Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yao extracted Isobu from the unconscious Yagura and sealed the Three-Tails inside Kurenai Yuhi, promising to help her become a perfect Jinchuriki. In Kurenai Yuhi’s spiritual world, Uchiha Yao negotiated a limited freedom for Isobu, which agreed to the terms.

• Uchiha Yao reassured Kurenai Yuhi that he would protect her and make her a perfect Jinchuriki, and she agreed to receive the Three-Tails.
• Uchiha Yao used his Rinnegan to extract Isobu’s Chakra from Yagura and suppress Isobu’s resistance.
• Uchiha Yao guided the Three-Tails Chakra into Kurenai Yuhi and helped her form a seal that let the Chakra fuse with her own.
• Uchiha Yao instructed Kurenai Yuhi to meet Isobu in her spiritual world and familiarize herself with its power.
• Uchiha Yao offered Isobu permission to create an avatar that could travel within one hundred meters of Kurenai Yuhi, and Isobu accepted.

Uchiha Yao returned to Kirigakure with Yagura’s body after Kurenai Yuhi received the Three-Tails, and Mei Terumi succeeded as the Fifth Mizukage. Mei announced that Kirigakure would merge into Konoha, provoking outrage among the village’s leaders.

• Kurenai Yuhi left with the miniature Three-Tails, and Uchiha Yao sealed Yagura’s corpse and returned to Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yao gave Yagura’s body to Mei Terumi, who said she would become Mizukage and propose merging Kirigakure into Konoha.
• Uchiha Obito learned that Yagura was dead and the Three-Tails had been taken, then left to seek Orochimaru and his Impure World Reincarnation.
• With Genji’s support, Mei Terumi succeeded as the Fifth Mizukage and announced the end of the Blood Mist Era.
• Mei Terumi declared that Kirigakure would merge into Konoha as the Mist Division, and the gathered leaders erupted in protest.

Uchiha Yao confronted Hidden Mist Village leaders who rejected Mei Terumi’s plan to submit to Konoha, then used overwhelming force to crush the dissenters and destroy the roof of the Mizukage Building. He flew outside Kirigakure, intent on making the entire village fear resistance, as its ninjas and civilians looked up at him.

• Kirishima Jin, Suiren Kenji, and other leaders denounced Mei Terumi for agreeing to submit to Konoha, while Genji tried to quiet them.
• Uchiha Yao appeared and challenged anyone who opposed him, and Mei Terumi identified him as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage and the man who had captured the rampaging Three-Tails.
• Kirishima Jin, Suiren Kenji, and several jonin refused to yield, so Uchiha Yao struck them down with Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Uchiha Yao used Shinra Tensei to blast away the roof and several floors of the Mizukage Building, then hovered outside Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yao resolved to make the village fear resistance as its ninjas and civilians looked toward him.

Uchiha Yao intimidated the Hidden Mist Village into surrender with an enormous, empowered Perfect Susanoo and a devastating demonstration of its power. Mei Terumi and the village leaders accepted Konoha’s terms, and the village was ordered to become the Mist Division and relocate to the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Yao formed a six-hundred-and-fifty-meter Perfect Susanoo, terrifying Hidden Mist ninjas and civilians into submission.
• Mei Terumi, Genji, Kirishima Jin, Suiren Kenji, and the other Hidden Mist leaders knelt and agreed to Konoha’s conditions to spare the village.
• Uchiha Yao fired a Susanoo Collapsing Sphere into a distant forest, obliterating it and leaving an enormous crater while the blast damaged the Hidden Mist Village.
• Uchiha Yao declared that the Hidden Mist Village would become the Mist Division, subordinate to Konoha, and ordered its people to relocate near Konoha.
• Mei Terumi and Genji pledged full cooperation, and Uchiha Yao vanished through a space vortex.

Mei Terumi enforced Uchiha Yao’s orders in Hidden Mist Village as it prepared to relocate and become Konoha’s Mist Division. Back in Konoha, Uchiha Yao assigned Tsunade and Shikaku Nara to oversee the resettlement, while Shikaku warned that the village lacked room for the influx.

• Mei Terumi ordered Hidden Mist Village to treat its villagers, assess losses, and relocate to Konoha, executing anyone who resisted.
• Mei Terumi stripped Kirishima Jin, Suiren Kenji, and the other defeated leaders of their positions and confiscated half their clan assets, sparing their lives.
• Uchiha Yao returned to Konoha and told Tsunade that Hidden Mist Village had agreed to merge into Konoha as the Mist Division.
• Uchiha Yao put Tsunade in charge of receiving, resettling, screening, and reorganizing Hidden Mist shinobi and civilians.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Shikaku Nara to plan a resettlement area and prepare a detailed reception proposal within three days.
• Shikaku Nara warned that Konoha lacked enough space and temporary housing for the thousands arriving from Hidden Mist Village.

