Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Menma secured Mount Myōboku’s submission and revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, a surviving member of the Main Family, was the next threat. As Menma asked Hagoromo to help find Isshiki, Hagoromo agreed to assist Naruto and Sasuke in another way.

• Menma demanded that Mount Myōboku sign a contract to obey the Village of Light’s orders, and Gamamaru accepted on its behalf.
• Gamamaru signed Menma’s contract and handed over Mount Myōboku’s summoning scroll.
• Menma revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had survived Kaguya’s attack and explained what he knew about the Otsutsuki and the God Tree.
• Menma asked Hagoromo to monitor the Shinobi World and help locate Isshiki before he recovered completely.
• Hagoromo agreed to search for Isshiki and offered additional help, but said he could give it only to Naruto and Sasuke.

Hagoromo granted Naruto and Sasuke Yin-Yang Power to awaken the Chakra of Asura and Indra within them. Sasuke awakened a Comma-Shaped Rinnegan and Naruto manifested Truth-Seeking Orbs, while Menma watched them reach a new level of power.

• Hagoromo explained that he could use his Chakra to awaken Asura's and Indra's Chakra in Naruto and Sasuke, and Menma agreed to let them receive the power.
• Naruto and Sasuke placed their hands against Hagoromo's, and the power he bestowed caused their Chakra to surge.
• Sasuke awakened a Comma-Shaped Rinnegan and laughed until Menma told him to rein it in.
• Naruto manifested two Truth-Seeking Orbs, startling Toneri and confirming that both brothers had reached a Six Paths-level power.

Hagoromo granted Sasuke and Naruto powers that strengthened the alliance against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then reunited with the Tailed Beasts. He refused their pleas to be resurrected and departed, leaving Menma responsible for giving them a better future.

• Sasuke and Naruto quickly adapted to their new Rinnegan and Truth-Seeking Orbs, while Menma planned to search for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with Hagoromo’s help.
• Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts appeared before Hagoromo and greeted him after a thousand years apart.
• The Tailed Beasts asked Hagoromo if he could be resurrected, but he told them he had died naturally and could not return.
• Hagoromo told the Tailed Beasts to follow their own hearts and said Menma would give them a different future.
• Menma vowed to treat every living creature equally, and Hagoromo departed, leaving the Tailed Beasts saddened.

Menma decided that he would resurrect his parents with the Rinne Rebirth Technique only after making adequate preparations, and warned Sasuke and Naruto that using it now could cost them their lives. He then secured the Three Great Sage Regions' cooperation as the major ninja villages' integration into the Village of Light advanced.

• After Hagoromo refused to resurrect Minato and Kushina, Menma decided he would rely on Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan and wait until he could safely perform the Rinne Rebirth Technique.
• Sasuke asked Menma whether the Rinnegan could resurrect people who had been dead for years, and Menma explained that the technique could consume the user's life force.
• Naruto asked whether their parents could be revived, and Menma said they could but that he, Naruto, and Sasuke needed to become stronger and prepare first.
• Menma, Toneri, Sasuke, and Naruto left Mount Myōboku and traveled to Ryūchi Cave and Shikkotsu Forest, where the White Snake Sage and Slug Sage agreed to cooperate with the Village of Light.
• While Menma visited the three sage regions, more than ninety percent of the former ninja from the major villages joined the Light Ninja as their integration into the Village of Light began.

After unifying the shinobi world, Menma welcomed the Land of Iron’s submission and learned that the Land of Demons had also submitted under its miko, Shion. He planned to investigate the sealed demon Mōryō and prepare to unify the nations, but the Five Great Nations’ daimyos had not yet confirmed they would attend his meeting.

• Mifune suppressed opposition in the Land of Iron, then brought a delegation to submit to the Village of Light.
• Menma assured Mifune that the Land of Iron’s samurai would retain their way of life while joining the village’s battle order and following its rules.
• Karin told Menma that the Land of Demons’ miko had requested his personal visit over a threat to her country and the world.
• Menma explained that he wanted to investigate Mōryō and the miko’s unusual power, and agreed to take Karin with him.
• Menma asked whether notices had been sent to the nations’ daimyos, and Karin reported that only the daimyos of smaller nations had confirmed attendance so far.

