Chapter Summaries

Tobirama sent Madara and Isobu thousands of miles away with the Flying Thunder God, but Madara had left a clone behind to seize Kagami. Madara then summoned the Three-Tails and returned in his real body, leaving Tobirama and Mito facing him again.

• Tobirama used a Shadow Clone and the Flying Thunder God to teleport Madara and Isobu away, then returned to Kagami with no Chakra left.
• Tobirama ordered Kagami and Mito to rescue Konoha's captured ninjas, but Madara's Susanoo clone knocked Kagami unconscious and captured him.
• Mito recognized that the Madara they faced was a Wood Style clone, and stepped forward to fight it while Tobirama recovered.
• Madara's clone used Genjutsu to control the two Tailed Beasts, then summoned the Three-Tails with Madara's real body inside.
• Madara returned and taunted Mito and Tobirama, who were left pale and despairing under his pressure.

Natsu Yuu arrived in Ninja World 2 and learned that Konoha was at war with Madara’s Kirigakure, while Roshi and Han launched a revenge attack on the village. Konoha’s defenders suppressed Han, but Roshi’s second Tailed Beast Bomb shot through the breach in Konoha’s wall.

• Natsu Yuu arrived in Konoha, used Genjutsu to learn that Tobirama and the village’s main force were fighting Kirigakure, and sensed a Tailed Beast attack nearby.
• Roshi and Han attacked Konoha to avenge Iwagakure, which Konoha had helped destroy.
• Uchiha Hachiban, Uzumaki Ashina, and Konoha’s remaining defenders fought Han, while Roshi gathered a Tailed Beast Bomb far from the village.
• Roshi’s first Tailed Beast Bomb destroyed much of Konoha’s outer wall and nearby buildings, killing hundreds of villagers.
• Konoha’s defenders tried to block the breach with Earth Release, but Roshi’s second Tailed Beast Bomb shot through the opening.

Natsu Yuu redirected the Four-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb away from Konoha, then brought Tobirama 1 to help defend the village. Tobirama 1 defeated the Four-Tails and captured Roshi, while Konoha’s forces captured the Five-Tails’ jinchuriki as well.

• Natsu Yuu used Yomotsu Hirasaka to send the Tailed Beast Bomb back to Roshi, saving Konoha from its blast.
• Utatane Koharu ordered En to repair the wall and charged toward the Four-Tails, while Natsu Yuu decided Konoha should handle the crisis itself.
• Natsu Yuu brought Tobirama 1 from the Daimyo’s Mansion to Konoha, and Tobirama 1 agreed to intervene after learning the village was under attack.
• Tobirama 1 used his Flying Thunder God Marks to appear beside Koharu and ordered her to summon the Uzumaki Clan and Sealing Squad.
• Tobirama 1 defeated the Four-Tails, forced it back into Roshi, and handed the unconscious jinchuriki to Konoha’s Sealing Squad.
• Uchiha Hachiban and Uzumaki Ashina helped Konoha’s forces defeat the Five-Tails and capture its jinchuriki, while the shinobi praised Tobirama 1 as their Hokage.

Tobirama 1 joined Tobirama 2's desperate battle against Madara and helped him devise a way to negotiate. The chapter ended with Madara demanding to know what Tobirama wanted in exchange for information about the Rinnegan.

• Tobirama 1 sensed Madara and Wood Style chakra to the east and used Flying Thunder God to reach the battlefield.
• Tobirama 1 found Tobirama 2 exhausted while Mito Uzumaki fought Madara's Wood Style clone and the two Tailed Beasts.
• Tobirama 1 restored Tobirama 2's strength, and the two secretly agreed on a plan to outwit Madara.
• Tobirama 1 vanished in a burst of smoke, and Tobirama 2 offered Madara a deal by revealing that he knew about Madara's Rinnegan and Moon Eye Plan ambitions.
• Tobirama 2 offered information on how Madara could obtain the Rinnegan and revive Izuna, prompting Madara to ask what he wanted.

Tobirama bargained with Madara to spare the captured Konoha shinobi in exchange for himself and information about awakening the Rinnegan. Madara captured Tobirama and agreed to release the shinobi first, while Tobirama withheld the information until they had withdrawn.

