Chapter Summaries

Izumi fought Deidara and Sasori, but the Akatsuki members used their trump cards to escape. Karin told Izumi to withdraw because Konoha’s forces had arrived.

• Izumi used the Flying Thunder God Technique to ambush Deidara, but he avoided her genjutsu and escaped.
• Izumi activated Sage Mode as Deidara and Sasori decided to retreat rather than continue fighting.
• Deidara used clay clones to conceal a Mini Garuda while Sasori summoned a defensive remote-control puppet.
• Deidara and Sasori fled, and Karin told Izumi that Konoha’s people had arrived.

Izumi and Karin took Shion toward the Sealing Shrine to seal Moryo, while Akatsuki learned that Shion had been taken. Obito and Black Zetsu decided to summon Madara Uchiha to counter the Black-Clad Organization and reclaim the Miko.

• Izumi used Wood Release to shield herself, then escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique after Konoha's ninjas approached.
• Izumi regrouped with Karin, and the two took Shion toward the Sealing Shrine to seal Moryo.
• Shion admired Izumi and Karin and asked to join the Black-Clad Organization, but Karin said it depended on their Holy Lord.
• Akatsuki learned that Shion had been taken, and Obito urged the group to find a solution.
• Obito proposed summoning Madara using Orochimaru's improved Impure World Reincarnation, and Black Zetsu agreed.
• Nagato approved the plan, and Akatsuki decided to summon Madara to save the situation and reclaim the Miko.

Madara was resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation and set off after Izumi and Karin. Meanwhile, Kakashi's team reached the miko's ruined location, concluded the Black-Clad Organization had taken Shion, and found that Pakkun could not track her.

• White Zetsu resurrected Madara with a stronger Impure World Reincarnation than before, and Madara complained that he still had not been truly revived.
• White Zetsu told Madara that the Black-Clad Organization had thwarted their plans, and Madara blamed the group for their failure.
• Madara decided to deal with the matter himself and pursued Izumi and Karin.
• Naruto and Kakashi's team arrived at the ruined site and realized Shion had likely been captured after a battle between the Black-Clad Organization and the Akatsuki Organization.
• Kakashi assessed that the Black-Clad Organization had taken Shion, then summoned Pakkun to track her scent.
• Pakkun searched the miko's room but told Kakashi he could not track Shion because her scent ended there.

Karin and Izumi took Shion away after Kakashi failed to track her, and Karin tried to reassure the guarded Miko about joining the Black-Clad Organization. They brought Shion to a hidden base, where Izumi demonstrated the secret entrance and left Shion amazed.

• Pakkun told Kakashi that the abductors had likely used Space Ninjutsu and could not be tracked, so Kakashi sent the group to rest while he reported to Tsunade.
• Karin confirmed to Bai Hao that she and Izumi had captured Shion, and Bai Hao instructed them to bring her back through a teleportation array.
• Karin described Shion’s hardships and suggested she could find friends and continue protecting the world within the Black-Clad Organization, while Shion pretended not to care.
• Izumi and Karin activated the hidden array at an entrance-less mountain, and Izumi walked into it as Shion watched in astonishment.

Karin and Izumi brought Shion to Bai Hao, the Black-Clad Organization’s leader, who copied her technique for sealing Moryo and confined her to a room for her safety. Shion warned that the sealing technique required her clan’s bloodline, but Bai Hao insisted he would handle Moryo himself.

• Karin and Izumi escorted Shion through the organization’s base and teleported her to Bai Hao’s bookstore in Konoha.
• Shion recognized Bai Hao as the Black-Clad Organization’s leader and was surprised by his youthful appearance.
• Bai Hao asked Shion to demonstrate the technique for sealing Moryo, and he copied it after seeing it once.
• Bai Hao moved Shion to a bedroom and told her to stay there while he dealt with Moryo.
• Shion rang the bell and warned Bai Hao that only someone with her clan’s bloodline could perform the sealing technique, but Bai Hao said he would handle it.

