Chapter Summaries

Hane persuaded Tsunade that unifying the world was necessary to end war, and she joined his cause after seeing the peaceful Konoha he had built. The chapter ended with Konan secretly photographing their agreement.

• Hane argued with Tsunade and Jiraiya that the one-country, one-village system perpetuated war and that world unification could bring lasting peace.
• Hane challenged Tsunade to face the suffering caused by war, bringing her to tears as she remembered her lost loved ones.
• Hane declared that he would shoulder the pain of creating peace and showed them Konoha's peaceful streets as proof of what he hoped to achieve.
• Hane asked Tsunade to unite the Senju and Uchiha in his mission, and she took his hand and acknowledged him as Hokage.
• Konan secretly took a photograph of Hane and Tsunade shaking hands, then claimed she had recently taken up photography.

Hane was crowned King of the Land of Fire in a ceremony designed to display Konoha’s military strength and his authority. The foreign village leaders left the event alarmed as Hane openly declared a mandate extending across all lands.

• Konoha invited foreign village representatives to attend Hane’s coronation before the Chunin Ninja Exams, unsettling leaders who opposed its political changes.
• Konoha assembled fifteen thousand elite troops, more than a hundred Uchiha with Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and the Nine-Tails and Two-Tails to present its strength.
• Hyuga Hiashi announced the end of the one-village, one-nation system and welcomed Hane as King of the Land of Fire.
• Hane arrived in a carriage guarded by the Twelve Golden Guards, whose Mangekyō Sharingan shocked the foreign leaders and Orochimaru.
• The Nine-Tails and Two-Tails bowed to Hane, who climbed the pyramid altar and proclaimed his mandate to rule all lands and subjects.
• Konoha’s people acclaimed Hane, while foreign village representatives feared that Konoha intended to annex the entire Ninja World.

Hane used overwhelming force at his coronation ceremony to demand that the other nations submit to the Land of Fire, while the Mist ninjas and Akatsuki launched an attack on Konoha. The battle spread through the village, and Retsuyō confronted the Wind Shadow, Earth Shadow, and Raikage as they moved to fight.

• Hane summoned twelve Susanoo and the Nine-Tails and Two-Tails, then told the gathered Kage that they must submit or perish and that the Land of Fire would have a king instead of a Kage.
• Nagato and the Akatsuki prepared to rescue White Tiger, while Obito sent Mei Terumi and the Mist ninjas to attack Konoha.
• Mei led the Mist ninjas toward Konoha, where Hizashi raised barriers and Deidara attacked them with clay spiders.
• The Mizukage transformed using the Three-Tails' power, and Hane sent the Nine-Tails and Two-Tails to fight him as the viewing platform collapsed.
• Hane ordered Retsuyō to confront the Kage and Wada to intercept the Akatsuki, while Konoha's troops crushed enemy forces attempting to loot the village.
• Six figures of Uchiha Retsuyō blocked the Wind Shadow, Earth Shadow, and Raikage, who exchanged glances and began to move against him.

Uchiha Retsuyō swiftly defeated Ōnoki and the Raikage, intimidating the gathered villages as the battle in Konoha continued. Orochimaru and Kabuto reached Konoha Prison, where Tsunade and Jiraiya stood guard, and Orochimaru sent a small snake inside to infiltrate it.

• Uchiha Retsuyō stabbed Ōnoki from two directions, leaving him unconscious and badly wounded.
• Uchiha Retsuyō severed both of the Raikage’s arms and warned him against attacking Konoha again.
• Wind Shadow Rasa backed down, and the remaining ninja from the three villages stayed still as Retsuyō’s clones disappeared.
• The Fourth Mizukage and the Kirigakure ninja were killed, while Orochimaru fled with Kabuto toward Konoha Prison.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto found Tsunade and Jiraiya guarding the prison, so Orochimaru sent a small snake through a gap to enter alone.

Orochimaru killed Sarutobi in prison, then escaped after summoning Hashirama and Tobirama with Impure World Reincarnation. Tsunade and Jiraiya faced the two revived Hokage, and Tobirama demanded to know why an Uchiha had become Hokage amid the fighting in Konoha.

• Orochimaru transformed from a small snake and entered Sarutobi’s cell, where he killed his former teacher at Sarutobi’s request.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade confronted Orochimaru, but he attacked them with snakes and fled the prison as they pursued him.
• Orochimaru summoned Hashirama and Tobirama with Impure World Reincarnation, then escaped while Tsunade and Jiraiya turned toward the emerging coffins.
• Hashirama and Tobirama recognized Tsunade and learned they had been dead for more than thirty years.
• Tsunade told Tobirama that an Uchiha was now Hokage, and Tobirama demanded to know what had happened to Konoha.

