Recaps

Hashirama persuaded Madara to consider becoming Hokage, then announced that he would step down and Madara would lead the newly declared Konoha Hidden Country. When Tobirama and the others resisted, Hashirama confronted them over their past hostility toward the Uchiha and ordered them to make amends by helping Madara take office.

• Madara dismissed Hashirama's praise and left with Shingetsu, saying Hashirama would first have to prove his sincerity.
• Hashirama summoned Tobirama, Tōka, Senju clansmen, and Anbu, declared Konoha a country, and announced that Madara would replace him as Hokage.
• Tobirama angrily challenged Hashirama's decision, but Hashirama ordered him and the others to use their influence to install Madara.
• Hashirama rebuked his subordinates for their prejudice against the Uchiha and reminded Tobirama that his past actions had endangered Shingetsu and the village.
• The chastened Tobirama accepted Hashirama's order and began arranging for Madara to become Hokage.

Tobirama, Madara’s students, and Izuna’s Uchiha clan shaped public opinion to support Madara becoming Hokage. Madara arrived at the Hokage office and proposed renaming the country Shinobi Country, winning Hashirama’s approval.

• Hashirama told Tōka he would keep his promise to Madara and asked her to watch Tobirama.
• Tobirama used Anbu to spread praise of Madara, while Madara’s students encouraged their families and communities to support him.
• Izuna discovered the Senju effort and ordered the Uchiha clan to do good deeds and build support for Madara.
• Madara entered the Hokage office with Shingetsu and Izuna, sat in the Hokage’s seat, and demanded that the country’s name be changed.
• Madara proposed Shinobi Country as the new name, and Hashirama agreed.

Madara Uchiha was inaugurated as the Second Hokage, then announced the end of the Land of Fire's daimyō rule and established the Konoha Shinobi Nation. The shinobi world celebrated the new order, while Shingetsu and Izuna looked ahead to the Uchiha clan's future influence.

• Tobirama used the clans' opposition to Madara's appointment as grounds to arrest troublemakers, and Uchiha Hōkaku led the Military Police Force in detaining them.
• Madara accepted the Hokage Hat from Hashirama and officially became the Second Hokage as Konoha celebrated.
• The young Daimyō of the Land of Fire appeared and recited a declaration transferring his office and the country to Madara.
• Madara declared the end of daimyō rule and established the Konoha Shinobi Nation, prompting shinobi from across the world to cheer.
• Shingetsu celebrated achieving her goal of overthrowing the daimyō, while Izuna imagined her becoming the Third Hokage.

Madara became Hokage and declared Konoha a shinobi nation, prompting sweeping institutional reforms and rewards for Konoha’s leaders and clans. As Madara and Hashirama were dragged into sharing the burden of paperwork, Tobirama took Hashirama to resurrect their brothers Itama and Kawarama.

• Madara announced the founding of the Konoha Shinobi Nation, and Kazekage Reto proposed renaming the Land of Wind the Sand Shinobi Country.
• Konoha upgraded its departments into national institutions, appointed clan leaders to high offices, and made Shingetsu a Hokage Advisor.
• Madara discovered the burden of governing meant signing mountains of documents, then dragged Hashirama back from his card game to help.
• Tobirama asked Hashirama whether he had mastered Rinne Rebirth, and Hashirama confirmed that he had.
• Tobirama took Hashirama to the underground prison with Black Zetsu and prepared death-row prisoners as sacrifices to resurrect Itama and Kawarama.

Tobirama summoned Itama Senju, and Hashirama used Rinne Rebirth to restore him to life, though the King of Hell Statue nearly drained Hashirama until Shingetsu forced it to comply. Itama learned that the Uchiha were no longer enemies, became smitten with Shingetsu, and was startled to learn she was Tōka’s daughter just as Tōka arrived to confront him.

