Chapter Summaries

Menma subjected Shin Uchiha to Hashirama cell fusion and a brutal Sharingan transplant, helping him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and then stabilize it with a new seed and a sealing technique. Shin revealed that his altered Mangekyō Dojutsu could store non-living objects in an alternate space and create near-identical clones of objects he marked.

• Menma injected Shin Uchiha with Hashirama Cells Fusion Fluid and transplanted dozens of Sharingan into his body.
• Menma carved holes into Shin Uchiha's skull and implanted additional Sharingan, then urged him to control their ocular power.
• Shin Uchiha drew the ocular power into his eyes and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but his Chakra quickly began to run out.
• Menma fed Shin Uchiha a new variety of seed and sealed his body with the Modified Four Symbols Sealing Technique, allowing the Mangekyō to remain supplied with power.
• Shin Uchiha described his left-eye alternate space and his right-eye ability to mark objects and create near-identical clones, surprising Menma.

Menma tested Shin Uchiha’s Mangekyō abilities, gave him a way to release the seals on his Sharingan, and ordered him to accompany him to investigate the Evil God Sect. Meanwhile, Pain assigned Kakuzu and Sasori to investigate the sect in the Land of Hot Water.

• Menma discovered that Shin Uchiha’s Thousand Blades and Thousand Arms could store and launch duplicated weapons, but judged Shin too weak to become an official member of the organization.
• Menma gave Shin a scroll explaining the Four Symbols Sealing Technique and told him to undo the seals on his Sharingan if he wanted to use the Mangekyō.
• Menma ordered Shin to come with him, while Red Moon members Shisui and Izumi Uchiha handled the Shadow Guards and military training in the Land of Snow.
• Kakuzu and Sasori traveled through the Land of Hot Water with the corpse of a rogue Sunagakure Jonin they had killed for a bounty.
• Pain appeared before Kakuzu and Sasori and ordered them to investigate the origins of the Evil God Sect, based on intelligence from Yakushi Kabuto.

Kakuzu and Sasori collected a bounty and bought intelligence about the Evil God Sect, then set out to search for its members. The chapter ended at the Sect’s hidden base, where Long Ming praised Hidan after another ritual.

• Sasori left Kakuzu and hurried to the Bounty Exchange, where Kakuzu soon joined him with the corpse.
• Kakuzu collected a fifteen-million-ryo bounty and paid for information about the Evil God Sect.
• The Bounty Exchange staff provided details about the Sect but could not locate its members, and Kakuzu asked them to watch for further news.
• Sasori asked why Kakuzu did not rob the Exchange, and Kakuzu explained that even lawless places needed rules.
• Kakuzu and Sasori camped in the wilderness to rest before searching for the Evil God Sect.
• At the Sect’s hidden mountain base, Long Ming ended Hidan’s ritual and told him that the Evil God favored him.

Long Ming tested Hidan’s immortal body and Blood Ritual, but Hidan rejected weak sacrifices and set out to find stronger ones. Meanwhile, Menma and Shin Uchiha discovered the strange entity beneath Yugakure, which Menma identified as a false god formed from multiple powers.

• Hidan used Blood Ritual to transfer his self-inflicted wounds to a Yugakure shinobi, killing him as Long Ming recorded the experiment.
• Hidan said the Evil God demanded stronger sacrifices and attacked the other captive, then pointed his spear at Long Ming.
• Long Ming urged Hidan to search for stronger sacrifices and promised to make him Deputy Leader when he returned.
• Hidan went to the sect’s armory to choose a weapon, while Long Ming prepared to continue his immortal-body experiment and planned to eliminate Hidan later.
• Menma and Shin Uchiha entered the underground ruins beneath Yugakure, where Menma saw the Evil God and described it as a false god formed from multiple powers.
• Menma sensed that the entity stirred suppressed desires in him and Shin, then extended his consciousness toward it while preparing to sever the connection.

Menma confronted the Evil God in its underground lair and resisted its attempts to control him. He sealed the creature into himself with Nine-Faced Beast · Seal Conversion, while Shin Uchiha recovered from its influence.

