Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto let the First Tsuchikage and First Mizukage’s negotiations collapse into insults, then called for lunch instead of taking sides. During the meal, Takigakure’s leaders publicized their grievances against the Land of Waterfalls’ nobles, prompting other ninjas to begin voicing complaints as well.

• First Tsuchikage demanded compensation from Kirigakure, accountability for Hozuki Gengetsu, and a public apology, but First Mizukage rejected the terms.
• Kirigakure and Iwagakure’s aides traded insults while Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju watched to keep the dispute from turning into a fight.
• When First Tsuchikage asked Uchiha Makoto to judge the matter, Uchiha Makoto called for lunch and postponed negotiations until the afternoon.
• At the buffet, Takigakure’s leaders complained about the Land of Waterfalls’ nobles seeking half the profits from Takigakure’s canned-fish business.
• As the ninjas drank wheat juice, Takigakure’s leaders discussed their grievances openly, and other ninjas began joining in.

Uchiha Makoto’s gathering prompted ninja from several villages to air their grievances about exploitative nobles, while Tobirama Senju feared Makoto was using the Six Kage Summit to unite them against the ruling order. The chapter ended with Makoto dismissing Tobirama’s accusations and calling him a two-faced man.

• Ninja from Takigakure and other villages took turns recounting abusive clients and miserable missions, including stingy nobles, a domineering daimyo’s wife, and a perverted lord.
• Uchiha Makoto watched the complaints spread and saw the gathered ninja begin to relate to one another despite their village rivalries.
• Tobirama Senju imagined Makoto turning the Six Kage Summit into a platform for spreading his ideology and stirring conflict between ninja and nobles.
• Tobirama Senju worried that Hashirama Senju would oppose a revolution that overturned the Ninja World’s order, then glared at Uchiha Makoto in frustration.
• Uchiha Makoto challenged Tobirama Senju’s glare, denied that he was preventing anyone from speaking, and said the ninja’s complaints were true.

Uchiha Makoto used the negotiations between Iwagakure and Kirigakure to pressure the First Mizukage into a private bargain over fishing grounds. He left the Mizukage weighing the proposed division while Tobirama Senju worried he might be made to take the blame again.

• Uchiha Makoto ended the lunch gathering and resumed negotiations, where he backed the First Tsuchikage and pressured Kirigakure alongside Tobirama Senju.
• After negotiations made little progress, Uchiha Makoto met the First Mizukage privately with Tobirama Senju.
• The First Mizukage asked Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju to support Kirigakure, and Uchiha Makoto said he wanted Kirigakure to persuade the Land of Water's Daimyo to accept his fishing-ground division.
• The First Mizukage studied Uchiha Makoto's map and recognized that the Land of Fire would gain prime fishing grounds at the expense of smaller countries.
• Tobirama Senju grew suspicious that Uchiha Makoto might involve him in another scheme, but Uchiha Makoto reassured him that they had been getting along well.

Uchiha Makoto secured Kirigakure’s agreement to settle its dispute with Iwagakure through compensation, then used the negotiations to launch plans for a Six Kage Summit. After arranging the summit’s framework with the First Mizukage and First Tsuchikage, he hosted Tobirama Senju for dinner and teased him about their unborn children’s future.

• Uchiha Makoto persuaded the First Mizukage to accept his proposed terms, including assigning Bird Dropping Island to Akatsuki Ninja Village as civilian transfer and supply stations.
• Uchiha Makoto privately pressured the First Tsuchikage to accept Kirigakure’s final mediation offer, and Iwagakure and Kirigakure settled their dispute with compensation.
• Uchiha Makoto announced that Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha would work together to establish the Six Kage Summit, and the assembled ninja forces did not reject the proposal.
• Uchiha Makoto, Tobirama Senju, the First Mizukage, and the First Tsuchikage drafted a preliminary framework and charter for the summit before the Kage returned home to rally support.
• Uchiha Makoto invited Tobirama Senju to dinner, where Tsubaki Uzumaki discussed their unborn children and Makoto teased Tobirama about a possible arranged marriage.

