Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya took Naruto to discuss the Nine Tails’ seal, then brought Yun to Mount Myoboku to begin Sage Mode training. Gamamaru met Yun and spoke of an unexpected path changing the world’s future, leaving Yun resolved to continue his plan as Fukasaku led them toward a meal of toad food.

• Naruto agreed to keep Jiraiya’s misconduct secret only if Jiraiya promised not to repeat it, and Sasuke and Shikamaru accepted the same conditions.
• Naruto asked Jiraiya for the seal’s key so he could free the Nine Tails, but Jiraiya said the key belonged to Minato and refused to help undo the seal.
• Jiraiya watched Yakumo train with Yun, then invited Yun to Mount Myoboku to learn Senjutsu.
• Gamamaru recognized Yun as an Indra descendant with power beyond his ancestor’s and spoke cryptically about unexpected events changing the world’s course.
• Fukasaku invited Jiraiya and Yun to eat, but Yun tried to avoid the toads’ food by asking to begin Sage Mode training.

Uchiha Yun learned Sage Mode almost immediately on Mount Myoboku, astonishing Jiraiya and the toads. Gamamaru warned Fukasaku that Yun’s choices would shape the futures of Konoha and Mount Myoboku, while Yun later wondered about Kaguya’s origins and the possibility of events from Boruto.

• Shima served Yun and Jiraiya a meal of bugs, and Jiraiya vomited before Yun sensed Natural Energy without Toad Oil.
• Yun absorbed Natural Energy, combined it with his own energy, and entered Sage Mode without becoming toad-like, overturning the dining table in the process.
• Fukasaku told Gamamaru that Yun and Jiraiya had left, and Gamamaru said Yun’s decisions would determine the world’s future and ordered Fukasaku not to interfere or tell Jiraiya.
• Yun and Jiraiya returned to Konoha after completing Sage Mode training in three hours, and Yun left to find Yakumo at the training ground.
• That night, Yun reflected on Gamamaru’s foresight and wondered whether Kaguya had come from another world and whether Boruto could exist.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Shikamaru told Yun that they suspected Itachi was under genjutsu because he had been watching Sasuke’s eyes. Yun agreed to investigate, then confronted Itachi at a barbecue restaurant that night.

• Sasuke told Naruto and Shikamaru that Itachi’s behavior had changed and that he had repeatedly watched Sasuke’s eyes.
• The three decided to seek Yun’s help, and Naruto asked Hinata where to find Ino so she could lead them to him.
• Ino brought the group to the Back Mountain, where they found Yun training and Sasuke privately shared his suspicion about Itachi.
• Yun listened to Sasuke’s explanation and promised to check on Itachi and give the children an answer the next day.
• That night, Yun told Itachi that Sasuke had come to see him and asked whether Itachi still could not let something go.

Yun and Itachi discussed Itachi’s plan to pursue the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Yun persuaded him to consider using the eyes of deceased Uchiha rather than sacrificing his sight. After Itachi drank too much and confessed his guilt about not helping the clan, he asked how Sasuke might awaken his Mangekyō, and Yun proposed staging a play for him.

• Yun told Itachi that Sasuke suspected his behavior had changed and asked Yun to investigate.
• Itachi explained that he wanted the Eternal Mangekyō to face the masked man and Black Zetsu, while also protecting Sasuke amid the coming chaos.
• Yun argued that Itachi should use the Sharingan of deceased Uchiha rather than go blind, and Itachi hesitated over whether that would be sacrilege.
• Yun noticed Itachi’s reaction when he suggested killing Naruto to provoke Sasuke’s Mangekyō, but Itachi said he would not do it.
• Yun and Itachi drank sake, and a drunken Itachi confessed his guilt over failing to help the Uchiha and asked how Sasuke could awaken his Mangekyō.
• Yun suggested setting up a play for Sasuke, then took the sleeping Itachi home and returned home with the Flying Thunder God Jutsu.

