Chapter Summaries

As he lay dying, Tobirama Senju questioned his disciples and weighed Hiruzen Sarutobi against Shimura Danzō as Konoha’s next Hokage. He left the final choice to them, but Hiruzen’s reaction to Tobirama’s gaze showed his hesitation, while Danzō remained silent.

• Tobirama Senju told Mito Uzumaki that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō would decide the next Hokage, then comforted Tsunade before Mito took her away.
• Tobirama Senju welcomed Hiruzen Sarutobi and his other disciples into his hospital room and began giving each of them advice.
• Tobirama Senju warned Mitokado Homura against letting factional and clan interests override Konoha’s needs, and urged Utatane Koharu to trust her own judgment.
• Tobirama Senju advised Torifu to look after his health and told Kagami Uchiha to help unite the Uchiha Clan with Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju asked Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō which of them wanted to become Hokage; Hiruzen looked away, and Danzō kept his head lowered.

As Tobirama Senju lay dying, he entrusted the Uchiha Clan’s integration into Konoha to Kagami Uchiha and left the choice of Hokage to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō. After Tobirama’s death and funeral, the students argued over who should lead, and Hiruzen invited Danzō to meet at the Back Mountain, where Danzō sensed killing intent.

• Tobirama Senju left the Hokage decision to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, then urged them and Kagami Uchiha to resolve Konoha’s tensions with the Uchiha Clan.
• Kagami Uchiha vowed to help his clan integrate into Konoha, and Tobirama Senju’s words and touch prompted Kagami to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan as Tobirama died.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura argued that Hiruzen Sarutobi should become Hokage, while Kagami Uchiha supported letting Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō decide and believed Danzō was the better choice.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi invited Shimura Danzō to talk at the Back Mountain, and Danzō sensed killing intent in Hiruzen’s words.

Hiruzen Sarutobi lured Shimura Danzō to the Back Mountain and attacked him over the position of Hokage, trapping him inside a barrier. Kagami Uchiha arrived after the fight and found Hiruzen standing over Danzō’s dismembered body, apparently having learned how Dream Release worked.

• Shimura Danzō left the hospital with Hiruzen Sarutobi to discuss the Hokage position at the Back Mountain.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Danzō to withdraw from the contest, then stabbed him with the Sword of the Thunder God and raged about being denied the position.
• Danzō used Dream Release: Dream of Becoming a Butterfly, but four Sarutobi Jonin raised a Four Red Yang Formation that trapped him and Hiruzen.
• Hiruzen charged Danzō, and they fought inside the barrier for ten minutes.
• Kagami Uchiha broke through the barrier in Susanoo and found Hiruzen standing over Danzō’s dismembered body; Hiruzen said he now understood how Dream Release worked.

Kagami Uchiha discovered that Hiruzen Sarutobi had become Enma and fought back with his Mangekyō Sharingan. As Enma trapped Kagami in Dream Release, Uchiha Gen followed a thread of causality linked to Kagami’s eyes.

• Kagami Uchiha used [Eight Thoughts and Perceptions] and realized that Hiruzen Sarutobi was Enma, with Hiruzen’s face embedded in the ape’s chest.
• Four Sarutobi Clan Jonin ambushed Kagami, but his Perfect Susanoo blocked their attacks and [Amenosakeme] transformed them into four scarlet eyeballs.
• Kagami accused Enma of impersonating Hiruzen and sent a crow toward Konoha to warn Mito Uzumaki.
• Enma said Mito would not interfere, demanded Kagami’s eyes, and spread Dream Release chakra across the forest.
• Uchiha Gen observed the confrontation, judged Kagami’s defeat inevitable, and followed a thread of causality connected to Kagami’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi transplanted Kagami Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, used its power to create a separate Shimura Danzō to bear his darkness, and revealed the origin of their conflict. Back in the present, Uchiha Gen recruited Uchiha Hikari to help confront Hiruzen, and she reluctantly agreed.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi took Kagami Uchiha’s nearly blind Mangekyō Sharingan and transplanted them into his own eye sockets.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi awakened Kagami’s Dōjutsu, [Eight Thoughts and Perceptions], and analyzed Dream Release, Enma Secret Techniques, and the Five Release Secret Technique.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used his own severed right hand to create a person named Shimura Danzō, assigning him the darkness while claiming the role of Hokage for himself.
• Uchiha Gen’s vision of the past ended, and he laughed at Hiruzen Sarutobi’s madness.
• At the Uchiha Clan Compound, Uchiha Hikari complained about being asked to help Uchiha Gen target Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Uchiha Hikari agreed to fight, and Uchiha Gen told Uchiha Fugaku to seal the barrier.

Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari staged a spectacular battle at the Uchiha training ground, while Gen’s power resonated with the clan’s Sharingan. As Konoha felt the heat and Hiruzen Sarutobi witnessed their Susanoo, the Uchiha members’ eyes evolved and their eye power surged.

• Hatake Sakumo cheered for Uchiha Hikari as she and Uchiha Gen prepared to stage a fight before the gathered Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku lowered the barrier around the clan grounds, and Uchiha Gen summoned Ryūjin Jakka despite Hikari’s doubts about their plan to merely pretend to fight.
• Uchiha Gen’s flames swept through Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi saw enormous Susanoo facing off at the Uchiha grounds.
• Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari fought from within their Susanoo, while Gen’s eye power linked with the Uchiha watching them.
• The Uchiha’s Sharingan evolved as their eye power resonated with Gen’s, leaving the clan members exhilarated by their growing strength.

Uchiha Hikari unleashed a compressed Amaterasu fire lotus during her exhibition match with Uchiha Gen, but he absorbed the flames into Ryūjin Jakka. Hiruzen Sarutobi accused the Uchiha of plotting a coup, and Uchiha Gen challenged his intrusion as the clan’s ninja turned their attention toward him.

• Uchiha Hikari formed a compressed Amaterasu fire lotus and sent it at Uchiha Gen, despite worrying about the damage it could cause.
• Uchiha Gen used Ryūjin Jakka to absorb and assimilate all of Hikari’s black flames.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived angrily and demanded that the Uchiha stop using dangerous techniques inside the village.
• Hiruzen accused Uchiha Fugaku and the Uchiha Clan of staging a coup, while avoiding direct confrontation with Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari.
• Uchiha Gen defended the sparring match, questioned Hiruzen’s intrusion, and prompted the assembled Uchiha ninja to watch the Hokage with hostility.

Uchiha Gen confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after the Hokage came to investigate the chakra surge, and Uchiha Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to back him. After Hiruzen withdrew, Gen asked Minato Namikaze about his wife, and Minato began telling the group about the Uzumaki Clan.

• Uchiha Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to answer Uchiha Gen.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi apologized to Gen and praised his strength, but Gen pointed Ryūjin Jakka at him and told him to get lost.
• Minato Namikaze prepared for a possible clash, while Hiruzen laughed off the confrontation and left the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• After Hiruzen departed, Gen asked Minato about his wife, and Minato showed pain and regret.
• By the Naka River, Minato began explaining the Uzumaki Clan to Gen, Uchiha Hikari, and Hatake Sakumo.

Minato Namikaze explained how the Uzumaki Clan gained power by summoning Shinigami from another world and making a deal to feed them souls. The clan’s strength brought peace, but the supply of souls became uncertain after other ninja clans stopped targeting them, and the story left off as Minato began describing what happened next.

• Minato Namikaze gave Uchiha Hikari grilled fish and explained that the Uzumaki Clan had reached beyond their world for power.
• Uchiha Gen said the Uzumaki Clan had drawn in uncontrollable forces from other worlds, while Uchiha Hikari chilled his Coke with Ice Release.
• Minato Namikaze explained that the Uzumaki Clan summoned Shinigami through masks and made the first Shinigami Jinchūriki.
• The Uzumaki Clan made a deal to provide souls to the Shinigami in return for power, and its Shinigami Jinchūriki grew strong enough to face Kage Level opponents.
• After the first Shinigami Jinchūriki died of old age, his Shinigami appeared inside an Uzumaki child, leading the clan to believe the power could be passed down.
• Other ninja clans stopped trying to capture the Uzumaki Clan, leaving it with fewer souls to feed the Shinigami, and Minato Namikaze began to explain what happened afterward.

Minato Namikaze learned that Kushina was both the Shinigami Jinchūriki and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and that Konoha’s barrier kept her from going berserk. Uchiha Gen questioned what he had heard, and Hatake Sakumo explained why the Shinigami’s nature made ignorance protective.

• After a Shinigami Jinchūriki went berserk and slaughtered Uzumaki clansmen, the Uzumaki Clan used sealing jutsu to restrain the Shinigami and prevent further rampages.
• The Uzumaki Clan sealed nearly every clansman’s bloodline to limit the Shinigami’s succession, but one chosen child became an immensely powerful Jinchūriki who they could not seal.
• A Senju Clan ancestor knocked out the berserk Jinchūriki, and the Senju Clan and Uzumaki Clan later developed stronger seals together.
• Minato Namikaze learned that Kushina was the new Shinigami Jinchūriki and Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and that Hiruzen Sarutobi controlled the barrier whose shutdown would make her go berserk.
• Uchiha Gen wondered about the Shinigami and Hashirama Senju, while Hatake Sakumo explained that the Shinigami could pass information through time and distort memories, making ignorance a form of protection.

