Recaps

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.

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.