Chapter Summaries

Madara Uchiha defeated and captured the Four-Tails with his Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki reported the capture to Ishikawa, who proposed teaching Konoha a lesson while insisting on his own strength.

• The Four-Tails attacked Madara with lava, but Madara summoned Susanoo and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make the tailed beast dance.
• Madara called over a man resembling Nagato Uzumaki, who sealed the Four-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Iwagakure ninja arrived after Madara had left, and Ōnoki admitted he had been frightened by Madara’s power.
• Ishikawa heard Ōnoki’s report, complained that Konoha had captured a tailed beast on the Land of Earth’s territory, and flew off, saying it was time to teach Konoha a lesson.
• Ōnoki asked whether Ishikawa could defeat Madara’s blue giant, and Ishikawa urged him to develop a will as strong as stone.
• Ōnoki squeezed a rock and crumbled it, challenging Ishikawa’s comparison.

Ishikawa sent Ōnoki to learn how other villages were handling the Tailed Beasts, while the First Raikage and Madara both headed to capture the Two-Tails. Madara confronted Matatabi as Kumogakure shinobi arrived, setting up a clash between the groups.

• Ishikawa told Ōnoki to investigate the other ninja villages and seek potential allies against Konoha.
• The First Raikage ordered Niugao to take ten jōnin and capture the Two-Tails.
• A Konoha Anbu warned Madara that Kumogakure shinobi were nearby, but Madara insisted on focusing on Matatabi.
• Tobirama urged Madara to avoid provoking other villages, and Madara agreed only if they stayed away.
• Matatabi attacked Madara, who mocked her for relying on her claws and compared her unfavorably to the One-Tail.
• Kumogakure shinobi spotted Madara fighting Matatabi and rushed to hold him off until the First Raikage arrived.

Madara Uchiha killed the Kumogakure ninja who tried to interfere and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control Matatabi as the First Raikage arrived. After Madara provoked him, the First Raikage attacked with a Lightning Blade.

• Several Kumogakure ninja attacked Madara, but he burned them to death with Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• The First Raikage and Niugao rushed toward the battlefield after sensing the fight had begun.
• Matatabi tried to escape, but Madara caught up with her and controlled her using his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The First Raikage confronted Madara over crossing into Kumogakure and targeting their Tailed Beast.
• Madara insulted the First Raikage, who charged at him with a Lightning Blade.

Madara Uchiha used Matatabi to overwhelm the First Raikage, who escaped with Niugao. Afterward, Tobirama Senju agreed to have the Two-Tails sealed inside him, leaving Heng Uzumaki exhausted after completing the double seal.

• Madara Uchiha controlled Matatabi as she attacked the First Raikage, eventually striking him and firing a Tailed Beast Bomb at him.
• Niugao rescued the injured First Raikage, and the two fled toward Kumogakure while Madara Uchiha mocked them.
• Madara Uchiha ordered Heng Uzumaki to seal the Two-Tails inside Tobirama Senju, explaining that Matatabi could devour souls.
• Tobirama Senju agreed to the sealing, and Heng Uzumaki used the Heavenly Fiend Soul-Locking Seal and Four Symbols Seal to bind Matatabi inside him.
• Tobirama Senju asked Heng Uzumaki if he was all right after seeing how exhausted he was.

Tobirama Senju sealed the Two-Tails inside himself after Konoha captured it, and the beast’s chakra began to strain him. Senju Fujima entered Tobirama’s sealing space with Kurama to persuade the Two-Tails to cooperate.

• Tobirama Senju sealed the Two-Tails inside himself, then struggled to suppress its resentful chakra.
• Madara Uchiha and Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha with Heng Uzumaki and reported that they had captured six Tailed Beasts.
• Senju Fujima told Madara Uchiha that he had captured the Three-Tails, and Madara praised him while criticizing Hashirama Senju.
• Kurama revealed that Tobirama Senju had the Two-Tails sealed inside him, and Tobirama explained that the beast’s chakra and a long-distance Flying Thunder God jump had exhausted him.
• Senju Fujima entered Tobirama Senju’s Sealing Space with Kurama to speak with the Two-Tails and seek its willing cooperation.

