Chapter Summaries

Tobirama Senju executed Shimura Danzō for rebelling and ordered Root detained and investigated. Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted that he should step down, and Tobirama appointed Shikaku Nara to take Danzō’s former position.

• Tobirama Senju severed Danzo’s limbs, removed his right eye, and killed him.
• Tobirama Senju told Konoha’s security forces that Shimura Danzō had attempted rebellion, ordered his corpse examined by the Yamanaka Clan, and had Root detained.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that he accepted Sensei’s judgment and was willing to step down.
• Tobirama Senju returned to the Hokage Building and told Shikaku Nara that he would take Shimura Danzō’s former position.

After executing Danzo for plotting to assassinate him, Tobirama Senju reorganized Konoha’s leadership and prepared for his inauguration. As the meeting ended, he received Wood Release as a reward for completing his mission to retake Konoha.

• Tobirama Senju told Shikaku Nara that he had killed Danzo’s assassination squad and ordered him to gather Konoha’s Jonin.
• Tobirama Senju announced that Shimura Danzō had tried to rebel and assassinate the Hokage, and that he had executed him.
• Tobirama Senju appointed Shikaku Nara as Hokage’s advisor and put him in charge of Root while retaining his Jonin Corps post.
• Tobirama Senju made Kakashi Hatake the temporary head of ANBU and asked Might Guy to serve as his guard.
• Tobirama Senju scheduled his inauguration ceremony for the next day, then received Wood Release for completing the mission to retake Konoha.

Tobirama Senju awakened Wood Release, moved against Shimura Danzō’s remaining loyalists, and prepared to reclaim the Hokage position. At his inauguration, Konoha celebrated his return, while Naruto Uzumaki angrily objected to losing the title he believed was meant for him.

• Tobirama Senju awakened Wood Release and grew a sapling from his palm, explaining that he had gained the ability near death.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Kakashi Hatake and Shikaku Nara to seize Root and kill Shimura Danzō’s diehard loyalists, then assigned the others to secure the inauguration.
• After the Konoha Interrogation Division exposed some of Shimura Danzō’s crimes, villagers condemned him and praised Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju appeared in ceremonial robes and announced that he would serve again as Konoha’s Second Hokage and restore its standing.
• Konoha cheered Tobirama Senju’s return, while Naruto Uzumaki complained that the Hokage position should have been his.

Tobirama Senju encountered Naruto Uzumaki and the Nine-Tails during his Hokage inauguration, and the system gave him a mission to gather all the Tailed Beasts. After being driven out of Naruto’s inner world, Tobirama patted Naruto’s head, then an ANBU delivered a summons from the council elders.

• Naruto Uzumaki shouted that he wanted to become Hokage, drawing ridicule from the people nearby.
• The Nine-Tails recognized Tobirama Senju’s aura and recalled its hatred of him and his brothers.
• The system gave Tobirama Senju the mission to gather all Tailed Beasts, with complete resurrection and a Sage Body as rewards.
• Tobirama told the Nine-Tails to stop interfering with Naruto Uzumaki’s chakra and promised he could free it someday, but the Nine-Tails rejected him and forced him out of Naruto’s inner world.
• Tobirama patted Naruto Uzumaki on the head, and Naruto ran off to check on Sasuke.
• An ANBU ninja wearing a fox mask told Tobirama Senju that the two elders of the council wished to see him.

Tobirama Senju confronted Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura after they tried to defend Danzo and criticize his appointments. He had them arrested as suspected accomplices, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi alone in the Hokage's office.

• Tobirama Senju summoned Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, who arrived with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Mitokado Homura criticized Tobirama Senju for executing Danzo and giving a Hokage advisor position to someone from the Nara Clan.
• Tobirama Senju smashed his desk and accused Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura of involvement in the attempt to kill him.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura blamed Danzo, but Tobirama Senju ordered ANBU to arrest them as his accomplices.
• Tobirama Senju sent the pair to the Interrogation Division for the Yamanaka Clan to investigate, while Hiruzen Sarutobi remained behind.

Tobirama Senju confined Hiruzen Sarutobi after exposing the persecution of the Senju Clan, and Konoha’s political upheaval spread across the ninja world. After learning of Tobirama’s resurrection and strength, Akatsuki suspended missions involving Konoha and focused on preparing for its final plan.

