Chapter Summaries

Neji confronted Killer B in the Land of Lightning, drained his Chakra, and took half of Gyuki while leaving the rest inside Killer B. The Fourth Raikage arrived afterward, found Killer B unconscious, and learned that Yugito had disappeared.

• Neji and Yugito watched Killer B rapping outside Kumogakure, and Neji decided to take the Eight-Tails fragment he needed.
• Neji ambushed Killer B in the forest and used an invisible force to drain his Chakra as Gyuki warned him of the danger.
• Neji extracted Gyuki, divided it with the Tenseigan, and took half while leaving the other half inside the unconscious Killer B.
• The Fourth Raikage arrived, found Killer B unconscious, and ordered his men to return to Kumogakure so he could investigate.
• A jonin reported that Yugito had disappeared, confirming the Fourth Raikage's suspicions that something had happened to her.

Neji arranged a secret deal with Obito to exchange Yugito, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, for the captured Four-Tails. After extracting what he wanted from the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Neji sent Kisame to help with Yugito’s staged fight against Itachi.

• Neji and Yugito watched Kumogakure retreat with Killer B, and Neji messaged Obito about the remaining Jinchuriki.
• Obito learned Kisame had captured the Four-Tails and that Deidara and Tobi were tracking the Six-Tails, then arranged a staged exchange involving Yugito and the Four-Tails.
• Neji told Yugito to fight Itachi and fake her death, then teleported with her to the Land of Earth before they split up.
• Yugito began fighting Itachi while Neji found Kisame beside the unconscious Four-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Neji absorbed a fragment from the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, then told Kisame to help Yugito and bring her back unharmed.

Neji watched Itachi capture Yugito, then prepared Zabuza to serve as bait for Akatsuki by becoming the Three-Tails Jinchuriki. The chapter ended with Neji sealing half of Isobu’s power and consciousness inside Zabuza.

• Kisame carried the Four-Tails Jinchuriki to Itachi, who awakened Susanoo and subdued Yugito in her Two-Tails form.
• Itachi and Kisame set off for a secret hideout to have Pain seal the captured Tailed Beasts.
• Neji concluded that the sealing would leave about half a month before Akatsuki pursued the Six-Tails, giving him time to prepare his next phase.
• Neji told Zabuza and Haku that he planned to make Zabuza the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and use rumors to lure Akatsuki to the Land of Waves.
• Zabuza agreed to act as bait, and Neji sealed half of Isobu’s power and consciousness inside him.

Neji completed Zabuza's seal, allowing him to wield Isobu's power, while Neji and Izumi discussed the need to move faster. At Orochimaru's hideout, Sasuke attacked his weakened former mentor and rejected the plan to take his body.

• Zabuza felt Isobu's power flow through him, formed a Tailed Beast Chakra cloak, and agreed to train with Haku before beginning his mission.
• Neji told Izumi that he wanted to move faster but could not avoid certain things, and she promised to stay by his side.
• Kabuto left to fetch medicine as Orochimaru's failing body neared its limit and Orochimaru yearned to take Sasuke's body.
• Sasuke burst into Orochimaru's room with a Chidori Sharp Spear and Kusanagi Sword, declaring that Orochimaru had nothing left to teach him.
• Sasuke accused Orochimaru of coveting the Uchiha's power and treating people like toys, then lunged at him.
• Orochimaru sent a white figure from his mouth, but Sasuke intercepted it with the Kusanagi Sword.

Sasuke fought Orochimaru in his White Phosphorus Snake form, unleashed Curse Mark Level Two, and cut Orochimaru’s body into pieces. Orochimaru survived and began the Reincarnation Ritual, drawing Sasuke into his inner space, while Kabuto returned with medicine and worried that Sasuke would resist.

• Sasuke confronted Orochimaru’s transformed body and mocked him for sacrificing his humanity in pursuit of immortality.
• Orochimaru attacked, but Sasuke dodged, struck his summoned snakes, and transformed into Curse Mark Level Two.
• Sasuke broke free of Orochimaru’s snakes and severed the giant snake body with the Kusanagi Sword.
• Orochimaru revealed that his body fluids had paralyzed Sasuke, then pulled him into the inner space where the Reincarnation Ritual began.
• Kabuto prepared medicine, decided the ritual might happen that day, and returned to Orochimaru while doubting Sasuke could resist.

