Chapter Summaries

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Department had confirmed the secret technique was already developed, making Danzo’s 29-year-old information outdated.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.