Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Sōgetsu’s plan devastated the Cloud Ninja army, and Lin Jiao and the Anbu came to regard him as Konoha’s true Hokage. Sōgetsu faced A, the Raikage, and left him battered while taunting him about his weakness.

• Lin Jiao praised Sōgetsu’s successful plan to use a disguised prisoner and the Eight-Tails to detonate Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags among the Cloud Ninja.
• Sōgetsu refused to press the attack before dealing with the Raikage and said he wanted to avoid further losses among Konoha’s comrades.
• Lin Jiao declared that Sōgetsu was the Hokage, and the Anbu prepared to protect him when A charged through the smoke.
• Sōgetsu stopped the guards and went alone to confront A, telling Lin Jiao to protect Konoha’s comrades instead.
• Sōgetsu easily dodged A’s attacks, slapped him across the face, and mocked his Lightning Release Armor and inability to avenge his father.

A and Killer B fought Uchiha Sōgetsu together, pushing him and his Susanoo to their limits. When Konoha's Anbu arrived, the exhausted brothers withdrew, leaving the battle unresolved.

• A admitted Uchiha Sōgetsu was stronger than him alone, then joined forces with Killer B.
• A broke through Susanoo with Heavy Downpour, while Uchiha Sōgetsu answered with Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation.
• Killer B fired a point-blank Tailed Beast Bomb, and A shielded him from Uchiha Sōgetsu's Susanoo strike.
• A and Killer B coordinated a Double Lariat that shattered Susanoo's skeleton, but A's follow-up Lightning Cruelty Wave struck a wooden post instead of Uchiha Sōgetsu.
• Killer B spotted Konoha's Anbu approaching, so A and Killer B retreated after A vowed to kill Uchiha Sōgetsu next time.

Uchiha Sōgetsu collapsed after driving back the Raikage and Jinchuriki, and Medical Ninja revealed that his Sharingan had caused a severe Bloodline Disease that was close to making him blind. Despite his condition, he continued working to end the war and enlisted Orochimaru to carry out a plan involving Impure World Reincarnation.

• Lin Jiao carried the unconscious Uchiha Sōgetsu to Konoha's camp, where Medical Ninja diagnosed him with a severe Bloodline Disease and failing eyesight.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu woke, told Lin Jiao to keep his condition secret, and insisted on making one final contribution to Konoha.
• Orochimaru returned to Konoha and met Uchiha Sōgetsu, who offered him the Hokage position before asking how to end the war quickly.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu showed Orochimaru a Scroll proposing a plan that the advisors would oppose.
• Orochimaru agreed to the plan and expressed interest in using Impure World Reincarnation to witness Wood Release.

Uchiha Sōgetsu had Orochimaru use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, while observing the technique and wondering about the Pure Land. Orochimaru introduced Sōgetsu as the likely Fourth Hokage, shocking both resurrected Hokage.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu told Lin Jiao to proceed with the plan, and Lin Jiao brought in two injured Elite Jonin who had volunteered as sacrifices.
• Orochimaru performed Impure World Reincarnation as Uchiha Sōgetsu observed the summoned souls and considered the nature of the Pure Land.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju emerged in their Warring States armor, and Lin Jiao identified them as the First and Second Hokage.
• Tobirama Senju demanded an explanation from Uchiha Sōgetsu and released his chakra, shaking and cracking the room.
• Orochimaru introduced himself as Hiruzen Sarutobi’s disciple and said Uchiha Sōgetsu would soon become the Fourth Hokage, leaving Hashirama and Tobirama stunned.

Uchiha Sōgetsu explained to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju that Konoha was under attack by all four great ninja villages and that he had temporarily taken over as Hokage after the Third Hokage was assassinated. Tobirama learned that Danzo’s hostility toward the Uchiha had helped cause Konoha’s disastrous losses, while Danzo suspected Sōgetsu was plotting against him.

• Tobirama Senju questioned why Uchiha Sōgetsu was carrying out the Hokage’s duties, and Hashirama Senju urged him to treat the Uchiha equally.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed his Chakra after Tobirama Senju brought up Madara, damaging the room and terrifying Lin Jiao.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu stopped the brothers’ argument and revealed that the Mist, Sand, Cloud, and Rock villages had declared war on Konoha.
• Sōgetsu explained that the Third Hokage had been assassinated and was unconscious, so he had temporarily taken over as Hokage.
• Orochimaru and Lin Jiao explained that Danzo had sent the Uchiha to face the Cloud Ninja’s main force alone, and that Sōgetsu had prevented Konoha from falling.
• Tobirama Senju blamed Danzo for the disaster, while Danzo shuddered and suspected Uchiha Sōgetsu was plotting against him.

