Chapter Summaries

Pain killed Hanzo with the Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing Technique and took over Amegakure, while Sangzhi helped Akatsuki recruit Jūzō Biwa. Sangzhi defeated the Kirigakure Anbu guarding Jūzō, leaving Jūzō frightened by his strange acupoint technique.

• Hanzo revealed a sealing formula on his body and used it in a failed attempt to take Pain with him, but Pain survived and Obito identified the technique as Konoha's Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing Technique.
• Nagato had Hanzo's family, relatives, and friends killed, and Akatsuki took control of Amegakure as Sangzhi gathered surrendered ninjas and Konan sealed the village.
• A month later, Zetsu reported several potential recruits, and Obito took Sangzhi and Konan to find Jūzō Biwa in the Land of Water.
• Sangzhi found Jūzō already captured by Kirigakure Anbu and attacked the squad escorting him.
• Sangzhi killed the Anbu and used flying needles to alter one jonin's Chakra flow, making him turn on his companions before his body exploded.
• Jūzō watched Sangzhi's display and feared the power of his acupoint technique.

Obito stayed behind to confront Yagura while Sangzhi, Konan, and Jūzō Biwa escaped, and Obito caught Yagura in his Sharingan. In Peach Country, Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Pakura to join Akatsuki, and she agreed after he gave her a ring that let her return home instantly.

• Obito freed Jūzō Biwa and asked Sangzhi how he had used pressure points to overpower the jonin.
• Zetsu warned that Yagura was pursuing them, so Sangzhi, Konan, and Jūzō Biwa left Obito to face the Fourth Mizukage.
• Obito confronted Yagura and used his Sharingan to place him under genjutsu.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Pakura to join Akatsuki to help improve his reputation and reconnect her with Sunagakure.
• Pakura agreed after Shiraishi Yoshijo gave her a ring that could transport her back to Peach Country.

Pain welcomed Sasori, Pakura, and Jūzō Biwa into the Akatsuki and struggled to keep its members working together as the organization grew. Meanwhile, Obito’s Bloody Mist policies drove Suigetsu Yuki to attack Kirigakure, but his revolt only worsened the persecution of bloodline clans.

• Pain gave rings to Sasori, Pakura, Jūzō Biwa, and Sangzhi, then assigned Sangzhi and Pakura together and Sasori and Jūzō together.
• As more members joined the Akatsuki, Sangzhi, Sasori, and Pakura deliberately got teammates killed, while Jūzō abandoned teammates during difficult missions.
• Pain banned members from fighting one another, but Sasori soon got his teammate killed and Pain chose not to punish him.
• Obito manipulated the Fourth Mizukage as Kirigakure isolated itself, implemented the Bloody Mist policy, and persecuted bloodline clans.
• Suigetsu Yuki fought his way into Kirigakure to kill the Fourth Mizukage, but the Mizukage escaped and Suigetsu was branded an SSS-rank rogue ninja.
• Kirigakure’s people supported the Mizukage’s policies, and Suigetsu’s attack intensified the persecution of bloodline clans.

Suigetsu Yuki sought help from his former allies in Peach Country to overthrow the Fourth Mizukage, but they refused to act without the Emperor’s approval. After the Yuki Clan was exterminated, Suigetsu Yuki unleashed a devastating cold wave on Kirigakure while Obito watched.

• Suigetsu Yuki asked Uchiha Meitaku, Yushiro, Long, and Tengui to help him fight Kirigakure’s Bloody Mist policy, but they said Peach Country’s Anbu could not openly attack the village.
• Suigetsu Yuki explained that he had failed to kill the Fourth Mizukage and asked the group to name their price for helping him overthrow the Mizukage.
• Tengui, Kakuzu, and the others refused, saying they were bound to Peach Country and could not act without the Emperor’s permission.
• Yushiro advised Suigetsu Yuki to bring his clan to Peach Country if he wanted the Anbu’s help, but he left without answering.
• The Fourth Mizukage exterminated the Yuki Clan, and Suigetsu Yuki attacked Kirigakure after learning of their deaths.
• Suigetsu Yuki buried Kirigakure beneath ice with a powerful cold wave as Obito watched with satisfaction and Black Zetsu warned him not to provoke the Hana Organization.

