Chapter Summaries

Sasuke’s team escaped Amegakure after destroying the Tower of God, freeing Kiyomi from Amado’s control and ending the rain. Back in Konoha, Naruto rejected the elders’ proposal to imprison or hand her over to Orochimaru, but her future placement remained unresolved.

• Mitsuki recovered an encrypted hard drive as Sasuke led the team out of the collapsing Tower of God with Boruto and the unconscious Kiyomi.
• The Tower of God collapsed, and the clouds over Amegakure parted as the rain stopped for the first time in decades.
• At an old warehouse, Sarada checked Kiyomi’s condition, and Kiyomi woke to find the brand and voices were gone; Kawaki gave her his boots and sandals.
• Sai picked up the team, and Sasuke said Konoha had places for people like Kiyomi as they headed home.
• In the Hokage’s office, Naruto refused the elders’ suggestion to imprison Kiyomi or place her under Orochimaru’s supervision, while Shikamaru warned that they still needed to find somewhere for her to live.

Hinata welcomed Kiyomi into the Leaf with a family meal, while Code watched from another dimension and vowed to attack the village. At the hospital, Amado revealed that Kiyomi’s accelerated cell division would limit her life to around twenty years unless she took an inhibitor that only he could make.

• Hinata brought sukiyaki to Naruto’s office, and Kiyomi joined the family meal, crying as she tasted the food.
• Code watched the gathering from a dimensional rift, crushed a chess piece, and threatened the Leaf.
• Kiyomi settled into a hospital suite, where Boruto, Kawaki, and Sarada visited and bickered around her.
• Amado examined Kiyomi and said her cells divided rapidly, leaving her with a likely lifespan of only twenty years without an inhibitor.
• Amado said only he could make the medicine, and Boruto demanded that he give it to Kiyomi.

Amado gave Boruto a monthly supply of suppressant for Kiyomi and warned that her lifespan was limited, while Konoha assigned her a special observation status and Kawaki as her guardian. Kiyomi began attending the Ninja Academy, where the practice kunai brought back memories of violence.

• Amado gave Boruto a bottle of suppressant and implied Kiyomi might not live much longer, while Kawaki accused him of deliberately leaving a flaw in her design.
• Boruto and Sarada reassured Kiyomi that Konoha's medical experts would try to cure her, and Kawaki bluntly told her not to give up.
• Shikamaru informed Kiyomi that she was now a Konoha Special Observation Subject, with the Hokage as her guardian and Kawaki handling her daily care.
• Shikamaru warned Kiyomi to report any signs of the beacon inside her and told Kawaki she would attend the Ninja Academy starting the next day.
• Kawaki took Kiyomi to buy supplies, and the following day Iruka introduced her as a transfer student to the Ninja Academy class.
• Kiyomi took a practice kunai and found it too light, thinking instead of weapons used to pierce chests or slit throats.

Kiyomi recognized Shadow, a remnant of the Kara Organization, and followed him into the forest, where Amado’s suppressant left her unable to fight. Kawaki intervened, but Shadow unleashed a red Chakra scroll that triggered the beacon inside Kiyomi and left her collapsing in agony.

• Kiyomi’s strength damaged the training target, and Iruka advised her to practice accuracy and take notes.
• Kiyomi sensed a Kara Organization presence near the school, jumped from the second-floor window, and confronted Shadow in the forest.
• Shadow explained that he had come to retrieve the beacon in Kiyomi and subdued her as Amado’s suppressant weakened her.
• Kawaki arrived, freed Kiyomi from Shadow’s chains, and fought him while Kiyomi disrupted Shadow’s attack with Water Release.
• Shadow warned that Kiyomi’s identity could be exposed and threatened to use Shennong’s red Chakra scroll; its energy made the beacon inside Kiyomi flare and knocked Kawaki back.

Kawaki and Boruto rescued Kiyomi from Shadow’s Red Chakra Resonance, but Shadow escaped after warning that she was nourishment for his lord. Back in the Hokage’s Office, Naruto ordered increased school patrols and arranged to keep Kiyomi’s identity secret.

• Shadow used a red scroll to trigger Kiyomi’s Resonance, and Kawaki absorbed the corrosive Red Chakra to protect her.
• Shadow attacked Kawaki, but Boruto arrived and knocked his blade aside with a Rasengan.
• Kiba’s search team approached, so Shadow withdrew after warning Kiyomi that she could not escape her fate as nourishment for his lord.
• Boruto, Kawaki, and Kiyomi returned to the Hokage’s Office, where Kawaki explained Shadow’s attack to Naruto and Shikamaru.
• Naruto ordered increased patrols and said Kiyomi would be presented as a distant relative Sasuke had brought back, then invited everyone to dinner.

