Master sensed the Dragon Vein’s fluctuations and directed the second experiment.
• Torch Dragon and five Avatars removed the Contract Seal while Aburame Tetsumaru activated the Earth Release seals, but the Dragon Vein’s light touched Eighth Master and Torch Dragon, making them disappear.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gathered the Advents and Queen Sara, who said the two had gone separately into the past and future.
• A newcomer reported that Sunagakure had sent two Jonin-led squads, including at least three Puppet Masters, to Rōran.

Eighth Master and Torch Dragon were stranded in different future versions of Rōran after the Dragon Vein swept them through time, while Aburame Tetsumaru confronted Sunagakure’s incursion in the main timeline. After waiting seven days, Eighth Master left Rōran to investigate the era, and Torch Dragon departed after meeting Sara, the Queen of Roran.

• Eighth Master identified the thriving city as Rōran, estimated he had traveled fifty to sixty years into the future, and hid there while studying his Kama and trying to contact others.
• Torch Dragon found Rōran reduced to abandoned ruins, concluded he was probably in a parallel future, and studied the altered sealing array while sheltering nearby.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to deter Sunagakure from approaching Rōran and confronted a Suna Jonin with a land-purchase contract, but the Jonin attacked him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru defeated two Suna Jonin and ordered Land of Water youths in Bio-Armor to capture the remaining ninjas, though two Chunin escaped.
• Aburame Tetsumaru corrected the youths for relying on their Chips instead of preparing and mastering their knowledge, and praised Lian Yuwan for recognizing that he should have studied pursuit precautions beforehand.
• After seven days, Eighth Master left Rōran to learn about the era, while Torch Dragon said goodbye to Sara, the Queen of Roran, and departed.

Torch Dragon taught Sara a low-cost Sage Art that let her create rain, opening a possible path for ordinary people to learn ninjutsu through Natural Energy. After leaving Rōran, he headed toward Sunagakure, while Eighth Master traveled through a devastated Land of Fire and finally lost control when he saw a ninja standing on a dead infant.

• Sara told Torch Dragon that Rōran's people had dispersed among the oases and that she feared she was its last remaining trace.
• Torch Dragon discovered that Sara had faint Chakra and Natural Energy, then taught her a Water Release technique adapted to her abilities.
• Sara mastered the Sage Art: Little Rain Technique, and Torch Dragon realized Natural Energy medicine could let ordinary people train toward becoming ninjas.
• Torch Dragon and Sara parted after agreeing to meet again for drinks; Sara set out to help the oases, while Torch Dragon headed for Sunagakure.
• Eighth Master left Rōran and became lost while crossing the altered Land of Fire, where he found villages massacred and buried the dead.
• Eighth Master saw a forehead-protectorless ninja standing on a dead infant, roared “Kill!!,” and gave in to his killing intent.

Eighth Master rescued villagers from the Yituo Family, destroyed the clan, and built a prosperous territory by organizing its people and ninjas. After his domain expanded to nearly one-twelfth of the Land of Fire, he feared that unifying the country would leave it in chaos if the Dragon Vein made him disappear.

• Eighth Master killed three Yituo Family ninjas who had attacked a village, then learned that the clan had enslaved captives and murdered villagers.
• Eighth Master tracked the ninjas to their nearby village, destroyed the Yituo Family, freed its slaves, and brought back a Yuki Clan boy.
• Eighth Master promised the rescued villagers they were safe, then began defeating nearby ninja families and clearing bandits from the region.
• Eighth Master organized villages, roads, canals, defenses, and ninja squads, drawing even former enemies into his growing territory.
• Eighth Master discovered that his domain had grown to about four hundred kilometers east to west and six hundred kilometers north to south, and worried that his disappearance through the Dragon Vein could cause a disaster.

Eighth Master decided his regime needed a successor and sought an alliance with the Senju Clan, directing his agents to approach Senju Tobirama. In the present day, Aburame Tetsumaru and his allies arrived at Sunagakure’s gates, where Chiyo recognized Hatake Sakumo and the group revealed themselves.

• Eighth Master realized the Land of Fire’s hopes for peace rested on his regime and ordered intelligence gathering on the Senju and Uchiha heirs.
• After learning Senju Hashirama had awakened Wood Release and Uchiha Madara had gained his Mangekyō Sharingan, Eighth Master chose to seek an alliance rather than fight the clans.
• Eighth Master judged the Senju Clan better positioned to grow stronger and instructed his agents to contact Senju Tobirama instead of Senju Butsuma.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s group approached Sunagakure, defeated its responding ninja, and forced the village to close its gates and sound an alarm.
• Fourth Kazekage led Sunagakure’s forces out to face the group, and Chiyo recognized Hatake Sakumo by his voice.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the others lifted their hoods, shocking the assembled Sunagakure ninja.

