Chapter Summaries

The Sage of Six Paths struck Hozuki Gengetsu from the Yellow Springs Pure Land, destroying much of the Forest of Death, while Yuki Yoru identified the attacker and left Konoha with Shisui and Gengetsu. After the Nine-Tails disaster, Sarutobi Hiruzen resumed the Hokage position as Konoha’s leaders met to discuss the village’s future and Minato’s child.

• The Sage of Six Paths used Soul Karma to gather power from the dead, then attacked Hozuki Gengetsu when he threatened to destroy the Shinigami.
• Hozuki Gengetsu unleashed his Bankai against the Sage’s strike, but the clash devastated the Forest of Death; Yuki Yoru revealed that the attacker was the Sage of Six Paths.
• Yuki Yoru confirmed that he had Kushina Uzumaki’s soul, then left Konoha with Hozuki Gengetsu and Uchiha Shisui, leaving Minato’s newborn child behind.
• Konoha’s villagers mourned their losses and blamed the Nine-Tails, while Sarutobi Hiruzen considered candidates for the vacant Hokage position.
• At a funeral and subsequent leadership meeting, Nara Shikayoshi proposed that Sarutobi Hiruzen continue as Hokage, and Hiruzen accepted; the meeting then turned to Minato’s child.

After the Nine-Tails disaster, Sarutobi Hiruzen concealed Naruto’s parentage and Jinchuriki status, but Danzo spread word that Naruto was the Nine-Tails’ incarnation. Kumogakure invaded a weakened Konoha while Yuki Yoru allowed Uchiha Shisui to help only if he consumed an Adjuchas, and on the moon Ōtsutsuki Kirito interpreted the Giant Tenseigan’s vision as approval from the Great Ancestor.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided that Naruto would be known as Naruto Uzumaki and concealed both his identity as the Fourth Hokage’s son and his status as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Danzo rejected Hiruzen’s decision, then ordered a Root ninja to spread the claim that Naruto Uzumaki was the incarnation of the Nine-Tails Demon Fox.
• The Fourth Raikage sent Dodai, Killer B, Yugito, and Three Thousand Kumogakure Elite to invade the Land of Fire, and Konoha’s defenses suffered repeated defeats.
• Uchiha Shisui asked Yuki Yoru to let him help Konohagakure, and Yoru agreed on the condition that Shisui use his power to eat an Adjuchas.
• Ōtsutsuki Kirito saw through the Giant Tenseigan an image of a devastating heavenly attack and concluded that the Great Ancestor wanted the world cleansed.

Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Uchiha Fugaku to lead Konohagakure’s forces against Kumogakure, then heard Utatane Koharu’s suspicion that a Mangekyo wielder on Higashimatsuyama had controlled the Nine-Tails. Fugaku’s reinforcements reached the battlefield and encountered the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki alongside a figure in a familiar white haori.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Kumogakure’s Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Killer B, was advancing into the Land of Fire with three thousand elite troops while Iwagakure also stirred.
• Uchiha Fugaku reported that the Tri-Country Treaty with Sunagakure and Kirigakure remained in effect, though Konohagakure’s share of resources had decreased.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen appointed Fugaku supreme strategic commander and ordered Mitokado Homura to guard the border against Iwagakure.
• Utatane Koharu told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Danzo had sensed Sharingan Dojutsu Power in the Nine-Tails and suggested that the Mangekyo wielder on Higashimatsuyama had orchestrated the attack using information from the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku led a thousand troops toward the battlefield, where his scouts spotted the partially transformed Eight-Tails Jinchuriki and a white-haori figure who appeared beside him.

Tsunade defeated Killer B and revealed to Fugaku that she had joined the Seireitei as its Fourth Division Captain, while Shisui served as Second Division Captain. After Fugaku’s Mangekyō genjutsu failed against her, Tsunade left him with a warning, and he discovered that Killer B had escaped using a substitution.

