Chapter Summaries

Obito obtained Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation scroll and used White Zetsu sacrifices to revive powerful figures from the past. Nagato learned that Su Yu had overwhelmed the Six Paths of Pain, but Madara’s influence helped him regain his resolve and plan to capture the Tailed Beasts.

• Orochimaru verified the scroll’s contents and gave it to Obito, who vanished through a transparent vortex.
• Obito returned to his territory and used White Zetsu as sacrifices to revive powerful figures from past generations.
• Nagato woke after nearly five hours unconscious and told Konan that Su Yu had knocked him out with one punch.
• Konan’s Paper Clone found Itachi, Kisame, and Kakuzu unconscious near a huge rift, then brought them back to Nagato.
• Konan killed an Amegakure Jonin so Nagato could remake the Deva Path in Yahiko’s likeness.
• After Itachi described the fight, Nagato doubted his power against Su Yu, then regained confidence and resolved to obtain all the Tailed Beasts.

Nagato kept Itachi and Kisame in the Akatsuki after Su Yu defeated them, while Kakuzu chose to leave and was killed by Obito. Obito revealed that he had mastered Impure World Reincarnation and argued that Su Yu might not interfere with the Akatsuki’s plan, though Itachi doubted him because Su Yu was close to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Nagato asked the defeated Akatsuki members whether they would stay or leave, and Itachi and Kisame chose to remain while Kakuzu decided to withdraw.
• Obito emerged from a space-time vortex and stabbed Kakuzu through the heart, killing him.
• Kisame recognized the masked Obito as Madara Uchiha, and Obito claimed that Kakuzu’s death would help preserve the Akatsuki’s fighting strength.
• Nagato attacked Obito with Shinra Tensei, but Obito stood unaffected and said they shared the same goal.
• Obito revealed that he had mastered Impure World Reincarnation and suggested Su Yu might not interfere with the Akatsuki’s plan.
• Itachi challenged Obito’s assumption, pointing out that Su Yu seemed close to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Obito and Nagato agreed to capture the remaining Jinchūriki while the powerful Su Yu was not paying attention, and Obito summoned several figures with Impure World Reincarnation. Meanwhile, Shikaku Nara reached Sunagakure and urged Chiyo to believe Konoha’s warning about a coming disaster.

• Obito persuaded Nagato that they should seize the chance to capture as many Jinchūriki as possible, then revealed that he had mastered Impure World Reincarnation and raised several coffins from the ground.
• Nagato grew wary of Obito but believed that only his Rinnegan could control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Obito privately planned to use Nagato and eventually become the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki himself.
• Obito and Nagato decided to attack Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure at once, leaving Konoha alone because Su Yu was there and the Nine-Tails had to be captured last.
• Shikaku Nara and his two companions arrived in Sunagakure, where Chiyo had taken over the Kazekage’s duties, and presented Hiruzen Sarutobi’s warning.
• Chiyo questioned whether Konoha’s information was true, and Shikaku swore that it was while admitting he could not explain its unusual source.

Chiyo agreed that Sunagakure would attend a meeting if Konoha could persuade the other villages to join. At Iwagakure, Ōnoki rejected Konoha’s alliance proposal and dismissed its envoys, though he ordered tighter security in case the Akatsuki targeted the Jinchūriki.

• Chiyo agreed to attend Konoha’s proposed meeting if the other three shinobi villages could be persuaded.
• Shikaku Nara and his companions left Sunagakure and traveled to Iwagakure with Hiruzen Sarutobi’s letter.
• Ōnoki used his imposing presence to intimidate the envoys, then read Hiruzen’s letter and mocked Konoha’s concerns about the Akatsuki.
• Shikaku tried to explain the Akatsuki threat, but Ōnoki insisted Iwagakure feared nothing and ordered the envoys to leave.
• After the envoys departed, Ōnoki ordered a security increase while refusing to form an alliance and vowing to destroy any Akatsuki who caused trouble in Iwagakure.

Shikaku Nara and his two companions reached Kumogakure to seek an alliance against the Akatsuki, and the Raikage agreed to consider it. Before he could give them an answer, an enemy appeared in the village: the resurrected Third Raikage, brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.

