Chapter Summaries

Rikusei defeated Naori in a fast sword fight at the Uchiha Clan Tournament, after which Kaku announced that the Uchiha Clan Academy would be disbanded and its students would join the Ninja Academy. The chapter ended with Rikusei tending to Naori’s injured arm in the infirmary.

• Rikusei and Naori fought with short swords at full speed, and their battle amazed the watching Uchiha.
• Rikusei disarmed Naori, who conceded the match, and they shared the crowd’s cheers.
• Kaku announced the Uchiha Clan Academy’s closure and said the next generation would attend the Ninja Academy instead.
• Hashirama and Madara spoke after the tournament, and Tobirama said the Ninja Academy could expand by one class.
• Rikusei applied ointment to Naori’s injured arm and promised to take her out for something good to eat.

Tobirama supervised the Artisan Ninja clan as they forged equipment designed to work with Sealing Jutsu, while Kohei questioned Konoha’s motives for capturing the Tailed Beasts. The chapter ended with word that Ashina was on his way to Konoha to test the first finished item.

• Tobirama told Kohei that the forged equipment had to work perfectly with Sealing Jutsu, and Kohei promised that he and Ashina would ensure it did.
• Kohei explained that he had brought the Artisan Ninja clan to Konoha because its support was strong and its peaceful village impressed him.
• Kohei asked whether Konoha planned to unite the Shinobi World, and Tobirama said the goal was peace and that Hashirama and Madara wanted to stretch their legs.
• Kohei choked on his pipe smoke after hearing Tobirama’s blunt explanation, then recovered and remarked on the pair’s godlike power.
• A messenger ninja informed Tobirama that Ashina was coming, and Kohei said the first forged item would be ready for Ashina to test in a few days.

Konoha celebrated its alliance with Uzushio Village as Madara reflected on the Uchiha Stone Tablet and welcomed the Uzumaki delegation. The chapter ended with Kaimi and Naori slipping away to take advantage of a half-price dango sale.

• Rikusei and Madara walked through Konoha on the day it welcomed Uzushio Village as its first allied nation, and Madara shared his new understanding of the Uchiha Stone Tablet.
• Madara and Hashirama learned that the Uzushio delegation was arriving, then went to the village entrance to greet it.
• Ashina brought the delegation to Konoha, where Hashirama and the villagers warmly welcomed the Uzumaki shinobi and Mito reunited with her clanspeople.
• Kaimi marveled at Konoha's lights and ceremonies as he entered the village with the delegation.
• Kaimi and Naori heard from Kagami that the nearby dango shop was half price and used Body Flicker Technique to rush there.

Konoha Hidden Village celebrated Hashirama’s appointment as Hokage and formally allied with Uzushio Village. As festivities continued outside, Kaimi joined the leaders inside to witness the alliance treaty being finalized.

• Madara placed the Hokage Hat on Hashirama and presented him to the cheering crowd as Lord Hokage.
• Hashirama invited Ashina forward and announced Konoha Hidden Village’s formal alliance with Uzushio Village.
• Rikusei watched the alliance emblems unfurl, then spotted Grandmother winning a game before Rai and Kagami pulled him into the festivities.
• Kaimi attended the treaty negotiations with Uzumaki leaders and Konoha clan heads, where Shikahira read the agreement’s terms.
• Kaimi approved of the treaty clauses as he listened, then wondered whether his seaside hometown was celebrating too.

Tobirama asked Rikusei for advice about distributing the captured Tailed Beasts, and Rikusei challenged the idea of giving or selling whole beasts to the other villages. He left Tobirama considering whether the beasts could be divided into smaller pieces and shared.

• Tobirama summoned Rikusei and revealed that he suspected him of advising Madara on domestic policy.
• Rikusei admitted he had guided Madara's ideas, and Tobirama showed him a prototype for sealing a Tailed Beast.
• Tobirama explained that the Hokage wanted to give the captured Tailed Beasts to the other Hidden Villages, while Tobirama favored selling them.
• Rikusei criticized Tobirama's proposed prices and warned that distributing whole Tailed Beasts could endanger future generations.
• Rikusei suggested splitting the Tailed Beasts into countless pieces so every Hidden Village could receive one, leaving Tobirama pondering the idea.

