Chapter Summaries

Shisui and Minato destroyed the Six Paths Puppets in battle, leaving only the Deva Path. Nagato prepared to use a powerful move as Shisui explained the Deva Path’s abilities to Minato.

• Shisui used Susanoo’s bone projectiles and sword to pressure the Six Paths Puppets, then defeated the Animal Path with a Rasengan.
• Shisui revealed that his Bone Spirit Life ability let him control Susanoo remotely while fighting on his own.
• Shisui destroyed the Human Path while the Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to stop Susanoo’s sword.
• Minato returned after defeating the Asura and Preta Paths and killed the Naraka Path with a Rasengan.
• Shisui told Minato about the Deva Path’s attractive and repulsive powers and its five-second cooldown, while Nagato decided to use another move.

Nagato began using Chibaku Tensei against Shisui and Minato, who failed to destroy the black orb before it rose into the sky. As its gravitational pull intensified, the battlefield’s people and debris began floating toward it.

• Nagato rejected summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and instead formed a black sphere to begin Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei.
• Shisui warned Minato to destroy the orb, and they attacked it with Susanoo’s bone shuriken and Fire Dragon Bullet.
• Nagato deflected their attacks with Shinra Tensei, then used Bansho Ten'in to pull the orb out of the Spiral Bone Sword’s path.
• The orb rose overhead, and Shisui noticed dust drifting toward it as Minato sensed its attraction counteracting his weight.
• Root and Konoha Military Police Force members watched pebbles, branches, bodies, and living people begin floating toward the orb.

Konoha's ninjas attacked the black sphere created by Nagato Uzumaki's Chibaku Tensei, while Fugaku Uchiha led a large Uchiha force to reinforce the battlefield. The chapter ended with the Uchiha joining the attack and Fugaku greeting the exhausted Minato Namikaze.

• Chibaku Tensei cracked the ground and lifted rocks, trees, and Konoha's ninjas into the air.
• The Konoha Anbu Captain ordered ranged attacks on the black sphere, and the ninjas' Fire Release and Wind Release attacks weakened its pull.
• Fugaku Uchiha gathered more than half the Uchiha Clan's elite after learning that Shisui Uchiha, Itachi, and Obito were involved in the crisis.
• Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to reinforce their clan members, and they joined the other Konoha ninjas in attacking the sphere.
• Fugaku greeted Minato Namikaze at the battlefield, where the Uchiha were the only village faction to have sent a large force to help.

After his failed attempt to capture the Nine-Tails, Nagato took comfort from Konan and decided to invade Konoha himself. As he rushed into the village, Fugaku Uchiha and Shisui identified his remaining Deva Path Puppet as the wielder of the legendary Rinnegan.

• Nagato regretted that his limited control of the Rinnegan had let the Uchiha Clan disrupt Chibaku Tensei and destroy most of his Six Paths Puppets.
• Konan comforted Nagato, and he promised to protect her before resolving to continue pursuing the Nine-Tails.
• Nagato left Konan behind and raced into Konoha to capture the Nine-Tails himself.
• The Barrier Team detected Nagato entering the village, and its captain ordered the ANBU and Hokage to be notified.
• At the central battlefield, Shisui warned Fugaku Uchiha that the enemy's eyes were the Rinnegan, and Fugaku recognized them from the Uchiha Clan's records.

Nagato renewed Chibaku Tensei against the Konoha forces, and Shisui used Susanoo to attack its core. As Susanoo was buried beneath the rocks, Nagato tried to recruit Shisui, who rejected his vision of a new world.

• Fugaku realized Deva Path Pain was a puppet after Shisui pointed out its Black Receivers and the scattered puppet parts.
• Deva Path Pain restarted Chibaku Tensei with greater force, pulling Konoha fighters and debris toward the black sphere and crushing several ninjas.
• Shisui sent his third-form Susanoo to strike the sphere's core, but its Spiral Bone Sword could not break through.
• Deva Path Pain sealed Susanoo beneath layers of rock while asking Shisui why he still protected Konoha despite his painful past.
• Nagato offered Shisui a place at his side to help create a new world, but Shisui had no interest in joining him.

