Chapter Summaries

The Four Kage formed the Allied Shinobi Forces and planned a surprise attack on Konoha, while Tsunade entered Wuye’s household and sparred with Kushina over who ranked as the senior sister. Wuye named Kaguya as the family’s big sister, and Tsunade offered to help Hinata and Hanabi get closer to him without realizing their plans for the night.

• Temari and Terumi Mei bonded over sayings and gestures they had learned from a heartless man, then compared their experiences with him.
• The Four Kage established the Allied Shinobi Forces and agreed to launch a surprise attack when a huge pit appeared in Konoha.
• Tsunade arrived at Wuye’s home after their wedding ceremony and argued with Kushina over who was the senior sister.
• Wuye declared Kaguya the family’s big sister, while Hinata and Hanabi arranged to take care of her that night and hoped to watch her return to life.
• Tsunade offered to support Hinata and Hanabi in getting closer to Wuye, and Kushina accused Wuye of telling Tsunade about the household’s rules.

Uchiha Mikoto told Hanabi and Hinata that reviving Kaguya would cost them their lives, but that they would eventually be restored. The sisters accepted their fate, followed Mikoto’s plan to leave letters for Wuye and their parents, and went to sleep after using their Byakugan to see him one last time.

• Uchiha Mikoto warned Hanabi and Hinata that Kaguya’s revival would take their lives because her soul was parasitic within them.
• Mikoto said she had seen the future and knew Hanabi and Hinata would eventually come back to life, while Wuye would bear the pain of their loss alone.
• Hanabi and Hinata asked what they could do for Wuye, and Mikoto instructed them to leave letters explaining their choice and leaving open the possibility of recovery.
• Hanabi and Hinata wrote letters for Wuye and their parents, and Hinata asked Mikoto to keep her parents from blaming Wuye.
• Hanabi and Hinata used their Byakugan to see Wuye one last time, then lay down together as Mikoto helped Kaguya sit beside them.

Kaguya awakened after Hinata and Hanabi’s souls merged into her body, then went to Wuye on his wedding night with Tsunade. She sent Tsunade outside to stand guard, where Tsunade and the other women drank together while listening at the door.

• Mikoto watched Hinata and Hanabi fall asleep as their souls merged into Kaguya, who then opened her eyes and awakened.
• Kaguya activated her Byakugan, leaped out the window, and headed toward Tsunade’s room.
• Kaguya interrupted Wuye and Tsunade on their wedding night, and Wuye was overcome with emotion at seeing her again.
• Kaguya reminded Tsunade that she had once stood guard while Wuye was away and told her to stand guard outside now.
• Tsunade left the room and joined Kushina, Mikoto, and Konan in drinking wine outside the door while listening to Wuye and Kaguya.

Wuye reunited with Kaguya and cherished their long-awaited closeness. Kaguya confessed that she wanted their relationship to have no barriers, and they moved toward becoming lovers.

• Wuye embraced Kaguya after she returned, and she promised never to leave him again.
• Wuye and Kaguya shared a long, intimate kiss and spoke about how much they had missed each other.
• Kaguya told Wuye she did not want her status as his big sister to stand between them.
• Wuye assured Kaguya they would always be the closest people to each other and carried her to the bed.

Lumian Lee entertained a tavern full of Cordu villagers with a grim story about working at a morgue, then admitted it was fiction written by his sister, Aurore. After meeting outsiders Ryan Coss, Valentine, and Leah, Lumian learned that his surname carried an ominous reputation, while Pierre revealed that Aurore had brought Lumian to the village five years earlier and given him his name.

• Lumian finished his morgue story by claiming he had quit his job and returned to the countryside, prompting the outsider Ryan Coss to ask whether it was true.
• Lumian said the story came from his sister, and Pierre told Ryan that Lumian regularly invented tales for the villagers of Cordu.
• Ryan introduced himself and his companions, Valentine and Leah, and explained that sailors feared the surname Lee because of the notorious Frank Lee.
• Lumian ordered Green Fairy, and Ryan bought drinks for him and Pierre as Pierre offered to share what he knew about Lumian.
• Pierre revealed that Aurore had brought Lumian to Cordu five years earlier, when he was thirteen, and had given him both the surname Lee and the name Lumian; Lumian said he had forgotten his original name.

Wuye and Kaguya reunited and spent the night together, but their attempt to return Kaguya’s soul to Hinata and Hanabi failed. After reading the sisters’ letters and realizing they had chosen not to return to their bodies, Wuye awakened a new eye power.

