Chapter Summaries

Kabuto revealed that the mysterious guard who accompanied the man who killed Nagato resembled an abandoned Orochimaru test subject with the same name. Obito told Madara about the changes in the Shinobi World and his exchanged Rinnegan, while Madara agreed to help capture the Eight Tails and Nine Tails; as the Fourth Shinobi World War began, Tenten unveiled a new product at her store.

• Kabuto said the mysterious guard had three bloodlines and Wood Release, and that his name matched an experimental subject Kabuto had believed dead.
• Obito told Madara that Naruto and Shimizu Soseki had disrupted Akatsuki's plans, and that Soseki had defeated Nagato and forced him to revive the Leaf Village victims.
• Obito revealed his exchanged Rinnegan and explained that he had made a deal with a mysterious being; Madara agreed to help him capture the Eight Tails and Nine Tails.
• Madara questioned Black Zetsu about Obito's eyes, then welcomed the chance to test himself against the deeper mysteries of the Shinobi World.
• The Five Great Shinobi Countries mobilized for war, driving up demand for supplies across the Shinobi World.
• Tenten calmed the customers at her store and revealed piles of Supreme Deluxe Edition Medical Scrolls after Exploding Tags sold out.

Tenten’s Medical Scroll sales overwhelmed her as Leaf Village residents clamored for the Supreme Edition, while Sakura worked overtime to produce more. Temari asked Soseki to teach Sunagakure how to make the scrolls, but he sensed something happening to his original body before he could answer.

• Tenten promoted the Medical Scrolls by linking their editions to Soseki, Tsunade, and other medical ninjas, and Leaf residents swarmed her for the Supreme Edition.
• Tenten asked Sakura for one of the Supreme Edition scrolls and more of the next day’s quota after customers trampled her.
• Temari arrived from Sunagakure and asked Sakura to arrange a meeting with Soseki so she could request the scroll-making method.
• Sakura brought Temari to Soseki’s office, where he was rapidly producing scrolls and explained that each one might save a life.
• Temari asked Soseki to teach Sunagakure how to make Medical Scrolls, but he sensed something interesting happening on his original body’s side.

Soseki allowed Temari to share his Medical Scroll method and realized five years had passed in his original time-space. Meanwhile, Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji entered the Ninja Alliance’s first Jonin qualification exam, unaware that two observers from another time-space were watching them.

• Soseki told Temari she could spread the Medical Scroll method, then assigned Sakura to teach it.
• Soseki calculated that about five years had passed in his original time-space and noted that the Ninja Alliance was holding its first Jonin qualification exam.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji worried about the exam’s cultural section, and Naruto asked Kurama for help cheating.
• Naruto’s teammates joked about replacing him with Sakura before the three entered the examination hall.
• A young observer recognized Naruto as his father, and the middle-aged Sasuke explained that this was the past of a parallel time-space.

Naruto took the jonin exam’s written test and struggled through its ideological and moral questions. He passed after choosing to defend his village and the peace secured by the Alliance’s predecessors.

• Mori Ibiki warned candidates that cheating would lead to a five-year ban and explained that the exam tested ninja quality.
• Naruto found the written questions easier than expected and grew confident as he answered them.
• Naruto lost points on moral questions about dangerous missions and hostage situations, repeatedly second-guessing his choices.
• Naruto chose to fight rather than sacrifice his fellow villagers for peace, answered the final question correctly, and passed the exam.

Naruto passed the first exam, while Sasuke explained to Boruto that a mysterious time traveler named Soseki had shaped the Fourth Shinobi World War. As Soseki learned Urashiki had traveled to the war’s end, Urashiki resolved to seek an earlier time and space to obtain the Ten-Tails’ power.

• Naruto celebrated passing the first stage until Ibiki threatened to deduct points from his score.
• Sasuke reflected on the Uchiha’s fate, then explained to Boruto that Soseki had been the central figure in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Sasuke and Boruto decided to protect the Naruto of this time and space without contacting its authorities, while they searched for Urashiki.
• Soseki overheard them and decided to wait for his Aizen clone before attempting to capture Urashiki.
• Urashiki, at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, feared the combatants’ strength and resolved to travel to an earlier time to gather Tailed Beast Chakra and absorb the Ten-Tails.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji learned that their 189 points had barely qualified them for the second examination, which would take place in a Dream World instance against Uchiha Madara. Outside the examination, middle-aged Sasuke and Boruto watched the projected scene and learned that Madara’s soul had been sealed inside the Dream World.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji compared scores and discovered that Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten’s team had scored 260 points.
• The broadcast announced Naruto’s team in ninety-seventh place with 189 points, qualifying them for the second examination.
• The examiner explained that the next stage would award points for different contributions and revealed Uchiha Madara as the opponent.
• Middle-aged Sasuke recognized the projected Madara as the real man, and an elderly bystander told him that the leader had sealed Madara’s soul in the Dream World.

