Chapter Summaries

Minato treated Naruto’s wound before Senya appeared and revealed that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, shocking Minato, Shibi, and Choza. As Senya recognized the masked men and Naruto reacted to seeing them, Minato concluded that Senya and Naruto had come from different times and spaces.

• Minato led Naruto, Shibi, and Choza away from the puppets and bandaged Naruto’s wound.
• Shibi warned Minato that a powerful ninja was watching, so Minato attacked Senya but stopped when he saw Senya’s Konoha forehead protector.
• Senya reunited with Naruto and revealed that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, then teased him about having subdued his rampage in the past.
• Minato asked Senya to explain what he knew about Naruto, while Senya recognized Shibi and Choza despite their masks.
• Naruto excitedly recognized Choza and Shibi as his uncles, and Minato removed his mask and concluded that Naruto and Senya had come from different times and spaces.

Naruto learned he had traveled to the past, while Minato realized Naruto was his future son and asked Senya about Kushina. Senya revealed that Minato and Kushina would both die in the Nine-Tails attack, leaving Minato alarmed but urging him to sit and hear more.

• Naruto realized he had traveled through time, and Senya confirmed he knew Naruto was from the future.
• Minato asked Senya to tell him about the future after the mission, and Senya promised he would learn when the time came.
• Naruto wanted to confront Minato about the Nine-Tails but followed Senya's advice and went to search for his companions.
• Minato returned to Senya, and the two sat in reclining chairs among the ruins while Minato asked what happened to Kushina.
• Senya told Minato that Kushina and Minato would both be killed by the Nine-Tails, and Minato sprang to his feet in alarm.

Minato learned that Obito would attack Kushina and Konoha in the future, and vowed to watch him closely. Senya went to Rōran’s ceremony, where someone disguised as a Puppet Soldier shoved Sarah toward a collapsing section of the railing.

• Minato guessed that the Nine-Tails would escape during the Third Shinobi World War and kill him and Kushina.
• Senya explained that Obito would unseal the Nine-Tails on the day Naruto was born, and Minato would die sealing it.
• Minato thanked Senya and left, vowing to keep a close eye on Obito while completing his mission.
• Senya headed to Rōran’s ceremony to look for any plans Anrokuzan might have left behind.
• A disguised Puppet Soldier shoved Sarah, and the stone slab beneath her foot collapsed as she cried for help.

Senya watched as Naruto rescued Sarah, who suspected that someone had pushed her from the collapsing platform. Naruto accused Minato and the others of being behind the attack, and the chapter ended with Sarah brooding in the palace as Naruto demanded answers.

• Senya decided not to save Sarah, then gave juice to Naruto after Naruto caught her and accidentally dropped her.
• Sarah slapped and struck Naruto before apologizing, and she told Naruto she thought someone had pushed her before the platform collapsed.
• Naruto suspected that someone wanted to kill Sarah, but she insisted that no one would harm her.
• Naruto mistook Minato and Shibi for attackers and swung his kunai at Minato, who restrained him and said they were there to protect Sarah.
• Minato brought Sarah into the palace while Naruto asked what was behind the puppet attacks and the accident at the ceremony.

Minato explained that Naruto had traveled from the future with Mukade, whose use of the Dragon Vein was distorting time in Rōran. The group planned to stop Mukade, but Sarah rejected their claims and insisted that Anrokuzan was a peaceful minister.

• Minato revealed that he and his companions had come from Konoha on a classified mission and explained that Naruto was from the future.
• Naruto recognized Mukade as the shinobi he had been pursuing and described how Mukade had absorbed the sealing formula at the Dragon Vein, sending Naruto back in time.
• Minato concluded that defeating Mukade could restore the flow of time and allow Naruto to return to the future.
• Minato explained that Mukade was using the Dragon Vein's power to develop puppet weapons in Rōran.
• Sarah angrily insisted that the man from six years earlier was Anrokuzan, a peace-loving minister who had inherited her mother's will.

Minato tried to warn Sarah about Minister Anrokuzan, but she trusted the minister and left with Senya. Naruto recognized Minato as his father and struggled with his painful feelings as Minato departed, while Senya and Sarah were suddenly attacked in the palace corridor.