• Tobirama Senju confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over the Senju Clan’s persecution, and Hiruzen blamed Danzo for abducting civilians as Wood Release test subjects.
• Tobirama Senju spared Hiruzen but confined him to his home under ANBU watch, ending the old generation’s rule in Konoha.
• News of Tobirama’s resurrection and Konoha’s upheaval spread through the ninja world, prompting other factions to avoid provoking Konoha and send envoys to investigate.
• Pain gathered Akatsuki, and Zetsu reported that Tobirama had killed Danzo and resumed the Hokage position.
• Pain ordered Akatsuki to suspend missions concerning Konoha, investigate the village, and concentrate on gathering funds for their final plan.

After Sunagakure’s elders debated how to avoid Konoha’s retaliation, Chiyo proposed peace talks to recover Gaara. Tobirama learned of the offer, then encountered Sasuke Uchiha and received a mission to prevent him from defecting.

• Chiyo and Ebizo urged Sunagakure’s elders to seek peace with Konoha, while hardliners threatened to ally with Iwagakure if Tobirama demanded too much.
• Shikaku told Tobirama that Chiyo planned to send envoys in half a month and offer compensation to reclaim Gaara.
• Tobirama left Shikaku with the Hokage’s paperwork and walked through the rebuilt streets of Konoha.
• Tobirama spotted Sasuke Uchiha and received a mission to prevent Sasuke from defecting, with Sage Mode as the reward.

Tobirama Senju ordered Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki to join Kakashi Hatake’s ANBU and arranged for them to spar. After the daimyo offered to fund military action against Sunagakure, Tobirama accepted the support and sent his envoy back to the capital.

• Tobirama Senju had ANBU arrange for Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki to join Kakashi Hatake’s ANBU and encouraged them to spar.
• Tobirama Senju returned to the Hokage Building after villagers greeted him throughout Konoha.
• Saito Shizumo told Tobirama Senju he was returning to the capital and revealed that the daimyo would cover the cost of military action against Sunagakure.
• Tobirama Senju thanked the daimyo through Saito Shizumo and arranged a ninja escort for his departure.

Tobirama Senju tested the Sage Mode he had gained as a reward for Sasuke Uchiha joining ANBU, discovering that it greatly enhanced his ninjutsu. After his Sage Art: Wood Release created a vast forest and exhausted his senjutsu chakra, he told the investigating Konoha ninja not to spread what they had seen.

• Tobirama Senju used Sage Mode to fire an enormous Flame Bullet that incinerated a corridor through the forest.
• Tobirama Senju tested Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, causing a huge forest to erupt and a tremor to shake Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju's Sage Mode deactivated after the technique nearly exhausted his senjutsu chakra.
• Konoha ninja found Tobirama Senju and asked about the disturbance, and he explained that he had lost control while practicing.
• Tobirama Senju told the ninja to keep his Wood Release demonstration secret, then vanished.

Tobirama prepared for peace talks with Sunagakure after learning he did not need to take the Jinchuriki to gather the Tailed Beasts. Ebizo arrived in Konoha hoping to negotiate over the Konoha Crush Plan, while weighing Sunagakure’s poverty against the possibility of war.

• Tobirama visited Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro in prison, then asked Naruto to counsel Gaara.
• Tobirama learned that gathering the Tailed Beasts did not require collecting their Jinchuriki, though Sunagakure was unlikely to surrender its own.
• An ANBU ninja told Tobirama that Ebizo had arrived as Sunagakure’s peace envoy, and Tobirama ordered the delegation taken to the reception hall.
• Ebizo and the Sunagakure delegation saw Konoha’s prosperity and considered their village’s financial hardship and the possibility of joining Iwagakure against Konoha.
• Kakashi Hatake received the delegation, and Ebizo berated the younger Sunagakure members before following Kakashi into the reception hall.

Tobirama Senju heard Sunagakure’s peace offer but made Konoha’s forgiveness conditional on keeping Gaara in Konoha for training. The talks ended with Sunagakure facing that demand as the price of peace and a possible renewed alliance.

