Recaps

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.

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.