Uchiha Makoto and Tsubaki Uzumaki discussed their future child and worried that Hashirama Senju’s gambling might corrupt Tsunade. After dinner, Tobirama Senju surveyed Akatsuki Ninja Village’s booming commercial district and left troubled by the gap between its ambitions and Konoha’s limited resources.

• Uchiha Makoto and Tsubaki Uzumaki discussed names for their unborn son and imagined his future marriage to Tsunade.
• Uchiha Makoto and Tsubaki Uzumaki resolved to stop Hashirama Senju from introducing Tsunade to gambling, while Tobirama Senju drank and brooded over the old Uchiha-Senju hatred.
• Tobirama Senju left dinner after trading insults with Uchiha Makoto, then climbed to a high point in Akatsuki Ninja Village to observe its commercial district.
• Tobirama Senju considered how Uchiha Makoto had built the village through investment, industry, and political alliances, while Konoha remained constrained by its budget and clan opposition.
• Tobirama Senju worried that Konoha would have to seize nobles’ wealth or make its own people bear the cost to imitate Akatsuki Ninja Village, then left with his concerns unresolved.

Uchiha Makoto reviewed early chemical fertilizer research and considered how fertilizer and future crop improvements could weaken the Land of Fire’s landlords. Meanwhile, Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha, witnessed Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara’s combined power, and discussed reforms and the Six Kage Summit before Madara privately wrestled with whether to reveal his plans to Hashirama.

• Uchiha Makoto visited the Research Institute, where Itama showed him preliminary chemical fertilizer results and reported that high-yield seed selection was still underway.
• Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha, learned from an Anbu ninja that Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara were practicing combined ninjutsu at the Valley of the End, and hurried there.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara demonstrated a colossal Wood Human armored with Susanoo, while Tobirama Senju narrowly escaped its destructive attacks.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara stopped their practice, apologized to Tobirama Senju, and reassured him about their ability to capture the Two-Tails.
• Tobirama Senju told Hashirama Senju about the Six Kage Summit and asked for his support with Konoha’s reforms; Hashirama praised the plan and Uchiha Makoto’s work.
• Uchiha Madara reflected on the Stone Tablet, the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and whether he should tell Hashirama Senju the truth about his path to peace.

Tobirama Senju warned Hashirama Senju that Akatsuki Ninja Village was surpassing Konoha, while Uchiha Makoto expanded his plans for the village’s economy and power. He recruited Shinji Uzumaki to help build a sealing system that would extract Chakra from captured Tailed Beasts, leaving the capture plans in motion.

• Tobirama Senju compared Konoha with Akatsuki Ninja Village and urged Hashirama Senju to support his plans to reform Konoha.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to support Tobirama Senju and planned to visit Akatsuki Ninja Village, while he and Uchiha Madara prepared to capture the Two-Tails and test their combined technique.
• Uchiha Makoto advanced Akatsuki Ninja Village’s banknote circulation, searched harder for Kakuzu, and sent Anbu ninjas to discuss a fertilizer factory and agricultural plans with influential figures in the Land of Fire.
• Shinji Uzumaki arrived at Uchiha Makoto’s office, where Uchiha Makoto asked him to help seal the Tailed Beasts and extract their Chakra for the village’s power grid.
• Shinji Uzumaki questioned the scale and fairness of Uchiha Makoto’s proposed sealing system, then fell silent.

Uchiha Makoto told Shinji Uzumaki about his pregnant son’s betrothal to Hashirama Senju’s granddaughter, then recruited the Uzumaki Clan to develop sealing techniques for a chakra-powered industrial revolution. After receiving Hashirama Senju’s call to capture the Tailed Beasts, Makoto prepared to leave with him and Uchiha Madara.

• Shinji Uzumaki learned that Tsubaki Shizuku was pregnant with a boy and that Uchiha Makoto’s son had been betrothed to Hashirama Senju’s granddaughter.
• Uchiha Makoto asked Shinji Uzumaki’s clan to work on Tailed Beast sealing techniques and showed him a research base for developing chakra as an industrial power source.
• Shinji Uzumaki’s clansmen settled in Akatsuki Ninja Village and began researching the Large Multi-layer Nested Sealing Technique and its supporting techniques.
• Uchiha Makoto agreed on a meeting with the Land of Fire’s nobles to discuss agricultural cooperation.
• Hashirama Senju summoned Uchiha Makoto to join him and Uchiha Madara in capturing a Two-Tails, and Makoto prepared to depart.