Sasuke defeated Orochimaru, freed Suigetsu, and recruited him to join his plans. As they left to visit another place before searching for Jugo, Neji sensed that they had arrived in the Land of Waves.

• Kabuto discovered Sasuke standing over Orochimaru’s bloodied remains, and Sasuke used the Sharingan to show him how he had overcome Orochimaru’s Reincarnation Ritual and taken everything from him.
• Sasuke freed Suigetsu from a cultivation tank and said he would recruit Jugo from the northern hideout after visiting another place.
• Suigetsu joked about confronting Sasuke, but Sasuke severed part of his body and warned him that he disliked that kind of joke.
• Suigetsu put on clothes and followed Sasuke out of the hideout toward the place Sasuke wanted to visit.
• In the Land of Waves, Neji smiled and said they had arrived.

Sasuke and Suigetsu met Zabuza and Haku at Naruto Bridge and followed them to a hidden underground base beneath the sea. After seeing Sasori test a puppet in a simulation area, Sasuke learned that BOSS was waiting for them above.

• Sasuke and Suigetsu arrived at Naruto Bridge, where Zabuza and Haku appeared alive and invited Sasuke to follow them.
• Zabuza and Haku led Sasuke and Suigetsu through a barrier to a concealed reef entrance that descended into an underground facility.
• Sasuke and Suigetsu emerged into a vast underground landscape filled with grass, birds, clouds, and towering stone pillars.
• Suigetsu spotted two figures fighting, and Zabuza explained that Sasori was testing a puppet in the simulation area.
• Haku told Sasuke that Sasori had been recruited by BOSS, and Zabuza led the group toward the real base, where BOSS was waiting.

Sasuke met Neji at his base while preparing to confront Uchiha Itachi, and she recognized Uchiha Izumi, who declined to join her. Neji questioned whether Sasuke was ready to learn the truth and summoned Karin and Kimimaro.

• Sasuke and Suigetsu traveled through the base’s simulation field and saw Sasori working on puppets and facilities.
• Neji welcomed Sasuke and asked whether she was preparing to find the man she had set her sights on; Sasuke said she planned to confront Uchiha Itachi.
• Sasuke recognized the woman beside Neji as Uchiha Izumi, who confirmed her identity with her Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Sasuke invited Izumi to come with her, but Izumi refused, and Sasuke asked Neji why he had supported her departure to seek Orochimaru.
• Neji said he had known the truth for a long time, asked whether Sasuke was ready, and ordered Ai-chan to notify Karin and Kimimaro.

Neji arranged for Karin and Kimimaro to support Sasuke on her revenge mission, then learned the locations of Orochimaru’s bases and sent puppets to seize them. As Sasuke departed with her new squad, Neji prepared to use the time before Akatsuki’s tailed-beast sacrifices to take control of Orochimaru’s resources.

• Neji assigned Karin and Kimimaro to follow Sasuke and help her pursue revenge.
• Sasuke accepted Neji’s support, and she gave him the locations of the Orochimaru bases she knew.
• Neji used a detailed map to mark the base entrances, then sent assembled puppets across the ninja world to occupy them.
• Neji asked Izumi about his decision, and she told him she would support him.
• Neji considered Orochimaru’s technique, Kabuto’s future, and Sasuke’s possible attempt to find the Eight-Tails.

Kabuto struggled to control Orochimaru’s transplanted body while infiltrating puppets searched the base, so he prepared medicine to suppress the erosion and planned to escape. Neji, who had been overseeing the puppets’ search, headed to meet Kabuto and told Black Zetsu he would unseal Kaguya.

• Kabuto endured the pain from Orochimaru’s transplanted body and resolved to carry on Orochimaru’s work.
• Puppets entered the base to search, and Kabuto hid before sending a snake to scout; its connection was soon cut off.
• Kabuto decided to escape through a secret passage, but first went to the medicine dispensing room to prepare a suppressant.
• When the puppets approached, Kabuto summoned small snakes to draw them away, then began preparing the medicine.
• Neji revealed that he had witnessed Kabuto’s actions and that the puppets had pretended to be lured away.
• Neji headed to meet Kabuto and told Black Zetsu he would unseal Kaguya.

