Chapter Summaries

The Fourth Raikage led the Cloud Ninja army toward the Land of Fire after learning that its advance and reconnaissance units had vanished. As the force cautiously crossed the blood-soaked canyon, a sensor detected someone waiting at the exit.

• A young man with ripple-patterned eyes sat atop a mound of dead Kumogakure shinobi blocking the canyon exit.
• Mabui told the Fourth Raikage that the advance, reconnaissance, and three investigative squads had disappeared.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered the Cloud Ninja to assemble and marched with Killer B and Yugito toward the Land of Fire.
• The Cloud Ninja army entered the silent canyon and advanced cautiously without encountering an attack.
• A sensor detected someone ahead near the canyon exit, and the Fourth Raikage and Killer B prepared for a possible attack.

Minagawa Uchiha used the Rinnegan to crush Kumogakure’s forces with Super* Shinra Tensei. Watching from afar, Obito Uchiha learned from Black Zetsu that Minagawa had awakened the Rinnegan through the Ten-Tails Fragment called the “Star.”

• The Fourth Raikage and Killer B found a mountain of corpses belonging to Kumogakure’s advance and reconnaissance forces, and the Cloud Ninja charged Minagawa Uchiha.
• The Fourth Raikage and Killer B attacked Minagawa, who unleashed Super* Shinra Tensei and blasted them away while flattening the battlefield into a huge crater.
• Obito Uchiha recognized Minagawa’s Rinnegan technique and demanded an explanation from Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu admitted that the Ten-Tails Fragment known as the “Star” from the Land of Bears had enabled Minagawa to awaken the Rinnegan, which was why he had urged Obito to kill him quickly.

Minagawa Uchiha assessed the damage caused by Super Shinra Tensei and defeated the Two-Tails when she attacked him. With the Fourth Raikage and the Tailed Beasts badly hurt, he called on Kumogakure to talk.

• Minagawa Uchiha discovered that shrinking Shinra Tensei's range let him maintain a repulsive barrier around his body without a cooldown.
• Minagawa Uchiha sensed that roughly three thousand of the eight thousand Cloud Ninja remained, while the Fourth Raikage and Killer B were weakened and Yugito had escaped most of the damage.
• The Fourth Raikage, the Two-Tails, and the Eight-Tails broke free from the rubble, and the Two-Tails charged Minagawa Uchiha.
• Minagawa Uchiha struck the Two-Tails with a Super Strength Technique-enhanced punch and sent her crashing into the earthen wall.
• Minagawa Uchiha asked the Fourth Raikage and Kumogakure to talk, while the surviving Cloud Ninja hid instead of challenging him.

Minagawa Uchiha defeated the Cloud Ninja attack and dismissed the Fourth Raikage’s forces without demanding compensation, but the Raikage launched a surprise assault. As Minagawa swatted away the Tailed Beast Balls, Obito Uchiha and another attacker appeared, and Minagawa blasted both through the chest.

• The Fourth Raikage pretended to accept defeat and asked Minagawa Uchiha to name the terms of a peace treaty.
• Minagawa Uchiha waived compensation and told the Cloud Ninja to return to the Land of Lightning.
• The Fourth Raikage signaled an ambush, while the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails gathered Tailed Beast Balls and he attacked Minagawa with Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop.
• Minagawa Uchiha smashed the Fourth Raikage’s arm and sent him flying, then swatted both Tailed Beast Balls into the sky.
• Obito Uchiha and another attacker suddenly appeared, and Minagawa Uchiha blasted them both through the chest with the Super Strength Technique.

Minagawa Uchiha survived Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu’s ambush, but Uchiha Itachi died saving him. Minagawa sent Itachi’s body to the Kamui Dimension, then confronted Killer B and Yugito and chose Killer B as a hostage to punish Kumogakure.

• Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu ambushed Minagawa Uchiha, but Uchiha Itachi intercepted their attack and took the fatal blow.
• Minagawa Uchiha struck back with a devastating punch, but Obito Uchiha used Izanagi and escaped with Black Zetsu.
• Minagawa Uchiha promised the dying Uchiha Itachi that he would protect his eyes and raise Sasuke, then placed Itachi’s body in the Kamui Dimension.
• Killer B apologized on Kumogakure’s behalf and offered compensation, while Yugito stood beside him.
• Minagawa Uchiha decided to take Killer B hostage to ensure Kumogakure would think twice before acting against the Land of Fire.

Minagawa Uchiha took Killer B from the defeated Kumogakure to the Land of Fire, where he assigned him to help with major construction and labor projects. Killer B initially welcomed his new role, but Konoha's officials soon overwhelmed him with requests, leaving him questioning whether he would have been better off imprisoned.

