Chapter Summaries

Menma fought Urashiki and Jigen while his cloned Sharingan evolved into a Mangekyō Sharingan, and Jiraiya concluded that Menma was Naruto’s older brother. After Menma wounded Urashiki, Urashiki consumed his own eyes and chakra before transforming into Crane Form, leaving Menma ready to face his new power.

• Menma lifted the Daikokuten cubes with his chakra tails, but Urashiki emerged through a portal and attacked him from behind; Menma dodged and countered Urashiki’s time rewind.
• Menma’s left eye awakened as a Mangekyō Sharingan, and Jiraiya identified him as the son of Namikaze Minato and Naruto’s older brother.
• Urashiki and Jigen attacked Menma together, but Menma used Rinyu to hinder Urashiki and struck him hard enough to send him crashing into the arena.
• Urashiki swallowed his Fishing Basket and his own eyes, releasing a chakra shock wave that Jiraiya and young Sasuke helped evade while the barrier protected the other spectators.
• Urashiki transformed into Crane Form and declared his intent to devour Menma, who watched him with interest.

Menma fought Urashiki after he transformed into Crane Form, countering his speed, time rewind, and successive attacks with superior skill and power. Urashiki ended the chapter exhausted and unsettled as Menma remained calm in the air.

• Menma coveted Urashiki’s Golden Rinnegan as Urashiki transformed into Crane Form and attacked at blinding speed.
• Menma blocked Urashiki’s strike, seized his wrist, and pierced his chest with Dark Chakra after Rinyu disrupted Urashiki’s time rewind.
• Menma calmly deflected Urashiki’s frenzied close-range attacks and broke his right horn with a punch.
• Urashiki hurled a Chakra Harpoon and purple chakra orbs at Menma, who countered them with chakra Black Receivers.
• Urashiki repelled the remaining Black Receivers with Shinra Tensei, then watched Menma hover unhurriedly and wondered how much chakra he had.

Urashiki summoned a colossal chakra oarfish and fired a devastating attack at Menma, who countered with his Spiraling Ring and created a vast sinkhole north of Hokage Rock. Menma survived and impaled Urashiki with a Black Receiver, then reached for the Golden Rinnegan in his forehead.

• Urashiki unleashed Amenosubaruhoshinomikoto: Ryugu, forming a gigantic purple-black oarfish and charging a massive chakra blast.
• Jiraiya, young Sasuke, Boruto, and the other fighters fled as Urashiki's attack gathered power.
• Menma threw his Spiraling Ring at the incoming blast, triggering an explosion that swept through the arena and carved a huge sinkhole into the land.
• The surviving fighters recovered near the pit's edge and saw that the area north of Hokage Rock had been completely erased.
• Menma confronted the wounded Urashiki, who had a Black Receiver piercing his abdomen, and plunged his hand into the Golden Rinnegan in Urashiki's forehead.

Hyuga Hiashi led the Hyuga clan’s forces to defend Konoha, where their Byakugan helped expose Sound Ninja infiltrators and Konoha defeated the giant three-headed snake. The chapter ended when an Anbu reported that the Third Hokage had fallen.

• Hiashi secured the Hyuga compound, assembled its fighters, and led them toward Konoha’s main gate while avoiding the Hokage’s battle.
• At the front line, Hiashi sent Iroha Hyuga and other Hyuga ninja to help Shikaku’s squads detect disguised Sound Ninja and protect civilians and important facilities.
• Choza used the Super Multi-Size Technique to attack the Purple Three-Headed Giant Snake while Konoha ninja supported him, and they brought it down.
• An injured Anbu arrived and reported to Shikaku and Hiashi that the Third Hokage had fallen.

After the Third Hokage fell during Orochimaru’s attack, Shikaku and Hiashi rushed to the tournament venue, where a catastrophic blast had erased Konoha’s northern district. The survivors regrouped at the crater’s edge, and Shikaku told Asuma that his father, the Third Hokage, was dead.

