Chapter Summaries

Eighth Master launched the newly formed Konoha Sky Ninja in its first attacks, but inexperienced pilots struggled to hit their targets, and rival villages adapted by scattering their camps. After a second, more coordinated strike, Eighth Master appointed Yoshiro the Sky Ninja’s first captain and ordered intensive training.

• Eighth Master launched forty aircraft toward the enemy camps; three crashed, and most of the pilots lost their way.
• Thirty-seven aircraft attacked the seaside encampments, killing hundreds with bomb shrapnel, while the Four Kage learned the bombs relied on costly Explosive Tags and ordered their forces to disperse.
• Eighth Master acknowledged the first attack’s poor accuracy, appointed Chunin Yoshiro temporary commander, and sent the pilots on a second sortie.
• Yoshiro led more than twenty aircraft in an organized attack, but they bombed the now-empty beach and caused few casualties.
• Eighth Master named Yoshiro the first captain of the Konoha Sky Ninja and assigned him intensive training for the next two days.

Eighth Master's account prompted several Advents to reconsider their choices, and Hatake Sakumo resolved to apologize to Kakashi and make amends. On the battlefield, Uchiha Madara unveiled his armored, flying Susanoo and began locating and bombarding Iwagakure's defenses, while Ōnoki waited for him to descend.

• Eighth Master defended his decision to establish an air force shortly before battle, prompting Advents to reflect on their past actions.
• Hatake Sakumo recognized that pride had kept him from apologizing to Kakashi and resolved to make amends after the battle.
• Uchiha Madara led the Konoha Ninja Army toward Iwagakure's fortified position, knowing he had to break through quickly to aid Hashirama's outnumbered force.
• Uchiha Madara transformed Susanoo into the armored, winged Karasu Tengu, discovered it could fly, and landed at the center of the Iwagakure position.
• Uchiha Madara baited Iwagakure's Legion Ninjutsu attacks to identify their firing positions, then bombarded the exposed locations with Susanoo: Yasaka Magatama.
• Ōnoki watched the bombardment and held back, hoping Uchiha Madara would eventually descend into reach.

Konoha’s forces advanced through Iwagakure’s trenches while Uchiha Madara’s bombardment suppressed the battlefield, but the fight shifted when an apparently reborn Shukaku appeared. Madara learned it was an uncontrollable Sunagakure Tailed Beast puppet that could reform after being destroyed, and Eighth Master headed to investigate as enemy attacks began wearing Madara down.

• Konoha ninja used coordinated trench-assault tactics to storm Iwagakure fortifications, killing defenders with explosions, fire, and poison.
• Iwagakure counterattacks inflicted heavy losses, while Uchiha Madara stopped his wide-area bombardment and attacked enemy positions with his war blade.
• A sandstorm formed Shukaku, the One-Tail, and Uchiha Setsuna ordered Konoha ninja to retreat from the danger of the battle between the giant creatures.
• The Kazekage told Ōnoki that the creature was an uncontrollable, one-use Tailed Beast puppet created by the rogue ninja Shamon using collected One-Tail Chakra.
• Uchiha Madara repeatedly cut the puppet apart, but it reformed; Eighth Master recognized it as a possible projection with a core and went to investigate.
• Iwagakure and Sunagakure ninja used the puppet to draw Madara’s attacks and struck his Susanoo with Giant Rock Spears, steadily consuming his Chakra.

Uchiha Madara struggled against the Iwagakure and Sunagakure forces until Eighth Master arrived and drained the One-Tail monster’s Chakra. Eighth Master then used his thought-reading ability to uncover the sealing tool’s creator and Monzaemon’s whereabouts, leaving the Kazekage and Ōnoki terrified of him.

• Iwagakure and Sunagakure attacks trapped Susanoo and exhausted Uchiha Madara, while Ōnoki used Earth Mountain Collapse Technique to crush it.
• The Konoha army returned to battle, and Uchiha Madara prepared to use his trump card as the One-Tail monster attacked again.
• Eighth Master arrived unnoticed, drained the One-Tail monster’s Chakra, and recovered the cube that had served as its core.
• The Kazekage and Ōnoki recognized that Eighth Master’s arrival had made organized resistance impossible, and Ōnoki said he would keep fighting as long as he lived.
• Eighth Master questioned the Kazekage about the cube and read his thoughts to learn that Monzaemon had surrendered with Shamon.
• Eighth Master explained that reading thoughts overwhelmed him with information, but the Kazekage and Ōnoki remained horrified by his ability.

