Chapter Summaries

Sparkle confronted Orochimaru about the cursed force and manipulated his desire to control it, while Naruto learned Tsunade was being considered for Fifth Hokage and challenged her. Naruto’s Rasengan fight ended with him using Adamantine Sealing, revealing a connection to Kushina.

• Tsunade refused Jiraiya’s request that she become the Fifth Hokage, while Naruto struggled to understand their conversation.
• Sparkle met Orochimaru and identified the branch as a remnant of destiny tied to an ancient calamity.
• Orochimaru rejected Sparkle’s warning and decided the ancient power could be used by him, while Sparkle successfully provoked his interest.
• Naruto became angry when he learned Tsunade might become Fifth Hokage and challenged her to a fight.
• Tsunade flicked Naruto away, but he charged again with a Rasengan and used Adamantine Sealing chains to restrain her hand.
• Tsunade recognized the sealing technique as one used by the Uzumaki Clan and realized it was connected to Kushina.

Tsunade learned that Kushina was bound to Naruto through the Spirit Summoning Technique and wrestled with whether to summon her own dead loved ones. Sparkle offered to summon souls from the Pure Land, but Naruto’s challenge to Tsunade interrupted the tense moment, and Sparkle received a notice that an Abundance Star God’s gift had been shot down.

• Tsunade defeated Naruto and learned that Kushina was bound to Naruto and the Nine-Tails by the Spirit Summoning Technique.
• Kushina told Tsunade that she feared resurrection might not restore the person she had been and that her current existence caused Naruto harm.
• Sparkle offered to use the Spirit Summoning Technique to summon someone Tsunade wished to see, leaving Tsunade afraid they might refuse her.
• Naruto challenged Tsunade and declared that he would become Hokage, so Tsunade told him to learn her Super Strength within a week.
• Sparkle received a notice that an unnamed Abundance Star God’s gift had been shot down and that Aha would compensate her.

Naruto began training to learn Tsunade’s Super Strength after betting he could master it in a week, with Sparkle taking charge of his difficult training. The chapter ended with Sparkle studying Tsunade’s unusual Chakra circulation as she trained alongside Naruto.

• Naruto bet Tsunade that he could learn Super Strength in a week, and Tsunade offered him her necklace if he succeeded.
• After realizing how difficult the technique was, Naruto asked Sparkle for help, and Shizune delivered Tsunade’s training notes.
• Sparkle began Naruto’s training with a hundred Shadow Clones, while Jiraiya warned that the exercise could be dangerous.
• Sakura Haruno passed her exam after repeating a year and looked forward to catching up to Sasuke.
• Naruto nearly collapsed from his clones’ accumulated experiences, but Sparkle’s Red Rope revived him and she pushed him to continue training.
• Sparkle trained alongside Naruto and used her Byakugan to study Tsunade’s unusual Chakra circulation.

Sparkle taught Naruto to control his Chakra and use Tsunade’s Super Strength, then visited Tsunade in Tanzaku City. Tsunade insisted she would never become the Fifth Hokage, while Sparkle left her decision to her.

• Sparkle guided Naruto’s Chakra through his pathways and showed him how to gather it for a punch.
• Naruto struck a boulder hard enough to make it tremble, but his hand reddened when he kept hitting it.
• Sparkle told Naruto that finer Chakra control might help him manage the bodily changes caused by his Chakra and the Uzumaki Clan’s secret technique.
• Sparkle returned to Tanzaku City and found Tsunade drinking after leaving a pachinko parlor.
• Sparkle said Tsunade had been running from fate but did not try to persuade her to become Hokage.
• Tsunade said she would absolutely not become the Fifth Hokage and admitted that she was lost and avoiding the world.

Sparkle reassured Tsunade about reviving Nawaki and Dan, then tested a mask that connected minds to a special space using Kira’s Sharingan. She began shaping the space into a tool for her plans and left Tsunade to join her when they returned in a few days.

• Sparkle used Mind Induction to make Tsunade imagine Nawaki and Dan welcoming her back, but Tsunade became distressed at the thought that reviving them would make them suffer.
• Sparkle concluded that Tsunade was more or less taken care of and began developing a special mask based on a Tsukuyomi Genjutsu space.
• Sparkle put on the mask, entered the space, and confirmed with Kira that the connection worked through Sharingan eye power.
• Kira told Sparkle that she could reshape the space however she wanted and was delighted to hear Sparkle would return with Tsunade in a few days.
• Sparkle overlapped the Tsukuyomi space with a spiritual and material world, then created an Everblossom cherry tree within it.

