Chapter Summaries

A Kaguya Clan boy with a system and powerful abilities killed a Land of Fire squad sent to intercept him, then continued south instead of heading into the Land of Fire. While eating by a campfire, he sensed more than a hundred pursuers surrounding the woods and called them out.

• The boy used the Hidden Mist Technique and his Black Bone Blade to kill more than a dozen Elite Chunin from the Land of Fire.
• Three surviving Jonin retreated, and Genma Senju stayed behind to cover them while the other two went to report to Hashirama and Madara.
• The boy blocked Genma Senju's attack and killed him with bones that pierced through his body, then sealed the corpses in a Sealing Scroll and headed south.
• The boy recalled how he had come to this world, gained a system, trained in the Kaguya Clan's forbidden ground, and been sent to war after the new patriarch took power.
• At night, the boy sensed more than a hundred Land of Fire ninja surrounding the woods, picked up his Black Bone Blade, and called them out.

Takenaka Kaguya challenged Madara Uchiha to a battle in the forests of the Land of Fire, eager to test himself against one of the Shinobi World’s strongest. After Kaguya easily cut apart Madara’s opening attack, Madara acknowledged his strength and prepared to test him further.

• Madara Uchiha emerged from the forest and found Takenaka Kaguya waiting by a campfire.
• Takenaka Kaguya explained that he had stayed to meet either Madara Uchiha or Hashirama Senju, and Madara asked his name before accepting the challenge.
• Madara Uchiha and Takenaka Kaguya released their vast Chakra, startling nearby Land of Fire ninjas with Kaguya’s Kage-level strength.
• Madara Uchiha attacked with Fire Style: Dragon Flame Song Jutsu, and Takenaka Kaguya sliced through all four fire dragons with his Black Bone Blade.
• Madara Uchiha praised Takenaka Kaguya and agreed to test his strength further.

Takenaka Kaguya fought Madara Uchiha in the southern forest of the Land of Fire, matching him in close combat before surviving his powerful Fire Style attack. After Madara challenged him to continue, Takenaka pointed his blade at him and asked whether he wanted to dance.

• Takenaka Kaguya and Madara Uchiha clashed, and the Land of Fire ninjas watched as the young fighter held his own in taijutsu.
• Madara grew excited, increased the force and speed of his attacks, and used Nintaijutsu before knocking Takenaka through two trees with Uchiha Return.
• Madara unleashed Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and Takenaka blocked it with a bone shield coated in Armament Haki.
• Takenaka emerged unharmed after water extinguished the flames, impressing Madara and prompting him to invite the fight to continue.
• Takenaka pointed his Black Bone Blade at Madara and asked, “Madara Uchiha, do you want to dance?”

Takenaka fought Madara Uchiha in the Land of Fire, using Observation Haki and Shikotsumyaku to wound him before Madara revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned Susanoo. Ten kilometers away, a powerful man and his white-haired companion sensed the technique and set out to see who had challenged Madara.

• Madara activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and he and Takenaka traded attacks while predicting each other's movements.
• Takenaka used Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Willow, coating his bones with Armament Haki and slashing Madara's chest.
• Madara repelled Takenaka with Uchiha Return, and his wound quickly began to close.
• Madara awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and formed Susanoo around himself.
• A tall, powerful man and a white-haired young man sensed Susanoo from ten kilometers away and went to investigate.

Takenaka Kaguya completed a system mission by blocking Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo strike, then used his newly acquired Six Powers to damage Susanoo. Madara transformed into Perfect Susanoo and struck Takenaka hard enough to send him flying as Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju approached.

• Takenaka blocked Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo sword with a Sage Mode bone shield reinforced by Armament Haki, completing his mission and gaining beginner proficiency in the Six Powers.
• Takenaka used Soru to evade Madara’s next attack, then countered with sword energy that severed Susanoo’s arm and cracked the crystal protecting Madara.
• Madara restored Susanoo and transformed it into its fourth form, the armored Perfect Susanoo.
• Takenaka sensed Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju approaching, lost focus, and was struck by Madara’s stronger slash.
• Takenaka’s shield shattered as he flew through several trees and spat out blood, fearing the arrival of Hashirama and Tobirama.

