Chapter Summaries

Menma discovered that Jigen had secretly caused Amado Akebi’s illness and healed her, then confronted Jigen when he attacked. After Menma drove Jigen into the ruins with a repulsive force and revealed a Black Receiver, Jigen demanded to know who he was.

• Jigen questioned Menma while Amado tried to defuse their tense standoff in his repair shop.
• Akebi came downstairs, and Menma offered to connect her with Tsunade for treatment.
• Menma examined Akebi, removed hidden chakra voids near her heart, and eased her illness.
• Menma sent Vanilla away with Amado and Akebi to warn Yahiko that a danger might arrive early.
• Amado accused Jigen of causing Akebi’s illness, and Jigen admitted he had used it to control Amado’s cooperation.
• Jigen attacked Menma with Black Receivers, but Menma repelled them, demolished the shop, and knocked Jigen into a metal shack; Jigen then demanded to know who Menma was.

Yahiko mobilized Akatsuki to protect Amegakure’s civilians as a devastating battle erupted in the northern district. When Hanzo rushed to confront the fighters, Jigen struck him down with a single kick, shocking Akatsuki and Amegakure’s Anbu.

• Yahiko warned Akatsuki that a powerful battle might reach Amegakure and ordered them to prepare civilian evacuations.
• Explosions devastated the northern district, so Yahiko sent Konan and Nagato to organize evacuations and led the others toward the disaster.
• Uzumaki Fuka arrived with Amado and Akebi, explaining that Menma was fighting an enemy and had asked Akatsuki to protect them; Fuka then joined Yahiko’s rescue effort.
• Hanzo read intelligence about Akatsuki and resolved to eliminate them if they threatened his rule, then armed himself and led his Anbu toward the northern battlefield.
• Hanzo met Yahiko’s group at the battle’s edge, learned that only two people appeared responsible for the destruction, and charged toward the core with his Anbu.
• Jigen flew out of the smoke and evaded Hanzo’s Chain Scythe before kicking him into the ruins, leaving Akatsuki and the Anbu stunned.

Jigen massacred Hanzo and the Amegakure Anbu before targeting Uzumaki Fuka, but Uzumaki Menma intervened and confronted him. White Zetsu reported the battle to Uchiha Madara, who became eager to face the two mysterious fighters.

• Jigen defeated Hanzo and killed the Amegakure Anbu with chakra Black Receivers after evading their attacks.
• Jigen rushed the Akatsuki and tried to capture Uzumaki Fuka, but Menma's Black Receiver forced him to retreat.
• Menma appeared in the air, revealing his Mangekyō Sharingan and Byakugan, and Jigen accused him of being a backup plan left by Otsutsuki Kaguya.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu reported the battle to Uchiha Madara, including that both fighters used chakra black rods and that Nagato was temporarily safe.
• Uchiha Madara reacted with surprise to the chakra black rods and said he wanted to fight the two newcomers.

Hanzo sacrificed himself to protect Amegakure, but Jigen killed him after evading his final attack. Menma resumed his battle with Jigen, who had hidden using Sukunahikona.

• Hanzo crawled from the wreckage, saw his Anbu dead, and told Yahiko that Amegakure was now in his hands.
• Hanzo summoned Salamander Ibuse and charged Jigen through a cloud of poison, staking his remaining strength on a Chain Scythe attack.
• Jigen vanished to evade Hanzo's strike, then pierced Hanzo with Black Receivers and killed him.
• Yahiko, Konan, Nagato, and the Akatsuki witnessed Hanzo's death as Menma turned back toward Jigen.
• Menma located Jigen hiding below in a shrunken form and declared that their battle would continue.

Menma tracked Jigen to a hidden dimension and attacked while Jigen drew chakra from a second Ten-Tails. After Jigen unleashed phantom Otsutsuki guardians, Menma escaped their attacks and warned that Jigen might die there.