Shisui rejected Nagato’s ideal world and told Minato to find the force controlling the Six Paths Puppets while he protected the people trapped by Chibaku Tensei. Shisui unleashed Susanoo’s Fourth Form to break the seal, and the falling survivors rushed to save one another.

• Shisui told Deva Path that he had no interest in Nagato’s ideal world, and Deva Path decided to bury him with the others.
• As Chibaku Tensei pulled everyone into the air, Shisui urged Minato Namikaze to find the one controlling the puppets and promised to handle the fight there.
• Minato Namikaze left using the Flying Thunder God Technique after entrusting the situation to Shisui and promising Fugaku Uchiha that the Uchiha Clan would get what it wanted.
• Shisui activated Susanoo’s Fourth Form and shattered the Chibaku Tensei, freeing everyone but sending them and the surrounding debris crashing toward the ground.
• Tayuya, Kidomaru, and other fighters used Doki, webs, wind, and water techniques to catch falling allies, while the Konoha Ninja helped rescue those still in danger.

Shisui Uchiha used his Mangekyō Sharingan to manifest a complete Fourth Form Susanoo, shocking the Uchiha clan and everyone in Konoha. The Konoha Elders Trio watched from afar and realized the Uchiha still possessed formidable power as the battle continued.

• Shisui's Fourth Form Susanoo grew into a complete skeletal giant, with Shikotsumyaku forming its lower body and bone armor.
• Shisui's Susanoo used the Spiral Sword to pierce the black sphere of Chibaku Tensei, holding the giant aloft above Konoha.
• The Uchiha on the battlefield watched Shisui with fervent admiration, while the people of Konoha looked up at the giant in the sky.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura recalled seeing Uchiha Madara's power at the Valley of the End and recognized the resemblance to Shisui's Susanoo.
• Shimura Ketsuzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu discussed how their influence had kept other clans from reinforcing Minato Namikaze and were surprised by the Uchiha's loyalty to him.

Shisui defeated Deva Path Pain in the battlefield, but the puppet vanished before he could destroy it. Flames and an explosion at Konoha Hospital suggested that the invasion had shifted toward Kushina, leaving Shisui to wonder what Minato had discovered.

• Deva Path Pain admitted defeat but tried to persuade Shisui to join Nagato and help create a new world.
• Shisui shattered the black sphere and brought down Susanoo, then struck Deva Path Pain with its Spiral Bone Sword.
• Shisui found no trace of Deva Path Pain in the crater and suspected Nagato had summoned Yahiko's body away.
• Flames erupted near Konoha Hospital, followed by a Shinra Tensei explosion inside the building.
• An inpatient at Konoha Hospital demanded to know who had entered without permission.

Nagato Uzumaki confronted Uchiha Inabi outside Kushina’s delivery room, while Uchiha Itachi left to seek Shisui. Nagato unleashed Shinra Tensei against Inabi, sending his own kunai flying back at him.

• Uchiha Inabi ordered Uchiha Itachi to find Shisui and report the attack, and Itachi reluctantly left.
• Nagato questioned why Inabi’s presence felt weaker than Shisui’s, provoking Inabi to attack him.
• Inabi repeatedly struck at Nagato with his kunai, but Nagato anticipated and dodged every attack.
• Inabi used Multiple Kunai Technique to launch a barrage at Nagato.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to stop the kunai and send them flying back toward Inabi.

Nagato abducted the weakened Kushina after the birth of Naruto, while Shisui organized Konoha’s response. At their meeting place outside the village, Nagato prepared to remove the seal on Kushina and wait for Minato.

• Nagato confronted Kushina in the delivery room and demanded that she leave with him so he could take the Nine-Tails.
• After the Nine-Tails warned Kushina about Nagato’s Rinnegan, she agreed to go with him on the condition that Naruto would be safe.
• Shisui found Naruto with a doctor, ordered the Anbu to summon Minato, and told Fugaku to protect the Uchiha Clan compound.
• Nagato arrived at the meeting place outside Konoha with Kushina and Deva Path Pain, but Konan was missing, leading him to suspect she had encountered an enemy.
• When Kushina asked where they were going, Nagato said they would wait for Minato, then struck her abdomen with chakra and began releasing the Four-Symbols Seal.