Senju Fujima brought the weakened Nine-Tails into the Sealing Space and convinced the Two-Tails to form a miniature chakra body with its soul inside. After leaving the space, he placed the miniature Two-Tails on Tobirama Senju’s shoulder, where it explained that Tobirama would need to cooperate with its real body to become a Perfect Jinchuriki.

• Senju Fujima brought the Nine-Tails into the Sealing Space, where the Two-Tails mocked the fox for its weakened state.
• The Nine-Tails urged the Two-Tails to gather chakra and let Senju Fujima take it outside, but the Two-Tails doubted Fujima could do so.
• Senju Fujima revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and threatened to divide the Two-Tails’ chakra, persuading it to cooperate.
• The Two-Tails agreed to form a miniature body with chakra reserves matching the Nine-Tails’, and Senju Fujima carried it out of the Sealing Space.
• Senju Fujima placed the miniature Two-Tails on Tobirama Senju’s shoulder, and the Two-Tails said Tobirama would need to work with its real body to become a Perfect Jinchuriki.

Senju Fujima went to capture the Six-Tails while Madara Uchiha and the others pursued another Tailed Beast. He found the Six-Tails submerged in a lake and cut off one of its tails, bringing it out to face him.

• Tobirama Senju recovered after Hashirama Senju helped free him from the Two-Tails' chakra.
• Senju Fujima insisted on joining Madara Uchiha's hunt, and Tobirama Senju gave him coordinates to the Six-Tails' location.
• Senju Fujima left Hashirama Senju's Wood Human Clone behind and traveled to a forest, where Anbu Ninjas told him the Six-Tails was in a nearby lake.
• Senju Fujima sensed the Six-Tails underwater and attacked it with Water Release: Water Severing Wave.
• The Six-Tails woke and surfaced after Senju Fujima cut off one of its tails.

Senju Fujima defeated and captured the Six-Tails, then tested his Mangekyō ability to cut off part of its tail. He transformed into Chojuro and set off for Kirigakure on Umibozu, leaving his visit to the Land of Water ahead.

• Senju Fujima summoned a Perfect Susanoo and combined it with True Several Thousand Hands to create a colossal armored giant, frightening the Six-Tails into fleeing.
• Senju Fujima caught the Six-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, turned it into a fruit, and struck the Six-Tails into a crater with his Adamantine Staff.
• Senju Fujima used his spatial Mangekyō ability to sever the Six-Tails’ tail, then stored the tail and the defeated beast in his system space.
• Senju Fujima transformed into Chojuro and summoned Umibozu to take him toward Kirigakure.

Senju Fujima traveled to Kirigakure to investigate the Kaguya Clan and found its members forcing a young boy to serve as their secret weapon. He killed the men who held the boy captive and asked the boy his name.

• Senju Fujima arrived in Kirigakure with Umibozu and reflected on the Kaguya Clan and Kimimaro.
• Senju Fujima used genjutsu to learn the Kaguya Clan’s base was in the northwest.
• Senju Fujima found five Kaguya Clan members trying to take a struggling young boy back as their secret weapon.
• Senju Fujima used Shikotsumyaku—Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets, then pierced all five men through the heart with bones from his body.
• Senju Fujima washed the blood from his bones, approached the boy, and asked his name.

Senju Fujima brought Jun Tianze to Kirigakure, where they overheard shinobi discussing a plan for four villages to attack Konoha and insulting the Kaguya Clan. Fujima challenged six elite jonin and led them to a nearby forest to fight.

• Jun Tianze asked to stay with Senju Fujima, who revealed his identity and agreed to take him along as a friend.
• Senju Fujima transformed back into Chojuro and entered Kirigakure with Jun Tianze.
• Kirigakure shinobi discussed other villages joining forces to attack Konoha, while Suigetsu Hyō warned them not to underestimate Konoha.
• After hearing the shinobi call the Kaguya Clan trash, Senju Fujima confronted them and challenged the six elite jonin.
• Senju Fujima led Jun Tianze and the six Kirigakure shinobi out of the village toward a forest for the fight.

Senju Fujima fought six Kirigakure shinobi and killed them with his Bone Blade and Shikotsumyaku. Jun Tianze watched the battle and resolved to grow strong enough to protect Fujima.

