Chapter Summaries

Mikoto warned Shisui not to mistake her affection for acceptance, then ordered him to make Sarutobi’s mission fail. While escorting the Fire Daimyo’s daughter, Kakashi and Shisui encountered Obito, who revealed himself and threatened Shisui over his resemblance to the Fourth Hokage.

• Mikoto reminded Shisui that she had molded him to resemble Sōgetsu but could destroy him, then ordered him to fail Sarutobi’s mission.
• Shisui left Mikoto’s hall shaken and wondered what she intended to do with Itachi.
• Kakashi and Shisui killed attackers ambushing the princess’s escort in the Land of Waves, but found the samurai guarding her dead by their own hands.
• Obito appeared on the sedan chair and greeted Kakashi, who recognized him as the supposedly dead Uchiha traitor.
• Obito threatened to make Shisui suffer for the pain Sōgetsu had caused him, leaving Shisui confused about the Fourth Hokage’s role.

Kakashi and Shisui battled Obito in the Land of Waves, using coordinated attacks and techniques to overcome his defenses. The chapter ended with Shisui trapping Obito in a Genjutsu as Kakashi charged in with Lightning Cutter.

• Kakashi opened the attack with a sword strike, and Shisui followed with a storm of slashes that drew blood from Obito.
• Obito unleashed freezing cold and formed an ice blade, then charged Shisui at tremendous speed.
• Kakashi attacked Obito with a Lightning Release sword strike, but Obito caught and broke the blade before pursuing him.
• Kakashi retreated to lure Obito into Shisui's Earth Release technique, but Obito escaped the ground and Shisui's Great Fireball.
• Shisui immobilized Obito with Binding Genjutsu, giving Kakashi an opening to attack with Lightning Cutter.

Kakashi’s Lightning Cutter passed harmlessly through Obito, who used his Wraith abilities to possess Kakashi and attack Shisui. Obito immobilized Shisui and began torturing him, leaving Shisui’s Sharingan transforming as he faced the threat of losing his eyes.

• Kakashi stabbed Obito through the heart with Lightning Cutter, but Obito revealed his body had turned into a phantom.
• Obito merged with Kakashi and took control of his body, forcing him to attack Shisui.
• Obito’s Vengeful Spirit Shriek disrupted Shisui’s soul, and Kakashi’s blade cut across Shisui’s chest.
• Shisui fled, but Obito’s Spirit Binding caught him and blocked his Chakra, leaving him unable to move.
• Obito cut off one of Shisui’s arms and threatened to gouge out his eyes, prompting Shisui’s tomoe to transform into a new pattern.

Kakashi and the badly wounded Shisui escaped Obito’s attack, only to encounter Mr. A of the Aurora Society. When Obito caught up and threatened them, Kakashi claimed that he and Shisui wanted to join the society, hoping Mr. A would protect them.

• Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan triggered painful memories, allowing Kakashi and Shisui to escape while Obito collapsed in agony.
• Kakashi helped Shisui flee through the forest, but the two exhausted, injured shinobi eventually collapsed.
• Mr. A emerged from the forest and preached the True Creator’s doctrine to Kakashi and Shisui.
• Obito caught up and sent his vengeful spirit toward them, but Mr. A stepped in to stop it.
• Kakashi declared that he and Shisui wanted to join the Aurora Society and begged Mr. A to accept him.

Mr. A fought Obito after Kakashi claimed that he and Shisui were joining the Aurora Society, but White Zetsu rescued Obito just as Mr. A was about to take his soul. Mr. A then turned to Kakashi and Shisui and demanded to know whether they still intended to join.

• Mr. A declared that Kakashi and Shisui were under the Aurora Society’s protection and challenged Obito to leave.
• Obito attacked Mr. A with Vengeful Spirit Shriek and possessed him, but Mr. A expelled him with a Holy Light Amulet.
• Mr. A used masked monsters and his own Vengeful Spirit Shriek to overwhelm Obito, then burned him with the amulet’s golden flames.
• Mr. A grabbed Obito and prepared to take his soul, but White Zetsu twisted space and pulled Obito away.
• Mr. A turned to the stunned Kakashi and Shisui and asked whether they planned to go back on their word.

