Chapter Summaries

Obito reunited with Rin in the afterlife and confessed that he had lived long after she died, burdened by years of wrongdoing. Rin began viewing his life in the Mirror of Causality, which revealed that he survived the boulder at Kannabi Bridge and awakened in Madara's presence.

• Obito awoke in the Pure Land and found Rin, then broke down apologizing for arriving too late.
• Obito told Rin that Uchiha Madara had saved him and that Hashirama Cells had healed his body, but he could not bring himself to explain what happened after he found her.
• After learning that the Mirror of Causality revealed each soul's life, Obito gave his mirror to Rin so she could see his past.
• Rin watched scenes of Obito's childhood, Team 7, and the battle at Kannabi Bridge, where she had believed he died.
• The mirror showed young Obito waking after the boulder crushed him and seeing an aged man emerge from the shadows.

Rin watched a mirror reveal how her death drove Obito into vengeance, while Shisui learned that Uchiha Yū was pregnant. The chapter ended with Shisui realizing he was going to become a father.

• Rin watched Uchiha Madara save Obito and try to recruit him into the Moon Eye plan, but young Obito remained determined to return to Rin and Kakashi.
• The mirror showed Rin throwing herself into Kakashi's lightning and Obito slaughtering the Kirigakure ninjas in grief and rage.
• A medical ninja told Shisui Uchiha that Uchiha Yū was about a month pregnant and explained how to care for her.
• Shisui listened to the doctor's advice and, after the doctor left, realized he was going to be a father.

After seeing Obito’s role in Kushina’s death, Rin confronted him about what else he had done. Obito confessed that he summoned Kurama in Konoha and that his teacher died sealing the beast, leaving Rin asking whether it was all her fault.

• Shisui realized Uchiha Yū might be pregnant after their encounter a month earlier.
• Rin watched the mirror show Obito helping cause Kushina’s death and lost her remaining hope that he would return to his former self.
• Rin confronted Obito and asked how much more he had done.
• Obito admitted that he summoned Kurama in Konoha and that his teacher died while sealing Kurama to protect the village.
• Rin nearly fainted, then asked Obito whether he had committed those acts because of her and whether it was her fault.

In the Pure Land, Rin and Obito confronted the consequences of Obito’s crimes as the Sin Index revealed the souls’ sins. Hashirama discovered Tobirama’s high score came from the forbidden techniques he created, and angrily confronted him.

• Rin asked Obito whether he knew he was wrong, and Obito quietly admitted it and apologized.
• Rin chose to stay with Obito in silence as they awaited judgment from the mirror.
• Madara saw his Sin Index of 8.2 and Black Zetsu’s maximum score of 10.0, while Izuna’s was only 0.05.
• Hashirama discovered his own Sin Index was 0.00 and Tobirama’s was 3.8, attributed to the forbidden techniques he had developed.
• Hashirama recalled Tobirama’s refusal to heed his warnings and angrily confronted him.

In the newly established Pure Land, Tobirama Senju watched Kumogakure and Iwagakure souls nearly break into battle before dinosaur guards subdued them. A talking Tyrannosaurus Rex identified Hashirama Senju and Tobirama as the Pure Land’s administrators, and Hashirama began pleading for Tobirama before it could explain why it had come.

• Hashirama Senju scolded Tobirama Senju for creating forbidden techniques while Tobirama blocked out his brother’s loud condemnation.
• Tobirama noticed Kumogakure and Iwagakure souls trading insults over the Third Raikage’s death and realized their conflict could destabilize the Pure Land.
• The two groups prepared to attack, but a pack of velociraptors rushed in and restrained them without serious injuries.
• A Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared behind Hashirama and Tobirama, spoke, and called them the Pure Land’s administrators.
• Hashirama apologized for Tobirama’s forbidden techniques and begged the dinosaur not to send his brother to hell, while Tobirama angrily told him to stop.

