Chapter Summaries

As Fugaku prepared to become Fifth Hokage, the Uchiha spread boastful claims about their clan, while Tobirama planned to stop him with Uchiha Itachi as his witness. At the inauguration ceremony, Hyuga Hitoshi ignored the gathering’s attention until Rasa approached him.

• The Uchiha Military Police questioned outsiders and spread claims that the Uchiha were Konoha’s greatest clan and Fugaku its strongest Hokage.
• Tobirama told Danzo and Sarutobi that he would expose the Uchiha at the inauguration, and he decided Sarutobi should assist Danzo afterward.
• Tobirama recruited eight-year-old Uchiha Itachi, who agreed to testify against Fugaku over his alleged dealings with Hyuga Hitoshi.
• Danzo considered using Itachi as a future tool, while Rasa and the other visiting leaders prepared to confront Hitoshi.
• At the ceremony, Hitoshi sat beside the Mizukage and waited for Fugaku’s turn in the spotlight until Rasa approached him.

At Uchiha Fugaku’s inauguration, Hyuga Hitoshi punished Rasa for provoking him while Fugaku staged an extravagant ceremony honoring the past Hokage. The ceremony ended with Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo’s faction challenging Fugaku, as Tobirama Senju appeared to oppose him.

• Rasa insulted Hyuga Hitoshi, who sealed his Chakra, slapped him, and forced him to kneel; Ōnoki then backed down when Hitoshi threatened him as well.
• Fugaku walked the red carpet amid staged praise, while Hyuga Hitoshi mocked Sarutobi Hiruzen and Mei Terumi thanked the Old Village Chief for helping her become Mizukage.
• Fugaku honored the past Hokage, praising the First, humiliating the Second through an actor, criticizing Sarutobi as a negative example, and expressing regret over the Fourth’s death.
• Hyuga Hitoshi reflected on Naruto’s future and his plan to remove Asura’s influence and Chakra from him.
• Fugaku invited objections to his becoming Hokage, and Sarutobi Hiruzen declared his opposition as Danzo encouraged him.
• Tobirama Senju appeared through the Summoning Technique, and Danzo declared that his teacher opposed Fugaku as well.

Tobirama Senju appeared at Uchiha Fugaku’s inauguration and tried to impeach him, while Hyuga Hitoshi defended the Hyuga Clan and demonstrated his power over life and death. As Fugaku asked Tobirama to state his reason, Tobirama produced a scroll with Uchiha Itachi and revealed his trump card: the Uchiha Seven Deadly Sins.

• Tobirama Senju appeared at Fugaku’s inauguration and declared that Fugaku was unworthy of becoming the Fifth Hokage.
• Nara Shikaku urged Tobirama to postpone the dispute and let the inauguration continue, while Jiraiya questioned his loyalty to Konoha and decided he would leave the village.
• Tobirama called the Hyuga Clan defectors, prompting Hyuga Hitoshi to destroy Tobirama’s face on Hokage Rock and warn him not to repeat the claim.
• Hyuga Hitoshi killed Rasa and restored him to life before the gathered crowd, demonstrating his power and leaving Tobirama wary.
• Fugaku asked Tobirama to give his reason for impeaching him, and Tobirama shielded Uchiha Itachi as they unveiled a scroll called the Uchiha Seven Deadly Sins.

At Fugaku’s inauguration, Tobirama accused him of selling Land of Fire territory and illegitimately taking the Hokage position, but Fugaku defended the transaction and challenged Tobirama’s prejudice against the Uchiha. The confrontation ended with Fugaku declaring that the rebuilt village belonged to its living people and ordering the Senju dead man to stop judging them.

• Tobirama accused Fugaku of selling Land of Fire territory without the Daimyo’s permission, and Itachi volunteered to testify against his father.
• Fugaku slapped Itachi, then rejected his testimony as a child’s word and presented a land-sale contract signed with Hyuga Hitoshi, which the Daimyo approved.
• Fugaku argued that selling territory had funded Konoha’s reconstruction and accused the Senju of abandoning their clan identity while leaving other shinobi clans to build the village.
• Tobirama accused Fugaku of gaining power through collusion with the Hyuga, but Fugaku argued that everyone knew how he had saved Konoha and that Tobirama opposed him because he was Uchiha.
• Fugaku anticipated Tobirama’s remaining accusations, declared that the village had a new Will of Fire, and denounced Tobirama for attacking a village rebuilt by the Uchiha and others.

