Chapter Summaries

Gekkō Raito unleashed a coordinated assault using all five elemental releases and overwhelmed the four Kage-level fighters, though the Fourth Raikage resisted and Tsunade healed the wounded. The Tsuchikage ordered everyone to spread out, and Gaara trapped Raito in a crushing mass of sand.

• Gekkō Raito turned shattered ice into shuriken and redirected them against the Raikage's group.
• Gekkō Raito used the Great Sage's calculations, ROOM, and all five elemental releases to bind and injure the fighters before engulfing them in flames.
• The Fourth Raikage survived the attack with Lightning Release Chakra Mode and struck at Gekkō Raito, while the other fighters were left injured.
• Tsunade summoned Katsuyu and healed Kakashi and the other wounded fighters.
• The Tsuchikage ordered the group to spread out, and Gaara attacked Gekkō Raito with sand before crushing him with Sand Binding Coffin.

Raito overwhelmed the assembled shinobi by devouring Ōnoki’s Dust Release, catching and redirecting lightning, and turning Kurotsuchi’s Water Release against her. As Might Guy and Kakashi confronted him, Raito broke Kakashi’s Lightning Blade and threw its lightning back at him.

• Raito teleported in front of Ōnoki, devoured his Dust Release, and acquired the technique.
• Raito caught Darui’s Lightning Release and hurled it back, then altered Kurotsuchi’s Water Release and kicked it into her.
• Raito cut apart a hill with Zangetsu and used ROOM to send the severed hill flying toward the shinobi.
• Might Guy attacked Raito, and Kakashi joined him by blocking Raito’s sword with Lightning Blade.
• Raito sliced Kakashi’s Lightning Blade in half, caught its explosive lightning, and threw it back at Kakashi.

Raito fought the Five Great Nations’ leaders and their allies, using Kotoamatsukami: Ultimate to counter their attacks. After Deidara saved Ōnoki from Raito’s sword, the unharmed Raito faced the Fourth Raikage’s Liger Bomb.

• Ōnoki caught and lowered the hill Raito had sliced away, while Katsuyu restored his chakra and stamina.
• The Raikage, sand, and iron sand attacked Raito, but he blocked them with ice walls, then teleported toward Sasori and turned Sasori’s iron sand defenses into smoke.
• Might Guy intercepted Raito and declared that he would fight to protect Konoha and the Hokage, so Raito challenged him.
• Raito altered Ōnoki’s Dust Release so he could seize and throw it, then teleported in front of Ōnoki and swung his sword.
• Deidara detonated a clay bomb beside Raito, saving Ōnoki, but Raito emerged unharmed behind Antibacterial Armament.
• The Fourth Raikage attacked Raito from above with Liger Bomb.

Raito beheaded the Fourth Raikage inside his ROOM, then Kakashi explained how the domain let Raito control space. Might Guy challenged Raito and wagered that Konoha would withdraw from the war if Guy lost, leaving the other villages shocked by the proposed deal.

• Raito beheaded the Fourth Raikage, but the Raikage remained alive and painless inside Raito's domain.
• Tsunade explained that Raito's beheading ability did not kill its victims, and Kakashi identified the barrier as ROOM and described its powers.
• Raito confirmed that ROOM enabled his teleportation and spatial manipulation, while Gaara and Kakashi discussed its range and limits.
• Might Guy challenged Raito to a fight that would end when either side surrendered, and Raito returned the Raikage's head to Darui.
• Guy wagered that Raito would return the captured tailed beasts if Guy won, while Konoha would withdraw from the war if Guy lost, prompting alarm among the allied village leaders.

Raito accepted Might Guy’s challenge, and the two began a fierce battle as the other Kage watched. After Guy’s Sixth Gate attack failed to stop Raito, he opened the Seventh Gate, leaving the battlefield stunned by his power.

• Raito accepted the wager to fight Might Guy despite Fugaku warning him about the Eight Gates of Restriction.
• Guy opened the Sixth Gate and unleashed Morning Peacock against Raito.
• Raito revealed the immense chakra of multiple tailed beasts and destroyed Guy’s flaming punches with a black-and-red lightning slash.
• Raito counterattacked and struck Guy’s shoulder, narrowly missing a vital spot as Guy dodged.
• Guy opened the Seventh Gate, the Gate of Wonder, and his blue energy shook the battlefield.

Gekkō Raito met Guy’s Seventh Gate Daytime Tiger head-on and emerged uninjured, leaving the watching ninja stunned by his strength. Guy was left panting and questioning how Gekkō Raito had stopped his ultimate attack.