• The Evil God awakened when Menma's consciousness touched its phantom, and its crimson mist and spiritual power began influencing Menma and Shin Uchiha.
• Shin Uchiha succumbed to the Evil God's bewitchment and knelt to worship it, but Menma's power scattered the creature's influence.
• Menma caught the Evil God's attack with a skeletal Chakra arm and judged it to be a mindless entity operating by fixed mechanisms.
• Menma let the Evil God's spiritual power strike him, then bound the creature with Adamantine Sealing Chains as Shin Uchiha regained his senses.
• Menma used Nine-Faced Beast · Seal Conversion to draw the Evil God into himself, transforming it into energy and sealing it inside his body.

Menma discovered that the Celestial Maiden could channel Wish Power through Hidan’s sacrifices and tested whether he could influence Hidan with a gift of spiritual power. He then set out with Shin Uchiha to observe Hidan, while Kakuzu and Sasori found a recently slaughtered village at the Land of Hot Water border.

• Menma examined the Celestial Maiden and theorized that Wish Power had shaped Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki.
• Menma sensed Hidan offering a sacrifice to the Evil God through the Celestial Maiden and sent Hidan spiritual power that let him perceive others’ emotions.
• Menma planned to spread Wish Power and establish a Fourth Sacred Ground, then left with Shin Uchiha to watch Hidan.
• Kakuzu and Sasori entered a blood-soaked village at the Land of Hot Water border and found no living people.

Hidan returned to the Evil God Sect with a captive and revealed the scarlet Evil Eye, unsettling Long Ming. He discovered that fear was the color that overwhelmed all others, then stabbed himself to make his captive die in terror.

• Hidan returned to the sect and insulted Long Ming by calling his color murky and nauseating.
• Long Ming decided Hidan had to be destroyed, though he hid his murderous intent from the followers.
• Hidan hung his captive from the statue, activated his scarlet Evil Eye, and called it a power bestowed by the Evil God.
• Long Ming and the followers praised Hidan's eye as a miracle, while Long Ming secretly planned to kill him that night.
• The captive woke in terror, and Hidan explained that fear could overpower every other emotion and color.
• Hidan stabbed his own heart with the Black Short Spear, making the captive die in fear, and declared that color was fear.

Hidan turned on the Evil God Sect and slaughtered its members, leaving only Long Ming alive. Kakuzu and Sasori entered the bloodied base and wondered which of the two immortals was their target.

• Hidan declared the cultists heretics and killed a member of the Evil God Sect, then attacked the others.
• Long Ming ordered the cultists to kill Hidan, but Hidan fought through the crowd and survived their Exploding Tags.
• Hidan killed the remaining cultists and prayed while Long Ming tried to negotiate with him.
• Kakuzu and Sasori entered the base and asked which of Hidan and Long Ming was their target.

Hidan joined Akatsuki after fighting Kakuzu and performed his damage-sharing ritual on Long Ming. Menma and Shin Uchiha arrived too late to meet the departing Akatsuki members, while Hidan reached Amegakure and tried to recruit his new teammates into his faith.

• Hidan agreed to join Kakuzu and Sasori after Long Ming and Kakuzu failed to defeat him.
• Hidan used his ritual to inflict matching wounds on Long Ming, but Kakuzu interrupted the sacrifice and ordered Hidan to return with them.
• Menma and Shin Uchiha found the Evil God Sect's base devastated and searched for its armory and laboratory.
• Hidan, Kakuzu, and Sasori returned to Amegakure, where Hidan asked the assembled Akatsuki members to join his faith.
• Kisame Hoshigaki politely declined Hidan's invitation.

Yakushi Kabuto persuaded Hidan that the Evil God might enjoy all of humanity’s emotions, earning Hidan’s admiration and proposing they become partners in the Akatsuki. Pain announced Orochimaru’s departure and ordered the Akatsuki to begin capturing the tailed beasts.

• Kisame Hoshigaki declined Hidan’s invitation to join the Evil God Sect, while Yakushi Kabuto questioned Hidan about his faith.
• Kakuzu mocked Hidan’s beliefs, and Yakushi Kabuto calmed the pair by suggesting that gods might love humanity’s full range of emotions.
• Hidan praised Yakushi Kabuto’s interpretation and offered him the position of Vice Archbishop, but Kabuto declined because he did not fear death.
• Yakushi Kabuto asked Pain to pair him with Hidan, and Hidan eagerly agreed to work with him.
• Deva Path Pain announced that Orochimaru had fled after failing to assassinate Itachi Uchiha and ordered the Akatsuki to retrieve his ring.
• Pain declared that the Akatsuki had ten members and could begin the Tailed Beast Capture Plan.

