Chapter Summaries

Shin used rumors to encourage a sense of kinship and a desire for peace between the Uchiha and Senju, preparing them for an alliance. He began the plan’s second phase by sending the Uchiha a privately signed Ceasefire Agreement, intending to unite the clans against the remaining southern clans.

• Shin spread rumors that the Uchiha and Senju shared an ancestor, hoping to foster kinship between them.
• Rumors about war’s misery and the need for the strongest clans to ally helped prepare both clans for an alliance conference.
• Two months later, Shin declared the start of the plan’s second phase and sent a Black Shadow off with a folded paper.
• Shin revealed that the paper was the Uchiha-Senju Ceasefire Agreement and planned to use the five remaining southern clans as a common enemy.

Two Shimura Clan ninjas escaped an Uchiha ambush with intelligence about the Uchiha and Senju, while their comrades were killed or left behind. The survivors reached Shimura territory, where the chapter recounted the clan’s defeat by the Uchiha a century earlier and its recovery since then.

• Three injured Shimura Clan ninjas fled through the woods as Uchiha Secret Ninja pursued them.
• The Shimura leader used a suicidal wind technique to hold off the pursuers, allowing two comrades to escape with the intelligence.
• The three Uchiha Secret Ninja killed the wounded Shimura ninja and confirmed that their mission was complete.
• The two surviving Shimura ninjas reached their clan’s territory and asked the sentries to take them to the clan head with intelligence about the Uchiha and Senju.
• The chapter explained that the Shimura had lost their former territory to the Uchiha a hundred years earlier, then gradually recovered their strength in the south.

Shin explained to Madara how the Uchiha and Senju planned to use peace and a shared threat to overcome their mutual hatred. In the south, Shimura Ken discovered their ceasefire agreement and plans to unify the Land of Fire, then summoned the southern clan heads to discuss the danger.

• Shin told Madara that the plan was progressing and that intelligence about the Senju-Uchiha alliance had reached a southern clan.
• Madara doubted that a common enemy could erase the Uchiha and Senju's hatred, but Shin argued that people would protect the peace once they experienced its benefits.
• Shimura Ken read a bloodstained report revealing the ceasefire agreement signed by Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
• A wounded Shimura shinobi gave Shimura Ken a battle plan showing that the united clans intended to target the south and unify the Land of Fire.
• Shimura Ken called for a meeting with the Inuzuka, Sarutobi, Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, and Aburame clan heads.

Shimura Ken gathered the southern clan heads in Nanban City and revealed intelligence reports claiming the Uchiha and Senju had joined forces. The clan heads reacted with disbelief as the Nara Clan Head studied the reports and considered their implications.

• Shimura Ken welcomed Aburame Ten'gyo, who had recently led the Aburame south after their former Clan Head died in an ambush against Uchiha Shin.
• The Inuzuka, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, and Sarutobi Clan Heads arrived, with the Sarutobi Clan Head ignoring Aburame Ten'gyo and Shimura Ken.
• Shimura Ken explained that an intelligence squad had found a secret Uchiha base and obtained two reports at great cost.
• Aburame Ten'gyo and the Inuzuka and Sarutobi Clan Heads reacted in disbelief as they read the reports.
• The Nara Clan Head examined the reports for ten minutes before passing them to the Yamanaka and Akimichi Clan Heads, who exclaimed that the Uchiha and Senju had joined forces.

After learning that the Uchiha and Senju planned to ally, the southern clans formed the Southern Alliance to resist them. The Nara Clan Head became its leader, with the Sarutobi, Inuzuka, and Shimura Clan Heads as deputies.

• Shin ordered Madara to announce the Uchiha-Senju alliance, schedule an Alliance Conference in three days, and prepare the south for war.
• Shimura Ken told the seven southern clan heads that the Uchiha and Senju planned to ally, and the Nara Clan Head warned that the clans faced surrender or death.
• The Nara Clan Head urged the southern clans to strike first and disrupt the alliance before the Uchiha and Senju could unite the Land of Fire.
• The seven clan heads set aside their disputes, agreed to form the Southern Alliance, and named the Nara Clan Head as leader with the Sarutobi, Inuzuka, and Shimura Clan Heads as deputies.