• Zabuto used the Hidden Mist Technique and attacked Senju Fujima, who blocked his strikes with a Bone Blade.
• Senju Fujima wrapped Zabuto's sword in bone and pierced his heart, killing him.
• The remaining Kirigakure shinobi combined Water, Lightning, and Ice Release techniques, but Fujima absorbed the water and lightning chakra and was frozen by the ice.
• Senju Fujima unleashed Shikotsumyaku—Dance of the Seedling Fern, impaling the five remaining shinobi with bones erupting from the ground.
• Jun Tianze vowed to grow stronger and protect Senju Fujima.

Senju Fujima strengthened Jun Tianze with chakra pills, returned him to Konoha, and arranged for him to join the Ninja Academy. He freed Little Gyuki from Mito Uzumaki and went looking for Tianxiang Uzumaki, only to find her bathing.

• Senju Fujima turned the chakra of the dead into pills and gave them to Jun Tianze, greatly increasing the boy’s strength and helping suppress his Bloodline Disease.
• Madara Uchiha controlled the Five-Tails with his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Heng Uzumaki sealed it.
• Senju Fujima returned to Konoha with Jun Tianze and arranged for Senju Wangze to register him as a Konoha Ninja and send him to the Ninja Academy.
• Senju Fujima asked Mito Uzumaki to choose Jinchūriki for the Three-Tails and Six-Tails, then brought Little Gyuki out of the Sealing Space and gave him to her.
• Senju Fujima went to find Tianxiang Uzumaki and entered her room, where he saw her bathing.

Senju Fujima refused the God Selection System’s coercive choices and suffered as it tried to take over his body. Inside a chaotic inner world, he met the original Senju Fujima, who revealed that he had taken control of the system and intended to reclaim his body.

• Senju Fujima accidentally walked in on Tianxiang Uzumaki bathing, then waited outside while she finished.
• The God Selection System offered Senju Fujima three violent or coercive choices involving Tianxiang Uzumaki and Shizuka Uchiha, threatening to take over his body if he refused.
• Senju Fujima rejected the system’s demands, and it initiated a takeover that made him collapse.
• Senju Fujima awoke in a chaotic inner world and met a golden figure identical to himself.
• The original Senju Fujima said the system had absorbed his soul and that he had gradually regained consciousness and control after Senju Fujima awakened Wood Release.

Fujima learned that System Fujima had delayed the system’s awakening and manipulated its rewards to take revenge for years of imprisonment. They fought in a sealed space, and Fujima began testing whether System Fujima could use only the abilities granted by the system.

• System Fujima revealed that he had delayed the system’s activation until Fujima was ten and changed its options and rewards while planning to take over Fujima’s body.
• Fujima and System Fujima clashed with Shikotsumyaku and Wood Release, then both activated Nine-Tails Chakra Mode as the battle intensified.
• Fujima entered Sage Fox Mode and suspected System Fujima could use only abilities the system had awarded him, not Fujima’s naturally acquired skills.
• Fujima tested his theory with Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and Sage Art: Gate of the Great God, while System Fujima countered with a Tailed Beast Bomb and Flying Thunder God Slash.
• System Fujima used Fujima’s special kunai to appear behind him and strike, but Fujima activated the Substitution Technique.

Senju Fujima realized System Fujima was a virtual being tied to the black box and discovered that Natural Energy made him flinch. Senju Fujima created a Sage Art: Ultra Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken and reappeared beside the black box, leaving System Fujima horrified.

• Senju Fujima dodged System Fujima’s attack, but System Fujima turned intangible and wounded him with a Bone Blade.
• Senju Fujima reasoned that System Fujima’s existence depended on the black box and that destroying or sealing it could defeat him.
• System Fujima unleashed ten Tailed Beast Bombs, and Senju Fujima countered with the Wood Human and True Several Thousand Hands.
• Senju Fujima noticed System Fujima flinch and deduced that he feared Natural Energy.
• Senju Fujima filled the Chaos Space with water, formed a Sage Art: Ultra Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken, and used the Water Release: Body Flicker Technique to appear beside the black box.
• System Fujima panicked and begged Senju Fujima not to act.

