Chapter Summaries

Naruto captured Kakashi and Ao after the battle and offered Kakashi a teaching position in the Wave Country. After Minato appeared and spoke with Kakashi, Naruto restrained the captives and took Kakashi’s eye, while a distant observer fled beneath the sea.

• Naruto found Kakashi and Ao and offered Kakashi a teaching position in the Wave Country.
• Naruto brought out Minato, who told Kakashi he was only a strand of Chakra left behind before his death.
• Kakashi apologized to Minato, and Uchiha Inaho, the other four Uchiha, and Hyuga Natsu returned carrying Chojuro and Hiramekarei.
• Naruto restrained Kakashi and Ao, ordered the others to finish the cleanup, and asked Kakashi for his eye.
• Naruto plucked out and refined Kakashi’s eye as a distant pitcher plant sank beneath the sea.

Gamamaru ordered Fukasaku to retrieve the Sage's Talisman and Shima to activate Mount Myōboku's barrier as Naruto arrived there following Jiraiya's Flying Thunder God mark. After the barrier blocked his connection to marks outside the mountain, Naruto chose to stay and confront the growing chakra of the Sage of Six Paths.

• Gamamaru sent Fukasaku to retrieve the Sage's Talisman and ordered Shima to prepare Mount Myōboku's barrier, while reflecting that his visions of the future had become unreliable.
• Naruto followed Jiraiya's Flying Thunder God mark but appeared in a forest on Mount Myōboku, where he realized the mountain had redirected the mark.
• Kurama warned Naruto that the Sage of Six Paths' chakra was growing stronger, and Mount Myōboku's barrier then blocked Naruto's perception of marks outside the mountain.
• Naruto confirmed that he could still use his abilities inside the barrier and refused Kurama's suggestion that they leave.
• Naruto asked Kurama to locate the Sage of Six Paths and prepared to fight him.

Naruto raced through Mount Myōboku to find the Sage of Six Paths' Chakra, but Gamabunta and Gama Hiro ambushed him. Naruto defeated both giant toads in a brief battle and continued toward his goal.

• The Nine-Tails warned Naruto against confronting the Sage of Six Paths, but Naruto told it to give him all its Chakra when they fought.
• Gamabunta and Gama Hiro attacked Naruto with their giant swords, and Naruto dodged their strikes.
• Gamabunta fired water spheres at Naruto, but Naruto shattered them with Hollow Flash before Gama Hiro blocked the beam with his twin blades.
• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear at Gamabunta's mouth, forced a black sphere inside, and bound his mouth shut with chains until the blast gravely wounded him.
• Naruto trapped Gama Hiro in Hell Viewing Technique, and swords emerged from inside the toad before he collapsed.

Naruto advanced through Mount Myōboku after defeating its giant toads, while Gamamaru prepared to sacrifice the sacred land to stop him. Hagoromo Otsutsuki took over Jiraiya’s body and confronted Naruto, who was receiving the Nine-Tails’ chakra.

• Naruto used Life Return combined with genjutsu to kill Gamabunta and Gama Hiro, then continued toward the Six Paths Chakra.
• Gamamaru watched Naruto’s victories and discussed the danger he posed with Fukasaku, Shima, and the revived figure in Jiraiya’s body.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki condemned Gamamaru’s plans and said he would act for the Ninja World, then left to confront Naruto.
• Gamamaru told Fukasaku and Shima to evacuate Mount Myōboku, accepting the sacred land’s destruction as part of his plan.
• The Nine-Tails sensed its chakra approaching Naruto and willingly poured its chakra into him.
• Naruto met Hagoromo Otsutsuki in Jiraiya’s body and mocked his appearance.

Naruto argued with Hagoromo Otsutsuki that unifying the Ninja World through a lasting system could bring peace, while Hagoromo warned that war would expose the world to a coming threat. Hagoromo chose to test Naruto’s strength, and Naruto prepared to fight him.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki tried to dissuade Naruto from unifying the Ninja World, warning that the Five Great Nations would resist and a devastating war would follow.
• Naruto argued that Hagoromo’s and Hashirama Senju’s approaches had failed to end war, and explained that shared language, culture, knowledge, and institutions could preserve unity beyond his lifetime.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki warned Naruto that the true ancestors of Chakra would appear in perhaps ten or twenty years and threaten the Ninja World.
• Naruto declared that he would surpass those ancestors within a few years, prompting Hagoromo Otsutsuki to briefly smile before warning that he could not gamble the world’s future on Naruto.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki demanded that Naruto prove his strength by surviving their fight, and Naruto answered that Hagoromo would become part of his power.

