Chapter Summaries

Kiyomi trained with Might Guy to build her taijutsu fundamentals, then began learning swordsmanship from Kawaki. After she asked why he was helping her, Kawaki told her she did not owe anyone anything and should stop thinking about repaying them.

• Kiyomi returned to her apartment after training with Sasuke and slept peacefully with the Kurama plushie.
• Sasuke introduced Might Guy, who put Kiyomi through physical conditioning and taught her basic taijutsu.
• Kiyomi practiced stances, strikes, kicks, and dodges for a week until she split a wooden post with a punch.
• Kawaki arrived at the Training Ground and began teaching Kiyomi to use a wooden sword.
• After hours of sword practice, Kawaki told Kiyomi she did not owe anyone anything and should stop thinking about repaying them.

Kiyomi trained in kenjutsu and teamwork, grew stronger while monitoring the rising Resonance of her beacon, and prepared for her first official mission. The chapter ended as Team 7 set out from Leaf to escort Mr. Tanaka to the Land of Waves.

• Kiyomi practiced kenjutsu with Kawaki and learned to judge distance, timing, and angles.
• Kawaki and Boruto trained Kiyomi to defend against multiple opponents, and she improved over a month of daily practice.
• Kiyomi's Chakra Control tripled as the beacon's Resonance rose from 78 to 92, and Amado warned her not to overuse her Chakra.
• Sasuke announced that Kiyomi would join Team 7 on a C-rank mission to escort a merchant to the Land of Waves.
• Naruto reassured Kiyomi that she was not merely a vessel or weapon and promised that Leaf and Team 7 would help protect her.
• Sasuke introduced Mr. Tanaka at Leaf's gates, and Team 7 began preparing to escort him.

Kiyomi traveled toward the Land of Waves on her first mission with Sasuke’s group, growing more comfortable away from the village. The next morning, bandits from the Black Bear Gang ambushed them on a forest road.

• Kiyomi left the Leaf with Sasuke’s group and traveled with Tanaka toward the Land of Waves.
• The group stopped for lunch, and Tanaka told Kiyomi to prepare rather than worry about her first mission.
• The group stayed overnight at an inn, where Sarada warned Kiyomi about bandits and rogue ninja.
• The group set out the next morning through a narrow, wooded stretch, and Sasuke realized they were surrounded.
• More than a dozen bandits emerged, and their leader demanded the group hand over its money.

Boruto, Sarada, and the others defeated bandits on their way to the Land of Waves, while Kiyomi wondered about the hardships behind their choices. The group reached Naruto Bridge and began crossing toward the Land of Waves.

• Boruto, Kawaki, Sarada, and Mitsuki subdued the Black Bear Gang, and Sasuke ordered Boruto to tie them up for the town's Security Force.
• Kiyomi felt sorry for the bandits, while Kawaki said they had chosen robbery despite other ways to survive.
• Sasuke explained that the nearby village was still impoverished because the Fourth Great Ninja War had destroyed its economy, and the group spent the night in a shabby lodging house.
• Kiyomi struggled to sleep as she thought about the bandits' hardships and Naruto's words about having one's own choices.
• The group reached Naruto Bridge, and Sasuke explained that Naruto had defeated Momochi Zabuza there on an earlier mission.
• Kiyomi and the others stepped onto the weathered bridge toward the Land of Waves, and Kawaki warned them to be careful.

Boruto and his team protected Tanaka from Mist Village ninja seeking repayment of his debt, then escorted him to a warehouse in Tazuna Town. As Tanaka met his business partner Yamada, the team kept watch outside, uneasy about the quiet surroundings.

• Masked ninja attacked the team on the bridge and demanded that they hand over Tanaka, who owed them money.
• Kiyomi fought one attacker, but Sasuke rescued her and drove the ninja away by revealing his identity.
• Tanaka admitted that he had borrowed five million ryo and hired the team to escape his creditors, while Sasuke insisted they continue protecting him.
• Kawaki bandaged Kiyomi's wound and warned her not to rely on the beacon or a single technique.
• The team reached Tazuna Town, where Tanaka met Yamada at a warehouse and the others guarded the suspiciously quiet area outside.

A mission to protect Tanaka turned into an ambush by mercenaries targeting Sasuke, and the explosion left Tanaka badly injured while Yamada disappeared. As Tanaka recovered, Sasuke questioned him about Yamada’s suspicious recent behavior.

