Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Kuming ended his Mount Myoboku training early after learning Kushina's due date was approaching, and returned to Konoha with Shisui and Itachi. He arrived at the Hokage's office as Minato and Shikaku discussed their soon-to-be-born children.

• Kuming taught Shisui and Itachi at Mount Myoboku while they advanced in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and the first stage of Senjutsu training.
• A message from Minato told Kuming that Kushina's due date was the tenth, prompting him to prepare to leave Mount Myoboku early.
• Kuming took Shisui and Itachi back to Konoha after their evening training.
• Minato told Shikaku that Kushina would give birth in nearly four months and said he planned to name his son Naruto.
• Kuming, Shisui, and Itachi appeared in the Hokage's office, where Kuming greeted Minato and Shikaku and announced his return.

Uzumaki Kuming secretly prepared for Uzumaki Kushina’s delivery, but on the night it was due, White Zetsu attacked Nawaki’s family and escaped with Xiangxiangli. Kuming pursued the enemy after Nawaki rushed his injured daughter to Konoha Hospital.

• Uzumaki Kuming returned and insisted on personally choosing and securing a secluded place for Uzumaki Kushina’s delivery.
• Uzumaki Kuming prepared eight possible delivery sites, while Kakashi reported that Minato Namikaze had taken Kushina to the base.
• White Zetsu emerged from Xiangxiangli, restrained her and baby Karin, and tried to escape underground.
• Senju Nawaki attacked White Zetsu but released his Water Prison Technique when the enemy exposed Karin to its crushing pressure.
• White Zetsu escaped with Xiangxiangli, Nawaki hurried Karin to Konoha Hospital, and Uzumaki Kuming followed the Cursed Seal on Xiangxiangli.

Uzumaki Kuming rescued Xiangxiangli from Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, but they had drained most of her life force before escaping. As Kushina Uzumaki prepared to give birth under heavy guard, Kuming sensed a crisis approaching Konoha on the eve of a battle.

• After discovering the attack on the Senju estate, Uzumaki Kuming pursued Black Zetsu and White Zetsu beyond Konoha and struck at them underground.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu abandoned Xiangxiangli to escape Uzumaki Kuming's Adamantine Sealing Chains, and Kuming brought her back to Konoha gravely weakened.
• Tsunade, Biwako, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, and other powerful ninja guarded Kushina Uzumaki at a secret cave while Kuming stayed in Konoha to defend against Madara Uchiha.
• At the Uchiha estate, Uchiha Itachi soothed his crying baby brother, Sasuke Uchiha, and vowed to protect him.
• In the Hokage's office, Uzumaki Kuming sensed an approaching crisis and clutched Heavenly Feather Blade.

Unknown attackers devastated Konoha by unleashing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Six-Tails Saiken and Seven-Tails Chomei. Uzumaki Kuming sent the village’s ninja to protect civilians and went to confront the statue, while Nawaki remained with the unconscious Xiangxiangli and his daughter as someone opened their hospital-room door.

• Three intruders breached Konoha’s gate with a Tailed Beast Bomb and split up after entering the village.
• The intruders summoned the Six-Tails Saiken, the Seven-Tails Chomei, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which began destroying Konoha.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path connected Chakra Threads to the two Tailed Beasts and took control of them as the attackers began escaping underground.
• Uzumaki Kuming ordered the ninja to evacuate and protect civilians, assigned the Guard Squad to hinder the Tailed Beasts, and headed to confront the statue.
• Nawaki stayed in the hospital room with unconscious Xiangxiangli and his daughter, and the door slowly opened.

White Zetsu attacked Nawaki’s family at the hospital, but Tsunade and Jiraiya intervened before a second White Zetsu impersonating Tsunade struck Jiraiya. Orochimaru arrived and drove off White Zetsu, then recognized the attacker as his experimental material.

• White Zetsu disguised as a nurse attacked Nawaki, pinned him with Wood Release, and tried to seize Xiangxiangli and the baby.
• Tsunade rushed in and freed Nawaki, while Jiraiya kicked White Zetsu away from her.
• White Zetsu impersonating Tsunade stabbed Jiraiya and grabbed Nawaki as the other White Zetsu restrained Jiraiya.
• Orochimaru arrived, blocked White Zetsu’s wooden spikes with snakes, and attacked with a swarm of snakes.
• Nawaki greeted Orochimaru, who said Jiuming had sent him and wondered why his experimental material was there.

