Chapter Summaries

Takenaka Kaguya accepted Hoshigakure’s invitation to study its mysterious Star and arranged to make contact with the rising samurai Mifune. He traveled to Hoshigakure, where its leader Beixing warmly welcomed him.

• Takenaka Kaguya told Mingyue Takenaka about Hanzo of the Salamander’s origins and strength, and revealed that Hanzo had attended Ashina Uzumaki’s funeral.
• After returning to Uzushiogakure, Takenaka Kaguya agreed to Beixing’s offer to let him study Hoshigakure’s Star.
• Chen Long presented intelligence about Mifune, and Takenaka Kaguya ordered him to establish contact with the young samurai.
• Takenaka Kaguya recalled meeting Mifune years earlier, teaching him Iai Slash techniques, and forging him a sword.
• Three days later, Takenaka Kaguya arrived in Hoshigakure, where Beixing welcomed him and invited him to share food and wine.

Takenaka Kaguya negotiated with Beixing to take Hoshigakure’s Star in exchange for White Cells injections, a large collection of Ninjutsu, and help developing the village. Beixing agreed, and the two went to the plaza to inspect the Star, whose influence stimulated Takenaka Kaguya’s Chakra from a distance.

• Beixing welcomed Takenaka Kaguya and explained that Hoshigakure’s Star accelerated training but caused irreversible harm and made Chakra decline when people stopped using it.
• Takenaka Kaguya offered White Cells injections, Ninjutsu scrolls, and guidance from Uzushiogakure in return for taking the Star.
• Beixing agreed to the exchange because he feared for Hoshigakure’s future and could not risk angering Takenaka Kaguya.
• Takenaka Kaguya promised to send for the White Cells serum, and Beixing led him to the plaza where the Star stood.
• Takenaka Kaguya felt the Star stimulate his Chakra from a distance and asked to inspect it more closely.

Takenaka Kaguya examined Hoshigakure’s Star and discovered that its radiation damaged the bodies of those who used it to cultivate. After seeing Takenaka Kaguya remain unharmed, Beixing agreed to let him take the meteorite under their previously discussed conditions.

• Hoshigakure’s Ninja confronted Beixing for bringing Takenaka Kaguya to the plaza and demanded that he protect the Star’s secrecy.
• Takenaka Kaguya released a powerful aura that knocked the surrounding Ninja unconscious without killing them.
• Takenaka Kaguya approached and touched the Star, using Armament Haki to withstand its radiation.
• Beixing explained that the Star had once caused him to bleed from all seven orifices, and that he had survived by using it only occasionally.
• Takenaka Kaguya offered to take the meteorite under their earlier conditions, and Beixing agreed.

Takenaka Kaguya oversaw research into the meteorite, arranged Tailed Beast samples, and learned that the White Cells serum was repairing Hoshigakure's Ninjas. By spring of Konoha Year 34, he learned Uzushiogakure had been treated as prey and angrily demanded that Chen Long and the other leaders devise a response.

• Takenaka Kaguya received a report confirming that the meteorite contained something like Tailed Beast Chakra and ordered the researchers to continue studying it.
• Takenaka Kaguya learned that the White Cells serum was repairing the radiation damage in Hoshigakure's Ninjas and that the Hoshikage planned to visit Uzushiogakure with senior officials in a month.
• Takenaka Kaguya promised to provide research materials from the One-Tails through the Nine-Tails within three months and gave the meteorite research a ten-year deadline.
• In spring of Konoha Year 34, Takenaka Kaguya threw down a message scroll and accused Uzushiogakure's leaders of failing to prepare against an enemy that regarded the village as prey.
• Takenaka Kaguya singled out Chen Long and challenged him and the other Kage-level experts to come up with a plan before the enemy invaded.

The Third Raikage, Third Kazekage, Ōnoki, and leaders from more than twenty nations assembled to plan a war of annihilation against Uzushiogakure, citing its economic rise as a threat. Shimura Danzō promised Konoha would use Impure World Reincarnation to hold back Takenaka Kaguya, and then demanded compensation for Konoha’s help.