As the Jonin Exam contestants prepared to face Uchiha Madara in the Dream World, the old man recalled how the Leader had once kicked away three meteors and defeated Madara. Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji decided to use their embarrassing Three-in-One Battle Method, while the Kage discussed the Leader’s absence and the unresolved threat troubling him.

• The old man told Grandpa Bo and middle-aged Sasuke that the Leader had kicked away three meteors summoned by Uchiha Madara and defeated Madara fused with the First Hokage.
• Uchiha Madara resolved to beat the young contestants badly, while the gathered teams grew excited or worried about facing him.
• Gaara planned for his team to earn points through support and control, while Deidara insisted that his team should try to blow Madara away.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji discussed how to score against Susanoo and chose to use the Three-in-One Battle Method: Hokage's Exclamation.
• Minato told the Kage that the Leader would attend the finals, and Rasa asked whether the matters involving the Leader’s formidable enemy had been resolved.

In the Dream World, Uchiha Madara overwhelmed the examinees with Susanoo clones and meteors, forcing them to unite and launch a coordinated attack. Deidara’s massive self-destruction shattered much of Madara’s Susanoo, but Madara remained standing as the spectators wondered how anyone could defeat him.

• Uchiha Madara summoned twenty-five Susanoo-using Wood Clones and called down three meteors, quickly defeating most of the examinees.
• The Five Kage discussed why the youngsters had been matched against Madara, while the surviving examinees recognized they needed to cooperate.
• Ino Yamanaka used the Mind Transmission Technique and Group Mute to organize the examinees into control and attack groups.
• The control group briefly restrained Madara, but he used Shinra Tensei to break free and absorbed most of the attackers’ ninjutsu with the Rinnegan.
• Deidara detonated a powerful self-destruction attack that engulfed Madara and the nearby examinees, leaving more than half of Madara’s Susanoo shattered.

Sasuke and Naruto joined Neji in a coordinated assault that defeated Madara during the Jonin Exam, drawing cheers from the crowd. Soseki then met Sasuke and Boruto in a space hidden from the spectators and asked Sasuke how he had traveled there.

• Middle-aged Sasuke explained that Madara was weakened from his peak, then realized that the young Sasuke had used the Flying Thunder God Technique to rescue Naruto and Neji from Deidara’s explosion.
• Neji opened the Eight Gates and used Rotation to launch Sage Naruto and Sasuke into a combined attack on Madara.
• Madara chose to meet their attack head-on, and the clash unleashed a devastating storm of energy.
• After the storm passed, Madara, Naruto, and Sasuke were gone, while Neji remained on the ground and the crowd cheered their victory.
• Soseki approached middle-aged Sasuke and Boruto, explained that he had hidden them from the crowd by overlapping their space-time with the Dream World, and asked Sasuke how he had traveled there.

Soseki learned that middle-aged Sasuke and Boruto had traveled from a parallel future to stop Urashiki Otsutsuki from capturing Naruto. He agreed to help fight Urashiki and restored Sasuke’s missing arm, leaving them preparing to face the enemy.

• Soseki examined the Plow and replenished its Chakra, awakening the time-traveling turtle.
• Middle-aged Sasuke explained that Urashiki and other Otsutsuki had attacked Naruto, and that he and Naruto had defeated two of them before Urashiki traveled into the past.
• Boruto asked Soseki to help defeat Urashiki, and Soseki agreed to make the Otsutsuki their third exam question.
• Sasuke revealed that he had lost his left arm in a later fight with Naruto, but Soseki persuaded him to accept treatment.
• Soseki used Yin-Yang Release to restore Sasuke’s severed arm.

Soseki left Boruto and Sasuke to reflect on their trials while he searched for the plow, and Boruto watched Naruto prepare for his exam. Urashiki stayed hidden and planned to attack Naruto on the arena, where Sasuke could not protect him.

