Chapter Summaries

H玄 managed Uchiha Clan affairs while Madara recovered from eye replacement surgery, then urged him to remove his bandages. Madara opened his eyes and discovered that Izuna's power had made them far stronger than before.

• Uchiha Yutaka gave H玄 the harvest records, and H玄 approved storing the grain.
• Uchiha Yutaka raised the possibility of expanding the highest decision-making body, but H玄 deferred the decision until Madara recovered.
• H玄 assigned Uchiha Hon to the Frontline Camp and Uchiha Ten to the Intelligence Department.
• Two days later, H玄 visited Madara and urged him to remove his eye bandages so he could resume handling clan affairs.
• Madara uncovered his eyes, saw clearly again, and felt a vast power from the Mangekyo pattern formed by his eyes merging with Izuna's.

Shin showed Madara the Uchiha’s heavy losses and urged him to consider the clan’s weakened state before choosing whether to go to war. Madara remained torn between avenging Izuna and honoring his childhood promise to Hashirama, and Shin offered him a way to decide.

• Madara said he wanted to avenge Izuna, and Shin handed him a report on the Uchiha’s casualties, reserves, and remaining Peak Jonin.
• Shin explained that the Kazama Valley Campaign had badly weakened the Uchiha and that renewing the war could leave both the Uchiha and Senju battered.
• Madara admitted he did not want to fight Hashirama and still wanted to help fulfill their childhood dream, but he could not accept joining the Senju after Izuna’s death.
• Shin said he had a method for choosing between two things, caught a drifting leaf, and asked Madara whether he would pick one or the other.

After Madara guessed the leaf count, Shin told him that a hidden mastermind had likely caused Izuna’s death and manipulated him, prompting Madara to join the search for Black Zetsu. The chapter ended with Hashirama receiving Madara’s challenge to a fight to the death in three days.

• Madara guessed that Shin held an odd number of leaves and decided to avenge Izuna in his own way rather than start a war.
• Shin told Madara that Izuna had suspected a mastermind was plotting against the Uchiha and that he believed Black Zetsu was responsible for Izuna’s death.
• Madara connected the revelation to his strange dream of Indra and agreed to help find Black Zetsu.
• Shin sent Uchiha intelligence shinobi across the Land of Fire to search for Black Zetsu and investigated the clan archives for the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi.
• Hashirama worried that Madara might attack the Senju, then received Madara’s letter challenging him to a fight to the death at Peak of Kazama Valley in three days.

Shin learned that Madara had challenged Hashirama to a duel and expected their fight could lead to peace between the Uchiha and Senju. With Hashirama occupied, Shin decided to use the opportunity to steal the Uzumaki Clan's Raw Stone and kill the surviving Uzumaki Great Elder.

• Hashirama accepted Madara's one-on-one challenge.
• Shin reassured Uchiha Ten that the duel was unlikely to be fatal and assigned him to watch the Senju for signs of an ambush, granting him authority to mobilize Uchiha forces.
• Shin asked Uchiha Ten about the search for Black Zetsu and Onmyo Seimei, but Ten reported that the intelligence corps had found no clues.
• Shin considered how Madara and Hashirama's fight might lead to an alliance between the Uchiha and Senju and the founding of Konoha.
• Shin decided to exploit Hashirama's absence to steal the Uzumaki Clan's Raw Stone and kill the old Uzumaki Great Elder.

Shin pressured Hyuga Tamamo into helping him by exploiting the threat of a Senju-Uchiha alliance and the Hyuga Clan’s vulnerable position. Tamamo finally asked what he wanted her to do.

• After dinner, Shin heard from his maid that Madara had challenged Senju Hashirama to a duel in three days.
• Shin summoned Hyuga Tamamo and asked her to handle a task for him, but she initially refused to put effort into helping him.
• Shin offered to protect and support the Hyuga Clan if Tamamo helped him, but she questioned whether she could trust him.
• Shin showed Tamamo a ceasefire agreement and argued that an alliance between the Senju and Uchiha could leave the Hyuga dependent on Hashirama’s favor.
• Tamamo reluctantly asked Shin what the job was.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama faced off at Kazama Valley while shinobi from many clans watched to assess their strength. After an exchange of sword and fan strikes, Madara demanded that Hashirama defeat him before he would sign the Ceasefire Agreement and unleashed a powerful Fire Style technique.

