Chapter Summaries

Sunagakure's officers doubted they could use Bunpuku and the One-Tail to turn the war against Konoha, until Chiyo reminded them their real objective was to kill Kōki. She proposed that three Kage-level fighters attack him while the others held off Orochimaru, but the officers questioned whether her injuries left her able to fight.

• A Sunagakure ninja proposed using Bunpuku and the One-Tail against Konoha, but Rasa and the other officers warned that Konoha could counter the plan with Wood Release.
• The officers grew frustrated as they rejected plans to use Bunpuku, and Rasa prepared to encourage them.
• Chiyo entered the meeting room despite her injuries and rebuked the officers for losing sight of their purpose.
• Chiyo reminded the officers that Sunagakure's goal was to kill Kōki, not defeat Konoha, and proposed that three Kage-level fighters attack him while the others faced Orochimaru.
• Chiyo revealed that she would be the third attacker, but the officers questioned whether her injuries and damaged Chikamatsu Ten Puppets left her strong enough to fight.

Chiyo revealed her backup Chikamatsu Ten Puppets and her own puppet-body modifications, then planned to help Sunagakure defeat Kōki. Konoha and Sunagakure began a decisive battle, with the war’s outcome resting on Orochimaru’s fight with Ebizo and the combined attack on Kōki.

• Chiyo summoned a second set of Chikamatsu Ten Puppets and revealed that she had replaced part of her injured leg with puppet joints.
• Chiyo arranged for Rasa and Bunpuku to confront Kōki while Ebizo occupied Orochimaru, with Chiyo waiting to join the attack on Kōki.
• Orochimaru told Konoha’s shinobi that Kōki would handle the One-Tail while the others fought Sunagakure’s forces, and warned Kōki to stay cautious.
• Kōki agreed to be careful as both sides prepared for the decisive battle.
• Konoha and Sunagakure resumed fighting, and the exhausted armies watched the contests between Orochimaru and Ebizo and between Kōki, Bunpuku, and Rasa to determine the war’s outcome.

Bunpuku chose to release Shukaku to help Sunagakure, accepting that he would die afterward. Shukaku emerged on the battlefield and spotted Kōki, whom he associated with Hashirama Senju.

• Orochimaru grew suspicious when Ebizo focused on holding him back instead of attacking decisively.
• Bunpuku and Shukaku discussed Bunpuku’s impending death, his willingness to help Sunagakure, and his hope that Shukaku would be free and understood.
• Shukaku agreed to honor Bunpuku’s final wishes and promised he would remember him.
• Shukaku’s chakra transformed Bunpuku into the One-Tail, drawing the attention of everyone on the battlefield.
• Shukaku spotted Kōki fighting Rasa and said Kōki’s scent reminded him of Hashirama Senju.

Kōki used Wood Release to fight Shukaku, binding him and absorbing his chakra, while Shukaku countered with powerful Wind Release attacks. Rasa freed Shukaku from Kōki’s trees, and Shukaku declared his grudge against Sunagakure settled before warning Rasa to stay away.

• Shukaku attacked Kōki and Rasa, and Kōki blocked Shukaku’s claw with Wood Release.
• Kōki’s vines bound Shukaku and drained his chakra, but Shukaku broke free and attacked with repeated Drilling Air Bullets.
• Kōki blocked Shukaku’s Wind Release with Tree World Wall, then dodged Shukaku’s Sand Dust Great Breakthrough.
• Kōki’s trees and vines surrounded Shukaku and grew stronger as they absorbed his chakra.
• Rasa cut through the trees with a gold dust blade, allowing Shukaku to escape.
• Shukaku told Rasa that his grudge against Sunagakure was settled and warned him to move away.

Shukaku fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Kōki while Rasa used gold dust to restrict him, but Kōki survived behind his defenses. Rasa then impaled a wooden decoy, escaped Kōki’s counterattack, and remained alive to continue the fight.

• Rasa and Shukaku coordinated gold dust and Wind Release attacks against Kōki, who endured the pressure.
• Shukaku charged a Tailed Beast Bomb as Rasa intensified his efforts to pin Kōki down.
• Kōki raised five Earth Style Walls and used Wood Expulsion Jutsu, but Shukaku’s bomb blasted through the defenses and detonated.
• Kōki emerged unharmed from the blast, prompting the Konoha ninja to cheer.
• Rasa pierced Kōki with several gold dust spears, but the impaled figure turned out to be a wooden decoy.
• Rasa used the Sand Body Flicker Technique to evade Kōki’s punch, which shattered the ground where he had stood.