• Kiyomi and Kawaki spotted disguised attackers approaching the warehouse, and the cart they pushed exploded as the mercenaries launched an attack.
• Sasuke rescued Kiyomi and identified the attackers as mercenaries pursuing the fifty-million-ryo bounty on his head.
• Sasuke defeated the mercenaries’ attack, but an explosion inside the warehouse injured Tanaka and Yamada vanished.
• Kiyomi found a doctor, and Boruto and Kawaki carried Tanaka to the clinic for surgery.
• Sasuke questioned Tanaka about Yamada, and Tanaka admitted that his business partner had been acting strangely lately.

Sasuke and Team 7 uncovered a weapons-smuggling operation tied to Orochimaru’s former subordinates, who planned to rebuild Otogakure. With Mist Village tracker Kirishima guiding them, they found the weapons in an abandoned mine and split up to confront three Jonin-level enemies.

• Sasuke checked Yamada’s shipping records and learned that an unusually heavy shipment of machine parts had been collected by a masked person.
• A worker led Sasuke and Team 7 to Warehouse Three, where they found dead mercenaries and Mist Village ninja; Sasuke concluded that a powerful swordsman had killed the Mist ninja.
• Kirishima revealed that she was tracking stolen Mist Village weapons and told Sasuke that survivors of Orochimaru’s faction planned to rebuild Otogakure.
• Sasuke agreed to help Kirishima and led the team to an abandoned mine, where they discovered five hundred crates of weapons and sensed three Jonin-level ninja nearby.
• Sasuke split the team into groups to approach the enemies, and Kirishima warned Kiyomi and Chocho that someone was coming.

Kiyomi and her allies stopped a group of armed men, who revealed they were working for Orochimaru and Kabuto to rebuild Otogakure. Sasuke learned Kabuto had vanished and ordered reinforcements to protect the stolen Mist Village weapons before a ship arrived to collect them.

• Kirishima confronted a Mist Village traitor, while a hidden-mist technique separated Kiyomi from the others and a poisoned attacker wounded her.
• Chocho dispelled the mist, and Sasuke arrived in time to stop the attacker from striking her; the attacker self-destructed, leaving Sasuke injured.
• Kawaki and Sarada brought in two captured men, who said they were Otogakure shinobi serving Orochimaru and gathering resources to rebuild the village.
• The captives named Kabuto Yakushi as their superior, and Boruto learned from the Leaf that the Kabuto at the orphanage was a puppet and the real Kabuto had disappeared three days earlier.
• Kirishima treated Kiyomi's poison, and Sasuke learned the crates held five hundred stolen Mist Village weapons meant for a ship arriving the next night.
• Sasuke told Boruto to request Leaf reinforcements and ordered the others to guard the weapons.

Sasuke and Team 7 defended the mine when Kabuto arrived and used Impure World Reincarnation to attack them. After the team sealed one reincarnated shinobi, Kabuto summoned twenty renowned powerhouses, leaving Sasuke and the others facing a far more dangerous battle.

• Kawaki comforted Kiyomi about her wound and warned her not to take on enemies beyond her strength.
• Sasuke told Boruto that Leaf reinforcements would arrive at noon, and the group prepared to hold the mine until then.
• Kawaki detected Kabuto and at least ten followers approaching, and Sasuke assembled everyone at the entrance.
• Kabuto revealed his plan to rebuild Otogakure and summoned reincarnated shinobi, prompting Sasuke to split the team into fights.
• Kiyomi and Chocho trapped a reincarnated kunoichi under a cargo crate long enough for Sasuke to seal her.
• Kabuto summoned twenty famous powerhouses, including Hanzō, Sasori of the Red Sands, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku, and Sasuke ordered the team behind the cargo crates.

Sasuke and the others fought Kabuto’s reincarnated shinobi in the mine, where Kiyomi’s beacon took control of her and unleashed its power. After escaping a collapsing mine, they found themselves surrounded by Otogakure shinobi as Kabuto revealed that he wanted Kiyomi for the beacon inside her.

