Chapter Summaries

Hashirama and Tobirama discussed reforms to balance ninja clans with ordinary ninja, including a Chunin School and a new village ideology. After reviewing intelligence on a hidden force, Hashirama read Rikusei’s ambitious proposal for using the Tailed Beasts and assigned its implementation to Tobirama, leaving him stunned.

• Tobirama warned Hashirama that tensions between ninja clans and ordinary ninja would persist, and proposed training core clan heirs alongside ordinary ninja.
• Tobirama proposed a Chunin School with regular training sessions and suggested replacing the Will of Fire’s broad ideal of peace with the pursuit of a better future.
• Tobirama explained that Rikusei had joined the Administration Department, Naori was helping Kaku, and Mao was receiving individual ninjutsu instruction from him.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that the investigation had uncovered a hidden force on an isolated island and urged him to use the Shinobi Alliance to find it.
• Hashirama read Rikusei’s proposal to use Tailed Beasts for searches and large-scale farming, praised it, and put Tobirama in charge of carrying it out.

Konoha and the Shinobi Alliance prepared a joint operation to hunt down the mastermind behind the attacks, using the Tailed Beasts to reach a remote island region. The chapter ended with squads taking to the sky on divided Tailed Beasts as Rikusei's group admired Konoha from above.

• Tobirama told the gathered representatives that the Bounty Offices had been brought under control and several hideouts had been located.
• Hashirama announced that the Shinobi Alliance would repay the blood feud and explained that Konoha had divided the Three-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Eight-Tails into many pieces.
• Hashirama unsealed the Seven-Tails, which revealed its name as Chomei and identified the Three-Tails and Eight-Tails as Isobu and Gyuki.
• Hashirama said the mission would begin in the Land of Whirlpools, and squads from the Uchiha, Hyuga, and Uzumaki clans mounted the Tailed Beasts.
• Rikusei ended up in a group with Naori, Hyuga Ye, and two Uchiha, and they pointed out familiar shops in Konoha from the air.

Tobirama and Hashirama led the Shinobi Alliance to the Phantom Alliance’s hidden base, exposing its location on a giant sea turtle and wiping out its resistance. Hashirama claimed the prisoners and the turtle for the Konoha Shinobi Alliance.

• Kazuma and Nagura discussed the Phantom Alliance’s losses as Shucun reported that Konoha shinobi had cut off contact with every mainland Bounty Office.
• Kuang Jiang reviewed reports showing that independent forces were being blamed for crimes, then ordered the Phantom Alliance to prepare for battle when the turtle stopped moving.
• Kuang Jiang and his men emerged to find the Seven-Tails and the other Tailed Beasts surrounding the island, while Tobirama revealed that the Phantom Alliance members had fallen under an Illusion Technique.
• Tobirama killed Kuang Jiang with a single strike after Hashirama decided there was nothing to discuss with the masked leader.
• Hashirama ordered the prisoners taken to Konoha and claimed the giant turtle for the Konoha Shinobi Alliance.

Rikusei and the others returned to Konoha on Chomei after the Seven-Tails contract was settled, while Tobirama reflected on the beast’s usefulness and learned about the Hyuga clan split. In Konoha, Tobirama gave a child a ride on Chomei, drawing a crowd that soon looked eager for rides too.

• The colossal turtle signed a contract with Uzumaki Kaimi, and Chomei flew the group back toward Konoha with the captives and Tailed Beasts under control.
• Tobirama regretted selling the Seven-Tails cheaply, then warned Konoha’s future leaders not to repeat his mistake as Chomei’s erratic flight made Hyuga Ye airsick.
• Hyuga Ye told Rikusei and Tobirama that the Hyuga clan had split, and Tobirama revealed that the Branch Family had wiped out the Main Family.
• The group arrived in Konoha, where Aburame Taiichi asked to cultivate Kikaichū like Chomei and ride the Seven-Tails.
• Rikusei slipped away with Naori to skip work, while Tobirama took a child onto Chomei’s back and realized the gathering crowd might want rides too.

After the Land of Lightning Daimyo’s death, his sons fought over succession as Zouta and his brothers plotted to secure support from Kumogakure and Konoha. They signed a plan to divert money owed to Konoha and use the Chinoike Clan as leverage, while their mother pressed the legitimate eldest son to claim the Daimyo position.

• The Daimyo’s wife announced that the legitimate eldest son would succeed, but Zouta left the hall and avoided openly challenging his mother.
• Zouta met with his third and fourth brothers, who argued that they needed their own power and proposed winning Kumogakure’s support.
• Zhijiu suggested terminating the Konoha contract and using the money owed to Kumogakure to secure its backing, while offering Konoha the Chinoike Clan as a bargaining chip.
• Muhong drafted an agreement, and Zouta and Kanata stamped it with their seals.
• Zouta planned to send Muhong to Kumogakure and go to Konoha himself, while Kanata kept their opponents occupied.

