Chapter Summaries

After waking from three days of recovery, Tsunade learned that the great nations had surrendered but Konoha was stalled by Hanzo in the Land of Rain. She insisted on going there immediately with Nawaki, leaving Mikoto and Kushina to care for Mito.

• Tsunade woke after three days and reassured Mikoto and Kushina that she had mostly recovered.
• Mikoto reported the surrender of the Land of Water, the Cloud forces, and Ōnoki, then explained that Bunpuku would surrender Sunagakure if Konoha spared the Land of Wind's daimyo.
• Kushina told Tsunade that Hanzo's poison had stalled Konoha's forces in the Land of Rain, with only Jiraiya and Orochimaru able to hold their own against him.
• Nawaki arrived using the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Tsunade ordered him to take her to the Land of Rain despite his concerns about her recovery.
• Tsunade left with Nawaki and told Mikoto and Kushina to stay behind and look after Mito.

Tsunade arrived at the Konoha camp and learned that Jiraiya and Orochimaru had failed to break through Hanzo’s poison-filled defenses. She confronted Hanzo and demanded his submission, leaving the three Sannin poised to fight him.

• Nawaki brought Tsunade to the Konoha camp, where Jiraiya and Orochimaru explained that Ibuse’s poison gas had driven back three assaults.
• Tsunade said she would face Hanzo, and Orochimaru agreed to go with her.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru confronted Hanzo at the battlefield’s stone platform.
• Tsunade ordered Hanzo to submit to Konoha and declared that his era was over.
• Hanzo challenged Tsunade as Ibuse released poison gas, and the three Sannin took positions to fight.

Tsunade fought Hanzo after resisting Ibuse’s poison and defeated him with the Eight Gates. She killed Hanzo rather than risk his betrayal, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru watched in shock.

• Tsunade stood in Ibuse’s poisonous mist, and her Hashirama cells neutralized the toxins.
• Hanzo attacked Tsunade with his chain sickle, but she pressed forward and opened the Sixth Gate.
• Tsunade used Morning Peacock to repel Hanzo and kill Ibuse with a single punch.
• Tsunade opened the Seventh Gate, shattered Hanzo’s water techniques, and broke both his arms with a punch.
• Tsunade killed Hanzo by smashing him beneath the collapsing rock face.
• Jiraiya stared in disbelief at Hanzo’s death, while Orochimaru watched Tsunade with interest.

After killing Hanzo, Tsunade ordered Konoha to secure the Land of Rain and aid its civilians. Jiraiya found the orphaned Uzumaki boy Nagato, and Tsunade revealed that she belonged to the same clan.

• Tsunade ordered Jiraiya and Orochimaru to process the surrendering Amegakure forces and search the Land of Rain for Hanzo's remaining troops.
• Tsunade ordered the granaries opened, civilians protected, and villagers given the choice to remain or leave.
• Jiraiya reported finding a red-haired Uzumaki boy hiding in an abandoned temple.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya approached the wary boy, whom Tsunade recognized as Nagato.
• Tsunade told Nagato that she was also from the Uzumaki Clan, and he stared at her in astonishment.

Tsunade offered Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan a chance to become her students and learn how to take revenge on her. After she left the temple, Nagato gathered the rations she had brought, and all three children emerged to follow her.

• Yahiko and Konan returned to the temple and found Tsunade with Nagato.
• Tsunade told the children she had helped cause the war and offered to teach them if they became her students and sought revenge on her.
• Nagato asked Tsunade why she had come, but she left without answering and told them to come with her if they wished.
• Nagato gathered the rations into his arms while Tsunade told Jiraiya that the children needed a reason to keep living, not sympathy.
• Three figures emerged from the temple as Tsunade and Jiraiya stood in the rain.

Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato agreed to learn from Tsunade, who brought Nagato to Orochimaru for an examination. After discovering Nagato’s Rinnegan and severe malnutrition, Tsunade privately told him the eyes did not belong to him.

• Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato accepted Tsunade’s offer to teach them, and she brought them to the Konoha camp.
• Tsunade took Nagato to Orochimaru, who recognized his Rinnegan as the legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Orochimaru examined Nagato and found severe malnutrition caused by something inside him draining his nutrients.
• Tsunade raised a barrier around the tent and asked Nagato when he had acquired the Rinnegan.
• Nagato asked how Tsunade knew about his eyes, and she told him they did not belong to him.