Mini Nine Tails blamed Shukaku for the missing sake and got both of them punished by Uchiha Hazuki, while Uchiha Mikoto warned Hazuki that Itachi had revealed sensitive opinions while drunk. At the Technical Department, Kabuto discussed the children’s inherited powers, prompting Naruto to ask Hinata whether they needed to have a baby, and the chapter ended with Naruto walking into a telephone pole.

• Mini Nine Tails accused Shukaku of stealing his sake, beat him, and then blamed him for secretly bringing sake into the house when Uchiha Hazuki confronted them.
• Uchiha Hazuki confiscated the Tailed Beasts’ savings and limited their pocket money, while Uchiha Mikoto warned her that Itachi had drunkenly voiced dissatisfaction with Lord Hokage.
• Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke visited Kabuto at the Technical Department, where he explained that their special powers might be connected to reincarnation and inheritance.
• Naruto asked whether he and Hinata needed to have a baby and whether kissing would do it, causing Hinata to faint before admitting she would be willing to kiss him.
• Naruto promised Hinata he would protect her, then walked into a telephone pole as Sasuke laughed at him.

Jiraiya continued his covert investigation of Amegakure, learning more about Pain and Angel while disguised as a Genin. After losing his unwitting companion, he met Ajisai and found that Angel hunted intruders after Pain’s Sunday rain, then searched his host’s home for useful information.

• Jiraiya used a Shadow Clone and the Toad Flat Shadow Manipulation Technique to infiltrate Amegakure through a careless Genin named Meng.
• At an izakaya, Jiraiya learned from Meng that Angel eliminated remnants of Hanzo’s faction and that Pain had killed Hanzo’s family and burned his mansion.
• Teguna caught Meng at the izakaya, attacked him, and caused Jiraiya to leave after settling the bill.
• Jiraiya spoke with Ajisai, who told him Angel had appeared after Sunday’s rain to defeat intruders and encouraged Jiraiya to investigate the village further.
• Jiraiya searched the Genin’s home, read his art books, and left at night to gather information elsewhere.

Jiraiya’s Shadow Clone infiltrated Amegakure and discovered that Konan and Nagato were alive and working with the village’s rulers. After meeting Nagato in the Tower, Jiraiya learned that Yahiko was dead.

• Nagato halted the rain so Konan could locate the intruders, and she left to confront them.
• Jiraiya watched Konan kill a captured Rain Ninja, and she recognized him as her former teacher after he dropped his disguise.
• Konan dismissed the surrounding ninja and escorted Jiraiya toward the Tower, while Nagato realized Jiraiya was using a Shadow Clone and sent the Pains to search for his real body.
• Jiraiya reunited with Nagato and asked where Yahiko was, and Nagato told him that Yahiko had died.

Nagato warned Jiraiya to keep Konoha away from Amegakure after revealing that Danzo and Hanzo had killed Yahiko, while Jiraiya’s clone escaped with a message. Jiraiya returned to Mount Myoboku with new concerns, and Uchiha Yun, Shisui, and Itachi met in Konoha as Yun considered the changing situation.

• Konan told Jiraiya that Danzo and Hanzo had joined forces to kill Yahiko fourteen years earlier because they wanted Nagato’s eyes.
• Nagato said he and Konan had inherited Yahiko’s will but would maintain peace only in the Land of Rain, then warned Konoha’s ninja not to return.
• Nagato’s Black Receiver struck Jiraiya’s Shadow Clone, and Nagato sent a Messenger Frog back with the warning, “This is the last time.”
• Jiraiya learned the report from his clone at Mount Myoboku and decided to return to Konoha because Amegakure’s power could threaten the village.
• Uchiha Yun reflected on Nagato and Konan possibly being exposed while meeting Shisui by the Naka River, then Itachi arrived and apologized for being late.

Itachi asked Yun how Izumi awakened her Three-Tomoe Sharingan, then revealed his plans to avenge his father and help Sasuke awaken the Mangekyō. Meanwhile, Jiraiya searched Root Division records for clues about Nagato, and Black Zetsu approached Orochimaru to propose a deal.

