Chapter Summaries

Uka Senju completed the Uchiha Clan’s destruction, collected their Sharingan, and ordered his forces to prepare for the next assault. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi told Utatane Koharu that the Senju’s all-out offensive might have left them with the better odds, though his confidence rested on an unknown hand.

• Uka Senju harvested the Uchiha’s Sharingan and told Uchiha Motohisa that he would eliminate the clan rather than leave future threats.
• Uka ordered Hatake Sakumo to gather the forces, treat the wounded, and prepare to march on the Sarutobi Clan Compound.
• Uka used the Flower Tree World to grind the Uchiha Clan Compound and its remains underground while preserving its hidden supplies.
• Utatane Koharu questioned why Hiruzen Sarutobi had stopped trying to escape as their forces faced overwhelming Senju numbers.
• Hiruzen compared the war to a gambling match and argued that the Senju had wagered everything while his own side’s hand remained unknown.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Utatane Koharu planned to draw the Lands of Lightning, Earth, and Water into the war against the Senju, while bargaining away other territories to keep the Land of Wind and other powers from joining the fight. They calculated how long Konoha’s besieged forces could hold out and prepared to evacuate selected clan elites, leaving the defense to buy time.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi argued that the Senju’s overwhelming strength would force the Lands of Lightning, Earth, and Water to intervene rather than let Konoha join forces with the Senju.
• Utatane Koharu warned that the four nations might turn on Konoha after the Senju fell, and she and Hiruzen agreed to win over the Land of Wind, Iwagakure, and the Land of Water while opposing Kumogakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Utatane Koharu to coordinate with Homura and asked how long Konoha’s forces could withstand the siege; Koharu estimated until midnight without neutral clans joining, or six in the evening if they did.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi set noon as the minimum time Konoha needed to hold out and ordered Koharu to use the Sarutobi Clan’s Summoning Technique to evacuate talented clansmen alongside elites from the other clans.
• Utatane Koharu accepted that the plan would sacrifice many Sarutobi, Shimura, Mitokado, and Utatane clansmen to preserve selected survivors and buy time.

Utatane Koharu accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s plan to abandon the Four Clans’ ordinary members and preserve their shinobi. As the Senju siege continued, Hashirama Senju recognized Mito Uzumaki, the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads learned their elders’ bodies had been desecrated, and Senju Toka halted their deployment after a distant battle changed the situation.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Utatane Koharu a scroll and ordered her to arrange the Four Clans’ retreat plan, leaving their ordinary members behind.
• Senju Toka maintained a rotating siege against the Sarutobi forces while Hashirama Senju’s seal began to weaken.
• Hashirama Senju admired Mito Uzumaki and reminisced about their wedding as Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi arrived to offer their shinobi for the next rotation.
• Hashirama Senju told the three clan heads that their fathers and other elders had been summoned, and they realized their relatives’ bodies had been desecrated.
• Senju Toka refused the clan heads’ request to inspect the battlefield, canceled their deployment, and summoned the Senju elders and allied clan heads to a meeting.

Senju Toka ordered an all-out offensive to eliminate resistance within Konoha, while Uka Senju returned after destroying the Uchiha Clan and joined the war council. Uka gave the Third Elder a pair of Sharingan eyes and an Izanagi scroll, then took his place beside Mito Uzumaki as the alliance prepared to attack the Sarutobi forces.

• Senju Toka gathered the allied and neutral clan leaders, showed them the battlefield situation, and ordered an all-out offensive against resistance within Konoha.
• The Inuzuka, Aburame, and Kurama Clan Heads proposed different strategies for defeating the enemy, while the neutral clans deferred to Senju Toka's decision.
• Uka Senju led his surviving force away from the Uchiha Clan Compound after the battle and signaled his units toward the five-story building.
• Uka gave the Third Elder a tube of mitsudomoe eyes and a scroll containing Izanagi, saying they could save his life twice.
• Uka reported to Senju Toka that every Uchiha Clan member inside the village had been wiped out, then sat beside Mito Uzumaki to join the discussion of the Sarutobi Clan.

