Recaps

Madara Uchiha told the Senju brothers about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and Yanbai’s plan to repair his divine core, and they agreed to protect him and prepare for the threat. Yanbai’s friends held a funeral for him while he entered slumber, and Indra’s chakra finally arrived in his soul space.

• Madara Uchiha explained the Ōtsutsuki threat, while the nine Tailed Beasts showed the Senju brothers that they did not want to leave Yanbai.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju agreed to let Yanbai repair his divine core and to guard against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha led a procession carrying Yanbai’s coffin to an underground Wood Release palace, where the clansmen held a funeral for him.
• Madara Uchiha remained beside the coffin and fed his blood to the thorns sealing it, but no roses bloomed.
• Yanbai worked on bugs in his soul space while in slumber when he received a notification that Indra’s chakra had arrived.

Madara Uchiha waited beside Yanbai’s coffin, then confronted Zetsu when the strange being attacked him in the Underground Palace. Zetsu revealed that he knew Yanbai’s secrets and mocked Madara for failing to marry him.

• Madara Uchiha used Yanbai’s specially made kunai to cut himself, and a white rose absorbed his blood and healed his wound.
• Madara Uchiha settled into the Underground Palace, where he planned to spend most of his time near Yanbai’s coffin.
• A humanoid creature entered the Underground Palace and tried to strangle Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha fought back, struck the creature with his sealed hand, and recognized it as Zetsu.
• Zetsu claimed Madara had been bewitched by Yanbai, mocked him for not marrying Yanbai, and offered to reveal Yanbai’s secrets.

Madara Uchiha fought Zetsu, who tried to take over his body, and used his newly awakened ability to defeat and seal him. Yanbai woke from his coffin and healed the collapsed Madara, leaving him to enter a long slumber.

• Zetsu tried to convince Madara Uchiha that Yanbai had deceived him, while Madara used sealing flames against Zetsu.
• Madara removed the seal restraining his killing intent, awakened strange eyes, and charged at Zetsu.
• Madara damaged Zetsu with the seals on his specially made shoes, but Zetsu turned into mist and invaded Madara's body.
• Madara stabbed his own chest to strike Zetsu inside him and sealed the intruder in the kunai.
• Madara collapsed beside Yanbai's coffin, and Yanbai woke, healed him, and left him to sleep.

Toshio Hyuga investigated the disappearance of six young members of the Hyuga branch family and learned that the only unchecked place was Princess Senju's Mausoleum. On the moon, his people’s ancestor revealed that she had abducted them to help Hamura’s dwindling descendants continue their bloodline, while a Hyuga man arrived claiming he had seen who took his sisters.

• Toshio Hyuga learned from Unseki Hyuga that six young members of the Hyuga branch family, including Shigenobu and the sisters Sheng and Mi, had disappeared.
• Unseki Hyuga told Toshio Hyuga that the clan had searched Konoha, the hot spring baths, and the cemetery, but could not inspect Princess Senju's Mausoleum because of its barrier.
• A young Hyuga man arrived and told Toshio Hyuga that he had seen who took his younger sisters.
• On the moon, the Old Woman's descendants confronted her about abducting six Hyuga branch-family members from Earth.
• The Old Woman explained that Hamura's descendants needed to marry outside their clan to prevent their bloodline from dying out, and said the Hyuga Clan was the best choice.

Madara Uchiha refused to let Hashirama Senju disturb Yanbai, arguing that their enemies wanted to interrupt his recovery. After returning to the Underground Palace, Madara encountered Old Grandmother, who offered to help him win Yanbai’s love, but he refused.

• Hashirama Senju asked Madara Uchiha to consult Yanbai about Kaguya Ōtsutsuki abducting six Hyuga branch-family members, but Madara refused to disturb Yanbai.
• Madara revealed that Zetsu had appeared the night Yanbai was buried and warned that their enemies seemed intent on preventing Yanbai from recovering.
• Hashirama accepted Madara’s warning and left after Madara urged him not to disturb Yanbai again.
• Madara sensed danger in the Underground Palace and found Old Grandmother standing by Yanbai’s coffin.
• Old Grandmother asked whether Madara truly loved Yanbai and offered to help him get his wish, but Madara said he would win what he wanted himself.

Madara Uchiha rejected the old grandmother’s offer to arrange his marriage to Yanbai, insisting that Yanbai’s happiness mattered more than marriage or gender. After the grandmother tried to pry into Madara’s memories, the coffin began shaking as its occupant stirred.

