Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Tokimitsu rescued the fleeing Mizuki, Hozuki, and Kaguya clans from Kirigakure and brought their survivors to safety. At Fubo Castle, the clans pledged allegiance to him, setting the stage for the Tokimitsu Shogunate’s campaign to conquer Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu requisitioned ships and led forty Jonin to the Land of Water to aid the embattled clans.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu found Mizuki Chiyono and the Mizuki survivors, then promised to protect them and rescue the Hozuki and Kaguya clans.
• The Mist Ninja Army withdrew from its fight with the Hozuki after sensing Uchiha reinforcements, and Uchiha Tokimitsu led the Hozuki survivors toward the Kaguya clan.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ambushed the Mist forces surrounding the Kaguya clan, and Hozuki Ayahiko killed the Mist Commander as the enemy army collapsed.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu evacuated the three clans’ survivors before Kirigakure could assemble its main forces, while the Third Mizukage announced the Bloody Mist Policy.
• At Fubo Castle, Uchiha Tokimitsu accepted the surviving branches’ allegiance and formed them into three divisions of the Tokimitsu Shogunate’s Expeditionary Force.

As tensions between the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage Faction threatened to plunge Konoha into civil war, the Hyuga Clan Head organized the ninja clans into a new political faction and invited Uchiha Tokimitsu to help convene a Ninja Clan Council. Tokimitsu welcomed the opportunity, intending to use the council to constrain the Third Hokage.

• The escalating standoff in Konoha led the Hyuga, Aburame, and Inuzuka Clans and others to withdraw children from the Ninja Academy as the Konoha Military Police Force and Hokage Faction repositioned their forces.
• The Hyuga Clan Head shared intelligence that Uchiha Tokimitsu planned a campaign against the Land of Water, supported by surviving branches of Mist Village's Three Clans and an open recruitment order for ninja.
• The Hyuga Clan Head persuaded the gathered clan leaders, including the Kurama Clan Head, to sign a joint statement calling for calm and to reconvene the Ninja Clan Council.
• After the other clan heads left, the Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame Clan Heads revealed their plan to establish a neutral Konoha Third Party and prepare for the council.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu received the clans' invitation to return to Konoha and help organize the council, and said it would let him put the Third Hokage in a cage.

Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed turning the Ninja Clan Council into a more powerful Ninja Council Deliberation Assembly, and the Hyuga Clan Head negotiated a limited version to preserve his own political position. As Tokimitsu and other border commanders approached Konoha, the Uchiha Clan donned its old red armor, heightening tensions before the assembly convened.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu sent the Hyuga Clan Head a proposal for a clan assembly with one vote per clan and a standing body to oversee Konoha's finances and initiate impeachment proceedings.
• The Hyuga Clan Head agreed to rename the council as the Ninja Council Deliberation Assembly while postponing discussion of its proposed powers.
• The Hyuga Clan Head reflected on his political contest with Uchiha Tokimitsu and began preparing for the assembly with help from allied clans.
• The Hyuga Clan Head learned that Tokimitsu's forces were thirty kilometers from Konoha and included unidentified Mist Village ninja.
• The Uchiha Clan assembled in red Do Armor as the Hokage and Lord Sakumo prepared to welcome the arriving border commanders.
• The Hyuga Clan Head and the Inuzuka Clan Head decided to join the welcome, fearing the arriving factions might clash.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen met above Hokage Rock to negotiate Konoha’s political standoff, but their opposing views on clan power and the Hokage’s authority left their conflict unresolved. Tokimitsu proposed new governing and military councils, then departed after warning Hiruzen about his dealings with the Daimyo.

