Chapter Summaries

Chiba forced Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other elders to surrender most of the Four Great Clans’ assets, while agreeing not to target the Sarutobi Clan after becoming Hokage. The elders accepted that obedience was their only chance of survival and left the conference room at Chiba’s mercy.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen offered seventy percent of the Sarutobi Clan’s assets, but Chiba demanded ninety percent before agreeing to negotiate.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Chiba to protect the Sarutobi Clan from deliberate persecution and preserve its basic rights, and Chiba accepted the condition.
• Chiba ordered Shikaku Nara to audit the accounts and demanded eighty percent of each of the Four Great Clans’ assets within one month, threatening severe punishment for any shortfall.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura wondered whether they could hide assets or trust Chiba, but Sarutobi Hiruzen told them the audit could not be fooled and that Chiba would not bother betraying them.

Konoha’s clan heads prepared to prove themselves after Chiba assigned them major responsibilities, while Shikaku was ordered to audit the Sarutobi family’s assets. Walking through the village, Chiba found civilian children pelting a bloodied golden-haired boy with stones.

• Shikaku warned the clan heads that Chiba’s distribution of authority was a test of their competence, and they resolved to carry out their new duties well.
• Chiba ordered Shikaku to audit the Sarutobi family’s accounts for a month and transfer their confiscated funds and resources to the public treasury.
• The clan heads dispersed to prepare for their responsibilities, while Chiba walked through Konoha and sensed the village around him.
• Chiba found several civilian children throwing mud and stones at a golden-haired boy, who curled up in an alley without crying.

Chiba rescued six-year-old Uzumaki Naruto from village bullies and brought him to the Senju Compound, offering him a home and a place among family. Naruto settled in happily, and Chiba resolved to change the hardships he had endured.

• Chiba's killing intent frightened Naruto's bullies into fleeing, leaving him alone in the alley.
• Chiba asked Naruto to come live at the Senju Compound, and Naruto agreed after sensing Chiba meant him no harm.
• Two Anbu assigned to monitor Naruto saw Chiba take him away and decided to report the matter to the Third rather than interfere.
• Chiba brought Naruto to the Senju Compound, where Naruto explored, bathed, and ate a meal Chiba prepared.
• Chiba told Naruto that their Senju and Uzumaki ancestors were brothers, making them family.

The Uchiha, Hyuga, and Ino-Shika-Cho clans discussed Chiba’s new authority and decided to support his leadership. They prepared to reorganize and take on difficult duties, leaving the clans poised to help reshape Konoha under Chiba.

• Fugaku Uchiha called a clan meeting to announce that Chiba had given the Uchiha half of the village’s public security and border patrol authority.
• Shisui Uchiha challenged the elders’ suspicion of Chiba and urged the clan to prove itself, and Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to reorganize and await Chiba’s orders.
• Hiashi Hyuga told Hizashi that the Hyuga should become Chiba’s allies and ordered the clan to support him without reservation.
• Shikaku Nara explained that the Third Hokage’s faction had effectively surrendered and told the Ino-Shika-Cho clans to handle government duties and gather resources from four families within a month.

Chiba consolidated his control over Konoha and summoned Kakashi, assigning him to protect Naruto while revealing the truth about Hatake Sakumo’s death. Kakashi pledged his life to Chiba after learning that Konoha’s leaders had framed and sacrificed his father.

• Shikaku Nara led the Ino-Shika-Cho forces in seizing the assets of the Sarutobi, Shimura, Utatane, and Mitokado clans, while Aburame Shibi reported that the clans had surrendered nearly ten billion ryo and delivered files about Hatake Sakumo.
• Chiba went to the Hokage Building and ordered an Anbu operative to bring Kakashi to him.
• Chiba told Kakashi to protect Naruto, revealed Naruto’s identity as Minato Namikaze’s son, and promised to announce it when he became the Fifth Hokage.
• Chiba gave Kakashi the investigation report showing that Danzo, Root, Anbu, and Konoha’s leaders had manipulated events that led to Sakumo’s death.
• Kakashi erupted with killing intent, but Chiba restrained him and promised to honor Sakumo on the Memorial Stone; Kakashi then pledged to serve Chiba with his life.

Chiba found Tsunade gambling in the Capital of Land of Fire and urged her to return to Konoha for his Succession Ceremony. Tsunade refused for now, while Chiba told her Konoha would always be her home.

