Chapter Summaries

Sasuke altered the crystal plate’s teleportation array so it could carry all nine people from the moon to Earth, with Naruto helping stabilize the dangerous transfer. The group entered the unstable passage, where a spatial rift opened and Sasuke fought to keep the Void turbulence out.

• Sasuke discovered that the crystal plate could safely transport only five people, and the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Gaara each offered to stay behind.
• Sasuke proposed forcing all nine people through the array, explaining that Naruto’s Six Paths Power and his Rinnegan could lower the chance of disaster to thirty percent.
• Naruto and Sasuke volunteered to stabilize the passage, and Gaara agreed to trust them after Naruto recalled their promise to change the world.
• Sasuke rewrote the array, and everyone gathered inside it while Karin supported the amnesiac Kageyama.
• Naruto and Sasuke activated the crystal plate, sending the group through a crude passage across space toward Earth.
• A spatial rift tore open in the passage, and Sasuke used his Rinnegan to shield the group from the incoming Void turbulence.

Naruto and Sasuke used their own and the others’ Chakra to stabilize the collapsing passage and protect the group from its crushing spatial pressure. As they neared the exit, a massive rift blocked their path, and Mei Terumi led the others in building defenses for a desperate charge through it.

• As multiple rifts opened and the passage began to fail, Naruto poured the Tailed Beasts’ Six Paths Power into it to slow the collapse.
• Sasuke assigned the others to channel Chakra to him and Naruto, protect the injured Karin and Kageyama, and help Konan create a second defensive layer.
• Mei Terumi, the Raikage, and Ōnoki transferred their Chakra to Sasuke and Naruto while Konan reinforced the passage with Paper Shards.
• Naruto and Sasuke endured the spatial pressure as they stabilized the passage, but Sasuke estimated they still needed one minute to reach their destination.
• When a huge rift opened directly ahead, Sasuke ordered everyone to brace for a breakthrough, and Mei Terumi proposed using Water Release to absorb some of the impact.
• Ōnoki and the Raikage added an Earth Flow Wall and Lightning Armor to Mei Terumi’s water barrier.

Naruto and Sasuke led the group through the spatial rift to Earth, surviving the Void's currents at the cost of severe injuries. They reached the Land of Fire, where Kakashi and a Konoha team found them and prepared to teleport everyone to Konoha Hospital.

• The Void's chaotic currents destroyed the three defensive layers, and Gaara lost half of his left arm as Sasuke's Susanoo shielded the group.
• Naruto drew on Kurama's remaining life force while Sasuke held the Susanoo together, and they forced everyone through the rift to Earth.
• Naruto and Sasuke collapsed from depleted Chakra and severe injuries after the group arrived in an unfamiliar forest.
• Ōnoki surveyed the area and found that they were near the Land of Fire border, thirty kilometers from Konoha.
• Kakashi arrived with Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, and Anbu, then ordered an emergency teleportation to Konoha Hospital.

Naruto, Sasuke, the Five Kage, and their companions escaped the moon and returned to Konoha, where they warned Tsunade that a planet-destroying weapon remained sealed there. Konan proposed using the Sage of Six Paths' sealing jutsu with Moon Country's Sealing Array to hold it back for several more decades.

• Naruto and Sasuke led the group through the spatial rift, and they landed at a Training Ground near Konoha.
• The Raikage thanked Naruto, while Gaara confirmed that Karin was alive but badly injured and Darui checked that everyone had survived.
• Konoha Anbu brought the group to Tsunade, who ordered the amnesiac Kageyama guarded in the Interrogation Department and Karin treated in the Medical Department.
• Sasuke told Tsunade and the others that a weapon capable of destroying planets was sealed beneath an altar on the moon and could break free within ten years.
• Konan revealed that Nagato had left her the Sage of Six Paths' sealing jutsu and proposed combining it with Moon Country's Sealing Array to suppress the weapon for decades.

Naruto and the Kage agreed to prepare for the threat on the moon while arranging a rescue for the Moon Country survivors. Sasuke entered Kageyama’s blank mental world and encountered a gigantic, ancient presence trapped within it.

• Naruto argued that their generation should buy time for the next generation to face the future threat, and Tsunade agreed to report the matter to the daimyo.
• Sasuke reminded the group that the Moon Country guards needed rescuing, so Konan, Gaara, and Darui volunteered to go to the moon.
• Ino told Sasuke that a strange wall concealed Kageyama’s memories and warned that breaking through might unleash something dangerous.
• Sasuke entered the interrogation room and used the Rinnegan to enter Kageyama’s mental world.
• Sasuke found crimson eyes in the darkness, and their owner identified him as the bearer of the Rinnegan and said it was trapped there.

