Chapter Summaries

As the Nine-Tails overwhelmed Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato returned with Gamabunta and transported the beast and its forming Tailed Beast Bomb outside Konoha. Hyuga Seisen's Shadow Clone worried that Minato might still face the same tragic choice as before, while Shisui resolved to reveal his Mangekyō if the Fourth Hokage could not stop the attack.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled to hold back the Nine-Tails as Shisui and Fugaku hesitated to reveal their Susanoo.
• Minato arrived with Gamabunta, who pinned the Nine-Tails down while Minato prepared to act.
• The Nine-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Minato transported it and the beast away from the village.
• A distant explosion followed, and Hiruzen realized Minato had moved the threat outside Konoha.
• Hyuga Seisen's Shadow Clone worried that Minato might still use the Reaper Death Seal, while Shisui vowed to expose his Mangekyō if necessary.

Hyuga Seisen’s original body escaped the chaotic space in the Land of Grass and received three months of memories from his Shadow Clone, learning that Minato and Kushina were facing death. He headed for Konoha as Minato brought Kushina and the infant outside the village, where Kushina used her Adamantine Sealing Chains to restrain the Nine-Tails.

• Hyuga Seisen’s Shadow Clone dissolved in front of Shisui, hoping its memories would reach the original body.
• Hyuga Seisen’s original body escaped a spatial rift in the Land of Grass, healed his injuries, and received the Shadow Clone’s memories of events in Konoha.
• Hyuga Seisen learned that Minato and Kushina were nearing death, then opened a Divine Expressway portal and stepped through it toward Konoha.
• Minato brought the barely breathing Kushina and the crying infant to the devastated forest outside Konoha after transferring the Nine-Tails and its Tailed Beast Bomb away.
• Kushina summoned her Adamantine Sealing Chains and bound the struggling Nine-Tails.

Kushina prepared to die holding back the Nine-Tails, but Minato chose to use the Reaper Death Seal and seal half of the beast into their son, Hokage. As Hiruzen and the others arrived, Minato’s life-linked barrier blocked them from intervening.

• Kushina used the Adamantine Sealing Chains to restrain the Nine-Tails and told Minato she would die with it to delay its revival.
• Minato decided to seal Kushina’s remaining chakra and wish into Hokage, then use the Reaper Death Seal to seal himself and half of the Nine-Tails while placing the other half inside their son.
• Minato said the masked man who attacked Kushina threatened the shinobi world and that Hokage could be the one to stop him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Ino–Shika–Cho clan heads, Uchiha Shisui, and elite jonin arrived and found a pale-golden barrier blocking their way.
• Choza Akimichi struck the barrier with his Multi-Size Technique: Super Open Hand, but Hiruzen warned that forcing it would transfer the backlash to Minato.

Minato Namikaze began the Reaper Death Seal despite warnings that Qingchuan was returning, determined to stop the Nine-Tails and protect Konoha. He prepared to seal the beast into his infant son, Hokage, as Kushina pleaded with him not to sacrifice himself, while the Nine-Tails fought back in rage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others urged Minato Namikaze to open the barrier, while Uchiha Shisui warned that Qingchuan's real body was on its way back.
• Minato Namikaze dismissed the warning and summoned the Reaper Death Seal, asking Hiruzen Sarutobi to bear Konoha's burden and entrusting its future to Uchiha Shisui and Qingchuan.
• Minato Namikaze told Kushina that he would seal her chakra into Hokage so she could help him control the Nine-Tails in the future.
• Kushina begged Minato Namikaze to stay and protect their son, but Minato said abandoning the village would mean abandoning their child.
• Minato Namikaze placed the wailing Hokage on the sealing altar as the Nine-Tails struggled against the Adamantine Sealing Chains and threatened to destroy the family.

Hyuga Seisen arrived during the Nine-Tails' attack and stopped its claw from striking Minato, Kushina, and their infant. He recognized the Reaper Death Seal's phantom and prepared to intervene, claiming that severing souls was his specialty.

• The Nine-Tails broke free of one of Kushina's chains and lunged at the infant as Kushina and Minato shielded their child.
• A blue energy barrier appeared behind Minato and blocked the Nine-Tails' claw.
• Hyuga Seisen emerged from a shadow inside the barrier, surprising Minato and the Konoha ninja watching outside.
• Seisen explained that a space-time monster had delayed his return and that he had built a space-time route to reach Konoha.
• Seisen saw the Reaper's phantom behind Minato and declared that he could sever souls.