Mr. A forced Kakashi and Shisui to join the Aurora Society and enlist their help with a mission in Konoha. He revealed that the mission concerned the Uchiha, leaving Shisui alarmed about the Society’s plans for his clan.

• Mr. A lamented that Obito had escaped and threatened Kakashi and Shisui after realizing they regretted their choice.
• Kakashi agreed to join the Aurora Society, reasoning that he could act as a hidden agent for Konoha, while Shisui reluctantly went along.
• Mr. A told them to guide him in Konoha and promised to seek blessings from Lord Saint if they helped him succeed.
• Kakashi asked what Mr. A planned to do in Konoha, and Mr. A answered, “Uchiha.”
• Shisui asked what the mission had to do with his clan, but Mr. A only smiled and said nothing.

Minato Namikaze returned to Kushina as her delivery approached, but a summons from Mount Myōboku interrupted their reunion. The Great Toad Sage delivered a dire prophecy of a world-destroying tsunami and an ancient being awakening from death.

• Minato Namikaze returned home and reunited with his pregnant wife, Kushina.
• Kosuke arrived with a message that the Great Toad Sage wanted Minato at Mount Myōboku immediately.
• Kushina encouraged Minato to go, and he promised to return before their child was born.
• Minato traveled to Mount Myōboku, where Fukasaku and Shima told him the Great Toad Sage had a new prophecy.
• The Great Toad Sage warned Minato that a dark ocean would unleash a devastating tsunami and that the ancient Original would awaken when the stars aligned.

Black Zetsu interrupted Obito and Rin in their cave and was nearly captured by Rin’s monstrous, plantlike body before Obito stopped her. He told Obito that Kushina Uzumaki was about to give birth, and Obito decided to use the opportunity to target her and Minato Namikaze.

• Black Zetsu ignored White Zetsu’s warning and entered the cave to speak with Obito.
• Black Zetsu saw Rin’s grotesque, flower-covered body, and her branches seized him as he tried to escape.
• Obito stopped Rin from dragging Black Zetsu away and warned him never to interrupt them again.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Kushina Uzumaki was about to give birth and that the Nine-Tails seal would weaken.
• Obito welcomed the news and said he would send his former teacher and teacher’s wife a “blessing.”

Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi guarded Kushina as she gave birth, but Obito broke into the operating room and took the newborn hostage. He forced Minato to choose between saving Kushina and saving the child.

• Minato Namikaze waited anxiously outside the operating room while Hiruzen Sarutobi assured him that Kushina was protected.
• Kushina gave birth safely, and Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi briefly celebrated the newborn's arrival.
• Obito killed the Sealing Team and Medical Ninja, restrained Kushina, and threatened the newborn with an icy force.
• Minato Namikaze confronted Obito, who blamed him for choosing Kakashi over Rin and himself in the past.
• Obito demanded that Minato choose whether Kushina or the newborn would live.

Obito forced Minato Namikaze to choose between Kushina and their newborn child, then revealed he had damaged Kushina’s seal and unleashed the Nine-Tails. Hiruzen Sarutobi moved to hold off the beast while Minato cared for his family.

• Obito threatened Kushina and the newborn, and Minato Namikaze chose to save the child.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi intercepted Obito’s ice spikes as Minato rescued Kushina with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Obito revealed he had damaged Kushina’s seal, causing the Nine-Tails to emerge from her.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi carried Kushina to Minato and attacked the Nine-Tails with the Adamantine Staff.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi enlarged the Adamantine Staff and sent the berserk Nine-Tails flying.

Kushina gave Naruto her final instructions and asked Minato to care for him before Minato left to defend Konoha. As Kushina closed her eyes in the safe house, Minato arrived on the battlefield, struck Obito despite his spirit form, and confronted him in Sage Mode.

