Chapter Summaries

Tsunade told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju that the Senju Clan had nearly vanished and the Uchiha Clan had been massacred, blaming Danzo for both tragedies. A youthful voice interrupted to claim Danzo had only been a scapegoat.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju reunited with Tsunade and asked how the village and the Senju and Uchiha clans were doing.
• Jiraiya explained that a failed cell-transplant experiment using Hashirama Senju's cells had killed many volunteers, including Senju Clan members, and that Danzo and Orochimaru later continued secret experiments on children.
• Tsunade told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju that the Senju Clan had dwindled through experiments and wars, and that her younger brother Nawaki had died in battle.
• Tsunade said the Uchiha Clan had been massacred two years earlier and accused Danzo of masterminding it.
• A youthful voice interrupted Tsunade and declared that Danzo had only been a scapegoat.

Uchiha Xia Yu accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of orchestrating the Uchiha massacre and contributing to the Senju Clan’s decline, with Danzo acting as his hidden enforcer. Hashirama and Tobirama decided to return to the village and see the situation for themselves.

• Tsunade recognized Xia Yu and, under the Heart-to-Heart Technique’s influence, became infatuated with him.
• Tobirama challenged Xia Yu, but Hashirama stopped him and asked what he meant about Danzo being a scapegoat.
• Xia Yu claimed Hiruzen Sarutobi had secretly directed Danzo and was behind the Uchiha massacre, while also helping bring about the Senju Clan’s decline.
• Jiraiya rejected Xia Yu’s accusations, but Tsunade said Xia Yu had a point and kept gazing at him.
• Hashirama asked Orochimaru to return to the village with him and Tobirama, and Tobirama agreed to go see how the village had changed.

On the journey back to Konoha, Hashirama Senju proposed a marriage alliance between Tsunade and Xia Yu to reunite the Senju and Uchiha clans, and both agreed. The plan stalled when Xia Yu revealed that he already had over 3,000 wives and was expecting a child with Orochimaru.

• Jiraiya told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju about Konoha's recent history, and Tobirama praised Orochimaru's scientific achievements.
• Hashirama Senju noticed Tsunade's interest in Xia Yu, rejected Jiraiya's offer to marry her, and asked Xia Yu if he would marry her.
• Xia Yu and Tsunade both agreed to marry, and Hashirama Senju said he would arrange the wedding after dealing with the village's affairs.
• Hashirama Senju defended the marriage alliance as a way to end the Senju and Uchiha clans' hostility and help both clans recover.
• Jiraiya revealed that Xia Yu already had a wife, and Xia Yu disclosed that he had married more than 3,000 women, including plans to marry Orochimaru, who was carrying his child.
• Xia Yu said he had more than 2,000 children to restore the Uchiha bloodline, and Jiraiya angrily accused him of taking both Tsunade and Orochimaru from him.

Xia Yu and the others settled the question of Tsunade’s marriage before learning that Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent Jiraiya and Tsunade to help kill Xia Yu and Orochimaru. After Xia Yu secured Root’s loyalty, the group prepared to return to the village.

• Orochimaru admitted that Xia Yu’s child was in his belly but insisted he did not intend to marry Xia Yu, while Tsunade declared that she still wanted to marry him.
• Hashirama Senju accepted Tsunade’s choice and suggested that everyone return to the village, but Tobirama Senju sensed many chakra signatures approaching.
• Tsunade warned Xia Yu that Hiruzen Sarutobi had ordered her and Jiraiya to join Root in killing Xia Yu and Orochimaru, then eliminate Root.
• Jiraiya began doubting Hiruzen Sarutobi after Xia Yu challenged him about Naruto’s treatment, though he continued to defend his teacher.
• Root members arrived searching for Orochimaru, and Xia Yu made them swear loyalty to him before leading the group back toward the village.

Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha with Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, Uchiha Xia Yu, and Root members, startling the villagers and Hiruzen Sarutobi. After learning how badly the Senju and Uchiha clans had declined, Hashirama confronted Hiruzen about his failure to stop Danzo—or whether Hiruzen had caused it himself.

