Chapter Summaries

Suigetsu and Nagato’s plan forced Obito to release Nagato from his space-time dimension, but Obito killed Nagato before Sasuke could save him. With Fugaku’s eyes secured and their allies withdrawn, Sasuke and Obito began their Seventh Battle.

• Suigetsu baited Obito into phasing into his dimension, where Nagato attacked him while explosive tags detonated outside.
• Obito escaped with Susanoo, and Nagato absorbed the blasts as Suigetsu took the Porcelain Bottle containing Fugaku’s eyes.
• Obito used Kamui to attack Nagato, and Nagato sacrificed himself to protect Suigetsu before Obito tore off his head and sent it into the dimension.
• Sasuke arrived with a Flying Thunder God kunai, while Suigetsu handed the Porcelain Bottle to Orochimaru and Orochimaru withdrew with Nagato’s remains, Suigetsu, and Jugo.
• Kisame left with Killer B, and Sasuke and Obito faced each other across the battlefield and opened their Seventh Battle with Great Fireballs.

Sasuke and Obito fought a fierce battle, using Wood Release clones, Susanoo, and Kamui techniques to counter each other. Obito’s Kamui Shuriken seemed to trap Sasuke, but Sasuke revealed he had disguised his real body as a clone; Obito then abandoned Susanoo and prepared to attack with a Kamui-infused Kusanagi Sword.

• Obito used Kamui to sever Sasuke’s head, but the body proved to be a Wood Release Clone, and Sasuke deployed eighteen clones with Susanoo arrows to threaten Obito whenever he became tangible.
• Sasuke decided to kill Obito rather than try to persuade him, then used a black-flamed Wood Dragon to spread fire across the battlefield.
• Obito summoned his Crow Tengu Susanoo and attacked with Kamui Shuriken, whose space-targeting power let them pass through barriers and home in on Sasuke.
• Sasuke escaped one Kamui Shuriken by shedding a substitute body, but Obito’s next attack appeared to suck him into space-time.
• Obito discovered that the Sasuke still on the battlefield was the real one, while Sasuke explained that his Wood Release Clones could fool the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Obito dismissed his Susanoo, drew his Kusanagi Sword, and imbued it with Kamui power.

Obito used Kamui-enhanced swordsmanship to overwhelm Sasuke’s Wood Release Clones, then struck what he believed was Sasuke’s real body. Sasuke revealed the target was a Blaze Release Clone and escaped Obito’s Kamui Substitution Technique, leaving Obito to launch another attack with Susanoo.

• Obito cut down Sasuke’s Wood Release Clones with his Kusanagi Sword, using Kamui to bypass their attacks and Susanoo defenses.
• Sasuke deduced that Obito’s vision was deteriorating, while Obito used Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi to identify the real Sasuke.
• Obito severed Sasuke’s apparent head with Kamui, but a Blaze Release Clone had been substituted, and Sasuke struck Obito from behind with Chidori.
• Obito activated Kamui Substitution Technique and trapped Sasuke in a vortex, but Sasuke shed his outer body and escaped with his cursed wings.
• Obito’s real body returned from the space-time dimension, and he summoned Crow Tengu Susanoo to launch Kamui Shuriken: Shadow Clone at Sasuke.

Sasuke pushed Obito into a desperate aerial battle, blinding his left eye with Amaterasu and then shaping a vast natural Kirin into a barrage designed to defeat his phasing. Obito activated Izanagi against Sasuke’s Cloud-Cutting Sword, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Sasuke fled upward as Obito extended the range of his Kamui Shuriken, and the two fought high above the island.
• Sasuke used Blaze Release: Blown Flame Realm to expose Obito, then intensified Amaterasu until Obito’s left eye was nearly useless.
• Black flames ignited the clouds and formed a colossal natural Kirin, which Sasuke shaped into Chidori Senbon to counter Obito’s phasing.
• Sasuke unleashed the Takemikazuchi Method: Cloud-Cutting Sword, a continuous barrage of seventy thousand Chidori Senbon per second.
• Obito activated Izanagi with his nearly blind left eye as the lightning barrage descended.

Sasuke defeated Obito in their final close-quarters exchange, but Tobi rescued Obito before Sasuke could kill him. Afterward, Sasuke refused to rest and set out to face the Five Kage, aiming to awaken White Cursed Seal: State Four.

• Sasuke survived Obito's Izanagi and used a reverse substitution to stab him through the heart.
• Tobi emerged to protect the dying Obito and helped him use Kamui to escape, prompting Sasuke to hesitate.
• Orochimaru told Sasuke that Obito would likely have escaped even if Sasuke had attacked again.
• Sasuke asked about the Five Kage and chose to face them without resting.
• Sasuke resolved to awaken White Cursed Seal: State Four in the second half of the Seventh Battle.

