Chapter Summaries

Tobirama Senju’s Impure World Reincarnation forces Kirigakure’s first attack force to retreat after the reanimated ninja prove impossible to kill, while Byakuren orders preparations for another fight. Senju Fujima’s main force reaches the border near Sunagakure, where Sasuke Sarutobi warns him to stay back.

• Kirigakure ninja attack the reanimated fighters, but Suigetsu Hyō and the others revive after being struck down and kill their attackers.
• Hozuki Gengetsu uses Steaming Danger Tyranny, but the reanimated ninja recover, so he advises Byakuren to withdraw and seek sealing ninja.
• Byakuren orders Kirigakure to retreat thirty li, and its remaining roughly two thousand ninja flee after losing half their force.
• Tobirama Senju celebrates Konoha’s victory, returns to camp, and leaves the reanimated ninja to guard and patrol.
• Byakuren rejects Hozuki Gengetsu’s doubts and orders him to prepare the Sealing Squad and monitor Konoha.
• Senju Fujima reaches the border near Sunagakure with the main force, and Sasuke Sarutobi warns him not to act recklessly against the First Kazekage.

Senju Fujima led Konoha’s forces toward Sunagakure, assigned the rookies to squads, and resolved to kill Shimura Danzō during the coming battle. When Reto’s army attacked, Fujima sent Konoha forward and created thousands of shadow clones to bolster its outnumbered troops.

• Senju Fujima divided the Konoha rookies into three-person squads while Shimura Danzō secretly vowed to kill him.
• Senju Fujima decided to kill Danzō, and the two armies soon faced each other at Konoha’s border.
• Reto led more than five thousand Sunagakure ninja in a charge, and Sasuke Sarutobi ordered Konoha to attack with explosive-tagged shuriken.
• Reto raised a sand wall to block the shuriken, and Sasuke Sarutobi assessed the First Kazekage as a formidable opponent.
• Senju Fujima ordered Konoha’s ninja to charge and summoned several thousand shadow clones to reinforce the battle.

Danzo fought a Sunagakure puppeteer but was stabbed and carried off with his corpse. Meanwhile, Senju Fujima faced First Kazekage Retto as Sasuke Sarutobi summoned Enma, and the battle continued.

• Danzo used Wind Release against a Sunagakure puppeteer, but the puppeteer’s flames and attacks kept him at bay.
• A disguised 'Sunagakure' ninja stabbed Danzo and vanished with his corpse, prompting Danzo’s two teammates to retaliate.
• Senju Fujima revealed that his plan had been completed as Retto mocked Sasuke Sarutobi and challenged Konoha.
• Retto attacked Senju Fujima with Sand Waterfall Funeral, but Sasuke Sarutobi showed no concern for him.
• Sasuke Sarutobi summoned Enma and asked him to transform into the Adamantine Wish Staff.

Senju Fujima used Wood Release to trap and drain the chakra of thousands of Sunagakure ninja, then countered Retto’s battlefield-wide sand technique by flooding the area with seawater. Retto’s sand lost its effectiveness, and Fujima taunted him as his trapped troops continued losing chakra.

• Enma transformed into the Adamantine Wish staff, while Senju Fujima escaped Retto’s initial attack with a substitution log.
• Retto swept the battlefield with sand, but Hiruzen Sarutobi combined Water and Earth Release to disrupt his control and attack him.
• Retto sent sand needles and a massive sand pillar toward the Konoha ninja, but Hiruzen Sarutobi blocked the attacks.
• Senju Fujima unleashed Wood Release Secret Technique—Deep Forest Emergence, trapping more than five thousand Sunagakure ninja and absorbing their chakra.
• Retto threatened to unleash Grand Sand Mausoleum across the battlefield, despite the danger to his own subordinates.
• Senju Fujima flooded the area with seawater, weighing down Retto’s sand, then warned that his trapped men would keep losing chakra as they talked.

Senju Fujima demanded that Retto kneel and submit after capturing thousands of Sunagakure ninja, but Shamon intervened. Fujima revealed the full power of True Several Thousand Hands, captured both Kazekage and Shamon, and left Sunagakure facing destruction if they refused his terms.

• Senju Fujima demanded that Retto kneel, declare submission to Konoha, and negotiate war reparations, threatening the lives of more than five thousand captured Sunagakure ninja.
• Senju Fujima sealed the captured ninja's mouths when they protested, and Shamon arrived with Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets to oppose the demand.
• Senju Fujima entered Sage Mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands, shocking Shamon, Retto, and Sasuke Sarutobi with its power.
• Senju Fujima crushed Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets and seized Shamon and Retto in the statue's hand while absorbing their chakra.
• Senju Fujima warned that Sunagakure itself would be destroyed if they refused, while the captured ninja watched their leaders helplessly.