• Tobirama Senju asked Ebizo how Sunagakure would settle the Konoha Crush Plan.
• Ebizo blamed Orochimaru for deceiving Sunagakure, apologized, and offered five hundred million ryō plus thirty percent of Sunagakure’s mission income for ten years.
• Tobirama Senju reacted indifferently to the offer, prompting a Sand ninja to ask what Sunagakure had to pay for Konoha’s forgiveness.
• Tobirama Senju accepted the terms and offered to return the captured Sand ninja, but demanded that Gaara remain in Konoha for instruction as a condition of peace.
• Ebizo’s delegation rejected the demand, declaring that it was impossible.

Tobirama Senju rejected Sunagakure’s peace plea unless it surrendered the One-Tail Jinchūriki, deliberately provoking Ebizo into declaring war. A new system mission tasked Tobirama with crushing Sunagakure, and he ordered the Sand envoys seized.

• Ebizo rejected Tobirama Senju’s demand to hand over Sunagakure’s One-Tail Jinchūriki and accused him of obstructing peace talks.
• Ebizo realized Tobirama Senju wanted Sunagakure to start a war so Konoha could attack.
• Tobirama Senju received a system mission to lead Konoha to crush Sunagakure on the frontal battlefield, with doubled mental and natural energy as the reward.
• Ebizo declared that Sunagakure and Konoha would go to war if Tobirama kept the Jinchūriki, and Tobirama calmly agreed.
• Tobirama Senju ordered his people to seize Ebizo and the other Sand envoys.

Tobirama Senju ordered Konoha ANBU to seize Ebizo and the Sunagakure envoys, turning the failed peace talks into an apparent declaration of war. After the people of Konoha rallied behind him, he announced that they would go to war with Sunagakure in three days.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Kakashi Hatake and the ANBU to arrest Ebizo and the five accompanying Sand ninja.
• The ANBU subdued the Sunagakure envoys, and Ebizo accused Tobirama Senju of starting the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Konoha's residents assumed Tobirama Senju was seeking revenge for the Konoha Crush Plan and admired his defiance.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Shikaku Nara to send the captives to the interrogation room for the Intelligence Division.
• Tobirama Senju addressed Konoha and announced that its ninja would go to war with Sunagakure in three days.

Konoha celebrated Tobirama Senju’s decision to go to war with Sunagakure, and news of the conflict spread through the shinobi world. Sunagakure’s leaders debated how to face Konoha and its immortal Hokage, but had not found a way to counter him.

• Konoha’s people and shinobi rallied behind Tobirama Senju after he detained Sunagakure’s envoys and declared war would begin in three days.
• Hyuga Hiashi learned of the declaration and welcomed Tobirama’s forceful response, recalling his brother Hizashi’s death.
• Spies carried news of the coming war to other villages, whose Kage questioned Tobirama’s decision and worried that the conflict could spread.
• Granny Chiyo learned that Konoha had detained her younger brother Ebizo and five other envoys, while Sunagakure’s elders focused on the threat of war.
• A Sunagakure elder warned that Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation made him immortal and that his Flying Thunder God Technique could let him appear anywhere on the battlefield.
• Sunagakure’s Elder Council struggled to find a way to restrain Tobirama Senju.

Granny Chiyo devised a plan for Sunagakure to avoid direct battles with Tobirama Senju and relocate its people and supplies before the war. In Otogakure, Orochimaru’s failing body forced him to seek a new vessel, but he rejected Kimimaro and chose Guren instead.

• Granny Chiyo urged Sunagakure to withdraw from the Land of Rivers, fight in the desert with guerrilla tactics, and relocate the village’s population and supplies.
• Sunagakure’s elders approved Chiyo’s plan, and the village began preparing for war.
• Kabuto Yakushi warned Orochimaru that his body was near collapse and needed replacing.
• Kimimaro offered to become Orochimaru’s vessel, but Orochimaru rejected him because he could not cure Kimimaro’s Bloodline Disease.
• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto Yakushi to bring Guren so he could use her body as his vessel.

With war approaching, Tobirama Senju learned that Hoshigakure needed help against Akahoshi and agreed to intervene after hearing what the village could offer. He realized Hoshigakure’s airborne ninja might help Konoha counter Sunagakure, then left to deal with the crisis.

