Chapter Summaries

The Shinobi Alliance celebrated after destroying the Giant Soldier, but Sasuke recognized that its remains were uploading battle data to the moon. A shadow revealed the battle had been a stress test and detonated the core, leaving Sasuke wounded beside an unconscious Naruto as the true Gatekeeper began to awaken.

• The Alliance cheered as the Giant Soldier dissolved, while Sasuke noticed its purple particles streaming toward the moon and warned Nagato that they were being uploaded.
• A shadow appeared on an energy screen and revealed that the battle had been a data-collection exercise to perfect the Gatekeeper and create a Divine Guard designed to eliminate the Rinnegan.
• The shadow detonated the Giant Soldier's core, and the shockwave devastated the exhausted Shinobi Alliance despite Gaara's attempt to shield them.
• The shadow warned that the true Gatekeeper had begun awakening on the moon and that the survivors had little time left.
• Sasuke used the remaining ribs of his Susanoo to protect the unconscious Naruto, then coughed blood onto the ice.

Sasuke touched a fragment of the Giant Soldier’s core and fought through its data storm with Nagato’s help, resisting the Shadow’s attempt to manipulate him. Together, they uncovered that the Moon Country had been destroyed by a Gatekeeper prototype harvesting its people and souls.

• Sasuke approached the core fragment despite Nagato’s warning that it contained data viruses.
• The fragment overwhelmed Sasuke with combat records, and he searched them for Ōtsutsuki techniques and information about the Tenseigan.
• The Shadow tried to tempt Sasuke with an illusion of his family and a peaceful Konoha, but Sasuke rejected it.
• Nagato joined Sasuke’s consciousness and shielded him from the data storm and the Shadow’s mental pollution.
• Sasuke and Nagato searched deeper into the database and saw a Gatekeeper prototype destroy the Moon Country by breaking its people and souls into energy with green chains.

Sasuke and Nagato recovered information from the core, but the Shadow revealed that the Kage and Karin were prisoners and demanded the core and key. Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan prepared to travel to the moon, while Konan called the mission Akatsuki's final atonement.

• Sasuke and Nagato extracted intel from the black fragment, but the process exhausted them and revealed that the fragment was part of a trap.
• Konan's blue crystal resonated with the fragment and projected Gaara, Mei Terumi, Darui, Kurotsuchi, and Karin imprisoned in a green-chain cage.
• The Shadow demanded that Sasuke and Nagato bring the core and the key to the moon, threatening to execute a prisoner every twenty-four hours and tightening Gaara's chains as a warning.
• The crystal formed a star map showing an unstable route to the moon that could transport at most four people.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Nagato volunteered to go, and Konan claimed the remaining place while assigning Raikage A to regroup the alliance.
• Konan told Naruto that the journey was her mission and Akatsuki's final atonement, then asked Nagato if he felt the same way.

Naruto argued that the alliance must not abandon the captured Kage and comrades, and the Tenseigan’s awakening convinced the survivors to support a rescue mission. Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan prepared to travel to the moon, where Naruto reminded Sasuke not to act alone.

• Raikage A and Ōnoki argued that the remaining forces should defend the continent instead of risking four people on a moon mission, while some survivors called for abandoning the captives.
• Naruto reminded the alliance of their shared bonds and insisted he would rescue Gaara and the others, even if he had to go alone.
• The Tenseigan appeared on the moon and its crushing pressure made Nagato realize that the Gatekeeper was beginning to awaken.
• Raikage A and Ōnoki approved the rescue mission, and Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan gathered at the star map to open a portal to the moon.
• Naruto told Sasuke not to try to handle everything alone this time.

Sasuke, Naruto, Nagato, and Konan struggled to survive a collapsing space-time passage filled with destructive fragments and a data storm. Konan used the blue crystal to carve a safe route through the chaos, and Sasuke rushed the group toward the exit.

• Konan activated the array with the blue crystal, sending the group into the dangerous passage.
• Sasuke used Susanoo and Naruto used Nine-Tails Chakra arms to deflect incoming space fragments.
• A data storm invaded Naruto’s mind and began eroding Susanoo, while Nagato shielded the group with Shinra Tensei.
• Konan poured her Chakra into the crystal, whose blue beam subdued the storm and created a stable route.
• Sasuke enclosed all four in Susanoo and raced toward the distant exit along the route.

Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan navigated a dangerous mechanical realm inside the Moon while searching for Gaara and the others. They fought off a swarm of machines, and Sasuke identified a control core below them as the source of the attack.

• The four entered a vast artificial world inside the Moon, where Sasuke detected a deadly energy net and led them through its gaps.
• Naruto sensed Gaara and the others nearby, and the team hurried through the mechanical labyrinth as their Chakra weakened.
• Sasuke led the team into the core defense zone, triggering a swarm of autonomous machines that attacked them with energy beams.
• Nagato deflected the barrage, Konan attacked with paper shards, Sasuke disabled machines with lightning, and Naruto crushed hundreds with a Rasengan.
• Sasuke located the swarm's control core below the passage, and Nagato prepared to pull it toward them with Banshō Ten'in.

Nagato destroyed the control core, and the group found the Five Kage being drained to hatch a Commander-type Divine Guard inside a cocoon protected by a shield that nullified their attacks. Konan used the Moon Country’s blue crystal to activate the shield and summon an apparition who called herself the Guide, the Moon Country’s last Miko.

• Nagato hurled a sphere of crushed machinery into the control core, disabling it, and Sasuke led the others deeper into the passage.
• The group found the Five Kage imprisoned beneath a cocoon that was absorbing their Chakra to hatch a Commander-type Divine Guard.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Nagato attacked the cocoon’s shield, but it absorbed and neutralized every technique they used.
• Konan sensed a connection between her blue crystal and the shield, then pressed the crystal against it.
• The crystal transformed the shield into a glowing screen, and an apparition introduced herself to Konan as the Guide, the Moon Country’s last Miko.

The Guide revealed that Shadow had transformed the Moon Country into a digital system and was preparing to hatch a body that could format the planet. Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan set out for the control room to stop him, but Moon Country figures emerged to block their way.

• The Guide identified the Rinnegan as a bloodline inherited from Otsutsuki Hamura and explained that Shadow had digitized the Moon Country’s people to create his Divine Realm.
• The Guide revealed that Shadow’s Divine Guard was absorbing the Five Kage’s Chakra and would hatch within ten hours, after which Shadow planned to format all life on the planet.
• The Guide explained that Konan’s key could shut down the Logic Shield from the control room, while Sasuke’s black fragment held Shadow’s original combat data.
• The Guide warned the group that Shadow had set a trap to seize the key and fragment, then vanished after entrusting them with the Moon Country’s future.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan followed the map toward the control room, where figures in white robes emerged from hidden corridor panels.

Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan fought through Shadow’s traps and reached a battlefield recreating the Valley of the End. Naruto and Sasuke faced data constructs of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara as the battle erupted.

• Nagato discovered that the puppet corpses could be disabled by destroying the Energy Cores in their chests, and the team quickly defeated them.
• Shadow warped the corridor into a memory-shaped battlefield depicting the Valley of the End.
• Sasuke identified the opponents as combat-data constructs of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, created from the fragment’s core.
• Sasuke and Naruto took on the two constructs while Konan and Nagato guarded against further attacks.
• Hashirama’s construct summoned True Thousand Hands, and Naruto answered with his complete Nine-Tails Mode.
• Madara’s construct formed a powerful Susanoo, and the four colossal fighters began clashing.

Naruto and Sasuke destroyed the data sources sustaining the Valley of the End simulation, defeating the copies of Hashirama and Madara. They reached the processor’s core, where Otsutsuki Kageyama held Gaara and the others captive and extracted their Chakra.

• Naruto and Sasuke combined a Tailed Beast Bomb with Sasuke’s Susanoo arrow to destroy Data Madara’s meteor.
• Sasuke used Heavenly Hand Power to reach and disable the Rune sustaining Data Madara and his Susanoo.
• Naruto sent Shadow Clones behind the waterfall, where one destroyed the second Rune and collapsed the simulated Valley of the End.
• Naruto and Sasuke returned to the metal corridor exhausted, then entered a circular hall and found Gaara, Mei Terumi, Darui, Kurotsuchi, and Karin trapped in a green-light cage.
• Otsutsuki Kageyama revealed himself as the figure behind the processor, and Naruto demanded that he release the captives.

Kageyama revealed his plan to archive all life as data and attacked Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan in the processor core. Nagato tried to use Chibaku Tensei to tear down the hall’s ceiling and reach the cages, but Kageyama dismissed his attempt as naïve.