Neji recruited Kabuto to help take over Orochimaru’s bases and study his research, while Black Zetsu was assigned to guide Kabuto. After receiving word that the Two-Tails had been sealed, Neji prepared to retrieve Yugito and revive her.

• Kabuto drank a suppressant in the medicine room, where Neji appeared and demanded that he become his subordinate.
• Neji ordered Kabuto to fuse the substance in his left arm and introduced Black Zetsu as his guide.
• Neji showed Kabuto a phone displaying Yakushi Nonō before vanishing, and Kabuto began issuing orders to help seize Orochimaru’s bases.
• Neji returned to the Land of Waves base and studied Orochimaru’s research, gaining insights into biotechnology and Bloodline Limits.
• Obito informed Neji that the Two-Tails had been sealed, so Neji decided to retrieve and revive Yugito.

Neji revived Yugito after Akatsuki extracted the Two-Tails and took her from the Land of Earth to his base in the Land of Waves. He planned to continue researching vehicles, while Black Zetsu said the Six-Tails was nearly secured and the remaining Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails still had to be dealt with.

• Pain announced a day of rest after Akatsuki sealed the Two-Tails and said they would next seal the Four-Tails; Deidara and Tobi fought while Kisame worried about Itachi’s health.
• Kisame asked Zetsu to remove Yugito’s corpse, and Pain ended the sealing session by dismissing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Neji arrived after Zetsu carried Yugito away and used his healing ability to revive her.
• Neji told Black Zetsu that Kabuto was part of his plan to resolve the Nine-Tails issue, and Yugito woke and called Neji “BOSS.”
• Neji restored Yugito’s seal, then brought her to his base in the Land of Waves to continue researching vehicles and the Spray Wind Shell.

Neji traveled to the Land of Earth on his aerial motorcycle and watched Sasuke confront Itachi. Their Genjutsu duel led Sasuke to ask about the Uchiha accomplice in the clan massacre, and Itachi named Madara Uchiha, whom Sasuke refused to believe was still alive.

• Neji tested his aerial motorcycle, flew from the Land of Waves to the Land of Earth, and watched Itachi and Kisame leave their base.
• Sasuke and her companions confronted Itachi and Kisame, and the siblings agreed to settle their own fight while the others followed Kisame away.
• Sasuke and Itachi fought through Genjutsu, with Sasuke eventually pinning Itachi with the Kusanagi Sword in the illusion.
• Sasuke asked who had helped Itachi massacre the Uchiha Clan, and Itachi identified the accomplice as Madara Uchiha.
• Itachi said Madara had been one of Konoha's founders and the first man to master the Mangekyō Sharingan, but Sasuke accused him of lying because Madara should have died long ago.

Itachi told Sasuke that Madara was alive and explained that Mangekyō Sharingan users could lose their sight, revealing his plan to take Sasuke’s eyes. Sasuke broke free of Itachi’s illusion and prepared to face him, rejecting his brother’s pursuit of eternal light.

• Itachi claimed Madara was still alive and challenged Sasuke’s assumptions about reality.
• Sasuke recalled the massacre of their clan and used the Chidori Sharp Spear to expose Itachi’s illusion.
• Itachi explained that the Mangekyō Sharingan would eventually lose its light and that Madara had gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan by taking his younger brother’s eyes.
• Itachi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, restrained Sasuke, and declared that he would take Sasuke’s eyes to obtain eternal light.
• Sasuke broke free of the illusion, removed his bandages and robe, and confronted Itachi about pursuing the same fate he claimed to reject.
• Sasuke dismissed Itachi’s explanation of the Mangekyō Sharingan and said it was time to achieve their purpose.

Sasuke fought Itachi but was overwhelmed by his Mangekyō Sharingan and lost one eye. As Itachi moved to take the other, Sasuke unleashed the power of his remaining Sharingan and shattered the world around them.

• Sasuke and Itachi clashed with ninja tools, and Sasuke used a White Phosphorus Snake to block Itachi's shadow clone and shuriken.
• Sasuke empowered a Wind Demon Shuriken with Chidori, but the Itachi he struck dispersed into crows before Itachi attacked him at close range.
• Itachi pinned Sasuke, struck his abdomen, and gouged out one of his eyes while explaining the difference in their strength.
• Sasuke transformed under the Curse Mark as Itachi sealed Sasuke's eye in a container and sent a shadow clone to restrain him.
• Itachi reached for Sasuke's remaining eye, and Sasuke activated his Sharingan power, turning the world black and white before it shattered.

