Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Minamoto secured the four other villages’ support for a Five Great Shinobi Villages alliance and the Great Love Group. The villages named it the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance, with Uchiha Minamoto as its head and international peace and cooperation as its purpose.

• Samui pledged Kumogakure’s support for Uchiha Minamoto’s requirements, and Mei Terumi followed with Kirigakure’s support.
• Granny Chiyo agreed to the alliance and said Sunagakure could establish a Great Love Group Branch.
• Uchiha Minamoto pressured Ōnoki with his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Ōnoki agreed to the proposal.
• Uchiha Minamoto declared the alliance established and named it the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance.
• Uchiha Minamoto and the four Kage set the alliance’s rules, making him its head and defining its purpose as maintaining peace and conducting international cooperation.

Uchiha Minamoto and the other four Kage signed the treaty establishing the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance, earning him a huge reward and the Infinite Tsukuyomi formula. The Land of Iron’s Mifune asked to join, but Ōnoki objected that the alliance was only for Ninja Villages.

• Uchiha Minamoto offered Konoha funding and personnel to help establish Sunagakure’s Great Love Group Branch, but Granny Chiyo declined extra personnel.
• Uchiha Minamoto wrote the alliance treaty, and Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Samui, and Chiyo signed it alongside him, officially establishing the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance.
• Uchiha Minamoto received 100 million Great Love Points and the SSS-rank Infinite Tsukuyomi formula for establishing the alliance.
• Mifune asked for the Land of Iron to join the alliance, and Ōnoki objected that it was an alliance of Ninja Villages.
• Mifune told Ōnoki that Uchiha Minamoto had established an alliance of the Shinobi World, not an alliance of Ninja Villages.

Uchiha Minamoto accepted the Land of Iron into the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance, making it the first small nation outside the Five Great Nations to join. The alliance earned him a million Great Love Points and the Land of Iron’s swordsmanship inheritances.

• Ōnoki challenged Mifune’s decision to join the alliance, but Uchiha Minamoto affirmed that it welcomed the Land of Iron.
• Mifune decided the peaceful alliance could help the Land of Iron preserve its neutrality amid the growing number of samurai becoming ninja.
• With the Five Kage as witnesses, Mifune signed the Alliance Pact on behalf of the Land of Iron.
• Uchiha Minamoto received a notification granting him one million Great Love Points and the complete inheritances of the Land of Iron’s swordsmanship styles.
• Uchiha Minamoto noted that samurai swordsmanship did not fully suit ninja, whose physical techniques often incorporated chakra.

After the Five Kage Summit, Uchiha Minamoto left the other villages wondering whether he would resurrect their dead and returned to Konoha with his team. At Naka River Reservoir, Tobirama Senju asked whether he planned to bring back Rasa and people from other villages.

• Uchiha Minamoto accepted Mifune’s Great Love Alliance Pact and considered how the Land of Iron’s membership could help expand the alliance.
• Granny Chiyo asked Uchiha Minamoto whether he could resurrect Rasa, and he replied that anything was possible and love was the answer to everything.
• Uchiha Minamoto returned to Konoha and found Kurama sulking over being denied a trip to the summit and having his chakra taken as punishment.
• Uchiha Minamoto used Kamui to bring Konoha’s all-star team from the Land of Iron to Naka River Reservoir.
• Tobirama Senju asked Uchiha Minamoto whether he intended to resurrect Rasa and people from the other villages.

Uchiha Minamoto explained that Konoha could revive other villages’ ninja for a price, preventing Orochimaru from using them and earning Konoha a profit. He then began restoring Hashirama Senju to life, but Kurama and Matatabi took the chance to vent their grudges on Hashirama’s reanimated body.

• Tobirama Senju objected to reviving ninja from other villages, but Uchiha Minamoto said Konoha would do so only in exchange for a sufficient price.
• Uchiha Minamoto pointed out that Orochimaru had learned [Impure World Reincarnation] and had already revived Rasa, so Konoha could sell revivals to other villages before Orochimaru became a threat.
• Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze accepted Uchiha Minamoto’s reasoning, and Uchiha Minamoto prepared to restore Hashirama Senju to life.
• Kurama noticed Chōmei sealed in [Amber Sealing], approached Uchiha Minamoto, and crushed Hashirama Senju’s reanimated body while asking why Chōmei was sealed.
• Matatabi arrived, stepped on Hashirama Senju’s recovering body, and joined Kurama in venting the tailed beasts’ old grudges.

