Chapter Summaries

Minato led Kakashi, Obito, and Rin on the Kannabi Bridge mission, but Rin’s capture and Obito’s apparent sacrifice played into Madara’s plan. Obito awoke in an underground cavern among Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna, learning he had survived.

• After defeating the AB Combo, Minato received a mission to destroy Kannabi Bridge and took Kakashi, Obito, and Rin to the battlefield.
• Minato assigned himself to demolish the bridge while the three youths watched the perimeter and provided support.
• Madara told Tobirama that Obito was his chosen target and declared that his plan was about to begin.
• When Iwagakure captured Rin, Kakashi and Obito abandoned their mission to rescue her, and Obito awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan after Kakashi was injured.
• After the rescue, a boulder crushed half of Obito’s body, and he entrusted his Sharingan and unspoken wish to Kakashi.
• Obito woke in an underground cavern, where Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna watched him; Tobirama explained that Obito had fallen into their tunnel.

After Rin died, Obito slaughtered the Kirigakure Anbu and blamed Manji for arriving too late. Manji struck Obito before he could use Kamui, but Obito escaped with Rin’s body.

• Manji received an urgent order to assist Team Kakashi on the eastern coast and hurried toward the battlefield.
• Manji arrived too late to stop Kakashi from killing Rin, and Obito erupted in grief and rage.
• Obito used his Mangekyō Sharingan and Wood Release to kill the Kirigakure Anbu surrounding him.
• Obito blamed Manji for Rin’s death and charged at him, but Manji struck him through the White Zetsu before he could activate Kamui.
• A-Fei urged Obito to flee, and Obito escaped with Rin using Kamui.

Manji rescued Kakashi and Duy’s squad from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, then cared for the traumatized Kakashi at the Daimyo Mansion. Hatake Sakumo arrived and asked Manji to remove Danzo from power so Konoha could end the war, leaving Manji to consider his plea.

• Manji appeared on the battlefield with Kakashi, sent Might Guy and the others away with Duy, and attacked the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan before vanishing through a portal.
• Kakashi woke at Manji’s residence and learned that Rin had died, then blamed himself for killing her with his Chidori.
• Manji told Kakashi to recover at the capital and sent word to Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo arrived three days later, thanked Manji for saving Kakashi, and learned that Kakashi was grieving Rin and Obito.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Manji to force Danzo from office and end the war, arguing that Manji had the influence to do so.

Manji moved to remove Danzo from power, but the Daimyo said he needed approval from the mysterious authority above him. At Konoha’s memorial service, Manji confronted Danzo, whose attempt to kill him with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal failed, and Manji immobilized Danzo and began listing his crimes.

• Manji asked the Land of Fire's Daimyo to dismiss Danzo as Hokage, but the Daimyo said he needed approval from above; Manji insisted the Sage of Six Paths would agree.
• At the memorial service, Manji arrived with Hyuga Clan ninjas and condemned Danzo’s speech, while Danzo accused him of treason and ordered Root to seize him.
• Kushina, Shinnosuke, Minato Namikaze, Yuhi Shinku, and others sided with Manji and fought Root as the Anbu stayed still.
• Root members attempted to use the Dead Demon Consuming Seal on Manji, but the Death God retreated after seeing him and could not be summoned again.
• Manji immobilized Danzo with the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal and began reading out Danzo’s crimes.

Manji removed Danzo as Hokage, ended the Third Shinobi World War, and temporarily took charge of Konoha. He told his trusted companions he planned to step down and asked them to consider who should become the next Hokage.

• Manji had Danzo removed from office, announced that the war was over, and appointed Uchiha Fugaku as clan head after Hatake Sakumo reported the Uchiha Clan was under control.
• Tsunade reported that she had subdued the advisers, while Hatake Sakumo said Orochimaru could not be found and might have fled.
• Several days later, the four great nations accepted Manji's ceasefire proposals, and he placed Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu under house arrest while reorganizing Root into the Anbu.
• Manji welcomed Hatake Sakumo, Minato Namikaze, Uzumaki Kushina, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and Tsunade to his office, then announced he intended to leave the Hokage position.
• Hatake Sakumo, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and Uzumaki Kushina declined to become Hokage, and Manji asked Minato Namikaze what he thought.

