Chapter Summaries

Anrokuzan poured Sara’s blood onto his Puppet Core and unleashed the Dragon Pulse’s full power, forcing Minato and the others to coordinate with Four-Tails Naruto to expose the core. Minato struck with a Rasengan, but Anrokuzan transformed into a Dragon Pulse Jinchuriki clad in Black Dragon Armor.

• Anrokuzan activated his Puppet Core with Sara’s blood, and his Dragon Pulse chakra surged as Naruto’s tails began to increase.
• Naruto fought Anrokuzan’s Purple Giant Dragon, while Minato rescued him and proposed sealing the Dragon Pulse after Naruto exposed the Puppet Core.
• Choza, Shibi, and Yamato attacked Anrokuzan together, and Yamato’s trap gave Naruto an opening to tear open Anrokuzan’s stomach pouch.
• Minato placed a Flying Thunder God Kunai on the exposed Puppet Core and attacked it with a Rasengan.
• Anrokuzan’s resentment corrupted the Dragon Pulse, and he emerged in Black Dragon Armor as a transformed Dragon Pulse Jinchuriki.

Chiyo explained that Dragon Pulses connected parallel timelines and that she and Uchiha Gin had entered Minato’s timeline to stop Anrokuzan. As Anrokuzan’s strange powers overwhelmed the fighters, Naruto lost the Nine-Tails’ chakra, resolved to fight on his own, and attacked with an endless stream of shadow clones.

• Chiyo explained that the Dragon Pulse in Minato’s timeline had summoned help from other timelines, while Uchiha Gin said he had crossed over using a Dragon Pulse he had turned into a card.
• Minato attacked Anrokuzan, whose mirror absorbed the kunai and Naruto’s Tailed Beast Ball before returning the attack at Naruto.
• Anrokuzan wounded Choza, shrugged off Minato’s Flying Thunder God strike, and used time stop to make Naruto hit himself with a floor tile.
• Naruto spoke with the Nine-Tails, gave up its chakra, and returned to the fight determined to defeat Anrokuzan without relying on its power.
• Naruto unleashed the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique, overwhelming Anrokuzan with attacks from multiple directions even as Anrokuzan stopped and cut down many clones.

Naruto and Minato’s team fought Anrokuzan and his Dragon Darkener, with Choza and Shibi risking themselves to protect their allies and Yamato striking back with a Wood Release combination. Minato escaped Anrokuzan’s Time Stop by teleporting to a surprising person, who greeted him as a gift-bearer.

• Naruto overwhelmed Anrokuzan with waves of shadow clones until Anrokuzan summoned the Dragon Darkener, which burned through the clones and left Naruto badly weakened.
• Choza intercepted the Dragon Darkener to save Naruto, while Minato carried Naruto back to the group; Shibi sacrificed his Original Kikaichu to shield Choza before Minato rescued him.
• Yamato summoned a wooden dragon and pierced the Dragon Darkener with Explosive Spear Tree, then collapsed and was dragged to safety by Kakashi’s ninja hounds.
• Anrokuzan dismissed the wounded Dragon Darkener and confronted the group, but Minato attacked from behind and was caught in Anrokuzan’s Time Stop.
• Naruto tried to strike Anrokuzan with a Rasengan and was swatted away, giving Minato time to teleport out of the frozen space to an unexpected person, who welcomed him as a gift.

Uchiha Gin rescued Kakashi from Anrokuzan’s Black Blade Aura and took over the fight. Anrokuzan tried to use Time Stop to assault the frozen Chiyo, but Gin moved freely and stopped him.

• Minato drank too much Glimmering Potion 2.0, regained his strength, and used another bottle to help the badly weakened Choza.
• Kakashi stood between Minato and Anrokuzan’s Black Blade Aura, but Uchiha Gin intercepted the attack and destroyed Kakashi’s white blade while saving him.
• Minato carried Kakashi away, leaving Uchiha Gin to face Anrokuzan, while Chiyo offered to fight and Anrokuzan grew jealous of their closeness.
• Anrokuzan used Time Stop to freeze Uchiha Gin and Chiyo, then blocked Minato and the others with the Mirror of Space-Time.
• As Anrokuzan reached toward Chiyo, Uchiha Gin moved through the Time Stop and pressed a hand onto Anrokuzan’s mask.

