Chapter Summaries

Kyosuke confronted Uzumaki Ashina and demanded that Mito be handed over, threatening to make the Land of Whirlpools run with blood. Mito arrived and proved her identity, then stopped Ashina’s surprise attack with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• Tobirama vanished, and the Senju wedding procession fled after receiving a distant signal, prompting Maya to proclaim Kyosuke the winner.
• Maya led the Uchiha in chants praising Kyosuke, while the citizens of the Land of Whirlpools argued over Mito’s marriage and their blood feud with the Uchiha.
• Kyosuke appeared, drove his lightning-charged sword into the Land of Whirlpools’ emblem, and destroyed the public platform while demanding Mito be handed over.
• Kyosuke threatened to take a hundred Whirlpool lives for every Uchiha killed, but Mito arrived and confirmed her identity with their private exchange.
• Ashina attacked Kyosuke with chains as he approached Mito, and Mito intercepted them with her Adamantine Sealing Chains and told her father to stop.

Mito left with Kyosuke after Uzumaki Ashina reluctantly accepted their marriage, and the pair held a wedding attended by nearly every clan in the Land of Fire. Afterward, Madara gathered the clan representatives to discuss the country’s future, and he signaled Kyosuke to speak.

• Uzumaki Ashina relented when Mito refused to abandon her marriage to Kyosuke and told her to decide for herself.
• Mito bowed to her father, then left with Kyosuke as the Uchiha ninjas welcomed her home as Princess Mito.
• Half a month later, clans across the Land of Fire attended Kyosuke and Mito’s wedding, while Uzumaki Ashina sent Mito’s maids with her dowry.
• After the wedding, Kyosuke and Mito joined a meeting Madara Uchiha had arranged with the clan representatives.
• Madara said the Uchiha wanted to discuss the future of the Land of Fire, then signaled Kyosuke to make his case.

Kyosuke proposed uniting the clans of the Land of Fire in a hidden village, laying out plans for shared protection and services while leaving the idea unresolved. Hashirama set off for Shikkotsu Forest, and Kyosuke prepared his next move amid growing tensions with the Senju and reports of something unusual on the moon.

• Kyosuke told the clan representatives that a hidden village could protect every clan, educate children, improve medical ninjutsu, and keep civilians safe, while the Sarutobi representative raised concerns about clan grudges and power-sharing.
• Hashirama heard of Kyosuke’s proposal, dismissed Tobirama’s warnings about unrest in the Senju Clan, and announced that he was leaving for Shikkotsu Forest.
• The Uchiha representatives left, while Madara dealt with escalating clashes with the Senju and reports of troops gathering at the border.
• Kyosuke ordered his subordinate to notify Secret Shinobi Number Three that it was time to draw in the net.
• Kyosuke showed the Ponytail Princess a proposal about the moon and invited her to go there with him after they dealt with matters at hand.

Uchiha Kei abandoned his plan to awaken the Mangekyō after learning his wife, Uchiha Chō, was pregnant, but he later sacrificed his friend Uchiha Shinji in a failed attempt to awaken it. After dreaming that Chō was dead, Kei learned she had been attacked and was missing.

• Uchiha Kei learned that Uchiha Chō was pregnant and joyfully celebrated with her.
• After Chō left, Uchiha Kei berated himself for considering a plan that could harm his wife and child, then resolved to prepare for their protection.
• Uchiha Kei lured his friend Uchiha Shinji away and killed him, staging the death as a Senju Clan attack to try to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Kei failed to awaken the Mangekyō and suffered nightmares about Shinji and Chō dying.
• A subordinate told Uchiha Kei that Uchiha Chō had been attacked on her way back to the clan and her whereabouts were unknown, causing his sinister chakra to erupt.

Uchiha Kei followed his wife Uchiha Chō’s trail to a mountain hut, where a masked enemy used her to lure him into a trap. Kei survived the explosive attack and faced the man in black, while his rescue squad was secretly wiped out.

• Uchiha Kei found Chō’s secret signal at the blood-soaked attack site and raced ahead to follow it.
• Masked attackers ambushed Kei’s subordinates and killed them, leaving evidence meant to implicate the Senju Clan.
• Kei tracked Chō’s clues to a thatched hut and charged toward it after leaving a Shadow Clone behind.
• A man in black emerged with the unconscious Chō, taunted Kei, and threw her toward him with Explosive Tags attached.
• Kei caught Chō and rolled away from the explosions, then set his Shadow Clone to guard her and vowed to kill the masked man.

