Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya and Uchiha Fugaku joined the battle against Uchiha Madara, while Kakashi and Might Guy faced the Third Raikage. Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and launched Sage Art: Goemon at Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo, as Fugaku struggled to withstand its power.

• Kakashi and Might Guy attacked the Third Raikage, but his Lightning Release Armor and Liger Bomb forced them to retreat and prepare for a harder fight.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, and Fugaku manifested his Susanoo before they headed to the right flank to confront Uchiha Madara.
• Fugaku’s Susanoo shielded Mei Terumi and the Mist Division from Madara’s chakra tomoe, but Madara answered by manifesting his Complete Body Susanoo.
• Madara’s sword strike severely injured Fugaku and cracked his Susanoo, until Gamabunta arrived and struck Madara’s armor without breaking through.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima, then used Sage Art: Goemon to engulf Madara’s Susanoo in scalding oil, flames, and wind.

Uchiha Madara overwhelmed the allied fighters with Perfect Susanoo, while Naruto and Sasuke arrived to confront Obito and the five jinchuriki. The chapter ended as Naruto and Sasuke began battling the fully transformed tailed beasts.

• Uchiha Madara shattered Uchiha Fugaku's Susanoo, knocked out Gamabunta, and incapacitated Chojuro and Mei Terumi.
• Ao and several Hidden Mist Village jonin rescued Fugaku and Chojuro as Madara dismissed Susanoo and left without pursuing them.
• Naruto struck Han with his golden Nine-Tails chakra cloak, and Sasuke joined him against Obito and the five jinchuriki.
• Obito transformed the five jinchuriki into their tailed beasts as Naruto entered Nine-Tails chakra mode and Sasuke summoned Third Stage Susanoo.
• Naruto countered Son Goku's molten fireball with a Rasenshuriken while Kokuō charged Sasuke's Susanoo.

Uchiha Yao arrived on the Hidden Cloud battlefield and saved Naruto and Sasuke by redirecting Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball. Hashirama Senju then emerged alive from the spatial passage, and he and Madara confronted each other over their opposing visions of peace.

• Naruto and Sasuke fought off attacks from the tailed beasts, but Eight-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Ball and launched it at them.
• Uchiha Yao appeared through a spatial passage and used Shinra Tensei to send the Tailed Beast Ball flying into a distant mountain range.
• Uchiha Yao told Naruto and Sasuke to fall back, and they retreated as the ninja on the battlefield cheered his arrival.
• Hashirama Senju stepped out of the passage alive, shocking Obito and drawing Madara’s attention.
• Madara confronted Hashirama, who credited Uchiha Yao with granting him new life, then declared that his plan would bring peace.
• Hashirama called Madara pathetic as Madara insisted that his path was the only way to achieve peace.

Hashirama argued with Madara over their visions of peace, then went to subdue the Tailed Beasts while Uchiha Yao faced Madara. Their opening Fire Release attacks collided with enough force to scorch shinobi a thousand meters away, and their fight continued.

• Hashirama told Madara that Yao intended to erase national borders and unite the shinobi world, but Madara insisted that only the Infinite Tsukuyomi could bring lasting peace.
• As Hashirama prepared to fight Madara, Yao stopped him and sent him to subdue the five Tailed Beasts and end the battle with the Hidden Cloud Village.
• Hashirama warned Yao about Madara's strength, then charged toward the Tailed Beasts after Yao assured him he could handle Madara.
• Madara challenged Yao and declared that he would take his Rinnegan to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi, while Yao mocked him for being deceived by Black Zetsu.
• Madara and Yao unleashed enormous Fire Release attacks that collided in a towering pillar of flame, sending scorching heat across the battlefield.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Madara fought an intense taijutsu battle after Yao's flames overcame Madara's Great Fire Annihilation. Meanwhile, Hashirama Senju used Sage Mode and Wood Release to restrain several Tailed Beasts, but the Six-Tails launched an acid-foam attack as the chapter ended.

• Uchiha Yao's dark red flames overwhelmed Uchiha Madara's Great Fire Annihilation, and Madara countered with a Water Wall.
• Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Madara fought hand to hand, trading powerful blows as Madara praised Yao's strength and taijutsu.
• Hashirama Senju confronted five Tailed Beasts and entered Sage Mode to stop the Four-Tails' magma attack with Forest Descent.
• Hashirama Senju bound the Four-Tails with roots, then used a Wood Dragon to coil around the Five-Tails and drain his chakra.
• Hashirama Senju caught the airborne Seven-Tails with a giant wooden hand, while the Six-Tails attacked with acid foam.
• Hashirama Senju formed a Forest Shield Technique to block the Six-Tails' bubbles.

Hashirama subdued the five rampaging Tailed Beasts while Uchiha Yao and Madara fought. After Yao matched Madara’s Wood Release techniques, the two men’s wooden dragons clashed in midair.

