Chapter Summaries

Kakashi’s Flying Thunder God assault failed to expose a weakness in Fugaku, but Kakashi caught him off guard with an underground attack and a Lightning Clone. Just as Kakashi seemed poised to win, Fugaku’s Sharingan changed and a red phantom emerged from his body.

• Asuma started the match between Kakashi and Fugaku, and the Barrier Team raised the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Kakashi scattered Flying Thunder God kunai and attacked Fugaku, whose Sharingan let him block the assaults and read Kakashi’s physical strain.
• Fugaku unleashed Great Fire Annihilation, and Kakashi countered with an Earth Style Wall before attacking from underground.
• Fugaku struck Kakashi’s Lightning Clone and was paralyzed, allowing Kakashi to emerge behind him and launch a decisive strike.
• As Kakashi appeared certain to win, Fugaku’s Three Tomoe Sharingan changed and a red phantom projected from his body.

Uchiha Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan by activating Susanoo during his match against Kakashi, shocking the spectators and Konoha’s leaders. As the fight continued, Naruto sensed something unsettling in Fugaku’s Susanoo, while Uchiha Shinichi recognized Sasuke’s unusual talent.

• Fugaku’s Susanoo blocked Kakashi’s kunai and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Third Hokage, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the other Kage realized Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, changing the balance of power within the Uchiha Clan.
• Tsunade insisted Kakashi would win, while Shizune worried about losing the remaining ten million.
• Sasuke celebrated Fugaku’s Susanoo, but Naruto sensed its aura was colder and gloomier than Shisui’s Susanoo.
• Shinichi noticed Sasuke’s Two Tomoe Sharingan and thought the boy might awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan someday.

Kakashi and Fugaku continued their battle for the Fifth Hokage position, with Fugaku revealing a fully armored Susanoo and Kakashi pushing his body to its limits. As Kakashi opened the Fifth Gate, Fugaku raged against the Uchiha being denied the Hokage position and his Mangekyō Sharingan began to spin rapidly.

• Fugaku realized Kakashi had used the Flying Thunder God kunai as a distraction before attacking from underground, and admitted the Mangekyō Sharingan had saved him from defeat.
• Kakashi resolved that he could not let Fugaku become Fifth Hokage, fearing the Uchiha would bring disaster to Konoha.
• Fugaku advanced with his Susanoo until it formed a crimson, half-bodied armored figure, while Kakashi prepared Lightning Cutter.
• Kakashi activated the first four of the Eight Inner Gates, alarming Jiraiya and Tsunade, who feared the strain could kill him.
• Kakashi opened the Fifth Gate, and Fugaku saw that Kakashi's muscles were rupturing as he angrily questioned why the Uchiha could not become Hokage.
• Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan began spinning rapidly as his rage surged.

Kakashi and Uchiha Fugaku began their final battle for the Hokage position, with Fugaku unleashing Amaterasu against Kakashi’s storming charge. Kakashi struck Fugaku’s Susanoo from behind and cracked it, then Tsunade secretly replenished Kakashi’s chakra as he launched another assault.

• Fugaku raged against the village’s restrictions on the Uchiha while Kakashi prepared for the fight by closing his right eye and relying on chakra and killing-intent sensing.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya explained that Kakashi’s speed and Lightning Release made his eye less useful, and Tsunade said Fugaku’s Mangekyō technique would determine the outcome.
• Kakashi and Fugaku launched their final offensive, and Fugaku used Amaterasu to ignite the storm surrounding Kakashi.
• Kakashi vanished from Fugaku’s sight and struck his Susanoo from behind, cracking its armor and nearly knocking Fugaku down.
• Tsunade sent Yang Release chakra into Kakashi through a Katsuyu clone, restoring him enough to attack Fugaku again while sensing the black flames.

Kakashi relentlessly attacked Fugaku’s Susanoo, but Hyuga Kagami predicted Kakashi could not break through it and would soon lose. As Amaterasu spread across the arena and caught Kakashi, Hyuga Kagami declared the outcome decided.

• Kakashi used the Flying Thunder God Technique to repeatedly strike Fugaku’s Susanoo, shaking the arena and damaging the stands.
• Fugaku’s Amaterasu spread across the Four Violet Flames Formation, draining the Barrier Team as the Five Kage watched.
• Itachi recognized that Fugaku’s Amaterasu made the battle’s outcome certain, while Kakashi continued his desperate assault.
• Hyuga Kagami told Rin that Kakashi could last only fifteen more seconds because he had no way to destroy Fugaku’s Susanoo.
• Amaterasu caught Kakashi’s body, and Hyuga Kagami sighed that the outcome had been decided.

