Chapter Summaries

After the Three-Tails vanished, Kabuto Yakushi and Guren searched for Yukimaru while Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi’s team regrouped and decided to protect him and seal the beast before Orochimaru or the Akatsuki could capture it. The chapter ended with Kabuto and Guren locating Yukimaru with Konoha’s ninja and planning a cautious rescue.

• Kabuto Yakushi and Guren washed ashore after the Three-Tails disappeared, argued over the failed plan, and split up to search for Yukimaru.
• Uzumaki Hane and Naruto reunited with Kakashi’s team, who had found the unconscious Yukimaru.
• Uzumaki Hane explained that Yukimaru could control the Three-Tails, and Yamato warned that Orochimaru might intend to make him a Jinchūriki.
• Naruto vowed not to let Yukimaru become a Jinchūriki, while Kakashi’s team agreed to protect Yukimaru and seal the Three-Tails before Orochimaru or the Akatsuki captured it.
• Yamato built a wooden house so the team could rest and discuss their next move.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Guren that Konoha’s ninja had captured Yukimaru, and they planned to approach quietly and rescue him.

Uzumaki Hane left to investigate the Three-Tails’ roar, giving Kabuto Yakushi and Guren a chance to attack the house where Yukimaru was being guarded. Kakashi and the others fought off Guren’s crystal barrage and engaged the six Gurens in a battle that remained unresolved.

• After hearing the Three-Tails roar, Uzumaki Hane went to investigate while Naruto and the others stayed behind to guard Yukimaru.
• Kabuto Yakushi and Guren waited until Uzumaki Hane was gone, then planned to use Guren’s crystal barrier to seize Yukimaru.
• Yamato, Kakashi, Shino, and Akamaru sensed the attackers, and Kakashi and Yamato led the others outside while Hinata and Sakura protected Yukimaru.
• Guren and five other Gurens launched crystal Shuriken at Kakashi and the others, but Yamato shielded them with Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall.
• Kakashi and the others emerged unharmed and charged the six Gurens, beginning a fierce fight.

Uzumaki Hane fought Tobi and the Three-Tails, while Kakashi’s team battled Guren’s Jade Crystal Clones and tried to stop Kabuto Yakushi from escaping with Yukimaru. The chapter left Kabuto fleeing with Yukimaru as Kakashi destroyed two of Guren’s clones.

• Uzumaki Hane attacked Tobi, fought the Three-Tails, and struck Tobi into the sea, but Tobi later hit him into the water.
• Tobi phased through the Three-Tails’ charge and knocked the beast back into the sea before Uzumaki Hane resurfaced and punched him into the water.
• Kabuto Yakushi burst out of the house carrying the unconscious Yukimaru, and Sakura and Hinata pursued him after Kakashi ordered them to stop him.
• Sakura smashed trees while attacking Kabuto Yakushi, but he escaped with Yukimaru, and Hinata chased after them.
• Kakashi used Lightning Release: Chidori to destroy two of Guren’s Jade Crystal Clones.

Uzumaki Hane and Tobi fought across the sea while the Three-Tails attacked them, and Hane searched for both after they vanished beneath the water. Elsewhere, Kakashi, Yamato, Naruto, Kiba, and Akamaru defeated the Guren clones, but Kabuto Yakushi escaped with Yukimaru, prompting Sakura and Hinata to pursue them.

• Uzumaki Hane punched Tobi into the sea, then struck the charging Three-Tails and slammed him beneath the water.
• Uzumaki Hane and Tobi fought on the Three-Tails' back, and Hane hurled the beast and Tobi into the sea.
• Tobi phased through Uzumaki Hane's attacks, struck him, and used the Three-Tails to attack before Hane punched Tobi into the water.
• Uzumaki Hane searched the sea for Tobi and the Three-Tails but found no trace of them.
• Kakashi, Yamato, Naruto, Kiba, and Akamaru destroyed the remaining Guren clones while Kabuto Yakushi escaped with Yukimaru.
• Hinata used her Byakugan to follow Kabuto Yakushi, then joined Sakura in pursuing him.

