Chapter Summaries

Sasuke’s Hatred Apostle battled Itachi, who sealed the Apostle and then died after Sasuke poisoned him. Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and escaped with Simu’s help, while Obito lost his chance to recruit him.

• Itachi broke Sasuke’s Genjutsu and fought the winged Apostle with Susanoo until he trapped it in Tsukuyomi and sealed it with the Totsuka Blade.
• The Apostle was extracted from Sasuke, leaving Sasuke exhausted and Itachi nearly out of Chakra.
• Itachi touched Sasuke’s forehead and apologized, but Sasuke stabbed him with a poisoned senbon and vowed to destroy Danzo, Konoha’s advisors, and Konoha itself.
• Itachi died, and Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Obito appeared to take Sasuke and Itachi’s corpse, but Simu stopped him and sent them away with two white worms.
• Obito cursed Simu for ruining his plan, and Simu said he had not expected Itachi to act as he did.

Simu left Obito and told Sasuke that transplanting Itachi’s eyes could grant him the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, but Sasuke refused and focused on killing Danzo. At Mount Kikyo, Konoha struggled to withstand the Sand Village’s relentless insect attacks, and the chapter ended as millions of insects charged the defenses.

• Simu left Obito, who vowed to take revenge after becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Sasuke asked to take Itachi’s body, but Simu offered him the chance to transplant Itachi’s eyes and gain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan; Sasuke refused and said his current eyes would be enough to kill Danzo.
• At Mount Kikyo, Shikaku rejected Jiraiya’s suggestion to attack the Sand Village, arguing that Konoha needed to hold its defenses and seek support from other nations.
• The Sand Village launched a massive aerial assault with Exploding Dragonflies and Flying Rays carrying brown dragonflies, then sent more than a million insects toward Kikyo City.
• Konoha’s traps destroyed over a million insects, but the vast swarm kept advancing toward the village.

Konoha struggled to defend Kikyo City against Rasa and Kawanishi’s insect army, whose Missile Locusts, poison gas, and tunnel attacks devastated the city. Torifu Akimichi died buying time, the battle paused after fourteen hours, and a figure with Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in the woods outside Konoha.

• Shikaku Nara ordered Konoha’s forces to abandon attempts to target the hidden Sand Village commanders and reinforce the walls as the Insect Tide overwhelmed their defenses.
• Rasa and Kawanishi launched Missile Locusts, blasting breaches in Kikyo City’s walls and sending more missiles and Exploding Dragonflies into the city.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro to defend the breaches while Tsunade and Torifu Akimichi fought the insects inside the city.
• Tsunade returned to develop an antidote as Torifu destroyed centipedes and filled in ten tunnels before collapsing; he later died from his injuries.
• Jiraiya used Goemon to halt the Insect Tide, and Konoha sent two thousand reinforcements against the Sand Village’s rear before the battle subsided after fourteen hours.
• With Konoha’s forces badly depleted, a figure with Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in the woods outside the village and declared that he had arrived.

Sasuke Uchiha infiltrated Konoha and attacked its leaders, killing Utatane Koharu before battling Shimura Danzō. As the battle raged, Neji entered the Hyuga Main House’s ancestral hall and declared that he had come to kill its lords.

• Sasuke entered Konoha through the abandoned Uchiha grounds and headed for the Hokage Building.
• Sasuke attacked Utatane Koharu and the ANBU guards, using Susanoo and Amaterasu to overwhelm them.
• Sasuke killed Utatane Koharu in front of Shimura Danzō, then fought Danzō with their Wood and Fire Release techniques.
• Neji entered the Hyuga Main House’s ancestral hall during a meeting and announced that he had come to invite its lords to their deaths.

Neji broke free of the Caged Bird Seal and devastated the Hyuga Main House with Simu’s innovations to the Gentle Fist. Simu then stormed Root’s base and reached Naruto Uzumaki’s sealed chamber, where he severed the pipes extracting the Nine-Tails’ Chakra.

• Hyuga Hiashi tried to activate Neji’s Caged Bird Seal, but Neji revealed that the mark had disappeared.
• A Hyuga Main House ninja attacked Neji with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but Neji countered with a deadly version that killed him.
• Hyuga Hiashi fought Neji, who pierced his palm with Sage Chakra and pulverized his arm with Sage Art: Palm Rotation: Blade before destroying the ancestral hall.
• Simu entered Root’s base with Susanoo, defeated its defenders, and used Genjutsu to learn that Naruto Uzumaki was held on the lowest level.
• Simu smashed through the sealed chamber’s barriers and walls, reached the laboratory, and severed the pipes binding Naruto Uzumaki to release the Nine-Tails.

