Chapter Summaries

Pain ordered Itachi to infiltrate Konoha, assassinate Chenshu Senju, and bring Sasuke back to Akatsuki. Itachi set out with Kisame but secretly sent crows to contact an unpredictable ally rather than returning to Konoha.

• Pain ordered Itachi to kill Chenshu Senju and retrieve Sasuke, while Zetsu warned him not to sabotage the mission.
• Itachi concealed his illness and accepted the order despite knowing he could not defeat Chenshu Senju head-on.
• Itachi returned to his body in a rain-soaked cave and coughed up blood as Kisame asked about Pain's orders.
• Itachi told Kisame they had to infiltrate Konoha, and Kisame protested that Chenshu Senju could easily kill them.
• Itachi left the cave with Kisame and sent red-eyed crows to contact an unforeseen variable instead of flying toward Konoha.

Chenshu Senju broke Sasuke Uchiha’s faith in Orochimaru and offered him power in exchange for submission. After Sasuke pledged loyalty, Chenshu unlocked an Uchiha-exclusive draw pool and began imagining the power he could gain from it.

• Chenshu Senju forced Sasuke Uchiha to watch slowed footage of Orochimaru’s humiliating illness and mocked him for wanting to join Orochimaru.
• Sasuke denied the footage was real, but Chenshu dismissed his genjutsu accusation and challenged him to choose between Orochimaru and submission.
• Chenshu promised to help Sasuke defeat Itachi Uchiha, and Sasuke accepted any price in exchange for the chance to kill his brother.
• Chenshu released Sasuke’s chains, and Sasuke knelt and pledged to submit to him.
• The system announced that Sasuke’s absolute submission had unlocked the Ultimate Twister of Fate achievement and an Uchiha Bloodline Exclusive Draw Pool.
• Chenshu realized the new draw pool could grant him powerful Uchiha abilities and imagined combining them with his Senju strength.

Chenshu Senju consolidated Root’s remaining forces, the Sound Four, and Sasuke Uchiha into the Senju ANBU, then received powerful rewards from a system ten-pull. As he began studying his new Flying Thunder God technique at home, a hidden intruder triggered his Wood Release sensors.

• Kimimaro reported that the Sound Four had eliminated Root’s remaining forces, and Tayuya provoked Sasuke before Chenshu Senju silenced them.
• Chenshu Senju reorganized Root’s former resources, the Sound Four, and Sasuke Uchiha into the Senju ANBU and demanded their loyalty to him alone.
• Chenshu Senju used his faction achievement reward for a ten-pull and obtained Flying Thunder God: Second Step and a 30% increase to his True Several Thousand Hands fusion rate.
• Chenshu Senju returned to the Senju Clan residence to study Flying Thunder God: Second Step, but a concealed chakra fluctuation triggered his Wood Release sensory network.

Itachi infiltrated Konoha to find Chenshu Senju and seek a way to protect both Konoha and Sasuke without obeying Pain’s order to assassinate Chenshu. After Chenshu’s Wood Release trap caught him, the vines withdrew, and Chenshu greeted him in the courtyard.

• Itachi slipped through Konoha’s sensory barrier and headed for the Senju Clan estate.
• Itachi watched the estate and found its apparent lack of guards and active defenses suspicious.
• Itachi vaulted over the wall, triggering Wood Release vines that attacked him from every direction.
• Itachi used a crow substitution to escape the vines, which then withdrew into the soil.
• Chenshu Senju greeted Itachi from the courtyard and teased him for climbing the wall instead of using the front gate.

Itachi Uchiha confronted Chenshu Senju after his infiltration was discovered, but his attacks—including Amaterasu—failed to harm Chenshu. As their fight continued, a familiar figure emerged from the residence, leaving Itachi staring in horror.

• Chenshu Senju blocked Itachi Uchiha's shuriken with Wood Release and taunted him.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Amaterasu, but Chenshu sheltered behind a Wood Locking Wall that the flames could not penetrate.
• Chenshu emerged unscathed and mocked Itachi's bleeding eyes and exhaustion.
• Itachi rushed into close combat, but Chenshu stopped his Kunai with two fingers and began draining his chakra through it.
• Itachi escaped the chakra-draining grip and retreated as a sliding door opened and a familiar figure emerged from the residence.

