Chapter Summaries

The Great Toad Sage foresaw Hatake Tachibana’s arrival and ordered Fukasaku and Shima to welcome him as Mount Myoboku’s honored guest. After meeting the sages, Jiraiya suspected Tachibana might be the Child of Prophecy.

• The Great Toad Sage woke from his long sleep, saw Hatake Tachibana in a vision, and instructed Fukasaku to treat him courteously.
• Hatake Tachibana, Minato Namikaze, and Jiraiya arrived at Mount Myoboku inside Gamabunta, where Tachibana sensed a vast amount of Natural Energy.
• Fukasaku and Shima welcomed Hatake Tachibana as their honored guest and said the Great Toad Sage was waiting to meet him.
• Fukasaku and Shima invited Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze to come along, leaving Jiraiya bewildered by the special treatment Tachibana received.
• Jiraiya concluded that Hatake Tachibana might be the Child of Prophecy and reconsidered his earlier belief that Nagato fulfilled the prophecy.

Hatake Tachibana received the Great Toad Sage’s memories and a warning to stop the Otsutsuki Clan, while Jiraiya was told to stop searching for the Child of Prophecy. After leaving the temple, Tachibana began planning a Sage Mode of his own by combining Natural Energy, Breathing Style, and Haki.

• The Great Toad Sage spoke to Hatake Tachibana in his mind, said the future had changed, and asked him to stop the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Great Toad Sage passed his memories to Hatake Tachibana, who began absorbing them as Fukasaku and Shima announced that the Sage had fallen asleep.
• Fukasaku and Shima told Jiraiya that his mission was complete and that he should stop searching for the Child of Prophecy and live without further regrets.
• Fukasaku and Shima invited Minato Namikaze to learn Mount Myoboku’s Senjutsu and gave Hatake Tachibana a summoning scroll and permission to roam the mountain.
• Hatake Tachibana left the temple and considered absorbing Natural Energy through his whole body to create his own Sage Mode and combine Senjutsu energy with Haki.

Hatake Tachibana mastered the initial stage of Sage Mode on Mount Myoboku and demonstrated a colossal Flying Slash to Gamahiro. He left Gamahiro eager to learn the technique, while the Great Toad Sage watched in amazement.

• Hatake Tachibana absorbed Natural Energy and completed the initial stage of Sage Mode after six hours of training.
• Hatake Tachibana used the Mount Myoboku Special Summoning Scroll to summon Gamahiro and asked him to take him to Konoha.
• Hatake Tachibana offered to teach Gamahiro a sword technique, and Gamahiro agreed despite doubting his tiny blade.
• Hatake Tachibana unleashed a Flying Slash that cut a long fissure through a distant mountain range without hitting any toads.
• Gamahiro stared at the damage and eagerly wanted to learn Hatake Tachibana's technique, while the Great Toad Sage opened his eyes in amazement.

After a year of training and growing influence in Konoha, Hatake Tachibana was assigned to lead Obito Uchiha, Nohara Rin, and Hatake Kakashi as his students. As Shimura Danzō began plotting against the Hatake Clan, Tachibana sent Kakashi to fetch the other two, much to Kakashi’s dismay.

• Hatake Tachibana returned from Mount Myoboku and calculated that he could maintain Sage Mode for seven days while continuing to train toward merging Senjutsu Energy with Colorless Haki.
• A year later, Hatake Tachibana had regained his former peak power, become an Elite Jonin, and taken charge of several Anbu squads, while Hatake Kakashi had become a Chunin before turning eight.
• The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Hatake Tachibana to lead Obito Uchiha, Nohara Rin, and Hatake Kakashi, and Tachibana accepted the team.
• Shimura Danzō began plotting against Hatake Sakumo and the Hatake Clan, viewing them as obstacles to his ambition to become Fourth Hokage.
• Hatake Tachibana told Hatake Kakashi to bring Obito Uchiha and Nohara Rin home, but Kakashi delayed because he dreaded reuniting with his former classmates.

Hatake Tachibana assigned Rin, Obito, and Kakashi training scrolls while Hatake Sakumo left on a dangerous rescue mission in the Land of Earth. Three days later, Sakumo was reported to have fought off ten thousand Iwagakure ninja before Kumogakure forces joined the battle, as Tachibana began planning to reshape Konoha’s leadership.

• Kakashi brought Rin and Obito to meet their Jonin leader, Hatake Tachibana, after knocking Obito unconscious when he refused to come along.
• Tachibana gave Rin a medical ninjutsu scroll, Obito genjutsu techniques and meditation training, and Kakashi time to train.
• Hatake Sakumo accepted an urgent rescue mission in Iwagakure and went alone to save a Konoha squad pursued by a large enemy force.
• Tachibana suspected village leaders were manipulating Sakumo’s mission for political reasons, but trusted Sakumo’s strength and resolved to reorganize Konoha’s leadership.
• Three days later, reports said Sakumo had fought ten thousand Iwagakure ninja for three days before nearly twenty thousand Kumogakure troops arrived to continue the siege.

