Chapter Summaries

Torikaze’s army advanced toward Amegakure after learning from villagers that Hanzo had begun the war. In Amegakure, Hanzo prepared for battle and underestimated the Senju brothers as reports confirmed that Konoha’s forces were approaching.

• Torikaze spared a villager who would guide his army to Amegakure and told the villagers to stay put.
• Torikaze explained that Hanzo had declared war on Konoha and two other countries, then ordered Kagami to get directions from the genjutsu-controlled guide.
• Hanzo learned that medicine had boosted forty shinobi to Kage-level, while Konoha had killed thirteen others.
• Hanzo heard that the Kazekage and Tsuchikage were delayed and that Konoha’s forces had defeated his interceptors; he dismissed reports that Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju looked young and battle-ready.
• Hanzo sharpened his scythe in anticipation of fighting the Hokage, while Torikaze’s army continued west and prepared for battle.

Torikaze and Konoha’s army traveled through the rain toward Amegakure while Ōnoki’s Iwagakure forces fought Amegakure’s army. The Kamizuru Clan unleashed their bees, and the battle continued as the Rain Leader attacked Ōnoki with a water dragon.

• Torikaze, Kagami, and Hashirama crossed Rain Country in heavy rain and spotted Amegakure’s massive statue ahead.
• Ōnoki faced five thousand Amegakure troops, including ten Kage-level fighters, and ordered his forces to use groups of three Jonin against each opponent.
• A Kamizuru Clan shinobi told Ōnoki that their bees had adapted to combat in different climates, then hundreds of clan members released their hives.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to disintegrate part of an enemy fighter and ordered his army to attack.
• The Kamizuru Clan’s bees swarmed Amegakure’s troops with venomous stings as Ōnoki’s Dust Release devastated their ranks.
• The Rain Leader stopped evading and sent a water dragon surging toward Ōnoki.

Ōnoki drove back the Rain Leader and routed Amegakure’s forces, but halted Iwagakure’s advance after nightfall because the Rain Country’s unfamiliar terrain made pursuit dangerous. Iwagakure camped and tended to its wounded while burying its dead, leaving the invasion to continue later.

• The Rain Leader’s Water Dragon Bullet failed to stop Ōnoki, who used a Rock Giant to smash him aside and continued fighting despite an injured arm.
• Ōnoki’s Dust Release struck a water clone, and he attacked the Rain Leader’s hiding place with Earth Spikes and explosive rock fragments.
• The Rain Leader escaped Ōnoki’s Super-Weight Rock Technique and ordered Amegakure’s ninjas to retreat, causing their forces to flee.
• Ōnoki stopped Iwagakure from advancing in the dark and ordered his ninjas to set up camp in the Rain Country.
• Iwagakure’s ninjas gathered and buried their fallen comrades, while a Medical Ninja treated Ōnoki’s arm and confirmed his injury would not hinder him the next day.

Iwagakure and Sunagakure advanced toward Amegakure as Konoha fought Hanzo's forces outside the village. Torikaze faced Hanzo for the first time as the battle intensified.

• Ōnoki led Iwagakure toward Amegakure, while the Kazekage hurried Sunagakure forward after losing nearly a thousand ninjas.
• Torikaze arrived beneath Amegakure's walls and saw nearly sixty Kage-level ninjas assembled against Konoha.
• Amegakure's forces charged, and Torikaze attacked with Cloud Swords while Hashirama's Wood Release: Tree World Birth devastated the battlefield and weakened their morale.
• Hanzo entered the battle and rallied Amegakure's ninjas, then exchanged taunts with Torikaze as they met for the first time.

Torikaze overwhelmed Hanzo in battle and forced him to summon Ibuse, whose poisonous mist engulfed Torikaze. The fight continued with Torikaze protected from the poison by a Crystal wall, while the gas threatened the other battling ninjas.

