Chapter Summaries

Menma brought Naruto and Sasuke to a desert research facility to reveal the ancient Uchiha stone tablet and explain that its records about the Sharingan, Indra, and Asura had been tampered with. Sasuke began examining the tablet with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and his body suddenly shuddered.

• Naruto visited Mikoto with Sasuke, and Sasuke told his mother goodbye before the boys left.
• Naruto told Sasuke about his parents and the rumors that had made Konoha fear and reject him, prompting Sasuke to suspect Shimura Danzō and add him to his list of targets.
• Naruto and Sasuke encountered Uzumaki Kaori outside Naruto's home, and Menma invited them to a celebration for Kimimaro and Haku's jonin promotions.
• Menma used a Space-Time Ninjutsu to take Naruto and Sasuke to Research City in Wind Prefecture, where he showed them the Uchiha stone tablet taken from beneath Naka Shrine.
• Menma explained that the tablet recorded the Sharingan's evolution and the secrets of Indra and Asura, but that some of its contents had been altered.
• Sasuke focused his Three-Tomoe Sharingan on the tablet, and his body shuddered violently.

Sasuke used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to read fragments of the Uchiha Stone Tablet, and Menma revealed that it had been altered to conceal the truth about the Sharingan and Indra. Menma then recounted the history of Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, and the feud between Indra and Asura, before revealing that Sasuke and Naruto were their current chakra reincarnations.

• Sasuke read blurred fragments on the Stone Tablet about the Uchiha clan, the Mangekyo, and a possible path involving the fusion of eyes.
• Menma told Sasuke that the Stone Tablet had been altered and explained that its original record concerned Indra and Asura's conflict, while the guidance about fusing a relative's eyes was a deliberately misleading path.
• Menma revealed his Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and Mangekyo Sharingan, then said his Mangekyo was experimental and that Three-Tomoe Sharingan could be mass-produced in a laboratory.
• Menma recounted how Kaguya and Isshiki came to the planet, how Hagoromo and Hamura were born and later sealed Kaguya, and how Hagoromo founded the Ninjutsu Sect.
• Menma explained how a hidden manipulator drove Indra and Asura apart after Hagoromo chose Asura as his successor, beginning a conflict that continued through reincarnation.
• Menma told Sasuke and Naruto that they were the current reincarnations of Indra and Asura, following Hashirama and Madara in the previous generation.

Menma told Naruto and Sasuke that they were the latest reincarnations of Asura and Indra and explained how they could break the cycle by one defeating the other. He planned special training for them, including cultural classes, but began with Naruto’s combat lesson on controlling the Nine-Tails.

• Sasuke and Naruto reacted with anger and confusion after learning about their chakra reincarnations and thousand-year cycle.
• Menma explained that one of them could break the cycle by decisively defeating the other and winning the other's wholehearted acceptance.
• Sasuke provoked Naruto, and the two argued about who would beat the other into submission.
• Menma stopped them and announced special training that would include combat, cultural classes, and practical studies at Star City's ninja school.
• Naruto and Sasuke resisted the schoolwork, so Menma switched to combat training and chose to teach Naruto how to control the fox.

Menma brought Naruto and Sasuke to the Cliff of Singing Sands to begin special training and forcibly released the Nine-Tails from Naruto. After the Nine-Tails emerged, Menma transformed into a colossal ten-tailed demon fox, leaving the Nine-Tails visibly afraid.

• Menma transported Naruto and Sasuke to the Cliff of Singing Sands and told Sasuke to observe while he trained Naruto.
• Menma warned Naruto that releasing the seal would let the Nine-Tails take control, then forcibly opened Naruto's Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
• Naruto transformed into the fully released Nine-Tails, and Sasuke was overwhelmed by the beast's size and power.
• Menma summoned a dark-red beast larger than the Nine-Tails, revealing ten tails and startling Sasuke.
• Menma's ten-tailed demon fox greeted the Nine-Tails excitedly, and the Nine-Tails froze in fear.

Sasuke witnessed Mini-Kurama overpower the Nine-Tails and was nearly killed by a stray Tailed Beast Bomb. Uchiha Hikari appeared and used Susanoo to slice the bomb apart, leaving Sasuke awed by her power and more determined to grow stronger.

• Sasuke watched Mini-Kurama tackle the Nine-Tails and overpower its Tailed Beast Bomb with a larger one.
• The Nine-Tails fled across the sea as Mini-Kurama chased it and the two beasts' attacks devastated the ocean and nearby desert.
• A stray Tailed Beast Bomb hurtled toward Sasuke, who was too injured and shaken to escape.
• Uchiha Hikari appeared between Sasuke and the bomb, summoned Perfect Susanoo, and cut the bomb cleanly in two with its greatsword.
• Uchiha Hikari's Susanoo faded, and Sasuke recognized her as the strongest Uchiha and stared at her with awe and a renewed thirst for power.

