Chapter Summaries

Hashirama and Tobirama secured a peace agreement among the five nations, and the world’s fighting quickly subsided. As Hashirama celebrated the new peace, Tobirama warned that Madara and the unexplained disappearances of Mingye and Izuna could still threaten Konoha.

• Hashirama’s appeal for peace silenced the Kage, and Tobirama negotiated terms that led the Raikage, Mizukage, Tsuchikage, and Kazekage to sign the agreement.
• The five nations settled the tailed-beast prices, and ninja conflicts nearly vanished after the Kage returned to their villages.
• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the peace’s uncertain duration and Konoha’s need for official recognition from the Daimyo.
• Tobirama warned that Madara possessed the Nine-Tails, and Hashirama said he would try to persuade Madara and investigate who killed Mingye and Izuna.
• Tobirama explained that Zhanye’s leaked route did not account for the brothers’ disappearances, and Hashirama tasked him with investigating while urging him to find a partner.

Mingye spent years studying ninjutsu and taking low-risk missions while quietly pursuing his own plans. After meeting Sarutobi Hiruzen in a ramen shop, he left before Senju Tobirama arrived, and Tobirama learned that Mingye had been there drawing maps again.

• Mingye studied ninjutsu at the Ninjutsu Pavilion, and Sarutobi Hiruzen offered to bring him chakra paper.
• Mingye told Kakuzu to retrieve the weapons from Seimei’s grave, and Kakuzu chose to see whether they could be reforged.
• Ten years later, Mingye traveled alone on B-rank missions while searching unsuccessfully for three divine artifacts.
• Mingye met Sarutobi Hiruzen in a ramen shop, discussed his chūnin rank and Tobirama’s bid to become Second Hokage, then left.
• Senju Tobirama arrived and questioned Hiruzen about Mingye, while Shimura Danzō and Utatane Koharu joined them and discussed Mingye’s missions.

Mingye investigated unexpected strength among Konoha’s shinobi and attacked Senju Hashirama’s son to test his suspicions. With Kakuzu’s help, he then abducted the First Kazekage from Sunagakure, leaving his motives unclear.

• Mitokado Homura discussed Wu’s valuable mapmaking missions with his classmates, and Mingye slipped away after overhearing them.
• Senju Hashirama told Uzumaki Mito that he supported the Hokage’s ten-year term but did not want Senju Tobirama to succeed him.
• Mingye returned to Konoha, noticed something amiss about the woman carrying baby Tsunade, and sensed that Hashirama’s son had unusually strong chakra.
• Mingye ambushed Hashirama’s son at an Anbu training ground, overwhelming the guards and leaving the boy badly injured.
• Kakuzu infiltrated Sunagakure and drew the First Kazekage’s attention, allowing Mingye to use his Mangekyō Sharingan to pull the Kazekage away with space-time ninjutsu.

Mingye tested his power against the First Kazekage, trapping him in Tsukuyomi, while Madara returned to Konoha and learned that Mingye’s eyes had been hidden in the Uchiha compound. Hashirama received Madara’s letter and left alone, believing his departure was necessary for the village.

• Mingye fought the First Kazekage, matched his Wind Release, and trapped him in Tsukuyomi, where he began torturing him.
• At Konoha Hospital, Uzumaki Mito told Hashirama and Tobirama that Madara had returned with overwhelming malice.
• Madara entered Konoha, registered at the gate, and told the Uchiha that the village belonged to everyone.
• Uchiha Feng told Madara that the clan would side with Konoha in a conflict and revealed that Mingye’s eyes had been hidden in the study for more than ten years.
• Hashirama defended Madara’s intentions to Tobirama, then received a handwritten letter from Madara through Uchiha Feng.
• After reading the letter, Hashirama said goodbye to Uzumaki Mito and left alone, calling it the value of his existence.

Madara led Hashirama away from Konoha and challenged him to a fight, declaring that he wanted Hashirama dead so he could destroy the world Hashirama cared about. Their battle escalated into a clash between Hashirama’s Sage Mode Wood Release and Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo, while Wu watched from afar and felt powerless.

