Chapter Summaries

Konoha and the Land of Iron withdrew from the battlefield, leaving the Cloud Ninja to retreat under pressure from Akatsuki’s forces. With every allied force gone, Ryusuke and Akatsuki ended the first round, exposing how badly outmatched the Five Great Ninja Villages were.

• Kakashi Hatake, Team 7, and Karin defeated and sealed the reanimated Hatake Sakumo, then released him so he could reunite with Kakashi before ascending.
• Konoha’s forces followed Yamanaka Inoichi’s retreat order, and Mifune withdrew the Land of Iron samurai as well.
• Kakuzu, Hidan, and Yugito Nii attacked the retreating Cloud Ninja while Samui organized their withdrawal and urged them to seek Konoha’s help.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Killer B and Darui to retreat after Kakuzu and Hidan reinforced the fight against them and the Third Raikage.
• After the Cloud Ninja fled, Nagato withdrew Pain’s Six Paths and the reanimated fighters, ending the first round between Akatsuki and the Five Great Ninja Villages.

After the first battle, Ryusuke helped the Allied forces identify the White Zetsu infiltration threat and proposed using Naruto’s future ability to sense killing intent. He then arranged Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan surgery for Sasuke and told Naruto that his own strength would soon evolve.

• Ryusuke returned to camp after learning that the first battle had inflicted heavy losses on Kumogakure and further weakened Sunagakure.
• Tsunade explained how White Zetsu Clones infiltrated the allied formation, and Ryusuke used a Wood Clone to identify how they copied their targets.
• Ryusuke reassured the commanders that his Wood Clones would monitor the camp, then proposed that Naruto could detect disguised enemies by becoming a Perfect Jinchuriki.
• Tsunade summoned the Kumogakure envoy to discuss the plan, while Ryusuke left the meeting to speak with Sasuke.
• Ryusuke told Sasuke to prepare for surgery to receive Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and he told Naruto that his strength would soon evolve too.

The Five Kage agreed to have Killer B train Naruto to control the Nine-Tails, while Konoha prepared to attack Amegakure in ten days. Ryusuke arranged for Sasuke to receive Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, then returned home before Orochimaru revealed his interest in testing whether the Six Paths Sage’s power had been inherited.

• At the chakra-television summit, Tsunade proposed that Naruto learn to control the Nine-Tails so he could detect White Zetsu’s disguises, and the Fourth Raikage agreed to have Killer B train him.
• Tsunade set a ten-day deadline for Naruto’s training and said Konoha would lead an attack on Amegakure regardless of whether he succeeded.
• Ryusuke took Naruto to Turtle Island to train with Killer B, then brought Sasuke to Konoha, where Sakura and Hinata transplanted Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan into him.
• Ryusuke left a Wood Clone to watch over Sasuke as his eye powers fused, then returned home with Hinata and Sakura to see Hanabi and Uchiha Hikari.
• Orochimaru told a White Zetsu Clone that he would act when the Five Great Ninja Villages attacked again, eager to test whether the Six Paths Sage’s power had been passed down.

Naruto became a Perfect Jinchuriki, and the allied forces began their counterattack on Amegakure after his power exposed the White Zetsu clones. As the second round of the war erupted, Black Zetsu sensed a familiar danger on Konoha’s battlefield.

• Ryusuke told Tsunade that Naruto had succeeded, and Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha returned to the summit with Tailed Beast power and Eternal Eye Power.
• Naruto demonstrated Nine Tails Chakra Mode and created thousands of Shadow Clones, prompting the allied forces to prepare for their attack on Amegakure.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones identified and destroyed disguised White Zetsu clones, allowing the shinobi and samurai to advance through the Land of Rain.
• Deva Path Pain ordered Akatsuki’s Clone Techniques and Impure World Reincarnation forces into an all-out battle, assigning opponents to the different villages.
• Hundred Faces predicted that Pain’s Six Paths would be beaten by Naruto and Sasuke, while Black Zetsu sensed a familiar scent of danger on Konoha’s battlefield.

