Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke’s clan-founding celebration drew Konoha’s clans and foreign powers into new alliances, while Sasuke overheard the Hidden Cloud Village’s plot to abduct Uzumaki Kushina. Minato Namikaze and the Umino siblings rescued Kushina, but releasing her seal triggered the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and Sasuke summoned Samehada to absorb it.

• Umino Sasuke secured investments from Konoha’s clans, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi, Hyuga Sogen, and Uchiha Fire Nucleus to reassess the Umino Clan’s growing power.
• Umino Sasuke overheard Gabino and the Hidden Cloud delegation planning to take Uzumaki Kushina back to the Hidden Cloud Village, so he sent Minato Namikaze, Umino Kosuzu, and Umino Tobirama to check on her.
• Minato Namikaze and the Umino siblings discovered Kushina was missing, tracked her through the Forest of Death, and fought their way past the Hidden Cloud pursuers.
• Minato Namikaze defeated Raiga and caught Kushina as she fell, while Umino Kosuzu held off two Hidden Cloud chunin.
• Umino Sasuke released Kushina’s Lightning Binding Seal, causing the Nine-Tails’ chakra to erupt, then summoned Samehada to wrap around her and absorb the chakra.

Minato Namikaze, Umino Kosuzu, and Umino Tobirama rescued Uzumaki Kushina and defeated the Hidden Cloud Village squad, earning Minato recognition as a brilliant young ninja. After Konoha celebrated their success, Gabino revealed that the Land of Lightning, Land of Water, and Land of Fire had agreed to destroy the Uzumaki Clan unless Konoha abandoned its ally, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi facing a grave choice.

• Samehada absorbed the Nine-Tails' leaked chakra until the beast gave up, and Umino Sasuke led the rescued Kushina and injured Minato and Tobirama back toward Konoha.
• Umino Sasuke found Umino Kosuzu had captured two Hidden Cloud Village Chunin, then told Hatake Sakumo that Minato, Kosuzu, and Tobirama had already defeated the escort and rescued Kushina.
• Yūhi Shinkurō's team killed Gabino's three Hidden Cloud Village Special Jonin and captured Gabino after Shinkurō defeated him with genjutsu.
• At the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi rewarded Minato with an S-Rank merit and access to an S-Rank ninjutsu, while Kosuzu and Tobirama received A-Rank merits; Umino Sasuke advised them on suitable techniques.
• Gabino told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Land of Lightning, Land of Water, and Land of Fire had agreed to destroy the Uzumaki Clan unless Konoha withheld support, threatening Konoha with a four-front war otherwise.

Hiruzen Sarutobi wrestled with whether to abandon the Land of Whirlpools for a chance to end the war, but Utatane Koharu argued Konoha could win without betraying its ally. After rewarding Minato Namikaze and the Umino siblings, Hiruzen used a public rally about protecting children to promise a swift victory and peace, while Umino Sasuke advanced his training and stabilized the Chakra Outer Elixir before it became uncontrollable.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi considered Gabino's offer to sacrifice the Land of Whirlpools, but Utatane Koharu rejected it and argued that Konoha's enemies were too weakened to threaten a united siege.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Umino Tobirama and Umino Kosuzu A-Rank techniques, gave Minato Namikaze the Flying Thunder God Technique scroll, and promoted all three to Chunin.
• Umino Sasuke guided the three youngsters in training, warned Minato Namikaze not to attempt a Space Jump prematurely, and advised him to practice perception and use Reverse Summoning first.
• Umino Sasuke fed Nine-Tails Chakra into the Chakra Outer Elixir with Samehada, then stopped the process when the elixir neared collapse and concluded that he needed the Uzumaki Clan's core sealing techniques.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared before grieving Ninja Academy students, teachers, and villagers, promised to end the war swiftly as a victor, and gained their public support.

