Recaps

Lu You negotiated a peace agreement with Konoha and deployed Kusagakure divisions to the Western and Eastern Fronts. At the Eastern Defense Base, he met the Third Hokage and Konoha’s senior officers, who sensed his overwhelming strength, and insisted they focus on the war.

• Lu You discussed Obito’s death with Kakashi, Rin, Minato Namikaze, and Kana, then outlined his views on how ninja villages had shaped warfare.
• Abu, Yahiko, and Shikaku Nara finalized a treaty giving the Land of Grass sixty percent of war reparations and preserving the Grass Ninja’s independent command.
• On the third day after the agreement, Lu You deployed three Kusagakure divisions, sending Pakura and Konan to assist Konoha’s Western Front while he and Nagato continued to the Eastern Front.
• Lu You entered the Eastern Defense Base’s command tent, where the Third Hokage, Jiraiya, Hatake Sakumo, Minato Namikaze, and other Konoha officers sensed his formidable presence.
• The Third Hokage greeted Lu You as the new God of the Shinobi World, but Lu You said they should discuss old times after the war.

Konoha and Kusagakure agreed to lure Kumogakure and Kirigakure toward Kikyo Mountain and encircle them, with Lu You offering to handle the Tailed Beast Jinchūriki. The operation began with Konoha sending troops, including young graduates, to the front lines, where Shisui Uchiha and three-year-old Uchiha Itachi arrived.

• Shikaku Nara presented Konoha’s plan to draw Kumogakure and Kirigakure into an encirclement near Kikyo Mountain, and Lu You proposed including Iwagakure if it joined the enemy alliance.
• Lu You claimed he could handle the enemy Tailed Beast Jinchūriki, and Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the plan while making Iwagakure’s inclusion conditional on its actions.
• Jiraiya spoke with Nagato, who said he hoped to someday see the world without relying on his eyes and affirmed that Yahiko’s dream would come true.
• The Kikyo Mountain encirclement operation began, and Konoha sent large numbers of troops, including children, to the front lines.
• Shisui Uchiha joined a unit, while Uchiha Itachi was brought to the front by his father.

Konoha lured the combined forces of Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure into its Kikyo Mountain ambush, where a massive battle erupted. As the jinchūriki moved to blast open an escape route, Lu You appeared and challenged them all.

• Iwagakure betrayed Konoha’s expectations, joined Kumogakure and Kirigakure, and led a combined force of twenty-five thousand ninja into the Kikyo Mountain Line.
• Konoha’s ambush sealed the mountain pass, trapping the invading armies in the valley and launching a major battle.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, Minato Namikaze, and the Grass Ninja reinforcements engaged the enemy’s leading fighters.
• Uchiha Itachi asked Lu You why so many people had to die, and Lu You told him that people give meaning to life and death.
• The jinchūriki began forming Tailed Beast Bombs to destroy the mountains, but Lu You suddenly grabbed Killer B in his complete Eight-Tails form and dispersed the attack.
• Lu You beckoned to the jinchūriki gathered before him and challenged them to attack him all at once.

Lu You faced the gathered Jinchūriki on the battlefield and overwhelmed their attacks with his strength and techniques. After Han intervened to save Killer B, Lu You turned his attention to Han and challenged him.

• Lu You attacked the Two-Tails Jinchūriki, who dodged his South Heaven Gate strike but failed to damage him with a lightning blade.
• Roshi charged Lu You in Lava Release Chakra Mode, but Lu You stopped his chakra flow and hurled him hundreds of meters away.
• Han attacked with Boil Release, but Lu You dodged and mocked his charge.
• Utakata launched corrosive bubbles, and Lu You countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame until the Two-Tails rescued Utakata.
• Killer B attacked Lu You with his swords, but Lu You caught one blade and immobilized him.
• Han charged in to save Killer B, and Lu You blocked Han’s elbow before challenging him to fight.

Lu You defeated the assembled Jinchūriki with overwhelming taijutsu, but Utakata released control of the Tailed Beasts, prompting all five to transform and attack. As the giant beasts faced him, Lu You activated Sage Mode.

• Lu You crushed Killer B's blade, knocked Killer B unconscious, and blasted Han into a mountainside.
• Lu You struck down the Two-Tails' Jinchūriki and Roshi while Utakata's bubbles spread across the battlefield.
• Utakata admitted the Jinchūriki could not defeat Lu You and released control of his Tailed Beast.
• The Two-Tails' Jinchūriki, Roshi, Han, and Killer B also underwent Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, leaving five enormous beasts on the battlefield.
• Lu You activated Sage Mode as the five Tailed Beasts faced him.

