Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Naruto agreed to help Jiraiya save his world and traveled with Hinata to another timeline to find Second Pillar. The Great Toad Sage revealed that a corrupted god threatened every timeline, and the group set out to protect the Emperor, who held the power to defeat it.

• Jiraiya asked Uzumaki Naruto to help save his world, and Naruto agreed after Nara Shikamaru warned him about the risks.
• Naruto told Hinata about his decision, and she supported him; Jiraiya then admitted he did not know how to return to his world.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku, who took him and Naruto to Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage explained that Orochimaru's evil had corrupted the god of life and death.
• The Great Toad Sage said Uzumaki Hinata and Second Pillar were needed, so Naruto brought Hinata to Mount Myōboku before the Sage opened a rift to another timeline.
• Naruto, Hinata, and Jiraiya crossed into Second Pillar's timeline, where Second Pillar urged them to proceed despite the Great Toad Sage's life being at risk.
• The Great Toad Sage warned that the future was not fixed and that they had to stop the god from devouring the Emperor, whom Naruto said was the father of all three.

Jiraiya and Naruto’s group joined Tsunade and the Ten Mianwei to investigate the black mist trapping Hyuga Shin, but they could not enter the Imperial Palace’s time prison. At Kabuto’s institute, Sasuke saved Byakusei from a force reaching for his soul, and Kabuto revealed that Orochimaru’s missing soul was not limited to the fragment inside the youth; another curtain of black mist appeared over Ryūchi Cave.

• Jiraiya, Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke arrived in Konoha and met Hokage Tsunade near the mist-covered Imperial Palace.
• Tsunade gathered the Ten Mianwei, and the group discovered that the palace entrance looped back on itself because space had been distorted.
• Sasuke opened a spatial vortex into Kabuto’s institute, where Senju Tobirama was trying to protect the unconscious Byakusei from a force seeking his soul.
• Sasuke touched Byakusei, saw the evils connected to Orochimaru, and transferred the youth into his own time-space to shield him.
• After Kabuto regained consciousness, he warned that the god wanted to destroy Orochimaru’s missing soul, then pointed to Anko as another black mist appeared over Ryūchi Cave.

The group gathered Orochimaru’s scattered soul fragments inside Anko and used her as bait to draw the god’s attention. As Anko vanished into the sky and a black vortex formed, Second Pillar realized the god was separating from Orochimaru and that removing the last restraint of time could save the emperor.

• Second Pillar rescued Nagato from Byakuryu’s grasp, and Jiraiya led the group to Ryūchi Cave to find Orochimaru’s other Split Bodies.
• Yakushi Kabuto proposed gathering Orochimaru’s remaining Split Bodies in one person, and Anko agreed to serve as the sacrifice that would attract the god.
• The souls of the giant serpent, Kushinadahime, Nagato, and Byakusei entered Anko, while Byakusei awoke with his childishness gone and was recognized as Teacher Sarutobi.
• At the Imperial Palace, Kakashi discovered that Kamado might have been devoured, and Anko drew the god’s black hand away from the group with her Sage Chakra before disappearing into the sky.
• A black vortex formed above Konoha, and Second Pillar entered the mist-shrouded front hall, where time stopped for everyone except him, Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Hinata, and Naruto Tsunade.
• Second Pillar explained that Orochimaru was separating from the god and that removing the final restraint of time could save the emperor.

Second Pillar, Naruto, Hinata, and Tsunade each faced strange visions as Shin struggled inside a time prison. Anko found Orochimaru within the black mist and restored him, and Orochimaru entered the Imperial Palace hall to confront Shin.

• Second Pillar recognized Byakuryu as Orochimaru and trapped him in the flesh of Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Uzumaki Naruto faced hostile Snake Princesses and the white Orochimaru in Ryūchi Cave, while Uzumaki Hinata stopped a jealous beauty from attacking the queen.
• Naruto Tsunade spoke with a boy mourning his parents at Konoha's former Memorial Stone.
• Shin confirmed that his pavilion was trapped in a repeating time loop, tested his control over time, and transferred Tailed Beast Chakra to Kaguya.
• Anko found Orochimaru connected to a black heart in the mist and tore it free, allowing Orochimaru to take over her body.
• Orochimaru stopped time, entered the Imperial Palace front hall, and greeted Shin.

Shin faced the world-destroying god with help from allies across time and summoned Shinigami who could defeat it. After Shin returned to Konoha, he reunited with his family and friends, while Rin learned she was pregnant; the chapter ended with a girl returning to Zhen and him telling her he was glad she was still there.

• Orochimaru told Shin that Anko had died for him, and Shin challenged Orochimaru to admit that his bonds still mattered to him.
• Second Pillar, Uzumaki Naruto, Naruto Tsunade, and Uzumaki Hinata joined Shin as the restraints lifted and a god appeared above Konoha.
• Shin summoned stronger versions of himself and allies from other worlds to fight the god, then brought the immortal black serpent to the moon and summoned Shinigami from the past to attack it.
• Konoha's residents waited for Shin's return, while Rin discovered she was pregnant and considered telling Zhen and the other women.
• Zhen returned exhausted to the Imperial Palace, reassured his family, and greeted a girl who approached him by saying he was glad she was still there.

Hyuga Hinata escaped her brothers and Toneri by using Time Power, then arrived in the era of the Third Great Ninja War. After realizing her father was still a teenager, she decided to disrupt the past rather than return home.

• Hyuga Hinata fought Naruto and Sasuke, who pursued her for stealing Neji’s Time Power.
• Hyuga Toneri joined the chase, but Hinata used Time Power to slow everyone down and escaped through a vortex.
• Toneri explained that Hinata might be impossible to locate if she erased her coordinates across the timelines.
• Hinata woke in a forest with much of her Chakra depleted and learned that the Third Great Ninja War was underway.
• Hinata realized her father was still a teenager and destroyed the Light Orb, deciding to turn the past upside down.