Sasuke appeared in Senju ANBU clothing and revealed that he had pledged himself to Chenshu Senju, devastating Itachi. Chenshu stopped Sasuke from attacking and offered Itachi a deal that could save the Hidden Leaf Village and Sasuke, leaving Itachi poised to hear the terms.

• Sasuke entered wearing a Senju ANBU uniform and stood beside Chenshu Senju as Itachi stared in disbelief.
• Sasuke told Itachi he had found a true master and would do anything to kill him.
• Sasuke knelt to ask Chenshu Senju for permission to kill Itachi, but Chenshu ordered him to stand down.
• Itachi demanded to know what Chenshu had done to Sasuke, and Chenshu said he had given him hope of personally ending Itachi.
• Chenshu warned that Itachi's weakened body could not withstand another Susanoo and offered him a deal to save the Hidden Leaf Village and Sasuke.

Chenshu Senju coerced Itachi into becoming his spy inside Akatsuki by threatening Sasuke, while promising to protect and train Sasuke. Outside Konoha, Kisame arrived with Kakuzu and Hidan as part of Pain’s expanded operation to eliminate Chenshu.

• Chenshu revealed that Itachi’s body was near its limit and that Akatsuki was monitoring him through Zetsu, then ordered Itachi to provide intelligence from within the organization.
• Chenshu threatened to hand Sasuke over to Pain unless Itachi agreed, and Itachi accepted while warning Chenshu not to harm his brother.
• Itachi left, and Chenshu celebrated gaining Sasuke and an intelligence source within Akatsuki.
• Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan gathered in the rain outside Konoha, with Kakuzu warning Hidan not to damage Chenshu because he wanted the bounty and Root’s assets.

Pain ordered Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan to launch a direct assault on Konoha, while Chenshu Senju waited for them with a trap. The attack began at the village gates, where Hidan triggered Chenshu’s Ultimate Laxative Trap and lost control of his bowels.

• Pain ordered Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan to raid Konoha after losing contact with Zetsu’s intelligence from Itachi’s mission.
• Konoha’s barrier team detected three powerful intruders, and Tsunade mobilized the village’s elite forces.
• Chenshu Senju chose to let the attackers advance, while Sasuke and the Sound Five waited with him at the Senju Estate.
• Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan entered Konoha through its destroyed gates, and Hidan vowed to kill Chenshu Senju.
• Hidan stepped on Chenshu Senju’s hidden trap, which made him explosively defecate as Kakuzu and Kisame watched in shock.

Chenshu Senju ambushed the Akatsuki trio with a diarrhea-inducing trap, then sent Sasuke, Kimimaro, and Tayuya to fight them while he watched. His subordinates gained the upper hand, and Kakuzu prepared to unleash his ultimate technique.

• Chenshu Senju appeared with Sasuke and the Sound Five after Hidan, Kakuzu, and Kisame were caught in the trap.
• Chenshu Senju assigned Sasuke to fight Kisame, Kimimaro to fight Kakuzu, and Tayuya to restrain Hidan.
• Sasuke used Chidori Current to pressure Kisame, while Tayuya trapped Hidan in a genjutsu.
• Kimimaro's Sage Art: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets destroyed two of Kakuzu's masked hearts.
• Kakuzu, enraged by the loss of his hearts, formed a seal to unleash his ultimate trump card.

Chenshu Senju routed Kakuzu, Kisame, and Hidan when they attacked the Hidden Leaf Village, prompting Pain to prepare the Six Paths for a personal assault. Zetsu then revealed that Obito was also watching Chenshu and considered him a threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Chenshu Senju struck Kakuzu with a Flying Thunder God attack, destroyed another of his hearts, and forced Kisame to retreat with Kakuzu and Hidan.
• Kisame reported that he had been overwhelmed, while Hidan had suffered severe diarrhea after stepping on a senjutsu trap.
• Pain learned of the trio’s defeat and unleashed Shinra Tensei in his tower.
• Pain summoned the other five Paths and ordered all Six Paths to attack the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Zetsu told Pain that Obito had watched the battle and was keeping Chenshu under surveillance because of his actions against Root and his strange Wood Release.