• Chiba traveled from Konoha to the capital and sensed Tsunade inside a gambling hall.
• Tsunade lost several million ryo, and Chiba paid her debt before following her out with Shizune.
• At an izakaya, Tsunade challenged Chiba over his treatment of Danzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the Four Great Clans.
• Chiba said he had come mainly to see Tsunade and invited her to attend his Succession Ceremony.
• Tsunade refused to return to Konoha, and Chiba told her the Senju Clan would rise again and Konoha would always be her home.

Chiba secured the Daimyo’s approval for a 30 percent increase in Konoha’s funding and left Tsunade behind after promising to spare Sarutobi Hiruzen if he did not cause trouble. News of Chiba’s rise spread across the Ninja World, and Rasa ordered Sunagakure to prepare for the threat from Konoha.

• The Daimyo submitted to Chiba’s demands, approved a 30 percent increase in Konoha’s funding, and watched him leave in fear.
• Tsunade refused Chiba’s invitation to return to Konoha, and Chiba promised to spare Sarutobi Hiruzen unless he caused trouble.
• Tsunade wept after Chiba left and warned Sarutobi Hiruzen not to do anything foolish.
• News of Chiba’s Wood Style, his suppression of Konoha’s leadership, and Sarutobi Hiruzen’s resignation spread throughout the Ninja World.
• Rasa learned from Baki that Konoha’s spies confirmed Chiba’s power and ordered Sunagakure to pull back its border defenses, avoid provoking Konoha, and check on Gaara’s control of the One-Tail.

Reports of Senju Qianye’s Wood Style and Konoha’s upheaval alarmed the major ninja villages. Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to stop probing the Land of Fire, the Raikage placed Kumogakure on highest-level combat readiness, and Obito realized Qianye had derailed his plans.

• Ōnoki read the report about Qianye’s Wood Style, recalled Hashirama Senju’s power, and ordered Iwagakure’s border forces to halt their probing of the Land of Fire.
• The Raikage dismissed the report as a conspiracy until Mabui confirmed Konoha’s leadership changes and the informant’s likely death, then ordered Kumogakure to prepare for combat.
• Karatachi Yagura dismissed Ao and Mei Terumi without responding to the report, and Obito emerged from behind him in a rage.
• Obito cursed Danzo’s death and recognized that Qianye’s rise and Konoha’s unity would make the Moon Eye Plan much harder to carry out.

After returning to Konoha, Chiba reviewed the clan leaders’ preparations and announced the Daimyo’s support for his succession and a thirty percent increase in military funding. He began planning a major reorganization of the village’s departments, then returned to the Senju compound, where Naruto greeted him.

• Shikaku Nara reported that the assets seized from the Sarutobi, Shimura, Utatane, and Mitokado clans were worth about three years of Konoha’s tax revenue.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Hyuga Hiashi reported that their clans had taken over patrols and expanded surveillance, while Aburame Shibi noted that some Anbu loyal to the Third generation were emotionally unstable.
• Chiba told the clan heads that the Daimyo had approved his succession and granted Konoha an additional thirty percent in military funding, then ordered them to prepare for his inauguration.
• Chiba considered how he would reorganize Konoha’s departments, including purging the Anbu, revising the Ninja Academy’s textbooks, and restructuring the Police Department.
• Chiba returned to the Senju Clan compound, where Uzumaki Naruto ran out to greet him, while Kakashi Hatake silently withdrew from his concealed post nearby.

Chiba became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage amid the villagers’ enthusiastic support and began reshaping the village’s leadership. He handed administrative and financial authority to the Ino-Shika-Cho clans, appointed Kakashi as head of Anbu and Shisui Uchiha as his deputy, and ordered them to purge Anbu’s corruption.

• Chiba arrived at the Hokage Building with Naruto and accepted the Hokage Hat from Sarutobi Hiruzen, proclaiming himself the Fifth Hokage.
• Chiba convened Konoha’s jonin and announced that the Ino-Shika-Cho clans would take over the Administrative Department and assist with village finances.
• Chiba appointed Kakashi Hatake as head of Anbu, with all Anbu operations answering directly to him.
• Chiba appointed Shisui Uchiha as Anbu deputy captain and ordered him to help Kakashi uncover and remove corruption.

Chiba reorganized Konoha’s departments and reassigned the village’s clans to duties suited to their abilities, securing their loyalty while stripping the old leadership of influence. After assigning the former ruling clans to lesser posts, he called forward the commoner Jonin Fujiwara Takeshi and recognized his battlefield record.