• Tobirama used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Itama Senju, who awoke terrified and clung to Hashirama and Tobirama as he recognized his brothers.
• Hashirama attempted Rinne Rebirth, but the King of Hell Statue attacked him and began draining his life force.
• Tobirama brought Shingetsu to the scene, and she used her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to subdue the statue, which revived Itama before fleeing underground.
• Itama thanked Shingetsu and became smitten with her, then attacked when he realized she was an Uchiha until Hashirama explained that the Uchiha were no longer their enemies.
• Itama asked whether he could date Shingetsu, and Tobirama told him she was Tōka’s daughter.
• Tōka arrived and challenged Itama over his disparaging remark about her.

Itama reunited with Tōka and explored Konoha, reacting with wonder to the village and learning about what had happened since his death. He discovered that Shingetsu had exposed the mastermind behind the past events, leaving him awestruck by his niece.

• Tōka welcomed Itama home with a tearful embrace, and the Senju family comforted him as he grieved the pain of his death.
• Hashirama carried Itama through Konoha, where Itama marveled at the streets, buildings, and food before reacting angrily to Madara’s image beside Hashirama’s on Hokage Rock.
• Itama insulted a group of Uchiha for being fat, and Shingetsu distracted him with milk tea; he offered her his treasured candy, which she gently declined.
• At the Senju Clan Compound, Itama listened excitedly as his brothers recounted the village’s history and praised them for their accomplishments.
• Hashirama and Tobirama revealed that Shingetsu had uncovered the mastermind, and Itama became amazed by his thirteen-year-old niece’s intelligence.

Tobirama brought Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru to the Senju mansion for dinner, where the family welcomed them and shared hot pot and drinks. The evening ended when Madara and Izuna caught Hashirama and Shingetsu complaining about Madara, and Itama fainted after seeing the two Uchiha brothers.

• Tobirama returned from the Nursery with Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, and Hashirama introduced Tsunade to Itama as his granddaughter.
• Hashirama, Itama, Tsunade, and Shingetsu played among the mansion’s pets before Tobirama served the family hot pot.
• The Senju drank together, and Jiraiya passed out after drinking Orochimaru’s rice wine as well as his own.
• Shingetsu finished a bottle of rice wine, then joined Hashirama in drunkenly complaining about Madara and his demands.
• Madara and Izuna arrived and caught the pair complaining, and Izuna took Shingetsu’s alcohol away while warning her to wait until she was grown.
• Hashirama introduced Itama to Madara and Izuna, and Itama recognized them as Uchiha, panicked, and fainted into Hashirama’s arms.

After Itama panicked over memories of his death, Izuna used genjutsu to suppress the traumatic recollection. Madara, Izuna, and Shingetsu returned to the Hokage Building, where they struggled with Konoha’s paperwork before finding a serious decline in combat shinobi and discussing reforms.

• Itama collapsed in fear, and Izuna carefully used his Mangekyō Sharingan to suppress the memory of his final moments.
• Hashirama revealed that he had revived Madara that afternoon, and Madara and Izuna confronted him about bringing their younger brothers back.
• Madara, Izuna, and Shingetsu returned to the Hokage Building and labored under a mountain of urgent documents.
• Shingetsu found a report showing that the number of combat shinobi from shinobi clans was declining, and Madara and Izuna agreed the problem threatened Konoha.
• Izuna proposed annual combat-shinobi quotas for the great clans, while Shingetsu urged Madara to offer better standards and benefits and discuss them with the jōnin.

Izuna appointed Kakuzu as Konoha’s finance officer, while Tobirama took Itama and Hashirama shopping through a Commercial Street overflowing with Madara-themed merchandise. The chapter ended with Hashirama and Itama protesting a bakery’s Uchiha-only treats.

• Izuna introduced Kakuzu to Madara and Shingetsu, praised his financial work, and offered him the finance officer position with Tobirama’s recommendation.
• Tobirama reassured Kakuzu that he would return to work soon, privately deciding not to let him retire easily.
• Tobirama, Hashirama, and Itama visited Commercial Street, where Hashirama eagerly bought Madara and Shingetsu merchandise while Tobirama tried to restrain him.
• Itama spotted a long line of Uchiha outside the Bakery and discovered the shop was selling desserts exclusively for the Uchiha Clan.
• Itama and Hashirama joined the crowd protesting the exclusive desserts, with Hashirama demanding Madara and Shingetsu cakes and Tsunade cookies.

