Chapter Summaries

At the Dragon Vein Ruins, Samui used her Cursed Seal Sage Mode to overwhelm Sasuke, while Uchiha Yoru revealed that he had arranged for Sasuke and his companions to reach this world. He welcomed Karin home and explained how their counterparts’ lives differed here as the battle between Samui and Sasuke continued.

• Samui activated Cursed Seal Sage Mode and used her Lightning God Armor to suppress Sasuke and Jugo in close combat.
• Karin analyzed Samui’s fighting style and advised Sasuke, who retreated and attacked with the Great Dragon Fire Technique.
• Uchiha Yoru appeared, suppressed Jugo’s Cursed Seal, and stopped Suigetsu and Karin from interfering while he watched the fight.
• Uchiha Yoru told Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo about their counterparts in this world, including Karin’s living mother, the Hozuki Clan’s place in Konoha, and Jugo’s friendship with Suigetsu.
• Samui continued her relentless assault, wounded Sasuke with her Chidori, and resisted his Genjutsu as both fighters began to tire.

At the Dragon Vein Ruins, Uchiha Yoru defeated Sasuke Uchiha and questioned his beliefs about the Uchiha clan’s massacre. Sasuke’s Cursed Seal revived the other world’s Orochimaru, who met Yoru and learned that his counterpart served as Konoha’s Root Minister.

• Samui ended Sage Mode and fought in Curse Mark State until Uchiha Yoru appeared and praised her.
• Sasuke learned that Yoru was Konoha’s Fourth Hokage and that fourteen years had passed in Yoru’s world while only a little over a month had passed in his.
• Yoru overwhelmed Sasuke with his speed, then challenged Sasuke’s belief that Itachi had exterminated the Uchiha clan alone.
• Sasuke’s Cursed Seal erupted, and Orochimaru resurrected through it using the Eight Branches Technique.
• Yoru manifested his Susanoo and Totsuka Blade, then told Orochimaru that his counterpart was Konoha’s Root Minister.

Snake Squad members reunited with counterparts and families in the alternate Konoha, while Uchiha Yoru began explaining the hidden truths of Sasuke Uchiha’s world. Sasuke left with a new assignment to join ANBU and investigate the Sarutobi Clan.

• Orochimaru and his alternate-world counterpart eagerly began studying one another in Root’s expanded research facility.
• Snake Squad Karin reunited with her mother and a younger Karin, while Hozuki Suigetsu visited his clan and Jugo found comfort in Kimimaro’s company.
• Uchiha Yoru brought Snake Squad Sasuke to the Uchiha Compound, where he met this world’s Itachi and Shisui and learned how differently the clan’s history had unfolded.
• Sasuke asked Uchiha Yoru about the Mangekyo Genjutsu that had brought him there, and Yoru urged him to investigate his own world’s truth rather than trust appearances.
• Uchiha Yoru advised Sasuke to join ANBU and monitor the Sarutobi Clan alongside Itachi.

Snake Squad decided to remain in Konoha until the Dragon Vein opened again in five years, with Sasuke joining ANBU to grow stronger and uncover the truth about Itachi. Sasuke began his new assignment with the other world's Itachi, who took him to an ANBU post near the former Uchiha neighborhood.

• Tsunade told Uchiha Yoru that the next Dragon Vein resonance was expected in five years, and Yoru said the visitors could return then or stay as Konoha shinobi.
• Hozuki Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo each chose to stay in this world, while Sasuke decided to join ANBU, train, and return to investigate his clan's massacre.
• Karin planned to study Uzumaki Clan Fuinjutsu under Kushina, Jugo planned to learn control under Orochimaru, and Suigetsu revealed that he would adapt in ANBU before becoming a Jonin instructor.
• Uchiha Itachi told Sasuke to report to ANBU that night and said Uchiha Yoru would guide him; Sasuke also agreed to meet Itachi at the training ground.
• Itachi led Sasuke to an ANBU mission post near the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clan compounds, where Sasuke recognized the route from his childhood.

Uchiha Itachi brought Sasuke Uchiha into ANBU, where he joined a mission monitoring the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans. As their resentment turned toward a coup, Uchiha Yoru offered Asuma Sarutobi a chance to reconcile, while Tsunade Senju warned that the clans intended to seize power.

