Chapter Summaries

After being cast out of the Sarutobi Clan, Naruto discovered a Devil Fruit and ate it, then faced the villagers' hatred in the streets. His new power began to awaken as villagers stoned him, but he kept it hidden.

• A Sarutobi Clan ninja sent Naruto to live alone with only one thousand ryo and warned him not to return to the clan.
• Naruto realized he had transmigrated into Uzumaki Naruto and found a Devil Fruit on his bed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Shimura Danzō to call off Root surveillance of Naruto, then the elders raised the Uchiha Clan's latest actions.
• Naruto ate the Devil Fruit and went outside to dispose of its remains, where villagers recognized and surrounded him.
• Villagers cursed Naruto, threw a rotten egg and stones at him, and he sensed an unfamiliar power awaken before suppressing it.
• A villager who had briefly questioned the attack joined in and threw a stone at Naruto.

Naruto endured the villagers’ hatred, discovered that his Woods-Woods Fruit could absorb nutrients from ramen, and planned to use it to grow stronger. After setting out to fish for food, he met Kotentent, who offered to lend him fishing tools in exchange for a share of his catch.

• An Anbu Ninja stopped the villagers from attacking Naruto and took him to Konoha Hospital, where he received treatment only after the Third Hokage was invoked.
• Naruto left the hospital healed but faced the villagers’ hostile stares, and he resolved to develop his abilities in secret while under Anbu surveillance.
• At Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto confirmed that the Woods-Woods Fruit could absorb nutrients from ramen and considered using it on Uchiha Shisui’s corpse in the future.
• Naruto decided to fish for food and went looking for fishhooks, but the shops would not sell him anything suitable.
• Kotentent told Naruto her family’s ninja tool shop had no fishhooks, then offered to lend him her fishing tools in return for one-third of his catch.

Naruto tried to gather supplies and find a quiet fishing spot, but the villagers’ hostility led the Mask Shop Owner to assault him and provoke him into wrecking the shop. An Anbu Ninja intervened and took the owner to see Lord Hokage, while an unseen girl watched Naruto leave and felt sympathy for him.

• Naruto persuaded Kotentent to provide seasonings and vegetable seeds on credit, and he planted the seeds on his balcony the next morning.
• Naruto ate nearly tasteless instant noodles, then went out to find a fishing spot near the former Uchiha Clan Compound.
• The Mask Shop Owner deliberately collided with Naruto, struck him, and accused him of breaking a mask.
• Naruto crushed the mask, stormed into the shop, and stomped through the wooden rack of masks before the owner shoved him down.
• An Anbu Ninja blocked the owner's kick and dragged him away to face Lord Hokage for violating the ban.
• A girl watched the incident, blamed the owner, and pitied Naruto as he left with his fishing gear.

Sarutobi Hiruzen arranged compensation after Naruto damaged a mask shop, then met Naruto by the river and tried to win his trust. Naruto hid his Woods-Woods Fruit ability while fishing and foraging, and the chapter ended with Hiruzen beginning to teach him the Will of Fire.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen apologized to the Mask Shop Owner and promised the village would cover Naruto's future damages, then told an Anbu Ninja to resume watching Naruto.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that Naruto be handed over to Root, but Sarutobi Hiruzen refused to let him interfere.
• Naruto gathered wild vegetables and snails by the river while secretly using the Woods-Woods Fruit to absorb nutrients from nearby trees.
• Naruto caught fish, cooked dinner, and pretended to be startled when Sarutobi Hiruzen approached him.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen shared Naruto's meal and spoke with him about the stars, Konoha's heroes, and the Will of Fire, boasting that he was the strongest of the four Hokage.

Naruto reflected on Konoha’s Will of Fire and the Hyuga clan’s sacrifices while secretly training and planning for the future. During a snowy walk, he found a crying young Hinata and led her back to the Hyuga compound.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke to Naruto about the Will of Fire, while Naruto privately dismissed it as a doctrine of sacrifice and control.
• Naruto caught a bucket of fish for Tenten, who rewarded him with a small cake.
• Naruto continued training through the winter and considered the Hyuga clan’s Caged Bird seal, Hizashi’s death, and plans to obtain useful abilities and information.
• Naruto went for a walk on the night of Hizashi Hyuga’s funeral and found young Hinata crying because she was lost.
• Naruto guided Hinata to the Hyuga compound, told her not to wander alone in the cold, and left as she watched him go.

