Chapter Summaries

Kaguya and Ingetsu traveled to the moon to be alone, while the women at the Capital Fortress tried to draw Konan into their family circle. Naruto’s careless question upset Sakura, and Shikamaru ended the evening by warning Naruto that the war was not over.

• Kaguya and Ingetsu went through Yomotsu Hirasaka to the moon, where Ingetsu cut off Black Zetsu’s connection to the outside world.
• At the Capital Fortress, Mikoto and Nonō pressed Konan to become Ingetsu’s sister, but Konan diverted their attention by asking Kurenai about her feelings for Ingetsu.
• Naruto asked Sakura whether there was news about her parents, upsetting her; Sakura and Ino left to walk downstairs.
• Shikamaru brought Naruto a drink and remarked that Naruto had a good father.
• Naruto asked Shikamaru whether they could return to the Ninja Academy now that the war was over, and Shikamaru asked who had told him it was over.

Shikamaru told Naruto that Ingetsu had united the Five Great Shinobi Villages to prepare for a greater unknown threat, prompting Naruto and Sasuke to resolve to train harder. Sasuke challenged Gaara to a spar, and Hikari approved the match before Naruto excitedly called for another opponent.

• Shikamaru explained to Naruto that Ingetsu had chosen to unite the villages and migrate them to the Land of Fire in preparation for a more dangerous enemy.
• Naruto repeated Shikamaru's warning to Sasuke, who claimed he had already understood Ingetsu's purpose and said they could not let their father down.
• Sasuke challenged Gaara to a one-on-one spar, and Gaara accepted after Sasuke provoked him.
• Mikoto and the other women approached the children's table, but Hikari approved the spar as a controlled match that would end when one gained the upper hand.
• Naruto watched Sasuke and Gaara prepare to fight, then excitedly called for someone else to spar with him.

Ingetsu and Kaguya watched the young shinobi gather for sparring in the Leaf Village, where Naruto, Sasuke, Tenten, and Neji accepted challenges from the Sand and Stone youths. The rival groups descended to the lawn, setting the stage for several fights.

• Ingetsu watched the Konoha 12 spar from the moon with Kaguya and decided to cultivate the young shinobi while awaiting Momoshiki's arrival.
• Temari challenged the Leaf youths, and Tenten stepped forward to face her while Hinata quietly tried to volunteer.
• Kankuro offered to fight, and Naruto accepted his challenge as Sasuke prepared to face Gaara.
• Deidara challenged the young shinobi, and Neji agreed to spar with him.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Tenten leaped from the railing, while Gaara lifted himself, Temari, Kankuro, and Kankuro's puppet into the air on sand.

Neji and Deidara joined Naruto, Sasuke, and Tenten in facing Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari in a public spar. Sasuke opened the battle with Chidori and struck Gaara at close range, while the other fights began around them.

• Neji and Deidara amicably descended from the rooftop, while Kurotsuchi chose to watch the battles.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Tenten took positions against Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari, and the rooftop spectators gathered to watch.
• Tsunade arrived, identified the four matchups, and joked that she would take bets.
• Sasuke charged Gaara with Chidori, dodging sand attacks before a sand spike cut his cheek.
• Sasuke struck Gaara with Chidori at close range as Temari cried out and Tenten kept her occupied.

Sasuke used Chidori to pierce Gaara, but discovered he had struck a Sand Clone and continued searching for Gaara’s real body. The fight remained underway as Sasuke evaded several more clones and sprinted across the battlefield.

• Sasuke focused his Chidori into a lightning spear and drilled through Gaara’s sand defenses while Kankuro and Naruto continued fighting nearby.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya discussed Hagoromo influencing Naruto and Sasuke, while Tamao dismissed the Main Fortress guards who had arrived in response to the battle.
• Sasuke pierced Gaara, but Gaara’s body turned to sand, revealing that he had escaped using the Sand Clone Technique.
• Hinata, Kiba, and Shino used their sensory abilities to locate Gaara underground as Sasuke searched for him.
• Gaara sent several Sand Clones to attack Sasuke, who evaded their encirclement and sprinted across the grass to find Gaara’s real body.

Sasuke struggled to locate Gaara while the Sand Clones wore him down, and Gaara finally trapped him with Sand Binding Coffin. The chapter ended with Sasuke's voice suddenly speaking from behind Gaara.