Tsunade explained to Hashirama and Tobirama that Konoha’s war had erupted over the Hokage’s plan to abolish the daimyo and unify the Ninja World, and she defended the change as a response to decades of devastating wars. At Konoha’s edge, the Twelve Golden Guards fought the Akatsuki, while Sosuke’s Eye of Instant Death struck down several attackers and left Kisame fleeing underwater.

• Tsunade told Hashirama and Tobirama about the damage their disciples had caused and explained that the old political order was being challenged as Konoha prepared to abolish the daimyo.
• Tsunade said she supported unification after the Shinobi Wars had killed her younger brother and beloved, and Hashirama and Tobirama agreed to wait before meeting the current Hokage.
• Wada used Genjutsu against the Mist shinobi as four Susanoo attacked them, forcing Mei Terumi to unleash Lava Release and retreat with her remaining forces.
• Nagato sent the new Deva Path to attack, and its Shinra Tensei hurled the Susanoo away and severely injured nearby Konoha shinobi.
• Sosuke used Eye of Instant Death against the Akatsuki, stopping one of Kakuzu’s hearts and causing Sasori to bleed as Deidara and Kisame tried to evade his gaze.
• Kisame’s heart stopped when Sosuke looked at him, but he revived underwater and escaped through his Water Release.

Sosuke and the Twelve Golden Guards drove back the Akatsuki attackers, while Hane restored the wounded and ended the battle. Obito escaped with Nagato and the Akatsuki, Mei Terumi retreated, and Hane ordered his forces to withdraw while warning that the Land of Water would face consequences.

• Sosuke killed two of Kakuzu's hearts with Death Gaze, forcing Kakuzu to flee underground, while Sosuke hurried to help Wada.
• An Yi tormented Hidan and restrained him as Sosuke and Wada arrived; the Akatsuki regrouped after Sasori's death and learned that Sosuke's eyes had five tomoe.
• Hane watched the fighting across Konoha, then flew to the outskirts and used Withered Wood Rejuvenation to regrow the injured ninjas' missing limbs.
• Obito seized Nagato and escaped with the Akatsuki through Kamui as Mei Terumi led her remaining forces in retreat.
• Hane warned that he would deal with the Land of Water later, then ordered Sosuke and the others to withdraw.

After taking the throne, Hane abolished the daimyo system and made Konoha the capital of the Land of Fire. In the realm between life and death, Hamura sent his chakra to stop Hane, while Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata were dragged beneath a lake during the Chunin Tournament’s first trial.

• Hane declared comprehensive reforms, abolished the title of daimyo, and made Konoha the royal capital of the Land of Fire.
• Hagoromo argued that the Ninja World needed change, but Hamura insisted Hane posed an uncontrollable danger and left to oppose him.
• Hamura released a pillar of chakra, weakening himself, and announced that his chakra would stop Hane without violating the boundary between life and death.
• The Chunin Tournament’s first trial sent examinees through a forest of Formation Arts monsters and lethal traps.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata crossed a lake when three enormous tentacles burst from the water and dragged them under.

Naruto and his teammates fought a lake monster during the Chunin Ninja Exams, while their unusual techniques and Kurama’s appearance stunned the foreign ninja observers. Hane left Izumi to meet Tsunade and the resurrected First and Second Hokage, but their conversation turned hostile when someone objected to his teasing.

• Hinata used a beam from her eyes to free Naruto, and Naruto summoned Kurama to attack the lake monster with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• The blast sent Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata flying, and Kurama left to fetch spare clothes for Hinata.
• Foreign ninja leaders watched the exam and speculated about Konoha’s genin, their advanced techniques, and Naruto’s command of a Tailed Beast.
• Konan told Hane that Tsunade wanted to see him, and Hane promised Izumi he would return to watch the match replay with her.
• Hane found Tsunade with the First and Second Hokage and teased her about their Impure World Reincarnation and her age.
• An unidentified voice called Hane an Uchiha brat and demanded to know whether he had had enough.

Hane challenged the resurrected Senju Tobirama over his prejudice against the Uchiha and the harm caused by his forbidden techniques, while Hashirama acknowledged his brother’s mistakes. Hashirama asked whether Hane intended to take control of the Land of Fire and unify the Ninja World, then asked him to apologize to Madara if Hane’s method proved successful.