Shinji and Uchiha Madara held a Supreme Decision-making Body meeting to approve a ceasefire agreement and an alliance with the Senju Clan. At the Clan Meeting, Madara prepared to announce the alliance to the Uchiha Jonin but hesitated before speaking.

• Uchiha Madara called a vote on the ceasefire agreement and the planned alliance with the Senju Clan.
• Uchiha Yutaka approved the plan, and Shinji confirmed that he had no objections.
• Uchiha Yutaka left to prepare the Clan Meeting while Madara and Shinji discussed how the clan members might react to the alliance.
• The bell summoned the Uchiha Jonin in the compound to the Conference Hall, where Uchiha Yutaka confirmed everyone had arrived.
• Uchiha Madara addressed the assembled clan members and began to announce a major matter, then hesitated.

Madara announced that the Uchiha and Senju would cease hostilities, provoking furious objections from clan members who had lost family in the war. As Madara wavered under their grief, Shin intervened and confronted the assembled Uchiha, leaving them cowed and unable to speak.

• Madara explained his reasons for seeking peace and announced the ceasefire agreement with the Senju.
• Uchiha clan members protested the ceasefire, citing the deaths of their relatives at Senju hands.
• Uchiha Taku and other Peak Jonin approached Madara to demand that he reject the agreement, and Madara hesitated.
• Shin shattered a table with a chakra-powered chop and ordered the Uchiha to return to their seats.
• Shin challenged anyone who opposed the ceasefire to step forward and state their grievance, but his pressure left some Jonin unable to speak.

Shin used chakra and an impassioned speech to stop the Uchiha from rejecting peace with the Senju. The ceasefire remained in place, and preparations began for an alliance ceremony in three days.

• Shin suppressed the Uchiha clan members’ voices and challenged their hatred of the Senju.
• Shin reminded the clan of its losses and urged its members to protect their living families by pursuing peace.
• Shin declared that the ceasefire would stand and that the alliance ceremony with the Senju would take place in three days.
• Uchiha Yutaka agreed to prepare for the ceremony, and the clan members left the hall in silence.
• Madara thanked Shin for handling the meeting, and Shin told Uchiha Yutaka to spread news of the alliance quickly.

The Uchiha and Senju announced a ceasefire and an alliance conference in three days, prompting seven southern clans to plan an attack to sabotage it. As both clans prepared amid internal resistance, Shin and Uzumaki Mito awaited the conference at the Uchiha compound.

• The Uchiha and Senju announced their ceasefire and alliance conference, and the Seven Clans decided to attack the gathering and disrupt the alliance.
• Senju Hashirama overruled opposition within his clan and secured agreement to join forces with the Uchiha.
• The Uchiha and Senju chose Red Village, near the Uchiha border, as the conference site.
• Shin refused Uchiha clansmen's appeals to abandon the alliance and eventually raised a barrier around his courtyard to keep them out.
• Uzumaki Mito told Shin that peace was difficult to achieve and would not be cherished if it came too easily.

Uzumaki Mito updated Shin on her Ninja Scroll research, and Uchiha Madara and Shin led an elite delegation to Red Village for the Senju alliance ceremony. As the Senju arrived, three conspirators secretly used Mind Transfer and Mind Connection Jutsu to control four Uchiha patrolmen.

• Uzumaki Mito told Shin that her Ninja Scroll research could store and release some water-style jutsu, but required more Dawn Redwood bark.
• Uchiha Madara and Shin set out with thirty elite Uchiha members for the alliance ceremony at Red Village.
• Uchiha Madara ordered the Uchiha Jonin to search the village for ambushes while the Senju waited beneath their clan flag.
• Three hidden figures used Mind Transfer Jutsu and Mind Connection Jutsu to control four Uchiha Jonin and send them back to the gathering.
• Uchiha Ten reported that the patrol had found nothing unusual, and Shin briefly studied the four controlled men before the Senju arrived.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama began formal negotiations in Red Village and agreed to accept a clan-wide ceasefire. Nara Shefeng and his allies watched from hiding and waited for the right moment to act.

