Chapter Summaries

Hagoromo returned to the battlefield after sensing Jiraiya and Chiyo, then followed Chiyo and witnessed her sacrifice herself to revive Gaara. Seeing that Gaara survived the One-Tail’s death, Hagoromo realized Naruto might survive the Nine-Tails’ death too, and hurried back to Konoha hoping Orochimaru was still alive.

• Hagoromo confirmed that Shukaku had been killed and led Mirai and the others back toward Konoha.
• Mirai sensed someone heading to the battlefield and identified the approaching chakra as Jiraiya’s; Hagoromo recognized the first person as Chiyo.
• Hagoromo and his group found Jiraiya at the battlefield, where Gaara’s body had been replaced by a trapped puppet and Chiyo had escaped.
• Hagoromo sent Jiraiya, Mirai, and the others back to Konoha, then pursued Chiyo in Sage Mode.
• Hagoromo watched from hiding as Chiyo used a life-for-life technique to revive Gaara, then saw Gaara leave carrying her body.
• Hagoromo concluded that a Jinchuriki could survive a Tailed Beast’s death and hurried toward Konoha, hoping Orochimaru had survived.

Hagoromo planned to revive Chiyo through Orochimaru so he could obtain her resurrection technique and remove the Nine-Tails from Naruto without sacrificing himself. Meanwhile, a glasses-wearing man persuaded a hidden figure in Konoha to seek Orochimaru’s power and knowledge, leaving the figure tempted by the proposed shortcut.

• Hagoromo concluded that Chiyo’s Rebirth Impure World Resurrection could help save Naruto, but he needed Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation and Living Corpse Reincarnation to use it without dying.
• Hagoromo hurried back while two hidden figures discussed Orochimaru’s strength and his possible usefulness to one of them.
• The glasses-wearing man argued that Orochimaru was a practical path to power, even though he might not defeat the White Yaksha.
• The glasses-wearing man added that Orochimaru had been present at the incident and might reveal its hidden truths, tempting the other figure to pursue him.

Hagoromo’s clone explained that Root was only partially under control and could not undo the Rashomon barrier before Danzo triggered a self-destruction seal. After receiving the clone’s memories, Hagoromo decided Orochimaru might still be alive and set out to pursue him, but first needed to find Naruto.

• Hagoromo told Tsunade that the Third Hokage’s plan had largely succeeded, but Root still needed to be reintegrated into the Hokage system.
• Hagoromo’s clone said it lacked the chakra to undo the Rashomon barrier, then threw Tsunade off the rooftop as Danzo’s Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique engulfed the clone and nearby Anbu.
• Tsunade landed safely and saw that the barrier, much of the rooftop, and the building’s upper half had vanished.
• Hagoromo’s real body received the clone’s memories and concluded that Orochimaru might still be alive.
• Hagoromo decided to pursue Orochimaru after finding Naruto, whose condition he intended to address.

Hagoromo found Naruto carrying Temari and Kankuro, explained that the conflict between Konoha and Sunagakure had been caused by Orochimaru, and sent Naruto with him to pursue the rogue ninja. Meanwhile, Orochimaru detected their approach and waited for Hagoromo while sending his other companions ahead.

• Danzo used the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to destroy the barriers around him, killing two Otogakure ninja in the process.
• Hagoromo found Naruto returning with Temari and Kankuro, whom Naruto had captured amid the fighting.
• Hagoromo told Naruto that Orochimaru had caused the conflict between Konoha and Sunagakure, so Naruto released the siblings.
• Hagoromo invited Naruto to pursue Orochimaru and warned Temari to leave the Land of Fire with Kankuro.
• Orochimaru, weakened after escaping Danzo’s seal, sensed Hagoromo approaching and told Kabuto and the others to continue to their base while he waited.

Hagoromo caught up with a weakened Orochimaru and incapacitated Kabuto with a paralysis genjutsu. He then asked Orochimaru whether he wanted to learn Rebirth Techniques beyond Impure World Reincarnation.

• Kabuto recognized that Orochimaru was in critical condition and offered to hold off Hagoromo while Orochimaru escaped.
• Hagoromo approached with Naruto asleep on his back, and Orochimaru told Kabuto not to attack because Hagoromo seemed unhostile.
• Hagoromo trapped Kabuto in a paralysis genjutsu, leaving him unable to move as Orochimaru watched.
• Orochimaru asked why Hagoromo had pursued him, and Hagoromo instead asked when Orochimaru's reincarnation ritual would begin.
• Hagoromo asked whether Orochimaru was interested in Rebirth Techniques other than Impure World Reincarnation, and Orochimaru was eager to hear more.

