Chapter Summaries

Naruto told Tsunade that he intended to destroy Konoha's system, not its people, and urged her to surrender the village in exchange for keeping a leadership role. After leaving Hinata in Wave Country, Naruto went to Orochimaru's research base and ordered him to summon Manda.

• Naruto explained to Tsunade that he wanted to change Konoha's system while preserving its population, and urged her to surrender the village.
• Naruto invited Hinata to stay in Wave Country, and Tsunade agreed to watch over Hinata's sister while she relaxed.
• Naruto asked Katsuyu about Gamamaru, then left with Hinata after promising to offer Konoha preferential treatment if it became affiliated with Wave Country.
• Naruto declined Hinata's request to tour Wave Country with him immediately and asked Kushina and Hikari to accompany her instead.
• Naruto went to Orochimaru's research base and ordered Orochimaru to summon Manda.

Naruto traveled to Ryūchi Cave to meet the White Snake Sage, using Manda to guide him there. After Tagorihime tried to trap and attack him, Naruto saw through her tricks and struck her down.

• Naruto marked Manda with the Flying Thunder God Technique, controlled it with his Sharingan, and ordered it to take him to the White Snake Sage.
• Manda led Naruto through the mist to a lavish palace, where Tagorihime introduced herself as one of the Three Great Snake Princesses.
• Naruto demanded to see the White Snake Sage, but Tagorihime offered him food and maids that Naruto recognized as disguises.
• Tagorihime revealed her snake form and used an illusion to surround Naruto with snakes and skeletons.
• Naruto sliced apart the attacking snakes and hit the invisible Tagorihime with a Wind Blade, leaving a hole in her chest.

Naruto forced his way through Ryūchi Cave, frightening the Snake Princesses and the White Snake Sage with his power. The White Snake Sage offered him anything in Ryūchi Cave to spare them, but Naruto pointed out that killing them would let him claim it all anyway.

• Naruto pierced Tagorihime twice, and she fled while the White Snake Sage watched and decided Ryūchi Cave should negotiate rather than fight.
• Ichikishimahime explained how to open a stone wall, then surrendered when Naruto threatened her with a black sphere and grabbed her by the throat.
• Tagitsuhime approached Naruto and led him through the mist to meet the White Snake Sage.
• The White Snake Sage asked Naruto to spare Ryūchi Cave and offered him anything he wanted.
• Naruto replied that he could kill everyone and take Ryūchi Cave for himself.

Naruto forced the White Snake Sage to put Ryūchi Cave under Wave Country’s control and took Tagorihime with him. Meanwhile, Tsunade confronted the Hokage advisors and followed Sarutobi Hiruzen to Orochimaru’s former underground laboratory, where she found the Second Grandpa.

• Naruto ordered the White Snake Sage to make Ryūchi Cave subject to Wave Country, and she agreed.
• Naruto instructed the White Snake Sage to ensure Ryūchi Cave’s snakes obeyed future contract holders and requested more contract scrolls.
• Naruto ordered Tagorihime to come to Wave Country as compensation for making him sick.
• Tsunade went to the Hokage Building and confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō over their secret actions.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen led Tsunade to Orochimaru’s former underground laboratory, where she saw the Second Grandpa.

Tsunade discovered that Tobirama Senju had been reincarnated to improve the Impure World Reincarnation and help Konoha survive its crisis. After learning that Naruto and Wave Country were behind the upheaval in the Ninja World, Tobirama vowed to confront him with his brother once the jutsu was perfected; months later, Wave Country prepared to launch a lunar rocket.

• Tsunade arrived at the research base and found Tobirama Senju, who had been summoned with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Tobirama Senju criticized Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other elders for Konoha's decline but said the village needed strength to face its predicament.
• Tsunade revealed that the other great villages were weakened and that Wave Country, ruled by Naruto, likely caused the upheaval across the Ninja World.
• After hearing Tsunade describe her meeting with Naruto, Tobirama Senju dismissed him as an evil Uchiha and vowed to confront him with his brother.
• Several months later, Wave Country prepared to launch a lunar rocket developed by the Land of Snow.

Naruto and the Land of Snow prepared and launched Kaguya One, the Ninja World’s first moon-bound rocket. As it streaked toward the moon, a group of white beings there spotted it approaching.