• The Hyuga Clan Head watched Uchiha Tokimitsu arrive at Konoha Gate with the Uchiha Ninja Army and the remaining branches of Mist Village's Three Clans, while Konoha's other generals returned.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen led Uchiha Tokimitsu to Hokage Rock, where they clashed over clan loyalty, equality, the Hokage position, and the threat of war.
• Tokimitsu recited the Reaper Death Seal's hand seals, stopping Hiruzen from escalating their confrontation.
• Tokimitsu proposed reorganizing the Ninja Clan Council into a permanent deliberative assembly and suggested a Privy Council of the Five Generals to oversee war affairs.
• Hiruzen demanded that the Uchiha Ninja Army end its actions in the village, and Tokimitsu countered that Hiruzen should recall his blue-vested ninja and lift martial law.
• Tokimitsu warned Hiruzen to examine his financial dealings with the Daimyo, then bowed and left.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo negotiated Konoha’s new political structure at the first Ninja Council Deliberation Assembly, securing approval for both a Hokage-controlled Internal Affairs Department and a Military Affairs Department led by Sakumo. The assembly concluded with the Senju Clan increasingly isolated and Tokimitsu satisfied that Konoha’s competing powers had reached a workable balance.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu promised Mimura Hamaki a possible transfer back to the village within five years, and Hatake Sakumo agreed to recommend him for future vacancies.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen’s faction and Tokimitsu and Sakumo settled the assembly’s agenda, while the Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame formed a third political bloc.
• Mitokado Homura announced the permanent Ninja Council Deliberation Assembly, whose clan representatives would vote on village affairs and hold officials accountable.
• Homura proposed expanding the Anbu and establishing a Hokage-controlled Internal Affairs Department; Uchiha Shifang and other clan leaders voted in favor, passing the proposal while Tsunade realized the Senju had been excluded from the deal.
• Homura proposed a Military Affairs Department led by Hatake Sakumo, with Uchiha Tokimitsu, Uchiha Kamon, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and Mimura Hamaki as deputy chiefs, and the assembly approved it.
• Hatake Sakumo and the four Border Army commanders rose to acknowledge the clan representatives as the assembly’s core resolutions concluded.

Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokimitsu discussed corruption after the Ninja Council Deliberation Assembly and established the Military Affairs Department with the Border Army commanders. Uchiha Tokimitsu then revealed plans to sweep the Eastern Eight Counties and prepare a campaign against Kirigakure, leaving the commanders weighing the forces and financing involved.

• Hatake Sakumo complained to Uchiha Tokimitsu about rumors of vote trafficking, and they debated creating an Anti-Corruption Agency.
• Hatake Sakumo announced the Military Affairs Department’s duties, and the four Border Army commanders agreed to report their forces’ personnel details.
• Uchiha Kamon described plans to enter eastern Land of Rain, while Sarutobi Shinnosuke reported that his Northern Border Defense Force could not advance against Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu unveiled the Eastern Development Plan as a cover for sweeping Black Market forces from the Eastern Eight Counties and securing trade routes.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that the Uchiha Clan and allied clans would pursue Kirigakure, and Uchiha Kamon requested passage for hired Rain ninja through Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s jurisdiction.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu offered Eastern Development Bonds with an annual return of eight percent, as Hatake Sakumo assessed the forces available for the Mist Village Campaign.

Uchiha Tokimitsu launched his campaign against the Land of Water by sending mixed Shogunate forces and Rain ninja mercenaries to blockade islands and strike ports. The raids spread across the country, and Mist ninja began defecting as the attackers promised to destroy shipping routes and target the nobles.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu balanced the Hozuki, Mizuki, and Kaguya forces, then sent them to Midway Island to prepare for war.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu equipped Jonin Amada’s Rain ninja mercenaries and briefed the expeditionary commanders on Wolf Pack tactics and their targets.
• The Shogunate forces departed Midway Island in speedboats, carrying encrypted orders for attacks on Land of Water ports, shipyards, and shipping routes.
• Rain ninja mercenaries attacked Tachibana Island Castle while Mist ninja and samurai were caught off guard by explosions and battle cries.
• Hozuki Ayahiko confronted Mist Ninja Chō Jonin Fin and persuaded him to defect, while Rain ninja mercenaries killed the nobles in the courtyard.
• In September of Konoha Year 37, raids and fires spread across the Land of Water, and the Daimyo condemned the Shogunate’s campaign.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Wolf Pack Offensive overwhelmed Kirigakure’s defenses across the Land of Water, while the Mist Elder Council struggled to respond. After learning that the Kanpaku had been killed, the Great Elder agreed to hand the defense zones to the Third Mizukage and lead the elders’ forces east.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the spoils cataloged and sent the Kaguya Detachment and reserve Border Army forces to prepare for Kirigakure’s reinforcements.
• The Shogunate ninja army raided the Land of Water’s shipping lanes and eastern islands, exploiting Kirigakure’s weak defenses and Byakugan-backed intelligence.
• The Mist Elders argued over how to retake the Eastern islands, then agreed to seek intelligence from the Third Mizukage’s Anbu.
• The Great Elder decided to hand Kirigakure’s defense zones to the Third Mizukage so the Elder Council’s troops could move east.
• A messenger reported that the Shogunate’s Amegakure mercenary army had killed the Kanpaku, prompting the Great Elder to leave and prepare for the eastern campaign.

