Chapter Summaries

Rin used Time Travel to return the battlefield to the moment Hidan was trapped, then told Pakura what had happened. Pakura ordered the Spirit Pavilion to attack, and its members began eliminating Akatsuki fighters by striking together.

• Rin returned everyone to the moment Hidan had been trapped, but the journey consumed most of her Chakra.
• Rin told Pakura about the events she had reversed, and Pakura ordered the Spirit Pavilion to attack.
• Pakura brought the hidden Spirit Pavilion members to Hidan, and Guren ground him into powder with Diamond Storm.
• Pakura killed the White Zetsu clones hidden underground, cutting off the Akatsuki Organization's surveillance.
• Kakuzu arrived and became the Spirit Pavilion's next target; seeing six opponents, he activated the special ninjutsu Orochimaru and Madara Uchiha had taught him, and his body swelled.

The Spirit Pavilion used Rin’s time-travel support to revise its tactics and killed Hidan and Kakuzu, shocking the battlefield. The surviving Akatsuki members recognized the gap between themselves and the pavilion, while Deidara hesitated to join the fight.

• Kakuzu transformed into black snakes to escape, attack the Ninja Alliance, and steal hearts, but Rin used Time Travel to report what had happened to Pakura.
• Pakura changed the plan: Guren killed Hidan, Pakura used the Power of Earth against White Zetsu, and Izumi restrained and killed Kakuzu with genjutsu and senbon.
• The Spirit Pavilion’s quick kills stunned the battlefield and raised the Ninja Alliance’s morale.
• The surviving Akatsuki members realized how outmatched they were after Hidan and Kakuzu died.
• Deidara watched from a distance and worried that Ringo Ameyuri would counter his bombs with Lightning Release.

After the Black-Clad Organization joined forces to kill Hidan and Kakuzu, Nagato suspended the Akatsuki Organization’s mission and reported the situation to Madara. Madara ordered a retreat, but Pakura commanded the Spirit Pavilion to pursue them as the Akatsuki members prepared to escape on Deidara’s giant birds.

• Nagato realized the Akatsuki Organization could not gain the initiative and suspended the mission after Hidan and Kakuzu were killed.
• Nagato told Madara that the Black-Clad Organization had joined forces against the Akatsuki members.
• Madara concluded that he could not stop the Black-Clad Organization unless he became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, then ordered the Akatsuki Organization to retreat while he covered them.
• The Akatsuki Organization members began withdrawing, and Pakura ordered the Spirit Pavilion to pursue them.
• Deidara prepared to use giant birds he had made to carry the Akatsuki Organization members away through the air.

The Akatsuki Organization escaped by air on enlarged clay birds, forcing Pakura’s forces to pursue them while Madara Uchiha held off Izumi Uchiha and Ringo Ameyuri. Madara rejected Izumi’s vision of peace and fought her as Ringo used lightning to hinder him.

• The Akatsuki Organization enlarged their clay bird puppets and flew away to avoid Pakura’s Earth Release.
• Pakura sent Izumi Uchiha and Ringo Ameyuri after them, while the others pursued from the ground.
• Madara Uchiha intercepted Izumi and Ringo in the air and questioned why Izumi served the Black-Clad Organization.
• Izumi said she wanted world peace, but Madara dismissed her ideals and attacked.
• Madara and Izumi clashed with their Susanoo as Ringo summoned thunderclouds and struck Madara with lightning that briefly paralyzed him.

The Akatsuki Organization fled at high altitude while the Black-Clad Organization pursued, and Deidara dropped bombs on the pursuers without slowing them. Nagato then triggered an ambush by Impure World Reincarnation fighters, leaving the Spirit Pavilion to face the summoned force as Izumi remained occupied by Madara.

• Deidara tossed Explosive Clay figurines at the pursuing Black-Clad Organization members, then prepared larger bombs after they emerged from the smoke unharmed.
• Nagato explained that the Akatsuki Organization had planned to use Impure World Reincarnation fighters as a rear guard.
• Nagato judged the timing right and ordered the White Zetsu hidden below to spring the ambush.
• A group of powerful Impure World Reincarnation fighters, mostly Kage, appeared before the Spirit Pavilion while Izumi Uchiha was still held back by Madara.

