Recaps

Sarutobi Toru studied Obito’s Kamui and developed a perfected instant teleportation technique with Tobirama Senju and Namikaze Minato. After Tsunade and Pakura became leaders in their respective lands, Toru remained in the parallel world and used his newfound freedom to pursue research and personal pleasures.

• Sarutobi Toru persuaded Tsunade to become Hokage and sent her and Shizune to the Land of Fire.
• Toru used Uchiha Obito’s Sharingan to master Kamui, link its dimension to the Reincarnation Warehouse, and enable people to travel between parallel worlds.
• Pakura and Tsunade became leaders in the Land of Rain and the Land of Fire, while Toru resumed researching the Flying Thunder God Technique with Tobirama Senju and Namikaze Minato.
• The three researchers developed an instant teleportation technique, but only Toru could use it precisely enough for combat and travel across great distances.
• Toru spent several months researching and socializing in the parallel world, then woke in the Hokage’s Office beside Tsunade and several female ninjas after a night together.

Sarutobi Toru used his Hormone Fruit ability to control the women in the Hokage's Office, leaving Tsunade and the others to clean up and handle the paperwork. He later told Queen Sēramu, Pakura, and Uzumaki Kanao that his trips between worlds no longer caused a time gap, but they chose not to visit his world yet.

• Sarutobi Toru subdued the female ninja in the Hokage's Office with his Hormone Fruit ability, and they restored the room after waking.
• Tsunade found a purple item in her chair, and Ongetsu Yugao retrieved it while the others looked on.
• Tsunade ordered the women, including Shizune and Yakushi Nonō, to help process the Hokage's reports using Shadow Clones.
• Sarutobi Toru told Queen Sēramu, Pakura, and Uzumaki Kanao that traveling between worlds no longer caused a time gap.
• Pakura declined to visit Sarutobi Toru's world for now, and Queen Sēramu and Uzumaki Kanao declined as well.

Sarutobi Toru returned to the Land of Fire and visited Root, where he harvested a Chakra Fruit from his Uchiha Madara Clone to test his parasitic technique. Finding that the fruit offered little beyond smoother Chakra control, he decided to stop secretly advancing his old plans and act directly.

• Sarutobi Toru returned to the Land of Fire using Dragon Vein Chakra and decided to visit Konoha to see how Tsunade’s Hokage campaign was progressing.
• Sarutobi Toru walked through Root and considered moving the department aboveground as Konoha’s work had grown less secretive and ruthless.
• Sarutobi Toru saw Danzo standing wistfully in Root, but Danzo snorted and left without explaining himself.
• Sarutobi Toru activated his Parasitic Technique on his Uchiha Madara Clone, reducing it to a husk and extracting a blood-red Chakra Fruit.
• Sarutobi Toru ate the Chakra Fruit and found that it improved his Chakra control but offered little power, so he abandoned the need to secretly push his old plans and chose to act directly.

Sarutobi Toru began mass-producing enhanced Kekkei Genkai clones, intending to harvest their Chakra Fruits and strengthen the shinobi world against the Otsutsuki. At the Senju estate, Tsunade and Sarutobi Toru’s other companions showed the Sharingan abilities they had awakened by consuming Uchiha Chakra Fruits.

• Sarutobi Toru sealed the entrance to Root’s underground chamber with his Kamui ability.
• Sarutobi Toru used the Parasitic Technique and the Power of All Creation to awaken and strengthen Kekkei Genkai in clones, planning to harvest them in one or two months.
• Sarutobi Toru left the cloning laboratory, trusting its more than one hundred near-Kage-level clones to protect themselves.
• Tsunade woke beside Sarutobi Toru at the Senju estate, where Summer Star and Yakushi Nonō emerged from beneath the blanket.
• Summer Star revealed the Three Tomoe Sharingan she had awakened after eating a Chakra Fruit refined from an Uchiha clone.

Sarutobi Toru learned that Hatake Sakumo had withdrawn from Root after failing a mission to save his teammates, and worried that rumors could drive Sakumo to suicide. Tsunade explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had publicized the failure to remove Sakumo from Root so he could nominate him in the Hokage election.

• Sarutobi Toru planned to teach his harem the Path of the Ghost Immortal after their combat strength had taken shape.
• Tsunade and Summer Star displayed their Three Tomoe Sharingan, and Sarutobi Toru warned them to stop provoking one another.
• Yakushi Nonō reported that Hatake Sakumo had failed a mission three or four days earlier and withdrawn from Root.
• Sarutobi Toru asked Yakushi Nonō to investigate what other ninjas were saying about Sakumo's mission failure.
• Sarutobi Toru told Tsunade and the others that Sakumo would commit suicide in another timeline, leaving Tsunade incredulous.
• Tsunade explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had publicized Sakumo's failure to transfer him out of Root and make him eligible as a Hokage candidate.

