Chapter Summaries

After the war, Soseki reassured the allied leaders that Madara was sealed in Dream World and the captured Jinchuriki had been recovered, while Obito asked whether Rin could wake up. Elsewhere, Konan resolved to rebuild Akatsuki to rescue Yahiko and Nagato, and Aizen promised to help.

• The allied shinobi feared Aizen, while Hiruzen, Kurenai, and Orochimaru discussed his powerful Genjutsu and the Kurama Clan.
• Soseki told Ōnoki that he had sealed Madara in Dream World, where shinobi could challenge him, and reassured Rasa that the Jinchuriki had been returned.
• Obito asked Soseki to wake Rin, prompting the Third Mizukage to realize that Rin might still be alive and to feel that his own death had been pointless.
• Konan asked Sasori, Kisame, Raiga, and Kakuzu to help rebuild Akatsuki and rescue Yahiko and Nagato from the alliance.
• Aizen appeared and promised Konan he would rescue Yahiko and Nagato, while Sasori and Kisame doubted he truly intended to do so.

Aizen planned to lure Shimizu Soseki into a parallel world so the Akatsuki could find a lasting chance to rescue Yahiko and Nagato, and Konan decided to go with him. In the Leaf Village, Rin awoke after eight years and reunited with Kakashi and Obito, who then confessed that he had set the world-threatening organization’s plans in motion.

• Aizen explained that he could lure Shimizu Soseki into a parallel world where time passed more slowly, leaving him unable to return soon.
• Konan decided to accompany Aizen to the parallel world, and Aizen told her to prepare over the next few days.
• Rin awoke in the Leaf Village, recognized Kakashi and Obito, and learned she had been asleep for eight years.
• Kakashi told Rin about the major events that had occurred during her sleep, and she thanked everyone for bringing her back.
• Obito told Soseki to take him away for judgment, then confessed to Rin that he had set the world-threatening organization’s plans in motion.

Soseki convened the alliance’s first official meeting after Obito reunited with Rin and the villages debated how to handle the alliance and Akatsuki. He proposed establishing a Council of Ten Elders beneath the leader, with elected members and no more than one elder from each village.

• Rin questioned Obito about his actions, and Kakashi began explaining what had happened while she was asleep.
• Obito left with Soseki and Guy, admitted he feared Rin would learn the truth about him, and asked Soseki to judge him.
• Dodai urged A to prepare for the Leaf Village to dominate the alliance, while the leaders of the other villages discussed their positions and the possible fate of Akatsuki.
• Soseki addressed the gathered village representatives and proposed an elected Council of Ten Elders beneath the alliance leader, with each village limited to one elder.

Soseki proposed a shared leadership system with elected elders, term limits, and Minato as Hokage, then introduced a university and defended keeping the military. The chapter ended with Soseki warning that the crisis had not truly been resolved.

• Soseki proposed that each village could nominate one elder, while the Five Kage would occupy the other five seats.
• Soseki announced he would step down as Hokage in favor of Minato and promised that leaders would serve four-year terms, with no more than two consecutive terms.
• Ninjas from several villages pleaded for Soseki to remain leader, while A, Ōnoki, and Rasa considered their own future chances.
• Soseki reflected that term limits would reassure the alliance’s members and help prepare the world for the Otsutsuki, while privately leaving open the possibility of returning if people begged him.
• Soseki proposed a university offering studies beyond combat, including culture, agriculture, and machinery.
• When a jonin asked whether peace made the military and combat training unnecessary, Soseki insisted they were still essential and asked whether the crisis was truly over.

Soseki revealed that the Shinobi World faced two other powerful organizations, Hollow and Kara, and urged the alliance to strengthen itself. The conference ended with a proposal to imprison three captured criminals for two hundred years, while Rin resolved to help Obito atone and seek a reduced sentence.

• Soseki told the alliance about Hollow and Kara, and Minato demonstrated the advanced Scientific Ninja Tools used by Kara.
• Soseki described his battle with a Hollow member, which had shattered his bones and created the enormous canyon outside Hoshigakure.
• Soseki urged the alliance to prepare for powerful enemies and laid out plans for its future.
• The alliance debated what to do with three captured criminals before Soseki proposed imprisoning them for two hundred years, even beyond death.
• Kakashi told Rin that Obito might earn a reduced sentence by atoning for his crimes, and Rin promised to help him.