• Minagawa Uchiha refused Yugito's appeal to leave Killer B in Kumogakure and set out for the Land of Fire with him.
• Yugito organized the surviving Cloud Ninja to search for the Raikage and rescue comrades buried in the ruins.
• Killer B caught up with Minagawa Uchiha, who said the Raikage's injuries should leave him bedridden for about half a year.
• Minagawa Uchiha returned to Konoha with Killer B and introduced him to the officials managing the Land of Fire.
• Konoha's officials eagerly assigned Killer B work clearing mountains, building roads, and mining, until he complained to Minagawa Uchiha about their excessive enthusiasm.

Minagawa Uchiha ordered Konoha to reinforce the fronts and raid the enemy’s rear, hoping to end the war quickly. He then went to Obito Uchiha’s hideout, where Black Zetsu warned Obito that Minagawa had arrived and urged him to flee.

• Shikaku Nara reported that the other battlefields were deadlocked as enemy forces harassed Konoha in small units, while Konoha’s hold on the Land of Fire was stabilizing.
• Minagawa Uchiha ordered most personnel in the Land of Fire to join the front lines and instructed battlefield commanders to raid enemy rear areas.
• Minagawa Uchiha returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound without giving Uchiha Itachi’s corpse to Uchiha Mikoto, intending to explain matters after the war.
• Minagawa Uchiha brought a White Zetsu to Obito Uchiha’s secret base near Kannabi Bridge, intending to eliminate Obito and Black Zetsu.
• Obito Uchiha lamented that Uchiha Itachi had ruined his ambush, while Black Zetsu urged him to help revive Uchiha Madara and retrieve the Two-Tails.
• Black Zetsu sensed danger and told Obito Uchiha to run.

Minagawa Uchiha killed Obito Uchiha with a single punch, then arrived at the battlefield and forced Ōnoki to withdraw the Stone Ninja. Konoha hailed Minagawa as the new generation’s God of Shinobi, a title he objected to.

• Guided by White Zetsu, Minagawa Uchiha found Obito Uchiha’s hiding place and smashed the mountain with a punch while Black Zetsu was unprepared to shield Obito.
• Minagawa confirmed Obito Uchiha’s Chakra had vanished and waited until he was sure Obito was dead before leaving.
• Minagawa Uchiha flew to the battlefield, where Ōnoki ordered the Stone Ninja to retreat after recalling Kumogakure’s defeat.
• Konoha’s forces cheered and called Minagawa Uchiha the God of Shinobi, though he objected to the title.

Black Zetsu and White Zetsu surveyed the destruction of their base and counted the surviving White Zetsu. At the Land of Fire camp, Uchiha Fugaku learned that Uchiha Itachi had died protecting Minagawa Uchiha, then pledged his allegiance to Minagawa, who accepted while keeping Fugaku as Clan Head and Hokage.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu found Obito Uchiha dead in the ruined basin and discovered that only a little over thirty thousand White Zetsu remained.
• Minagawa Uchiha showed Uchiha Fugaku Uchiha Itachi's body and explained that Itachi had died blocking Obito Uchiha's attack.
• Uchiha Fugaku prepared Uchiha Itachi's body and comforted Minagawa Uchiha, saying Itachi had died without regret.
• Uchiha Fugaku removed Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan and offered them to Minagawa Uchiha as he pledged to become his retainer.
• Minagawa Uchiha accepted Uchiha Fugaku's allegiance, restored one of Uchiha Itachi's eyes with Yang-nature Chakra, and told Fugaku to remain Clan Head and Hokage before others.

After Konoha honored its war dead, Orochimaru revealed to Minagawa Uchiha his theory that the Sage of Six Paths used chakra to bind shinobi’s bodies and souls and claim them after death. The chapter ended with Minagawa hearing Orochimaru’s explanation of the Sage’s plan to rule over life and death.

• Uchiha Fugaku presided over the funeral for Konoha’s fallen, and Uchiha Itachi became the first name engraved on the Fourth Great Ninja War memorial.
• Orochimaru spoke at Itachi’s grave, provoking Sasuke, who charged at him before Uchiha Mikoto stopped him.
• Orochimaru praised Sasuke’s awakened Two-Tomoe Sharingan and accepted his challenge, while Minagawa Uchiha interrupted and took Orochimaru to his laboratory.
• Orochimaru told Minagawa that the Sage of Six Paths had seeded chakra throughout the Ninja World to bind people’s bodies and souls and claim their souls after death.
• Orochimaru explained that the Sage used the dead as a source of power and that Impure World Reincarnation worked by drawing souls back from the Pure Land.

Minagawa Uchiha explained how his Kekkei Mōra let him freely shape chakra, completing a crucial part of Orochimaru’s research. In return, Orochimaru revealed how to remove the Sage of Six Paths’s control over Chakra Seeds by erasing and replacing his Mental Imprint.

