Chapter Summaries

Tamura Hiroshi met Karura, Rasa, and Pakura in Kumogakure and invited them to try the village’s local food. He led them to his Food Entertainment City, while continuing to plan how to obtain Uzumaki sealing techniques and improve his abilities.

• Tamura Hiroshi parted from Yozuki A and the visiting Sunagakure ninjas, then returned home to practice Lightning Release and wait for a visitor.
• Tamura Hiroshi continued training and sparring with his teacher Fukai, rapidly improving his combat experience.
• Tamura Hiroshi encountered Karura, Rasa, and Pakura on the snack street and asked whether they had enough money for their visit.
• Tamura Hiroshi invited the three visitors to sample Kumogakure’s food and buy local specialties.
• Tamura Hiroshi led Karura, Rasa, and Pakura toward the Food Entertainment City he owned.

Tamura Hiroshi showed Rasa, Pakura, and Karura around Little Fat Cow Hotpot’s Entertainment City, where they ate and relaxed in a hot spring. He guessed that the three young visitors were elite Kekkei Genkai or Secret Technique ninjas, and they confirmed it without revealing further details.

• Karura marveled at the lively Entertainment City as Tamura Hiroshi explained its attractions, guest services, and ninja assistance.
• Tamura Hiroshi led Rasa, Pakura, and Karura to the all-you-can-eat Little Fat Cow Hotpot restaurant, where they enjoyed a meal.
• An hour later, the three visitors soaked in a hot spring and praised their relaxing visit with Tamura Hiroshi.
• Tamura Hiroshi guessed that the young visitors were Kekkei Genkai or Secret Technique ninjas based on their elite status.
• Karura identified herself as a Secret Technique Ninja, while Rasa and Pakura confirmed they were Kekkei Genkai Ninjas.

Tamura Hiroshi offered to share his observations about Rasa and the two Sunagakure kunoichi in exchange for Chakra Threads training techniques. He analyzed Karura and Pakura in detail, then turned to assess Rasa.

• Rasa asked Tamura Hiroshi whether he was a strategist, and Tamura agreed to reveal what he had inferred in exchange for Chakra Threads training techniques.
• Rasa and the others agreed to provide the techniques if Tamura's analysis was reasonable and thorough.
• Tamura inferred that Karura used the Sand Manipulation Secret Technique, assessed her combat strengths and weaknesses, and described her personality.
• Tamura deduced that Pakura used Scorch Release, outlined how to counter it, and assessed her fighting style and personality.
• Tamura turned his attention to Rasa and began his analysis.

Tamura Hiroshi impressed Rasa, Karura, and Pakura by deducing their abilities and motives, then arranged to receive Karura’s Chakra Threads training techniques. Rasa reflected on Sunagakure’s need for better Tailed Beast Sealing Techniques, while the Third Raikage and Dodai praised Tamura’s intelligence after reading a report about his meeting.

• Tamura Hiroshi deduced Rasa’s Magnet Release, ambitions, leadership, and relationship with Karura, and identified Pakura’s guarded nature.
• Karura agreed to write down the Chakra Threads training techniques and bring them to Tamura Hiroshi the next day.
• Rasa rejected Pakura’s suggestion to keep contacting Tamura Hiroshi, fearing the youth would uncover more of their information.
• Rasa explained that Sunagakure needed a better sealing method to control the One-Tail and was disadvantaged compared with other villages’ Tailed Beasts.
• The Third Raikage and Dodai read an ANBU report about Tamura Hiroshi’s meeting with Rasa and praised his ability to analyze people.

Tamura Hiroshi met Pakura in Entertainment City, then accepted her challenge to a taijutsu spar at a secluded training ground. Their fight revealed that Tamura was stronger than Pakura expected, but as his chakra ran low, she pressed on rather than accept a draw.

