Chapter Summaries

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.

Madara Uchiha mourned Yanbai as the shinobi villages prepared for the possibility of war, while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju discussed Konoha’s future and Tobirama’s refusal to marry. The chapter ended with Hashirama wondering whether Tobirama’s strange view of tears had rubbed off on him.

• Madara Uchiha brought Yanbai's coffin outside in the snow as Black Zetsu reported that the villages were expanding their forces amid uncertainty over Hashirama Senju’s health and funding.
• Madara Uchiha dismissed the villages’ hopes of profiting from Hashirama Senju’s death and questioned whether true peace existed.
• Hashirama Senju held six-month-old Tsunade while Tobirama Senju reported on Konoha’s situation and said he planned to hand over his position in a year.
• Hashirama Senju urged Tobirama Senju to think about starting a family, but Tobirama said he considered his brothers’ children and grandchildren his own.
• Tobirama Senju explained that Yanbai’s teachings had left him thinking of tears as having the same composition as urine, making him avoid women who cried.
• Hashirama Senju silently reconsidered how he viewed tears after remembering that Tsunade had just cried.

As Hashirama Senju’s health declined, he reconciled with Madara Uchiha and spent his remaining days gambling with Madara and little Tsunade. After Tsunade rolled a winning throw, Hashirama returned to Mito and died, and Konoha gathered to mourn him.

• After the villages copied Konoha’s reforms, Hashirama Senju retired and began visiting Madara Uchiha to make peace and gamble with little Tsunade.
• Madara Uchiha warned Hashirama that Tsunade’s winning streak foretold his death, but Hashirama kept gambling with her.
• When Tobirama Senju announced that Mito was pregnant again, Madara urged Hashirama to return to her, and Tobirama teleported Hashirama and Tsunade away.
• Madara Uchiha promised Tobirama Senju he would attend Hashirama’s funeral, while vowing to finish everything before his own death.
• Hashirama Senju died, Konoha mourned him, and Tobirama presided over the funeral as Itama became leader of the Senju Clan.

After Hashirama Senju's funeral, Madara Uchiha discovered that Tobirama Senju had secretly taken Yanbai's coffin and withdrew his trust in him. Months later, war spread across the Shinobi World, and Tobirama reported that Kumogakure had declared war on Konoha.

• Madara Uchiha confronted Tobirama Senju about stealing Yanbai's coffin and refused to reveal the secret of resurrection.
• Tobirama Senju returned Yanbai's coffin to the Princess Mausoleum, but Madara Uchiha stopped speaking to him.
• Several months after Hashirama Senju's death, fighting broke out between Kirigakure and Iwagakure, with the Land of Fire between them.
• Tobirama Senju appeared at the Princess Mausoleum and told Madara Uchiha that Kumogakure had declared war on Konoha.

Konoha’s leaders prepared for Kumogakure’s declared war by using the Land of Fire’s economic reach and military forces to pressure the Land of Lightning and secure the borders. Tobirama Senju issued the first phase of the war plan, while privately hoping the conflict would test how much Konoha had changed.

• Konoha’s clan leaders and officials gathered in a genjutsu conference room as Uchiha Izuna explained the routes enemy villages would need to take to reach the Land of Fire.
• The attendees discussed Kumogakure’s declaration of war and concluded that it still viewed the conflict through the old patron-and-clan model.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Konoha to halt exports to nobles in the Land of Lightning, restrict border crossings, and deploy elite shinobi to assist the border troops.
• Tobirama Senju suspended foreign nobles’ access to the Hot Springs Bathhouse and announced further measures to apply economic pressure while preparing Konoha’s forces.
• Tobirama Senju privately hoped war would break out so Konoha could test the progress it had made over the past decade.

Madara Uchiha reviewed intelligence as the Land of Fire prepared for war and neighboring nations made moves against Konoha. He realized that the Second Raikage’s request for an alliance was likely a scheme to kill Tobirama Senju.

• The Land of Fire’s daimyo learned that foreign nations had stockpiled its goods and rallied the populace to prepare for war.
• Madara Uchiha read reports that Sunagakure was advancing through the Land of Rivers, whose daimyo ceded territory to the Land of Fire in exchange for protection.
• Konoha dispatched Uchiha Izuna against Sunagakure, while Madara doubted he had any role left to play and wondered how he could die safely.
• Madara learned that Iwagakure and Kirigakure had stopped fighting after their Second Kage killed each other, and that Kinkaku and Ginkaku led Kumogakure’s pro-war faction.
• Madara read that the Second Raikage had asked Tobirama Senju for an alliance and concluded that the Raikage intended to lure Tobirama to his death.

