Recaps

Hokuto’s faction clashed with Uchiha Shiranuma’s Konoha group after Shiranuma failed to persuade them to return, until Irori froze Shiranuma and ended the fight. At the General’s Residence, Yayoi told Tobirama that the group had been taken into custody, and Tobirama chose to stay in the Land of Night through Yayoi’s wedding.

• Shiranuma confronted Hokuto at the Uchiha compound and demanded that he return to Konoha, but Hokuto refused.
• A shuriken struck Hokuto, triggering a fight between the two Uchiha groups that damaged the unfinished compound.
• Meirou tried to stop the battle, but Irori arrived and froze Shiranuma with Ice Release: Snow Frost Slaughter.
• At the General’s Residence, Yayoi told Tobirama that Irori had taken Shiranuma’s group into custody.
• Tobirama declined to see the prisoners and said he would stay until after Yayoi’s wedding.

Tobirama explained to Shiranuma and the imprisoned Uchiha that their unauthorized entry into the Land of Night could provoke a war, and warned them to behave while Konoha negotiated their release. Shiranuma thanked Tobirama as he left, while the Uchiha began to recognize how much trouble they had caused him.

• Tobirama visited Shiranuma and the other Uchiha in prison and explained that their fighting had damaged Konoha's reputation.
• The Uchiha defended themselves by saying Hokuto's group had attacked first, but Tobirama said fighting had made the original attacker irrelevant.
• Tobirama revealed that the Uchiha's forged documents and unauthorized entry into the Land of Night could be treated as military aggression and might spark a wider war.
• Tobirama said Konoha would not abandon them, but their release could take ten days to a month, and Konoha had no reason to intervene for Hokuto's group.
• Shiranuma thanked Tobirama, who left, and the Uchiha discussed the trouble he had taken to help them.

Izayoi explored the Capital Museum in Nightview City, where she ran into Tobirama Senju, while Yayoi continued refining a long-range sealing technique. He tested the technique on the Seven-Tails and learned that its restraint was powerful but its sealing formation remained unstable.

• Izayoi explored the Capital Museum and impressed an elderly scholar by recounting the history of an artifact she had excavated herself.
• Izayoi encountered Tobirama Senju in disguise, and they silently avoided each other rather than cause trouble in the museum.
• Yayoi practiced combining earth and water chakra with the Seven-Star Seal to create a golden Sealing Sphere that trapped a boulder.
• Yayoi asked the Seven-Tails to test the Sealing Sphere, promising to help it recover chakra faster.
• The Seven-Tails said the sphere restrained it strongly but had flaws it could exploit, so Yayoi decided to keep practicing while the tailed beast remained his test subject.

Kakuzu led the Land of Night’s delegation to Uzushiogakure to escort Uzumaki Hisana back for her wedding to Yayoi. After confirming the arrangements with Uzumaki Ashina, the party departed with Hisana aboard a massive mechanized vehicle.

• Kakuzu brought Hoshigaki Kairyu and an escort force to Uzushiogakure, where they met Uzumaki Ashina and confirmed the return itinerary.
• Kakuzu reassured Hoshigaki Kairyu that Hyuga, Aburame, and other sensory ninja would guard against another ambush.
• Kakuzu and the delegation prepared to leave with fifty ninja, fifty samurai, and a huge mechanized vehicle built by the Land of Night.
• Uzumaki Hisana approached the vehicle in her wedding attire, and Uzumaki Nene scolded her for looking around before helping her inside.
• Hisana sat down in the vehicle and worried that she might have made an embarrassing mistake while being watched outside.

Nene and Hisana traveled in a remarkable mechanical carriage with Oboro, while Nene recognized Oboro as a battle-hardened shrine maiden. In Nightview City, Hokuto assigned the Uchiha clan roles in the Land of Night, and the clan members began considering how to counter the influence of the General’s new Uzumaki concubine, leaving Izayoi under scrutiny as a possible candidate for the inner residence.