• Clans from across the region sent spies to watch the duel, while Uchiha and Senju forces gathered at Kazama Valley.
• Hashirama arrived and told the Senju to watch from a distance and avoid fighting the Uchiha.
• Hashirama asked Madara to reconsider the feud, but Madara cited Izuna’s death and attacked him with his Gunbai.
• Hashirama and Madara clashed with their weapons as their clans watched and argued over who had the advantage.
• Madara awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, challenged Hashirama to beat him before he would sign the agreement, and unleashed Fire Style: Great Flame Myriad Flower Break.

Uchiha Madara overwhelmed the battlefield with enhanced Fire Style techniques, and Senju Hashirama countered with Wood Style: Tree World Emergence. As their battle continued, an uninvited guest arrived in Uzumaki Village in the Land of Whirlpools.

• Uchiha Madara unleashed Great Flame Myriad Flower Break, sending a vast barrage of fireballs toward Senju Hashirama.
• Senju Hashirama dodged Madara's attack and asked whether defeating him would make Madara sign the Ceasefire Agreement.
• Uchiha Madara, angered by Hashirama's words, attacked with a barrage of powerful Fire Style techniques.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Style: Bringer of Bag Technique to scatter the flames, then summoned Tree World Emergence when the fire kept returning.
• The Uchiha and nearby intelligence shinobi fled as Hashirama's trees spread across the battlefield, while Madara fought off the vines with his Uchiha Gunbai.
• An uninvited guest arrived in Uzumaki Village in the Land of Whirlpools.

Shin infiltrated the Uzumaki Clan’s compound to find the Raw Stone, killing two guards and bypassing the seals protecting a hidden underground chamber. He reached a trapped hall and found the stone on a pedestal, surrounded by powerful sealing symbols.

• Shin entered Uzumaki Village in disguise and headed for the clan’s central compound to search for the Raw Stone.
• Two Uzumaki Jonin attacked Shin outside the Conference Hall, but his intangibility let him kill them both with a Kunai.
• Shin found the sealed scroll in the Uzumaki Great Elder’s residence and used his Sharingan and knowledge from Mito to undo its seal.
• Shin passed through the stone door and descended the hidden staircase underground.
• A golden sealing net and arrows attacked Shin, but passed harmlessly through him as he saw the Raw Stone in the center of the hall.

Uchiha Shin, disguised as the Black-Robed Man called Owl, broke into the Uzumaki Clan’s secret chamber and took the Raw Stone. After the Uzumaki Great Elder arrived, Shin attacked him, and the wounded elder invoked the Reaper Death Seal.

• Shin crossed the chamber’s traps and shattered the barrier protecting the Raw Stone.
• The Uzumaki Great Elder confronted Shin, who introduced himself as Owl and attacked from behind.
• The Great Elder’s sealing chains passed through Shin as he used space-time ninjutsu to evade attacks and press his assault.
• Shin’s Kamui destroyed the Great Elder’s left arm, and the elder suspected he was an Uchiha.
• The Great Elder chose to protect the Raw Stone and unleashed the Reaper Death Seal.

Shin fought the Uzumaki Great Elder, who used the Reaper Death Seal to try to kill him. Shin stopped the Soul Reaper with his time-controlling abilities and aged the Great Elder to death, leaving the Soul Reaper to consume the old man's soul.

• The Uzumaki Great Elder summoned the Soul Reaper with the Reaper Death Seal and warned Shin that they would die together.
• Shin used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to see the Soul Reaper and dodged its attacks while striking the Great Elder with Wood Style.
• The Great Elder broke free of Shin’s Wood Style and unleashed the Soul Reaper’s arms from several directions.
• Shin froze the Soul Reaper’s arms in a time-stopping domain, then overwhelmed the Great Elder in a chakra struggle.
• Shin accelerated time around the Great Elder, who withered and died within seconds.
• The Soul Reaper consumed the chakra that burst from the Great Elder’s corpse and faded away.

Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara fought in Kazama Valley, with Madara's strengthened Susanoo overpowering Hashirama's Wood Style. Hashirama and Madara ordered their clans to retreat ten miles as Hashirama began entering Sage Mode, while the other clans' intelligence shinobi stayed behind.

• Uchiha Madara used his Susanoo to break through Senju Hashirama's Wood Style attacks and urged him to use Sage Mode.
• Senju Hashirama recognized that Madara had grown much stronger and ordered all Senju to retreat at least ten miles.
• Uchiha Madara also ordered all Uchiha to retreat ten miles, while the other clans' intelligence shinobi chose to remain.
• Senju Hashirama gathered chakra and began entering Sage Mode as Uchiha Madara prepared to face him.

Madara awakened a more powerful Susanoo and clashed with Hashirama’s Wood Human, while the shock waves devastated the battlefield and injured or killed scouts. Elsewhere, Xuan took the Raw Stone from the Uzumaki Great Elder’s chamber and vanished before the Uzumaki reinforcements could stop him.

• Madara revealed his transformed Mangekyo and summoned a colossal Complete Body Susanoo.
• Hashirama answered with the Wood Human Technique, and the two giants began fighting.
• The giants’ collision sent shock waves through the area, forcing the scouts to seek cover as some were killed or badly injured.
• Xuan passed the dead Uzumaki Great Elder, took the Raw Stone, and declared that Black Zetsu’s end was near.
• Two Uzumaki Peak Jonin and several Elite Jonin found Xuan in the chamber, but he vanished using his Sharingan.

Uchiha Shin left his hidden room and headed to Kazama Valley, where Madara and Senju Hashirama fought with their strongest techniques. As the surviving intelligence ninjas attempted to escape, Madara and Hashirama unleashed attacks that would decide the battle.

• Uchiha Shin dismissed his Shadow Clone, left the secret room beneath the Ancestral Hall, and learned that Madara had gone to Kazama Valley to fight Senju Hashirama.
• Uchiha Shin traveled to Kazama Valley as Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo and Hashirama’s Wood Human devastated the battlefield.
• Madara and Hashirama continued fighting without either gaining the advantage, while the intelligence ninjas endured the deadly shockwaves and lost most of their number.
• An Elite Jonin sent a message urging the surviving Elite Jonin to break through when the shockwaves weakened, and they prepared to flee.
• Madara charged his Susanoo for a decisive slash as Hashirama summoned countless wooden arms, and the surviving intelligence ninjas used Body Flicker to escape.
• Madara launched Susanoo: Myriad Slashes, and Hashirama unleashed Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.

Madara and Hashirama clashed with their strongest techniques, unleashing destruction that killed the intelligence operatives watching them and devastated Kazama Valley. The Uchiha and Senju survivors endured the shock wave, then stared at the ruined landscape.

• Madara's Complete Body Susanoo struck with the Sword of Forest and Void, and Hashirama countered with Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
• The clash sent a massive shock wave across the battlefield, killing every intelligence operative who had come to observe.
• Madara and Hashirama continued trading attacks as their chakra created a mushroom cloud visible from a hundred miles away.
• Uchiha Ten raised Uchiha Flame Formation to shield the Uchiha from the shock wave, while a Senju Peak Jonin protected the Senju with Earth Style.
• After the impact subsided, the clans saw that Kazama Valley had been flattened, and Uchiha Ten wondered whether humans could truly cause such destruction.

After their battle ended in exhaustion, Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara laughed together and recalled their childhood dream of building a village. Hashirama offered his life in place of Tobirama and urged Madara to fulfill their dream, leaving Madara unable to act with the kunai in his hand.

• Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara collapsed after fighting to a draw, then laughed together in the rain.
• Senju Hashirama described his dream of a peaceful village where the Senju and Uchiha lived together.
• Uchiha Madara said Izuna's death made their dream impossible and rejected Hashirama's apology.
• Senju Hashirama gave Uchiha Madara a kunai and offered his life to prevent Madara from killing Tobirama.
• Senju Hashirama asked Uchiha Madara to kill him, honor their dream, and establish a ceasefire, but Madara could not bring himself to grip the kunai.

Madara spared Hashirama and agreed that he would live to atone for Izuna, while Hashirama eagerly discussed uniting their clans and ending the wars. Their clans arrived and threatened to renew the conflict, but Shin sent everyone away so the three could continue talking.