Black Zetsu feared that Sasuke Uchiha had awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and urged Orochimaru to act, while Orochimaru sent an Impure World Reincarnation army into the Land of Rain. At the battlefield, Naruto and Sasuke overwhelmed Pain's Six Paths, leaving the Deva Path to face Naruto's final attack.

• Black Zetsu sensed a powerful aura from Ryusuke and Sasuke Uchiha together, suspected Sasuke had gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and told White Zetsu to hurry Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru summoned hundreds of undead with Impure World Reincarnation and sent them toward battles across the Land of Rain.
• Naruto used a Super-Big Ball Rasengan to draw in the Preta Path's chakra absorption, then struck him with a Sage Art chakra arm and destroyed him.
• The Deva Path used Chibaku Tensei, but Sasuke Uchiha's Susanoo shattered the forming meteor with a purple arrow.
• Naruto knocked down the Hell Path with Frog Kata as Sasuke Uchiha trapped the remaining Pains behind Amaterasu.
• Naruto launched four Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken at the remaining Pains, and the Deva Path let the attack hit them.

Nagato restored his strength with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sent the real Pain's Six Paths back to the battlefield, where Deva Path Pain unleashed a devastating Shinra Tensei. Naruto and Sasuke confronted the enhanced Paths as Ryusuke realized Obito had used the statue to revive Nagato, while Nagato grew more wary of Obito.

• Deva Path Pain warned the Akatsuki that Naruto and Sasuke had defeated the Paths, and Black Zetsu weighed summoning Madara Uchiha before Obito said he had a solution.
• Nagato revealed himself to the Akatsuki through Pain's Thought Manifestation, then restored the Paths and sent them back to Konoha's battlefield.
• The real Pain's Six Paths attacked Konoha's forces, but Sasuke used Amaterasu to surround them as Naruto and Sasuke moved to confront Deva Path Pain.
• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Naruto closer, then unleashed Shinra Tensei, devastating the battlefield and killing or scattering many fighters.
• Ryusuke recognized that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had restored Nagato's vitality and power, while Nagato became more wary of Obito Uchiha.

Ryusuke used Sage Art Wood Release to shield Konoha’s forces from Deva Path Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei, then rode a wooden dragon toward Pain’s Six Paths. As Pain’s Six Paths launched a coordinated counterattack, Ryusuke returned to the dragon’s head, and his next move startled Nagato and the Pains.

• Naruto and Sasuke survived Deva Path Pain’s attacks, but the Preta Path absorbed their ninjutsu through a barrier protecting all six Pains.
• Deva Path Pain rose into the sky and unleashed Super Shinra Tensei against the Konoha ninja, White Zetsu Clones, and Impure World Reincarnation army below.
• Ryusuke entered Sage Mode and protected the battlefield with combined Sage Art Wood Release: Hotei Technique and Hobi Technique.
• Ryusuke summoned a wooden dragon and approached Deva Path Pain, who pulled him away with Banshō Ten'in as the other Pains mounted giant birds and attacked.
• Ryusuke escaped the gravitational pull with Flying Thunder God, returned to the wooden dragon’s head, and stomped, provoking startled reactions from Nagato and Pain’s Six Paths.

Ryusuke overwhelmed Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain in a clash of Wood Release and the Rinnegan’s repulsive force. Nagato lost all six bodies and was left exhausted in his underground base, while Ryusuke emerged victorious.

• Ryusuke’s Wood Dragon fired a massive Lightning Release beam at Deva Path Pain, who stopped it with Shinra Tensei as the other Pains attacked Ryusuke.
• Ryusuke summoned enormous wooden hands from above and below, trapping Pain’s Six Paths between them and teleporting himself and the Wood Dragon into position.
• Deva Path Pain gathered chakra from the other Pains and used Shinra Tensei to hold the wooden hands apart, while Ryusuke reinforced them with Sage Art Chakra.
• Nagato pushed his chakra beyond his limits, but Ryusuke’s Wood Clone shaped water around the lower wooden hand and helped it crush the white repulsive-force barrier.
• The wooden hands closed together and pulverized Pain’s Six Paths, leaving Nagato exhausted and unable to revive them.