Uchiha Gin endured Anrokuzan’s Time Stop, then overwhelmed the Dragon Darkener with a single punch. As Anrokuzan unleashed a gigantic Dragon Pulse attack, Gin drew his sword and prepared to face it while the others protected the Rōran guards.

• Uchiha Gin broke free of Anrokuzan’s Time Stop and slammed him into the ground, then sent Chiyo to Queen Sana’s side.
• Minato guessed that Chiyo had crossed over from another time-space, and Chiyo confirmed it to Sana and Sara.
• Anrokuzan summoned the Dragon Darkener, but Uchiha Gin knocked it into the Mirror World with one punch.
• Anrokuzan unleashed Rising Dragon Slash, causing a giant black-purple dragon to burst from the earth and shake the area.
• Yamato shielded the Rōran guards from the dragon’s shock wave, and Minato revived him with a Healing Potion mixed by Uchiha Gin.
• Uchiha Gin drew his Black Wooden Sword and prepared to face the giant dragon.

Uchiha Gin faced Anrokuzan’s Dragon Pulse-powered black dragon, survived being swallowed, and prepared a devastating counterattack with his transformed sword. The chapter ended as Gin unleashed Enuma Elish against Anrokuzan and the charging dragon.

• Anrokuzan introduced his Dragon Army Sword and sent a colossal black dragon charging at Uchiha Gin, who drew his Black Wooden Sword and jokingly introduced it as the Armstrong Cyclone Acceleration Jet Armstrong Cannon.
• Anrokuzan poured more Dragon Pulse power into the attack, while Sana ordered an evacuation and Chiyo, Minato, and others chose to trust Uchiha Gin.
• Yamato tried to unleash a Wood Release secret technique, but a falling signboard knocked him unconscious, and another signboard struck Naruto before Minato rescued them both.
• The black dragon swallowed Uchiha Gin, leaving the onlookers convinced he had been defeated, but Gin emerged through a door he cut in the dragon’s belly with a black Dragon Pulse Card in hand.
• Anrokuzan launched a second Rising Dragon Break, and Uchiha Gin transformed his sword, completed a dramatic chant, and fired a red pillar of light while shouting “Enuma Elish!”

Uchiha Gin destroyed Anrokuzan’s giant dragon and left him alive for Minato to arrest, but Mukade summoned a Black Dragon that swallowed him and fled into the Dragon Pulse Tower. Minato, Naruto, and the others pursued them, where Mukade revealed his plan to fuse completely with the Dragon Pulse.

• Hagoromo sensed the Ten-Grasp Sword’s aura near Rōran, but it vanished before he could investigate further.
• Uchiha Gin annihilated Anrokuzan’s energy dragon and blasted away the clouds over Rōran, then the group discovered Anrokuzan had survived in a broken body.
• Minato took Mukade into custody, but Mukade summoned a Black Dragon that swallowed him and charged into the Dragon Pulse Tower.
• Minato, Naruto, Yamato, Sara, and the others chased the dragon, and Sara identified the Eye of the Dragon Pulse as Mukade’s destination.
• Mukade announced that he intended to fuse with the Dragon Pulse, and Naruto promised Sara he would stop him before Mukade attacked with a Flame Bullet.

Mukade, now fused with the Dragon Darkener, unsealed the Dragon Pulse and transformed into an armored dragon-man, leaving Minato and the others facing a powerful new threat. Meanwhile, Uchiha Gin visited Kurama inside Naruto’s mind and revealed himself as Uchiha Madara.

• Mukade reached the Eye of the Dragon Pulse, but Minato failed to stop him from using Sara’s royal blood to break the seal.
• Minato, Choza, Shibi, and Naruto attacked Mukade, but the Dragon Darkener healed, defeated their assaults, and absorbed Naruto’s Rasengan.
• Mukade released the Dragon Pulse, merged with the Dragon Darkener, and emerged in dragon-patterned armor as he declared himself a god.
• Minato called for the group to prepare for battle, while Naruto noticed Uchiha Gin had appeared inside his sealing cage with Kurama.
• Uchiha Gin showed Kurama the Mangekyo pattern it recognized as Uchiha Madara, then reassured it that he had come only to visit.

