Chapter Summaries

Naruto advised Sasuke to judge which girl cared for him most by asking for increasingly intimate contact, but Sasuke later realized Naruto had been deliberately encouraging his pent-up desires. Sasuke confronted Naruto, who revealed that all the girls had accepted one another, and Sasuke attacked him in fury.

• Naruto told Sasuke to ask the girls for a kiss to determine who valued him most, and Sasuke left to try it.
• Sasuke returned three days later and reported that every girl had kissed him without hesitation.
• Naruto suggested Sasuke test the girls with more intimate contact, and Sasuke left again.
• After more than half a month, Sasuke returned calmer and accused Naruto of deliberately fanning his desires with bad advice.
• Naruto confirmed Sasuke's suspicion and asked when the wedding would be, prompting Sasuke to slash at him and shout, "Give me claws!"

Sasuke took responsibility for his relationships, securing his girlfriends’ agreement to become his fiancées. Naruto tested a newly developed Shikotsumyaku gene serum and awakened the kekkei genkai, but Black Zetsu interrupted his next research plans with flesh from the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.

• Sasuke reconciled with the girls, who agreed to become his fiancées, and he visited their families to propose.
• Naruto’s laboratory confirmed that its Shikotsumyaku gene serum could be mass-produced, and Naruto injected himself with it.
• Naruto endured the serum’s painful effects for nearly a day, then awakened Shikotsumyaku and gained greater strength and recovery.
• Naruto sensed new pupil power developing in his eyes and considered whether the serum might help Hinata awaken the Tenseigan.
• Naruto planned to investigate the Sharingan when Black Zetsu returned and showed him flesh-and-blood tissue from the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.

Naruto examined the Lunar Otsutsuki tissue Black Zetsu had brought back and discussed how to rescue Kaguya by splitting the moon. Black Zetsu reported that the Great Tenseigan had no exploitable loopholes, and Naruto proposed building a powerful electromagnetic Railgun to destroy the moon.

• Naruto learned that Black Zetsu had returned to the moon to investigate how to rescue Kaguya and had brought back Lunar Otsutsuki tissue for him.
• Naruto studied the tissue's Chakra and concluded that Lunar Otsutsuki vitality and Earth-mutated Chakra might be relevant to awakening the Tenseigan.
• Naruto handed the tissue to a Shadow Clone for research and asked Black Zetsu what he had discovered on his trip.
• Black Zetsu said he could move around the moon without alerting the Great Tenseigan, but could not split the moon without confronting its power.
• Naruto identified the Great Tenseigan and the moon's seal as their operation targets, then proposed building an electromagnetic Railgun and asked Black Zetsu to find Iron Mine.

Naruto demonstrated an Electromagnetic Cannon to Black Zetsu and persuaded him to fund research into a moon-shattering railgun, though Naruto intended to use the project to draw out Black Zetsu’s resources. After considering the weapon’s limits and Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon, Naruto left for the Hyuga Main House.

• Naruto showed Black Zetsu how a Magnet Release Electromagnetic Cannon launched a pellet that blasted a deep crater into distant mountains.
• Naruto explained that a moon-destroying electromagnetic railgun would require vast resources and experiments, and Black Zetsu eagerly agreed to provide them to help rescue Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• After Black Zetsu left, Naruto privately acknowledged that he was using the project to spend Black Zetsu’s assets and that a moon-shattering railgun was far beyond current technology.
• Naruto wondered how Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon could destroy the moon and considered visiting the village to learn how it worked.
• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear at the entrance of the Hyuga Main House, where the guards went inside to announce him.

Naruto visited the Hyuga Clan, shared a huge breakfast with Hinata and Hanabi, and asked Hiashi for permission to take Hinata away for about a week. After Naruto mentioned his engagement and said his father would formally propose, Hiashi was left wondering how Minato could do so and decided that some matters should be expedited.

• Hinata and Hanabi ate breakfast while the clan celebrated Hinata's pregnant mother and the children were encouraged to eat more to strengthen their Pupil Power.
• Naruto arrived, caught Hinata as she stumbled into him, and joined her and Hanabi for breakfast.
• Hinata won their eating contest with fifty bowls of ramen, while Hanabi ate thirty-five and Naruto ate thirty.
• Naruto told Hiashi he planned to take Hinata traveling for about a week and said he was engaged to her and would have his father formally propose.
• Hiashi realized Naruto's father was the late Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and decided some things should be sped up.
• Naruto waited for Hinata to get ready, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave with her.

