Chapter Summaries

Hikawa and Kaguya Otsutsuki confronted the ten thousand ninja allied forces of Sunagakure and Iwagakure, and Hikawa overwhelmed them with his Thousand-Armed Kannon Statue. Kaguya cast Infinite Tsukuyomi over the defeated forces, while Hikawa gained three new entries.

• Hikawa learned that Iwagakure and Sunagakure had mobilized ten thousand ninja, including Rōshi, Han, and Gaara, and went with Kaguya Otsutsuki to meet them.
• Tsukihime told Hikawa that the allied forces had reached the Land of Iron, and Hikawa and Kaguya appeared at their camp.
• Hikawa summoned Sage Art: Wood Style: True Several Thousand Hands, and the statue withstood the allied forces' ninjutsu and Tailed Beast Balls.
• Hikawa used Top Transformed Buddha to severely wound the allied forces while sparing their lives.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki cast Infinite Tsukuyomi on the defeated ninja, and Hikawa gained three new entries.

Hikawa defeated the Sunagakure and Iwagakure forces, gained new abilities, and ordered the villages to submit while Kaguya reclaimed three Tailed Beasts. After meeting Tsukihime, he learned Sound Hidden Village’s campaign was advancing and assigned her to recover the Nine-Tails.

• Kaguya healed the Sunagakure and Iwagakure ninjas, while Hikawa gained the Master of Iwagakure, Master of Sunagakure, and Dream entries.
• Hikawa ordered Ōnoki, Pakura, and the others to return to their villages and publicly announce their defeat and submission to Konoha.
• Kaguya extracted the Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and One-Tail, and Hikawa soothed Gaara before sending the leaders home.
• Hikawa delayed Kaguya’s requested five-day stay, then traveled with her to Sound Hidden Village to see Tsukihime.
• Tsukihime showed Hikawa Sound Hidden Village’s campaign route and reported that its forces were advancing toward the Land of Waterfall.
• Hikawa told Tsukihime to return to Konoha for a mission to recover the Nine-Tails.

Hikawa used his dream ability on Kurenai, assigned her to negotiate with the arriving Iwagakure and Sunagakure delegations, and prepared plans for the villages after their submission. As the delegations reached Konoha and Mei Terumi sought support for Kirigakure, Hikawa left with Kaguya Otsutsuki and recruited Samui for a mission.

• Hikawa gave Kurenai a dream involving himself and Tsunade, then tasked her with negotiating with the Iwagakure and Sunagakure delegations.
• Mei Terumi learned from Kisame Hoshigaki that Hikawa had defeated the allied forces alone and that both villages had submitted, so she planned to seek the Land of Water's support.
• Hikawa finished development plans for Iwagakure and Sunagakure and forged a mission request from the Third Hoshikage concerning Star Village's meteorite.
• Hikawa told Tsunade that Iwagakure and Sunagakure had submitted, then wove her a dream before she fell asleep.
• Two days later, Ōnoki and Pakura arrived in Konoha with their delegations, and Kurenai took charge of negotiations.
• Hikawa went to Kumogakure with Kaguya Otsutsuki and asked Samui to accompany him on a mission.

Hikawa took Samui and Kaguya Otsutsuki on a seven-day trip before traveling to Star Village to seize its meteorite. Kaguya identified it as mutated flesh from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Hikawa left the Third Hoshikage behind after taking it.

• Hikawa persuaded Kaguya Otsutsuki to let Samui join their trip in exchange for adding a day, and Samui changed into her black secretary uniform while Kaguya put on a matching white one.
• Hikawa used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Samui and Kaguya near Star Village, where they spent seven days together at a wooden house he created.
• After the trip, Hikawa told Samui to rest and traveled with Kaguya to Star Village to carry out their mission.
• Kaguya sensed the God Tree's aura, and Hikawa introduced himself as a Konoha envoy and requested an audience with the Third Hoshikage.
• Kaguya pulled the meteorite into her grasp and identified it as mutated flesh from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path that had fallen from the moon.
• Hikawa questioned the Third Hoshikage about the meteorite's harmful side effects, then took it and teleported away with Kaguya.

After returning from their seven-day trip, Hikawa arranged the integration of Sunagakure and Iwagakure into Konoha and planned Kumogakure’s submission. Two months later, the three villages had relocated to Konoha, bringing Hikawa’s progress toward unifying the Ninja World to 80%, with Kirigakure and Amegakure still outside his control.

• Hikawa returned to Kumogakure with Kaguya Otsutsuki and Samui, then reviewed Sunagakure and Iwagakure’s surrender terms and planned their relocation and integration into Konoha.
• Hikawa assigned Yuhi Kurenai to manage the Kazekage’s and Tsuchikage’s secretaries, while Orochimaru and Tsukihime took over the Land of Waterfall and Takigakure.
• Hikawa triggered entries that let him control the wind in Wind Country and command the underground world in Earth Country.
• Hikawa told Samui that Kumogakure would send a delegation to Konoha to submit.
• Two months later, Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure relocated to Konoha, leaving Kirigakure and Amegakure as the remaining villages outside Hikawa’s control.

