Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze destroyed Iwagakure’s supply route and returned safely with Rin and Kakashi, while Hiruzen Sarutobi received the report listing Obito Uchiha as killed in action. In Kusagakure, Lu You decided to leave for a while, and Sasori of the Red Sands watched Grass Ninja register villagers in the former Land of Rain.

• Minato Namikaze detonated Explosive Tags that collapsed the valley road and severed Iwagakure’s supply line.
• Minato Namikaze escaped with Rin and Kakashi, checked that they were safe, and later returned to the Land of Fire with them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read Minato Namikaze’s report, which listed Obito Uchiha among those killed in action.
• Lu You discussed the mission with Abu and approved plans to expand the Ninja Academy in the former Land of Rain.
• Lu You left Kusagakure, telling Abu he would be gone for at least a month and at most half a year.
• Sasori of the Red Sands watched Grass Ninja register villagers and survey land in a village in the southern former Land of Rain.

As Kusagakure registered the former Land of Rain, Sasori of the Red Sands hid in a remote village, but Konan tracked him down. She confronted him and he attacked, beginning a fight that left their conflict unresolved.

• Kusagakure officials registered the former Land of Rain’s villagers and tested children for ninja aptitude.
• Sasori of the Red Sands hid in a dilapidated house, planning to leave once the registration work ended.
• Konan identified Sasori as the source of reports about puppet sightings and ordered him to come with her.
• Sasori summoned two poisoned puppets and attacked Konan, who transformed into fluttering sheets of paper to evade them.

Konan defeated Sasori and took him prisoner, leaving his fate to the Grass God. Meanwhile, Lu You reached Takigakure, planning to obtain its Hero Water and considering whether to bring the Land of Waterfalls under his control.

• Konan’s Paper Release countered Sasori’s puppets and fire, and her Paper Shuriken damaged their joints.
• Sasori conceded defeat, and Konan bound him and carried him away to face the Grass God.
• Lu You traveled north through the Land of Waterfalls and found no sign of Obito in the devastated valley.
• Lu You searched the mountains for Takigakure, considering the Land of Waterfalls a possible target for annexation.
• Lu You passed through the waterfall into Takigakure and found a simple village with no nearby patrols.

Lu You visited Takigakure and negotiated its peaceful surrender with the dying village chief, who offered the Hero Water and the village’s cooperation in exchange for Takigakure remaining largely unchanged. Lu You accepted, agreeing to keep the arrangement secret until it could be announced in a few years.

• Lu You bypassed Takigakure’s main gate and entered a guarded building, where he found the village chief waiting beside a gourd of water.
• The chief explained that he had hoped to secure Takigakure’s future by maintaining ties with Konoha, but believed the Land of Grass would eventually threaten the village.
• The chief offered the Hero Water, revealing that it amplified chakra while consuming the drinker’s vitality, and described its history alongside Takigakure’s forbidden technique, Earth Grudge Fear.
• The chief asked Lu You to let Takigakure join the Land of Grass while preserving the village and its peaceful way of life.
• Lu You accepted the surrender terms and agreed to keep the arrangement secret until a public announcement in a few years.

Lu You studied the Hero Water and learned to enter Perfect Sage Mode, eventually mastering natural-energy absorption without the water. After six months away, he returned to the Land of Grass and told Abu that he had taken over the Land of Waterfalls.

• Lu You left the old village chief and settled in a secluded cave near Takigakure to study the Hero Water.
• He analyzed the water for weeks, learned to combine its natural energy with his chakra, and developed Perfect Sage Mode.
• Over the following months, Lu You learned to absorb natural energy directly from the air and improved his Sage Mode.
• Lu You's Template synchronization reached 35%, deepening his Martial Arts Sainthood Trait.
• After six months of training, Lu You returned to the Grass Shadow Building, where Abu confronted him about his absence.
• Lu You said he had taken over the Land of Waterfalls, and Abu protested that conquering a whole country went too far.

Lu You learned that Takigakure had agreed to surrender and planned for Kana to become the new Seven-Tails Jinchuriki. After reviewing the Land of Grass’s growth and the wider war, he agreed to consider Konoha’s request for aid and went to inspect the captured Sasori.