• Madara and Hashirama left Konoha together and spent five days walking to the seaside, where Madara questioned the world and recalled their childhood convictions.
• Madara told Hashirama he had abandoned everything for power and wanted him dead, then attacked with Fire Release as Hashirama defended himself with Wood Release.
• Madara summoned the Nine-Tails and covered it with Susanoo armor, while Hashirama used Wood Release techniques and the Sage Method to fight back.
• Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands as Madara revealed his Complete Body Susanoo, and their clash devastated the surrounding land and sea.
• Wu watched the battle with his disciples from a distant mountain and felt his will to fight shatter.

Hashirama battled Madara as Madara wielded powers beyond the Sharingan, while Uchiha Feng ordered his clan to relocate after reading a letter for ten years. Hashirama received two mysterious ninjutsu and trapped Madara with a Wood Style technique, but Madara summoned twin meteors and left Hashirama struggling to survive.

• The Nine-Tails and Madara fought Hashirama's Wood Style attacks until Madara used Limbo: Border Jail to pierce Hashirama with an invisible strike.
• Hashirama subdued the Nine-Tails with Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands, but Madara kept gaining the advantage with unfamiliar techniques.
• Uchiha Feng ordered the clan to relocate, burned the letter he had read for ten years, and declared that no one would know who had sacrificed for Konoha.
• A mysterious voice gave Hashirama information about two ninjutsu, and Hashirama used Sage Method Divine Art: Wood-Binding Eternal Burial to trap Madara underground.
• Madara summoned two meteors with Tengai Shinsei; they shattered Hashirama's Wood Golems and struck him as he raised replacements to block the falling debris.

After Hashirama and Madara mortally wounded each other, Hashirama reflected on Madara’s motives while Tobirama questioned the Uchiha Clan’s past choices. Ten years later, Uchiha Feng gathered the clan representatives to push for a long-delayed decision, and the chapter left them facing his proposal.

• Hashirama used a sealing art to immobilize Madara, but Madara pierced Hashirama’s chest before they both fell into the sea, where Hashirama survived and Madara sank.
• Hashirama told Tobirama he would learn why Madara attacked him from Mingye, while Tobirama wondered what the Uchiha Clan had sought by yielding the tailed beasts and supporting peace.
• Ten years later, Uchiha Feng announced he was withdrawing from the Hokage contest as Hashirama and Tobirama joined clan representatives in a council meeting.
• Sarutobi Sasuke recalled that Feng had asked for his support three days earlier, presenting a letter signed by Mingye as they discussed the Uchiha Clan’s lost strength and Konoha’s circumstances.

Uchiha Feng used a clan council vote to reestablish the Elder Council and limit the Hokage’s authority, while Senju Hashirama accepted the outcome. Mingye revealed that Hashirama yielded because he was dying and wanted Senju Tobirama to succeed him with less resistance, then ordered Feng to stop expanding the plan.

• Uchiha Feng told Sarutobi Sasuke that he intended to restore the Elder Council and warned him not to forget old ties.
• At a gathering of clan representatives, Uchiha Feng proposed sharing the Hokage’s administrative burden and restoring clan elders’ role in choosing the Hokage.
• Senju Hashirama agreed to a vote after Uchiha Feng invoked the tailed beasts and Madara’s past attack, and the proposal passed with support from multiple clans and Sarutobi Sasuke.
• A butterfly carried Mingye’s message to Uchiha Feng, telling him that Senju Hashirama had yielded because he was dying and wanted Senju Tobirama to face less resistance as his successor.
• Mingye ordered Uchiha Feng to halt further action and protect what the clan had gained, while Feng reflected on how Mingye had directed his actions for eight years.

Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama learned that Uchiha Mingye’s old letter had resurfaced, while Mingye infiltrated Iwagakure and challenged the First Tsuchikage. Their battle continued in Mingye’s dimension, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.