After the Shinobi World was unified on the continent, Eighth Master hosted a snowy hotpot banquet where the leaders honored the fallen and welcomed Yoshiro as his prospective student. Senju Hashirama thanked Yoshiro for saving his forces, prompting Yoshiro to recall how the Raikage used Courage Crystals to send frightened Kumogakure and allied troops back into battle.

• The Kazekage died, Ōnoki retreated, and Senju Hashirama reported that he had won his battlefield.
• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama led campaigns that conquered the remaining major territories, while Madara burned Kumogakure after the Raikage and more than five thousand shinobi fought to the death.
• After the armies abandoned pursuit of scattered survivors, Uzumaki Ashina accepted the merger of the Land of Whirlpools with Konoha, leaving only the overseas Land of Water independent.
• At Eighth Master's snowy banquet, Uchiha Izuna helped prepare the meal, Uzumaki Mito scolded Senju Tobirama, and Eighth Master announced that he would take Yoshiro as his student.
• Eighth Master toasted the fallen and the shinobi still on duty before the guests celebrated the decade of work behind unification.
• Senju Hashirama thanked Yoshiro for bringing reinforcements to the Land of Iron, and Yoshiro recalled how the Raikage used Courage Crystals to make frightened Kumogakure and allied troops charge back into battle.

Senju Hashirama used Wood Release to halt the allied army after Konoha’s exhausted ninja withdrew to rest. The Raikage and Mizukage committed their forces and dangerous medicines to a desperate assault, leaving the Shinobi Allied Forces poised for what the Raikage called their final battle.

• Senju Hashirama unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, trapping and killing thousands of allied ninja while the Konoha forces recovered their Chakra.
• The Raikage recognized that Hashirama’s forest could threaten entire nations and decided the alliance had to force him into a fight beside the resting Konoha ninja.
• The Mizukage agreed to send the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release users against the forest, and both leaders resolved to risk everything for a chance at victory.
• The Raikage persuaded the Mizukage to distribute potent medicines, reserving Courage Crystals for Kirigakure and giving a more dangerous poison to the smaller villages and samurai.
• The Raikage led more than forty thousand allied fighters to the forest’s edge and declared that defeat would make this their final battle.

The Shinobi Allied Forces charged Senju Hashirama’s position after taking drugs, forcing him and the depleted Konoha Ninja to defend against attacks on several fronts. As the battle turned against Konoha, a piercing howl suddenly rang from the sky.

• The Raikage led Kumogakure Shinobi and drugged minor-village shinobi toward Hashirama’s forest, while the minor-village troops became frenzied and rushed ahead.
• Hashirama used Sage Art: Wood Release: Super: Deep Forest Emergence and twelve Wood Golems to crush the advancing forces, then sent Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna to defend the flanks against Kirigakure Shinobi.
• Uchiha Izuna used his Susanoo to fight Kirigakure’s vanguard, while Tobirama’s Shadow Clones and Water Severing Wave broke through a massive Water Release assault and helped Konoha counterattack.
• The Mizukage’s explosive humanoid damaged Izuna’s Susanoo and injured him, while the fresh Kirigakure Shinobi gradually gained the advantage over the exhausted Konoha Ninja.
• A piercing howl suddenly sounded from the sky as Konoha’s battlefield situation grew dire.

Under Captain Yoshiro, the Konoha Sky Ninja devastated Kirigakure and allied forces with coordinated bombing, shifting the battlefield and buying Senju Hashirama time. After Senju Hashirama praised them, the Sky Ninja forced Kirigakure to slow its attacks elsewhere before leaving to rearm.

• Yoshiro led the trained Sky Ninja in sonic-boom bombing runs that killed hundreds of Kirigakure shinobi and caused heavy casualties with cluster bombs.
• The Mizukage's forces continued fighting despite their losses, allowing Uchiha Izuna and the Uchiha shinobi to break through into close combat.
• The Mizukage summoned a Giant Clam, whose mist obscured the battlefield and gave Kirigakure an advantage in the ensuing blind fight.
• Yoshiro led the Sky Ninja to bomb the densely packed allied shinobi near the forest, killing more than two hundred and drawing a rebuke from Yoshiro when they complained.
• Senju Hashirama thanked and encouraged Yoshiro and his Sky Ninja, who then attacked near Senju Tobirama and forced Kirigakure to use the Hidden Mist Technique.
• The Sky Ninja left for their sea airfield to replenish their supplies after slowing the fighting around both Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama.

