Chapter Summaries

Doichi took the Land of Night Military School’s highest-difficulty graduation examination, facing four Jonin and two Upper Samurai. He overwhelmed the examiners with a powerful Byakugan-enhanced Gentle Fist technique, leaving it clear that they were the ones being challenged.

• The Land of Night and Konoha continued their covert investigations as other ninja villages sent out their own personnel, heightening tension across the nations.
• Doichi’s parents and fiancée, Chihiro Hyuga, watched from the stands as he entered his final special examination.
• Four Jonin and two Upper Samurai attacked Doichi, and he split an incoming Great Fireball Technique by cutting through its chakra flow.
• Doichi unleashed Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Divine Air Echoes, blasting the ground and injuring all six examiners.
• The examiners recovered in disarray and realized Doichi had controlled the fight without even leaving his position.

Doichi passed the graduation exam and celebrated with his family, while tensions between the nations continued to rise. When civil war broke out in the Land of Hot Water, Yayoi recognized it as a test of whether Hashirama Senju and Konoha would intervene.

• Doichi passed the graduation exam after outlasting four Jonin and two Upper Samurai, and Yayoi and Kicho praised him.
• Doichi celebrated at a family banquet with his siblings and fiancée Chihiro, while Tadayuki and Hideyuki worried about their gifted younger brother Rikuo.
• Yayoi and Kicho spent the night together after the banquet.
• As distrust and clashes spread among the nations, civil war erupted in the Land of Hot Water in July.
• Yayoi learned that foreign ninja had infiltrated the Land of Hot Water and concluded that the conflict was testing whether Hashirama Senju and Konoha would intervene.

After Hashirama died, Tobirama announced his death, held his funeral, and coordinated Konoha’s response to unrest in the Land of Hot Water. As Konoha and the Land of Night moved to stabilize the region, an unseen assassin slaughtered a team of nine ninjas and left one woman alive for questioning.

• Tobirama ordered Hashirama’s death announced to every nation after unrest in the Land of Hot Water worsened.
• Delegations attended Hashirama’s funeral, and Yayoi asked Tobirama how he would handle the ongoing turmoil.
• Tobirama said Konoha had agreed with the leader of Yugakure to send forces to suppress the rebellion, while asking Yayoi to watch other regions.
• Yayoi encountered Second A, who had come to discuss matters with Tobirama.
• Konoha sent two hundred ninjas to aid Yugakure, while the Land of Night began scouting surrounding regions.
• An unseen assassin killed eight members of a nine-person ninja team and revealed a petite, purple-smoke-wreathed figure before the surviving woman.

Hisana spent the sweltering day relaxing while Oboro left on a mission, and Doichi trained his younger brothers as tensions rose among the surrounding countries. That evening, Hisana taught Yayoi her perfected Yin Seal, revealing its purple mark on her lower abdomen and turning the lesson into a flirtation.

• Hisana told Oboro to go on her mission and stayed home to enjoy chilled treats.
• Chihiro brought Doichi, Tadayuki, and Hideyuki cold juice during their training, and Doichi explained that unrest was spreading through several small countries.
• Doichi explained that his father had placed him in a Jonin squad so he could learn how the nation operated at every level.
• Yayoi considered reports of Hidden Cloud and Kirigakure activity near the Land of Hot Water and decided to wait rather than intervene prematurely.
• Hisana taught Yayoi the Yin Seal, explaining that she had perfected the technique passed down by Senior Mito.
• Hisana showed Yayoi the seal's purple flower-like mark on her lower abdomen, and Yayoi realized her lesson had a flirtatious purpose.

Tobirama sent Hiruzen, Danzo, Kagami, Koharu, Homura, and Torifu to investigate the Land of Frost as conflicts spread across the smaller nations. After finding evidence of a larger, hidden force behind the fighting, Hiruzen called off the investigation and ordered the team to kill any enemies they encountered on their way back.

• Tobirama learned from Yayoi that Kirigakure had secretly helped stir up trouble in the Land of Hot Water and had possibly attacked the Land of Whirlpool.
• Tobirama assigned Hiruzen to lead a six-person team into the Land of Frost, with Danzo as his deputy, to investigate and assess the conflict.
• Hiruzen and the others found a devastated border town littered with civilian and ninja corpses, then entered the Land of Frost to capture and question its ninja.
• The team encountered powerful pursuers wearing Frost Village attire whose skills and fighting styles did not match Frost Village ninja.
• After more than half a month, Hiruzen decided the presence of numerous unidentified, powerful ninja made further investigation too dangerous and ordered the team to return to Konoha.
• Hiruzen ordered his team to leave no enemies alive if they encountered them on the way back.