Menma prepared to unite the ninja villages and nations under one government, while monitoring nobles who might resist and sorting political figures by their conduct. The Daimyos of the Five Great Nations arrived together at the Village of Light, where Menma welcomed them before the negotiations began.

• Menma told Karin to keep watching the nobles' schemes without intervening, and Karin agreed.
• Menma outlined a plan to merge all nations and ninja villages, preserve some cooperative political figures, and remove or demote nobles according to their actions.
• Daimyos from smaller nations arrived early at the Village of Light, while the Daimyos of the Five Great Nations agreed to attend together.
• Menma and Karin went to the village gate to receive the five Great Nation Daimyos as their carriages arrived.
• Menma greeted the Daimyos and invited them to a welcoming banquet.

Menma presented the Five Great Nations’ daimyo with his plan for a unified federal nation, offering them temporary roles and limited concessions while insisting that noble power and wealth be sharply reduced and never inherited. The daimyo began negotiating over the proposed reforms, accepting unification in principle but pushing to delay personnel changes.

• After the reception banquet, Menma met with the five daimyo and had Karin distribute documents outlining the new national system.
• The five daimyo spent over an hour reviewing the plan, which required nobles to surrender at least two-thirds of their interests and prevented political power from passing to their descendants.
• The Land of Fire Daimyo asked whether Menma’s terms were final, and Menma said the core principles could not change but other matters could be negotiated.
• The Land of Earth Daimyo proposed discussing personnel changes further, and the Land of Wind Daimyo suggested establishing the unified nation first and postponing those adjustments.
• The Land of Wind Daimyo said the five daimyo accepted the other clauses and would follow Menma’s wishes, while none objected to creating a unified nation.

Menma secured the Five Great Nations’ agreement to form a federation, and the wider conference unanimously approved the new political structure. With the nation established, Menma turned his attention to preparing for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and finding ways to strengthen himself, including investigating Mōryō’s energy.

• Menma pressured the five daimyo into accepting his terms while leaving room to negotiate benefits for influential noble families.
• After the daimyo departed, Menma assigned Karin the organizational work and asked Shikaku and Dodai to assist her.
• The full conference unanimously approved a federation with a Parliament, a Cabinet, and rules governing any member state’s withdrawal.
• Menma identified defeating Ōtsutsuki Isshiki as his priority and planned to give Naruto and Sasuke time to master their new powers.
• Menma decided to seek strength by devouring energy from enemies or special beings, and considered Mōryō a potential target.

Menma traveled to the Land of Demons to meet Shion and deal with Mōryō, whose soul the Miko’s power could seal but not destroy. After Shion questioned whether he could defeat Mōryō, Menma revealed an aura that shocked her.

• Menma left the shinobi village with Muku and several Shadow Guards and reached the Land of Demons in less than three days.
• Taruho welcomed Menma on Shion’s orders and led him to her palace, where Muku and the Shadow Guards stayed outside.
• Menma met Shion and discussed her limited foresight, which could not clearly perceive his future.
• Shion confirmed that Menma had come for Mōryō and agreed that the Miko’s power could seal him but might not destroy him.
• Menma asked Shion to take him to Mōryō’s altar, then unleashed his aura and left her astonished by his power.

Menma and Shion entered the underground palace to release Mōryō’s sealed soul, with Menma intending to claim its power. Shion opened the altar’s seal, and Mōryō’s soul emerged, believing the Miko had come to join him.

• Menma sensed the special energy and undead Ghost Army sealed beneath the palace, then ordered Muku and the Shadow Guards to remain outside.
• Menma and Shion descended to the palace entrance, where Shion used her Miko power to open the gate.
• Menma illuminated their way through the passage and led Shion past Mōryō’s stone-statue army to the sealed altar.
• Menma told Shion to undo the seal, assured her he could suppress Mōryō, and Shion agreed to open the stone gate.
• Mōryō’s soul burst from the altar in a chilling surge of energy and laughed, asking whether the Miko had come to help him conquer the world.

Menma effortlessly seized Mōryō’s soul from the sealed dimension and confirmed he could extract and absorb its power. Shion saw her mother’s long-standing nightmare end and finally felt relieved.

