Chapter Summaries

Madara Uchiha defeated Koji Uchiha in a genjutsu contest and then overwhelmed him in close combat, establishing himself as the Uchiha Clan’s undisputed Clan Leader. When Koji unleashed a dangerous Fire Release attack near the spectators, Izuna used his dojutsu to weaken it, allowing Madara to strike Koji down.

• Kyosuke considered how Madara’s genjutsu might relate to his Mangekyō and the requirements for casting Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Madara and Koji competed in genjutsu, and Koji staggered back while wondering why Madara had spared him in the illusion.
• Madara challenged Koji to close combat and used his speed and taijutsu to dominate him without activating his Mangekyō.
• Koji unleashed an S-rank Fire Release attack despite the spectators nearby, and Madara summoned a Susanoo arm to counter it.
• Izuna used his dojutsu to shrink and dispel Koji’s Fire Release, after which Madara struck Koji down and won the clan’s recognition as its leader.

Kyosuke and Madara celebrated New Year's with their friends while the Uchiha war effort gained strength and the Moon Clan weakened. After the Fūma betrayed the Moon Clan, Ōtsutsuki Sugito prepared to enter the battlefield himself, convinced that his power could save his people.

• Kyosuke joined Madara on New Year's Eve and warned him not to underestimate the dangers of the shinobi world or the Mangekyō's drawbacks.
• Kyosuke, Madara, Izuna, Hashirama, and Tobirama raised their cups together and drank until they fell asleep, cherishing their night with friends.
• After the New Year, the Moon Clan resumed its offensive but struggled without fresh troops and supplies, while the Uchiha regained the advantage.
• The Fūma suddenly turned against the Moon Clan, enraging Ōtsutsuki Sugito and further weakening his forces.
• Ōtsutsuki Sugito prepared to fight personally as his Tenseigan neared completion, declaring himself invincible.

Kyosuke persuaded Madara to accept the Fūma Clan’s support as a political asset and revealed his ambition to lead a future Land of Fire Shinobi Village. When the enemy gathered for an all-out assault, Madara summoned the Hyuga and Senju leaders as the final battle approached.

• Fūma Kōshi visited the Uchiha and offered his clan’s support, and Madara assigned the Fūma to defend the Defensive Zone.
• Kyosuke explained to Madara that the Uchiha needed public allies in the Land of Fire, and that the Fūma could become a future faction backing them.
• Kyosuke privately considered keeping Fūma Kōshi close because he could help track Black Zetsu.
• Kyosuke admitted he intended to become the leader of the Land of Fire Shinobi Village, and Madara and Izuna promised to support him.
• A Messenger reported that the enemy was massing for an all-out assault, so Madara called for the Hyuga Clan Leader and sent Izuna to summon Hashirama.

Hashirama, Madara, and Kyosuke fought together against the Moon Clan’s human puppet army, overwhelming its forces. As they regrouped, Ōtsutsuki Sugito, the Tenseigan wielder, approached the battlefield.

• Hashirama created a vast forest with Wood Release to block the advancing puppets, but some flew through the gaps.
• Madara used Uchiha Reflection to strike down airborne puppets while Kyosuke attacked with kunai, Flying Thunder God, and shadow clones.
• The three fighters tore through the puppet army as Fūma Kōshi watched and Hyuga Tennin reconsidered whether his son could surpass them.
• Hyuga Tennin, Kyosuke, and the others sensed a powerful presence approaching and regrouped.
• Ōtsutsuki Sugito appeared on the horizon with a pale blue light shining in his eyes.

Uchiha Izuna used Kagutsuchi and Susanoo to badly injure Ōtsutsuki Sugito, but Sugito struck back and left him seriously wounded. Madara then entered the battle with a massive Fire Release attack, while Kyosuke considered the mysterious soul-related power behind Madara’s abilities.

• Uchiha Izuna attacked Ōtsutsuki Sugito with the Great Flame Flower Technique, but Sugito’s Tenseigan repelled the flames.
• Izuna awakened Kagutsuchi, trapped Sugito in a swirling blaze, and struck him with a Susanoo arrow infused with fire.
• Sugito recovered and hit Izuna with a powerful green orb, leaving him seriously injured despite his Susanoo.
• Madara Uchiha entered the battle and unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, astonishing the watching ninjas.
• Kyosuke speculated that Madara’s second dojutsu gave him unusual control over his soul and amplified his ninjutsu.

