Chapter Summaries

Shen opened three of the Eight Inner Gates to battle Uchiha Madara, who used his Mangekyo to counter Shen’s superior Taijutsu and keep the fight even. As they faced off, Uchiha Shin arrived at the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest.

• Uchiha Madara dodged Shen’s surprise attack and unleashed twelve powerful fire dragons with Dragon Flame Song Technique.
• Shen opened the Gates of Opening, Healing, and Life, then destroyed the fire dragons with punches and kicks.
• Uchiha Madara used his Mangekyo’s ability to anticipate attacks to strike Shen’s hand and gain an opening.
• Shen and Uchiha Madara fought at high speed until they sprang apart, each recognizing the other as a formidable Taijutsu opponent.
• Uchiha Shin appeared at the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest and asked if he had found the place.

Might Shen and Uchiha Madara fought in Shikkotsu Forest, each struggling with injuries and limitations as Shen’s Gates gave him the speed to break through Madara’s ninjutsu. Just as their battle intensified, Shin arrived and called out to Madara.

• Might Shen and Uchiha Madara exchanged threats, each wary of the other’s condition and strength.
• Might Shen opened the Fourth and Fifth Gates and attacked, while Uchiha Madara used fire techniques to keep him at a distance.
• Uchiha Madara trapped Might Shen with his Lightning Style: Sixteen Bindings Technique and prepared Fire Style: Sword of Kagutsuchi.
• Might Shen opened the Sixth Gate and used Morning Peacock to break free, then struck Uchiha Madara through his Skeleton Ribs and sent him into a crater.
• Shin appeared on a bamboo stalk and teased the beaten Uchiha Madara.

Shin joined Madara in Shikkotsu Forest, where they fought Shen, a shinobi using the Eight Inner Gates. Shen opened the Seventh Gate and attacked Madara, but a sudden Wood Style technique intervened.

• Shin found Madara and learned that Madara’s vision had grown blurry, then warned him to beware Shen’s red steam.
• Shin and Madara coordinated their attacks, striking Shen with a barrage of explosive kunai, fire techniques, and Susanoo.
• Shen survived the assault, opened the Seventh Gate, and launched Daytime Tiger at Madara in midair.
• A vast chakra surged through the forest, and Wood Style: Ring Void Wood Formation Wall rose to block Shen’s attack on Madara.

Shin, Madara, and Senju Hashirama faced Shen in the Bone Forest, where Hashirama learned Madara's eyesight was failing and tried to negotiate. Shen escalated the battle by opening the Gate of Death, leaving Shin alarmed as the forest trembled.

• Shen emerged in his Seventh Gate state and clashed with Shin's Susanoo, but Shin struck him with a brief time distortion and sent him flying.
• Senju Hashirama arrived, explained that he had followed Shin, and recognized the Bone Forest as a place Madara might seek help for an incurable injury.
• Shin revealed that Madara's eyes were about to go blind, and Hashirama offered to negotiate with him to preserve the Uchiha's strength.
• Shen attacked the three with Night Peacock, and Hashirama used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence to stop the flaming assault.
• Shen declared that he would protect Lady Katsuyu and opened the Gate of Death, causing the space around Shikkotsu Forest to tremble.

Shin and Uchiha Madara fought Shen after he opened the Eighth Gate, while Hashirama used a Wood Clone and later joined the attack. Meanwhile, matching reports sent Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna to Maple Leaf Forest at noon the next day, setting up a possible confrontation.

• Shen moved at tremendous speed and shattered Hashirama's Wood Locking Wall, but Shin revealed that the destroyed Hashirama was a Wood Clone.
• Madara attacked Shen with Susanoo, and Shin used his Susanoo and Flying Thunder God Mark to strike at him.
• Hashirama restrained Shen with Wood Binding Technique as Madara brought Susanoo's sword down, but Shen broke free and met the blade with a punch.
• A Senju ninja gave Tobirama a report claiming Izuna would appear in Maple Leaf Forest the next day, and Tobirama ordered an elite squad to assemble.
• An Uchiha ninja gave Izuna a report claiming Tobirama would appear in Maple Leaf Forest at the same time.

