Chapter Summaries

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo launched a surprise assault to exterminate the Uchiha before the clan could act, while Uchiha Fugaku rallied his people and fought back with his Mangekyō Sharingan. Shiraishi Yoshijo and Reika arrived at the compound as the Uchiha were being overwhelmed, and Fugaku faced the enemy forces with Susanoo.

• Danzo persuaded Sarutobi Hiruzen and the advisors to strike first, and Konoha assembled its forces to destroy the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Itachi fought off Root teammates who attacked him, then saw Sarutobi Hiruzen leading troops toward the Uchiha compound and realized he could not stop the operation.
• Uchiha Fugaku learned of the attack, alerted Reika, and led more than five hundred Uchiha to confront Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo.
• The two sides began fighting, and Root ninjas killed wounded Uchiha and took their eyes as Konoha's forces gained the advantage.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo brought Reika to the compound, where they saw Uchiha Fugaku reveal his Mangekyō Sharingan and fight the encircling forces with Susanoo.

Shiraishi Yoshijo sent Reika and his doubles to rescue Uchiha Fugaku, and Reika used her strange Mangekyo ability to tear through Konoha’s forces. The battle left hundreds dead as Reika walked away, while Obito and Zetsu struggled to understand her technique.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned fifty doubles and told Reika to wear a mask before leading them to support Uchiha Fugaku.
• Reika joined Fugaku as he neared collapse, while five groups of Uchiha doubles slaughtered hundreds of Konoha ninja.
• Reika knocked Fugaku unconscious and sent him away with a double, then faced Danzo’s forces using the Power of False Adornment.
• Reika repeatedly revived after being killed, multiplying until eight versions of her forced Sarutobi Hiruzen to let her pass.
• Obito asked Zetsu about Reika’s ability, and Zetsu explained that she had developed it by combining her Mangekyo technique with forbidden techniques and Ninjutsu.
• Obito refused to take back the Mangekyo he had given Kakashi, despite Zetsu reassuring him about his strength.

Reika told Fugaku that help would come after nightfall, while Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to move the Uchiha to Peach Country and explained his plan to let Konoha face a greater danger. As the Daimyo sent ten thousand ninja to Konoha, Shiraishi confronted Itachi, who questioned his interference in Konoha’s affairs.

• Reika returned to the Uchiha shelter, learned nearly two hundred clansmen had died, and told Fugaku to hold on until nightfall.
• Reika urged Shiraishi Yoshijo to take the Uchiha to Peach Country, but he refused and warned that the Daimyo would blame him and threaten their alliance.
• Shiraishi questioned Reika about her Izanami-based technique and scolded her for consuming the chakra stored in over a hundred Acupoint Seals.
• Konoha’s leaders discussed their losses and the Uchiha’s defenders, then sent a letter asking the Daimyo for help.
• The Daimyo sent ten thousand ninja led by Sarutobi Asuma, and Shiraishi concluded the Daimyo had orchestrated attacks on Peach Country.
• Itachi confronted Shiraishi about helping the Uchiha, and Shiraishi told him to watch events unfold with his Sharingan.

Uchiha Fugaku begged Shiraishi Yoshijo to save the Uchiha, offering his Sharingan and even Mikoto in exchange. Shiraishi negotiated with Zhixiong to give the clan a chance to survive by taking control of Konoha’s academy, leaving Fugaku to decide how to make that offer work.

• Uchiha Fugaku found the Uchiha compound surrounded and told Uchiha Itachi to take Sasuke to Peach Country, admitting his plan for a bloodless revolution had failed.
• Uchiha Fugaku knelt before Shiraishi Yoshijo and begged him to save the Uchiha, offering all his Sharingan and then Mikoto.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo contacted Zhixiong and demanded that Uchiha Fugaku become the academy’s headmaster, bargaining for a ten-percent reduction in Peach Country’s commercial taxes.
• Zhixiong agreed to let the Uchiha survive if they staged a chaotic breakout at dawn, while Shiraishi promised Fugaku the headmaster position as his way out.
• Uchiha Fugaku said he had wanted the clan to go to Peach Country, but Shiraishi told him to make the academy path work and sent him away.

Reika and Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to rescue the Uchiha women and children while Uchiha Fugaku led a breakout that Uchiha Itachi knew was doomed. As fires erupted across Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen rushed toward the chaos and found Asuma standing in the flames at the burning administrative center.

• Reika confronted Shiraishi Yoshijo about his treatment of the Uchiha, then agreed with him to take the clan’s women away amid the chaos.
• Reika interrupted Uchiha Fugaku before he could confess his bargain to Uchiha Mikoto, and he told Mikoto to gather the women and children in the basement.
• Uchiha Fugaku assembled four hundred ninja and led them in a breakout, while Uchiha Itachi watched from a roof and recognized that unfamiliar Sharingan users were involved.
• Flames erupted at Konoha Academy as Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered his forces to contain Uchiha Fugaku’s breakout and considered the threat posed by Reika.
• Fires and explosions struck Konoha from all four directions, and Sarutobi Hiruzen found the administrative center burning with Asuma standing inside the flames.

Sarutobi Asuma confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen over Konoha’s power and Kazuma’s death, then rejected him and left. Shiraishi Yoshijo staged a massacre in the Uchiha basement, and the chapter ended with the returning clan members suspecting Uchiha Itachi.

• Sarutobi Asuma accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of pursuing power and asked whether he had caused Kazuma’s death; Hiruzen admitted that Konoha sometimes required dishonorable acts, and Asuma disowned him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo met Reika in the Uchiha basement, sealed the Chakra of the unconscious women, and sent them to her castle.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo arranged corpses to make the basement look like an attack, mutilated a body resembling Uchiha Mikoto, and woke Sasuke, who fainted at the sight.
• Uchiha Fugaku halted the fighting and returned to the clan grounds with just over two hundred clansmen, who found the bloodied basement and opened their Sharingan.
• Uchiha Itachi entered the basement, where the clansmen’s suspicious stares made him realize they blamed him for the massacre.

After Konoha’s fires and the theft of the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll exposed the Daimyo’s pressure on the village, Sarutobi Hiruzen faced the loss of his remaining leverage. Two days later, the Daimyo arrived and demanded the Uchiha attend a meeting, and Uchiha Fugaku led his clan out before entering alone.

• Uchiha Fugaku calmed the clan, sent Uchiha Itachi to investigate Konoha, and learned from Reika that the Uchiha were in Peach Country and would only return if he stabilized the village.
• An Anbu reported that fires had destroyed key Konoha facilities and that the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll had been stolen, while Sarutobi Hiruzen realized Asuma had taken it for the Daimyo.
• Kakashi chased Asuma toward the capital, but Asuma’s Shadow Clone gave him a fake scroll while his real body escaped into Jo.
• Kakashi reported his failure to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who left the scroll’s fate to the Daimyo as the Uchiha remained surrounded by the Daimyo’s forces.
• Two days later, the Daimyo blamed Sarutobi Hiruzen for the Uchiha rebellion and demanded that the Uchiha attend a meeting.
• Uchiha Fugaku led the Uchiha out of their compound and entered the meeting room alone.

The Daimyo installed Uchiha Fugaku as headmaster and left him two thousand ninjas, but worsening clashes between the Uchiha and Konoha drove Fugaku to accept his death. Uchiha Itachi killed his father and prepared to warn Konoha's leaders, while Obito urged him to leave.

• The Daimyo overruled Danzo, made Uchiha Fugaku headmaster, and ordered Sarutobi Hiruzen to return the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll or recover it from Asuma.
• The Daimyo left two thousand ninjas under Uchiha Fugaku, who restarted the academy but failed to win trust between the Uchiha and Konoha.
• A series of deadly clashes and assassinations erupted, and Uchiha Fugaku and Sarutobi Hiruzen repeatedly suppressed the violence.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha Itachi that his mother was alive in Peach Country and entrusted Sasuke to him before Uchiha Itachi killed him.
• Obito met Uchiha Itachi on a rooftop and told him to leave, but Uchiha Itachi stayed to warn Konoha's leaders.

Uchiha Mikoto learned that the Uchiha clan had been massacred and sought reassurance from Shiraishi Yoshijo, who promised to protect her children. Meanwhile, Uchiha Itachi joined Akatsuki and received his ring.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Uchiha Mikoto that he would save her sons, then revealed that Uchiha Itachi and a masked man had killed the Uchiha clan, including Uchiha Fugaku.
• Uchiha Mikoto grieved for her family and questioned her worth as a mother, while Shiraishi Yoshijo comforted her and promised to be there for her.
• Uchiha Itachi appeared before Akatsuki, where Orochimaru recognized him and Pain explained the organization's ambition to rule the ninja world.
• The Akatsuki members bickered over Itachi's arrival and potential teammates until Konan ordered them to quiet down.
• Uchiha Itachi slashed his Konoha forehead protector, and Pain gave him the ring engraved with “Vermilion.”

After the Uchiha clan’s destruction, Sarutobi Hiruzen regained control of Konoha, negotiated a new power-sharing arrangement with the Daimyo, and dismantled Danzo’s Root after uncovering its role in the Uchiha conflict. Sasuke, consumed by the memories planted by Uchiha Itachi’s Tsukuyomi, remained determined to take revenge.

• The Daimyo blamed Uchiha Fugaku for the clan’s defeat and lost the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll when his ninjas triggered its self-destruct seals.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen negotiated with the Daimyo and agreed that Konoha would train elite ninjas while surrendering control of Konoha City.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen dismissed Danzo and disbanded Root after the Anbu linked Danzo’s assassinations and Sharingan collection to the Uchiha rebellion.
• Sasuke walked home alone, haunted by the Tsukuyomi in which Uchiha Itachi appeared to murder his family and clan.
• Sasuke’s grief and hatred deepened, and he resolved to kill Uchiha Itachi himself.

Shiraishi Yoshijo’s growing family and Peach Country’s expenses pushed his private treasury toward bankruptcy, so he revived the Kingdom of Immortality plan as a new source of income. He planned to buy vitality from other countries’ Daimyos and sell it through pre-orders, leaving the scheme ready to proceed.

• Sasuke trained until his Chakra was exhausted, while Shiraishi Yoshijo brought Uchiha Mikoto to see him and manipulated her longing for her son.
• Uchiha Mikoto became pregnant with Shiraishi Yoshijo’s child, and later gave birth to twin girls before becoming pregnant again; Tsunade and Kushina also continued having children.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo gave each adult child ten million and a luxury residence, while the costs of his family and government strained his private treasury.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo revived the Kingdom of Immortality plan and proposed buying vitality from other countries’ Daimyos before selling it to citizens and wealthy buyers through pre-orders.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo reasoned that Daimyos would accept the deal for the money and that limited access and the risks of accidents would keep immortality from becoming universal.

Shiraishi Yoshijo attended Nianze’s banquet, where he proposed a new Kingdom of Immortality plan and the council rejected its large-scale use. The council arranged a commercial tax to ease his financial worries, and its first month brought in five hundred million.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo and Anna argued over how much money to give Nianze’s newborn child before traveling to his mansion for the banquet.
• At the banquet, Shiraishi Yoshijo proposed a new Kingdom of Immortality plan based on lessons from the failed Land of Hot Water experiment.
• Oyashiro En, Takemoto Masamasa, and Kawaigawa Aonobu opposed promoting the plan, and Oyashiro En proposed raising commercial taxes instead.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to the tax proposal and said people seeking the immortality treatment could contact the Anbu.
• The council imposed a ten-percent commercial tax, and Shiraishi Yoshijo was astonished when the first month’s revenue reached five hundred million.

