Five Kage Summit (Arc)

The Five Kage Summit arc is from Part II of the series that spans from chapters 450 to current of the manga. This arc details the the resulting actions by the Five Great Shinobi Countries of Akatsuki kidnapping their Jinchūriki.

New Orders
Kakashi Hatake found Naruto Uzumaki and carried him back to Konoha, where he was greeted by the villagers as a hero after his victory over Pain. However, Tsunade was left in a comatose state after using her chakra to protect the villagers after Pain crushed the village. During the council meeting with the Fire Daimyo, Shikaku Nara nominated Kakashi to replace Tsunade, to which most of the jonin agreed. However, Danzo argued that all the previous Hokage, in some way, lead the destruction of the village and the rise of Akatsuki. Taking this into account, the Fire Daimyo assigned Danzo as the Sixth Hokage. With his new position, he finally labled Sasuke Uchiha a missing-nin and ordered his assassination.

When Team Samui off Kumogakure arrived at Konoha with news that Sasuke and his team kidnapped Killer Bee, and was looking for whatever information Konoha can give on Sasuke. When Karui made it clear to Naruto, Sakura Haruno, and Sai that they intended to kill Sasuke out of revenge, Naruto offered himself to be beaten in order to let Karui relieve herself of her pain and not kill Sasuke. Karui continued to beat Naruto until Sai stepped in to protect him, and Omoi informed her that Naruto would never betray Sasuke. With the information they gathered, Team Samui left Konoha to give their report to the Raikage. After recovering from his beating, Naruto, Kakashi, and Yamato decide to go find the Raikage themselves and ask him to pardon on Sasuke, and set out to the Land of Iron.

On their way to Konoha, Taka, having abandoned Akatsuki after capturing the Eight-Tailed Giant Ox, was stopped by Madara Uchiha. Madara, angered that Taka had failed to actually capture the Eight-Tails and instead only bringing back one of its tails orders Taka to another target; kill Danzo at the summit in the Land of Iron. Using Zetsu's white half to lead the way. Madara informs Zetsu's black half that Nagato's defeat was a great hindrance to his plans and that Sasuke would be no use to him if he couldn't control him properly. Because of this, Madara decided commence his Moon's Eye Plan.

The Kage Summit
Gaara, the Kazekage of Sunagakure, Onoki the Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, and the Fifth Mizukage of Kirigakure departed from their villages with two guards each, as requested by the Raikage, to the location of the summit, the Land of Iron.

Before leaving for the Land of Iron, Danzo ordered Root members Dajimu and Terai to find Kabuto before Anko did, believing Kabuto's information may be able to restore his right arm and eye. When he did leave for the meeting, Danzo and his bodyguards, Fu and Torune where attacked by assassins. Danzo revealed a bloodshot Sharingan eye and quickly killed the assassins.

In Konoha, Yamato planted tracking devices on Team Samui. Kakashi put two Root members under genjutsu and told Sai to report to Danzo that Naruto had not left Konoha. Naruto, Kakashi and Yamato headed for the Land of Iron to meet the Raikage. Despite Naruto's desperate pleas, the Raikage refused to call off the hunt for Sasuke Uchiha and scolded Naruto for being weak and defending a criminal.

Mifune, leader of the samurai country Land of Iron, started the Five Kage Summit with each Kage's bodyguards looking on. The meeting however feel into an argument of ideologies, and when Danzo mentioned Killer Bee, sent the Raikage into a rage requiring all the Kage's bodyguards into defend their Kage. The Raikage claimed that each one of them was in some way responsible for Akatsuki's rise of power, from the Fourth Kazekage's Invasion of Konoha, the Tsuchikage hiring of Akatsuki to fight their battles, and Kirigakure being the founding home of Akatsuki, with the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura being manipulated by Akatsuki.

When Danzo stated that Akatsuki's leader is almost certainly Madara Uchiha, Mifune proposses a Allied Shinobi Forces to eliminate the threat of Akatsuki. However, because the Land of Fire was the only nation that still had it's tailed beast, Mifune appointed Danzo to lead the Alliance. Ao, one of the Fifth Mizukage's bodyguards used his Byakugan to see that Danzo had put a genjutsu on Mifune to manipulate his decision. Before this could be handled any further, Zetsu's white half appeared before the Kage, announcing that Sasuke Uchiha had infiltrated the summit.

Meanwhile, in Konoha, the Konoha 11 discussed the turns of events and came to the conclusion that they had to hunt down Sasuke before his actions sparked off an all-out war between the countries. Shikamaru asked Team 7 for consent. Sakura decided to find Naruto in the Land of Iron and talked to him herself. She left Konoha with Kiba, Lee and Sai.