Uka Senju supported a plan to use Flower Tree World and a large team to restrain the dead during the coming battle, while the Senju prepared an operation against the Sarutobi forces. After advising Mito Uzumaki to bring the evacuated clans’ families back and revealing the Izanagi technique, Uka was sent to collect reports as the attack teams stood ready.

• Uka Senju backed the Inuzuka Elder’s plan and offered to use Flower Tree World with sealing ninjas and a three-hundred-strong team to restrain the dead.
• Senju Toka approved the battle plan, and the clans assigned teams and targets while Uka Senju spoke privately with Mito Uzumaki.
• Uka Senju urged Mito Uzumaki to bring the evacuated elders and children back, and she told him to bring Tsunade to see her after preparing her for the reunion.
• Uka Senju gave Senju Toka Mitsudomoe and a scroll, explaining that the technique Izanagi could undo fatal events at the cost of one eye.
• Flying Ninja Beasts delivered reports confirming the teams were ready, and Senju Toka ordered Uka Senju to collect them all.

Uka Senju unleashed a vast Wood Release technique that transformed much of the battlefield into a forest, trapping and attacking shinobi from both sides. As the allied forces used the trees to restrain the reanimated dead, Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Enma sensed no difference between Uka’s Wood Release and Hashirama Senju’s.

• Uka Senju flew over the battlefield, then used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to create a vast forest that pressed into the allied forces and the surrounded clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Enma’s staff to strike the growing trees, but the plants drained Enma’s chakra and forced him back into his exhausted ape form.
• Uka’s troops and the Elite Jonin knocked reanimated enemies into the air, where the Wood Release bound them in wooden spheres and absorbed their chakra.
• Uka grew huge wooden tentacles that hindered the shinobi inside the forest as red flowers released invisible, odorless pollen.
• Utatane Koharu reached Hiruzen Sarutobi, who told her Enma had sensed no difference between Uka’s Wood Release and Hashirama Senju’s.

Uka Senju’s mature Wood Release convinced Hiruzen Sarutobi that the other nations had to unite against him, so Hiruzen ordered an evacuation and called for a decisive battle at Nagatama Castle. While Koharu carried out his orders, Hiruzen fought Uka on the battlefield and was struck hard during their exchange.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized Uka Senju’s Wood Release as a potential match for Hashirama Senju’s and ordered Utatane Koharu to evacuate selected elites, alert the other nations, and gather forces at Nagatama Castle.
• Uka Senju restrained more than a thousand Impure World Reincarnation troops with his Flower Tree World while Senju forces pressed the Sarutobi-aligned clans and disrupted their evacuation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi fought Uka Senju with Enma’s Adamantine Staff, and the two exchanged blows while arguing over the clans’ betrayal and the fate of their people.
• Uka Senju revealed that Shimura Danzō remained alive in Senju custody, then attacked Hiruzen with clones, Wood Release, and Earth Release techniques.
• Enma destroyed one of Uka’s clones, but the real Uka struck Hiruzen in the waist, cracking bones and sending the Third Hokage flying.

Uka Senju drove Hiruzen Sarutobi from the battlefield, then helped secure Konoha and seal the remaining Impure World Reincarnation forces. After the Senju executed the people left behind by the Four Clans and buried the dead, Mito Uzumaki explained that the horrific scene was meant to teach Uka the cost of defeat and power; he said he understood.

• Uka Senju trapped Hiruzen Sarutobi with Wood Release, but Hiruzen escaped using the Reverse Summoning Technique and abandoned his followers in Konoha.
• With Hiruzen gone, resistance weakened, and civilian-born ninja surrendered to protect their relatives.
• Uka Senju and Mito Uzumaki worked with the alliance's sealing ninja to seal the remaining Impure World Reincarnation forces while Uka studied senjutsu with his grandfather (Tsunade).
• Senju Toka and Konoha's clan leaders organized the postwar response, and their orders led to the execution of tens of thousands of relatives of traitors left in the village.
• Uka Senju buried the bodies and battlefield wreckage with Wood Release, then Mito Uzumaki told him the scene was meant to remind him of defeat's consequences and keep him from losing himself in power.
• Uka Senju understood his elders' intentions and told Mito Uzumaki that he understood.

