Chapter Summaries

Xing Ran framed the Akatsuki Organization for Shisui’s death and escaped before Itachi arrived. After Danzo blamed the Akatsuki, Itachi realized Danzo had killed Shisui and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving him demanding Shisui’s head and eye from Danzo.

• Xing Ran detonated Explosive Tags near the ancient temple gates, killing several Root ninja and drawing attention to Danzo.
• Xing Ran attacked Danzo with the Dragon Flame Song Technique, then used a vortex of flames to disguise his and Shisui’s disappearance as Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived and found Shisui’s headless body beside Danzo, who blamed a masked Akatsuki member for the attack.
• Itachi recognized that Danzo had lied about the attacker and suspected him of taking Shisui’s head and Sharingan.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and demanded that Danzo hand over Shisui’s head and Sharingan.

Itachi and the Uchiha confronted Danzo over Shisui’s death, and Danzo’s genjutsu-induced confession inflamed the clan’s anger. Itachi demanded that Danzo be placed in Uchiha custody, while the Third Hokage argued that the clan had no authority to detain him.

• Itachi faced Danzo with killing intent as Fugaku and a group of ninja arrived at the scene of the battle.
• Itachi claimed he had just arrived, and Danzo began revealing that he had killed Shisui to take his eyes before Itachi’s genjutsu jolted him awake.
• The Uchiha accused Danzo of murdering Shisui and demanded an explanation, while Danzo accused them of plotting a coup.
• Fugaku demanded that Danzo take his own life, emboldened by the Mangekyō Sharingan he had seen in Itachi’s eyes.
• Itachi called for Danzo to be interrogated by the Yamanaka Clan and placed in Uchiha custody, but Danzo and the Third Hokage rejected the clan’s authority to detain him.

Fugaku killed Danzo in front of the Uchiha, sparking a battle between the clan and Konoha forces that had meant to mediate. At Konoha Hospital, Jiraiya, Pakura, and Han argued over the Avengers Alliance’s 100-million-tael fee, with Han offering to repay half of it himself.

• Hiruzen tried to shield Danzo, but Fugaku summoned Susanoo and trapped Danzo in an illusion before striking him down.
• Danzo vanished after the slash, and Fugaku accused him of using the Uchiha forbidden technique Izanagi to survive.
• The Uchiha took Danzo’s disappearance as proof that Konoha’s leaders had targeted their clan and rallied behind Fugaku.
• Root and some Anbu attacked Fugaku, and the Uchiha fought back, turning the confrontation into a bloody melee.
• At Konoha Hospital, Pakura demanded 100 million taels from Konoha and Iwagakure, while Jiraiya complained that Ōnoki refused to pay.
• Han offered to repay 50 million taels through bounty missions, but Jiraiya doubted he would pay promptly.

Obito tried to exploit Konoha’s crisis to capture Han and collect Sharingan, but found several Kage-level fighters guarding the Five-Tails Jinchuriki. After Jiraiya’s attack passed through him, Obito moved toward Han while Pakura and the others prepared to fight.

• Obito saw Konoha’s forces heading toward the Naka River and discovered the Uchiha Clan armed for a possible coup.
• Obito secretly controlled Root shinobi to provoke a war, then used Kamui to enter Han’s hospital room.
• Pakura identified Obito as the Masked Man and demanded that Konoha add another fifty million to hire the Avengers.
• Jiraiya attacked Obito with a Rasengan, but Kamui let the attack pass through him and blast a hole in the hospital wall.
• Jiraiya pursued Obito with the Wild Lion Dance Technique as Obito stepped toward Han, ignoring the Avengers beside the bed.

Obito failed to capture Han when Pakura and Retsu countered his Kamui, then escaped and left Nagato to confront Jiraiya. Jiraiya faced the Six Paths of Pain with the three Mount Myōboku toad brothers and summoned Shima and Fukasaku to help him enter Sage Mode.

• Han accepted Jiraiya's fifty-million deal, and Pakura's Scorch Release stopped Obito from taking him with Kamui.
• Retsu's fine sand helped track Obito's materialized body, and Obito escaped the hospital after Jiraiya gave chase.
• Obito brought Nagato to face Jiraiya, and Nagato identified Han as the mission target.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, Gama Ken, and Gamahiro to fight the six bodies of Pain.
• Jiraiya summoned Shima and Fukasaku to help him prepare for the battle.

Jiraiya and the Avengers fought the Six Paths of Pain as they retreated through Konoha, but Akatsuki captured Han. The attack left Konoha’s streets in ruins, and Akatsuki’s knowledge of Naruto Uzumaki suggested that Han was not its only target.

