Chapter Summaries

Pakura discovered that a mysterious man named Yagami, whom she knew as Miqu, had secretly intervened in the battle for Sabou Port and warned her about Sunagakure’s political factions. Meanwhile, Rasa encountered Ōnoki and the Third Raikage working together, leaving him wondering who they planned to confront.

• Pakura rallied the Sand ninja and nobles after they drove back the Mist Ninja, then inspected the battlefield and found a trail of Mist Ninja killed with precise kunai strikes.
• Pakura followed an unusual Earth Spear and reunited with Yagami, whom she recognized as Miqu, the man she had met beside Crescent Moon Oasis.
• Yagami explained how Rasa and Chiyo’s rivalry had isolated Pakura and placed her in a perilous position at Sabou Port.
• Yagami embraced and kissed Pakura, secretly marked her with a Flying Thunder God Spell Formula, took a drop of her blood, and vanished after promising to return if her life was in danger.
• Rasa led Sand ninja through the northwest of the Land of Wind to seek out Stone Ninja and preserve Sunagakure’s mission allocation.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage appeared together in the sky and questioned Rasa about the coming Shinobi World War, shocking him with their alliance.

Rasa agreed to join Ōnoki and the Third Raikage’s alliance against Konoha after learning how much they feared Fox’s power. The chapter ended with the Four Great Shinobi Villages poised to form the Allied Shinobi Forces as the Third Shinobi World War began.

• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage warned Rasa that Sunagakure would be attacked if it stayed out of their coming war against Konoha.
• Ōnoki explained that Fox had killed the Two-Tails and might rival Hashirama Senju, prompting Iwagakure and Kumogakure to ally against Konoha.
• Rasa agreed to settle Sunagakure’s internal dissent, become the Fourth Kazekage, and join the alliance against Konoha.
• Ōnoki asked Rasa to ease Sunagakure’s conflict with Kirigakure while he and the Third Raikage contacted Genji.
• Rasa decided to send Pakura to Kirigakure, then watched the Stone Ninja and Cloud Ninja forces withdraw and realized the war would begin with the Four Great Shinobi Villages forming the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Rasa sent Pakura to the Land of Whirlpools to exchange a peace agreement with Kirigakure, while Hidan and Black Sail began building shrines and sacrificing nobles at Sabou Port. Days later, Yagami sensed their latest ten sacrifices and wondered how Pakura was faring in the Land of Waves.

• Rasa learned that Pakura had driven back the Mist Ninja and sent her to secretly exchange a peace agreement in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Pakura left Sunagakure after telling her disciple Konoha to keep up with her training.
• Hidan and Black Sail found a nobleman who refused to reduce the debts of boatmen whose fishing boats had been sunk.
• Hidan and Black Sail sacrificed the nobleman at a shrine they carved into a reef, creating a shrine and a new Flying Thunder God coordinate for Yagami.
• Hidan told Black Sail to target noble patients for sacrifices, explaining that nobles were evil by virtue of their status.
• Several days later, Yagami sensed that Hidan and Black Sail had sacrificed ten more souls and wondered how Pakura was doing in the Land of Waves.

Pakura was betrayed and killed during a peace-agreement exchange, then met Yagami in the Three Gods Temple and joined the Disaster Organization as Fire. Revived with immortal power, she killed two Mist Ninja and prepared to eliminate the witnesses.

• Pakura traveled to the Land of Whirlpools to exchange peace agreements, but Mist Ninja ambushed her and killed her before she could use Scorch Release.
• Pakura’s consciousness arrived at the Three Gods Temple, where Yagami explained that Rasa had sacrificed her to secure Sunagakure’s alliance with Kirigakure.
• Yagami recruited Pakura into the Disaster Organization as Fire and tasked her with stopping Sunagakure from joining the Anti-Konoha Alliance and spreading the Three Gods Cult’s faith.
• Pakura accepted the Three Gods’ power, returned to life, and killed two Mist Ninja who attacked her.
• Pakura decided to kill every remaining Mist Ninja so they would not discover her immortality.

Pakura survived her wounds with an Immortal Body and defeated the Mist Ninja who ambushed her. Ten days later, Ōnoki and the Third Raikage persuaded Genji to join the Anti-Konoha Alliance, with Karatachi Yagura appointed as Kirigakure’s overall commander.

• Pakura used Scorching Release to kill the Mist Ninja pursuing her, then hid behind a rock and fell asleep as her wounds healed.
• Ōnoki invited Genji to join the Anti-Konoha Alliance, warning that Konoha’s Fox might capture Kirigakure’s Tailed Beasts.
• The Third Raikage supported Ōnoki’s appeal, citing the Fox’s Wood Release and the killing of Ryuujin, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ōnoki revealed that Rasa had agreed to join the alliance and planned to hand Pakura over to Kirigakure.
• Genji learned that Pakura had killed the Mist Ninja sent to ambush her and accused Rasa of having no sincerity.
• Ōnoki persuaded Genji to join the alliance, and Genji named Karatachi Yagura as Kirigakure’s overall commander.