Rikusei learned that Naori had awakened a Single Tomoe Sharingan and tested his own eyes, discovering he could activate a Double Tomoe. He suspected his chakra had spread to Naori through her short blade, though he was still unsure how it had reached her.

• Rikusei regretted being tricked by a red-eyed man and walked back to the Uchiha Clan Grounds with Naori.
• Naori showed Rikusei her newly awakened Single Tomoe Sharingan and explained that it had appeared the night before after the crowd’s excitement at the Hokage.
• Rikusei reassured Naori that her Sharingan would help her grow stronger and saw her home.
• After dinner, Rikusei studied his chakra and successfully activated a Double Tomoe Sharingan.
• Rikusei suspected his chakra had transferred to Naori through her short blade and recalled her keeping a hand on it after the Clan Tournament.

On enrollment day, Rikusei watched the new students arrive while Tobirama continued balancing his Academy duties with village work. At the end of the day, Rikusei came to Tobirama to claim the reward he had been promised.

• The Academy welcomed sixty new students into Classes B, C, and D while Class A remained unchanged.
• Rikusei noticed Hyuga Branch Family members among the newcomers and reflected that the great clans were still wary of Konoha.
• Kohei and the Uzumaki clansmen tested a chakra-conducting teapot intended to hold a Tailed Beast’s chakra in multiple batches.
• Ashina agreed to leave Uzumaki clansmen in Konoha to help with the coming operation, while Tobirama calculated they could seal their first Tailed Beast within days.
• Tobirama returned to his paperwork and intelligence reports, then recognized Rikusei at his door as the boy arrived to claim his promised reward.

Rikusei persuaded Tobirama to have the Artisan Ninjas reforge his and Naori’s blades. In the Hokage’s Office, Madara and Hashirama received word that the Nine-Tails had been located and studied a map marking its position.

• Rikusei rejected Tobirama’s offers to teach him chakra skills and asked whether Tobirama still had the sample material.
• Rikusei fetched Naori and brought her short blades to Tobirama, who examined them and agreed to have the Artisan Ninjas reforge them.
• Rikusei joked about getting a share of future Tailed Beast sales, then fled Tobirama’s office with Naori.
• Madara and Hashirama discussed their growing workload handling the village’s affairs in the Hokage’s Office.
• An Anbu shinobi reported that the Nine-Tails’ location had been found, and Hashirama and Madara examined the map in the scroll.

Rikusei worried that he and the other students would be left out of the village’s Tailed Beast hunt. Madara visited the Ninja Academy and persuaded Tobirama to bring children from prominent clans along, leaving Tobirama to consider the plan.

• Rikusei shared his dango with Naori and told her he feared the village would not take them on the Tailed Beast hunt.
• Madara’s arrival at the Ninja Academy thrilled the students, including Danzo, Hiruzen, and Kagami.
• Madara told Tobirama he wanted to discuss a plan, and Tobirama objected when Madara proposed taking children on the dangerous expedition.
• Madara showed Tobirama a list of children from prominent clans and argued that bringing them along would help win those clans over.
• Tobirama began reconsidering the plan as Madara left to return to Hashirama.

Konoha’s plan to capture the Tailed Beasts sparked a village-wide rush to get children into the Ninja Academy so they could witness the first sealing. After Rikusei suggested choosing participants by exam rankings, Tobirama decided to use the event to promote Academy enrollment and drafted posters.

• Hashirama and Madara announced Konoha’s plan to capture all Nine Tailed Beasts, beginning with the Nine-Tails, and limited witnesses to the Ninja Academy’s new generation.
• Clans flooded Hashirama’s office with requests for their children to attend, while parents repeatedly approached Tobirama at the Academy.
• Tobirama pulled Rikusei aside and asked whether he had given Madara the idea, but Rikusei denied it and Tobirama concluded Hashirama had thought of the plan himself.
• Tobirama asked Rikusei how to handle the many requests, and Rikusei suggested limiting the number of places and selecting students by exam rankings.
• Tobirama decided that people who wanted to attend the event should enroll in the Ninja Academy and began drafting promotional posters.

Rikusei and Naori visited Kohei, who reforged Naori’s short sword and told them he had made it for her family years ago. Later, Tobirama gathered the selected students and explained the rules for their upcoming trip, emphasizing that they must stay near him and bring no snacks.

