Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Hiashi and Sarutobi Hiruzen argued over which clan should take over the Uchiha Clan's Military Police Force, while Yamanaka Tohru fueled their dispute. The Third Hokage arrived and silenced Sarutobi Hiruzen, leaving the meeting in the middle of the conflict.

• Hyuga Hiashi, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Yamanaka Tohru each offered their clans to help take over the Uchiha Clan's Military Police Force.
• Hyuga Hiashi challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen's qualifications, and Sarutobi Hiruzen criticized the Hyuga Clan for using Curse Marks to control its branch family.
• Yamanaka Tohru backed Sarutobi Hiruzen's criticism, and Hiashi and Hiruzen traded insults in front of the meeting attendees.
• Hatake Sakumo sent someone to summon the Third Hokage, who arrived and told Sarutobi Hiruzen to stop disgracing the Sarutobi Clan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen fell silent when he saw the Third Hokage.

Hatake Sakumo, Yamanaka Tohru, and Uchiha Fugaku maneuvered the Hyuga Clan into taking over patrol and inspection duties, then used that concession to secure one of the Hyuga Clan’s decision-making votes for the Uchiha Clan. After the meeting, Fugaku pledged to help integrate his clan into Konoha, while Tohru turned his attention to a more urgent matter than Obito’s seal.

• The Third sat beside Uchiha Fugaku, signaling his support for the Uchiha Clan and prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to give up the Military Police Force’s authority.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Yamanaka Inoichi offered to help maintain village security, but Inoichi soon withdrew and the Hyuga Clan won patrol and inspection duties.
• Hatake Sakumo asked the Hyuga Clan to transfer one of its village-decision votes to the Uchiha Clan, and Hiashi agreed under pressure from the officials.
• Hatake Sakumo, Yamanaka Tohru, and Uchiha Fugaku met afterward, where Fugaku thanked them and promised to keep his clan members in check and integrate the Uchiha into Konoha.
• Yamanaka Tohru set aside resolving Obito’s seal for the moment to deal with something more important.

Yamanaka Tohru prepared a mission to the moon to eliminate the threat posed by the Otsutsuki Clan and obtain the Tenseigan. He gathered Shisui and Suzune, then traveled to Mount Myōboku to meet Namikaze Minato and discuss the mission.

• Yamanaka Tohru recalled Shisui's past mission near a passage to the moon and explained why he had asked Hatake Sakumo to suppress information about it.
• Yamanaka Tohru decided to seek the moon's massive Tenseigan to help awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, while avoiding Nagato's Rinnegan because Madara Uchiha might have left a safeguard.
• Yamanaka Tohru judged that Shisui's new Eternal Mangekyo and Suzune's Sage Mode and Wood Release would help them overcome the moon's defenses.
• Yamanaka Tohru checked Suzune's strength in the Forest of Death, explained the mission to her and Shisui, and got leave from Hatake Sakumo.
• Yamanaka Tohru teleported with Suzune and Shisui to Mount Myōboku, where they met Namikaze Minato, whose space affinity had recovered to about seventy percent.
• Namikaze Minato praised Yamanaka Tohru for resolving the village's conflict with the Uchiha Clan, then asked what had brought him to Mount Myōboku.

Yamanaka Tohru brought Suzune and Shisui to Orochimaru's base while he checked on Tsunade, who had remained unconscious after receiving White Zetsu Cells. Little Lin supplied Tsunade with Yang Release Chakra to help her cells transform, and Orochimaru resumed testing her blood.

• Yamanaka Tohru told Namikaze Minato about the people on the moon and said he needed the Tenseigan's ocular power; Namikaze Minato agreed to help once he recovered.
• Yamanaka Tohru took Suzune and Shisui to Orochimaru's base and told them to train while he checked on Tsunade.
• Orochimaru and Yamanaka Tohru found that Tsunade's cells were changing but lacked enough Yang Release Chakra to transform fully.
• Yamanaka Tohru brought Little Lin to examine Tsunade, and she confirmed Tsunade needed Yang Release Chakra.
• Little Lin infused Tsunade with Yang Release Chakra, and Orochimaru later took another blood sample to check her progress.

