Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Ren accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of enabling Danzo’s crimes and failing to protect Konoha, then formally initiated proceedings to remove him as Hokage. The meeting ended with Utatane Koharu challenging Ren’s authority to impeach the Third.

• Ren rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s plan to place Danzo in ANBU custody and argued that the Uchiha Clan and Military Police Force had the right to hold him accountable.
• Ren accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of knowingly or negligently enabling Danzo and Orochimaru’s crimes and failing to protect Konoha from foreign threats.
• Utatane Koharu accused Ren of using the Uchiha Clan’s victory over Kumogakure to undermine the Hokage, and Ren admitted he had come for Hiruzen’s position.
• Ren declared that the Uchiha Clan, as a founding clan, had the right to impeach the Hokage and formally proposed removing Hiruzen Sarutobi over six alleged failures.
• Utatane Koharu angrily challenged Ren, asking whether he thought he could remove the Hokage simply because he had won a war.

Ren produced a founding-era covenant signed by Hashirama and Tobirama Senju that granted the Uchiha authority to impeach a Hokage under extreme circumstances. After Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted Ren's right to invoke it, Ren began presenting his charges, starting with Konoha's response to Kumogakure kidnapping an Uchiha child.

• Homura and Koharu challenged Ren's authority to impeach Hiruzen, arguing that the Uchiha could not initiate the process alone.
• Ren presented an authenticated founding covenant that granted the Uchiha and Senju clans impeachment authority in extreme circumstances.
• Ren explained that he had found the covenant in the Uchiha archives and invoked it because of Danzo's abuses and evidence concerning Kumogakure's kidnapping of Yaonai.
• Homura accused Ren of using the Uchiha's military victories to seize the Hokage's seat, but Ren publicly denied seeking power for himself or the Uchiha.
• Hiruzen accepted the covenant as grounds for Ren to present his case, and Ren accused Konoha's leadership of considering handing over Itachi Uchiha after Kumogakure kidnapped an Uchiha child.

Ren challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s defense of Konoha’s decision to yield to Kumogakure, arguing that the leadership had sacrificed its own people and damaged the village’s dignity. He left the conference room confronting the elders over their suppression of the Uchiha and the resentment that had nearly driven the clan toward rebellion.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi said he would still have handed over Itachi Uchiha to avoid war, explaining that Konoha had been weakened after the Nine-Tails' Attack and that the Uchiha had concealed their strength.
• Ren accused Hiruzen of disguising weakness as concern for the village and argued that the leadership’s repeated compromises justified impeaching the Hokage.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura blamed the Uchiha for hiding their power and contributing to Konoha’s disadvantage.
• Ren explained that the Uchiha powerhouses were a new generation trained after he became clan head, not hidden forces who had stood by during earlier crises.
• Ren listed the leadership’s actions against the Uchiha after the Nine-Tails' Attack, including forced relocation, surveillance, economic isolation, and turning the Military Police Force into a source of resentment.
• Ren said the leadership had pushed the Uchiha toward opposing Konoha and that he had stabilized the clan after becoming its head.

Ren challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s defense of Konoha’s treatment of the Uchiha, arguing that the Hokage Building had helped drive the clan toward rebellion. He broadened his accusations to other clans and prominent shinobi, leaving Hiruzen and the other leaders facing a growing list of grievances.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted that the village’s later surveillance and suppression of the Uchiha had been mishandled, but blamed many actions on Danzo and Root.
• Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Sarutobi clan Jonin defended the village’s suspicion of the Uchiha after the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Ren challenged Hiruzen’s claim of ignorance, citing the Uchiha relocation, restrictions on the Military Police Force, surveillance, and manipulation of public opinion.
• Ren argued that the Hokage Building’s pressure had helped push the Uchiha toward rebellion, drawing uneasy reactions from Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Choza Akimichi, and Hyuga Hiashi.
• Ren accused Hiruzen’s leadership of marginalizing the Senju, failing to protect the Hyuga’s dignity against Kumogakure, and contributing to Hatake Sakumo’s death.
• Ren cited Orochimaru’s defection, Tsunade’s departure, and Jiraiya’s years away from Konoha as evidence that Hiruzen’s power structure had driven away his own students.

Ren formally accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of misgoverning Konoha, and Hiruzen admitted that he had empowered Danzo and his allies to strengthen the Hokage’s authority over the clans. He began explaining the village’s early power struggles, leaving the Jonin to reckon with his admission.

• Ren argued that Hiruzen had suppressed talent, appeased foreign threats, and allowed Konoha’s clans and institutions to decline.
• Ren formally impeached and accused Hiruzen on behalf of the Uchiha Clan, declaring that Hiruzen no longer qualified to lead Konoha.
• Hiruzen challenged Ren’s judgment and explained that he had inherited the Hokage position amid war and powerful clans that resisted his authority.
• Hiruzen admitted that he had supported Danzo, Koharu, and Homura and used Root to strengthen the Hokage’s power, but that his concessions had enabled Danzo’s rise.
• The Jonin reconsidered Hiruzen’s rule as he described how the village’s clans had resisted handing their core power to the Hokage.

