Chapter Summaries

Obito overwhelmed Yamato, Sai, and Fū, killing Sai and Fū while deciding to capture Yamato after discovering his Wood Release. Meanwhile, Kakashi and Nagato gained the upper hand in their battles, leaving Root’s forces in worsening danger.

• Obito broke through Yamato and Sai’s combined defenses with powerful Flame Release techniques, then used Kamui to send Sai’s head into the Kamui Dimension.
• Naruto and Sakura reacted in shock when Sai’s severed head appeared beside Team 7, Zabuza, and Haku in the Kamui Dimension.
• Obito watched Sai’s soul get swallowed by Nagato’s King of Hell, then killed Fū and continued fighting Yamato.
• Yamato’s mask broke, revealing his identity, and Obito chose to capture him alive because of his rare Wood Release.
• Kakashi removed his gravity rods and cut down the Aburame clan members’ insect forms with his White Fang Blade.
• Nagato killed the ninjas beside Danzō with Almighty Pull and mechanical arms as their battle intensified.

Nagato overwhelmed Danzo and the Root ninja, then pursued Danzo as he fled. Danzo survived Nagato’s Great Fire Annihilation by using Izanagi, revealing one of the Sharingan on his arm had closed.

• Danzo summoned a Dream Tapir, but Nagato’s many Summoning Animals and the King of Hell overwhelmed Danzo’s forces.
• Danzo created Shadow Clones to cover his escape, but Nagato destroyed them and chased his real body.
• Nagato used Almighty Pull and the Five Releases against Danzo, who escaped a Vacuum Bullet with Wood Release.
• Nagato’s Great Fire Annihilation consumed Danzo’s wooden defenses, and Obito worried that Danzo had died before they could question him.
• Danzo reappeared alive with one Sharingan on his arm closed, and Nagato recognized his survival technique as Izanagi.

Danzo used Izanagi and Kotoamatsukami against Nagato, Obito, and Kakashi, while reliving the memory of Tobirama choosing Hiruzen as the next Hokage. After implanting a command in Nagato, Danzo appeared to run out of Sharingan and unleashed a final attack on his enemies.

• Danzo spent more Sharingan to undo Nagato’s attacks with Izanagi and decided to target Nagato with Kotoamatsukami.
• Danzo’s attempt to control Nagato triggered a memory of Tobirama choosing Hiruzen as the next Hokage, and Danzo realized he was caught in a genjutsu.
• Danzo cast Kotoamatsukami on Nagato, but the Rinnegan resisted his control, so Danzo implanted the command to let the Hidden Leaf Village exist forever.
• Kakashi repeatedly cut Danzo down as Danzo used his remaining Izanagi, until Danzo’s Sharingan were exhausted.
• Danzo laughed, declared he would not let Obito and Kakashi live, and tore open his clothes as black blood gushed out.

Danzō used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing and died, while Nagato embraced the idea that Konoha could endure only through a unified Shinobi World and the Empire’s ideology. Nagato and his companions set off for the Hidden Sand Village, where Obito reflected on its harsh desert environment.

• Danzō activated the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing, and Kakashi and Obito escaped while Danzō died.
• Obito found that Danzō’s eyes had been destroyed and took his corpse for the Two-World Transmission Channel.
• Tenzō reported that Root had been almost completely wiped out, and Danzō’s corpse appeared in the Kamui Dimension.
• Nagato’s thoughts turned to making Konoha endure by unifying the Shinobi World and abolishing the Shinobi Village System.
• Nagato recruited Kakashi and Obito’s cooperation, summoned the Giant Bird, and set off with them and Sasuke for the Hidden Sand Village.
• Obito compared the wind-swept Hidden Sand Village with the more livable village in the Empire.

Tobi told Obito that Nagato had extracted the Nine-Tails and that two Kakashis had appeared, one of whom looked exactly like Obito. Obito went to question Nagato as the group landed in the Hidden Sand Village and split up to gather intelligence and supplies.

• Tobi reported that Nagato, not Pain, had extracted the Nine-Tails and that one of two Kakashis resembled Obito; Black Zetsu confirmed the report.
• Obito left to find Nagato, while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu stayed behind to keep watch.
• Nagato, Obito, Kakashi, and Sasuke landed safely in the Hidden Sand Village, though Obito admitted internally that he had forgotten to help Sasuke.
• Obito released Naruto, Zabuza, Haku, Sakura, and Yamato from the Kamui Dimension, and Kakashi ordered the group to gather food and information.
• The group split into three teams to investigate the village, while Obito searched alone for materials to build a teleportation passage.
• Zabuza and Haku entered a clothing store to gather information, while Nagato took Naruto and Sasuke to eat and collect general intelligence.