Naruto and Satsuki shared a date that ended with Satsuki dressing as a maid and asking how Naruto felt about her. Satsuki then used her ability to create two versions of herself at different ages, leaving Naruto surrounded by three Satsukis.

• Satsuki stopped at a maid café, tried on a maid outfit, and shyly asked Naruto whether he liked it.
• Satsuki called Naruto “Master,” and Naruto blushed so intensely that he briefly lost consciousness.
• Satsuki nestled into Naruto’s arms, and Naruto told her that holding her felt familiar and safe.
• Satsuki pulled away and said she hoped Naruto would always find her fresh and new.
• Satsuki used the Clone Technique and changed the appearances of two clones into older and younger versions of herself.
• The three Satsukis gathered around Naruto while he looked away, flustered.

Hashirama and Tobirama arrived in the Pure Land and encountered Madara and several future Kage before Naruto and Satsuki appeared. Hashirama learned that Konoha had reached its Fifth Generation and that his granddaughter Tsunade and Naruto’s teacher Jiraiya governed the village together.

• Tobirama recognized the future Kage in the hall and stopped Hashirama from approaching them as they focused warily on Madara.
• Hashirama urged Madara not to give up and offered to stay with him, but Madara told him to get lost.
• Naruto and Satsuki arrived, and Tobirama found Naruto impossible to sense and noticed Satsuki’s Uchiha aura.
• Hashirama eagerly questioned Satsuki and Naruto about Konoha, then learned Naruto was not Hokage and that Jiraiya was the Fifth Generation Hokage.
• Naruto explained that Jiraiya was Tsunade’s teammate and admirer, and that the two of them were governing Konoha together.

Naruto explained to the resurrected Kage that the living shinobi villages still existed and that wars had ended under his deterrence. Hashirama’s hope that Naruto had achieved peace through negotiation gave way to stunned silence, while Madara found Naruto’s method interesting.

• Hashirama learned that Tsunade was dating Jiraiya and laughed as he recalled spoiling his granddaughter.
• Tobirama interrupted Hashirama’s questions and asked Naruto why he had gathered the dead in the Pure Land.
• Mu asked whether the shinobi villages still existed and what price they had paid in wars, and Naruto said they remained and there had been no wars in his era.
• Hashirama eagerly asked how Naruto had ended war, and Naruto explained that he had secretly acted as an organization leader to deter villages from conflict.
• Naruto said he had demonstrated the power to destroy a nation but had killed no one, and Madara reconsidered him with interest.

Uzumaki Naruto explained the Pure Land, its rules for reunion and reincarnation, and the punishments awaiting souls with excessive Sin Values. The gathered Kage learned that sinners who could not reduce their Sin Values would be reborn as animals, while the worst would first endure the pain they had inflicted.

• Hashirama Senju accepted that later generations would choose how to pursue peace, while Tobirama Senju left the living to decide their own path.
• Uzumaki Naruto explained that awakened souls in the Pure Land regained their bodies' prime condition while retaining the strength they had trained to achieve before death.
• Naruto said souls could reunite with loved ones, resolve regrets, and reincarnate once they no longer clung to their identities.
• Naruto revealed that only souls with a Sin Value no higher than 2.0 could enjoy the Pure Land's benefits, prompting Hashirama Senju to notice Tobirama Senju's 3.8 and Uchiha Madara's 8.2.
• Naruto explained that souls who failed to lower their Sin Value would be sent to the Animal Path to reincarnate as animals, while the most sinful would first suffer the pain they had inflicted in life in the Asura Path.

Uzumaki Naruto explained how Sin Value was judged and how it could be reduced, prompting Uchiha Madara to attack him. After Uchiha Satsuki stopped time and shattered Madara’s Susanoo, Naruto sentenced him to serve as an enforcer in the Pure Land forever.

