Chapter Summaries

Naruto, Sasuke, and the Uzumaki descendants rejected the Five Great Nations’ aid plan, which would have given them control over the Land of Whirlpools’ reconstruction. A Land of Fire envoy announced that the Daimyos had ruled the Uzumaki would rebuild independently, funded entirely by the Land of Fire, and Naruto suspected Sasuke had influenced the decision.

• Shikamaru presented an aid plan with conditions that would let the Five Great Nations set reconstruction standards, approve major decisions, and station representatives in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Nagato rejected the plan, while Naruto, Sasuke, Mina, Karin, and Uzumaki denounced it as an attempt to control the Land of Whirlpools.
• A Land of Fire envoy arrived and revealed that the Daimyos had barred outside interference and assigned the Uzumaki Clan to rebuild on its own.
• The envoy said the Land of Fire’s Daimyo would pay the full cost of reconstruction, stunning the representatives who had expected to invest and gain influence.
• Naruto quietly asked Sasuke whether he had arranged the Daimyo’s decision.

Sasuke and Nagato secured the Land of Fire’s aid for the Land of Whirlpools, though Shikamaru warned Naruto that the daimyo wanted a military base there. Naruto fused the first of three powerful Clan Head Chakra spheres, learned more about the Land of Whirlpools’ history, and greeted Yamato when the construction team arrived.

• Sasuke explained that Kakashi had arranged for the Land of Fire to take responsibility for rebuilding, and Nagato invited the other countries’ representatives to visit the reconstruction site.
• Shikamaru warned Naruto that the Land of Fire planned to establish a military base in the Land of Whirlpools under the pretext of protection.
• Nagato prepared safeguards as Naruto fused the first of the three strongest Clan Head Chakra spheres, with Sasuke and the Nine-Tails helping him endure the dangerous process.
• Naruto rested after the difficult fusion and told Sasuke that the Clan Head’s memories showed him how the Land of Whirlpools had endured constant wars between great nations.
• Yamato arrived with the Land of Fire’s construction team, and Naruto greeted him excitedly.

As the Uzumaki descendants rebuilt the Land of Whirlpools, underground resentment awakened and unleashed poisonous mist and an undead legion. Naruto and the others activated the Sealing Array at great cost, lifting the curse; after recovering, Naruto woke to find the ruins transformed into a village.

• Yamato used Wood Release to speed up the rebuilding while Naruto planned the village districts.
• Karin sensed movement underground, and Nagato warned that the buried resentment was stirring and ordered everyone to the Sealing Array.
• Black mist and skeleton soldiers emerged from the ground, and the group discovered that Chakra-infused attacks could damage the undead.
• Naruto tried to activate the Sealing Array before he had finished merging his Chakra, and Karin, Mina, the Uzumaki descendants, and Yamato lent him their Chakra.
• The Sealing Array fully activated, purified the resentment, and destroyed the skeleton soldiers, but Naruto collapsed from exhaustion.
• After Naruto slept for three days, he woke to find Yamato had helped turn the ruins into a village, where the Uzumaki descendants welcomed him home.

Naruto, Sasuke, and the others confronted the Black Crow mercenary group, which demanded protection money and threatened to seize the rebuilt Land of Whirlpools. A battle began, and Sasuke’s Amaterasu left the mercenaries terrified.

• Nagato confirmed that the Sealing Array had purified the region and said rebuilding could begin, while Yamato reported that foreign merchants wanted to invest.
• Karin sensed hostile arrivals, and Sasuke identified about thirty strong mercenaries approaching the village.
• Crow Feather, leader of the Black Crow mercenary group, demanded monthly protection money and surrounded the village with his men.
• Crow Feather admitted that someone had hired his group to cause trouble and threatened to take over the village, prompting Naruto, Sasuke, and Yamato to fight back.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode and struck Crow Feather with a Rasengan, while Sasuke fought five mercenaries and set one ablaze with Amaterasu.

Sasuke, Naruto, and their allies stopped the Black Crow Mercenary Group from destroying the village, but the attackers escaped without revealing who hired them. After learning that many factions were interested in the Land of Whirlpools, the group resolved to keep rebuilding while staying alert and relying on themselves.

