Chapter Summaries

Yoru used his newly awakened Rinnegan to seal Kaguya with Six Paths—Chibaku Tensei, stunning the gathered Kage and shinobi. He left with Naruto and Sasuke while anticipating that the news would threaten Tsunade’s position as Hokage.

• Yoru revealed that Hashirama Cells solution had helped awaken his Rinnegan, then announced he would seal Kaguya himself.
• Yoru performed Six Paths—Chibaku Tensei, trapping Kaguya inside a huge stone sphere and binding it with golden sealing runes.
• The Raikage, Mizukage, Kazekage, and gathered shinobi watched in fear, and A could not challenge Yoru after seeing him seal Kaguya.
• Yoru told Naruto and Sasuke the job was done, then asked Kakuzu to bill the major nations extra for their appearance.
• Yoru said the Leaf Village would have heard the news and predicted Tsunade would not hold the Hokage seat much longer.

Yoru launched the sealed Kaguya beyond the atmosphere, using stolen ley-line energy to make her a new moon. After forcing A to accept ongoing protection payments, Yoru and his allies headed toward Leaf Village to challenge Tsunade’s position as Hokage.

• Yoru ordered Orochimaru to power the Chibaku Tensei sphere with the Land of Lightning’s ley lines and send it beyond the atmosphere.
• Orochimaru activated the launcher, carrying Kaguya and Black Zetsu into space inside the sphere, where a chakra-draining device would strengthen the seal.
• Yoru assured Sasuke that Kaguya could not escape because her chakra would be absorbed and converted into energy sustaining the seal.
• Yoru warned A to pay the next protection fee on time or face another artificial moon over the Land of Lightning.
• Yoru and his allies set off for Leaf Village to deliver Tsunade a gift and threaten her hold on the Hokage seat.

After defeating Kaguya and ending the battle, Yoru forced the Raikage to surrender Hidden Cloud Village’s mines and ports and declared that Stone Village would rule the Shinobi World. As Yoru’s forces departed, the remaining Kage heard Tsunade’s desperate call from Leaf Village and prepared to meet.

• Yoru, Naruto, and Sasuke surveyed the battlefield after Kaguya’s defeat, while Sasuke noted that Orochimaru had taken Madara’s corpse and the Akatsuki Organization was gone.
• The Raikage knelt before Yoru and declared that Hidden Cloud Village submitted, then handed over the deeds to its mines and ports.
• Yoru gave the Kage an ultimatum to abandon the Five Great Nations and recognize Stone Village, threatening to send twenty thousand Baryon Mode clones against anyone who resisted.
• Yoru and his companions left in a spaceship as the remaining Kage reflected on how completely the Shinobi World had changed.
• Tsunade contacted the Kage over Leaf Village’s emergency channel, and Ōnoki urged them to hold a Four Kage Summit before Yoru could reach Leaf Village.

Uchiha Yoru forced the gathered Kage to submit after displaying overwhelming power, then revealed that his plan to remake the Shinobi World was only beginning. He prepared to impose his new order with Orochimaru’s strange potion and ordered the Leaf Village’s affairs turned upside down.

• Raikage A acknowledged that the Shinobi World owed Yoru a debt, while Mei Terumi asked whether his power was truly human.
• Yoru rejected the title of god and declared himself the only rule capable of making rules in the Shinobi World.
• Rasa offered Sunagakure’s obedience in exchange for his life, and Yoru accepted before dismissing the Kage.
• After the Kage fled, Yoru told Ōnoki that the real show was just beginning and asked Orochimaru about the potion.
• Orochimaru presented the prepared potion, and Yoru ordered his people to clean up and overturn the Leaf Village’s affairs.

After Iwagakure’s victory over Madara, Yoru rewarded the village’s shinobi and ordered a massive military buildup while warning that other threats remained. He then set out for Leaf Village, threatening to hold a victory feast on the Kage Rock if Tsunade refused to surrender the Fifth Hokage’s seal.

• Yoru granted battlefield standouts mining rights in the Land of Lightning and gave Deidara and Sasori the shipyards from the Land of Water to build an armed transport ship.
• Yoru ordered Iwagakure to expand its army by three hundred thousand, gave Orochimaru’s laboratory another billion, and demanded broadcasts reach every inhabited corner of the Shinobi World.
• Yoru climbed into the chakra-powered war chariot with Naruto and Sasuke and told Orochimaru to set its coordinates for Leaf Village.
• Yoru threatened to hold a victory feast on Leaf Village’s Kage Rock in a week if Tsunade did not hand over the Fifth Hokage’s seal.