Naruto’s team found Sakura and Hinata after Kabuto escaped with Rinji, while Yamato revealed he could track Yukimaru using a seed. Elsewhere, Uzumaki Hane fought the Three-Tails as Tobi was summoned to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Kakashi’s group discovered the barrier was gone, and Yamato lost contact with his Wood Clone as they hurried toward Sakura and Hinata.
• Uzumaki Hane pursued the Three-Tails and struck it with Great Eruption, but the beast recovered and attacked again.
• Naruto’s team found Sakura and Hinata with the prisoners, but Rinji and Kabuto Yakushi had escaped.
• Sakura and Hinata explained that Kabuto had ambushed Yamato’s Wood Clone and left with Rinji; Yamato said he could track Yukimaru using a seed.
• Tobi complained after being summoned to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Pain ordered the gathered members to begin.

Kakashi found Uzumaki Hane fighting the Three-Tails and learned that Tobi had vanished after battling Hane. They suspected Tobi had gone to help seal another Tailed Beast and hurried to stop him, while Yamato’s team resumed its pursuit of Kabuto Yakushi after sheltering from the rain.

• Kakashi split the group into two teams, sending one to find Uzumaki Hane and the other to pursue Kabuto Yakushi and rescue Yukimaru.
• Kakashi, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino reached the shore as waves from Hane’s battle with the Three-Tails swept them into the sea.
• Uzumaki Hane struck the Three-Tails down with Great Eruption, then told Kakashi that Tobi had fought the beast before suddenly disappearing.
• Kakashi and Uzumaki Hane suspected Tobi had gone to help seal another Tailed Beast and set off to find him.
• Yamato’s team sheltered from the rain in a cave, where they noticed a bat spying on them; after it flew away, they continued pursuing Kabuto Yakushi.

Uzumaki Hane split off to search for Tobi while Kakashi's team went to join Yamato and rescue Yukimaru. Yamato's group ambushed Kabuto's forces, and the chapter left Yamato and Guren locked in battle as the other fights began.

• Uzumaki Hane decided to search for Tobi alone, while Kakashi, Hinata, Shino, and Kiba headed to meet Yamato's group.
• Sai detected Kabuto Yakushi, Guren, Rinji, and two unknown ninja waiting in ambush near the unconscious Yukimaru.
• Yamato assigned each teammate an opponent and ordered them to attack on his signal.
• Yamato, Sakura, Sai, and Naruto launched their attack, with Naruto using Shadow Clones to engage the two unknown ninja and reach Yukimaru.
• Guren countered Yamato's wooden attacks with crystal techniques and fired a barrage of crystal Shuriken at him.

Guren and Yamato fought fiercely, trading Crystal Release and Wood and Earth Release techniques without either gaining the advantage. Sakura battled Kabuto Yakushi elsewhere, while Naruto defeated the two unknown ninja with a surprise Rasengan attack.

• Guren and Yamato exchanged attacks, and Yamato escaped Guren’s crystal traps using Wood Release and substitutions.
• Guren turned Yamato’s water torrent into a crystal dragon, but Yamato restrained it with wooden slats and dodged her falling crystal pillars.
• Guren protected herself from Yamato’s earthen spears with Crystal Release: Crimson Fruit and questioned how he possessed Wood Release.
• Sakura and Kabuto Yakushi fought to a stalemate as their battle carried them farther into the forest.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones surrounded the two unknown ninja, who dispersed the clones with coordinated Earth and Water Release techniques.
• Naruto surprised the two ninja with two Rasengan attacks, sending them crashing into a tree.

Naruto and the others failed to stop Rinji from taking Yukimaru, so they pursued him through the forest. They met Kakashi’s team and continued after Yukimaru, who Yamato sensed was still nearby.

• Naruto knocked out two ninjas with Rasengan, then tried to help Sai against Rinji but was caught and thrown into Sai’s ink animals.
• Rinji took Yukimaru and fled as Guren used crystal Shuriken to hold off Yamato; Naruto and Sai broke free too late to stop them.
• Yamato persuaded Naruto to regroup with Sakura, and the four of them set off after Rinji and Guren.
• After half a day of pursuit, Yamato’s team met Kakashi, Hinata, Shino, and Kiba; Kakashi said Uzumaki Hane had gone after Tobi.
• Kakashi said he had injured Guren, and Yamato sensed Yukimaru was nearby, so the group continued the pursuit.

Guren took the sick Yukimaru to a cabin while Yamato and the others were caught in an explosive-tag trap during their pursuit. After Kabuto Yakushi ordered Guren to wait a day, Kakashi’s team regrouped and decided to split up to search for Orochimaru’s subordinates and the Three-Tails.