• Minagawa Uchiha suspected Orochimaru had found a way to counter the Sage of Six Paths’s ability to reclaim chakra, and Orochimaru agreed to share it as part of their research exchange.
• Minagawa Uchiha realized Orochimaru wanted to know why his chakra had a much greater intensity than ordinary chakra and showed him his chakra-shaping ability.
• Minagawa Uchiha explained that his chakra came from a Kekkei Mōra formed through all seven basic chakra nature transformations and shared further ideas about chakra’s space and time properties.
• Orochimaru, excited by the discoveries, said Minagawa Uchiha had helped him understand how chakra operated, then explained that the Sage of Six Paths’s Mental Imprint could be worn away with mental strength and replaced with one’s own.

Minagawa Uchiha replaced the Sage of Six Paths's Mental Imprint and worked with Orochimaru to research chakra, gaining greater control and new abilities. When the forces returned from the Kirigakure and Sunagakure battlefields, Minagawa reunited with Sasuke, who worried that he had been forgotten.

• Minagawa Uchiha erased the Sage of Six Paths's Mental Imprint and branded the chakra core with his own, gaining effortless control over chakra.
• Minagawa Uchiha and Orochimaru studied how chakra attributes interacted with organs and meridians, uncovering a path to Six Paths Level that was not limited by bloodlines.
• Minagawa Uchiha used their research to master the Flying Thunder God Technique and release ninjutsu without hand seals.
• Minagawa Uchiha and Orochimaru left the laboratory to welcome the returning forces from the Kirigakure and Sunagakure battlefields alongside Uchiha Fugaku and the villagers.
• Minagawa Uchiha headed toward Kakashi and Naruto, and Sasuke followed to ask why Minagawa had stopped teaching him.
• Minagawa Uchiha took Sasuke's hand, reassuring the dejected child and feeling warmth at their closeness.

Naruto and Sasuke visited Minagawa Uchiha, and their conversation revealed how Karin had become the Ninja Academy’s formidable big sister. Kakashi reported that the Anbu’s mission to assassinate foreign daimyos and officials had succeeded, and Minagawa defended the plan to unify the Ninja World despite the sacrifices it might require.

• Naruto happily greeted Minagawa Uchiha and bragged to Sasuke that his Shadow Clone Technique let him win their fights.
• Sasuke and Naruto argued over Karin, whom Sasuke could not defeat and Naruto feared after being beaten by her.
• Minagawa Uchiha explained that he had entrusted Karin to Uchiha Fugaku’s family, where she had learned powerful Uzumaki techniques and become the Academy’s undefeated big sister.
• Kakashi told Minagawa Uchiha that the Anbu had completed their assassinations of foreign daimyos and officials with little resistance.
• Kakashi warned that people might resist losing power, but Minagawa Uchiha argued that sacrifices were necessary for unification and lasting peace.
• Kakashi accepted Minagawa Uchiha’s reasoning and resolved to gather intelligence so he could target ambitious opponents.

After Konoha’s declaration that it would abolish the daimyo and noble systems and have ninja govern the Land of Fire, the other great villages continued seizing power in their own countries. The small nations’ leaders failed to rally a coalition against Konoha and grew alarmed by signs that the same upheaval was spreading across the Four Great Nations.

• The Four Great Shinobi Villages occupied important towns and cities while suppressing forces that resisted their takeover of their countries.
• Shikaku Nara, Tsunade, and others argued that Konoha should delay announcing its plans, but Minagawa Uchiha explained that the other nations could not spare forces for another war.
• Konoha’s leadership unanimously approved a declaration abolishing the Land of Fire’s daimyo and noble systems and making the Hokage the country’s supreme ruler.
• Small countries condemned Konoha and called for a coalition, but the Four Great Nations gave no response and their envoys disappeared.
• The daimyo and nobles of the small countries discovered signs that the Four Great Nations were undergoing changes similar to Konoha’s takeover.

After the war, the Great Ninja Villages moved to take control of their countries and build shinobi armies, treating the missing Tailed Beasts as less important than political and military power. Kumogakure joined the effort more slowly because the Raikage was badly injured, but its think tank pushed ahead anyway.

• Baki reported that Sunagakure had found no trace of Gaara but had received an uncertain sighting of Sasori near the battlefield.
• Rasa ordered Sunagakure to stop actively searching for One-Tails and focus on controlling the Land of Wind and building a shinobi army.
• Rasa promised Baki the post of first minister if they purged the country’s disobedient forces, and Baki pledged his loyalty.
• Iwagakure and Kirigakure chose not to investigate their missing Tailed Beasts extensively and redirected their efforts toward taking control of their countries.
• Kumogakure’s injured Raikage delayed its response, but the village’s think tank began its own operation to bring the Land of Lightning under its control.

The Land of Fire welcomed refugees as nobles, samurai, and wandering ninja fled the upheaval across smaller nations, while the Land of Rain remained tightly controlled under Pain. Black Zetsu manipulated Nagato into underestimating the supposed death of Uchiha Madara as he prepared to use Nagato to revive Madara and pursue the remaining Tailed Beasts.