Tobirama Senju discovered that the Senju Clan had vanished and confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen, who blamed Danzo before the two old allies exposed each other’s crimes. The chapter ended with Fugaku mocking Tobirama’s choice of successors as the public listened to Konoha’s scandals.

• Danzo reflected on his alliance with the Land of Fire Daimyo and his plans to establish Root Hidden Village if Tobirama Senju’s return failed.
• Fugaku defended his leadership and the Uchiha Military Police Force while taunting Tobirama about the Senju Clan and Tsunade.
• Tobirama used a token recording Senju Chakra to search the village and found no trace of his clan, then demanded an explanation from Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi blamed Danzo for the Senju Clan’s disappearance, and Danzo accused Sarutobi of ordering the clan’s deaths and other crimes.
• Sarutobi and Danzo traded accusations about Nawaki, Hatake Sakumo, the First Hokage’s remains, and other scandals as Fugaku mocked Tobirama’s judgment.

Tobirama Senju attacked Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen after learning how they had harmed Konoha, while Danzo escaped using Izanagi and Sarutobi tried to fight back with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. Hyuga Hitoshi destroyed the Shinigami and its masks, leaving Tobirama to beat Sarutobi and the chapter ending with Hitoshi hinting that an even greater spectacle was coming.

• Tobirama Senju realized that Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo had brought shame on Konoha and decided to punish them himself.
• Tobirama killed Danzo with Flying Thunder God Slash, but Danzo used Izanagi to escape and shoved Sarutobi into the fight before fleeing.
• Fugaku announced the impending teacher-student battle as Tobirama confronted Sarutobi over his responsibility for Konoha's decline.
• Sarutobi summoned the Shinigami with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, but Hyuga Hitoshi absorbed and destroyed it, gaining new soul-related powers.
• Tobirama repeatedly slapped Sarutobi, then had him taken to the Pillar of Shame while Hitoshi declared that the real show was still to come.

Hyuga Hitoshi rejected the great nations’ demand that he follow Hashirama Senju’s example and yield for peace, declaring that the Hyuga Clan would survive through strength. He revealed Pakura’s past and watched her lead the Sun God Country’s counterattack against Sunagakure, as the wider war began.

• Uchiha Satoshi reported that Danzo had escaped with powerful allies and Reanimated Bodies, and Fugaku chose to wait and watch Hyuga Hitoshi’s confrontation.
• Ōnoki and A explained that they had joined the attack under pressure from the Daimyo, while Hyuga Hitoshi rejected their comparison between him and Hashirama Senju and declared the Hyuga Clan would never depend on a village for survival.
• Hyuga Hitoshi projected images of the battlefields, revealing that Pakura had survived Sunagakure’s betrayal and was now fighting its shinobi; Mei Terumi expressed regret over Kirigakure’s role in her death.
• Hyuga Pakura used her Sun God Seal and Scorch Release to devastate the advancing Sunagakure forces, then received Hyuga Hitoshi’s power and flew into battle.
• Hyuga Hitoshi’s gathering watched Pakura’s attack as a signal of the Sun God Country’s counterattack, while the larger war was already underway.

At Sun God Country’s inauguration ceremony, the sky showed its forces crushing the Five Great Nations’ invasion, while Hyuga Hitoshi remained in Konoha. The Raikage surrendered, and Hyuga Hitoshi called the surviving leaders to a meeting that would decide the Shinobi World’s future order.

• Pakura routed Sunagakure’s forces, and Tsunade shattered the battlefield while wiping out hundreds of rogue ninja mercenaries.
• Rōshi and Han transformed into the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, but the Hyuga Style Destruction Battle Formation wounded them with Sun God arrows, and Uzumaki Reina bound them with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Hizashi Hyuga led the Muscle Guard Squad against Iwagakure as Hiashi Hyuga’s forces and the Destruction Battle Formation overwhelmed the frontal army.
• The Raikage’s infiltrators were killed by Hyuga Natsu, Yugito, and Samui, while Ōnoki accepted defeat and A knelt before Hyuga Hitoshi.
• Hyuga Hitoshi told the leaders to attend a meeting about the Shinobi World’s future, then left with Mei Terumi.

Hyuga Hitoshi’s victory over the Five Great Nations reshaped the Shinobi World as Sarutobi Hiruzen died and Tobirama Senju left Konoha with Asuma. Meanwhile, Kaguya reunited with Black Zetsu and supplied the Akatsuki with two captured Jinchuriki, whose arrival Pain mistook for a gift from Hyuga Hitoshi to Konan.

