Chapter Summaries

Tobirama confirmed that Hidan could revive the dead and promised to arrange the revivals people wanted, then returned Madara’s Rinnegan. Meanwhile, Fujiki faced the daimyō of the Lands of Wind, Earth, and Lightning over Tobirama’s actions and prepared to summon him.

• Tobirama told Madara that Hidan had been revived with weak chakra and ordered Orochimaru to restore Hidan so he could revive others.
• Tobirama promised to revive the people the others had lost and gave Madara his Rinnegan in test tubes.
• Fujiki dismissed his concerns about Tobirama’s destruction of Iwagakure and Kumogakure until Minister Saito reported that three angry daimyō had arrived.
• Fujiki ordered Saito to retrieve the marked kunai Tobirama had given him so he could summon his ancestor.
• The daimyō of the Lands of Wind, Earth, and Lightning demanded explanations from Fujiki, who denied responsibility for the Hokage’s actions.

Fujiki rejected the three daimyo’s demand to divide Konoha’s ninja forces among their countries and warned that the Hokage could destroy them. He summoned Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha to give them their answer, leaving the daimyo terrified as the two appeared.

• The daimyo of Earth, Wind, and Lightning demanded that Fujiki explain the destruction of their ninja villages and divide Konoha’s ninjas among their countries.
• The Land of Lightning’s daimyo insulted Kato To when he tried to speak, and Fujiki objected to the treatment of his commander.
• The Land of Earth’s daimyo proposed dividing Konoha’s forces, but Fujiki laughed and warned the three daimyo that the Hokage might wipe out their countries.
• The daimyo of Earth threatened joint economic sanctions if Fujiki refused, while the three dismissed the possibility that the Hokage would attack them.
• Saito Shizumo returned with a strange kunai, and Fujiki infused it with chakra to summon Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha into the hall.
• Madara questioned why Tobirama had brought him, and Tobirama turned to face the three frightened daimyo.

Tobirama Senju killed the three daimyo who demanded Konoha be divided, then began a campaign to unify the ninja world. He ordered Fujiki to declare war on every country that retained the daimyo system and to enlist Sunagakure and Kirigakure.

• Tobirama Senju arrived as Fujiki explained that the three daimyo had demanded Konoha be split into three.
• Madara Uchiha insulted the daimyo, and Tobirama Senju confronted them after they demanded he discipline his subordinate.
• Tobirama Senju killed the three daimyo and froze their bodies, while Kato To removed the evidence and warned Saito Shizumo to keep silent.
• Tobirama Senju told Fujiki to return to the Senju Clan and become its head, then ordered him to declare war on the ninja world and contact Sunagakure and Kirigakure.
• Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha returned to Konoha, and the Land of Fire declared war at the start of Konoha's sixty-first year.

Temari and Chiyo learned that Tobirama Senju had ordered nations to abolish the daimyo system or face war, and Kirigakure began enforcing the order by killing the Land of Water’s daimyo. As Konoha celebrated the new year, Tobirama treated Deidara’s injury and promised Sasori that his parents would soon be resurrected, then met Madara, who wanted to make amends for his past actions.

• Temari delivered Konoha’s ultimatum to Chiyo, who realized it amounted to a declaration of war against the ninja world.
• Mei Terumi and Genji ordered Kirigakure to act alongside Konoha, and Ao led Mist ninja in killing the Land of Water’s daimyo.
• The other daimyo realized Tobirama Senju’s threat was serious after Kirigakure’s attack.
• Tobirama Senju visited Deidara in Konoha Hospital, where Tsunade healed the leg he had blown off while testing an explosive technique.
• Tobirama Senju promised Sasori that his parents would soon be resurrected, then went to meet Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha told Tobirama Senju that he wanted to make amends for some of his past actions.

Madara Uchiha agreed to use the Rinnegan to revive those tied to the Nine-Tails Rebellion and other victims, while Hiruzen Sarutobi heard that Tobirama Senju had announced a New Year’s gathering for the bereaved. The chapter ended with Hiruzen reflecting on Tobirama’s achievements and his own failures as he remained confined at home.

• Madara Uchiha persuaded Tobirama Senju that he would revive the dead from the Nine-Tails incident, along with Nagato, Yahiko, Izuna Uchiha, and members of the Uchiha clan.
• ANBU announced that families whose relatives died in the Nine-Tails Rebellion could gather at the Hokage Building on New Year’s Eve to receive a special gift.
• Konoha residents spread the announcement throughout the village, wondering what the New Year’s gift would be.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned about the announcement from the ANBU guarding him and recalled the village’s recent victories and prosperity.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi compared himself unfavorably to Tobirama Senju and reflected on how his own scheming had left him diminished.