• Nene reassured Hisana during the carriage ride, inspected the carriage’s mechanisms, and introduced herself to the masked shrine maiden Oboro.
• Hokuto assigned Uchiha clan members posts in the Security Forces, patrols, and other Land of Night departments at a meeting in Naka Shrine.
• An Uchiha member warned Hokuto that the General’s new concubine came from the Uzumaki Clan and might pose a threat to the Uchiha.
• Kasumi explained that the Chinoike Clan had been exiled because of a daimyo’s principal wife, persuading Izayoi not to underestimate women in a ruler’s household.
• Kasumi proposed placing an Uchiha woman in the General’s inner residence, and the group turned to Izayoi after Kasumi and another woman ruled themselves out.

Hisana arrived at the General's Residence hungry and nervous about joining its inner household, while Yaya and Irori barged in on Kicho with Yayoi. The next morning, Hisana fretted over her wedding night as Nene and Oboro offered blunt advice.

• Kakuzu escorted Hisana and the Uzumaki Clan safely to the Land of Night, then went to report to Yayoi.
• Hisana hid a meat bun from her grandfather and ate it while Oboro worried about the dangers of the General's inner residence.
• Yaya and Irori headed to Yayoi's bedroom, where they found Kicho instead, and Yaya collapsed in dismay.
• Hisana woke hungry, ate meat buns brought by Nene, and asked Nene and Oboro for advice about her wedding night.

Hisana married Yayoi and entered the Inner Court of the General's Residence, where a shrine-like courtyard eased her fears about her new home. After she mistook their wedding-night encounter for an immediate expectation, Yayoi offered her food and reassured her before guiding what came next.

• Hisana nervously held Yayoi's hand during their wedding ceremony, and Yayoi noticed her extraordinary strength and abilities.
• Yayoi led Hisana through the wedding rituals, and the ceremony continued until nightfall.
• Aoi guided Hisana, Nene, and Oboro into the Inner Court and showed Hisana the shrine-like courtyard Kicho had arranged for her.
• Oboro inspected Hisana's bedroom and left her alone to wait for Yayoi.
• Hisana lay down and urged Yayoi to proceed, but Yayoi offered her food instead.
• Hisana ate the pastries, then asked whether she should change clothes, and Yayoi told her to keep her shrine maiden outfit on.

Hisana woke after her first night with Yayoi, then resumed eating and preparing for shrine maiden duties. Yayoi brought Seven-Tails to an underground Chakra source beneath Nightview City, where it realized he had lured it there to feed on the Chakra Life Embryo’s leftovers.

• Oboro and Nene found Hisana hiding under the bedding, then helped her dress and brought her breakfast.
• Hisana panicked about missing morning practice until Oboro reminded her that she no longer lived at Uzumaki Shrine.
• Yayoi took Seven-Tails deep beneath the General's Residence to show it the natural Chakra source powering Nightview City.
• Yayoi placed a new Chakra Life Embryo inside a Chakra Crystal Core and offered Seven-Tails the remaining purified Chakra to consume.
• Seven-Tails realized Yayoi was using it to clear the leftover Chakra so the embryo could grow, and cursed him inwardly.

Tobirama led Shiranuma and the other released Uchiha back toward Konoha after securing the destruction of records about their clash with the Land of Night. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha confronted the Nine-Tails and used his Mangekyo Sharingan to control it, leaving the story poised for the Battle of the Valley of the End.

• Tobirama told Shiranuma and the other Uchiha to return to Konoha and prepare to accept punishment for their actions.
• Tobirama explained that General Oda had agreed to keep the incident secret and destroy its records, but Shiranuma grew angry when he learned the Land of Night had demanded no compensation.
• Tobirama led Shiranuma and the others back to the Land of Fire after completing his work in the Land of Night.
• The Nine-Tails sensed intruders and rushed out of its cavern, where it found Madara Uchiha waiting with his war fan and Sharingan.
• Madara revealed that the Nine-Tails was only part of something, then activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and took control of the beast.