Naruto received the Chakra Refining Technique from Sarutobi Hiruzen and secretly mastered it while hiding his progress from the Hokage and the Anbu. After discovering that Chakra made his Woods-Woods Fruit abilities easier to use, he tried to practice control but realized Kurama was disrupting his Chakra.

• Hinata endured criticism from her family over acting on her own, while Naruto dealt with a rice delivery and the villagers' hostile looks.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen visited Naruto with warm clothes and a scroll containing the Chakra Refining Technique, claiming Naruto had passed an assessment to become a ninja.
• With Sarutobi Hiruzen's guidance, Naruto performed his first Chakra refinement, then pretended to struggle so the Hokage would believe he still needed instruction.
• After Sarutobi Hiruzen left, Naruto studied the Anbu's surveillance habits, refined Chakra again, and found that it helped him use the Woods-Woods Fruit more easily.
• Naruto attempted to practice Chakra control but found his Chakra chaotic and realized Kurama was still living inside him.

Naruto began speaking with Kurama about its origins, the Ten-Tails, and Hashirama’s plans for the Tailed Beasts, then focused on training his chakra control and building his strength. After mastering water walking and wall climbing and reaching the first stage of Super Strength, he received the Three Basic Jutsu from the Third Hokage.

• Naruto revealed his knowledge of Kurama and the Tailed Beasts, unsettling Kurama while teasing it about its power and its inability to interfere with his training.
• Naruto explained Hashirama’s reasoning for distributing the Tailed Beasts and hinted at his deeper goals, then stopped before finishing the story to demand that Kurama let him inspect the seal.
• Naruto trained water walking and wall climbing in secret, absorbed nutrients near his fishing spot, and refined chakra continuously while avoiding the ANBU’s notice.
• Naruto mastered water walking and wall climbing, increased his chakra beyond Kakashi’s remaining reserves, and completed his fine chakra-control training.
• Naruto shattered a cup by squeezing it while drinking and recognized that he had begun developing Super Strength.
• The Third Hokage delivered the Three Basic Jutsu, judged Naruto’s chakra control to be poor after guiding him, and left satisfied.

Naruto created a Wood Clone to fool the Anbu monitoring him, then waited by the Naka River for Uchiha Shisui’s body. He retrieved Shisui and hurried away, finally obtaining the Body Flicker Technique he had sought for two and a half years.

• Naruto used a Wood Clone to pose as himself at home while his real body slipped past the Anbu and went to the forest near the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Naruto hid by the river, cultivated Chakra Nature Transformation, and discovered that his Woods-Woods Fruit could receive information from plants.
• After half a month, Uchiha Shisui’s body floated to the surface of the Naka River.
• Naruto secured Shisui’s body beneath the water with tree roots, checked that no one was watching, and carried him away.

Naruto absorbed Uchiha Shisui’s corpse, gaining a surge of strength, memories, and a one-tomoe Sharingan. He began adapting Shisui’s clone-and-Body Flicker fighting style and planned to master the technique.

• Naruto absorbed Shisui’s corpse with the Woods-Woods Fruit and disposed of the bloodied clothes to conceal the evidence.
• Naruto returned home without being detected and trained Chakra Nature Transformation while Shisui’s nutrients enhanced his strength, eyesight, and skills.
• After three days, Naruto finished absorbing the nutrients and awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan.
• Naruto gained memories of ninja tools and techniques, including the Body Flicker Technique and Fire Style Chakra Nature Transformation.
• Naruto used the Clone Technique and Sharingan to begin recreating Shisui’s phantom-clone Body Flicker fighting style.

Naruto received his Ninja Academy enrollment invitation and attended registration, where villagers shunned him and the Uchiha arrived. Kotentent took Naruto away from the crowd to buy him clothes, while Ino watched them go.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen gave Naruto an enrollment invitation and a bag of wooden ninja tools, which Naruto discarded before cleaning his room and continuing his secret Chakra training.
• An Anbu Ninja escorted Naruto to the Ninja Academy, where adults and children expressed fear and hostility toward him, while Ino defended him and said she already knew him.
• The heads of the major Ninja Clans noticed Naruto's resemblance to the Fourth Hokage, and Uchiha Sasuke and Filial Son arrived at the academy.
• Filial Son recognized Naruto as the Jinchuriki and sensed a strange closeness to him, though he still considered Naruto's presence at the academy dangerous.
• Kotentent took Naruto by the hand, scolded the staring parents, and led him away to buy clothes, cutting off his chance to speak with Ino.

Naruto began his first day at the Ninja Academy, where he made friends with classmates but faced prejudice over his reputation. After Ino and Hinata defended him, the class began its first lesson on chakra extraction.