Tobirama Senju revealed that Madara Uchiha would use the Rinnegan to resurrect those killed during the Nine-Tails Rebellion, presenting the plan as Konoha’s New Year’s gift. The chapter ended with Madara’s status as a Konoha shinobi restored and the crowd reacting to the promise of resurrection.

• Tsunade pressed Tobirama Senju to explain the New Year’s gift, and he told her Madara Uchiha planned to resurrect the Nine-Tails Rebellion’s victims.
• Tobirama Senju asked Tsunade to tell Kakashi and the others and bring Naruto, while he considered his own eventual resurrection.
• On New Year’s Eve, villagers gathered at Konoha’s back mountain as ANBU and Hyūga shinobi maintained order.
• Tobirama Senju appeared on the platform and introduced Madara Uchiha to the crowd.
• Tobirama Senju announced that Madara’s status as a Konoha shinobi was restored and that Madara would resurrect everyone killed during the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

Tobirama arranged registrations for resurrecting those killed in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, while Madara prepared to bring them back using the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique. The chapter ended as Madara began the resurrection of 3,560 people, including the Uchiha clan.

• Tobirama announced that people could register relatives killed in the Nine-Tails Rebellion for resurrection, and Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Itachi reacted to the news.
• Iruka registered his parents, Umino Ikkaku and Kairi, and Jiraiya thanked him for caring for Naruto.
• Tsunade registered Hashirama Senju and Nawaki Senju, while Kakashi registered Hatake Sakumo and Nohara Rin.
• Naruto registered Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki under the name Namikaze Naruto, and Jiraiya set his form aside.
• The ANBU counted 2,672 registrants, or 3,560 including the Uchiha clan, and Tobirama brought out Hidan to support the resurrection.
• Madara memorized the names, opened his Rinnegan, formed the Snake hand seal, and began the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.

Madara Uchiha summoned the King of Hell to revive the dead, while Hidan used One's Own Life Reincarnation to keep Madara alive as the King drained his life force. Among the revived was Kushina Uzumaki, who reunited with Naruto, while Minato Namikaze remained trapped with the Shinigami.

• Madara Uchiha summoned the King of Hell, which explained that Minato Namikaze's soul was with the Shinigami and agreed to revive everyone else.
• The King of Hell released thousands of souls, which returned to their corresponding bodies as Madara's life force began to drain away.
• Tobirama Senju sent Hidan to use One's Own Life Reincarnation on Madara, and Hidan survived the life-draining ritual through his immortality.
• The revived villagers reunited with their families while Naruto Uzumaki searched for his parents with Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya helped Naruto find Kushina Uzumaki, who learned she had been revived and embraced her son.

Kakashi reunited with Hatake Sakumo and finally understood why his father had chosen to save his comrades, freeing him from the pain of his disgrace. Hashirama Senju discovered that his grandson Nawaki had died in the Second Shinobi World War, just as three familiar voices called out to him.

• Kakashi asked Hatake Sakumo to tell him his story and listened as his father explained the choices that had led to his disgrace and death.
• Kakashi told Hatake Sakumo that he was proud of him for putting his comrades first, and Hatake Sakumo was freed from the darkness that had haunted him.
• Kakashi embraced Hatake Sakumo as his father prepared to accept death.
• Hashirama Senju awoke beside Nawaki, realized he was alive, and learned that Nawaki was his grandson and had died in an Explosive Tag trap during the Second Shinobi World War.
• Hashirama Senju reflected on the wars that had killed Tobirama Senju and Nawaki, then heard three familiar voices call out to him.

Hashirama reunited with Tsunade, Nawaki, Tobirama, and Madara after his revival. Madara then revived the Uchiha clan, and Itachi faced the family and clansmen he had killed, ending the chapter after fifty bloody kowtows of apology.

• Hashirama joyfully embraced Tsunade and Nawaki, then reunited with Tobirama and Madara.
• Madara revived the 998 Uchiha who had died in the massacre, leaving Itachi and Sasuke to face them.
• Sasuke rushed to Fugaku and Mikoto, while the revived Uchiha recognized Itachi and accused him of killing them.
• Shisui and Izumi saw Itachi, and Fugaku and Mikoto turned their attention toward him.
• Itachi knelt before the Uchiha, apologized, and struck his head against the ground fifty times before Shisui stopped him.