• Uchiha Itachi introduced Sasuke Uchiha to Snake Squad and showed him how ANBU monitored the three clans.
• Kakashi explained the clans’ stockpiling of weapons and their ties to the Land of Lightning, and Sasuke Uchiha recognized their search for outside allies.
• Kakashi gave Sasuke Uchiha a book written by Teacher Yoru, which Sasuke agreed to read seriously.
• Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clan members discussed restoring Third Hokage-sama through a coup, while their meeting was secretly reported to the Hokage.
• Asuma Sarutobi told Uchiha Yoru that he could no longer control his clan, and Uchiha Yoru offered reconciliation if Third Hokage would choose to execute Danzo.
• After Asuma Sarutobi left, Tsunade Senju told Uchiha Yoru that the three clans intended to launch a coup and seize the village.

Uchiha Yoru’s Konoha prepared for a possible coup by the Sarutobi Three Clans and the return of the mysterious Space Ninjutsu user, while Shimura Danzō joined Uchiha Obito’s Akatsuki Organization. Yoru welcomed Snake Squad’s Sasuke into the Uchiha Clan and laid out a training plan to strengthen him.

• Hizashi Hyuga, Nawaki Senju, and Uzumaki Kushina reported evidence of a Sarutobi Three Clans coup and repeated prison infiltrations, prompting Uchiha Yoru to order emergency preparations and strengthen Sasuke’s protection.
• Uchiha Mikoto warned that the mysterious person might be manipulating the three clans, and Uchiha Yoru suspected Asuma Sarutobi was keeping the person as leverage.
• Uchiha Obito freed Shimura Danzō from the Kamui Dimension, and Danzō agreed to join the Akatsuki Organization to pursue his hatred of Konoha’s Uchiha leadership.
• Uchiha Obito confronted Asuma Sarutobi in the hidden forest and mocked the three clans’ crimes and their loss of control.
• Uchiha Mikoto welcomed Snake Squad’s Sasuke as an Uchiha clan member and arranged standard support for him, while Uchiha Yoru revealed that Mikoto had awakened her Mangekyo for him.
• Uchiha Yoru offered to train Sasuke in Lightning Release and taijutsu and directed him to receive a new Curse Mark Potion and pursue Sage Mode.

Minato Namikaze abandoned his opposition to Uchiha Yoru’s discriminatory policies after years of observing the people he had tried to help. When unrest escalated into a riot in Konoha’s designated district, the Konoha Military Police Force moved in, and Minato Naruto realized Sakura Haruno was in danger.

• Haruno Chō and Minato Naruto tried to persuade black workers to harvest medicinal herbs, while Minato Namikaze and Nako Uzumaki watched and discussed Minato Naruto’s likely disillusionment.
• Minato Namikaze admitted defeat to Uchiha Yoru and accepted his role as Jonin Commander, then prepared to end the experiment in equality.
• As disturbances spread through the district, Minato Namikaze and Kakashi watched surveillance footage while Asuma Sarutobi agreed to use the crisis to warn his clan.
• After three days of failed harvesting and rising rumors, black residents looted shops and attacked Haruno Chō’s home, terrifying Sakura Haruno.
• Uchiha Mikoto ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to move out as the Ninja Academy organized a live combat demonstration.
• Minato Naruto noticed Sakura Haruno was absent and rushed toward the riot, realizing that his leniency had put his friends at risk.

Konoha’s crackdown on a riot ended the anti-discrimination experiment and convinced former opponents that Uchiha Yoru had been right. The chapter left Asuma Sarutobi rejecting his father Hiruzen Sarutobi’s stubborn defense of his reputation as the Sarutobi clan grew increasingly estranged from him.

• Samui, Mabui, and Yugito ordered the Konoha Military Police Force and Ninja Academy students to suppress the rioters, while Naruto arrived to find Sakura and her parents badly hurt and attacked the people responsible.
• Konoha’s forces subdued nearly a thousand rioters, executed those who had killed people, and punished the rest; former anti-discrimination advocates later apologized to Uchiha Yoru in the Hokage’s Office.
• Uchiha Yoru told Samui, Mabui, and Yugito that he intended for them to reach the moon, then brought them to the castle, where Mikoto, Kushina, and Tsunade discussed their deeper secrets and Yoru’s evolving body.
• Asuma Sarutobi returned to the Sarutobi clan and urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to put the clan ahead of his pride and seek Danzo’s execution, but Hiruzen refused to beg the Uchiha.
• Asuma Sarutobi accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of valuing his reputation above the village and its people, and gave up on changing his father’s mind.

Sasuke trained under Uchiha Yoru and began accepting his new life while Senju Suzuki cared for him. In the Hokage's Office, Asuma revealed that the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans were plotting a coup and agreed to help expose the mysterious man behind the Nine-Tails attack, leaving Uchiha Yoru to plan how to deal with the clans and their surviving civilians.