Uchiha Hikari tested Sasuke’s combat ability while Mini-Kurama subdued the Nine-Tails nearby. After overwhelming Sasuke despite limiting her strength, Hikari declared that he had passed and acknowledged his talent.

• Mini-Kurama pinned the Nine-Tails beneath the sea and toyed with it as Uchiha Hikari approached Sasuke.
• Hikari told Sasuke to attack with the resolve to kill and said she would suppress her strength to an ordinary jonin’s level.
• Sasuke launched a lethal taijutsu assault, but Hikari dodged his attacks effortlessly.
• Sasuke used Great Dragon Fire Technique to create cover, then charged through the mist with Chidori and Chidori Blade.
• Hikari countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame and kicked Sasuke into a reef as he emerged from the fire.
• Hikari told Sasuke that he had passed and praised his talent among Uchiha his age.

Menma warned Kurama that the Ten-Tails could be reassembled and urged him to help Naruto adapt to his power. Naruto introduced himself and reached out to Kurama, who reluctantly accepted his offer to grow stronger together.

• Naruto woke in his sealing space and laughed at Kurama's battered appearance after the fight with Menma's Summoned Beast.
• Kurama said the dark-red Ten-Tails Demon Fox should never have existed, and Menma arrived in the sealing space.
• Menma called the Nine-Tails Kurama by his true name and warned him that the reassembled Ten-Tails could absorb him and the other Tailed Beasts.
• Menma told Kurama to help Naruto adapt to his power, then left Kurama to consider the warning.
• Naruto introduced himself to Kurama and offered to work with him to protect those he cared about and change the Shinobi World.
• Kurama touched Naruto's fist with his paw and agreed, grudgingly, to grow stronger together.

Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro prepared for a family banquet celebrating their promotions to Special Jonin while worrying that the Land of Stars was nearing war. Their friends and family gathered at Mikoto’s home, where Sasuke’s battered return from Menma’s special training brought old memories back to him.

• Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro discussed the Land of Stars’ military preparations and accepted that they would be sent to the front if war broke out.
• Mikoto, Kushina, Temari, and Ajisai prepared a large celebratory dinner as Gaara and Kankuro set up the dining room.
• Fuka, Ka, and Minato arrived with food and drinks, and Minato said Menma and the others would be late.
• Menma and Uchiha Hikari arrived with injured Naruto and Sasuke after special training; Sasuke refused help and limped upstairs by himself.
• Naruto recovered from his injuries after bathing, while Kimimaro and Haku arrived and Naruto learned that Haku was a boy.
• As the guests gathered for dinner, Sasuke watched the warm family scene and remembered the Uchiha clan’s gatherings before its destruction.

The chapter moves from a lively dinner in the Land of Stars, where Sasuke shares a warm moment with Naruto, to the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron. Ōnoki reveals that he secretly intends to unite the independent nations into a Shinobi Allied Forces to defeat the Land of Stars and Asura.

• Mikoto, Kushina, and the others served dinner, and the group celebrated Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro's promotions to Special Jonin.
• Sasuke remembered family gatherings in the Uchiha compound, then clinked cups with Naruto and vowed not to lose to him.
• Mifune opened the summit, and A and Ōnoki traded insults over A's lost arm and Iwagakure's defeat five years earlier.
• Mei Terumi questioned whether Ōnoki had come as a vassal of the Land of Stars or had defied his masters.
• Ōnoki admitted that he had come under Asura's orders to gather intelligence but secretly wanted to unite the independent nations into a Shinobi Allied Forces against the Land of Stars and Asura.

Ōnoki urged the Five Kage Summit to unite against the Land of Stars and revealed that Asura was Namikaze Minato, presumed dead for twelve years. As the Kage questioned Minato’s return and intentions, Tobi abruptly appeared and offered to help them deal with Asura.

• Ōnoki argued that Asura and the Land of Stars were too powerful for any single village to oppose, citing Uchiha Hikari’s four Susanoo and his own defeat five years earlier.
• Ao asked who Asura was, and Danzō prompted Ōnoki to identify the man he had met in Star City.
• Ōnoki named Asura as the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, shocking the assembled Kage.
• Raikage A rejected the identification, but Danzō confirmed that he had suspected Minato was Asura since the Chunin Joint Exams.
• Mei Terumi and the others speculated that Minato had either survived or returned through forbidden means, and questioned his goals.
• Tobi appeared in the conference room through a spatial distortion and offered to help the Kage deal with Asura.