Umino Sasuke rejected Konoha’s decision to abandon the Land of Whirlpools and led the Umino Clan to aid Uzushio Village. After secretly transporting his force by submarine past the Cloud and Mist blockade, he and two companions infiltrated the village as the Uzumaki prepared for an apparent final assault.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi secured a vote to accept Hidden Cloud Village’s alliance terms and abandon the Land of Whirlpools, while Umino Sasuke announced that his clan would attempt a private rescue.
• After an urgent report revealed that Hidden Cloud Village and Kirigakure were attacking the Land of Whirlpools, Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to change the resolution and ordered Umino Sasuke’s clan to be granted leave.
• Umino Sasuke assembled more than a hundred Umino and allied ninja, displayed their flying equipment, and traveled with them to the Land of Waves.
• Gato provided new Flight Armor, and Umino Sasuke moved his forces aboard five submarines to bypass the Cloud and Mist fleets and reach the Land of Whirlpools.
• Umino Sasuke, Kakuzu, and Might Duy secretly left a submarine and advanced toward Uzushio Village, where the Great Elder ordered the Uzumaki Clan Head to evacuate the clan’s children and prepared to sacrifice himself against two approaching powerful chakra sources.

Umino Sasuke and his allies reached Uzushio Village, persuaded the Uzumaki clan to evacuate, and used submarines from the Land of Waves to carry them past Kirigakure’s blockade. The submarines broke cover at the river mouth and attacked the Mist fleet, leaving Kirigakure’s ships in chaos as the evacuation continued toward the open sea.

• Umino Sasuke broke the Uzumaki clan’s sealing attacks with the Unsealing Kusanagi Sword, revealed his Konoha identity, and convinced the clan leaders that he had come to help.
• After the Great Elder Uzumaki concluded that the Land of Whirlpools could not be defended, Umino Sasuke proposed evacuating the clan aboard submarines while he and others covered their retreat.
• Umino Sasuke ordered four submarines to the river bend as Shadow Clones sabotaged the Mist camp and fought off patrols, while the Uzumaki clansmen boarded under cover of fog.
• Umino Sasuke created transformed Shadow Clones to draw enemy attention, and the remaining Uzumaki fighters withdrew through the secret passage as the submarines submerged with the evacuees.
• Kirigakure discovered the escape and exposed the submarines when one scraped a transport ship, prompting Kakuzu to order a full-speed breakout and call for reinforcements.
• The submarines attacked Kirigakure’s fleet with torpedoes and Chakra Cannons, sinking a warship and crippling the ironclad Blood Mist as the remaining vessels scattered in panic.

The Umino forces destroyed Kirigakure’s fleet and captured its transport ships, while Suikazan Fuguki’s report drove the Third Mizukage to send his troops toward Uzushio’s central shrine. Umino Sasuke infiltrated the Uzumaki treasury, copied its sealing inheritance, and removed its wealth, leaving a trapped scroll that poisoned Hidden Cloud shinobi when they entered.

• Umino Ikaku, Umino Kosuzu, and Umino Tobirama summoned the Perfect-Form Sea Monk, whose waves forced Kirigakure’s surviving transport ships to surrender.
• Suikazan Fuguki saw the Sea Monk and fled with Kirigakure’s elite forces; after hearing his report, the Third Mizukage ordered his troops to concentrate on the Uzumaki shrine and treasure vault.
• Umino Sasuke used the Unsealing Kusanagi Sword and Flying Thunder God Technique to enter the treasury, where he disarmed the Scroll of Sealing’s traps and copied its contents.
• Umino Sasuke transported the copied scroll and treasury wealth to his base, then planted traps in the original Scroll of Sealing before Hidden Cloud’s forces broke through the stone door.
• A Hidden Cloud genin grabbed the trapped scroll, releasing poisonous Wood Release Pollen that killed him and several nearby shinobi despite their attempts to contain it.

Umino Sasuke’s Shadow Clones manipulated Hidden Cloud and Kirigakure into a mounting battle over the supposed Uzumaki treasure, while the real Umino Sasuke watched from afar. After the Third Mizukage defeated Ai and drove Hidden Cloud toward the coast, the chapter left Hidden Cloud’s survivors boarding their ships under fire as Kirigakure’s pursuit stalled.