Madara Uchiha failed to follow Karin and Izumi through the Spirit Pavilion’s teleportation array and turned his attention to capturing Black-Clad Organization members. He headed for Amegakure, then remembered Bai Hao and the Six-Tails Jinchuriki in Konoha.

• Bai Hao told Shion that she knew little of the world before vanishing from the room.
• Madara Uchiha followed White Zetsu to the Spirit Pavilion’s stronghold, where he learned Karin and Izumi had escaped through a teleportation array.
• Madara ordered White Zetsu to keep watch on the stronghold, then left to pursue his own plans.
• Madara headed for Amegakure, complaining about Nagato and the Black-Clad Organization members who had stopped their attack to protect civilians.
• Madara thought of Bai Hao and recalled that the Six-Tails Jinchuriki was in Konoha.

After Miko Shion disappeared, the Five Great Shinobi Villages and Moryo struggled to discover where she had been taken. Bai Hao watched events unfold from his bookstore, intending to use the turmoil to draw out Black Zetsu and make the tailed beasts easier to obtain.

• Madara Uchiha headed toward Konoha, eager to fight the young shinobi there.
• Tsunade received Kakashi’s report that the Black-Clad Organization had captured Miko, but found no way to track her and sent the intelligence to the other four Great Shinobi Villages.
• Yomi’s four subordinates found the palace where Miko had stayed reduced to ruins, then returned to report to Yomi without finding her.
• Moryo sensed that Miko was alive but hidden behind a barrier, and decided to go to the Land of Swamps to reclaim his body and destroy his enemies.
• Bai Hao relaxed at his bookstore with Hotaru while explaining that Miko’s disappearance was meant to provoke Moryo, draw out Black Zetsu, and plunge the villages into war.

Pakura and Guren waited in Amegakure for the Akatsuki to make its next move, then sensed Madara approaching and prepared to fight. Nagato and Konan began evacuating the village to reduce casualties as the battle became unavoidable.

• Pakura and Guren discussed Nagato and Konan’s efforts to avoid endangering Amegakure and watched for the Akatsuki to pursue the Six-Tails.
• Pakura sensed a powerful enemy approaching and stood with Guren to face the threat.
• Nagato sensed Madara entering Amegakure and saw Pakura and Guren prepare to confront him.
• Nagato asked Konan to leave the village with him so Pakura and Guren would follow and the villagers would be safer.
• Konan scattered written evacuation instructions through Amegakure.

Pakura and Guren left Amegakure to meet Nagato and Konan in a forest, where Nagato and Madara Uchiha argued over how to achieve peace. Madara then turned his attention to the Black-Clad Organization and its mysterious leader.

• Pakura and Guren concluded that Nagato and Konan had evacuated Amegakure and left for the forest to avoid deaths in the village.
• White Zetsu told Madara Uchiha that Nagato, Konan, Pakura, and Guren had gone to the forest, and Madara followed them.
• Nagato, controlling Yahiko and the Six Paths of Pain, argued that making the world feel pain could bring peace.
• Madara Uchiha rejected Nagato’s reasoning and insisted that Infinite Tsukuyomi was necessary for peace.
• Madara questioned Pakura and Guren about the Black-Clad Organization and its powerful, mysterious leader.

Pakura rejected Madara and Nagato’s plans for peace, explaining that the Black-Clad Organization sought to change warfare so real people would not have to fight. Madara challenged her, and the chapter ended as Pakura accepted the fight while keeping the secret of his deception hidden.

• Madara marveled that the Black-Clad Organization could revive people without sacrifice and create a tailed beast as powerful as the Nine-Tails.
• Pakura told Madara and Nagato that lasting peace required changing how wars were fought, replacing combat between real people with another method.
• Madara dismissed the idea and defended his plan to trap the world in an illusion, while Guren accused him of being deceived.
• Pakura stopped Guren from revealing the secret and said that she would fight Madara if he wanted to.

Madara Uchiha attacked Pakura while Nagato watched from a distance and Guren guarded against the Six Paths of Pain. Pakura used powerful earth control to hinder Madara, but he escaped underground with Complete Body Susanoo and realized her abilities depended on staying grounded.