Hyuga Seisen severed Minato Namikaze’s soul chain with his Seele Schneider, freeing him from the Reaper Death Seal. The Reaper attacked Seisen, but he cut off its ghost claw and warned it to back down as it prepared to strike again.

• Hyuga Seisen used his Seele Schneider to sever the soul chain binding Minato Namikaze to the Reaper.
• Minato Namikaze’s soul returned to his body, and his vitality began to recover.
• The enraged Reaper abandoned Minato and attacked Hyuga Seisen with a cursed ghost claw.
• Hyuga Seisen sliced off the Reaper’s ghost claw, and its spiritual roar injured the Konoha ninja watching outside the barrier.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized the Reaper and watched in shock as Hyuga Seisen faced it.
• The Reaper gathered power for another attack, and Hyuga Seisen warned that it would become a dead ghost if it continued.

Hyuga Seisen severed Minato Namikaze’s connection to the Reaper and drove the death spirit away, saving Minato from the Reaper Death Seal. With the Nine-Tails still rampaging and Kushina near collapse, Seisen proposed sealing only one-tenth of the fox’s chakra.

• Hyuga Seisen’s azure blade severed the Reaper’s wrist, and the Reaper retreated after warning that it would remember him.
• Minato Namikaze survived, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others rejoiced outside the barrier.
• Jiraiya returned wounded and reported that the six Rinnegan users had escaped with a masked man’s space-time ninjutsu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Jiraiya how Seisen had saved Minato and frightened away the Reaper.
• Hyuga Seisen proposed putting the Nine-Tails back inside Kushina, but Minato Namikaze explained that Kushina could no longer suppress it.
• Hyuga Seisen suggested suppressing only one-tenth of the Nine-Tails’ chakra.

Hyuga Seisen offered to become the Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki after Minato explained the risks, claiming he could keep the beast from striking its seal. The Nine-Tails broke most of Kushina’s chains and attacked Seisen, who stopped its claw with powerful spirit-particle chains.

• Minato explained that sealing the Nine-Tails’ remaining ninety percent required a vessel with a special bloodline and enormous chakra.
• Hyuga Seisen volunteered to become the Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki and said he had a way to keep it from striking the seal.
• The Nine-Tails overheard them discussing how to divide and seal it, then erupted in fury.
• The Nine-Tails broke most of Kushina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains and swung its freed claw at Seisen.
• Hyuga Seisen sent blue-white chains of spirit particles from his shadow, binding the Nine-Tails and stopping its claw just short of his head.

Hyuga Seisen severed the Nine-Tails’ right foreclaw with the Seele Schneider, and it transformed into a living lesser Nine-Tails. Kushina and Minato Namikaze began sealing the one-tenth fragment into her, but Kushina was already reaching her limit as the fragment fiercely resisted.

• Hyuga Seisen healed Kushina, then told her to bind the Nine-Tails’ severed claw and instructed Minato Namikaze to prepare an Eight Trigrams Seal for one-tenth of the beast.
• Hyuga Seisen enlarged the Seele Schneider and cut off the Nine-Tails’ right foreclaw.
• The severed claw transformed into a miniature Nine-Tails, shocking Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Kushina bound the lesser Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains and began pulling it into her body while Minato Namikaze supported the sealing.
• The lesser Nine-Tails resisted with its chakra, and Kushina weakened as the struggle reached a deadlock.

Hyuga Seisen helped Kushina and Minato Namikaze seal the Nine-Tails’ miniature form back inside her, saving her life. He then had Minato lower the barrier and faced the enraged Nine-Tails alone, insisting he wanted to talk to it.

• Hyuga Seisen bound the miniature Nine-Tails with Spirit Particle Chains, allowing Kushina to pull it into her seal while Minato Namikaze completed the Eight Trigrams Seal.
• Kushina fainted but survived, and Minato confirmed that she and Hokage were safe as Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others celebrated.
• Hyuga Seisen turned toward the Nine-Tails and declared that it was its turn.
• ANBU arrived with reports about the village’s fires, evacuation, and casualties, while Hyuga Go and the Sternritter members gathered outside the barrier.
• Hyuga Seisen asked Minato Namikaze to lower the barrier so he could talk to the Nine-Tails, and Minato trusted him and complied.
• Hyuga Seisen sent Minato, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Hyuga Go, and the others away, preparing to face the Nine-Tails alone.

