Chapter Summaries

Kitahara Kaede arranged continued support for his allies and accepted Hatake Kakashi’s offer to teach him Chidori as repayment for helping Naruto. He learned the technique on his first attempt, and the chapter ended with Kakashi telling him to practice while Kaede’s chakra reserves continued to grow.

• Kitahara Kaede sent a Shadow Clone with a Flying Thunder God kunai to support his allies and arranged for another clone to hide money for transport back to Konoha.
• Hatake Kakashi offered to teach Kitahara Kaede Chidori, explaining that he considered it repayment for Kaede’s help and for teaching Naruto the Rasengan.
• Hatake Kakashi explained how Chidori could develop into a stronger lightning technique, and Kitahara Kaede agreed to learn it.
• Kitahara Kaede formed Chidori on his first attempt without using his Sharingan, surprising Hatake Kakashi.
• Hatake Kakashi told Kitahara Kaede to practice on his own, while Kaede’s growing chakra reserves and rapid recovery let him sustain Chidori.

A month after the Land of Waves mission, Kitahara Kaede trained Uchiha Sasuke and prepared to spar with Hatake Kakashi. As their fight began, Kakashi recognized Kaede’s Phantom Body Flicker Technique as Shisui’s lost technique and wondered how Kaede had learned it.

• Kitahara Kaede stopped Uchiha Sasuke’s Chidori charge and pointed out that Sasuke’s long windup, numb arm, and poor chakra control weakened the attack.
• Hatake Kakashi arrived and told Kitahara Kaede that the Great Bridge was complete and the team could return to Konoha the next day.
• Hatake Kakashi challenged Kitahara Kaede to spar, and Kitahara Kaede agreed while Uchiha Sasuke climbed a tree to watch.
• Kitahara Kaede opened the spar with Phantom Body Flicker Technique, creating multiple apparent copies as Hatake Kakashi drew his chakra-infused short blade.
• Hatake Kakashi recognized the technique as Uchiha Shisui’s lost Body Flicker Technique and wondered how Kitahara Kaede had learned it.

Kitahara Kaede fought Hatake Kakashi in a high-speed duel, copied the basics of Hatake Kenjutsu, and proved himself capable of matching an Elite Jonin. After their clash ended in a mutual-kill position, Kakashi told him to prepare to return to the village the next day.

• Hatake Kakashi attacked Kitahara Kaede with his chakra-metal short blade, but Kitahara Kaede’s Phantom Body Flicker Technique left him striking a feint.
• Kitahara Kaede and Hatake Kakashi traded attacks as Uchiha Sasuke watched, and Kitahara Kaede gradually suppressed Kakashi through superior Sharingan perception.
• Kitahara Kaede deliberately gave Kakashi chances to attack and copied the basics of Hatake Kenjutsu.
• Hatake Kakashi used Chidori Stream, and Kitahara Kaede answered with Chidori before they charged and clashed.
• Kitahara Kaede and Hatake Kakashi ended with weapons at each other’s vital points, then put them away as Kakashi praised Kaede’s strength and identified his lack of combat experience.
• Hatake Kakashi told Kitahara Kaede to pack because they would return to the village the next day.

After Kakashi reported that Kitahara Kaede had defeated Aoi Rokushō with Elite Jonin-level strength, the Third Hokage investigated whether Kaede was a spy or a threat. Kakashi revealed that Kaede had awakened the Sharingan through Uchiha blood, and the Third Hokage summoned Kaede for a personal meeting.

• Hatake Kakashi reported to the Third Hokage that Kitahara Kaede had defeated Aoi Rokushō and possessed at least Elite Jonin-level strength.
• The Third Hokage questioned whether Kitahara Kaede was a spy, while Hatake Kakashi argued that Kaede's ties to Konoha and interest in Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke made that unlikely.
• Hatake Kakashi told the Third Hokage that Kitahara Kaede had Uchiha Clan blood and had awakened the Sharingan.
• The Third Hokage considered the possibility that Kaede could threaten Konoha, but Hatake Kakashi said Kaede strongly identified with the village and held no ill will toward it.
• The Third Hokage raised the mission's rank to S-rank and told Hatake Kakashi to send Kitahara Kaede to meet him.

