Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Kuming and Madara Uchiha escalated their battle as Madara entered Sage Mode and unleashed scorching black ash that melted Kuming’s Adamantine Sealing Chains. Kuming avoided Madara’s chakra-absorbing defenses, struck him inside Susanoo, and left him marked for a final attack outside the barrier.

• Uzumaki Kuming summoned a Golden-Armored Nine-Tails Shadow Clone while Madara Uchiha gathered Natural Energy and entered Sage Mode.
• Madara Uchiha used Sage Art: Fire Style: Dust Concealment Technique, whose black ash melted the Golden Chains and threatened Uzumaki Kuming and Kurama.
• Uzumaki Kuming realized Madara’s Rinnegan was absorbing Kurama’s Chakra, dismissed his Tailed Beast forms, and entered Susanoo with the Heavenly Feather Blade.
• Uzumaki Kuming used a body-phasing ability to let Madara’s war fan pass through him, then broke Madara’s waist with a whip kick and made Susanoo dissipate.
• Uzumaki Kuming escaped outside the barrier with Flying Thunder God and brought Madara Uchiha to him using a mark, then thrust his sword toward Madara on the ground.

Uzumaki Kuming pursued Madara Uchiha through the forest and killed him after Madara’s Izanagi escape and shadow clones failed to shake him. Kuming took Madara’s Rinnegan and sealed his corpse, leaving the forest as the battle ended.

• Uzumaki Kuming pierced Madara Uchiha’s defenses, but Madara used Izanagi and Light Fang before escaping with a Substitution Technique.
• Madara Uchiha fled into the forest and sent out thousands of shadow clones, while Uzumaki Kuming used black lightning to destroy them and locate Madara’s real body.
• Uzumaki Kuming caught up with Madara Uchiha, broke through his defenses, and left him gravely injured with a series of blows.
• Uzumaki Kuming thrust his palm into Madara Uchiha’s heart, killing him, then took his Rinnegan and sealed his corpse in a scroll.

After Madara Uchiha’s defeat, Sasuke Uchiha returned to Konoha, while Uzumaki Kuming pursued the whereabouts of Madara’s missing Rinnegan and uncovered a hidden White Zetsu nest. With both Rinnegan now transplanted into his eyes, Kuming summoned Konoha’s leaders and the Jinchuriki, leaving a major plan on the verge of unfolding.

• Sasuke Uchiha left prison with Uzumaki Kuming and Uchiha Fugaku’s backing, reunited with Naruto, and renewed their bond by bumping fists.
• Yamanaka Inoichi searched the Masked Man’s memories but could not yet locate the missing Rinnegan, and Fugaku hinted that Konoha’s leaders would soon face a momentous choice.
• Uzumaki Kuming visited Orochimaru, asked him to preserve Madara Uchiha’s brain, and prompted Orochimaru to consider cloning as a new research direction.
• Konoha’s scouts discovered a growing White Zetsu nest at one of Madara Uchiha’s secret bases, while Inoichi found the location of the other Rinnegan.
• Uzumaki Kuming left Konoha, returned with both of Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan transplanted, and summoned Konoha’s upper ranks and the Jinchuriki.

Uzumaki Kuming gathered Konoha’s leaders and announced that he would begin a war to unite the shinobi world, but presented the meeting as a search for two missing teams. Minato Namikaze endorsed Kuming’s orders, leaving the assembled shinobi to prepare for the search.

• Uzumaki Kuming revealed Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan to Hiruzen Sarutobi and declared his plan to destroy the other shinobi villages, abolish the Daimyo system, and bring the world under Konoha’s rule.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi condemned Kuming’s plans and warned that war would cause widespread suffering, but Kuming refused to reconsider.
• Minato Namikaze, Nara Shikaku, Killer B, Yugito Nii, and other shinobi arrived for the meeting, where a young shinobi challenged Kuming for taking the seat at the head of the table.
• Uzumaki Kuming announced that two Konoha teams had gone missing and appointed Uchiha Fugaku and Hyuga Hiashi to lead search units with their vice-captains.
• Kuming ordered the captains to recruit from prepared rosters and warned that anyone who disobeyed would be treated as a village traitor; Minato declared that Kuming’s will was the village’s will.