Izuna Uchiha was revived and reunited with Madara, Hashirama, and Tobirama after the Uchiha clan members returned to life. As Madara explained the decades Izuna had missed, Izuna struggled to accept that the Warring States era had ended and Konoha had been founded.

• Mikoto and Izumi reacted to Itachi's collapse, while Shisui wondered how events had gone wrong and discovered he could see despite losing both eyes.
• The revived Uchiha learned their Sharingan were gone, and Sasuke told Fugaku that the Hokage and the ancestors had revived them.
• Sasuke revealed that Madara Uchiha had taken him as a disciple, leading Fugaku to invent an elaborate theory about Madara's survival and return.
• Madara remembered Izuna had also been revived and led Hashirama and Tobirama to find him.
• Izuna mistook Hashirama and Tobirama for enemies and charged, but Tobirama pinned him down before Madara embraced him.
• Madara explained the decades since Izuna's death, and Izuna was stunned to hear that Madara worked in Konoha under Tobirama's authority.

Tobirama Senju’s revival ceremony reunited Sasori, Nagato, and others with their loved ones while bringing old clan conflicts and hidden truths to light. As the ceremony ended, Kushina learned Minato might still be revived and hurried to confront the masked man responsible for the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

• Sasori reunited with his revived parents, while Deidara secretly watched before leaving enviously.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Kakuzu met the revived Nagato and Yahiko, and Kisame began explaining the truth behind Akatsuki’s chain of puppets.
• Madara Uchiha scolded Fugaku Uchiha for the Uchiha clan’s decline, then knocked Izuna Uchiha for comparing Fugaku unfavorably with their father.
• Tobirama Senju promised Shisui Uchiha that the Uchiha clan would remain part of Konoha and would not be treated unjustly.
• After the revival ceremony ended, Kushina Uzumaki thanked Tobirama, learned Minato Namikaze might be revived later, and rushed to Konoha Prison to see the captured masked man.

In Konoha Prison, Madara revealed that he had manipulated Obito into pursuing the Eye of the Moon Plan, and Obito refused to accept that Infinite Tsukuyomi was a lie until Kakashi, Kushina, and Rin confronted him. Obito repented, used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to retrieve Minato’s soul, and died after confessing his love to Rin; Madara then gave him a final illusion in which he entrusted Obito with his legacy and the Rinnegan.

• Madara told Obito that he had arranged Rin’s death and chosen Obito to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan, then revealed that Black Zetsu and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had made the plan a deception.
• Kushina attacked Obito for killing Minato and her, then recognized him when she uncovered his face, while Kakashi explained Obito’s history to Rin.
• Rin comforted Obito and urged him to apologize, prompting him to kneel before Kushina and confess his remorse for his crimes.
• Obito used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to summon the Shinigami and retrieve Minato’s soul, while Madara blocked the Shinigami from taking Obito’s soul.
• Obito collapsed in Rin’s arms, confessed that he loved her, and died after Rin and Kushina forgave him.
• Madara created a final illusion for Obito, telling him that he was worthy of inheriting Madara’s legacy and entrusting him with the Rinnegan and the peace of the ninja world.

After Obito died, Tobirama Senju ordered his body buried in Konoha Cemetery and began enforcing his ultimatum to abolish the Daimyo System. He sent Sunagakure and Kirigakure to conquer resisting nations, while the Land of Hot Water prepared to face Kirigakure with help from Mifune and the samurai of the Land of Iron.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Obito's body placed in Konoha Cemetery, and Kakashi and Rin mourned him.
• Shikaku Nara reported that dozens of nations had resisted Tobirama Senju's ultimatum and that Mifune had rallied the Land of Iron's samurai to defend the Daimyo System.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Sunagakure and Kirigakure to attack resisting nations while Konoha's shinobi followed to take control of conquered territory.
• Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju used Wood Release and Water Release to green Sunagakure's desert and expand the Land of Water's territory, winning the gratitude of their people.
• Kirigakure attacked the Land of Hot Water, and its daimyo ordered his samurai to hold out until Mifune arrived with reinforcements.

Kisame Hoshigaki led Mist ninja through the Land of Hot Water, routing its samurai and reaching the capital in under an hour while Konoha shinobi took control of the territory. The Mist ninja broke through the capital’s weak defenses and stormed the daimyo’s residence as the daimyo’s ministers fled with him through a hidden passage.