• Tamura Hiroshi met Pakura instead of Karura and hinted that she should be cautious about standing out.
• Pakura challenged Tamura Hiroshi to a taijutsu-only spar to gauge his strength.
• Tamura Hiroshi equipped his armor and swords, while Pakura formed wind and fire blades by channeling chakra into her kunai.
• Tamura Hiroshi opened with the Monster Strength Combo, and the two traded attacks while studying each other's fighting styles.
• After about two minutes, Tamura Hiroshi prepared to withdraw as his chakra dwindled, but Pakura continued the fight, intent on winning.

Tamura Hiroshi traded intelligence with a Root intermediary and obtained the Sword of the Thunder God, while trying to strengthen his ties to Danzo and protect Nonō. After his embarrassing spar with Pakura, he also studied Sunagakure’s Chakra Threads techniques and improved his prospects for training.

• Pakura defeated Tamura Hiroshi in their spar, but fled in embarrassment after realizing why he called it a draw.
• Tamura Hiroshi studied Sunagakure’s Chakra Threads techniques and considered eliminating the intermediary so he could contact Danzo directly.
• Tamura Hiroshi gave the middle-aged intermediary intelligence suggesting Kumogakure’s main target was Konoha and that it might try to seize the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan.
• The intermediary exchanged the Sword of the Thunder God for Tamura Hiroshi’s second intelligence scroll, which left him solemn.
• Tamura Hiroshi asked Danzo to keep Nonō off dangerous missions and demanded the intermediary bring two portions of summoned-beast Roast Meat next time.

Shimura Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to secretly target the Uzumaki clan and secure a young Nine-Tails Jinchuriki before other villages could obtain its sealing techniques. Their discussion also revealed Danzo had an asset in Kumogakure, and Hiruzen ended by asking him for money to buy tobacco.

• Shimura Danzo showed Hiruzen Sarutobi intelligence that Kumogakure and Sunagakure had joined forces and that other villages might seek the Uzumaki Sealing Technique.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi declared that Konoha needed a young Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Shimura Danzo promised to bring back the finest candidate.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi authorized Danzo to act discreetly against the Uzumaki clan and warned him to leave no evidence.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked whether Danzo had swapped their teacher's Sword of the Thunder God because of the intelligence, but Danzo refused to explain his asset in Kumogakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi cautioned Danzo to keep his people from causing trouble, then asked him to lend tens of thousands of ryo for tobacco leaves.

Hiruzen Sarutobi mobilized Konoha’s clans for a possible war while secretly preparing to confront Shimura Danzō’s Root. The other great villages interpreted Konoha’s movements as a chance to pursue their plan against the Uzumaki Clan, leaving the coming conflict in the Land of Whirlpools uncertain.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave the clan heads fabricated and genuine reports of enemy movements, then assigned the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Sarutobi, and Shimura forces to defend different fronts.
• The clan heads sent elite units to secure border defenses and clear enemy scouts as Konoha’s mobilization put the other villages on alert.
• Ōnoki suspected Konoha’s plans might complicate Iwagakure’s attack on the Land of Whirlpools and ordered Gari to adapt to the situation.
• Ōnoki sent Rōshi with the force bound for the Land of Whirlpools, while Sunagakure and Kirigakure also increased their preparations to seize the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Techniques.

Tamura Hiroshi and Dodai discussed trying to unseal Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s Six Paths Ninja Tools using Uzumaki sealing arts, and Dodai agreed to bring their hearts to the allied commanders’ meeting. They reflected on Konoha’s growing isolation and the political foundations of the shinobi villages.

• Tamura Hiroshi asked whether the Uzumaki clan’s sealing arts could unseal the Six Paths Ninja Tools summoned by Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Dodai asked whether Tamura Hiroshi had Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s bodily tissues, and Tamura Hiroshi produced their preserved hearts and sealed them in a scroll.
• Dodai accepted the scroll and decided to test whether the Uzumaki clan could unseal the tools, which might help Kumogakure in the war.
• Dodai invited Tamura Hiroshi to attend the Four-Nation Allied Shinobi Army commanders’ meeting in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Dodai discussed Konoha’s growing hostility with the other villages and the limits of the Hokages’ political systems compared with the Daimyo’s administration.