Tsunade told Nagato that she was the Uzumaki leader and explained that his Rinnegan were draining his life force. Nagato agreed to have them replaced, and Tsunade ordered Orochimaru to prepare for surgery immediately.

• Tsunade told Nagato she was the leader of the Uzumaki and had arranged for Konoha to take in surviving clan members.
• Nagato explained that his eyes had appeared suddenly and left him constantly hungry and increasingly weak.
• Tsunade said the eyes did not belong to Nagato and were consuming his blood and life force.
• Orochimaru warned Nagato that the eyes would kill him and said he had at most ten years to live.
• Nagato agreed to replace the eyes, and Tsunade ordered Orochimaru to begin surgery at once.

Tsunade offered her own eyes to Nagato and underwent surgery to receive his Rinnegan, enduring the immense chakra surge as they merged with her body. The transplant succeeded, and Tsunade prepared to explore the Rinnegan’s abilities while Nagato slept with his new eyes.

• Tsunade told Orochimaru to transplant her eyes into Nagato, explaining that her Senju and Uzumaki bloodlines made her a suitable donor.
• Tsunade reassured Nagato that she was helping him because he was a child of the Uzumaki clan, and Orochimaru anesthetized him.
• Orochimaru removed Nagato’s Rinnegan and transplanted Tsunade’s eyes into him.
• Tsunade refused anesthesia and asked to feel the Rinnegan merge with her body as Orochimaru removed her eyes and implanted Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• The Rinnegan unleashed a massive surge of chakra through Tsunade, but her Hashirama cells helped her endure the pain and the transplant succeeded.
• Tsunade saw through her new Rinnegan, checked on the sleeping Nagato, and decided to explore the eyes’ abilities.

Tsunade explored the Rinnegan’s abilities, testing its chakra nature transformations, Black Rod creation, and gravitational techniques. She left with more powers to investigate and began considering how to create Six Paths Clones.

• Tsunade traveled into a rain-soaked hollow and sensed the five chakra natures and the yin-yang power within her new eyes.
• Tsunade created a Black Rod and confirmed that it could block an enemy’s chakra.
• Tsunade tested Banshō Ten'in to draw rocks toward her and Shinra Tensei to repel rain, gravel, and mud.
• Tsunade sensed that Planetary Devastation was ready but chose not to cast it, while recognizing that other Rinnegan abilities remained unexplored.
• Orochimaru watched Tsunade’s demonstration and asked how many abilities her eyes contained.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru she would explore the powers over time and considered creating Six Paths Clones.

Tsunade and Orochimaru began creating the Six Paths from powerful shinobi’s bodies, activating the Third Raikage A as the Deva Path and the Third Kazekage as the Human Path. After testing their abilities, they prepared to turn the Third Mizukage into the next body.

• Tsunade asked Orochimaru to help construct the Six Paths, and he agreed after seeing the six preserved bodies.
• Tsunade assigned the Third Raikage A to the Deva Path and activated him with the Rinnegan’s power.
• Tsunade ordered Deva Path: Thunder Emperor A to use Shinra Tensei, and he blasted a tunnel through a thick stone wall.
• Tsunade explained that the Third Kazekage’s Human Path would combine Magnet Release: Iron Sand with Mind Reading to gather intelligence.
• Tsunade activated the Third Kazekage as the Human Path, and iron sand formed a protective barrier around him.
• Orochimaru asked who would be next, and Tsunade named the Third Mizukage, Water Asura.

Tsunade awakened the Asura, Animal, Preta, and Naraka Paths, completing her Six Paths of Pain with powerful weapons, autonomous puppets, chakra absorption, and restoration. With all six assembled, she declared that she could unify the shinobi world by choosing where to send them.

• Tsunade awakened the Third Mizukage as the Asura Path and tested his missiles and laser, which destroyed a small island with force comparable to a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Tsunade used Hashirama cells and artificial Rinnegan eyes to revive Chiyo and give her autonomous control of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
• Tsunade awakened Yagura as the Preta Path, whose body absorbed Orochimaru's probing chakra while retaining Yagura's water abilities and tailed beast chakra.
• Tsunade awakened Hanzo as the Naraka Path and demonstrated the King of Hell Statue repairing a damaged puppet.
• Tsunade presented the six assembled Paths and told Orochimaru that she only needed to choose a direction to unify the shinobi world.