After the rain ninja killed the Kanpaku of the Land of Water, Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared for the war against Kirigakure to escalate. He recruited more Rain ninja mercenaries and ordered the Hozuki, Mizuki, and Kaguya forces to contract their tactics and strike carefully.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu welcomed the returning Kaguya Detachment and rain ninja, promising them a seventy-thirty split of the spoils.
• Jonin Amada admitted that he had led the rain ninja into the Land of Water without authorization and killed the Kanpaku, and Uchiha Tokimitsu forgave him.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu asked Jonin Amada to recruit more Rain ninja and consult Hanzo about joining the war; Amada agreed to report back within three days.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu briefed Hozuki Ayahiko, Mizuki Chiyono, and Kaguya Toranosuke on the escalating war and ordered them to wear down Kirigakure forces while limiting their own losses.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned Hozuki Ayahiko to mobilize agents behind enemy lines and said reinforcements from the Red Force and the United Aquatic Products Company would arrive.

Hanzo agreed to send eight hundred more Rain ninja to join Uchiha Tokimitsu’s war against Kirigakure, with joint defense of Amegakure’s northern border as a condition. As forces gathered on Midway Island, Tokimitsu prepared to crush Kirigakure while Konoha’s factions watched uneasily and Hatake Sakumo kept the Hokage Faction from intervening.

• Hanzo, impressed by the spoils Amada brought back, agreed to join Tokimitsu’s campaign and ordered eight hundred Rain ninja mobilized.
• Hanzo required Uchiha Kamon’s Northwest Border Defense Force to help defend Rain’s northern border and sent Amada to Midway Island with a secret letter.
• Amada arrived on Midway Island as Uzumaki Kae welcomed him and he saw fifteen hundred elite Konoha clan ninja disembarking.
• Tokimitsu accepted Hanzo’s terms and arranged for Rain’s troops to travel with forces from the Land of Grass in three days.
• Tokimitsu committed forces from several countries to the campaign after reports revealed Kirigakure’s weak, divided defenses across the Land of Water.
• The Hokage Faction demanded action against Tokimitsu, but Hatake Sakumo blocked them while avoiding direct involvement himself.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s war against Kirigakure drew in Hanzō and nearly five thousand troops, while Konoha’s leadership struggled to control the campaign. The Daimyo of the Land of Water, alarmed by Tokimitsu’s growing power and Kirigakure’s divisions, decided to seek advice from the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu dismissed concerns that the Hokage would stop the war, while Hanzō departed Amegakure with his forces for Midway Island.
• Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen confronted Hatake Sakumo about the clans and troops supporting Tokimitsu, then ordered Sakumo not to fight and allowed him to transfer the Mobile Unit to Tokimitsu’s command.
• Hatake Sakumo described the forces gathered for the campaign, and Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized that nearly five thousand ninja were under Tokimitsu’s influence.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water learned that Hanzō had joined the war and failed to summon the Mizukage, who refused to come to the Daimyo’s Mansion.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water considered Tokimitsu a potential usurper, recalled the Land of Fire’s warning, and prepared a personal reply to its Daimyo.

Uchiha Tokimitsu received Konoe Atsushi, an envoy from the Daimyo of the Land of Water, and rejected the Daimyo’s demands while laying out conditions that would force a broader settlement. The envoy left with an official notice, and Tokimitsu ordered Hozuki Ayahiko to investigate his background and assets.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hanzō of the Salamander exchanged insights about Chakra and Ninjutsu, building mutual respect before an Uchiha ninja announced the envoy’s arrival.
• Konoe Atsushi entered the inner hall and demanded to know why Tokimitsu had invaded the Land of Water, but Tokimitsu justified the war by citing the persecution of the Hozuki, Mizuki, and Kaguya clans and the nobles’ obstruction of free trade.
• Konoe Atsushi presented the Daimyo’s terms: disband the ninja army, apologize, pay compensation, hand over rogue ninja, and accept hereditary official positions.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu countered with demands for the Mizukage’s resignation, restitution and purges, open borders, one hundred million gold coins, four eastern and Southern Island ports, oversight of port taxes, and the Daimyo’s retirement.
• Konoe Atsushi accepted an official notice and left after recognizing that Tokimitsu’s demands were intended to prolong the conflict.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered Hozuki Ayahiko to investigate Konoe Atsushi’s background and assets.

