Chapter Summaries

Tobirama Senju invaded Iwagakure alone and used Flying Thunder God and Wood Release to devastate the village’s defenses. Ōnoki rallied Iwagakure’s forces and tried to stop him, but the wooden dragon continued charging through the shinobi as reinforcements arrived.

• Tobirama Senju appeared in Iwagakure and confronted Ōnoki, who ordered the civilians evacuated and summoned the village’s forces and sealing squad.
• Ōnoki attacked Tobirama Senju with Dust Release, but Tobirama escaped with Flying Thunder God.
• Tobirama Senju summoned a massive Wood Release dragon, alarming Ōnoki and the Iwagakure ninja.
• Ōnoki’s Dust Release struck the dragon’s tail, but Tobirama continued charging through Iwagakure’s shinobi and buildings.
• Ōnoki called for more ninja to block Tobirama as reinforcements rushed into the battle.

Tobirama Senju battled Iwagakure’s forces, surviving their attacks and overwhelming them with immense Ninjutsu. As Ōnoki rallied the village against him, Tobirama stood atop a giant Wooden Man and prepared to devastate Iwagakure.

• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s divisions to surround Tobirama Senju and reinforce the village.
• Tobirama’s Wood Dragon drained the Chakra of Iwagakure ninja who attacked it, but Akatsuchi buried Tobirama beneath the Mountain Soil Technique.
• Tobirama emerged unharmed and used a Senjutsu-enhanced Dragon Flame Technique that burned through Iwagakure’s defenses.
• Tobirama summoned a Wooden Man hundreds of meters tall as Ōnoki rallied the Iwagakure ninja to defend their village.
• Tobirama considered that his next attack could raze Iwagakure to the ground.

Tobirama Senju used his Wood Human to devastate Iwagakure, overwhelming Ōnoki and its defenders. Ōnoki sent Akatsuchi to evacuate the civilians, then led the remaining ninja into a final charge as Tobirama unleashed a chain of multiplying Explosive Tags in the forest.

• Iwagakure's ninja attacked Tobirama Senju's Wood Human, but Ōnoki's Dust Release only destroyed one leg, which Tobirama quickly regenerated.
• Tobirama's Wood Human and Wood Dragon crushed and killed the defenders, while Iwagakure's ninja fought desperately to protect their village and families.
• Tobirama used Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees to cover much of Iwagakure in forest.
• Ōnoki ordered Akatsuchi to escort Kurotsuchi and the civilians toward the capital of the Land of Earth, then led the remaining ninja against Tobirama.
• Tobirama set off Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags across the Wood Human, turning it into a blazing giant that charged into the forest and triggered a massive explosion throughout Iwagakure.

Tobirama Senju destroyed Iwagakure with the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, while Ōnoki and Akatsuchi faced their deaths amid the flames. When other forces arrived the next morning, they found the village in ruins and confirmed that the Third Tsuchikage and his disciple had died.

• Ōnoki mourned Iwagakure's destruction and regretted declaring war on Konoha.
• Akatsuchi returned alone, told Ōnoki that Kurotsuchi and the others had retreated, and chose to stay with his master.
• Ōnoki climbed onto Akatsuchi's back, spoke of Iwagakure's Will of Stone, and the two walked toward the flames.
• The Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags overwhelmed the Wood Human, whose final explosion devastated Iwagakure and killed Ōnoki and Akatsuchi.
• Tobirama Senju re-formed after the blast, surveyed the burning village, and vanished.
• Investigators found Iwagakure reduced to ruins and identified Ōnoki and Akatsuchi's bodies before withdrawing to report the disaster.

After learning that Tobirama Senju had killed Ōnoki and destroyed Iwagakure, the other villages and Akatsuki feared his power. Akatsuki suspended its plans and prepared to fight him, while a masked figure asked Orochimaru to reincarnate Madara Uchiha.

• Mabui told Fourth Raikage A that Ōnoki was dead and Iwagakure had been destroyed, then identified Tobirama Senju as the culprit.
• Akatsuki learned that Tobirama Senju had destroyed Iwagakure alone, and its members reacted with fear, doubt, or thoughts of leaving.
• Deva Path Pain ordered Akatsuki to cancel its sabotage and Tailed Beast operations, prepare for battle against Tobirama Senju, and have Orochimaru ready the Impure World Reincarnation.
• A masked figure appeared in Orochimaru's laboratory and asked him to reincarnate Madara Uchiha.

Black Zetsu persuaded Orochimaru to revive Madara Uchiha so Madara could defeat Tobirama Senju. After destroying Iwagakure, Tobirama returned to Konoha and prepared for the threats his actions would provoke.