Sarutobi Toru considered why Hatake Sakumo might die by suicide and asked Yakushi Nonō to monitor the village rumors and Kakashi’s mood. More than ten days later, Sakumo and Kakashi seemed unaffected, leaving Toru unable to see what might lead to Sakumo’s fate.

• Sarutobi Toru reasoned that Shimura Danzō had once placed great hopes in Hatake Sakumo and suspected Sakumo’s death had driven Danzō’s later hostility toward Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Toru told Yakushi Nonō to watch for rumors and changes in Kakashi’s mood, then said he could bring Sakumo back from the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss if necessary.
• Sarutobi Toru decided the Akatsuki Organization was no longer needed and that Black Zetsu had become an unstable factor to eliminate.
• More than ten days later, Konoha’s rumors had faded, while Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi showed no visible distress.
• Kakashi prepared for the next Chunin Exam with Uchiha Hotaru and Might Guy, and Sarutobi Toru read Nonō’s report without finding any sign that Sakumo planned to die.

Sarutobi Toru visited Hatake Sakumo’s home to ask about his departure from Root, but found Sakumo away and watched Kakashi train instead. After Kakashi singed his pant leg with a stray lightning strike, Sarutobi Toru challenged him to train, forming a powerful Black Light Sword that left Kakashi alarmed.

• Sarutobi Toru concluded he could not figure out why Hatake Sakumo might consider suicide and decided to ask him directly.
• Sarutobi Toru visited Hatake Residence, where Kakashi said Sakumo had gone to handle ninja record paperwork after Lord Hokage summoned him.
• Kakashi brought Sarutobi Toru tea, then went to the backyard Training Ground to practice for the upcoming Chunin Exam.
• Sarutobi Toru watched Kakashi’s swordsmanship and noted his strong foundation in Wind Release, Lightning Release, and chakra control.
• Kakashi’s lightning strike burned a small hole in Sarutobi Toru’s pant leg, and Sarutobi Toru sensed Kakashi was secretly pleased.
• Sarutobi Toru formed a Black Light Sword and announced that he would train Kakashi, who worried at the sight of the powerful technique.

Sarutobi Toru visited Hatake Sakumo and told him about a parallel world set thirteen or fourteen years in the future. He revealed that the Sakumo in that world had died by suicide, leaving the present Sakumo shocked and questioning whether Toru knew what had truly happened during his failed mission.

• Sarutobi Toru teased Kakashi about needing more training, and Kakashi hid in his room when Hatake Sakumo returned home.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Sarutobi Toru whether he had come with a Root mission or to discuss the Hokage election, and Toru said neither was the reason.
• Sarutobi Toru described a parallel world that resembled their own but differed in its nations, villages, and development, and said it was thirteen or fourteen years ahead.
• Hatake Sakumo wondered whether the future in that world involved him, and Sarutobi Toru revealed that the other Sakumo had committed suicide after a failed mission and public criticism.
• Hatake Sakumo denied that he would take his own life and asked whether Sarutobi Toru knew what had really happened with his failed mission.

Sarutobi Toru reasoned that Hatake Sakumo’s suicide in the parallel world may have been a deliberate sacrifice meant to change Konoha’s attitude toward its ninjas. He concluded that Sakumo had no reason to do the same in this world, where Konoha’s values had already changed.

• Sarutobi Toru explained that mission failures could result from bad luck and recalled several missions Hatake Sakumo had failed through no fault of his own.
• Hatake Sakumo said he could imagine his parallel self dying to awaken others, then insisted that he had no intention of killing himself.
• Sarutobi Toru connected Sakumo’s death in the original story to a transformation in Konoha’s view of ninjas as people rather than tools.
• Sarutobi Toru speculated that Hatake Sakumo had used the public outcry around his death to change Konoha’s values, while misleading the Third Hokage and Danzo about his motives.
• Sarutobi Toru concluded that Hatake Sakumo would not make the same sacrifice in this world because Konoha’s ideology had already changed.

Sarutobi Toru met his nominal disciple Uchiha Fugaku, who was troubled by the Uchiha Clan’s impending division into branch families. Toru proposed dissolving the clan outright as a bluff, then preserving its name through branch families, leaving Fugaku with a way to push the clan toward a compromise.

