Chapter Summaries

Itachi chose to abandon the search for Orochimaru and head to the Land of Hot Water, where Naruto was traveling, while Black Zetsu accelerated plans to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Black Zetsu sent Kakuzu after Naruto and decided to let Itachi and Kisame assess the situation first.

• Itachi and Kisame found a lead suggesting Orochimaru had fled by boat, but Zetsu’s earlier report made Itachi worry that Nagato might target Naruto in the Land of Hot Water.
• Itachi questioned whether the Akatsuki was still following its original plan, and Kisame noted that the masked man calling himself Madara had vanished since the Heavenly Screen exposed him.
• Itachi decided to travel with Kisame to the Land of Hot Water, while a White Zetsu clone watched them and reported their choice.
• Black Zetsu learned that Nagato was focused on discovering the secrets of Six Paths Power and that Naruto was protected by Jiraiya, Karin Uzumaki, and six Anbu.
• Black Zetsu ordered White Zetsu to tell Kakuzu that Naruto was in the Land of Hot Water and decided that Itachi and Kisame should sound things out first.

After the Heavenly Screen’s revelations unsettled Obito, he resolved to take back Kakashi’s Sharingan and ensure the Eye of the Moon Plan succeeded. Meanwhile, Kakashi reflected on his students and trained to prepare for the future battles.

• Obito searched for Orochimaru without success and worried that Nagato no longer respected him as Madara Uchiha.
• Obito brooded over the powers and future events shown by the Heavenly Screen, then decided to reclaim Kakashi’s Sharingan to gain Susanoo.
• Obito rejected the possibility that his plan could fail and resolved not to hold back against Kakashi.
• Kakashi, feeling distant from his former students, decided to train harder after considering the future battles.
• Kakashi used eye drops on his Sharingan, remembered Obito and Rin, and vowed to protect Konoha’s future.

Sunagakure and Iwagakure considered the Raikage’s proposal to pressure Konoha into sharing forbidden techniques, but both chose caution and sent information to Konoha instead. Ōnoki also ordered Kirigakure to pursue Orochimaru and pushed Kurotsuchi and Kitsuchi to train.

• Baki told Gaara and Granny Chiyo that the Raikage wanted to restart the Five Kage Summit and pressure Konoha to share its forbidden techniques.
• Granny Chiyo and Gaara rejected the proposal, and Baki sent an elite squad to deliver a warning to the Hokage.
• Ōnoki refused to cooperate with Kumogakure and ordered a squad to tell Konoha about the Raikage’s plans.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi to notify Kirigakure that Orochimaru might have escaped to sea, and said Iwagakure would wait for other villages to fight Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki scolded Kurotsuchi over her Dust Release training, then ordered her and Kitsuchi to train after she escaped through the window.

Mei Terumi prepared Kirigakure to search for Orochimaru and rejected Iwagakure’s offer of help, resolving to demonstrate the village’s strength. Chōjūrō trained with Hiramekarei and decided to ask Mei about finding a powerful summoning beast.

• Mei ordered the search teams to report any trace of Orochimaru and not act without instructions.
• Mei received Iwagakure envoys and told them Kirigakure would handle the search, then ordered Anbu squads to assemble and Ao to signal when he found the target.
• Chōjūrō practiced releasing Hiramekarei’s power but worried that his strength was not enough to face the fighters he had seen on the Heavenly Screen.
• Chōjūrō saw a mirage resembling the Second Mizukage’s technique and decided to seek a summoning beast to improve his combat strength.
• Chōjūrō resolved to ask Mei for advice about finding a summoning beast.

Asuma led a Konoha team to the Land of Waves to stop Gato’s remnants from threatening Tazuna and the docks. After defeating the gang, the ninja met Inari, who vowed to become a hero like Naruto, and Asuma reminded his students what they had to protect.

• Tsunade assigned Asuma and five young ninja to investigate Gato’s remnants in the Land of Waves while other powerful ninja were occupied because of the Heavenly Screen.
• Asuma’s team arrived at Naruto Bridge, where Tazuna told them the gang had burned fishing boats, while Neji detected enemy lookouts and rogue ninja.
• Sato ordered his men to kill Tazuna and seize the docks, but Asuma’s team defeated the gang and its five rogue ninja in under ten minutes.
• Tazuna welcomed the team at his home, where Inari asked about Naruto and listened to stories of his training and strength.
• Inari promised to visit Konoha and become a hero like Naruto, and Asuma told his students that the bridge and the peaceful lives around it were what they had to protect.

