Chapter Summaries

Obito emerged from Kamui above the ruined great hall and revealed himself to the battered shinobi, drawing Mei Terumi’s fury for his role in the Bloody Mist. Convinced that Kamui made him untouchable, he confronted Senju Kenya and prepared to address the defeated nations.

• A space-time rift opened above the great hall, and Obito stepped out onto a broken iron beam.
• Darui recognized the Akatsuki cloak while protecting the gravely wounded Fourth Raikage, and Mei Terumi identified Obito as the one who had controlled Yagura and caused the Bloody Mist.
• Mei ordered Chōjūrō, Ao, and the Kirigakure Anbu to draw their swords, but Obito dismissed them as ants and defended the Bloody Mist as a necessary lesson in pain.
• Obito met Senju Kenya’s gaze, recalled Black Zetsu’s warning about Kenya’s strength, then reassured himself that Kamui Intangibility would protect him from physical attacks.
• Obito spread his arms above the defeated nations, his Sharingan blazing, and began a thunderous address to the far northern snowfields.

Obito revealed the Eye of the Moon Plan, demanded the Nine-Tails and Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War. As the gathered leaders and samurai sank into silence, Senju Kenya’s voice suddenly rang out from the crater.

• Obito condemned the shinobi world’s cycle of war and hatred, challenging Senju Kenya’s belief that strength could end suffering.
• Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and explained his plan to revive the Ten-Tails and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Darui denounced Obito and refused to surrender the tailed-beast Jinchūriki.
• Obito demanded Naruto Uzumaki and Killer B and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War in the name of Madara Uchiha.
• As Obito believed he had silenced everyone, Senju Kenya’s voice suddenly boomed from the crater.

Senju Kenya confronted Obito Uchiha, ridiculed his plan to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and exposed the grief over Rin’s death behind it. Obito activated Kamui and claimed Kenya could not touch him, but Kenya launched a Haki-infused punch that could shatter space.

• Obito Uchiha declared the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War, but Senju Kenya interrupted him with insults.
• Kenya accused Obito of trying to force the world into a dream because he could not accept Rin’s death, leaving Obito shaken.
• Obito angrily activated Kamui Intangibility and boasted that Kenya’s strength could not reach him across dimensions.
• Kenya tossed his pipe to Haku, smashed the ice beneath his feet, and charged at Obito with a powerful Haki-infused punch.

Senju Kenya shattered Obito Uchiha’s Kamui intangibility with a punch from afar, striking his body inside the alternate dimension and forcing him back into the physical world. Obito’s mask broke apart, leaving him wounded and terrified before Kenya and the assembled Kage and samurai.

• Obito Uchiha activated Kamui’s intangibility and mocked Senju Kenya as Kenya charged at him.
• Senju Kenya coated his fist in Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Haki, then struck the space between them from a distance.
• Kenya’s punch cracked the spatial boundary and blasted through the Kamui passage into Obito’s alternate dimension.
• The shock shattered stone pillars, broke Obito’s ribs, and forced him out of Kamui into the physical world.
• The punch’s gust split Obito’s mask apart, revealing his scarred face as the Kage and samurai watched in shock.

Senju Kenya shattered Obito’s mask and damaged the Kamui Dimension, then drove him to flee through a space-time vortex. Kenya returned to the stunned crowd at Wolf Fang Fortress while Obito escaped.

• Senju Kenya’s punch shattered Obito’s mask and damaged the Kamui Dimension, exposing Obito’s scarred face.
• Kenya mocked Obito and raised his fist for a full-strength attack.
• Obito panicked and escaped into Kamui before Kenya could strike again.
• The samurai, Jonin, and wounded Kage watched in shock as Obito vanished.
• Kenya descended, wiped his hands with a hot towel, and dismissed the empty sky.

Senju Kenya mocked the masked man who claimed to be Madara Uchiha, while Ōnoki confirmed that the impostor lacked the real Madara’s character. With the Fourth Shinobi World War looming, the Kage and Mifune’s samurai pledged their forces to Kenya.

• Kenya crushed the masked man’s broken orange mask and ridiculed him for fleeing while claiming to be Madara Uchiha.
• Ōnoki recalled seeing the real Madara and declared the masked man an impostor and a coward.
• Mei warned that Akatsuki had seven Tailed Beasts and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and that the Fourth Shinobi World War had begun.
• Gaara pledged Sunagakure’s full military strength to Kenya, while Raikage A admitted Kenya was unmatched and urged him to lead the fight against Akatsuki.
• Mifune raised the Five Great Nations’ military seal, and the Land of Iron’s thirty thousand samurai knelt in allegiance.

After the Ten-Tails appeared, the leaders of the great nations and the Land of Iron pledged their forces to Senju Kenya and named him supreme commander of the Shinobi World Allied Army. Kenya accepted the command, imposed a unified army structure, and ordered new standardized uniforms, leaving the allied forces preparing for his reorganization.