• Sarutobi Toru left Hatake Sakumo’s home after hearing Sakumo and Kakashi bicker over Kakashi’s battered appearance.
• Sarutobi Toru encountered Uchiha Fugaku, whose wife Uchiha Mikoto carried their one-year-old daughter, Uchiha Yuu.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Sarutobi Toru that the Uchiha Clan’s internal dispute over splitting into branch families troubled him.
• Sarutobi Toru argued that the clan’s members were divided between those willing to separate and those refusing to do so.
• Sarutobi Toru advised Uchiha Fugaku to announce the Uchiha Clan’s complete dissolution, then claim to relent and allow its members to preserve the name through branch families.

Sarutobi Toru decided to help Uchiha Fugaku deal with the Uchiha Clan’s radical faction, dragging him to the clan compound despite his protests. After surveying the clan and its many women, Sarutobi Toru declared that the Uchiha Clan had serious problems.

• Sarutobi Toru challenged Uchiha Fugaku to offer a better solution to the Uchiha Clan’s internal conflict.
• Uchiha Fugaku said he could not suppress the radicals, so Sarutobi Toru offered to back him up and dragged him toward the compound.
• Uchiha Mikoto was left standing with Uchiha Yuu as Sarutobi Toru took Uchiha Fugaku away.
• Sarutobi Toru looked around the Uchiha compound and noted its large number of women and the clan’s population makeup.
• Sarutobi Toru sighed that the Uchiha Clan had serious problems.

Sarutobi Toru accompanied Uchiha Fugaku as the clan head prepared to convene a meeting about establishing branch families. After Toru injured Uchiha Yashiro, Yashiro rushed to alert the Conservative Faction as news of the meeting spread through the clan.

• Uchiha Yashiro confronted Sarutobi Toru and warned him not to interfere in Uchiha affairs.
• Uchiha Fugaku tried to dismiss Yashiro, but Toru invited him to continue and broke his shoulder and collarbone with a light pat.
• Sarutobi Toru told Uchiha Fugaku to call a clan meeting to discuss branch families, arguing that the change was inevitable.
• Uchiha Yashiro went to notify the Conservative Faction, and word of the meeting spread across the Uchiha Clan.
• Sarutobi Toru blamed Uchiha Fugaku's indecisiveness for allowing the minority Conservatives to keep obstructing the branch-family proposal.

Sarutobi Toru inspected the Uchiha Stone Tablet as Uchiha Fugaku gathered the clan to discuss splitting it. The meeting grew contentious when an elderly hardliner challenged Fugaku and accused Toru of interfering.

• Sarutobi Toru found and read the Uchiha Stone Tablet beneath Naka Shrine, questioning the story behind the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Uchiha clan members gathered and discussed the proposed clan split, while Sarutobi Toru observed their lively chatter.
• Uchiha Fugaku recognized that the Branch Family Faction dominated the clan and that the split was likely to proceed.
• A group of elderly Uchiha hardliners arrived and an old man confronted Uchiha Fugaku, calling Sarutobi Toru an outsider who had no right to comment on Uchiha traditions.

Sarutobi Toru subdued the Uchiha hardliners at Naka Shrine, using his Hormone Fruit ability and a strand of hair to defeat those who attacked him. He healed their injuries and left the clan in awe.

• An enraged elderly Uchiha attacked Sarutobi Toru with a Cane Sword, but Toru deflected it with a strand of hair and knocked him down.
• Several Uchiha hardliners charged Toru after the old man fell, while Uchiha Fugaku chose not to intervene.
• Toru fought the attackers with sword strikes from his hair, forcing them to retreat in fear.
• Toru revealed that he had used his Hormone Fruit ability to manipulate the Uchiha's emotions and crush their resolve.
• Toru healed the injured Uchiha with Yang Release Chakra, leaving those gathered at Naka Shrine silent and awestruck.

Sarutobi Toru helped Uchiha Fugaku settle the Uchiha Clan’s family split, then went to the Hokage’s Office to report the result. There, he found Tsunade buried in documents while she confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen about avoiding his work.

• An Uchiha elder yielded on the family split, and the Uchiha gathered at Naka Shrine accepted the decision.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Sarutobi Toru discussed housing and the likely departure of five or six hundred Uchiha, then Fugaku began compiling a list of those willing to move.
• Sarutobi Toru left to report the outcome to the Third Hokage while Fugaku stayed to organize the clan members’ plans.
• Tsunade and her Shadow Clones processed a mountain of documents as she accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of dumping work on her and secretly peeping at hot springs.
• Sarutobi Toru entered the office, recognized that Sarutobi Hiruzen had accumulated the documents, and greeted him without exposing his thoughts.