Uka Senju used the energy gained from the battle and Konoha purge to craft and inject the Sage Eyes Supplement Potion, then passed out. Meanwhile, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura organized defenses at Nagatama Castle and learned that Hiruzen Sarutobi had arrived.

• Mito Uzumaki praised Uka Senju's judgment, and he explained that he wanted to grow stronger to protect his children without resorting to needless slaughter.
• Uka Senju sealed himself inside a wooden chamber, used his collected Uchiha samples and Sharingan to craft the Sage Eyes Supplement Potion, and injected it before falling asleep.
• Uka Senju calculated that he would need more energy for a future Ōtsutsuki Byakugan injection and planned to gain it in the coming battle with Sarutobi.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura reviewed the defenses built around Nagatama Castle and confirmed that letters had been sent to the other countries.
• A messenger told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that Hiruzen Sarutobi had arrived at Nagatama Castle.

Senju Toka reorganized Konoha’s forces for the coming war and secured the Hyūga Clan Head’s agreement to provide blood samples from every clan member. A tremendous chakra surge then swept across Konoha, and Sawagen Senju realized that the Senju had awakened power greater than Hashirama Senju’s.

• Senju Toka assigned the Hyūga, Ino-Shika-Cho Clans, and other clans fixed numbers of units to retain while ordering their remaining shinobi to help reorganize the forces.
• Konoha mobilized shinobi, supplies, workshops, and civilians as the Senju council established a wartime command structure.
• Senju Toka asked the Hyūga Clan Head for blood samples from every Hyūga, and he agreed to provide them as soon as possible.
• After the Hyūga Clan Head left, Senju Toka assured First Elder Sawagen Senju that the Senju would survive even the worst-case scenario.
• A powerful chakra fluctuation swept through Konoha, and Sawagen Senju recognized it as a sign of the Senju’s immense new power.
• Senju Toka ordered Sawagen Senju to send guards back to their posts and stop anyone who came to investigate the chakra surge.

Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki confirmed that Uka Senju had begun a safe transformation and waited as his overwhelming chakra filled the courtyard. Meanwhile, the Third Raikage and the Third Mizukage agreed to join forces against the Senju, but the arrival of a large Senju force at Ihyo Castle forced the commanders to reconsider their plans.

• Senju Toka reached Mito Uzumaki outside Uka Senju’s ruined courtyard and learned that his transformation had begun without putting him in danger.
• Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki joked about taking pictures of Uka Senju, then discussed the coming births and the Senju’s hopes for revival.
• The Third Raikage read Hiruzen Sarutobi’s intelligence and decided Kumogakure had to join the alliance against the Senju.
• The Third Mizukage agreed to go take a look, while the Iwagakure commander asked for time to obtain authorization from his village.
• A Kumogakure guard reported that more than a thousand Senju forces, including Hyūga and Akimichi troops, would reach Ihyo Castle in about half an hour.

Senju Uka awakened the Rinnegan, discovered its defensive ability and tested the powers gained from his transformation. He left the chapter training at the Senju manor as an elite battle approached.

• The Iwagakure leader agreed to take his team to the Sarutobi, and the Third Raikage discussed the journey with the Mizukage and the others.
• Senju Uka woke up floating naked, crashed through Senju Rissei's house, and repaired the damage with Wood Release.
• Senju Uka awakened his Rinnegan and learned that its unique ability, which he named "Invincibility," absorbed attacks into a separate space.
• Senju Uka confirmed to Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki that he had gained the Sage Eyes, then demonstrated his abilities to them.
• Senju Uka condensed a Truth-Seeking Orb and practiced Yin-Yang Release, the Rinnegan, and each stage of Susanoo as the Senju clan members watched with excitement.

Hiruzen Sarutobi formed an allied force with the Third Raikage and Third Mizukage to oppose the Senju, while Madara Uchiha and Jigen learned that the Senju had wiped out the Uchiha and defeated the Sarutobi Four Clans. Madara ordered his agent to search small countries for someone who could bear his eyes, and Jigen received a report that Konoha was consolidating its forces.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi rebuffed the Third Raikage’s taunts by offering to invite Senju Toka or Uka Senju to the summit.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi swore that his intelligence about the Senju was genuine, and the Third Mizukage and Third Raikage agreed to join a punitive allied force.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi promised supplies from Nagatama Castle, and the Allied Shinobi Forces were established as the nations prepared to send troops.
• A black humanoid creature told Madara Uchiha that the Senju Wood Release user had likely annihilated the Uchiha Clan, prompting Madara to order a search for candidates in small countries.
• Jigen learned that his observation plan in the Land of Whirlpools had failed and that the Senju had defeated the Sarutobi Four Clans, annihilated the Uchiha, and begun training formations in Konoha.

