Chapter Summaries

Naruto brought Fugaku, Mikoto, and Satsuki to Ash's underground base and revealed that he was Menma, the masked leader. He led them to the imprisoned Itachi so Satsuki could learn the truth, but the man who opened the cell was Shisui Uchiha.

• Fugaku confronted Naruto after noticing Satsuki had been crying, while Mikoto urged him to hear Naruto out.
• Naruto masked himself as Menma and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Fugaku, Mikoto, and Satsuki to Ash's underground city.
• Menma admitted that he was Naruto and apologized for hiding his identity, while Fugaku realized the organization had rescued the Uchiha clan years earlier.
• Menma explained that Itachi was imprisoned at the base and said he wanted Satsuki to hear the truth from him, with Mikoto present.
• Menma knocked on the prison door, and Fugaku recognized the young man who opened it as Shisui Uchiha.

Menma brought Mikoto, Fugaku, and Satsuki to meet the blind Yū, formerly Itachi Uchiha, and asked Shisui to explain the Uchiha Clan massacre. Shisui began recounting the events that started eighteen years earlier, when Kurama appeared in Konoha.

• Menma led Mikoto, Fugaku, and Satsuki into Shisui and Yū's chamber and asked them to remove their masks.
• Mikoto recognized Yū and struggled between her lingering pain and her longing to see her daughter again.
• Satsuki rejected Yū's attempt to touch her, while Shisui caught Yū and questioned Menma about bringing the family there.
• Menma explained that Satsuki had nearly followed the path Itachi had set for her and asked Shisui to tell the truth about the massacre.
• Shisui agreed to recount the events and began with the night Kurama appeared in Konoha eighteen years earlier.

Shisui recounted how suspicion after the Nine-Tails Rebellion fueled the Uchiha’s resentment and how Satsuki’s friendship with Naruto briefly offered a path toward reconciliation. He explained that the clan’s hawks twisted that bond into a coup plan, and Satsuki’s horrified reaction interrupted him as he began naming the person who exploited the intelligence.

• Shisui told Satsuki that a masked Uchiha had used the Mangekyō Sharingan to control Kurama during the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
• Menma reassured Satsuki as she struggled to accept that an Uchiha had caused Naruto’s parents’ deaths.
• Shisui described how Konoha’s surveillance and relocation of the Uchiha intensified the clan’s resentment and fueled a coup plan.
• Shisui explained that Satsuki’s friendship with Naruto had offered the Uchiha a chance to regain trust, but the clan’s hawks planned to use her to lure Naruto into their compound and control Kurama.
• Shisui said he and Itachi had exposed the coup plan to Konoha’s leaders, then began to name the person who exploited the information before Satsuki shouted for him to stop.

Shisui revealed that Danzō manipulated Uchiha Yū into killing her clan by promising to spare Satsuki, while Yū admitted she attacked Naruto to force Satsuki to awaken her Sharingan. Satsuki awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan in a surge of rage and formed a Susanoo that aimed at Yū.

• Mikoto comforted Satsuki as she learned the Uchiha had planned to use her to take Naruto's life, and Menma promised he would never let her leave his side.
• Shisui explained that Danzō stole one of his Mangekyō Sharingan eyes, causing his plan to fail and contributing to the clan massacre.
• Yū admitted that Danzō promised Konoha would spare Satsuki and let her revive the Uchiha Clan if Yū killed the clan members herself.
• Menma challenged Yū over cooperating with Danzō, and Yū said she had acted to fulfill Shisui's wish and prevent rebellion and war.
• Satsuki confronted Yū over nearly killing Naruto and learned Yū had attacked him because he saved Uchiha clan members and her parents.
• Satsuki awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan, unleashed a powerful Susanoo, and aimed its raised palm at Yū.

Satsuki lost control after learning the truth about Yū and attacked her with Susanoo, forcing Shisui to intervene. Satsuki’s Mangekyō ability stripped Shisui of his dojutsu, and Naruto prepared to stop her before she killed Yū.

