Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Goka used his Mangekyō ability, Heavenly Pillar, to seal Yagami during their fight, but ANBU continued attacking him with insects and combined ninjutsu. As Goka faced the next assault, he resolved to defeat the ANBU and force them to negotiate.

• Yagami had Golden Eagle seal Uchiha Goka's Chakra points while provoking Uchiha Kiribi, but Goka manifested Susanoo and knocked Golden Eagle away.
• Yagami attacked with Wood Dragons that absorbed Susanoo's Chakra, forcing Goka to strengthen his Susanoo and reveal his Mangekyō technique, Heavenly Pillar.
• Goka's Heavenly Pillar trapped Yagami inside a translucent brown pillar and stopped the Wood Dragon, while Goka demanded that ANBU release Uchiha Kiribi.
• Goka drove back Golden Eagle and the other ANBU, but White Ram infiltrated through insects and severely injured Goka's ankle.
• White Ram ordered Kurozaru's squad to use combined Fire and Wind Release ninjutsu, and Goka summoned Susanoo to face the attack.

Uchiha Goka awakened the Mangekyō technique Island of Onushi and seemingly crushed Danzo into a puddle of flesh, but Danzo appeared alive and stopped Uchiha Suigiku from killing Goka. The battle ended with Danzo reaching for Goka’s eyes once more.

• Uchiha Suigiku joined Uchiha Goka’s fight against the ANBU, then betrayed him by stabbing him while Uchiha Kiribi watched.
• Yagami revealed that Fox had been a Wood Clone and restrained Danzo as he tried to take Goka’s left eye.
• Danzo broke free with Wood Release: Violent Gun Tree, knocking Yagami and the others aside and leaving Goka badly wounded.
• A voice beneath the ground urged Uchiha Kiribi to awaken his power as Suigiku stabbed Goka again and accused him of threatening Konoha.
• Uchiha Goka used Mangekyō: Island of Onushi, and its gravitational force crushed Danzo into a puddle of flesh.
• As Suigiku moved to kill the exhausted Goka, Danzo suddenly seized Suigiku’s wrist, apparently alive and intent on taking Goka’s Sharingan.

Danzo and Yagami fought over Uchiha Goka, who was fatally impaled as his brother Uchiha Kiribi awakened a Mangekyo and escaped with Tobi. After the battle, the Konoha leaders arrived and Danzo killed Uchiha Shun, the sole witness hiding in a bathroom.

• Danzo tried to take Uchiha Goka's Mangekyo while Yagami and the ANBU attacked him, and their conflicting orders turned the battlefield into chaos.
• Yagami impaled Uchiha Goka with Wood Style: Impaling Forest, and Uchiha Kiribi awakened his Mangekyo after seeing his brother mortally wounded.
• Tobi armored Uchiha Kiribi with spiral White Zetsu and helped him escape with Uchiha Goka's eyes after Danzo failed to seize them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Yellow Dog arrived, and Mitokado Homura ordered the scene sealed and the Uchiha Clan kept away.
• Yagami revealed Uchiha Shun was hiding in a bathroom, and Danzo killed him with a Kunai before he could summon a Ninja Crow.

Yagami reported Uchiha Goka’s death and Uchiha Kiribi’s escape, while Sarutobi Hiruzen ruled that Yagami had acted properly and ordered a village-wide hunt for Kiribi. At the scene, Mitokado Homura told Uchiha Zhong that Kiribi had killed Goka and taken his Mangekyō, then demanded to know why the Uchiha had not reported the awakening.

• Yagami told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Uchiha Goka had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, resisted arrest, and was killed after Uchiha Suigiku ambushed him.
• Yagami reported that Uchiha Kiribi took Goka’s eyes, awakened a new Mangekyō, and fled with a White Zetsu named Tobi, while Danzo claimed Yagami had attacked him and Kiribi had taken the eyes.
• Yellow Dog defended Yagami, and Sarutobi Hiruzen ruled that neither Yagami nor Danzo was at fault before branding Kiribi an S-rank rogue ninja and ordering a pursuit.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Mitokado Homura to handle the Uchiha Clan and ordered Danzo to accompany him, while Yagami left to chase Kiribi.
• Mitokado Homura brought Uchiha Zhong and the Uchiha group to the scene, where Zhong saw Uchiha Shun and Uchiha Goka’s corpses and learned that Goka’s eyes were gone.
• Mitokado Homura told Uchiha Zhong that Kiribi had killed Goka for power and taken his eyes, then asked why the Uchiha had not reported the Mangekyō awakening.