Pakura returned to Sunagakure after surviving the Mist Ninja ambush and reunited with Yagami at a shrine of the Three Gods Cult. Yagami tasked her with gaining influence and spreading the cult, while Pakura joined Chiyo in opposing Sunagakure’s involvement in the coming war.

• Pakura returned to Sabou Port, prayed at a hidden shrine, and reunited with Yagami, who comforted her and confirmed he led the Disaster Organization.
• Yagami told Pakura to gain authority in Sunagakure and work with Plague to spread the Three Gods Cult throughout the Land of Wind.
• Pakura returned to Sunagakure, where Rasa greeted her and falsely blamed Kirigakure for the attack; Pakura claimed she had killed the Mist Ninja.
• Chiyo and Ebizo pushed for Pakura to join Sunagakure’s upper ranks, while Rasa considered how to obtain Shukaku’s power.
• Pakura told Chiyo that Sunagakure should avoid joining the Anti-Konoha Alliance, and Chiyo agreed that they should wait before entering the war.

Yagami reported that the other ninja villages were forming an alliance against Konoha, prompting the village leaders to prepare for war. He then trained Kushina with the Nine-Tails’ chakra and considered how to bring Minato under his command before teaching him the Flying Thunder God.

• Yagami told Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Nara Shikatsuno that Ōnoki, Rasa, and Kirigakure’s Genji were coordinating against Konoha, while Uchiha Madara’s powerful former subordinates remained an additional threat.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Yagami to keep gathering intelligence, Tsunade to prepare wartime supplies, and Shikatsuno to organize Konoha’s ninja into corps.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen thanked Yagami for concealing Orochimaru’s experiments and planned to summon Jiraiya so he, Orochimaru, and Tsunade could train together for the coming war.
• Yagami took Kushina to a secluded valley, checked her seal, and had her release the Nine-Tails’ chakra to practice forming a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Yagami watched Minato at the training ground and considered how to make him his subordinate before passing on the Flying Thunder God.

Yagami brought Kushina and Minato to the Land of Rain, where he revealed that more than forty Uzumaki Clan survivors were under attack. Kushina and Minato rushed to help them, and Uzumaki Yuka recognized Kushina as she arrived.

• Kushina watched Minato train Kakashi, Rin Nohara, and Uchiha Yōtō, while Yōtō struggled to keep up.
• Yagami abruptly took Kushina and Minato to the Land of Rain, where Kushina sensed the Nine-Tails Chakra and saw powerful summoned beasts fighting.
• Yagami told Kushina that more than forty Uzumaki Clan ninja had survived and were hiding in the rainforest, but Stone Ninja and Sand ninja forces had found them.
• Kushina's Nine-Tails Chakra surged, but Minato helped her steady it before she and Minato set out to aid the survivors.
• Uzumaki Yuka summoned Hell Crab against the attacking forces, then saw Kushina arrive and recognized her.

Uzumaki Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Fox helped the Uzumaki survivors defeat the Stone and Sand forces, prompting Roshi and Chiyo’s troops to retreat. After the battle, Yagami told Yuka to reveal the whole truth to Kushina, leaving her to decide how to explain the clan’s past.

• Uzumaki Kushina and Minato Namikaze joined the Uzumaki survivors in battle, while Yagami returned Yoru Uzumaki to White Glaze in the rear.
• Yoru Uzumaki watched Kushina use Nine-Tails Chakra as Minato Namikaze cut down the enemy forces.
• Roshi fought Kushina’s Tailed Beast Bombs, spotted Fox, and ordered the Stone and Sand forces to retreat.
• Roshi told Chiyo that the mission had failed because Konoha had come to the Uzumaki Clan’s aid, and Chiyo and Pakura withdrew toward Sunagakure.
• Yuka asked Yagami what she could tell Kushina, and Yagami instructed her to tell the whole truth.

Yagami revealed to Minato Namikaze the hidden history behind the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction and recruited him into the Disaster Organization. After a meeting with its members, Minato received the Flying Thunder God Technique scroll and was told he would help end the coming war.

• Minato asked Yagami whether Konoha had stood by during the Uzumaki Clan’s extermination, and Yagami explained the Shinobi World’s cycle of conflict and the reincarnations of Asura and Indra.
• Yagami invited Minato to join the Disaster Organization, and Minato agreed before entering its temple through a blood sacrifice.
• Yagami introduced Minato as Wind and Pakura as Fire to Hidan, then assigned Hidan to spread the faith and sacrifice evil souls, Pakura to delay Sunagakure, and Minato to grow stronger.
• Yagami gave Minato the forbidden technique scroll for the Flying Thunder God Technique and said it would make him the hero who ended the war.

