Recaps

Madara Uchiha learned that the Eye of the Moon Plan still lacked four Tailed Beasts, while Kabuto blamed Naruto Uzumaki’s influence on the delay. Kabuto then persuaded Ōnoki that Naruto posed a greater threat than Madara and proposed using a Five Kage Summit to lure Naruto away from Konoha’s defenses.

• Madara confronted Kabuto over interrupting his fight with Naruto, but Obito explained that Sasuke’s arrival could have ruined their plan.
• Madara learned that the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Eight-Tails, and Nine-Tails were still missing, and Kabuto blamed Naruto’s changes to the Shinobi World for obstructing their plan.
• Ōnoki received reports that Madara had returned and that Naruto had fought him evenly, leaving him fearful for Iwagakure’s future.
• Kabuto appeared before Ōnoki and argued that Naruto’s technology and ambitions threatened Iwagakure more than Madara did.
• Kabuto proposed calling a Five Kage Summit to draw Naruto away from Konoha’s protection.

Kabuto persuaded Ōnoki to call a Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, hoping to lure Naruto away from Konoha so Madara could attack him. Naruto recognized the trap and decided to attend, confident he could turn it to his advantage.

• Kabuto told Ōnoki that Naruto was Akatsuki’s target and urged him to summon the Five Kage to the Land of Iron.
• Ōnoki weighed his fear of Kabuto and Madara against his opposition to Naruto’s New Order, then agreed to call the summit.
• Ōnoki sent an urgent message to the other villages, warning that Madara Uchiha had been resurrected and proposing an allied force.
• Naruto and Shikaku discussed the summit, and Naruto identified Kabuto’s plan to draw him out of Konoha.
• Naruto decided to attend the summit and called the trap a buffet if he was the hunter.

Naruto decided to attend the Five Kage Summit with an armed escort to announce the end of the old era, while Colonel Karda invited General Quan to form an alliance of small nations. General Quan refused and planned to loot Karda’s forces after the great nations destroyed them.

• Tsunade and Shikaku discussed Ōnoki’s plan to use the Five Kage Summit to unite the nations against Konoha.
• Naruto declared that he would attend the summit with Neji, Hinata, and Sasuke, bringing sniper rifles and observation equipment.
• Three days later, Naruto’s convoy of armored vehicles left Konoha for the Land of Iron.
• General Quan received Colonel Karda’s invitation to form a Third World Alliance and attend the summit together.
• General Quan rejected the invitation and ordered scouts to follow Karda’s route so they could seize his supplies after his forces were defeated.

Colonel Ka led the Land of Birds’ flamboyant military convoy toward the Five Kage Summit, hoping to use modern weapons to gain power among the great nations. At the Land of Iron border, Konoha’s convoy intimidated him into yielding the right of way.

• Colonel Ka prepared his gold-painted, makeshift Apocalypse Tank and ordered his Amazon Guard to threaten anyone who disrespected him at the summit.
• Colonel Ka led his colorful convoy out of the Land of Birds while impoverished civilians watched from the roadside.
• Several days later, samurai at the Land of Iron border saw Konoha’s black convoy and Colonel Ka’s noisy procession approach from different directions.
• Colonel Ka demanded that Konoha let his convoy pass first, but a hand from the lead vehicle raised a middle finger as its weapon station aimed at him.
• Colonel Ka told his convoy to let Konoha pass, and Konoha’s vehicles drove by, spraying him with snow.

At the Five Kage Summit, Colonel Ka disrupted the meeting with a four-hour speech before revealing a plan to exploit the Dragon Vein beneath the Land of Wind. Naruto recognized its potential as an energy source for the Titan Project and turned the gathering toward the real discussion of Madara Uchiha and the alliance.

