Chapter Summaries

As Kumogakure and Kirigakure declared war on Konoha, Hiruzen and Danzō tried to pressure the Hyuga and Uchiha clans into surrendering those blamed for the crisis. Ren confronted Danzō in the Uchiha compound and accused him of engineering the conflict, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Root agents stirred up villagers to blame the Uchiha and Hyuga clans and demand that they hand over the killers.
• Hiruzen and Danzō pressured Hiashi to accept the Hyuga clan’s share of the blame, and Hiashi yielded if the Uchiha also surrendered someone.
• Nanami told Ren that Danzō’s Root and another unknown force were inflaming public opinion against the Uchiha.
• Ren ordered the Uchiha gates opened to welcome Hiruzen and Danzō, while Itachi stood as the gatekeeper.
• Hiruzen and Danzō demanded that Ren hand over Itachi, and Ren accused Danzō of leaking intelligence to Kumogakure and orchestrating the attack on Sasuke.

Ren denounced Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi for sacrificing Uchiha lives and exposing Konoha’s past scandals, then headed for the Kumogakure Delegation’s residence. The Uchiha blocked the Leadership from pursuing him, with Shisui refusing to let the village’s leaders pass.

• Danzo defended sacrificing a few people for peace, but Ren condemned the Leadership for treating Konoha’s protectors as political bargaining chips.
• Ren accused Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi of helping drive Hatake Sakumo to seppuku and enabling Orochimaru’s experiments and defection.
• Danzo threatened to punish Ren, who awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and declared that the Uchiha would defend their own clan.
• Ren vanished toward the Kumogakure Delegation’s residence, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo to order the ANBU to stop him.
• Tekka Uchiha and Nanami Uchiha led the Shrine’s elite to block the Leadership, and Nanami’s Kage Level pressure overwhelmed the ANBU at the front.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Uchiha Shisui joined the blockade, and Shisui rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s plea to help stop Ren.

Ren attacked the Kumogakure delegation after its members celebrated their plan to seize Itachi Uchiha and extort Konoha. He trapped them in a swamp, turned it into lava, and faced Lei Zang’s counterattack.

• Fugaku rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s authority and declared that Uchiha blades would only be drawn for the Uchiha, leaving Hiruzen devastated.
• Lei Zang and the Kumogakure ninja celebrated their plan to demand Itachi Uchiha and war reparations from Konoha.
• Ren broke into the delegation’s residence and declared that the conflict had already begun because Kumogakure had attacked his people and tried to kill Itachi and Sakura.
• Ren used Earth Release without hand seals to turn the residence floor into a swamp that trapped Lei Zang and the Kumogakure ninja.
• Ren poured Fire Release into the swamp, turning it into lava that burned several Kumogakure ninja to ash.
• Lei Zang escaped the lava with Lightning Release Chakra Mode and charged Ren with Lariat.

Ren defeated the Kumogakure delegation and declared war on Kumogakure on behalf of the Uchiha Clan, insisting Konoha would not be involved. After Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō left the Uchiha estate, the clan’s elders warned Fugaku that the coming war risked devastating losses.

• Ren revealed that Lei Zang had struck a genjutsu clone, then overwhelmed him and left one Kumogakure ninja alive to deliver a warning to the Fourth Raikage.
• Ren told the surviving ninja that the Uchiha Clan officially declared war on Kumogakure and vanished from the compound.
• Ren returned to the Uchiha estate, confirmed to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō that he had wiped out the delegation, and said the Uchiha would fight without Konoha’s help.
• Ren intimidated Konoha’s leadership into withdrawing with the ANBU, and the Uchiha gathered to discuss the consequences.
• The First Elder warned Fugaku that war with Kumogakure could cause incalculable losses for the clan.

Ren rallied the Uchiha to reject Konoha's demand to surrender Itachi and prepare for war with Kumogakure. After Fugaku warned of the enemy's strength and the Mangekyō's cost, Ren planned a blitzkrieg led by the Temple.

• Ren rebuked the elders for considering negotiations and argued that yielding to Konoha and Kumogakure would leave the Uchiha vulnerable to further demands.
• Ren declared that the Uchiha would make the Shinobi World fear them, and the clan's members swore to fight rather than kneel.
• Fugaku warned that Kumogakure had the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, and that prolonged Mangekyō use could blind Ren and Shisui.
• Ren announced a blitzkrieg and ordered the Temple to form behind the lines and unleash Lightning Release: Myriad Lightning against Kumogakure's forces.

Ren prepared the Uchiha Clan for a campaign against Kumogakure, planning to destroy its forces and seize its treasury. He claimed his Mangekyō Sharingan could control the Eight-Tails and assigned Shisui and Fugaku to protect the clan’s territory from Konoha’s leadership.