Uchiha Kei fought the black-clad figure and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after discovering he had killed his wife, Uchiha Chō. Grieving and blaming Kyosuke, he attacked him as Kyosuke drew the Kusanagi Sword.

• Uchiha Kei attacked the black-clad figure with fire and sword techniques, but she countered his moves and wounded him.
• Uchiha Kei charged with Chidori, then extended its lightning into a blade that pierced the black-clad figure’s chest.
• Uchiha Kei realized his unconscious wife had been a shadow clone and unmasked the fallen enemy, discovering she was Uchiha Chō.
• Uchiha Chō died in Uchiha Kei’s arms after telling him he now had the power to defeat anyone, and his Mangekyō Sharingan awakened.
• Kyosuke arrived and blamed Uchiha Kei’s stupidity for what had happened, prompting Kei to attack him.
• Kyosuke drew the Kusanagi Sword and faced Uchiha Kei.

Kyosuke fought Uchiha Kei, whose newly awakened Mangekyō let him glimpse the future, and exploited its limits to overwhelm him. Just as Kyosuke believed Kei had been defeated, Kei struck back with a lightning blade through Kyosuke’s chest.

• Uchiha Kei used his precognitive Mangekyō to anticipate Kyosuke’s attacks and revealed that his ability was called Time Mandate.
• Kyosuke used rapid Flying Thunder God assaults to outpace Kei’s precognition and wound him.
• Kyosuke launched Water Release: Water Fang: Hundred Dragon Rampage, engulfing Kei in a barrage that left him motionless.
• As Kyosuke approached the apparent corpse, Uchiha Kei fired an extending lightning blade through his chest.

Uchiha Kei awakened his Susanoo while fighting Kyosuke, but Kyosuke outmaneuvered and defeated him. Uchiha Chō revealed herself as Kyosuke’s secret shinobi and took Kei’s eyes, leaving her collapsed beside her despairing husband.

• Kei thought his Chidori Sharp Spear had defeated Kyosuke, but Kyosuke’s dojutsu nullified the attack and provoked Kei into awakening Susanoo.
• Kyosuke used the Headhunter Jutsu to exploit Kei’s inability to use precognition while maintaining Susanoo, then distracted him by revealing Uchiha Chō was alive.
• Kyosuke appeared beside Kei, dissolved his Susanoo with Reversal, and pinned him with black rods that sealed his chakra.
• Kei begged Chō to flee, but Chō identified herself as Secret Shinobi Number Three and followed through on her assignment.
• Chō gouged out Kei’s eyes and handed them to Kyosuke, then broke down as Kei laughed in despair.

Kyosuke recalled how Uchiha Chō became his Secret Shinobi and arranged for her to be revived after killing Uchiha Kei, then tested whether she remained loyal to him. Chō resisted her awakened Mangekyō’s murderous urge and returned with Kyosuke, who planned to pursue the next stage of his Eternal Mangekyō transplant.

• Kyosuke remembered that Chō had spent eight years undercover to make Uchiha Kei love her and awaken her Mangekyō, with her freedom depending on the plan’s success.
• Kyosuke revealed that his secret Afterlife squad had used Creation Rebirth to revive Chō after she died fighting Uchiha Kei.
• Kyosuke left his back exposed to Chō as a test, and she spent five minutes fighting the murderous urge brought on by her awakened Mangekyō before declaring herself ready.
• Chō told Kyosuke she had awakened various abilities and teased him about visiting her for dinner, while he asked her to behave around Mito.
• Kyosuke and Chō headed back to the Family as Kyosuke considered absorbing Uchiha Kei’s ocular power to pursue the Eternal Mangekyō.

Hashirama found the Slug Sage in Shikkotsu Forest and began learning her Senjutsu. He mastered Sage Mode in an hour and entered it again in one second, leaving the Slug Sage astonished.