• Yukimaru collapsed with a fever, so Guren carried him to a cabin and stayed by his side.
• Yamato found the seed he had left on Yukimaru, but an explosive-tag trap detonated around the group; Kakashi used his Sharingan to protect everyone and exhausted himself.
• Kabuto Yakushi and Rinji found Guren, and Kabuto ordered her to care for Yukimaru while he and Rinji searched for the Three-Tails.
• Kakashi’s team searched the blast site but found no sign of the enemy, then stopped to rest and discuss their next move.
• After considering suggestions from Sakura, Kiba, Yamato, and Sai, Kakashi decided that the team would split into two groups.

Kabuto Yakushi, Guren, Rinji, and Yukimaru attempted to suppress the Three-Tails, but Yukimaru collapsed after taking the pills and the beast broke free. Guren dived after Yukimaru as the Three-Tails turned its attack toward him.

• Kabuto Yakushi led the group by boat through the fog toward the sleeping Three-Tails and gave Yukimaru a bottle of pills.
• Guren tried to stop Yukimaru from taking the pills, and she attacked Rinji after he questioned her motives.
• Yukimaru swallowed the whole bottle, and Guren used Crystal Release techniques to try to restrain the awakened Three-Tails.
• Yukimaru collapsed into the water, and Guren plunged in to rescue him while the Three-Tails sent waves that wrecked the boat.
• The Three-Tails charged underwater toward Yukimaru as Kabuto Yakushi surfaced far from the wreckage.

Guren rescued Yukimaru from the Three-Tails and escaped with him, while Kakashi's team searched the coast for the beast. After three days of searching for Tobi, Uzumaki Hane finally spotted him and began following him.

• Guren shielded herself and Yukimaru in crystal as the Three-Tails struck, and a wave hurled them onto shore before the beast returned underwater.
• Guren woke beside Yukimaru, learned the Three-Tails had left, and departed with him before Kabuto Yakushi and Rinji arrived to search for them.
• Kakashi led Naruto, Sakura, and Sai to the devastated coast, then chose to search for the Three-Tails rather than follow traces left by Orochimaru's subordinates.
• Uzumaki Hane searched for Tobi for three days, then spotted him in the forest and quietly followed him.

Uzumaki Hane followed Tobi into a hidden underground base, where Tobi’s trail led him to Orochimaru. Hane attacked Orochimaru, and their fight continued as Orochimaru countered with snakes.

• Uzumaki Hane followed Tobi to a concealed entrance in a giant boulder and entered the underground passage after him.
• Uzumaki Hane killed a ninja guarding the passage and followed Tobi’s deliberately obvious trail through an empty stone hall.
• Uzumaki Hane entered a stone chamber and discovered Orochimaru waiting there.
• Uzumaki Hane attacked Orochimaru with Hell Hound, but Orochimaru dodged and escaped onto a stone pillar.
• Orochimaru sent a giant python to coil around Uzumaki Hane, but Hane turned to magma and burned it to ashes.
• Uzumaki Hane attacked Orochimaru again, and Orochimaru dodged and countered with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands.

Uzumaki Hane and Orochimaru fought through the collapsing stone chamber, with Hane repeatedly attacking using magma while Orochimaru relied on snakes and the Kusanagi Sword. Orochimaru escaped during the collapse after saying he would return once he had Sai’s body, leaving Hane searching for him amid the ruins.

• Orochimaru attacked with snakes, but Uzumaki Hane burned them with magma and struck Orochimaru with magma-based techniques.
• Orochimaru pierced Hane with the Kusanagi Sword, but Hane transformed into magma and healed after the sword was withdrawn.
• Hane unleashed Great Eruption, shattering the chamber’s pillars and triggering its collapse.
• Orochimaru said he would return after obtaining Sai’s body, while Hane dismissed his venomous snake trick.
• Hane smashed the boulder blocking Orochimaru, but Orochimaru had already disappeared.

Might Guy and his team reached the Three-Tails, but the beast swept them away with a massive wave as Guy charged to fight it. Meanwhile, Uzumaki Hane searched Orochimaru’s collapsing base and retraced a suspicious escape passage, while Sasuke confronted the weakened Orochimaru.

• Pakkun led Might Guy, Neji, Tenten, and Rock Lee through the fog to the Three-Tails.
• The Three-Tails sent a colossal wave crashing over Guy’s team, and Guy charged toward the beast as it attacked again.
• Uzumaki Hane broke through a hidden stone door and followed a long passage out of the base, then returned to search it for something unusual.
• Orochimaru reached a stone chamber and rested in a chair after his fight with Hane.
• Sasuke emerged from the shadows and faced Orochimaru with his hand on his sword.

