Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Madara revealed that his battlefield maneuvers had been a cover to capture Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki. With Black Zetsu and Kisame delivering Killer B to him, Madara stood one step from completing his goal as Kagura and Hashirama confronted him.

• Hashirama stopped preparing a jutsu after Madara said their fight had settled the outcome and that he had to continue his mission.
• Kagura arrived with his Six Paths, and Kisame Hoshigaki and Black Zetsu appeared behind Madara.
• Kagura recognized Black Zetsu carrying the unconscious Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Black Zetsu reported that Killer B had been captured, and Kagura realized Madara had used the war and his apparent interventions to buy time for the capture.
• Madara looked at Killer B and said he had finally gathered them all.

Kagura and Hashirama raced to stop Uchiha Madara from extracting the Eight-Tails from Killer B, but Madara used Flying Thunder God to evade them and delay their pursuit. Madara successfully extracted Gyuki and left Killer B’s lifeless body behind.

• Kagura realized Akatsuki had taken Killer B and charged at Black Zetsu to rescue him, but Madara teleported them away.
• Madara switched places with Obito, leaving White Zetsu, Kisame Hoshigaki, and three resurrected Kages to stall Kagura and Hashirama.
• Kagura and Hashirama prepared to fight through the enemies and reach Madara before he could absorb the Eight-Tails.
• Madara brought Killer B to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and began extracting the Eight-Tails.
• Madara used black chains to pull Gyuki from Killer B and feed the Eight-Tails into the statue, then Killer B’s body fell to the ground.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others finished sealing the reanimated Kage and joined Kagura and Hashirama, who had defeated White Zetsu, Kisame Hoshigaki, and three other enemies. Kagura tried to send everyone to find Uchiha Madara, but the Ten-Tails appeared before they could act.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Kage used teamwork to seal Second Kazekage Shamon and Hozuki Gengetsu, then followed the others after the Flying Thunder God technique pulled away Mu and the two Raikage.
• Tsunade treated Minato's internal injuries, and the group reunited with Senju Tobirama, Minato, the Third Kazekage, and Karatachi Yagura on the way to Kagura's battlefield.
• Kagura and Senju Hashirama had defeated White Zetsu and Kisame Hoshigaki and sealed the three reanimated Kage in wooden coffins.
• Kagura urged the arriving group to find Uchiha Madara, but the Ten-Tails appeared with a howl, and Kagura realized they were too late.

Kagura and the Allied Forces watched as Uchiha Madara absorbed the fully formed Ten-Tails and became its jinchuriki. As the white sphere surrounding him dissipated, Madara appeared before them and apologized for keeping them waiting.

• Kagura recognized that the Ten-Tails had absorbed the Nine-Tails Beasts and ordered everyone below Kage level to leave the battlefield.
• Minato and Senju Tobirama used the Flying Thunder God to warn the Allied Forces.
• Uchiha Madara formed the Six Paths Ten-Tails Coffin Seal and absorbed the Ten-Tails into his body.
• Kagura and the others found a white sphere where the Ten-Tails and Madara had been.
• The sphere dispersed into feathers, revealing Uchiha Madara as he greeted everyone.

Uchiha Madara emerged as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and declared that no one could stop him. After Kinkaku and Ginkaku attacked, Madara erased them with Truth-Seeking Orbs, then moved his staff as the others watched in alarm.

• Uchiha Madara appeared in a transformed state, and Kagura warned everyone that he had become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• The Third Kazekage and the others reacted with shock to Madara's transformation, while Kagura understood the danger it posed.
• Madara descended and calmly told the assembled fighters that they had no chance of stopping him.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku ignored Kagura's attempt to stop them and charged at Madara in their half-Tailed Beast Transformation states.
• Madara's Truth-Seeking Orbs entered Kinkaku and Ginkaku, erasing them completely despite their Impure World Reincarnation.
• Madara swung his Six Paths Staff, and the others widened their eyes at what they saw.

Kagura and the Allied Forces faced five enormous meteorites summoned by Uchiha Madara. Kagura, Minato, and Senju Tobirama each helped divert the falling rocks, but the other meteorites remained a threat.

• The Third Kazekage and Karatachi Yagura reacted to the five meteorites as Kagura ordered the Allied Forces to stop them.
• Kagura summoned his Susanoo and shattered one meteorite with the Totsuka Blade, while his Six Paths scattered or removed its fragments.
• Minato and Senju Tobirama used Flying Thunder God together to teleport another meteorite to the ocean.
• Minato and Senju Tobirama returned to the battlefield nearly out of Chakra after moving the meteorite.

The Allied Forces’ leaders worked together to stop two enormous meteorites from crushing them, redirecting one into the White Zetsu army and breaking the other apart. Their efforts routed the White Zetsu, and the Allied Forces cheered as the surviving fragments were caught.

