Chapter Summaries

Hashirama Senju entered the battlefield and unleashed his Sage Mode Wood Release against Obito’s forces. His wood dragon and expanding forest tore through the White Zetsu army, while Black Zetsu realized Madara was the only one who might stop him.

• Hashirama Senju left the sidelines and approached Obito, making Obito, Orochimaru, Kabuto, Kisame, and Black Zetsu feel the weight of his presence.
• Black Zetsu assessed the battlefield and concluded that Obito could not stop Hashirama while Madara was occupied fighting Genya.
• Hashirama entered Sage Mode and warned the opposing forces about the price of starting a war.
• Hashirama summoned a Wood Dragon that charged through the White Zetsu army, crushing and scattering its ranks.
• Hashirama used Deep Forest Emergence, and roots, vines, and branches engulfed and devoured the White Zetsu army.

Hashirama’s Wood Release devastated the White Zetsu army, while the Akatsuki helped Itachi and Shisui hold the battlefield. Hashirama captured Black Zetsu and demanded to know where the White Zetsu were coming from.

• Hashirama unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, and its poisonous pollen incapacitated White Zetsu while he redirected it away from Konoha’s ninja.
• Obito watched the White Zetsu army collapse and asked Hashirama to stop, but Hashirama said Obito’s side had started the conflict.
• Pain, Konan, Sasori, and Deidara joined the fight to support Itachi and Shisui as allied reinforcements approached.
• Hashirama realized the White Zetsu kept emerging from underground and charged toward Black Zetsu.
• Hashirama seized Black Zetsu by the neck and demanded to know where the White Zetsu were coming from.

Hidan and Kakuzu discovered that Kumogakure and Iwagakure were advancing on Amegakure, where a massive battle was already underway. Realizing their home had been raided, they joined the fight against the White Zetsu alongside Konoha and Akatsuki.

• Hidan and Kakuzu sensed Kumogakure and Iwagakure's forces moving toward Amegakure and followed them.
• Hidan and Kakuzu reached Amegakure and saw ninja from several villages fighting the White Zetsu army, including Pain, Konan, Deidara, and Sasori alongside Konoha ninja.
• Hidan asked whether they would still collect corpses, and Kakuzu said they would take back their home and collect bounties on the side.
• Hidan and Kakuzu charged into battle, killing White Zetsu as Deidara spotted them and agreed they were right to return.

As Madara Uchiha’s return sparked war in Amegakure, Naruto and Sasuke gathered their friends to join the fight. At Konoha’s gate, Tetsuchū Uchiha blocked the Konoha 12, and Naruto argued that they had a duty to stand beside their comrades.

• Kakuzu headed toward Obito to collect his corpse, and Hidan followed him across the battlefield.
• Naruto woke when Kurama sensed someone trying to summon him, and Sasuke told him that Madara Uchiha, Obito, and Orochimaru were in Amegakure with war underway.
• Naruto and Sasuke set out to join the front lines and gathered Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Ino, Sakura, Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee.
• Tetsuchū Uchiha stopped the twelve young ninja from leaving Konoha, warning that the battlefield was too dangerous.
• Naruto urged Tetsuchū to let them go, arguing that Konoha ninja had to protect their comrades.

Tiezhu let the Konoha 12 leave for the battlefield and ordered Uchiha Arashi’s squad to escort them. Hashirama’s clones overwhelmed the enemy forces as the Five Kage raced toward the fighting.

• Tiezhu allowed Naruto and the other members of the Konoha 12 to leave, then sent Uchiha Arashi and several elites to follow them.
• Hashirama’s Wood Release clones spread across the battlefield, supporting Itachi and Shisui, encircling the White Zetsu army, and blocking the Impure World Reincarnation army’s retreat.
• Hashirama restrained Black Zetsu and demanded to know the source of the White Zetsu, but Black Zetsu refused to answer.
• Obito, Orochimaru, and Kisame struggled against Hashirama’s forces, while Hidan and Kakuzu attacked Obito and Orochimaru.
• Pain and Deidara fought the reanimated shinobi on another part of the battlefield.
• Raikage A, Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Gaara, and Tsunade sped toward the battlefield.