Orochimaru failed to capture the White Zetsu, then stayed at Konoha Hospital while Jiraiya worried about the village’s attackers. Uzumaki Jiuming subdued the two Tailed Beasts with Shadow Clones and confronted the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, preparing to seal it.

• Orochimaru struck the White Zetsu with a Five Elements Seal, but the seal vanished and White Zetsu escaped underground.
• Orochimaru checked Nawaki and remained at the hospital, telling Jiraiya that Jiuming would handle the Tailed Beasts.
• Jiuming’s Shadow Clones bound the two Tailed Beasts with Adamantine Sealing Chains and dragged them toward the village gates.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path struck Jiuming into the ground, but he emerged in Sage Mode and used a Lightning Style Thunder Dragon to pin it down.
• Jiuming drew the Heavenly Feather Blade and prepared to seal the statue and the two Tailed Beasts.

Kushina and the others arrived at Konoha with her newborn son, Naruto, as Madara Uchiha reappeared atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Minato transported Kuming, the statue, and Madara away to create a separate battlefield, while he stayed behind to handle sealing the two Tailed Beasts and choose their Jinchuriki.

• Kushina, Minato, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the others arrived among Konoha's ruins with newborn Naruto and told Kuming that Madara Uchiha had attacked them.
• Kuming sensed Madara's terrifying Chakra and ordered Hiruzen to evacuate Kushina and the others while Minato stayed to help.
• Madara appeared on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, broke free of Kuming's Thunder Dragon, and taunted Kuming as he prepared to fight.
• Kuming gave Minato Chakra and asked him to transport Kuming, the statue, and Madara, then left Minato to seal the Tailed Beasts and choose their Jinchuriki.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport the statue and Madara away, while Konoha's shinobi began rescue efforts and moved villagers into shelters.

Uzumaki Kuming fought Madara Uchiha atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, pressing him with his Lightning Release, swordsmanship, and Adamantine Sealing Chains. Madara evaded the chains while secretly charging the statue, then smiled as it gained enough Chakra to break free of Kuming's Thunder Dragon.

• Madara Uchiha opened the battle with a vast Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and Kuming countered by firing a Lightning Arrow and charging through the flames.
• Kuming and Madara exchanged close-range attacks, but neither gained an advantage in Taijutsu.
• Kuming struck Madara with the Heavenly Feather Blade, forcing him to summon Susanoo to block the blow.
• Kuming sent nine Adamantine Sealing Chains after Madara, who evaded them with his combat instincts while gathering Chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Madara gained control of the statue and gathered enough Chakra for it to break free of Kuming's Thunder Dragon.

Uzumaki Kuming fought Madara Uchiha after Madara freed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from the Thunder Dragon. Kuming summoned a Golden Giant and knocked the statue down, then formed the Heavenly Feather Blade into a scarlet Chakra sword and thrust it toward the statue’s chest.

• Madara Uchiha used the Demonic Statue’s blue Chakra Armor to break the Thunder Dragon and sent Black Rods toward Uzumaki Kuming.
• Kuming escaped the statue and formed a Golden Giant with his Adamantine Sealing Chains and Natural Energy.
• Madara gathered a Tailed Beast Bomb in the Demonic Statue’s mouth and aimed it at Konoha.
• Kuming struck the statue’s jaw, sending the Tailed Beast Bomb into the sky, then battered the statue’s face until it toppled.
• Kuming released the seal on the Heavenly Feather Blade and thrust the resulting scarlet Chakra sword toward the Demonic Statue’s chest.

Uzumaki Kuming and Madara Uchiha fought in giant forms as their battle depleted both their strength. Zetsu brought Tenzo to Madara, whose Wood Release helped turn the fight against Kuming, and the chapter ended as a massive Wood Statue appeared for round two.

• Uzumaki Kuming's Golden Giant clashed with Madara Uchiha's Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the battle devastated the forest.
• Madara Uchiha realized Kuming was more powerful and less exhausted than expected, while Kuming secretly struggled to maintain his giant using the Yin Seal.
• Zetsu returned carrying the unconscious Tenzo after failing to capture Karin Uzumaki, and Black Zetsu transferred Chakra to Madara.
• Uzumaki Kuming cut off one of the Demonic Statue's arms and restrained its feet with Sage Art: Lightning Bind, but White Zetsu used Wood Release to knock him back.
• Madara Uchiha ordered White Zetsu to use Tenzo's Chakra, and White Zetsu summoned a Five-Headed Thousand-Armed Giant Wood Statue beside the Demonic Statue.

