Chapter Summaries

After Konoha’s victory over Cloud Hidden, the two villages remained deadlocked while Yuhara spent six months strengthening himself on the front. He tracked down Killer B for another sparring match, but Killer B’s teammate Dodai stopped Yuhara’s sword with his Lava Release.

• The Fourth Raikage argued with a Cloud Hidden adviser about counterattacking, but a Medical Ninja ordered the adviser out while treating the Raikage’s injuries.
• Konoha withdrew most of its troops from the Land of Rice, and negotiations with Cloud Hidden remained stalled for half a year amid occasional clashes.
• Yuhara used his new Nature Energy sensing ability, which he named Mina Shikyō, to find Cloud Hidden Ninja and reinforce his combat skills through repeated fights with Killer B.
• Yuhara and Tenzo located Killer B and his teammate in the Land of Frost, and Killer B complained that Yuhara kept using him as a sparring partner.
• Dodai stepped in as Yuhara attacked, and his defensive Lava Release stopped the Mercury Longsword from cutting through.

After returning from the front, Yuhara brought Kushina Uzumaki proposals for ending the war and honoring Konoha shinobi, and she agreed they could be submitted to the Hokage. The chapter leaves Yuhara poised to pursue his plan for world peace through a Five Kage Summit, worldwide disarmament, and a shinobi honor system.

• Yuhara and Tenzo withdrew from their fight with Dodai and Killer B, and Yuhara explained that both sides had grown reluctant to fight.
• Yuhara and Tenzo received a rotation break and returned to Konoha, while Jiraiya learned that Yuhara had already left the front and missed a chance to meet him.
• After resting, Yuhara wrote proposals for ending the war and creating an honor system for Konoha shinobi, then asked Tenzo to recruit Kakashi for construction work at his land outside the village.
• Yuhara presented the proposals to Kushina Uzumaki, who was impressed and said they could be submitted directly to the Hokage.
• Kushina summarized Yuhara's proposals as a Five Kage Summit and worldwide disarmament, along with a shinobi honor system.

Yuhara had Kakashi and Tenzo build his new home on Konoha’s outskirts, then joined Kushina to present a proposal for a village medal system to the Third Hokage. The Third Hokage approved the system, including the proposed highest honor named after himself.

• Kakashi and Tenzo arrived at Yuhara’s remote building site and learned they had been summoned to help construct his home.
• Yuhara assigned Kakashi to compact the foundation and quarry stone, while Tenzo studied a plan for growing and weaving iron birch trees into the house.
• Kakashi and Yuhara finished laying the stone foundation, and Tenzo spent three days using Wood Release to build and furnish Yuhara’s wooden mansion.
• Kushina brought Yuhara and Naruto to meet the Third Hokage, who praised their proposal for a village medal system and agreed to put it into practice.
• Yuhara realized the Third Hokage might have approved the proposal partly because its sole highest-rank medal was called the Hokage Honor Medal.

Yuhara and Kushina Uzumaki negotiated with the Third Hokage over Konoha’s postwar reforms, including a medal system, a new training organization, and disarmament. The Third Hokage approved Crimson Crown and agreed to raise disarmament at a Five Kage Summit, while making future troop reductions depend on the organization’s results.

• Yuhara proposed a Medal Review Council, and the Third Hokage recognized that it would strengthen the Hokage’s authority over the clans.
• Kushina Uzumaki secured a council seat by offering little Naruto to grab the Third Hokage’s beard, then won approval to establish Crimson Crown for ninja education and training.
• The Third Hokage agreed that Konoha could propose a Five Kage Summit and said he would raise the proposed ban on combat missions for ninjas under fourteen and gradual troop reductions.
• Kushina Uzumaki argued that Konoha should improve ninja quality and raise its jōnin proportion, while Yuhara suggested that political pressure and reduced daimyo funding could encourage disarmament.
• The Third Hokage made any troop reduction depend on Crimson Crown demonstrating results, then read aloud the Senju of the Forest Honor Medal and laughed with Kushina as Naruto began to cry.

