Chapter Summaries

Naruto led Mitarashi En, Chino, and Uchiha Shisui deep into Hell Valley, where he sensed the seal holding an Uchiha ancestor. After shielding Chino with the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, they reached a hidden mountain summit, though the sealed ancestor remained undiscovered.

• Naruto sensed a faint Chakra pulse in the depths of Hell Valley and confirmed that their target was inside.
• Naruto gave Chino a cloak of the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, allowing the group to continue through the miasma.
• Naruto told Mitarashi En that they had come to free an Uchiha ancestor sealed in Hell Valley, and Mitarashi En worried about what she might do upon awakening.
• The group found a cave at the base of a mountain and followed dusty stairs to a rockfall blocking the exit.
• Naruto blasted through the rocks, and the four emerged onto a grassy summit filled with wildflowers.

Naruto and Uchiha Shisui excavated and opened the sealed coffin beneath the lush mountain peak in Hell Valley. Inside, they found a girl, leaving the identity of the sealed Uchiha Old Ancestor unknown.

• Naruto sensed that underground Chakra had nourished the mountain's unusually lush plants, and he and Uchiha Shisui suspected the old seal was weakening.
• Naruto used Magnet Release to dig beneath the mountain, warning Mitarashi En to take Chino to safety in case the sealed person became hostile.
• Naruto uncovered an intact black coffin bearing the Senju Clan and Sarutobi Clan crests and dim sealing patterns.
• Naruto dismantled the weakened seal and pushed open the coffin.
• Naruto, Uchiha Shisui, Mitarashi En, and Chino saw that a girl lay inside.

Naruto released the seal keeping Uchiha Hikari dormant for centuries, and she awoke with her memories and immense Chakra restored. Seeing Uchiha Shisui, she recognized him as an Uchiha and attacked, vanishing from the coffin in a blur.

• Uchiha Shisui was shocked to discover that the Uchiha Clan's War Weapon was a young girl named Uchiha Hikari.
• Naruto explained that a seal on Uchiha Hikari's body had suppressed her Chakra and life force, leaving her in a deep slumber.
• Naruto warned Uchiha Shisui to move away, then severed the seal on Uchiha Hikari's forehead with Chakra.
• Uchiha Hikari awoke, recalled being used as a weapon and sealed after a battle against the Senju and Sarutobi, and felt hatred toward those clans and the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Hikari saw Uchiha Shisui, activated her Mangekyō Sharingan, and charged at him with overwhelming force.

Naruto tried to explain to Uchiha Hikari that centuries had passed and the Uchiha Clan now belonged to Wave Country, but she believed he wanted to control her power and attacked. Her fire jutsu met Naruto’s Gold Dust in a clash that left the battle unresolved.

• Uchiha Hikari kicked at Uchiha Shisui, but Naruto intercepted her strike with his hand.
• Naruto explained that several hundred years had passed and that he and Uchiha Shisui represented Wave Country, but Uchiha Hikari thought they sought her power.
• Uchiha Hikari used Yachihoko to drain Uchiha Shisui’s Chakra, while Naruto’s Dojutsu dispelled its effect on him.
• Uchiha Hikari unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, engulfing Naruto and Uchiha Shisui in flames.
• Naruto countered with Magnet Release: Gold Dust Surging Wave, and the Gold Dust and flames clashed across the mountaintop.

Naruto and Uchiha Hikari clashed on the mountain peak, where she unveiled her enormous Perfect Susanoo and Naruto answered with his own power. After the battle, Hikari awoke on a grassy meadow and found Naruto and the others nearby, leaving her fate in his hands.

• Naruto used Gold Dust to overpower Uchiha Hikari's Fire Release and urged her to stop fighting.
• Uchiha Hikari activated her Mangekyo power and formed a towering blood-colored Perfect Susanoo with a black-flame sword.
• Naruto revealed his own immense chakra, while Gold Dust carried Uchiha Shisui to safety beside Mitarashi En and Chino.
• After the clash, Uchiha Hikari awoke on a meadow created by Naruto and recalled the battle in which she had been sealed.
• Naruto stood with Uchiha Shisui, Mitarashi En, and Chino beside Hikari and repeated that he did not need her power.