• Satsuki’s purple Susanoo attacked Yū, and Shisui countered with his red Susanoo as Naruto transferred them to Ash’s underground training ground.
• Satsuki intensified her attack, while Shisui took responsibility for what happened and begged her to spare Yū.
• Satsuki’s Mangekyō ability froze Shisui, and Amaterasu appeared before his Susanoo collapsed and his dojutsu vanished.
• Yū reached the injured Shisui, admitted she had twisted his will and made the decision herself, and begged Satsuki not to hurt him.
• Satsuki recalled begging Itachi to spare Naruto and told Yū that she had still driven the blade into him.
• Naruto decided to stop Satsuki before she killed Yū and was left haunted by revenge against her own family.

Satsuki nearly killed Itachi Uchiha, but Naruto stopped her by reminding her of Mikoto and the family still alive in this world. She spared Itachi for her mother's sake, then set a final boundary before leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Naruto calmed Satsuki and asked her to go home with him instead of killing Itachi, while Mikoto and Fugaku pleaded for their daughters.
• Zabuza, Haku, Kisame Hoshigaki, Deidara, Kakuzu, and Orochimaru arrived, but Menma told them there were no enemies and sent them away.
• Satsuki asked Naruto whether all the Uchiha rebels had been dealt with and whether he had killed Danzo, and he confirmed both.
• Satsuki told Itachi Uchiha never to appear in her life again and warned that she would kill her if she returned.

Uchiha Yū accepted that Satsuki would never again see her as a sister, while Fugaku learned the truth about the Uchiha tragedy and agreed to keep Mikoto’s Mangekyō secret. When Naruto feared Satsuki would hate him for his own deception, she told him he was a victim too.

• Uchiha Yū nodded toward Satsuki, accepting their permanent break and her younger sister’s hatred.
• Naruto offered Fugaku a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan for Satsuki, but Fugaku said she could receive Mikoto’s eyes instead.
• Naruto confirmed that Mikoto had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and agreed not to tell her about it.
• Fugaku thanked Naruto for saving his family and entrusted Satsuki to his care.
• Naruto returned home fearing Satsuki would hate him, but Satsuki asked why she would need to forgive him and called him a victim too.

Naruto and Satsuki reconciled and spent the night together, while Naruto discovered that Satsuki’s bond with him had reached a reality-defying singularity. The next morning, Jiraiya arrived in a panic, and an enraged Kushina rushed in, warning him not to let his past mistakes affect Naruto.

• Satsuki told Naruto that she wanted only him, and he embraced her before they went to the bedroom together.
• Naruto checked the system and saw that Satsuki’s bond level had reached its maximum value, with her status listed as “Singularity of Love.”
• Naruto and Satsuki woke up together, shared breakfast, and returned to intimacy before eating.
• Jiraiya visited Naruto and awkwardly asked about his relationship with Satsuki, then turned pale when Naruto mentioned their future wedding.
• Kushina charged in and threatened Jiraiya, warning that his youthful messes must not affect Naruto.

Jiraiya revealed that his old duel agreement with Nadeshiko Village had led to a match between Naruto and Nadeshiko Shizuka, with marriage at stake. As Satsuki’s fury rose over the proposed union, an explosion outside interrupted the meeting.

• Jiraiya explained that he had agreed with a Nadeshiko Village kunoichi to let their disciples settle their unfinished duel, and Satsuki reacted with murderous anger at the marriage wager.
• Kushina showed everyone a promotional poster announcing Naruto’s duel with Nadeshiko Shizuka, and Naruto rejected the marriage agreement.
• Nadeshiko Shizuka’s attendant said the village had chosen Naruto as a groom long ago and explained that Shizuka had loved the merchant Sagiri, who was killed after the village opposed their relationship.
• Satsuki realized Shizuka still loved Sagiri and was being pushed toward Naruto by tradition, and her Mangekyō Sharingan began to emerge.
• A deafening explosion shook the area, and Jiraiya wondered whether Konoha was under attack.

A man attacked Konoha in a giant puppet, seeking to claim Nadeshiko Shizuka through a duel, but he became fixated on Satsuki and attacked her. Naruto erased the attacker and his puppet with a new technique fueled by Starry Sky Chakra, then realized he had killed the man after losing control.

