Chapter Summaries

Naruto, Jiraiya, Nagato, and the Tailed Beasts defeated a squad of armored attackers and discovered signs linking them to Kara and its Artificial Humans. After learning the group wielded energy from another Ten-Tails, Uchiha Toko left the village to investigate their technology.

• Pain restrained the attackers with Black Receivers while Naruto and the Nine-Tails launched a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Shukaku trapped the squad in a Sealing Technique barrier.
• Nagato, Jiraiya, Naruto, and Gaara regrouped, but a damaged attacker’s armor self-destructed when they approached the body.
• Jiraiya and Nagato identified a shell insignia on the attackers’ armor, and Naruto suspected they belonged to Kara.
• Deva Path Pain observed that the dead attackers did not bleed, while Naruto explained that each had shown individual hostility rather than behaving like a puppet.
• Jiraiya asked Nagato to secure the scene, and Deidara later arrived with a barrier squad from the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Toko connected the attackers to Kara’s Artificial Humans and Ten-Tails power, then set out with Shiranui Genma’s team for the Land of Rain border garrison.

Uchiha Toko investigated the Artificial Humans, discovered their armor held energy from a Ten-Tails, and sealed the dangerous energy with Natural Energy. He helped Gaara restrain Shukaku, then returned to Konoha with the corpses for research as Naruto continued his journey plans; more than a month later, merchants from the Land of Lightning began fleeing south into the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Toko examined the Artificial Human corpses in Amegakure and learned that only pure Natural Energy could suppress the energy in their armor.
• Uchiha Toko sealed the corpses' energy with Natural Energy, then entered Gaara's Sealing Space, subdued Shukaku, and replaced his seal so Gaara could control access to Shukaku's Chakra.
• Uchiha Toko learned that Naruto planned to meet the other tailed beasts and keep traveling, and he confirmed that the armor's energy came from a Ten-Tails.
• Uchiha Toko returned to Konoha with the corpses and distributed them to the Scientific Ninja Tool Laboratory, Orochimaru, and Tobirama Senju for research.
• More than a month later, research had made little progress, while major merchants from the Land of Lightning fled into the Land of Fire with large sums of cash.

Uchiha Toko allowed merchants fleeing the Land of Lightning to settle in the Land of Fire, imposing a ninety-percent tax for their first ten years. After receiving news about Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji, he summoned Hyuga Hiashi and hinted that Hiashi should leave clan affairs behind to lead a border force.

• Gato asked Uchiha Toko to keep fleeing Land of Lightning merchants out, but Uchiha Toko set their first ten years of taxes at ninety percent instead.
• Eighty percent of the merchants accepted the tax after the Raikage seized their businesses and killed the families of those who resisted, and they began investing across the Land of Fire.
• Jiraiya reported that Naruto had resumed his journey, Sasuke had returned to Konoha after learning Snake Sage Mode, and Neji had become a jonin.
• Uchiha Toko summoned Hyuga Hiashi and asked him to lead a new force between the Land of Hot Water and Land of Rice Fields border garrisons.
• Hyuga Hiashi realized Uchiha Toko was hinting that he should step down from handling the Hyuga Clan's affairs.

Hiashi Hyuga agreed to step down as Clan Head so Neji could take over, while Uchiha Toko and Tobirama Senju debated whether the Hyuga should abolish the Caged Bird system. At the clan assembly, Neji confronted the elders over their rules and declared that abolishing the system would be his first act as Clan Head.

• Hiashi Hyuga accepted Uchiha Toko's appointment as a garrison commander and said Neji should inherit the Hyuga Clan leadership.
• Uchiha Toko argued to Tobirama Senju that ending the Caged Bird system would help the Hyuga integrate into the village, and Tobirama reconsidered his position.
• Hiashi Hyuga announced Neji's succession at a clan assembly, where Neji silenced an elder who was preparing to invoke the clan rules against Hinata and Hanabi.
• Neji said he would marry Tenten, but the elders objected because she was not from the Hyuga Clan.
• Neji ordered the upcoming Caged Bird branding ceremony postponed and declared that abolishing the system would be his first act as Clan Head.
• The Hyuga head elder shouted that the Caged Bird was the clan's foundation, and Neji laughed at his claim.

