Chapter Summaries

Obito Uchiha’s killing strike against Itachi Uchiha hit a Crow Clone, and he was forced to fight The Five. After their combined attacks drove him to retreat, hidden explosive crows detonated around him.

• Obito Uchiha slashed Itachi Uchiha, but Itachi’s body scattered into crows, revealing he had escaped with a clone technique.
• Tayuya insulted Obito over his betrayal of Lord Shisui, and Kimimaro intercepted Obito’s charge and fought him with Shikotsumyaku techniques.
• Tayuya summoned three Doki to attack Obito, while Kidomaru’s spiderweb trapped him and tangled his katana.
• Obito used Wind Release: Great Sickle Weasel to clear the webs, then evaded Jirobo’s earth spikes and Sakon and Ukon’s kunai attack.
• Obito admitted defeat and fled through the trees, but the crows on the branches exploded around him.

Itachi and the Sound Four drove Obito Uchiha off, while Shisui returned to Konoha and discussed the Dragon Vein and Akatsuki with Minato Namikaze. Shisui reflected on Minato’s character and history, ending with the realization that there was more beneath Minato’s carefully crafted image of perfection.

• Itachi emerged from a Crow Clone after Obito’s explosive attack, and the Sound Four found blood that showed Obito had escaped wounded.
• Shisui returned to Konoha and told Minato about the events in the Country of Roran, withholding sensitive details.
• Minato discussed Akatsuki’s interest in the Dragon Vein and raised the possibility of taking the Land of Rain while Nagato’s fate remained unknown.
• Shisui considered Minato’s choices as a shinobi, teacher, Hokage, husband, and father, including his efforts to guide Obito and Kakashi.
• Shisui concluded that Minato took excessive responsibility for events around him and recognized that Minato’s perfect exterior concealed something more.

Minato Namikaze and Shisui Uchiha agreed to send the Konoha Military Police Force into the Land of Rain while keeping Konoha’s other forces on defense. Naruto Uzumaki, eager to grow stronger, asked to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Minato refused, and Shisui noticed a brief red glint in Naruto’s eyes.

• Minato Namikaze and Shisui Uchiha decided that the Konoha Military Police Force would handle the Land of Rain while the rest of Konoha’s forces guarded against other villages.
• Naruto Uzumaki rushed into Minato’s office and said he had mastered the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique and defeated Sasuke Uchiha.
• Shisui Uchiha told Naruto that he had rescued Kushina on the day Naruto was born, startling Naruto and intensifying his desire to become stronger.
• Minato Namikaze offered to have Kushina teach Naruto Uzumaki Uzumaki Clan sealing techniques, but Naruto asked to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique instead.
• Minato Namikaze refused to teach Naruto the Flying Thunder God Technique yet, and Shisui Uchiha noticed a fleeting red glint in Naruto’s eyes.

Shisui returned to Konoha and reunited with Konan, and the two began a romantic relationship. After spending the evening together, they were left closer than before, while Konan's happier life contrasted with the tragedy she had faced in her previous life.

• Shisui returned home after leaving the Hokage Building and found Konan preparing pork rib soup.
• Konan greeted Shisui with relief, and he embraced her before carrying her into his room.
• Shisui and Konan became physically intimate, then Konan returned to the courtyard to tend to the soup and prepare dinner.
• Shisui and Konan ate together, and he carried her back to the room afterward.

Konan reflected on her tragic former life and found happiness with Shisui, while Itachi Uchiha led a team through the rain in pursuit of the wounded Obito Uchiha. The pursuers split up to search for him as Obito hid in a cave and treated his injury.

• Konan remembered Yahiko and Nagato, then shared an intimate night with Shisui and wished their happiness would last forever.
• Itachi Uchiha led Tayuya, Kidomaru, Jirobo, the Sakon and Ukon brothers, and Kimimaro through the rain while tracking Obito Uchiha.
• Kidomaru warned that Obito might be hiding nearby rather than heading toward the Land of Rain, so Itachi Uchiha divided the team to search both possibilities.
• Itachi Uchiha continued toward the Land of Rain while the other five searched in pairs, using Kidomaru's webs to signal if they found tracks.
• Obito Uchiha sheltered in a cave, argued with Black Zetsu, and cauterized the rotten flesh around his thigh wound with a heated kunai.