Sparkle learned Ripple breathing during a temporary training trip and adapted it into Yang Release Chakra in the Naruto world. She taught Naruto to use the breathing rhythm to enhance his Super Strength, and he struck his training boulder with a powerful punch.

• Kira planned to distribute enchanted masks by making people discover their supposed origins themselves, and chose Danzo as a likely first target.
• Sparkle used an employee benefit to train with Tonpetty and Straizo, where she learned Ripple breathing.
• Sparkle found that combining Ripple energy with spiritual energy produced Yang Release Chakra that amplified Super Strength.
• Sparkle guided Naruto through Ripple breathing by controlling his respiratory system with her Chakra.
• Naruto refined Chakra and used Super Strength to punch his training boulder.

Naruto trained to use Hanabi’s breathing method to awaken his Chakra, while Orochimaru uncovered a connection between the powers within Hanabi and tried to recruit her. At the dawn of the expected confrontation, Hanabi was missing, and Orochimaru appeared with a warning that her power was near a critical point.

• Naruto succeeded in making a massive rock tremble, but Hanabi explained that he had not yet mastered the Chakra technique and told him to rest before the week’s end.
• Sasuke sensed an unseen observer, stopped training, and prepared for a possible fight the next day.
• Jiraiya confronted Tsunade about meeting Orochimaru, warned that he might have to oppose her, and told her Naruto had mastered Super Strength.
• Orochimaru approached Hanabi at dawn, theorized that the evil god’s power contained opposing forces of life and death, and invited her to join him, but Hanabi refused.
• Naruto and Sasuke met Jiraiya at the agreed location and discovered Hanabi was absent; Orochimaru then appeared and said her power was nearing a critical point.

Sasuke and Naruto searched the forest near Tanzaku City for Sparkle, but the Sound Four ambushed them on Orochimaru’s orders. They fought back against the four’s coordinated attacks, and the chapter ended as Naruto formed shadow clones that all used Adamantine Sealing.

• Sasuke and Naruto left Jiraiya behind to find Sparkle, then noticed they were surrounded in the forest.
• The Sound Four introduced themselves and attacked, with Tayuya’s flute trapping Naruto’s shadow clones in Genjutsu.
• Sasuke burned and cut through Kidomaru’s web while Kushina’s warnings helped Naruto break free and use Adamantine Sealing against Jirobo’s rock hand.
• Sakon struck Naruto with sound waves, but Naruto punched through them and sent Sakon flying.
• Jirobo hurled a boulder at Sasuke and Naruto, and they dodged before Naruto used Rasengan to destroy Kidomaru’s spider silk.
• Naruto ignored the onlookers’ suggestion to use the Nine-Tails and made shadow clones that all used Adamantine Sealing.

Sasuke held off the Sound Four so Naruto could leave to find Sparkle, while the next episode shifted to Jiraiya and Orochimaru confronting each other. Tsunade arrived and revealed that the village had asked her to return and then sent people to kill her.

• Sasuke told Naruto to track down Sparkle while he stayed to face the Sound Four.
• Sasuke provoked the Sound Four by claiming he had defeated Kimimaro, then used Crimson Lightning Flash to clear a path for Naruto.
• Naruto ran through the opening, and Sasuke stood against the Sound Four as the episode ended.
• Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru over his interest in Sparkle, and Orochimaru claimed she had led him toward the secret of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Tsunade arrived with Shizune and told Jiraiya and Orochimaru that the village had summoned her back and sent people to kill her.

Tsunade rejected Orochimaru and Jiraiya’s attempts to persuade her, while Naruto found Sparkle under the influence of a sinister power and Sasuke was overwhelmed by the Sound Four. Sparkle attacked Naruto with lethal force, and the chapter ended as he called her name, hoping she would recognize him.

• Orochimaru revealed that someone in Konoha had hired him to prevent Tsunade from becoming Hokage, and Tsunade challenged him and Jiraiya to defeat her.
• Naruto used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to find Sparkle in an icy landscape and recognized her despite her changed appearance.
• Sasuke fought the four members of the Sound Four but was kicked down after they attacked him together.
• Kushina warned Naruto that Sparkle's aura resembled Kushina Yukiei's, and she controlled Naruto's body to shatter Sparkle's ice spikes.
• Sparkle, empowered by Resonance and Plague Demon Yin, attacked Naruto and turned his Rasengan into ice before striking him with it.
• Naruto recalled his moments with Sparkle and called her name, but Sparkle's ice sword became slimmer and sharper.

Kushina and Naruto fought Sparkle, whose corrupted power overwhelmed them and drew concern from the Nine-Tails. Naruto refused to retreat, and after their combined attack collapsed the icy plain into a sinkhole, he returned to the surface to find Sparkle unharmed and waiting.