After Hatake Sakumo killed Third Raikage A and lost his sword arm in the battle, Ōnoki rallied Kumogakure to prepare for war against Konoha. Hatake Tachibana visited Sakumo on Mount Myoboku, revealed overwhelming power, and took him back to Konoha before seeking Orochimaru’s help to restore his arm.

• Third Raikage A persuaded the injured Ōnoki to join forces against Hatake Sakumo and Konoha.
• After fighting for three days, Hatake Sakumo unleashed a devastating slash that killed Third Raikage A and inflicted massive casualties, but Ōnoki’s Dust Release destroyed Sakumo’s right hand.
• Ōnoki urged Killer B and the surviving Kumogakure shinobi to choose a Fourth Raikage and prepare to join his coalition against Konoha.
• Hatake Tachibana reached Sakumo on Mount Myoboku, asked him to become Hokage, and revealed his immense power before taking him back to Konoha.
• Hatake Tachibana searched for Orochimaru and called him out of his hidden laboratory to ask for help with Sakumo’s missing hand.

Hatake Tachibana trapped Orochimaru in a genjutsu, forcing him to agree to heal Hatake Sakumo's arm and support him as Fourth Hokage in exchange for help with his immortality research. After learning how little time had passed outside, Orochimaru saw Hatake Tachibana's technique as an unconventional path to immortality and conceived a way to make his spirit endure.

• Orochimaru transformed into a snake and emerged from the cave, where Hatake Tachibana trapped him with the Five Senses Stripping: Mental Sealing Technique.
• Hatake Tachibana demanded that Orochimaru heal Hatake Sakumo's arm and support his Fourth Hokage bid, offering access to the First's cells and body tissue in return.
• Orochimaru tested Hatake Tachibana's genjutsu and endured a month of soul torture before agreeing to the terms.
• Hatake Tachibana returned Orochimaru to his snake body, revealing that only fifty-seven seconds had passed outside and that he could suppress Orochimaru for a year in real time.
• Orochimaru concluded that the spirit could endure even if the body was destroyed, and saw this as his own path to immortality.

Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed reports about Hatake Sakumo’s injury and Hatake Tachibana’s meeting, reflecting on his succession plans and Konoha’s looming war with Iwagakure and Kumogakure. As he worked late, a mysterious genjutsu seized him, and he began forming hand seals to counter it.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Hatake Sakumo had returned home without his right arm and that Hatake Tachibana had met with Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Dan Katō.
• Hiruzen regretted allowing Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura to target Sakumo, while privately favoring Jiraiya as his successor and considering Orochimaru and Tsunade unsuitable for different reasons.
• Hiruzen grew uneasy about Hatake Tachibana’s actions but dismissed the possibility that he would rebel against Konoha.
• Hiruzen reviewed the threat of Ōnoki uniting forces against Konoha and considered offering benefits and territory to secure allies.
• All the candles in Hiruzen’s sealed room went out, and the room disappeared as he realized he was caught in an enemy genjutsu and began forming hand seals.

Hatake Tachibana trapped Hiruzen Sarutobi in a genjutsu, crippled his ability to use chakra, and ordered him to step down as Hokage within a week. After Hiruzen’s guards rushed him back toward Konoha, Tachibana went to Root Base to confront Shimura Danzō.

• Hatake Tachibana overwhelmed Hiruzen Sarutobi with genjutsu and silenced him when he defended Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura.
• Tachibana cracked Hiruzen’s spirit with mental shockwaves, dispersed his excess Yin Release Chakra, and demanded that he step down and give the Hokage Position to Hatake Sakumo.
• Tachibana returned Hiruzen’s unconscious spirit to his body, then went home and slept through the night.
• Hiruzen’s guards found him unconscious, and after he woke with his chakra fading, they hurried him back toward Konoha.
• Tachibana entered Root Base beneath a deserted forest and killed the guard who attacked him.

Hatake Tachibana killed Shimura Danzō, destroyed the Root Base, and turned its surviving shinobi over to Hatake Sakumo. He then proposed reforms for Konoha and warned Sakumo that Sarutobi Hiruzen had known about Danzō’s crimes, leaving the brothers to consider the village’s future.

• Hatake Tachibana used genjutsu to control the Root guards and ordered them to evacuate the base before he destroyed it.
• Hatake Tachibana took Danzō’s copied Scroll of Seals, broke through his Four Symbols Seal, and killed him with a punch.
• Hatake Tachibana burned Danzō’s corpse, buried the Root Base, and brought nearly one hundred surviving Root shinobi to Hatake Sakumo for judgment and rehabilitation.
• Hatake Tachibana discussed a new administrative structure for Konoha with Hatake Sakumo and urged him to become Hokage.
• Hatake Tachibana told Hatake Sakumo that Sarutobi Hiruzen had likely known about Danzō’s crimes, including Root’s role in their parents’ deaths, and warned him not to become like the Third.