Ryusuke destroyed Pain’s Six Paths with Buddha’s Hand, shocking the battlefield and making Konoha’s forces believe the war was nearly won. In Amegakure, Nagato accepted his defeat but planned to seal more Tailed Beasts and become the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s Jinchuriki, while Ryusuke considered how to use the situation to his advantage.

• Ryusuke’s Buddha’s Hand clashed with Deva Path Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei, and the impact shook the battlefield as fighters witnessed the gulf in their strength.
• Konoha’s ninja, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto were awed by Ryusuke’s power, while Konoha’s forces rallied and attacked the White Zetsu Clones and Impure World Reincarnation army.
• Ryusuke regretted destroying Pain’s Six Paths because Konoha could now reach Amegakure before the Five-Tails was sealed, but he saw an opportunity in the situation.
• Nagato told the Akatsuki members that Ryusuke had defeated him and ordered them to prepare to interrupt the sealing and escape with Tobi if necessary.
• Nagato suspected that his Rinnegan had not been his from birth, but he resolved to seal more Tailed Beasts and eventually become the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s Jinchuriki.

Obito sent Hundred Faces and three reanimated Hokage to stop Konoha’s advance, while Naruto and Sasuke destroyed Hashirama’s forest attack. Inside Ryusuke’s barrier, Naruto reunited with his father, Minato, who awakened in Nine Tails Chakra Mode.

• Obito chose to send a clone to aid Hundred Faces, who summoned Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Hashirama unleashed Wood Release: World of Trees Advent against Konoha’s forces, but Naruto’s Shadow Clones and Sasuke’s Amaterasu destroyed the forest wave.
• The three reanimated Hokage appeared before the Konoha ninja, and Ryusuke formed a Four Red Yang Formation around them while the other ninja continued toward Amegakure.
• Naruto told Minato he would set him free, and the Wood Clone released Minato’s consciousness.
• Minato recognized Naruto and said he had grown up, then transformed into Nine Tails Chakra Mode.

Minato Namikaze revealed that he had the Yin half of the Nine-Tails and fought Naruto after entering Nine Tails Chakra Mode and Sage Mode. As Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha battled their fathers, Ryusuke kept Hashirama Senju under control and continued his act.

• Minato Namikaze appeared in Nine Tails Chakra Mode, and Black Zetsu learned that Minato's soul and the Yin half of the Nine-Tails had returned to the world.
• Minato Namikaze absorbed natural energy, entered Sage Mode, and attacked Ryusuke's group with a swarm of Flying Thunder God Kunai that Sasuke Uchiha burned away with Amaterasu.
• Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique and a Sage Art Rasengan against Naruto, who defended himself and earned his father's praise.
• Naruto charged at Minato Namikaze while Sasuke Uchiha fought Tobirama Senju, and the pairs moved away from Ryusuke and Hashirama Senju.
• Ryusuke decided not to lift the Senju brothers' consciousness restrictions and attacked Hashirama Senju to maintain his act.

Ryusuke fought Hashirama Senju while pretending to struggle, preserving his plan to let the Akatsuki weaken the other villages before he intervened. As Naruto and Sasuke fell behind against the controlled Minato Namikaze and Tobirama Senju, Mu’s Dust Release devastated Iwagakure until Ōnoki ordered a retreat.

• Ryusuke staged a fierce Taijutsu fight against Hashirama Senju so Nagato and the Akatsuki would not flee before his plan reached its final stage.
• Minato Namikaze’s instincts and Flying Thunder God Technique kept Naruto at a disadvantage after Ryusuke’s Wood Clone stopped controlling him directly.
• Tobirama Senju overwhelmed Sasuke with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, Water Release, and explosive tags, forcing Sasuke to activate his fourth Susanoo form.
• Mu used stealth, the Mayfly Technique, and Dust Release ambushes to slaughter Iwa shinobi and other forces across the battlefield.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s forces to retreat, but Mu continued attacking them as they withdrew.