• Naruto attended in Tsunade’s place as the Kage gathered to discuss Madara Uchiha’s resurrection.
• Colonel Ka barged into the meeting with the Amazon Guard and delivered a lengthy speech about replacing chakra with industrial firepower.
• Naruto stopped Raikage A from interrupting when Colonel Ka mentioned turning the Land of Wind’s desert into an energy center.
• Colonel Ka revealed that the ruins of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran lay above the Dragon Vein, and Gaara reacted as Shukaku stirred uneasily.
• Naruto realized the Dragon Vein could power the Titan Project, thanked Colonel Ka for revealing it, and announced that the meeting could begin its real business.

Naruto realized the other Kage had kept him occupied while Madara was summoned above Konoha, and fought to escape their spatial seal. Madara arrived at the First Arsenal and looked out over the industrialized village.

• Gaara defended Naruto’s policies as the Raikage and Mei challenged Konoha’s sanctions and arms trade.
• Naruto deduced that Ōnoki and the Raikage were delaying him, and Shikaku reported a powerful summoning above Konoha.
• Naruto and Sasuke tried to return to Konoha, but discovered the mountain had been sealed and prepared to fight their way out.
• Animal Path Pain summoned Madara Uchiha onto the First Arsenal’s chimney above Konoha.
• Madara surveyed Konoha’s factories, neon streets, and civilians carrying guns.

Madara Uchiha attacked Konoha and summoned a meteor, but Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze were revived to stop it. Orochimaru revealed himself afterward and told Tsunade that his return was a trade secret between him and Naruto.

• Madara Uchiha dismissed Konoha’s modern weapons as weak and summoned a meteor to destroy the village.
• Tsunade released her Yin Seal and raced toward the meteor, while Shikaku Nara realized Konoha’s defenses could not stop it.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze.
• Hashirama Senju raised a forest to hold the meteor as Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze broke it apart with water and earth techniques.
• Orochimaru appeared atop a giant purple python and told Tsunade that his return was a trade secret between him and Naruto.

Hiruzen joined the other Hokage in fighting Madara at the ruined arsenal, while Pain’s summoned beasts attacked Konoha and met the village’s modern defenses. Madara unleashed Flower-Tree World Emergence, and the battle for the village continued.

• Hiruzen left Konohamaru to finish his homework and hurried to the arsenal after sensing Madara’s return.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Minato attacked Madara, but his Rinnegan powers absorbed Minato’s Rasengan and repelled Tobirama’s water blade.
• Hiruzen arrived and joined the other Hokage and Tsunade against Madara, who unleashed Flower-Tree World Emergence.
• Animal Path Pain summoned giant beasts on Konoha’s outskirts, where Guardian-III guns and armed defenders attacked them.
• A retired Chunin fired a Stinger missile that struck Asura Path Pain as he prepared to shoot the village’s defensive line.

At the Five Kage Summit, Naruto and Sasuke faced reanimated former Kage while Colonel Ka urged them to retaliate. In Konoha, Iruka used Naruto’s powerful chakra gun to save the Academy students from Pain’s giant centipede and resolved to defend the village.

• Naruto restrained A while Sasuke held Ōnoki at gunpoint, but Ōnoki summoned the reanimated Mū and Hozuki Gengetsu from two coffins.
• Colonel Ka hid behind Naruto and condemned the Kage for using forbidden techniques, and Naruto prepared to bury the reanimated Kage again.
• At Konoha’s Ninja Academy, Iruka led the students’ evacuation as a giant centipede summoned by Pain’s Animal Path erupted outside the school.
• Iruka shielded the children and used Naruto’s chakra-powered Teaching Whip to shoot through the centipede’s eye and destroy its brain.
• Iruka sent the students to safety and vowed to stand guard for Naruto, loading another round into the gun.

Konoha’s new weapons let Genin and civilians kill Pain’s summons with unexpectedly low casualties, while Naruto and Sasuke overpower the Kage and their revived allies at the Five Kage Summit. Kabuto then summons a larger force of legendary figures, and Naruto and Sasuke prepare to fight them.

