Chapter Summaries

Shu Shiraishi stayed behind to face Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s force, unlocked his full combat instinct, and killed the Kumogakure attackers. He returned to Konoha’s front-line camp carrying Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s heads, leaving Tobirama, Hiruzen, and Danzo stunned.

• Tobirama Senju ordered the Kage Guard to retreat while one person stayed behind to delay Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s elite force, and Shu Shiraishi volunteered.
• Shu Shiraishi’s limiter was removed, granting him max-level combat instinct as twenty Kumogakure ninja arrived at the ravine.
• Shu Shiraishi killed the advancing Kumogakure ninja, defeated Kinkaku and Ginkaku, and slaughtered the remaining elites.
• Shu Shiraishi tied Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s heads together and carried them out of Lightning Cloud Ravine.
• Shu Shiraishi entered the command tent and dropped the heads beside Tobirama Senju as Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō watched in shock.

Shu Shiraishi returned after killing Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and the Kumogakure squad, and Tobirama named him Konoha's Third Hokage. Tobirama lost consciousness as Shu put on the Hokage's hat, leaving Hiruzen furious and protesting the succession.

• Shu Shiraishi entered with Kinkaku and Ginkaku's severed heads and announced that he had killed the entire Kumogakure force.
• Tobirama coughed up blood, then laughed with relief at Shu's victory and judged Hiruzen's hesitation during the retreat.
• Shu told Tobirama that he wanted absolute power, and Tobirama praised his ambition and strength.
• Tobirama declared Shu Shiraishi his successor as Konoha's Third Hokage, despite Hiruzen's protest.
• Tobirama collapsed as medical-nin rushed to treat him, while Shu put on the Hokage's hat and Hiruzen shouted that the succession was impossible.

Hiruzen challenged Shu Shiraishi’s appointment as Hokage, but Kagami Uchiha and Torifu Akimichi defended Shu and the group began returning to Konoha. When Hiruzen shouted that Shu would destroy the village’s peace, Shu turned and started drawing his bloodied blade.

• Hiruzen accused Shu Shiraishi of being unfit to become Hokage and protested that Tobirama had been deceived.
• Kagami Uchiha and Torifu Akimichi drew their weapons to stop Hiruzen, citing Shu’s rescue of them and Tobirama’s appointment.
• Shu ordered the group to return to Konoha, and the ANBU and clan leaders obeyed as Tobirama was carried on a stretcher.
• Hiruzen followed the group in humiliation, then shouted that Shu would eventually destroy Konoha’s peace.
• Shu turned toward Hiruzen and began drawing the bloodied sword that had killed Kinkaku.

Shu Shiraishi forced Hiruzen to submit and led the column carrying the wounded Tobirama Senju into Konoha, declaring that he would rule the village. At the village's edge, Danzo ordered his clan's deathsworn to prepare a poisoning plot against Shu that night.

• Shu pressed his blade to Hiruzen's neck, struck him across the face, and challenged his claims about the Will of Fire.
• Shu condemned the First Hokage's compromises and declared that what he said would go in Konoha from then on.
• Kagami opened Konoha's gates, and Shu led the column carrying Tobirama Senju toward Konoha Hospital.
• Danzo watched Shu enter the village and grew enraged that he had taken the Hokage hat.
• Danzo ordered a Shimura Clan deathsworn to notify Team A and bring the strongest poison to kill Shu in the Hokage's office that night.

Shu Shiraishi foiled Shimura Danzō’s assassination attempt and crushed his jaw while killing the three deathsworn who accompanied him. With Danzō pinned beneath his boot, Shu ordered the Anbu to surround the Shimura Clan’s territory.

• Shimura Danzō led three Shimura Clan deathsworn into Shu Shiraishi’s office to assassinate him.
• Shu Shiraishi crossed the desk and shattered Danzō’s jaw with a kick.
• Shu Shiraishi killed the three deathsworn as they attacked him.
• Shu Shiraishi pinned Danzō’s face beneath his boot when the Anbu entered the office.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the Anbu to surround the Shimura Clan’s territory.