Uchiha Tokimitsu completed preparations to invade the Land of Water, while the Daimyo’s hostility and Kirigakure’s divided command weakened the defenders. The Shogunate launched its offensive and brought three black-painted ironclads to the harbor near the Daimyo’s Mansion, beginning the war of its rise.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the three ironclad ships painted black and named them Free Trade, Ninja Clan Will, and Subdue Waves and Conquer Barbarians.
• The Land of Water’s Daimyo, enraged by the Mizukage’s refusal to join the conflict and Uchiha Tokimitsu’s ceasefire terms, sent decrees seeking an alliance against the Uchiha Clan.
• Kirigakure’s Elder Council assembled a strained defensive force, while Uchiha Tokimitsu chose the Daimyo’s Mansion as his target and used intelligence-gathering squads to prepare a feint and hidden landing.
• Hanzō of the Salamander improved his Explosive Flame Formation with summoned salamanders carrying Explosive Tags, then joined Uchiha Tokimitsu’s prewar meeting.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned forces to feint at the Eastern islands and attack from the south, with the main objective set as the Daimyo’s Mansion.
• On October 5th, Year 37 of Konoha, the Shogunate began its offensive; on October 10th, three black-painted ironclads appeared near the Daimyo’s Mansion and launched a surprise attack.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Shogunate forces launched the Second Mist Expeditionary War, crushing Kirigakure’s underwater and coastal defenses at Kansai Port and securing a beachhead. The army prepared to advance on the Daimyo’s Mansion, while news of the victory reached Konoha and the Second Eastern War Bonds sold out.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered his fleet to attack Kansai Port, where the Mist forces were caught understaffed and unprepared.
• Uzumaki Kae directed torpedo strikes that devastated the Mist underwater assault force before Hozuki Ayahiko, Mizuki Chiyono, and the Rain Ninja Water Ghost Unit pursued the survivors.
• Hanzō of the Salamander summoned Ibuse to spread poison over the coastal fortifications as the Ninja Clan Allied Forces landed and blasted open the Mist defenses.
• The allied forces completed their landing and pressed their assault, while the Rain ninja encircled the port from both flanks and the ironclad ships moved closer.
• Hanzō returned to Uchiha Tokimitsu, and the forces prepared to rest briefly before advancing toward the Daimyo’s Mansion.
• News of the Shogunate victory reached Konoha, and the Naka River Securities Exchange sold out its Second Eastern War Bonds within half a day.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Shogunate forces advanced on the Land of Water’s Daimyo’s Mansion, prompting the Daimyo to flee north with his guards. Tokimitsu ordered the allied forces to attack the nearly abandoned capital while restraining his allies from pursuing revenge through a massacre.

• The Daimyo learned that Kirigakure’s defenses had been weakened and that Uchiha Tokimitsu’s army was approaching the mansion.
• Konoe Atsushi urged the Daimyo to leave for the northern counties, and the Daimyo assigned Atsushi to protect the capital’s temples and government offices.
• After the vanguard began probing the mansion’s defenses, the Mist Commander reported that more than two thousand enemy troops were still arriving.
• Hyuga Nobuhiro reported that the Daimyo was fleeing north with more than three hundred ninja and around two thousand soldiers, so Tokimitsu ordered the allied forces to attack.
• Tokimitsu warned Hozuki Ayahiko and Mizuki Chiyono against massacring the capital, explaining that he wanted to weaken and divide Kirigakure rather than unite the Land of Water against the Shogunate.

The Shogunate Ninja Clan Allied Forces overwhelmed the Mist defenders and captured the Daimyo's Mansion of the Land of Water. After celebrating the victory, Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the army to march to the capital.

• The Shogunate and Mist ninja armies exchanged powerful ninjutsu as the Daimyo's garrison prepared to resist.
• The Hatamoto Samurai Commander ordered the garrison to raise white flags, but the Ninja Clan Allied Forces' barrage swept the walls before the surrender could take effect.
• Shiranui Chōkō reached the Castle Keep and found the samurai already surrendering, while other ninja raised the Uchiha banner.
• Uzumaki Kae reported the capture of the Daimyo's Mansion to Uchiha Tokimitsu, and the assembled Jonin celebrated.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared the victory a historic moment and ordered the forces to march to the capital.