• Guy unleashed his Seventh Gate Daytime Tiger at the charging Gekkō Raito.
• Gekkō Raito used Armament Haki and black-and-red lightning to halt the tiger’s charge without touching it.
• The clash unleashed immense explosions and shock waves that forced the watching ninja to retreat.
• ROOM dissipated, and Gekkō Raito emerged unscathed from the smoke, standing in a crater with a furrow behind him.
• Gekkō Raito praised Guy’s Taijutsu as Guy panted and wondered how his attack had been blocked.
• Kankuro struggled to believe that Guy’s world-shattering move had failed to harm Gekkō Raito.

Guy opened the Gate of Death and unleashed Evening Elephant against Gekkō Raito, who met the attacks with Haki. Guy’s escalating strikes overwhelmed Gekkō Raito’s defenses and blasted him into a mountain, leaving his condition unclear.

• Guy praised Gekkō Raito for blocking the Daytime Tiger and agreed to continue their fight.
• Guy opened the Eighth Gate, releasing a crimson vapor as he burned through his life force.
• Gekkō Raito unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking the watching Land of Iron samurai unconscious, then prepared to face Guy.
• Guy began Evening Elephant, firing successive compressed-air punches at Gekkō Raito.
• Gekkō Raito blocked the first strike with infused Haki but struggled against the later blows, and his Antibacterial Armament barrier shattered.
• Guy’s attack sent Gekkō Raito crashing into a mountain, collapsing much of its summit.

Gekkō Raito survived Might Guy’s Evening Elephant and rapidly healed, so Guy used his final technique while Gekkō Raito formed a Ten-Tails Bomb. Their attacks collided in a catastrophic blast, leaving the battlefield devastated as the Fourth Raikage and the others fled for cover.

• Guy’s Evening Elephant badly wounded Gekkō Raito, but Gekkō Raito regenerated almost instantly with his tailed beast chakra.
• Gekkō Raito taunted Guy and unleashed his Ten-Tails chakra to form a powerful Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Guy warned Gekkō Raito that he had one final move left, then launched Night Guy.
• Gekkō Raito fired the Ten-Tails Bomb as Guy’s kick struck, creating a tremendous explosion that tore through the battlefield.
• The Fourth Raikage and the others ran from the spreading shock waves and took shelter behind a boulder.

Raito defeated Might Guy after Guy opened the Gate of Death, then used Six Paths Power to restore him and prevent lasting disability. As Raito left with Hinata and Fugaku, he warned the other villages that Kirigakure would not fear war, while Madara realized Raito possessed Ten-Tails chakra.

• Raito survived Guy's Eight Gates assault and praised him as the strongest taijutsu user.
• Kakashi found Guy near death, but Raito used Six Paths Power to revive him and rapidly heal his body.
• Raito departed with Hinata and Fugaku, warning the Fourth Raikage and the other leaders that Kirigakure was ready for war.
• Tsunade ordered Kakashi to take Guy back to Konoha for treatment, while the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and Gaara reconsidered fighting Kirigakure.
• Madara recognized the Ten-Tails chakra within Raito and wondered how he had obtained it.

Raito flew back to Kirigakure with the captured Tailed Beasts, eager to obtain the Shinigami Mask and claim the remaining Nine-Tails chakra. Left behind, the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Gaara agreed to seek peace with Kirigakure by trading away their Tailed Beasts, while Ōnoki planned for a chance to reclaim them in the future.

• Madara wondered how Raito had gained Ten-Tails chakra and remained frustrated that Obito had not awakened the Rinnegan.
• Raito sensed someone watching him, then hurried toward Kirigakure after Kyuji reported finding the Shinigami Mask.
• Raito used a water dragon to carry himself, Fugaku, and Hinata through the sky toward Kirigakure.
• Mifune advised the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Gaara to propose exchanging their Tailed Beasts for lasting peace rather than fight Raito.
• The three leaders agreed to contact Kirigakure, and Ōnoki added a clause allowing them to demand the Tailed Beasts back if peace ended.

Gekkō Raito discovered that Asura’s and Indra’s chakra had entered his body and greatly strengthened his Six Paths power. He concluded that the chakra had instinctively chosen him as a stronger vessel, then considered how Six Paths power persisted across the Shinobi World.

