Chapter Summaries

Disguised as Tobi, Yagami eavesdropped on Mitokado Homura and Mito Gate Yue discussing Konoha’s political maneuvering, Yue’s wealth, and a proposed assassination of Koizumi Chisa. Yagami attacked Homura, but Homura blocked the surprise strike with a massive scroll, leaving both sides facing off.

• Yagami used Tobi’s mask and the Mayfly Technique to spy on Mito Gate Yue and Mito Kishi as they awaited Mitokado Homura.
• Mitokado Homura told Yue and Kishi that the Shimura Clan’s failures threatened Konoha’s mission assignments and warned that rivals might target them.
• Yue suspected Sunagakure had poisoned the Land of Rivers’ Daimyo, and Homura offered to teach him the Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tag Technique.
• Homura learned that Yue had saved 112 million ryo and discussed buying Sarutobi Clan Exploding Tags to prepare for the threat.
• Yue revealed that the Crown Prince had offered him 30 million ryo to assassinate Koizumi Chisa and her son in exchange for control of lucrative missions.
• Yagami launched a surprise Kunai attack on Homura, but Homura blocked it with a massive scroll and recognized his attacker as Tobi.

Yagami fought Mitokado Homura, died to his Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tag Technique, and resurrected with increased Chakra Quantity. He then warned Chisa about threats to her family and staged the Crown Prince’s assassination as a Sand ninja attack, leaving Tenshu Castle locked down.

• Yagami fought Mitokado Homura, who defeated him with the Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tag Technique and thousands of chained explosions.
• Yagami resurrected on the previous full moon and chose the reward that increased his Chakra Quantity to 3.2 times Kage-level.
• Yagami told Chisa that Sand ninja had poisoned her brother and that Crown Prince Koibara Ryo planned to seize her power stations and have her family killed.
• Yagami disguised himself as a Sand ninja, used a wooden puppet to kill Koibara Ryo with poison, and escaped as the palace samurai arrived.
• Chisa ordered Tenshu Castle sealed after the assassination and watched for the time Yagami needed to confront Mitokado Homura.

Yagami, disguised as Tobi, killed Mito Gate Yue and Mito Kishi with the Island of Onushi and fought Mitokado Homura, who escaped the technique and attacked him in grief and rage. The battle ended with both men plunging into the river valley, each believing he had the advantage.

• Yagami ambushed Mito Gate Yue, Mito Kishi, and Mitokado Homura with the Island of Onushi, killing Mito Gate Yue and Mito Kishi while Mitokado Homura escaped using his giant scroll.
• Yagami killed Mitokado Homura's assistants and two Guardian Ninjas, then left one wounded Guardian Ninja alive to report that Tobi had killed Mitokado Homura.
• Mitokado Homura summoned the Five Ninja Swords and fought Yagami, whose Sharingan let him read Mitokado Homura's attacks, though Mitokado Homura's grief drove him to trade wounds recklessly.
• Mitokado Homura trapped Yagami with his nine-sectioned blade and a Chakra Metal Ninja Sword, but Yagami used Wood Release to break free and form wooden spears.
• Yagami tried to trap Mitokado Homura with the Island of Onushi, but Mitokado Homura escaped into the air and launched a swarm of kunai, some carrying Exploding Tags.
• The Exploding Tags blasted Yagami off the cliff, and Mitokado Homura followed him into the river valley as both prepared to continue the fight.

Yagami survived Mitokado Homura’s explosive suicide attack while disguised as Tobi, then escaped after claiming responsibility for Homura’s death. As Sasori searched the wreckage for weapons and puppet materials, news of Homura’s death reached Konoha, where Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned the village’s leaders.

• Mitokado Homura trapped Yagami with the Nine-Sectioned Blade and detonated over a million Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tags, but Yagami escaped the restraints and survived with layered defenses.
• Yagami left the surviving Guardian Ninja believing Tobi had killed Mitokado Homura and Mito Gate Yue, then threatened Konoha’s higher-ups before sinking into the ground.
• Yagami found Sasori retrieving part of the Fuma Shuriken, revealed that he knew about Sasori’s poisoning of the Daimyo, and rejected Sasori’s offer to cooperate.
• Sasori attacked Yagami with a puppet, but Yagami’s Black Island of Onushi collapsed it; Sasori then continued searching the valley for better puppet materials.
• Two Ninja Eagles carried news to Konoha, and Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned all the higher-ups after reading that Mitokado Homura was dead.