• Yun explained that he had used genjutsu during the team-allocation assessment to make Izumi mistake an illusion for reality and awaken her Sharingan.
• Itachi told Yun and Shisui that he wanted to avenge his father and believed Sasuke would eventually awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Yun and Shisui promised to help when the time was right.
• Jiraiya searched the Hokage Building archives for Root Division records about Hanzo and Nagato but found nothing, so he asked the Cipher Squad to keep looking for records from fourteen years earlier.
• Black and White Zetsu traveled to Orochimaru’s new base, where Orochimaru threatened them and Black Zetsu demonstrated its ability to crush a giant serpent.
• Black Zetsu offered Orochimaru a deal related to his research on the Second Hokage’s reanimation jutsu, but White Zetsu interrupted to ask whether the laboratory had a toilet.

Black Zetsu tried to recruit Orochimaru to improve Impure World Reincarnation, while secretly arranging Madara Uchiha’s return as a weapon against Uzumaki Sora. Meanwhile, Obito met Sora in Amegakure and learned that Sora already knew his true goal and the secrets behind Madara’s Rinnegan.

• Black Zetsu offered Orochimaru four White Zetsu Clones as sacrifices and promised him the truth of the world in exchange for improving Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru delayed making a deal until his improvements were complete, and Black Zetsu warned him not to spy on him with snakes.
• Black Zetsu told White Zetsu to leave Madara’s flesh where Madara would find it, while concluding that Orochimaru was essential to their plans and their fighting strength was inadequate.
• Orochimaru and Tanaka evacuated their experimental base after explosions, and Orochimaru decided he needed Madara Uchiha to help defeat Uzumaki Sora.
• Obito met Uzumaki Sora at a bar in Amegakure and offered Madara’s body in exchange for information, but Sora said the corpse was worthless.
• Uzumaki Sora revealed that he knew Madara had awakened the Rinnegan through the Sage of Six Paths’ Stone Tablet and declared the Rinnegan worthless.

Uzumaki Sora confronted Obito about his past, his Cursed Seal, and his plan to create peace through the Rinnegan, but refused to join him. Obito asked Sora to remove the seal in exchange for access to Kamui, and left waiting for Sora's decision.

• Sora identified Obito's Cursed Seal as the reason for his visit and challenged him over manipulating Nagato and killing Kushina.
• Obito defended his role in Yahiko's death, recalled his grief over Rin, and explained his plan to revive her and create a peaceful world through the Sage of Six Paths' legacy.
• Sora called Obito both pitiable and hateful, and Obito briefly wavered before reaffirming his resolve.
• Obito asked Sora to destroy the Cursed Seal under a Trading Space contract, offering his Mangekyō Sharingan's ability as a bargaining chip.
• Sora considered the offer but said Obito's bargaining chip was not worth much to him yet, leaving Obito uncertain who else he could trust.

Three months later, Yun brought Yakumo to Naruto’s birthday party, where Naruto found a way for Mini Nine Tails and Shukaku to earn money by letting his friends pet them. In Amegakure, Uzumaki Sora used the Trading Space to summon Kurama and Mini Nine Tails into a simulation of the Fourth Shinobi World War, leaving the two Tailed Beasts testing the space’s rules alongside him.

• Naruto invited Yun to his birthday, and Yun said Yakumo would come with him; Yakumo refused Yun’s suggestion to delay her graduation because she did not want to back down from danger.
• Yun arrived at Minato’s crowded house with Yakumo, Mini Nine Tails, and Shukaku, and gave Naruto a present.
• Naruto persuaded Mini Nine Tails and Shukaku to let his classmates pet them for two thousand ryo each, but the children overwhelmed the Tailed Beasts with attention.
• In Amegakure, Uzumaki Sora activated the Trading Space using Kurama’s Chakra and was transported with Kurama and Mini Nine Tails to a simulation of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Kurama and Mini Nine Tails attacked Sora to test the Trading Space’s rules, but their strikes stopped before reaching him.

Uzumaki Sora showed Nine Tails and Mini Nine Tails a vision of Uchiha Madara using the Rinnegan to summon the Ten-Tails' husk and capture the Tailed Beasts. The pair debated what to trade for, with Mini Nine Tails arguing that they needed Uchiha Yun's help, and they began considering how their different experiences with humans had shaped their trust.