• Torikaze dodged Hanzo's sickle and attacked with Cloud Swords, then damaged Hanzo's weapon with the Crane's Cry Sword.
• Torikaze trapped Hanzo with Crystal attacks and mocked him as Hanzo struggled to keep up with Torikaze's superior strength.
• Hanzo summoned Ibuse, and Torikaze raised a Crystal wall wrapped in cloud vapor to protect the nearby ninjas from the poisonous gas.
• Torikaze cut Ibuse's head with a blade aura, but Ibuse quickly healed, prompting Torikaze to say he would capture it for study.
• At Hanzo's command, Ibuse spewed poisonous mist that enveloped Torikaze and threatened to spread beyond the Crystal wall.

Torikaze defeated Hanzo’s giant salamander Ibuse and countered Hanzo’s poison and water attacks while the Kazekage and Tsuchikage arrived as reinforcements. Hanzo revealed that the powerful figure behind him would soon make Torikaze understand what it felt like to be helpless.

• Torikaze absorbed Ibuse’s poison gas into a Cloud Orb, then froze the salamander after dodging its poison attack.
• Hanzo attacked Torikaze with chakra-infused water droplets, but Torikaze froze them with Ice Release.
• Torikaze told Hanzo that reinforcements had arrived and challenged him to summon the person behind him.
• The Kazekage and Tsuchikage arrived, and Ōnoki opened a breach in Amegakure’s wall with Dust Release.
• Hanzo admitted he could not fight Torikaze and warned that Torikaze would soon experience the same helplessness.

Torikaze and the assembled Kage faced a horned woman from the same organization as the enemy he had killed in the Land of Whirlpools. She endured the allied Hokage’s attacks with overwhelming flames and challenged them to try again.

• Hanzo vanished as a massive fireball flew from Amegakure, and Torikaze dispersed it with Cloud Release.
• A white-robed, horned woman appeared and admitted she had launched the fireball, then warned Torikaze not to compare her to Rain.
• Torikaze told Ōnoki and the Kazekage that reinforcements were coming, and Hashirama, Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen, Chisato, and others joined them.
• Hashirama bound the woman with trees, but her flames burned them away; Tobirama’s Water Release also evaporated without stopping her.
• The woman dismissed their ninjutsu and announced that she would attack next.

Yan unleashed devastating heat against Torikaze and the Allied Forces, but the Kage coordinated their attacks and managed to bind her. She remained powerful and furious, promising an even greater wave of heat as the battle continued.

• Yan scorched the ground with her high-temperature attack, forcing the Kage and Allied Forces to flood the battlefield with Water Release while Torikaze used Ice Release to freeze the area and stop her technique.
• Torikaze blocked Yan’s two fireballs with a Crystal Barrier, which melted into a black, translucent lump.
• The Kage attacked Yan together, and Ōnoki grazed her with Dust Release as Torikaze revealed that she sought a talented person to serve as a reincarnation vessel.
• Torikaze claimed Rain had told him Yan’s objective, provoking her into a frenzy while Hashirama’s Wood Dragon distracted her.
• Hashirama struck Yan with the Wood Golem Technique, and Torikaze bound her limbs with Crystal Chains, but Yan struggled up and threatened to unleash greater heat.

Yan broke free of Torikaze’s chains and unleashed powerful flames, forcing Hashirama, Tobirama, Torikaze, the Kazekage, and Ōnoki to fight her together. Torikaze entered a mysterious black Sage Mode and struck back with lightning, leaving Yan challenged to take him away.

• Yan melted her chains, transformed into a being of flame, and threatened the assembled ninja.
• Hashirama summoned the Thousand-Armed Buddha, Tobirama flooded the battlefield with water, and Torikaze gathered the Rain Country’s clouds around himself.
• Torikaze emerged with black hair, dark robes, raven-like wings, and lightning surging from the Crane's Cry Sword.
• Hashirama and the other Kage attacked Yan together, while Tobirama’s Water Arrows pierced her ring of fire and numbed her hand.
• Yan set the ground ablaze, but Torikaze used lightning to suppress the flames and struck her hair with an arc from his sword.

Torikaze and the Kage fought Yan as she unleashed powerful flames and admitted she had refined Amegakure’s people into medicine. Torikaze struck her with Sage Art—Lightning Release—Thunder Dragon Fall, leaving her charred and sprawled on the ground.