Uchiha Minamoto released Chōmei the Seven-Tails, then used [Resurrection of the Dead] to bring Hashirama Senju back to life. Hashirama celebrated his restored body as the ninja present were left awed by his power and by the chakra Minamoto had spent to resurrect him.

• Uchiha Minamoto removed [Amber Sealing], and Matatabi and Kurama seized Chōmei the Seven-Tails and dragged him away.
• Tobirama Senju voiced his unease about the Tailed Beasts roaming freely around Konoha, while Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama Senju joked about them.
• Uchiha Minamoto asked Hashirama Senju if he was ready, then used [Resurrection of the Dead] to restore him to a living body.
• Hashirama Senju's revived chakra overwhelmed the gathered ninja, and Minato Namikaze wondered whether Minamoto's power surpassed even the legendary Sage of Six Paths.
• Hashirama Senju laughed with delight at being alive again as Uchiha Minamoto checked his chakra reserves and noted that resurrecting him had cost less than expected.

Hashirama Senju challenged Uchiha Minamoto to a fight, while Tobirama Senju saw the match as a way to establish a hierarchy among Konoha’s powerful Hokage. Minamoto agreed to spar later on a deserted island, then turned to discussing the Great Love Alliance’s expansion.

• Hashirama Senju challenged Uchiha Minamoto to a serious fight because he wanted a worthy opponent and Tobirama Senju wanted Konoha’s leadership hierarchy clarified.
• Tsunade objected that their fight could devastate Konoha, but Minamoto proposed they spar later on a deserted island far from the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama Senju said a fight between Hashirama and Minamoto might be beneficial, and Minato Namikaze and Minamoto understood that he wanted to address the balance of power in Konoha.
• Minamoto postponed the sparring discussion and proposed that the other four great nations in the Great Love Alliance establish their own Great Love Group Branches.

Uchiha Minamoto assigned former Hokage to manage Great Love Group branches in other villages, aiming to expand Konoha’s influence across the shinobi world. As Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze accepted their assignments, Tsunade proposed resurrecting and sealing Madara Uchiha before Orochimaru could do so.

• Uchiha Minamoto explained that the Great Love Group branches in Kumogakure and Iwagakure were under construction, while Sunagakure’s branch existed only on paper.
• Uchiha Minamoto assigned Tobirama Senju to Kumogakure, Minato Namikaze to Iwagakure, and Hashirama Senju to Sunagakure, while Karatachi Yagura continued managing the Kirigakure branch.
• Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze accepted their assignments, and Hashirama Senju agreed after Uchiha Minamoto explained the Great Love Group’s principles and Orochimaru’s possible plan to resurrect Madara Uchiha.
• Tsunade suggested that Uchiha Minamoto resurrect Madara Uchiha first and seal him away to prevent Orochimaru from using Impure World Reincarnation.

Uchiha Minamoto interrupted a fight between Matatabi, Kurama, and the Seven-Tails after they fired Tailed Beast Bombs near Konoha. He subdued Chōmei and confronted him, while Chōmei realized Matatabi and Kurama had already gained their freedom.

• Tsunade suggested reviving Madara Uchiha, but Tobirama Senju explained that Madara's body and tissue could not be found for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hashirama Senju volunteered to handle Sunagakure as Uchiha Minamoto discussed Great Love Group branches and assignments with the Hokage.
• A Tailed Beast Bomb exploded, so Uchiha Minamoto left the Naka River Reservoir to deal with the fighting Tailed Beasts.
• Uchiha Minamoto caught Chōmei's Tailed Beast Bomb with Susanoo and slammed it into Chōmei, knocking the Seven-Tails out of the sky.
• Matatabi and Kurama told Uchiha Minamoto that Chōmei had fired the first Tailed Beast Bomb, and Chōmei recognized that the other two Tailed Beasts had gained their freedom ahead of him.

Uchiha Minamoto subdued Chōmei, made the Seven-Tails his summoning beast, and extracted some of its chakra as punishment for firing Tailed Beast Bombs near Konoha. He proposed using that chakra to create a weaker, variant Jinchūriki, and planned to find a Konoha ninja who could bear it.

• Uchiha Minamoto signed a Summoning Contract with Chōmei, making the Seven-Tails his seventh tailed beast summon.
• Uchiha Minamoto restrained Chōmei, extracted some of its chakra with Dark Release, and sealed it inside an Amber Sealing.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Minato Namikaze, and the others arrived and found the tailed beasts obedient before Uchiha Minamoto.
• Uchiha Minamoto explained his variant tailed beast weaponization strategy, using the Namikaze family's Nine-Tails chakra as an example.
• Uchiha Minamoto decided to seek a Konoha ninja who could bear the sealed Seven-Tails chakra and become a new kind of Seven-Tails Jinchūriki.