• At the Ninja Academy, a student argued that Tobirama’s human experiments and prejudice had helped cause later injustices in Konoha, while another student agreed.
• Hashirama admitted Tobirama had been wrong and, after the students mistook them for actors, left the academy with his brother, impressed by how much knowledge it taught.
• Back in Hane’s office, Hane confronted Tobirama about the evil of Impure World Reincarnation and rejected his accusations against the Uchiha.
• Hashirama apologized to Hane for Tobirama’s mistakes, and Tobirama protested that his brother was siding with an outsider.
• Hashirama asked Hane whether he planned to take control of the Land of Fire and unify the Ninja World, then asked him to apologize to Madara if his method proved right.

After Hashirama and Tobirama departed, Hane sensed a powerful intruder at Konoha and confronted a descendant of the Otsutsuki on the moon. The intruder fled through a spatial passage to the moon, and Hane followed to deal with the threat.

• Hashirama and Tobirama released their Impure World Reincarnation, leaving Tsunade grieving, and Hane promised she might see them again after he gained control of the world.
• Hane sensed an unfamiliar aura near Konoha and hurried to find Hizashi and the Hyuga clan members facing a powerful stranger who could suppress their Byakugan.
• The stranger attacked Hizashi, but Hane appeared and disrupted the attack with spatial power.
• Hane recognized the intruder as a descendant of the Otsutsuki on the moon and briefly restrained him with a crushing force.
• The intruder broke free, challenged Hane to come to the moon, and escaped through an open spatial passage; Hane told the Twelve Golden Guards to protect Konoha and prepared to follow.

Hane reached the moon and confronted Otsutsuki Shede, who had seized control of the lunar clan and was using its Tenseigan and the Six Paths' power to fulfill his ancestor’s order. After Shede’s attack injured Hane’s Golden Body, Hane prepared to fight back.

• Otsutsuki Shede explained that he had taken the Main Family’s Byakugan and created a massive Tenseigan to lure Hane to the moon and eliminate him.
• Otsutsuki Shede argued with the eyeless clansmen, then visited his bound, pregnant wife, Hezi, who condemned his actions as ambition rather than concern for their child.
• Hane appeared in the hidden chamber and slammed Otsutsuki Shede into the ground, surprising him by reaching the moon without using the spatial passage.
• Otsutsuki Shede activated the Tenseigan and blasted the palace complex, leaving a charred wound on Hane’s Golden Body.
• Otsutsuki Shede charged Hane with his Six Paths Staff as Hane recognized the danger of the Six Paths’ power.

Hane overwhelmed Otsutsuki Shede in battle, but Shede triggered the Tenseigan and caused the moon to explode. Hane shielded the Ninja World from the blast, leaving him injured and burdened with restoring the world’s balance of yin and yang.

• Hane used his Ten-Foot Golden Body to overpower Otsutsuki Shede and smash him into the moon’s surface.
• Hane pierced Otsutsuki Shede with a golden spear and drained his life force after defeating his Divine Void Strike.
• Otsutsuki Shede poured his remaining Six Paths Chakra into the Tenseigan and caused the moon to explode.
• Hane learned that the lunar explosion had damaged the Deva Path of the Ninja World and left him responsible for restoring its yin-yang balance.
• Hane expanded his Golden Body to shield the Ninja World from the explosion, suffering injuries and coughing golden blood.

Hane replaced the destroyed moon by pulling a complete celestial body from across the universe, strengthening the Ninja World's origin but exhausting much of his spiritual power. The Sage of Six Paths and Hamura watched in shock, while the Otsutsuki First Ancestor noticed Hane's power and ordered a search for missing clan members and another new world.

• The Sage of Six Paths stopped Hamura from interfering further, warning that meddling in the World of the Living carried a karmic price.
• Hane used his Golden Body in place of the destroyed moon and reasoned that the Ninja World's Deva Path could grow stronger by expanding its influence.
• The Otsutsuki First Ancestor saw a gigantic golden hand move a celestial body and ordered his clan to plant a God Tree on a newly discovered world and investigate a team that had not returned.
• Hane pulled a complete moon from the starry sky, sensed that it had increased the Ninja World's origin, and fell back toward the world after his spiritual power was drained.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu saw the moon's destruction, and Black Zetsu realized Hamura's power had been involved while hoping the fighting would help Mother's revival.

After the moon exploded, a meteor fell near Mei Terumi and wiped out the Hidden Mist survivors fleeing through the Land of Frost. Hane rescued the wounded Mei Terumi, who learned he was the Fifth Hokage and wondered why he had saved her.

