Chapter Summaries

Naruto and Sasuke discovered that Kara had used Gato as a decoy to steal Konoha’s Scroll of Seals, and Kiyomi helped defeat the Kara member Deep. Naruto and Sasuke pursued the stolen scroll while Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki stayed behind to aid the injured villagers.

• Gato’s apparent body dissolved in an explosion, and Sasuke revealed that Kara had targeted the Hokage Building rather than the Nine-Tails.
• Naruto found the sealing room destroyed and the Scroll of Seals stolen, while Sasuke identified the scroll’s method for reviving Jigen as Kara’s true objective.
• Naruto and Sasuke confronted Deep, who admitted the scroll had already been sent away and used his Liquefaction Technique to resist their attacks.
• Kiyomi pierced Deep’s liquefied body with a concentrated Chidori Stream, allowing Sasuke to read Deep’s mind and learn the scroll was at an abandoned shrine east of the village.
• Naruto and Sasuke left to retrieve the scroll, while Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki returned to Konoha and helped Sakura treat injured villagers.

After learning that Kara had taken the Book of Seals, Naruto sent teams to investigate three possible bases. Sasuke and Kiyomi found the book in a cave, where Amado revealed Kara’s plan to revive Jigen before Sasuke attacked him.

• Naruto told the Jonin that Kara had obtained the Book of Seals, and Shikamaru identified three possible locations for Kara’s base.
• Sasuke chose to investigate the cave in the Land of Fire, and Kiyomi joined him while Boruto went with Naruto and Kawaki stayed behind to protect the village.
• Sasuke and Kiyomi found Kara members gathered around the Book of Seals and were forced into a fight after Kiyomi was discovered.
• Kiyomi fought off three Kara members and tried to reach the book, but its barrier blasted her away.
• Amado appeared and explained that Kara planned to use the Nine-Tails’ Chakra and a forbidden jutsu to revive Jigen, and Sasuke attacked him.

Amado escaped with the Book of Seals and revealed that Jigen could be resurrected using the Nine-Tails' chakra. Ada led Naruto's team to Kara's underground base, where Amado began the ritual and the battle erupted.

• Amado took the Book of Seals and escaped after telling Sasuke and Kiyomi that Jigen's consciousness remained.
• Sasuke and Kiyomi returned to Konoha, where Naruto learned Kara planned to use his Nine-Tails' chakra to resurrect Jigen.
• Ada revealed Jigen's location beneath the snowy mountains of the Land of Lightning, and Naruto assembled a team to attack the base.
• Naruto's team opened the underground base and found Jigen's body lying on an altar as Amado prepared the resurrection.
• Amado declared Naruto the final sacrifice, ordered the black-robed figures to stop them, and Kiyomi joined the battle.

Naruto awakened Nine-Tails Mode and defeated Amado’s attack, allowing Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki to escape the collapsing mountain. After Naruto and Sasuke rejoined them, the group headed toward the village, while Kiyomi wondered whether she could master the power inside her.

• Kiyomi, Boruto, Kawaki, Naruto, and Sasuke struggled against Amado’s endlessly multiplying puppets as Naruto ran out of Chakra.
• Amado attacked Naruto, but Sasuke intervened and fought him until Amado transformed into a giant robot and wounded Sasuke.
• Kiyomi stood between Amado and Naruto, prompting Naruto to awaken Nine-Tails Mode and send Amado flying.
• Naruto blasted the puppets while Kiyomi led Boruto and Kawaki out of the cave, and Sasuke teleported them clear of the collapsing mountain.
• Naruto emerged from the avalanche and said Amado and Jigen were buried, then Sasuke praised Kiyomi as she reflected on mastering her own power.

After Sylvie warned Kiyomi and Sasuke that Jigen had survived and was stealing Tailed Beast Chakra, Naruto sent shinobi to protect the remaining beasts and assigned Kiyomi to defend Konoha. Kiyomi and Sylvie began patrolling the eastern district, where Jigen’s technique plunged the village into darkness.

• Kiyomi returned to Konoha with Sasuke and practiced Chidori under his guidance.
• Sylvie revealed that Jigen had survived, taken the Chakra of the One-Tail, Four-Tails, and Six-Tails, and planned to use all the Tailed Beasts in a ritual to create a world for himself.
• Naruto ordered Sasuke to protect the Eight-Tails in Kumogakure and Kakashi to protect the Seven-Tails in Takigakure, while Kiyomi stayed in Konoha to guard the village.
• Kiyomi and Sylvie agreed to become comrades, then joined Boruto and Kawaki in patrolling Konoha under Naruto’s plan.
• Kiyomi and Sylvie noticed the eastern district had become unnaturally quiet before Jigen’s Darkness Descends covered the village.
• Sylvie explained that Darkness Descends was an illusion that drove people to despair and could only be broken by killing its caster.