Hyuga Seisen released the Nine-Tails’ restraints and told it not to break the seal he planned to use. When the Nine-Tails immediately attacked, Seisen repelled its claw and revealed a vast, radiant spirit-particle construct.

• Hyuga Ryosuke pulled Hyuga Go away as the Konoha ninja retreated, leaving Hyuga Seisen alone before the Nine-Tails.
• Hyuga Seisen told the Nine-Tails he would seal it and demanded that it not try to break free.
• The Nine-Tails agreed to talk if Seisen removed its restraints, intending to kill him once it was free.
• Hyuga Seisen snapped his fingers and turned the Spirit Particle Chains binding the Nine-Tails into motes of light that returned to him.
• The freed Nine-Tails struck at Seisen, but its claw was flung away as a towering pillar and enormous wheel of spirit light appeared around him.

Hyuga Seisen transformed into Vollständig and challenged the Nine-Tails to defeat him for its freedom. As the Nine-Tails prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb, Seisen struck its forehead with overwhelming force, leaving the beast’s skull cracking.

• Hyuga Seisen activated Vollständig, drawing in the surrounding spirit particles and preventing even the Sternritter from using Spirit Particle Gathering.
• Hyuga Seisen offered to let the Nine-Tails go if it defeated him, provoking the beast into preparing a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Hyuga Seisen rose into the sky and overloaded Blut Arterie by pulling spirit particles from thousands of meters around him.
• Hyuga Seisen dove through the Tailed Beast Bomb’s vortex and struck the Nine-Tails’ forehead with his palm.
• Hyuga Seisen drove the Nine-Tails’ head downward, cracking its skull with the force of his blow.

Hyuga Seisen crushed the Nine-Tails into the ground and evaded its furious counterattack while Konoha's shinobi watched from behind Minato's barrier. The Nine-Tails' tail storm continued, but Seisen remained beyond its reach.

• Hyuga Seisen slammed the Nine-Tails headfirst into the bedrock, triggering an explosion and creating a massive crater.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi allowed the Konoha shinobi to watch, and Minato raised a barrier to protect them from the battle's aftershocks.
• The injured Nine-Tails climbed out of the crater and attacked Hyuga Seisen with all nine tails.
• Hyuga Seisen darted through the Nine-Tails' tail storm, evading each strike with extraordinary speed.

Hyuga Seisen used overwhelming speed and physical force to batter the Nine-Tails, leaving it unable to land a single blow. As the Nine-Tails searched for an explanation for its helplessness, it recalled how its enormous size had hindered it against skilled opponents.

• Hyuga Seisen dodged the Nine-Tails' attack, appeared atop its head, and punched it across the face.
• Hyuga Seisen moved too quickly for the Nine-Tails to track and struck it repeatedly from every direction.
• The Nine-Tails lashed out with its tails and claws, but its attacks hit only the ground and empty air.
• Jiraiya, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, and the Sternritter watched in shock as Hyuga Seisen overwhelmed the Nine-Tails.
• The Nine-Tails recalled Uchiha Madara's evasive movement and realized its huge body had also made it vulnerable against skilled opponents.

The Nine-Tails compressed its massive body into a faster, more powerful humanoid form and challenged Hyuga Seisen. Their battle then accelerated beyond the shinobi’s ability to follow, leaving the fight raging in the night sky.

• The Nine-Tails realized its size made it too slow to hit Uchiha Madara and compressed its chakra into a humanoid combat form.
• Jiraiya identified the transformation, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the shinobi behind the barrier watched in disbelief.
• The transformed Nine-Tails told Hyuga Seisen that they were now equals and launched a lightning-fast claw strike.
• Hyuga Seisen caught and redirected the Nine-Tails’ claw, then both fighters vanished into a series of midair clashes.
• An ANBU member and a Byakugan user failed to track the fighters, as a nearby hill split apart from the force of their battle.

