Chapter Summaries

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, and Black Zetsu used an ancient teleportation array to travel from the Ninja World toward the moon, intending to confront Hamura’s descendants and free Kaguya. As Isshiki worried about losing contact with the Ten-Tails and Code, a white-haired boy on the moon sensed their arrival and summoned the Hyuga Clan elders.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki led Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki and Black Zetsu to a hidden pool containing a teleportation array to the moon.
• Momoshiki dismissed the array and Kaguya’s seal as crude, while Isshiki explained that Hamura’s descendants had once used the route to travel between the moon and the Ninja World.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki lost his connection to the Ten-Tails, and Momoshiki urged him to prioritize undoing Kaguya’s seal despite the setback involving Code and Uchiha Ingetsu.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, and Black Zetsu entered a Space Gate and then activated the underwater teleportation array to reach the moon.
• A white-haired boy in the lunar fortress awoke after sensing an outside energy, then ordered his puppets to bring him the three Hyuga Clan elders.

Toneri and the Hyuga Clan fled the moon fortress after Momoshiki and Isshiki arrived to unseal Kaguya. In hiding, Toneri faced the burden of his failure, and the Hyuga Great Elder urged him to seek help from Uchiha Ingetsu.

• Toneri gathered the Hyuga Clan at the ancient well and prepared to evacuate as Momoshiki, Isshiki, and Black Zetsu arrived at the fortress.
• Momoshiki destroyed the fortress’s black-robed Otsutsuki Puppets with ease, while Isshiki identified the fortress as the first seal protecting the planet’s core.
• After hearing Momoshiki threaten to deal with him later, Toneri ordered a retreat and escaped through the well with the three Hyuga elders.
• Toneri and the elders emerged in a cave where the Hyuga clansmen had gathered, and Toneri brooded over abandoning his duty to guard Kaguya’s seal.
• The Hyuga Great Elder advised Toneri to ask Uchiha Ingetsu for help, giving Toneri a possible way to face the Otsutsuki.

Momoshiki broke the Moon’s outer seal, and he and Isshiki reached its core to begin undoing the seal holding Kaguya. In the Ninja World, Toneri asked Ingetsu to come to the Moon, and Ingetsu demanded the Tenseigan War Tool left by Toneri’s clansmen as payment.

• Momoshiki shattered the Moon’s surface and collapsed the castle, breaking the seal’s outer layer so the group could descend underground.
• Isshiki transported Momoshiki and Black Zetsu to the lunar core, where Momoshiki began working through the main seal.
• The Uchiha Clan Great Elder brought the Hyuga Great Elder and Toneri to Ingetsu aboard the Capital Fortress.
• Toneri told Ingetsu that outsiders had invaded the Moon to seize a sealed treasure and asked him to come there, concealing Kaguya’s identity.
• Ingetsu asked for the Tenseigan, then clarified that he wanted the Tenseigan War Tool left behind by Toneri’s clansmen.

Ingetsu agreed to help Toneri confront the invaders on the moon in exchange for the Lunar Otsutsuki Clan’s war tool, then traveled with him through a teleportation formation. They arrived at an ancient castle on the moon, while the Hyuga Clan remained behind to be moved to safety.

• Toneri offered to hand over the clan’s Tenseigan War Tool if Ingetsu defeated the invaders and explained how he knew the clan’s secrets, but Ingetsu refused to answer and told him to lead the way.
• Ingetsu took Toneri and the Hyuga Great Elder toward the moon using Complete Body Susanoo, and Toneri described the arrival of the invaders.
• At the teleportation cave, Ingetsu decided to destroy the formation temporarily so the enemy could not escape, and Toneri agreed after Ingetsu promised he could repair it.
• Ingetsu contacted Mikoto to arrange for the Capital Fortress to move the Hyuga Clan to safety, then entered the underground pool with Toneri.
• Ingetsu reached the teleportation array ahead of Toneri, and the two activated it and arrived at an ancient castle on the moon.