• Hidden Cloud secured the Scroll of Sealing after toxic pollen killed several of its ninja, while A ordered his forces to stop fighting Kirigakure and search for other spoils.
• A and the Third Mizukage clashed as their armies battled around the shrine, and Umino Sasuke’s Shadow Clones spread false reports that inflamed greed and suspicion between them.
• The Third Mizukage found the treasury empty, believed Hidden Cloud had stolen its contents, and led Kirigakure in a furious pursuit as the Shadow Clones continued sowing chaos.
• Umino Sasuke watched from a cliff as the fighting spread across Uzushio Village, then copied the Third Mizukage’s Nine Dragon Binding Kill technique.
• The Third Mizukage overwhelmed Ai and forced Hidden Cloud to retreat, while Hidden Cloud’s assistant commander sacrificed himself to help Ai escape with the Scroll of Sealing.
• Most surviving Hidden Cloud ninja reached their warships, and their ship-mounted chakra ballistae blasted Kirigakure’s pursuing forces along the coast.

Umino Sasuke’s forces ambushed the Hidden Cloud fleet and then struck the surviving Kirigakure troops on the coast, turning the battle into a devastating three-dimensional assault. The Third Mizukage was left wounded and humiliated after Umino Sasuke overpowered him in Water Release.

• The Third Mizukage stopped Kirigakure from pursuing the departing Hidden Cloud fleet and ordered his forces to loot Uzushio Village.
• Underwater Chakra Torpedoes and Umino forces attacked the Hidden Cloud fleet, sinking many ships as the Whale Submarine, Sea Monk, and flying ninja joined the assault.
• Umino Sasuke summoned nine Mecha Puppets and a Chimera Puppet onto the coast, while Might Duy opened the Sixth Gate and attacked the surviving Kirigakure forces.
• The Third Mizukage and Suikazan Fuguki faced Umino Sasuke and Might Duy as the Mecha Puppets and Hundred Puppet Performance slaughtered Kirigakure ninja.
• Umino Sasuke beat the Third Mizukage to successive Water Release techniques, shattered his Water Dragon Bullet, and overwhelmed his Great Waterfall Technique.
• The Third Mizukage was blasted into a reef, suffered a deep wound and a severed ear, and froze the injuries as he stared at Umino Sasuke in fury and humiliation.

Umino Sasuke outmaneuvered the Third Mizukage’s Ice Release attacks, wounded him, and learned the secret of his mirror technique. After creating his own Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal and transforming with the Three Heads Six Arms Technique, Sasuke summoned his Chakra Outer Elixir, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• The Third Mizukage challenged Umino Sasuke to an Ice Release duel, but Sasuke surprised him with Water Severing Wave and pierced his shoulder.
• The Third Mizukage trapped Sasuke in Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal and attacked with ice senbon and cones, but Sasuke’s defenses endured.
• The Third Mizukage launched a close-range killing attack, but Sasuke smashed his ice cone and shattered a mirror, forcing the Mizukage out of the mirror space and badly injuring him.
• Umino Sasuke revealed that he had learned Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal and created his own smaller ice mirrors, enraging the Third Mizukage.
• The Shadow Guard mocked Sasuke’s Ice Release, so he used the Three Heads Six Arms Technique and summoned his Chakra Outer Elixir.

Umino Sasuke used the Chakra Outer Elixir to overpower the Third Mizukage’s Ice Release, defeat him, and seal him alive in an ice coffin. As Kirigakure’s forces fled, Sasuke caught up with Suikazan Fuguki, who fought back with hair and Water Release techniques.

• Umino Sasuke created a vast field of ice mirrors with the Chakra Outer Elixir and struck the distracted Third Mizukage with a Rasengan.
• Umino Sasuke killed the Kirigakure Shadow Guard, then defeated the Third Mizukage’s Nine Dragon Binding Kill with his own stronger version of the technique.
• Umino Sasuke sealed the unconscious Third Mizukage in a Crystal Coffin to preserve him as a potential Human Puppet.
• Suikazan Fuguki abandoned Juzo Biwa, who died fighting Might Duy, and fled as the remaining Kirigakure shinobi scattered.
• Umino Sasuke intercepted Suikazan Fuguki and countered his hair senbon with Needle Jizo and Lion Dance of Hair.
• Suikazan Fuguki broke free with Water Shark Missile Technique and attacked Umino Sasuke with a Great Shark Missile.