• Naruto named the moon-bound rocket Kaguya One after explaining the history of Kaguya Otsutsuki reaching the moon.
• Kazahana Koyuki organized the launch site and security in the Land of Snow, where representatives and guests gathered to watch.
• Madara Uchiha questioned whether the rocket could safely reach the moon, and Kazahana Koyuki assured him it was built with the finest materials and Gelel Stone.
• The launch crew completed their inspections and began the countdown as Naruto, Kushina, Black Zetsu, and the other guests watched.
• The chief supervisor ignited Kaguya One, and the rocket rose into the night sky toward the moon.
• A group of white beings with Byakugan on the moon saw the rocket coming from the Ninja World.

Yugito and Mabui traced Kumogakure’s rebel supplies to the Wave Country and used a rocket launch from the Land of Snow as an opening to investigate. Kaguya One reached the moon but lost contact after a purple light struck it, and Naruto invited the gathered staff to go there themselves.

• Yugito and Mabui watched a rocket launched from the Land of Snow and discussed its apparent course toward the moon.
• Mabui told Yugito that she suspected the Wave Country was secretly supplying Kumogakure’s rebels and might be connected to the disappearance of Lord A and Lord B.
• Mabui proposed sending people to the Land of Snow under the pretext of investigating the launch, and Yugito agreed.
• The Land of Snow’s rocket team celebrated as Kaguya One left the Ninja World and headed toward the moon.
• Kaguya One lost contact after a purple light flashed from the moon, but Naruto sensed it had been captured rather than destroyed.
• Naruto reassured the Chief Designer and asked the staff whether they wanted to go to the moon.

The Otsutsuki on the moon intercepted a metal object from the Ninja World and argued over whether the world should be destroyed. Naruto and his companions suddenly appeared, and after Naruto knocked the branch family head away, he asked the main family leader who was in charge.

• The Otsutsuki clansmen examined the intercepted metal object, marked “Kaguya One,” and speculated that it had been sent to investigate the moon.
• The main and branch family leaders argued over whether the Ninja World should be preserved or destroyed.
• Naruto and his companions appeared beneath the rocket, startling both Otsutsuki factions.
• Naruto introduced himself to the branch family head and said he would not let them destroy the Ninja World.
• The branch family head insulted Naruto, who struck him with his Circle Eyes and asked the main family leader who had final authority.

Naruto confronted the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon and arranged to discuss free trade with its two clan heads. After Hinata’s pure Byakugan drew the clan’s attention, Naruto learned the lunar clan lived under strict limits on supplies and compared their poor conditions to the Hyuga Clan’s wealth.

• Naruto sent the branch family’s clan head flying, then mocked the branch family for threatening the Ninja World while falling silent before him.
• The branch family members demanded to use the Tenseigan, but the two clan heads recognized Naruto’s Rinnegan and stopped their clans from escalating the confrontation.
• Naruto suggested the main and branch families might destroy each other, noticed a fleeting sign of the branch family’s plans, and proposed they talk somewhere suitable.
• Naruto asked that his companions be allowed to look around, and the clan heads stared in shock at Hinata’s exceptionally pure Byakugan before apologizing for their attention.
• The clan heads hosted Naruto with simple tea and snacks and explained that their rules limited trips to the Ninja World for supplies.
• Naruto described the Hyuga Clan’s wealth and servants, then teased the lunar Otsutsuki about their shabby clothes and meager living conditions.

Naruto confronted the Otsutsuki clan heads on the moon, urging them to leave and warning that the moon contained a sealed threat he planned to release. The clan heads refused to decide immediately and said they needed to consult their people.

• Naruto mocked the Otsutsuki clan's harsh life on the moon and offered to take them back to the Ninja World.
• Naruto declared that he planned to destroy the Ninja World and create a new one, then demanded that the clan leave the moon.
• Naruto revealed that Hinata Hyuga was close to awakening the Tenseigan and challenged the clan heads' confidence in their own Tenseigan.
• Naruto argued that the clan's ancestral mission forced their descendants to live in deprivation, but both clan heads defended their faith in Hamura's final wish.
• Naruto claimed the moon was created through a sealing technique that imprisoned something dangerous, and threatened to release it in a few years.
• The clan heads balked at gambling their clan's lives and said they needed to discuss Naruto's warning with their clansmen.