Takenaka Kaguya faced Madara Uchiha until Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju arrived, revealing that the Land of Water had signed a peace treaty and may have abandoned him. Rather than retreat, Takenaka chose to challenge all three, and Hashirama asked if he was certain.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju arrived as Madara Uchiha dispelled his Susanoo and joined them.
• Hashirama recognized Takenaka as the person who had intercepted the Land of Fire's thirty-six groups, while Tobirama criticized Madara for failing to defeat him.
• Hashirama told Takenaka that the Land of Water had signed a peace treaty with the Land of Fire, and Tobirama suggested that Takenaka had been abandoned.
• Takenaka realized why he had lost contact with the Land of Water and decided the coming peace freed him from his obligations.
• Takenaka pointed his Black Bone Blade at Madara and the Senju brothers and challenged all three, prompting Hashirama to warn him and ask if he was certain.

Takenaka Kaguya fought Hashirama Senju and learned how vast the gap in their strength was, but he refused to surrender. Hashirama unleashed the Wood Human Technique and overwhelmed Takenaka until Tobirama Senju attacked from behind, only for Madara Uchiha to intervene.

• Takenaka Kaguya rushed Hashirama Senju, but Hashirama’s Wood Release forced him to retreat and showed him how outmatched he was.
• Takenaka attacked again, landed a finger-bone strike on Hashirama, and dispersed Hashirama’s pollen with Wind Style: Pressure Damage.
• Hashirama recognized Takenaka Kaguya as a worthy opponent and summoned the Wood Human Technique.
• Takenaka dodged the Wood Golem’s first punch but was struck by its next blow, sent crashing into the ground, and forced to retreat.
• Tobirama Senju appeared behind Takenaka and tried to stab him, but Madara Uchiha blocked the attack with his Gunbai.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha stopped Tobirama Senju from ambushing the defeated Takenaka Kaguya. They spared Takenaka and invited him to join their planned village, Konoha, leaving him free to depart with a promise that he might challenge them again.

• Madara Uchiha criticized Tobirama Senju for trying to ambush Takenaka, but Tobirama rushed in with the Flying Thunder God Technique anyway.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha restrained Tobirama and stopped him from killing Takenaka.
• Takenaka admitted defeat, dropped his Black Bone Blade, and offered no resistance, while Hashirama Senju struggled to decide whether to spare him.
• Madara Uchiha urged Hashirama Senju to let Takenaka live, arguing that his talent could provide a future challenge and inspire Konoha's younger generation.
• Hashirama Senju returned Takenaka's blade, invited him to challenge them again or join Konoha, and Takenaka thanked them while warning they might regret sparing him.

Takenaka Kaguya left Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha after they spared him, and the One Country, One Village system brought an end to the Sengoku era. In Kirigakure, Takenaka rejected the prospect of becoming Mizukage, then received intelligence that prompted him to demand the lives of those involved.

• Takenaka Kaguya thanked Madara Uchiha for letting him go, while Hashirama Senju and Madara praised his potential and looked forward to meeting him again.
• Tobirama Senju warned Hashirama and Madara that Takenaka could become a great threat, but they defended their decision to spare him.
• Hashirama and Madara joined the Land of Fire's Daimyo to establish Konohagakure, and the other great nations founded their own hidden villages, ending the Sengoku era.
• Byakuren told Takenaka he had been passed over for First Mizukage because of his age, but Takenaka declined the future position of Second Mizukage and recommended Hozuki Gengetsu instead.
• Byakuren gave Takenaka intelligence about the matter he had asked him to investigate, and Takenaka demanded the lives of the people named in it.

Takenaka Kaguya executed everyone on Byakuren’s list on Liehu Island and destroyed their bodies. Byakuren warned Hozuki Gengetsu to befriend Takenaka, then planned for them to accompany him to a gathering of the hidden villages in Konohagakure.

• Takenaka Kaguya killed everyone named in Byakuren’s scroll, burned their bodies, and washed the ashes into the sea.
• Hozuki Gengetsu reported Takenaka’s actions to Byakuren, who warned him not to offend the powerful young ninja.
• Byakuren urged Hozuki Gengetsu to befriend Takenaka, explaining that Takenaka had no interest in the Mizukage position.
• Byakuren told Hozuki Gengetsu that they would attend a conference of village leaders in Konohagakure in one month, with Takenaka serving as a guard.
• Hozuki Gengetsu agreed to make preparations, while Byakuren decided to tell Takenaka about the trip when he next visited.

