Chapter Summaries

Kazuna fought the Raikage and Mifune until Orochimaru and Danzo intervened and helped Kumogakure retreat. After returning to the main camp, Kazuna refused Fugaku’s request to pursue, deciding that Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation made a meeting necessary.

• Kazuna evaded the Raikage’s attacks, struck Mifune with Susanoo, and used a Slug to supply Chakra to Fugaku so he could keep fighting.
• Orochimaru and Danzo appeared and urged the Raikage to withdraw, while Danzo’s suicide warriors held back Konohagakure’s ninja.
• Kazuna unleashed Susanoo’s Fire Style: Majestic Annihilation, but Orochimaru’s resurrected Second Hokage used Water Release to protect the retreat before the Blood Flame burned him to ash.
• The Raikage and Kumogakure’s ninja withdrew, while the Eight-Tails left a tail clone behind that Kazuna claimed as nourishment.
• Fugaku asked Kazuna for permission to attack Kumogakure, but Kazuna gave him medicine and called for a meeting because Orochimaru could use Impure World Reincarnation.

Kazuna paused Konohagakure’s offensives despite a sweeping victory across the battlefronts, then met Orochimaru to discuss ending the war. He demanded that the four villages pay for Explosive Tags, war compensation, and medical costs, leaving the negotiations at an impasse.

• Fugaku praised Kazuna’s medicine for Mangekyo users, and Kazuna ordered his forces to rest after Naoto Nara reported heavy casualties and massive Explosive Tag use.
• Kazuna received reports that Konohagakure had defeated Kirigakure, driven Iwagakure back, and helped Rasa secure control of Sunagakure, while the allied villages suffered more than ten thousand casualties overall.
• Fugaku urged Kazuna to press the advantage against Kumogakure, but Kazuna refused and repeatedly insisted that he was the Hokage.
• Kazuna rejected Orochimaru’s invitation to meet privately, then went to the agreed location that afternoon and asked about the progress of Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru urged Kazuna to withdraw before the four villages united against Konohagakure, and Kazuna offered to end the war only if they reimbursed his Explosive Tags, paid compensation, and covered medical expenses.
• Orochimaru warned that the villages would refuse the demands, and Kazuna challenged that refusal as a reason to continue fighting.

Orochimaru negotiated Kazuna’s compensation demands, then warned the allied Kage that Konohagakure’s growing number of Tailed Beasts made another war perilous. The Kage remained divided over whether to resume fighting or make peace.

• Kazuna offered Orochimaru ten percent of any compensation he secured, and Orochimaru eagerly agreed to negotiate.
• Mifune opened a meeting where Ōnoki, the Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Rasa debated whether to fight or accept Kazuna’s compensation terms.
• Rasa urged the villages to fight, and Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Rasa, and Mifune pledged additional forces, while the Raikage hesitated.
• The Raikage asked Orochimaru to summon dead shinobi to help them, but Orochimaru refused and declined to join another war.
• Orochimaru advised the Kage to make peace, reminding them that Konohagakure now had more Tailed Beasts than before.

Ōnoki revealed Orochimaru’s former ties to Akatsuki before Konohagakure launched a surprise attack that drove Iwagakure back. As the other leaders suspected Danzo of leaking their plans, Uchiha Kazuna reached the Kirigakure border and prepared to confront Mei Terumi.

• Ōnoki told the assembled leaders that Orochimaru had once belonged to Akatsuki and that Uchiha Kazuna was also a member.
• A disguised assassin tried to kill Ōnoki, but he contained the attacker, and the assassin’s explosion destroyed the Tsuchikage’s tent.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade led Konohagakure’s assault on Iwagakure, forcing Ōnoki’s forces to retreat.
• After learning Iwagakure had been attacked, the leaders suspected Danzo had leaked their plans, while Danzo insisted he wanted Uchiha Kazuna dead and planned to destroy and rebuild Konohagakure.
• Uchiha Kazuna arrived at the Kirigakure border and joined Uchiha Shisui, with Uchiha Itachi concealed nearby as backup.