Tobirama returned from the Land of Night and discussed Uchiha Shiranuma’s punishment and Kumogakure’s interest in the Tailed Beasts with Hashirama, who then confronted him over an enormous bill from the negotiations. Meanwhile, Yayoi asked Hisana to inspect his Sealing Sphere, but her explanations left him confused.

• Hashirama and Tobirama agreed to bring Uchiha Shiranuma and the others’ punishment before a high-level meeting as an example of the village’s rules.
• Tobirama proposed a new conference for the Five Great Nations and other countries with ninja villages to strengthen Konoha’s leadership.
• Hashirama grabbed Tobirama and demanded an explanation for the extravagant bill from the Land of Night, then announced they would have a private heart-to-heart talk.
• Yayoi showed Hisana his Chakra Armament Mode and Sealing Sphere and asked her to find its flaw.
• Hisana criticized the Sealing Jutsu and offered vague corrections, leaving Yayoi confused about how to improve it.

Hisana taught Yayoi the fundamentals of Sealing Jutsu and examined his unusual chakra, while Yayoi and Kicho later searched the Silent Forest for a powerful Chakra Tree. The search ended with a gigantic cat-spider creature emerging from underground and offering to lead them to one.

• Hisana explained Yayoi’s Sealing Jutsu flaws, examined how he refined chakra, and studied his Living Chakra Technique scroll.
• Hisana invited Yayoi to her room to continue teaching him, and the next morning Yayoi left with Kicho and Yaya for the Silent Forest.
• Kicho searched the forest with her Byakugan but found no Chakra Tree with enough vitality to cultivate a Chakra Life Embryo.
• As Yayoi prepared to return, an enormous voice offered to show them a Chakra Tree with immense life energy.
• Yaya and Kicho moved to protect Yayoi as a gigantic gray-furred creature with eight limbs and a catlike face emerged from beneath the ground.

Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya met Tsuchigumo, the enormous chief of the Tsuchigumo Clan, who revealed that Kumokiri could break the seal on his predecessor. Tsuchigumo invited them to Spider Mountain to find a vital Chakra Tree and asked Kicho to help him fight the sealed Third-Generation Tsuchigumo; Yaya urged Yayoi to accept the invitation.

• Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya faced the giant Tsuchigumo, who calmed them and introduced himself as the fourth-generation chief of the Tsuchigumo Clan.
• Yayoi asked about the Chakra Tree, and Tsuchigumo said one with extraordinary vitality could be found on Spider Mountain, where his clan lived.
• Tsuchigumo revealed that Kumokiri was forged from the Third-Generation Tsuchigumo's fang and held the power to undo its seal.
• Tsuchigumo explained that the Third-Generation Tsuchigumo had gone mad six hundred years earlier, and a samurai surnamed Minamoto had sealed it and taken Kumokiri away.
• Tsuchigumo asked Kicho to use Kumokiri to release his predecessor so they could fight, then invited the group to Spider Mountain.
• Yaya called Tsuchigumo a good person and urged Yayoi to go with him.

Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya followed Tsuchigumo to Spider Mountain, where Kicho used Kumokiri to release the seal on the Third-Generation Tsuchigumo. They discovered the former clan leader had died and left behind Senjutsu teachings, and Tsuchigumo challenged the three to a battle as a trial for a summoning contract.

• Tsuchigumo explained that it had waited for Yayoi to return and wanted to unseal the Third-Generation so it could prove it had surpassed its predecessor.
• Tsuchigumo led Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya through a hidden passage to Spider Mountain and its sealed shrine.
• Kicho inserted Kumokiri into the altar, opening the seal and revealing the Third-Generation Tsuchigumo's lifeless body.
• The Third-Generation's body crumbled into blue flames, revealing ancient writings about Senjutsu that Tsuchigumo recognized as its predecessor's cultivation notes.
• Tsuchigumo vowed to master Senjutsu and then invited Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya to prove their abilities in battle for a Tsuchigumo summoning contract.