After Mitokado Homura and his family were killed by Tobi, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo visited Torifu Akimichi to ask him to return as an advisor and oversee Konoha's foreign affairs. Torifu refused because his damaged nervous system would make him a liability, leaving Nara Shikatsuno puzzled by how agile Torifu appeared afterward.

• Yellow Dog and Nara Shikatsuno read an urgent report that Tobi had killed Mitokado Homura, and Danzo joined them in the Hokage's Office.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Utatane Koharu that Homura, Mito Gate Yue, Mito Kishi, and Nozomi had died, and Koharu left the office in shock.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Nara Shikatsuno went to the Akimichi Clan grounds to speak with Torifu Akimichi.
• Danzo asked Torifu Akimichi to return as an advisor and oversee Konoha's foreign affairs, but Torifu refused because his damaged nervous system would make him a burden.
• After the visitors left, Nara Shikatsuno saw Torifu leap lightly back into his reclining chair and wondered whether his nervous system was truly damaged.

Torifu Akimichi explained to Nara Shikatsuno why he refused to return from retirement, warning that Konoha’s order was collapsing and that the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans should avoid becoming a shield in the village’s internal struggle. After returning to Konoha, Yagami manipulated Yellow Dog into considering a bid for the Foreign Affairs Advisor position while planning to use the promotion to advance his own ambitions.

• Torifu Akimichi told Nara Shikatsuno that Konoha’s sacrifice-based order was collapsing and that he would not expose himself or the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans by serving Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Torifu Akimichi and Nara Shikatsuno discussed whether Uchiha Madara might threaten their Guardian Ninjas, and Torifu advised waiting rather than rushing into action.
• Nara Shikatsuno left after Torifu sensed approaching ANBU, concluding that Konoha’s internal attacks and the advisor struggle made the village’s future difficult to read.
• In the Land of Rain, Yagami learned that Mitokado Homura had been killed and hurried back to Konoha with his ANBU squad.
• Yagami told Yellow Dog that Orochimaru was unsuitable for the Foreign Affairs Advisor role and urged him to seek the position, while privately planning to use Yellow Dog’s promotion to gain control of ANBU and further his own plans.

Yagami and Hippopotamus worked to build support for Yellow Dog’s bid to become Foreign Affairs Advisor, while Yagami negotiated with Orochimaru to get him to withdraw. Orochimaru agreed to step aside if Sarutobi Shinnosuke gave him the Five Elemental Great Explosion Technique, and Yagami went home intending to provide it.

• Yagami told Hippopotamus to spread rumors crediting Yellow Dog with ANBU’s wartime success and claiming he was the Hokage’s eldest son, while quietly gauging the village’s reactions.
• Torifu Akimichi told Nara Shikatsuno that the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans and other clans would stay out of the advisor contest, so Hippopotamus escalated the rumors among ordinary villagers.
• Yagami visited Orochimaru’s laboratory and urged him to abandon his bid, arguing that the foreign affairs role would consume time better spent on his experiments.
• Orochimaru agreed that the position did not suit him but demanded the Five Elemental Great Explosion Technique from Sarutobi Shinnosuke in exchange for withdrawing.
• Yagami left to consult Yellow Dog, then went straight home, deciding he could simply give Orochimaru the technique.

Yagami maneuvered to help Sarutobi Shinnosuke become Foreign Affairs Advisor, but Shinnosuke’s mother intervened and disrupted the plan. Shinnosuke left the Hokage’s Office still wearing his Yellow Dog mask, and Yagami began considering another way to advance his aims.

• Yagami contacted Yakushi Nonō and planned to deal with Gibbon, then gave Chinri 100,000 ryo for the orphanage.
• Yagami gave Orochimaru the Great Five Element Combo scroll, and Orochimaru withdrew from the Foreign Affairs Advisor competition.
• Yagami told Hippopotamus that Shinnosuke was the only likely candidate and warned him not to reveal their actions to Shinnosuke.
• Shinnosuke told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he wanted the advisor position and had mastered a forbidden jutsu, while Yagami promised to manage the ANBU and support him.
• Sarutobi Biwako burst into the Hokage’s Office and opposed Shinnosuke taking the dangerous position, arguing with him and Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Shinnosuke left the office wearing his Yellow Dog mask, and Yagami considered finding another opportunity or supporting Hatake Sakumo instead.