Lu You used Sage Mode and a ring of golden flames to trap the Tailed Beasts, then overwhelmed them with his strength and speed. He asked them to surrender and come with him to the Land of Grass, but they refused as he began forming another technique.

• Lu You activated Sage Mode and encircled the Tailed Beasts with a contracting curtain of golden flames.
• Two-Tails, Four-Tails, and Five-Tails tried to resist or break through the flames, but Lu You's fire drove them back.
• Lu You stomped Eight-Tails Gyuki flat, struck Two-Tails Matatabi away, and immobilized Four-Tails Son Gokū.
• Lu You dispersed Five-Tails Kokuō's steam and tore open his body with a punch, then dodged Six-Tails Saiken's acidic slime.
• Lu You offered to take the Tailed Beasts to the Land of Grass and make them stronger, but they refused as he began forming a powerful technique.

Lu You erased the upper bodies of the five Tailed Beasts with Dust Release, leaving them alive but helpless as they began to regenerate. Their defeat broke the enemy forces’ resolve, and the Cloud-Mist-Rock Alliance fled the Land of Fire while Konoha pursued them; Lu You ended the chapter by cutting through the storm clouds with his sword.

• Lu You used Sage Art: Dust Release: All-World Detachment Technique to erase the upper bodies of the Two-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, Six-Tails, and Eight-Tails, then summoned Ninja Cats to carry their surviving Jinchūriki away.
• The battlefield fell silent as shinobi saw the defeated Jinchūriki and realized Lu You had taken out all five Tailed Beasts.
• Toroi stopped the Third Raikage from rushing toward Lu You and persuaded him to order an immediate retreat.
• The Cloud-Mist-Rock Alliance broke through the battlefield’s entrance and fled, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru let the main force pass before pursuing and killing isolated groups.
• Lu You split the storm clouds with a sword strike and said, “No rain.”

Nagato crushed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, while Konan and Pakura helped defeat Iwagakure’s commanders and the remaining enemy forces retreated. Lu You declared the Third Shinobi World War over as the surviving troops cheered.

• Nagato defeated five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and forced the other two to flee, then ordered the captured Kubikiribōchō and other blades secured as war trophies.
• Konan stopped pursuing Toroi after he led Kumogakure’s retreat in an orderly formation, then joined Pakura against Iwagakure’s forces.
• Konan and Pakura trapped Dong Siren in a hollow and killed him with a pincer attack.
• Yagura and the Third Raikage escaped with their remaining forces, while Iwagakure’s retreat fell into disarray and its troops suffered heavy losses.
• Lu You returned to Kikyo Mountain with Itachi and declared the Third Shinobi World War over, prompting the surviving troops to cheer.

After the war, Lu You’s Kusagakure secured reparations from the defeated villages while refusing to return their captured jinchūriki, and he prepared for the village’s future by guiding young Uchiha Itachi. The chapter ends with the Land of Waterfalls officially joining the Land of Grass, a move that shocked the world.

• Abu negotiated reparations and border adjustments with the Five Great Nations while Kusagakure refused demands to return the captured jinchūriki.
• Kana became Takigakure’s chief and Seven-Tails jinchūriki, and Uzumaki Kana and Uzumaki Xiangquan reestablished the Uzumaki Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku sent four-year-old Itachi to Kusagakure to become Lu You’s apprentice, where Abu taught him administration and Lu You guided his studies and training.
• At the beginning of Grass God Year 2, the Land of Waterfalls announced that it was joining the Land of Grass.

Lu You oversaw the Land of Waterfalls’ transition under Kusagakure as major changes swept the shinobi world, then confronted Abu’s declining health and considered how to extend his life. Abu refused life-extension, but affirmed his faith in Lu You’s vision as Kusagakure grew into a city.

• The Land of Waterfalls’ daimyō fled, and officials from the Land of Grass took over while Kusagakure’s Twelfth Division secured the village.
• Minato Namikaze became the Fourth Hokage, Sasuke Uchiha and other future shinobi were born, Yagura suppressed Kirigakure’s internal strife, and A became the Fourth Raikage.
• Lu You learned that Abu was fifty-one and suffering from accumulated injuries, then offered to extend his life.
• Abu refused Lu You’s offer and said Kusagakure’s peaceful future would come true under his leadership.
• Lu You noted that the village’s population had passed five hundred thousand, and Abu suggested it might be time to call it a city.