• Ay opened the meeting by arguing that Uzushiogakure’s growth had taken mission income from other villages, while Ōnoki and the Third Kazekage described their villages’ losses.
• The Third Kazekage warned that Uzushiogakure’s sealing techniques, its alliance with Konoha, and Takenaka Kaguya made the planned attack dangerous.
• Ōnoki revealed Shimura Danzō, who assured the gathered leaders that Konoha would help and that they need not fear Takenaka Kaguya.
• When the leaders demanded proof, Shimura Danzō invoked Tobirama Senju’s Impure World Reincarnation, leading them to believe he would summon Hashirama Senju.
• The gathered leaders agreed to proceed with the war once they believed Konoha would hold back Takenaka Kaguya, and Shimura Danzō demanded compensation for Konoha’s contribution.

Takenaka Kaguya prepared Uzushiogakure for a coalition invasion and learned that Shimura Danzō had organized the attack with the approval of Konoha’s allies. As the enemy approached and outside reinforcements arrived, Takenaka suspected Konoha might also try to take Kushina and vowed that strength would defeat any scheme.

• Shimura Danzō secured Konoha a share of Uzushiogakure’s spoils, and Ay ordered the allied forces to depart for the village.
• Takenaka Kaguya appointed Chen Long, Chou Niu, and Wu Ma to command the defense and ordered them to keep the battle outside the village.
• Mingyue Takenaka expressed concern for her father, while Takenaka said he intended to use the invasion to give Uzushiogakure’s fighters combat experience.
• Wanghun reported that Shimura Danzō had organized the alliance and that Kirigakure, Hoshigakure, and Hanzo of the Salamander were sending aid.
• Takenaka Kaguya told Wanghun to support Chen Long’s forces and discussed with Kagura Uzumaki whether Konoha might secretly take Kushina.
• Takenaka Kaguya suspected Hiruzen Sarutobi had approved Danzō’s plan and declared that absolute strength would defeat any underhanded scheme.

Uzushiogakure faced an invading alliance led by Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure, shocking them by assembling twenty Kage-level fighters. The battle began, and Chen Long engaged Ay, the Third Raikage, while the other fighters clashed across the shore.

• Kagura Uzumaki worried that Uzushiogakure's long alliance with Konoha would end, while Takenaka Kaguya accepted that Konoha had to face consequences for its actions.
• The Third Raikage, Ōnoki, the Third Kazekage, and Shimura Danzō discovered twenty Kage-level Uzushiogakure fighters waiting on the shore and prepared to attack.
• Mifune led the Land of Iron samurai into battle, and Chen Long's group summoned crocodiles that attacked the invading forces at sea.
• Chen Long sent Wu Ma to help hold off the Third Raikage and the Third Tsuchikage, while Chou Niu took charge of the main battlefield.
• Chen Long clashed with Ay, blocked his Four-Finger Nukite with an Armament Haki-coated fist, then evaded his Three-Finger Nukite and struck his Lightning Release Armor with a sword.
• Ay acknowledged Chen Long's strength, then launched One-Finger Nukite.

Orochimaru summoned Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Tobirama Senju with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to bolster Konoha’s forces against Uzushiogakure, despite their warnings that Takenaka Kaguya was beyond their power. As the reincarnated trio headed for the losing battlefield, Takenaka arrived and told Wanghun to leave them to him.

• Chen Long dodged Ay’s One-Finger Nukite but was struck by Ay’s knee, while Zi Shu and Wei Yang joined him to fight Ay and other Uzushiogakure shinobi held Ōnoki back.
• Kurama, the Third Mizukage, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and Hanzo joined the battle, turning the Shinobi Allied Forces’ worsening position into a rout.
• Shimura Danzo fired a signal flare, revealing three powerful Chakra presences on the last warship, and Takenaka Kaguya left his lounge to confront the newcomers.
• Orochimaru revealed himself to Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Tobirama Senju, explained the war, and restrained them with his improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Madara Uchiha warned Orochimaru that Takenaka Kaguya approached the strength of a god, but Orochimaru controlled the trio and sent them toward the battlefield.
• Wanghun moved to intercept the three reincarnated shinobi, but Takenaka placed a hand on his shoulder and told him to leave them to him.

