Recaps

Natsu and his companions attacked a convoy and used genjutsu to learn about the parallel Ninja World they had entered. Natsu discovered that King Uchiha had founded the Flame Ninja Village and built an alliance of several clans, leaving the group to consider what to do next.

• Yaoyu split the tax official's carriage with a single sword stroke, killing the official, while Yakumi knocked the samurai guards unconscious with his Sharingan.
• Natsu used genjutsu to search the Grass Ninja captain's mind for information about the convoy.
• Natsu learned of the Flame Ninja Village and King Uchiha, who had united the Uchiha, Uzumaki, Kaguya, and Yuki clans with support from the Land of Fire's daimyo.
• Yaoyu criticized King Uchiha for submitting to the daimyo, and said Natsu had spared their own clan from becoming the daimyo's servants.

Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi entered this world's Konoha unnoticed, with Yaoyu and Yakumi eager to prepare a destructive welcome gift. As they walked toward Naka Shrine, Natsu observed the peaceful cooperation between the Uchiha and Senju Clans and considered the score he still had to settle with Konoha.

• Natsu agreed to let Yaoyu and Yakumi prepare a grand gift for Konoha, and Yaoyu considered using their Mangekyo Sharingan powers to create a huge spectacle.
• Yakumi wondered whether Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō should suffer before they died, while Natsu chose to inspect Konoha and its so-called God of Shinobi first.
• Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi slipped past Konoha's gate guards and sensory barrier without being noticed.
• Natsu saw Uchiha and Senju Clan members living and working together, while Yaoyu recalled the hostility between their clans in his own past.
• The three reached the steps of Naka Shrine and continued through Konoha unnoticed.

Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi explored newly founded Konoha and learned that Hashirama and Madara shared leadership, with the Uchiha and Senju holding equal authority. They headed toward the forest training grounds while observing signs of cooperation between the clans.

• Yaoyu and Natsu visited Konoha's living Naka Shrine and found the village streets filled with Uchiha and Senju mixing freely.
• Natsu used his Sharingan to question Konoha ninja and learned that Hashirama was Hokage, Madara was Deputy Hokage, and the clans shared power.
• Natsu confirmed that Madara was in the Hokage Building, but chose to visit the mountain training grounds before meeting him.
• The three walked along the Naka River and saw mixed Uchiha-Senju patrols working together.
• Yaoyu noticed Uchiha and Senju children excitedly planning to form a team and take S-rank missions when they grew up.

Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi watched the peaceful Uchiha children train and wondered how long peace could last without Madara. Tobirama Senju returned home exhausted by village politics and paperwork, unaware of the three visitors watching Konoha.

• Natsu said the peaceful coexistence between the Senju and Uchiha served as a warning that peace depended on strength, and Yaoyu and Yakumi agreed that the Uchiha might face the same persecution as their own clan if Madara died.
• Natsu led Yaoyu and Yakumi to the training ground, where they watched young Uchiha train freely beneath the evening lights.
• Tobirama Senju left the Hokage Building after processing paperwork and brooded over the Uchiha King from Flame Ninja Village and the threat he posed.
• Tobirama Senju passed the training ground, glanced at the young Uchiha practicing under the lamps, and continued on his way home.

Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi encountered Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju while having breakfast in Konoha. Madara recognized them as people from Flame Ninja Village and demanded to know why they were there.

• Tobirama Senju left the area, and Madara Uchiha watched him before returning to the Uchiha Clan District.
• Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi ate breakfast and spotted Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju walking together.
• Natsu explained that their unusual partnership might stem from the pressure of Flame Ninja Village and King Uchiha.
• Hashirama Senju noticed the strangers' Chakra signatures and brought Madara over to their table.
• Madara recognized Natsu's Sharingan and identified the three as people from Flame Ninja Village, then asked what they were doing in Konoha.

Natsu met Hashirama and Madara in Konoha and questioned whether the Senju and Uchiha could truly live together in peace. He accepted Hashirama’s invitation to visit the Hokage Building, where he and his companions began looking around.

