Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kei returned to the battlefield as Imai Kenta struggled against Killer B’s complete Eight-Tails transformation, then unleashed his Fourth Stage Susanoo against the beast. The clash devastated the surrounding area, and Minato and Fugaku prepared to turn the destruction into an opportunity to end the war and influence the organization’s reputation.

• Minato and Uchiha Fugaku watched the Kumogakure camp, sensed the Eight-Tails emerge, and Fugaku considered launching a surprise attack.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails, which destroyed Imai Kenta’s Flying Thunder God markers and forced him to teleport beside Hyuga Aya.
• Uchiha Kei returned, reassured Hyuga Aya that she was safe, and formed his enormous Fourth Stage Susanoo around them.
• Imai Kenta teleported away to hunt Kumogakure shinobi while Uchiha Kei faced the Eight-Tails as it prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Uchiha Kei’s Susanoo struck the Eight-Tails, and their collision caused a massive explosion that shattered the Konoha Camp’s barrier and split the ground.
• Minato ordered Uchiha Fugaku to assemble the troops, planning to use the destruction as a chance to end the war and improve the organization’s standing.

Uchiha Kei repaired his Susanoo and pressed his attack on Killer B and the Eight-Tails, Gyuki, after surviving their first Tailed Beast Bomb. Their next clash unleashed a shock wave that reached the Konoha Camp, where Uchiha Fugaku defended the troops with Susanoo and an Earth Release wall.

• Uchiha Kei repaired his damaged Susanoo while Hyuga Aya confirmed she was unharmed by the explosion.
• Uchiha Kei struck the wounded Eight-Tails with his Susanoo, and Gyuki caught the blade before counterattacking with its tentacles.
• Uchiha Kei's Susanoo kicked the Eight-Tails across the battlefield, while Gyuki warned Killer B that Uchiha Madara had once used similar eyes to defeat and enslave the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Kei swung his Susanoo's sword at the Eight-Tails, and Killer B answered with an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The sword strike and Tailed Beast Bomb collided, sending a shock wave toward the Konoha Camp, where Uchiha Fugaku raised a massive Earth Release wall to protect it.

The aftermath of Uchiha Kei’s clash with Killer B devastated the Kumogakure Camp, while Uchiha Fugaku prepared Konoha’s troops to move in. Uchiha Kei and Imai Kenta regrouped and found the Eight-Tails still alive, leaving them to face it again.

• Konoha’s Ninja learned from Hyuga Saitou that a massive black Susanoo was fighting the Eight-Tails near the Kumogakure Camp, and Uchiha Fugaku worried about Uchiha Kei.
• Nara Kyohei urged Uchiha Fugaku to send troops toward the battle, and Fugaku ordered them to assemble while insisting they could handle the danger.
• The Fourth Raikage crawled through the wreckage, realized his camp and its eight thousand Ninja had been devastated, then collapsed unconscious while watching the battle.
• Imai Kenta emerged from a Wood Style shelter among the dead Kumogakure Ninja and used his mark to appear atop Uchiha Kei’s Susanoo.
• Uchiha Kei told Imai Kenta that the Eight-Tails remained alive, showed that his injured eye was recovering, and said they should deal with it while it could not fight back.

Uchiha Kei and his allies fought the Eight-Tails while Konoha forces reached the devastated Kumogakure camp. The battle left Killer B fighting desperately, and Kei ended the chapter driving his Susanoo’s sword into the Eight-Tails.

• Uchiha Kei used Time Rewind to recover from the Eight-Tails’ counterattack, then asked Hyuga Aya to prepare to seal one of its tentacles.
• Uchiha Kei returned to find the Eight-Tails badly wounded and provoked Killer B by describing the deaths of his subordinates and the Fourth Raikage.
• Uchiha Fugaku led Konoha troops to the Kumogakure camp, where Namikaze Minato saw the devastation and signaled Fugaku to continue.
• Killer B fought recklessly as the Eight-Tails, but Uchiha Kei used Time Leap to dodge its tentacles and severed its arm with the Susanoo’s sword.
• Uchiha Kei’s Susanoo destroyed the Eight-Tails’ consecutive Tailed Beast Bombs, and Kei used the smoke to plunge his sword into the Eight-Tails.