• Black Zetsu offered Orochimaru Madara Uchiha's corpse and urged him to revive Madara to kill Tobirama Senju.
• Orochimaru accepted Black Zetsu's offer, intrigued by the hidden schemes shaping the ninja world.
• Tobirama Senju received the Water Release Enhancement reward after completing his mission to defeat Iwagakure.
• Shikaku Nara and the others questioned Tobirama about Iwagakure's destruction, and he called it a small punishment for opposing Konoha.
• Shikaku Nara and Itachi Uchiha warned that the other villages and the Akatsuki might target Konoha, while Tobirama Senju calmly vowed to face them.

After destroying Iwagakure, Tobirama Senju received peace envoys from Kumogakure and Kirigakure. As the envoys waited to meet him, Kitsuchi learned that his father and village had supposedly fallen, and the chapter ended with Tobirama entering the conference room.

• Tobirama Senju checked that Itachi was keeping the imprisoned Jinchuriki's seals under control.
• Envoys from Kumogakure and Kirigakure requested an audience, and Tobirama Senju told them to wait in the conference room.
• Kitsuchi overheard Konoha guards say that Tobirama Senju had destroyed Iwagakure and killed Ōnoki, and he reacted with disbelief and fury.
• Chōjūrō and the Kirigakure envoys prepared to distance their village from the Shinobi Alliance and seek peace with Konoha.
• Darui worried that Kumogakure would have to surrender its Tailed Beasts, including Killer B, to satisfy Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju entered the conference room, and the waiting envoys wondered whether his formation meant they would be detained.

Chōjūrō asked Tobirama Senju to form an alliance with Kirigakure, explaining that the village had joined Iwagakure’s alliance out of fear that Konoha had controlled the Fourth Mizukage. He left Kirigakure ready to support Tobirama’s plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and surrender its Jinchuriki.

• Chōjūrō greeted Tobirama Senju and asked him to hear Kirigakure’s proposal, while Darui watched uneasily.
• Chōjūrō announced that Kirigakure wanted to form an alliance with Konoha, surprising Tobirama Senju and the others.
• Chōjūrō explained that Kirigakure had joined the Shinobi Alliance because it suspected a Sharingan user had controlled the Fourth Mizukage.
• Itachi Uchiha wondered if Madara was responsible, and Tobirama Senju assured Chōjūrō that the culprit had no connection to Konoha.
• Chōjūrō declared that Kirigakure supported Tobirama Senju’s plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and had no objection to handing them over, leaving Darui alarmed.

Tobirama Senju rejected Kirigakure’s offer of an alliance and demanded that it either submit to Konoha or face destruction. After the Mist delegation left to consult Mei Terumi, he ordered Darui to tell A to kill himself and send Kumogakure’s Two-Tails and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to Konoha.

• Chōjūrō offered to make Kirigakure Konoha’s steadfast ally, but Tobirama Senju said Kirigakure had no qualifications to be an ally.
• Tobirama Senju demanded that Kirigakure submit and allow Konoha to station troops, or become Konoha’s enemy and be destroyed.
• Chōjūrō asked to return to Kirigakure and consult Mei Terumi, and Tobirama Senju allowed the Mist delegation to leave.
• Tobirama Senju revealed that Kirigakure’s Jinchuriki had already been abducted to Konoha and said he intended to gather the Tailed Beasts and destroy the Akatsuki.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Darui to tell A to take his own life and send the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to Konoha.

Tobirama Senju threatened Kumogakure, killed two Cloud ninja with an unseen technique, and demanded the Two-Tails, Eight-Tails, and A’s life. He declared Konoha would unify the ninja world and prepared to hunt Akatsuki and Orochimaru, while A ordered Kumogakure to fight Konoha to the bitter end.

• Tobirama Senju killed a Cloud ninja in the conference room and ordered Darui to tell A to send the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails to Konoha and take his own life.
• After another Cloud ninja insulted Tobirama Senju outside the conference room, Tobirama killed him too, and Darui led the survivors back to Kumogakure.
• Tobirama Senju rejected Shikaku Nara’s suggestion to ally with Kirigakure, declared Konoha would unite the ninja world, and ordered Root to search for Akatsuki and Orochimaru.
• Darui reported Tobirama Senju’s demands to A, who destroyed part of the Raikage building and ordered Kumogakure to prepare for war against Konoha.

Akatsuki confronted Orochimaru in his laboratory and demanded that he use the Impure World Reincarnation for their coming war against Konoha and Tobirama Senju. Orochimaru revealed an army of resurrected Kage-level fighters, and Pain declared war on Konoha.