• Uzumaki Mito brought Senju Hashirama a letter delivered by Namikaze Nobuhide, and she identified its handwriting as Uchiha Mingye’s.
• Senju Tobirama found that the letter’s seal had been opened recently, and Senju Hashirama feared that Mingye was still alive.
• The First Tsuchikage joked with Ōnoki about Iwagakure’s sacred stone and spoke to him about willpower.
• Mingye emerged from the shadows and declared that he had come to take the First Tsuchikage’s head, then knocked Ōnoki unconscious.
• Mingye pulled the First Tsuchikage into his dimensional world and attacked him with ninjutsu, but the First Tsuchikage evaded and countered his assaults.
• Mingye’s blade struck the First Tsuchikage after space distorted behind him, sending the petrified old man crashing to the ground without wounding him.

Mingye defeated the First Tsuchikage and used his death to advance a plan for war between the great nations. In his hidden cave, Madara learned that Mingye had wielded the Spear of Nunoboko and began seeking an Uzumaki who could help restore him through the Rinne Rebirth Technique.

• Mingye incapacitated Ōnoki with his Mangekyō Sharingan and took the First Tsuchikage's body to his secret base.
• Mingye told Kakuzu he planned to provoke a war by making the Tsuchikage's death appear connected to Byakuren and arranging further tailed-beast captures.
• Black Zetsu revived Madara enough for him to sit up and showed him a stone fragment from Mingye's body, identifying the Spear of Nunoboko as its cause.
• Madara asked about Izuna, then reaffirmed his pact with Black Zetsu to resurrect Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and kill the Sage of Six Paths.
• Madara proposed finding an Uzumaki outside Konoha to awaken the Rinnegan and use the Rinne Rebirth Technique to restore him.

Mingye learned that Hozuki Gengetsu had arranged Byakuren’s death and sent Kakuzu to inflame tensions in the Land of Water while recruiting dead ninjas, especially Yuki Clan boys. Back in Konoha, he met Senju Tobirama with an amnesiac white-haired child and reflected on Konoha’s weakened Hokage authority as he continued preparing to trigger the First Shinobi World War through Hashirama’s death.

• Black Zetsu left Madara in the cave after promising to handle matters and urging him to watch the bigger picture.
• Mingye received Kakuzu’s report that Byakuren had been killed in a Hozuki Clan rebellion that Hozuki Gengetsu later crushed.
• Mingye ordered Kakuzu to disguise himself as a Kekkei Genkai user, kill civilians in the Land of Water, and secretly recruit dead ninjas, with Yuki Clan boys as targets.
• Mingye returned to Konoha and met Senju Tobirama, who was carrying a white-haired child he had found among the dead and brought back to the village.
• Senju Tobirama told Mingye about the child’s parents and Konoha’s dangers, while Mingye considered the clans’ growing power and his plan to start the First Shinobi World War after Hashirama’s death.

Mingye secured a post as administrator of Konoha’s Ninjutsu Pavilion while secretly pursuing his own plans. Elsewhere, Hozuki Gengetsu negotiated with a merchant over supplies and a future war, then Mingye and Kakuzu ambushed the Kirigakure Anbu sent after them.

• Tobirama appointed Mingye to organize and guard Konoha’s Ninjutsu Pavilion, and Mingye pretended to be overjoyed.
• Wu identified Kirigakure as the suspected attacker behind the First Tsuchikage’s disappearance and vowed to bathe it in blood after Hashirama died.
• A merchant offered Hozuki Gengetsu weapons, grain, and deeds to twenty-seven islands in exchange for an alliance with the Land of Fire in a future war.
• Hozuki Gengetsu agreed to consider the merchant’s request after the promised goods arrived and ordered Anbu to verify the supplies.
• Mingye revealed himself as the carriage driver, and his skeletal warrior killed the Kirigakure Anbu who ambushed them; Kakuzu questioned him about the killings.

