Chapter Summaries

The Allied Shinobi Forces’ defensive line collapsed as the resurrected Kage and White Zetsu army drove them back. Jiraiya stayed behind to buy time, but as the enemy closed in, Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji arrived with their summons.

• The Second Mizukage broke free of restraint, helping the Second Tsuchikage and the other Edo Tensei fighters turn the battle against the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Tsunade urged Jiraiya to retreat, but he summoned Fukasaku and Shima and stayed behind to hold off five Kage-level enemies while she led the wounded toward the village.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and fought Hanzo, the Second Tsuchikage, the Second Mizukage, the Third Kazekage, and the Third Raikage, but collapsed gravely wounded.
• The Two-Tails, Eight-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and Six-Tails Jinchuriki arrived in Akatsuki robes as Jiraiya faced the Second Tsuchikage’s Dust Release.
• A longsword severed the Second Tsuchikage’s arm, and Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji appeared atop Gamabunta, Garaga, and the Big Wild Boar.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji arrived on the battlefield to rescue Jiraiya and confront the resurrected Kage and Jinchuriki. Sasuke's enormous fire attack engulfed the enemy forces, while Neji evacuated Jiraiya, leaving the clans watching in shock at the young ninja's power.

• Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji defied Jiraiya's warning and faced Hanzo, the resurrected Kage, and the Six Paths of Pain.
• The retreating Uchiha and Hyuga forces stopped when they saw Sasuke and Neji enter the battle.
• The five Jinchuriki charged at Naruto, and Sasuke combined Great Fire Annihilation with Gamabunta's toad oil to engulf the battlefield in flames.
• Neji used Rotation to save Jiraiya from the fire, then sent him toward the rear with an unexplained power.
• Uchiha Fugaku and the Hyuga clan watched in amazement as Sasuke and Neji displayed their abilities.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji fought through the battlefield mist and defeated four reanimated Kage, while their allies struggled to hold back the enemy forces. When the Kage recovered and Jiraiya urged them to retreat, the three Genin chose to stand together and prepared to fight again.

• Sasuke used Purple Electricity to scatter the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand and severed his arm, while Naruto overwhelmed the Third Raikage with Sage Art: Rasengan and Neji used Rotation to pull the Second Tsuchikage into the Second Mizukage’s explosive clone.
• The giant summoned beasts helped stabilize the Allied Shinobi Forces’ front, while Tsunade told Kakashi and Guy that the Five Kage would return soon and warned that Nagato and the Ten-Tails had yet to appear.
• Hanzo’s Fire Explosion Formation blasted a crater into the battlefield, but Jiraiya saw that Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji had avoided the attack and defeated four Kage.
• The six Paths of Pain and the four recovered Kage returned to the battlefield, prompting Jiraiya, Hizashi, and Uchiha Fugaku to urge the three Genin to retreat.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji refused to abandon one another, then activated Complete Body Susanoo, Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and Tenseigan Chakra Mode respectively.

Hyuga Kagami infiltrated Takigakure’s hidden stronghold and obtained the Hero Water, bringing his ritual’s chakra gathering nearly to completion. After sensing Neji activate Tenseigan Chakra Mode and learning that the Allied Shinobi Forces had encountered Madara Uchiha, he chose to let Neji fight and sent out orders before disappearing.

• Hyuga Kagami discovered the hidden village beneath the giant tree and used his Tenseigan to locate the Hero Water inside it.
• Hyuga Kagami took the Hero Water, which he needed to nearly complete gathering chakra for his ritual.
• Hyuga Kagami sensed Neji activate Tenseigan Chakra Mode and decided to let his student fight rather than summon him away.
• Hyuga Kagami received a message from Karatachi Yagura that the Allied Shinobi Forces had encountered Madara Uchiha, summoned through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hyuga Kagami sent several ninja crows carrying his orders and vanished.

Sasuke and Naruto displayed their newly heightened powers on the battlefield, but Neji then entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode and revealed an eye that he called the strongest in the Ninja World. His transformation led the gathered fighters to suspect that Yama, the God Organization’s leader, belonged to the Hyuga Clan or shared its Byakugan bloodline.

• Sasuke formed a gigantic winged Susanoo while Naruto entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, astonishing the fighters watching the battlefield.
• Neji completed his hand seals, entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and floated into the air beside Sasuke.
• Neji identified his eyes as the Tenseigan and declared them the strongest eyes in the Ninja World.
• Jiraiya questioned Hizashi about the Tenseigan, and Hizashi said the Byakugan could evolve into one only through a different process involving a giant eye.
• Tsunade, Kakashi, Guy, and the others arrived and recognized Neji, then speculated that Yama shared the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan bloodline.