• Mifune announced the formation of the Shinobi World Allied Army and asked Kenya to become its supreme commander.
• Raikage A, Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and Gaara pledged their nations’ forces to Kenya, while the Land of Iron’s samurai hailed him as their commander.
• Kenya accepted the Nine Dragons Seal and ordered the shinobi of the nations reorganized into the Iron Fist Allied Army, with centralized equipment and strict battlefield discipline.
• Kenya ordered Haku to send a message to Kato Yosuke to produce matching black battle robes for every allied shinobi.

Senju Kenya outfitted the eighty thousand Allied Shinobi Forces with Iron Fist uniforms and badges, then declared them one family under his banner. The newly unified army roared its support and marched south behind him.

• Iron Fist Heavy Industries delivered eighty thousand cold-resistant uniforms and matching forehead protectors bearing Iron Fist insignia.
• Zabuza Momochi ordered the assembled shinobi to change, while the Four Kage and their forces reluctantly put on their new outfits.
• Ninja from Iwagakure and Kumogakure found themselves wearing identical uniforms despite their generations of hostility.
• Senju Kenya declared that everyone under his banner was family and threatened anyone who plotted against their fellow soldiers.
• Mifune and the eighty thousand shinobi cheered for Iron Fist, and Kenya led the army south in armored war chariots.

Senju Kenya returned to Konoha after forcing the four Kage to submit and taking command of the Shinobi world's allied forces. He rallied Konoha's troops for war against the Akatsuki, and Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha began punishing training.

• Senju Kenya arrived in Konoha and told Tsunade that the four Kage had submitted, handing her the supreme commander's seal.
• Shikaku Nara recognized Kenya as supreme commander of the Shinobi World's eighty-thousand-strong allied army.
• Orochimaru presented the assembled forces with exoskeleton armor, regeneration spray, and armored siege chariots.
• Kenya urged the troops to fight the Akatsuki and promised them the spoils of victory.
• After the rally, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha strapped heavy black iron slabs to their backs to train.

Naruto and Sasuke’s weighted push-up contest sparked a village-wide physical training frenzy after Senju Kenya promised meat and dividends. The chapter ended with Tsunade discovering that tens of thousands of Konoha residents had joined in, crushing her teacup in shock.

• Naruto and Sasuke competed in weighted push-ups, accusing each other of cheating as they struggled to outdo one another.
• Might Guy and Rock Lee joined the contest, challenging each other to a massive weighted push-up goal and a handstand run around Konoha.
• Neji, Kiba, and Choji joined the frenzy, while Uchiha Fugaku ordered his clan to train so the Uchiha would not lose to the Senju or Hyuga.
• Senju Kenya’s promise of meat and dividends helped turn the contest into a village-wide workout involving more than thirty thousand ninja.
• Tsunade stepped onto the Hokage building balcony, saw Konoha packed with bare-chested residents doing push-ups, and crushed her teacup in disbelief.

Tsunade confronted Senju Kenya over turning Konoha’s ninja into bald, heavily muscled fighters, but Kenya defended his training as preparation for the coming Fourth Shinobi World War. The chapter ended with Obito returning to Amegakure to report that Konoha’s forces could blow apart mountains with a punch, leaving the White Zetsu in stunned silence.

• Tsunade learned that Konoha’s supplies and barbershops had been overwhelmed as more than twenty thousand ninja shaved their heads and embraced Kenya’s physical training.
• Tsunade stormed into the old Senju residence and accused Kenya of turning Konoha into a village of musclebound brutes.
• Kenya argued that stronger bodies were essential to survive the Fourth Shinobi World War and the Ten-Tails, and Tsunade grudgingly conceded that Konoha’s forces had grown stronger.
• Obito Uchiha emerged from a space-time vortex in Amegakure, bloodied and carrying news of Konoha’s overwhelming strength.
• The hundred thousand White Zetsu fell silent after hearing Obito report that their opponents could blow apart mountains with one punch.

Obito Uchiha returned to the underground hideout badly injured after Senju Kenya shattered his mask through the Kamui Dimension. When the original White Zetsu described Konoha’s newly muscular, heavily trained forces, the hundred thousand White Zetsu clones panicked over how useless their infiltration tactics would be.

• Obito Uchiha stumbled into the cavern with a shattered mask and serious injuries, and the White Zetsu clones questioned what had happened to him.
• The original White Zetsu reported that Senju Kenya had punched through the Kamui Dimension and destroyed Obito’s mask.
• The original White Zetsu told the army that Senju Kenya had abolished Konoha’s barriers and made its ninja train like muscular warriors.
• The White Zetsu clones feared their frail bodies would expose them among Konoha’s powerful fighters and complained that their assassination tactics would fail.
• Black Zetsu tried to rally the hundred thousand White Zetsu by emphasizing their numbers, but their despair remained.