• Jiraiya recognized Yahiko among the Six Paths of Pain, fired a warning signal, and retreated with the Avengers while preparing to enter Sage Mode.
• The Animal Path and Asura Path pursued the group with a flying summon, aerial explosives, and missiles, devastating the streets near Konoha Hospital.
• Pakura and Retsu counterattacked, but the Naraka Path absorbed Pakura’s Scorch Release and the Animal Path’s multiplying dogs blocked Retsu’s Wind Release.
• Deva Path pulled Retsu toward the Pains, but Jiraiya used his hair technique to keep him from being dragged away, while Shima and Fukasaku drove the attackers back with Goemon.
• Retsu threw Han toward Jiraiya, but an invisible chameleon snatched the jinchuriki with its tongue, allowing the Akatsuki to capture him.
• Jiraiya realized Akatsuki had exploited Konoha’s internal crisis to attack and knew Naruto Uzumaki was another target.

Xing Ran accepted Konoha’s emergency mission to relocate Naruto after Pain’s forces invaded the village. He escaped with Naruto just as the Human Path discovered them, leaving Nagato furious that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had slipped away.

• After returning home, Xing Ran detected the Six Paths of Pain pursuing Jiraiya near Konoha Hospital.
• Junpei told Xing Ran to relocate Naruto under Konoha’s emergency plan, and Xing Ran accepted the mission.
• Xing Ran found Naruto evacuating with villagers and took him toward another shelter.
• The Asura Path attacked the evacuation route, while the Human Path interrogated a Konoha Ninja and spotted Naruto with Xing Ran.
• Xing Ran taunted the Human Path and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape with Naruto.
• Nagato learned through the shared vision that Naruto had been moved and unleashed Shinra Tensei against Jiraiya and the toads.

Nagato threatened Konoha and leveled part of the village to force the return of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. After finding Yamanaka Sae and little Ino injured in the ruins, Xingran launched a massive rescue effort and evacuated civilians from nearby clan districts.

• Nagato demanded that Jiraiya hand over the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and used Shinra Tensei to destroy part of Konoha as a threat.
• Xingran returned to Konoha, found Yamanaka Sae and little Ino unconscious beneath rubble, and transferred them to a secure shelter after healing their injuries.
• Xingran used the Eight Gates, Creation Rebirth, and Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to create thousands of clones and begin rescuing civilians.
• Xingran's clones rescued, treated, and evacuated people throughout the Yamanaka Clan territory and nearby Nara and Akimichi Clan territories.
• Within fifteen minutes, Xingran's clones had evacuated the elderly, women, and children from the area, leaving it nearly empty.

Xing Ran returned to Konoha in the Revival Alliance Organization's uniform and confronted Deva Path Pain, resisting Shinra Tensei and then knocking Pain from the chameleon with his newfound speed. The battle continued as Nagato recognized Xing Ran as a powerful and unusually fast opponent.

• Xing Ran sent Shadow Clones to evacuate civilians while he returned to Konoha in the Revival Alliance Organization's combat suit.
• Xing Ran charged Deva Path Pain and resisted Shinra Tensei, revealing himself as the Revival Alliance Organization's boss.
• Retsu told Xing Ran that the Five-Tails Jinchuriki owed them one hundred million, while Xing Ran questioned how Pain had taken him.
• Xing Ran timed Deva Path Pain's next Shinra Tensei, evaded it at high speed, and slammed Pain off the chameleon's back.
• Jiraiya, Pakura, Retsu, and Nagato were astonished by Xing Ran's speed and strength.

Xing Ran overwhelmed the Paths of Pain, destroying Deva Path Pain and thwarting their attempt to extract the Five-Tails Jinchuriki. Nagato escaped with the chameleon and Han, while Xing Ran continued killing the remaining Pains.

• Xing Ran battered Deva Path Pain through Konoha, but Pain escaped a killing blow with the Substitution Technique and launched Planetary Devastation.
• Xing Ran evaded the other Paths and broke Pain's Black Rod, punching apart half of Deva Path Pain's body and causing Planetary Devastation to collapse.
• The Animal Path sent Han into a chameleon to retreat with the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, but Xing Ran smashed the chameleon's head before it vanished in smoke.
• Xing Ran killed the Animal Path with a palm strike, then cut the Human Path in two after it tried to pull out his soul.

Xing Ran destroyed all Six Paths of Pain during the attack on Konoha, then Jiraiya asked him to help stop the Uchiha rebellion. At Ancient Temple Gorge, Fugaku and Itachi Uchiha fought Konoha's forces with Susanoo and Amaterasu.