• Wandering ninja and samurai preyed on nobles and Daimyo, while the Land of Fire recruited refugees who followed its laws.
• Nagato and Black Zetsu kept the Land of Rain orderly by sensing intruders and capturing rebels to turn into White Zetsu.
• The Akatsuki Organization had captured the One-Tails and Four-Tails through Seven-Tails, planned to wait for the Three-Tails to revive, and left the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails for later.
• Deva Path Pain mocked the Masked Man's reported death at the hands of a young Uchiha, and White Zetsu suggested age had made him weak.
• Black Zetsu deliberately made Nagato believe the Masked Man had been an unimpressive old man so Nagato would stop guarding against him.
• Black Zetsu planned to possess Nagato and use the Impure World Reincarnation and Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive Uchiha Madara before the planned capture of the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.

The Akatsuki Organization gained enough wealth from the collapse of the Underground Gold Exchange and the ensuing attacks on nobles to fund itself for decades. Meanwhile, the great shinobi villages took control of their nations, and Rasa proposed expanding into the Land of Rivers and using its water to develop the Land of Wind.

• The destruction of the Underground Gold Exchange drove bounty shinobi and Akatsuki members to rob nobles and daimyos, while Kakuzu and Hidan amassed wealth for the organization.
• Pain praised Kakuzu and Hidan and exempted them from mandatory missions, then told the Akatsuki that its next stage would wait for the Three-Tails to resurrect in about three years.
• Sunagakure purged rival factions and declared rule over the Land of Wind, followed by Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure declaring their villages' governance of their nations.
• The four great nations turned their attention toward neighboring small countries as they sought resources and territory to support their development.
• Rasa proposed that Sunagakure seize the Land of Rivers and connect its waterways to help transform the desert, prompting a Jonin to question the risk of provoking the Land of Fire and the plan's effectiveness.

Rasa outlined plans to transform the Land of Wind and compete with the Land of Fire, while the other nations pursued their own development and expansion. Konoha argued over the Land of Water’s occupation of the Land of Whirlpools, and Tsunade insisted on handling the dispute herself before going to the Land of Wind.

• Rasa urged the Sand Ninja to reshape the Land of Wind by bringing in water, leveling mountains, reclaiming desert with Wood Style, and trading mineral resources for Konoha’s help.
• The Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning planned to transform their territories and annex neighboring nations, while the Land of Water secretly occupied the Land of Tea and moved Kirigakure to the former Land of Whirlpools.
• Tsunade angrily rejected the Land of Water’s occupation of the Land of Whirlpools, declaring that the land belonged to its descendants and that Konoha would not let the Land of Water take it.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed sending Tsunade to the Land of Wind and Jiraiya to the Land of Whirlpools, but Tsunade refused to let Jiraiya handle the dispute and volunteered to go herself.

Uchiha Fugaku reassigned the mission to the Land of Wind after Tsunade rejected Jiraiya as an envoy to the Land of Whirlpools. Minagawa Uchiha volunteered to go, hoping to investigate Rōran’s Dragon Vein, and the meeting ended with everyone discovering he could use Wood Style.

• Jiraiya insisted he would handle the mission to the Land of Whirlpools responsibly, but Tsunade accused him of volunteering only because he had heard the Fifth Mizukage was beautiful.
• Uchiha Fugaku decided to find someone else to negotiate with the Land of Water and considered Tsunade, Minagawa Uchiha, and Orochimaru.
• Minagawa Uchiha offered to take over the Land of Wind mission and let Tsunade handle the Land of Water.
• Minagawa Uchiha decided to investigate the Dragon Vein in Rōran for its vast energy and potential to connect to parallel spacetime.
• Tsunade accepted Minagawa Uchiha’s offer and implied he could use Wood Style, astonishing everyone in the conference room.

Minagawa Uchiha explained that sufficient strength made it possible to fuse chakra nature transformations into Kekkei Genkai, then traveled alone through the Land of Rivers toward Sand Wind City on his way to Rōran. He found the Land of Rivers orderly and its people accepting of the Land of Wind’s rule, and arrived at Sand Wind City by evening.

• Minagawa Uchiha demonstrated several release techniques and told the gathered ninja that great strength made fusing chakra natures easy.
• Minagawa Uchiha left Konoha City alone to restore forests in the Land of Wind and seize the Dragon Vein at Rōran.
• In the Land of Rivers, an old farmer mistook Minagawa Uchiha for a noble faction rebel and warned him to leave.
• Minagawa Uchiha concluded that the Land of Wind governed the Land of Rivers well and that its people felt little desire to resist.
• Minagawa Uchiha traveled on to Sand Wind City and arrived there at sunset.