Simu freed the Nine-Tails from Naruto Uzumaki’s seal in exchange for a quarter of its chakra, and the beast rampaged through Root. Meanwhile, Sasuke defeated Danzo after countering his Izanagi and genjutsu, leaving Danzo dead.

• Simu negotiated with the Nine-Tails, agreeing to take it out of Konoha in exchange for twenty-five percent of its chakra.
• Simu released the seal, and the Nine-Tails erupted into a rampage that destroyed Root’s laboratory and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Sasuke used chakra-restoring worms to keep fighting Danzo, then outmaneuvered his Izanagi and struck him with Amaterasu.
• Danzo repeatedly used Izanagi to survive Sasuke’s attacks and eventually exploited a gap beneath Susanoo to stab Sasuke through the heart.
• Sasuke revealed that Danzo had fallen into his genjutsu, then cut off Danzo’s attempt to use Izanagi and beheaded him.

Sasuke and the Nine-Tails devastated Konoha, forcing its surviving shinobi and civilians to flee as Sand Village’s insect army advanced. As the nations prepared for conflict over Rasa’s growing power, Simu collected the Nine-Tails’ Chakra and separated Naruto’s soul and body from it.

• Simu stopped the Nine-Tails from continuing to destroy Konoha, but it moved outside the village and obliterated nearly two-thirds of it with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Konoha’s forces abandoned Mount Kikyo to return home, while Rasa occupied the city and its self-destruction killed more than one hundred thousand insects.
• Jiraiya ordered the shinobi to rescue survivors, then led Konoha’s people on a migration to the eastern border of the Land of Fire, where the Land of Iron provided food but refused them entry.
• Shikaku Nara persuaded the other major nations to arrange a Four Kage Summit, while Rasa rejected the meeting and threatened the Land of Iron over its aid to Konoha’s refugees.
• Simu collected twenty-five percent of the Nine-Tails’ Chakra and, with its agreement, used the Yin-Yang Secret Art to separate Naruto’s soul and body from the beast.

At the Five Kage Summit, Tsunade convinced the nations to unite against Rasa’s expanding insect army and the Jashin Cult, and Ai became leader of the Allied Shinobi Forces. As the alliance mobilized, Pain assigned Akatsuki members to capture the remaining tailed beasts, reserving the Nine-Tails for himself.

• Tsunade presented evidence that Rasa was breeding insects with captured humans and linked the Sand Village’s campaign to the Jashin Cult’s plan to resurrect Jashin using Six Paths Power.
• Ai, Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Tsunade agreed to form an alliance, and Ai accepted leadership of the Allied Shinobi Forces with Shikaku Nara as chief strategist.
• Shikaku Nara planned a coordinated invasion of the Land of Wind, and Tsunade pledged to accompany Ōnoki’s force to protect the Iwagakure Ninja.
• Rasa continued expanding his insect army and plundering the Land of Fire despite his advisers’ concerns, while the Land of Wind became consumed by its war effort.
• Pain assigned Sasori and Deidara to capture the Four-Tails, Tobi and Zetsu to capture the Eight-Tails, and himself to capture the Nine-Tails, while excluding Simu and Hidan from the mission.

The Allied Shinobi Forces fought the Insect Swarm across the devastated Land of Fire as Rasa gathered his forces for a decisive battle. During Iwagakure’s assault on Sand Village reinforcements, Deidara and Sasori attacked the Four-Tails, and Simu’s Wood Dragon seized it.

• Ōnoki led twelve thousand Stone Shinobi, with Tsunade, Roshi, Kitsuchi, and the Explosion Corps, into the Land of Fire as the allied forces advanced against the Insect Swarm.
• Jiraiya and Ai led five thousand shinobi in destroying a five-hundred-thousand-insect outpost and found the remains of Land of Fire citizens inside.
• Rasa ordered the Insect Hives to gather their insects near Konoha, while Shikaku Nara realized the retreating Swarm was preparing for a decisive battle.
• Ōnoki, Roshi, Tsunade, and the Stone Shinobi intercepted Sand Village reinforcements in the Land of Rivers and inflicted heavy losses on the insects.
• Deidara and Sasori attacked Roshi’s Four-Tails; Ōnoki and Tsunade fought to protect it as Ebizo’s insects and Locust Missiles pressed Iwagakure’s defenses.
• Simu summoned a Wood Dragon that bit the Four-Tails’ shoulder and slammed it into the ground.

