Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Fugaku, Hatake Sakumo, and their allies advanced against Konoha as Kumogakure launched a broad assault across the Land of Fire. Konoha mobilized its forces, while Samui and Mabui prepared to use Yugito’s Tailed Beast Bomb against more than a thousand Konoha ninja trapped on Mount Sambuki.

• Hizashi Hyuga located a Sarutobi squad, and Hatake Sakumo killed two Chunin while Uchiha Fugaku burned Sarutobi Kiyokawa with Amaterasu.
• Hizashi, Fugaku, and Sakumo continued toward Konoha under Lord Yuzuru’s order to push the front line a hundred miles before dawn.
• A and Killer B charged into Konoha’s defenses despite Dodai’s warning, and Dodai ordered the forces behind them to attack.
• Nara Shikaku learned that Konoha’s first northern defensive line had lost contact and assigned Yamanaka Inoichi and Akimichi Chōza to coordinate battlefield support.
• At Mount Sambuki, Mabui proposed that Hyuga ninja locate the surrounded Konoha forces so Yugito could strike them with a Tailed Beast Bomb before Kumogakure attacked.

Kumogakure’s forces captured Mount Sambuki using Yugito’s Tailed Beast Bombs, Byakugan reconnaissance, and wireless communications, while Shikaku struggled to explain Konoha’s defeats. At Kiyoshi Village, Shisui rejected the surrender offer until Itachi proposed luring the defenders out and killing them, leaving Shisui impressed by Itachi’s ruthlessness.

• Yugito and the Hyuga Clan helped Kumogakure’s forces destroy the Konoha resistance and capture Mount Sambuki.
• Shikaku told Inoichi that Kumogakure’s wireless earpieces and the Uchiha’s extraordinary combat strength had made Konoha’s defenses collapse.
• Shikaku ordered Inoichi to contact the Nara Clan members near Kiyoshi Village and tell them to surrender.
• Shisui rejected the surrender and ordered his forces to kill the Konoha ninjas around Kiyoshi Village.
• Itachi persuaded Shisui to accept the surrender as a pretext to draw out and kill the defenders while preserving Kiyoshi Village’s valuable facilities.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō discussed Konoha’s collapsing front and planned to send Minato and Jiraiya as reinforcements. At Kikyo Castle, Shin'nosuke Sarutobi’s forces initially drove back Kumogakure, but the battle was revealed as a trap when the Uchiha Clan appeared and attacked.

• Shimura Danzō told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Kumogakure had inflicted heavy losses and threatened Konoha’s defensive line, so Hiruzen planned to send Minato and Jiraiya to the front.
• At Kikyo Castle, Shin'nosuke Sarutobi learned from a captured Cloud Ninja spy that Kumogakure issued supplies to its ninja, then had the spy removed to prevent him from influencing the troops.
• Kumogakure’s bombardment destroyed Kikyo Castle’s walls, and Shin'nosuke Sarutobi ordered the Konoha Ninja to charge into melee.
• The Konoha Ninja gained the advantage and pursued the retreating Kumogakure forces, unaware that the fighting had drawn them away from the castle.
• Kumogakure’s ninja withdrew to reveal nearly a hundred Uchiha Clan ninja, who unleashed a combined Fire Style attack and charged the Konoha ranks.

Uchiha Yuzuru’s arrival turned the battle into a rout for Konoha, and Minato Namikaze refused Shin'nosuke Sarutobi’s order to attack him. As Shin'nosuke led reinforcements toward the battlefield, the Third Raikage struck him down with a Liger Bomb.

• Uchiha Yuzuru’s hundred-man squad overwhelmed the Konoha Ninja, trapping them between the Uchiha and Kumogakure forces.
• Shin'nosuke Sarutobi tried to retreat, then met Minato Namikaze and urged him to lead reinforcements against the Cloud Ninja and Uchiha.
• Uchiha Yuzuru appeared beside Minato, who agreed not to act as long as Yuzuru stayed out of the battle.
• Shin'nosuke ordered Minato to kill Uchiha Yuzuru, but Minato refused and questioned why Shin'nosuke had abandoned the front.
• Shin'nosuke led the arriving Konoha reinforcements toward the battle, where the Third Raikage attacked him with a Liger Bomb and decapitated him.

