Chapter Summaries

Shimura Danzō confronted Orochimaru, Uchiha Madara, and Sosuke Aizen at the Shadow Council about the strange robots beneath Konoha. Madara admitted he had created an Infinite Army to force the Moon Eye Plan forward, while Aizen dismissed his scheme.

• Shimura Danzō left the Five Great Nations' conference and entered the Shadow Council with evidence of the mysterious robots beneath Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō asked Orochimaru, Sosuke Aizen, and Uchiha Madara which of them had created the machines, and Madara and Orochimaru traded accusations.
• The four members' conflicting approaches to peace and their history of sabotaging one another's plans were described.
• Uchiha Madara revealed that he had created the Infinite Army, whose replicating Wood Release weapons spread a Chakra virus that turned victims into soldiers.
• Sosuke Aizen watched Madara's boast and said that the plan had disappointed him.

Sosuke Aizen and Shimura Danzō challenged Uchiha Madara’s coercive vision of peace, and Madara ended their communication with a threat to unleash the Infinite Army. Afterward, Danzō shared information linking the Nine Tailed Beasts to the Poneglyph and openly proposed a conflict that could let Root spread its ideals.

• Sosuke Aizen criticized Uchiha Madara for forcing his idea of peace on others, while Madara defended the strong’s right to control the weak and promised to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Shimura Danzō warned Madara that Root would oppose the Infinite Army, and Madara cut off the communication after threatening the group.
• Orochimaru, Sosuke Aizen, and Shimura Danzō concluded that Madara had grown increasingly extreme and that his plans had been undermined by the Chakra Network and Kagami Uchiha’s escape from his control.
• Shimura Danzō told Sosuke Aizen and Orochimaru that the Nine Tailed Beasts were the likeliest holders of the Poneglyph, though taking a Tailed Beast’s Chakra would kill its Jinchuriki and risk war.
• Shimura Danzō shared a record connecting the Sage of Six Paths, Chakra, and the Nine Tailed Beasts, then openly offered Root’s support for a conflict that could spread its ideals.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki reflected on their three years of marriage and the burdens keeping them from starting a family. Minato remained overwhelmed by the bizarre 13th Guard Division as he hoped life would settle after the Chunin Exams.

• Kushina Uzumaki reassured Minato Namikaze, and the two embraced at their home outside the village.
• Minato recalled that he had learned Kushina was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and had delayed having a child because of the risks to her.
• Minato explained that he had integrated members of Aizen's Unseen Court and 13th Guard Division into Konoha rather than purging them.
• Kushina read the 13th Guard Division captain list, and Minato described the divided loyalties and eccentric motives of its members.
• Minato hoped that the division's conflicts would ease after the Chunin Exams and told Kushina they could then start a family.

Obito Uchiha struggled to separate from Rin Nohara for the Chunin Exams, but her recorded encouragement pushed him into the exam room. There he reunited with Kakashi Hatake and learned that Kakashi was a proctor, not a fellow examinee.

• Rin Nohara left Obito Uchiha to take the exam alone, telling him that hardship would help him grow.
• Obito Uchiha awakened a One Tomoe Sharingan while resisting the Chunin Exam separation, and an Uchiha Ninja delivered Rin's recorded message to him.
• Obito Uchiha entered the exam room determined to pass and examined the varied Ninja from other villages and organizations.
• Obito Uchiha approached Kakashi Hatake and teased him for supposedly needing to take the Chunin Exams.
• Kakashi Hatake revealed his proctor badge and asked Obito Uchiha to explain how he planned to cheat.

Obito Uchiha reunited with Kakashi Hatake during the Chunin Exams and tried to persuade his old friend to return to Konoha. Kakashi said he had defected, but Obito questioned why that mattered if he had done nothing wrong.

• Obito Uchiha sat for the Chunin Exams’ written placement test while Kakashi Hatake watched as an invigilator.
• After the exam, Obito grabbed Kakashi and dragged him to wait for Rin Nohara, then shared shaved ice with him.
• Obito told Kakashi how much he and Rin had missed him and asked him to come back to Konoha.
• Kakashi said he had defected from the village, and Obito asked whether he had done anything wrong or harmed Konoha.
• Kakashi looked incredulous when Obito wondered why he could not return if he had done neither.

