Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke interrupted Han’s transformation and helped Might Duy knock the Five-Tails Jinchuriki unconscious, but Roshi arrived to support Ōnoki. Sasuke’s Number Nine Clone fought Roshi while Danzo and Uchiha Shun continued to overwhelm Ōnoki, and Hidden Stone Village’s defeat became a massacre.

• Umino Sasuke used Demonic Illusion: All Creation to interrupt Han’s Tailed Beast transformation, allowing Might Duy to defeat him with Daytime Tiger.
• Roshi arrived and struck at the Konoha forces with Lava Release, then fought Umino Sasuke’s Number Nine Clone.
• Umino Sasuke used Demonic Illusion: Consciousness Weaving to disrupt Roshi, letting Number Nine Clone land a powerful chakra-enhanced punch that sent him crashing into ruined walls.
• Ōnoki tried to clear an escape route with Dust Release, but Uchiha Shun and Danzo interrupted his attack and kept him under pressure.
• Ōnoki’s Shadow Guard sacrificed themselves to protect him, but Danzo and Uchiha Shun killed them as Ōnoki watched in grief.
• Hatake Sakumo cut through Hidden Stone Village’s forces, striking down their command points and defensive squads as the battlefield turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Konoha’s forces routed Ōnoki’s Hidden Stone army, and Roshi urged the Third Tsuchikage to escape while he held off their pursuers. As Roshi fought Number Nine Clone, the Four-Tails Son Goku broke Umino Sasuke’s illusion and cooperated with Roshi, making him a Perfect Jinchuriki.

• Hatake Sakumo, Senju Nawaki, the Aburame brothers, and Gekko Yoru devastated Hidden Stone’s forces and shattered their command structure.
• Ōnoki tried to rescue his besieged jonin, but Danzo and Uchiha Shun disrupted his attacks as Konoha’s fighters killed the remaining defenders.
• Roshi attacked Uchiha Shun and Danzo, then told Ōnoki to retreat and used Lava Release to create an opening for his escape.
• Ōnoki fled toward the Land of Earth while Roshi and several surviving jonin stayed behind to cover him.
• Number Nine Clone joined the assault on Roshi, severing one of his tails, while Umino Sasuke attempted to restrain him with an illusion.
• The Four-Tails Son Goku broke Umino Sasuke’s illusion and cooperated with Roshi, who became a Perfect Jinchuriki and struck Number Nine Clone with overwhelming force.

Umino Sasuke’s forces defeated the Hidden Stone army after Shun and Samehada helped subdue Roshi, while Ōnoki escaped at the cost of his soldiers’ lives. Back in his underground laboratory, Sasuke refined the Tailed Beast chakra Samehada had consumed and awakened his Boil Release Kekkei Genkai.

• Uchiha Shun used his Mangekyō Sharingan to bind Roshi, and Wood Style Clone No. 9 trapped him between two earthen mountains.
• Samehada drained the Four-Tails’ chakra, causing Son Goku to retreat into Roshi and leaving Roshi unconscious.
• Hidden Stone ninja sacrificed themselves to hold back Konoha’s pursuit, allowing Ōnoki to escape while the remaining Stone forces surrendered or were defeated.
• Konoha celebrated its victory, and Danzo organized the battlefield cleanup while focusing on the captured Jinchuriki.
• Umino Sasuke returned to his laboratory with Han’s Steam Armor and Samehada, then used the Chakra Outer Elixir to refine the Tailed Beast chakra Samehada had absorbed.
• Umino Sasuke awakened his Boil Release Kekkei Genkai and released high-temperature steam that scorched an alloy wall.

Umino Sasuke refined the Chakra Outer Elixir and discovered how the Steam Armor could transform Konoha’s air force, while plotting to use Danzo to consolidate military power. At the front, Danzo took the blame for ordering the plunder of the Land of Earth and provoked arriving clan leaders by accusing them of seeking credit, leaving the camp on the brink of open conflict.

• Umino Sasuke fused Boil Release, Magnet Release, and Ice Release chakra into the Chakra Outer Elixir, creating destructive energy that injured his chakra pathways, so he stopped the process and stored the transformed black bead.
• Umino Sasuke studied the Steam Armor and saw that its efficient steam-and-chakra recycling could greatly improve the endurance of Flight Armor and strengthen his planned military forces.
• Umino Sasuke arranged for Danzo to take command and bear the blame for plundering the Land of Earth, while Wood Style Clone No. 9 publicly objected to the order.
• Danzo defended the plundering as spoils of war, and Konoha’s frontline ninjas watched as the staged dispute presented him as decisive and Umino Sasuke as principled.
• Hyuga Sogen, Uchiha Fugaku, and other clan representatives arrived at the camp and demanded to know why the decisive battle had ended before their reinforcements arrived.
• Wood Style Clone No. 9 explained that Ōnoki had planned a night raid, but Danzo interrupted and accused the clan representatives of arriving to claim credit, provoking their anger.