The Third Raikage killed Shin'nosuke Sarutobi and devastated Konoha's force at Kikyo Castle while Uchiha Yuzuru prevented Minato Namikaze from intervening. After the surviving Konoha ninja fled, the Third Raikage reported on Kumogakure's victories, and Yuzuru said he had his own plans for Tanzaku Street.

• The Third Raikage killed Shin'nosuke Sarutobi and charged alone into the Konoha Ninja Army, killing ninja despite their combined attacks.
• Minato Namikaze prepared to intervene, but Uchiha Yuzuru threatened to join the battle, so Minato left using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The Third Raikage used Hell Stab: Three-Finger Thrust to rout the Konoha ninja, and the Cloud Ninja pursued the fleeing survivors.
• The Third Raikage told Uchiha Yuzuru that Kumogakure had taken the Temple of Fire and that battles elsewhere were going well.
• Uchiha Yuzuru told the Third Raikage to rest and regroup before the final battle, saying he had his own arrangements for Tanzaku Street.

Nagato, Konan, and Kakuzu attacked Tanzaku Street, where Jiraiya confronted his former students and learned that Yahiko had died at Konoha’s hands. Nagato rejected Jiraiya’s pleas for understanding and prepared to unleash his power on the town.

• Konan reported that more than three thousand Konoha Ninja were stationed in Tanzaku Street, while Kakuzu suggested waiting for the main force.
• Nagato said the three of them would attack alone, blasted a hole through the town wall, and drew out the Konoha Ninja.
• Jiraiya recognized Nagato and Konan and asked what had happened to Yahiko.
• Nagato told Jiraiya that Yahiko had died during the Third Great Ninja War after Shimura Danzō attacked them at Konoha’s camp.
• Nagato condemned the great nations for inflicting war on small nations, rose above Tanzaku Street, and used Shinra Tensei.

Nagato devastated Tanzaku Street with the Rinnegan and fought Jiraiya, who entered Sage Mode to stop him. Nagato overwhelmed Jiraiya and pinned him to the ground with black Chakra rods.

• Nagato unleashed a repulsive force that destroyed Tanzaku Street and killed most of the Konoha Ninja stationed there.
• Jiraiya confronted Nagato over the destruction, but Nagato defended his methods and urged his former teacher not to oppose him.
• Nagato summoned six giant beasts to attack Jiraiya and Gamabunta, while the beasts’ rampage killed more surviving Konoha Ninja.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode, defeated several of Nagato’s summoned beasts, and attacked him with Sage Arts, but Nagato repelled his techniques.
• Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to drag Jiraiya toward him, then pinned Jiraiya to the ground with black Chakra rods.

Nagato nearly killed Jiraiya, but Minato Namikaze rescued him and fought off Nagato’s attack. As Uchiha Yuzuru and the Third Raikage led a massive Cloud Ninja army toward Konoha, Shimura Danzō used Impure World Reincarnation to summon dead Konoha ninja to defend the village.

• Nagato pinned Jiraiya with Chakra Black Rods, but let him go after Minato Namikaze rescued him and blocked Nagato’s attack.
• Nagato, Konan, and Kakuzu left for Konoha after Kakuzu urged them to meet Uchiha Yuzuru.
• Three days later, Uchiha Yuzuru and the Third Raikage ordered nearly forty thousand Cloud Ninja to attack Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō launched Impure World Reincarnation, summoning dead ninja across Konoha and ordering them to fight the invasion.
• The resurrected ninja accepted their mission and charged out of Konoha, proclaiming that the Will of Fire would never be extinguished.