• Sasuke defeated several mercenaries, and Crow Feather summoned a two-headed dog to attack Naruto and the others.
• Nagato discovered that the mercenaries were planting Explosive Tags around the village, and Crow Feather revealed that their mission was to destroy it because someone opposed the Uzumaki Clan's revival.
• Sasuke used Chibaku Tensei to gather the Explosive Tags, and Naruto destroyed them in midair with a Rasenshuriken, saving the village.
• Sasuke collapsed from Chakra exhaustion, and Karin restored his Chakra by letting him bite her arm.
• A Land of Fire envoy arrived and explained that business groups and political forces were watching the Land of Whirlpools because of its strategic trade routes.
• Naruto vowed to continue rebuilding, while Nagato and the envoy agreed that the village could not rely entirely on outside help.

As the village rebuilt and strengthened its defenses, Yuki-onna warned Naruto and the others that the Shadow Organization planned to destroy the Uzumaki Clan. She revealed that she had Uzumaki blood and left the group facing a powerful new threat.

• Yamato repaired battle-damaged buildings while Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin set up village defenses and sensory surveillance.
• A masked woman arrived at the village entrance and gave Naruto a contract showing that Danzo had ordered the Black Crow mercenary group’s attack.
• Yuki-onna revealed that she had been a Root Organization member and a victim of Danzo’s experiments, then warned that someone called Shadow had inherited his legacy.
• Yuki-onna explained that the Shadow Organization sought to unify the Shinobi World and had created at least three artificial Tailed Beasts using Orochimaru’s research.
• Yuki-onna warned that another attack could come within days and revealed that her mother was descended from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Nagato sensed a faint Uzumaki chakra signature in Yuki-onna.

Yuki-onna revealed the Shadow Organization’s three-stage plan and led Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin on a mission to destroy its underground research base near the Land of Earth. The four reached the mountain concealing the base, unaware that the enemy had already spotted their departure.

• Yuki-onna explained that the Shadow Organization planned an all-out assault followed by using Shinigami Summoning, powered by another person’s sacrifice, if its earlier attacks failed.
• Yuki-onna identified a research base near the Land of Earth as a target, and the group decided Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna would attack while Nagato, Mina, Yamato, and the others guarded the village.
• The four prepared for the mission, and Nagato recognized Yuki-onna’s rune-etched kunai as traditional Uzumaki weapons made by a clan elder.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna left the village at dusk, while a surveillance bird watched them and alerted the Shadow Organization to their movements.
• After traveling for six hours, the four reached the mountain where Yuki-onna said the base lay fifty meters underground.

Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna infiltrated the Shadow Organization’s underground base to destroy its Artificial Tailed Beast research. They found the research lab and began wrecking it, but the chapter ended just as Naruto prepared to smash the mainframe holding the data.

• Sasuke and Karin sensed a large force and Tailed Beast Chakra inside the mountain, and Yuki-onna said the base held Artificial Tailed Beasts.
• Yuki-onna revealed that she had once worked at the base and led the group through an abandoned mine into its storeroom.
• The group followed Yuki-onna to a corridor fork and chose the research lab over the area where the Artificial Tailed Beasts were kept.
• Naruto and the others overheard researchers discussing an unstable, disposable test subject before Sasuke used genjutsu to make a researcher open the lab door.
• Sasuke put the researchers under genjutsu, and the four began destroying the lab while Yuki-onna located the mainframe containing the research data.

Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna destroyed the base’s data after Yuki-onna disabled its self-destruct program, but the damage freed the Artificial Tailed Beasts. Naruto fought one with Nine-Tails Chakra, then prepared to face two more.

• Yuki-onna began hacking the mainframe to disable the self-destruct program while Naruto and Sasuke defended her from the alerted guards.
• Yuki-onna disabled the program, and Naruto destroyed the mainframe to erase the data.
• The guards sealed the corridors, so Sasuke and Naruto damaged the base to escape, accidentally disabling the devices holding the Artificial Tailed Beasts.
• An Artificial Tailed Beast attacked the group, and Naruto clashed with its Tailed Beast Bomb using one of his own.
• Two more Artificial Tailed Beasts arrived, and Naruto entered the complete form of Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to fight them.

Naruto and his companions escaped the collapsing base after defeating three Artificial Tailed Beasts, but the Shadow Organization’s number three blocked their way. Sasuke set the masked man ablaze with Amaterasu, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Naruto defeated the three Artificial Tailed Beasts with Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasen Barrage, and Sasuke identified them as part machine.
• Yuki-onna led Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin toward an emergency exit as the base collapsed.
• The group encountered the masked leader of the Shadow Organization, who accused Yuki-onna of betraying the organization and attacked them with all five nature transformations.
• The masked man wounded Karin and resisted Naruto’s Rasengan with special Chakra armor.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu on the masked man, and the black flames began burning through his armor.

Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna escaped the collapsing Iwagakure base and learned that the Shadow Organization might be extending its influence through a trade proposal in the Land of Whirlpools. They returned to the village and found Nagato meeting with the suspicious merchants.

• The four escaped the collapsing base after destroying its research data, while the Shadow Organization fled with the injured Masked Man.
• An Iwagakure squad treated Karin’s wound and thanked the group for destroying an illegal research base, but warned them that its owner might seek revenge.
• On their journey home, Sasuke received word that suspicious merchants had proposed investing in a factory and trade port in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Yuki-onna suspected the merchants were part of the Shadow Organization’s economic infiltration, and the four hurried back to the village.
• The group arrived at dusk and found Nagato meeting with the finely dressed merchants in the village meeting room.

Naruto and the others grew suspicious of a merchants' offer to build a trade port, and Yuki-onna discovered the merchants were Shadow Organization members planning to infiltrate the village. After overhearing their plans and a call to headquarters, she was discovered and faced three merchants.

• Sasuke and Karin sensed unusual chakra from the merchants, and the group learned they wanted an office and staff in the village as part of their trade port proposal.
• Yuki-onna volunteered to investigate the merchants at their inn that night.
• Yuki-onna overheard the merchants discuss infiltrating the village and establishing a base, while identifying Sasuke as a likely Uchiha with the Sharingan.
• Yuki-onna heard a merchant report to Shadow Organization headquarters that they expected to establish a base within three days.
• A floorboard creaked as Yuki-onna tried to leave, and three merchants rushed out to confront her.

Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna exposed three Shadow Organization members and fought them, forcing the battle outside the village to protect the guests. As both sides unleashed their full strength, the lead enemy drank a Human Enhancement Potion and claimed his strength had increased tenfold.

• Yuki-onna was trapped by the disguised merchants until Naruto arrived with Shadow Clones, and the merchants revealed they belonged to the Shadow Organization.
• Sasuke and Karin revealed they had recognized the enemies earlier, and the four allies surrounded the three Shadow Organization members.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Yuki-onna, and Karin fought the enemies; Sasuke discovered that his opponent had a mechanical implant that enhanced his body.
• When inn guests came outside, Naruto protected them with Shadow Clones, and the four allies drew the battle beyond the village.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode, Sasuke activated Mangekyō Sharingan, Karin expanded her sensory range, and Yuki-onna unleashed her strongest Ice Release technique.
• The lead enemy drank a Human Enhancement Potion, transformed, and claimed his strength had increased tenfold.

Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna defeated three Shadow Organization members who had taken an enhancement drug, with Nagato stopping their explosive attack. After interrogating the captives, the group discovered the organization was collecting Chakra data for an Artificial Tailed Beast and learned that two branches remained active.

• The three drug-enhanced enemies attacked the group, but Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna exploited their reduced agility and gradually overwhelmed them.
• The leader activated an Explosive Tag Formation, but Nagato used Chibaku Tensei to contain the blast before it could seriously harm the group.
• Sasuke tried to interrogate the captured enemies, but Yuki-onna revealed that she had once been known as Yuki-hime in the Shadow Organization.
• Nagato found a Chakra Collector among the enemies' equipment, and Yuki-onna explained that the organization wanted Chakra data to develop an Artificial Tailed Beast.
• Yuki-onna told the group that the Shadow Organization had branches in the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Water, though she did not know where its headquarters was.

Yuki-onna warned Naruto, Sasuke, and the others that the Shadow Organization had powerful biologically modified fighters, then revealed that an elite force called the Black Shadow Unit was approaching the Land of Whirlpools. The defenders prepared a deception at the village entrance, but the twelve attackers split up and entered the village.

• Yuki-onna explained that the Shadow Organization had more than thirty Jonin-level members, three advanced subjects capable of fighting tailed beasts, and mysterious funding.
• A villager reported at least fifty enemy ninja and strange ships near the coast, and Nagato ordered the village to prepare for battle.
• A prisoner revealed that the attackers included the Black Shadow Unit, twelve Elite Jonin who had undergone extensive biological modification.
• The Black Shadow Unit's captain ordered his twelve members to capture the village's ninja alive if possible, while keeping half their strength in reserve.
• Karin sensed the twelve approaching, and Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna used Shadow Clones, genjutsu, and icy mist to make the village appear heavily defended.
• The Black Shadow Unit reached the village entrance, split into three groups, and entered from different directions as Karin warned the defenders.