• An Anbu ninja reported that Orochimaru had attacked in disguise, trapped the Third Hokage with the Four Violet Flame Formation, and used the First and Second Hokage’s Impure World Reincarnation bodies; Jiraiya had ordered Tenzo to carry the Hokage’s body away.
• Shikaku sent Inoichi to secure the village and led an elite squad with Hiashi toward Hokage Rock as a terrifying chakra surge shook Konoha.
• A giant purple-black chakra oarfish fired a massive sphere, which collided with a black light and unleashed a blast that destroyed Konoha’s northern district, leaving a vast sinkhole.
• Shikaku and Hiashi found survivors near the crater, including Hinata, Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and shinobi from other villages; Hiashi reunited with Hinata while Shikaku questioned Shikamaru about what had happened.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, and Asuma arrived, and Shikaku told Asuma that the Third Hokage had fallen; Asuma reacted in shock and grief.

Yukimi told the gathered shinobi that their true enemies were the Otsutsuki, while Menma seized Urashiki’s Golden Rinnegan and revealed Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Menma cut apart Jigen’s Sealing Cauldron and unleashed a devastating attack toward him, leaving the battlefield’s outcome unresolved.

• Yukimi, Idasuke, and Neji arrived and reunited with their students as Hiashi and Neji exchanged a cold, silent look.
• Asuma tried to attack the Land of Stars group over the Third Hokage’s death, but Jiraiya restrained him and asked Yukimi to explain the enemies.
• Yukimi identified the Otsutsuki as the shinobi world’s true enemies, and Sasuke and Boruto recognized Urashiki and another Otsutsuki presence.
• Menma removed Urashiki’s Golden Rinnegan as Jigen attacked him with a massive Sealing Cauldron and chakra Black Receivers.
• Menma activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and used Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to split the Sealing Cauldron and send a vast golden slash toward Jigen.

Orochimaru survived the battle in the sinkhole and was left fascinated by Asura’s power and the unfamiliar force that severed his arm. He collected Urashiki’s corpse for research while the survivors watched Menma’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion carve a vast rift through the earth and struggled to comprehend his strength.

• Orochimaru crawled out of the giant white serpent’s corpse and recognized that Asura’s enemy possessed power approaching the Sage of Six Paths.
• Menma’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion split the Sealing Cauldron and the earth, grazing Orochimaru’s right arm and severing it below the elbow.
• Orochimaru examined the wound, recognized the effects of Yin-Yang Release, and began regenerating his arm.
• Orochimaru identified Urashiki’s corpse, sealed it inside a culture vessel, and stored it in a scroll for research.
• Hozuki Suigetsu, Karui, Omoi, Samui, and Jiraiya reacted with shock as the strike left a vast rift valley beyond Konoha.
• Sasuke recognized the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and questioned how Menma possessed Truth-Seeking Orbs, while Boruto wondered what was happening in this time and space.

Menma forced Jigen’s vessel to collapse, prompting Isshiki to reincarnate in an unstable new body. Menma then revealed that he had obtained Isshiki’s Black Eye and used it to summon a crushing mass of Daikokuten cubes, leaving Isshiki facing his own technique.

• Menma’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion destroyed half of Jigen’s body and left his vessel beyond saving.
• Jigen’s Karma markings engulfed him in a Black Cocoon, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki emerged by forcing an imperfect reincarnation.
• Isshiki dressed in a white tailcoat, assessed Menma, and declared that his restored power would be enough to kill him.
• Menma mocked Isshiki’s unstable reincarnated body, then replaced his own right eye with an identical Black Eye from another spacetime.
• Menma used the Black Eye to summon over a hundred Daikokuten cubes above Isshiki, sending them crashing down.

Menma overwhelmed Isshiki with Daikokuten, a Truth-Seeking Orb sword, and the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, forcing Isshiki to flee through a portal. Menma revealed that he had stolen his Black Eye from another Isshiki, leaving the shaken Ōtsutsuki suspecting he was being hunted across space-time.

