Chapter Summaries

After Hizashi Hyuga died to preserve the peace, Hyuga Kiyomi took responsibility for Neji and began preparing him to grow stronger. The chapter ended with Hyuga Souya asking Kiyomi whether she still hated him.

• Kumo-nin accepted the Peace Accord after Konoha handed over Hizashi Hyuga's corpse, and Hizashi entrusted Neji's future to Hyuga Kiyomi.
• Hyuga Kiyomi moved Neji into a residence near her own and told him how his father had died, then struck him when he voiced hatred for Kumo-nin and the Main Family.
• Hyuga Kiyomi rebuked the clan's traditions and the Caged Bird Seal, then arranged Neji's living conditions and devised a training plan for him.
• Hyuga Kiyomi continued her own training despite sensing that her strength had reached a bottleneck, then went to meet Hyuga Souya at his request.
• Hyuga Souya asked Hyuga Kiyomi whether she still hated him.

Kiyomi rejected the idea that the Hyūga Clan’s problems were anyone’s fault alone and urged Souya to reform the Caged Bird system. Souya offered her a way to strengthen her Byakugan using his own eyes, while the chapter ended with Hyuga Mirai loading a third scientist template in Rōran.

• Kiyomi told Souya the Hyūga Clan had to end its reliance on the Caged Bird to control the Branch Family and guide the clan toward a better future.
• Souya gave Kiyomi an old record describing a Byakugan transplant and urged her to take his eyes to increase her strength.
• Kiyomi refused Souya’s offer, but he insisted that power was necessary for her to accomplish her goals.
• Konoha celebrated the Peace Accord as merchants sold products from the Uzumaki Company and Hundred Herbs Company.
• Hyuga Mirai completed a day of memory infusion in Rōran and loaded the third scientist template.

Hyuga Mirai planned a major upgrade for 18 and advanced the Clone Body project while Sasori built support among Sunagakure’s marginalized ninja. He decided it was time to begin with the One-Tail.

• Hyuga Mirai reviewed Doctor Brief’s memories and designed an upgrade for 18, including an Anti-gravity Device, stronger weapons, and an improved Star Stone Energy Furnace.
• Hyuga Mirai ordered 18 to move the Clone Body project forward and prepare the Laboratory, planning to return to Tea Country to begin the work.
• Hyuga Mirai rejected Sasori’s proposal to seize Sunagakure by force and continued relying on political pressure against Rasa’s reforms.
• Sasori gave Hyuga Mirai a scroll listing the Sunagakure ninja he had won over, most of them from the faction Rasa had sidelined.
• Hyuga Mirai noted that Sasori had covered nearly eighty percent of the marginalized Suna-nin and declared that they would start with the One-Tail.

Uzumaki Company's new Ninja Game stirred public fear and discussion of the Tailed Beasts, giving Danzo an opportunity to spread the truth about Naruto and undermine Hiruzen and Kushina. In Sunagakure, the game and organized agitation drew a crowd demanding that Rasa address the danger posed by the One-Tail and Gaara.

• Uzumaki Company's latest Ninja Game featured the Fourth Hokage and a punishing Nine-Tails final boss, prompting people in the Land of Fire to discuss the Nine-Tails.
• A Root operative reported the growing discussion to Danzo, who ordered Root Ninja to spread the news that Uzumaki Naruto was the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki throughout Konoha and the Land of Fire.
• Danzo planned to exploit the village's hostility toward the Nine-Tails to seize control of Naruto and advance his own ambitions.
• In Sunagakure, the game's One-Tail final boss and efforts by agitators intensified residents' fears of Gaara's frequent rampages.
• More than a thousand Ninja and Villagers gathered outside the Kazekage's Office Building to demand an answer from Rasa, with Pakura among the crowd.

Rasa faced a public protest over Gaara’s safety and promised a solution within seven days, while Hyuga Mirai sent Sasori to retrieve the Reanimation Jutsu. The chapter ended with Rasa learning that the Daimyo had halted the Yasunori Trading Company’s mining operations and cut Sunagakure’s funding again.

