Chapter Summaries

Ruri and Zhiyu visited Senyo’s laboratory, bringing food and company to Karin, who stayed beside Senyo’s sleeping clone while studying. After they left, Naruto and Sasuke arrived, continuing the steady stream of visitors around Senyo.

• Ruri and Zhiyu brought Karin snacks and a hot meal at Orochimaru’s laboratory, where Senyo’s clone lay asleep.
• Karin accepted the food and remembered how Senyo’s people had rescued her and Mio from abuse and hunger in Kusagakure.
• Ruri, Zhiyu, and Karin ate and chatted together before Ruri and Zhiyu left.
• Karin continued studying fuinjutsu and barrier techniques and helping with simple barrier maintenance while remaining near Senyo.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the laboratory soon after Ruri and Zhiyu departed.

Naruto and Sasuke visited Karin to ask about the Fourth Hokage and Itachi’s mission to the Land of Wind. Karin told them the battle was likely over and that Minato would soon return to Konoha, leaving Naruto curious about the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Naruto and Sasuke visited Karin, who offered them her chili-covered fried chicken while teasing Sasuke about his repeated defeats.
• Karin recalled that she had subdued Sasuke with Fuinjutsu despite his recently awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and that he had gradually stopped challenging her after half a year of losses.
• Sasuke asked Karin when the Fourth Hokage and Itachi had left for the Land of Wind, and Naruto asked whether the mission was real.
• Karin said Minato’s Flying Thunder God Technique meant the battle was probably over and the group would soon return, and she wondered what reparations Sunagakure would pay.
• Naruto asked whether the Flying Thunder God Technique could bring people instantly from the Land of Wind to Konoha.

Naruto and the others discussed how Minato’s Nine-Tails Chakra could help them return, while worrying about Gaara’s fixation on revenge. At the Uchiha Training Ground, Gaara sparred with Kimimaro, saw how badly he was outmatched in Sage Mode, and listened to Haku’s advice not to treat Kimimaro as the standard for every opponent.

• Kurama claimed that returning from the Land of Wind—or even the Land of Snow—would be no problem, and Karin hinted that Minato’s Nine-Tails power could resolve their Chakra-related difficulties.
• Naruto worried that Gaara was taking dangerous missions against Sunagakure to seek revenge, while Sasuke hoped Minato’s return would improve matters.
• Gaara and Kimimaro fought at the Uchiha Training Ground, where Kimimaro used Sage Mode to overwhelm Gaara’s sand defenses before Haku stopped the match.
• Gaara recognized how much Kimimaro’s speed and bone techniques countered his sand, and Haku advised him not to treat Kimimaro as a typical opponent from Sunagakure.

Minato brought Temari, Kankuro, and Karura’s remains to Konoha at Senyo’s request, moving Gaara with gratitude and longing. Gaara welcomed his siblings but declared them prisoners and warned them not to resist, leaving them to accept his loyalty to Konoha.

• Minato reunited Gaara with Temari and Kankuro and told him Senyo had arranged for Karura’s remains to be brought back as well.
• Gaara thanked Minato, overwhelmed by Senyo’s care, and Minato promised that Senyo would return and that Gaara could deal with Rasa.
• Gaara vowed to kill Rasa, shocking Temari and Kankuro, who recalled how their father had tormented Gaara.
• Temari asked Gaara whether he had been well in Konoha, and he said life there was much better than in Sunagakure.
• Gaara warned Temari and Kankuro that they were Konoha’s prisoners and that he would eliminate them if they resisted or caused trouble.
• Temari promised they would behave, and Kankuro silently agreed.

Pakura learned that Elder Ebizo had taken the blame for Sunagakure’s humiliating peace agreement to protect her future as Kazekage. When she reached his home, she discovered that he had died by suicide and began reading the letters he had left for her.

• Sunagakure villagers condemned Rasa and Elder Ebizo for surrendering to Konoha while praising Pakura.
• Pakura learned that Ebizo had stayed away from the Kazekage’s Office, claiming he was unwell, and had left her instructions for managing the village.
• Pakura realized Ebizo had signed the territorial concession agreement to shield her from public blame before she took office.
• Pakura hurried to Ebizo’s home and found a coffin inside, with white flowers outside the entrance.
• Tetsuo and Takayuki told Pakura that Ebizo had committed suicide and handed her two letters.
• Pakura opened the letters and read their shocking contents.