Kazuna led three thousand Konohagakure shinobi and millions of Explosive Tags to attack Kirigakure, while Mei Terumi prepared to defend her village with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and Utakata. After Mei explained Kirigakure’s fears of Konohagakure’s power, Kazuna declared that he had come for her and professed his love, prompting Mei to reject his apparent insult and unleash Kirigakure’s battle aura.

• Kazuna discussed Kirigakure’s elite forces and ordered Shisui and Itachi to watch the Six-Tails and Mei Terumi while he attacked the other shinobi.
• Mei Terumi worried that Kazuna would retaliate against Kirigakure, then found reassurance in the arrival of Zabuza Momochi and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• An explosion signaled Konohagakure’s attack, and Mei led Kirigakure’s forces out to meet Shisui and Itachi’s advancing army.
• Utakata sensed Kazuna’s powerful Chakra, and Mei called on the Hokage to face her before Kazuna emerged from the Konohagakure ranks.
• Kazuna announced that he had brought three thousand shinobi and over ten million Explosive Tags, then claimed he had come because he was lovesick for Mei.
• Mei rejected Kazuna’s professions of affection as an insult and declared Kirigakure’s pride as its forces released an astonishing aura.

Kazuna and Konoha launched an assault on Kirigakure, with Shisui and Itachi holding off Mei Terumi and Utakata while Kazuna rampaged through the enemy ranks. After Utakata’s attack killed dozens of Konoha ninja, Kazuna forced him to leave the battlefield and face him directly.

• Kazuna provoked Mei Terumi, and Shisui engaged her while Itachi confronted Six-Tails Utakata.
• Kazuna ordered Konoha’s three thousand ninja to attack Kirigakure’s five thousand, then used Susanoo to scatter the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and devastate Kirigakure’s ranks.
• Utakata entered his Tailed Beast cloak, trapped Kazuna’s Susanoo with corrosive mucus, and escaped its grasp.
• Utakata fired a small Tailed Beast Bomb at Konoha’s forces, killing dozens and creating a vast crater, so Kazuna retaliated against Kirigakure and demanded a direct fight.
• Utakata agreed to lure Kazuna away from the battlefield, while Mei called after him and Shisui and Itachi held Kirigakure’s fighters back.

Kazuna fought Utakata’s Six-Tails until Pain and Konan intervened and took the Jinchuriki away. Konohagakure then defeated Kirigakure, but Mei Terumi escaped with over two thousand ninja, so Kazuna ordered Shisui to blockade Kirigakure and prepare to subdue it.

• Kazuna escorted Utakata away from the battlefield and challenged him after Utakata transformed into the Six-Tails.
• Kazuna battled the Six-Tails with Susanoo until Pain’s missiles and a powerful strike interrupted the fight.
• Angel took Utakata while Pain confronted Kazuna, then Konan’s explosive Paper Cranes covered their retreat and carried messages to Kazuna.
• Kazuna ordered Konohagakure to attack Kirigakure, and he and Itachi helped rout its forces.
• Mei Terumi brought surviving Kaguya Clan members into the battle, allowing over two thousand Kirigakure ninja to escape.
• Kazuna ordered Shisui to mobilize Konohagakure’s strongest forces and blockade Kirigakure.

Kazuna led Konohagakure to victory against Kirigakure and negotiated compensation and a ten-year peace agreement with the other villages. After the summit, Mei Terumi asked him what had happened to the Six-Tails.

• Shisui led four thousand Konohagakure ninja to block Kirigakure's routes, and the battle left Konohagakure with more than eight hundred dead and Kirigakure with three thousand casualties.
• Kakashi held off Sunagakure, Jiraiya drove back Iwagakure, and Fugaku repelled Kumogakure with help from Konohagakure's forces.
• Five days later, the Kage gathered for peace talks, and Takigakure's Muto presided because Mifune had lost the Land of Iron's neutrality.
• Kazuna arrived late, provoked the Raikage and Ōnoki, and demanded that the defeated villages compensate Konohagakure.
• The Kage agreed to compensation and no war for ten years, and Mei Terumi asked Kazuna about the Six-Tails.

Kazuna negotiated with the other Kage over Kirigakure receiving a Tailed Beast, then shared what he claimed to know about Akatsuki. He left them alarmed by his report that someone behind Pain carried the aura of Wood Release, while firmly denying any connection to Konohagakure’s Senju Clan.