• Boruto and Sasuke praised Soseki’s exam after he vanished, while Soseki traveled to the sea to search for the plow’s recorded aura.
• Boruto reflected on Naruto’s resilience as he watched young Naruto leave Minato’s house and head for his exam.
• Naruto mistook middle-aged Sasuke for Boruto’s father, then joined them on the way to the Central Tower.
• Anbu arrested Jiraiya for distributing obscene books after Orochimaru complained about the letters Jiraiya’s readers had sent him.
• Naruto explained that Soseki’s Sky Net used Dream World to monitor the Alliance and help law enforcement respond to incidents.
• Urashiki realized Sky Net had not detected him and decided to attack Naruto during his arena match, when Sasuke could not follow.

Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the Jonin Exam’s third round, where they were matched against each other in the arena. As they prepared to fight, Naruto entered Sage Mode with Kurama’s help while Sasuke activated his lightning-enhanced combat setup, and Urashiki waited in hiding for them to wear each other down.

• Naruto explained to Boruto and the middle-aged Sasuke how the Alliance’s Great Arena promoted ninja competitions, and they spotted Hidan studying in the stands as the King of Repeating Grades.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave a speech, and the tournament proceeded through eight matches before Naruto was paired against Sasuke in the ninth.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered the arena and discussed their advantages, with Naruto claiming he could use the Nine-Tails before revealing he had been stalling for Kurama to refine Sage Chakra.
• Naruto activated Sage Mode, while Sasuke entered Lightning Release Chakra Mode and used his two-tomoe Sharingan alongside Flying Thunder God techniques and scattered senbon.
• Urashiki watched from hiding and planned to attack after Naruto and Sasuke exhausted themselves.

Naruto and Sasuke fought fiercely in the Jonin Exam until Urashiki interrupted and captured Naruto with his fishing line. Sasuke rescued Naruto using a hidden Flying Thunder God formula, but Urashiki exposed Sasuke’s trick and left the fight unresolved.

• Naruto and Sasuke exchanged powerful attacks, with Naruto relying on his immense Chakra and Sasuke using varied ninjutsu until Sasuke announced he had enough Chakra for one final strike.
• Urashiki pierced the barrier, hooked Naruto with his fishing line, and pulled him away, while Boruto pleaded with the middle-aged Sasuke to save his father.
• The middle-aged Sasuke tried to swap Naruto with another person, but Urashiki caught the Raikage instead and revealed that the Naruto at the judges’ table was a clone.
• The middle-aged Sasuke ran out of Chakra, but Urashiki discovered that Naruto had escaped and found young Sasuke standing at the judges’ platform.
• Sasuke revealed that he had secretly placed a Flying Thunder God formula on Naruto, and Neji worried that Sasuke might have planted one on him too.

Urashiki confronted the Raikage at the Great Arena, then revealed his Otsutsuki origins and claimed his clan had brought Chakra to the world. Minato confirmed the Otsutsuki’s existence, leaving the crowd shaken while the Five Kage privately judged Urashiki’s boasts against Soseki’s power.

• The Raikage tore free of Urashiki’s hook and struck him, but Urashiki recovered and dodged the Raikage’s next attack before blasting him away with Shinra Tensei.
• Minato asked Urashiki how someone with the Byakugan could use the Rinnegan, and Urashiki changed his eyes to the blue Rinnegan and identified himself as an Otsutsuki from the distant stars.
• Urashiki claimed the Otsutsuki had brought Chakra to the world, that shinobi clans descended from them, and that the Tailed Beasts were parts of a Ten-Tails kept as a pet.
• Minato confirmed Urashiki’s claims, prompting the crowd to react in alarm as Urashiki boasted that his full power could sink a third of the continent in under an hour.
• The Five Kage privately compared Urashiki’s threat to Soseki’s strength and considered his claimed destructive power average.

Urashiki tried to make the Alliance surrender Naruto, but Sasuke and the younger generation rejected the demand and rallied people to defend him. After Boruto exposed the Otsutsuki plan to consume the world's Chakra, the Alliance united against Urashiki, who warned that defeating him would leave them facing hundreds of Otsutsuki clan members.

• Urashiki demanded that the Alliance hand over Naruto to prevent war, and his words stirred whispers that Naruto should sacrifice himself.
• Sasuke condemned those who wanted Naruto to die in their place, and Neji, Gaara, Deidara, and others joined him in defending Naruto.
• Naruto was moved by the Alliance's support and resolved to fight for everyone and change the world.
• Boruto revealed that Urashiki wanted Naruto's Chakra to help the Ten-Tails consume all Chakra in the world, and Urashiki confirmed the danger.
• Minato vowed that mortals would defeat the gods, but Urashiki warned that hundreds of Otsutsuki who ruled other worlds stood behind him.