• Xing Ran broke the Naraka Path and destroyed the Asura Path with his Heat vision after it fired missiles at him.
• Xing Ran burned the Heavenly Path's body and the Hell Path, wiping out all Six Paths of Pain.
• Jiraiya mourned Yahiko's charred body, then asked Xing Ran to help the Third Hokage suppress the Uchiha Clan.
• At Ancient Temple Gorge, Fugaku warned Itachi of an Earth Spear ambush, allowing Itachi to evade and counterattack with Amaterasu.
• Fugaku and Itachi's Amaterasu flames spread through Konoha's formation, burning many Konoha Ninja alive.

Fugaku Uchiha foresaw that reinforcements would soon arrive and proposed that the Uchiha Clan leave Konoha rather than continue fighting. After Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to accept the proposal outright, Fugaku ordered the clan to retreat under the Susanoo’s cover.

• Fugaku’s visions showed that Konoha’s future was obscured, but the Uchiha’s battlefield would soon face reinforcements from the village.
• Fugaku saw Konoha devastated after a celestial body collapsed onto it, while the Konoha Ninja watched in despair.
• Fugaku offered Hiruzen Sarutobi a separation between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha, but warned that the Uchiha would fight to the death if Hiruzen refused.
• Hiruzen challenged the Uchiha’s strength, and Fugaku argued that Konoha was too weakened to defeat them.
• Fugaku sent the Uchiha away with their dead, ordering the two Susanoo to cover their retreat.

After Konoha’s destruction and the Uchiha Clan’s departure, Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Xing Ran over his refusal to help suppress the rebellion and tried to assign him an investigation mission. News that the Uchiha had taken control of the Land of Fire’s Daimyo’s Mansion city forced Hiruzen to offer Xing Ran a choice of missions, but Xing Ran tried to avoid both.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided not to pursue the departing Uchiha Clan, judging that Konoha could not afford another battle after the devastation.
• Xing Ran met Hiruzen in his temporary office and defended his absence from the ancient temple battlefield by saying he had been rescuing villagers.
• Xing Ran accused Hiruzen of asking him to fight his own people after a high-ranking official had murdered a Uchiha genius.
• Hiruzen began assigning Xing Ran and Hai Yi to investigate the sudden surge of missions in the Land of Lightning, but an Anbu reported that the Uchiha Clan had moved into the Daimyo’s Mansion city and taken over its defenses.
• Hiruzen offered Xing Ran a choice between investigating the Land of Lightning and investigating the Uchiha in the Daimyo’s Mansion city while bringing the daimyo’s family back to Konoha.
• Xing Ran tried to avoid both missions by citing his Wood Release research and his need to protect Naruto, but Hiruzen rejected his excuses.

Yamanaka Xingran accepted the Third Hokage’s mission to take his clan’s elites away from Konoha, while secretly choosing to lead them to the Land of the Moon rather than fight the Uchiha. In the Land of Fire’s capital, the Uchiha had taken over the city’s defenses, and Sasuke was presented as the future husband of the daimyo’s granddaughter.

• The Third Hokage assigned Xingran and the Yamanaka Clan a mission, using the threat of public disapproval to secure their cooperation.
• Konoha’s leaders decided to send the Yamanaka elites away and tasked Xingran with confronting the Uchiha, hoping to contain the clan’s influence and shift the conflict outward.
• Xingran recognized the Hokage’s intentions, accepted the mission, and chose to take his clan’s elites to the Land of the Moon instead of fighting the Uchiha.
• Uchiha ninja replaced the Temple of Fire monks and Konoha ninja guarding the Capital of the Land of Fire, while the Twelve Guardian Ninja stopped appearing in public.
• Fugaku Uchiha sat beside the daimyo as the daimyo announced that his granddaughter would marry Sasuke, who stood beside his future bride in formal clothes.

After the Uchiha Clan moved into the Daimyo’s castle and took control of the Capital of the Land of Fire, Fugaku explained why they would send limited relief supplies to Konoha. The chapter left Fugaku and Itachi confident that the clan could grow stronger without provoking a war.

• News spread that the Uchiha Clan had left Konoha for the capital and that Konoha had suffered a devastating attack, prompting relief supplies to be sent.
• Uchiha clansmen questioned Fugaku’s decision to send aid, and he explained that it would reassure the capital’s residents and discourage Konoha from starting a war.
• Fugaku instructed the clan to limit and delay the supplies while treating the city’s people cordially.
• After the meeting, Itachi told Fugaku that Sasuke was unhappy, and Fugaku promised they could change the situation when circumstances allowed.
• Fugaku and Itachi reflected that the capital could serve as the Uchiha Clan’s base for growing its economic and military strength.