• Lu You told Abu that Takigakure’s village chief had agreed to surrender, and they decided Kana would become the next Seven-Tails Jinchuriki with Konan escorting her there.
• Abu reported that the Land of Rain had been annexed, the academy intake and farmland had grown, and Pakura’s Fifth Division was fully staffed; Lu You approved making Pakura head instructor.
• Abu described Konoha’s worsening war on two fronts and said the Third Hokage had requested aid from the Land of Grass.
• Lu You agreed to respond to Konoha’s request so the war could end sooner, and Abu went to send word.
• Abu told Lu You that Konan had captured the Sunagakure missing-nin Sasori of the Red Sands, and Lu You went to see him.

Sasori accepted Lu You’s offer to join Kusagakure as captain of the Ninth Division in exchange for materials to develop his puppet army, and challenged Lu You to fight him once it was complete. Ten days later, Yamahara Kaede welcomed Minato Namikaze and the Konoha delegation to Kusagakure.

• Sasori told Lu You that he needed fresh ninja corpses for his experimental puppet, and Lu You offered access to enemy corpses collected during the war.
• Lu You offered Sasori the captaincy of the Ninth Division and logistical support, forbidding him from using Kusagakure’s own people as puppet materials.
• Sasori agreed to join Kusagakure without taking division members and asked to fight Lu You after completing his puppet army; Lu You accepted.
• Lu You told Sasori his appointment letter and Captain’s Haori would arrive the next day and that he must attend a meeting in a few days.
• Ten days later, Yamahara Kaede and Thirteenth Division members waited at Kusagakure’s entrance to receive the Konoha delegation.
• Minato Namikaze arrived with Kakashi, Rin Nohara, Shikaku Nara, and other Konoha ninja, and Yamahara Kaede welcomed them as their liaison.

Minato Namikaze and the Konoha delegation arrived in Kusagakure to discuss an alliance and saw how prosperous the village had become. They met Captain-Commander Lu You and the division captains, leaving Shikaku Nara wary of Kusagakure’s formidable lineup.

• Yamahara Kaede welcomed Minato Namikaze and the Konoha delegation and escorted them through Kusagakure.
• Rin Nohara and Kakashi marveled at the village’s bustling streets, while Rin thought of Obito.
• Minato Namikaze and the others rode an elevator to the Grass Shadow Building’s conference hall and saw the scale of Kusagakure from above.
• Lu You and the division captains, including Abu, Yahiko, Nagato Uzumaki, Angel Konan, Pakura, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Uzumaki Kana, greeted the delegation.
• Shikaku Nara assessed the captains’ strength and privately cursed Sunagakure for having lost Pakura and Sasori.

Lu You heard Konoha’s case for an alliance and weighed the rival offers for Kusagakure’s support in the war. After Shikaku Nara argued that an alliance with the Land of Fire would bring greater gains, Lu You asked his division captains for their opinions.

• Minato Namikaze reunited with Lu You, Kakashi, Rin, and Kana before the meeting turned to business.
• Shikaku Nara asked Kusagakure to ally with Konoha and offered to split the war reparations equally.
• Lu You revealed that Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure had also invited Kusagakure to join their alliance against the Land of Fire.
• Lu You pointed out that Kusagakure’s choice of side could decide the war’s winner.
• Shikaku Nara argued that Konoha’s alliance offered Kusagakure a better share of the spoils and fewer problems absorbing territory.
• Lu You asked his division captains what they thought of Shikaku Nara’s argument.

Lu You secured Kusagakure’s tactical cooperation with Konoha after Pakura raised concerns about Konoha’s past betrayals and Minato Namikaze and Shikaku Nara offered guarantees. In a private meeting afterward, Minato told Lu You that Konoha was struggling on the eastern front and had begun sending newly graduated Genin into battle.

• Abu and Yahiko agreed to cooperate with Konoha but said the division of spoils still needed negotiation.
• Pakura questioned whether Konoha would attack the Grass Ninja after the war stabilized, and Minato pledged to side with them if Konoha broke its promise.
• Shikaku offered written terms and said the Third Hokage would oversee the operation and accept responsibility for any breach.
• Lu You confirmed tactical cooperation but ruled out an alliance, leaving Abu to negotiate the split and command authority.
• Lu You met privately with Minato Namikaze, Kakashi, and Rin, and Minato described Konoha’s strained fronts and the deployment of young Genin and Might Duy.

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.