Jigen attacked Konoha, forcing Kiyomi, Naruto, Sasuke, Boruto, and Kawaki to fight him while the village suffered heavy damage. As Jigen gained the upper hand, Naruto entered Six Paths Mode and struck him through several buildings, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Jigen returned and demanded that Konoha hand over the Nine-Tails before splitting a black energy sphere into blasts across the village.
• Kiyomi rescued the injured Sylvie and took her to Sakura, then returned to battle despite being nearly out of Chakra.
• Kiyomi joined Boruto and Kawaki against Kara members, but Jigen overwhelmed them and knocked Naruto out of the sky.
• Sasuke returned after securing the Eight-Tails and fought Jigen alongside Naruto, Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki.
• Jigen revealed his complete Kāma form and blasted the fighters back, but Naruto entered Six Paths Mode and struck Jigen through several buildings.

Naruto defeated Jigen’s self-destruction attack and Konoha began rebuilding. Kiyomi welcomed Sylvie into the village and developed a Lightning Style speed technique as she continued training to protect her friends.

• Jigen expanded into a black sphere to destroy the world, but Naruto compressed it with a Super Great Ball Rasengan and erased him.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki reunited as the villagers celebrated their victory.
• Three days later, Kiyomi invited Sylvie to stay in Konoha, and Sasuke agreed after revealing that Sylvie had protected Kiyomi during the explosion.
• Kiyomi trained with Sasuke and developed a Lightning Style Acceleration Technique, gradually learning to use it without overstraining her body.
• As Konoha recovered, Kiyomi and Sylvie trained together, and Kiyomi said she worked hard because she wanted to protect everyone and avoid regrets.

After Konoha’s reconstruction, Kiyomi prepared for the upcoming Chunin Exams by training with Sasuke and practicing teamwork with Boruto and Kawaki. She registered with them as her teammates, learned about formidable foreign candidates, and returned home to find Sasuke waiting in the courtyard.

• Naruto announced that the Chunin Exams would begin soon and that Genin from other villages would be invited.
• Kiyomi trained with Sasuke, combining Chidori with taijutsu before he knocked her unconscious and took her to the hospital.
• Sylvie told Kiyomi that Kakashi had begun training her, and Sakura kept Kiyomi in the hospital overnight for observation.
• Kiyomi practiced teamwork with Boruto and Kawaki for three days, then registered their team with Shikamaru for the exams.
• Kiyomi heard from Boruto about Shinra, Gaara’s disciple, and a Water Release specialist from Kirigakure.
• Kiyomi returned home after eating ramen with Boruto and found Sasuke sitting in the courtyard.

Kiyomi and her teammates passed Ibiki’s first Chunin Exam after she refused to give up, then entered the Forest of Death to seek the missing scroll. After stealing a Scroll of Earth from an exhausted team, they fought off giant snakes and spiders.

• Kiyomi trained with Boruto and Kawaki before the Chunin Exam and met Sylvie on the way to the Ninja Academy.
• Ibiki announced a Tenth Question that could permanently bar wrong answers from future exams, but Kiyomi refused to give up and learned that all who stayed had passed.
• Anko explained the Forest of Death rules, and Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki received a Scroll of Earth and set out to find a Scroll of Heaven.
• The team waited for two rival teams to weaken each other, then defeated the injured Kirigakure team and took its Scroll of Earth.
• A giant snake and then a swarm of giant spiders attacked the team, and Kawaki used his Kāma to blast the spiders away.

Kiyomi and her teammates secured the Scroll of Heaven after battling Shinra, and reached the central tower in time to pass the second exam. As the third exam was postponed for a month, Kiyomi wondered about the unfamiliar power that had awakened during her fight.

• Kiyomi lent Sylvie medicine but declined to take her Scroll of Heaven because Sylvie was a friend.
• Kiyomi, Boruto, and Kawaki defeated a Kumogakure team and claimed its Scroll of Heaven, only for Shinra to challenge them for it.
• Shinra overwhelmed Boruto and Kawaki, but Kiyomi awakened an unfamiliar power and fought him to a draw; Boruto recovered the dropped scroll.
• Kiyomi's team reached the central tower on the fourth day, where Anko announced that twelve teams had passed and the third exam would begin in a month.
• Kiyomi wondered about her new power, and Sasuke appeared beside her.

