Chapter Summaries

Obito and Black Zetsu continued preparing to ignite a war and carry out the Moon Eye Plan while the major villages remained unaware of the danger. In mid-February, Yugito returned to Kumogakure alive but revealed that the Two-Tails had been extracted from her, leaving the Fourth Raikage stunned and furious.

• Obito rejected the idea of relying on negotiations with Konoha and said he would use the village’s internal divisions to help start a war.
• Black Zetsu reported that Nagato intended to proceed according to plan, and the two reaffirmed their scheme to capture the tailed beasts and revive Madara.
• The narrator described how the major villages remained focused on ordinary political and military arrangements, with Iwagakure the most internally stable.
• Yugito returned to Kumogakure and told the Fourth Raikage that the Two-Tails had been extracted from her while she remained alive.
• The Fourth Raikage and Dodai reacted with shock, unable to understand how Yugito had survived the extraction.

After Yugito returned to Kumogakure without the Two-Tails, the Fourth Raikage and Dodai reassessed the danger posed by Menma and the Village of Light. They decided to prepare for a temporary rapprochement with Konoha and Iwagakure, while Yugito rested and would later be assigned to Killer B.

• Yugito reported that Menma had released her, extracted the Two-Tails, and left her body with enhanced cellular activity.
• The Fourth Raikage reacted with alarm to the Two-Tails' loss, and Dodai warned that Menma and the Village of Light had become overwhelming threats.
• Dodai urged the Fourth Raikage to prepare closer ties with Konoha and Iwagakure, and the Raikage agreed to endure the situation for now.
• The Fourth Raikage told Yugito to rest without blaming herself for the Two-Tails, and she left to recover.
• The Fourth Raikage questioned whether Yugito could be trusted, and Dodai advised assigning her to Killer B at Cloud-Thunder Gorge after she recovered.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered stronger guards at Cloud-Thunder Gorge to keep Killer B within the village's control.

After three months of peace, Baki focused on rebuilding Sunagakure and preparing Gaara to become the next Kazekage, with Chiyo’s support. As they looked toward Gaara’s future, Menma finished preparing to take the first major step toward his ambitions.

• Baki trained Gaara through carefully chosen missions, helping him build experience and standing among Sunagakure’s young ninja.
• After Gaara completed a mission, Baki praised him and dismissed him and his team to rest while they awaited the Daimyo’s orders.
• Chiyo asked whether Baki had truly decided to make Gaara the next Kazekage, and Baki affirmed that Gaara was the village’s only suitable candidate.
• Chiyo agreed that Gaara could become Kazekage but warned Baki that the succession would involve many complications.
• Baki declared that Gaara would lead Sunagakure out of its decline, while Menma prepared to begin the most important first step toward his ambitions.

Menma led Muku and Suigetsu through a hidden space-time passage from the Land of Fire to the moon. After they defeated the giant crabs guarding a lava cave, they emerged to find a lush forest and lake beneath an azure sky.

• Menma brought Muku and Suigetsu to a concealed cave in the Fengzhui Mountains, where he found the passage to the moon.
• The three entered the glowing pool and navigated the dangerous space-time passages, avoiding the strange bubble-like hazards.
• Menma and his companions arrived in a cavern and encountered a swarm of giant crabs.
• Muku and Suigetsu defeated the crabs while Menma continued toward the cave exit.
• The group emerged from the lava cave and saw a lush forest, a vast lake, and an azure sky on the moon.

Menma explored the moon’s artificial landscape with Muku and Suigetsu, sensing the Giant Tenseigan and searching for traces of Hamura’s Chakra in an abandoned village. Toneri awoke and sent an army of puppets after them, while Menma reached an ancient burial site and felt an unexplained stir before entering.

• Menma explained that the moon’s sky and sun were artificial, and sensed the Giant Tenseigan’s immense Chakra inside the sun.
• Menma reassured Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts that he would not disturb the seal, then led Muku and Suigetsu east to investigate matters from a thousand years ago.
• Toneri awoke from his slumber after the moon’s defenses detected the intruders and ordered puppets to kill them.
• Menma directed Suigetsu and Muku to search the abandoned village for a large grave while he sensed for traces of Hamura’s Chakra.
• Suigetsu found the grave at the village’s northeastern high ground, and Menma arrived at an ancient house above a dark passageway, where his heart suddenly skipped.

Menma descended beneath the moon’s surface and met Hamura, whose lingering soul confirmed that he and Hagoromo were dead and could not be revived. Hamura also said he could no longer affect the living world, leaving Menma with his doubts largely resolved.