• Uzumaki Sora revealed that the Trading Space viewed Nine Tails and his other half as one entity and showed them a vision of Uchiha Madara summoning the Ten-Tails' husk and chaining the Tailed Beasts.
• Nine Tails asked what they could do to avoid being absorbed into the Ten-Tails and who the golden-haired, blue-eyed boy was, but Sora explained that the future would change and they could not prevent the outcome with what they knew.
• Mini Nine Tails asked for the Akatsuki Organization's hideout location, and Sora said that information was worth one chip while the two halves shared only two chips.
• Mini Nine Tails argued that they needed Uchiha Yun's power to avoid being absorbed, and he and Nine Tails agreed to contribute one chip each before Sora warned them that one chip was far less valuable to him than the other.
• Mini Nine Tails told Nine Tails that accepting humans had made his years with Uchiha Yun the happiest he had experienced in thousands of years, leaving Nine Tails silent before Mini Nine Tails laughed at his crossed-eyed expression.

Uzumaki Sora traded with the Nine Tails and revealed the location of the person who would resurrect Madara Uchiha, along with Naruto’s connection to the Sage of Six Paths’ prophecy. Back in Konoha, Mini Nine Tails reported the trade to Yun, Minato, and Kushina, leaving them to consider Naruto’s role as the Child of Prophecy.

• Mini Nine Tails persuaded the Nine Tails to reconsider its view of humans, and the two Tailed Beasts agreed to trade information with Sora.
• Sora told the Nine Tails that Madara Uchiha’s resurrector was based at the Graveyard Mountains, north of the Land of Iron, and that Naruto was the boy who had played with the Tailed Beasts.
• After the trade, Sora dispersed the illusion of Madara Uchiha and worried about Gamamaru and Hagoromo’s intentions.
• At Naruto’s birthday gathering, Minato and Kushina teased Yun about romance while Naruto listened to their love story and promised to protect Hinata.
• Kushina noticed that the Nine Tails’ Chakra had disappeared from Naruto’s seal, and Minato and Yun realized Sora had traded with the Tailed Beasts.
• Mini Nine Tails returned and told Yun, Minato, and Kushina about the Graveyard Mountains and Naruto’s connection to the Sage of Six Paths’ prophecy.

Minato and Kushina agreed to remove the seal after Naruto chose to trust the Nine Tails and set him free. Naruto opened the seal, and the Nine Tails accepted him as a little brother but remained inside him as Naruto began learning to purify its negative emotions.

• Mini Nine Tails explained that Madara could defeat and seal all Nine Tailed Beasts, and Yun urged Minato to have Shikaku investigate the Akatsuki hideout.
• Mini Nine Tails proposed undoing Naruto's seal, and Yun, Minato, and Naruto persuaded Kushina to accept the risk.
• Minato summoned Gamatora and retrieved the key to Naruto's seal.
• Naruto removed the seal and faced the Nine Tails, which stopped its attack and accepted Naruto as its little brother.
• Mini Nine Tails explained that Naruto needed to purify the Nine Tails' negative emotions and train until their hearts were in sync.

Minato, Yun, and Shikaku planned an urgent mission to investigate the Akatsuki Organization’s possible base in northern Land of Iron and capture the person who resurrected Madara Uchiha. Minato decided they should bring Obito back alive, while Yun insisted that the Uchiha remained part of Konoha.

• Mini Nine Tails tricked Shukaku awake, and the two returned home while Minato and Yun headed to the Hokage Building.
• Yun told Minato that his growing strength could make the Eight Inner Gates far more powerful than Might Duy’s, restoring Minato’s confidence in Konoha’s abilities.
• Shikaku concluded that the Five Great Shinobi Villages needed to be alerted immediately because the Akatsuki Organization might move its base after Uzumaki Sora’s deal revealed its possible location.
• Minato and Yun agreed to travel using Yun’s Flying Thunder God seals, with Kakashi and Hyuga Tokuma joining them to confront the suspected base and scout it.
• Minato ordered Yun to capture Obito alive and hand him over to Inoichi, then suggested keeping Itachi uninformed until the mission was over.
• Yun replied that Fugaku’s Memorial Stone stood in Konoha and that the Uchiha had always been Konoha’s Uchiha.