Takenaka Kaguya arrived at the battlefield and faced Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha, whom Orochimaru had revived with Impure World Reincarnation. He overwhelmed the allied forces by freezing the sea, then repelled Tobirama’s surprise attack and remained unfazed as the three revived Ninja launched another assault.

• Takenaka Kaguya appeared before Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha, greeting his old friends and confronting Orochimaru for attacking Uzushiogakure.
• Orochimaru controlled the three revived Ninja to attack Takenaka Kaguya with Wood, Water, and Fire Style techniques, but Takenaka stopped them with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Takenaka used the Hie Hie no Mi to freeze the sea, trapping allied forces in ice and allowing Uzushiogakure’s Ninja to inflict heavy casualties.
• Tobirama Senju used the Flying Thunder God Technique to ambush Takenaka, but Takenaka struck him apart with Tetsuzanko and Ryuo.
• Orochimaru ordered Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha to attack again, but Takenaka calmly dismissed Madara’s combined Fire and Wind Style as little more than warmth.

Takenaka Kaguya emerged unharmed from Madara Uchiha’s flames as the Shinobi Allied Forces began to rout. He then faced the Impure World Reincarnation fighters, sealed Tobirama Senju, and watched Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha unleash their ultimate techniques for a decisive battle.

• Takenaka Kaguya mocked Madara Uchiha after walking out of his flames unharmed, boosting Uzushiogakure’s morale as the Allied Forces began to flee.
• Takenaka Kaguya taunted Orochimaru about the battle’s impending loss and reminded him that Uzushiogakure’s sealing techniques could counter Impure World Reincarnation.
• Takenaka Kaguya drew Shusui and defeated Tobirama Senju’s attacks, then cut him apart, struck his head, and sealed him.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha agreed to fight Takenaka Kaguya together as Orochimaru eased his control over them.
• Hashirama Senju summoned the Wood Human Technique and Madara Uchiha manifested Susanoo, bringing the battle to its decisive stage.

Takenaka Kaguya fought Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha as the Shinobi Allied Forces retreated from Uzushiogakure. Orochimaru and Shimura Danzō also tried to leave, but Kaguya knocked them into the sea before resuming the battle, where Hashirama and Madara admitted they could not defeat him.

• Hashirama Senju summoned the Wood Human while Madara Uchiha activated Perfect Susanoo, and they attacked Takenaka Kaguya.
• Takenaka Kaguya transformed into his Dragon Human state, destroyed the Wood Human's fist, caught and crushed Madara Uchiha's Chakra blade, and fought the two legends on even terms.
• Ōnoki and Ay agreed to retreat, and the Shinobi Allied Forces withdrew as Wanghun ordered Uzushiogakure's forces not to pursue them.
• Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru decided to retreat, but Takenaka Kaguya knocked them into the sea before returning to fight Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha stopped fighting and acknowledged that they were no match for Takenaka Kaguya.

Takenaka Kaguya celebrated Uzushiogakure’s victory, honored its fallen, and promised retaliation against those who attacked it. In Konohagakure, Hiruzen Sarutobi trembled over the failed attempt to defeat Takenaka, while Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru argued that his ties to Mito and Konoha might restrain him.

• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha’s souls left their Impure World Reincarnation bodies, and Takenaka Kaguya suspected the Shinigami had taken them.
• Takenaka Kaguya ordered Uzushiogakure’s Ninja to gather their fallen and enemy corpses, then melted the ice covering the sea.
• Takenaka Kaguya thanked Hanzo of the Salamander, the Third Mizukage, and Beixing for supporting Uzushiogakure, and warned that the village would teach its ungrateful enemies a lesson.
• Takenaka Kaguya honored the 396 fallen Ninja at the Monument of Heroes, declared an annual memorial day, and called for their families to be supported.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru what Konoha should do after Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha failed to defeat Takenaka Kaguya.
• Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru argued that Takenaka Kaguya’s respect for Mito and his old ties to Konoha might prevent him from openly attacking the village.