Pain gathered all ten Akatsuki members, ordered Kakuzu and Sasori to hunt down Orochimaru, and assigned the members new partners and codenames. When Kakuzu challenged Yakushi Kabuto’s promotion, Kabuto revealed a sinister, snake-like transformation and warned that he could get angry.

• Pain welcomed Sasori, Kakuzu, and Tobi back, then announced that Orochimaru had tried and failed to seize the Rinnegan.
• Pain assigned Kakuzu and Sasori to recover Orochimaru’s Ring of the Void and reorganized the Akatsuki’s teams.
• Pain promoted Tobi and Yakushi Kabuto to full membership, pairing Tobi with Zetsu and Kabuto with Hidan.
• Kakuzu questioned Kabuto’s strength, while Kisame and Zetsu suggested recruiting Deidara and Hidan insisted on keeping Kabuto as his partner.
• Pain silenced the objections and affirmed that Kabuto had earned his approval.
• Kabuto removed his glasses, revealed scales, snake-like pupils, and strange markings, and warned Kakuzu that he could get angry.

Yakushi Kabuto treated Nagato’s crippled legs, earning his trust and helping him stand for the first time in nine years. The treatment only addressed the symptoms, and Konan asked whether Nagato could be fully healed.

• Yakushi Kabuto and Kakuzu fought, and Kabuto later explained that Kakuzu had held back during their spar.
• Yakushi Kabuto reattached Hidan’s severed arm, and Hidan worried that Kakuzu might retaliate against Kabuto.
• Yakushi Kabuto visited Nagato and Konan, and Nagato declared that Kabuto’s actions had proven his loyalty.
• Nagato rose from his wheelchair and stood on his weakened legs for the first time in nine years.
• Yakushi Kabuto warned that the treatment addressed only the symptoms, and Konan asked whether Nagato could be completely healed.

Yakushi Kabuto offered Nagato two ways to restore his strength, while Naruto walked through Leaf Village after Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed that he was Minato Namikaze’s son. Naruto left Sasuke with a warning to keep quiet and said he would visit Hiruzen alone.

• Yakushi Kabuto explained that Nagato’s strength was depleting faster than it could recover and offered Hashirama Cells or White Zetsu as possible treatments.
• Konan rejected the risky Hashirama Cells transplant, and Nagato agreed to consider capturing a White Zetsu while Kabuto requested flakes of skin from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed Naruto’s parentage, gave him the key and deed to Minato and his wife’s house, and publicly named him the Fourth Hokage’s son.
• Naruto and Sasuke walked through Leaf Village as villagers reacted to the revelation, and Sasuke guessed that Naruto had known about his background beforehand.
• Naruto told Sasuke to keep their suspicions private and said he would go see Hiruzen Sarutobi alone.

Jiraiya agreed to take Naruto as his disciple and teach him, while refusing Hiruzen’s suggestion that he become Hokage. After colliding with Naruto and Sasuke in the hospital corridor, Jiraiya was caught off guard when Naruto asked whether they knew each other.

• Jiraiya told Hiruzen he would leave the village once the Shinobi World stabilized, but Hiruzen urged him to consider Naruto as the Child of Prophecy.
• Jiraiya argued that Naruto did not fit the prophecy, then agreed to teach him as compensation for neglecting Minato’s son while insisting he would never become Hokage.
• Hiruzen accepted Jiraiya’s refusal and said he was tired of serving as Hokage and wanted to prepare Naruto to succeed him.
• Jiraiya left the hospital room, collided with Sasuke in the corridor, and saw Naruto beside him.
• Jiraiya considered how to introduce himself to Naruto, but Naruto smiled and asked whether he knew him, leaving Jiraiya frozen as Sasuke grew suspicious.

Naruto rejected Jiraiya’s offer to become his disciple and maneuvered him into approaching Sasuke instead, whom Jiraiya recognized as a possible Child of Prophecy. Naruto then visited Hiruzen Sarutobi in the hospital, where the Third Hokage asked whether Naruto still resented him.

