Recaps

Xuanye humiliated Uchiha Hikari after she asked him for help, and Matatabi warned Yugito that Hikari was far stronger than she seemed. Meanwhile, Konoha’s rapid expansion spread its people, businesses, and ninja training across the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Hikari reluctantly called Xuanye “Onii-chan,” but Xuanye teased her until she screamed insults and ran from the Hokage Office.
• Matatabi warned Yugito not to provoke Uchiha Hikari, revealing that Hikari’s power far exceeded Yugito’s.
• Konoha began using Anbu as the first recipients of the Cursed Seal, while the Security Division assigned new graduates D-rank missions to help maintain order.
• Nara Shikaku and members of Konoha’s clans spread across the Land of Fire to manage the Daimyo’s affairs and open shops, despite Shikaku’s doubts about scattering the clans.
• Konoha opened Ninja Academy branches and evening classes throughout the Land of Fire, training talented children as future ninjas and others as local peacekeepers.

Ōnoki and A watched Konoha’s military buildup with concern but held back from starting a war until they could match Uchiha Genya’s power. Meanwhile, Tsunade fled the Land of Hot Water after casinos blacklisted her, while Kaho tried to persuade her to return to Konoha by invoking her daughter.

• Kakuzu proposed turning death assembly-line jobs into D-rank missions, but Xuanye rejected the idea.
• Ōnoki and A failed to convince their Daimyo to fund their ninja villages, and both avoided starting a war against Konoha.
• Tsunade, Kaho, and their other apprentice fled the Land of Hot Water after Tsunade’s gambling losses made the casinos blacklist her.
• Kaho regularly told Tsunade about Konoha and claimed Xuanye might mistreat her daughter if Tsunade did not return.
• Tsunade criticized Kaho for her loyalty to Xuanye, while Kaho privately acknowledged how much she and her daughter owed him.

Tsunade traveled to the Land of Grass intending to visit Orochimaru, but Anbu stopped her from entering Hozuki Castle without authorization. She was impressed by how strictly Uchiha Genya’s Konoha enforced its chain of command.

• Shizune suggested traveling to the Land of Grass, and Tsunade agreed after recalling that Orochimaru was working there.
• Tsunade’s group reached a seaside town near Hozuki Castle, a Konoha-protected outpost where the Land of Grass funded the stationed troops.
• An Anbu jonin blocked Tsunade’s group from entering the restricted military area and said visitors needed authorization.
• Tsunade asked whether even she and Orochimaru lacked authority to enter, and the Anbu explained that only the Hokage or Anbu leadership could command them.
• Tsunade praised Uchiha Genya’s management after seeing that the Anbu enforced the rules despite her status.

Tsunade visited Orochimaru’s research center at Hozuki Castle with Shizune and Kaho, using Shizune’s Medical Ninjutsu training as a reason to see what Orochimaru had been doing. After confirming that the research subjects were dangerous criminals and rogue ninja, she accepted the use of human experimentation and anticipated seeing the facility’s work.

• An Anbu jonin showed Tsunade the Hokage’s authorization to enter Hozuki Castle, then burned the document after verifying it.
• Tsunade told Shizune that she had brought her and Kaho to practice Medical Ninjutsu on Orochimaru’s experimental subjects, though she mainly wanted to see Orochimaru.
• Tsunade, Shizune, and Kaho traveled by boat to Hozuki Castle under Anbu escort.
• Tsunade observed the castle’s extensive defenses, including Inuzuka and Hyuga guards, Hozuki Clan ninja beneath the water, and buried Explosive Tags.
• Tsunade saw that Hozuki Castle’s prisoners were ninja and violent criminals, and she accepted their use as experimental subjects.

Tsunade entered Orochimaru's clean underground laboratory and found Hidan undergoing brutal experiments. As Orochimaru considered how to push Kabuto to reach his full potential, the chapter left Kabuto's future hanging over a disturbing scheme.

• An Anbu ninja escorted Tsunade, Shizune, and Kaho down to Orochimaru's underground research base.
• Tsunade inspected the laboratory and recognized cells from her grandfather among Orochimaru's specimens.
• Tsunade found Orochimaru experimenting on the captured Hidan, who remained alive despite having his limbs removed and his abdomen opened.
• Orochimaru relied on Kabuto to record the experiment, while knowing Kabuto reported the laboratory's work and funding to Xuanye.
• Orochimaru considered staging a fire at the orphanage and hiding Yakushi Nonō and Kabuto's companions to make Kabuto more driven.

Orochimaru showed Tsunade Hidan’s unusual immortality and regenerative limits, while Kabuto’s research report impressed her. Tsunade offered to take Kabuto as her apprentice.