Hagoromo brought Orochimaru Chiyo’s hair so Orochimaru could learn her Rebirth Technique and help extract the Nine-Tails. After Orochimaru mastered an improved version, Hagoromo destroyed Impure World Chiyo, and Orochimaru realized the purpose behind Hagoromo’s plan as they prepared to begin the ritual.

• Hagoromo led Naruto to Orochimaru’s hideout in the Land of Iron, where Orochimaru agreed to study Chiyo’s Rebirth Technique using a strand of her hair.
• Orochimaru told Kabuto to prepare a reincarnation ritual using a previously selected candidate, rather than Sasuke, whose Sharingan he believed had not awakened.
• Five days later, Orochimaru said he had mastered and improved the technique with Impure World Chiyo’s help.
• Hagoromo asked Orochimaru to extract the Nine-Tails without killing its young host.
• Hagoromo slashed Impure World Chiyo, causing her body to collapse and telling Orochimaru he would never be able to summon her again.
• Orochimaru understood Hagoromo’s plan and prepared to begin the ritual to meet the Nine-Tails.

Hagoromo removed Naruto’s seal and released the Nine-Tails so Orochimaru could use Rebirth Impure World Resurrection on him. As the Nine-Tails appeared in the underground chamber, Orochimaru’s white-scaled serpent began the Living Corpse Reincarnation ritual by lunging at its prepared sacrifice.

• Hagoromo questioned Orochimaru about the ritual’s order and whether the Nine-Tails’ release would disrupt the reincarnation.
• Orochimaru explained that he had prepared a mentally broken sacrifice so Living Corpse Reincarnation would finish instantly.
• Yakushi Kabuto left the room after Orochimaru warned him to stay clear of the Nine-Tails.
• Hagoromo finished dismantling Naruto’s seal and touched Naruto’s abdomen, releasing the Nine-Tails into the chamber.
• Orochimaru used Rebirth Impure World Resurrection on Naruto, and his white-scaled serpent lunged toward the bound sacrifice.

Orochimaru escaped the destruction of the Nine-Tails’ seal by taking over a new body, then watched as Hagoromo faced the newly freed beast. Naruto was saved from the Nine-Tails’ attack and sent to protect Orochimaru while Hagoromo prepared to fight.

• Orochimaru completed his Living Corpse Reincarnation into a prepared female body and slipped out of his restraints.
• Hagoromo confronted the freed Nine-Tails, which blamed him for its long confinement.
• Naruto woke beneath the Nine-Tails, and the beast tried to crush him with a tail.
• Hagoromo activated the Mutually Multiplying Four Symbols Seal to protect Naruto and told him to retreat.
• Naruto ran to Orochimaru and declared that he would protect her while Hagoromo faced the Nine-Tails.

Hagoromo fought the Nine-Tails while Orochimaru protected Naruto. By the end, Hagoromo had knocked the Nine-Tails onto its back and launched a barrage of giant shuriken at it.

• Hagoromo told the Nine-Tails that this would be their last meeting, then charged as it swung its nine tails at him.
• Hagoromo and his Shadow Clone dodged the tails and pinned one to the ground with Chakra Blades, making the Nine-Tails lose its balance and fall.
• Hagoromo and his clone raced along the Nine-Tails, struck its eye, and pulled its ear until it rolled onto its back.
• Clone Hagoromo used the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique to fire a barrage at the helpless Nine-Tails while Orochimaru and Naruto watched.

Hagoromo fought the Nine-Tails after it attacked Orochimaru’s Underground Base, then used a series of Sage Arts to trap and restrain it. The Nine-Tails began breaking free from Hagoromo’s massive lightning technique as Naruto and Orochimaru watched from a distance.

• Hagoromo struck the Nine-Tails with giant shuriken, while Naruto struggled under the beast’s spiritual pressure until Orochimaru steadied him.
• The Nine-Tails prepared a Tailed Beast Ball, so Orochimaru carried Naruto through the passage and escaped the blast that destroyed the Underground Base.
• Hagoromo emerged unharmed and entered Sage Mode, then raised Earth Flow Castle Walls around the Nine-Tails.
• Hagoromo sank the Nine-Tails into a bottomless mire, covered it in Heavenly Descent Clay, and hardened the mass with Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Hagoromo unleashed the One Hundred Twenty-Eight Pillars Binding Technique, surrounding the Nine-Tails with cycling lightning, but the beast began straining against its restraints.