Yayoi, Kicho, and Yaya fought Tsuchigumo in the Tsuchigumo Clan’s training forest, breaking through its Spider Black Gold armor and powerful techniques. After Yaya’s final assault left Tsuchigumo badly injured, it survived and squeaked when Yayoi asked if it was alive.

• Tsuchigumo charged Yayoi and the others, and Yaya stopped its attack while Kicho struck its flank with Divine Rend.
• Tsuchigumo covered itself in Spider Black Gold, but Kicho found a weak point and shattered the armor on its back with a close-range Divine Rend, injuring her arm.
• Yayoi dropped a chakra Sealing Sphere onto Tsuchigumo and healed Kicho’s arm, but Tsuchigumo broke free and unleashed Earth Release: Spider Trap Formation.
• Tsuchigumo made the ground vanish and attacked from the abyss, but Yayoi summoned Yaya, who struck it with a series of crimson fist pressures that destroyed its armor and knocked it down.
• Yayoi asked whether Tsuchigumo was dead, and the battered spider answered with a squeak.

Yayoi secured a summoning contract with the Tsuchigumo Clan and placed his third Chakra Life Embryo in Spider Mountain’s ancient Chakra Tree. After returning to Nightview City, he recounted the trip to Irori and reflected on the clan’s strength and the risks of Senjutsu.

• Tsuchigumo gave Yayoi a copy of the summoning scroll after recovering enough to walk, then led him to an ancient Chakra Tree.
• Yayoi placed the third Chakra Life Embryo inside the tree, where it could absorb life force and stabilize over the coming year.
• Yayoi stayed on Spider Mountain for several days, assessed the Tsuchigumo Clan’s combat abilities, and completed a summoning contract with the clan.
• Yayoi left Spider Mountain with Kicho and Yaya, having secured a source of life force for the embryo and a powerful new summon.
• Yayoi returned to the General's Residence in Nightview City and told Irori about his encounter and trial with Tsuchigumo.
• Yayoi considered the dangers of the Tsuchigumo Clan’s incomplete Senjutsu and found himself thinking again about Madara Uchiha as a hypothetical enemy.

Yayoi learned that the Nine-Tails had vanished from the Land of Fields and suspected Madara was responsible, while Irori had already warned Hashirama. In Konoha, Hashirama and Tobirama considered the threat and Hashirama wondered what Madara intended to do.

• Irori told Yayoi that Hisana planned to build a biopharmaceutical laboratory, and Yayoi decided to discuss its risks with her.
• Irori reported that the Nine-Tails had disappeared without any signs of movement or battle, and Yayoi suspected Madara had taken it.
• Yayoi learned that Irori had already secretly sent Hashirama news of the Nine-Tails' disappearance.
• Hashirama told Tobirama that Shiranuma had lost his Uchiha elder position and ninja status, and Tobirama agreed to meet Shiranuma's son Kagami.
• Hashirama and Tobirama received Irori's urgent letter about the missing Nine-Tails and suspected Madara, while Hashirama questioned his former friend's intentions.

Hisana trained with Yayoi and discussed the expensive laboratory being built for Nene, then inspected the Inner Court’s barrier and proposed improvements. When Oboro questioned her sharing advanced Uzumaki techniques, Hisana defended her trust in Yayoi and warned Oboro not to make him misunderstand.