Kazuma’s scheme made the Uchiha pay steep prices for exclusive cakes while Hashirama and his brothers tried to enjoy a day off. Madara and Izuna dragged them back to work, where Shingetsu’s hunger led everyone to share Hashirama’s beloved cakes before Tobirama faced the paperwork again.

• Auntie Sweet praised Kazuma for engineering the cake frenzy, and Kazuma planned to raise prices even higher after targeting the Uchiha with exclusive merchandise.
• Hashirama sneaked into the bakery kitchen and collected cakes decorated with Madara and Shingetsu, while Itama complained that he had received none.
• Tobirama told Hashirama to take on housework, but Madara and Izuna arrived and dragged Hashirama, Tobirama, and Itama back to the Hokage Building.
• Shingetsu begged the returning group for food, so Hashirama offered his cakes, and Madara, Izuna, and Shingetsu hesitated to cut the Chibi Cakes until Tobirama sliced them.
• Everyone ate the cakes and enjoyed them, while Tobirama lamented that he still had to handle a mountain of paperwork under Madara’s Hokage administration.

Izuna organized Konoha’s leadership, giving capable clansmen and civilians important roles while finding a way to include the less capable Uchiha. As the leaders handled paperwork and discussed teaching and graduation, Hashirama enrolled Itama in Madara’s class, and Madara reflected on his students growing up.

• Izuna appointed Kakuzu finance minister and assigned positions to members of Konoha’s clans and civilian population, while Shingetsu and Izuna paired Uchiha ministers with civilian secretaries to balance prestige and authority.
• Madara processed documents by stamping them with his thumb while Hashirama continued signing his, and Shingetsu admired Madara’s appearance before he hurried through the paperwork.
• Hashirama brought Itama to Madara and asked him to teach the boy, and Madara agreed despite Itama’s alarm and Tobirama’s jealousy.
• Tobirama lamented that Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura had disappointed him as students, then suggested giving them exhausting internships at the Hokage Building.
• Madara remembered that his own students would soon graduate and felt melancholy as he thought about Shingetsu growing up and eventually leaving the Ninja Academy.

Shingetsu and the Hokage learned that the Four Kage had taken control of their countries as regents and were promoting village businesses in a peaceful shinobi world. Shingetsu exposed Hashirama’s neglect of combat shinobi, prompting Madara to beat him and establish reforms requiring combat qualifications for key posts.

• Madara ordered the graduating students to intern at the Hokage Building and assigned them the hardest work, while the others reacted to his punishment.
• Reports showed that Reto, Hozuki Gengetsu, and the leaders of Iwagakure and Kumogakure had taken power as regents, while the villages began promoting products and trade.
• Itama said he hated missions, prompting the adults to reflect on the dirty work shinobi had once been forced to do and the changed role of missions in Konoha.
• Shingetsu realized that civilian shinobi had well-developed assessments while combat shinobi lacked support, then discovered that Hashirama had left their reports unread and their problems unresolved.
• Madara beat Hashirama and announced that key Konoha positions would require combat shinobi qualifications, with examinations and departmental reviews scheduled ahead of time.

Konoha held a massive Combat Shinobi assessment, but Madara turned the Jōnin test into a one-sided beatdown before Hashirama’s intervention sparked a chaotic battle royale. Afterward, Madara and Izuna ordered the lazy Uchiha to take exhausting jobs, and the clan members began losing weight as they worked.

• Shingetsu, Izuna, and Tobirama organized the Combat Shinobi assessment, and Kakuzu sold tickets to spectators.
• Tobirama sent candidates through timed fights against Academy students, then selected promising fighters to face Madara for Jōnin rank.
• Madara knocked out every candidate in seconds, and Hashirama’s attempt to protect them turned the grounds into a chaotic chase.
• Madara and Izuna summoned the Uchiha clan and ordered its members to work throughout Konoha.
• The next day, sour-faced Uchiha began working in the Military Police Force, Hokage Building, offices, and village gates, and their exhausting jobs made them visibly slimmer.