Uchiha Minamoto outlined a long-term plan to create multiple variant jinchuriki and build a force for the Great Love Alliance, then arranged a fight with Hashirama Senju. Matatabi, Kurama, and Chōmei asked to join the battle, and Minamoto instead asked Hashirama to let them watch.

• Uchiha Minamoto explained that Konoha could use tailed beast chakra to cultivate multiple variant jinchuriki and extend the strategy to other chakra life-forms.
• Uchiha Minamoto considered Sasuke Uchiha, Karin Uzumaki, other young ninja, and several revived ninja as potential jinchuriki candidates.
• Uchiha Minamoto stored the Seven-Tails chakra and asked Hashirama Senju whether he wanted time to prepare for their fight.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to retrieve his large scroll, while Uchiha Minamoto decided to get the Uchiha Clan's heirloom [Gunbai].
• Matatabi, Kurama, and Chōmei volunteered to help Uchiha Minamoto fight Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Minamoto declined their offer to team up and asked Hashirama Senju whether the tailed beasts could watch; Hashirama agreed.

Uchiha Minamoto announced that Konoha had reached a peace agreement with the other great villages and the Land of Iron, then invited the village to watch his spar with Hashirama Senju. The assembled ninja eagerly considered attending the showdown.

• Rumors that Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Minamoto would duel spread through the Hokage Building, alarming Shikaku Nara and other Konoha ninja.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi discussed the rumors through the Mind Transmission Technique as they waited in the meeting room.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze entered the meeting room and sat beside Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Uchiha Minamoto announced that he had reached a peace agreement with the other Four Great Ninja Villages and the Land of Iron to establish the Shinobi World Great Love Alliance.
• Uchiha Minamoto said he would spar with Hashirama Senju on an uninhabited island and invited Konoha to attend, prompting most of the gathered ninja to decide they wanted to watch.

Uchiha Minamoto brought Konoha’s Ninja and seven Tailed Beasts to a deserted island to watch his spar with Hashirama Senju. After Kurama shielded the spectators with Tailed Beast Cloaks, Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama exchanged confident taunts before the fight began.

• Uchiha Minamoto invited Konoha Ninja to watch the battle and collected Five-Tails Kokuō, Four-Tails Son Goku, Isobu, and Eight-Tails Gyuki, who wanted to help him fight Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Minamoto brought the villagers, Ninja, and seven Tailed Beasts to a deserted island in the Outer Sea through the Kamui dimension.
• Shibi Aburame became fascinated with Seven-Tails Chōmei, while Ninja from several clans gathered around Tailed Beasts they admired.
• Uchiha Minamoto asked Kurama to protect the spectators, and Kurama gave each Konoha Ninja a Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama Senju traded confident remarks as they prepared to fight, and Hashirama began mentioning an old acquaintance.

Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama Senju began their duel, and Minamoto used Sun Senjutsu Chakra to cut through Hashirama’s sword and wound him. Hashirama’s injury quickly healed, and the two acknowledged each other’s strength as the fight continued.

• Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama Senju exchanged Seals of Confrontation before the gathered ninja and Tailed Beasts.
• Hashirama Senju retreated to move the fight farther from the spectators, then traded weapon blows with Minamoto using a Black Greatsword.
• Hashirama Senju remarked that Minamoto’s Gunbai skills were inferior to Madara’s, and Minamoto admitted he was not very skilled with the weapon.
• Uchiha Minamoto infused the Gunbai with Sun Senjutsu Chakra and cut through Hashirama Senju’s Black Greatsword and armor, leaving a deep wound across his chest and abdomen.
• Hashirama Senju’s wound rapidly healed without hand seals, and he praised Minamoto for surpassing Madara in cutting through his weapon.

Uchiha Minamoto used sun senjutsu and black flames against Hashirama Senju, who answered with Sage Mode and a colossal wooden golem. As the spectators watched, Uchiha Fugaku and Shisui Uchiha awakened their Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Hashirama Senju created a forest to conceal himself and attack Uchiha Minamoto with Wood Release.
• Uchiha Minamoto escaped into the sky, located Hashirama with Heavenly Net, and fired a massive Sage Art black fireball at the forest.
• Hashirama Senju entered Sage Mode and sent a wooden dragon to smash the fireball, but its black flames ignited the forest.
• Hashirama Senju formed a colossal wooden golem as Uchiha Fugaku and Shisui Uchiha awakened their Mangekyō Sharingan while watching the battle.

