Chapter Summaries

Naruto defeated Obito in the Kamui Dimension, exposed his reasons for pursuing the Moon Eye Plan, and captured him for a purpose beyond killing him. After revealing that the Otsutsuki used Infinite Tsukuyomi to harvest the planet’s Chakra, Naruto left Obito’s faith shattered.

• Naruto defeated Obito repeatedly in the Kamui Dimension, and Obito accepted that he had lost.
• Naruto rejected Obito’s attempt to provoke him and challenged his choices, including causing Nine-Tails Night and refusing to revive Rin Nohara.
• Naruto claimed Rin Nohara had loved Kakashi rather than Obito, and Obito launched a desperate attack before Naruto tore out his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation to bring Obito’s soul back and place it in White Zetsu’s body.
• Naruto explained that the Otsutsuki used Infinite Tsukuyomi to harvest Chakra, causing Obito to doubt the faith that had driven his actions.

Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation to keep Obito enslaved after his death, then watched Sasuke and Itachi's battle with Kakashi. As Itachi offered Sasuke his eyes and prepared to die, Naruto intervened and took the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Naruto stored Obito's body and used Impure World Reincarnation on his soul, then returned to Kakashi with Obito's Sharingan.
• Naruto and Kakashi joined Nagato's spectators to watch Sasuke and Itachi fight, while Orochimaru abandoned his plan to seize their Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi exposed an opening and explained to Sasuke why he had killed the Uchiha clan, but Sasuke challenged his decision to slaughter their family.
• Itachi showed Sasuke his memories through Infinite Tsukuyomi, then removed his own Sharingan and offered them to his brother.
• Naruto appeared as Sasuke reached for Itachi's eyes and snatched the Mangekyō Sharingan away.

Naruto captured Itachi after the Uchiha brothers’ battle and arranged for Kisame to serve under Nagato. When Nagato asked about stopping Madara Uchiha, Naruto explained that Madara’s arrogance meant he had to be defeated with overwhelming strength and warned that Black Zetsu was the key to the Moon Eye Plan.

• A Shadow Clone killed a fleeing White Zetsu before he could report Obito, Itachi Uchiha, and Kisame's defeat to Madara and Black Zetsu.
• Naruto took Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan, restrained him with a Black Receiver, and said the Uchiha families he had harmed would decide his fate.
• Naruto offered Kisame a choice between returning to Kirigakure and joining Uzushio Village, then placed him under Nagato's management.
• Orochimaru departed after collecting blood samples from the battle, regretting that Naruto had not been injured.
• Nagato asked when Naruto would deal with Madara Uchiha, and Naruto said Madara had to be defeated with overwhelming strength and that Black Zetsu was central to the Moon Eye Plan.

Naruto brought Nagato and the others to Uzushio Village, where Sasuke and Itachi returned to the Uchiha settlement after seven years away. Sasuke and Itachi headed toward Mikoto’s residence, while Shisui stayed behind to handle the clan’s response to Itachi.

• Naruto told Nagato that Black Zetsu had controlled the White Zetsu for a thousand years and might have made Madara Uchiha and Obito into pawns.
• Shisui arrived with Naruto’s Shadow Clone and the Dragon Vein Core, then agreed that Itachi had to stand trial before the Uchiha clan.
• Naruto’s group reached the prosperous Land of Whirlpools, and Nagato and Konan considered how its development could guide the Land of Rain.
• Naruto led Sasuke and the others into Uzushio Village’s tightly guarded military district and toward the Uchiha settlement.
• Shisui introduced Sasuke and the wheelchair-bound Itachi to the Uchiha shinobi, then left to handle clan matters as the brothers continued toward Mikoto’s residence.

Mikoto reunited with Sasuke and Itachi, and Sasuke said he planned to build a village for the Uchiha. At the clan meeting, Shisui used Izanami to trap Itachi in a repeating illusion until he admitted his mistakes.

• Mikoto welcomed Sasuke and Itachi home, and Naruto said the Uchiha would decide Itachi’s fate.
• Sasuke told Mikoto he planned to build a village where only Uchiha lived, while Itachi said he no longer cared what happened to him.
• Shisui told Mikoto that the clan would hold a meeting about how to deal with Itachi.
• Uchiha clan members accused Itachi of killing his own people during Uchiha Night and argued over his punishment.
• Shisui decided to use Izanami to make Itachi confront his mistakes and trapped him in a repeating illusion.

Naruto tried to recreate Karasuki with the Dragon Vein Core but could not operate it, so he turned his attention to the Otsutsuki descendants on the moon. When the Hyuga Clan came under attack, Jiraiya and Tsunade confronted the Byakugan-wielding invaders as Naruto raced toward Konoha.