• Nagato retreated with the Six Paths of Pain to observe Madara Uchiha fighting Pakura, while Guren stayed alert for an attack.
• Madara charged Pakura with hand-to-hand attacks, but she used the Power of Earth to keep him from approaching.
• Pakura made the ground soften and swallowed Madara underground, prompting him to blast free with Susanoo before falling into a deeper opening.
• Madara transformed Susanoo into its Complete Body form and flew out of the earth despite Pakura's attempts to obstruct him.
• Pakura waited on the ground as Madara noticed she did not pursue and concluded that her Earth Release was difficult to use while airborne.

Uchiha Madara fought Pakura, but her Sage Mode and Earth Release kept him from landing a decisive attack. The battle ended in a stalemate, leaving Madara frustrated that his incomplete revival prevented him from using some of his strongest abilities.

• Uchiha Madara saw Pakura prepare hand signs and assumed she was activating Sage Mode.
• Pakura used Earth Release to block Madara’s Susanoo charge and attack him with earthen spikes while maintaining Sage Mode.
• Madara cleaved through Pakura’s defenses but failed to hit her, and he mistakenly attributed her escape to special Earth Release.
• Madara tried to close the distance and use genjutsu, but Pakura’s enhanced speed kept her out of reach.
• Madara and Pakura settled into a drawn-out stalemate, and Madara lamented that his incomplete revival kept him from using Limbo: Border Jail.

Madara’s attacks failed to reach Pakura, who escaped with Guren, but Guren’s Diamond Storm destroyed Madara’s Susanoo and forced him to use Shinra Tensei. Madara was left shaken as the two women vanished beyond his reach.

• Madara used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, but Pakura churned the earth and snapped the trees’ roots.
• Nagato saw Madara’s Rinnegan and panicked as he questioned whether his own eyes had once belonged to Madara.
• Pakura realized she could neither harm Edo Madara nor outlast his infinite Chakra, so she contacted Guren and teleported to her.
• Madara chased Pakura and Guren, but Guren unleashed Diamond Storm and ground away his Complete Body Susanoo.
• Madara used Shinra Tensei to repel the diamonds, then watched as Pakura and Guren escaped beyond his senses.

The Akatsuki regrouped after Madara Uchiha and Pakura’s battle, while Bai Hao learned that Madara had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation. Black Zetsu chaired an emergency meeting to discuss the Black-Clad Organization, shaken by what he had overheard.

• Madara Uchiha and Pain agreed to return and discuss how to deal with the Black-Clad Organization, while Madara resolved that he needed to be fully revived.
• Pakura praised Guren’s Diamond Storm, and Guren realized how powerful the technique was before Pakura contacted Bai Hao to report what had happened.
• Bai Hao learned that Madara had been brought back through Impure World Reincarnation and wondered what Black Zetsu would do next.
• Black Zetsu chaired an emergency Akatsuki meeting as White Zetsu presented their intelligence on the Black-Clad Organization.
• Black Zetsu remained panicked because he had overheard part of Guren’s words during the battle.

Black Zetsu feared the Black-Clad Organization was plotting against him and guessed its leader might be an extraterrestrial monster seeking Mother’s Chakra. White Zetsu briefed the Akatsuki on the organization’s powerful members, leaving Madara and Obito reacting to Rin Nohara’s name.

• Black Zetsu speculated that the Black-Clad Organization’s leader was an alien monster who planned to devour Mother’s Chakra.
• White Zetsu described Izumi Uchiha and Karin, outlining their revivals, Artificial Tailed Beasts, and known abilities.
• White Zetsu reported that Ringo Ameyuri could fly and unleash powerful Lightning Release attacks.
• White Zetsu explained that Rin Nohara had been revived and gained the ability to turn back time, prompting Madara and Obito to react.
• White Zetsu described Guren’s defection from Orochimaru and Pakura’s revival and newly enhanced Earth Release abilities.

The Akatsuki Organization agreed to gather intelligence on the Black-Clad Organization, while Moryo ordered an assault on the Land of Swamps to reclaim his body. As the Five Great Shinobi Villages failed to stop his Terracotta Army, the Five Kage convened near the battlefield and argued over the crisis.