Uchiha Gin entered Naruto’s seal and spoke with Minato and the Nine-Tails while Naruto and his allies fought the powerful Mukade. Minato and Naruto struck Mukade with a Taiji Rasengan, but Mukade survived, and Minato’s chakra from within Naruto enabled him to form another pair of Yin-Yang Orbs as the chapter ended.

• Uchiha Gin teased the Nine-Tails about its seal, then explained to Minato that Naruto and Yamato had arrived from another timeline.
• Minato learned Naruto was fighting Mukade and returned his attention to the battle.
• Minato and Naruto combined their Rasengan into a Taiji Rasengan and used it to break Mukade’s armor and blast him away.
• Mukade survived the attack and grabbed Sara as she prepared to guide the Dragon Pulse back to the Eye of the Dragon Pulse.
• Naruto formed two differently colored Yin-Yang Orbs with help from 24 Minato inside his seal, while the Nine-Tails widened the chakra passage under Uchiha Gin’s watch.

Uchiha Gin helped Chiyo calm the polluted Dragon Pulse, then altered Minato’s memory-sealing technique so the people of Rōran would forget Naruto, Yamato, and Chiyo while retaining fragments of their memories. He joined Minato’s team on their return to Konoha, claiming an old feud with the Senju had kept him away.

• After Mukade’s defeat, Sara tried to calm the Dragon Pulse but was struck by the pollution he had left behind.
• Chiyo revealed her connection to the Dragon Guardian Clan and suppressed the Dragon Pulse, then Minato sealed its Eye.
• The Dragon Pulse sent Naruto, Yamato, and Chiyo back to their own time, while Uchiha Gin remained behind and secretly changed Minato’s technique to seal memories rather than erase them.
• Minato and the others woke with blurred memories, and Sara found an unfamiliar short blade that stirred a vague sense of loss.
• Uchiha Gin traveled with Minato’s team toward Konoha and claimed he had stayed away because of a grudge against the Senju, though he said the feud was now settled.

Uchiha Gin entered Konoha with Minato’s team and encountered Kakashi’s young friends, including Obito and Tsunade. After Gin revealed that he knew Mito and displayed his Yin Seal, Tsunade questioned him, while a white Radish Man reported his arrival to Madara.

• Minato brought Gin into Konoha after his teammate Dekai let them pass the village gate.
• Kakashi took Gin to the snack street, where Gin met Obito, Shizune, and their friends at a dango shop.
• Gin claimed to be Obito’s old uncle, and Ebisu accused him of being a lolicon before Tsunade arrived.
• Gin asked Tsunade about Mito and showed her his Yin Seal, leaving her stunned that a man had mastered it.
• A white Radish Man reached Madara’s underground hideout and announced that the person Madara had been searching for had appeared.

Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to investigate the mysterious Uchiha Gin after learning he had appeared in Konoha, while Minato reported Gin’s identity to Hiruzen and Danzo. Hiruzen and Danzo checked a classified Uchiha record and confirmed Gin was related to Uchiha Tajima.

• White Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that the curly-haired man he had once searched for had appeared in Konoha, and Madara ordered him to investigate.
• Uchiha Madara asked Black Zetsu for an update on Nagato and instructed him to keep the Rinnegan safe while Nagato traveled with Yahiko and Konan.
• Uchiha Gin told Tsunade that he had developed the Shadow Seal Technique with Mito, prompting Tsunade and the others to question him about his past.
• Minato reported the sealed Dragon Pulse to Hiruzen and Danzo, then explained that he had encountered Uchiha Gin, a relative of Uchiha Madara.
• Hiruzen asked Danzo to consult Tobirama’s classified Uchiha records, and Danzo found that Uchiha Tajima had a maternal cousin’s son.