Naruto brought Hinata to his Biological Laboratory and prepared to awaken her Shikotsumyaku using a Gene Serum. Hinata began the transformation inside a Culture Dish while Naruto stayed nearby in Cultivation Mode.

• Hinata expected a romantic trip when Naruto teleported them away, but arrived at his Biological Laboratory instead.
• Naruto introduced Hinata to the laboratory and his assistants, Shin and Kimimaro.
• Naruto explained that his research had produced a method to awaken Shikotsumyaku and said it could strengthen Hinata's taijutsu, Chakra, and possibly Byakugan.
• Hinata agreed to the procedure, undressed, and lay inside a Culture Dish while Naruto injected the Gene Serum and added Nutrient Solution.
• Naruto turned his back and entered Cultivation Mode as Hinata's Shikotsumyaku transformation began.

Hinata underwent a successful Gene Serum transformation that awakened the Shikotsumyaku and greatly increased her chakra and Byakugan Pupil Power. After six days of recovery, she discovered her Byakugan could see in color at much greater distances, leaving Naruto excited by its potential for prospecting and research.

• Naruto monitored Hinata as the compatible Gene Serum triggered abnormal changes and increased her chakra and Pupil Power.
• Hinata completed the transformation and recovery after six days, emerging taller and with greatly enhanced physical abilities.
• Naruto observed that Hinata's Byakugan Pupil Power continued growing and might eventually awaken the Tenseigan without an Otsutsuki vitality Gene Serum.
• Hinata told Naruto that her Byakugan's long-distance vision had become colored, reaching thirty kilometers.
• Naruto recognized that Hinata's evolved Byakugan could greatly improve prospecting and biological research.

Hinata showed Naruto her newly awakened Yomotsu Hirasaka and learned that her Byakugan could eventually evolve into the Tenseigan. Naruto encouraged her to help in his Biological Laboratory, and Hinata left eager to attain the Tenseigan.

• Hinata used her new Yomotsu Hirasaka ability to teleport herself and Naruto from the Biological Laboratory to a forest where they had once gone on a date.
• Hinata explained that Yomotsu Hirasaka let her teleport to places she had visited before, and Naruto confirmed the ability’s name and described its connection to the Byakugan.
• Hinata told Naruto she was happy to finally be able to help him, and Naruto asked her to send a Shadow Clone to assist in his Biological Laboratory and offered to teach her biology.
• Naruto said the new Gene Serum could help Hinata’s Byakugan evolve into the Tenseigan and showed her its power in a Genjutsu space.
• Hinata admired the Tenseigan’s blue eyes and yearned to awaken them.

Naruto took Hinata on the promised day-long date, traveling between several countries for food, a movie, and an amusement park. As the evening ended at the top of a Ferris wheel, Naruto revealed a romantic fireworks message, and he and Hinata kissed.

• Naruto brought Hinata to his clothing store, dressed her in a kimono, and took her to eat seafood in the Land of Water.
• Naruto watched Princess Gale 7: Deep Sea Giant Beast with Hinata in the Land of Wind, where the film was the final installment of Kazahana Koyuki's series.
• Naruto took Hinata to the Hidden Sound Ninja Amusement Park in Rice Field Country, where they rode attractions and watched a magic show and a Princess Gale stage play.
• Naruto and Hinata rode the Ferris wheel together as fireworks spelled out “The Moon is Beautiful!” in the sky.
• Naruto told Hinata the fireworks were for her, and they kissed as another firework formed a heart.

Hinata returned home after seven days away with Naruto and told her family about her sudden growth, the Shikotsumyaku Gene Serum, and the Tenseigan. Hiashi resolved to quietly move the Hyuga Clan’s important people and materials out of Konoha.

• Hinata came home, and Hiashi’s anger faded when the Hyuga Matriarch told him that nothing had happened between Hinata and Naruto.
• Hanabi noticed Hinata’s sudden height increase, and Hinata brought her to their parents’ room to explain.
• Hinata told her parents and Hanabi about the Gene Serum, the Hyuga family’s history, and the Tenseigan.
• Hiashi connected Hinata and Hanabi’s potential power to the Hyuga Clan’s past mistreatment by Sarutobi Hiruzen and remembered Hizashi Hyuga’s sacrifice.
• Hiashi decided to begin quietly transferring the Hyuga Clan’s important materials and personnel out of Konoha.