Uchiha Yao resolved the problem of housing Kirigakure’s people by using Wood Release to build temporary homes outside Konoha. After the wooden settlement was completed with little effort, he left with Kurenai Yuhi while Isobu withdrew in alarm at Yao’s power.

• Shikaku Nara warned Uchiha Yao that relocating Kirigakure’s population would strain resources and risk conflict with local residents.
• Uchiha Yao proposed using Wood Release to build temporary housing, and Shikaku Nara organized the relocation and assigned Konoha’s Logistics Department and combat squads to support it.
• Shikaku Nara announced that Kirigakure would be incorporated into Konoha as the Konoha Mist Division and ordered preparations for relocating its shinobi and civilians.
• Uchiha Yao used Wood Release: House of Several Pillars Technique to raise rows of wooden homes in the designated area outside Konoha.
• Kurenai Yuhi worried about Uchiha Yao’s chakra, but he reassured her and left with her while Isobu retreated from his shoulder in shock.

Doyu exposed Toda and his fellow Sand Village loyalists’ plan to escape, and Konoha executed the plotters before the prisoners. Konoha then made Doyu a Leaf ninja and head of the Sand Village Rehabilitation Department, offering other overseers a path to naturalization.

• Doyu learned from an informant that Toda and his group planned to use hidden Explosive Tags to cause an escape during the guard change.
• Doyu reported the conspiracy to the Konoha Police Force, which assembled the prisoners and seized the plotters.
• An Uchiha Jonin announced that the three plotters would be executed, and the Police Force beheaded them in front of the prisoners.
• The Uchiha Jonin gave Doyu a Konoha forehead protector, recognized her as a Hidden Leaf Chunin, and appointed her head of the Sand Village Rehabilitation Department.
• The Uchiha Jonin announced that overseers could apply to a new Naturalization Assessment Department for Konoha ninja status.

Gaara, whose mind had begun to stabilize after Uchiha Yao reforged his seal, wandered through the Uchiha compound and met Naruto. Naruto recognized Gaara’s loneliness and offered to be his friend, leaving Gaara stunned by the unfamiliar invitation.

• Gaara ate the food delivered to his room and left to walk around the Uchiha compound.
• Gaara watched Uchiha children practice shuriken throwing and remembered his lonely childhood in Sunagakure.
• Naruto approached Gaara, introduced himself as a fellow Jinchuriki, and ignored the sand spears Gaara raised against him.
• Naruto described Gaara’s isolation and offered him friendship, causing Gaara’s sand spears to collapse as he stared at Naruto’s hand.

Naruto offered Gaara friendship and shared his own painful childhood, while Temari watched Gaara accept his kindness without lashing out. Uchiha Yao lifted Gaara and Temari’s confinement and ordered them to join Naruto’s class at the Ninja Academy, where they were to report the next morning.

• Naruto told Gaara about his lonely childhood and declared that he would be Gaara’s first friend, offering him Ichiraku chashu.
• Temari secretly watched Naruto approach Gaara and was surprised when Gaara did not attack him.
• Uchiha Yao received a report on Gaara and the Sand Village prisoners, then ordered Uchiha Kenji to lift Gaara and Temari’s confinement.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Gaara and Temari to enroll in the Ninja Academy and join Naruto’s class.
• Uchiha Kenji informed Gaara and Temari that they were free and had to report to the academy the next morning, leaving them stunned.

Gaara and Temari joined the Konoha Ninja Academy, where Naruto and the other students treated Gaara as a peer. At Uchiha Yao's home, Gaara learned that Shukaku had been completely sealed and thanked Yao for giving him a chance to live an ordinary life in Konoha.

• Temari accompanied Gaara to the academy and worried that he might hurt Konoha's students if he went berserk.
• Iruka introduced Temari and Gaara as transfer students, and Naruto welcomed Gaara and brought him to sit with the class.
• Naruto invited Gaara and Temari to Uchiha Yao's home, and Gaara accepted despite Temari's nervousness.
• Uchiha Yao told Gaara that he had completely sealed Shukaku and that no one in Konoha would treat him as a monster or weapon.
• Gaara thanked Uchiha Yao, and Temari bowed and promised that they would follow Konoha's rules and settle in.