Senju Hashirama gathered enough Natural Energy to unleash his full power against the Shinobi Allied Forces. His True Several Thousand Hands shattered the battlefield and routed the opposing shinobi, leaving the Alliance's fate uncertain amid the devastation.

• The Raikage prepared to lead the exhausted Kumogakure shinobi in one final attack while Senju Hashirama finished absorbing Natural Energy.
• Senju Hashirama used Flower Tree World Advent, spreading deadly pollen across the frozen battlefield as the Raikage and Yuki Clan shinobi struggled to counter it.
• Senju Hashirama merged his Wood Golems and Wood Dragons into a gigantic Buddha with more than a thousand arms, driving away the fog and terrifying both armies.
• Senju Hashirama unleashed Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha, causing the Shinobi Allied Forces to break and flee as its palms devastated the battlefield.
• Eighth Master and Uchiha Madara watched the aftermath as the attack flattened the snowfield and left a vast expanse of steaming black mud.

After the war, Eighth Master explained how the Shinobi World could build lasting unity and maintain peace, warning that shinobi would lose purpose and grow corrupt without a shared dream. He revealed that Konoha’s next dream was to go to the heavens, leaving the others astonished.

• Yoshiro described how the battlefield had become a lush, snow-free forest, and Eighth Master explained that Senju Hashirama’s Senjutsu Chakra had formed a cycle drawing heat from underground.
• Eighth Master told the leaders that military unification was only the beginning and that they needed to cultivate a shared identity while keeping a temporary external threat to help unite the continent.
• Eighth Master warned that lasting peace would leave shinobi without their traditional purpose, so Konoha needed to give them new work and a new direction.
• Uchiha Madara reported that shinobi were already slacking off and that fourteen had stolen Konoha’s money, including members of the Uchiha Clan.
• Eighth Master said people and nations could not live without dreams, then prompted Uchiha Madara to reveal Konoha’s next dream: going to the heavens.

Eighth Master revealed the origins of the shinobi clans and explained his Otsutsuki powers to Konoha's leaders, who approved his dream of reaching the moon and stars. The leaders then planned how to suppress wandering shinobi and win the conquered lands' support through public works, while Eighth Master remained troubled by the possibility that he would have to return to his own timeline.

• Eighth Master described his ambitions for Konoha to master the powers of the gods, beginning with a moon landing, and explained that gods were powerful lifeforms rather than unknowable beings.
• Eighth Master recounted the history of Kaguya, Hagoromo, and Hamura, identifying Indra as the Uchiha ancestor and Asura as the Senju and Uzumaki ancestor, while Hamura's descendants gave rise to the Hyuga and Kaguya clans.
• Eighth Master revealed that he had survived an Otsutsuki resurrection through a Kama and gained a mixed-blood Otsutsuki body, memories, and knowledge; privately, he worried that changing history was weakening the force pulling him back to his original timeline.
• Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara, Senju Tobirama, Uchiha Izuna, and Uzumaki Mito approved Eighth Master's proposal, then agreed that Konoha should focus on suppressing wandering shinobi after the war.
• Eighth Master argued that Konoha could not defeat the scattered shinobi through force alone and urged the leaders to win popular support through propaganda and long-term public works across the conquered lands.
• Uchiha Madara cited the Land of Wind water project as proof that public works could win people's loyalty, and Eighth Master listed more planned projects before the leaders reacted uneasily to his mention of land reform.

Konoha consolidated its rule through public works, relief employment, and a sweeping purge of Allied Forces ninja, eventually unifying the continent and turning its attention to the Land of Water. Eighth Master arranged a campaign against the Land of Water, then developed the dangerous Theseus Gestation Method to split himself between timelines; years later, he explained how the method had left him as the only Eighth Master in the present spacetime.