Shingetsu put retired Hashirama to work in the Konoha Military Police Force, where his popularity turned routine patrols into a village spectacle. She and Tobirama decided to rotate him through different jobs, leaving Hashirama set to appear in public-facing roles across Konoha and even at a milk tea shop.

• After Uchiha officers drew complaints for their conduct, Shingetsu assigned retired Hashirama to the Konoha Military Police Force to improve their image.
• Hashirama's presence reduced complaints about the Uchiha's attitudes, but officers generated new complaints by overreacting to harmless incidents during patrols.
• An Uchiha officer threatened a bullying child with prison, but Hashirama comforted the victim and sent both children's parents to handle the matter.
• Paparazzi published exaggerated stories about Hashirama and the officers, making the police force popular with villagers hoping to meet him or share his fame.
• Tobirama brought Shingetsu to the crowded police department, where she saw villagers gather to greet Hashirama and realized his popularity had transformed the office into a community hub.
• Shingetsu proposed rotating Hashirama through different jobs, and Tobirama agreed; Hashirama went on to work as a police officer, receptionist, gatekeeper, and milk tea shop employee.

Tobirama turned Hashirama’s popularity into a lucrative advertising scheme, while Hashirama worked through a packed schedule and made disastrous milk tea for Madara, Shingetsu, and Izuna. Afterward, Shingetsu learned how Sunagakure’s new sweeping puppet worked and resolved that Konoha needed to take scientific ninja tools seriously.

• Tobirama sold Hashirama’s labor to businesses and filled his days with jobs, then put Hashirama’s wood clones to work after discovering his trick.
• Hashirama served terrible milk tea to a huge crowd, and Shingetsu and Izuna criticized it while Madara finished his cup before buying normal milk tea to recover.
• Izuna recognized Hashirama’s popularity as a powerful promotional tool and considered borrowing him for publicity.
• Madara abolished the joint chunin exams and proposed regular jōnin competitions among the villages.
• Chiyo explained to Shingetsu that her sweeping puppet used an experimental core for movement and cleaning, inspiring Shingetsu to push Konoha to develop scientific ninja tools.

Shingetsu and Tobirama negotiated with Shamon over Sunagakure’s Thunder Carriage blueprints and a promised oasis, then left to deliver the plans after discovering Sunagakure had built only a miniature model. At the Ninja Academy, the graduating students worried about their futures before Hiruzen Sarutobi’s love-poem collection sparked a classroom brawl.

• Shamon showed Shingetsu and Tobirama Sunagakure’s Thunder Carriage model and offered its blueprints in exchange for an oasis in the Land of Wind.
• Tobirama discovered Sunagakure had brought only a miniature Thunder Carriage, so Shingetsu postponed the oasis until they built and tested a full-sized one.
• Shingetsu and Tobirama took the blueprints and flew away to deliver them, leaving Shamon to chase after them.
• The Ninja Academy students discussed graduation and their plans, while Uchiha Kazuma paid Miki to act as his bodyguard.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave the students his published love poems, and Kagami Uchiha and the others attacked him with the books.

A classroom brawl over Hiruzen Sarutobi's poetry collections ended with Madara punishing the students and banning the book. He announced a graduation trip, then revealed that the graduation exam would require each student to take one of three bells from him.

• The students turned the classroom into a chaotic battlefield, while Torifu Akimichi grilled food over burning copies of Hiruzen Sarutobi's poetry collection.
• Kagami Uchiha tore up Hiruzen Sarutobi's book, and Hiruzen fought him before fleeing when Madara arrived and summoned him back.
• Madara beat the students, made them clean the classroom, and banned Hiruzen's poetry collection; Hiruzen vowed to become a great poet.
• Madara announced a class graduation trip, and the students argued over which destination to visit.
• Uchiha Inari asked about the graduation exam, and Madara produced three bells, saying students had to take one from him to graduate.