• Small nations flocked to Konoha to seek status in the Sun God Allied Nations, while Hyuga Hitoshi left negotiations to the Secretariat and met Uzuki Yugao at Ichiraku Ramen.
• Asuma publicly condemned Sarutobi Hiruzen’s crimes but affirmed that he was still his father, and Tobirama Senju killed Sarutobi to spare him further humiliation.
• Tobirama Senju and Asuma left Konoha on a journey to find Danzo, while Asuma argued that Hyuga Hitoshi’s influence could prevent future wars.
• The Rabbit Goddess summoned Black Zetsu to the old Hyuga Compound and revealed that Rōshi and Han were now on their side because Hyuga Hitoshi was one of them.
• Black Zetsu delivered Rōshi and Han to Pain, who assumed Hyuga Hitoshi had sent them as a betrothal gift for Konan and ordered the Akatsuki to begin sealing them.

Hyuga Hitoshi planned his next steps toward evolving his Tenseigan and controlling the Shinobi World while Mabui briefed him on political and military matters. As the First Shinobi World Summit approached, Fugaku waited to attend with him and prepared to advance the Uchiha Clan’s “Black Long Straight Hair Plan.”

• Hyuga Hitoshi planned to gather mysterious artifacts, manipulate the Infinite Tsukuyomi’s Chakra for his Tenseigan’s advancement, and eventually challenge the Otsutsuki Clan beyond the Dimensional Wall.
• Mabui reported that the Sky Ninja leader Shinnō wanted protection, and Hyuga Hitoshi told Orochimaru to negotiate while prioritizing the Sky Ninja’s flight technology.
• Hyuga Hitoshi approved Fujikaze Yukie’s film about the rise of Sun God Country, ordered its script to portray the Five Great Nations as invaders, and told her to learn to pay before seeking rewards.
• After learning that Hozuki Castle Lord Mui had violated Sun God Country’s laws, Hyuga Hitoshi decided to visit the Land of Grass and investigate the Paradise Box himself.
• Mabui told Hyuga Hitoshi that Nadeshiko Shizuka wanted to challenge him, and he agreed to meet her for a sparring match.
• Fugaku waited for Hyuga Hitoshi before the First Shinobi World Summit and told Uchiha Satoshi that he planned to arrange a blind date with an Uchiha girl he called the clan’s Ultimate Weapon.

Obito and Danzo renewed their secret alliance to gather corpses and improve Impure World Reincarnation, while Fugaku arranged ways to strengthen ties between the Uchiha Clan and the Sun God Country. Fugaku then joined Hyuga Hitoshi as the Shinobi World conference began.

• Obito, frustrated by his failures and Nagato's cooperation with the Sun God Country, sought Danzo as a partner.
• Obito and Danzo agreed that Obito would search for powerful corpses while secretly studying Impure World Reincarnation, and Danzo would work to improve the jutsu.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Satoshi that the Uchiha Beauty Pageant and maid recruitment would build cooperation with Hyuga Hitoshi, despite complaints from bachelors in the clan.
• Fugaku planned to encourage Uchiha men without wives to marry civilians and return to the clan if they awakened the Sharingan.
• Fugaku instructed Uchiha Satoshi to accidentally reveal Senior Hikari and Yachihoko to Itachi, then joined Hyuga Hitoshi as the Shinobi World conference officially began.

Hyuga Hitoshi presided over the First Shinobi World Summit, announcing executions and plans for Sun God Country’s influence across the Shinobi World. As celebrations began, Uchiha Itachi learned that the Uchiha Clan intended to revive Uchiha Mumei and resolved to stop them, while Sasuke rebuked him; Hyuga Hitoshi then left for the Land of Rain.

• Hyuga Hitoshi arrived at Konoha Central Square and took the main seat as the Kage and daimyo waited for the Shinobi World Conference to begin.
• Uzumaki Reina announced an execution list and Sun God Country’s plans for citizen privileges, ninja training, village competitions, and economic development.
• The First Shinobi World Summit ended, and Fugaku led a celebration marking the new era of peace.
• Uchiha Itachi learned that Uchiha clansmen planned to revive the sealed Uchiha Mumei, whose Yachihoko could control marked people and gather their Chakra.
• Sasuke dodged Itachi’s attempt to poke his forehead, struck him with a Chakra-coated finger, and told him he did not need to act as a savior.
• Hyuga Hitoshi left Konoha for the Land of Rain after spending the night celebrating with the women gathered around him.