After securing approval for reforms and a Five Kage Summit, Yuhara reflected on young ninja sent to war before returning to his empty home. Orochimaru arrived to compare their Cursed Seals, but Yuhara instead offered secret knowledge in exchange for the details of Living Corpse Reincarnation, leaving Orochimaru asking what the Mangekyō Sharingan was.

• Kushina and Yuhara gained the Third Hokage’s approval for their formal organization, a medal system, and a proposal to raise disarmament and protections for young ninja at a Five Kage Summit.
• Yuhara escorted Kushina home, then returned to his large, empty house and thought about Tigo and the young ninja who had died in war.
• Orochimaru entered Yuhara’s home and asked to compare their Cursed Seals, but Yuhara requested the complete details and research on Living Corpse Reincarnation in exchange for valuable information.
• Yuhara explained that combining the Sage’s descendants’ powers could grant power like the Sage’s and produce an eye that controlled life and death.
• Yuhara told Orochimaru about the Uchiha’s Truth Stone Tablet and its Mangekyō Sharingan requirement, and Orochimaru asked what the Mangekyō Sharingan was.

Orochimaru deduced how the Sage Body and Sage Eye might combine to awaken the Rinnegan, then sent Yuhara the complete Living Corpse Reincarnation materials. Yuhara studied the technique to save Tigo but found that the process required a carefully matched living sacrifice, leaving him searching for another solution.

• Orochimaru reflected on Yuhara’s information and concluded that the Senju represented the Sage Body while the Uchiha represented the Sage Eye, with the Rinnegan emerging through their powers’ combination.
• Orochimaru sent Yuhara a scroll containing the complete Living Corpse Reincarnation materials, and Yuhara cleaned it before beginning his research.
• Yuhara reasoned that Orochimaru’s research into the Rinnegan might introduce new power to face the future crisis and privately imagined Orochimaru as Jiraiya’s true Child of Prophecy.
• Yuhara balanced his work establishing Crimson Crown with studying Living Corpse Reincarnation and eventually understood some of its principles.
• Yuhara discovered that restoring Tigo required a carefully matched living sacrifice whose spirit Tigo could devour, and he considered asking Orochimaru to use the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique instead.

Kushina Uzumaki gathered the Crimson Crown’s ten members and assigned Shibi Aburame to help secure Kirigakure’s support for Konoha’s planned Five Kage Summit. Yuhara then equipped the organization with armor and Chakra Blades he had forged, leaving Kakashi astonished and preparing a set for Shibi’s mission.

• Kushina Uzumaki welcomed the Crimson Crown’s members and explained that they would assist Konoha’s effort to arrange a Five Kage Summit.
• Kushina asked Shibi Aburame to travel to the Land of Water and contact Kirigakure, and he agreed.
• Yuhara led Kakashi and Tenzo to the underground storeroom and forged ten breastplates, ten longswords, and ten shortswords from steel ingots.
• Kakashi tested a breastplate and discovered that Yuhara’s swords could carry Chakra, realizing they were Chakra Blades.
• Yuhara gave Kakashi a set of armor and blades and asked him to take another set to Shibi Aburame for the trip to Kirigakure.

Yuhara considered how to strengthen Crimson Crown while Konoha prepared for the Five Kage Summit and a new Merit Appraisal Council. After Shibi Aburame secured Kirigakure’s agreement, the villages arranged the summit, and Konoha chose its delegation.