Yamanaka Tohru arranged for Orochimaru to teach Suzune Earth Release while he trained Shisui to control his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. After more than half a month of sparring, Tohru returned to Orochimaru's base when he learned something had happened to Tsunade.

• Orochimaru observed that Tsunade's cells changed rapidly after Little Lin replenished her Yang Release Chakra, and Yamanaka Tohru cautioned him against taking too much of her blood.
• Yamanaka Tohru asked Orochimaru to teach Suzune Earth Release, and Orochimaru agreed.
• Orochimaru demonstrated Earth Release techniques to Suzune while Yamanaka Tohru helped Shisui train with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Yamanaka Tohru and Shisui sparred in the Land of Wind, where Shisui's fourth-stage Susanoo fought Tohru's Ice Colossus and eventually lost as Shisui's chakra ran low.
• After more than half a month of training, Yamanaka Tohru sensed that the Ice Scalpel he had left with Suzune had broken and teleported back to Orochimaru's base.
• Suzune told Yamanaka Tohru that Orochimaru had called him back because something had happened to Tsunade, and Orochimaru urged him to look.

Yamanaka Tohru and Orochimaru saved Tsunade when her body began rejecting the Yang Release Chakra needed to awaken Wood Release. After First Generation Cells helped her develop a Sage Body and awaken Wood Release, Tsunade woke and tested her new power in Orochimaru's laboratory, where he demanded her blood as payment for the damage.

• Yamanaka Tohru discovered that Tsunade's cells were releasing Yang Release Chakra, and he and Orochimaru realized the White Zetsu Cells were the problem.
• Orochimaru injected First Generation Cells into Tsunade despite Yamanaka Tohru's fear that her weakened body would not survive.
• Tsunade's cells absorbed vitality from the First Generation Cells and Yang Release Chakra, while the First Generation Cells consumed the White Zetsu Cells, stabilizing her condition.
• Yamanaka Tohru sensed that Tsunade had developed a Sage Body, making her Wood Release awakening almost certain.
• After a week, Tsunade woke, used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and damaged a wall in Orochimaru's laboratory.
• Tsunade offered Orochimaru an IOU for the damage, but Orochimaru instead asked to take her blood as payment.

After recovering at Mount Myōboku, Namikaze Minato returned to Orochimaru's base and reunited with Rin before secretly visiting Konoha. He caught up with Kakashi and Hatake Sakumo, then left with plans to see Kushina while Hatake Sakumo continued serving as Hokage.

• Tsunade agreed to repay Orochimaru for his destroyed laboratory with her blood, and Yamanaka Tohru and the others remained at Orochimaru's base for nearly a year.
• Suzune learned Earth Release techniques from Orochimaru, Yamanaka Tohru traded him the Light-Weight Rock Technique, and Shisui awakened his Complete Body Susanoo.
• Namikaze Minato completed his recovery at Mount Myōboku, met Yamanaka Tohru, and returned with him to Orochimaru's base.
• Namikaze Minato reunited with Rin, who embraced him and cried as they remembered their past together.
• Namikaze Minato traveled to Konoha and reunited with Kakashi, then visited Hatake Sakumo and learned about the village's changes.
• Namikaze Minato told Hatake Sakumo he would not officially return for another four or five years, and Hatake Sakumo urged him to visit Kushina.

Namikaze Minato returned to Konoha and reunited with Kushina, then left again to continue his work with Tohru. In Amegakure, Pain gathered the assembled Akatsuki and assigned partners for their missions, while Obito and Black Zetsu decided to wait before acting.