• Kushina lovingly gave Naruto advice for his future and asked Minato to tell him how much she loved him.
• Kushina made Minato promise to care for Naruto and remember her, then sent him to help Konoha.
• After Minato left, Kushina closed her eyes, while an oil lamp in the room ignited with azure flames.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Anbu fought the rampaging Nine-Tails as Obito slaughtered Anbu who could not harm his spirit form.
• Minato arrived and struck Obito, then condemned him for indulging his rage without taking responsibility.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted the rampaging Nine-Tails and drew it away from Konoha while Minato Namikaze focused on another threat. He drove the beast beyond the village wall and continued fighting it there, vowing to keep it from returning.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi struck aside the Nine-Tails' claw with the Adamantine Staff and ordered the Anbu to evacuate civilians.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi knocked the Nine-Tails down, then lured it away from Konoha while telling Minato Namikaze to focus on the other enemy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi deflected the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb and rammed the beast through Konoha's outer wall into the forest.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used Taijutsu and the Adamantine Staff to suppress the Nine-Tails beyond the wall, declaring that it would not take another step into Konoha.

Hiruzen Sarutobi fought to contain the Sharingan-controlled Nine-Tails while Minato Namikaze struggled to defeat Obito. Minato summoned his teacher Jiraiya, who joined him in Sage Mode, leaving Obito facing two opponents.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' eyes and suspected the Uchiha before meeting its charge with his Adamantine Staff.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi trapped the Nine-Tails in a swamp, struck it with a combined Lightning-Water jutsu, and sealed it inside a Three Directions Sealing barrier.
• Minato Namikaze continued fighting Obito, but Obito's durability, recovery, and summoned allies prevented Minato from defeating him.
• Minato Namikaze summoned Jiraiya, who arrived with Shima and Fukasaku and agreed to fight beside him in Sage Mode.
• Obito panicked when Jiraiya joined Minato, realizing that Konoha had turned the fight into a double team.

Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and the two sage toads fought Obito, using natural energy to counter his wraith abilities and overpower him. Jiraiya trapped Obito inside the Great Toad Rock Dweller’s stomach, where Obito called for White Zetsu to save him.

• Jiraiya and the sage toads helped Minato Namikaze ambush Obito, but Obito used Ice Storm to slow Minato and counterattack.
• Jiraiya bound Obito with his hair and the toads used a genjutsu chant, but Obito resisted the illusion and Minato evaded his attack with Flying Thunder God.
• Jiraiya and the toads unleashed Sage Art: Goemon, burning Obito and his wraiths until the wraiths extinguished the flames with ice.
• Jiraiya struck Obito with Frog Kumite and tried to seal him, while Minato warned that Obito could only be defeated by killing him completely.
• Jiraiya swallowed Obito and the others with the Frog Mouth Binding Technique, then trapped Obito inside the Great Toad Rock Dweller’s stomach.
• As the stomach walls closed in and corrosive fluid seeped out, Obito shouted for White Zetsu to save him.

After the Nine-Tails devastated Konoha, Shisui led Mr. A to the Uchiha compound and discovered the clan had been slaughtered. There, they encountered a blood-covered Itachi, who claimed he had killed everyone and said Shisui’s master had fled after trying to stop him.

• Kakashi and Shisui returned to Konoha and found the village devastated by the Nine-Tails, while Mr. A remained a threat they could not confront.
• Shisui led Mr. A toward the Uchiha compound as Kakashi went to look for his teacher’s wife.
• Shisui found the compound deserted and its streets littered with dismembered bodies and dried blood.
• Shisui discovered five-year-old Itachi dragging a badly tortured, pregnant woman through the compound.
• Itachi told Shisui he had sent the Uchiha to the True Creator and said Shisui’s master had tried to stop him but escaped.

Mr. A stopped Shisui from attacking Itachi and invited the child to return with him as the Holy Child. The chapter ended with Shisui helplessly watching them leave and swearing to kill Itachi, followed by an author’s note about quitting a job and receiving an inadequate salary.

