Chapter Summaries

Rinto discussed training Sage Mode with Jiraiya and Sage Fukasaku, arguing that extracting Sage Chakra could become an instinct and that sage techniques could extend a person’s lifespan. After Minato joined them, Rinto urged him to improve his Sage Mode for its sensory abilities and tested him by tossing his wooden clogs into the courtyard.

• Rinto told Jiraiya that prolonged Sage Mode could extend a human’s lifespan, but Jiraiya doubted he could maintain it during battle.
• Sage Fukasaku and Rinto argued that Jiraiya could train himself to extract Sage Chakra instinctively while fighting.
• Minato arrived and greeted Jiraiya, Rinto, and Sage Fukasaku, who recalled Rinto and Jiraiya’s old bet about Minato and the Uzumaki Clan’s princess.
• Rinto advised Minato to train Sage Mode to improve his ability to sense hidden enemies.
• Rinto tossed his wooden clogs into the courtyard and asked Minato to find them.

Minato asked Rinto whether Amegakure would remain aligned with Konoha, and Rinto warned him that the villages had never been allies and that Amegakure would retaliate if threatened. After Minato left with Jiraiya, Yawai asked Rinto to teach her Sage Mode so she could live longer.

• Minato discovered Rinto's wooden clogs could vanish underground and reappear on command, prompting him to consider Sage Mode's value for detecting infiltrators.
• Minato returned to ask whether Amegakure would stand with Konoha, and Rinto explained that Amegakure was a peaceful refuge rather than a Konoha ally.
• Rinto warned Minato not to target Amegakure, citing his destruction of much of Iwagakure and his control over Rasa's orders.
• Minato shared his concerns with Jiraiya, who reassured him that Rinto would not cause trouble unless provoked.
• Yawai asked Rinto to teach her Sage Mode because she wanted to live longer, and he agreed while warning her about the risks.

Hiruzen Sarutobi passed the Hokage position to Minato Namikaze, while Rinto and his companions left Konoha and later watched Minato and Kushina prepare for Naruto’s birth. Rinto planned to interfere with the coming events to keep Minato alive, while a masked man showed hatred at a gravestone.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi formally passed the Hokage position to Minato Namikaze as the village celebrated, and Rinto and the Amegakure group watched from the crowd.
• Rinto led his companions away from Konoha, and the story moved ahead to Konoha’s forty-eighth year as Kushina awaited Naruto’s birth.
• Minato returned home to Kushina, who teased him about the baby kicking her, while Biwako Sarutobi quietly left the couple alone.
• A masked man scattered the flowers at a gravestone and sneered at the Yellow Flash.
• Rinto joked with a construction foreman about Tsunade becoming the Fifth Hokage, then resolved to interfere so Minato and Kushina would survive and Naruto would have a better childhood.

While Kushina went into labor outside Konoha, Rinto warned Hiruzen that Madara Uchiha would attack and urged him to trade the Nine-Tails for the One-Tail. The Nine-Tails was released before Hiruzen could decide, and Rinto went with him to respond.

• Rinto urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to trade the Nine-Tails for the One-Tail, warning that Madara Uchiha would attack Kushina and Minato Namikaze.
• Hiruzen refused to decide on the trade, saying the village was no longer his to command.
• An explosion struck the delivery site, and the Nine-Tails appeared outside Konoha after being released.
• Hiruzen ordered the Anbu to gather and prepare for battle.
• Rinto agreed to go with Hiruzen, explaining that he wanted witnesses to know he had not been involved in the attack.
• Rinto suggested bringing First Grandfather and Second Grandfather out for a walk, and Hiruzen reacted with displeasure.

Rinto helped Hiruzen Sarutobi restrain the Nine-Tails during its attack on Konoha, while Minato Namikaze faced the masked man outside the village. Rinto pinned the fox down and turned its Tailed Beast Ball back into its mouth as Uchiha Fugaku watched in disbelief.

• Minato Namikaze narrowly escaped the masked man's space-time attack and appeared outside the village as the masked man pursued him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Monkey King Enma, transformed him into the Adamantine Nyoi-Bō, and knocked the Nine-Tails out of the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi called on Rinto to restrain the Nine-Tails, and Rinto used the Stage Collapse Technique to pin it beneath him.
• The Nine-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Ball, but Rinto grabbed it and shoved it into the fox's mouth before clamping its jaws shut.
• Uchiha Fugaku watched Rinto torment the Nine-Tails while arranging for villagers to take shelter.