• Morihira led villagers in demanding that Rasa explain why Gaara could roam freely and promise to protect them from the One-Tail.
• Pakura tried to calm the crowd, and Rasa vowed to find a solution within seven days or resign if anyone was injured by the One-Tail.
• After the crowd dispersed, Rasa ordered the Anbu to investigate and sent Gaara outside the village while he paused the plan to control the One-Tail.
• Hyuga Mirai watched Rasa’s response with Sasori and reminded him to deliver the Reanimation Jutsu, prompting Sasori to leave for Chiyo’s residence.
• Rasa learned that the Daimyo had stopped the Yasunori Trading Company’s mining operations and cut Sunagakure’s funding by another twenty percent, and he smashed his desk in anger.

Rasa struggled to stop the Yasunori Trading Company from leaving Sunagakure after the Land of Wind's Daimyo harassed it, while rumors triggered panic buying and threatened his position as Kazekage. Meanwhile, Hyuga Mirai finished giving Android 18 the ability to feel, and she began to share intelligence with him.

• Yasunori Sakai told Rasa that the Yasunori Trading Company would suspend business and missions with Sunagakure and withdraw its personnel unless the dispute was resolved.
• Rasa ordered an investigation into Pakura's role, then traveled to the Land of Wind's capital and left Baki and Yashamaru in charge of village affairs.
• News of the company's planned departure spread through Sunagakure, prompting residents and ninja to buy supplies in bulk.
• Yasunori Sakai told Pakura that the company might leave and that its losses could exceed one billion ryo, while rumors spread further through the village.
• Hyuga Mirai completed modifications that let Android 18 feel sensations, and she told him she had intelligence to report.

Hyuga Mirai learned that Tsunade had borrowed 730 million ryo from merchant guilds connected to him while impersonating several people, then focused on expanding his economic influence across the Ninja World. The chapter ended with Rasa failing to reach an agreement with the Daimyo of the Land of Wind and receiving a message from Sunagakure.

• Android 18 told Hyuga Mirai that Tsunade had taken out twenty-seven loans totaling 730 million ryo while using the identities of Hyuga Mirai, Orochimaru, and Uzumaki Ayaka.
• Hyuga Mirai dismissed the debt as a loss and ordered Android 18 to send the bill to Konoha.
• Hyuga Mirai planned to connect the southwestern regions through Space Capsules and continued expanding his influence through Sara and the merchant guilds.
• Sara persuaded the Land of Demons to accept Yasunori Trading Company’s support, while the company’s influence and goods weakened the Daimyo’s authority in Bear Country.
• Hyuga Mirai postponed developing Rain Country until after taking control of the Land of Wind, wanting to see whether Konan and Nagato would compromise their plans.
• Rasa failed to persuade the Daimyo of the Land of Wind to fund Sunagakure, and the Daimyo threatened to give some missions to Konoha Ninja before Rasa received a message from the village.

Rasa returned to Sunagakure and faced a crisis after the Daimyo refused to compromise and the Yasunori Trading Company threatened to withdraw. With the village’s supplies and future at stake, Rasa chose to contact the company, while Morihei sent word of his decision to Daimyo Manor.

• Rasa rushed back to Sunagakure, heard the reports, and found that none of the village’s leaders had a solution to its dependence on the Yasunori Trading Company.
• Rasa summoned Ebizo and Chiyo, who learned that Sunagakure lacked the funds to buy supplies elsewhere without halting its ninja training program.
• Rasa told the meeting that the Daimyo had cut Sunagakure’s funding again and planned to assign missions to Konoha, prompting the Suna-nin leaders to condemn him.
• Ebizo and Chiyo advised Rasa that Sunagakure might have to abandon its alliance with the Daimyo, though Rasa recognized the risks of breaking the established system.
• Rasa declared that he would bear responsibility for his decision and ordered his people to contact the Yasunori Trading Company.
• Morihei received the intelligence, said Sasori had predicted Rasa’s choice, and sent a subordinate through a Secret Passage to notify Daimyo Manor.