• Jigen vanished from Amegakure to retrieve power, while Menma warned Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato that the Otsutsuki were planetary invaders and more would come.
• Menma detected a White Zetsu spying on the conversation, then followed Jigen into a separate dimension containing a chained Ten-Tails.
• Jigen drained the Ten-Tails through his Karma, healing his wound and regaining some of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s appearance.
• Menma surprised Jigen with a whirlwind kick while he absorbed chakra, then marked the altar with a tiny Flying Thunder God formula.
• Jigen activated Otsutsuki emblems on the wall, summoning phantom Kaguya, Momoshiki, Urashiki, and others to attack Menma.
• Menma dodged the phantoms and withdrew beyond the altar’s boundary, where they vanished, then taunted Jigen that he might die there.

Menma lured Jigen away from the Ten-Tails, allowing Mini-Kurama to emerge and begin devouring it, then fought Jigen in another dimension. Menma forced Jigen to abandon his failing vessel and reveal Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s incomplete true body, who declared that Menma’s struggle would end there.

• Menma sent Mini-Kurama into hiding before letting Jigen transport him to a separate battlefield, where Mini-Kurama transformed and attacked the Ten-Tails.
• Jigen entered his second Karma state and battled Menma, whose Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Truth-Seeking Orb techniques overwhelmed Jigen’s defenses.
• Menma’s attacks pushed Jigen’s vessel to its limit, so Isshiki forced an incomplete reincarnation and emerged in his true body.
• Isshiki faced Menma and declared that his struggle would end there.

Menma absorbed Isshiki’s Ten-Tails and overwhelmed him in their battle, but Isshiki escaped to Amegakure, where he attacked the survivors and seized Nagato. Menma arrived in time to save Fuka and confronted Isshiki again, declaring that his struggle would end there.

• Mini-Kurama finished absorbing the Ten-Tails, and Menma revealed that he had taken it from Isshiki’s other dimension.
• Menma crushed Isshiki’s attacks, struck him back, and used Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and Great Spiraling Ring against him, but Isshiki disappeared after the blast.
• Yahiko and the Akatsuki helped search Amegakure’s ruins while villagers accused them of causing Hanzo’s death.
• Isshiki emerged from a portal, killed more than twenty Amegakure ninja, and captured Nagato as Yahiko, Konan, Kyusuke, Daibutsu, and Fuka tried to stop him.
• Isshiki attacked Fuka, but Menma appeared, crushed the Black Receiver, and faced Isshiki while he still held Nagato.

Menma fought Ōtsutsuki Isshiki while Yahiko evacuated the wounded Akatsuki members and villagers from Amegakure. Menma defeated Isshiki, took his eyes, and killed him with an explosion that cleared the storm clouds over the Land of Rain.

• Menma rescued Nagato, removed the Black Receivers from the injured Akatsuki members, and ordered Yahiko to evacuate everyone.
• Isshiki tried to recruit Menma to the Otsutsuki Clan, but Menma mocked him and refused.
• Menma overwhelmed Isshiki with close-range attacks and chakra-draining techniques, then bombarded him with Truth-Seeking Orb: Light Cannons.
• Menma used a Flying Thunder God mark to gouge out Isshiki's right eye, then took his remaining Byakugan as Isshiki tried to sacrifice himself in a self-destruction attack.
• Menma severed Isshiki's arms with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and hurled him skyward with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying him in a massive blast.

Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered heightened surveillance after a blinding explosion, while Black Zetsu’s report drove Uchiha Madara to restore his body and move against Menma’s influence over Nagato. Menma returned to Amegakure, backed Yahiko as its new leader, and began supporting the village’s recovery, leaving Nagato face-to-face with Uchiha Madara.