Zenith Civilization forced Sunagakure to surrender the Ancient Kingdom of Rōran after defeating its forces, while Chiyo agreed to a deal that spared the village. Years later, Torch Dragon found Sunagakure evacuated for the Fourth Shinobi World War and followed the Fourth Division toward the coming battles.

• Chiyo recognized the resurrected Hatake Sakumo as Konoha's White Fang, and Aburame Tetsumaru announced that Zenith Civilization had come to return captured ninjas and claim Rōran.
• The Fourth Kazekage attacked Butler, while Chiyo and Ebizo sent their puppets against Hatake Sakumo; Butler and Hatake Sakumo overwhelmed the Sunagakure forces.
• Aburame Tetsumaru demanded that Chiyo agree to keep Sunagakure away from Rōran, and she accepted as the Fourth Kazekage and the village's forces lay defeated.
• Many years later, Torch Dragon found Sunagakure empty and learned from a refugee that its ninjas had mobilized for the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Torch Dragon traveled to the Land of Iron and followed the Fourth Division, expecting it to face Reanimated Madara.

Torch Dragon watched Uchiha Madara overwhelm the Allied Shinobi Forces before retreating to avoid the battle’s coming escalation. Elsewhere, Eighth Master formed an alliance with Senju Tobirama and explained how his policies centered on supporting farmers and other producers, leaving Tobirama convinced of their correctness.

• Torch Dragon observed Uchiha Madara’s arrival, studied his Chakra techniques as he fought the Allied Shinobi Forces, and withdrew when Madara’s power began escalating.
• Eighth Master hosted Senju Tobirama, who revealed that he had followed Yamashiro there using Genjutsu after learning about Eighth Master’s policies.
• Eighth Master and Tobirama quickly agreed to an alliance between their forces.
• Tobirama questioned Eighth Master about village consolidation, separating shinobi from ordinary people, and building roads, and Eighth Master explained how the policies helped producers.
• Eighth Master led Tobirama to recognize that farmers’ and craftsmen’s labor sustained society, and Tobirama agreed that supporting them was the right standard for governing.

Senju Tobirama accepted Eighth Master’s advice to let Senju Hashirama pursue reconciliation with the Uchiha, while Senju Butsuma agreed to an alliance with Zenith. After Uchiha Tajima ordered a preemptive war, he revealed to Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna that the Uchiha Clan faced a desperate end.

• Senju Tobirama asked Eighth Master whether the Senju and Uchiha could reconcile, and Eighth Master advised him to let Senju Hashirama try.
• Eighth Master expanded Zenith until it commanded five thousand shinobi, and Senju Butsuma agreed to send Tobirama and Hashirama to inspect the proposed alliance.
• Uchiha Tajima learned of Zenith’s strength and its negotiations with the Senju, then ordered Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna to block their passage and prepared to attack the Senju.
• Uchiha Tajima led Madara and Izuna to the Naka Shrine and showed them the clan’s hidden stone tablet, which only Mangekyō Sharingan users could read.
• Uchiha Tajima acknowledged that Madara and Izuna had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and told them the Uchiha Clan could only fight to the death.

Eighth Master learned that the Senju and Uchiha had devastated each other, signed Zenith’s alliance with the Senju, and set out to deliver it while Uchiha Izuna tried to stop him. After defeating and treating Izuna, Eighth Master continued toward the Senju as Torch Dragon searched the Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield for action.

• Uchiha Tajima ordered his sons to stop the Senju-Zenith alliance and cripple the Senju, but a battle between the Senju and Uchiha ended with both clan heads dead and both sides badly wounded.
• Tobirama sent a Shadow Clone carrying the alliance agreement to Eighth Master, who signed it and rejected Zao Tian’s proposal to attack both weakened clans.
• Eighth Master chose to deliver the agreement himself with Yamashiro and Zao Tian, while ordering Zenith’s army to demonstrate its strength against the Yuki and Uchiha clans.
• Uchiha Madara became clan head, imprisoned the Chinoike Clan for failing to aid the Uchiha, and prepared to resist the Senju invasion.
• Uchiha Izuna attacked Eighth Master’s party with Amaterasu, but Eighth Master protected his companions, knocked Izuna unconscious with Sound Release, sealed the flames, and treated Izuna’s injuries with medical ninjutsu.
• Torch Dragon, discouraged after missing every major battle, wondered where to go next on the Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield.

Torch Dragon arranged for Uchiha Izuna to carry Senju Hashirama’s offer of reconciliation to Uchiha Madara after Eighth Master confirmed Hashirama still wanted peace. Madara’s battered clan prepared to fight, but Izuna returned with the unexpected proposal and left the Uchiha stunned.