Nagato tried to remove the Nine-Tails from Kushina, but discovered that her Eight-Trigrams Seal resisted his technique. As he began working out how to break it, Kushina struggled against Deva Path Pain, and Minato's voice called out from a distance.

• Nagato's unsealing technique failed to affect Kushina, so he exposed the seal on her abdomen to examine it.
• Nagato recognized the seal as the Eight-Trigrams Seal and reasoned that he could undo it by breaking its two Four-Symbols Seals in the correct order.
• Nagato repeatedly attempted to release the component seals while Kushina struggled and shouted for him to let her go.
• Minato called out from a distance, ordering Nagato to let Kushina go.

Nagato released the Nine-Tails from Kushina while Minato and Konan both misunderstood his actions. As the Nine-Tails emerged, Shisui Uchiha feared Konoha would still suffer the Nine-Tails Incident despite his efforts to change history.

• Minato arrived and accused Nagato and Pain of harming Kushina, then revealed that he had captured Konan.
• Konan saw Nagato working on Kushina and mistook his actions for abuse, but Nagato had no time to explain.
• Nagato released the Four-Symbols Seal on Kushina, allowing the Nine-Tails to open its prison and escape.
• Minato caught the weakened Kushina and realized the seal had been removed, while Nagato freed Konan and reassured her.
• The Nine-Tails emerged from Kushina, and Shisui Uchiha wondered whether Konoha's Nine-Tails Incident was unavoidable.

After the Eight-Trigrams Seal was undone, Minato used a Four-Symbols Seal to trap the remaining Nine-Tails Chakra inside Kushina and preserve her life. As the Nine-Tails fully emerged from her, it awakened and broke free of its Jinchuriki’s control.

• Kushina’s life force drained away as the Nine-Tails’ chakra gathered behind her into the fox’s form.
• Shisui urged Minato to seal the remaining Nine-Tails Chakra back inside Kushina before she died.
• Minato agreed to Shisui’s plan and asked him to guard them while he worked.
• Minato successfully placed a Four-Symbols Seal on Kushina, sealing the chakra that remained inside her.
• The Nine-Tails awakened and completely broke free of Kushina.

The Nine-Tails celebrated its freedom and attacked the people nearby with a Tailed Beast Bomb. Nagato absorbed the blast with the Preta Path, and the Nine-Tails noticed the Rinnegan in Nagato and Deva Path Pain, leaving its next move uncertain.

• The Nine-Tails reveled in its escape after forty years of imprisonment and prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb against the humans before it.
• Minato Namikaze warned Shisui Uchiha about the attack, then took the rescued woman and ran toward Konoha while Shisui stayed behind.
• Shisui dodged the Tailed Beast Bomb, and Nagato used the Preta Path to absorb it despite the strain on his body.
• Nagato finished absorbing the blast and retreated to Konan as the Nine-Tails observed Nagato and Deva Path Pain's Rinnegan and sensed their differing intentions.

Nagato and Shisui confronted the Nine-Tails after it was extracted from its Jinchuriki, and Nagato struggled to finish the mission as his strength ran low. Shisui revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and cast a genjutsu on both Nagato and the Nine-Tails, leaving them dazed.

• The Nine-Tails fired another Tailed Beast Bomb, and Deva Path Pain repelled it back into the beast, scorching its chest.
• The Nine-Tails began forming three more Tailed Beast Bombs while Konan urged Nagato to retreat, but Nagato refused to abandon the mission.
• Nagato realized Shisui had a Mangekyō Sharingan and suspected he had waited for Nagato and the Nine-Tails to weaken each other.
• Nagato charged at Shisui, forcing Shisui to reveal his Mangekyō Sharingan as the Nine-Tails aimed its three bombs at him.
• Shisui cast Genjutsu: Sharingan, leaving Nagato dazed and causing his Mangekyō pattern to appear in the Nine-Tails' pupils.