• Hashirama wandered through Shikkotsu Forest for three days before drifting down a river and waking in a canyon filled with fragments of the Slug Sage.
• A small slug guided Hashirama to the enormous Slug Sage and explained that Shikkotsu Forest rested on her true body.
• The Slug Sage warned Hashirama that Senjutsu training was dangerous, then swallowed him so he could sense natural energy within her body.
• Hashirama mastered Sage Mode in an hour, surprising the Slug Sage, who had expected him to need weeks.
• Hashirama dispelled his senjutsu chakra and entered Sage Mode again in one second, then said he might now be able to hold his own against Kyosuke.

After Uchiha Kei's death, Kyosuke took command of his troops and brought Kei's widow, Uchiha Chō, into his ranks while Mito and Maya grew suspicious of their closeness. Meanwhile, Kyosuke recovered from a Sharingan transplant and set out with his clones to find the Yata Mirror, as Hashirama discovered the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest.

• Madara suppressed an investigation into Uchiha Kei's death, and Kyosuke took responsibility for Kei's widow and troops.
• Uchiha Chō joined Kyosuke's ranks, prompting Maya to warn Mito that Chō's relationship with Kyosuke seemed unusually close.
• Kyosuke spent half a month recovering from a Sharingan transplant with Yayoi's help, while she explained that awakening her Tenseigan would take time.
• Kyosuke discussed Hyuga Tennin's interest in him and considered Yayoi's potential to take control of the Hyuga Clan.
• Kyosuke and his clones set out to search for the Yata Mirror, while Hashirama found the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest.

Yayoi Hyuga pursued Tobirama Senju and awakened her Tenseigan under the pressure of his Water Release attack. Tobirama retreated after recognizing her eyes, while Yayoi began considering how to protect herself from Hyuga Tennin.

• Yayoi Hyuga led her loyalists to wipe out an enemy squad and set out to find Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama lured Yayoi toward his position and attacked her squad with Water Release: Water Tornado.
• Yayoi met the wave with Heavenly Spin, survived beneath the water, and struck Tobirama's Water Clone with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Chop.
• Tobirama rode the waves toward Yayoi's subordinates, but Yayoi emerged from the lake and awakened her Tenseigan.
• Tobirama recognized Yayoi's eyes as resembling Hyuga Tennin's and fled with Water Body Flicker.
• Yayoi, still unable to wield her new power fully, decided to prepare for the possibility that Hyuga Tennin would try to steal her eyes.

Madara discovered that Uchiha Chō had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and confronted her in a secluded lane. Their fight began when Chō counterattacked after Madara inexplicably lost his balance.

• Clan leaders urged Madara to launch a war against the weakened Senju, but he ordered reinforcements sent to the border to draw their attention.
• Madara noticed that Uchiha Chō’s soul bore the distinctive presence of a Mangekyō wielder and followed her through the streets.
• Madara stopped Chō in a secluded lane and demanded to know why she had the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Chō avoided answering and tested Madara’s strength; he broke her arm with a single kick, but she chose to continue the fight using their eyes.
• Madara lost his balance just as he prepared to attack again, and Chō laughed before launching her counterattack.

Uchiha Chō revealed her touch-based Mangekyō abilities to Madara, who taught her how to use her eyes and invited her to become an army commander. Chō considered how the position could help Kyosuke but had not yet answered.

• Uchiha Chō used a collapse in the ground to evade Madara's kick, and Madara realized she had awakened the Mangekyō.
• Madara deduced that Chō was Kyosuke's woman, ended their fight, and agreed to guide her at the Training Ground.
• Chō demonstrated that her right eye could rewrite an object's physical reality through touch, collapsing the arena and snapping Madara's sword.
• Chō showed that her left eye could absorb another person's luck, causing Madara to suffer bad luck and dodge falling bird droppings.
• Madara taught Chō how to conserve ocular power and awaken Susanoo, then invited her to become an army commander for a region.

Hashirama left the giant slug and encountered a masked man who challenged him to take a punch in exchange for a booklet of advanced techniques. After the man vanished, Hashirama began studying the booklet, while the Masked Man returned to a hidden hall and complained about waiting thirty years for the others to awaken.

• The giant slug sensed an unexplained change near a secret in Shikkotsu Forest and wondered whether Hashirama had caused it.
• Hashirama returned to the exit of Shikkotsu Forest and met a masked man who offered him a booklet of secret techniques.
• The Masked Man struck Hashirama with a powerful punch, and Hashirama endured it in Sage Mode.
• The Masked Man gave Hashirama the booklet and disappeared, and Hashirama sat down to study its techniques.
• The Masked Man entered a hidden hall filled with emaciated figures, complained that he had thirty years to wait, and removed his mask beneath a plaque marked Ninshū.