Umino Sasuke subdued Suikazan Fuguki and Nether Release Chukichi, then led the Umino forces to complete their victory over Kirigakure’s ground resistance. As Ai’s Hidden Cloud survivors faced capture, the Third Raikage and Blue B arrived with reinforcements, setting up a new confrontation with Sasuke.

• Umino Sasuke defeated Suikazan Fuguki by using Samehada to absorb his Great Shark Bullet and chakra, then bound him as a potential source of Kirigakure intelligence.
• Umino Sasuke countered Chukichi’s Nether Release with Samehada, broke his hand, drained his chakra, and had a Mecha Puppet seize him as research material.
• Umino Sasuke and Might Duy helped the Puppet Unit capture Kirigakure’s remaining bloodline elites and end the ground resistance at Uzushio Village’s western coast.
• Kakuzu reported that the Umino forces had captured Hidden Cloud transport ships while Ai and his wounded crew held out aboard the Thunder Cloud.
• Umino Sasuke detected the Third Raikage and Blue B arriving with a flock of summoned birds, while the surviving Hidden Cloud ninjas cheered and Sasuke prepared to face them.

The Third Raikage arrived to find the Hidden Cloud force nearly destroyed and challenged Umino Sasuke, whose strength and techniques surprised him. After Sasuke revealed Lightning Release and Wind Release Chakra Modes, the Raikage launched a lethal Four-Finger Thrust, piercing Sasuke’s candy barriers as the fight continued.

• The Third Raikage found the battlefield devastated, learned that Konoha Iron Wall had turned the Cloud and Kirigakure forces against each other, and saw that the Sealing Scroll had been secured.
• The Third Raikage attacked Umino Sasuke, but Sasuke met his first punch and then drove him back with a six-armed barrage.
• The Third Raikage overwhelmed Sasuke with speed and lightning attacks, but Sasuke used the Raikage’s lightning to activate his own Lightning Release Chakra Mode and unleashed Ice Release: Double Dragon Binding Kill.
• The Third Raikage broke free of Sasuke’s ice dragons unharmed, and Sasuke revealed that he could also use Wind Release Chakra Mode.
• The Third Raikage launched Hell Stab: Four-Finger Thrust, and his attack pierced through Sasuke’s Sticky Candy Void Wall barriers.

Umino Sasuke used Flying Thunder God and layered defenses to survive the Third Raikage’s relentless pursuit across the sea, while Kakuzu’s intervention brought three Human Puppets into the fight. After the puppets helped block the Raikage’s attacks, Umino Sasuke empowered Mechanical Glass Princess as the Third Raikage’s assault left him briefly exposed.

• Umino Sasuke escaped the Third Raikage’s Four-Finger Thrust with Flying Thunder God, then repeatedly teleported away as the Raikage broke his genjutsu and pursued him through the sea fog.
• Umino Sasuke spread Wood Release Pollen Toxin through the mist, but the Third Raikage’s Lightning Release Armor destroyed the toxin before it could harm him.
• Kakuzu sent four Earth Grudge Fear clones to aid Umino Sasuke, but the Third Raikage destroyed the Earth Release clone with his Three-Finger Thrust.
• Umino Sasuke summoned Dotou, Kaguya Hyakusen, and Mechanical Glass Princess, who blocked the Raikage’s attack and forced him back; the Raikage recognized Dotou as the missing Dodai and accused Umino Sasuke of controlling them.
• Umino Sasuke and the puppets formed a layered defense that stopped the Third Raikage’s Two-Finger Thrust, and Umino Sasuke used Super Weighted Rock Technique to empower Mechanical Glass Princess during the opening.

Umino Sasuke fought the Third Raikage with his puppets and nearly broke through his defenses, but the Raikage wounded him badly in their exchange. Sasuke fused with Samehada, healed, and used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags and Wood Release Pollen Toxin to bring the Third Raikage to his knees.