Uchiha Kei defeated Killer B and the Eight-Tails, but Konoha forces arrived as the battle ended, leaving the confrontation between Kei and Uchiha Fugaku unresolved. Kei realized Namikaze Minato had likely used the fighting to force a shift toward negotiations.

• Uchiha Kei used his Time Blade and Susanoo to sever the Eight-Tails' arms and defeat it, while Killer B fell unconscious.
• Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta located the badly wounded Killer B, and they began sealing him and the Eight-Tails as Konoha forces approached.
• Uchiha Kei realized Namikaze Minato had likely planned to use the attack as a way to stop the war and move the conflict toward negotiations.
• Konoha Ninja recovered the Fourth Raikage, surrounded Uchiha Kei and his companions, and Uchiha Fugaku challenged Kei over the Nine-Tails incident.
• A figure appeared beside Uchiha Kei, who bid Uchiha Fugaku farewell and said he hoped they would have a reason to fight next time.

After Uchiha Kei’s group vanished from the battlefield, Uchiha Fugaku organized Konoha’s cleanup and took the Fourth Raikage and surviving Kumogakure Ninja prisoner. Back in Konoha, Kei explained that Namikaze Minato had hoped to turn the conflict toward negotiations, then raised the mystery of Kumogakure’s Perfect Jinchuriki.

• Uchiha Kei and the Man in Black took their group away, leaving the Konoha Ninja to realize the battle was over and the Kumogakure forces had been devastated.
• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the Konoha Ninja to search for and treat survivors, and they found nearly a thousand, including the unconscious Killer B.
• Uchiha Fugaku told the awakened Fourth Raikage that Konoha had rescued his people, would prioritize Killer B’s treatment, and would take him to Konoha as a prisoner.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, Hyuga Aya, and Namikaze Minato returned to Konoha through the Uchiha Clan compound, where Minato revealed he had accompanied them to steer the conflict toward negotiations.
• Uchiha Kei told Namikaze Minato he understood his concerns about the cost of war, then asked why Kumogakure had a Perfect Jinchuriki.

Uchiha Kei told Namikaze Minato that Killer B’s weak seal and affectionate bond with the Eight-Tails suggested the Tailed Beasts could be befriended, then urged Minato to approach the Nine-Tails alone. Afterward, Kei planned how to recruit Kisame and revealed that his Susanoo had already merged with chakra from multiple Tailed Beasts.

• Uchiha Kei explained to Namikaze Minato that Killer B’s weak seal and close relationship with the Eight-Tails might help Minato become a Perfect Jinchuriki.
• Minato asked Kei to meet the Nine-Tails with him, but Kei declined and advised Minato to build a bond with it on his own.
• Kei left Minato to investigate his relationship with the Nine-Tails and considered recruiting Kisame by using the woman who had once shown Kisame warmth.
• Hyuga Aya checked whether Kei was tired, while Imai Kenta complained that Kei’s fight had left his chest sore.
• Kei told Aya that Orochimaru’s intelligence had informed him about Kumogakure, then told Kenta that his Susanoo had merged with Three-Tails, Nine-Tails, and Eight-Tails chakra.

Uchiha Kei told Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya he wanted to obtain Sage Chakra from them, preferably Aya’s, while avoiding further attacks on Jinchuriki. The group staged a public departure from Konoha to conceal what had happened at the front, and a returning eagle arrived with intelligence as they waited at the gate.

• Uchiha Kei explained that he would leave the other Jinchuriki alone unless he happened to encounter them, and said he wanted Kenta and Aya to master Sage Mode so he could study their Sage Chakra.
• Uchiha Kei admitted he preferred Aya’s chakra because he could not stand having another man’s chakra inside him.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya went to Konoha’s gate with Namikaze Minato, Kakashi, and Nara Shikaku for a public send-off.
• Kenta and Aya worried that the delayed message hawk would expose their cover story, while Kei and Minato tried to maintain their composure.
• An eagle carrying intelligence returned and landed on Namikaze Minato’s arm.