Kōki suppressed Rasa after trapping Shukaku, but Sunagakure revealed its real plan and sealed Kōki inside a barrier with four Kage-level enemies. The chapter left Orochimaru fearing Kōki would die, while Kōki confronted the unfair odds.

• Kōki trapped Shukaku with Wood Release and gained the upper hand against Rasa.
• Orochimaru and Kōki noticed Sunagakure’s forces withdrawing from the battlefield around Kōki and Rasa.
• Ebizo rushed toward Kōki, while the Chikamatsu Three appeared with their puppets.
• Chiyo, Ebizo, Rasa, and Shukaku enclosed Kōki and others within the Sandstorm Dharma Realm barrier.
• Orochimaru and the Konoha ninja feared for Kōki, but Nara Yūsuke and his teammates continued to trust him.

Kōki tried to escape the Sandstorm Dharma Realm by exploiting Shukaku’s distrust of Sunagakure, but Chiyo bluffed Shukaku into continuing the fight. The four Kage Level opponents kept Kōki trapped and attacking.

• Chiyo explained that the Sandstorm Dharma Realm could trap Kōki, while Shukaku worried Sunagakure would seal him again after the battle.
• Chiyo promised to free Shukaku if he helped kill Kōki, and Shukaku struggled against Kōki’s Wood Release binding.
• Kōki warned Shukaku that Sunagakure would never let him go, making Shukaku suspicious of Chiyo.
• Chiyo swore she would not allow anyone to capture Shukaku while she remained an advisory elder, and Shukaku believed her.
• Chiyo sent her puppets after Kōki, while Shukaku attacked him and Kōki reminded Shukaku how Sunagakure had treated Bunpuku.
• Chiyo threatened to abandon her oath and seal Shukaku first, prompting Shukaku to ignore Kōki’s warnings and attack him relentlessly.

Kōki released the Yin Seal and summoned the Wood Human Technique to break Sunagakure’s encirclement. The Wood Human overwhelmed Shukaku and blasted apart half his head, leaving the battle decisively in Kōki’s favor.

• Chiyo, Rasa, Ebizo, and Shukaku coordinated their attacks against Kōki, who realized he needed overwhelming force to break their formation.
• Kōki released the Yin Seal, shocking Rasa and the others with his vast chakra and reminding Shukaku of Hashirama Senju.
• Kōki summoned the Wood Human, which blocked the incoming attacks and charged at Rasa, Chiyo, Ebizo, and Shukaku.
• Shukaku blocked the Wood Human’s first punch, but the giant gradually overpowered him despite Rasa and the others’ attempts to help.
• The Wood Human seized Shukaku and pinned his head to the ground, where a close-range Tailed Beast Bomb explosion blasted half of it apart.

Kōki’s wooden figure battled the injured Shukaku, while Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo tried to withstand Kōki’s temporary surge of strength. Rasa restrained the wooden figure just before it struck Shukaku, leaving him urging Shukaku to attack before the gold dust gave way.

• Chiyo judged that Kōki’s enhanced strength was temporary, and Rasa and Ebizo also wondered whether they could outlast it.
• Shukaku shook off the wooden figure and charged it, but Kōki’s figure pushed him backward.
• Shukaku fired a weakened Tailed Beast Bomb, but Kōki made the wooden figure dodge, sending the blast into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm’s wall.
• Kōki’s wooden figure broke free and swung at Shukaku, but Rasa bound its arm with gold dust just before the fist landed.
• Shukaku canceled his Tailed Beast Bomb in fright, and Rasa urged him to attack before the gold dust restraints failed.

Kōki used Wood Release to restrain Shukaku and trapped Chiyo and Ebizo before the wooden golem battered Shukaku into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm and shattered it. Chiyo and Ebizo escaped the vines, but both were injured and Chiyo had lost five puppets.

• Kōki summoned a Wood Dragon that bit Shukaku and rapidly drained his chakra, making the Tailed Beast Bomb in his mouth disappear.
• Rasa tried to free Shukaku with Gold Dust, while Chiyo told him to carry her and Ebizo to Kōki so they could interrupt his Wood Release.
• Kōki sent a mass of wooden vines against Chiyo and Ebizo, trapping them in midair and preventing them from reaching him.
• Kōki broke Rasa’s Gold Dust restraint and had the wooden golem punch Shukaku repeatedly into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm until the barrier shattered.
• Kōki struck the injured Sunagakure ninja maintaining the barrier with wooden spikes, killing them.
• Chiyo and Ebizo escaped the vines with injuries, and five of Chiyo’s Chikamatsu Ten Puppets were destroyed.