• Wuye and Kaguya spent the night talking together while Tsunade, Kushina, Mikoto, and Konan drank outside their door and listened.
• The next morning, Wuye and Kaguya went to Hinata and Hanabi’s room to try to return Kaguya’s soul to them.
• Kaguya’s soul was rejected by Hinata and Hanabi’s bodies and returned to her own body without splitting.
• Wuye and Kaguya read letters from Hinata and Hanabi and learned that the sisters had chosen not to return to their bodies rather than become Kaguya’s shadows.
• Wuye blamed himself for losing Hinata and Hanabi again, and nine tomoe appeared in his eyes.

After his Nine-Tomoe Sharingan awakening nearly overwhelmed his mind, Wuye asked Kaguya about making multiple bodies coexist with one soul and decided to retrieve her original self from the moon. He prepared Konoha for a planned war to unify the ninja world and began the strange chant meant to signal combat readiness.

• Kaguya comforted Wuye as his newly awakened power battered his mind, and he asked her how to make multiple bodies coexist with one soul.
• Kaguya suggested retrieving her original self from the moon, and Wuye resolved to bring her back while his companions quietly supported him.
• Konoha issued secret combat-readiness orders and prepared air-raid shelters, while villagers wondered about the confusing chant called the "Grandma's Caress Carrying Rice Spell."
• Wuye gathered Konoha's leaders on Hokage Rock, announced the plan to unite the ninja world at the smallest possible cost, and ordered the forces to their positions.
• Konan notified Nagato, and Wuye stayed with Kaguya, Kushina, Tsunade, and Mikoto as he began singing the bizarre readiness chant.

Wuye used a rice-carrying chant to evacuate Konoha’s villagers before Nagato’s Shinra Tensei devastated the empty village. As Konoha staged a battle against Pain, the great ninja villages launched their planned invasions, leaving Wuye to face a widening war.

• Wuye’s chant prompted Konoha’s villagers to evacuate, and Nagato unleashed Shinra Tensei on the empty village.
• Wuye reassured Tsunade that he would protect her, while Konan explained the strain Nagato’s ability placed on his body.
• Nagato and the Six Paths of Pain entered Konoha as disguised Konoha genin began the staged battle.
• Spies reported the devastation to the four great ninja villages, and Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s twenty thousand front-line ninja to attack Konoha.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Kumogakure to invade, while the Third Raikage warned him about the mysterious person controlling events.
• Terumi Mei ordered Kirigakure’s ninja into the Land of Fire but told them to avoid major clashes and seek surrenders.

Temari, Gaara, and Kankuro weighed Sand Village’s response to the other villages invading the Land of Fire, while Gaara suspected Konoha was setting a trap. As seventy thousand allied shinobi advanced on Konoha, Wuye and Minato deployed Konoha’s forces with Nine-Tails chakra to launch attacks against the invading villages.

• Temari warned Gaara and Kankuro that Konoha’s apparent defeat might be staged and advised Sand Village to avoid heavy fighting.
• Gaara ordered Sand Village’s shinobi to advance despite the danger, and more than ten thousand followed him.
• Minato reported that seventy thousand shinobi from Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Sand Village were closing in on Konoha.
• Wuye and Kushina spread Nine-Tails chakra among Konoha’s shinobi so Minato could transport them in large groups.
• Wuye ordered Uchiha Shisui to attack Kirigakure and capture the Land of Water’s daimyo while limiting casualties.
• Wuye assigned Pakura to lead the attack on Sand Village and sent Konoha forces toward the other fronts.

Wuye sent Konoha’s forces to attack Iwagakure and Kumogakure, then returned to the ruins of Konoha with Tsunade and Kushina before going to meet the Allied Shinobi Forces at the Valley of the End. There, he shared his grief and longing for an ordinary life with Kaguya as they waited for the approaching army.

• Wuye ordered Sakumo and Kakashi to lead nearly ten thousand shinobi against Iwagakure, while Jiraiya and Minato led another force against Kumogakure.
• Wuye summoned a Slug to return himself, Tsunade, and Kushina to Konoha, then told Tsunade and Kushina to rest and assigned Mikoto to protect them while Konan hid.
• Wuye invited Kaguya to accompany him, and they walked together toward the Valley of the End as the Allied Shinobi Forces approached.
• Wuye and Kaguya appeared atop Hashirama Senju’s statue, where they kissed while waiting for the Allied Forces.
• Kaguya told Wuye that freeing her past self would let him save Hinata and Hanabi, and Wuye confessed how repeated losses and burdens made him wish for an ordinary, peaceful life.

Wuye comforted Kaguya while confronting the arriving shinobi forces from Iwagakure and Kumogakure, forcing them to wait rather than attack Konoha. When the Fourth Raikage charged him, Wuye struck him down and sent him flying alongside Killer B.