Nagato, Sasuke, and Naruto learned from a Hidden Sand Village drunk that gold-dust trading had become nearly impossible, while Kakashi and Yamato revealed information about the village to their captors. The old man prepared to explain the reason behind the gold-dust shortage after Nagato offered him gold nuggets.

• Kakashi led Kakashi and Yamato through the Hidden Sand Village and drew out information about its history and mineral wealth.
• Nagato, Sasuke, and Naruto entered a tavern, where Nagato claimed they were merchants seeking to buy minerals.
• A drunk man told Nagato that gold-dust trading had become unprofitable and suggested selling fruit or fruit wine instead.
• Nagato offered the drunk man more drinks, then showed him two gold nuggets and asked why gold-dust trading had become difficult.
• The drunk man decided to reveal the Hidden Sand Village's open secret in exchange for the gold nuggets.

Nagato learned that the Wind Kage and the Jinchuriki had gone to the Hidden Leaf Village to carry out the Konoha Crush Plan, while Obito found a vast stockpile of rare metals in the Hidden Sand Village. The group planned to use the materials to open a teleportation channel and persuade the Sand villagers to join the Empire, by words or force.

• Nagato learned from a drunkard that the Wind Kage and the Jinchuriki had left for the Hidden Leaf Village with the Hidden Sand elites to carry out the Konoha Crush Plan.
• Nagato relayed the news to Obito and Kakashi, and Kakashi explained that the Hidden Leaf Village had invited other villages to the Chunin Exams.
• Obito found a huge stockpile of gold dust, iron sand, and other rare metals in a secret warehouse and said the resources could help open a temporary teleportation channel.
• Kakashi ordered Obito to search for and take other hidden supplies, while another Kakashi defended the seizure as borrowing that would eventually benefit the villagers.
• Kakashi said the group needed to persuade the Hidden Sand villagers before building the channel, then suggested using force if they would not accept the Empire's ideals.

Kakashi and his companions entered the Hidden Sand Village seeking space for the Cross-Dimensional Channel, but a confrontation with Sand Shinobi turned into a fight. After Kakashi defeated the patrol, Chiyo arrived with ten puppets and demanded that he return her son and the fallen warriors.

• A Hidden Sand patrol recognized Kakashi as the White Fang of Konoha, and an Elite Jonin pretended to welcome him while the village's shinobi surrounded the group.
• Sagan attacked with Earth Release—Quicksand, but Kakashi countered it and cut through Sagan's Sand Release body with the White Fang Blade.
• Sagan and the other Sand Shinobi launched several attacks, but Kakashi blocked them with Blade Tornado and dispersed the smoke with Wind Release—Raging Wind Blade Aura.
• Kakashi beheaded Sagan, captured the Sand Shinobi who had used Wind Concealment Technique, and knocked the remaining attackers unconscious when they refused to surrender.
• Chiyo arrived with ten grotesque puppets and demanded that Kakashi return her son and the lives of her Hidden Sand warriors.

Chiyo confronted Kakashi in Hidden Sand Village, mistook him for his father before recognizing him, and watched him overwhelm her puppets. Obito joined the fight with Susanoo, and Chiyo concluded that Konoha had engineered a long-running scheme to seize Hidden Sand while its Kazekage was away.

• Chiyo rushed to the battle after learning Konoha ninjas had been found and attacked Kakashi, believing he was the White Fang of Konoha.
• Chiyo recognized Kakashi as the White Fang's son and summoned her ten puppets, but Kakashi destroyed most of them and countered her techniques.
• Obito arrived from the treasury and used Susanoo to scatter the Hidden Sand ninjas attacking Kakashi.
• Chiyo linked Orochimaru's defection, the Uchiha Clan's reported extermination, and the Kazekage's summons to Konoha, concluding that Konoha planned to take Hidden Sand while its leaders were away.

Hiruzen kept the parallel-universe matter secret while Nagato, Kakashi, and Obito forced Hidden Sand Village to surrender and gathered the materials needed to open a Cross-Dimensional Channel. The chapter ended with them reporting to Uchiha Senju and Orochimaru that they were ready to build the anchor and open the channel.

• Hiruzen ordered the Anbu to keep the parallel-universe matter secret and focused on preparations for the Chunin Exams.
• Chiyo surrendered to Nagato, Kakashi, and Obito to prevent further deaths among the Hidden Sand ninja.
• Nagato ordered Obito to collect Hidden Sand's rare resources and metals, and Obito used Kamui to bring them back.
• Kakashi contacted Orochimaru and the Emperor, and a holographic projection of Uchiha Senju and Orochimaru appeared.
• Nagato, Kakashi, and Obito reported that they had gathered the materials needed to build a positioning anchor and open the Cross-Dimensional Channel.