The Akatsuki Organization realized the Black-Clad Organization had used clones to hold them back while their true bodies prepared an ambush. As mountain peaks rose beneath the Akatsuki and shot into the sky, the group faced a sudden attack.

• Deidara celebrated as the Impure World Reincarnations appeared to hold back the Black-Clad Organization, but Kisame and Itachi remained wary.
• Itachi suspected the fighters were Wood Style Clones and wondered why Bai Hao had not already wiped out the Akatsuki Organization.
• Sasori spotted mountain peaks erupting from the ground beneath the Akatsuki, and Nagato deduced that the Black-Clad Organization's true bodies had gone ahead to prepare an ambush.
• Kisame gripped Samehada as Deidara prepared to destroy the mountains, but the peaks broke free and flew toward the Akatsuki like cannonballs.

Nagato used Planetary Devastation to stop the Black-Clad Organization’s mountain attack, but they followed with a new threat: volcanoes that generated thunderclouds and lightning. The Akatsuki realized their flying birds could be disabled and leave them falling toward the magma.

• Deidara and the other Akatsuki members looked to Nagato for a way to survive the approaching mountains, while Itachi watched him in silence.
• Nagato used Planetary Devastation to pull the mountains into a giant meteorite and told Deidara to fly the birds away.
• After the ground fell quiet, the Black-Clad Organization raised volcanoes from the earth beneath them.
• Itachi and Konan realized the eruptions were changing the air pressure and creating thunderclouds and lightning.
• Deidara feared that lightning would disable his birds and send the Akatsuki members plunging into the volcanoes.

The Akatsuki Organization witnessed a technique that controlled the earth’s crust to create erupting volcanoes, magma, and thunderclouds. Nagato asked Orochimaru how volcanic eruptions caused lightning, but the chapter ended with him unsure how to stop the air convection that produced it.

• Itachi and the other Akatsuki members were stunned as volcanoes erupted and thunderclouds formed from the technique’s control of the earth’s crust.
• Deidara warned Nagato that the thunderclouds would disable his Explosive Clay birds and send them falling into the magma.
• Nagato asked Orochimaru to explain why volcanic eruptions produced lightning.
• Orochimaru described air convection, changes to the geomagnetic field, and charged volcanic ash as causes of volcanic lightning.
• Nagato fell silent, realizing that stopping air convection would be very difficult.

Nagato, Deidara, Sasori, and Itachi struggled to escape as Pakura triggered eruptions that filled the air with volcanic ash and electricity. Deidara abandoned his plan to self-destruct, and the group was left silently refining chakra amid the storm.

• Nagato ruled out using Chibaku Tensei again and Shinra Tensei to destroy the volcanoes, then urged Deidara to fly faster.
• Pakura triggered eruptions across the volcanoes, creating ash and electrical charges that made Deidara's puppet birds difficult to control.
• Deidara gave up controlling the birds and prepared to swallow Explosive Clay to create a final explosion.
• Nagato stopped Deidara, and Itachi revealed that he had used genjutsu to halt him.
• Itachi explained that Deidara's self-destruction would make them fall, and Deidara stopped preparing to explode because the charged air would prevent it from working.
• The Akatsuki members fell silent and secretly refined chakra as they remained in the air.

Nagato dispersed the volcanic clouds, but the Akatsuki members were then trapped by four coordinated Tailed Beast Balls. As Itachi prepared to defend them with Susanoo, Obito Uchiha suddenly appeared.

• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to scatter the volcanic clouds and prevent the thunderstorm from forming.
• Itachi sensed four Tailed Beast Balls gathering around the volcano and realized the Akatsuki were surrounded.
• Nagato and the others recognized that the four attacks were intended to collide and explode at once.
• Itachi considered using Perfect Susanoo to protect himself and worried about losing his eyes before he could give them to Sasuke.
• Obito Uchiha appeared in front of the group as Itachi prepared to act.

