Chapter Summaries

Obito, Rin, and Sasuke reached Amegakure, where Obito came to atone to Konan for leading Akatsuki astray. Konan chose not to kill him after Itachi revealed that the attack had been a Genjutsu, leaving Obito alive with the chance to repay his sins.

• Sasuke followed Obito and Rin to Amegakure after Obito said they were going where it all began and that Sasuke's brother was likely there.
• Konan told Itachi she wanted to keep Akatsuki's name and pursue diplomatic relations with Konoha.
• Itachi left Amegakure and found Kisame, who explained that Samehada had imprisoned him at sea until the war was over.
• Obito entered Akatsuki's meeting hall with Rin and Sasuke, and Konan confronted him with murderous intent.
• Rin pleaded with Konan to spare Obito, but Konan's paper spear appeared to pierce his heart.
• Konan called for Itachi to release the Genjutsu, then chose to spare Obito so hatred would not spread again.

Konan allowed Obito to keep the Rinnegan as he chose to pursue peace, while Itachi stayed behind to support Naruto and Sasuke set out to see the world. Minato brought Naruto to the Ninja Academy to study for his future as Hokage, where Hinata and Kaguya helped him learn.

• Obito offered to return the Rinnegan to Konan, but she told him to keep it, and he asked to continue leading Akatsuki toward peace before Naruto became Hokage.
• Obito reunited with Kisame and asked him to follow him, and Kisame agreed after recalling his friendship with Itachi.
• Itachi refused to return to Konoha because he wanted to protect the Uchiha Clan's reputation, while Sasuke accepted his decision and planned to travel.
• Minato took Naruto to the Ninja Academy, retrieved him after he tried to flee, and left him with Iruka for lessons.
• Hinata helped Naruto study, and Kaguya joined them to learn about modern writing and ninja history.
• Iruka said Naruto could graduate in six years, and Naruto protested when he learned Kaguya was learning faster than he was.

Naruto agreed to take the Chunin Exams with Hinata and Hanabi, then passed the first round after submitting a blank paper while his teammates answered the highest-value question. The second round began in the Demon Desert, where Gaara imposed restrictions on Naruto’s strongest abilities and left him asking what he was still allowed to use.

• Hinata told Naruto about the jointly organized Chunin Exams, and Naruto agreed to participate with her and Hanabi.
• Naruto and Hanabi bickered over teammates while Kushina scolded Hanabi, and Naruto later told Kaguya that the exam was a step toward becoming Hokage.
• In Shikamaru’s written exam, Hinata and Hanabi answered the 50-point question while Naruto handed in a blank paper, and all three passed.
• Gaara announced the second round’s Demon Desert rules, banning several of Naruto’s powers and limiting his Shadow Clones.
• Naruto asked Gaara what techniques he could use, and Gaara suggested the Rasengan while refusing Naruto’s request to swear.

Naruto, Hinata, and Hanabi crossed the desert during the second exam, where Naruto’s reputation kept rival teams away. At camp, Naruto used Yin-Yang Release to create taiyaki for Hanabi, leaving her amazed by his power.

• Hinata comforted Naruto about being unable to use his full abilities during the exam.
• Hanabi ran through the desert, got sand in her eyes, and accepted Naruto’s water after Hinata urged her to endure.
• Naruto, Hinata, and Hanabi found traces of a battle but no rival teams, as other genin avoided Naruto.
• The team made camp, and Naruto created steaming taiyaki with Yin-Yang Release for Hanabi.

Naruto used Yin-Yang Release to build a stone shelter and provide food and baths for Hinata and Hanabi during the Chunin Exams. The sisters discussed Hanabi’s feelings for Naruto, and the three reached the Central Tower, where they obtained scrolls without a fight.

• Naruto created a granite house, furniture, hot water, and food for the group in the desert.
• Hinata asked Hanabi about her feelings for Naruto, and Hanabi admitted she liked him but would wait for him to confess first.
• Hinata accepted Hanabi’s decision, and the sisters teased each other before going to sleep.
• Naruto woke Hinata and Hanabi the next day, and they continued toward the Central Tower.
• At the tower, a Sunagakure team gave Hanabi Heaven and Earth Scrolls in exchange for Naruto’s autograph, leaving her frustrated that she had not fought.
• Naruto, Hinata, and Hanabi passed the second stage of the Chunin Exams without trouble.