• Menma sensed a powerful presence below and ordered Muku and Suigetsu to capture some of the approaching attackers alive.
• Menma descended through the spiral passage and called for the presence that had invited him.
• Hundreds of glowing graves revealed Hamura and the spirits of his descendants, and Menma recognized Hamura’s Tenseigan.
• Nine-Tails asked whether the Ten-Tails’ shell had been summoned away and whether Hamura and Hagoromo were still alive; Hamura confirmed the shell’s disappearance and said they had died a thousand years ago.
• Menma questioned whether the Rinnegan or Tenseigan could revive them, and Hamura explained that neither brother could be revived and that he could no longer interfere with the living world.

Menma told Otsutsuki Hamura that he had come to seek Hamura’s bloodline power and learned how the moon’s descendants created the Giant Tenseigan through a civil war. Hamura agreed to help Menma stop Otsutsuki Toneri and passed his remaining Chakra to him, leaving Menma better able to resist and control the Giant Tenseigan.

• Menma explained that he had come through Hamura’s Space-Time Channel to seek powerful bloodline descendants and claimed he wanted to prevent a threat to the Shinobi World.
• Hamura described the war between his moon-dwelling main and Branch Families, whose deaths and powerful resolve had led to the creation of the Giant Tenseigan.
• Menma asked about Hamura’s eyes, and Hamura confirmed that they were Tenseigan comparable in strength to Hagoromo’s Rinnegan.
• Hamura asked Menma to stop the surviving descendant, who planned to use the Giant Tenseigan to destroy the planet, and requested that Menma spare him if possible.
• Menma agreed to do his utmost, while warning that he could not guarantee the outcome of a fight against the Giant Tenseigan.
• Hamura transferred his remaining Chakra to Menma, explaining that it would protect him from the Tenseigan and help him control it.

Menma left Hamura’s underground chamber and led Suigetsu and Muku toward Toneri’s palace after defeating the first Puppet Force. He broke through the barrier around the Artificial Sun, entered the moon city, and found a much larger Puppet Force waiting for them.

• Hamura entrusted Menma with stopping his descendant and then vanished along with the other remnants of his soul.
• Menma returned to the surface and learned that Muku and Suigetsu had destroyed the Puppet Force, preserving three puppets and their flying mounts.
• Muku showed Menma a crystal power source whose Chakra resembled Hamura’s, and Menma ordered the surviving puppets sealed for study.
• After seeing his forces wiped out, Toneri decided to use the Giant Tenseigan and headed to the palace where it was kept.
• Menma smashed the Artificial Sun’s barrier with the Great Spiraling Ring Technique and entered the moon city with Suigetsu and Muku.
• Alarms sounded as a Puppet Force more than twice the size of the previous one surrounded the three intruders.

Menma confronted Toneri at the Moon palace, where Toneri had awakened the Giant Tenseigan and entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Their battle escalated as Toneri countered Menma’s attacks, destroyed his marked kunai, and summoned a Giant Stone Statue.

• Menma left Muku and Suigetsu to fight the puppets and rushed to the palace, where the Giant Tenseigan appeared behind Toneri.
• Menma and Toneri exchanged threats, and Toneri attacked with Tenseigan-powered Laser Beams as Menma activated Kurama’s Chakra.
• Menma used marked Kunai, Flying Thunder God, Golden Chains, and Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu, but Toneri blocked and countered his attacks with Truth-Seeking Orbs and Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Toneri sensed Menma’s spatial marks and destroyed his specially made Kunai with Laser Beams.
• Toneri performed the Summoning Technique and brought forth a Giant Stone Statue before Menma.

Menma fought Toneri and the Hamura Statue with the Nine-Tails, while Toneri relied on the Giant Tenseigan to counter his attacks. Toneri split Menma’s strongest assaults with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but the battle continued as Menma pressed forward.

• Menma realized that summoning the Hamura Statue strained Toneri and chose to fight him head-on rather than wait for the Tenseigan to run out.
• Menma and the Nine-Tails attacked the Hamura Statue, but it quickly repaired the damage from the Nine-Tails’ claws.
• Toneri used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to split the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, though the technique visibly injured him.
• Menma bound the Hamura Statue with Golden Chains and damaged its arm and head with two Great Spiraling Ring attacks.
• Toneri used a smaller golden sword to cleave apart the remaining Great Spiraling Ring as it rushed toward him.