Rinto incapacitated the Nine-Tails, but Minato's repeated space-time transfers left him severely drained while Kushina faced death after the beast was extracted. Rinto arrived at the delivery room with Shukaku, intending to use the One-Tail as a substitute to save her.

• Rinto burst the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball inside its mouth, knocked it unconscious, and joked with Hiruzen Sarutobi about the attack.
• Minato teleported the Nine-Tails away to seal it, and Rinto warned Hiruzen that Kushina would die and Minato had likely crippled himself through overuse of Flying Thunder God.
• Minato reunited Kushina with Naruto, and Kushina asked him to seal the Nine-Tails back into her so she could die with it.
• Rinto stopped Kushina from using her remaining Chakra and explained that she might still be saved if they sealed a more cooperative tailed beast inside her.
• Rinto opened the Glazed Vase and released Shukaku, who recognized the Nine-Tails and attacked it with Air Bullet.

Rinto sealed Shukaku into Kushina to replace the Nine-Tails, but it only slowed her fading life force, leaving Minato with little time with his family. Rinto took the Nine-Tails to the Land of Rivers and began beating it into lending him its Chakra.

• Rinto sealed Shukaku into Kushina, but her life force continued to fade despite her renewed color and alertness.
• Rinto told Minato and Kushina to spend the remaining half day or day together, then sealed the Nine-Tails in the Glazed Vase and promised to return it within one to three years.
• Rinto released the Nine-Tails in the Land of Rivers and brought Nekomata out of his body.
• The Nine-Tails attacked Rinto, who grew into a giant and beat it until it was battered and covered in missing fur.

After three years of training in the Land of Rivers, Rinto returned to Konoha with the Nine-Tails and learned that Minato had died. He pressured Hiruzen Sarutobi to seal the Nine-Tails inside Naruto, and Hiruzen finally agreed.

• Rinto ended his three-year training, returned the drained Nine-Tails to the Glazed Vase, and traveled back to Konoha with Nekomata.
• Rinto met Hiruzen Sarutobi and learned that Minato had been murdered three years earlier by a mysterious masked man.
• Rinto demanded that the Nine-Tails be sealed inside Minato’s son, but Hiruzen initially refused and proposed keeping it sealed in the village.
• Rinto demanded Shukaku in exchange, and Hiruzen eventually agreed to seal the Nine-Tails inside Naruto.

Sakuta Rinto visited three-year-old Naruto Uzumaki and revealed that his parents were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. He returned the Nine-Tails, Kurama, to Naruto, leaving the boy startled but happy to meet the little fox.

• Sakuta Rinto went to Naruto Uzumaki's shabby apartment after Hiruzen Sarutobi yielded the Nine-Tails matter to him.
• Rinto entered Naruto's room and told him that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were his parents and had died protecting the village.
• Rinto pulled the Nine-Tails, Kurama, from the Glazed Vase and told Naruto to treat him like a little brother.
• Naruto eagerly accepted Kurama, while Kurama decided that anyone would be preferable to Rinto.

Rinto took Naruto to Ichiraku Ramen, promised to pay for his meals, and then visited Itachi after learning that the boy had passed the Chunin Exams. The chapter ended with Rinto privately teasing Nekomata about their past while she angrily refused to talk to him.

• Rinto brought Naruto to Ichiraku Ramen and reunited with Teuchi and Ayame.
• Naruto devoured a lavish bowl of ramen, and Rinto told Teuchi to put the boy’s future meals on his tab.
• Rinto boasted that he had enough money to feed Naruto ramen for a hundred thousand years, then left money with Teuchi and walked out.
• Rinto visited Itachi, who told him that he had passed the Chunin Exams.
• Rinto privately recalled bullying Nekomata in the past, and Nekomata threatened him before turning away in embarrassment.

Fugaku asked Rinto to help Uchiha members escape Konoha before their clan was destroyed, and Rinto advised him to fake a mass death and trade away Konoha’s interests. Later, Jiraiya pressed Rinto for information about Orochimaru and Akatsuki, but Rinto denied knowing anything.