Kitahara Kaede completed an S-rank mission and received the Second's Raijin's Blade from Hiruzen, who also confirmed that Naruto was Minato Namikaze’s child. After Kaede left, Hiruzen ordered an investigation into her and confronted Danzō over a Root squad sent to kill her.

• Hiruzen praised Kaede’s role in the mission and raised its rank to S-rank.
• Hiruzen awarded Kaede the Second's Raijin's Blade, and she accepted it.
• Hiruzen asked Kaede about Naruto’s identity, and she said she had guessed he was the Fourth Hokage’s child.
• Hiruzen ordered the Anbu to investigate Kaede’s history, relationships, and strength.
• Danzō demanded that Hiruzen hand Kaede over and revealed that he believed she had killed Root personnel.
• Hiruzen inferred that Danzō had sent Root to kill Kaede and rebuked him for acting without authorization.

Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Shimura Danzō had used Root to hunt Kitahara Kaede and ordered Danzō to surrender Root's control and remain at home. Kaede tested Raijin's Blade, returned home, and began writing in his diary, while Uchiha Sasuke trained with his Chidori.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen blamed Shimura Danzō for driving Kitahara Kaede to distrust the village and ordered him to hand over Root and stay home.
• Shimura Danzō refused to accept Hiruzen's authority, threatened him, and stormed out of the Hokage's Office.
• Kitahara Kaede tested Raijin's Blade, learned to control its power with chakra, and returned home to reassure Kitahara Yoshiko.
• Kitahara Kaede gave Kitahara Yoshiko money, refined chakra, and began writing in his diary as he worried about the limited time before the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Uchiha Sasuke trained alone with Chidori and reflected on how Hatake Kakashi had helped improve his Sharingan skills during the Land of Waves Mission.

Second Pillar resolved to become stronger and rely on Konoha rather than defect to Orochimaru, while Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi considered what the diary had revealed about their futures. The diary then reported that the Land of Waves mission had been upgraded to S-rank and rewarded with the Second's Raijin's Blade, leaving Second Pillar proud of his team’s achievement.

• Second Pillar aimed to reach Tokubetsu Jonin level before the Chunin Exams and decided against following Orochimaru to seek revenge.
• Hatake Kakashi visited Obito Uchiha's grave, considered the Mangekyō Sharingan a path to Kage Level, and left after the diary updated.
• Obito Uchiha refused Black Zetsu's suggestion to take Kakashi's Sharingan so their plan would remain hidden.
• Uchiha Itachi wrote a secret guide for Second Pillar and coughed up blood, aware that he had little time left.
• The diary revealed that the Land of Waves mission had been upgraded from A-rank to S-rank and that Kitahara Kaede had received the Second's Raijin's Blade.
• Second Pillar remembered his team's excitement at completing an S-rank mission while still Genin.

Kitahara Kaede’s diary exposed Akatsuki’s control of Amegakure and revealed Kara as an even more powerful organization led by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Jiraiya questioned what had happened to his former students and Hanzo, while Sasuke learned that Itachi might be in Amegakure; the chapter ended with the diary comparing Isshiki’s strength to Akatsuki’s leader, Nagato.

• Kitahara Kaede’s diary claimed Amegakure hid Akatsuki and that Akatsuki could challenge any of the Five Great Ninja Villages unless Kara emerged.
• Uchiha Itachi recognized the revelation about Amegakure’s secret ruler, while Jiraiya connected Pain to his former disciple Yahiko and wondered what had happened to Nagato and Hanzo.
• Hatake Kakashi questioned what Kara was and why it gathered powerful ninja, and Uchiha Sasuke realized that Itachi might be hiding in Amegakure.
• Kitahara Kaede’s diary stated that Kara was more dangerous than Akatsuki, naming Ōtsutsuki Isshiki as its leader and describing his overwhelming strength against Naruto and Sasuke.