Soseki persuaded the leaders to imprison and reform the Demonic Beasts rather than kill them, then returned home and met Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths. Hagoromo praised Soseki and explained that the Ten-Tails disturbance had awakened him.

• Soseki proposed imprisoning the Demonic Beasts, restraining them with seals, and reforming them through labor and education, and the leaders agreed.
• After the meeting, Soseki left Rin and Kakashi and went home to meet an unexpected visitor.
• Hagoromo appeared before Soseki and introduced himself as the Sage of Six Paths.
• Hagoromo said he was dead and that the Ten-Tails disturbance had temporarily awakened his remaining Chakra.
• Hagoromo praised Soseki's strength and character, while Soseki modestly said he only wished to protect everyone.

Soseki learned that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had likely ambushed him to claim his body as a vessel, and Six Paths gave him a Truth-Seeking Orb for protection. Soseki proposed that Kaguya's Infinite Tsukuyomi had been a trap for Isshiki, who later manipulated Uchiha Madara, leaving Six Paths to reconsider his mother's history.

• Six Paths asked Soseki to describe the man who ambushed him, and Soseki recounted his appearance, abilities, and apparent injury.
• Six Paths identified the attacker as likely Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and explained the Otsutsuki, the God Tree, and Karma to Soseki.
• Soseki realized Isshiki may have targeted him as a vessel, and Six Paths gave him a Truth-Seeking Orb before returning to slumber.
• Six Paths said Kaguya had created living weapons through the Infinite Tsukuyomi to counter threats from the Otsutsuki.
• Soseki suggested Kaguya had used the Infinite Tsukuyomi to kill Isshiki and that Isshiki later manipulated Uchiha Madara to release her and devour her.

Soseki persuaded Six Paths that Aizen might have come from a parallel spacetime, easing his concern about Aizen while Six Paths promised to hold off the Ōtsutsuki. On the moon, Aizen prepared Haku, Kimimaro, and Jugo to approach Ōtsutsuki Isshiki as possible vessels, then resolved to find a way to break Karma in the parallel spacetime.

• Six Paths warned Soseki about Aizen and the dangers beyond their world, then agreed to block pressure from the Ōtsutsuki.
• Soseki told Six Paths about the Dragon Vein incident and parallel spacetime, and Six Paths accepted that Aizen might have come from another world.
• Aizen considered Haku, Kimimaro, and Jugo as possible replacement vessels for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and warned them that the mission could be fatal.
• Haku, Kimimaro, and Jugo agreed to take part, and Aizen assigned them false identities as homeless geniuses raised by the Akatsuki.
• After the children left to say goodbye to their friends, Aizen decided to pursue a way to break Karma in the parallel spacetime.

Soseki told the alliance leaders that Aizen had entered a parallel world, and the group debated the danger of pursuing him. After the meeting, Obito privately revealed that he suspected Aizen was Soseki’s counterpart from that world.

• Soseki explained that Aizen had injured the guards at Rōran’s Dragon Vein seal and traveled to a parallel spacetime.
• Minato and the others warned that Aizen’s actions might be a trap, while Soseki argued that leaving him unchecked could let him become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Mizuki proposed making Soseki the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki first, but Soseki rejected it as a dangerous last resort.
• Obito warned that Aizen might be a visitor from another spacetime and that his home world could give him a major advantage.
• Soseki ended the meeting, then Obito privately told him and Asuma’s group that Aizen might be Soseki’s counterpart from a parallel world.

Obito concluded that Aizen was likely Soseki’s counterpart from a parallel world, and Soseki decided to send a clone there with Mizuki to keep Aizen in check. Before they departed, Soseki asked Six Paths for help contacting his counterpart and received a Truth-Seeking Orb as proof of identity.

• Obito argued that Aizen’s abilities and absence of an upperclassman in the parallel world pointed to him being that world’s Soseki, while the others accepted his theory.
• Soseki decided to send a clone to the parallel world, and Mizuki volunteered to accompany it so he could help conceal their identities from Aizen and the world’s authorities.
• Soseki chose Mizuki as his companion, while Asuma was left behind after Mizuki questioned his ability to survive there.
• Soseki summoned Six Paths, explained his plan to pursue Aizen, and asked for a way to gain the trust of the Six Paths in the parallel world.
• Six Paths gave Soseki a Truth-Seeking Orb to establish his identity, and Soseki said the parallel world might already have found a way to deal with the Otsutsuki.