Neji took control of the Hyuga Clan, freed his Branch Family from the Caged Bird, and began planning reforms with Sasuke. Their quiet evening at Neji’s home was interrupted when Toneri appeared and targeted Hinata, prompting Neji and Sasuke to fight back.

• Neji denounced the Hyuga elders, claimed the Clan Head’s seat, and declared that he would remove the Caged Bird and end the Main Family–Branch Family distinction.
• Neji’s allies subdued the elders, and he revealed that the Branch Family members were free of the Caged Bird and took the elders to the Military Police Force.
• Sasuke congratulated Neji on becoming Clan Head and gave him a scroll of Uchiha shuriken techniques; they agreed to compete over which clan would become Konoha’s leading dojutsu clan.
• Neji, Sasuke, Hinata, and Hanabi shared tea at Neji’s home, where Neji and Sasuke admitted they had taken the tea from the Hokage’s collection.
• Toneri appeared in the courtyard and demanded that Hinata return with him to the Moon Sanctuary, while stone puppets attacked her.
• Neji shielded Hinata and struck at the puppets’ chakra flow, as Sasuke launched a Chidori Sharp Spear at Toneri.

Toneri abducted Hinata and Hanabi while Sasuke and Neji failed to stop him, then attacked Konoha with meteors that Uchiha Toko destroyed. Toko sent Sasuke and Neji to prepare a rescue mission, and Sasuke decided to use Itachi’s eyes to grow stronger; Neji went to Kakashi to ask about contacting Naruto.

• Toneri took Hinata and Hanabi, knocked Sasuke and Neji from the sky, and escaped as another meteor threatened Konoha.
• Uchiha Toko destroyed the meteor with Susanoo and organized the village response while Hashirama and Tobirama watched.
• Sasuke and Neji told Toko that the attacker had Byakugan, and Toko explained the moon descendants of Otsutsuki Hamura and the Tenseigan.
• After destroying a second meteor, Toko tasked Sasuke and Neji with rescuing Hinata and Hanabi and arranged tracking support through the Ninja Tool Research Institute.
• Sasuke chose to use the Sharingan eyes left by Uchiha Itachi, while Neji went to Kakashi to ask how to contact Naruto.

After mastering Toad Sage Mode, Naruto returned to help Neji and Sasuke rescue Hinata and Hanabi. The three reached the last known location of Hinata’s signal and were ambushed by regenerating earth puppets.

• Naruto completed his Toad Sage Mode training at Mount Myoboku and learned from Kakashi’s message that Hinata had been abducted.
• Naruto returned to Konoha, while Tenten found Hinata’s life-monitor signal near the Land of Rice Fields and equipped Neji with a new anti-Chakra device.
• Neji and Sasuke set out to find Hinata and Hanabi, and Naruto joined them on the road; the three argued but continued together as Team 7.
• At the marked location, Neji detected unusual Chakra inside a cave, and Naruto saved him and Sasuke from a powerful beam fired from within it.
• Earth puppets emerged and attacked; Naruto’s Shadow Clones and Sasuke’s lightning destroyed them, but Neji saw the puppets reform from the scattered earth.

Naruto, Neji, and Sasuke fought through the puppets and reached a lunar palace while searching for Hinata. They found Hinata in Toneri’s custody, where he revealed his plan to destroy the Ninja World and claimed his evolving Byakugan would surpass the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Naruto shared Nine-Tails Chakra with Neji and Sasuke, and the three charged through the self-repairing puppets into a cave.
• A Genjutsu drew Neji into memories of his father’s burial and his childhood under the Caged Bird seal before Naruto and Sasuke helped him awaken.
• Neji discovered that they were on the moon and used mechanical flight armor to carry Naruto and Sasuke toward the spherical structure, where they fought through puppets and broke its barrier.
• Neji tracked Hinata’s life signal, and the three infiltrated Toneri’s palace while Hinata woke in Toneri’s bedroom.
• Toneri told Hinata he planned to destroy the Ninja World and said his Byakugan’s evolution would make Uchiha Toko powerless before him.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji infiltrated Toneri’s palace on the moon and rescued Hinata and Hanabi, but Toneri escaped before they could recover Hanabi’s eyes. As the palace began to collapse and Neji fell unconscious from a mysterious force, Naruto used Kurama’s power to shield the group and break through the ceiling.