• Black Zetsu said Kaguya's resurrection was irreversible, while Hane sensed her scattered will and chose not to interfere.
• Mei Terumi led dozens of battered Hidden Mist ninja through the snowy Land of Frost toward the Land of Water and treated her wounds with a golden pill.
• A meteor struck nearby, and its shockwave buried Mei Terumi and killed every other Hidden Mist ninja in her unit.
• Mei Terumi crawled from the snow, suffered severe internal injuries, and fainted after seeing Hane emerge from the crater's mist.
• Hane healed Mei Terumi, told her he was the Fifth Hokage, and said the Hidden Mist force had simply been crushed by his meteor.

Hane offered Mei Terumi the chance to rule the Land of Water if Kirigakure submitted to him, and she agreed to accompany him there. They arrived at Kirigakure, where the village raised an alarm and Genji demanded to know what had happened to the other Mist shinobi.

• Hane told Mei Terumi that the Fourth Mizukage was dead and demanded her loyalty in exchange for authority over the Land of Water.
• Mei Terumi flirted with Hane, then agreed to go with him after learning he was only twelve and hearing his terms for Kirigakure’s submission.
• Hane recovered some of his spiritual power, summoned his flying sword, and had Mei Terumi guide him toward Kirigakure.
• Hane and Mei Terumi flew to Kirigakure, where Mist shinobi spotted them and sounded the alarm.
• Genji recognized Mei Terumi and asked where the others were, and Mei Terumi told him they were all dead.

Hane forced Kirigakure to submit to Konoha by surrounding the village with towering waves, then appointed Mei Terumi to lead it as the Empire’s first naval army. He ordered Genji to help remove the Land of Water’s daimyo and nobles before flying off to confront a group hiding elsewhere in the country.

• Mei Terumi revealed that Hane had saved her and said she had agreed to his demand that Kirigakure submit to him.
• Genji rejected surrender, so Hane raised enormous waves around Kirigakure and threatened to drown the village.
• Genji agreed to lead Kirigakure in submitting to Konoha, and Hane stopped the waves before they engulfed the village.
• Hane appointed Mei Terumi to lead Kirigakure as the Empire’s first naval army and ordered Genji to report to the Central Government.
• Hane ordered Kirigakure to deal with the Land of Water’s daimyo and nobles, then flew away to pursue a group hiding in the country.

Hane cornered Akatsuki in their cave after sealing the mountain and demanded that Black Zetsu and Nagato serve him, while excluding Obito. He killed Obito and buried his body, leaving the remaining Akatsuki members trapped with Hane.

• Nagato asked the returned Akatsuki members what they should do after their failed attack on Konoha and the loss of several members and the Three-Tails.
• Black Zetsu warned Obito that Hane had arrived, and Obito discovered he could no longer access his Kamui Dimension.
• Hane revealed that his seal held the entire mountain, preventing Black Zetsu from escaping, then demanded that Black Zetsu and Nagato serve him.
• Obito attacked Hane with the Great Fireball Technique, but Hane stopped the flames, knocked Obito down, and broke his mask.
• Hane impaled Obito, who used Izanagi and lost his Sharingan, then mocked his claims of loving Rin.
• Hane crushed Obito with a rocky hand and buried his dead body beneath the earth.

Hane forced the Akatsuki to choose between serving him and being killed, then revived Kaguya-hime and made her swear to serve him. The chapter left Kaguya-hime learning that her sons had not asked Hane to bring her back.

• Hane offered the Akatsuki submission and showed Nagato photographs of Konan living happily in Konoha.
• Nagato relaxed after seeing Konan, while Black Zetsu pledged to serve Hane after learning Hane had freed Kaguya-hime and defeated Hamura.
• Hane approached the Ten-Tails and opened his Eye of Truth, frightening the Akatsuki into looking away.
• Hane used Netherworld Communion, Soul Summoning to revive Kaguya-hime from within the Ten-Tails.
• Hane told the newly revived Kaguya-hime to call him Master, then said her sons were waiting outside.
• Kaguya-hime asked whether Hagoromo and Hamura had requested her revival, and Hane said they had not.

Hane revived Kaguya-hime and recruited Nagato to help Konoha spread fear as a pretext for unifying the nations. Nagato reunited with Konan in Konoha and agreed to become the Empire’s darkness so she could live in the peaceful future she valued.

• Kaguya-hime reunited with Black Zetsu, while Hagoromo allowed Hane to do as he pleased and Hamura remained troubled.
• Hane told Nagato and the Akatsuki to attack villages and major nations so Konoha could use the fear to justify annexation.
• Hane promised Nagato and the Akatsuki new identities and a place in the Empire after their mission, and Nagato agreed to see Konan.
• Konan embraced Nagato and urged him to stop opposing Konoha and live with her in the new nation.
• Nagato learned how much Konan valued the peaceful nation and resolved to bear the hatred and pain as he helped Hane build the Empire.