Chapter Summaries

Naruto visited Uzumaki Goudan in the Land of Grass and questioned him about the deaths of the daimyo and the city under construction. Goudan revealed that the Land of Wind held a large shallow oil field, leaving Naruto to consider how to claim it before others realized its value.

• Naruto arrived at the Land of Grass, where Uzumaki Goudan had built a city project after the daimyo and his family died with pancakes stuffed in their mouths.
• Goudan staged a welcome with hundreds of Shadow Clones, and Naruto blasted them all away before meeting him in his office.
• Naruto questioned Goudan about the daimyo’s deaths, and Goudan admitted he had killed the daimyo and his family after the daimyo demanded one hundred million ryo for wasteland.
• Goudan showed Naruto the vast construction site and said the city’s roads and other groundwork were nearly complete, with subway and automobile technology ready for trial production.
• Goudan told Naruto that the intelligence team had found a vast shallow oil field in the Land of Wind and urged him to claim it before others recognized its value.

Naruto explained to Goudan that his actions in the Land of Lightning would likely trigger a great war, which he intended to use to make Night City a safe haven for refugees and skilled workers. He discovered that Goudan had turned the city’s elite ninja into construction laborers and spent hundreds of millions of ryo on Carefree Pills, then recognized the business potential of supplying ninja workers.

• Naruto told Goudan he would handle the oil field and explained that he had failed the Hokage Election, learned his father was the Fourth Hokage, and taken the Two-Tails, Raikage Ay, and the Eight-Tails from the Land of Lightning.
• Goudan offered to gather troops and force Hiruzen Sarutobi to apologize, but Naruto told him to focus on building Night City and described his plan to establish New Konoha in the Land of Grass.
• Naruto agreed with Goudan that losing its Raikage and Tailed Beasts would likely provoke war against the Land of Lightning, and he viewed the conflict as an opportunity to profit and expand his influence.
• Goudan suggested bringing people from war-torn regions into Night City, and Naruto told him that keeping the city safe and orderly would draw refugees and skilled workers without needing to recruit them.
• Goudan revealed that the 108 Generals and 1080 Chunin were speeding construction by using their abilities as laborers, and Naruto learned that hundreds of millions of ryo had gone toward Carefree Pills to sustain their work.
• Naruto praised ninja construction work as a model for their peaceful future and recognized that Carefree Pills could become an everyday necessity for ninja laborers.

Naruto visited Mizuki Tetsu’s media headquarters and reviewed its campaigns, including a plan to poison Uchiha Obito’s reputation and test a strategy for winning the Mizukage position. He ordered the group to use fabricated history and public opinion to build support for a unified shinobi world, and decided to introduce Kaguya Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki as figures from the invented era of peace.

• Naruto used Flying Thunder God to leave Night City and arrive at the media group’s forest headquarters, where Mizuki Tetsu greeted him.
• Naruto praised Tetsu’s tireless work, toured the well-run headquarters, and listened to his reports.
• Tetsu reported that the Black Earth Plan was spreading damaging stories about Uchiha Obito through tabloids, novels, and films.
• Naruto reviewed the Mizukage Contest team’s effort to test whether a savior could gain the village’s support and become Mizukage.
• Naruto instructed Tetsu to fabricate a peaceful era of ancient shinobi-world unity and promote it through magazines to prepare people for future unification.
• Naruto proposed bringing Kaguya Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki into the invented history as figures from that era.

Naruto and Mizuki Tetsu invented a sensational history of Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki to support Naruto’s plan to unify the ninja world. Tetsu’s latest version ended with Hagoromo spotting a girl who resembled Kaguya, leaving Naruto eager to develop the story further.

• Naruto shared his memories of Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki with Mizuki Tetsu and asked him to devise a story that would support unification.
• Mizuki Tetsu proposed making Kaguya and Hagoromo tragic lovers, then outlined a history of a unified kingdom overthrown by greedy daimyo.
• Naruto rejected the first outline for giving too little attention to the ideal nation, so Mizuki Tetsu recast the Otsutsuki as alien harvesters and Kaguya as a sacrifice who ate the Chakra Fruit to save Hagoromo.
• Mizuki Tetsu’s revised story had Hagoromo seal Kaguya, spread Chakra, and establish a peaceful Ninja Sect utopia while guarding her resting place.
• Mizuki Tetsu extended the romance by having Hagoromo notice a girl who resembled Kaguya, and Naruto enthusiastically approved the idea.

Naruto and Mizuki Tetsu planned a fictional history to build support for unification, including blaming Uchiha Obito for a thousand years of war and claiming the moon was created to seal Kaguya. After a day of disappointing hot springs in the Land of Hot Water, Naruto prepared to return home and confront Hiruzen Sarutobi.

