Chapter Summaries

Tamura Hiroshi captured Gekko Hayate after he infiltrated Kumogakure, transformed him into a woman, and sent him back to Konoha while making Uzuki Yugao responsible for his punishment. Meanwhile, Orochimaru agreed to train Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, who each chose different paths to grow stronger.

• Tamura Hiroshi learned that Gekko Hayate had infiltrated Kumogakure using the Flying Thunder God Technique and transformed him with the Gender-Reversal Technique before sending him back to Konoha.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Uzuki Yugao to reach Kage Level within a year or Gekko Hayate would face fatal experiments, and she agreed to train.
• Minato Namikaze took Gekko Hayate to Orochimaru, who confirmed he could not yet reverse the transformation and suspected someone had manipulated the boy.
• Uchiha Sasuke agreed to train with Orochimaru, rejected the eyes Orochimaru had prepared, and chose to pursue power through cell transplantation and Bloodline Fusion.
• Uzumaki Naruto arrived seeking strength to win Sakura back, and Orochimaru offered him Steel Release cells; Naruto accepted after learning it could withstand Chidori and Uzuki Yugao's recent sword attack.

Tamura Hiroshi visited Iwagakure and Sunagakure to invite their leaders to a meeting in the Land of Iron about the growing threat from Ōtsutsuki Sari. He took Kurotsuchi, Deidara, and Akatsuchi as students, and Rasa entrusted his three children to Hiroshi as well, leaving the villages’ heirs under Kumogakure’s influence.

• Minato Namikaze brought the transformed Gekko Hayate home, and Uzumaki Kuuhina agreed to help him adjust while Jiraiya’s advances earned him a kick out the door.
• Tamura Hiroshi warned Ōnoki that Ōtsutsuki Sari had stolen more Byakugan and could target the Five-Tails, and Ōnoki agreed to attend talks in the Land of Iron.
• Kurotsuchi, Deidara, and Akatsuchi asked Hiroshi to take them to Kumogakure, and Ōnoki agreed after Hiroshi accepted them as students.
• Hiroshi took his new students to Sunagakure, where Rasa accepted the invitation to the Land of Iron and asked Hiroshi to train his three children.
• Hiroshi agreed to take Rasa’s children as students, while Rasa trusted him to teach them everything he knew.

Rasa sent his children to Kumogakure as disciples of Tamura Hiroshi while secretly hoping to exploit the coming conflict for Sunagakure’s gain. Tamura enrolled the six youngsters at the Elite Academy, then returned home to face Uchiha Izumi’s blade technique and offered her a place in Kumogakure.

• Rasa hoped his children’s placement in Kumogakure would let him seize an opportunity if Kumogakure and Konoha were weakened, while Tamura Hiroshi recognized Rasa’s schemes.
• Tamura Hiroshi brought Kurotsuchi, Temari, Gaara, Deidara, Kankuro, and Akatsuchi to the Elite Academy, promising to teach them himself once they reached Kage Level.
• Tamura Hiroshi showed Deidara his Light Release and promised to teach him how to upgrade Explosion Release after he reached Kage Level.
• Mei Terumi clung to Tamura Hiroshi while he enrolled the six youngsters, then dragged him shopping for the day.
• Uchiha Izumi attacked Tamura Hiroshi at home with her blade-dance ocular technique, but he broke free and electrocuted her.
• Tamura Hiroshi explained that Rasa and Ōnoki might be plotting to claim his country’s inheritance, then invited Uchiha Izumi to stay in Kumogakure.

Tamura Hiroshi gave Hinata Hyuga a hell-difficulty Tsukuyomi trial to awaken her potential, and she endured a century inside the illusion before awakening the Tenseigan. Her alternate Tsukuyomi personality survived within her and emerged after the trial, leaving Hinata with a powerful new ability and a second self.