Yagami led the Uzumaki Clan toward Konoha, but Hanzo intercepted them in the Land of Rain. Kushina fought Hanzo with the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and Yagami told Minato to study Hanzo’s Water Body Flicker Technique.

• Yagami persuaded the Uzumaki Clan to leave their hiding place and seek safety in Konoha, and the clan voted to go.
• Kushina spotted Hanzo and more than two hundred Rain Ninja blocking the group’s path.
• Yagami sent Kushina to test her training, and she struck Hanzo’s forces with a massive Rasengan.
• Hanzo recognized Kushina as Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and repeatedly evaded her attacks with Water Body Flicker.
• Yagami explained Water Body Flicker to Minato and told him to watch Hanzo use the technique.

Hanzo tested Kushina’s Nine-Tails power before Yagami stopped the fight and led the Uzumaki Clan safely through the Land of Rivers and into the Land of Fire. Konoha welcomed the survivors, who settled in the Senju Clan’s territory.

• Hanzo attacked Kushina, who countered with her Chakra Cloak and a Tailed Beast Bomb that killed dozens of Rain Ninja.
• Hanzo exploited Kushina’s hesitation and prepared to strike with Explosive Tags, but Yagami intervened and negotiated an end to the fight.
• Yagami led Kushina and the Uzumaki Clan away as Hanzo withdrew with his surviving subordinates.
• The Uzumaki Clan crossed the Land of Rivers and entered the Land of Fire, where Konoha’s border fortress supplied and escorted them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s leaders welcomed the Uzumaki Clan outside the village, and the survivors moved into the Senju Clan’s territory.

Minato mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique and received an S-rank mission to help Pakura disrupt Sunagakure’s preparations for war. After traveling to the Land of Wind, he met Pakura, who explained Rasa’s plan to weaponize Shukaku.

• Minato mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Yagami gave him a Wind Disaster Mask and assigned him to work with Pakura against Sunagakure’s war preparations.
• Minato left Konoha under a permit signed by Tsunade, used a Three Gods Cult teleportation scroll, and arrived in the Land of Wind.
• Minato contacted Pakura through the Three Gods Cult temple, and they agreed to meet outside Sunagakure.
• Pakura told Minato that Rasa intended to extract Shukaku from a high monk, seal the Tailed Beast in Shukaku’s Teakettle, and send it onto the battlefield.

Rasa visited Bunpuku to ask about a vessel that could seal Shukaku, hoping to turn the tailed beast into a weapon for Sunagakure. Bunpuku agreed to explain the sealing method but corrected Rasa: the vessel was called Bunpuku's Teakettle, and he had made it with the Second Kazekage as a backup.

• Rasa entered the temple prison and told the guards to call the old monk Master Bunpuku rather than Shukaku.
• Bunpuku let Shukaku's consciousness speak, then used sand to retrieve the teakettle and showed Rasa his control over the beast.
• Rasa told Bunpuku that Sunagakure needed to use Shukaku's power in the coming war and asked him to help weaponize the tailed beast.
• Bunpuku spoke privately with Shukaku, accepted that he could no longer protect their companionship, and hoped Shukaku would one day find someone who understood him.
• Rasa asked Bunpuku for the teakettle's sealing method, and Bunpuku corrected him that the vessel was Bunpuku's Teakettle, made with the Second Kazekage as a backup.

Bunpuku began sealing Shukaku into a teakettle outside Sunagakure, while Minato infiltrated the ceremony and broke the transfer seal. Minato rescued Bunpuku and sent Pakura to help contain Shukaku and gain influence in Sunagakure.

• Bunpuku left Sunagakure's prison, and Rasa followed him into the desert with the Barrier Team.
• Pakura used the Illusionary Blood Shadow Technique to alert the Wind of the Disaster Organization, while Minato prepared to intervene.
• Bunpuku began sealing Shukaku into the teakettle, and Rasa used Gold Dust to block Shukaku when he attacked.
• Minato disguised himself as a Sand ninja, used Flying Thunder God to reach Bunpuku, and applied the Unsealing Law Seal to break the transfer seal.
• Minato carried Bunpuku to Pakura and told her to follow Leader Lightning Disaster's plan and use the credit for sealing Shukaku to enter Sunagakure's upper ranks.

Minato destroyed Sunagakure’s Tailed Beast transfer seal, and Yagami recovered Bunpuku’s corpse and obtained the monk’s Teakettle Sealing Technique through Purple Cat. Yagami gave the technique to Pakura and urged her to find Shukaku, strengthen her position in Sunagakure, and oppose Rasa’s plans for war.