Obito relied on Black Zetsu’s Mayfly Technique to escape toward the Land of Rain while Shisui spent time with Konan and trained Sasuke. The chapter ended with Shisui preparing to teach Sasuke an advanced Rasengan technique.

• Obito cauterized his thigh wound and pressured Black Zetsu to help him evade Itachi Uchiha and the others.
• Black Zetsu agreed to guide Obito safely to the Land of Rain using the Mayfly Technique.
• Shisui woke after spending the night with Konan, and they shared an intimate breakfast together.
• A month later, Shisui praised Sasuke’s Rasengan and cautioned him against disparaging the Hokage.
• Shisui offered to teach Sasuke an advanced Rasengan technique and formed a regular Rasengan to demonstrate.

Shisui taught Sasuke the Rasengan: Lightning Flash, an invisible Lightning Release Rasengan, and Sasuke managed to use it after a day of practice. Meanwhile, Obito and Black Zetsu returned to the Akatsuki headquarters, where a distressed White Zetsu revealed that something had happened to the base.

• Shisui demonstrated how adding Lightning Release Chakra made a Rasengan invisible and powerful enough to launch across the training ground.
• Shisui patiently coached Sasuke through repeated attempts until Sasuke formed an invisible Rasengan: Lightning Flash, though it still made a faint sound.
• Obito escaped his pursuers and reached the Akatsuki base with Black Zetsu, then complained that its failed surveillance had left him surrounded.
• Obito and Black Zetsu found the headquarters strangely empty, and a White Zetsu emerged from the floor to beg Black Zetsu for justice.

Black Zetsu learned that Nagato might be dead and both remaining Rinnegan might have been destroyed, threatening his plan to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki. After ordering White Zetsu to search for Nagato and deal with Kakuzu later, he offered Obito Uchiha a way to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• White Zetsu reported that Nagato had gone to seize the Dragon Vein and that the Rinnegan in Shisui Uchiha's possession might also have been destroyed.
• Black Zetsu recalled how he had manipulated generations of Uchiha and Senju to arrange Kaguya Otsutsuki's revival, and realized Nagato's possible death could ruin the plan.
• White Zetsu told Black Zetsu that energy from the Dragon Vein's explosion blocked their search and that Kakuzu had looted Akatsuki's vault and fled.
• Black Zetsu ordered White Zetsu to recall their forces and prioritize finding Nagato, while postponing their pursuit of Kakuzu.
• Obito Uchiha mocked Akatsuki's failures, and Black Zetsu offered to help him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Black Zetsu offered Obito Uchiha the method to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan in exchange for finding Nagato or his corpse at the Dragon Vein ruins. After Obito escaped The Five, Konoha declared him a rogue ninja, and Shisui asked Itachi what he thought of Obito and his defection.

• Black Zetsu promised Obito the Mangekyō Sharingan method and its help with awakening it if he found Nagato or Nagato's corpse at the Dragon Vein ruins.
• Obito accepted Black Zetsu's condition, and Black Zetsu sent White Zetsu to investigate the Dragon Vein while Obito recovered.
• Kimimaro told Itachi that The Five had found Obito but failed to capture him alive, and Itachi took responsibility without blaming them.
• Konoha announced that Obito had defected, named him an A-rank rogue ninja, and continued its pursuit.
• Shisui reassured The Five after their failure, then kept Itachi behind and asked for his views on Obito and the defection.

Shisui considered Obito’s failed defection and learned that the World Will had become impossible to monitor while the system absorbed stolen rule fragments. Elsewhere, Obito and several White Zetsu found Nagato reduced to a mindless, half-bodied creature with the Rinnegan, leaving them unsure how to communicate with him.

• Itachi Uchiha told Shisui that Obito had defected out of resentment over being passed over for the Konoha Military Police Force captaincy, and Shisui said Obito had to bear the consequences of his choice.
• Shisui asked the system about the World Will, learned it could no longer track its actions, and heard that the system was absorbing rule fragments before a future update.
• Shisui learned that the system had gained rule power from the World Will and joked that the system seemed to benefit more than he did.
• Obito Uchiha and several White Zetsu found Nagato at the ruins of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran as a bloody, half-bodied creature with the Rinnegan.
• Obito and the White Zetsu confirmed the creature was Nagato but could not figure out how to communicate with him.