• Yamada Kenta used a Defender-II rifle to kill a Hellhound, and a Chunin urged him to keep shooting.
• Tanaka Ichiro fired a Thunder God rocket launcher at a rhinoceros attacking his shop and destroyed it.
• Shizune reported to Tsunade that civilians and Genin had killed hundreds of summoned beasts with a casualty rate below ten percent.
• Naruto pinned Raikage A while Sasuke threatened Ōnoki, then they killed Mū and Hozuki Gengetsu when the reanimated Kage attacked.
• Colonel Ka denounced the Kage and declared that the times had fired them, while Naruto demanded that they surrender their military budget and mines.
• Kabuto Yakushi summoned more legendary figures, including Izuna Uchiha, and Naruto and Sasuke agreed to fight them.

Madara Uchiha attacked Konoha but was blinded and battered by Might Guy, Rock Lee, and the village’s artillery. At the Five Kage Summit ruins, Naruto and Sasuke fought the reanimated dead until Kabuto Yakushi infected them with Chaos, turning the battle into a new threat.

• Madara Uchiha attacked Konoha with Susanoo, but Rock Lee blinded him with the Sun Ladder flash while Might Guy struck him with Daytime Tiger.
• Konoha’s First Artillery Brigade fired a barrage of demon-breaking shells at Madara, overwhelming Susanoo and leaving Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju astonished.
• At the Five Kage Summit ruins, Naruto sealed the Third Kazekage’s soul and unleashed a swarm of Shadow Clones that devastated the reanimated fighters with Rasenshuriken.
• Sasuke fought Izuna Uchiha and began to overpower him with his Susanoo, while Naruto mocked Sasuke for taking too long against one opponent.
• Kabuto Yakushi released Chaos Infestation, corrupting the reanimated fighters so Naruto’s soul-sealing chains could no longer extract them easily and Izuna could reform after Sasuke’s attack.
• Kabuto Yakushi announced the start of his Chaos Era as a twisted, malice-filled Susanoo rose behind Izuna.

Naruto and Sasuke adapted their attacks to counter Kabuto Yakushi’s Chaos-corrupted fighters, suppressing the mutated Kirigakure ninja and Izuna Uchiha. Kabuto observed their methods as the battlefield reached a stalemate and the crisis continued to spread.

• Naruto severed the mutated Kirigakure ninja’s soul-hooking chain, but the monster attacked with corrosive force that degraded his chakra cloak.
• Izuna’s Chaos-covered body devoured Sasuke’s Amaterasu, while their clash corroded Sasuke’s Susanoo and disrupted Konoha’s artillery shells.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode and crushed the mutated ninja with a densely compressed Rasengan, slowing its attempts to regenerate.
• Sasuke used Lightning Release senbon to disrupt Izuna’s chakra pathways, allowing Naruto to pin Izuna’s monstrous Susanoo to the ground.
• Kabuto recorded Naruto and Sasuke’s tactics as both fighters showed signs of heavy depletion, and Naruto recognized that the battle demanded unconventional methods.

Naruto and Sasuke discovered that Chaos mutants depended on their hosts’ chakra pathways but resisted their usual attacks. When Madara threatened Konoha’s First Arsenal, Naruto redirected the artillery there, leaving him and Sasuke to face the monsters alone in the Land of Iron.

• Sasuke severed Susanoo’s corroded arm after the Chaos substance began dissolving its armor, and he identified the mutants’ reliance on their hosts’ chakra circuits.
• Naruto tried the Death God Chain, but Chaos erased it, leaving the pair without an effective rule-based sealing technique.
• Tsunade warned Naruto that Madara’s evolving Susanoo was breaking through Konoha’s defenses and targeting the First Arsenal’s core reactor.
• Naruto ordered the First Artillery Brigade to stop firing in the Land of Iron and redirect every shell toward Madara in Konoha.
• Naruto and Sasuke stood alone as Chaos spread through the Land of Iron, and Naruto prepared to fight without artillery support.

