Chapter Summaries

Ōnoki considered the danger Konoha posed after Sunagakure’s defeat, then received Darui’s proposal for an alliance with Kumogakure. Darui pressured Iwagakure to join the fight against Konoha, leaving Ōnoki facing an ultimatum.

• Ōnoki discussed Sunagakure’s defeat with Kurotsuchi and Kitsuchi and concluded that Kumogakure would be the next to react.
• An ANBU reported that a Kumogakure envoy had arrived, and Ōnoki ordered them admitted.
• Darui told Ōnoki that Kumogakure wanted a military alliance with Iwagakure against Konoha.
• Kurotsuchi challenged Darui over Kumogakure’s recent threat to invade the Land of Fire, but Ōnoki stopped her from escalating the exchange.
• Darui said Kumogakure could join Konoha in attacking Iwagakure if Ōnoki refused, then delivered A’s ultimatum to stand with Kumogakure or be swallowed by Konoha.

Ōnoki persuaded Darui to form an alliance against Konoha and laid out plans to recruit the Land of Iron and smaller shinobi villages. Darui agreed to all three proposals and left to report them to the Raikage, while Ōnoki prepared to challenge Konoha's growing dominance.

• Ōnoki reluctantly accepted that Iwagakure needed an alliance with Kumogakure to withstand Konoha.
• Ōnoki proposed signing the alliance in the Land of Iron with Mifune as witness, and Darui agreed.
• Ōnoki suggested bringing the Land of Iron's samurai into the alliance, leaving Darui to seek the Raikage's instructions.
• Ōnoki proposed inviting smaller shinobi villages to join a Shinobi Alliance against Konoha and use their forces on the front lines.
• Darui agreed to all three proposals on the Raikage's behalf and left to report Ōnoki's plan.

Konoha welcomed Tsunade and Uchiha Yao back with Sand Village prisoners, whom Yao ordered to be monitored or put to work with a chance to join Konoha. After assigning Deidara to ANBU, Yao discussed the likely alliance against Konoha with Tsunade, leaving the next conflict looming.

• Naruto and the other young ninja went to Konoha’s gate to watch Tsunade’s returning force and the captured Sand Village prisoners arrive.
• Naruto noticed Gaara’s resemblance to himself, while Sand Village chunin Doyu considered abandoning her hatred to survive.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Gaara housed in the Uchiha Clan Compound under Temari’s watch and directed the other prisoners to work on Konoha’s new district, with the possibility of becoming villagers.
• Uchiha Yao assigned Deidara to ANBU and told him to report directly to him.
• In the Hokage’s office, Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that Hidden Cloud Village and Stone Village would likely ally against Konoha and recruit smaller villages as well.

Uchiha Yao explained why the Hidden Cloud and Stone Villages would hesitate to attack, then decided to go to Kirigakure while Tsunade stayed behind to manage Konoha. At a high-level meeting, he ordered the construction of a vast new city and reinforced the border with the Land of Lightning.

• Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that the Hidden Cloud and Stone Villages feared becoming his next target and would not risk attacking first.
• Uchiha Yao announced that he would go to Kirigakure to end the Bloody Mist rule and place the Land of Water under Konoha's control, while Tsunade remained in Konoha to manage the rear.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Shikaku Nara to oversee the construction of a new city capable of housing hundreds of thousands of people.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Uchiha Tekka to tell Fugaku to reinforce the Land of Fire's border with the Land of Lightning and raise his force to six thousand.
• After Uchiha Yao adjourned the meeting, Shikaku Nara studied the city plans and lamented the workload.

Uchiha Shunichi’s forces subdued Yugakure, annexed the Land of Rivers into the Land of Fire, and advanced to the Land of Wind. Uchiha Kenji’s nighttime operation captured the Land of Wind’s capital and eliminated its remaining resistance, leaving the city ready to be controlled.

• Uchiha Shunichi redirected his army to Yugakure, where Harada Masao surrendered and accepted Konoha’s jurisdiction.
• Shunichi left a squad and fifty samurai to take over Yugakure, then led the rest of the army to the Land of Rivers’ daimyo’s mansion.
• Shunichi killed the Land of Rivers’ daimyo and ordered a Land of Fire official to assume control of the region’s government.
• A week later, Shunichi ordered the operation in the Land of Wind’s capital to begin while warning his forces to preserve the city.
• Uchiha Kenji used Sharingan genjutsu to open the city gates, allowing the samurai to capture key locations and kill the listed loyalists.
• By dawn, Shunichi’s forces had uprooted all resistance in the Land of Wind’s capital.