• Rikusei took Naori to Kohei’s workshop, where Kohei recognized her purple hair and identified her as an Uchiha.
• Kohei returned Naori’s reforged short sword and explained that he had recognized it as one he made years earlier.
• After the preliminary selection period, twenty chosen students gathered in the classroom, including Rikusei, Naori, Kagami, Naka, and Baru.
• Tobirama entered and had Rikusei distribute the trip instructions to the students.
• Tobirama explained that the students had to stay close to him, remain calm during clashes, and bring no snacks.

Madara tested Rikusei’s newly awakened Double-Tomoe Sharingan, and their experiments nearly burned down the Uchiha Training Ground before Kaku arrived. After they put out the fire, Rikusei and Madara spent the evening making hot pot, where Rikusei’s questions about Madara’s love life earned him another beating.

• Madara sparred with Rikusei and tested his Double-Tomoe Sharingan’s combat and copying abilities.
• Rikusei copied Madara’s Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and their combined flames set the woods ablaze.
• Madara and Rikusei used Water Release: Water Shockwave to extinguish the fire, then fooled Kaku into believing they were searching for the culprit.
• Madara took Rikusei for an evening walk, and Rikusei commissioned a Yin-Yang Hot Pot before they bought ingredients.
• Rikusei questioned Madara about why he had no partner, so Madara beat him and confiscated the hot pot after their meal.

Hashirama and Tobirama developed a ninja-ranking and assignment system while preparing to capture the Tailed Beasts. After their staffing plan took shape, Rikusei spent his first day off wandering Konoha and headed toward a ninja tool shop.

• Hashirama asked Tobirama about the armor and sought his opinion on a proposal to classify ninja by strength.
• Tobirama supported the proposal and added plans for rank standards, mission eligibility, and individual ability files.
• Hashirama showed Tobirama a list of Senju members who had changed their surnames and quietly joined village departments, and they agreed to use them to address the staffing shortage.
• Hashirama remembered Madara's claim that he could face the Nine-Tails alone and decided they would capture the Tailed Beasts together.
• Rikusei walked through Konoha during his school break, recalled his recent mishaps and training bruises, and headed to a ninja tool shop.

On Kage Rock, Danzō and Hiruzen joked about what the Nine-Tails looked like before enjoying iced drinks in Konoha. Meanwhile, Hyuga Ryudo prepared clan members to observe the sealing, reflecting on the Main Family’s reluctant changes as the village entered a new era.

• Danzō and Hiruzen rested on Kage Rock, imagined the Nine-Tails, and competed over drawings of the fox demon.
• Danzō and Hiruzen visited a popular ice-drink shop, where a young Ice Release user chilled their drinks by hand.
• Hiruzen admired the shop owner while Danzō pointed out the large lemon in his drink.
• Hyuga Ryudo instructed the clan’s chosen ninja to observe the Nine-Tails sealing carefully and reassured them that Tobirama would not exploit the Byakugan.
• Ryudo recalled how Hyuga Gencho had pushed for Main Family participation and how Ryudo had secured a spot from Tobirama.
• After the meeting, Ryudo watched Qingxuan, Dugu, and the old man leave, feeling that the new era was sweeping away the old clan-minded generation.

Rikusei prepared for the Nine-Tails’ possible attack with his Grandmother, then joined Naori, Kagami, Baru, and Naka before dawn to head toward the rendezvous point. The group set off through Konoha, where the three boys admitted their excitement had kept them awake all night.

• Rikusei’s Grandmother gave him specially made Smoke Bombs and sent him off when Naori approached.
• Rikusei met Naori outside, and they walked toward the gates of Konoha while talking about the coming Nine-Tails mission and sharing plans for hot pot.
• Rikusei and Naori met Kagami, Baru, and Naka at the Uchiha Clan Grounds’ gate, and the five headed through Konoha together.
• Rikusei teased Baru, Naka, and Kagami about whether they could keep up, then Naori noticed their dark circles and realized they had stayed awake all night.
• Naori offered the three boys Military Ration Pills, but they said they had brought their own and shared rice balls as they continued toward the meeting point.

Rikusei joined the Konoha forces as they set out to confront the Nine-Tails, with Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama leading the expedition. As the army marched into the forest, Tobirama prepared to test a new method of controlling Tailed Beasts by implanting them inside ninjas.

