Chapter Summaries

After Takigakure was swallowed by an Oni Domain, Hinata’s council decided to contain it and sent Jiraiya, Nagai Ukaku, Naruto, and Sasuke to investigate. The group left Hidden Leaf Village for Takigakure, with Sasuke noticing a strange jonin among their companions.

• A returning Takigakure team reported that an Oni Domain had swallowed their village, and Hidden Leaf border ninja confirmed it.
• Hinata reassured the council that Hidden Leaf’s oni and Demon Weapons were secure, while Tsunade concluded that only a few Takigakure squads likely remained.
• Hinata ordered Jiraiya to coordinate with Iwagakure to contain the Domain and investigate its oni with Nagai Ukaku.
• Hinata told Jiraiya to bring Naruto and Sasuke and gather information from any surviving Takigakure ninja; Jiraiya agreed after she assured him Nagai Ukaku could protect them.
• Jiraiya collected Naruto and Sasuke, and the group departed Hidden Leaf Village for Takigakure.
• Sasuke observed that many of their companions belonged to the Barrier Squad and took particular notice of a jonin wearing a metal gauntlet.

Hinata failed to create her own Stigmata but made a flesh-and-blood-devouring one and hid it inside an intelligent doll to protect Hanabi. Meanwhile, Jiraiya and his team reached Takigakure, where Naruto and Sasuke learned that nine ghosts awaited them.

• Hinata's latest attempt to create her own Stigmata failed, so she put the project aside.
• Hinata placed her dangerous flesh-and-blood-devouring Stigmata inside a chibi doll, gave it intelligence, and ordered it to protect Hanabi.
• Jiraiya, Naruto, Sasuke, and Nagai Ukaku arrived at the waterfall outside Takigakure and felt the oppressive presence of Ghost Qi.
• Nagai Ukaku steadied Naruto and Sasuke, then told them that nine ghosts were inside Takigakure.
• Jiraiya appeared and asked Naruto and Sasuke if he had not told them they were going to Takigakure to deal with ghosts.

Jiraiya learned that nine ghosts inside Takigakure had overlapping Oni Domains, making it impossible to isolate them, and went to seek Iwagakure’s help with a sealing barrier. When he returned with Uzumaki Karin, he discovered her history of abuse in Kusagakure and welcomed her into the Hidden Leaf Village.

• Nagai Ukaku told Jiraiya that nine ghosts’ overlapping Oni Domains formed a ten-layer tower and could not be drawn out individually.
• Jiraiya went with an Iwagakure reconnaissance ninja to Iwagakure to secure help with sealing Takigakure.
• Nagai Ukaku returned with Uzumaki Karin, whom he had rescued from Kusagakure.
• Jiraiya saw Karin’s bite marks and learned that Kusagakure had drained her Chakra because it could heal wounds.
• Jiraiya comforted Karin and told her the Hidden Leaf Village could be her home, before Naruto and Sasuke appeared.

Jiraiya assessed Takigakure’s dangerous overlapping Oni Domains with Nagai Ukaku, while Hinata searched the snowy wilderness for a candidate to receive her dangerous new creation, God’s Blood No. 2. After nearly ten days of travel in a cat puppet, Hinata was surrounded by Snow Wolves.

• Jiraiya asked Naruto whether he had caused Nagai Ukaku trouble, then learned Naruto and Sasuke had already entered Takigakure.
• Nagai Ukaku led Jiraiya into Takigakure, and Jiraiya emerged pale after experiencing the draining effects of Oni Domain.
• Hinata examined the bright red liquid she had created and decided to search for a suitable candidate for God’s Blood No. 2.
• Hinata used a snow-white cat puppet to inspect the Snow Ninja Village, memorized the structure of a ninja’s Chakra Armor, and left to search elsewhere.
• After running through the snowfields for nearly ten days, Hinata’s cat puppet encountered a pack of Snow Wolves that surrounded her.

Hinata assigned Kakashi to escort Fuyukaze Koyuki to the Land of Snow with Mami Mizuta, whose Kekkei Genkai could help there. She also ordered Kakashi to acquire the Land of Snow’s railway technology, and the group set sail as Hinata wondered what awaited them.

• Hinata received an A-rank commission to escort someone to the Land of Snow and assigned Kakashi, bringing Mami Mizuta along because of her Kekkei Genkai.
• Hinata told Kakashi to train Mami and obtain the Land of Snow’s train and railway manufacturing technology.
• Hinata recalled the Land of Snow’s past rebellion and suspected its missing able-bodied men were being made to work on advanced technology.
• Kakashi found that Fuyukaze Koyuki refused to travel, so he used the Sharingan to put her to sleep before setting sail with Mami and the film crew.
• Mami delighted in playing on the ocean and showing off her ice ability until Kakashi stopped her and reminded her to train.