After the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers fell under Konoha's control, Uchiha Yao's ocular technique advanced into Divine Authority: Heavenly Might, granting him attacks that could not be evaded and a domain that suppressed enemies. He tested its effects against Tsunade, whose strength and Chakra efficiency were weakened as his fireball pursued her through her evasions.

• Uchiha Shunichi surveyed the conquered Land of Wind capital, while Konoha used Sand prisoners of war to build a new city.
• Uchiha Yao received an S-rank system reward after annexing the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers and conquering Sunagakure, advancing his left-eye technique to Divine Authority: Heavenly Might.
• Uchiha Yao invited Tsunade to Training Ground Seven to test his new power, and his domain weakened her combat ability and doubled her Chakra costs.
• Uchiha Yao's fireball continued chasing Tsunade after she used the Substitution Technique, demonstrating Heavenly Might's certain-hit effect.
• Tsunade gathered Chakra for a powerful punch against the pursuing fireball, despite the increased Chakra cost.

Uchiha Yao demonstrated his strengthened ocular technique to Tsunade, then prepared to leave Konoha and target Kirigakure. Before departing, he entrusted Tsunade with overseeing the village and asked her to wait for him.

• Uchiha Yao explained that Divine Authority: Heavenly Might guaranteed his attacks would hit and suppressed opponents while doubling their Chakra consumption.
• Uchiha Yao invited Tsunade to dinner, but she left his home flustered; he later visited Kurenai Yuhi, and she took leave the next day because of physical discomfort.
• Uchiha Yao reviewed Konoha's preparations, including the new city's construction, the placement of Hidden Sand Village prisoners, and defenses against Stone Village and Hidden Cloud Village.
• Uchiha Yao summoned Tsunade and announced that he was leaving for Kirigakure immediately, leaving her in charge of Konoha's affairs.
• Uchiha Yao kissed Tsunade and told her to wait for his return.

Uchiha Yao arrived in the Land of Water while Mei Terumi’s rebel group struggled to oppose Yagura’s rule in Kirigakure. Genji pledged support to Mei and gave her a scroll of allies, leaving her with new strength to begin changing the village.

• Uchiha Yao sent the Konoha ANBU back to report to Tsunade and headed toward Kirigakure.
• Ao urged Mei Terumi to act against Yagura, while Mei warned that their small rebel force lacked the strength to challenge him.
• An ANBU summoned Mei Terumi to meet Genji, and she chose to go despite Ao’s fears that it might be a trap.
• Genji told Mei Terumi that Kirigakure was rotting under the Bloody Mist policies and asked whether she would end that era.
• Mei Terumi pledged herself to Kirigakure’s future, and Genji gave her a scroll listing elders and ANBU willing to follow her command.

Mei Terumi told her rebels that Genji would support their uprising against Yagura, while Ao revealed his suspicion that Yagura was controlled by genjutsu. As Mei planned to rescue Yagura and confront the hidden mastermind, Uchiha Yao stepped out of the shadows to intervene.

• Mei Terumi announced that Genji had agreed to support the rebels and gave Ao the list of allies he had provided.
• Ao told Mei Terumi, Chojuro, and the rebels that he suspected genjutsu was controlling Yagura, based on a hidden chakra flow he had seen with his Byakugan.
• Mei Terumi concluded that the hidden controller was their true enemy and ordered Ao to contact the listed allies while they planned to rescue Yagura.
• Uchiha Yao decided to intervene and reveal himself, then stepped out of the shadows after Ao heard his footstep.

Uchiha Yao declared that he would take control of Kirigakure and swiftly defeated Chojuro and Ao when they resisted. He then seized Mei Terumi and transported her away, leaving her allies behind in the cave.

• Mei Terumi was briefly captivated by Uchiha Yao, but Ao's warning snapped her back to her senses as the rebels confronted the intruder.
• Uchiha Yao told Mei Terumi that he intended to take control of Kirigakure.
• Chojuro attacked Uchiha Yao with Hiramekarei, but Uchiha Yao vanished and knocked him unconscious with one punch.
• Ao tried to catch Chojuro but was carried into a rock wall by the force of Uchiha Yao's blow.
• Uchiha Yao caught Mei Terumi's wrist and transported her away through a distortion in space, while Ao watched helplessly.

Uchiha Yao transported Mei Terumi from Kirigakure to a distant coast and revealed himself as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, demanding control of the Hidden Mist Village. After he described Kirigakure’s weakness and claimed Konoha had conquered Sunagakure, Mei Terumi refused to submit and prepared to fight him.