Nagato and the others fought off the Black Shadow Unit, whose members used bio-modifications and Dark Chakra. After Naruto healed Karin, Yuki-onna revealed the Shadow Organization had a branch at sea near the Land of Water, giving the group a possible target for a counterattack.

• Naruto's Shadow Clones overwhelmed the Black Shadow Unit's left squad temporarily, while Sasuke struggled against a member who transformed into Steel Form.
• Nagato fought the captain, who transformed into Shadow Form, and trapped him in Chibaku Tensei despite his attempt to escape with a Super Explosive Tag.
• Naruto called out that Karin was injured, allowing the captain to escape, and the Black Shadow Unit retreated.
• Yuki-onna identified the black smoke on Karin's arm as corrosive Dark Chakra, and Naruto used golden Senjutsu Chakra to heal her.
• Naruto proposed striking first, and Yuki-onna revealed the Shadow Organization had an offshore branch in the Land of Water, beyond Kirigakure's jurisdiction.

Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, Karin, and their allies sailed toward the Shadow Organization’s offshore branch, using disguises to slip past its patrol boats. They reached the artificial island and prepared to gather intelligence and sabotage the facility, while Yamada waited with the boat.

• Nagato decided Yuki-onna would stay behind to defend the village while the others went after the offshore branch.
• Yamada volunteered to guide the group by boat, and they set off under cover of darkness with information Yuki-onna had provided.
• Karin sensed six patrol boats manned by biologically modified ninjas, so the group disguised themselves as fishermen and passed the patrol unnoticed.
• The group reached the brightly lit artificial island and detected around a hundred ninjas, including about a dozen powerful Chakra signatures.
• Nagato outlined their goals of gathering intelligence, destroying facilities, and capturing prisoners if possible, while Yamada stayed behind with the boat.

Sasuke infiltrated the Shadow Organization’s artificial island and discovered large-scale human modification experiments using Chakra data collected from villages. After his cover was blown, Nagato and the others launched an assault that let Naruto rescue him, and Sasuke reported what he had learned.

• Sasuke slipped past the island’s sensors and found a laboratory where researchers were modifying people into cyborgs using Chakra data from various villages.
• A Black Ninja detected Sasuke and attacked him, while an alarm brought guards to the laboratory.
• Sasuke destroyed much of the laboratory with a Great Fireball Technique and broke through a wall with Chidori as guards surrounded him.
• Nagato and the others assaulted the island, using Chibaku Tensei as a distraction to help Sasuke escape.
• Naruto drove off Sasuke’s pursuers with a Super Giant Ball Rasengan, and Sasuke told him about the experiments and stolen Chakra data.

Naruto, Sasuke, and their allies returned to the Land of Whirlpools to find the village under attack and Yuki-onna badly injured. As they faced a powerful modified member of the Shadow Organization, Yuki-onna unleashed her Absolute Zero technique.

• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to drive off the pursuers, and Yamada spotted the village burning as they sailed home.
• Kisame and Kirigakure ninjas joined them, explaining that the Shadow Organization’s base threatened the Land of Water.
• Karin sensed Yuki-onna’s weak Chakra, and Nagato sent Naruto, Sasuke, and Yamada to rescue her while he and Karin dealt with other enemies.
• Naruto and Sasuke found Yuki-onna fighting three Shadow Organization members, including a core member with a powerful advanced modified form.
• The modified enemy destroyed Naruto’s Shadow Clones and knocked Yamada unconscious, then advanced on Naruto and Sasuke.
• Yuki-onna rose and unleashed Ice Release Secret Technique: Absolute Zero, freezing the ground and crystallizing moisture in the air.

Yuki-onna defeated several Black Shadow Unit members with Absolute Zero, then joined Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Karin against a stronger captain. Kisame stopped the captain’s explosive from reaching the village, but the captain transformed into a Shadow Demon King capable of rivaling a Tailed Beast, leaving Naruto eager to fight despite Nagato’s warning.

• Yuki-onna used Absolute Zero to freeze the Black Shadow Unit members, captured their leader alive, and sealed all three prisoners’ acupoints with Ice Senbon.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna joined Nagato and Karin, whose attacks forced the captain to end his ghostification transformation.
• The captain threw an explosive toward the village, but Kisame caught it in a mass of seawater, reducing its blast.
• The captain transformed into his Ultimate Modified Form, the Shadow Demon King, and Yuki-onna warned that it could rival a Tailed Beast.
• Naruto wanted to use the Nine-Tails’ power against the captain, but Nagato warned that he could not fully control it.