Recaps

Kiyomi grew into a powerful shinobi while helping Naruto and Sasuke battle Kara, eventually awakening her Mangekyō Sharingan during the fight against Jigen. After Zero claimed Jigen was dead, Kiyomi joined a rescue mission and found herself facing Zero as the crisis continued.

• Naruto and Sasuke discovered Kara had stolen the Scroll of Seals to revive Jigen, but Amado escaped with it before they could stop him.
• Jigen attacked Konoha, and Naruto defeated him after a fierce battle while Kiyomi helped defend the village and later trained with Sasuke.
• Kiyomi competed in the Chunin Exams, earned the title of Special Jonin, and developed her Sharingan through intensive training.
• Kiyomi and Sasuke uncovered Kara’s human experiments, then joined Naruto and Gaara in attacking the organization’s headquarters in Amegakure.
• Kiyomi defeated Shinra in their exchange match and admitted he was special to her, while Naruto’s group identified Jigen as Kara’s leader.
• During Kara’s assault on the Leaf, Kiyomi awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and joined Naruto, Sasuke, and Boruto against Jigen before Zero intervened.
• Zero later reported that Jigen was dead and revealed that Kara’s real leader was called God, while Kiyomi stayed behind to recover as Naruto’s team investigated.
• Kiyomi tracked Zero to an abandoned factory, where she learned Naruto and the others were trapped, but Zero overwhelmed her and Boruto before Sasuke arrived.

Boruto became the Eighth Hokage, faced new threats from the Ōtsutsuki, and trained with Tsukihime to control his growing power. After Gaara brought him to investigate a desert signal, Tsukihime revealed that a prototype had sent information about the planet and Boruto to the Ōtsutsuki main family, leaving Boruto torn between attacking them and protecting the Leaf.

• Naruto defeated Shinshiki, who revealed his tragic past and accepted Naruto’s offer to return to the Leaf for treatment.
• After the Leaf recovered, Naruto retired and Boruto became the Eighth Hokage, then joined Sasuke to destroy a God Tree threatening the village.
• Tsukihime emerged from an ancient cave, defeated Boruto and Sasuke, and warned that stronger Ōtsutsuki investigators would come.
• Boruto defeated five Harvesters at the border, then prepared the village for the main family’s arrival as Tsukihime returned and offered to teach him.
• Tsukihime trained Boruto to sense and release Life Energy, while Boruto promised to help Kota grow stronger.
• Gaara asked Boruto to investigate a powerful chakra wave in the desert, and Boruto brought Tsukihime along after she identified it as a sentinel test subject.
• In the desert ruins, Tsukihime found a dead prototype that had sent information about the planet’s defenses, Boruto’s Fuinjutsu, and her presence to the Ōtsutsuki main family.
• Tsukihime urged Boruto to attack the main family, but Boruto hesitated because he could not abandon the Leaf as Hokage.

Boruto left the Leaf to challenge the Ōtsutsuki main family, survived its trials, and learned to control Isshiki’s power by making a pact with him. In the Sea Country, Boruto discovered that Yamada had drawn him into a plan to awaken the Ōtsutsuki God, and he faced a worsening crisis that could consume Shiki’s consciousness.

• Boruto left Kiyomi, Kota, and the Leaf, then traveled with Tsukihime to the Ōtsutsuki main family’s realm and defeated Oni in the arena, losing his right arm.
• Boruto entered the Despair Forest to save Tsukihime’s cousin Tsukine and the condemned civilians, then killed hunters and accepted advancement from Yamada despite learning the Karma Seal could consume him.
• Boruto and Sarada discovered the maze was an Ōtsutsuki testing facility, and Yamada revealed that he planned to resurrect Isshiki, and Boruto passed the Tower trial and escaped the collapsing maze.
• Naruto trained Boruto to resist Isshiki, but Boruto instead made a pact to share power and consciousness with him, bringing Isshiki’s influence under control.
• Yamada revealed that he had altered Boruto’s genes before birth and led Boruto, Naruto, and Sarada to the Ōtsutsuki God’s tomb in search of an antidote.
• Boruto learned from the Guardian that the Ōtsutsuki God had shaped his birth and the Shinobi World, then confronted Yamada over his plan to connect the God’s core to a vessel.
• Yamada admitted that a human vessel would lose its independent consciousness, and Boruto considered whether Shiki could serve as the medium instead.
• Boruto learned the core was deteriorating and could not be safely stopped once activated, then sent Naruto away because his chakra would accelerate the collapse.

Boruto stabilized the core, bonded with Bridge, and led a global effort to resist the Great Selection and the Bridge’s planetary harvest. After learning Earth’s role in the system, he urged an alliance to deceive it, while Sarada awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and was shown a possible future for Boruto.

• Boruto stabilized the core with Shiki’s help, then returned to the chamber and bonded with the newborn Bridge, which he named and began guiding.
• Boruto and Bridge purified patients in Konoha and the Land of Iron, while Boruto and Sarada helped the samurai choose how to face Reverse Corrosion.
• The Five Great Nations backed Boruto’s purification project, and Boruto, Naruto, Sarada, and the purifiers activated a global network during the lunar eclipse to counter the Great Selection.
• Boruto fused Bridge with his soul to stabilize the network, then learned from the Gatekeeper and the planet that the Purifiers were part of a larger planetary selection.
• Boruto entered the ancient Node beneath the sea, rejected the Zeroth Generation Node’s inheritance, and discovered the Ōtsutsuki Bridge system had harvested planets for energy.
• Boruto showed the leaders the Bridge’s history and urged them to deceive it by gathering Purifiers and making awakened people unpredictable variables.
• Sarada fought Blank Bodies in a village and awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan after a childlike Blank Body wounded her.
• The Remnant revealed that he had engineered Sarada’s awakening, showed her how the Gardener’s rollback turned refusers into Blank Bodies, and presented a possible future in which Boruto accepted the seed transformation.