• Naruto went to school with Tenten, met Rock Lee and Neji, and learned Lee planned to challenge Neji again during the taijutsu test.
• Naruto joined Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Hinata in the classroom, where Ino and Hinata welcomed him.
• During introductions, Naruto declared his dream of becoming Hokage, prompting classmates to call him an ominous monster.
• Ino shouted at the students for insulting Naruto, and Hinata said she hated people speaking badly about others behind their backs.
• Iruka began teaching the class about becoming a ninja and asked the students to practice the Chakra Extraction Technique.

Naruto invited Ino, Hinata, and Tenten to eat at his impoverished home, where his friends learned how badly he had been treated and arranged to bring food so he could cook for them. The group planned to gather at Naruto’s home, while Naruto secretly trained in class and wondered whether Hinata’s future might change.

• Naruto left the classroom to eat at home, and Ino and Hinata followed after seeing Tenten lead him outside.
• Naruto noticed the disguised Anbu watching him, then welcomed Tenten into his nearly empty home and cooked for her.
• Ino and Hinata came inside, saw Naruto’s poverty, and learned from their meal that he was an excellent cook.
• Ino proposed that the group bring ingredients and eat at Naruto’s home, and Naruto agreed after Tenten and Hinata joined her request.
• Hinata passed out from embarrassment when Naruto served her meat and her stomach growled, while Ino and Tenten renewed their rivalry.
• Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, and Tenten discussed bringing food and flowers to Naruto’s home, while Naruto pretended to sleep and secretly trained.

Naruto discovered that meditation improved Mental Power, Chakra quality, and his senses, so he encouraged his classmates to make it part of their training. After school, he used his improved Mental Power to reach Kurama and asked when the fox would start paying rent.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata meditated during class, and Naruto noticed that the practice warmed his eyes and could benefit his Sharingan.
• Naruto encouraged Ino to pursue Medical Ninjutsu and told her and Hinata about Tsunade’s secret technique, leaving both girls eager to learn it.
• Naruto invited Neji to join the group for lunch, and Hinata’s appetite and kindness left Neji reconsidering his assumptions about her.
• Naruto led his classmates in an afternoon of meditation, and Rock Lee briefly sensed and controlled a small amount of Chakra before the teacher sent him outside for disrupting class.
• After school, Naruto used his improved Mental Power to reach Kurama and asked when he would pay rent.

Naruto entered Kurama’s sealing space and proposed a plan to give the fox a human body through special Wood Clones, while explaining the origins of the Sage of Six Paths and the reincarnations of Asura and Indra. After Kurama’s Chakra stopped resisting him, Naruto planned to use a Wood Clone to attend school while he trained and prepared his escape.

• Naruto confronted Kurama and claimed he could create a human body for it using specially made Wood Clones.
• Naruto revealed his knowledge of Kaguya Otsutsuki, the Ten-Tails, and the reincarnations of Asura and Indra, identifying himself as this generation’s Indra.
• Kurama doubted Naruto’s account but privately considered that his plan might free it from control by the Sharingan.
• Naruto returned to his body, noticed his Chakra had become more active and increased, then went to sleep to recover his Mental Power.
• At school, Naruto decided to use a Wood Clone to attend classes and return at lunchtime to replenish it, while secretly training and preparing to escape.

Naruto arranged for his friends to cover for him while he trained in secret, then showed Shikamaru his Wood Clone and revealed he had a trump card. He spent three months developing his Rasengan and fighting style before deciding to return to school in person to avoid exposing his Wood Clone.

• Iruka questioned Naruto about the Will of Fire and urged him to become an outstanding ninja, while Mizuki reassured Iruka about his treatment of Naruto.
• Naruto asked his friends to help him use a Shadow Clone to fake attending school, and they agreed to take turns covering for him.
• Naruto privately showed Shikamaru his Wood Clone, and Shikamaru promised to protect Ino-Shika-Cho if events became uncontrollable.
• Naruto used the Body Flicker Technique to reach a secluded waterfall and began training the Rasengan with Shadow Clones while planning future training.
• After three months of practice, Naruto recalled his Body Flicker Naruto and decided to attend school himself before beginning Rasenshuriken training.

Naruto passed his class’s Transformation Technique check, then spent the start of summer vacation reflecting on the coming Uchiha Clan massacre and the people behind it. He left the story at Tenten’s home, where he was welcomed for dinner and asked to teach her mother how to cook sweet and sour pork.