• Ren ordered Tekka Uchiha to bombard Kumogakure with the Temple Formation and Fugaku to lead the elite shinobi in clearing survivors.
• Ren instructed an elder to gather every sealing scroll so the Uchiha could use them to carry Kumogakure’s wealth back to the clan.
• The elder warned that the Fourth Raikage and Killer B could withstand Ten Thousand Lightning, but Ren claimed his ocular power rivaled Madara Uchiha’s and that he would subdue the Eight-Tails.
• Shisui warned that Shimura Danzō and Konoha’s leadership might attack the Uchiha territory while the main force was away.
• Ren appointed Shisui to guard the territory and ordered Fugaku and the elders to keep Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi in check, authorizing them to crush any suspicious move.

Hiashi brought Hizashi to Ren and allied the Hyuga clan with the Uchiha after Konoha's leaders tried to sacrifice Hizashi to appease Kumogakure. As Ren assigned the Hyuga to scout Kumogakure's army, Raikage A raged over the Uchiha's declaration of war and was warned not to underestimate Ren.

• Hiashi and Hizashi entered the Uchiha estate, where Hiashi bowed to Ren and explained that Konoha's leadership demanded Hizashi's death as a scapegoat for killing Kumogakure kidnappers.
• Hiashi rejected Hizashi's offer to sacrifice himself and declared that the Hyuga clan would fight alongside the Uchiha against Kumogakure.
• Ren welcomed the alliance and ordered elite Hyuga branch-family members to scout Kumogakure's positions for the Uchiha's Temple forces.
• Raikage A smashed his desk and denounced the Uchiha for killing envoy Lei Zang and declaring war on Kumogakure.
• Kumogakure elders warned Raikage A that Ren possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan and recalled how Madara Uchiha had once shaken the Shinobi World.

Raikage A ordered Kumogakure's elite forces to attack the Uchiha and vowed to kill Ren and seize the clan's Sharingan. In Konoha, Ren led the Uchiha Shrine and Hyuga forces out of the village to begin their march against Kumogakure.

• Raikage A dismissed the elders' fear of Madara Uchiha and ordered Kumogakure's elite forces to mobilize against Ren and the Uchiha.
• Forty-three elite Uchiha Shrine shinobi gathered at Konoha's gates, displaying their Three-Tomoe Sharingan and killing intent.
• Hizashi Hyuga led the Hyuga Branch Family forces to join the Uchiha, and the two clans stood together.
• Ren appeared before the assembled forces, drew his sword, and declared that the battle would make the world remember the Uchiha.
• Ren led the charge from Konoha, followed by the Shrine disciples and Hyuga forces as they set out to attack Kumogakure.

Hiruzen Sarutobi warned that Kumogakure’s Raikage and Jinchuriki made the Uchiha’s assault extremely dangerous, though he suspected Uchiha Ren had a hidden trump card. At the border, Raikage A learned the Uchiha were advancing and ordered his army to prepare a defensive formation for their arrival.

• Mitokado Homura reported that Uchiha Ren was leading forty-three Temple members as the vanguard, followed by Fugaku Uchiha’s Military Police Force and a Hyuga reconnaissance unit led by Hizashi Hyuga.
• Utatane Koharu feared the Uchiha-Hyuga alliance would threaten Konoha’s leadership, while Mitokado Homura argued that a costly defeat would weaken both clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned that Raikage A, Killer B, and Yugito Nii could overcome the Uchiha’s large-scale bombardment, but he suspected Uchiha Ren had a decisive trump card.
• Darui told Raikage A that the Uchiha had left Konoha to meet Kumogakure in battle, and Raikage A boasted that he would crush Uchiha Ren.
• Raikage A ordered his army to halt at the gorge and form a defensive barrier against the Uchiha’s Lightning Release: Myriad Lightning as their vanguard approached.

Ren led the Uchiha Shrine elites in using the Temple Formation to create a massive lightning cloud over the Cloud encampment. The Cloud Ninja realized they were under attack as Raikage A identified the storm’s destructive purpose.

• Hizashi Hyuga used his Byakugan to locate the Cloud army’s camp thirty-five kilometers away and reported that Raikage A was with its three thousand troops.
• Ren ordered the forty-three Uchiha Shrine elites to destroy the Cloud encampment, and they formed squads to activate the Temple Formation.
• Nanami Uchiha led the Shrine elites in casting Lightning Cloud Summoning, sending vast water- and fire-attribute Chakra into the sky to create a spreading storm.
• Karu and the other Cloud Ninja mocked the Uchiha until a scout spotted the approaching lightning clouds, prompting alarms across the camp.
• Raikage A rushed from his command tent and recognized that the Uchiha had created natural lightning clouds to devastate the Cloud forces.