Neji revealed the Tenseigan as the Akatsuki’s controlled Edo Tensei and Six Paths of Pain launched a counterattack. The battlefield erupted into a chaotic battle, with Neji surrounded and Sasuke holding off giant summoned beasts.

• The Edo Tensei Kage and the Six Paths of Pain reacted to Neji’s Tenseigan before the caster took control of the revived Kage again.
• Yugito Nii summoned a host of giant beasts while Rōshi, Han, Utakata, and Killer B transformed under powerful Tailed Beast cloaks.
• Sasuke and Neji agreed to fight after defeating the Akatsuki, and Naruto warned the shinobi that the cloaks were unusual.
• Killer B fired a Tailed Beast Ball at Naruto, blasting him away, while Utakata intercepted Neji and Rōshi, Han, and the Third Raikage surrounded him.
• Sasuke used his Susanoo to pin one summoned beast and hold off Yatagarasu and the giant bull as the battlefield shook with explosions and debris.
• Jiraiya, Hizashi, Fugaku, and the other surviving shinobi retreated from the chaos, unable to join the fight safely.

Tsunade treated Jiraiya while Kakashi protected the group from a stray Tailed Beast Ball, and the others watched the battle rage across the battlefield. Naruto fought the Six Paths of Pain but found his Shadow Clone and Rasengan tactics countered by Preta Path Killer B, who declared that the Ninja World was hell.

• Tsunade arrived with the Sealing Team, treated Jiraiya, and stopped him from returning to battle because of his injuries.
• Kakashi used the Flying Thunder God Technique to send a stray Tailed Beast Ball away from the group.
• Naruto destroyed the Iron Sand shield and blasted the Second Mizukage and Third Kazekage apart with Shadow Clones and Rasengans, but their Impure World bodies regenerated.
• Preta Path Killer B attacked Naruto and absorbed more than a hundred Rasengans with the Rinnegan.
• Preta Path Killer B seized Naruto by the throat and told him that the Ninja World was hell.

Neji used the Tenseigan to protect Sasuke and rescue Naruto after the enemy nearly extracted the Nine-Tails from him. He unleashed the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion against the Edo Tensei Bodies and Six Paths of Pain, leaving the battlefield engulfed in a massive storm.

• Killer B of the Preta Path began extracting the Nine-Tails from Naruto and discovered that Naruto possessed the complete Nine-Tails.
• Sasuke destroyed Yugito Nii's giant summons with Amaterasu, but the Second Tsuchikage cut through his Complete Body Susanoo with Dust Release.
• The Second Mizukage and Third Kazekage trapped Naruto and Killer B of the Preta Path in Iron Sand, while their explosion injured Kakashi as he tried to rescue Naruto.
• The Second Tsuchikage nearly killed Sasuke with Dust Release, but Neji blocked the beam with a Truth-Seeking Orb and revealed that he could wield Six Paths-level powers.
• Neji cut through the Iron Sand sphere, severed Killer B of the Preta Path's arm, and pulled Naruto and Sasuke to safety.
• Neji unleashed the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, engulfing the approaching Edo Tensei Bodies and Six Paths of Pain in a massive storm.

Neji saved Naruto and Sasuke with the Tenseigan but suffered severe backlash from Ryumyaku chakra, leaving him in danger of turning to stone. As Kakashi tried to evacuate the injured group, his Flying Thunder God Technique failed because he was carrying too much chakra.

• Neji used three Truth-Seeking Orbs to save Naruto and Sasuke, then collapsed after losing control of Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Neji explained that excessive Ryumyaku chakra had overwhelmed him, and Naruto recognized the natural-energy petrification spreading across his body.
• Naruto created over a hundred Shadow Clones to absorb natural energy, slowing Neji's petrification.
• The Edo Tensei Bodies and Six Paths of Pain reappeared, and Kakashi decided to retreat with Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke.
• Kakashi tried to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape, but it failed because the chakra he carried was excessive.

Kakashi’s attempt to teleport Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji failed because their chakra exceeded the Flying Thunder God Technique’s limits, leaving them vulnerable to the approaching Six Paths of Pain and Edo Tensei Bodies. Hyuga Kagami arrived in his own Edo Tensei Body, rescued them by quickly subduing several attackers, and returned to Neji’s side.

• Kakashi failed to transfer the three youths and was injured by the spatial backlash.
• The Six Paths of Pain and Edo Tensei Bodies advanced while Naruto tried to stabilize Neji, leaving Sasuke and the injured Kakashi to defend them.
• Kakashi resolved to protect the three youths, especially Neji, as Sasuke prepared to fight the approaching enemies.
• Hyuga Kagami descended onto the battlefield and drained the Third Raikage’s chakra before beginning to seal him.
• Hyuga Kagami repelled Hanzo and his poison, captured and sealed the Second Tsuchikage, then returned to Neji’s side.