Uchiha Senju learned that the temporary Cross-Dimensional Channel could not be stabilized without the One-Tail, which had been taken for the Konoha Crush Plan, and ordered construction to begin. He told Tsunade he planned to send Empire newcomers into the other world during its Chunin Exams, but she left the choice of who to send to him.

• Kakashi told the Emperor that the channel needed the One-Tail to become stable, but the Kazekage had taken its jinchūriki to carry out the Konoha Crush Plan.
• Senju accepted the delay, ordered the teleportation array built, and told his men to coordinate with Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Senju summoned Tsunade to Konoha University and told her the temporary channel was about to open.
• Tsunade asked about her counterpart in the other world, and Senju joked that she would be a forty- or fifty-year-old virgin.
• Uchiha Senju said he wanted to send Empire newcomers to the other world during its Chunin Exams and asked Tsunade whom he should choose.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Senju to decide for himself.

Uchiha Senju chose shinobi from Konoha University and Hidden Sand University, including Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, to travel to World 64. In World 64, the group opened a transmission channel to the Empire by draining Hidden Sand shinobi and others, and the chapter ended with the connection established and the Empire preparing to test it.

• Uchiha Senju selected Gaara, Kankuro, seven Konoha rookies, Rasa, Chiyo, and Uchiha Setsuna for the mission to World 64.
• In Hidden Sand Village, Chiyo watched the village's accumulated resources get consumed as Nagato, Obito, Kakashi, and Orochimaru prepared the transmission channel.
• Obito sacrificed Danzo's corpse to stabilize the channel, while Nagato drained the Nine-Tails and Hidden Sand shinobi to supply it with Chakra.
• Kakashi pushed Naruto, Yamato, Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku, Sasuke, Sakura, and Chiyo into the effort to provide more energy.
• The transmission channel connected, and the people in Hidden Sand Village felt the Empire's abundant natural Chakra flood into their world.
• Orochimaru confirmed the connection to Kakashi and ordered the Empire to send someone through for a stability test.

Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku, Yamato, Chiyo, and Naruto crossed through the unstable dimensional channel into the Empire. Naruto arrived safely and met the Empire’s Sasuke and his own alternate self, whose warm welcome brought him to tears.

• Kakashi and the others sent Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku, Yamato, and Chiyo through the Cross-Dimensional Channel.
• Obito sent Naruto through last, and Naruto crossed safely under the protection of his Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Naruto emerged in the Empire and learned that the Third Hokage was its Emperor.
• Naruto mistook the Empire’s handsome Sasuke for his own Sasuke before the two clarified that they were from different worlds.
• The Empire’s Naruto appeared, and the sight of his alternate self made Naruto tear up.

Naruto and Sasuke arrived in the Empire’s world and met their alternate selves, while World 64 received a group of Imperial reinforcements. The teleportation array collapsed just after Naruto and Sasuke entered the passage toward World 64.

• Naruto struggled with seeing his confident alternate self, who reassured him that his parents were on their way.
• Sasuke arrived and insulted his alternate self’s Chakra and Sharingan, but Naruto interrupted their argument and explained that Sasuke had prepared for their arrival.
• In World 64, Kakashi learned that no more people needed to be sent to the Empire and prepared to receive reinforcements.
• Chiyo, Uchiha Setsuna, Gaara, Kankuro, Rasa, and Konoha’s five prodigies arrived through the teleportation array.
• The array reached its limit and collapsed as Naruto and Sasuke entered the teleportation passage to World 64.

Naruto rescued Sasuke and the others as the Cross-Dimensional Channel collapsed, and the Empire's forces received missions to seize control of villages and collect the Tailed Beasts. Obito revealed that the Uchiha clan in this world had been wiped out, while Sasuke used genjutsu on Sakura as the group prepared to enter the Chunin Exams.

• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to pull Sasuke and the others to safety just before the Cross-Dimensional Channel closed.
• Rasa, Obito, Kakashi, and Nagato compared their missions to control the Hidden Sand Village, gather Tailed Beasts, and enter the Chunin Exams before taking over the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Nagato flew toward the Hidden Cloud Village, while Obito tried to persuade Uchiha Setsuna to help gather the Tailed Beasts.
• Obito told Setsuna that Itachi had killed the Uchiha clan in this world, and Setsuna awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan in shock and anger.
• Kakashi explained the local team system, while Sakura became captivated by Naruto and Sasuke despite knowing they were enemies.
• Sasuke ordered Sakura to look at him, then met her gaze with his Mangekyo Sharingan and cast genjutsu.

