Chapter Summaries

Hagoromo and Hamura sealed Kaguya on the moon, but Wuye intervened to retrieve her soul before Hamura could stop him. Kaguya awakened in Wuye’s sister’s body and spoke his name.

• Hagoromo and Hamura appeared, restrained Kaguya, and sealed her inside a newly formed moon.
• Hagoromo chose to remain on Earth while Hamura went to guard Kaguya on the moon, then the brothers began sealing the Ten-Tails.
• Wuye flew to the moon and used his spiritual light to draw Kaguya’s soul out, while Hamura attacked him.
• Wuye awakened a six-tomoe eye ability and teleported away with Kaguya, narrowly evading Hamura’s attack.
• Kaguya’s soul entered Wuye’s sister’s body, and she opened her eyes and spoke Wuye’s name.

Wuye rescued Kaguya from Hamura Ōtsutsuki’s attack, but Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki awakened his Rinnegan and unleashed the Ten-Tails against them. At the Dragon Vein, Wuye learned that he could not take Kaguya’s and Kotone’s souls to his spacetime, and Kotone chose to reincarnate so she could meet him again in the future.

• Wuye used his right-eye ability to move Hamura in front of Kaguya, who killed him with All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Hagoromo witnessed Hamura’s death, awakened the Rinnegan and a forehead Sharingan, and attacked Wuye with the Ten-Tails covered in Susanoo armor.
• Wuye carried Kaguya away, rescued Kotone from the capital of Other Country, and evaded the Ten-Tails’ blasts as he searched for the Dragon Vein.
• Slug and the others prepared the Dragon Vein, but Gamamaru warned Wuye that he could not take souls belonging to that spacetime.
• Wuye learned that Kaguya and Kotone would have to enter the River of Souls and reincarnate to leave, and Kotone chose to go to the future and see him again.

Wuye sent Kaguya’s and Kotone’s souls toward reincarnation in the future, promising to find them again and preserve Kotone’s body. He learned that Gamamaru and the other creatures came from a hundred years in the future and that the Dragon Vein was part of a time loop before they prepared to leave.

• Wuye extracted Kaguya’s soul and stored her body, promising to wake her in the future.
• Kotone accepted losing her life and memories to go to the future with Wuye and Kaguya, and Wuye extracted her soul while preserving her body.
• Wuye released Kaguya’s and Kotone’s souls and asked Kaguya to wait for him and Kotone to believe they would meet again.
• Gamamaru explained that it and the other creatures came from a hundred years in the future, and that the Dragon Vein would disappear from this era when they returned.
• Gamamaru told Wuye that the events formed a time loop shaped by Wuye’s own future influence.
• Wuye instructed Gamamaru to guide Jiraiya when they met in the future, and Gamamaru agreed.

Wuye returned from the past to find Uchiha Mikoto, Hinata, and Hanabi had come back from the future, while Mikoto privately asked to speak with him after they returned home. The group reached Konoha, where Konan and Uchiha Izumi welcomed them.

• Wuye stepped into the Dragon Vein, and Gamamaru, the Slug, and the little white snake escaped Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki by vanishing with it.
• Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki found the crater where they had disappeared and left the task of hunting Kaguya Otsutsuki to his and Hamura's descendants.
• A thousand years later, Wuye returned and reunited with Uchiha Mikoto, Hinata, and Hanabi, learning that Mikoto had gone to the future while the girls had traveled to the past.
• Mikoto said she had something to tell Wuye alone, and he carried her, Hinata, and Hanabi back to Konoha by flying.
• Konan greeted Wuye at home, and Uchiha Izumi helped him change out of his cloak.

Wuye brought Hanabi and Hinata to speak with their parents about his relationship with them, but he could not reveal that their connection to his sister’s soul was involved. Hinata refused to hear the explanation, leaving Wuye and her parents facing an unresolved choice.

• At dinner, Kushina, Konan, and Mikoto urged Wuye to honor his feelings for Hanabi and Hinata and speak with their parents.
• Wuye took Hanabi and Hinata next door to meet Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Suzu, then privately discussed the situation with them.
• Hyuga Suzu asked whether Wuye wanted the girls because of his sister or because he genuinely wanted them, and Wuye could not bring himself to explain the connection to his sister’s soul.
• After Wuye called Hanabi and Hinata back into the room to explain the matter, Hinata asked whether they might change their minds and declared that she did not want to hear it.