• Shibi Aburame received a mission and left for Kirigakure as preparations for the Five Kage Summit began.
• Yuhara considered improving his own strength and developing Crimson Crown, including raising its members’ ranks.
• The Third Hokage established the Merit Appraisal Council to assess wartime contributions and prepare a medal system.
• Shibi Aburame returned safely with news that Kirigakure’s new Fourth Mizukage supported the summit.
• Konoha, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure requested a summit in the Land of Iron, and Iwagakure and Kumogakure agreed to attend.
• The Third Hokage selected Konoha’s ten-person delegation, including Kushina Uzumaki, Kakashi Hatake, Yuhara, and Tenzo, but left Jiraiya and Orochimaru off the list.

Kushina decided to attend the Five Kage Summit and arranged for Jiraiya to care for Naruto while Orochimaru was sent back to the Land of Rice. The Third Hokage led Konoha’s delegation to the Land of Iron, where the Five Great Shinobi Villages gathered and the summit began.

• Kushina rejected the Third Hokage’s attempts to keep her in Konoha and explained her plan to protect Naruto while she attended the summit.
• Kushina left Naruto with Jiraiya during his emergency vacation, while Orochimaru was sent back to the Land of Rice.
• In July of Konoha’s forty-ninth year, the Third Hokage led ten shinobi out of Konoha and traveled secretly toward the Land of Iron.
• Hyuga Hiashi watched for danger as Konoha’s group entered the Land of Iron and was escorted by Taira Mune to the mountain fortress.
• The delegations arrived one by one, and the Five Great Shinobi Villages entered the meeting hall as the Five Kage Summit began.

The Five Kage gathered in the Land of Iron to negotiate an end to the Ninja World War, but their accusations against one another quickly derailed the talks. As the leaders argued, Yuhara noticed Kushina growing increasingly excited.

• Atsumori urged the Kage to set aside blame and focus on ending the war.
• Ōnoki accused the Sand Village of helping ignite the conflict, and Chiyo defended its actions as an investigation into the Third Kazekage's death.
• The Fourth Raikage accused Konoha of framing the Cloud Village and disrupting the balance of the war.
• The Third Hokage ignored the Raikage's accusations while the Kage's demand for peace became increasingly heated.
• Yuhara noticed that Kushina seemed more excited as the arguments escalated.

At the Five Kage Summit, the leaders argued over the terms for ending the war until the Third Tsuchikage threatened to turn the meeting into a fight. Konoha’s swift response forced the threats to end, and all five villages agreed to pursue peace.

• The Third Tsuchikage and Fourth Raikage pressed Konoha to make concessions and withdraw its troops, while the Third Hokage offered terms for ending the war.
• The village leaders argued until the Third Tsuchikage suggested that some of them might not leave the summit alive, prompting Killer B and Konoha’s shinobi to unleash their Chakra.
• Kakashi attacked the Fourth Raikage but was stopped, while Yuhara reached the Third Tsuchikage with his Mercury Longsword and forced Iwagakure’s shinobi to hold back.
• The Third Hokage asked the leaders to raise their left hands if they agreed to end the war, and all five Kage eventually raised theirs after Yuhara and Kakashi withdrew.
• The Third Tsuchikage recognized Konoha’s formidable young shinobi and worried that Iwagakure could not afford to continue the war.

The Five Kage finalized and signed an agreement to end the Ninja World War, then considered proposals for maintaining peace. The other villages rejected disarmament and left, leaving the Third Hokage alone as the summit ended with little change beyond the end of the war.

• Kushina Uzumaki praised Yuhara and Kakashi, and Yuhara blurted out that his sword had never been dull.
• The village leaders settled withdrawal arrangements, and Atsumori prepared copies of the agreement for them to sign.
• The Third Hokage proposed exchanging rogue-ninja lists and restoring communication channels, and the other villages agreed.
• The Third Hokage urged the villages to keep ninja under fourteen off battlefields, and the Third Tsuchikage, Fourth Raikage, Chiyo, and Mizukage voiced approval in principle.
• The Third Hokage proposed reducing each village's ninja forces to around fifteen thousand, and the Fourth Raikage, Third Tsuchikage, Sand, and Mist representatives left rather than discuss disarmament.
• The Third Hokage remained alone in the meeting hall and reflected that the summit had ended the war without changing the world's underlying cycle.

