Chapter Summaries

In the Forest of Death, Gaara abducted Temari and Kankuro to take them to Wave Country, while Hinata defeated Karin, Sasuke, Neji, Gaara, and their teammates. With the contestants from other villages eliminated, Tobirama Senju ended the Chunin Exams on its first day.

• Gaara bound Temari and Kankuro with sand, then used Wave Country Sealing Scrolls to send them to Wave Country.
• Karin insisted on fighting Hinata, and Sasuke joined her as Hinata challenged all six to attack together.
• Hinata defeated the group, gave Karin her Heaven Scroll, and left the Forest of Death.
• Hinata reported what happened to the proctors, who found the exam participants had been eliminated or were from Wave Country.
• Tobirama Senju officially ended the Chunin Exams, leaving the village representatives astonished.

After the Chunin Exams ended without any deaths, Madara Uchiha led his students out of Konoha and met Hashirama Senju on the road. Hashirama heard Madara’s plan for peace through war and order, then challenged him to fight.

• Chiyo learned that Gaara had sent Temari and Kankuro to Wave Country to keep them safe, and that Sasori wanted to apologize and wished her well.
• Deidara told Ōnoki he had found true art in Wave Country and would not return to Iwagakure, while the Hyuga Clan ignored Hyuga Neji.
• Konoha ordered the visiting ninjas to leave, and Madara Uchiha mocked Tobirama Senju before departing with his six students.
• Neji sensed a terrifying Chakra in the forest, and Madara Uchiha stopped the group to face Hashirama Senju.
• Madara Uchiha explained that lasting peace required victory through war and an order strong enough to prevent future conflict.
• Hashirama Senju said he was glad Madara had changed, then released his power and challenged him to fight.

Madara Uchiha unleashed a devastating Fire Release, and Tobirama Senju countered it with a massive Water Release as the shinobi emerged to face him. Hashirama Senju and the other First Kage prepared to fight Madara, while the remaining shinobi attacked Sasuke and his companions, beginning two battles.

• Hashirama Senju's aura stunned the shinobi, but Madara Uchiha challenged him and drove the hidden fighters into the open with Great Fire Annihilation.
• Tobirama Senju countered Madara Uchiha's flames with Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave, and the First Kage stepped forward to fight alongside Hashirama Senju.
• Madara Uchiha fused a black jade stone into his palm and transformed into the Shinobi World Asura in Cursed Seal Form.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha summoned their giant forms as Tobirama Senju and the other First Kage attacked Madara Uchiha's Susanoo.
• The others attacked Sasuke and his five companions, who responded by activating their strongest forms.

Sasuke and the others fought the reincarnated shinobi while Madara Uchiha battled Hashirama Senju, until Naruto arrived and erased the battlefield with a devastating attack. He then declared that the old shinobi and daimyo era would end and announced the beginning of a new world war.

• Sasuke, Neji, Karin, Gaara, Deidara, and Kimimaro held off the reincarnated Kage-level shinobi with their transformations, Sage Mode, and Chakra Armor.
• Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju fought evenly while discussing Wave Country and its leader, until Tobirama Senju urged Hashirama to focus on the battle.
• The reincarnated shinobi overwhelmed Shukaku, and Gaara escaped the Third Raikage's attack by using a scroll as Naruto appeared in his place.
• Naruto blasted the Third Raikage away, then unleashed an enormous attack that engulfed the battlefield; Sasuke, Neji, the others, and Madara Uchiha withdrew from its range.
• After the reincarnated shinobi reformed, Naruto addressed Hashirama Senju and the gathered leaders, declaring the end of the old order and the start of the First World War.

The daimyo and shinobi leaders met to discuss war against Wave Country, but the shinobi doubted they could win. News arrived that Land of Snow and Land of Rain had nearly conquered the Land of Lightning and Land of Earth, leaving the meeting’s plans already overtaken by events.

• Tsunade and other shinobi leaders acknowledged that they could not defeat Wave Country, while the Third Raikage insisted Kumogakure would not surrender without a fight.
• The daimyo of several countries appeared on screens, condemned Wave Country, and promised supplies and territory to the shinobi villages that earned the greatest merit.
• The daimyo entrusted the war to the shinobi, and Sarutobi Hiruzen accepted their orders.
• Chiyo questioned why the shinobi had to obey the daimyo, then dismissed her objection as a mistake.
• Dodai and Ōnoki read reports that Land of Snow had nearly conquered the Land of Lightning and Land of Rain was close to conquering the Land of Earth.

Naruto announced a revolution against the great nations and ordered simultaneous blitzkrieg campaigns against the Land of Lightning, Land of Earth, and Land of Wind. As the invasions advanced, Mei Terumi arrived at the Land of Fire’s Lord's Manor, claiming she had been sent to protect the lord.