• Madara stopped his kunai before it reached Hashirama’s throat, broke it, and said Hashirama had to live and atone for Izuna.
• Hashirama asked Madara how to unite their clans, where to build their village, and how to end the wars, while Madara only snorted.
• The Uchiha and Senju arrived and took tense positions behind their clan heads.
• Shin arrived, rejected Uchiha Ten’s suggestion to attack the Senju, and ordered both clans’ fighters to withdraw.
• Hashirama and Madara sent their own guards away, and Shin sat down and invited them to continue their conversation.

Shin, Hashirama, and Madara agreed on a plan to overcome the feud between their clans and signed a ceasefire agreement in Kazama Valley, marking the start of a new era. Shin and Madara returned toward the Uchiha Clan Compound while the search for the person who framed Izuna remained unresolved.

• Shin proposed a plan to resolve the hostility between the Senju and Uchiha clans, and Hashirama and Madara approved it.
• Madara signed the ceasefire agreement, and Hashirama secured his copy in a wooden box.
• The three men watched sunlight break through the storm, then parted and headed in different directions.
• Shin told Madara that the investigation into the mastermind who framed Izuna had found no clues, but that he had made arrangements to catch him.
• Madara and Shin met a group of Uchiha clan members and continued to the Uchiha Clan Compound.

Senju Hashirama returned from signing a ceasefire agreement with the Uchiha, but learned that the Uzumaki Great Elder had been killed by a masked figure he identified as Owl. Shin showed Hyuga Tamamo the signed agreement and ordered her to find Black Zetsu, promising the Hyuga Clan's safety if she succeeded.

• Senju Hashirama returned to the Senju grounds in high spirits after signing the Ceasefire Agreement with Uchiha Madara.
• A messenger told Senju Hashirama that the Uzumaki Great Elder had been killed by a black-robed figure wearing a Whirlpool Mask, and Hashirama exclaimed that the culprit was Owl.
• Shin returned to the Uchiha grounds, bathed, and asked his maid about Hyuga Tamamo, then summoned her to discuss a task.
• Hyuga Tamamo went to Shin, who showed her the Ceasefire Agreement bearing Uchiha Madara's signature.
• Shin ordered Hyuga Tamamo to find Black Zetsu and promised to protect the Hyuga Clan if she succeeded, warning her of the consequences if she failed.

Shin appointed Hyuga Tamamo to lead the Uchiha intelligence shinobi in a hunt for Black Zetsu while he turned to advancing the Uchiha-Senju alliance. News of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama’s battle spread across the Warring States Period, leaving the great clan heads stunned by the destruction at Kazama Valley.

• Shin named Hyuga Tamamo acting leader of the Uchiha intelligence shinobi and left her to direct the Black Zetsu investigation.
• Tamamo launched Operation 'Capture Black Zetsu' and ordered the shinobi to search Uchiha records for ninjutsu that could save someone certain to die.
• Tamamo used Shin’s account of Onmyo Seimei’s survival as the lead for her search.
• Shin headed to the Conference Hall to seek Uchiha Yutaka’s cooperation with the Uchiha-Senju alliance plan.
• The great clan heads learned that Madara and Hashirama’s battle had killed every intelligence shinobi sent to observe it, then saw the devastation at Kazama Valley.

After completing an escort mission, Uchiha Ka stopped at Old Man Zhong's teahouse and joined a crowd listening to Uchiha Gui recount Uchiha Madara's battle with Senju Hashirama. Gui then revealed that the Uchiha and Senju shared an ancestor, the Sage of Six Paths, and began explaining the Uchiha's origins.

• Uchiha Ka collected his mission payment and went to Old Man Zhong's teahouse for chilled rice wine.
• Uchiha Ka noticed the crowd and learned from Old Man Zhong that Uchiha Gui was recounting the clan head's battle with Senju Hashirama.
• Uchiha Gui described the battle at Kazama Valley and the aftermath to the captivated Uchiha listeners.
• Uchiha Gui revealed that the Uchiha and Senju clans descended from the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Gui began telling the story of the Uchiha's origins, following Elder Yutaka's instructions.