Shen fought Uchiha Madara, Shin, and Senju Hashirama while using the Eighth Gate, overwhelming Madara’s Susanoo and forcing Shin to rely on Flying Thunder God. The chapter ended as Hashirama summoned the Gate of the Great God and Shen launched the Evening Elephant.

• Shen’s speed and strength battered Madara’s Susanoo while he evaded Shin’s Flying Thunder God attacks and Hashirama’s Wood Dragon.
• Madara restored Susanoo and charged into the air, but Shen broke through its thunderous sword strike and kicked him back toward the ground.
• Shin intercepted Shen’s dive with Susanoo and the Sword of Amaterasu, then teleported behind him to land a slash.
• Shen shattered Shin’s sword, endured the Amaterasu flames, and blasted them away with his red chakra.
• Hashirama began Sage Art: Gate of the Great God as Shen prepared Eight Inner Gates: Evening Elephant.

Shen shattered Senju Hashirama’s wood techniques and dove toward Uchiha Madara with the Eight Inner Gates’ power, but Shin and Hashirama’s intervention stopped his attack. As Shen’s life force nearly ran out, he unleashed his final strike, Night Guy, at Madara.

• Senju Hashirama sent the Gates of the Great God and a Wood Dragon after Shen, but Shen destroyed them with Evening Elephant.
• Shen targeted Uchiha Madara, while Madara struggled with his strained Mangekyo and prepared Susanoo.
• Senju Hashirama used Bringer of Bag Technique to halt Shen’s descent, but Shen smashed the wooden hands and formed a devastating air attack.
• Shin’s giant Susanoo slashed through Shen’s compressed-air attack, and the collision devastated Shikkotsu Forest and forced Madara back.
• As his life force faded, Shen burned it faster and unleashed Eight Inner Gates Formation: Night Guy toward Madara.

Shin, Hashirama, and Madara tried to stop Shen’s Night Guy, but Hashirama took the attack meant for Madara and was left gravely injured. After Madara killed Shen, Hashirama pretended to be near death and began to remind Madara of their childhood dream.

• Shin layered ten black-flame shields against Night Guy, briefly slowing the attack.
• Hashirama arrived and used seven Rashomon gates and a forty-two-pillar wooden defense, but Night Guy smashed through them.
• Shin used Kamui to distort space, but Night Guy broke through and reached Hashirama and Madara.
• Madara tried to push Hashirama out of the way with Susanoo, but Hashirama stood firm and took the kick, leaving half his body destroyed and Madara badly injured.
• Hashirama secretly signaled Shin that he was alive, while Madara turned away to attack Shen and reduce him to ash.
• Hashirama pretended to be near death and told Madara he had one last wish, asking whether Madara remembered their childhood dream.

Hashirama pretended to be dying so Madara would promise to pursue peace between the Senju and Uchiha, then revealed his Sage Body had let him recover. Madara learned that Hashirama had tricked him, while Shin tried to avoid taking the blame.

• Hashirama feigned his final moments and asked Madara to carry on their dream of ending the war and uniting the Senju and Uchiha.
• Madara tearfully promised to send the Senju a truce proposal, believing Hashirama was dying.
• Shin exposed Hashirama's act, and Hashirama revealed his wounds had healed with the power of his Sage Body.
• Hashirama explained that he had planned the deception to secure Madara's promise of an alliance.
• Madara accused Hashirama and Shin of playing him for a fool as both men avoided his gaze.

After the battle in Shikkotsu Forest, Hashirama, Madara, and Shin asked Katsuyu to heal Madara’s failing eyesight. Katsuyu revealed that she could not treat it, and Shin offered an explanation for why his own eyes had not suffered the same fate.

• Hashirama reminded Madara to honor his promise to sign a peace treaty, and Madara agreed.
• Shin asked Madara about his eyes, so the three traveled deeper into Shikkotsu Forest to find Katsuyu.
• Hashirama persuaded Katsuyu to examine Madara after Madara demanded treatment.
• Katsuyu examined Madara and explained that his eyesight was failing from overusing his ocular power, a natural transition she could not heal.
• Hashirama and Madara wondered why Shin had not gone blind, and Shin said he had received Indra’s chakra inheritance in the Uchiha Ancestral Hall as a child.