• Kaguya held Wuye and reassured him that everything would eventually be all right.
• Ōnoki halted Iwagakure's twenty-thousand-strong force when he found Wuye embracing Kaguya, and Wuye intercepted Kurotsuchi as she flew toward Konoha.
• Wuye ordered Ōnoki's forces to stay where they were, and Ōnoki decided to wait for the Allied Shinobi Forces to assemble.
• The Fourth Raikage arrived with Kumogakure's forces, and Ōnoki claimed he had stopped to wait until the allied forces gathered.
• The Fourth Raikage charged Wuye, who knocked him flying; Killer B caught him but was sent skidding back with him.

Terumi Mei and the other Kage assembled the Allied Shinobi Forces at the Valley of the End to confront Wuye and Kaguya. Wuye challenged the army alone, overwhelmed its shinobi with taijutsu, then escalated to Sage Art attacks as the battle continued.

• Kirigakure arrived, and Terumi Mei chose to wait for Sunagakure before attacking Wuye and Kaguya.
• Gaara led more than ten thousand Sunagakure shinobi to the Valley of the End, completing the Allied Shinobi Forces’ assembly.
• Wuye told the assembled forces that they were surrounded by him, while Temari secretly instructed Kankuro to keep Sunagakure jonin near the battlefield’s edge.
• Wuye charged into the Iwagakure shinobi and sent ordinary fighters flying with his taijutsu until the elite jonin and Kage contained him.
• Wuye summoned two Shadow Clones and Gamabunta, then used Sage Art: Goemon while the Allied Forces countered with Water Release.
• Wuye created dozens of massive blue spheres with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, catching the Raikage and Ōnoki in the attack.

Wuye overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces and their tailed beasts, then faced a new wave of reinforcements summoned through Impure World Reincarnation: the previous Kage. As the current and former Kage prepared to unite against him, Wuye began releasing the Nine-Tails.

• Ōnoki ordered ordinary shinobi to withdraw and coordinated the Kage and jinchuriki, but Wuye countered their attacks and kissed Terumi Mei during the battle.
• Wuye's Fiber Susanoo turned the Two-Tails' and Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Bombs to stone, crushing the alliance's morale.
• The Fourth Raikage announced that reinforcements were coming, and the Third Raikage appeared as an Impure World Reincarnation.
• Coffins rose from the ground, releasing the Second Raikage, the Third and Fourth Mizukage, the Second and Third Kazekage, the Fourth Kazekage, and the Second Tsuchikage, Mū.
• Wuye revealed that he had killed several of the previous Kage and swiftly defeated the Third Kazekage and Mū when they attacked him.
• Ōnoki urged the current and previous Kage to join forces against Wuye, who began releasing the Nine-Tails.

Wuye and Kurama attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces, sealing several former Kage before Ōnoki’s Dust Release broke their armored form. Wuye then began awakening a vast power after Ōnoki insisted there were no gods in the world.

• Wuye and Kurama agreed to fight together, and Wuye transformed into the Nine-Tails to attack the Iwagakure and Cloud Village troops.
• Wuye avoided the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails’ counterattack, blasted the Allied Shinobi Forces, and sealed Rasa and the Third Kazekage.
• Kitsuchi and the former Kage launched a coordinated assault, but Wuye equipped Kurama with Susanoo armor and drove them back.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release: Limit Removal Technique to destroy most of Kurama’s chakra armor and leave Wuye injured.
• Wuye healed with natural energy, dismissed Ōnoki’s belief that there were no gods, and began releasing an immense power.

Wuye used his Complete Body Susanoo, controlled tailed beasts, and Konan’s trillion detonation tags to force the Allied Shinobi Forces toward surrender. Ōnoki realized that Konoha’s forces had likely attacked the four great shinobi villages while the Alliance was occupied.

• Wuye unleashed his Complete Body Susanoo and swept aside thousands of Allied shinobi with one sword strike.
• Wuye summoned Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, and Sun Wukong from their sealed spaces, revealing that his tailed-beast sealing technique had a backdoor.
• Wuye demanded the Alliance surrender, but the Fourth Raikage refused and challenged him to kill every shinobi.
• Wuye summoned Konan, who revealed that the battlefield and surrounding valleys were covered with a trillion detonation tags.
• Ōnoki accused Wuye of resembling Madara Uchiha, and Wuye said Konoha’s shinobi were not being held back by Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki realized that Konoha’s shinobi had gone to launch sneak attacks on the four great shinobi villages.

Wuye’s forces conquered the four great shinobi villages and captured their daimyō, ending the war and bringing the nations under Konoha’s control. Kabuto then used the reanimated Hyuga Kotone to bargain with Wuye, who rejected the deal and revealed that the mother he mourned was not the girl now before him.