• Mechanical Glass Princess, Kaguya Hyakusen, and Umino Sasuke launched a combined attack that injured the Third Raikage but failed to break his Lightning Release Armor.
• The Third Raikage used One-Finger Nukite against Umino Sasuke, who teleported close and tried to redirect the attack with a Rasengan but missed the Raikage's weak point.
• Umino Sasuke branded the Third Raikage with Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags while the Raikage stabbed him in the abdomen; Sasuke escaped with Flying Thunder God and fused with Samehada to heal.
• Umino Sasuke detonated the tags, forcing the Third Raikage to cut the marked flesh from his chest and retreat from the explosions.
• Little Ay drank a Burst Elixir and rushed to his father's side, while the Third Raikage tried to resume fighting.
• Wood Release Pollen Toxin overcame the Third Raikage after his armor broke and his chest was wounded, leaving him unable to maintain Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Umino Sasuke defeated the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon after Blue B released it to cover the Third Raikage and Little Ay’s escape. As Umino Sasuke drained the beast’s chakra, it withdrew into the ruined sealing space within Blue B, leaving Blue B unconscious in the water prison.

• Little Ay and Blue B rescued the poisoned Third Raikage and fought Umino Sasuke’s pursuit while the Summoning Thunder Eagles carried the Raikage away.
• Blue B released the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon, which drove back Umino Sasuke and his Human Puppets and gave Little Ay and the Third Raikage time to escape.
• Umino Sasuke’s Water Severing Wave Formation wounded the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon, and he trapped its true body in a water prison bound by nine Dragon Binding Water Ropes.
• Umino Sasuke began draining the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon’s chakra as the Umino forces watched him suppress the beast.
• The Eight-Tails Ox-Demon retreated into the ruined sealing space within Blue B, leaving Blue B’s unconscious body floating in the water prison.

Umino Sasuke forged an Eight-Tails chakra crystal, recovered the captured defenders, and secured a treaty recognizing the Land of Whirlpools as part of the Land of Waves. After noticing Black Zetsu near the negotiations, he agreed to ransom the Third Mizukage and Suikazan Fuguki, then staged a bitter dispute with Kakuzu over the spoils before departing for Konoha.

• Umino Sasuke compressed the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon's origin chakra into an ink jade crystal, used it to break the seals holding Dodai and Kaguya Hyakusen, and captured the surviving Blue B.
• Umino Sasuke ordered Kaguya Hyakusen, Dodai, and the Mechanical Glass Princess to purge the remaining enemies, while Kirigakure's fleet under Genji held a fortified position and repelled probes.
• Kirigakure negotiators offered increasingly valuable terms, and Umino Sasuke detected Black Zetsu near the meeting before agreeing to ransom the Third Mizukage and Suikazan Fuguki in exchange for forbidden techniques and a treaty.
• Kakuzu secured Genji's signed treaty and the Land of Water's endorsement, formally making the Land of Whirlpools part of the Land of Waves as Kirigakure reclaimed the two prisoners.
• Umino Sasuke and Kakuzu staged a public argument over the spoils, and Umino Sasuke departed for Konoha after accepting Gato's division plan.

After the Uzumaki Clan joined the Land of Waves, Umino Sasuke secured their support for improving Umino sealing techniques while concealing that he had already copied their inheritance. Meanwhile, a trap hidden in Kumogakure's stolen Scroll of Sealing devastated the village, and Kakuzu used the captured Blue B to pressure Kumogakure for reparations.

• Kakuzu seized the spoils of war as reports spread that the Land of Waves and Konoha had fallen out, while most of the Uzumaki Clan formally joined the Land of Waves and Great Elder Uzumaki headed to Konoha with a smaller group.
• Great Elder Uzumaki offered Umino Sasuke the clan's sealing inheritance, but Sasuke refused and asked the Uzumaki to develop sealing enhancements for the Water Candy and Black Rope techniques instead.
• After Kumogakure's sealing squad opened the Scroll of Sealing, hidden explosive tags detonated and destroyed nearly half the village's central district, leaving the Third Raikage unconscious and Blue B captured.
• Acting Raikage Little Ay demanded that Konoha punish Umino Sasuke and pay for Kumogakure's losses, while Kumogakure's envoys traveled to the Land of Waves to ransom Blue B.
• Kakuzu rejected the ransom terms and demanded enormous war reparations, then let the envoys overhear a staged plan to transfer the Eight-Tails into an Uzumaki ninja if negotiations failed.