After the war ended, Yuhara reflected on the failure of the Kage to protect young shinobi and wandered through Konoha with Kakashi. Kakashi returned home to find the village’s new medal system had awarded him five different honors.

• Yuhara woke to Konoha’s ongoing celebrations and lamented that the peace summit had failed to restrict young shinobi from fighting.
• Yuhara took his Sword Crate and an Iron Umbrella on a walk, visited Whispering Stream Trail, and remembered comrades lost to war.
• Yuhara encountered Kakashi, and the two walked back toward Konoha before finding the Small Earth Building empty.
• Kakashi recalled telling Kushina about his suspicions regarding the Nine-Tails incident and her reassurance that he had not leaked intelligence.
• Kakashi found a package from the Konoha Merit Appraisal Council and discovered that it contained five medals, including the Konoha Hero Medal and the Council Honorary Medal.

Yuhara received two prestigious medals and considered what the new award system meant for Konoha and its clans. He then brought Kakashi to Kushina to discuss the chakra leakage caused by his transplanted Sharingan, and Kushina suggested cutting off the eye’s chakra supply.

• Yuhara received the Senju of the Forest Honor Medal and the Konoha Guardian Medal for his actions against the tailed beasts and during the Nine-Tails incident.
• Yuhara learned that Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru had received the Hokage Honor Medal, which marked them as Hokage candidates.
• The Merit Appraisal Council continued distributing medals while Konoha’s ninja considered how the new system would affect clan honor and status.
• Yuhara visited Kushina at the Small Earth Building and brought Kakashi to discuss problems caused by his transplanted Sharingan.
• Kushina identified Kakashi’s chakra leakage and suggested cutting off the chakra supply to the eye.

Kushina sealed Kakashi’s Sharingan to stop its constant Chakra drain, while Yuhara theorized that the eye’s limited Chakra throughput caused strain when using powerful ocular techniques. Yuhara tested his idea by immersing Kakashi’s Sharingan in Tenzo’s Wood Style Chakra, and Kakashi awakened a space-time technique before collapsing from the strain.

• Kushina examined Kakashi’s Sharingan, sealed off its Chakra supply, and found that Kakashi felt clearer-headed once the eye reverted to black.
• Kushina and Yuhara discussed the Sharingan’s Chakra demands, and Yuhara proposed that insufficient Chakra throughput could cause injury when powerful ocular techniques were used.
• Yuhara brought Tenzo to Kushina and had her make a seal that immersed Kakashi’s Sharingan in Tenzo’s Wood Style Chakra.
• Yuhara urged Kakashi to concentrate Chakra in his Sharingan, and Kakashi’s tomoe transformed into a three-bladed shuriken as he unleashed a space-time attack that blew apart a wall.
• Kakashi suffered severe eye pain and bleeding, returned to the Three-Tomoe state, and collapsed unconscious.

Kushina learned that Kakashi had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and discovered that Tenzo’s Wood Release Chakra had temporarily protected his eyes from its harmful effects. The group planned safeguards and a chakra-storage seal for Kakashi’s eye, while Yuhara proposed making it self-destruct if anyone tried to steal it.

• Kushina asked Third Hokage about the Mangekyō Sharingan, and he explained its awakening condition and risk of blindness.
• After hearing that Kakashi had been sent to Konoha Hospital, Third Hokage realized his sudden awakening might be connected to Kushina’s questions.
• Yuhara reasoned that the Mangekyō’s risk of blindness came from excessive Chakra throughput, while Tenzo’s Chakra had temporarily prevented Kakashi’s eyes from deteriorating.
• Kakashi woke in the hospital and identified his new ocular power as an ability to distort space.
• Kushina warned Kakashi to conceal his Mangekyō from the Uchiha Clan and explained the risks of using it.
• Kushina planned a seal to control Kakashi’s Sharingan Chakra and store Tenzo’s Chakra, while Yuhara suggested adding an anti-theft self-destruct function.