Yozuki A and his companions reached the Land of Whirlpools, where Tamura Hiroshi posed as a Senju envoy and confronted Konoha’s delegation. The standoff left Sarutobi Shinnosuke and his companions defending Hiruzen Sarutobi’s leadership while Tamura Hiroshi continued to test their identities and provoke them.

• Yozuki A and his companions landed on the coast of the Land of Whirlpools with more than a thousand Kumogakure ninjas and established a camp.
• Dodai, Tamura Hiroshi, and three Kumogakure jonin disguised themselves as Konoha Anbu and headed to the Uzushio Hidden Village, where Dodai met Uzumaki Ashina.
• Tamura Hiroshi encountered Sarutobi Shinnosuke and two Konoha companions at the village entrance, and both groups recognized the awkward deception.
• Tamura Hiroshi claimed to represent the Senju Clan and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of sending Senju elites away from the Land of Whirlpools.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke and the girl defended Hiruzen Sarutobi, arguing that the Second had chosen him to prevent conflict within Konoha and that Tsunade could become the Fourth Hokage.

Tamura Hiroshi bluffed his way into Uzushio Hidden Village by posing as a Senju and imitating Senju Tobirama’s chakra. Masahiko Uzumaki recognized Tobirama’s chakra and questioned how Hiroshi possessed it.

• Tamura Hiroshi insulted Sazuko and challenged the Konoha delegation’s claims that Tsunade could become the Fourth Hokage, prompting Sarutobi Shinnosuke to lead the others away.
• Tamura Hiroshi challenged the Uzumaki guards for admitting Hiruzen Sarutobi’s son while stopping the Senju representatives, then imitated Senju Tobirama’s chakra to convince them to let him enter.
• Tamura Hiroshi claimed to be a younger relative of Mito Uzumaki, gained the guards’ trust, and toured Uzushio Hidden Village, including its shrine of Death God Masks.
• Masahiko Uzumaki confronted Tamura Hiroshi at the shrine and asked which Senju branch he belonged to.
• Tamura Hiroshi revealed his white hair and imitated Senju Tobirama’s chakra, leaving Masahiko Uzumaki puzzled about how he had obtained it.

Tamura Hiroshi convinced Masahiko Uzumaki that he was Tobirama’s unfinished creation and persuaded him to let him take Kushina away from Uzushio Hidden Village. Masahiko revealed that Kushina had sent Tamura to obtain the Yang Seal, but he would not give it to him for free.

• Tamura told Masahiko that Tobirama had created him during experiments to replicate Hashirama, and he used stories about Kushina and Tsunade to build Masahiko’s trust.
• Tamura claimed Konoha’s leadership was isolating the Senju and that the Uzumaki clan needed to join them to survive the coming war.
• Masahiko resisted Tamura’s pressure but agreed to let him take the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, as Kushina’s letter had already arranged it.
• Tamura showed Masahiko the Sword of the Thunder God and asked for help improving his poor Chakra Quantity.
• Masahiko explained that Kushina had sent Tamura for the Yang Seal, a simplified technique for storing Chakra, but said he would not give it away for nothing.

Tamura Hiroshi negotiated with Masahiko Uzumaki for the Uzumaki clan’s inheritance and resources, then left with scrolls and a girl as the village faced a looming war. Elsewhere, Dodai offered the clan a place in Kumogakure, but Uzumaki Ashina wanted greater proof of sincerity.

• Tamura Hiroshi offered a Senjutsu cultivation method in exchange for the Uzushio Hidden Village’s Classics, inheritance, and resources, warning that Madara Uchiha might still be alive.
• Masahiko Uzumaki agreed to let Tamura Hiroshi take two enormous scrolls of the clan’s legacy, and Tamura sealed away the Death God Masks.
• Tamura Hiroshi knocked out the girl Masahiko had selected, changed her hair with the Transformation Jutsu, and carried her out toward Konoha.
• Dodai showed Uzumaki Ashina the Four Great Shinobi Villages’ joint battle plan and invited the Uzumaki clan to join Kumogakure.
• Uzumaki Ashina rejected the battle plan as insufficient and pressed Dodai for a more sincere offer.