With the daimyos of the Land of Rivers, Land of Whirlpools, and Land of Fire demanding protection, Konoha’s leaders debated how to respond to Uchiha Madara and the diplomatic crisis. They decided to seek candidates for Foreign Affairs Advisor at the Jonin Council, where Hatake Sakumo had prepared to compete for the position.

• Koizumi Chisa sent a harsh State Letter to the Land of Fire and Konoha, and the Daimyo of the Land of Whirlpools and Daimyo of the Land of Fire sent their own letters demanding action.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s senior officials discussed the danger from Uchiha Madara, the Land of Rain, and the threatened vassal states; Nara Shikatsuno proposed choosing a new Foreign Affairs Advisor from the village.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen added a Foreign Affairs Advisor recommendation to the upcoming Jonin Council agenda after Danzo said Uchiha Madara might die before long.
• Yagami sent Pakkun to tell Hatake Sakumo that he had a chance at the position, and Sakumo’s team gathered intelligence and sounded out other Jonin.
• At the Jonin Council meeting, Nara Shikatsuno announced Mitokado Homura’s funeral and opened the agenda item for recommending a new Foreign Affairs Advisor.

Hatake Sakumo became Konoha’s Foreign Affairs Advisor and met with Yagami, who gave him intelligence on Uchiha Madara’s forces and explained why he hoped Sakumo would change the village. Sakumo left for the Land of Rivers determined to become Hokage, while Yagami privately resolved to keep the rogue ninjas from targeting him for now.

• Hatake Sakumo volunteered for the Foreign Affairs Advisor position, and the Third Hokage appointed him to rotate through Konoha’s vassal states.
• Orochimaru questioned Yellow Dog about withdrawing from the advisor competition, but Yellow Dog refused to explain further.
• Pakkun arranged a secret meeting where Sakumo asked Yagami for intelligence about Uchiha Madara and his subordinates.
• Yagami gave Sakumo a scroll describing Madara, White Zetsu, Tobi, and their abilities, while Sakumo explained that his advisor title came with limited authority.
• Yagami told Sakumo that Konoha needed to change and that he hoped Sakumo could guide it toward a less dark future.
• Sakumo left for the Land of Rivers, promising to become Hokage and improve Konoha, while Yagami thought the rogue ninjas would leave him alone for a while.

Yagami learned that Yuka was pregnant, then accepted a mission from Utatane Koharu to recover Mitokado Homura’s weapons from the Land of Wind. After visiting Koizumi Chisa in the Land of Rivers and receiving intelligence on Sasori, he considered targeting the Sarutobi Clan’s Guardian Ninja Captain while Uchiha Madara prepared to attack Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Yagami visited the Uzumaki Clan’s hideout, where Yuka told him she was pregnant, and promised to protect her and the clan.
• Yakushi Nonō reported that Gibbon had ordered her to investigate Hatake Sakumo and search for Sarutobi Kinosuke in the Land of Grass.
• Utatane Koharu sent Yagami to the Land of Wind to retrieve Mitokado Homura’s Five Ninja Swords, and Yellow Dog allowed him to take a squad for distant support.
• Yagami visited Koizumi Chisa in the Land of Rivers, learned that her brother had been poisoned and Hatake Sakumo had left for the Land of Grass, and promised to deter the Sand ninjas.
• The Leaf Monkey Squad brought Yagami sparse intelligence from Sarutobi Hiko, and Yagami considered killing the Guardian Ninja Captain of the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Madara connected himself to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and told Tobi he planned to attack Konoha and release the Nine-Tails.

Yagami ambushed Sasori in the Land of Wind to recover Mitokado Homura’s stolen weapons, defeated his puppets, and taunted him about his parents and Puppet Technique. As the Third Kazekage arrived and stopped Yagami’s attack, the confrontation remained unresolved.

• A Konoha spy reported that Sasori was searching for puppet materials in the southwestern Land of Wind, and Yagami’s squad tracked him down.
• Yagami demanded that Sasori return Mitokado Homura’s weapons, but Sasori attacked him with puppets and vowed revenge for his parents.
• Yagami destroyed Sasori’s puppets with Wood Release, then used Katsuyu Tendrils to wield four recovered weapons and shattered Ibuse’s shield and body with the Senju Broadsword.
• The Third Kazekage intervened with Magnet Release, stopping Yagami’s wooden forest and tendrils before Sasori was defeated.