• Shisui told Naruto that Uchiha Itachi had been trapped in Izanami as punishment, and Naruto later met with Homura and Nagato.
• Naruto tried to build a working time-travel device using the Dragon Vein Core and Karasuki, but repeated attempts failed and risked sweeping him into temporal turbulence.
• Naruto suspected that only an Otsutsuki could operate Karasuki and considered seeking help from Hamura's descendants on the moon.
• Naruto noticed the moon seemed larger, then learned that the Hyuga Clan had been attacked and hurried toward Konoha in Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade found Hiashi and Hinata fighting airborne attackers who possessed Byakugan, and they stepped in to defend the Hyuga Clan.

Naruto arrived in Konoha after Moon Hyuga attackers escaped Jiraiya and Tsunade, and explained that the branch threatened the ninja world after destroying the Hyuga Compound. He left Konoha to handle the crisis while Jiraiya and Tsunade discussed Naruto’s ambitions and Konoha’s uncertain succession.

• Naruto reached Konoha and met Jiraiya and Tsunade, who told him that powerful Byakugan attackers had escaped and the Hyuga Clan had offered little information.
• Naruto explained that the attackers belonged to the Moon Hyuga, whose strongest member had Super Kage-level power and who could now destroy the ninja world.
• Naruto said Caged Bird restricted Hyuga shinobi’s potential while protecting the clan, and described how the Moon Otsutsuki branch had once wiped out its Main Family.
• Jiraiya offered Konoha’s help against the Moon Hyuga, while Naruto said Uzushio Village would handle the threat and asked Konoha to help rebuild the Hyuga Compound.
• Naruto left the Hokage Building, and Jiraiya told Tsunade he was worried about finding a successor to the Hokage position.
• Tsunade said Naruto seemed to want power beyond becoming Hokage, while Jiraiya acknowledged that even Minato and Kushina could not influence him.

Hinata uncovered the Hyuga Clan’s buried history and learned that the attackers who abducted Hanabi came from the Moon Clan. Naruto persuaded the Hyuga Main Family Elder to reveal the likely location of the Earth-Moon Passage, and he and Hinata prepared to go there.

• Hinata found a hidden record explaining that the Moon Hyuga had repeatedly attacked the shinobi-world Hyuga and that the Caged Bird seal had been developed to protect the clan.
• Naruto arrived as Hinata concluded the Moon Clan had taken Hanabi for her unsealed Byakugan, and he revealed that he knew about the Moon Clan from Great Sasuke.
• Naruto asked the Main Family Elder for the Earth-Moon Passage’s location, but the elder warned him that the Moon Clan’s Tenseigan was too powerful to oppose.
• Naruto threatened the elder with a Rasengan, prompting him to share a map marking the region where he had once traveled with Moon Clan shinobi.
• Hinata recognized the place on the map from a past mission, and Naruto looked toward the sky, thinking of the Moon Clan as a new addition to his collection.

Naruto and Hinata traveled through the Earth-Moon Passage and entered the moon, where Hinata received mysterious guidance calling her the Byakugan Princess. At the Moon Palace, the Great Elder learned that Naruto had arrived and ordered the clan to transplant the Flawless Byakugan into Toneri while he tried to buy them time.

• Hinata used her Byakugan to find a hidden mountain entrance, and Naruto opened a path into it before they crossed an underground lake.
• Naruto and Hinata emerged inside the moon, where they saw the Tenseigan in the sky and Hinata received information identifying her as the Byakugan Princess.
• Naruto encouraged Hinata to follow the guidance in her mind as they headed toward a destination connected to rescuing Hanabi.
• The Great Elder rebuked the Second Elder for taking Toneri to the shinobi world and capturing Hanabi, while the Second Elder cited the Akatsuki and the threat of the Ten-Tails.
• Toneri admitted that he had ordered the trip because he wanted Hinata for himself, then sensed Naruto and Hinata on the moon.
• The Great Elder ordered the clan to transplant the Flawless Byakugan into Toneri and said he would buy them time.

Naruto and Hinata found Hamura's hidden presence beneath the Otsutsuki Temple, where Naruto captured Hamura's phantom before it could enter Hinata. Hamura questioned Naruto about his Rinnegan and spoils, then asked for help dealing with his descendants, leaving Naruto doubtful that he needed assistance.

• Naruto led Hinata to the Otsutsuki Temple, where she prepared offerings and paid respects to Hamura.
• Naruto found a hidden basement and sensed a powerful soul inside, then brought Hinata there.
• A stone statue released a streak of light toward Hinata, but Naruto caught it with his Rinnegan and fishing rod and trapped it in a fish basket.
• Hamura's phantom appeared, recognized Naruto as Asura's reincarnation, and praised the purity of Hinata's Byakugan.
• Naruto told Hamura that he had defeated a future Otsutsuki and learned that other Otsutsuki were hidden in the shinobi world and that Shibai Otsutsuki had died near it.
• Hamura asked Naruto to help deal with his descendants, but Naruto doubted that Hamura truly needed his help.

