Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kagami infiltrated the Hidden Cloud camp and battled Kinkaku, but abandoned his chance to kill him to protect the comrades at Kikyo Mountain from Tailed Beast Balls. Kagami saved the defensive position at the cost of the supply warehouse and collapsed, while a mysterious black-clothed youth watched from the sky and disappeared.

• Uchiha Kagami infiltrated the Hidden Cloud camp, found Kinkaku waiting for him, and was surrounded by Cloud Ninja.
• Kagami's Sharingan drove Cloud Ninja to attack one another, while Kinkaku transformed with Tailed Beast Chakra and fought him.
• Kagami unleashed Susanoo and the Divine Artifact Fang Yomotsu, cutting through the Cloud Ninja ranks.
• Kinkaku fired Tailed Beast Balls toward Kikyo Mountain, and Kagami gave up his chance to behead him so he could teleport the attacks away.
• Kagami collapsed after protecting the defensive position; Hiruzen, Koharu, and Danzo were alive, though the supply warehouse had been destroyed.
• A black-clothed youth watched Kagami from above the night sky, then disappeared.

Uzumaki Changming and his clan fought the invading forces of three shinobi villages, but the Uzumaki were outmatched as their leaders faced powerful opponents. The battle remained unresolved as Changming fought Shamon, Qiong Naixiang faced Minazuki Sora, and Ōnoki stood over the fallen Kongming.

• Shamon ordered the allied forces to attack, and the three villages’ shinobi began slaughtering the outnumbered Uzumaki clansmen.
• Shamon confronted Uzumaki Changming with ten puppets, but Changming destroyed control of five with his golden chains before Shamon stopped another chain with hardened sand.
• Minazuki Sora attacked Uzumaki Qiong Naixiang with Water Release techniques, and she absorbed his Water Stream Arrow with a sealing talisman.
• Ōnoki knocked Uzumaki Kongming to the ground and declared that the Uzumaki Clan was destined for defeat and destruction.

Uzumaki Mito joined the eastern front and fought the Second Raikage, using her strength, chains, and sealing techniques to gain the upper hand. Ginkaku arrived and disrupted her attack, and Mito answered by unleashing a technique against the Cloud Ninja forces.

• The Second Raikage tore through the Hidden Leaf forces until Maruboshi Kosuke intervened with a Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
• Uzumaki Mito rescued Kosuke and clashed with the Second Raikage, knocking him back with a palm strike.
• Mito used her chakra chains to bind and lift the Raikage, but he broke free after lightning struck them both.
• Mito activated Karma Restraint on the Raikage, immobilizing him before Ginkaku arrived and blasted her away with wind.
• Mito recovered and used the Scale Powder Concealment Technique to engulf a large number of Cloud Ninja.

Uchiha Kagami returned from the front lines after Tobirama Senju summoned him, then answered Tobirama’s questions about loyalty, power, and sacrifice. Convinced that Kagami inherited Hashirama’s will, Tobirama named him the future Third Hokage.

• Kagami discovered that reinforcements had arrived at the camp and learned from Sarutobi Hiruzen that Tobirama had urgently summoned him to the village.
• Kagami learned that Ginkaku had joined the Cloud Ninja Assault Unit on the Eastern Battlefield, where Lord Mito held off the Second Raikage and Ginkaku and helped drive the invaders back.
• Tobirama asked Kagami what he would choose between his clansmen and the village, power and comrades, and the village’s interests and his comrades.
• Kagami said he would treat clansmen as comrades, give up power to protect the village, and save comrades because they were essential to the village.
• Tobirama recognized Kagami as an inheritor of Hashirama’s will and declared that Kagami would become the Third Hokage if Tobirama died.

Uzumaki Kongming fought Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki to keep Hidden Whirlpool Village’s defenders from being overwhelmed, while Uzumaki Qiong Naixiang battled Minazuki Sora. Kongming charged back into the fight after deducing a weakness in Ōnoki’s attacks, and Sora demanded that Qiong Naixiang surrender the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Technique.

• Uzumaki Kongming unleashed his Adamantine Sealing Chains and fought Ōnoki, who repeatedly injured and restrained him with Earth Release techniques.
• Kongming broke free of Ōnoki’s stone pillars and used a chain to pull himself close, but Ōnoki struck him with Rock Fist Technique and sent him flying.
• Kongming deduced that Ōnoki could not maintain flight while delivering his powerful punch and charged at him again.
• Uzumaki Qiong Naixiang used her Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Talisman to tear off Minazuki Sora’s left arm, despite suffering a severe wound herself.
• Minazuki Sora demanded that Qiong Naixiang hand over the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Technique in exchange for sparing her and her clansmen.