Ingetsu and Toneri descended toward the moon’s core as Momoshiki and Isshiki weakened Kaguya’s seal and Black Zetsu contacted her. Kaguya awakened and the seal shattered, leaving her poised to emerge while Ingetsu waited to give her another choice.

• Toneri guided Ingetsu to the fissure, and Ingetsu carried him down in his Dark Red Complete Body Susanoo.
• Momoshiki weakened the seal around the moon’s core, allowing Black Zetsu to enter Kaguya’s Spiritual World and speak with her.
• Kaguya recognized Isshiki’s name and reacted with hostility, so Black Zetsu returned to the core and asked for more time.
• Ingetsu and Toneri reached the end of the fissure, where Ingetsu said Kaguya would break free and that he had brought Toneri to give her another choice.
• Black Zetsu returned to Kaguya’s Spiritual World, told her the time had come, and helped her prepare to leave.
• Black Zetsu announced that Kaguya had awakened, and Momoshiki shattered the core seal with a single strike.

Kaguya and Black Zetsu confronted Isshiki and Momoshiki after Kaguya was freed, but the pair pursued her through several dimensions and forced her back to the Moon. They arrived above the Moon Castle, where Ingetsu and Toneri had been waiting.

• Kaguya emerged from the shattered core, and Black Zetsu revealed that it had deceived Isshiki and Momoshiki because it knew why Kaguya had created the White Zetsu.
• Kaguya attacked Isshiki and Momoshiki, but they evaded her strikes and countered with Shinra Tensei and Daikokuten.
• Kaguya escaped with Black Zetsu into a scorching desert dimension, but Isshiki and Momoshiki tracked her through the Space-Time Portal and Momoshiki seized her.
• Kaguya slipped free of Momoshiki and escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka, while Isshiki returned to the Moon and interfered with her escape.
• Kaguya, Isshiki, and Momoshiki appeared above the Moon Castle, where Ingetsu and Toneri watched them from the highest tower.

Ingetsu explained why the Otsutsuki would return to the Ninja World as Kaguya, Momoshiki, and Isshiki confronted him and Toneri. As Momoshiki and Kaguya began fighting, Tobirama deduced that Ingetsu’s transformation came from a power within his body rather than Hashirama’s cells, and Ingetsu used his Mangekyo Sharingan to track the battle.

• Ingetsu told Toneri that Kaguya, Momoshiki, and Isshiki would return because the Ninja World was central to their plans and past defeats.
• Black Zetsu identified Ingetsu to Kaguya, while Isshiki and Momoshiki discussed their interest in him and prepared to deal with Kaguya.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, Minato, and the two Karma bodies watched the confrontation from Ingetsu’s Prison Space, where Tobirama concluded that Ingetsu’s growth was not dependent on Hashirama’s cells.
• Momoshiki dodged Kaguya’s sneak attack and struck at her with a Black Rod, but Kaguya blocked it with an All-Killing Ash Bones rod.
• Ingetsu activated his Eight Thousand Spears Mangekyo Sharingan and tracked Momoshiki and Kaguya as they fought at extreme speed, startling Toneri when Ingetsu disappeared from his seat.

Black Zetsu took control of Kaguya’s fighting and helped her evade Momoshiki, then used Ingetsu as a planned escape route by having Kaguya fuse with him. Kaguya questioned whether Ingetsu was truly her descendant, while Ingetsu revealed his Complete Body Susanoo.

• Black Zetsu entered Kaguya’s Spiritual World and directed her to use Nature Fusion and Pheasant Hunt against Momoshiki.
• Kaguya fused with nature, but Momoshiki dragged her out of the air and struck her down after detecting Black Zetsu’s aura.
• Kaguya concealed herself behind Black Zetsu’s aura and rushed toward Ingetsu, absorbing Black Zetsu into her body along the way.
• Kaguya overlapped with Ingetsu while both were in Nature Fusion, and Black Zetsu planned to make Ingetsu Kaguya’s Karma vessel.
• Kaguya asked whether Ingetsu was her descendant and said she sensed no Otsutsuki blood in him; Black Zetsu insisted he was Uchiha.
• Ingetsu released his Complete Body Susanoo.