• Namikaze Minato returned to Kushina’s home, where they embraced and shared what had happened during their years apart.
• Kushina told Minato about Naruto, and Minato watched their sleeping son before promising to return when his work was done.
• Minato left Konoha after Kushina encouraged him to go, promising to care for Naruto and wait for his return.
• Pain announced that Kisame and Hidan had joined the Akatsuki and assigned Kisame to Itachi and Hidan to Kakuzu.
• Pain told the Akatsuki members to work in pairs and take hired missions to build funds for their future goals.
• Black Zetsu asked Obito about making their move, but Obito said they should wait because Yamanaka Tohru’s strength was unfathomable.

Yamanaka Tohru, Namikaze Minato, and their companions investigated the village where Shisui had fought the Otsutsuki puppets, suspecting the puppets were searching for someone or something. They traced unusual Nature Energy to a wooden house, and its door opened to reveal a woman who astonished them.

• Shisui told Yamanaka Tohru and the others how the puppets had defeated him and his Anbu teammate, whose death had awakened Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Namikaze Minato and Yamanaka Tohru theorized that the Otsutsuki puppets were searching for something important that had gone missing from the moon.
• The group traveled to Shisui's mission village, where Yamanaka Tohru found no unusual chakra but he and the others noticed unusually dense Nature Energy.
• Yamanaka Tohru and Namikaze Minato followed the Nature Energy to a wooden house while Shisui and Suzune stayed alert.
• Shisui put a suspicious villager to sleep with genjutsu and knocked on the house's door.
• A woman opened the door, leaving Yamanaka Tohru and the others astonished.

Yamanaka Tohru and his companions met Otsutsuki Hanayo, a wounded descendant of Hamura who had escaped from the moon. Hanayo explained that the Otsutsuki Branch Family had overthrown the Main Family and planned to destroy the Shinobi World, leaving the group to decide how to respond to her plea for help.

• Otsutsuki Hanayo mistook Yamanaka Tohru and his companions for threats, then recognized their Mangekyo and revealed she was searching for descendants of Hagoromo.
• Suzune helped the badly injured Hanayo sit down, and Hanayo recounted the conflict between the Otsutsuki Main Family and Branch Family on the moon.
• Hanayo explained that the Branch Family seized control of the Tenseigan and captured the Main Family after the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was summoned away again.
• Hanayo said her father sent her through a passage to the Shinobi World, where the Branch Family's Tenseigan power continued to damage her.
• Shisui reacted with hatred when Hanayo mentioned the Branch Family's puppets, while Hanayo said finding Hagoromo's descendants was her final wish.

Yamanaka Tohru and Little Lin treated Otsutsuki Hanayo, whose injuries had worsened because Tenseigan ocular power remained in her body. After learning what Little Lin was and trusting the group, Hanayo recovered and began to consider whether they could save her clan on the moon.

• Suzune suggested that Yamanaka Tohru treat Otsutsuki Hanayo, and he discovered that Tenseigan ocular power was preventing her injuries from healing.
• Yamanaka Tohru introduced Little Lin, and Hanayo sensed that the cat carried power like the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Yamanaka Tohru explained that Little Lin was a kind of Ten-Tails, and Hanayo decided she trusted him and the others.
• Little Lin examined Hanayo and broke down the Tenseigan ocular power, guiding its Yin Release and Yang Release Chakra to her eyes and injuries.
• Little Lin and Yamanaka Tohru healed Hanayo, who looked at Tohru with gratitude.

Otsutsuki Hanayo recovered and agreed to guide Tohru, Namikaze Minato, and the others to the moon, where they planned to investigate the Branch Family and avenge Shisui’s companions. After Shisui defeated the patrolling puppets, Hanayo led the group through a sealed passage toward the moon.

• Otsutsuki Hanayo thanked Tohru and Little Lin for saving her, then agreed to leave for the moon after her Chakra recovered.
• Tohru told Hanayo that the group planned to avenge Shisui’s companions, and the group set out with her the next morning.
• Shisui fought more than a dozen puppets, used Susanoo to destroy them repeatedly, and eventually exhausted their ability to repair themselves.
• Tohru explained Susanoo and Asura’s inherited power to Hanayo, while Suzune demonstrated her Wood Release.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo opened a sealed passage beneath a lake, and Namikaze Minato recognized that it used a Space-Time Barrier based on Hamura’s technique.