Might Guy fought the Three-Tails while Sasuke confronted Orochimaru before Orochimaru could take his body. Sasuke revealed his strength and fought Orochimaru in his White Phosphorus Snake form, with the battle still underway.

• Might Guy opened the First Gate and repeatedly kicked the Three-Tails, whose attacks sent him flying.
• Sasuke entered Orochimaru's hideout and attacked him with a blade of Lightning Release Chakra.
• Sasuke broke Orochimaru's stone chair and pinned him with a Chakra blade, declaring that he would not become Orochimaru's vessel.
• Orochimaru shed his body and revealed his true form as the White Phosphorus Snake.
• Sasuke cut through Orochimaru's attacking snakes and transformed with wings on his back before resuming the fight.

Orochimaru remembered how Nawaki and Dan died in the Second Shinobi World War, which drove him to seek immortality, as he fought Sasuke and tried to claim his eyes. Meanwhile, Might Guy battled the Three-Tails, but its sound-wave attack sent him crashing into the sea.

• Orochimaru recalled seeing Nawaki and Dan die and how their deaths inspired his search for eternal youth and immortality.
• Sasuke dodged and cut through Orochimaru's White Phosphorus Snake attacks, taunting him as too weak to land a blow.
• Orochimaru continued attacking Sasuke and insisted that Sasuke and his eyes belonged to him.
• Might Guy opened the Second and Third Gates and repeatedly kicked the Three-Tails, driving it backward.
• Might Guy opened the Fourth Gate and charged again, but the Three-Tails struck him with a powerful sound wave and sent him into the sea.

Kakashi and his team found the Three-Tails, but its attack scattered them across the sea. Kakashi reunited with Might Guy, and the two joined forces to wound the beast as it glared at them from a distance.

• Kakashi struck the Three-Tails with Chidori, and Might Guy hurried to attack after seeing it fire a pillar of light at Kakashi’s clone.
• Kakashi told Might Guy that he, Naruto, Sakura, and Sai had found the Three-Tails half an hour earlier and that its wave and light attack had separated him from the others.
• Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Kakashi had tried to approach the Three-Tails quietly, but it spotted them and sent a huge wave surging toward them.
• Naruto broke through the wave with Rasenshuriken, but the Three-Tails fired a pillar of light that scattered the team across the sea.
• Might Guy kicked the Three-Tails while Kakashi attacked with Chidori, and they wounded its forehead again before it retreated and glared at them.

Sasuke cut Orochimaru into pieces, but Orochimaru’s paralyzing poison left Sasuke vulnerable to his attempt to take over his body. Uzumaki Hane reached the chamber and found Sasuke standing over Orochimaru’s White Phosphorus Snake form, while Might Guy pursued the Three-Tails underwater.

• Orochimaru lunged at Sasuke, who cut his body into several pieces with his sword.
• Orochimaru revealed that the White Phosphorus Snake’s fluids had poisoned Sasuke and charged at him to seize his body.
• Kakashi protected Might Guy from the Three-Tails’ attack, and Might Guy used Morning Peacock to knock the beast into the sea.
• Might Guy dove underwater to pursue the sinking Three-Tails as Kakashi retreated toward shore.
• Uzumaki Hane crossed Orochimaru’s trapped escape passage, reached the stone chamber, and found Sasuke beside Orochimaru’s severed White Phosphorus Snake form.

Sasuke left Orochimaru’s hideout after killing him, rejecting any return to Konoha and declaring revenge his remaining bond. Meanwhile, Might Guy fought the Three-Tails underwater, and Kabuto Yakushi learned of Orochimaru’s death and let Sasuke go.

• Sasuke told Uzumaki Hane that he would not return to Konoha and left to pursue revenge against the man he sought.
• Uzumaki Hane chose not to follow Sasuke and went in search of Tobi instead.
• Might Guy discovered that the Three-Tails had feigned unconsciousness and attacked it with Morning Peacock before charging into battle again.
• Kabuto Yakushi returned to the hideout, found Orochimaru’s White Phosphorus Snake corpse, and rushed after Sasuke.
• Sasuke trapped Kabuto Yakushi in an illusion that showed Orochimaru’s death, then left while Kabuto trembled and did not stop him.
• Kabuto Yakushi returned to Orochimaru’s corpse and laughed sinisterly.