• Natsu said he had come to see Konoha and its Uchiha, and Hashirama promised the Senju and Uchiha would not return to blood feuds while he and Madara were alive.
• Hashirama introduced himself and asked Natsu about his training after being impressed by Natsu’s chakra reserves.
• Natsu asked why Hashirama and Madara were away from their duties, and Madara revealed Tobirama had passed their paperwork to him.
• Hashirama invited Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi to the Hokage Building to discuss Konoha and Flame Ninja Village, and Natsu accepted.
• Hashirama led the group toward the Hokage Building with Madara, and Natsu entered the main hall with Yaoyu and Yakumi.

Natsu confronted Tobirama Senju over his hostility toward the Uchiha while visiting Konoha, and Madara warned what would happen if Tobirama ever acted against them. The visit turned tense when Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō entered, provoking Yaoyu and Yakumi to draw their swords.

• Hashirama asked Natsu how many Uchiha lived in the Flame Ninja Village, and Natsu joked that King had pretended not to see Hashirama because he feared losing a fight.
• Tobirama Senju arrived and questioned why Natsu and his companions had come to Konoha.
• Natsu said he had come to see how Konoha's Uchiha lived and confirm whether Tobirama hated them; Madara admitted Tobirama did and warned he would retaliate if Tobirama moved against the Uchiha after Hashirama was gone.
• Hashirama ordered everyone not to fight in the Hokage Building, and the room settled enough for Tobirama to resume reviewing documents.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō entered with documents, and Yaoyu and Yakumi drew their swords as their killing intent pinned Danzō in place.
• Hashirama shielded Hiruzen and Danzō while Madara restrained Yaoyu and Yakumi, and Tobirama asked his students what they had done to provoke them.

Natsu confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō with the truth that they had destroyed the Uchiha Clan in his world, then trapped them in a genjutsu of their clans’ slaughter. He left them with a warning and an ominous gift before departing with Yaoyu and Yakumi.

• Natsu ordered Yaoyu and Yakumi to sheathe their swords when they faced Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō.
• Madara and Tobirama Senju realized Natsu and his guards came from a parallel universe.
• Natsu revealed that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō had driven the Uchiha Clan to annihilation in his world.
• Natsu subjected Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō to a genjutsu in which they witnessed their own clans being slaughtered.
• Natsu warned the two men that the visions might become reality and said he had left a gift that would open later.
• Natsu left the Hokage Building with Yaoyu and Yakumi, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō remained shaken by the genjutsu.

Natsu left Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō trapped in a genjutsu that would torment them whenever they slept or used chakra, then explained to Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara why he had punished them. The group parted with Madara inviting Natsu to visit again, while Natsu hinted that a gift for this world's Uchiha would arrive in a few days.

• Natsu left the Hokage Building with Yaoyu and Yakumi, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō kneeling under the effects of his genjutsu.
• Hashirama chased after Natsu and demanded an explanation about the other world and the Uchiha Clan's extermination.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi told Hashirama that the Senju Clan had been wiped out in the other world and that Uchiha Itachi had killed his clan after being manipulated by Konoha's leaders.
• Natsu explained that Hiruzen and Danzō would suffer recurring nightmares and be unable to improve their strength, calling it repayment for the Uchiha Clan.
• Madara stopped Hashirama from pressing Natsu further and invited Natsu to return for a drink; Natsu agreed to have tea while Madara drank.

After sparing Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, Natsu explained to Yaoyu and Yakumi that he intended their enemies to suffer through fear and the destruction of everything they valued. The brothers accepted his reasoning, and Yakumi’s desire for immediate revenge began to shift.

• Hashirama asked Tobirama Senju to change Sarutobi and Danzo’s lesson schedule after watching Natsu and the Uchiha depart.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi questioned Natsu at their forest camp about why he had spared Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō.
• Natsu said the Uchiha would encounter many enemies across parallel worlds and could not kill them all.
• Natsu explained that he wanted Hiruzen and Danzō to live in terror and witness their clans’ reputations, power, and bonds unravel.
• Yaoyu called Natsu frightening, while Yakumi quietly accepted that living with the consequences of their actions was harder than dying.

Madara told Hashirama that Natsu had described another timeline where Konoha’s leaders drove Itachi to exterminate the Uchiha, making Hashirama’s ideals fail. Hashirama argued that Natsu’s presence meant that world had not erased the Uchiha entirely, leaving them to consider what that surviving trace might mean.