• Naruto explained that Sin Value reflected historical and public judgment and the harm a person caused, while wars fought for people and righteousness did not count as sins.
• Hashirama pleaded with Naruto to explain how Sin Value could be reduced, but Madara erupted with Chakra and formed a Susanoo to challenge him.
• Satsuki stopped time and struck Madara’s Susanoo with Heavenly Thunder God - Thousand Cranes, leaving Madara injured when time resumed.
• Naruto patted Satsuki’s head, condemned Madara for abandoning his dream with Hashirama, and declared that Madara would serve as a Pure Land enforcer and never be reborn.

Hashirama and Izuna agreed to remain in the Pure Land with Madara, who was sentenced to serve as an enforcer forever rather than reincarnate. Naruto then assigned the Kage to deal with Rasa, while Tobirama noticed Satsuki’s unusual affection for Naruto.

• Hashirama accepted Madara’s permanent sentence and said he would stay with him.
• Izuna vowed to remain with Madara and keep his identity, and Madara slowly agreed.
• Tobirama observed Satsuki allowing Naruto to pat her head and realized she watched Naruto more closely than anyone else.
• Naruto told the Kage they could reincarnate after their temporary service, but they chose to preserve their identities.
• Naruto assigned Hozuki Gengetsu, Mu, and the Third Raikage to crush Rasa’s soul and send him into the Animal Path.

Naruto postponed returning to his honeymoon with Uchiha Satsuki so he could help Kakashi resolve what was weighing on him. He found Kakashi dining with Yamato, and Naruto unexpectedly mistook Yamato for someone he knew before meeting him.

• Naruto thought over the Kage he had assigned to capture Fourth Kazekage Rasa's soul.
• Uchiha Satsuki asked Naruto to return with her, but Naruto said he first needed to help Kakashi let go of his troubles.
• Kakashi ate at a tavern with Yamato and got him to pay the bill by praising him.
• Naruto and Uchiha Satsuki met Kakashi outside the tavern, where Kakashi introduced Naruto to Yamato.
• Naruto called Yamato “Captain Yamato,” then apologized and asked whether he was Kakashi-sensei's junior.

Naruto offered Kakashi the chance to visit the dead and opened a portal to the Pure Land, where Kakashi followed Naruto and Satsuki. There, Hashirama and Tobirama found the condemned Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, and prepared to confront him over his treatment of Gaara.

• Naruto told Kakashi that the Sage of Six Paths had entrusted him with the afterlife and asked whether Kakashi wanted to revive anyone.
• Naruto opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka portal, then entered it with Satsuki; after hesitating, Kakashi followed.
• Rasa fought off Velociraptors in the Pure Land as he feared being reincarnated as an animal because his Sin Index was 5.5.
• Hashirama and Tobirama arrived and read Rasa's judgment, which listed his abuse of Gaara and other crimes.
• Hashirama called for Madara to join them, but Madara refused to be ordered around.

Uchiha Madara resented being bound to Hashirama Senju by a soul shackle, but he joined the team’s mission and attacked Rasa. After Madara incapacitated him, a Velociraptor thanked Madara and said the team would handle noncooperative sinners from then on.

• Uchiha Madara brooded over being forcibly redeemed and resented Hashirama Senju’s authority over the soul shackle Naruto had created.
• Tobirama Senju suggested using the shackle to control Madara, but Hashirama Senju forbade him from mentioning it and insisted Madara was his friend.
• Uchiha Madara abruptly attacked Rasa, absorbed his Gold Dust cube, and pierced him with a Susanoo Blade.
• Madara threw the incapacitated Rasa to the Velociraptors and asked Hashirama where they would go next.
• A Velociraptor thanked Madara and said the team would handle throwing uncooperative sinners into the Animal Path or the Asura Path.

Hashirama and the others sent the cruel torturer Kakuzo to the Asura Path, where he would suffer the pain he had inflicted before reincarnation. Naruto then brought the newly dead Hatake Kakashi to the Reincarnation Hall, where Kakashi met the First and Second Hokage.