• Sarah rejected Minato's warning and insisted that Minister Anrokuzan was innocent, while Senya concealed his connection to the Konoha ninja.
• Minato gave Naruto his Flying Thunder God Kunai and asked him to protect Sarah alongside Senya.
• Naruto recognized Minato as the Fourth Hokage and struggled to understand his grief and anger after Minato left.
• Minato left in tears, blaming himself for Naruto's suffering and thinking of Obito and Kushina's future crisis.
• Senya accompanied Sarah as she complained about the Konoha ninja and defended Minister Anrokuzan.
• A black hand reached from an opening door, grabbed Sarah, and dragged her inside as Senya cried out.

Senya and Sarah confronted masked townspeople who wanted her to see what had happened to their families. At Rōran’s festival, Sarah learned that the people called her the Puppet Princess and blamed her for their families’ disappearance, which she denied ordering.

• A masked woman held Sarah, but Sarah bit her wrist and escaped to Senya, while the townspeople demanded that she give something back.
• Senya stepped in front of Sarah and released an oppressive Chakra, frightening the crowd until Naruto arrived and the masked woman, Yako, introduced herself.
• Yako asked Sarah to come with the townspeople, and they led her, Senya, Naruto, and Salai through a sewer to watch Rōran’s festival from the plaza.
• Sarah recalled that Anrokuzan had arranged the parade to comfort her after her mother’s death, but Salai said the people mocked her as the Puppet Princess.
• Yako told Sarah that families had been taken away and that the townspeople had been told it was by Sarah’s order; Sarah firmly denied giving such an order.

Senya, Naruto, Yako, and Salai exposed the welcoming crowd in Rōran as puppets controlled by the Dragon Vein, revealing that the city’s prosperity came at the cost of its people. Sarah refused to accept that Anrokuzan was Mukade and fled after seeing a puppet made in her image, while Naruto lost track of her.

• Salai and Yako told Sarah that her people had been taken away and forced to build weapons, but Sarah insisted the crowd was welcoming her.
• Senya pointed out threads above the crowd, and Naruto cut them with his Chakra blade, causing several disguised puppets to collapse.
• Senya swept a lightning blade across the square, toppling the puppet citizens, and explained that Rōran’s prosperity depended on Dragon Vein Chakra and had made its people sacrifices.
• A puppet resembling Sarah appeared on the viewing platform, and Senya warned that Mukade planned to turn Sarah into a puppet too.
• Sarah denied what she had seen and ran through the fallen puppets; Naruto pursued her but lost sight of her among the enormous puppets.

Senya and Naruto found Sarah, who told them how her mother and Anrokuzan transformed Rōran with the Dragon Vein before her mother died. Naruto encouraged Sarah to remember what her mother treasured and choose what she believed was right.

• Senya summoned Qianyue to find Sarah, and Qianyue led him and Naruto through Rōran before returning to Senya’s wrist.
• Naruto imagined the Nine-Tails as a woman, provoking its anger, while Senya clarified that Qianyue was his weapon, not a tailed beast.
• Senya and Naruto found Sarah singing her mother’s song on a stairway beside a glowing mural.
• Sarah explained that her mother and Anrokuzan used the Dragon Vein and technology to build Rōran’s towers, but her mother died in the process.
• Naruto shared what he had inherited from Jiraiya and urged Sarah to recall what her mother treasured and act according to her own judgment.

Sarah, Senya, and Naruto discovered that Anrokuzan was forcing Rōran's people to build puppet soldiers using the Dragon Vein's power. Sarah identified a way to cut off the Dragon Vein, while Senya charged into the factory to free the laborers.

• Sarah resolved to inherit her mother's will and led Senya, Naruto, Yako, and Salai to the place where Rōran's pipes converged.
• Senya promised Yako and Salai that they would rescue their families, then sent them to find a safe hiding place.
• Senya, Naruto, and Sarah entered the sewer and found emaciated, chained laborers operating a puppet assembly line under the watch of Puppet Soldiers.
• Sarah realized Anrokuzan had used her name to exploit Rōran's people and pointed out a place by the furnace where she could cut off the Dragon Vein's power.
• Senya told Naruto to carry Sarah to the furnace while he went to free the laborers, then charged down into the factory.

Senya freed the laborers in Anrokuzan’s workshop and confronted Anrokuzan, revealing that he knew the minister was the rogue ninja Mukade. Anrokuzan transformed himself into a giant puppet centipede, and Senya met him with his third-stage Susanoo as Sarah and Naruto watched.