• Oboro watched over Hisana while Yayoi visited, and Hisana’s eagerness for lessons and intimacy delayed their serious conversation.
• Yayoi asked about the laboratory, and Hisana explained it was for Nene, a white-haired woman in her twenties; Yayoi approved the expense but planned to review her abilities.
• Hisana inspected the Inner Court’s barrier nodes and marked changes that would reduce chakra use and strengthen its defenses.
• Oboro objected that Hisana’s barrier and sealing advice revealed Uzumaki principles, but Hisana said the elders had allowed it and that she trusted Yayoi.
• Hisana told Oboro not to say such things in front of others because she feared Yayoi might misunderstand.

Nene tested a chakra-amplifying drug on a special white mouse and explained its risks and potential military use to Yayoi, who had come to inspect her laboratory. She agreed to let him test her medical knowledge if he provided Tailed Beast chakra meat, and Yayoi considered provoking her by cutting off her research funding.

• Nene administered a blue reagent to a special white mouse, observed its chakra surge and severe internal damage, then healed it with the Mystical Palm Technique.
• Yayoi examined Nene's research and asked whether her chakra-amplifying drug was ready for combat and large-scale military use.
• Nene said the drug had serious side effects, was safest for someone with Hisana's constitution, and should be limited to Jonin until she reduced its risks further.
• Yayoi tested Nene's expertise, but she dismissed the test and said she would accept it if he supplied Tailed Beast chakra meat.
• Nene revealed her interest in studying Tailed Beast chakra, and Yayoi considered withholding her research funding to make her cry.

Yayoi tested Nene's powerful chakra-restoration medicine on the Seven-Tails and found that the Tailed Beast could absorb it without the severe side effects it caused humans. Later, Aoi and Rinko discussed their pregnancies with Hisana, who remained unready to have children of her own.

• Yayoi left Nene's laboratory satisfied with her research and took several finished medicines with him.
• Yayoi mixed a failed chakra-restoration medicine into the Seven-Tails' sour plum juice and confirmed that it restored chakra without harming the Tailed Beast.
• The Seven-Tails enjoyed its meal and decided it wanted Oda to make the sour plum juice according to Yayoi's recipe.
• Aoi and Rinko told Hisana that their babies were due around April or May next year, and Hisana said she was not ready to become a mother.
• Hisana hurried off to play with Kicho while Aoi and Rinko hoped Kicho would not teach her anything strange.

Yayoi and his allies investigated the spreading chakra and tremors, discovering that Hashirama and Madara were battling with the Nine-Tails. As the fight devastated the surrounding land, Yayoi joined Mito Uzumaki and Tobirama to help restrain the Nine-Tails, leaving Irori poised to test a plan devised by her sisters.

• Ninjas and samurai across Nightview City sensed an ominous presence, and Yayoi led Kicho, Yaya, Hokuto, and Yuroketsu toward its source near the Land of Fields.
• Yayoi's group met Tobirama Senju, who confirmed that Hashirama and Madara were fighting after Madara attacked Konoha with the Nine-Tails.
• A combined Tailed-Beast Bomb and Yasaka Magatama devastated a forest and erased a distant mountain, prompting Tobirama to warn that the battle threatened nearby countries.
• Mito Uzumaki arrived and proposed using her Sealing Jutsu to restrain the Nine-Tails, and Yayoi volunteered to accompany her and Tobirama.
• Yayoi sent Kicho, Hokuto, and Yuroketsu back to Nightview City, then summoned Irori to test the tactics she and her sisters had devised.

Yayoi and the others rushed toward Hashirama and Madara’s battlefield, where Madara’s Susanoo unleashed a sword wave that threatened both them and tens of thousands of refugees. After the group survived the attack, Yayoi revealed that his Active Chakra could provide real-time telepathic communication, giving Tobirama a way to coordinate their approach to the Nine-Tails.

