Chapter Summaries

Naruto teased Sakura about her devotion to Sasuke, then gave her books on winning his affection and managing rivals. Sakura left determined to compete for Sasuke but began reading about managing concubines, while Kurama revealed Naruto had been encouraging all the girls around Sasuke and giving them similar books.

• Naruto questioned whether Sakura would still pursue Sasuke if he flirted with other girls, rejected her, or took multiple wives, and Sakura declared she would defeat her rivals and have many children with him.
• Naruto gave Sakura books on cooking, charm, household management, and dealing with romantic rivals, then suggested she might have to accept sharing Sasuke if she could not outcompete the others.
• Sakura rejected Naruto's suggestion and took the books to her room, where she became anxious and started reading a book about managing a husband's concubines.
• Naruto laughed after Sakura left, while Kurama criticized his scheming and explained that Naruto had been encouraging Sasuke's admirers and distributing similar books to them.
• Isobu imagined the chaos that would follow if all the girls around Sasuke became skilled at palace intrigue and competed for his attention.

Sasuke learned that Itachi was in the Land of Forests and devised a plan to draw him out by taking bounty missions while revealing his Mangekyō Sharingan. Itachi heard that Sasuke had awakened the same eyes and set out to verify the news, bringing the brothers closer to a confrontation.

• Sasuke told Naruto and Kakashi that Itachi was likely in the Land of Forests, and revealed that his Shadow Clone had killed two men who followed them, earning him a profit.
• Sasuke decided to complete rogue ninja bounty missions openly with his Mangekyō Sharingan exposed, hoping the news would draw Itachi to the former Uchiha clan grounds.
• Sasuke sent out Shadow Clones to begin the missions and said he would take Naruto and Kakashi to the former Uchiha clan grounds in three days.
• Naruto chose not to use Flying Thunder God to help Sasuke and asked Kakashi to teach him the Hatake Sword Technique, while Sakura studied.
• White Zetsu told Itachi that someone had been asking about him and that Sasuke had recently been killing people with the Mangekyō Sharingan; Itachi left to confirm the news.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu discussed the brothers' coming battle and said Tobi had gone toward the battlefield to prevent outsiders from interfering.

Naruto created Yin Yang Release weapons and prepared to face Itachi, Kisame, Zetsu, and Obito at the abandoned Uchiha clan grounds. As Sasuke awaited his brother, Naruto resolved to settle his own grudges with Zetsu and Obito as well.

• Naruto formed a Black Rod through Yin Yang Release, then reshaped it into a short sword for Kakashi and a kunai for Sakura.
• Naruto considered using Black Rods to transmit chakra and realized that, with the Modified Eight Trigrams Sealing, they could complete his plan to imprison Black Zetsu.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi sensed Itachi and Kisame approaching the Uchiha grounds.
• Naruto asked Kakashi to cover Sasuke while he dealt with an unexpected situation.
• Naruto sensed Zetsu and Obito nearby and decided that they would not leave after arriving.

Itachi approached Sasuke at the Uchiha Ruins, intent on giving his brother a final lesson through battle, while Kisame held Kakashi back. Kakashi defeated Kisame with help from Naruto’s Chakra-transmitting blade, but Kisame recovered with Samehada and turned the fight into a grueling battle of attrition.

• Itachi and Kisame reached the Uchiha Ruins, where Kakashi stepped in to keep Kisame from disturbing Itachi and Sasuke’s fight.
• Kakashi attacked Kisame with his Hatake Sword Technique, using Naruto’s black Yin Yang Release blade to replenish his Chakra.
• Kakashi knocked Samehada away and slashed Kisame’s neck, apparently leaving him near death.
• Samehada rejoined Kisame, transformed him into a shark-like form, and rapidly healed his wound.
• Kisame flooded the battlefield with Water Release and forced Kakashi into a battle of attrition.

Sasuke confronted Itachi and asked whether the massacre had been forced by the masked man and Konoha’s leaders, but Itachi rejected his hopes in a Genjutsu. Sasuke broke free of the illusion and prepared to kill Itachi, determined to avenge his parents and clan.

• Sasuke watched Itachi approach and demanded to know whether outside forces had driven him to slaughter the Uchiha clan.
• Itachi silently resolved to bear all blame himself and let Sasuke live without learning the truth.
• In the Genjutsu, Itachi mocked Sasuke as weak and claimed he planned to take Sasuke’s eyes to gain eternal light.
• Sasuke unleashed lightning that shattered the illusion and made clear his intention to kill Itachi.
• Sasuke threw a shuriken at Itachi.