Kakuzu and Hidan traveled toward the Land of Hot Water after White Zetsu assigned them to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Their journey brought back Kakuzu’s humiliating encounter with Hashirama and revealed how Hidan became an immortal devotee of Jashin, as the pair approached their target.

• White Zetsu told Kakuzu and Hidan to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki alive for a fifty-million-ryo bounty, while Jiraiya and six Anbu guarded him and Itachi and Kisame were already on their way.
• Hidan mocked Kakuzu about his fight with Hashirama, prompting Kakuzu to attack him and recall how Hashirama spared him during an assassination mission from Takigakure.
• Kakuzu remembered witnessing the Second Hokage kill Ginkaku and Kinkaku devastate a forest, and reflected that his stolen hearts had never filled the emptiness left by his past.
• Hidan told Kakuzu that he had volunteered for a Jashin Cult ritual in his hometown, survived the dagger, and killed the priests after believing Jashin had chosen him.
• Hidan headed toward the hot spring town, planning to use the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s blood in a sacrificial circle, while Kakuzu followed and recalled that the Jashin Cult Order had been declared dead.

Sasori and Deidara left the Land of Crafts after Sasori chose Kimimaro as a target for his puppet collection. Meanwhile, Kimimaro continued searching for Shinnō to fulfill Orochimaru’s mission, unaware that Sasori was pursuing him.

• Sasori finished replenishing his materials in the Land of Crafts and told Deidara they were leaving to pursue a promising specimen: Kimimaro.
• Sasori recalled Kabuto’s intelligence about Kimimaro’s Shikotsumyaku and considered turning him into a puppet.
• Takumi ninja discussed the Akatsuki’s visit, confirmed they had passed their intelligence to the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and resolved to stay neutral while selling tools to both sides.
• Deidara revealed that he and Sasori had noticed the Takumi ninja watching them as they departed.
• Kimimaro followed traces of Shinnō near a small village, intending to bring him back for Orochimaru’s research into the Body Revival Technique and the Eight Gates.

Tsunade responded to Kumogakure’s pressure by sending Kakashi and an elite force north on a border exercise meant to display Konoha’s strength. Guy joined the mission with fluorescent green jumpsuits to sell, leaving Tsunade amused and concerned about what the Kumogakure patrol would witness.

• Tsunade ordered Shikamaru to send diplomatic replies to Sunagakure and Iwagakure while planning a show of force against Kumogakure.
• Tsunade ordered Kakashi to lead an elite Anbu force north for border exercises and to monitor Kumogakure near a Chakra Armor test site.
• Kakashi persuaded Shizune to ask Tsunade to let Guy join the mission and demonstrate the Seventh Gate if Kumogakure saw him training.
• Tsunade approved Guy joining the force, limiting him to the Seventh Gate and warning him not to damage a border marker.
• Kakashi, Guy, and more than a dozen elite Jonin left Konoha with Guy’s glowing jumpsuits and sales pitch in tow.
• Tsunade watched the green-glowing group depart and laughed at the thought of the Kumogakure patrol witnessing Guy’s antics.

Raikage A reacted to Konoha’s formidable fighters by ordering Kumogakure to prioritize scientific weapons research rather than risk a direct confrontation. After Kakashi and Might Guy approached the border, A ordered his forces not to provoke them and planned to inspect Guy himself the next day.

• Raikage A raged over Sunagakure and Iwagakure refusing to join forces against Konoha, then prepared to go to the Land of Frost and make Konoha lose scrolls.
• A learned that Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy were approaching Kumogakure’s border, and that Guy was doing ten thousand push-ups while surrounded by blue steam.
• A told Killer B to keep the border patrol from provoking Konoha, then visited Dodai’s secret research facility and made the Thunder project top priority.
• Dodai showed A the Chakra Cannon prototype and a Thunder God puppet developed using insights from the Heavenly Screen and Yugito Nii’s help.
• A ordered B to accompany him to the border the next day so he could judge whether Might Guy was truly as powerful as the Heavenly Screen had shown.

Might Guy turned a tense Kumogakure border standoff into a bodysuit sales event, prompting Raikage A to study the suits and both sides’ ninja to imitate his training wear. By the third day, the fad had spread across the border, leaving Kakashi and Genma to wonder how the arriving Sunagakure scouts would react.