The Five Kage Summit began as the leaders debated Akatsuki’s threat and whether the Five Great Nations should unite against them. As Gaara urged cooperation, the Raikage interrupted the discussion with a furious demand that the others stop wasting time.

• Gaara became Kazekage after returning to Sunagakure, and he and his guards attended the summit in the Land of Iron.
• Shikaku told Inoichi that Sasuke had helped Gaara when Akatsuki captured him and might have firsthand knowledge of the organization.
• Kabuto disguised himself as a samurai and secretly scouted the summit while waiting for Orochimaru and Sasuke.
• Gaara called for the Five Kage to work together against Akatsuki, but Ōnoki questioned his age and dismissed the need to seek help from other nations.
• Tsunade and Mei discussed Akatsuki’s ability to control the stolen tailed beasts before the Raikage slammed his fist down and shouted at the other Kage.

The Five Kage argued over their villages’ past ties to the Akatsuki, and Tsunade revealed Danzo had died. She then identified Obito Uchiha as the person who controlled Yagura, leaving the summit stunned.

• The Kage’s guards clashed briefly before their leaders ordered them to stand down.
• A accused the other great villages of enabling the Akatsuki, while Ōnoki admitted they had hired it as a mercenary force.
• Tsunade told the Kage that Danzo had disappeared three months earlier and was confirmed dead when Root’s cursed seals vanished.
• Mei admitted Kirigakure suspected Yagura had been controlled through the Sharingan after the Third Shinobi World War.
• Tsunade named Obito Uchiha as the person who controlled Yagura and caused Konoha’s Nine-Tails Incident.

At the Five Kage Summit, Shikaku argued that Obito was acting under Madara Uchiha’s influence and urged the Kage to unite against the Akatsuki. Meanwhile, Sasuke and Orochimaru reached the Land of Iron, where Sasuke decided to provoke the Five Kage in his own way.

• Shikaku explained that Obito’s control of Yagura and the Nine-Tails attack suggested Madara had orchestrated his rise, then urged the Kage to share intelligence and focus on the Akatsuki.
• The Raikage agreed to set aside his dispute with Ōnoki until the Akatsuki had been defeated, while Kabuto reflected that Shikaku had strengthened Konoha’s position.
• Orochimaru brought Sasuke to the snowy Land of Iron using a Flying Thunder God Kunai.
• Sasuke and Orochimaru discussed how Sasuke could draw the Five Kage’s hostility without making his past-life story harder to explain.
• Sasuke put on a mask and charged into the Five Kage Summit.

Sasuke Uchiha masked himself and attacked the Five Kage Summit, where the Raikage mistook him for Obito Uchiha and fought him. With the Five Kage gathered and Tsunade keeping Sasuke’s identity secret, Sasuke prepared to begin the second half of the Seventh Battle.

• Sasuke put on a mask and fought his way through the Samurai guarding the Five Kage Summit.
• Ao used his Byakugan to identify the intruder as a masked Sharingan user, and the Raikage charged out to confront him, believing he was Obito Uchiha.
• Sasuke dodged the Raikage’s attack and pierced his Lightning Release Armor with White Chidori, then blocked and evaded the Raikage’s follow-up strikes before forcing him back with a fire blast.
• Tsunade recognized Sasuke, but Shikaku persuaded her not to reveal his identity so they could learn his motives.
• Kabuto realized the masked intruder was Sasuke, while Sasuke saw that the Five Kage had arrived and announced that the second half of the Seventh Battle would begin.

Sasuke, disguised as Obito Uchiha, fought the Five Kage at the summit, defeating the Raikage and facing Gaara's sand attack. As Tsunade treated the injured Raikage, Ōnoki attacked Sasuke with Dust Release, intent on killing him.

• Mei Terumi extinguished Sasuke's Great Flame Technique, struck Susanoo with a Water Dragon Bullet, and damaged it with her Lava Release after evading its arrow.
• The Raikage cracked Susanoo's bones, but Sasuke trapped him with Susanoo's tendrils and slammed him into the floor with Uchiha Slam.
• Darui attacked Sasuke with Black Panther, while Gaara pulled the injured Raikage to safety and asked Tsunade to treat him.
• Gaara attacked Sasuke with Rapid-Fire Sand Shower, while Kankuro and Temari recognized something familiar about the masked boy.
• Ōnoki questioned Tsunade about Sasuke's identity, then used Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique against Susanoo.

Ōnoki’s Dust Release destroyed Sasuke’s Susanoo clone, but Sasuke emerged unharmed and demolished the Land of Iron castle with an explosive attack. As the Five Kage prepared to fight him, Sasuke fatally impaled Tsunade and began unleashing a vast Wood Release technique.