Sasuke and Itachi fought with shuriken, taijutsu, and ninjutsu as Sasuke adapted to Itachi’s experience and gained the upper hand. After Sasuke’s Sage Art: Kirin damaged Itachi’s Susanoo, Itachi prepared to continue the fight, only to see Sasuke take coins from his Ninja Tool Pouch as lightning gathered around him.

• Sasuke and Itachi exchanged shuriken, then fought with swords and kunai as they copied each other’s movements.
• Sasuke adapted to Itachi’s combat experience and began matching him in taijutsu before the brothers escalated to fire techniques.
• Sakura watched the battle and resolved to become stronger while Kakashi and Kisame fought nearby.
• Itachi used Amaterasu, but Sasuke’s Susanoo shielded him from the black flames.
• Sasuke summoned an enormous Sage Art: Lightning Release: Kirin, damaging Itachi and cracking his Susanoo.
• Itachi rebuilt his Susanoo as Sasuke’s own began to dissipate, then watched Sasuke take coins from his Ninja Tool Pouch as lightning gathered around him.

Obito watched Itachi and Sasuke’s battle, intending to take Sasuke after Itachi’s planned death and use the truth about the Uchiha massacre to turn him against Konoha. Sasuke’s Electromagnetic Cannon Technique shattered Itachi’s Yata Mirror and badly damaged his Susanoo, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Obito judged that Itachi would let Sasuke win and planned to reveal the truth about the Uchiha massacre after taking Sasuke away.
• Obito decided not to confront Naruto, while Black Zetsu worried that beings connected to Kaguya might have arrived in the Shinobi World.
• Sasuke formed an Electromagnetic Acceleration Field and fired more than twenty coins at Itachi’s Susanoo.
• Itachi raised the Yata Mirror, but Sasuke’s physical projectiles shattered it and cracked the Susanoo.
• Sasuke fired the electromagnetic field again as Itachi bled from his eyes and smiled.

Naruto arrived as Sasuke’s coin-powered Lightning Release destroyed Itachi’s Susanoo, then trapped Obito and Black and White Zetsu. He sealed Black and White Zetsu away and followed Obito into the Kamui Dimension, leaving Obito shocked by his arrival.

• Sasuke fired a single coin with the Electromagnetic Cannon Technique, shattering Itachi’s Susanoo and severely injuring him.
• Naruto arrived, named the technique Throwing Coins, and blocked Obito and Black and White Zetsu from escaping with a barrier.
• Naruto attacked Obito, broke his arm, removed his mask, and revealed that he knew Obito’s identity.
• Naruto pinned Black and White Zetsu with Black Rods and sealed them inside a scroll.
• Obito entered the Kamui Dimension, but Naruto followed with the Flying Thunder God Technique, startling him.

Naruto used Kakashi’s Kamui to enter the Kamui Dimension and ambushed Obito, taking his Sharingan and leaving him severely injured. Obito was unable to escape, while Naruto revealed he had brought supplies to survive in the dimension.

• After seeing Itachi’s Susanoo fall to Sasuke’s Electromagnetic Cannon Technique, Kisame fled, but Kakashi received Naruto’s message and opened a Kamui rift.
• Kakashi used Kamui again ten minutes later as instructed, leaving himself too drained to pursue Kisame.
• Naruto entered the Kamui Dimension through the connection Kakashi created and explained how Obito’s Sharingan had enabled his teleportation.
• Naruto struck Obito, gouged out his left eye, and embedded him in a stone pillar, leaving him badly injured and unable to fight.
• Naruto took Obito’s Kamui Sharingan and revealed he had three years’ worth of rations in a Sealing Scroll.

Naruto defeated Obito and tormented him with the prospect of being denied the Pure Land while Rin was revived and married to Kakashi. Obito used Izanagi to attack Naruto, but was quickly subdued again, and Naruto revealed that Madara had tricked him about the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Obito admitted his failure and asked Naruto to kill him so he could reunite with Rin in the Pure Land.
• Naruto said he would seal and eventually erase Obito's soul, while reviving Rin and arranging for her to marry Kakashi.
• Obito defended the Eye of the Moon Plan as a way to reform the ninja world and bring lasting peace.
• Naruto argued that Obito could have used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Rin, then accused him of wanting a Rin who belonged to him.
• Obito activated Izanagi, restored his Kamui Mangekyō Sharingan, and charged Naruto, but Naruto defeated him again within seconds.
• Naruto told Obito that Madara had tricked him about the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Naruto defeated Obito and revealed that the Eye of the Moon Plan was a deception designed to turn humanity into White Zetsu. Obito accepted that his life and dream had been manipulated, and Naruto sealed his soul.