Naruto faced Hinata in the third exam after she insisted that he fight instead of forfeiting. Hinata used her Byakugan and knowledge of his techniques to overcome him, leaving Naruto battered on the ground as the match’s outcome appeared decided.

• Naruto learned that the third exam would be a battle tournament and discovered that his opponent was Hinata.
• Hinata asked Naruto not to forfeit and explained that she wanted to test whether she could defeat him while most of his power was sealed.
• Hinata anticipated Naruto’s attacks and disabled his Rasengan by striking the Chakra points needed to form it.
• Naruto summoned nine Shadow Clones, but Hinata defeated them with her Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.
• Naruto tried to catch Hinata off guard with a clone-assisted attack, but Hinata read his plan and struck him with Eight Trigrams: Sixty-four Palms, leaving him bloody and fallen.

Naruto and Hinata fought in the Chunin Exam finals, where Hinata’s bottled-up fears about Kaguya and Hanabi came out and Naruto reassured her of his love. Hinata and Hanabi passed the exam, while Naruto returned to Konoha still a Genin.

• Hinata defeated Naruto in the final, but Naruto rose and apologized after sensing her grief and seeing her tears.
• Hinata confessed that she feared Naruto would leave her for Kaguya or Hanabi, and Naruto told her that she was the most important person in his heart.
• Naruto collapsed from his injuries, and Hinata carried him to the treatment room before he woke later with Hanabi beside him.
• Naruto explained that Kaguya had always known he loved Hinata and wanted the two women to get along; Hinata agreed and kissed him.
• Hinata and Hanabi returned with Chunin vests and certificates, while Naruto learned he had remained a Genin.

Three years after Naruto and Hinata came of age, Naruto left Kaguya in Hinata’s care while he attended Kurotsuchi’s inauguration. Hinata began to grow closer to Kaguya, but after a disturbance wrecked the living room, she found Kaguya and Hanabi missing.

• Naruto asked Hinata to look after Kaguya while he traveled to Kurotsuchi’s inauguration, and Hinata agreed.
• Hinata spent the afternoon with Kaguya, then cooked dinner and learned that Kaguya used Chakra to keep her hair clean.
• Kaguya showed Hinata how soy sauce slid off her hair, and Hinata eagerly asked to learn the technique.
• Hanabi arrived, ate with them, and joined Kaguya and Hinata for the evening.
• Hinata heard a crash and found the living room wrecked, with Kaguya and Hanabi gone.

Kaguya and Hanabi were abducted by Toneri’s puppets, and Hinata reached Iwagakure to ask Naruto to rescue them. On the Moon, Kaguya corrected Toneri’s mistaken belief that she was Hinata, but he refused to believe she was his grandmother and began treating her like family.

• Kaguya destroyed the puppet carrying Hanabi, but she and Hanabi were captured by the remaining puppets and taken from Konoha.
• Three days later, Hinata arrived in Iwagakure injured and exhausted, and asked Naruto to save Kaguya and Hanabi.
• Kaguya awoke in Toneri’s residence and told him she was his grandmother, but Toneri insisted she was Hinata and proposed to her.
• Toneri explained that he intended to destroy the world in accordance with Hamura’s will, and Kaguya dismissed his belief as a misunderstanding.
• Kaguya toured the puppet-filled castle, learned Toneri’s family had been sacrificed to create the Tenseigan, and agreed to knit him a scarf.

Naruto and Hinata followed Hanabi’s trail through a portal to a hidden world inside the moon, where Hamura explained the moon’s descent and asked Naruto to guide Toneri. They learned Toneri was inside the Artificial Sun and prepared to reach him together.

• Kurotsuchi learned that the moon was falling and Naruto left with Hinata to investigate Hanabi’s missing kunai.
• Naruto and Hinata entered a hidden world through a portal beneath a waterfall and found an abandoned village with signs of battle.
• A sun-shaped mark on an altar transported Naruto and Hinata into a space where they encountered Hamura.
• Hamura explained that the moon’s Otsutsuki Branch Family had created the Tenseigan and that Toneri was controlling the moon’s descent.
• Hamura asked Naruto to guide Toneri, then vanished after teasing him about his descendants.
• Naruto and Hinata woke and agreed to find Toneri inside the Artificial Sun.