Yagami died fighting the Third Kazekage, then revived on the previous full-moon night and chose a Chakra Quantity reward. He fought Sasori and the Third Kazekage again, forcing the Kazekage to let him leave after warning Sunagakure against targeting the Land of Rivers’ nobles.

• Yagami’s first battle with the Third Kazekage ended when he pretended to be crushed by the Magnet Release Cylinder, and he revived more than ten days earlier in Chisa’s bedroom.
• Yagami chose the Kage-level Chakra Quantity reward, then led the Leaf Monkey Squad into the Land of Wind without contacting Konoha’s spies.
• Yagami intercepted Sasori, recovered the Five Ninja Swords, and taunted him until the Third Kazekage arrived to save him.
• Yagami and the Third Kazekage fought for half an hour, with their Wood Release and Magnet Release techniques repeatedly clashing.
• After Sand ninja reinforcements arrived, Yagami warned the Third Kazekage not to target Land of Rivers nobles again, and the Kazekage let him leave.

After Yagami returned from the Land of Wind with four ninja swords and news of his stand against the Third Kazekage, Konoha’s leaders grew wary of his strength and influence. Sarutobi Hiruzen rewarded him with the weapons but directed him to focus on training ANBU, while Yagami recognized the Hokage’s suspicion and began planning in silence.

• Gibbon and Yellow Dog brought intelligence of Fox’s battle with the Third Kazekage to Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other Konoha leaders, who discussed how to manage Fox’s growing prestige.
• Yellow Dog proposed keeping Fox in the village to oversee ANBU’s daily affairs and rewarding him with Mitokado Homura’s ninja swords, and Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed.
• Yagami returned to Konoha and reported that he had recovered four weapons and fought the Third Kazekage, then followed Yellow Dog to meet Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Yagami asked for the Senju Broadsword, but Sarutobi Hiruzen gave him all four recovered weapons and ordered him to devote most of his effort to strengthening ANBU.
• Yagami accepted the order, recognized that Sarutobi Hiruzen feared him, and returned to ANBU to organize training plans while privately rejecting the idea that he would be as naive as Hatake Sakumo.

Yagami trained ANBU members by overpowering them and criticizing their weaknesses, then targeted Sarutobi Hiyu during a full-moon night. After Hiyu killed him in an earlier encounter, Yagami returned and attacked him with the Great Five Element Combo, leaving Konoha in chaos as he escaped.

• Yagami made twenty-one ANBU members spar against him, defeating them and assigning them corrections and further training.
• Yagami chose imprisoned Sarutobi Hiyu as his target, and Hiyu stabbed an ANBU member who tried to attack him.
• Yagami later revived with increased Chakra Quantity and returned to confront Sarutobi Hiyu on the night he had died in his previous life.
• Yagami kicked Sarutobi Hiyu through the prison wall and struck him with the Great Five Element Combo.
• The explosion damaged Konoha's wall, drew ninja toward the prison area, and Yagami escaped into the darkness.

Sarutobi Hiruzen confronted the failures in Konoha’s intelligence defenses after Sarutobi Kinosuke killed Sarutobi Hiyu, then pressed Danzo to build a new system to detect infiltrators. Yagami tested the village’s defenses, reached the ordinary Kage-level chakra limit, and began considering ways to surpass it, while Uchiha Madara finally stood after the Demonic Statue stopped sustaining him.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived at the crater where Sarutobi Hiyu had been killed, and the Monkey King condemned Konoha’s intelligence system for failing to detect the infiltration.
• Yellow Dog concealed the killing as a ninjutsu-training incident, while Fox secured the area and Danzo entered after Fox permitted the ANBU to let him through.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Danzo to use his Hashirama Cells and Wood Release to establish an intelligence system; Danzo demanded more Root operatives, then left after Hiruzen rejected the request.
• Yagami used the Mayfly Technique to probe Konoha on several full-moon nights, exhausting Danzo, then died at Senju Hanaki’s hands and gained Elite Jonin Level Chakra.
• Yagami later died at Yamanaka Inoen’s hands and realized his chakra had reached its 4.8-times-Kage-level limit; he considered Sage Jutsu and the Temple of Fire’s inheritance as paths to break through.
• In the Land of Rain, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path stopped supplying power, and Uchiha Madara stood up with his Uchiha Gunbai.