Sarutobi Hiruzen retired and named Hatake Sakumo the Fourth Hokage, with the village’s major leaders and clans supporting the succession. As the meeting settled, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura objected and demanded that Sakumo be handed over to Iwagakure and Kumogakure, prompting Hatake Tachibana to decide to bury them.

• Hatake Tachibana’s criticism of Sarutobi Hiruzen’s leadership deepened Hatake Sakumo’s doubts about becoming Hokage.
• Five days after returning to Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned the Jonin and clan heads, retired, and appointed Hatake Sakumo as the Fourth Hokage.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, the Elite Jonin, the Anbu, and the Uchiha and Hyuga clan heads supported Sakumo’s appointment.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura objected to Sakumo’s appointment and demanded that Konoha hand him over to appease Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Hatake Tachibana grew angry at their accusations and decided to bury the two advisors.

Hatake Tachibana used his overwhelming Haki to silence the opposition to Hatake Sakumo becoming Fourth Hokage, then exposed and killed advisors Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura. Three days later, Hatake Sakumo had taken office, and the news spread throughout the Land of Fire.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen urged Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to accept Hatake Sakumo as the Fourth Hokage and retire, but they continued to object.
• Hatake Tachibana unleashed his Haki across Konoha, pinning Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to the ground and silencing everyone in the Hokage Tower.
• Hatake Tachibana presented accusations that the advisors had embezzled village funds and helped incite a war to eliminate Hatake Sakumo as a rival.
• Hatake Tachibana beheaded Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, then declared that Hatake Sakumo would become the Fourth Hokage.
• Three days later, news spread through the Land of Fire that Hatake Sakumo had taken over as Fourth Hokage of Konoha.

Hatake Tachibana left Kakashi, Obito, and Rin in Minato’s care before traveling to Iwagakure to confront Ōnoki. He demanded Iwagakure surrender its Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki and stop targeting Konoha.

• Hatake Tachibana told Minato that he was leaving Kakashi, Obito, and Rin in his care while he dealt with Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Hatake Tachibana’s Shadow Clone vanished, leaving Kakashi and Minato awkwardly facing each other.
• Hatake Tachibana arrived above Iwagakure, and its ninja alerted Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki flew out to confront Hatake Tachibana, who studied his flying technique while they faced off.
• Hatake Tachibana demanded Iwagakure hand over its Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki and stop targeting Konoha.

Hatake Tachibana used his newly analyzed Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to prepare for a fight with Iwagakure, while Ōnoki evacuated the village and gathered its elite shinobi. After they attacked him, Hatake Tachibana unleashed Sage Art: Shinra Tensei and destroyed Iwagakure, leaving it a wasteland.

• Hatake Tachibana analyzed Ōnoki's Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and discovered it could boost his Sky Walk speed to Mach 10.
• Hatake Tachibana gave Ōnoki half an hour to evacuate Iwagakure before their battle, and Ōnoki ordered the villagers out and assembled his elite forces.
• After the evacuation, hundreds of Iwagakure shinobi attacked Hatake Tachibana with jutsu, including Ōnoki's Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.
• Hatake Tachibana activated Sage Mode and Colorless Haki, stopped the incoming attacks with an invisible barrier, and unleashed Sage Art: Shinra Tensei.
• Hatake Tachibana's Thunder Eyes reversed the magnetic poles and sent the earth surging outward, reducing Iwagakure to a flat wasteland.

Hatake Tachibana extracted the Four-Tails and Five-Tails from Iwagakure’s Jinchūriki while leaving them enough chakra to survive, then took the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails from Kumogakure after defeating its forces. After feasting in the Land of Lightning, he reached Kirigakure, where the Third Mizukage welcomed him as the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths.

• Hatake Tachibana rescued Rōshi and Iwagakure’s Five-Tails Jinchūriki from the ruins, extracted their Tailed Beasts, and left enough chakra in them to keep them alive.
• Hatake Tachibana sealed Four-Tails Son Gokū and Five-Tails Kokuō into his arms, then flew to Kumogakure and defeated the Fourth Raikage, A, and the village’s elite ninjas.
• Hatake Tachibana extracted Two-Tails Matatabi and Eight-Tails Gyūki, while Killer B and Kumogakure’s ninjas urged A to stop provoking Konoha.
• Hatake Tachibana toured the capital of the Land of Lightning for a feast, then crossed the sea to the Land of Water.
• The Third Mizukage welcomed Hatake Tachibana at Kirigakure and explained that people across the Shinobi World called him the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths.

