Chapter Summaries

The auction’s remaining Tailed Beasts drew fierce bids, with Kakuzu buying the Seven-Tails and Kumogakure securing the Eight-Tails and the first Nine-Tails. A reflected on how the beasts could make Kumogakure the strongest village.

• The Six-Tails bidding rose to seventy million as Naori, Kaku, Hagoromo Jun, Uchiha Setsuna, and Aburame Zhixing discussed how villages might use Tailed Beasts.
• Kakuzu won the Seven-Tails for Takigakure with an eighty-million bid.
• Soragakure’s leader bought the Seven-Tails for ninety million after other bidders hesitated.
• A won the Eight-Tails for Kumogakure with a bid of one hundred million.
• Monks from the Fire Temple and samurai from the Land of Iron entered to verify the Nine-Tails, then withdrew.
• A outbid the others with one hundred fifty million and secured the first Nine-Tails for Kumogakure.

Nara Shikahira prepared to publish the Tailed Beast auction results while a group of samurai debated their future in a world dominated by ninja. That night, Uchiha Madara told Rikusei he would leave the village and appoint Kaku acting clan head, but avoided explaining how far his chakra fusion had progressed.

• Nara Shikahira chose to publish the auction figures and ordered Konoha Daily to emphasize the ninja leaders' joy and the Daimyos' distress.
• A one-armed samurai and the general discussed the samurai's declining fortunes, then decided to visit the Artisan Clan in Konoha and follow its rules.
• Uchiha Madara took Rikusei to Hokage Rock and invited him to a cookout, where Rikusei suspected his Teacher planned to pursue the Rinnegan.
• Uchiha Madara told Rikusei he was leaving the village and that Kaku would serve as acting clan head.
• Rikusei asked about Madara's chakra fusion, but Madara evaded the question and praised the food.

Rikusei and Madara discussed how Madara could overcome Hashirama and considered reviving the Ten-Tails, while the village gathered for the auction. Rikusei promised Naori he would show her the moon’s Artificial Sun, and she sparred with him as Mao arrived.

• Over hot pot, Madara and Rikusei discussed defeating Hashirama’s Sage Jutsu Great Buddha, and Madara agreed to consider gathering the Ten-Tails and sealing it inside himself.
• Grandmother, Second Granduncle, and other elders went to the auction to see the Tailed Beasts.
• Rikusei told Naori that the clan leader was leaving the village because of discoveries related to the Tailed Beasts, and promised to explain more at the Artificial Sun on the moon.
• Naori asked Rikusei to spar with taijutsu, and they grappled at the Training Ground.
• Mao arrived and watched Naori defeat Rikusei, then proudly described the Hagoromo Clan’s taijutsu.

After training, Rikusei, Naori, and Mao visited a workshop where samurai asked to buy Uchiha meteorite iron. Rikusei sent them to Tobirama, then Kohei agreed to forge Mao a new sword after learning she had broken one of his old blades.

• Rikusei joined Naori and Mao after training, and Mao revealed she had found iron ore for a replacement sword.
• Rikusei told Mao that he had brought meteorite iron back from the moon, and the three headed to the workshop where his Gunbai was being made.
• Samurai asked Rikusei to sell them meteorite iron, but he said it belonged to the Uchiha Clan and directed them to Teacher Tobirama.
• Kohei admitted he wanted to stay in Konoha, and Rikusei teased him about his clansmen spending their earnings there.
• Mao told Kohei she had broken Naori's sword, and Kohei recognized her old Hagoromo Clan blade as one he had forged.
• Kohei promised to forge two new blades for Mao.

Konoha’s leaders planned to expand the alliance through reconstruction, academies, and roads while preparing to replace the nations’ nobility. Madara announced he would leave the village to investigate other planets, and the chapter ended with Konoha arranging a delegation to the moon to inspect the Otsutsuki Clan’s territory.

• Tobirama outlined Konoha’s plans to expand village boundaries, establish resident offices, and build roads linking Konoha with other villages and Daimyo Mansions.
• Hashirama said Konoha would help reconstruct the other Hidden Villages and visit them to assess their strength and shinobi’s opinions.
• Tobirama proposed adult Ninja Academies and road construction as preparations for eventually abolishing the nobility.
• Hashirama announced that Madara would leave the village to investigate other planets, and Madara named Uchiha Kaku acting clan head while Hashirama offered to teach Rikusei Illusion Techniques.
• Tobirama demonstrated Hashirama’s Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and then proposed sending a delegation to the moon, with Otsutsuki Souritsu approving its actions.

Kuan agreed to help Konoha assassinate the Land of Lightning Daimyo when political turmoil made the plan viable, in exchange for Konoha’s help freeing the Chinoike Clan. After Kuan left, Tobirama and Rikusei began drafting measures to standardize the Shinobi Alliance.

