Chapter Summaries

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.

Hashirama and Tobirama fought Urashiki to stop him from taking Shingetsu, using poison and teamwork to drive him into another dimension. Urashiki returned to Konoha and activated a mysterious turtle treasure, which caused Hashirama, Tobirama, Tsunade, Kagami, and Hiruzen to vanish.

• Tobirama sent Hiruzen, Tsunade, and the unconscious Kagami away while he and Hashirama confronted Urashiki, who revealed he had come for Shingetsu.
• Hashirama and Tobirama dodged Urashiki’s attacks, then used Wood Release and poisonous pollen to weaken him before Tobirama marked him with Flying Thunder God.
• Urashiki escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka, but the Senju brothers pursued him across dimensions until his chakra was nearly exhausted.
• Urashiki chose to abandon the fight and used a Green-Shelled Turtle treasure to travel to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where the children had fled.
• Hashirama and Tobirama rushed to protect Tsunade, Kagami, and Hiruzen as the turtle unfolded and engulfed all five in light, making them disappear.

Tsunade, Tobirama, Kagami, and Hiruzen Sarutobi were scattered into an unfamiliar future after the time tunnel, where they encountered danger and evidence of a changed Konoha. The chapter ended with Hiruzen confronting an Iwagakure shinobi who was attacking two Konoha children.

• Tsunade landed alone on a rocky cliff, encountered a many-tailed monster, and ran to Madara for help.
• Tobirama revived Kagami in the Uchiha Clan Compound and suspected that Urashiki had sent them into the future.
• Masked Anbu raised a barrier around the compound as attackers massacred the Uchiha civilians, and Tobirama intervened against Uchiha Itachi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi woke in a primeval forest and discovered that his summoned Enma was now a towering adult who warned him that Konoha was at war.
• Hiruzen followed the sound of a slap and found an Iwagakure shinobi beating two Konoha children, so he stepped in to protect them.

Urashiki returned to the Shinobi World searching for Shingetsu, while Konoha learned that Hashirama and four others had vanished. On the Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield, a living Hashirama with a Rinnegan appeared, rescued Tsunade, and reunited with Edo Madara, leaving everyone stunned by his claim that Madara had given him the eye.

• Urashiki returned to the Shinobi World, found its many God Tree traces confusing, and resolved to locate Shingetsu alone.
• Hōkaku and Tōka told Madara that Hashirama and four others attacked by the Ōtsutsuki had disappeared, and Shingetsu offered to draw Urashiki out.
• On the war battlefield, Edo Madara grabbed Tsunade and mocked the Allied Shinobi Forces for sending a child to fight.
• A mysterious Hashirama appeared, pinned down the Ten-Tails with Sage techniques, and began sealing it, prompting Edo Madara to attack the allied forces trying to stop him.
• Tsunade escaped Edo Madara and reunited with the living Hashirama, revealing that she was his granddaughter and wore Uchiha clothes.
• The living Hashirama joined Edo Madara instead of Konoha's shinobi, asked where Shingetsu and Izuna were, and said Madara had given him his Rinnegan.

Hashirama confronted Edo Madara about the living Izuna and revealed Black Zetsu’s true identity, while Tobirama intervened in the Uchiha Clan Massacre timeline and rescued survivors from Itachi. In another timeline, Hiruzen Sarutobi rescued Team 7, learned that Konoha sent children to war, and turned on Minato in anger.

• Hashirama’s mention of Izuna made Edo Madara realize that this Hashirama came from a world where Izuna was still alive, and Hashirama identified Black Zetsu as Kaguya Otsutsuki’s third son.
• On the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre, Tobirama tried to stop Itachi, defeated him, and spared his life while taking his eyes.
• Kagami Uchiha helped the survivors as the Uchiha blamed Konoha’s leaders, and Shimura Danzō ordered his forces to finish exterminating the clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rescued Kakashi, Obito, and Rin from Stone Shinobi, then learned that the children were on a battlefield mission in a Konoha where Hashirama was dead.
• When Minato returned to Team 7, Hiruzen punched him and demanded to know why Konoha was sending children to the battlefield.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Minato over sending children into battle, then demanded to know where Shingetsu was. In other timelines, Tobirama stopped Danzo’s attack on the Uchiha, while Hashirama exposed Black Zetsu’s deception and discovered that Edo Madara did not know Shingetsu.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi punched Minato, then condemned him for bringing Obito, Kakashi, and Rin onto the battlefield; the children defended Minato and insisted they had volunteered.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked where Shingetsu was, and Monkey described her as Hashirama’s niece, Madara’s disciple, and Hiruzen’s future wife.
• Tobirama confronted Shimura Danzō during the Uchiha Clan Massacre, defeated Danzo and the Root shinobi, and demanded to know where Shingetsu was.
• Sasuke returned to find his Uchiha clansmen dead and faced their hatred, while Fugaku and Mikoto silently accepted blame for their son’s actions.
• Edo Madara restrained Black Zetsu after Hashirama revealed that Black Zetsu had manipulated the Shinobi World for a thousand years to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Edo Madara admitted he was not the Madara Hashirama knew, then said he did not know Shingetsu, leaving Hashirama shocked that Madara had forgotten his precious disciple.