• Gekkō Raito felt an alarming surge of Six Paths power and asked Great Sage to investigate two unfamiliar chakra sources.
• Great Sage ruled out outside interference and identified the sources as chakra matching Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.
• Gekkō Raito deduced that the chakra belonged to Asura and Indra, and Great Sage confirmed he had acquired both powers.
• Great Sage reasoned that the chakra had instinctively chosen Gekkō Raito as a vessel because of his strength.
• Gekkō Raito reflected on the Six Paths power scattered among the tailed beasts, the reincarnations of Asura and Indra, and the Sage of Six Paths, then concluded Hamura Otsutsuki’s chakra endured elsewhere because he had left the Shinobi World.

Gekkō Raito resolved to pursue the Ten-Tails and develop his Six Paths Power while waiting for Kyuji. Elsewhere, Madara Uchiha, Obito, and Orochimaru identified bloodline purity as the likely reason Obito had failed to awaken the Rinnegan and planned to target Uchiha outside Kirigakure.

• Gekkō Raito concluded that he needed the Ten-Tails to complete his Six Paths Power and chose to spend the wait developing his abilities.
• Orochimaru found no breakthrough in Obito's Rinnegan experiments and suggested that Obito's Uchiha bloodline was not pure enough.
• Madara Uchiha agreed that bloodline purity could explain why Obito had failed to evolve his eyes.
• Madara Uchiha told Obito and Orochimaru that the Uchiha Clan had been resurrected and now lived in Kirigakure.
• Obito warned that approaching Kirigakure would risk a fight with Gekkō Raito, and Madara agreed they needed to be cautious.
• Orochimaru proposed ambushing Uchiha who left the village, and Madara approved the plan.

Black Zetsu reached the moon and discovered the Ōtsutsuki Clan, hoping to use their power to free his mother and defeat Gekkō Raito. Meanwhile, Raito summoned Minato Namikaze through Impure World Reincarnation and began explaining why he had brought him back.

• Madara could no longer sense Black Zetsu and wondered whether Zetsu had developed an independent will.
• Black Zetsu possessed a Hyuga branch family ninja, traveled to the moon, and secretly followed the Ōtsutsuki Clan, believing their power could help him defeat Gekkō Raito.
• Raito strengthened his passive skills while waiting for Kyuji's right-hand man to return with a Shinigami Mask and a worn short blade.
• Raito performed the ritual, released Minato Namikaze's soul, and used a White Zetsu Clone as the sacrifice for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Minato recognized Raito as the Sixth Mizukage, and Raito reassured him that Konoha was safe and said Naruto was his friend.

Gekkō Raito extracted the Yin Nine-Tails from Minato, revived him, and sent him to Konoha to see Naruto. He then summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and used the Tailed Beasts taken from his Jinchūriki to resurrect the Ten-Tails, absorbing its Six Paths Power.

• Gekkō Raito used Glutton to take the Yin Nine-Tails from Minato and absorbed its Chakra.
• Gekkō Raito revived Minato, who rushed toward Konoha to see Naruto.
• Gekkō Raito ordered Kyuji to warn the Jinchūriki that their Tailed Beasts would be temporarily requisitioned.
• Gekkō Raito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and fed it the Yin Nine-Tails and Chakra extracted from the other Jinchūriki.
• The statue transformed into the Ten-Tails, and Gekkō Raito absorbed its surging Six Paths Power.

Raito began a three-month fusion of the native Ten-Tails and the Degenerate Ten-Tails while placing Kirigakure under Mei Terumi’s authority. Madara and Obito learned that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had been summoned away and suspected Raito was preparing to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Raito decided to fuse the two Ten-Tails, and the Great Sage estimated the uninterrupted process would take three months.
• Raito ordered Kyuji to give Mei Terumi full authority over Kirigakure and told the village to resist any attacks from Kumogakure, Iwagakure, or Sunagakure.
• Raito sealed himself inside an absolute exclusion zone and began the fusion as the two Ten-Tails clashed and merged on a microscopic level.
• White Zetsu told Madara and Obito that someone had summoned away the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, leading them to conclude that the Rinnegan still existed.
• Madara suspected Raito intended to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and told Obito to obtain more Uchiha material so he could awaken the Rinnegan and revive Madara.
• Orochimaru reported that Minato Namikaze had left Kirigakure’s territory, while Obito guessed that Raito had revived him for Naruto Uzumaki.

Minato Namikaze and Hashirama were revived and returned to Konoha, where the shocked patrol ninjas recognized them. As Hashirama explained the tense standoff between Kirigakure and three major villages, Minato learned that the shinobi world was on the brink of conflict.