• Hinata, Shino, and Kiba’s group recognized that Gaara’s Sand Clones were spreading sand across the battlefield and warned that Sasuke would be caught in Gaara’s trap.
• Sasuke deduced that Gaara was using the Sand Clones to cover the arena, but the clones rose again after he destroyed them, forcing him to keep fighting as his strength faded.
• Gaara remained underground and watched through his Third Eye while Temari and Kankuro held the advantage in their fights against Tenten and Naruto.
• Gaara’s Sand Clones pinned Sasuke down, and Gaara emerged from the quicksand to bind him with Sand Binding Coffin.
• Just as Gaara declared the match over, Sasuke’s voice came from behind him.

Sasuke escaped Gaara’s sand trap with the Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique and forced their duel to a draw. Temari defeated Tenten, while Naruto and Kankuro’s match remained undecided.

• Gaara trapped Sasuke with Sand Binding Coffin, but Sasuke appeared behind him with a Kunai after using the Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique.
• Sasuke explained that he had tracked Gaara with Lightning Release Chakra and guessed he was hiding at their original battlefield, and Hikari declared their duel a draw.
• Mikoto comforted Sasuke and Gaara, then Nonō and Shizune treated them on the rooftop.
• Temari defeated Tenten with Wind Release: Sickle Weasel Technique, and Rock Lee rushed to help her.
• Temari supported the injured Tenten back toward the rooftop as the remaining match between Naruto and Kankuro continued.

The young prodigies’ live combat matches continued as Lee carried the injured Tenten to the rooftop for treatment, leaving Naruto and Kankuro’s decisive bout underway. Naruto charged at Kankuro with his newly learned Rasengan, but Kankuro raised his massive defensive puppet Ibuse between them.

• Lee carried the bloodied Tenten to the rooftop, where Nonō healed her external injuries while she recovered from blood loss.
• Tenten apologized for losing to Temari, and the Konoha youths comforted her as Temari and Gaara discussed the coming match between Kankuro and Naruto.
• Naruto dodged Crow and used a last-second maneuver to slip past it and rush toward Kankuro.
• Naruto announced that he would use the Rasengan, prompting Sasuke and Temari to call out warnings from the sidelines.
• Kankuro tore up the lawn and raised his defensive puppet Ibuse like a towering wall, leaving Naruto astonished.

Naruto used a Shadow Clone to draw Kankuro into sealing himself inside the Salamander Puppet, then launched a Rasengan at him from within its hollow body. The chapter ended as blue light flashed through the Salamander’s armor and the onlookers realized Naruto was using the technique he had trained with Kakashi.

• Kankuro summoned the Salamander Puppet and sealed himself behind its shields, believing Naruto could not break through its defenses.
• Naruto threw five kunai at the Salamander, then let the Crow batter what Kankuro thought was his real body.
• Naruto’s battered figure vanished in smoke, revealing it had been a Shadow Clone, while the real Naruto entered the Salamander’s hollow interior with two clones.
• Naruto formed a Rasengan as Kankuro panicked and struggled to close the inner shield in time.
• The onlookers recognized the blue glow as Naruto’s Rasengan, which Kakashi had been teaching him.

Naruto defeated Kankuro with a Rasengan and Gaara rushed the badly injured puppet master to Tsunade for treatment. After Kankuro recovered and the Leaf rookies celebrated their win, Neji and Deidara were revealed to have fought to exhaustion elsewhere and waited in vain for their friends to find them.

• Naruto used a Shadow Clone and an underground passage to reach Kankuro inside the Salamander Puppet, then struck him with a Rasengan.
• Hinata, Shino, and Kiba gathered information about the fight, and Gaara confirmed that Kankuro had lost.
• Naruto carried the injured Kankuro to Gaara and Temari, and Gaara took him to the Main Fortress for treatment.
• Tsunade healed Kankuro, while Naruto and the Leaf rookies celebrated their victory over the Sand siblings.
• Ingetsu received word from Orochimaru that Amado had an important matter to discuss with him and Kaguya, so the two returned to the Main Fortress.
• Neji and Deidara, exhausted after fighting to a stalemate, waited for Tenten, Lee, and Kurotsuchi to come find them, but no one arrived before dawn.

Amado revealed Kara’s secrets to Ingetsu, including the Ōtsutsuki God plan and Shibai’s genes, and pledged to disclose the location of the modified siblings and Kara’s remaining forces. Ingetsu offered him a chance to seek a cure for his daughter and prepared to take the group to the siblings.