Konoha’s leaders discussed how to use the defeat of Kumogakure’s forces and the capture of the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to prolong negotiations and secure concessions. In Kirigakure, Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu learned that Uchiha Kei had impersonated them again, and Obito decided to investigate him in Konoha.

• Nara Shikaku suspected that Uchiha Kei and his allies had caused Kumogakure’s defeat, and Namikaze Minato confirmed the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki were recovering as Konoha’s prisoners.
• Uchiha Kei told Namikaze Minato and Nara Shikaku that the war had been meant to hold attention, and the three agreed to set high demands and prolong negotiations.
• Uchiha Obito learned from a report that Uchiha Kei had impersonated their group during the attack on Kumogakure and smashed the Mizukage’s desk in anger.
• Black Zetsu reasoned that Uchiha Kei’s continued use of his Dojutsu might mean he had obtained Uchiha cells or knowledge of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Uchiha Obito decided to go to Konoha to investigate Uchiha Kei, and Black Zetsu agreed to teach him more Uchiha abilities before he went.

Konan told Nagato that a mysterious Uchiha had ended the war between Kumogakure and Konoha by defeating the Fourth Raikage and gravely injuring the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki. Ōnoki read the report of the battle and recognized the chakra giant as a power that reminded him of Uchiha Madara.

• Nagato and Konan discussed the war in the Land of Hot Water and Nagato’s plan to gather the Nine Tailed Beasts to deter the great nations.
• Konan told Nagato that one man had defeated the Fourth Raikage and fought the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, with their battle’s shock waves nearly wiping out more than eight thousand Kumogakure shinobi.
• Konan identified the fighter as an Uchiha who seemed to be Uchiha Madara, the mysterious man who had found them.
• An Anbu Ninja delivered a Land of Hot Water situation report to Ōnoki, who read it after reflecting on Iwagakure’s losses and his son Kitsuchi’s injury.
• Ōnoki read about the hundred-meter chakra giant and recognized its power as resembling Uchiha Madara’s, then repeated Madara’s name in disbelief.

Konoha celebrated its victory over Kumogakure and the political reforms that gave civilian-born Ninjas a greater voice and better training support. At a reunion, Uchiha Kei reminisced with Hyuga Aya about their wary beginnings and hinted at a bond beyond friendship.

• Konoha celebrated Kumogakure's defeat, while villages across the Ninja World feared the mysterious organization targeting Tailed Beasts.
• Uchiha Kei joined Kakashi, Imai Kenta, Hyuga Aya, Kurenai, and Might Guy at a gathering to celebrate the war's end.
• Might Guy thanked Uchiha Kei for supporting reforms that improved benefits and training for Genin and Chunin.
• Imai Kenta raised the coming negotiations with Kumogakure, and Uchiha Kei noted that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura would represent the opposition.
• Uchiha Kei and Hyuga Aya recalled how they had distrusted each other and Imai Kenta when they first worked together.
• Uchiha Kei told Hyuga Aya that their relationship had changed from that of enemies to something beyond friendship.

Uchiha Kei reflected on his changing personality, his complicated relationship with Hyuga Aya, and his plans to help Iori recover before joining Konoha to welcome home its returning forces. As the crowd cheered for Fugaku, Kei and Namikaze Minato discussed the war’s sacrifices and the burden of carrying on their comrades’ will.

• Uchiha Kei lay awake thinking about Hyuga Aya and realized his growing confidence had made him less cold and more outgoing.
• Uchiha Kei considered his improving family bonds and decided he needed to do something to help Iori recover from her fear of him.
• Uchiha Kei watched the moon, wondered about Kaguya and the Sage of Six Paths, and thought about Hyuga Aya before joking that he wanted to remain in Sage Mode as a white-haired beauty.
• Uchiha Kei joined Namikaze Minato at Konoha’s gates to oversee security as villagers gathered to welcome the returning forces and see the captured Fourth Raikage and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Uchiha Kei told Namikaze Minato that a Hokage should honor fallen ninja by remembering how their sacrifices changed Konoha, and Minato said he considered Kei the best choice for Hokage.
• Konoha Ninja and villagers spotted the returning figures and erupted into cheers for Lord Fugaku.