• Chiba placed Aburame Shibi in charge of Konoha’s intelligence and interrogation departments and its covert agents.
• Chiba dismantled the Police Department, assigned the Uchiha to internal security and emergency response, and gave the Hyuga responsibility for border patrol.
• Chiba assigned the Inuzuka, Kurama, and Gekko clans to reconnaissance, genjutsu, and assassination duties, respectively.
• Chiba assigned the Sarutobi to wall construction, academy instruction, and logistics; he sent the Shimura to clear nearby danger zones and the Utatane and Mitokado to archive and cemetery work.
• Chiba called forward Fujiwara Takeshi and praised his Lightning Release and his record of holding off four Mist Ninjas during the Third Shinobi World War.

Chiba reorganized Konoha’s leadership, ordered Root’s members dealt with, and began fulfilling his promises as Hokage. He announced that Uzumaki Naruto’s identity as Minato Namikaze’s son would be made public and that Naruto would receive the estate withheld from his parents.

• Chiba appointed Fujiwara Takeshi to reform the Ninja Academy’s practical combat courses and warned the leaders against abusing their authority.
• Shikaku Nara urged the clans to remain cautious, while Fugaku Uchiha praised Chiba’s vision and the Uchiha’s new security authority.
• Kakashi Hatake reported that Root members had been screened, with cooperative members absorbed into the Anbu and diehard loyalists returned to their clans under supervision.
• Kakashi gave Chiba Danzo’s secret files, including records of experiments and assassinations, and Chiba told Kakashi to rest before a meeting.
• Chiba told Konoha’s senior officials to reveal that Uzumaki Naruto was Minato Namikaze’s son, return the estate withheld from Naruto’s parents, and publicly explain the role of a Jinchuriki.

Chiba announced reforms to reveal Naruto's identity, clear Hatake Sakumo's name, and repay stolen shinobi pensions, while ordering a hard line toward Kumogakure's delegation. The village learned of the announcements and reacted with shock, anger, and gratitude.

• Chiba publicly declared Uzumaki Naruto the son of Minato Namikaze and ordered Konoha to stop calling Jinchuriki the Demon Fox.
• Chiba revealed that Shimura Danzō had orchestrated Hatake Sakumo's death and ordered Shikaku Nara to clear Sakumo's name.
• Chiba ordered an investigation into withheld war pensions and directed that the missing money be repaid using the Sarutobi and Shimura families' assets.
• Hyuga Hiashi informed Chiba that Kumogakure's envoys had entered the Land of Fire to seek a ceasefire, and Chiba instructed Shikaku to negotiate firmly.
• Anbu posted Chiba's announcements in Konoha's Central Plaza, where villagers condemned Danzō and celebrated the repayment of the pensions.

Naruto experienced the villagers’ sudden kindness after the Fifth Hokage’s notice condemned calling him the Demon Fox, and realized Chiba had told him the truth about being a hero’s child. Across Konoha, Kakashi saw his father’s name cleared and Chiba’s reforms bringing justice and aid to ordinary people.

• The dango shop proprietress apologized to Naruto and gave him sweets, while a vegetable seller and other villagers offered him food and a new coat.
• Naruto accepted the villagers’ gifts and wept as he realized they no longer treated him as a monster.
• At the Memorial Stone, villagers apologized for condemning the White Fang, and Kakashi felt renewed loyalty to Chiba after his father’s innocence was restored.
• Might Guy found Kakashi and said he wanted to join the Anbu, but Kakashi told him the Fifth Hokage had assigned him to train the Genin in taijutsu.
• Two Anbu delivered an elderly couple their son’s full unpaid war pension, with interest, by order of the Fifth Hokage.
• Chiba’s payments and reforms won the support of Konoha’s common people, who were ready to defend him from anyone who criticized him.

Shikaku Nara held firm against Kumogakure’s delegation, and Qianye ordered surveillance and lethal action if they caused trouble. After failing to extort Konoha, Toroi’s team planned to steal a Byakugan from the Hyuga Main Branch during a banquet.

• Toroi insulted Konoha and demanded to meet the Fifth Hokage, but Shikaku Nara insisted he negotiate with him and threatened to send the delegation away if they refused.
• Toroi backed down and followed Shikaku Nara to the conference room to discuss the ceasefire.
• Shikaku Nara reported the hostile negotiations to Qianye, who ordered Kakashi to have the Anbu watch the delegation and arrest or kill them if they acted out of line.
• Toroi and the Kumogakure Jonin concluded that their plan to extort Konoha had failed under Qianye’s leadership.
• Toroi chose the Hyuga Byakugan as their target and planned to steal it from a Main Branch member after the ceasefire banquet.

