Recaps

Takenaka Kaguya kept Tobirama Senju hidden while Hiruzen Sarutobi and his allies made their choice, letting Tobirama witness his disciples’ scheming. Tobirama recognized their failings and mourned what had become of the Will of Fire as Kagami Uchiha left to find him.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura agreed, while Kagami Uchiha slipped away to meet Tobirama Senju.
• Takenaka Kaguya revealed that he had brought Tobirama Senju to headquarters and kept him there to watch the proceedings.
• Takenaka Kaguya criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, citing the deaths and crimes he believed they had caused or enabled.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Tobirama Senju that Kagami Uchiha still showed the Will of Fire, and Tobirama acknowledged his disciples’ failings with sorrow.
• Takenaka Kaguya let Tobirama Senju go, warning him to choose a better successor when he selected the Third Hokage.

Takenaka Kaguya helped Tobirama Senju return safely to Konoha, then tracked down Kagami Uchiha and told him his teacher had survived. Takenaka Kaguya and Kagami Uchiha shared wine by a stream, where Kagami asked why Takenaka had sought him out.

• Takenaka Kaguya thanked Tobirama Senju, left the camp, and the barrier disappeared.
• A Yamanaka Clan sensory Ninja detected Tobirama Senju's Chakra, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others welcomed him back to camp.
• Takenaka Kaguya found Kagami Uchiha traveling alone toward Kumogakure's main camp to reach his teacher.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Kagami Uchiha that he had saved Tobirama Senju and dealt with the Gold and Silver Brothers.
• Takenaka Kaguya and Kagami Uchiha stopped beside a stream, shared Cherry Blossom Wine, and Kagami asked why Takenaka had come to find him.

Takenaka Kaguya challenged Kagami Uchiha’s faith that the Uchiha clan and Konoha would prosper together, arguing that old grudges, Tobirama Senju’s distrust, and the Military Police Force were isolating the clan. Kagami’s certainty was shaken, and he asked Takenaka to reveal why he had come to see him.

• Takenaka Kaguya asked Kagami Uchiha what he thought of the Uchiha clan’s future, and Kagami said the clan would thrive alongside Konoha.
• Takenaka warned Kagami that the Uchiha could be destroyed and recounted the clan’s history of conflict with the Senju, Madara Uchiha’s departure and return, and Hashirama Senju’s death.
• Takenaka argued that Tobirama Senju had moved the Uchiha away from Konoha’s center because he distrusted them, but Kagami maintained that the Uchiha still had a bright future.
• Takenaka explained that the Uchiha’s control of the Konoha Military Police Force would breed resentment among civilians and other clans, leaving the Uchiha without allies.
• Kagami realized the danger Takenaka described, grew pale and shaken, then asked Takenaka to state his true purpose.

Takenaka Kaguya urged Kagami Uchiha to prepare an escape route for the Uchiha clan by moving some of its members to Uzushiogakure. Before leaving, Takenaka told Kagami he might have a chance to become Konoha’s Third Hokage or another high-ranking leader, leaving Kagami to return and discuss the Uchiha proposal with his clan head.

• Takenaka Kaguya proposed that the Uchiha clan send some of its members to Uzushiogakure as a safeguard, and Kagami Uchiha said he needed to consult the clan head.
• Kagami Uchiha asked whether Takenaka wanted the Uchiha Sharingan, but Takenaka dismissed the idea and said he had offered help to preserve the clan.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Kagami that Tobirama Senju might consider him for the Third Hokage position because Tobirama would not favor the companions who abandoned one another.
• Takenaka Kaguya advised Kagami not to tell Tobirama Senju about their meeting, then departed on the Black Divine Dragon.
• Kagami Uchiha watched Takenaka disappear and marveled at his power.

Takenaka Kaguya returned to Uzushiogakure and reunited with Kagura Uzumaki, while news spread that the Second Raikage had died and Ay had become the Third Raikage. After reading the report and discussing Ay’s strength, Takenaka left for Anbu headquarters.