After learning that Hiruzen Sarutobi had helped instigate the attack on Uzushiogakure, Mito Uzumaki decided he must step down and asked Tsunade to become the Fourth Hokage. Hiruzen arrived at Mito’s residence to face her anger, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Black Zetsu discussed the failed attack on Uzushiogakure, and Black Zetsu urged Hiruzen to ask Mito Uzumaki to mediate with Takenaka Kaguya.
• Mito Uzumaki read the report about Hiruzen’s actions, and Tsunade urged her to focus on calming Takenaka Kaguya’s anger.
• Mito asked Tsunade to become Konoha’s Fourth Hokage so the village could preserve its alliance with Uzushiogakure, and Tsunade agreed.
• Hiruzen arrived at Mito’s residence, where Mito confronted him with the report and rejected his claim that he had acted for Konoha.

Mito Uzumaki forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to agree to step down as Hokage and backed Tsunade as his successor to repair Konoha’s alliance with Uzushiogakure. Takenaka Kaguya launched a revenge campaign against the nations that attacked his village, then confronted the Sage of Six Paths, declaring that he would pursue war and unite the Shinobi World.

• Mito Uzumaki blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for betraying Uzushiogakure’s alliance and demanded that he step down in favor of Tsunade.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to discuss relinquishing his position, while Tsunade warned Mito that he might stall and Mito promised to protect her.
• Takenaka Kaguya reprimanded the Intelligence Department for failing to detect the invasion and assigned Anbu forces to retaliate against Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and other nations.
• Takenaka Kaguya transformed into a Black Divine Dragon and flew toward Konohagakure, but the Sage of Six Paths pulled him into an enclosed space.
• Takenaka Kaguya rejected the Sage of Six Paths’ warning about war and declared that he would unite the Shinobi World, challenging the Sage to stop him.

Takenaka Kaguya discussed war and peace with the Sage of Six Paths, then returned to the conflict with Konoha. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted that Tsunade would replace him as Hokage and asked his allies how they could retain influence.

• Takenaka Kaguya activated the Soru Soru no Mi, but the Sage of Six Paths explained that he had summoned him to discuss the Shinobi World's future, not to fight.
• Takenaka Kaguya argued that the Otsutsuki clan had helped cause centuries of war and said unification could end conflict, though he had no desire to rule the Shinobi World.
• Takenaka Kaguya said he would retaliate against the villages that attacked Uzushiogakure to protect his people, then the Sage of Six Paths sent him away.
• Takenaka Kaguya decided to continue to Konoha and finish what he needed to do there.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu that Mito Uzumaki had chosen Tsunade as the next Hokage and asked how she could take office quickly.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked how he and his allies could continue serving Konoha after Tsunade became Fourth Hokage, and Shimura Danzō demanded that he state his plan for protecting their interests.

Takenaka Kaguya arrived in Konoha to confront Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō over their role in the siege of Uzushiogakure, breaking Konoha’s Barrier and assaulting both men. At Mito Uzumaki’s residence, he rejected her offer to settle the matter by replacing Hiruzen with Tsunade, insisting Konoha’s losses required a greater explanation.

• Takenaka Kaguya appeared above Konoha in his Black Divine Dragon form and demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō face him.
• Mito Uzumaki negotiated with Takenaka Kaguya, who agreed to give Konoha time to address the attack on Uzushiogakure.
• Takenaka Kaguya broke Konoha’s Barrier with a light tap, then kicked Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō into pillars after detecting Hiruzen’s curse.
• Mito Uzumaki brought Takenaka Kaguya to her residence, where she proposed Tsunade become Fourth Hokage to resolve the conflict.
• Takenaka Kaguya said removing Hiruzen was not enough to compensate Uzushiogakure, and Mito Uzumaki warned that killing Konoha’s Third Hokage would cost the village its standing.