• Black Zetsu prepared to attend the Five Kage Summit disguised as the Fourth Raikage while Tamura Hiroshi told his family that the Ninja World would remain stable for three years.
• Tamura Hiroshi said he would help the Sharingan users evolve their eyes into Rinnegan and planned to pursue Space attribute fusion after completing his seven-attribute fusion.
• Karura brought Hinata Hyuga home from treatment and explained that Hinata wanted to become stronger through the highest-difficulty Tsukuyomi World.
• Tamura Hiroshi placed Hinata in the uncontrolled hell-level illusion, where she endured one hundred minutes in reality, equivalent to a century inside, and awakened the lowest-level Tenseigan.
• Karura put the unconscious Hinata to bed, but Tsukuyomi Hinata woke as a separate personality, manifested the Tenseigan, and secretly watched Tamura Hiroshi and the women from outside their room.

Hinata returned from the hell-rank Tsukuyomi World with the Tenseigan and easily defeated Hyuga Kawaichi, prompting several young shinobi to seek the same training. A year-long instructor assignment brought Scorpion’s Mark Twenty armor to the academy, and Tamura Hiroshi later sent six girls through a group hell-difficulty Tsukuyomi World, where their ordeals awakened Uchiha Izumi’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Tsukuyomi Hinata defeated Hyuga Kawaichi with one hand, and Neji Hyuga explained that her hell-rank Tsukuyomi experience had awakened her Tenseigan.
• Mark Twenty arrived at the academy to train Kankuro and Deidara for a year on Scorpion’s orders, while Kankuro eagerly inspected the steel armor puppet.
• Tamura Hiroshi created a group hell-difficulty Tsukuyomi World for Yamanaka Ino, Sakura Haruno, Tenten, Kurotsuchi, Temari, and Uchiha Izumi.
• All six girls endured a hundred years in the illusion and woke with intense reactions to their experiences.
• Uchiha Izumi’s three-tomoe Sharingan fused into a Mangekyō Sharingan after the illusion’s emotional strain accelerated her awakening.

Ōtsutsuki Sari and Ōtsutsuki Toneri attacked Konoha, and their battle with the village’s defenders destroyed the village before Nagato Uzumaki, Uchiha Obito, and Shimura Danzō intervened. After Ōtsutsuki Toneri and Ōtsutsuki Sari vanished, Hyuga Hiashi lost control of his Tenseigan, while the Sage of Six Paths and Ōtsutsuki Hamura realized Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had stolen Obito’s Kamui and was preparing a Ten-Tails.

• Ōtsutsuki Sari and Ōtsutsuki Toneri attacked Konoha, and Ōtsutsuki Toneri split the village apart with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Nagato Uzumaki and Uchiha Obito arrived, and Obito launched Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei at Ōtsutsuki Sari while Ōtsutsuki Toneri detonated it.
• Shimura Danzō attacked Ōtsutsuki Toneri, extracted the incomplete Ten-Tails, and began devouring it with the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Uchiha Obito used Kamui to pull Ōtsutsuki Toneri and Ōtsutsuki Sari away, but then lost his Kamui and fled with Black Zetsu.
• Hyuga Hiashi arrived and found Obito’s blood, while Ōtsutsuki Hamura and the Sage of Six Paths concluded that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had taken Obito’s Dojutsu Space and planned to evolve a Ten-Tails into a God Tree.

Tamura Hiroshi and Princess Kaguya completed their transformations after using Ōtsutsuki Toneri and Hamura’s Tenseigan to empower her and Little Ten-Tails. As their plans advanced in secret, Shimura Danzō prepared to attack Sunagakure and Iwagakure, while learning that the Ninja Alliance intended to join Hiruzen against him.