Konoha’s Impure World Reincarnation army initially overwhelmed Kumogakure’s forces, but Uchiha Yuzuru ordered an all-out attack and the Uchiha fighters revealed their Susanoo. Yuzuru’s enormous Susanoo carved through Konoha, leaving its defenders stunned as he declared his return.

• Konoha’s Impure World Reincarnation army regenerated after Kumogakure’s Explosive Tags blew them apart and pushed the Cloud Ninja into a disadvantage.
• Uchiha Yuzuru rejected Dodai’s suggestion to avoid the enemy and ordered Kumogakure’s ninja to fight with everything they had.
• Obito Uchiha summoned a giant Susanoo at Konoha’s eastern gate and destroyed the city wall with Kamui: Shuriken.
• Shisui Uchiha used Kotoamatsukami to turn several dozen Impure World Reincarnation bodies against their allies, then attacked with his Susanoo as Kumogakure’s ninja sealed the bodies.
• Uchiha Fugaku’s Susanoo wielded an Amaterasu-coated sword to destroy the Impure World Reincarnation bodies and the southern gate.
• Uchiha Yuzuru summoned a Susanoo over five hundred meters tall, cut a deep scar through Konoha, crushed the northern gate, and declared that Konoha’s king had returned.

Uchiha Yuzuru surrounded Konoha’s forces with his allies and four Susanoo, then countered Shimura Danzō’s attempt to summon the First and Second Hokage by summoning Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju himself. The brothers awakened as Impure World Reincarnations and began assessing their situation.

• Shimura Danzō ordered Konoha’s shinobi and the remaining Impure World Reincarnation shinobi to form a defensive formation as Kumogakure’s forces surrounded them.
• Uchiha Yuzuru confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, while Hiruzen tried to provoke the Third Raikage into distrusting Yuzuru.
• Shimura Danzō attempted to use Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, but his coffins stopped rising.
• Uchiha Yuzuru summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju before Shimura Danzō could complete the jutsu.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju awakened, and Tobirama explained that someone else had summoned them after they had died.

Uchiha Yuzuru summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to judge Konoha’s leadership and explain why the Uchiha Clan had left the village. He presented former and current villagers who had been mistreated, then revealed that the Uzumaki Clan had been nearly wiped out.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju realized they had been summoned to a ruined Konoha, and Tobirama asked Hiruzen Sarutobi what had happened.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi identified Uchiha Yuzuru as the one who used the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and Tobirama accused him of betraying Konoha before Uchiha Yuzuru pinned him down with Black Rods.
• Hashirama Senju asked why Uchiha Yuzuru had left Konoha, and Uchiha Yuzuru said the Uchiha Clan had been driven out by the Hokage faction and intended to establish a new order.
• Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen Sarutobi called Uchiha Yuzuru a rogue ninja, but Uchiha Yuzuru said Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju had been summoned as judges, not fighters.
• Uchiha Yuzuru introduced several people he said had been mistreated by Konoha’s leaders, including the Hyuga Clan head, Hatake Sakumo, Orochimaru, and the last known heir of the Uzumaki Clan.
• Hashirama Senju asked about the Uzumaki Clan, and Uchiha Yuzuru explained that the Land of Whirlpools had been destroyed and fewer than a handful of its members remained.

Uchiha Yuzuru accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of abandoning the Uzumaki Clan and revealed Tsunade’s claims that the Senju Clan had been wiped out through suspicious wartime deaths. Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju turned against Hiruzen as Konoha’s ninja hesitated, leaving the village’s legitimacy in doubt.