Uchiha Zhong publicly agreed to brand Uchiha Kiribi a rogue ninja, then privately revealed to Fugaku that he had hidden his own Mangekyō for ten years and urged him to conceal any power he might awaken. In the Hokage’s office, Sarutobi Hiruzen defended Fox’s actions and warned Danzo that the village could not afford to move against him.

• Mitokado Homura told Uchiha Zhong that the village had declared Uchiha Kiribi an S-rank rogue ninja, and Zhong agreed to denounce Kiribi as Goka’s murderer.
• Uchiha Rikiga protested that Kiribi could not have killed his brother, but Uchiha Zhong silenced him, and Uchiha Toka covered the burned corpse.
• Uchiha Zhong ordered Goka and Jun buried behind the Spirit Appeasement Monument, then took Fugaku to the Naka Shrine and showed him his hidden Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Zhong told Fugaku that he had awakened his Mangekyō ten years earlier and urged him to keep any future Mangekyō power secret to protect the clan.
• Danzo complained that Fox had disobeyed orders, but Sarutobi Hiruzen defended Fox’s choices and argued that he was vital to confronting powerful enemies such as Uchiha Kiribi.

Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected Danzo’s proposal to exterminate the Uchiha, while Uchiha Kiribi fled Konoha with Tobi and learned how to obtain the Eternal Mangekyo. Yagami caught up as Tobi began the transplant, and he decided to pretend to cooperate.

• Danzo urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to destroy the Uchiha Clan, but Sarutobi Hiruzen refused and chose to wait for Fox’s pursuit results.
• Uchiha Kiribi escaped through the Land of Fire with Tobi, awakened his Mangekyo, and said he wanted to join Lord Madara and destroy Konoha.
• Tobi stopped Uchiha Kiribi from fighting Yagami and explained that the Eternal Mangekyo could be made by merging the brothers’ Mangekyo Sharingan.
• As Yagami kept pursuing them, Tobi asked Lord Madara for instructions to perform the transplant midway and received a scroll with the procedure.
• Tobi began operating on Uchiha Kiribi’s eyes near the Land of Fire border, while Yagami appeared in their path and decided to act as if he would let them proceed.

Yagami battled Uchiha Kiribi after exhausting himself fighting White Zetsu, but Kiribi’s Mangekyo techniques overwhelmed him and killed him. Yagami resurrected on the previous full moon night and chose Eternal Mangekyo: Island of Onushi as his reward.

• White Zetsu attacked Copper Fox while Yagami fought off their seemingly endless reinforcements for hours.
• Uchiha Kiribi confronted Yagami, and Yagami used Wood Release and poisonous flowers to weaken him.
• Kiribi revealed Pillar Leech, transferring his injuries and poison onto Yagami, then struck Yagami with Island of Onushi and killed him.
• Yagami returned to the full moon night two days earlier and received a choice of three rewards from the system.
• Yagami chose Eternal Mangekyo: Island of Onushi to gain a powerful killing technique.

Yagami relentlessly pursued Uchiha Kiribi and finally pierced his head with a Wooden Spear after countering his last Mangekyo attack. As Yagami reached for Kiribi’s eyes, a polearm scythe flew toward him.

• Yagami used Wood Release to trap Uchiha Kiribi, but Kiribi broke free with Susanoo and repeatedly countered Yagami’s Wood Dragons with Island of Onushi.
• Tobi and the White Zetsu cleared an underground passage, allowing Tobi to carry Kiribi away with the Mayfly Technique.
• Yagami caught up with Kiribi at the border of the Land of Fire and wore down his Susanoo with repeated Wood Dragon attacks.
• Kiribi used Pillar Leech to transfer Mangekyo damage to Yagami, but Yagami recovered and continued fighting.
• Kiribi’s final Island of Onushi failed because Yagami had placed an identical technique beneath himself, and Yagami killed Kiribi with a Wooden Spear through the head.
• As Yagami reached to take Kiribi’s eyes, a polearm scythe flew toward him.

Yagami killed Uchiha Kiribi after Uchiha Madara intervened and took Uchiha Goka’s Mangekyō for Tobi and a White Zetsu. Back in Konoha, news of Shimura Kirin’s assassination prompted the leaders to consider sending Hatake Sakumo to the Land of Grass, while Yagami delivered Kiribi’s corpse to the Uchiha Compound under orders.