Menma defeated Toneri by exploiting his weakened state and binding him with Adamantine Sealing Chains. He then touched the Giant Tenseigan without being rejected and began sensing its Source Power, but absorbing it could expose him to the wills of the Byakugan owners within it.

• Toneri weakened after overusing Tenseigan Chakra, and Menma wounded him with the Sword of the Thunder God.
• Menma used a marked Hamura Statue to get close, bound Toneri with Adamantine Sealing Chains, and stabbed him, leaving him unable to resist.
• Menma approached the Giant Tenseigan and touched it, while Toneri expected it to drain his Chakra.
• The Giant Tenseigan accepted Menma because it sensed Hamura's Chakra within him, leaving Toneri shocked.
• Menma began examining the Tenseigan's Source Power and recognized that absorbing it could expose him to the former Byakugan owners' wills.

Menma took control of the Giant Tenseigan and absorbed its Source Power, resisting the Byakugan owners’ hostile wills as they invaded his mind. After six hours the Tenseigan shattered, and Menma emerged with a powerful new Chakra state and spiritual strength.

• Menma used Hamura’s Chakra to claim the Giant Tenseigan, severing Toneri’s connection to it and convincing Toneri that Menma embodied his ancestor.
• The Tenseigan began pouring its Source Power into Menma, while the wills and memories of its Byakugan owners overwhelmed his mind and caused him to bleed from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.
• Menma intensified his energy extraction and fought to suppress the invading wills, with Suigetsu and Muku standing guard nearby.
• After more than six hours, the Giant Tenseigan cracked and exploded as Menma absorbed its remaining power.
• Menma’s Chakra surged into a new cloak-like state, and he opened his radiant eyes and laughed in triumph.

Menma absorbed the Tenseigan’s Yin Extreme power, reached a new level, and formed a Truth-Seeking Orb. He revealed Hamura’s message to Toneri and persuaded him that his mission had betrayed Hamura’s wishes, leaving Toneri devastated and asking to be killed.

• Menma absorbed the Tenseigan’s Yin Extreme power, fused it with his Yang Release, and briefly formed a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Suigetsu and Muku congratulated Menma, while Toneri demanded to know his connection to Hamura.
• Menma told Toneri that Hamura’s remnant soul had gifted him Chakra and asked him to stop the Tenseigan’s energy.
• Menma accused Toneri of violating Hamura’s wishes by slaughtering his Clan Members, and Toneri began to doubt his mission.
• Menma reminded Toneri that he had misinterpreted Hamura’s will, and Toneri asked Menma to kill him.

Menma persuaded Toneri to abandon his wish to die and take responsibility for his clan’s crimes by helping find the person who summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. After Toneri agreed to trust him, Menma healed him, restored the moon’s seals and barriers, and left the Artificial Sun with Toneri and Suigetsu.

• Menma told Toneri that dying would be an irresponsible escape and that he should live to atone by finding the person who summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and helping seal it again.
• Toneri accepted Menma’s reasoning, pledged to follow his instructions, and agreed to return to the moon after they dealt with the Great Sinner.
• Menma removed Toneri’s sealing restrictions and healed his injuries with Medical Jutsu.
• Menma promised to supply Chakra for the moon’s seals and barriers, and Toneri warned that some depended on the Tenseigan’s Chakra.
• Menma used his knowledge and Chakra to reactivate the Artificial Sun’s mechanisms, seals, and barriers, then sealed the palaces.
• Menma, Toneri, and Suigetsu left the special space inside the Artificial Sun aboard Satori, whom Muku had transformed into.

Obito manipulated Kirigakure into preparing for war and planned to attack Menma’s forces within a month, while concealing his intentions from Nagato and Black Zetsu. Kirigakure’s mobilization alarmed the other villages, whose leaders ordered investigations and defenses as the Shinobi World edged toward another war.

• Obito ordered White Zetsu posing as Kirigakure officials to put the village on full war alert and send revenge messages to Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure.
• Obito told Black Zetsu that Kirigakure would attack Menma’s forces within a month and that Nagato should be given enough information to remain steady.
• Kirigakure’s war preparations spread under Genji’s name, alarming civilians and shocking the other ninja villages.
• Tsunade, Ōnoki, and Fourth Raikage A suspected a conspiracy and ordered investigations and heightened defenses.
• Tsunade sent envoys to the Village of Light to gauge Menma’s intentions, while Ōnoki welcomed the prospect of war.