• Madara left the Hokage Building and went alone to the Naka River, dwelling on his hatred of Tobirama and his trust in Hashirama.
• Hashirama found Madara by the river and sat with him, bringing sake.
• Madara told Hashirama that Natsu said the Uchiha were wiped out in another timeline by Fugaku’s son after Konoha’s Hokage and elders manipulated him.
• Hashirama acknowledged that the descendants he chose had helped drive the Uchiha toward extermination, undermining the ideal he had pursued.
• Hashirama said the other world could not have ended completely because Natsu had survived the Uchiha Massacre and appeared in their world.

Hashirama persuaded Madara that the Uchiha who massacred his clan had borne the weight of a world twisted by war, and Madara reaffirmed their duty to keep believing in peace. As they walked toward the Uchiha Clan District, Madara explained that the Uchiha King of Flame Ninja Village was preparing an escape route for the Uchiha rather than building another village in pursuit of peace.

• Hashirama argued that the Uchiha survivor's Mangekyo Sharingan and actions showed how much pain he had endured, and Madara acknowledged that the tragedy was the bitter fruit of generations of war and hatred.
• Hashirama offered Madara sake and urged him not to give up on peace; Madara accepted the bottle and said that if they stopped believing, no one else would believe either.
• Hashirama chased after Madara and joked about settling the score for his skipping work, then asked whether the Uchiha King of Flame Ninja Village had come from another world.
• Madara said Tobirama Senju had verified that the Uchiha King was born in their world and suggested he had recognized the dangers behind their hastily forged peace.
• Madara explained that the Uchiha King had gathered other clans not to establish another stable ninja village, but to prepare an escape route for the Uchiha in case war came.

Madara and Hashirama found a letter from Natsu at Madara’s residence, in which she explained the parallel-world Madara’s fate, challenged their vision of peace, and revealed her plan to meet Uchiha King in Flame Ninja Village. She left a chakra mark so Madara could contact her again, while her future role in the Uchiha Clan’s fate remained undecided.

• Madara and Hashirama returned to Madara’s residence and found an envelope addressed to Madara on the courtyard’s stone table.
• Madara sensed Natsu’s faint chakra mark on the envelope and read her account of the parallel Madara’s defeat, survival, manipulation by Black Zetsu, and death.
• Natsu told Madara that the other Madara’s final regret was never trusting Hashirama, and urged him to cherish their present bond.
• Natsu criticized Hashirama’s fragile peace and Madara’s inability to abandon bonds, arguing that neither could overcome the world’s entrenched conflicts together.
• Natsu announced that she would go to Flame Ninja Village to meet Uchiha King and would consider helping him unify the Ninja World if she judged him worthy.
• Natsu left a mark that Madara could activate with chakra to contact her, and joked that Hashirama should buy fewer dango skewers next time.

Hashirama read a letter describing how another-world Madara died after Hashirama killed him and how the Uchiha were later exterminated. Madara challenged Hashirama to build a peace that could survive beyond one man's strength, and Hashirama vowed they would pursue that future together.

• Hashirama read the letter and learned that another-world Madara regretted never trusting him.
• Hashirama confessed his guilt over killing Madara in that world, but Madara reassured him that he trusted the Hashirama beside him.
• Madara warned that Hashirama's peace was fragile and would have failed if Hashirama ever had to raise his blade against him.
• Hashirama promised that neither of them would die and that they would build a lasting peace side by side.
• Madara agreed to trust Hashirama once, and they drank sake together until their bottles were empty.

Hashirama told Tobirama about the alternate world where his peace was betrayed and questioned whether his dream was naïve. Tobirama explained that Hashirama’s ideals needed stronger institutions and promised to help build them, leaving Hashirama reassured about their partnership.

• Hashirama left Madara and went to Tobirama’s study, where Tobirama was working late.
• Hashirama recounted Madara’s letter and the alternate world’s events, including his own killing of Madara and the Uchiha’s destruction by Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and others.
• Hashirama asked whether his dream of ending hatred and war had been naïve.
• Tobirama said the ideal was sound but had relied too heavily on Hashirama and Madara’s strength without establishing lasting institutions.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that he would address the ideal’s structural flaws while Hashirama preserved his hope and kindness, and Hashirama relaxed with a relieved smile.

Hashirama learned that Tobirama’s views on the Uchiha came from years of studying their bloodline and the curse linking love, loss, hatred, and Sharingan power, not simply from prejudice. Hashirama promised to take Tobirama’s cautions seriously, leaving Tobirama alone with the responsibility he had long carried.