Dodai persuaded Uzumaki Ashina that Konoha might abandon the Uzumaki clan and offered Kumogakure’s protection, prompting Ashina to agree to fight alongside them before evacuating the children if necessary. Dodai then offered four sealed Six Paths Ninja Tools, and Ashina revealed that his clan knew their history well.

• Dodai warned Uzumaki Ashina that Konoha might be preparing to destroy the Uzumaki clan and argued that Kumogakure was their only available refuge.
• Dodai offered to take in underage, single Uzumaki clansmen, promised them equal treatment and safe roles, and rejected using them as Tailed Beast Jinchuriki.
• Dodai said Kumogakure could provide one hundred jonin and one thousand chunin, with the Third joining the war at a critical moment.
• Uzumaki Ashina agreed to fight with Kumogakure in the Land of Whirlpools, give Dodai Uzumaki sealing techniques, and send the children to Kumogakure if the clan lost.
• Dodai asked about the Six Paths Ninja Tools and offered four sealed tools for the war if Ashina could break their seals.
• Dodai unsealed a storage scroll, revealing hearts inside two nutrient cans.

Uzumaki Ashina secured Kumogakure's alliance and the Bashosen as Uzushio Hidden Village faced an impending assault. Masahiko Uzumaki realized the Kumogakure boy had tricked him into giving away his granddaughter and the clan's treasures, but set his anger aside to plan for the coming battle.

• Dodai gave Uzumaki Ashina Kinkaku and Ginkaku's preserved hearts, and Ashina used them to summon the four Six Paths Ninja Tools and claim the Bashosen.
• Dodai left Uzushio Hidden Village with the other three tools, then learned that the boy and his companions had gone ahead with the young miss and hurried after them.
• Uzumaki Ashina met with Masahiko Uzumaki and the four clan elders, who learned that Konoha's promised reinforcements would not arrive until the night after the enemy advanced.
• Ashina revealed his secret negotiations with Kumogakure and demonstrated the Bashosen, convincing the elders that the alliance offered the clan a way to survive.
• Masahiko realized the Kumogakure boy had deceived him into surrendering his granddaughter and the clan's treasures, then regained his composure and asked for the battle plan.

Uzumaki Ashina agreed to Kumogakure’s terms for protecting the clan’s escape route, while Tamura Hiroshi secured the Uzumaki girl and clan heritage. At the rendezvous, Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure excluded Kumogakure from their alliance, so Dodai left with his group as Chiyo prepared for the night’s operations.

• Uzumaki Ashina told Masahiko Uzumaki and the elders that Kumogakure would help secure a sea evacuation route, in exchange for Uzumaki sealing techniques and the option to shelter the clan’s children and unmarried members.
• Dodai met Tamura Hiroshi and learned that Hiroshi had obtained the Uzumaki clan’s scrolls and foundation, along with the designated Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, after bluffing his way through Uzushio Hidden Village.
• Dodai sent trusted ANBU to carry the scrolls and girl back through a hidden tunnel, then ordered his remaining subordinates to keep Hiroshi from causing more trouble.
• At the rendezvous, Hozuki Jagetsu, Chiyo, and Gari mocked Kumogakure and pressured Dodai’s group, while Rasa and Pakura recognized Tamura Hiroshi.
• Dodai rejected the other factions’ attempt to exclude Kumogakure and led his group away; Chiyo dismissed his departure and prepared to proceed with the three-faction alliance that night.

Tamura Hiroshi proposed exploiting Kirigakure’s internal division to strengthen Kumogakure while Dodai weighed the growing complications around the captured Uzumaki Kushina. The group also considered targeting Sarutobi Shinnosuke and the Monkey Clan as the war’s plans continued to take shape.