Jiraiya and Uchiha Itachi analyzed Kitahara Kaede’s revelations about Nagato’s strength, the Akatsuki, Kara, and the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Itachi realized the Shinobi World might face an alien threat beyond anything he had planned for, and began examining the diary’s clues about the Ōtsutsuki and their Karma ability.

• Jiraiya questioned how Nagato could lead the Akatsuki and reach Super Kage Level, then reconsidered Hanzo as a benchmark for that strength.
• Jiraiya compared Nagato’s power with Yahiko’s ability to flatten Konoha and concluded Hanzo could not define Super Kage Level.
• Uchiha Itachi connected Kitahara Kaede’s warnings about Kara to the Ōtsutsuki Clan and realized its members were aliens who might have infiltrated the Shinobi World.
• Itachi considered whether Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s ambush of Isshiki and earlier defeats of the clan meant the Shinobi World had repelled them before.
• Itachi worried that Sasuke and Naruto might face a future enemy they could not overcome and reflected on how his plans for Sasuke had been too simple.
• Itachi searched earlier diary entries and found Kitahara Kaede’s references to Ōtsutsuki Ichiraku and Karma, which he had described as superior to Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal.

Uchiha Itachi and others inferred that the Ōtsutsuki Clan could use Karma to reincarnate in new bodies and that future Boruto’s power came from being possessed. Kitahara Kaede then revealed that the Third Hokage would fall during the coming Chunin Selection Exam, leaving the onlookers shocked.

• Uchiha Itachi deduced that Karma let Ōtsutsuki members reincarnate in other bodies and might grant them near-immortality.
• Uchiha Itachi connected future Boruto’s strength and the name Otsutsuki Boruto to possession through Karma, while Hatake Kakashi considered the Ōtsutsuki Clan and the emerging Kara organization.
• Hatake Kakashi and Second Pillar wondered who could defeat the Ōtsutsuki, and Second Pillar doubted that anyone could break through his defenses at his peak.
• Kitahara Kaede wrote that the upcoming Chunin Selection Exam would be unusually dangerous and that the Third Hokage would fall after his battle with Orochimaru.
• Kitahara Kaede considered warning the Third Hokage about Orochimaru, and Second Pillar was shaken by the revelation that a Hokage would die.

Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Itachi reacted to Kitahara Kaede’s prediction that the Third Hokage would die during the Chunin Selection Exam, while Kakashi reasoned that Konoha had failed to prepare for Orochimaru’s plan. The chapter ended with Sasuke shocked by Kaede’s Kage Level chakra and frustrated by the gap between them.

• Jiraiya panicked at the thought of Orochimaru killing Sarutobi Hiruzen and vowed to stop him, though he recognized the exam was still months away.
• Kakashi considered how Hiruzen’s death could destabilize Konoha and realized there was still time to prevent it.
• Itachi wondered how a change in Hokage would affect his covert ties to Konoha and his efforts to protect Sasuke.
• Kakashi concluded that Konoha knew Orochimaru was a threat but could not locate him, underestimated his ambition, and prepared for the wrong scale of attack.
• Kakashi was astonished by Kitahara Kaede’s Kage Level chakra and defended his value to Konoha, while Sasuke was shocked and resented the difference between their strength.

Uchiha Sasuke struggled to accept that Kitahara Kaede had already reached Kage Level, while the diary video revealed how Orochimaru and Otogakure launched the Konoha Collapse Plan during the Chunin Selection Exam. The footage ended as an attack began at Konoha’s outer wall.

