Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Tokimitsu organized Kirigakure under Shogunate control and told Iwagakure and Kumogakure that the village would have no more Mizukage. After considering the growing alliance against him and Konoha’s factions, he devised a strategy to preserve the Shogunate’s advantage while keeping the Ninja World divided.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu appointed the Hozuki, Yuki, and Kaguya Clans as Kirigakure’s guardian clans, abolished its Anbu and standing army, and assigned surrendering Jonin to a council.
• Kitsuchi and Killer B arrived at Midway Island and questioned Uchiha Tokimitsu about the Shogunate’s plans for Kirigakure and its next Mizukage.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that Kirigakure would have no more Mizukage and would become a Jonin Republic, while Killer B ended the tense meeting and left with Kitsuchi.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu assessed the growing cooperation between Iwagakure and Kumogakure, Konoha’s internal factions, and ways to contain his opponents while strengthening the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu wrote down his plan, naming it the “Ninja World Equilibrium Policy.”

Orochimaru struggled with nightmares about his dead teacher, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the Uchiha Clan’s growing control over him. After a messenger snake summoned him to Ryūchi Cave to meet the White Snake Sage, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu watched him depart and argued about their failed illusions.

• Orochimaru woke from a nightmare of an Uchiha ninja killing Sarutobi Hiruzen, whose severed remains continued teaching him.
• Orochimaru reflected on his grief for Sarutobi Hiruzen, his fear of the Uchiha Clan, and his dwindling prospects for revenge.
• Orochimaru summoned a Flower Snake, which told him that the White Snake Sage wanted to see him at Ryūchi Cave.
• Orochimaru changed clothes and accepted the Reverse Summoning Technique to travel to Ryūchi Cave.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu emerged in Orochimaru’s study, discussed how their illusions had failed, and left underground.

Orochimaru visited the White Snake Sage in Ryūchi Cave and learned that his dream involved Yin-Yang Release, while the Sage offered him a chance to learn Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Art and Immortality Secret Technique. After leaving, Orochimaru transformed into an eight-headed serpent and devoured the poisonous snakes surrounding him, as the Three Goddesses discussed the danger posed by an Uchiha Clan monster.

• Flower Snake led Orochimaru through Ryūchi Cave to meet the White Snake Sage while the Three Goddesses questioned why the Sage had summoned him.
• The White Snake Sage told Orochimaru that his dream involved Yin-Yang Release and that Mount Myōboku’s Toad Sage was helping carry out Otsutsuki Hagoromo’s plans.
• The White Snake Sage explained Ryūchi Cave’s distance from mortal affairs and promised Orochimaru its Sage Art and Immortality Secret Technique once he reached the proper state of mind.
• Flower Snake escorted Orochimaru to a den of poisonous snakes and told him Ryūchi Cave would not object to whatever he did with them.
• Orochimaru used the Eight Branches Technique to transform into a giant eight-headed snake and devour the swarm as the Three Goddesses watched.
• Tagorihime warned that Orochimaru might be killed by an Uchiha Clan monster, which Tagitsuhime described as having neither past nor future.

Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that Mimura Hamaki had proposed disbanding Hatake Sakumo’s Mobile Unit and sharply reducing Konoha’s standing Ninja Army, while dissent grew within the Reform Association over the Uchiha Clan’s control of the Land of Water. As Tokimitsu prepared a forceful response, Sakumo struggled to contain the political rift and was interrupted by a visit from Orochimaru and Jiraiya.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu received a report that Mimura Hamaki had proposed disbanding the Mobile Unit and cutting Konoha’s standing Ninja Army, and he ordered Karatachi Yagura brought to Konoha.
• Hatake Sakumo learned that Reform Association members were organizing to remove Uchiha Tokimitsu and challenge the Uchiha Clan’s control of the Land of Water.
• Hatake Sakumo regretted not rejecting Mimura Hamaki’s proposal outright and postponed his promised swordsmanship practice with Hatake Kakashi.
• Hatake Sakumo received Orochimaru and Jiraiya after they arrived together to visit him.

