Chapter Summaries

Naruto and Sasuke escaped the collapsing underground ruins, but the black oil pursued them across the Land of Snow. As dawn broke, they used the glacier’s natural mirrors to focus sunlight on the monster, leaving its fate unresolved as the beam struck it.

• Sasuke broke through an exhaust pipe with Chidori and escaped the ruins with Naruto as the black oil swallowed their platform.
• The two emerged on a snowy mountainside, where the oil erupted from the ruins and pursued them in the open.
• Sasuke recognized that dawn and the glacier’s natural mirrors could focus sunlight on the oil monster, and he drew its attention while Naruto reshaped an ice wall.
• Naruto cut the ice wall into position, and it focused a broad beam of sunlight onto the black giant.

Naruto and Sasuke destroyed the black giant in the Land of Snow and recovered its self-destructing core, whose data was erased. The Land of Snow Royal Guard took them to meet daimyo Kazahana Koyuki, while Naruto recognized something familiar in the core’s patterns.

• Naruto focused sunlight onto the black giant’s core, dissolving the creature into dust.
• Sasuke found a metal sphere among the remains, but its self-destruct program erased the data.
• Airships from the Land of Snow arrived, and the Royal Guard captain recognized Naruto and Sasuke.
• The captain told Naruto and Sasuke that the battle had triggered avalanches and buried a railway under construction.
• Naruto and Sasuke flew toward the capital to meet Kazahana Koyuki, and Naruto said he recognized the patterns on the core.

Naruto and Sasuke discovered that the enemy’s device had reported combat data to an old Root hideout near Konoha. They hurried back toward the Land of Fire to investigate, while Sasuke planned to scout ahead despite his depleted Chakra.

• Naruto told Sasuke that a device from the Scientific Ninja Tools Unit bore Leaf manufacturing techniques.
• Naruto and Sasuke met Kazahana Koyuki, who revealed that the device had sent coordinates to a forest near Konoha before it stopped working.
• Sasuke concluded that someone had remotely monitored their battle and treated it as a test.
• Naruto recognized the coordinates as an old Root hideout managed by the Scientific Ninja Tools Unit, and Koyuki offered them her private train.
• As they traveled toward the Land of Fire, Naruto suspected Fang Zhu had been controlled or that Amado had stolen his technology.
• Sasuke said he would scout ahead at the border while Naruto returned to the village and asked Shikamaru to confirm the hideout’s details.

Naruto returned to Konoha and learned that White Zetsu remains and Hashirama Cells had been stolen from a secure warehouse, with evidence pointing to a traitor connected to Utatane Koharu. Sasuke and Sai headed to a former Root outpost to investigate while Naruto locked down the village, as a hidden enemy prepared new soldiers and a Naruto-like clone.

• Naruto and Sasuke sensed an ominous chakra near Konoha and found the village under unusually heavy Anbu surveillance.
• Shikamaru told Naruto and Sasuke that biological samples, including White Zetsu remains and Hashirama Cells, had been stolen from the Scientific Ninja Tools Unit's third warehouse.
• Shikamaru revealed that Utatane Koharu had signed off on an outpost still receiving a signal, suggesting a high-ranking insider was involved.
• Naruto ordered Sasuke and Sai to investigate the former Root outpost and told Shikamaru to seal Konoha and restrict all travel.
• A cloaked old man watched footage of Naruto and Sasuke's battle and revealed a golden-haired clone resembling young Naruto inside a Culture Tank.

Sasuke and Sai infiltrated a hidden Root facility and discovered modified White Zetsu being prepared as weapons, along with evidence that someone in Leaf’s leadership had authorized their transfer. They confronted Gen'ō, who revealed that Code’s half-finished child was only bait for gathering combat data.

• Sai used ink mice to locate a concealed entrance to the underground base, and Sasuke cut through its stone gate with lightning chakra.
• Sasuke and Sai destroyed the base’s automated defense puppets and continued through its sensor-suppressing corridors.
• They found tanks containing mechanically modified White Zetsu and a display of Leaf’s defensive weak points.
• Sasuke took a materials transfer order bearing the advisors’ seal and dated the previous day, while Sai questioned who would buy the weapons.
• Gen'ō appeared in a wheelchair and claimed that the Root legacy and Scientific Ninja Tools had created another trump card beyond Code’s half-finished child.

