Chapter Summaries

As the Great Ninja War began, Minato Namikaze introduced Uchiha Obito, Rin Nohara, and Gekko Hayate as his team, while the other villages debated how to counter Konoha's northward offensive. Sunagakure and Iwagakure committed forces to the war, and the chapter ended with Ōnoki reflecting on Konoha's overwhelming strength.

• Konoha sent twenty thousand shinobi north to attack Kumogakure as the Great Ninja War began.
• Minato Namikaze introduced Gekko Hayate, Rin Nohara, and Uchiha Obito, explained the strength-ranking system, and set a practical test for three days later.
• Rin Nohara invited her teammates to Ichiraku, and Uchiha Obito eagerly agreed while Gekko Hayate joined them.
• Rasa decided to lead three thousand Sunagakure shinobi and the Ten Sand Shinobi to support the war, despite Chiyo and Ebizo warning him about Hiruzen Sarutobi and the risks.
• Ōnoki committed Iwagakure's forces to the war and explained to Kitsuchi why they would both leave the village to fight.
• Ōnoki reflected that Konoha's strength had grown so great that even the four other villages together could barely force it into a draw.

Tamura Hiroshi visited Hiruzen Sarutobi under a false identity, traded Water of Life for information about Shimura Danzō, and shaved Sarutobi Asuma bald. The chapter ended with Hiruzen preparing to use the Water of Life to strengthen himself and Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

• Black Zetsu told Tamura Hiroshi that Gekko Hayate had received several powerful implants and described Konoha’s preparations for the coming war.
• Tamura Hiroshi learned that Shimura Danzō was building a dark army while Hiruzen Sarutobi stockpiled Explosive Tags, and decided to support Hiruzen’s rule.
• Tamura Hiroshi infiltrated the Sarutobi Clan Compound, pinned Sarutobi Asuma down, shaved his head, and offered Hiruzen Water of Life in exchange for information.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi traded information about Shimura Danzō, Root, the Rinnegan, and the Two-Tails for the Water of Life, while Tamura Hiroshi told Asuma that Kumogakure wanted his father to remain Hokage.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke took Asuma to a basement cell after criticizing his conduct, and Hiruzen ordered researchers to test the Water of Life on cells for a Flying Thunder God Technique transplantation plan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to use the research and transplant Mangekyo into Sarutobi Shinnosuke, whom he saw as the clan’s future.

Tamura Hiroshi and Natsuhi Star traveled to Hoshigakure to build ties with the village, but they were met by Star Ninjas demanding Hoshigakure’s stolen treasure. Hiroshi subdued them with his overwhelming power, and Natsuhi stayed behind to speak with the Third Hoshikage as Hiroshi entered the village with Fire Fly.

• Tsunade learned that Nawaki was dating eleven-year-old Samui and resolved to help him prepare for married life.
• Karura told Tamura Hiroshi that Kumogakure planned to invite children from Hoshigakure to study at its Ninja Academy, and Hiroshi agreed to travel there with Natsuhi Star.
• Hiroshi and Natsuhi arrived at Hoshigakure, where Akaboshi and other Star Ninjas surrounded them and demanded the village’s supreme treasure.
• Hiroshi summoned the hundred-meter-tall Heavenly Buddha Statue and incapacitated the Star Ninjas with its killing intent and pressure.
• The Third Hoshikage apologized to Hiroshi, while Natsuhi stayed behind to speak with him and sent Fire Fly to escort Hiroshi into the village.

Natsuhi Star urged the Third Hoshikage to abandon Hoshigakure’s inflated Kage title and accept her plan to educate its children in Kumogakure, while Tamura Hiroshi toured the village with her. At the meteorite crater, they encountered a woman whose forehead protector Tamura Hiroshi recognized as belonging to an unusual ninja village.

• Natsuhi Star revealed that she had joined Kumogakure to escape the Star Meteorite’s harmful effects and warned the Third Hoshikage that Hoshigakure was far weaker than the Five Great Ninja Villages.
• Natsuhi Star passed the Third Hoshikage a record of the battle at Kikyō Mountain and proposed sending ten children to Kumogakure for schooling; the Third Hoshikage agreed to consider the plan.
• Tamura Hiroshi gave Fire Fly Water of Life to repair the damage to his body, and Fire Fly urged the Third Hoshikage to seize the chance to transform Hoshigakure.
• Natsuhi Star showed Tamura Hiroshi the meteorite crater and explained how the Star Meteorite and Mysterious Peacock Method had harmed generations of villagers.
• Tamura Hiroshi admitted that he intended to visit the Land of Demons, and a short-haired woman arrived at the crater and asked whether he had released the chakra burst.
• Tamura Hiroshi recognized the flower pattern on the woman’s forehead protector as belonging to an unusual ninja village.