Lu You approved Abu’s plan to rename Kusagakure’s growing city the City of Divine Descent. Meanwhile, Itachi met Uzumaki Xiangli, and Utakata and Killer B discovered that the other Jinchūriki were finding ways to settle into life in the Land of Grass.

• Abu proposed renaming the city the City of Divine Descent, and Lu You left the decision to him.
• Uzumaki Xiangli invited Itachi to buy three-color dango, and the two children visited Utakata’s shop.
• Utakata concluded that the Uchiha and Uzumaki Clans had chosen to back the Land of Grass and told Killer B they should give up escaping.
• Killer B returned to their temporary residence and learned that Roshi had joined a temple, Han had become a Ninja Academy instructor, and the Two-Tails Jinchūriki had accepted a technology job.

Killer B struggled to find work in the City of Divine Descent before joining an agency as an idol, while the Land of Grass continued to prosper. After the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha and Minato and Kushina died, the nations considered war as the God of Shinobi wondered how Obito had caused the rampage.

• Killer B failed to find respectable work and joined an agency after a talent scout declared he was born to be an idol.
• Several months later, the Fourth Raikage saw a poster announcing Killer B's concert tour in the Land of Grass and was shocked by his dancing.
• The Land of Grass expanded rapidly, and Karin Uzumaki was born as the Uzumaki Clan's first newborn since its near annihilation.
• Kushina Uzumaki's weakened seal allowed someone to extract the Nine-Tails, which rampaged through Konoha under apparent Sharingan control.
• Minato and Kushina died sealing the Nine-Tails inside Naruto, and they entrusted their son to Hatake Sakumo as the Third Hokage was gravely injured and Root suffered heavy losses.
• The nations weighed taking advantage of Konoha's weakness, while the God of Shinobi wondered how Obito could have unleashed the Nine-Tails when Rin Nohara was alive and well and Madara Uchiha was dead.

As the Land of Grass halted the wars to build its strength, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu headed to Konoha before the Nine-Tails' Rampage to pursue Madara Uchiha's plan. They targeted Uchiha Fugaku's newborn son Sasuke as leverage to obtain Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Lu You reflected on Minato Namikaze and the apparent return of history to its original course, then dismissed Black Zetsu's ability to disrupt the Land of Grass's rise.
• The Land of Grass declared that fighting must stop, and the nations at war withdrew while Lu You planned for the country to spend eight to ten years building up talent.
• Three days before the Nine-Tails' Rampage, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu discussed Obito's ruined eyes and traveled to Konoha to continue Madara Uchiha's plan.
• Black Zetsu identified Uchiha Fugaku as the holder of the only Mangekyō Sharingan and led White Zetsu into the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Black Zetsu proposed kidnapping Sasuke Uchiha to force Uchiha Fugaku to surrender his eyes, and the two sank underground to begin the attempt.

As Kushina Uzumaki neared childbirth, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu took advantage of the Uchiha clan’s security routines to attack Uchiha Mikoto at home. They subdued Mikoto and knocked out Sasuke Uchiha, then carried them inside to hide.

• Uchiha Fugaku adjusted the Military Police patrol routes to avoid the area around Kushina Uzumaki and told Uchiha Tekka how to cover the village walls.
• After Fugaku left for the police force, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu watched Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke Uchiha from a tree near their home.
• Black Zetsu struck Mikoto from behind, but she sensed the attack and turned to defend Sasuke.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu restrained Mikoto with Wood Release and rendered her unconscious.
• Black Zetsu knocked out Sasuke and carried both him and Mikoto into the house to hide.

Black Zetsu forced Uchiha Fugaku to agree to seize power in Konoha, then used Obito to defeat him and steal his Mangekyō Sharingan. Mikoto and Sasuke were left captive as Black Zetsu replaced Obito’s eyes with Fugaku’s.

• Uchiha Fugaku found Uchiha Mikoto bound and Sasuke asleep in the storeroom, with Black Zetsu holding them hostage.
• Black Zetsu demanded that Fugaku lead the Uchiha Clan to seize power and become Hokage, and Fugaku agreed.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi to trap Black Zetsu, exposing Obito beneath the disguise.
• Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan helped him break Tsukuyomi, and he pierced Fugaku through the chest.
• Black Zetsu took control of Obito, removed both of Fugaku’s eyes, and implanted Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan in Obito.

Black Zetsu infiltrated Kushina Uzumaki’s delivery room, killed Biwako Sarutobi and the midwife, and used Uchiha Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails. He freed the beast from Kushina’s seal, and Minato Namikaze escaped with Naruto as Kushina tried to restrain the Nine-Tails with her chains.

