Chapter Summaries

Obito defeated Danzo’s Root subordinates and warned Danzo that he had one week. Danzo sent Root after him toward a forest barrier, while Obito walked through the forest without using space-time ninjutsu.

• Danzo challenged Obito’s conduct, and Obito declared that he had come to inform Danzo rather than negotiate.
• Yamanaka Fū, Aburame Torune, and the other Root members attacked Obito, but he phased through Fū’s strike, redirected shuriken, and stopped Torune’s insects with his power.
• Obito told Danzo about the twelve Izanagi chances and warned him to remember the one-week deadline before disappearing.
• Danzo ordered Root to pursue Obito and explained that a barrier in the forest could seal his space-time ninjutsu.
• Yamanaka Fū led nine Root members into the forest, while Obito walked ahead without using space-time ninjutsu.

Obito defeated the twelve Root members sent by Danzo after they tried to trap him with coordinated attacks and sealing techniques. He left Yamanaka Fū, Aburame Torune, and the rest incapacitated, then continued into the forest, predicting that Danzo would soon meet his end at someone else’s hands.

• Obito identified Yamanaka Fū, Aburame Torune, and twelve other Root members surrounding him on Danzo’s orders.
• Yamanaka Fū coordinated Root’s attacks, but Obito evaded them with his space-time ninjutsu and neutralized Torune’s Kikaichū.
• Obito became tangible, knocked the insects unconscious with a pulse of Chakra, and mocked Root’s tactics.
• Root attacked together, but Obito defeated the squads with physical strikes, black rods, the Rinnegan, and Wood Style: Cutting Technique.
• Obito left all twelve Root members unable to fight and continued into the forest, saying Danzo would soon die at someone else’s hands.

Obito survived Aburame Ryoma’s ambush by turning their fight into a Sharingan genjutsu, leaving Ryoma to die from his Forbidden Jutsu’s backlash. Obito continued deeper into the forest, while Ryoma remained alive but expected to be recovered by Root and sent after him again.

• Aburame Ryoma ambushed Obito with nano-scale Kikaichū, but Obito dodged and countered his attacks.
• Ryoma unleashed the Forbidden Jutsu Insect Extinction—Evil Divergence, believing its swarm had consumed Obito.
• Obito revealed that Ryoma had spent three minutes fighting inside a genjutsu after Obito made him believe the first strike had landed.
• Ryoma’s uncontrolled nano-insects began consuming his body, and Obito left him kneeling in the mud.
• Ryoma collapsed but remained alive, expected to be found by Danzo’s people and sent after Obito again.

Sasuke intercepted Danzō while seeking the truth about Itachi and learned that Danzō had ordered the Uchiha clan’s extermination. Sasuke declared that he would kill Danzō and destroy Konoha, leaving a confrontation imminent.

• Danzō ordered his remaining Root members to withdraw toward Konoha in scattered groups and avoid fighting Sasuke.
• Sasuke emerged from the cedar forest and demanded to know Danzō’s role in Itachi’s death.
• Danzō admitted that he had ordered Itachi to exterminate the Uchiha clan, sparing Sasuke as part of a deal with Konoha’s higher-ups.
• Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan awakened as Danzō explained that Itachi had chosen the massacre to prevent a coup and protect the village.
• Sasuke said he would kill Danzō and destroy Konoha to make Itachi’s sacrifices meaningless.

Sasuke fought Danzo, whose Sharingan-powered Izanagi repeatedly erased fatal wounds, while Sasuke’s Susanoo evolved through increasingly powerful forms. With three Izanagi uses remaining, Danzo unwound the bandages covering Shisui’s eye and prepared to use his final trump card.

• Sasuke attacked Danzo with Chidori, Susanoo, and Amaterasu, while Danzo’s first Izanagi erased his wound and he ordered the Root members to retreat.
• Danzo struck Sasuke’s shoulder with Vacuum Great Sphere, but Sasuke expanded Susanoo and killed Danzo twice with its Chakra shuriken.
• Danzo used Vacuum Blade to pierce Susanoo’s defenses, but Sasuke’s Susanoo evolved into its semi-muscular form and forced Danzo to spend a third Izanagi.
• Sasuke’s Susanoo advanced toward its Crow Tengu armor form, and its powerful Chakra torrent killed Danzo four more times despite repeated Izanagi activations.
• With only three Izanagi uses left, Danzo unwound the bandages over Shisui’s eye and announced that he would show Sasuke the resolve of Root.

Sasuke withstood Danzo’s Kotoamatsukami, exposing that Shisui’s eye was a counterfeit. As Danzo’s memories returned and he realized he had been manipulated for years, he activated Inner Four Symbols Sealing to take Sasuke with him.