Naruto battled Hagoromo Otsutsuki, enduring powerful attacks and fighting him in close combat despite his injuries. Hagoromo summoned a giant Susanoo, and Naruto answered by combining it with Kurama to form an Armored Susanoo.

• Naruto absorbed Hagoromo Otsutsuki's Lightning Release attack with his right eye and transformed under the Nine-Tails' Chakra.
• Hagoromo used gravity to bury Naruto beneath crushing earth, but Naruto escaped with a black beam that Hagoromo absorbed and redirected.
• Naruto and Hagoromo fought in taijutsu for over a hundred exchanges, with Naruto taking heavy injuries that the Nine-Tails' healing helped him endure.
• Hagoromo blasted Naruto away with Shinra Tensei and summoned a nearly hundred-meter Susanoo.
• Naruto and Kurama transformed into a giant Nine-Tails and covered it in Susanoo armor, forming an Armored Susanoo.

Naruto used the Armored Susanoo to attack Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s Complete Body Susanoo with a powerful Tailed Beast Ball. Hagoromo’s Susanoo survived the explosions and took to the sky to evade Naruto’s next barrage.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki taunted Naruto and drew his Susanoo’s sword as the two colossal armored forms faced each other.
• Naruto formed a Tailed Beast Ball inside the Nine-Tails’ mouth and fired it at Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s Susanoo struck the Tailed Beast Ball, triggering a massive explosion that damaged its armor and sword.
• Naruto fired three more Tailed Beast Balls toward Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s position.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s Susanoo flew into the sky, causing Naruto’s three attacks to strike the ground and blast the forest into a rubble-covered basin.

Naruto and Hagoromo Otsutsuki continued their battle as Hagoromo used a lightning-charged Susanoo sword to strike Naruto. Naruto blocked the attack with Yin-Yang Chakra swords, and Hagoromo recognized his extraordinary potential.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki flew his blue Susanoo around Naruto, avoiding several Tailed Beast Balls.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki drew lightning from dark clouds to empower his Susanoo and its Chakra longsword.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki brought the lightning-charged sword down on Naruto, who blocked it with crossed Chakra swords formed by his tails.
• The clash shattered seven of Naruto’s nine swords and cracked the ground, but Naruto dispelled the lightning serpents and drove Hagoromo back with his tail-arms.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki realized Naruto had fused Yin and Yang Chakra into stable swords and marveled at his potential.

Naruto fought Hagoromo Otsutsuki in a fierce close-range battle, using his chakra swords and tailed-beast form to pressure him. Naruto endured serious injuries while Hagoromo's Susanoo began to fade as his chakra ran low, leaving Naruto poised to obtain the Six Paths power he needed to evolve his Sharingan.

• Naruto warned Hagoromo Otsutsuki that he was now his prey and attacked with twin Yin-Yang Release chakra swords.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki fought back with his blue Susanoo, blocking Naruto's sword strikes and countering his tails through the Rinnegan's insight.
• Naruto and Hagoromo Otsutsuki exchanged hundreds of attacks, shaking Mount Myōboku with their collisions.
• Naruto's Susanoo and body suffered heavy damage, but his wounds healed quickly while Hagoromo Otsutsuki's Susanoo grew translucent from dwindling chakra.
• Naruto continued charging despite Hagoromo Otsutsuki cutting through his chest armor and flesh, intent on exhausting him and obtaining a wisp of Six Paths Chakra.

Naruto defeated Hagoromo Otsutsuki on Mount Myōboku and absorbed his remaining Chakra, leaving the story with Naruto’s Rinnegan awakened. Hagoromo accepted Naruto’s path before returning to the Pure Land.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki acknowledged Naruto’s strength and temporarily accepted his path, believing it could lead to a way forward against Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Naruto used Kamui to break Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s Susanoo sword, then bound the Susanoo with his tails and struck it with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• The explosion destroyed Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s Susanoo, and Naruto caught his falling body before absorbing all of his Chakra.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki wished Naruto well, then reverted to Jiraiya’s corpse as Naruto tossed the body aside.
• Naruto felt a surge of power in his eyes and realized that the Rinnegan had awakened.