Wuye told Hinata and Hanabi that they each carried half of his sister Kaguya’s soul, revealing that their souls could be reunited to bring her back. He reassured the girls that he would not make them die or become Kaguya, and said he wanted them to coexist.

• Hinata said she did not want to learn anything that might destroy her present happiness, and Hanabi supported her.
• Wuye decided to tell Hinata and Hanabi the truth rather than leave them with false happiness.
• Wuye revealed that Kaguya had left on the night Hinata and Hanabi were born and that he had deeply loved his sister.
• Wuye explained that Hinata and Hanabi each carried half of Kaguya’s soul, but would remain themselves unless their souls reunited in Kaguya’s body.
• Hanabi accused Wuye of intending to sacrifice them to revive Kaguya, but Wuye denied it and said he wanted them to coexist.

Wuye told Hanabi and Hinata that reviving Kaguya would require them to share her body and divide their waking time, leaving them to decide whether to accept. After Wuye left, Mikoto proposed that she and Kushina swap identities to see whether Wuye could tell them apart.

• Wuye explained that he could revive Kaguya by transferring Hanabi and Hinata's souls into her body, with the three taking turns being awake.
• Hanabi asked what would happen if she and Hinata refused, and Wuye said he would awaken Kaguya while they slept.
• Wuye asked Hiashi and Ling to let Hanabi and Hinata make their own choice, then left them to think it over.
• Mikoto suggested that she and Kushina use the Transformation Technique to swap identities and test which of them Wuye would recognize first.
• Kushina postponed the identity swap because she wanted to be herself with Wuye that night, while Mikoto insisted on adding excitement to their relationship.

Wuye spent the morning with Mikoto after she asked him to devote a day to her. At the former Uchiha compound, Mikoto reflected on the clan’s destruction and revealed that the Great Elder had encouraged her to get close to Wuye.

• Wuye woke beside Kushina, Mikoto, and Konan, and he and Mikoto quietly waited for the others to leave.
• Mikoto asked Wuye to spend the day with her, and they slipped out of the house together.
• Mikoto took Wuye to the former Uchiha compound, now a cemetery, and explained that she did not blame him for the clan’s destruction.
• Wuye told Mikoto that surviving Uchiha would gradually have their restrictions lifted and eventually live like ordinary Konoha villagers.
• Mikoto visited Uchiha Yuxiong’s grave and told Wuye that the Great Elder had urged her to use her friendship with Kushina to approach him.

Wuye and Mikoto visited the Uchiha cemetery and met Kagami Uchiha, who had grown blind and continued to mourn Kotone. Wuye left understanding that Kagami wanted only to watch over the people he loved until the end.

• Wuye and Mikoto encountered Kagami Uchiha sweeping the cemetery paths.
• Wuye learned that Kagami had lost his sight and told him he had already fused his own eyes.
• Kagami explained that Kotone had wanted a child, but had never truly liked him, and mourned that she had left Wuye behind before dying.
• Wuye told Kagami that Hanzo and Hyuga Naoya were dead and that the Hyuga clan system had been abolished, but Kagami said Kotone would never return.
• Kagami said he was happy to have watched Wuye grow up and asked him not to worry about him.
• Wuye and Mikoto left, and Wuye told her Kagami wanted to spend his remaining time quietly watching over the Uchiha Clan, Konoha, and them.

Mikoto pretended to break up with Wuye after claiming she had seen their future separation, leaving him bewildered on Hokage Rock. She then recruited Kushina for an identity-swapping prank while Wuye's ocular power began to awaken.

• Wuye spent the day with Mikoto, then accompanied her to the top of Hokage Rock.
• Mikoto tearfully told Wuye that they were destined to separate because he would do something bad to her in the future.
• Wuye mistook Mikoto's staged departure for a possible divorce and let her go after she said she did not want her uncle to worry.
• Mikoto found Kushina and proposed that they swap identities, explaining that she had argued with Wuye and planned a cold war.
• Wuye's ocular power surged on Hokage Rock, gradually forming a seventh tomoe.

Wuye returned home and found Kushina and Mikoto pretending to be each other after Mikoto claimed she wanted to separate from him. He then went to check on Hinata and Hanabi, who had shut themselves in their rooms, and confronted the furious Hanabi.

