Recaps

Uka Senju sparred with Senju Tsukika to master his newly awakened Sage Body, then joined his family for dinner and explained that an unknown force had granted him his abilities in exchange for energy. After demonstrating his healing and chakra-draining Wood Release, he began recounting what he had learned about events thousands of years ago.

• Senju Tsukika fought Uka Senju, helping him coordinate his movements and control his strength as his Sage Body rapidly healed his injuries.
• Senju Toka returned home and joined Mito Uzumaki, Senju Tsukika, Senju Chiharu, and Uka Senju for dinner; she was startled by how much Uka's appearance had changed.
• Uka Senju decided to give his family a vague explanation for his unusual abilities while concealing his deepest secrets.
• Uka Senju told the others that an unknown 'it' had granted him Wood Release and his complete Sage Body, with energy as the price and no known risk of losing his gains.
• Uka Senju demonstrated rapid healing and chakra-draining Wood Release, prompting Mito Uzumaki and Senju Toka to examine him and find no immediate danger.
• Uka Senju explained that the unknown source had provided information about Sage Bodies, Sage Eyes, and the Ōtsutsuki, then began recounting events from several thousand years ago.

Uka Senju told his family the hidden history behind the clans and his enemies, then revealed that his power could strengthen others. After his aunt and teacher received injections, Uka began studying Hashirama Senju’s notes to see whether his Sage Body would let him learn Senjutsu.

• Uka Senju explained the ancient history, his circumstances, and the nature of the energy he absorbed to Mito Uzumaki, Senju Toka, Senju Tsukika, and Senju Chiharu.
• Senju Toka decided to support Uka and have him marry and inherit Chiharu’s position, while Uka revealed that his power could grant others Wood Release.
• Mito Uzumaki warned that the power had to remain secret, declined an injection because it would not extend her lifespan, and Senju Toka and Senju Tsukika agreed to use it.
• The next day, Senju Toka ordered five more large units transferred to Chiharu and told Uka to prepare for Tsunade’s group to arrive.
• Uka retrieved Hashirama Senju’s notes and began trying to sense natural energy, hoping his Sage Body would help him learn Senjutsu.

Tsunade traveled back to Konoha with her family for her wedding, while Uka and Maki spent a final date together before their own wedding preparations. On the wedding day, Toka secured the Inuzuka clan’s agreement to wait for an explanation about Uka keeping Furin’s body, and the ceremony was about to begin.

• Tsunade teased and scolded Nawaki during the convoy’s journey back to Konoha, while Might Duy shared his snacks with them.
• Uka and Maki enjoyed a date in Konoha and browsed shops selling baby clothes without buying anything.
• On the wedding day, Uka and the three brides endured elaborate preparations and teasing from Senju clan members.
• Toka apologized to the Inuzuka clan head and Retsu for Uka’s refusal to return Furin’s body, but said she could not reveal the reason.
• An Inuzuka elder accepted Toka’s promise that Furin’s body would not be used for experiments and agreed to wait for an explanation.

Uka Senju married Senju Chiharu, Senju Maki, and Tsunade in a ceremony attended by allied clans, while the three brides discovered they were expected to share their wedding night. At the ensuing alliance gathering, clan leaders debated how to organize their forces and accommodate smaller clans.

• Inuzuka Retsu questioned why the old Inuzuka had agreed to Senju Toka's arrangement, and the old man urged him to think it through calmly.
• Uka Senju, Senju Chiharu, Senju Maki, and Tsunade completed their wedding rites and exchanged vows, tokens, and courtesies with the guests.
• Uka Senju teased Senju Nawaki about being tired after scattering flower petals, and the Senju aunties joked that Uka should hurry to have children.
• Senju Chiharu told Tsunade and Senju Maki that the wedding rites required them to consummate the marriage, and the three realized they were all expected to stay in the same bedroom.
• At the post-wedding alliance meeting, the Inuzuka Clan head proposed that clans keep up to three main-force units and assign remaining members to mixed units.
• The Gekko Clan head objected that smaller clans could not afford to retain a main-force unit and asked to keep their existing arrangements.