As the war between the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Frost drew the Ninja World's attention, Yayoi focused on Miyamoto Raizo, who awoke after five years in a Hibernation Pod. Raizo discovered that the experiment had restored him to the physical prime of his forties, and he was eager to test his renewed strength.

• Konoha and Yugakure formed a joint force against the Land of Frost, while the Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village supported Frost Village and the major villages mostly watched the fighting.
• Yayoi had Komurasaki monitor the situation in the Land of Frost while he went to see Miyamoto Raizo awaken.
• Nene opened Raizo's Hibernation Pod, and Raizo emerged from his long sleep as his memories returned.
• Yayoi told Raizo that he had slept for more than five years, and Raizo examined his rejuvenated body in a mirror.
• Raizo expressed astonishment at his restored strength and wanted to test it with a sword, so Yayoi set aside his plan to give Raizo a full-body examination.

Raizo fought the Seven-Tails with renewed strength, but his body weakened when its chakra ran low. Yayoi and Nene discovered that Raizo’s ageless body constantly consumed chakra to stay active, leaving him able to fight freely only where underground chakra could replenish him.

• Raizo used his lightning-charged sword to battle the Seven-Tails until sudden weakness forced him to stop.
• Yayoi ended the test and took Raizo back to Nightview City for an examination.
• Nene explained that Raizo’s body continuously consumed chakra and would become unable to move if its supply ran out.
• Yayoi said Raizo could fight at full strength in the underground space, where chakra from the earth could replenish him, but could remain active outside for only three to five days without fighting.
• Raizo accepted the limits of his ageless body, while Yayoi retained the ability to shut down the Cursed Seal and reclaim its power.

Yayoi restricted Raizo’s movements to keep his Eternal Life secret, while Raizo asked him to consider Tamaki as a possible match for Doichi. As war between Yugakure and Frost Village intensified, Izayoi discovered that Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village were concealing their movements and warned Konoha of a possible major attack.

• Yayoi arranged for Raizo to live secretly underground and maintain the appearance of a frail old man, then agreed to raise Raizo’s wish for Tamaki to marry Doichi.
• Yayoi considered ways to address the Cursed Seal’s constant chakra drain and concluded that the approaching war took priority.
• In mid-December, fighting between Yugakure and Frost Village continued to devastate border settlements and displace civilians.
• Hatake Shinjiro reported to Izayoi that Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village had fortified the Land of Frost’s core regions and were difficult to track.
• Izayoi sent Shinjiro to warn Konoha to stay alert while she and the other team leaders waited for instructions from Nightview City.

Yayoi informed the Land of Night’s senior officials that war was imminent and calmed them by sharing a cup of black tea. In the Land of Water, Komurasaki investigated a Hidden Mist Village force, learned that Kumogakure and the Hidden Mist Village had allied, and discovered their forces were targeting the Land of Night’s key territories.

• Yayoi read intelligence from Izayoi and Komurasaki, then ordered Irori to summon the Military Bureau’s senior officials.
• Yayoi told the officials that war was coming, and his calm tea-drinking reassured them.
• Komurasaki attacked a Hidden Mist Village camp on an island, killed several ninja, and forced the force to prepare to depart immediately.
• Komurasaki observed that a white-haired Hidden Mist Village ninja used Ice Release and decided to send her findings to Konoha.
• Komurasaki concluded that Kumogakure and the Hidden Mist Village had allied and were moving forces toward the Land of Frost and the Land of Night’s northern mining base.

Kumogakure’s commanders prepared an island-chain staging base for an invasion of the Land of Night and planned to seize a northern border garrison. Yugito and Tazbi agreed to lead the assault, confident that their power as Jinchūriki would secure a foothold for Kumogakure’s coming raids.

• Kumogakure ninja built a fortified supply and command base across an archipelago in the sea between the Land of Night and the Land of Lightning.
• The black-haired commander told the Jonin that the base would be finished soon and would support an advance into the Land of Night.
• Kumogakure’s commanders discussed attacking the Land of Night and plundering its resources, confident that their roughly fifteen hundred elite ninja would prevail.
• The black-haired commander ordered Yugito and Tazbi to lead an elite squad in capturing a northern border garrison two days later.
• Yugito claimed the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki for himself if the Land of Night deployed them, and Tazbi agreed to the plan.

Yotsuki Kōmon and the Hidden Cloud commanders plotted to use a fabricated missing-ninja story as an excuse to attack the Land of Night. Yayoi, Kicho, Irori, and Yaya then arrived at their island command base on Tsuchigumo, and Yayoi demanded that Hidden Cloud return a missing Land of Night ninja.