• Isshiki shrank the Daikokuten cubes above him, but Menma used the brief opening to rush in and attack with a Truth-Seeking Orb Black Sword.
• Isshiki's Black Receivers shattered against Menma's sword, so Isshiki shrank himself to evade the thrust and launched a counterattack that Menma's Black Barrier absorbed.
• Menma tracked Isshiki's tiny form and unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, forcing Isshiki to escape through a teleportation portal.
• Isshiki emerged from the portal at normal size and questioned Menma about his identical Black Eye.
• Menma said he had stolen the eye from another Isshiki, prompting Isshiki to fear that Menma had killed his counterpart in another timeline and now intended to hunt him.

Menma overwhelmed Isshiki in the sinkhole, fatally wounded him, and survived his final self-destruction while taking his Black Eye. With Isshiki dead, Menma turned toward the spectators near Hokage Rock and the two visitors from a parallel space-time.

• Menma used his speed and Truth-Seeking Orbs to sever Isshiki’s right arm and punch him into the sinkhole.
• Menma struck Isshiki with a giant Truth-Seeking Orb palm, leaving him near death and rapidly draining his life force.
• Isshiki pleaded with Menma and offered clan secrets, but Menma pierced his chest with a Truth-Seeking Orb sword.
• Isshiki tried to detonate his body, but Menma shielded himself inside a sphere formed from five Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Menma survived the explosion, recovered Isshiki’s Black Eye, and turned his attention toward the spectators and two visitors from a parallel space-time.

After defeating Otsutsuki Urashiki and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Menma revealed the threat posed by the Otsutsuki Clan and announced that he would unify the Shinobi World under the Land of Stars. He gave Kirigakure and Kumogakure one month to choose whether to join him, then turned his attention to the mysterious one-armed young man in black.

• Menma emerged unharmed from the sinkhole as the gathered shinobi wondered whether the battle was over.
• Menma told the survivors that Otsutsuki Urashiki and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had come from beyond the heavens, that their clan had targeted the planet for over a thousand years, and that more Otsutsuki were coming.
• Menma declared that the divided shinobi order was obsolete and announced his intention to unify the Shinobi World with the Land of Stars at its core.
• Menma ordered the Kirigakure and Kumogakure shinobi to report what they had witnessed to their Kage and gave their villages one month to join the Land of Stars or oppose him.
• Menma finished his ultimatum and looked toward the one-armed young man in black.

Menma withdrew from the battle at Konoha and met privately with Sasuke and Boruto, explaining that his world was one of countless parallel timelines. He challenged Sasuke to consider whether his own era had truly achieved peace, leaving Sasuke to reflect on the wars and suffering that still persisted.

• Menma ordered Yukimi, Idasuke, Neji, Gaara, Karin, and the other Land of Stars forces to withdraw, then left Konoha for the west.
• Young Sasuke took Boruto after Menma, while Jiraiya comforted Naruto and promised to explain his parents and older brother; Shikaku and the others began organizing Konoha's recovery.
• The surviving ninja from Kirigakure and Kumogakure left to report Menma's declaration and the threat of war to their villages.
• Menma reached a secluded riverbank, stored Isshiki's Black Eye, and replaced it with an ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan before Sasuke and Boruto arrived.
• Menma explained that parallel space-times branched from a shared origin and said his world was one of countless possibilities.
• Menma asked Sasuke whether peace had followed the defeat of Uchiha Madara and Kaguya; Sasuke recalled that wars, poverty, and hunger continued in many parts of his era.

After discussing the fragile peace and unpredictable future of this time-space, Menma invited young Sasuke and Boruto to the Land of Stars, and Sasuke agreed. In Konoha, the leaders mourned Hiruzen Sarutobi and debated whether the Fourth Hokage was alive before Shimura Danzō entered the meeting.

