Chapter Summaries

As Kirigakure invaded, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to mobilize and Yūske decided to take a thousand ninjas to the Land of Water front. With Hiruzen heading to the battlefield and Yūske preparing to leave, Shimura Danzō ordered Tenshi to act as soon as Yūske took command against Kirigakure.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi appointed Torifu Akimichi commander-in-chief of a new corps and ordered Konoha to prepare against Kirigakure.
• After Kumogakure's failed attack left the Third Raikage injured and its forces at a disadvantage, Konoha's commanders argued over sending reinforcements to the Land of Water front.
• At Nara Shikamaru's urging, Yūske decided to take a thousand men to the Land of Water front, while Hatake Sakumo stayed behind under Hiruzen Sarutobi's command.
• News that the Third Hokage would enter the battle spread through Konoha, prompting praise and concern among villagers and clan members.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Tenshi to act as soon as Watanabe Yūske took command of the front against Kirigakure.

Kirigakure’s invasion of the Land of Fire failed after its forces met Konoha at sea, prompting Karatachi Yagura to prepare for battle and investigate possible spies. Yūske joined Konoha’s 3,000-strong force, which landed on several islands after a first naval clash with few casualties.

• Shimura Maki sent a report about the Three-Tails to Kojiro and rewarded the subordinate who found it.
• Karatachi Yagura learned that Kirigakure’s invasion had failed and that Watanabe Yūske had appeared on the battlefield.
• At an emergency meeting, Karatachi Yagura ordered reinforcements, sent the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to attack Konoha’s rear, and assigned Genji to guard the village.
• Karatachi Yagura decided to go to the battlefield himself and ordered a thorough investigation of suspected spies.
• Yūske joined Konoha’s 2,000 reinforcements with 1,000 ninja from the Land of Lightning, and their forces clashed with Kirigakure’s at sea.
• Konoha’s forces suffered few casualties in the naval encounter and disembarked on several islands to rest.

Yūsuke received an urgent report from Shimura Maki while preparing to discuss matters with Torifu Akimichi. In Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku used his Mangekyō Sharingan and saw a vision of Yūsuke slaughtering people across the village.

• Ōnoki went to the front lines as Iwagakure joined the war, while Hiruzen Sarutobi took command of Konoha's forces against Kumogakure.
• Yūsuke stationed himself on an island near the Land of Water, where Shikaku Nara reported that Konoha could not break through Kirigakure's naval defenses.
• Kojiro delivered an urgent report from Shimura Maki, and Yūsuke summoned Torifu Akimichi for a private discussion.
• Uchiha Fugaku noticed that Yūsuke's parents seemed uneasy and the barbecue was unusually poor, so he told his clansmen to act normally.
• After returning to the Security Force, Uchiha Fugaku activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and saw Yūsuke slaughtering people throughout Konoha while facing Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Yūske tracked down and defeated Isobu, the Three-Tails, then sealed it into his body. Nearby, Sen Taku sent Mizuki Yuki and the others toward the commotion, hoping to exploit the battle.

• Yūske left the mountain stronghold with Shimura Maki, Gekko Yoru, and the others to reach the lake where the Three-Tails had been found.
• Yūske summoned Sarutobi and ordered him to force the Three-Tails out of the lake.
• Yūske fought Isobu, trapping its jaws with lightning-charged threads as it tried to form a Tailed Beast Ball.
• The Tailed Beast Ball exploded, leaving Isobu unconscious, and Yūske used the Eight Trigrams Seal to draw it into his body.
• After hearing the battle, Sen Taku sent Mizuki Yuki and the others toward the lake while Kirigakure ninja Anbu pursued them.

After sealing Isobu, Yūske and his allies defeated the Kirigakure Anbu and accepted Sen Taku’s squad into his group. At Mount Rishiri, Yūske tried to persuade Isobu to live with him in Konoha, and Isobu reacted with alarm when Yūske mentioned the Ten-Tails and Ōtsutsuki clan.

• Kirigakure Anbu attacked Yūske while he was sealing Isobu, and Shimura Maki, Gekko Yoru, Sarutobi, and Sen Taku’s squad held them off.
• Yūske completed the sealing, ordered the Anbu killed, and questioned Sen Taku after the battle.
• Sen Taku explained that Kirigakure had discovered their situation, and Yūske told his squad to follow him and hinted that he could bring their clan members over.
• At Mount Rishiri, Yūske released Isobu’s seal and introduced himself as a Konoha ninja.
• Yūske asked Isobu to live in Konoha with him and revealed that he knew about the Ōtsutsuki clan, the Rinnegan, and the Ten-Tails, startling Isobu.