• Shisui confronted Itachi over the Uchiha deaths, and Itachi insisted that death was a return to The Original.
• Shisui recalled Itachi’s frightening childhood power and resolved to kill him with Kotoamatsukami.
• Mr. A immobilized Shisui with a Wraith necklace and introduced himself to Itachi.
• Mr. A called Itachi the Holy Child and invited him to return home with him, and Itachi agreed.
• Shisui watched Mr. A and Itachi disappear, then vowed to kill Itachi.
• The author complained that after quitting, they received only a little over a thousand for their previous month’s salary.

Shisui delivered a dying Uchiha woman’s baby and promised to raise her daughter, Sasuke. At Konoha Hospital, the Sage of Six Paths watched newborn Sasuke and Naruto, hoping they would escape the ancient feud between Indra and Ashura.

• Shisui agreed to save the unborn child after the dying woman begged him to take the baby from her womb.
• Shisui delivered the baby, learned she was a girl, and heard the woman name her Sasuke before she died.
• The chapter recounted the aftermath of Obito’s attack and the Uchiha Clan’s destruction, including Naruto’s birth and Itachi becoming an S-Class Rogue Ninja.
• Newborn Sasuke and Naruto were placed together in Konoha Hospital’s intensive care room.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched the babies and hoped Mr. Adam’s method would end Indra and Ashura’s thousand-year conflict.

In the aftermath of the Nine-Tails Rampage and the Uchiha clan’s destruction, Hiruzen Sarutobi tasked Jiraiya with secretly finding Uchiha Mikoto and uncovering what happened. Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze left Konoha, while Itachi was branded a notorious rogue ninja with a massive bounty.

• Jiraiya visited the badly injured Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had defended Konoha from the Nine-Tails until Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya arrived to seal it inside Naruto.
• Jiraiya reported that only two Uchiha clan members were known to remain and revealed that Uchiha Mikoto had disappeared on the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall.
• Hiruzen ordered the incident’s information sealed as S-Rank and secretly assigned Jiraiya to find Uchiha Mikoto and investigate, explaining that he did not trust Uchiha Shisui.
• Jiraiya left Konoha several days later, while Minato Namikaze, devastated by Kushina’s death, entrusted Naruto to Hiruzen and departed after naming the child Uzumaki Naruto.
• News of the disaster spread through the Shinobi World, and Itachi was branded a vicious rogue ninja and given a bounty of 350 million ryo.

Uchiha Sōgetsu warned the Twilight Hermitage that he would leave to confront ancient beings beyond the Sequences and instructed its members to keep meeting and investigate the Aurora Society carefully. After they departed, he revealed that he had preserved Kushina Uzumaki’s consciousness inside Naruto’s subconscious, where she might awaken in the future.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu summoned the Twilight Hermitage and announced that he would disappear for a while to confront beings beyond the Sequences and delay the Apocalypse.
• The Sage of Six Paths asked whether the Apocalypse was connected to the moon, and Uchiha Sōgetsu warned that multiple powerful existences were watching their planet.
• Orochimaru connected the planet’s danger to Adam and the True Creator, while Uchiha Sōgetsu set monthly gatherings and told the members to pray to him only when necessary.
• The Twilight Hermitage agreed to continue investigating the Aurora Society cautiously and left the gathering.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu summoned the preserved consciousness of Kushina Uzumaki, which he had hidden in Naruto’s subconscious so she could awaken again in the future.

Uchiha Sōgetsu prepared to travel to the moon and left Adam behind as a powerful avatar and resurrection contingency. He departed the Church of Bones, leaving Adam with Groselle's Travels and the hope that the journey would go smoothly.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu used the Mind Islands to create Adam from traces of spirit gathered from tens of thousands of living beings.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu gave Adam Groselle's Travels and explained that it sealed both Miracle City Luvid and God's corruption, making it too dangerous to take to the moon.
• Adam agreed that the notebook should remain behind and warned that the journey would be exceptionally dangerous.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu and Adam discussed Adam destroying and reviving him if the journey went wrong, and Adam hinted that Sōgetsu had another resurrection contingency.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu left the Church of Bones for the moon, while Adam watched and wished him success.