• Uchiha Madara arrived as Yagami fought Uchiha Kiribi, and Yagami destroyed Kiribi’s Mangekyō before Kiribi died.
• Tobi gave Uchiha Goka’s Mangekyō to Uchiha Madara, who implanted them in a White Zetsu that Tobi then wore as a powerful ally.
• Yagami returned to Konoha and warned Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other leaders that Tobi had gained Wood Release and Mangekyō abilities.
• Yellow Dog reported that Shimura Kirin had been assassinated in the Land of Grass, and Danzo proposed testing the Daimyo’s loyalty or replacing him.
• The leaders decided to convene a Jonin Council meeting, with Danzo planning to have Hatake Sakumo take responsibility for the crisis.
• Yagami carried Uchiha Kiribi’s corpse to the Uchiha Compound and told Uchiha Zhong that Uchiha Madara had taken Uchiha Goka’s eyes.

Yagami pressured the Uchiha Clan on the Hokage’s orders as Fugaku struggled with the clan’s declining strength and isolation. At the Jonin Council, Sarutobi Hiruzen warned the village about Uchiha Madara’s organization and called for a leader to protect Konoha’s mission allocation in the Land of Grass, which Hatake Sakumo volunteered to do.

• Yagami delivered the Hokage’s warning to the Uchiha Clan, and Uchiha Zhong ordered Uchiha Kiribi’s ashes scattered in the River of Naka.
• Uchiha Zhong explained to Uchiha Fugaku how the Uchiha Clan’s peacekeeping duties had weakened it, and Fugaku later sparred with Minato Namikaze, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Mikoto.
• Fox warned Fugaku not to use genjutsu on Kushina, and Fugaku later learned from his father that she might be the village’s Jinchuriki.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told the Jonin Council that Uchiha Madara led a rogue ninja organization and cautioned them against fighting him directly.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen announced that Konoha risked losing its Land of Grass mission allocation and asked the council to choose a mission leader.
• Hatake Sakumo volunteered to go to the Land of Grass, while Yagami feared the mission might lead to Sakumo’s downfall.

After Konoha’s leaders dispatched teams to reassure the subordinate countries and track Uchiha Madara, Danzo forced Shinma into a mission by threatening his nephew. Yagami left for the Land of Rain with the Leaf Monkey Squad, while Hatake Sakumo and Mitokado Homura set out on their own missions.

• Mitokado Homura agreed to visit the subordinate countries, and Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Hatake Sakumo to travel to the Land of Grass after studying intelligence on Uchiha Madara.
• Danzo persuaded Sarutobi Hiruzen to send Fox to the Land of Rain to monitor Uchiha Madara and ordered him not to kill Tobi.
• Yagami watched Yamanaka Nightingale’s birth and planned for the White Ram Squad to protect the people close to him.
• Yellow Dog gave Yagami a mission to monitor Uchiha Madara, and Yagami left Konoha with the Leaf Monkey Squad.
• Danzo cursed Shinma with the Tongue-Root Annihilation Seal and threatened to recruit his nephew into Root unless Shinma completed a mission.
• Hatake Sakumo, Mitokado Homura, and Fox departed for the Land of Grass, the Land of Whirlpools, and the Land of Rain, while Yagami wondered how Sakumo’s mission was going.

Hatake Sakumo’s team escorted the Land of Grass Crown Prince to Evergreen God Mountain as Konoha faced the threat of losing the Daimyo’s trust. During the worship ceremony, Iwagakure’s Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Steam Ninja Han, attacked, and Hatake Sakumo fought him while Minato Namikaze studied his steam-based techniques.

• Shimura Kano told Hatake Sakumo that the Crown Prince’s pilgrimage was a test of Konoha’s Guardian Ninja and that failure could push the Land of Grass toward Iwagakure.
• Hatake Sakumo’s team escorted the Crown Prince toward Evergreen God Mountain while Shinma worried about Danzo’s sabotage order and Minato Namikaze learned about the team’s scouting concerns.
• At Evergreen God Mountain, Yamashiro Tera identified the barren ground where Sarutobi Kinosuke had killed ANBU Deputy Director Lynx, and the Crown Prince began the bloody worship ceremony.
• Minato Namikaze spotted Steam Ninja Han approaching with Stone Ninja, and Hatake Sakumo ordered him to observe while the others engaged Han’s subordinates.
• Hatake Sakumo damaged Han’s steam armor and then struck him through his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation cloak, leaving Han wounded and howling in pain.