Kakashi warned Mami Mizuta about the danger of facing enemies and tried to prepare her for her first real battle. When the film crew’s ship stopped at a newly appeared ice island, Land of Snow ninja confronted Princess Koyuki, and Mami’s hidden potential surfaced as she protected her.

• Kakashi questioned whether Mami Mizuta had ever killed anyone, then warned her not to go easy on enemies and began teaching her ninja experience.
• God's Blood No. 2 reacted to a suitable vessel, and Hinata headed toward the sea route to the Land of Snow.
• The film crew’s ship stopped at a newly appeared ice island, where Nadare Rōga, Tsurugi Fubuki, and Dongxiong Dongyu revealed themselves and demanded the hexagonal crystal from Princess Koyuki.
• Kakashi confronted Nadare Rōga while Mami Mizuta tried to protect Princess Koyuki from Tsurugi Fubuki and Dongxiong Dongyu.
• Mami Mizuta summoned massive ice blocks to shield herself and Princess Koyuki from Tsurugi Fubuki’s Ice Prison Technique, as Hinata’s white cat appeared and seemed to recognize Koyuki.

Kakashi used Kamui to kill Nadare Rōga, while Mami Mizuta’s Chakra froze herself, Princess Koyuki, and Fuyuma Hyōri in solid ice. Tsurugi Fubuki fled in her Chakra Armor, but Kakashi used Kamui again to stop her and ended the chapter holding a crystalline green gemstone.

• Kakashi used Kamui to tear apart Nadare Rōga, though the technique left his left eye bleeding and his body weakened.
• Mami Mizuta grabbed Princess Koyuki as Fuyuma Hyōri pulled her with ropes, and Mami’s Chakra froze all three of them in solid ice.
• Kakashi arrived and found Tsurugi Fubuki guarding the frozen group, while Asama Santa worried over Princess Koyuki.
• Tsurugi Fubuki saw Nadare Rōga’s corpse, then escaped into the air using wings from her Chakra Armor.
• Kakashi used Kamui again to stop Tsurugi Fubuki and found a crystalline green gemstone resting in his palm.

Kakashi used a Chakra Gem to recover and defeated Tsurugi Fubuki and Fuyuma Hyōri while Mami Mizuta and Princess Koyuki escaped the ice. Back aboard the ship, the still-sick Kazahana Koyuki refused to return to the Land of Snow, while a white cat watched the battle and Kakashi sensed something on the cliff.

• Kakashi used his Chakra Gem to recover, then killed Tsurugi Fubuki after Kamui left her gravely wounded.
• As the ice around Mami Mizuta and Princess Koyuki melted, Kakashi struck Fuyuma Hyōri with Lightning Blade, destroyed his Chakra Armor, and subdued him with Sharingan.
• Mami Mizuta and Princess Koyuki were freed, and Asama Santa checked on the princess after she sneezed from the cold.
• A white cat watched the battle and remarked on the Chakra Gem and Kazahana Koyuki's future as daimyo; Kakashi noticed the cliff but saw nothing there.
• Aboard the ship, Kazahana Koyuki refused Asama Santa's plea to return to the Land of Snow, and Kakashi left her to rest alone.

A white cat offered Kazahana Koyuki the Blood of the Gods, hoping she would inherit its power and help protect the world from future crises. Koyuki refused, but the cat invoked her desire for revenge against her traitorous uncle and curiosity about what her father had created.

• Kazahana Koyuki remembered her father's death and nearly overturned a brazier before a talking white cat stopped her.
• The white cat hid under Koyuki's blanket while Asama Santa brought her hot fish soup, and Koyuki drank it after the cat urged her to warm up.
• The white cat showed Koyuki the Blood of the Gods, whose supernatural movement made her envision a vast sea of blood.
• The white cat said Koyuki was a suitable recipient and offered her the blood so she could inherit godlike abilities, explaining that the cat feared her own power and ambition would eventually destroy her.
• Koyuki refused the offer, but the white cat reminded her of her desire for revenge and asked whether she wanted to learn what her father had created.

Kazahana Koyuki followed the white cat to her father’s hidden crystal walls, where the hexagonal key unlocked a vision of his hopes and the return of spring. After deciding to reclaim her country and build power of her own, she fused with God's Blood No. 2 and woke in the royal capital with new insight into the white cat.

• The white cat revealed that Kazahana Koyuki’s necklace held Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and led her underwater to her father’s six crystal walls.
• Kazahana Koyuki inserted the crystal into the walls, triggering a thaw that brought streams, grass, flowers, and a recorded memory of her father.
• After seeing her father’s message, Kazahana Koyuki accepted the white cat’s offer and chose to gain power to reclaim her country.
• Kazahana Koyuki poured God's Blood No. 2 into her palm, endured intense pain, and fainted as it entered her body.
• Kazahana Koyuki woke in the royal capital and asked whether the white cat was not a living creature; the white cat said her fusion had gone well.