The clan heads agreed on village garrison quotas and personnel transfers during Uka Senju’s wedding banquet, while Uka celebrated with his relatives until he was carried home. After the wedding rites, he pulled Chiharu, Senju Maki, and Tsunade onto the bed, and the room went dark.

• Senju Toka assigned village garrison quotas to the Gekko, Kato, Yuhi, Hatake, Kurama, Aburame, and Inuzuka clans, and ordered newly promoted Chunin to be reassigned.
• Senju Toka reduced the Senju village garrison to around five large units, while Uka Senju gained control of the covert combat force outside Konoha and doubled its strength.
• Uka Senju stayed at his wedding banquet until long after sunset, then Senju Toka carried him home and instructed the servants to wash and prepare him for the remaining wedding rites.
• The servants brought Uka Senju to the wedding room, where Senju Maki, Senju Chiharu, and Tsunade debated who should stay with him.
• Uka Senju woke unsteadily, kissed Chiharu, and pulled all three women onto the bed before the room went dark.

Senju Toka visited the clan prison and learned that Shimura Danzō had finally agreed to reveal everything in exchange for death. At noon, Uka Senju woke beside Senju Chiharu, Tsunade, and Maki, confirming that the previous night had not been a dream.

• Senju Toka toured the Senju grounds, checked on the Relief Hall and its children, and then inspected the prison.
• Shimura Danzō asked Senju Toka for a dignified death, but she rejected his plea and vowed that the Shimura Clan would face punishment for betraying the Senju.
• Shimura Danzō broke under the torment and demanded to know the price of death, signaling that he would tell the Senju everything.
• Senju Toka ordered the prison guard to keep questioning Shimura Danzō after he confessed, while keeping the interrogation secret from him.
• Uka Senju woke at noon with Senju Chiharu, Tsunade, and Maki beside him and realized the events of the previous night had been real.

After marrying Maki, Tsunade, and Chiharu, Uka spent the next few days visiting their families with them before receiving a secret report about Danzo’s information. The chapter ended with the Senju leaders learning that the secret technique Danzo described had already been developed, while Uka recalled a past battle that had created a chance to destroy four clans.

• Maki woke beside Uka and reacted angrily, but Tsunade and Chiharu were drawn into the morning’s commotion as well.
• Uka and his three wives went to eat with Toka, who warned him to spend time with their families while the Daimyō, Risa, and Sawagen were still nearby.
• Over the following days, Uka took Maki and Tsunade to visit their families before the group prepared to depart.
• Toka summoned Uka, Sawagen, and Unsei to a secret meeting and presented information Danzo had revealed.
• Toka explained that the Intelligence Department had confirmed the secret technique was already developed, making Danzo’s 29-year-old information outdated.
• Sawagen condemned the neutral clans and the Uchiha, while Uka remembered that a previous battle had offered a chance to eliminate four clans.

Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki reviewed Uka’s energy requirements and planned to accelerate the Senju’s preparations after learning the Sarutobi had perfected the Reanimation Technique. The chapter ended with Toka ordering the Senju to begin hunting the Uchiha and collecting their blood.

• Senju Uka estimated that reaching his next power increase would require the energy of thirty to forty thousand middle-aged Chunin, though Uchiha or Hyūga blood could cut the amount in half.
• Mito Uzumaki struck Uka when he revealed the reduced cost, then pressed him to explain his calculations and other possible sources of energy.
• Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki decided to target the Uchiha, while Sawagen Senju and Yuncheng agreed to support the plan and keep its details confidential.
• Toka moved up the Senju’s timetable, ordered Sawagen to accelerate squad formation on the South Battlefield, and assigned Yuncheng to prepare an evacuation base for the seven clans’ vulnerable members.
• Toka told Uka to gather the needed energy within two months and coordinate covert operations with his squad.
• Toka ordered the Senju to begin hunting the Uchiha, collect their blood, and use a special channel to relay battlefield intelligence.

Uka Senju investigated the mysterious Jigen while Senju Chiharu comforted him, and Orochimaru returned to Konoha with a working version of the reanimation technique. Hiruzen Sarutobi learned its capabilities and limitations as the village considered its potential.