• Sasuke charged toward Kabuto while Kawaki, Kirishima, and the others planned to trap and seal the reincarnated shinobi.
• Kirishima filled the mine with mist, allowing Kawaki, Sarada, and Mitsuki to seal three shinobi before the others adapted.
• Hanzō poisoned Kawaki and attacked Kiyomi, but her beacon activated on its own and overwhelmed her with Red Chakra.
• Kiyomi’s uncontrolled power battered five reincarnated shinobi until Sasuke knocked her unconscious to stop the beacon from consuming her.
• Kabuto attacked Sasuke with Sage Art: White Shock Technique, and the resulting damage threatened to collapse the mine.
• The group blasted through a blocked entrance and escaped, but fifty Otogakure shinobi surrounded them as Kabuto revealed he wanted Kiyomi and claimed Orochimaru had secretly supported the beacon’s development.

Sasuke and the others tried to escape Kabuto and his Otogakure shinobi, but Kabuto tracked them down and overpowered them. As Kabuto moved to take Kiyomi, she awakened with red chakra and fought back, though her body began to crack under its force.

• Sasuke held off the Otogakure shinobi while Kawaki and the others used Kirishima's Hidden Mist Technique to flee toward town.
• Kabuto intercepted them in the forest, revealing that he had placed a tracking mark on Sasuke and intended to take Kiyomi.
• Kawaki attacked Kabuto but was badly injured, and Kabuto used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation to overwhelm the group and defeat Sasuke.
• Kabuto revealed that he wanted Sasuke alive for his Sharingan research, then knocked out Sasuke and injured Boruto and Kawaki.
• Kiyomi awakened with red chakra, struck Kabuto, and attacked him with tremendous force as cracks spread across her body.

Raizo arrived to stop Kabuto while Kiyomi’s beacon ran wild, and he helped knock her unconscious. Kabuto summoned reincarnated shinobi, but Leaf reinforcements arrived and Raizo resumed his attack as Kabuto prepared to retreat.

• Boruto charged at Kabuto, but Kabuto repelled him and said Kiyomi’s beacon could only be stopped by waiting for her body to collapse.
• Raizo arrived, identified himself as a Leaf Anbu, and attacked Kabuto, destroying his White Shock Technique with Raikiri.
• Kabuto transformed into a white snake and fought Raizo, while Kiyomi charged at Raizo and then struck Kabuto’s snake form away.
• Raizo knocked Kiyomi unconscious, ending the beacon, but Kabuto summoned more than a dozen reincarnated shinobi.
• Leaf reinforcements arrived and held off the reincarnated shinobi as Raizo attacked Kabuto, who began to retreat.

After Kabuto escaped, Kiyomi was taken back to the Leaf and treated for severe damage caused by the beacon. She recovered enough to leave the hospital, but Tsunade warned that losing control again could kill her, while Kabuto remained a threat.

• Raizo and the man in the green vest rescued Kiyomi after Kabuto escaped, and the Leaf Medical Team took her by ship to the Leaf for treatment.
• Tsunade stabilized Kiyomi, and Boruto later learned from Sasuke that Kara's beacon gave ordinary people powerful abilities by breaking down their bodies.
• Sasuke told Boruto that Kabuto would return for Kiyomi and urged him to become strong enough to protect her.
• Kiyomi woke after a week, learned Kabuto had escaped, and spoke with Chocho about losing control of the beacon.
• After half a month in the hospital, Kiyomi was discharged, and Tsunade warned that another loss of control could leave her beyond saving.

Kiyomi learned that the beacon inside her was based on Ōtsutsuki Kāma and would eventually kill her, while Kawaki warned that Kara might pursue her. That night, a Kara member broke into her home to take her, and Kiyomi's beacon activated as she fought back.

• Boruto told Kiyomi that Sasuke wanted to see her, and Sasuke explained the beacon's origins and its deadly effect on her body.
• Sasuke said Kiyomi needed to control the beacon and that he would investigate Kara before they confronted the organization together.
• Kawaki revealed that he had been a Kara vessel and warned Kiyomi that Kara might target her because of the beacon.
• A masked Kara member entered Kiyomi's room and declared that he had come to take her and reclaim the beacon.
• Kiyomi attacked the intruder, and the beacon activated automatically as the fight continued.

A Kara Organization member attacked Kiyomi, and Kawaki and Boruto fought to protect her. The man survived Boruto’s Rasengan with the Kāma’s power and knocked both boys down, while Kiyomi’s red Chakra surged as she charged at him.

• Kawaki burst into Kiyomi’s room and fought a Kara Organization member who wanted to take her, but the man’s Kāma-powered attacks overwhelmed him.
• Kawaki awakened his Sharingan and used Amaterasu, but the man blocked the flames and injured Kiyomi.
• Boruto arrived, fought the man, and struck him with a Vanishing Rasengan, but the man healed through the wound using the Kāma.
• The man absorbed Kawaki’s Amaterasu and struck him down, prompting Kiyomi to charge at the attacker with stronger red Chakra.