Kakashi reunited with Obito and Rin after three years, but his scientific ambitions left him distant from their feelings. The chapter ended with Obito challenging Kakashi to a Chakra Network duel, prompting Rin to defend him.

• Kakashi told Obito he stayed with Las Noches because its research made him happy, and Obito suggested that he and Rin visit him.
• Rin ran out of the building, embraced Kakashi, and tearfully confronted him for being away for three years.
• Kakashi realized he felt only fondness for Rin and cared more about exploring mysteries beyond the Ninja World.
• Several Cloud Ninja mocked Obito as he watched Rin cling to Kakashi, but he stayed focused on them.
• Obito asked Kakashi to fight him in a Chakra Network duel, and Rin angrily objected.

Obito Uchiha challenged Kakashi Hatake to learn how far behind him he was, and the two entered the Chakra Network to duel. Rin Nohara unexpectedly intervened with powerful Kido, revealing that she had become a highly ranked Kido Corps member.

• Obito Uchiha insisted that Kakashi Hatake fight him so he could understand the gap between them and find a way to catch up.
• Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha discussed the Fourth Hokage and learned that Tobirama was alive and ranked among the Espada of Las Noches.
• Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha entered the Chakra Network arena, where their combat numbers showed a vast difference in strength.
• Rin Nohara interfered in the duel and attacked Kakashi Hatake with a fully incanted Raikoho.
• Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha were astonished to learn that Rin Nohara was a highly ranked Kido Corps member.

Rin Nohara showed Kakashi Hatake that she could cast Kido #90: Black Coffin, hoping her achievement would earn her a place in Las Noches. Kakashi praised her skill but explained that the organization sought people driven to explore the world's limits, while Obito Uchiha was left confronting the gap between them and a voice calling from within his heart.

• Rin argued with Obito about fighting and revealed that Kazekage Rasa had killed her while farming low-level accounts.
• Rin demonstrated the opening stance for Kido #90: Black Coffin, and Kakashi recognized how far she had progressed in Kido.
• Rin fully chanted and cast Black Coffin around Kakashi, but the coffin dissolved without harming him.
• Kakashi praised Rin's achievement but told her that Las Noches valued exploration and courage rather than Kido talent alone.
• Obito watched Rin and Kakashi ignore him, then heard an old man ask whether he wanted to stand alongside them.

Uchiha Madara froze the Chakra Network’s users by accelerating his and Obito Uchiha’s thoughts, then offered to help Obito become powerful enough to stand beside Kakashi and Rin Nohara. Obito had not yet answered whether he would pay Madara’s price.

• Uchiha Madara appeared before Obito Uchiha and explained that he had accelerated their thinking, making everyone else in the Chakra Network seem frozen.
• Obito reflected on Kakashi and Rin’s closeness and felt that he could never stand on their level.
• Uchiha Madara asked Obito whether he wanted to become powerful enough to stand beside them.
• Obito admitted that he wanted to become a genius but had failed despite trying many disciplines.
• Uchiha Madara offered to help Obito in exchange for a price and asked whether he was willing to pay it.

Obito Uchiha accepted Uchiha Madara’s offer to help him grow, while insisting he would not betray Konoha or harm Rin and Kakashi. Back in the duel, Obito unexpectedly used a new technique that Kakashi identified as Resonance Turn.

• Obito Uchiha distrusted Madara’s promise but agreed to accept any training that would not harm Konoha, Rin, or Kakashi.
• Madara offered to help Obito use his own power to surprise Kakashi during their duel, then the slowed world returned to normal.
• Obito noticed his Sharingan had faded back to one tomoe and kept his encounter with Madara secret.
• Obito challenged Kakashi to resume their match, and Kakashi moved in front of him with Instant Step.
• Obito instinctively appeared behind Kakashi and pressed a finger to his spine, but Blut Vene blocked the attack.
• Kakashi recognized Obito’s movement as Resonance Turn and asked whether Obito had developed it independently.

Obito used Resonance Turn to appear beside Kakashi and Rin, then the old man explained that the ability had always been Obito’s own potential. Obito agreed to trust the old man at a crucial moment so he could remain beside his friends.