Hamura asked Naruto to stop the lunar Hyuga from destroying the ninja world and retrieve the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, offering to teach Naruto and Hinata how to control the Tenseigan. Naruto questioned Hamura about the Caged Bird and secretly investigated his connection to Hagoromo, then fought the Otsutsuki Elder and set off with Hinata toward the Moon Palace to find Hanabi.

• Hamura told Naruto that his descendants planned to use the Tenseigan to destroy civilization and asked him to recover the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Naruto accepted Hamura’s offer to teach him and Hinata to control the Tenseigan, then asked whether Hamura knew about the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Cursed Seal.
• Hamura suspected the Caged Bird might have come from the Otsutsuki, while Naruto used Time-Space Reversal to probe Hamura’s thoughts about Hagoromo.
• The Otsutsuki Elder attacked Naruto and Hinata with Tenseigan puppets, but Naruto smashed the puppets and Hinata disabled them with her Chakra.
• Naruto captured the Otsutsuki Elder and demanded to know where his clansmen and Hanabi were, but the Elder refused to answer.
• Naruto sensed the puppets’ Chakra, entered Sage Fox Mode, brought Hinata into Kurama Mode, and headed for the Moon Palace.

Naruto and Hinata reached the Moon Palace, where Toneri had taken Hanabi’s eyes and awakened the Tenseigan. Naruto began fighting Toneri, who activated Tenseigan Mode and unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Naruto warned the Otsutsuki Elder that Toneri would not defeat him and said the clan would have to apologize and compensate them.
• Toneri stared at the unconscious Hanabi, awakened his Tenseigan, and planned to destroy the ninja world before marrying Hinata.
• Naruto and Hinata confronted Toneri, and Hinata carried Hanabi away after learning Toneri had taken her eyes.
• Naruto fought Toneri, resisted his Tenseigan’s attraction and Chakra extraction, and struck him with Rasengan and Wind Release attacks.
• Toneri activated Tenseigan Mode and shouted, “Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!”

Naruto fought Toneri on the Moon and discovered that Toneri's Tenseigan-powered attacks drained his limited Chakra. While Naruto held him off, Hinata began taking control of the Tenseigan in the Moon Palace, leaving Toneri to confront Naruto before she could finish.

• Toneri blasted Naruto through the Moon's rock layer with the Silver Tailed Beast Bomb, but Naruto's Susanoo shielded him from serious injury.
• Naruto and Toneri traded meteor attacks, and Naruto realized Toneri had little Chakra and limited combat abilities beyond controlling rocks and using Gentle Fist.
• Naruto overwhelmed Toneri in close combat, then blocked his path with Flying Thunder God as Toneri sensed his connection to the Tenseigan weakening.
• In the Moon Palace, Naruto's Shadow Clone and Hinata stood before the Tenseigan while the Otsutsuki Elders remained sealed and the Tenseigan puppets lay defeated.
• Hinata began taking control of the Tenseigan, and Toneri arrived at the hall as Naruto blocked him from reaching her.

Naruto defeated Toneri and reclaimed Hanabi’s Byakugan while Hinata gained authority over the Tenseigan. He stopped the Tenseigan from completing its transformation of Hinata and prepared to deal with the remaining Otsutsuki on the moon.

• Toneri attacked Naruto with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, cutting the moon in half, but Naruto revealed that the blast had struck a Shadow Clone.
• Naruto removed Toneri’s Tenseigan and restrained him, then returned to the palace with Hanabi’s eyes.
• Hinata awakened under the Tenseigan’s influence, and Naruto explained that its modification of her Byakugan could overwhelm her body.
• Naruto told Hinata that the Tenseigan might raise her strength beyond the Five Kage, but stopped the transformation because she was not physically ready.
• Naruto looked toward Toneri and the other Otsutsuki Elders and prepared to deal with them.

Hinata made the Moon Clan submit and join the Ninja World branch, while Naruto studied the Tenseigan and asked Hamura about the Pure Land. Hamura revealed that the Pure Land was inside the Divine Tree, where the souls of the Ninja World’s dead went.

• Hinata gave the defeated Moon Clan the choice of joining the Ninja World branch or remaining on the moon without their Byakugan, and questioned whether Hamura had truly ordered them to purify the Ninja World.
• The Great Elder accepted Hinata’s authority and agreed that the Moon Clan would go to the Ninja World to atone, while Toneri struggled with losing his former status.
• Naruto examined the Tenseigan, failed to divide it without Hamura’s Eye as its core, and tested its powers over gravity, puppets, and perception.
• Naruto released Hamura’s soul and asked about the Pure Land and whether Impure World Reincarnation could summon him.
• Hamura explained that the Pure Land was inside the Divine Tree, where the souls of the Ninja World’s dead went.