• Young Sasuke questioned Menma about how his presence would change this time-space, and Menma said its future would depend on his will.
• Menma invited young Sasuke and Boruto to visit the Land of Stars, and Boruto persuaded Sasuke by asking about its advanced technology and entertainment.
• Young Sasuke accepted the invitation, partly because Karasuki needed time to recharge and he wanted to see how Mikoto Uchiha was living.
• Nara Shikaku reported that Konoha's cleanup, medical care, and security measures were underway after the attack, while the village's leaders gathered beside Hiruzen Sarutobi's coffin.
• Mitokado Homura asked whether the Fourth Hokage was alive and whether Menma was his child, and Shikaku cautioned that Orochimaru's claims might be a deception.
• Shimura Danzō entered the conference room as Konoha's leaders considered the village's uncertain future.

At Hiruzen Sarutobi’s funeral meeting, Danzo accused the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, of secretly being Asura and plotting the Nine-Tails Incident, undermining Jiraiya’s prospects in the Hokage succession. The elders called for an anonymous vote to choose an acting Hokage, while Hyuga Hiashi welcomed the growing turmoil as a chance to help his son-in-law.

• Danzo arrived at Hiruzen’s funeral meeting and called for the Jonin Council and elders to nominate an acting Hokage.
• Shikaku explained that Jiraiya was calming Naruto, and Kakashi confirmed that Hiruzen had personally arranged Team 7 and appointed him as its instructor.
• Danzo claimed Minato had been Asura and argued that Minato and Orochimaru had staged the Nine-Tails Incident, prompting alarm and suspicion among the assembled ninja.
• Homura cautioned that Danzo’s claims lacked proof, while Koharu ordered Jiraiya summoned and scheduled an anonymous vote for acting Hokage in one hour.
• Hiashi suspected Danzo would target the Hyuga Clan, then privately welcomed the turmoil as an opportunity to help his son-in-law.

Jiraiya told Naruto that his parents were Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina, and that Menma was his twin brother, presumed dead after the Nine-Tails’ attack. Naruto reeled from learning Menma had likely known the truth all along, and the chapter ended with Sasuke appearing at the abandoned training ground.

• Jiraiya brought Naruto to Minato’s old training ground and told him stories about Minato and Kushina.
• Jiraiya revealed that Naruto’s parents were Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina, and said they had died protecting Konoha and Naruto.
• Jiraiya explained that Kushina had given birth to twins, but the village had found only Naruto after the Nine-Tails’ attack and had presumed Menma dead.
• Naruto recalled how Menma had befriended and supported him throughout his childhood, then struggled with Jiraiya’s suggestion that Menma had always known they were brothers.
• An Anbu summoned Jiraiya to an emergency meeting about choosing an acting Hokage, so Jiraiya left Naruto at the training ground.
• Naruto wandered through the grounds in grief, and Sasuke Uchiha emerged from the woods.

Sasuke pushed Naruto to seek answers from Menma, but Naruto was overwhelmed when grieving villagers attacked and blamed him for Konoha’s destruction. After leaving Naruto at his apartment, Sasuke discussed his defection plan with Yakushi Kabuto, who hinted that further plans were underway.

• Sasuke urged Naruto to go to the Land of Stars and ask Menma directly about his parents, the past, and Menma’s motives.
• Sasuke and Naruto crossed Konoha’s war-damaged streets, where Naruto saw that Gato Company shops had been sealed by the authorities.
• A group of villagers hurled insults and objects at Naruto, blaming him for the disaster and the Third Hokage’s death, so Sasuke pulled him away across the rooftops.
• Sasuke left Naruto alone in his apartment, where Naruto broke down under the villagers’ accusations, while Sasuke kept watch from a nearby rooftop.
• Yakushi Kabuto met Sasuke and denied arranging the rumors, suggesting that Root and Shimura Danzō had stirred up the villagers’ hatred.
• Sasuke asked when they could take Naruto away, and Kabuto said he had made other arrangements and promised a coming surprise.

