Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Mirai visited Uzumaki Kushina to discuss Naruto and challenge Kushina’s attempt to teach him two Sage Modes. After questioning Naruto about his lack of anger, Mirai left Kushina wondering what had shaped her son’s behavior.

• Hyuga Mirai explained why Kushina could not combine his Sage Mode with Shikkotsu Forest’s Sage Mode and suspected Danzo had encouraged her to try.
• Kushina told Mirai that Shima Toad had approached her about Naruto, but she refused and preferred that Naruto contract with Katsuyu.
• Uzumaki Naruto entered the conversation, met Uzumaki Ayaka, and learned she was his aunt and a member of the Uzumaki Clan.
• Hyuga Mirai challenged Naruto’s belief that Namikaze Minato was a great father and Hokage, leaving Naruto unable to defend his father.
• After Naruto returned to his room, Mirai told Kushina he had been testing why Naruto did not seem to get angry.

Hyuga Mirai told Kushina that Asura's Chakra was influencing Naruto and offered to save her life in exchange for taking Naruto away from Konoha. He planted a Curse Mark in Kushina and escaped with Uzumaki Ayaka after Anbu intervened, but the chapter ended with Mirai realizing they had been caught in an Illusion Technique.

• Kushina confronted Mirai about Naruto's altered personality, and Mirai explained that Asura's Chakra was subtly influencing him.
• Mirai refused to help without compensation and urged Kushina to leave Konoha with Naruto, promising that the Saudi Federation would protect them.
• Ayaka bound Kushina while Mirai planted a Curse Mark in her, preserving her life and causing her to scream loudly enough to alert the Anbu.
• Anbu evacuated Naruto and attacked Mirai and Ayaka, but Ayaka's Adamantine Sealing Chains knocked several of them unconscious before the pair escaped.
• Mirai and Ayaka left Konoha by another route, intending to let Android 18 handle the aftermath, but Mirai recognized that they were trapped in an Illusion Technique.

Hyuga Mirai encountered Yuhi Kurenai while leaving Konoha and quickly overcame her Illusion Techniques before escaping. As Konoha searched for him, the Anbu restricted the Uchiha Clan and then demanded permission to search their compound.

• Uzumaki Ayaka broke free of an Illusion Technique and knocked away incoming Shuriken with her Adamantine Sealing Chains, then separated from Hyuga Mirai.
• Hyuga Mirai met Yuhi Kurenai, escaped her Illusion Techniques, disarmed her, and rendered her unconscious before leaving.
• An Anbu squad found Yuhi Kurenai and sent her to Konoha Hospital while continuing to track Hyuga Mirai.
• Anbu squads barred the Uchiha Clan from investigating the village, and Uchiha Fugaku chose to wait until morning while confirming Yasunori Sakai was safe.
• A Military Police Force member told Uchiha Fugaku that the Anbu wanted to enter the Uchiha compound and search.

After Hyuga Mirai attacked Kushina, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo pressured Uchiha Fugaku to let the Anbu search the Uchiha compound. The searchers followed Hyuga Mirai’s trail to Fugaku’s family home, where it ended.

• Uchiha Tekka objected to the Anbu searching the compound, but Uchiha Fugaku ordered him to escort Yasunori Sakai and another guest away and chose to avoid a clash with Konoha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Hyuga Mirai had attacked Kushina and recalled that Mirai was responsible for Jiraiya’s death in Sunagakure.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo confronted Uchiha Fugaku, and Hiruzen claimed that Mirai might have stayed in the Uchiha compound.
• Uchiha Fugaku agreed to let two Anbu squads search the compound under Military Police Force supervision, despite his clansmen’s anger.
• The Inuzuka and Aburame trackers followed Mirai’s trail to Uchiha Fugaku’s family home, where the trail ended.

Sarutobi Hiruzen ended the search at Uchiha Fugaku’s home and asked the Uchiha Clan to help track Hyuga Mirai, while Danzo was authorized to expand Root surveillance. At the hospital, Naruto stayed beside the sleeping Kushina, whose unexplained physical recovery surprised Kimura as she worried about concealing it.

