Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Setsuna accepted Menma’s warning that kind intentions could lead to disaster and resolved that the clan could no longer hesitate. At Naka Shrine, Itachi rejected Fugaku’s plan for a bloodless revolution, then reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other leaders that the Uchiha Clan had decided to launch a coup.

• Menma warned Setsuna that kind wishes could lead to Human Hell, and Setsuna concluded that the Uchiha Clan had no future in Leaf Village as it stood.
• Setsuna told Inabi that the clan could not preserve itself by remaining passive, while Menma predicted that Hiruzen Sarutobi would follow Shimura Danzō’s lead against the Uchiha.
• Itachi returned home, where Fugaku ordered him to meet at Naka Shrine after the clan gathering and told him not to bring ANBU.
• At Naka Shrine, Fugaku revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and asked Itachi to help seize control from Konoha’s high-ranking officials.
• Itachi refused to help Fugaku’s revolution, then appeared before Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura and reported that the Uchiha Clan planned a coup.

Itachi accepted Danzō’s order to destroy the Uchiha Clan and sought Obito’s help in targeting the Police Force. Meanwhile, Naruto trained with Sasuke and Rock Lee, and Menma investigated the substance in a Hashirama arm before deciding to visit Orochimaru.

• Itachi told Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha officials that Fugaku planned a coup, and Danzō pushed for a preemptive strike while Hiruzen favored negotiation.
• Danzō pressured Itachi to choose between the Uchiha Clan and the Leaf Village, promising that Sasuke would be spared, and Itachi accepted the mission.
• Naruto trained with Sasuke and Rock Lee, noticed someone watching them, and was observed by Itachi as he reflected on Sasuke’s new friends.
• Itachi met Obito Uchiha and asked for his help dealing with Uchiha clansmen in the Police Force during the planned operation next Sunday night.
• Menma confirmed that his White Zetsu experiments had revealed the Power of All Things, identified an unknown balancing substance in a Hashirama arm, and decided to seek Shin Uchiha as an experimental assistant by visiting Orochimaru.

Menma attacked Orochimaru’s underground base, destroying the Cursed Seal test subjects and confronting Orochimaru, Jugo, and Shin Uchiha. Menma revealed his interest in Shin’s Sharingan, and the chapter ended with Orochimaru asking who Menma was.

• Danzo learned that the Hashirama Cell transplantation had only a thirty percent success rate because key parts of Orochimaru’s research were missing, then sent secret letters to [Priestess] and [Glasses].
• Orochimaru watched a group of children activate their Cursed Seals, while Jugo and Shin Uchiha observed from beside him.
• The base shook, Jugo briefly entered Sage Transformation from fear, and a small black sphere obliterated the children and devastated the underground laboratory.
• Menma appeared and mocked Shin Uchiha’s Single-Tomoe Sharingan, prompting Orochimaru to summon Rashomon and try to flee with Shin and Jugo.
• Menma destroyed Rashomon, stopped the trio, and crushed a giant black python beneath his foot as Orochimaru asked who he was.

Menma confronted Orochimaru over Shin Uchiha and demonstrated a genjutsu that altered Orochimaru’s perceptions. Orochimaru escaped with Jugo, while Shin’s terror and anger at being abandoned awakened stronger Sharingan; Menma left him unconscious with a Two-Tomoe in one eye and a Three-Tomoe in the other.

• Menma identified himself to Orochimaru and demanded that Shin Uchiha leave with him, but Shin refused.
• Menma attacked Orochimaru, who discovered that Menma’s genjutsu had made him mistake Jugo for Shin.
• Menma invited Orochimaru to join him, but Orochimaru abandoned Shin and escaped with Jugo inside a summoned snake.
• Shin realized Orochimaru had left him to die, and his fear and resentment strengthened his ocular power.
• Shin lost consciousness as Menma noticed that his left eye had awakened a Two-Tomoe and his right eye a Three-Tomoe.

Menma raided Orochimaru’s underground laboratory for research equipment, then flew to Earth Country and rescued Yakushi Nonō from a fatal wound inflicted by Root shinobi. He left with Nonō and Shin Uchiha aboard Azure Dragon, heading to meet the Dream Fulfillment Master.

• Menma knocked Shin Uchiha unconscious, entered Orochimaru’s underground base, and collected its valuable laboratory equipment.
• Menma summoned Azure Dragon and flew toward Earth Country with Shin Uchiha.
• Root shinobi Falcon and his companion prepared to dispose of the wounded Yakushi Nonō after carrying out Danzo’s order.
• Menma killed the two Root shinobi and used his Yang Release Chakra to heal Nonō.
• Azure Dragon dropped Shin Uchiha and carried Nonō as Menma set off to meet the Dream Fulfillment Master.

