Chapter Summaries

Yuya strengthened the Nine-Tails and guided several Konoha shinobi before leaving the village with Silver Dragon and Princess Kaguya. Two years later, the Second Shinobi World War began, and Minato Namikaze and Kushina graduated as Genin, where they recognized their assigned Jonin.

• Yuya severed the Nine-Tails' genetic imprint, gave it new forms, and taught Minato Namikaze and Kushina while living peacefully in Konoha with Kaguya.
• Sakumo Hatake sought Yuya's guidance and learned Niten Ichi-ryū, while Yuya trained Might Duy in a modified Eight Gates Release.
• Orochimaru tried to ask Yuya to take him as a disciple, was struck by lightning, and later visited Yuya to discuss philosophy.
• The Land of Rain and the Land of Wind reignited war, drawing Konoha into battles against Hanzo of the Salamander and Sunagakure.
• Sakumo Hatake earned the name White Fang of Konoha, while the Third Naruto's Three Disciples fought on the front against the Land of Rain.
• Minato Namikaze and Kushina graduated early as Genin and recognized the Jonin assigned to lead them.

Jiraiya began training Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Hoshizuki Hyuga, then tested whether they could take his bells. The three unleashed overwhelming powers, leaving Jiraiya stunned by how formidable his Genin students were.

• Jiraiya arrived as the trio's Jonin instructor and introduced them to Hoshizuki Hyuga, who was a year older than Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Kushina sensed that Hoshizuki possessed immense dōjutsu power, while Hoshizuki recognized the Nine-Tails within Kushina and spatial power around Minato.
• Jiraiya said he would teach the three despite their instruction from Yuya, then challenged them to take his bells before an incense stick burned down.
• Kushina entered a four-tailed transformation, Hoshizuki rose into the air with the Tenseigan's power, and Minato turned ethereal amid spatial fluctuations.
• Jiraiya realized that the trio's displayed power far exceeded what he expected from Konoha Genin.

Hoshizuki Hyuga, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina fought Jiraiya, who summoned Gamahiro and tested their abilities. Minato rescued Hoshizuki Hyuga from Jiraiya’s overwhelming flame attack, while Kushina watched him in a daze.

• Kushina attacked Jiraiya, but Minato and Hoshizuki Hyuga realized his apparent body was a Shadow Clone.
• Hoshizuki Hyuga tracked down the real Jiraiya, pulled him from hiding, and absorbed his Fire Release attack.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamahiro, who demanded to know about the Heavenly Emperor and nearly fell under Hoshizuki Hyuga’s Tenseigan.
• Jiraiya and Gamahiro launched a combined fire-and-oil attack, forcing Hoshizuki Hyuga to flee upward with Shinra Tensei.
• Minato used Space-Time Ninjutsu to rescue Hoshizuki Hyuga from the flames, and Kushina released her Tailed Beast Transformation and stared at him blankly.

Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Hoshizuki Hyuga fought Jiraiya and Gamahiro, but Jiraiya split them up and trapped each of them in a separate battle. With neither bell secured and their escape routes blocked, the three were close to defeat.

• Kushina transformed with the Nine-Tails’ power and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Gamahiro, who escaped by vanishing in smoke as the blast shattered a mountain.
• Jiraiya created clones and used Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld and Wild Lion's Mane Technique to catch Kushina in midair.
• A Jiraiya attacked Minato Namikaze with Hair Needle Senbon while another trapped Hoshizuki Hyuga inside the Toad Mouth Binding Technique.
• Jiraiya forced Minato Namikaze into a taijutsu fight with a Shadow Clone, while Kushina remained bound by Jiraiya's hair and Hoshizuki Hyuga was unable to escape the stomach walls.
• With nearly an incense stick's worth of time gone and neither bell in their hands, Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Hoshizuki Hyuga faced imminent defeat.

Jiraiya tested Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Hoshizuki Hyuga, but Kushina’s power surged into a six-tailed form and forced him to summon Mount Myōboku’s three great toads. Minato and Hoshizuki defeated Jiraiya clones and rushed to Kushina’s battle, where the three reunited to face his real body.