Simu captured the Four-Tails and left the western battlefield in chaos, where Tsunade killed Ebizo and the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared for a massive battle against Sand Village’s insect army. Meanwhile, Obito failed to capture the real Killer B, who headed for the battlefield to help his brother.

• Simu subdued the Four-Tails, defeated attacks from Tsunade and Ōnoki, then used Wood Release and a sealing technique to capture Roshi and the Four-Tails.
• After Simu left, Tsunade and Ōnoki cleared a path through the insect swarm, and Tsunade killed Ebizo with a devastating punch.
• The defeat of the western forces reached Rasa, who launched a massive assault with more than a hundred million insects against the Allied Shinobi Forces, samurai, and toads from Mount Myoboku.
• Obito and White Zetsu attacked Killer B on Turtle Island, but Killer B’s clone escaped after the White Zetsu spores were exposed, leaving Obito with only a portion of the Eight-Tails’ Chakra.
• The real Killer B received his clone’s memories, traveled to the battlefield, transformed into the Eight-Tails, and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb into the insect army.

Killer B, Kirigakure’s forces, Mifune, and Jiraiya’s group reinforced the Allied Shinobi Forces as the insect battle dragged on, while Akatsuki began sealing Four-Tails and the captured Eight-Tails tail. After Sasuke received the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and left to search for a new purpose, Simu used a beacon bug to reach Mount Myoboku and confronted the Great Toad Sage, ending as their chakra surged against each other.

• Killer B and reinforcements from Kirigakure, the Land of Iron, and Konoha attacked Rasa’s insect sea and raised the allies’ morale.
• Simu brought Roshi and Four-Tails to Akatsuki headquarters, where Pain began sealing Four-Tails and Obito’s captured Eight-Tails tail into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Sasuke awoke with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan after Simu transplanted Itachi’s eye, then left the hideout unsure what to do next.
• After the battle against the insects exhausted the Allied Shinobi Forces, Simu captured a toad soldier and planted a beacon bug that let him locate Mount Myoboku.
• Simu used his Heaven-and-Earth technique to reach Mount Myoboku, where the Great Toad Sage identified him as the foretold destroyer.
• When the Great Toad Sage refused to cooperate, Simu challenged him, and their surging chakra blew the hall’s roof away and sent nearby toads flying.

Simu unleashed four Susanoo, insect swarms, and a sea of blood against the Great Toad Sage, steadily draining Mount Myoboku’s Natural Energy while battling it. As the sage’s strength waned and Simu’s forces pressed their advantage, it removed its necklace and cracked the bead marked [oil].

• Simu summoned four clones, Wood Humans, and Susanoo warriors to attack the Great Toad Sage while a fifth clone released insects to fight Mount Myoboku’s toad soldiers.
• Simu summoned the Apostle of Desire to battle the Rock Lodging Great Toad and explained that he had planned to conquer Mount Myoboku since Jiraiya first brought his insects there.
• Simu’s Susanoo warriors coordinated attacks with lances, arrows, blades, and magatama, repeatedly forcing the Great Toad Sage to defend and retreat.
• Simu’s clone unleashed Blood Pool Clones that spread as a sea of blood, devouring Mount Myoboku and draining the Natural Energy that sustained the Great Toad Sage.
• The Great Toad Sage realized it needed to stop the sea of blood, but the four Susanoo kept it occupied and its strength continued to decline.
• The Great Toad Sage removed its necklace, causing cracks to spread across the bead marked [oil].

Simu used the Great Toad Sage’s memories to uncover the Shinobi World’s secrets while Gaara killed Rasa and the Allied Shinobi Forces faced Akatsuki and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The statue began transforming toward the Ten-Tails as Simu warned Jiraiya that the real danger was behind him.

• Simu swallowed the Great Toad Sage’s exploding Natural Energy with Kamui, overpowered its mind with Tsukuyomi and Kotoamatsukami, and searched its memories for knowledge.
• Obito found his Kamui Space devastated and its supplies and scrolls destroyed, while Simu learned how the Otsutsuki clan, Kaguya, the Divine Tree, and the Sage of Six Paths were connected.
• Gaara arrived as the Allied Shinobi Forces neared defeat, fought Rasa, and killed him after revealing he could control Gold Dust with Magnet Release.
• Pain appeared atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the statue opened its eyes as the Allied Shinobi Forces attacked Akatsuki.
• Akatsuki members fought back against the Allied Shinobi Forces, while Jiraiya attacked Simu in anger over Mount Myoboku’s destruction.
• Simu warned Jiraiya to stop the transforming statue, which had contracted into a sphere and begun growing tails.

