Chapter Summaries

Masahiko advised Yahiko on how the Land of Rain could retain a special role in the Akatsuki Organization, then hosted visitors from many countries as they gathered for the organization’s meeting. By May 20, the delegates had arrived, but Jiraiya stayed behind while Masahiko prepared to meet them.

• Jiraiya told Masahiko that his rumors about Dark Akatsuki had helped encourage smaller countries to join the Akatsuki Organization.
• Yahiko visited Masahiko and explained that the Land of Rain lacked the strength to lead the gathering, so Masahiko advised him to remain its neutral host.
• Jiraiya emerged after Yahiko left, stayed at Masahiko’s villa, and agreed to play with Masahiko’s black ball.
• Delegates and ninja from the great nations and smaller countries arrived, including Mifune, Minato’s Squad, Roshi, Gari, Hozuki Mangetsu, Yagura, Chiyo, Sasori, Mabui, Yugito, and Kakuzu.
• On May 20, Masahiko prepared to go meet the assembled ninja, while Jiraiya remained on the bed and declined to go.

Masahiko used the conference to organize the nations against Dark Akatsuki and help establish Yahiko’s Akatsuki Organization. The countries joined, triggering a system reward, but Masahiko remained puzzled about why it recognized the organization and named Kimimaro, Haku, and Karin’s team Hawk.

• Masahiko disrupted the conference with the Soccer Ball Path Sphere while Xiu described Dark Akatsuki’s destruction of the Land of Water.
• Mifune called for the nations to unite, and Yahiko explained that the Akatsuki Organization would also help resolve conflicts and prevent war.
• Masahiko showed the delegates Dark Akatsuki’s leader and asked them to search for him, share intelligence, and send representatives to the Land of Rain.
• Chiyo, Kakuzu, and representatives of the other nations agreed to join the Akatsuki Organization, while the Land of Fire withheld its position.
• Masahiko received a system reward for witnessing and altering Akatsuki’s founding, then named Kimimaro, Haku, and Karin’s team Hawk and wondered why the system had recognized the event.

Masahiko reunited with Obito and his friends, teased Kakashi about Hana Rei’s confession, and returned to training his disciples. The chapter ended with Kakashi already mastering the twelfth form of Masahiko’s fist technique while Obito struggled with the fifth.

• Masahiko recognized Obito and declared Team Taka disbanded before taking him away to test his Mangekyo.
• Masahiko and Obito overheard Hana Rei tell Kakashi that she remembered him saving her as a child and planned to visit him in Konoha.
• Masahiko and his companions returned to the villa, where they found Jiraiya exhausted from Masahiko’s nightly ball attacks.
• Masahiko sparred with Obito in the Land of Rain, removed the Sealing Jutsu formula from him, and offered to teach him a special fist technique.
• Masahiko invited Kakashi to train alongside Obito, then scolded Obito when Kakashi learned the twelfth form before Obito mastered the fifth.

Masahiko investigated attacks on the Daimyos and realized they were a diversion targeting the Tailed Beasts. He reached Yagura as Senju Butsuma, revived through Impure World Reincarnation, fought the Three-Tails, and left Butsuma torn apart.

• A Land of Rain ninja told Masahiko that several Daimyos had been attacked, and Masahiko went to Yahiko for details.
• Yahiko sent Masahiko a map of the Daimyos’ routes, while Kakashi, Obito, and Rin left for Konoha and then headed toward the Land of Keys.
• Masahiko spotted a flash of fire, recognized it as a Tailed Beast Bomb, and rushed toward Yagura and the Three-Tails.
• Masahiko dispersed the Three-Tails’ fog and found Senju Butsuma fighting Yagura under Impure World Reincarnation.
• Butsuma regained consciousness and demanded to know where Hashirama and Tobirama were, so Masahiko confronted him and tore him apart.

Masahiko arrived too late to stop the enemy from capturing Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, and learned that the attacks on the Daimyos had been a diversion. He reported Roshi’s capture to Gari and focused on protecting the remaining Jinchuriki, especially the Two-Tails and Nine-Tails.

• Masahiko sent Yagura to meet Hozuki Mangetsu, then flew northwest to search for the Four-Tails Jinchuriki.
• At the battle site, Masahiko summoned Fat Cat, whose tracking led them briefly in the wrong direction before the scent disappeared.
• Masahiko warned Fat Cat that the Two-Tails inside it and Tenten could be targeted, and told it to use Reverse Summoning if danger arose.
• Masahiko found that the Daimyos had suffered few losses and learned that the attacks on them had been a feint while Roshi was captured.
• Masahiko told Gari to inform Ōnoki about Roshi’s capture and learned that Roshi had only recently reconciled with the Tsuchikage.
• Masahiko went to find Yagura and considered safeguards for the other Jinchuriki, prioritizing the Two-Tails and Nine-Tails.