Minato Namikaze accepted Manji’s offer to become Konoha’s Seventh Hokage, while Manji later confronted Uchiha Fugaku about the danger of an Uchiha rebellion. At home, Tsunade told Manji she was pregnant, and they began considering what their child’s future might be.

• Manji offered Minato Namikaze the position of Seventh Hokage, and Minato accepted before being told to train with Manji for five months.
• Manji asked Tsunade to stay behind to discuss medical reforms, but Tsunade pursued an office fantasy instead.
• Uchiha Fugaku warned Manji that Uchiha Hawks supporting Danzo might rebel, and Manji threatened to eliminate the clan if they rose against Konoha.
• Manji left the Hokage Office at quitting time and returned to the house he shared with Tsunade.
• Tsunade showed Manji a positive pregnancy test, and Manji sensed that their child carried his bloodline.
• Tsunade said she did not plan to let their child become a ninja because of the dangers she had witnessed.

Manji learned that Tsunade and Kushina were both pregnant, bringing the final generation of the Millennium Pact closer. In the Pure Land, Indra planned a great battle between the historical reincarnations, while Obito prepared to act on news of Kushina's pregnancy.

• Manji told Tsunade he would resign as Hokage and focus on protecting her and their child, and she agreed.
• Minato told Manji and Tsunade that Kushina was pregnant, and Tsunade revealed that she was pregnant too.
• Manji told Asura and Indra that only one generation remained in the Millennium Pact, and the brothers acknowledged that their relationship had improved.
• Indra proposed a grand battle between all past reincarnations of Indra and Asura, and Manji agreed to help arrange it after the final generation died.
• After Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju, and Uchiha Izuna stopped breathing, White Zetsu told Obito that Kushina was pregnant, and Obito insisted on being called Madara, Tobirama, or Izuna.

Manji handed the Hokage title to Minato Namikaze, then waited for Tsunade to give birth to their son, Wanzhao. He discovered that the newborn had been born with a Sage Body, while Obito Uchiha prepared another Nine-Tails attack.

• Obito Uchiha planned to exploit the weakening seal during a Jinchuriki's childbirth to control the Nine-Tails and attack Konoha, and White Zetsu informed Manji of the plan.
• Manji formally passed the Hokage hat to Minato Namikaze, who was hailed as Konoha's Seventh by the cheering villagers.
• Danzo angrily tried to change the channel rather than watch Minato's succession ceremony, while Sarutobi Hiruzen urged him to accept that his time had passed.
• Tsunade gave birth to a healthy boy, and she and Manji named him Wanzhao.
• Manji sensed that Wanzhao had been born with a Sage Body, but found no sign of a Rinnegan.

The masked Obito attacked Konoha by unleashing the Nine-Tails, but Fugaku and Minato stopped his rampage. Manji helped save Kushina by splitting the Nine-Tails' Chakra between her and Naruto, while Konoha's leaders began investigating the attacker’s identity.

• On the night of Kushina's delivery, the Nine-Tails appeared in Konoha as Obito controlled it from the shadows.
• Uchiha Fugaku suppressed Obito's control over the Nine-Tails, and Minato struck Obito with a Rasengan and placed a Flying Thunder God Mark on him.
• Manji promised to save Kushina by splitting the Nine-Tails' Chakra, and Minato asked him to seal the other half inside Naruto.
• The Nine-Tails Attack ended swiftly, and Minato told Konoha's leaders that the masked attacker had called himself Madara Uchiha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen identified the attacker as Tobi based on a similar Nine-Tails attack decades earlier, leaving Minato puzzled about how Tobi could still be alive.

Minato learned that Hanzō had been killed by Akatsuki, while Manji watched the growing conflict between the Uchiha and Konoha from home. At dinner, Manji and Wanzhao spoke Mandarin, leaving Tsunade angry at being excluded.

• Minato read Jiraiya's report that Akatsuki had killed Hanzō, and Sarutobi Hiruzen suggested Jiraiya investigate the organization.
• Minato tried to reconcile Konoha and the Uchiha by supporting promising clan members, while the Uchiha hardliners secretly sought to restore Danzo to power.
• Manji reviewed Kakuzu's daily report and worried that tensions between the Uchiha and Konoha were escalating.
• Wanzhao read a Mandarin poem aloud, stirring Manji's memories of his mother tongue and his former home.
• Manji and Wanzhao spoke Mandarin over dinner, and Tsunade slammed the table and ordered them not to use languages she could not understand.
• Manji stood and embraced Tsunade from behind, gently explaining that he wanted Wanzhao to learn another language.