Tobi appeared at the Five Kage Summit, demonstrated intangibility and Wood Release, and claimed the Akatsuki wanted to help preserve peace. In the Land of Stars, Sasuke and Boruto prepared to leave, and Sasuke asked Menma for information about the Otsutsuki Clan.

• Darui and Raikage A attacked Tobi, but their strikes passed through him, and Tobi knocked Darui into a wall.
• Tobi used Wood Release to bind Raikage A before A broke free and demanded to know who Tobi was.
• Danzō recognized Tobi's Akatsuki robes, and Tobi said the organization loved peace and wanted to help maintain it.
• Ōnoki recalled that the Akatsuki had investigated the Land of Stars five years earlier and suffered losses there.
• On a hill outside Star City, Sasuke and Boruto prepared to leave, and Menma said he planned to send a salvage team to search for more space-time treasures like Karasuki.
• Sasuke asked Menma for more information about the Otsutsuki Clan.

Menma gave young Sasuke information about the Otsutsuki and a special Flying Thunder God kunai that could summon him across time and space. After Menma left, Sasuke and Boruto prepared to return, with Boruto still unsettled about Momoshiki inside him.

• Menma gave young Sasuke the kunai and explained that its mark could let him locate their time-space and come to their aid.
• Menma explained the Otsutsuki's paired hierarchy, their difficulty detecting, and Isshiki's abilities and Karma-based resurrection.
• Menma described ways to kill an Otsutsuki and warned that Boruto could either learn to control Momoshiki's power or become his vessel.
• Menma told Boruto that Momoshiki would protect him from mortal danger while Boruto remained a useful vessel, then departed.
• Boruto asked young Sasuke what they should do, and Sasuke told him it was time to head back.

At the Land of Iron summit, Tobi visited Danzō and warned him that Asura was powerful enough to rival the combined might of Hashirama and Madara. Tobi proposed using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to test whether the Fourth Hokage was truly dead, leaving Danzō thrilled by the possibility that Asura was Namikaze Minato and the Nine-Tails Incident had been a conspiracy.

• Danzō returned to the Hidden Leaf delegation’s lodgings with Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fu after the Five Kage Summit.
• Danzō found Tobi waiting in his room and recognized him as the mysterious man who had once sought information about the Rinnegan.
• Tobi told Danzō that even obtaining the Rinnegan had not made him strong enough to defeat Asura, whom only Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama could have opposed.
• Danzō considered letting the other villages weaken the Land of Stars before Konoha intervened to claim the advantage.
• Tobi brought up Konoha’s Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and suggested using it to determine whether the Fourth Hokage was truly dead.
• Danzō realized that the test could prove Asura was Namikaze Minato and that the Nine-Tails Incident had been a conspiracy, and he became excited by the prospect of gaining power.

Pain appointed Konan Amegakure’s public leader and Amado as her aide so Akatsuki could use the village as cover during the coming war. After learning that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had gone to the Land of Stars, Pain and Obito discussed accelerating their plans to capture the Jinchuriki before Asura unified the shinobi world.

• Pain appointed Konan the public leader of Amegakure and assigned Amado to serve as her aide.
• Pain ordered Amado to reorganize Amegakure’s ninja and send only Chunin and above to war, while Amado planned to report Akatsuki’s intelligence to Lord Asura.
• Konan told Pain that Itachi and Ringo Ameyuri had returned with news that Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was suspected of defecting to the Land of Stars.
• Pain and Konan considered how Asura’s growing power had disrupted Akatsuki’s plans and decided they needed to complete the Eye of the Moon Plan before he unified the shinobi world.
• Obito returned from the Five Kage Summit and dismissed the leaders’ ability to unite, while Pain said Akatsuki could exploit the war to capture the Jinchuriki.

Naruto and Sasuke invited Shikamaru and the others to join a practical class in Star City, while Shikamaru reflected on the Land of Stars’ prosperity and its revolutionary film. The group left without noticing that Shino was still in the bathroom, leaving him alone in the empty house.

• Shikamaru watched reports of the harvest and refugee relief, then saw a film depicting a revolution in the Land of Bears.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived, and Sakura and Ino excitedly called out to Sasuke; the group learned that Sasuke’s mother was alive.
• Naruto explained that he and Sasuke were attending classes at the Star City ninja school and invited everyone to join their practical outing, adding that they could return to Konoha whenever they wished.
• Shikamaru agreed to go, and the group left the house while chatting, unaware that Shino was still in the bathroom.
• Shino emerged to find the living room empty, the television still playing, and the others gone.