Rikusei advised Hashirama and Tobirama on reforming Konoha’s departments, including selecting candidates through examinations. He then accompanied them to ask Kohei to build a plow roughly the size of a Tailed Beast.

• Rikusei left the Administration Department and went to the Hokage’s Office, where Tobirama and Hashirama showed him an oversized plow blueprint.
• Hashirama agreed to use Wood Release to guide the plow, then declared that Konoha’s system of authority needed to change.
• Rikusei advised them to adapt the Daimyos’ systems, consult department heads, and select suitable candidates through examinations.
• Rikusei offered to draft a proposal for departmental reform, and Hashirama took the blueprint to Kohei.
• Kohei agreed to make a plow, then froze when Hashirama said it needed to be about the size of a Tailed Beast.

Hashirama brought the Five-Tails to Kohei’s workshop so the Artisan Ninja could make her a giant plow, persuading her to accept the plan before creating a wooden mold. Kohei approved the mold, and the group prepared to begin the large forging project.

• Kohei agreed to help forge a custom plow after Hashirama promised payment, refined iron, and extra workers with all five chakra natures.
• Hashirama released Kokuō from a tea kettle and raised a wooden pillar to measure the plow against her height.
• Kokuō objected to being used as a beast of burden and attacked Hashirama, but he blocked her charge while Tobirama argued that the plow would bring her fame.
• Kokuō returned to her tea kettle as Sarutobi Sasuke arrived with support ninjas and dismissed the disturbance as a false alarm.
• Hashirama used Sage Jutsu and Wood Release to make a hollow wooden plow mold, which Kohei inspected and praised.

Rikusei drafted a table of contents for ninja regulations, which Tobirama and Hashirama welcomed as a basis for reform. At the Uchiha grounds, Rikusei suggested that Madara pursue leadership of the Land of Fire rather than the Hokage position, and Kaku began to see a new possibility for the clan.

• Rikusei used his Sharingan to review village and national records, then drafted a booklet outlining proposed ninja regulations and laws.
• Tobirama praised the idea of restraining shinobi with laws, while Hashirama and Tobirama discussed expanding their ambitions from Konoha to the Land of Fire and beyond.
• Kaku worried that resentment over Madara's departure and the Hokage succession could destabilize the Uchiha Clan.
• Rikusei visited the Uchiha grounds, where Kaku asked what he thought of Madara running for Hokage.
• Rikusei suggested that Madara seek to become leader of the shinobi nation instead, jokingly calling the role the Ninja King.

Rikusei recorded Hashirama’s presentation of a draft Ninja Code and his plans to reorganize Konoha for broader leadership and peace. The meeting ended with Hashirama considering whether every villager could receive a Tailed Beast.

• Uchiha Kaku left clan affairs to Naori and hurried to the emergency meeting after the Hokage summoned him.
• Rikusei arrived at the conference room and recorded the clan heads’ and squad leaders’ discussion of Hashirama’s proposed Ninja Code.
• Hashirama explained the draft rules, new departmental evaluations, and his vision of expanding Konoha’s role to serve the Land of Fire and the wider world.
• Hashirama said the Five-Tails had agreed to cultivate fields in the Land of Fire.
• After an Aburame ninja suggested giving every villager a Tailed Beast, Hashirama said the proposal could be discussed.

Hashirama led a meeting where Konoha ninjas proposed ways to study and use the tailed beasts, including Shukaku’s abilities and their potential for transport and operations. A debate over whether the beasts could be trusted to act independently remained unresolved as Hashirama called on another speaker.

• Hashirama invited the ninjas to share their ideas about the tailed beasts and recorded their suggestions on a board.
• A chunin proposed that Shukaku’s sand manipulation might be an unknown bloodline limit, and Tobirama invited him to join the research institute.
• Hashirama recorded proposals to use Shukaku’s abilities, provide tailed-beast viewing opportunities, and sell tailed-beast plush toys.
• Hyuga Yu argued that tailed beasts could conduct operations across the land, while Uchiha Tobihi countered that they could be trusted and controlled.
• Hashirama ended the dispute and called on a young man from the Inuzuka Clan to speak.

Tobirama reflected on the risks and potential of distributing Tailed Beasts before discussing the Rasengan’s future with Rikusei. Meanwhile, Amabiko Tetsu urged Furukawa Kai to seek Hidden Valley Village’s survival by joining Konoha, and proposed increasing their personnel stationed there if Konoha refused.