Sasuke and Sai encountered an artificial Naruto-like subject at a secret base, while Naruto confronted the Leaf’s advisors about the still-operational facility. The chapter left Naruto and Shikamaru watching blurry footage of Sasuke fighting the black figure after Boruto and Kawaki brought it to them.

• A blond artificial subject with a Sharingan and Rinnegan awakened in the tank and blasted Sasuke and Sai into a wall.
• The subject emerged in a black chakra cloak and spoke Sasuke’s name.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura claimed the abandoned base’s continued operation was not their responsibility, and Naruto ordered it sealed and cleared.
• Shikamaru told Naruto the advisors were distancing themselves from the base, and they worried when Sasuke failed to report back.
• Boruto and Kawaki brought Naruto and Shikamaru footage of Sasuke fighting a fast-moving black figure.

Naruto watched a broadcast of a deadly fight between Sasuke and a powerful fake Naruto, then sent Boruto and Kawaki to help while he stayed at headquarters. Sasuke revealed he had prepared a counterattack as the battle continued.

• A broadcast showed the fake Naruto overpowering Sai and attacking Sasuke, while Gen'ō explained the weapon's enhanced abilities.
• Naruto wanted to rush to Sasuke, but Shikamaru persuaded him to stay at headquarters and sent Boruto and Kawaki with a shadow clone and Doctor Fang Zhu's emergency patch.
• Naruto ordered Shikamaru to bring the advisers back, determined to make them answer for the weapon if the Leaf had created it.
• The fake Naruto pierced Sasuke with a Black Rod and taunted him as Gen'ō filmed the fight.
• Sasuke revealed that he had carved markings across the battlefield and activated Lightning Release: Kirin, reverse induction.

Boruto, Kawaki, and Sasuke defeated Gen'ō's Naruto counterfeit by using a virus to disable its core, then escaped the exploding base with Gen'ō. In the Leaf Hospital, Naruto told Sasuke that the advisors had signed a retirement agreement, while Sasuke reflected on the counterfeit's final words.

• Boruto and Kawaki attacked the Naruto counterfeit while Sasuke recovered from its earlier assault.
• The counterfeit transformed into a tailed beast and prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Sasuke implanted Boruto's virus device into its core and destroyed it.
• Gen'ō activated the base's self-destruct system, and Sasuke, Boruto, and Kawaki escaped with him through Kawaki's space-time vortex.
• Naruto visited Sasuke in the Leaf Hospital and told him the advisory council had lost its veto power through a retirement agreement.
• Sasuke told Naruto that the counterfeit had said, "So dark," and Naruto said he felt sad for the victim.

After Gen'ō revealed that a black-market auctioneer called the Gravedigger had supplied the technology for the fake Naruto, Sasuke and Sai traveled undercover to the Ship Graveyard to investigate. They reached the fog-shrouded wreckage, where Sasuke sensed someone approaching.

• Shikamaru told Naruto, Sasuke, and the boys that Gen'ō had named the Gravedigger as his supplier and identified the Ship Graveyard as the auction site.
• Shikamaru explained that the Gravedigger sold forbidden jutsu, stolen Kekkei Genkai samples, Kara parts, and a container holding an Ōtsutsuki Isshiki Data Disk.
• Sasuke agreed to investigate, and Sai joined him because of his knowledge of Root and the black market; Naruto refused to let Boruto and Kawaki come along.
• Two days later, Sasuke and Sai arrived at the Ship Graveyard disguised as a ronin and a merchant.
• Sasuke sensed someone approaching as their fishing boat threaded through the wreckage.

Sasuke and Sai infiltrated a floating auction house to stop the sale of a dangerous Kara relic, only to discover a little girl being tortured with an incomplete Karma. Sasuke freed her and ordered Sai to get her out as the auction house’s defenders attacked.

• Sai used Gen'ō's passphrase and gold to get himself and Sasuke aboard the sea fortress.
• Sasuke recognized a crude replica of Danzo's arm, then sensed a dangerous Chakra signature matching Boruto and Kawaki's Karma beneath a covered cage.
• Sasuke interrupted the bidding and demanded the host uncover the supposed relic, while Sai fought the attackers and Sasuke disabled the mercenaries with Chidori Stream.
• The host revealed a sick little girl whose incomplete Karma was destroying her arm, and admitted the auctioneers planned to extract Chakra from her.
• Sasuke severed the host's arm, cut the cage chains, and told Sai to get the girl out.

Sasuke and Sai rescued a girl from a living puppet ship, but Code appeared after she nearly self-destructed and challenged Sasuke. Sai fled with the girl while Sasuke fought Code alone.