Yūske secured Isobu’s cooperation and planned an operation in Kirigakure while laying the groundwork for a force independent of Konoha. Mizuki Yuki then offered to prove her worth to him, and the chapter ended as Yūske demanded she show her sincerity.

• Isobu agreed to cooperate with Yūske after he explained what he knew about Uchiha Madara and the Rinnegan.
• Yūske told Sen Taku he would take him to infiltrate Kirigakure, while ordering the other three subordinates to stay and train.
• Yūske told Shimura Maki to lead a force recruiting Kirigakure defectors, with Gekko Yoru assisting him.
• Mizuki Yuki brought Yūske a roasted rabbit and offered to serve him as a way to demonstrate her value.
• Yūske ordered Mizuki Yuki to undress and prove her sincerity.

Yūske spent a day resting before reaching Kirigakure and testing a Tailed Beast Ball against the village. Meanwhile, Aburame Shiho received news that Yūske’s parents had gone missing, and she and the other Konoha leaders faced the prospect of calling him back.

• Yūske quietly left Mizuki Yuki and enjoyed a rare leisurely day while the war at sea remained at a stalemate.
• Uchiha Fugaku’s letter reached Aburame Shiho, who learned that Yūske’s parents had gone missing and ordered squads to find him.
• Torifu Akimichi and Shikaku Nara told Aburame Shiho they could not withdraw the troops while Kirigakure remained a threat.
• Yūske reached the outskirts of Kirigakure with Sen Taku, then went ahead alone and used Isobu’s chakra to fire a Tailed Beast Ball at the village.
• The blast caused heavy destruction before Kirigakure’s barrier stopped part of its force, and Elder Genji ordered the village’s ninja to counterattack.

Watanabe Yūske invaded Kirigakure alone, using Parasitic String and Flying Thunder God to control and overwhelm the village’s ninja. As the battle continued, a middle-aged ninja attacked him with a highly corrosive Lava Release technique.

• Watanabe Yūske entered Kirigakure through the main gate and killed the ninja who confronted him.
• Watanabe Yūske left Flying Thunder God Formulas around the village, controlled a squad of Kirigakure ninja, and forced them to attack their comrades.
• Genji ordered the assembled ninja to confront Watanabe Yūske and refused an Anbu’s advice to leave the battle.
• Watanabe Yūske evaded Kirigakure’s Water Release attacks and fought through the village’s forces with threads and Flying Thunder God.
• Watanabe Yūske used a Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tag, causing blasts that damaged buildings and scattered Kirigakure ninja.
• A middle-aged ninja spat corrosive acid at Watanabe Yūske as he seized another attacker.

Watanabe Yūske attacked Kirigakure and demanded that it withdraw from the sea within three days, threatening to return otherwise. He escaped using Space-Time Ninjutsu and ordered Shimura Maki to monitor the fighting at sea.

• Yūske transformed the buildings and ground into threads, fought off Kirigakure ninja, and evaded a Tailed Beast Ball from Saiken with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Yūske confronted Elder Genji, admitted that the Three-Tails was inside him, and challenged Kirigakure to take it back by force.
• Yūske used Lightning Release threads against the gathered ninja, then vanished after warning that the next meeting could be on the battlefield.
• Genji ordered the ninja to tend to the wounded and notify the Fourth Mizukage, while Mei Terumi's father asked whether they should pursue Yūske.
• Yūske rejoined Shimura Maki and the others outside the village and ordered Maki to have the covert team watch the fighting at sea and report if Kirigakure failed to withdraw within three days.

Yūske learned that his parents had been taken and left the front lines to return to Konoha, while Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected Shimura Danzō was responsible. The chapter ended with Yūske already on his way home and Hiruzen unable to stop him.

• Karatachi Yagura recalled a thousand ninja to defend Kirigakure after learning Yūske had attacked the village as the Three-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Yūske returned to camp after Aburame Shiho urgently summoned him, then learned that his parents were missing.
• Yūske told Torifu Akimichi to manage the front lines and left for Konoha with Aburame Shiho and several dozen ninja.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered his people to treat Shimura Danzō as the primary suspect and place him under house arrest.
• Nara Shikamaru warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Yūske had likely already set out for Konoha.