Uzumaki Jiuming fought Madara Uchiha and White Zetsu’s wooden statue on the battlefield while Konoha prepared to seal the Tailed Beasts into newborn Naruto and Karin. Jiuming rescued Yamato from White Zetsu and turned to attack Madara’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Uzumaki Jiuming confronted Madara Uchiha and White Zetsu’s True Several Thousand Hands, then charged the wooden statue in his Golden Giant form.
• True Several Thousand Hands attacked Jiuming with five elemental Chakra natures as Madara struck with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared a second barrier and the sealing preparations, while Kushina Uzumaki and Senju Nawaki held newborn Naruto and Karin, who were to become Jinchuriki.
• Jiuming smashed all five heads of True Several Thousand Hands and seized Yamato, ripping him free of White Zetsu and disabling the wooden statue.
• Jiuming’s Golden Giant took a slash from Madara, but Jiuming sealed Yamato inside it and turned to attack the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Uzumaki Kuming and Madara Uchiha fought a decisive battle between their giant forms, but Madara used a summoning technique to inflict sudden pain and turn the fight around. Kuming's giant collapsed, leaving him with fewer than 10 Ka of Chakra as he faced Madara beneath the moonlight.

• Madara Uchiha poured his Chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and aged rapidly as he prepared to fight Uzumaki Kuming.
• Uzumaki Kuming dispelled his other techniques to gather Chakra, and the Nine-Tails willingly lent him power through the seal.
• Madara Uchiha sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path against Kuming's red giant, which cut off two of the statue's arms and drove it back.
• Madara Uchiha summoned the sealed Nine-Tails, causing Kuming sudden pain that let the statue's blades pierce and cleave apart his giant.
• Kuming's Adamantine Sealing Chains retracted as his giant collapsed, leaving him with Heavenly Feather Blade and fewer than 10 Ka of Chakra.

Uzumaki Kuming defeated and sealed Madara Uchiha after exploiting the old man's failing strength, then prepared to seal the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As Konoha shinobi arrived, Nawaki and the others turned on Kuming, while Madara emerged from underground and attacked him.

• Kuming noticed Madara's Susanoo disappearing and inferred that Madara had nearly exhausted his Chakra.
• Kuming used Lightning Release-coated shuriken to create an opening, then attacked Madara with the Heavenly Feather Blade, but a White Zetsu's Spore Technique saved him from the first strike.
• Kuming pierced Madara's chest, and after Black Zetsu fled, he used the Totsuka Blade to seal Madara's body.
• Kuming turned toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Nawaki attacked him while Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, and the other Konoha shinobi surrounded him.
• Madara rose from underground as vines trapped Kuming's feet, and Kuming recognized Madara's pale left eye just as the attacks were about to land.

Uzumaki Kuming and Madara Uchiha mortally wounded each other, and White Zetsu struck Kuming as he began to die. Minato Namikaze rescued Kuming before Black Zetsu destroyed the battlefield, leaving Konoha to face a grief-filled morning.

• Madara Uchiha used Izanagi to escape Uzumaki Kuming's Totsuka Blade and, with White Zetsu's help, trapped Kuming in Wood Release.
• Kuming pierced Madara's heart with One-Finger Nukite, but Madara crushed Kuming's throat with Susanoo as White Zetsu stabbed him in the chest.
• Kuming beheaded Madara and collapsed, while White Zetsu waited for him to die.
• Minato Namikaze arrived, defeated the White Zetsu attacking Kuming, and carried him away as Black Zetsu triggered an explosion that consumed the battlefield.
• Minato escaped the blast with Kuming, while Konoha mourned the many lives lost that night.

As rumors spread through Konoha that the Fourth Hokage had died, Tsunade treated the critically wounded Jiuming in secret while Hiruzen and his advisors worried about the village’s security. Jiuming later regained consciousness in his mindscape and learned from the Nine-Tails that he was alive and out of danger.

• Villagers emerged from shelters and spread rumors that the Fourth Hokage had been killed, while some sent word outside Konoha that his whereabouts were unknown.
• Kushina visited the cave where Tsunade treated the unconscious Jiuming and learned that his condition remained critical.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the two advisors discussed Jiuming’s injuries and the rumors, then Hiruzen rejected impersonating the Fourth Hokage and prioritized rebuilding Konoha.
• After the visitors left, Kushina watched over Jiuming briefly before returning home to her newborn Naruto.
• Jiuming regained consciousness in his mindscape, where the Nine-Tails told him he was alive and out of danger.