Tobirama Senju explained to Madara Uchiha why Konoha would reject the Raikage’s alliance and exploit the war to expand the Land of Fire. Madara realized that this Tobirama and the current Konoha were far different from the fate he had feared, as Tobirama laid out plans to use tailed beasts and other forces against their enemies.

• Tobirama Senju arrived at the Princess Mausoleum, and Madara Uchiha asked what he intended to do about the Raikage’s proposal.
• Tobirama Senju said the Land of Fire would reject the alliance and described plans to take territory from small nations while claiming to act in self-defense.
• Tobirama Senju explained that the nine tailed beasts were ready to support Konoha’s borders and that Izuna had gone to the Kumogakure Battlefield with Nine-Tails and Shukaku.
• Tobirama Senju said he might use Impure World Reincarnation to summon the dead for suicide attacks, aiming to end the war while saving resources and making their enemies pay.

After Tobirama Senju left, Madara Uchiha worried that fate would still lead Tobirama to danger in Kumogakure. Meanwhile, Tsunade grieved for her great-grandfather at the Memorial Stone and left believing he might still be alive, unaware that someone watched her.

• Madara Uchiha suspected Tobirama Senju would still travel to Kumogakure and asked Black Zetsu to keep watch over him.
• Tsunade ran away to the Memorial Stone Cemetery, got lost in the rain, and sheltered among the roses and Thorns.
• Tsunade remembered her great-grandfather’s death and funeral, including how she had torn flowers from his coffin while insisting he was not dead.
• Tsunade decided to grow up and search for her missing grandpa, then picked up a wild fruit and walked away as a dark figure watched her.

Madara told Tobirama that Tsunade’s disappearance could be tied to Kumogakure and prepared to help recover her, even at the cost of his own life. Before dawn, Tobirama learned that Kumogakure had indeed captured Tsunade.

• Tobirama searched for the missing Tsunade and asked Madara whether she had come to the Princess Mausoleum.
• Madara admitted Tsunade had reached the Memorial Stone but had left without finding the mausoleum entrance.
• Madara warned Tobirama that Tsunade might have been taken by Kumogakure and explained how fate could push events toward their original course.
• Madara told Tobirama to prepare for negotiations and offered to accompany him, leaving some of his hair behind in case he died.
• Madara revealed he intended to use a powerful technique against Kumogakure and told Tobirama he could summon him with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu afterward.
• Before dawn, Tobirama received confirmation that Tsunade was in Kumogakure’s hands.

Madara Uchiha and Tobirama Senju traveled toward Kumogakure, where Tobirama went to retrieve Tsunade after Black Zetsu had delivered her to the Second Raikage. Madara used Flower of Thorns to kill those in their path, and the chapter ended as he activated Limbo: Border Jail at Kumogakure.

• Black Zetsu secretly took Tsunade to Kumogakure, told the Second Raikage who she was, and returned to Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha used Flower of Thorns on hidden figures in a snowy forest, killing them and restoring Tobirama Senju's depleted chakra.
• Tobirama Senju used Flying Thunder God to travel with Madara toward Kumogakure, where each use of Flower of Thorns replenished his chakra.
• Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha appeared before the Second Raikage, and Tobirama said he had come to collect Tsunade.
• Madara Uchiha bound the Kumogakure shinobi with thorns and drained their life force, then activated Limbo: Border Jail.

Madara Uchiha rescued Tsunade from the Second Raikage and killed him in Kumogakure. As Kumogakure shinobi converged, Madara prepared to eliminate anyone in his way.

• Madara Uchiha seized the Second Raikage and took Tsunade from him, then tossed her to Tobirama Senju, who caught her and fled using Flying Thunder God.
• Madara Uchiha drained the Second Raikage with Wood Release: Flower of Thorns and snapped his neck, killing him.
• An unidentified weapon struck Madara Uchiha's initial Susanoo, but it failed to break through.
• Two horned men and other Kumogakure shinobi arrived and froze at the sight of the Second Raikage's corpse.
• Madara Uchiha, irritated and growing stronger, prepared to kill the Kumogakure shinobi who stood in his way.