Yūske returned to Konoha and led a covert search for his missing parents, eventually following Yakushi Nonō to a Root base. After capturing a Root guard and entering the underground complex, the group reached a concealed passage and learned that Yūske’s parents might be just ahead.

• Yūske told Kurenai Yūhi and his supporters to keep his return secret, search the village for his parents, and monitor Shimura Danzō.
• After two days without finding his parents, Yūske followed Yakushi Nonō to a Root experimental base she remembered.
• Hyuga Reon detected two Root guards, and Yūske killed one and captured the other for questioning.
• The captured Root ninja revealed a hidden entrance, and Yūske led the group through the underground base.
• The Root ninja opened a concealed stone wall and told Yūske that his parents were right ahead.

Yūske found his parents alive in a hidden laboratory beneath the stone wall and left Yakushi Nonō and Shiho to treat them as Root forces approached. He unleashed Isobu in Complete Tailed Beast Form and covered it with String Armor to face the attackers.

• Yūske, Yunō Uchiha, Yakushi Nonō, and their allies entered the hidden space and found a laboratory behind an illusionary door.
• Yūske discovered his parents suspended above the laboratory, while Yakushi Nonō confirmed they still had pulses and began treating them.
• Hyuga Reon warned Yūske that Root ninja were approaching, so Yūske told Shiho to care for his parents and went out to confront them.
• Yūske ordered his allies to kill the Root ninja and cut down the first attacker with a sharp thread.
• Yūske shielded his allies from Root's sealing techniques, summoned Isobu in Complete Tailed Beast Form, and covered it in String Armor.

Yūske freed Isobu from Root’s underground laboratory and discovered that Danzo had endangered his parents. He led a thousand Konoha ninjas to surround the Hokage Building and bound Danzo, just as Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived and ordered him to stop.

• Isobu burst out of Root’s laboratory, and Yūske emerged from the white threads to find his parents gravely injured.
• Yūske ordered Aburame Shiho to capture Danzo and told Yakushi Nonō and Reon to carry out urgent tasks.
• Danzo fled Root’s base and sought protection from Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura as the laboratory’s destruction exposed him.
• Yūske led the gathered ninjas to surround the Hokage Building and brushed past Utatane Koharu when she tried to stop him.
• Danzo urged Yūske to mass-produce his Kekkei Genkai, but Yūske bound him with threads after a brief exchange.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived and shouted for Yūske to stop.

Yūske killed Danzo, but Danzo revived himself with Izanagi, and the two prepared to fight again as Hiruzen tried to intervene. Yūske revealed Danzo had tortured his parents and declared he would kill him even if Konoha branded him a traitor; several clans then encircled Danzo in support of Yūske.

• Yūske crushed Danzo with threads and restrained the Root ninja who attacked him, but Danzo reappeared using Izanagi.
• Hiruzen stood between Yūske and Danzo and ordered Danzo to surrender, while Danzo refused to confess to the laboratory crimes.
• Yūske told Hiruzen that Danzo had imprisoned and tortured his parents to investigate Yūske’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Yūske vowed to kill Danzo even if Hiruzen branded him a traitor ninja, and Isobu released a surge of chakra.
• Members of the Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga clans surrounded Danzo, while Yūske watched for a hidden attack.

Yūske trapped Shimura Danzō and prepared to kill him, but Hiruzen and Enma intervened, forcing Yūske to challenge Konoha’s authority and draw support from his followers and the Senju and Uchiha clans. The chapter ended as Yūske unleashed God Slaying Strike toward Danzō and warned Enma to move aside.

• Yūske deflected Shimura Danzō’s Wind Release attacks, severed one of his arms, and trapped him in a cage of threads.
• Yūske prepared to finish Danzō with Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, but Enma transformed into a Golden Cudgel and shielded Danzō.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended his decision to have Danzō interrogated before punishment, while Yūske declared that he would leave Konoha if it denied him justice.
• Yūske’s followers, along with Uchiha Fugaku and the Senju elder, stood behind him as he confronted Hiruzen and insisted that Danzō would die.
• Yūske warned Enma to stand aside and launched sixteen blackened streams of thread at Danzō with Sixteen Sacred Bullet Strikes: God Slaying.

Yūske killed Shimura Danzō after Danzō’s final defense failed, and Hiruzen Sarutobi mourned his old friend. Uchiha Fugaku and others called for Yūske to become the Fourth Hokage, while Yūske confronted Hiruzen over Konoha’s failure to protect his parents.