• Takenaka Kaguya returned to his courtyard at dawn, where Kagura Uzumaki had waited up for him, and he carried her to bed.
• News spread that the Gold and Silver Brothers had killed the Second Raikage and vanished, and Ay became the Third Raikage.
• Ay ordered Kumogakure to search for the brothers and sent envoys to Konoha to negotiate peace, prompting Konoha to stand down.
• Kagura Uzumaki gave Takenaka a scroll reporting the Second Raikage’s death, and Takenaka said he had met Ay in the Land of Hot Water years earlier.
• Takenaka learned that Ashina Uzumaki had taken their daughter for the morning, then finished breakfast and headed to Anbu headquarters.

Takenaka Kaguya inspected the Anbu Reserve Unit’s training and ordered Zi Shu to start teaching the first batch the Rokushiki while recruiting a second batch. He returned to the village and found his daughter laughing with Ashina Uzumaki.

• Takenaka Kaguya visited the Anbu training ground and learned that the reserve members could train underwater to a depth of sixty meters.
• Takenaka Kaguya ordered Zi Shu to teach the first batch the Rokushiki and recruit thirty more candidates, mainly from Ninja Academy graduates and allied small families.
• Takenaka Kaguya explained that Uzushiogakure needed more trained Ninja to handle its growing mission commissions, and Zi Shu accepted the orders.
• Takenaka Kaguya returned to the village, visited Ashina Uzumaki, and sensed his daughter enjoying herself in Ashina’s courtyard.

Takenaka Kaguya learned that Madara Uchiha had attacked Konoha and left Tobirama Senju gravely wounded. As Mito Uzumaki treated Tobirama, he accepted that he was dying and asked her to summon Sarutobi and the others.

• Takenaka Kaguya received intelligence that Kirigakure had restarted its Seven Ninja Swordsmen Project and ordered continued surveillance.
• Several years later, Chen Long reported that Madara Uchiha had attacked Konoha, leaving Tobirama Senju near death after a battle involving Hashirama Senju.
• Takenaka Kaguya sent Lingyun to Konoha to find Kagami Uchiha and learn about the village's situation.
• Mito Uzumaki treated the badly wounded Tobirama Senju, but he told her that Madara Uchiha had destroyed his arms and severed his meridians.
• Tobirama Senju asked Mito Uzumaki to summon Sarutobi and the others so he could speak with them.

As Tobirama Senju neared death, he appointed Hiruzen Sarutobi as the Third Hokage and arranged positions for the others, while privately explaining why he could not choose Torifu Akimichi or Kagami Uchiha. He entrusted Mito Uzumaki with a copy of Konoha’s Ninjutsu to give Takenaka Kaguya for help against Madara Uchiha, then died and was mourned across Konoha.

• Mito Uzumaki brought Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Torifu Akimichi, and Kagami Uchiha to Tobirama Senju as he prepared to choose a Third Hokage.
• Tobirama Senju appointed Hiruzen Sarutobi as Third Hokage, Shimura Danzō as Hokage Assistant, and the others as Konoha elders.
• After the disciples left, Tobirama Senju told Mito Uzumaki that he had chosen Hiruzen because appointing Torifu Akimichi would risk dividing Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju asked Mito Uzumaki to give Takenaka Kaguya a copy of Konoha’s Ninjutsu and seek his help against Madara Uchiha.
• Tobirama Senju died, and Mito Uzumaki arranged his funeral as Konoha mourned.
• In Uzushiogakure, Takenaka Kaguya watched a meteor cross the sky, drank from his gourd, and said, “Rest in peace!”

Takenaka Kaguya learned from Mito Uzumaki that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō wanted to erase the Senju of the Forest name, and he advised her to refuse. After offering to protect Konoha and discussing Madara Uchiha, Takenaka was asked about the strange fruit that had transformed him at the Valley of the End.