• Hashirama checked Kakuzo’s record and learned that Kakuzo had tortured innocent people for his own amusement.
• A Velociraptor sentenced Kakuzo to the Asura Path to endure the suffering he had caused, and the others hurled him into its portal.
• Naruto arrived with Uchiha Satsuki and Hatake Kakashi, who was stunned to see Hashirama and Tobirama alive in the afterlife.
• Naruto explained that Kakashi was his teacher and had lost most of the important people in his life, while Tobirama asked how Hiruzen was doing.
• Kakashi told Tobirama that Hiruzen had retired, and Tobirama suspected Shimura Danzō might be dead and resolved to seek out his soul.

Kakashi reunited with his father, Hatake Sakumo, in the Pure Land after decades apart. Sakumo apologized for his suicide and the pain it caused Kakashi, who began recounting his life.

• Sakumo appeared before Kakashi and recognized his grown son.
• Kakashi and Sakumo exchanged cautious greetings and acknowledged their long separation.
• Kakashi noticed the Sin Index above Sakumo, whose score reflected the wound his suicide had left in his son.
• Sakumo apologized and said he would reflect and atone in the Pure Land.
• Kakashi began telling Sakumo how he had lived through the years apart.

Tobirama Senju rushed to confront his former student after learning Shimura Danzō had a higher Sin Index than Uchiha Madara. He found Danzo besieged by Velociraptors and demanded to know what had happened to the Uchiha Clan in Konoha.

• Tobirama Senju left the Reincarnation Hall alone after seeing Shimura Danzō's Sin Index of 9.2.
• Shimura Danzō fought off Velociraptors with Wind Release and realized they could be incapacitated but not killed.
• Tobirama Senju arrived and ordered the Velociraptors to stand back, and Danzo recognized his former teacher.
• Tobirama Senju read the Pure Land's verdict accusing Danzo of plotting the Uchiha Clan's massacre.
• Tobirama Senju demanded that Danzo explain what had happened to the Uchiha Clan in Konoha.

Naruto opened the old cat doll Satsuki had sewn for him and discovered a tiny doll of her hidden inside, mistaking it at first for the secret she had kept from him. Satsuki panicked, fearing he had found the cameras she had hidden in the doll’s eyes, but Naruto responded with affection, leaving the cameras undiscovered.

• Naruto found the dusty cat doll Satsuki had given him before the Chunin Exams and began removing its stuffing to wash it.
• Naruto felt something inside the doll and discovered a tiny doll made in Satsuki’s likeness.
• Satsuki saw the opened doll and feared Naruto had discovered the hidden cameras she had used to spy on him.
• Naruto told Satsuki he found her adorable and said he was moved by the thought that she had imagined herself beside him.
• Satsuki realized Naruto had found the doll of her hidden inside the cat, while the cameras remained sewn into its eyes.

Satsuki feared Naruto would reject her after learning how intensely she had once watched over him, but he accepted her confession with affection. She revealed the camera hidden in the cat plushie's eyes and admitted she had used it to watch Naruto, leaving him to confront the full extent of her devotion.

• Naruto reassured Satsuki that her past actions were not strange to him and said he was happy she had liked him so much.
• Satsuki broke open the plushie's eyes and removed a tiny camera with circuitry, a lens, and a storage chip.
• Satsuki confessed that she had wanted to see Naruto constantly and had hidden the camera in the cat so her eyes could stay by his side.
• Satsuki told Naruto she had watched him sleep, daydream, and hold the cat while imagining he was holding her.

Satsuki confessed to Naruto that she had secretly photographed him and kept his old clothes because she could not bear being apart from him. Naruto reassured her that he forgave her and promised she no longer needed to hide her attachment to him.

• Satsuki decided to confess that she had kept Naruto’s old clothes and secretly photographed him over the years.
• Naruto froze after learning the cat plushie he had treasured was a surveillance device.
• Satsuki told Naruto about the photographs and clothes she had collected and explained that they helped her cope when he was away.
• Naruto apologized for not noticing her insecurity sooner, and Satsuki asked whether he thought she was frightening.
• Naruto called her possessiveness cute, affirmed that he had married all of her, and told her he belonged to her forever.