Naruto explained his ideal of Utopia and invited Uchiha Hikari to help build peace in the ninja world or choose an ordinary life in Wave Country. Hikari asked for time to decide, and Naruto welcomed her to Wave Country.

• Naruto told Uchiha Hikari that he had freed her because her sealed power posed a danger, not because he intended to kill her.
• Naruto described Utopia as an ideal world and said his group aimed to end the ninja wars and pursue peace.
• Uchiha Hikari recognized Naruto's goal and began to reconsider the meaning of her life.
• Naruto offered Hikari the choice of joining their cause or living an ordinary life in Wave Country, though she would need new eyes.
• Uchiha Hikari asked for more time to think, and Naruto welcomed her to Wave Country.

Naruto gave Uchiha Hikari a new name that recalled her parents’ wish for her to walk in the light, then brought her back to Wave Country and introduced her to the others. While Hikari and Chino settled in with Kushina, Mitarashi En remained behind to begin Naruto’s plan to control the Hot Water Country, and a group from the Demon Country reached the coast of the Land of Fire.

• Naruto explained the shared origins of the Uchiha, Uzumaki, and Senju clans, and Hikari said she had forgotten her name and had been called Nameless.
• Naruto named her Hikari, prompting memories of her parents choosing that name so she could walk in the light.
• Naruto took Hikari shopping and told her about changes in the ninja world before the group returned to Wave Country, while Mitarashi En stayed behind to work on controlling the Hot Water Country.
• Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi met Hikari, and Kushina helped Hikari and Chino get acquainted with them.
• Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara went to find Naruto, while a group from the Demon Country arrived on the coast of the Land of Fire.

Miroku traveled from Demon Country to Wave Country with her daughter Shion, guided by a prophecy whose purpose she kept secret from her guards. On the ship, she promised to explain the trip to Shion once they arrived and reassured her that she might make friends there.

• Miroku sailed toward Wave Country with Shion and a small guard squad, including Ashiho.
• Miroku explained that she could not reveal the purpose of the journey, and the guards affirmed their loyalty to her.
• Miroku’s prophecy had prompted the trip, and she hoped to address the danger posed by Shion’s sealed powers.
• Miroku comforted Shion by promising to explain their visit in Wave Country and telling her about a school with other children.
• Miroku greeted Natsuhoshi and Sumairu when they joined them on deck.

Miroku brought Shion to Wave Country and told Naruto that a prophecy had revealed the death of the ninja world. The chapter ended as Naruto heard the prophecy’s grim conclusion.

• Miroku advised Natsuhoshi to hand the dangerous stone over to Wave Country, and Natsuhoshi agreed to trust her.
• Naruto considered the lack of information about Shinnō while working in Wave Country’s leader’s office.
• Uzumaki Suika received word that Miroku was visiting, and Naruto agreed to meet her.
• Miroku introduced herself and Shion to Naruto and explained that she had come because of a prophecy.
• Miroku told Naruto that she had foreseen the death of the ninja world, not his own death.

Miroku told Naruto that her prophecy foresaw a great fire destroying the Ninja World and asked him to break the curse afflicting her daughter, Shion. After Naruto revealed that he knew the Priestess and Moryo were one, Miroku confirmed it and began explaining the Priestesses’ inherited powers and visions of death.

• Miroku prophesied that a great fire would destroy the old Ninja World, with Naruto standing at its heart, and Naruto said Mount Myōboku had already been destroyed.
• Miroku explained that she saw the prophecy as a chance to create a New World, then told Naruto she had come to ask a favor for her daughter.
• Miroku asked Naruto to break the curse carried by the Priestesses of Demon Country, and Naruto asked whether she was also bound to Moryo.
• Naruto said he had heard the Priestess and Moryo were one, shocking Uzumaki Suika and Shion, and Miroku confirmed the truth.
• Miroku explained that every Priestess inherited the ability to foresee death and great power, then asked Naruto where that power came from.

Miroku explained that priestesses drew ancient power from the faith of living beings, and that the emotions stripped from the Original Priestess became Moryo. She revealed that she had found a way to retain her emotions while wielding priestess power, then showed Naruto and the others Moryo’s dark energy.