• Jiraiya explained that Minato Namikaze had died sealing the Nine-Tails, and Tobirama praised Minato’s mastery of the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Kamizuki Chūun and Izumo Kamizuki recognized Hashirama and Tobirama as the group entered Konoha and reported their arrival to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen saw that Hashirama and Tobirama had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation and welcomed them into his office.
• Hashirama asked about the Senju and Uchiha clans, and Hiruzen admitted that both had declined because of Danzo’s actions.
• Hashirama accused Hiruzen of standing by while Danzo harmed the clans and asked whether Hiruzen himself was responsible.

Uchiha Xia Yu exposed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s role in the Uchiha massacre by having Uchiha Itachi reveal the truth through genjutsu. As Xia Yu prepared to summon Danzo with Impure World Reincarnation, Tobirama Senju realized the Mysterious Masked Man had claimed to be Madara Uchiha.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi insisted he had known nothing about Danzo’s crimes against the Senju and Uchiha clans, and Hashirama Senju believed him.
• Xia Yu summoned Uchiha Itachi’s crow and asked Itachi to reveal the truth about the clan massacre to the former Hokage.
• Itachi’s genjutsu showed Hiruzen conspiring with Itachi, Itachi spying for him, the Mysterious Masked Man helping with the massacre, and Root and Anbu killing survivors.
• Hiruzen denied the scenes, but Jiraiya began to doubt him, and Xia Yu proposed going to the cemetery to summon Danzo with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama Senju stopped them after realizing the Mysterious Masked Man had identified himself as Madara Uchiha, and he asked whether Madara was still alive.

Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted that he had secretly undermined the Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki clans to protect his hold on power, and confessed to using Itachi to massacre the Uchiha. He ended by acknowledging that Uchiha Xia Yu had defeated him.

• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru recalled the masked man who called himself Madara Uchiha, while Hashirama Senju insisted that he was not Madara.
• Tobirama Senju warned Orochimaru not to use Impure World Reincarnation on Madara and revealed that he had hidden Madara's body.
• Tobirama Senju asked Hiruzen Sarutobi whether the revelations shown in the genjutsu world were true, and Hiruzen admitted they were.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed that he had used Danzo to suppress the Senju and Uchiha, abandoned the Uzumaki, and refused Uchiha Fugaku's offer to help during the Nine-Tails' rampage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted that he had used Itachi to massacre the Uchiha and had killed Danzo, who had warned him about Uchiha Xia Yu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi acknowledged that he had underestimated Uchiha Xia Yu and declared, "You win!"

After Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed to orchestrating the Senju Clan’s decline and the Uchiha Clan’s extermination, he killed himself, and Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju announced his crimes to Konoha. Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage, and Hashirama announced her marriage to Uchiha Xia Yu, which they agreed would take place that day.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi admitted his guilt and stabbed himself with a kunai, while Tobirama Senju expressed regret over having misjudged him.
• Jiraiya announced Hiruzen Sarutobi’s crimes, and Hashirama Senju ordered that he be buried in the Hokage Cemetery.
• Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju appeared before the villagers, and Tobirama explained that Hiruzen had secretly caused the Senju Clan’s decline and the Uchiha Clan’s extermination.
• Hashirama Senju named Tsunade the Fifth Hokage after Uchiha Xia Yu and Jiraiya declined the position.
• Hashirama Senju announced that Tsunade and Uchiha Xia Yu would marry, and they agreed to hold the wedding that day.

After Tsunade and Xia Yu married, Asuma left Konoha plotting revenge while Shizune mourned her unrequited love for Xia Yu. Kurenai told Shizune that the Uchiha Clan Compound accepted applications from women seeking to marry Xia Yu, and Shizune rushed there to apply.

• Tsunade and Xia Yu married after Hiruzen Sarutobi's burial and celebrated their plan to revive the Uchiha and Senju clans.
• Asuma Sarutobi left Konoha with members of the Sarutobi Clan and the Anbu, vowing to reclaim what his clan had lost.
• Shizune decided to interrupt Xia Yu and Tsunade's wedding night but collided with Kurenai Yuhi in an alley.
• Shizune confessed that she loved Xia Yu, and Kurenai revealed that she was Xia Yu's wife.
• Kurenai explained that women could apply to marry Xia Yu at the Uchiha Clan Compound, and Shizune hurried there to submit her résumé.

News spread that Tsunade had become the Fifth Hokage and married Uchiha Xia Yu, prompting reactions across the Shinobi World. Meanwhile, Kirigakure prepared for Mei Terumi to take charge, and Akatsuki members discussed Orochimaru’s pregnancy and Konan’s impending delivery.