• Uchiha Yao used space ninjutsu to take Mei Terumi from an underground cavern in Kirigakure to an unknown coastline.
• Uchiha Yao identified himself as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, and Mei Terumi questioned his intentions.
• Mei Terumi threatened war, but Uchiha Yao argued that Kirigakure was too weak to resist and described his victories over Sunagakure, the Land of Wind, Hidden Cloud Village, and Stone Village.
• Mei Terumi insisted Kirigakure’s shinobi would never submit, and Uchiha Yao challenged her to fight.
• Mei Terumi released her chakra and accepted Uchiha Yao’s challenge.

Uchiha Yao overwhelmed Mei Terumi with his Mangekyō Sharingan abilities and Perfect Susanoo, nullifying her strongest attacks. After dismissing Susanoo and appearing before her, he taunted her, and Mei Terumi seized the chance to attack again.

• Uchiha Yao suppressed Mei Terumi's strength and doubled her Chakra consumption with Divine Authority: Heavenly Might.
• Mei Terumi attacked with Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Technique, but Uchiha Yao effortlessly dispersed the water dragon.
• Mei Terumi combined Lava Release and Boil Release against Uchiha Yao's Perfect Susanoo, briefly melting its armor.
• Uchiha Yao used Divine Authority: Heavenly Might to halt the corrosion and repair Susanoo's armor.
• Mei Terumi demanded that Uchiha Yao leave Susanoo, and he dismissed it and appeared before her.
• Mei Terumi formed hand seals to attack Uchiha Yao while he was outside Susanoo.

Uchiha Yao overwhelmed Mei Terumi and demanded Kirigakure submit or be destroyed. Mei Terumi offered to help overthrow Fourth Mizukage Yagura and become Fifth Mizukage, but Yao rejected both employment and alliance, insisting on absolute control.

• Uchiha Yao used Kamui: Time Reversal to reverse Mei Terumi's Lava Release and Acid Mist, then pulled her into his arms with Banshō Ten'in.
• Uchiha Yao used Universal Pull to force the sea aside and create a vast basin beneath a towering tsunami, terrifying Mei Terumi with the threat of destroying Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yao told Mei Terumi that he had suppressed Sunagakure's One-Tails Shukaku and demanded Kirigakure submit or perish.
• Mei Terumi proposed that Uchiha Yao help her overthrow Fourth Mizukage Yagura and make her Fifth Mizukage in exchange for Kirigakure's service.
• Uchiha Yao rejected Mei Terumi's offer of an alliance and declared that he believed only in absolute control.

Uchiha Yao forced Mei Terumi to choose between accepting Kirigakure’s merger into Konoha and watching her comrades and village be destroyed. Mei agreed to lead the Konoha Mist Division, and Yao brought her back to the underground cavern to meet the rebels.

• Uchiha Yao offered Mei Terumi leadership of the Konoha Mist Division in exchange for her loyalty and Kirigakure’s submission to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yao used a genjutsu to show Mei visions of him destroying her comrades’ cavern and leveling Kirigakure if she refused.
• Mei Terumi agreed to Yao’s terms so Ao, Chojuro, and the others could survive.
• Uchiha Yao declared Mei the head of the Konoha Mist Division, made an unwanted advance, and grabbed her wrist.
• Uchiha Yao transported Mei Terumi back to the underground cavern to meet her comrades.

Uchiha Yao forced Mei Terumi to disband the Hidden Mist resistance by showing her followers an illusion of the village’s destruction. Mei agreed to take him to Genji and asked to speak with the stubborn elder first.

• Ao, Chojuro, and the rebel ninja prepared to attack when Uchiha Yao and Mei Terumi returned, but Mei ordered them to stand down and announced the resistance force was disbanded.
• Mei told her followers that they had no chance against Uchiha Yao and could only submit or perish.
• When a scar-faced ninja charged at him, Uchiha Yao’s glance left the man screaming and clawing at himself until he passed out.
• Uchiha Yao trapped the others in an illusion where Universal Pull erased the Hidden Mist Village, shattering their resolve.
• Uchiha Yao asked Mei to take him to Genji, and she agreed.
• At Genji’s residence, Mei asked Uchiha Yao to let her explain the situation to the elder first; he granted her half an hour.

Mei Terumi told Genji that Uchiha Yao demanded Kirigakure merge into Konoha and was far too powerful to resist. After learning that Konoha had conquered Sunagakure, Genji was left devastated and uncertain as Kirigakure faced the same fate.