Hyuga Kagami revealed himself after the Sage of Six Paths refused to intervene in the battle, then rescued Neji from natural energy and calmed his frenzied Tenseigan. The others were left baffled by how easily Hyuga Kagami subdued it.

• Hyuga Kagami gave up waiting for the Sage of Six Paths to act and revealed himself on the battlefield.
• Naruto told Hyuga Kagami that Neji had been invaded by natural energy, while Sasuke warned Naruto that Hyuga Kagami was an Edo Tensei Body.
• Hyuga Kagami pulled Neji close and used the Giant Tenseigan to absorb excess natural energy, easing Neji’s petrification.
• Sasuke and Kakashi noticed that Neji’s Tenseigan remained dangerously agitated, and Naruto asked Hyuga Kagami to help him.
• Hyuga Kagami told Neji’s Tenseigan to “Cut it out,” causing its radiance to vanish and its chakra to calm.

Hyuga Kagami appeared on the battlefield as an Edo Tensei Body, shocking the Allied Shinobi Forces and the Uchiha watching from afar. He summoned Naruto and Neji away, left Orochimaru to handle the battlefield, and told Kakashi to protect the village until he returned.

• The Hyuga clansmen and the battlefield's leaders realized that Hyuga Kagami was an Edo Tensei Body, while Tsunade and Jiraiya suspected Orochimaru had revived him.
• Shisui tried to rush to the battlefield, but Shinichi stopped him and told him and Itachi to wait for orders.
• Hyuga Kagami told Kakashi he would explain later and that he needed Naruto and Neji, then Namikaze Minato, the Second Hokage, the First Hokage, and Orochimaru arrived.
• Orochimaru questioned Hyuga Kagami about his death, and Hyuga Kagami called it an accident and asked his teacher to take over the battlefield.
• Hyuga Kagami connected to the Giant Tenseigan, sealed Kakashi's Flying Thunder God Formula on Naruto and Neji, and summoned them away.
• Hyuga Kagami told Kakashi to handle the village, retreat if necessary, and wait for his return.

Orochimaru’s arrival brought the First, Second, and Fourth Hokage back to the battlefield, where they and the Sannin prepared to fight Akatsuki. Hyuga Kagami left to join Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi, while Sasuke departed on a separate mission.

• Kakashi learned that Orochimaru and Hyuga Kagami were allied, while Jiraiya and Tsunade arrived and reunited with the resurrected Hokage.
• The Second Hokage warned that Akatsuki was moving as its fighters recovered and prepared to attack again.
• The three Hokage and the Sannin summoned their allies and readied themselves to defend the village.
• Sasuke received a message by ninja crow and left the battlefield on another mission.
• Hyuga Kagami joined Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi in hiding and told them to prepare for an order.

Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi received orders from Hyuga Kagami as Madara Uchiha overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces with Wood Release. The Five Kage combined their attacks to hold back the forest, but Madara's poisonous pollen incapacitated them.

• Hyuga Kagami's Shadow Clone dispersed, and Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi reassured one another that their leader had planned for his apparent death.
• Three crows delivered orders from Hyuga Kagami's true body, and Shisui, Itachi, and Shinichi read them before vanishing with the Body Flicker Technique.
• Madara Uchiha restored his Edo Tensei Body after the meteorite attack and found the Allied Shinobi Forces less devastated than he had expected.
• The Five Kage confronted Madara, who unleashed Wood Release: Flower Tree World Emergence against them and the wounded shinobi.
• Karatachi Yagura, the Fourth Kazekage, the Third Hokage, the Third Tsuchikage, and the Fourth Raikage combined their techniques to hold back Madara's forest.
• Madara made the forest release poisonous pollen, which caused the Third Hokage and the other four Kage to collapse or become dazed.

Madara Uchiha let the Five Kage recover from the poisonous pollen before battling the Allied Shinobi Forces until dusk, leaving the Kage and army exhausted and badly diminished. He then unleashed his complete-body Susanoo, revealing a power that dwarfed the battlefield’s survivors.

• Madara Uchiha mocked the poisoned Five Kage and let them recover because he wanted to defeat them with Uchiha ocular jutsu.
• A communications shinobi reported that Konoha's outer defensive line was close to collapsing, and the Third Hokage ordered it to hold while the Five Kage prepared for a desperate battle against Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha fought the Allied Shinobi Forces from daylight until dusk, exhausting the Five Kage and leaving corpses across the battlefield.
• Madara Uchiha declared the Five Kage unworthy opponents and expanded his Susanoo into its complete form.
• Madara Uchiha's Susanoo cut the fallen meteor apart and sliced through a distant mountain, while its shockwave hurled the Five Kage and surviving shinobi away.