• Minato Namikaze appeared in Konoha, startling two patrol ninjas who had been killing birds to prevent Gekkō Raito's Cloud Pigeons from spying.
• Hashirama arrived and recognized himself in the First Hokage statue on Hokage Rock, while Minato realized who he was.
• Minato and Hashirama confirmed that both had been revived, and Hashirama told the patrol ninjas to inform Tsunade of Minato's return.
• Hashirama described Kirigakure's cold war with Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure as he and Minato headed toward Konoha's central district.

Minato learned that Kirigakure had extracted the Yin half of the Nine-Tails from him, leaving Raito with the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts. After returning to Konoha, Minato found Naruto, while Mei Terumi assigned the Uchiha Clan a dangerous mission to investigate the other villages.

• Hashirama told Minato that Might Guy had opened the Eighth Gate but still failed to defeat the Mizukage, and that Kirigakure had captured eight Tailed Beasts.
• Minato realized the Mizukage had extracted the Yin Nine-Tails chakra sealed inside him, and Hashirama warned that Raito might be planning something enormous.
• Minato decided to see Naruto before visiting Tsunade, and Hashirama learned that Naruto was Minato's son.
• Mei Terumi put the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist in charge of defending Kirigakure while Raito trained in seclusion, then called for an investigation of the other villages' war preparations.
• Uchiha Fugaku volunteered the Uchiha Clan for the dangerous mission, and Minato found Naruto sitting alone in a Konoha park.
• Naruto told Minato that he could sense him because they both carried Nine-Tails chakra.

Naruto told Minato that Raito had once been their Konoha classmate and that the village leadership had handed him over to Kirigakure, while Minato struggled to process the revelation. As Sasuke departed Kirigakure, Orochimaru and Obito prepared to hunt him, and Black Zetsu manipulated an Ōtsutsuki clansman into helping resurrect their ancestor’s mother.

• Minato reunited with Naruto and explained that Raito had taken the Nine-Tails Chakra from him, but Naruto calmly said Raito only wanted it to develop new ninjutsu.
• Naruto revealed that Raito had been his Konoha Ninja Academy classmate and that the village leadership had given him up to Kirigakure, leaving Minato stunned.
• Naruto took Minato to get ramen and then brought him back to his cramped apartment, prompting Minato to wonder what had happened to his old home.
• Fugaku sent Sasuke and three Uchiha clansmen away from Kirigakure, while Orochimaru and Obito decided to hunt Sasuke and Madara joined them.
• Black Zetsu possessed an Ōtsutsuki clansman and persuaded him that resurrecting their ancestor’s mother would grant great power and access to the Ōtsutsuki Main Family.

Black Zetsu plotted the return of Kaguya while Gekkō Raito fused two Ten-Tails in a sealed chamber. After three months, Glutton evolved into Lord of Gluttony, and Degenerate fully repaired itself.

• Black Zetsu discovered that a Hyuga shinobi’s Byakugan had repaired deficiencies in the Moon Ōtsutsuki Clan’s power and plotted to return to the Shinobi World.
• Sasuke led his clansmen along a dangerous border to investigate the Three Great Shinobi Villages.
• Gekkō Raito let Glutton absorb both Ten-Tails during his experiment, whereupon the skill formed a giant black snake within his inner world.
• After three months, Great Sage announced that Glutton had evolved into Lord of Gluttony and gained Soul Devouring, Zero-Tails Summoning, and Perfect Mimicry.
• Great Sage announced that Degenerate had fully repaired itself, leaving Gekkō Raito with three active skills in complete form.

After emerging from three months of seclusion, Gekkō Raito gave Kyuji Nine-Tails Chakra and learned that the other shinobi villages had sought peace talks with Kirigakure. Mei Terumi explained that the proposed treaty would leave the tailed beasts in Kirigakure but let the other villages reclaim them if Kirigakure broke the peace first.

• Gekkō Raito tested the Zero-Tails' Dark Chakra and decided to use the Food Chain network to make Kyuji a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki.
• Gekkō Raito gave Kyuji Nine-Tails Chakra remotely, then summoned him inside and asked for news from the past three months.
• Kyuji told Gekkō Raito that the Three Great Shinobi Villages had sent envoys seeking peace talks with Kirigakure.
• Gekkō Raito went to Mei Terumi's office, where she complained about handling his work while he was in seclusion.
• Mei Terumi explained that Konoha had sealed itself off after Gekkō Raito resurrected the Fourth Hokage and drained his Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Mei Terumi described the proposed treaty: Kirigakure could keep the tailed beasts if it agreed not to start a war, while the other villages could reclaim them if Kirigakure broke the treaty first.