• Kageyama explained that he intended to end chaos by converting every life, history, and emotion into data, and demanded the black core fragment and Konan’s crystal.
• Naruto used Sage Mode to resist Kageyama’s spatial pressure, and Nagato pulled him from a space-altered swamp with Banshō Ten'in.
• Sasuke’s Amaterasu vanished against Kageyama’s spatial barrier, and Kageyama appeared beside Konan to seize her crystal.
• Sasuke deflected Kageyama’s hand with his Kusanagi Sword, but his kick bounced off Kageyama without harming him.
• Nagato used Chibaku Tensei on the ceiling, tearing down metal and conduits into a huge sphere aimed at Kageyama and the cages.

Kageyama neutralized Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei and began erasing Naruto’s ninja knowledge, but Sasuke used Kageyama’s discarded core fragment to reveal a memory of his childhood and disrupt his control. Nagato seized the opening to cut the green chains holding the Five Kage.

• Kageyama erased Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei and corrupted the gravity and repulsion powers of Nagato’s Rinnegan, leaving Nagato trapped in their force.
• Kageyama began overwriting Naruto’s connection to the Nine-Tails and deleting his memories of ninjutsu, including how to use the Rasengan.
• Sasuke activated the black core fragment and projected an image of young Kageyama caring for an injured girl.
• Kageyama was shaken by the memory, and conflicting wills within him stopped him from reaching Naruto.
• Nagato used the brief opening to unleash a focused pulse of Rinnegan power at the green chains imprisoning the Five Kage.

The Five Kage broke free of Kageyama’s restraints but attacked as mindless terminals controlled by his power, leaving Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and Konan in a desperate fight. Konan’s attempt to override the control with the blue crystal briefly worked, but it drained her Chakra, and Nagato took Mei Terumi’s corrosive attack to protect her.

• Nagato’s Rinnegan surge shattered the energy chains, freeing the Five Kage, who immediately attacked their former allies.
• Sasuke realized Kageyama had turned the Kage into emotionless terminals and spotted a tiny delay between his data commands and their actions.
• Sasuke told the others to sever the Kage’s connection to Kageyama while Naruto struggled against Gaara and Nagato and Konan fought Mei Terumi and Kurotsuchi.
• Konan used the blue crystal’s higher authorization to briefly paralyze Kurotsuchi, but the crystal drained all her Chakra before she could maintain control.
• Mei Terumi’s Lava Style attack threatened Konan, so Nagato stepped in and took the corrosive blast across his back.

Nagato sacrificed his life and Rinnegan to empower Konan through the Moon Country’s key, letting her turn the tide against Mei Terumi and aid Naruto. Konan revealed the puppet fighters’ weakness to Naruto, while Sasuke remained locked in a difficult fight with Darui.

• Nagato shielded Konan from Mei Terumi’s Lava Release and, mortally wounded, apologized for failing to see a peaceful world.
• Nagato spent his life and Rinnegan to fuse his power into the blue crystal, transforming it and empowering Konan.
• Konan absorbed Mei Terumi’s acid mist with her newly enhanced Paper Ninjutsu and saved Naruto from Gaara’s sand spear.
• Konan used Statue Lock to tell Naruto that the puppets were vulnerable when receiving orders and urged him to sense that moment with Sage Mode.
• Sasuke blocked Darui’s Black Laser with Susanoo but struggled against Darui’s precise attacks.

Sasuke and Naruto created chaos to overload Kageyama’s calculations and give Konan an opening. Konan used Nagato’s power to target the energy supply feeding Kageyama’s cocoon, leaving the effects of her move unresolved.

• Sasuke used Heavenly Hand Power to redirect Darui’s black lightning toward Kurotsuchi, then struck at Darui but retreated when Darui countered automatically.
• Konan discovered that Kageyama’s control was delayed as he suppressed a memory, and told Naruto and Sasuke to create an opening while she prepared Nagato’s crystal.
• Naruto unleashed attacks across the hall, transforming it into a chaotic landscape of lava, quicksand, steam, and ruptured space that slowed the puppets.
• Sasuke used Indra’s Arrow and Heavenly Hand Power to send Darui toward the lava and redirect the arrow toward Kageyama, forcing him to divert his attention.
• Konan struck the pipes supplying energy to Kageyama’s cocoon with Nagato’s crystal and invoked Pain Reincarnation.