• Yan unleashed scorching flames across the battlefield, while Tobirama Senju used water to suppress them and Ōnoki and the Kazekage attacked her.
• Torikaze asked Yan what had happened to Amegakure’s people, and she confessed she had refined them into medicine to create Kage-level fighters.
• Torikaze wounded Yan with a lightning sword aura, but she claimed she was not human and launched flame blades and explosive jade-green flames at the Kage.
• Torikaze shielded the group with Ice Release, absorbed Yan’s flames into a Cloud Orb, and hurled it into the sky.
• Torikaze summoned a lightning dragon that struck Yan, leaving her charred and sprawled on the ground.

Torikaze and the other Kage defeated Yan, but Hanzo rescued her and escaped with Ibuse. The Kage agreed to divide the Rain Country and rebuild Amegakure as a shared hub before preparing to return to their villages.

• Torikaze struck Yan with another lightning bolt, and the other Kage attacked her while she was weakened.
• Hanzo pulled Yan away with a chain, then escaped underground with her inside Ibuse.
• Torikaze and the Kage discussed Hanzo's escape and agreed to divide the Rain Country among their nations, with Amegakure serving as a shared transit station.
• Torikaze ordered a search of Amegakure and proposed leaving its recovered wealth to fund the village's reconstruction.
• Torikaze ordered his forces to count casualties, treat the wounded, and freeze the bodies for transport back to Konoha.

After defeating Rain Country, Torikaze led Konoha’s army home while mourning the hundreds of fallen ninjas. The army rested at the Land of Fire border before setting out for Konoha the next morning.

• Torikaze froze the fallen Konoha ninjas’ bodies for their return and discussed assigning Rain Country to his organization to manage.
• Torikaze announced victory, and Konoha’s army began its return march after Hanzo escaped.
• Hashirama comforted Torikaze as he struggled with the losses on the way back to the Land of Fire.
• Torikaze ordered the army to camp at the border, where the wounded received treatment and the troops drank ginger soup.
• The army rested overnight, then Torikaze ordered everyone to continue toward Konoha.

Torikaze returned to Konoha with the victorious army after defeating and occupying the Rain Country, though he grieved the more than four hundred ninja who had died. After reuniting with Mito and Minato, he headed to the backyard Lab to confront Amado for neglecting Minato.

• Torikaze led the army back to Konoha before nightfall, and the watchtower guard recognized him and opened the gates.
• Torikaze told the cheering villagers that Konoha had defeated and occupied the Rain Country, then explained that over four hundred ninjas had been lost.
• Torikaze told Mito that Hashirama and Tobirama had returned to the clan grounds and took over the remaining work at the Hokage Tower.
• Torikaze returned home and learned from Minato that Amado had stayed in the backyard Lab and barely responded when Minato called him to eat.
• Torikaze went to give Amado a reminder about looking after Minato.

Torikaze returned home after the war and reconciled with Amado, who had neglected Minato while repairing villagers’ appliances. He told Minato about the victory and the heavy casualties, then rested while the war’s aftermath remained unresolved.

• Torikaze confronted Amado for neglecting Minato, but eased up after Amado explained he had been repairing faulty appliances for villagers.
• Torikaze told Amado that Hanzo of the Rain Country had fled and that the fallen ninja would be buried in Hero's Cemetery in two days.
• Minato served Torikaze a meal and said he had reached the third stage of Flying Thunder God training.
• Torikaze told Minato that more than four hundred people had died and that the Rain Country had been divided among three countries, with Amegakure as their hub.
• Torikaze considered why the Second Great Ninja War event was not yet marked complete, then went to bed exhausted.

Torikaze ate ramen with Minato, then contacted Kakuzu to assign the Land of Fire’s portion of Rain Country as the organization’s future headquarters. He also asked Kakuzu to find two orphaned children in Rain Country and bring them to Konoha.

• Torikaze woke late, took Minato to Ichiraku Ramen, and ate with him.
• Torikaze told Minato that Sakumo had returned and that Minato could resume training with him soon.
• Torikaze contacted Kakuzu through a puppet and learned that Kakuzu was in the Land of Earth.
• Torikaze assigned Kakuzu to manage the Land of Fire’s portion of Rain Country and establish it as the organization’s headquarters.
• Torikaze asked Kakuzu to find an orange-red-haired boy and a purple-blue-haired girl, both around five or six years old, and bring them to Konoha.