Uchiha Yoru forced the leaders of the Land of Lightning, Hidden Mist Village, and Hidden Sand Village to surrender mining rights and accept crushing debts. He then set out with Iwagakure's army for Leaf Village, intending to overthrow it and claim the Hokage's position.

• Yoru demanded the Land of Lightning's gold mines, Hidden Mist Village's ports, and Hidden Sand Village's rare-gold-dust fields for Iwagakure's administration.
• Yoru and Kakuzu threatened the three nations with invasion, grave robbing, and a three-day deadline to pay three hundred billion ryō.
• Raikage A signed the agreement and declared that the Land of Lightning surrendered, while the other Kage fled with their forces.
• Yoru ordered Ōnoki to invite the other leaders to a "Four Kage Summit" and departed for Leaf Village with Orochimaru and Iwagakure's army.
• On the train, Yoru contemplated overturning Leaf Village and taking the Hokage's position, wondering how Naruto would react.

Yoru forced Tsunade to sign Iwagakure’s unconditional merger agreement, leaving Konoha under Iwagakure’s control. Tsunade ordered the village to become an auxiliary combat force and accepted the merger as the only way for its people to survive.

• Yoru presented Tsunade with Iwagakure’s ultimatum and threatened to destroy the Hokage’s office if she refused to sign.
• Tsunade signed the unconditional merger agreement, and Yoru gave it to Kakuzu to handle Konoha’s mission commissions.
• Yoru ordered Ōnoki and the others to begin the handover and demanded that Konoha’s Anbu wear Iwagakure uniforms.
• Tsunade told Shizune to summon the major clans, rename Konoha’s ninja as Iwagakure’s auxiliary external combat force, and replace the Will of Fire plaques with stone plaques.
• Tsunade accepted that following Yoru was the only way for Konoha’s survivors to eat and live.

Yoru forced Tsunade to sign treaties placing Leaf Village under Iwagakure’s control and declared that the old Five Great Nations order was over. He left the ruined village with plans to impose his rule on the rest of the Shinobi World.

• Yoru announced a single Iwagakure government, ordered all ninja forces unified, and demanded that secret ninjutsu archives be entered into its database.
• Yoru threatened Tsunade until she signed treaties surrendering Leaf Village, while Shizune watched in fear.
• Yoru ordered Kakuzu to rename the village the “Iwagakure Land of Fire Office” and threatened to destroy anyone who resisted.
• Yoru declared that there would be no more Kage and told Ōnoki that he would remake the Shinobi World under his rules.
• Yoru ordered Naruto to bring the airship and left the ruins of Leaf Village, challenging anyone to oppose him.

Yoru transformed Iwagakure’s training and military into a technology-driven force, preparing to build a lunar observation station and press other villages for ley-line development rights. When Orochimaru detected Obito and Madara Uchiha heading toward Leaf Village, Yoru led the group through a portal to confront them.

• Yoru ordered Iwagakure’s genin to replace Earth-Style training with Chakra Mech operation and declared that trainees unable to operate artillery would mine ore.
• Orochimaru explained that Hidan’s immortal cells powered the Chakra Armor and said construction of a rocket to send an observation station into lunar orbit could begin the next day.
• Yoru told Iwagakure’s leaders to demand ley-line development rights at the Four Kage Summit, threatening to turn other villages into Iwagakure mining subsidiaries if they refused.
• Orochimaru’s locator detected Obito and Madara Uchiha approaching the Hokage Building, and he warned Yoru that Madara’s reanimated body had lost control.
• Yoru entered a portal with the group, telling Naruto and Sasuke to prepare their gift and ordering Ōnoki to preserve Obito and Madara’s eyes for an experiment.

After defeating Kaguya, Yoru confronted the Sage of Six Paths, who warned him that his power was disrupting the world’s order. Yoru dismissed Hagoromo’s ideals and led the Iwagakure forces away to hunt their remaining enemies, while Hagoromo vowed to find a way to stop him.

• The Sage of Six Paths appeared in the ruins and warned Yoru that his violent power was throwing the world into chaos.
• Yoru mocked Hagoromo’s talk of order and bonds, insisting that he ruled the Shinobi World and demanding Hagoromo deal with his relatives on the moon.
• Yoru threatened to feed the God Tree seed to Orochimaru’s test subjects if Hagoromo did not leave.
• Yoru led the Iwagakure elites, Naruto, and Sasuke away to eliminate the remaining enemies, while Naruto mocked Hagoromo on the way out.
• Hagoromo called Yoru a threat to prophecy and vowed he had a way to deal with him, and Yoru challenged him to return in his real body.