Pakura read Ebizo’s final letter and learned how he had arranged to take responsibility for Sunagakure’s defeat before dying. After Konoha secured peace with Iwagakure and Kumogakure, the shinobi world entered a brief lull while its powers rebuilt and prepared for the future.

• Pakura read Ebizo’s letter, which explained his sacrifice and gave her instructions for Sunagakure’s future.
• Tetsuo and Takayuki closed Ebizo’s coffin on his orders, and Tetsuo told Pakura to keep striving forward rather than mourn the dead.
• News of Sunagakure’s defeat and territorial concessions spread across the shinobi world, alarming the other villages over Namikaze Minato’s tactics.
• Iwagakure and Kumogakure sought peace with Konoha and accepted its terms, including labor for Iwagakure and technology, supplies, money, and a cloned arm for Kumogakure’s Raikage.
• Kirigakure rebuilt its strength, Obito’s Moon Organization went into hiding, and Black Zetsu sought recruits while Obito trained to improve his eye.
• Five years passed during the period of relative peace.

Sixteen years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kinshiki infiltrated Konoha to reclaim Plow, an Ōtsutsuki space-time treasure, and opened a passage as Boruto and Sasuke tried to stop him. Senyo sensed the bead he had left with Naruto activate and raced toward the passage, entering its vortex.

• Naruto forced Boruto to swallow Senyo's mysterious bead after Boruto became Sasuke's student, further straining their relationship.
• Kinshiki infiltrated Konoha's archaeological research institute and used his chakra to reveal and activate Plow.
• Boruto and Sasuke confronted Kinshiki, but he opened a space-time passage and fled into its golden light.
• Boruto and Sasuke charged after Kinshiki as the passage began to shrink.
• Senyo sensed the bead activate, followed its connection through the space-time passage, and plunged into a massive vortex.

Sasuke and Boruto followed Kinshiki into a strange space-time platform, where Boruto collapsed in pain until he expelled Naruto’s bead. Uchiha Senyo emerged from a hole in the air and seized Plow, but the device malfunctioned and the space trapped him.

• Boruto collapsed on the golden platform, unable to breathe, while Sasuke shielded him from danger.
• Kinshiki attacked Boruto with his fishing rod, and Sasuke fought him but was knocked away after his Chakra ran low.
• Boruto expelled the black bead Naruto had placed in his stomach and began breathing again.
• Uchiha Senyo emerged through a hole in the air and grabbed Plow, intending to use it to travel home.
• Plow sounded alarms about space-time interference as Senyo tried to flee, but a barrier blocked him and the device broke free from his grasp.

Senyo, Sasuke, Boruto, and Kinshiki were trapped inside spatial barriers around the Plow, which had become dangerous and unresponsive. Senyo admitted he had made Naruto feed Boruto the bead, while the group remained unable to escape or control the Plow.

• Kinshiki tried to reach the Plow, but its recoil hurled him into the transparent spatial wall.
• Sasuke pulled Boruto to safety, and Boruto watched the black bead merge into Senyo's shadow.
• Senyo told Boruto that he had made Naruto give him the bead and claimed it was payment for saving Neji.
• Senyo said the group needed to find a way out, while Kinshiki recovered and tried unsuccessfully to control the Plow.

Uchiha Senyo revealed that he came from another time and space and warned Sasuke that danger was approaching Plow. A female Haku struck Kinshiki through a spatial wall, then Lord Natsuki emerged from a portal and stabilized the collapsing space.

• Senyo showed Sasuke his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and said he was an Uchiha from another time and space, where Sasuke was his eleven-year-old disciple.
• Sasuke recognized Senyo as the Uchiha Naruto had met during his journey to the past, and Senyo warned that Plow was in danger.
• A spatial passage opened above Plow, and Haku appeared and called for Lord Natsuki.
• Kinshiki attacked Plow with his fishing rod, but Haku struck him with an ice-blue force and sent him through the shattered spatial wall.
• Lord Natsuki emerged from the passage and stabilized the surrounding space as Senyo wondered at his power.