• Senya smashed the puppets, freed the laborers, and sent them fleeing through the passage to reunite with their families.
• Senya called out Anrokuzan and said his agreement had been with Minister Anrokuzan, not the rogue ninja Mukade.
• Anrokuzan demanded that Senya hand over Qianyue, prompting Senya to awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan and form his third-stage Susanoo.
• Anrokuzan fused puppets and debris into a giant puppet centipede and declared himself the strongest being in the Shinobi World.
• Sarah and Naruto watched the two giants prepare to fight, while the Nine-Tails sensed a familiar but different Chakra from Anrokuzan.

Sarah’s attempt to seal the Dragon Vein failed when Anrokuzan’s tampering overwhelmed the altar, and Naruto urged her to keep fighting for Rōran. Sarah joined Naruto on his way to help Senya, who prepared to strike Anrokuzan with Qianyue.

• The Nine-Tails recalled the Sage of Six Paths’ words and wondered whether Senya might be the person destined to guide the Tailed Beasts, but decided it would rather empower Naruto than trust an Uchiha.
• Sarah tried to seal the Dragon Vein, but the altar’s curse markings spread and threw her aside.
• Anrokuzan revealed that he had altered the seal so the queen’s bloodline could no longer control the Dragon Vein, leaving Sarah devastated.
• Naruto scolded Sarah for giving up and left to help Senya; Sarah tore her skirt hem, declared she would stand with Rōran, and went with him.
• The Minato squad hurried toward the disturbance as Minato worried about Naruto, while Senya raised Qianyue to attack Anrokuzan’s giant centipede form.

Senya fought Anrokuzan’s Dragon Vein-powered puppet, destroying its arms and beating him before the centipede body knocked Senya’s Susanoo into a wall. Naruto and Sarah arrived, and Naruto prepared a Rasenshuriken that threatened to sever Anrokuzan’s connection to the puppet.

• Senya slashed Anrokuzan by surprise and mocked his complaints about honor.
• Anrokuzan transformed the puppet’s legs into arms and battered Senya’s Susanoo, but Senya remained unharmed as Qianyue broke apart.
• Senya used Qianyue’s fragments to sever the puppet’s arm joints, then formed knuckle dusters and pummeled Anrokuzan’s face.
• Anrokuzan’s centipede body struck Senya’s Susanoo with enough force to send it crashing into a wall.
• Naruto and Sarah arrived, and Naruto sent over a thousand Shadow Clones to attack Anrokuzan while he formed a Rasenshuriken.
• Anrokuzan recognized that Naruto’s Rasenshuriken could sever the Chakra link between his soul and the puppet body.

Naruto’s Rasenshuriken exploded while he was trapped, injuring him and Anrokuzan, but Kurama healed Naruto and Minato joined Senya’s attack. Senya waited for the refugees to escape as Minato’s multiplying shuriken began tearing apart Anrokuzan’s body.

• Anrokuzan caught Naruto with chakra threads just as Naruto launched a Rasenshuriken, and Naruto released the jutsu while still suspended, engulfing them both in its wind blades.
• Senya pulled Anrokuzan into the storm with Susanoo while Minato rescued the badly injured Naruto and brought him to Sarah.
• Kurama sent chakra through Naruto’s seal, healing his wounds as Minato left him in Sarah’s care.
• Minato surrounded the battlefield with Shadow Clones and multiplied shuriken, sending a vast barrage into Anrokuzan’s body.
• Senya smiled and said the refugees had finally escaped.

Senya destroyed Anrokuzan with Qianyue’s Illusionary Weapon—Kokubō, while the Dragon Vein’s seal remained beyond Sarah’s control. As Senya agreed to help Sarah, Anrokuzan reappeared in a pillar of dark-purple light and threatened them.

• After Minato’s Shadow Clone dispersed, Senya unleashed his Chakra and expanded his Susanoo into a towering giant.
• Minato led the injured Naruto and Sarah to safety, while Naruto recovered and urged Senya to defeat Anrokuzan.
• Senya and Qianyue unleashed Illusionary Weapon—Kokubō, which pierced and devoured Anrokuzan’s half-puppet body.
• The Five Great Nations witnessed the pillar of light, and days later the major ninja villages declared war on the Land of Wind.
• Sarah told Senya she could no longer seal the Dragon Vein, and Senya agreed to find a solution.
• Anrokuzan appeared in a dark-purple pillar of light and vowed to kill Senya, Naruto, and Sarah.