Senju Fujima forced Retto to submit Sunagakure to Konoha and released the captured ninja after Retto kowtowed. The story then shifted to the Konoha-Kumogakure battlefield, where the First Raikage charged Hashirama Senju and Hashirama sent a Wood Human Clone to face him.

• Senju Fujima mocked Retto and overpowered him and Shamon, while Retto accepted that Sunagakure could not resist.
• Retto offered to kowtow and submit Sunagakure to Konoha if Senju Fujima spared the village's ninja.
• Retto kowtowed, and Senju Fujima ordered him to prepare a submission agreement and return to Konoha the next day.
• Senju Fujima freed the Sunagakure ninja, and Retto led them back toward their village as the battle ended in Konoha's victory.
• The First Raikage demanded that Hashirama Senju return the Two-Tails and compensate Kumogakure, then charged him with Niugao offering assistance.
• Hashirama Senju told Niugao to fight the others and sent his Wood Human Clone to face the First Raikage while he used the battle to train the young ninja.

Hashirama Senju used Wood Human Clones to hold back Kumogakure’s strongest fighters while Konoha’s ninja battled on. Hyuga Tenkui was nearly killed by a coordinated attack, but Yamakimine rescued her and prepared to fight the Storm Release user.

• Hashirama Senju sent seven Wood Human Clones into battle and left another to duel the First Raikage, whose swordsmanship he found less impressive than Fujima’s.
• Hyuga Tenkui used her Byakugan and Gentle Fist to defeat several Kumogakure ninja and declared that she would prove she was the strongest to her mother.
• Kumogakure ninja struck Hyuga Tenkui with Water Release and Lightning Style, paralyzing her before a Storm Release user attacked.
• Yamakimine summoned Rashomon and rescued Hyuga Tenkui from the Storm Release attack, carrying her to safety.
• Yamakimine activated Kurama’s Tailed Beast Cloak and summoned the Green Ridge Great Serpent to face the Storm Release user.

Yamakimine protected Hyuga Tenkui while fighting Darui, and Hashirama Senju revealed the Wood Human and Wood Dragon techniques to pressure Kumogakure into surrendering. When the Kumogakure ninja doubted his strength, Hashirama cloaked the wooden humanoid in a complete-body Susanoo, leaving the battlefield facing an enormous green armored giant.

• Yamakimine summoned the Green Ridge Great Serpent to protect Hyuga Tenkui, then fought Darui with snakes and kunai until Darui left to battle other ninja.
• Yamakimine checked that Hyuga Tenkui had recovered from paralysis, and she thanked him for saving her.
• Hashirama Senju summoned the Wood Human and Wood Dragon techniques, frightening the Kumogakure ninja and demanding their surrender and a peace treaty.
• Kumogakure's ninja disagreed over whether Hashirama's display was genuine, so Hashirama activated Complete Body Susanoo and Majestic Attire over the wooden humanoid.
• Hashirama's green Susanoo-covered wooden giant grew to nearly a thousand zhang and sent fierce winds across the battlefield.

Hashirama Senju overwhelmed the Kumogakure forces with his power and secured the First Raikage’s agreement to visit Konoha and sign a peace treaty. On Madara Uchiha’s battlefield, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio fought Iwagakure ninja while Kagami Uchiha outmaneuvered a powerful opponent.

• Hashirama Senju revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and Rinnegan, then threatened the Kumogakure ninja into reconsidering their resistance.
• The First Raikage admitted he was no match for Hashirama Senju and agreed to go to Konoha within three days to sign a peace agreement.
• Hashirama Senju ended his Susanoo and Wood Human Technique and led the Konoha army back to camp.
• Nara Lukin restrained an Iwagakure ninja with the Shadow Imitation Technique, allowing Yamanaka Hemi to kill him after he scattered her flowers.
• Kagami Uchiha dodged an Iwagakure ninja’s attacks and used the Body Flicker Technique to appear behind him and strike.

Kagami Uchiha discovered how to combine the Substitution Technique with the Body Flicker Technique and used his new movement to kill Iwagakure ninja across the battlefield. Jun Tianze fought an Iwagakure ninja with his Shikotsumyaku and ended the battle by impaling him with bones that erupted from the ground.

• Kagami Uchiha reflected on the Body Flicker Technique’s post-use pause while distractedly facing an Iwagakure ninja, who trapped him and attacked with Earth and Fire Release techniques.
• Kagami Uchiha escaped with the Substitution Technique, appeared behind the Iwagakure ninja, and beheaded him.
• Kagami Uchiha realized that combining substitution with Body Flicker could let him move instantly to a medium within his line of sight, then used the technique to slaughter Iwagakure ninja.
• Jun Tianze fought an Iwagakure ninja using Shikotsumyaku, cutting apart a stone golem and surviving several Earth Release attacks.
• Jun Tianze used Dance of Connecting Earth to drive his Bone Blade into the ground, causing huge bones to erupt and pierce the Iwagakure ninja.