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind decided to place an 800 million ryo bounty on Rasa, while Rasa offered the Yasunori Trading Company deep cooperation in exchange for its support. Hyuga Mirai learned that Rasa had invited the Yasunori House Head to negotiate and planned to attend with Android 18.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind, furious that Rasa intended to abandon the alliance, approved an 800 million ryo bounty to have Rasa assassinated.
• Rasa invited Yasunori Sakai and Sunagakure's leaders to a meeting, where he promised to help the Yasunori Trading Company resume mining its mineral veins.
• Rasa offered the Yasunori Trading Company Elder positions, priority materials, and Ninja support in exchange for deeper cooperation, but Yasunori Sakai said he needed to consult the Patriarch.
• Rasa asked Yasunori Sakai to arrange a meeting with the Patriarch of the Yasunori House, and the meeting ended with negotiations still to come.
• Android 18 informed Hyuga Mirai that Rasa had invited the Yasunori House Head to Sunagakure, and Hyuga Mirai said he would attend alongside Android 18.

Android 18, disguised as the Yasunori Family patriarch, negotiated an alliance with Rasa while Akatsuki accepted a commission to assassinate the Fourth Kazekage. Before the agreement could be signed, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind summoned Rasa to the capital, leaving the negotiations on hold.

• Rasa and Sunagakure's higher-ups prepared to bring the Yasunori Trading Company into the village while keeping their alliance with the Daimyo intact in name.
• Pain introduced Kisame Hoshigaki as Akatsuki's seventh official member, and Kakuzu proposed a commission to kill the Fourth Kazekage for eight hundred million ryo.
• Pain assigned Kakuzu, Raiga Kurosuki, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Byakko to carry out the assassination, while Zetsu identified the Daimyo of the Land of Wind as the likely employer.
• Konan continued treating Nagato with the Medical Machine, which improved his health but could not restore his ability to walk.
• Android 18 arrived in Sunagakure disguised as the Patriarch of the Yasunori House and negotiated financial authority and reform rights with Rasa.
• The Daimyo summoned Rasa to the capital just as the alliance agreement was being finalized, and Android 18 agreed to wait for his return.

Rasa encountered Kakuzu, Kisame Hoshigaki, Konan, and Raiga Kurosuki in the Land of Wind, where Kisame’s Water Release overwhelmed Rasa’s Gold Dust and left the Suna-nin Anbu nearly defeated. Sasori intervened to rescue the last surviving Anbu, and Kakuzu turned to face him.

• Kakuzu, Kisame Hoshigaki, Konan, and Raiga Kurosuki confronted Rasa as he traveled to meet the Daimyo, and Kisame insisted on testing the Fourth Kazekage himself.
• Rasa unleashed Gold Dust Burial, but Kisame flooded the desert with Water Release and turned the battlefield into a lake, weakening Rasa’s control of his Gold Dust.
• Kakuzu used his Earth Grudge Fear masks to keep the Suna-nin Anbu away from Rasa, killing two of them while Kisame pressed his advantage over the Kazekage.
• Sasori watched the battle through a surveillance puppet and prepared to save an Anbu, while Hyuga Mirai told him his new Nano Space Capsule was still being developed.
• Kakuzu killed another Anbu, but Sasori’s beam cannon shattered an Earth Grudge Fear mask, and Sasori rescued the last surviving Anbu before Kakuzu could finish him.
• The rescued Anbu recognized Sasori as the Red Sand, while Kakuzu turned toward the attacker.

After Rasa was assassinated, Sasori fought the Akatsuki members and escaped with Rasa’s body. Sunagakure’s leaders confirmed Rasa’s death and began addressing succession, the alliance with the Yasunori Trading Company, and revenge.