• Tobirama demanded that Madara release the Konoha hostages, but Madara refused to let them go freely.
• Tobirama offered himself as a hostage and asked Madara to release Kagami as well; Madara accepted both terms if Tobirama surrendered and gave genuine information about the Rinnegan.
• Mito tried to stop Tobirama, but Madara trapped her and the Tailed Beasts with Wood Style barriers.
• Tobirama stabbed both his eyes with a kunai, surrendered, and let Madara bind and injure him to confirm he was not a clone.
• Tobirama insisted that Madara release the Konoha shinobi before he revealed how to obtain the Rinnegan; Madara agreed, confident he could control the situation.

Tobirama 1 tried to kill Madara with a surprise attack while Madara used Wood Style, but the apparent victory proved to be a decapitated Wood Style clone. Tobirama 1 escaped with Tobirama 2, while Madara revealed himself atop the Three-Tails and wondered how the clone had survived his attack.

• Madara stopped releasing pollen by shrinking the sea of wood as Tobirama waited for a chance to strike.
• Tobirama 1 teleported in and slashed at Madara, but Madara pierced him with a wooden spike, causing him to burst into smoke.
• Tobirama 1's sword emerged from the smoke and cut off Madara's head before Madara could activate Susanoo.
• Tobirama 1 realized the decapitated Madara was a Wood Style clone, then freed Tobirama 2 and teleported away with him.
• Madara emerged from the Three-Tails' mouth and wondered how the Tobirama clone had endured the damage from Wood Style.

Madara regained control of the Konoha hostages after Tobirama’s ambush failed, while Tobirama 1 sought backup for the blinded Tobirama 2. Natsu Yuu offered to bring Hashirama and another Madara to help, but Tobirama hesitated over the risk of their alliance causing future conflict.

• Madara used Wood Style to seize the unconscious Konoha shinobi again and relied on his Tailed Beast batteries to replenish his Chakra.
• Tobirama 1 transported the blinded Tobirama 2 ten kilometers from the battlefield and told him their attack had struck a Wood Style clone.
• Tobirama 2 planned to return and fight Madara while Tobirama 1 criticized his defeat, then left to get backup.
• Tobirama 1 asked Natsu Yuu to bring Hashirama from his world to help Tobirama 2 defeat Madara.
• Natsu Yuu warned that Hashirama and another Madara could only stay briefly and that killing this world’s Madara might damage their future alliance, leaving Tobirama unsure.

Tobirama 1 returned to Ninja World 2 with Madara 1 as reinforcements against the stronger Madara 2. Madara 1 sensed his counterpart in the sea of trees and insisted on fighting him alone.

• Tobirama 1 decided he needed help and asked Natsu Yuu to take him back to Ninja World 1.
• Tobirama 1 returned to Ninja World 2 with Madara 1, whom he had persuaded to help at great personal cost.
• Tobirama 2 mistook Madara 1 for the enemy until Tobirama 1 explained that he came from another world.
• Madara 1 mocked Tobirama 2 and learned that Hashirama was unavailable because he was in Uzushio Village.
• Madara 1 sensed Madara 2 in the sea of trees and rejected Tobirama 1's suggestion to distract the enemy for a sneak attack.

Wood Release Madara 2 waited for Tobirama with Mito and Kagami held hostage, then confronted Madara 1, who claimed to be his future self. The two Madaras fought, and Madara 1 became furious after seeing Hashirama’s face grafted onto Madara 2’s chest.

• Wood Release Madara 2 kept Mito Uzumaki and Kagami Uchiha captive while waiting for Tobirama to appear.
• Tobirama 1 arrived with Tobirama 2 and Madara Grandpa 1, and Wood Release Madara 2 mistook Madara 1 for an impostor.
• Madara 1 blocked and reflected Wood Release Madara 2’s Tailed Beast Bomb with a Flame Gunbai, leaving Madara 2 confused by the matching weapons.
• The two Madaras clashed with matching Great Fire Annihilation techniques, and Madara 2 began to wonder whether Madara 1 was truly his future self.
• Madara 1 spotted Hashirama’s face on Madara 2’s chest, called him disgusting, and prepared to kill him.

Founding Madara 1 fought Wood Release Madara 2 after recognizing his future self, while the two Tobiramas moved to rescue the hostages and evacuate Konoha. Madara 1 fell behind against Madara 2’s armored Eight-Tails Susanoo as the battle threatened to devastate the surrounding area.