Senju Fujima destroyed System Fujima’s black box, only to absorb its remaining energy and become the system’s new soul vessel. After returning to the real world, he found that almost no time had passed and went to Uzumaki Tianxiang to release Shukaku from her Sealing Space.

• Senju Fujima shattered System Fujima’s black box with a Rasenshuriken, destroying his enemy and badly injuring his own right hand.
• Senju Fujima regenerated with his Eternal Body and Kurama’s chakra, then absorbed the energy released when the cracked blue box exploded.
• The surviving Exchange System absorbed part of Senju Fujima’s soul and made him its new vessel, allowing him to use system ninjutsu and survive as long as the system remained intact.
• Senju Fujima returned from the Chaos Space and learned that only a few seconds had passed, while Kurama reported losing nearly half his chakra.
• Senju Fujima told Uzumaki Tianxiang he would enter her Sealing Space and release Shukaku so the tailed beast could cooperate with her.

Senju Fujima subdued the One-Tail and gave it to Tianxiang Uzumaki, then took two Uzumaki Clan members to seal the Three-Tails and Six-Tails. The sealing began at Konoha’s border, with Fujima using his Mangekyō Sharingan to keep both beasts calm.

• Senju Fujima entered Tianxiang Uzumaki’s Sealing Space and forced the One-Tail to cooperate by absorbing its chakra.
• Senju Fujima emerged and gave Tianxiang a miniature One-Tail, which she happily hugged.
• Tianxiang led Senju Fujima to three Uzumaki Clan members chosen as Jinchūriki, and two volunteered to accompany him.
• Senju Fujima teleported the two volunteers to Konoha’s border and released the Three-Tails and Six-Tails.
• The two Uzumaki members bound one beast each with Adamantine Sealing Chains while Senju Fujima calmed the beasts with his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Senju Fujima returned the Three-Tails and Six-Tails to Konoha, then rested before heading to the school the next morning. Meanwhile, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha learned that four ninja villages planned to attack Konoha and prepared for war; Madara then collided with a woman outside the Hokage Building.

• Senju Fujima brought the Three-Tails and Six-Tails back to Konoha and retrieved the Four-Tails from Uzumaki Changting.
• Senju Fujima fell asleep beside Kurama and woke the next morning, planning to visit the school and see Shizuka.
• Chengyun reported to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha that Kirigakure, Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure were preparing to attack Konoha over the Tailed Beasts and Konoha's resources.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha agreed to fight back, and Madara ordered Wen Uchiha to prepare for war and investigate the enemy forces.
• Madara Uchiha left the Hokage Building and bumped into a woman in a floral qipao, then offered to help her up.

Uchiha Madara met Kaori Yuhi, decided to marry her, and took her home; meanwhile, Senju Fujima returned to class and was scolded for arriving late.

• Uchiha Madara helped Kaori Yuhi up, learned she was from the Yuhi Clan, and urged her to train harder.
• Uchiha Madara asked whether Kaori Yuhi was married, then announced he would visit her clan the next day to ask for her hand.
• Kaori Yuhi agreed and told Uchiha Madara she had liked him for a long time, and he carried her home.
• Senju Fujima arrived late to class, so Irudi ordered him to stand outside as punishment.
• Uchiha Shizuka, Yamakimine, and Tie Kui were pleased to see Senju Fujima back, while a classmate insulted Qingguo for liking him.

Senju Fujima arrived at the Ninja Academy as Irudi announced that the students would take their graduation exam the next day and graduate early. After class, Fujima reunited with Tie Kui, and Shizuka Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan when she saw Tie Kui close to him.

• Irudi announced that the students would graduate early after taking their exam the next day, citing the coming First Shinobi World War and the need for them to gain experience.
• Nara Lukin, Akimichi Dingfeng, and Yamanaka Hemi chatted and shared dumplings after Irudi dismissed the class.
• Irudi asked Senju Fujima not to disrupt class by arriving late, and Fujima apologized.
• Tie Kui approached Fujima, who explained that he had come to see his fiancée.
• Shizuka Uchiha saw Tie Kui with Fujima, felt jealous, and awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan.