Chapter Summaries

Kangetsu and Uchiha Izuna spoke privately about their lost brother Meigetsu and the burdens of leading their clans. Kangetsu gave Izuna three summoning scrolls bearing the Nine-Tails, hoping he could defeat the Senju Clan.

• Minazuki Hanako went to keep Uchiha Eiko company, leaving Kangetsu and Izuna alone in the living room.
• Izuna asked Kangetsu if Minazuki Hanako was his wife, and Kangetsu said they would probably marry soon.
• Kangetsu recalled warning his brothers to survive the Warring States Period and mourned Meigetsu's death and their separation as clan leaders.
• Izuna thanked Kangetsu for what he had done for his older brothers and acknowledged the pain Kangetsu had carried.
• Kangetsu gave Izuna three fiery-red summoning scrolls and hoped he would defeat the Senju Clan.
• Izuna recognized the Nine-Tails depicted on the scrolls, and Kangetsu left the living room.

Kangetsu reviewed his plans to turn clans against the Uzumaki Clan and weaken the Hyuga Main Family, then declared that he would personally kill the Land of Fire’s daimyo in Fire City. He left his six subordinates to handle the other tasks.

• Yamanaka Ino reported that rumors about tailed beasts and the Uzumaki Clan’s jinchūriki had prompted Uzumaki Ziyan to search for the beasts and several clans to form an alliance against the Uzumaki Clan.
• Isshin reported that Hyuga Tianguang had united the Hyuga Branch Family, while Yijiu controlled its elite forces and the weakened Hyuga Main Family had allied with the Senju Clan.
• Kangetsu grew furious at the Senju Clan and threatened to kill Senju Hashirama.
• Kangetsu questioned the Akimichi Clan about logistics and medical ninja, and the Onmyo Clan about defenses, before ending the meeting.
• Kangetsu told Inoue, Isshin, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Cho, Onmyo Realm, and Uzumaki Suien that he would personally eliminate the daimyo in Fire City, leaving them to handle the other tasks.

Kangetsu led Crimson Village forces to Fire City after the Land of Fire sought protection from the Senju Clan instead of Crimson Village. He attacked the city with a massive Fire Style technique, but Senju Butsuma countered it with a water dragon and confronted him from the walls.

• Madara and Izuna discussed Crimson Village's power and agreed that they still fell short of Kangetsu.
• Kangetsu learned from Inoue that Senju Butsuma led one hundred Senju Clan members guarding Fire City.
• Kangetsu ordered Inoue to destroy Fire City and declared that those who betrayed Crimson Village would die.
• Kangetsu unleashed Fire Style-Great Fire Annihilation, engulfing the city in flames.
• Senju Butsuma sent a water dragon into Kangetsu's flames and called out to him from Fire City's wall.

Kangetsu ordered the Nine-Tails to attack the Land of Fire’s capital after Senju Butsuma realized the city could not withstand it. The Nine-Tails smashed through the city wall and killed Senju clansmen, while Butsuma confronted Kangetsu from atop the beast.

• Senju Butsuma panicked when he saw Kangetsu controlling the Nine-Tails and ordered his clansmen to summon Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju and evacuate the daimyo.
• Kangetsu activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and commanded the Nine-Tails to kill.
• The Nine-Tails smashed through the city wall and knocked seven or eight Senju clansmen unconscious with its roar.
• The Nine-Tails swept its paw through the airborne Senju clansmen, killing them.
• Senju Butsuma leaped onto the Nine-Tails’ head and faced Kangetsu, who challenged him to fight alone.

Kangetsu ordered Kurama to destroy Fire City, and the Nine-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the daimyo's residence. As the blast engulfed half the city, Kangetsu ordered Kurama to keep going.

• Senju Butsuma was blasted from the Nine-Tails' head and crashed through Fire City's wall.
• Kangetsu ordered Kurama to use a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kurama fired the bomb at the daimyo's residence, and the explosion engulfed half of Fire City.
• Kangetsu ordered Kurama to reduce the entire city to ruins.
• Kurama began forming another Tailed Beast Bomb.

Senju Butsuma entered Sage Mode and attacked Kangetsu with a powerful Water Dragon Technique. Kangetsu countered with Ice Style, freezing the dragon and shattering it into fragments.

• Senju Butsuma erupted in anger at Kangetsu, who mocked him and declared he would kill him.
• Senju Butsuma entered Sage Mode and formed a nature-chakra-powered Water Dragon Technique.
• Kangetsu unleashed Ice Style-Frost-Cold Long River against the water dragon.
• Kangetsu's icy river engulfed the dragon, froze it, and turned it black before it shattered into falling fragments.

Kangetsu overpowered Senju Butsuma, severed his hands, and began absorbing his sage chakra through the God Tree within his body. The Nine-Tails destroyed Senju rescuers while Kangetsu continued draining Butsuma.

• Kangetsu placed his hand on Senju Butsuma's head and taunted him as Butsuma prepared to act.
• Kangetsu's Black Blade, Masamune, severed both of Senju Butsuma's hands.
• The Nine-Tails crushed several Senju clansmen who rushed to rescue Butsuma and burned away the blood on his head.
• Kangetsu absorbed Senju Butsuma's natural chakra, revealing a blood-red three-tomoe pattern over his heart.
• Senju Butsuma realized Kangetsu was absorbing his sage chakra.

Kangetsu and Kurama prepared to fight Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju after Kangetsu ordered Inoue to slaughter the capital’s inhabitants and preserve a corpse. The chapter ended as Tobirama’s water attack collided with Kangetsu’s flames.

• Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju swore to kill Uchiha Kangetsu over their father’s death.
• Kangetsu summoned Kurama and attacked the brothers with Fire Style-Great Fire Annihilation.
• Kangetsu ordered Inoue to spare one member of the Land of Fire’s royal family, kill the other royals and the capital’s residents, and seal away a corpse.
• Kurama objected when Inoue remained on his head, and Inoue promptly left.
• Kangetsu and Kurama readied themselves to fight Hashirama and Tobirama as the flames died down.
• Tobirama sent a torrent of water into the fire, producing steam.

Kangetsu met Senju Hashirama’s attack atop the Nine-Tails and overpowered him in their clash. The chapter ended with Kangetsu stopping Hashirama in midair by gripping his enormous black cleaver.

• Senju Hashirama leapt into the air and plunged at Kangetsu with his black cleaver.
• Kangetsu blocked Hashirama’s strike with the Black Blade Masamune, and their collision blasted the air around them.
• Kangetsu told Hashirama that he was not strong enough to take revenge or kill him.
• Kangetsu withdrew Masamune and seized Hashirama’s cleaver with his left hand while Hashirama remained suspended in midair.

Tobirama Senju used the Flying Thunder God Technique to attack Kangetsu, but Kangetsu struck him with a devastating kick and ordered Kurama to finish him with a Tailed Beast Bomb. Tobirama remained helpless in midair as the attack gathered.

• Tobirama Senju appeared beside Kangetsu and thrust a katana at him, boasting that he would kill him with his own signature move.
• Kangetsu kicked Tobirama Senju in the abdomen, sending him flying and leaving him unable to move.
• Kangetsu ordered Kurama to use a Tailed Beast Bomb to finish Tobirama Senju.
• Kurama gathered blue and black chakra in his mouth while Tobirama Senju hung helplessly in midair.

Kangetsu briefly awakened the Rinnegan and used Shinra Tensei to blast Senju Hashirama away. As Hashirama caught himself and moved to save Tobirama Senju from the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb, Kangetsu watched from atop the beast with an inscrutable smile.

• Kangetsu briefly manifested the Rinnegan and used Shinra Tensei to send Senju Hashirama hurtling toward the ground.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Release-Wooden Man's Arm to catch himself in the air.
• The Nine-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the immobilized Tobirama Senju, who called for his brother to save him.
• Senju Hashirama summoned Wood Release-Giant's Arm to block the Tailed Beast Bomb from hitting Tobirama Senju.
• Kangetsu watched from atop the Nine-Tails with a faint gleam in his eyes.

The Sage of Six Paths secretly empowered Senju Hashirama to stop Kangetsu, who attacked in the form of the Red Flame Golden Ni Beast. Hashirama’s enhanced Wood Release clashed with Kangetsu’s strike, and their techniques exploded apart in the sky.

• The Sage of Six Paths feared Kangetsu’s growing power and secretly poured his chakra into Senju Hashirama.
• Hashirama lowered Tobirama Senju and declared that he had always wanted to kill Uchiha Kangetsu.
• Hashirama formed hand seals and summoned an enormous wooden palm marked with a black-and-white pattern.
• Kangetsu recognized the pattern and shouted Otsutsuki Hagoromo’s name.
• Hashirama’s wooden palm collided with Kangetsu’s attack, and both techniques exploded apart in midair.

Kangetsu took control of the Nine-Tails and combined its Tailed Beast Bomb with his Masamune, Ice Style, and Scorch Style. The fused attack struck toward Senju Hashirama, leaving its impact unresolved.

• Kangetsu apologized to Kurama and used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to take control of the Nine-Tails.
• Kangetsu covered the Nine-Tails’ Susanoo armor in black flames and ice, then led the beast through the air toward Senju Hashirama.
• Kangetsu formed a massive Tailed Beast Bomb with two black dragons and crossed Masamune blades around it.
• The Nine-Tails launched the shuriken-shaped bomb as the dragons coiled around it and surged toward Senju Hashirama.

Kangetsu and Senju Hashirama unleashed increasingly powerful attacks, with Black Zetsu and the Sage of Six Paths aiding them. Their clash reduced Fire City to a wasteland, and the chapter ended as Kangetsu charged Hashirama and Hashirama summoned a giant Buddha to meet his attack.

• Black Zetsu sent chakra to Kangetsu, who formed another black Tailed Beast Bomb and two black dragons with the Nine-Tails and Masamune.
• Senju Hashirama used Wood Release to destroy the attacks, but Kangetsu immediately launched another Tailed Beast Bomb and two black dragons.
• Hashirama summoned two Wood Dragons and a Buddhist seal to collide with Kangetsu's attacks, and their clash devastated Fire City.
• Kangetsu and Hashirama retreated, formed hand seals, and then charged toward each other with killing intent.
• Kangetsu sent a colossal black-and-red dragon toward Hashirama, who summoned an enormous Buddha that extended its golden palm.