Yoru used Orochimaru’s technology to disrupt Hagoromo’s phantom and drove it away, then ordered Stone Village to reject the Sage’s traditions and recognize his rule. As his army withdrew from Amegakure, Yoru prepared the next stage of his plan while anticipating Obito and the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Yoru mocked Hagoromo and ordered Orochimaru to activate a High-Frequency Psychic-Wave Blocking Field, which disrupted the Sage’s phantom and severed its connection to reality.
• Hagoromo warned Yoru about ultimate destruction before his phantom vanished, and Yoru challenged him to bring his real body for a fight.
• Yoru ordered the Stone Village elites to tear down the village’s monuments and legends about the Sage of Six Paths, declaring that he alone would rule.
• Yoru told Kitsuchi to send the captured White Zetsu to Orochimaru for biological-weapon research and threatened to assign Orochimaru to toilet cleaning if he failed.
• Yoru boarded the battleship with his forces and chose not to attack Leaf Village yet, saying the next stage of his game had begun.

The Great Toad Sage saw Uchiha Yoru shatter the prophecy and ordered Mount Myōboku to flee. Yoru prepared to launch a spaceship with Naruto and Sasuke, intending to claim the moon and establish his rule over the Shinobi World.

• The Great Toad Sage saw a vision of Yoru using gods as fertilizer and declared that Yoru was an outsider who had severed the prophecy.
• The Great Toad Sage ordered Mount Myōboku to move, and thousands of toads hurriedly packed their belongings.
• Orochimaru told Yoru that Mount Myōboku was making a large-scale spatial jump, but Yoru chose to focus on the people from the Leaf Village.
• Yoru learned that the spaceship was nearly ready to launch with Kaguya's chakra energy core installed.
• Yoru called Naruto and Sasuke to join him in evacuating the planet and heading to the moon to dig out the Ōtsutsuki Clan's roots.

The White Snake Sage offered Orochimaru Sage Art crystals and Ryūchi Cave’s resources to secure Uchiha Yoru’s protection. After learning that Obito was hiding in the Land of Lightning, Yoru led his allies aboard a warship to confront him.

• The White Snake Sage sent Orochimaru a box of Sage Art crystals and offered Ryūchi Cave’s resources in exchange for protection from Yoru.
• Yoru accepted the tribute, and Orochimaru planned to use the crystals in his artificial Ryūchi Cave experiment.
• Orochimaru revealed that a tracking curse had located Obito in the primeval forests of the Land of Lightning.
• Yoru ordered Kakuzu and Ōnoki to load weapons onto the warship and set off to confront Obito, while Naruto worried that he would have no one left to fight.
• The warship flew toward Obito’s position as Yoru prepared for a final, brutal confrontation.

Uchiha Yoru forced Katsuyu and Shikkotsu Forest to submit to Stone Village, completing his takeover of the Three Great Sacred Lands. He returned toward Iwagakure and ordered Ōnoki to gather the remaining Kage before setting his sights on a new challenge.

• Orochimaru warned Yoru that Katsuyu had countless clones and would be difficult to uproot.
• Yoru threatened to destroy Shikkotsu Forest and hand its young slugs to Orochimaru for experiments unless Katsuyu appeared.
• Yoru demanded that Katsuyu serve as medical support for Stone Village and threatened her with his Heavy Particle Chakra.
• Katsuyu surrendered Shikkotsu Forest to Yoru, who ordered Orochimaru to collect its slugs for use in military hospitals.
• Yoru boarded the transport ship, told Ōnoki to gather the remaining Kage, and declared that he would seek bigger challenges next.

Yoru prepared Iwagakure for the Four Kage Summit while Ōnoki celebrated their resource deals and worried that rival villages would target them. When Tsunade led every ninja in Konoha to Iwagakure with a peace-seeking message, Yoru ordered them brought in and prepared a final gift.

• Ōnoki celebrated the transfer of three mineral veins, then fell and hurt his back when his stool toppled.
• Yoru had Orochimaru treat Ōnoki and insisted that Iwagakure could defend its new wealth with advanced technology and force.
• Yoru told Ōnoki to prepare for the Four Kage Summit and threatened to strip the visiting envoys of their schemes and possessions.
• A security genin delivered an urgent report that Tsunade had brought every ninja in Konoha to Iwagakure to seek peace.
• Yoru crumpled Konoha's message, ordered the visitors brought in, and promised a grand gift before the Shinobi World.

Uchiha Yoru and Ōnoki prepared to turn Iwagakure’s newly acquired mineral wealth and scientific tools into a military and commercial empire. As Iwagakure’s forces expanded toward the Land of Water, Yoru announced he would host a Four Kage Summit on Leaf Village’s ruins and challenged Tsunade to withstand the pressure.