• Kushina used the Nine-Tails' Chakra to battle Sparkle, but Sparkle trapped her in ice and drove her back with sword strikes.
• The Nine-Tails sensed a strange, tree-like aura in Sparkle and warned Kushina that her power was evil and unusually oppressive.
• Naruto refused to retreat, and Kushina passed control of the Nine-Tails' power to him as he launched a chain-wrapped Rasengan with her help.
• Their combined attack collapsed the ice plain, sending Naruto and Sparkle into a sinkhole, where Sparkle continued attacking with a massive storm of ice blades.
• The Nine-Tails unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball to counter Sparkle's attack, and Naruto leaped back to the surface, where Sparkle stood unharmed.

Naruto fought Jingliu to free Sparkle, insisting that protecting his companions mattered more than becoming Hokage. Nine-Tails lent him its power, but Jingliu still kicked him beneath the cliff, and Kushina prepared to create an opening for him.

• Jingliu overwhelmed Naruto and Kushina, while the Three Sannin summoned Manda, Katsuyu, and Gama Bunta to continue their battle.
• Naruto refused Jingliu's offer to retreat and declared that Sparkle and Sasuke were his most precious companions.
• Naruto called on Nine-Tails for help, and Nine-Tails agreed to lend him its power for this fight.
• Naruto attacked Jingliu with a Nine-Tails-powered Rasengan and adamantine chains, but Jingliu evaded and countered by kicking him beneath the cliff.
• Kushina told Naruto she would help create an opening.

Kushina synchronized her spirit with Jingliu's and destroyed it, restoring Sparkle to herself. Naruto left Sparkle recovering and rushed to Sasuke, only to find him badly wounded and struck through the abdomen by a golden pillar.

• Kushina asked the Nine-Tails to help Naruto touch Jingliu so she could synchronize their spirits.
• Naruto and the Nine-Tails combined their Rasengan and chains to break through Jingliu's attacks, and Naruto headbutted her to make contact.
• Kushina confronted Jingliu in a spiritual space and destroyed it, ending Jingliu's control over Sparkle.
• Sparkle thanked Naruto, told him she liked girls, and urged him to hurry to Sasuke while she recovered.
• Naruto left a Shadow Clone to guard Sparkle and rushed back to Sasuke, who had been fighting the Sound Four.
• A golden pillar pierced Sasuke's abdomen; Naruto reached him, and Sasuke asked whether Sparkle was safe before calling Naruto too slow.

Sasuke fought the Sound Four alone, using Crimson Lightning Flash and the Sharingan to hold them off until their combined attacks left him fatally wounded. Naruto arrived to catch him, but as the Sound Four demanded Sasuke, Naruto found himself unable to move and used Adamantine Sealing.

• The Sound Four entered Curse Mark Level Two and attacked Sasuke, who dodged and countered their Earth Style, spider silk, and sound-based assaults.
• Sasuke evaded Jirobo’s stone spears with a substitution, and Naruto’s cannon blast deflected Kidomaru’s attack enough for Sasuke to escape.
• Sasuke refused Kidomaru’s offer to surrender and continued fighting despite his dwindling Chakra, cutting through the enemies’ defenses to attack Kidomaru.
• Tayuya’s Genjutsu slowed Sasuke, allowing Sakon and Ukon to break his ribs before Kidomaru pierced him with an arrow.
• Naruto arrived and caught Sasuke, but the Sound Four demanded that he hand Sasuke over; Naruto could barely move and used Adamantine Sealing.

Naruto used the Adamantine Sealing to protect himself and helped Sasuke recover by having him bite his hand, allowing Sasuke's Sharingan and power to grow. Sasuke defeated the Sound Four, then carried the paralyzed Naruto toward Sparkle.

• Naruto wrapped himself in Adamantine Sealing chains to block Kidomaru's attack, then had Sasuke bite his hand to restore his strength.
• Sasuke's chakra recovered as Ashura and Indra's chakra fused, and his Sharingan awakened to Three Tomoe.
• Sasuke used genjutsu to turn Tayuya's summoned ogres against one another, then defeated Jirobo, Sakon, Ukon, and Kidomaru with his enhanced speed and Crimson Lightning Strike.
• Sasuke found Naruto paralyzed in Naruko form and asked which way Sparkle was.
• Naruto pointed toward Sparkle, and Sasuke picked her up and headed through the melted snow and ice.

Sasuke carried Naruto and Sparkle away to find Jiraiya and Tsunade, while the story returned to the Three Sannin’s battle. The fight paused when a second explosive sphere appeared in the distance, and Orochimaru recognized a connection to the power he had used against Sparkle.