Shu Shiraishi ordered the Anbu to raid the Shimura Clan after an assassination attempt and personally led the brutal assault. By dawn, the clan had been stripped of its ninja status, its compound reduced to ruins, and Danzo dragged to the village square.

• Shu Shiraishi invoked the assassination attempt as his warrant and ordered the Anbu to search the Shimura Clan compound.
• Shu Shiraishi broke through the clan gates, killed a resisting elder, and led the Anbu in subduing the compound.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the Shimura vault emptied and stripped the surviving clan members of their ninja status.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the Shimura mansion demolished, leaving the estate in ruins.
• The Anbu dragged the injured Danzo into the village square and left him face-down in the dirt.

Shu Shiraishi publicly punished Danzo for attempting to assassinate the Hokage, crippling his Chakra and sentencing him to work in Konoha’s sewers. He warned the village leaders that his rules were absolute and ordered them to attend a meeting within half an hour or die.

• Shu Shiraishi accused Danzo of leading three suicide soldiers in an attempt to assassinate the Hokage.
• Shu Shiraishi blocked Hiruzen Sarutobi from pleading for Danzo and used a silver needle to cripple Danzo’s Chakra.
• Shu Shiraishi sentenced Danzo to work as a night-soil man in Konoha’s sewers, and Anbu dragged him away.
• Shu Shiraishi warned the gathered leaders that anyone who undermined the village’s unity would face his rules.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered a leadership meeting at the Hokage building within half an hour and threatened to kill anyone who arrived late.

Shu Shiraishi imposed military dictatorship and sweeping industrial reforms on Konoha’s leaders, threatening clans into surrendering their wealth and secret techniques. Utatane Koharu finally stood up to oppose him, leaving the meeting on the verge of open confrontation.

• Shu Shiraishi arrived at the leadership meeting and abolished Jonin Commander voting, declaring that Konoha would be governed by his orders during the war.
• Shu Shiraishi unveiled a heavy industrialization plan that assigned the Uchiha, Akimichi, Aburame, Hyuga, and Inuzuka clans to industrial and military work.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the clans to surrender seventy percent of their treasury assets and all secret technique scrolls to the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi protested that Shu Shiraishi was driving the clans toward rebellion, but Shu threatened the Sarutobi Clan and silenced him by throwing a mug at him.
• Utatane Koharu stood and declared that she would never agree to Shu Shiraishi’s plan.

Shu Shiraishi silenced Utatane Koharu’s opposition to his reform plan by slapping her into a wall, then warned the gathered leaders that his word was law. Mitokado Homura stood to protest, and Shu turned his attention toward him.

• Utatane Koharu denounced Shu Shiraishi’s reforms and challenged him to kill the clan heads if he dared.
• Shu moved across the room and struck Koharu, sending her through a chair and into a wall, where she collapsed unconscious.
• Shu told the gathered leaders that he was not there to reason with them and that what he said was law.
• Mitokado Homura rose and protested Shu’s treatment of an adviser.
• Shu stopped tapping his scroll and fixed his gaze on Homura.

Shu Shiraishi stripped Mitokado Homura of his adviser title and sentenced him to a lifetime of coal mining after Homura challenged his wartime rule. With the other elders defeated or silent, Shu resumed the meeting and asked whether anyone else wished to speak about the Will of Fire.

• Shu Shiraishi tore off Mitokado Homura's adviser armband and declared that Homura no longer held the title.
• Shu ordered the Anbu to confiscate Homura's property, strip his chakra, and send him to mine coal for life at the Black Rock Coal Mine.
• Homura appealed to Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Hiruzen stayed silent as the Anbu knocked Homura unconscious and carried him away.
• Shu returned to his seat, put on white gloves, and placed his hands on the Heavy Industrialization Reform Plan.
• Shu asked the silent clan heads whether anyone else wanted to discuss the Will of Fire.

Shu Shiraishi redefined the Will of Fire as industrialized conquest and forced Konoha’s clan leaders to approve his plans. As the leaders left, Uchiha Retsu secretly vowed that his clan would never submit, but Shu overheard him.