• Ingetsu invited Orochimaru and Amado to join him and Kaguya for breakfast, then asked Amado to explain his important report.
• Amado described the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s pursuit of godhood, identified Ōtsutsuki Shibai as its closest candidate, and said Isshiki had obtained Shibai’s genes during a clan conflict.
• Amado explained that Isshiki had tasked him with studying Shibai’s genes, which he used to give a pair of siblings Shinjutsu.
• Amado knelt and offered to reveal the siblings’ location and Kara’s remaining secret base; Ingetsu promised he could pursue a cure for his daughter if the Ninja World developed one.
• Ingetsu told Amado to lead them to the siblings and linked their Spiritual Worlds so Amado could recall the spatial coordinate.

Ingetsu learned that Kara kept modified human siblings at a base beneath Boro’s Order in the Land of Lightning, then traveled with Orochimaru, Amado, and Kaguya toward the secret base. In Tobishima Town, Kazahana Koyuki fought off a buyer at a slave market and faced a sudden arrival who slaughtered the crowd around her.

• Amado told Ingetsu that Kara’s modified human siblings were held beneath Boro’s Order’s base in the Land of Lightning, while Kara had moved its Land of Fire forces to the Rice Country.
• Ingetsu, Orochimaru, Amado, and Kaguya used Yomotsu Hirasaka to leave the meeting room and head toward Kara’s base.
• The chapter described Tobishima Town as a lawless harbor where rogue ninjas and pirates enslaved and traded the people who had remained in the Land of Lightning.
• Kazahana Koyuki watched members of her film crew being killed and feared she would be bought and abused at the slave market.
• Kazahana Koyuki kicked a middle-aged buyer in the face, drawing the crowd’s fury and expecting to die rather than suffer further torment.
• A short green-haired young man walked into the crowd, and the people who saw him burst into blood mist.

A boy in a green watermelon haircut arrived at the execution platform and slaughtered the villains around Kazahana Koyuki, while Yeyue Lanfeng and Nadare Rōga prepared to seize control of the town. After reaching Kazahana Koyuki, the boy declared that every villain there deserved to die.

• Kazahana Koyuki’s kick enraged the villains, who stormed the execution rack and began attacking the captives.
• Yeyue Lanfeng revealed his plan to use Kazahana Koyuki’s value and status as a princess to provoke rival factions, then eliminate them with help from Nadare Rōga and the Snow Country.
• A villain exposed Kazahana Koyuki as the Snow Country Princess, causing the crowd to fight over her and rush the platform.
• Nadare Rōga sent an ice-and-snow eagle toward the platform, and the boy approached as villains around him burst into blood mist.
• Kazahana Koyuki broke down when the boy reached her, and he told the assembled villains that they all deserved to die.

Dimon slaughtered the rogue ninja in town while Ada seized the Snow Country harbor and its fleet. Ingetsu, Kaguya, Orochimaru, and Amado found the cyborg siblings’ laboratory empty and learned Ada and Dimon had awakened and escaped.

• Dimon carried Kazahana Koyuki away from the execution platform, then killed Yeyue Lanfeng and the Cloud Organization’s rogue ninja who confronted him.
• Avalanche reached the Snow Country fleet and discovered its ninja had been killed, then Ada charmed him into taking his own life.
• Ada used Clairvoyance to watch Dimon approach the harbor with Kazahana Koyuki, whom she intended to keep as her makeup artist and maid.
• Kaguya led Ingetsu, Orochimaru, and Amado through a Space Gate to Boro's Order’s underground laboratory, where they found corpses and an empty hibernation pod.
• Amado checked the laboratory records and found that Ada and Dimon had awakened three days earlier; Ingetsu shared their abilities with Kaguya.

Ada and Dimon fought Ingetsu and Kaguya after mistaking them for Isshiki’s agents, but Ingetsu subdued them and revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was already dead. Ada and Dimon remained in Ingetsu’s custody, with Dimon unconscious and Ada shaken by Ingetsu’s power.

• Dimon returned to the warship with Kazahana Koyuki, and Ada said she and her brother would resist anyone who tried to imprison them again.
• Kaguya, Ingetsu, Orochimaru, and Amado arrived through a Space Gate, and Ada and Dimon mistook them for Isshiki’s people.
• Ada’s charm controlled Orochimaru and Amado but failed against Kaguya and Ingetsu, while Dimon attacked them with Reflection.
• Kaguya struck Dimon with Truth-Seeking Orbs, and Ingetsu trapped Ada in her Spiritual World and took control of her mind.
• Ingetsu brought Dimon to Ada, released Orochimaru and Amado from the charm, and told Ada that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was dead.

