Chapter Summaries

After returning to Konoha, Sasuke used the aftermath of Pain’s attack to replace the Hokage’s political and military authority with a clan-reviewed High Command. The chapter ended with three nations imposing sanctions and demanding the Rinnegan, while Sasuke prepared to expose their past support for Akatsuki.

• Sasuke dismissed concerns about an enemy hiding beneath Konoha and returned with Naruto and Kakashi, while Shikaku reported that the dead had been revived and foreign envoys sought access to the Rinnegan records.
• Sasuke arrived in Konoha and told Fugaku that the High Command would keep the sealed Rinnegan; he also directed Tsunade to prioritize rebuilding the hospital over the Hokage Building.
• Sasuke gathered Konoha’s clan leaders and transferred the village’s military and political authority to a new High Command, while allowing clans to retain their secret techniques and establishing review and impeachment rules.
• Tsunade affixed the Hokage Seal to the new act, which ended the Hokage office when her term expired, and Konoha’s leaders and shinobi pledged obedience to Sasuke as supreme commander.
• Shikaku delivered a joint dispatch announcing trade sanctions and a demand for the Rinnegan from the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Water; Sasuke ordered Konoha to publish records of their dealings with Akatsuki.

Sasuke countered the three nations’ sanctions by exposing their propaganda, controlling food prices, and freezing Kumogakure’s reparations account. Konoha’s investigation uncovered evidence that White Zetsu had helped prepare the campaign against the village before the sanctions began.

• Sasuke ordered the three nations’ joint declaration displayed publicly as reports confirmed they had seized caravans, closed roads, and barred Konoha’s ships.
• Neji exposed a rumor campaign and helped capture a Kumogakure shinobi who had paid merchants to distribute leaflets; Sasuke broadcast the evidence to other nations.
• Sasuke ordered price-gouging shops sealed and their grain requisitioned, then directed Konoha to place cash orders with Sunagakure.
• Sasuke rejected demands from A and Ōnoki to surrender the Rinnegan, froze Kumogakure’s reparations account, and ordered the nations’ secret demands displayed at Konoha’s main gate.
• Sasuke connected earlier rumors to the sanctions and ordered small-nation post stations inspected; a monitor then brought him a chakra-dead piece of White Zetsu stained with fresh ink from the decree.

Sasuke publicly confronted the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Mei Terumi with evidence that their nations had secretly hired the Akatsuki, exposing the connections through ledgers, records, and recovered memories. As the three Kage faced demands for answers, Sasuke revealed a much larger ledger and began a broader investigation.

• Sasuke and Shikaku matched White Zetsu's ink to the Sanctions Decree and used the three-nation declaration to link the Akatsuki's ledger to secret payments from the Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, and Land of Water.
• Sasuke questioned A on the Public Water Mirror about Kumogakure's payment for an Akatsuki attack, and A denied the mission and called the records internal business.
• Sasuke confronted Ōnoki with Iwagakure contracts and records tying Akatsuchi to an assassination mission; Ōnoki stopped calling the evidence forged and agreed to suspend two advisers and admit Land of Grass investigators.
• Mei Terumi acknowledged that nobles had privately dealt with the Akatsuki, while Sasuke presented a shipping permit bearing her office's seal and evidence that missing inspector Mizuki Makoto had been killed.
• Inoichi Yamanaka revealed ledger memories showing representatives from all three nations meeting with Kakuzu, prompting envoys to demand answers and A to accuse Sasuke of retaliation.
• Sasuke unveiled a decade-spanning general ledger of armaments and assassinations and announced that they would examine its contracts one by one.

Sasuke used authenticated Akatsuki ledgers and public inquiries to expose the Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, and Land of Water’s ties to assassinations and weapons supplies, forcing officials to face pressure at home. As the three countries began suspending implicated elders, a snake-sealed letter accused Konoha of forging the ledger and challenged Sasuke to let a dead man speak.

• The Land of Grass envoy confronted Ōnoki over a contract showing Iwagakure and the Land of Earth had profited from mines seized after a former councilor’s murder, and Ōnoki suspended an adviser while agreeing to an investigation.
• A surviving Land of Lightning noble accused A of concealing Kumogakure’s role in an assassination, while Sasuke exposed evidence that Kumogakure had used a false smuggling charge to detain Konoha merchants.
• Mei Terumi revoked the Kawashima Family’s shipping license, suspended the guard chief, and ordered Kirigakure to requisition ships and audit records tied to Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki and A rejected Konoha-led inquiries but agreed to investigations under their own authority, while Sasuke continued releasing records and Kakashi showed footage contradicting Kumogakure’s claims against the merchants.
• Sasuke published Akatsuki’s weapons suppliers and invoked the Counterterrorism Joint Declaration, prompting Kirigakure and Iwagakure to suspend implicated officials and Kumogakure to announce suspensions and questioning by the Daimyo’s Residence.
• A Kumogakure clerk delivered a snake-sealed letter alleging that Konoha had forged Akatsuki’s ledger, with a blood-written challenge asking whether Sasuke dared let a dead man speak.

Sasuke exposed evidence that the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Water had coordinated their sanctions against Konoha, then retaliated by halting key exports and military trade. The chapter ended with Konoha’s caravans still detained and Iwagakure’s border troops threatening to disobey orders if specialized medicines did not arrive within three days.

• Sasuke revealed a secret letter bearing seals from the three nations, while Shikaku presented records linking Kumogakure officers to the detained caravans.
• Mei Terumi disavowed the Maritime Shipping Association’s involvement, while A and Ōnoki defended the sanctions against Konoha.
• Sasuke announced a halt to exports of explosive tag materials, specialized medicine ingredients, and processed chakra metal, and redirected supplies for civilians and wounded people into Konoha’s reserves.
• Sasuke ordered Konoha to reroute trade through Sunagakure, paying cash at a higher price, while keeping military escorts on the shipments.
• A admitted that the Kumogakure shinobi connected to the case was dead from poison, and Sasuke demanded the autopsy documents within six hours.
• Konoha’s caravans and seventeen merchants remained imprisoned in the Land of Lightning, while Iwagakure’s border troops threatened to disobey deployment orders if specialized medicines did not arrive within three days.