• Ōnoki used Earth Style to reduce one meteorite’s weight and hold it in place while Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Fourth Raikage, and Tsunade struck it and diverted it toward the White Zetsu army.
• The meteorite smashed into the White Zetsu ranks, killing tens of thousands and routing the army.
• Karatachi Yagura drove his weapon into the second meteorite and unleashed water through its cracks while Terumi Mei corroded it with her Lava Release and Boil Release.
• The Third Kazekage and Rasa spread Iron Sand and Gold Dust over the Allied Forces to catch the meteorite’s falling fragments.
• The Allied Forces cheered the coordination of the two generations of Kazekage and Mizukage.

Senju Hashirama caught the last meteor with his Thousand-Armed Guanyin, but Uchiha Madara struck him from behind and made him disappear. Kagura sent the others away to face Madara alone, and Tsunade asked him to come back soon.

• Senju Hashirama caught the falling meteor with his Thousand-Armed Guanyin and carried it away from the reinforcements.
• Uchiha Madara pierced Senju Hashirama with Truth-Seeking Orbs while Hashirama was relaxed, causing him and the Guanyin to vanish.
• Karatachi Yagura suggested attacking Madara together, but Kagura told everyone to leave because Madara could nullify their Five Elements ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Madara confirmed Kagura's warning and urged the others to leave, saying he did not intend to kill them.
• Kagura stepped forward to face Madara, and Tsunade held his shirt and told him she would wait for him to return.

Kagura prepared to fight Uchiha Madara by opening the Eight Inner Gates’ Gate of Death, the one method besides Sage Art that could harm Madara. Though Tsunade feared the cost, Kagura promised he would return, and Madara eagerly awaited their battle.

• Kagura told Senju Tobirama that taijutsu could hurt Uchiha Madara, then walked forward to face him.
• Kagura opened the Gate of Death, causing red steam to rise from his body, and Madara recognized the deadly technique.
• Tsunade cried as she understood Kagura had risked his life, but Kagura silently promised her he would come back.
• Uchiha Madara welcomed the chance to witness the Eighth Gate and challenged Kagura to prove himself.
• Kagura assured Madara that he would not disappoint him.

Kagura used the Eighth Gate to unleash a relentless, high-speed assault that battered Uchiha Madara but failed to overcome his rapid regeneration. He stopped the barrage and prepared his strongest final strike, Night Guy.

• Kagura vanished from Madara’s sight and struck him, then increased his speed from First Gear to Fifth Gear while repeatedly knocking him through the air.
• Karatachi Yagura asked the Fourth Raikage A whether he could withstand Kagura’s taijutsu, and A said Kagura would kill him almost immediately.
• Kagura realized his attacks were injuring his own arm and barely harming Madara, whose wounds healed as quickly as they appeared.
• Kagura halted his assault and sent Madara crashing into a crater, where Madara praised the Eight Inner Gates and challenged him to continue.
• Kagura gathered his power amid swelling red steam and prepared to unleash Night Guy.

Kagura unleashed a devastating Eight Gates attack that nearly killed Uchiha Madara, but both fighters survived, leaving Kagura unable to fight. Madara recovered, killed Senju Tobirama, summoned the Creation God Tree, and flew toward the moon as Tsunade tended to Kagura and Infinite Tsukuyomi loomed.

• Kagura struck Uchiha Madara with a red dragon-shaped attack, leaving Madara severely injured while Kagura collapsed, burned and unable to continue fighting.
• Uchiha Madara praised Kagura's strength, while Kagura realized his final strike had failed to kill him and that he could no longer fight.
• Senju Tobirama used a mark on Kagura's clothing to teleport beside Madara, but Madara's Truth-Seeking Orb erased Tobirama.
• Uchiha Madara recovered, summoned the Creation God Tree, and flew toward the moon as the Allied Forces watched.
• Tsunade used Healing Jutsu on Kagura, who comforted her and looked toward the moon, knowing Infinite Tsukuyomi was about to begin.

As Uchiha Madara began the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Allied Forces and nearly everyone in the world fell asleep. Kagura remained awake but unable to move, watching the System Panel show that his Nine-Tails fusion had only 1% left.

• The Allied Forces debated whether to retreat or investigate after the meteors and red dragon vanished, while Jiraiya and Hatake Sakumo struggled to understand the battle.
• A gigantic tree appeared, and the soldiers noticed the moon had changed into a red, Rinnegan-like pattern.
• Jiraiya recognized the moon as a sign that the Infinite Tsukuyomi had begun, and Hatake Sakumo warned everyone not to look at it.
• The Infinite Tsukuyomi put Hatake Sakumo, the Kage, Minato, Tsunade, and nearly everyone else in the world to sleep.
• Kagura remained unaffected but unable to move, and he focused on the System Panel showing Nine-Tails fusion at 99%.