Fugaku defeated Kakashi with Amaterasu, leaving him gravely injured and disrupting the Hokage election. The Third Hokage halted the election by citing damage to the stands, while Fugaku welcomed the pause to recover.

• Fugaku extinguished Amaterasu and dispelled Susanoo, choosing not to kill the unconscious Kakashi in front of the village.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and others rushed to treat Kakashi as the Four Violet Flames Formation came down.
• Rin and Hyuga Kagami reacted to Kakashi's defeat, while Sasuke and the Uchiha clansmen celebrated Fugaku's victory.
• The Third Hokage ordered the election suspended, claiming the stands had been severely damaged.
• An Uchiha Jonin told Fugaku the election had been halted, and Fugaku accepted the pause so he could recover.

After the Hokage election was suspended, the Uchiha and Hyuga clans nearly clashed as their candidates, Fugaku and Hyuga Kagami, remained in the running. Hyuga Kagami collected his winnings before Obito learned he was a candidate and reacted with unexpected frustration.

• The Uchiha and Hyuga clans nearly fought after leaving the arena, but village intervention and the clan heads stopped them.
• Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to avoid trouble until he became Fifth Hokage, while Hiashi and the Main Branch elder watched the Hyuga celebrate Kagami's victory with mixed feelings.
• Hyuga Kagami disguised himself and went with Rin to collect the betting winnings, where he learned the odds had risen after a large bet on Number Four was withdrawn.
• Zetsu told Obito that the election had been suspended and only Fugaku and Hyuga Kagami remained as candidates.
• Obito dismissed Kagami as an absurd Hokage candidate and insisted he had been worse than Obito at the Ninja Academy.

The Third Hokage’s faction discussed Kakashi’s severe injuries and the threat posed by Fugaku’s revealed Mangekyō Sharingan. With Kakashi defeated and neither Fugaku nor Hyuga Kagami acceptable to them as Fifth Hokage, the Third Hokage decided to skip the next match and use a confidence vote to block Fugaku.

• Tsunade reported that Fugaku’s black flames had badly burned Kakashi, who would need at least two or three months to recover.
• Jiraiya reasoned that Fugaku had concealed his Mangekyō Sharingan for years because of the Fourth Hokage’s influence and the village’s suspicion of the Uchiha after the Nine-Tails Incident.
• Asuma asked what the Hokage faction would do about the Fifth Hokage, and the elders rejected both Fugaku and Hyuga Kagami as candidates they could accept.
• Asuma warned that Kagami would likely lose to Fugaku in the next match, leaving the faction with no way to stop Fugaku from becoming Hokage.
• The Third Hokage declared there would be no next match and proposed using a confidence vote to eliminate Fugaku as a candidate.

Fugaku prepared for the Hokage position while the Third Hokage’s faction debated how to prevent him from taking power. The Third Hokage planned to offer Hyuga Kagami the title of Fifth Hokage under an agreement that would leave Kakashi handling Hokage duties and succeeding him later, but he was prepared to eliminate both candidates if Kagami refused.

• Fugaku tried on the Hokage robe commissioned by his clan and ordered closer surveillance of the Hyuga before the next match.
• Fugaku summoned Shisui and Sasuke to question them about Hyuga Kagami and his summoned ninja boar, and Shisui grew uneasy at Fugaku’s premature confidence.
• Jiraiya warned the Third Hokage that the Uchiha might reject the Jonin vote, while the Third Hokage insisted the village could not hand them the Hokage position.
• The Third Hokage proposed making Hyuga Kagami Hokage in name while transferring the duties to Kakashi, with Kakashi eventually becoming Sixth Hokage.
• The Third Hokage said he would negotiate with Kagami before the confidence vote and would use other means to eliminate both Kagami and Fugaku if Kagami refused.

Hyuga Kagami visited the badly injured Kakashi, secretly collected his cellular tissue for developing a Lightning Clone Technique, and secured funds for the Type-Two Bio-Armor. When the Third Hokage named him the candidate for Fifth Hokage, Hyuga Kagami refused, leaving the Third Hokage stunned.

• Hyuga Kagami visited Kakashi in the hospital, where Kakashi worried that his defeat would worsen tensions between the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage faction.
• Hyuga Kagami secretly collected Kakashi's cellular tissue as a potential source for a Lightning Clone Technique.
• Hyuga Kagami collected thirty-five million from the betting station, bringing his available funds to eighty-five million, and planned to work on the Type-Two Bio-Armor.
• The Third Hokage summoned Hyuga Kagami and declared him the candidate for Fifth Hokage.
• Hyuga Kagami refused the candidacy, shocking the Third Hokage.