• The Fourth Raikage welcomed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s death but resented Tsunade’s marriage to Uchiha Xia Yu and vowed to meet him.
• Ōnoki mourned Hiruzen Sarutobi and reflected that he was the only Kage of their older generation left.
• Rasa ordered Sunagakure to congratulate Konoha on Tsunade’s appointment while sending ten more assassins to kill Gaara.
• After Shikura’s death left Kirigakure leaderless, Mei Terumi declined the role of Fifth Mizukage, and Genji gave her authority to restore the village.
• Mei Terumi proposed that Kirigakure send Konoha a congratulatory letter as a sign that the Land of Water was opening its borders.
• At an Akatsuki meeting, Zetsu announced that Orochimaru was pregnant, while Pain ordered every member to attend Konan’s delivery in a few months.

Tsunade and Orochimaru said farewell to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama, who returned to the Pure Land, while Orochimaru and Kabuto left Konoha with two corpses. After waking from his wedding night, Uchiha Xia Yu decided to leave Konoha and spread the Uchiha bloodline across the wider Shinobi World.

• Tsunade found Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, and Orochimaru waiting in the Hokage office, where Hashirama and Tobirama announced they were leaving.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama returned to the Pure Land after Hashirama told Tsunade he trusted her and Xia Yu to revive their clans.
• Tsunade called Kabuto Yakushi into the office, and Orochimaru and Kabuto left with the two leftover corpses.
• Xia Yu woke to find the bed collapsed and his body bruised and exhausted after his wedding night with Tsunade.
• Xia Yu decided that Konoha had enough Uchiha descendants and set out to travel the Shinobi World to spread the bloodline farther.

Xia Yu returned to Kurenai Yuhi’s home after Tsunade left him covered in bruises, where he found Shizune asleep in the bedroom. Kurenai brought Shizune out to treat him, then left the two alone together.

• Xia Yu met Kurenai Yuhi at the Uchiha Clan Compound entrance, and she took him home to massage his injuries.
• Kurenai Yuhi explained that Shizune had waited all day for Xia Yu, then spent the night drinking and talking about him.
• Kurenai Yuhi woke Shizune and told her that Xia Yu needed help with his bruises.
• Shizune checked Xia Yu over, noticed the bite marks, and learned they had come from her master, Tsunade.
• Shizune began treating Xia Yu’s bruises, and Kurenai Yuhi left them alone until evening.

Tsunade and Xia Yu planned to expand Konoha and its clans’ compounds, using free land from the daimyo and Yamato’s Wood Release to keep construction affordable. The clan heads approved the proposal, though Shibi Aburame was overlooked and left locked in the meeting room.

• After a week spent recovering at Tsunade’s and Shizune’s, Xia Yu and Tsunade decided to expand Konoha and its clan compounds.
• Tsunade presented the expansion plan and new map to the clan heads, explaining that the daimyo had donated the land and clans would pay according to how much territory they wanted.
• Tsunade introduced Yamato as the builder who would construct the new buildings using Wood Release, prompting the clan heads to support the plan and negotiate their preferences with him.
• Tsunade adjourned the meeting before Shibi Aburame could state his requirements.
• Shibi Aburame found himself alone in the meeting room with the door locked and called for someone to let him out.

Tsunade and Xia Yu heard Shikaku Nara's proposal to remove the abandoned Sarutobi and Shimura compounds from Konoha's rolls and repurpose their land. Xia Yu suggested saving the compounds for surviving Uzumaki, and announced he planned to bring them to Konoha.

• Tsunade tried to keep Xia Yu with her in the Hokage's office, but Shikaku Nara interrupted them to report and offer advice.
• Shikaku told Tsunade that members of the Shimura and Sarutobi clans had left Konoha after the Third fell from power, and Tsunade said she planned to classify the deserters as rogue ninja.
• Shikaku proposed striking both clans from Konoha's rolls and using their central compounds for commercial districts.
• Xia Yu suggested reserving the compounds for other ninja clans and wrote the Uzumaki name on the map.
• Xia Yu said he planned to travel and bring scattered surviving Uzumaki clan members to Konoha, where they could have a home.

Xia Yu prepared to leave Konoha to recruit members of the Uzumaki Clan, but first stayed with Tsunade until she confirmed she was pregnant. After saying goodbye to his pregnant wives at the village gate, he headed northeast toward the Land of Sea.