Menma revealed to Yakushi Kabuto that Danzo and Orochimaru had manipulated him and Nonō, and that Root had replaced the photographs that would have helped her recognize him. Kabuto was left questioning his identity as Menma asked whether he wanted to truly live.

• Yakushi Kabuto mourned Nonō and questioned who he was before Menma arrived and offered to tell him the truth.
• Menma brought Kabuto to Orochimaru's base with the unconscious Nonō and Shin Uchiha, then showed him evidence of a deal between Orochimaru and Danzo.
• Kabuto learned that Nonō had been ordered to kill a Leaf Village spy and that Root had substituted another person's photographs for his.
• Kabuto collapsed after discovering that Nonō had failed to recognize him because the photographs showed another Kabuto.
• Menma asked Kabuto whether he had figured out the meaning of life and wanted to truly live.

Menma gave Yakushi Kabuto a new identity as Ōkami Jitsumei and recruited him into Red Moon, warning him not to lose himself behind a mask. At the Kurama Clan villa, Menma brought in Shin Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō, then told Kurama Unkai that the Uchiha Clan faced an imminent massacre.

• Menma offered Yakushi Kabuto a new name, future, and place in Red Moon, and Kabuto accepted the mask as Ōkami Jitsumei.
• Menma warned Kabuto to remember who he was even while using different identities.
• Kurama Yakumo accidentally struck Kurama Unkai with a lightning technique while practicing her Kekkei Genkai.
• Menma arrived at Satomi Kyūryō Villa with the injured Shin Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō, ordering Unkai to treat Shin and keep Nonō under watch.
• Menma told Unkai that the Uchiha Clan’s end was near and would come through a bloody purge and massacre.

Menma rescued Yakushi Nonō and showed her Kabuto’s letter, revealing how Danzo and Orochimaru had manipulated them. He urged Nonō to choose whether to use her abilities to protect others as the orphanage Matron or keep living as a spy.

• Menma told Kurama Unkai that Konoha’s high-ranking officials were involved in the planned purge and ordered him to prepare to leave Konoha when the time came.
• Nonō woke in Menma’s care and learned that Kabuto was alive, then read his letter about Danzo and Orochimaru’s conspiracy and Kabuto’s journey.
• Kurama Unkai brought Nonō a meal and told her he was temporarily serving as clan head because Kurama Murakumo was unwell.
• Menma visited Nonō and reassured her that she could live as the orphanage Matron rather than as the Wandering Priestess.
• Menma asked Nonō whether she would use her power to protect others or continue using it to hurt others and fleeing from her gentleness.

Menma recruited Nonō to run a future children’s welfare home, while she privately worried about Kabuto. At an Akatsuki meeting, Yakushi Kabuto joined as a reserve member, and his history with Orochimaru surfaced.

• Menma offered Nonō the role of matron of a children’s welfare home, and she accepted after hearing that the children would have more choices for their futures.
• Menma told Nonō he would bring the orphanage children to her and entrust Uchiha children to her care; after he left, she worried about Kabuto.
• Orochimaru and Jugo returned to Orochimaru’s ransacked base, where Orochimaru realized the Masked Man had stolen his laboratory equipment.
• Pain convened Akatsuki and introduced Biwa Juzo as a full member and Yakushi Kabuto as a reserve member, then announced a team reassignment.
• Kabuto revealed Sasori’s concealed history, prompting Sasori to threaten him and the other members to become wary of Kabuto’s intelligence skills.
• Orochimaru recognized Kabuto from the Third Shinobi World War and recalled that Kabuto had once rejected his offer to become his subordinate.

Pain rearranged Akatsuki’s teams after Kakuzu admitted killing his third teammate, while Orochimaru and Kabuto warned the organization about the powerful Masked Man and his Red Moon group. Menma refined a genetic formula in his laboratory and prepared to operate on Kurama Unkai and Yakumo, hoping to restore their health and strengthen Yakumo’s Kekkei Genkai.

• Kakuzu asked Pain for a stronger teammate, and Pain assigned him to Sasori while Orochimaru teamed up with Yakushi Kabuto.
• Orochimaru told Akatsuki that the Masked Man had exceptional taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu, and Kabuto identified him as Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi of the Red Moon organization.
• Menma used Orochimaru’s equipment to test combinations of Shin Uchiha’s cells, Hashirama Cells, and Sharingan cells, eventually finding a stable ratio of 10.1546142.
• Menma invited Kurama Unkai and Yakumo to undergo surgery, promising to restore Unkai’s physical condition and potentially strengthen Yakumo’s Kekkei Genkai.

Menma operated on Kurama Unkai and Kurama Yakumo, then began creating a new body from Naruto’s genetic structure and his own soul and Yin-Yang Chakra. When the nearly completed body reacted violently to 99.9-percent-purity Fusion Fluid, Menma tried to guide its Yin and Yang powers into different paths and injected a second dose.