Uchiha Tokimitsu returned to Konoha, imposed a curfew, and planned to punish those undermining the Shogunate and the Uchiha Clan. The next day, his forces began arrests across the village, leaving Konoha’s factions fearful of who would be targeted next.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu returned to the clan compound with Karatachi Yagura and the Flame Fan, alarming Konoha’s factions and prompting Hatake Sakumo to stay home as a curfew began.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu gave Great Elder Setsuna the Flame Fan and revealed that Uchiha Madara had wielded it before suffering grave injuries and fleeing.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu found Uchiha Shisui and nine other clan members on a list of Conservative Faction conspirators, ordered their punishment, and said he would also target outsiders who stirred up trouble.
• The Konoha Military Police Force and Internal Affairs Department arrested Chunin at Mimura Kawaki’s Mansion and detained clan members and officials accused of undermining Konoha.
• Uchiha Nakagen took two Inuzuka jonin and an Aburame jonin for questioning, while the Military Police Force extended the curfew and warned that violators would be executed.

The purge ordered by Uchiha Tokimitsu spread across Konoha, as the Military Police Force and Internal Affairs Department arrested more than a thousand suspected opponents with fabricated evidence. Orochimaru and Jiraiya feared for their people, while the Hyuga Clan Head helped compile arrest files and watched the village descend into terror; the execution of an Uchiha Conservative Faction ninja pushed that fear to its peak.

• The Hyuga Clan Head’s Intelligence Department produced a list of seventy-nine suspects, and an Uchiha Jonin ordered the Military Police Force to arrest them.
• The Uchiha Jonin gave the Hyuga Clan Head a second list of over twelve hundred people and asked him to help fabricate evidence, while Tokimitsu’s order called for the purge to be overcorrected.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya discussed their captured subordinates and feared that they might be targeted, but the Military Police Force went to arrest Jonin Ethan next door instead.
• The Hyuga Clan Head saw Konoha’s residents avoiding clan-controlled shops and heard a fruit seller threatened with a Military Police Force report over a short-weight purchase.
• On the third day of curfew and the Great Purge, the Military Police Force announced the execution of an Uchiha Conservative Faction ninja accused of attempting to overthrow the village, bringing Konoha’s terror to its peak.

Uchiha Tokimitsu escalated the Great Purge with mass executions and trials, while Mimura Hamaki gathered a force to attack the Correctional Department. The Red Force crushed the rebellion and captured Hamaki, leaving the prison packed with detainees.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered summary trials and executions as Hatake Sakumo and Jiraiya worried about the purge, while Orochimaru refused to intervene.
• Mimura Hamaki decided to gather his followers and break into the Correctional Department, and Kunugi Mokume sought Hatake Sakumo's help.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned Mimura Hamaki was preparing to rebel and ordered executions to heighten the pressure before the attack.
• Mimura Hamaki led more than fifty followers toward the prison, where the Red Force ambushed and surrounded them.
• Uchiha Nagakage's forces subdued Mimura Hamaki's group in less than fifteen minutes, killing nearly twenty and taking Hamaki prisoner.
• The Konoha Military Police Force moved detainees into different cells, where Mimura Hamaki ended up sharing a cell with prisoners who supported and opposed him.

Hatake Sakumo concluded that Mimura Hamaki’s rebellion made his death inevitable, while Jiraiya’s anger at Uchiha rule drew the Military Police Force’s attention. Uchiha Tokimitsu granted Hamaki the option to return home and end his own life, then turned his attention to reforming Konoha’s ninja education.

• Kunugi Mokume asked Hatake Sakumo to save Mimura Hamaki, but Sakumo said the most he could do was ask Uchiha Tokimitsu to leave Hamaki some dignity.
• Jiraiya wandered through Konoha complaining about Uchiha rule, and a Military Police Force patrol startled him by removing its chakra-shielding barrier.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu interrogated Mimura Hamaki and said his disarmament proposal had crossed the Uchiha Clan’s red line.
• Tokimitsu let Hamaki keep his General title and return home to settle his family before ending his own life, while ordering one in ten of Hamaki’s subordinates executed and the rest exiled to the Punishment Corps.
• After Hamaki was taken away, Tokimitsu considered reforming the Konoha Ninja Academy and strengthening ideological education.