• Hashirama pinned Six-Tails with the Gate of the Great God, then used a wooden golem to deflect Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball and seal it alongside the other Tailed Beasts.
• Obito watched Hashirama’s victory from a distant cliff, while Naruto and Sasuke were stunned by his power.
• Madara paused his fistfight with Uchiha Yao after sensing Hashirama’s Wood Release had subdued the beasts, then announced he would show his real strength.
• Madara unleashed Forest Descent, and Yao countered with the same Wood Release technique, leaving the opposing forests locked together.
• Madara demanded to know how Yao could use Wood Release, and Yao claimed his power let him control all things and mocked Madara for relying on transplanted cells.
• Madara and Yao each summoned a Wood Dragon, and the dragons collided and coiled around each other above the forest.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Madara destroyed their battling Wood Dragons and escalated their duel with Perfect Susanoo. Yao overpowered Madara’s defenses with two devastating sword strikes, leaving Madara’s Susanoo badly damaged.

• Uchiha Yao and Madara ended their Wood Dragon clash by cutting off their chakra and shattering both dragons.
• Madara summoned his hundred-meter Perfect Susanoo and challenged Uchiha Yao to answer with his own.
• Uchiha Yao summoned a dark gold Susanoo wielding the Heavenly Cloud Sword, and the two giants clashed.
• Uchiha Yao drove Madara’s Susanoo backward with a powerful sword strike, and Madara praised the battle.
• Uchiha Yao rushed Madara and struck his crossed tachi, cracking both swords.
• Uchiha Yao followed with a second slash that shattered Madara’s tachi, cut through his armor, and sent his Susanoo skidding over a hundred meters.

Uchiha Yao overwhelmed Uchiha Madara with a thousand-meter Susanoo and sealed him inside the Heavenly Imperial Space. With Madara subdued, Yao turned his attention toward Hashirama Senju, whose chakra was fluctuating violently.

• Uchiha Yao used Heavenly Might to enlarge his Susanoo to a thousand meters, stunning the fighters across the battlefield and making Uchiha Madara realize it surpassed Hashirama Senju's Sage Art.
• Uchiha Yao struck Madara's Perfect Susanoo with the Heavenly Cloud Sword, destroyed it, and smashed Madara into a canyon.
• Uchiha Yao bound Madara with Six Paths: Sealing Technique-Soul Binding and dragged him through a spatial passage into the Heavenly Imperial Space.
• A Crystal Pillar sealed Madara and drained his power until he fell asleep.
• Uchiha Yao declared Madara's era over, then turned toward Hashirama Senju's violently fluctuating chakra.

Hashirama Senju ended the Hidden Cloud Village army’s resistance by trapping its fighters with Wood Release, while the Third Raikage broke away from Might Guy and Kakashi to charge at him. The Third Raikage reached the sea of trees and attacked Hashirama with his Four-Finger Nukite.

• Hashirama Senju descended into the battle and ordered the Hidden Cloud Village ninja to surrender, but a Jonin led a suicidal charge against him.
• Hashirama Senju used Sage Art: Wood Release: Forest Descent to bind and drain the chakra of thousands of Hidden Cloud Village ninja without killing them.
• Might Guy struck the Third Raikage with Daytime Tiger while Kakashi tried to attack, but the Raikage evaded Kakashi and continued fighting.
• The Third Raikage saw Hashirama Senju capture the Hidden Cloud Village army and abandoned Might Guy and Kakashi to charge toward him.
• The Third Raikage burned through Hashirama Senju’s vines and attacked with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite.

The Third Raikage fought Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release, breaking free from the Wood Dragon after it crushed and drained him. He compressed his Lightning Release Chakra into One-Finger Nukite and charged at Hashirama, who met the attack with Forest Shield Technique.

• The Third Raikage cut through Hashirama Senju’s wooden barriers, but roots and giant wooden hands slowed his charge.
• Hashirama’s Wood Dragon struck the airborne Third Raikage, coiled around him, absorbed his chakra, and drove him into a crater.
• The Third Raikage blasted his way out of the Wood Dragon and successively compressed his attack from Four-Finger Nukite to One-Finger Nukite.
• The Third Raikage pierced through the Wood Dragon and charged at Hashirama, who unleashed Sage Art: Wood Release: Forest Shield Technique.

Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Yao subdued the Third Raikage and crushed the Hidden Cloud Village army’s resistance, ending the war. Uchiha Yao ordered the prisoners taken to Konoha while Uchiha Obito escaped through Kamui.