• Shikaku Nara and his companions arrived in Kumogakure and met with the Fourth Raikage.
• The Raikage questioned Konoha’s warning about the Akatsuki and asked whether the alliance could earn him the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Shikaku Nara explained that the Akatsuki’s members were all at least Kage Level, and the Raikage said he would decide by the next morning.
• A messenger reported that enemies had invaded Kumogakure, including someone who looked like the Third Raikage with cracks in his face.
• Shikaku Nara identified the enemy as a product of Impure World Reincarnation, and the Raikage blamed Konoha before rushing to confront his father.

The Third Raikage rampaged through Kumogakure, breaking through its gates and overpowering the Fourth Raikage as he charged toward the Valley of Clouds and Lightning. The Fourth and Killer B launched a Double Lariat against him, and the Third Raikage stood his ground as their attacks closed in.

• The Third Raikage tore through Kumogakure's defenders and smashed through the village gates.
• The Fourth Raikage intercepted his father, but the Third Raikage overpowered him and continued toward the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.
• Yugito Nii transformed into Matatabi and tried to stop the Third Raikage, but he sped past her.
• The Fourth Raikage warned Yugito that enemies were also at the village entrance, and she raced there while he pursued the Third Raikage.
• Killer B joined the Fourth Raikage, and the two attacked the Third Raikage with a Double Lariat as he waited between them.

Killer B and the Fourth Raikage fought the reanimated Third Raikage, but even a Tailed Beast Bomb barely harmed him. Tobirama Senju appeared to join the battle, while White Zetsu captured Yugito and Matatabi at Kumogakure's entrance.

• Killer B transformed into Eight-Tails Gyuki and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the Third Raikage, who survived with only minor marks.
• The Fourth Raikage used One-Finger Nukite to send the Third Raikage flying, but could not pierce his defense.
• Tobirama Senju appeared beside the Third Raikage and scattered Flying Thunder God-marked kunai around the battlefield.
• The Fourth Raikage smashed Tobirama's kunai and charged him while keeping an eye on the marked kunai.
• White Zetsu carried off the unconscious Yugito after the attackers defeated the Kumogakure shinobi and captured Matatabi.

Tobirama Senju overwhelmed Kumogakure’s forces with massive water dragons, but the Fourth Raikage attacked him and survived the assault. Meanwhile, Deidara, Kakuzu, and the resurrected Third Kazekage invaded Sunagakure, where Chiyo struggled to protect the village and Gaara.

• Tobirama Senju raised enormous water dragons to attack the Kumogakure ninja gathered around the Fourth Raikage.
• The Fourth Raikage destroyed several water dragons and charged Tobirama Senju, who escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Deidara, Kakuzu, and the Third Kazekage approached Sunagakure, while Deidara’s clay bombs exploded throughout the village.
• Chiyo mobilized Sunagakure’s defenses and sent ten ninja to guard Gaara.
• The Third Kazekage filled the sky with iron sand, disabled Chiyo’s puppets, and shattered them.

The Third Kazekage, Deidara, and Kakuzu captured Gaara and withdrew from a devastated Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Iwagakure's attackers overwhelmed its defenses and drove Han toward the village's outskirts, while Three-Tails erupted from its lake in Kirigakure, alarming Mei Terumi.

• The Third Kazekage destroyed Chiyo's puppets and killed five Jonin by manipulating their blood and swords.
• Deidara and Kakuzu defeated Gaara's ten Elite Jonin guards, wore down Gaara's sand defense, and captured him after Deidara forced Shukaku back inside.
• White Zetsu escaped with Gaara as the attackers withdrew from Sunagakure, leaving the village devastated and its dead scattered across the ground.
• Iwagakure's Tsuchikage watched five Impure World Reincarnation enemies devastate the village and overwhelm Han, so he urged Han to flee outside the village.
• Han transformed into Five-Tails and rampaged through Iwagakure as the Tsuchikage and others pursued him.
• Three-Tails rose roaring from its lake in Kirigakure, and Mei Terumi gathered ninja to investigate the disturbance.