• The Raikage insisted Kirigakure must obtain a Tailed Beast, and Kazuna agreed after teasing Ōnoki and pushing back on the other Kage’s suspicions about Akatsuki.
• Mei Terumi rejected Kazuna’s suggestion that she travel alone to Konohagakure, then agreed to pay him thirty or fifty million ryo for information.
• Kazuna identified Pain as Akatsuki’s leader and described his strength and subordinates, while Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Rasa supplied Scrolls about members the villages already knew.
• Kazuna gave the Kage limited intelligence on Orochimaru, Hiruko, the Masked Man, and the black-and-white man, then revealed that someone stood behind Pain.
• Kazuna said he had sensed the aura of Wood Release from that hidden figure, prompting Ōnoki to insist Hashirama Senju was dead and Kazuna to deny any connection to the Senju Clan.

After the Fourth Shinobi World War ended, the Kage discussed Akatsuki and the possibility of recreating Wood Release, while Konohagakure prepared to send experts if needed. Back in the village, Kazuna appointed Pakura an elder, and Naoto Nara’s break with Shikaku Nara revealed a split within Ino-Shika-Cho.

• Kazuna told the Kage that Shimura Danzō had produced a child who could use Wood Release, prompting them to consider pursuing similar research before Mei Terumi brought the discussion back to Akatsuki.
• The Kage agreed to try negotiating with Akatsuki in Amegakure over the Six-Tails and to attack if negotiations failed, temporarily ending the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Kazuna reviewed Konohagakure’s losses, said that only experts needed to face Akatsuki, and appointed Pakura an elder of Konohagakure.
• Naoto Nara rejected Shikaku Nara’s attempt to draw him away from Kazuna and declared that he would not be anyone’s dog.
• Shikaku Nara concluded that Ino-Shika-Cho had split between his loyal faction and the new faction led by Naoto Nara.

Pain confronted Kazuna and revealed that the allied villages had demanded Akatsuki return the Tailed Beasts, prompting him to prepare Amegakure for war. Kazuna arranged support for Konan and helped Rasa bargain with the other villages, leaving Sunagakure’s participation dependent on payment.

• Pain questioned Deidara about leaking Akatsuki information to Ōnoki, and Kazuna interrupted to ask what terms the Raikage and the others had offered.
• Pain told Kazuna that the allied villages had demanded the Six-Tails and the other Tailed Beasts; Kazuna warned that an allied force and the Samurai might attack Amegakure, while Pain vowed to fight back.
• Kazuna told Konan that the Six-Tails would appear on the battlefield and that he would keep Kirigakure occupied, then sent Karin Uzumaki with her to help replenish her Chakra.
• The Raikage, Tsuchikage, Mizukage, Rasa, and Mifune gathered to plan an attack on Amegakure, but Rasa demanded to know what Sunagakure and the Land of Iron would gain.
• Rasa demanded that the Raikage and Tsuchikage cover Sunagakure’s reparations to Konohagakure and compensation for its dead in exchange for Sunagakure tying down Amegakure’s forces.

Rasa negotiated payment for Sunagakure’s role in the alliance against Amegakure, while the other forces began deploying against Pain. When Kazuna learned Kirigakure was bringing three thousand White Zetsu to the battlefield, he sent Tekka and elite Uchiha to retrieve their corpses, then wondered why the remaining Tailed Beasts had not been deployed and whether Obito would act.

• Rasa secured 50 million ryo in exchange for leading five thousand Sunagakure ninja against Amegakure, while Mifune promised three thousand samurai and financial aid to Kumogakure and Iwagakure.
• Kazuna dismissed the alliance’s plan as unlikely to succeed and learned that Rasa, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki’s forces were approaching Amegakure from separate fronts.
• Rasa’s force confronted Konan, Juzo Biwa, and Black and White Zetsu, while Mei led Kirigakure against Sasori, Deidara, and three thousand White Zetsu.
• Kazuna became eager to obtain the White Zetsu and ordered Tekka, Inabi, and more than ten elite Uchiha jonin to retrieve as many corpses as possible without being detected.
• Kazuna asked Naoto about the Tailed Beasts, learned that none beyond the One-Tails and Nine-Tails had been located, and questioned why they were absent from the battle and whether Obito would make a move.