• Ōnoki used Dust Release on Sasuke’s Susanoo, but Sasuke revealed that the target had been a Wood Release clone.
• Sasuke used Explosion Release to collapse the castle, while Gaara shielded the Five Kage, their guards, and the Samurai with sand.
• Mifune withdrew the Samurai, and the Five Kage sent their guards back before facing Sasuke.
• Tsunade released the Strength of a Hundred Technique, shattered Susanoo with a punch, and charged Sasuke.
• Sasuke caught Tsunade’s punch, struck her with a White Rasengan and wooden spears, and left her collapsed in a pool of blood.
• Sasuke began using Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees as the Five Kage watched in horror.

Ōnoki broke the Five Kage free from the Flower-Tree World’s poison, and they united to fight Sasuke. After forcing Sasuke’s Susanoo to retreat, the Kage took to the air and launched a coordinated attack, which Sasuke answered with Wind Release: Typhoon Passage.

• Ōnoki overcame the poison and destroyed the Flower-Tree World with Dust Release, allowing the other Kage to recover and urging them to work together.
• The Raikage rescued Tsunade while Ōnoki, Gaara, and Mei Terumi attacked Sasuke’s Susanoo, but Sasuke escaped their crushing assault with white cursed wings.
• Tsunade healed her wounds, and the Five Kage agreed to fight Sasuke together in the air.
• Ōnoki used Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to speed up the Raikage, who charged at Sasuke while the Kage followed on sand cushions.
• Sasuke anticipated the Raikage’s attack and used Wind Release: Typhoon Passage.

Sasuke fought the Five Kage, using Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags against the Raikage before the Kage coordinated attacks to immobilize him. As Ōnoki prepared a decisive Dust Release blast, Sasuke's White Cursed Seal erupted into State Four.

• Ōnoki boosted the Raikage's punch, which shattered Sasuke's Susanoo and crushed his shoulder, but Sasuke used the injury to trigger Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags.
• The Raikage and Ōnoki escaped the explosion, though the Raikage lost his right arm, and Tsunade stopped his bleeding.
• Ōnoki and Gaara trapped Sasuke's Susanoo beneath sand and heavy clay, sending him crashing into the ground.
• Mei Terumi's Water Dragon Bullet, infused with the Raikage's lightning, paralyzed Sasuke after Gaara dragged him out of Susanoo.
• Sasuke refused Tsunade's offer to explain himself, and Ōnoki began a Dust Release attack with Tsunade's chakra.
• Sasuke's dormant White Cursed Seal awakened and transformed into State Four as Kabuto watched and Orochimaru anticipated the change.

Sasuke released White Cursed Seal State Four, gaining the Byakugan and Shikotsumyaku, and charged the Five Kage to demonstrate his power. He defeated the Raikage and incapacitated Gaara, but left both alive as the battle continued in the mist.

• Sasuke transformed into White Cursed Seal State Four, awakening the Byakugan and Shikotsumyaku, while Orochimaru explained his new abilities.
• Ao warned the assembled shinobi that Sasuke's chakra had become so powerful that everyone would need to fight together.
• Sasuke decided to keep fighting so the Five Great Shinobi Villages would remember their hard-won unity and the danger threatening them.
• Mei Terumi covered the battlefield in mist, but Sasuke used the Byakugan to see through it as the Raikage attacked with a Lariat.
• Sasuke protected himself with bone, used Wood Release to drain the Raikage's lightning chakra, and threw him down, breaking bones throughout his body.
• Sasuke broke free of Gaara's sand and struck his chakra points, incapacitating him before rushing back into the mist without killing either opponent.

Sasuke used his new State Four form to defeat Kankuro’s puppets and overpower the combined efforts of the Kage and their guards. Ōnoki rallied the shinobi by guessing that Sasuke could not use his Sharingan in this form, but Sasuke revealed that the White Cursed Seal held Hashirama Senju’s power and summoned a Wood Golem.

• Sasuke disabled Kankuro’s Father and Mother puppets, severed Black Ant’s control threads, and swallowed Black Ant with a White Snake.
• Temari stopped Sasuke’s advance as the Kage, their guards, Mifune, and the others arrived, and Kankuro rescued Gaara and the Raikage.
• Sasuke unleashed a Great Flame Technique that forced Mei Terumi and several shinobi to combine their Water Release, then broke through their defenses.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to destroy the earthen trench and deduced that Sasuke’s new form restricted his Sharingan, rallying the shinobi to attack.
• Sasuke confirmed that he temporarily could not use his Sharingan but invoked Hashirama Senju’s power and performed the Wood Golem Technique.