• Naruto brought the gravely wounded Obito back from the Kamui Dimension and killed him with a punch, while the Underworld Barrier kept Obito's soul from passing on.
• Naruto explained that Infinite Tsukuyomi would gradually transform its victims into White Zetsu and revealed that White Zetsu had once been humans.
• Naruto showed Obito Urashiki's corpse as evidence of the Otsutsuki Clan and explained that the plan would leave humanity vulnerable to them.
• Naruto told Obito that Madara had been manipulated by Black Zetsu and that Obito would never reunite with the real Rin or achieve lasting peace.
• Obito broke down as he recognized the harm he had caused and the falsehood of his dream, and Naruto sealed his soul in a scroll.

After Sasuke defeated Itachi, he pieced together evidence that his brother had been protecting him and deliberately lost the fight. Itachi revealed the truth through Tsukuyomi, then gave Sasuke his Mangekyo Sharingan and asked him to forgive him as he urged Sasuke to live on.

• Sasuke questioned Itachi about the massacre and explained why he believed Itachi had protected him rather than sought his eyes.
• Sasuke revealed that he had deliberately aimed his final attack to spare Itachi and identified Shisui's eye and the Kotoamatsukami hidden in a crow.
• Itachi dropped his disguise after Sasuke stopped the ocular technique and warned him against suicide.
• Itachi used Tsukuyomi to show Sasuke the truth and let him decide his own future.
• Itachi gouged out both his eyes, handed the Mangekyo Sharingan to Sasuke, and asked him to forgive him and live on.

Sasuke refused to forgive Itachi for the Uchiha massacre but ordered Naruto to heal him and would not let him die. After Itachi offered his eyes again, Sasuke accepted them, and their fused Mangekyo power began to evolve his eyes.

• Sasuke condemned Itachi’s choices and refused to accept his Mangekyo Sharingan, insisting that Itachi live and atone by having eighty-three Uchiha descendants.
• Sasuke asked Naruto to heal Itachi and restore his eyes, while Itachi realized Sasuke would not let him die.
• Naruto regrew Itachi’s shoulder, treated his injuries, and reconnected his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Itachi asked Sasuke to revive their parents and clansmen so he could apologize, but Sasuke refused until the world was at peace and the clansmen had changed.
• Itachi offered his eyes to Sasuke again, and Naruto implanted them after Sasuke accepted; the fused Pupil Power began surging toward evolution.

Naruto helped Sasuke awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan by replacing his eyes with Itachi’s, then revealed that Obito had been the masked mastermind. Sasuke set out to seek revenge, while Naruto withheld further details and explained why he had stayed out of Sasuke and Itachi’s conflict.

• Naruto fused Itachi’s Pupil Power with Sasuke’s and restored Itachi’s sight using Sasuke’s now-ordinary eyes.
• Sasuke resolved to find the Masked Man who called himself Madara and take revenge for the Uchiha clan.
• Naruto revealed that the masked man was Obito, an Uchiha whom Naruto had killed and whose soul he had sealed.
• Sasuke questioned how Obito could have become the mastermind, and Naruto said he would explain the details later.
• Sasuke accused Naruto of concealing what he had suspected about Itachi, and Naruto said he had left the brothers to resolve their own conflict.

After Sasuke avenged the Uchiha clan, Naruto announced that the group would fight an important battle in Amegakure seven days later. He assigned preparations, sent his allies away, and stayed behind to erase the battlefield’s traces.

• Sakura healed Sasuke while Naruto told Sakura and Kakashi the truth about Itachi and the Uchiha clan massacre.
• Sasuke felt hollow after fulfilling his revenge, but Naruto’s announcement of a battle seven days later restored his resolve.
• Naruto told everyone to prepare disguises, choose striking titles, and be ready to fight in Amegakure.
• Naruto sent Sakura to notify Tsunade, Teacher Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, then teleported Kakashi away after ordering him to rest.
• Sasuke asked Naruto to take him and Itachi to the Heavens and Earth—Glittering Gold branch in the Land of Fire's capital.
• Naruto teleported Sasuke and Itachi away, then cleaned the battlefield to conceal traces of the fight.