Sarutobi Toru told the Third Hokage that the Uchiha Clan had agreed to split into separate households, then considered how to rescue Nawaki and deal with Black Zetsu. In Kirigakure, Uchiha Hitomi completed his Six Paths of Reincarnation and prepared to use the village to ignite conflict.

• Sarutobi Toru told the Third Hokage that the Uchiha Clan would split into separate households, and the Hokage agreed to arrange housing for them.
• The Third Hokage asked Sarutobi Toru about Hatake Sakumo and the upcoming Fourth Hokage election while Tsunade complained about handling documents.
• Sarutobi Toru left the Hokage's Office planning to deal with Black Zetsu after resolving Root and resurrecting Nawaki's wife and son.
• Uchiha Hitomi completed his Six Paths of Reincarnation using Ringo Ameyuri, Juzo Biwa, Kushimaru Kuriarare, Munashi Jinpachi, and two other Mist Ninja Jōnin.
• Black and White Zetsu urged Uchiha Hitomi to use Kirigakure to stir up war and chaos despite the village's need to rebuild.

Sarutobi Toru ambushed Uchiha Hitomi and Black and White Zetsu, sealing Black Zetsu before overpowering Hitomi’s Six Paths Puppets. The chapter leaves Hitomi panicking as the Human Path’s soul-extraction technique fails against Sarutobi Toru.

• Sarutobi Toru appeared behind the group while Uchiha Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to disorient Uchiha Hitomi.
• Sarutobi Toru sealed Black Zetsu, prompting Uchiha Hitomi to accuse Uchiha Shisui of betrayal and attack with Shinra Tensei.
• Sarutobi Toru shattered Shinra Tensei with a punch, then destroyed Juzo Biwa’s Asura Path Puppet.
• Sarutobi Toru endured Munashi Jinpachi’s Exploding Blade and Chakra absorption, broke Kushimaru Kuriarare’s steel wires, and defeated the Preta Path Puppet.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare tried to extract Sarutobi Toru’s soul, but could not move him, leaving Uchiha Hitomi panicked.

Sarutobi Toru overpowered Uchiha Hitomi’s Six Paths Puppets, while Uchiha Shisui struck Hitomi down and took his Rinnegan. Toru planned to use the eyes and Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hitomi’s soul and test whether he could recover his lost memories.

• Sarutobi Toru resisted the Human Path’s soul-extraction technique and destroyed Kushimaru Kuriarare with a punch.
• Uchiha Hitomi prepared to use Chibaku Tensei as his remaining Puppets defended him.
• Uchiha Shisui used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear behind Uchiha Hitomi and stab him through the heart.
• Uchiha Shisui removed Uchiha Hitomi’s Rinnegan, and Sarutobi Toru took the eyes after Hitomi died.
• Sarutobi Toru planned to use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hitomi’s soul and see whether his memories would return.

Sarutobi Toru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Uchiha Hitomi, his wife, and their infant, and Hitomi recovered his memories as Nawaki. Sarutobi Toru then used a modified Rinne Rebirth Technique to restore Nawaki and his family to life, leaving Nawaki deeply grateful.

• Sarutobi Toru summoned Uchiha Hitomi’s wife and child, then reincarnated Uchiha Hitomi through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Hitomi recovered his memories and recognized himself as Nawaki, while Myōshi reunited with him.
• Nawaki prepared to return to the Pure Land until Sarutobi Toru explained that the Rinnegan could resurrect people.
• Sarutobi Toru used a White Zetsu Clone to perform a modified Rinne Rebirth Technique, restoring Nawaki, Myōshi, and their child to life.
• Nawaki embraced his family and then prostrated himself before Sarutobi Toru.

Sarutobi Toru brought Nawaki back to Konoha and told him Tsunade was about to become Hokage. Tsunade won the election and completed her inauguration, then Sarutobi Toru prepared the promised surprise for her.

• Sarutobi Toru persuaded Nawaki to return to Konoha and arranged for him, his wife, and his child to stay in Root.
• Mitokado Homura announced that Tsunade had won the Hokage election over Hatake Sakumo.
• The Third Hokage handed Tsunade the Hokage hat, and she went outside to a cheering crowd for her inauguration.
• After the ceremony, Tsunade asked Sarutobi Toru for her promised surprise, and he told her to close her eyes before using a space-time technique.

Tsunade reunited with her brother Nawaki, who had survived after being abducted by Uchiha Madara, and welcomed his wife and child. Months into Tsunade’s tenure as Hokage, Konoha flourished while Sarutobi Toru led Root operatives to Uchiha Madara’s former base in the Land of Water.