• A glasses-wearing man arrived in a giant metal puppet and demanded a duel with Nadeshiko Shizuka, prompting Jiraiya to confront him.
• A Nadeshiko kunoichi explained that the attacker had challenged Shizuka ninety-eight times and wanted control of the village under its traditions.
• Shizuka stepped forward to face the attacker, but he spotted Satsuki and declared that he wanted her as his wife.
• The attacker launched a small puppet at Satsuki, but Naruto intercepted it with a Flying Thunder God Kunai.
• Naruto used Rasengan: Sun Core to erase the attacker and his giant puppet, then realized he had lost control and killed him.
• Naruto identified the cosmic power behind the technique as Starry Sky Chakra, which he had gathered from the stars and planets.

Naruto agreed to fight Nadeshiko Shizuka after Satsuki urged him to prove their marriage wager was hopeless, then quickly defeated her in the Konoha Duel Arena. He left Shizuka at his mercy after declaring the match over.

• Naruto rejected the Nadeshiko ninja’s marriage wager, but Satsuki told him to fight Shizuka and make the village give up.
• The duel began before a cheering Konoha crowd, while the host introduced Naruto as the Hero of Konoha and Shizuka as Nadeshiko Village’s heir.
• Shizuka attacked Naruto with powerful Wind Release and volleys of kunai, but he evaded them using Flying Thunder God kunai.
• Naruto absorbed Shizuka’s Wind Release with the mark on his palm and redirected it, knocking her to the ground.
• Naruto crouched beside Shizuka with a kunai at her throat and told her the match was over.

Naruto defeated Shizuka but refused to kill her, challenging the village rule that made her treat marriage as the fate of a loser. He urged her to honor her lost loved one by living well and becoming Nadeshiko Village’s first chief to break that rule, leaving her overwhelmed and in tears.

• Shizuka accepted defeat and asked Naruto to kill her, but he tossed aside his kunai and refused.
• Shizuka angrily challenged Naruto’s belief in love and choice, asking what he would do if fate took away the person he loved.
• Naruto told Shizuka he would die with Uchiha Satsuki and recalled how Satsuki had cared for him when he was lonely.
• Naruto rejected the idea that Shizuka’s village rule was fate and said it was a cage that forced her to sacrifice herself.
• Naruto urged Shizuka to live well and become Nadeshiko Village’s first chief to end the marriage rule, and Shizuka broke down in tears.

After Shizuka left Konoha, Naruto reassured Satsuki that he would follow her anywhere, and Satsuki revealed how far she would go to bring him back if he died. Satsuki then activated her Mangekyō Sharingan, causing black flames to burn across her own body.

• Shizuka thanked Naruto and left Konoha with her attendants.
• Jiraiya gave Naruto his share of the ticket sales and counted the incident as an A-rank mission.
• Satsuki asked whether Naruto meant that he would die with her, and he promised to find her wherever she went.
• Satsuki said she would preserve Naruto's body as a puppet and seal his soul if he died, and Naruto accepted her devotion.
• Satsuki activated her Mangekyō Sharingan, and black flames began burning from her own body.

Satsuki explained her Mangekyō Sharingan abilities to Naruto and demonstrated her power to control time by rewinding an apple into a flower and restoring it. Naruto learned that her first ability, Tokoyo, could pause, accelerate, or rewind time, though controlling another living being depended on their strength and resistance.

• Satsuki gathered the harmless black flames around herself and transferred them into Naruto, where they settled into his Chakra circulation as a unique gift.
• Satsuki told Naruto that her first Mangekyō Sharingan ability was Tokoyo, which let her control the time of objects and living beings, and that she had paused her own time to remain at her current age.
• Naruto asked Satsuki to demonstrate Tokoyo, and she rewound a wrinkled apple through its unripe stage until it became a white blossom.
• Satsuki reversed the apple's time until it was ripe again and explained that controlling another living being depended on their strength, Chakra, and will, while objects and fully willing subjects were exceptions.

Satsuki explained that her Mangekyō ability, Amaterasu Ling, let her control black flames and alter the concepts of beings marked by them, though the effect depended on her target’s strength. She told Naruto she could not change him, but revealed that she wanted him to use the power to reshape her into his perfect version of Uchiha Satsuki.