Madara sent his graduating students to the Forest of Death to take three bells, while Uchiha Kazuma used promises of money to persuade them to fight back. After Madara defeated their attacks, Kazuma summoned Hashirama with his Money Release technique, leaving Madara stunned.

• Madara announced that the students would face him for bells in the Forest of Death, and the students despaired over their chances of graduating.
• Miki Uchiha urged the class to resist Madara, but Uchiha Kazuma rallied them by offering Konoha Currency for their efforts.
• Madara entered the Forest of Death, destroyed the students’ traps, and beat their first attack wave unconscious.
• Miki Uchiha, Kagami, Inari, and Ōnoki helped set up a second attack, but Madara dodged their attempt to seize the bells and beat the students down.
• Uchiha Kazuma revealed that his preparation was complete and used Money Release: Hashirama Senju Summoning Technique to summon Hashirama, who said he had taken Kazuma’s money and had to do the work.

Kazuma’s boasting during the graduation exam enraged Madara, who fought Hashirama after Hashirama tried to protect the students. Their battle devastated a remote area, and Shingetsu arrived as the two Hokage summoned meteorites, leaving her to intervene.

• Kazuma bragged about using money to hire Hashirama, provoking Madara, who knocked Kazuma and Hiruzen Sarutobi unconscious with an invisible attack.
• Madara challenged Hashirama to a fight, and Hashirama agreed to draw him away from Konoha.
• Tobirama and Shingetsu visited Pine Mountain Town, where Tobirama assigned Yuhi Qiang the electric train blueprints and Shingetsu persuaded her to share Ume Plum Wine.
• Ninja rushed to Pine Mountain Town to report that Hashirama and Madara were fighting, so Shingetsu and Tobirama hurried back.
• Hashirama and Madara battled with their giant techniques in the place later named the Valley of the End, while Madara’s God Tree Fruit began transforming him.
• Madara and Hashirama each summoned meteorites, and Shingetsu activated Kuninotokotachi as she jumped from the Wood Dragon.

Shingetsu used her Mangekyō Sharingan to end Madara and Hashirama’s battle with one slash, then collapsed from mental exhaustion and fell asleep. The Valley of the End became a tourist attraction, the Academy’s first class graduated, and Madara prepared for new students, including Itama and Tsunade.

• Shingetsu awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan, summoned Susanoo, and destroyed Madara and Hashirama’s constructs and the falling meteor with a single slash.
• Madara and Hashirama rushed to Shingetsu after she collapsed, and Tobirama scolded them while they waited for her to wake.
• Tobirama turned the Valley of the End into a tourist attraction and made money from admission tickets and statues.
• Madara announced that the battered Academy students had graduated, and they celebrated by embracing him and wrecking their schoolwork.
• Hashirama brought Itama to meet Madara as his new teacher and told Madara that Tsunade and her friends would soon attend school.

The graduates compiled a survival guide for Teacher Madara, visited the Valley of the End, and celebrated graduation with a girls’ sleepover before beginning work at the Hokage Building. The chapter ended with Kazuma using his ability to hire Hashirama to fend off his Uchiha clansmen’s mockery and threats.

• The graduates compiled a survival guide to Teacher Madara and persuaded him and Hashirama to join their trip to the Valley of the End.
• The graduates explored the ruins, then returned to Konoha on Hashirama’s Wood Dragon and reunited with Shingetsu.
• The girls held a hot-springs sleepover, discussed their future jobs, and teased Shingetsu after she woke trapped beneath them.
• After a week off, the graduates started working at the Hokage Building and complained that Madara was still assigning them work and training.
• Kazuma bragged that he had hired Hashirama, then scared off his Uchiha clansmen by threatening to pay Hashirama to beat them.

Madara punished Kazuma for his Money Release stunt, while Tsunade celebrated her birthday, ate a God Tree Fruit, and awakened Wood Release after Tobirama injected her with Shingetsu’s cells. The chapter left Hiruzen and Jiraiya forming a poetry-writing duo as Hiruzen planned to give Shingetsu a new collection for her birthday.