For nine days, the Five Great Ninja Villages and the Land of Iron fought Akatsuki’s forces across the Land of Rain, suffering massive casualties while neither side could gain a decisive advantage. Akatsuki finally sealed the Seven-Tails, leaving its members exhausted in the Underground Base.

• Naruto’s Shadow Clone struck the Third Raikage with a Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, but the Third Raikage emerged unharmed and the Fourth Raikage ordered Naruto and Killer B to help seal him.
• Hundred Faces’ Clone Technique slaughtered Cloud Ninja, while Kisame Hoshigaki and Deidara’s Clone Techniques attacked Kirigakure; Mei Terumi led her forces onward despite the losses.
• The other great ninja villages and the Land of Iron fought Akatsuki’s White Zetsu, Impure World Reincarnation army, undead elites, and clone forces, while Iwagakure withdrew from the Land of Rain.
• The battle continued for nine days, leaving tens of thousands of corpses and consuming more than half of the White Zetsu Clones and the genin forces.
• Akatsuki sealed the Seven-Tails, and Deidara and the other members complained of exhaustion after nine days and nights of continuous sealing.

After sealing seven tailed beasts, Nagato dismissed the exhausted Akatsuki members and declared that he would capture the Eight-Tails himself. Black Zetsu, worried that Nagato would jeopardize his plans, arranged for a White Zetsu Clone to restore Nagato’s legs, leaving Nagato ready to enter the battle at full strength.

• Nagato thanked the exhausted Akatsuki members and told them to rest while he took on the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• Deidara and Kisame Hoshigaki left the sealing ritual to sleep, leaving Nagato, Konan, Black and White Zetsu, Hundred Faces, and Obito Uchiha at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito Uchiha and Black and White Zetsu doubted Nagato could defeat the Hidden Cloud forces, while Black Zetsu worried that Orochimaru was withholding Madara Uchiha and secretly collecting battlefield corpses.
• Black Zetsu used Yin-Yang Release to direct a White Zetsu Clone to visit Nagato’s real body and offer to restore his legs in Madara Uchiha’s name.
• Nagato accepted the offer, and the White Zetsu Clone restored his legs, allowing him to stand with his body at its peak.

Nagato restored his feet with White Zetsu Clone tissue, grew suspicious of Obito Uchiha and Black and White Zetsu, and flew to the Hidden Cloud Village battlefield. There, he overwhelmed the Cloud Ninja with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and nearly defeated Killer B and the Fourth Raikage.

• Nagato found that his transplanted White Zetsu Clone feet worked perfectly, then warned Konan to stay alert around Obito Uchiha and Black and White Zetsu.
• Nagato left the Underground Base and flew toward the Hidden Cloud Village battlefield, where Naruto, Minato Namikaze, and Ryusuke sensed his approach.
• Nagato arrived at the battlefield, blasted away the attacking Cloud Ninja with Shinra Tensei, and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to pull Killer B toward him, while the Third Raikage severed the Fourth Raikage's arm during the ensuing distraction.
• Nagato unleashed Chibaku Tensei and used the Demonic Statue's chains to restrain Killer B and Gyūki as the Fourth Raikage attacked him.
• Nagato repelled the Fourth Raikage with Shinra Tensei and struck him with Tracking Missiles, leaving Killer B crying out for his brother.

Nagato killed the Fourth Raikage, extracted the Eight-Tails from Killer B, and unleashed a meteor on the battlefield. Just as Samui and the remaining forces faced death, Ryusuke’s two spinning energy spheres struck the meteor.