The Land of Waves forced Kumogakure to ransom Blue B and secure treaties recognizing its annexation of the Land of Whirlpools, then gained recognition from the other great nations. The Uzumaki Clan joined the Land of Waves as Uzushio Village, providing a legal basis to establish Otogakure, whose forces and resources made it a rising maritime power.

• Kumogakure received word that the Land of Waves might transfer the Eight-Tails and sent a higher-ranking delegation to negotiate over Blue B.
• Kakuzu negotiated a ransom, Kumogakure's recognition of the Land of Whirlpools' annexation, a permanent trading port, and a ten-year non-aggression treaty.
• Finance Minister Gen Komei persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to recognize the Land of Waves' annexation, after which the Lands of Earth and Wind also recognized it.
• The Uzumaki Clan Head announced the clan's accession as Uzushio Village and proposed naming the new ninja village Otogakure.
• Umino Sasuke's forces established Otogakure with its military core in the Angkor Fortress archipelago, drawing strength from the Uzumaki, Fuma, and Ibururi Clans, Kakuzu, and its aerial and naval forces.
• Otogakure emerged as a powerful village beneath the Five Great Ninja Villages, with potential Jinchuriki and young talents strengthening its future prospects.

Umino Sasuke tackled the Land of Whirlpools’ food crisis by planning terraced farms across its mountains and recruiting refugees to help build and cultivate them. The first terraces were completed, and Kakuzu expanded the recruitment campaign as the project began.

• Umino Sasuke ordered Hiruko to survey the Land of Whirlpools’ mountain soils and directed Gato to diversify grain purchases and send reserves from the Land of Waves.
• After Hiruko reported that the mountains had deep humus layers, Umino Sasuke proposed terraced fields, using shinobi to shape the slopes and disaster victims to cultivate them.
• Umino Sasuke ordered a recruitment edict offering refugees travel expenses, food, work, and land, while Kakuzu launched a publicity campaign through merchant caravans.
• Otogakure shinobi used Fire, Wind, Earth, and Water Release to clear a pilot hillside, build terraces and irrigation, and prepare fields for planting.
• Disaster victims planted improved crops on the new terraces, and Kakuzu raised the recruitment rewards by thirty percent to attract even more settlers.

Umino Sasuke and Great Elder Uzumaki improved the Black Rope Secret Technique, and Sasuke used Life Original Fluid to help the Uzumaki Clan and awaken Uzumaki Karin’s abilities. He stabilized his Chakra Outer Elixir with a dual Eight Trigrams seal, but its growth soon strained the supply of Life Yang No. 1 as good news arrived.

• Great Elder Uzumaki and Umino Sasuke completed the Adamantine Black Rope Secret Technique, and Sasuke explained that Sea Monk Clone Chakra Sharing and Life Original Fluid could help overcome its training barriers.
• Umino Sasuke gave Great Elder Uzumaki three vials of Life Original Fluid, and Uzumaki Karin’s Yang Release healing and sharing abilities awakened after she drank one.
• Great Elder Uzumaki arranged for Uzumaki Karin to serve as Umino Sasuke’s assistant, and he shared the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing knowledge with Sasuke.
• Umino Sasuke used the Eight Trigrams Sealing and Reverse Eight Trigrams: Yin-Yang Mutual Transformation to stabilize the Chakra Outer Elixir and resume his rapid cultivation.
• Umino Sasuke found that the outer elixir’s growth was limited by Life Yang No. 1 production and decided to prioritize his own cultivation before Otogakure’s other needs.
• Good news arrived just as Umino Sasuke worried about the Life Yang No. 1 supply bottleneck.