Tamura Hiroshi defeated Nadeshiko Kaoru and persuaded her to arrange a wife-finding contest between Nadeshiko Village and Kumogakure. As Kumogakure prepared thousands of bachelors for the trip, Hiroshi took Hoshigakure’s children away to train, while Akaboshi secretly resolved to seize the Star.

• Hiroshi beat Kaoru effortlessly and made her agree to bring Kumogakure’s single men to Nadeshiko Village to compete for wives.
• Hiroshi sent a Shadow Clone to notify Kumogakure, and the Third Raikage ordered thousands of bachelors to return from the front and prepare for the journey.
• Kaoru told Hiroshi about the problems in Nadeshiko Village, and he persuaded her that its traditions harmed families and needed to change.
• The Third Hoshikage entrusted ten children to Hiroshi and Natsuhi, who took them away using the Heavenly Transfer Technique.
• Akaboshi watched Hiroshi depart and decided to reclaim the Star so he could gain power and rule the Ninja World.

Tamura Hiroshi brought more than six thousand Kumogakure shinobi to Nadeshiko Village under the pretense of a matchmaking visit, and the village agreed to the arrangement. By the end, the pairings had succeeded, and Tamura Hiroshi proposed bringing the village’s older women to Kumogakure as well.

• Tamura Hiroshi used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to bring Nadeshiko Kaoru and the Kumogakure shinobi to the outskirts of Nadeshiko Village, then opened a Space Gate for the group to pass through.
• Dodai's Shadow Clone and Uzumaki Tamayou presented the shinobi as eligible suitors, while Senju Nawaki used Wood Release to surround the village fortresses and help the men meet the women.
• Nadeshiko Kaoru's teacher named her the new village head, and Nadeshiko Kaoru agreed to cooperate with the matchmaking contest and formally welcome the Kumogakure shinobi.
• Tamura Hiroshi persuaded Nadeshiko Kaoru to consider arranging partners for the village's older women and promised that Kumogakure could offer them rejuvenation and a new life.
• Uzumaki Tamayou reported that every visiting shinobi had found a partner, and Tamura Hiroshi told her and Dodai's Shadow Clone how he had tricked Nadeshiko Kaoru into bringing him to the village.

Tamura Hiroshi brought Nadeshiko Kaoru and Natsuhi Star to the Land of Demons, where Miroku foresaw that he would marry her unborn daughter, Shion. He agreed to deal with Mōryō, while Miroku saw hope that her tragic future had changed.

• Tamura Hiroshi assessed Nadeshiko Village and promised to train its ninjas in Kumogakure, then warned Nadeshiko Kaoru that the village’s moral system applied to everyone.
• Tamura Hiroshi transported Nadeshiko Kaoru and Natsuhi Star to the Land of Demons, where Miroku’s samurai welcomed them to the palace.
• Miroku revealed that her visions showed Tamura Hiroshi would have many children with her unborn daughter, Shion, and that she could not foresee his future.
• Miroku offered to release Mōryō so Tamura Hiroshi could destroy him, but Ashiichi challenged him before Miroku persuaded her husband to host their guests.
• After the others left, Miroku realized her visions no longer showed tragedy, while Tamura Hiroshi accepted the prospect of marrying Shion.

Tamura Hiroshi and Miroku planned to draw out the faction seeking Mōryō, while Tamura volunteered to destroy the sealed monster. At the underground palace, Miroku began channeling power into the seal, prompting Mōryō to alert its cultists.

• Miroku explained that Mōryō came from a fallen faction of the miko lineage and had been sealed in a pocket dimension, while Tamura Hiroshi learned about its abilities and the limits of prophetic foresight.
• Miroku proposed luring the mysterious faction to the underground palace by pretending to reinforce Mōryō’s seal, and Tamura Hiroshi, Natsuhi Star, and Nadeshiko Kaoru each took responsibility for a part of the mission.
• Tamura Hiroshi and the others traveled with Miroku and an elite samurai troop to the underground palace, where they prepared to draw out the enemy.
• Tamura Hiroshi revealed four legendary blades—Masamune, Zangetsu, Zankō, and the Blade of Destruction—and followed Miroku through the barrier to the sealed stone gate.
• Miroku pressed her palm to the stone gate and channeled power into it, causing Mōryō to contact its loyal cultists.

Natsuhi Star and Tamura Hiroshi defeated Yomi’s assault and destroyed Mōryō by having the Little Ten-Tails devour it. Miroku left her Miko duties behind and went with Tamura Hiroshi to Kumogakure, where his household welcomed her and Nadeshiko Kaoru.