Mingye explained to Kakuzu that he had engineered political chaos to provoke a devastating war among the Five Great Nations, then met with Uchiha Feng after summoning him to the Forest of Death. Feng ended the chapter kneeling in fear before Mingye, who praised his leadership of the Uchiha Clan.

• Mingye told Kakuzu that he had caused the old man's death and supplied Hozuki Gengetsu to destabilize the nations and provoke war.
• Mingye revealed that he wanted at least ten thousand casualties so he and Kakuzu could control the resulting chaos.
• Uchiha Feng gave Kagami Uchiha the clan head's token and told him to consider becoming the next clan head.
• Mingye summoned Uchiha Feng to the Forest of Death, where Feng recognized him and became immobilized with fear.
• Mingye praised Feng's leadership and restraint as Feng fell to his knees before him.

Mingye killed Uchiha Feng to protect his identity and keep control of the Uchiha Clan, while Senju Hashirama urged Sarutobi Sasuke to preserve stability before his death. After Hashirama’s funeral, Senju Tobirama rejected family ties and became Hokage as Uzumaki Mito and Namikaze Nobuhide discussed the clans’ control over Konoha.

• Mingye stabbed Uchiha Feng, explained that Feng had completed his role as clan head and knew his identity, then burned his body to ashes.
• Senju Hashirama told Sarutobi Sasuke that Feng had disappeared and asked him to help maintain peace, revealing that he had little time left and that Tobirama’s appointment as Second Hokage was settled.
• Sarutobi Sasuke agreed to consider Hashirama’s request to moderate Konoha’s internal conflicts.
• At Hashirama’s funeral, Senju Tobirama mourned alone on Kage Rock, drank sake, and fell asleep in the rain until Uzumaki Mito sheltered him.
• Senju Tobirama rejected Uzumaki Mito’s invitation to return home, declaring that he was now Konoha’s Hokage rather than a member of the Senju Clan.
• Uzumaki Mito warned Namikaze Nobuhide that the Hokage had lost real authority, and Nobuhide said Tobirama would suffer if he tried to reclaim it by force.

Mingye declared his intention to exterminate the Otsutsuki family and kill Tobirama as Konoha’s political and military crises worsened. As Iwagakure and the Sand Ninja fought in the Land of Rain, Mingye predicted the Sand Ninja would prevail and observed their leader, Monzaemon.

• Namikaze Nobuhide dismissed Uzumaki Mito’s challenge and claimed that even the strongest dam could be overcome.
• Mingye visited Hashirama’s cenotaph, vowed revenge on the Otsutsuki family, and announced he would kill Tobirama.
• Hyuga Tianren refused Tobirama’s request for more ninja, citing the clans’ lack of support for Tobirama’s policies.
• After hearing that Iwagakure and the Sand Ninja were fighting in the Land of Rain, Tobirama ordered three thousand ninja to mobilize.
• Mingye told Kakuzu that the Sand Ninja’s puppet forces would give them the advantage, while Monzaemon sensed Mingye nearby and rallied his forces.

Monzaemon led the Sand puppeteers in an assault on a Stone stronghold, where he fought Kakuzu before Mingye ambushed him. Monzaemon unleashed his final technique against Mingye, while Chiyo rushed to defend her sensei.

• Monzaemon rallied the Sand ninjas and led the puppeteers in breaking through the Stone stronghold's gates and taking its walls.
• Kakuzu attacked Monzaemon, but the two fought to a standstill as Monzaemon's puppets wore him down.
• A general delivered the Daimyo's Hokage decree to Senju Tobirama, who taught Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, Shimura Danzō, and Mitokado Homura about the burden of the Hokage's role.
• Mingye ambushed Monzaemon, cut off one of his arms with Susanoo, and destroyed the puppets Chiyo sent to protect him.
• Monzaemon used Puppet Secret Technique: Heavenly Multitude Annihilation, sending wooden spikes and a massive blade of puppet fragments at Mingye, who met the attack head-on with Susanoo.