Hyuga Hitoshi traveled to the Land of Rain with his companions and used his power to create a permanent sunlit opening in its rainy sky while preserving the surrounding weather. After Black Zetsu mistook Hitoshi’s relationship with Kaguya for proof that Hitoshi was his father, Hitoshi met Nagato and asked whether anything seemed wrong with his eyes.

• Black Zetsu followed Hyuga Hitoshi’s traveling party, saw Kaguya emerge from Hitoshi’s clothes, and concluded that Hitoshi was his father.
• Konan told Hitoshi that she no longer needed the Land of Rain’s skies to change, so Hitoshi created a stable sunlit opening above the country.
• Deva Path Pain and Akatsuki arrived, and Black Zetsu knelt before Hitoshi and called him Father before Kakuzu and Sasori dragged him away.
• Pain invited Hitoshi’s group to Amegakure, where Hitoshi met him privately and asked Nagato whether something was wrong with his eyes.

Hyuga Hitoshi explained to Nagato how Uchiha Madara had obtained the Rinnegan and revealed that Nagato had been manipulated into serving Madara’s resurrection plan. After restoring Nagato’s health, Hitoshi invited him to join the Sun God Country and pursue peace as himself; Nagato accepted and asked for a chance to take revenge on Madara.

• Hyuga Hitoshi restored Nagato’s body and explained that the Rinnegan had awakened in Uchiha Madara after he combined Indra’s and Asura’s chakra.
• Hyuga Hitoshi revealed that Uchiha Obito was Madara’s chosen successor and had intended to use Rinne Rebirth to revive him, prompting Nagato to reject the Black Rods and reaffirm his commitment to Yahiko’s dream.
• Hyuga Hitoshi told Nagato that lasting peace could not survive its administrators and described the Sage of Six Paths as a force shaping the Shinobi World through cycles of conflict and salvation.
• Hyuga Hitoshi invited Nagato to join the Sun God Country and become a true savior, and Nagato accepted after deciding he wanted to live as himself.
• Nagato asked whether he could take revenge on Uchiha Madara, and Hyuga Hitoshi promised to arrange a proper fight when Madara was revived.

Hyuga Hitoshi went to Hozuki Castle to claim the Paradise Box and defeated the monster Mui created with it, absorbing its power into the Energy Vessel Tenseigan. He then headed toward Hoshigakure with Kakuzu as the Shinobi World entered a period of rapid development and new events began to stir.

• Hyuga Hitoshi questioned Kakuzu about Hozuki Castle and recruited him to work in the Sun God Country's Ministry of Finance in exchange for access to artificial hearts with Kekkei Genkai.
• Mui and Hozuki Castle's leaders summoned the Paradise Box, sacrificed Mui's son Muku and three others, and transformed Mui into a monster to attack Hyuga Hitoshi.
• Hyuga Hitoshi used the Energy Vessel Tenseigan to suppress the monster and absorb the Paradise Box's power, gaining new channels for absorbing ordinary emotions.
• Hyuga Hitoshi left for Hoshigakure with Kakuzu and ordered him to deal with its Star Shadow over the village's opposition to the Sun God Allied Nations.
• As the Shinobi World developed, Naruto Uzumaki grew stronger, Asuma discovered activity at the Sarutobi Clan's former Sealing Grounds, and Danzo improved his Impure World Reincarnation technique.

Danzo and Obito prepared to attack the Uchiha Clan, while Orochimaru traveled to Konoha to discuss Sharingan research and encountered Itachi brooding over the clan’s beauty pageant and a suspected threat. Orochimaru met Shisui and Kakashi as she sought Fugaku, and Shisui mistakenly assumed she had come to enter the pageant.

• Danzo told Obito that he had perfected Impure World Reincarnation and planned to test it by targeting the Uchiha Clan, with Itachi as a pawn.
• Orochimaru visited pregnant Tsunade in Tanzaku and delivered a gambling machine designed for exercise during pregnancy.
• Shizune told Orochimaru that Hitoshi had gone to Konoha to judge the Uchiha Beauty Pageant, and Orochimaru decided to seek Mangekyō Sharingan for her research.
• Orochimaru used the Sun God Seal network to travel to Konoha, where she saw Itachi end his spar with Shisui and leave to consult Asuma about the Uchiha Ultimate Weapon.
• Orochimaru asked Shisui where Fugaku was, and Shisui eagerly offered to take her to the Beauty Pageant as a possible contestant.