• Menma injected Kurama Unkai with five-percent-purity Fusion Fluid, leaving him younger and with improved physical, spiritual, and Chakra abilities.
• Menma modified Kurama Yakumo, whose Yin and Yang powers began to produce a weak Power of All Things and strengthen her Kekkei Genkai.
• Yakumo left to practice her abilities and bring Nonō to the laboratory while concealing her tracks with genjutsu.
• With Nonō monitoring the instruments, Menma used Naruto’s genetic structure, his soul, and his Yin-Yang Chakra to grow an infant body into an adult form.
• Menma injected the body with 99.9-percent-purity Fusion Fluid, then guided Yang Release through the body and gathered Yin Release toward its right eye to control the mutation.
• As the powers continued to resist merging with the body, Menma injected a second dose of 99.9-percent-purity Fusion Fluid.

Menma regained a physical body, discovered his right eye was nearing Mangekyō Sharingan evolution, and considered how to pursue senjutsu without relying on the Three Great Sage Regions. He left the laboratory preparing to continue experimenting on Shin Uchiha, while Yakushi Kabuto remained too deeply embedded with Orochimaru and Akatsuki to risk altering.

• Menma awakened inside the nutrient tank, shattered it, and stepped out as Nonō recoiled after seeing his hostile gaze.
• Menma noticed he was naked, covered himself with a blanket, and examined his reflection, where his golden hair and three-tomoe Sharingan began changing.
• Menma saw a blood-soaked vision of a figure in his own gaze, suppressed the hostility, and watched his right eye begin slowly evolving toward a Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Menma tested his rapid healing with a scalpel wound and wondered why his vitality had not awakened the Sage Body.
• Nonō apologized and left the laboratory after Menma told her to rest, while Menma declined to give Yakushi Kabuto Fusion Fluid because of his infiltration work.
• Menma decided to investigate Natural Energy through Cursed Seal research rather than learn from the Three Great Sage Regions, then tied Shin Uchiha back onto the operating table.

Naruto trained his Wind Release and fought Sasuke, then traded Chakra Nature Transformation lessons for the Uchiha Shuriken Control Technique. In the Sealing Space, Menma tested Kurama’s knowledge of nuclear reactions and prepared to teach it the Spiraling Ring technique.

• Naruto practiced Wind Release, attempted to combine it with a Rasengan, and carved wood to refine his control.
• Sasuke found Naruto training in the Death Forest, fought him, and learned Naruto had been using Shadow Clones to attend school.
• Over a campfire, Naruto agreed to teach Sasuke Chakra Nature Transformation in exchange for the Uchiha Shuriken Control Technique.
• Kurama reflected on Naruto’s abilities before Menma appeared in the Sealing Space with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and lashed Kurama with Golden Chains.
• Menma quizzed Kurama on atomic and hydrogen bombs, corrected its explanation, and told it to sit properly for a one-time lesson in the Spiraling Ring technique.

Menma explained how the Great Spiraling Ring used a Tailed Beast Ball as a trigger for a fusion-like reaction, then demonstrated the technique to Kurama. He asked Kurama about sage arts, but learned that Kurama had slept through the Sage of Six Paths’ lessons, leaving Menma still without a sage arts teacher.

• Menma compared the Tailed Beast Ball to an atomic bomb and explained that it triggered the Spiraling Ring like the primary of a hydrogen bomb.
• Menma showed Kurama how Yin Release Power and Yang Release Power compressed a Tailed Beast Ball into the Great Spiraling Ring, which could destroy the Leaf Village.
• Menma described smaller Spiraling Ring variants and considered developing the Super Spiral Wheel Ugra once he had enough Yin Release Power and Yang Release Power.
• Menma asked Kurama whether the Sage of Six Paths had taught it sage arts, and Kurama admitted it had been sleeping during the lessons.
• Kurama regretted missing the chance to become Menma’s teacher and pounded the floor in frustration.

Naruto used the White Dove carrying his transplanted Mangekyō Sharingan to influence Hiruzen Sarutobi into treating him like family and considering him as a future Hokage. Menma explained the limits of the subconscious suggestion, hinted that he would soon be leaving, and comforted Naruto by promising they could keep in touch and inviting him to play.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi visited Naruto, shared dinner with him, and began considering him a Hokage candidate after the White Dove amplified his feelings of warmth toward Naruto.
• Hiruzen gave Naruto scrolls for Wind Release: Vacuum Wave and Wind Release: Pressure Damage, then left after seeing him study.
• Naruto met Menma in his inner world and learned that Menma had placed Naruto's Mangekyō Sharingan in the White Dove to influence Hiruzen subconsciously.
• Menma told Naruto that the suggestion could not directly control Hiruzen, and Naruto asked whether Menma had returned to teach him something.
• Menma encouraged Naruto to live his own life, told him he had left a gift in his locker, and invited him to play computer games.
• Naruto accepted that he would need to make his own way and told Menma he would stand by his side.