• Hashirama thanked Tobirama for staying clear-headed and planning for the worst after the revelations about another world and Madara’s death.
• Hashirama admitted he had assumed Tobirama’s hatred of the Uchiha remained rooted in past losses and bloodshed.
• Tobirama showed Hashirama his old notebook and explained that intense love and devastating loss drove Uchiha ocular power and extreme behavior.
• Tobirama acknowledged his own hatred of the Uchiha but said their power and the genjutsu Natsu cast on Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo showed why Konoha needed to remain vigilant.
• Hashirama apologized for misunderstanding Tobirama and promised to carefully consider his warnings; Tobirama told him to keep that promise on file.

Tobirama Senju weighed the danger that Madara might someday lose control and resolved to prepare a contingency plan to protect Konoha and Hashirama’s ideal of peace. He left Uchiha Izuna’s name on the page as a potential ally to revive, despite their bitter history.

• Tobirama Senju reviewed the night’s events and wrote Hashirama’s and Madara’s names in his Forbidden Technique notes as he considered the risk of Madara losing control.
• Tobirama Senju decided to prioritize developing Impure World Reincarnation so he could bring Hashirama back from the Pure Land if Madara became a threat.
• Tobirama Senju concluded that Hashirama might not be enough to stop Madara and wrote down Uchiha Izuna as a second safeguard.
• Tobirama Senju recalled his lethal rivalry with Izuna and imagined Izuna mocking him after being revived, but he chose not to cross the name out.
• Tobirama Senju committed to reviving his hated enemy and working with him if necessary to protect Konoha and Hashirama’s peace.

Madara Uchiha sat alone with Izuna Uchiha’s kunai and remembered his childhood friendship with Hashirama, their shared wish for peace, and the moment they learned they belonged to enemy clans. He recalled Izuna’s death, the alliance that founded Konoha, and the growing clan tensions that made him doubt Hashirama’s ideal.

• Madara Uchiha sat beneath the eaves, holding Izuna Uchiha’s kunai as memories of his youth returned.
• Madara Uchiha remembered how he and Hashirama skipped stones by the Naka River and wished for children to grow up without war.
• Madara Uchiha recalled learning that Hashirama belonged to the Senju Clan while he belonged to the Uchiha, and how their friendship was shaken by their inherited enmity.
• Madara Uchiha remembered Izuna Uchiha dying from Tobirama Senju’s Flying Thunder God Slash and swore to avenge him.
• Madara Uchiha set aside his hatred after Hashirama begged him to prevent more deaths, then signed an alliance with the Senju Clan and helped build Konoha.
• Madara Uchiha watched suspicion between the Senju and Uchiha deepen and began to question Hashirama’s ideal of peace.

Madara Uchiha confronted the collapse of his lifelong plan after learning that the Six Paths Stone Tablet had been altered and Infinite Tsukuyomi was never salvation. Alone in the courtyard, he was left questioning what his life and struggles had meant.

• Madara Uchiha recalled how Natsu had revealed that Black Zetsu had falsified the stone tablet and manipulated his plan for decades.
• Madara turned a kunai in his bloodied hand and mourned his failures to protect his brother and clan.
• Madara remembered his childhood meeting with Hashirama Senju and the peaceful future they had once imagined.
• Madara reflected that he could neither hate Hashirama nor find anyone else to blame for the deception that had shaped his life.
• Madara raised his exhausted eyes and wondered what he had fought for all his life.

After his faith in peace collapses, Madara Uchiha meets Uchiha Natsu, who invites him to help create a lasting era of peace. Madara accepts Natsu’s hand and agrees to see this new world for himself.

• Madara Uchiha mourned the shattering of his ideals, then hardened his resolve to pursue power and Uchiha’s future.
• Uchiha Natsu arrived at Madara’s courtyard and invited him to come with him.
• Natsu declared that his power would establish an enduring order uniting the Ninja World in peace.
• Madara questioned whether the Senju Clan and Uchiha could truly overcome their hatred, and Natsu promised peace for all clans and civilians.
• Madara accepted Natsu’s outstretched hand and agreed to witness the world he promised.

Natsu told Madara that he could remain in this world for only one month and proposed visiting Uchiha King in Flame Ninja Village to secure the Uchiha’s future. Madara agreed to leave at dawn, while Yaoyu and Yakumi waited in the forest as two familiar chakra signatures approached.