Konoha celebrated its low-casualty victory over Kumogakure as Uchiha Fugaku returned with the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki captured. Uchiha Shisui reflected on Uchiha Kei’s role in reforming the clan and supporting Namikaze Minato’s proposal, and believed he could see how the political struggle would end.

• Uchiha Fugaku returned to Konoha with captured Kumogakure shinobi, including the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, prompting widespread celebration.
• Uchiha Kei praised Nara Lukang for keeping his unit hidden, learned most of its members survived, and hinted that he planned to move Lukang to a different position.
• Uchiha Shisui watched the returning forces with Fukuhisa Kouhei and his teammates, then considered how Uchiha Kei’s support had helped Namikaze Minato’s reform gain momentum.
• Uchiha Shisui recalled Uchiha Shin’s account of Uchiha Kei’s ruthless efforts to change the clan and end its isolation from Konoha.
• Uchiha Shisui recognized that the Third Hokage’s clan and its allies opposed the reform, and concluded that he could see how events would end.

Uchiha Kei discussed Konoha’s terms for ending the war with Uchiha Fugaku, then explained how Fugaku could advance his Susanoo. The chapter ended with Kei introducing a plan to develop people who might awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.

• Uchiha Kei said Konoha would treat its Kumogakure prisoners but put them to work, and outlined the terms for negotiations with Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked Uchiha Kei to explain the fourth stage of Susanoo because he did not want to fall behind his partner.
• Uchiha Kei told Uchiha Fugaku to seek and understand the complete Susanoo within himself to gain its power.
• Uchiha Kei called his next proposal the “Potential Plan,” aimed at people with a chance of awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Uchiha Kei explained his plan to awaken more Mangekyō users by manipulating emotional bonds and arranging events involving Uchiha Fugaku’s sons and Uchiha Shisui. Fugaku reluctantly agreed to prepare for the scheme, and Uchiha Mikoto arrived with Shisui just as they were discussing it.

• Uchiha Fugaku feared Uchiha Kei intended to revive the Uchiha Clan’s brutal experiments, but Kei said he planned to use emotional bonds and despair instead.
• Uchiha Kei revealed that he meant to involve Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke, hoping to awaken three Mangekyō users and possibly another Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Shisui decided to seek Uchiha Kei’s approval and offer information from the Third Hokage’s camp, then knocked at Uchiha Fugaku’s home.
• Uchiha Kei told Uchiha Fugaku that Uchiha Shisui was already leaning toward his side and asked Fugaku to prepare for the plan, including the possibility of using Genjutsu with his own eyes.
• Uchiha Fugaku reluctantly agreed to prepare, and Uchiha Mikoto entered with someone as he was about to speak.

Uchiha Shisui offered to spy for Uchiha Kei, while Kei arranged for Uchiha Itachi to train under Kakashi. Kei also planned to meet Orochimaru outside Konoha to work with the Eight-Tails chakra, and the chapter ended with him assigning Itachi to Kakashi.

• Uchiha Shisui revealed his Curse Mark to Uchiha Kei and Uchiha Fugaku and offered to provide Kei with information.
• Uchiha Kei told Uchiha Fugaku that Orochimaru could help with the Curse Mark and planned to meet him outside the village to fuse the Eight-Tails chakra into his Susanoo.
• Uchiha Kei refused to teach Uchiha Itachi himself but proposed that Kakashi take Itachi as a student.
• Uchiha Kei went to Kakashi's office in the Hokage Building and asked him to take another student.
• Kakashi protested that he already had his hands full with Kimimaro, and Uchiha Kei identified the new student as Uchiha Itachi.