After the war, Konoha introduced a medal system to recognize ninja contributions, while Yuhara considered the tensions that might surface between Konoha and the Uchiha. He checked whether Mitaraishi Anko bore Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal, then attended the formal funeral of the Fourth Hokage.

• Kushina Uzumaki completed a seamless sealing formula over Kakashi’s Sharingan, and Kakashi recovered after a week in the hospital.
• The Third Hokage announced Konoha’s medal system, which linked recognition for wartime service to future mission rewards and subsidies.
• Yuhara saw the final Konoha squad return from the Land of Rice, including Uchiha Shisui, and worried that tensions between the Uchiha and Konoha could erupt after the war.
• Yuhara pulled down Mitaraishi Anko’s collar to check for Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal, found no mark, and fled; Anko became frightened and went to find Orochimaru.
• Yuhara attended the formal funeral of the Fourth Hokage wearing his medals, where he saw Kakashi’s row of medals and Kushina Uzumaki’s deepening grief.

After the Fourth Hokage’s death, the Third Hokage reconsidered his successors while Shisui told Itachi the truth about the Nine-Tails incident and the danger facing the Uchiha. When another Uchiha jōnin vanished, Konoha launched a search, and Yuhara went directly after the culprit he suspected.

• The Third Hokage weighed Jiraiya and Orochimaru as candidates for the next Hokage, then set aside his decision.
• Itachi told Shisui that the Uchiha clan opposed Konoha’s medal system, and Shisui revealed that an Uchiha rogue ninja had likely caused the Nine-Tails incident.
• Shisui sensed malicious intent near the Uchiha Residential Area, but found no one when he returned to investigate.
• Three days later, another Uchiha jōnin disappeared, prompting the Third Hokage to assign Konoha jōnin to search outside Uchiha territory while ANBU watched the clan.
• Yuhara suspected Orochimaru was behind the disappearance and went after the culprit instead of conducting the assigned search.

After another Uchiha went missing, Uchiha Shisui urged restraint at a clan meeting while Uchiha Fugaku ordered everyone to wait for the investigation. The Third Hokage sent Shimura Danzō away on a diplomatic mission, and Yuhara followed a white snake through Konoha’s underground passages toward Orochimaru.

• Uchiha Shisui described the attack at the clan meeting and argued that the Third Hokage’s faction had no reason to abduct the missing Uchiha.
• Uchiha Fugaku backed Shisui’s call for restraint and ordered the clan not to act until they found the culprit.
• Uchiha Shisui realized that some clansmen wanted privileges rather than equal treatment and decided to seek help from Konoha’s leadership.
• The Third Hokage questioned Shimura Danzō about the incident, rejected his call to deal with the Uchiha through violence, and sent him away to persuade neighboring villages to join the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Yuhara followed a white snake through the underground passages, suspecting it was leading him to Orochimaru, and prepared for danger.

Yuhara confronted Orochimaru at his secret base, warned him about his experiments and the Uchiha disappearances, then left without exposing him. The next day, Yuhara joined Kushina Uzumaki’s team on an emergency mission after the Three-Tails revived in the Land of Fire.

• Yuhara destroyed Orochimaru’s giant snake trap with silver threads and struck Orochimaru’s clone with a Rasenshuriken.
• Yuhara questioned Orochimaru about the missing Uchiha and warned him to stop his human experiments, while Orochimaru confirmed the Sharingan held a secret.
• Yuhara left Orochimaru’s base without reporting him and spent the next day pretending to investigate the Uchiha disappearances.
• Kakashi and Tenzo summoned Yuhara to an emergency mission, and he joined Kushina Uzumaki and the Crimson Crown team.
• Kushina Uzumaki told the gathered shinobi that the Three-Tails had revived in the Land of Fire.