Chapter Summaries

Obito Uchiha tried to understand how Kenichi Amamiya had uncovered his identity while Kenichi captured Mei Terumi and implanted an Advanced Parasite in her. When Tsunade, A, and Ōnoki confronted Kenichi and Nagato, the final battle between the Three Kage and their enemies began.

• Obito Uchiha reasoned that Kenichi Amamiya might know his true identity and have deliberately provoked him, but he could not work out how Kenichi had discovered it.
• Kenichi Amamiya defeated Mei Terumi, had Pain restrain her, and implanted an Advanced Parasite in her to control her and test its effects on a Kage-level ninja.
• Kenichi Amamiya ordered Nagato to take Mei Terumi away for treatment and warned that their apparent strength might not last.
• Tsunade, A, and Ōnoki arrived and attacked Kenichi Amamiya and Nagato after Kenichi claimed Mei Terumi was dead.
• Kenichi Amamiya recognized that the Three Kage were fighting together in earnest and declared that the final battle had begun.

Orochimaru’s forces unleashed Kenichi Amamiya’s rocket launchers and thermobaric bombs on Kumogakure’s main camp, devastating its ranks and injuring the Eight-Tails. After sending Kisame Hoshigaki to assess the aftermath, Orochimaru wondered where Sunagakure’s missing ninjas had gone.

• Orochimaru confirmed that the operation had drawn Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Darui, and Two-Tails Yugito to the battlefield, while Killer B remained with Kumogakure’s main force.
• Orochimaru ordered her tactical squad to fire all its ammunition at Kumogakure’s encampment from a distance of ten kilometers.
• Killer B transformed into Eight-Tails Gyūki to shield the camp from the rocket barrage, but two Chakra-infused Thermobaric Bombs struck and badly burned it.
• The continued bombardment killed or wounded more than half of Kumogakure’s ninjas and depleted all the prepared ammunition.
• Orochimaru sent Kisame Hoshigaki to check whether Eight-Tails Gyūki had survived and to kill it if possible.
• Orochimaru noted that Darui’s group was withdrawing and wondered where the missing Sunagakure ninjas had gone.

Shikaku Nara sent reinforcements toward Kumogakure after learning that Orochimaru’s forces had devastated the village, while Darui and Yugito arrived too late to stop the attack. In Flame Nation, Madara Uchiha reclaimed his war fan from Obito and headed to the battlefield to face Kenichi Amamiya.

• Shikaku Nara learned that Kumogakure was under attack and ordered ten Konoha squads to reinforce it while monitoring the Uchiha Clan.
• Darui and Yugito pursued the attackers but found the Kumogakure camp destroyed and its shinobi dead or wounded.
• Killer B and Gyuki survived the bombardment, though Gyuki had lost nearly half his body and five tails.
• Orochimaru celebrated Kumogakure’s defeat and anticipated that Konoha would be unable to ignore the war.
• Obito followed Kenichi Amamiya’s trail of notes and Rin Nohara’s belongings until Madara Uchiha confronted him and took back his war fan.
• Madara Uchiha left to meet Kenichi Amamiya, eager to test the new powerhouse.

Kenichi Amamiya faced Madara Uchiha, who had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation and overwhelmed the surviving Kage. Kenichi summoned True Several Thousand Hands to draw Madara’s attention and prepare a Nuclear Explosion, leaving both sides launching their strongest attacks.

• Madara Uchiha appeared on the battlefield, and Tsunade recognized that he had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation.
• A charged Madara, but Madara dodged him and struck him into a crater before evading Ōnoki’s Dust Release.
• Kenichi warned Nagato that Madara might seek to reclaim the Rinnegan, then sent a Shadow Clone away with a scroll and secretly coordinated with Nagato.
• Kenichi summoned True Several Thousand Hands, and Madara answered by raising his Complete Body Susanoo.
• The Three Kage tried to break out with attacks from A, Tsunade, and Ōnoki, while Kenichi summoned a Wood Golem and sent its fists toward Madara.