Sasuke discovered that Kiyomi had awakened the Sharingan and trained her intensively for the third exam, where she advanced to two tomoe and learned Chidori Sharp Spear. At the exam, Boruto won his match, while Kiyomi struggled against Shinra and was left bloodied but refused to give up.

• Sasuke confirmed that Kiyomi had awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan and began training her to use it.
• Kiyomi trained with Sasuke, evolved her Sharingan to two tomoe, and learned Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Kiyomi and Sylvie agreed to fight seriously if they met in the third exam.
• Boruto defeated Kurotsuchi in the first match of the exam.
• Kiyomi used Chidori Sharp Spear to pierce Shinra's Gold Dust Armor, but Shinra counterattacked and knocked her down.
• Kiyomi stood back up as her Sharingan spun faster and refused to surrender.

Kiyomi drew with Shinra, won the repechage, and fought Sarada to another draw in the finals after using Sasuke’s Kirin technique. A week later, Naruto recognized her strength by promoting her to Special Jonin.

• Kiyomi and Shinra exhausted themselves in a final clash, and the referee declared their match a draw.
• Sakura healed Kiyomi, then Kiyomi watched Sylvie, Kawaki, and Sarada win their first-round matches; Kiyomi entered the repechage.
• Kiyomi defeated a Kirigakure competitor in the repechage and trained for the finals, learning Lightning Release: Kirin from Sasuke.
• Boruto defeated Darui, then Kiyomi and Sarada fought in the finals; both collapsed after Kiyomi struck with Kirin, and the referee declared another draw.
• Naruto awarded Kiyomi the title of Special Jonin after she recovered from her injuries.

Kiyomi and Sasuke investigated suspicious chakra fluctuations near the border and uncovered Kara Organization laboratories where people were being turned into Cyborgs. The chapter ended with them confronting the masked scientist Doctor at his hidden base.

• Naruto assigned Kiyomi and Sasuke to investigate suspicious chakra fluctuations near the border, and they set out the next day.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke agreed to escort a merchant caravan after its leader told them people had been disappearing along the road.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke discovered a Kara Organization laboratory beneath a shrine and overheard a scientist and three Cyborgs discussing human experiments.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke fought the Cyborgs, learned from one that another base lay in a cave to the north, and hurried there.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke found a large laboratory filled with Culture Tanks and confronted the masked Kara scientist Doctor, who defended his human experiments as scientific progress.

Kiyomi and Sasuke destroyed Doctor’s laboratory and returned to the Leaf, where Kiyomi began an intense training regimen to improve her abilities. After a month she had grown faster and more proficient with her Sharingan, but it remained at two Tomoe, and she continued training to avoid feeling helpless against powerful enemies.

• Doctor unleashed his cyborgs, but Kiyomi and Sasuke fought them off before Sasuke captured Doctor.
• Doctor triggered the laboratory’s self-destruct, and Sasuke and Kiyomi escaped the explosion as Doctor and the experimental data were lost.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke returned to the Leaf and reported the destroyed laboratory to Naruto, who ordered stronger security.
• Sasuke trained Kiyomi to improve her Sharingan perception and explained that taijutsu would help her reaction speed keep up.
• Kiyomi trained with Boruto and Kawaki for a month, improving her physical abilities and Sharingan proficiency without reaching three Tomoe.
• Kiyomi told Sylvie she did not want to feel helpless or depend on others, then continued practicing until she exhausted her Chakra.

Kiyomi trained with Sasuke, discovered that she wanted freedom, and evolved her Sharingan to Three Tomoe before rapidly mastering copied jutsu. After several months of peace in the Leaf, she learned that Gaara and Shinra were coming for an exchange program.

• Sasuke took Kiyomi to the Uchiha Clan's secret base and taught her meditation and genjutsu training to strengthen her Sharingan.
• Kiyomi confronted her fear of powerlessness in meditation and decided that she wanted freedom from being bound by anyone.
• Kiyomi trained with Sasuke until her Sharingan evolved to Three Tomoe, then copied his Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire technique.
• Kiyomi spent a month copying and mastering dozens of jutsu, while continuing to pursue greater strength.
• Three months later, Kiyomi watched the peaceful Leaf with Boruto and Kawaki, and Boruto told them that Shinra and Gaara would visit for an exchange program.