• Mikoto, disguised as Kushina, kept up their identity swap while Kushina played along, leaving Wuye confused.
• Mikoto told Kushina that she had claimed she wanted to separate from Wuye, then said they needed to work together for Hinata and Hanabi's sake.
• Wuye learned from Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ling that Hinata and Hanabi had locked themselves away and refused to eat.
• Wuye decided Hanabi's loud protest meant she wanted to see him and went to her room despite her saying she never wanted to see him again.
• Hanabi threw a teacup past Wuye and glared at him as he entered her unlocked room.

Wuye let Hanabi vent her anger over his relationship with her family, but her anger turned into an impulsive declaration that she would marry him that day. Hyuga Ling dragged Hanabi away, while Hyuga Hiashi reluctantly accepted Wuye's intentions and heard that the women would move into the rooms next door that night.

• Wuye invited Hanabi to strike him, and she attacked him with Gentle Fist and Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms until his chakra points were sealed.
• Hanabi caught Wuye as he fell, then ended up on the bed with him and bit and licked the back of his neck.
• Hanabi declared that she would marry Wuye that day and consummate the marriage, so Hyuga Ling dragged her out of the room.
• Wuye taunted Hyuga Hiashi, who admitted he could not stop him and trusted him not to neglect the women.
• Wuye said the women would move into the rooms next door that night, which left Hyuga Hiashi speechless.

Wuye reassured Hinata that he saw her as herself, not as a vessel for his sister’s soul, and comforted her with a kiss. Hinata fainted after experiencing her first kiss, while Hanabi blushed in the other room.

• Wuye sent Hyuga Hiashi away so he could speak privately with Hinata.
• Hinata offered to give up her soul so Wuye could revive his sister, but Wuye told her he valued her for who she was.
• Hinata suspected Wuye was trying to win her affection, and he kissed her forehead, causing her to faint.
• Wuye revived Hinata by pressing beneath her nose and encouraged her to think about moving next door.
• When Hinata said she was fine, Wuye kissed her on the lips, and she fainted again.
• Hanabi blushed and her eyes shimmered while she was in the other room.

Wuye’s intimate encounters with Hanabi and Hinata led to the twins moving into his inner residence. Meanwhile, Kushina impersonated Mikoto and repeatedly accepted Wuye’s advances, leaving the real Mikoto baffled; the chapter ended with Wuye putting the sleeping twins under a potion’s influence.

• Hanabi used her shared senses with Hinata to understand Hyuga Ling’s advice, then rushed to Hinata and kissed Wuye while Hinata felt the sensations and woke.
• Hyuga Ling interrupted Wuye and Hanabi, and Hanabi and Hinata clasped hands and smiled at each other afterward.
• Wuye mistook Kushina, disguised as Mikoto, for the real Mikoto, and she accepted his embrace and went with him to his room.
• Kushina kept visiting Wuye while pretending to be a heartbroken Mikoto, preventing the real Mikoto and Konan from spending time with him.
• Hanabi and Hinata moved into Wuye’s inner residence, and Wuye reassured them before spraying a sleep-inducing potion on their pillows.

Wuye attempted to reunite Hinata and Hanabi's souls with Kaguya's body, but the souls remained separate, so he returned them to the girls. After Hinata and Hanabi pulled him into bed, Kushina and Hyuga Suzu caught them, and Kushina dragged Wuye to her room.

• Wuye used the Thousand-Pulling Stone and his True Life technique to release Hinata and Hanabi's souls and bring them near Kaguya's body.
• Hinata and Hanabi's souls entered Kaguya's body but did not merge, so Wuye returned them to their own bodies at dawn.
• Hinata and Hanabi woke up, and Wuye told them that soul fusion might take time and that he would watch over them at night.
• Hanabi and Hinata pulled Wuye onto the bed beneath a blanket, but Kushina interrupted them and brought Hyuga Suzu to see what was happening.
• Hyuga Suzu found no evidence that anything had happened, and Kushina took Wuye to her room to claim what he owed her.

Wuye prepared to launch the Fourth Shinobi World War as part of his plan to abolish the one-country, one-village system and unite the shinobi world under Konoha. He declared the war at a council meeting after confirming the village’s preparations were complete.