• Torch Dragon chose to follow Might Guy through the war, hoping to witness an important battle.
• Eighth Master visited the Senju clan, confirmed Hashirama wanted reconciliation with the Uchiha, and presented the captured Uchiha Izuna as a messenger.
• Eighth Master told Hashirama that three thousand shinobi had been sent to block Uchiha territory, prompting Hashirama to send Izuna back with an offer to talk.
• Madara rallied the Uchiha and their allies to prepare for battle after learning that Izuna had been captured.
• Izuna returned safely, explained that Eighth Master had healed him, and delivered Hashirama’s proposal to discuss reconciliation and an alliance.
• The Uchiha who heard the proposal reacted with disbelief.

The Senju and Uchiha moved toward reconciliation as Eighth Master explained how peace, stable lives, and hope could unite them, while insisting the Senju retain leadership of their alliance. Meanwhile, Might Guy opened the Gate of Death and struck Six Paths Madara with Night Guy, but Torch Dragon began returning just as the battle reached its climax.

• Uchiha Madara silently welcomed Hashirama’s offer of reconciliation, while Uchiha Izuna and the other Uchiha discussed the Senju’s strength and Eighth Master’s medical ninjutsu.
• Eighth Master explained to Hashirama and Tobirama that people needed peace, stability, and a fair chance to pursue their hopes, and Tobirama concluded the Uchiha would accept reconciliation.
• Eighth Master rejected Hashirama’s suggestion that Uchiha Madara could lead their unified group and insisted the Senju must hold leadership; Hashirama agreed to explain this to Madara.
• Might Guy opened the Eight Inner Gates and attacked Six Paths Madara with Night Guy, while the Fourth Hokage and Hatake Kakashi cleared his path.
• Torch Dragon noticed a white mist forming over his body and realized that his return had begun as Guy’s attack struck Madara.

Torch Dragon watched Madara cast Infinite Tsukuyomi and use the God Tree to capture the Shinobi World, then questioned Madara while his own body slipped out of the timeline. Black Zetsu betrayed Madara and began resurrecting Otsutsuki Kaguya as Torch Dragon vanished, leaving Black Zetsu wary of what he knew.

• Six Paths Madara cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the Shinobi World in a dream, then unleashed God: Deep Forest Emergence to bind its living inhabitants to the God Tree.
• Torch Dragon approached Madara in his observer state, questioned whether Madara’s plan was truly his own, and endured Madara’s attacks without being harmed.
• Madara used Outer Path: Planetary Devastation against Torch Dragon, but could not touch him and eventually asked who he was.
• Black Zetsu stabbed Madara, revealed that he had manipulated Madara, and began channeling the God Tree’s accumulated Chakra into him to resurrect Otsutsuki Kaguya.
• Torch Dragon recognized the resurrection process and spoke to Black Zetsu before disappearing completely from the timeline.

Torch Dragon returned from the future with his memories intact, allowing the Advents to study what he had learned and debate why Naruto had lost his memories after traveling through time. The group could not predict Eighth Master's return after his Timeline anomaly changed, but Aburame Tetsumaru believed he could come back now that the fluctuations had stabilized.

• Torch Dragon returned to the Sealing Array after three days and reported that he had retained all his memories from twelve days in the future.
• Torch Dragon uploaded his observations, including Six Paths Madara's techniques, and the Advents concluded he had visited the future era of the Child of Destiny.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the others theorized that the Fourth Hokage had sealed Naruto's memories, while they kept the Dragon Vein's potential from Minato to preserve their own access to it.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that Eighth Master's Space-Time Anomaly had changed drastically and moved farther away, making his return impossible to predict.
• Aburame Tetsumaru said Eighth Master's anomaly had stabilized and that he should be able to return if he stopped changing the Timeline.

Torch Dragon chose the Sharingan for his descent after deciding Earth Release could not give him the gravity control he wanted, and Uchiha Itachi arranged a verifiable clan identity for him. Meanwhile, Eighth Master proposed that Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara settle their clans’ alliance leadership with a duel, leaving the Land of Fire bracing for a powerful new alliance.

• Torch Dragon rejected waiting for research into time and chose to pursue a gravity-related path through the Sharingan, after Aburame Tetsumaru explained Earth Release’s limits.
• Politician asked Uchiha Itachi to create a verifiable Uchiha identity for Torch Dragon, and Itachi planned to add several identities to the clan records.
• Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara met for negotiations, but their pride and resentment prevented them from accepting the proposed terms.
• Eighth Master suggested that Hashirama and Madara duel, with the winner becoming the leader of the new alliance, and both Clan Heads accepted.
• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Izuna that the Uchiha could not win a war and that he would protect the clan by resolving the conflict through his own fight.
• News of the planned duel and reconciliation spread across the Land of Fire, where clan leaders realized Senju, Uchiha, and Zenith would form an overwhelmingly powerful alliance.