• Toneri told Hinata that he had taken Hanabi’s eyes and planned to use them to destroy the Ninja World and make Hinata his bride.
• Neji used an electric drone to find Hinata and Hanabi, and the three rescuers planned separate routes to reach them.
• Naruto rescued Hinata, while Sasuke and Neji carried the unconscious, eyeless Hanabi from her room.
• Toneri confronted the group and attacked with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but Naruto’s Chakra shield protected them and Neji’s weapons forced Toneri to retreat.
• The palace shook as a surge of Byakugan-like energy made Neji collapse, and Naruto formed a giant Nine-Tails to protect everyone and smash through the ceiling.

Naruto and Sasuke broke free of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and wounded it with their Armored Susanoo, but Toneri transformed it into the Tenseigan Golem: Beast of Finality. As the monster attacked again, Neji met Ōtsutsuki Hamura in an illusory space, while Uchiha Toko learned the statue was likely connected to Isshiki and set out to use that information for leverage.

• Toneri used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to bind and drain Naruto, but Sasuke awakened his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and destroyed the Chakra chains with Takemikazuchi.
• Sasuke enveloped the Nine-Tails in Susanoo armor, and Naruto and Sasuke struck through the statue's barrier, badly wounding it and injuring Toneri through their connection.
• Uchiha Toko confirmed with Nagato that Akatsuki still had its own Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, inferred the moon's statue belonged to Isshiki, and went to the Uchiha clan shrine to seek more gold from an elder.
• Toneri raised a giant Tenseigan that transformed the statue into the Tenseigan Golem: Beast of Finality, while Neji encountered Ōtsutsuki Hamura in an illusory space.
• The transformed golem drove the Armored Susanoo back with a shockwave and launched a spatial sword of light, which Naruto and Sasuke prepared to counter with a black-lightning-charged slash.

Naruto and Sasuke were pushed to the brink by Toneri’s Reincarnation Golem until Neji awakened the Tenseigan and disrupted its power source. Neji activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and confronted Toneri, answering his Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

• Naruto and Sasuke fought the Reincarnation Golem with the Armored Susanoo and Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken, but its regeneration and attacks steadily weakened them.
• Naruto and Sasuke tried to strike the giant Tenseigan, but Toneri repelled them into a crater and prepared a finishing attack.
• Otsutsuki Hamura explained the original purpose of the Caged Bird to Neji and offered to elevate his eyes if he stopped Toneri and led his clan onto a new path.
• Neji awakened the Tenseigan and struck the giant Tenseigan, disrupting its connection to the Reincarnation Golem.
• Neji activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and blocked Toneri’s attack before answering his Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Neji and his allies defeated Toneri and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then returned toward Konoha after warning Iwagakure and Kumogakure not to exploit the crisis. At Naka Shrine, Black Zetsu tried to persuade Uchiha Toko to delay the Eye of the Moon Plan after learning the Otsutsuki were on the moon, but Toko remained fanatically committed to completing it.

• Neji shattered Toneri’s attack, defeated him, and watched him die when his Tenseigan drained his life; the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path vanished after being battered by Naruto and Sasuke.
• Neji hid the giant Tenseigan underground, healed Hanabi, and led the group back toward the Ninja World while Naruto and Sasuke headed toward the Valley of the End.
• Neji used sword rays to force Ōnoki and A to withdraw their forces from the borders, then returned to Konoha with Hinata and Hanabi.
• At Naka Shrine, Uchiha Toko told Black Zetsu that Otsutsuki Toneri and the people on the moon threatened the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Black Zetsu urged Toko to delay the plan, fearing the Otsutsuki might threaten Kaguya, but Toko insisted the plan was real and threatened anyone who spoke of abandoning it.

Uchiha Toko pressured Black Zetsu to reveal his old arrangements, then flew with Neji to the moon to seal the Giant Tenseigan. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu tried to recruit Sasuke against Toko, but Sasuke pretended to believe him, and A Fei arrived to warn Toko that Black Zetsu was disloyal.