• Shion refused Mōryō’s offer to join forces and declared that she had come to deal with him.
• Menma unleashed his power, reached into Mōryō’s sealed dimension, and bound and dragged out his soul.
• Menma cut off a piece of Mōryō’s soul and discovered that he could potentially absorb its pure power.
• Menma drew Mōryō’s soul into his body, leaving Shion astonished that the threat had been dealt with so easily.
• Shion thanked Menma and felt relieved that the nightmare of Mōryō’s escape was finally over.

Menma traveled to the Land of Swamps, broke the seal on Mōryō’s body, and stored it inside himself for later study. He then set out for the former Country of Roran to claim the Dragon Vein, which he believed could greatly increase his power.

• Menma told Shion to remain in the Land of Demons while he traveled to the Land of Swamps without her.
• Menma broke through Miroku’s seals and sealed Mōryō’s enormous body inside himself, prompting Kurama and Shukaku to complain about the new tenant.
• Menma told Kurama that he planned to wait until Naruto and Sasuke had adapted to their powers before searching for and attacking Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Menma revealed that the Dragon Vein in the former Country of Roran was his main target and hurried south with Muku and the Shadow Guards.
• Menma and his group reached the region closest to the Ancient Kingdom of Roran after two days crossing the Land of Wind.

Menma traveled to the ruins of Rōran to claim the Dragon Vein, carefully releasing the seal Namikaze Minato had placed. The Dragon Vein engulfed Menma and his companions, and Menma awoke in an unfamiliar period.

• Menma explained Rōran’s history and brought Muku and his Shadow Guards to the abandoned ruins.
• Menma found Namikaze Minato’s intact seal and decided against damaging it to provoke the Dragon Vein.
• Menma used the Four Scales Turning Technique to release the seal and pull out Minato’s specially made Kunai.
• The Dragon Vein erupted in a purple tide, engulfing Menma and then Muku and the Shadow Guards.
• A pillar of purple light rose into the sky, and Menma lost consciousness before waking in a different period.

Uzumaki Menma appeared in the space-time where Sasuke Uchiha had summoned the previous Hokage and revealed that he was a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from another reality. The Hokage accepted that he was Namikaze Minato and Kushina’s son, while Menma’s account of his family left them unsettled.

• Menma appeared before Sasuke, Orochimaru, Suigetsu, Jugo, and the four reanimated Hokage, recognizing the scene from another space-time.
• Hashirama Senju sensed all nine Tailed Beasts’ Chakra in Menma, prompting Hiruzen and Sasuke to question whether he had taken the Nine-Tails from Naruto.
• Menma dismissed Tobirama’s pressure and introduced himself as Uzumaki Menma, Minato’s son from another space-time, where his younger brother was Namikaze Naruto.
• Minato confirmed that he sensed his own and Kushina’s Chakra in Menma and recognized the Eight Trigrams Seal.
• Suigetsu questioned why Minato’s sons had different surnames, leaving Hiruzen, Tobirama, and Minato visibly uneasy as Sasuke and Orochimaru reacted.

Menma explained how he had left Konoha and revealed that he had conquered the shinobi world in his era. After his guards arrived and the Hokage confronted his strength, Minato tried to calm the situation and asked Menma to talk.

• Menma said he had left Konoha, then told Minato and the others that he had come to this time by accident and had no specific objective.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Hiruzen blocked Menma from leaving and demanded that he stay.
• Muku and the Shadow Guards arrived, greeted Menma as the Heavenly Kage, and took combat positions around him.
• Menma revealed that he had founded the Village of Light, defeated the Five Great Nations, and overcome the reanimated Hashirama and Tobirama in his era.
• Menma unleashed his chakra, alarming the Hokage and their companions, while Minato inferred why Menma had left Konoha.
• Minato asked Menma to sit down and talk, and Menma permitted him to use his name.

Menma confronted Hashirama, Tobirama, Minato, Sasuke, and Orochimaru, then left after warning them that the Ten-Tails was about to be revived. Hashirama turned to Sasuke for his decision, while Menma focused on finding a way back to his own time-space.