Naruto used Orochimaru’s catalyst to turn captured White Zetsu into ammunition that absorbed the Chaos mist, allowing Sasuke to break Kabuto’s defenses. Obito appeared at the battlefield, and Naruto prepared to target him with another batch of shells.

• Naruto learned from Orochimaru that White Zetsu could absorb the Chaos mist, and agreed to give him an independent laboratory and access to White Zetsu research data.
• Naruto ordered Shikamaru to process the imprisoned White Zetsu into shells despite concerns about their deaths and the ammunition’s stability.
• The First Arsenal produced twenty-four Scavenger shells, which Naruto transported to the Land of Iron battlefield and fired into the purple mist.
• The shells released white filaments that absorbed the Chaos energy, cleared the battlefield, and severed Kabuto’s control over it.
• Sasuke used Susanoo to split the exposed mass of flesh, and Kabuto realized Naruto had turned the battle into an industrial experiment.
• Obito appeared at the battlefield and challenged Naruto over using creations of god as ammunition, but Naruto said he only believed in caliber and warned that more ammunition was coming.

Sasuke used overloaded Power Armor to defeat Izuna, but Obito rescued Izuna before Naruto could seal his soul. Naruto and Sasuke feared the battle at Konoha had already ended in catastrophe and set off home.

• Kabuto finished collecting data on the White Zetsu degradation technology and withdrew into the shadows.
• Izuna attacked Sasuke with Amaterasu, but Sasuke released the armor's limiter and used Curse Mark overload to break through Izuna's defenses with a tungsten greatsword.
• Naruto tried to capture Izuna's soul with the Four Symbols Death God Lock, but Obito used space-time ninjutsu to rescue him.
• Obito taunted Naruto and Sasuke, then vanished while warning that they would see whether their factory could stop a true god.
• Naruto suspected Madara was dead or the artillery brigade had been destroyed, and Sasuke urged him to go home.

Madara Uchiha attacked Konoha’s First Arsenal with his Complete-Body Susanoo, but Naruto’s long-range artillery battered it and forced Madara to abandon his strike. Madara then answered with Twin Tengai Shinsei, summoning two colossal meteors toward the battlefield.

• Madara Uchiha pressed his Susanoo’s greatsword toward the Arsenal’s core reactor while Hashirama Senju failed to stop him.
• One hundred and eight armor-piercing shells fired from the Land of Iron struck Susanoo, and Shikaku Nara identified Naruto as the source of the beyond-visual-range attack.
• The shells damaged Susanoo and forced Madara to stop his attack on the reactor and use its greatsword as a shield.
• Madara dismissed the battered Susanoo, turned toward Naruto’s direction, and declared that he would return the attack.
• Madara formed hand seals and summoned two colossal meteors with Twin Tengai Shinsei.

Naruto and Sasuke reached Konoha just in time to destroy Madara’s two meteors with the Sky Curtain defense system. Naruto then appeared behind Madara and restrained his arm as Madara prepared to summon another meteor.

• Tsunade warned Konoha that two meteors were about to strike, while Hashirama and Might Guy failed to stop them.
• Naruto and Sasuke struggled to teleport from the Land of Iron as chaotic chakra interfered with the Flying Thunder God coordinates.
• Madara mocked Konoha and threatened to summon a third meteor, while Kabuto watched the crisis from a concealed observation post.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the Arsenal and launched two volleys of interceptor missiles, destroying both meteors before they hit Konoha.
• Naruto appeared behind Madara and bound his right arm with a black chain as Madara prepared to summon another meteor.

Naruto and Sasuke used Konoha’s non-Chakra weapons to weaken Madara’s Susanoo and destroy his three meteors. Madara then unleashed Chibaku Tensei, beginning to pull the Arsenal and its surroundings toward a gravitational core.