• Madara Uchiha refused the old grandmother’s offer, and she revealed that she was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s incarnation and governed countless worlds.
• The old grandmother demonstrated her power and claimed responsibility for the world’s rules, the clans’ fates, and Madara and Zetsu’s Gift abilities.
• The old grandmother explained that Yanbai had once been a girl and was repairing something that would let him choose his sex; Madara said he would support whatever Yanbai wanted.
• Madara realized that Yanbai’s discomfort with marriage came partly from the old grandmother’s habit of recording her descendants’ bedroom activities.
• The old grandmother asked to see Madara’s memories, and Madara raised a kunai to his neck; the coffin then rang and began shaking as its occupant stirred.

Yanbai’s Old Grandmother sealed him back into his coffin and overpowered Madara Uchiha, then offered him Yanbai’s blood as a way to gain similar power. She left after summoning Zetsu, while Madara remained in the burial chamber holding the syringe and considering her offer.

• Yanbai spoke with the Old Woman in several languages, but she sealed him inside his coffin again and told Madara Uchiha that he would sleep for decades.
• The Old Grandmother attacked Madara Uchiha with invisible forces and barriers, defeating his Susanoo and crushing him against a wall.
• The Old Grandmother offered Madara Uchiha Yanbai’s blood, saying it could evolve his eyes and that he could see Yanbai again if he and Hashirama both died.
• The Old Grandmother summoned Zetsu from the black mist on Madara Uchiha’s kunai and gave him information before he vanished underground.
• The Old Grandmother departed through a spatial passage, leaving Madara Uchiha beside the coffin with Yanbai’s blood.

Tobirama Senju established the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad to gather people for his forbidden experiments. Madara Uchiha learned that Tobirama was moving toward Yanbai’s remains and wondered whether to honor his promise to take Yanbai away.

• Konoha alternated the Hokage position between the Senju and Uchiha clans as the village grew and prepared for the Ōtsutsuki threat.
• Tobirama Senju established the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad, using its reconnaissance and assassination missions to abduct people for experiments.
• Zetsu continued bringing Madara Uchiha written reports about events outside his mountain retreat.
• Madara Uchiha read the latest dossier, burned it, and recognized that Tobirama Senju was becoming the tyrant Yanbai had predicted.
• Madara Uchiha sensed unfamiliar people approaching and wondered whether to take Yanbai away if Tobirama came for him.

Madara Uchiha rejected the idea of defecting and chose to defend Yanbai’s tomb from the intruders. As he unleashed thorny vines and Night Roses around the mausoleum, the disguised shinobi discovered that the flowers drained the life from anything that disturbed the sanctuary.

• Madara Uchiha reasoned that fleeing with Yanbai’s coffin would let Tobirama Senju brand him a defector, so he decided to fight anyone who threatened their home.
• Madara Uchiha awakened his ringed eyes and sent thorny vines through the mausoleum walls toward the intruders.
• The vines killed the noisy animals around the disguised shinobi, and crimson Night Roses bloomed across the tomb’s perimeter.
• The intruders tried to destroy the encroaching vines with a Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, provoking the vines to attack.
• The thorny vines drained a shinobi’s chakra and life force, killing him as the roses grew more vivid.

Madara Uchiha spoke with Cherry Ink and sent animals from the neighboring mountain to trouble Konoha, while shinobi investigating Yanbai’s Mausoleum fought the Thorns and struggled to escape. Qingyan and Longkuan led the retreat, but the growing Thorns kept surrounding them as their chakra ran low.

• Madara Uchiha heard Cherry Ink complain that intruding animals had killed the female rats it had brought over, and he insisted the intruders were responsible.
• Madara Uchiha ordered Cherry Ink to send snakes, rats, insects, and ants from the neighboring mountain to Konoha Shinobi Village to keep Tobirama occupied.
• The shinobi at the Mausoleum fought the living Thorns after their operation was exposed and the barrier was destroyed.
• Qingyan and Longkuan led the remaining Anbu away from the Mausoleum, cutting through the Thorns as they pursued the group.
• The Thorns kept filling every opening and draining the shinobi, leaving Qingyan and Longkuan trapped in a desperate fight with little chakra left.

Tobirama Senju rescued Qingyan, Longkuan, and their surviving companions from Madara Uchiha’s thorn attack, then spoke with Madara at the Memorial Stone. Madara refused to let Tobirama borrow Yanbai’s blood, but gave him a scroll Yanbai had left for his research, leaving Tobirama astonished by its contents.