• Naruto approved Tetsu’s tragic romance story and ordered him to include propaganda against the daimyo.
• Naruto and Tetsu decided to make Uchiha Obito the reincarnation of the Otsutsuki Monitor and to present Naruto as Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s reincarnation.
• Naruto reminded Tetsu that unification had to remain the story’s central purpose and proposed that Hagoromo had formed the moon with Planetary Devastation to seal Kaguya.
• Tetsu agreed to publish the fabricated history under the independent pen name Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, with the Shinobi World Daily positioned as a mere reporting platform.
• Naruto visited the Land of Hot Water, found no beautiful women at its hot springs, and prepared to return home to face Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Naruto returned to Konoha and met with Hiruzen Sarutobi and the village elders to negotiate compensation and his future role. He rejected their offer as too small and claimed Kumogakure had offered him enough money to consider becoming its Raikage, then said he had already forgiven the village for kidnapping his mother.

• Naruto returned to Konoha, stopped Ino from hugging him, and escaped her advances after teasing her about being too skinny.
• Naruto met Kakashi and gave him fragrant bath salts for himself and Sister Huahua.
• Uzuki Yugao summoned Naruto to the Hokage Building, and Naruto used Flying Thunder God to bring them there instantly.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisers offered Naruto the Sixth Hokage position, 1.5 billion ryo, and a funded residence, but Naruto said the compensation was too little.
• Naruto claimed Kumogakure had asked him to become Raikage and offered substantial money, prompting Hiruzen to warn him about his mother's kidnapping.
• Naruto told Hiruzen and the advisers that he knew about the kidnapping but had forgiven Kumogakure long ago.

Naruto demanded at least three digits in units of a hundred million ryo from Konoha, using Kumogakure’s offers and his own achievements to strengthen his bargaining position. After he left, Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected reviving Minato and decided Konoha would pressure Sunagakure to help cover the cost.

• Naruto told Hiruzen Sarutobi and the two advisors that Kumogakure had paid him one hundred million ryo and offered another two billion if he accepted its invitation.
• Naruto demanded at least three hundred million ryo from Konoha and gave the village five days to answer before he vanished using Flying Thunder God.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confirmed that intelligence had verified Raikage Ay’s death and the loss of the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and Matatabi, though Naruto’s other claims could not be checked.
• Utatane Koharu proposed reviving Minato with Impure World Reincarnation to persuade Naruto, but Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to disturb the dead.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said Naruto mattered more than the coming war and decided to pressure Sunagakure over its prisoners to help fund the payment.

After Konoha raised its demand from five hundred million ryō to ten billion, Chiyo realized Sunagakure had no means to resist and suspected Hiruzen was bargaining with Naruto using the village’s prisoners and assets. She ended the chapter considering whether Sunagakure should negotiate directly with Naruto.

• Chiyo waited with Sunagakure’s leaders for news of the prisoner handover after they agreed to pay five hundred million ryō.
• A messenger delivered word that Konoha had torn up the treaty and demanded ten billion ryō instead.
• Sunagakure’s leaders discussed war, but Chiyo reminded them that their forces were depleted and that they could not defeat Uzumaki Naruto.
• Chiyo ordered Sunagakure to sell Rasa’s hidden Gold Dust and whatever else the village could trade for money.
• Ebizo showed Chiyo intelligence linking Naruto’s visit to the Hokage Building with Hiruzen’s sudden changes to the terms.
• Chiyo wondered whether Sunagakure could bypass Hiruzen and negotiate directly with Naruto.

Naruto, bored after finding his friends away, joined Jiraiya on a mission to find Tsunade. As they left Konoha, Naruto concealed his activity from Kurama and learned Jiraiya intended to bring Tsunade back to become Hokage.

• Naruto found Sasuke and Sakura studying together, while Choji and Shikamaru had left on a mission and Team Eight was away.
• Jiraiya appeared and insisted Naruto accompany him to meet a great beauty.
• Naruto guessed they were seeking Tsunade and eagerly agreed, hoping the mission could help him become Hokage.
• Naruto disabled his seal so Kurama could not sense what was happening, then left Konoha with Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya revealed that the woman they sought was his teammate Tsunade, whom the village wanted to become Hokage.
• Naruto recognized that Tsunade was likely heading to Tanzaku Street after losing money to his clone, though he kept that knowledge from Jiraiya.

Naruto arrived in Tanzaku Street and became a celebrated gambler after winning fifty-six rounds in a row, until Tsunade joined his table and his streak ended. Tsunade asked him to teach her gambling, and Jiraiya recognized her just as Naruto suspected she had caused his bad luck.