Naruto learned that the Sage of Six Paths sustained himself by harvesting Chakra from the dead, while Hamura passed Hinata the knowledge needed to awaken the Tenseigan before his soul collapsed. After returning from the moon, Hinata announced that she would abolish the Hyuga clan’s Caged Bird system.

• Hamura explained that the Pure Land slowly harvested the Chakra of the dead, and said he had come to believe the ninja world no longer needed his and his brother’s protection.
• Hamura passed his inherited memories to Hinata, teaching her how to awaken the Tenseigan, then collapsed into green smoke.
• Hinata stayed near the Tenseigan for several weeks, gradually transforming her eyes, while Naruto’s Shadow Clones brought supplies from the ninja world.
• Naruto, Hinata, Hanabi, and the Moon Clan members traveled through the Earth-Moon Passage and returned to the Hyuga Compound, where Hiashi, Neji, and the others welcomed them.
• Hinata told Hiashi she intended to abolish the Caged Bird system at the next clan meeting because the Moon Clan no longer threatened the Hyuga.

Hinata and Hiashi led the Hyuga Clan in abolishing the Caged Bird system, while Naruto discussed Konoha’s political situation with Jiraiya and Tsunade. The chapter ended with an Anbu reporting that Amegakure had declared war on Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

• Hinata proposed abolishing the Caged Bird system, and the Main Family Elder withdrew from clan affairs.
• The Hyuga Clan unanimously abolished the Caged Bird system, and the news spread across Konoha.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade discussed the Hyuga Clan’s decision and the Daimyo’s growing opposition to Konoha.
• Naruto entered the Hokage Building, discussed his influence over the Land of Fire, and explained that he had stopped the Moon Clan Hyuga.
• An Anbu reported that Amegakure had declared war on Iwagakure and Kumogakure a week earlier.

Naruto told Jiraiya and Tsunade that Madara Uchiha had seized control of Amegakure and was pursuing the Moon Eye Plan, while Orochimaru had gone missing. After Ōnoki called a Five Kage Summit, Naruto agreed to attend and asked Jiraiya and Tsunade to help him consult the Great Sages.

• Jiraiya and Tsunade questioned Naruto about Amegakure's war against Cloud and Iwagakure, and Naruto said Madara Uchiha had taken Nagato's Rinnegan and control of Amegakure.
• Naruto explained that Madara planned to cast Infinite Moon and trap the shinobi world in dreams, while Nagato's Tailed Beast Weapon Plan had been different.
• Naruto learned that Orochimaru had lost contact and warned Jiraiya and Tsunade that an army of Impure World Reincarnation might appear.
• An intelligence Jonin delivered Ōnoki's invitation to a Five Kage Summit, and Naruto predicted Madara would next target Sunagakure or Kirigakure.
• Naruto said he would attend the summit and asked Jiraiya and Tsunade to help him speak with Gamamaru and Katsuyu.

Naruto traveled to Mount Myōboku to meet the Great Toad Sage, and Katsuyu identified him as roughly as powerful as the Sage of Six Paths. Gamamaru recognized Naruto as a Child of Prophecy who changes fate, and Naruto asked him to foresee why he had come.

• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, who offered to take Naruto to Mount Myōboku if he signed their summoning contract.
• Naruto had Tsunade summon a Katsuyu Clone, signed the Mount Myōboku contract, and ordered Fukasaku to take him there.
• After Naruto left, Katsuyu told Jiraiya and Tsunade that Naruto reminded her of the Sage of Six Paths and was probably just as strong.
• Naruto arrived at Mount Myōboku, sensed Gamamaru in the Toad Temple, and went to meet him before Fukasaku could announce his arrival.
• Gamamaru called Naruto the Child of Prophecy who changes fate, and Naruto asked whether he could foresee why Naruto had come.

Naruto questioned Gamamaru about the Great Sages’ origins and the Otsutsuki, learning that the sages had been created through experiments in an ancient laboratory. He left the possibility that the laboratory’s master still survived unresolved, but persuaded Gamamaru and Katsuyu to share their methods for controlling Nature Energy.

• Naruto asked Gamamaru about his prophecy, then questioned Gamamaru and the Slug Clone about how the Great Sages had awakened and gained their powers.
• Gamamaru recounted that he had gained intelligence and control over Nature Energy in a laboratory, where he fought other altered animals before being mysteriously freed.
• Gamamaru said Kaguya’s Divine Tree threatened him, prompting him to seek help from Hagoromo and Hamura, while Naruto suspected the laboratory’s master was the God of Otsutsuki.
• Naruto warned that the laboratory’s master might still be alive and asked whether other Otsutsuki might seek the master’s legacy, but Gamamaru and Katsuyu remained silent.
• Naruto asked Gamamaru and Katsuyu to teach him their Nature Energy methods, and the Great Sages shared their cultivation insights and experiences.