• The Fourth Raikage failed to damage the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Nagato immobilized him, drained his chakra, and extracted his soul.
• Nagato sealed the Eight-Tails Gyūki into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Killer B died after losing the beast.
• Nagato’s sealing of the Eight-Tails sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into a berserk state, while Kumogakure’s surviving forces lost hope.
• Nagato summoned an enormous meteor and sent it crashing toward the battlefield, where Samui prepared to die without confessing her feelings to Ryusuke-kun.
• Two energy spheres surrounded by spinning shuriken vortices struck the meteor, producing a blinding explosion.

Ryusuke confronted Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with his Sage Art Wood Human, while Samui evacuated the surviving Cloud Ninja. Their clash escalated when Nagato unleashed the Chakra Dragon, and Ryusuke’s Wood Dragon absorbed it but became uncontrollable.

• Samui resolved to retire after the war and go to Konoha to confess her feelings to Ryusuke, then obeyed his order to evacuate the surviving Cloud Ninja.
• Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to pull Ryusuke toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Ryusuke entered Sage Mode and summoned a colossal Wooden Arhat.
• The Wooden Arhat fired Sage Art beams that burned the Demonic Statue’s fists, and Ryusuke used the Wooden Arhat to unleash a Fire Dragon Technique.
• Nagato countered the fire dragon with the Demonic Statue’s Chakra Dragon, which absorbed the attack and threatened to drain Ryusuke’s chakra and life.
• Ryusuke sent a Wood Dragon against the Chakra Dragon; it absorbed the Chakra Dragon but crashed to the ground, leaving the chakra-filled Wood Dragon temporarily beyond his control.

Ryusuke overwhelmed Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, summoning a colossal Kannon whose thousand fists broke through Nagato’s Super Shinra Tensei. Nagato abandoned the statue and escaped the attack as the Land of Rain shook.

• Ryusuke took control of the fallen Wood Dragon, but Nagato’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path grabbed it and drained its chakra.
• The Wooden Arhat and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path exchanged heavy blows, and Ryusuke switched tactics when the Arhat began cracking under the statue’s attacks.
• Ryusuke hurled two Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken, then used Myōjinmon and Myōjin Gate to bind and pin the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Ryusuke summoned the enormous Senju Kannon with Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, shocking shinobi across the Land of Rain.
• Nagato unleashed Super Shinra Tensei against the Kannon’s thousand fists, but the force was overwhelmed; he abandoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and fled.

Ryusuke unleashed Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha, leaving the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path blown apart in a colossal crater. Black Zetsu decided to pursue plans to revive Madara Uchiha, while Nagato’s fate remained uncertain as the statue began to transform.

• Senju Kannon’s wooden fists battered the Land of Rain, and Black Zetsu feared the attack had shattered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and might release its tailed beasts.
• Black Zetsu ordered White Zetsu to give Orochimaru a final ultimatum and resolved to use every available plan to revive Madara Uchiha.
• Black and White Zetsu fled Amegakure’s Underground Base, unaware that Obito Uchiha had secretly followed them and then warped away.
• Ryusuke’s attack stopped after it created a vast crater, where he found the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path reduced to white sludge.
• Ryusuke searched for Nagato but found no corpse or trace of his Chakra, while the ruined Demonic Statue of the Outer Path began transforming amid rising roars.

Ryusuke destroyed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, freed five Tailed Beasts, and returned to the battlefield after the statue was mysteriously summoned away. In a cave, Obito took Nagato’s Rinnegan, and Nagato died as Obito summoned the statue.

• Five Tailed Beasts emerged from the ruined Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and fled, while Gyūki first searched for Killer B.
• Ryusuke suspected Nagato had hidden inside the statue, but the statue vanished when someone summoned it away.
• Ryusuke returned to the Four Red Yang Formation and charged at Tobirama Senju to help Naruto and Sasuke fight the Hokage.
• Obito revealed his face to Nagato, took Nagato’s left Rinnegan, and put on a prepared mask.
• Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Nagato died in the cave and his body rapidly withered.