Jun Tianze and Might Je fought Deidara during the battle, and Deidara’s suicide explosion annihilated hundreds of Iwagakure ninja. Might Je then tore through the battlefield at tremendous speed, while another confrontation began with a young girl who had a Three Tomoe Sharingan.

• Jun Tianze used Shikotsumyaku to defend against an earth dragon, then fought Deidara’s clay bombs with bone techniques.
• Might Je opened the Third Gate and battered Deidara through the air with Reverse Lotus.
• Deidara turned himself into a black sphere to self-destruct, and Might Je kicked him several miles toward Iwagakure.
• Deidara’s explosion destroyed everything within a ten-kilometer radius and killed hundreds of Iwagakure ninja.
• Might Je raced across the battlefield and killed Iwagakure ninja, while an unnamed man taunted a young girl with a Three Tomoe Sharingan.

Shizuka Uchiha overcame her shock after killing an Iwagakure ninja and returned to the battlefield with Jun Tianze protecting her. Tie Kui slaughtered Iwagakure jonin with her Mangekyō Sharingan, but its use was hurting her eyes when a young voice attacked with Dust Release.

• Shizuka Uchiha killed an Iwagakure elite chunin with Chidori Senbon and the Hell Viewing Technique, then vomited at the sight of his body.
• Another Iwagakure ninja attacked Shizuka Uchiha while she was recovering, but she escaped with the Substitution Technique and Jun Tianze killed him.
• Shizuka Uchiha thanked Jun Tianze, resolved to grow stronger for Senju Fujima, and headed toward camp with Jun Tianze staying close to guard her.
• Tie Kui used her Mangekyō Sharingan to evade Iwagakure attacks and killed two jonin with Wind Snow Slash.
• Tie Kui felt pain in her eyes and worried that using the Mangekyō Sharingan would make her go blind, then heard someone use Dust Release and activated Susanoo.

Tie Kui's Susanoo withstood Ōnoki's Dust Release, prompting Madara Uchiha to recall how his father crushed his youthful hopes for peace. Tajima Uchiha's scheme to turn Madara toward hatred left him furious after he discovered his father had drugged him and taken the girl he had brought into his room.

• Tie Kui activated her Susanoo to block Ōnoki's Dust Release, which cracked but did not break it.
• Madara Uchiha saw Tie Kui's Susanoo and remembered arguing with Tajima Uchiha about making peace with the Senju Clan.
• Tajima Uchiha ordered Uchiha Fan to wipe out the Iron World Clan and bring back a girl to make Madara understand hatred.
• Uchiha Fan slaughtered the Iron World Clan, brought back a girl, and helped Tajima drug Madara's dinner.
• Madara woke beside the girl, then confronted Tajima as Uchiha Clan members carried her away.
• Tajima told Madara that the girl would belong to another clansman and declared that people were ants under the laws of the Ninja World.

Tajima Uchiha tried to make Madara Uchiha pursue strength by imprisoning him and forcing him to hear the woman he had touched being abused; eight months later, her child’s cry awakened Madara’s Mangekyo Sharingan. Years later, Madara suspected Tie Kui was his daughter and rescued her from Ōnoki, leaving her unconscious as he sent a clone to carry her back to camp.

• Tajima Uchiha berated Madara Uchiha for his weakness, locked him in his room, and ordered Uchiha Fan to imprison the woman nearby and have her abused.
• Madara Uchiha tried to save the woman but was stopped, and he grew increasingly resentful as he heard her suffering.
• Eight months later, the woman gave birth, and Madara Uchiha awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan when he heard the baby cry.
• Years later, Madara Uchiha wondered whether Tie Kui was his child after sensing how closely her aura matched his own.
• Madara Uchiha kicked Ōnoki away, entered Tie Kui’s Susanoo, and stopped her from exhausting herself further.
• Madara Uchiha carried the unconscious Tie Kui away and sent a clone to take her back to camp.

Madara Uchiha learned that Tie Kui was the child of a woman his father had used to strengthen him, then unleashed his Perfect Form Susanoo and Wood Release against Iwagakure’s forces. He trapped the surviving ninjas and demanded that they kneel and kowtow if they wanted to live.

• Izuna Uchiha told Madara Uchiha that Tajima Uchiha had used Tie Kui’s mother to make Madara stronger and that he had assumed the mother and daughter had died.
• Madara Uchiha activated his Perfect Form Susanoo, and Konoha’s ninjas retreated as the Iwagakure forces faced him.
• Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo struck the Iwagakure ninjas, and he used Wood Release and fire to attack them across the battlefield.
• Mu used Dust Release to clear an area of Wood Release and save the Iwagakure ninjas, but Madara Uchiha’s vines and trees quickly trapped them again.
• Madara Uchiha absorbed chakra through his Wood Release, judged the ninjas’ strength, and demanded that they kneel and kowtow for their lives.