• Lingyun visited Kagami Uchiha to ask about Konoha, warned him that the Uchiha clan might suffer if his comrades gained power, and left after Kagami chose to wait and see.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Kagura Uzumaki he worried Madara Uchiha was pursuing a dangerous plan and considered searching for him.
• Mito Uzumaki brought Takenaka a copy of the Scroll of Sealing and Tobirama Senju's final words, then asked whether she should agree to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō's plan to dissolve the remaining Senju of the Forest.
• Takenaka advised Mito to reject the plan, warned that Hiruzen and Danzō wanted to consolidate power, and promised to aid Konoha if it faced danger.
• Mito clarified that she was not asking Takenaka to attack Madara Uchiha and asked whether the strange fruit he ate at the Valley of the End had caused his transformation.

Takenaka Kaguya investigated the disappearance of his spies in Kirigakure and traveled there in secret. He met Kurama, who had become the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, while an unseen figure revealed that Takenaka had been lured away from Uzushiogakure.

• Mito Uzumaki asked Takenaka Kaguya about the strange fruit that had transformed him, and he concealed what he knew about it.
• Mito Uzumaki returned to Konoha after staying in Uzushiogakure for half a month.
• Takenaka Kaguya learned that the Si She Squad had vanished after reporting the deaths of Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu, and he suspected they had encountered a powerful enemy.
• Takenaka Kaguya left Lingyun to guard Uzushiogakure and flew toward Kirigakure as a Black Divine Dragon.
• A black figure emerged from the earth, mocked Madara Uchiha, and said it had succeeded in luring Takenaka Kaguya away.
• Takenaka Kaguya used Observation Haki Killer to avoid Kirigakure's sensory Ninja and met Kurama, discovering that he had become the Three-Tails Jinchuriki.

Takenaka Kaguya met with Kirigakure Anbu chief Kurama and asked him to investigate the disappearance of Takenaka’s operatives. Kurama denied that the village was responsible, and Takenaka left the investigation to him before asking who would become the Third Mizukage.

• Kurama explained that Kirigakure had made him its Jinchuriki after failing to create Ninja as powerful as Takenaka Kaguya.
• Takenaka gave Kurama portraits of his missing Anbu, the Si She Squad, and said they had disappeared in Kirigakure two days earlier.
• Kurama said Kirigakure’s Anbu had made no moves and that Hozuki Gengetsu, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and most of the village’s Jonin had left on a mission.
• Kurama reported that Hozuki Gengetsu and the Second Tsuchikage Mu had died together, and insisted Kirigakure could not have captured Takenaka’s operatives unnoticed.
• Takenaka asked Kurama to investigate the missing Anbu and notify him of any news, then asked whether Kirigakure had chosen a candidate for Third Mizukage.

Kurama told Takenaka Kaguya that the village elders were considering him for Third Mizukage, though the Yuki and Hozuki clans backed another candidate. Takenaka advised Kurama to pursue the position and offered to strengthen the seal containing the Three-Tails, then left Kurama wondering about the beast’s comparison between him and the Shinobi world’s strongest.

• Kurama explained that the Yuki and Hozuki clans supported Hanbing for Third Mizukage, while Genji supported him.
• Takenaka Kaguya encouraged Kurama to seek the Mizukage position and said the great clans would restrain themselves if he won.
• Takenaka offered to reseal the Three-Tails, but Kurama refused because the village might discover the seal had been changed.
• Takenaka left the search for the Si She Squad to Kurama and said Kurama could contact him through Eiichiro for help.
• The Three-Tails told Kurama that Takenaka’s oppressive strength surpassed what it had felt from Hashirama Senju and called him the person closest to the old man’s strength.

Madara Uchiha attacked Uzushiogakure, but Lingyun, Takenaka Kaguya’s summoned Golden Eagle, intercepted him at the gate. After their first clash, Lingyun survived Madara’s Shinra Tensei with Armament Haki and prepared to continue the fight.

• Madara Uchiha killed the two guards at Uzushiogakure’s gate and sensed the village’s Ninja approaching.
• Lingyun swooped down and forced Madara to retreat from his first attack.
• Lingyun warned Madara to leave before Takenaka Kaguya returned, but Madara refused and attacked him with his Uchiha Gunbai.
• Madara used Shinra Tensei to blast Lingyun away, but Lingyun’s Armament Haki kept him unharmed.
• Lingyun rose out of Madara’s sight and challenged him to continue fighting.

Madara Uchiha attacked Uzushiogakure, but Lingyun used the Reverse Summoning Technique to bring Takenaka Kaguya back. Madara fled when Takenaka confronted him, while Takenaka sent Lingyun to pursue Black Zetsu, who had entered the village.

• Madara Uchiha blocked Lingyun's Rankyaku and flames with the Uchiha Gunbai, then deflected them with Uchiha Return.
• Lingyun used the Reverse Summoning Technique to summon Takenaka Kaguya back to Uzushiogakure.
• Madara Uchiha tried to escape underground, but Takenaka Kaguya stomped him back to the surface.
• Takenaka Kaguya challenged Madara Uchiha to fight, but Madara fled several hundred meters away.
• Takenaka Kaguya sensed Black Zetsu heading for his courtyard and ordered Lingyun to catch him.

Takenaka Kaguya confronted Madara Uchiha in the forest after Madara’s attack on Uzushiogakure and challenged him over his schemes and pursuit of false peace. Takenaka froze Madara and the surrounding forest, but Madara broke free, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Takenaka Kaguya caught up with Madara Uchiha in the forest and warned that he would not let him escape.
• Madara defended his actions as necessary for his vision of peace and criticized Takenaka for choosing to remain in Uzushiogakure.
• Takenaka condemned Madara for his schemes and his plan to create peace through Infinite Tsukuyomi, then charged at him.
• Madara attempted to repel Takenaka with Shinra Tensei, but Takenaka seized his throat and froze him with Hanbing and Ice Age World.
• Madara shattered the ice and told Takenaka he would not fall for the same move twice.

Takenaka Kaguya fought Madara Uchiha in the forest, revealing that he could predict Madara’s thoughts and movements and explaining why he opposed Madara’s vision of peace. Madara learned that Kaguya’s answer to Hashirama’s question about absolute power had been unification, and wondered why Kaguya had never told him.

• Madara Uchiha realized Takenaka Kaguya had neutralized his technique and sensed that Kaguya’s freezing ability used no Chakra.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Madara that he could predict Madara’s actions and thoughts, then said he intended to kill him because Madara had targeted his family.
• Madara asked Kaguya why he would not cooperate to bring peace to the Shinobi World.
• Takenaka Kaguya explained that war would persist as long as people and competing interests existed, and recalled Madara’s question about what he would do with absolute power.
• Takenaka Kaguya revealed that he had answered Hashirama with “unification,” and Madara questioned why Kaguya had not shared that answer with him.

Takenaka Kaguya explained why he had withheld the truth from Madara Uchiha, provoking Madara into attacking him with powerful techniques. Takenaka Kaguya defeated Madara’s Limbo shadows and shattered his Super Chibaku Tensei, leaving Madara in disbelief.

• Takenaka Kaguya told Madara Uchiha he had withheld the answer because Madara would have started another war, while he had told Hashirama because Hashirama valued the people’s chance to rebuild.
• Madara Uchiha blamed Takenaka Kaguya for his years of suffering and attacked him with Limbo: Border Jail, but Takenaka defeated all four shadows and sent their damage back to Madara.
• Madara Uchiha used Super Chibaku Tensei to draw rocks, trees, and debris into a giant sealing sphere around Takenaka Kaguya.
• Takenaka Kaguya fired an attack that pierced and destroyed the sphere, leaving Madara Uchiha horrified and insisting that the result had to be genjutsu.

Takenaka Kaguya defeated Madara Uchiha’s Chibaku Tensei and prepared to fight him in earnest. After they agreed that strength decided the outcome, Takenaka Kaguya coated Shusui with Armament Haki and unleashed Mountain Cleaver.