• Namikaze Minato reported that Menma had defeated the Fourth Raikage A and Killer B, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Leaf to monitor Menma and reinforce its eastern border.
• A vast sphere of light appeared over the northwest, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to dispatch Shinnosuke Sarutobi and leaders across the nations to investigate.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that Menma had defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and was close to Nagato, so Uchiha Madara used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to restore his body to its prime.
• Menma recovered Isshiki’s severed hands, returned to Amegakure, and encouraged Yahiko to lead the village while offering to guide its governance and train Nagato.
• Yahiko began consolidating support and organizing Amegakure’s reconstruction, while Konan and Nagato sought supplies from Amado and Akebi.
• Nagato sensed a powerful presence outside the repair shop and recognized the approaching armored man as Uchiha Madara.

Uchiha Madara reclaimed the Rinnegan from Nagato and attacked Menma, who rescued Nagato and faced Madara at the riverbank. Menma overwhelmed Madara’s attacks and ended the chapter by shattering his Perfect Susanoo with a kick.

• Nagato fled from Uchiha Madara to protect the village, but Konan noticed the danger and flew to warn Yahiko and find him.
• Nagato confronted Uchiha Madara, who defeated him, gouged out his Rinnegan, and put the eyes back in his own sockets.
• Menma interrupted Madara’s attempt to kill Nagato and rescued him with an Adamantine Sealing Chain; Yahiko and Konan carried Nagato away for treatment.
• Uchiha Madara unleashed twelve Susanoo, Wood Release, and a wooden dragon against Menma, but Menma’s Black Receivers destroyed the attacks.
• Uchiha Madara summoned his Perfect Susanoo, and Menma kicked through its forehead crystal, breaking the Susanoo apart and sending Madara flying.

Yahiko organized Amegakure’s defenses while Menma defeated Uchiha Madara, destroyed the falling meteorites, and captured the hidden White Zetsu. The chapter left Menma sealing Madara’s remains and Rinnegan for research as Black Zetsu escaped.

• Yahiko and Konan brought the blinded Nagato to Amegakure, where Amado found that Nagato’s vitality had strengthened after his foreign eyes were removed and said his sight could be restored.
• Yahiko assigned Konan and Amado to care for Nagato, ordered Jusuke and Daibutsu to prepare village defenses, and teamed with Fuka as a mobile reserve; Black Zetsu watched and reconsidered his plans.
• Menma saw through Madara’s Limbo shadows with the Byakugan and fought him, overpowering him in close combat before repelling his fire technique with Shinra Tensei.
• Menma pierced Madara with a Black Receiver, but Madara summoned a meteorite; Menma destroyed the first with a Mini Spiraling Ring and split the second with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion after activating Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Madara died after witnessing Menma’s power, and Menma sealed his remains and Rinnegan while capturing the hidden White Zetsu; Black Zetsu escaped underground.

Six months after Menma helped rebuild Amegakure, he warned Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato that the coming Third Shinobi World War would threaten the Land of Rain. After news arrived that the Queen of Roran had been assassinated, Menma prepared to leave and entrusted Yahiko with a way to free Uchiha Hikari from an ancient seal.

• Black Zetsu fled Amegakure after Menma killed Madara and wiped out more than a hundred White Zetsu, then vowed to continue waiting for Kaguya.
• Akebi examined Nagato's transplanted Three-Tomoe Sharingan, while Yahiko's leadership and Menma's guidance transformed Amegakure and the Land of Rain over six months.
• Menma used a war-game projection to show Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato that the great nations could invade the Land of Rain, and predicted that the Third Shinobi World War would begin within two years.
• Fuka reported that the Queen of Roran had been assassinated and her daughter would soon take the throne, prompting Menma to announce that it was time to say goodbye.
• Menma urged Yahiko and the others to defend the Land of Rain themselves and gave Yahiko a map and instructions for reaching the seal that held Uchiha Hikari.

Namikaze Minato accepted an S-rank mission to escort Princess Sara from Rōran and led his team toward the desert city. Beneath Rōran, Menma watched Sara flee, witnessed Naruto arrive through the Dragon Vein, and greeted him with a bizarre claim that he had become a girl.