Chiyo surrendered Sunagakure to Konoha after realizing her forces could no longer defeat Kōki and risked being wiped out. Konoha celebrated its victory as the Sunagakure ninja laid down their weapons, while Chiyo and Orochimaru deferred reparations and alliance talks to Konoha’s negotiating team.

• Chiyo ordered the Sunagakure ninja to stop fighting and declared their surrender and withdrawal from the Land of Rivers.
• Orochimaru confirmed Chiyo’s decision, and Konoha’s ninja cheered as the Sunagakure forces laid down their weapons.
• Kōki released Shukaku and dispelled the wooden giant and Wood Dragon Technique, while Shukaku fled the battlefield.
• Chiyo asked Rasa to lead the Sunagakure forces home and told Orochimaru she wanted to discuss reparations and an alliance.
• Orochimaru said Konoha would send a negotiating team, and Chiyo left after agreeing to await word from the village.

After Sunagakure’s defeat, Rasa learned that Chiyo had surrendered to protect his reputation, and the village’s leaders faced the difficult negotiations ahead. News of Kōki defeating Sunagakure’s Kage Level fighters spread through the Shinobi World, prompting a blonde woman to leave a tavern in search of answers.

• Ebizo explained that Chiyo had surrendered in Rasa’s place to preserve his standing as Kazekage, and Rasa regretted misunderstanding her.
• Chiyo and Rasa turned to negotiating the surrender terms and reparations while planning how to persuade the Daimyo of the Land of Wind to keep supporting Sunagakure.
• In a tavern in the Land of Hot Water, Ōkawa told Yugakure shinobi that Kōki had defeated the One-Tail and the Kage Level fighters with a giant Wood Release construct and Wood Dragon.
• The shinobi reacted with disbelief, then recognized that Kōki was not even ten years old and feared Konoha would dominate the world as he grew stronger.
• A blonde woman listening nearby left the tavern with the little girl who had been dining with her.

Tsunade learned that Kōki Itō had used Wood Release to defeat powerful opponents and decided to send him something to help him survive. Madara Uchiha, stirred by the news, ordered White Zetsu to push Obito toward despair so he could become Madara’s successor and rival Kōki.

• Tsunade confirmed that Kōki had used the Wood Golem and Wood Dragon Technique against Chiyo and others alongside the One-Tail, then decided to mail him something as compensation for not being on the battlefield.
• Madara Uchiha heard White Zetsu’s account of Kōki’s battle and reconsidered him as a worthy successor to Hashirama’s power.
• Madara asked White Zetsu about Obito and learned that Obito was still following Minato, arguing with Kakashi, and pursuing Rin’s favor.
• Madara ordered White Zetsu to lead Iwagakure’s forces to Obito so war would teach him weakness and prepare him to despair when a greater crisis arrived.
• White Zetsu accepted the order and left, while Madara regretted that he could no longer fight Hashirama himself.

After Kōki’s victory over Sunagakure’s forces alarmed the other villages, he met Aizen and Jörmungandr to examine Setsugetsu, whose revived body had fused two Kekkei Genkai. Setsugetsu awakened a power that was far more than Ice Release, leaving the group to discover she possessed the Ice-Ice Fruit’s Logia abilities.

• Ōnoki learned that Kōki had defeated Rasa, Chiyo, two others, and a Tailed Beast, and pressed Kumogakure to join forces against Konoha.
• The Third Raikage sent Killer B, his son, and Yugito to the front and told his people to stall Iwagakure until after the fighting with Konoha.
• Konoha ordered Orochimaru to reinforce the Kumogakure front while Kōki headed alone toward the Iwagakure battlefield.
• Kōki examined Setsugetsu and found that Aizen had fused two of her Kekkei Genkai after reviving and growing her body.
• Setsugetsu formed an ice senbon, then transformed her body into ice and revealed that her power was the Ice-Ice Fruit’s Logia ability, not ordinary Ice Release.

Kōki tested Setsugetsu’s fused Ice Release and Hydrification abilities in a fight, discovering that Setsugetsu could elementalize and freeze Kōki’s Wood Release with ease. Kōki ended the spar after concluding that Setsugetsu had formidable Kage Level strength.