• Yomi led his ninjas and awakened terracotta puppets in an attack on the underground palace, but Natsuhi Star cut down the advancing forces and killed him.
• Natsuhi Star sealed the purple-black creature that emerged from Yomi and used the Yachihoko Seal to capture the attackers’ bodies and souls.
• After Miroku opened the stone door, Tamura Hiroshi sent Mōryō into the Sealing Space, where the Little Ten-Tails devoured it and the space itself.
• Miroku told Ashiichi to report that she had sacrificed herself, then left the Land of Demons with Tamura Hiroshi and Nadeshiko Kaoru.
• Ashiichi gave Tamura Hiroshi the Demon Cutter to deliver to his disciple Ashihō, and Tamura Hiroshi returned to Kumogakure with the two women.
• Uchiha Mikoto angrily welcomed the newcomers, and Miroku revealed that her daughter was still unborn; Miroku then noticed Kumogakure’s reclaimed sacred land and dense Natural Energy.

Tamura Hiroshi arrived at the Frontline and discussed the coming war, the World Tree, and Konoha’s powerful fighters with the leaders of the allied villages. After learning that Indra’s chakra had reincarnated, he received Shimura Danzō’s kill list and prepared for the decisive battle.

• Shimura Danzō burned the family portrait Tamura Hiroshi had sent, then planned to obtain the Nine-Tails and destroy Uzumaki Yaichi’s attachment to Uzumaki Kuuhina.
• Tamura Hiroshi joined Kitsuchi, Rasa, and Terumi Kyu at the Frontline and explained that Uchiha Hikari could not fight because she was pregnant.
• Tamura Hiroshi and the allied leaders discussed Konoha’s formidable fighters and traded information about the World Tree for Water of Life.
• Kitsuchi, Rasa, and Terumi Kyu reported that their Tailed Beasts feared the World Tree or something else that threatened the Ninja World.
• Black Zetsu told Tamura Hiroshi that Fugaku Uchiha’s pregnant wife carried signs of Indra’s chakra, and Tamura predicted Asura’s reincarnation would follow.
• Tamura Hiroshi summoned a Ninja Dog carrying Shimura Danzō’s must-kill list, which named Minato Namikaze, and explained that his family portraits would free Danzō from personal scruples.

Tamura Hiroshi lured Minato Namikaze’s team to a hot-pot meal, revealed his identity as a Kumogakure ninja, and discussed the coming battle with Konoha’s leaders. He left them with the prospect of continued war and news of Tsunade’s large family.

• Uchiha Obito and Rin Nohara followed the smell of hot pot and joined Tamura Hiroshi, mistaking him at first for Jiraiya.
• Gekko Hayate recognized Tamura Hiroshi and summoned Minato Namikaze, who arrived with Jiraiya and Uzumaki Kuuhina; Orochimaru joined them soon after.
• Tamura Hiroshi revealed that he was from Kumogakure, and Minato sent his three disciples back to camp before discussing the war.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Jiraiya that Kumogakure aimed to wipe out most of the Konoha ninja, while explaining that Konoha’s strength and ambitions had driven the other villages to fight.
• Tamura Hiroshi said Tsunade had twelve children and had recently given birth to quintuplets, leaving Jiraiya stunned.

Tamura Hiroshi abducted Kurenai and Katsuyu and brought them to Kumogakure, where Tsunade and Uchiha Chiri took them as students. His provocation drove Konoha and the Four Village Alliance into a decisive battle, which began with Uchiha Fugaku building a bridge across the river; the chapter ended as Hiruko confronted Kitsuchi with stolen Kekkei Genkai.

• Tamura Hiroshi captured Kurenai and Katsuyu, disabled their signals, and took them through a Space Gate to Kumogakure.
• Tsunade accepted Katsuyu as a medical ninjutsu student, and Uchiha Chiri took Kurenai to learn genjutsu.
• Kurenai Shiyo found Tamura Hiroshi's message at the abduction site, and Jiraiya ordered Konoha's forces to prepare for battle.
• Tamura Hiroshi provoked Kurenai Shiyo across the river, and Orochimaru ordered the attack as Uchiha Fugaku created a broad Wood Style bridge.
• Kitsuchi launched Dust Release at the advancing Konoha army, but Hiruko countered it and charged at him using stolen Swift Release.

The Konoha Ninja Army and the Four Village Allied Forces fought a devastating battle that ended in a ceasefire after Tamura Hiroshi severed Minato Namikaze’s lower body. Orochimaru determined that Minato could regain it through regeneration, but the process would take five years, and Jiraiya committed to protecting him throughout his recovery.