• Obito surprised Kakashi by using Resonance Turn, prompting Kakashi to question him while Rin tried to join their conversation.
• Obito realized that he had reached Kakashi and Rin with ease and wondered whether the old man had given him the ability.
• The old man told Obito that the Chakra and Resonance Turn were his own, and that he had always possessed the potential to use them.
• Obito asked what price he must pay to stand beside Kakashi and Rin without harming anyone or destroying the village.
• The old man said he needed only Obito’s trust and promised to give him dignity, friends, family love, and the village’s recognition.
• The old man explained that he had once believed friends would never part and wanted to spare Obito a similar tragedy, while Obito began to understand who he was.

Obito Uchiha enjoyed a dreamlike stretch of ordinary life with Rin Nohara and Kakashi while secretly training under Uchiha Madara, but recurring nightmares about killing Rin unsettled him. Uchiha Madara sent him away from training for two days to rest, leaving Obito confused about what to do.

• Obito Uchiha spent his days exploring Konoha with Rin Nohara and Kakashi, while Kakashi's father gave them money for their outings.
• Obito Uchiha trained intensively with Uchiha Madara during nights stretched into months, quickly improving his abilities and fighting alongside Rin Nohara.
• Obito Uchiha told Uchiha Madara about a vivid nightmare in which he killed Rin Nohara in an underground space as Kakashi watched.
• Uchiha Madara dismissed the nightmare as an effect of Obito's growing strength and stopped his lessons for two days so he could rest.
• Uchiha Madara expelled Obito from the internet, and Obito woke at home wondering what he should do.

Kakashi Hatake discussed his uneasy premonition with Sosuke Aizen, who hinted that an abnormality was close and that he would soon advance his plans. Obito Uchiha then brought Kakashi to investigate a cave he had found beneath his house, while Kakashi sensed something unsettling in Obito’s gaze.

• Kakashi Hatake told Sosuke Aizen that he had felt watched and uneasy, and Aizen suggested his instincts had noticed an abnormality he could not consciously recognize.
• Aizen said he would soon move to the next stage of his plan if Uchiha Madara Senior's Infinite Army proved unhelpful, and Kakashi agreed to remain in Konoha and wait for news from Minato.
• Kakashi considered whether Rin Nohara or Obito Uchiha had changed, but found no clear explanation for his unease.
• Obito told Kakashi that he had discovered a cave beneath his house and that the guards and Uchiha Clan had dismissed his report.
• Kakashi agreed to investigate the cave with Obito and Rin, while feeling that one of Obito's pupils was watching him.

Obito discovered a concealed underground structure beneath his family home, and Kakashi, Rin, and Obito decided to investigate it together. After they entered, the hatch and floor transformed into an illusion while an elderly figure watched them and said his preparations would soon be ready.

• Obito told Kakashi and Rin that he had found a massive, heavily fortified hatch beneath his floorboards and reported it to Konoha's guards.
• Kakashi suspected the underground structure had been hidden for years and that Obito's parents might have had an unusual past.
• Rin suggested the three of them investigate after preparing a Reverse Summoning, and Kakashi sensed an unseen observer watching him.
• Obito agreed to enter the structure with Kakashi and Rin, despite the possibility of being trapped inside.
• The three entered, and the hatch and broken floorboards became an illusion as an elderly figure watched through a mirror and said his preparations would soon be ready.

Kakashi, Obito, and Rin explored a vast underground facility and were trapped by a powerful space-time barrier. Kakashi sent Obito to escape with Resonance Turn and seek help, while he and Rin braced themselves inside.

• Kakashi noticed the underground facility was unusually vast, well-preserved, and unlike a sealed warehouse, then urged Obito and Rin to report it to Minato.
• A steel door shut behind them, and their attempts to use Reverse Summoning failed when a space-time barrier blocked their connections.
• Kakashi identified the barrier and watched Rin's Raikoho strike the door without effect, revealing a hollow hall beyond it.
• Kakashi asked Obito to use Resonance Turn to reach the other side and get help, but Obito admitted he had dreamed of the place in countless nightmares.
• Kakashi encouraged Obito to defy his frightening visions, and Obito vanished; Kakashi and Rin stayed behind, watching for danger.

Kakashi and Rin listened as Obito described repeatedly exploring a looping underground complex and warned that his prophecy showed Kakashi investigating a trap, Rin being attacked, and Obito killing her. The three linked themselves together and entered the mist-filled hall, while a scarlet presence watched through Obito’s eye.

