Chapter Summaries

Minato brought Naruto and Shisui to meet the Land of Fire Daimyo and secured his approval and support for the Shinobi Allied Forces’ campaign against Akatsuki. Minato also proposed using the alliance to foster peace among the five nations, leaving the daimyo considering the ambition behind his plan.

• Minato, Naruto, and Shisui met with the Land of Fire Daimyo, who recognized Naruto and laughed at his greeting of “Uncle Daimyo.”
• Minato told the daimyo that the Five Kage planned to form the Shinobi Allied Forces, invade the Rain Country, and eliminate Akatsuki.
• After hearing that Akatsuki might target him, the daimyo agreed to evacuate and promised funding and supplies for the war effort.
• The daimyo formally approved Konoha’s participation in the allied campaign and ordered his ministers to cooperate with Minato.
• Minato asked the daimyo to help arrange discussions among the five daimyo to support peace, and said someone had to try to surpass the efforts of past Kage.

Naruto and Hinata watched Konoha celebrate with fireworks before Naruto asked Jiraiya to alter the Mysterious Peacock Method. Jiraiya agreed in exchange for Naruto’s help with inspiration for his new book, and Naruto accepted with a plan of his own.

• Naruto and Hinata met Shikamaru and Temari atop Hokage Rock and teased them about being on a date.
• Fireworks filled Konoha as Minato and Kushina enjoyed the festival, while other villagers and couples spent the evening together.
• Naruto and Hinata watched the fireworks together, and Naruto wondered whether this was the happiness the Great Toad Sage had foretold.
• Naruto brought Jiraiya a scroll of the Mysterious Peacock Method and asked him to change the shape of its wings.
• Jiraiya agreed to modify the technique if Naruto helped inspire his new book, and Naruto accepted, anticipating Jiraiya’s interest in the Harem Technique.

Hatake Kakashi introduced himself as Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura’s jonin sensei and announced their Survival Exercise. The three discussed the test and went to eat together, while Kakashi watched them and then headed to the Memorial Stone.

• Hatake Kakashi met Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura on the rooftop and asked them to introduce themselves.
• Kakashi announced that the team would take a Survival Exercise the next morning, warning that graduates who failed would return to the Academy.
• Naruto reasoned that the test might involve a fight against Kakashi, and Sasuke and Sakura considered what they might face.
• Naruto invited Sasuke and Sakura to eat together and discuss their strategy, and both agreed.
• Kakashi watched the three leave, approved of their team atmosphere, and headed toward the Memorial Stone.

Naruto and the assembled teams fought a horde of strange monsters near Akatsuki’s path, coordinating their attacks to take the creatures down. The battle continued as each team engaged different monsters, while Tsunade stayed in Konoha as backup.

• Guy and Rock Lee kicked a dolphin monster into the water, and Tenten used Flying Thunder God to bring her teammates across.
• Naruto dispersed the floodwaters, while Sasuke struck down a hawk-like monster with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Naruto and Kakashi monitored Akatsuki’s progress as the monsters adapted and targeted the nearby humans.
• Minato arrived with reinforcements, bringing the group to twenty-six people and one dog, and ordered everyone to fight in coordinated teams.
• Team Guy, Asuma’s Team, Kushina’s Team, the Melon Head Team, and Team Kurenai attacked different monsters using their respective techniques.

After Sasuke sleepwalked toward Konoha’s exit and attacked Itachi, Minato gathered experts to investigate a hidden curse mark. Naruto went to the Hyuga Clan to ask for help examining Sasuke, and Hiashi received him at the training ground.

• Sasuke was secretly marked by a disguised child, then sleepwalked toward the village exit and attacked Itachi when Itachi tried to stop him.
• Itachi restrained Sasuke with Steel Wire, and Sasuke woke with no memory of what had happened.
• Minato, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kushina, Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura examined Sasuke but found no trace of the curse mark.
• Naruto suggested asking the Hyuga Clan to inspect Sasuke, and Minato sent him to bring help without drawing attention.
• Naruto arrived at the Hyuga training ground, where Hiashi was teaching Hanabi while Neji and Hinata listened.

Naruto tried to convince Tsunade to return to Konoha by challenging her to coin-flip bets and arguing that her bad luck could be overcome. Tsunade agreed to one final bet: if Naruto won, she would go back with him, and if he lost, he would call her Nee-san.