Hyuga Kagami refused the Fifth Hokage position until the Third Hokage offered him one hundred million, and he agreed to cooperate in the confidence vote. He left the Hokage's Office after disclaiming responsibility for Konoha's daily affairs and defense, while the Third Hokage's advisers learned what it had taken to secure his agreement.

• Hyuga Kagami rejected the Fifth Hokage position because he considered it too troublesome and had other projects to focus on.
• The Third Hokage tried to persuade Hyuga Kagami, then raised his offer from fifty million to one hundred million.
• Hyuga Kagami agreed to become Hokage for one hundred million and promised to cooperate in the confidence vote, but refused responsibility for Konoha's daily affairs and defense.
• The Third Hokage said Kakashi and the Advisory Elder Council would manage the village's affairs and defense, and Hyuga Kagami left the office.
• Utatane Koharu, Jiraiya, and Tsunade asked whether Hyuga Kagami had accepted the terms, and the Third Hokage revealed that he had paid one hundred million to secure his agreement.
• Tsunade wondered aloud why she had not thought of paying Hyuga Kagami to take the Hokage position.

Fugaku challenged the Third Hokage over the decision to hold a Jonin trust vote, but the Third Hokage explained that the election rules had never made the contest decisive. The Uchiha reluctantly began canvassing for votes while Hyuga Kagami returned to his Aerial Fortress to prepare for his attempt to attain Kekkei Mōra.

• Fugaku stormed into the Hokage's Office and protested the village's decision to skip the final match and hold a trust vote.
• The Third Hokage reminded Fugaku that the contest only established the candidates' strength and that Jonin still had to vote for their Hokage.
• Fugaku realized the election agreement had left room for the trust vote, then left without finding a way to overturn the decision.
• The Third Hokage concluded that Fugaku would compromise, and the Uchiha accepted the vote rather than rebel.
• The Uchiha and the Hokage faction began canvassing for votes, while Hyuga Kagami left the village for his Aerial Fortress.
• Hyuga Kagami prioritized fusing the Rinnegan in Karin's eye sockets as part of his backup plan for his attempt to attain Kekkei Mōra.

Hyuga Kagami examined Karin’s failing Type-One Bio-Armor and began developing a stronger model before her eye fusion reached its most dangerous stage. Meanwhile, Itachi secretly campaigned for votes in Kagami’s disguise and concluded that Fugaku’s candidacy was doomed by the Uchiha Clan’s own reputation and priorities.

• Hyuga Kagami found extensive cell necrosis in Karin’s Type-One Bio-Armor and determined that he needed to develop the Type-Two before her eyes reached their final fusion stage.
• Hyuga Kagami began working through the Type-Two Bio-Armor blueprints while Karin’s fused Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan remained in its early double-pupil stage.
• Itachi, disguised as Hyuga Kagami, canvassed Shikaku Nara for support while Shizune accompanied him.
• Itachi and Shizune encountered Uchiha Fugaku campaigning for votes after he left the Akimichi Clan estate, and Itachi departed without responding to Fugaku’s hostility.
• Itachi compared the clans’ warmer reception of Hyuga Kagami with their distance toward Fugaku and concluded that the Uchiha had lost support through their own conduct.

Hyuga Kagami completed the Type-Two Bio-Armor and fitted it to Karin, improving her ability to endure the strain of fusing with the Rinnegan. With the eye fusion nearing its final, most difficult stage, he had finished the armor just in time.

• The Uchiha Clan canvassed the village’s ninja clans while the village prepared for a possible rebellion and delayed the confidence vote.
• Hyuga Kagami inspected the completed Type-Two Bio-Armor, which had improved chakra delivery, stability, and physical strength compared with the Type-One model.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed five Lightning Release clones made from fused cells collected from Kakashi and himself.
• Hyuga Kagami fitted Karin with the Type-Two Bio-Armor, and she found that it delivered more chakra and made her feel stronger.
• Hyuga Kagami examined Karin’s eye fusion and found that her Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan had nearly merged; the fusion’s final stage was expected to begin within three to five days.

Hyuga Kagami monitored Karin as the Rinnegan fusion reached its final stage, but two berserk Susanoo emerged from her body and revealed that the pairs of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan were resisting unification. He prepared to intervene with his Tenseigan chakra.

• Karin fell into a coma three days after receiving the Type-Two Bio-Armor, and Hyuga Kagami moved her to a remote island cave for monitoring.
• Hyuga Kagami saw that Karin's fused pupils had aligned and sensed the Power of All Creation emerging within her.
• As Karin's Power of All Creation peaked and overflowed, she woke in agony and projected a golden Susanoo that destroyed the cave and the monitoring equipment.
• A blood-red Susanoo emerged from Karin as well, and Hyuga Kagami realized the two pairs of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan were resisting fusion.
• Hyuga Kagami formed hand seals and covered himself in Tenseigan chakra, determined to make the Sharingan give up their resistance.