• Kushina’s chakra erupted, transforming her into a six-tailed form, and she attacked Jiraiya until he summoned Gamabunta, Gamahiro, and Ken to help contain her.
• Jiraiya told the three toads that Yuya had ordered him to test the children, and they joined the fight against Kushina.
• Minato Namikaze improved his taijutsu during his battle with Jiraiya, struck a clone with a Rasengan, and hurried toward Kushina after worrying about her.
• Hoshizuki Hyuga destroyed another Jiraiya clone with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and flew toward Kushina.
• Minato Namikaze and Hoshizuki Hyuga arrived beside Kushina, and the three prepared to fight Jiraiya’s real body.

Kushina, Hoshizuki Hyuga, and Minato Namikaze defeated Jiraiya’s summoned toads and cornered him after his chakra ran low. Minato revealed that he had taken the bells, securing the team’s victory.

• Kushina fought Jiraiya and his three summoned toads while Hoshizuki Hyuga suppressed them and Minato Namikaze harried Jiraiya.
• Hoshizuki Hyuga knocked Gamahiro into the path of Kushina’s Tailed Beast Bomb, and Minato redirected the attack toward Gamabunta, forcing both toads to retreat.
• Toad Ken abandoned Jiraiya, leaving him alone against the three children.
• Jiraiya pretended to accept the team’s strength after the time limit passed, but Minato reminded him that they would win by taking the bells.
• Minato revealed the bells he had stolen from Jiraiya, confirming the team’s victory.

Jiraiya revealed how Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Hoshizuki Hyuga had taken the bells through teamwork, then trained them for three months before sending them toward the battlefield. As they parted, Jiraiya relayed the Heavenly Emperor’s message wishing them victory.

• Minato Namikaze explained that Kushina Uzumaki’s opening Tailed Beast Bomb had forced Jiraiya to reveal himself, allowing Hoshizuki Hyuga and Minato to take the bells unnoticed.
• Jiraiya praised the three students but taught them that teamwork mattered because none could defeat him alone, then promised to help them develop their abilities before the battlefield.
• Over the next three months, Jiraiya trained the students, and Kushina improved her control of the Nine-Tails, Hoshizuki developed her Tenseigan, and Minato refined his Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• The three students grew strong enough to stand against a Kage Level opponent together, and Jiraiya told them to follow their own paths.
• Jiraiya passed on the Heavenly Emperor’s message: “When autumn comes, on the eighth day of the ninth month, once my flower blooms, all others shall perish!”

During the Second Shinobi World War, Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Hoshizuki Hyuga became renowned young Jonin while Konoha fought five villages. Facing defeat against Hanzo of the Salamander, Tsunade called out to Grandpa Madara for help.

• The five villages of Kirigakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Amegakure, and Konoha fought in a prolonged war, with Konoha holding its own for two years.
• Minato Namikaze earned fame as the Yellow Flash, Kushina Uzumaki became known as the Crimson Blood God of Death, and Hoshizuki Hyuga dominated the battlefield with her Tenseigan.
• Hanzo of the Salamander trapped Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Konoha's forces, then overwhelmed them with Ibuse's poisonous fumes.
• Hanzo of the Salamander declared Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru the Sannin but said he would kill them before their title spread.
• As Hanzo prepared to kill them, Tsunade remembered Grandpa Madara and shouted for him to come help her.

Yuya sensed a vast Hall consuming planes and approaching the Naruto World, and prepared for the coming calamity while staying with Kaguya. In the Land of Rain, Madara answered Tsunade’s call for help and went through a space-time gateway to confront Hanzo.

• Yuya and Silver Dragon discussed the Hall that had devoured another plane and was advancing toward the Naruto World, then decided to deal with the Ōtsutsuki threat.
• Yuya asked Kaguya if she wanted to visit another world, and she said she would go wherever he went.
• Yuya summoned Madara from his training after Tsunade called him for help, and Madara recognized her as Hashirama’s granddaughter.
• Yuya gave Madara the time it took an incense stick to burn to act, and Madara entered a gateway to the battlefield in the Land of Rain.
• Hanzo looked down on the defeated Sannin as Tsunade called for Madara to hurry and save them.

Madara Uchiha arrived just as Hanzo of the Salamander was about to kill Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru. He rescued Tsunade and confronted Hanzo from atop his towering Susanoo.

• Jiraiya and Orochimaru realized Tsunade meant Madara Uchiha, Konoha's missing First Hokage, but feared he would not appear.
• Hanzo of the Salamander attacked the helpless Tsunade as Jiraiya and Orochimaru regretted their inability to fight back.
• Tsunade gave up hope and closed her eyes, but the scythe never struck; she opened them to find Madara Uchiha before her.
• Madara comforted Tsunade and recalled how she had once brought warmth and companionship into his life.
• Madara used Banshō Ten'in to place Tsunade on his Susanoo's shoulder, then challenged Hanzo by asking if he was the one called a demigod.