• Akatsuki members broke into Orochimaru's laboratory, where Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi had been studying White Zetsu test subjects.
• Deva Path Pain ordered Orochimaru to serve Akatsuki by preparing his forbidden technique for their attack on Konoha and Tobirama Senju.
• Orochimaru performed the Impure World Reincarnation and raised coffins containing powerful deceased fighters.
• Orochimaru introduced resurrected Kage and other Kage-level shinobi, including Rasa, Shajie, Ōnoki, Mū, Karatachi Yagura, Hozuki Gengetsu, the Raikage brothers, Kinkaku and Ginkaku, Hanzō, and Pakura.
• Pain accepted Orochimaru's army despite its smaller size than promised, while secretly viewing Orochimaru as a future threat.
• Pain declared war on Konoha and the Hokage.

Tobirama Senju tested the effects of his enhanced Water Release in the Forest of Death, creating a massive Water Giant. As he considered the looming threat from Orochimaru and the Akatsuki, he recalled something important and went to Root's laboratory.

• Tobirama Senju tested his enhanced Water Release and demonstrated that he could control water as liquid, ice, and vapor.
• Tobirama Senju created a vast torrent with little chakra and shaped it into a Water Giant several hundred meters tall.
• Tobirama Senju climbed onto the giant and considered how it could withstand physical attacks, including Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo.
• Tobirama Senju thought about Orochimaru, the Akatsuki, and their planned attack on Konoha, then remembered something and appeared in Root's laboratory.

Tobirama Senju revived Hashirama Senju to help defend Konoha against an impending attack by Akatsuki and Orochimaru. After learning about the clans’ descendants and the wars that followed his death, Hashirama accepted Tobirama’s leadership and prepared to protect Konoha.

• Tobirama Senju unsealed Hashirama Senju from a sealing scroll in Root’s underground laboratory.
• Hashirama Senju regained his senses and was surprised to learn that Tobirama had summoned him.
• Tobirama Senju recounted his actions since his resurrection, including the losses of their clans, the wars, and the coming threat to Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju reassured Hashirama Senju that Uchiha and Senju descendants remained alive.
• Tobirama Senju argued that the distribution of the Tailed Beasts had failed to prevent wars and that Madara Uchiha had been right about the need for a unified nation.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to leave the broader political matters to Tobirama and asked about Akatsuki’s planned attack on Konoha.

Tobirama Senju told Hashirama Senju that Madara Uchiha had survived their battle and was being manipulated into pursuing the Ten-Tails plan. Tobirama prepared a modified Impure World Reincarnation body that would let Hashirama wield eighty percent of his former strength for about an hour, leaving them ready to face the coming crisis.

• Tobirama Senju explained that Madara Uchiha had used Izanagi to fake his death and later awakened the Rinnegan with Hashirama Senju's cells.
• Tobirama Senju revealed Madara's plan to revive the Ten-Tails and cast a world-spanning genjutsu, and told Hashirama that a hidden mastermind was deceiving Madara.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to help stop the mastermind, and Tobirama Senju said he needed Hashirama's cells to strengthen him.
• Hashirama Senju released himself from his current Impure World Reincarnation body while Tobirama Senju selected a death-row inmate as a sacrifice.
• Tobirama Senju modified Impure World Reincarnation and summoned Hashirama Senju into a body that could provide eighty percent of his former strength for roughly an hour.

Tobirama learned that the Akatsuki had launched attacks on Konoha’s northern and eastern borders while Pain and Orochimaru appeared at the Valley of the End. He organized the village’s response, sent teams to confront the Akatsuki, and left Hashirama guarding Konoha’s Jinchuriki.

• Tobirama told Shikaku that he had resurrected Hashirama because Konoha might face the Akatsuki and Madara Uchiha, and Shikaku reported Akatsuki activity in Otogakure.
• Kakashi reported attacks by Deidara and Sasori on the northern border, while another ANBU reported Kisame and Kakuzu attacking the eastern border and Pain and Orochimaru appearing at the Valley of the End.
• Tobirama summoned Jiraiya, Might Guy, and Itachi, and Hashirama apologized to Itachi for Konoha’s mistreatment of the Uchiha clan.
• Itachi and Tobirama concluded that the Akatsuki was dividing Konoha’s forces and likely targeting Tobirama, so Tobirama assigned Jiraiya and Might Guy to Kisame and Kakuzu and Kakashi and Tsunade to Deidara and Sasori.
• Tobirama and Itachi set out to face Pain and Orochimaru, while Hashirama stayed behind to guard the imprisoned Jinchuriki and Shikaku took charge of the village.