• Tamura Hiroshi tricked and knocked out Uzumaki Kushina after she cursed him, while Dodai and the others discussed the risks her capture created.
• Tamura Hiroshi advised Dodai to use Kirigakure’s factional conflict to help the Third Mizukage’s faction destroy rival clans and bring their surviving members into Kumogakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi urged Yozuki A to marry a Kaguya clan kunoichi, and Yozuki A agreed to seek a wife himself.
• Dodai noted that the plan to absorb the Uzumaki clan depended on Konoha’s attack and on severing the clan’s ties to Konoha.
• Tamura Hiroshi proposed capturing Sarutobi Shinnosuke to obtain Konoha secrets and the Monkey Clan summoning contract, then using the contract to attack the Monkey Clan.

Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu ponder how to awaken the Rinnegan as the Uzumaki clan launches a surprise attack on the Kirigakure army. Kumogakure arrives at the battlefield, where a powerful Uzumaki assault traps and devastates the Kirigakure forces.

• Madara Uchiha watched Uzushio Hidden Village and worried that he had little time left to obtain the Power of All Creation.
• Black Zetsu suspected Uzumaki Chakra might help Madara Uchiha awaken the Rinnegan and decided to collect it from the war’s dead.
• Black Zetsu sensed Uzumaki experts heading toward the Kirigakure camp and slipped into the earth to gather corpses.
• Kumogakure attacked the Kirigakure camp as Hozuki Jagetsu ordered reinforcements from the Sand and Iwagakure armies.
• Four Uzumaki elders trapped the Kirigakure army inside a Four Red Yang Formation while Uzumaki Ashina and other clansmen used the Bashosen to unleash devastating fire and lightning attacks.
• A streak of lightning descended before the Cloud Ninja Army and revealed a burly figure.

The Third Raikage and the Cloud Ninja Army joined the Uzumaki clan’s assault, overwhelming Kirigakure’s forces inside the Four Red Yang Formation. Tamura Hiroshi’s connection to the Kaguya Phantom drew Black Zetsu’s attention, while Tamura continued fighting and gathering Kaguya clan remains.

• Uzumaki Ashina opened the Four Red Yang Formation’s gateway, and the Third Raikage led the Cloud Ninja Army into battle against Kirigakure.
• The Third Raikage and his troops tore through the scattered Kirigakure Ninja Army, while the formation trapped and burned those who tried to escape.
• Tamura Hiroshi linked with the Kaguya Phantom, alerting Black Zetsu, who sensed Mother’s aura in the young ninja and began watching him.
• Tamura Hiroshi absorbed chakra from Kaguya ninjas and sealed their corpses into storage scrolls as Yozuki A and Fukai gathered remains nearby.
• Fukai and Yozuki A let Tamura Hiroshi fight a young Kaguya ninja alone, and he used his blades and armor to withstand the opponent’s desperate attacks.

Tamura Hiroshi defeated a Kaguya fighter with Explosive Tags, then claimed Samehada as his next target while the Kumogakure-Uzumaki alliance crushed Kirigakure’s forces. As other villages prepared to unite against the alliance, Shimura Danzō set plans in motion to confront the Third Raikage and destroy Uzushio Hidden Village.

• Tamura Hiroshi secretly planted Explosive Tags on the young Kaguya fighter and killed him in the blast.
• Tamura Hiroshi spotted Samehada and asked Fukai to trade blades, while Yozuki A and Fukai moved to defeat its wielder, Suikazan Fuguki.
• Yozuki A and Fukai overwhelmed Suikazan Fuguki, severing both his arms and knocking him unconscious.
• The Third Raikage and the Uzumaki clan routed and wiped out nearly a thousand Kirigakure ninja, prompting Chiyo, her brother, and Gari to prepare a joint response.
• Shimura Danzō ordered a Root shinobi to warn the Sand and Stone commanders not to interfere, then sent Kō San to trigger a hidden threat in Uzushio Hidden Village.
• Shimura Danzō led his forces toward the Third Raikage, intending to exploit his exhaustion and possibly kill him.