Ingetsu learned from Ada’s Clairvoyance that he had killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then questioned the siblings about their activities and the unconscious Kazahana Koyuki. He entered Koyuki’s Spiritual World to clear away her nightmare and search for her true self, finding a memory of Snow Ninja attacking a palace while a little girl watched.

• Ingetsu guided Ada to use Clairvoyance on several locations, and she confirmed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had died at his hands.
• Ingetsu asked Ada to examine the Leaf Village and the other Four Great Shinobi Nations, then identified the unconscious woman as Kazahana Koyuki.
• Dimon explained the siblings’ observations, the town’s recent events, and how Kazahana Koyuki had become involved.
• Ingetsu entered Kazahana Koyuki’s Spiritual World, removed the blood-red nightmare, and searched for her true self.
• Ingetsu reached a snowy plain in Koyuki’s deeper Spiritual World, where Snow Ninja attacked a palace as a little girl watched and sobbed.

Ingetsu entered Kazahana Koyuki’s Spiritual World, confronted her childhood trauma, and persuaded her to trust him to change the Snow Country. After returning to the real world, he led the group to a town and discovered that Boro’s cult was hidden underground.

• Ingetsu found Kazahana Koyuki trapped in a frozen memory of the coup, where Kazahana Dōtō killed her father and seized the throne.
• Ingetsu challenged Kazahana Koyuki to face her desire for revenge, then took control of her Spiritual World and destroyed the Snow Ninja and Kazahana Dōtō.
• Ingetsu brought Kazahana Koyuki to a meadow she had long wanted to visit and promised to help change the Snow Country; she agreed to trust him.
• Ingetsu awakened in the real world, where Amado examined Kazahana Koyuki, and then led the group off the warship toward a nearby town.
• Ingetsu sensed that Boro’s cult had not left the town but was operating underground, and he said he already had plans for the place and the Snow Country.

Ingetsu brought Ada, Dimon, and Kazahana Koyuki back to the Capital Fortress, where he arranged for Orochimaru and Amado to study how to remove the siblings’ Ōtsutsuki Shibai genes safely. He planned to take Naruto and Sasuke to Snow Country for training while Kaguya guarded the village, and the chapter ended at Konoha’s Ninja Academy.

• Ingetsu decided to use the lawless town and Boro's Order as training grounds for the Fortress’s new-generation ninja, then returned to the harbor with his group.
• Ada warned Dimon that they could not escape Ingetsu and learned that he intended to remove their Ōtsutsuki Shibai genes in exchange for their lives and a lifetime of wealth and status.
• Kaguya brought the group through Yomotsu Hirasaka to the Capital Fortress, where Ingetsu assigned Orochimaru and Amado to arrange for Ada and Dimon and research safe gene removal.
• Ada asked whether she and Dimon could live in the Fortress after losing their abilities, and Ingetsu agreed.
• Ingetsu learned that Naruto, Sasuke, and Hikari were at the Ninja Academy, then told Kaguya he would take Naruto and Sasuke to Snow Country for training while she guarded the village.

Hikari learned about Snow Country and hoped to find Madara’s wife there, while Ingetsu arranged a training trip and assigned Kakashi to lead the team. The group was set to depart for Snow Country the following morning.

• Hikari listened to a lesson about Snow Country and decided she wanted to search there for Madara’s wife.
• Ingetsu summoned Kakashi and asked him to lead a team to Snow Country and train its members along the way.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hikari joined the team, and Ingetsu told them to pack for the trip.
• Ingetsu instructed Kakashi to meet the group at the Main Fortress at six the next morning, then sent the children back to class.

Ingetsu brought Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Hikari, and Kazahana Koyuki to Island Town to eliminate the remnants of Boro's Order, while Kakashi led the children to capture its elder. A virus outbreak transformed the underground order into a horde of monsters, forcing Kakashi's team to retreat toward Ingetsu.

• Ingetsu and the others arrived in Island Town, where Boro's Order's elder ordered a subordinate to turn rebellious members into virus-powered bioweapons.
• Ingetsu assigned Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to eliminate the order while he and Hikari observed; Kakashi led the children after the elder.
• Ingetsu sensed that the virus had spread through the underground base, transforming its inhabitants into creatures that attacked and infected others.
• Ingetsu sent the warning and images to Kakashi's team, telling them to shield themselves from the poisonous gas.
• Kakashi turned the team around and ordered them to retreat as infected cult members began attacking one another.