• Sasori saved a Suna-nin Anbu and sent him back to Sunagakure to report that Rasa was dead.
• Sasori used his Ice Release puppet against Kakuzu, then fought the four Akatsuki members with seven puppets.
• Kakuzu lost three hearts and fled with Rasa’s head, while Raiga’s sword broke, Kisame was wounded, and Konan retreated; Sasori left with Rasa’s headless corpse.
• Pakura led reinforcements to the battlefield, found no trace of Rasa or Sasori, and returned to Sunagakure to summon Chiyo and Ebizo.
• Chiyo called for the village to choose a Fifth Kazekage, finalize its alliance with the Yasunori Trading Company, and seek revenge for Rasa’s assassination.
• Ebizo suggested that the Daimyo in the Land of Wind’s capital might have ordered the assassination.

After Rasa’s assassination, Pakura became the Fifth Kazekage and confronted the Land of Wind’s Daimyo, whose manor was soon attacked by disguised rogue ninja. To strengthen Sunagakure amid its break with the Daimyo, Pakura accepted the Yasunori Family’s proposed Federal System and began planning reforms that could bring powerful allies into the village.

• Sunagakure’s leaders chose Pakura as the Fifth Kazekage, and Pakura ordered a covert attack on the Daimyo of the Land of Wind’s manor after the Daimyo’s suspected role in Rasa’s assassination.
• The Daimyo rebuked Pakura, demanded Sunagakure’s desert mineral veins, and granted her the succession document; afterward, attackers killed him, his heir, and most of his officials, leaving a weak child as successor.
• Pakura visited the Patriarch of the Yasunori House, whom Android 18 impersonated, and accepted the proposed Federal System pending negotiations over its details.
• Android 18 gave Pakura a list of nobles, regional allies, and the Hundred Herbs Company that might join the federation, exciting Sunagakure’s leaders and prompting them to focus on reforming the village’s system.

Sunagakure prepared sweeping reforms and expansion plans that would turn it into the Saudi Federal Republic State, alarming Konoha as the Yasunori Family joined the village. Meanwhile, Hyuga Mirai left the Tea Country Base to confront Tsunade before she uncovered more about Kado's Shipping Company.

• The Underground Money Exchange publicized Kakuzu's successful bounty on Rasa after evacuating its remaining bases in the Land of Wind.
• Android 18, Pakura, and other representatives discussed legal reforms, village expansion, and oasis construction, and Pakura approved Yasunori Sakai's company to lead civil engineering work.
• Sunagakure planned to become the Saudi Federal Republic State, while the Yasunori Family and other wealthy groups prepared to join it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura worried that the Yasunori Family's move would rapidly strengthen Sunagakure, while Danzo secretly focused on the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hyuga Mirai set the Tea Country Base clone's nutrient solution to renew automatically, then flew toward Tsunade to stop her investigating Kado's Shipping Company.

Hyuga Mirai found Tsunade at a Kaido Shipping warehouse after she used his face to borrow money, then invited her to join his side over a meal. He challenged her loyalty to Konoha and the inherited Will of Fire, and restrained her when she angrily tried to strike him.

• Tsunade searched a Kaido Shipping warehouse for useful information while pretending to borrow money as Hyuga Mirai.
• Hyuga Mirai arrived, dismissed the warehouse staff, and persuaded Tsunade and Shizune to talk with him at a nearby restaurant.
• At the restaurant, Hyuga Mirai invited Tsunade to join his side, while Tsunade insisted she remained a Konoha Ninja.
• Hyuga Mirai argued that Tsunade had become disappointed in Konoha and questioned whether she should keep inheriting the dead's will.
• Tsunade tried to slam her hand on the table in anger, but Hyuga Mirai grabbed and restrained it.

Hyuga Mirai challenged Tsunade to distinguish her own dream from the will imposed on her, arguing that the Ninja system made lasting peace impossible and that his organization could change it. Tsunade chose to try his path and joined, receiving a ring that connected her to the organization.