Obito confronted Nagato after the Dragon Vein explosion had fused him with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and turned him into a ravenous monster. With the White Zetsus dead and Nagato closing in, Obito stood his ground, preparing his strongest attack.

• Obito and the White Zetsus discovered that Nagato had become a half-bodied, mindless creature trapped in the crater.
• Nagato regained a sliver of awareness, killed two White Zetsus with a giant claw, and ate them before attacking the rest.
• Obito tried to escape up the crater wall, but Nagato pursued him with wooden spikes and a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Obito used Wind Style: Pressure Damage and the Crow Clone Technique to evade Nagato and blast him, but Nagato quickly resumed the pursuit.
• Obito reached the far side of the pit, saw no way to escape before Nagato caught him, and decided to unleash his strongest attack.

Obito Uchiha was captured by the mindless Nagato in the ruins of Roran and was swallowed after using the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique to try to take Nagato down with him. As Black Zetsu’s search for Nagato stalled, Shimura Danzō—believed dead at Shisui Uchiha’s hands—appeared at the Akatsuki base.

• Nagato seized Obito Uchiha and began feeding him into the maw beneath the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito’s deathly hallucination reignited his will to survive, and he activated the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique in an attempt to seal Nagato and the statue’s remnant.
• The seal only stripped tissue from the statue’s remnant, which merged with Obito before Nagato swallowed him whole.
• Nagato wandered through the deep pit while Black Zetsu’s search for him stalled because the White Zetsu sent into the ruins had vanished.
• Shimura Danzō entered the Akatsuki base and revealed himself to Black Zetsu, who recognized his Mangekyō Sharingan and realized he had survived Shisui Uchiha.

Shimura Danzō offered Black Zetsu an elite force in exchange for help killing Shisui Uchiha and taking his eyes, then agreed to search the ruins of Roran for Nagato. While Shisui spent time with Konan in Konoha, Nagato absorbed the ruins’ wandering energy, repairing himself and enlarging the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Danzō revealed that his Mangekyō technique, Shivama: Proliferation, had let him survive Shisui’s attack, though he lost his left eye and half his strength.
• Black Zetsu detected Hashirama Cells throughout Danzō’s body, and Danzō explained that Orochimaru had helped him fuse with the cells in the Land of Fields.
• Danzō offered Akatsuki his elite ninja force and asked Black Zetsu to help him kill Shisui and take his eyes.
• Black Zetsu explained that Nagato was missing after the Dragon Vein incident and that Nagato’s Rinnegan was needed to oppose Shisui; Danzō agreed to search Roran with White Zetsu forces under his command.
• Shisui and Konan stayed together in Konoha while Nagato wandered through Roran’s ruins, where the Demonic Statue absorbed energy and grew as the energy repaired Nagato’s body.

Nagato consumed the energy in the Rōran Ruins, grew stronger, and began devouring life across the Land of Rivers. Minato Namikaze convened Konoha’s clan leaders, who agreed to send an elite force to eliminate him.

• Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path consumed drifting energy in the ruins, rapidly expanding and beginning to recover their forms.
• The descendants of Roran heard Nagato’s roars from the ruins and feared that something alive remained there.
• Shisui Uchiha spent time with Konan before Itachi Uchiha summoned him to an urgent meeting with Minato Namikaze.
• Minato Namikaze revealed that Nagato had devoured the descendants of Ancient Roran and was rampaging through the Land of Rivers, consuming every living creature he encountered.
• Shisui and the clan leaders agreed Nagato had to be stopped, and Minato ordered Konoha to assemble an elite force to eliminate him.

Konoha's leaders agreed to send an elite force led by Shisui Uchiha to eliminate Nagato, who had survived the Dragon Vein explosion and was rebuilding his body by devouring life. Shisui found Nagato in the Land of Rivers, where Danzō and Black Zetsu were also tracking him.

• Minato Namikaze secured the clans' support for an operation against Nagato and appointed Shisui to lead it.
• Fugaku Uchiha asked Shisui to bring Itachi Uchiha along, and Shisui agreed to train him.
• Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path hunted and devoured creatures in the Land of Rivers as their bodies regenerated.
• Shimura Danzō and Black Zetsu watched Nagato, but Nagato detected them and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that blasted Danzō away.
• Shisui arrived with more than a dozen Konoha ninja and saw that Nagato had become a mindless monster.