• Senju Hashirama arrived with roughly twenty-six Senju and sat down with Madara and Shin to begin the negotiations.
• Hashirama rejected Senju Xiangyang's suggestion to inspect the village, saying he trusted the Uchiha to keep them safe.
• Nara Shefeng, the Akimichi Clan Head, and Yamanaka Hailin watched from a distant hut, and Shefeng ordered Hailin to control four Uchiha without being detected.
• Hashirama formally offered the Uchiha a ceasefire agreement, and Madara accepted on behalf of his clan.
• Hailin asked whether they should act after the clans made peace, but Shefeng told him to wait because the negotiations had only just begun.

After signing a ceasefire, the Uchiha and Senju exchanged prisoners and a valuable ninjutsu scroll as they negotiated an alliance. Just as Madara asked who would hold authority over the alliance, the Nara and Yamanaka launched a surprise attack that sent controlled shinobi rushing at Hashirama and Madara.

• Madara and Hashirama signed the Ceasefire Agreement, and Hashirama proposed an alliance.
• Shin accepted the idea of an alliance and asked the Senju to show their sincerity.
• Senju Tenhui offered to release seventeen captured Uchiha, and Shin gave Hashirama an S-Rank Earth Style Ninjutsu scroll in return.
• Madara and Hashirama discussed alliance terms until Madara asked who would hold authority.
• Nara Shefeng and the Yamanaka clan head used their secret techniques to control shinobi, who attacked Hashirama and Madara.

Uchiha and Senju clansmen clashed after attacks on their clan heads, while Uchiha Shin confronted the conspirators behind the provocation. The hut exploded, and Uchiha Madara charged at the three figures who emerged from it.

• Uchiha Madara deflected the Senju Jonin's attacks, while Senju Hashirama defeated and restrained the Uchiha attackers.
• Uchiha Ten and Senju Tenhui attacked each other, triggering the Uchiha and Senju clansmen to charge into battle.
• Uchiha Shin appeared behind Nara Shefeng and the other conspirators as they prepared to leave, and the Akimichi Clan Head attacked him.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Style to bind and separate most of the fighting clansmen.
• Uchiha Madara spotted the hut and charged at Nara Shefeng and the other two figures after an explosion sent them flying out.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama fought the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clan heads at the Alliance Conference. Nara Shefeng used an explosive escape to get his group away, and Shin appeared afterward to criticize Madara and Hashirama for letting them escape.

• Nara Shefeng, the Akimichi Clan Head, and Yamanaka Hailin attacked Uchiha Madara, but Madara struck back with Susanoo and sent the Akimichi Clan Head flying.
• Senju Hashirama joined the battle, while Nara Shefeng cut through his Wood Style vines and used the Shadow Mutual Combat Technique to make Hashirama's shadow attack him.
• Madara overcame Yamanaka Hailin's Mind-Heart Connection Technique and brought his Susanoo greatsword down, but the Akimichi Clan Head rescued Hailin and Shefeng.
• Hashirama entered Sage Mode and pinned Nara Shefeng's living shadow beneath the Gate of the Great God.
• Shefeng set off at least a thousand Explosive Tags to cover the group's retreat, and Madara and Hashirama found their opponents gone after the dust cleared.
• Shin appeared and called Madara and Hashirama a letdown for allowing all three clan heads to escape.

Shin, Madara, and Hashirama exposed the southern clans’ attempt to undermine the Uchiha-Senju alliance, uniting both clans against them. Before sunset, Madara and Hashirama agreed to treat the Senju as allies until the fighting in the south ended, though many treaty details remained unsettled.

• Madara confronted Shin for watching the fight, and Shin argued that his intervention had helped Ino-Shika-Cho escape.
• Shin claimed the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans had tried to drive a wedge between the Uchiha and Senju, and questioning the captured Jonin supported his account.
• Shin’s accusation angered members of both clans and helped them set aside their hostility during the alliance ceremony.
• Madara and Hashirama reached a verbal agreement to make the Senju temporary allies until the southern conflict ended, while leaving unresolved treaty issues for later.
• Hashirama thanked Madara and clasped his hand beneath the setting sun as the Uchiha and Senju flags flew together.

Shin visited Uchiha Dou after returning from meeting with the Senju, and Dou asked him about the rumored ceasefire agreement. Dou’s questions left Shin facing an explanation about the alliance efforts and Madara’s secret dealings.