Ingetsu and Kaguya faced Momoshiki and Isshiki on the moon, where Toneri fired the Tenseigan War Tool and destroyed Momoshiki’s Karma Body. Isshiki fled, Ingetsu absorbed Momoshiki’s Ōtsutsuki Source Energy, and Ingetsu prepared to take the weapon to the Ninja World before a surge of energy startled Toneri.

• Ingetsu formed Complete Body Susanoo and a Black Blade to confront Momoshiki, while Isshiki demanded that he hand over Kaguya.
• Toneri activated the Tenseigan War Tool, whose beam pierced Momoshiki and destroyed his Karma Body.
• Isshiki restored his true form but fled through a Space-Time Portal, abandoning Momoshiki.
• Ingetsu caught Momoshiki during his fall and absorbed the Ōtsutsuki Source Energy from his Karma Body.
• Ingetsu claimed the Tenseigan War Tool and asked Mikoto to send the Hyuga Clan’s Great Elder and the Uzuki Clan’s sealing team to the moon.
• Toneri asked how Ingetsu would transport the weapon, then sensed a surge of energy from Ingetsu and realized Kaguya was inside him.

Ingetsu trapped Kaguya inside his vast Spiritual World while dealing with the captured Momoshiki Karma Bodies. After feeding the merged Momoshiki Karma Body to the Ten-Tails, he separated Black Zetsu from Kaguya and left her alone in the Spiritual World.

• Kaguya and Black Zetsu wandered through Ingetsu's immense Spiritual World and discovered countless star-sized worlds as the chaos around them cleared.
• In the Prison Space, Tobirama and Minato subdued Momoshiki's second Karma Body, and Hashirama and Tobirama gave the two Momoshiki Karma Bodies names.
• Ingetsu merged the second Momoshiki Karma Body into the first, then took the confused, fused Karma Body to the Ten-Tails' Dimension.
• Ingetsu ordered the Ten-Tails to turn the Momoshiki Karma Body into power and use some of it to repair itself.
• Ingetsu caught up to Kaguya as she tried to flee, forcibly separated Black Zetsu from her, and sent Black Zetsu to the Prison Space.
• Kaguya remained alone in the outer layer of Ingetsu's Spiritual World as the chaos gathered around her.

Ingetsu trapped Kaguya in his Spiritual World, brought Black Zetsu into Cage Space to be interrogated, and moved Toneri and the Tenseigan War Tool from the moon to the Capital Fortress. After stabilizing the Spiritual World, he entered Kaguya’s own Spiritual World and sat beside her, leaving her furious.

• Ingetsu left Kaguya disoriented in a chaos mist prison and returned Black Zetsu to Cage Space, where Hashirama, Tobirama, and Minato prepared to interrogate it.
• Ingetsu told Tobirama that Black Zetsu had caused the Ninja World’s turmoil and provoked the war between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.
• Uzumaki China led the Uzuki Clan sealing team in making rubbings of the Moon Castle’s formations, and Toneri watched the Capital Fortress arrive and take the Tenseigan War Tool aboard.
• Uchiha shinobi removed the castle’s contents to equip the fortress, and Ingetsu persuaded Toneri to leave the moon for the Ninja World to pursue awakening the Tenseigan.
• Ingetsu continued managing the Ninja World’s migration while Kaguya’s escape attempts disrupted his Spiritual World, then entered Kaguya’s own Spiritual World and sat beside her.

Ingetsu offered Kaguya protection from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and a way to grow stronger by cultivating mental power together. After hearing her regrets and explaining why she had relied on others, he urged her to let him become her master.