Han lost control of the Five-Tails as Hatake Sakumo struggled to contain him and protect Konoha’s forces. After Shinma’s warning prompted the Crown Prince to flee disguised as a servant, the Stone Ninja mistook the fleeing party for reinforcements and killed him, leaving Konoha accused of plotting his death.

• Han transformed fully into the Five-Tails Jinchuriki and fired Tailed Beast Bombs, while Hatake Sakumo repeatedly intercepted them.
• Shinma was struck by a boulder, creating an opening for Stone Ninja to charge toward the Crown Prince on Evergreen God Mountain.
• Shinma urged the Crown Prince to disguise himself and flee, and the Crown Prince left on horseback with servants.
• Shinma claimed Konoha reinforcements were riding away, prompting the Stone Ninja to pursue and kill the disguised Crown Prince.
• Shimura Kano accused Hatake Sakumo of causing the Crown Prince’s death, while the Stone Ninja stopped pursuing Konoha and planned to use the servants’ testimony to prove Konoha had framed them.
• At the Capital of the Land of Grass, a Hyuga Guardian Ninja saw that the returning procession included the two tribal chiefs but not the Crown Prince.

Hatake Sakumo’s failed mission and Danzo’s rumors turned Konoha against him, while Danzo pressured Shinma into accusing him. Yagami learned that White Fang had died by suicide, then killed Sagi in the Land of Rain and triggered his system’s death-rewind activation.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Grass blamed Konoha for his son’s death, while Shimura Kano pinned the failed mission on Hatake Sakumo and Root spread rumors against him.
• Yagami learned that the Daimyo had expelled Konoha’s Guardian Ninja and that Root was destroying Hatake Sakumo’s reputation with rumors.
• Kakashi and Might Guy heard villagers condemn Hatake Sakumo, while Hatake Sakumo promised Kakashi he would return to the Land of Grass to fix the situation.
• Danzo coerced Shinma into turning against Hatake Sakumo by threatening his nephew, and Shinma went to accuse Sakumo despite Yamashiro Tera’s suspicions.
• Yagami learned that Hatake Sakumo had committed suicide and identified Shinma as the traitor, then killed Sagi and increased his Chakra Quantity to 2.2 times Kage-level.
• The system detected Yagami’s death and began activating.

Yagami tracked the Stone Ninja led by Steam Ninja Han to the Land of Grass border and attacked them with Wood Release. After slaughtering many of Han’s troops, Yagami provoked Han into releasing four tails and began facing the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Yagami used Reverse Summoning to reach the Uzumaki Clan settlement, then arranged for Yuka to bring him north toward the Land of Grass border.
• Yagami planted traces of Island of Onushi and led the Leaf Monkey Squad to investigate them, claiming that Tobi was practicing Mangekyo ocular techniques as he traveled.
• Steam Ninja Han led two Iwagakure battalions toward Evergreen God Mountain, but Yagami intercepted them and accused them of hiding Tobi.
• Yagami trapped most of the Stone Ninja in Deep Forest Emergence, where Katsuyu Tendrils drained their Chakra, then killed dozens with Wood Style: Impaling Forest.
• Han released four tails and formed a fist-sized Tailed Beast Bomb as Yagami turned to confront him.

Yagami used Wood Release to fight Han and forced the Five-Tails to emerge, then retreated with the Leaf Monkey Squad. The Five-Tails broke free and confronted the surviving Stone Ninja, who tried to track it until their village's main force arrived.

• Yagami trapped Han and the Stone Ninja in Wood Release vines, killed dozens of Stone Ninja, and fought Han after he unleashed five tails.
• Han's Tailed Beast Bomb destroyed the forest and killed more than thirty Stone Ninja, prompting Han to transform fully into the Five-Tails.
• Yagami restrained the Five-Tails with a Wood Dragon, then withdrew with the Leaf Monkey Squad after judging that he could only delay it briefly.
• The Five-Tails broke free, demanded to know where Ōnoki was, and began forming a massive Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The Stone Ninja Captain Commanders ordered their forces to spread out, observe the Five-Tails from afar, and use the Sealing Team to restrain it until reinforcements arrived.

Yagami learned that Danzo and Hiruzen were continuing to plot against Hatake Sakumo by sending him to face the berserk Five-Tails. He warned Pakkun that Shinma must die to save Sakumo, and Pakkun relayed the warning to Sakumo, leaving him to decide what to do.

