Chapter Summaries

Sasori completed a hundred Human Puppets and tried to drive off Uchiha Yuzuru and Orochimaru, who had come to recruit him for their research. After Orochimaru destroyed Hiruko and exposed Sasori inside, Sasori declared his own Eternal Art and summoned the Third Kazekage as a Human Puppet.

• Sasori finished a hundred Human Puppets, hid his equipment, and concealed himself inside Hiruko when a subordinate warned him that intruders had killed their men.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Yuzuru arrived at Sasori’s cave and challenged Hiruko, which resisted their attacks with its hidden mechanisms.
• Orochimaru faked defeat, slipped underground, and shattered Hiruko’s head with the Kusanagi Sword, revealing Sasori inside.
• Sasori rejected Orochimaru and Uchiha Yuzuru’s research proposal and threatened to kill them if they did not leave.
• Sasori opened a sealing scroll and revealed the Third Kazekage as his Human Puppet.

Orochimaru fought Sasori and destroyed his puppets, but Sasori survived by using his own puppet body. Uchiha Yuzuru defeated Sasori and summoned Sasori’s parents with Impure World Reincarnation, leaving Sasori stunned.

• Orochimaru battled Sasori’s Third Kazekage puppet, using the Eight Branches Technique to overpower it before Sasori revealed his own puppet body and summoned a hundred puppets.
• Uchiha Yuzuru stopped Orochimaru from continuing the fight and destroyed Sasori’s puppets by filling their joints with sand.
• Uchiha Yuzuru cut Sasori apart, took his Regeneration Core, and asked him to become a subordinate.
• Uchiha Yuzuru used Impure World Reincarnation to bring back Sasori’s father and mother, and Sasori recognized them in shock.

Uchiha Yuzuru summoned Sasori’s parents, Yuji and Mizuki, from the Pure Land, allowing them to reunite with their son after decades apart. Sasori told them how their deaths shaped his life and revealed that he had killed the Third Kazekage, leaving his parents worried about what followed.

• Yuji and Mizuki awoke after Uchiha Yuzuru summoned them and recognized Orochimaru as an enemy from the Second Shinobi World War.
• Uchiha Yuzuru explained that decades had passed and that he had used the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon them.
• Yuji and Mizuki realized the boy before them was their son Sasori, and the family embraced after Sasori confirmed his identity.
• Yuji noticed Sasori’s puppet body, and Sasori revealed that he had transformed himself into a Human Puppet and become a Rogue Ninja of Sunagakure.
• Sasori recounted how he made puppets resembling his parents after their deaths and later secretly killed the Third Kazekage to create a Human Puppet.
• Mizuki asked whether Sunagakure had pursued Sasori after he killed the Third Kazekage, and Sasori said it would have if the news had been exposed.

Sasori agreed to become Uchiha Yuzuru’s subordinate after his parents urged him to choose survival over facing Sunagakure alone. Yuzuru assigned him to work with Orochimaru on developing immortality, while Yuji and Mizuki were allowed to remain with their son indefinitely.

• Yuji and Mizuki told Sasori they supported his choices and only wanted him to live well.
• Uchiha Yuzuru offered Sasori safety in exchange for becoming his subordinate, and Sasori admitted he could not defeat Yuzuru.
• Yuji and Mizuki encouraged Sasori to accept the offer, and Sasori agreed after Yuzuru promised to support his puppet research.
• Uchiha Yuzuru ordered Sasori and Orochimaru to combine their techniques and develop a method of immortality.
• Uchiha Yuzuru allowed Yuji and Mizuki to stay with Sasori, then vanished using Kamui.
• Sasori flew toward Konoha with his parents, while Orochimaru resolved to prove himself Yuzuru’s most capable subordinate.

Uchiha Yuzuru evolved the Kaguya Clan’s Shikotsumyaku, completing his Sage Body and gaining immense physical strength, then drew a trait that strengthened every clan member’s weaker abilities. The Uchiha Clan felt the new power and eagerly awaited a chance to fight other nations.

• The system told Uchiha Yuzuru that his family population had reached 50,000, granting him another bloodline evolution attempt.
• Uchiha Yuzuru went to the Kamui Dimension and chose to evolve the Shikotsumyaku, completing his Sage Body and gaining powerful, durable bones.
• Uchiha Yuzuru tested his new bone spike on White Zetsu and found that the Kusanagi Sword could not scratch it, though it had not yet reached the power of All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Uchiha Yuzuru drew the All-Round Development clan trait, which raised each clan member’s weaker abilities to the level of their strongest field.
• Uchiha Clan members felt their strength increase and urged Uchiha Yuzuru to attack other nations.