Uchiha Tokimitsu halted the northern campaign after the Three Great Nations condemned his invasion, while Hanzō of the Salamander volunteered to face Karatachi Yagura. Tokimitsu privately judged the statement less threatening than it appeared and sent letters organizing his response.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu refused Hozuki Ayahiko and Mizuki Chiyono permission to attack Karatachi Yagura, offering them the Nuibari and Shibuki instead.
• Hanzō of the Salamander read a top-secret letter about the Three Great Nations’ joint condemnation and asked Tokimitsu how he planned to respond.
• Tokimitsu explained that the southern campaign would continue but the northern advance would pause, and Hanzō set out with the Main Force Rain Ninja to fight Karatachi Yagura.
• After Hanzō left, Tokimitsu revealed that he had provoked him into volunteering and reviewed intelligence showing the Three Great Ninja Villages were not following their daimyos’ demands.
• Tokimitsu wrote letters to his clan, Hatake Sakumo, and Uchiha Kamon, framing the Three Great Nations’ actions as interference in the Land of Fire’s internal affairs.

Uchiha Tokimitsu moved to turn the Southern Islands’ conquest into political and financial gains while Hanzō of the Salamander led the Rain ninja against Kirigakure. Hanzō disrupted the Mist army with poison and explosives, then battled Karatachi Yagura as the Rain forces began advancing.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Southern Islands stripped of resources, recruited reliable prisoners into the Mist forces, and summoned the Eastern Border Defense Force detachments to the Kinki region.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu issued a Debt Relief Decree, seized the nobles’ grain stores for distribution, and spread word that noble property and land would be redistributed.
• Karatachi Yagura learned the Rain army was approaching, ordered Kirigakure to encircle it, and arranged for the daimyō and officials to leave the camp.
• Hanzō of the Salamander advanced with one thousand Rain ninja and sent a Water Clone into the Mist formation, where it triggered the Explosive Flame Formation.
• Hanzō of the Salamander unleashed poisonous black tides against the Mist army and fought Karatachi Yagura, who had activated Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Hanzō of the Salamander fired a Signal Flare, and the Rain Ninja Army began advancing in formation.

Hanzō of the Salamander and Karatachi Yagura fought to a standstill as poison and Water Style techniques forced both armies to retreat. Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived with the Mobile Unit and ambushed Yagura, while Hanzō turned his forces back toward the Mist Ninja Army.

• Hanzō of the Salamander used Water Style and poison techniques against Karatachi Yagura, while the Rain Ninja Army fought the Mist Ninja Army.
• Karatachi Yagura countered Hanzō's Poison Realm Tide with Water Style, protecting his troops as both sides withdrew from the poisoned battlefield.
• As Yagura lowered his guard, Uchiha Tokimitsu attacked him with Yin Fire: Dragon Fire Song Technique.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived with the Mobile Unit and Uzumaki Clan ninja, and Karatachi Yagura recognized them as the force from the Land of Whirlpools ambush.
• Hanzō of the Salamander regrouped his Rain Ninja Army and advanced toward the Mist Ninja Army with Tokimitsu and the Mobile Unit present.

Uchiha Tokimitsu fought and subdued Karatachi Yagura, whose combat abilities had been diminished by mind control, while Hanzō of the Salamander routed the Mist Ninja Army. The chapter ended with Uzumaki Kae sealing Karatachi Yagura and calming the Three-Tails' Chakra.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Uzumaki Kae suspected that Karatachi Yagura was being controlled, and Tokimitsu attacked him with Fire Style.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu battled Karatachi Yagura with Susanoo and Hikari-no-Mikoto, overpowering the partially transformed Jinchuriki.
• Hanzō of the Salamander spread poison across the Mist Ninja Army and led the Rain Ninja Army's assault.
• Karatachi Yagura severed one of his tails to escape, but Tokimitsu's Flame Formation and Hikari-no-Mikoto trapped him.
• Uzumaki Kae used the Eight Trigrams Seal on Karatachi Yagura, calming his Tailed Beast Chakra.