Konoha and the other villages faced falling meteors, while Akatsuki members helped defend them. On the Moon, Toneri tried to take Hanabi’s Byakugan, but learning that Kaguya was pregnant sent him into a rage, and he set out intent on destroying Earth.

• Itachi and Sasuke used their Susanoo to destroy a massive meteor threatening Konoha, then Sasuke coldly greeted Kakashi.
• Ōnoki broke apart a meteor headed for Iwagakure, and Konan destroyed an even larger one with explosive paper wings as Deidara praised her.
• Killer B exhausted himself firing Tailed Beast Bombs at meteors over Kumogakure until a Rinnegan-wielding man repelled the meteor shower with Shinra Tensei.
• Kaguya confronted Toneri as he planned to transplant Hanabi’s Byakugan, offering her own eyes instead, but a disturbance made her collapse.
• A Medical Puppet revealed that Kaguya was pregnant, and Toneri accused her of deceiving him, destroyed the scarf she had made, and stormed out to destroy Earth.

Naruto and Hinata entered the artificial sun to rescue Hanabi, and Naruto defeated Toneri before Kaguya stopped him from killing him. After restoring Hanabi’s eyes, they headed to destroy the Tenseigan with Hamura’s Chakra.

• Naruto used Truth-Seeking Orbs to open a path through the Chakra barrier and flew with Hinata into the castle while his Shadow Clones fought the puppets.
• Hinata found Hanabi, and Naruto woke her with Yang Release power; Hanabi comforted him as he cried over her suffering.
• Toneri arrived, and Naruto attacked him in a rage, restraining him with Truth-Seeking Orbs until Kaguya and Hinata persuaded Naruto to stop.
• Naruto removed Hanabi’s eyes from Toneri and restored them to her, then carried her to Hinata, who embraced her with relief.
• Kaguya revealed the Tenseigan’s location, and Naruto took Hinata and Hanabi toward the floating black rock to destroy it.

Naruto and Kaguya returned to Earth after destroying the Tenseigan and showing Toneri Hamura’s true will. When Kaguya announced she was pregnant, Kushina arranged for Hinata and Kaguya to marry Naruto together, provided he and Hinata passed the Jonin Exams.

• Naruto destroyed the Tenseigan with Hinata and Hanabi’s Chakra, stopping the moon from approaching Earth.
• Naruto showed Toneri Hamura’s message, and Kaguya gave Toneri Byakugan and a scarf before returning to Earth with Naruto.
• Kaguya announced she was pregnant, and Kushina scolded her for sneaking into Naruto’s room.
• Hinata welcomed Kaguya’s pregnancy, and Kushina asked her to marry Naruto and Kaguya together.
• Kushina reminded Naruto and Hinata that they had to pass the Jonin Exams to meet Naruto’s father’s condition.
• Naruto swept through the Jonin Exams at record speed, leaving the other villages’ Chunin with a lasting psychological scar.

Naruto and Sasuke shared a late-night drink and talked about the lives of the other Jinchuriki before Naruto’s wedding. At the ceremony, Hyuga Hiashi entrusted Hinata and Kaguya to Naruto, who fought back tears as he accepted their hands.

• Naruto tried White Liquor on Hokage Rock and Sasuke joined him, drinking from the bottle and congratulating him on his marriage.
• Sasuke told Naruto how the other Jinchuriki were doing, and Naruto worried about his wedding the next day.
• Gaara attended the wedding in Konoha’s cherry blossom forest and offered Naruto his congratulations.
• Hanabi struggled to arrange Kaguya’s long hair, while Hinata and the others wondered whom the brides should bow to.
• Hyuga Hiashi led Hinata and Kaguya to Naruto and placed their hands in his, entrusting his daughters to him.
• Naruto thanked Hyuga Hiashi and teared up, and Hokuto teased her husband about his awkward gestures.

Naruto continued greeting guests at his wedding, where his former masters and allies brought eccentric gifts and requests. Itachi also visited in disguise, while the celebration carried on around the guests’ squabbles.

• Jiraiya congratulated Naruto and reassured him that his two wives were a stroke of good fortune, while Tsunade’s glare silenced them.
• Orochimaru offered Naruto a White Zetsu for Impure World Reincarnation, but Naruto declined and thanked him for helping reunite him with his parents.
• Orochimaru asked to study Naruto’s wives, prompting Jiraiya to drag him away; Kabuto invited Naruto to visit the orphanage.
• Itachi visited Naruto in disguise, congratulated him, and worried aloud about Sasuke and the Uchiha Clan’s future.
• Deidara gave Naruto a posable clay figure modeled on Naruko, and Scorpion asked Naruto what mating felt like before Deidara pulled him away.