Pain and the other five Paths launched a devastating invasion of Konoha, with Deva Path Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei destroying much of the commercial district. As Pain prepared to attack again, a massive Wood Release pillar rose from the Senju Clan estate, signaling that Chenshu Senju had entered the battle.

• The six Paths of Pain descended on Konoha and began attacking across the village.
• Deva Path Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, erasing half of the commercial district and killing many shinobi.
• An ANBU shinobi warned Tsunade that Akatsuki had invaded, and she ordered the village’s forces and Barrier Team to respond.
• Deva Path Pain prepared another Shinra Tensei against the surviving shinobi.
• A dark-purple pillar of Wood Release and Sage Jutsu chakra rose from the Senju Clan estate, drawing Deva Path Pain’s attention.

Chenshu Senju arrived above the ruined Hidden Leaf Village with a Wood Dragon and deployed the Senju ANBU to battle Pain’s forces. As his ANBU stabilized the fighting across the village, Chenshu provoked Deva Path Pain, who gathered power for an even greater attack.

• Chenshu Senju appeared atop a colossal Wood Dragon, and the Hidden Leaf survivors cheered when they saw him.
• Sasuke Uchiha, Kimimaro, and the other Senju ANBU members arrived and obeyed Chenshu’s order to fight Pain’s forces separately.
• Kimimaro confronted Asura Path Pain, while Sasuke struck down Animal Path Pain’s Multi-Headed Dog and challenged Animal Path.
• Tayuya, Kidomaru, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon attacked Pain’s summons and helped steady the village’s collapsing defenses.
• Chenshu faced Deva Path Pain in the crater and mocked his claim to godhood.
• Deva Path Pain erupted in fury and gathered chakra for a powerful attack as the other five Paths stopped fighting.

Chenshu Senju overwhelmed the Six Paths of Pain, killing Human Path and Asura Path in quick succession. Enraged, Nagato empowered Deva Path, who began using Planetary Devastation against Chenshu.

• The Six Paths of Pain focused their attacks on Chenshu, who used Wood Clones to block Asura Path’s laser and knock down Animal Path’s Yatagarasu.
• Chenshu teleported behind Human Path and killed him with a Sage Art: Rasengan before Naraka Path could revive him.
• Chenshu bound Asura Path with Wood Release and destroyed him with a Big Ball Rasengan.
• Chenshu taunted Nagato, who roared and channeled more chakra into Deva Path.
• Deva Path invoked Planetary Devastation against Chenshu.

Nagato’s Deva Path Pain unleashed Planetary Devastation, pulling Konoha and Chenshu Senju toward a growing sphere in the sky. As the village faced destruction, Chenshu Senju awakened his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and began summoning a colossal golden warrior.

• Deva Path Pain raised a black sphere that tore up Konoha and dragged people, buildings, and terrain into the sky.
• Kimimaro, Sasuke, Tayuya, Kidomaru, and the other survivors struggled to anchor themselves against the force.
• Chenshu Senju and his Wood Dragon began collapsing under the pull as Tsunade and the village leaders watched in despair.
• Deva Path Pain taunted Chenshu Senju and declared that Konoha’s destruction was the fate of mortals who challenged a god.
• Chenshu Senju revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and announced that the fight would end.
• Chenshu Senju released immense golden chakra that formed a towering golden skeleton behind him.

Chenshu Senju summoned True Several Thousand Hands and smashed Pain’s Planetary Devastation into a mountain beyond the Hidden Leaf Village, ending the gravitational storm. After dismissing the chakra-draining Buddha, he faced four injured Paths of Pain and prepared for the battle to continue.

• Chenshu Senju formed a hundred-meter True Several Thousand Hands around his golden skeleton as Pain’s Planetary Devastation continued growing above the village.
• Chenshu Senju used Top Transformed Buddha to batter the rocky sphere and knock its gravitational core off course.
• Planetary Devastation crashed into a barren mountain outside the village, ending the storm and dropping the wreckage and villagers back to the ground.
• The surviving villagers stared in awe, while Kimimaro admired Chenshu Senju and Sasuke resolved to pursue his strength.
• Chenshu Senju dismissed the Buddha, then identified Deva Path, Animal Path, Preta Path, and Naraka Path as the remaining nearby opponents and readied himself to fight.