• Tsunade struck Killer B repeatedly, overwhelming his taijutsu and knocking him unconscious before he could complete his tailed-beast transformation.
• Gyuki urged Killer B to retreat, but Tsunade knocked him unconscious again as he tried to transform.
• Fugaku recognized Tsunade, and she revealed her identity and explained that she had joined the Seireitei because she cared about Konohagakure’s future.
• Fugaku trapped Tsunade in his Mangekyō genjutsu to demand answers, but she released her Yin Seal and broke the illusion.
• Tsunade told Fugaku she was the Seireitei’s Fourth Division Captain and Shisui was its Second Division Captain, then warned him against extreme action toward Kirigakure and departed.
• Fugaku tried to take Killer B, but Killer B’s body turned into an octopus tentacle, revealing that he had escaped.

Uchiha Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Konohagakure’s commanders and ordered an assault on Kumogakure, while Tsunade and the Seireitei helped protect Danzo’s forces. In Kirigakure, Yuki Yoru told Kushina Uzumaki that Naruto’s body contained a reincarnated soul that might be trying to possess him.

• Fugaku kept Tsunade’s presence and the Seireitei’s existence secret, planning to use the information as leverage in the future Hokage election.
• Tsunade learned that Danzo had survived Toroi’s attack using a technique resembling Izanagi, and ordered her team to avoid further battles unless Konohagakure faced destruction.
• Fugaku claimed Tsunade’s victory over Killer B as his own, revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Danzo and the assembled Jonin, and ordered Konohagakure’s forces to attack Kumogakure the next day.
• Fugaku’s Uchiha subordinates celebrated his Mangekyō and vowed to help defeat Kumogakure and bring their clan to power in Konohagakure.
• Kushina completed training with her Zanpakuto, and Yuki Yoru told her that Sarutobi Hiruzen had concealed Naruto’s parentage while rumors branded him the Nine-Tails’ incarnation.
• Yuki Yoru warned Kushina that a reincarnated soul was hidden inside Naruto’s body and might be trying to possess him.

Yuki Yoru told Kushina Uzumaki that Naruto risked becoming a vessel for a resurrected Chakra spirit and urged her to master her new powers rather than rush to Konohagakure. On Clear Mist Island, Uchiha Shisui endured Yoru’s Hollowfication experiment and began transforming into a Hollow.

• Yuki Yoru explained that Naruto’s body and personality could gradually be replaced by the Chakra spirit within him, and Kushina Uzumaki feared the prophecy and Myobokuzan were involved.
• Kushina Uzumaki tried to leave for Konohagakure, but Yuki Yoru stopped her, said he could not yet remove the spirit, and told her to prepare by mastering her Shinigami power.
• Kushina Uzumaki agreed to train so she could protect Naruto when war came.
• On Clear Mist Island, Uzumaki Yumi questioned whether Uchiha Shisui could survive merging Shinigami and Hollow powers, while Yuki Yoru insisted the experiment would succeed.
• After devouring an Adjuchas, Uchiha Shisui was overwhelmed by pain and violent memories, then grew a bone-white mask and beastlike mutations as he underwent Hollowfication.

Yoru’s Hollowfication experiment transformed Shisui into a powerful but mindless monster, which defeated Number One before Yoru sealed it. As Yoru and Yumi watched, a robed man surrounded by green Chakra flames descended from the sky.

• Shisui endured the first stage of Hollowfication, but his anguish manifested as a monstrous Hollow form that attacked Number One.
• Number One fought Black Crow Shisui, but Shisui’s overwhelming strength and Cero left Number One mortally wounded.
• Black Crow Shisui devoured Number One, then turned on Yoru, who sealed him with the Ninety-Six Billion Fire Cage Seal.
• Yoru and Yumi spotted a man in a moon-white robe descending from the sky amid emerald-green Chakra flames.

Ōtsutsuki Kirito arrived on Earth and declared that he would cleanse the Ninja World, but Yuki Yoru rejected his judgment and attacked him. After Yoru pierced Kirito’s heart, Kirito restored his body with Tenseigan Chakra and prepared to continue the fight.

• Ōtsutsuki Kirito accused Yuki Yoru of misusing Soul Power and demanded that he help cleanse the Ninja World.
• Yoru sent Uzumaki Yumi back to Kirigakure to prepare Yukiko’s next stage of Kekkei Genkai research using Kirito as a specimen.
• Kirito summoned the Hamura Statue to seal Yoru, then repelled and killed the attacking Hollows with power from the Giant Tenseigan.
• Kirito announced that he would begin cleansing the Ninja World with Kirigakure, but Yoru appeared behind him and pierced his heart with Hyōrinmaru.
• Kirito used Tenseigan Chakra to restore his crushed organs and faced Yoru again.