• Danzo unleashed Kotoamatsukami, but Sasuke endured the attack without having his will altered.
• Danzo realized the eye was counterfeit and recovered memories of an unknown attacker stealing Shisui’s real eye and replacing it thirteen years earlier.
• Danzo recalled Uchiha Sou and concluded that he had been a pawn in a scheme far larger than his own plans.
• Sasuke faced Danzo after his Sharingan were exhausted and his counterfeit eye was ruined, leaving him one use of Izanagi.
• Danzo opened the sealing formula on his chest and activated Inner Four Symbols Sealing, swallowing the surroundings as he vowed to take Sasuke with him.

After defeating Danzō, Sasuke rejected Obito’s offer and walked alone into the forest. Far underground, Cang’s organization treated Danzō’s death as a minor development and prepared to exploit the coming Fourth Shinobi World War.

• Sasuke survived the Inner Four Symbols Sealing but was left exhausted, and Danzō’s body was erased with the crater.
• Sasuke decided not to pursue Konoha’s other conspirators for now and refused to go with Obito, choosing his own direction.
• Cang told the twenty-three figures in the underground chamber that Danzō was dead and that his death changed little.
• Cang explained that Obito would soon declare war and that the Five Great Nations would unite, leaving their rear areas vulnerable.
• Cang ordered the group to prepare for war and plan to take the forbidden jutsu scrolls, bloodline samples, and ancient records they had targeted.

Cang used the Rinnegan and an ancient sealing array to create false souls from preserved fragments and send them to the Pure Land, completing the death records of people who were still alive. He finished the dangerous work alone and returned to the hall, where Sakumo, Kagami, and the others remained unaware that they were now protected from being summoned by Impure World Reincarnation.

• Cang entered a hidden chamber beneath the fortress and activated his Causality Rewrite formation.
• Cang created a false soul for Hatake Sakumo and sent it to the Pure Land, leaving the real Sakumo alive.
• Cang repeated the process for Kagami Uchiha and other people whose deaths he had tampered with.
• Cang completed the false souls and death records, suffering a severe backlash that caused blood to run from his eyes.
• Cang destroyed the emptied crystal and returned to the hall, where he rested as the fortress residents continued their work unaware.

After Danzo’s death, Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi found Sasuke in the forest and tried to bring him back. Sasuke refused to return to Konoha, vanished using space-time ninjutsu, and Kakashi revealed that Akatsuki had declared war on the Five Great Nations.

• Sasuke walked alone through the forest, reflecting on Itachi and Naruto after his battle with Danzo.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi followed traces of Susanoo and a massive sealing crater, and Kakashi concluded that Danzo was gone and Sasuke had survived.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi caught up with Sasuke, who admitted that he had driven Danzo to his death and no longer wanted to follow Obito.
• Sasuke refused to return to Konoha, saying he would leave until he found an answer, then escaped with space-time ninjutsu.
• Naruto vowed to bring Sasuke home, and Kakashi told them that the leader of Akatsuki had declared war on the Five Great Nations.

As the Shinobi Allied Forces prepared for war, Obito agreed to cooperate with Kabuto, who summoned an army of reincarnated dead. Cang chose to wait for the conflict to reach a critical moment before intervening.

• The Five Great Nations united more than eighty thousand shinobi under the Allied Forces, with Naruto assigned to the Fourth Division, Sakura to medical logistics, and Kakashi to command the Third Division.
• Kabuto approached Obito in Amegakure and offered cooperation, arguing that Obito needed an army to capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki.
• Kabuto summoned an army of reincarnated shinobi, including Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, Nagato, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and past Kage.
• Obito accepted Kabuto’s terms: Sasuke would be given to Kabuto, who would also receive a portion of the Ten-Tails’ power after the war.
• At Angkor Fortress, Cang learned that Kabuto had acted and told Zhi Li they would wait until the most critical moment to strike.

After four Allied Forces jonin were killed by artificial Wood Style, Kakashi and Mei Terumi connected the attack to a similar massacre during the Third Shinobi World War. Kakashi recalled that the Kirigakure squad had died near the moment Rin was killed, leaving the identity of the unseen Wood Style user unresolved.

• Tensions between the allied villages erupted into a fight, and Kakashi stopped the combatants while Sakura treated the injured.
• A mixed-village patrol team vanished, and a search party found its four jonin members impaled by wooden spikes.
• Kakashi identified the wood as an imitation of Wood Style, and Tsunade suggested Orochimaru might be involved.
• Kakashi showed Mei Terumi old wood shavings from the place where Rin died, and Mei recalled a Kirigakure Anbu squad killed by Wood Style while pursuing Kakashi and Rin.
• Kakashi recounted killing Rin and losing consciousness, and Mei confirmed the Anbu squad's estimated time of death coincided with that event.