Obito rescued the Akatsuki Organization members from the Black Organization’s attack by transporting them away just before four Tailed Beast Balls struck. Pakura reported the outcome to Bai Hao, who suspected Obito had acquired a new technique.

• Obito appeared on the battlefield and offered to rescue the Akatsuki Organization members.
• Nagato, Itachi, and the others stopped resisting, and Obito transported them away.
• Four Tailed Beast Balls collided and exploded, but Pakura found no one left in the sky.
• Pakura ended the operation and reported the events to Bai Hao.
• Bai Hao wondered whether Obito had learned a new Space Ninjutsu and reflected that the Akatsuki Organization had grown stronger.

Black Zetsu and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki celebrated the successful test of their new Space Ninjutsu and discussed using it against the Black-Clad Organization. Black Zetsu identified Bai Hao as the organization’s likely leader, leaving Isshiki eager but uncertain about the deduction.

• Black Zetsu convinced Obito to take credit for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Space Ninjutsu and had him handle the released Akatsuki members.
• Black Zetsu and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki agreed to keep working toward gathering the Black-Clad Organization and its leader.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki planned to use the new technique to send the Black-Clad Organization and Black Zetsu to another world, then complete his mission and avoid his clan’s pursuit.
• Black Zetsu told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that he suspected Bai Hao was the Black-Clad Organization’s leader, basing his deduction on Bai Hao’s disciple Hinata Hyuga.

After the Akatsuki Organization withdrew, the Spirit Pavilion members returned to help seal Madara Uchiha, but Izumi Uchiha and Ringo Ameyuri could only keep him occupied. Bai Hao stopped Hinata from joining the fight, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki agreed with the guess that Bai Hao led the Black-Clad Organization and planned to send people to the other world soon.
• The Spirit Pavilion members returned to the battlefield to help seal Madara Uchiha and thwart Black Zetsu’s plan to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Izumi Uchiha and Ringo Ameyuri fought Madara Uchiha near the Land of Swamps but were kept on the defensive without either side being injured.
• Bai Hao used a special kunai to tell Hinata not to join the fight, and she obeyed.
• Bai Hao noticed that the Akatsuki Organization’s retreat had succeeded.

Madara Uchiha withdrew after Pakura arrived, and the Ninja Alliance debated whether to stay united against the remaining threats. Back at the Akatsuki Organization's base, Madara learned that Black Zetsu's Space Ninjutsu had succeeded.

• Madara Uchiha abandoned the fight when Pakura arrived, deciding he could no longer kill Black-Clad Organization members without risking being sealed.
• Izumi and Pakura watched Madara escape, then Pakura used the Power of Earth to carry away the Black-Clad Organization members.
• Ōnoki, the Raikage, and Tsunade discussed the group's intentions and chose to keep the Ninja Alliance together to confront the remaining threats.
• Madara returned to the Akatsuki Organization's base and asked Black Zetsu about the earlier operation.
• Black Zetsu confirmed that the Space Ninjutsu had succeeded, pleasing Madara.

Madara and Black Zetsu set a seven-day countdown for an operation against the Black-Clad Organization, while Moryo retreated into hiding after realizing how dangerous Bai Hao was. The Ninja World entered a tense lull as the Ninja Alliance prepared for the next phase of the war and the Five Kage secured funding from their Daimyo.

• Madara agreed to Black Zetsu’s plan and accepted that he might serve as bait during the operation, which was scheduled to begin in seven days.
• Black Zetsu reflected on how Madara trusted him and then continued discussing the plan with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Moryo watched Bai Hao from the shadows, discovered that Bai Hao had sensed his puppet and found his hiding place, and decided to stay hidden.
• The Black-Clad Organization and Akatsuki remained quiet, and Moryo withdrew, bringing a temporary calm to the Ninja World.
• The Ninja Alliance stayed on alert while the Five Kage negotiated military funding with their Daimyo.

Itachi left the Akatsuki Organization to warn Bai Hao about its plan, but struggled to find a way to contact him without Sasuke discovering the meeting. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu revised the Akatsuki’s plan.