• Shin and Madara returned to Uchiha lands with their fighters and arranged to meet at the Conference Hall the next day.
• Shin went home, where a messenger told him that Uchiha Dou had been waiting to see him since daytime.
• Shin visited Dou and learned that his old injuries had worsened and that he believed he was nearing the end of his life.
• Shin and Dou reminisced about their time in the north, and Shin called him Uncle Dou.
• Dou said he had heard that Madara secretly signed a ceasefire agreement with Senju Hashirama and asked Shin to explain what had happened.

Shin tried to persuade the gravely ill Uchiha Dou to support peace with the Senju by arguing that generations of war had brought the Uchiha only loss and grief. Dou began to waver as Shin described a future where the clan could live without war.

• Uchiha Dou challenged Shin over agreeing to an alliance with the Senju and insisted that the Uchiha must defeat their enemies.
• Shin argued that the long war had depleted the Uchiha and asked whether revenge was worth the cost.
• Shin described the children and clan members lost to war, and urged Dou to choose peace for the Uchiha’s future.
• Shin invoked Dou’s dead son, Uchiha Jing, and said Jing had wished for a world without war.
• Shin described his dream of Uchiha families living freely and peacefully through the seasons, and Dou said he would like to see such a clan compound.

Uchiha Dou died peacefully after Shin spoke with him about an alliance with the Senju, and Uchiha Madara prepared his funeral while sending Shin south as war threatened. In the south, the Ino-Shika-Cho and the Sarutobi Clan Head prepared a surprise attack on the Uchiha.

• Shin told Uzumaki Mito that the Uchiha and Senju had reached a verbal agreement, but a funeral bell interrupted their breakfast.
• Shin hurried to Uchiha Dou's residence and learned that the Great Elder had died peacefully at dawn.
• Uchiha Madara announced Dou's death, ordered the highest-ranking elder's funeral rites, and asked Shin to manage clan affairs as fighting began in the south.
• Shin left for the south that night, fearing Uchiha Yujian could not withstand the Seven Southern Clans alone.
• Nara Shefeng and the Sarutobi Clan Head agreed to launch a surprise attack on the Uchiha that night.

Uchiha Yujian prepared Nanshan City for an expected attack as four allied clans assembled to seize the Uchiha stronghold. The Uchiha discovered the approaching army and struck first, forcing Nara Shefeng to direct a head-on assault.

• Uchiha Yujian received orders to guard against the Southern Allied Forces and put three thousand Uchiha on alert.
• Nara Shefeng, the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clan heads, and the Sarutobi Clan Head prepared five thousand allied shinobi to attack Nanshan City.
• Nara Shefeng ordered the allied force to approach the city quietly under cover of darkness.
• A signal flare exposed the allies, and Uchiha shinobi launched Great Fireballs that inflicted heavy casualties on the unprepared front ranks.
• Nara Shefeng used Yamanaka Hailin's mind-transfer technique to direct the allies into a head-on assault, assigning the Sarutobi to counter the fire, the Nara to check for Explosive Tags, and the Akimichi to charge the gate.

The four-clan alliance attacked Nanshan City, but Uchiha Yujian’s barrier stopped the Akimichi charge and resisted the Nara and Yamanaka clans’ combined assault. As Nara Shefeng searched for a way through, the Sarutobi Clan Head began an Ultimate Technique.

• Nara Shefeng coordinated the allied ninjas as they uncovered explosive tags and built a stone road for the Akimichi charge.
• Uchiha Yujian detonated the exposed tags and used Majestic Destroyer Flame, but the Akimichi Clan Head smashed through the fire with Multi-Size Technique.
• The Akimichi Clan Head and the charging Akimichi members collided with the nearly invisible barrier around Nanshan City.
• Nara and Yamanaka members attacked the barrier together, while Uchiha Yujian and the Uchiha Clan defended it with fire techniques.
• Nara Shefeng realized the barrier distributed force and said they needed to concentrate their chakra on one point.
• The Sarutobi Clan Head stepped forward and began the Ultimate Technique: Flame Dragon God Cannon, prompting Nara Shefeng to order the front line to retreat.