Hagoromo defeated the Nine-Tails with his lightning-binding technique and used his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to erase it, then prepared to leave the Land of Iron with Naruto. Naruto stopped him by saying someone had asked him to pass on a message in a familiar voice.

• Hagoromo weakened the Nine-Tails with sustained Lightning Release until it could no longer resist.
• Hagoromo slashed the motionless Nine-Tails, causing its enormous body to disappear.
• Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto questioned whether the Nine-Tails had truly been erased, then left before the samurai arrived.
• Hagoromo returned to Naruto and said they could go back to Konoha, while Naruto asked whether the Nine-Tails would ever appear again.
• Naruto told Hagoromo that someone had asked him to pass on some words, speaking in a voice Hagoromo recognized from long ago.

Naruto learned how Hagoromo had dismantled the seal and why Minato and Kushina had appeared in his mind, then returned with Hagoromo to a Konoha undergoing major changes. Tsunade moved to bring Root under her control, and the village faced a future unlike its past.

• Naruto learned that Minato had prepared the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style to repair itself and had left Kushina's chakra and the key to the seal as safeguards.
• Minato and Kushina appeared in Naruto's mind as Hagoromo dismantled the seal, and Minato accepted that he could not stop Hagoromo from solving Naruto's Jinchuriki problem.
• Tsunade rejected the advisors' resistance to reorganizing Root by offering to replace its leader if Root remained independent.
• Danzo's death caused the Tongue Severing Seals on Root shinobi to fail, allowing Konoha to learn more about Root.
• Hagoromo reflected on the Third Hokage's sacrifice and returned to Konoha with Naruto, arriving in a changed village.

Hagoromo and Jiraiya discussed the Third Hokage’s death and Konoha’s relations with Sunagakure before Hagoromo prepared to report the loss of Shukaku and the Nine-Tails to Tsunade. The chapter ended with Jiraiya reminding Hagoromo that Sasuke had disappeared since the Chunin Exams.

• Hagoromo mourned at the Third Hokage’s grave, and Jiraiya explained why Sarutobi had chosen a meaningful death.
• Jiraiya asked Hagoromo to confirm Chiyo’s death, and Hagoromo said he had witnessed it.
• Hagoromo and Jiraiya discussed blaming Orochimaru for the conflict between Konoha and Sunagakure to help both villages avoid war.
• Hagoromo asked to meet Tsunade so he could explain his trip and the disappearance of Shukaku and the Nine-Tails.
• Jiraiya reminded Hagoromo that Sasuke, the last Uchiha and Second Pillar of Team 7, had disappeared after the Chunin Exams.

Hagoromo told Tsunade and Jiraiya that he had permanently scattered the chakra of the Seven-Tails, One-Tail, and Nine-Tails, then explained how Naruto survived the Nine-Tails’ extraction. As they considered the consequences for Konoha and Akatsuki’s plans, an explosion suddenly struck somewhere in the village.

• Tsunade asked Hagoromo what he meant by saying the Seven-Tails, One-Tail, and Nine-Tails had been dealt with, and he said he had scattered their chakra so they could never reform.
• Tsunade questioned how Hagoromo had done it, and he claimed it was an innate Eye Technique before admitting he did not know how long the chakra would take to disperse.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya considered whether losing the Nine-Tails would help or harm Konoha, while Jiraiya asked how Naruto had survived its extraction.
• Hagoromo said he had used the same revival method Chiyo used for Gaara, with someone else paying the price.
• Tsunade noted that the loss of three Tailed Beasts could prevent Akatsuki from completing its collection plan, but an explosion suddenly rang out somewhere in Konoha.

Zetsu infiltrated Konoha to steal the Death God Mask from the Uzumaki Clan’s shrine, hoping to find a way to undo the seal on the Yin half of the Nine-Tails. He discovered that Hagoromo had taken the mask and left a trap, ending the mission in an explosion.

• Black Zetsu told White Zetsu that Akatsuki had found a possible way to obtain the Yin half of the Nine-Tails without confronting the White Yaksha.
• Zetsu entered the Uzumaki Clan’s last shrine and found Namian Hall, where masks used in special Sealing Techniques were stored.
• White Zetsu found a Tengu Mask where the Death God Mask should have been and read a note directing seekers to the Kamishiraishi residence.
• White Zetsu removed the Tengu Mask, triggering the Exploding Tags Hagoromo had hidden inside it.