• Madara repelled Sasuke’s Susanoo, absorbed Naruto’s Rasengan, and forced Naruto to abandon Chakra attacks.
• Naruto activated the Thunder God artillery, whose depleted-uranium shells coated Madara’s Susanoo in Chakra-suppressing dust and cracked its armor.
• Madara summoned three meteors with Tengai Shinsei, threatening to wipe out Konoha’s core district.
• Naruto used an electromagnetic railgun and interceptor missiles to destroy all three meteors.
• Madara launched Chibaku Tensei, drawing the Arsenal’s wreckage, rubble, and soil toward a black gravitational core.

Naruto and Sasuke destroyed Madara Uchiha’s Chibaku Tensei with a coordinated attack, but Kabuto Yakushi forcibly recalled Madara and hinted at a greater threat. Tsunade then received a report that the Arsenal was badly damaged and casualties were still being counted.

• Naruto ordered Shikamaru to fire the remaining depleted-uranium rounds from the overloaded Electromagnetic Railgun while Sasuke prepared a black-flame arrow to crack Chibaku Tensei’s core.
• Might Guy rescued Tsunade and Shizune from falling debris as Naruto attacked Madara and Sasuke charged his Susanoo’s arrow.
• Sasuke’s arrow opened a fissure in the core, and Shikamaru fired the railgun shell through the breach, destroying the core and collapsing Chibaku Tensei.
• Naruto shielded the others from falling wreckage, while Sasuke blocked debris and Madara stood wounded among the ruins.
• Kabuto Yakushi covered Madara with purple-black markings and forcibly recalled him, warning that he had a greater surprise for Konoha.
• Tsunade demanded a damage report, and Shikamaru reported severe reactor and cooling-system damage, a burst railgun barrel, and casualties still being counted.

After the battle destroyed much of the Arsenal, Naruto directed rescue efforts and faced the enormous human cost while Hashirama and Tobirama questioned the loyalty and sacrifices of New Konoha’s people. That night, Naruto read the fallen soldiers’ names and asked Tsunade whether he had done the right thing; she told him he had done what he had to do.

• Naruto ordered the wounded treated, the reactor zone sealed, and casualties counted, while Tsunade and Shikamaru assessed the dead and injured.
• Hashirama and Tobirama watched survivors continue working and obeying orders, and Tobirama questioned why they were willing to die for Naruto.
• Minato found the identification tag of Tanaka Kenji and saw his young son trying to reach the ruins where his father had died.
• Hiruzen lamented that young soldiers were again dying in war, while Shikamaru reported 387 dead, 1,247 critically wounded, and 126 missing.
• Naruto demanded the Arsenal be repaired within a month, then told Hashirama that the survivors needed orders rather than his grief; Tobirama warned him that the hope he gave them came with a debt.
• That night, Naruto read the names of the fallen and asked Tsunade if he had done the right thing, and she told him he had done what he had to do.

Sasuke showed the four previous Hokage how Naruto had armed and trained Konoha’s civilians to defend their homes, leaving them to confront the deaths and sacrifices behind his approach. Naruto defended turning Konoha into a war machine as the only way to keep the village alive.

• Sasuke led the four Hokage through the Seventh Defense Zone, where they saw civilians armed with rifles and learned from an elderly woman that she had taken up shooting after losing her son and daughter-in-law.
• Yamamoto showed them the community command post and explained how trained civilians had fought off summoned beasts during Pain’s invasion.
• At a monument to civilian war dead, Sasuke told the Hokage that Naruto personally recorded the names and believed he had to make their deaths mean something.
• A young girl placed flowers at the monument and told her dead father that she had learned to shoot so she could protect the village.
• The four Hokage joined Naruto at the temporary command post, where he said civilians could choose to fight back and that Konoha had to become a war machine or be destroyed.

At the Memorial Stone, Minato apologized for being absent from Naruto’s life and asked whether his son was lonely. Naruto revealed how he calculated the costs of war, and the chapter ended with Minato respecting his resolve and standing beside him at dawn.