• Tobirama Senju considered how Konoha could defeat Sunagakure while minimizing casualties, and inferred that the Sand planned to wage guerrilla warfare in the Land of Wind.
• Shikaku Nara told Tobirama Senju that three envoys from Hoshigakure had arrived, apparently desperate to ask for help.
• The injured Star ninja begged Tobirama Senju to save Hoshigakure from Akahoshi and offered the Mysterious Peacock Method and their village’s allegiance.
• A young Star ninja said Hoshigakure had roughly a thousand ninja and around forty who could fly using the Mysterious Peacock Method.
• Tobirama Senju saw how the Star ninja could help counter Sunagakure, told the envoys to remain in Konoha, and vanished to handle Hoshigakure’s problem.

Tobirama Senju killed Akahoshi and secured Hoshigakure's agreement to join Konoha. He then planned to use Hoshigakure's flying ninja to counter Sunagakure's guerrilla tactics, bringing forty-three of them to Konoha as the three-day deadline approached.

• Tobirama Senju killed Akahoshi and learned that Hoshigakure's remaining civilians and ninja had evacuated to safety.
• Tobirama Senju told Hokuto that Hoshigakure had to join Konoha, then ordered the refugees to join as well.
• Tobirama Senju convened Konoha's leaders and proposed using Hoshigakure's Mysterious Peacock Method to launch aerial attacks against Sunagakure.
• Tobirama Senju brought Hoshigakure's newly chosen leader to Konoha, signed an agreement for the village to join, and had the leader attend the meeting.
• Tobirama Senju brought forty-three Star ninja capable of flight to Konoha to prepare for the bombing plan.

Tobirama Senju’s trap annihilated a Sunagakure night-raiding force before it could harm Konoha’s camp. With the attackers wiped out, Konoha’s troops cleaned up and prepared to rest while remaining ready for battle.

• Torifu Akimichi ordered Konoha’s three thousand ninja to rest at their border camp, while Tobirama Senju prepared a trap for the approaching Sand ninja.
• A force of three hundred Sunagakure elites crept toward the camp to harass Konoha, but discovered Explosive Tags hidden across the ground and trees.
• The Explosive Tags detonated in a chain reaction, killing most of the raiders and leaving only a dozen Jonin-level captains able to fight.
• The survivors tried to flee and report that Konoha had learned their tactics, but found Konoha ninja waiting in the forest.
• Konoha ninja combined Wind and Fire Release to kill the remaining Sand ninja and burn a wide clearing.
• A Konoha commander ordered some ninja to clean up the battlefield and sent the rest back to rest and prepare for another fight.

Tobirama Senju’s ambushes devastated Sunagakure’s forces, and he prepared to use the newly relocated Star Clan to help end the war. The chapter left the Star ninja ready to follow his orders as they joined Konoha’s campaign.

• Konoha’s traps and desert skirmishes inflicted heavy losses on Sunagakure while Konoha suffered comparatively few casualties.
• Torifu Akimichi told Tobirama Senju that the ninja and civilians of Hoshigakure had relocated to Konoha and that the Star ninja were ready to join the war.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Shikaku Nara to send Hoshigakure’s Jonin to the battlefield so his plan to bomb Sunagakure could begin.
• Forty-three Star ninja pledged themselves to Konoha, and their leader declared that Hoshigakure would become Konoha’s Star Clan.
• Tobirama Senju welcomed the Star Clan and told them their aid could help end the war with minimal losses.

Tobirama Senju ordered a nighttime air raid on the Sand ninja camp, using the Star Clan’s flying ninja to drop Explosive Tags. The attack began as the Sand ninja watched the bomb-laden kunai fall toward their camp.

• Tobirama Senju ordered forty-three Star Clan ninja to carry Konoha Jonin over the Sand positions and destroy their facilities with Explosive Tags.
• Tobirama Senju told the Konoha Jonin to protect the Star Clan members during the raid.
• Sunagakure Jonin complained about their losses and discussed Elder Chiyo’s failed strategy and her request for Iwagakure’s aid.
• Night watch Genin spotted a flock of strange birds approaching the Sand camp, followed by paper tied to kunai falling from the sky.
• Sand ninja recognized the falling papers as Explosive Tags and shouted that the camp was under attack.