• Orochimaru, Hyuga Hiashi, and their allies countered the Four Village Allied Forces’ massive tornado attack, but the fighting escalated and a Kirigakure tsunami destroyed the tree bridge and cut off Konoha’s retreat.
• Tamura Hiroshi fought Minato Namikaze and urged him to join Kumogakure, but Minato refused and continued battling him.
• Tamura Hiroshi used the Mangekyō ability Misjudgment to delay Minato’s reaction and cut off his lower body, which Orochimaru stabilized with First Hokage cells.
• Jiraiya called for a ceasefire, and both sides agreed to have Hiruzen Sarutobi attend a ceasefire signing in the Land of Iron in half a month.
• Orochimaru examined Minato and proposed regenerating his lower body using Senjutsu energy and Yang Release Chakra, estimating that the process would take at least five years.
• Jiraiya accepted the treatment plan and vowed to stay with Minato around the clock during his recovery.

Tamura Hiroshi’s attack left Minato Namikaze’s soul severed, while the Six Paths Sage began arranging for Asura’s reincarnation to take a new host in Konoha. Uzumaki Kuuhina was gravely wounded when Shimura Danzō extracted Yang Kurama, but Uzumaki Yaichi saved her life by creating an embryo, and Minato decided they would keep the child.

• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed how Minato’s injury would disrupt the Six Paths Sage’s plans, while the Six Paths Sage and Ōtsutsuki Hamura discussed prophecies, the Ninja World’s strength, and finding a new host for Asura.
• Orochimaru had Minato use the Spirit Transformation Technique and discovered that his soul, like his body, was missing its lower half; Minato asked Orochimaru to do everything possible to help him recover.
• Uzumaki Yaichi reminded Uzumaki Kuuhina of their past, but Shimura Danzō seized control, extracted Yang Kurama, and drained her life force before Yaichi used Yin-Yang Release to create an embryo that kept her alive.
• Jiraiya found Kuuhina unconscious and brought her to Orochimaru, who revealed that she was pregnant with an embryo made from Shimura Danzō’s flesh and Yin-Yang Release.
• Minato learned what had happened through Orochimaru’s illusion and chose to keep the child because Kuuhina’s condition made removal too dangerous.

Tamura Hiroshi learned that Uzumaki Kuhina carried Asura’s chakra and warned Black Zetsu that Indra and Asura’s next battle might arrive sooner than expected. At the Five Kage Summit, Hiroshi gave the allied villages Minato Namikaze’s flesh to help them sense his Flying Thunder God marks, while Mei Terumi arranged to visit Kumogakure for an exchange.

• Black Zetsu reported that Kuhina had been carried unconscious from Minato’s house with traces of Danzo’s power and Asura’s chakra, and Hiroshi suspected the next Asura incarnation was on the way.
• Hiroshi told Black Zetsu that Indra’s Mangekyō awakening could bring the decisive conflict sooner than thirty years, and planned to fuse the Five-Attribute Bloodline Limit; Princess Kaguya offered to bear his child as a bridge for his Yin-Yang Release.
• Hiroshi traveled with the others to the Five Kage Summit, where Jiraiya angrily confronted him over Minato’s injuries and Orochimaru confirmed that Danzo had ordered the attack.
• Hiroshi gave Rasa and Kitsuchi three portions of Minato’s flesh so sensory ninja could detect his Flying Thunder God Formula, then explained Kumogakure’s academy system and his recent missions.
• Mei Terumi asked to study at Kumogakure and decided to travel there with Hiroshi’s group, while Rasa and Kitsuchi considered sending exchange students of their own.

Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure exchange students visited Kumogakure’s Elite Academy, where its brutal training methods horrified them. Mei and the others tried to leave, but the Eighteen Bronze Figures surrounded them at the gates.

• Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure group arrived in Kumogakure, marveled at the World Tree, and learned about the village’s schools from Tamura Hiroshi.
• Mei Terumi, Kisame, Zabuza, Guren, and Shunsai chose the Elite Academy, while Miru and Suiren stayed with regular schooling; Nawaki enrolled the five visitors.
• Tamura Hiroshi showed the group the academy’s dangerous training, and Mei Terumi and the others decided they wanted to leave.
• Miru questioned Tamura Hiroshi about students who failed to graduate and learned that thirty-seven elites, including Might Guy and Kakashi, remained there voluntarily to train.
• Mei Terumi and the others leaped over the school gates after the guards refused to let them leave, but the Eighteen Bronze Figures surrounded them.