Shisui led Konoha shinobi to confront the mindless Nagato, while Muta Aburame and Tokuma Hyuga moved to pursue Shimura Danzō and Black Zetsu. Shisui discovered that Nagato had gained a powerful Wood Release ability and continued fighting him.

• Shisui identified Shimura Danzō and Black Zetsu at a distance and assigned Muta Aburame and Tokuma Hyuga to pursue them.
• Shisui attacked Nagato with Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation Arrow, but Nagato unleashed chakra to clear a safe space in the flames.
• Nagato recognized Shisui and fired wooden spikes at him from beneath his body.
• Shisui countered with Great Fire Annihilation, but the spikes pierced the flames unharmed.
• Shisui realized Nagato's new Wood Release resembled Hashirama Senju's and warned himself that a sane Nagato could become even more powerful.

Shisui Uchiha wondered whether his Sage Body and mastery of earth and water chakra could let him develop Wood Release, then used powerful elemental combinations to trap and burn Nagato. Nagato fused with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and attacked with a Tailed Beast Bomb, which Shisui’s Yata Mirror absorbed and began to reproduce.

• Shisui considered the dangers of fusing earth and water chakra to create Wood Release, though he did not yet know how to master it.
• Shisui trapped Nagato in a swamp and crushing rock enclosure, then covered him in clay and set it ablaze with Fire Release.
• Nagato fused completely with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, emerging as a towering, one-eyed monster with Nagato’s head.
• The monster fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Shisui, who blocked it with Susanoo’s Yata Mirror.
• The Yata Mirror absorbed the Tailed Beast Bomb and began forming an identical attack as Black Zetsu and Shimura Danzō watched in disbelief.

Shisui fought the mindless fusion of Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, damaging it and devouring its severed arms to strengthen his bloodlines. Black Zetsu recognized Shisui as a major threat to Kaguya Otsutsuki’s revival, while the chapter ended with his thoughts on the mixed heritage of Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki.

• Shisui reflected a Tailed Beast Bomb toward the monster, which fled but was struck by the blast.
• Shisui used Yasaka Magatama to slice into the monster, forcing it to sever its own arms to escape.
• Shisui used Yamata to devour the severed arms, raising his Hagoromo Otsutsuki, Ten-Tails, and Sage Body development.
• Shimura Danzō and Black Zetsu watched in shock as Shisui absorbed the Demonic Statue’s flesh.
• Black Zetsu feared that Shisui would obstruct Kaguya Otsutsuki’s resurrection and considered the origins and mixed human-Otsutsuki bloodlines of Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki.

Konoha shinobi led by Tokuma Hyuga and Muta Aburame confronted Shimura Danzō and Black Zetsu, but Danzō's strength far exceeded their expectations. As Danzō prepared another powerful technique, the squad struggled to hold him back behind a jointly cast Earth Style Wall.

• Muta Aburame sent a swarm of Kikaichū after Black Zetsu and Shimura Danzō, and Danzō burned a path through them with Wild Dance.
• Tokuma Hyuga tracked the pair with his Byakugan as Konoha shinobi launched a barrage of attacks, forcing Danzō to retreat while Black Zetsu hid underground with the Mayfly Technique.
• Tokuma Hyuga and the other shinobi surrounded Danzō, who activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and unleashed a powerful surge of chakra.
• Danzō attacked the squad with Wind Release: Shuriken, and the shinobi joined together to cast an Earth Style Wall for defense.
• Muta Aburame sensed through his insects that Danzō remained relaxed and was preparing another high-powered ninjutsu as the wall began to give way.

Danzō overwhelmed Tokuma Hyuga’s Konoha squad with powerful Wind Release and revealed that he could use Wood Release after fusing with Hashirama Cells. As the squad tried to escape his chakra-draining vines, they abandoned Fire Release and began attacking with Wind Release.

• Muta Aburame and Tokuma Hyuga detected Danzō preparing another attack and warned the squad to scatter.
• Danzō fired a Vacuum Great Sphere through the crumbling Earth Style Wall, forcing the Konoha shinobi to dodge.
• Danzō unleashed Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial, sending chakra-absorbing saplings across the battlefield toward the squad.
• The Konoha shinobi tried Fire Release, but the flames had no effect on Danzō’s Wood Release.
• Tokuma Hyuga directed the squad to try Wind Release and Earth Release, and the shinobi began using Wind Release techniques against the vines.