Chapter Summaries

Yuhara fought Shimura Danzō during the Uchiha calamity, using Sage Mode and his knowledge of Danzō’s techniques to overcome repeated Izanagi resurrections. After Danzō exhausted his three Sharingan and made a final attempt to destroy the surrounding ninja, Yuhara prepared to finish him.

• Yuhara judged that Danzō lacked the First Hokage Cells and other enhancements he had in his memories, then fought him while Danzō amplified his Wind Release through Baku.
• Yuhara blocked Danzō’s attacks with Senjutsu, killed him, and discovered that Danzō had revived through Izanagi.
• Yuhara killed Danzō again and again, but Danzō’s three Sharingan allowed him to return, while Yuhara adapted to his attacks and protected the spectators.
• Danzō used a Binding Curse Technique and tried to activate the Four Symbols Seal, but Yuhara countered his traps and cut off his arm.
• Yuhara impaled Danzō with a lightning-charged attack, then used a giant armored construct to strike him skyward as Danzō’s final gambit failed.

After killing Shimura Danzō, Yuhara explained the night’s two rebellions and accepted temporary custody while Konoha investigated. Elsewhere, Orochimaru battled the Eighth Hokage at Ryūchi Cave, and the Hokage reconsidered his approach to preserving his body and spirit.

• Yuhara told the gathered Konoha Ninjas that the Uchiha rebellion had been contained by Uchiha Shisui’s faction and accused Shimura Danzō of conspiring to frame him and betray the Eighth Hokage.
• Yuhara accepted responsibility for killing Danzō and others without authorization, and Kushina arranged for Kakashi to escort him to house arrest in the archive room.
• Konoha’s leaders ordered searches for the missing Eighth Hokage and sent support to Shisui’s faction in the Uchiha Residential Area.
• At Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru told the Eighth Hokage that his regenerative body would let him outlast the aging Hokage, while the Hokage recognized that Orochimaru’s talk of spirit had reminded him of its importance.
• The Eighth Hokage decided that modifying his own body was preferable to transferring into another, and Naruto asked about the dish called lion’s head.

Kushina Uzumaki took charge of the aftermath of the Uchiha massacre as Kakashi reported the clan’s near-total destruction and the deaths and defections of its key figures. Yuhara had awakened and decided Konoha could not be his home, while the village prepared a public account of the massacre and moved to contain Danzō’s remaining forces.

• Kakashi found a dead Uchiha shinobi, then witnessed the corpse rise and reveal Itachi Uchiha through a genjutsu.
• Kushina Uzumaki ordered Aburame Shibi to bury the dead and destroy their Sharingan, then learned that only a little over seventy Uchiha clan members remained in total.
• Kakashi reported that Shisui Uchiha was dead, Itachi Uchiha had fled, and Shimura Danzō had been killed during the night’s disturbances.
• Kushina Uzumaki assigned Kakashi and the Eight Direct Anbu Squads to restrain Shimura Danzō’s subordinates.
• Kushina Uzumaki set out the village’s account of the massacre, placing responsibility on Danzō and describing Itachi Uchiha as the one who slaughtered both Uchiha factions before defecting.
• Yuhara awakened, rejected any remaining attachment to Konoha, and resolved to seek a new Konoha.

The Eighth Hokage used the Reaper Death Seal against Orochimaru, who escaped its first effect by shedding his body and emerging as a younger duplicate. The Hokage then seized Orochimaru and completed the seal at the cost of his own life, leaving Enma to carry his final instructions back to Konoha.

• The Eighth Hokage prepared the Reaper Death Seal as Orochimaru sensed his resolve and moved to attack.
• Orochimaru recognized the Shinigami summoned by the technique and tried to cut the Hokage's arms with a sword, but Enma caught the blade.
• Orochimaru shed his failing body and emerged from a milky-white egg as a younger duplicate, while the Eighth Hokage briefly lost consciousness.
• The Eighth Hokage seized Orochimaru and used his remaining Chakra to pull the duplicate's spiritual body away, completing the seal despite Orochimaru's escape from its first effect.
• The Eighth Hokage died beside Orochimaru's grotesque corpse, and Enma carried his body away before stopping to face the surviving Orochimaru.

Tenzo found Tsunade in a casino and told her that Konoha wanted her to succeed the Third Hokage as Seventh Hokage. Tsunade refused to return, but Shizune agreed to remain Tenzo’s point of contact as he continued his mission.

• Tenzo searched for Tsunade in the Land of Iron, unaware that Konoha had suffered major upheavals and that Kakashi and Yuhara had returned to the village.
• Tenzo spotted Tsunade gambling and told Shizune that the Third Hokage had summoned her to return and become Seventh Hokage.
• Tsunade refused the position, and Shizune told Tenzo she would relay important messages while asking him to leave Tsunade alone.
• Tenzo asked Shizune for an emergency means of contact, and she agreed to keep a line open with him.
• The next day, Tenzo searched another underground casino and spotted Tsunade again.