• Uchiha Sasuke compared himself with Kitahara Kaede and cracked when he learned Kaede’s chakra had reached Kage Level.
• Jiraiya opened a new diary video titled “Hokage VS Hokage VS Hokage!” showing the Chunin Selection Exam venue under attack.
• The Third Hokage realized the Fourth Kazekage was an impostor, and the disguised Kazekage took him hostage on the rooftop.
• Otogakure ninja formed the Four Purple Flames Formation around the rooftop while disguised attackers blocked Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy.
• Hatake Kakashi and Jiraiya concluded that Orochimaru was behind Otogakure and its role in the Konoha Collapse Plan.
• Two ninja guarding Konoha’s walls complained about missing the exam before a sudden change interrupted them.

A recorded account showed the Konoha Collapse Plan beginning with Sunagakure and Otogakure’s assault, as Orochimaru disguised as the Fourth Kazekage took the Third Hokage hostage and revealed Sasuke and Gaara as targets. Itachi recognized the plan to unleash the One-Tail and reflected on how the Nine-Tails Rampage had destroyed the Uchiha Clan and changed his life.

• Sunagakure ninja summoned a Three-Headed Giant Serpent that broke through Konoha’s walls while the attackers killed the defenders.
• Orochimaru, disguised as the Fourth Kazekage, held the Third Hokage hostage and declared that history would change as war began.
• Jiraiya, Kakashi, and others realized the real Kazekage was missing and could be attacking elsewhere in Konoha.
• Orochimaru said he had planned to take Sasuke while Gaara caused chaos, and Itachi deduced that the plan involved Gaara unleashing the One-Tail.
• Itachi recalled how the Nine-Tails Rampage had led to the Fourth Hokage’s death, the Uchiha Clan’s persecution and coup, and his own killing of his clansmen.

Orochimaru revealed himself and challenged his former teacher, Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, while explaining that he wanted to destroy Konoha to make it change. They began fighting inside the Four Purple Flames Formation, and both prepared to stop holding back.

• Orochimaru removed his human-skin disguise and told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he intended to kill him, then explained that he wanted to make Konoha turn through its destruction.
• The Sound Four sealed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru inside the Four Purple Flames Formation, while the Anbu waited outside for a chance to help.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen dodged Orochimaru's Hidden Shadow Snake Hands with the Substitution Technique, then trapped him with Earth Style: Mud-Flow River and followed with Earth and Fire Style attacks.
• Jiraiya praised Sarutobi Hiruzen's strength and recalled his devastating Five Elements Great Combo Technique, while Second Pillar watched the battle in awe.
• Orochimaru survived Sarutobi Hiruzen's attacks, and the former teacher and student removed their outer robes as they prepared to fight seriously.

Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation to summon the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, and the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, to fight the Third Hokage. Jiraiya and the others watching the scene were horrified by Orochimaru’s use of the dead, while Uchiha Sasuke realized the technique could bring the dead back.

• Orochimaru and the Third Hokage faced off with their Kage Level chakra pressuring everyone nearby.
• Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation, but the Third Hokage stopped the third coffin from opening.
• The First and Second Hokage emerged from the coffins, and the Third Hokage recognized the danger of facing both former teachers.
• Jiraiya recognized Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju and angrily condemned Orochimaru for making them fight their student.
• The Anbu identified the summoned figures as the First and Second Hokage, and Uchiha Sasuke reacted with shock at the possibility of summoning the dead.

Second Pillar learned that the Fourth Hokage had died sealing the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, while the others reacted to Kitahara Kaede’s claim that the First Hokage could defeat it with ease. In the video, Orochimaru completed Impure World Reincarnation and made the First Hokage and Second attack Sarutobi Hiruzen.

• Second Pillar learned about resurrection through Impure World Reincarnation and hoped to bring his parents and clansmen back to life.
• Kitahara Kaede claimed that the First Hokage could seal the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox with one hand, making Jiraiya reconsider the gap between Super Kage Level and other ranks.
• Orochimaru completed the reincarnation of the First Hokage and Second, while the Anbu squad leader explained that living people had been used as sacrifices.
• Orochimaru controlled the First Hokage and Second to attack Sarutobi Hiruzen, who defended himself against their blows.
• The Second extinguished Hiruzen’s Fire Dragon Flame Bullet with Water Style and followed with a powerful Water Style attack that Hiruzen blocked with an Earth Style Wall.