• Rikusei joined the gathered ninjas beneath the Konoha Gate and watched Tobirama organize the assembled clans.
• Uzumaki Kaimi arrived with the Uzumaki contingent, whose members carried boxes of sealing tools.
• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama arrived together, and Madara threw his gunbai to Rikusei to carry.
• Hashirama ordered the force to move out, and the ninjas marched from Konoha at a pace the Academy students could manage.
• Tobirama monitored the march and considered how the Uzumaki sealing tools and a new method of implanting Tailed Beasts could help them control the Nine-Tails.

Tobirama explained the plan to capture the Nine-Tails and distributed Flying Thunder God Kunai before Hashirama and Madara began the operation. Rikusei and the others followed Tobirama through the forest to watch the opening, while Tobirama wondered what had awakened Naori’s Sharingan.

• An Anbu reported that the Nine-Tails remained within the monitored area, and Hashirama prepared to begin the capture.
• Tobirama stopped Hashirama to explain the plan, summoned Flying Thunder God Kunai from a sealing scroll, and gave one to each person.
• Tobirama said Hashirama and Madara would fight the Nine-Tails while the Uzumaki Clan and Anbu formed a barrier and later sealed it.
• Hashirama announced the capture, and Rikusei and the others followed Tobirama through the forest toward the battle.
• Tobirama noticed Naori had awakened her Sharingan before several other young Uchiha and reconsidered his incomplete understanding of how she had awakened it.

Madara and Hashirama fought the Nine-Tails inside Uzumaki Ashina’s barrier while Tobirama arranged a way for the gathered shinobi to watch. The barrier failed under the battle’s shock waves, and Ashina called the power on display the means to defeat the Tailed Beasts for good.

• The Nine-Tails attacked the purple barrier as an Uzumaki shinobi strained to maintain it.
• Rikusei watched Madara and Hashirama overpower the Nine-Tails, while Taiichi and Nao helped Tobirama share Hyuga Kagami’s view with the crowd.
• Madara and Hashirama combined Wind Release and Fireball Jutsu, prompting the Nine-Tails to counter with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Hashirama’s Wood Golem caught the bomb, but it broke through its hand, and Madara redirected it with Uchiha Reflection.
• The redirected bomb exploded, destroying the barrier and knocking Uzumaki Ashina down; after checking the sealing tools, Ashina watched the Wood Golem and declared that its power could defeat the Tailed Beasts for good.

Madara and Hashirama trapped the Nine-Tails in the wooden golem’s grasp as the beast charged a Tailed Beast Bomb, while Tobirama shielded the spectators from the resulting storm. The crowd regained its view of the battle, and Danzo accidentally activated the Flying Thunder God Mark linking him to Tobirama.

• The Nine-Tails clasped hands with Hashirama’s wooden golem and began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb, while Madara warned Hashirama not to use the Wood Dragon Technique.
• Madara began forming Hand Seals as Hashirama held the Nine-Tails in place, and the beast realized it had fallen into a trap.
• The storm swept through the forest, and Tobirama protected Rikusei, Naori, Aburame Taiichi, and the others with a Water Formation Wall.
• Rikusei wiped a droplet from Naori’s earlobe, and she pointed out a rainbow as the wind and waves subsided.
• Tobirama raised an Earth Flow Wall to shelter the spectators, and Aburame Taiichi restored the Kikaichū connection so Danzo could watch the battle again.
• Danzo touched the Flying Thunder God Mark in his pocket and accidentally connected his chakra to Tobirama’s.

Madara and Hashirama tested the Wood Golem against the Nine-Tails, with Madara combining it with Susanoo and fighting the beast head-on. The Nine-Tails unleashed a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, but Madara made the Wood Golem sprout wings and fly into the sky.

• Madara armored the Wood Golem with Susanoo, struck the Nine-Tails, and headbutted it repeatedly while Hashirama watched.
• The Nine-Tails broke free, bit through the Wood Golem's armor, and retreated as Hashirama restored the damaged construct.
• Madara charged with the Wood Golem's long sword and split the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb, then traded sword blows with the beast.
• The Nine-Tails sent chakra-coated tails into the Wood Golem, but Hashirama repaired it after the fox declared victory.
• The enraged Nine-Tails fired a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, and Madara gave the Wood Golem wings so it could soar above them.