The Allied Forces overwhelmed the Uzumaki Clan’s defenses, while Minazuki Sora fought Kyona Ka and Shamon defeated Uzumaki Changming. The remaining Uzumaki took refuge behind a Five Seal Barrier, and Shin'yu agreed to help once it shattered.

• Minazuki Sora attacked Kyona Ka with Water Fang Bullet after she mocked his missing arm, and she charged with sealing talismans.
• Shamon used his puppets, poison, and sand techniques to trap and badly injure Uzumaki Changming.
• The Allied Forces broke through the Uzumaki Clan’s defense and invaded Whirlpool Tide Village.
• Allied ninja discovered the refugees behind a torii gate and bombarded the Five Seal Barrier, but it remained unharmed.
• Shin'yu explained how the Five Seal Barrier worked and told Uchiha Nen they would act once it shattered.

Tobirama showed Uchiha Kagami his advanced underground laboratory and proposed using cells from Hashirama to strengthen Kagami and protect his eyesight. Kagami agreed to risk the experiment for the village, and three days later Tobirama had prepared another solution.

• Tobirama brought Kagami through his laboratory and showed him its research equipment and experimental sections.
• Tobirama revealed Hashirama's body preserved in a tank and explained that his cells might help repair Kagami's optic nerves and prevent blindness.
• Tobirama showed Kagami the Gene Liquid extracted from Hashirama's cells and described plans to adapt it before injecting it.
• Kagami agreed to undergo the dangerous experiment to help win the war and protect his comrades.
• Tobirama began assessing Kagami's physical condition and, three days later, held a pale red solution.

The Uzumaki Clan’s attackers broke the barrier around their mountain cave, but Uchiha Nen and Uchiha Shin'yu turned the assault back with overwhelming power. Shin'yu left Nen to guard the cave entrance as he vanished to pursue the remaining enemies.

• The attackers removed all five Forbidden Seals and shattered the barrier, then charged into the cave to slaughter the Uzumaki Clan.
• Nen used Wood Style to trap the attackers, while survivors combined Fire Style and Wind Style to burn through the trees.
• Nen’s Crow Tengu Susanoo emerged and fired Thunder God's Judgment, killing two attackers and driving the rest away from the cave.
• Shin'yu introduced himself to the Uzumaki Clan and declared that he was going to start killing the attackers.
• Shin'yu used his Mangekyo to bring six fleeing figures into range and cut them down, then ordered Nen to defend the cave entrance as he disappeared.

Kagami and Tobirama tested the fusion of Gene Liquids, discovering that the current mixture exploded on contact. During the New Year Festival, Kagami began a relationship with Uchiha Yuko and resolved to protect the village and win the war.

• Tobirama showed Kagami the first Gene Liquid fusion test, which exploded when Hashirama's Golden Solution touched Kagami's Gene Liquid.
• Tobirama explained the three stages of the experiment and said successful completion of the first two would give the final injection a 98% chance of perfect fusion.
• With the Kikyo Mountain front quiet, Kagami spent the New Year Festival in the village and drew attention from young women and prominent clans.
• Kagami and Uchiha Yuko confirmed their relationship and spent the festival's final night together atop Hokage Rock.
• Kagami asked whether Yuko would stay with him if he had only a few years to live, and she promised she would.
• Kagami vowed to protect the village and win the war before he and Yuko kissed beneath the fireworks.

As the Uzumaki Clan’s defenders were overwhelmed, Uzumaki Kongming was forced into the enemy camp, where Shin'yu appeared and effortlessly defeated a powerful attacker with a punch. Shin'yu stood unharmed amid the battle, while the fates of the other Uzumaki fighters remained uncertain.

• Uzumaki Changming, poisoned and badly weakened, continued facing Shamon and resolved to take the Second Wind Shadow down with him.
• Uzumaki Kyūnaika, gravely wounded, remained defiant as Minazuki Sora watched her warily.
• Ōnoki trapped Uzumaki Kongming with Earth Release and attacked him with Dust Release, but Kongming escaped using his Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Kongming landed in the enemy camp, where Shin'yu appeared and knocked away a Yellow Hair who was about to strike him.
• Kongming shielded Shin'yu from Shuriken, but a strong man punched Shin'yu in the face without harming him.
• Shin'yu struck the strong man in the chest, severely damaging his insides and leaving him kneeling and silent.