Uchiha Makoto joined Hashirama Senju, Uchiha Madara, and Tobirama Senju to capture the Two-Tails. Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara overwhelmed and sealed Two-Tails Matatabi, leaving Makoto to carry the unconscious beast away in a small tea jar.

• Uchiha Makoto met Hashirama Senju, Uchiha Madara, and Tobirama Senju, and they agreed that Hashirama and Madara would attack the Two-Tails while Makoto and Tobirama supported them.
• The group found Two-Tails Matatabi resting in a forest meadow, and Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara launched a surprise attack using Sage Mode, the Wood Golem Technique, and Susanoo armor.
• Two-Tails Matatabi tried to flee and form a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara seized it and beat it unconscious.
• Uchiha Makoto urged Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara to stop before they killed Matatabi, and Hashirama sealed it inside a small tea jar.
• Uchiha Makoto took the jar and saw Two-Tails Matatabi curled up unconscious inside.

After capturing Two-Tails, Uchiha Makoto discussed his vision for changing the Ninja World with Hashirama Senju, then argued with Tobirama Senju over where to keep the beast. Two-Tails Matatabi overheard Makoto defend cooperation between humans and Tailed Beasts and began to trust him.

• At an inn, Uchiha Makoto explained to Hashirama Senju how changing production and economic relations could give ninja alternatives to fighting and missions.
• Hashirama Senju was persuaded by Makoto's arguments, while Uchiha Madara privately considered how to raise the Moon Eye Plan and Tobirama Senju suspected Makoto's ambitions.
• Two-Tails Matatabi woke inside a teapot, recognized its captors, and cowered from Hashirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju argued that Konoha should keep Two-Tails because Konoha had carried out the capture, and Uchiha Makoto countered that Two-Tails should be allowed to choose.
• Two-Tails Matatabi overheard Makoto say that humans and Tailed Beasts should understand and help each other, and decided that he seemed kind.

Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Makoto debated where Two-Tails should go, and Hashirama Senju allowed her to choose between Konoha and the Akatsuki Ninja Village. Fearful of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, Matatabi chose Makoto's village and agreed to help, while Tobirama Senju suspected she would regret it.

• Uchiha Makoto argued that Tailed Beasts should be treated as partners, but Tobirama Senju insisted on taking Two-Tails to Konoha until Hashirama Senju sided with Makoto and let Two-Tails choose.
• Two-Tails emerged from the tea jar and assessed the four men, remembering that Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara had beaten her earlier.
• Tobirama Senju offered Two-Tails favorable treatment in Konoha, while Uchiha Makoto said the Akatsuki Ninja Village would expect her to do her part.
• Two-Tails chose the Akatsuki Ninja Village because she feared returning to Konoha, and Uchiha Makoto warned her to be sure before accepting.
• Matatabi promised to help, sealed the deal with Uchiha Makoto, and let him pet her while Tobirama Senju fumed over losing her.

After the Two-Tails capture, Hashirama Senju decided to visit Akatsuki Ninja Village, while Tobirama Senju refused to join and warned Hashirama against accepting cooperation with Uchiha Makoto. At Akatsuki Ninja Village, Hashirama saw its thriving industry and development and was stunned by how far it had surpassed Konoha.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju argued over who would control the next captured Tailed Beast, while Uchiha Makoto supported considering the beasts' wishes.
• Hashirama Senju accepted Uchiha Makoto's invitation to visit Akatsuki Ninja Village, but Tobirama Senju rejected it after imagining Uchiha Makoto mocking Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju warned Hashirama Senju to reject every offer of cooperation from Uchiha Makoto, and Hashirama agreed to the condition.
• The next morning, Tobirama Senju returned alone to Konoha while Uchiha Makoto led Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara toward Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto showed Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara the village's factories, housing plans, and growing headquarters as he explained how workers could build lives there.
• Hashirama Senju marvelled at Akatsuki Ninja Village's development and compared it favorably with Konoha, while Uchiha Madara took pleasure in the contrast.