Namikaze Minato gathered Konoha’s leaders to discuss Kumogakure’s defeat and Iwagakure’s plans to exploit its weakness, while Uchiha Kei considered how the crisis could threaten Konoha’s reforms. The meeting left Hyuga Hiashi realizing that Kei may have deliberately helped bring about the war with Kumogakure.

• Namikaze Minato confirmed that Uchiha Itachi would receive training from Kakashi with Uchiha Fugaku’s consent.
• Namikaze Minato briefed the group on Kumogakure’s negotiation delegation and reports that Iwagakure and nearby ninja villages were preparing to act against it.
• Uchiha Kei and Imai Kenta discussed how Iwagakure’s plans could shift the balance of power and draw Konoha into another war.
• Namikaze Minato explained to Hyuga Hiashi that the negotiations needed to buy time for Konoha’s reforms.
• Hyuga Hiashi inferred from the meeting that Konoha had deliberately allowed the conflict with Kumogakure to happen, then looked at Uchiha Kei, who answered with an inscrutable smile.

Uchiha Kei proposed using military aid and troop deployments to deter Iwagakure while Konoha negotiated with Kumogakure. After the meeting, Minato ordered Kei to expand the Military Police Force, and Kei said he planned to meet someone.

• Hiashi connected several past attacks and reforms in his speculation, while Kei and Minato discussed taking temporary control of Root and agreed not to harm the unconscious Third Hokage.
• Kei proposed a Military Aid Plan that would position Konoha forces near the small countries and the Land of Hot Water without entering the Land of Lightning or fighting Iwagakure.
• Shikaku supported Kei's plan, and Minato agreed to wait for Iwagakure's next moves, discuss the proposal with Kumogakure's delegation, and consider Fugaku to lead the team.
• Minato told Kei to expand the Military Police Force from four squads into four battalions, and Kei said he wanted to leave to meet someone.
• Minato asked if Kei meant a particular person, and Kei confirmed that he did.

Uchiha Kei arranged a secret visit to a Root contact, then expanded the Military Police Force and delegated its reorganization to four battalion commanders. As Konoha’s harsh negotiations with Kumogakure continued, Kei prepared to deal with the Fourth Raikage, who suspected him and kept asking to meet.

• Uchiha Kei reassured Namikaze Minato that he was visiting a Root contact to seek information about removing a Curse Mark, and Minato let him choose his team.
• Uchiha Kei reorganized the Military Police Force into four battalions of four squads and ordered its commanders to plan coverage, recruit, and train personnel.
• Hizashi Hyuga realized he had become the most powerful Hyuga in Konoha’s system and felt guilty about his brother and the clan’s difficult position.
• The Military Police Force received more than a thousand applications, and Uchiha Kei recommended Nara Lukang for a squad leader position.
• Konoha and Kumogakure continued their prolonged negotiations, with Konoha imposing severe terms while holding the Fourth Raikage and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Hyuga Aya warned Uchiha Kei that the Fourth Raikage suspected him, but Kei dismissed her concern and left without meeting the Raikage.

Uchiha Kei met the Fourth Raikage at a guarded cabin and accepted his challenge to fight, while Namikaze Minato trusted Kei and ordered the Raikage’s chakra seal removed. The two prepared to battle in a clearing as Konoha’s ninjas gathered and the Anbu raised a barrier.

• Hyuga Aya caught up with Uchiha Kei, who reassured her that the Fourth Raikage would not recognize his fighting style.
• Uchiha Kei and Hyuga Aya reached the forest cabin where Namikaze Minato was watching over the imprisoned Fourth Raikage and unconscious Killer B.
• The Fourth Raikage provoked Uchiha Kei and tried to test whether he was the Mysterious Uchiha, while Uchiha Kei called out his motive.
• Namikaze Minato ordered the Fourth Raikage’s seal removed, confident that he would not cause trouble in Konoha.
• Uchiha Kei went outside to wait for the Fourth Raikage, and the Anbu began setting up a barrier around the clearing.