• Black Zetsu infiltrated the delivery room and killed Biwako Sarutobi and the midwife after Naruto Uzumaki was born.
• Black Zetsu used Uchiha Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails inside Kushina Uzumaki’s seal.
• Black Zetsu seized newborn Naruto and tossed him into the air before escaping underground.
• Minato Namikaze caught Naruto, saw Biwako Sarutobi’s body, and fled with the baby using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The Nine-Tails burst out of Kushina’s seal and destroyed the delivery room.
• Kushina rose from the rubble and bound the Nine-Tails with her chains.

The Nine-Tails rampaged through Konoha while Hatake Sakumo, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and other ninja tried to hold it back. Minato Namikaze and Kushina returned to the battlefield and began sealing the beast into Naruto, leaving Naruto’s future care in Konoha’s hands.

• Hatake Sakumo severed one of the Nine-Tails’ tails, and Hiruzen Sarutobi struck the beast and forced it beyond the village outskirts.
• The Nine-Tails advanced on Konoha, its Sharingan visible, while Anbu, Root, and other ninja struggled to slow it and civilians suffered casualties.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi was struck by the Nine-Tails and wondered where Minato Namikaze was.
• Minato brought Kushina home, where she picked up Naruto and said the village needed them.
• Minato returned to the battlefield with Kushina and Naruto as the Nine-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kushina restrained the Nine-Tails while Minato used the Reaper Death Seal to take half its soul, allowing her to drag the weakened beast toward Naruto for sealing.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki sealed the Nine-Tails inside Naruto and died, leaving Hatake Sakumo to take the child into his care. As Konoha mourned the destruction, villagers blamed the Uchiha for the attack, while the clan demanded vengeance for Uchiha Fugaku’s death.

• Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze sealed the Nine-Tails into Naruto and died after entrusting him to Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo arrived, promised to care for Naruto, and picked him up as Hiruzen Sarutobi confirmed that Minato and Kushina could not be saved.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Hatake Sakumo whether he would become the Fifth Hokage.
• Konoha’s villagers blamed the Uchiha after seeing Sharingan controlling the Nine-Tails during its rampage.
• After Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke Uchiha were found and Uchiha Fugaku’s death was confirmed, the Uchiha clan demanded to find the culprit and avenge their clan head.

After learning that his father Fugaku had been killed during the Nine-Tails' Rampage, Itachi awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan and asked Lu You to take him back to Konoha. Lu You accompanied him to investigate Fugaku's stolen Mangekyō Sharingan, and they arrived at the devastated village to visit Hiruzen Sarutobi.

• Itachi learned that Fugaku was dead and awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan as he grieved.
• Lu You explained that Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan may have been the reason he was killed and that someone had stolen his eyes.
• Itachi asked to return to Konoha to support his mother and Sasuke, and Lu You agreed to accompany him and search for Fugaku's eyes.
• Lu You flew with Itachi to Konoha, where they found the village badly damaged and its residents tending to the aftermath.
• Lu You asked a guard to inform Hiruzen Sarutobi of his visit, and Hiruzen immediately ordered that Lu You be brought in.

Lu You and Itachi returned to Konoha, where Hiruzen Sarutobi described the village’s losses and the growing conflict between the Uchiha and the villagers. Lu You brought Itachi to the locked-down Uchiha compound, promising to protect him, and was stopped at the entrance by Uchiha Tekka.

• A newly assigned gate guard failed to recognize Lu You, and Hiruzen Sarutobi sent him to bring Lu You and Itachi inside.
• Jiraiya escorted Lu You and Itachi to Hiruzen Sarutobi, grieving Minato and Kushina and carrying anger over their deaths.
• Lu You told Hiruzen Sarutobi he intended to find Fugaku’s killer and avenge his friends, while Hiruzen explained that the investigation had found no leads.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi described Konoha’s heavy losses, the Uchiha’s demands, and the villagers’ hostility, warning that Itachi’s return might cause trouble.
• Lu You reassured Itachi that no one would use him as a pawn, then took him to the Uchiha compound, where Uchiha Tekka challenged them at the entrance.

Lu You returned Uchiha Itachi to the Uchiha compound and prepared to take Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke to the Land of Grass. When Uchiha Yashiro and the clan’s ninjas tried to stop them, Lu You unleashed overwhelming spiritual pressure, freezing all of Konoha.