• Itachi grew uneasy after discovering the Akatsuki planned to make the Black-Clad Organization disappear with them, and decided to warn Bai Hao.
• Itachi told the organization he wanted to settle matters with Sasuke and recover his eyes, then left to search for his younger brother.
• Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu secretly allowed Itachi to leave because his actions served their plan.
• Itachi used White Zetsu to learn Bai Hao’s general location, but worried Sasuke would discover him if he approached Bai Hao.
• Unable to find a reliable way to contact Bai Hao privately, Itachi headed toward his location while thinking of a solution.
• Black Zetsu began modifying his plan inside the Akatsuki Organization.

Black Zetsu revised a plan to manipulate Sasuke into awakening his eyes and send Bai Hao to another world, believing Itachi intended to defect to Bai Hao’s organization. Meanwhile, Bai Hao replaced Tsunade’s lost special kunai and considered how Madara and Black Zetsu might attack the Spirit Pavilion.

• Black Zetsu learned that Itachi had requested permission to find Sasuke and revised his plan around the possibility that Itachi wanted to contact Bai Hao.
• Black Zetsu decided to approach Sasuke while he was alone and try to manipulate him.
• Bai Hao received Tsunade’s letter describing the recent battles and reporting that she had lost his special kunai.
• Bai Hao sent Tsunade a replacement kunai and reasoned that Madara and Black Zetsu might use spatial ninjutsu to send the Spirit Pavilion’s members to another world.

Bai Hao considered whether to follow the Akatsuki Organization to another world, then focused on Sasuke’s frustration at falling behind Naruto. He planned to awaken Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan through an immersive genjutsu and began considering how to give him the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Bai Hao wondered whether Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha had realized he was the Spirit Pavilion’s boss and considered following their Space Ninjutsu to another world for more Plot Points.
• Bai Hao watched Naruto grow stronger while Sasuke struggled without the Mangekyō Sharingan and became increasingly irritable.
• Bai Hao planned to use Mewtwo Card’s psychic abilities and his Rinnegan to place Sasuke in an immersive genjutsu that would make him awaken his eyes through intense pain.
• Bai Hao considered killing Itachi Uchiha to obtain his eyes for Sasuke, then decided instead to plan for Sasuke to awaken his eyes, die, and be revived.

Bai Hao followed Itachi Uchiha’s subtle crow signal to meet him, while Black Zetsu secretly approached Sasuke at the training ground. Sasuke attacked Black Zetsu, mistook him for Moryo, and confronted him as the strange creature denied the identification.

• Bai Hao recognized the faint aura on a passing crow as Itachi Uchiha’s signal and suspected Itachi wanted to meet alone.
• Bai Hao told Naruto and Sasuke to train without him, then followed the crow into the distance.
• Black Zetsu emerged from a tree after Bai Hao left and used White Zetsu and a Secret Jutsu to evade detection as he approached Sasuke.
• Black Zetsu snapped a branch to draw Sasuke’s attention, and Sasuke challenged the hidden intruder.
• Black Zetsu said he was not Itachi Uchiha, so Sasuke attacked him with a Chidori Sharp Spear and mistook him for Moryo.
• Black Zetsu denied being Moryo and called Sasuke impulsive and brainless, while Sasuke defended his caution toward unknown beings.

Black Zetsu provoked Sasuke by claiming that Itachi was not the true culprit behind the clan massacre and had acted on Konoha’s orders out of love for his brother. After Black Zetsu escaped, Sasuke was left shaken by the revelation, while Black Zetsu quietly celebrated his success.

• Black Zetsu taunted Sasuke and hinted that Itachi’s massacre had hidden causes.
• Sasuke attacked Black Zetsu with Chidori and Chidori Stream, but Black Zetsu evaded the strikes by opening a hole in his body.
• Black Zetsu claimed that Itachi had spared Sasuke because he loved him and had carried out the massacre on Konoha’s orders.
• Black Zetsu burrowed underground and escaped despite Sasuke striking the ground with Chidori.
• Sasuke collapsed, uncertain whether to believe Black Zetsu and shaken by the thought that his hatred of Itachi might be misplaced.
• Black Zetsu quietly left, pleased that he had succeeded in sowing discord.