Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hikari defeated Ōnoki, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi but spared them, warning that Iwagakure must accept Konoha’s demands. At the Land of Iron border, Mifune’s army advanced into the Land of Fire and encountered Kakuzu and a blond young man on a clay bird.

• Hikari stopped her Chakra sword before it struck Ōnoki, and the three Iwagakure shinobi fell into the snow.
• Hikari told Ōnoki that he still had value and warned him not to leave the Land of Iron unless Iwagakure accepted Konoha’s demands.
• Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi helped Ōnoki up as he realized Hikari was impossible to defeat.
• Mifune led an elite samurai force into the Land of Fire, sensed an ambush, and ordered his troops to stay alert.
• Kakuzu emerged from the forest and said he was serving as a Konoha ninja, then blocked the samurai’s advance.
• A blond young man on a clay bird appeared above the army, and Mifune challenged the two Konoha defenders.

Kakuzu and Deidara defeated the Land of Iron samurai by disrupting their formations and wounding Mifune, forcing him to order a surrender. Gaara arrived afterward and demanded that Mifune return to the capital and announce the Land of Iron’s surrender, while ordering medical treatment for the wounded.

• Kakuzu fought the samurai while holding back, but their disciplined formations gradually forced him onto the defensive.
• Deidara’s clay bombs disrupted the samurai, and Mifune failed to strike Deidara from the ground before the clay dragon scattered explosives across the battlefield.
• Deidara hit Mifune’s shoulder with a nearly invisible clay hummingbird, and Mifune ordered the samurai to drop their weapons.
• Gaara arrived with Sunagakure reinforcements and told Mifune that the Land of Iron had to join the new order.
• Mifune agreed to return to the capital and announce surrender, and Gaara ordered Sunagakure’s Medical Ninja to treat the wounded samurai.

Fourth Raikage A and his companions encountered a Konoha defensive line manned by Hyuga shinobi, whose long-range kunai attacks stopped their advance. After retreating, the Raikage recognized the weapons as the likely method behind the Land of Fire daimyo’s deaths and chose to consider a detour.

• C sensed at least thirty Hyuga shinobi on the platforms and more than a hundred shinobi on the ground near the border.
• The Fourth Raikage A charged the defenses, but Neji and Hinata Hyuga struck him with kunai infused with Wind and Lightning nature transformations.
• Neji ordered saturation fire from the platforms, and explosive kunai trapped the Fourth Raikage A in a sea of flames until C and Darui urged him to retreat.
• Darui was wounded by a kunai as the three Kumogakure shinobi withdrew beyond the attacks’ range.
• The Fourth Raikage A connected the long-range attacks to the deaths of the Land of Fire daimyo, and C and Darui warned that the border might be sealed by similar defenses.
• The Fourth Raikage A decided they would detour south around the Land of Iron, though the longer route could delay them and might lead them into another defense line.

Raikage A and Ōnoki learned that Naruto’s forces had overwhelmed their armies and taken control of the Land of Iron and the Land of Waterfalls. Naruto let the two Kage go so they could witness the new warfare firsthand, and they headed for the front lines to see what he had planned.

• C reported that Dawn Shipping’s advanced flying forces had inflicted heavy losses on Kumogakure’s front lines, while Ōnoki, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi were nearby and in trouble.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s army to retreat after learning that Sunagakure, Takigakure, and Dawn Shipping were advancing and that a red giant had cut Iwagakure’s supply lines.
• Raikage A’s group met Ōnoki’s group, and Kurotsuchi explained that Uchiha Hikari had defeated them with Susanoo while Hyuga forces had driven back the Raikage with long-range weapons.
• Ōnoki concluded that Naruto had used Shadow Clones and hidden forces to seize territory and trap the Kage, then urged Raikage A to surrender to preserve their people.
• Naruto appeared and revealed that the Land of Iron had joined the new order; he let the Kage leave to see the modern battlefield and hinted that he had left gifts at their headquarters.
• Raikage A and Ōnoki chose to return to the front lines by the route nearest the Hyuga defensive line.

After their armies were devastated and Naruto showed them the captured daimyo and their deaths, the Raikage and Ōnoki surrendered. Naruto concluded that the shinobi world had been unified.

• The Raikage and Ōnoki returned to find their camps badly damaged by the Sunagakure and Dawn Shipping coalition’s aerial and ground weapons.
• Both Kage discovered television equipment in their headquarters and watched footage of their respective daimyo’s residences in ruins.
• The daimyo of the Land of Earth and the daimyo of the Land of Lightning berated the Kage and threatened to cut their villages’ funding or disband them.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones killed both daimyo on-screen, and Naruto demanded that the Raikage and Ōnoki submit.
• After reflecting on their defeats and the daimyo’s insults, the Raikage and Ōnoki declared, “We... surrender!”

After the war, Naruto consolidated the unified nation and reorganized its government while Orochimaru’s research produced White Zetsu capable of serving as sacrifices for forbidden resurrection techniques. Naruto tested the method by reviving Chiyo’s son and daughter-in-law, then prepared to begin the next stage of bringing the dead back to life.

• Naruto’s forces incorporated Kumogakure and Iwagakure into the unified nation, removed the nobles, and reassigned surrendered shinobi to support reforms.
• New administrators and trained shinobi took over local governance, allowing Naruto to redirect his Shadow Clones as the former nations’ capital became the unified nation’s capital.
• Orochimaru showed Naruto modified White Zetsu that could supply the life force needed for forbidden techniques without sacrificing real people.
• Naruto used Life Reincarnation through two White Zetsu to revive Chiyo’s son and daughter-in-law in the bodies of the Father and Mother puppets.
• Naruto approved the results and discussed using the White Zetsu to revive many people after summoning them with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Naruto summoned a glass container holding a Rinnegan and prepared to begin the next stage.

Naruto resurrected the Uchiha Clan and brought them to judge Itachi Uchiha and Obito Uchiha for the massacre. The clan sentenced both men to prolonged Sharingan Genjutsu followed by execution, and the torment began in the prison.

• Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation and Rinne Rebirth to restore the Uchiha clansmen to life.
• Naruto explained the changed Shinobi World and the massacre, then transported the Uchiha Clan to the former Konoha Prison.
• Sasuke reunited with Fugaku and Mikoto, and the family embraced before the clan entered the prison.
• Fugaku asked Itachi to explain himself, but Itachi accepted responsibility while Sasuke and Izumi condemned him.
• The Uchiha Clan chose to make Itachi and Obito relive their victims’ suffering through Genjutsu before executing them.
• Fugaku cast Genjutsu on Itachi, while other clansmen tormented Obito until he screamed.

The author explained why the story’s reform-focused direction and pacing fell short, and described the planned arcs and character stories that were left unwritten. The author summarized Naruto’s ending, in which he unified the Shinobi World and began reforms, then said they would focus on recovering and improving their writing.

• The author said the shift from a protagonist-centered story to a reform-focused plot faltered during the Konoha Crush Plan arc amid personal difficulties.
• The author listed unwritten storylines, including Boruto, the Dragon Vein, and the Pure Land, and described an abandoned Year 68 time-travel arc meant to show Naruto breaking the cycle.
• The author explained that reader expectations and uncertainty about Naruto’s characterization made it difficult to write the protagonist and the reforms as intended.
• The author said real-life problems left them unable to write details patiently, causing the plot to move too quickly and updates to be delayed.
• The author summarized that Naruto unified the Shinobi World, killed the daimyo, and carried out reforms, while Sasori’s parents, Neji, and Sasuke’s clan and parents received resolutions.
• The author said they wanted to settle down, improve their condition, and learn to manage pacing better.