• A Hidden Cloud Jonin suggested claiming that one of their ninjas had gone missing in the Land of Night as a pretext for war, and Kōmon prepared to end the meeting.
• A huge blast shook the command center, and the Hidden Cloud commanders rushed outside amid alarms and cries from injured ninja.
• Kōmon and the commanders saw Tsuchigumo, summoned by Yayoi, crushing the base, with Yayoi, Kicho, Irori, and Yaya atop its head.
• Kōmon recognized the Land of Night's leaders and tried to question Yayoi while seeking grounds for a counterattack.
• Yayoi dismissed Kōmon's probing and demanded that Hidden Cloud hand over the Land of Night ninja who had disappeared while patrolling two days earlier.

Yayoi and his allies fought Kōmon’s Hidden Cloud forces, with Irori freezing their attacks and Yaya and Kicho shattering the ice that trapped the commanders. Yayoi absorbed Tazbi’s Tailed-Beast Bomb to protect the archipelago, intending to use it as a forward base against the Land of Lightning.

• Kōmon ordered the Hidden Cloud ninja to attack Tsuchigumo with combined Water and Lightning Release techniques, but Irori froze the assault into towering icebergs.
• Tsuchigumo leaped over the ice and landed among the Hidden Cloud ninja, while Kōmon, Yugito, Tazbi, and a young lightning-wielding ninja charged toward Yayoi’s group.
• Irori froze the four advancing ninja in a massive block of ice, which fell with Tsuchigumo and devastated the Hidden Cloud defenses and nearby base facilities.
• Yaya and Kicho shattered the iceberg and blasted Kōmon’s group back, while Irori unleashed a barrage of ice weapons from above.
• Tazbi formed and fired a Tailed-Beast Bomb, but Yayoi’s Netherworld Orb swallowed it and contained its chakra.
• Yayoi said he had intercepted the bomb to protect the archipelago, which he planned to use as a forward base against the Land of Lightning.

Yayoi and his allies overwhelmed the Hidden Cloud Village vanguard, forcing Kōmon to order a retreat. After claiming the surviving supplies, Yayoi chose to press into the Land of Lightning before its forces could regroup.

• Yaya struck Tazbi and drove him out over the sea while Irori's ice weapons kept Yugito pinned down.
• Kicho used her Byakugan Chakra Mode and Kumokiri to wound A, disrupting the Chakra flow through his right arm and sending him crashing into the sea.
• Tsuchigumo chased Kōmon through the storm as Yayoi helped prevent the Hidden Cloud Village ninja from supporting one another.
• Kōmon fired a retreat signal, and Yugito, Tazbi, A, and the other Hidden Cloud Village ninja withdrew toward the Land of Lightning.
• Yayoi regrouped with Kicho, Yaya, and Irori, noted that most of the supplies remained intact, and decided to continue the advance into the Land of Lightning.

After Yayoi’s battle with the Hidden Cloud Village, Uchiha Hokuto’s force secured the devastated archipelago and began recovering bodies, prisoners, and supplies. Doichi struggled with the horrors of the battlefield as he learned what war meant firsthand.

• Doichi arrived at the battlefield and saw wrecked ships, frozen islands, corpses, and wounded Hidden Cloud Village ninja.
• Uchiha Hokuto assigned his companies to recover bodies and wounded, salvage supplies, and fortify the area.
• Uchiha Kazuya tasked Squad Seven with collecting intact corpses under Shiraishi Aotori’s direction.
• A wounded Hidden Cloud Village ninja attacked a samurai with a kunai and was killed, while the other prisoners accepted their capture.
• Doichi found bloodied fingers and bones among the corpses and fought nausea as he confronted the reality of war.

The Land of Night and Konoha struggled to hold the Land of Hot Water front against the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Mist allied forces, while Izayoi fought a separate covert battle. Kakuzu ended the commanders’ meeting planning to coordinate an advance with Konoha, even as Tobirama’s use of Impure World Reincarnation unnerved allies and enemies alike.

• Tobirama Senju took command of Konoha’s forces and joined the battle against the Hidden Cloud, Hidden Mist, and Frost villages.
• Kakuzu and Yuroketsu discussed the heavy fighting, their losses, and their mission to defend the Land of Hot Water rather than defeat the enemy outright.
• Yuroketsu reported that Izayoi’s Special Assault Department was occupied fighting a Hidden Cloud ninja with Storm Release.
• The commanders recalled Tobirama using Impure World Reincarnation to make dead enemy ninjas attack and repeatedly detonate among their former allies.
• Kakuzu ended the meeting and planned to discuss an advance with Konoha to reduce pressure on Yayoi’s forces.