• Ingetsu explained that he had let Kaguya struggle against the seal and offered to help her deal with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Ingetsu told Kaguya that his unusual cultivation required two people and would give them both greater mental power.
• Kaguya questioned Ingetsu's identity after he revealed how much he knew about her past, and he took control of her Spiritual World.
• Ingetsu told Kaguya that he understood her but disapproved of her plan to turn humans into White Zetsu; Kaguya admitted she had seen no other way to oppose the Otsutsuki.
• Ingetsu explained Kaguya's reliance on others and urged her to let him become her master.

Ingetsu cultivated with Kaguya, dramatically increasing their spiritual power and restoring her strength, but the resulting spiritual storm destroyed the consciousnesses of people and animals across the area. When Kaguya tried to kill Mikoto out of jealousy, Ingetsu restrained her and restored Mikoto's spirit.

• Ingetsu promised to guide Kaguya, and she agreed to cultivate with him after learning how he increased his spiritual power.
• Their cultivation nearly doubled Ingetsu's spiritual power, expanded his Spiritual World, and restored Kaguya to her peak strength.
• A spiritual storm from their cultivation overwhelmed the people and animals in the fortress and surrounding area, leaving their consciousnesses destroyed.
• Kaguya tried to kill the unconscious Mikoto, but Ingetsu immobilized her and said that his women were equal to him.
• Ingetsu rebuilt Mikoto's Spiritual World and restored her consciousness, and she mistook Kaguya for a new sister.

Ingetsu helped Kaguya adjust to life among his household and restored the minds and strength of people harmed by their clash. After Mikoto, Kushina, and Kurenai helped Kaguya dress, Kushina welcomed her as family, while Ingetsu planned to show her the country and gather her scattered power.

• Mikoto left Ingetsu and Kaguya alone, and Kaguya admitted she had been wrong as Ingetsu told her to change how she viewed his other women.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya restored the Spiritual Worlds and energy of the people injured by their mental shockwaves, then Ingetsu told Kaguya they would gather her remaining power and later take revenge on Isshiki.
• Mikoto, Kushina, and Kurenai brought Kaguya clothes and led her to the tea room to bathe, fix her hair, and get dressed.
• Kaguya chose a plain white dress, and Kushina enthusiastically welcomed her into the family and asked how old she was.

As the exhausted migration convoy reached the Land of Fire, Izumi prepared to fight a huge White Zetsu force blocking their way. Ingetsu and Kaguya arrived, and the White Zetsu collapsed in fear, while Obito discovered that he had lost contact with the army.

• Izumi learned that tens of thousands of White Zetsu were waiting in the forest and ordered the shinobi to prepare for battle.
• Izumi rallied the Konoha Ninja and Stone Shinobi, but Ingetsu's voice reached everyone and told them to rest.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya entered the forest, and the White Zetsu recognized Kaguya and knelt or fled in terror.
• Izumi ordered the migration convoy to rest, trusting Ingetsu to handle the White Zetsu.
• At Mountain Graveyard, Tobi told Obito that contact with the White Zetsu Army at the Land of Grass border had been lost, and Obito wondered whether Madara had taken control of it.

Obito decided to investigate the White Zetsu Army’s disappearance and take charge of Madara’s plan, while Ingetsu brought thirty thousand White Zetsu under his command at the Land of Grass border. The White Zetsu began escorting the migration force toward Konoha as Ingetsu and Kaguya set off for the next location.

• Obito wondered whether Madara had taken control of the White Zetsu Army, then resolved to investigate the missing forces at the Land of Grass border.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya appeared before the migration force with thirty thousand White Zetsu now under their control.
• Tamao, Izumi, and Nanfeng greeted Ingetsu, and he told them the White Zetsu would escort the migration force to the Leaf Village.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya left through a portal, while Ingetsu explained that the three could command the White Zetsu through mental communication.
• Tamao ordered the White Zetsu to set out for Konoha, and Izumi and Nanfeng organized the migration force as the White Zetsu began escorting it.

Obito discovered that someone had taken control of the White Zetsu Army and ordered the remaining forces to retreat to Mountain Graveyard. Ingetsu and Kaguya tracked the retreating White Zetsu, while Obito prepared to use Impure World Reincarnation to revive Madara.