Takenaka returned to the Kaguya Clan territory and tried to reassure Yuko Kaguya that the war had ended and she no longer needed to fear for her future. Their conversation ended with Yuko revealing that she was his biological aunt, his mother's younger sister.

• Takenaka returned to the Kaguya Clan territory and visited Yuko Kaguya, who greeted him with her usual coldness.
• Takenaka gave Yuko a scroll containing thirty million ryo and explained that the war had ended, but she feared she could not survive alone in the clan if he died.
• Takenaka assured Yuko that his strength made his death unlikely and that she could spend the money freely.
• Yuko said Takenaka had gained power beyond her late husband’s and recalled that he had believed Takenaka could make the Kaguya Clan the Land of Water’s strongest ninja family.
• Yuko told Takenaka to call her Aunt and revealed that she was his mother’s younger sister.

Takenaka learned that Yuko Kaguya was his maternal aunt and assured her he would protect her. After she was attacked by Kaguya Clan ninjas trying to force her from her home, he demanded that the clan leader explain their actions.

• Yuko Kaguya revealed that she was Takenaka’s mother’s younger sister, and Takenaka accepted her as family.
• Takenaka told Yuko he had no interest in becoming Mizukage and wanted to grow stronger and protect those he cared about.
• The next morning, Takenaka trained the Six Powers while Yuko prepared breakfast.
• Kaguya Clan ninjas broke into the courtyard and attacked Yuko while trying to make her leave.
• Takenaka struck the attacker away, helped Yuko to her feet, and threatened to replace the clan leader unless he received an explanation.

Takenaka and Yuko Kaguya left the Kaguya Clan after Motosawa Kaguya ordered them to surrender their home. Takenaka then visited Byakuren and asked for Half-Moon Island, near the Land of Whirlpools.

• Takenaka threatened to replace the Kaguya Clan’s head if he did not receive an explanation for their actions.
• Motosawa Kaguya arrived and demanded that Takenaka and Yuko surrender the clan-owned house.
• Yuko agreed to leave, and she and Takenaka packed their belongings and left the Kaguya Clan’s territory.
• Takenaka and Yuko went to the Mizukage Building to speak with Byakuren.
• Takenaka asked Byakuren for Half-Moon Island, five kilometers from the Land of Whirlpools.

Takenaka asked Byakuren for Half-Moon Island after explaining how Motosawa Kaguya had driven him and Yuko from their home, and he deduced that Hozuki Gengetsu had arranged the incident to force him away. Byakuren confronted Gengetsu outside Kirigakure, where Gengetsu admitted he feared Takenaka's potential and wanted him gone so he could inherit the Mizukage position.

• Takenaka told Byakuren that he and Yuko needed Half-Moon Island as a place to settle after Motosawa Kaguya drove them from their home.
• Byakuren pretended to be outraged and promised to confront Motosawa, while Hozuki Gengetsu accompanied him out of the office.
• Takenaka told Yuko that Hozuki Gengetsu had likely orchestrated the eviction to push him out of the Land of Water, and he remained calm as they waited.
• Byakuren stopped outside Kirigakure, sent his guards to keep watch, and slapped Hozuki Gengetsu for disobeying his warning to befriend Takenaka.
• Hozuki Gengetsu explained that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha believed Takenaka could rival them within ten years, and said he preferred to drive Takenaka away so he could inherit the Mizukage position.

Byakuren confronted Hozuki Gengetsu over his decision to drive Takenaka Kaguya away and warned him not to make an enemy of the powerful young shinobi. Byakuren decided to give Takenaka Half-Moon Island, leaving Gengetsu to follow his master’s plan despite his misgivings.

• Hozuki Gengetsu explained that he feared Takenaka Kaguya’s strength and wanted him gone before he could threaten Gengetsu’s future as Mizukage.
• Byakuren lamented that Takenaka could have protected the Land of Water and warned Gengetsu that Elder Genji might obstruct his succession if he learned what happened.
• Hozuki Gengetsu suggested gathering experts to kill Takenaka, but Byakuren rejected the plan as too dangerous and likely to provoke disaster.
• Byakuren ordered Hozuki Gengetsu to give Takenaka Half-Moon Island and warned him not to oppose Takenaka.
• Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu set out to carry out the plan and make their decision appear proper.

Takenaka rejected Byakuren’s offer of another home in Kirigakure and chose to leave with Yuko Kaguya, accepting Half-Moon Island as their new home. At the harbor, he met a Kirigakure ally who questioned his departure, and Takenaka explained that leaving would let him train and help stabilize the village.