• Madara Uchiha’s blood-red thorns trapped Qingyan, Longkuan, and their group at the Memorial Stone until Tobirama Senju drove them back with a Water Release technique.
• Tobirama stayed behind as the others escaped, and Madara’s thorns formed his figure before him.
• Tobirama apologized for disturbing Madara and asked to borrow some of Yanbai’s blood for his research.
• Madara explained that Yanbai’s coffin could no longer be opened and revealed that Yanbai had left Tobirama some items.
• Madara’s thorns handed Tobirama a scroll describing the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, and Tobirama wondered how Yanbai had learned of them.

Tobirama Senju read Yanbai's scroll about the dangers of Hashirama and Princess cells, then left the Princess Mausoleum to return to Konoha Shinobi Village. He carried his grief with him but continued onward because he was Hokage.

• Madara Uchiha warned Tobirama Senju to take the scroll and leave Yanbai's resting place undisturbed, threatening to kill anyone who returned.
• Tobirama Senju read that Hashirama cells could grant powerful abilities but carried lethal risks, and that Princess cells could cause severe mental deterioration and endanger others.
• Tobirama Senju understood Yanbai's warning against researching her cells and put the scroll away as dawn broke.
• Tobirama Senju bowed to the Princess Mausoleum, then turned away and walked back toward Konoha Shinobi Village rather than using Flying Thunder God.

Tobirama Senju returned to the Hokage Office and suspected Madara Uchiha had gained Wood Release and youthful vitality from Yanbai’s virus, while doubting Yanbai’s warnings about his cells. Hashirama Senju entrusted Tobirama with a life-enhancing, tailed-beast-suppressing necklace for his unborn grandchild, and Tobirama remained intent on visiting Yanbai’s coffin.

• Tobirama Senju returned to the Hokage Office, told Hashirama Senju he had visited the Memorial Stone, and reported that Madara Uchiha had learned Wood Release.
• Tobirama Senju connected Madara Uchiha’s Wood Release and youthful appearance to Yanbai’s virus, then wondered whether Yanbai had exaggerated the danger of his cells.
• Tobirama Senju told Hashirama Senju that Madara Uchiha claimed Yanbai’s coffin lid had sealed itself shut, and Tobirama resolved to investigate.
• Hashirama Senju gave Tobirama Senju a Wood Release chakra necklace for Yoya and Amame’s unborn child, explaining that it could extend life and suppress tailed beasts.

Yanbai learned that Madara had given Tobirama the Impure World Reincarnation techniques and erased Yanbai’s disturbing notes. Following Cherry Ink’s lead, Hashirama discovered Anbu carrying a living person into a hidden cave research facility and wondered what Tobirama was researching.

• Yanbai discussed Madara’s fate with Black Zetsu, who reported that Madara had given Tobirama the Impure World Reincarnation techniques but erased Yanbai’s depraved notes.
• Black Zetsu told Yanbai that Cherry Ink was keeping Tobirama occupied, then left to help Madara.
• Hashirama used Wood Clones around Konoha while Cherry Ink led him to investigate Tobirama’s activities.
• Hashirama and Cherry Ink followed four masked Anbu carrying a sack out of Konoha and into a dark cave.
• Hashirama saw the Anbu hurry deeper into the cave with the living person and suspected Tobirama was conducting research there.

Hashirama Senju descended into Tobirama Senju’s underground Research Base after learning that a person had been carried inside, and confronted him about his forbidden experiments. Tobirama revealed that Yanbai had already perfected the revenant-summoning technique and deliberately arranged for Hashirama to witness it, leaving Hashirama poised to supervise Tobirama’s research.

• Hashirama Senju entered the Research Base and rode its Elevator down to the underground laboratories, where he confronted the four Anbu who had carried the sack.
• Tobirama Senju met Hashirama with a Shadow Clone and warned him not to endanger the researchers by using Tree World Advent underground.
• Tobirama led Hashirama into a hall of preserved specimens and said that all the bodies came from foreigners, not people from the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama explained that he had been researching a technique to summon revenants partly for Yanbai, whose fate remained uncertain.
• Tobirama revealed that Yanbai had already perfected the technique and sent it to him through Madara Uchiha, expecting Hashirama to catch him testing it and supervise his future research.

Tobirama Senju demonstrated Impure World Reincarnation to Hashirama Senju, using a captured Takigakure spy to revive their father, Butsuma Senju. After asking Butsuma about Yanbai, Tobirama took him to see the flourishing Konoha Shinobi Village, where Butsuma found peace and passed on again.