• Uchiha Obito worried that he had lost Kamui, then sensed that the damaged technique still remained, while Black Zetsu watched and suspected Hagoromo’s involvement.
• Princess Kaguya, Little Ten-Tails, and Tamura Hiroshi transformed Ōtsutsuki Toneri, used him to evolve Little Ten-Tails into its Jade Rabbit form, and helped Princess Kaguya awaken a Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan and Amenominaka.
• Tamura Hiroshi completed his own Kekkei Mōra transformation with Princess Kaguya and Black Zetsu’s help, then learned that Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke had awakened new Kekkei Genkai and that Shimura Danzō had prepared over a hundred thousand clones.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu decided to wait before targeting Sunagakure and Iwagakure while Lord Danzo’s World-Destroying Black Lotus adapted to the Ten-Tails it had devoured.
• After harmonizing the absorbed power for more than three months, Shimura Danzō learned that the Ninja Alliance wanted Hiruzen to help eliminate him, then resolved to strike Sunagakure and Iwagakure within two months.

Tamura Hiroshi forged a Truth-Seeking Orb sword and took Princess Kaguya, Karura, and the others to a sun-adjacent planet to cultivate with solar energy. Meanwhile, Shimura Danzō attacked Sunagakure and Iwagakure, trapping Iwagakure’s defenders as Ōnoki agreed to sacrifice the village to a Chakra Cannon strike to save some of its people.

• Tamura Hiroshi forged his Truth-Seeking Orb into a massive black nodachi, then planned to cultivate Light Release near the sun with Princess Kaguya and his wives.
• Tamura Hiroshi left Black Zetsu in charge, traveled with his companions to a tidally locked planet near the sun, and prepared to use an altered divine tree to supply natural energy for their cultivation.
• Shimura Danzō attacked Sunagakure with one hundred thousand dark soldiers and invaded Iwagakure himself, where his Dark Wood Release began consuming the village and its inhabitants.
• Ōnoki fought Shimura Danzō until the Third Raikage arrived with Kumogakure forces and revealed that Sunagakure had also been attacked.
• Shimura Danzō sealed Iwagakure inside a black-flame barrier, and Ōnoki agreed to a Chakra Cannon strike after ordering the village to evacuate people into the deepest shelters.

Sasori arrived in Sunagakure with a steel puppet army, but Shimura Danzō overwhelmed the village after killing Ōnoki and destroying the One-Tail. Sunagakure fell, and Sasori evacuated some survivors as Kumogakure prepared to take control of the Land of Wind.

• Sasori opened a Space Gate and sent more than ten thousand steel puppets and a giant steel warrior to defend Sunagakure from the Dark Ninja Army.
• Kumogakure's Chakra Cannon devastated Iwagakure, but Shimura Danzō decapitated Ōnoki, took half of the Five-Tails, and escaped with the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Shimura Danzō appeared in Sunagakure carrying Ōnoki's corpse, formed a Dark Susanoo, and cut the giant steel warrior in half.
• Shimura Danzō saw through Rasa's disguise, wounded him, and collected the One-Tail's chakra and Origin Power after Rasa destroyed its sealed body.
• Sasori evacuated women and children while the Dark Ninja Army slaughtered and devoured Sunagakure's defenders, then withdrew after ten minutes.
• Chiyo and the survivors gathered the dead villagers' headbands, while Sasori resolved that unification was the only path to peace.

Nagato Uzumaki attacked Konoha, devoured Fugaku Uchiha and the Seven-Tails, and fought the village’s defenders. Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina were killed by Uchiha Obito’s Kamui, but Orochimaru revived them with Impure World Reincarnation, and Minato went to hunt Obito.

• Shimura Danzō returned to Root Base injured after Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon shattered the World-Destroying Black Lotus, while Black Zetsu informed Uchiha Obito and Nagato Uzumaki of the destruction of Iwagakure and Sunagakure.
• Nagato chose to attack Konoha for its Tailed Beasts, and Obito transported him and Black Zetsu to the village’s new settlement.
• Nagato trapped Konoha behind a gravitational barrier, entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and swallowed Fugaku Uchiha and the Seven-Tails, awakening Uchiha Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hyuga Hiashi broke the barrier as Nagato battled the defenders, while Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina joined the fight and Nagato ensnared them with sealing chains.
• Obito struck Minato and Kuuhina with Kamui, killing them, but Orochimaru revived them with Impure World Reincarnation and sent Minato to search for Obito.