• Lu You asked Uchiha Tekka where Mikoto and Sasuke were, then entered the compound with Itachi despite the guards.
• Lu You incapacitated the ninjas guarding Mikoto’s courtyard, and Itachi reunited with his mother and saw that Sasuke was safe.
• Itachi urged Mikoto to leave Konoha with him, and Lu You promised to handle the clan’s objections; Mikoto agreed to go.
• Uchiha Yashiro confronted them at the compound entrance and declared that Mikoto and Sasuke could not leave, but Lu You told him to step aside.
• When a Uchiha ninja accused Lu You of running away, Lu You stopped and released a vast spiritual pressure that froze Konoha in place.

Lu You displayed the power of his new gold Trait, Spiritual Pressure Like an Abyss, and gave Shisui Uchiha a torrent of memories before leaving the Uchiha compound. He then went to the Hatake home to wait for Hatake Sakumo, while Danzo ordered Orochimaru to resume Wood Release experiments.

• Lu You recognized Shisui Uchiha among the frozen Uchiha and implanted memories in him as a backup before leaving with Itachi and Uchiha Mikoto.
• Lu You's aura spread across Konoha, freezing people and objects until he departed the Uchiha compound.
• Uchiha Yashiro dismissed the shaken Uchiha ninja, while Hiruzen Sarutobi wondered whether Lu You had surpassed the First Hokage and Danzo ordered Orochimaru to conduct human experiments using Sharingan.
• Lu You went to the Hatake home to meet Hatake Sakumo, who was occupied with work after the Nine-Tails' Rampage.

Lu You visited Kakashi and Hatake Sakumo after the Nine-Tails' Rampage, then discussed Sakumo's possible defection from Konoha to the Land of Grass. Sakumo agreed to wait for an opportunity to leave with Kakashi, while Naruto's future care remained unresolved.

• Kakashi returned home and found Lu You, Uchiha Mikoto, and Uchiha Itachi waiting; Mikoto took over feeding and caring for Sasuke and Naruto.
• Uchiha Itachi considered bringing Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, to the Land of Grass, but Lu You told him the time was not right.
• Hatake Sakumo met privately with Lu You and said he had refused Lord Third's offer to become the Fifth Hokage.
• Lu You explained that the next war would be the last and told Sakumo to watch for the Uchiha Clan's rebellion or a possible opportunity involving Orochimaru to leave Konoha with Kakashi.
• Sakumo worried that leaving would mean abandoning Naruto, and Lu You suggested entrusting him to Jiraiya; Sakumo hesitated because he feared Jiraiya would lead Naruto astray.

After Lu You moved Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke to the Land of Grass, Konoha blamed the Uchiha for the Nine-Tails' Rampage and grew increasingly unstable. Over the following years, wars weakened Konoha, and the chapter ended with the Uchiha conservatives and Hatake Sakumo leaving for the Land of Grass.

• Lu You spoke with Hatake Sakumo, gave him a sealed scroll, and asked him to send word through a summoning animal when the opportunity came.
• Rumors spread in Konoha that a god had punished the village, and villagers again blamed the Uchiha, who faced growing ostracism and calls for rebellion.
• Lu You took Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke Uchiha to the Land of Grass, where Mikoto became a Ninja Academy teacher and befriended Nii Mayuko.
• Uchiha Itachi graduated early and became the Sixth Seat of the First Division, while Iwagakure and then Kumogakure fought localized wars against Konoha.
• During peace negotiations with Kumogakure, Hizashi Hyuga died in place of Hyuga Hiashi after Kumogakure demanded the Hyuga Clan head's life.
• Orochimaru became the Fifth Hokage; later, Shisui Uchiha led the Uchiha conservatives to defect to the Land of Grass, while Hatake Sakumo left Konoha with Kakashi Hatake and Naruto Uzumaki.

As the Uchiha rebellion approached, Shisui chose to kill the radicals and help the moderates and conservatives escape Konoha. Hatake Sakumo prepared an escape route and packed to leave with Kakashi and Naruto, while Shisui awakened a new Sharingan power and began his purge.

• After years of clan disputes and growing hostility with Konoha High Command, Shisui considered Hatake Sakumo’s suggestion to take moderate Uchiha to the Land of Grass.
• When Uchiha Yashiro ordered the rebels to imprison moderates and conservatives, Xin asked Shisui to decide what they should do.
• Shisui ordered the Uchiha moderates and conservatives to prepare to leave Konoha with their families, and told Xin to seek Hatake Sakumo’s help.
• Shisui awakened a curved-pinwheel Sharingan and vowed to purge the radicals himself.
• Hatake Sakumo kept a secret route open for the escaping Uchiha and prepared to leave Konoha with Kakashi and Naruto.