Manji agreed to enroll Wanzhao in the Konoha Ninja Academy after Tsunade and Wanzhao convinced him that his son needed friends. On enrollment day, Wanzhao entered the academy with Naruto, who proudly promised to look out for him.

• Tsunade complained that Manji and Wanzhao had excluded her, and they apologized until she forgave them.
• Tsunade urged Manji to enroll Wanzhao so he could make friends, and Manji agreed when Wanzhao said he wanted them.
• Manji invited Sarutobi Shinnosuke, the academy principal, to arrange Wanzhao's enrollment and congratulated him on naming his son Sarutobi Konohamaru.
• Manji and Tsunade brought Wanzhao to enrollment day, where he nervously faced the crowd and met Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Naruto.
• Wanzhao and Naruto entered the academy together, and Naruto introduced himself as Namikaze Naruto and promised to look out for Wanzhao.

Iruka began teaching a class of prominent ninja heirs, where Wanzhao and Naruto shared their dreams with their classmates. Meanwhile, Manji watched the enrollment ceremonies and learned that Kaguya wanted to see him immediately.

• Iruka worried about teaching an important class, but his father, Umino Ikkaku, reassured him before he left with his lesson plan and attendance book.
• Iruka entered the noisy classroom, introduced himself, and invited the students to take turns introducing themselves.
• Wanzhao wished for peace in the Ninja World, and Namikaze Naruto declared that he wanted to become a Hokage greater than his father.
• At Mount Myōboku, Hinata Hyuga, Otsutsuki Toneri, and Neji Hyuga introduced themselves to their kindergarten class.
• Manji used the Telescope Technique to watch both ceremonies and reflected that Hinata might never meet Naruto.
• Uchiha Hikari told Manji that Kaguya wanted to see him now, but Manji said he would consider it after handling matters in the human world.

Manji confronted Kaguya about waiting for him for 735 years and gave her a choice between staying on Mount Myōboku, exile, or returning to Planetary Devastation. After Kaguya attacked and he vanished, Manji returned to Tsunade, who briefly suspected him of seeing another woman before accepting his explanation.

• Manji sent Uchiha Hikari away, then went alone to meet Kaguya on Mount Myōboku.
• Kaguya told Manji she had waited 735 years and watched him marry Tsunade and have a son.
• Manji coldly offered Kaguya three choices: remain on Mount Myōboku, be exiled to the Pure Land, or return inside Planetary Devastation.
• Kaguya rejected Manji's offer of a genjutsu and tried to choke him, but Manji vanished as sage mist.
• Manji returned to Konoha, where Tsunade noticed another woman's scent on him and questioned him.
• Manji reassured Tsunade that he had not pursued another woman, and she embraced him again.

Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Tekka, and Uchiha Inabi plotted to kill Wanzhao’s son and defect from Konoha. The boy’s danger sense helped him evade their ambush, and an Anbu operative intervened as the attackers fled into the forest.

• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Tekka, and Uchiha Inabi chose Wanzhao’s son as their target and planned to escape to the Land of Rain afterward.
• Wanzhao’s son sensed danger as he walked home from school and hurried along the road.
• Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Yashiro, and Uchiha Tekka ambushed the boy, but he rolled clear of their combined strike.
• An Anbu operative burst from the ground and confronted the three Uchiha for attacking a child inside Konoha.
• Uchiha Inabi ordered the others to flee, and the three escaped into the forest using smoke bombs.

After Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Yashiro, and Uchiha Inabi tried to assassinate Wanzhao, Manji pressed Minato to hunt them down and crack down on the Uchiha Clan. Minato resisted the prospect of provoking a clan rebellion, but Manji threatened to replace him as Hokage with someone more ruthless.

• White Zetsu told Manji that three Uchiha had tried to kill Wanzhao and that he had scared them off while disguised as an Anbu operative.
• Wanzhao rushed home and told Manji that three people had attacked him, and Manji comforted him and promised to protect him.
• An Anbu operative reported to Minato that Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Yashiro, and Uchiha Inabi had fled through Konoha's southern gate.
• Manji demanded that Minato issue an S-rank wanted notice for the three and request a joint manhunt from the Five Great Nations.
• Minato warned that a harsh crackdown could drive the Uchiha Clan to rebel, but Manji argued for eliminating the threat and threatened to replace Minato with Shinnosuke or Tsunade.