The Five Kage learned that an unknown Wood Style user had been active since the Third Shinobi World War, and Kakashi began investigating the traces connected to Rin’s death. Meanwhile, Cang identified White Zetsu through its Causality Threads and marked Yakushi Kabuto’s thread in the Pure Land.

• Mei Terumi revealed that blood found near the Mist Village Anbu massacre had unusual, plant-and-animal-like cells, and Kakashi recalled seeing a shadow near the tree on the night Rin died.
• Gaara and the Raikage called for a reassessment of enemy plans and ordered Kakashi to search every village’s records while keeping the discussion secret from ordinary Allied Forces shinobi.
• Kakashi revisited the wood shavings he had kept for twenty years, concluded the presence he sensed that night had been real, and headed to the archive tent to investigate.
• White Zetsu watched the Allied Forces camp and mocked the Kage’s reaction to Wood Style, wondering what Obito would think of Kakashi keeping the shavings.
• Cang used his Rinnegan to trace the wooden sample’s hidden chakra threads to White Zetsu, then learned that Kakashi was investigating from Zhi Li.
• Cang marked Yakushi Kabuto’s Causality Thread in the Pure Land and said that everything would soon be over.

Obito and Kabuto prepared six Impure World Six Paths Puppets for the war while Cang entered the Pure Land to investigate how Kabuto anchored Impure World Reincarnation. Cang found and marked Kabuto’s Causality Thread, then returned to Angkor Fortress and waited for Kabuto to expose a weakness.

• Obito inspected Kabuto’s six revived Jinchuriki puppets and ordered the assault on the Allied Shinobi Forces to begin.
• Cang sent his consciousness into the Pure Land, traced the anchors used by Impure World Reincarnation, and discovered they were bound to Kabuto’s Causality Thread.
• Cang followed Kabuto’s thread toward the living world, prompting Kabuto to sense that someone had touched his soul.
• Cang found three major knots in Kabuto’s past, marked his thread, and withdrew from the Pure Land after four hours had passed in the living world.
• Cang told Zhi Li he would wait until Kabuto committed his reincarnated fighters to battle and made a mistake, then prepared for Angkor Fortress to enter the conflict.

White Zetsu’s underground attacks spread panic and casualties through the Allied Forces, while Naruto’s Sage Mode failed to detect them. The Kage sent Naruto to Turtle Island to master the Nine-Tails’ power, but White Zetsu noticed his departure and prepared to report it to Obito.

• White Zetsu ambushed patrols from underground, stole shinobi disguises, and caused Allied Forces units to attack one another in suspicion.
• Naruto searched the area in Sage Mode but could not sense White Zetsu, whose Chakra blended with plants and whose squads hid too deep underground.
• At an emergency meeting, the Kage decided Naruto should leave the camp for Turtle Island and train to control the Nine-Tails with Killer B’s guidance.
• Naruto agreed to go, exchanged farewells with Sakura, and left the camp at night with Kakashi and three Anbu shinobi.
• White Zetsu detected Naruto’s departure and headed to report it to Obito.

As Naruto traveled toward Turtle Island to master the Nine-Tails’ power, Obito and Kabuto prepared to attack the Allied Forces with an army of Impure World Reincarnation fighters. Cang watched the schemes unfold and waited for Naruto to reach Turtle Island before making his own move.

• Kakashi escorted Naruto and three Anbu through the forest toward the coast while Naruto thought about his mission and Sasuke’s departure.
• Obito learned that Naruto was heading toward Turtle Island and agreed with Kabuto to attack the Allied Forces using Impure World Reincarnation troops, deployed in waves within three days.
• The Raikage reinforced the Allied Forces’ underground defenses, Mei Terumi fought White Zetsu at the front, Tsunade treated the wounded, and Sakura continued preparing medical supplies.
• Cang told Zhi Li that he would wait while Kabuto’s adjustments to Impure World Reincarnation widened a fracture in his Causality Threads.
• Cang said the real beginning would come after Naruto reached Turtle Island, then returned his attention to the map and the name Obito on the stone wall.

On the seventh night, White Zetsu launched an organized assault before retreating and unleashing dozens of reanimated shinobi through Impure World Reincarnation. The Allied Forces struggled to contain the immortal attackers as the Five Kage organized a sealing response, while Yakushi Kabuto revealed that the first wave was only a small part of his plan.