• Tsunade entered a casino in disguise after losing her money, while Naruto won round after round and drew a crowd of admirers.
• Tsunade placed her last 100 ryo on Big at Naruto's table, and the dice came up Small, ending his winning streak.
• Naruto gathered his winnings and left the casino, suspecting Tsunade had brought him bad luck.
• Tsunade followed Naruto and asked him to teach her Gambling Skill.
• Jiraiya found Naruto and recognized the disguised Tsunade.

Jiraiya asked Tsunade to return to Konoha as the Fifth Hokage, but she refused and was given three days to decide. Naruto wanted the position for himself, and before Tsunade answered, a Sunagakure delegation arrived looking for him.

• Jiraiya reunited with Tsunade and invited her, Naruto, Shizune, and Tonton to an izakaya.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Konoha wanted her to become the Fifth Hokage, while Naruto corrected his exaggerated account of the village's losses.
• Tsunade refused the offer, and Naruto urged Jiraiya to return to Konoha and appoint him instead.
• Jiraiya sent Naruto and Shizune outside to speak privately with Tsunade, then gave her three days to answer before he and Naruto left.
• Naruto spent the next few days inspecting Tanzaku Street, but a negotiation team from Sunagakure arrived and asked for him.

Daimaru’s team traveled from Sunagakure to Tanzaku Street to negotiate with Naruto, but Naruto’s overwhelming power and control over Yura turned the meeting into a deal that gave Naruto land and a promise of fifty billion ryo. Naruto ended by asking Yura whether he had a dream.

• Yura led Daimaru and three Chunin toward Tanzaku Street to negotiate with Naruto, while Daimaru dismissed reports of Naruto’s strength as Konoha propaganda.
• The team found Naruto, and his gaze overwhelmed Daimaru and knocked the three Chunin unconscious without Naruto moving.
• Naruto forced Yura to reveal Sunagakure’s negotiation mission, its seven-billion-two-hundred-million-ryo limit, and its dispute with Konoha over prisoner compensation.
• Naruto offered to accept a nearby tract of Sunagakure territory instead of the original payment, then proposed a fifty-billion-ryo agreement and signed a memorandum with Yura.
• Naruto asked Yura whether he had a dream.

Naruto easily defeated Tsunade’s three attacks, prompting her to agree to recommend him as Hokage while insisting she was the Fifth Hokage and he was too young. As Jiraiya prepared for Naruto to take everyone back, Naruto claimed he had a disease that prevented him from using Flying Thunder God, hoping to delay the return and resolve the three strands of Chakra within him.

• Naruto told Tsunade that the Sunagakure shinobi had begged him to sign a contract and give him money, while Tsunade recognized they had been frightened.
• Tsunade recalled Jiraiya’s account of Naruto’s strength and the coming war, and considered serving as Hokage until Naruto matured.
• Naruto caught Tsunade’s full-strength punch and her Painful Heaven Kick with one hand, completing her three-move test.
• Tsunade agreed to recommend Naruto for Sixth Hokage, then teased him by saying she was the Fifth Hokage and he was too young.
• Naruto imitated Tsunade’s childhood voice about learning Gambling Skill, provoking her to demolish a wall while Jiraiya paid for the damage.
• Jiraiya asked Naruto to take the group back with Flying Thunder God, but Naruto claimed he had a disease that prevented him from using it.

Naruto chose a remote wilderness to release the Eight Trigrams Seal and meet the chakra of his parents. After Kurama’s chakra surged and Minato appeared inside Naruto’s consciousness, Naruto questioned whether the Fourth Hokage was really his father.

• Naruto told Jiraiya and Tsunade that he planned to undo the Nine-Tails’ seal, and they agreed to stand guard.
• Naruto and Kurama prepared inside the Sealing Space, where Naruto promised to purify Kurama’s hatred and called him Big Tanuki.
• Kurama’s chakra cloaked Naruto and grew from six tails to eight, while Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and Naruto confirmed he was unharmed.
• Naruto reached for the seal tag, but Minato appeared and tried to stop him; Naruto overpowered Minato and threw him aside.
• Minato told Naruto he was his son, while Kurama angrily threatened the Fourth Hokage before Naruto silenced him with a glare.
• Naruto pretended not to recognize Minato and said he did not believe that Minato was his father.

Naruto confronted Minato about sealing the Nine-Tails inside him, then stunned him with his mastery of the Rasengan and his friendly relationship with Kurama. After calling Minato “Dad,” Naruto revealed his Three Tomoe Sharingan while asking about a possible connection between their ancestors and the Uchiha clan.