• Hashirama Senju stopped the Third Raikage’s attack with the Ranking Shield Technique, then pinned him beneath the Gate of the Great God.
• The Hidden Cloud Village ninja surrendered after witnessing the Third Raikage’s defeat, and Konoha forces captured the remaining soldiers.
• Uchiha Yao told Hashirama Senju that he had subdued Madara, then sealed the Third Raikage inside a Crystal Pillar in the Heavenly Imperial Space.
• Uchiha Yao declared the war over and ordered the prisoners escorted to Konoha for reform through labor, with resistance to be met with death.
• Uchiha Obito fled through Kamui, and Uchiha Yao chose not to pursue him.

Uchiha Yao sealed and transported the five Jinchuriki before returning to Konoha with Hashirama Senju, whom he had revived. Tsunade learned what had happened, and Hashirama agreed to hide his identity until the front-line troops returned and Konoha held a victory celebration.

• Uchiha Yao used the Rinnegan to undo the five Tailed Beasts’ transformations, then bound Rōshi, Han, Utakata, Fū, and Killer B with Six Paths chains and sent them through a spatial passage.
• Uchiha Yao used Heavenly Might to bring Hashirama Senju back to Konoha and appeared with him in Tsunade’s office.
• Tsunade recognized Hashirama as her living grandfather, and Hashirama recounted how Orochimaru revived him, how he fought Uchiha Yao, and how Yao brought him back to life.
• Hashirama realized Tsunade and Uchiha Yao were involved, and Yao openly called Tsunade his woman.
• Uchiha Yao told Hashirama to disguise himself and wait to reveal his return until the troops came back and Konoha held a victory celebration.

Hashirama Senju toured Konoha in disguise and saw how Uchiha Yao had brought the Uchiha Clan into the village. In Iwagakure, Kitsuchi decided to surrender to Konoha, accepting that the village would be incorporated and cease to exist independently.

• Hashirama Senju disguised himself and left the Hokage Building while Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that Konoha had routed the Hidden Cloud Village forces and subdued Uchiha Madara and five tailed beasts.
• Hashirama Senju walked through Konoha, saw civilians warmly greet the Uchiha Police Force, and silently praised Uchiha Yao for uniting the clan and village.
• Kitsuchi received confirmation that Konoha had captured the Third Raikage, thousands of Hidden Cloud shinobi, and five tailed beasts, while Uchiha Yao's Susanoo had reached at least eight hundred meters.
• Kitsuchi rejected the pro-war faction's call to fight, pointing out Iwagakure had lost its Tsuchikage and most of its elite forces.
• Kitsuchi chose surrender to preserve Iwagakure's people, and the officials accepted that Konoha would incorporate the village.

Kitsuchi decided Iwagakure had to surrender and led its officials to Konoha with a surrender letter. Meanwhile, Konoha took control of Kumogakure and Uchiha Shunichi led an assault on the Land of Lightning’s capital, reaching the Daimyo’s Mansion.

• Kitsuchi ordered Iwagakure’s officials to prepare a surrender letter, map, and ninja roster, then vowed to lead a delegation to seek the village’s survival.
• Kitsuchi and dozens of officials arrived near Konoha and submitted to ANBU instructions as they entered to deliver Iwagakure’s surrender letter.
• Konoha forces occupied Kumogakure, and ANBU told Darui that the Third Raikage had been subdued and the village’s remaining forces controlled.
• Kakashi told Darui he would be sent to Konoha for labor reform, and ANBU escorted him into the prisoner line.
• Uchiha Shunichi led hundreds of Konoha ninjas against the Land of Lightning’s capital, destroying its gates and defeating the guards’ resistance.
• Uchiha Shunichi led his forces into the Daimyo’s Mansion.

Uchiha Shunichi rejected Kuroiwa Naruto’s offer to surrender and fought the Guardian Ninja in the Daimyo’s mansion. He trapped Kuroiwa Naruto in a Sharingan genjutsu, while the Daimyō attempted to flee.

• Kuroiwa Naruto offered Konoha the Land of Lightning’s surrender and wealth in exchange for the Daimyō’s and nobles’ safety, but Uchiha Shunichi declared that Konoha intended to purge them.
• Kuroiwa Naruto charged Uchiha Shunichi, while the other Guardian Ninja attacked and Konoha’s ninja fought them.
• Uchiha Shunichi countered Kuroiwa Naruto’s lightning techniques and sword strikes, eventually breaking his arm and knocking him down.
• The Daimyō tried to escape as Kuroiwa Naruto rose for one last attack, but Uchiha Shunichi stopped him with Sharingan genjutsu.

Uchiha Shunichi killed Kuroiwa Naruto and the Daimyō, then led Konoha’s forces to crush resistance and take control of the Land of Lightning. Back in Konoha, Uchiha Yao learned that Iwagakure’s acting leader, Kitsuchi, had arrived to surrender.