• Naruto rallied the assembled troops, declaring that they would end the Ninja World's wars and bring peace, and the soldiers answered with a vow of glory.
• Naruto assigned Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Izumi to attack the Land of Lightning, Nagato and Konan to attack the Land of Earth, and Miroku and Uchiha Hikari to attack the Land of Wind.
• Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Izumi joined Kazahana Koyuki in Snow Country as steel ships and the enormous naval cannon called the “Lonely Queen of the North” prepared to strike the Land of Lightning.
• Konan formed a giant bird from Exploding Tags and carried Land of Rain's shinobi north, while Miroku led the forces from Demon Country south.
• The forces of the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning were quickly overwhelmed, prompting the Five Great Shinobi Villages to gather their remaining troops.
• Mei Terumi appeared at the Land of Fire's Lord's Manor, telling the Samurai guards that the lord had asked her to protect him.

Mei Terumi led a surprise attack on the gathered daimyos, while Kirigakure forces overwhelmed the samurai in the manor. Three days later, the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth surrendered, and Naruto approached the Land of Fire for the decisive battle.

• Mei Terumi entered the Lord's Manor and confronted the daimyos as they questioned how long it would take to defeat Wave Country.
• Mei Terumi attacked the samurai with Lava Release, took daimyos hostage, and used Raikage as a shield.
• Zabuza, Kisame, Chojuro, and Kirigakure's elite forces struck the manor's defenders under cover of Hidden Mist, and Mei Terumi emerged victorious with Raikage.
• Three days after the war began, the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth surrendered, while the Land of Wind's cleanup neared completion.
• Naruto advanced toward the Land of Fire aboard a steel behemoth as the daimyos knelt behind him.

Naruto confronted the Allied Shinobi Forces with proof that their lords had surrendered and challenged them to choose what they were fighting for. He offered to preserve their villages under Wave Country's rule, then gave them fifteen minutes to decide as a soldier executed one lord.

• Ōnoki learned that Wave Country had occupied Iwagakure and was providing for its people, while the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared to fight under his command.
• Naruto projected images of the surrendered lords to the Allied Shinobi Forces and asked what they were fighting for.
• Naruto promised to preserve the shinobi villages after unification, but Sarutobi Hiruzen and loyalists denounced him and urged the forces to rescue the lords.
• Naruto appeared above the army and removed the lords' restraints, exposing their terror and desperation to the shinobi and Samurai.
• Naruto gave the Allied Shinobi Forces fifteen minutes to accept Wave Country's rule or stay and die with the lords, and a soldier beheaded one lord as the army fell into chaos.

Naruto forced the Allied Shinobi Forces to choose between rescuing the feudal lords and surrendering to Wave Country. Ōnoki, Dodai, and Chiyo withdrew with many shinobi, while Naruto destroyed the forces that remained and declared a new era.

• A soldier executed the feudal lords as they screamed for the Allied Shinobi Forces to rescue them.
• Ōnoki asked Naruto whether surrendering would spare the villages and their people, and Naruto promised that those who surrendered and had not harmed Wave Country would become its members.
• Ōnoki led Iwagakure away from the battle, and Dodai and Chiyo withdrew with Kumogakure and Sunagakure, while many shinobi stayed behind to save the feudal lords.
• The remaining Allied Shinobi Forces attacked Naruto, but their strikes could not reach him, and Wave Country's soldier continued executing the feudal lords.
• Naruto summoned a massive meteor that crushed the remaining forces, then declared the era of shinobi and feudal lords over and said he would set new rules.

Naruto’s victory ended the war, destroyed the Feudal Lord System, and brought the Land of Fire under his control. After the Konoha F4 were publicly exposed and killed, the Ninja World entered an era of unification, leaving Naruto to govern a vast new order and reshape its people’s thinking.

• Naruto sensed that Sarutobi Hiruzen had survived the meteor strike, while the feudal lords were executed and the Allied Shinobi Forces were devastated.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju learned from Madara Uchiha that Tsunade had joined Wave Country and helped it take control of Konoha.
• Naruto ordered Wave Country’s Chakra Armor forces to invade the Land of Fire, which fell under his control in less than a day.
• Naruto returned to Konoha with Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, where Tsunade and Hinata welcomed them.
• Naruto exposed the Konoha F4’s crimes at the Memorial Stone Tablet, and Konoha’s villagers beat the four men to death.
• The three-day war ended, and Naruto became the sole voice of a unified Ninja World while facing the work of governing and changing its people’s thinking.

Ten years after Naruto unified the Ninja World, he transformed it into an industrialized society and prepared for the Otsutsuki threat while building a life with Hinata and Karin. When his system offered him a chance to travel to another world, Naruto chose to wait and remain with them for now.

• Naruto reorganized the former nations into Seven Provinces, abolished the shinobi system, and oversaw rapid industrial and technological development.
• Naruto released Kaguya Otsutsuki, who settled on the moon with Black Zetsu while the Research Department developed the Chakra Network.
• Karin and Hinata protested when Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Hikari, Mei Terumi, Shion, and Kazahana Koyuki joined their honeymoon trip with Naruto.
• Naruto heard from his system that he could travel between worlds through the Gate of Time and Space, but decided to open it later.