• Yagami reported Tobi's devastating Mangekyo technique and his encounter with the Five-Tails to Hiruzen, Danzo, and Yellow Dog, then received orders to continue searching for Uchiha Madara.
• After Yagami left, Danzo told Hiruzen that he planned to exploit the Five-Tails to make Hatake Sakumo fail a new mission at the Land of Grass border.
• Hatake Sakumo accepted the Daimyo of the Land of Grass's S-rank mission to drive away the berserk Five-Tails, while Shinma followed him toward the border.
• Yagami sent the Antelope Squad away and asked Pakkun to tell Sakumo to kill Shinma, warning that Sakumo would die if Shinma survived.
• Pakkun contacted Sakumo and told him that Fox had ordered him to kill Shinma.

Hatake Sakumo led his team to redirect the rampaging Five-Tails away from tribes in the Land of Grass while doubting Fox’s claim that Shinma served Danzo. When Kitsuchi and the Stone Ninja tried to capture the beast, Shinma used a hallucinogenic smoke bomb as the Five-Tails charged toward the Konoha team.

• Pakkun told Hatake Sakumo that Fox had identified Shinma as Danzo’s man and warned that Sakumo would die unless he killed him, but Sakumo chose to verify the claim.
• Hatake Sakumo and Yamashiro Tera studied a map and planned to steer the Five-Tails away from tribes, while Shinma worried that their cautious approach would prevent the mission from failing.
• Hatake Sakumo wounded the Five-Tails’ foreleg and repeatedly pressured him to change direction, keeping him away from settlements as the team followed him across the Land of Grass.
• Kitsuchi arrived with four Stone Ninja battalions and trapped the Five-Tails with Earth Style: Mountain Earth Technique, but the beast broke free after the Stone Ninja diverted its Tailed Beast Bomb.
• As the Five-Tails charged toward the Konoha team, Yamashiro Tera ordered them to move aside, and Shinma deployed the hallucinogenic smoke bomb Shimura Kano had given him.

Hatake Sakumo exposed and killed Shinma after Shinma’s hallucinogenic smoke bomb drove the Five-Tails berserk, then joined forces with Kitsuchi to restrain the beast. The Five-Tails broke free and charged onward, while Minato Namikaze drew inspiration from its Boiling Release to develop his Wind Release movement techniques.

• Pakkun’s ninja hounds restrained Shinma, and Hatake Sakumo killed him after realizing he had betrayed the mission.
• Yamashiro Tera read Shinma’s memories and learned that a hooded stranger had given him a smoke bomb, but a seal destroyed Shinma’s brain before Tera could uncover more.
• Hatake Sakumo ordered an investigation into a possible connection to Orochimaru, while Minato Namikaze received Shinma’s Chakra metal tanto and a Vacuum Blade scroll from Shirakumo Hayama.
• Hatake Sakumo persuaded Kitsuchi to cooperate, then severed the Five-Tails’ right foreleg with White Fang Consecutive Blades so Kitsuchi could restrain it again.
• The Five-Tails used Boiling Release steam to break free of Kitsuchi’s Mountain Earth Technique, and Minato Namikaze considered using Wind Release chakra to increase his own speed.

Hatake Sakumo’s team completed its mission in the Land of Grass after Ōnoki sealed the Five-Tails, while Yagami learned that Koibara Ryo planned to target Chisa and her son, Yoruha. Yagami decided to wait for Mitokado Homura to arrive in the Land of Rivers’ capital before dealing with the threat, and prepared to act on the full moon.

• Hatake Sakumo stopped his team from attacking the Stone Ninja when Ōnoki arrived and used Dust Release to cripple the Five-Tails, which Iwagakure then sealed.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi he suspected Danzo had manipulated the mission, and praised Konoha’s Anbu Deputy Director, Fox, as a potential successor to Danzo.
• Yagami received word that Hatake Sakumo had completed the Land of Grass mission, then answered Chisa’s reverse summoning and learned Koibara Ryo was seeking Yoruha’s father to humiliate her.
• Chisa told Yagami that her brother, the Daimyo, was gravely ill and that Koibara Ryo and Mito Gate Yue had support from Mitokado Homura, who would soon visit the capital.
• Yagami told Chisa to stall until Mitokado Homura arrived, then returned to the Land of Rain and sent the Antelope Squad back out to gather report material.
• On the full-moon night, Yagami removed his rain-soaked hood by the Treasury Department as he prepared to deal with Chisa’s troubles.