• Mei Terumi told Genji that Uchiha Yao had come to Kirigakure and demanded that the village merge into Konoha.
• Genji ordered Mei to gather Kirigakure's fighters and kill Yao, but Mei said Yao had defeated her, Ao, and Chojuro with ease.
• Mei described how Yao had split the sea and warned that he could destroy Kirigakure with the same power.
• Mei revealed that Konoha had conquered Sunagakure, killed Rasa and its elders, and taken the survivors as prisoners.
• Genji collapsed onto his cushion, realizing Kirigakure's isolation had left it unaware of the changing world.

Genji and Mei Terumi agreed to submit Hidden Mist Village to Uchiha Yao as Konoha’s Mist Division, on the condition that he remove Yagura and help Mei become Fifth Mizukage. Yao ordered them to prepare a coup in two days and announced that he would stay at Mei’s home while they made preparations.

• Genji decided Hidden Mist Village would accept Yao’s terms if he helped remove Yagura, and he ordered spies to verify reports about Sunagakure.
• Genji and Mei Terumi emerged from the residence and bowed deeply to welcome Yao.
• Genji formally agreed that Hidden Mist Village would merge into Konoha as the Mist Division, then asked Yao to help Mei take power from Yagura.
• Yao agreed to eliminate Yagura and gave Mei two days to contact the trusted jonin and clan heads before the coup.
• Yao said he would stay at Mei’s home, and Genji accepted the arrangement on her behalf.

Mei Terumi and her allies launched a coup to take control of Hidden Mist Village, while Uchiha Yao advanced on the Mizukage Building. Elsewhere, Obito accepted Black Zetsu’s proposal to work with Orochimaru against Uchiha Yao and planned to use Yagura to test his strength.

• Mei Terumi and Ao secretly contacted Genji’s list, and more than eighty percent agreed to join the coup.
• Mei Terumi reported that the rebels were ready, and she and Uchiha Yao set out for the Mizukage Building as violence spread across the village.
• Chojuro led rebels in an assault on the ANBU headquarters while other coup forces struck Yagura’s loyalists.
• Uchiha Yao used genjutsu to incapacitate the guards outside the Mizukage Building and entered with Mei Terumi.
• Black Zetsu warned Obito that he could not defeat Uchiha Yao directly and suggested cooperating with Orochimaru and possibly reviving Madara through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Obito agreed to abandon Hidden Mist Village for now but planned to use Yagura to test Uchiha Yao’s strength before leaving.

Nagato learned that Uchiha Yao had killed Sasori and that Deidara had joined Konoha, while Obito triggered Yagura’s Three-Tails transformation in Kirigakure. Uchiha Yao relocated the berserk beast to an uninhabited desert, where it unleashed a devastating Tailed Beast Ball.

• Konan told Nagato that Sasori had been killed by Uchiha Yao and Deidara had defected to Konoha.
• Obito used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make the Three-Tails inside Yagura go berserk.
• The Three-Tails destroyed the Mizukage Building and began charging a Tailed Beast Ball as Mei Terumi begged Uchiha Yao to move the battle away from the village.
• Uchiha Yao decided that Yagura should die and considered making Kurenai Yuhi the Three-Tails’ next Jinchuriki.
• Uchiha Yao used Heavenly Might to transport himself and the Three-Tails from Kirigakure to a remote desert in the Land of Wind.
• The Three-Tails fired its Tailed Beast Ball, blasting a vast crater into the desert.

Uchiha Yao defeated the Three-Tails, freed Yagura from Obito’s genjutsu, and brought him to Konoha, where Yao declared that Kirigakure would merge into Konoha. He summoned Kurenai Yuhi to give her the Three-Tails as a gift and began planning how to make her control it.

• Obito lost track of Yao and the Three-Tails after they were teleported away, and vowed to make Yao pay.
• Yao used his Perfect Susanoo to overwhelm the Three-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball and leave Isobu near death.
• Yao broke the genjutsu controlling Yagura, who regained his senses and grieved over the crimes he had committed as Mizukage.
• Yao told Yagura that Kirigakure would merge into Konoha, then restrained him with genjutsu and took him to the Hokage’s office.
• Yao ordered an ANBU ninja to bring Kurenai Yuhi and decided he would forcibly suppress the Three-Tails’ will so she could control it.
• Kurenai arrived, and Yao identified Yagura as the Fourth Mizukage and the Three-Tails’ Jinchuriki, calling him her gift.