Madara Uchiha killed Hanzo of the Salamander, Ibuse, and the shinobi from the Land of Rain with a single Susanoo sword strike that split the sky. He told Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru that even he could not withstand a casual swing of the Heavenly Emperor’s sword, leaving them astonished by the Heavenly Emperor’s power.

• Madara Uchiha appeared in an enormous Six Paths level Susanoo and overwhelmed Hanzo of the Salamander with his pressure.
• Madara Uchiha struck with Susanoo’s sword, splitting the sky and annihilating Hanzo of the Salamander, Ibuse, and the shinobi from the Land of Rain.
• Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya watched in awe as Madara Uchiha’s strike left a vast rift in the sky.
• Jiraiya asked how powerful the Heavenly Emperor was, and Madara Uchiha said nothing in the world could make the Heavenly Emperor unleash his full strength.
• Madara Uchiha told Tsunade and the others that even he could not withstand a casual swing of the Heavenly Emperor’s sword.

Madara Uchiha described the Heavenly Emperor’s power, then traveled across the shinobi world and ended the Second Shinobi World War by destroying five nations’ hidden villages. He vanished again afterward, leaving the world to fear his return as a divine judge.

• Madara Uchiha boasted about his encounter with the Heavenly Emperor and was warned by Yuya that his training would be doubled.
• Madara Uchiha told the Sannin that the Heavenly Emperor’s sword could sever time, life, and the cosmos, then opened a space-time portal.
• Madara Uchiha traveled to the major battlefields and threatened the shinobi world with Susanoo’s power.
• Madara Uchiha struck the major hidden villages, destroying buildings and killing the leaders and others who had launched the war while sparing ordinary people.
• Madara Uchiha was credited with ending the Second Shinobi World War and destroying five nations, including the Land of Rain.
• Madara Uchiha disappeared again, and people speculated that he had returned to the Heavenly Court or remained watchful over the world.

The Second Shinobi World War ended after Madara Uchiha’s devastating attacks, leaving nations weakened and many children orphaned. Years later, Nagato and his friends decided to find a ninja teacher, then witnessed a brilliant sword strike in the sky and headed toward its source.

• Madara Uchiha’s attacks killed the Second Kazekage Shamon, the Second Raikage, the Second Tsuchikage, the Third Mizukage, Hanzo of the Salamander, and many other senior ninja, bringing the war to an abrupt end.
• Sakumo Hatake killed Sasori’s parents, while Konoha ninja accidentally killed Nagato’s parents during the fighting in the Land of Rain.
• Nagato grew up alongside Konan, Yahiko, and Chu Aotian, but Chu Aotian and Konan began arguing, and Nagato noticed Chu Aotian staring strangely at his eyes.
• Nagato remembered that a Spiral Masked man had whispered to him on the night his parents died, after which Nagato awoke with mysterious ringed eyes he could not deactivate.
• Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato agreed to seek a powerful ninja as their teacher, despite Chu Aotian’s objections.
• A dazzling sword strike split the sky nearby, so Nagato and his friends set out toward its source.

Chu Aotian’s attempts to win over Konan had failed, while Nagato’s growing power made him fear he would lose his chance to take the Rinnegan. With Konan, Nagato, and Yahiko on their way to meet Jiraiya, Chu Aotian decided to force his plan and flee with Nagato’s eyes.

• Chu Aotian recalled how he had grown stronger by seducing and killing women during his years searching for Konan, Nagato, and Yahiko.
• Chu Aotian joined the trio in disguise, but Konan repeatedly rejected him while Nagato’s combat power rose rapidly.
• Chu Aotian feared that Jiraiya’s arrival and training would make it harder to conquer Konan or take Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• As the group headed to find Jiraiya, Chu Aotian decided to rape Konan, take Nagato’s Rinnegan, and flee.

Uchiha Izuna discovered the Uchiha stone tablet and became determined to free the Heavenly Emperor, whose return he believed would also help him find Madara. Near death from his injuries and the strain of the Rinnegan, Izuna founded Akatsuki to gather allies and find a child he could raise to resurrect him.

