Chapter Summaries

Pain and the other attackers launched a coordinated assault on Kumogakure, forcing civilians to surrender while Darui confronted Pain and was blasted into a wall. Jiraiya signaled the wider attack, the village was surrounded, and Kakashi advanced into the fighting.

• The Animal Path summoned five beasts, and the invisible Chameleon seized and killed a fleeing noble, prompting civilians in the square to surrender.
• Darui arrived with Kumogakure's senior officials, challenged Pain, and was pulled forward by the Rinnegan before Shinra Tensei hurled him into a wall.
• Kumogakure's other defenders rushed to help Darui as the summoned beasts gathered information and fighting spread through the village.
• Konan sent a paper crane signal, and Jiraiya ordered the attack to begin.
• The attackers surrounded Cloud Shadow Village to stop anyone escaping and sent a powerful fighter to investigate Turtle Island.
• Kakashi revealed his Sharingan and advanced while calling for the defenders to surrender.

Pain’s forces overwhelmed Kumogakure’s resistance, while Uchiha Itachi reported fewer than a thousand casualties to Luo Mang. As the fighting neared its end, Itachi entered the battle in Susanoo, where his Totsuka Blade struck C and Mabui.

• Uchiha Itachi reported that Pain had killed the higher-ups and that fewer than a thousand people had died, with confirmed Cautious Faction surrenders spared.
• Luo Mang accepted the report and felt relieved that his worries had eased.
• In Kumogakure, resistance crumbled as people switched sides and surrendered under pressure from attackers within and outside the village.
• Uchiha Itachi summoned his orange Susanoo and charged down from the mountain to intimidate the fighters.
• Konan recognized Itachi’s Susanoo as Nagato’s attack was interrupted; Itachi’s Totsuka Blade pierced C and Mabui and drew them into its gourd.