• Hyuga Mirai restrained Tsunade and questioned whether protecting Konoha was truly her dream, arguing that her real wish was to end war and prevent the deaths of people she loved.
• Hyuga Mirai explained that the Ninja class and the One Village One Nation system made wars inevitable, and challenged Tsunade to consider what becoming Hokage could actually change.
• Tsunade asked whether Hyuga Mirai could bring peace, and he offered her a communications device and invited her to join his organization for the last time.
• Shizune objected that Hyuga Mirai was deceiving Tsunade into betraying Konoha, but Tsunade stopped her and asked whether she would try a path that might achieve peace.
• Shizune said she would try, and Tsunade accepted Hyuga Mirai's offer, asking him to transform the wristwatch into a ring.
• Hyuga Mirai transformed the wristwatch into a ring and told Tsunade that wearing it would let her discover a new world.

Hyuga Mirai recruited Tsunade by offering her a laboratory and new research materials, then released Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju from Impure World Reincarnation. Meanwhile, Akatsuki faced growing pressure after its clash with Sasori and the Land of Wind’s blame for the Daimyo’s death, while Nagato remained confident he could defend Rain Country.

• Hyuga Mirai explained the Communicator Ring to Tsunade and encouraged her to develop her Disorderly Disturbance Technique in a laboratory in Hot Spring Country.
• Hyuga Mirai went to Whirlpool Country and released Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, answering one question from each before they returned to the Pure Land.
• Pain ordered Zetsu to locate Sasori of the Red Sand and warned Akatsuki’s members that the organization’s activities would pause as bounty hunters pursued them.
• Konan warned Nagato that Sunagakure might surround Rain Country, but Nagato said Pain would repel any invasion.

Tsunade studied Hyuga Mirai’s organization and chose to support his path toward peace, taking Shizune with her to visit the Experiment Base in Tea Country. Meanwhile, Pakura pushed ahead with the Saudi Federal Republic State’s reforms, agreeing that its new territories must share unified political governance.

• Tsunade examined the organization’s research and territory records, then realized its influence could let Hyuga Mirai reshape the Ninja World.
• Tsunade told Shizune she was betting on Hyuga Mirai and invited her to visit the Experiment Base in Tea Country.
• Pakura borrowed two billion from the Yasunori Trading Company and redirected Sunagakure’s Ninja to construction and other essential tasks.
• Pakura rejected proposals to seize the Land of Wind outright and sent radical Martial faction members on transport and escort missions.
• After two discussions, Pakura accepted Elder Yasunori’s proposal to place joined territories under the Saudi Federal Republic State’s unified government.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha and was assigned by Sarutobi Hiruzen to gather intelligence in the Land of Wind about Sunagakure, the Yasunori Family, and recent deaths. Before leaving, he saw how rumors about Naruto’s Nine-Tails jinchuriki status had caused other children to shun him.

• Jiraiya met with Sarutobi Hiruzen, who explained that four River Country nobles had joined Sunagakure, bringing Konoha and Suna-nin into direct contact at the border.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Jiraiya to investigate the deaths of the Fourth Kazekage and the Land of Wind’s Daimyo, Sunagakure’s reforms, and the Yasunori Trading Company.
• Jiraiya rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s implied suggestion that he become Hokage and questioned why rumors about Naruto’s jinchuriki status were still spreading.
• Jiraiya visited Naruto at a playground and saw that the other children kept their distance from him because of the rumors.
• Jiraiya left Konoha to gather intelligence in the Land of Wind.

Pakura weighed Sunagakure’s expansion and reforms while Elder Yasunori offered a compromise on accepting River Country nobles and presented improved wheat that could greatly increase food production. At a checkpoint into the Saudi Federal Republic State, Jiraiya arrived and introduced himself as a travel writer.

• Pakura and Sunagakure’s leaders debated accepting four River Country nobles, and Elder Yasunori suggested letting civilians manage their territories without stationing ninja there.
• Android 18 placed loyal, capable people from Rōran and the Tea Country in Sunagakure’s administrative roles as the village trained more officials.
• Elder Yasunori showed Pakura improved wheat seeds that could yield four to five times more grain, and Pakura planned to prepare for their eventual distribution.
• At the checkpoint, Jiraiya told the registrar he had come from the capital to travel and write, but the registrar cut him off and called for the next person.