Kazahana Koyuki awakened after merging with the Blood of the Gods, became ruler of the Land of Snow, and began planning to bring spring to her country. Meanwhile, Hokage Hinata visited Nagato and proposed a plan to unite the nations and bring peace, leaving him willing to support her.

• The white cat told Kazahana Koyuki that the Blood of the Gods’ powers would emerge over time and offered to teach her to use them.
• Asama Santa told Kazahana Koyuki that Kakashi had killed Kazahana Dōtō and defeated his followers, and she became ruler of the Land of Snow with the support of Santa and loyal ministers.
• Kakashi and Mami Mizuta attended Kazahana Koyuki’s succession ceremony, gathered information about trains, airships, and Chakra Armor, then left Fuka City.
• Kazahana Koyuki told the white cat she hoped to improve the geothermal generator and eventually bring spring to the Land of Snow.
• Hinata visited Nagato at Hidden Leaf Hospital and explained her plan to unite the nations into one empire and bring peace.
• Nagato decided to use his eyes to help Hinata, and he was shown with one Rinnegan and a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Hinata and Tsunade completed a stable, proliferating flesh based on First Hokage and Uzumaki Clan cells, and Hinata ordered it replicated for every child and ninja in the Hidden Leaf Village. Jiraiya and Kakashi returned with reports and materials, and Hinata welcomed Uzumaki Karin into the village.

• Tsunade showed Hinata the stable, gentle flesh the laboratory had created using research on First Hokage's Cells and Uzumaki Clan cells.
• Hinata ordered Tsunade to replicate the flesh quickly and implant it in every child and ninja in the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Kakashi returned to the village and ran into Jiraiya, who introduced Uzumaki Karin; Karin accidentally called Kakashi Uncle.
• Jiraiya reported that his mission in Takigakure had been difficult because of nine unknown demons and the challenge of containing them.
• Kakashi gave Hinata scrolls containing materials from the Land of Snow and explained that its princess had become its ruler.
• Hinata recognized Karin as an Uzumaki Clan member and welcomed her as a member of the Hidden Leaf Village.

After Sasuke returned from his first S-rank mission, his family learned he had encountered Nagai Ukaku and discussed the man’s fearsome reputation. Itachi gave Sasuke a Chakra Gem and revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan as proof that the village’s new body- and chakra-enhancing drug was safe, leaving his parents astonished and worried about the risk of blindness.

• Jiraiya arranged for Karin to recover at Hidden Leaf Hospital, and Hinata awarded Mami Mizuta her genin forehead protector.
• Sasuke returned home, reunited with his family, and told them he had met Nagai Ukaku during his mission.
• Itachi explained that Nagai Ukaku was known as the Hidden Leaf Demon and was stronger than himself in a direct fight.
• Itachi gave Sasuke a Chakra Gem, and Uchiha Fugaku revealed that Itachi could obtain another through his Anbu work.
• Itachi announced the village’s new drug to strengthen the body and increase chakra, then displayed his Mangekyō Sharingan as proof of its safety.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto confirmed Itachi had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and worried that using it could make him blind.

Sasuke brought Naruto to the hospital to receive the First Generation Physique Strengthening Potion, which had changed Itachi’s body and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan. At the clinic, Naruto noticed Sakura’s special treatment of Sasuke, while Sakura and Ino’s rivalry flared during the injections.

• Sasuke told Fugaku that the potion had changed his eyes and body, and Sasuke decided to make sure Naruto got an injection too.
• Sasuke woke Naruto and took him to the hospital, where they joined Shikamaru and other children waiting for the potion.
• Sakura blushed while talking to Sasuke and gave him a gentle injection, prompting Naruto to complain that she had treated him differently.
• Sakura hurriedly injected Shikamaru, who grimaced in pain, while Naruto grinned at his discomfort.
• Choji’s strength bent Sakura’s needle, and Ino sat down for her injection, furious about Sakura and Sasuke’s closeness.

After the rookies received injections that would gradually strengthen them, Hinata visited Nagato and Konan at the hospital. She asked Nagato whether he had finished considering her proposal, leaving his answer unrevealed.

• The rookies discussed the effects of their injections, and Naruto’s and Sasuke’s bodies began developing new Chakra that affected their powers.
• Hinata appeared to the rookies unseen by everyone else and explained that her ability made others ignore her unless she attacked them.
• Hinata frightened the rookies with a description of severe rejection reactions, and Tsunade clarified that those effects had occurred only during the medicine’s early development.
• Hinata admitted to Tsunade that she had come to see Nagato, and Tsunade warned her that his ideals were dangerous.
• Hinata entered Nagato’s ward, where Konan was peeling an apple, and asked Nagato how he had considered her proposal.