After Zetsu infiltrated Konoha to obtain the Death God Mask, a trap in the Uzumaki Clan Shrine exploded and ruined much of the mask collection. Hagoromo explained the mask’s connection to the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, but the discovery of White Zetsu’s severed hand revealed the intrusion was part of Akatsuki’s renewed efforts to collect the tailed beasts; Zetsu withdrew from Konoha empty-handed.

• Zetsu entered Konoha unnoticed and picked up the Long Nose Mask in Namian Hall, triggering a hidden cache of Exploding Tags.
• Tsunade arrived at the ruined shrine and questioned Hagoromo about the explosion, prompting him to admit he had planted the Exploding Tags to protect the Death God Mask.
• Hagoromo explained that the mask could undo the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and that he had removed it after the Nine-Tails Incident to keep Orochimaru from using it.
• Jiraiya found a freshly severed, pale hand in the rubble, and Hagoromo recognized it as belonging to White Zetsu.
• Zetsu withdrew from Konoha after the blast badly injured White Zetsu, leaving without obtaining the other half of the Nine-Tails.

After Sasuke left Konoha, Kakashi faced the loss of a teammate while Naruto focused on becoming stronger. Hagoromo explained the wider crisis to Jiraiya, agreed to let him teach Naruto senjutsu, and prepared to begin his operation after honoring Kushina’s encouragement to move forward boldly.

• Kakashi recognized Sasuke as a rogue ninja and worried about finding someone to fill his place on Team 7, while Naruto resolved to grow stronger.
• Hagoromo told Jiraiya more about the threats facing the ninja world, including Nagato’s role as Akatsuki’s leader.
• Jiraiya offered to teach Naruto and Mirai senjutsu, and Hagoromo approved for Naruto but said he would take Mirai with him when his operation began.
• Hagoromo remained in Konoha until Naruto and Mirai’s birthdays approached, then left white flowers in the cherry blossom forest.
• Hagoromo received Kushina’s message urging him to keep moving forward and decided to turn the world upside down if necessary.

Hagoromo led Mirai and Three Teams to confront Akatsuki members Sasori and Deidara in the Land of Rice Fields, while Konoha’s Anbu monitored him to prevent him from provoking Kumogakure. He assigned Mirai’s group to face Sasori and prepared to fight Deidara himself.

• Hagoromo confirmed the location with Mirai and sent the Anbu on to withdraw, but the Anbu captain revealed Tsunade had ordered them to watch Hagoromo and keep him from charging into Kumogakure.
• Hagoromo accepted the surveillance and led Mirai and Three Teams to intercept Sasori and Deidara before they could reach the Land of Lightning.
• Hagoromo recognized Sasori from their earlier encounter in Amegakure and reminded him that he had once dismantled Hiruko.
• Sasori and Deidara decided they had to fight, so Hagoromo assigned Mirai’s group to battle Sasori and took Deidara for himself.
• Deidara prepared his Explosive Clay and announced that he would show Hagoromo his art, while Hagoromo drew his Chakra Blade and told him to keep that attitude.

Hagoromo used intelligence from Itachi to counter Deidara’s explosive clay and aerial tactics, while Mirai’s group battled Sasori nearby. Deidara was knocked out of the sky twice by Hagoromo’s summoned creatures.

• Hagoromo recalled Itachi’s intelligence about Deidara’s Earth Release and Lightning Release weakness, then asked him to demonstrate his techniques.
• Deidara sent explosive clay centipedes underground and climbed higher on his Giant Bird to widen the distance from Hagoromo.
• Hagoromo used Chidori Blade to destroy the centipedes before they could detonate.
• Hagoromo’s Yata Crow tore apart Deidara’s Giant Bird, forcing Deidara to use an Explosive Clay Owl to catch himself.
• Hagoromo’s Bicorn Rhinoceros struck the owl and launched Deidara back into the sky.

Hagoromo countered Deidara’s giant Garuda technique by recognizing its mist of tiny explosive clay particles and using Lightning Release. Mirai and the others followed his warning, leaving Deidara’s intended attack unable to harm anyone but himself.

• Hagoromo pursued Deidara after knocking him unconscious and sending him crashing far from the battlefield.
• Deidara returned in the form of a gigantic clay figure called Garuda and advanced on Hagoromo.
• Hagoromo cut through Garuda’s leg with Chidori Sharp Spear, releasing a fine mist as the figure collapsed.
• Hagoromo suspected the mist was explosive and used Chidori Current, while warning Mirai to use Lightning Release.
• Mirai and the others electrified themselves before the mist reached them, thwarting Deidara’s plan to detonate the tiny bombs inside his enemies.