• Inside the sealing space, Minato suggested that Naruto ask Jiraiya to teach him sage arts, while Kushina scolded Minato for encouraging Naruto to approach Jiraiya.
• Little Nine Tails bet that Naruto would not become Jiraiya’s disciple because Naruto had already chosen someone else as his master.
• Jiraiya introduced himself to Naruto and Sasuke, then offered to take Naruto as his student.
• Naruto refused and pushed Sasuke toward Jiraiya, telling him to seek Jiraiya’s help if he wanted to become stronger.
• Jiraiya asked Sasuke to take him as his master after deciding Sasuke might fit the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• Naruto visited Hiruzen Sarutobi, who asked whether Naruto still resented him for failing to care for him properly.

Naruto visited the bedridden Hiruzen Sarutobi and appeared to forgive him for concealing Naruto’s identity and failing to protect him from the village’s hatred. Hiruzen and the elders believed Naruto had inherited the Will of Fire, while Danzo recognized that Naruto’s darkness remained and that Hiruzen had pushed him toward Danzo.

• Naruto organized Hiruzen Sarutobi’s confidential documents and admitted that he still resented Hiruzen for his lonely childhood.
• Naruto explained Hiruzen’s choices from the Hokage’s perspective and said he understood the sacrifices made for the village.
• Naruto urged Hiruzen to rest and declared that he wanted to become like Minato Namikaze and illuminate Leaf Village.
• After Naruto left, Hiruzen revealed that Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Danzo had been listening; Hiruzen and the elders praised Naruto’s loyalty.
• Danzo silently judged that Naruto had only buried his darkness and walked out after telling Hiruzen that he had won this time.

Naruto planned to raise Konoha’s leaders and villagers to positions of pride before destroying what they valued. At the Hyuga residence, Hinata challenged Hiashi’s defense of clan traditions, then abruptly returned to her timid manner before explaining what she meant.

• Naruto told Kurama he would stay in Konoha and let its people enjoy what they wanted before taking it away.
• Hinata ate her fill at the Hyuga residence, and Hiashi marveled at her enormous appetite and unusual physique.
• Hinata criticized Hiashi for holding back during their spar and argued that the Gentle Fist Art could not keep pace with the times.
• Hinata told Hiashi that the Byakugan, rather than the Gentle Fist Art, was the Hyuga Clan’s true foundation.
• Hinata said someone else would handle what Hiashi could not, then abruptly became timid and addressed him as Father.

Menma oversaw Snow Castle’s reforms, using ninjutsu to help gather construction materials and explaining the plans for military districts and education. The chapter left the Land of Snow building its institutions and searching for scholars to guide the Uchiha children.

• Menma used wind blades to fell and clear trees, inspiring the gathered commoners to haul the timber to transport trucks.
• Kurama Unkai reported that the materials for the military district had been gathered, and Menma explained that military, residential, and commercial districts needed clear separation.
• Menma asked Kurama Unkai about recruiting scholarly talent, emphasizing that the Uchiha children needed proper guidance.
• Menma outlined plans for compulsory education and schools at different levels so children could gain knowledge and choose whether to become ninja.

Menma reviewed the Land of Snow’s development and considered exploiting the Shinobi World’s fragile political economy by provoking a financial bubble. Kazahana Koyuki burst into his office and remarked on its pleasant scent.

• Menma reviewed reports on the Land of Snow’s roads, school, welfare plans, and intelligence network as the country continued to develop in relative secrecy.
• Menma concluded that the One Country One Village System rested on fragile shared interests and considered ways it could be broken apart.
• Menma recalled the Tulip Bubble and thought the Land of Snow’s financial strain could let him profit from speculators.
• Kazahana Koyuki ran into Menma’s office, hugged his arm, and said the room smelled wonderful.

Menma agreed to support Koyuki’s dream of becoming a movie actor in exchange for promoting his Iris Rainbow Flower, and approved a statue designed to collect Wish Power. He then entered his inner world and spoke with Little Black, who objected to being called that.

• Koyuki asked Menma to help her become a movie actor, and he agreed on the conditions that she keep fulfilling her duties as ruler and feature the Iris Rainbow Flower in a movie.
• Koyuki became captivated by the Iris Rainbow Flower and accepted Menma’s conditions, while Santayū chose not to interfere.
• Koyuki showed Menma Yakumo’s sketch for a statue meant to receive Wish Power, and Menma approved it.
• Menma considered using the collected Wish Power to refine spiritual energy and awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Menma entered his inner world and found Little Black sitting on a Corpse Mountain, where she complained that he had nearly been mistaken for trash and told him not to call her Little Black.