Hyuga Kagami struggled to contain two rampaging Complete Body Susanoo that threatened Karin’s life. He severed them with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, leaving Karin motionless and the damage to the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan unresolved.

• The overlapping Complete Body Susanoo overwhelmed Karin’s will and ravaged the cavern as Hyuga Kagami tried to restrain them with Rotation.
• Karin’s Type-Two Bio-Armor activated Overload Mode, warning Hyuga Kagami that her life was in immediate danger and giving him less than ten minutes.
• Hyuga Kagami formed Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion from six Truth-Seeking Orbs and decided to destroy the Susanoo despite the risk to the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
• Hyuga Kagami slashed both Susanoo at the waist, turning their upper halves to ash and forcing their fused lower halves back into Karin.
• Karin fell still on the operating table, while Hyuga Kagami withdrew from Tenseigan Chakra Mode and panted from exhaustion.

Hyuga Kagami watched as Karin’s Sharingan transformed into the Rinnegan, proving that his Bloodline Fusion Ritual could cause a qualitative change in chakra. Karin woke with her new eyes, but their strain meant she would need to seal their abilities or rely on bio-armor until she was older.

• Hyuga Kagami approached Karin after the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, hoping the remaining ocular power would be enough to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Karin’s Sharingan twisted as the Power of All Creation surged through her, and she floated above the operating table while her Type-Two Bio-Armor entered Overload Mode.
• Karin woke and revealed pale purple Rinnegan, leaving Hyuga Kagami astonished that his ritual had successfully created the eyes.
• Hyuga Kagami examined Karin’s Rinnegan and learned that she could see clearly but became dizzy when she looked for too long.
• Hyuga Kagami concluded that Karin would need to seal the Rinnegan’s abilities or keep wearing bio-armor until her body matured enough to bear them.

Kabuto tested Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and concluded that Orochimaru was alive but had been captured or sealed. He told Kimimaro, Yamato, Jugo, and Haku to take over Orochimaru’s laboratories while he set out alone, arriving at the cave connected to Ryūchi Cave unsure whether he would return.

• Kabuto successfully summoned the Impure World Reincarnation bodies of the First and Second Hokage, then dismissed them.
• Kabuto tried to revive Orochimaru using a Kumogakure ninja as a sacrifice, but the jutsu failed and the sacrifice died.
• Kabuto concluded that Orochimaru was not dead and resolved to rescue him from Akatsuki, the God Organization, or Danzo.
• Kabuto told Kimimaro, Yamato, Jugo, and Haku to halt their search and focus on taking over Orochimaru’s four laboratories to gain bargaining power.
• Kabuto left Otogakure and reached the cave connected to Ryūchi Cave, wondering whether he would make it back.

Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi met Hyuga Kagami at the underground laboratory to discuss their First Hokage Cell transplant surgeries, and Shisui and Itachi warned Shinichi about the danger of failure. Kagami introduced a mysterious new God Organization member, the Sun God, as his assistant for the surgery.

• Shisui and Itachi told Shinichi that Shisui’s transplant had caused First Hokage Cells to grow into trees, and that Homura’s Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan had helped him survive.
• Shinichi worried that his depleted ocular power made his chances of surviving the surgery even worse and suggested borrowing Homura’s Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
• Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi entered the underground laboratory in the Forest of Death and found Hyuga Kagami waiting with a masked stranger.
• Hyuga Kagami introduced the stranger as the God Organization’s new member, codenamed Sun God, and his assistant for the transplant surgery.

Karin had joined the God Organization as the Sun God after successfully awakening the Rinnegan, and Hyuga Kagami prepared to use her abilities as a safeguard for Shinichi and Itachi’s First Hokage Cell transplants. As the surgery began, Shinichi discovered Karin’s Rinnegan and reacted with alarm.

• Hyuga Kagami examined Karin’s newly born Rinnegan and found that she could use only a few limited abilities so far.
• Shinichi asked to borrow Blaze’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan before his transplant surgery, but Hyuga Kagami said he had other arrangements and estimated the operation’s success rate at thirty to forty percent.
• Hyuga Kagami explained that Karin could keep Shinichi and Itachi alive if their surgeries failed, while Karin silently struggled to interact with the other God Organization members.
• Hyuga Kagami assigned Shisui to keep watch above ground and took Itachi and Shinichi into the operating room.
• Shinichi sensed Karin, saw the Rinnegan beneath her mask, and retreated while shouting a warning.