Naruto and Hinata’s wedding ended after Obito revealed that Rin was pregnant, and months later Kaguya gave birth to twins. Naruto discovered that the newborns were Hagoromo and Hamura reincarnated, setting up their story for the next chapter.

• Obito congratulated Naruto and revealed that Rin was pregnant, prompting Minato and Kakashi to threaten him before he explained what had happened.
• Obito said he wanted Rin to raise their child in Konoha, where the child might someday become Hokage.
• Naruto returned home with Hinata and Kaguya after the wedding and spent the night with Hinata.
• Months later, Kaguya safely delivered twins, though Sakura worried that neither baby cried.
• Naruto learned telepathically that the twins were Hagoromo and Hamura, reincarnated as Kaguya’s children.

Boruto resented Naruto’s absence and vandalized Hokage Rock, while his half-brother Hagoromo taught their class that chakra should help people rather than serve as a weapon. As graduation approached, Hagoromo explained that he had become a teacher because he believed educating children could change the world.

• Boruto covered the Hokage carvings on Hokage Rock with paint, and Konohamaru scolded him for it.
• Boruto told Konohamaru that he hated the Hokage because Naruto put work before his family.
• At the Academy, Sarada noticed paint on Boruto’s clothes and argued with him about his hatred of the Hokage.
• Hagoromo taught the class and urged the students to use chakra to help others, carrying forward the Ninja Sect’s ideals.
• Senju Chiaki asked Hagoromo why he taught instead of spreading those ideals as a powerful ninja, and he said educating children could bring change.

Hagoromo and Naruto shared a heartfelt father-son moment on the way home, where the family welcomed Hagoromo back. The Nine-Tails twins bickered over Hagoromo before Himawari cuddled them both, leaving them helpless as her fluffy pets.

• Naruto picked Hagoromo up at the academy and carried him home, thanking him for letting Naruto make up for missed moments as a father.
• At home, the Light Nine-Tails and Dark Nine-Tails fought over sitting on Hagoromo, so he tossed them into the yard.
• Hamura asked Naruto to take Himawari into town, and offered to take her himself when Naruto said he was busy with the academy exams.
• Himawari separated the fighting foxes and hugged the Light Nine-Tails, refusing to let it go despite its protests.
• Himawari caught the Dark Nine-Tails as well and cuddled both foxes, leaving them unable to resist her.

Boruto ran away after feeling ignored by Naruto, but Sasuke found him and comforted him by sharing his own childhood feelings. Sasuke brought Boruto home for the night and told him that Naruto cared about him.

• Boruto asked Naruto to attend his graduation, but Naruto suggested sending a Shadow Clone, leaving Boruto upset.
• Hinata explained that Naruto was exhausted from work and urged Boruto to act more maturely, prompting him to run away.
• Sasuke returned to the village, found Boruto in tears, and took him to a training ground for a warm drink and a talk.
• Sasuke told Boruto that Naruto cared deeply about him and explained that Boruto did not understand Naruto's past.
• Sasuke put out the fire and brought Boruto to his home after Boruto insisted on staying outside for the night.

Boruto stayed overnight at Sasuke’s house after leaving home, where he and Sarada compared their fathers and wondered if they had been switched at birth. The chapter ended with Sarada reacting angrily to Boruto’s oblivious question about whether she snored.

• Boruto followed Sasuke into his home, triggered Sarada’s traps, and nearly got hit by a crossbow arrow before Sasuke cut it in half.
• Sakura returned from the hospital and let Boruto stay the night, while Sarada confronted Sasuke about his wandering and his frequent visits to Itachi.
• Sakura sent Boruto to bathe with Sasuke, then directed him to wait in Sarada’s room, where he and Sarada discussed how much they admired each other’s fathers.
• Boruto and Sarada asked Sakura whether they had been switched at birth, but Sakura showed Boruto his resemblance to Naruto and dismissed the idea.
• Sakura made Boruto and Sarada share Sarada’s room, and Sarada objected until Boruto asked if she was worried he would hear her snore.