Uchiha Obito fused with Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina’s bodies to remove Madara Uchiha’s Cursed Seal and gain their abilities, then watched Nagato Uzumaki’s assault on Konoha. Nagato retreated after a fierce battle that left the village in ruins, while the capture of the Second Hokage and signs of trouble elsewhere deepened Konoha’s crisis.

• Uchiha Obito used the Chimera Technique to fuse with Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina, gaining Senjutsu, Yin-Yang Release, Adamantine Sealing Chains, Light Release, and the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Uchiha Obito returned to watch Konoha, learned that Senju Chōsu was hiding overseas, and observed Nagato Uzumaki’s battle against Konoha’s defenders.
• Minato Namikaze, Uzumaki Kuuhina, Orochimaru, Hyuga Hiashi, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, and Shimura Danzō fought Nagato until he retreated at nightfall, leaving Konoha devastated and at least half its villagers dead.
• Jiraiya confronted Shimura Danzō about Nagato, then learned that the enemy had captured the Second Hokage and realized Nagato might be targeting Senju Chōsu.
• Orochimaru and Hyuga Hiashi left as Jiraiya lamented Konoha’s decline, while Uzumaki Kuuhina noted that Shimura Danzō had acted unusually and Minato suspected a crisis on the mainland.

Tamura Hiroshi returned from years of training and prepared to help the Raikage and his allies reach Kekkei Mōra power. As Kumogakure expanded its control and its World Tree network spread, Tamura explained that the trees and their preparations were meant to protect the planet from the Sage of Six Paths and other enemies.

• Kumogakure and the Thundercloud Ninja Country conquered the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, while Konoha studied their powerful firearms and Orochimaru explained why Konoha could not match their forces.
• Nawaki led the Senju Clan's Wood Release users in planting twenty thousand World Trees across the Land of Wind and connecting them into a climate-changing network.
• Tamura Hiroshi returned from training with his wives, told the Third Raikage and Yozuki A that he had fused space into Light Release and was training in Time Power, and revealed his progress toward an eight-attribute bloodline.
• Tamura Hiroshi offered to help the Raikage and the others fuse Yin-Yang Release and Five Element Release into Kekkei Mōra, then planned to modify the World Trees to convert solar energy into Natural Energy.
• Tamura Hiroshi explained that the World Tree network was intended to protect the continent from the Sage of Six Paths' Planetary Devastation, and he argued that chakra's extraterrestrial origin offered the world a chance to surpass its natural limits.

Tamura Hiroshi visited Scorpion to share research for the artificial sun, then traveled to the Konoha ruins to meet Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Naruto, Sasuke, and the others. He warned of a coming crisis and challenged Naruto to understand the responsibilities of becoming Hokage, leaving Naruto shaken while Jiraiya defended his mentor’s plans for him.

• Tamura Hiroshi gave Scorpion his solar research, and Scorpion reported that light-energy chakra was ready for mass production while nuclear-energy chakra still required work.
• Tamura Hiroshi learned that Kurotsuchi and Deidara had advanced their Dust Release training, then went to the Konoha ruins and joined the group for Uzumaki Kuuhina’s meal.
• Tamura Hiroshi teased Naruto about Sakura Haruno and lectured him about restraint, then discussed his cultivation and Nagato Uzumaki’s uncertain future with Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
• Naruto insisted that becoming Hokage remained his dream and cited his training in Steel Release, but Tamura Hiroshi told him that strength alone could not make him a qualified Kage.
• Jiraiya said his mentor had changed and was training Naruto as his successor, while Tamura Hiroshi questioned whether Naruto had inherited Minato Namikaze’s intelligence.