Natsuki appeared before Senyo, overwhelmed Boruto and Sasuke, then revealed that he was a fellow countryman who had become a Starry Sky Divine Position. He explained that he could not enter Senyo’s plane, leaving Senyo to continue working on his own.

• Natsuki lifted Boruto into the air, and his glance knocked Sasuke unconscious.
• Boruto was flooded with images and memories before Natsuki threw him through a tear in space.
• Natsuki tested Senyo with a phrase in their former language, and Senyo answered, confirming they were fellow countrymen.
• Natsuki introduced himself as Uchiha Natsuki, a Starry Sky Divine Position who had lived in the world for more than a century.
• Natsuki explained that his immense power prevented him from entering Senyo’s plane, so Senyo would have to keep working himself.
• Senyo asked Natsuki how he had found him.

Natsuki explained to Senyo how Space-Time Variables create lasting parallel timelines and why Senyo’s intervention had changed Minato and Naruto’s timeline. He warned that stronger Ōtsutsuki from the Shintei-shiki Clan would threaten Shinobi Planet, leaving Senyo resolved to prepare himself and his allies.

• Natsuki summoned a bone bench, sat with Haku, and explained that Space-Time Variables could resist space-time correction and sustain new parallel timelines.
• Natsuki said Senyo’s stored energy in Minato and Naruto had created a new timeline, which Natsuki traced using his space-related ability rules.
• Natsuki explained that Kaguya could not digest her Chakra Fruit’s energy and that Shinobi Planet was a Super Energy Star coveted by the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Natsuki warned Senyo that stronger Ōtsutsuki from the Shintei-shiki Clan would come and urged him to help his friends and family grow stronger.
• Natsuki reassured Senyo that the Fourth Heavenly Calamity had an intelligence advantage and that its members each had a fortuitous encounter.

Natsuki warned Senyo that advancing to higher realms could erode his humanity and explained that strong emotions and personal attachments could help preserve it. He also revealed that he had sent Boruto to the early Warring States period to meet Uchiha Hikari, and reassured Senyo that he could retrieve him later using Plow.

• Natsuki told Senyo that reaching the Advanced Bloodline Net, Quasi-Star God, or Star God realms could consume his humanity until he became part of the universe.
• Natsuki advised Senyo to embrace intense emotions, desires, and personal attachments to resist losing himself, and said Haku was one of the people he deeply loved.
• Natsuki excitedly described his hobby of pairing couples, especially BoGuang, and explained that he had restored Boruto's memories with Uchiha Hikari before sending him to the early Warring States period.
• Senyo worried that Boruto could not return without Plow, but Natsuki said Senyo could use Plow to retrieve him a few days after his disappearance.

Natsuki explained why he needed Senyo to handle matters in the Shinobi World and taught him about Sharingan evolution and the Starry Sky Divine Position. He demonstrated his space-type ocular technique, leaving Senyo stunned by its power.

• Natsuki said his energy could trigger disasters if he entered the Shinobi World, so he asked Senyo to handle the aftermath while he closed the passage between their worlds.
• Natsuki took Plow with him and told Senyo to find Plow in his world and bring Boruto back.
• Natsuki warned Senyo that he could not name their enemy, then described the stages of ocular power and told Senyo that his deepest desire would shape his Sharingan’s evolution.
• Natsuki explained that mastering ocular techniques and laws would help Senyo pursue the Starry Sky Divine Position.
• Natsuki demonstrated Ama-no-Murakumo Style, slashing open a huge tear in space that took several seconds to heal.

Natsuki demonstrated his control over several laws and explained the path toward the Starry Sky Divine Position to Senyo. He then assessed Senyo’s overflowing energy and incomplete attributes, suggesting Senyo could develop them through patient accumulation.