Kenichi Amamiya and the Three Kage fought Madara Uchiha until Kenichi used a nuclear explosion to destroy Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo and overwhelm him. Elsewhere, Obito followed a chain of misleading clues to Rin Nohara’s location and raced toward Gokuraku Hot Spring Town in the Land of Lightning.

• Madara Uchiha attacked the Three Kage while fighting Kenichi Amamiya’s Senju Buddha Statue, and Kenichi sent Nagato’s true body away from the battlefield.
• Kenichi left a clone atop the Senju Buddha Statue as Tsunade, Fourth Raikage A, and Ōnoki fled the battlefield.
• A nuclear explosion shattered Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo and engulfed the battlefield in a mushroom cloud.
• Orochimaru watched the explosion from afar and continued with her strategic plan as fighting resumed among the shinobi.
• Obito followed a trail of notes to a cave, where he found a severed hand and learned that Rin Nohara was in Gokuraku Hot Spring Town in the Land of Lightning.
• Obito rushed toward Gokuraku Hot Spring Town, determined to reach Rin Nohara and make Kenichi Amamiya pay.

After the nuclear explosion, Kenichi Amamiya searched for Madara Uchiha and the Three Kage, while Orochimaru’s forces overwhelmed Iwagakure. Kenichi Amamiya killed the Five-Tails and considered whether to attack Konoha or the Land of Lightning next.

• Kenichi Amamiya survived the nuclear blast with Nagato, then ordered his Shadow Clones to search for Tsunade, Ōnoki, and A while keeping Nagato clear of the radiation.
• Kitsuchi tried to escape the collapsing Iwagakure forces, but Orochimaru captured him, sealed his Chakra, and ordered him taken away for implantation with a parasite.
• Orochimaru learned that Kumogakure and Konoha’s shinobi were withdrawing, while her forces continued capturing Iwagakure’s fleeing shinobi.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Orochimaru that he had found no trace of Madara Uchiha or the Three Kage after the explosion.
• Kenichi Amamiya killed the badly injured Five-Tails with a wooden sword, preventing Madara Uchiha from gathering all Nine Tailed Beasts.
• Orochimaru asked Kenichi Amamiya whether he planned to attack Konoha or the Land of Lightning.

Kenichi Amamiya finished conquering Iwagakure and sent Orochimaru to seize the Land of Lightning, while planning to develop hydrogen bombs to counter future threats. Obito Uchiha found Rin Nohara in the Land of Lightning, but she asked why he had killed her as a kunai pierced her chest.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Orochimaru about the war and entrusted her with conquering the Land of Lightning in exchange for knowledge about the stars.
• Kenichi Amamiya revived fallen Iwagakure Ninja to crush the last resistance, then let Kakashi leave with the bodies of his fallen Konoha comrades.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered developing hydrogen bombs because atomic bombs might fail against Madara Uchiha or the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Obito Uchiha rushed to the Land of Lightning and found Rin Nohara buying dango at a stall.
• Obito Uchiha embraced Rin Nohara and proposed that they leave the Shinobi World together, but she asked why he had killed her when he saw a kunai embedded in her chest.

Obito Uchiha began a massacre after Rin Nohara died, while Kenichi Amamiya considered how to stop Madara Uchiha from reclaiming the Rinnegan. Deidara reported that Sunagakure ninja were heading toward the Land of Earth, where Shisui Uchiha had intercepted them, and Kenichi Amamiya decided to go there.

• Rin Nohara died with a kunai through her heart, and Obito Uchiha erupted into grief and killed the people in Hot Spring Town with Wood Release.
• Kenichi Amamiya assessed the threat posed by Madara Uchiha and concluded that protecting Nagato and preventing Madara from obtaining the Rinnegan were key.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Orochimaru that Mangekyō Dōjutsu could cause blindness and that replacing the eyes was the only currently proven remedy.
• Deidara reported finding Sunagakure ninja traveling by airship toward the Land of Grass, and Kenichi Amamiya and Orochimaru suspected they planned to seize the Land of Earth.
• Deidara said a Green Giant had attacked the Sunagakure ninja, and Kenichi Amamiya identified it as Shisui Uchiha’s Susanoo and went to intervene.