Uchiha Chō proved her strength by revealing her Mangekyō and defeating five challengers, while Kyosuke returned home to discover Mito was pregnant. The couple reunited and began discussing names for their baby.

• Uchiha Chō held a tournament to fill command posts and revealed her Mangekyō before challenging her five victorious subordinates.
• Uchiha Chō defeated her subordinates and became recognized as the clan's fourth supreme powerhouse after Madara, Kyosuke, and Izuna.
• Kyosuke returned home and learned from the servants that Mito was pregnant and had been rearranging the house during his absence.
• Mito greeted Kyosuke by attacking him with Adamantine Sealing Chains for staying away so long.
• Kyosuke and Mito cuddled together and wondered whether their baby would be a boy or a girl before discussing names.

Kyosuke told Madara that he was going to be a father, then discussed Hashirama’s return and his clash with Hyuga Tennin. Hashirama continued battling Tennin on the battlefield while the captured Hyuga officers watched, and Kyosuke planned to take Madara to meet Yayoi.

• Kyosuke told Madara that he was going to be a father, then changed the subject to Hashirama’s return when Madara grew angry.
• Madara and Kyosuke learned that Hashirama had defeated the Hyuga army and captured Yayoi Hyuga, Hyuga Kenji, and the other senior officers.
• Kyosuke considered introducing Madara to Yayoi so she could help address his ocular-power problems, then invited him to go somewhere together.
• Hashirama used a wood dragon and golden energy blasts to keep fighting Tennin, who dodged his attacks in Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Bound Yayoi watched Hashirama and Tennin’s battle with her Byakugan while Tobirama watched her.

Hyuga Tennin ended his battle with Hashirama Senju in a draw and returned to camp, where Black Zetsu offered him a way to evolve his Tenseigan. Tennin agreed to consider the offer, which required him to help kill Uchiha Kyosuke.

• After three hours of fighting, Hyuga Tennin and Hashirama Senju stopped without a clear winner, and Hashirama released the captured Hyuga.
• Hyuga Tennin recognized that Hashirama had grown too strong to defeat and considered absorbing Yayoi's ocular power after her Tenseigan matured.
• Black Zetsu visited Tennin in his tent and offered him a way to gain the power to defeat Hashirama.
• Black Zetsu revealed a reanimated body and explained that combining it with Impure World Reincarnation could help force Tennin's evolution.
• Black Zetsu asked Tennin to help kill Uchiha Kyosuke and promised to create an opportunity for him.

Madara Uchiha and Kyosuke visited the Fire Temple to borrow the Nine-Tails, where Madara discovered that the monk Jigen possessed an overwhelmingly powerful soul. The chapter ended with Madara making his request to the Abbot.

• Madara Uchiha learned that Kyosuke had helped Yayoi Hyuga integrate sage body cells into him, restoring and strengthening his abilities.
• Madara and Kyosuke arrived at the Fire Temple, where the Abbot greeted them alongside the monk Jigen.
• Madara sensed Jigen's terrifying soul fluctuations and confronted him, learning that he was called Jigen.
• Madara set aside his questions about Jigen and asked the Abbot to lend him the Nine-Tails.

Madara demanded that the Fire Temple hand over the Nine-Tails, while Kyosuke confronted Jigen over his cryptic warnings and the Ten-Tails in his possession. Jigen summoned two powerful servants, and Kyosuke recognized them as Shiba Ryota and Okamura Tsutomu.

• The Fire Temple Abbot refused Madara's demand to borrow the Nine-Tails, and Madara threatened the monks as they prepared to fight.
• Kyosuke questioned Jigen about whether his fatal ordeal had come again, while considering how to obtain Isshiki's Ten-Tails and reach Six Paths power.
• Jigen spoke of suffering and deliverance, then summoned two servants to test Kyosuke.
• Shiba Ryota attacked Kyosuke with a powerful kick, but Kyosuke blocked it with Susanoo's ribs and was forced back several meters.
• Kyosuke recognized Shiba Ryota and Okamura Tsutomu, the latter a Steel Release wielder, as former Fighting Arena trump cards.