Madara Uchiha defeated Ōtsutsuki Sugito, who surrendered his body to Black Zetsu after asking him to kill Hyuga Tennin and Uchiha Kyosuke. Black Zetsu took control, advanced the Tenseigan's evolution, and activated its Chakra Mode as he prepared to approach the Hyuga Clan.

• Madara Uchiha used his evolved Susanoo to break through Ōtsutsuki Sugito's gravity attack and wound him with a sword slash.
• Ōtsutsuki Sugito asked the voice in his head to kill Hyuga Tennin and Uchiha Kyosuke in exchange for taking his body.
• Black Zetsu consumed Sugito's consciousness and revealed that he had been manipulating him from the shadows.
• Black Zetsu used his power to advance the Tenseigan's evolution, then considered whether it could help break his mother's seal.
• Black Zetsu decided to test the Tenseigan's power and formed a flame-like green Chakra Cloak around Sugito's body.

Ōtsutsuki Sugito used Tenseigan Chakra Mode to overwhelm Madara and Izuna, while Tobirama ambushed him with Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags. After Hyuga Tennin rushed into the smoke to seize his chance, Kyosuke decided to enter the fight and eliminate the lunar threat.

• Ōtsutsuki Sugito activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and sent Madara flying with a single kick.
• Sugito deflected the Uchiha clansmen’s attacks, killed more than a dozen of them, and badly injured Madara and Izuna with repulsive force.
• Tobirama ambushed Sugito with Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, but withdrew when the explosions began threatening him too.
• Hyuga Tennin charged into the smoke to confront Sugito while Kyosuke assessed the limits of his Tenseigan powers.
• Kyosuke stopped observing from the sidelines and prepared to eliminate the threat from the moon.

Hashirama, Kyosuke, and Madara joined forces to defeat Ōtsutsuki Sugito with an Armored Wood Dragon, but Black Zetsu escaped with one Tenseigan. Kyosuke decided to make the broken moon his base.

• Black Zetsu attacked Tobirama, but Hashirama protected his younger brother with Wood Release.
• Hashirama used the Wood Dragon Technique by draining his life energy, and Kyosuke covered the dragon in Susanoo armor.
• Black Zetsu pushed Sugito's Tenseigan Chakra Mode to its limits, but Madara added his ocular power to Hashirama and helped the dragon overpower Sugito.
• Black Zetsu tore himself free with Sugito's mutilated body, stole one Tenseigan, and escaped underground.
• Hyuga Tennin discovered that one eye was missing, while Kyosuke chose the broken moon as his base.

Three months after taking the moon, Uchiha Kyosuke arranged its development and planned how to handle the captured Moon Clan survivors. At the clan altar, he awakened Ōtsutsuki Hamura’s lingering consciousness and learned that Hamura could return to life if needed.

• Kyosuke heard that his forces had executed the Moon Clan remnants’ fighters and captured more than three hundred elderly people, women, and children.
• Kyosuke ordered Maya to send frail captives to Yayoi for experiments, preserve the eyes of captives aged thirty or older, and encourage marriages between the Uchiha and Moon Clan.
• Kyosuke considered bringing in Uzumaki and Hyuga clan members and decided to investigate whether Hamura remained alive and whether Kaguya could be awakened.
• Kyosuke lit the altar’s bonfire and watched Hamura’s projection recount Kaguya’s history before it unexpectedly regained awareness.
• Hamura recognized Kyosuke as an Uchiha descendant of Indra, said he was already dead, and revealed that he could return to life if the need arose.

Kyosuke learned from Hamura's phantom that the Ōtsutsuki were a powerful clan who would continue sending warriors to Earth. After failing to communicate with the sealed Kaguya, he secured the lunar passage and returned to the Shinobi World, where three years passed.

• Hamura explained the Ōtsutsuki clan's God Tree missions, Chakra Fruits, and Kaguya's attempt to escape her fate by creating a White Zetsu army.
• Hamura hinted that his older brother had found a way to confront the coming threat, then faded away before Kyosuke could ask more.
• Kyosuke searched the cave but could not get a response from Kaguya, so he left the Back Mountain Altar.
• Kyosuke ordered trusted subordinates to guard the sealed site and had Secret Shinobi conceal the transport passage.
• Kyosuke returned to the Shinobi World, considered how to improve his techniques, and three years passed.