Uzumaki Kuming spoke with the Nine-Tails in his mindscape after Madara Uchiha left him gravely injured. The Nine-Tails offered to heal him if Kuming broke the seal, leaving Kuming to consider whether he could trust the beast and seek a different kind of relationship with him.

• The Nine-Tails told Uzumaki Kuming that his injuries would soon kill him and that Karin Uzumaki's healing could not save him.
• The Nine-Tails explained that Madara Uchiha's technique suppressed cell reproduction and offered his own Chakra as a way to heal Kuming.
• The Nine-Tails revealed that Kuming's strengthened seal blocked his Chakra from reaching Kuming's body.
• Kuming considered opening his heart to the Nine-Tails and asked what the beast would do if he broke the seal.
• The Nine-Tails said he wanted true freedom and offered to help Kuming recover in exchange for being released.

Uzumaki Kuming convinced Kurama to become his partner by appealing to the Sage of Six Paths’ wish for the Tailed Beasts and humans to find peace. Kurama’s chakra restored Kuming’s consciousness, and he awoke inside a cave where Konoha had sealed him away four years earlier.

• Uzumaki Kuming told Kurama that the Tailed Beasts were created by the Sage of Six Paths and had once been the Ten-Tails.
• Kuming recalled the danger of his fight with Madara Uchiha and said he needed Kurama’s strength to face future threats.
• Kurama remembered the Sage of Six Paths’ words about the Tailed Beasts reuniting and finding true strength.
• Kuming asked Kurama to become his partner and help create peace between humans and Tailed Beasts, and Kurama agreed.
• Kurama’s chakra enveloped Kuming, who suppressed its negative emotions and regained control of his body.
• Kuming awoke in a sealed cave, realizing he had been unconscious there for four years.

Uzumaki Kuming broke free of his seal and encountered Naruto and his friends in the woods outside Konoha. After learning four years had passed, Kuming asked Naruto about Kushina, while the ANBU treated him as a possible threat.

• Naruto and his friends sneaked out of Konoha and ran into Uzumaki Kuming in the snowy woods.
• Konoha ANBU stepped in to protect the children and realized they could not sense Kuming’s presence.
• Kuming learned that it was Konoha Year 52 and that he had been sealed for four years.
• Kuming asked Naruto whether his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, was safe, alarming the ANBU by revealing he knew Naruto’s identity.
• Naruto recognized Kuming as someone he had seen on the village’s Kage Rock.

Uzumaki Kuming returned to Konoha after years sealed away and reunited with his disciple Shisui, who explained why the village had declared him dead and described Konoha’s recent wars. With Kumogakure’s envoy in the village to negotiate over the Tailed Beasts, Kuming asked Shisui to show him around Konoha.

• Naruto recognized Uzumaki Kuming from Kage Rock, but two Anbu suspected he was an impostor and attacked him.
• Uzumaki Kuming quickly restrained the Anbu, then convinced them to calm down and hear him out.
• Shisui Uchiha arrived with Konoha Ninja, recognized his master, and embraced him after confirming his identity with the Sharingan.
• Shisui explained that Konoha had declared Kuming dead after he fell unconscious from severe injuries, and that a seal created by several prominent ninja had kept him in a cavern while he recovered.
• Shisui told Kuming that Minato Namikaze had become the Fifth Hokage and that Konoha had fought several villages over the Tailed Beasts, with Kumogakure now sending an envoy to negotiate again.
• Uzumaki Kuming remarked that another war might be coming and asked Shisui to walk with him through Konoha.

Uzumaki Kuming returned to Konoha after four years and surveyed the village with Uchiha Shisui, learning that Itachi was away on a mission. He encountered Minato's students escorting Cloud Ninja and recognized Rin Nohara as the Three-Tails' jinchuriki before dismissing the Cloud visitors as doomed.

• Uzumaki Kuming entered Konoha with Uchiha Shisui and used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to locate familiar people in the village.
• Shisui told Kuming that Itachi had become a Chunin, led a team, and was currently away on a mission.
• Kuming and Shisui walked through the village, and Shisui offered to find Kuming clothes after passersby stared at his ragged appearance.
• A Cloud Ninja mocked Konoha for having a beggar, and Rin Nohara defended the village while Obito Uchiha asked Shisui who Kuming was.
• Kuming examined Rin's seal and recognized her as the Three-Tails' jinchuriki, while the Cloud Ninja sensed something unusual about him and moved on with Kakashi, Rin, and Obito.