Mei Terumi confronted five Impure World Reincarnation fighters attacking the Three-Tails and called Kirigakure reinforcements, but Yagura’s Water Mirror Technique created matching duplicates to counter them. She and the other ninja covered the area in mist again, provoking the Three-Tails into leaping from the lake and crushing many duplicates.

• Mei Terumi recognized the cracked, ceramic-like Yagura and his companions as Impure World Reincarnations, then sent up a signal flare for reinforcements.
• Yagura and another fighter moved to attack Mei Terumi, who countered with Lava Release and the Hidden Mist Technique before the Three-Tails dispersed most of the mist.
• A force of more than a thousand Kirigakure ninja arrived, and Yagura used the Water Mirror Technique to create duplicates of them.
• Mei Terumi attacked the duplicates with Boil Release, but her counterpart turned the corrosive mist into acid, and the duplicates emerged from the mirror.
• Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure ninja cast Hidden Mist together, enraging the Three-Tails, which leaped from the lake and crushed a large number of duplicates.

Yagura used a copy of the Three-Tails to devastate Kirigakure’s forces before Isobu was captured. In Kumogakure, the Akatsuki captured the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails, forcing the Fourth Raikage to reconsider an alliance as Shikaku Nara questioned whether Konoha could have fared any better.

• Yagura created a copy of the Three-Tails, whose Tailed Beast Bombs killed and injured many Kirigakure ninja while the Three-Tails fought back.
• Mei Terumi ordered Kirigakure’s remaining fighters to retreat, and Isobu was captured by Yagura and his allies.
• The Third Raikage and Tobirama Senju’s allies defeated the Fourth Raikage’s forces, captured Gyuki, and escaped using Flying Thunder God.
• The Fourth Raikage learned that the Two-Tails had also been captured and decided he had to accept an alliance.
• Shikaku Nara and his companions were alarmed by the Akatsuki’s strength, and Shikaku wondered whether Konoha would have fared any better.

Shikaku Nara and his companions secured the remaining villages’ agreement to unite against the Akatsuki, while Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Iwagakure had also joined. They set the Five Kage Summit for seven days later in the Land of Iron.

• The Raikage agreed to an alliance, and Shikamaru Nara and his companions left Kumogakure for Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi confirmed Kirigakure would join the alliance after learning the Akatsuki had attacked her village.
• Shikaku Nara returned to Konoha and reported that three villages had agreed to unite, while Iwagakure had initially refused.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shikaku Nara that Iwagakure had since sent word agreeing to the alliance.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shikaku Nara set the Five Kage Summit for seven days later in the Land of Iron.

The Akatsuki prepared to seal six captured Jinchūriki while Obito planned to build strength before the Five Great Shinobi Villages could unite against them. After warning Naruto that the Allied Shinobi Forces faced near-impossible odds, Su Yu decided to strengthen Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.

• The Akatsuki gathered six unconscious Jinchūriki and prepared to use the Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals, while Obito considered how to strengthen the group before war began.
• Su Yu told Naruto that the Akatsuki's Impure World Reincarnation forces, especially Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, left the Allied Shinobi Forces with little chance of winning.
• Naruto grew despondent as he considered the villages' lost Jinchūriki and the enemy's powerful fighters.
• Su Yu decided Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura needed a boost and sent Naruto to fetch them.
• Naruto returned with Sasuke and Sakura, who greeted Su Yu excitedly.

As war approached, Su Yu offered Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura special training in Sage Mode and explained its three forms. The three chose different paths, but Su Yu revealed they could learn all three under his guidance.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura eagerly met Su Yu for special training as they anticipated the coming war.
• Su Yu explained how Sage Mode worked and described the strengths of the Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest forms.
• Naruto chose Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode, Sasuke chose Ryūchi Cave's, and Sakura chose Shikkotsu Forest's.
• Su Yu asked why they were choosing only one form and said he could help them master all three.

Su Yu brought Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to Mount Myōboku to train in Sage Mode, where they met Gamabunta, Fukasaku, and the Great Toad Sage Gamamaru. Gamamaru recognized Su Yu as an outlander who had disrupted his prophecy and said he had summoned him simply to see him in person.