• Takenaka Kaguya broke Madara Uchiha’s Chibaku Tensei with a Flying Shigan enhanced by projected Armament Haki, leaving Madara stunned and doubting himself.
• Madara Uchiha recovered, summoned a defensive Susanoo, and admitted he regretted not killing Takenaka Kaguya when they first met.
• Takenaka Kaguya teased Madara Uchiha about fate, but Madara rejected the idea and said they both believed people controlled their own destinies.
• Takenaka Kaguya and Madara Uchiha agreed that the stronger fighter would decide the outcome, and Madara told him not to hold back.
• Takenaka Kaguya coated Shusui in blackish-purple Armament Haki and used Ittoryu: Armament - Mountain Cleaver.

Takenaka Kaguya unleashed a devastating slash that cut through Madara Uchiha and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Madara survived by using Izanagi. The two faced off again as Madara acknowledged Kaguya had anticipated his forbidden technique and lamented that Izanami had failed to control him.

• Madara Uchiha summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sent its enormous palm crashing toward Takenaka Kaguya.
• Takenaka Kaguya dodged the statue’s attack and used Ittoryu: Armament - Mountain Cleaver to cleave the statue and Madara in half.
• Madara Uchiha used Izanagi to survive, then blocked Takenaka Kaguya’s Rankyaku with his Uchiha Gunbai.
• Takenaka Kaguya explained why he expected Madara to have prepared Izanagi, and Madara acknowledged his reasoning.
• Madara Uchiha remarked that Izanami could have controlled Takenaka Kaguya if he had not escaped its restraints so quickly.

Takenaka Kaguya continued fighting Madara Uchiha, exploiting the cooldown after Shinra Tensei and repeatedly overpowering him in close combat. After Takenaka killed him for the third time, Madara revived with Izanagi and immediately began forming seals for Tengai Shinsei.

• Madara Uchiha used Shinra Tensei, but Takenaka Kaguya endured it and killed him during the technique’s cooldown.
• Madara revived with Izanagi, retreated, and realized his remaining uses of the technique might not be enough to escape Takenaka.
• Takenaka attacked again, and Madara blocked Shusui with the Uchiha Gunbai before Takenaka’s hardened body repelled his kick.
• The two fought at close range until Takenaka struck Madara with Tetsuzanko and sent him crashing through several trees.
• Takenaka killed Madara again, but Madara revived through his preprogrammed Izanagi and began casting Tengai Shinsei.

Takenaka Kaguya defeated Madara Uchiha for the last time, claimed his Rinnegan, and buried his ashes. He returned to Uzushiogakure to find Kagura Uzumaki and his children safe, but discovered Ashina Uzumaki dead.

• Takenaka Kaguya destroyed Madara Uchiha's falling celestial body and revealed that Black Zetsu had little chance of reaching his family.
• Takenaka Kaguya overwhelmed Madara Uchiha with Conqueror's Haki and killed him again, leaving him with one final Izanagi revival.
• Madara Uchiha revived and asked about Takenaka Kaguya's strength, offering his Rinnegan in exchange for an answer.
• Takenaka Kaguya infused Shusui with Advanced Conqueror's Haki and killed Madara Uchiha with a final slash.
• Takenaka Kaguya removed Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan, burned his body, buried his ashes, and returned to Uzushiogakure.
• Takenaka Kaguya found Kagura Uzumaki and his three children unharmed, then saw Ashina Uzumaki's corpse.

After Ashina Uzumaki was killed, Takenaka Kaguya confronted his grieving family and pursued Black Zetsu, eventually killing a sealed body that Black Zetsu had used to deceive him. The chapter ended with Takenaka discovering that Black Zetsu and White Zetsu had vanished beyond the reach of his Advanced Observation Haki.