• Konan told Wuye that Akatsuki was preparing to capture the Five-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails, and reported that Jiraiya had infiltrated Akatsuki’s base in the Land of Rain.
• Wuye told Konan he would visit the Land of Rain to address Nagato’s unstable situation and Jiraiya’s pursuit of Akatsuki.
• Wuye learned from Minato that Naruto’s team had found Orochimaru’s hideout, where Sasuke appeared to kill Orochimaru and then left to pursue Itachi with Karin.
• Wuye convened Konoha’s leaders and confirmed that the air-raid shelter, village targets, surprise attack force, and attack drills were ready.
• Wuye ordered the council to promote shinobi-world integration and announce that the Land of Fire would abolish the one-country, one-village system, placing the Hokage in supreme command.
• Wuye declared the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War, calling it the final Shinobi World War.

Wuye asked Kakashi to use a forbidden jutsu to summon Kotone’s soul, but the attempt failed because her soul was not in the Pure Land. He suspected someone else had summoned her and left determined to confront them, while revealing his power and plans to Kakashi.

• Wuye pulled Kakashi aside and asked him to find a female death-row prisoner to use in a soul-summoning jutsu.
• Wuye gave Kakashi a strand of hair from Kotone’s preserved body, and Kakashi used the prisoner as a sacrifice to try to summon her soul.
• Kakashi failed to find Kotone’s soul in the Pure Land, leading Wuye to suspect someone had summoned her away.
• Wuye vowed that no one would hurt Kotone and said the person responsible would come to him, where he would present them with a grand gift.
• Kakashi asked about Wuye’s strength, and Wuye explained that his fused Mangekyō Sharingan made him comparable to the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha for now.

Obito manipulated Sasuke into vowing to destroy Konoha and sent him to capture the Eight-Tails, while Wuye confirmed the shinobi world’s shifting alliances. At Akatsuki’s base, Nagato reported that Jiraiya had infiltrated, and Wuye went to confront his former teacher.

• Obito told Sasuke that the Fourth Hokage had killed Fugaku and used Itachi to wipe out the Uchiha, driving Sasuke to vow to destroy Konoha.
• Obito ordered Sasuke to capture the Eight-Tails in the Land of Lightning, and Sasuke agreed.
• Wuye watched Sasuke and Taka enter Cloud Thunder Gorge, where Killer B defeated Sasuke, then saw the Third Raikage bring Killer B back and reunite with the Fourth Raikage.
• Wuye concluded that Kumogakure had accepted Kabuto’s recruitment and left the Land of Lightning for Akatsuki’s base.
• Nagato told Wuye that Jiraiya had infiltrated the city and might discover Akatsuki’s core base, so Wuye went to speak with him.

Wuye found Jiraiya after his mission in the Land of Rain and revealed that Nagato led the organization he had secretly created to control the ninja world’s darkness. Wuye challenged Jiraiya’s faith in the prophecy and took him to Mount Myōboku, where Gamamaru recognized Wuye as his master.

• Wuye descended before Jiraiya, who realized that Wuye controlled the powerful organization led by Nagato.
• Wuye explained that he had created the organization to control the world’s darkness and maintain peace through systems and a common enemy.
• Jiraiya defended his belief that a prophesied child would bring true peace, while Wuye claimed the prophecy’s promised future had failed.
• Wuye persuaded Jiraiya to sign his summoning contract and travel with him to Mount Myōboku to question Gamamaru.
• Gamamaru acknowledged Wuye as his master after Wuye revealed that he had met the Toad Sage a thousand years earlier.

After Wuye and Tsunade married, the Land of Fire’s abolition of the one-country, one-village system shook the ninja world and prompted the other great villages to consider how to respond. At a secret summit, Gaara and Terumi Mei revealed that their villages planned to take control of their countries’ daimyos, while Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage reconsidered their positions.

• Jiraiya returned to Konoha after learning that Tsunade was getting married, as debate spread across the ninja world over the Land of Fire’s political changes.
• Wuye and Tsunade discussed their marriage and the abolition of the one-country, one-village system while soaking in a hot spring.
• Wuye and Tsunade held their wedding a month later, as Konoha’s Administrative Affairs Department moved into Daimyo Palace and tensions rose among the other great villages.
• Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage A, Terumi Mei, and Gaara met secretly to discuss opposing Konoha’s changes and preparing for war.
• Gaara and Terumi Mei revealed that Sunagakure and Kirigakure had prepared to take control of their countries’ daimyos, leaving Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage to reconsider their assumptions.
• Temari approached Terumi Mei with a question, and Terumi Mei noticed her delicate appearance.