• Uchiha Yoru's Shadow Clone trained Sasuke in Lightning Release Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, and Sasuke agreed to make those his focus while using the Sharingan as support.
• Senju Suzuki used Medical Ninjutsu to ease Sasuke's fatigue, and the two acknowledged that Uchiha Mikoto and Tsunade Senju hoped to bring them together.
• Asuma told Uchiha Yoru that the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans were discussing a coup and had colluded with the mysterious man who manipulated the Nine-Tails.
• Asuma agreed to help eliminate the Sarutobi Clan and infiltrate the mysterious organization, asking Uchiha Yoru to spare Konohamaru.
• Uchiha Yoru promised to protect innocent civilians but said the surviving members of the three clans would lose their surnames and live as civilians.
• After Asuma left, Tsunade urged Uchiha Yoru to exterminate the clans, but he explained that publicly exposing their coup and sparing civilians could help erase their clan identities.

Asuma Sarutobi began slaughtering the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans ahead of schedule, while Konoha forces watched and prepared to suppress the coup. The massacre left Asuma confronting his father, Hiruzen Sarutobi, as Sasuke Uchiha relived the pain of his own clan’s extermination.

• Asuma Sarutobi told Minato Namikaze he would protect the village and accepted the burden of eliminating the threat within his clan.
• Sasuke Uchiha began explaining his clan’s extermination to Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi as Konoha prepared its forces for the rebellion.
• Uchiha Yoru informed Konoha’s Jonin about the coup and the mysterious enemy, while Uchiha Mikoto mobilized the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Asuma Sarutobi moved the attack forward, and he and Uchiha Obito began massacring the three clans after Asuma drugged their water supply.
• Sasuke Uchiha watched the slaughter with Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi, whose emotions were invaded by a hidden Mangekyo’s mental force.
• Asuma Sarutobi confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi at the Sarutobi Shrine, accused him of allowing the clan’s ambitions to grow, and stood over him as blood covered his hands.

Asuma Sarutobi exterminated the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans after they colluded with a mysterious man in a coup attempt, while Sasuke Uchiha, Uchiha Itachi, and Uchiha Shisui awakened their Mangekyo after witnessing a Genjutsu recreating the Uchiha massacre from Sasuke’s world. Uchiha Yoru spared Asuma and sent him to infiltrate Akatsuki, while Sasuke remained unconvinced that he had learned the truth about his own clan’s extermination.

• Konohamaru Sarutobi found the Sarutobi Clan grounds filled with corpses and ran home, where Asuma Sarutobi attacked him and revealed that he had slaughtered the clan.
• Sasuke Uchiha’s Genjutsu, strengthened by Uchiha Yoru, made Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi, and Uchiha Shisui experience the Uchiha Clan’s destruction from another world, and all three awakened their Mangekyo.
• Uchiha Yoru confronted Asuma, ordered Shisui to rescue survivors, and allowed Asuma to join Akatsuki as a Konoha agent after declaring him an S-rank dangerous ninja barred from the Land of Fire.
• Konoha shinobi searched the three clan grounds and found Konohamaru and survivors from thirteen civilian households, while Minato Namikaze reported that the mysterious man had escaped.
• Sasuke told Uchiha Yoru that the massacre in the other world did not reveal the full truth, and Yoru granted Sasuke, Itachi, and Shisui three months of leave to recover and reflect.

Konoha announced that the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans had attempted a coup with Danzo and were exterminated, while Asuma, Danzo, and a mysterious masked figure were branded dangerous fugitives. As other villages investigated Konoha’s strength and a newly awakened Uchiha Mangekyo, Jiraiya accepted that Konohamaru would be raised as an ordinary shinobi, though the boy vowed revenge against Asuma.

• Konoha publicized the three clans’ attempted coup and confiscated their property, while announcing that an Uchiha ANBU member had awakened a new Mangekyo.
• Ōnoki, Rasa, and Fourth Raikage A reacted to Konoha’s news, while the Fourth Mizukage revealed his blood-red eyes.
• Uchiha Yoru briefed Konoha’s Jonin on Asuma, Shimura Danzō, and the masked mysterious person, ordering shinobi to retreat from the masked figure unless they could counter his Space Ninjutsu.
• Jiraiya challenged Uchiha Yoru over exposing the coup, then visited Konohamaru, who cursed the village and vowed to kill Asuma.
• Jiraiya chose Ebisu to guide Konohamaru toward an ordinary shinobi life, rejecting Minato Namikaze and Shikaku Nara as instructors.