Naruto addressed the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon and persuaded many of them that moving to his Wave Country could fulfill their ancestor's wish while ending the Ninja World's wars. The clansmen enthusiastically demanded a better life, and Naruto turned to the two clan heads as they faced their people's reaction.

• The main and branch family clan heads struggled to persuade their clansmen to move to the Ninja World, while keeping their doubts about the ancestor's final wish secret.
• Naruto stepped between the two groups, raised himself on a platform, and argued that unifying the Ninja World would end its wars.
• Naruto described the Otsutsuki Clan's harsh life on the moon and contrasted it with the Hyuga Clan's prosperity, stirring the crowd's resentment.
• Naruto asked the clansmen whether they wanted to move to the Ninja World and live better, and the crowd shouted yes.
• Naruto looked to the two clan heads as they watched their excited clansmen with complicated expressions.

Naruto persuaded the Otsutsuki Clan to send members from both families to the Ninja World, and he brought them to Wave Country to begin new lives. The next day, he learned that Kumogakure had demanded answers from the Land of Snow and sent an Anbu squad to investigate suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction.

• The Otsutsuki Clan agreed to send members from its main and branch families to the Ninja World, with the branch family clan head leading the group while others remained on the moon.
• Naruto and Minato Namikaze used a Flying Thunder God Formation to transport the Otsutsuki group to the Ninja World.
• Naruto asked staff to arrange temporary lodging and jobs for the newcomers, and instructed Yakushi Nonō to oversee their adjustment and ideological education.
• The next day, Naruto received word that Kumogakure had demanded answers from the Land of Snow and dispatched an Anbu squad to investigate its suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Naruto decided to investigate Kumogakure’s suspicions about weapons of mass destruction and brought Hinata and Karin along to the Land of Snow. There, Kumogakure envoys Samui and Hee assessed the country’s strength before the Land of Snow’s daimyo, Kazahana Koyuki, announced that an important person wished to meet them.

• Naruto invited Hinata to travel with him to the Land of Snow and then possibly Kumogakure, and agreed to bring Karin as well.
• Naruto ordered Uzumaki Suika to halve ninja tool trade with Kumogakure next month and begin exporting daily necessities and construction supplies there.
• Samui and Hee discussed the Land of Snow’s prosperity, investigated what it had launched, and considered its links to Wave Country.
• Kazahana Koyuki entered the office and told Samui, Hee, and the Anbu ninja that an important person wished to meet them.

Samui and Hee were captured after arriving in the Land of Snow and brought before Naruto, who revealed his grievances against Kumogakure and his plan to target the Land of Lightning. Naruto offered Samui a chance to cooperate, leaving his threat unfinished.

• Kazahana Koyuki led Samui, Hee, and an unnamed Anbu toward Naruto, but they tried to leave when she refused to explain their destination.
• Three armored guards intercepted them, and one shot the unnamed Anbu dead when he reached for his Ninja Tool Pouch.
• Kazahana Koyuki escorted Samui and Hee to Naruto, who was accompanied by Hinata and another girl.
• Samui offered compensation for Kumogakure's actions, but Naruto said he wanted the Two Tails and reminded her that Kumogakure had once kidnapped Hinata Hyuga, leading to Hizashi Hyuga's death.
• Naruto revealed that the Land of Lightning had been his target from the beginning, and Samui warned that attacking its Daimyo would make him the enemy of the Ninja World.
• Naruto said he could make Samui talk but would give her a chance to cooperate, then began warning her about what could happen to Kumogakure.

Naruto pressured Samui to work for him by threatening Kumogakure and her younger brother, then brought her to Kumogakure to witness his strength as he prepared to take the Two Tails. The village sounded the alarm, and a shinobi cloaked in tailed-beast chakra confronted Naruto from the Raikage Building.

• Naruto revealed that he led Wave Country and that the Land of Rain belonged to it, then admitted he had killed the Fourth Hokage and Killer B.
• Samui stopped Hee from attacking Naruto, answered his questions, and refused to work for him despite his threats against Kumogakure and her younger brother.
• Naruto sent Samui into the Kamui Dimension and ordered Kazahana Koyuki to imprison Hee for labor reform.
• Naruto brought Samui to Kumogakure, where Hinata and Karin saw the village and its towering peaks.
• Naruto erupted with chakra above Kumogakure, triggering an alarm, and a shinobi wrapped in a Tailed Beast Cloak confronted him atop the Raikage Building.