The hidden villages considered how to respond to Konoha’s losses, the Uchiha Clan’s departure, and the threat posed by Akatsuki. Mei Terumi and Rasa chose caution, while Ōnoki’s plan to attack Konoha met resistance from his own advisors.

• Fugaku teased Itachi about bringing Izumi home, and Itachi became embarrassed.
• Mei Terumi rejected Ao’s suggestion to exploit Konoha’s losses and ordered Kirigakure to focus on finding Utakata.
• Rasa and Sunagakure’s advisors debated aid to Konoha and protection for Gaara, ultimately agreeing to wait and see.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to assemble troops and attack Konoha, but his advisors ignored him.
• Deidara criticized Ōnoki over Han’s capture, and an Elder Advisor warned that attacking Konoha could leave Iwagakure exposed to other nations.

Ōnoki dismissed concerns about Akatsuki and focused Iwagakure on rescuing Han, while Kumogakure’s Raiden A grew suspicious of a sudden flood of missions that had sent most of the village’s manpower away. A ended the chapter arguing that someone was trying to lure Kumogakure’s forces out and leave the village vulnerable.

• Ōnoki rejected the Revival Alliance Organization’s claims and refused to consider paying Konoha’s compensation demand.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to prioritize rescuing Han and told Kitsuchi to notify Roshi.
• A questioned his intelligence division about the source of the sudden influx of Kumogakure mission requests.
• A ordered the village to stop accepting missions once its personnel returned, but his secretary warned that clients might take their work elsewhere.
• A berated his secretary and insisted that the missions were a ploy to draw Kumogakure’s fighting forces away.

Raikage A learned that Yugito had sent a distress signal from the Land of Iron and chose to take Killer B with him to rescue her, leaving Kumogakure's defenses vulnerable. Meanwhile, Yamanaka Xingran's Shadow Clone and two clan members traveled to relieve a surveillance team investigating the surge in Kumogakure's commissions.

• Raikage A learned that Akatsuki had likely abducted Han and that Iwa wanted help searching for Roshi, but he refused to let Iwa ninja enter the Land of Lightning.
• After an Anbu ninja reported Yugito's distress signal from the Land of Iron, Raikage A ordered Killer B summoned and prepared to lead a rescue.
• Raikage A decided to bring Killer B with him to reinforce Yugito, reasoning that removing the village's Tailed Beast Weapon would leave Kumogakure safer from Akatsuki's apparent trap.
• Yamanaka Xingran's Shadow Clone and two members of the Yamanaka intelligence division traveled through the Land of the Moon to relieve a surveillance shift on a secluded road.
• The Yamanaka Clan had assigned Xingran's team to investigate why Kumogakure had suddenly received so many commissions, while other teams undertook more dangerous espionage missions.

Xing Ran continued his research on the Yamanaka Clan's secret medicine before learning that Raikage A and Killer B had left Kumogakure, and he set out to follow them. At the border, the Akatsuki attacked a Cloud Ninja squad and kept Yugito from completing a Tailed Beast Ball.

• Xing Ran continued his Shisui clone project and debated who should be controlled with Kotoamatsukami.
• Xing Ran and Bai discussed testing a more potent Yamanaka secret medicine despite its severe side effects.
• Xing Ran learned that Raikage A and Killer B had secretly left Kumogakure, then used Flying Thunder God and Super vision to follow their group.
• Akatsuki members attacked Mabui, Yugito, and other Cloud Ninja while keeping them trapped until reinforcements arrived.
• Yugito attempted a Tailed Beast Ball, but the Naraka Path disrupted it with Chibaku Tensei.

Akatsuki Organization ambushed Yugito to capture the Two-Tails, but the Raikage and Killer B arrived to rescue her. Obito avoided their attack with Kamui, and Deva Path Pain confronted the pair as the battle began.

• White Zetsu told Deva Path Pain that the Eight-Tails had been lured out and that the Raikage was coming with Kumogakure's Anbu.
• Nagato assigned Obito to hold off the Raikage while Konan watched for the approaching Cloud Ninja.
• The Six Paths of Pain attacked the Cloud Ninja and captured the Tailed Beast-transformed Yugito.
• Obito tried to pull Yugito and the Naraka Path into Kamui Space, but the Raikage and Killer B attacked him with Beast Tearing Fang Gale-Force Furrow.
• The Raikage demanded that Akatsuki release Yugito, while Deva Path Pain arrived and demanded that Kumogakure leave the Eight-Tails behind.