• Fugaku told Rinto that the Uchiha were increasingly isolated from Konoha and that tensions between the clan and the village were worsening.
• Fugaku asked Rinto to reserve at least a hundred vacant rooms in Amegakure for Uchiha who might leave Konoha, and Rinto agreed.
• Fugaku asked how his people could leave without being branded Rogue Ninja, and Rinto advised him to stage enough deaths and give away Konoha’s interests to conceal their escape.
• Rinto left Fugaku’s home and said he would return the Glazed Vase and go back to Amegakure once Konoha was settled.
• Jiraiya asked Rinto for intelligence on Orochimaru and Akatsuki, but Rinto repeatedly denied knowing anything.

Jiraiya learned where Orochimaru was hiding and left to confront him. Rinto then tried to recruit Sakumo for an undercover mission in the Akatsuki Organization, using Guy’s progress to provoke Sakumo about Kakashi’s chances against him.

• Jiraiya vowed to question Orochimaru about his cruel experiments, and Tsunade arrived to support him.
• Rinto told Jiraiya that Orochimaru was likely hiding underground in a village in the Land of Fields, and Jiraiya left to find him.
• Rinto carried the drunken Tsunade home, then went to the village gate and told Sakumo he wanted to infiltrate the Akatsuki Organization.
• Sakumo refused to join Rinto’s plan and suggested that Kagami go instead.
• Rinto compared Guy’s strength and Duy’s defeat of five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to Kakashi’s prospects, leaving Sakumo speechless.

Rinto persuaded Sakumo to keep training by offering to teach him the Lightning Style Chakra Mode as a family heirloom. At the village gate, Rinto considered teaching Shisui the Flying Thunder God Technique after finishing version 3.0, which he was developing to use spatial force to open all Eight Inner Gates.

• Rinto convinced Sakumo that he still had room to improve and offered to pass down the Lightning Style Chakra Mode without restrictions.
• Sakumo agreed to train with Rinto, though he soon regretted risking public embarrassment in Amegakure.
• A week later, Rinto and Sakumo arrived at the gates, where Kagami sent Shisui home to sleep.
• Rinto learned that Shisui had mastered both ninjutsu-type and taijutsu-type Body Flicker techniques and decided to teach him the Flying Thunder God Technique 3.0 once it was complete.
• Rinto studied how to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to tear open the Eight Inner Gates, hoping to overcome his vulnerability to genjutsu and challenge the Otsutsuki.

Rinto took Sakumo to the moon, intending to find and capture members of the Otsutsuki Clan. There, the Otsutsuki debated whether to interfere with the war-torn world below, while Rinto and Sakumo began searching for them.

• Rinto explained his four combat modes to Sakumo and left Amegakure with him to train their coordination.
• Rinto led Sakumo through a cave and a lake that teleported them to the moon.
• Sakumo recognized the planet overhead as their world, while Rinto noticed they had arrived somewhere different than before and set out to find the Otsutsuki Clan.
• At the palace on the dark side of the moon, the Otsutsuki Patriarch refused to interfere in the world below, despite a younger man's proposal to destroy it and return there.

Rinto and Sakumo infiltrated the Otsutsuki palace on the moon, planning to steal its wealth and eventually force its residents to relocate. They reached a lavish chamber filled with books and ancient murals after the palace’s puppet attendants left, and the chapter ended with them emerging from underground inside it.

• Rinto told Sakumo they planned to loot the palace, destroy it, and force the Otsutsuki onto their planet.
• Sakumo and Rinto sneaked beneath the palace walls, with Rinto lending Sakumo a ninja shoe so they could use the Mayfly Technique underground.
• They observed pale, motionless-looking puppets working throughout the castle and identified them as servants.
• Rinto and Sakumo entered a luxurious chamber filled with books, scrolls, and murals after the palace bells sent the puppet attendants away.
• The two emerged from underground inside the chamber once its doors had closed.

Rinto and Sakumo looted a lavish lunar library, and Rinto found a scroll that suggested the monster within him was a broken God Tree seed tied to his transmigration. Their haul was interrupted when a girl discovered them, and they fled after Sakumo cut down a doll made from a real person.