Hyuga Tennin planned to make his clan ruler of the eastern Land of Fire, unaware that Yayoi Hyuga had targeted his son Hirosuke. Yayoi killed Hirosuke and staged his death to provoke a conflict between the Hyuga and Senju clans.

• Hyuga Tennin mastered the Tenseigan and sent Hirosuke to recruit neighboring clans as part of his bid for power.
• At the Takita Clan, Hirosuke used his Byakugan to spot an ambush led by Yayoi Hyuga.
• Yayoi revealed that the Caged Bird Seal could not control her, and her subordinates cleared the way for her to face Hirosuke.
• Yayoi defeated and killed Hirosuke, intending to use his eyes in her efforts to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Yayoi arranged the scene to blame Senju spies, hoping Hyuga Tennin would confront the Senju and ignite a clan conflict.

While visiting Mito Uzumaki, Kyosuke discussed Hyuga Tennin’s challenge to the Senju and learned that Tennin had defeated Hashirama before the Hyuga declared war. Kyosuke left Uzushiogakure, intending to kill Butsuma Senju.

• Mito and Kyosuke shared a meal and discussed Tennin’s confidence and the limits of Hashirama’s strength.
• A white snake delivered news that Tennin’s negotiations with Butsuma had failed and he had fought Hashirama.
• Tennin used two Tenseigan and a special Chakra Mode to defeat Hashirama, then escaped.
• The Hyuga formally declared war on the Senju, threatening to draw the Uchiha into the conflict.
• Kyosuke sent instructions to spread damaging reports about the Senju and teleported away, vowing to kill Butsuma.

Hyuga Tennin led the Hyuga army against the Senju, but Tobirama’s reanimated army and explosive tags forced the Hyuga to retreat. Kyosuke then entered Tennin’s room and discovered that the explosions had left him hard of hearing.

• Hyuga Tennin prepared to attack the Senju, while planning to target the Uchiha and Uzumaki afterward.
• Tobirama resurrected more than thirty dead ninjas with Impure World Reincarnation despite Hashirama’s objections.
• Tobirama’s reanimated army overwhelmed the Hyuga, whose Gentle Fist attacks could not stop the immortal bodies.
• Tobirama covered the reanimated bodies with Explosive Tags, and the blasts severely injured Tennin and forced the Hyuga to retreat.
• Tennin dismissed his subordinates because the explosions had left him hard of hearing, and Kyosuke entered his room to speak with him.

Hyuga Tennin attacked the Senju camp from the sky while Kyosuke prepared a trap for Butsuma Senju. Tennin drew Butsuma and his fighters into barrier formulas that transported them fifteen kilometers away, leaving Kyosuke a chance to strike.

• Hyuga Tennin activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and unleashed Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack on the Senju camp, killing many shinobi.
• Tennin taunted Butsuma Senju and fled as the Senju counterattacked with thirty Water Dragon Bullets.
• Butsuma pursued Tennin and led his companions into hidden barrier formulas that transported them fifteen kilometers away.
• Tennin realized Kyosuke had sprung the trap and began counting down five minutes while he bought Kyosuke time.

Uchiha Kyosuke ambushed Butsuma Senju and demonstrated the power of his five-element Great Combo Technique. Butsuma tried to retreat after the attack, but Kyosuke insisted that he would die there.

• Butsuma Senju recognized that Kyosuke had transported him and his guards to a canyon, and Kyosuke revealed himself and declared that Butsuma would die.
• Kyosuke used Chidori Stream and summoned four shadow clones, then they unleashed a Five Release Great Combo Technique that blasted Butsuma into a crater.
• Hyuga Tennin fought off hundreds of Senju ninja with the Tenseigan’s repulsive force, then moved toward the distant battle to aid his clan leader.
• Kyosuke’s training and intermediate sage body let him wield powerful elemental ninjutsu and recover quickly from injuries.
• Butsuma accepted his subordinates’ offer to cover his retreat, but Kyosuke told him that he would still die there.

Kyosuke pursued Butsuma Senju and defeated him by combining Sage Mode with Susanoo, then using his dojutsu to keep Butsuma’s final attack from reaching him. Injured and drained, Kyosuke left the Senju camp to recover in the Land of Whirlpools.