After the Purge Movement ended, Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed reforms to the Ninja Academy, and Hatake Sakumo agreed to help develop and submit them. They also decided to hold a joint Chunin examination while testing the two schools separately.

• Mimura Hamaki returned to his family estate under escort and committed seppuku, bringing the Purge Movement to a quiet close.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ended the curfew after carrying out the Decimation Order, and the ninja clans resumed cooperation in the Upper and Lower Houses.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu gave Hatake Sakumo a proposal to create aptitude-based classes, a Continuing Education Academy, and broader access to standard C-rank Ninjutsu.
• Hatake Sakumo accepted responsibility for refining the proposal’s ideological education section and submitting it to the House of Representatives.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo agreed to hold a joint Chunin examination, with the Ninja Academy and the Police Reserve Training School tested separately.

Konoha approved education reforms and organized joint Chunin Exams with villages across the Ninja World, while Kumogakure and Iwagakure declined and announced rival northern exams. As Konoha’s public anger toward the rival villages grew, Uchiha Tokimitsu explained to Hatake Sakumo how leaders could redirect domestic tensions or address them through reform or war.

• Hatake Sakumo secured unanimous House approval for the education reform proposal, and Uchiha Tokimitsu tasked Mitokado Homura with inviting ninja villages to joint Chunin Exams.
• Kirigakure, Kusagakure, Amegakure, and Sunagakure agreed to participate, while Uchiha Tokimitsu approved Sunagakure’s requests and sent Nara Shinyi back with United Company representatives.
• The Third Raikage declined Kumogakure’s invitation, and Iwagakure refused unless Konoha joined its war against Sunagakure; Uchiha Tokimitsu dismissed both refusals.
• Mitokado Homura secured participation from several smaller villages, but Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Takigakure announced rival northern Chunin Exams with a Northern Frost team.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Uchiha Tokimitsu about Konoha’s anger toward the rival villages, and Tokimitsu said leaders could redirect internal conflict through outside enemies or address it with reform or war.

The Third Raikage maintained Kumogakure’s reparations to the Shogunate while ordering measures to rebuild the village and block smuggling. Uchiha Tokimitsu tightened pressure on Iwagakure, expanded the Shogunate’s foothold through Kirigakure, and left the Land of Iron preparing to negotiate rather than fight.

• The Third Raikage rejected calls to end reparations, assigned A to train Takigakure Anbu, and ordered Killer B to command the southeastern border and suppress smuggling.
• Kumogakure’s convoy delivered its payment in Konoha, where Konoha ninja refused its requests to buy supplies or meet Uchiha Tokimitsu.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered border blockades against Iwagakure and provided Amegakure with a two-billion-ryo equipment loan to support its expansion toward the Land of Birds.
• Mizuki Chiyono led five hundred Mist Ninja Army troops to the Tajima Peninsula, where they drove out the samurai and established a forward camp.
• Mifune rejected a proposal to attack the Mist forces and sent Okaku to Konoha to negotiate with Uchiha Tokimitsu, anticipating that the Land of Iron would align with Konoha’s bloc.

The Great Toad Sage foresaw a coming Great Heavenly Change and ordered Mount Myōboku to enter the world, while warning Tsunade through Sage Katsuyu. The chapter ended with Katsuyu refusing to interfere, even as Gamamaru warned that Indra’s descendants might attract threats from deep space.

• The Great Toad Sage told Fukasaku and Shima that he could no longer see the future and ordered Mount Myōboku to enter the world.
• The Great Toad Sage said Mount Myōboku’s involvement with Ryūchi Cave would depend on their Earth Walkers and asked Fukasaku and Shima to call Jiraiya back for Sage Art training.
• Tsunade answered Sage Katsuyu’s summons and learned that Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave might join forces against a coming Great Heavenly Change.
• Sage Katsuyu told Tsunade that she would support her as an Earth Walker but would not interfere in the Ninja World’s affairs.
• Gamamaru urged Sage Katsuyu to reconsider entering the world, warning that Indra’s descendants might attract aberrations from deep space, but Katsuyu refused to change the present.