• Tobirama concluded that the distributed Tailed Beasts should be no stronger than the previous batch of Seven-Tails fragments, then told Rikusei that the Rasengan had been classified as a forbidden technique.
• Tobirama and Rikusei discussed abandoning Rasengan research and recording its progress in the Book of Seals.
• Furukawa Kai asked Amabiko Tetsu how Hidden Valley Village could recover after losing many of its core members.
• Amabiko Tetsu rejected recruiting wandering shinobi and warned that the weakened village could be targeted despite possessing a Tailed Beast.
• Amabiko Tetsu proposed that Hidden Valley Village join Konoha, and Furukawa Kai considered the loss of autonomy against the benefits of Konoha’s infrastructure.
• When Furukawa Kai asked what to do if Konoha refused, Amabiko Tetsu suggested increasing the number of Hidden Valley Village personnel stationed in Konoha.

The villages reacted to Konoha’s tailed-beast techniques and growing power, with Iwagakure using the Nine-Tails to destroy a mountain while other leaders reconsidered their plans. The Raikage halted a deadly tailed-beast experiment and despaired over Konoha’s rising dominance, declaring that the Shinobi Alliance would never see the light of day.

• Ishikawa and Mu chose the Nine-Tails for Iwagakure’s mountain-destruction operation after the Four-Tails’ Lava Release gas injured ninjas, and the Nine-Tails blasted apart a mountain range.
• Reto and Shamon suspected the report of Shukaku’s hidden bloodline power might be Konoha misinformation, but Reto ordered them to study Shukaku and prioritize the alleged ability over the Otsutsuki Puppet Technique.
• Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu discussed Konoha’s power to suppress tailed beasts, the Uzumaki Clan’s merger into Konoha, and the launch of Kirigakure’s land reclamation plan.
• A ordered Yotsuki T to stop the experiment after volunteers died from consuming tailed-beast flesh and blood.
• A reflected on Konoha’s growing strength and concluded that the Shinobi Alliance would never see the light of day.

The leader of Star Hidden Village gave Konoha its meteorite, ending the village’s reliance on the dangerous power that had harmed generations of children. Rikusei discovered that the meteorite’s Natural Energy came from the moon, prompting Hashirama to pursue a visit to the Otsutsuki Clan, but urgent duties and a diplomatic request delayed the plan.

• Beichen offered Star Hidden Village’s meteorite to the Shinobi Alliance, and Hashirama promised Konoha would provide medical support, defense, and financial aid.
• Rikusei delivered a document to Hashirama and Tobirama, then sensed peculiar chakra inside the meteorite and identified it as a special kind of Natural Energy.
• Rikusei asked whether the God Tree had been used up, and Hashirama compared the meteorite’s energy with a withered piece of the God Tree and concluded the meteorite came from the moon.
• Hashirama urged the others to prepare a diplomatic visit to the Otsutsuki Clan, but Tobirama listed pressing duties that prevented them from leaving.
• An Anbu reported that Tianguang Zouta, the former Land of Lightning Daimyo’s fourth son, had requested an audience and mentioned the Chinoike Clan.
• Tobirama ordered Rikusei to take the meeting minutes, thwarting his attempt to slip away.

Tianguang Chihisa sought the Shinobi Alliance’s support for Tianguang Zouta to become the Land of Lightning’s new daimyo, offering the Chinoike Clan and a pledge to replace nations with villages. After the Alliance agreed, Chihisa chose to stay in Konoha and become a bookstore owner.

• An Anbu escorted Tianguang Chihisa to meet Hashirama, Tobirama, and Rikusei in the Hokage Building.
• Chihisa asked the Shinobi Alliance to support Tianguang Zouta’s claim to the vacant daimyo position, and Tobirama questioned Kumogakure’s stance and the value of his offer.
• Chihisa offered the Chinoike Clan’s release and promised the new daimyo would support replacing nations with villages; Hashirama agreed to Alliance support.
• Chihisa presented a proposal for the hidden villages and other daimyo to sign, then asked to remain in Konoha.
• Tobirama offered Chihisa a bookstore job on the condition that he abandon the Tenkō surname, and Chihisa introduced himself as Hikarinosuke.

Tobirama led the Uzumaki Clan and the sealed Seven-Tails away from Konoha, while Rikusei visited the Uchiha training ground and helped Baru, Naka, and Rai approach awakening their Sharingan. After the trio reasoned that their own intense emotions had triggered the changes, Rai stood up with his eyes beginning to awaken.

• Tobirama told Kaimi that Hashirama was too busy to join them, then led the Uzumaki Clan aboard the Seven-Tails after their flight permit arrived.
• Rikusei found Baru, Naka, Rai, and Kagami training and fought Baru, Naka, and Rai in turn, leaving each with painful, swollen eyes.
• Rikusei claimed that bloodline purity affected Sharingan awakening and guided the group to discuss how emotion and chakra could trigger the Kekkei Genkai.
• Naka concluded that the trio's suppressed emotions had erupted when they saw Rikusei, and Kagami suggested that intense feelings could awaken a Sharingan already close to opening.
• Rai stood up as sunlight broke through the clouds, feeling the unrest in his eyes and understanding Rikusei's appeal.