Kirigakure's advance troops reached the Land of Fire's border, confirming that Genji intended to wage war against the Village of Light. Tsunade convened Konoha's leaders to decide whether to let the Mist Ninja pass, and the meeting turned to the terms of Kirigakure's request.

• Ōnoki moved to secure Iwagakure's interests in the coming conflict, while Baki kept Sunagakure focused on recovery.
• Obito sent Kirigakure's advance troops through the former Land of Whirlpools toward the Land of Fire, intending to use the army to weaken future enemies.
• Konoha learned that more than a thousand Mist Ninja had reached its border, and Tsunade called a high-level meeting with Jiraiya, Shikaku, Inoichi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu.
• Mitokado Homura suggested that Genji might have been taken hostage, but Tsunade said her envoys had met Genji and confirmed that the orders were his.
• Mitokado Homura argued that Genji might be seeking to reclaim the Six-Tails, while Tsunade redirected the meeting to Konoha's interests and the passage request.
• Utatane Koharu asked what Genji's request contained, and Tsunade told Shizune to distribute the scroll.

Tsunade and Konoha’s leaders debated whether to let Kirigakure cross the Land of Fire and how to respond to its demands. Shikaku urged them to contact the Village of Light, but Mitokado Homura rejected reconciliation with Uzumaki Menma, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Tsunade and the Konoha leaders reviewed Kirigakure’s forceful request and debated whether allowing its troops passage would endanger the village and anger the daimyo.
• Jiraiya opposed granting passage, while Mitokado Homura argued that Konoha should avoid direct involvement in the war.
• Shikaku reasoned that Kirigakure was unlikely to attack Konoha unless Konoha itself was its target, and urged Tsunade to contact the Village of Light.
• Mitokado Homura vehemently opposed renewed contact with Uzumaki Menma, arguing that Menma’s connection to the Nine-Tails made peaceful coexistence impossible.

Tsunade rejected Mitokado Homura’s attempt to restore Danzo to power and ordered Konoha to reinforce its borders while continuing its plan toward the Village of Light. After learning that Kirigakure had mobilized for war, Menma suspected Obito was manipulating the village again.

• Tsunade refused to let Danzo resume command of Root and asserted her authority over Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha to strengthen its border defenses and send personnel to the Village of Light.
• Kumogakure and Iwagakure reinforced their forces near the Land of Fire, and Ōnoki sent Kitsuchi with more than three thousand Stone Ninja.
• Karin told Menma that Kirigakure’s vanguard had reached the former Land of Whirlpools and could enter the Land of Fire at any time.
• Menma questioned Kirigakure’s sudden war preparations and suspected Obito was controlling its leadership again.

Menma discovered Obito’s interference in Kirigakure and mobilized the Village of Light for war, treating the conflict as a chance to strengthen his forces. A Konoha envoy then asked what help Menma wanted, but Menma remained unmoved by Konoha’s warnings.

• Menma concluded that Obito had replaced Genji with White Zetsu to control Kirigakure and ordered Karin to summon the Village of Light’s leaders.
• Menma issued deployment orders, placed the Air Combat Unit on first-level readiness, prepared new weapons for field tests, and told Karin to warn Mui about the West District.
• Menma declared that the Village of Light would fight if Kirigakure attacked, and both villages’ military preparations put the Shinobi World on alert.
• A Konoha envoy named Suzaku asked Menma about his plans and what assistance he needed, but Menma showed no concern about the looming conflict.

Menma discussed Konoha’s position and the threat from other great nations with Suzaku, then explained to Toneri that world unity could improve peace without guaranteeing it forever. He urged patience while the Village of Light prepared to confront the organization behind Kirigakure’s attack, and the chapter revealed Orochimaru had been taking Hyuga eyes and captives.

• Suzaku reflected on how Tsunade and Jiraiya treated the clans better than Sarutobi Hiruzen had, while Menma assured him the Village of Light would meet any challenge.
• Menma warned Suzaku that Konoha and the Land of Fire remained targets for the other great nations, and Suzaku agreed to relay the warning to Tsunade.
• Toneri questioned whether Menma’s plans could bring lasting peace, and Menma argued that unifying the world could create a better future even if conflict never disappeared entirely.
• Toneri asked how Menma would respond to the organization behind Kirigakure’s attack, and Menma said the Village of Light should observe and finish preparing before acting.
• Menma revealed he had transplanted Hyuga Byakugan into Toneri, while Orochimaru had secretly seized dozens of Byakugan and Hyuga clan members.