• Uchiha Yuzuru accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of letting the Land of Whirlpools fall so Konoha could take the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu, and Hiruzen could not answer his accusations.
• Uchiha Yuzuru brought Tsunade before Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, and Tsunade freed Tobirama from the Black Rod and greeted them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Konoha Ninja to attack, but they hesitated while surrounded by Susanoo, Summoning Beasts, Tailed Beasts, and Kumogakure ninja.
• Tsunade told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju that the Senju Clan had died out after its members were sent to the front lines and its property was seized.
• Tobirama Senju looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with killing intent, while Uchiha Yuzuru declared that the Uchiha, Senju, Hyuga, and Uzumaki Clans stood with him.

Uchiha Yuzuru exposed Konoha’s use of living people as sacrifices for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, turning the villagers against Hiruzen Sarutobi. Orochimaru then claimed that Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, and the other leaders had tacitly approved his human experiments.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended Konoha’s actions and called the allied clans traitors, while Shimura Danzō stayed silent under Tobirama Senju’s gaze.
• Uchiha Yuzuru had Might Duy bring forward the sealed Impure World Reincarnation ninjas and asked Tobirama Senju to explain the forbidden technique’s requirements.
• Tobirama Senju revealed that the technique required living sacrifices, and Konoha ninjas recognized their missing friends and relatives among the bodies.
• Uchiha Yuzuru challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi over sacrificing ordinary ninjas while sparing the leaders’ clans, leaving Hiruzen unable to defend himself.
• Orochimaru admitted to conducting human experiments on Konoha ninjas and said Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, and the others had tacitly approved them.

Orochimaru exposed Konoha’s leaders for using people, including clan members and orphans, in human experiments, while Uchiha Yuzuru revealed the Sharingan embedded in Shimura Danzō’s severed arm. With Konoha’s clans and civilian ninjas surrendering to him, Yuzuru captured the four leaders and began a public judgment of their crimes.

• Orochimaru presented evidence of human experimentation and said Konoha’s orphans had been kept as reserves for it.
• Uchiha Yuzuru swiftly cut off Shimura Danzō’s arm and revealed nine three-tomoe Sharingan embedded in it.
• Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Chōza, Yamanaka Inoichi, the other clan heads, and Konoha’s civilian ninjas surrendered to Uchiha Yuzuru.
• Uchiha Yuzuru ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura bound after their Chakra was sealed.
• Uchiha Yuzuru placed the four captives on a platform and announced that he would publicly judge their crimes.

Uchiha Yuzuru publicly accused Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu of five crimes, turning Konoha and Kumogakure against the disgraced leaders. He left the crowd acknowledging Konoha’s betrayal of the Land of Whirlpools, while Kushina Uzumaki wept.

• Uchiha Yuzuru began listing the leaders’ crimes, and Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju struggled with the disgrace of their former student and Hokage.
• Uchiha Yuzuru accused the four leaders of avoiding battle and letting Konoha decline from the Shinobi World’s strongest village.
• Uchiha Yuzuru condemned them for persecuting and driving out powerful clans, including the Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga.
• Uchiha Yuzuru accused the leaders of exploiting village and clan assets for their own families, prompting Konoha’s ninja clans to cheer.
• Uchiha Yuzuru blamed them for abandoning the Land of Whirlpools, and Konoha’s ninjas regretted the betrayal as Kushina Uzumaki cried.

Uchiha Yuzuru listed Hiruzen Sarutobi and his allies’ crimes, exposing their oppression, disastrous rule, and mass killings to Konoha’s people. The crowd’s fury grew as their accusations reached the tenth crime, while Uchiha Yuzuru continued to hold order.

• Uchiha Yuzuru condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi’s leadership for yielding to outsiders while punishing Konoha’s own people, and the crowd shouted for the accused to die.
• Uchiha Yuzuru accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of crushing the people with taxes, and Tsunade confirmed that the Land of Fire was suffering starvation and horrific poverty.
• Tobirama Senju condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi after hearing Tsunade’s account, while Shimura Danzō privately blamed Tobirama for not choosing him as Hokage.
• Uchiha Yuzuru accused Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others of suppressing capable people and driving Konoha’s powerful figures away.
• Uchiha Yuzuru condemned them for human experiments and sacrificing forty thousand people to cast the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Uchiha Yuzuru accused Hiruzen Sarutobi and his allies of using the Will of Fire to manipulate people while pretending to be benevolent.