Ino read Sakura's memories, and Kakashi's group set off for the Hidden Leaf Village while Rasa began reorganizing the Hidden Sand Village. In the Empire, the newcomers from World 64 were sent to meet their contacts, where several recognized loved ones they had lost.

• Ino used her Memory Reading Technique on Sasuke-controlled Sakura and reported what she learned about the people and classes in this world.
• Kakashi led Gaara, Kankuro, and the others toward the Hidden Leaf Village after Rasa asked him to kill this world's Rasa if they met him.
• Rasa and Chiyo began dealing with the aftermath in the Hidden Sand Village and planned to gather its villagers and shinobi.
• Obito met with Nagato and Konan, ordered Akatsuki to investigate the villages, and told Nagato to watch the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Senju gave Orochimaru part of the Sage of Six Paths' soul after praising his work on the cross-world transmission.
• Yakushi Kabuto sent the World 64 visitors out of the experimental grounds, where Chiyo recognized Sasori and others cried out to Itachi, their mother, and their father.

In the Parallel Ninja World, Chiyo learned that her grandson Sasori had assassinated the Third Kazekage and defected from the Hidden Sand, leaving her shaken by how different and lonely this version of her life was. She hid her distress from the Sand shinobi and was left to process the loss of her family and the gulf between her world and theirs.

• Madara Uchiha remained troubled after his battle with Hashirama and wondered who the pale, snake-eyed people he had seen were.
• The Sand shinobi asked Chiyo what had happened after they passed out, and she told them they would find out soon.
• Chiyo asked a Sand shinobi whether he had seen Sasori and learned that Sasori had defected after assassinating the Third Kazekage.
• Chiyo recalled her conflict with her family over the Empire and her hope of finding Sasori, her son, and her daughter-in-law in this world.
• The Sand shinobi explained that White Fang, Hatake Sakumo, had killed Sasori's parents during the Second Ninja War, and that Chiyo had vowed to kill Sasori herself.
• Chiyo acknowledged the story through tears and laughter, overwhelmed by the knowledge that this world's version of her had lost her family.

Chiyo noticed that the Hidden Sand Village had barely changed in twenty years, while Rasa ordered the village to gather resources and train its ninjas. Rasa then asked Obito to find food and Water Release ninjas, and Obito abandoned his defiance after reading another message.

• Chiyo handed the summoning task to a Sand Jonin and wandered through the Hidden Sand Village, realizing it had not improved like the village in the Empire.
• Rasa told the Sand Jonin that he had driven off the Hidden Leaf invaders and ordered them to gather resources and train more ninjas.
• Rasa demonstrated his increased Magnet Release power, then instructed the village to study ninjutsu and the Sand Fire Body Refinement Method.
• Rasa messaged Obito to find food and capture Water Release ninjas within a day.
• Obito refused Rasa's orders and declared he would rather starve than work in the Wind Province, earning Setsuna's praise.
• After his wristband vibrated again, Obito changed his mind and agreed to collect food and Water Release ninjas.

Obito accepted Rasa’s offer of a paid sinecure and reunited with Rin by phone, while Itachi prepared to welcome people arriving from another world. When the cross-dimensional teleportation ended, Naruto saw Itachi and reacted with fury.

• Obito agreed to help Governor Rasa after being offered a sinecure and the concealment of his fake stamp.
• Rin called Obito using a number Itachi had provided, and the two shared news and promised to meet again.
• Rin thanked Itachi before he headed to Konoha University to welcome his younger brother from another world.
• Itachi met Sasori, Kushina, and Sakumo at the teleportation area as they waited for their counterparts to arrive.
• After the seals lifted, Kushina approached Naruto and Sakumo went to Kakashi, while Naruto saw Itachi and appeared ready to go berserk.

Sasuke arrived in the Empire and struggled with the gap between his abilities and those of its shinobi. After learning how weak he was by the Empire’s standards, he traveled with Itachi, revealed that his own Itachi had slaughtered the Uchiha Clan, and was asked how many tomoe his Sharingan had.

• Sasuke mistook Itachi for the brother who had killed his clan and attacked him, but Itachi dodged and calmed him down.
• Itachi learned that Sasuke was thirteen and still a Genin, and told him his current ability was comparable to an elementary school student just starting school.
• Itachi explained that Sasuke could gain special approval to attend one of the Empire’s five universities if he awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan or became a Jonin, then invited him to the clan lands.
• As they traveled, Sasuke told Itachi that his other self had murdered the Uchiha Clan and their parents, and that he still hated him.
• Itachi guessed that his other self had killed the clan to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan and spared Sasuke for the Eternal Mangekyo, then asked how many tomoe Sasuke’s Sharingan had.