Kazuna learned that Obito had gone missing and prepared to pursue the remaining Five-Tails and Seven-Tails, while a major battle erupted as Kirigakure attacked the White Zetsu. Chiyo confronted her grandson Sasori over his murder of the Third Kazekage, and their puppet battle began as Kirigakure pushed the White Zetsu back.

• Kazuna learned from Konan that the Masked Man was missing but had promised to return before the war, and he considered seeking the Five-Tails and Seven-Tails to gain more power.
• Mei Terumi launched Kirigakure's attack on the White Zetsu, and her forces overwhelmed them while she fought Sasori and Deidara.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist surrounded Deidara, while Sasori revealed his true puppet body and called for reinforcements.
• Chiyo and Ebizo appeared, and Sasori summoned the Third Kazekage as a puppet, revealing that he had killed him and once sought to kill Rasa.
• Chiyo sent Ebizo to aid Kirigakure, then fought Sasori using three puppets he had created, while Mei Terumi led Kirigakure deeper into the White Zetsu ranks.

Tekka used his newly awakened Mangekyo to manipulate Kirigakure into fighting the White Zetsu, allowing the Uchiha to collect their corpses for Kazuna. Obito and Zetsu retreated, then planned to capture the Five-Tails and Seven-Tails despite Kazuna having sealed the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Mei Terumi and Ebizo led Kirigakure in defeating three thousand White Zetsu, but the village suffered hundreds of casualties.
• Mei Terumi suspected the Uchiha had manipulated the battle, then ordered the White Zetsu bodies gathered and left intact.
• Tekka revealed that he had awakened a Mangekyo with the Mental Suggestion ability and admitted he had influenced Kirigakure to start the fight and preserve the corpses.
• Tekka and the Uchiha collected the White Zetsu and Kirigakure bodies before returning to the village to claim their reward.
• Obito and Zetsu emerged after the Uchiha left, worried that Kazuna would study the White Zetsu corpses, and Obito ordered them to pursue the Five-Tails and Seven-Tails.

Obito and Zetsu worried about Kazuna’s intentions while the Allied Forces advanced through Amegakure to confront Pain and claim the Rinnegan. In Konohagakure, Kazuna received White Zetsu’s corpse and his followers discussed his weaknesses, as Fugaku warned that enemies might be trying to eliminate him before he reached his full power.

• Obito and Zetsu concluded that they needed to protect the Five-Tails and Seven-Tails from Kazuna.
• The Raikage and Tsuchikage led the Allied Forces deeper into Amegakure, where they confronted Pain and demanded the Rinnegan and all the Tailed Beasts.
• Kazuna learned that White Zetsu’s corpse had arrived at the laboratory and left his office with Yazo to see it.
• Tekka’s Mangekyo awakening prompted the Uchiha to compare Kazuna with Madara, and Fugaku identified Kazuna’s limited experience against evenly matched opponents as one weakness.
• Fugaku warned that Kazuna’s youth might make him a target and urged the Uchiha to stay alert, then brought up Jiraiya’s search for the Child of Prophecy.

Fugaku warned the Uchiha not to let Kazuna’s growing influence make them careless, while Kazuna began using thousands of corpses to strengthen himself and his Divine Tree. In Amegakure, Pain continued fighting the Raikage and Ōnoki until Mei Terumi arrived to join them.

• Fugaku reminded the Uchiha that Minato Namikaze had once seemed destined for greatness but had died unexpectedly, urging them to behave cautiously and avoid disrupting Kazuna’s plans.
• Fugaku and Tekka exchanged barbs until Shisui redirected them to their discussion of Madara Uchiha and Kazuna, and Fugaku said Madara was currently stronger.
• Kazuna brought Yazo to his laboratory, dismissed her, and began absorbing the life energy of thousands of White Zetsu and Kirigakure corpses to evolve himself and the Divine Tree.
• Pain fought the Raikage and Ōnoki in Amegakure, ripped off the Raikage’s arm, and revived himself after the Raikage shattered him.
• Mei Terumi arrived and launched a Water Dragon Bullet at Pain.