• Byakuren apologized to Takenaka and Yuko Kaguya for the injustice and offered them another residence in the village.
• Takenaka chose to leave Kirigakure and asked Byakuren for Half-Moon Island, which Byakuren agreed to give him in return for future help.
• Takenaka and Yuko left the village, while Byakuren told Hozuki Gengetsu to let them go and admitted the village had wronged Takenaka.
• At the harbor, Takenaka sensed someone waiting nearby and went to meet him in the forest.
• Takenaka told the man he was leaving to train and give Kirigakure a chance to become more stable; the man said he and the other seniors still resented how Takenaka had been treated.

Takenaka and Yuko Kaguya settled on Half-Moon Island, where Takenaka improved his Six Powers and received a mission to attend the First Five Kage Summit as Byakuren’s escort. Takenaka decided to go despite Yuko’s concern about Konoha, and reassured her that he could escape if attacked.

• Takenaka declined Genji’s request to train Kirigakure’s young ninja and left for Half-Moon Island with Yuko Kaguya.
• Takenaka asked the Kirigakure ninja who brought them to deliver daily necessities, building materials, and another boat.
• Half a month later, Takenaka raised all of his Six Powers by one level and received a system mission to attend the First Five Kage Summit.
• A goshawk delivered a letter from Byakuren, who wanted Takenaka to serve as his escort to the summit.
• Takenaka told Yuko Kaguya that Hashirama Senju had summoned the village leaders and reassured her that he could escape if Konoha attacked.

Takenaka Kaguya trained intensely on Half-Moon Island as the first Five Kage Summit approached, while Hashirama Senju overruled Tobirama Senju’s objections to distributing the Tailed Beasts. Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha discussed whether Takenaka would attend the summit and planned to watch Iwagakure’s Dust Release user.

• Takenaka Kaguya reassured Yuko Kaguya that he would return safely, then resumed strenuous training.
• Five days before the summit, Tobirama Senju argued that Konoha should keep the Tailed Beasts, but Hashirama Senju insisted on distributing them to promote peace.
• Hashirama Senju told Madara Uchiha that the peace they had hoped for was gradually becoming real.
• Madara Uchiha wondered whether Takenaka Kaguya would attend the summit, and Hashirama Senju said Takenaka was still too young to challenge them.
• Hashirama Senju mentioned Iwagakure’s ninja who had awakened Dust Release, and Madara Uchiha agreed to watch him at the summit.

Byakuren, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Takenaka discussed Kirigakure’s strategy for Hashirama Senju’s Tailed Beast Distribution Plan and set their sights on a beast they could realistically obtain. When they arrived at Konoha for the Five Kage Summit, Madara Uchiha ignored the other Kirigakure ninja and greeted Takenaka warmly.

• Byakuren asked Hozuki Gengetsu and Takenaka to assess Hashirama Senju’s plan to distribute the nine Tailed Beasts.
• Takenaka argued that the plan would not end war, but advised Kirigakure to seek a Tailed Beast and acquire Sealing Jutsu to control it.
• Takenaka warned Byakuren not to pursue the Nine-Tails because Konoha would refuse, Kirigakure could not control it, and other villages would oppose the demand.
• Hozuki Gengetsu agreed that Kirigakure should give up on the Nine-Tails and consider asking for the Eight-Tails instead.
• Byakuren’s party arrived at Konoha with one day remaining before the summit, where Madara Uchiha appeared and greeted Takenaka.

Madara Uchiha welcomed Byakuren’s delegation to Konoha, then sought out Takenaka Kaguya to discuss peace, power, and their shared loneliness. Madara promised to help Kirigakure obtain a Tailed Beast and asked which one they wanted as the other village leaders arrived.

• Madara Uchiha greeted Takenaka before welcoming Byakuren and led the Kirigakure delegation through Konoha.
• Madara visited Takenaka at his room and brought him to a river, where they discussed whether peace could last without overwhelming strength.
• Takenaka said he would challenge Madara and Hashirama Senju within ten years, and Madara welcomed the prospect.
• Madara observed that Takenaka seemed as if he did not belong in the world, while Takenaka reflected on his lack of future goals.
• After an eagle cried overhead, Madara told Takenaka the other village leaders had arrived and offered to help Kirigakure obtain a Tailed Beast.