• Kuan met Tobirama and Rikusei and pledged the Chinoike Clan’s Ketsuryūgan to Konoha if the village helped restore his clan’s freedom.
• Rikusei explained that the Daimyo were mostly cooperative and that hidden ministers were the greater obstacle; Konoha’s report showed the Land of Lightning Daimyo was healthy.
• Tobirama said Konoha would assist Kuan in assassinating the Daimyo after the auction, when conflict among nobles, ministers, and ninja intensified.
• Kuan accepted the plan, and Rikusei clarified that only the ringleaders of any resulting rebellion would be executed.
• After Kuan left, Tobirama had Rikusei help draft Shinobi Alliance rules standardizing forehead protectors, uniforms, academy materials, and rank assessments.

Tobirama sought Ashina’s help in bringing Uzushio Village into Konoha to counterbalance the Uchiha-backed clans. Ashina agreed on the condition that Tobirama marry an Uzumaki, leaving Tobirama stunned as Hashirama and Mito quietly departed.

• Tobirama met with Ashina and explained that the village needed the Uzumaki Clan’s support against the Uchiha-aligned clans.
• Tobirama showed Ashina evidence that most of Uzushio Village supported joining Konoha, and Ashina acknowledged that refusing would be difficult.
• Ashina agreed to Uzushio Village joining Konoha but made Tobirama’s marriage to an Uzumaki his condition.
• Tobirama protested that his personal affairs were his own, while Ashina insisted marriage was the Uzumaki Clan’s only condition.
• Mito led Hashirama away after they secretly watched the conversation, leaving Tobirama to face Ashina’s demand.

Tobirama agreed to discuss a marriage alliance with Hashirama while Madara’s Tailed Beast auction ended and he took Rikusei for a training assessment. Rikusei wounded Madara during their spar, and Madara sensed Chikaku watching nearby.

• Tobirama dismissed Ashina and decided to discuss the marriage alliance with Hashirama before returning to his forbidden-technique research.
• Shikahira told a colleague to report the cumulative Tailed Beast auction total instead of declining daily figures.
• Madara found Rikusei with Otsutsuki Rina, took him away, and began assessing his strength before leaving the village.
• Madara demonstrated the Rasengan and said adding chakra nature transformation would not be difficult.
• Rikusei fought Madara with kunai and the Substitution Technique, then cut Madara’s chest after sensing a fluctuation in his chakra.
• Madara put on a trench coat and told Rikusei that Chikaku was hiding in the bushes.

Madara told Chikaku he would explain his plans at a Full Clan Assembly, then joined Rikusei and his grandmother for dinner. He left still committed to securing peace before settling down, while Chiri prepared to teach at the Ninja Academy.

• Madara told Chikaku that the clan would hold a Full Clan Assembly after the auction and said the village would handle the Chinoike Clan; Setsuna was watching them.
• Madara described the violent chakra merging within his body, and Rikusei concluded he needed Sage Jutsu to build a physique capable of withstanding chakra fusion.
• Rikusei invited Madara to dinner, where Chiri returned from a card game and told them Ashina had revealed Tobirama would marry a woman from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Chiri showed Rikusei and Madara her appointment letter as a Teacher at the new Ninja Academy, and Madara told her that people abandoned themselves rather than the times abandoning them.
• When Chiri urged Madara to tell her if he liked someone, he said he could not speak of home before peace was secured; after Madara left, Chiri grabbed Rikusei by the collar and asked if he remembered how to write “respect your elders.”

A Land of Water noble tried to rally resistance against Konoha, but the general recognized his plan as a pledge of loyalty and ordered him to send it to Konoha. After the Tailed Beast auction, the village leaders and daimyo stayed for the first Konoha Ninja Academy graduation, where Hashirama handed out forehead protectors and Rikusei endured his painful congratulations.

• A young Land of Water noble urged the general to resist Konoha and presented a plan to assassinate village leaders.
• The general rejected the plan as futile and told the noble to secretly deliver it to Konoha as a letter of allegiance.
• After the Tailed Beast auction ended, the village leaders and daimyo remained in Konoha for the first early Ninja Academy graduation.
• Hashirama addressed the students with the updated Will of Shinobi, and Tobirama, Madara, and the leaders watched the ceremony.
• Madara brought the forehead protectors, Hashirama tied one on Rikusei, and Rikusei silently vowed to resent the Hokage's heavy pat on his shoulder.

Hashirama and Tobirama discussed plans to exploit the Hidden Villages’ leaders being attacked and settle the Chinoike Clan matter, while the Senju speculated about Madara’s search for the Sage of Six Paths’ relatives. Madara prepared to leave Konoha to explore space, appointed acting clan leaders, and rallied the Uchiha to campaign for Hokage when he returned.