Naruto admitted he had long suspected Minato Namikaze was his father, and Menma helped him confront the truth by loosening the seal to summon Minato. After Minato misunderstood Naruto’s childhood and assumed the village had treated him well, Menma offered to show him what Naruto had endured.

• Little Nine Tails urged Naruto to release the seal, and Naruto revealed that he had already deduced Minato was his father.
• Naruto explained that he had avoided asking about his parents because he resented their decision to make him a Jinchuriki, and Menma asked if he wanted answers from them.
• Naruto chose not to run away, so Menma began disturbing the seal and Minato appeared to stop him.
• Minato mistook Menma for Naruto, then apologized after Menma introduced Naruto, but he still assumed the Third Hokage had cared for his son.
• Naruto said he had only wanted to let Fox Teacher get fresh air, and Menma used the Nine Tails’ ability to reveal the village’s malice toward Naruto.
• Menma offered to show Minato Naruto’s past, and Minato asked to see it as a mirror displayed young Naruto.

Menma showed Minato memories of Naruto’s abuse and neglect, leaving Minato horrified and remorseful about entrusting his son to the Third Hokage. Menma arranged for Minato to guide Naruto’s training while he left the Leaf Village, then strengthened Minato’s Chakra clone with Yin and Yang Release Chakra.

• Menma showed Minato memories of Naruto being mistreated by a nanny and villagers, going hungry, and enduring Hiruzen’s hypocritical visits while Kakashi and Minato’s guard unit failed to help.
• Minato apologized to Naruto, who said he was glad he had met Menma and Fox Teacher before the Third Hokage, and Minato admitted he had no right to question Menma.
• Menma and Little Nine Tails told Minato to make up for Naruto’s suffering through actions, and Minato asked Naruto for a chance to do so.
• Naruto stopped Minato from kneeling and Minato, confused, asked what he should do to make amends.
• Menma said Minato would guide Naruto’s training while he was away and used Yin and Yang Release Chakra to strengthen Minato’s Chakra clone.
• Little Nine Tails asked Menma to release his main body, and Menma asked whether he was sure he wanted to be let out now.

Menma freed the Nine Tails in the Sealing Space, where Kushina reunited with Naruto and supported his plans to reform Konoha. After leaving them together, Menma confronted Shin Uchiha and offered him survival and power in exchange for his obedience, leaving Shin questioning the strength of Menma’s eyes.

• Menma released the Nine Tails, but Kushina bound it with Adamantine Sealing Chains before it could attack.
• Kushina learned how Naruto had been mistreated, struck Minato for his past choices, and embraced Naruto as he called her Mother.
• Naruto said he would target Konoha’s corrupt leaders and villagers and ignite the village to create a new future, while Kushina pledged her support.
• Menma returned to his laboratory and used a terrifying genjutsu to punish Shin Uchiha for pretending to be unconscious.
• Shin agreed to give up everything but his life in exchange for Sharingan, then asked whether Menma’s eyes were Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Itachi returned home to see Sasuke, then stole the Uchiha Coup plans and gave them to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who told him to do what he wanted. Three days later, Naruto visited Ichiraku Ramen and found warmth there despite the hostility he faced elsewhere in the village.

• Menma dismissed Shin Uchiha, saying his eyes were not qualified to look directly at him.
• Itachi reunited with Sasuke and shared a family dinner, while Fugaku worried about Naruto and confronted Itachi about avoiding the clan meeting.
• Itachi stole the Uchiha Coup plans and presented them to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha leaders, and Hiruzen told him to do what he wanted.
• Naruto entered Ichiraku Ramen, where Teuchi welcomed him warmly and served his order without treating him like a monster.
• Naruto reflected on the kindness of Teuchi and Iruka, while Minato and Kushina watched his classmates gradually distance themselves from him.

Kushina resolved to teach Naruto the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques while the Uchiha massacre began under Danzo’s plan. Inabi escaped the prison with Uchiha children, but Itachi’s slaughter continued inside the clan grounds.

• Kushina decided to teach Naruto every Uzumaki Clan Sealing Technique, and Minato agreed to help train him.
• Itachi began the massacre as Obito and Zetsu targeted the Uchiha Police Force, while Root shinobi sealed off the clan grounds under Danzo’s orders.
• Inabi killed the prison guards and freed the prisoners, then Setsuna gave him his eyes and chose to stay behind and die.
• Inabi led forty-three Uchiha children out of the village with Kurama Unkai and Yakushi Nonō, while keeping watch for pursuers.
• Itachi killed an elderly Uchiha couple, stabbing the old woman after she greeted him at their home.