Uchiha Makoto showed Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara Akatsuki Ninja Village’s orphanage, sanatorium, and other welfare projects, convincing Hashirama that Konoha needed to learn from them. The chapter left Makoto planning to use Hashirama’s enthusiasm—and the Uchiha Clan—to pressure Tobirama Senju into spending Konoha’s borrowed funds on welfare and public projects.

• Hashirama Senju praised Uchiha Makoto and joked that he could become Konoha’s Third Hokage, while Makoto and Uchiha Madara traded compliments with him.
• Uchiha Makoto took Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara to Akatsuki Ninja Village’s orphanage, where the children welcomed Makoto and petted the shrunken Two-Tails Matatabi.
• Uchiha Makoto showed them the ninja sanatorium and other welfare projects for injured and disabled ninjas and ninja beasts.
• Hashirama Senju concluded that Konoha needed to adopt Akatsuki Ninja Village’s welfare policies, calling Tobirama Senju too conservative.
• Uchiha Makoto anticipated that Hashirama would pressure Tobirama to fund the projects and planned to use the Uchiha Clan’s involvement to strengthen his own position in negotiations.

Uchiha Makoto hosted Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara for dinner, while secretly considering how to protect Akatsuki Ninja Village from Konoha’s future influence. The next day, he decided to involve Konoha in a food-production venture so Hashirama Senju could help grow crops for trials.

• Uchiha Makoto invited Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju to a hot pot dinner, where Hashirama Senju said he planned to survey Akatsuki Ninja Village before returning to Konoha.
• Shinji Uzumaki discussed developing Sealing Techniques for the Two-Tails, but Uchiha Makoto changed the subject by giving Two-Tails Matatabi catnip, which sent her rolling around on the floor.
• Uchiha Makoto watched Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara leave and decided to keep the truth behind the Moon Eye Plan secret, since it could drive them into a deadly fight.
• The next morning, Uchiha Makoto had Anbu ninja monitor Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara as they investigated Akatsuki Ninja Village, then worked through economic contracts.
• Uchiha Makoto considered using Hashirama Senju’s Wood Style to grow crops quickly for Chemical Fertilizer trials and breeding research, and concluded that Akatsuki Ninja Village would need to share the food-trade venture with Konoha.

Uchiha Makoto recruited Senju Hashirama to accelerate crop breeding with Wood Style, then proposed a seed and fertilizer partnership between Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha. When Hashirama refused on Senju Tobirama’s advice, Makoto appealed to Uchiha Madara’s feelings and questioned whether the Senju truly regarded the Uchiha as companions, leaving Hashirama panicked and Tobirama uneasy back in Konoha.

• Uchiha Makoto showed Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara how fertile Akatsuki Ninja Village’s farmland was and explained that Wood Style could shorten the crop-breeding process.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Style to mature experimental crops, then made Wood Clones to help the agricultural experts with their experiments.
• Uchiha Madara debated Uchiha Makoto about whether improved food production could bring peace, arguing that human greed would still cause conflict.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed that Konoha invest its technology in Akatsuki Ninja Village’s planned seed and fertilizer companies, but Senju Hashirama refused after Senju Tobirama had warned him against cooperation.
• Uchiha Makoto accused Senju Tobirama of distrusting the Uchiha Clan and drew Uchiha Madara into the dispute by bringing up Uchiha Izuna, leaving Senju Hashirama panicked.
• In Konoha, Senju Tobirama sensed trouble and worried that Uchiha Makoto might have ensnared his elder brother, though he reassured himself that Senju Hashirama would reject every partnership.

Uchiha Makoto turned Uchiha Madara’s anger at Tobirama Senju into leverage, persuading Hashirama Senju to approve cooperation with the Akatsuki Ninja Village. The chapter ended with Hashirama and Madara signing a three-year mission contract for Hashirama to help with breeding experiments.

• Uchiha Madara accused Tobirama Senju of distrusting the Uchiha Clan, and Hashirama Senju struggled to defend his brother.
• Uchiha Makoto urged Hashirama Senju to show his support through action, and Hashirama agreed to cooperate with the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed that Hashirama Senju assist the village’s breeding experiments as a paid S-rank mission, and Hashirama accepted.
• Uchiha Makoto arranged a written three-year contract, which Hashirama Senju signed.
• Uchiha Makoto asked Uchiha Madara to witness the agreement, and Madara signed as well so he could use it against Tobirama Senju.