Sasuke used the Wooden Human to overwhelm the allied shinobi, but Ōnoki’s intervention gave Mei Terumi and her companions a chance to survive. The Five Kage and their allies united rather than flee, and Sasuke and Kabuto withdrew after promising another war in three years.

• Sasuke unleashed the Wooden Human, whose attacks shattered the battlefield and defeated Mifune’s sword strike and Tsunade’s punch.
• Mei Terumi, Ao, and Chōjūrō climbed the golem, but Sasuke’s Wood Release Clones trapped Ao and Chōjūrō and threatened Mei with combined kekkei genkai.
• Ōnoki severed one of the Wooden Human’s feet with Dust Release and urged Mei and the others to escape, then raised an Earth Flow Wall to hold the golem back.
• Darui, Temari, Gaara, Shi, the Raikage, Tsunade, Mifune, and the samurai stood with Ōnoki and vowed to stay together; Sasuke smiled at their unity.
• Kabuto revealed himself beside Sasuke, and the two withdrew through the Blade Reversal Vortex after Sasuke challenged the Five Great Nations to grow stronger before he started another war in three years.

After Sasuke defeated the Five Kage, he returned to Orochimaru and his teammates, then had Nagato reincarnated so he could thank him and learn of Obito’s threat. Orochimaru offered to restore Nagato’s mobility, leaving Nagato hopeful about his second chance.

• Ōnoki decided the Five Kage Summit would continue in the Land of Iron until the Hokage, Kazekage, and Raikage awoke and the leaders could plan for the war in three years.
• Sasuke returned with Kabuto Yakushi and told Orochimaru that he still wanted a stronger fight, while predicting his Eighth Battle opponent would be reincarnated rather than living.
• Sasuke told Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo that he had recovered Fugaku’s eyes, and Suigetsu credited Nagato with helping them retrieve them.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation on a cloned White Zetsu to bring Nagato back in his Complete Body form.
• Nagato learned that Obito had escaped with his head and Rinnegan, and Sasuke promised to stop him if he returned.
• Orochimaru offered to use soul-focused Medical Ninjutsu to restore movement to Nagato’s reincarnated legs, and Nagato called his return a blessing in disguise.

Orochimaru restored Nagato’s mobility, while Obito prepared to recover and pursue the Eight-Tails and Naruto. As Kisame faced the Eight-Tails’ attack, Itachi rescued him and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Orochimaru healed Nagato’s legs, and Nagato tested his restored mobility before reflecting on his strength.
• Obito used Hashirama cells to heal his heart and planned to transplant the Rinnegan, capture Naruto at Mount Myōboku, and complete the Ten-Tails.
• White Zetsu reported that Samehada had betrayed Kisame and joined the Eight-Tails, but Obito stayed behind to finish healing.
• Killer B and the Eight-Tails defeated Kisame, and B fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at him.
• Itachi appeared before Kisame and rescued him, then awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Itachi revealed his new dōjutsu, Ame-no-Uzume, and explained its powers to the group on Blue Moon Island. Sasuke named their faction Radiance, while a figure in the Unnamed Small Country awoke and demanded an explanation from Black Zetsu.

• Itachi read the others’ thoughts and recounted recent events, revealing that his new eyes let him see the minds of people weaker than him.
• Karin furiously beat Suigetsu after he guessed her thoughts about Sasuke, and Itachi revealed that Killer B was still alive.
• Itachi explained that Ame-no-Uzume could manifest a tangible Shikigami from a person’s mind when they called to him in danger.
• Orochimaru declared that the island’s eight permanent residents belonged to Sasuke’s faction, and Sasuke named it Radiance.
• In the Unnamed Small Country, a long-dormant figure opened their eyes and demanded an explanation from Black Zetsu.

Madara awakened within Naruto’s body through Black Zetsu’s cursed Seal and learned about Sasuke, the Akatsuki’s failures, and the Nine-Tails. He chose Kirigakure as his first target to strengthen Naruto and release more of his power.

• Madara awoke in Naruto’s body, ordered Black Zetsu to kneel, and demanded an explanation for his revival.
• Black Zetsu told Madara that Nagato could no longer perform Rinne Rebirth and described Sasuke Uchiha’s power and attacks on the Akatsuki.
• Black Zetsu explained that the black cursed Seal let Madara inhabit Naruto and would gradually restore his strength; Madara learned Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Madara entered Naruto’s mindscape, subdued the Nine-Tails with his Sharingan, and learned that Minato Namikaze had sealed away half its power.
• Madara demanded to meet Sasuke, but Black Zetsu hid his knowledge of Sasuke’s recent actions and claimed not to know his location.
• Madara decided to make Naruto stronger and chose Kirigakure as his first target, intending to turn it into the Village of the Bloody Mist.