Uchiha Yun took Kakashi and Tokuma to Kumogakure to deliver intelligence about the Akatsuki’s hideout, but his forceful entrance made the village’s leaders suspect an attack. The chapter ended as Killer B attacked Yun with an Eight-Tails tentacle and Yun caught it with his Susanoo.

• Minato ordered Shikaku to keep Anbu watching Uchiha Izumi’s mission and prioritize her safety.
• Yun met Kakashi and Tokuma at Konoha’s entrance, where Tokuma described the changes he felt after his Caged Bird Seal was removed.
• Yun used the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to take Kakashi and Tokuma to Kumogakure, then led them toward the Raikage’s office while knocking out guards with genjutsu.
• Yun told Yugito Nii that Konoha had intelligence about the Akatsuki’s hideout, and she said Fifth Raikage Darui and Killer B would arrive shortly.
• Darui and Killer B arrived, and Killer B attacked Yun with an Eight-Tails tentacle, which Yun caught with his Susanoo.

Uchiha Yun traveled to Kumogakure and Kirigakure to share intelligence about the Akatsuki Organization and recruit scouts for a mission to the Land of Iron. Kirigakure agreed to send Ao and return his stolen Byakugan, while Yun and his group prepared to visit the remaining villages.

• Uchiha Yun gave Darui intelligence about the Akatsuki Organization and Uzumaki Sora's deal with the Nine Tails, then explained that the villages would send scouts to investigate the Akatsuki's location.
• Yugito joined Yun's group, and Killer B urged Darui to remain patient while he and Gyuki worried about the Tailed Beasts' fate.
• Yun, Yugito, Kakashi, and Tokuma arrived in Kirigakure, where Yun subdued a guard and confronted Ao, Terumi Mei, and Genji.
• Genji recognized Yun's strength and agreed that Kirigakure would return Ao's Byakugan; he assigned Ao to join the mission and apologized to Tokuma on behalf of Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yun led a joint reconnaissance mission to search for the Akatsuki Organization’s hideout, while Genji returned Kirigakure’s Byakugan and named Terumi Mei the Fifth Mizukage. The searchers found no traces until White Zetsu surfaced and was spotted.

• Genji persuaded Kirigakure to return the Byakugan to Konoha, then appointed Terumi Mei the Fifth Mizukage and retired.
• Yun used his Complete Body Susanoo outside Iwagakure to summon Ōnoki, then brought him and representatives from the other villages to an ancient graveyard in the Land of Iron.
• Yun divided the seven shinobi into search parties, assigning them directions based on the two Byakugan and warning them that they could not defeat the Akatsuki if they found its hideout.
• Ōnoki urged the other villages to unite against the threat from Konoha or the Akatsuki, but the others remained silent.
• After the searchers found no traces, White Zetsu emerged from underground and several people spotted him.

Ōnoki, Yugito, Ao, and Baki discovered tens of thousands of White Zetsu beneath the Land of Iron, confirming Uchiha Yun’s warning. After learning the hideout had been exposed, Obito and Black Zetsu prepared to move the clones and decided to confront the approaching forces.

• Ōnoki, Ao, Yugito, and Baki captured and killed a White Zetsu, and Ao used his Byakugan to discover tens of thousands of White Zetsu underground.
• Ōnoki called for Konoha’s shinobi to join them before they decided how to respond to the hidden army.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that the White Zetsu storehouse had been discovered by Ōnoki, Yugito, Ao, and Baki, while another clone had spotted Uchiha Yun, Tokuma Hyuga, and Kakashi.
• Obito blamed Uzumaki Sora for leaking the hideout’s location and learned that White Zetsu had begun moving the clones elsewhere.
• Black Zetsu revealed he had another source of power that could help hold off the enemy, and Obito agreed to go with him.