Uzumaki Kuming revealed his plan to conquer the shinobi nations and unite them under Konoha, then produced the Land of Fire Daimyo’s severed head. Minato Namikaze chose to support him, and Kuming ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to purge the nation’s ruling class.

• Minato Namikaze announced Konoha’s Level Two war readiness and ordered its deployed ninjas recalled as Uzumaki Kuming left the conference room.
• Uzumaki Kuming told Minato, Jiraiya, Itachi Uchiha, and the others that he planned to seize the Land of Rain and the Land of Hot Water as footholds for invading the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning.
• Uzumaki Kuming argued that conquest and unified rule would bring peace, while Itachi Uchiha and Jiraiya condemned his plan and warned that it would cause suffering and destroy Konoha.
• Kisame Hoshigaki delivered the Land of Fire Daimyo’s severed head, and Uzumaki Kuming declared he would eliminate competing centers of power.
• Jiraiya attacked Uzumaki Kuming, but Minato Namikaze intervened, freed Kuming from Jiraiya’s binding technique, and declared that he trusted Kuming’s judgment.
• Uzumaki Kuming ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to purge the Land of Fire’s ruling class, sparing those who stepped down and killing anyone who resisted.

Uzumaki Kuming’s plan expanded Konoha’s control across the Land of Fire, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Hot Water while Hatake Sakumo led a squad to assassinate foreign nobles. After the territories were consolidated and reforms began, preparations started for Uzumaki Kuming and Mei Terumi’s wedding.

• Assassins working for Uzumaki Kuming killed nobles across the Land of Fire and assassinated its daimyo, while Konoha concealed its role and the other great nations strengthened their daimyo’s guards.
• Uzumaki Kuming assigned Hatake Sakumo to lead Kisame Hoshigaki, Zabuza Momochi, Haku, Ghost King A-Xiang, and Kimimaro Kaguya in assassinating nobles abroad.
• Konoha suppressed unrest in the Land of Fire, eliminated its remaining noble factions, and took control of the Land of Rain and the Land of Hot Water.
• Uzumaki Kuming merged the three countries’ territories, introduced tax and livelihood reforms, expanded Konoha, and established local Ninja Academies.
• Uzumaki Kuming and Mei Terumi’s wedding preparations filled his estate, and Mei Terumi tried on her wedding dress with Kushina’s help.

On the eve of their wedding, Uzumaki Kuming revealed to Mei Terumi that he planned to unify the Shinobi World and explained Konoha’s campaigns, assuring her that he loved her. They married the next day, and their wedding night ended with leaders and envoys from three villages gathering at their residence for a secret meeting.

• Uzumaki Kuming confessed to Mei Terumi that he had orchestrated the nobles’ assassinations and intended to conquer and unite the Shinobi World.
• Mei Terumi accused Uzumaki Kuming of marrying her for her position, but he assured her he loved her and had chosen her for herself.
• Mei Terumi accepted Uzumaki Kuming’s explanation and promised to help him pursue his goal, while warning him not to act out of selfishness.
• Uzumaki Kuming and Mei Terumi held their wedding in Konoha, attended by guests and envoys from several villages.
• After the wedding, Uzumaki Kuming and Mei Terumi hosted Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, Gaara, Maki, and the Hidden Mist Village's Great Elder for a secret meeting.

Konoha launched invasions of the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning as Uzumaki Kuming pursued his plan to bring the entire Shinobi World under Konoha’s rule. After defeating Kitsuchi and his guards, Kuming forced the Stone Ninja to accept incorporation and turned his attention toward the Cloud Ninja.

• Uchiha Fugaku’s forces crossed into the Land of Earth and destroyed its border garrison, while Kitsuchi ordered Deidara summoned and prepared a counterattack.
• Uzumaki Kuming appeared in Kitsuchi’s office after a Lightning Style attack, announced that Iwagakure would be incorporated into Konoha, and revealed his plan to unite the Shinobi World under Konoha.
• Kitsuchi attacked Uzumaki Kuming and tried to escape with Kurotsuchi, but Kuming subdued them and incapacitated the Stone Ninja Anbu.
• Kuming threatened to destroy the Stone Ninja if Kitsuchi refused to cooperate, and Kitsuchi reluctantly agreed to accept incorporation.
• Uzumaki Kuming released Kitsuchi and reflected that four of the five great nations’ major ninja villages were now united, leaving the Cloud Ninja as his next target.