Soseki and Mizuki arrived in the parallel world and headed for its Leaf Village, while Sakura and Ino fought a giant centipede during an attack on the village. Tsunade mobilized to defend the village, and Danzo chose to keep his forces hidden underground as the assault began.

• Soseki adjusted to the parallel world's time-flow difference, and Mizuki insisted on addressing him formally before they set out for the Leaf Village.
• Sakura told Ino about her powerful Senior Brother from another space-time, then rushed to fight a giant centipede attacking the village.
• Sakura used her improved strength to shatter the centipede with one punch, astonishing Ino and herself.
• Danzo recognized Pain and the woman attacking the village as two of the people he and Hanzo had ambushed years earlier, then ordered his ninja to remain underground.
• Tsunade saw the attack from Hokage Tower and ordered the Messenger Frog to summon Naruto while she and the others went to protect the village.

Pain defeated Kakashi and the Leaf shinobi who supported him, then overpowered Tsunade and destroyed the Leaf Village with Super Almighty Push. As Sakura struggled to help the wounded amid the ruins, a strange rain carrying powerful Yang Release Chakra began to fall.

• Kakashi and the supporting jonin attacked Pain, but the Paths defeated them before Tsunade arrived.
• Tsunade struck down the Deva Path, but the Naraka Path revived him, and Pain blasted Tsunade away.
• Pain argued with Tsunade about Jiraiya’s beliefs and his plan to bring peace through fear.
• Pain rose above the village and used Super Almighty Push to reduce the Leaf Village to a vast crater.
• Tsunade and Sakura used Katsuyu to help survivors, but most remained near death, until Sakura sensed powerful Yang Release Chakra in the falling rain.

Soseki arrived in Leaf Village and revealed that he had created healing rain, while Mizuki fought Pain atop Hokage Rock. Mizuki endured Pain’s attacks and countered with Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation as Naruto arrived.

• Sakura recognized the healing power in the rain and organized villagers to bring the injured out into it.
• Pain confronted Mizuki atop Hokage Rock, and Mizuki mocked Pain’s claim to godhood.
• Soseki reunited with Sakura and confirmed that he had created the rain, astonishing Sakura and Tsunade.
• Pain attacked Mizuki with repulsive force and a barrage of rockets, but Mizuki remained unharmed.
• Mizuki used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation to make the earth attack Pain, while Naruto arrived on a toad and stumbled as the ground shifted.

Mizuki and Naruto fought Pain amid the ruins of the Leaf Village, while Sasuke learned that the azure snake had died and feared Ryūchi Cave would expel him. The battle remained unresolved as Pain’s chakra dragons threatened the village’s civilians.

• Fukasaku and Naruto realized they had been reverse-summoned to the Leaf Village, where Mizuki was fighting Pain.
• Mizuki bound the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with Wood Release, and Sakura identified him as a powerful version of Mizuki from a parallel world.
• Mizuki and Naruto defeated the Human Path and Animal Path, but Pain unleashed chakra dragons that killed the azure snake and threatened civilians.
• Fukasaku urged Naruto to defeat Pain quickly rather than rush to save the civilians.
• Sasuke saw the azure snake’s final images and worried that its death, following Manda’s, would get him expelled from the snake clan.

Soseki protected Tsunade and the gathered Leaf shinobi by absorbing Pain’s Chakra Dragons and destroying his Planetary Devastation. He pierced Pain with a beam, while Nagato realized the mysterious opponent was more terrifying than any enemy he had faced.

• Naruto attacked Pain’s Three Paths with a thrown Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, while Tsunade gathered the shinobi behind Soseki.
• Soseki absorbed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s Chakra Dragons, stunning the Leaf shinobi and Pain.
• Pain used Planetary Devastation, but Soseki destroyed its gravitational core and sent the captured people falling back to the ground.
• Soseki pierced Pain’s chest with a beam from his fingertip, and Pain asked how he had done it.
• Nagato told Konan that the same unknown person had absorbed the Chakra Dragons and broken Planetary Devastation, then warned that it might already be too late to abandon the operation.

After defeating Pain, Shimizu Soseki found Nagato and persuaded him to revive the Leaf Village’s dead in exchange for Konan’s freedom. As Nagato began the revival, Mizuki rejected being called Soseki’s companion and declared that no one could stand at the leader’s side.