• Menma dismissed the Hokage’s concerns and warned that the Ten-Tails was about to be revived, urging them to prioritize the coming war.
• Sasuke asked Menma about the new order he had created, and Menma said it had ended the old world’s wars and naivety.
• Menma destroyed the forbidden building, departed with Muku and the others, and left Hashirama and Tobirama to focus on the battlefield.
• Tobirama and Hashirama agreed that stopping Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha came first, while Hiruzen questioned why they had let Menma go.
• Hashirama asked Sasuke what he would do, and Sasuke declared that he would return the world to true peace.
• Menma considered his next steps and made finding a way back to his own time-space his foremost priority.

Menma returned to the Ancient Kingdom of Roran to investigate the Dragon Vein and left Muku and the Shadow Guards to protect it while he headed toward the war’s main battlefield. Otsutsuki Hagoromo confronted him, wary of his power and uncertain of his intentions.

• Menma left Konohagakure and traveled west toward the Ancient Kingdom of Roran to use the Dragon Vein’s power.
• At the Dragon Vein altar, Menma suspected that the Dragon Veins of parallel spacetimes had caused his journey through time and space.
• Menma ordered Muku and the other Shadow Guards to guard the altar, then secured the area with detection and defensive barriers.
• As Menma departed the ruins, Otsutsuki Hagoromo appeared and questioned whether Menma planned to release Kaguya and plant the Divine Tree.
• Menma taunted Hagoromo about his remaining strength, while Hagoromo weighed the danger of confronting him.

Menma refused Hagoromo’s attempt to learn about his timeline, warned him that the planet might face more than one enemy, and left to pursue powerful eyes in this world. Meanwhile, Madara and Hashirama clashed on the Frontline Battlefield, where Madara’s Susanoo began overpowering Hashirama’s True Several Thousand Hands.

• Hagoromo tried to persuade Menma to speak openly, but Menma declined and warned him to consider other enemies before disappearing.
• Hagoromo suspected that more Otsutsuki might come and decided to confront his mother himself before joining the coming battle.
• Menma planned to obtain Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan and the Giant Tenseigan before returning to his own timeline.
• Hashirama Senju arrived at the Frontline Battlefield and fought Madara Uchiha, who rejected Hashirama’s pleas to abandon the Moon Eye Plan.
• Hashirama entered Sage Mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands, but Madara’s Susanoo overpowered it and began cutting down its wooden palms.

Madara overwhelmed Hashirama and devastated the Allied Forces, while Menma watched the battle from afar and chose not to intervene yet. He then observed Obito preparing to absorb the Ten-Tails, a feat Menma considered nearly impossible for an ordinary person to survive.

• Madara used his enhanced Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to suppress Hashirama, who realized Madara's ocular power had grown far beyond their previous battles.
• The Allied Forces charged in to help Hashirama, but Madara trapped thousands of shinobi with Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence and burned them with Great Fire Annihilation.
• Menma arrived at the front line and watched Madara's attack with pleasure, deciding to remain an observer until Madara was revived.
• Menma considered the risks of releasing Otsutsuki Kaguya and noted that Naruto, Sasuke, Tobirama, and Minato were fighting Obito and the Ten-Tails elsewhere.
• Menma saw Obito preparing to absorb the Ten-Tails and reflected that surviving such a Jinchuriki transformation required strength and will far beyond ordinary human limits.

Obito absorbed the Ten-Tails and became its Jinchuriki, then used Truth-Seeking Orbs to repel Naruto, Minato, Tobirama, and the others. As Menma assessed Obito’s new power, he sensed the Sage of Six Paths beginning to reveal himself.

• Obito endured the Ten-Tails’ invasion and absorbed it into his body, becoming its Jinchuriki.
• Obito attacked Naruto, Minato, Tobirama, Sasuke, and the others with Truth-Seeking Orbs, forcing them to scatter.
• Tobirama and Minato counterattacked, but Obito blocked their techniques with a barrier and damaged their Reanimation Bodies.
• Menma judged that Obito had formidable talent and experience, though he had not fully mastered the Ten-Tails’ power.
• Menma sensed the Sage of Six Paths revealing his Chakra and wondered why he had waited until Naruto and Sasuke were near death to intervene.