After the battle, Naruto returned to training and visited Sasuke and Itachi as they shared a meal. Sasuke tried to arrange a future for Itachi that included finding a partner and continuing the Uchiha line, but Itachi resisted, and Sasuke laughed at his objections.

• Naruto concealed the battlefield with Wind Blade damage, returned to training, and sent a Shadow Clone to the Heavens and Earth—Glittering Gold branch in the capital.
• Naruto found Sasuke and Itachi dining together in a private suite, where the brothers reflected on their family and Itachi felt grateful that Naruto had cared for Sasuke.
• Sasuke asked Itachi whether he had a lover or anyone he liked, then offered to help him meet and pursue suitable women.
• Itachi objected that his status as an S-Rank Rogue Ninja would prevent noblewomen from accepting him, but Sasuke proposed presenting him as a long-lost elder son and paying off officials.
• Itachi said he did not want to fall in love or force anyone into having descendants, and Sasuke laughed at his attempt to refuse.

Sasuke arranged for Itachi to have children with women from respectable families, promising to handle the children’s upbringing and the women’s futures. Naruto interrupted with information about Nadeshiko Village, and Sasuke went to make arrangements while rejecting the idea that his clan needed to save money.

• Sasuke told Itachi he would arrange women for him and explained the rewards, childcare plans, and options for the women afterward.
• Itachi blushed and gave Sasuke permission to decide everything, unable to refuse him.
• Sasuke stood to arrange for Itachi to consummate the arrangement that night, and Naruto revealed himself after laughing.
• Naruto told Sasuke that the women of Nadeshiko Village sought strong men to have children with and described the village’s customs.
• Sasuke rejected Naruto’s suggestion as a way to save money and went out to make arrangements.

Naruto advanced his research into Hamura’s bloodlines, fused the Kaguya and Hyuga bloodlines, and cured Kimimaro. He then revealed that his search of Obito’s base had yielded many Sharingan and Uchiha Madara’s corpse.

• After Itachi’s concubine ceremony, Sasuke listened outside the bridal chamber while Naruto praised his plan to make Itachi continue the Uchiha bloodline.
• Naruto returned to his biological laboratory and continued research into fusing the Kaguya and Hyuga bloodlines.
• Naruto used Shin’s tissues to achieve the bloodline fusion, which prevented Shikotsumyaku from causing fatal disease.
• Naruto used the research results to cure Kimimaro and began developing a Gene Serum from their genetic changes.
• Naruto revealed that he had taken Three Tomoe Sharingan from Obito’s base and had also found Uchiha Madara’s corpse.

Naruto attempted to resurrect Uchiha Madara with Impure World Reincarnation, but the jutsu failed repeatedly. He concluded that the Sage of Six Paths might have blocked the summoning as a warning because Naruto and Sasuke had grown beyond the Sage’s ability to predict.

• Naruto decided to resurrect Uchiha Madara to recruit him against the Otsutsuki Clan.
• A Shadow Clone teleported a Hashirama Clone to Naruto to serve as the sacrifice for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Naruto performed the jutsu several times using Madara’s corpse as a medium, but Madara did not appear.
• Naruto suspected that the Sage of Six Paths had prevented the summoning and reconsidered how much power and influence Hagoromo possessed.
• Naruto reasoned that Hagoromo could not predict him and Sasuke because they had not been shaped by Indra and Asura’s chakra as their Parallel World counterparts had.

Naruto realized Hagoromo could become an obstacle to his vision of world peace and resolved to grow strong enough to surpass him. He questioned Black Zetsu about Hagoromo and Hamura, offering cooperation on reviving Kaguya in exchange for information.

• Naruto considered how Hagoromo's beliefs and actions had shaped the world and concluded that their paths could not align.
• Kurama and Isobu offered to support Naruto, and Naruto reaffirmed his resolve to pursue his own path, even if it took decades.
• Naruto reasoned that Hagoromo might be less able to influence the present world than he had assumed and prepared to investigate his current condition.
• Naruto released Black Zetsu from the sealing scroll and asked what he knew about Hagoromo and Hamura.
• Black Zetsu resisted Naruto's questions and considered using his historical knowledge as leverage to revive Kaguya.
• Naruto threatened to seal Black Zetsu away, then offered proposals that could allow them to cooperate on Kaguya's revival.