Kiyomi settled into life with the Hokage household and began learning chakra control from Kawaki, Sarada, and Sasuke. During her Academy midterm, a Kara puppet targeted her, and she lured it away from the students toward the back mountain.

• At dinner, Himawari and Hinata welcomed Kiyomi, and Kawaki gave her Amado’s blue pills and told her to meet him for morning training.
• Kiyomi trained her chakra control with Kawaki, Boruto, and Sarada, and Sasuke helped her calm her chaotic chakra enough to climb a tree.
• At the Academy midterm sparring test, Kiyomi defeated Daisuke with a gentle shove and avoided hurting him.
• A Kara autonomous puppet appeared at the Academy, identified Kiyomi as its target, and fired missiles at the students.
• Boruto diverted the missiles, while Kiyomi helped Iruka evacuate a young student and drew the puppet away toward the back mountain.

Kiyomi joined Boruto and Kawaki in defeating a mechanical puppet that had targeted the signal inside her, using precise Chakra control to disable it. Afterward, she recovered at the Leaf Hospital while Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sasuke waited for Sakura’s examination report.

• Kiyomi evaded the puppet’s attacks as Boruto and Kawaki fought it, but its armor absorbed Chakra and it began repairing its damage.
• Kiyomi followed Sasuke’s advice, guided her Chakra through the puppet’s energy circuit, and disabled its gravity field.
• Kawaki smashed the disabled puppet’s head, and Sasuke warned Kiyomi that the attack had only been a probe.
• Kiyomi completed a full-body examination at the Leaf Hospital, where Boruto said Iruka-sensei had taken the children to the shelter.
• Sakura emerged with Kiyomi’s report, and Naruto asked how she was.

Sakura confirmed that Amado’s inhibitor was keeping Kiyomi alive by freezing her Kāma and healing, while the Leaf searched for a cure. Shikamaru learned that Kiyomi was a beacon that could guide Ōtsutsuki harvesters to the planet, and the chapter ended with her training under Sasuke as she began to grasp what it meant to be protected by family.

• Sakura told Sasuke and Shikamaru that Amado’s drug was draining Kiyomi’s life force, and that they needed the missing information about its ingredients.
• Boruto and Kawaki reassured Kiyomi, then brought her home, where Hinata, Himawari, and Naruto welcomed and comforted her.
• Boruto taught Kiyomi a card game, and she smiled for the first time since arriving in the Leaf, though a red beacon still pulsed in her consciousness.
• Shikamaru confronted Amado about the puppet that targeted Kiyomi, and Amado revealed that she was a beacon that could guide Ōtsutsuki harvesters to the planet.
• Kiyomi trained with Sasuke, improved her fighting technique, and wondered why he was helping her; Sarada suggested he was protective of his own.

Kiyomi joined Boruto and Kawaki on a trip to Amado’s laboratory for measurements, where the villagers’ stares and Inojin’s questions about her laboratory origins unsettled her. The chapter ended with Amado examining her Chakra pathways and asking whether she had recently used her Dojutsu.

• Hinata altered Boruto’s old ninja clothes for Kiyomi, and Naruto asked the children about their plans for the day.
• Kawaki insisted Kiyomi could not go anywhere alone, so she, Boruto, and Kawaki headed to Amado’s laboratory together.
• Himawari gave Kiyomi lucky candy, and villagers stared and whispered as the group walked through Konoha.
• Inojin questioned Kiyomi about being made in a laboratory, and Kawaki warned him to stop treating her like a specimen.
• Amado examined Kiyomi’s data and asked whether she had recently used her Dojutsu.

Amado warned that using Kiyomi’s Dojutsu accelerated the beacon’s assimilation, but an emergency mission soon sent her and Team 7 to investigate a destroyed outpost. There, humanoid weapons forced a connection with Kiyomi, whose body began to break down as the team fought them.

• Amado explained that Kiyomi’s Dojutsu use depleted her humanity and warned the group about strange beacon-like signals near the Land of Fire’s border.
• An Anbu summoned Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki to the Hokage’s Office after an eastern outpost monitoring illegal Chakra weapons went silent.
• Kiyomi identified the outpost’s recording as a guidance frequency used to activate puppets, and Naruto ordered Team 7 to investigate with Boruto as leader.
• Team 7 found the outpost destroyed and its personnel missing, then encountered humanoid armored weapons emitting the same frequency.
• The weapons’ combined signals overwhelmed Kiyomi and began breaking down her body while Boruto and the others fought back against their Chakra Shield.