The viewers watched the Third Hokage struggle against the First and Second Hokage, summoned through Impure World Reincarnation, as his age and declining strength became clear. The chapter left Jiraiya suspecting that Shimura Danzō had used Wood Style body modifications to preserve his abilities.

• The Second Hokage unleashed a massive Water Release without a water source, astonishing Hatake Kakashi with his skill at using hand seals.
• The First Hokage overwhelmed the aging Third Hokage with taijutsu and Tree Sea Birth, trapping him in Wood Style.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma, who transformed into the Adamantine Staff and freed him from the Wood Style trap.
• Orochimaru drew a Kusanagi Sword and fought the Third Hokage, while his helpers knocked the Second Hokage down.
• Uchiha Itachi and Jiraiya compared the Third Hokage's frailty with Shimura Danzō's strength, and Jiraiya connected Danzō's condition to Wood Style experiments and bodily modification.

Sarutobi Hiruzen battled Orochimaru and learned that his former student had pursued immortality by transferring his soul into other bodies. Jiraiya concluded that Orochimaru’s repeated reincarnations had weakened his resistance to genjutsu, explaining how Uchiha Itachi had defeated him.

• Enma helped Sarutobi Hiruzen counter Orochimaru, while the First Hokage and Second Hokage regenerated from explosive-tag damage caused by Impure World Reincarnation.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized that he needed to stop Orochimaru, the caster, and prepared to use the Fourth Hokage’s ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru revealed a young woman’s face and explained that his Immortality Technique let his spirit occupy new bodies.
• A memory showed Sarutobi Hiruzen and Anbu discovering Orochimaru’s secret laboratory, where he admitted that he sought immortality to master every ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru revealed that he planned to take Uchiha Sasuke’s body, and Jiraiya inferred that repeated reincarnations weakened Orochimaru’s soul and resistance to genjutsu.

Jiraiya, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uchiha Itachi reacted to Orochimaru’s transformation and his plans for Sasuke while the recorded battle between Orochimaru and the Third Hokage continued. Sarutobi Hiruzen resolved to stop Orochimaru and summoned the Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal, though Orochimaru still believed Konoha’s destruction was certain.

• Jiraiya realized Orochimaru’s reincarnation had left him transformed into a woman and understood why Kitahara Kaede called him Snake Lady.
• Uchiha Sasuke rejected the idea of relying on Orochimaru, while Uchiha Itachi considered killing Orochimaru before he could threaten Sasuke or Konoha.
• The First Hokage unleashed Wood Style, and the Third Hokage used the Adamantine Staff to block the attack with a Clone Technique.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen regretted sparing Orochimaru, while Jiraiya admitted that he too had held back when he previously fought Orochimaru.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen created two clones and summoned the Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal as Orochimaru declared that he had won and Konoha would be destroyed.

The Third Hokage used the Reaper Death Seal to free the First Hokage and Second from Orochimaru’s control, then sealed away Orochimaru’s hands and ninja techniques. He died knowing Orochimaru’s plan to destroy Konoha had been stopped, though he could not take Orochimaru’s life.

• The Third Hokage resisted the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and declared that Konoha’s people were his family and its future Hokage would protect the village.
• The Third Hokage used the Reaper Death Seal to pull the First Hokage and Second’s souls from their reanimated bodies, freeing them from Orochimaru’s control.
• Orochimaru’s Kusanagi pierced the Third Hokage, but Enma stopped it from going farther as the Third Hokage continued pulling at Orochimaru’s soul.
• The Third Hokage sealed the souls in Orochimaru’s hands, leaving his hands ruined and preventing him from performing ninja techniques.
• The Third Hokage saw Orochimaru as the gifted boy he had once known, then died after declaring that Orochimaru’s plan had failed.