• Anbu reported that Hyuga Mirai’s tracks led to Uchiha Fugaku’s home, but Sarutobi Hiruzen defended Fugaku and asked the Uchiha Clan to help find the rogue ninja.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Danzo to strengthen surveillance of the Uchiha through Root, then left the compound with the Anbu.
• Uchiha Fugaku questioned Uchiha Tekka about Yasunori Sakai and learned that guards had watched him throughout the night.
• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the Military Police Force to suspend other matters while the village responded to the attack on Kushina.
• Kimura told Naruto that Kushina was stable and let him stay in her room, warning him not to touch her or the medical equipment.
• Kimura found that Kushina’s body was rapidly recovering, but her Curse Mark remained unsuppressed and Kimura struggled to keep the change private.

After recovering from a Curse Mark placed by Hyuga Mirai, Kushina confronted Konoha’s leaders over Naruto’s treatment and refused Danzo’s demand to train him in Root. She left after threatening Danzo, while Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo recognized that her new power and distrust could complicate their control of Naruto.

• Kimura told Kushina that the Curse Mark had stopped her aging and cellular necrosis, and Kushina kept her conversation with Hyuga Mirai private.
• Kimura warned Kushina that Konoha officials might question her, and Kushina resolved to defend Naruto from them.
• Kushina challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other leaders over the failed security and Naruto’s leaked Jinchuriki identity, then denied that Hyuga Mirai had harmed Naruto.
• Danzo demanded that Naruto be handed to Root for training, and Kushina transformed through the Curse Mark as the Root members prepared to fight.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Root to withdraw, and Kushina warned Danzo not to touch Naruto before leaving.
• Danzo told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Kushina’s distrust and new power threatened their influence over Naruto, and Hiruzen said he understood.

Amegakure and the Saudi Federation finalized a border and trade agreement after Yasunori Sakai persuaded both sides to compromise. On the journey home, Sakai steered Pakura away from war with Amegakure and toward retaliation against the Land of Wind’s Daimyo Manor.

• Amegakure and the Saudi Federation agreed to jointly develop their border, limit their stationed forces, and open trade and travel routes.
• Yasunori Sakai negotiated provisions that gave the Yasunori Trading Company control over much of the Rain Country’s steel refining industry.
• Pakura told Sakai she wanted Amegakure to hand over the person who had assassinated Rasa, but Sakai warned that demanding this could lead to war.
• Sakai explained that Pain had killed Hanzo and argued that the rogue ninja involved in Rasa’s death had been tools of others.
• Sakai showed Pakura intelligence that the Land of Wind had sought Konoha’s help against the Saudi Federation, then urged her to let him handle retaliation against the Daimyo Manor.
• Pakura agreed to take Rasa’s three children as her disciples and left the retaliation against the Land of Wind’s Daimyo to Sakai.

Yasunori Sakai left the Saudi Federation’s mountain-moving project to advise Amegakure, while Pakura considered recruiting Rogue ninja to strengthen the federation. In Konoha, Kushina kept Naruto close and spoke with Yuhi Kurenai about Hyuga Mirai, before Hyuga Kiyomi warned Kurenai that the Ninja World might soon become unstable.

• Earth Style ninja, Puppet Masters, and Yasunori Trading Company’s machines accelerated the Saudi Federation’s mountain-moving work, which was expected to take about two months.
• Pakura asked Yasunori Sakai about recruiting Rogue ninja, and he proposed background checks and psychological evaluations before promising a fuller plan.
• Yasunori Sakai traveled to Amegakure after its envoy invited him, leaving Pakura reluctant to part with her assistant.
• Konoha expanded Root and the Anbu as Sarutobi Hiruzen increased security amid the investigation into Hyuga Mirai and Jiraiya’s death.
• Kushina took Naruto to school, then told Yuhi Kurenai that Hyuga Mirai was probably stronger than the Third Hokage and discussed Ayaka.
• Hyuga Kiyomi emerged after Kushina left and warned Yuhi Kurenai to prepare for instability in the Ninja World.