Tobirama and the Uzumaki Clan delivered supplies to Hidden Valley Village, then continued their journey across the Land of Fire and into the Land of Wind. After passing Rōran, they headed toward Yukigakure, while Hidden Valley’s people set out for Konoha.

• Chomei flew Tobirama and the Uzumaki Clan to Hidden Valley Village, where they explained how to use the tea kettles and offered replacement sealing tools.
• Amabiko Tetsu gave Tobirama a sack of the village’s specialty pastries before the group departed.
• After Chomei left, Amabiko Tetsu led Hidden Valley’s villagers toward Konoha with their belongings.
• As the group crossed the Land of Wind, Kaimi and Tobirama discussed the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran, and Tobirama warned the Uzumaki not to reveal what they knew.
• Tobirama told the group to prepare warm clothes for their next stop, Yukigakure.

Tobirama returned to Konoha, promised to marry after the diplomatic mission, and discussed village affairs with Hashirama. Hashirama revealed the Uchiha Clan’s larger plan, which Tobirama agreed to bring before a meeting of the New Land of Fire.

• Kaimi asked Tobirama when he would marry, and Tobirama said he would choose a date after the diplomatic mission to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Black Zetsu watched the Seven-Tails return to Konoha and decided to investigate the place where the gifts for the Otsutsuki Clan were stored.
• Rikusei trained Hiruzen’s squad while Hashirama defended giving him Tobirama’s Uchiha research materials.
• Tobirama returned and questioned Hashirama about handing the research materials to Rikusei, then reviewed the delegates’ list.
• Hashirama showed Tobirama a document bearing Uchiha Kaku, Uchiha Rikusei, and Uchiha Naori’s signatures, revealing that the Uchiha bid for Hokage had been a feint.
• Tobirama agreed to discuss the Uchiha proposal for a Ninja King at a meeting, while worrying that Madara would not stay at his desk.

Rikusei tested his teamwork against Hiruzen, Homura, and Koharu before treating them to barbecue and confirming that the other four Kage would join the Shinobi Alliance’s journey to the moon. Danzo learned that he was on the participant list, while A continued toward Konoha with Kinkaku and Ginkaku for the diplomatic mission.

• Rikusei sparred with Hiruzen, Homura, and Koharu, then suggested a two-bell game that none of them pursued.
• Rikusei offered a barbecue discount coupon, and Hiruzen invited Danzo to join their reunion.
• Koharu, Homura, and Danzo asked Rikusei about the journey to the sky, and he said the other four Kage would join under the Shinobi Alliance’s name.
• Rikusei nodded when Danzo asked whether his name was on the list, and Danzo decided not to ask about the moon so he could preserve the journey’s anticipation.
• A traveled toward Konoha with Kinkaku and Ginkaku, explaining that he needed to keep the brothers in check while the Shinobi World’s top fighters were away.

Hashirama led the Kage and gathered ninja on a Seven-Tails tour toward the passage to the moon. After entering a hidden tunnel, the group reached a pool that Otsutsuki Souritsu said led inside the moon, and Hashirama followed the first travelers into it.

• Hashirama and the Kage gathered the ninja in Konoha's plaza, and Uzumaki Kaimi summoned Chomei to carry them toward the moon passage.
• The group watched the sunrise from Chomei's back as they flew over the Shinobi World and reflected on the peace between former enemies.
• Otsutsuki Souritsu directed Chomei to a hill, where a Hyuga ninja detected a barrier concealing the passage.
• Kaimi sealed Chomei into a tea kettle, and Souritsu removed a talisman from a stone wall to reveal a dark tunnel.
• Souritsu led the group through the tunnel to a pool and told them to swim through it to reach the inside of the moon.
• Reto, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku jumped into the pool, followed by Hashirama.

Rikusei and the Kage crossed the barrier into the moon’s artificial world, where they encountered the Otsutsuki Clan and its advanced technology. The group agreed to share the flying puppet technology, while Hyuga Gencho confronted the reality of the moon’s Byakugan clan.

• Rikusei and Naori followed the crowd through Hamura’s underwater passage and crossed the barrier into the world inside the moon.
• Hashirama, Reto, Byakuren, and the others emerged from a cave and discovered the curved sky and sea beneath an artificial sun.
• A flock of giant puppet birds appeared, prompting Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure to compete for the technology.
• Tobirama proposed that the Shinobi Alliance and the Otsutsuki Clan discuss the technology and share what they developed, and the three Kage agreed.
• A Byakugan ninja welcomed the visitors, and Hyuga Gencho struggled to accept the moon clan’s flawless Byakugan and the suffering caused by the Caged Bird seal.