Yotsuki Kōmon and the remnants of Hidden Cloud Village’s vanguard faced Yayoi’s exhausted forces after three days of relentless pursuit. Just as Yayoi’s Netherworld Orb nearly captured Yugito, reinforcements arrived, prompting Yayoi to withdraw.

• Yotsuki Kōmon realized Yayoi had pursued the retreating Hidden Cloud forces for three days, reducing the vanguard of fifteen hundred to fewer than three hundred fighters.
• Kōmon ordered the survivors to stand their ground, and A, Yugito, and Tazbi joined him as Tsuchigumo charged.
• Tazbi and Yugito blocked Tsuchigumo’s charge, while Yayoi launched the Netherworld Orb at them.
• Yugito’s injuries slowed his escape, and the Netherworld Orb swallowed one of his arms before Hidden Cloud ninja pulled him free with Water Release: Water Dragon Whip.
• More than two thousand Hidden Cloud reinforcements arrived, and Yayoi ordered his group to retreat on Tsuchigumo, which left behind a gigantic pit.

Yayoi organized the Land of Night’s occupation of Maple City while Komurasaki began the planned attack on the Hidden Cloud Village camp. Using Dreamwalker Jutsu, she unleashed the Two-Tails, leaving it rampaging near the camp.

• Yayoi oversaw the repair and defense of Maple City as the Land of Night’s forces gathered resources and waited for delayed reinforcements.
• Irori told Yayoi that the Third and Fourth Divisions would arrive the day after tomorrow because of a storm at sea, and that Komurasaki had begun her mission.
• Hidden Cloud Village seal specialists failed to remove the sealing formulae on Yugito’s right arm but expected them to wear off by the following afternoon.
• Komurasaki found Yayoi’s signal outside the Hidden Cloud Village camp and used Dreamwalker Jutsu to send a purple phantom toward it.
• Komurasaki’s technique summoned the Two-Tails, which erupted into a massive, roaring beast as she urged it to cause chaos.

Komurasaki’s interference with Yugito’s seal triggered the Two-Tails’ rampage, and Yotsuki Kōmon led the Hidden Cloud ninja in trying to contain it. As the Two-Tails’ attacks devastated the camp, Komurasaki was discovered and repelled an ambush with a powerful chakra-fueled gust.

• The Two-Tails emerged in a rampage, and Yotsuki Kōmon ordered the Hidden Cloud ninja to evacuate weaker fighters and investigate a purple light from the west.
• Kōmon and the Jonin used coordinated Lightning, Water, and Earth Release techniques to blind, restrain, and attack the Two-Tails.
• The Two-Tails broke free, crushed two ninja, and unleashed a sweeping barrage of fireballs that set the forest and camp ablaze.
• A fireball struck near Komurasaki, who dodged it and realized her Dreamwalker Jutsu had triggered the rampage without giving her precise control.
• Hidden Cloud ninja surrounded Komurasaki and attacked with shuriken and kunai, but she blew them back with a chakra-powered gale, killing or injuring many.

Komurasaki fought off the Hidden Cloud Village ninja until A arrived and wounded her with Four-Finger Nukite, but her body rapidly healed and she escaped. Back at the ruined camp, Kōmon ordered a withdrawal and then collapsed from exhaustion.

• Komurasaki resisted the Hidden Cloud Village Jonin's blade and used her speed and powerful kicks to overwhelm the surrounding ninja.
• A arrived and struck Komurasaki with Four-Finger Nukite, piercing her shoulder, but her wound healed as blue chakra flames revealed her inhuman body.
• Komurasaki judged that the Two-Tails' rampage had reached its limit and escaped after A tried to stop her.
• A returned to the devastated camp, told Kōmon that the attackers were from the Land of Night, and followed Kōmon's order to prepare a retreat.
• Kōmon concluded that the Land of Night general had exploited their exhaustion and the Two-Tails' rampage, then collapsed unconscious.

Kakuzu led his forces through a brutal battle, where he was challenged by Kaguya Seishiro, while Kinkaku and Ginkaku pursued Senju Tobirama. The brothers’ rage intensified as Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation forced their dead comrades to attack them.

• Kakuzu’s four elemental creatures combined their attacks to devastate Cloud and Kirigakure forces.
• Kakuzu charged into the enemy ranks and fought off shinobi until Kaguya Seishiro confronted him.
• Kaguya Seishiro identified himself as a Kaguya Clan shinobi with Shikotsumyaku, and he and Kakuzu began fighting.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku pursued Senju Tobirama while Cloud shinobi repeatedly attacked them with suicidal explosions.
• The brothers recognized the attacking Cloud shinobi as their dead comrades, who had been revived by Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and their Nine-Tails Chakra grew more violent.