Ōnoki secured Iwagakure’s approval to secretly join Konoha in targeting Amegakure and the Saudi Federation, with Konoha agreeing to send troops first. As Konoha prepared for war, Hyuga Kiyomi challenged the exclusion of Branch Family representatives from the Hyūga Clan’s prewar meeting.

• Ōnoki warned Iwagakure’s leaders that the Saudi Federation’s cooperation with Amegakure threatened Iwagakure’s missions and routes, and proposed joining forces with Konoha.
• Ōnoki revealed that Konoha had secretly agreed to the plan and promised to dispatch troops first, and Iwagakure’s leaders unanimously approved it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to consult Konoha’s Ninja Clans before assembling a force to send to Rain Country.
• Hyuga Kiyomi questioned why no Branch Family representatives had been invited to the Hyūga Clan’s meeting.
• Hyuga Sōun said the Main Family alone would discuss the prewar matter, and Hyuga Kiyomi demanded that he address her as Fourth Elder.

Hyuga Kiyomi challenged Hyuga Sōun at a clan meeting, secured a voice for the Branch Family, and was appointed to represent the Hyūga Clan at the Ninja Clan meeting. Meanwhile, Yasunori Sakai planned Rain Country’s reconstruction with Konan and arranged Akatsuki’s role in exposing the Land of Wind Daimyo’s assassination plot, leaving Konan to seek Nagato’s approval.

• Hyuga Kiyomi confronted Hyuga Sōun over his misuse of the Caged Bird Seal, and Hyuga Hiashi called for Branch Family representatives to join the war discussion.
• Hyuga Hiashi appointed Hyuga Kiyomi to represent the Hyūga Clan at the upcoming Ninja Clan meeting, and she agreed while rebuking Hyuga Sōun.
• The Hyūga Clan consulted Branch Family representatives and discussed its war aims and troop numbers, with Hyuga Kiyomi favoring a limited deployment to avoid drawing suspicion from Konoha’s leadership.
• Yasunori Sakai gathered information about Rain Country’s villages and population to plan reconstruction, while Konan recognized that managing the country exceeded her abilities.
• Konan confirmed that Akatsuki would carry out the public assassination of the Land of Wind Daimyo and allied nobles to expose their role in the Fourth Kazekage’s death and justify the Saudi Federation’s campaign.
• Konan left Yasunori Sakai and went to Nagato, intending to seek Pain’s order for Akatsuki to act.

Pain assigned Kakuzu and Raiga Kurosuki to assassinate the Land of Wind’s Daimyo and several nobles, while White Zetsu warned Akatsuki that Konoha and Iwa-nin might attack the Rain Country. In Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku prepared a clan meeting after the Uchiha were excluded from the coming war, then confronted Itachi, who withheld his Anbu intelligence.

• Pain summoned Akatsuki and ordered Kakuzu and Raiga Kurosuki to assassinate the Land of Wind’s Daimyo and several nobles without a reward.
• White Zetsu revealed that Konoha and Iwa-nin were gathering troops and might target the Rain Country, while Obito considered using the war to weaken Konoha and threaten the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Fugaku left the Ninja Clan meeting feeling that the Uchiha had been isolated and arranged a clan meeting for that night.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked Itachi for new Anbu intelligence, but Itachi said there had been no recent changes and kept his loyalties to Konoha to himself.

Danzo revealed that the Uchiha Clan had replaced its weapons with ones supplied by the Yasunori Trading Company, prompting Konoha’s leaders to fear a rebellion and investigate the clan. Shisui Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and Kotoamatsukami, then volunteered to stop the rebellion, leaving the Hokage’s leadership wary of his power.