• Kisame Hoshigaki ordered the Mist ninja to press their attack but spare samurai who surrendered, and their forces slaughtered the samurai army.
• The Mist ninja advanced to the capital while Konoha shinobi took over administration, purged criminal groups, and reassured civilians.
• The daimyo learned that his army had been routed and General Morita killed, then fainted when he heard General Mifune’s reinforcements were still hours away.
• A minister ordered the residence guards to delay the Mist ninja, then escaped with the unconscious daimyo through a hidden passage.
• Kisame Hoshigaki led the Mist ninja through the capital gates, defeated the remaining resistance, and charged into the daimyo’s residence.

Kisame Hoshigaki led the purge of the Land of Hot Water’s daimyo and nobles, while Mifune set out with samurai to stop the invasion. Madara Uchiha confronted Mifune’s army alone as it approached the Land of Sound border.

• Kisame ordered Ao to use his Byakugan, and Ao discovered a hidden tunnel containing the Land of Hot Water’s daimyo and nobles.
• Kisame had a minister executed after he threatened him, then rejected the nobles’ offers of money and favors and ordered them killed.
• The Land of Hot Water’s daimyo was killed in his sleep, and the Mist ninja advanced toward the next country as Konoha ninja took control of the territory.
• Mifune led several hundred samurai toward the Land of Hot Water, despite knowing they could not match Konoha and its allied villages.
• Madara Uchiha waited for Mifune’s force, then charged toward the samurai army to confront them himself.

Madara stopped Mifune and the samurai of the Land of Iron from aiding the Land of Hot Water, then accepted Mifune’s request for a duel. After defeating Mifune in swordsmanship, Madara agreed to spare the remaining samurai, who returned home with their general’s body.

• Mifune recognized Madara as a dangerous opponent and asked to face him in a one-on-one duel.
• Madara accepted, took a samurai’s sword, and clashed with Mifune’s Iaijutsu Slash, breaking his own weapon while acknowledging Mifune’s speed.
• Madara summoned another sword and fought Mifune, adapting to his techniques until he struck Mifune in the chest and defeated him.
• Mifune asked Madara to spare the samurai after his death, and Madara agreed.
• Mifune died, and the samurai carried his body back the way they had come as Madara warned them not to return.

As Konoha’s campaign to unify the shinobi world advanced, Tobirama Senju welcomed Konan and Amegakure into Konoha while managing the growing demands of the conquest. Meanwhile, the remaining daimyos gathered to seek help from Hiruko, the so-called Immortal Shinobi.

• Chong Jie closed the Land of Iron’s borders after Mifune’s death as Sunagakure and Kirigakure continued conquering countries.
• Konan brought Amegakure’s talented children to Konoha and formally integrated the village into it.
• Tobirama Senju told Konan that Yahiko and Nagato had been resurrected, and sent her to reunite with them.
• The daimyos of several nations met in secret and heard the daimyo of the Land of Frost introduce Hiruko as their answer to Konoha’s campaign.

Hiruko persuaded the daimyo to help him obtain an Uchiha's Sharingan so he could complete his Chimera Technique and become an immortal ninja. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha destroyed Shennong's Sky Ninja Village stronghold and captured him, leaving the village's fate in ruins.

• Hiruko told the daimyo that he needed Konoha's Sharingan to complete his Chimera Technique, and they agreed to help in exchange for his assistance.
• Hiruko planned to use the daimyo's desperation to abduct a resurrected Uchiha, then wait for the Golden Ring Solar Eclipse to fuse the Sharingan.
• Shennong activated Angkor Fortress and fired its Zero-Tails-powered cannon at Madara Uchiha.
• Madara survived the blast and destroyed the fortress and its forces with Susanoo's sword energy.
• Madara took a flight machine for Hashirama and captured the recovering Shennong to bring back for Tobirama.

Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru reunited in Konoha and discussed Tobirama Senju's Unification War. In his underground laboratory, Tobirama revived Fourth Raikage A and asked him about Kumogakure's secret research into a chakra weapon.

• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru reminisced about their past and discussed Orochimaru's loyalty to Tobirama Senju.
• Orochimaru described Konoha's advances in the Unification War and the Uchiha clan's deployment to guard conquered countries.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya grew awkward when Orochimaru questioned why they were not fighting at the front.
• Tobirama Senju used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Fourth Raikage A from a White Zetsu.
• Tobirama Senju asked A about Kumogakure's secret research into a chakra weapon, shocking him.