Sasuke learned that the Ōtsutsuki were fugitives who had created a god, and that their planted Chakra Fruit would eventually destroy Earth. After Sasuke killed the fragment of consciousness in Kageyama’s mindscape, its power entered Sasuke and Ino, and Sasuke’s Rinnegan began to evolve.

• The voice revealed that it was an abandoned Ōtsutsuki experiment and told Sasuke that a living god and the Ōtsutsuki main family sought the immature Chakra Fruit on Earth.
• Ino sensed Sasuke was in danger and entered Kageyama’s mindscape, where the voice explained its wish to see the Ōtsutsuki main family destroyed.
• The voice asked Sasuke to kill it and leave its power to him, Ino, Naruto, and the Shinobi World.
• Sasuke struck the silhouette with Indra’s Spear, and the dying voice thanked him and asked him to protect the Shinobi World.
• The fragment’s black particles flowed into Sasuke and Ino, and a black inverted triangular mark appeared in the center of Sasuke’s Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.

Sasuke and Ino gained new powers from the failed experiment’s thousand-year legacy, including information about the Otsutsuki. Back in Konoha, they visited the injured Karin, while Sakura took Sasuke for a medical examination and Ino pushed Naruto to confess his feelings for Hinata.

• Sasuke and Ino returned to reality with enhanced abilities, and Sasuke withdrew his hand from Kageyama, whose third eye had vanished.
• Sasuke told Naruto to keep Kageyama under observation and revealed that they had gained information about the Otsutsuki and a new power.
• Ino discovered she could sense the mental waves of the entire Shinobi World, and Sasuke warned her to control her perception.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Ino visited Karin in the hospital and talked about how she had risked herself to help them.
• Sakura arrived, examined Sasuke, and insisted on taking him for treatment because he had overused his eyes.
• Ino urged Naruto to stop delaying and tell Hinata how he felt, but Naruto insisted Hinata would wait for him.

Tsunade learned that Kageyama’s body was recovering despite his lost memories and ordered Konoha to keep him under guard and prepare to educate him. Konan, Gaara, and Darui returned from the moon with news that the seal would fail in eight years even after Konan strengthened it, so Naruto volunteered to find Jiraiya in Amegakure for help.

• Tsunade discussed the Otsutsuki threat with Shizune and questioned whether their generation could protect the world.
• Kakashi told Tsunade that Kageyama’s burned skin was peeling away, his body was healing, and his Chakra was returning.
• Sasuke explained that Kageyama’s body was recovering instinctively but his memories were gone, and Tsunade ordered him kept in custody under close surveillance until he recovered.
• Konan, Gaara, and Darui returned from the moon with thirty-seven refugees and warned that the weakened seal would fail within five years.
• Konan used Nagato’s power and Moon Country’s Sealing Array to extend the seal’s lifespan to eight years.
• Gaara suggested asking Jiraiya for help, Konan said he was in Amegakure, and Naruto volunteered to find him.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan reached Amegakure to find Jiraiya and discovered him battling Root survivors conducting experiments with the First Hokage’s cells. The Root leader defended their work, and Sasuke demanded to know why they had killed an Amegakure Anbu.

• Tsunade sent Naruto to find Jiraiya in Amegakure, with Sasuke and Konan accompanying him.
• Konan told Naruto that Jiraiya often visited the abandoned orphanage where he had once cared for three children.
• A Rain shinobi warned them that unidentified people had been active near the orphanage, and Sasuke detected five chakra signatures inside.
• A corpse bearing Amegakure Anbu markings was thrown from the orphanage, and Jiraiya emerged wounded and said four people inside were experimenting with the First Hokage’s cells.
• Four Root survivors appeared with Wood Release mutations and admitted that they were trying to make the Leaf stronger.
• The Root leader defended their human experiments as necessary sacrifices, and Sasuke asked why they had killed the Amegakure Anbu.

Naruto, Sasuke, Jiraiya, and Konan defeated Root remnants guarding an experimental base in Amegakure. Jiraiya then revealed that Uchiha Madara had arranged Nagato’s Rinnegan transplant and used Black Zetsu to pursue the Moon Eye Plan.

• Sasuke, Naruto, Jiraiya, and Konan fought four Root Cyborgs with altered Wood Release at the ruined orphanage.
• Naruto knocked out the woman using Wood Release, Sasuke killed the middle-aged man with Amaterasu, and Jiraiya defeated the old man with a Sage Art Rasengan.
• Konan’s young opponent blew himself up, and Jiraiya explained that Danzo had brainwashed Root members into extreme loyalty.
• Jiraiya told Konan that Nagato’s Rinnegan had been transplanted and that his memories of the procedure had been erased.
• Jiraiya revealed that Uchiha Madara had created Black Zetsu to control Nagato and carry out the Moon Eye Plan, an attempt to trap the world in an eternal illusion.