• Naruto asked Tsunade why winning bets made her unhappy, and she explained that people around her suffered misfortune whenever she won.
• Naruto challenged Tsunade to coin-flip bets, and she lost repeatedly while Naruto won.
• Tsunade tried betting against Jiraiya and Shizune, then against Naruto again, and only Naruto managed to beat her.
• Naruto told Tsunade that her supposed misfortune might change because he had come to find her.
• Tsunade proposed one final bet, promising to return to Konoha if she lost and asking Naruto to call her Nee-san if he lost.
• Naruto told Tsunade his name was Naruto, and she replied that she knew before he agreed to call her Nee-san.

Minato’s forces split up to fight Pain and Kisame, while Tenten recognized one of Pain’s bodies as the corpse of Ziyang Hua. Naruto, Itachi, and Guy confronted Kisame, and Naruto overwhelmed Kisame’s Water Style attack with a much larger wave.

• Minato sent Kakashi and Kaede after one opponent and assigned Itachi, Guy, and Naruto to pursue Kisame while the others fought Pain.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shisui stopped the Asura Path’s missiles, and six allies surrounded the Six Paths of Pain.
• Tenten recognized the Animal Path as Ziyang Hua and felt sorrow upon learning that she had died and her corpse was being used by Pain.
• Naruto asked Itachi to help him obtain Kisame’s jutsu, and Itachi agreed while reminding him that they needed to finish quickly.
• Kisame faced Naruto, Itachi, and Guy, then launched an Exploding Water Colliding Wave as Naruto used the same technique.
• Naruto’s wave rose far higher than Kisame’s and crushed it, forcing Kisame to dive underwater.

Pain ordered the Akatsuki to prepare to capture the Nine Tails before the Allied Forces assembled, while Orochimaru agreed to cooperate with Tobi for access to Rinnegan information. Back in Konoha, Naruto bought flowers for Hinata from Ino as the village settled into a brief pause before the war.

• White Zetsu reported that Orochimaru had accepted Tobi's offer, and Pain agreed to provide him with Rinnegan information in stages.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki to watch Konoha and move out to capture the Nine Tails before the Shinobi Allied Forces assembled, while Black Zetsu mentioned the Demonic Statue as a backup source of chakra.
• Orochimaru dismissed the Eye of the Moon plan as ridiculous and told Guren to prepare the White Zetsu for research and bring him Jugo.
• Naruto returned to Konoha as the village prepared for war and many businesses grew busy with recalled shinobi.
• Naruto bought a carefully arranged bouquet from Ino for Hinata, and Ino charged him twenty percent extra before deciding to offer him a discount next time.

Naruto reunited with Minato and Kushina in another world and was overwhelmed by the parental affection he had longed for. After seeing how warmly the village treated him and meeting his new family, he finally entered their home and heard them welcome him back.

• Naruto sobbed in Minato and Kushina's arms, and Minato comforted him while Kushina gently patted his back.
• Naruto struggled to call Minato and Kushina by name, so they suggested going home and sharing a meal instead.
• Minato explained that the villagers treated Naruto warmly because he had protected many people, and Naruto encountered Gan, Wen, Cui, and Kimimaro on the way home.
• Kushina told Naruto about Karin and Haku as the family walked through Konoha and arrived at their well-kept house.
• Naruto hesitated at the doorway, then said, "I'm home," and Minato, Kushina, Haku, and Karin welcomed him.

After Akatsuki spent weeks extracting the captured Tailed Beasts, Ōnoki called a Five Kage Summit to unite the villages against them. The other Kage accepted, while Mabui imagined increasingly elaborate schemes behind the invitation and left the Raikage bewildered.

• Akatsuki spent more than half a month sealing the Two Tails, Four Tails, and Five Tails, while Black Zetsu speculated that the Demonic Statue was suffering because of the sealing order or clashing Chakra.
• After searching unsuccessfully for nearly a month, Ōnoki called a Five Kage Summit to discuss eliminating Akatsuki and sent invitations to the other villages.
• Minato accepted the invitation, and Yagura and Gaara also agreed to attend and oppose Akatsuki.
• The Raikage suspected Ōnoki had hidden motives, and Mabui successively theorized that he planned to expose the Lightning Village's lost Jinchuriki and upset the balance of the Tailed Beasts.
• Mabui concluded that Ōnoki's invitation had at least five layers of intent, leaving the Raikage confused.

Minato revealed to Yagura that the masked man who controlled him was the same person who released the Nine Tails thirteen years earlier, and that he was connected to Akatsuki. The meeting ended with Yagura and Minato agreeing to share intelligence about the organization, which planned to capture the Tailed Beasts.