A and Ōnoki gathered in the Land of Iron with representatives from other villages to discuss Uchiha Yao and Konoha’s growing power. Ōnoki warned that unless the villages united, Konoha could annex them next.

• A arrived in the Land of Iron with Darui and Shi, then traded insults with Ōnoki until Mifune led them to the meeting hall.
• A and Ōnoki privately agreed to make the alliance succeed despite their hostility.
• Representatives from smaller villages and Konan of Amegakure arrived for the meeting.
• Ōnoki accused Uchiha Yao of destroying Hidden Sand, controlling the Land of Fire’s daimyo, and expanding Konoha’s power.
• A and Ōnoki urged the gathered villages to unite, warning that they could be Konoha’s next targets.

Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage forced the smaller ninja villages to join their alliance against Konoha, threatening to destroy any village that refused. Konan agreed on Amegakure’s behalf, secretly intending to use the alliance for Akatsuki’s plans, as Ōnoki began a thirty-count ultimatum for the remaining villages.

• Ōnoki proposed a Ninja Alliance to unite the villages against Konoha.
• The Fourth Raikage threatened to wipe out any village that refused to join, and Ōnoki backed his ultimatum.
• Konan announced that Amegakure would join the alliance, surprising Ōnoki and the Raikage.
• Konan’s agreement served Akatsuki’s plans to restrain Konoha, gain time, and gather intelligence on the Jinchuriki.
• Ōnoki gave the remaining village representatives thirty counts to decide, while the Raikage crackled with lightning beside him.

Ōnoki pressured Mifune into bringing the Land of Iron into the alliance by warning that Uchiha Yao would threaten the country and Mifune’s family. With the alliance formed, Ōnoki’s bid to become supreme commander sparked a furious clash with the Raikage.

• Representatives of Kusagakure, Takigakure, and other small villages agreed to join the alliance after threats from the Raikage and Ōnoki.
• Mifune refused Ōnoki’s invitation, citing the Land of Iron’s longstanding neutrality.
• Ōnoki told Mifune that Uchiha Yao had killed the Land of Fire and Land of Wind Daimyo and purged nobles, making neutrality no protection for the Land of Iron.
• Mifune agreed to join the alliance and called for Kurosawa as he rose with his hand on his sword.
• Ōnoki proposed himself as supreme commander, but the Raikage mocked his age and challenged his fitness to lead.
• Ōnoki and the Raikage traded insults until the Raikage’s lightning chakra crackled as he threatened Ōnoki.

Raikage A and Tsuchikage Ōnoki nearly fought over leadership of the alliance until Mifune proposed making A the supreme commander and Ōnoki his deputy. Both accepted, and Mifune declared the Ninja Alliance established.

• A and Ōnoki argued over who should lead the alliance and prepared to fight.
• Mifune intervened and praised A's battlefield strength and Ōnoki's experience and strategic judgment.
• Mifune proposed A as supreme commander and Ōnoki as deputy commander, assigning them responsibility for the front lines and strategic support.
• A accepted the proposal, and Ōnoki agreed to serve as deputy commander for the sake of opposing Konoha.
• Mifune declared the Ninja Alliance established.

Ōnoki laid out an alliance strategy to attack Konoha from two fronts, while Uchiha Yao learned of the plan and dismissed the coalition as rabble. The chapter ended with Yao telling Tsunade that Konoha also needed time.

• Ōnoki proposed two war zones and ordered allied forces, including Iwagakure and smaller villages, to assemble on the eastern front in the Land of Grass.
• Ōnoki assigned Kumogakure to lead the northern front, with the Land of Iron, Takigakure, and the Land of Frost supporting it, and A departed to mobilize troops.
• An ANBU ninja delivered intelligence about the alliance to Uchiha Yao in Konoha's Hokage's Office.
• Uchiha Yao told Tsunade about the alliance and its pincer plan, then dismissed the coalition as rabble.
• Tsunade warned Uchiha Yao not to underestimate the Raikage and Tsuchikage, and Yao replied that Konoha needed time.

Uchiha Yao explained how Konoha would absorb Sunagakure and Kirigakure by rotating their shinobi through controlled border clashes and assigning them missions. In Kirigakure, Mei Terumi and her subordinates learned about Sunagakure’s destruction and the alliance forming against Konoha, and felt relieved they had chosen to submit.

• Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that Konoha needed time to absorb its new territory and that the alliance was too divided to launch a confident attack.
• Uchiha Yao ordered ANBU and the Intelligence Department to track the alliance and directed border troops to provoke small, controlled clashes.
• Uchiha Yao planned to rotate Sunagakure and Kirigakure shinobi into border battles alongside Konoha forces, then give them missions and paid work to speed their integration.
• Mei Terumi received scouts who reported that Uchiha Yao had destroyed Sunagakure and incorporated the Land of Wind and Land of Rivers into Konoha.
• Mei Terumi and Ao learned that Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and several smaller villages had formed an alliance with the Land of Iron, but they felt relieved that Kirigakure had chosen to submit to Konoha.

Mei Terumi led the first group of Hidden Mist villagers and ninja to Konoha, where Tsunade welcomed them and assured Ao that Konoha would not pursue his Byakugan. The newcomers were then shown Sand Village prisoners laboring at a construction site, leaving them fearful about how Konoha would treat them.

• A Konoha logistics team arrived in Kirigakure, and Mei Terumi prepared a first group of one thousand villagers and ninja to relocate to Konoha.
• Tsunade and Konoha High Command welcomed Mei Terumi, Ao, and the first group at Konoha's gates.
• Tsunade told Ao that Konoha would not pursue the Byakugan, while Hyuga Hiashi suppressed his urge to attack Ao after recalling Uchiha Yao's instructions.
• Konoha ninja led the Hidden Mist group through the prosperous village and toward a settlement area on its outskirts.
• The Hidden Mist group saw captured Sand Village ninja forced to labor at a construction site and feared they would suffer the same fate.

Uchiha Yao arranged for the Hyuga Clan and Kirigakure’s Mist Division to combine their scouting and assassination skills, while Mei Terumi secured aid for her people. Meanwhile, Uchiha Obito arrived at Orochimaru’s hidden base intending to teach him a lesson.

• Mei Terumi reported that more than 1,200 Kirigakure civilians and ninja had settled in Konoha, and Uchiha Yao approved her request for supplies and financial assistance.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Hyuga Hiashi to send 300 elite members to coordinate with the Mist Division, pairing the Byakugan’s perception with Kirigakure’s assassination techniques.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Mei Terumi agreed to prevent friction between their forces and carry out Uchiha Yao’s orders.
• Uchiha Obito arrived at Orochimaru’s underground base in the Land of Fields after Black Zetsu reported Orochimaru’s location.
• Uchiha Obito declared that he intended to teach Orochimaru a lasting lesson and began twisting space before himself.

Uchiha Obito immobilized Orochimaru and offered to join forces against Uchiha Yao, arguing that Yao had been far stronger than Orochimaru realized. Orochimaru began to question whether Yao had toyed with him during their previous battle as Obito recounted Yao’s destruction of Sunagakure.

• Uchiha Obito emerged from a space-time vortex and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to paralyze Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru recognized Obito and demanded to know why he had come, and Obito proposed cooperating against Uchiha Yao.
• Orochimaru refused, insisting that he would settle his own score with Uchiha Yao.
• Uchiha Obito mocked Orochimaru’s confidence and claimed that Uchiha Yao had not fought him seriously during their previous battle.
• Orochimaru recalled Uchiha Yao’s calmness and began to suspect that he had been toyed with.
• Uchiha Obito said Uchiha Yao had killed Nishidai Kazekage Rasa, razed Sunagakure, and put more than two thousand sand ninja to work at Konoha’s construction sites.

Obito recruited Orochimaru to revive powerful shinobi from every era with Impure World Reincarnation, promising him Uchiha Yao’s body and supplying White Zetsu with Hashirama’s cells. In Konoha, resentment among the Sand Village prisoners erupted over their harsh treatment compared with the Mist ninja.

• Obito told Orochimaru to revive Kage and other legendary shinobi to defeat Uchiha Yao, and offered Yao’s body as Orochimaru’s reward.
• Obito gave Orochimaru White Zetsu bodies containing the First Hokage’s cells, which Orochimaru recognized as ideal sacrifices for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru agreed to cooperate after Obito promised to obtain the remains of the powerful figures they intended to revive.
• Obito departed through Kamui, while Orochimaru vowed that Uchiha Yao’s body would eventually be his.
• At a Konoha construction site, a Sand ninja protested that the Sand Village prisoners were forced into labor while the Mist ninja received houses and treatment as Konoha ninja.
• Other Sand prisoners joined the protest, and an older sand ninja blamed Lord Rasa and Lady Chiyo for insisting on resistance and causing Sunagakure’s deaths.