Shin, Madara, and Hashirama left Shikkotsu Forest after discussing Madara’s failing eyes and agreeing to form an alliance between the Senju and Uchiha. When Shin returned to the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Yutaka told him that Izuna was unconscious after a fight with Senju Tobirama.

• Shin reassured Madara after Katsuyu said she could do nothing for his eyes, and he considered whether Hashirama’s cells might help.
• Katsuyu sent slugs to repair the damaged land and ordered them to seal the entrance to Shikkotsu Forest.
• Hashirama, Madara, and Shin left the forest, and Hashirama promised to send the Senju-Uchiha ceasefire agreement.
• Madara and Shin secretly returned to the Uchiha compound, then separated so Madara could attend to clan matters.
• Uchiha Yutaka stopped Shin and reported that Izuna had fought Senju Tobirama, returned badly injured, and fallen unconscious.

Hashirama learned that Tobirama and Izuna had been gravely wounded in a clash between the Senju and Uchiha, threatening the ceasefire he had arranged with Madara. He chose to press ahead and sent Madara the Ceasefire Agreement, while Shin arrived to ask about Izuna's condition.

• Uchiha Yutaka told Shin that Izuna had gone to Maple Leaf Forest after receiving a report about Tobirama and a plot against the Uchiha, where their forces clashed and suffered heavy casualties.
• Senju Hashirama returned to the Senju grounds and found Tobirama unconscious and gravely wounded.
• Senju Jin warned Hashirama that Tobirama might not survive, and Hashirama learned that Izuna was also badly wounded and unconscious.
• Hashirama decided not to let the incident delay peace and sent a letter containing the Ceasefire Agreement to Uchiha Madara.
• Shin entered Izuna's room and asked Madara how Izuna was doing.

With Izuna unconscious after being injured by Senju Tobirama, Gen took charge of the Uchiha intelligence network while Madara stayed at Izuna’s bedside. Gen pieced together how Madara had been lured away and suspected someone had arranged Izuna’s injury, but the chapter ended before he identified the culprit.

• Gen visited Izuna and urged Madara to have faith that his brother would recover.
• Gen ordered Uchiha Yutaka to keep watch over Izuna, find the ninja who first received the Senju intelligence, and let Gen take over the intelligence network.
• Gen told Uzumaki Mito that Izuna was unconscious and that Madara was close to losing control, while he suspected someone was behind the incident.
• Gen traced the events from Madara’s departure and realized that the other schemes had helped lure Madara away before Izuna was hurt.
• Gen burned his notes and considered who would benefit most from Izuna being out of the way.

Shin suspected Black Zetsu had arranged Izuna’s accident to help Madara, then considered recruiting Hyuga Tamamo to lead his intelligence organization. The next day, he went to question a shinobi with firsthand information on the Senju and take charge of the Uchiha intelligence shinobi.

• Shin concluded that Black Zetsu was the most likely cause of Izuna’s accident, though he had no evidence.
• Shin decided Hyuga Tamamo might be suited to lead his intelligence organization but thought she needed hope and motivation first.
• Shin reviewed and approved the Uchiha clan matters Uchiha Yutaka had set aside, then went home and slept.
• Uchiha Yutaka told Shin that the shinobi with firsthand information on the Senju was ready for questioning and that the intelligence shinobi had assembled.
• Shin told Uchiha Yutaka to report any news from Madara or Izuna and went to the Uchiha Ancestral Hall, where a Secret Ninja directed him to the third level.

Shin took over the Uchiha intelligence network and investigated the report that had led Izuna into an ambush, finding no clear evidence against the informant. When Senju Hashirama sent Madara a ceasefire agreement, Shin rushed to the Reception Hall as Madara began to tear it up.