Sasuke broke Itachi’s Tsukuyomi and injured him with a hidden shuriken trap, then fought him with fire techniques. Itachi unleashed Amaterasu, and its black flames caught Sasuke as he charged in for revenge.

• Sasuke broke Itachi’s Tsukuyomi, leaving both of them in pain and on unsteady feet.
• Sasuke threw a Wind Demon Shuriken that split into two, then used threads to send a blade from its mechanism into Itachi’s thigh.
• Sasuke attacked with a Great Fireball and Lightning Style, but Itachi countered with fire and burned Sasuke’s hand.
• Sasuke gained the advantage in a clash of Great Fireball Techniques until Itachi used Amaterasu to consume his flames.
• Itachi tracked Sasuke with his right eye, and Amaterasu ignited Sasuke’s monstrous hand, sending him crashing to the ground.

Sasuke used Kirin against Itachi, but Itachi survived by awakening Susanoo, the combined power of his Mangekyō Sharingan. The battle continued as Itachi’s skeletal Chakra avatar began to grow muscle and armor.

• Itachi discovered Sasuke had escaped Amaterasu with the Orochimaru-Style Substitution Jutsu, and Sasuke attacked with the Great Dragon Fire Technique.
• Sasuke summoned Kirin from the storm clouds and struck Itachi with a devastating pillar of lightning.
• Itachi rose after the attack and formed a massive Chakra skeleton around himself.
• Itachi revealed Susanoo as the power of both Mangekyō Sharingan eyes, while Sasuke watched its skeleton gain muscle and armor.

Sasuke’s Curse Mark unleashed Orochimaru’s Eight-Headed Serpent, but Itachi sealed Orochimaru with the Totsuka Blade and continued fighting Sasuke despite his failing health. Itachi collapsed after touching Sasuke’s forehead, leaving her frozen in shock.

• Sasuke’s Curse Mark erupted, releasing Orochimaru in the form of the Eight-Headed Serpent as Neji watched from afar.
• Kimimaro, Haku, and their allies kept Kisame frozen while the group watched Itachi’s Susanoo cut down the serpent’s heads.
• Orochimaru emerged and tried to seize Sasuke’s body, but Itachi pierced and sealed him with the Totsuka Blade.
• Itachi’s illness weakened him, but Sasuke’s explosions and Kusanagi Sword failed to break through his Susanoo.
• Itachi reached Sasuke and touched her forehead, then collapsed against the rock as Sasuke stared in shock.

Sasuke killed Itachi, but Neji rescued her from the battlefield and brought her to the Land of Waves base. After waking from three days of unconsciousness, Sasuke asked Neji where Itachi was.

• A White Phosphorus Snake emerged near Sasuke, and Itachi's Amaterasu destroyed it before he died.
• Neji caught the collapsing Sasuke, healed her, wrapped Itachi's body, and carried Sasuke away from the battlefield.
• Kimimaro and the others used a scroll to leave as the rain washed over the battlefield.
• Three days later, Sasuke woke in the Land of Waves base and learned from Ai-chan that she had been unconscious.
• Neji brought Sasuke warm meat porridge, and she asked him where Itachi was.

Sasuke learned that Itachi had sacrificed himself to protect her and that Danzo had orchestrated the Uchiha massacre. After awakening her Mangekyō Sharingan, she agreed to follow Neji’s lead before pursuing Danzo, while Izumi noticed the blood and damage left in the room.

• Sasuke removed Itachi’s eyes from his ice coffin and demanded that Neji tell her the truth.
• Neji explained that Danzo had forced Itachi to massacre the Uchiha Clan, with Sasuke’s life as the price of the deal.
• Sasuke awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and swore to kill Danzo after learning he was imprisoned in Konoha.
• Sasuke tested a Genjutsu on Neji, but he reflected it back, and she agreed to listen to him before pursuing Danzo.
• Neji led Sasuke out of the room, and Izumi saw the torn sheets, blood, and stained tissues, sharpening her gaze.