Kiyomi reunited with Shinra when Gaara’s delegation arrived in Konoha, and the two grew closer during a walk and dango together. The next day, their friendly rivalry resumed when they faced each other in the exchange event’s ninjutsu competition.

• Naruto welcomed Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, and Shinra to Konoha, where Kiyomi reunited with Shinra and showed him her Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Shinra invited Kiyomi for a walk, told her she was special to him, and asked whether he counted as someone who mattered to her.
• Kiyomi returned home, and Sylvie teased her about the outing before helping her consider whether she liked Shinra.
• The Konoha and Sunagakure exchange event began, and Kiyomi was assigned to face Shinra in the ninjutsu group.
• Kiyomi and Shinra traded attacks with her Chidori and Fire Style and his gold dust as spectators watched.

Kiyomi narrowly defeated Shinra in the exchange event before uncovering a Kara Organization plot to seal Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. After Kiyomi and Sasuke dismantled the sealing barrier, Naruto and Gaara began planning a counterattack and questioned a captured Kara agent.

• Kiyomi awakened a clearer Sharingan ability, broke free of Shinra’s Gold Dust Funeral, and narrowly won their match three to two.
• Kiyomi detected suspicious Chakra at the village’s edge and helped Naruto and Gaara discover Kara agents setting up a barrier to seal Naruto.
• Kiyomi informed Sasuke and Kakashi, then joined Sasuke in finding and removing all twenty barrier points across the village.
• Kiyomi told Naruto and Gaara about a Kara laboratory where shinobi were modified, prompting Gaara to suggest finding Kara’s headquarters.
• Naruto went with Kiyomi to question the captured agent and told her to use her Sharingan when the agent refused to reveal the headquarters.

Naruto, Sasuke, Kiyomi, and Gaara traveled to Amegakure, where they fought Kara’s cyborgs and defeated the scientist called Doctor. They returned to Leaf with rescued cyborgs and experimental data, and the chapter ended with Shinra waiting for Kiyomi outside the Hokage Building.

• Naruto questioned a Kara member and learned that the organization’s headquarters was in Amegakure, so he set out with Sasuke, Kiyomi, and Gaara.
• The four arrived in Amegakure, defeated black-robed guards, and broke through a barrier inside the tower.
• Doctor revealed that he had created the cyborgs as part of his plan to make humanity evolve, then unleashed them on the four.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu against the cyborgs, and Kiyomi struck Doctor with Chidori as he tried to flee; Doctor died after taking poison and warned them that Kara had a leader.
• Naruto’s team brought experimental data and surviving cyborgs back to Leaf, where Naruto called a meeting to plan their next move against Kara.
• Shinra waited outside the Hokage Building and asked Kiyomi whether she had gone to Amegakure.

After Shinra returned to Sunagakure, Kiyomi struggled with her feelings for him while resolving to grow stronger against Kara Organization. She mastered Sasuke’s Lightning Style: Kirin, then learned that Kara Organization was making a move.

• Kiyomi admitted to Shinra that he was special to her, and he said they could start dating when he next visited the Leaf.
• The next morning, Shinra whispered for Kiyomi to wait for him before the Sunagakure delegation departed, and Sylvie later helped Kiyomi consider her feelings for him.
• Naruto told the village leaders that Kara Organization was led by the powerful Jigen and was collecting Tailed Beast Chakra, so they agreed to strengthen defenses and protect the Jinchuriki.
• Sasuke taught Kiyomi Lightning Style: Kirin, and she eventually formed thunderclouds and struck the Training Ground with a kirin-shaped bolt of lightning.
• A month later, Kiyomi could use Kirin with ease but noted that it consumed half her Chakra, and Naruto announced that Kara Organization was making a move.

Kara attacked the Leaf, and Kiyomi used Kirin to wipe out dozens of enemies before Jigen confronted Naruto. After Kiyomi refused to awaken her Mangekyō Sharingan by losing someone important, Jigen knocked her down, and Boruto stepped forward to face him.

• Kara's army reached the Leaf's border, and Jigen ordered his forces to attack after rejecting Naruto's objections.
• Kiyomi and Boruto fought Kara's Cyborgs, and Kiyomi used Kirin to strike down dozens of enemies before collapsing from Chakra exhaustion.
• Jigen left the battle to target Naruto, and the two began a powerful fight while Sasuke was kept busy by Cyborgs.
• A voice inside Kiyomi told her the Mangekyō Sharingan could awaken through the loss of someone important, but Kiyomi refused and charged at Jigen instead.
• Jigen easily defeated Kiyomi, and Boruto caught her before standing up to challenge Jigen.