After reviewing Danzo’s record and learning that Danzo had seduced Hiruzen, Tobirama Senju apologized to Uchiha Sōgetsu and named him the Fourth Hokage. Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju then arrived at separate battlefronts, where they turned the tide against the Stone Ninja and Sand Ninja.

• Lin Jiao presented Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju with records of Danzo’s misconduct, and Orochimaru revealed that Danzo had become a woman and entered a relationship with Hiruzen.
• Tobirama Senju apologized to Uchiha Sōgetsu for his prejudice against the Uchiha and recognized him as the Fourth Hokage, with Hashirama Senju agreeing.
• Hashirama Senju arrived at the Stone Ninja battlefield, where Ōnoki of Both Scales ordered a retreat, but the Stone Ninja charged before they heard him.
• Pain canceled his contract with Chiyo and warned her to retreat, then vanished from the Sand Ninja battlefield.
• Tobirama Senju appeared before Chiyo, who offered the Sand Ninja’s surrender, but he attacked her with Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.

After the Third Great Ninja War ended in Konoha’s victory, Uchiha Sōgetsu was recognized as the Fourth Hokage and prepared for his inauguration. On the day of the ceremony, he vanished, and the search ended with his mutilated body discovered in Danzo’s Root Division.

• Konoha defeated the other Great Ninja Villages, and Uchiha Sōgetsu was recognized as the Fourth Hokage.
• Mikoto visited Sōgetsu before his inauguration, confessed her feelings, and left after he reminded her that Itachi was waiting.
• Sōgetsu completed his war-related side quest and received a Manipulator potion.
• Sōgetsu failed to appear at his inauguration, prompting Tobirama, Mikoto, and the Anbu to search for him.
• The search party teleported to Danzo’s Root Division and found Sōgetsu’s body nailed upside down to a wall, with his eyes gouged out.

Danzo confronted Uchiha Sōgetsu and Aburame Ryoma after losing control of Root and transforming into a monstrous, powerful form. She attacked them and slammed Uchiha Sōgetsu into a wall, then drove a blade into his chest.

• Danzo saw her wrinkled face and living, eye-tipped hair in the mirror and panicked.
• Aburame Ryoma arrived with Uchiha Sōgetsu and revealed that Root no longer obeyed Danzo and that he had never been loyal to her.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu told Danzo he had monitored her actions since the Amegakure incident and claimed responsibility for her transformation and the Cloud Ninja invasion.
• Danzo attacked Uchiha Sōgetsu with Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere, but Aburame Ryoma blocked it with Kikaichū and countered with Parasitic Insects: Corrosion.
• Danzo shed her robe, crawled across the ceiling with her living hair, grabbed Uchiha Sōgetsu, smashed him into a wall, and stabbed his chest with a blade.

Uchiha Sōgetsu manipulated Danzo into believing she had killed him and staged her as an Aurora Society traitor, then escaped her suicide attack and let her die. After burning her body, he discovered she had dropped a Witch Characteristic.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu revealed that the corpse Danzo had pinned to the wall was a decoy and used his influence over her Mind Island to control her.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu staged the corpse as evidence that Danzo had murdered him and ties to the Aurora Society, then took back the ring that had enabled his influence.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu ordered Aburame Ryoma to become Danzo and planted a thought in Ryoma’s subconscious.
• Danzo broke free by biting through her tongue and activated Reverse Four Symbols Sealing, but White Zetsu used his right eye to pull Uchiha Sōgetsu away.
• Danzo died alone as the sealing technique consumed the area, and Uchiha Sōgetsu returned to burn her body.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu found a Witch Characteristic among Danzo’s remains.

Konoha held a funeral for Uchiha Sōgetsu, whose mysterious death stirred grief and anger among the villagers. Amid their mourning, a black-robed man with Sōgetsu’s face drank a Potion and advanced toward Sequence 4 by entering the Collective Unconscious Ocean.

• Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku carried newborn Itachi from the Uchiha compound to Sōgetsu’s funeral as rain began to fall.
• Mitokado Homura announced Sōgetsu’s death, while Kakashi and the crowd questioned the official explanation and suspected a conspiracy.
• Minato Namikaze vowed that he would never forgive Shimura Danzō, and the mourners recited a prayer for Sōgetsu.
• A black-robed man with Sōgetsu’s face drank a Potion amid the grief of more than ten thousand people and entered the Collective Unconscious Ocean.
• The man resisted the ocean’s spiritual contamination, sent fragments of his consciousness to people’s Mind Islands, then left as sunlight broke through the clouds.

Uchiha Sōgetsu became a Sequence 4 Manipulator and returned to the Uchiha compound, where he found Mikoto mourning his supposed death. Grieving and consumed by revenge, Mikoto awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and vowed to punish those she blamed.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu experienced his new Demigod abilities and resolved not to reveal his Mythical Creature Form near Konoha.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu realized he had returned to the Uchiha compound and decided to take care of one last matter before leaving.
• Mikoto clutched Sōgetsu's Hokage Robe and confessed her love and grief in the empty room.
• Mikoto vowed revenge against Konoha's leaders and clans she blamed for Sōgetsu's death.
• Mikoto's three tomoe connected into a cross-shaped star pattern, and she told Sōgetsu she had gained the same eyes as him.

Uchiha Sōgetsu visited Mikoto as she slept, soothed her nightmare, and then gave the infant Itachi a strange gift. Itachi’s disturbing behavior escalated until Fugaku found him carrying the bloodied head of a Medical Ninja.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu saw Mikoto relive his death in a nightmare and altered it to give her a peaceful dream.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu touched Itachi’s forehead and sent a mass of twisted, shadowy liquid into his mind.
• Uchiha Itachi began walking, staring at people’s backs, and whispering to them while they slept, alarming Fugaku and the clan.
• Fugaku summoned a Medical Ninja to examine Itachi after growing frightened by his behavior.
• The Medical Ninja approached Itachi, who said he wanted meat, and Fugaku later found Itachi holding the man’s bloodied head.

After Orochimaru rejected the Hokage appointment, the advisors offered the position to Minato Namikaze, who also refused. Minato said he would leave to find Danzo and avenge Uchiha Sōgetsu after the Five Nations negotiations.

• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu offered Orochimaru the Hokage position on Tobirama Senju's decision.
• Orochimaru rejected the appointment, saying he had no interest in becoming Hokage and wanted to focus on his immortality research.
• The advisors decided Minato Namikaze could become Hokage after Orochimaru refused.
• Minato rejected the appointment, saying Uchiha Sōgetsu had shown him what a true Hokage was and that he was not qualified.
• Minato vowed not to return to Konoha until he killed Danzo and said he would search for him after the Five Nations negotiations.

Tobirama Senju rebuked Konoha’s advisors for refusing the Hokage position and trying to conceal Uchiha Sōgetsu’s history as the Fourth Hokage. At Sōgetsu’s grave, Minato Namikaze encountered Mr. A of the Aurora Society, who claimed the group had killed the Fourth Hokage and then survived Minato’s attempt to kill him.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to wake Hiruzen Sarutobi and condemned them for refusing to take the Hokage position.
• Tobirama Senju kicked Mitokado Homura for suggesting they hide that Uchiha Sōgetsu had been the Fourth Hokage, then warned both advisors to abandon their schemes.
• Minato Namikaze visited Uchiha Sōgetsu’s grave, where the black-robed Mr. A appeared and asked for the Fourth Hokage’s corpse.
• Mr. A introduced himself as an Aurora Society member and admitted the society had caused the Fourth Hokage’s death, but said he did not know where Danzo was.
• Minato Namikaze cut Mr. A’s throat, but Mr. A rose from the blood pool unharmed and invited Minato to join the Aurora Society.

Minato Namikaze fought the bizarre Mr. A, whose shifting flesh and shadow-like movement made him difficult to attack. Minato landed a Four Symbols Seal on him, and Mr. A screamed that he was dying.

• Minato Namikaze attacked Mr. A with a Flying Thunder God and Rasengan combination, but Mr. A melted into the ground and evaded it.
• Mr. A emerged as a mass of flesh and tried to engulf Minato, who escaped using a marker he had placed earlier.
• Mr. A stretched his arms and moved through shadows to pursue Minato, who evaded the attacks with Flying Thunder God.
• Minato used Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu to suppress Mr. A, then teleported close and applied the Four Symbols Seal to disrupt his Chakra.
• Mr. A's face twisted as he screamed, "No, no—don't! Ah—I'm dying!"