• Uchiha Toko frightened Black Zetsu into agreeing to hand over his arrangements in the Ninja World.
• Neji reported the successful mission and explained that his gifted Tenseigan would fade as his own Byakugan began evolving; Uchiha Toko then flew with him to the moon to seal the Giant Tenseigan.
• Naruto and Sasuke returned home bruised after fighting, and Black Zetsu secretly summoned Sasuke to the Naka River Shrine.
• Black Zetsu claimed the Stone Tablet described Infinite Tsukuyomi and urged Sasuke to stop Uchiha Toko, but Sasuke pretended to accept the mission while doubting Black Zetsu.
• A Fei appeared at Uchiha Toko's residence and warned him that Black Zetsu was disloyal.

A Fei turned the White Zetsu against Black Zetsu after learning that Black Zetsu had abandoned the Eye of the Moon Plan, and Uchiha Toko supplied tools to help capture him. The White Zetsu ambushed and restrained Black Zetsu in his hidden lair, where he warned that activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi would bring danger from beyond their world.

• A Fei told Uchiha Toko that Black Zetsu had betrayed the Eye of the Moon Plan, and Uchiha Toko allowed the White Zetsu to pursue him.
• A Fei rallied more than a hundred White Zetsu to capture Black Zetsu and asked Uchiha Toko for assistance.
• Uchiha Toko gave A Fei sealing tools and imprinted a one-minute Dojutsu of the Eighty-Day Calamity God on him.
• Black Zetsu summoned White Zetsu to his hidden Information Nexus, where A Fei and his unit ambushed him with sealing techniques.
• A Fei's White Zetsu restrained Black Zetsu as he struggled and warned them that beings from beyond their world would kill them and Mother if they activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Uchiha Toko captured Black Zetsu and strengthened Konoha while Kumogakure and Iwagakure prepared an alliance against Konoha. Their surprise attacks seized the Land of Grass and former Kirigakure, leaving Konoha on the defensive as Uchiha Toko began a live broadcast.

• A Fei and the White Zetsu sealed Black Zetsu with help from Uchiha Toko’s Dōjutsu, and Uchiha Toko took control of the White Zetsu network.
• Konoha completed most of its military reforms, while Sasuke and Neji took important positions in the new military.
• A proposed that Kumogakure and Iwagakure ally to strike Konoha, and he revealed his chakra prosthetic and plan to defeat Uchiha Toko.
• Iwagakure invaded the Land of Grass on September 1st, Konoha Year 63, and forced its surrender within three days.
• Kumogakure’s Chakra cannons devastated Southern Hidden Mist, and Northern Hidden Mist and Kumogakure captured former Kirigakure before Shisui halted their advance.
• One week later, Uchiha Toko brought Minamoto Mikoto to a Konoha television station and began a live broadcast to the Land of Fire.

Uchiha Toko and Feudal Lord Minamoto Mikoto rallied the Land of Fire for war, with Mikoto declaring war on the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, and the Rebellion Army of the Land of Water. Toko then ordered Konoha’s forces to launch coordinated offensives against the enemy nations.

• Uchiha Toko delivered a broadcast urging Konoha’s people to stand firm and fight, while Minamoto Mikoto promised to stand with them and personally honor returning soldiers.
• Minamoto Mikoto declared war on the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, and the Rebellion Army of the Land of Water, while Fire Country emissaries set out to deliver the declarations.
• Uchiha Toko ordered Nara Shikaku to coordinate with Sunagakure’s Fifth Kazekage and move forces to the northwestern border against Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Toko assigned Kakashi’s First Legion to reinforce Shisui in the Land of Water, Choza and Ino-Shika-Cho’s Second Legion to advance toward the Land of Lightning, and Asuma’s Third Legion to attack from the Land of Grass.
• Uchiha Toko sent Sasuke and Neji on separate elite-unit missions to damage enemy defenses and supply routes, and said he would support the forces with the Flying Thunder God Squad.