• Toka ordered the Senju Alliance to put the Uchiha on its kill list and warned that the Hyuga could be targeted next.
• Wood 12 delivered Uka Senju a confidential report about the front line, prompting Uka to issue new instructions concerning Jigen.
• Senju Chiharu massaged Uka and comforted him as he struggled to make sense of the investigation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi welcomed Orochimaru back to Konoha and asked for details about the completed reanimation technique.
• Orochimaru explained that the technique could summon up to fifty people under recommended conditions, let them fight for days with nearly limitless chakra, and return them to the Pure Land by severing the connection.

Orochimaru’s successful Impure World Reincarnation research earned Hiruzen Sarutobi’s support, new facilities, and the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags scroll as Konoha began preparing the jutsu for war. Meanwhile, Uka Senju’s forces collected Sharingan from Uchiha operatives and planned to escalate their operations while anticipating retaliation.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Orochimaru to move his research to Mitokado Homura’s secure base and gave him the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags scroll to study alongside Impure World Reincarnation.
• After reviewing Orochimaru’s records, Hiruzen Sarutobi authorized Anbu to recruit loyal personnel and collect belongings from famous dead shinobi, including by visiting ninja cemeteries.
• Uka Senju heard reports of increased enemy activity across all four areas and learned that Sarutobi’s forces were moving personnel while their key teams were being watched.
• The area captains reported collecting blood and Sharingan from sixteen Uchiha, and Uka Senju ordered Tsuki Senju to distribute bounties and warned the captains to prepare for retaliation.
• Uka Senju chose to concentrate the next operation on Area One, sent Jonin Inuzuka Haruya’s team to support it, and said he would lead another team there afterward.

Uka Senju ambushed and killed Uchiha Yashiro after Yashiro awakened his Mangekyō while demanding Uchiha Maiko’s eyes. Uka collected Yashiro’s eyes and blood, then faced Uchiha Clan Head Motohisa, who demanded the eyes back and threatened war.

• Uka Senju and his guards encountered Uchiha Yashiro on the road to Konoha, where Yashiro demanded the return of Uchiha Maiko’s eyes.
• Uka taunted Yashiro with test tubes, and Yashiro awakened his Mangekyō and attacked.
• Uka used Wood Release and his strength to break through Yashiro’s defenses, and Yashiro’s Susanoo collapsed.
• Uka killed Yashiro with Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs and collected his Mangekyō and blood despite a newcomer’s protest.
• Uchiha Clan Head Motohisa arrived with other Uchiha, stopped fighting the Senju squad, and demanded that Uka hand over the eyes or face war.

Uka Senju rejected Uchiha Motohisa’s demand for the Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered an attack, escalating the dispute into a battle outside Konoha. As the fighting began, the signal flare alerted the village, and Senju intelligence staff concluded that Uka had likely clashed with the Uchiha.

• Uchiha Motohisa tried to restrain his clansmen and demanded that Uka Senju return the Mangekyō Sharingan, offering to let the killing of the Uchiha genius go unpunished.
• Uka Senju refused, fired a signal flare, and declared that the Senju would go to war rather than hand over the eyes.
• Uka Senju ordered his guards to attack Uchiha Motohisa and the two Uchiha with him, then used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence as more Uchiha rushed toward them.
• A Senju guard at Konoha’s main gate spotted the signal flare, sent intelligence to the clan, and prepared for battle while other observers reported the incident.
• Senju intelligence staff reviewed which squads had left the village and inferred that Uka Senju had probably clashed with the Uchiha before Senju Shōhōtei arrived with the gate guard.

Senju Toka mobilized the Senju as Uka Senju used Wood Release to capture Uchiha Motohisa and two guards while fighting off the Uchiha reinforcements. The Hyūga Clan Head arrived to prevent the conflict from escalating and confirmed that all ten Senju in the forest were safe.

