Recaps

Naruto helped Kazahana Koyuki reclaim the Land of Snow while Sasuke advanced his dragon inheritance and the Jashin Cult investigation took shape. The arc ended with Obito thwarting Black Zetsu’s attempt to revive Madara and heading with Rin to the Land of Hot Water.

• Ao Guang explained the origins of superhumans and gave Naruto a task, then transformed Naruto’s hidden White Eye into a Dragon Ball that began Sasuke’s inheritance.
• Tsunade assigned Naruto and Team 7 to escort Kazahana Koyuki to the Land of Snow, while Hiashi won the Hyuga elders’ support to remove the Caged Bird Seal from branch family members.
• Naruto and Kakashi fought Kazahana Dōtō’s forces, but Sandayu’s followers were betrayed and killed after Naruto deliberately delayed their arrival.
• Naruto promised to help Koyuki reclaim her position, defeated Kazahana Dōtō in a duel, and helped Koyuki activate the Land of Snow’s heating machine.
• Naruto arranged cooperation between Konoha and the Land of Snow, then learned from Kabuto that Orochimaru had investigated the Jashin Cult’s immortality secret.
• Sasuke advanced through the Nine Transformations of the Sacred Dragon and became a Heaven-Swallowing Python, while agreeing to investigate the Jashin Cult with Naruto.
• Black Zetsu forced Obito to begin resurrecting Madara, but Rin freed Obito before he completed the technique.
• Obito, Rin, and Kisame watched Hidan and Kakuzu leave the Jashin Cult altar, then Obito handed Kisame a scroll and departed with Rin.

Naruto’s mission against the Jashin Cult brought him face-to-face with Thanatos, whose attacks killed Anko and Tayuya and left Naruto missing. After recovering and reuniting with Hinata, Naruto trained with Jiraiya, confronted Thanatos again, and resolved to revive his parents.

• Kakashi led Naruto’s team against the Jashin Cult, where Naruto completed the Rasenshuriken and they discovered the pontiff’s ritual had made him immortal.
• Thanatos revealed himself as a god, and Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Obito, Rin, Anko, Tayuya, Sakura, and Sai fought to stop him, and Anko and Tayuya died, and Naruto disappeared with Thanatos.
• Tsunade concealed Naruto’s disappearance while Naruto survived in the Land of the Moon, learned about his past lives and the Demon Dragon Nine Transformations from Ao Guang and Ao Ming, and began training to reclaim Anko’s soul.
• Naruto reunited with Hinata, learned that she remembered a previous life with him, and promised to bring Anko back before joining Jiraiya for training.
• Sasuke and Boruto arrived from the future in Konoha, where Tsunade recognized their origins and allowed them to stay while they waited to return.
• Naruto and Jiraiya tracked Thanatos to the Valley of the Wind and fought him, but he vanished after clashing with their attacks.
• Naruto told Jiraiya he intended to revive Minato and Kushina, explaining that he had prepared to survive the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique and wanted to experience his parents’ love.

Naruto resurrected Minato and Kushina, while the time-displaced visitors and Boruto’s unusual eye revealed a growing threat from Thanatos. At the Land of Rain altar, Naruto and his allies confronted Black Zetsu as the Three Sacred Treasures erupted.

• Naruto completed his fourth transformation, returned to Konoha, and used forbidden techniques to revive Minato and Kushina.
• Naruto reunited with his parents, while Young Sasuke and Boruto met their future selves and Naruto suspected someone had deliberately brought the time travelers to this era.
• Naruto and Sasuke confronted the Mastermind behind the arrivals, then returned home as the Mastermind and an ally planned to awaken the Tenseigan and resurrect Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna.
• A shadow gave Hinata Otsutsuki Toneri’s blood, and Hinata awakened the Tenseigan while Boruto’s mutated White Eye was revealed to perceive hidden spaces and counter yin power.
• Naruto trained Boruto and Sarada, and Boruto’s eye resisted Naruto’s Tsukuyomi while Sarada awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Jiraiya led Naruto, Young Sasuke, and Young Naruto to an altar beneath the Land of Rain, where they found the Three Sacred Treasures and a dangerous black bead suppressing one another.
• Naruto and Jiraiya discovered a vast chamber filled with the corpses of legendary races and concluded that Thanatos was gathering death energy to bring the gods back.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu attacked at the altar, Young Sasuke and Young Naruto revealed their Six Paths powers, and the Three Sacred Treasures erupted as Naruto demanded Thanatos’s location.

Naruto and his allies sealed the Eight-Headed Serpent, then absorbed the Three Sacred Treasures and set out to recover Anko’s soul and confront Thanatos. After rescuing Anko from Death Space, they rejoined Young Naruto against Thanatos as he prepared a devastating attack.

• The Three Sacred Treasures awakened the Eight-Headed Serpent, and Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and their younger counterparts weakened it and sealed it after releasing natural chakra across the world.
• Naruto recovered from the Serpent’s final attack, and three months later he and Sasuke gave Boruto and Sarada powerful new eyes before preparing to confront Thanatos.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata absorbed the Three Sacred Treasures, while Sasuke left Konoha and Naruto said farewell to the Hyuga family.
• Naruto led a mission to recover Anko’s soul, while Jiraiya and the others distracted Thanatos, and Boruto and Sasuke opened a passage into Death Space.
• Naruto and Sasuke found Anko’s soul and Sasuke summoned it, while Young Naruto fought Thanatos outside the death dimension.
• Young Naruto struck Thanatos with a marked Truth-Seeking Orb and a barrage of Rasenshuriken, but Thanatos returned in a stronger form and continued attacking.
• Young Naruto held Thanatos off as his allies escaped, then Naruto and Kurama destroyed the Dark Energy Balls with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, Boruto, and the others returned from Death Space with Anko’s soul, and they combined their powers as Thanatos prepared his fifth Death God’s Scythe Slash.