Kawaki, Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki stopped Kiyomi from exploding by disrupting the enemies’ sonic resonance, then helped her destroy the remaining mechanical soldiers. On the way back to the Leaf, Kiyomi identified the machines as Shennong’s technology, powered by people fused into metal shells.

• Kawaki realized the enemies were trying to make Kiyomi explode, and Boruto and Kawaki tried to help her control the power.
• Boruto disrupted the enemies’ sonic array with a Wind Release Rasengan, giving Sarada and Mitsuki an opening to destroy their spinning discs.
• Kiyomi unleashed a red wave of energy that shattered the remaining mechanical soldiers, then collapsed and was carried by Kawaki.
• Kawaki told Boruto he would have absorbed Kiyomi’s energy even if it killed him, and he passed her water as they traveled back.
• Mitsuki found biological tissue inside a mechanical soldier, and Kiyomi explained that Shennong’s technology used living people as machine fuel.

Kiyomi woke in Leaf Hospital after the battle, while Amado warned that her beacon had grown stronger and attracted a threat. Sasuke revealed Shennong had made her an altar for a coming god, then began teaching her to control her powers so she could choose her own fate.

• Kiyomi woke beside Kawaki, and Amado explained that the Resonance had increased her beacon’s activity and made her a clearer target for the harvesters.
• Amado proposed a deep biopsy, but Naruto postponed it until Sakura could examine Kiyomi and reassured her that the Leaf would not treat her as fuel.
• Sasuke told Naruto that Shennong’s underground chamber contained Culture Tanks and Otsutsuki writing transmitting coordinates, and said he planned to teach Kiyomi to turn her altar into a weapon.
• Boruto took Kiyomi from the hospital to the market, where she saw Sasuke watching them from the entrance.
• Kiyomi met Sasuke at the training ground and asked him to teach her after he explained the unstable forces inside her body.

Sasuke taught Kiyomi to control her Red Chakra, then she used her new power and a seal detector to stop a masked cultist’s explosion during an attack on the village. Afterward, the Leaf’s midsummer festival began, and Himawari dressed Kiyomi in a yukata.

• Sasuke trained Kiyomi to guide her Red Chakra and gave her a pendant that detected the beacon’s frequency.
• Kawaki told Boruto that human strangers were circling the village barrier, and the sky darkened as Sasuke sensed their arrival.
• Masked cultists emerged beneath the training ground and attacked, demanding that Kiyomi be taken or destroyed.
• Kiyomi cut through a cultist’s vortex and used her pendant to contain his self-destruction, then named her move “Survive.”
• Naruto went ahead with the midsummer festival, and Himawari dressed Kiyomi in a pale purple yukata.

Kiyomi enjoyed the festival with Team 7 before detecting poison gas and fighting Shennong’s failed experiments, who were drawn to her beacon. Naruto deployed the Anbu to seal off the scene, leaving Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki to face the attackers as Team 7’s mission.

• Kawaki won Kiyomi a Kurama plush at the festival, and Kiyomi later floated a lantern with a wish for an unbroken bag of seaweed chips.
• Kiyomi sensed danger by the river, and Sarada spotted a cloaked attacker whose lantern released poison gas into the crowd.
• Kiyomi absorbed the gas and hurled it back at the attacker, whose revealed face showed he was one of Shennong’s failed experiments.
• Amado explained that the creatures were drawn to Kiyomi’s beacon, and dozens more appeared on the rooftops as Boruto and Kawaki joined her to fight.
• Naruto ordered the Anbu to seal off the area and left the crisis to Team 7.

Kiyomi and the others fought monsters that swarmed toward her during the festival, and Kiyomi destroyed an evolving creature by reversing the resonance in its energy core. The battle ended with the riverbank ruined and Kiyomi alive but injured, lamenting that she had not eaten a candy apple.

• Kawaki, Kiyomi, Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki fought the dregs as the monsters emerged from manhole covers and attacked Kiyomi.
• Kiyomi sensed that the dregs shared a connection with the power inside her, while Sarada warned that their numbers were growing.
• Boruto used Compressed Rasengan: Barrage after Kawaki herded the monsters together, but one creature survived by fusing with the others.
• Kiyomi drew the evolving creature toward her and used Reverse Resonance to detonate its Energy Core.
• The explosion knocked Kiyomi down and ruined her yukata, and Boruto rushed to check on her as she said she had not gotten to eat a candy apple.