• Senju Toka ordered the First Guard Large Unit to prepare, arranged for Lady Mito Uzumaki to oversee the administrative hall, and headed for the battlefield.
• Uka Senju’s squads captured Uchiha Motohisa’s two guards, then bound and suspended Motohisa with Wood Release.
• Uchiha Setsuna and other Uchiha arrived and attacked the animated forest with Fire Style while Uka’s forces engaged them.
• The Hyūga Clan Head intercepted Senju Toka, proposed that they investigate before fighting, and then accompanied her toward the battlefield.
• The Hyūga Clan Head activated his Byakugan, saw that all ten Senju were unharmed, and advised Senju Toka to wait for the Nara Clan Head and the others.

Uka Senju defeated the Uchiha force and captured Uchiha Clan Head Motohisa, forcing the clans to meet at Konoha’s gates. After Motohisa explained that the clash began over the Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Hikaku agreed to talk, and Senju Toka sent Uka back to rest while negotiations began.

• Uka Senju used Deep Forest Emergence to defeat the Uchiha attackers and captured their leaders, including Uchiha Motohisa.
• Uchiha Hikaku led a large unit toward the battlefield while the neutral clan heads persuaded both sides to negotiate instead of fight.
• Uka explained that the Uchiha had confronted him after he killed an assassin and demanded his spoils; Motohisa then revealed that the spoils were a Mangekyō Sharingan taken from a fallen Uchiha genius.
• Senju Toka argued that Motohisa had been wrong to seize Uka’s spoils, and Uchiha Hikaku chose talks rather than battle.
• Uka released the captives into the Senju’s custody, and Senju Toka told him to return with Uncle Yoshika and rest while negotiations continued.

Senju Uka returned home after the day’s events and learned that Maki, Tsunade, and Chiharu were all pregnant. He then studied the collected Uchiha samples while Jigen received intelligence and ordered his network to advance its plans among the Five Great Nations.

• The Hyūga Clan Head led the clan heads to the Hyūga compound for negotiations, while Uka Senju and Senju Yoshika returned to the Senju compound to report the outcome.
• After Maki and Tsunade became sick at the sight of the Mangekyō eyes, Senju Uka brought doctors to the house, who confirmed that Maki, Tsunade, and Chiharu were pregnant.
• Senju Toka scolded Senju Uka for causing all three women to vomit, and Chiharu distracted her while the families celebrated the news.
• Senju Uka analyzed the collected Uchiha samples and found that adding Mangekyō Yashiro’s blood had raised the gene data above thirty percent, but he set aside the idea of using transplanted eyes to accelerate his progress.
• Jigen ordered his subordinate to leave the Land of Wind alone, hurry the Land of Earth into joining the plan, offer support to the Land of Water, and investigate whether the Third Raikage would cooperate.

Jigen ordered the peripheral plan to begin ahead of schedule, then the Third Raikage faced clan leaders challenging the operation against the Uzumaki Clan. The chapter left the Third Raikage recognizing that his weakened standing forced him to endure negotiation rather than impose his will.

• Jigen ordered his subordinate to arrange the peripheral plan ahead of schedule and watched the sun after the man left.
• Rai challenged Kumogakure’s intelligence chief over the plan, while Dodai calmed him and the chief explained its intended cooperation with the Lands of Water and Earth.
• The intelligence chief said the daimyos of four nations would support the operation and that the Senju would be occupied while the Uzumaki were targeted.
• Fukuyama questioned why the Land of Earth would send only elite shinobi and demanded that Sunagakure and the Land of Wind be drawn into the plan.
• Dodai again mediated as the intelligence chief tried to answer Fukuyama’s objections and Rai silently counted the repeated attacks.
• The Third Raikage reflected that his defeat and losses had weakened his authority, leaving him to negotiate with the clans rather than crush their opposition.

The Third Raikage watched village clans bargain over resources, reflecting on the role of a Kage and how his son might judge him. Elsewhere, Madara Uchiha received news of disruptions to his surveillance and the successful delivery of the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, then began experimenting with it.