Temari committed Sunagakure to Konoha’s war effort and placed Chiyo and Ebizo under house arrest when they urged betrayal. Naruto left a village in the Land of Waterfall with Gaara and Jiraiya, planning to target the Land of Earth’s Feudal Lord, while Shisui stabilized Konoha’s position in the Land of Water.

• Temari rejected Chiyo and Ebizo’s plan to betray Konoha, then had Baki and the Anbu place the elders under protection.
• Temari’s loyalty to Konoha followed the guidance of Uchiha Toko, whose advice had helped her become a skilled political leader.
• Naruto finished building canals for a village in the Land of Waterfall, warned its residents about the coming war, and departed with Gaara and Jiraiya.
• Naruto declined to return to Konoha and proposed that the group attack the Land of Earth’s Feudal Lord while he acted as a rogue ninja.
• Shisui used a green Susanoo to force Mei Terumi and C’s allied force to retreat from the Water Capital, while Killer B returned home after A recalled him.
• Konoha’s allied forces faced the Land of Earth’s army at the border of the Land of Grass.

Sasuke awakened his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and joined Naruto’s Nine-Tails in defeating the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Toneri transformed it into the Tenseigan Golem: Beast of Finality. As the enhanced monster attacked their Armored Susanoo, Neji encountered Otsutsuki Hamura in an illusory space, and Naruto and Sasuke prepared to counter another devastating strike.

• Naruto and the Nine-Tails attacked Toneri’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but it restrained them with Chakra chains and began draining their Chakra.
• Sasuke fused the two pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan into an Eternal Mangekyo, used Takemikazuchi to destroy the chains, and covered the Nine-Tails in Susanoo armor.
• Naruto and Sasuke’s Armored Susanoo broke through the statue’s barrier and badly wounded it, prompting Toneri to raise the giant Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Toko confirmed with Nagato that the Akatsuki’s Demonic Statue was still in its underground base, then went to the Naka River clan shrine to use the news to seek more gold.
• The giant Tenseigan’s Byakugan transformed the statue into the Tenseigan Golem: Beast of Finality, while Neji met Otsutsuki Hamura in an illusory space.
• The Tenseigan Golem pushed back Naruto and Sasuke’s Armored Susanoo with an azure shockwave and launched a spatial sword attack as they prepared to counter.

Neji learned the origins of the Caged Bird from Otsutsuki Hamura and awakened the Tenseigan to challenge Toneri. The chapter ended with Neji activating Tenseigan Chakra Mode and countering Toneri’s Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Naruto and Sasuke’s Armored Susanoo battled the Reincarnation Golem, but its attacks and regeneration overwhelmed them.
• Toneri used the giant Tenseigan’s repulsive force to hurl the Armored Susanoo into a crater, leaving Naruto and Sasuke badly injured.
• Otsutsuki Hamura told Neji that the original Caged Bird had been intended to protect the Byakugan and asked him to stop Toneri and guide his clan onto a new path.
• Neji awakened his Tenseigan and disrupted Toneri’s control of the giant Tenseigan, interrupting the Reincarnation Golem’s attack.
• Neji activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and blocked Toneri’s strike before countering Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Neji and his allies defeated Toneri and the moon’s Demonic Statue, then returned to Konoha after warning Iwagakure and Kumogakure not to exploit the village’s crisis. At Naka Shrine, Black Zetsu learned that the Otsutsuki were on the moon and tried to postpone the Eye of the Moon Plan, but Uchiha Toko refused to abandon it.

• Neji broke Toneri’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, defeated him, and watched as an unknown force drained Toneri’s life; Naruto and Sasuke helped destroy the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Neji hid the Giant Tenseigan, healed Hanabi, and led the group back toward the Ninja World while planning to bring their teacher to seal the eye.
• Neji’s attacks forced Ōnoki and A to withdraw their gathered forces from the borders, and Naruto and Sasuke raced toward the Valley of the End as Neji took Hinata and Hanabi to Konoha.
• Uchiha Toko told Black Zetsu that Otsutsuki Toneri had come from the moon, prompting Black Zetsu to propose postponing the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Uchiha Toko insisted the plan would bring peace and cut a corner off the Stone Tablet to threaten anyone who suggested giving up.