• Obito found the White Zetsu Army escorting migrants from the Land of Earth and ordered White Zetsu Tobi to investigate who had taken control of it.
• White Zetsu Tobi learned that Black Zetsu's restrictions had vanished and that the White Zetsu could no longer be controlled by outsiders.
• Obito confirmed that the White Zetsu forces in the other three nations were still safe and ordered them to retreat to Mountain Graveyard.
• Darui spotted Ingetsu and Kaguya in the sky as the White Zetsu Army fled, and he put his forces on alert.
• Ingetsu asked Kaguya to track the fleeing White Zetsu instead of taking control of them immediately.
• Obito and White Zetsu Tobi reached their base at Mountain Graveyard, where Obito planned to try Reanimated Madara.

Ingetsu and Kaguya invaded Obito’s base, stopped Madara’s reanimation, and overwhelmed Obito. They left Obito trapped in a frozen dimension and headed to the Land of Waves, where Ingetsu warned Tsunade that he was coming with someone.

• Obito began using Impure World Reincarnation to revive Madara while Tobi stationed the White Zetsu Army around the Mountain Graveyard.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya arrived, took control of the White Zetsu, and stripped Tobi of his Flame Cloud Robe before assimilating him into an ordinary White Zetsu.
• Kaguya’s Wind Release disrupted Madara’s reanimation, sending his soul back to the Pure Land before he could fully return.
• Kaguya countered Obito’s Kamui and trapped him in an ice-and-snow dimension, while Ingetsu sealed Madara’s remains in a scroll.
• Ingetsu ordered the White Zetsu Army to move to the Land of Fire’s border, then took Kaguya through Yomotsu Hirasaka toward the Land of Waves.
• Obito remained trapped and mourned his losses, while Ingetsu told Tsunade he was coming and bringing someone with him.

Ingetsu brought Kaguya to Tsunade’s hot spring, where they relaxed and discussed Kaguya’s reduced power and the threats from Hagoromo’s legacy and the Ōtsutsuki. Tsunade emerged from hiding and joined them, while Black Zetsu tried to provoke Minato by telling him about Kushina and Naruto.

• Tsunade waited alone in the hot spring, wondering whether Ingetsu would bring a man or a woman.
• Ingetsu brought Kaguya into the hot spring, and Black Zetsu complained from the Cage Space while Tobirama restrained it.
• Black Zetsu told Minato that Orochimaru had revived Kushina and given her to Ingetsu, and that Ingetsu had adopted Naruto; Minato said he was grateful and believed his family was happy.
• Kaguya told Ingetsu that her mental strength had recovered but she could no longer activate her Rinne Sharingan, and Ingetsu explained Hagoromo’s lingering contingency and the threat from Kaguya’s clansmen.
• Ingetsu pulled Tsunade out of the water, and she accused him of arriving at a bad time before he drew her into his arms.

Minato rejected Black Zetsu’s attempts to turn him against Ingetsu, and Hashirama and Tobirama also refused to be provoked about Tsunade. At the hot spring, Ingetsu introduced Tsunade to Kaguya and gave each woman an orb made from Otsutsuki power, leaving Tsunade to prepare to absorb hers.

• Minato told Black Zetsu that he did not care about Ingetsu reviving Kushina, and Hashirama accepted Minato’s view.
• Black Zetsu tried to anger Hashirama by claiming Tsunade was Ingetsu’s woman, but Tobirama and Hashirama accepted Tsunade’s choice and wished them well.
• Ingetsu brought Kaguya to the hot spring, where Tsunade was shocked to learn that Kaguya Otsutsuki was the progenitor of the Ninja World.
• Ingetsu gave Kaguya a pearl refined from Momoshiki’s Karma Body and gave Tsunade a second orb after she asked for one.
• Kaguya swallowed her orb, while Ingetsu warned Tsunade to control how much of hers she absorbed.