Masahiko investigated how Hydrangea had encountered and unknowingly helped the Dark Akatsuki leader, then learned that Hiruzen had arrived at the Land of Rain’s border with dozens of ninja. The chapter ended with Masahiko and Yahiko wondering why Hiruzen was coming so aggressively.

• Masahiko teased Yagura about joining the Land of Whirlpools and dating Masahiko’s daughter, but Yagura refused to betray Kirigakure.
• Masahiko reunited with Kimimaro, Haku, and Karin, learned that Obito and the others had returned to Konoha, and predicted that several villages would send representatives to the Land of Rain.
• Yahiko summoned Masahiko to the Central Tower after Hydrangea recognized the Dark Akatsuki leader’s portrait and admitted that she had found and helped him.
• Hydrangea revealed that the injured leader had given her a panda Summoning Scroll, and Masahiko checked the scroll and her for signs of danger.
• A Rain ninja reported that Hiruzen had arrived at the Land of Rain’s border with dozens of ninja, leaving Masahiko and Yahiko baffled by his intentions.

Hiruzen used the danger to the visiting Daimyos to secure escort missions for Konoha, while Masahiko learned that the Dark Akatsuki leader might already have gathered several Tailed Beasts. Two days later, Masahiko arrived in Sunagakure with Chiyo and his companions, where he met Gaara and prepared to reinforce his seal.

• Hiruzen arranged for Konoha ninja to take escort contracts from the stranded Daimyos, then told Yahiko that Konoha still needed time to decide whether to join the Akatsuki Organization.
• Hiruzen asked Masahiko about the Dark Akatsuki leader's plan to capture the Tailed Beasts, and Masahiko warned him about the enemy's goal.
• Masahiko learned from Kakuzu that Takigakure had once stolen the Seven-Tails, which later revived after its Jinchuriki died, and considered how many Tailed Beasts the enemy might have collected.
• Two days later, Masahiko traveled through the desert with Karin, Haku, Kimimaro, and Chiyo on their way to Sunagakure.
• Masahiko met Gaara in Sunagakure, took his gourd, and teased him by producing several different gourds and candied hawthorn.

Masahiko stopped an attempt on Gaara’s life, learned how the Fourth Kazekage had tormented him, and entered Gaara’s mind to subdue and redeem Shukaku. With the One-Tail sealed safely and Witness Points gained, Masahiko turned his attention to helping Gaara’s personality and looked toward Haku.

• Masahiko protected Gaara from two attackers and sealed him with the Four Symbols Seal.
• The Fourth Kazekage told Masahiko that he had sent Yashamaru and other assassins to test Gaara, driving Shukaku to lose control.
• Masahiko entered Gaara’s mind, restrained Shukaku with sealing chains, and spoke with him about redemption.
• Masahiko released the Four Symbols Seal and strengthened Gaara’s seal with the Eight Trigrams Seal, earning Witness Points.
• Masahiko decided he needed to help Gaara’s personality and looked toward Haku for ideas.

Masahiko helped the Fourth Kazekage and Chiyo repair Gaara’s relationship with his family and village, then placed a Wood Style safeguard on him. A letter bearing the Uzumaki Clan Crest prompted Masahiko to leave Sunagakure for the Land of Whirlpools before learning Chiyo’s forbidden technique.

• The Fourth Kazekage told Gaara that Karura had loved him and protected him, while Chiyo and Gaara’s siblings helped him reconnect with the village and his family.
• After five days of effort, Masahiko received ten Witness Points for changing Gaara’s storyline and used team battles to strengthen the bond between Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari.
• Masahiko planted a Wood Clone inside a gourd-shaped mark on Gaara’s hand, telling him it would protect him if he recited a chant.
• Chiyo offered to teach Masahiko One’s Own Life Reincarnation, but Masahiko hurriedly left for the Land of Whirlpools after reading an unsigned letter bearing the Uzumaki Clan Crest.

Masahiko returned to the Land of Whirlpools after receiving an anonymous letter saying Sara had fallen ill, only to find her well and working at Ichiraku Ramen. After learning Sara had briefly been sick and that Nagato had not sent the letter, Masahiko began investigating who knew about her condition and his whereabouts, then sensed someone using his Sage Mode.