After Kiyomi’s beacon worsened her injuries, Tsunade told her that removing it carried a fifty percent chance of survival, while leaving it would kill her within a year. Kiyomi chose surgery after Kawaki warned her that Kara’s failed vessels became monsters, and the operation succeeded with the beacon removed.

• Kiyomi collapsed after driving off her attacker, and Boruto carried her to the hospital while Kawaki followed with broken ribs.
• Tsunade said Kiyomi’s beacon was destroying her body and could be removed with a fifty percent chance of success, while leaving it would give her at most a year to live.
• After waking two days later, Kiyomi hesitated over the operation until Kawaki told her that Kara’s failed vessels became monsters, and she agreed to surgery.
• Three days later, Tsunade operated on Kiyomi with Shizune assisting while Boruto and Kawaki waited outside.
• After eight hours, Tsunade announced that the operation had succeeded and the beacon had been removed.

After recovering from her injuries, Kiyomi chose to keep being a ninja and began training with Sasuke to grow stronger without the beacon's power. Sasuke pushed her to run a hundred laps at the Training Ground, and she struggled to continue.

• Tsunade told Boruto and Kawaki that Kiyomi was alive but badly injured, and the two visited her in the operating room.
• Boruto and Kawaki agreed they needed to get stronger because Kara Organization would return.
• At Kara Organization's base, Jigen learned Kawaki had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered his men to watch him and search for new vessels.
• A month later, Kiyomi left the hospital and told Boruto and Kawaki she wanted to return home on her own.
• Chocho told Kiyomi that Sasuke wanted to see her, and Sasuke offered to train her after she chose to remain a ninja and protect her friends.
• Kiyomi met Sasuke at the Training Ground at six the next morning, where he ordered her to run a hundred laps and urged her to continue when she became exhausted.

Kiyomi endured Sasuke’s demanding daily training and steadily improved her stamina and taijutsu. After a month, Sasuke began teaching her Lightning Release, and she managed to maintain its chakra for a minute before heading home and running into Kawaki.

• Sasuke made Kiyomi run a hundred laps and spar with him until she could no longer move, then Boruto helped her get home.
• Kiyomi returned to train with Sasuke the next morning and resolved to keep practicing until she could hit him.
• Kiyomi trained every morning for a month, improving her endurance and managing to brush Sasuke’s clothes during taijutsu practice.
• Sasuke taught Kiyomi to gather and control Lightning Release chakra, and she learned to maintain it for a full minute.
• Kiyomi left the Training Ground and ran into Kawaki on her way home.

Kiyomi learned that Kawaki’s Kāma was close to awakening and that he was suppressing it alone. She insisted on helping him as a friend, and Kawaki agreed on the condition that she promise him something.

• Kawaki told Kiyomi that Kara was searching for a new vessel and had targeted a shinobi from the Leaf.
• A masked visitor warned Kiyomi to stay away from Kawaki, claiming his Kāma would awaken and make him a vessel for the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Sasuke confirmed that Kawaki had a Kāma and explained that he could suppress its awakening by not using its power.
• Kiyomi trained harder after Sasuke advised her to get strong enough to help Kawaki.
• Kiyomi visited Kawaki and offered to help him because they were friends, and Kawaki agreed after asking her to promise him one thing.

Kiyomi promised to help Kawaki control his Kāma and trained with Sasuke to learn Chidori. At a barbecue with Boruto and Chocho, Kawaki lost control as black markings spread across his body and a man welcomed him back.

• Kawaki asked Kiyomi to kill him if he ever became a monster, but Kiyomi promised to help him suppress the Kāma and refused to abandon him.
• Kiyomi went to the Training Ground, where Sasuke began teaching her Chidori; after two hours of practice, she formed a small ball of lightning chakra.
• Kiyomi met Boruto and Chocho, joined them for barbecue, and ate a huge meal after training without eating all day.
• Kawaki arrived and joined the group; when Boruto invited him to train together, Kawaki said he was used to being alone.
• Kawaki lost control as black markings spread over half his body, and a man laughed and welcomed him back.
• Boruto reassured Kawaki that they were friends, while Kawaki looked at him with a complicated expression.