Minato reported Uchiha Gin’s extraordinary abilities to Hiruzen and Danzo, who suspected Gin was an impostor and planned to verify his identity through an Uchiha elder. Back in the village, Kakashi learned that Konoha was blaming his father Sakumo for abandoning a mission, and Gin condemned the villagers’ treatment of the White Fang.

• Minato told Hiruzen and Danzo that Uchiha Gin possessed the Sharingan, the Yin Seal, and the Flying Thunder God Technique, despite Gin supposedly having died decades earlier.
• Hiruzen decided to ask Uchiha Huoke, the clan’s oldest elder, to identify Gin, while Minato defended Gin’s honesty.
• Minato encountered his battered teacher Jiraiya and Orochimaru outside the Hokage Building, then remembered that Tsunade wanted to know where her bag was.
• Kakashi stopped Tsunade from taking Gin to the Konoha Police Force and said Gin had known his father, Sakumo, for years.
• Kakashi heard villagers insult Sakumo, and Might Guy told him that the villagers were bullying his father over a failed mission.
• Kakashi rushed home after learning that people had covered his gate with rotten eggs, while Gin criticized Konoha’s treatment of the weak.

Uchiha Gin intervened when Konoha residents and Root ninja harassed Hatake Sakumo over abandoning a mission to save a comrade. He defended Sakumo’s choice, exposed his accuser’s cruelty, and watched the Police Force arrest Ippongi Kennin.

• Kakashi returned home to find a crowd defiling the gate and accusing Hatake Sakumo of abandoning a mission, then Sakumo came outside and endured their assault.
• Uchiha Gin stopped the rotten food in midair and sent it back at the crowd before introducing himself to Sakumo as an old friend of his father, Hatake Hayato.
• Gin acknowledged that Sakumo had made a mistake but said saving a comrade was right and that failing to cherish comrades was worse than abandoning a mission.
• Gin pointed out that Kenin was the comrade Sakumo had rescued, and Kenin denied asking for help while trying to turn the crowd against Sakumo.
• Gin accused Kenin of framing a Konoha war hero, and the Police Force arrested him for disturbing public order and inciting an illegal gathering.

Uchiha Gin helped Minato and Hatake Sakumo stop the harassment campaign, while Uchiha Fugaku’s Police Force arrested its ringleader. Back at the Uchiha compound, Fugaku faced a tense dispute over the Third Hokage’s mission for the retired Uchiha Huoke, who arrived and accepted the scroll as Jiraiya suddenly found Orochimaru missing.

• Uchiha Fugaku arrested Kenin and led the Police Force away after bringing the bullying of Hatake Sakumo to justice.
• Uchiha Gin caught Root members trying to leave, made them clean the Hatake household’s gate, and let them go at Hatake Sakumo’s request.
• Minato explained that he had asked Fugaku to intervene, while a clan messenger told Fugaku that the Third Hokage had summoned Uchiha Huoke for a mission.
• Fugaku returned to the Uchiha compound, where Jiraiya and Orochimaru faced angry elders and insisted that the mission scroll be delivered personally to Huoke.
• Uchiha Huoke arrived, accepted the scroll, and left Jiraiya looking for Orochimaru as the chapter ended.

Uchiha Huoke accepted Hiruzen’s mission to verify Uchiha Gin’s identity and set out with Fugaku, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru went to meet Gin. At Gin’s gathering, Hatake Sakumo explained the mission failure that had made him a target of public anger, and Gin proposed a strategy to restore his standing with the daimyo.

• Uchiha Huoke destroyed the mission scroll in anger, then agreed to take the identity-verification mission and ordered Fugaku to accompany him.
• Jiraiya escaped the Uchiha compound, confronted Orochimaru for abandoning him, and headed with him to meet the senior Minato had mentioned.
• Uchiha Gin served sugar-laden tea to Obito, who collapsed after drinking it, while Tsunade examined him.
• Hatake Sakumo told Gin and Minato that he had abandoned a mission to stop an assassin organization, leading to the daimyo’s consort being killed and public opinion turning against him.
• Gin advised Sakumo to send the daimyo an apology expressing remorse and willingness to atone with his life, and Minato recognized the plan as a tactic of retreating to advance.