Ren condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi for letting Root and the Hokage Tower suppress Konoha’s clans and sacrifice its people, arguing that oppression had pushed the Uchiha Clan to the brink of rebellion. He left Hiruzen facing accusations that his rule had weakened Konoha internally and yielded to its enemies, while the meeting watched in silence.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted that he had created Root to strengthen the Hokage’s authority, then allowed Danzo to surveil and suppress the Uchiha Clan after the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Ren accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of driving the Uchiha Clan toward rebellion through oppression, and said he had redirected the clan’s anger toward enemies outside Konoha.
• Ren cited the Senju clan’s decline, the Hyuga clan’s humiliation by Kumogakure, and Hatake Sakumo’s suicide as examples of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s failures.
• Ren blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for Orochimaru’s defection, Tsunade’s departure, and Jiraiya’s absence, then said Minato Namikaze had never truly controlled Konoha.
• Ren accused Hiruzen Sarutobi’s leadership of yielding to repeated abductions and allowing Root, human experimentation, and the exploitation of shinobi remains and bloodlines to flourish.

Ren forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to acknowledge that his indulgence of Danzo and Root had fostered Konoha’s darkness. He then demanded an immediate vote on removing Hiruzen as Hokage, leaving the Jonin and clan representatives weighing the village’s need for justice against the upheaval his removal could cause.

• Ren accused Hiruzen of enabling Danzo, Root, and other abuses, and the clan representatives and Jonin recognized that Konoha’s troubles had grown from within.
• Hiruzen admitted that he had repeatedly tolerated Danzo’s actions and accepted responsibility for creating the conditions behind Konoha’s chaos.
• Ren called on the Jonin Class, clan representatives, and Konoha Leadership to vote on impeaching and removing Hiruzen.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Choza Akimichi, and other Jonin weighed Hiruzen’s misconduct against his service to Konoha and the potential consequences of removing him.

Konoha’s clan leaders and Jonin agreed that Hiruzen Sarutobi should step down and elect a new Fifth Hokage. Ren declared Hiruzen’s immediate resignation and imposed conditions to dismantle Root and investigate Danzo.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura warned that removing Hiruzen could destabilize Konoha, while Ren argued that reform would fail if Hiruzen stayed in power.
• Hizashi Hyuga acknowledged Hiruzen’s past service but supported his stepping down, citing Konoha’s unresolved crises and the clans’ loss of trust.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Choza Akimichi, Hyuga Hiashi, and representatives of other major clans backed Hiruzen’s departure and a new Hokage election.
• Ren declared that Hiruzen would step down immediately and that Konoha would elect a Fifth Hokage.
• Ren barred Hiruzen from interfering in Hokage Building affairs, ordered Root abolished and its members reviewed, restricted ANBU to the officially appointed Hokage, and called for a joint investigation into Danzo.

Ren forced Hiruzen Sarutobi out of Konoha’s power center, stripped Danzo of his influence, and ensured Root would be investigated. As news spread that the Uchiha had defeated Kumogakure and secured enormous reparations and trade privileges, Konoha began to view the clan with awe and fear.

• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Hyuga Hiashi demanded conditions including investigations into Root and clan participation in inquiries about Kumogakure and stolen Kekkei Genkai.
• Ren warned Hiruzen Sarutobi not to protect Danzo, then left after securing Danzo’s removal, Root’s disbandment, and Hiruzen’s departure from the Hokage’s power center.
• News reached Konoha that the Land of Lightning and Kumogakure had unconditionally surrendered, with 678 billion ryo in reparations and major trade privileges going to the Uchiha.
• Shinobi and civilians discussed Ren defeating the Fourth Raikage, Killer B, and the Two-Tails, while rumors spread about the Uchiha’s battlefield strength.
• Konoha learned that Ren, Shisui, Fugaku, and Itachi wielded Mangekyō Sharingan, and many concluded that the Uchiha had become too powerful to provoke.

Konoha celebrated the Uchiha clan’s victory over Kumogakure while the village leadership concealed the forced removal of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the crackdown on Danzo and Root. The leadership promoted battle reports to keep public attention on the Uchiha as the power shift inside the Hokage Building remained hidden.

• Villagers and shinobi praised the Uchiha after news spread that Kumogakure had surrendered and the Land of Lightning had agreed to pay 678 billion ryō.
• Uchiha Military Police Force shinobi noticed that villagers treated them with new respect during their patrol.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Hyuga Hiashi, and other leaders told the public that Hiruzen Sarutobi had stepped down voluntarily because of age and poor health.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi was placed under house arrest, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura were confined, and Danzo was imprisoned while Root was sealed off and investigated.
• The leadership posted excerpts from the Land of Lightning battle report to keep villagers focused on the Uchiha’s victory and conceal the upheaval within Konoha’s leadership.