• The Third Raikage let Dodai mediate while rival clans argued, intending to learn their needs before allocating rewards.
• The Third Raikage saw his angry son and wondered whether the child would eventually understand a Kage’s duty to balance the village’s competing interests.
• White Zetsu reported that Konoha surveillance had paused and that Madara Uchiha’s observers in the Land of Water had been killed without identifying who was behind the attack.
• White Zetsu told Madara Uchiha that the Land of Rain objective had succeeded and handed him a scroll containing the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Madara Uchiha read the jutsu instructions, summoned an unconscious person, and began testing the technique.

Uka Senju and his Guard Unit returned to Konoha, where their teasing of Senju Shōhōtei sparked gossip about his arranged marriages and revealed that he had been avoiding the usual way of fulfilling his family’s demand. Uka then went to dinner with his pregnant wife Chiharu and their family, where he fussed over her and her growing belly.

• Uka Senju and nine teammates arrived at Konoha and joked with Senju Shōhōtei at the gate until their remarks made him worry that something was wrong with him.
• After leaving the gate, Uka Senju’s team learned Senju Motoaki had only urged Shōhōtei to visit the hospital for proper education, and Motoaki began explaining how Shōhōtei had been avoiding his family’s order to get his seven wives pregnant.
• Uka Senju went to Aunt’s home for dinner, where Senju Chiharu greeted him and tried to tidy his shoes.
• Uka Senju stopped Chiharu from bending down, carried her toward the dining room, and reminded her to be careful during her pregnancy.
• Uka Senju sat down with Chiharu and the others and began eating dinner with the family.

In November of Year 31, Uka Senju raced home while the Land of Whirlpools faced growing danger from the other nations. In Uzushio Village, Yūya Uzumaki used the crisis to seize control from the Council of Elders and ordered the clan to prepare for evacuation and survival.

• Uka Senju led his guards through the forest toward home after nearly two months away.
• Yūya Uzumaki declared that he would remove the Council of Elders and ordered his followers to take them into custody.
• Takenori Uzumaki killed the elder who tried to strip Yūya of his position, then left to arrest the Council's allies.
• Yūya appointed Mitsumasa Uzumaki to lead intelligence and ordered him to recall two Large Units and inform the South Battlefield Command Center and Lady Mito.
• Yūya ordered Ryōichi Uzumaki and Hanao Uzumaki to move clan members and supplies to the northwestern port city and prepare seagoing ships.
• Yūya ordered Yuharu Uzumaki to mobilize Uzushio Village's ninja for training and send the remaining clan members and assets to the port.

Yūya Uzumaki gave Yoshitoki command of the clan’s forces as the Land of Whirlpools faced an impending invasion, while Kumogakure and Konoha prepared to exploit the Uzumaki clan’s internal turmoil. The chapter ended with Senju Uka waking at home but staying still so as not to disturb his three pregnant wives.

• Yūya Uzumaki placed Yoshitoki Uzumaki in command of the forces and left the fate of the coming battle to him.
• A Kumogakure commander told Dodai that the Mizukage had delayed the agreed battle time, while Dodai reported that the Uzumaki clan showed no unusual movements.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Utatane Koharu that the Land of Fire would assist Kumogakure, the daimyo had refused to openly join them, and the daimyo would secretly provide three billion in funds or materials over two years.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Utatane Koharu planned how to deploy their forces to pin down the Senju while supporting the campaign against the Uzumaki.
• Senju Toka left for the administrative hall after breakfast, and Senju Uka woke beside his three pregnant wives but stayed in bed so he would not disturb them.

Uka Senju learned that the Uzumaki Clan was under threat and hurried to a Senju council meeting, where the clan’s intelligence revealed enemies were positioning themselves to prevent the Senju from helping. Senju Toka demanded battle plans and supply commitments, but the council fell silent as its members disagreed over which should come first.

• Uka Senju sensed movement from the unborn children of two of his pregnant wives before a messenger summoned him to a clan meeting.
• Uka learned that the Uzumaki Clan was in danger and suspected the Land of Whirlpools was facing the attack he remembered from his previous life.
• Uka read the Senju intelligence report, which described enemy forces pinning down the southeastern and southern fronts and threatening the clan’s freedom to intervene.
• Senju Toka arrived with Mito Uzumaki and ordered the council to explain its battle plans and available supplies.
• The council members remained silent because those responsible for plans and supplies each wanted the other side to act first.