• White Zetsu proposed monitoring the Black-Clad Organization and gathering intelligence, and the Akatsuki Organization agreed.
• Yomi's subordinates reported that the Miko had been kidnapped, prompting Moryo to order an attack on the Land of Swamps.
• Moryo's Terracotta Army advanced despite the Five Great Shinobi Villages' efforts, inflicting heavy losses and forcing a new Five Kage Summit.
• A, the Raikage, blamed Tsunade for the Miko's capture, and Tsunade defended Konoha's response.
• Ōnoki and Mifune stopped the argument between A and Tsunade.

The Five Kage discussed how to stop Moryo and considered sealing it without relying on the captured Miko. Tsunade revealed Konoha’s Reaper Death Seal, but its guaranteed cost of the caster’s life left the conference without a volunteer.

• Mifune urged the Kage to focus on the threat from Moryo and the Black-Clad Organization and Akatsuki Organization rather than argue over blame.
• Mei Terumi suggested finding another way to seal Moryo instead of pursuing the captured Miko.
• Mifune proposed using a powerful Sealing Jutsu, prompting the Kage to look to Tsunade and Konoha.
• Tsunade named the Reaper Death Seal and explained that its caster would die after using it.
• The Kage fell silent over the technique’s cost, and Mifune asked whether there were other techniques before someone suggested finding volunteers.

The Five Kage agreed to fight Moryo while preparing to defend the remaining Jinchuriki from the Akatsuki Organization. As the villages mobilized against the Terracotta Army, Tsunade recalled Naruto to Konoha for more training.

• Tsunade proposed that Konoha research a safer soul-sealing jutsu, claiming a village genius could help develop it.
• The Raikage rejected reliance on an unproven jutsu, and the Five Kage agreed to fight Moryo directly.
• Mifune warned that the Akatsuki Organization might target the remaining Jinchuriki, and Tsunade suggested hiding them on Turtle Island under the villages' protection.
• The Five Great Shinobi Villages assembled their forces, and Kakashi's team joined the combat squad against the Terracotta Army.
• Tsunade recalled Naruto to Konoha, where he complained that he still had to train.

Tsunade arranged for Naruto to train with the Nine-Tails alongside Bai Hao so Naruto could avoid losing control in battle. Bai Hao realized the Five Great Shinobi Villages were preparing for war and anticipated that the Akatsuki Organization would soon target him as it pursued the tailed beasts.

• Tsunade explained that Naruto’s training would help him coexist with the Nine-Tails and prevent him from going berserk, and Naruto agreed to go with Bai Hao.
• Tsunade told Naruto that Bai Hao would bring people to collect him and take him somewhere quiet to train.
• Bai Hao received Tsunade’s message asking him to protect the three Jinchuriki and concluded that the Five Great Shinobi Villages were preparing for a decisive battle.
• Bai Hao reasoned that the Akatsuki Organization would soon pursue the tailed beasts and would have to defeat him before it could obtain them.

Bai Hao traveled to the Land of Swamps front with Utakata and Hotaru, intending to reunite with Naruto and Killer B before heading to Turtle Island. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki Organization devised discreet ways to track them and strengthen its forces, while Bai Hao’s group reached a battlefield stalemate between the Ninja Alliance and the Terracotta Army.

• Bai Hao left Konoha with Utakata and Hotaru and headed toward the Land of Swamps.
• A White Zetsu clone reported Bai Hao’s departure to the Akatsuki Organization, and Madara urged the group to capture the Jinchuriki by overwhelming Bai Hao.
• The Akatsuki Organization kept its core members hidden, sent peripheral members and White Zetsu clones to search for Bai Hao, and infiltrated the armies of various villages.
• Bai Hao traveled openly toward the front line, planning to meet Naruto and Killer B before going to Turtle Island.
• Hotaru saw the battlefield for the first time, and Bai Hao explained that civilian involvement would make war far more terrifying.
• Bai Hao’s group arrived as the Ninja Alliance and the Terracotta Army remained locked in a stalemate.