Uzumaki Naruto arrived at Kumogakure seeking to take the Two Tails from Yugito and demanded Samui's loyalty, threatening the village with his overwhelming power. After easily striking Yugito aside, he faced Kumogakure's Chakra Cannons as they charged to fire, with Samui caught between him and her village.

• Yugito sensed Naruto's arrival, and Mabui began evacuating Kumogakure's villagers and activated the village's defenses.
• Naruto threatened to fire a Tailed Beast Ball at the village unless Samui pledged loyalty, then introduced himself and declared that he had come for the Two Tails inside Yugito.
• Yugito attacked Naruto in her Tailed Beast Cloak, but he knocked her into the Raikage Building with a single punch.
• Kumogakure deployed Chakra Cannons, and Yugito claimed they could rival a Tailed Beast Ball to make Naruto leave.
• Naruto used Samui as a human shield, and the Chakra Cannons began charging their shots at him.

Dodai and the Hidden Cloud Village ninja attacked Naruto, but his black skeletal defense withstood their weapons and ninjutsu. Naruto then dropped a black sphere into the crowd, leaving the village silent after the blast and Samui fearing for her younger brother.

• Dodai took command of the Raikage Building’s defenses while Mabui organized the Anbu and village evacuation.
• Dodai ordered the Chakra Cannons to fire at Naruto, but Naruto’s black skeletal arms shielded him, Hinata, Samui, and Yugito from the blast.
• Yugito returned to the Raikage Building to charge a Jinchuriki-only Chakra Cannon as the Cloud Ninja attacked Naruto with weapons and ninjutsu.
• Naruto asked Samui whether her younger brother was inside, then warned that he might die by accident.
• Naruto dropped a black sphere into the crowd, and its explosion reduced nearby buildings and Hidden Cloud Village ninja to ashes.

Naruto overwhelmed Kumogakure, absorbing and returning Yugito’s attacks before defeating her in her Two Tails form. He abducted Yugito and Mabui, leaving the village devastated and warning its people to prepare for his return.

• Dodai signaled the Cloud Ninja to retreat while Naruto declared that he held Kumogakure hostage.
• Yugito poured her Chakra into the Chakra Cannon and fired a powerful blast at Naruto.
• Naruto absorbed the blast and unleashed its power on the Cloud Ninja below, killing many more.
• Yugito transformed into the Two Tails and attacked Naruto, but he struck her down and knocked her unconscious.
• Naruto grabbed Yugito, returned to the Raikage Building, abducted Mabui, and told Kumogakure he hoped to find more surprises when he came back.

Naruto returned to Wave Country with Yugito, Mabui, and Samui, then offered Mabui and Samui work as aides in Nonō’s office. After assuring Mabui that Yugito would survive the extraction of the Two Tails, Naruto asked Hinata if she wanted to become its Jinchuriki.

• Naruto used Chakra to bring Mabui, Samui, Yugito, Hinata, and Karin back to the office in Wave Country.
• Uzumaki Suika learned that Yugito was Kumogakure’s Raikage and the Two Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Naruto offered Mabui and Samui positions helping Nonō, while revealing his plan for the Land of Lightning to become part of Wave Country.
• Mabui asked about Yugito, and Naruto assured her that extracting the Two Tails would not kill its Jinchuriki.
• Naruto asked Hinata whether she wanted to become the Two Tails’ Jinchuriki.

Naruto made Hinata the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and sent Yugito to join Mabui and the others. He assigned Madara Uchiha to capture the Five-Tails in Iwagakure, where Ōnoki learned that someone had come to take Han away.

• Naruto transferred the Two-Tails to Hinata, greatly increasing her Chakra, while Karin claimed the Six-Tails was stronger.
• Naruto offered Yugito the choice of following Mabui and the others or finding work in Wave Country, and she chose to join them.
• Naruto told Madara Uchiha to capture the Five-Tails, warning that Iwagakure was on alert and Ōnoki might be difficult to deal with.
• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi discussed the threat to Han and strengthened Iwagakure's vigilance after linking the recent Tailed Beast captures to the Land of Snow.
• An Iwa Ninja rushed in to report that someone had arrived in the village to take Han away.