At the Valley of the End, Orochimaru and Deva Path Pain prepared to fight Tobirama Senju after Zetsu reported his arrival with Uchiha Itachi. Along Konoha’s borders, Akatsuki fighters clashed with reinforcements, leaving Sasori focused on Kakashi and Kisame and Kakuzu facing Jiraiya and Might Guy.

• Deva Path Pain questioned Orochimaru’s choice of the Valley of the End as their battlefield, and Orochimaru hinted at the pleasure of killing Tobirama Senju there.
• Zetsu reported that Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Itachi had arrived, and the two appeared atop Hashirama Senju’s statue.
• Deidara and Sasori attacked Konoha’s northern defensive line until Tsunade and Kakashi arrived; Sasori recognized Kakashi as White Fang’s son and swore to avenge his parents.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Kakuzu ravaged Konoha’s eastern defensive line until Jiraiya and Might Guy arrived to face them.

Tobirama Senju and Itachi Uchiha attacked Orochimaru and Deva Path Pain, but Nagato summoned twelve powerful shinobi with Impure World Reincarnation. The resurrected warriors began to fight, leaving Tobirama and Itachi facing a large ambush.

• Tobirama Senju struck Deva Path Pain and Orochimaru with a massive Water Release while Itachi Uchiha attacked Orochimaru with Susanoo and Yasaka Beads.
• Deva Path Pain deflected Itachi's attack with Shinra Tensei, and Tobirama Senju taunted him about Nagato's real body.
• Tobirama Senju refused Deva Path Pain's demand to hand over the Jinchuriki, prompting Nagato to abandon negotiations and signal Orochimaru to act.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Mū, Ōnoki, Hozuki Gengetsu, Karatachi Yagura, the Second and Third Raikage, the Third Kazekage, Rasa, Hanzō, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and Pakura.
• Orochimaru revived the twelve shinobi, who began shouting and confronting one another as Itachi Uchiha prepared for the fight.

Uchiha Obito infiltrated Konoha Prison to seize its captured Jinchuriki, but Hashirama Senju stopped him and forced him to retreat. After Hashirama protected the prisoners and awaited Tobirama Senju, Tobirama appeared and urgently took him away.

• Uchiha Obito killed two prison guards, hid their bodies in the Kamui Dimension, and searched for Konoha's captured Jinchuriki.
• Obito found Roshi, Utakata, and Fu in a heavily guarded cell and moved to take them away.
• Hashirama Senju intercepted Obito with a powerful punch, then used Wood Release to attack while shielding the three Jinchuriki.
• Unable to overcome Hashirama, Obito retreated into the Kamui Dimension, and Hashirama reassured the prisoners before Shikaku Nara's reinforcements arrived.
• Hashirama repaired the prison, resumed guarding the Jinchuriki, and waited outside their cell until Tobirama Senju appeared and told him to come along.

Orochimaru revived powerful historical shinobi to attack Tobirama Senju, but they turned their assault on Uchiha Itachi after Tobirama disappeared. Just as the revived fighters destroyed Itachi’s Susanoo, Tobirama returned with Hashirama Senju, whose Wooden Man rescued Itachi.

• Mū learned from Ōnoki that Iwagakure had been destroyed by Tobirama Senju and turned his hatred toward Tobirama.
• Orochimaru took control of the revived shinobi and ordered them to attack Uchiha Itachi after Tobirama vanished.
• Mū and Ōnoki’s Dust Release and the other revived shinobi’s attacks forced Itachi to defend himself with Perfect Susanoo and the Yata Mirror.
• The Third Raikage and the revived shinobi broke apart Susanoo, while Itachi’s Totsuka Blade sealed the Second Raikage and Third Kazekage.
• Tobirama Senju returned with Hashirama Senju, whose Wooden Man blocked the attacks and lifted Itachi from the water.

Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju fought Akatsuki’s resurrected ninja with Itachi Uchiha on the Wood Human. After Mū’s Dust Release damaged the construct, Tobirama froze him with a specialized Water Release technique.

• Hashirama Senju rescued Itachi Uchiha with the Wood Human and checked his injuries while identifying the attackers as resurrected dead.
• Orochimaru assured Nagato that Hashirama Senju was only an empty shell with thirty percent of his strength, and Nagato ordered the attackers to strike.
• The Third Raikage failed to damage the Wood Human significantly, so Kinkaku and Ginkaku used Tailed Beast Transformation to attack it physically.
• Tobirama Senju used the Wood Human to seize Kinkaku and Ginkaku and suppress their transformations, but stopped when Mū fired Dust Release at the group.
• Tobirama Senju shielded Hashirama Senju and Itachi Uchiha from the Dust Release, then froze Mū in midair with Water Release.