• Natsu explained that the shattered spacetime anchor would force him, Yaoyu, and Yakumi to leave after one month.
• Natsu proposed meeting Uchiha King to judge whether he could be trusted with the Uchiha’s future, with Madara as the alternative leader.
• Madara agreed to travel with Natsu to Flame Ninja Village and said they would leave at dawn.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi waited by a forest bonfire, worrying about how long Natsu had been inside Konoha.
• Two familiar chakra signatures approached the forest, and Yaoyu rose with relief.

Natsu brought Madara Uchiha together with Yaoyu and Yakumi, whose reverence for Madara gave him news that Uchiha Setsuna was still alive and the Uchiha Clan had found peace under Natsu. They traveled to Flame Ninja Village, where the brothers were struck by the young settlement’s size and orderly bustle.

• Yaoyu and Yakumi greeted Natsu and recognized the man with him as Madara Uchiha.
• Yaoyu told Madara that Uchiha Setsuna was alive and shared the elder’s stories of Madara’s legendary strength.
• Yaoyu explained that Natsu had led the Uchiha to an island and a village where they were free from Konoha and no longer lived under constant threat.
• Natsu led Madara, Yaoyu, and Yakumi toward Flame Ninja Village, and Yaoyu privately wondered whether Madara had become emotional at the news of Setsuna.
• The group reached Flame Ninja Village, where Yaoyu admired its defenses and busy streets and wondered how it had grown so quickly.

Natsu and his companions explored Flame Ninja Village, judging its mature defenses, task system, and peaceful coexistence as far ahead of Konoha’s. Natsu grew increasingly intent on meeting Uchiha King, and the chapter ended as he paused at a shop bearing Uchiha and Uzumaki crests.

• Natsu, Yaoyu, Yakumi, and Madara entered Flame Ninja Village and observed its defenses and clan crests, which showed that Uchiha King had accepted support from the Land of Fire without surrendering sovereignty.
• The four walked through the bustling city, where clans and commoners traded and lived alongside one another.
• Yaoyu and Yakumi praised the task hall’s organized commissions and Guard Corps, while Madara explained how the village’s logistics, military force, and defenses formed a mature system.
• Natsu and Madara agreed that Flame Ninja Village’s structure anticipated the Ninja World’s future, and Natsu became more eager to meet Uchiha King.
• Yaoyu noticed Natsu’s silence, and Natsu stopped to study a ninja tool shop sign bearing the Uchiha and Uzumaki crests.

Natsu concluded that Uchiha King shared his way of thinking and had built Flame Ninja Village to secure the Uchiha’s survival, and Madara accepted that King could be the leader his clan needed. As the group approached the Flame Shadow Building, Natsu wondered whether King was worthy of entrusting with the Uchiha’s future.

• Natsu analyzed Uchiha King’s village-building plans and concluded that his methods and strategic thinking matched his own.
• Natsu explained to Yaoyu and Madara that King had made alliances and secured the daimyo’s support to protect the Uchiha from their fate in Konoha.
• Madara realized that King had established Flame Ninja Village as a path to survival for the Uchiha and agreed that he might be the leader they needed.
• Natsu said King had left clues for Madara to find and had waited for him to choose whether to approach, rather than seeking him out in Konoha.
• The group reached the Flame Shadow Building, whose entrance displayed the Uchiha crest alongside those of the Uzumaki, Kaguya Clan, and Minazuki Clan.

Madara Uchiha brought Natsu, Yaoyu, and Yakumi to Flame Ninja Village, where guards welcomed him under Uchiha King's standing orders. When King sensed Natsu, he was shaken by the youth's unfathomable presence and asked Madara who he was.

• Two Uchiha guards recognized Madara and let him and his companions enter without reporting their arrival.
• Yaoyu remarked on the guards' special treatment, and Yakumi said ordinary visitors would not receive a personal visit from Madara.
• Uchiha King greeted Madara at the Flame Shadow Building and assessed Yaoyu and Yakumi as elite guards.
• King's sensory ninjutsu failed to detect Natsu's chakra, and his instincts warned him of the youth's overwhelming, unknowable power.
• King suppressed his alarm and asked Madara who Natsu was, keeping his gaze fixed on him.