Ōtsutsuki Kirito unleashed the Giant Tenseigan’s power against Yuki Yoru, but Yoru survived his strongest attacks and defeated him. Kirito died, Yoru handed his body to Fuyuna Yukiko for research, and Black Zetsu warned Obito that Yoru was responsible.

• Ōtsutsuki Kirito entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode and attacked Yoru with the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, while his body began cracking under the strain.
• Yoru used Bankai: Daiguren Hyōrinmaru to freeze Kirito and Clear Mist Island, but Kirito escaped with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and split the glacier.
• Kirito struck Yoru with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but Yoru reappeared unharmed, overwhelmed him, and shattered his golden sword.
• Ōtsutsuki Kirito dispelled the summoning of the Hamura Statue, said farewell to Toneri, and died; the Shinigami System awarded Yoru 1,000,000 Points.
• Yumi brought Yoru a Gigai, and Yoru gave Kirito’s body to Fuyuna Yukiko for research.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Yuki Yoru was responsible, and Obito reacted with anger.

Obito learned that Yuki Yoru had defeated the Moon Ōtsutsuki and that the Seireitei had stopped Kumogakure’s advance into the Land of Fire. In Kumogakure, the Fourth Raikage agreed to withdraw the troops after his advisors warned that Uchiha Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan could endanger Killer B.

• Black Zetsu told Obito that the Moon Ōtsutsuki had fought Yuki Yoru, that Nagato’s fusion with a modified White Zetsu was progressing, and that the Seireitei had intercepted Kumogakure’s forces.
• Obito learned that Uchiha Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered Black Zetsu to keep monitoring the situation.
• A Kumogakure ANBU reported to the Fourth Raikage that the Seireitei had attacked the frontline, Killer B had been injured, and Uchiha Fugaku had revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kumogakure’s Advisor Elders urged the Fourth Raikage to retreat, warning that Fugaku could control Killer B or the Eight-Tails with his Mangekyō.
• The Fourth Raikage argued that Kumogakure still had the advantage, but finally agreed to withdraw its troops.

Uchiha Fugaku led Konohagakure’s advance against Kumogakure as his prestige rose, while Tsunade and Orochimaru reunited on the battlefield as enemies. Their fight escalated when Orochimaru summoned his rebuilt Second Manda, and Tsunade prepared to release her Zanpakuto.

• Fugaku learned Kumogakure was drawing in its forces, declared that he would lead the vanguard, and announced his intention to become the Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade and the Seireitei Shinigami watched Fugaku’s charge, while Pipa Juzo and Kushimaru Kuriarare discussed the Uchiha’s claim to the Hokage seat.
• Orochimaru collected corpses and bloodline materials from the battlefield until Tsunade confronted him and attacked.
• Tsunade crushed Orochimaru’s snakes and struck him down, but he escaped through a snake and countered with combined Wind and Fire Release.
• Orochimaru summoned a stronger, reconstructed Second Manda, then challenged Tsunade to demonstrate her Shinigami power.
• Tsunade drew her Zanpakuto and began to release its Shikai.

Tsunade unleashed her Shikai against Orochimaru, but he summoned Dan and Nawaki with Impure World Reincarnation to make her stop fighting and talk. Meanwhile, Uchiha Fugaku drove Kumogakure’s forces into retreat, winning the battle and securing the Uchiha Clan’s rise in Konohagakure.

• Tsunade activated her Shikai and struck Orochimaru and Manda with overwhelming speed and force, draining their Chakra as she attacked.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru that she could perceive his soul and that his techniques were ineffective against Shinigami, but Orochimaru summoned Dan and Nawaki through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru used Dan and Nawaki to keep Tsunade from attacking, then withdrew their coffins and agreed to speak with her.
• Uchiha Fugaku used Susanoo and Fire Release to overwhelm Kumogakure’s forces as the Uchiha ninja reinforced him.
• Inabi reported that Kumogakure had retreated on the Fourth Raikage’s orders, and Fugaku announced Konohagakure’s victory to the cheering battlefield.
• Shimura Danzō watched Fugaku’s triumph and realized the battle would greatly strengthen the Uchiha Clan’s position in the village.