• Minato Namikaze reported that the four great villages had been breached and their daimyō captured, causing the Allied Shinobi Forces to recognize that the war was over.
• The Second Tsuchikage presented a reanimated Hyuga Kotone, and Wuye recognized her as his mother.
• Kabuto offered to release his control over Kotone in exchange for Wuye’s tailed beasts, but Wuye refused.
• Wuye attacked the Second Tsuchikage and began extracting Kotone’s soul, saying he would truly revive her.
• Wuye stopped the extraction and explained that the reanimated woman was not his mother, but the girl from a thousand years ago.

Wuye grieved as Kotone resisted control, took her own life, and had her soul stored in the Thousand-Pulling Stone. After sending Itachi to resolve the Impure World Reincarnation and see Sasuke, Wuye faced the newly summoned Uchiha Madara on the battlefield.

• Kotone told Wuye she loved him, then stabbed herself in the forehead to stop herself from attacking him.
• Itachi Uchiha trapped Wuye in Tsukuyomi, but Wuye used Way Reversal to turn the genjutsu against Itachi and offered him a mission to see Sasuke.
• Shisui used Kotoamatsukami on Itachi, who agreed to resolve the Impure World Reincarnation and left to find Sasuke.
• Wuye extracted Kotone's soul and stored it in the Thousand-Pulling Stone while the battlefield reacted to the events.
• Uchiha Madara emerged from a coffin, learned Wuye was the Fourth Hokage, and prepared to test his strength against him.

Wuye battled Madara Uchiha, countering his powerful ninjutsu and Complete Body Susanoo as the Allied Shinobi Forces watched from a distance. The fight continued as Hashirama Senju and the others arrived, and Hashirama and Madara greeted each other excitedly.

• Wuye and Madara Uchiha traded Fire and Water Release attacks and fought in close combat, with Wuye using his abilities to kick Madara away twice.
• Madara Uchiha unleashed Deep Forest Emergence and Tengai Shinsei, but Wuye countered the forest with shadow-clone Rasengan and destroyed the giant meteor with a Nine-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Madara Uchiha and Wuye summoned wood clones, shadow clones, and Susanoo, then fought across the battlefield with colossal warriors.
• Wuye's Lava Release corroded Madara Uchiha's Deep Forest Bloom, and both fighters expanded their Susanoo into Complete Body forms and clashed across the landscape.
• Madara Uchiha stabilized himself with Impure World Reincarnation as the battle split the statues of Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Orochimaru, Sasuke, and the others arrived, and Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha called out to each other.

Wuye defended his forced unification of the shinobi world when Hashirama questioned whether it had created true peace. As Hashirama and Madara joined forces against him and Orochimaru controlled the resurrected Hokage, Wuye prepared to fight Sasuke, with Minato and Naruto arriving beside him.

• Hashirama met Madara and learned that Wuye had unified the shinobi world, then discovered that Wuye was married to Tsunade.
• Wuye made the Allied Shinobi Forces claim they had willingly accepted Konoha's rule, but Hashirama urged him to release them and let peace grow through understanding.
• Wuye refused Hashirama's request, while Tobirama defended Wuye's approach and argued with Hashirama about the cost of lasting peace.
• Orochimaru revealed that Sasuke was in charge and used a hand seal to control Tobirama and Hiruzen.
• Madara joined Hashirama against Wuye, who summoned his Complete Body Susanoo as Minato appeared at his side and Naruto called for Sasuke to return.

Sasuke refused to abandon his revenge against the Fourth Hokage, and Naruto resolved to fight to protect peace and his family. As Wuye battled Hashirama and Madara, Hashirama accepted Madara’s Susanoo armor for his giant Buddha, leaving the two legendary shinobi united against Wuye.

• Sasuke told Naruto he had learned the truth from Itachi and would take revenge on the Fourth Hokage, while Naruto chose to fight for the peace and family he wanted to protect.
• Naruto and Hashirama summoned Wood Humans, Madara and Shisui brought out their Susanoo, and Minato summoned Boss Toad as the battlefield divided into fights.
• Wuye’s Divine Crossing Sword petrified Hashirama’s Wood Dragon and Wood Human, but Hashirama regenerated and countered with the Gate of the Great God.
• Wuye repelled Hashirama’s sealing gate with Adamantine Sealing Chains and said he had unified Konoha through threats and bribes, earning Tobirama’s approval.
• Hashirama refused to restore the Four Great Ninja Villages’ independence, then asked Madara to armor his giant Buddha with Susanoo.
• Madara covered the giant Buddha in Complete Body Susanoo armor, and Tobirama remarked that Wuye had surpassed Hashirama as Hiruzen wondered whether Wuye had reached his limit.