• Masahiko hurried back from Sunagakure with Kimimaro and the others after receiving a letter saying Sara had fallen ill, but found Ichiraku Ramen open and Sara healthy.
• Masahiko ate with Karin and the other children, then told them to rest before Konan took them on a simple A-rank mission in a few days.
• Sara told Masahiko that she had been slightly unwell two days earlier and that Nagato had arranged for a medical Jonin to treat her.
• Masahiko asked Nagato about the anonymous letter and learned that several people knew Sara had been sick, while Nagato did not know Masahiko had gone to Sunagakure.
• Masahiko considered whether Sara needed stronger protection, then sensed someone using his Sage Mode and wondered whether it was Kushina or Konan.

Konan mastered Masahiko’s Sage Mode and defeated Nagato in a spar, while Masahiko arranged protection for Sara amid uncertainty about a recent letter. Kushina then completed the same Sage Mode and asked Minato to test its power.

• Konan entered Sage Mode after three minutes of training, and Masahiko noted that she could maintain it for nearly three minutes.
• At the Land of Whirlpools Stadium, Konan used Sage-enhanced Paper Dance attacks to overwhelm Nagato and beat him badly before her Sage Mode ran out.
• Nagato asked to learn Masahiko’s Sage Mode, but Masahiko credited Konan’s strength and told her to continue training.
• Masahiko ordered Nagato to keep a Shadow Clone near Ichiraku Ramen Shop to protect Sara and said he would set up defensive formations there.
• Masahiko sensed Kushina’s Chakra react and realized she had likely completed Sage Mode too.
• Kushina showed Minato her blood-red Sage Mode eyes and asked him to help test her power.

Masahiko secured Ichiraku Ramen against the unknown watcher, then visited Konoha and found Kushina training in Sage Mode with Minato. As Kushina approached him after their spar, Masahiko sensed that someone had died.

• Masahiko spent three days setting up dangerous sealing arrays around Ichiraku Ramen and left clones to guard Sara and the shop.
• Masahiko went to Konoha, encountered Jiraiya, and learned that Hashirama and Mito had shown no signs of being controlled when Dark Akatsuki captured the Four-Tails.
• Jiraiya told Masahiko that Kushina had been training in Sage Mode with Minato for three days.
• Masahiko found Kushina using Sage Mode to track Minato as they sparred at Training Ground 1.
• After Kushina's Sage Mode ended, Masahiko sensed that someone had died.

Masahiko sensed that Kushina might be pregnant and helped her family confirm the news. As everyone began planning for the baby, Masahiko remembered a danger and decided the moon might be the safest place.

• Masahiko told Minato and Kushina that he sensed a possible pregnancy, and they kept the news private until the life fluctuations became steady.
• Kushina told Mikoto, while Masahiko told Tsunade and arranged for her to help when Kushina gave birth.
• Masahiko told Mito and Hashirama about the pregnancy, then remembered that the moon might be a safer place for Kushina.
• Masahiko returned to Kushina's home, where she, Minato, Mikoto, and Jiraiya discussed names for the baby.
• Masahiko insisted the baby would be a girl and began suggesting names that included the character for moon.

After Kushina became pregnant, Masahiko worked on his plans and mastered the shinobi world's spatial nodes. He discovered Itachi, Shisui, and Uchiha Yun Chu secretly discussing how to resolve the Senju-Uchiha dispute, and they asked him to help.

• Naruto's excitement over Kushina's pregnancy spread the news throughout Konoha, and Hiruzen asked Masahiko about the delivery plans.
• Masahiko formed the Mutual Dislike, Hawk team with Toneri, Sasuke, and Naruto, then began studying spatial nodes while he waited to gather more Witness Points.
• Masahiko mapped the spatial nodes into a 16-by-16 grid and successfully used them to reach a mountaintop near Konoha.
• Masahiko found Itachi, Shisui, and Uchiha Yun Chu secretly meeting and learned they were discussing how to resolve the dispute between the Senju and Uchiha clans.
• Itachi told Masahiko the Uchiha elders had died in the earlier battle, and the three said they would be more confident if he joined their effort.

Masahiko rejected Itachi, Shisui, and Yun Chu’s plan and visited the Senju Clan Compound, where Nawaki told him about three Senju who had died in battle. Masahiko met the youngest man’s daughter, Moegi, as Dōzan considered adopting her.

• Masahiko dismissed the boys’ proposed solution, then chased them down with a Great Waterfall Technique to cool them off.
• Masahiko visited the Senju Clan Compound and questioned Nawaki about the three Senju who had died in battle.
• Nawaki named the dead as Senju Sanshin, Senju Tsuruichi, and Senju Kazamatsuri, whose young daughter had been left without her father.
• Nawaki told Masahiko that Dōzan was fond of the girl and seemed to want to adopt her.
• Masahiko found Dōzan carrying the blond-haired child and learned that her name was Senju Moegi.