Uchiha Shrine’s lightning bombardment devastated Kumogakure’s main camp, and Raikage A charged toward the Uchiha position while Mabui ordered a counterattack. The surviving Cloud ninja failed to control the Lightning Cloud, leaving them trapped beneath the ongoing assault.

• Raikage A’s order to activate Lightning Armor came too late, and the first lightning pillar vaporized more than a hundred Kumogakure ninja.
• Successive lightning strikes destroyed the camp and killed or injured its defenders as A tried to break through the bombardment with his fists.
• A erupted in rage, powered up his Lightning Armor, and charged toward the Uchiha position despite Mabui and Darui warning him to wait.
• Cloud ninja urged Mabui to seize the Lightning Cloud and use it to counterattack, so she ordered several hundred Lightning Release specialists to channel Chakra into it.
• The Lightning Cloud swallowed the ninja’s Chakra without responding, and the Cloud ninja realized they could not control it.

Uchiha Shrine’s Temple Formation gave the Uchiha complete control of the thunderclouds and overwhelmed Kumogakure’s Lightning Release. As the Fourth Raikage charged toward Ren’s position, Ren ordered Nanami to summon Kirin, while Zetsu watched and recognized the formation’s significance.

• Kumogakure’s ninja failed to control the thunderclouds and realized that Uchiha Shrine had mastered the lightning above them.
• Hizashi Hyuga spotted the Fourth Raikage charging through the bombardment toward the Uchiha position, and Ren told Nanami to use Lightning Release: Kirin.
• Nanami and the Shrine squads gathered the thunderclouds into a vortex and began forming a massive Thunder Dragon.
• Zetsu surfaced near the battlefield, narrowly escaped a lightning strike with the Mayfly Technique, and Black Zetsu explained the Temple Formation’s power to White Zetsu.

Black Zetsu realized Uchiha Ren’s Temple Formation had amplified Lightning Release: Kirin into a colossal attack and predicted the Raikage had arrived. Raikage A intercepted the dragon and split it apart, leaving Kumogakure’s battered survivors cheering.

• Black Zetsu feared that Uchiha Ren’s Temple squads could threaten the Eye of the Moon plan with their Kage-level Chakra reserves.
• Uchiha Ren used the Temple Formation to amplify Lightning Release: Kirin, forming a massive Thunder Dragon above the battlefield.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Kumogakure’s Raikage had arrived as the reason Ren unleashed such a powerful attack.
• Karu and the surviving Kumogakure ninja despaired at the Thunder Dragon’s power while waiting for the Raikage.
• Raikage A charged into the Kirin with Lightning Release: Horizontal Spiral Dance and cut the dragon into scattered currents.
• Kumogakure’s surviving ninja cheered when Raikage A landed unharmed.

Ren ordered the Uchiha Temple to keep bombarding the Cloud Ninja while conserving its chakra for an invasion of Kumogakure, then confronted Fourth Raikage A himself. Ren moved faster than A could perceive and shattered his Lightning Release Armor with a kick that sent him flying.

• At the Uchiha position, Ren explained that A had built up resistance to lightning and ordered Nanami to continue using Kirin against the Cloud Ninja ranks rather than spend the Temple's reserves on Flaming Meteor.
• Ren announced that the Uchiha's true objective was to invade Kumogakure and seize its wealth and resources, then said he would deal with A himself.
• At the ruined Kumogakure camp, A privately recognized that Nanami's Kirin had nearly overwhelmed his Lightning Release Armor and prepared for another attack.
• Ren appeared before A, who boasted that only Minato Namikaze had ever matched his speed and activated his Super-S-Rank Lightning Release Mode.
• Ren moved too quickly for A to see, shattered his Lightning Release Armor with a kick, and sent him flying.

Ren revealed his right Mangyō Sharingan ability, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, when the Raikage's strongest punch passed through him. Hizashi identified the power as a technique that made Ren intangible, while those watching compared it to the masked man's ability during the Nine-Tails' Attack.

• The Raikage pushed his Lightning Release Chakra Mode beyond its limits and prepared a devastating punch against Ren.
• Hizashi warned the Uchiha forces that the Raikage's concentrated Chakra made Ren's life danger, but Itachi insisted Ren had not yet used his Mangyō Sharingan abilities.
• The Raikage struck Ren in the chest, but his fist passed through Ren's body without harming him.
• Hizashi used his Byakugan to see Ren turn into a phantom and identified the technique as his right Mangyō Sharingan ability, Mirror Flower, Water Moon.
• Hizashi and the others recalled the masked man's intangibility during the Nine-Tails' Attack, while Nanami realized Ren had used Idaten in his left eye to move at impossible speed.