Yamanaka Tohru, Namikaze Minato, and their companions reached the moon and confirmed it was safe to explore. After Otsutsuki Hanayo led them toward her home, they realized the Otsutsuki Branch Family's Byakugan could make a stealthy approach impossible.

• Otsutsuki Hanayo explained that the moon had air and living conditions like the Shinobi World, and that guards were likely stationed at the passage exit.
• Shisui hurled Namikaze Minato's Flying Thunder God Kunai beyond the exit, allowing Namikaze Minato to scout the area and confirm no guards were nearby.
• Namikaze Minato returned to the passage and teleported Yamanaka Tohru and the others onto the moon.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo led the group toward her clan's home, and Yamanaka Tohru and Namikaze Minato reassured her that the Main Family might still be alive.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo warned that the Otsutsuki Clan's Byakugan could spot them from afar, and Namikaze Minato concluded that sneaking closer would be difficult.

Yamanaka Tohru infiltrated the Otsutsuki Branch Family’s territory and explored the Moon’s interior, learning the scale of its forces. He brought Minato and the others inside, and Hanayo proposed seizing the Tenseigan to disable the puppets.

• Hanayo warned the group that charging into the Branch Family’s territory would risk heavy losses, so Tohru decided to infiltrate alone under cover of night.
• Tohru concealed his Chakra, entered the Branch Family’s territory, and left a Space-Time Barrier scroll so he could teleport Hanayo and the others in.
• Tohru killed the ten Branch Family members guarding the central building, read their memories, and followed the passage into the Moon’s interior.
• Tohru disguised himself as a Branch Family member and discovered that the Moon held fewer than a thousand clan members and nearly ten thousand self-repairing puppets.
• Tohru returned outside, reported the Moon’s forces to Minato and the others, and teleported them into the Moon’s interior.
• Hanayo said they should first seize the Tenseigan so they could control the puppets.

Yamanaka Tohru learned how the Otsutsuki Clan controlled the Tenseigan and infiltrated their castle to find it. After reuniting with Namikaze Minato and the others, he learned the Tenseigan was sealed at the castle’s lowest level, leaving them to prepare for a fight with the Branch Family.

• Otsutsuki Hanayo explained that Otsutsuki Clan members with Byakugan and their clan’s Chakra could control the Tenseigan, while Yamanaka Tohru reasoned that its power came from accumulated Byakugan and Yin-Yang Release Chakra.
• Namikaze Minato asked where the Tenseigan was, and Otsutsuki Hanayo pointed to the castle at the center, which was guarded by puppets and Byakugan users.
• Yamanaka Tohru disguised himself as Kenichi and convinced the castle guard to let him inside by reporting a possible outsider invasion.
• Yamanaka Tohru found hundreds of Otsutsuki Main Family members imprisoned and motionless on the castle’s lowest level, then left without drawing attention.
• Yamanaka Tohru released the Flying Thunder God Kunai seal, bringing Namikaze Minato, Shisui, and the others into the castle.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo said the Tenseigan was sealed at the castle’s bottom and that they needed the Branch Family clan leader’s seal formula to reach it, so Yamanaka Tohru urged everyone to prepare for battle.

Yamanaka Tohru’s group fought their way through the moon’s castle, where the Tenseigan-wielding Otsutsuki Branch Family head attacked Suzune’s wooden golem. Tohru and Minato tracked down two suspects, and Tohru prepared to seize the temporarily blinded child controlling the Tenseigan.

• Shisui used Susanoo to crush the puppets and kill the first Otsutsuki Branch Family member they encountered, while Minato reminded Hanayo why they could not show mercy.
• As the puppets grew stronger, Suzune summoned a wooden golem to fight alongside Shisui’s Susanoo, but a silver beam from the Otsutsuki Branch Family head cut the golem in half.
• Tohru identified the silver beam as Tenseigan power, and Hanayo explained that the head could not use that power continuously, prompting Tohru and Minato to search for him in Sage Mode.
• Minato cornered a middle-aged Otsutsuki Branch Family member and held a Flying Thunder God Kunai to his throat after moving too fast for the man’s Byakugan to follow.
• Tohru confronted a child radiating Tenseigan energy, and Little Lin said the child was temporarily blind after using the Tenseigan, so Tohru decided to attack while he had the chance.