• Kyosuke entered Sage Mode and killed the Senju ninja who tried to stop him as he pursued Butsuma.
• Butsuma recognized Kyosuke’s Sage Mode, ordered two clansmen to hold him back, and prepared his cursed sword technique.
• Kyosuke combined senjutsu chakra with Susanoo and overwhelmed Butsuma, who lost an arm but launched a final Dragon-Slaying Blade Aura.
• Kyosuke used Finality to keep Butsuma’s attack from reaching him, and the system confirmed that Butsuma had been killed.
• With his dojutsu depleted and his body coughing blood, Kyosuke left the Senju camp to recover in the Land of Whirlpools.

After Senju leader Butsuma was killed in a surprise attack by Hyuga Tennin, Tobirama intimidated the clan elders while Hashirama declared his resolve to protect the Senju. The elders agreed to make Hashirama the new clan leader.

• Tobirama used his Hard Vortex Water Blade against a Hyuga shinobi, then learned that Hyuga Tennin had killed Butsuma in a surprise attack on the Senju camp.
• The Senju withdrew, and news of Butsuma’s death spread through the Land of Fire as other clans reacted to the Senju’s weakened position.
• At Butsuma’s funeral, Tobirama threatened Elder Domoto Senju and used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to subdue him.
• Hashirama showed the elders his father’s handwritten letter and vowed to ensure the Senju endured, while Tobirama backed him with a display of power.
• Domoto Senju proposed Hashirama as the new clan leader, and the other elders agreed.

Kyosuke promised Mito he would marry her and prepared to travel to the Land of Whirlpools to propose, while Uzumaki Ashina agreed to Black Zetsu’s plan to drug Mito and secure her marriage to Hashirama. Kyosuke set out with Izuna, unaware that Ashina intended to thwart him.

• Mito told Kyosuke that her father planned to marry her to Hashirama Senju, and Kyosuke promised to return with preparations to marry her properly.
• Uzumaki Ashina learned from Black Zetsu that the Uchiha planned to propose to Mito and that Kyosuke had killed Butsuma Senju.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Ashina to prevent the Uchiha from taking Mito, and Ashina retrieved powerful sleeping powder to use on his daughter.
• Kyosuke discussed the proposal journey with Madara Uchiha and Izuna, who promised to help him steal his bride back.
• Kyosuke announced that he and Izuna would leave for the Land of Whirlpools immediately.

Uchiha Kyosuke confronted Hashirama Senju and the Uzumaki over Mito’s arranged marriage, while Tobirama Senju’s accusations sparked a battle between the clans. After Kyosuke exposed a White Zetsu Clone posing as Mito, he and Hashirama left Uzushiogakure to fight in a distant forest, with Mito’s real whereabouts still unknown.

• As the Senju bridal procession reached Uzushiogakure, Kyosuke arrived with the Uchiha and declared that he had come to take Mito home.
• Tobirama accused Kyosuke of killing Butsuma Senju and attacked, prompting Izuna to fight him and use sealing jutsu against Tobirama’s reanimated Uchiha elders.
• Kyosuke and Hashirama intervened before Izuna and Tobirama could escalate their fight, then Uzumaki Ashina brought out a Mito who claimed she would marry Hashirama.
• Kyosuke recognized the presented Mito as a White Zetsu Clone after it failed to explain the purpose of his pouch, then tried to reach it despite Ashina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Hashirama blocked Kyosuke’s attempt to strike the clone, and the two departed for a distant forest to fight while the real Mito remained in Uzumaki custody.

Kyosuke fought Hashirama and overwhelmed him with Sage Art: Takemikazuchi, leaving him gravely wounded. Tobirama rescued Hashirama and escaped with him, while Kyosuke let them go because a stronger Hashirama would be worth more points.

• Hashirama hesitated to fight Kyosuke until Kyosuke kicked him and forced him to take the battle seriously.
• Kyosuke countered Hashirama’s shuriken attack with Water Release and unleashed Water Fang: Hundred Dragon Rampage against Hashirama’s Wood Release.
• Kyosuke combined senjutsu chakra, Susanoo, and Chidori into Sage Art: Takemikazuchi, pierced Hashirama’s Wood Locking Wall, and impaled him.
• Tobirama arrived, forced Kyosuke back, and escaped with the gravely injured Hashirama using Flying Thunder God.
• Kyosuke chose not to pursue them, reasoning that Hashirama would be worth more points after reaching Super Kage level.