Mingye returned to Konoha after killing Monzaemon, while the war in the Land of Rain continued to devastate civilians and draw Konoha into the fighting. Senju Tobirama captured Chiyo and other enemy ninja, then demanded that Sunagakure and Iwagakure withdraw.

• Monzaemon used a life-draining secret technique to attack Mingye, but died after Mingye withstood the assault and burned his body.
• Mingye returned to Konoha and visited Orochimaru’s family, where he watched Orochimaru enjoy a warm evening at home.
• Senju Tobirama and Sarutobi Hiruzen found a village of dead civilians, and Tobirama ordered Konoha ninja to pursue those responsible.
• Senju Tobirama captured Chiyo and swept up the surrounding Sunagakure and Iwagakure ninja, then sent two survivors to demand their nations withdraw from the Land of Rain.
• Shimura Danzō urged Tobirama to weaken the enemy by killing prisoners, but Tobirama insisted Konoha should prevent war rather than prolong it.
• Chiyo taunted Tobirama and vowed that Konoha would fall, while revealing her bitterness over Monzaemon’s death.

Mingye arranged to take in the orphaned Orochimaru while pursuing his own plans, and Tobirama secured Kirigakure’s support to end the war in the Land of Rain. The war ended in Konoha’s victory, and Tobirama mourned the heavy losses at the memorial cemetery as Mingye arrived.

• Tobirama led Konoha’s retreat after confronting Chiyo, while Mingye had Kakuzu kill the rogue ninja who attacked Orochimaru’s parents and erase the evidence.
• Mingye gained permission to adopt Orochimaru and encouraged him to remember his parents and pursue peace as a future Hokage.
• Mingye failed to break through the Ninjutsu Pavilion’s sealed top floor, where he hoped to find Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama agreed to give Kirigakure control over the sea in exchange for its support against the Iwa ninja led by Wu.
• Konoha drove Suna and Iwa from the Land of Rain after three months of fighting, though only a little over eighteen hundred of its three thousand ninja returned.
• Tobirama stood alone at the Ninja Memorial Cemetery until dawn, and Mingye arrived carrying carnations.

Mingye honored his fallen friends, then manipulated Kinkaku and Ginkaku into preparing for war against Konoha. He and Kakuzu discussed how Konoha’s likely retaliation could destroy Kumogakure, and Mingye hinted that someone was about to die.

• Mingye told Senju Tobirama that he had adopted Orochimaru and declined an offer to become a teacher, then secretly destroyed the flowers at the memorial.
• The Second Tsuchikage and Second Mizukage died together, while Kumogakure advanced to the Land of Fire’s border and Senju Tobirama weighed war against peace.
• Mingye, disguised and carrying a stolen Kumogakure token, warned Kinkaku and Ginkaku that the Second Raikage wanted peace talks.
• Mingye killed himself in front of Kinkaku and Ginkaku, whose anger over Konoha’s past attack led them to decide to prepare for war.
• Mingye told Kakuzu that Kumogakure could not withstand Konoha’s counterattack and predicted that someone would soon meet his death.

Mingye arranged to kill the Second Raikage by eliminating Konoha’s spies and steering Tobirama toward a secret alliance meeting. After Tobirama departed for the Land of Lightning, Mingye watched Konoha’s exit with Kakuzu and revealed that his mint candy had poisoned Hiruzen’s father.

• Mingye ordered Kakuzu to kill Konoha’s spies in the Land of Lightning so Tobirama would believe the area was safe and travel there.
• The Second Raikage agreed to an alliance with Konoha, and Tobirama promised to travel to Kumogakure to sign the treaty.
• Mingye gave mint candy to Hiruzen, who revealed that Tobirama might soon lead a mission to the Land of Lightning.
• Mingye warned Hiruzen that the alliance could be a trap, but Tobirama defended his decision and left with Hiruzen.
• Mingye watched Konoha’s northeastern exit with Kakuzu and said that his poison had killed Hiruzen’s father.