Shin'yu and Hikari celebrated New Year's Eve with Madara before a summons from Tetsusuke drew Shin'yu to the Land of Iron. Hikari joined him through the Reverse Summoning Technique, while Madara was left behind.

• Shin'yu and Hikari returned from the Land of Lightning to celebrate New Year's Eve with Madara and discussed how the war was escalating.
• Madara and Shin'yu ate the figures in Hikari's radish carving, and Madara advised Shin'yu to give Hikari his Frost Descent One Heart as a gift.
• Shin'yu sensed Tetsusuke calling for help from the Land of Iron and prepared to answer the summon.
• Hikari recalled Shin'yu's earlier defense of Forging Blades Workshop and decided to accompany him.
• Hikari activated the Reverse Summoning Technique with Shin'yu, leaving Madara behind.

Shin'yu attended a lavish thank-you banquet hosted by the Forging Blades Workshop, where Yukino teased him and Uchiha Hikari about their relationship. He later took Hikari beneath the sea to show her an underwater starry sky, and she kissed him.

• Shin'yu arrived at Takeo Castle with Uchiha Hikari and learned the Forging Blades Workshop had gathered to thank him for his help.
• Yukino sat beside Shin'yu at dinner and questioned Hikari about her relationship with him, flustering them both when they denied being engaged.
• Shin'yu and Hikari left the banquet, and he stored several dishes in a Sealing Scroll to take back for Old Madara.
• Shin'yu led Hikari beneath the sea and showed her schools of glowing fish beneath the sunlight, creating an underwater starry sky.
• Hikari thanked Shin'yu, embraced him, and kissed him as whale song echoed around them.

Uchiha Shin'yu rescued Uzumaki Kongming and withstood Ōnoki's Dust Release through his astonishing physical strength and regeneration. After Ōnoki's attack failed, Shin'yu moved to strike Shamon, who was guarding Uzumaki Changming inside a Sand ball.

• Shin'yu revealed his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and told Kongming that he was Uchiha but had no connection to Hidden Leaf Village.
• Shin'yu shoved Kongming aside as Ōnoki attacked them with Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.
• Shin'yu endured the Dust Release for several seconds, then healed his injuries without using Ame no Tokotachi.
• Shin'yu used his Body Flicker Technique to appear behind Shamon, who redirected his attention from Uzumaki Changming and began gathering Chakra.
• Shin'yu punched the Sand ball containing Shamon and sent it soaring into the night sky.

Shin'yu fought Ōnoki and Shamon during the battle at Whirlpool Tide Village, overwhelming both Second Wind Shadows with his techniques. He killed Shamon and left Ōnoki still evading his Susanoo.

• Shin'yu manifested his Susanoo and forced Ōnoki to dodge a barrage of Yasaka Magatama while he delayed using Particle Style.
• Shin'yu rushed to attack Shamon, evaded his sand arms, and battered Shamon's hardened sand ball with a barrage of afterimages.
• Shamon dispersed the sand ball into sharp needles, but Shin'yu blocked most of them and cut apart Shamon's sand eyeball.
• Shin'yu punched Shamon through his layered sand shields and then pierced the sand ball with a Spiral Bullet.
• Shin'yu used his Mangekyo to bring Shamon beside him and killed him with Autumn Dew on Leaves through the heart.

Kagami used his ocular technique to find the sole successful fusion ratio for Hashirama's and his Gene Liquids, accelerating Tobirama's experiment. As the war intensified on both fronts, Tobirama verified that Kagami's cells could accept the fusion and prepared to proceed with the injection.

• Tobirama had Kagami use Takama-ga-hara to search possible Gene Liquid fusion ratios, and Kagami found the only successful data set among 14,000,605 futures.
• Tobirama mixed the Gene Liquids using Kagami's data, and the solution fused successfully, but he postponed injecting it until the cell tests were complete.
• In January, Kagami returned to Kikyo Mountain, where he used Flying Thunder God to protect comrades from Kinkaku's assault as Hidden Cloud attacked fiercely.
• On the eastern front, Ginkaku's guerrilla strikes forced Uzumaki Mito to divide her forces while she also contended with the Second Raikage.
• By the end of February, Tobirama confirmed that Kagami's cells fused perfectly with Hashirama's Gene Liquid and repeated the experiment to verify the results before calling Kagami back to the village.