Uchiha Makoto unveiled Akatsuki Ninja Village’s high-yield seeds and fertilizer, then proposed an Agricultural Association to reorganize the Land of Fire’s food industry. Merchants rallied behind him while anxious nobles failed to stop his plan, leaving Akatsuki Ninja Village poised to gain control over agriculture and grain trade.

• Uchiha Makoto presented verified results showing new seeds and chemical fertilizer could raise yields to 300 kilograms per mu, explaining that Wood Style had accelerated seed breeding.
• Merchants and nobles praised Uchiha Makoto, but most merchants declared their loyalty while nobles worried that falling grain prices would damage their estates.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed an Agricultural Association to coordinate prices, planting standards, storage, transport, research, and food security across the Land of Fire.
• A noble urged Uchiha Makoto to put the Daimyo in charge, but Uchiha Makoto rejected the suggestion and made access to superior seeds and fertilizer conditional on joining the association.
• Merchants and sympathetic nobles drowned out the remaining objections, as Uchiha Makoto’s plan advanced despite the nobles’ fears.

Uchiha Makoto used the Agricultural Association’s high-yield seeds and fertilizer to boost the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s reputation and advance its plans for the Land of Fire. As Hashirama Senju prepared to return to Konoha, Tobirama Senju saw that the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s rising popularity was already affecting Konoha’s image and its ninja.

• Uchiha Makoto held a press conference praising the Akatsuki Ninja Village as the Beacon of the Ninja World, and the crowd rallied behind him.
• The Agricultural Association rapidly gained merchants and nobles, while the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s reputation surpassed Konoha’s.
• Uchiha Makoto assessed the gains from expanded crop production and warned that the Land of Fire’s leaders might retaliate through economic interference.
• Hashirama Senju told Uchiha Makoto he was leaving to share the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s experience with Konoha, despite Uchiha Makoto’s attempt to persuade him to stay.
• Tobirama Senju reviewed reports showing Konoha’s reputation suffering and overheard female ninja praising the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s lifestyle and benefits.

The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire feared that Uchiha Makoto’s Akatsuki Ninja Village was weakening the Daimyo’s rule, while Konoha’s restraint left him without an obvious ally. The Grand Elder proposed exploiting the rivalry between the Senju and Uchiha clans to stir conflict inside Konoha and draw in Akatsuki.

• The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire lamented that the Akatsuki Ninja Village had gained influence through its currency, Agricultural Association, and Six Kage Summit, while nobles and ministers began preparing to defect.
• The Grand Elder told the Feudal Lord that Konoha had made no move against Akatsuki because Hashirama Senju restrained the village and lacked ambition.
• The Grand Elder explained that Tobirama Senju sought to become the Second Hokage while the Uchiha Clan also coveted the position, with Uchiha Makoto quietly supporting the Uchiha.
• The Grand Elder proposed spreading rumors about the Senju-Uchiha struggle, implicating Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju to create trouble in both Konoha and Akatsuki.

Uchiha Makoto oversaw preparations to extract Two-Tails Matatabi’s Chakra while Hashirama Senju returned to Konoha impressed by Akatsuki Ninja Village’s prosperity and welfare. After Tobirama Senju saw the village’s vast grain-trade profits, Hashirama began urging him to improve Konoha, leaving Tobirama wary as Hashirama pulled out a notebook.

• Uchiha Makoto visited the research base, where Shinji Uzumaki said the seal for extracting Two-Tails Matatabi’s Chakra needed another month or two to complete.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara returned to Konoha, and Hashirama went to the Hokage’s Office while Uchiha Madara headed home.
• Tobirama Senju studied stolen grain-trade contracts and realized Akatsuki Ninja Village’s business profits dwarfed Konoha’s mission income.
• Hashirama Senju caught Tobirama Senju criticizing Uchiha Makoto, then described Akatsuki Ninja Village’s welfare policies and urged Konoha to learn from them.
• Tobirama Senju tried to dismiss Hashirama by claiming he was too busy, but Hashirama stayed and took a notebook from his pocket.