• Shu explained that the Will of Fire meant using industrial power and military force to establish Konoha’s hegemony.
• Shu asked the clan leaders whether they supported his industrialization plan, and they pledged their loyalty under pressure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said the Sarutobi Clan had no objections, and Shu ended the meeting.
• Uchiha Retsu angrily told himself that the Uchiha Clan would never submit to Shu.
• Shu heard Retsu’s whispered curse from outside the conference room.

Shu Shiraishi stormed into the Uchiha compound and defeated Uchiha Retsu with overwhelming force. With the clan gathered and too frightened to resist, Shu began announcing his decision.

• Shu kicked down the Uchiha compound's gate and knocked its guards aside.
• Uchiha Retsu confronted Shu and attacked him with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• Shu dispersed Retsu's fire technique with a punch and seized him by the neck.
• Shu slammed Retsu into the bluestone paving, breaking his bones and leaving him barely alive.
• The gathered Uchiha clansmen froze in fear as Shu announced that he had a decision to make.

Shu Shiraishi crushed Uchiha Retsu, appointed Kagami Uchiha clan head, and turned the Uchiha into the Urban Management Brigade with authority to police construction workers. After leaving Uchiha territory, Shu found a Hyuga Branch Family boy suffering from his Cursed Seal as three Main Family men approached.

• Shu defeated Uchiha Retsu and named Kagami Uchiha the new clan head.
• Shu ordered the Uchiha to become the Urban Management Brigade and supervise other clans' construction labor with sweeping enforcement powers.
• Kagami and over a hundred Uchiha ninja swore loyalty to Shu and accepted their new orders.
• Shu left the Uchiha compound and heard a scream from an alley.
• Shu saw a Hyuga Branch Family boy tearing at his forehead while three Hyuga Main Family men approached, and the lead man formed a hand seal.

Shu Shiraishi intervened when a Hyuga Main Family member tortured a Branch Family boy with the Caged Bird Seal, then ordered the Hyuga Clan to abolish the seal. Hyūga Tensō and dozens of Main Family fighters blocked the clan gates and prepared to confront him.

• Shu Shiraishi kicked the Hyuga Main Family man who was using the Caged Bird Seal on a Branch Family boy, freeing the boy from its pain.
• Shu Shiraishi declared the boy a village labor asset and slapped the Main Family man for damaging public property.
• Hyūga Tensō accepted Shu Shiraishi’s order for the clan to mine at the border but defended the Caged Bird Seal as the Hyuga Clan’s lifeline.
• Shu Shiraishi tore Tensō’s sleeve, declared that his rules governed Konoha, and ordered the seal abolished immediately.
• Tensō ordered the Main Family experts to stop Shu Shiraishi, and they formed a Gentle Fist line and activated their Byakugan.

Shu Shiraishi forced Hyūga Tensō to abolish the Caged Bird Seal after cutting down the Main Family members who tried to stop him. The Branch Family gained freedom and hailed Shu as Tensō collapsed, realizing the Main Family had lost its power.

• Shu Shiraishi killed the Main Family elder who attacked him with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
• Shu Shiraishi defeated the Main Family fighters at the gates and entered the Hyuga courtyard.
• Shu Shiraishi held his sword to Hyūga Tensō's neck and demanded that he release the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hyūga Tensō performed the release, removing the seal from Branch Family members throughout Konoha.
• Thousands of Branch Family members wept, removed their Forehead Protectors, and kowtowed toward Shu Shiraishi.
• Hyūga Tensō collapsed as he realized the Hyuga Main Family had lost control of the Branch Family.

Shu Shiraishi crushed the Hyūga Main Family, freed the Branch Family from the Caged Bird Seal, and assigned them to industrial inspection, prospecting, and village surveillance. As he left to mobilize Konoha's war machine, an Anbu reported that the Sarutobi Clan, Shimura remnants, and allied clans had shut down vital shops and warehouses, triggering panic buying and soaring prices.