Naruto trained with his sword through a storm before Kazahana Koyuki visited him to discuss her next film. She asked him for a successful movie idea that could help her save enough money to eliminate the danger she faced.

• Naruto trained by the seaside, building his strength and Chakra reserves as he cut through the waves.
• Naruto sensed Kazahana Koyuki's Flying Thunder God Seal and brought her to his home while he was preparing to eat.
• Kazahana Koyuki told Naruto she was available to work for him and teased him about their relationship.
• Naruto joked that Kazahana Koyuki could star in a Make-Out Paradise film, but she dropped the teasing and asked for help choosing her next movie.
• Kazahana Koyuki said she was nearing one hundred million ryō and needed her next film to succeed so she could end the danger she faced.

Kazahana Koyuki asked Naruto for help creating a hit script, but Kurama offered her the lead role in his own novel adaptation instead. Naruto revealed that he controlled the companies backing Koyuki’s career, forcing Kurama to let him read the novel; Naruto agreed to support its film adaptation only if Kurama revised it to his satisfaction.

• Kazahana Koyuki asked Naruto to help her come up with a successful script, and Kurama appeared and offered to solve the problem with his new novel.
• Kurama asked Koyuki to play the female lead and promised to deal with her enemy, Kazahana Dōtō; Koyuki asked to read the script first.
• Kurama admitted he had no script and used a Chakra link to transfer his several-hundred-thousand-word novel into Koyuki’s mind, leaving her stunned.
• Naruto asked to read Kurama’s work, but Kurama refused and claimed Koyuki’s team could arrange the production without Naruto’s help.
• Naruto revealed he held shares in the companies sponsoring Koyuki’s career, and Kurama agreed to let him read the novel if Naruto promised it would reach the big screen.
• Naruto agreed to support the adaptation but insisted Kurama revise the plot if he was dissatisfied.

Kurama demonstrated his Super S-Rank Sage Art: Wind Release: Cloud Mist Blast, persuading Kazahana Koyuki that he could help her take revenge. Naruto agreed to adapt Kurama’s novel into a film while insisting on writing the script, and Kurama agreed to teach him the technique.

• Kurama refused Naruto’s demand to change his novel’s plot and offered to teach him a powerful wide-area Wind Release technique in exchange for a film adaptation.
• Kurama used Sage Art: Wind Release: Cloud Mist Blast over the ocean, creating a vast field of explosions that left a deep crater and devastated marine life.
• Kazahana Koyuki watched the destruction and began to believe Kurama could help her avenge herself against Kazahana Dōtō.
• Naruto recognized that Kurama’s technique used principles similar to a Cloud Bomb and considered how to use it alongside the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Naruto agreed to bring Kurama’s novel to the big screen if he could write the script, and Kurama agreed to teach him the technique.

Naruto rewrote Kurama’s romance novel into a film script with altered characters and settings, then recruited Kazahana Koyuki to star in exchange for restoring her country. He arranged for her to be abducted by a Land of Snow agent so he could stage and film a mission to rescue her.

• Naruto confronted Kurama over his romantic novel about Menma and Sana, and Kurama defended its love story.
• Naruto rewrote the script, changing the story’s characters and plot while keeping its major scenes, which left Kurama dismayed.
• Naruto offered Kazahana Koyuki a role in the film and promised to help restore her country in exchange for her acting; she agreed.
• That night, a female Land of Snow agent abducted Kazahana Koyuki and took her toward the Land of Snow.
• Naruto, disguised as Menma, formed Team 7 with Hinata as Sana, Karin, and Itachi as their jonin leader to pursue the mission.
• The next day, Naruto filmed as the agent carried the frightened Kazahana Koyuki away, while his protective Shadow Clone was nowhere to be seen.

Kazahana Koyuki faced her uncle Kazahana Dōtō during a staged rescue, but the confrontation brought her old anger and fear to the surface. Naruto defeated Dōtō and his forces, leaving Koyuki free to take the throne as the crew filmed the remaining scenes.

• Kazahana Koyuki realized Naruto had arranged her kidnapping as part of the film and braced herself to confront Kazahana Dōtō.
• Kazahana Dōtō demanded the treasure key, but Kazahana Koyuki denounced him and spat at him.
• Naruto struck Feixue Chuiyan with a Rasengan, then revealed himself and began the final performance.
• Naruto defeated Hail Dongxiong, Nadare Rōga, and the other attackers before killing Kazahana Dōtō with a Kunai.
• Kazahana Koyuki hugged Naruto and cried as the shadow of her uncle disappeared, and Naruto told her she still had scenes to film and a coronation ahead.
• Naruto and the others used the location and ninja techniques to film the earlier battle scenes.