Jiraiya finally left Orochimaru’s home after a month of squatting there, warning him to be careful about his secret experiments and lingering hatred. Meanwhile, Uchiha Tokimitsu managed tensions with the Land of Lightning while weighing the limits of his expanding power and searching for more White Zetsu.

• Orochimaru attacked Jiraiya with snakes to drive him out, but Jiraiya exposed the bloodied underground laboratory and agreed to leave.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru warned each other about the dangers they faced, then argued over their committee titles and the need to settle themselves.
• Jiraiya said Mount Myōboku had not contacted him, and Orochimaru urged him not to waste his strength on the so-called Savior.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered merchants to charge more for Land of Lightning currency, discount Golden Yuan Notes, strengthen border defenses, and buy Lightning Country raw materials.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu reflected that his forces were stretched too thin to expand further and that the Uchiha needed time to absorb Mist Village.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu lamented that Uchiha Madara remained missing and that his supply of White Zetsu for producing Sacred Particles had run out.

Two-Tails Matatabi traded small amounts of Tailed Beast Chakra to the Ninja Cats for beavers, while Uchiha Tokimitsu allowed the profitable arrangement to continue. Nekomata then reported that he could sense Natural Energy after exposure to Matatabi’s Chakra, and Tokimitsu funded his further research.

• Two-Tails Matatabi traded Tailed Beast Chakra to the Ninja Cats in exchange for beavers, creating a profitable cycle involving Cat Grandma and the Uchiha ninja.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned about the trade and let it continue, cautioning the Uchiha shinobi to keep the Chakra from outsiders.
• Nekomata told Uchiha Tokimitsu that he could sense Natural Energy after fusing with a small amount of Matatabi’s power.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu asked whether Nekomata could combine Natural Energy with his own Chakra, and Nekomata said he had not yet managed it.
• Nekomata asked for funds to buy more beavers and study the connection between Tailed Beast Chakra and Natural Energy, and Tokimitsu agreed.

The Konoha Military Police Force arrested Jiraiya after Uchiha Tokimitsu secretly arranged to target him for his Sage Art knowledge and past offenses. After Orochimaru bailed him out, the Major Crimes Unit immediately arrested Jiraiya again, leaving Orochimaru bewildered.

• Uchiha Koushou and the Major Crimes Unit tried to arrest Jiraiya at a tavern, but Jiraiya escaped using a toad substitution and Transformation Jutsu.
• Uchiha Fugaku cornered Jiraiya with the Eastern District police, and Jiraiya surrendered to protect the songstresses.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered Jiraiya held for three days, then directed the Major Crimes Unit to arrest him again after bail.
• Orochimaru bailed Jiraiya out after struggling to address the multiple complaints and evidence against him.
• The Major Crimes Unit arrested Jiraiya again outside the station, and Jiraiya told Orochimaru to bail him out in a few days.

Orochimaru failed to bail Jiraiya out after learning that complaints and surveillance footage tied him to repeated bathhouse peeping, while Tsunade warned that the unusually coordinated case might be a political plot. Jiraiya secretly arranged for the Mount Myōboku sages to extract him in seven days if necessary, then pondered who was behind the case.

• The Konoha Military Police Force refused Orochimaru’s bail request, citing numerous complaints against Jiraiya and ongoing investigations in multiple districts.
• Orochimaru reviewed the complaints and surveillance evidence, then visited Jiraiya in detention and told him he would have to remain there for seven more days.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru that Uchiha Tokimitsu or Uchiha Shifang might be orchestrating the case and promised to join a bail application with several Senju Jonin after seven days.
• Jiraiya secretly summoned a Mount Myōboku Contact Frog and instructed the Two Sages to use Reverse Summoning to extract him at noon if he sent no notice after seven days.
• Jiraiya chose not to escape immediately because doing so would implicate Orochimaru and damage the former Hokage Faction, and he tried to identify the forces behind his arrest.