• Naruto sensed that Miroku’s power was pure Natural Energy rather than Chakra.
• Miroku described how ancient worship gave rise to gods, priestesses, Onmyoji, and the curse that created Moryo.
• Miroku explained that declining faith had weakened priestesses while strengthening Moryo, forcing each priestess to sacrifice her life to seal it.
• Naruto questioned how Miroku could still love Shion despite the priestesses’ need to strip away their emotions.
• Miroku revealed that generations of research had given her a way around the restriction and displayed Moryo’s black-purple power.

Miroku explained that the priestesses were bound to sacrifice themselves to keep Moryo sealed, and she sought Naruto’s help so her daughter Shion could escape that fate. With Moryo expected to break free within a year, Miroku asked Naruto to care for Shion and help her, but Naruto questioned what would happen if she refused to seal Moryo.

• Naruto compared the priestess's pure Natural Energy with Moryo's twisted power and asked Miroku why she wanted his help.
• Miroku explained that the priestesses inherited a curse: when Moryo escaped, they burned their lives and souls to seal her again.
• Miroku said she wanted Moryo permanently sealed so Shion could grow up as an ordinary person and avoid the priestess's fate.
• Shion clung to Miroku and cried, while Miroku comforted her and admitted Moryo would break free in less than a year.
• Miroku begged Naruto to protect Shion and offered to help him take control of Demon Country.
• Naruto asked what would happen if Miroku refused to carry out the priestess's duty and seal Moryo.

Naruto welcomed Miroku and the Demon Country into Wave Country, promising to help resolve the danger posed by Moryo. He then went to the Research Institute to meet Natsuhoshi and inspect the meteorite she had brought from Hoshigakure.

• Miroku explained that Moryo would seek the current Priestess and said she had once foreseen Naruto saving Shion, though the future had changed.
• Naruto welcomed Miroku to Wave Country and offered to resolve Moryo's threat in her generation; Miroku agreed to bring the Demon Country into Wave Country.
• Naruto and Miroku discussed integrating the Demon Country's residents, then Naruto arranged for Miroku and Shion to rest at an inn.
• Naruto and Uzumaki Suika went to the Research Institute after learning that Natsuhoshi, a fugitive from Hoshigakure, had brought a strange object there.
• Naruto met Natsuhoshi, who mourned her husband Hotaruboshi, and asked to examine the meteorite.

Naruto examined the meteorite’s power and learned from Natsuhoshi that its energy caused severe bodily decay, including the death of her husband, Hotaruboshi. After sensing Natsuhoshi’s Chakra, Naruto discovered that it was immense but was steadily corroding her body.

• Naruto examined the meteorite and sensed its unusual energy eroding the Nine-Tails Chakra covering his hand.
• Natsuhoshi warned Naruto that absorbing the meteorite’s energy would seriously harm his body.
• Natsuhoshi explained that Akahoshi planned to make Hoshigakure shinobi cultivate with the meteorite, despite its energy causing irreversible harm.
• Natsuhoshi revealed that Hotaruboshi’s organs and Chakra pathways necrotized after he absorbed more meteorite energy during a battle with Hoshigakure pursuers.
• Natsuhoshi showed Naruto purple mottling on her arm, and Naruto sensed that her enormous Chakra was corroding her body.

Naruto arranged for Natsuhoshi and the Research Institute to study the dangerous meteorite while seeking a way to treat her remaining injuries. Elsewhere, Black Zetsu recruited Shinnō, leader of the hidden Sky Ninja Village, but Shinnō was unimpressed by the organization’s poor conditions.

• Naruto told Natsuhoshi that Wave Country would reward her for the meteorite and arrange housing, and she agreed to cooperate with the Research Institute.
• Natsuhoshi warned Naruto that the meteorite’s Chakra could damage the body, and Naruto urged his scientists to address its side effects.
• Black Zetsu brought Shinnō to meet his organization near Kannabi Bridge after finding him through his unusual Zero Tails Chakra.
• Black Zetsu considered Sky Ninja Village’s advanced technology and military power a valuable addition to his organization, while noting that Wave Country’s Nine-Tails made infiltration dangerous.
• Shinnō mocked the organization’s surroundings and threatened to kill its members if that was all they had to offer.