• Shikaku Nara supported Xia Yu's proposal to find the Uzumaki Clan, while Tsunade initially objected to him leaving.
• Xia Yu reassured Tsunade and stayed another week; she then told him she was pregnant.
• Xia Yu's pregnant wives gathered outside Konoha's main gate to see him off, and he said goodbye to each of them.
• Xia Yu refused Shizune's offer to accompany him and promised his wives he would return before their babies were nearly due.
• Xia Yu left Konoha and headed northeast, planning to search the coastal regions of the Land of Sea first.

Xia Yu reached the Land of Sea to find Uzumaki Honoka and learned that Mother Island had become a deadly Kirigakure experimental base. Ignoring the warnings, he set off alone for the island.

• Xia Yu arrived in the Land of Sea and bought a map showing its four islands.
• Xia Yu went to a boat rental shop and asked the proprietress for a sailing boat to Mother Island.
• The proprietress warned Xia Yu that Kirigakure used Mother Island to breed vicious hybrid summoning beasts that ate people.
• Xia Yu offered the proprietress money, then took a boat from the harbor and headed for Mother Island.

Xia Yu reached Mother Island and rescued Honoka from Kirigakure ninja and mutant summoned beasts. As a far stronger monster awakened, Honoka led him to a safe house and began explaining the creature’s origins.

• Xia Yu arrived at Mother Island and found Kirigakure ninja fighting enormous summoned beasts alongside Honoka.
• A giant spider trapped the ninja, and several summoned beasts lunged at Honoka after the spider and a centipede fought over their prey.
• Xia Yu drove off the beasts with his Great Fireball Technique and recognized Honoka as the Uzumaki Clan member he had been seeking.
• The ground shook as a powerful monster awoke, and Honoka grabbed Xia Yu and led him to a secluded house protected by a barrier.
• Honoka introduced herself, learned Xia Yu’s name, and began telling him how an unidentified life-form attacked a peaceful village.

Honoka told Xia Yu that a human-faced monster and mutated summoning beasts had driven the people from Mother Island, and she blamed herself for failing to stop them. Xia Yu found a research notebook showing that the island's summoning-beast catastrophe began as a government-funded experiment, leaving Honoka to confront the truth.

• Honoka recounted how the Ultimate Summoning Beast and other mutated creatures ravaged Mother Island, and explained that Lord Mizukage had rescued her and tasked her with helping control them.
• Xia Yu asked Honoka to lead him to the monster, then persuaded her to take him to the secret laboratory despite her fear that he would die.
• At the laboratory, Honoka showed Xia Yu the sleeping human-faced monster and explained that staff had extracted its genetic material through holes in the glass wall.
• Xia Yu searched the laboratory and found a concealed notebook, then gave it to Honoka to read.
• Honoka read that scientists had released genetically modified summoning beasts on Mother Island, where they mutated as they ate one another and eventually began eating people.

Honoka discovered that Kirigakure had conducted the experiments that devastated Mother Island, and her anger awakened the Uzumaki Clan’s power. She trapped the sleeping Ultimate Summoning Beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains, leaving it unable to escape.

• The diary revealed that the researcher had raised the Ultimate Summoning Beast as his child and planned to sacrifice himself and the others to feed it.
• Honoka learned that Kirigakure had been responsible for the experiments and vowed revenge.
• Honoka’s chakra surged, and golden chains erupted from her body, destroying the surroundings.
• Honoka’s chains shattered the glass wall and bound the awakened Ultimate Summoning Beast.

Xia Yu rescued Honoka from the mutant summoning beast and overwhelmed it with his enormous chakra, then claimed it as his summon and named it the Yingying Beast. After feeding it enough chakra to trigger an evolution, Xia Yu began supplying it with more, and another giant white cocoon appeared.

• The mutant summoning beast trapped Honoka in a genjutsu and attacked her after her golden chains vanished.
• Xia Yu released Honoka from the genjutsu, stopped her from sacrificing herself, and made the beast freeze by unleashing his chakra.
• Xia Yu offered the mutant summoning beast chakra in exchange for its obedience, and it submitted to him.
• Xia Yu mingled his blood with the beast’s, claimed it as his summon, and named it the Yingying Beast.
• Xia Yu fed the Yingying Beast chakra until it evolved into a giant cicada, then gave it more chakra until a second white cocoon formed.