• Setsugetsu explained that his Ice Release could elementalize without Hydrification’s weaknesses, and Kōki asked to test his strength.
• Aizen and Jörmungandr moved away to watch as Kōki and Setsugetsu began fighting.
• Kōki’s punch shattered Setsugetsu’s arm into ice, and Setsugetsu invited him to attack without holding back.
• Kōki’s taijutsu attacks passed through Setsugetsu, so he used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Setsugetsu froze Kōki’s advancing trees into ice sculptures, and Kōki ended the fight after recognizing Setsugetsu’s Kage Level strength.

Kōki Itō left after sparring with Setsugetsu, while Aizen and the others departed for the northern Land of Fire, all leaving the frozen battlefield behind. A Konoha patrol discovered the devastation and identified Kōki as one of the fighters, prompting an urgent report to the Hokage.

• Kōki Itō finished testing Setsugetsu's strength and left to support Konoha's troops at the Iwagakure battlefield.
• Aizen and the others headed for a black market in the northern Land of Fire, leaving the ice-covered battlefield uncleaned.
• A Konoha patrol arrived and found a vast, freezing expanse where a kunai froze in midair and broke after hitting the ice.
• The patrol captain noticed the frozen trees resembled Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence and concluded that Kōki Itō had fought there.
• The captain hurried his team back to Konoha to report the discovery to the Hokage.

Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that someone had fought Kōki, while Kōki arrived at the Iwagakure battlefield and routed the enemy forces with Wood Release. The surviving Iwagakure ninja fled in terror and began calling him the Green Demon.

• A patrol captain reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi that someone had fought Kōki using Wood Release, prompting Hiruzen to investigate the mysterious opponent.
• Kōki reached the battlefield as Iwagakure and Konoha forces fought to a deadlock.
• Kōki unleashed Wood Release, sending a torrent of trees into the Iwagakure forces.
• Kōki's arrival lifted Konoha's morale and terrified the Iwagakure ninja, who fled as the battle turned against them.
• The surviving Iwagakure ninja blamed their losses on Kōki's Wood Release and gave him the epithet Green Demon.

After Kōki returned from driving back Iwagakure, Jiraiya brought him to a war meeting, where the officers discussed the next course of action. Jiraiya then asked Kōki about the people who had fought him in the Land of Fire, and Kōki calmly prepared to explain their attack.

• Kōki returned to camp after defeating Iwagakure, and the Konoha ninja praised him until Jiraiya dispersed the crowd.
• Jiraiya welcomed Kōki and praised his help to Kushina, while privately feeling gloomy about how composed Kōki was.
• Jiraiya led Kōki to a meeting attended by clan ninja, including Uchiha Fugaku, Aburame, and Inuzuka.
• Jiraiya discussed the war, while Kōki decided to leave strategic matters to the senior officers and focus on his chakra research.
• Jiraiya asked Kōki who had fought him in the Land of Fire and why, and Kōki claimed they had sought out his Wood Release.

Kōki told the Konoha ninja about the powerful Light Organization and its members, prompting Jiraiya to report the group to the village. Later, Kōki reunited with Obito, Rin, and Kakashi, stopped Obito and Kakashi from fighting, and accepted their invitation to eat.

• Kōki described the enemy who fought him as stronger than an ordinary Kage and said two companions belonged to the same organization.
• Kōki named the group the Light Organization, and Jiraiya decided to inform Sarutobi and have the village monitor it.
• Obito spotted Kōki and called out to him, while Kakashi and Rin pulled Obito away from the crowd.
• Obito and Kakashi started brawling, so Kōki bound them to trees and asked what they wanted.
• Obito invited Kōki to eat with the team, and Kōki accepted.

Aizen inspected the ninja Kuroki had recruited at a bounty office in the Land of Frost. After Jörmungandr killed Yokooka for insulting them, the remaining recruits faced a one-minute assessment against Jörmungandr, and none chose to leave.

• Kuroki brought Aizen and his two companions to meet the recruits he had gathered at the bounty office.
• Yokooka mocked the three visitors and threatened Kuroki, but Kuroki warned him to show the organization's members respect.
• Jörmungandr appeared beside Yokooka unnoticed and killed him with a squeeze of his hand.
• Kuroki told the remaining recruits to respect the organization's full members, and they agreed.
• Kuroki announced that recruits had to last one minute against Jörmungandr to join, and the assessment began after no one withdrew.