• Natsuki demonstrated abilities related to space, energy shaping, life and death, nature, shadows, elements, and aging, while explaining that they involved comprehending laws.
• Senyo asked whether ocular techniques were the fastest route to understanding laws, and Natsuki claimed they had led him to the Starry Sky Divine Position.
• Natsuki explained that people with sufficient energy but no grasp of laws were quasi-Star Gods and warned that the planet’s consciousness attacked them.
• Natsuki told Senyo that his energy overflow stemmed from his immature body and the effects of consuming Water of Life, rather than his body reaching its true capacity.
• Natsuki advised Senyo that his abundant Chakra could help him uncover and master his undeveloped attributes through sheer accumulation.

Natsuki outlined ways Senyo could strengthen himself and urged him to help Neji and Tenten become a couple. He sent Senyo back through a spatial gate, gave him powerful ocular energy, and took the Dragon Vein power to return it to its original place.

• Natsuki explained that Senyo could develop new Chakra attributes and pursue the Eight Inner Gates, Sage Transformation, or both.
• Senyo thanked Natsuki for clarifying his path and promised to help bring Neji and Tenten together.
• Natsuki warned Senyo not to remain bound by his former world's rules and said time passed faster in their current space-time.
• Natsuki sent ocular energy into Senyo's eyes and opened a spatial gate to return him home.
• Natsuki drew the Dragon Vein power from Senyo as familiar Space-Time Power swept around him.

Natsuki sent the unconscious Sasuke back to the time of the Uchiha clan massacre, then returned with Haku through a spacetime passage. Five years later, Konoha had grown into a powerful medical, commercial, and military center, prompting the other shinobi villages to form an alliance against it.

• Natsuki sent Sasuke into a new parallel spacetime and implanted ocular power and a message in him.
• Natsuki used Plow to escape the collapsing passages with Haku, then opened a new spacetime passage and left.
• Haku asked whether Kinshiki would trouble Senyo, and Natsuki said Senyo needed to overcome difficulties on his own to grow.
• Over five years, Namikaze Minato's reforms expanded Konoha's hospitals, education, infrastructure, technology, and use of Konoha Coin.
• Konoha's medical and military advantages strengthened its influence while weakening the Land of Fire's Daimyo's Mansion.
• The other shinobi villages set aside their rivalries and formed an alliance to oppose Konoha.

Karin visited the unconscious Senyo on her sixteenth birthday, telling him about the changes in their world and admitting how much she missed him. She shared her cake with him and kissed him, while Senyo remained unresponsive.

• Karin left Uchiha Senyo's home after Ruri and Zhiyu wished her a happy birthday, and Zhiyu worried about her devotion to Senyo.
• Ruri said she missed her brother, and Zhiyu reassured her that Senyo would return safely.
• Karin visited Senyo's clone in Orochimaru's Laboratory and told him about Sasuke, Gaara, Nawaki, Tenzo, Naruto, Minato, and Kushina.
• Karin told Senyo that she had turned sixteen and could now become his bride under Uchiha clan rules.
• Karin cried as she offered Senyo a piece of cake, then kissed his lips while he remained unconscious.

Senyo awakened the ocular technique Shadow Transmission and used it to return to Konoha after five years away. After accidentally pushing Karin away when she kissed him, he learned how long she had waited and comforted her with a kiss on the forehead.

• Senyo awakened Shadow Transmission and teleported from the space-time passage to his clone in Konoha.
• Senyo returned to his original body and instinctively pushed Karin away when she kissed him.
• Senyo received the clone's memories and realized Karin had waited for him for five years.
• Senyo apologized, embraced Karin, and listened as she explained her longing and the promise that she could become his bride when she grew up.
• Senyo removed Karin's glasses and kissed her forehead, stopping her sobs and leaving her blushing.

After learning that Karin had spent five years waiting for him and had turned sixteen, Senyo stopped treating her as a child. He agreed that they should date before becoming bride and groom, leaving Karin happily embraced by him.

• Karin asked why Senyo had pushed her away, and he explained that he had thought she was still eleven because less than a day had passed for him.
• Senyo recognized that Karin had grown up and reflected on her five years of devoted waiting for him.
• Karin gathered her courage and told Senyo that she wanted to become his bride.
• Senyo caressed Karin's cheek and told her they should date before becoming bride and groom.
• Senyo pulled Karin into his embrace, and she savored the warmth, knowing he no longer saw her as a child.