Uchiha Gen assured Minato Namikaze that he could deal with the Shinigami inside Kushina, then listened as Minato explained Sage Mode, True Sage Mode, and yōkai power. The chapter ended with Minato describing how creatures that absorb natural energy can become yōkai and how their traits can surface during Sage Mode training.

• Uchiha Gen told Minato Namikaze that Kushina was safe and that he could deal with the Shinigami inside her, prompting Minato to thank him deeply.
• Uchiha Gen asked when Minato first suspected Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Minato said Jiraiya had sensed yōkai power on him while attempting True Sage Mode.
• Minato demonstrated basic Sage Mode and explained that it boosted physical abilities and chakra control, but was only an entry-level stage.
• Minato described True Sage Mode as granting immense strength, regeneration, heightened senses, and attacks that could drain life force and petrify targets, while admitting he had not mastered it.
• Minato explained that yōkai power came from creatures transformed by absorbing natural energy, and that poor control during Mount Myōboku Sage Mode training could cause their traits to appear.

Minato Namikaze learned that the Sarutobi Clan’s hidden kekkei genkai let its members devour people to acquire their abilities, and that Hiruzen Sarutobi may have used it on Senju Nawaki. Uchiha Hikari revealed Nawaki had been brought back to life by a future Tobirama Senju, while Hiruzen had sought to clone him to obtain Wood Release.

• Minato Namikaze explained that his Sage Mode only temporarily gave him frog-like traits, then described Orochimaru’s findings about Hiruzen Sarutobi’s transformation.
• Minato Namikaze said the Sarutobi Clan’s secret kekkei genkai, Devouring and Dismantling, let them eat living beings to analyze and gain their abilities.
• Uchiha Hikari said Hiruzen Sarutobi had killed Senju Nawaki and eaten some of his tissue, leaving Minato Namikaze shocked and furious.
• Uchiha Hikari revealed that Senju Nawaki’s grave was empty because a future Tobirama Senju had taken his body and used a seed to bring him back to life.
• Uchiha Hikari explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had wanted Nawaki’s body for Wood Release and later tried to clone him from remaining flesh and blood.

Uchiha Gen waited for Hiruzen Sarutobi to give him a justification for the Uchiha Clan’s coup, then welcomed a Root ambush in the forest. The attackers branded him an S-rank Missing-nin and launched a Wood Release attack, but he struck back and unmasked Yamato.

• Uchiha Hikari told Minato Namikaze that Uchiha Gen had arranged for ten Senju Nawaki clones to greet her, and she said he had failed to gain Wood Release’s special vitality.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Shimura Danzō to kill Uchiha Gen, claiming he had endangered Konoha and incited the Uchiha Clan to stage a coup.
• Several days later, Uchiha Gen waited near Shisui’s Death Waterfall, giving Hiruzen seven days to provide a justification for the coup.
• More than a dozen Root ninja surrounded Uchiha Gen and declared him an S-rank Missing-nin before attacking with Wood Release: Cutting Technique.
• Uchiha Gen evaded the attack, pierced one Root ninja with wooden spikes, and broke another’s mask, revealing Yamato.

Uchiha Gen gathered Konoha’s allies after a battle with Root, and Kushina Uzumaki unexpectedly joined them. Inside Kushina’s mindscape, Hashirama Senju recognized Gen as the person collecting the Tailed Beasts, while Kurama reacted with suspicion.

• Uchiha Gen used a Fire Lotus to ignite the forest as Yamato and the Root ninja fought.
• Minato Namikaze arrived and killed the Root ninja, sealing away their combined ninjutsu.
• Sakumo, Tsunade, and leaders from Konoha’s clans arrived to meet Uchiha Gen.
• Kushina Uzumaki appeared, refused Minato Namikaze’s attempt to take her home, and joined the gathering with Uchiha Gen’s permission.
• Hashirama Senju identified Uchiha Gen as the one collecting the Tailed Beasts, while Kurama sensed the other beasts’ auras and began to move.

Hashirama Senju suppressed the Nine-Tails’ chakra and explained why he could not destroy the immortal threat within the Uzumaki Clan. Outside, Uchiha Gen realized Hashirama was inside Kushina Uzumaki, while Tsunade learned that Senju Nawaki was alive; the chapter ended with an explosion and Hiruzen Sarutobi confronting Shimura Danzō.

• Hashirama Senju restrained the Nine-Tails and absorbed its rampaging chakra into a barrier, then warned Kurama that the threat would return inside another Uzumaki if killed.
• Hashirama Senju explained that he had come to watch over the Nine-Tails and stop it from being drawn into dangerous forces, before Kurama threw him off its head.
• Uchiha Gen sensed that Hashirama Senju was inside Kushina Uzumaki, while Tsunade approached after learning Senju Nawaki was alive and had been cloned by their teacher.
• Utatane Koharu questioned Hiruzen Sarutobi about the Uchiha Clan’s coup and his students’ involvement, as Shimura Danzō claimed he had carried out Hiruzen’s orders.
• An enormous explosion lit the distance, and Hiruzen Sarutobi rushed to the window and angrily demanded to know what Shimura Danzō had done.