• Yūske’s God Slaying Strike pierced Shimura Danzō despite Danzō’s Wood Style: Violent Gun Tree, and Danzō fell mortally wounded.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi held Danzō as he died, and Danzō recalled the mission where Hiruzen had volunteered to serve as bait in Tobirama’s place.
• Utatane Koharu demanded that the gathered ninja attack Yūske, but no one obeyed her.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed Yūske as the Fourth Hokage, gaining support from the Hyūga and others allied with Yūske.
• Hiruzen took Yūske to the Hokage’s Office and asked whether he wanted to become Hokage.
• Yūske told Hiruzen that he wanted freedom and challenged his ability to protect Yūske’s parents, whose fate remained unknown.

Watanabe Yūske became Konoha’s Fourth Hokage while his parents remained unconscious from the effects of Shimura Danzō’s experiments. After Tsunade treated them and returned to the battlefield, Yūske prepared to secure the village before confronting the Akatsuki Organization and Uchiha Madara.

• Medical ninja could only sustain Yūske’s parents’ lives, so Aburame Shiho and Yakushi Nonō cared for them while awaiting Tsunade’s return.
• After Hiruzen Sarutobi urged him to compromise, Yūske accepted Shimura Danzō’s unblemished public reputation as repayment for his former teacher’s guidance.
• The Hokage Building announced that Watanabe Yūske would succeed Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the Land of Fire daimyo and the ninja villages sent gifts and support.
• Tsunade returned to Konoha and treated Yūske’s parents, whose physical injuries healed but whose vitality remained depleted.
• At a simple inauguration ceremony, Yūske received the Hokage hat from Hiruzen Sarutobi and became Konoha’s Fourth Hokage.
• After the ceremony, Tsunade returned to the battlefield with Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Yūske focused on fortifying Konoha and considered how to deal with the Akatsuki Organization and Uchiha Madara.

A year into Yūske’s rule as Hokage, Konoha’s politics and the wider war shifted while his family grew. An urgent intelligence report reached him, and he summoned several clan leaders, excited by the prospect of a worthy opponent.

• Yūske strengthened his String-String Fruit abilities by awakening Armament Haki, while Kirigakure redirected its attacks toward Sunagakure and Kumogakure and Iwagakure began clashing.
• Yūske reorganized Konoha’s forces, appointed Kurenai Yūhi as Anbu commander-in-chief, and brought Uchiha Fugaku into the village’s upper ranks.
• Yūske visited Mizuki Yuki and his infant son with Aburame Shiho, who became sick at the smell of smoke; Mizuki Yuki suggested that Shiho was pregnant.
• An Anbu delivered urgent news to Yūske, who returned to the Hokage Building and ordered Uchiha Fugaku, Hyuga Hiashi, and Senju Taichi to come see him.

Shisui Uchiha and his team were warned of danger as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist entered the Land of Fire. Yūske assigned Uchiha Fugaku, Senju Taichi, and their ally to manage the village’s affairs while he went to hunt the Swordsmen, leaving the village’s reforms in their hands.

• Shiranui Genma, Shisui Uchiha, and Captain Kenji rested after a patrol until two Anbu warned them to leave because danger was nearby.
• Uchiha Fugaku and two other clan leaders met Yūske, who showed them intelligence that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had entered the Land of Fire.
• Yūske told the three leaders to give up their other duties and form a department to handle the village’s affairs, including matters of war.
• Yūske left Haruna to brief the leaders and assigned Yono and Reon to help pass along messages while they sorted through a pile of documents.
• Yūske set out alone with an Anbu-marked map to find and hunt the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.

Shisui Uchiha and the Anbu confronted the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist after discovering them in a suspiciously silent forest. Uchiha En was wounded and trapped, but an unseen ally interrupted the finishing blow.

• Shisui Uchiha activated his Sharingan and prepared to face the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist with his companions.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist attacked, and one Anbu evaded Jinin Akebino's strike with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha En fought Raiga Kurosuki, but Kiba's lightning injured his shoulder.
• Suikazan Fuguki's Samehada tore into Uchiha En and drained his chakra, while Kushimaru Kuriarare pinned his thigh with Nuibari.
• As Kushimaru Kuriarare prepared to strike Uchiha En, a shuriken from afar knocked his blade aside.