The Five Kage joined the battlefield and helped the Allied Shinobi Forces turn back the White Zetsu army as Genya continued fighting Madara. Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Itachi forced Orochimaru to release Impure World Reincarnation, causing the reincarnated dead to return to the Pure Land.

• The Five Kage arrived and attacked the White Zetsu army, boosting the Allied Shinobi Forces' morale.
• Hashirama held Black Zetsu captive as he watched the Five Kage join the battle.
• Genya told Madara that the Allied Shinobi Forces were coming, but Madara insisted the Infinite Tsukuyomi was reality.
• Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path after realizing the allied forces were overwhelming his side.
• Itachi attacked Orochimaru and used genjutsu to make him release Impure World Reincarnation.
• The reincarnated dead stopped fighting and began dissolving as their souls returned to the Pure Land.

Madara stopped his reincarnated body from dissolving, and Genya confronted Black Zetsu with knowledge of his mother and the moon. Black Zetsu withdrew the White Zetsu army, leaving the two sides facing each other as Madara began to suspect something was wrong with Black Zetsu.

• Madara used the Counter-Control Technique to halt the release of Impure World Reincarnation and told Genya that the technique had a weakness.
• The Five Kage and their allies assembled opposite Madara, Obito, and their remaining forces while Genya promised Black Zetsu he would rescue his mother from the moon.
• Genya told Black Zetsu to withdraw the White Zetsu army, warning that continued fighting would ruin his thousand years of planning.
• Black Zetsu stopped struggling and the White Zetsu army retreated underground and across the battlefield.
• The Five Kage denounced Madara and Obito's plan, but Madara focused on Black Zetsu and began doubting that he was truly the embodiment of Madara's will.

Obito defended Infinite Tsukuyomi as salvation while the opposing forces prepared to fight, and the Konoha 12 hurried toward the battlefield. Madara clashed with Genya and Hashirama as Obito unleashed the Two-Tails, Four-Tails, and Six-Tails against the Five Kage, leaving the battle raging on multiple fronts.

• Obito argued that Infinite Tsukuyomi would end suffering and war, then fell silent when he could not say what Genya had lost.
• The Five Kage and allied shinobi faced Obito, Madara, and their forces while Naruto led the Konoha 12 toward the battlefield.
• Madara attacked Genya, and Genya and Hashirama countered with their Susanoo and Wood Release techniques.
• Madara broke free of Hashirama's wooden restraints and slammed the ground, sending a shock wave across the battlefield.
• Obito unleashed the Two-Tails, Four-Tails, and Six-Tails; Raikage A fought the Two-Tails while Ōnoki and Mei Terumi blocked the Four-Tails' lava attack.

The Allied Shinobi Forces fought to defeat Obito and Madara as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path drained their chakra. Genya and Hashirama sealed Madara, and Obito surrendered when Kakashi confronted him.

• Gaara, Guy, Kakashi, Jiraiya, Pain, Konan, Deidara, and Sasori fought the tailed beasts, Obito, and Kisame while Tsunade led the allied forces out of the statue's chakra-draining range.
• Hashirama released poisonous pollen around Madara's Susanoo, and Genya shattered it with a lightning-charged punch.
• Hashirama restrained Madara and drained his chakra as Genya pierced him with the Totsuka Blade, sealing him away.
• Pain and Guy struck Obito and Kisame, while Madara's defeat weakened the statue's suction and Obito's control of the tailed beasts.
• Kakashi confronted Obito, who knelt and surrendered as the battle at the center of the field ended.

The Five Kage agreed to form a Shinobi World alliance after the defeat of Madara, Obito, and Orochimaru. As the battle’s aftermath unfolded, Jiraiya reunited with Yahiko and Konan, and Naruto’s group arrived at Amegakure to find the war already over.