Madara Uchiha overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces and captured the Three-Tails, leaving the four remaining Kage helpless before his Susanoo. Just as he prepared to strike them down, a figure wearing the Hokage's imperial robe descended onto the battlefield.

• Madara Uchiha advanced on the wounded Five Kage in his complete-body Susanoo as they despaired over their impending defeat.
• Karatachi Yagura transformed into Isobu and attacked Madara Uchiha, but Madara pinned the Three-Tails to the ground with his Susanoo's sword.
• A purple chain emerging from a distorted vortex bound Isobu and dragged the Three-Tails away while the Third Hokage and Third Tsuchikage failed to stop it.
• Obito absorbed the Three-Tails through the vortex, leaving Karatachi Yagura to fall back onto the battlefield.
• Madara Uchiha raised his Susanoo's sword to kill the four remaining Kage, but a figure wearing the Hokage's imperial robe descended before the strike landed.

Hyuga Kagami arrived on the battlefield and repelled Madara Uchiha's Susanoo with Rotation, then tried to save the dying Karatachi Yagura with a Type-IV Biological Armor. He dismissed Madara and left the fight to four Flame Demons who arrived from the sky.

• Hyuga Kagami arrived at the battlefield as Madara Uchiha prepared to strike the wounded Kage.
• Hyuga Kagami used Rotation to knock Madara Uchiha's Susanoo to the ground, though the attack was weaker than he expected.
• Hyuga Kagami found that the Three-Tails had been extracted from Karatachi Yagura and equipped him with a Type-IV Biological Armor to preserve his life.
• Madara Uchiha demanded Hyuga Kagami's name, and Hyuga Kagami told him he was not even worthy of losing to him.
• Four Flame Demons arrived, and Hyuga Kagami ordered them to take care of Madara Uchiha.

Hyuga Kagami arrived on the battlefield and ordered the Flame Demons to dispose of Madara Uchiha, then continued walking away. The other Kage realized Kagami was an Edo Tensei Body, while Shinichi blocked Madara’s attack and drew his attention.

• Hyuga Kagami ordered the four Flame Demons to deal with Madara Uchiha and ignored the other Kage’s questions.
• The Third Tsuchikage and Fourth Raikage suspected a connection between Konoha and the God Organization, while the Third Hokage and other Kage realized Hyuga Kagami was an Edo Tensei Body.
• Hyuga Kagami left the battlefield after learning the Akatsuki had already taken the Three-Tails from Karatachi Yagura.
• Madara Uchiha attacked Hyuga Kagami with his complete-body Susanoo, but Shinichi manifested a dark green Susanoo and blocked the strike.
• Shinichi told Madara Uchiha not to speak for the Uchiha so casually, and Madara noticed Shinichi’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

Shinichi rejected Madara Uchiha’s offer, and Sasuke, Shisui, and another Flame Demon revealed their Susanoo, leaving Madara facing four powerful Uchiha. The Kage realized three Flame Demons were Uchiha from Konoha, while Madara recognized the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror and wondered why they obeyed a dead Hokage.

• Madara Uchiha invited Shinichi to join him, but Shinichi refused.
• Sasuke, Shisui, and the crimson Susanoo’s user appeared, bringing the number of winged Susanoo facing Madara to four.
• The Third Hokage connected Shisui, Shinichi, and Sasuke to the God Organization and wondered whether Hyuga Kagami had founded it.
• The Third Tsuchikage demanded an explanation from the Third Hokage, while the Fourth Kazekage and Fourth Raikage confronted him with their stares.
• Madara Uchiha recognized the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, sensed unusual power from Sasuke’s Susanoo, and wondered why the Uchiha obeyed a dead Hokage.

Madara Uchiha attacked the four opposing Uchiha with his Complete Body Susanoo, but Sasuke, Shisui, and Shinichi struck back while the Allied Shinobi Forces withdrew. The Kage regrouped with the surviving Karatachi Yagura as the Susanoo battle continued beyond their view.

• Madara Uchiha launched a devastating Susanoo slash, and Shisui, Itachi, Shinichi, and Sasuke dodged with their own Susanoo.
• Sasuke hit Madara's Susanoo with an Amaterasu-coated arrow while Shisui and Shinichi attacked from the ground, but Madara countered with four arms and four blades.
• The remaining Allied Shinobi Forces withdrew through the dust and explosions while the four Flame Demons kept Madara occupied.
• The Third Hokage brought the unconscious Karatachi Yagura to the other Kage and said that Yagura was still alive.
• The Third Tsuchikage examined Yagura's Type-IV Biological Armor, and the Kage then watched the distant battle through the sandstorm, unable to intervene.