After Suigetsu Yuki destroyed Kirigakure, Akatsuki learned of Peach Country’s hidden operations and tied them to Shiraishi Yoshijo. Shiraishi ordered Suigetsu confined to Peach Country and halted the Anbu’s covert life-force gathering, leaving Suigetsu to regret his actions.

• Pain reported that Suigetsu Yuki had frozen Kirigakure and that the Fourth Mizukage had fled with several thousand shinobi.
• Zetsu revealed Peach Country’s life-force gathering and described its powerful Anbu, while Sangzhi worried that the intelligence would expose him.
• Black Zetsu said Peach Country might be hidden on an island off the Land of Fire, and Pain ordered Akatsuki to avoid missions in the Land of Hot Water.
• Sangzhi returned to the forest in the Land of Rivers and told Pakura that the Land of Hot Water was a testing ground.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo learned that the Anbu were sheltering Suigetsu Yuki and ordered Suigetsu confined to Peach Country, the former Hana Organization members’ rings recovered, and covert life-force gathering stopped.
• Right Red delivered Shiraishi’s orders, and Suigetsu Yuki silently regretted destroying Kirigakure.

After the Fourth Mizukage’s coup plunged the Land of Water into chaos, the Daimyos renewed the war to weaken the ninja villages, and Konoha came under attack from three nations. Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to join the assault on the Land of Fire and planned a secret alliance with the Land of Water’s Daimyo, leaving Oyashiro En questioning why Peach Country needed secrecy.

• The allied forces of four nations defeated the Fourth Mizukage, occupied the Land of Water, installed a new Daimyo, and forced the country to sign unequal treaties.
• The other nations’ Daimyos ordered renewed wars to curb the ninja villages, and Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure attacked the Land of Fire in succession.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo refused the Raikage’s envoy’s request for the Land of Hot Water to join the attack on the Land of Fire.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Right Red to secretly offer the Land of Water’s Daimyo help suppressing rebellion and establish a Ninja Military Academy in exchange for diplomatic and economic ties.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned Oyashiro En and told him to deploy the Police Force to help the Land of Water’s Daimyo and gain control of its economy; Oyashiro En asked why the arrangement had to be secret.

Shiraishi Yoshijo decided to improve Peach Country’s reputation by openly aiding the Land of Water and expanding its reach, while also replacing the country’s currency and secretly using the old bills to acquire gold abroad. Half a year later, Peach Country’s new currency was in circulation, the Shinobi World War had intensified, and a fleet of its ships arrived in the Land of Water.

• Oyashiro En advised Shiraishi Yoshijo to win over the Land of Water and the Land of Fire, openly reveal Peach Country’s prosperity, and attract people who wanted a peaceful life.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo decided to issue new domestic currency, use Peach Country’s isolation to spend the collected old bills abroad, and publicly visit the Land of Water’s Daimyo.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered Right Red to use the old bills to invest in other countries and secretly accumulate gold.
• Half a year later, Peach Country completed its currency replacement, and Uchiha Meitaku reacted to Reika appearing on a ten-ryo bill.
• The war intensified as Kosuke led Academy ninja against Iwagakure, Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya faced the Fourth Raikage, and Orochimaru led Konoha forces against Sunagakure.
• More than twenty large Peach Country ships sailed into the ports of the Land of Water.

Shiraishi Yoshijo led Peach Country’s forces into the Land of Water, captured the Fourth Mizukage, and helped the Daimyo restore order. Three months later, the Land of Water established its Ninja Military Academy.

• The Land of Water’s Daimyo welcomed Shiraishi Yoshijo and his ten thousand Police Force and Technology Department ninja as they arrived to help restore order.
• Obito and Zetsu watched the forces, but Shiraishi Yoshijo struck at them with a sword slash, forcing them to flee.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo’s forces captured more than a thousand rogue ninja and found the Fourth Mizukage’s hideout within half a month.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo captured the Fourth Mizukage alive, and the Daimyo ordered his execution as citizens celebrated.
• The Daimyo issued an amnesty for Kirigakure’s scattered ninja, while Shiraishi Yoshijo handed over the captured ninja to the Land of Water.
• The Land of Water established its Ninja Military Academy three months later.