• Minato invited Naruto to walk with him from the command post to the Memorial Stone.
• Minato admitted that he had no right to judge Konoha’s wartime choices and apologized for failing Naruto as a father.
• Naruto defended his decisions with casualty figures before admitting that he treated lives and losses as arithmetic problems to keep Konoha running.
• Naruto pulled away when Minato tried to embrace him and said that sympathy could not defeat enemies or restore the dead.
• Minato withdrew his hand, saluted Naruto’s resolve as the Fourth Hokage, and placed a flower beside the monument.
• Naruto and Minato stood together through the night, and Naruto felt the burden of his calculations ease slightly by dawn.

Hashirama and Tobirama witnessed civilians organizing the Arsenal’s reconstruction, producing ammunition, and preparing to defend themselves, prompting them to reconsider Naruto’s version of the Will of Fire. They left to report to Tsunade, while the new Konoha continued to take shape.

• Hashirama and Tobirama watched civilians clear rubble and learned they had organized themselves to help rebuild after Naruto said manpower was short.
• The civilians showed Hashirama and Tobirama the guns they had obtained for self-defense and explained they had learned to use them.
• Hashirama and Tobirama visited a workshop where civilians produced artillery shells, including a father whose son served on the Land of Rivers front line.
• At a bulletin board, Hashirama and Tobirama saw civilians volunteer for dangerous reactor repairs in exchange for wages and future work.
• Tobirama said Naruto had united civilians by treating them as comrades, and Hashirama wondered whether their original path in founding Konoha had been wrong.
• Hashirama and Tobirama left to report to Tsunade as reconstruction continued across the ruins.

Naruto and Minato secured the chakra-conductive alloy needed to restore Konoha’s military production, then gained the former Hokage’s support for developing the Dragon Vein. The chapter left Naruto preparing to persuade Sunagakure and begin the project.

• Minato joined Naruto in processing postwar documents and recalled a stockpile of Land of Whirlpools Alloy that could address Konoha’s shortage of chakra-conductive materials.
• Shikamaru confirmed the alloy was sealed underground and required the elders’ consent, but Minato invoked his authority as the Fourth Hokage and unsealed it despite the Council of Elders’ objections.
• Naruto presented the Dragon Vein development plan to Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, and Minato, explaining that Konoha’s damaged reactor and energy crisis threatened the Arsenal and the village’s defenses.
• Minato backed Naruto’s plan, and Hiruzen pledged technical, political, and diplomatic support, including negotiating with Gaara; Hashirama and Tobirama then agreed to help.
• Naruto put away the Dragon Vein proposal and prepared to persuade Sunagakure and take the first step toward development.

Naruto and Konoha prepared to develop the Dragon Vein and seek Sunagakure’s cooperation, while Kabuto plotted to exploit the site’s spacetime properties and stirred up Colonel Ka’s ambitions. As Hiruzen headed to Sunagakure and Colonel Ka set out to negotiate, Gaara prepared to uncover who was manipulating him.

• Naruto and Minato agreed to keep Konoha’s Dragon Vein plans confidential and send Hiruzen to negotiate with Gaara, while Naruto and Shikamaru recognized that Sunagakure’s cooperation might have to be forced.
• Kabuto learned of Konoha’s energy shortage, identified the Dragon Vein as its likely solution, and ordered White Zetsu units to gather near the Rōran Ruins so they could exploit its spacetime fissures.
• Gaara decided Sunagakure should negotiate access to the Dragon Vein in exchange for Konoha’s weapons and technical support, and Hiruzen departed for the Land of Wind.
• Colonel Ka rallied civilians in the Land of Birds by promising to seize the Dragon Vein and build factories and an alliance of small nations, while Kabuto’s White Zetsu spy reported that the speech was stirring public unrest.
• Colonel Ka revealed that he had bought a map of the Rōran Ruins and prepared to travel to Sunagakure, while intelligence about his plans reached several great nations.
• Gaara let Colonel Ka proceed to Sunagakure so he could identify the people backing him, then learned Hiruzen would arrive two days later and declared that the battle for the Dragon Vein was about to begin.