While resting at in inn after speaking with the Raikage, Madara Uchiha appears before Naruto, Kakashi and Yamato. Madara proceeds to tell the Konoha-nin about Itachi Uchiha's plans and goal and that while Naruto inherited the Senju clan's Will of Fire, Sasuke had inherited the Uchiha clan's cycle of revenge and hatred, telling Naruto that battle between the two was inevitable, just as his battle with the First Hokage.

The Kage vs. Taka
Enraged, the Riakage chocked Zetsu into submission and stormed out with his guards to kill Sasuke. Once they were found, despite Suigetsu Hozuki's prowess with his sword, and Jugo's Cursed Seal Level 2 form, the Raikage's superior strength and lightning jutsu quickly overwhelmed Taka. Sasuke, using his Mangekyo Sharingan and used Susanoo and Amaterasu to defend himself, to which the Raikage simply smashed through. Trying to defend himself with his unique Blaze Release Kagutsuchi, Gaara arrived to defend the Raikage for inflicted further damage to himself while fighting with a burning arm.

Gaara attempted to help Sasuke, telling the Uchiha that he was acting just as he did before he saw the light. Sasuke however ignores this and prompted by Kankuro and Temari, attacked Sasuke with aid form his siblings, the Raikage, and Darui. Using a more complete Susanoo, Sasuke smashed the room, leaving Suigetsu and Jugo to their fate, and threw Karin from the room and ordered her to take him to Danzo.

Karin lead him to the Summit room, where he Sasuke attacked the Kage. During this confusion, Danzo and his guards fled the Summit. He was however low on chakra and was beaten into a hallway and trapped by the Fifth Mizukage's Lava Release and Boil Release. Before her mist killed Sasuke however, Zetsu's Spore Technique transferred everyone's chakra to Sasuke, allowing him one more strike, before being subdued by Onoki, the Tsuchikage. However, before he was killed, Madara Uchiha appeared himself, teleporting Sasuke and Karin to safety while he began to tell his plans to the Kage.

Declaration Of War
Madara revealed that he had no confidence that Sasuke could actually beat any of the Kage, and just needed Sasuke to awaken the Susanoo power of the Mangekyo Sharingan. He then began to announce the true depths of his plan. According to Madara, the Sage of the Six Paths was worshiped as a god throughout the old ninja world because he managed to subdue the Ten-Tailed Beast, sealing it within his own body and becoming it's jinchuriki. When the Sage was on his death bed, instead of allowing the Ten-Tails to be released, he sealed it's body within the moon, and split it's chakra into nine parts, the nine tailed beasts. Madara's plan was to reunite the tailed beasts and use their power to reawaken the Ten-Tails and seal it within himself, and use an infinite Tsukuyomi on the world, effectively conquering the planet. He then orders the Kage to hand over the Killer Bee and Naruto Uzumaki, the jinchuriki of the Eight-Tailed Giant Ox and the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox respectively, or face war with Akatsuki and their seven tailed beast. When they refused, Madara declared the Fourth Great Shinobi World War and departed.

As the threat of Akatsuki and seven tailed beast was to great for one nation to handle on their own, the Kage and Mifune decided for the first time to have a Allied Shinobi Forces. Because Danzo fled the Summit, Gaara offered to relay the information to Konoha through Kakashi Hatake instead. The Kage decided it would best to protect the jinchuriki from the frontlines as both are unpredictable on the battlefield and Madara would except the Alliance to use them in battle. With his composure regained, the Raikage was voted the leader of the Alliance.

Kisame vs Killer Bee
Elsewhere, while Killer Bee was honing his singing voice with Master Sabu, the leader of the Enka ninja, Kisame Hoshigaki arrived. Killer Bee begins to trash talk Kisame until Sabu's pet, Ponta arrives. Kisame and Ponta begin to fight each other.

Kisame bats Ponta away and charges at Killer Bee. Killer Bee uses the eight-tail´s' chakra to try and fight Kisame. The chakra of the beast is eaten by Samehada, cuasing the sword to release it's true form.

Soon after, Killer Bee uses more of the Biju's power, and deduces that Samehada can only dijest six chakra tails at a time. Kisame then uses: Water Style:Exploding Wter Shockwave (which he also used on team Guy)and fuses with samehada to reveal his true form.

Killer Bee makes sure that Ponta and Master Sabu are safe before trying to escape himself, but is intercepted by Kisame on his way. Kisame drains what is left of Killer Bee's chakra, then releases the jutsu. Just so Killer Bee does not escape, Kisame decides to slice his legs off with Samehada. Just as he is about to cut Killer Bee's legs off, Samehada falls out of Kisame's hands, and protects Killer Bee, giving back the chakra Kisame stole. Kisame kicks Samehada away and takes one of Killer Bee's swords, and begins to wrap things up.