Four years after Konoha’s expansion transformed the Shinobi World, Uchiha Yoru prepared the village’s graduating students and Jonin for next year’s international Chunin Ninja Exams. Kakashi accepted leadership of Team Seven, while Yoru warned that the exams would test Konoha’s strength against a secret alliance of rival villages.

• Uchiha Yoru met with Pakura and Mei Terumi, who reported their mission and agreed to come home for dinner.
• Hinata Hyuga ranked first in the graduation exams, while Sasuke Uchiha and Minato Naruto tied for second.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Kakashi to lead Team Seven with Sasuke Uchiha, Minato Naruto, and a girl from the Hozuki Clan.
• Minato Namikaze asked Kakashi to guide Naruto so his son could experience the Shinobi World beyond his father’s protection.
• Uchiha Yoru announced that Konoha would host a major Chunin Ninja Exams next July, with villages across the Shinobi World invited and a maximum age of fifteen.

Konoha’s new graduates met their Jonin Leaders and celebrated their assignments, while Mei Terumi, Tsunade Senju, and Kushina Uzumaki discussed Uchiha Yoru’s unusual bloodline and a planned gathering. Uchiha Yoru assigned Orochimaru Sasuke to protect the young Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and warned him that the Dragon Vein would likely activate after next year’s Chunin Exam.

• Kakashi introduced Team 7, and Minato Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha argued over which of them would become Hokage while Hozuki Suigetsu urged them to fight.
• Mei Terumi’s Team 8 and Uchiha Itachi’s Team 10 introduced themselves, and Hinata Hyuga announced that she wanted to become part of Mei Terumi’s family.
• Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi arranged a dinner for the new teams, and Kakashi persuaded Mei Terumi to pay by calling her his Master's Wife.
• Tsunade Senju examined Mei Terumi and speculated that Uchiha Yoru’s bloodline regression might indicate a life form beyond the Sage of Six Paths; afterward, Tsunade and Kushina Uzumaki discussed Yoru’s condition and a gathering at home.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered Orochimaru Sasuke to work with Kakashi to protect the young Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and told him to prepare for the Dragon Vein’s expected activation after next year’s Chunin Exam.

Sasuke Uchiha and his former teammates discussed whether to return to their original world, while Sasuke resolved to return for the truth and reform what he saw as a mistaken world. At Konoha’s graduation photo gathering, Hinata Hyuga’s faintly glowing Byakugan caught Uchiha Yoru’s attention, and Minato Namikaze reflected on Konoha’s transformation and Yoru’s vision of peace.

• Sasuke Uchiha told Hozuki Suigetsu, Jugo, and Uzumaki Karin that the Dragon Vein might let them return after next year’s Chunin Exam, and each teammate chose to remain in this world while offering to accompany him back.
• Sasuke said he would return to seek the truth and help reform his original world, believing that great power came with great responsibility.
• Minato Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha posed for graduation photos in makeup and outfits chosen by their families, then joked about each other’s appearances.
• Hinata Hyuga arrived for the graduation photos, and Uchiha Yoru and Minato Namikaze realized she had detected their hidden presence; Yoru noticed the pale-blue glow in her eyes.
• Uchiha Yoru joined the graduates for a group photo, praised Hinata’s eyes, accepted her gift, and arranged a gathering for the students and their supervising Jonin.
• Minato Namikaze reflected on Konoha’s rapid growth and the integration of youths from other lands, concluding that Yoru’s vision could bring lasting peace despite the risk of war.

Uchiha Yoru discovered that Hinata Hyuga’s immense strength and Chakra may have come from an awakening bloodline, and he arranged for Tsunade to examine her. The chapter ended with Hinata lying down in Tsunade’s laboratory for the examination.

• Uchiha Yoru reviewed Hinata Hyuga’s records and learned that her exceptional abilities had been supported by years of intense training.
• Uchiha Yoru classified Hinata’s file as S-rank top secret and ordered her twin sister’s file upgraded to A-rank.
• Mabui reported that Konohamaru Sarutobi’s rapid Chakra growth might stem from Senju or Uzumaki bloodline, but Uchiha Yoru chose not to intervene.
• Kakashi, Kabuto Yakushi, Might Guy, Mei Terumi, Pakura, and their genin teams gathered to socialize and prepare for the next Chunin Exam.
• Uchiha Yoru summoned Hinata to Tsunade’s laboratory and explained that he suspected her strength came from bloodline regression.
• Tsunade asked Hinata to lie down so she could examine her bloodline.