Uchiha Yuzuru accepted Kurenai Yuhi’s invitation to watch Ichiraku Ramen’s Big Eater competition, where a crowd of familiar faces gathered to compete and place bets. Yuzuru bet on Hinata Hyuga and promised Kurenai that they would spend his winnings at a hot spring.

• Uchiha Yuzuru walked through snowy Konoha with Kurenai Yuhi after agreeing to attend Ichiraku Ramen’s Big Eater event with her.
• Might Guy brought Kakashi Hatake into the restaurant to compete, followed by Obito Uchiha, other familiar ninja, and several younger characters.
• Neji Hyuga urged Hinata Hyuga to compete, while Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno arrived and argued.
• Akimichi Chōza and Choji Akimichi drew attention as likely favorites, and the spectators began betting on the winner.
• Uchiha Yuzuru bet on Hinata Hyuga and told Kurenai Yuhi he would take her to a hot spring if he won.

Hyuga Hinata won the first Ichiraku Ramen Big Eater Contest after eating forty-six bowls of extra-large ramen, while Uchiha Yuzuru collected his winnings. After the crowd celebrated, Yuzuru invited Kurenai Yuhi to soak in the hot springs with him.

• Uchiha Jiexian invited Kurenai Yuhi to soak in the hot springs, and she bashfully accepted.
• Teuchi started the two-hour Ichiraku Ramen Big Eater Competition, with a lifetime half-price discount for the winner.
• Might Guy, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake dropped out as the contestants dwindled to Hyuga Hinata and Akimichi Chōza.
• Akimichi Chōza stopped after forty-five bowls, and Hyuga Hinata finished her forty-sixth bowl to win the contest.
• Teuchi announced Hinata as champion and made all ramen half price for the day, while Uchiha Yuzuru collected his betting winnings and invited Kurenai Yuhi to the hot springs.

Uchiha Yuzuru spent time with Kurenai Yuhi, while Mitarashi Anko realized he had once disguised himself as the man who stole her dango. Back at the clan grounds, Yuzuru told Pakura he planned to attack the Land of Wind, giving her a chance to take revenge on Rasa.

• Ayame teased Kurenai Yuhi about being on a date with Uchiha Yuzuru, and Yuzuru took Kurenai to a hot spring.
• Mitarashi Anko recognized Yuzuru’s disguise as the pervert who had stolen her dango and felt mortified.
• The next morning, Yuzuru told Kurenai Yuhi he would explain things to Senior Shinku, and Kurenai left using the Body Flicker Technique.
• At the clan grounds, Yuzuru learned Tsunade had been summoned to the Hokage’s office and told Pakura he would target the Land of Wind.
• Pakura understood that Yuzuru intended to help her take revenge on Rasa and thanked him.

Uchiha Yuzuru led a fifty-thousand-strong Lightning-Fire Allied Forces campaign into the Land of Wind, beginning with the capture of the Alfalfa Gold Mine in the Land of Rivers. The victory was swift, but Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga learned that a child had used a power that countered the Byakugan.

• Uchiha Yuzuru organized the allied army into five formations and a surprise attack unit, then ordered the troops to kill for peace in the Shinobi World.
• Orochimaru sent Hyuga Hiashi to take the Alfalfa Gold Mine from the Black Shovel Clan.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga led the assault, and the allied forces captured the mine after defeating the clan with few casualties.
• A squad reported that it had been ambushed in the west and rescued by Minato Namikaze.
• The squad identified the child it had captured as the source of a power that countered the Byakugan, startling Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga.

Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga discovered that Ranmaru’s Red Eye could evade the Byakugan, and Uchiha Yuzuru invited him to live in Konoha. Ranmaru asked to bring Granny Sansho, then told her that her son Rokusuke had died and offered to care for her in Konoha.

• Hyuga Hiashi questioned Ranmaru, who explained that his Red Eye could see through objects, sense power and danger, create illusions, and block the Byakugan.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga confirmed that Ranmaru vanished from their Byakugan vision, but chose not to harm him because they feared Uchiha Yuzuru’s reaction.
• Uchiha Yuzuru invited Ranmaru to live in Konoha and used genjutsu to show him the lives of its residents.
• Ranmaru asked Uchiha Yuzuru if he could bring Granny Sansho with him, and Yuzuru agreed.
• Ranmaru told Granny Sansho that the Black Shovel Clan had been wiped out and that her son Rokusuke had been killed while trying to flee.
• Ranmaru promised to care for Granny Sansho and introduced her to Uchiha Yuzuru, who would take them to live in Konoha.

Uchiha Yuzuru tasted Granny Sansho’s fiery Curry of Life, then returned to the battlefield headquarters and learned that the Tsuchigumo Clan had disappeared from Mount Katsuragi. Interested in their Heavenly Wrath technique, he ordered Uchiha Fugaku to find the clan’s descendants and bring them to Konoha.

• Granny Sansho served Uchiha Yuzuru extra-spicy Curry of Life, and he struggled through the heat before leaving with Kamui.
• Granny Sansho told Ranmaru they would begin a new life together, and Ranmaru agreed.
• Uchiha Fugaku reported that Konoha’s forces had occupied several small countries and described the Tsuchigumo Clan’s broken protection agreement with Konoha.
• Uchiha Yuzuru ordered Uchiha Fugaku to search for the Tsuchigumo Clan’s descendants and bring them back to Konoha.

After learning that Victor of the Kara Organization was behind the fighting in the Land of Valleys, Uchiha Yuzuru went to investigate and encountered Boro attacking Konoha forces. Yuzuru saved Shinsuke and the others from Boro’s explosion and prepared to face him himself.

• A Yamanaka Clan ninja reported that the Fuma Clan forces in the Land of Valleys had been eliminated, but their leader Victor remained missing.
• Uchiha Yuzuru recognized Victor as a Kara Organization member and used Kamui to travel to the Land of Valleys.
• Shinsuke told Uchiha Yuzuru that the Konoha forces had found no useful intelligence in Victor’s company headquarters.
• Boro emerged from the building, killed Konoha Ninja, and overwhelmed Shinsuke’s squad with his regenerative body and explosive attack.
• Uchiha Yuzuru shielded Shinsuke and the surviving Konoha Ninja from Boro’s explosion, then told them he would handle the fight.

Uchiha Yuzuru defeated Boro and sent him to the Kamui Dimension, then considered the threat posed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. At the Kara Organization’s meeting, Jigen reprimanded Victor and ordered the Inner Circle to stay hidden.

• Shinsuke and the others left Uchiha Yuzuru to face Boro alone.
• Boro repeatedly attacked Uchiha Yuzuru, but his strikes, poison, and explosives failed to harm him.
• Uchiha Yuzuru pierced Boro with a Susanoo blade and sent him into the Kamui Dimension.
• Uchiha Yuzuru considered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s limited time in Jigen’s body, then vanished using Kamui.
• Jigen demanded to know why Victor had organized resistance against Uchiha Yuzuru, and Victor blamed Boro for acting on his own.
• Jigen warned the Kara Organization’s Inner Circle to remain hidden while they searched for a perfect reincarnation vessel.

Uchiha Yuzuru learned that Kagerō Village had planted Explosive Tags beneath Konoha and ordered Gen'yō interrogated for their locations. Meanwhile, Rasa prepared Sunagakure for war as Konoha’s forces approached the Land of Wind.

• Uchiha Yuzuru told Pakura that Konoha had occupied several countries and would soon open the way to the Land of Wind, giving her a chance to take revenge on Rasa.
• Nara Shikaku reported that Gen'yō had planted Explosive Tags throughout Konoha, and Uchiha Yuzuru ordered him handed to Morino Ibiki for questioning.
• After Nara Shikaku left, Uchiha Yuzuru told Pakura that Konoha would soon occupy the Land of Mountain and then advance on the Land of Wind.
• Rasa learned that Konoha had seized the surrounding countries and ordered Sunagakure to seek aid from Iwagakure and gather its ninja at the Eastern Great Sand Dunes.
• Chiyo and Sunagakure's other leaders supported Rasa's decision to fight Konoha.

Ōnoki planned to ambush the Third Raikage’s force in the Land of Birds while publicly claiming Iwagakure would support Sunagakure. The Third Raikage led Kumogakure’s elite there after receiving Yuzuru’s permission to fight freely, and his troops prepared for battle.

• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi he would secretly move Iwagakure forces into the Land of Birds and use an ambush to eliminate the Third Raikage and Kumogakure’s leaders.
• The Third Raikage ordered A, Killer B, and Kumogakure’s fighters to prepare for a surprise attack on the Land of Birds, despite Dodai’s warning that Ōnoki might be setting a trap.
• A Kumogakure Anbu delivered Yuzuru’s message, which told the Third Raikage to fight to his heart’s content.
• After more than ten days of travel, the Third Raikage arrived in the Land of Birds with A, Killer B, and more than a thousand elite ninja, then ordered them to rest before the expected battle.

Ōnoki’s Iwagakure forces surrounded the Third Raikage and his Kumogakure troops, but the Cloud ninja fought far better than expected. Ōnoki discovered that most of the surviving Kumogakure fighters were Uchiha, leaving him struggling to explain their strength.

• The Third Raikage rejected Ōnoki’s offer to surrender, and the Iwagakure ninja attacked his surrounded force.
• The Third Raikage and A charged through the Stone Ninja ranks while the Kumogakure troops fought on despite being vastly outnumbered.
• Killer B released Gyuki, but Kokuō intervened and fought him away from the human battle.
• After an hour, Ōnoki saw that more than eight hundred Kumogakure ninja remained alive and that Iwagakure had suffered massive casualties.
• Ōnoki recognized Uchiha clan crests among the survivors and privately doubted that so many Uchiha could truly be Kage-level fighters.

The Third Raikage and hundreds of Uchiha ninja overwhelmed Iwagakure’s forces, but Ōnoki shifted his Dust Release attacks onto them and forced the Kumogakure fighters to scatter. As the battle dragged on and most of his allies grew exhausted, the Third Raikage struggled to protect them while Ōnoki predicted their deaths and warned that Uchiha Yuzuru would blame him.

• The Third Raikage and more than eight hundred Uchiha ninja slaughtered Iwagakure’s forces despite being heavily outnumbered.
• Ōnoki attacked the Third Raikage with Dust Release, but the Raikage dodged each strike.
• Ōnoki targeted the clustered Uchiha ninja and killed two with Dust Release.
• The Third Raikage ordered the Kumogakure ninja to scatter among Iwagakure’s ranks, weakening their coordination and making them easier to isolate.
• After another half hour, most Kumogakure ninja were exhausted, and the Third Raikage charged through the enemy ranks but could not relieve their pressure.
• Ōnoki called the Third Raikage Kumogakure’s sinner and warned that Uchiha Yuzuru would not forgive him for the Uchiha casualties.

Minato Namikaze and Kakuzu arrived with five hundred reinforcements, turning the battle against Iwagakure and forcing Ōnoki to order a retreat. As Kumogakure pursued the fleeing forces, Nagato confronted Ōnoki and absorbed his Dust Release, leaving the Tsuchikage fearing for his life.

• The Third Raikage called for Yuzuru's backup as the golden, Nine-Tails-cloaked Minato and Kakuzu arrived and cut down Iwagakure's ninja.
• Minato told the Third Raikage he had brought around five hundred carefully selected Elite Ninja, and the Kumogakure forces regrouped.
• Ōnoki recognized Minato and Kakuzu, judged the battle unwinnable, and ordered most of Iwagakure's forces to retreat while the First Army covered them.
• The Third Raikage, Minato, and Kakuzu led Kumogakure in a fierce attack on the First Army left behind to protect the retreat.
• Ōnoki prepared a Dust Release attack from the air, but Nagato blocked him, pulled him close with Banshō Ten'in, and absorbed his Dust Release with the Absorption Seal.
• Ōnoki realized Nagato could fly and counter his strongest technique, and feared he would die if he could not find a way out.

Nagato and the Third Raikage’s forces defeated Iwagakure’s retreating army after Deidara’s explosive attack shattered the Stone Ninjas’ formation. Ōnoki and Deidara escaped, but Deidara questioned why Iwagakure kept opposing Uchiha Yuzuru.

• Nagato repelled Ōnoki’s attack with Shinra Tensei and prepared to finish him.
• Deidara arrived on a clay bird and bombed the battlefield, striking both Kumogakure and Iwagakure ninjas.
• Deidara launched C3: Number 18, and Nagato used Chibaku Tensei while Minato Namikaze protected the allied ninjas with Nine-Tails Chakra Cloaks.
• The explosion and falling rocks broke Iwagakure’s formation, and the Third Raikage ordered Kumogakure’s forces to pursue the fleeing Stone Ninjas.
• Nagato’s laser cannon damaged Deidara’s bird, but Ōnoki and Deidara escaped as the remaining Stone Ninjas were wiped out.
• Deidara told Ōnoki that he would serve as Uchiha Yuzuru’s vanguard if Yuzuru acknowledged his art, while Ōnoki insisted he could not let Iwagakure be annexed.

After Kumogakure defeated Iwagakure, Minato Namikaze escorted the captured Han and Kitsuchi to Uchiha Yuzuru in the Land of Wind. As Sunagakure continued to lose ground to Konoha, Kitsuchi reflected on how differently events might have gone if he had accepted Yuzuru’s offer years earlier.

• Kumogakure reported nearly ten thousand Iwagakure casualties and more than five hundred of its own, and the Third Raikage ordered compensation for the fallen.
• A revealed that Kumogakure had captured Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and Kitsuchi, Ōnoki’s son.
• The Third Raikage sent Minato Namikaze, Nagato, and the surprise attack unit to escort the prisoners to Yuzuru while he watched Ōnoki’s movements.
• Rasa and Chiyo watched Sunagakure retreat before Konoha and argued over past decisions as Rasa prepared to release the monsters in the Demon Desert.
• Uchiha Yuzuru greeted Kitsuchi at the Konoha camp, and Kitsuchi regretted rejecting Yuzuru’s overture when they had met years earlier.