• Uchiha Shunichi killed Kuroiwa Naruto and captured the fleeing Daimyō, then beheaded him after rejecting his pleas for mercy.
• Uchiha Shunichi ordered Konoha’s ninja to seal off the Capital and seize the Daimyo’s Mansion’s vaults and granaries.
• Uchiha Shunichi and Uchiha clansmen destroyed the Fujiwara Family’s forces and killed its Family Head.
• Over three days, Konoha’s forces purged resistance and took control of the Capital and the Land of Lightning.
• An ANBU Ninja told Uchiha Yao that Kitsuchi had arrived in Konoha to submit Iwagakure’s Surrender Letter, and Uchiha Yao ordered him brought directly to the Hokage’s office.

Kitsuchi delivered Iwagakure’s letter of surrender to Uchiha Yao, who imposed terms that would disarm and relocate the village and abolish its identity as an independent village. Kitsuchi accepted the terms and secured a promise that Ōnoki could live in Konoha as an adviser.

• Kitsuchi entered the Hokage's Office alone and presented Iwagakure's letter of surrender to Uchiha Yao.
• Uchiha Yao demanded that Iwagakure disarm, relocate its people to Konoha within a month, and become the Konoha Iwagakure Division.
• Kitsuchi protested the abolition of Iwagakure's name, but Uchiha Yao threatened to take what he wanted by force.
• Kitsuchi accepted all of Uchiha Yao's terms to protect Iwagakure's people.
• Kitsuchi asked Uchiha Yao to guarantee Ōnoki's safety, and Uchiha Yao appointed Ōnoki an adviser to the Konoha Iwagakure Division.
• Uchiha Yao sent Kitsuchi to the dungeon to see Ōnoki and explain the terms.

Kitsuchi visited the imprisoned Ōnoki and Fourth Raikage A and told them that Konoha had won the war, conquered Kumogakure, and subdued the Third Raikage and five Tailed Beasts. He also revealed that Uchiha Yao had defeated Uchiha Madara, leaving Ōnoki to ask what had happened to Iwagakure.

• Kitsuchi entered the cell and addressed Ōnoki as his father while the Fourth Raikage demanded news from outside.
• Kitsuchi told them the war was over and Konoha had crushed Hidden Cloud Village, prompting the Fourth Raikage to reject the news in disbelief.
• Kitsuchi explained that Hashirama Senju had subdued five Tailed Beasts and defeated the Third Raikage, causing Kumogakure’s army to collapse and Konoha to take control.
• Kitsuchi revealed that Uchiha Yao had fought and subdued Uchiha Madara, stunning Ōnoki and provoking the Fourth Raikage to curse Konoha.
• Ōnoki laughed at Madara’s defeat, praised Uchiha Yao’s strength, and asked Kitsuchi what had happened to Iwagakure.

Kitsuchi told Ōnoki that Iwagakure had surrendered and would be absorbed into Konoha, with its name abolished and its people relocated. Ōnoki approved Kitsuchi’s choice to preserve the villagers, accepted a nominal adviser role, and left the Fourth Raikage raging in contempt.

• Kitsuchi confessed that he had surrendered Iwagakure and explained Konoha’s terms: the village’s designation would be abolished, its people relocated, and Ōnoki appointed an adviser.
• The Fourth Raikage berated Kitsuchi for surrendering, but Ōnoki told his son he had done the right thing by sparing Iwagakure needless deaths.
• Ōnoki accepted the adviser position and ordered Kitsuchi to prepare the villagers to relocate without complaint or resistance.
• Kitsuchi left the dungeon, and the Fourth Raikage condemned Ōnoki for yielding to Konoha and vowed never to submit to Uchiha Yao.
• Ōnoki rose to face the Fourth Raikage after responding to his insults with a contemptuous laugh.

Ōnoki explained to the Fourth Raikage why he believed Uchiha Yao’s unification of the Shinobi World would end the cycle of wars, while the Raikage refused to submit. Kitsuchi reported that Iwagakure would be absorbed into Konoha, with its people spared and relocated within a month.

• Ōnoki mocked the Fourth Raikage for resisting Konoha after the Hidden Cloud Village’s defeat, and the Raikage threatened to kill him rather than submit.
• Ōnoki blamed Hashirama Senju’s divided nations and distribution of the Tailed Beasts for the wars and generations of hatred that followed.
• Ōnoki argued that Uchiha Yao’s annexation of the Hidden Sand and Hidden Mist villages and defeat of the Hidden Cloud would unite the Shinobi World under Konoha.
• Ōnoki told the Fourth Raikage that Kitsuchi’s surrender had preserved Iwagakure’s people, while warning the Raikage not to endanger Kumogakure through pride.
• Kitsuchi told Iwagakure’s senior officials that the Hokage had agreed to spare Ōnoki’s life, but Iwagakure would lose its designation and relocate to Konoha within a month.