Kakuzu told the Lotus Organization that Torikaze had granted them a third of Rain Country to govern, giving them a permanent home. Torikaze spent the day comforting the families of fallen ninjas and arranging support, then woke sore as Konoha prepared for the funeral.

• Kakuzu announced that Torikaze had granted the Lotus Organization a third of Rain Country, and its members set out to build their home there.
• Torikaze visited the families of fallen ninjas, offered condolences and money, and promised Konoha would support the parents and cover the children's education.
• Torikaze advised Minato to balance his training with rest and to study the Flying Thunder God more deeply.
• Torikaze returned home exhausted, while news of his visits to more than four hundred households moved people throughout Konoha.
• Torikaze woke with painful legs, eased the pain with healing, and Konoha resumed its duties while preparations for the funeral continued.

Torikaze arranged a grand funeral and memorial for Konoha’s fallen ninjas, then took a break from his duties with Chisato. As they shared ramen, he confirmed that he would speak at the funeral the next day.

• Torikaze told his secretary to hold the funeral tomorrow with everyone in Konoha attending and to have a monument built for the fallen ninjas’ names.
• Chisato told Torikaze that villagers were praising him for visiting more than four hundred bereaved families, and he rejected comparisons with Shishou.
• Torikaze and Chisato discussed the war’s impact and walked through Konoha using the Presence Concealment Technique.
• Chisato reassured Torikaze that the village would face future difficulties together, then took him to Ichiraku Ramen.
• Torikaze ordered two bowls of luxury ramen from Teuchi and told Chisato he would give a speech at the funeral.

Torikaze and Chisato inspected the Hero's Cemetery as preparations continued for the fallen shinobi's funeral, and Torikaze shared his plans for Minato's future as Hokage. They visited Hashirama, who discussed the heavy losses suffered by the other villages.

• Torikaze told Chisato he would speak at the funeral because he was the Hokage and had a duty to the fallen shinobi's families.
• Torikaze and Chisato visited the Hero's Cemetery, where the secretary directed the funeral preparations.
• Torikaze told Chisato he was grooming the secretary to assist Minato and intended for Minato to succeed him as Hokage.
• Torikaze and Chisato discussed Kagami's poor memory for secretarial work while touring the cemetery.
• Torikaze and Chisato visited Hashirama, who praised Torikaze's care for the fallen and noted that more than three thousand shinobi had died in the other villages.

Torikaze and Chisato visited Hashirama and Mito, where Hashirama teased them about marriage and children. As they chatted with Tobirama, Torikaze confirmed they would attend Konoha’s funeral the next day.

• Hashirama told Torikaze and Chisato that thousands of shinobi had died in the war and invited them to stay for lunch.
• Hashirama asked when Torikaze and Chisato would marry, and Torikaze said they had a plan for the next few years.
• Hashirama and Torikaze discussed the couple’s future children, making Chisato blush as she imagined becoming a mother.
• Mito returned with groceries, welcomed Torikaze and Chisato, and went to prepare lunch.
• Tobirama joined them in pajamas and joked with Chisato about his youthful appearance.
• Torikaze told Hashirama and Tobirama that he had arranged the venue for Konoha’s funeral, which they planned to attend.

After celebrating Konoha’s recovery from the war, Torikaze visited the Kato family and used a rare plant to improve the infant Shizune’s talent as a Medical Ninja. Tsunade eagerly promised to train her, leaving Shizune with a promising future.

• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the Senju Clan’s strength, while Torikaze reflected on Jiraiya’s search for the Child of Prophecy.
• Mito served a celebratory meal, and Torikaze and Chisato left after discussing Konoha’s postwar recovery.
• Torikaze visited the Kato Clan Grounds, where Mamiko introduced him to baby Kato Shizune.
• Torikaze fed Shizune juice from a rare plant and declared that she would become exceptionally talented as a Medical Ninja.
• Tsunade promised to teach Shizune everything she knew.