• Tsunade recognized Nawaki, embraced him, and learned from Sarutobi Toru how he had survived and regained his memories.
• Sarutobi Toru brought Nawaki’s wife and child to meet Tsunade, and the siblings reunited over a meal.
• At Nawaki’s request, Sarutobi Toru arranged for him to work at Konoha Hospital, and Tsunade approved his appointment.
• Over the following months, Tsunade settled into her role as Hokage while Konoha expanded its influence and developed rapidly.
• Sarutobi Toru left Konoha with Root operatives and traveled to Uchiha Madara’s former base in the Land of Water.

Sarutobi Toru returned to the Land of Water to use the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as the base for a plan to create a powerful Chakra Fruit from two hundred thousand modified White Zetsu and the Tailed Beasts. After assigning Uchiha Shisui's Clone to oversee Kirigakure, Sarutobi Toru traveled to the Land of Frost to retrieve Black Zetsu's hidden White Zetsu army.

• Sarutobi Toru planned to remake two hundred thousand White Zetsu with Kage-level Chakra and combine their power with the Tailed Beasts to grow a God Tree and create a Chakra Fruit.
• Sarutobi Toru decided to lie low while Uchiha Shisui's Clone maintained control in Kirigakure, and he ordered Root subordinates to infiltrate the village.
• Sarutobi Toru planned to use Kirigakure to seize the other villages' Jinchuriki and conceal the Tailed Beasts by growing the God Tree in another Parallel World.
• Sarutobi Toru followed Black Zetsu's memories to a cave beneath a basin in the Land of Frost, where he found the ancient White Zetsu army hanging from thick tree roots.
• Sarutobi Toru refined nearly ten thousand White Zetsu into White Zetsu Seeds, then dug out the section of roots from which he had removed them.

Sarutobi Toru spent more than five years creating one hundred thousand White Zetsu with Kage-level Chakra while overseeing Root. Afterward, he planned to rest before expanding the army in a Parallel World, then returned to Root to review Yakushi Nonō’s paperwork.

• Sarutobi Toru collected God Tree roots for ninja-tool materials and left a Flying Thunder God Mark in the underground space.
• Sarutobi Toru created one hundred thousand White Zetsu with Kage-level Chakra over more than five years while managing Root and conducting research.
• Sarutobi Toru judged that the White Zetsu could overwhelm the Five Great Shinobi Villages, but planned to create more in a Parallel World.
• Shimura Danzō retired from Root two years earlier and joined the Elder Council, leaving Sarutobi Toru to handle Root’s affairs.
• Sarutobi Toru returned to Root, where Yakushi Nonō brought him documents to review and stamp.

Sarutobi Toru learned that Naruto Namikaze had been born and planned to nurture the next generation with customized potions. He then inspected Root’s secret Orchard, where hundreds of clones with collected bloodlines were being cultivated to produce Chakra Fruits.

• Sarutobi Toru recalled that Yakushi Kabuto was likely from the Land of Wind and had never been found because the Battle of Kikyo Pass had not occurred.
• After reading the report on Naruto Namikaze’s birth, Sarutobi Toru celebrated with Yakushi Nonō and considered how the next generation’s future would differ from the Original Work.
• Sarutobi Toru decided to send customized Perfect Development Potions to Naruto Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, and other future students as they were born.
• Sarutobi Toru visited Root’s hidden fifteenth underground floor, the Orchard, where five hundred Culture Pods held clones carrying various human bloodlines.
• A Root ninja reported that the latest clone batch had higher costs and improved bloodline awakening rates, while Sarutobi Toru noted that he had to use his soul power to activate their Kekkei Genkai.

Sarutobi Toru reflected on clone production and planned to use a future crisis to spur Konoha’s shinobi to grow stronger, while stockpiling Kekkei Chakra Fruits. He returned to the Senju Estate, where Kushina went to train after he teased her, and Tsunade later arrived with Konan.

• Sarutobi Toru considered clone output, the limits of clone growth, and how Kekkei Chakra Fruits could raise shinobi’s potential.
• Sarutobi Toru decided to reveal the fruits after his Elite White Zetsu Army caused panic, then stored another dozen or so fruits in his Reincarnation Warehouse.
• Sarutobi Toru noted that the women close to him had awakened numerous abilities, while Orochimaru and Hiruko had also gathered many Kekkei Genkai.
• Sarutobi Toru returned to the Senju Estate and teased Uzumaki Kushina about neglecting her training.
• Uzumaki Kushina went to train at the estate’s Training Ground, and later Uzumaki Kanao and Tsunade returned, with Tsunade bringing Konan.