The Senju council weighed how to rescue the Uzumaki Clan without leaving their own forces and defenses exposed. After agreeing to recruit neutral clans and commit additional troops, Uka Senju brought Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki aside to explain a riskier plan.

• Senju Raizan and Senju Takehiko reported the academy's early-graduation capacity and the weapons workshop's wartime stockpiles.
• Uka Senju proposed sending Senju Nobusada, Senju Nobuhiko, and Senju Nobuhide to move the Uzumaki children to the Third Elder's hidden base, and Senju Toka ordered them to go.
• The Sixth Elder proposed gathering neutral clans, village forces, and troops from secret bases to aid the Uzumaki, while compensating Konoha's allied clans.
• Senju Toka asked whether the council agreed, and everyone supported the plan.
• Uka Senju interrupted Senju Toka before she issued orders and asked her and Mito Uzumaki to join him in the side hall.
• Uka Senju soundproofed the side hall and began explaining his plan, while Senju Toka urged him to speak quickly.

Senju Uka persuaded Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki to consider a surprise war against Sarutobi’s forces, arguing that the clans needed to act before the Sleeping Person awoke. As Senju envoys arrived in the Land of Whirlpools to transfer Uzumaki children and adults, Yūya Uzumaki recognized that the Senju’s plans carried troubling implications.

• Senju Uka warned Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki that the Senju might not recover before the Sleeping Person woke, then proposed attacking Sarutobi’s forces while the other countries focused on the Land of Whirlpools.
• Senju Uka said he had reached the peak of Kage Level and expected the Third Injection to transform his strength; Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki left to discuss arrangements.
• The Land of Whirlpools placed its northwest port city under martial law and gathered red-haired residents as ships were requisitioned.
• Senju Nobusada and his two brothers delivered a letter to Yūya Uzumaki, who asked them to take the children and a Middle Unit of adults with them.
• Yūya Uzumaki summoned Yoshitoki Uzumaki and reflected on the Senju’s decision and the danger facing both clans.

Yūya Uzumaki ordered Yoshitoki Uzumaki to select trusted clan members and evacuate the children as the Senju prepared to join the Uzumaki in an impending war. After Senju Toka revealed Wood Release to convince the elders, she laid out the battle and evacuation plans, leaving the Senju leaders to coordinate preparations.

• Yūya Uzumaki ordered Yoshitoki Uzumaki to choose twenty-nine clan members and gather the children and talented youths for evacuation, giving him a ninja tool pouch as a fallback.
• Senju Toka revealed Wood Release to the five skeptical elders, and they immediately accepted the need for war.
• Senju Toka assigned ten large units to support the Uzumaki retreat toward Ihyo Castle and ordered the other fronts to pin, flank, and attack the enemy around Konoha.
• Senju Toka ordered the elders to begin preparations at once while she, Mito Uzumaki, and Uka Senju went to meet allied and neutral clan heads.
• The Fourth Elder said he needed at least four large units to escort the Senju evacuation, or ten if allied clans withdrew with them.

The Senju elders negotiated how to evacuate civilians and deploy their forces for a coming battle, arguing over manpower before reaching a compromise. They finalized troop assignments and revised the blockade map around Konoha, leaving the mobilization plan ready to carry out.

• The First Elder and Third Elder agreed to provide minimum forces for the evacuation, use a route east of the South, and clear threats along it while evacuees passed through within five hours.
• The Sixth Elder insisted that Uka Senju’s main force unit remain intact, while the First Elder demanded that Uka’s units be divided to lead new recruits; the Third Elder warned that nearly twenty thousand recruits needed commanders.
• The Fifth Elder offered one main force unit from the East South in exchange for fifteen units of recruits, then angrily accused the others of leaving his forces to die when they refused his terms.
• The elders compromised: Uka’s main force unit stayed intact, nine of his units could be divided, and he would receive nine recruit units and five units formed the previous year; the First Elder also assigned forces to several southern positions.
• The Third Elder agreed to arrange commanders at secret bases, and the elders revised the blockade positions on a map, made five copies, and prepared to issue mobilization orders.