• White Zetsu attacked the Allied Forces' outpost in a coordinated charge, causing heavy casualties before retreating from the battlefield.
• Dozens of coffins rose from the earth and released reanimated shinobi, who attacked the Allied Forces with their former combat skills and could not be killed by ordinary means.
• The Five Kage discussed the crisis, and the Raikage ordered shinobi to protect sealing teams while Tsunade volunteered to lead Konoha's sealing line.
• Reanimated shinobi coordinated their attacks and exploited Allied Forces members' hesitation when they recognized dead relatives and former comrades.
• Itachi Uchiha watched the battle under Kabuto's control as Kabuto observed the fighting and promised that stronger reanimations would follow.

On the third day of the war, the Allied Forces faced a sudden escalation as several legendary Kage were resurrected and unleashed devastating attacks on their defensive lines. The front lines suffered heavy casualties as the resurrected Kage turned their powers against their own villages.

• Mū appeared on the western front and used Dust Release to erase three Iwagakure chunin and devastate the battlefield.
• A, the Third Raikage, pierced through the eastern defensive line with Hell Stab, killing more than twenty shinobi.
• Hozuki Gengetsu sent a Steaming Danger Tyranny clone into the medical corps, where it exploded and scorched the wounded and medical tents.
• Rasa spread gold dust across a distant battlefield, trapping and dragging Allied Forces shinobi underground.

After Yakushi Kabuto deployed four Kage-level Impure World Reincarnation fighters, the Five Kage went to confront them on separate fronts while the Allied Forces struggled against their immortal enemies. Kabuto prepared Uchiha Madara as his final trump card as Obito watched the battle and the allied lines fell back.

• Tsunade agreed to treat the burn victims while Mei Terumi went to face Hozuki Gengetsu, and Ōnoki, the Raikage, and Gaara each claimed responsibility for confronting their former Kage relatives or mentors.
• Mei Terumi attacked Hozuki Gengetsu with Lava Release and Boil Release, aiming to delay him until the Sealing Squad could approach.
• The Raikage shielded retreating Cloud Village Chunin from the Third Raikage, while Ōnoki's Dust Release clashed with Mu's and Gaara fought Rasa with sand against Gold Dust.
• Yakushi Kabuto watched the Five Kage battle and began summoning Uchiha Madara in a massive coffin, intending to release him after the Allied Forces were exhausted.
• Obito observed the fighting, then left toward the war's next stage as the Impure World Reincarnation army advanced and the Allied Forces' defensive line retreated.

The reanimated Kage withdrew after testing the Five Kage, while Kakuzu, Deidara, and Sasori attacked Allied Forces on separate fronts. Nagato and Itachi reached the coast facing Turtle Island, and Itachi quietly considered how the dead might change the living world.

• The Third Raikage, Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Rasa were recalled from battle, leaving the exhausted Five Kage to wonder why Kabuto had withdrawn them.
• The Raikage concluded that Kabuto had used the Kage to test the Allied Forces’ limits and sealing tactics before sending them back with a better plan.
• Kakuzu tore through an Iwagakure company, Deidara bombed Sunagakure and Allied Forces positions, and Sasori attacked a Cloud Village squad with the Third Kazekage’s puppet.
• Nagato and Itachi crossed the Land of Lightning toward Turtle Island, where Killer B and Uzumaki Naruto were training.
• Nagato questioned why the dead should fight a war for the living, and Itachi answered that the dead still had things they could not let go of.
• At the coast, Itachi considered whether Impure World Reincarnation could be used in reverse, while Kabuto remained unaware that Itachi was preparing his own move.

Naruto completed his first stage of training with Killer B, learning that he needed to earn Kurama’s trust rather than treat its Chakra as a tool. Their lesson was interrupted when Nagato and Itachi arrived through Impure World Reincarnation, and Nagato absorbed the Eight-Tails’ Chakra as the battle began.

• Naruto told Killer B that Kurama no longer overwhelmed him with hatred, and Killer B urged him to build a relationship with the Nine-Tails instead of rushing to use its power.
• Killer B warned Naruto that staying alive was his priority and explained that Gyuki lent him its power when they came to rely on each other.
• Naruto and Killer B sensed Impure World Reincarnation Chakra and saw Nagato and Itachi emerge from the forest.
• Nagato told Naruto that he was under Kabuto’s control and challenged him to prove his belief in peace, then used Banshō Ten'in and the Preta Path to drain Killer B’s Eight-Tails Chakra.
• Itachi blocked Naruto’s attack and quietly acknowledged that Naruto had grown stronger, while Nagato’s body regained strength after absorbing the Chakra and he announced that the fight could begin.