Naruto, Sasuke, and their Konoha companions traveled north with Menma to meet Oyashiro Chino’s Hoshinin students at a highway construction camp. They learned their next grassroots mission was to help a resettlement village, while the chapter ended with Kimimaro finding a starving Shino collapsed in his entryway.

• Shikamaru and the others ran from Star City through the Nether River Plains and into the northern mountains, where they saw Hoshinin using ninjutsu to assist a huge highway construction project.
• Menma led the group to the construction camp, where they met Jonin Oyashiro Chino and her three Genin students, Hayama Yu, Ozora, and Chiyo Chizuru.
• Shikamaru learned that Chiyo Chizuru had received transplanted cloned Byakugan, and Chino explained that her students were civilian geniuses who had graduated early.
• Menma told the group that their next mission was to help residents of a resettlement village by repairing homes, clearing roads, distributing supplies, providing basic medical care, teaching children, and listening to villagers.
• After the group settled in for the night, Kimimaro returned home and found Shino lying in his entryway, weak and desperately hungry.

Yuren, a traveling peddler, visited a resettlement village and heard how the Land of Stars had improved villagers’ lives after taking over the Land of Snow. When Hoshinin arrived to work on a new road, Yuren recognized a young boy and wondered whether he was witnessing the change Hamura had spoken of.

• Yuren arrived in the resettlement village, where Gu Sijie’s grandson begged for candied hawthorn.
• Gu Sijie invited Yuren home for food and explained that the village’s new houses and farmland had been provided after the government relocated residents for road construction.
• Gu Sijie told Yuren that life had improved under the Land of Stars and described how the former young master of the Ikeda family had been accepted by the villagers.
• A bell summoned the villagers to the entrance, where Gu Sijie said road workers had arrived to advance construction of a route through the mountains.
• Yuren watched the Hoshinin arrive with workers and recognized the boy in black, then murmured to Hamura about the change the boy had brought to the Shinobi World.

Menma’s group joined a village’s construction and relief work, where Sasuke was moved by a child’s simple kindness and Hayama Yu used Wood Release to reinforce a landslide-prone slope. Menma then confronted the old peddler, who reflected on the return of the Ninjutsu Sect’s original purpose and acknowledged the changes Menma had brought to the Shinobi World.

• Menma brought Shino to join the group as they arrived with a construction crew in Kuno Naoki’s village.
• Hayama Hayato’s team surveyed the area while Chino’s students and the other ninja helped villagers with medical care, irrigation repairs, and landslide prevention.
• Sasuke fell from the unstable slope, then accepted tea from a little girl and watched the villagers and ninja working together before returning to the job.
• Shikamaru organized the slope-reinforcement work, and Hayama Yu completed it by growing a barrier of trees with Wood Release.
• Menma approached the old peddler beneath the banyan tree, and the peddler said Menma had brought many changes to the Shinobi World.

Menma explained to Hagoromo why people in the Land of Stars supported wars that liberated the oppressed and protected their gains. Hagoromo left contemplating how material security and political change shaped people’s hopes for peace.

• Menma met Hagoromo, who had borrowed the body of a dying traveling merchant to journey through the Shinobi World and see the Land of Stars.
• Hagoromo questioned why the Land of Stars prospered despite its wars and why its commoners supported them.
• Menma explained the causes of the wars and described how the Land of Stars had freed civilians from exploitation and improved their living conditions.
• Menma argued that oppression and poverty bred deep hatred, while chakra-based mutual understanding alone could not overcome conflicting human interests.
• Menma told Hagoromo that people needed food, shelter, healthcare, and the power to defend their interests before they could pursue peace and understanding.
• Menma explained the Will of the Star and concluded that Hagoromo still did not understand the human heart.

Hagoromo reflected on his failure to understand Indra and Asura as Menma promised to end their feud and discussed the threat posed by the Otsutsuki. Menma proposed transforming uninhabited planets into God Tree nurseries and expanding humanity across the stars, leaving Hagoromo intrigued by this new path to peace.

• Hagoromo watched Naruto and Sasuke together as Menma promised to end the thousand-year feud between Indra and Asura in this lifetime.
• Hagoromo shared what he knew about Kaguya, the God Tree, and the danger posed by other Otsutsuki, explaining that his mother had refused to tell him and Hamura what crisis she feared.
• Menma told Hagoromo he would not sacrifice the Shinobi World for a Chakra Fruit, but suggested cultivating an uninhabited planet for the God Tree instead.
• Menma described terraforming barren planets for food, resources, and God Tree cultivation so humanity could grow beyond the limits of its home planet.
• Menma declared that humanity should explore the stars and strike the planet-harvesting Otsutsuki first, and Hagoromo considered the possibility that this could bring peace.