Shikaku Nara urged Ren to become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, but Ren refused, arguing that the office would bind the Uchiha Clan to Konoha’s problems. He laid out a plan for the clan to expand its influence across the Shinobi World through trade, resources, intelligence, and armed protection.

• Shikaku visited Ren to discuss the choice of Konoha’s Fifth Hokage and named Ren the strongest candidate.
• Shikaku cited Ren’s victory over Kumogakure and his prestige as reasons he could keep Konoha stable.
• Ren refused the Hokage Position and said the Uchiha Clan would focus on Military Police Force affairs rather than Konoha’s other government business.
• Ren explained that becoming Hokage would tie the Uchiha Clan to Konoha’s burdens and leave it constrained by village and national interests.
• Ren announced plans to build the Uchiha Clan into a power spanning the Shinobi World, beginning with the Land of Lightning’s trade routes.

Shikaku identified Tsunade as Konoha’s backup candidate for Fifth Hokage after Ren refused the position. He and the village leaders judged that Tsunade’s standing could stabilize Konoha and balance the Uchiha’s growing influence.

• Shikaku told Ren that Konoha’s leadership was considering Tsunade as its alternative candidate for Fifth Hokage.
• Ren said the Uchiha would not object to Tsunade’s appointment as long as she left their spoils of war and trade routes alone.
• Shikaku recalled refusing the Hokage position himself, arguing that the new leader would have to handle the Third Hokage’s resignation, Danzo’s crimes, and Konoha’s shifting power balance.
• Shikaku told the leadership council that Ren was the strongest candidate, but Ren would likely refuse because he had not claimed the position when he could have.
• Shikaku proposed Tsunade, and the council agreed that her lineage, reputation, strength, and medical expertise could help steady Konoha and counterbalance the Uchiha.

Shikaku identified Tsunade as Konoha’s best candidate for Fifth Hokage, while Ren agreed to accept her only if the village respected Uchiha rights and spoils. Inoichi found Tsunade outside Tanzaku Town and told her that the Third had stepped down after Ren exposed Danzo’s crimes, leaving Tsunade stunned and enraged.

• Shikaku told Konoha’s clan leaders that Tsunade was the strongest candidate for Hokage, with Jiraiya as a possible supporting figure.
• Ren told Shikaku that the Uchiha would accept Tsunade’s succession only if Konoha treated the clan fairly and left its war spoils under its control.
• Shikaku revealed that Inoichi had already located Tsunade and Jiraiya, then reported that Inoichi had gone to meet Tsunade.
• Inoichi found Tsunade gambling outside Tanzaku Town and told her that the Third had stepped down after Ren publicly impeached him.
• Inoichi explained that Ren had exposed Danzo’s stolen Sharingan and Hashirama’s Cells, along with the Third’s tolerance of Danzo’s abuses, and Tsunade reacted with shock and anger.

Inoichi told Tsunade that the Third had admitted to enabling Danzo and Root, and that Konoha’s provisional leadership wanted her to become the Fifth Hokage. He described Uchiha Ren’s victory over Kumogakure and his power over the Tailed Beasts, leaving Tsunade furious at Konoha’s leaders and questioning why they had waited so long to call her back.

• Inoichi told Tsunade that the Third had confessed to indulging Danzo and Root, stepped down after the clans voted, and left Konoha seeking a Fifth Hokage.
• Inoichi asked Tsunade to return as Hokage, explaining that the village’s clans and factions considered her the only candidate they could all accept.
• Inoichi explained that Uchiha Ren had unified the Uchiha, created the Temple system, and led them to break Kumogakure’s defenses and win its unconditional surrender.
• Inoichi described Ren defeating Killer B, severely injuring the Fourth Raikage, and using Mangekyō power to suppress the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails.
• Tsunade questioned whether the reports were exaggerated, and Inoichi confirmed them with the surrender treaty and corroborating accounts.
• Tsunade compared Ren’s ocular power to Uchiha Madara’s, then angrily confronted Konoha’s leaders for allowing Danzo and Root to misuse her grandfather’s cells.

Inoichi recounted how Ren exposed Danzo’s crimes during a Jonin meeting and challenged the Third over Yaonai’s disappearance. Ren then invoked an old agreement granting Uchiha and Senju the right to impeach the Hokage, leaving the Third’s leadership under threat.