• Tsunade apologized to the Five Kage for Konoha’s role in producing dangerous missing-nin, and the Kage agreed to leave the past behind.
• Ōnoki proposed a Shinobi World alliance, and the Five Kage agreed to share intelligence, train together, and make decisions jointly.
• Genya flirted with Konan while Hidan teased Kakuzu about his claim that he had fought Hashirama from four hundred kilometers away.
• Jiraiya greeted Yahiko and Konan as his former students, and Pain and Konan called him Teacher Jiraiya.
• Naruto and the Konoha 12 reached Amegakure at dawn and discovered that the war was over, while Sasuke noticed Genya emerging spotless from a building.

After the battle, Naruto and the others reunited with Genya, while Sasuke found Itachi guarding Obito and Orochimaru. Deidara refused to return to the village with Ōnoki and fled through the air, leaving Genya to take Ino and Hinata to clean up.

• Naruto and the others arrived exhausted, and Genya greeted them for making it despite being late.
• Sasuke asked where Itachi was, then went inside and sat beside his exhausted brother.
• Genya took Ino and Hinata by the hands and headed toward Konan's place so they could clean up.
• Ōnoki ordered Deidara to return to the village, but Deidara refused and flew away on his Giant Clay Bird.
• Deidara begged Pain, Sasori, Hidan, and Kakuzu for help, but none of them rescued him as the onlookers laughed.
• Genya watched Deidara flee and continued walking with Ino and Hinata.

After cleaning up from the battle, Genya, Ino, and Hinata relaxed at Konan’s room while discussing Madara Uchiha’s strength. The Shinobi World War was over, and the survivors began tending to the aftermath.

• Genya brought mud-covered Ino and Hinata to the bathroom, and they washed up together.
• Ino and Hinata changed into Konan’s spare clothes while Genya discussed Madara Uchiha’s abilities and their inconclusive fight.
• Hinata congratulated herself for staying conscious through the awkward bathroom encounter, while Ino teased her.
• Genya watched the battlefield cleanup as Ino and Hinata started a pillow fight.
• The Konoha 12 arrived late, Deidara fled with the Tsuchikage in pursuit, and the surviving ninja tended to the war’s aftermath.

As Konoha’s forces returned from the war, Genya brought Konan to a meeting where Black Zetsu revealed that Madara and the Infinite Tsukuyomi had only served his real goal: resurrecting Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. The chapter ended with the assembled leaders and jonin reacting to the revelation as Genya urged them to let Black Zetsu continue.

• The Five Kage’s forces parted ways, and Konoha’s contingent escorted Obito, Orochimaru, and Kabuto back toward the village.
• Itachi asked Obito why he had started the war, and Obito answered that a world of nothing but despair had no reason to exist.
• Black Zetsu clung to Genya as the group returned to Konoha, and Genya warned Hashirama that another difficult battle awaited them.
• At Konoha’s gates, Genya sent Hinata and Ino home, then called an elite jonin meeting and told Konan she had the right to know what was happening.
• At the meeting, Genya demanded that Black Zetsu explain everything, and Black Zetsu revealed that he sought to resurrect his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

Black Zetsu revealed that Kaguya had prepared to defend the world from the Ōtsutsuki, whose arrival Genya warned was still inevitable. After the meeting, Black Zetsu confessed that Obito had engineered Yahiko’s death and Nagato’s suffering, and Genya sent him to stay with Naruto.

• Black Zetsu explained that Kaguya came from the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and that Infinite Tsukuyomi and the White Zetsu were meant to prepare for their arrival.
• Genya warned that the Ōtsutsuki would eventually descend upon the Shinobi World, and Hashirama and Tsunade vowed that Konoha would fight them.
• After the meeting, Genya asked Black Zetsu what had happened to Konan and her companions.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Obito had orchestrated Yahiko’s death, Nagato’s injuries, and the events that made Nagato a pawn of Madara.
• Konan punched Black Zetsu, then broke down crying; Genya comforted her without speaking.
• Genya sent Black Zetsu to stay with Naruto, leaving him stunned by the suggestion that Naruto was his relative.

Genya brought the grieving Konan to Kurenai’s house, where Kurenai refused to share a room with her and left Genya to keep her company. As they sat together, Genya painted Konan’s fingernails and toenails, then kissed her foot, leaving her flustered.