Hatake Tachibana failed to find Nagato and Black Zetsu in the Land of Rain, encountered the Sage of Six Paths on his way to Sunagakure, and later returned to Konoha after sealing most of the Tailed Beasts inside himself. Back home, he sealed the Nine-Tails Chakra from Kushina and began studying the Scroll of Seals.

• Hatake Tachibana left Kirigakure with Isobu and Saiken and traveled to the Land of Rain to look for Nagato and Black Zetsu.
• After half a month of searching without finding Nagato, Konan, Yahiko, or Black Zetsu, Hatake Tachibana changed course toward Sunagakure.
• At the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Wind, Otsutsuki Hagoromo appeared, and Hatake Tachibana told him to leave the Shinobi World in his care.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo sensed Sage Energy and traces of Mount Myoboku in Hatake Tachibana before vanishing to seek out Gamarumaru.
• Half a month later, Hatake Tachibana returned to Konoha with the One- through Eight-Tails sealed inside himself, then sealed the Nine-Tails Chakra from Kushina and studied the Scroll of Seals.

Six years after the Nine-Tailed rampage was averted, Hatake Tachibana celebrated Namikaze Naruto’s birth and announced the Sage Arts Academy, which he founded to prepare the Shinobi World for future threats. Having gained Star Power and outgrown the planet, Tachibana planned to leave once his students could defend it.

• Hatake Tachibana arrived at Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina’s estate with Hatake Sakumo to celebrate the birth of Namikaze Naruto.
• Konoha’s leaders and villagers celebrated Tachibana’s decision to establish the Sage Arts Academy, where students from across the Shinobi World could study without fees and receive guaranteed jobs.
• Tachibana developed an Eternal Sage Body, fused Sage Energy with Colorless Haki, and gained Star Power, expanding his perception across the planet and beyond.
• Tachibana located threats including Nagato, Black Zetsu, Uchiha Madara, and Jigen, but chose to leave them for his future students to confront.
• Tachibana planned to train students to defend the Shinobi World before venturing into space to face the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Uchiha Fugaku sent Itachi to the Sage Arts Academy, hoping he and Shisui would make the most of the academy’s exceptional meals and training. The chapter recounted how Hatake Tachibana’s academy reshaped ninja education and ranks, then left Itachi and Sasuke beginning school together while Itachi remained an unusually talented student.

• Uchiha Mikoto told Itachi to take lunch, but he explained that Hatake Tachibana served meals at the Sage Arts Academy.
• Uchiha Fugaku urged Itachi to study and respect his teachers while privately hoping Itachi and Shisui would benefit from the academy’s food.
• Hatake Tachibana’s entrance screening admitted fewer than thirty students in its first year, including only two Uchiha and one Hyuga branch-family student whose Caged Bird seal Tachibana removed.
• Hatake Tachibana established Heaven, Earth, Mystic, and Yellow ranks above Jonin, and the major Shinobi Villages adopted the Mystic and Yellow ranks.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Namikaze Naruto entered the Sage Arts Academy five years after the Ninja Academy was established, while Itachi continued studying there because of his exceptional talent.
• Might Duy taught the Sage Arts Academy’s Taijutsu Class prodigies the Eight Gates technique.

Hatake Tachibana freed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and set her against Naruto and Sasuke as their graduation exam. After they sealed her again, Tachibana bid them farewell and vanished, leaving the Shinobi World in their hands.

• Hatake Tachibana took Naruto and Sasuke to the moon and shattered the seal holding Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• Tachibana gave Kaguya the Ten-Tails Chakra and fractured space to prevent her from escaping with Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Tachibana named Kaguya as Naruto and Sasuke’s graduation opponent, and they fought her for three days.
• Naruto and Sasuke sealed Kaguya inside a Six Paths–level Planetary Devastation, creating the moon again.
• Tachibana told Naruto and Sasuke to protect the Shinobi World, asked Sasuke to pass the academy principal position to Itachi, and disappeared.

Hatake Tachibana forced Ōtsutsuki Kaguya to guide him to the Otsutsuki Clan's Ancestral Planet, where he fought the clan and killed Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki and several powerful members. He later wandered the universe for millennia, growing stronger until he sensed an equally powerful being and went to meet it.

• Hatake Tachibana forced Ōtsutsuki Kaguya to reveal the Ancestral Planet and tell him about Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki and the legendary Ōtsutsuki Shibai.
• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya led Hatake Tachibana to the Ancestral Planet, where he sealed her Rinnegan and sent her away before descending to face the clan.
• A year later, Hatake Tachibana left the ruined Ancestral Planet after killing Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki and several other powerful Otsutsuki, while sparing the rest.
• Hatake Tachibana wandered the universe and cultivated for an unknown number of years, growing stronger as he traveled among planets and intelligent life forms.
• Hatake Tachibana sensed a being whose power matched his own and crossed space toward it as the being approached him.