• After years of searching for Madara, Izuna returned to Konoha to spend his remaining time protecting the Uchiha Clan, but he found a stone tablet describing the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Emperor.
• Inspired by Indra’s words, Izuna made freeing the Heavenly Emperor his life’s goal and hoped the Heavenly Emperor could help him find Madara.
• As his wounds and use of the Rinnegan weakened him, Izuna resolved to use Rinne Rebirth to return to life and seek someone suitable to perform the technique.
• Izuna decided to gather powerful allies to help collect the Nine Tailed Beasts and to raise a talented, controllable child who could wield the Rinnegan.
• Izuna left Konoha and founded Akatsuki, whose name represented the dawn of the Heavenly Emperor’s return.

Izuna recounted how he placed the Rinnegan in Nagato and kept him under secret influence while considering his plans for Akatsuki. Chu Aotian prepared to drug the others and steal the Rinnegan, but Konan suspected his intentions after a warning in a dream.

• Izuna found Nagato as ninja were killing his parents, gave him the Rinnegan, and secretly tested whether he might become his disciple.
• Izuna placed Yahiko beside Nagato to influence him, while Chu Aotian’s presence disrupted Yahiko’s leadership; news of Madara Uchiha then stunned Izuna.
• Chu Aotian bought neurotoxin, sleeping pills, and an aphrodisiac, then left alone to get food while planning to kill the others and take Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• Konan warned Yahiko and Nagato not to eat Chu Aotian’s food, explaining that she believed he was a powerful ninja hiding his motives.
• Konan recalled a beautiful figure from a dream and heard a voice warn her to be careful of Chu Aotian.

Konan’s suspicion of Chu Aotian grew, and she devised a plan with Yahiko and Nagato to test him. Chu Aotian drugged the three with his feast, revealed his intentions toward Konan and Nagato, and approached her while she lay unable to move.

• Konan convinced Yahiko that Chu Aotian had been hiding his food supply and might have sinister motives, then outlined a plan to test him with Nagato.
• Chu Aotian returned with a feast of hamburgers and sandwiches, and Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato pretended to welcome him while secretly coordinating.
• After they ate, Chu Aotian counted down as Yahiko and Nagato grew drowsy and collapsed, while Konan also lost the ability to move.
• Chu Aotian revealed that he had targeted them for Nagato’s Rinnegan and Konan, then began undressing and approached her.

Chu Aotian tried to attack Konan for the Rinnegan, but she and the others revealed that they had poisoned him instead. With his chakra sealed and Nagato still dangerous, Chu Aotian faced a choice between letting the children go and risking revenge or fighting them and risking his life.

• Konan baited Chu Aotian into revealing his intentions to take the Rinnegan and hurt her.
• Yahiko woke and confronted Chu Aotian, while Nagato also rose to join him and Konan.
• Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato revealed they had switched out the food Chu Aotian poisoned and kept their own portions.
• Konan explained that Chu Aotian had eaten the poisoned food and had not taken an antidote, leaving his chakra and nerves impaired.
• Chu Aotian assessed the children’s strength and weighed whether to let them go or risk fighting Nagato.

Chu Aotian decided to capture Nagato, hoping to obtain the Rinnegan and prevent a future threat, while Yahiko and Konan tried to escape. Nagato’s powers briefly held Chu Aotian off, but the three friends ended up helpless together as Chu Aotian approached.

• Konan signaled Yahiko and Nagato to flee in separate directions while Chu Aotian hesitated.
• Chu Aotian chased Nagato, who repelled him several times with the Rinnegan’s power.
• Chu Aotian dodged Nagato’s repulsion and blocked his escape, forcing them into close combat.
• Yahiko and Konan returned to help Nagato, but Chu Aotian quickly knocked them aside.
• Nagato was knocked down while distracted by his friends, and Chu Aotian approached all three as they huddled together.

Chu Aotian coerced Nagato into surrendering his Rinnegan by promising to spare his friends, while secretly planning to kill them all. Just as Nagato reached for his eyes, Madara Uchiha arrived and confronted Chu Aotian.

• Chu Aotian offered to let Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan go if Nagato gouged out his Rinnegan, using his charm and their loyalty to pressure him.
• Konan warned Nagato that Chu Aotian intended to kill them, but Chu Aotian insisted Nagato could no longer escape.
• Nagato reluctantly agreed to give up his eyes after Chu Aotian promised to keep his word.
• As Nagato reached for his Rinnegan, a mysterious voice froze everyone in place.
• A dark portal opened, and Madara Uchiha emerged and asked Chu Aotian why he liked those eyes so much.