After helping the Land of Water establish a Ninja Military Academy, Shiraishi Yoshijo withdrew to Peach Country, whose prosperity and military strength drew the attention of the shinobi world. As other nations moved toward cooperation and their Kage resisted their Daimyo’s plans for military academies, Jiraiya set out for Peach Country after Sarutobi Hiruzen warned him to be careful if Tsunade was there.

• The Land of Water’s Daimyo approved trade with Peach Country and formed a hundred-person inspection team protected by academy ninja.
• Terumi Mei led the inspection team through a foggy passage to Peach Country, where Oyashiro En and senior officials received them.
• After a three-month inspection, trade between Peach Country and the Land of Water began, prompting other nations to send envoys and reconsider their wartime plans.
• Newspapers revealed Peach Country’s strength and prosperity, and Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized Shiraishi Yoshijo’s ambition to become its Emperor.
• Jiraiya rushed into the Hokage Office, and Sarutobi Hiruzen told him to go to Peach Country and take care if Tsunade was being held there.

Orochimaru rejected Danzo’s attempt to recruit him into the Hokage struggle and warned that Shiraishi Yoshijo would bring Konoha’s downfall. As the Land of Fire’s Daimyo confronted Shiraishi about Peach Country’s rise, Shiraishi revealed that he planned to establish a Kingdom of Immortality.

• Orochimaru dismissed Danzo’s invitation to visit the shinobi clans and pursue the Hokage position, then warned him that Shiraishi Yoshijo threatened Konoha.
• Danzo flew into a rage after Orochimaru vanished, then tore up the newspaper and vowed to challenge Peach Country.
• Uchiha Fugaku weighed whether to take his clan to Peach Country or remain in the Land of Fire, while Uchiha Itachi asked how Peach Country had been established.
• Kosuke told the Land of Fire Military Academy elders that Shiraishi Yoshijo had ordered him to keep quiet and offered them a chance to go to Peach Country.
• The Land of Fire’s Daimyo accused Shiraishi of weakening his country, but Shiraishi offered to destroy Konoha and then leave with his people.
• Shiraishi told the Daimyo that he wanted to establish a Kingdom of Immortality, leaving the Daimyo stunned.

Shiraishi Yoshijo and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire negotiated over Peach Country’s power, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Konoha’s destruction, while arranging Yuexiang’s return. After an assassination attempt on Yuexiang, Shiraishi assembled Peach Country’s ninja forces, signaling that the plan was about to begin.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire threatened war and an allied army, but Shiraishi Yoshijo dismissed the threat and argued over their competing need for money.
• The Daimyo demanded the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Shiraishi agreed to return it after he destroyed Konoha and expelled its residents and ninja clans.
• Shiraishi and the Daimyo discussed a possible marriage between their children, then agreed that the children could meet at the Royal Academy.
• Five airships brought Yuexiang and two children to the capital, where Yuexiang reunited angrily with Zhixiong, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
• Ninja infiltrated Yuexiang’s chambers that night and were killed by her guards, prompting the Daimyo to order an investigation as Shiraishi assembled Peach Country’s ninja forces.

Orochimaru abandoned Konoha after Sarutobi Hiruzen confronted him over his experiments, then refused Shiraishi Yoshijo’s offer of treatment and followed Peach Country’s troops out of the village. Shiraishi revealed an army of more than ten thousand ninjas to Hiruzen and declared that Konoha’s destruction had come at last.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen found Orochimaru’s laboratory filled with infants in incubation tanks and confronted him about his experiments.
• Orochimaru incapacitated Hiruzen and the two Anbu, escaped the laboratory, and killed the Anbu sent after him.
• A hidden explosive tag wounded Orochimaru, and Shiraishi Yoshijo invited him to join Peach Country and offered treatment.
• Orochimaru rejected Shiraishi’s offer but walked through the ranks of Peach Country ninjas as they made way for him.
• Shiraishi met Hiruzen and revealed more than ten thousand Peach Country ninjas, while Hiruzen vowed that Konoha would endure as long as the Will of Fire lived.