• Minato reported to Yagami that he had destroyed Sunagakure’s Tailed Beast transfer seal, and Yagami took Bunpuku’s corpse to the Anbu Base.
• Yagami asked Purple Cat to read Bunpuku’s memories and retrieve the sealing technique used to seal Shukaku in a teakettle.
• Purple Cat endured the loneliness in Bunpuku’s memories, then reported that Bunpuku and the Second Kazekage had developed the Teakettle Sealing Technique for Shukaku.
• Yagami traveled to Pakura, gave her the sealing technique, and told her to find Shukaku, claim the teakettle, build support with Chiyo, and keep Rasa from leading Sunagakure into war.
• Pakura began studying the technique as Yagami explained it, then Yagami used Wood Release to create a house in the desert and led her inside.

Yagami tracked down Shukaku in the Land of Wind and battled him to test and collect his abilities. After allowing Shukaku to kill him and reviving several days earlier, Yagami chose Sand Release: Sand Manipulation Technique and began experimenting with it.

• Yagami found Shukaku in the desert, and Shukaku attacked him with Wind Release: Void Bullet.
• Yagami countered Shukaku's Wind Release with Fire Release, then disrupted his Tailed Beast Bomb with Wood Release.
• Shukaku used Shukaku's Spear and Sand Hand against Yagami, who resisted the attacks and praised the techniques.
• Shukaku's four Sand Hands crushed Yagami, triggering the Arc of the Crescent Moon System and sending him back several days.
• Yagami chose Sand Release: Sand Manipulation Technique from the system's rewards and demonstrated that he could control sand.

Yagami defeated Shukaku with Gold Sand Severing Wave and Wood Release, allowing Pakura to seal the tailed beast in Bunpuku's Teakettle. Afterward, Pakura angrily confronted Yagami about his hidden identity, and he feared she would punish him that night.

• Yagami used Gold Sand Severing Wave to sever Shukaku's arms, then blocked Shukaku's Tailed Beast Bomb with a Sand Hand.
• Shukaku fired another Tailed Beast Bomb, but Yagami attacked with a Wood Dragon and drained Shukaku's Chakra until his body began collapsing.
• Yagami restrained Shukaku's final Tailed Beast Bomb with a Wood Release Hand and absorbed it with the Wood Dragon.
• Katsuyu Tendrils retrieved Bunpuku's Teakettle, and Pakura used the Teakettle Sealing Technique to seal Shukaku.
• Pakura demanded to know whether Yagami was Konoha's Fox or Uchiha Madara's subordinate, then threatened him as he anticipated trouble.

Yagami gave Pakura the Rhombus Seal and taught her Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere before leaving her near Sunagakure. Pakura combined the technique with Scorch Release, then arrived at the village with Shukaku sealed and demanded the leadership decide whether to let her enter.

• Yagami explained that the Rhombus Seal could store enough Chakra for ten powerful ninjutsu and help Pakura push her physical limits, while the Three Gods Cult's sacrifice could strengthen her soul.
• Yagami demonstrated that Pakura's Scorching Release Fireballs were too slow against fast opponents and taught her Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere to address the weakness.
• Yagami told Pakura to use Shukaku and Bunpuku's Teakettle to prevent Sunagakure from joining the Anti-Konoha Alliance, then returned toward Konoha.
• After mastering Vacuum Sphere, Pakura combined it with Scorch Release to create Scorch Release: Scorching Orb, a fast and destructive technique.
• Pakura reached Sunagakure carrying Bunpuku's Teakettle and announced that she had sealed Shukaku, prompting Rasa, Chiyo, Ebizo, and Advisor Maki to come out and consider her demand to enter.

Pakura became leader of Sunagakure’s Teakettle Sealing Squad and warned that Shukaku might attack the village if deployed in war. After Rasa ordered her to test his hatred, she released Shukaku, who attacked the Sand ninja, then sealed him again, leaving Sunagakure’s war preparations at a standstill.

• Pakura handed Rasa Bunpuku's Teakettle and explained that she had learned the Teakettle Sealing Technique from the Third Kazekage and developed the Scorching Release Sealing Jutsu.
• Rasa appointed Pakura leader of the Teakettle Sealing Squad, and Ebizo recommended that she become a Sunagakure advisor.
• At the Jonin Council, Pakura warned that Shukaku hated Sunagakure and might attack the village if deployed, so Maki ordered her to test his hostility and seek a way to control it.
• More than ten days later, Pakura and the Sealing Team released Shukaku outside the village, and he declared war on the Sand ninja before attacking them with Wind Release: Void Bullet.
• Rasa fought Shukaku with Gold Dust until Pakura sealed him again, and Sunagakure's preparations for war fell into a standstill.