Tamura Hiroshi warned Naruto and Sasuke about Hiruzen Sarutobi’s past, then exchanged intelligence with Jiraiya and Orochimaru while explaining Kumogakure’s Sacred Tree research. He later gave Naruto a secret technique to turn Sasuke into a woman as a scheme to win Sakura, and Jiraiya refused Hiroshi’s invitation to join Kumogakure.

• Tamura Hiroshi told Naruto that Hiruzen Sarutobi had used and discarded people who dreamed of becoming Hokage, and Kuuhina and Sasuke added accusations against Hiruzen.
• Tamura Hiroshi asked Jiraiya and Orochimaru to exchange information about Nagato Uzumaki, the mysterious man, and Shimura Danzō; he explained that Sacred Trees could convert sunlight into Natural Energy.
• Orochimaru shared footage of Shimura Danzō’s battles, and he and Tamura Hiroshi exchanged intelligence and cultivation insights.
• Naruto asked Tamura Hiroshi how to win Sakura, so Hiroshi taught him a secret technique to transform Sasuke into a woman and told him to use it during a spar.
• Jiraiya questioned Tamura Hiroshi’s advice to Naruto and refused his invitation to join Kumogakure, saying Naruto and Sasuke could leave Konoha if they chose.

Tamura Hiroshi visited the Elite Academy to encourage its students and reassure the Sage of Six Paths that he meant to recruit Indra and Asura rather than oppose them. After Black Zetsu reported on the search for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Tamura assessed his own formidable but still uncertain strength and prepared to master Time Power.

• Tamura Hiroshi visited the Elite Academy, where he joked with Temari, Kurotsuchi, and the others before reviewing their training and answering their questions.
• Tamura explained that he could not let the students use the Tsukuyomi illusion, and Sakura Haruno and Hinata Hyuga chose not to ask him about Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.
• Black Zetsu reported that Hagoromo and his allies had found traces of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the Kara organization but could not locate Isshiki's hidden Pocket Dimension.
• Tamura and Black Zetsu speculated that Hagoromo and Hamura might use a God Tree Fruit to lure Isshiki out, possibly sacrificing Madara Uchiha, Orochimaru, or Lord Danzo.
• Tamura showed Black Zetsu his Heaven-Splitter blade and space-infused armor, then said he needed to master Time Power to make his strength secure enough against Hagoromo and Hamura.

Tamura Hiroshi and Princess Kaguya enhanced the World Tree and spread its sunlight-driven Natural Energy production across the world, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru considered the danger posed by the immortal trees. As the Sage of Six Paths and Ōtsutsuki Hamura planned to stop Kumogakure’s expansion and lure out Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Isshiki transformed Jigen into a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and summoned a clansman to break the deadlock.

• Tamura Hiroshi and Princess Kaguya modified the World Tree, then guided the Third Raikage and others through successful Kekkei Mōra fusions.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Princess Kaguya spread the World Tree’s power through its roots, transforming the world’s immortal trees to absorb sunlight and produce Natural Energy.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru watched Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto fight, while Orochimaru planned to upgrade Sasuke’s eyes and Jiraiya questioned the Great Toad Sage’s warnings.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Ōtsutsuki Hamura observed the modified immortal trees and agreed that Kumogakure must eventually be stopped, though they prioritized dealing with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sealed his Ten-Tails into Jigen to gain an Ōtsutsuki physique and contacted a clansman, hoping the arrival would help him break the deadlock.

Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki answered Isshiki’s distress signal and agreed to help him draw out Kaguya’s children. Tamura Hiroshi detected their arrival, while Momoshiki’s group concealed themselves and prepared to wait.