Hikawa considered intervening to prevent Neji Hyuga from receiving the Caged Bird Seal, then met with Samui and learned Orochimaru had returned to Konoha with the Sound Hidden Village. After discussing Konoha’s reforms with his former teacher and the others, Hikawa brought the drunken Tsunade home and planned to make her head of the network department.

• Hikawa reflected on Hinata Hyuga’s approaching third birthday and resolved to intervene before Neji Hyuga was branded with the Caged Bird Seal.
• Samui reported that the Anbu had found sixty-seven computer specialists and that Orochimaru had returned to Konoha with the people of the Sound Hidden Village.
• Hikawa joined Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and their students at an izakaya, where he explained his plans to divide ninjas into civilian and combat roles and asked Jiraiya to lead a unit in Sunagakure.
• Namikaze Minato offered to help Hikawa’s reforms, and Jiraiya agreed to lead the unit in Sunagakure.
• After Tsunade became drunk, Hikawa took her home and decided to make her head of the network department, where she would oversee networks and applications.

Tsunade accepted responsibility for the new network department, while Hikawa persuaded her to consider marrying him and invited Yuhi Kurenai to spend New Year with them. Hikawa then took Hinata Hyuga as his student, abolished the Caged Bird Seal for the Hyuga branch family, and gained an S-rank entry; the next day, he planned a carefree first lesson for Hinata.

• Tsunade agreed to lead the network department after reading Hikawa's plans, and she suggested spending New Year with Hikawa and Yuhi Kurenai.
• Tsunade told Hikawa to marry Kurenai, but Hikawa insisted that Tsunade would be the first person he married, leaving her moved but undecided.
• Hinata Hyuga delivered her birthday invitation, and Hikawa promised to teach her and took her to the Hyuga compound.
• Hikawa confronted the Hyuga main family over the Caged Bird Seal, and Kaguya Otsutsuki incapacitated an elder when he resisted.
• Hikawa removed Hizashi Hyuga's seal and then erased the marks from the gathered branch family, triggering the S-rank entry 'Farewell, Cage.'
• The next day, Hikawa welcomed Hinata to her first lesson and told her to follow Kurenai and learn how to have fun.

Hikawa organized Konoha’s cursed-seal unit, toured Konoha Hospital with Hinata, and celebrated Ōmisoka with Yuhi Kurenai and Tsunade. The night ended with Tsunade joining Hikawa and Kurenai, and the three spent the new year together.

• Hikawa added Mitaraishi Anko and Kabuto Yakushi to the cursed-seal roster, then received Kaguya Otsutsuki’s improved seals and agreed to give her six days as a reward.
• Hikawa took Hinata Hyuga to Konoha Hospital, introduced her to Rin Nohara, and arranged for Rin to teach Hinata basic medical knowledge.
• Hikawa gave Hinata a protective bracelet for her birthday and later brought Yuhi Kurenai to Tsunade’s home to celebrate Ōmisoka.
• After midnight, Tsunade invited Kurenai to stay because of the snow, and Hikawa later joined Kurenai in her room.
• Tsunade entered the room and joined Hikawa and Kurenai, and Hikawa and Tsunade spent the remainder of the night together.

On New Year’s Day, Tsunade encouraged Yuhi Kurenai to move into her home and arranged with Yuhi Shinko for Kurenai and Hikawa to marry after the Ninja World was unified. In February, Hikawa prepared to visit Kirigakure to meet Mei Terumi again, as the village’s defeat appeared inevitable.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki secretly joined Hikawa in bed while Tsunade and Yuhi Kurenai slept beside him.
• Tsunade invited Yuhi Kurenai to move in with her, and Kurenai accepted after Tsunade offered to speak with her father.
• Tsunade told Yuhi Shinko that she hoped Hikawa and Kurenai would marry after the Ninja World was unified, and Shinko agreed to the arrangement and Kurenai moving in.
• Hikawa, Tsunade, and Kurenai visited the shrine together before Hikawa went to the Hokage Building and Tsunade visited Shinko.
• In February, Hikawa planned to travel to Kirigakure to meet Mei Terumi again.

Hikawa visited Mei Terumi and showed her that Kirigakure had lost their wager, then offered terms for the village to relocate near Konoha while retaining a ninja force in the Land of Water under her leadership. Mei accepted Kirigakure's submission and prepared to move, and Hikawa waited at Konoha's gates to welcome the travelers a week later.