Kenichi captured Baki and the Sunagakure shinobi, learned that Sunagakure planned to seize land from Iwagakure, and decided to absorb the village into Flame Nation through parasite implants. Shisui and Itachi asked to join Kenichi’s country, while Killer B battled Obito at Gokuraku Hot Spring Town.

• Kenichi thanked Shisui for helping defeat the Sunagakure shinobi, then questioned their leader, Baki, about Sunagakure’s plans.
• Baki revealed that Sunagakure wanted better land and that its forces would return if the captured shinobi did not join the attack on Iwagakure.
• Kenichi chose to absorb Sunagakure, ordering the prisoners implanted with parasites and planning to send them back under Flame Nation supervision.
• Shisui asked about Kenichi’s plans and then asked whether the Uchiha Clan could join Flame Nation; Kenichi welcomed them.
• Baki asked whether Sunagakure could join too, and Kenichi said the prisoners had no choice but to accept the parasite implants.
• At Gokuraku Hot Spring Town, Killer B charged Obito, was briefly bound by thorny vines, then struck with Wild Crane Severing Blade as Obito entered the Kamui Dimension.

After Rin Nohara died, Obito used Izanagi to return to life and confronted Kenichi Amamiya, who had prepared a unit of Mangekyō Sharingan users. Black Zetsu killed Obito before he could reveal Nagato’s past, leaving Kenichi to take Obito’s Mangekyō and warn Nagato about the threat of Madara Uchiha.

• Obito returned to life with Izanagi after Rin Nohara’s death and blamed Kenichi Amamiya for her death and his suffering.
• Obito charged at Kenichi Amamiya, but stopped when he saw the Mangekyō Sharingan of the ninja behind him.
• Kenichi asked Obito about Nagato’s eyes, but Black Zetsu immobilized him and tore open his throat.
• Obito died without speaking, and Kenichi’s attempt to use Impure World Reincarnation failed.
• Kenichi took Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan and told Nagato that they needed to talk about Madara Uchiha.

Kenichi asked Nagato to die so he could test whether Impure World Reincarnation could create Rinnegan-wielding shinobi and help him dominate the Shinobi World, but Nagato and Konan recoiled from the request. Meanwhile, Orochimaru advanced the Yan Country Shinobi into the Land of Lightning as Konoha’s defeated forces retreated with Tsunade gravely injured.

• Kenichi speculated that shinobi revived through Impure World Reincarnation might retain the Rinnegan they had at death, allowing an army of Rinnegan users to overwhelm Madara and the Otsutsuki.
• Kenichi asked Nagato to die so he could pursue his plan to unify the Shinobi World, and Konan stepped in to protect Nagato.
• Nagato reflected that death might reunite him with Yahiko, while Konan pleaded with him not to listen to Kenichi.
• Kenichi returned to Orochimaru, who resumed directing the Yan Country Shinobi toward the Land of Lightning, alarming the small countries in their path.
• Shikaku Nara learned that Kenichi’s forces had entered the Land of Lightning and continued leading Konoha’s defeated shinobi home with the unconscious, gravely injured Tsunade.

Tsunade learned that the Allied Forces had suffered devastating losses while Kenichi Amamiya advanced into the Land of Lightning and demanded its surrender. Fourth Raikage A weighed whether to submit or join forces with Konoha against him.

• Tsunade learned that Rasa was dead, Mei Terumi had disappeared, and Iwagakure’s main force had been wiped out, while Kenichi Amamiya’s army entered the Land of Lightning.
• Tsunade ordered a meeting of Konoha’s higher-ups as she feared Kenichi Amamiya would annex the Land of Lightning and eventually threaten Konoha.
• Kenichi Amamiya caught the Land of Lightning’s Daimyo fleeing with his wealth, took control of him with Mangekyo Genjutsu, and told Yugito to urge Kumogakure to surrender.
• Yugito returned to the injured Fourth Raikage A and relayed Kenichi Amamiya’s offer to leave the money behind and merge into Flame Nation.
• Fourth Raikage A debated whether to ally with Konoha or submit, then shouted in anger and reopened his wounds.