• Danzo showed Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura that Uchiha weapons were stronger than standard Konoha weapons and traced their supply to the Yasunori Trading Company.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Root and Anbu to monitor the Uchiha Clan, protect Kushina and her son, and investigate the threat while arranging other ninja squads for the front line.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi and asked them to help prevent the Uchiha Clan from rebelling.
• Shisui Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that Kotoamatsukami could forcibly alter a person’s thoughts, offering to use it to change the clan head’s will.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Shisui Uchiha to gather intelligence on the Uchiha Clan, while Danzo remained wary of his ability.
• After leaving the Hokage’s Office, Shisui Uchiha warned Uchiha Itachi that awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan came at a terrible cost.

Yuhi Kurenai prepared to leave for the front line while Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen argued over who should go, leaving Danzo in Konoha to pursue Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami. In the Rain Country, Yasunori Sakai received a hidden message from Uchiha Tekka and told Konan that his renovation plans were nearly complete.

• Yuhi Kurenai learned that she and many other ninja had been ordered to replace Anbu and Root members at the front line, while Anko noticed Kurenai had seemed happier lately.
• Kurenai rejected Anko’s teasing and resolved to improve her genjutsu and taijutsu so she could grow stronger.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen chose to lead at the front line and refused Danzo’s offer, leaving Danzo in Konoha to seek Shisui Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Kotoamatsukami.
• Yasunori Sakai received a scroll from Uchiha Tekka, who had arranged to exchange letters with him to resolve unanswered questions.
• Konan checked on Sakai’s renovation plans, and he told her they would be ready to begin work in another day.

As the Uchiha Clan moved toward a coup while Konoha’s forces headed for the Rain Country, Uchiha Tekka grew concerned about the ordinary clansmen and sought answers from Yasunori Sakai. Shisui Uchiha decided to use Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Itachi agreed to help arrange a meeting.

• Yasunori Sakai advised Uchiha Tekka through scrolls, leading him to consider the Uchiha Clan’s future and the safety of its ordinary members.
• Konan departed for the front line as Pain prepared to face the approaching Konoha and Iwa-nin forces.
• After Sarutobi Hiruzen led the first troops out, the Uchiha Clan held a meeting where Fugaku finalized plans for a coup.
• Uchiha Tekka questioned Uchiha Yashiro and Inabi about protecting non-ninja clansmen during the coup, then left to seek solutions.
• Shisui Uchiha told Uchiha Itachi he planned to use Kotoamatsukami to change Fugaku’s will, and Itachi agreed to bring his father to the forest.

Shisui Uchiha tried to prevent the Uchiha Clan’s coup, but Danzo ambushed him and stole one of his Sharingan. Shisui escaped to seek out Itachi, while Hyuga Mirai visited Tsunade at the Tea Country Base.

• The Hokage’s advisors urged Shisui Uchiha to use Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Fugaku before the Uchiha Clan could act.
• Danzo accused Shisui Uchiha of delaying, attacked him, and tore out his right eye.
• Shisui Uchiha escaped Danzo and Root, deciding to find Itachi.
• Hyuga Mirai arrived at the Tea Country Base and learned Tsunade might be in the training room.
• Tsunade stopped her charge when Hyuga Mirai warned that his three bottles of liquor might break, then took them from him.

Hyuga Mirai sparred with Tsunade to test her newly developed Electromagnetic Field Technique, then asked her to return to Konoha as the Fifth Hokage. The chapter ended before Tsunade answered.

• Tsunade demonstrated her Electromagnetic Field Technique, which disrupted Hyuga Mirai’s control of his body through his nervous system.
• Hyuga Mirai used Truth-Seeking Orbs to control his body and fought Tsunade until he bound her and she dispersed the field.
• Hyuga Mirai advised Tsunade to improve the technique with specially made ninja tools, and she asked Android 18 to make them.
• Hyuga Mirai told Tsunade that the Ninja World had changed and asked her to return to Konoha as the Fifth Hokage.

Hyuga Mirai persuaded Tsunade to return to Konoha and help him influence its economy, then told her about Jiraiya’s death. Meanwhile, Shisui Uchiha died after Danzo took one of his eyes, and Uchiha Itachi agreed to cooperate with Uchiha Obito in dealing with the clan’s planned coup.