After Kazahana Dōtō died, Kazahana Koyuki became Daimyo of the Land of Snow while her film, Ninja Princess Snow Wind Chronicles, premiered to huge success. The story ended with audiences demanding a sequel, but Naruto had no intention of making one.

• Sandayu gathered the old retainers and helped Kazahana Koyuki take over the government of the Land of Snow.
• Kazahana Koyuki completed filming and became Daimyo as Ninja Princess Snow Wind Chronicles began its release across the Shinobi World.
• Naruto watched the movie with Hinata and Kurama as audiences followed Menma, Sana, Team 7, and Kazahana Koyuki's story.
• Viewers praised the film, and it remained popular for a month, with showings packed and tickets difficult to obtain.
• Audiences began calling for a sequel, but Naruto refused to make one despite the film's success.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha's advisers discussed the threat posed by Naruto after watching a movie that revealed his bond with the Nine-Tails and his growing strength. They agreed to resume developing the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu as a last resort, while Hiruzen remained wary of using it.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen gathered Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Danzo to discuss the movie's revelations about Naruto and the Nine-Tails.
• The advisers concluded that Naruto, Sasuke, and several of their allies could no longer be trusted, and Danzo disclosed that Naruto had once broken into the Root Base.
• Danzo proposed restarting the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon the First Hokage and Second Hokage if Konoha faced a crisis.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to the proposal but ordered that the Forbidden Technique only be used if absolutely necessary.

After returning from the Chunin Exam, Shikamaru warned Shikaku that Naruto’s growing influence and strength could threaten Konoha. Shikaku took the warning seriously, and the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clan leaders met to consider their position.

• Shikamaru returned from the Land of Wind and asked Shikaku whether the Third Hokage had discussed anything important with him.
• Shikamaru described how Naruto’s influence had helped the Land of Water and the Land of Wind prosper while Konoha remained unchanged.
• Shikaku told Shikamaru that Naruto’s movie had openly criticized Konoha and that the village had begun preparing for possible conflict.
• Shikamaru revealed that Naruto had once defeated Jiraiya with a single move and warned that Konoha might be unable to stop him.
• Shikaku considered whether the Nara clan should remain allied with the Sarutobi Clan, and the Yamanaka and Akimichi clan heads secretly arrived at the Nara residence.

Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza judged that Konoha could not defeat Naruto and Sasuke, so they planned to preserve their clans by sending some members away while remaining loyal to the village. Konoha’s other clans followed suit, and the village’s leaders tacitly accepted their departures.

• Yamanaka Inoichi shared Ino’s account of Sasuke’s immense power and his belief that Naruto was stronger still.
• Akimichi Choza warned that Hinata and Hanabi’s strength was also uncertain, given their connection to Naruto and their enormous appetites.
• Nara Shikaku proposed sending the younger generation and willing middle-generation members away while the clan heads stayed in Konoha alongside the Sarutobi Clan.
• Yamanaka Inoichi and Akimichi Choza agreed, and the Ino-Shika-Cho clans began arranging departures.
• Other Konoha clans also sent members away, while the village’s top leaders chose not to stop them.

Naruto continued sword training by the sea while Sasuke joined him after completing the techniques Naruto had taught him. When Naruto teased Sasuke about being worn out from his girlfriends, Sasuke changed the subject, and Isobu reminded Naruto of the books he had given him.

• Naruto’s popularity from Ninja Princess Snow Wind Chronicles brought visitors and business to Konoha, while he earned more from Heavens and Earth than he would have from missions.
• Sasuke arrived through Naruto’s portal, announced that he had finished learning the sword techniques, and challenged Naruto to become a Sword Saint first.
• Naruto and Sasuke practiced swordsmanship until dusk, after which Sasuke chose to stay at the Sea View Villa instead of returning to the Forest Villa.
• Naruto teased Sasuke about being drained, checked his pulse, and concluded that Sasuke was healthy but slightly low on kidney qi from overindulgence.
• Sasuke said he wanted to rest, eat, and make extra preparations, and Isobu reminded Naruto about the books he had given him.