• Naruto challenged Minato over sealing the Nine-Tails inside him, and Minato explained that he had acted to protect Konoha and believed Naruto could master its power.
• Naruto identified Uchiha Obito as the masked attacker, and Minato warned that someone else might have manipulated Obito.
• Naruto demonstrated multiple Rasengan variations, including Rasenshuriken and versions using different kekkei genkai, leaving Minato astonished by his talent.
• Naruto approached Kurama and showed Minato that they were friends, then made the Nine-Tails greet Minato by name.
• Naruto called Minato “Dad” and asked about his parents and a possible connection to the Uchiha clan.
• Naruto revealed a Three Tomoe Sharingan in place of his blue eyes, shocking Minato.

Naruto revealed his Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan, and Rinnegan to Minato inside the sealing space, leading Minato to invent an ancestral Uchiha bloodline explanation before his Chakra ran out. After Minato vanished, Naruto returned to the seal and prepared to keep opening it.

• Minato was shocked by Naruto's Three Tomoe Sharingan and struggled to understand how his son had awakened them.
• Naruto claimed his eyes had appeared after happy moments with friends, and Minato worried that a close friend's death had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto asked whether he should be called Uchiha Naruto, and Minato reassured him by guessing that diluted Uchiha blood in the Namikaze ancestors had resurfaced through Naruto's exceptional talent.
• Minato told Naruto that he believed him to be the Child of Prophecy, then began to disappear as his remaining Chakra ran out.
• Naruto briefly revealed the Rinnegan to Minato before Minato vanished, then returned to the sealed space and focused on opening the Eight Trigrams Seal further.

Naruto removed the seal restraining Kurama and asked how to draw on the Nine-Tailed Fox’s Chakra. Kushina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains appeared, bringing Naruto to a space where he finally met his mother and called her “Mom!”

• Naruto opened the seal, and Kurama smashed through its cage to celebrate its freedom.
• Naruto complained about Kurama’s roar, then asked how he could obtain Kurama’s Chakra.
• Kurama told Naruto to use his own Chakra to draw Kurama’s Chakra into his body.
• Adamantine Sealing Chains sprang from Naruto and bound Kurama, and Naruto recognized their Chakra as Kushina’s.
• Naruto was drawn into a warm, amber-and-white space, where he met Kushina and called her “Mom!”

Naruto reunited with Kushina inside the sealing space, and she told him how Minato had won her heart by praising her red hair and rescuing her from Kumogakure. After exchanging loving words, Kushina turned her attention to the Nine-Tails, leaving Naruto to face their next task.

• Naruto hugged Kushina and delighted in meeting his mother, while she explained that Minato had left her Chakra to help him control the Nine-Tails.
• Naruto praised Kushina's beauty and red hair, and she told him about her arrival in Konoha, her fights with boys who mocked her, and how she earned the nickname Bloody Habanero.
• Kushina recounted how Kumogakure ninja abducted her and Minato rescued her, telling her that her red hair was beautiful and that he did not want to lose her.
• Naruto accepted Kushina's words of love and told her he loved her too.
• Kushina grew serious and turned toward the Nine-Tails, signaling that she was ready to address it.

Naruto gained Nine-Tails Chakra Mode after Kurama surrendered its Chakra, then learned from Kushina about the Nine-Tails' attack on the night he was born. Kushina comforted him, embraced him, and faded away, leaving Naruto grieving but determined to bring his parents back.

• Naruto threatened Kurama with the Black Hole Rasengan, and Kurama voluntarily gave him its Chakra, unlocking Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Kushina praised Naruto for mastering the Nine-Tails' power, and Naruto asked whether he could bring her and Minato back to life.
• Kushina warned Naruto against dangerous revival techniques and explained that she had been the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Kushina told Naruto that a masked man exploited the vulnerability of her seal during childbirth, allowing the Nine-Tails to rampage twelve years earlier.
• Kushina apologized for making Naruto a Jinchuriki and being absent from his childhood, but Naruto assured her he had never blamed his parents.
• Kushina hugged Naruto before her Chakra figure faded away, and Naruto wept as she disappeared.

Naruto recovered the complete Nine-Tails and sealed it back inside himself after revealing his Wood Style to Jiraiya and Tsunade. He then claimed his illness had improved, hinting that he could use Flying Thunder God again.

• Naruto tried to recover the half of the Nine-Tails inside the Sealing Space, but the recovery option was unavailable there.
• Naruto used the panel to recover the Nine-Tails, then bought and released a complete Kurama in front of Jiraiya and Tsunade.
• Naruto restrained Kurama with Wood Style: Wood Dragon Technique and sealed it back inside himself with Taiji Sealing.
• Naruto credited Kakashi with teaching him Wood Release and his other abilities, leaving Jiraiya suspicious and Tsunade thoughtful.
• Naruto told Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune that his illness preventing him from using Flying Thunder God seemed to have improved.