• Naruto wondered why Satsuki’s time-manipulation ability had involved Amaterasu’s flames.
• Satsuki explained that Amaterasu Ling let her control the flames’ temperature and whether they ignited or went out.
• Satsuki said she could alter the concept of a living being marked by the flames, and revealed she had temporarily made Shisui Uchiha unable to use the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Satsuki assured Naruto that she had not altered him, and that her power could not affect him.
• Naruto rejected her offer of protection and said every version of Satsuki was already perfect to him.
• Satsuki told Naruto she wanted him to use his power to alter her into the version of Uchiha Satsuki he liked best.

Naruto accepted Satsuki’s gift and her insistence that he answer her trust, then resolved to eliminate the threats that could endanger their future together. He mobilized Menma’s forces for a covert operation targeting Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu in Amegakure.

• Satsuki gave Naruto the authority to alter her body, will, and soul, and persuaded him to accept it as a safeguard for their relationship.
• Satsuki prepared for an intimate night with Naruto, and he agreed to let her set the rules.
• Naruto recalled that searching the vast universe for the Otsutsuki was impractical, so he decided to confront the threats within the Ninja World first.
• Naruto mobilized the fighters following Menma, including Shisui and a former member of the Three Ninja, for an infiltration and extermination mission.
• Menma and the combat personnel under Ash received orders to infiltrate Amegakure and kill Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu.

Konan told Pain that Orochimaru had joined Ash, whose leader Menma demanded that Akatsuki stop capturing the Tailed Beasts and surrender Uchiha Obito and Zetsu. Menma appeared before Pain and Konan, revealed that he knew Nagato controlled Pain, and asked to talk.

• Konan reported that Orochimaru had betrayed Akatsuki and delivered Menma's demands through a message.
• Pain dismissed the demands and ordered Akatsuki's members to gather, preparing to face Menma in Amegakure's Tower.
• Menma emerged from a void gate inside the tower, prompting Pain and Konan to ready their attacks.
• Menma addressed Pain as Nagato and Konan, exposing Nagato as Pain's controller, then asked them to have a heart-to-heart.

Menma confronted Deva Path Pain in Amegakure and tried to convince him that Uchiha Obito was exploiting his plan for peace. Nagato refused to change course, so Menma arranged to meet him outside Amegakure in two days.

• Deva Path Pain challenged Menma, but held back from attacking because the people of Amegakure could be caught in the fight.
• Menma warned Pain that the Rinnegan power did not truly belong to him, and their Chakra auras violently collided inside the tower.
• Menma urged Pain to capture Zetsu to uncover Uchiha Obito's deception, but Pain refused to abandon his plan to capture the Tailed Beasts.
• Menma agreed to wait for Pain outside Amegakure in two days, then turned toward the Void gate.

Pain gathered the Akatsuki members and announced war against Ash, while Naruto told Satsuki he had found the Masked Man’s base and invited her to join the coming battle. He began using Mikoto Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan to help Satsuki awaken the Eternal Mangekyō.

• Pain announced that the Akatsuki would go to war with Ash, and the members accepted while naming personal targets and conditions.
• Shinnō agreed to fight, reminding Pain of their agreement to help him destroy Konoha afterward.
• Naruto admitted to Satsuki that he had found the Masked Man’s possible base and planned to lead Ash against him the next day.
• Naruto invited Satsuki to join the battle and officially become part of Ash, warning her to keep Menma’s identity secret.
• Naruto brought out Mikoto Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan and placed his fingertips near Satsuki’s eyes to begin helping her awaken the Eternal Mangekyō.

Menma approached Amegakure and fought off an ambush by Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki, revealing his immunity to their attacks. As a chimera attacked, Shisui arrived to block it with Susanoo, while another masked figure dispelled the mist with a wind technique.

• Menma crossed the sea toward Amegakure and asked Konan whether Obito was there, saying he wanted to prevent people from becoming like White Zetsu.
• Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki ambushed Menma, but he stopped their blades with his hand and foot.
• Raiga struck Menma with lightning and Juzo concealed the battlefield in mist, but Menma emerged unharmed using Absolute Stillness.
• An artificial chimera charged Menma, and Shisui appeared with Susanoo to block its attack.
• A masked figure appeared on a reef and used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to scatter the mist.