Kazuna emerged from seclusion greatly strengthened and learned that Pain had driven the allied forces from Amegakure after battling four leaders. He questioned the villages’ hidden reserves and was handed a report about the Land of Fire’s Daimyo.

• Pain fought Mei Terumi, the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Mifune, then unleashed Super Almighty Push as they tried to protect their forces.
• Kazuna broke free from a blood cocoon with stronger Fire Release, Sage Art, and physique, while his Divine Tree grew a fourth fruit.
• Kazuna reunited with Yazo, learned he had been in seclusion for five days, and reviewed reports describing the battle at Amegakure as a draw.
• Kazuna questioned whether Pain could truly have overwhelmed four powerful opponents and suspected Konan had influenced the battle.
• Kazuna told Yazo to focus on managing Konohagakure and requested information about the Five-Tails and Eight-Tails, then reasoned that the villages were still concealing strength.
• Yazo gave Kazuna a report concerning the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and Kazuna laughed after reading it.

Kazuna used Konohagakure’s victory to force the Land of Fire’s Daimyo into peace talks, demanding money and territory after Konohagakure’s Shinobi killed dozens of nobles and attacked the Daimyo’s guards. Yazo delivered Kazuna’s terms to the Daimyo’s Messenger, who was left facing a demand for 500 million ryo and two cities while the attacks continued.

• The Land of Fire’s Daimyo tried to cripple Konohagakure’s businesses, but Kazuna’s Shinobi retaliated by killing dozens of nobles and later attacking the Daimyo’s guards.
• After Konohagakure won the war, the frightened Daimyo sent an envoy to seek peace, and Kazuna decided to demand money and land.
• Kazuna told Yazo that Fireleaf City and Flameleaf City would become Konohagakure’s territory and ordered her to negotiate.
• Yazo told the Daimyo’s Messenger that Konohagakure demanded 500 million ryo and two cities, and warned him that attacks on the Daimyo’s guards would continue if the terms were refused.
• The Daimyo’s Messenger learned that only six of the Guardian Twelve Ninja remained and feared for the Daimyo’s safety.

Konoha took control of two cities and began expanding, while Kazuna learned the reports about the Five-Tails’ capture were false and gathered information about the Tailed Beasts. After Konoha and Amegakure both defeated major Shinobi villages, the defeated powers grew resentful, and Mifune brooded over his failures.

• Yazo pressured the Daimyo's Messenger into agreeing to transfer two cities to Konoha, and the Daimyo's order made the handover official.
• The Daimyo targeted the nobles to raise money for Konoha, sparking unrest in the Land of Fire as Kazuna began planning Konoha's expansion.
• Uzuki Yugao reported that the Five-Tails had supposedly been captured, but Konan told Kazuna that the Masked Man had failed and the Five-Tails had escaped.
• Rasa told Kazuna that Gaara and the One-Tails were with the allied forces, and Kazuna shared Tailed Beast locations with Akatsuki and warned Gaara of a possible attack.
• Konan told Kazuna that Nagato had recovered enough to fight after their battle, and she planned to capture the Tailed Beasts with his cooperation.
• After Konoha and Amegakure defeated coalitions of major villages and Samurai, Iwagakure and Kumogakure endured growing contempt while Mifune lamented his role in the Land of Iron's decline.

Kazuna took over two cities, executed their nobles, and began rebuilding them while the Shinobi World’s villages moved toward open conflict with their Daimyos. A month later, Konan told him Obito had captured the Seven-Tails, and Kazuna asked for both the beast and its young Jinchuriki.

• Kazuna ordered the nobles in the two cities beheaded, spared some women and children, and placed the cities under Konohagakure’s rule.
• Kazuna and Uzuki Yugao investigated the city and learned that the nobles had drained wealth from commoners through excessive taxes.
• Kazuna approved reconstruction projects and said his priority was ensuring the commoners had food.
• Yazo told Kazuna that the Land of Lightning, Land of Earth, Land of Wind, and Land of Water were demanding more funding from their Daimyos, and Kazuna predicted three factions would emerge in the coming conflict.
• A month later, Konan told Kazuna that Obito had captured the Seven-Tails, and Kazuna asked for its Jinchuriki as well as the beast.