Chiba learned that Toroi and the Kumogakure delegation planned to steal the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan, so he ordered the Hyuga guards to kill any intruders on the spot. After Toroi signed Konoha’s costly ceasefire agreement, his ninjas used the banquet as cover and began leaving one by one to infiltrate the Hyuga Compound.

• Shisui Uchiha reported that Toroi’s Kumogakure team planned to infiltrate the Hyuga Main Branch Compound and steal the Byakugan.
• Chiba ordered Hyuga Hiashi to lower the guards’ vigilance and kill any Kumogakure ninja who entered the compound.
• Toroi signed Shikaku Nara’s ceasefire agreement despite its large compensation demands, while privately planning to steal the Byakugan that night.
• Konoha’s villagers celebrated the agreement as Kumogakure ninjas listened angrily from Yakiniku Q.
• At the truce banquet, Toroi and more than a dozen Kumogakure ninjas used drinking and illness as excuses to leave the hall one by one.

Konoha trapped and killed the Kumogakure ninja who infiltrated the Hyuga Compound, then sent their corpses and the ceasefire agreement back to Kumogakure as an insult. Enraged, Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure’s forces to invade the Land of Fire and destroy Konoha.

• Toroi led more than a dozen Kumogakure ninja into the Hyuga Compound to abduct Hyuga Hanabi, but Hyuga Hiashi and Konoha’s forces ambushed them.
• Kakashi killed Toroi, and the ambush wiped out every Kumogakure ninja without Konoha casualties.
• Senju Qianye ordered the corpses and ceasefire agreement sent to Kumogakure, intending to provoke the Raikage.
• Fourth Raikage A received the corpses and an insulting message demanding his head in exchange for the Byakugan.
• Despite Mabui and Dodai urging caution, Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure’s combat units to the Land of Fire border and vowed to raze Konoha.

After Kumogakure’s army advanced toward the Land of Fire, Chiba ordered Konoha’s clans to prepare to capture prisoners while he went alone to confront the Raikage and the Eight-Tails. Tsunade trusted Chiba to win, while the other great villages chose to watch the conflict from the sidelines.

• Shikaku Nara reported that Raikage A and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki were leading more than five thousand Kumogakure shinobi toward Konoha’s border.
• Chiba summoned the clan heads and ordered them to form a POW Detention Unit, saying he would face the Raikage and the Eight-Tails while they captured the surviving Kumogakure shinobi.
• Chiba silenced Hyuga Hiashi’s objection with his chakra and left for the battlefield alone.
• Shizune told Tsunade about the invasion, but Tsunade said Chiba’s Wood Style would defeat Kumogakure.
• Ōnoki decided Iwagakure would not intervene, and Kirigakure and Sunagakure also chose to wait and see how the battle unfolded.

Qianye arrived alone at the Land of Fire border to face a Kumogakure invasion and overwhelmed its forces with Wood Style and superior taijutsu. After defeating Raikage A, he used a Wood Dragon to restrain the Eight-Tails, which began losing its chakra.

• Raikage A led five thousand Kumogakure troops in an assault on Konoha's border garrison and demanded that Konoha hand over its Fifth Hokage.
• Qianye descended between the armies, scattering the front ranks and reassuring the Konoha defenders.
• Qianye used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence to block the Kumogakure attack and bind over a thousand ninja in vines.
• Raikage A charged Qianye with Lariat, but Qianye struck his elbow with Strength of a Hundred and sent him crashing into a hill.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails, and Qianye summoned a Wood Dragon that coiled around it and began draining its chakra.

Chiba defeated Killer B and the Raikage with his Wood Style and Sage Art, then led Konoha to a decisive victory over Kumogakure. With the enemy leaders and survivors captured, he looked ahead to the upheaval the battle’s news would bring across the Ninja World.

• Killer B and the Eight-Tails launched a massive Tailed Beast Bomb at Chiba, but his Wood Golem caught it and forced it back into the Eight-Tails, knocking Killer B unconscious.
• The battered Raikage charged Chiba again, so Chiba entered Sage Mode and summoned the giant Buddha with True Several Thousand Hands.
• Chiba’s wooden fists devastated the battlefield, leaving the Raikage, Killer B, and thousands of Kumogakure ninja dead, wounded, or unconscious.
• Shikaku Nara, Fugaku Uchiha, and Konoha’s prisoner collection unit arrived and saw the destruction.
• Chiba ordered the Konoha ninja to bind the Raikage, Killer B, and the surviving Kumogakure forces, securing Konoha’s victory in less than half an hour.