Nagato unleashed the Ten-Tails against the Allied Shinobi Forces, but Orochimaru brought back the four Hokage to help defend them. As the battle escalated and Nagato weakened, Simu moved to deal with the Eight-Tails.

• Ai and Killer B attacked Pain, but Pain repelled Ai and bounced Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bomb into the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Pain used Super Shinra Tensei to devastate the battlefield, while Konan, Obito, and Simu saved themselves and their allies.
• Nagato appeared with the Ten-Tails, and the four resurrected Hokage used the Four Red Yang Formation to protect surviving Allied Shinobi Forces ninja.
• Nagato fired a super-sized Tailed Beast Bomb, but Minato Namikaze redirected it with Flying Thunder God, while Hashirama bound the Ten-Tails with torii gates.
• Nagato empowered the Ten-Tails until it broke free, and the four Hokage charged it as Nagato collapsed from the strain.
• Simu moved to take the Eight-Tails, but Minato arrived to protect it, and Simu attacked with an armored Wood Human and Susanoo.

Nagato absorbed the Eight-Tails, but Jiraiya sacrificed himself to seal him before Obito claimed the Ten-Tails and became its Jinchuriki. As Obito fought the Hokage, the Ten-Tails began eroding his will, and Obito clung to his memories of Rin.

• Nagato absorbed the Eight-Tails into the Ten-Tails, which grew stronger and battled Senju Hashirama’s True Several Thousand Hands.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to shatter Hashirama’s Impure World Reincarnation body, then prepared a massive Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Jiraiya attacked Nagato, endured Black Rods that immobilized him, and activated the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to trap them both.
• Obito appeared, took Nagato’s Rinnegan, and escaped as Jiraiya’s seal engulfed Nagato and part of the Ten-Tails.
• Obito used Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and withstood attacks from Hashirama, Tobirama, and Hiruzen.
• The Ten-Tails began consuming Obito’s memories, but Obito resolved that no one would make him forget Rin.

Obito became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, but Might Guy’s Eighth Gate attack left him near death, allowing Black Zetsu to revive Madara Uchiha. Madara reclaimed the Rinnegan, became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and faced the Allied Shinobi Forces as Simu waited to see whether the Sage of Six Paths would intervene.

• Obito mastered the Ten-Tails’ power and fought Minato Namikaze, who discovered that Sage Jutsu could harm him and that his Yin-Yang Release prevented Impure World Reincarnation from restoring injuries.
• Obito raised a giant tree, trapped the battlefield inside a Six Red Yang Formation, and prepared four Super Tailed Beast Bombs while Simu moved Hidan, Sasori, and the others to safety.
• Might Guy opened the Eighth Gate and battered Obito with taijutsu before striking him with Night Guy, leaving Obito barely alive and badly wounded.
• Black Zetsu took control of Obito and forced him to use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, reviving Madara Uchiha in a White Zetsu vessel.
• Madara reclaimed his Rinnegan, subdued the nine Tailed Beasts, and used Limbo: Border Jail to shatter the four Hokage before sealing the Ten-Tails inside himself.
• Madara became a Perfect Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and Simu watched while wondering whether the Sage of Six Paths would finally act.

The Sage of Six Paths empowered Naruto and Sasuke to oppose Madara, but Black Zetsu used Madara to resurrect Kaguya while Simu unleashed Jashin and consumed a Chakra Fruit. Simu trapped Kaguya with countless Divine Trees, which then surged toward the Pure Land and the stars.

• The Sage of Six Paths summoned Naruto and Sasuke, awakened Naruto's Asura will, and gave Sasuke a Rinnegan, but Naruto initially refused to help the Shinobi World.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived on the battlefield and helped destroy Madara's falling meteors, but Madara activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi and trapped nearly all living beings in dreams.
• Black Zetsu betrayed Madara and resurrected Kaguya, while Sasuke and Naruto appeared to die as part of Simu's ritual to free Jashin from his seal.
• Kaguya attacked Simu and Jashin across several dimensions, but Simu rescued Jashin and used the Ten-Tails to absorb their power and create a Chakra Fruit, which he consumed.
• Simu awakened his own Rinnegan Sharingan, roused his followers and other people from the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and flooded Kaguya's dimension with blood and Divine Trees.
• Simu's Divine Trees devoured Kaguya and the Shinobi World, then sent thousands of Ten-Tails-like creatures toward the Pure Land and into space.