Uzumaki Kuming consolidated Konoha’s control over Iwagakure and led its forces through a widening war, while Konoha’s campaign against Kumogakure stalled. At the Land of Hot Water front, Naruto Uzumaki saw the civilian suffering caused by the war, rejected Konoha’s justification for it, and left with Sasuke Uchiha to confront their family.

• Uzumaki Kuming took control of Iwagakure, allowed deserters to destabilize the Land of Earth, and reorganized Iwa’s forces for Konoha’s campaigns.
• Uzumaki Kuming conquered the Land of Birds, the Land of Grass, and the Land of Waterfalls, then used the Land of Iron’s resistance to wear down Iwa shinobi.
• Hyuga Hiashi’s forces became locked in a costly stalemate with Kumogakure, prompting Minato Namikaze to send Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha to the Land of Lightning front.
• Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Karin, and Rin arrived at a war-ravaged village in the Land of Hot Water and saw civilians suffering.
• Naruto Uzumaki condemned Konoha’s war and left to make Uzumaki Kuming and his father stop it, while Sasuke Uchiha followed him.

After Konoha and Uzumaki Kuming’s forces captured territory and advanced into the Land of Sound, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha traveled to Otogakure to confront Kuming about the war. A suicide attack killed two children, and the chapter ended with Naruto and Sasuke staying to protect the surviving girl.

• Rin Nohara helped Konoha take control of the Land of Moon, while Uzumaki Kuming’s forces captured the Land of Iron and destroyed the Sound Ninja’s main force.
• Deidara reported Otogakure’s capture to Uzumaki Kuming, who ordered his troops to advance and later began a period of rest and reorganization there.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha saw the devastation in the Land of Sound as they traveled to Otogakure to persuade Uzumaki Kuming to abandon the war.
• A little girl begged Naruto for money, but Sasuke discovered Explosive Tags on her and rescued her as two other children detonated in a suicide attack.
• The Stone Ninja wanted to interrogate the surviving girl, but Sasuke revealed his Sharingan and opposed them; after they left, Naruto and Sasuke decided to wait with her until she woke.

Naruto and Sasuke took Hanako in after discovering she had lost her family, while Sasuke resolved to oppose Uzumaki Kuming’s war. Deidara set out to hunt the mastermind behind an attack, but his explosive mission threatened the village Naruto, Sasuke, and Hanako had just left.

• Naruto and Sasuke comforted Hanako, learned her name, and decided to take her to Otogakure.
• Hanako accepted their offer, and Naruto and Sasuke cared for her at the inn before setting out with her the next morning.
• Sasuke reflected on the suffering caused by war and decided he might need to fight Uzumaki Kuming rather than try to persuade him.
• Uzumaki Kuming learned Naruto and Sasuke were heading to Otogakure, ordered a team to meet them, and assigned Deidara to investigate the mastermind behind the attack.
• Deidara flew toward the attack site and planned to use C3 No. 18 to destroy the village.
• As Naruto, Sasuke, and Hanako left the village, Deidara dropped an expanding clay bomb over its center, and Sasuke moved to protect the others as it exploded.

Naruto fought Deidara after discovering that he had destroyed a village, then was horrified when Uzumaki Kuming healed Deidara and dismissed the deaths. The chapter ended with Naruto rejecting the uncle he had admired.

• Deidara’s explosion destroyed the village and killed its inhabitants, and Naruto attacked him in anger.
• Naruto fought Deidara, using Sage Mode and Tailed Beast Chakra to defeat him despite Deidara’s clay bombs.
• Uzumaki Kuming appeared, healed the gravely injured Deidara, and ordered him to serve as his personal guard.
• Naruto confronted Uzumaki Kuming over the massacre, then declared that his uncle was not someone like him.

Naruto and Sasuke confronted Uzumaki Kuming over his role in the war, but he easily repelled their attacks. After the Sage of Six Paths empowered them, Kuming realized the real battle was beginning and sealed Kurama away when the tailed beast said it could not help him.