Hyuga Seisen and the Nine-Tails exchanged devastating blows, with Seisen overpowering it in close combat. The Nine-Tails then switched tactics and unleashed a rapid barrage of compressed Mini Tailed Beast Bombs at Seisen.

• The Nine-Tails struck Hyuga Seisen through several mountains, but Seisen emerged uninjured and charged back at it.
• Hyuga Seisen punched through the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak and sent it crashing across the battlefield.
• The Nine-Tails compressed its Tailed Beast Bombs into smaller, faster projectiles and fired them at Seisen.
• The Nine-Tails unleashed hundreds of Mini Tailed Beast Bombs, filling the sky with explosions and straining Minato Namikaze's barrier.

Hyuga Seisen evaded the Nine-Tails’ barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs and answered with powerful arrows formed from spirit particles. The Nine-Tails began firing while sprinting, turning the battle into a contest of speed and reaction that remained unresolved.

• Hyuga Seisen predicted the trajectories of the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bombs and flew through the barrage unharmed.
• Hyuga Seisen formed a blue Spirit Bow and fired an arrow that narrowly missed the Nine-Tails before destroying a distant mountain.
• The Nine-Tails recognized the arrows’ speed and power, then began sprinting while firing Tailed Beast Bombs at Hyuga Seisen from shifting angles.
• Hyuga Seisen evaded the moving barrage and fired arrows that forced the Nine-Tails to dodge in midair.
• Hyuga Seisen and the Nine-Tails continued exchanging attacks as explosions and collapsing mountains engulfed the battlefield.

Hyuga Seisen and the Nine-Tails carried their high-speed battle into the Sarutobi Clan’s farmland, destroying crops and reshaping the landscape. After sustaining wounds and realizing it was losing the ranged exchange, the Nine-Tails decided it had to close the distance and attack at close range.

• The Nine-Tails abruptly charged southwest toward Konoha, and Hyuga Seisen pursued it while firing soul-chasing arrows.
• A Sarutobi jonin recognized the battlefield was approaching the Sarutobi Clan’s farmland and begged Hiruzen Sarutobi to stop the fight, but Hiruzen felt powerless to intervene.
• The Nine-Tails and Hyuga Seisen continued their bombardment across dozens of kilometers, devastating farmland, mountains, and rivers.
• The Nine-Tails stopped after suffering numerous wounds that blue spirit energy kept from healing.
• The Nine-Tails concluded it was losing the ranged battle and resolved to get close to Hyuga Seisen.

Hyuga Seisen summoned hundreds of Quincy Crosses and used their relentless attacks to overwhelm the Nine-Tails. He then formed the crosses into a destructive sphere around the trapped beast and prepared to detonate it.

• Hyuga Seisen dismissed his Spirit Bow and summoned hundreds of glowing Quincy Crosses.
• Hyuga Seisen sent the crosses after the Nine-Tails, whose moving weapons fired Reishi Light Needles and pierced through its chakra cloak.
• The Nine-Tails tried to fight back with Tailed Beast Bombs, but the crosses kept attacking from all directions and slowed it with erasure wounds.
• Hyuga Seisen gathered the crosses into a patterned sphere that imprisoned the Nine-Tails.
• Hyuga Seisen clenched his hand and ordered the sphere to explode.

The Nine-Tails survived Hyuga Seisen’s attack and aimed a full-power Tailed Beast Bomb at Konoha to force him to choose between the village and facing the blast. Seisen countered with his Stardust bow, and their attacks collided in a catastrophic burst of white light, leaving the battlefield’s outcome unclear.

• The Nine-Tails restored its colossal form to survive Seisen’s attack but was left gravely wounded and unable to heal.
• The Nine-Tails charged a full-power Tailed Beast Bomb and aimed it at Konoha, forcing Seisen to intervene.
• Seisen gathered spirit particles and formed Stardust, a giant bow and arrow, then positioned himself between the Nine-Tails and Konoha.
• The Nine-Tails fired its Tailed Beast Bomb as Seisen released Stardust, and the two attacks collided in a collapsing point of light before detonating.
• Minato Namikaze, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the other ninja reinforced the barrier, but the shockwave shattered it and hurled them away.
• As the white light faded, the battered defenders struggled up and looked toward the center of the battlefield.