Shiraishi Yoshijo gave Hiruzen Sarutobi three days to evacuate Konoha, threatening to confine its people in the Military Academy if they refused. As his forces surrounded the village, he gathered reinforcements and secured the former elders’ agreement to follow him to Peach Country.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo denounced Hiruzen Sarutobi’s version of the Will of Fire and demanded that Konoha sacrifice itself for the Land of Fire instead.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave Hiruzen Sarutobi three days to leave Konoha voluntarily, threatening humiliation and violence if he refused.
• At first light, Shiraishi Yoshijo’s forces surrounded Konoha and blocked its major routes.
• Kosuke arrived with three thousand Academy shinobi and six thousand of the Daimyo’s shinobi, and reported their arrival to Shiraishi Yoshijo.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted the former elders, and they agreed to follow him to Peach Country.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s leaders faced Shiraishi Yoshijo’s overwhelming force, while Tsunade returned and urged them to accept his terms. Hiruzen agreed to prepare a wedding for Tsunade and Shiraishi Yoshijo, and ordered a monument documenting the Shide Clan’s suffering to be displayed at the ceremony.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Shiraishi Yoshijo, the Academy’s three thousand ninja, and the Daimyo’s six thousand ninja had surrounded Konoha with nineteen thousand troops.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed that Tsunade was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, then learned she had returned to the village with several hundred people.
• Tsunade told Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, and the advisors that she had married Shiraishi Yoshijo and had three children, and urged them to accept his terms for the villagers’ sake.
• Tsunade punched Danzo after he insulted her marriage, then pleaded with Sarutobi Hiruzen to stop Konoha’s decline and avoid further suffering.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to prepare a wedding for Tsunade and Shiraishi Yoshijo, and assigned Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to organize it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered a monument describing the Shide Clan’s contributions and the deaths of Shiraishi Yoshijo’s family to be displayed at the wedding, enraging Danzo.

Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to marry Tsunade in Konoha despite his army’s objections, and the couple kissed openly outside the village gates. As Konoha’s young ninja reacted to the wedding announcement, Kakashi resolved that he would oppose Shiraishi if he truly meant to destroy the village.

• Shiraishi enthusiastically agreed to Sarutobi Hiruzen’s plan for a wedding in Konoha and asked Right Red to protect Tsunade during the preparations.
• Right Red warned Shiraishi that the wedding could endanger him and undermine the troops’ morale, but Shiraishi stood by his decision.
• Tsunade embraced and kissed Shiraishi, while Kakashi, Might Guy, Asuma, Kurenai Yuhi, Shizune, and the other guards watched from inside the gates.
• Hayate Gekko and Uzuki Yugao arrived with the notice announcing Tsunade’s wedding, and the guards reacted with disbelief and embarrassment.
• Kakashi remembered Jiraiya’s feelings for Tsunade and then recalled his father, Obito, and Rin, deciding he could not let their deaths be in vain if Shiraishi attacked Konoha.

Danzo raged over Hiruzen’s plan to dissolve Konoha and revealed a crimson gleam beneath his bandages. Obito learned that Konoha’s people would move to the Military Academy after Shiraishi Yoshijo and Tsunade’s wedding, then abandoned a plan to provoke Shiraishi’s forces while doubting Zetsu’s promises about Madara.

• Danzo blamed Hiruzen and others for Konoha’s impending collapse, then unwound his head bandages as a crimson gleam appeared in the darkness.
• Obito read the notice announcing Shiraishi Yoshijo and Tsunade’s wedding and the evacuation of Konoha’s villagers to the Military Academy.
• Obito and Zetsu discussed the Academy’s military system and how the Land of Fire’s growing strength could drive other nations to build forces and form alliances.
• Obito asked Zetsu to provoke Konoha’s shinobi into attacking Shiraishi Yoshijo’s troops, but Zetsu warned that the attack would fail and risk exposing them.
• Obito rejected the idea that Madara was the only one capable of killing Shiraishi Yoshijo and thought that nothing in this false world was real.