• Jiraiya and Yagura chatted warmly while Sasuke watched Zabuza, and Minato returned with Naruto and Shisui.
• Minato told the Kirigakure delegation that Konoha had defeated Sky Ninja Village's invasion, then Yagura asked how Minato knew he had been controlled.
• Yagura described the masked man's orange spiral-patterned mask, exposed Sharingan, and space-time ninjutsu, and Minato confirmed that he was the same man who released the Nine Tails thirteen years earlier.
• Minato told Yagura that the man was linked to Akatsuki, an organization seeking to capture all the Tailed Beasts, and suspected its headquarters was in Amegakure.
• Yagura thanked Minato and promised that Kirigakure would share future intelligence about Akatsuki with Konoha.

Naruto and the other examinees completed a written test that secretly judged their teamwork, then learned the next round required full three-person teams to race to a post in Sunagakure Village. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura set off together, with Naruto choosing not to transport them directly.

• Naruto sent Sasuke and Sakura scrolls assigning them the fifty-point question, while Hinata, Shikamaru, and Haku declined his help and used their own methods to communicate with teammates.
• Rock Lee announced that he had figured out the question, and examinees used ninjutsu, signals, and teamwork to answer before Naruto passed the time with snacks and cards.
• For the question about choosing a teammate as bait, Sasuke and Sakura briefly wrote Uzumaki Naruto...'s Shadow Clone, then erased it; Naruto submitted a blank paper and passed.
• At the training field, Temari announced that teams missing a member were disqualified and that the remaining examinees had to race to the Demon Desert Surveillance Post, where the last thirty arrivals would be eliminated.
• Neji's team and Sasuke's team immediately ran, and Naruto later told Sasuke and Sakura that a green-haired girl named Kaede was a flying Jinchuriki.
• Naruto offered to take Sasuke and Sakura straight to Sunagakure Village, but they refused and continued running as endurance training.

Naruto passed the first Chunin Exam despite submitting a blank paper, then entered the Death Forest with Sasuke and Sakura for the second exam. After detecting a nearby group with unusually large Chakra, he led his teammates toward them.

• Sakura finished the written exam while Naruto sat idle, and Ino failed to use the Mind Body Switch Technique to copy Sakura's answers.
• Ibiki Kimimaro announced the tenth question, and twenty teams passed after the remaining candidates withdrew or stayed.
• Mitarashi Anko introduced the second exam, in which teams had to collect Heaven and Earth Scrolls and reach the Central Tower within five days.
• Naruto received a Heaven Scroll and entered the Death Forest with Sasuke and Sakura, joking about camping and going home for a meal.
• Naruto used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to detect three groups about five hundred meters away, including one with Chakra comparable to Kakashi's, and suggested investigating with their Kunai.

Naruto spent three days in a parallel world with a loving family before returning to Lou Lan and reuniting with his team. After learning that his other-world counterpart had destroyed Root, Naruto returned to his apartment and found Minato and Kushina waiting for him in his mental space.

• Naruto attended a surprise birthday celebration, made wishes for his friends and future, and vanished as the Time-Space Power ran out.
• Naruto reappeared in Lou Lan and reunited with Kakashi, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato, who told him that another Naruto had returned earlier and left.
• The team discovered that Root's base had been destroyed and Danzo and Root members had died; Sai realized his Curse of the Root was gone.
• Kakashi reported the events to Tsunade, who sent Anbu to investigate the other Naruto's actions.
• Naruto returned to his apartment, heard Minato and Kushina welcome him home from his mental space, and cried as he greeted them.

Naruto and Sasuke killed two Kusagakure ninja during the exam and discovered that their red-haired teammate, Karin, might be connected to the Uzumaki Clan. Naruto sent a Shadow Clone to bring Karin to the Hokage Office, where Kushina arrived to check whether Karin was her long-lost relative.

• Two Kusagakure ninja demanded the team’s scrolls, but Sasuke killed one with Chidori and Naruto killed the other with a Flying Thunder God-assisted Rasengan.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura found Karin, who surrendered her team’s Earth Scroll and said she did not know about the Uzumaki Clan.
• Naruto invited Karin to leave the exam with him and arranged for a Shadow Clone to take her to the Hokage Office.
• The Shadow Clone told Minato and Jiraiya about Karin and waited for Kushina to confirm whether she was related to them.
• Kushina rushed into the office, and the Shadow Clone presented Karin as a possible long-lost little sister.