Hatake Sakumo returned to Konoha to propose rotating Guardian Ninja Captains every three years, but Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, and Nara Shikatsuno resisted the reform to protect their clans’ influence. As the meeting dragged on, Uchiha Madara launched a surprise assault on Konoha with four Susanoo giants.

• Uchiha Madara healed Tobi and White Zetsu, then decided to attack Konoha and weaken it so Nagato could capture the Nine-Tails.
• Hatake Sakumo returned to Konoha and proposed a three-year rotation system for Guardian Ninja Captains, threatening the clans that monopolized the posts.
• Nara Shikatsuno urged Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo to contain Sakumo’s proposal, and Hiruzen ordered surveillance while Danzo planned to frame Sakumo for killing Land of Grass nobles.
• Hatake Sakumo met with Konoha’s leaders, but Nara Shikatsuno argued that reforms had to wait until the rogue ninja threat was dealt with, and their dispute continued late into the night.
• Yagami sensed danger as four blue Susanoo giants smashed through Konoha’s walls from different directions.

Yagami used Wood Release to defeat Uchiha Madara’s Wood Clone Susanoo and surveyed Konoha’s other battles, but Madara’s main body attacked Kushina at the Senju Clan Compound. After Minato and Kushina were killed, Yagami realized he had to turn back time and deliberately died to activate his system.

• Kyouko fled toward Hokage Rock with the child as Yagami rushed into the village to fight the Susanoo.
• Yagami, disguised as ANBU’s Lord Fox, bound Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo with Wood Dragons and destroyed Madara’s Wood Clone.
• Tsunade drove back the southern Susanoo while the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans struggled against the western one.
• Uchiha Madara’s main body attacked Kushina with a Complete Body Susanoo, cutting through her Nine-Tails Chakra and killing both Kushina and Minato.
• Yagami realized Madara wanted to kill the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and weaken Konoha, then rushed toward the Ino-Shika-Cho battlefield to trigger his system by dying.

Yagami prepared Konoha for Uchiha Madara’s expected assault, warning Tsunade to protect Kushina and persuading Sarutobi Hiruzen to order a civilian evacuation. The attack began with four Susanoo breaking through the village walls, and after Yagami weakened the eastern one with Wood Release, a Complete Body Susanoo appeared in the Senju Clan Compound.

• Yagami activated the Arc of the Crescent Moon, chose the Expansion Jutsu, mobilized the ANBU, and told Kyouko to take their child to Shelter Cave Number One when the passage opened.
• Yagami warned Tsunade that Uchiha Madara would target Kushina and asked her to protect Kushina at the Senju Clan Compound.
• Yagami reported an imminent attack to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who ordered a nighttime civilian evacuation drill and summoned Konoha’s forces to prepare.
• Four blue Susanoo smashed through Konoha’s walls, and Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Orochimaru, Danzo, Yagami, and the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans to confront them while he and Hatake Sakumo waited for Uchiha Madara’s true body.
• Yagami trapped the eastern Susanoo in a Wood Release forest and weakened it with two Wood Dragons, then spotted a Complete Body Susanoo in the Senju Clan Compound.

Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo devastated the Senju Clan Compound as Konoha’s leaders tried to drive him out, while Tobi ambushed them with the Black Island of Onushi. Utatane Koharu died saving Sarutobi Hiruzen, who then focused on killing Madara and ordered Fox to hunt Tobi.

• Tsunade, Minato Namikaze, and Sarutobi Hiruzen intervened to save Uzumaki Kushina and push Madara’s Susanoo away from the village center.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Hatake Sakumo pressed Madara eastward with the Kongō Nyoi, Tsunade’s attacks, and Sakumo’s blade, while Fox’s Wood Dragons drained Susanoo’s Chakra.
• Uchiha Zhong ordered the Security Force to evacuate civilians rather than enter the battle, and worried that the Uchiha Clan would face greater resentment afterward.
• Tobi used the Black Island of Onushi to target Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Utatane Koharu knocked him clear of its range but was caught in the technique and killed.
• Hiruzen ordered Kuroari to tell Fox to hunt Tobi, then told Hatake Sakumo to help kill Madara and suggested that Sakumo pursue his ideas after the battle.