• Kakashi explained that precise prophecies could be artificially arranged and suspected someone had lured them into a trap.
• Obito returned after hundreds of failed attempts to escape the identical corridors and reported that the complex looped without any sense of the outside.
• Kakashi deduced that the entrance had been moved and that the underground facilities formed a one-sided ring designed to trap them.
• Obito warned that entering the hall would lead to Kakashi investigating a trap, Rin being attacked, and Obito killing her.
• Rin and Kakashi reassured Obito that they could avoid the prophecy by staying together, and the three linked themselves with Chakra chains.
• Kakashi led the linked team into the black-mist hall as a scarlet shadow watched through Obito’s eye.

Obito Uchiha realized that he had pushed Kakashi into a trap and was being controlled while attacking Rin Nohara. He begged an old man he contacted through the network for a way to save Rin, and the old man told him to summon his soul into an Infinite Army construct and trust him.

• Kakashi Hatake suspected that the underground structure was made from the remains of the Divine Tree as black hardwood spikes severed the team's Chakra chains.
• Obito Uchiha discovered that he had pushed Kakashi into danger and was moving to attack Rin Nohara while gray-white cyborgs overwhelmed them.
• Obito Uchiha briefly broke through the illusion with his Sharingan and contacted the old man through the network.
• The old man explained that anyone injured by the Infinite Army would transform into a cyborg within seven days and said the process could be stopped by summoning his soul into a construct.
• Obito Uchiha demanded a way to save Rin, and the old man urged him to trust him as he had when he was Obito's teacher.

Obito Uchiha summoned Uchiha Madara through Impure World Reincarnation, but Madara used Obito and Rin Nohara to restore himself to a living body. Madara declared his intent to defy Sosuke Aizen and faced Kakashi Hatake, who demanded to know what happened to Obito and Rin.

• Uchiha Madara persuaded Obito Uchiha to summon him during a brief fracture in the spacetime barrier.
• Obito Uchiha used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Uchiha Madara through the white semi-mechanical humanoid.
• Uchiha Madara controlled Obito Uchiha and made him kill Rin Nohara, then used their bodies and the white material to restore himself to a young, living form.
• Uchiha Madara celebrated his resurrection and vowed to escape Sosuke Aizen's control and confront him.
• Kakashi Hatake broke free of the trap and demanded to know what Uchiha Madara had done to Obito and Rin.
• Uchiha Madara told Kakashi that Obito and Rin had gone to the world he would create, then prepared to fight him.

Kakashi used Pseudo Bankai: Ten Thousand Futures to summon alternate versions of himself while Uchiha Madara stalled for the Infinite Army’s Chakra to return. The first Kakashi came from a world where the Uchiha clan had been massacred, and his Kamui attack failed to keep Madara’s arm severed.

• Uchiha Madara mocked Kakashi’s Pseudo Bankai as they both waited for the Infinite Army to gather Chakra beneath the earth.
• Kakashi explained that Pseudo Bankai revealed possible futures, then opened one of four shadow doors with Ten Thousand Futures.
• An adult Kakashi in a Konoha vest emerged, and Madara ridiculed the younger Kakashi because this future version lacked the powers Kakashi expected.
• The adult Kakashi told them the Uchiha clan had been wiped out by Itachi Uchiha after moving its compound outside Konoha, leaving only Sasuke alive.
• The adult Kakashi used Kamui to remove Madara’s hand, but Madara restored it with Space-Time Ninjutsu and healing, leaving both Kakashis dismayed.

Kakashi of Konoha and the younger Kakashi faced Uchiha Madara, whose abilities absorbed Chakra and withstood their attacks. The two Kakashis used Kamui to break the Space-Time Barrier, bringing Sosuke Aizen through a rift to confront Madara.

• Uchiha Madara absorbed Kakashi of Konoha's attacks and explained how Chakra Alchemy was restoring his strength.
• The younger Kakashi contacted Kakashi of Konoha through Chakra threads and proposed using Kamui to escape the barrier.
• Kakashi of Konoha used Kamui on the younger Kakashi, and the resulting space-time distortion destabilized Madara's barrier.
• Aizen emerged through a crack in space and questioned Madara about the barrier and his retreat.
• Madara said Aizen's arrival had nothing to do with him, while Aizen calmly asked to meet Madara's mysterious ally.