Takenaka Kaguya gave Mito Uzumaki three days to choose between handing over Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō or ending the alliance between Konoha and Uzushiogakure. Hiruzen’s father gave his life to spare his son, and Takenaka agreed to spare Hiruzen while ordering severe punishments for him and the Sarutobi and Shimura clans.

• Takenaka Kaguya told Mito Uzumaki that she had three days to accept his demands or war would begin, and Mito invited Konoha’s clan heads to discuss the crisis.
• Hyuga Toko and the Uchiha Clan head said their clans would not fight Uzushiogakure, while Yun Nara and Torifu Akimichi urged the clans to hear Mito’s decision.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s father confronted his injured son, then went to Takenaka Kaguya and begged him to spare Hiruzen and preserve the alliance.
• Takenaka Kaguya refused to accept the father’s life as payment, but eventually agreed to spare Hiruzen after the old man repeatedly pleaded and prepared to kill himself.
• Takenaka Kaguya ordered Konoha to destroy the Chakra within Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō and kill every Jonin and Chunin of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s father killed himself, and Takenaka Kaguya sealed his corpse in a scroll and sent it to the Sarutobi Clan Compound with his terms.

After Konoha’s clans agreed to Takenaka Kaguya’s demands, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō led their clans in an escape attempt, but Orochimaru rescued them and Takenaka pursued them. The chapter ended with Takenaka cornering Shimura Danzō and forcing him to his knees with Conqueror’s Haki.

• Mito Uzumaki consulted Konoha’s clan leaders about Takenaka Kaguya’s demands, and they agreed to comply rather than risk another war.
• Tsunade warned Mito Uzumaki that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō had killed their guards and were fleeing with their clans, so Mito ordered Konoha’s forces to capture them dead or alive.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō escaped into an alley, where Orochimaru secretly helped them slip beyond Konoha’s barrier, while the other members of their clans were captured.
• Takenaka Kaguya tracked the three fugitives underground, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru abandoned Shimura Danzō as bait.
• Takenaka Kaguya confronted Shimura Danzō outside Konoha and used Conqueror’s Haki to make him collapse to his knees.

Takenaka Kaguya killed Shimura Danzō after allowing him to activate the Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing Jutsu, which failed to harm him. He then pursued Orochimaru and Hiruzen Sarutobi, who fled toward Ryuchi Cave as their possible refuge.

• Takenaka Kaguya decapitated Shimura Danzō, but Danzō used Izanagi to return and attacked him with a hidden blade that shattered against his body.
• Takenaka Kaguya kicked Shimura Danzō through trees, then let him activate the Reverse Four-Symbols Sealing Jutsu.
• Takenaka Kaguya endured the sealing blast unharmed, stored Shimura Danzō's corpse in a Sealing Scroll, and set off after the fleeing shinobi.
• Orochimaru and Hiruzen Sarutobi sensed Shimura Danzō's death and realized Takenaka Kaguya had caught up with them again.
• Orochimaru told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Ryuchi Cave could keep them safe.

Takenaka Kaguya returned to Uzushiogakure after pursuing Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru, then entered seclusion as war spread across the Shinobi World. More than a year later, he emerged to learn that Kirigakure had joined the war and that Tsunade had come in person to seek Uzushiogakure’s aid.

• Orochimaru and Hiruzen Sarutobi escaped Takenaka Kaguya by using Reverse Summoning Jutsu, while Takenaka killed Shimura Danzō and returned his body to Mito Uzumaki.
• Mito Uzumaki and Takenaka Kaguya agreed to preserve Konoha’s alliance with Uzushiogakure, and Takenaka returned home after declining to attend Tsunade’s inauguration.
• Uzushiogakure retaliated against nations that had joined its siege, and Takenaka placed the village’s affairs in Mingyue Takenaka and others’ hands before entering seclusion.
• Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure declared war on Konoha, and fighting spread across the Land of Rain and other regions while Uzushiogakure remained out of the conflict.
• Kirigakure later declared war on Konoha, and Tsunade came to Uzushiogakure to ask Takenaka Kaguya for help.
• After Chen Long explained the war and Tsunade’s request, Takenaka decided to meet her and hear how she planned to persuade him.