• Hikawa reviewed Samui's scroll and compared Konoha's earnings with Kirigakure's before visiting Mei Terumi.
• Hikawa presented proof that Konoha had won their wager, and Mei Terumi accepted the result after reading his proposed arrangements for Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi agreed to relocate Kirigakure near Konoha and lead a ninja force in the Land of Water, asking for a week to prepare.
• Hikawa gave Mei Terumi an imitation Yin Seal containing his Chakra to protect her if she encountered danger.
• Hikawa returned to Samui, and a week later he waited at Konoha's gates to welcome Kirigakure's travelers.

Hikawa welcomed Mei Terumi and Kirigakure’s first arrivals to Konoha, made Mei the Mizukage Secretary, and tasked her with taking control of the Land of Water. After Kirigakure relocated and the Ninja World was unified, Hikawa gained new entries that let him perceive activity across the world and control its energy.

• Hikawa and Nara Shikaku welcomed Mei Terumi, Zabuza Momochi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and several hundred Kirigakure ninja to Konoha as Kirigakure submitted.
• Hikawa showed Mei Terumi the new residences and office, named her Mizukage Secretary, and told her to manage Kirigakure while reporting major matters to him.
• Hikawa asked Mei Terumi to take control of the Land of Water, and she agreed to handle Kirigakure’s affairs after the relocation was complete.
• A month later, Kirigakure had relocated to Konoha and Mei Terumi had taken control of the Land of Water, completing Hikawa’s unification of the Ninja World.
• Hikawa gained the Land of Water Lord and Lord of the Ninja World entries, granting him survivability in the Land of Water’s seas and perception of the Ninja World with control over its energy.

Hikawa presided over the first joint meeting of the five villages, laying out plans for unified ninja forces, education, and administration. Afterward, he used his new power to hasten the God Tree’s growth so Kaguya Otsutsuki could eat its second fruit, while he wondered whether Ōtsutsuki Urashiki would still travel back in time.

• Hikawa and Kaguya Otsutsuki went to the Hokage Building, where Yuhi Kurenai briefed him on the joint jonin meeting.
• Kakuzu reported Konoha’s finances, revealing its wealth to the gathered jonin from the five villages.
• Hatake Sakumo outlined five unified ninja forces, with each stationed in a former major village and led by its respective commander.
• Hikawa ordered ninjas under eighteen to return to school and emphasized the need to train administrative talent for the five nations.
• Hikawa took Kaguya Otsutsuki to Mount Myoboku and used his Lord of the Ninja World power to mature the God Tree early.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki prepared to eat the second God Tree Fruit as Hikawa wondered whether Ōtsutsuki Urashiki would still travel back from the future.

Hikawa released the Nine Tailed Beasts and planned to unite the five great countries while spending time with Tsunade and Mei Terumi. The chapter ended with Hikawa and Mei Terumi together at her home.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki told Hikawa the Sacred Tree could grow another fruit in three or four hundred years, and Hikawa asked her to release the Nine Tailed Beasts.
• Hikawa brought Tsukihime to manage the freed beasts, then returned to the Hokage Office and read Mei Terumi's invitation to dinner.
• Hikawa planned to make the Land of Fire Metropolis the center of the five great countries and left his proposal for Yuhi Kurenai to implement.
• Hikawa visited Tsunade, spent time with her, and learned that Konoha's network department was beginning to lay local network lines.
• Hikawa went to Mei Terumi's home, where she greeted him in a maid outfit, and they became intimate after she admitted she had not cooked dinner.

Hikawa spent the morning with Mei Terumi, then handled ninja-unit and city-renovation plans before finding the time-traveling turtle Kari. After the Land of Fire Metropolis was completed, he ordered the daimyo to gather and revealed that he intended to rule them himself.

• Hikawa woke beside Mei Terumi, and Kaguya Otsutsuki visited him before he left for home.
• Hikawa returned to the Hokage Office, approved plans to expand the Land of Fire Metropolis with the Nine Tailed Beasts, and reviewed Konoha’s ninja-unit roster.
• Hikawa found Kari beneath the sea and learned that its time travel sent users to random locations in the past.
• Hinata Hyuga told Hikawa she had learned the Hemostatic Technique, and he praised her before she left.
• Three months later, Hikawa ordered the daimyo to gather at the completed Land of Fire Metropolis and told Yuhi Kurenai that he would rule them himself.

Hikawa replaced the daimyo with himself as ruler of the unified Ninja World and arranged for Konoha’s major departments and the other villages’ headquarters to move to the Land of Fire Metropolis. After ascending the throne, he gained the S-rank talent trait Ninja World Emperor, which let him control his subjects’ life and death.