Uchiha Kagami underwent Tobirama’s gene experiment and gained Yin Yang Power and Wood Style. On the Kikyo Mountain Front, he used his new abilities to defeat the Hidden Cloud forces and force Kinkaku to retreat.

• Tobirama infused Kagami with Kimaera Solution and Hashirama's Gene Liquid, triggering a dangerous transformation.
• Kagami survived the experiment, regained his vision and strength, and learned from Tobirama that Yin Yang Power had gathered within him.
• On the Kikyo Mountain Front, Kagami struck Kinkaku out of his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Kinkaku unleashed Tailed Beast Balls toward the Hidden Leaf squads, but Kagami blocked them with Wood Style: Flower Tree World Advent.
• Kagami's pollen knocked out the Hidden Cloud ninjas, and his Tree Binding Burial engulfed them as Kinkaku ordered a retreat.

Shin'yu killed Second Wind Shadow Shamon and overwhelmed Ōnoki, stopping his Dust Release with his palm. Ōnoki recognized Shin'yu’s resemblance to a figure from his youth, recalling the night that man rejected an alliance and attacked him and Mu with Susanoo.

• Shin'yu killed Second Wind Shadow Shamon, leaving the Sand Ninja and Minazuki Sora stunned.
• Ōnoki evaded Shin'yu’s aerial attack, then summoned a Stone Golem to block Susanoo’s Yasaka Magatama.
• Shin'yu struck Ōnoki from behind and sent him crashing through several buildings before Susanoo stomped the ruins.
• Ōnoki fired Dust Release at Shin'yu, but Shin'yu absorbed the beam and dismissed it as weaker than he expected.
• Ōnoki remembered meeting a long-haired Hidden Leaf man who rejected an alliance and warned him not to mention Hashirama.
• Mu tried to protect the young Ōnoki, but the man awakened Susanoo and blasted them away with its roar.

In May of Year 14, Uchiha Kagami held off the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails after the Hidden Cloud Village unleashed them against the Hidden Leaf forces. He repelled their Tailed Beast Balls, while Shin'yu watched from afar and urged his little brother to push himself further.

• The Hidden Cloud Village revealed the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails as the Hidden Leaf forces broke through its blockade, and Kagami ordered his troops to retreat while he stayed behind.
• Kagami used Susanoo and Wood Release to block the Two-Tails' fireballs, restrain the beast, and wound one of the Eight-Tails' tentacles.
• The Eight-Tails unleashed a storm that swept away the forest and wooden defenses, but Kagami emerged unharmed as both Tailed Beasts prepared their Tailed Beast Balls.
• Kagami summoned wooden dragons to catch the two Tailed Beast Balls and used stored energy to send them flying back, causing a massive explosion.
• Shin'yu watched Kagami's battle from a distant cliff and said that his adaptation was still insufficient.

Shin'yu defeated Ōnoki and Mu, then spared Ōnoki and urged him to strengthen his Particle Style so he could return and challenge him. Ōnoki left shaken by Shin'yu's power and schemes, but clung to his Will of Stone.

• Uchiha Madara's Susanoo shockwave blasted Mu and Ōnoki across the ground.
• Ōnoki recalled Ishikawa's advice about preserving his will, picked up the stone, and stood to face Uchiha Madara again.
• Uchiha Madara trapped Ōnoki in an illusion until Mu dispelled it with a hand seal.
• Shin'yu appeared before Ōnoki, rewound his own state with Ame no Tokotachi, and spared him.
• Shin'yu told Ōnoki to train his Particle Style until he could pulverize Shin'yu's body and return for revenge.

Shin'yu threw Ōnoki through a Teleportation Gate, then used the Spiritualization Technique to kill nearly every enemy in Hidden Whirlpool Village. The survivors, including Minazuki Sora and the Third Water Shadow, stared at him in terror.

• Shin'yu pretended his hand had slipped and tossed Ōnoki into a Teleportation Gate.
• Three Stone Ninja attacked Shin'yu, but his Spirit Body erased their spiritual origins and killed them instantly.
• Shin'yu's Spirit Body swept across the battlefield, killing the enemy forces as the Uzumaki Clan members watched in confusion.
• Shin'yu's Spirit Body searched Hidden Whirlpool Village, killed enemies hiding in its corners, and returned to him.
• Minazuki Sora recognized Shin'yu's Spiritualization Technique and trembled as the village fell silent.