Chenshu Senju used a divine draw to obtain and awaken a Mangekyō Sharingan with Kamui while facing Pain’s remaining Paths in the ruins of Konoha. As he prepared to overwhelm Deva Path Pain, a masked Akatsuki figure arrived unnoticed and froze at the sight of Chenshu’s eye.

• Chenshu Senju checked his accumulated draws and spent them on the Uchiha Bloodline Exclusive Draw Pool.
• The system awarded Chenshu Senju a Mangekyō Sharingan with Kamui in one eye, which he fused into his left eye.
• Nagato, the Konoha survivors, Tsunade, and Sasuke Uchiha reacted with shock as Chenshu Senju awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Chenshu Senju tested the eye’s vision and spatial power, then told Deva Path Pain that the warm-up was over.
• A masked Akatsuki figure emerged from a spatial vortex on a nearby rooftop and froze when he saw Chenshu Senju.

Chenshu Senju spotted Obito arriving at the battlefield and attacked him with long-range Kamui, but Obito evaded the strike. Obito then invoked Madara Uchiha’s name to provoke Chenshu Senju, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Chenshu Senju noticed Obito emerge from a spatial vortex and recognized the Mangekyō Sharingan in Obito’s eye as identical to his own.
• Obito was shocked to see Chenshu Senju’s eye, while Deva Path Pain and Nagato reacted warily to his arrival.
• Chenshu Senju used long-range Kamui to attack Obito, who turned intangible and escaped the spatial force.
• Obito warned Chenshu Senju that his powers only retraced an old path and asked whether he could surpass Madara Uchiha.
• Chenshu Senju’s expression darkened when Obito named Madara Uchiha.

Chenshu Senju drove off Pain and watched Obito withdraw after the attack on Hidden Leaf Village. As survivors began rescue efforts, Shizune discovered that Tsunade had vanished during the chaos.

• Obito confronted Chenshu Senju while Pain used a chameleon summon to escape with the remaining Paths.
• Chenshu Senju let Pain flee, and Obito departed after warning that they would meet again.
• Chenshu Senju ordered the surviving shinobi to treat the injured and clear rubble, then headed to show himself to Tsunade.
• Shizune entered the ruined Hokage office and found Tsunade missing.
• Two ANBU told Shizune that Tsunade had gone to inspect the front lines during the attack and had not returned.

After Tsunade vanished during the attack on the Hidden Leaf Village, Chenshu Senju found her hidden underground safe room and a note saying she was going to settle old matters. He suspected Shimura Danzō had drawn her away with information about the Senju Clan’s past.

• Shizune told Chenshu Senju that Tsunade had disappeared after saying she was heading to the front lines.
• Chenshu Senju used Kamui and Sage Art: Wood Release: Sensory Perception to locate Tsunade beneath the Hokage Building.
• Chenshu Senju and Shizune found Tsunade’s empty safe room, with footprints leading inside and no signs of a struggle.
• Shizune found a note from Tsunade that read, “I am going to settle some old matters.”
• Chenshu Senju suspected Shimura Danzō had given Tsunade information connected to the Senju Clan and destroyed the note.

After Chenshu Senju defeated Pain, the other hidden villages reassessed their plans toward Konoha and the threat he posed. Back in Konoha, Chenshu received secret intelligence from Itachi revealing Akatsuki’s plan to gather all nine tailed beasts.

• The Fourth Raikage A learned that Chenshu Senju had single-handedly defeated Pain and destroyed his desk in anger.
• Ōnoki accepted the report of Chenshu Senju’s power and decided Iwagakure had to reconsider its strategy toward Konoha.
• Mei Terumi and Ao discussed Chenshu Senju’s threat, while Mei expressed interest in meeting him.
• Chenshu Senju sensed the Kamui eye’s power as Konoha rebuilt the district damaged by Planetary Devastation.
• Itachi sent Chenshu Senju a coded scroll reporting that Pain had returned to Amegakure and Akatsuki planned to gather all nine tailed beasts.