• Hyuga Mirai explained the Rain Country conflict and the Uchiha Clan’s impending extermination, then asked Tsunade to become Hokage and support his plans from within Konoha.
• Tsunade agreed to help Hyuga Mirai, declined his offer to remove the Curse Mark for now, and learned that Jiraiya had died.
• Tsunade drank heavily with Hyuga Mirai, who took her back to the Tea Country Base after she passed out.
• Shisui Uchiha told Uchiha Itachi that Danzo had taken one of his Sharingan, then jumped into a river and killed himself.
• Uchiha clansmen found Shisui’s body and suspected the Konoha Higher-ups and Uchiha Itachi of killing him.
• Uchiha Itachi agreed to work with Uchiha Obito to destroy the Uchiha Clan, and Obito told him to leak information about a planned meeting with the Yasunori Trading Company to Danzo.

Pakura and the Saudi Federation’s leaders approved an effort to recruit the Uchiha Clan, and Yasunori Sakai signed an agreement with Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Yashiro, and their allies. Root attacked the meeting, and Yasunori Sakai was struck by a poisoned senbon just as Pakura arrived.

• Pakura decided to travel to Konoha to recruit the Uchiha Clan and left Elder Yasunori, Maki, and Karura in charge of Federation affairs.
• Yasunori Sakai met six Uchiha clan members at a remote location and explained the Saudi Federation’s offer to help them relocate.
• Yasunori Sakai signed an agreement with Uchiha Yashiro and the others on behalf of the Saudi Federation and the Yasunori Trading Company.
• Eight masked Root or Anbu attackers ambushed the group, and one used Wood Release against the Uchiha.
• A Root ninja wounded Yasunori Sakai with a poisoned senbon after the Suna-nin guards tried to protect him, and Pakura arrived as they cried out.

Root assassinated Yasunori Sakai during negotiations between the Uchiha Clan and the Saudi Federation, prompting Uchiha Tekka to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and swear revenge. Pakura arranged for the agreement to proceed, while Hyuga Mirai later asked Sasori to help with the Uchiha Clan’s entry into the Federation.

• Pakura reached Yasunori Sakai as Root’s poison took hold, and Hyuga Mirai used Android 18’s rescue protocol to prolong Sakai’s life long enough for a final conversation.
• Uchiha Tekka and Pakura’s Anbu squad attacked and killed the Root ninja, while Uchiha Yashiro identified them as Danzo’s Root.
• Yasunori Sakai gave Pakura the agreement with the Uchiha Clan, urged her not to blame them, and died after entrusting what came next to her and Uchiha Tekka.
• Pakura told the Uchiha that the Federation would honor the agreement and cooperate with their declaration of war against Konoha; Uchiha Tekka awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and kept its abilities secret.
• Hyuga Mirai advised Tsunade to wait for Konoha to approach her, then asked Sasori to help handle the Uchiha Clan’s entry into the Saudi Federation.

Danzo arranged for Sasuke to be kept at the Ninja Academy so Uchiha Itachi could carry out the planned massacre, with Uchiha Obito helping him. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha Tekka warned Uchiha Fugaku that Root had discovered their plans and urged him to detain Itachi, but Itachi arrived at Fugaku’s home before they could act.

• Danzo ordered the Ninja Academy to keep Sasuke after school and told Aburame Ryoma that Itachi must act quickly against the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Itachi agreed on the timing of the massacre with Uchiha Obito, who would help him attack the Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Tekka and five other clansmen told Uchiha Fugaku that they had signed an agreement with the Saudi Federation to evacuate ordinary Uchiha members before the coup.
• Uchiha Yashiro urged Fugaku to detain Itachi, while Tekka warned that Root had learned of their plans through a spy within the clan.
• A crash and Uchiha Mikoto’s startled greeting revealed that Itachi had returned to Fugaku’s home.