• Konoha used propaganda and massive construction projects to win local support, while paying and protecting workers harmed by Allied Forces attacks.
• The Defense Department and Konoha Ninja Army expanded their patrols and purges, removed Allied Forces supporters, and helped absorb regions into Konoha as projects improved local security and prosperity.
• After a year of integration, Eighth Master urged Uchiha Madara to eliminate the remaining Land of Water, and Uchiha Izuna was selected to lead with Senju Tobirama as his deputy.
• Uzumaki Mito and the Jinchuriki Council agreed to accompany the campaign, while Eighth Master withdrew from his hospital and school duties to research a way to divide himself.
• Eighth Master created the Theseus Gestation Method using inspiration from the Otsutsuki Kama, intending for one version of himself to remain in the altered timeline and the other to return to the original one.
• Aburame Tetsumaru later asked about the method, and Eighth Master explained that its gestation took six years and recovery took fifteen more before he returned as the only Eighth Master in this spacetime.

Eighth Master and the others found fourteen Spacetime Beacons, confirming that his actions in the past had split the Timeline when he killed humans. Torch Dragon demonstrated a time-based ability that let him foresee events, and Zenith Civilization established a major presence at Rōran while nobles opposed its alliance with Konoha.

• Eighth Master and Aburame Tetsumaru recovered the first fourteen numbered Mu Jin slabs, but could not find the fifteenth near the village where Eighth Master had killed several ninja.
• Eighth Master confirmed that the Timeline split after he killed humans, while Torch Dragon showed that his time ability let him predict attacks and evade them.
• Aburame Tetsumaru resolved to train Torch Dragon and protect his unique ability, whose complex Chakra Runes could not yet be replicated.
• The Advents assigned Torch Dragon, Eighth Master, Butler, Ash Bone, Uzumaki, and Aburame Tetsumaru to protect Rōran’s Dragon Vein Lab, then transformed the surrounding desert into an oasis.
• After Konoha and Zenith Civilization suppressed Kirigakure and the Northern Alliance, Fire Country nobles opposed their alliance and turned to the Uchiha and Hyuga clans for support.

Uchiha Itachi watched his clan's elders pressure Uchiha Fugaku to oppose the Hokage's alliance with Zenith Civilization, revealing that the Uchiha Clan's internal divisions remained unresolved. The chapter ended with Itachi deciding that he could no longer avoid challenging his father's leadership.

• Uchiha Itachi used his power to injure a gray-haired Uchiha jonin who spoke against Aburame Tetsumaru and Politician, making the elders wary of him.
• Uchiha Sanae and Hatake Sakumo observed the meeting, and Hatake Sakumo predicted that Itachi was preparing to act against his father.
• Uchiha Fugaku tried to end the meeting without taking a position, but the elders blocked his exit and demanded that he speak to the Hokage.
• The elders pressed Fugaku to oppose the alliance with Zenith Civilization because the Hokage's civilian-ninja policies had displaced the nobles from the Land of Fire's administration.
• Uchiha Itachi recognized that the clan's elders and his indecisive father were the problem, and accepted that he would have to defy Fugaku.

Uchiha Itachi stopped the clan elders from pressuring Fugaku and challenged his father’s support for opposing the Hokage’s policy. After using his Mangekyō technique to force his beliefs into Fugaku, he left his father overwhelmed with regret over his failures as Clan Head.

• Itachi used Genjutsu to immobilize the elders and denounced their plan to oppose the Hokage and challenge Zenith Civilization.
• Uchiha Sanae revealed her Mangekyō Sharingan, backed Itachi’s claim to the clan leadership, and told Fugaku to step down.
• Fugaku ordered Shisui to help subdue Itachi, but Sanae intervened and told Itachi to handle Fugaku herself taking Shisui.
• Fugaku trapped Itachi in Tsukuyomi, but Itachi overwhelmed the Genjutsu and questioned his father about the masked man claiming to be Uchiha Madara.
• Itachi identified the man as Uchiha Obito and condemned Fugaku for treating him as an ally despite the Nine-Tails attack and the danger he posed to the clan.
• Itachi used Mangekyō Sharingan: Ame-no-Koyane to imprison Fugaku in a mental space and imprint his beliefs on him; Fugaku emerged remorseful and called himself an unqualified Clan Head.

Uchiha Itachi defeated Fugaku in a Genjutsu contest and became the Uchiha Clan Head, while Hatake Sakumo cleaned Kakashi’s abandoned home and waited for his son. Kakashi returned, found a stranger seated inside, and froze when Sakumo greeted him.