Obito returned to the underground hideout battered after Senju Kenya defeated him at the Five Kage Summit, while the White Zetsu learned that Kenya had taken command of the allied forces and turned Konoha’s ninjas into brutally trained fighters. The White Zetsu army realized its camouflage and infiltration tactics would fail against Konoha’s strength and vigilance, leaving Obito and the Akatsuki dreading the coming war.

• Obito emerged from Kamui badly injured, and the White Zetsu mocked his ruined face until he silenced them with killing intent.
• The original White Zetsu reported that Senju Kenya had taken command of the allied forces after overpowering the Fourth Raikage and injuring Ōnoki.
• Black Zetsu urged the hundred thousand White Zetsu to infiltrate Konoha, but a clone warned that Kenya’s intense training had made the village’s ninjas too muscular to impersonate.
• White Zetsu clones explained that Konoha’s patrols checked for sweat and body fat, making infiltration nearly impossible for their poreless bodies.
• Hidan and Kakuzu lamented their losses as Obito realized his army would face Konoha’s heavily trained fighters and feared the coming war.

Kabuto Yakushi arrived at Akatsuki’s underground stronghold and offered Obito a way to counter Senju Kenya’s powerful fighters. He used his perfected Impure World Reincarnation to summon five dead fighters, then revealed he had collected more DNA.

• Kabuto Yakushi entered the cavern and mocked Obito Uchiha and the White Zetsu for their failure against Senju Kenya’s forces.
• Kabuto exposed Obito’s identity and insisted he had come to offer a solution rather than fight Akatsuki.
• Kabuto claimed he had surpassed Orochimaru by mastering forbidden techniques and Ryūchi Cave senjutsu.
• Kabuto used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Sasori, Kakuzu, Deidara, Yugito Nii, and Yahiko in their undead bodies.
• Kabuto explained that the resurrected fighters had infinite chakra and their full living strength, and Obito demanded to know how much powerful fighters’ DNA Kabuto had collected.

Kabuto Yakushi revealed his Edo Tensei army of legendary dead to fight Senju Kenya, then raised a sixth coffin that horrified Obito Uchiha. Days later, the Fourth Shinobi World War began as armies gathered across the continent.

• Kabuto Yakushi unveiled a scroll containing the remains of over a hundred famous shinobi and explained that he would use them to exhaust Senju Kenya and Konoha’s fighters.
• Kabuto named four former Kage, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Kinkaku and Ginkaku, Hanzo, Chiyo, Dan Katō, and other legendary dead as his first waves of Edo Tensei fighters.
• Obito Uchiha warned that the former Kage might not be enough to defeat Senju Kenya, whose physical power could damage even the Kamui Dimension.
• Kabuto Yakushi summoned a sixth coffin, and Obito Uchiha recoiled in shock at the sight of the long-haired figure in Warring States armor inside.
• Several days later, armies and chakra gathered along the borders of the Five Great Nations as the Fourth Shinobi World War began.

Fifty thousand Allied Shinobi Forces gathered under Iron Fist Heavy Industries’ banner, reorganized into specialized divisions and equipped for war. Senju Kenya arrived as supreme commander, and the assembled troops waited for his mobilization speech as he blew smoke into the microphone.

• Fifty thousand shinobi from the great nations assembled on the border plain in matching Iron Fist armor and formed four reorganized combat divisions.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi directed the rear logistics base as heavy vehicles delivered supplies and armor to the front.
• An Iwagakure jonin and a Kumogakure shinobi shared food and drink, while former enemies across the army celebrated their new unity.
• Senju Kenya arrived in the Iron Fist No. 1 and stepped onto the command platform as the troops stood at attention.
• Senju Kenya took a drag from his pipe and blew smoke into the microphone instead of beginning his speech.

Senju Kenya rallied the fifty-thousand-strong Iron Fist Allied Army with a blunt speech promising profits, supplies, and survival as they fought Akatsuki. The army roared its approval, but as Kenya headed toward the logistics camp, a rapping, moonwalking swordsman emerged from Kumogakure's vanguard.

• Senju Kenya rejected traditional lofty war speeches and told the allied troops that the war was about protecting their livelihoods and income.
• Kenya promised soldiers limb-regeneration spray, sea beast jerky, and benefits, warning them not to sacrifice their lives recklessly.
• Kenya ordered the army to eat more rice crackers, stop talking, and attack Akatsuki, prompting the fifty thousand troops to cheer.
• The Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce distributed rice crackers and jerky as Kenya left the platform for the logistics camp.
• A tall, dark-skinned, seven-sword-wielding figure rapped and moonwalked out of Kumogakure's vanguard toward Kenya.