Black Zetsu devised a plan to revive Madara Uchiha and manipulate Kenichi Amamiya into advancing the Eye of the Moon Plan. Kenichi recognized the trap in a strange stone slab and decided to visit Konoha while pretending to cooperate.

• Black Zetsu lamented the deaths of the Three-Tails and Five-Tails, Obito Uchiha's uncertain fate, and Madara Uchiha's death, then considered using Kenichi Amamiya to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Black Zetsu decided to pursue two plans at once: revive Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation and guide Kenichi toward the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Kenichi Amamiya found a stone slab in the Land of Lightning Daimyo's estate that revealed a hidden map of the area around Konoha to his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kenichi recognized that Black Zetsu was trying to lure him into the Eye of the Moon Plan and considered pretending to accept so Black Zetsu might leave Madara Uchiha out of the conflict.
• Kenichi ordered Uchiha Shiori to formally notify Konoha that he planned to visit.

Tsunade weighed Konoha’s options after Kenichi Amamiya announced he would visit the Land of Fire, while Shikaku Nara saw that Konoha’s clans and Elders were preparing to accept Flame Nation’s rule. In Flame Nation, ordinary people dismissed rumors about the new rulers and welcomed the improved living conditions.

• Tsunade received Kenichi Amamiya’s letter announcing his planned visit and chose not to inform Fourth Raikage A yet.
• Shikaku Nara assessed Flame Nation’s overwhelming strength as Tsunade considered Konoha’s future, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura waited anxiously for her decision.
• Shikaku Nara learned that the Ino-Shika-Cho clans and the Hyuga Clan were preparing to offer their loyalty to the new Ruler.
• At a Flame Nation dock, a laborer ignored a rumor that the nation’s leaders had Bugs in their brains, and a furious old man chased off the rumor-spreader.
• A town governor declined to arrest the rumor-spreader, believing Flame Nation’s laws and benefits had earned the people’s support.

Kenichi Amamiya met Black Zetsu at the hidden stone tablet and pretended to be tempted by the Eye of the Moon Plan while testing Black Zetsu’s concealment. He agreed to become the plan’s new executor, though he intended to deceive Black Zetsu and pursue his own goals.

• Kenichi Amamiya deliberately searched the wrong locations before finding the hidden stone tablet and reading its account of the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Black Zetsu emerged, and Kenichi Amamiya attacked it with Sage Art: Fire Style! Great Fire Annihilation! before listening to its proposal.
• Kenichi Amamiya rejected Infinite Tsukuyomi at first, arguing that he could unite the nations and bring peace himself.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Kenichi Amamiya by describing the plan to capture the revived Tailed Beasts and use the Rinnegan and Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Kenichi Amamiya pretended to agree reluctantly to become the new executor, and Black Zetsu welcomed their supposed partnership.

Kenichi Amamiya pretended to join Black Zetsu’s Eye of the Moon Plan while secretly intending to use the alliance to gain time and advantage. Black Zetsu asked him to resurrect Madara Uchiha and concealed its worries about a mysterious underground base; back at the Daimyo’s Estate, Kenichi reunited with Hikari and noticed Orochimaru seemed troubled.

• Kenichi Amamiya proposed unifying the Five Great Nations and gathering the Tailed Beasts to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan, while Black Zetsu believed he was a willing partner.
• Black Zetsu said Madara Uchiha had secured the plan’s final key and asked Kenichi Amamiya to use Impure World Reincarnation to bring Madara back, withholding its concerns about an underground base.
• Kenichi Amamiya agreed to resurrect Madara if Black Zetsu provided his body tissue, and Black Zetsu arranged to meet him later at the Daimyo’s Estate in the Land of Lightning.
• Kenichi Amamiya returned to the estate and found Uchiha Hikari waiting with scrolls full of socks and Military Ration Pills as gifts.
• Kenichi Amamiya saw his teacher Orochimaru looking conflicted, asked Hikari to wait elsewhere, and hurried over to him.

Kenichi helped Black Zetsu begin resurrecting Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation, but Black Zetsu took the coffin before the process was completed. In Iwagakure, the injured Ōnoki weighed whether to join Kumogakure and Konoha against the powerful man controlling the Land of Lightning.

• Orochimaru told Kenichi she wanted to die for a while, but she would not explain why or what she planned to do in the Pure Land.
• Black Zetsu asked Kenichi to use Impure World Reincarnation on Madara Uchiha and supplied Madara's finger and a White Zetsu sacrifice.
• Kenichi began the summoning, noticed Madara's face did not appear at first, and suspected Black Zetsu had another plan before completing the technique.
• Black Zetsu stopped Kenichi at the coffin stage, took the coffin, and left to attend to matters concerning his original body.
• In Iwagakure, Ōnoki learned that Kumogakure's ninja had fled to the Land of Fire and that Sunagakure was electing a new Kazekage.
• Ōnoki considered whether battered Iwagakure should join Kumogakure and Konoha in opposing the man who controlled the Land of Lightning.

Kenichi Amamiya tried to bring Mei Terumi and Kitsuchi into his plans for unification, then tested whether a clone’s Mangekyō Sharingan could give the test subject an Eternal Mangekyō. The clone awakened the Mangekyō, but the transplant experiment failed when the test subject’s eyes liquefied.

• Kenichi Amamiya visited Mei Terumi and Kitsuchi, loosened the parasites’ control over them, and described his plan to unite the Shinobi World.
• Mei Terumi resisted Kenichi Amamiya, while Kitsuchi acknowledged that parasites had been implanted in their heads; Kenichi Amamiya silenced Mei Terumi when she cursed him.
• Kenichi Amamiya returned to his laboratory and released a rapidly grown clone of the test subject, then studied its development and emotional changes.
• Kenichi Amamiya induced the clone’s Mangekyō Sharingan and prepared to test whether transplanting its eyes would grant the test subject an Eternal Mangekyō.
• The test subject’s Sharingan changed after the transplant, but his eyes soon turned to bloody fluid, and Kenichi Amamiya concluded the experiment had failed.

Kenichi Amamiya grew new test-subject clones to investigate the Eternal Mangekyo and began researching a Genetic Weapon that could target the Otsutsuki Clan. Black Zetsu’s unease led Kenichi to suspect that other Otsutsuki might be in the Shinobi World, and he began comparing Black Zetsu’s genes with Madara Uchiha’s and Sasuke Uchiha’s.

• Kenichi Amamiya implanted Madara Uchiha’s and Sasuke Uchiha’s genes into separate prisoners, then created clones of both test subjects and placed them in Nutrient Chambers.
• Kenichi Amamiya cultivated four additional clones of himself to test ways of preserving them while they grew.
• With the Shinobi World at peace, Kenichi Amamiya considered developing a Genetic Weapon that could target the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected Black Zetsu had sensed other Otsutsuki after noticing its unusual hesitation and nervousness.
• Kenichi Amamiya compared Black Zetsu’s genes with Madara Uchiha’s and Sasuke Uchiha’s to search for shared genetic markers.

Kenichi Amamiya studied Otsutsuki genetics and began exploring Chakra as a renewable energy source that could transform the Shinobi World. While he and Amado Sanzu started planning research into Chakra-powered machinery, Orochimaru worried that her new body was changing her sense of self.

• Kenichi Amamiya compared Black Zetsu's genes with Madara Uchiha's and Sasuke Uchiha's and confirmed they shared a distinctive genetic match.
• Kenichi Amamiya tested Chakra as an energy source by channeling Lightning Release into a light bulb, which lit up before exploding.
• Kenichi Amamiya planned to develop Chakra storage and conversion equipment, then invited Amado Sanzu to help research the idea.
• Amado Sanzu suggested starting with metals that could store Chakra, and he discussed the project with Kenichi Amamiya.
• Orochimaru examined her new body and realized she had begun caring about makeup, clothing, and other people's opinions, making her fear she was losing her former identity.