• Tsunade learned that the Rinnegan’s owner could revive the dead, and Soseki set out alone to find Nagato.
• Soseki reached Nagato and Konan’s hideout, introduced himself as Shimizu Soseki, and offered to spare Konan if Nagato revived the Leaf Village’s dead.
• Soseki bound Konan with Wood Release and disrupted her Chakra, while Nagato accepted the bargain and urged her to live on with Yahiko’s dream.
• Nagato used Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive the dead in the Leaf Village.
• Mizuki told the Leaf villagers that no one could stand at the leader’s side and that following behind him was the greatest honor.

After Soseki revived the Leaf Village’s dead, Danzo considered his next move while Konan took Nagato’s body. Black Zetsu feared Soseki and Mizuki might be Otsutsuki, and urged Obito to recover the Rinnegan and awaken his mother.

• Soseki revived the dead, and the Leaf villagers celebrated as Mizuki rebuilt their homes with Wood Release.
• Danzo realized his actions against the messenger frog might soon be exposed and considered using Shisui’s eye.
• Konan took Nagato’s body after Soseki warned her that others might seek his Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that two unknown ninjas had defeated Nagato, and feared they belonged to the Otsutsuki Main Family.
• Obito agreed to recover the Rinnegan, while Black Zetsu resolved to awaken his mother as soon as possible.

Mizuki explained why Soseki’s group had crossed into this time-space and warned the Leaf leaders that Akatsuki might be seeking to create the Ten-Tails. The chapter ended with everyone learning that the Ten-Tails and its Jinchuriki could pose a world-ending threat.

• Yamato recounted the Rōran mission and described Soseki’s leadership and extraordinary achievements in the other time-space.
• Shikamaru questioned how Soseki’s group had crossed over after the passage was supposedly sealed, and Mizuki entered to explain.
• Mizuki said someone from their world had caused a Fourth Shinobi World War in his time-space, so Soseki pursued the culprit through the Dragon Vein seal.
• Mizuki challenged the Leaf leaders to understand the crises his world had faced, including a demonic tide, reanimated past Kage, and the Ten-Tails.
• Mizuki explained that Akatsuki could create the Ten-Tails by gathering the tailed beasts, and warned that it could destroy a country and that its Jinchuriki could wield the Sage of Six Paths’ power.

Mizuki told Kakashi, Naruto, and the others how Soseki’s world survived the Ten-Tails crisis and became united under the Ninja Alliance, while revealing Obito’s role in the Nine-Tails Rebellion. Meanwhile, Soseki used Genjutsu to let Danzō believe that his Kotoamatsukami had worked, even as Soseki took Shisui’s eye.

• Mizuki explained that Soseki had defeated the Ten-Tails and that the Ninja Alliance eventually overcame the resurrected Kage and other threats.
• Mizuki revealed that Obito had secretly controlled the Nine-Tails Rebellion and helped form Akatsuki because he wanted a world where Rin existed.
• Naruto learned that his parents survived in Mizuki’s timeline, and Kakashi asked Mizuki to tell him Obito’s story.
• Danzō entered Soseki’s room with Ryoma Aburame and introduced himself as the guardian who protected the village from the shadows.
• Soseki’s Genjutsu made Danzō hear praise from him and Ryoma, while Soseki removed Danzō’s right eye before Kotoamatsukami could activate.
• Danzō left believing he had brainwashed Soseki and gained an ally, while Soseki planned to make this world’s Danzō share his misfortune.

Soseki agreed to let Leaf Village share information about his world and help prevent war, while Naruto learned he could meet the wills of his parents. A Cloud Village envoy delivered the Raikage’s demand that Sasuke be executed for attacking their village, leaving Tsunade facing a threat of war.

• Soseki offered Naruto a chance to meet the wills of Namikaze Minato and Kushina, then gave Tsunade permission to share information about his world.
• Tsunade revealed that the Raikage had invited the leaders to a Five Kage Summit and sent a handwritten letter to Leaf Village.
• Samui delivered the letter, which demanded that Tsunade issue an execution order for Sasuke because he had attacked Cloud Village with Akatsuki.
• Naruto and Kakashi learned that Sasuke had allegedly joined Akatsuki, while Samui warned Tsunade that refusing the demand could lead to war.