• Namikaze Minato accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s mission to investigate Rōran and escort Princess Sara, choosing Akimichi Choza, Shibi Aburame, and Kakashi Hatake for his team.
• Minato and his team reached the desert outskirts of Rōran, where Shibi sensed powerful chakra and Minato suspected the Dragon Vein was at the center of the crisis.
• Minato sent Akimichi Choza and Shibi Aburame to infiltrate Rōran while Kakashi gathered intelligence and prepared rendezvous points outside the city.
• Menma watched Princess Sara pray at the hidden altar, and Sara fled after noticing him.
• The Dragon Vein brought Uzumaki Naruto from another spacetime to the altar, and Menma woke him by claiming the operation had turned him into a girl.

Naruto was thrown into a transformed Rōran, where he met Menma and fought swarms of advanced puppets alongside him. After Namikaze Minato rescued Naruto, Menma revealed that he was Uzumaki Menma, the eldest son of Minato and Naruto’s big brother.

• Menma pranked Naruto, claimed to be his brother, and led him out of the underground chamber into Rōran’s tower-filled city.
• Menma destroyed three attacking puppets with Shinra Tensei, while Naruto summoned shadow clones to battle the growing swarm.
• Naruto’s chakra sword failed against the puppets, and Namikaze Minato rescued him from a barrage of attacks.
• Minato’s companions reported that Anrokuzan controlled the city, while Menma dismantled the remaining puppets with a Black Receiver.
• Menma confronted Minato about recognizing Naruto as his son, prompting Naruto to realize that Minato might be his father.
• Menma identified himself as Uzumaki Menma, the eldest son of Namikaze Minato and Naruto’s big brother.

Anrokuzan prepared Roran’s Dragon Vein-powered forces to kill Asura, while Menma revealed to Minato and Naruto that they came from a parallel future and showed them memories of that world. The vision reached Naruto’s lonely childhood, leaving Minato devastated as the two watched.

• Anrokuzan reviewed the battle through his puppet network, then revealed his army of over ten thousand Dragon Vein-powered combat puppets and a clone puppet modeled after himself.
• Menma told Minato and Naruto that he was Naruto’s elder brother and that they had arrived in Konoha Year 47 from a parallel future.
• Minato and Naruto touched fists with Menma, who used the Book of Vermilion Moon to show them memories of his world.
• The vision showed the masked man abducting one of Minato and Kushina’s newborn twins and unleashing the Nine-Tails on Konoha, before Minato and Kushina sacrificed themselves to seal it.
• Minato and Naruto saw young Menma growing up in an orphanage with a dark-red Nine-Tails as his companion, then saw Naruto shunned by Konoha villagers after his parents’ deaths.

Menma showed Minato and Naruto visions of his parallel world, exposing the Uchiha massacre and the rise of the Land of Stars before explaining the hidden threats facing the Shinobi World. He gave Minato a sealed scroll and joined the others in planning to stop Anrokuzan in Loulan.

• Naruto and Minato watched Menma’s memories of a happier childhood, his rise as Asura, the Land of Stars’ expansion, the Uchiha clan’s near-destruction, and battles against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and Uchiha Madara.
• Menma told Minato that the visions were possibilities from other parallel worlds and revealed that deeper forces had manipulated conflicts across the Shinobi World.
• Minato accepted Menma’s warning, asked to learn about the hidden threats, and received a sealed scroll containing information about the masked man, the world’s history, and future invaders.
• Menma urged Minato to gain the authority to protect Konoha, then struck Naruto for recklessly wanting to attack Akatsuki before mastering his abilities.
• Minato, Naruto, and Menma determined that Anrokuzan was Mukade from Menma’s world and that his puppets used Land of Stars technology.
• Menma went to confront Anrokuzan and take the Dragon Vein’s power, while Minato and Naruto planned to protect Sara and investigate the celebration in Loulan.

Menma exposed Anrokuzan’s puppet-filled city and rescued Sara from an assassination attempt, revealing that Rōran’s real people had been imprisoned and her mother likely killed. After Anrokuzan attacked with giant puppet monsters, Menma summoned his Perfect Susanoo and prepared to fight them.