Uchiha Gin helped Hatake Sakumo find a way to escape Konoha’s public pressure by serving as the daimyo’s Guardian Ninja, then continued touring the village with Minato and Tsunade. At Ichiraku, his insults provoked Kushina, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru until Uchiha Huoke arrived and recognized Gin as someone he had thought dead.

• Uchiha Gin advised Hatake Sakumo to offer his services as the daimyo’s Guardian Ninja, and Sakumo began writing the proposal.
• Minato took Uchiha Gin and Tsunade to Ichiraku Ramen, where Gin mocked the shop’s menu and called Kushina “Tomato Head.”
• Kushina, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru surrounded Uchiha Gin after he insulted them, and Minato and Tsunade arrived as they prepared to attack.
• Uchiha Huoke blocked the trio’s attacks, then collapsed before Uchiha Gin and cried that he had thought Gin was dead.

Uchiha Huoke recognized Uchiha Gin as the Uchiha relative who had supposedly died decades earlier, and Gin invented a story about surviving with Izanagi and living in hiding. Huoke pressed Gin about his absence during the clan’s tragedies, ending with Gin claiming a black figure had stopped him on the way to the Valley of the End.

• Uchiha Huoke recognized Gin as his old cellmate and ordered Fugaku to pay him respect as Uchiha Madara’s cousin.
• Huoke explained that Gin had supposedly died after taking a punch from Senju Butsuma, and Gin claimed he revived through Izanagi.
• Fugaku questioned Gin’s story, but Gin showed his unusual right Sharingan and claimed the Shadow Seal Technique was restoring its sight.
• Gin blamed Uchiha Tajima for ordering him to disappear and described failed attempts to undermine the Senju from within.
• Huoke challenged Gin over missing Uchiha Madara’s and Uchiha Izuna’s deaths, and Gin claimed a black figure had intercepted him on his way to the Valley of the End.

Uchiha Gin returned to the Uchiha Clan, explained the limits of his immortality-granting Shadow Seal, and drew the Nine-Tails’ attention through his Sharingan aura. As Jiraiya learned Gin had traveled through Rain Country during wartime, he realized Gin might have been someone he had encountered there.

• White Zetsu overheard Gin’s account of Madara and hurried to tell Madara the gossip, while Huoke mistook Gin’s story for grief-stricken rambling and arranged to announce his return to the clan.
• Gin explained that his Shadow Seal preserved vitality but prevented strength from growing, and he described himself as roughly Jonin-level by current standards.
• Kushina tested the Nine-Tails’ reaction to Gin and discovered it hissed when she came close to him; Huoke attributed this to Gin’s Sharingan power resembling Madara’s.
• Huoke told Gin the Uchiha Clan had declined, and Gin reassured him that he had done well; after learning Fugaku was married with a child on the way, Gin lamented that Fugaku was doomed.
• Jiraiya asked Minato about Gin’s travels, then recognized that Gin’s account of visiting Rain Country during wartime matched someone he had encountered there.

Jiraiya recalled teaching Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato, then left Minato with a huge bill. White Zetsu reported that Uchiha Gin claimed to be Uchiha Madara’s cousin, prompting Madara to order further investigation while Black Zetsu merged with White Zetsu to keep it quiet.

• Jiraiya remembered how Konan and Yahiko had been attached to their former teacher, Uchiha Gin, while training them in the Rain Country with Nagato.
• Jiraiya told Minato that Konan and Yahiko had once been Uchiha Gin’s disciples, then left Minato to pay a tavern bill of over one million ryō on installments.
• White Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that Uchiha Gin claimed to be his cousin and had survived using Izanagi, then repeated Gin’s claim that Black Zetsu had tried to send him to meet its mother.
• Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to investigate Uchiha Gin and report every detail, despite Black Zetsu’s attempts to discredit the report.
• Black Zetsu merged with White Zetsu through a new parasitic ability, took control of their combined body, and introduced himself as Zetsu.