Orochimaru secured Jiraiya’s release on bail, but Jiraiya violated parole by leaving Konoha before his trial. The Konoha Military Police Force sentenced him in absentia and offered clemency if he returned and turned himself in, while Uchiha Tokimitsu publicly supported giving him another chance.

• Orochimaru obtained bail for Jiraiya with five Senju Jonin as guarantors, and Jiraiya was released after ten days in detention.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered daily inspections of Jiraiya and a prosecution in seven days to increase pressure on him.
• After enduring the inspections, Jiraiya left Konoha through the Reverse Summoning Technique without notifying the authorities.
• The Military Police Force found Jiraiya’s note, informed Orochimaru that Jiraiya had violated parole, and held his trial in absentia.
• The Military Police Force sentenced Jiraiya to three years’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, and said it would not pursue his flight if he turned himself in within five days.
• Hatake Sakumo consulted Uchiha Tokimitsu about removing Jiraiya from his House of Representatives post, and Tokimitsu advised against rushing to remove him.

Orochimaru sought help from the White Snake Sage as Konoha’s hostility toward Jiraiya grew, while Jiraiya trained at Mount Myōboku and learned that Uchiha Tokimitsu was his enemy. Sage Fukasaku told Jiraiya that the Great Sage had been waiting for him, and promised to take him there after lunch.

• Tsunade warned Orochimaru that Konoha’s public opinion against Jiraiya resembled the backlash after Uchiha Madara defected, leaving Orochimaru troubled and powerless.
• Orochimaru summoned Ryūchi Cave’s Flower Snake and learned that Tagorihime would summon him to meet the White Snake Sage in three days.
• Jiraiya continued Sage Mode training with Sage Fukasaku, suffered a near-petrification after losing concentration, and complained about Konoha’s laws and the Military Police Force.
• Sage Fukasaku confirmed that Uchiha Tokimitsu had targeted Jiraiya because he would become the Savior’s enemy and bring grave harm to the Ninja World.
• Jiraiya asked whether the Great Sage had awakened, and Sage Fukasaku said the Great Sage had been waiting for him and would receive him after lunch.

Uchiha Tokimitsu welcomed delegations from several villages as Konoha prepared to host the Chunin Exams, while the visiting ninja and Konoha clans readied their candidates. As the exams approached and the United Company posted a new recruitment plan, Tokimitsu looked over Konoha and felt confident in his growing influence.

• Orochimaru read the Military Police Force notice naming Jiraiya a loyalty suspect and worried that he could not contact him.
• Delegations from Kusagakure, Kirigakure, Amegakure, the Land of Frost, and Sunagakure arrived or sent envoys, and Uchiha Tokimitsu received them and discussed their plans.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo agreed that visiting leaders would receive the same reception as Konoha's leaders while Sunagakure sought greater support against Iwagakure.
• Konoha's clans and the Military Police Preparatory School intensified training for the Chunin Exams, while the Senju Clan shared basic ninjutsu with its young Genin.
• Kirigakure's Genin arrived as the Military Police Force announced that the joint exams would begin the following Wednesday, and Sunagakure's Genin saw crowds gather around the United Company's recruitment notice.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu watched Konoha from his office window and declared that the Ninja World's heroes were within his grasp.

Uchiha Tokimitsu approved investigating whether Sunagakure genin were willing to join the United Company, while Jiraiya returned from Mount Myōboku and discovered that Konoha regarded him as a fugitive and Loyalty Suspect Ninja. After Jiraiya was detected heading for Orochimaru’s residence, the Military Police Force cornered him and demanded his surrender.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu instructed the United Company to assess Sand Ninja applicants’ willingness to join but not sign contracts yet.
• Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima placed a reverse-summoning seal on Jiraiya before he left Mount Myōboku for Konoha.
• Jiraiya investigated the village in disguise and learned that he had fled before judgment and been branded a Loyalty Suspect Ninja.
• Jiraiya decided to bid farewell to Orochimaru and then leave Konoha, but the surveillance barrier detected his Chakra and exposed his movements.
• Uchiha, Uzumaki, and Kurama ninja surrounded Jiraiya near Orochimaru’s residence and ordered him to come with them.