• Hashirama told Tobirama that the assassination plan had not begun because some people’s positions remained unclear, and Tobirama proposed using the attacks on Hidden Village leaders to address the Chinoike Clan matter.
• Mito and Toka discussed Madara’s departure and his search for clans related to the Sage of Six Paths, while Tobirama considered whether he might be seeking the brothers’ parents.
• At a clan meeting, Madara invited Uchiha to accompany him into space, but many hesitated before several volunteered.
• Madara appointed Kaku acting clan head, with Chikaku and Setsuna assisting in turn, while he was away.
• Madara urged the Uchiha to campaign for Hokage after his return, and the clan enthusiastically shouted their support.

Madara left Konoha to investigate the truth hidden in the mist, while Tobirama organized a secret operation against the returning Daimyos. The chapter ended with Konoha’s disguised shinobi preparing to ambush the Land of Lightning’s Daimyo.

• Madara said goodbye to Hashirama, Tobirama, Rikusei, and Kaku, then left Konoha and entrusted the Uchiha Clan to Kaku.
• Tobirama and Kaku discussed using fifty pairs of Sharingan and the Yamanaka and Nara clans in a covert operation, while Hashirama was assigned other duties.
• Tobirama brought Oyashiro Kuan into the operation, and Konoha’s shinobi disguised themselves as wandering shinobi.
• Tobirama ordered the Barrier Squad to blind the sensory shinobi accompanying the Daimyo, then led the group toward the Land of Lightning’s convoy.

Rikusei and Kuan led an ambush on the Land of Lightning's Daimyo, killing him and his guards while framing the attack as the work of rogue ninja. Tobirama organized the clans to erase evidence and fabricate the scene, leaving the convoy's destruction disguised as an internal betrayal.

• Jianwu discovered that the convoy was trapped by the Nara clan's Shadow Imitation Technique as an attacker killed the ox and Explosive Tags threatened the guards.
• Kuan confronted the Land of Lightning's Daimyo, accused his son of conspiring to assassinate village leaders, and presented a scroll bearing the son's gold seal.
• Kuan used his Sharingan to incapacitate the guards and killed the Daimyo, who demanded to know how the Blood Pond Clan had escaped Hell Valley.
• Rikusei and Kuan discussed the revenge, while Tobirama appeared and directed the ninja to fabricate the attack scene.
• The Nara, Yamanaka, and Uchiha clans controlled the guards, altered their memories, and checked the false evidence so the deaths appeared to result from an attack by rogue ninja and traitors.

Ishikawa and Mu used the Nine-Tails and Dust Release to defeat an ambush against Iwagakure, then sealed the beast again. As assassinations spread across the Shinobi World, a mysterious Underground World force captured a shinobi seeking information about a Tailed Beast and realized its attempt to profit from the chaos had failed.

• Mu detected the rogue ninja surrounding Ishikawa’s party, and Ishikawa released the Nine-Tails from its vessel.
• The Nine-Tails recognized Ishikawa from the auction, while Kazuma tried to rally the rogue ninja against Iwagakure.
• Mu used Dust Release to erase the attackers, convincing the Nine-Tails to submit to Ishikawa.
• Ishikawa sealed the Nine-Tails in the tea kettle and praised Mu’s role in keeping the Tailed Beasts in check.
• Assassinations continued across the Shinobi World, and captured bounty hunters identified nobles opposing the loss of their power as the financiers.
• The masked chief interrogated a captured Valley Hidden Village shinobi about a Tailed Beast, then concluded that his group’s attempt to profit from the chaos had failed.

Underground World assassins ambushed the Shinobi Alliance and the Daimyos, prompting Hashirama to mobilize Konoha. The chapter ended with Hashirama declaring that the war had begun.

• The Underground World selected targets and planned to disguise its assassins as operatives of the nobles.
• Wounded Kusagakure shinobi Songzhi reached Konoha and reported that two mysterious forces had ambushed his group before dying.
• Uchiha Chikaku alerted Hashirama, who sent Tianjia to find Tobirama and support Yugakure, Takigakure, and Sugakure.
• Chikaku received word that Yukigakure, Hoshigakure, and the Daimyos had also been targeted by assassins.
• Hashirama ordered Konoha's jonin and chunin to assemble, then announced to the gathered ninja that the war had begun.

After assassins attacked village leaders and Daimyos, Hashirama organized Konoha’s rescue units while Shikahira suspected the Underground World was behind the attacks. Tobirama and Kaku split their reinforcement force, and Tobirama’s team reached Yugakure, where its shinobi were still under threat.