Tamura Hiroshi put Mei Terumi and her companions through Kumogakure’s brutal body-conditioning program, then drew Kurenai Yuhi and Katsuyu into an illusion designed to force them to grow stronger. The illusion left them reeling after Kurenai’s father, appearing as the Fourth Hokage, killed them both.

• Eighteen Kage-level bald men activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode, beat Mei Terumi and four others, and dragged them to the infirmary for medicinal-pool recovery.
• Tamura Hiroshi explained the Elite Academy’s body-shattering training and greeted Kakashi and Might Guy, who had reached Kage Level.
• Tsunade examined the students and explained that Katsuyu’s hostility toward Tamura stemmed from Hiruzen Sarutobi’s influence; Katsuyu agreed to try Tamura’s dangerous method for gaining strength, while Kurenai refused.
• Tamura created an Illusion World for Kurenai and Katsuyu, where they returned to Konoha, were captured by Root, and were tortured under Shimura Danzō’s orders.
• Kurenai’s father appeared as the Fourth Hokage and beheaded both women, after which they reappeared at the Valley of the End.

Kurenai and Katsuyu endured repeated deaths in Tamura Hiroshi’s Tsukuyomi World, trained under him, and repeatedly seized control of Konoha before losing to Kumogakure. The chapter ended with Tamura unleashing overwhelming Wood Release against their army as the two women refused to surrender.

• Kurenai and Katsuyu fled Konoha, died repeatedly while searching for safety, and eventually reached the Land of Iron, where they took jobs at the Food Entertainment City.
• Tamura Hiroshi stole their wages, offered to teach them, and trained Kurenai in the Phantom Blade Technique and Katsuyu in the Yang Seal while they worked for ten years.
• The girls defeated Konoha’s fighters, killed Hiruzen Sarutobi and his sons, and made Kurenai Hokage, but Tamura’s Kumogakure defeated them and he beheaded them.
• Kurenai and Katsuyu repeatedly rebuilt their strength, took Konoha, and led it against Kumogakure, but Tamura first destroyed their army with missiles and later unleashed the World Tree’s Wood Release.
• Kurenai and Katsuyu faced the advancing trees and vowed not to give up, while Tamura wondered whether they had become addicted to the Tsukuyomi World.

Kurenai and Katsuyu emerged from the Tsukuyomi World with new experience and strength, while Shimura Danzō launched a devastating assault that destroyed Kirigakure and the Land of Water’s Daimyo administration. Tamura Hiroshi and the Third Raikage responded to the news by moving to support the remaining villages, leaving Kirigakure’s buried survivors to be rescued.

• Kurenai accepted Uchiha Naori’s Kumogakure forehead protector and resolved to bring her father to Kumogakure, while Katsuyu stole Tamura Hiroshi’s necklace.
• Shimura Danzō broke Kirigakure’s barrier, summoned his ten-thousand-strong Dark Ninja Army, and killed Fourth Mizukage Terumi Kyu by devouring his chakra and the Yin Six-Tails.
• Genji ordered Kirigakure’s gifted children hidden underground, but Shimura Danzō overwhelmed the village and then massacred the people at the Land of Water’s Daimyo administration.
• After returning shinobi found Kirigakure in ruins, the Third Raikage and Tamura Hiroshi arrived and detected possible survivors underground; the Raikage sent Hiroshi to support Sunagakure while he headed to Iwagakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Rasa, Chiyo, and the other Sunagakure leaders that Kirigakure had been destroyed and that Shimura Danzō was the likely attacker.

Shimura Danzō defeated the opposition in Iwagakure, seized the Hokage position from Hiruzen Sarutobi, and announced his plan to establish a ninja nation and unite the Ninja World. As Orochimaru gathered support and arranged protection for Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina, the other villages prepared for the coming conflict.

• Shimura Danzō forced his dark army to retreat from Iwagakure, where Ōnoki found his son Kitsuchi dead from Dark Chakra corruption.
• Shimura Danzō destroyed the Land of Fire's Daimyo administration and the Temple of Fire, strengthening his Dark Power before returning to Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō took the Hokage hat from Hiruzen Sarutobi, who yielded, and declared that he would establish a ninja nation and unite the Ninja World.
• Orochimaru pledged support for Shimura Danzō, offered to persuade Hyuga Hiashi and Fugaku Uchiha, and told Danzō that Uzumaki Kuuhina was carrying his child.
• Fugaku Uchiha agreed to join the war if Hyuga Hiashi helped him reclaim his eyes from Kumogakure, while Hiashi focused on recovering his eye from Ōtsutsuki Sari.
• Minato Namikaze asked Jiraiya to stay in Konoha, and Orochimaru promised to protect Minato and Uzumaki Kuuhina outside the village with a clone.