• Sai recognized the ship as a giant living puppet as its metal tentacles attacked, and Sasuke wounded the red-suited man with his Rinnegan.
• The girl’s Karma activated a self-destruct program, but Code emerged from a portal and stopped the mark from detonating.
• Code killed the red-suited man and challenged Sasuke, revealing that he had come to clean house rather than reclaim the girl.
• Sasuke ordered Sai to take the girl to the Leaf, then clashed with Code as Code launched a clawed attack at his throat.

Sasuke battled Code at sea and revealed Take-Mikazuchi, a lightning prosthetic that could disrupt Code’s claw marks. Code endangered Sai and the little girl, but Naruto arrived with the girl just as Sasuke faced an impossible choice.

• Code attacked Sasuke through claw marks, exploiting Sasuke’s missing arm and pushing him into a desperate defense.
• Sasuke used Take-Mikazuchi to match Code’s speed, strike him, and pin his claw marks with Lightning Lock.
• Code revealed that a puppet carrying the little girl had activated her Kāma and sent her and the unconscious Sai plunging toward the sea.
• Naruto arrived by space-time transfer, destroyed the puppet, and caught the girl while Boruto lay sick on the water.
• Sasuke greeted Naruto with relief and told him he was late.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Boruto escaped Code’s spatial explosion and brought the critically injured girl to Konoha Hospital. The operation continued for four hours, leaving Boruto anxiously waiting with Naruto and Sasuke.

• Code triggered a spatial compression detonation using objects marked with his Claw Marks, then escaped.
• Naruto lent Boruto chakra, allowing him to use the Flying Thunder God to teleport the group away just before the blast destroyed the Susanoo.
• Sasuke criticized Boruto’s imperfect technique, while Sai reported that the girl’s failing organs were still being drained by her Kāma.
• Naruto ordered the girl taken to the hospital, sealed information about the incident, and warned that Konoha must prepare for war with Code.
• Boruto felt a strange sadness from the Kāma in his palm, and a tiny Mechanical Insect combusted after the group left Hokage Rock.
• After four hours in Konoha Hospital’s underground intensive care unit, Boruto paced anxiously while Naruto and Sasuke waited for the operation to end.

Sakura stabilized Kiyomi but warned that the living mark would kill her within three months unless its core in Amegakure was found. While Sasuke prepared to investigate, Kiyomi woke in the Leaf hospital, where Kawaki and Boruto watched over her, before Amado’s name triggered a severe trauma response.

• Sakura told Naruto and Sasuke that Kiyomi’s living mark could not be removed safely and that suppressing it would only keep her alive for at most three months.
• Sakura reported that Kiyomi had named Amegakure as the location of the mark’s core, and Sasuke decided to go there while Naruto stayed behind as Hokage.
• Naruto named the girl Kiyomi and placed her under Leaf’s protection.
• Kiyomi woke in the hospital and met Kawaki, who told her she was in the Leaf and reassured her that no one would use her as a battery.
• When Sarada mentioned Amado, Kiyomi panicked and begged not to be injected, so Sarada sedated her while Kawaki suspected Amado was hiding more than he had revealed.

Naruto learned that Kiyomi could lead the Leaf to the Ten-Tails but carried a self-destruct program, forcing him to negotiate with Amado for help disabling it. As Amado agreed, a paper angel resembling Konan attacked the hospital with lethal Scientific Ninja Tool paper.

• Naruto confronted Amado about Kiyomi, and Amado revealed she could sense the Ten-Tails but would self-destruct near powerful Chakra sources.
• Amado demanded his freedom and a private laboratory in exchange for taking the Leaf to the base where Kiyomi's program could be disabled.
• Naruto offered to consider easing Amado's restrictions if he saved Kiyomi and helped locate the Ten-Tails, and Amado accepted.
• Ino warned Naruto that an unknown Chakra was attacking the hospital and resembled the Akatsuki's signature.
• A paper angel resembling Konan attacked the hospital barrier with paper spears, and its Scientific Ninja Tool materials pierced an Anbu shinobi.

A paper-and-metal puppet attack on the Leaf targeted Kiyomi, whom Amegakure’s remnants regard as their god. After Naruto and Sasuke helped defeat the attackers, Naruto ordered a special mission to Amegakure to destroy Kara bases and find a way to deactivate Kiyomi’s self-destruct program.