Minato Namikaze fought Mr. A, whose body resisted sealing techniques and recovered from devastating attacks. Minato used the Flying Thunder God to carve Mr. A apart, but Mr. A unleashed the voice of the True Creator.

• Mr. A revealed that Minato Namikaze’s Four Symbols Seal had failed, then tried to absorb him, but Minato’s Shadow Clone burst into smoke.
• Minato judged Mr. A’s abilities too dangerous for Gama Bunta and avoided Mr. A’s underground attack, but a flesh tentacle caught his ankle and smashed him through tombstones.
• Minato used a Rasengan to blast Mr. A away, but Mr. A recovered and again demanded that Minato join the Aurora Society.
• Minato summoned a Shadow Clone and attacked with Flying Thunder God: Spiral Flash Super Wheel Dance Howl Style Three, cutting Mr. A’s body into a bloody ruin.
• Mr. A opened his mouth and released the voice of the True Creator.

Tobirama Senju saved Minato Namikaze from Mr. A and incapacitated him, but an even more dangerous member of the Aurora Society arrived to retrieve him. The newcomer introduced himself as the Dusk Saint.

• Mr. A attacked Minato Namikaze with a soul-rending scream and flesh tentacles, but Tobirama Senju tore him apart with a water technique.
• Minato Namikaze warned Tobirama Senju about Mr. A’s abilities and the Aurora Society, and Mr. A reappeared unharmed.
• Tobirama Senju cut off Mr. A’s head and kicked it away, leaving his body unable to move before attempting to interrogate him.
• A mysterious black-robed person appeared, retrieved Mr. A’s head, and identified himself as the Dusk Saint, one of the Aurora Society’s three great Saints.

The Dusk Saint punished Mr. A for failing to secure the Fourth Generation’s corpse, then overpowered Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze when they tried to stop him. Minato lost consciousness without seeing the Saint’s face, vowing to find and destroy the Aurora Society.

• The Dusk Saint appeared and reprimanded Mr. A, who pleaded for more time to complete his task.
• The Dusk Saint made Mr. A swell and explode, then spared him by keeping him alive as only a head.
• Tobirama Senju asked what the Aurora Society wanted with the Fourth Generation’s corpse, but the Dusk Saint refused to answer and trapped him and Minato Namikaze under his mental pressure.
• Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze escaped the pressure, attacked the Dusk Saint with water, Flying Thunder God, and Rasengan techniques, and were defeated by his Mind Breath.
• Minato Namikaze lost consciousness before he could see the Dusk Saint’s face and vowed to find and destroy the Aurora Society.

Ōnoki accepted Konoha’s invitation to discuss war reparations and reflected on how the war had weakened Konoha from within. At a Twilight Hermit Society gathering, Orochimaru asked about the Aurora Society, and Uchiha Sōgetsu identified its deity as the Fallen Creator.

• Kakashi delivered Konoha’s invitation to Ōnoki, who confirmed he would attend and asked whether Danzo had assassinated the Fourth Hokage.
• After Kakashi left, Ōnoki told Kitsuchi that Konoha’s losses and internal divisions meant it had not truly won the war.
• Ōnoki lit an ancient oil lamp and joined the Twilight Hermit Society gathering, where he introduced himself as Rock alongside Higanbana, Haku, and Paper Crane.
• Orochimaru reported that Danzo had assassinated the Fourth Hokage and that the Aurora Society had taken his corpse.
• Orochimaru asked whether the members knew about the Aurora Society and its worship of the True Creator, and Uchiha Sōgetsu replied that the deity should be called the Fallen Creator.

Uchiha Sōgetsu warned that the Aurora Society’s Spirit Summoning Ritual could free the Fallen Creator and destroy the world, then revealed the origins of the Two Wills born from The First Creator. He ended by announcing that the Blasphemy Stone Tablet, which recorded the Divine Path, had emerged.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu warned Ōnoki not to look directly at the Hanged Giant or The Eyes Behind the Shadow Curtain.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu explained that Danzo had arranged Uchiha Sōgetsu’s corpse for a Spirit Summoning Ritual that could let the Fallen Creator break free and descend.
• Konan, Ōnoki, and White Fang agreed that they had to stop the Aurora Society from completing the ritual.
• Orochimaru connected the cross and the references to the First and Fallen Creators, then asked whether the two Creators were related.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu revealed that Two Wills had emerged from The First Creator after his betrayal, and that one embodied living beings’ negative personalities and sought to devour the world.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu announced that the Blasphemy Stone Tablet recording the Divine Path had emerged.