Obito emerged transformed into the Ten-Tails’ jinchuriki and overwhelmed the fighters who attacked him. Minato used a familiar Flying Thunder God feint to strike Obito from behind, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Naruto and Zuo Zhu attacked Obito, but his Truth-Seeking Orb shield protected him as he completed his transformation.
• Obito knocked Zuo Zhu away, and Naruto rescued him from a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Obito broke Shisui’s Susanoo weapon and defeated both Shisui and Itachi’s Susanoo.
• Kushina trapped Obito’s path with Adamantine Sealing Chains while Minato moved in with a Sage Art: Rasengan.
• Obito anticipated Minato’s attack and defended against it, but Minato used Flying Thunder God: Second Step to strike him from behind.

Natsuhi agreed to go to Konoha for treatment after Mao and Sakura encouraged her, but the group was interrupted by a Hidden Cloud Village squad seeking Hoshigakure’s Star. Naruto attacked the squad with a massive Water Release technique, and Yugito Nii transformed into Matatabi to shield her teammates from the wave.

• Natsuhi admitted that overusing the Star had left her unsure how long she would live, and she agreed to try treatment in Konoha after Mao and Sakura reassured her.
• Naruto reported that four Hidden Cloud Village ninja, including a Jinchuriki, were approaching Hoshigakure to steal the Star, so Kushina and the others went to confront them.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones marked escape routes as Yugito Nii and her teammates Samui, Omoi, and Karui arrived and tried to negotiate passage.
• Kushina refused to let the Hidden Cloud squad pass, and Naruto launched a towering Exploding Water Colliding Wave before Yugito could finish speaking.
• Yugito called on Matatabi, transformed into the giant two-tailed cat, and carried Samui, Omoi, and Karui above the wave as the Konoha group stood on the water.

Naruto caught Jiraiya peeping at the women's bathhouse, exposed him with a Shadow Clone, and then met the legendary ninja face-to-face. After teasing Jiraiya as the Pervy Sage and telling him Kushina had warned Naruto to avoid him, Naruto headed home, with Jiraiya chasing after him.

• Naruto sent a Shadow Clone disguised as Naruko to shout about a peeping pervert, making Jiraiya fall from the roof and draw the bathhouse patrons' anger.
• Naruko startled Jiraiya by forming a Rasengan and striking herself, and Jiraiya recognized the technique and wondered if Minato had another daughter.
• Jiraiya identified Naruto as Minato and Kushina's son, summoned a toad, and introduced himself as the Toad Sage.
• Naruto called Jiraiya the Pervy Sage and said his parents had told him Jiraiya was an incredible ninja, though Kushina had warned him not to play with Jiraiya.
• Naruto decided to listen to his mother and walked home, while Jiraiya hurried after him and insisted that he was the Sage, not a pervert.

Naruto and his allies confronted Sasori and Deidara, with Sakura Bro supplying antidotes before Sasori unleashed a hundred puppets. Naruto pursued Deidara into the sky, while Sasori’s battle continued below and Naruto revealed that Konoha could use the Kamui Dimension as a travel route.

• Gaara arrived to confront Sasori and Deidara, and a Shadow Clone brought antidotes and Sakura Bro to the battlefield.
• Sakura Bro detected poison in the air, treated Naruto with an injection, and distributed antidotes to the others.
• Sasori summoned a hundred puppets, while Deidara flew away and Naruto took off after him.
• Naruto tried to hit Deidara with Rasenshuriken and Flying Thunder God Kunai, but Deidara evaded him and sent clay bombs that Naruto diverted into the Kamui Dimension.
• Naruto recalled that Flying Thunder God could travel through the Kamui Dimension and claimed the dimension for Konoha.

Naruto made progress on the Rasengan and asked Kakashi to train Sasuke in Raikiri, while Kushina taught Naruto Chakra Sensing after awakening Mind's Eye of the Kagura. The chapter ended with Naruto asking Kushina to compare his Chakra reserves with Kakashi's.

• Naruto formed a preliminary Rasengan and used it with his clones to blast holes in nearby trees.
• Kakashi noticed Naruto's Rasengan and suggested asking Minato about the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Naruto persuaded Kakashi to teach Sasuke Raikiri, and Kakashi went to find him while Naruto continued training.
• Kushina told Naruto that she had awakened Mind's Eye of the Kagura and explained that she could sense Chakra within five kilometers.
• Kushina taught Naruto Chakra Sensing, and Naruto asked her to compare his Chakra reserves with Kakashi's.