Shimura Danzō revealed his true self and sealed Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Hokage Building away in a black sphere. After Uchiha Gen confirmed that Danzō had used Izanagi, he announced that he would become the Fourth Hokage, prompting Orochimaru to say he was not interested in the position.

• Shimura Danzō revealed that he had rediscovered his true self and used his body to imprison Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Shimura Danzō activated a sealing technique that engulfed Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and the Hokage Building, erasing them from the scene.
• Uchiha Gen arrived and identified the fading scarlet eye power as the final trace of Izanagi, then burned a blue butterfly that had appeared before him.
• Tsunade cursed the destruction of the Hokage Building, and Uchiha Gen announced that he would become Konoha's Fourth Hokage.
• Tsunade pointed to Orochimaru as Hiruzen Sarutobi's chosen successor, and Orochimaru said he was not interested in becoming Hokage.

Baku met Black Zetsu at the ruins of the Land of Ancestors and agreed to support his plan for a dream world in exchange for eye power. In Konoha, the Uchiha celebrated Uchiha Gen’s impending inauguration as Fourth Hokage, leaving the clan eagerly awaiting dawn.

• Baku met Black Zetsu at the altar and said Shimura Danzō was dead, while agreeing to support Black Zetsu’s plan if the promised Dream World offered enough happiness.
• Black Zetsu explained his vision of dreams and reality and hoped Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s power could help him achieve it.
• The Uchiha Clan held a lavish celebration because Uchiha Gen would become Fourth Hokage the next morning.
• Uchiha Setsuna praised Uchiha Fugaku for relinquishing the clan leadership and for awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Fugaku watched the celebration and wished that Itachi would grow strong enough to help Gen, even at the cost of his life.

Uchiha Gen prepared to become Hokage while joking with Obito, Minato, Tsunade, Kushina, and Sakumo about the burdens of the position. Meanwhile, Hiashi resolved to end the Hyuga Caged Bird Seal system, and Konoha gathered for Gen’s inauguration as a new era began.

• Uchiha Gen told Obito and the others that he cared little for becoming Hokage and planned to delegate the paperwork.
• Hiashi and Hizashi discussed Gen’s message about ending the Caged Bird Seal, and Hiashi vowed to act so the Hyuga would not fall behind.
• Konoha’s ninjas and clan heads assembled in Hokage Square beneath Hokage Rock for the inauguration.
• The village waited in solemn silence as dawn marked the beginning of a new era under Uchiha Gen’s leadership.

Uchiha Gen discussed the artificial moon and its inhabitants with Orochimaru, who had detected life and a powerful eye chakra source there. After Orochimaru’s projected snake vanished, Gen sealed the area with his Naruson Domain and discovered Orochimaru could still appear through a hidden device.

• Uchiha Gen relaxed on Hokage Rock while Shikaku Nara struggled with the Hokage’s paperwork.
• Uchiha Gen wondered whether Otsutsuki Toneri had been born and noted the moon was an artificial prison for Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Orochimaru appeared as a white snake and told Uchiha Gen that his technology had detected life, powerful eye chakra, and 1.2 billion puppet-like objects on the moon.
• Uchiha Gen asked Orochimaru to locate the passage between the moon and the Shinobi World, promising to take him there.
• Orochimaru tried to avoid Uchiha Gen’s unfinished question, then vanished after saying he had experiments to continue.
• Uchiha Gen activated his Naruson Domain and found that Orochimaru’s hidden device could still project a hologram inside it.

Orochimaru told Uchiha Gen that Hiruzen Sarutobi had secretly guided their connections to the Sage Lands and revealed that yōkai were the Shinobi World's true natives. He explained that a stele recording the world’s history had been split into three pieces, leaving Uchiha Gen to infer their locations.

• Orochimaru explained that his holographic image could save their conversation and transmit it to his original body after Uchiha Gen released the Naruson Domain.
• Orochimaru revealed that Hiruzen Sarutobi had used special chakra to guide Jiraiya and Orochimaru to Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave.
• Orochimaru said the intelligent summoning beasts were not truly friendly and that the sages of the Three Great Sage Lands predated the Sage of Six Paths.
• Orochimaru recounted that his investigations into the past showed yōkai were the Shinobi World's native beings, though they were absent from its recorded history.
• Orochimaru said a stele visible only to yōkai recorded that countless spirits had lived in the world before its eight annihilations, and that the stele had been divided into three pieces.