Yuhara and Tigo considered how Orochimaru could have survived the Third Hokage’s Reaper Death Seal, while Konoha tried to piece together Danzō’s failed coup. With the Third Hokage dead and Danzō gone, Konoha faced an uncertain future, and Yuhara chose not to pursue the possibility of two Orochimaru existing at once.

• Enma’s testimony helped Konoha reconstruct how Danzō had brought Orochimaru into the village, stirred unrest, and tried to seize power before being killed by Yuhara.
• Yuhara and Tigo questioned why Orochimaru had killed the Third Hokage and how another Orochimaru could remain after the Hokage had sealed one.
• Yuhara considered whether Orochimaru had divided or transformed himself like a Tailed Beast, leaving a portion of his energy body behind to enable his resurrection.
• Yuhara concluded that Orochimaru remained dangerous regardless of how he survived, and decided against pursuing the possibility of reviving a second Orochimaru.
• The Third Hokage’s death left Konoha without its leader, while the investigation into Sarutobi Shinsuke’s death lost urgency because the suspected killers were already dead.

After returning to Konoha, Tenzo was assigned to verify and account for the Sharingan recovered from the dead, while Kushina led a meeting on the Hokage succession, Uchiha reintegration, and Yuhara’s punishment. The meeting ended with Kushina deciding to exile Yuhara to establish a Konoha base elsewhere in the Land of Fire, while Konoha planned to persuade Tsunade to return.

• Tenzo returned to Konoha and learned that Yuhara and Kakashi had been urgently summoned back, then Kushina assigned him to oversee the examination and cremation of the corpses.
• Tenzo and two Uchiha clansmen examined the dead and recorded their identities, confirming that many Sharingan were missing or damaged.
• Kushina told the assembled leaders that Tsunade was the preferred next Hokage and said Jiraiya had been summoned to help persuade her to return.
• Kushina called for the remaining Uchiha to be treated as victims of the conflict and for Konoha to work toward their reintegration.
• Kushina argued that Yuhara needed a meaningful punishment despite his actions being effective, then decided to exile him and have him establish a Ninja base elsewhere in the Land of Fire.

After Jiraiya failed to persuade Tsunade to return, Yuhara proposed declaring her Hokage while a council governed Konoha, and Kushina considered the plan. Yuhara then left Konoha with Tenzo and fewer than thirty Ninja to establish a new stronghold.

• Jiraiya found Tsunade, but she refused to return to Konoha and beat him, so he resorted to pestering her.
• Yuhara told Kushina he would leave Konoha and accept responsibility for the deaths of the two advisors.
• Yuhara suggested that Konoha declare Tsunade the Fifth Hokage and create an advisory council to govern in her absence; Kushina saw that the plan could work.
• Tenzo confirmed to Kakashi that he would leave with Yuhara to help establish a new stronghold.
• Three days later, Yuhara, Tenzo, Kinoshita Tadashi, and fewer than thirty Ninja gathered at Konoha's gates, and Yuhara ordered them to set out.

Yuhara led a group of ninjas to establish the Shadow Leaf Stronghold, assigning Tenzo to build a row of houses while Tigo moved her puppet body there. In Konoha, Kushina approved requests from ninjas who wanted to join Yuhara, and Tsunade learned she had been chosen as the Fifth Hokage before punching Jiraiya into a fireworks shop.

• Yuhara named the mountain Shadow Leaf Mountain and organized the ninjas to carve a cliff and level a platform for a new stronghold.
• Yuhara ordered Tenzo to build one hundred houses along the cliff, and Tigo replenished Tenzo's Chakra after he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tigo said she had left an ordinary puppet in Konoha and moved her original-body puppet to the stronghold.
• Kushina approved civilian ninjas' applications to support Yuhara and received a request from Hizashi Hyuga to bring Hyuga Neji to him.
• Tsunade heard that Konoha had chosen her as the Fifth Hokage, confronted Jiraiya, and punched him through a fireworks shop, setting it ablaze.

Yuhara obtained Konoha’s detailed records on the Land of Fire daimyo’s family and sent Tenzo to raid bounty stations for funds while preparing to exploit political loopholes. Tsunade returned to Konoha and confronted its leadership over being named the next Hokage, while Sarah arrived at Yuhara’s stronghold after spotting the giant trees.