• Tobirama led Yayoi, Irori, Yaya, and Mito through a devastated region as refugees fled the destruction caused by Hashirama and Madara’s battle.
• Mito detected an enormous sword wave from Madara’s Susanoo approaching the group and the refugees behind them.
• Tobirama used his Shadow Clones and Water Release while Irori reinforced their defense with Ice Release, and their barrier stopped the sword wave.
• Mito proposed using Tobirama’s Flying Thunder God Technique to reach Hashirama and help suppress the Nine-Tails, but Tobirama said he could not teleport the beast away.
• Yayoi attached Active Chakra to Tobirama and Mito, allowing them to communicate telepathically within five kilometers.

Hashirama and Madara’s battle devastated the Land of Fields before Hashirama separated the Nine-Tails from Madara’s Susanoo. Yayoi, Tobirama, Mito, Irori, and Yaya worked to restrain the beast, and Yayoi released a giant steel python to help hold it still for sealing.

• Hashirama lured Madara across the sea, then used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to break the chakra shell around the Nine-Tails and separate it from Madara.
• Tobirama called Yayoi and his companions to help suppress the Nine-Tails while Hashirama drove Madara and Perfect Susanoo farther away.
• Tobirama and Irori slowed the Nine-Tails with Water Release and Ice Release, while Yaya knocked it onto its back.
• Mito bound the Nine-Tails with golden sealing chains, but its chakra strained them nearly to breaking.
• Yayoi released a giant black steel python, which coiled around the Nine-Tails and clamped its jaws onto the beast’s neck.

Yayoi and the others coordinated their attacks to restrain the Nine-Tails, while Yaya struck it and Mito narrowly escaped its ambush. The chapter left the Nine-Tails trapped amid Irori’s ice barrage, Yayoi’s puppet, and exploding Puppet Samurai, but still alive and fighting.

• Yayoi controlled the steel giant python as Tobirama and Irori flooded and froze the ground, trapping the Nine-Tails’ lower body while Mito prepared to seal it.
• The Nine-Tails feigned weakness, then broke free of the python and attacked Mito, but Yaya struck its forehead and Tobirama teleported Mito to safety.
• Yayoi and the others planned a coordinated assault, and Yaya charged the Nine-Tails at full strength while Irori unleashed Ice Release: Thousand Killing Array.
• The steel giant python bit the Nine-Tails’ arm and coiled around its neck as Puppet Samurai exploded around it, filling the battlefield with flames and smoke.

Yaya knocked down the Nine-Tails, and Irori, Tobirama, and Mito helped freeze and seal it. After Hashirama defeated Madara in a battle that left him badly wounded, Yayoi and Tobirama collected battlefield remains for research.

• Yaya struck the Nine-Tails with a barrage of crimson punches, leaving it stunned and unable to fight back.
• Tobirama flooded the battlefield while Irori and her ice clones froze the Nine-Tails, allowing Mito to seal it inside herself.
• Yayoi and Tobirama collected the scattered Nine-Tails chakra as Hashirama and Madara continued fighting elsewhere.
• The battle ended in a rain-soaked rift valley, where Hashirama collapsed beside Madara's corpse and Mito treated Hashirama's wounds.
• Yayoi gathered tissue and blood from the battlefield while Tobirama claimed Madara's body, and they agreed to share their research on Hashirama's Wood Release.

Yayoi and Tobirama finished collecting battlefield samples, then Yayoi returned to Irori and Yaya at a hot spring inn. While Yayoi investigated Yaya’s unexplained exhaustion, she suddenly grabbed him, provoking Irori into freezing the room.

• Yayoi and Tobirama collected blood and tissue from the rift before parting, with Tobirama left to handle Konoha’s troubles after Madara’s attack.
• Yayoi returned to the Land of Fields and joined Irori and the unconscious Yaya at a remote hot spring inn.
• Irori worried that Yaya had not recovered after using two ultimate techniques, and Yayoi checked her chakra and considered whether her Chakra Core had been strained.
• Yaya praised herself as the cutest in the world, woke suddenly, and hugged Yayoi’s head before he could react.
• Irori saw Yaya holding Yayoi and unleashed a killing presence that filled the suite with frost and snow.