Anrokuzan transformed into a monstrous creature, leaving Senya and Qianyue drained of Chakra as the refugees panicked. Senya recruited Kurama to help fight, cut open the seal, and prepared to face Anrokuzan with Naruto and Susanoo.

• Anrokuzan emerged from the Dragon Vein as a huge spider-centipede monster, frightening the refugees and children.
• Senya stopped Naruto from attempting a summoning and brought him into the consciousness space to meet Kurama.
• Senya offered Kurama a chance to go outside in exchange for his help, then threatened him with the Mangekyō Sharingan when he hesitated.
• Senya summoned Qianyue as shears and cut the lock off the seal, allowing Kurama's Chakra to reach Naruto.
• Senya formed Susanoo around Naruto and promised Kurama more time outside, while Kurama wondered if Senya was the Sage of Six Paths' illegitimate son.

Senya, Naruto, and Nine-Tails formed an Armored Susanoo and fought Anrokuzan while Qianyue moved to absorb the Dragon Vein's Chakra. They prepared a final attack against the defeated Anrokuzan, leaving Minato to name their massive Rasengan.

• Senya, Naruto, Nine-Tails, and Qianyue formed an armored Susanoo around Nine-Tails and charged Anrokuzan after he severed his connection to the Dragon Vein.
• Nine-Tails and Senya's enhanced tails clashed with Anrokuzan's Eight Spider Lances, forcing him to retreat and try to replenish his Chakra at the altar.
• Senya sent Qianyue to absorb the Dragon Vein's Chakra while Nine-Tails attacked Anrokuzan and tore into him with his claws.
• Senya realized Anrokuzan had lost the will to resist, then joined Naruto and Nine-Tails in forming a massive black-red Rasengan.
• Minato dubbed the finishing technique the Jet-Black Masked Nine-Tails: Splendor Before Dawn—Great Spiraling Ring.

After defeating Mukade, Senya restored the Nine-Tails’ seal but altered it so Naruto could let the fox out with half its Chakra. As Naruto began returning to the future, Senya stopped Minato from sealing his memories and left Naruto to decide for himself.

• Senya restored the Eight Trigrams Seal, tricking the furious Nine-Tails into believing he had kept his promise by repairing its home.
• Sarah thanked Senya, Naruto, and Minato’s team for saving Rōran, while Minato apologized for Konoha’s delayed response.
• Naruto began glowing as Mukade’s death triggered his return to the future, and Minato prepared to seal his memories.
• Senya stopped Minato and said Naruto should decide whether to keep his memories.
• Senya used Qianyue and the Dragon Vein’s Chakra to alter Naruto’s seal, allowing the Nine-Tails to leave with at most half its Chakra when Naruto let it out.

Naruto and Yamato returned to their own time, leaving Minato and Kakashi behind. Senya stayed in Rōran long enough to reject Sarah’s offer to become king and promised to restore the Dragon Vein, then reunited with Qianyue at its seal.

• Yamato tricked young Kakashi into lowering his guard, punched him, and vanished as Naruto returned to his own time.
• Senya told Minato he had absorbed the Dragon Vein Chakra and needed to absorb the Dragon Vein Chakra in this era before he could return.
• Minato left Rōran with Shibi and Choza without sealing anyone’s memories, and the people of Rōran began rebuilding and reuniting.
• Sarah invited Senya to stay in Rōran as its king, but Senya declined because he loved someone in his original world and promised to remove Anrokuzan’s tampering with the Dragon Vein.
• Senya found Qianyue at the Dragon Vein seal, told her to leave some power for Rōran, and absorbed her back into the seal at his wrist.

Senya studied how absorbing the Dragon Vein had changed his Mangekyō and Susanoo, then refined the Dragon Vein’s Chakra. After repairing the altar and removing Anrokuzan’s seal, he activated it and decided to travel to the Warring States Period.

• Senya entered his consciousness space, where Qianyue joined him and complained that he had made her bind Tsunade without thinking of her feelings.
• After Qianyue returned to her resting space, Senya found Dragon Vein Chakra embedded inside his Susanoo and realized he had absorbed the natural energy without refining it first.
• Senya spent about two days refining the Dragon Vein Chakra inside his Susanoo.
• Senya summoned Qianyue, repaired the altar, erased Anrokuzan’s sealing technique, and resonated with the Dragon Vein altar.
• Senya activated the altar and decided to visit the Warring States Period.