• Tobirama Senju used a captured Takigakure spy as the sacrifice to summon Butsuma Senju through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hashirama Senju demanded that Tobirama Senju stop researching the jutsu, but Tobirama explained that Yanbai had already perfected it.
• Tobirama Senju asked Butsuma Senju what Yanbai had told him before his death, and Butsuma recalled that Yanbai had called himself a god's child and spoken of his feelings for a boy from the Uchiha Clan.
• Tobirama Senju led Butsuma Senju out of the laboratory to see Konoha Shinobi Village, and Butsuma's soul ascended contentedly.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju released their clones, and the two brothers arguing in the Hokage Office reacted to the information they received.

Tobirama Senju apologized to Yanbai and helped repair the barrier around his tomb, but the thorns attacked him when he touched the coffin. Madara Uchiha stopped them and accused Tobirama of still not giving up.

• Hashirama Senju stopped himself from beating Tobirama Senju after Tobirama reminded him that Yanbai had built the Hokage Office, and Hashirama ordered Tobirama to seal the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu as a forbidden technique.
• Tobirama Senju brought Hashirama Senju to the Memorial Stone cemetery, where they met Madara Uchiha and repaired the barrier.
• Tobirama Senju collected the dried corpses from the previous night and followed Madara Uchiha to Yanbai's tomb with Hashirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju told Yanbai's coffin about the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and apologized for his mistakes.
• When Tobirama Senju touched the coffin, thorns wrapped around and wounded his arm until Madara Uchiha calmed them; white roses then bloomed atop the coffin.
• Madara Uchiha told Tobirama Senju that he still had not given up.

Madara Uchiha watched Tobirama Senju leave after refusing to let him near Yanbai’s sealed coffin, while Konoha’s marriage alliance with the Daimyo’s family unraveled. The chapter ended with baby Tsunade arriving in Konoha after Amame and Yoya were reported dead, leaving Mito and Tobirama convinced that a conspiracy had taken place.

• Tobirama Senju apologized to Madara Uchiha for disturbing him, and Hashirama Senju led his brother away from Yanbai’s coffin.
• Tobirama Senju focused on developing Konoha Shinobi Village while Hashirama Senju struggled with the marriage alliance between Yoya and Princess Amame.
• Senju Toka insisted that Amame follow proper etiquette, but Mito later agreed to Amame’s demands about the wedding and married life.
• After Hashirama Senju sent Amame a necklace, Yoya and Amame’s daughter Tsunade was brought to Konoha with the necklace still attached to her swaddling.
• Tobirama Senju reported that Amame had died after childbirth and Yoya had died soon afterward, while Mito rejected the explanation and suspected a conspiracy.

At the funeral for Yoya and Amame, Tobirama Senju and Konoha seethed over the deaths, and war seemed imminent. Uchiha Izuna reunited with Madara Uchiha, revealed his visions of their coming deaths and Yanbai’s role, and received Yanbai’s Healing Crystal before Tobirama confronted Madara.

• Tobirama Senju attended the funeral for Yoya and Amame as Konoha mourned and grew angry at the daimyo.
• Uchiha Izuna met Madara Uchiha near the Princess Mausoleum and told him that his eyes had foreseen Hashirama’s death and Madara’s death.
• Uchiha Izuna accused “that god” of plotting the deaths to spark war and said that Yanbai’s help had delayed their fates.
• Madara Uchiha told Uchiha Izuna to keep living and protect Konoha, warned him not to reveal everything he saw, and gave him Yanbai’s Healing Crystal.
• After Uchiha Izuna left, Madara Uchiha addressed Tobirama Senju, who emerged from hiding and asked what they had discussed.

Hashirama Senju traveled to the Daimyo's Palace to demand answers about Yoya and Amame's deaths, where he discovered Madara was controlling the Daimyo. Madara described the original tragic fate that Yanbai had changed and revealed he had made an agreement with a god to free Yanbai, leaving Hashirama to fear what Madara planned to do.

• Hashirama Senju arrived alone at the Daimyo's Palace and was led to meet the Daimyo, who stood with his back turned.
• The Daimyo claimed Amame died in childbirth and Yoya chose to die with her, but Hashirama Senju said he did not believe him.
• The Daimyo told a version of Hashirama Senju and Madara's history that omitted Yanbai, then turned to reveal the Mangekyō Sharingan controlling his body.
• Madara apologized for Yoya's death and said he had only used the Daimyo's body to speak with Hashirama Senju, while insisting the deaths belonged to their original fate.
• Madara described how Konoha and its allied clans would have suffered in the original timeline, then said Yanbai had been imprisoned by a god and he had made an agreement to free him.
• Hashirama Senju asked what Madara planned to do, troubled that he had acted without consulting him.