After Jiraiya won the jonin vote to become acting Hokage, the Land of Fire’s daimyo intervened and appointed Danzō instead, leaving Konoha’s leaders stunned and divided.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura opened the acting Hokage election between Danzō and Jiraiya, while Yamato questioned why Hiruzen Sarutobi’s wish for Jiraiya was not being followed.
• Jiraiya reassured his supporters and hinted that he would bring Tsunade back to become the Fifth Hokage.
• The jonin voted fifteen for Jiraiya, seven for Danzō, and three abstentions, but a message from the Daimyo Mansion interrupted the result announcement.
• Maruichi Naoya appeared by communication screen and ordered Danzō to serve as acting Hokage, overruling the vote and claiming the decision was settled.
• Danzō accepted the appointment, while Jiraiya and the other jonin recognized that Danzō had secured power by appealing directly to the daimyo.

Uchiha Shisui escorted the Uchiha stone tablet toward the Land of Stars with Kimimaro, Haku, and three Chunin after the team abandoned its attack on Konoha and evacuated. Their camp was interrupted by Kankuro's emergency report that two Akatsuki members had attacked Gaara's team, and Shisui realized they were targeting Shukaku.

• Kimimaro reported that the evacuation teams had safely crossed into the Land of Stars, while Shisui's group continued slowly with the heavy stone tablet.
• Shisui recalled how he had found the Uchiha stone tablet in the ruins of Naka Shrine after Root's base proved mostly empty, then transported it by carriage because a Storage Scroll could not seal it.
• Shisui's group stopped for the night, set watches, and shared heated field rations as Shisui described the harsh meals he had endured during the Third Shinobi World War.
• Kankuro sent an emergency call reporting that two enemies in black cloaks with red clouds had attacked his team and that his puppets' poison had failed against the scythe-wielding attacker.
• Shisui recognized the attackers as Akatsuki and realized they had come for Gaara and the One-Tail, Shukaku.

Shisui rushed to support Gaara’s team after Sasori and Hidan ambushed them, while arranging for another squad to guard the stone tablets. Yukimi held off Hidan so Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro could retreat, but Hidan began a ritual that threatened to turn the fight against her.

• Shisui ordered Kimimaro and Haku to help the Suna Squad and called for Oyashiro Chino’s Blood Squad to take over the stone tablets.
• Sasori’s puppet army overwhelmed Gaara’s group, and Gaara began suffering from poison released by the Ibuse puppet.
• Sasori revealed himself and told Hidan to fight Yukimi, Temari, and Gaara while he kept Kankuro alive to learn about his puppet technology.
• Yukimi used Wood Release to block the puppet army and ordered Temari and Kankuro to carry the poisoned Gaara toward Shisui’s team.
• Hidan broke through Yukimi’s forest barrier, but Yukimi wounded him in their fight before he rose again and revealed that her blood had triggered his ritual.

Kisame learned that Sasori and Hidan had attacked the Suna Squad and sent their combat intelligence to the battlefield, where Yukimi was already caught in Hidan’s curse. Yukimi escaped the synchronized wound with her Smoke Transformation, overwhelmed Hidan with the Smoke Smothering Technique, and cut off his head, though his regenerative ability left his fate uncertain.

• Kisame identified Sasori and Hidan as the attackers and ordered their abilities and countermeasures sent to the Suna Squad and its approaching support teams.
• Hidan used Yukimi’s blood to activate Death Controlling Possessed Blood and stabbed his own abdomen, but Yukimi transformed into smoke and avoided the reflected injury.
• Yukimi poured smoke into Hidan’s body and burned his organs with the Smoke Smothering Technique, while suffering pain and weakness herself.
• Hidan’s wounds began regenerating as he taunted Yukimi, and she cut off his head with a Kunai.