Tsunade discovered that Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan carried an unusually pure, regressed bloodline and suspected Uchiha Yoru’s evolving body could lead beyond the Sage of Six Paths toward the Otsutsuki. As the Hyuga Main Family moved to align itself with the Hokage, Uchiha Yoru chose the Dragon Vein’s other time-space as his next target, while Konohamaru lay unconscious under his watch.

• Tsunade examined Hinata and found that years of training and the Hyuga Clan’s resources had awakened a trace of Bloodline Regression in her.
• Tsunade theorized that Uchiha Yoru’s energy could support a thousand-year lifespan, and Yoru decided the Otsutsuki were the next bloodline he needed to measure himself against.
• Tsunade asked Uchiha Mikoto to take Hinata home and told her that Hinata could study with her, while Kushina and Tsunade found private photographs in a gift box from a girl.
• Hyuga Hiashi rebuked the Main Family elders for their past neutrality and persuaded the clan to prioritize the Hokage’s orders and send Tsunade a gift for taking Hinata as a disciple.
• Uchiha Yoru stood beside a pained, unconscious Konohamaru in his apartment at the edge of Konoha.

Uchiha Yoru learned that Danzo was preparing Impure World Reincarnation while Konoha’s planned Chunin Exam and Five Kage Summit alarmed the other villages. Danzo then approached Sunagakure with a plan to join forces with Kirigakure and use the forbidden jutsu against Yoru, leaving Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo to consider his offer.

• Uchiha Yoru extracted Konohamaru Sarutobi’s awakened Uzumaki Power, leaving Konohamaru unaware that his Chakra growth would slow.
• Orochimaru showed Uchiha Yoru a regenerative agent made from First Hokage and White Zetsu cells, then warned him that someone else had used Impure World Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Yoru suspected Shimura Danzō was preparing the forbidden jutsu and considered how it could relate to next year’s Chunin Exam.
• Fourth Raikage A rejected Konoha’s invitation as a scheme, while Third Tsuchikage Onoki decided to attend the Five Kage Summit and discuss Konoha’s growing power.
• Shimura Danzō offered Sunagakure an alliance with Kirigakure and claimed his perfected Impure World Reincarnation could kill Uchiha Yoru; Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo were left weighing the proposal.

Uchiha Yoru met with Nagato at the Valley of the End, where they discussed lasting peace, the Masked Man, and the Akatsuki Organization. Nagato agreed to join forces with Yoru, while Kakashi’s team encountered Zabuza Momochi in the Land of Waves.

• Rasa revealed that he planned to deceive Danzo and sell Konoha information, but Obito reported the plan to Danzo, who decided to control another Kage.
• Nagato told Yoru how Hanzo’s betrayal had nearly destroyed Akatsuki and explained his belief that a powerful weapon could preserve peace across generations.
• Yoru revealed his pursuit of immortality and offered Nagato the Nine-Tails from another world instead of Sasuke, then showed him that he possessed the Rinnegan and suggested Nagato’s eyes had a hidden problem.
• Nagato accepted Yoru’s invitation for Akatsuki to join Konoha’s cause, and Yoru gave him limb-regeneration medicine before he departed.
• Kakashi’s team arrived in the Land of Waves and faced Zabuza Momochi, prompting Kakashi to warn Naruto, Sasuke, and Suigetsu to be careful.

Sasuke Uchiha unleashed the Nine-Tails’ power to overwhelm Zabuza during the Land of Waves mission, while Snake Squad’s Sasuke watched from hiding. After Gato’s forces attacked, Zabuza killed Gato and disappeared into the mist, leaving the Kubikiribōchō behind for Suigetsu; the chapter then shifted to Uchiha Yoru and Konan in Konoha.

• Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto, and Suigetsu attacked Zabuza while Kakashi appeared trapped, and Sasuke’s hidden counterpart watched their fight.
• Sasuke used wires and a combined Fire Release and Wind Release attack, but Zabuza countered with water techniques and threatened Kakashi.
• Sasuke unleashed the Nine-Tails’ chakra, transformed, and drove Zabuza back until Kakashi revealed he was safe and ordered the team to protect Tazuna from Gato’s forces.
• Gato sent his gathered rogues and samurai to kill Tazuna, but Zabuza turned on him, killed him, and then vanished after a clash in the mist.
• Kakashi recovered the Kubikiribōchō and gave it to Suigetsu, while the team defeated the remaining attackers and completed the mission.
• The chapter shifted to Konoha, where Konan visited Uchiha Yoru in the Hokage’s office.