• Founding Madara 1 summoned his Perfect Susanoo and attacked Wood Release Madara 2, rejecting his appeal to join forces for the Moon Eye Plan.
• Madara 2 formed an armored Perfect Susanoo around the Eight-Tails and charged Madara 1’s Susanoo, overpowering and pinning it down.
• The battle’s shock waves tore through the forest, and Elder Tobirama 2 sensed that Madara 1 was losing.
• Tobirama 1 told Tobirama 2 to evacuate the hostages and shinobi while he rescued Mito and Kagami.
• Tobirama 1 slipped away to free Mito and Kagami, while Tobirama 2 organized Konoha’s evacuation.

Madara 1 released and controlled Nine-Tails, joining him with Perfect Susanoo to fight Wood Release Madara 2, who was empowered by Eight-Tails. Their battle intensified, and Madara 2 replaced his broken Susanoo swords with reinforced Wood Style staffs.

• Wood Release Madara 2 ignored Tobirama's rescue operation and focused on defeating Madara 1.
• Madara 1 released Nine-Tails from the Sand Horn Pot and used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to control him.
• Madara 1 combined Perfect Susanoo with Nine-Tails, overturning Armored Eight-Tails and charging back at Madara 2.
• Madara 1 and Madara 2 clashed as Armored Nine-Tails and Armored Eight-Tails, their blows unleashing devastating shockwaves.
• Armored Nine-Tails cut apart Madara 2's four Susanoo Katanas, so Madara 2 formed Susanoo Dragon Wood Staffs from Wood Style and coated them in Susanoo Chakra.

Madara 1 struggled against Madara 2’s Wood Style and Susanoo combination while his limited time in the future world ran short. He replaced his right eye with a golden Rinnegan, revealing his trump card as Madara 2 watched in confusion.

• Madara 1 and Madara 2 clashed with their armored Tailed Beasts, and Madara 2 urged his past self to join his pursuit of the Rinnegan.
• Madara 2 summoned ten Wood Style golems and clad them in Susanoo armor to overwhelm Madara 1.
• Madara 1 realized the golems were disrupting his fight and that he could not win by waiting out Madara 2.
• Madara 1 removed his right eye and replaced it with another eye, which opened as a golden Rinnegan.

Madara 1 revealed that he had transplanted Urashiki Otsutsuki’s golden Rinnegan, stunning Madara 2 and provoking him to demand they work together on Infinite Tsukuyomi. Madara 1 rejected the plan and warned that the stone tablet and its promises were lies, but Madara 2 refused to believe him and attacked to seize the eye.

• Madara 1 used Nine-Tails Chakra to heal his optic nerve and hot-swap in Urashiki Otsutsuki’s Rinnegan, enduring the remnant will inside it.
• Madara 2 was horrified to see his past self wielding the Rinnegan he had never obtained, while Madara 1 mocked him.
• Madara 2 asked Madara 1 to join him in carrying out Infinite Tsukuyomi, but Madara 1 refused and said the plan would kill everyone.
• Madara 2 dismissed Madara 1’s warning about the stone tablet and attacked with the Armored Eight-Tails to take his Rinnegan.
• Madara 1 called Madara 2 an idiot and used Planetary Devastation.

Madara 1 used the Rinnegan’s Chibaku Tensei to pull Madara of Ninja World 2 and his Armored Eight-Tails into the sky. After Madara 1 trapped him with the Armored Nine-Tails, the chapter left Madara of Ninja World 2 pinned in midair and wondering whether his other self intended them both to be sealed.

• Madara 1 unleashed a full-power Chibaku Tensei, dragging the Armored Eight-Tails toward a gravitational core.
• Madara of Ninja World 2 tried to anchor the Eight-Tails, but Madara 1 shattered the ground around it with Sword Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Madara of Ninja World 2 abandoned the Eight-Tails and flew away in Perfect Susanoo while Madara 1 restrained the other tailed beasts with Black Rods.
• Madara 1 pursued Madara of Ninja World 2 with the Armored Nine-Tails through the gravitational field.
• The Armored Nine-Tails caught and bound Madara of Ninja World 2’s Perfect Susanoo, leaving him trapped in midair.

Madara 1 used the Rinnegan to break Madara 2’s Perfect Susanoo and blasted him with four Tailed Beast Bombs, but Madara 2 survived by activating Izanagi. Madara 1 escaped while Madara 2, furious over losing an eye, vowed to kill him.

• Madara 1 absorbed part of Madara 2’s Perfect Susanoo with the Rinnegan’s Sealing Technique: Absorption Seal.
• Madara 1 fired a Tailed Beast Bomb through the opening, then ordered the Nine-Tails to hit Madara 2 with three more blasts.
• Madara 1 sensed Madara 2’s Chakra vanish and celebrated, believing he had killed his other self.
• Madara 2 emerged unharmed after using Izanagi, which cost him one Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Madara 2 attacked in a rage, but Madara 1 and the Nine-Tails vanished before he could reach them.