Soseki rallied the alliance against Urashiki, then coordinated the ninjas as they exploited Urashiki’s weaknesses and drove him to flee. The chapter ended with the audience and leaders joining the attack while Urashiki finally felt fear.

• Soseki reassured the alliance that their growing strength could overcome the Otsutsuki, restoring their confidence and resolve.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Deidara, and the others confronted Urashiki while Soseki promised to support them.
• Urashiki absorbed their chakra-based attacks and repelled them with Shinra Tensei, but Soseki’s healing rain quickly restored the injured ninjas.
• Soseki linked the fighters and shared Urashiki’s abilities, allowing them to defend against Shinra Tensei and coordinate attacks around its cooldown.
• The audience, Raikage, Ōnoki, and Boruto joined the assault, forcing Urashiki to scatter with his paper-crane teleportation as he grew afraid.

Urashiki used time reversal to evade attacks, but Teuchi urged the crowd to overwhelm his foresight with sheer numbers, while Minato repeatedly foiled his attempts to escape. Cornered and enraged, Urashiki consumed his fish basket and eyes, awakening a golden Rinnegan.

• Urashiki explained that he reversed time by several seconds to choose futures favorable to himself and evade the attackers.
• Teuchi urged the civilians and genin to join the battle, arguing that their numbers would create too many variables for Urashiki to predict.
• Urashiki tried to attack the ordinary people, but Minato intercepted him and marked him with Flying Thunder God formulas.
• Minato repeatedly teleported Urashiki away whenever he tried to reach the crowd, leaving him trapped among the pursuing shinobi.
• Urashiki swallowed his red-glowing fish basket and his own eyes, then awakened a golden Rinnegan on his forehead.

Urashiki transformed into a powerful, crane-like form and slaughtered many people, including Kurotsuchi, Ōnoki, and Rasa. As the survivors faced despair, Soseki used Reversal Reincarnation to rewind time, restoring the dead and the ruined arena.

• Urashiki ate his fish basket and Rinnegan, transformed into a crane-like being, and gravely wounded the Raikage.
• Minato determined that Urashiki had lost his time-reversal ability but gained immense strength, speed, defense, and life force.
• Urashiki overwhelmed the gathered fighters with his pressure and energy attacks, killing many people and destroying the arena.
• Naruto, Ōnoki, and Gaara fought back, but Urashiki killed Kurotsuchi, Ōnoki, and Rasa.
• Soseki used Reversal Reincarnation, sending time backward and restoring the dead and the arena to their original state.

Soseki defeated Urashiki with one punch and declared the Otsutsuki threat eliminated. He ended the Jonin Exam by promoting every examinee, while Boruto faced questions from Hinata about why he called Naruto Dad.

• Soseki revealed that he had reversed time to undo the deaths in the arena, then confronted Urashiki.
• Urashiki charged Soseki, who opened all Eight Gates and used Sage Mode to punch him through the earth, leaving him alive but unconscious.
• Soseki returned to the surface with Urashiki sealed, and the crowd celebrated as he announced that the threat had been eliminated.
• Soseki canceled the rest of the Jonin Exam and promoted all the examinees to jonin.
• Gaara asked Rasa what he had meant to say before he died, while Naruto asked Sasuke to remove the Flying Thunder God formula from him.
• Hinata tapped Boruto on the shoulder and asked why he called Naruto Dad.

Boruto and middle-aged Sasuke revealed their identities to Hinata and Fugaku, while Soseki interrogated Urashiki in the Dream World and brought in Black Zetsu to help break through his mental seal. Soseki suggested he might consider Black Zetsu’s proposal to free Kaguya, leaving Black Zetsu hopeful but uncertain.

• Boruto recognized Hinata as his mother, and middle-aged Sasuke told Fugaku that Fugaku had given him his eyes.
• Soseki took Urashiki’s head into the Dream World and tried to break the seal protecting his memories, but Urashiki’s soul would collapse before Soseki could safely extract much information.
• Soseki summoned Black Zetsu, who recognized Urashiki as an Otsutsuki and was insulted by Urashiki’s dismissal of his bloodline.
• Black Zetsu offered to ally with Soseki against the Otsutsuki Main Family if Soseki helped him rescue Kaguya.
• Soseki questioned whether Kaguya would destroy the world if freed, then said the plan was not entirely impossible.