• Naruto transformed into Iruka flawlessly during the class demonstration, while most of the other students struggled, and Iruka announced the holiday.
• Ino, Hinata, Shikamaru, and the other students said goodbye to Naruto; he noticed Inoichi watching him resentfully and sensed someone observing him from the shadows.
• Naruto suspected that Sasuke’s age meant the Uchiha Clan massacre was approaching, and he considered how Konoha’s clans had tacitly accepted it and how Itachi and Obito might act.
• Naruto heard villagers inciting hatred toward the Uchiha and reasoned that Itachi had planned to hedge his bets by leaving Sasuke in Konoha while joining Akatsuki.
• Naruto went home with Tenten, felt welcomed by her parents, and was called into the kitchen to teach her mother how to make sweet and sour pork.

Naruto created White Zetsu Clones and used them to develop two forms of Sage Mode, gaining powerful healing and sensory abilities. He captured a White Zetsu spying on his training and prepared to absorb it.

• Naruto created a White Zetsu Clone from absorbed tree nutrients and used it to experiment with natural energy.
• Naruto guided the clone to fuse natural energy with physical and spiritual energy, successfully awakening Natural Sage Mode without petrification.
• The clone transferred its senjutsu Chakra and memories to Naruto, who healed a damaged tree and discovered his Sharingan had evolved to two tomoe in both eyes.
• Naruto created another clone, which developed a second form called Mori Mori Sage Mode by combining nutrients with natural energy.
• Naruto began preparing a clone to train Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, while a White Zetsu spy watched from a nearby tree.
• Naruto's man-eating flower captured the White Zetsu spy, and Naruto welcomed the chance to gain its Mayfly Technique and Disguise Technique.

As the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall approached, Naruto kept his abilities concealed until Sasuke challenged him during taijutsu practice. When the attack began, Naruto learned that Root had mobilized against the Uchiha Clan and sent a clone to the compound while his original body headed there using the Mayfly Technique.

• Naruto passed the academy’s written subjects and earned the top overall score, then kept his shuriken performance modest during practice.
• During taijutsu sparring, Sasuke challenged Naruto, declaring that an Uchiha would reclaim the top student title.
• Naruto used a clone and Shisui’s fighting style to evade Sasuke and kick him, humiliating him in front of the class.
• Sasuke tried to use the Great Fireball Technique, but Iruka stopped him and ordered the boys to reconcile.
• Naruto learned that Root had mobilized against the Uchiha Clan, substituted a Wood Clone at school, and headed to the compound to watch the coming attack.

Uchiha Itachi and Obito began the Uchiha massacre while Naruto’s clones harvested the clan’s belongings and bodies. Naruto found Uchiha Izumi’s corpse and learned he might be able to save her, while Itachi reached his parents’ residence.

• Itachi met Obito at Naka Shrine and agreed to kill the Uchiha Clan, insisting that Sasuke remain unharmed.
• Naruto confirmed that Root had surrounded the compound, disguised himself and his clones, and sent them to harvest the clan’s resources while leaving noncombatant civilians and children alone.
• Itachi slaughtered Uchiha households as Obito attacked the Guard Team, and Itachi killed Uchiha Izumi with his Ninja Sword.
• Naruto’s clones gathered Sharingan and valuables, absorbed nutrients from the dead, and transported the Uchiha Clan’s accumulated wealth to a temporary store behind a waterfall.
• Naruto found Izumi’s corpse, and his Mori Mori Sage Mode clone said it could revive her by expending all its energy.
• Itachi entered Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto’s darkened residence as Fugaku accepted that resisting would only doom the family.

Uchiha Itachi killed Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and forced Uchiha Sasuke to witness the massacre through Tsukuyomi. Naruto secretly removed the corpses, scrolls, and Sharingan before Root and Obito’s forces could claim them, then prepared to use the clan’s riches and Fugaku’s body for his own plans.

• Uchiha Itachi killed Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto, and his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Sasuke arrived, and Uchiha Itachi made him relive the massacre twice through Tsukuyomi until he awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan and fainted.
• Naruto took Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto’s bodies, sent clones to collect the clan’s scrolls and money, and hid the remaining corpses and Sharingan from Root and White Zetsu.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen stripped Danzo of his Hokage Assistant position, and Danzo raged when Root reported that the Uchiha bodies and eyes were missing.
• Obito learned the corpses were gone, while Naruto celebrated the Uchiha Clan’s wealth and planned to use Fugaku’s nutrients; Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi lay alive but unconscious nearby.