With Konoha battered and facing war from multiple villages, Tsunade learned Jiraiya had not reported back and decided to seal Konoha off from the outside world. She told Hyuga Hiashi that the village would abandon external missions and interests to recover behind a barrier.

• Tsunade read reports of Konoha’s losses as Sunagakure’s war against the village continued.
• An Anbu shinobi told Tsunade that Jiraiya had sent no message and may have headed out to sea with Kirigakure shinobi after an unusual tsunami.
• Tsunade summoned Hyuga Hiashi, who offered the Hyuga Clan’s support after learning that Hidden Cloud Village and Iwagakure had also declared war.
• Tsunade announced her plan to seal Konoha behind a barrier, stopping anyone from entering or leaving so the village could recover.

Tsunade secured Hyuga Hiashi’s support for Konoha’s sealing proposal by offering to take Hinata as her disciple and protect her from the Caged Bird mark. Meanwhile, Akatsuki learned of Naruto’s strength and ambitions, and Pain assigned Konan to approach him in disguise.

• Tsunade asked Hyuga Hiashi to publicly support her at the afternoon meeting, and offered to make Hinata her disciple.
• Hiashi accepted, pledging the Hyuga Clan’s support and entrusting Hinata to Tsunade’s care.
• After Hiashi left, the Slug Sage spoke to Tsunade and asked for her help.
• In Amegakure, Black Zetsu reported Naruto’s Mangekyō ability, his battle with Jiraiya, and his ambition to create a new world.
• Kisame offered to recruit Naruto, but Pain assigned him another mission and said the Deputy Leader would handle the Nine Tails Jinchuriki.
• Konan asked when she should act, and Pain told her to approach Naruto under another identity.

After Konoha sealed itself off, the other great villages divided up its mission business while Naruto finished preparing Wave Country’s teaching materials. At Orochimaru’s experimental base, Naruto ordered Hidan’s immortality to be used as the basis for creating a weapon by transplanting other bloodlines into him.

• Konoha’s isolation left its borders without a target, and Iwagakure and Kumogakure fought each other until their Kage negotiated a division of Konoha’s missions with Sunagakure.
• Naruto emerged from his room with his Wave Country teaching materials completed, and Karin brought him to Orochimaru’s Experimental Base.
• Naruto found Uchiha Izumi and Uzumaki Suika undergoing examinations while Orochimaru studied the immortal Hidan.
• Orochimaru told Naruto that Hidan’s immortality could not be transferred and that attempts to transplant it caused others to suffer Hidan’s injuries.
• Naruto ordered Orochimaru to transplant other people’s powers into Hidan and have two Uchiha use genjutsu to brainwash him into a weapon.

Mei Terumi toured Wave Country and observed how its workers, ninjas, and factories reflected Uzumaki Naruto’s plans for the nation. After learning Chojuro was working intensely in the back mountain, she went to find him.

• Mei Terumi recalled how she had broken Wave Country’s ban on dangerous ninjutsu while saving a worker and had been bailed out by Uchiha Izumi.
• Mei Terumi reflected on the debt Naruto had charged her for medical treatment, while admitting that her health records and advice on improving her bloodline limit were useful.
• Mei Terumi admired Wave Country’s growing Industrial Zone and resolved to build factories in Kirigakure if she became Mizukage.
• Mei Terumi visited the construction site to see Chojuro, and Captain Nakagawa warned her that Chojuro was working too intensely.
• Mei Terumi thanked Captain Nakagawa and headed into the forest behind the site to find Chojuro.

Mei Terumi learned that Naruto planned to make Wave Country Academy teach ideas that challenged the Five Great Nations’ order, and she agreed to work there as a teacher. The chapter left her and Chojuro in Wave Country, unaware how their years there might change their views of Kirigakure.