• A Paper Person broke into Kiyomi’s hospital room, and Kawaki absorbed its Chakra while Boruto carried Kiyomi to safety.
• Naruto shielded the hospital from a barrage of Explosive Tags, while Sasuke destroyed the Paper Angel and identified the real threat underground.
• A puppet resembling the dead Hanzō attacked with a metal monster, and Amado revealed that it was trying to capture Kiyomi and transport her to Amegakure.
• Kiyomi told Boruto to target the monster’s joints, allowing Kawaki to disable it and Boruto to destroy the Hanzō puppet.
• Naruto reassured Kiyomi and ordered a Special Operations Squad to go to Amegakure, destroy the remaining Kara bases, and find the Source Host that could deactivate her Self-Destruct Program.

Naruto and Shikamaru sent Sasuke to lead Boruto, Kawaki, Mitsuki, Sarada, and Kiyomi on an infiltration mission to Amegakure, where they had to find a mainframe and deactivate Kiyomi’s Self-Destruct Program. The team reached the rain-soaked city, where Kiyomi recognized the Tower of God as home.

• Naruto tried to join the mission, but Shikamaru refused and Sasuke was assigned to lead it.
• Amado explained that Kiyomi could guide the team to the mainframe and gave them a physical plugin to deactivate her program.
• Sasuke assembled Boruto, Kawaki, Mitsuki, Sarada, and Kiyomi, then led them out of Konoha on an S-rank infiltration mission.
• The team traveled through the Land of Rain and reached Amegakure, whose chaotic Chakra and endless rain made it a dangerous maze.
• Kiyomi pointed to the Tower of God and murmured that Amegakure was home.

Sasuke’s team entered Amegakure through the sewers and discovered that Amado’s mainframe was connected to people preserved in Culture Tanks. As the facility’s lights turned red, an unseen voice welcomed the Leaf guests and called Kiyomi a runaway lab rat.

• Kiyomi sensed the heart nearby, and Sasuke’s team avoided the Scientific Ninja Tool guards by entering Amegakure’s sewers.
• The group evaded sampling drones, and Boruto silently destroyed a surveillance camera with his erasing Rasengan.
• Sasuke, Sarada, and Kawaki discussed Amegakure’s survivors and the price they paid for the power offered by technology.
• Mitsuki bypassed a pressure-sensitive door’s poison trap and unlocked it by solving Amado’s Snake game.
• The team found Culture Tanks holding people whose brains appeared to power Amado’s mainframe, and Kiyomi said they had volunteered to escape hunger and suffering.
• A synthesized voice welcomed the Leaf guests and called Kiyomi a runaway lab rat as the lights turned red.

Boruto and Kiyomi fought their way to Rain’s control room, where they discovered the mainframe was Shennong and learned that Kiyomi’s bomb could awaken a Ten-Tails juvenile beneath Amegakure. Boruto attacked Shennong’s biological processor with a Rasengan.

• Sasuke, Kawaki, Sarada, Mitsuki, and Boruto battled the mechanical corpses after the Culture Tanks shattered.
• Sasuke held back a mechanical centipede while Boruto carried Kiyomi up the pipes toward the control room.
• Kiyomi revealed the mainframe entrance was inside the centipede’s mouth, and Boruto used Kāma to overload the iris-scanning door.
• Boruto and Kiyomi found a biological processor made from First Hokage cells and White Zetsu remains, which Shennong identified as the mainframe.
• Shennong claimed Kiyomi was a bomb and beacon meant to activate a Ten-Tails juvenile, while Boruto’s clones were struck down by lightning.
• Boruto rose above the processor and launched a Rasengan at Shennong.

Boruto and Kiyomi fought Shennong's biological computer, and Kiyomi used Amado's Physical Plugin to reset it from within. Boruto escaped with the unconscious Kiyomi as the Tower of God began to collapse, while Sasuke and Kawaki waited below.

• Boruto used Shadow Clones to attack the server racks while Kiyomi tried to cut off Shennong's power supply.
• Shennong struck Boruto into a control panel and prepared to absorb him as the ball of flesh swelled.
• Kiyomi connected a high-voltage cable to her Kāma and pressed the Physical Plugin against her chest.
• Kiyomi used Amado's administrator command to reset Shennong's system, causing his biological computer to break down.
• Boruto carried the unconscious Kiyomi out of the control room before the system's collapse triggered an explosion.
• Sasuke defeated the last mechanical puppet below the tower, and Kawaki wondered whether Boruto had destroyed the whole building.