• Momoshiki ate the God Tree Fruit, grew stronger, and joined Kinshiki and Urashiki in opening a Space Gate to Isshiki’s region.
• Isshiki explained that Kaguya’s two powerful children threatened him and proposed waiting for the stolen God Tree to reassemble so they could draw the pair out.
• Momoshiki agreed to wait up to two years, and the three Ōtsutsuki hid in a spatial interstice to avoid detection.
• Tamura Hiroshi sensed the intruders near the enormous tree in Kumogakure, but Kinshiki moved the group away before Hiroshi’s blade could hit them.
• Hiroshi told Black Zetsu that Momoshiki and Kinshiki had likely arrived, then returned to study Time Power and ordered Black Zetsu to watch Nagato and Lord Danzo.
• Momoshiki’s group surveyed the planet, avoided Kaguya’s Pocket Dimensions, and headed south so Momoshiki could acclimate to the fruit’s power.

Uchiha Sasuke returned to the Uchiha settlement after being permanently transformed into a girl, and Mikoto accepted the change while hoping he could leave his hatred behind. Sasuke confronted Itachi, who refused to fight and gave him the eyes he had brought; Mikoto then began imagining a future match between Sazuko and Naruto.

• Uzumaki Naruto accompanied Uchiha Sasuke to the Uchiha mountain village and explained to Mikoto Uchiha that Naruto's transformation jutsu had permanently changed Sasuke into a girl, though Yin-Yang Release might eventually reverse it.
• Mikoto Uchiha welcomed Sasuke home, cooked for him and Naruto, and asked Naruto whether Sasuke could have children; Naruto said he did not know and would ask Orochimaru.
• Mikoto Uchiha visited Uchiha Itachi and told him that Sasuke had returned as a girl named Sazuko, warning him not to hurt her.
• Uchiha Itachi met Sazuko at their agreed valley and let her win, saying he would not raise a hand against his sister before giving her a bottle containing the eyes he had removed.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Uchiha Shisui that Naruto would make a suitable boyfriend and future husband for Sazuko.

Tamura Hiroshi ambushed and killed Ōtsutsuki Urashiki after he secretly infiltrated Kumogakure, then returned to the Antarctic battle between Shimura Danzō and Uzumaki Nagato. As the two turned on Naruto and Sasuke, Uchiha Obito intercepted Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kuuhina confronted him.

• Black Zetsu told Tamura Hiroshi that Mikoto Uchiha was trying to pair Naruto and Sasuke, while Sasuke's acquisition of Itachi Uchiha's eyes signaled that the decisive battle was near.
• Shimura Danzō and Uzumaki Nagato traveled to Antarctica and began a destructive battle, while Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki and Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki went to investigate and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki secretly entered Kumogakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi sensed Urashiki's infiltration, ambushed him in the Summoning Realm, and killed him before he could use his dojutsu; Princess Kaguya began refining Urashiki's power.
• Orochimaru and the others arrived at the Antarctic battle, prompting Shimura Danzō and Uzumaki Nagato to attack Naruto and Sasuke and try to seize the two halves of the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Obito warped space to prevent Minato Namikaze from evacuating the group, then attacked him with Flying Thunder God and Light Release; Uzumaki Kuuhina joined Minato and vowed to fight Obito.

Shimura Danzō defeated Nagato Uzumaki, took control of the Dark Ten-Tails, and became its Jinchuriki. He headed for Konoha, where Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto confronted him, setting the stage for another battle.

• Shimura Danzō used the darkness to capture Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, then extracted and devoured both halves of Kurama.
• Minato Namikaze rescued Sasuke and Naruto, while Uchiha Obito used Kamui to shatter the World-Destroying Black Lotus and Nagato Uzumaki devoured it, Shimura Danzō, and the Dark Susanoo.
• Shimura Danzō emerged from the Dark Ten-Tails, killed Nagato Uzumaki, took his Rinnegan, and sealed the Ten-Tails within himself.
• Uchiha Obito took Nagato Uzumaki’s remaining Rinnegan and fled, while Konan brought Nagato’s head to the Initial Sphere Space, where the Jade Rabbit revived him as an infant.
• Shimura Danzō arrived at Konoha and told Hiruzen Sarutobi that time had proved him right.
• Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto confronted Shimura Danzō, who coveted Sasuke’s six-tomoe Rinnegan as the fighters prepared to clash.