Kagura confronted the Sage of Six Paths inside him after deducing that the system and Tailed Beast Fusion Degree had been arranged to make him help save the world. The Sage admitted bringing Kagura from another world, but revealed that he was not this world's god and did not belong to it either.

• Kagura reflected on how the system’s missions and rewards had raised his Nine-Tails Fusion Degree to 99%.
• Kagura addressed the Sage of Six Paths, reasoning that the Sage had sent him to this world and provided the system to enlist his help.
• The Sage of Six Paths answered Kagura and confirmed that he had brought him from another world and placed the Tailed Beasts inside him.
• The Sage of Six Paths said he had recruited Kagura to stop the world from collapsing, then clarified that he was not this world's god and did not belong to it.

Sage of Six Paths revealed that he came from a parallel Hokage World that was destroyed after Sasuke learned he was a manga character and tried to escape his fate. He explained that he and this world's Sage chose Kagura to help avert disaster, but the world's rules still compelled its major events and threats to occur.

• Kagura asked Sage of Six Paths whether he was a fellow traveler from another world, but Sage explained that he was a character from a different parallel Hokage World.
• Sage recounted how Sasuke discovered he was a manga character, tried to destroy his world, and died alongside Naruto as that world perished.
• Sage said he had come to this Hokage World and joined forces with its Sage to bring Kagura there, with the local Sage expending nearly all his energy and falling asleep.
• Kagura asked why the two Sages could not change the world's course, and Sage explained that its rules forced important events and threats such as Uchiha Madara's apocalypse plans to recur.

Kagura learned that the Sage of Six Paths had chosen him to stop Uchiha Madara and that defeating Madara would send him back to his original world. As the Infinite Tsukuyomi turned his loved ones, including Tsunade, into God Tree fruits, Kagura faced losing them either way.

• Kagura learned that fate had forced key events to occur and that the Sage of Six Paths had made him an Uchiha with the power of the Tailed Beasts.
• The Sage of Six Paths gave Kagura his remaining power, and Kagura unlocked Fusion to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Kagura received a final mission to defeat Uchiha Madara, with returning to his original world as the reward, and angrily demanded an explanation from the Sage.
• Kagura realized he no longer wanted to leave the world where Tsunade, his child, and his friends lived.
• Kagura saw that the Infinite Tsukuyomi had put everyone to sleep and that the God Tree was turning them into White Zetsu fruits, including Tsunade.
• Kagura understood that defeating Madara meant leaving everyone behind, while doing nothing meant losing them to the God Tree.

Kagura merged with the Tailed Beasts, confronted Uchiha Madara in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and began their final clash. When Tsunade and the others woke, the God Tree was gone, but Kagura was missing.

• Kagura released the Tailed Beasts, thanked them, and merged them back into his body.
• Kagura appeared before Uchiha Madara in Six Paths Mode and destroyed Black Zetsu with a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Madara revealed that he had long suspected Black Zetsu's motives, and Kagura and Madara prepared to fight.
• Kagura and Madara fused their Truth-Seeking Orbs into black spheres and charged at each other.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and the others woke from the Infinite Tsukuyomi and found the God Tree gone.
• Tsunade realized Kagura was missing and asked Jiraiya and Orochimaru if they had seen him.

Kagura returned to his original world with his Rinnegan and discovered he could use Time Mark to regain the Tailed Beasts within him. He used their power to return to the battlefield, where Tsunade had been waiting for him, and told her he was back.

• Kagura woke in his original world, grieved over his separation from Tsunade, and found that he still had his Rinnegan.
• Kagura realized Time Mark could restore the Tailed Beasts he had lost and used it to bring them back within him.
• In the Land of Rice, Tsunade stood among the battlefield ruins as everyone searched for the missing Kagura.
• Kagura reappeared behind Tsunade and told her, "I'm back."

Ten years after the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kagura and Tsunade returned to Konoha and found their son Qianyu serving as Hokage. Hearing familiar young voices at a ramen shop, Kagura realized the story was continuing without him as its protagonist.

• Ten years of peace followed the Fourth Great Ninja War, and Konoha carved Kagura's face onto Hokage Rock alongside the Hokage.
• Kagura and Tsunade returned to Konoha after a year of traveling and complained about Kagura's face being carved while he was alive.
• Tsunade reminded Kagura that their son Qianyu had become the Fifth Hokage after Minato retired, while Kagura speculated about Minato's retirement.
• Kagura and Tsunade hurried home to see their daughter, Little Kiku, after spending years traveling and leaving their children in Konoha.
• Kagura heard youths arguing about becoming Hokage at a ramen shop, recognized the next generation, and smiled as he accepted that he was no longer the protagonist.