• Hikawa told Kurenai he planned to become the daimyo, and she accepted the plan after he explained that ninja would take official posts while the villages’ forces remained in place.
• Kurenai announced Hikawa’s plan, and the people of Konoha and the other merged villages accepted it; Tsunade also agreed after Hikawa showed her how the Land of Fire was obstructing Konoha’s income.
• Hikawa explained that Konoha would stay where it was while its major departments moved to the Land of Fire Metropolis, and he ordered Mabui to prepare for the Raikage Building’s relocation.
• A week later, Hikawa entered the palace in ceremonial robes, took the dragon throne, and was hailed as emperor by Kurenai and the gathered leaders and ninja.
• Hikawa gained the S-rank talent trait Ninja World Emperor, which allowed him to control the life and death of his subjects.

Hikawa held his first court session as emperor, reorganized the Ninja World’s administration, and announced plans for security, education, transportation, and communications. Afterward, he visited Rin Nohara at her home and later returned to the Hokage Office, where he found Yuhi Kurenai still working and carried her off to go home.

• Hikawa presided over the first court session and assigned the Hokage Advisors, secretaries, and department officials new responsibilities across the Ninja World.
• Hikawa ordered the Anbu to expand tenfold, established the Ninshu Sect under his leadership, and announced plans to expand transportation and network services.
• Hikawa returned to the Hokage Office, where Rin Nohara brought him ramen and he took her to her home.
• Hikawa stayed with Rin until dusk, then returned to the office and reheated the ramen before leaving.
• Hikawa found Yuhi Kurenai working late in the Hokage Secretary’s office and carried her away, telling her it was time to go home.

Hikawa attended the Ninja Academy’s registration and opening ceremony, then sensed an Otsutsuki arrival and found a badly wounded Ōtsutsuki Urashiki in a valley. Urashiki’s recognition of Hikawa and Kaguya Otsutsuki suggested he had traveled from their future, and Hikawa ordered Kaguya to attack him.

• Hikawa met Uzumaki Naruto, Second Pillar, and other students as they registered for the Ninja Academy.
• Hikawa escorted Hinata Hyuga to her classroom and delivered the opening ceremony speech.
• Hikawa returned to his office with Samui, where he sensed a strong spatial disturbance and an Otsutsuki presence.
• Hikawa used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Kaguya Otsutsuki to a valley, where they found a bloodied Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.
• Ōtsutsuki Urashiki recognized Hikawa and Kaguya and wondered whether Kari had sent him back in time, so Hikawa told Kaguya to attack.

Hikawa and Kaguya Otsutsuki defeated Ōtsutsuki Urashiki and fed him to the God Tree, then learned from his memories that Momoshiki and Kinshiki would arrive on the moon. The God Tree was expected to bear fruit within a month, and Hikawa gained a new talent after defeating Urashiki.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki and Hikawa fought Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, using their time abilities and attacks to prevent him from escaping.
• Hikawa teleported Urashiki to Mount Myoboku, where he and Kaguya trapped the injured Otsutsuki with the God Tree.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki supplied Chakra to the God Tree until Urashiki stopped struggling, and Hikawa absorbed a sphere containing his memories.
• Hikawa learned that Momoshiki and Kinshiki had come to the Ninja World and first targeted Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki said the God Tree could bear fruit within a month, and Hikawa gained the S-rank talent trait Crane Hunter for defeating Urashiki.

Hikawa tested his new Rinnegan abilities, discussed marriage with Tsunade and Yuhi Kurenai, and received their agreement to marry him together. A month later, he ate the God Tree Fruit and awakened a Rinne Sharingan.

• Hikawa tested the blue Rinnegan's paper crane flicker and Time Rewind, then learned to enter Crane Form and use the golden Rinnegan's Ame no Habakiri abilities.
• Tsunade asked Hikawa to set a release date for the live-action Demon Slayer movie, and he scheduled it for April 1st.
• Hikawa proposed that Tsunade and Yuhi Kurenai marry him together, and Yuhi Kurenai agreed while Tsunade said she still needed to think about it.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki told Hikawa that the God Tree had absorbed the Nine Tailed Beasts and that Tsukihime had returned to the Anbu.
• A month later, Hikawa ate the God Tree Fruit at Mount Myoboku and awakened a Rinne Sharingan.

After gaining the Rinne Sharingan, Hikawa released the Tailed Beasts and spent time with Rin Nohara, then set his wedding date with Tsunade for August 2nd. Tsunade agreed that they should have children after the wedding, leaving Hikawa excited to begin preparing.

• Hikawa learned that his Rinne Sharingan granted techniques like Kaguya Otsutsuki's, then asked Tsukihime to take the Nine Tailed Beasts away.
• Rin Nohara brought Hikawa a cloning technique from Orochimaru, and Hikawa reassured her that its source was not shady.
• Hikawa took Rin Nohara to a private screening of the Demon Slayer movie, and they later returned to her room.
• Hikawa visited Tsunade at the network department and proposed August 2nd as their wedding date.
• Tsunade accepted the date and agreed that they should have children after they married.