Madara of Ninja World 2 failed to find the vanished Madara and blamed Tobirama for bringing him there. He attacked the retreating Konoha forces to force Tobirama to appear, then struck at him after their argument.

• Madara of Ninja World 2 searched for his vanished counterpart and concluded that Tobirama had arranged the encounter.
• Tobirama from this world continued evacuating Konoha's shinobi while Hiruzen Sarutobi helped direct the retreat.
• Madara 2's Wood Style vines captured Hiruzen and several other Konoha shinobi.
• Madara 2 threatened to kill the captives unless Tobirama appeared, and Tobirama teleported back to stop him.
• Madara 2 argued with Tobirama about their deal, then attacked him with Susanoo's skeletal arm.

Tobirama 1 tried to stop Madara 2 by bluffing that Hashirama could come to his aid, but Madara used the conversation to capture both Tobiramas. As Madara moved to seize Tobirama, Tobirama called for the Sage of the Dao Path to save him.

• Madara 2 threatened the Konoha hostages, but Tobirama 1 returned after rescuing Mito and Kagami and joined Tobirama 2 to face him.
• Madara 2 demanded to know how they had traveled through time, and Tobirama 1 refused to answer before bluffing that Hashirama could be summoned.
• Madara 2 recognized that time travel had limits and challenged Tobirama 1 to summon Hashirama.
• Madara 2 used the distraction to send Wood Style clones through the forest vines, grab both Tobiramas, and bind them so they could not use the Flying Thunder God.
• Madara 2 lunged to seize Tobirama, who called on the Sage of the Dao Path for help.

Natsu Yuu rescued both Tobiramas from Madara of Ninja World 2 and prevented him from wiping out Konoha. Madara learned that Natsu Yuu was connected to the Sage of Six Paths, but he refused to accept Natsu Yuu's decision to protect Tobirama and Konoha.

• Natsu Yuu teleported both Tobiramas away from Madara's Wood Style restraints, and Tobirama 1 urged him to defeat Madara.
• Madara confronted Natsu Yuu, who identified himself as the Sage of the Dao Path and confirmed that he had met the Sage of Six Paths.
• Natsu Yuu explained that the Sage of Six Paths governed the Pure Land and warned Madara to watch what he said because Izuna's soul was in his care.
• Natsu Yuu told Madara he would not let him wipe out Tobirama and Konoha, though he would not interfere too much in their conflict.
• Madara demanded to know why Natsu Yuu supported Tobirama and argued that the Ninja Village system would cause a greater disaster, but Natsu Yuu's decision left him furious.

Natsu Yuu countered Madara’s Wood Style with his Rinnegan’s Kagutsuchi and freed the Konoha shinobi trapped in the forest. With Madara’s leverage gone, Natsu Yuu tried to persuade him to talk instead of fight.

• Tobirama and his counterpart insulted Madara while Natsu Yuu backed them.
• Madara threatened to kill the Konoha shinobi trapped in his Wood Style forest unless Natsu Yuu stopped him.
• Natsu Yuu used Kagutsuchi to draw metal from underground and make the wooden vines wither and die.
• Madara realized he could no longer use the forest as leverage and prepared to fight Natsu Yuu.
• Natsu Yuu said he did not want to kill Madara and urged him to negotiate.

Natsu Yuu questioned Madara’s faith in Infinite Tsukuyomi and persuaded him to investigate its truth rather than attack Konoha. Madara agreed to look for evidence, including on the moon, while Natsu Yuu left the aftermath to the two Tobiramas.

• Madara questioned Natsu Yuu’s intentions, and Natsu Yuu challenged him to consider whether Infinite Tsukuyomi could fulfill his wishes.
• Natsu Yuu cast doubt on the Uchiha stone tablet and asked whether Madara’s plan served his own wishes or his rivalry with Hashirama.
• Madara agreed to investigate Infinite Tsukuyomi before deciding what to do, and Natsu Yuu suggested he seek records from Hamura’s descendants on the moon.
• Natsu Yuu assured Madara he would not interfere after the investigation and told the two Tobiramas to handle the aftermath.
• Tobirama protested that Madara was being let go, but the two Tobiramas chose not to challenge him again.