Uchiha Yuzuru executed Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Shimura Danzō, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, punishing them by stripping away their reputations and legacy. He declared Konoha under Uchiha rule and said the village would be set right.

• Uchiha Yuzuru beheaded Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura after they begged for mercy.
• Uchiha Yuzuru confronted Shimura Danzō, removed his hidden Sharingan, and vowed to erase his identity and title as Hokage.
• Uchiha Yuzuru destroyed Shimura Danzō's Kage Rock with a Rasenshuriken and killed him.
• Uchiha Yuzuru told Hiruzen Sarutobi he would strip him of the Hokage title and preserve his story in textbooks as a warning.
• Uchiha Yuzuru killed Hiruzen Sarutobi and declared that Konoha would return to the Uchiha Clan.

After Uchiha Yuzuru killed Konoha’s four leaders, he organized the occupation and reconstruction of the Land of Fire while keeping Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju under his control. He argued that Hashirama’s founding policies had been naïve, and Tobirama agreed that war had followed soon after Hashirama’s death.

• The crowd celebrated the deaths of Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, and Uchiha Yuzuru ordered their bodies displayed at the village entrance.
• Uchiha Yuzuru refused Tobirama Senju’s demand to release the Impure World Reincarnation and compelled Hashirama Senju to raise a wooden tower.
• Uchiha Yuzuru assigned Uchiha Fugaku, the Third Raikage, Sakumo, Kakashi, Obito, Shisui, and Nagato to secure clans, control Konoha, expand into the Land of Fire, and begin reconstruction.
• Uchiha Yuzuru said civilians from the Land of Lightning could settle in the devastated Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Yuzuru criticized Hashirama Senju for not unifying the Shinobi World and for distributing the Tailed Beasts, and Tobirama Senju agreed that a major war had followed Hashirama’s death.

Uchiha Yuzuru criticized Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju for the flaws in their leadership and presented his plan to unify the Shinobi World. He said he would become an immortal power beyond the Sage of Six Paths by becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, then explained that the Ten-Tails was formed from all nine Tailed Beasts.

• Uchiha Yuzuru rebuked Hashirama Senju for giving away the Tailed Beasts and failing to prevent later wars.
• Uchiha Yuzuru criticized Tobirama Senju for worsening village divisions, bypassing the Jonin voting system, and training Hiruzen Sarutobi and his associates.
• Uchiha Yuzuru outlined a unified Shinobi World with centralized resources and standardized systems.
• Tobirama Senju questioned how Uchiha Yuzuru could ensure his systems survived future rulers, and Uchiha Yuzuru declared he would become an immortal existence beyond the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Yuzuru said he would become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and explained that the Sage of Six Paths had divided the Ten-Tails into the nine Tailed Beasts.

Uchiha Yuzuru revealed how Uchiha Madara survived his apparent death and explained the Moon Eye Plan to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju. Half a month later, as Konoha was being rebuilt, Uchiha Fugaku delivered the investigation results about four shinobi clans, and Yuzuru prepared to begin the next step of his plan.

• Uchiha Yuzuru told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju that Uchiha Madara had survived the Valley of the End using Izanagi.
• Uchiha Yuzuru explained that Madara obtained Hashirama's cells, awakened the Rinnegan, summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and pursued the Moon Eye Plan.
• Tobirama Senju apologized for his hostility toward the Uchiha Clan, and Uchiha Yuzuru told the Senju brothers to speak with Tsunade.
• Half a month later, Nagato, Hashirama Senju, Dodai, Mabui, and others helped rebuild Konoha.
• Uchiha Fugaku gave Uchiha Yuzuru the investigation results about four shinobi clans, and Yuzuru decided it was time to proceed with his plan.