Shinnō followed Black Zetsu to the organization’s hideout, intending to eliminate everyone who knew about Sky Ninja Village. He transformed with Flesh Reincarnation and opened the Eighth Gate without dying, then faced Black Zetsu.

• Shinnō recalled how Black Zetsu had discovered his plans and lured him to the hideout by offering cooperation.
• Shinnō revealed that he had come to kill the organization and keep Sky Ninja Village’s secrets from spreading.
• Black Zetsu warned Shinnō that the organization’s leader was in a bad mood, but Shinnō dismissed the threat and prepared to attack.
• Shinnō used Flesh Reincarnation to rejuvenate his body and transform into a muscular fighter.
• Shinnō opened the Gate of Death without suffering its usual fatal effects, while Black Zetsu watched and assessed his power.

Shinnō attacked Black Zetsu but was pinned down by Madara Uchiha, who emerged from the cave and forced him to choose between submission and death. Black Zetsu explained that Madara could extract Shinnō’s memories, leaving Shinnō to decide whether to obey.

• Shinnō charged at Black Zetsu with his Vitality Fist, but an unseen force slammed him to the ground when Black Zetsu called for Lord Madara.
• Madara Uchiha emerged from the cave and used his power to crush Shinnō into the earth, while Shinnō’s Dark Chakra rapidly healed his injuries.
• Shinnō offered to cooperate with Madara, but Madara demanded that he submit or die.
• Black Zetsu confronted Shinnō and warned that Madara could read his memories, telling him to make the correct choice.

Karatachi Yagura and Genji went to Wave Country to negotiate Mei Terumi’s return, offering the Three-Tails as the price. Naruto rejected the proposal as an unequal exchange, leaving the talks unresolved.

• Kirigakure’s Bloody Mist policy resumed after Obito Uchiha manipulated Karatachi Yagura, while Mei Terumi remained in Wave Country.
• With Yagura gravely ill and Kirigakure unable to seal Isobu, Yagura decided to offer the Three-Tails in exchange for Mei Terumi’s return.
• Genji accompanied Yagura to Wave Country, where Naruto mocked their offer of an ill Mizukage and an elderly advisor for a powerful young successor.
• Yagura clarified that he was offering the Three-Tails inside him, but Naruto questioned whether that was a fair exchange.

Naruto negotiated with Karatachi Yagura and Genji over Mei Terumi’s return, demanding concessions in exchange for Kirigakure’s chance to adopt the Land of Waves’ reforms. He agreed to let Genji return while keeping the Three-Tails, leaving Karatachi Yagura behind.

• Genji promised to support Mei Terumi’s policies unconditionally if she returned to Kirigakure.
• Naruto pointed out that Mei Terumi was a valued teacher and demanded more in exchange for letting her go.
• Genji offered Kirigakure’s method for locating the Six-Tails, Utakata, and asked that Chojuro and the others be allowed to return.
• Naruto’s Nine-Tails aura frightened Karatachi Yagura and Genji, and they yielded to his authority.
• Naruto agreed to Kirigakure’s terms, kept the Three-Tails, and sent Genji back while Karatachi Yagura remained.

Mei Terumi reflected on her life in Wave Country before Naruto told the Kirigakure ninjas that the village would exchange a sufficient price for their freedom and wanted Mei to become the Fifth Mizukage. Zabuza and Kisame chose to remain in Wave Country, while the others still had to decide.

• Mei Terumi taught her water-attribute ninja class and was summoned to the office building by Uchiha Mikoto.
• Naruto told Mei Terumi, Zabuza, Kisame, Chojuro, and Ao that Genji and Karatachi Yagura had offered terms to bring them back to Kirigakure, including Mei's appointment as Fifth Mizukage.
• Naruto revealed that Karatachi Yagura was near death and that the Three-Tails was among Kirigakure's bargaining chips.
• Zabuza chose to stay in Wave Country to look after Haku, and Kisame chose to stay as well.