• Madara stormed into Kazuma’s house and beat him after Kazuma called for Izuna to save him.
• Tsunade celebrated her birthday with family and guests, ate two cakes, and received a God Tree Fruit from Shingetsu.
• Tobirama injected Tsunade with Shingetsu’s cells, and Tsunade instinctively used Wood Release to grow a branch.
• Madara proposed treating Tsunade’s fear of blood with Sharingan genjutsu, but Hashirama and the others rejected the idea.
• Hiruzen and Jiraiya formed a poetry-writing partnership, and Hiruzen decided to write Shingetsu a poetry collection for her birthday.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya’s prank-filled poetry project enraged Shingetsu, who took them on a terrifying ride through the sky before Hashirama rescued them. As Konoha celebrated Shingetsu’s birthday, Madara and the village reacted furiously when other nations sent her a procession of young men and women as gifts.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya completed a second collection of love poems, and Shingetsu bound them with Wood Release and took them high above Konoha on a Wood Dragon.
• Shingetsu released Hiruzen Sarutobi into a free fall, but Hashirama caught him with his own Wood Dragon, and Hashirama, Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama later beat him for his poetry and antics.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s second poetry collection was added to Konoha’s banned-books list, and Madara forbade its publication or distribution.
• Shingetsu’s birthday became a major shinobi-world celebration after Madara became Second Hokage, but a procession of handsome men and beautiful women sent as gifts stunned Konoha.
• Madara tried to attack the young people, but Hashirama and Izuna persuaded him to let them return home, while Konoha put the people who sent them on its kill list.
• Reto, A, and Hozuki Gengetsu thanked Ishikawa for talking them out of sending similar gifts, and Ishikawa explained that he did not want Iwagakure left alone before Konoha.

Madara’s murderous mood nearly ruined Shingetsu’s birthday banquet until Izuna calmed him, and the family celebrated together. Meanwhile, Doctor Jigen, secretly Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, resolved to reclaim Shingetsu and the God Tree within her after securing a new body.

• The four Kage arrived at Shingetsu’s birthday banquet and kept their distance from Madara, who was furious that people had tried to send beauties as gifts.
• Madara’s students and the Kage shared a table, where Hozuki Gengetsu, Reto, and A eagerly ate Konoha’s feast while Ishikawa enjoyed his meal and wine.
• Izuna soothed Madara and urged him to let Shingetsu cut her cake, easing the tense gathering.
• As the celebration wound down, Shingetsu fell asleep on Madara’s shoulder, and Izuna reassured his brother that they would stay together.
• Doctor Jigen, secretly Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, celebrated Shingetsu’s birthday from the hospital and reflected on the God Tree growing inside her and the threat of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family.
• Isshiki resolved to find a suitable body for Kāma reincarnation before taking Shingetsu away, then resumed his Doctor Jigen persona when Chinatsu called him to see a patient.

After Madara left Konoha on an incognito tour with Izuna and Shingetsu, Urashiki Otsutsuki attacked Tsunade, Kagami Uchiha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi while searching for the God Tree. Tsunade summoned reinforcements, and Tobirama and Hashirama arrived as Urashiki sensed the God Tree's aura again.

• Madara insisted on touring the Shinobi Country with Izuna and Shingetsu, leaving Tobirama to handle Konoha's work while Hashirama impersonated him in the Hokage Office.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi escaped confinement and went to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where Kagami Uchiha confronted him before Tsunade arrived asking them for gambling money.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki emerged through a portal, drained Kagami's chakra with his fishing rod, and mistook Tsunade for the God Tree before realizing she was only an imitation.
• Urashiki threw Tsunade aside and demanded to know where the God Tree was, while Kagami and Hiruzen tried and failed to stop him.
• Tsunade crushed Tobirama's alarm talisman, and Tobirama appeared with Hashirama as Urashiki sensed the God Tree's aura again.