• Uchiha Sanae stopped Shisui from interfering in Itachi and Fugaku’s Genjutsu duel, and both men emerged unharmed.
• Fugaku acknowledged his mistakes and handed the Clan Head position to Itachi, who gained the support of Sanae, Shisui, and the clan members.
• Itachi released the Genjutsu controlling the Uchiha ninja, and the clan accepted the leadership change and its existing policies.
• Hatake Sakumo left Naka Shrine, entered his dilapidated home, and used insects to clear and clean it while waiting for Kakashi.
• Kakashi returned home, found Sakumo sitting inside, drew his short sword, and heard Sakumo greet him.

Hatake Sakumo revealed himself to Kakashi, defeated him with Hatake Swordsmanship, and convinced him of his identity through childhood memories. Meanwhile, the Hyuga Main Family tried to isolate Hinata from the Aburame Clan and planned to persuade the Uchiha to move their child out of Team Seven.

• Hatake Sakumo used a Bone Blade and his mastery of Hatake Swordsmanship to overwhelm Kakashi, who doubted that the man wearing his father's face was real.
• Kakashi tried to kill Sakumo with a surprise thrust, but Sakumo hardened his chin with bone and restrained him before he could hurt himself.
• Sakumo told Kakashi embarrassing stories from his childhood, and Kakashi accepted that he was his father while vowing to kill him once he became strong enough.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family elders discussed separating Hinata from the Aburame Clan after the Hokage rejected their request to place her in Team Seven.
• The Hyuga elders decided to ask Uchiha Fugaku to transfer his child from Team Seven, and Hizashi Hyuga volunteered to approach him.

Hyuga Hinata led the Moon Byakugan ninja to confront Hyuga Hiashi and the Hyuga Clan Elders, while a barrier concealed their actions from Konoha. She declared that she had come to transform the clan and offered its leaders one last chance to retire peacefully.

• The Moon Byakugan clan chose Hamura as its new surname and agreed that Hinata would lead it after the Hyuga Clan was transformed.
• The civilization's support system isolated the Hyuga Clan compound behind a barrier and a false projection to hide the operation from Konoha.
• Hinata arrived at the meeting chamber with twelve Moon Byakugan ninja, despite her confinement, and the guards challenged the unfamiliar group.
• An Elder activated the Caged Bird seal in violation of the Hokage's prohibition, and Hinata confronted him and the other clan leaders.
• Hinata announced that she would cleanse the Hyuga Clan of its sins and urged Hiashi and the Elders to step down with dignity.

Hyuga Hinata confronted the Hyuga Clan and demanded that her father surrender the Head of Clan position, demonstrating her overwhelming power against him. She left the clan stunned after removing the Caged Bird mark from Hizashi Hyuga’s forehead.

• Hyuga Hinata declared that she would become Head of Clan, while her evolved Chakra incapacitated weaker Hyuga ninjas and her Otsutsuki followers fought off the clan’s Jonin.
• Hyuga Hinata renewed her demand that Hyuga Hiashi step down, then revealed her Shikotsumyaku and sky-blue eyes as additional powers granted through Aburame Tetsumaru.
• Hyuga Hinata used suction and Repulsive Force to overpower Hyuga Hiashi’s Gentle Fist attacks and toss him around the courtyard.
• Hyuga Hinata pulled Hizashi Hyuga to her, removed his forehead protector, and erased the Caged Bird mark from his forehead with Chakra drawn from the Tenseigan.

Hyuga Hinata removed Hizashi Hyuga’s Caged Bird seal, defeated two Elders who tried to use the seal against the Branch Family, and declared herself Head of the Hyuga Clan. The Hyuga ninja began lining up to have their seals removed, while Hiashi Hyuga accepted that the clan would no longer follow him.

• Hyuga Hinata removed Hizashi Hyuga’s Caged Bird seal, and the Branch Family realized they could escape the seal themselves.
• Two Elders ordered the Hyuga ninja to kill Hinata and threatened the Branch Family, but no one obeyed; Hinata’s black spheres severed the Elders’ hands and killed them.
• Hinata declared herself Head of the Hyuga Clan and announced that she would abolish the distinction between the Main Family and the Branch Family by removing the Caged Bird seals.
• Hiashi Hyuga warned that removing the seals would endanger the clan, but Hinata argued that the Hyuga could defend their Byakugan through strength, and the ninja rallied behind her.
• The Hyuga ninja organized a line for seal removal and tore down the courtyard walls to make room, while Hiashi accepted his loss of authority.