Masahiko moved into Kushina’s home, where he trained Naruto through painful hand-seal practice and harsh physical conditioning while monitoring her pregnancy. His routine was interrupted when Mikoto reported that Shisui had vanished during a mission with Itachi, leaving the Uchiha clan demanding answers.

• Masahiko recognized Moegi as a Senju and agreed that Dōzan could adopt her, then avoided the clan after Itachi returned soaked from Masahiko’s prank.
• Masahiko moved into Kushina’s home and began training Naruto, who shared a bedroom with him.
• Masahiko taught Naruto hand seals by painfully loosening the joints in his fingers, and Naruto endured the lesson to improve.
• Masahiko loosened part of the Nine-Tails’ seal, arranged for it to send Naruto chakra, and used intense physical training to accelerate Naruto’s growth.
• Mikoto told Masahiko that Shisui had vanished during a mission with Itachi and that the Uchiha clan had come looking for an explanation.

Masahiko went to investigate Shisui’s unexplained disappearance after Itachi reported that he had vanished near the Land of Rivers. Finding no signs of a struggle, Masahiko began to suspect a deception and confronted Itachi, who insisted Shisui might have left on his own.

• Masahiko told Mikoto to stay with Kushina and headed to the Senju Clan Compound, where Kagami and Hiruzen questioned Itachi about Shisui’s disappearance.
• Masahiko reassured Obito and Kagami that Shisui would be safe, then followed the direction Itachi gave toward the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers.
• At the border, Itachi’s Wood Clone insisted that Shisui had vanished without a fight and denied that the disappearance was part of their rejected plan.
• Masahiko searched the area with the Mind's Eye of the Kagura but found no trace of a battle or Shisui.
• Masahiko told Itachi about Uchiha Chiru, who had developed Izanami, then accused Itachi of trying to trick him into the investigation.

Masahiko and the others searched for Shisui, found no evidence of a fight, and concluded he had left on his own. As Kagami agreed not to blame Itachi, Nawaki called for Konoha to choose its Fifth Hokage, and the others accepted.

• Masahiko and Itachi returned from their search for Shisui, and Masahiko said the lack of battle signs meant Shisui had likely left voluntarily.
• Masahiko caught Obito trying to leave Konoha and assured him that Shisui was probably safe.
• At the Hokage Office Building, Masahiko told Kagami about the boys' earlier plan, but Kagami remained worried about Shisui.
• Kagami promised not to blame Itachi and agreed with Masahiko that it was time to pass on the Uchiha Clan Head position.
• Nawaki urged Hiruzen and Kagami to choose Konoha's Fifth Hokage, and Masahiko joined them in calling to choose.

Masahiko discussed Nawaki giving up the Hokage position and learned that Uchiha Obito would likely become the Fifth Hokage, while Madara hid himself underground to wait out Masahiko’s lifespan. Tsunade returned with news that Nawaki had passed Hashirama’s necklace to Itachi, and Naruto became eager to train after hearing Obito might become Hokage.

• Masahiko and Hashirama praised Nawaki for voluntarily giving up the Hokage position, then discussed Obito’s popularity and chances of becoming the Fifth Hokage.
• Madara, having spent eight months gathering information, sealed himself in a deep pit and planned to emerge every six months until Masahiko died.
• Tsunade returned to the casino after getting distracted by gambling and told Hashirama that Nawaki had passed his necklace on to Itachi.
• Masahiko went to Kushina’s home, where Naruto said he had nearly beaten Sasuke in the academy exams but had fallen behind Toneri.
• Naruto revealed that Shikamaru had told him Obito would become the Fifth Hokage, then hurried Masahiko to begin training so he could aim to become the Sixth.

As Konoha prepared to choose its Fifth Hokage, Hiashi considered arranging a match between Hinata and Otsutsuki Toneri to improve the Hyuga Clan’s future prospects. Masahiko discovered that Hinata was being told to leave school with Toneri, but Naruto urged her to choose for herself, leaving Masahiko worried that Toneri was headed for heartbreak.

• Hiashi told the Hyuga elders that he planned to cultivate Otsutsuki Toneri as a possible future Hokage and would speak with him after the Fifth Hokage selection.
• Masahiko heard Naruto complain that Toneri had stopped sparring and was spending his time with Hinata, so he went to investigate.
• Masahiko found Toneri leaving the Academy alone after Toneri said he had beaten Naruto and Sasuke in a spar.
• Masahiko learned that Hinata had stayed behind because Hiashi had told her to leave with Toneri.
• Naruto encouraged Hinata to say whether she liked Toneri and to train hard if she did not want to be with him.
• Masahiko watched Hinata blush and concluded that Toneri seemed destined to become a tragedy.