Hinata recruited Nagato to stir up conflicts between countries and villages, then told Tsunade that Nagato's Rinnegan might have belonged to Madara Uchiha. As the strengthening potion changed the recipients, Nagato and Konan went to investigate a Stigmata bearer, Yamamoto Ryuji, who had just fought off a gang.

• Nagato agreed to Hinata's plan to provoke conflicts, including with the Hidden Leaf Village, and Hinata arranged for him to leave the village.
• Hinata told Tsunade that Nagato's Rinnegan might have belonged to Madara Uchiha and returned to the laboratory to improve the potion.
• Sasuke's Sharingan evolved into Three Tomoe, Neji's Byakugan power increased, and Naruto's body began approaching a Sage Body.
• Nagato and Konan arrived in a city to locate its Stigmata bearer before acting directly.
• Yamamoto Ryuji used his newfound strength to break through a gang's encirclement, though he suffered several bruises.

Nagato secretly strengthened the exhausted Yamamoto Ryuji with a dangerous medicine, while Yamamoto woke to discover his body had changed and flames could rise from his hands. Nagato then entered a haunted house to seal a ghost, but became trapped walking in place along its path as an unseen presence followed him.

• Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to put Yamamoto Ryuji to sleep and poured a bottle of medicine into his mouth before leaving with Konan to investigate a ghost.
• Yamamoto woke refreshed and stronger, then panicked when flames emerged from his palms.
• Konan investigated the house and confirmed that many gang members who had entered it or encountered its occupants had died.
• Nagato entered the house alone while Konan watched from above, and he found himself unable to cross the pebble path as a chilly presence followed him.

Nagato discovered that the haunted house’s Oni Domain distorted space so badly that he could not seal it, so he called Hinata for help. Hinata restored the space, moved the haunted house and its Oni Domain into her Tenseigan-created Alternate Dimension, and reinforced the barriers containing the ghosts there.

• Nagato used his Rinnegan to realize he had entered the Oni Domain and escaped into the Kamui Dimension, where he saw a three-corpse Puppet Corpse crawling toward the haunted house.
• Nagato told Konan he could not seal the haunted house, and Konan contacted Hinata for help.
• Hinata left a puppet to impersonate her and traveled to the town, where she spent six hours restoring the distorted space around the haunted house.
• Hinata noticed the Oni Domain expanding and blocked it with a barrier before transferring the haunted house and its surrounding space into her Alternate Dimension.
• Hinata reinforced the haunted house’s barrier and the seals and barriers around the other ghosts contained in her Alternate Dimension.

Hinata encountered Sasuke and Boruto after they accidentally traveled from the future to the era when she was Fifth Hokage. Sasuke warned her about Otsutsuki Isshiki, while Boruto excitedly asked Hinata for an autograph, leaving her to infer that she would leave the Hidden Leaf Village in the future.

• After Hinata returned to the Hidden Leaf Village, the city lord recruited Yamamoto Ryuji, whose heart had become dangerously filled with Chakra.
• Hinata sensed a disturbance in space and went to investigate two people who had appeared in the village.
• Sasuke and Boruto realized they had arrived in the past, and the turtle in Boruto's hand identified the era as the Fifth Hokage's time.
• Hinata brought Sasuke and Boruto to her office and asked them to explain their arrival.
• Sasuke warned Hinata about Otsutsuki Isshiki and his Chakra-stealing fishing rod and Chakra-refining fish basket.
• Boruto asked Hinata for an autograph, and Hinata inferred from Sasuke's reaction that she would leave the Hidden Leaf Village in the future.

Sasuke and Boruto met with Hinata, who agreed to shelter them while they stayed in the Hidden Leaf Village and helped its short-staffed ninja. As Boruto explored the village, he realized how grim life was during the Calamity of the Strange, then recognized two children passing by as young Naruto and Sasuke.

• Sasuke remembered Hinata overpowering him and Naruto in the future, then watched her sign Boruto’s shirt.
• Sasuke warned Hinata that Otsutsuki Isshiki was targeting Naruto, and Hinata said she would notice if he appeared.
• Sasuke agreed to stay and help the Hidden Leaf Village until they dealt with Urashiki, while Hinata arranged lodging and suggested he show Boruto around.
• Boruto noticed the sorrowful faces throughout the village and realized he might see real Strangers during the Calamity of the Strange.
• Sasuke stopped when he heard two children arguing about Princess Chiyuki, and Boruto recognized the children as young Naruto and Sasuke.