Uchiha Minamoto and Hashirama Senju fought with their greatest techniques, and Minamoto’s flying Perfect Susanoo destroyed Hashirama’s Wood Human Technique. Though most spectators thought Hashirama had lost, the tailed beasts and skilled sensors sensed that both Hokage still had plenty of chakra, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Uchiha Minamoto summoned Sage Art: Perfect Susanoo, whose wings let it fly and match Hashirama Senju’s Wood Human Technique in size.
• Hashirama Senju met Susanoo’s diving punch with the wooden giant, then attacked it with Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
• Uchiha Minamoto threw Sage Art: Scorch Release: Light Wheel Gale Black Arrow Zero Style, which split the wooden giant while Susanoo withstood Hashirama’s assault.
• Kakashi Hatake used the Byakugan to see that Susanoo remained unharmed as the wooden giant burned away, and Kurama celebrated Minamoto’s victory.
• Tobirama Senju worried that Hashirama had been unable to suppress Minamoto despite using his senjutsu trump card, while the tailed beasts and skilled sensors sensed the fight was not over.

Uchiha Minamoto defeated Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju in a brief spar, establishing himself as Konoha’s strongest Hokage. The battered brothers and the watching ninja recognized the vast gap in strength, while Tobirama wondered whether Minamoto could become the second Sage of Six Paths.

• Uchiha Minamoto dispelled his Susanoo and challenged Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to fight him together.
• Tobirama Senju attacked with Flying Thunder God Slash, but Uchiha Minamoto caught his wrist and swatted him into a crater with his Gunbai.
• Uchiha Minamoto disrupted Hashirama Senju’s chakra with a Chakra Black Rod and struck him into a second crater.
• The tailed beasts and Konoha ninja witnessed the Senju brothers’ defeat and recognized Uchiha Minamoto as Konoha’s strongest Hokage.
• Tobirama Senju admitted that neither he nor Hashirama Senju could match Uchiha Minamoto and wondered whether he might become the second Sage of Six Paths.

Uchiha Minamoto explained his Chakra Black Rods to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, then used Yatagarasu to clear the battlefield after their battle. He returned to Konoha with the tailed beasts and headed with them to the Naka River Reservoir.

• Uchiha Minamoto showed Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju his Chakra Black Rods and revealed that Nagato used them to control the Six Paths of Pain.
• Tobirama Senju privately suspected that Uchiha Minamoto had awakened the Rinnegan, though he questioned why Minamoto's eyes did not resemble Pain's.
• Hashirama Senju accidentally snapped a Black Rod, and Uchiha Minamoto gave him a larger replacement.
• Uchiha Minamoto called Yatagarasu, who devoured the Blaze Release flames and cleared the battlefield.
• Uchiha Minamoto brought the tailed beasts and Konoha ninja back to Konoha, left a Lightning Doppelganger to handle village affairs, and took the tailed beasts to the Naka River Reservoir.

Uchiha Minamoto arranged habitats for the tailed beasts gathered near Konoha, then returned to an island to upgrade Light Release. He spent one hundred million Great Love Points to create the SSS-rank Kekkei Mōra ability Sunlight Shines Everywhere.

• Uchiha Minamoto told the tailed beasts that he would negotiate with Kirigakure to unseal Six-Tails Saiken and that One-Tail Shukaku's whereabouts were unknown.
• Seven-Tails Chōmei chose a high-elevation mountain forest, and Uchiha Minamoto let him select one of Konoha's surrounding mountains.
• The tailed beasts returned to their chosen habitats, and Uchiha Minamoto went back to a deserted island to upgrade Light Release.
• Uchiha Minamoto revised his plan and spent one hundred million Great Love Points to create Sunlight Shines Everywhere, an SSS-rank Kekkei Mōra jutsu formula.

Uchiha Minamoto tested his newly awakened Kekkei Mōra, Universal Sunlight, and returned to Konoha after mastering his new abilities. There, he agreed to help Jiraiya revive Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, and Jiraiya brought out the scrolls containing their sealed bodies.

• Uchiha Minamoto used Universal Sunlight to destroy a Wood Release clone and a Light Release clone almost instantly.
• Uchiha Minamoto tested his other new abilities on a deserted island before returning to Konoha through Divine Lightning.
• Uchiha Minamoto learned that Jiraiya had asked for help reviving Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan.
• Uchiha Minamoto summoned Jiraiya and asked him to take out the three scrolls containing their sealed bodies.
• Jiraiya brought out the three scrolls in the Hokage's Office.