At the beauty pageant, Hyuga Hitoshi and Fugaku discussed Itachi’s growing mistrust and Fugaku’s hope that his son would learn the truth. At the abandoned Fire Temple, Itachi misread Asuma’s dying warning, blamed his father and clan, and vowed to stop their supposed conspiracy, while Obito and Danzo watched.

• Hyuga Hitoshi discussed the Eye Power Supplement Liquid and the prospect of stabilizing Mangekyo Sharingan with Fugaku, who also explained his intentions toward Itachi.
• Fugaku worried that Itachi would keep misjudging him, while Hitoshi warned that Itachi might be manipulated into harming the Uchiha Clan.
• Hitoshi named Uchiha Izumi the beauty pageant winner and Uchiha Chiri the runner-up, then left with them; Orochimaru placed third.
• At the abandoned Fire Temple, Itachi found Asuma mortally wounded by attackers and awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan as they fled.
• Asuma tried to tell Itachi to go back and speak with his father, but Itachi decided that Fugaku was behind the attack and vowed to stop the Uchiha Clan’s supposed plan.
• Asuma died, and Obito and Danzo watched Itachi’s reaction, with Danzo calling him born to be a villain.

Uchiha Itachi concluded that his clan was preparing to use Uchiha Hikari and the Eight Thousand Spears, then sought help from the masked man calling himself Uchiha Madara. Meanwhile, Fugaku tried to introduce Hikari to Hitoshi, but she distrusted his motives and became absorbed in a film about the Land of Snow.

• Itachi buried Asuma at the Old Fire Temple site and resolved to stop his father’s plan, even considering destroying the Uchiha Clan to protect Konoha.
• Obito met Itachi, offered help against the Uchiha, and privately changed plans with Danzo after realizing Itachi already suspected his own clan.
• Itachi overheard clansmen discussing Hikari’s return and Fugaku’s preparations, interpreted them as evidence of the Eight Thousand Spears Engraving, and ran to seek Obito’s help.
• Fugaku told Hikari he intended to send her to Hitoshi and admitted he wanted to make use of her, prompting her to accuse him of treating her like an object.
• Fugaku played Hikari a film about the Land of Snow, and she became engrossed in the unfamiliar projection.

Hyuga Hitoshi watched Hinata and Hanabi tie for first in a training trial before accepting Fugaku’s dinner invitation. Meanwhile, Itachi’s attempt to manipulate Obito and Danzo into attacking the Uchiha Clan helped redirect their plans toward capturing Uchiha Hikari, but their preparations took an unexpected turn when Hashirama Senju regained control.

• Hinata and Hanabi tied for first in Practice Field Seven’s Beginner trial, and Hyuga Hitoshi praised them and eased their fatigue.
• Summer Maid Chief told Hyuga Hitoshi that Fugaku had invited him to dinner, and he agreed to attend that evening.
• Itachi told Obito that the Uchiha Clan would gather for a ritual and asked him to spare Sasuke, while planning to exploit the attack to stop the clan’s Ultimate Weapon.
• Obito and Danzo decided to seize Uchiha Hikari and summoned an Impure World Reincarnation army, believing Danzo could control Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju revealed that he had been pretending to obey Danzo and asked whether Danzo wanted him to destroy Konoha.

Shimura Danzō and Uchiha Obito revived Hashirama Senju, hoping to use him in their plan to capture Uchiha Hikari, but Hashirama saw through Danzō’s motives and left to investigate Konoha himself. Danzō and Obito continued with their plan and decided to prepare the real Uchiha Madara as a backup.

• Hashirama Senju dismissed Obito’s claim that he was Uchiha Madara and criticized his strength and the Senju cells in his body.
• Danzō told Hashirama that Uchiha Hikari had been released and that Uchiha Fugaku planned to perform the Eight Thousand Spears Engraving, while portraying Fugaku’s rule as tyrannical.
• Hashirama recognized that Danzō wanted him to capture Hikari and kill Fugaku, but chose to investigate Konoha and deal with the danger himself.
• After Hashirama left, Obito scolded Danzō for failing to control him, but Danzō insisted their plan would continue.
• Obito revealed that the real Uchiha Madara could serve as their backup, and he and Danzō prepared to move against Konoha and capture Hikari.