• Inoichi told Tsunade that Ren returned from the Land of Lightning and confronted the Third about Yaonai’s disappearance during a Jonin meeting.
• Ren accused Danzo of aiding Yaonai’s kidnappers, exposed Kagami Uchiha’s Sharingan and Hashirama’s Cells in Danzo’s body, and demanded answers about Danzo’s absence during the Nine-Tails’ Attack.
• After the Third ordered Danzo imprisoned, Danzo attacked ANBU and tried to escape, but Ren disabled him, reclaimed Kagami Uchiha’s Sharingan, and sealed his Chakra.
• Ren accused Danzo of murder, theft, desecrating the First’s remains, aiding Orochimaru’s experiments, and assisting the Kumogakure Delegation in Yaonai’s kidnapping.
• Ren produced an old agreement signed by the First and countersigned by the Second, which allowed Uchiha and Senju to impeach a Hokage who strayed from Konoha’s founding purpose.

Tsunade learned that Hiruzen had admitted his failures and stepped down, and Inoichi asked her to return as Fifth Hokage to stabilize Konoha. After reading Kumogakure’s surrender terms, Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure not to provoke Uchiha Ren, as news of Ren’s victory spread across the Shinobi World.

• Inoichi told Tsunade that Ren had impeached Hiruzen for his failures and that Hiruzen had admitted his mistakes before stepping down.
• Tsunade acknowledged her pain over her former teacher’s removal, and Inoichi asked her to return to Konoha as Fifth Hokage.
• Ōnoki read that Uchiha Ren had defeated Kumogakure and secured its unconditional surrender and extensive reparations.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure shinobi not to approach or provoke Ren and to report his whereabouts immediately.
• News of Ren’s victory shook the great villages and prompted smaller nations to change how they treated Uchiha trade caravans.

After the Uchiha Clan’s fortune surged from the Land of Lightning’s reparations, Ren received three techniques that offered a stable path to Six Paths Transcendence. He decided to develop the techniques across the clan rather than pursue the dangerous path of gathering the Tailed Beasts.

• The Uchiha Clan processed the Land of Lightning’s reparations and expanded its wealth, resources, and military strength.
• Ren saw that the clan’s fortune had increased enough to raise its family level to LV3.
• The level-up rewarded Ren with the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique, the Great River Qi Refinement Method, and the Heart Sea Spirit Refinement Art.
• Ren considered gathering the Tailed Beasts but rejected the plan because it would provoke the Shinobi World and expose the Uchiha to Black Zetsu’s trap.
• Ren determined that the three techniques could be taught throughout the clan, strengthening members’ bodies, energy, and minds from an early age.

Ren planned to spread three cultivation techniques throughout the Uchiha, using clan resources to raise its overall strength and develop a path to Transcendence. Jiraiya returned to Konoha with Tsunade and revealed that he had witnessed the severity of Kumogakure’s defeat.

• Ren planned to teach the techniques to core Uchiha members first, then select cultivators and use the Land of Lightning’s reparations to fund medicinal support.
• Ren resolved to pursue Six Paths Transcendence through the cultivation system and the Uchiha’s growing resources.
• Jiraiya entered Konoha alongside Tsunade and joked about the village’s female shinobi until Tsunade warned him not to provoke Uchiha Ren.
• Tsunade realized Jiraiya knew more about Ren than she expected, and Jiraiya said he had personally visited the Land of Lightning.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Kumogakure had suffered a crushing defeat that left its backbone shattered.

Jiraiya warned Tsunade that Uchiha Ren had overwhelmed Kumogakure with extraordinary powers and that Konoha could not afford to provoke him. He then revealed that Mount Myoboku had summoned him to meet the Great Toad Sage, leaving Tsunade awaiting what the prophetic sage had told him.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Ren had suppressed the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails, badly wounded the Fourth Raikage, and displayed extreme speed and intangibility.
• Jiraiya warned Tsunade that the Uchiha were gaining strength and that anyone trying to suppress them by old methods would be courting death.
• Tsunade said she would meet Ren without causing trouble because she needed to learn what he wanted before becoming Fifth Hokage.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Sage Fukasaku had summoned him to Mount Myoboku, where he met the Great Toad Sage.

Jiraiya told Tsunade that the Great Toad Sage had prophesied Uchiha Ren would rise above the Shinobi World and eventually surpass the Sage of Six Paths. He also revealed that the Uchiha and Senju descended from the Sage’s sons, Indra and Asura.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade that the Great Toad Sage had foreseen Uchiha Ren ruling over the Shinobi World and gathering followers across nations and clans.
• Jiraiya said the Great Toad Sage had prophesied that Ren would surpass the Sage of Six Paths, prompting Tsunade to reject the prediction in disbelief.
• Jiraiya explained that the Great Toad Sage had personally known the Sage of Six Paths and understood his power firsthand.
• Jiraiya revealed that the Uchiha inherited Indra’s bloodline and the Senju inherited Asura’s, making both clans descendants of the Sage of Six Paths.