• Rinto summoned Shadow Clones to help him and Sakumo take the library’s books and furnishings.
• Rinto examined an old illustrated scroll and concluded that the monster inside him was likely a broken seed of the second God Tree, planted in him by Jashin.
• Rinto and Sakumo stripped the library bare and celebrated finding valuable books, including an uncut edition of The Tale of Genji.
• A pale young girl spotted them, raised the alarm, and set the castle floor trembling.
• Sakumo charged out and sliced a doll in half, revealing its human organs, while Rinto urged him onward.

Rinto and Sakumo fought their way out of the Otsutsuki castle after stealing historical records, while the Main Family resolved to recover them and debated intervening in the Shinobi World. Outside the castle, Rinto waited for the Otsutsuki forces to gather before preparing the next step of his plan.

• Rinto used Iron Sand to defend Sakumo as they fought through the Otsutsuki clansmen and puppets in the corridor.
• The Main Family leader ordered the clan to gather and recover the stolen historical records after Rinto and Sakumo escaped.
• Rinto stopped Sakumo from running off with the complete set of The Tale of Genji and reminded him that their plan was meant to draw the Otsutsuki into the Shinobi World.
• More than fifty thousand Branch Family members assembled beneath the city walls while Rinto read and waited.
• Rinto handed the book back to Sakumo, stood up, and announced that they would begin.

Rinto unleashed a massive fire attack on the moon, turning its surface into a sea of flames and terrifying the Otsutsuki Clan. After their ancestor’s stone statue failed to stop him, he used it as a weapon and charged toward their castle with Sakumo clinging to his head.

• Rinto entered Sage Mode and poured out Toad Oil, then ignited it to engulf the moon in flames.
• People in Konohagakure saw the moon burning, and Hiruzen Sarutobi rushed outside in alarm.
• As Rinto grew into a giant and began losing control, the Otsutsuki Branch Family retreated into their castle while Sakumo rode on his head.
• The Otsutsuki Main Family patriarch and a younger man summoned Hamura Otsutsuki’s stone statue, but its fist shattered against Rinto.
• Rinto split the stone statue with Toyako, grabbed its legs, and charged toward the castle while Sakumo clung to his hair.

Rinto destroyed the moon, throwing the Otsutsuki clan’s escape and Obito’s Infinite Tsukuyomi plan into chaos. Back at Amegakure, Rinto wondered whether his memories and former identity were returning, as darkness resurfaced within him.

• The Otsutsuki patriarch ordered his clan to escape through the basement’s spatial rune array as the moon’s heat overwhelmed them.
• Rinto opened the Seventh Gate of Wonder and struck the moon with both fists while Sakumo clung to his head.
• Obito and Black Zetsu realized the moon’s destruction had derailed the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, and Black Zetsu considered an alternative scheme.
• The moon collapsed and went dark in Year 52 of Konoha, while Hagoromo Otsutsuki worried that Rinto had become too difficult to seal.
• Rinto and Sakumo returned to Amegakure, where Rinto said his sanity seemed to be declining and wondered whether his dead memories were returning.
• Darkness flickered in Rinto’s eyes as the pain and shadows from his time in the Jashin Cult resurfaced.

Mei Terumi, Shizune, and Rin confronted Obito and the controlled Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, in Kirigakure. Mei and Shizune pressed their attack while Rin fought Obito, who was shocked by her Kamui; the battle continued with neither side yet defeated.

• Mei Terumi accused Obito of controlling Karatachi Yagura and the Third Mizukage, while Shizune's poison needle passed harmlessly through him.
• Mei and Shizune attacked with acidic mist and poison fog, but Karatachi Yagura scattered the gases with wind and countered with Water Mirror Technique.
• Rin used Kamui to destroy the water replicas and recognized that Obito was not the Obito she knew, while he wondered whether she could be Rin Nohara.
• Mei vowed to drive Obito out even if Kirigakure was destroyed, then attacked Karatachi Yagura with Lava Release as Shizune supported her with poisoned kunai.
• Rin and Obito clashed in taijutsu and used their Kamui abilities to evade each other's attacks, while Mei gained the upper hand against the controlled Karatachi Yagura.