Chapter Summaries

After Shikamaru reported the Akatsuki’s attack, Konoha’s leaders decided to shift the threat from their village by blaming Obito for the shinobi world’s unresolved scandals. Their fabricated accusations gained traction among other villages, while Sasuke learned from Itachi that Obito had been involved in the Uchiha Clan’s slaughter.

• Shikamaru reported that Hidan and Kakuzu had attacked while trying to rescue Obito, and Asuma credited Shikamaru’s tactics with saving the squad.
• Tsunade called for the Five Kage Summit to be held in the Land of Iron, and Danzo proposed blaming Obito for unresolved conflicts across the hidden villages.
• Miki Yūya argued with Danzo until Tsunade silenced them, then Konoha’s leaders compiled a dossier accusing Obito of real and invented crimes.
• Kirigakure found evidence connecting Obito to the Bloody Mist upheaval, while Kazahana Dōtō and Haido also linked him to events in the Land of Snow and Sunagakure.
• Sasuke confronted Itachi with Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo, and Itachi told him that Obito Uchiha had been involved in the Uchiha Clan’s slaughter.

Ōnoki, Gaara, Mei Terumi, and Raikage A each prepared for the Five Kage Summit while pursuing their villages’ interests and guarding their secrets. In Konoha, Miki Yūya learned that Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto were from Rōran and that they wanted him to help rebuild it, before the conversation turned into an argument.

• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to publicly support action against the Akatsuki while secretly seeking Orochimaru’s artificial human and replica jinchūriki technology.
• Gaara told Sunagakure to stay neutral, conceal its secret techniques, and hold Haido ready to surrender as a war criminal if the summit required it.
• Mei Terumi secured Kazahana Dōtō’s assurances that the Land of Snow would maintain its agreements with Kirigakure, and he warned her to watch Kumogakure.
• Raikage A agreed that Kumogakure would avoid breaking openly with Konoha and focus on the Akatsuki at the summit.
• Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto told Miki Yūya they were from Rōran and asked him to help rebuild it, prompting Yūya to argue with them.

Miki Yūya learned from three Rōran descendants that Minato Namikaze had assigned him exclusive rights to Rōran’s dragon veins twenty years earlier. The revelation convinced Miki Yūya that Minato had understood the future and deliberately shaped events around it, leaving him awed and humbled.

• Miki Yūya defeated Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto Yū after they provoked him, then made them apologize.
• Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto Yū told Miki Yūya that Minato had reserved Rōran’s dragon-vein power and inheritance for him.
• The three explained that Queen Sara had sworn the royal family would not return until it could control the dragon veins, while former Rōran residents had settled in Konoha.
• Miki Yūya realized that his future actions had influenced the past and that Minato had anticipated his existence when arranging Rōran’s succession.
• Miki Yūya concluded that Minato had knowingly sacrificed himself to preserve the future and expressed profound respect for him.

Miki Yūya finalized a protection-for-profits deal with Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto Yū, then asked Ōtsutsuki Urashiki how the spacetime loop worked. Urashiki explained that past and future selves could converge and hinted that other Ōtsutsuki might be in the shinobi world.

• Kawada, Sato, and Yamamoto Yū proposed returning to Rōran to sell water and supplies under Miki Yūya's protection, and Miki negotiated a forty-percent share of their net profits.
• After the three left, Miki Yūya visited Ōtsutsuki Urashiki to ask about Minato Namikaze's foresight and the effects of the spacetime loop.
• Urashiki explained that his future self would converge with his present self, doubling his origin power, and that Miki's past actions would feed back into his present through the closed loop.
• Urashiki said Minato's death had stabilized the timeline, but a future spacetime nexus could bring Minato's past, present, and future selves together if he were revived.
• When Miki asked whether Urashiki would stop the Akatsuki from destroying chakra, Urashiki said it was not his responsibility and suspected another Ōtsutsuki was in the shinobi world.

Urashiki deduced that a powerful third Ōtsutsuki was hiding in the shinobi world, while Miki Yūya rejected the idea that he was one and vowed he could defeat anything that could bleed. At the Five Kage Summit, the villages agreed to unite against Obito before Orochimaru’s forces launched an assault, only for Kazahana Dōtō to blast Moryo away and the Five Kage to prepare to counterattack.

• Urashiki told Miki Yūya that the Spacetime Plow was a supreme Ōtsutsuki artifact found beneath Konoha, leading him to conclude that a third, exceptionally powerful Ōtsutsuki remained hidden in the shinobi world.
• Miki Yūya asked whether Urashiki suspected him, but Urashiki dismissed the idea because Miki Yūya had no chakra; Miki Yūya then declared that he could destroy anything capable of bleeding and dying.
• At the Five Kage Summit, Gaara and officials from several lands presented evidence of Obito Uchiha’s crimes, and the Fourth Raikage agreed that Kumogakure would join the effort to capture him.
• An attack shattered the Land of Iron’s defensive barrier, and the assembled Kage and ninja discovered Orochimaru’s forces outside, led by the mutated eight-headed Moryo.
• Moryo threatened to kill the Five Kage, but Kazahana Dōtō struck him with a Chakra Cannon and hurled him into the mountains.
• Kazahana Dōtō and the Raikage mocked Orochimaru’s forces, then Tsunade joined the other Kage as they formed up and prepared to finish the attackers before hunting the Akatsuki.