Jiraiya explained that Madara’s Moon Eye Plan depended on reviving the Ten-Tails and that Black Zetsu was searching for another Rinnegan host. He also revealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s connection to the Chakra Fruit, the moon, and the Ten-Tails, leaving Konan asking whether Black Zetsu knew the truth.

• Jiraiya told Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan that Madara had manipulated Nagato and that Black Zetsu could possess people with weak Chakra fluctuations.
• Jiraiya warned that Madara still planned to revive the Ten-Tails and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, making Naruto’s Nine-Tails a target.
• Sasuke told Jiraiya about the Otsutsuki main family and the events on the moon, and Jiraiya shared records about the Chakra Fruit.
• Jiraiya explained that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki ate the Chakra Fruit, was sealed on the moon by her sons, and might be connected to the Ten-Tails.
• Konan asked whether Black Zetsu knew the Ten-Tails’ true identity and its connection to Kaguya.

Jiraiya revealed that Black Zetsu served Kaguya and planned to resurrect her, while White Zetsu infiltrated the Shinobi World. Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan headed back to the Leaf to warn Tsunade, as Sasuke learned his Rinnegan might be evolving toward the Six Paths Power.

• Jiraiya explained that Kaguya created Black Zetsu to manipulate Madara and revive her by gathering Chakra through the Moon Eye Plan.
• Jiraiya told Naruto and Sasuke that they might need to combine Indra and Asura's powers to awaken the Six Paths Power and stand a chance against Kaguya.
• Jiraiya revealed that Kaguya had also created many White Zetsu, who could disguise themselves as other people and copy their Chakra.
• Jiraiya told Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan to secretly inform Tsunade and investigate suspicious people in the Leaf while he continued searching for Black Zetsu in Amegakure.
• Jiraiya identified the black mark in Sasuke's Rinnegan as a sign of the Six Paths Power and said his eyes might be evolving.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Konan set out for the Leaf, and Konan reflected on how Nagato had been used by Madara and Black Zetsu.

After learning about Kaguya and the Zetsu, Sasuke, Naruto, and Konan brief Tsunade, who orders a secret investigation in Konoha and asks Konan to reinforce the seal. Kakashi begins screening the village for White Zetsu and visits Karin, whose recollection of strange chakra may provide a clue.

• Sasuke told Tsunade what Jiraiya had revealed about Kaguya, Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, and the Moon Eye Plan.
• Tsunade ordered Kakashi and the Anbu to secretly investigate suspicious chakra in Konoha and said she would consult the other Kage about Kaguya.
• Tsunade asked Konan to reinforce the seal, then told Naruto to meet her at the Training Ground the next day for a test of his Six Paths Power.
• Kakashi briefed twelve Anbu captains on the covert search and gave them Yamanaka Clan mental-detection Cursed Marks to identify White Zetsu.
• Kakashi visited Karin in the hospital and asked whether she had sensed unusual chakra while searching Kageyama's memories; Karin said she had sensed something strange.

Kakashi learned that Karin had sensed Black Zetsu’s chakra and heard Ino explain that Kageyama would form a new personality without his memories. After Sasuke warned that Black Zetsu might possess someone in a village leadership position, Kakashi joined Tsunade, Naruto, and Sasuke at Training Ground 7 to test Naruto’s Six Paths Power.

• Karin told Kakashi that the faint black chakra waves she sensed felt cold, evil, and hungry for chakra, then asked about Kageyama.
• Ino told Kakashi that Kageyama’s erased memories would not return and that his Otsutsuki instincts would shape a new personality that could be guided through education.
• Kakashi told Ino he would pass her plea to give Kageyama a chance on to the Hokage.
• Sasuke warned Kakashi that Black Zetsu might possess a powerful, influential person in a village leadership position.
• Kakashi decided to discuss Sasuke’s suspicion with Tsunade, then joined her, Shizune, Naruto, and Sasuke at Training Ground 7 the next morning.
• Naruto sensed golden chakra mixed with the Nine-Tails’ chakra as Tsunade began testing his Six Paths Power.

Naruto found the Six Paths Power hidden deep within his body and accidentally unleashed a massive golden Chakra figure while trying to use it. He regained control after Tsunade intervened, and Tsunade ordered him to train with the power daily for the next week.