After the festival battle, Amado traced the monsters’ drug residues to an incubator beneath Konoha’s abandoned industrial district. Kiyomi and Team 7 entered the sewer and found a cavern laboratory where monsters gathered around a tank containing a human figure.

• Kiyomi told Boruto that the damaged Kurama plushie was her first present, and she returned to the hospital with Kawaki.
• Amado discovered that Kiyomi had reversed the beacon’s frequency and located an incubator in the old sewage system beneath an abandoned industrial district.
• Kiyomi insisted she had to lead the mission because she could sense the incubator and absorb the monsters’ poison, and Sasuke agreed to accompany her with Team 7.
• Boruto, Kawaki, Sarada, Mitsuki, and Kiyomi entered the sewer and found human bones behind a gap in the rubble.
• Kiyomi explained that failed test subjects and captives had been discarded there, and Team 7 found a cavern laboratory filled with monsters gathered around a tank containing a human figure.

Kiyomi and Team 7 destroyed Shennong’s laboratory and defeated the being in the tank that Shennong had created as her other half. After escaping the collapsing underground space, Kiyomi learned the truth about her origins and accepted her place among her friends.

• Kiyomi attacked the tank, but its tentacles struck back while the awakened monsters overwhelmed Team 7.
• Kiyomi poured her Red Chakra into the tank, and Kawaki joined her in breaking its glass; Sasuke then killed the figure inside, causing the monsters to collapse.
• Team 7 escaped as the laboratory crumbled, with Kawaki carrying Kiyomi because her leg was broken.
• At dawn, Kiyomi shared a battered bag of chips with the others, and they ate together outside the sewer.
• Sasuke explained that Shennong had created Kiyomi as a beacon and the tank figure as a vessel, while Kawaki told her she was now a troublemaker from the Leaf and an unofficial member of Team 7.

Kiyomi began imagining an ordinary life as her friends supported her through recovery, and Kawaki comforted her after a nightmare. Shikamaru registered her as a Leaf resident and told her the village would help plan her future.

• Chocho explained ordinary life to Kiyomi, who realized she wanted to learn how ordinary people lived.
• Mitsuki brought Kiyomi plants and taught her about medicinal herbs, telling her that surviving was one of her strengths.
• Kawaki returned Kiyomi’s repaired Kurama plushie after finding her awake from a nightmare, and she calmed down enough to sleep.
• Shikamaru brought Kiyomi Leaf resident forms, and she listed Team 7 as the people she trusted most.
• Shikamaru told Kiyomi she was now a Leaf resident and could study at the Ninja Academy after recovering, with the possibility of taking the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Shikamaru told Kiyomi that Naruto wanted to discuss her future at the Hokage’s Office.

Kiyomi received encouragement and equipment from Boruto and Kawaki, then began her first day of training with Team 7 after recovering from her injuries. Sasuke tested her limits and told her to break a wooden post using only her own Chakra, not the beacon's power.

• Boruto brought Kiyomi Ichiraku Ramen and told her Team 7 saw her as a person, not a weapon.
• Kawaki gave Kiyomi protective goggles and urged her to live long enough to protect herself and others.
• Sasuke told Kiyomi to begin basic training at the Training Ground and encouraged her to find a dream.
• Amado discharged Kiyomi after her leg healed unusually quickly, and Kawaki guided her to the Training Ground.
• Sasuke asked Kiyomi to break a wooden post with her strongest attack, then forbade her from using the beacon's power.

Kiyomi learned to gather and release her own Chakra, then trained in taijutsu with Kawaki. After a day of hard training and lunch at Ichiraku Ramen, she ended the sparring match by grazing Kawaki’s cheek.

• Kiyomi sensed her own Chakra, focused it into her fist, and eventually broke a wooden post by releasing the power at the moment of impact.
• Kiyomi went to Ichiraku Ramen with Boruto and the others, where she tried the house special and felt the warmth of the lively restaurant.
• Sasuke had Kiyomi spar with Kawaki using only fists and feet, and she struggled against his stronger attacks.
• Kiyomi adapted by circling Kawaki, swept his ankle, and grazed his cheek with a punch before Sasuke ended the training.
• Kawaki and Kiyomi traded promises to do better in their next match.