• Might Guy sold fluorescent green bodysuits to Kumogakure ninja while Raikage A arrived at the border and prepared to confront him.
• Raikage A recognized Guy’s display as a warning, ordered the Chakra Cannon prioritized, and asked for a bodysuit to study its Chakra-conducting fibers.
• Kakashi watched Kumogakure ninja adopt Guy’s outfits and exercises as Konoha ninja cheered him on.
• Guy returned to camp with a stack of orders and led Konoha ninja in green-clad aerobics while Kumogakure chanted across the river.
• Three days later, Genma told Kakashi that both border forces were exchanging fashion tips instead of fighting, as Kumogakure wore knockoff bodysuits.

Fū grew restless in Takigakure and decided to leave the village to meet Naruto Uzumaki, another Jinchūriki. She escaped pursuit with Chōmei and flew south, while White Zetsu spotted her trail and prepared to report it.

• Fū told Chōmei she wanted to sneak out and meet Naruto Uzumaki, but Shibuki refused to let her leave.
• Fū wondered why Jinchūriki had to be confined, and Chōmei said people feared and wanted to possess their power.
• Fū escaped Takigakure using an Insect Clone Substitution Technique, leaving a note for Shibuki before flying south with Chōmei.
• Shibuki ordered the border outposts alerted, and a Takigakure pursuit team tried to bring Fū back.
• Fū used the Scale Powder Concealment Technique to lose her pursuers, while three White Zetsu watched her fly away and decided to report her escape.

Ōnoki assessed the Akatsuki threat and ordered Iwagakure to increase its defenses and bring Roshi back, by force if necessary. After reflecting on the dangers ahead and his own age, he signed a plan to train Kurotsuchi as his successor and prepared to act against the Akatsuki.

• Ōnoki dismissed the likelihood of the Fourth Raikage starting a war over Might Guy’s border exercises and discussed the Akatsuki’s threat with Kitsuchi.
• Ōnoki ordered heightened border patrols and sent Kitsuchi to assemble an elite team led by Kurotsuchi to find Roshi and return him, using force if he refused.
• Ōnoki recalled Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, reconsidered his former plans to seize the Land of Fire, and reflected on the dangers revealed by the Heavenly Screen.
• Ōnoki signed the document for training his successor, naming Kurotsuchi as a possible successor.
• Ōnoki called an emergency meeting of the elders and ordered the captain of the Explosion Corps to report to him.

Jiraiya agreed to take Naruto and Karin to the Land of Snow while Anbu prepared to follow intelligence about Akatsuki activity near the Land of Rice Fields. In Sunagakure, Gaara and Shukaku grew closer as Shukaku offered to teach him sealing techniques.

• Naruto asked Jiraiya to take him and Karin to the Land of Snow, and Jiraiya agreed.
• Gekko Hayate ordered the Anbu to proceed with plan C after learning Akatsuki members might have gone to the Land of Rice Fields.
• Gaara spoke with Shukaku about his sealing technique and asked him to teach it.
• Shukaku agreed to begin teaching Gaara immediately so Gaara could become stronger and protect his village.

Utakata learned from Saiken that the Akatsuki sought to capture all nine Tailed Beasts and decided to take Hotaru south to the Land of the Moon. They left the village by flying in bubbles, keeping their journey harder to track.

• Utakata asked Saiken about the Infinite Tsukuyomi and learned it was an illusory dream world tied to the Sage of Six Paths and the Tailed Beasts.
• Saiken warned Utakata that the Akatsuki might target them, so Utakata chose to leave for the Land of the Moon.
• Utakata told Hotaru they would travel south, presenting the trip as a chance to train in a new environment.
• Hotaru packed and said goodbye to the villagers as she and Utakata prepared to leave.
• Saiken advised Utakata to use his Bubble Technique to avoid leaving tracks, and Utakata and Hotaru flew south toward the Land of the Moon.

Ao’s squad searched the eastern waters for Orochimaru and found an abandoned underground laboratory, prompting Ao to request support from Konoha. Mei Terumi decided to verify the threat first and planned to approach Konoha under the pretext of a joint exercise if Orochimaru’s presence was confirmed.