• Hyūga Tensō begged Shu Shiraishi for his life, and Shu ordered the surviving Main Family members to strip off their white kimonos and work at the Black Rock Coal Mine.
• Shu told Tensō that the Hyūga Clan would have no Main or Branch Family and sent the former Main Family members to the coal mine with strict quotas and punishments.
• Thousands of Branch Family members, having removed their Caged Bird Seals, knelt before Shu, who ordered them to serve Konoha in three Byakugan-based industrial and security battalions.
• The Branch Family accepted Shu's assignments and pledged to fight for him, while Shu left the Hyūga district for the Hokage Building.
• An Anbu reported that the Sarutobi Clan, Shimura remnants, and several civilian ninja clans had closed grain stores, Military Rations Pill workshops, weapons shops, and warehouses, causing panic buying and a sharp rise in prices.

Shu Shiraishi ordered Kagami Uchiha and the Urban Management Brigade to seize the Sarutobi Clan’s locked warehouses after the clan’s economic blockade threatened village supplies. As the Uchiha raided the granary, Sarutobi Sasuke arrived to confront them, and the sky suddenly darkened.

• An Anbu Ninja told Shu Shiraishi that most grain, Explosive Tag, and ninja tool shops had closed, and Shu blamed Sarutobi Sasuke for the blockade.
• Shu ordered Kagami Uchiha to lead 130 Uchiha ninjas to raid the Sarutobi Chamber of Commerce and transport its supplies to the village supplies office.
• The Urban Management Brigade beat the Sarutobi guards, broke into the granary, and began loading its rice and flour onto handcarts.
• Sarutobi Sasuke arrived, struck his iron staff into the granary floor, and accused Kagami Uchiha of acting like a bandit.
• The sky darkened as an unseen presence looked down on the confrontation.

Shu Shiraishi seized the Sarutobi Clan’s granaries and property, crippled Sarutobi Sasuke, and defeated Hiruzen Sarutobi. He announced that Sasuke would be publicly beheaded at noon the next day, leaving Hiruzen helpless beneath his boot.

• Shu Shiraishi crashed into the Sarutobi granary courtyard and declared that he had come to take possession of its assets.
• Shu disarmed Sarutobi Sasuke, broke his limbs, and ordered Kagami Uchiha and the Urban Management Brigade to confiscate the clan’s supplies and valuables.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived to find his father crippled and the granaries being emptied.
• Hiruzen charged Shu with a kunai, but Shu kicked him into a wall and pinned him beneath his boot.
• Shu accused Sarutobi Sasuke of wartime hoarding, price manipulation, and plotting rebellion, then announced Sasuke’s public beheading for noon the next day.

Shu Shiraishi publicly executed Sarutobi Sasuke for his clan’s wartime corruption, using the beheading to warn Konoha’s powerful clans and rally ordinary villagers and ninja against them. Hiruzen was left devastated and terrified as the plaza watched in silence.

• Hiruzen begged Shu Shiraishi to spare his crippled father, Sarutobi Sasuke, and promised the Sarutobi Clan would leave the village.
• Shu Shiraishi accused the Sarutobi and Shimura clans of withholding compensation from fallen civilian ninja and exploiting soldiers during the war.
• Shu Shiraishi declared that Sarutobi Sasuke would be executed publicly and dismissed Sasuke’s warning that the daimyō would retaliate.
• Hiruzen offered to become Shu Shiraishi’s dog and clung to the platform, but Shu Shiraishi beheaded Sarutobi Sasuke.
• Hiruzen froze and wet himself beside his father’s severed head as the crowd watched Shu Shiraishi in fearful silence.

After Shu Shiraishi executed Sarutobi Sasuke, the clans and villagers submitted as he announced a sweeping industrial plan and declared himself Konoha’s sole law. Mito Uzumaki watched and decided to meet the new Hokage, offering him a chance to use the Nine-Tails’ Chakra.

• Nara Rokumei, Akimichi Chōza, and Yamanaka Fūshin swore their clans’ loyalty to Shu Shiraishi, prompting more than ten thousand people to kneel.
• Shu Shiraishi declared the old leadership’s rules ended and announced that Konoha’s missions and forces would be reorganized for industrial construction.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered shinobi to build steel mills, a Chakra energy conversion center, and a machinery plant, threatening punishment for disobedience.
• Shu Shiraishi declared himself Konoha’s only law and left the square as the crowd remained bowed.
• Mito Uzumaki watched the execution and submission, then decided to meet Shu Shiraishi and let him try using the Nine-Tails’ Chakra.