Danzo claimed the credit and authority for the frontline victory, while Umino Sasuke refused the clans’ attempts to recruit him and focused on researching how to regrow his legs. The ninja clans united against Danzo, and Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to Konoha only to face accusations over his defeat and a weakening hold on the Hokage’s office.

• Danzo silenced the clan representatives’ complaints with the victory, but Hyuga Sogen challenged him over taking credit that belonged to Umino Sasuke.
• Number Nine Clone, posing as Umino Sasuke, publicly credited Danzo and the Konoha forces, leaving the conflict between Danzo and the clans unresolved.
• Hyuga Sogen offered Umino Sasuke military authority and support for becoming Fourth Hokage, but Sasuke refused and asked for Hyuga research on Yang Release instead.
• Hyuga Sogen told Uchiha Fugaku and the other clan representatives that Sasuke would not oppose Danzo, so the Hyuga and Uchiha factions agreed to unite against Danzo and the Hokage Faction.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to Konoha after recovering from his injuries and faced Uchiha Fire Nucleus’s accusations over the Western Front defeat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi found himself politically isolated as the clan representatives mocked his failure and his allies were dead, estranged, or resentful.

Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to balance Danzo, Umino Sasuke, and Konoha’s clans, but his orders gave Danzo authority to reorganize the clan forces. Danzo began breaking up the clans’ units, provoking an immediate confrontation at the front-line headquarters.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Danzo a conciliatory letter and urged Umino Sasuke to counterbalance him and help preserve Konoha’s unity.
• Danzo and Umino Sasuke agreed to make Hiruzen share responsibility for restricting the ninja clans.
• Hiruzen judged Danzo a threat and Umino Sasuke a useful ally, then ordered Danzo to reorganize two thousand clan soldiers and Umino Sasuke to resume command of the Iron Wall Legion.
• Danzo announced that the clan soldiers would be registered, divided among mixed units, and placed under headquarters’ command, prompting furious protests from the clan representatives.
• Hyuga Sogen challenged Danzo’s order as a violation of Konoha’s traditions, while Danzo accused the clans of putting their interests above the village.

Umino Sasuke helped Danzo dismantle the front-line clans’ forces and divide their troops between Root and the Iron Wall Legion. As the Leaf Army advanced into the Land of Earth, Stone Ninja guerrilla attacks prompted Umino Sasuke to order a direct strike toward the Daimyo’s Mansion, while Ōnoki sent his forces to target Konoha’s supply lines.

• Umino Sasuke verified the Hokage’s order and backed Danzo, causing Hyuga Sogen and the clan representatives to submit to the reorganization.
• Danzo selected elite clan ninjas for Root, while Umino Sasuke absorbed the remaining troops into the Iron Wall Legion, weakening the clans’ military influence at the front.
• Danzo led the Leaf Army into the Land of Earth, where Stone Ninja ambushed supply lines, scouts, and garrisons using guerrilla tactics.
• Umino Sasuke ordered the Leaf Army to concentrate its forces and advance on the Daimyo’s Mansion, planning to strengthen supply lines with aircraft blades from the Land of Waves.
• Danzo enthusiastically ordered the army to charge toward the Daimyo’s Mansion as it captured cities along the way.
• Ōnoki ordered Stone Ninja squads to avoid direct battle and attack Konoha’s supply lines and key supply nodes.

Konoha surrounded the Land of Earth Daimyo's Mansion and used it as bait to force Ōnoki's Stone Ninja into a rescue mission. Umino Sasuke's forces ambushed Ōnoki's army in a valley, where he, Danzo, and Hatake Sakumo moved to seal the battlefield.

• Umino Sasuke proposed using Konoha's air force to bypass the mountain city's defenses and using the threatened Daimyo's Mansion to draw the Stone Ninja into battle.
• Danzo ordered the Leaf Ninja Army to surround the mountain city with feints while Konoha units seized hidden supplies from the surrounding plains and valleys.
• Ōnoki received urgent pleas for aid and, despite suspecting a trap, gathered fewer than three thousand Stone Ninja to rescue the daimyo.
• A messenger reported that Konoha's air force had airdropped elite ninja onto the summit behind the Daimyo's Mansion, prompting Ōnoki to rush his force forward.
• Ōnoki's army entered a river valley, where concealed Konoha Ninja launched a coordinated ambush with ninjutsu from both slopes.
• Umino Sasuke revealed himself in the air alongside Danzo and Hatake Sakumo as Ōnoki realized that only a little over half his force had entered the trap.