• Ao’s squad searched uninhabited islands while Ao followed Mei Terumi’s order to avoid engaging Orochimaru.
• Ao’s squad found an island suspected of housing Orochimaru’s base, but its underground laboratory was abandoned, and Ao requested possible support from Konoha.
• Mei Terumi received Ao’s encrypted report and decided to contact Taka before approaching Konoha.
• Mei Terumi planned to invite Konoha to a joint exercise if the squad confirmed traces of Orochimaru.

Han decided to return to Iwagakure after the Heavenly Screen’s revelations made him reconsider facing the coming dangers alone. As he approached the village, he and Kokuō discussed the strength of the ninja shown on the screen and the threat posed by Madara Uchiha.

• Han received intelligence from an Iwagakure Anbu and agreed to return to the village, saying he had mastered Kokuō’s power and wanted Iwagakure united.
• Han set out for Iwagakure and joked with Kokuō about Naruto Uzumaki’s strength and whether Tailed Beasts were ranked by their number of tails.
• Han worried that Roshi could be targeted by the Akatsuki and hoped to take disciples after returning to the village.
• Han reached Iwagakure, where a young guard recognized him and announced his return.
• Kokuō said that Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan and form resembled the Sage of Six Paths, and Han tried to reassure him that Madara had been defeated in the events shown on the Heavenly Screen.

Yugito Nii worried that Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon project could turn Jinchūriki into weapons and unleash destruction on a scale greater than the Tailed Beasts. She decided to ask the Raikage to let her oversee the project from start to finish so she could prevent its misuse.

• Yugito watched the research institute’s lights and recalled the researchers’ plans to build a long-range Chakra Cannon powered by Tailed Beast Chakra.
• Yugito discussed the project with Matatabi, who feared the cannon could make war more destructive and reduce Jinchūriki to Chakra batteries.
• Yugito considered the danger the weapon could pose to the Shinobi World and the possibility of catastrophic casualties in another war.
• Yugito told Matatabi she would ask the Raikage to involve her in the project from start to finish.

Suigetsu endured another beating from Sasuke and Jūgo on the isolated island, then tried to persuade Sasuke to secure him a legendary Ninja Blade. As Suigetsu celebrated his plan, an unseen observer watched the island from beneath the sea.

• Sasuke defeated Suigetsu in sparring, and Jūgo immediately attacked Suigetsu after Sasuke left.
• Suigetsu reflected on his isolation and the wider conflict he had heard about, then decided he needed to become stronger.
• Suigetsu asked Sasuke to get him a Ninja Blade, arguing it would make their training more effective, and Sasuke agreed to speak to Orochimaru.
• Suigetsu celebrated his prospects, unaware that a pair of cold eyes was watching the island from beneath the sea.

A mutated fish-man created in Orochimaru’s abandoned experiments sensed Orochimaru nearby and approached his island with a school of sharks, seeking revenge. Orochimaru detected the threat and sent Sasuke to confront the underwater visitors.

• The chapter recounted how Danzo funded Orochimaru’s amphibious-ninja experiments during the Third Shinobi World War, but the project was abandoned after the war shifted.
• Dr. Nagashima failed to recreate Orochimaru’s sole successful fish-man subject, and the creature killed him before escaping into the sea.
• The fish-man sensed Orochimaru’s Chakra, summoned sharks with high-frequency sound waves, and began advancing toward the island.
• Orochimaru’s sea snakes observed the approaching fish-man, and Orochimaru woke and alerted Kabuto Yakushi to the visitors.
• Kabuto told Sasuke that underwater guests were approaching, and Sasuke headed to the shore to meet them.

Sasuke and Suigetsu investigated a hidden presence beneath the sea and encountered a Fish-Man that controlled sharks and used Water Release. The Fish-Man retreated to gather sea creatures, vowing revenge on Orochimaru.

• Sasuke recruited Suigetsu to investigate an unknown enemy lurking beneath the sea near the island.
• Suigetsu sensed a faint Chakra signature offshore, liquefied himself, and found a Fish-Man among a group of strangely gathered sharks.
• The Fish-Man attacked Suigetsu with water blades and sent sharks after him, but Sasuke used Chidori Stream to electrocute the sharks as Suigetsu escaped ashore.
• Suigetsu described the creature, and Sasuke suspected it was another of Orochimaru's experimental creations before leaving to question him.
• The Fish-Man watched Sasuke and Suigetsu withdraw, then fled to an underwater cave and summoned sea creatures while vowing revenge on Orochimaru.