• Ōnoki celebrated Iwagakure’s new mineral rights and planned to send its ninja to mine the veins.
• Yoru told Ōnoki to put Leaf Village’s technical experts to work producing Scientific Ninja Tools and declared plans to dominate the skies and seas.
• Ōnoki warned Yoru that Tsunade was gathering civilian ninja to defend Leaf Village, but Yoru dismissed her preparations.
• Kitsuchi reported that Iwagakure’s construction forces had reached the Land of Water, and Yoru ordered Orochimaru to refine Hidan for use as a biological battery.
• Yoru ordered Orochimaru to alter the chakra pathways of bodies that could not withstand Sage Art chakra and threatened to send complainers back to farming.
• Ōnoki rallied Iwagakure’s forces, while Yoru set out to host a Four Kage Summit on Leaf Village’s ruins.

Yoru returned to Iwagakure, where Kurotsuchi revealed that Ōnoki wanted her to marry him, but Yoru rejected the proposal and warned her away from his laboratory. He then prepared a military strike against Leaf Village, declaring that the ninja world would soon bear the Uchiha name.

• Yoru came home to find Kurotsuchi waiting and learned that Ōnoki wanted her to marry him to keep Yoru in Iwagakure.
• Kurotsuchi said she wanted to have a genius child with Yoru, but he rejected her and told her not to touch his laboratory.
• Yoru headed to the warship command room and saw red alerts at the borders of Hidden Cloud Village and Leaf Village.
• Orochimaru asked whether Yoru had completed the medicine preparations, and Yoru ordered the unfinished Heavy Ion prototypes to be packed for deployment.
• Yoru told Kurotsuchi to slaughter Leaf Village's forces if she wanted to have a genius with him, then declared that the ninja world would bear the Uchiha name.

Orochimaru completed Stone Village’s Nuclear Crystal Reactor and Chakra Maglev Controller, powering a new railway network that Yoru intended to use to control the Shinobi World. As the Chakra Train departed toward Leaf Village, Yoru declared that the old order would be replaced by his rule.

• Orochimaru showed Yoru the completed reactor and controller, explaining that the power grid and tracks had reached the Land of Fire’s border.
• Yoru inspected the Chakra Train as Stone Village’s people celebrated its launch, while Deidara boasted about his armed airship project.
• Minato questioned Yoru’s plan to make the world dependent on Stone Village’s infrastructure, but Yoru insisted that steel, energy, and force would defeat any resistance.
• Yoru ordered the engineers to extend the tracks through valleys and across obstacles, threatening to flatten any village that stood in their way.
• Naruto boarded the train to watch the show in Leaf Village as Yoru’s train began its journey toward the new era he intended to rule.

Yoru and his allies traveled by train toward Leaf Village while Deidara described a plan to use an Explosive Tag delivery network and embedded trackers to gather intelligence and sabotage shinobi. As the train reached the battlefield, Yoru prepared to attack Leaf Village and declared his intention to remake the shinobi world.

• Deidara showed Yoru the Explosive Tag Internet Project and explained that shinobi could order tags for rapid drone delivery.
• Yoru said the project’s customer locations, chakra fluctuations, and mission preferences mattered more than its profits.
• Deidara revealed that Orochimaru had put miniature trackers in Chakra Gatlings, while Orochimaru suggested using the network to detonate other villages’ tags.
• Yoru warned Deidara not to underestimate Kabuto Yakushi and said he would go to the moon after settling matters at Leaf Village.
• Kakuzu reported that the train would reach Leaf Village in under two hours and that they had brought fifty thousand explosive rounds.
• Naruto declared himself ready to fight, Sasuke drew his Kusanagi Sword partway, and Yoru opened the carriage door as they approached the battlefield.

Yoru and Orochimaru completed a living God Tree clone capable of producing chakra fruit, which they planned to use to empower Stone Village and seize territory. Yoru left to confront Leaf Village’s leaders as the first harvest approached.

• Yoru inspected Orochimaru’s God Tree clone and learned it could grow chakra fruits by consuming fertilizer, though eating too many could cause strange body parts to grow.
• Orochimaru explained that he had modified the fruit’s energy so contact with other chakra would trigger a chain annihilation reaction.
• Yoru ordered Kakuzu to trade the fruit for territory in subordinate countries that Stone Village had not fully absorbed.
• Orochimaru said the first batch would be ready after the sapling received nutrients from another ten thousand White Zetsu, potentially empowering every Stone Village shinobi.
• Yoru passed Naruto and Sasuke fighting outside the laboratory and headed for Leaf Village to bring down its old leaders.