Kisame fought the newly revived Three-Tails at sea while protecting his young students, then Yoru arrived and killed the beast to prevent others from exploiting the Tailed Beasts. The chapter left Kirigakure without the Three-Tails, with Yoru explaining that the village no longer needed a Tailed Beast to prove its strength.

• Kisame became a Jonin instructor and led Zabuza Momochi, Mitaraishi Anko, and Utakata on a mission.
• The Three-Tails revived near the island, and Kisame sent a message to Kirigakure while ordering his students to retreat.
• The Three-Tails targeted the fleeing students, so Kisame attacked it with the Great Shark Bullet Technique and Samehada.
• Kisame drained the Three-Tails' chakra and defeated it as Hozuki Mangetsu, Ringo Yurui, and Yoru watched from shore.
• Yoru froze and shattered the unconscious Three-Tails, telling Kisame that removing the beasts would thwart the schemes of certain people.

Yuki Yoru made Miroku the high priest and sage of Shadow Island, a new holy land meant to spread Shinigami power across the Ninja World. The chapter ended with Yoru revealing his plan to use Shadow Island to challenge the Chakra tradition established by the Sage of Six Paths.

• Yuki Yoru praised Kisame's mission and disappeared, while Mangetsu asked Kisame whether he could join Seireitei.
• Kisame urged Mangetsu to keep serving Kirigakure, and Yurui worried that she had fallen behind Yoru's other former ANBU subordinates.
• Yoru and Yumi concluded that Miroku's balanced energies could help people wield Spirit Power and discussed creating a religious order to spread it.
• Yoru freed Miroku to live in the Land of Water and appointed her high priest and sage of Shadow Island.
• Yoru told Miroku to accept anyone who wanted to join Shadow Island, explaining that he intended to spread Shinigami power and overturn the Ninja World's Chakra tradition.

Ringo Yurui sought a way to gain power through Red Bean’s Cursed Seal, but its reaction revealed that Orochimaru was in Kirigakure. Orochimaru met with Yoru to offer his services, and Yoru tested his interest with research revealing a connection between the Kaguya and Hyuga clans and Hamura Ōtsutsuki.

• Ringo Yurui decided she needed a faster way to grow stronger and noticed Red Bean’s Cursed Seal might provide access to Natural Energy.
• Yurui touched Red Bean’s Cursed Seal, causing it to flare and alert Red Bean to Orochimaru’s presence in Kirigakure.
• Yurui left to report Orochimaru’s arrival to the Mizukage, while Red Bean accepted that her former teacher had returned.
• Orochimaru met Yoru in Kirigakure and offered information on the Akatsuki while seeking another chance to join him.
• Yoru gave Orochimaru research on the combined powers of the Kaguya and Hyuga clans and explained that their ancestor was Hamura Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths’ younger brother.

Yuki Yoru revealed his plan to use several bloodlines to recreate Hamura’s power and recruited Orochimaru to research it, then guided Ringo Yurui toward a new path of sage training. Yoru and Orochimaru arrived at Ryūchi Cave, where the White Snake Sage recognized Yoru and ordered his attendants to bring them in.

• Yoru told Orochimaru that Hamura was the ancestor of the Hyuga and Kaguya clans and showed him Ōtsutsuki Kirito, a lunar descendant whose blood helped Yoru’s research.
• Orochimaru agreed to research bloodline regression in exchange for the possibility of becoming a Seireitei division captain, and he asked Yoru to provide assistants.
• Yoru asked Orochimaru to take him to Ryūchi Cave, while Ringo Yurui reported that Red Bean’s Cursed Seal had sensed Orochimaru in Kirigakure.
• Yoru gave Yurui a contract for the fourth holy land, Shadow Island, and she signed it before using Reverse Summoning to travel there.
• Yoru ordered an ANBU member to have all ANBU sign the Shadow Island contract.
• The White Snake Sage sensed Yoru’s arrival with Orochimaru and sent Tagorihime and the other attendants to bring them to him.