Madara Uchiha defeated Iwagakure, killed Ishikawa, and forced Mu and Ōnoki to kowtow and agree to sign a peace treaty in Konoha within three days. Konoha celebrated its victory over the four villages, and Byakuren accepted that Kirigakure had lost as well.

• Madara Uchiha killed Ishikawa and threatened Mu and Ōnoki until Ōnoki offered to surrender.
• Madara Uchiha spared Mu and Ōnoki after they kowtowed, ordering Iwagakure to sign a peace agreement in Konoha within three days.
• Konoha's ninja celebrated after Madara Uchiha returned, and news spread that Konoha had defeated the four villages.
• Hozuki Gengetsu told Byakuren that Kirigakure had lost, and Byakuren acknowledged Konoha's strength.

After Konoha’s victory ended the First Ninja World War, a mysterious Byakugan-wielding man attacked the village with a colossal stone ape called Ape Rock. Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju defended Konoha, and Hashirama pinned the ape beneath the Gates of the Great God.

• Byakuren ordered Hozuki Gengetsu to send an envoy to Konoha to surrender and sign a peace treaty, officially ending the war in Konoha’s victory.
• A mysterious man appeared above Konoha and summoned Ape Rock, whose roar shattered the village barrier and unleashed a devastating hurricane.
• Ape Rock struck the village, destroying part of it and killing numerous villagers, while Konoha’s shinobi organized evacuations and defenses.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha arrived and ordered four Kage-level experts to trap Ape Rock inside the Four Red Yang Formation.
• Madara Uchiha covered his Wood Human in Complete Body Susanoo armor and charged Ape Rock as Hashirama Senju attacked with Sage Art.
• Hashirama Senju summoned six Gates of the Great God, knocking Ape Rock down and pinning its limbs, head, and tail.

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju battled Jishiki Otsutsuki’s giant rock ape, but Jishiki intervened and pinned Hashirama with black rods. Enraged, Madara attacked Jishiki directly, but Jishiki easily dodged his strikes.

• Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju fought the giant ape, but it regenerated its arms and shattered Hashirama’s Gate of the Great God.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed the Top Transformed Buddha while Madara Uchiha attacked with his Wood Dragon and twin blades, knocking the ape apart and absorbing its chakra.
• Jishiki Otsutsuki attacked with black rods, pinning Hashirama Senju to the ground and preventing his chakra from circulating.
• Madara Uchiha severed the giant ape’s head, then confronted Jishiki Otsutsuki after seeing his Byakugan.
• Madara Uchiha charged Jishiki Otsutsuki, who effortlessly dodged his sword strikes and taunted him.

Jishiki Otsutsuki overwhelmed Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju’s clones and set out to capture the Tailed Beasts. Mito Uzumaki’s sealing technique nearly trapped him, but he stopped time, captured her and the other jinchuriki, and then confronted Madara and Hashirama about the two remaining Tailed Beasts.

• Jishiki Otsutsuki shattered Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo and Wood constructs, then pinned him down with black rods.
• Hashirama Senju told Madara Uchiha that their clones were outmatched and urged him to recall their true bodies.
• Mito Uzumaki attacked Jishiki Otsutsuki with Adamantine Sealing Chains and a powerful composite seal that he could not absorb.
• Jishiki Otsutsuki stopped time to escape the seal, pulled Mito Uzumaki toward him, and captured her and Tenka Uzumaki.
• Jishiki Otsutsuki captured the seven jinchuriki present, excluding the Two-Tails and Kurama, then asked Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju where the remaining Tailed Beasts were.

Jishiki Otsutsuki defeated Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, captured Mito Uzumaki and six other Jinchuriki, and gave them three days to find him with the other two Tailed Beasts. As the leaders rushed back to Konoha, Senju Fujima worried that the Otsutsuki had arrived far earlier than expected and wondered how they could be stopped.

• Jishiki Otsutsuki threatened Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, then escaped into an alternate dimension with Mito Uzumaki and the other six captives.
• Hashirama Senju warned the Konoha survivors that the black rods suppressed chakra and ordered the troops to withdraw and notify their real bodies.
• Madara Uchiha learned from his clone that Jishiki Otsutsuki had defeated it with one strike, then ordered Izuna Uchiha to bring the troops back while he hurried to Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, and Senju Fujima received the news and began returning to Konoha.
• Senju Fujima feared the Otsutsuki had arrived too early and questioned whether his Rinnegan or Baryon Mode could help him defeat Jishiki Otsutsuki.