• Loulan Remnants spotted two enormous trees near Nameless Mountain and reported them to Sarah.
• Yuhara asked Kakashi for Konoha’s information on the daimyo’s family, then used Tigo’s teleportation to obtain the records.
• Yuhara ordered Tenzo to raid two or three bounty stations and gather roughly one hundred million taels.
• Tsunade entered Konoha with Jiraiya and Shizune, where villagers welcomed her as the Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade confronted Konoha’s leadership for deciding without her permission that she would become the next Hokage.
• Sarah and two Loulan Remnants reached Yuhara’s stronghold, where Sarah saw the giant trees and buildings.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and reluctantly accepted the Hokage succession, reflecting on how her ties to the village had formed an inescapable web. After reviewing Yuhara’s record and the reforms he had enabled, she assumed leadership and began restoring Konoha’s institutions.

• Tsunade sat through the closed-door meeting about her return and succession, then reviewed her demanding schedule and Yuhara’s profile with Kushina.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed how her family, status, and history bound her to Konoha, even as she had tried to escape it.
• Tsunade praised Yuhara’s talent and the Three Systems, while recognizing that his actions had cleared obstacles to her administration.
• Tsunade reorganized the Anbu and restored Konoha’s departments before presiding over the Third Hokage’s funeral.
• Tsunade delivered her inauguration speech and officially succeeded as the Seventh Hokage, paid respects to Uchiha massacre survivors, and issued a wanted order for Uchiha Itachi.

Chiyo assessed Konoha’s recovery and ordered Sand Village to investigate possible activity in the Land of Fire. Meanwhile, Yuhara expanded the Shadow Leaf Stronghold, recruited residents and ninja, and prepared for Tsunade’s inspection while setting a covert plan in motion.

• Chiyo learned that Tsunade had become Fifth Hokage and judged that Konoha had recovered quickly despite its losses.
• Yuhara welcomed more than thirty arrivals to the Shadow Leaf Stronghold, including Hyuga Neji, Hizashi Hyuga, and Kinoshita Tadashi Clan members.
• Yuhara arranged for Sarah and the Loulan Remnants to settle at the stronghold and directed Kinoshita to carry out a mission using funds delivered by Tenzo.
• Tsunade noticed reports of ninja gathering at the stronghold, questioned the orders behind their arrival, and decided to inspect the site herself.
• Yuhara organized the stronghold’s ninja into three squads with codenames, then left with Uchiha Tsukasa as Tsunade headed there.
• Yuhara fixed a plaque reading “Shadow Leaf Street, Number Ten” onto the round building’s entrance.

Tsunade traveled from Konoha to the Shadow Leaf Stronghold and inspected its buildings, defenses, and Chakra-based network. She learned that Yuhara was away on an unspecified mission and left his unauthorized plans to address when he returned.

• Tsunade departed Konoha with sixteen Anbu after following their security plan and leaving quietly.
• Tigo guided Tsunade and Shizune through the forest and into the Shadow Leaf Stronghold.
• Tigo showed Tsunade the construction site, its civilian workers from the fallen Ancient Kingdom of Roran, and its office buildings with concealed spaces.
• Tigo explained plans for antennas, surveillance and combat puppets, and a Chakra Sealing system that could support remote medical treatment and other techniques.
• Tsunade asked where Yuhara was, and Tigo said he was away on a mission but did not know its nature.

Uchiha Tsukasa commissioned Kakuzu at Amegakure's mission station to assassinate the Land of Fire's daimyo and his family, then escaped surveillance using the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network. Meanwhile, Nagato, Konan, and Obito discussed Orochimaru and approved a plan to recruit Kinoshita Tadashi Itachi.

• Uchiha Tsukasa used a clone disguised as a mysterious client to pay Kakuzu one hundred million ryo to assassinate the Land of Fire's daimyo and his family.
• Kakuzu accepted the mission and left the Amegakure station with the money, while the station's shinobi reported that the client had escaped their pursuit.
• Uchiha Tsukasa used the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network to escape his pursuers and reach a point inside the Land of Fire.
• Konan warned Nagato and Obito that Orochimaru was too dangerous to trust, but Obito argued that the Akatsuki should keep exploiting him and retain his strength.
• Nagato approved recruiting Kinoshita Tadashi Itachi, and Obito agreed to approach him while Nagato dealt with Orochimaru.

Yuhara infiltrated the daimyo’s residence to help Kakuzu’s mission by eliminating the conspirators among the Twelve Guardian Shinobi. After defeating them and setting the hall ablaze, he left Kakuzu to proceed with his work.

• Yuhara learned that the Twelve Guardian Shinobi had split between Kazuma’s faction, which planned to assassinate the Hokage, and Asuma’s faction, which protected him.
• Kakuzu entered Daimyo City for a mission, and Yuhara prepared to clear the way for him by infiltrating the daimyo’s residence.
• Kazuma and the other conspirators tried to ambush Yuhara, but his silver threads cut down three of them.
• Yuhara identified Kazuma and destroyed the surrounding hall with his Water Mercury Lamp.
• Yuhara burned the hall to erase evidence and help Kakuzu’s mission proceed.