• Hashirama ordered three reinforcement units to aid the attacked villages and their Daimyos while the remaining clans protected Konoha.
• Shikahira questioned the wounded Songzhi, learned the second wave of assassins had struck when their targets relaxed, and identified the Underground World as a possible culprit.
• Tobirama received Hashirama’s orders and split his force, assigning Kaku and Tianjia to aid the Daimyos while he led the rest toward the hidden villages.
• Rikusei remained with Tobirama’s team after Kaku left, and the group followed signs of battle toward Yugakure.
• Tobirama’s team encountered Yugakure shinobi amid the damaged battlefield, and Tobirama used his Sharingan to reassure them that the reinforcements were genuine.

Tobirama led Konoha reinforcements through the Land of Cedar and found Sugakure shinobi under attack by assassins seeking their clan’s secret techniques. Konoha overwhelmed the attackers, and Rikusei identified Tobirama’s new technique as the Rasengan.

• Tobirama examined Yugakure’s wounded, left them medicine, and refused their offer of reinforcements before heading toward the Land of Cedar.
• A Yamanaka shinobi sensed two groups fighting five kilometers northeast, and Tobirama led the Konoha party toward them.
• Tobirama’s group found Sugakure shinobi fighting black-robed assassins who demanded their clan’s secret techniques.
• The Uchiha used their Sharingan to trap the assassins in illusions, while Tobirama seized the opening and struck with a spinning blue chakra sphere.
• Kaku asked Rikusei what Tobirama’s move was, and Rikusei named it the Rasengan, inspired by the Tailed Beast Bomb.

Tobirama responded to an ambush on Sugakure shinobi, then sent Uchiha Huoli and a summoned Boar King back to Konoha with the captured attackers. Meanwhile, Kaku’s unit reached the Daimyo of the Land of Waterfalls, drove off the attackers, and Tianjia reported that they had come on the Hokage’s orders.

• Tobirama learned that Underground World shinobi had ambushed Sugakure and ordered Uchiha Huoli to escort the bodies and their information back to Konoha.
• A Yamanaka woman summoned Huahua, the Boar King, who agreed to carry the bodies back with Huoli and the others.
• Tianjia sensed a battle near the Daimyo of the Land of Waterfalls and urged Kaku’s unit to reinforce them.
• Kaku’s Uchiha shinobi swept the battlefield with flames, allowing the guards to counterattack as the wandering shinobi tried to retreat.
• Kaku copied the enemies’ Earth Style technique and raised the ravine’s ground so the Uchiha could pursue them.
• Tianjia reached the shaken Daimyo of the Land of Waterfalls and told him she had come on the Hokage’s orders.

Sarutobi Sasuke and the Second Reinforcement Unit split up to aid villages under attack, and Sasuke led his force to Hoshigakure’s battlefield in the Land of Birds. After defeating the attackers and capturing their leader, Sasuke set out to reinforce Yukigakure while Hoshigakure offered its treasure to Konoha.

• Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Tokiomi divided the Second Reinforcement Unit so they could respond to battles in different countries.
• Uzumaki Kaimi sensed a fierce battle in the Land of Birds, where Hoshigakure’s chakra techniques clashed with stone dragons.
• Sarutobi Sasuke summoned the Monkey King and used the Adamantine Ruyi Staff to smash the battlefield and rout the wandering ninja.
• Sarutobi Saku captured the fleeing attackers’ leader, while Sarutobi Sasuke ordered the prisoners handed over to Hoshigakure and the leader taken to Konoha.
• The Hoshigakure leader offered the village’s treasure to Konoha, and Sarutobi Sasuke ordered his unit to reinforce Yukigakure.

Uchiha Madara searched the Land of Wind for the Dragon Vein, learned that the Underground World had orchestrated attacks on daimyo and Hidden Villages, and found the sealed altar where he hoped to awaken the Rinnegan. He began excavating a cavern to prepare for the years ahead and considered a future construction venture with Hashirama.

• Madara admitted he was lost in the desert, reached an oasis, and heard reports that the Underground World had attacked daimyo and Hidden Villages, wiping out Hidden Valley Village.
• Madara used his new Sensing ability to find the underground Dragon Vein and freed his camel at a prosperous oasis.
• Madara entered the sealed altar beneath the earth and sensed the immense chakra he could use to awaken the Rinnegan and activate the Ten-Tails.
• Madara decided not to let the Ten-Tails feed on the Dragon Vein's energy, since that could endanger the people above and make Hashirama resent him.
• Madara used Susanoo to begin excavating a cavern where he could safely awaken the Rinnegan and store the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Madara imagined starting a Konoha Construction Team with Hashirama after the Shinobi World no longer needed them.