• Su Yu transported Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to Mount Myōboku to begin their Sage Mode training.
• Gamabunta confronted the visitors, but Fukasaku recognized Naruto as the boy who had fought Jiraiya to a draw.
• Fukasaku told Su Yu and the others that the Great Elder wanted to meet them and led them to Gamamaru.
• Gamamaru opened his eyes, called Su Yu an outlander, and explained that a dream had revealed Su Yu after his prophecy went wrong.
• Su Yu asked whether Gamamaru wanted revenge for the disrupted prophecy, and Gamamaru said he only wanted to see an existence like Su Yu.

Su Yu secured Gamamaru’s approval for Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to learn Sage Mode on Mount Myōboku, then accelerated time across the mountain so their training could progress faster. Fukasaku and Shima were stunned by the scale of Su Yu’s power as the three began their first lesson.

• Gamamaru recognized that Su Yu could kill him, backed down, and agreed to let Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura train in Sage Mode.
• Fukasaku explained the requirements and dangers of Sage Mode training, then applied toad oil to the three students.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura sat down to begin sensing natural energy while Su Yu watched.
• Su Yu spread a light across Mount Myōboku and told Fukasaku and Shima that ten days would now pass there for every day outside.

Su Yu accelerated time on Mount Myōboku while Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke trained to sense natural energy and master Sage Mode. A month later, the three demonstrated their new abilities in a sparring match that left Sakura’s wide-area techniques looking especially formidable.

• Su Yu accelerated time on Mount Myōboku, shocking Fukasaku and prompting Gamamaru to sense the change.
• Sakura sensed and absorbed natural energy first, but Fukasaku struck it out of her when she began turning into a frog.
• Naruto and Sasuke also began turning into frogs after sensing natural energy, and Fukasaku and Shima knocked the energy out of them.
• A month later, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura completed Sage Mode training at the Toad Oil Waterfall.
• Naruto and Sasuke clashed with a Rasengan and lightning technique, then Sakura attacked them with Sage Art: Imitation of All Things.

After completing Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode training, Su Yu, Naruto, and the others traveled to Ryūchi Cave to meet the White Snake Sage. Naruto began fighting Tagorihime and Ichikishimahime, who vanished into the air as the battle started.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura thanked Fukasaku and Shima after finishing their Sage Mode training, and Su Yu took the group from Mount Myōboku to Ryūchi Cave.
• Manda tried to swallow the visitors, but Su Yu’s gaze terrified him into carrying them deeper into the cave.
• Tagorihime and Ichikishimahime intercepted the group and offered trials before they could meet the White Snake Sage.
• Su Yu refused the trials and ordered Manda to continue, prompting the two women to transform into snake monsters and attack.
• Naruto charged Tagorihime with a chakra ball, and she and Ichikishimahime disappeared into the air.

Naruto used Sage Mode to detect and attack the invisible Tagorihime, but White Snake Sage intervened and summoned the group. White Snake Sage explained that Naruto and the others could not learn Ryūchi Cave’s Senjutsu because they had already mastered Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode.

• Tagorihime attacked Naruto while invisible, and Su Yu told him to use Sage Mode.
• Naruto sensed Tagorihime and Ichikishimahime with Sage Mode and struck at Tagorihime with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
• White Snake Sage stopped the fight and ordered Manda to bring the group to her.
• White Snake Sage recognized Su Yu as an outsider and refused to teach Naruto and the others Ryūchi Cave’s Senjutsu because they had learned Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode.
• White Snake Sage explained that failed Senjutsu students became the stone statues around her after she warned them of the risks.

The White Snake Sage tried to lure Su Yu into learning Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode so she could exploit her chance to devour him. When Su Yu refused, she seized Naruto and the others and threatened their lives, leaving them bound and weakened as she expected him to submit.

• The White Snake Sage explained that Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode was so dangerous that failed candidates became stone statues, then tempted Su Yu to learn it.
• Su Yu refused, saying he could help Naruto and the others master multiple Sage Modes instead.
• The White Snake Sage threatened Naruto and the others, then used Ryūchi Cave’s terrain to bind them with stone pillars and aim spears at their hearts.
• Naruto and the others struggled but found that the pillars were strengthened by natural energy and drained their chakra and stamina.
• The White Snake Sage claimed she could kill them before Su Yu could save them all and believed she had the advantage.