Shiraishi Yoshijo arranged to sell life force to wealthy merchants in secret, while Akatsuki learned that Jūzō Biwa had died and Orochimaru had betrayed the organization. Orochimaru escaped Sasori and Deidara’s pursuit using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and Pain ordered Akatsuki to watch his movements.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Right Red to find wealthy merchants willing to buy life force, but to keep the sales limited.
• Akatsuki members learned that Jūzō Biwa had died during a mission with Uchiha Itachi, who recalled using Jūzō to cover his escape from the Land of Water Academy unit.
• Orochimaru tried to capture Itachi, but Itachi trapped him with genjutsu and severed his left hand before Kabuto Yakushi helped him escape.
• Pain accepted Obito into Akatsuki and paired him with Zetsu, then recruited Kisame Hoshigaki and Deidara to fill the organization’s ranks.
• Sasori and Deidara pursued Orochimaru, but Sasori could not confirm he had killed him after finding no body in the ruins.
• Itachi identified Orochimaru’s technique as the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and Pain ordered Akatsuki to monitor Orochimaru while he remained alive.

Akatsuki continued its missions while Shiraishi Yoshijo worried that a world war would devastate Peach Country. After Pain sent Sasori and Deidara to investigate Otogakure, Orochimaru arrived in Peach Country and Shiraishi returned to his family.

• In the Land of Frost, Pakura incinerated enemy ninjas as Sangzhi reflected on the danger a Shinobi World War posed to Peach Country’s fragile growth.
• In the Land of Iron, Kisame asked Itachi about Sangzhi, and Itachi explained that he was a founding Akatsuki member and an exceptional medical ninja.
• In the Land of Rice Fields, Deidara celebrated an explosion as art until Sasori sensed Pain’s communication.
• Pain ordered Sasori and Deidara to investigate Otogakure and its suspected connection to Orochimaru, while Konan wondered whether Nagato had chosen the right path.
• Aboard a ship approaching Peach Country, Orochimaru detected a chakra-sensing technique in the rain; Shiraishi noticed his arrival and returned to the castle, where he joined Tsunade and their four children.

Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted Orochimaru after the rogue ninja arrived in Peach Country on Manda. Orochimaru proposed secretly working together to attack Konoha during next year's Chunin Exams, and Yoshijo agreed to hear his plan.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo told Tsunade that Orochimaru had come to Peach Country and had transformed himself into a snake through soft-body modification.
• Manda attacked the statue serving as Peach Country's administrative center, and Shiraishi Yoshijo confronted Orochimaru while Peach Country's ninjas and airships surrounded them.
• Orochimaru dismissed Manda and said he had come to propose cooperation, prompting Shiraishi Yoshijo to clear the area before they spoke privately.
• Orochimaru offered to act against Konoha for Shiraishi Yoshijo, who said he could not openly harm Peach Country's alliance with the Land of Fire.
• Orochimaru explained that he wanted to destroy Konoha because he found an unchanging world unbearable and wanted to kill his former teacher, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo agreed to hear Orochimaru's plan, and Orochimaru began by mentioning next year's Chunin Exams.

Shiraishi Yoshijo refused to send troops to help Orochimaru attack Konoha, but devised a plan involving Sunagakure and Right Red’s Flying Thunder God Technique. Later, he visited Mei to fulfill their long-delayed agreement and shocked her by asking her to bear his child.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo refused Orochimaru’s request for manpower and suggested persuading the Fourth Kazekage to join the attack on Konoha.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo summoned Right Red, whose Flying Thunder God Technique let Orochimaru gather troops outside the country without infiltrating near Konoha.
• Orochimaru asked Shiraishi Yoshijo to treat Kimimaro’s Shikotsumyaku disease, and Shiraishi Yoshijo warned that replacing his organs could weaken or erase his Kekkei Genkai.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo went to Butterfly Habitat Valley and told Mei he was ready to fulfill their agreement, though he still did not trust her.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo asked Mei to give him a child, and Mei panicked when he leaned in to kiss her.

After Shiraishi Yoshijo’s relationship with Mei led to the birth of their child, Qingjue, he gathered nearly twenty thousand ninjas to summon Mei’s enormous true body. Exhausted by the ritual, he faced Mei’s anger, but she restored his Chakra, and their confrontation ended with him pinning her down and kissing her.