• Sasuke secured Sparkle on his back, carried Naruto, and set off to find Jiraiya and Tsunade; Sparkle’s shadow clone collected the Sound Four before disappearing.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru summoned Gama Bunta, Katsuyu, and Manda, then began fighting, with Jiraiya and Tsunade focusing their attacks on Orochimaru.
• Tsunade smashed the ground with a punch, and the Three Sannin stopped fighting when a second explosive sphere appeared in the distance.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru recognized the distant blast as a Tailed Beast Ball, and Orochimaru recalled pressing a branch into Sparkle’s chest before she fell from the cliff.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade continued attacking Orochimaru while their Summoned Beasts became entangled, and Tsunade insisted that she could still fight despite her hemophobia.

Sasuke brought the exhausted Naruto and Sparkle to Shizune while Jiraiya struggled to protect Tsunade from Orochimaru. When Orochimaru and two masked assassins threatened Tsunade, Naruto and Sasuke entered the battlefield and drove them back.

• Sasuke carried Sparkle and Naruto to Shizune, who found Sparkle mentally exhausted and Naruto temporarily paralyzed from overusing Chakra.
• Shizune explained that Tsunade had lost her fighting ability because Orochimaru’s blood had triggered her fear of blood, leaving Jiraiya to fight Orochimaru while protecting her.
• Orochimaru wounded Jiraiya with a poisoned explosive kunai and prepared to attack Tsunade as two masked assassins closed in on her.
• Sasuke carried Naruto into the battlefield, where Naruto’s crimson Demon Fox Chakra struck Orochimaru and swept the assassins aside.
• Tsunade realized Naruto had forced herself into battle despite still being unable to move.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sparkle joined Jiraiya in confronting Orochimaru and his masked allies, while Naruto's body adapted to Chakra. The battle continued as Orochimaru sent Manda after Tsunade, and Naruto struck the giant snake with a powerful punch before Sparkle teleported to her side.

• Sasuke and Naruto confronted Orochimaru, who dismissed the Sound Four as useless tools, enraging Naruto.
• Sparkle used her Flying Thunder God mark to join the fight and identified the masked assassins as likely Konoha ninja.
• Jiraiya and Sasuke fought the assassins while Sparkle and Naruto battled Orochimaru, and Gama Bunta struggled against Manda.
• Naruto's body continued adapting to Chakra as Shizune moved to protect Tsunade from the fighting.
• Orochimaru ordered Manda to attack Tsunade, and Naruto rushed over and punched the giant snake away.
• Manda lunged at Naruto in anger, and Sparkle teleported to Naruto's side.

Sparkle helped Tsunade overcome her hemophobia and drove Orochimaru and Manda away. Danzo then investigated a mysterious mask, used Chakra to activate it, and briefly glimpsed a misty realm containing a tree and a distant figure before returning to the real world.

• Sparkle threw an explosive doll into Manda's mouth, then led Naruto to Tsunade as Manda attacked again.
• Tsunade overcame her hemophobia, kicked Manda back, and fought alongside Gama Bunta until Manda fled.
• Orochimaru withdrew with his masked allies after deciding they could no longer defeat Tsunade, and he taunted her before escaping.
• Sparkle sensed that her arrangements had succeeded as the scene shifted to Danzo, who received a mask recovered from Kushina Yukiei's home in the Land of Waves.
• Danzo inferred that the mask required Chakra with Yang Release or Yin Release properties, activated it, and entered a misty realm where he glimpsed a tree and a distant person.
• Danzo returned to the real world and wondered what the strange realm was, wishing he had a Byakugan.

Tsunade decided to become the Fifth Hokage, while Black Zetsu investigated the mysterious ruins in the Land of Waves and suspected a threat connected to the Otsutsuki Clan. After completing the Sannin Arc, Sparkle received new studio rewards, including a Memory Battlefield featuring Sakura Dragon, and wondered how it would fit into the Naruto world.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya she would become the Fifth Hokage and remove the village's ambitious faction, surprising Naruto.
• Black Zetsu searched the Land of Waves ruins, found they had been cleaned up, and worried that Danzo and Orochimaru had discovered unusual information.
• Black Zetsu considered telling Akatsuki about what he had found, while Sparkle decided to manipulate him with information from beyond the stars.
• The Sannin Arc concluded with a six-star positive review, and Sparkle received three teaching visas, a costume designer, an online movie project, and a Memory Battlefield featuring Sakura Dragon.
• Sparkle asked how the teaching visas worked and learned that the Memory Battlefield was a boss challenge system tied to a specific game setting.