Yoru and Orochimaru reached Ryūchi Cave, where Yoru challenged the White Snake Sage to abandon its alliance with the Sage of Six Paths. The White Snake Sage agreed to show them the ancient past and let Yoru attempt Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode, then sent them into a vision of a ruined world.

• Yoru and Orochimaru discussed the Holy Lands’ Natural Energy before Tagorihime, Tagitsuhime, and Ichikishimahime confronted them at Ryūchi Cave.
• Tagorihime’s Senjutsu illusion failed against Yoru and injured her, after which the Snake Princesses escorted Yoru and Orochimaru to the White Snake Sage.
• Yoru introduced himself as the Fourth Mizukage, founder of the Seireitei and Gotei 13, and Emperor of the Wandenreich, then asked the White Snake Sage to reveal the ancient past and help him investigate the Outsiders.
• Yoru confronted the White Snake Sage over its alliance with the Sage of Six Paths and offered a bargaining chip the sage could not refuse.
• The White Snake Sage agreed to show Yoru and Orochimaru what had happened thousands of years earlier and enveloped them in a vision of a desolate world where three figures began a fierce battle.

Yuki Yoru and Orochimaru watched the White Snake Sage reveal how Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki invaded Earth, and Yoru questioned the Sage about the Outsiders. The chapter ended with Yoru inviting the White Snake Sage to leave its current prison and join him.

• The White Snake Sage showed Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Hamura Ōtsutsuki sealing their mother, while Yoru challenged the tale that they had acted to save humanity.
• Yoru asked to see events from before the brothers’ conflict, and the White Snake Sage revealed the Outsiders’ invasion and slaughter of Earth’s natives.
• The White Snake Sage explained that Earth’s natives had once wielded physical, spiritual, and natural energy, but the Divine Tree drained their power and left them unable to resist.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki ambushed and gravely wounded Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then sacrificed him to the Ten-Tails to make the Divine Tree grow.
• Yoru asked whether the White Snake Sage wanted to escape its prison-like state, and the Sage replied that it would merely trade one prison for another.
• Yoru offered the White Snake Sage a less restrictive cage and argued that its joining him would improve their chances against their enemies.

Yoru persuaded the White Snake Sage to accept Soul Power and help spread it, then returned to Kirigakure to promote Shadow Island. In Konohagakure, Uchiha Fugaku’s victory over Kumogakure fueled calls for him to become Fifth Hokage, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen and his allies searching for a way to stop the Uchiha when an envoy from Kirigakure arrived.

• Yoru infused the White Snake Sage with Soul Power, beginning its gradual replacement of her chakra, and she agreed to help spread the new power after mastering it.
• Yoru returned to Kirigakure with Orochimaru and began promoting Shadow Island while the White Snake Sage considered how Ryūchi Cave could spread Spirit Power.
• Uchiha Fugaku returned to Konohagakure after Kumogakure withdrew, and the village celebrated his victory and the Uchiha Clan’s role in the war.
• Public praise for Fugaku and calls for the Third Hokage to retire and hold a Fifth Hokage election alarmed Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura.
• As Konohagakure’s leaders debated how to stop Fugaku and the Uchiha from gaining power, they received word that an envoy from Kirigakure had arrived.

Uchiha Fugaku’s clan won widespread support by giving free supplies to struggling villagers, while Sarutobi Hiruzen sought a way to counter the Uchiha’s rise. He befriended Uchiha Itachi through their shared admiration for the Will of Fire and began using the disputed international project to turn Itachi against his father.

• Uchiha Fugaku’s clan distributed food and other essentials, earning villagers’ gratitude and boosting calls for the Fifth Hokage election.
• Uchiha Fugaku explained to Inabi that winning over civilians would also influence the many civilian-born ninjas.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō discussed how to stop the Uchiha from taking control of Konoha as Kirigakure’s delegation arrived.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen spotted Uchiha Itachi reading his book about the Will of Fire and approached him, posing as a warm, understanding elder.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Uchiha Itachi that a joint Sunagakure-Kirigakure project threatened the Land of Fire and claimed Uchiha Fugaku had helped negotiate it.