• Genya took Konan to Kurenai’s house instead of the Uchiha Clan Compound, and Kurenai let them in.
• Konan cried in the bathroom, while Kurenai confronted Genya and told him to choose which of them he would stay with.
• Kurenai left for her bedroom after Konan emerged, leaving Genya and Konan alone in the living room.
• Genya asked Konan about the Akatsuki’s nail polish colors, and she explained that purple represented illusion.
• Genya painted Konan’s nails and kissed the top of her foot, making her blush and call him a pervert.

After the truth about Obito’s role in the Nine-Tails attack and the war became public, Genya planned a mission to free Kaguya so she could help face the Ōtsutsuki. Naruto welcomed Black Zetsu, and the chapter ended with Genya returning to a growing closeness between Konan and Kurenai.

• Genya carried Konan to the guest room, where they spent the night together without speaking.
• Konoha villagers read a notice revealing Obito Uchiha’s identity and his conspiracy with Orochimaru.
• Black Zetsu told Naruto about his long conspiracy, and Naruto comforted him and offered him a place to rest.
• Genya told Tsunade that he, Hashirama, and Black Zetsu would leave in three days to find and release Kaguya.
• Konan and Kurenai cooked and drank together, sharing stories about their pasts and Genya.
• Genya carried the drunken Kurenai to bed, then returned for Konan, who asked him not to leave.

Genya spent three days living with Kurenai and Konan as the two women grew close, then showed up at the Hokage Office looking exhausted. Tsunade reminded him that Hashirama and Black Zetsu had been waiting for him.

• Genya woke between Konan and Kurenai, and both women accepted their new relationship without alarm.
• Kurenai and Konan chatted together in bed while Genya tried and failed to get more sleep.
• Genya pulled the two women back under the covers, and the three spent the next few days eating, drinking, and staying together.
• After three days, Genya inspected his dark circles and other marks before going to the Hokage Office.
• Tsunade pointed out Genya's worn appearance and told him Hashirama and Black Zetsu had been waiting for days.

Genya, Hashirama, and Black Zetsu traveled to the moon and shattered the seal holding Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. Kaguya emerged, and Black Zetsu wept as he greeted his mother.

• Genya reassured Black Zetsu that he would not let Kaguya attack them, then led him and Hashirama through a waterfall passage to the moon.
• Black Zetsu sensed Kaguya inside the lunar ruins and hurried to the sealing site.
• Genya summoned his Perfect Susanoo, while Hashirama used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to attack the sealed sphere.
• Genya and Hashirama struck the seal together, splitting the sphere and releasing a flood of white light.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki emerged from the light, and Black Zetsu fell before her, crying and calling her Mom.

Kaguya confronted Genya and Hashirama after Black Zetsu introduced them as allies against the Ōtsutsuki Main Family, then attacked them when she rejected the idea of needing allies. Genya and Hashirama fought back until Genya reminded Kaguya that they had freed her from the moon, making her pause.

• Kaguya touched Black Zetsu, then vanished and appeared before Hashirama to inspect him.
• Black Zetsu introduced Hashirama as an ally against the Ōtsutsuki, but Kaguya said a god did not need weak allies.
• Kaguya struck Genya with a repulsive force, prompting him and Hashirama to prepare for battle.
• Kaguya attacked both men with Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, while Genya used Thunderclap Gear to land a series of blows.
• Kaguya formed multiple Truth-Seeking Orbs and forced Hashirama's True Several Thousand Hands to withstand their explosions.
• Genya reminded Kaguya that they had freed her from the moon, and Black Zetsu confirmed it as Kaguya's orbs stopped dividing.

Genya opened all the bond gift packs and underwent a transformation that gave him the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan. He overwhelmed Kaguya with two punches, leaving her buried in the moon and crying out in pain.

• Genya opened every bond gift pack, causing his strength and abilities to surge as he transformed.
• Genya's Rinnegan changed into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, and Kaguya prepared to defend herself.
• Genya used Amenotejikara to appear before Kaguya and punched her through the moon's surface.
• Genya appeared above Kaguya and drove a second punch into her abdomen, burying her in the moon's deeper strata.
• Kaguya cried out in agony as the moon shook around her.