Konan's use of Nagato's painful memories corrupted Kageyama's Divine Guard and drove him to abandon his plan, transform into a chaos monster, and attack everyone. Naruto held back the monster's annihilating storm with a Truth-Seeking Orb shield, and the battered Five Kage began to rejoin the fight.

• Konan's infusion of Nagato's memories contaminated the Divine Guard, disrupted Kageyama's control, and released the four Kage Level puppets.
• Kageyama's corrupted system drove him to absorb the cocoon and energy conduits, mutate into a monster, and unleash a destructive storm.
• Gaara raised a sand wall, Mei Terumi used a water barrier, and Darui warned that the storm annihilated Chakra-based defenses, but the attacks failed.
• Naruto blocked the storm with a shield of Truth-Seeking Orbs and collapsed to one knee from the effort.
• Sasuke observed that Kageyama had lost his rationality, and Raikage A stood up and vowed not to leave the fight to Naruto and Sasuke.

The Five Kage joined Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan in fighting Kageyama, whose chaotic energy resisted their attacks. Sasuke found the monster’s core and coordinated a plan to expose it, while Konan restrained Kageyama to open a chance for the next strike.

• Raikage A, Ōnoki, Gaara, Mei Terumi, and Darui stood with Naruto and Sasuke to face Kageyama.
• Raikage A and Ōnoki attacked Kageyama, but his chaotic energy absorbed their efforts and nullified Ōnoki’s technique.
• Sasuke used his Rinnegan to locate an unstable energy singularity in Kageyama’s chest as his core.
• Sasuke directed Konan to restrain Kageyama while Raikage A, Ōnoki, and Gaara distracted the monster.
• Konan used paper marked with divine patterns to absorb Kageyama’s energy, bind him, and pull his raised arm away from Raikage A.
• Sasuke called out that one second had passed and activated Susanoo.

Sasuke and Naruto combined their strongest attacks to destroy Kageyama’s monstrous form, leaving him alive but without his memories or collapsed system. The group decided to take him back to the Leaf, then realized they were stranded inside the moon with their passage destroyed.

• Sasuke and Naruto attacked the monster from opposite sides while Konan used her remaining strength to hold it in place.
• Their attacks annihilated the monster’s body and collapsed the hall, while the Kageyama-like figure survived as a charred, motionless person.
• Sasuke determined that the figure’s system and memories had been erased, and Naruto hesitated to kill him.
• Sasuke decided to take the amnesiac Kageyama back to the Leaf so the Hokage and Tsunade could question him about the Tenseigan and Ōtsutsuki.
• Karin pointed out that the group was trapped inside the moon because the teleportation passage had been destroyed.

After defeating the Moon Country’s Guide, Naruto and the others realized they were stranded on the Moon and searched the ruined teleportation array for parts to rebuild it. Sasuke identified a possible route to the missing nodes, and Konan illuminated a deep pit so they could search below.

• Sasuke proposed rebuilding a crude teleportation array from energy-conduit shards, though he gave them only a thirty percent chance of success.
• Sasuke explained that the group needed compatible shards from connected nodes, not merely enough fragments to supply energy.
• Naruto found the burned bodies of Moon Country guards and covered them with rubble for burial.
• Ōnoki discovered an intact conduit connected to the teleportation array’s third energy node, and Sasuke traced the first and second nodes to the northwest corner.
• The group found the northwest ruins collapsed into a deep pit, and Konan formed glowing Paper Shards to illuminate its bottom.

Naruto and Sasuke found the teleportation Node fragments on an ancient altar, where Naruto triggered a mental trap before escaping it with Senjutsu Chakra. Kageyama awakened a colossal creature chained beneath the altar, and the group faced a collapsing pit as they began to retreat.

• The paper carpet revealed an ancient altar covered in runes, with teleportation Node fragments scattered across it.
• Naruto touched a stone slab and was struck by the altar’s Mental Pollution, but Sasuke guided him to repel it with Senjutsu Chakra.
• Naruto gathered several Node fragments while Kageyama entered the pit and approached the altar’s central hole.
• Kageyama called the creature beneath the altar “Mother,” and its crimson eyes appeared as Sasuke realized the altar restrained a living being.
• Konan dragged Kageyama away, provoking the creature’s roar and causing the pit to shake as Ōnoki ordered everyone to retreat.