• Chojuro told Mei Terumi he was chopping trees to help repay her medical fees, which he had learned about from an Uchiha friend.
• Naruto arrived and gave Mei Terumi a scroll containing Wave Country Academy’s first-year teaching material.
• Mei Terumi objected that the material’s ideas of unification, law, and science threatened the foundations of the Five Great Nations.
• Naruto offered Mei Terumi a teaching job paying two hundred thousand a month, with bonuses for excellent student evaluations.
• Mei Terumi accepted the job, and Naruto vanished after telling her someone would contact her before the school term.

Sasuke and Neji held a sparring match at the Uchiha estate, where the Uchiha children cheered for both fighters and turned the bout into a messy grappling contest. Naruto arrived at the end and laughed at their “thoroughly satisfying battle.”

• Sasuke gained the upper hand against Neji in their taijutsu spar, leaving Neji struggling near the edge of the square.
• Xiao Hai cheered for Neji, and other Uchiha children joined in, praising both fighters for their strength and kindness.
• The children shouted advice as Sasuke and Neji resumed fighting, and the pair followed their instructions until the spar became a grappling brawl.
• The children left still debating the fight, while Sasuke and Neji exchanged amused looks and let go of their resentment.
• Naruto descended into the square, laughed at Sasuke and Neji, and called their bout a thoroughly satisfying battle.

Naruto visited Wave Country and recruited Uchiha Mikoto and Kakashi to teach at its new school, while Minato agreed to help supervise it. As Naruto prepared to leave, Sasuke challenged him and Neji to a fight.

• Sasuke asked Naruto why he had come, and Mikoto scolded Sasuke for speaking rudely.
• Naruto handed scrolls to Mikoto, Kakashi, and Minato, who were surprised by their contents.
• Naruto asked about Shisui and considered Wave Country's shortage of trained security forces.
• Naruto asked Mikoto and Kakashi to teach at the school and assigned Minato temporary teaching and discipline duties.
• Sasuke activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and challenged Naruto, adding Neji to the challenge.

Naruto easily knocked out Sasuke and Neji before leaving to handle preparations for the Wave Country school. In Kirigakure, Karatachi Yagura and Genji learned that Mei Terumi had been seen returning with Jiraiya and Kakashi Hatake, and ordered a search of the sea for survivors.

• Sasuke challenged Naruto with Neji and attacked using Chidori, but Naruto dodged with the Body Flicker Technique and knocked him unconscious.
• Naruto knocked out Neji and left Minato Namikaze and the others to deal with the aftermath.
• Karatachi Yagura questioned an Anbu ninja, who reported that fishermen had seen Mei Terumi returning with Jiraiya and Kakashi Hatake a month earlier.
• Karatachi Yagura and Genji suspected that Akatsuki might be involved in the group's disappearance and discussed the danger posed by whoever had controlled Yagura.
• Genji ordered the Anbu ninja to search the sea between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water, including small islands, for survivors.

Naruto opened Wave Country School with a speech urging its students to carry on the country’s future. The students and parents responded with fervor, leaving Naruto uneasy about how much his words resembled Sarutobi Hiruzen’s.

• Naruto confirmed that Wave Country School’s facilities, staff, and opening preparations were ready.
• Nonō told Naruto that a Hidden Mist Ninja Squad had clashed with the patrol, and he ordered the ninjas sent to Mui for work until Mei Terumi could deal with them.
• On opening day, Haku joined the students while Zabuza watched him leave and vowed to protect Wave Country.
• Naruto delivered a speech comparing generations of people to trees sheltering and nourishing one another, and called on the students to study for Wave Country’s future.
• The students and parents erupted in applause and became eager to serve Wave Country, while Naruto recognized that the scene reminded him of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Naruto oversaw Wave Country School’s opening ceremony and learned that Orochimaru’s research on Hidan had produced a powerful bloodline. The advanced class began lessons with Uchiha Mikoto as its teacher, as Wave Country’s new education system took its first steps.

• Naruto handed the microphone to Yakushi Nonō, who explained school rules and procedures to students and parents before the opening ceremony ended.
• Yakushi Kabuto told Naruto that Orochimaru had achieved a promising result in his research on Hidan and that Kimimaro and the other children had enrolled.
• Naruto’s school placed ten gifted students, including Sasuke, Neji, Karin, Haku, and Kimimaro, in an advanced class.
• Uchiha Mikoto introduced herself as the advanced class’s homeroom teacher and distributed textbooks to the students.