Sarutobi Hiruzen wrestled with Konoha’s forced relocation to the academy and the Daimyo’s political pressure. Kakashi attacked him over his father’s death, but Namikaze Minato stopped him, leaving Hiruzen alone with his guilt and the village’s bleak future.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen feared the Daimyo was using the academy to weaken Konoha and believed the village had no choice but to relocate.
• Kakashi confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen about abandoning Konoha and accused him of driving Sakumo to his death.
• Kakashi used Chidori to attack Sarutobi Hiruzen, but Namikaze Minato arrived and stopped him.
• Kakashi escaped through the office window, and Namikaze Minato asked Sarutobi Hiruzen whether he was all right.
• Namikaze Minato reported that the Daimyo had threatened Konoha with destruction unless it moved to the academy.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Namikaze Minato to find Kakashi, then sat alone in the dark, haunted by Kakashi’s accusations.

Kakashi rejected Namikaze Minato’s defense of Konoha and left after condemning its leaders and Danzo. Jiraiya returned to find Konoha surrounded, then met Shiraishi Yoshijo, who ordered Right Red to send him back.

• Namikaze Minato tried to persuade Kakashi that protecting people mattered more than preserving Konoha, but Kakashi refused to apologize or accept his explanation.
• Kakashi blamed Danzo for Shiraishi Yoshijo’s revenge and left after telling Namikaze Minato that only the incompetent deceived themselves.
• Jiraiya abandoned his ship and ran across the sea toward Konoha after learning it was surrounded.
• Right Red’s Anbu surrounded Jiraiya, and Right Red escorted him through Peach Country’s camp to meet Shiraishi Yoshijo.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo joked that Jiraiya had returned for his wedding with Tsunade, then ordered Right Red to send Jiraiya back to Konoha.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha on the day Tsunade married Shiraishi Yoshijo and left without attending the wedding, choosing to search for Orochimaru. Shiraishi arrived with his forces, destroyed the monument bearing his family’s names after meeting Sarutobi Hiruzen’s gaze, and entered the Hokage Building with Tsunade and their children as the wedding began.

• Right Red told Jiraiya that Tsunade’s wedding to Shiraishi Yoshijo was taking place that day, and Sarutobi Hiruzen confirmed that they already had three children.
• Tsunade greeted Jiraiya in her wedding gown, but he refused to attend the ceremony and left to pursue Orochimaru.
• Jiraiya told Namikaze Minato that Shiraishi Yoshijo was unlikely to attack Konoha immediately, then departed to search for Orochimaru.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo arrived at Konoha with more than a hundred Anbu and a thousand ninja, and his Anbu captured a group of attackers from the crowd.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo saw his parents’ and uncle’s names on the stone monument, pulverized it, and exchanged a hostile stare with Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Tsunade arrived with Geng Hua and her other children, and she and Shiraishi entered the Hokage Building with Geng Hua as the wedding proceeded.

After Tsunade and Konoha’s clans and civilians began relocating to Peach Country and the academy, Shiraishi Yoshijo ordered the clans dispersed while the Daimyo enclosed and renamed the settlement Konoha Academy and Konoha City. Sarutobi Hiruzen remained alone in the emptied village, and Shiraishi realized he intended to die with Konoha before Hayaka destroyed it the next day.

• After the wedding, Shiraishi Yoshijo warned Sarutobi Hiruzen that the next day was the final deadline, while Tsunade led more than three thousand people toward Peach Country.
• The Uchiha, Inuzuka, Aburame, and Hyuga clans left Konoha, and Shiraishi ordered the nearly two hundred thousand migrating ninja clans scattered among Peach Country’s districts.
• The Daimyo ordered walls built around the academy, named it Konoha Academy, and named the surrounding city Konoha City.
• As the first Konoha civilians arrived, the Daimyo’s officials made them camp, while Shiraishi sent Peach Country’s construction workers to rapidly build the walls.
• After the last residents left Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen remained alone in the village, and Shiraishi realized he planned to stay until Hayaka leveled it with a Tailed Beast Ball.