Yamanaka Tohru and his allies captured the Otsutsuki Branch Family head and learned how to reach and unseal the Tenseigan. Hanayo stopped Little Lin from killing the unconscious child, Toneri, whose name shocked Tohru.

• Yamanaka Tohru knocked out a child and brought him back to the group as Namikaze Minato returned with the Branch Family head.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo argued with the Branch Family head about the danger of using the Tenseigan and the threat the Shinobi World posed to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Tohru challenged the Branch Family head's belief that the Tenseigan was supreme, and Shisui used genjutsu to control him after his conviction faltered.
• Tohru and the others learned the Tenseigan's location and how to undo its seal, then Shisui destroyed the Branch Family head's mental space.
• Hanayo stopped Little Lin from killing the child, saying he had been manipulated and was called Toneri, which left Tohru shocked.

Yamanaka Tohru absorbed the Tenseigan’s ocular power and awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, greatly strengthening his abilities. After he rejoined the others, Otsutsuki Hanayo explained that controlling the Tenseigan could free her immobilized clansmen and stop the puppets.

• Yamanaka Tohru recognized Otsutsuki Toneri and persuaded the others to trust him and let him go with Otsutsuki Hanayo.
• Yamanaka Tohru approached the Tenseigan alone with Little Lin and began absorbing its ocular power into his Mangekyo.
• Yamanaka Tohru’s Mangekyo evolved into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, strengthening his ninjutsu amplification and Ice World and allowing his ocular power to replenish itself.
• Yamanaka Tohru emerged safely, revealed his new Mangekyo to Namikaze Minato, Shisui, and Suzune, and discussed the power it could bring him.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo said her clansmen were immobilized by Mind Balls and that the puppets were powered by the Tenseigan, so taking control of it could end both problems.

Yamanaka Tohru studied ways to obtain Six Paths Power while Otsutsuki Hanayo tried to control the Tenseigan. After Hanayo succeeded, she freed the Ōtsutsuki Main Family and disabled the puppets, ending the immediate threat.

• Otsutsuki Hanayo took Toneri inside to try controlling the Tenseigan while Namikaze Minato reported that the puppets had surrounded the castle but had not attacked.
• Yamanaka Tohru and Little Lin discussed ways to obtain Six Paths Power, and Tohru decided he would later seek out Nagato and Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan.
• Dozens of Branch Family members infiltrated the castle, but Namikaze Minato, Shisui, Suzune, and Yamanaka Tohru fought off successive waves.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo emerged after several hours and told Yamanaka Tohru that she had controlled the Tenseigan.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo removed the Mind Balls from the Main Family members and withdrew the Tenseigan's power from the puppets, causing nearly ten thousand to collapse.

The Otsutsuki Main Family defeated the Branch Family on the moon and used the Caged Bird seal to restrain the survivors. Yamanaka Tohru and the others left the moon, and Namikaze Minato explained why he supported using the technique against the Branch Family.

• The Branch Family sent wave after wave into the castle, but none returned, and the moon’s puppets collapsed when the Main Family regained control of the Tenseigan.
• Otsutsuki Hanayo and the Main Family emerged from the castle, and Otsutsuki Hamura announced that the Branch Family leader was dead.
• Namikaze Minato suggested using the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird technique, and Shisui provided the formula after describing the Uchiha Clan’s past research.
• The Main Family sealed the Branch Family survivors, while Otsutsuki Hamura spared Toneri at Otsutsuki Hanayo’s request.
• The next day, Yamanaka Tohru and the others left the moon, and Namikaze Minato told Suzune he supported the seal because the Branch Family threatened the Shinobi World.