• Takenaka Kaguya reprimanded the six Earthly Branch Anbu squads for failing to protect Ashina Uzumaki, then ordered them to notify Konohagakure, arrange Ashina's funeral, and put Chen Long in charge of village defenses.
• Takenaka comforted Kagura Uzumaki and their children, but Mingyue Takenaka angrily demanded to know why he had failed to protect her great-grandfather.
• Black Zetsu learned from a White Zetsu that Madara Uchiha was dead and decided to cultivate another Uchiha to obtain a Mangekyou Sharingan.
• Takenaka caught Black Zetsu at Madara's grave, struck him repeatedly, and used a Haki-infused slash and sealing technique to disable him.
• Black Zetsu offered to revive Ashina with the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, but Takenaka rejected the offer and twisted his neck.
• Takenaka realized Black Zetsu's severed arm had disappeared and could find neither Black Zetsu nor White Zetsu, even after searching underground with Advanced Observation Haki.

Takenaka Kaguya failed to detect Black Zetsu, who escaped by joining his severed arm to a White Zetsu and sinking underground. Back in Uzushiogakure, Takenaka grieved Ashina Uzumaki’s death, revealed that he had killed Madara Uchiha, and arranged Ashina’s funeral.

• Takenaka searched for Black Zetsu but found no trace, then sealed Black Zetsu’s corpse and buried Madara Uchiha before leaving the forest.
• After Takenaka left, Black Zetsu emerged from the ground joined to a White Zetsu’s body and escaped without disturbing Madara’s burial mound.
• In Uzushiogakure, Takenaka stood beside Ashina Uzumaki’s coffin, and Kagura Uzumaki comforted him as he blamed himself for Ashina’s death.
• Takenaka told the gathered villagers that Madara Uchiha was dead and showed them Madara’s broken Uchiha Gunbai as proof.
• Takenaka said he had burned Madara’s body to prevent a possible fake death, then ordered the village to give Ashina’s funeral its highest honors.

Takenaka Kaguya struggled with guilt and Mingyue Takenaka’s grief as he presided over Ashina Uzumaki’s funeral, attended by mourners from across the Shinobi World. After the funeral, Takenaka scattered storm clouds with his Conqueror’s Haki, leaving witnesses astonished.

• Takenaka Kaguya returned home with Kagura Uzumaki, but Mingyue Takenaka turned away from him in grief, and he withdrew to his study.
• For several days, Takenaka Kaguya paid his respects to Ashina Uzumaki and sat beside the coffin in silence.
• Mito Uzumaki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, and other Konoha representatives arrived, and Takenaka Kaguya welcomed them to the funeral.
• Representatives from the other great villages and smaller nations attended, and they kept the peace in Takenaka Kaguya’s presence.
• After the funeral, Takenaka Kaguya used his Conqueror’s Haki to disperse the storm clouds, prompting a witness to call the feat divine.

Takenaka Kaguya became Uzushiogakure’s leader and oversaw its growth, research, and village policies while refusing Konoha’s request for a Nine-Tails vessel. After learning that Kagami Uchiha had been killed, he suspected Konoha’s Root was involved; in Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi reacted furiously to news Shimura Danzō brought him about Kagami.

• After the funeral, Mingyue Takenaka apologized to her father, Takenaka Kaguya, and he reassured her of his love.
• Takenaka Kaguya was elected leader of Uzushiogakure, and the village grew more powerful and prosperous during his rule.
• In Konoha Year 27, Takenaka Kaguya reviewed a White Cells experiment, ordered safer Anbu selection, and approved expanding the village for new residents.
• Takenaka Kaguya rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s renewed request for a Uzumaki candidate to serve as Konoha’s Nine-Tails vessel.
• Chen Long reported that Kagami Uchiha had been killed and that the evidence pointed toward Konoha’s Root; he and Takenaka Kaguya suspected the Mangekyō Sharingan rumor had played a role.
• After Hiruzen Sarutobi received Takenaka Kaguya’s rejection, Shimura Danzō gave him a scroll, and Hiruzen angrily accused him of forgetting that Kagami had been their classmate.