• Mei struggled with her feelings about Shiraishi Yoshijo after he repeatedly tormented her, then gave birth to their child, Qingjue.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo assembled nearly twenty thousand ninjas on an offshore island and used their Chakra to summon Mei’s entire body.
• The Calamity Butterfly’s appearance stirred the Great Toad Sage, the White Snake Sage, Katsuyu, and a mask in the Uzumaki Clan’s Mask Hall.
• The summoning drained Shiraishi Yoshijo and Peach Country’s Chakra, and Mei appeared beside him while he lay helpless.
• Mei beat Shiraishi Yoshijo in anger, then poured Chakra into him to revive him.
• Shiraishi Yoshijo professed his love for Mei, then suddenly pinned her down and kissed her.

Shiraishi Yoshijo helped Mei establish Butterfly Habitat Valley in the Land of Hot Water, then arranged for Peach Country to attend Konoha’s Chunin Exams. In Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen received recommendations for the exams and listed the participating ninja villages.

• Shiraishi Yoshijo reasoned that Mei’s human body controlled her true body and decided to draw her consciousness closer to humanity by awakening her desires.
• Mei and Shiraishi Yoshijo chose the ruined capital of the Land of Hot Water for Butterfly Habitat Valley, moved mountains to surround it, and oversaw its construction.
• Mei sealed half the Land of Hot Water into a separate space, kept Qingjue with her, and sent Shiraishi Yoshijo away.
• Right Red gave Shiraishi Yoshijo the palace construction bill and reported that Orochimaru had persuaded the Fourth Kazekage to participate in Konoha’s Chunin Exams; Shiraishi assigned Nara Shikaku to lead Peach Country’s team.
• Kakashi, Kurenai Yuhi, and Might Guy recommended their genin teams to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who confirmed the villages participating in Konoha’s Chunin Exams.

Konoha’s leaders and jonin noticed that Peach Country had arrived uninvited for the Chunin Exams, following Sunagakure’s unexpected participation. The chapter ended with Shikaku Nara bringing nine Peach Country children down from an airship as Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s jonin watched.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Kakashi and the others that Peach Country would come whether or not Konoha invited it, while Anbu found nothing unusual about Sunagakure’s arrival.
• Asuma invited Kakashi, Might Guy, and Kurenai Yuhi to barbecue, and Kakashi tried to mend the strained relationship between himself and Asuma.
• The jonin left the restaurant after spotting a Peach Country airship, but the owner stopped Kakashi and demanded payment for the meal.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the jonin gathered beneath Konoha Academy’s statue as the airship descended.
• Shikaku Nara led Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Yuki Haku, Yakumo Kurama, Senju Geng Hua, Chino Oyashiro, Shiraishi Shingoro, and Kawai Keigen off the airship.

Nara Shikaku led Peach Country’s delegation to Konoha for the Chunin Exams, where his account of the clans’ prosperous lives unsettled Konoha’s people and angered its leaders. Sarutobi Hiruzen refused to detain him, leaving the advisors anxious as Peach Country’s influence over Konoha’s new generation continued to grow.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen was caught off guard when Nara Shikaku led Peach Country’s delegation, and Shikaku described how the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi Clans had prospered there.
• Shikaku explained that the clans had integrated into Peach Country and that he would choose it again over Konoha, prompting Hiruzen to reflect bitterly on his own past decisions.
• Ninjas from Amegakure, Sunagakure, Kusagakure, and Otogakure arrived in Konoha over the next three days, while Shikaku met former companions and stirred unrest with his firsthand account.
• Koharu and the other advisor urged Hiruzen to have Anbu detain Shikaku, but Hiruzen refused because Peach Country and the Land of Fire were allies and the Chunin Exams took priority.
• Koharu and the other advisor saw Shiraishi Yoshijo’s statue and recalled Naruto declaring he would become Emperor, fearing that Konoha’s new generation was being drawn toward Peach Country.