• Sasuke explained that Six Paths Power was hidden deep within Naruto's cells, and Naruto discovered it as a golden ocean.
• Naruto drew on the golden ocean, lost control, and formed a ten-meter golden figure that leveled the nearby forest.
• Sasuke failed to enter Naruto's spiritual world, while Sakura and Tsunade confronted the figure and Tsunade cracked its chest with a blow.
• Naruto regained control and dissipated the golden figure, then Sakura caught him as he nearly fell.
• Tsunade told Naruto to train his control over Six Paths Power every day for the next week and forbade him from using it in the village.

Tsunade and Kakashi investigated White Zetsu infiltrators and suspected Black Zetsu might be hiding among Danzo’s surviving followers. Ino discovered the captives were programmed to seek Naruto, while Sasuke learned that finding every White Zetsu could take six months unless they tried a risky alternative.

• Kakashi told Tsunade that Anbu had found three suspected White Zetsu, capturing two while the third escaped by merging into the ground.
• Kakashi warned Tsunade that Black Zetsu might possess one of Danzo’s surviving Root members and imitate Danzo’s will to control them, so she ordered secret surveillance.
• Ino told Sasuke that the captured White Zetsu had no memories and were instinctively commanded to find Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ino suspected more White Zetsu were concealed throughout Konoha and said testing everyone individually could take at least six months.
• Sasuke asked for a faster method, and Ino said one existed but was very risky.

Sasuke and Ino planned to combine her Mind Perception Technique with his Rinnegan to search a wide area for threats. After sharing dinner with Sakura and discussing his feelings and future, Sasuke met Ino at Anbu headquarters three days later to begin their scan.

• Ino proposed using her Mind Perception Technique alongside Sasuke's Rinnegan, and they agreed to try after he recovered.
• Sakura invited Sasuke to dinner, where she asked about his future and whether he liked anyone.
• Sasuke admitted he did not know what liking someone felt like, and Sakura told him feelings did not need to be rushed.
• Three days later, Sasuke and Ino arrived at Anbu headquarters, where Kakashi and Tsunade prepared to oversee their scan.
• Ino sat down to begin while Sasuke placed his hands on her shoulders and prepared to stabilize her mental energy with the Rinnegan.

Ino scanned Konoha and helped Sasuke locate thirty-seven White Zetsu, prompting the village to strengthen its defenses after two escaped. As Konoha waited for Black Zetsu to act, an Anbu told Tsunade that Danzo had left a secret cache of research, including records about the Otsutsuki.

• Ino used her Mind Perception Technique with Sasuke's help to locate thirty-seven White Zetsu hidden across Konoha.
• Kakashi sent twelve teams to capture the White Zetsu, but thirty-five were caught and two escaped.
• Sasuke urged Konoha to strengthen its defenses, and Tsunade approved increased patrols and sensory barriers.
• After several days without a sign of Black Zetsu, an Anbu told Tsunade that Danzo's research was hidden in a secret Root base three hundred meters underground and required a password to open.

Tsunade followed Kinoe to Danzo’s secret base, where she discovered records about Kaguya, Black Zetsu, and the weakening seal on the moon. Kinoe warned that Black Zetsu might already have possessed someone in Konoha’s leadership.

• Tsunade questioned Kinoe, then had Ino verify that he was not possessed or controlled.
• Kinoe led Tsunade, Kakashi, and Ino to the Root Organization’s underground secret base, filled with Danzo’s research and records.
• Tsunade found evidence that Danzo’s experiments, including First Generation Cells transplants, had been conducted on living people.
• Kinoe showed Tsunade scrolls describing Kaguya’s history, the moon seal guarded by the Moon Country and Kageyama, and Black Zetsu’s plan to revive Kaguya.
• Kinoe explained that Naruto and Sasuke might awaken the Six Paths Power needed to oppose Kaguya.
• Kinoe revealed Danzo’s prophecy that Black Zetsu might have possessed someone among Konoha’s leadership.

Tsunade’s team investigated Danzo’s suspicion that Black Zetsu had possessed Asuma. Asuma revealed the possession to Shikamaru and asked him to kill him before he could harm anyone else.

• Kinoe told Tsunade and Kakashi that Danzo suspected Asuma because of his strange behavior, ancient scrolls, and unknown Chakra crystals.
• Tsunade briefed Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, and Kakashi, and they planned to examine Asuma when he left on a mission.
• Shikamaru confronted Asuma at Konoha’s eastern gate, and Asuma led him into the woods.
• Asuma told Shikamaru that a monster had possessed him and was controlling his body.
• Asuma urged Shikamaru to kill him before he hurt Ino, Choji, Shikamaru’s father, or anyone else.