• Minato explained Konoha’s mission to protect Sara, and he, Naruto, Choza, and Shibi took positions overlooking her succession ceremony.
• When the platform collapsed beneath Sara, Naruto caught her and brought her to safety; Minato showed her her mother’s mission scroll.
• Menma used Adamantine Sealing Chains to expose the plaza crowd as wooden puppets, then brought Rōran’s surviving civilians out of the underground drainage system.
• Sara confronted Anrokuzan, who appeared alongside a puppet copy and admitted his role in Rōran’s deception before ordering his combat puppets to attack.
• Menma disabled the puppet army with his Mangekyō Sharingan, while Naruto struck Anrokuzan with a Rasengan and Minato interrupted the puppet Mukade’s cannon attack.
• Anrokuzan and the puppet Mukade transformed into giant monsters, and Menma summoned his Perfect Susanoo to face them.

Menma defeated Anrokuzan and Mukade, absorbed the Dragon Vein, and triggered the return of himself and Naruto to their original space-time. As they said goodbye to Minato and Sara, Yamato also disappeared after teasing young Kakashi.

• Menma used Susanoo to overpower Anrokuzan and Mukade, then bound them with Adamantine Sealing Chains and destroyed their puppet bodies.
• Menma and the others found the imprisoned Loulan civilians, and Sara learned that her mother had died trying to free them.
• At the Underground Altar, Anrokuzan’s remaining wreckage crawled toward the Dragon Vein, but Menma crushed it and then absorbed the Dragon Vein’s energy.
• Menma explained that the Dragon Vein’s loss was making space-time reject him and Naruto, and he gave Naruto a Flying Thunder God kunai before they vanished.
• Yamato disappeared beside Loulan after striking young Kakashi on the head, leaving Kakashi to wonder about his future juniors.

Yamato and Naruto returned from the other spacetime with only minutes passed in Loulan, while Menma confronted Black Zetsu’s White Zetsu scouts and demanded experimental subjects as the price of cooperation. In the Land of Stars, Uchiha Hikari began undergoing the New Chimera experiment, and her Mangekyō Sharingan entered a dangerous, unstable stage.

• Sakura and Sai found Yamato and Naruto unconscious in Loulan, and both recovered after only a few minutes had passed in their world.
• Naruto revealed a Flying Thunder God Kunai and said he had met two friends who felt like family before the team headed back to Konoha.
• Menma returned to his original world, captured White Zetsu scouts, and learned that Black Zetsu wanted to cooperate against the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Menma demanded a thousand White Zetsu as experimental material, and Black Zetsu decided to offer five hundred along with information on the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• Hiruko and Orochimaru injected Uchiha Hikari with New Chimera cells, triggering a violent chakra surge and an unstable change in her Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Hikari’s Hashirama Cell fusion awakened a Six-Tomoe Rinnegan with immense power and perception, but looking toward the moon exposed her to the attention of the sealed Otsutsuki Kaguya. Two days later, Menma approved a cautious trial of genetic modifications and prepared to train Hikari as the Land of Stars held off on war.

• Uchiha Hikari’s fusion stabilized, awakened her Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, and gave her vast chakra, control over the five natures, and the ability to perceive natural energy and the world’s hidden layers.
• Uchiha Hikari’s vision reached the moon’s Giant Tenseigan, but she was pulled into a dark space and saw Otsutsuki Kaguya, whose gaze injured her and forced her back onto the experiment bed.
• Two days later, Hiruko reported Hikari’s successful modification to Menma and recommended cautious, voluntary trials; Menma ordered a first group of twelve and assigned Namikaze Minato to oversee them.
• Orochimaru asked when Menma would move against the Leaf, and Menma said the Land of Stars would avoid all-out war for now while allowing Orochimaru to handle personal matters.
• Menma praised Hikari’s newly awakened eyes, identified the woman she had seen as Otsutsuki Kaguya, and offered to train her in the Rinnegan and Yin-Yang Release; Hikari eagerly accepted.