Ren used his right-eye technique, Existence-Nonexistence Shift, to evade the Fourth Raikage's punch and kick him into a massive crater. As Kumogakure's survivors struggled to accept the defeat, Black Zetsu recognized that Ren's ability surpassed Kamui in its manipulation of reality and illusion.

• The Fourth Raikage's punch passed through Ren, who shifted back to reality behind him and kicked him into the ground.
• Kumogakure's survivors tried to dispel what they thought was a mass genjutsu, but the crater and the Raikage's defeat were real.
• Hizashi Hyuga saw Ren's body shift between tangible and intangible states, while Tekka Uchiha praised their clan leader.
• Ren's right-eye technique was revealed as Existence-Nonexistence Shift, which altered his own existence at the cost of ocular power and possible blindness from overuse.
• White Zetsu mistook Ren's intangibility for Obito's Kamui, and Black Zetsu explained how Ren's technique differed and avoided Izanagi's permanent blindness cost.

Black Zetsu recognized Ren as a threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan and resolved to have Obito target his eyes. At Kumogakure’s ruined camp, Ren demonstrated his power and invoked the Uchiha’s Six Paths heritage while confronting the wounded Raikage and surviving Cloud Ninja.

• Black Zetsu warned White Zetsu that Ren’s Mangekyō techniques would eventually make him go blind and decided to urge Obito to attack when Ren’s ocular power ran low.
• Ren descended from the sky by rapidly stepping on the air, startling the surviving Cloud Ninja and impressing Hizashi Hyuga, Tekka Uchiha, and Nanami.
• The wounded Fourth Raikage, A, crawled from the crater and angrily accused Ren’s abilities of being unreasonable.
• Ren claimed the Mangekyō Sharingan inherited part of the Sage of Six Paths’ power, causing A and the surviving Cloud Ninja to reconsider the Uchiha’s divine lineage.
• Ren condemned Kumogakure for coveting the Byakugan and Sharingan, then challenged the village to remember the Sage of Six Paths’ might.

Ren overwhelmed the Raikage with rapid Chakra-infused punches, then copied Darui’s Storm Release and unleashed a barrage of beams against the Kumogakure shinobi. The chapter ended with the beams raining down on the Cloud ninja position.

• The Raikage reignited his Lightning Release Armor and charged Ren, but Ren dodged and battered him with a rapid series of punches.
• The Raikage shifted to a defensive Lightning Release Armor, but Ren’s strikes still damaged him internally and left him near defeat.
• Darui fired Storm Release: Laser Circus at Ren and then sent a Storm Release: Black Panther after him, but Ren evaded both attacks.
• Ren analyzed Darui’s Storm Release and copied it, forcing Darui and the other Kumogakure shinobi to combine defenses against his beam.
• Ren formed countless Storm Release light spheres and unleashed their beams on the Kumogakure position.

Ren turned Darui's Storm Release against Kumogakure, using precisely controlled beams to devastate the surviving ninja. Darui questioned how Ren had copied a Kekkei Genkai, and Ren began to explain that his Mangekyō Sharingan was not responsible.

• Darui ordered the Kumogakure ninja to form defenses as Ren sent a vast barrage of Storm Release beams at them.
• Ren's beams curved, split, and pierced the Cloud Ninja's defenses, killing or incapacitating most of the elite fighters.
• Hizashi Hyuga, Tekka Uchiha, and Nanami watched from thirty-five kilometers away and reacted to Ren's battlefield control.
• Darui protected the injured Raikage and ordered him not to charge Ren again as only a handful of Kumogakure ninja remained standing.
• Ren praised Storm Release's abilities, and Darui asked how he had replicated a Kekkei Genkai after seeing it once.
• Ren told Darui that he had not needed a visual jutsu or his Mangekyō Sharingan to replicate Storm Release.

Ren explained how he replicated Storm Release, then overwhelmed the Raikage’s life-burning attack with his immense chakra. The Raikage ordered the surviving Kumogakure ninja to retreat as Ren manifested a massive armored Susanoo wielding a bow and sword.

• Ren demonstrated Storm Release and told Darui that precise chakra control allowed him to fuse nature transformations without a bloodline.
• The Raikage entered an explosive Lightning Release mode and launched a rapid assault on Ren, despite Darui warning him about the technique’s deadly cost.
• Ren blocked the Raikage’s attacks, refused to copy his harmful technique, and blasted him backward with a surge of chakra.
• The wounded Raikage ordered the surviving Kumogakure ninja to retreat as Ren’s chakra formed a giant skeletal warrior.
• Ren’s skeletal chakra avatar gained flesh and armor, becoming a half-bodied armored giant armed with a colossal bow and spiraling sword.