Manji ordered Uchiha Itachi to eliminate the Uchiha Clan’s hawks and infiltrate Akatsuki, promising his family would be spared and Konoha would eventually clear his name. Back home, Manji arranged for Wanzhao to begin Senjutsu training at Shikkotsu Forest, while Itachi prepared for the night’s slaughter.

• Minato Namikaze pleaded with Manji to spare the Uchiha Clan’s doves, and Manji agreed to target only the hawks.
• Manji gave Uchiha Itachi a list of hawks to eliminate and ordered him to infiltrate Akatsuki afterward.
• Manji comforted Itachi and explained that records of the First Shinobi World War confirmed the Pure Land existed.
• Manji told Tsunade he wanted Wanzhao to learn Senjutsu at Shikkotsu Forest, and Tsunade agreed on the condition that she could stop the training if it became dangerous.
• Manji stayed behind to cook as Itachi prepared his clothes and tools for the slaughter that night.

After Manji’s plan weakened the Uchiha Hawks and Uchiha Itachi carried out targeted killings, Uchiha Fugaku let Itachi go after learning he had not killed civilians in the southern district. In the Pure Land, a wave of dead Uchiha blamed Manji for the purge, while the Slug Sage recognized Wanzhao as Manji’s son and praised his potential for Sage Arts.

• Namikaze Minato sent Uchiha Hawks leaders on dangerous missions, and Uchiha Itachi killed the radicals who remained inside the clan compound.
• Uchiha Fugaku confronted Uchiha Itachi, learned he had not killed the three households in the southern clan district, and let him leave.
• Uchiha Yashiro arrived in the Pure Land and blamed Manji for the plan to destroy the Uchiha, alarming Uchiha Tajima and Uchiha Chen.
• Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Izuna, and Tobirama Senju found themselves in a desolate part of the Pure Land and wondered why few others were there.
• The Slug Sage recognized Wanzhao as Manji’s son, then told Tsunade that Wanzhao had the talent to cultivate Immortal Art.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki arrived at Earth to investigate the fate of the missing Otsutsuki, but Manji intercepted them after they entered the atmosphere. He trapped them above an ocean and prepared to take their powers and techniques.

• Momoshiki dismissed the possibility that anyone on Earth could threaten him and Kinshiki, though he noticed someone watching from the Moon.
• Manji learned from a toad that the Lunar Observatory had spotted the aliens and decided to confront them with his true body.
• As Momoshiki and Kinshiki entered Earth's atmosphere, Manji's overwhelming aura frightened them into fleeing through a Kamui passage.
• Manji distorted their spatial passage and redirected them to an ocean on Earth, where he appeared behind them.
• Manji named Momoshiki's and Kinshiki's prized abilities and declared that he would take them, then called himself an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.

Manji killed Momoshiki and Kinshiki, took Momoshiki’s Rinnegan, and sought out Orochimaru to recruit him. Orochimaru questioned Manji’s motives as Kabuto prepared to protect him.

• Manji killed Momoshiki and Kinshiki, collected their souls, and took their corpses for research.
• Manji removed Momoshiki’s Rinnegan and decided to find Orochimaru, who had established Otogakure with Kabuto.
• Manji appeared in Orochimaru’s underground laboratory and invited him to join him.
• Manji clarified that he wanted Orochimaru to serve him personally, not return to Konoha.
• Orochimaru questioned whether Manji intended to abandon the village, while Kabuto readied himself to help Orochimaru escape.

Manji used transformations and intimate knowledge of Orochimaru’s past to convince him that he knew the hidden truths of the Ninja World. He then claimed identities including the First Hokage and the Sage of Six Paths, leaving Orochimaru shaken and Kabuto stunned.

• Manji dismissed Orochimaru’s belief that politicians and Daimyo controlled the Ninja World and claimed a hidden government ruled it.
• Manji transformed into Orochimaru’s deceased adoptive father and recalled private memories that Orochimaru thought nobody else could know.
• Orochimaru lost his composure and demanded to know who Manji really was.
• Manji transformed into the First Hokage and then claimed he could also be the Sage of Six Paths.
• Manji’s appearance shifted into black-and-red robes as a Six Paths Sword floated behind him.