Kangetsu’s battle with Senju Hashirama left a vast, deadly black expanse at Fire City, contained by a forest formed from the shattered Wood Release Buddha. Back in Crimson Village, Kangetsu recovered from chakra exhaustion and realized the fight had strengthened his Scorch Style and Ice Style.

• Kangetsu’s fused chakra destroyed Senju Hashirama’s giant wooden Buddha, and Tobirama Senju arrived to take Hashirama away.
• Black storms, flames, ice, and vapor continued to clash around a scarlet trace at Fire City, while a golden forest contained the devastation.
• The Warring States clans came to regard the area as a hell, and intruders who survived its power later became renowned figures.
• Inoue brought Kangetsu back to Crimson Village, where he recovered from exhaustion without suffering injuries.
• Kangetsu recognized that fusing four powers had made him stronger, and that absorbing Senju Hashirama’s Six Paths chakra had enhanced his Scorch Style.
• Kangetsu judged that his Ice Style, augmented by several chakra sources, remained stronger than his Scorch Style.

As Uzumaki Mito healed Kangetsu, her chakra carried Asura’s power into him, transforming his Scorch Style and combining with the Indra chakra already in his body. The Six Paths chakra then began evolving his eyes toward the Rinnegan.

• Kangetsu sensed Asura’s chakra surging from Mito into him and merging with his Scorch Style.
• Kangetsu realized Black Zetsu had likely taken Asura’s chakra from Senju Hashirama and given it to Mito.
• As Mito healed Kangetsu with her life force, he absorbed Asura’s chakra, and his black flames turned golden.
• Kangetsu’s body integrated Asura’s chakra with the Indra chakra it already contained.
• Kangetsu realized the Six Paths chakra in his body was combining the powers of Asura and Indra to evolve his eyes into the Rinnegan.

Kangetsu struggled to control the Creation Divine Lightning surging through his body and chose to use the union with his fiancées to stabilize it. The lightning gradually came under his control and entered Uzumaki Mito as Minazuki Hanako endured beside them.

• Kangetsu ordered everyone to leave and had Onmyo Tian and his brothers set up a double barrier around the house.
• Uchiha Eiko and the others left the room, and Kangetsu drew Uzumaki Mito and Minazuki Hanako close.
• Kangetsu realized the God Tree feared the green lightning and used the union of yin and yang to bring its power under control.
• Kangetsu’s union with Uzumaki Mito stirred the Creation Divine Lightning, which gradually entered her body.
• Minazuki Hanako silently endured alongside Uzumaki Mito.

Kangetsu shared the green power of creation with Minazuki Hanako and Uzumaki Mito, transforming their bodies and chakra. The power also changed Kangetsu’s God Tree, chakra, and newly evolved Rinnegan, though the full extent of his eye abilities remained unclear.

• Kangetsu drew Minazuki Hanako close and infused her with the green aura, strengthening her body and purifying her Ice Style chakra.
• Kangetsu, Minazuki Hanako, and Uzumaki Mito absorbed a wisp of divine lightning together.
• Kangetsu’s vitality and bloodline evolved, and he moved the God Tree from his heart to his lower abdomen.
• Kangetsu’s Ice Style chakra formed a black dragon with black lightning, while his Scorch Style chakra formed a golden dragon with golden lightning.
• Kangetsu’s Rinnegan developed thick chakra pathways around his eyes, and his existing eye abilities began to change.

Kangetsu concealed his Rinnegan, reassured his guards and mother, and brought Uchiha Eiko inside to care for Mito and Delia. The creation energy rejuvenated Eiko and restored her strength before Kangetsu ordered the Onmyo brothers to take down the barrier.

• Kangetsu hid his Rinnegan because he feared Black Zetsu would target him if he discovered Kangetsu had absorbed Asura's chakra.
• Kangetsu reassured his subordinates and called Uchiha Eiko inside to look after Mito and Delia.
• Uchiha Eiko entered through the barrier and joked that she hoped Kangetsu would give her a grandchild.
• Creation energy surged into Uchiha Eiko, healing her hidden injuries, making her younger, and restoring her strength.
• Kangetsu told the four Onmyo brothers to take down the barrier.

Kangetsu’s power of creation healed and strengthened his subordinates, while Nara Isshin reported that hostile tribes had been destroyed and their wealth seized. Kangetsu declared that it was time to end the conflict, and the Crimson Village leaders readied themselves for what came next.

• Kangetsu watched his subordinates absorb the power of creation and grow stronger, with Nara Isshin rising from Chunin to Jonin.
• The Crimson Village leaders completed their cleansing and greeted Kangetsu, their injuries healed and their power greatly increased.
• Kangetsu told them to learn to control their new strength quickly because they had little time left.
• Nara Isshin reported that the rampaging Tailed Beasts had destroyed most hostile tribes and that his men had seized their wealth.
• Kangetsu said it was time to put an end to the conflict, and the leaders’ fighting spirit surged.