• Naruto condemned Kuming for protecting Deidara and prepared to fight him, while Sasuke chose to stand beside Naruto.
• Naruto sent Hanako to Mount Myoboku with a Shadow Clone, and Deidara left on a giant clay bird.
• Kuming overwhelmed Naruto and Sasuke with Shinra Tensei and other powers, sending both of them flying.
• The Sage of Six Paths appeared in Naruto and Sasuke's consciousnesses, and both awakened new powers and transformed appearances.
• Kurama told Kuming that it could not help in the coming battle, and Kuming sealed it back inside its cage before facing Naruto and Sasuke.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha challenged Uzumaki Kuming after receiving the Sage of Six Paths' power, but Kuming overwhelmed them with his golden-armored giant. He trapped both in floating spheres of rock and declared he would create true peace before passing the era’s baton to them.

• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha rose with their newly granted powers and vowed to change the Shinobi World as they attacked Uzumaki Kuming.
• Uzumaki Kuming blocked their opening strikes, confirmed they had met the Sage of Six Paths, and unleashed a giant formed from his Golden Chains and Heavenly Feather Blade.
• Kuming’s golden-armored giant split the ground with a sword strike, then seized Sasuke Uchiha’s Susanoo and smashed it into the earth.
• Naruto Uzumaki manifested the Sky Giant Insect and struck the golden giant, creating a small fracture in its armor and freeing Sasuke.
• Kuming used Chibaku Tensei to trap Naruto and Sasuke in separate floating spheres of rock, then told them the world had never known true peace and that he would create it for them.

Uzumaki Kuming tried to capture Naruto and Sasuke after they escaped his Chibaku Tensei, while arguing that overwhelming power and war were necessary to restore order. The two escaped his attacks and restraints, leaving Kuming looking southeast as Naruto asked Grandpa Six Paths why he had been made to leave before stopping his uncle.

• Sasuke broke out of Chibaku Tensei with Susanoo, and Naruto escaped when the Sky Giant Insect burst free.
• Uzumaki Kuming struck Sasuke’s Susanoo into the clouds and drove Naruto’s Sky Giant Insect into the ground, badly injuring Naruto.
• Uzumaki Kuming urged Naruto to fight for Konoha and explained that he believed overwhelming power was the only way to secure peace.
• Naruto accused Uzumaki Kuming of causing the war, but Kuming defended his actions and argued that conflict could only be suppressed by stronger force.
• Uzumaki Kuming bound Naruto’s Sky Giant Insect and Sasuke’s Susanoo with golden chains, but the two escaped after a Tailed Beast Bomb attack and vanished underground.
• Naruto asked Grandpa Six Paths why he had made him leave before he could stop Uzumaki Kuming.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha withdrew from their losing fight with Uzumaki Kuming while the Sage of Six Paths explained the shinobi world’s history and questioned whether defeating Kuming could bring peace. They reached the Land of Iron to observe life under Kuming’s control, where the peaceful village left the Sage considering Kuming’s greater aims.

• The Sage of Six Paths told Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha to retreat because they could not match Uzumaki Kuming’s strength, experience, and resolve.
• The Sage of Six Paths sent Naruto and Sasuke toward the Land of Iron under a chakra disguise and recounted the history of the shinobi world, including the conflict between Indra and Asura’s descendants.
• Naruto reconsidered his belief that defeating Uzumaki Kuming would automatically bring peace, though he still disagreed with Kuming’s methods.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered the Land of Iron and found a border village whose residents showed no visible signs of war or fear.
• The Sage of Six Paths concluded that Uzumaki Kuming’s war was not intended to enslave the conquered people and urged Naruto and Sasuke to inspect other places.

Uzumaki Kuming completed his conquest of the Shinobi World and established the unified Ninja Nation, then handed power to Minato Namikaze and traveled with Mei Terumi. Years later, they returned to Konoha with their young daughter, whose immense Chakra startled the gate guards.

• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha traveled through conquered nations and saw both resistance and Konoha's efforts to maintain discipline.
• After receiving intelligence about Konoha's expansion, Raikage A led the Cloud Ninja into a final gamble, but Uzumaki Kuming's assassinations and an unknown meeting with A led the Cloud Ninja to open the border.
• Uzumaki Kuming unified the Shinobi World as the Ninja Nation, reorganized its armies and government, and began demilitarization and reconstruction.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha returned from their travels and were sent to the Political Academy, while the Ninja Nation developed under Minato Namikaze after Uzumaki Kuming relinquished power.
• Uzumaki Kuming and Mei Terumi returned to Konoha with their five-year-old daughter, who released a powerful Chakra surge as her father reassured her that she was not a monster.