Tsunade ordered major expansions to Konoha’s defenses and systems while remaining at the Shadow Leaf Stronghold. After the daimyo of the Land of Fire died and his heirs were apparently gone, Yuhara took control of the crisis in Minor Name City and maneuvered officials toward naming Tsunade the country’s ruler.

• Tsunade ordered Shizune to summon Konoha’s sealing team and Kushina, expand the Third Generation System, and move the Ninja Academy to the Shadow Leaf Stronghold before deciding to postpone the academy relocation.
• A fire destroyed the daimyo’s main hall in Minor Name City, and the daimyo died amid the conflict among the Seventeen Ninja; reports said his heirs had been found, then that the search had moved to an heir’s heir.
• Yuhara assumed command of Konoha’s forces in Minor Name City, ordered them to investigate the daimyo’s death, and persuaded the officials not to blame Konoha.
• Yuhara argued that Tsunade should rule the Land of Fire, and an official formally proposed her as daimyo because the daimyo’s bloodline had been severed.

Tsunade was maneuvered into accepting the vacant daimyo position after the Land of Fire’s daimyo line supposedly perished, while Yuhara watched the staged accession unfold. The commoners and elderly Ninja finished their appeal, and officials and Konoha’s leaders were poised to continue the ceremony.

• Tsunade sensed something unusual but spent the day handling Konoha’s affairs with Shizune.
• Yuhara and the others coordinated a staged appeal, while Tenzo questioned Yuhara about his involvement in politics.
• Elderly men knelt before Tsunade and asked her to become daimyo, citing the daimyo line’s demise and the need to settle the nation’s affairs.
• Tsunade accepted a scroll showing the Land of Fire’s territory and succession records, then discovered her name had been added as the latest successor.
• Tsunade went with Shizune downstairs, where the old Ninja and commoners renewed their appeal and she yielded to the accession.
• The commoners and old Ninja concluded their appeal, and Tsunade was brought back into the No. 10 office building as officials and Konoha’s leaders prepared to take over.

Yuhara explained his suspicions about the Daimyo’s death and submitted a plan to integrate the Land of Fire’s political and military institutions under Tsunade. Tsunade accepted the rulership and announced plans to establish a new capital at the Shadow Leaf Stronghold.

• Tsunade questioned Yuhara about the Daimyo’s death, and he suggested radical ninja and one or two outside infiltrators might have been involved.
• Yuhara argued that uniting military and political power could stabilize the country, and Tsunade ordered him to submit a complete integration plan by the next day.
• Yuhara’s report proposed a Sovereign supported by a Cabinet Secretariat, Sovereign’s Office, and State Advisory Council, while Tsunade and Shizune assessed the plan.
• Several days later, Tsunade agreed to become the Land of Fire’s ruler and announced that the capital would move to a new city at the Shadow Leaf Stronghold.

Akatsuki gathered to discuss the upheaval in the Land of Fire and decided to eliminate Yuhara, whom Orochimaru identified as the force behind the political changes. Meanwhile, Yuhara accepted his diminished control over Konoha’s expanding structure, then encountered Lady Biwako Sarutobi at his new office.

• Pain said Konoha’s reorganization of the Land of Fire threatened Akatsuki’s plans, and Orochimaru blamed Yuhara for driving the changes.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi warned that Yuhara was exceptionally powerful, and Uchiha Itachi said he could not defeat him.
• Pain decided to handle Yuhara personally, but Hidan volunteered for the mission and claimed he would succeed.
• Yuhara accepted Tigo’s growing authority as Konoha reorganized its systems and assigned Kakashi Hatake to administer the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network.
• While arranging the new office at No. 10, Kageha Street, Yuhara spotted Lady Biwako Sarutobi in the corridor.

Biwako Sarutobi moved to Shadow Leaf City to avoid being used by Konoha conservatives as a political symbol against Tsunade, who struggled to balance her duties as Hokage and ruler while planning the city. Meanwhile, Yuhara tested his newly developed technique-encapsulation device on Kakashi, leaving him in agony as Kushina and Tenzo looked on.

• Yuhara realized Konoha conservatives might use Biwako Sarutobi’s legacy to challenge Tsunade, but Biwako said she had moved to Shadow Leaf City to avoid their schemes.
• Biwako visited Tsunade, learned about the new city’s plans, and signaled her support; Tsunade then left for a budget meeting, where Kushina had already argued through two sessions without reaching an agreement.
• Tsunade described the planned city population and Konoha’s troop deployment, then decided to establish a temporary preschool for ninja families.
• Yuhara showed Kakashi a metal plate containing his encapsulated composite technique, and activated it on Kakashi’s arm, inflicting severe pain that prevented him from concentrating Chakra.
• Kushina asked when the device would take effect, while Tenzo visited the hospital to check on Kakashi; Yuhara explained that he had adapted an Explosive Tag’s principle for the technique.