• Shin assumed the role of Intelligence Elder and ordered the intelligence ninja to monitor the Senju and investigate Senju Tobirama's condition.
• Shin questioned Nin-Thirty-Six, who explained that a Senju informant had warned Izuna of Tobirama's supposed plan, but the informant died in the battle.
• Shin suspected Black Zetsu had arranged the flawless ambush, though he found no sign that Nin-Thirty-Six had been possessed or involved.
• An Elite Jonin told Shin that a Senju messenger had brought a ceasefire agreement from Hashirama to Madara.
• Madara confirmed the letter was from Hashirama and began tearing it apart, but an unseen person grabbed his wrist and stopped him.

Shin stopped Madara from rejecting the Senju ceasefire agreement outright, reminding him of his promise to Hashirama. After Izuna awakened, Shin learned that his injuries were fatal and that he might have only three days left; Izuna then asked Madara to leave so he could speak privately with Shin.

• Shin took the ceasefire agreement from Madara and told the Senju messenger that the Uchiha would discuss whether to sign it.
• Shin reminded Madara of his promise to Hashirama, and Madara fell silent instead of acting on his anger.
• A Uchiha ninja reported that Izuna had awakened, and Madara rushed to his room with Shin following.
• Izuna reassured Madara, while the Uchiha medical ninjas examined him and told Madara that he could recover with careful treatment.
• Shin privately asked Uchiha An about Izuna's condition and learned that Izuna might survive only three more days.
• Izuna asked Madara to step outside so he could speak with Shin in private.

Izuna shared his final concerns with Shin, asking him to protect Madara and the Uchiha and investigate the hidden hand behind his encounter with Senju Tobirama. Izuna passed out again, leaving Madara to ask Shin whether he would recover.

• Madara left Shin alone with Izuna after Izuna asked to speak with his brother privately.
• Izuna asked Shin to watch over Madara and warned him against an alliance with the Senju Clan.
• Izuna told Shin that someone had manipulated events during his operation and asked him to investigate the culprit.
• Shin promised to find the hidden enemy, but Izuna closed his eyes and passed out from exhaustion.
• Madara asked Shin whether Izuna would get better, and Shin assured him that he would.

Shin managed the Uchiha Clan’s affairs while Izuna’s condition worsened, until Izuna woke and faced Madara and Shin. Izuna said he was near death and began offering Madara one last gift.

• Shin told Uchiha Yutaka that Izuna’s condition looked grim and kept the clan’s affairs moving.
• Shin read the Ceasefire Agreement and set it aside, then spent the next two days monitoring the clan and checking on Izuna.
• A shinobi told Shin that Izuna had woken, and Shin hurried to the Clan Head Mansion.
• Uchiha An said he had done all he could, and Shin ordered the gathered Uchiha to stay outside Izuna’s room.
• Izuna told Madara to care for the Uchiha after his death, then placed his left hand over his left eye to give Madara one last gift.

Izuna gave both eyes to Madara as his final gift, then died from his illness and injuries. Shin brought Madara out of his grief-stricken shock, and Madara broke down sobbing as Shin vowed revenge on Black Zetsu.

• Izuna removed both eyes and placed them in prepared bottles for Madara, urging him to protect himself and the Uchiha.
• Izuna died, and Shin told Madara that his brother was gone.
• Madara denied Izuna's death until Shin punched him and forced him to face the truth.
• Shin ordered the Uchiha elders out, and Uchiha Yutaka told them to prepare the funeral.
• Madara wept over his failure to protect Izuna, while Shin swore that Black Zetsu would pay.

Senju Hashirama learned that Senju Tobirama had survived, then heard that Uchiha Izuna had died at Tobirama’s hands, threatening the ceasefire. After Izuna’s funeral, Madara began surgery to replace his eyes with his brother’s.

• Senju Hashirama learned that Senju Tobirama had regained consciousness and would need at least a year to recover.
• A Senju intelligence shinobi told Senju Hashirama that Uchiha Izuna had been killed by Senju Tobirama, while the Uchiha’s calls for war grew louder.
• Uchiha Madara and Shin held Izuna’s funeral, where Uchiha Dou fainted from grief.
• Uchiha Madara agreed to replace his eyes with Izuna’s and began the transplant surgery one week after the funeral.