Madara told Hashirama that a god demanded both their deaths to ensure the birth of two descendants, then arranged for the Daimyo to take the blame and teleported Hashirama to the Naka River. Hashirama faced Madara in the storm, and their battle began.

• Madara, speaking through a controlled Daimyo, told Hashirama that they both had to die under a god's condition tied to Yanbai and two descendants.
• Madara laid out a plan to frame the Land of Fire's Daimyo for Yoya's death, provoke a fight, and let Konoha take control of the Land of Fire after Hashirama and Madara died.
• Madara used a technique to teleport Hashirama from the Daimyo's Palace to the stormy Naka River.
• Hashirama found Madara waiting in the rain and attacked with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.
• Madara said he would avoid using his usual signature techniques and countered with Shinra Tensei.

Madara Uchiha used unfamiliar, invisible techniques to pursue and overpower Hashirama Senju, who fled toward the coast and tried to counter with clones and Wood Release. The fight ended with Madara threatening to fire Tailed Beast Bombs at the Land of Water.

• Hashirama Senju survived Madara Uchiha's invisible repulsive attacks and fled toward the coast while dodging through the forest.
• Hashirama Senju created Wood Clones and used a Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, but Madara Uchiha repelled the shuriken.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and Madara Uchiha expanded a repulsive force that shattered the trees.
• Madara Uchiha suddenly appeared beside Hashirama Senju and attacked with a kunai, then blasted him away at close range with Shinra Tensei.
• Madara Uchiha noticed Hashirama Senju had reached the coast and threatened to summon the Nine-Tails and fire Tailed Beast Bombs toward the Land of Water.

Madara Uchiha tested his new Rinnegan abilities against Hashirama Senju in a brutal duel, gradually wearing him down. As Hashirama charged for a final Taijutsu clash, Madara murmured a farewell and activated Limbo: Border Jail again.

• Madara Uchiha used his Rinnegan abilities and Wood Release against Hashirama Senju while testing Limbo: Border Jail's powers and limits.
• Hashirama Senju countered Madara's attacks with Wood Clones and Sage techniques, then summoned True Several Thousand Hands.
• Madara Uchiha shattered many of the Buddha's arms, teleported behind Hashirama, and struck him with black blades and Shinra Tensei.
• Hashirama Senju's strength failed after his great technique, and the cold rain left him weakened as Madara Uchiha challenged him for his last words.
• Hashirama Senju charged at Madara Uchiha, who glanced at the moon, said, "Good night, Hashirama," and activated Limbo: Border Jail.

Tobirama Senju confronted Madara Uchiha about his secret plan to resurrect himself while preparing to carry out their arrangements. After Madara survived a battle with Hashirama Senju, Tobirama reached the valley and began treating his brother, who awoke in a confused and critical state.

• Tobirama Senju told Madara Uchiha that they would soon control the Daimyo's Palace and asked whether Hashirama Senju had to die.
• Madara Uchiha refused to reveal how he would return to life, admitted he did not trust Tobirama Senju, and asked him to bring Hashirama home from the valley.
• Tobirama Senju accepted Madara's honesty and left for the valley while Madara's Shadow Clone vanished.
• Madara Uchiha returned injured, drew a blind Sharingan from his arm, and told Black Zetsu that their agreement had been fulfilled.
• Hashirama Senju, near death in the valley, awoke as Tobirama Senju performed emergency treatment and vowed to save him.

Hashirama Senju woke after nearly half a month of recovery and learned that Konoha had taken control of the Daimyo's Palace after the conflict. He asked after Madara Uchiha, while Tobirama Senju concealed what had happened and Konoha prepared to consolidate its power across the Land of Fire.

• Hashirama Senju woke in Konoha, healed by a clone of the Katsuyu Sage, as Mito welcomed him back and Tobirama Senju told him he was not in heaven.
• Tobirama Senju explained that the Land of Fire's internal conflict had ended with the male heirs of the Daimyo's Palace gone and a princess selected by Tobirama taking the daimyo's position.
• Hashirama Senju recognized that Madara Uchiha's prediction had come true and reflected that protecting peace required him to accept painful compromises.
• Hashirama Senju learned he had been asleep for almost half a month, then asked Tobirama Senju how Madara Uchiha was; Tobirama claimed Madara stayed with Yanbai and never left the house.
• Tobirama Senju kept Madara Uchiha's true condition secret while planning to use the conflict to strengthen Konoha's control over the Land of Fire and weaken rival nations.