Jigen ordered his agents to investigate Wood Release and the Five Great Nations as Senju Toka faced the prospect of a larger war. Uka Senju secured the Hyuga blood and traveled to Shikkotsu Forest to bargain with the Katsuyu Sage for Senjutsu Chakra, leaving her to decide whether to trust him.

• Jigen ordered his people to gather intelligence on Wood Release, the Five Great Nations, and the Sarutobi.
• The Senju and neutral clans regrouped in Konoha, but reports of the four nations joining the Sarutobi forces made the allied clans anxious.
• Uka Senju assured Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki that he could win the war, though he warned that casualties would be high without another option.
• Senju Toka gave Uka the Hyuga blood, but it raised his Byakugan gene fragments only to 75.167%, leaving him short of the energy needed for his fourth injection.
• Uka told the elders to prepare for war and traveled to Shikkotsu Forest, where he asked the Katsuyu Sage for Senjutsu Chakra in exchange for freeing and protecting her.
• The Katsuyu Sage fell silent as she weighed whether to risk giving Uka the energy she had saved.

Uka Senju revealed his overwhelming power when the five-nation alliance began its attack, devastating their forces and stopping the Third Raikage in a single move. As the surviving Kage reeled from the defeat, the Third Mizukage fixed his gaze on Uka’s forehead.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the allied forces to attack, and the Senju side opened its ranks to reveal Uka Senju.
• Uka Senju unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, hurling the enemy’s reincarnated ninja and disrupting the advancing forces.
• Uka followed with a barrage of green spheres, Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, devastating the battlefield.
• The Third Tsuchikage cleared a path through the forest, and the Third Raikage charged Uka while the other Kage supported him.
• Uka caught the Third Raikage’s attack, broke his arm, and incapacitated him with black rods that suppressed his chakra.
• The Third Tsuchikage and Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned their choices and recalled a prophecy, while the Third Mizukage stared at Uka’s forehead.

Uka Senju overwhelmed the Five Kage, captured the Third Raikage, Ōnoki, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, then used Tengai Shinsei to devastate the battlefield. After Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki arrived to secure the prisoners, Uka left for Shikkotsu Forest in response to the Katsuyu Sage’s summons.

• Madara Uchiha, controlling the Third Mizukage, fled before the other Kage could react.
• Uka Senju captured the Third Raikage, Ōnoki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Enma with black rods after resisting their attacks.
• Uka Senju summoned two meteors with Tengai Shinsei and sealed the battlefield, devastating the allied forces.
• Uka Senju fired signal flares, and Senju Toka and Mito Uzumaki arrived to find the captured Kage and the battlefield’s survivors.
• Uka Senju warned the guards not to touch the black rods, helped secure the prisoners, and used the Reverse Summoning Technique to travel to Shikkotsu Forest.

Uka Senju confronted Hagoromo Otsutsuki in Shikkotsu Forest and joined forces with the Katsuyu Sage to drive him away. After learning that Hagoromo planned to make the Senju leave their homeland, Uka began collecting energy from the other sacred lands before their spaces could collapse.

• Uka Senju arrived in Shikkotsu Forest and rejected Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s offer to relocate the Senju Clan to another continent.
• Uka Senju attacked Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and the Katsuyu Sage joined in with Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid.
• Uka Senju and the Katsuyu Sage fought Hagoromo Otsutsuki until he escaped using his dōjutsu, warning them of future consequences.
• Uka Senju told the Katsuyu Sage to prepare for Hagoromo’s return, and she agreed to stabilize the sacred spaces for half an hour.
• Uka Senju collected energy in Shikkotsu Forest, then traveled to Mount Myōboku and began gathering energy there.