Shisui controlled the Nine-Tails and forced Nagato to stop its three Tailed Beast Bombs, while Nagato proposed making a deal. Back in Konoha, Minato learned Kushina was recovering after losing consciousness, but a strange figure emerged from the hospital-room shadow behind him.

• Shisui controlled the Nine-Tails and fired three Tailed Beast Bombs at Konan and Deva Path Pain.
• Nagato used Bansho Ten'in, reverse summoning, and Shinra Tensei to stop all three attacks, spending his life force in the process.
• Shisui noticed the Nine-Tails' chakra rapidly recovering as he prepared another volley.
• Nagato called for Shisui to wait and offered to make a deal.
• Minato brought the unconscious Kushina to Konoha Hospital, where a doctor said chakra and life-force depletion had caused her condition.
• As Minato stood beside Kushina's bed, a half-black, half-white figure emerged from the spreading shadow behind him.

Nagato offered one of his Rinnegan in exchange for the Nine-Tails and safe passage, and Shisui accepted. Nagato then summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and began sealing the Nine-Tails, leaving the exchange underway.

• Nagato asked Shisui to give him the Nine-Tails and let his group leave in exchange for one Rinnegan and knowledge about the eyes.
• Shisui considered the value and risks of the offer, then agreed to the deal.
• Nagato warned Shisui that he would destroy the Rinnegan rather than let him take it without honoring the agreement.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sent its sealing chain toward the Nine-Tails.

Shisui split the Nine-Tails into two foxes and bargained with Nagato for one half, offering to help seal it in exchange for chakra from future Tailed Beast captures. When Shisui demanded Konan as a hostage, she agreed and joined him, leaving Nagato to continue their plan and rescue her later.

• Shisui used Susanoo to split the Nine-Tails into two separate foxes, one bright-furred and one dark-furred.
• Shisui offered Nagato one half of the Nine-Tails as his bargaining chip and offered to control it during sealing to reduce the chakra required.
• Shisui demanded a portion of the chakra from every other Tailed Beast Nagato captured, and Nagato accepted the terms.
• Shisui demanded that Konan remain in Konoha as a hostage, and the two Nine-Tails threatened Nagato with Tailed Beast Bombs when he refused.
• Konan agreed to go with Shisui, urged Nagato to continue their shared plan, and appeared beside Shisui after dissolving into scraps of paper.

Shisui defeated Nagato’s counterattack after the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorbed half of the Nine-Tails, then took Nagato’s Rinnegan in exchange for letting him leave. Nagato departed with Konan remaining in Konoha, while Shisui kept the statue’s severed arm and chose not to take Nagato’s other Rinnegan.

• Nagato sealed the Yang Nine-Tails inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which opened one eye and gained new powers.
• Nagato fired a half-formed Tailed Beast Bomb at Shisui, but Shisui’s Susanoo absorbed it with the Yata Mirror and reflected a strengthened blast that severed the statue’s arm.
• Nagato gouged out his right Rinnegan and handed it to Shisui, who confirmed it was genuine and stored it in a vial.
• Shisui told Nagato he could leave but demanded the statue’s severed arm as payment for the attack.
• Shisui reconsidered taking Nagato’s other Rinnegan, and Nagato reverse-summoned the damaged statue before departing with Deva Path Pain.

After Nagato’s invasion ended, Shisui received rewards that gave him the Uzumaki bloodline and its All-Encompassing Creation ability. With his left eye nearly exhausted and Yin Nine-Tails threatening to break free, he calmed the beast with Will of Root and began using his new ability to fuse bloodlines.

• Shisui released Susanoo after confirming Nagato had left, and the system granted him the Flying Thunder God Technique, Uzumaki bloodline, and remaining chakra natures.
• Shisui learned that his Uzumaki bloodline had awakened All-Encompassing Creation, which could fuse it with other Yang Release bloodlines.
• Shisui considered combining his Uzumaki bloodline and Shikotsumyaku to approach Asura’s Sage Body.
• Shisui’s left eye began to fail, weakening his control over Yin Nine-Tails and leaving him at risk of losing control of the beast.
• Shisui used Will of Root to calm Yin Nine-Tails, then activated All-Encompassing Creation.