• Orochimaru cut Hidan and demonstrated how quickly his wound healed, prompting Tsunade to examine his regeneration.
• Hidan claimed that Jashin had granted him an immortal body, and Orochimaru explained that Hidan could survive decapitation but had limited regeneration.
• Kabuto gave Tsunade his report on Hidan’s body, and she was impressed by its reasoning and its research into her Strength of a Hundred Technique.
• Tsunade recognized Kabuto’s potential in medical ninjutsu and offered to teach him as her apprentice.

Tsunade tried to recruit Kabuto, but he refused and reaffirmed his loyalty to Lord Hokage, leaving her more frustrated by Uchiha Genya’s influence over Konoha. Orochimaru then showed Tsunade Hidan and explained his plan to test whether Hidan’s immortality came from a special ability or from the possible existence of Jashin.

• Tsunade tried to poach Kabuto, but Orochimaru intervened and Kabuto declined, saying he would follow Lord Hokage’s orders.
• Kabuto reflected on his punishing training under Orochimaru, his contact with Director Nonō and the orphanage, and the knowledge he hoped to gain.
• Tsunade realized Uchiha Genya had used Kaho and Kabuto to weaken her resolve to stay away from Konoha.
• Orochimaru offered to show Tsunade his laboratory, but Hidan insulted her until Kabuto gagged him.
• Orochimaru explained that he wanted to use Lord Hokage’s illusion technique to change Hidan’s faith and determine whether Jashin truly existed.

Tsunade joined Orochimaru to examine Xuanye’s Astartes super-soldier plan, which relied on extreme body modifications and research into immortality. She remained skeptical but agreed that she and Orochimaru might achieve its first stages, then chose Hidan as a practice subject for her students.

• Tsunade agreed to use Hidan for medical practice after Orochimaru explained that he could not feel pain.
• Orochimaru told Tsunade that Xuanye had given him research into her Strength of a Hundred Technique and wanted her help with his experiments.
• Orochimaru described Xuanye’s influence in Konoha as he tried to persuade Tsunade to consider returning.
• Tsunade read Xuanye’s Astartes Super-Soldier Cultivation Program and questioned whether it could produce fighters stronger than Kage Level.
• Tsunade decided her two students would practice on Hidan, who shouted in protest as she approached.

Xuanye learned that Konoha’s rapid development had drained its finances, while nobles in the Land of Fire refused to pay the taxes he demanded through the Daimyo Mansion. He summoned Konoha’s senior officials and announced a crackdown on the nobles, backed by the Daimyo’s authorization.

• Kakuzu told Xuanye that Konoha had run out of money, and Xuanye rejected his suggestion to raid a small country.
• Xuanye learned that the Daimyo Mansion had no more funds to provide and concluded that some nobles were refusing to pay taxes.
• Xuanye summoned department heads and accused unnamed parties outside Konoha of disloyalty.
• Xuanye presented a list of nobles who had disrespected the Daimyo and refused taxes, and ordered that they be dealt with severely.
• Hozuki Takigawa volunteered to kill the traitors, and Hizashi Hyuga pledged the Hyuga Branch Family to carry out Xuanye’s order.

Xuanye rallied Konoha’s clans for an operation to seize control of the Land of Fire, using Sarutobi Hiruzen as the scapegoat for attacks on the nobles. He assigned Shinobi to pose as rogue ninja or conduct rescue and garrison operations, then sent them to draw their missions.

• Hiashi and the other clan leaders pledged to obey Xuanye, while Yamanaka Inoichi asked whether they needed someone to take the blame.
• Xuanye declared that Sarutobi Hiruzen would be blamed for attacking nobles and devised a story that cast Konoha as their protector.
• Xuanye presented mission scrolls, assigning half the Shinobi to impersonate rogue ninja and attack nobles while the rest handled rescues and local garrisons.
• Xuanye required the attackers to capture the nobles’ principal figures for questioning and avoid wiping out a family’s main line.
• Fugaku and Hiashi accepted that their clans would handle the public rescue and garrison work, while Hozuki Longchuan and Yuki Huan drew rogue ninja assignments.

Xuanye’s mission stripped corrupt nobles of their hidden wealth while Konoha took control of their estates and placed their heirs under its protection. Sarutobi Hiruzen’s reputation was further ruined by a fabricated rumor, and the young heirs were left hating the Shinobi managing their families’ holdings.

• Xuanye told Hozuki Longchuan and the others to avoid using their clan techniques unless necessary and to conceal any evidence.
• Rogue Ninja attacked noble households across the Land of Fire, while Konoha secretly captured powerful nobles and interrogated them.
• Morino Ibiki’s interrogation frightened the nobles into confessing their tax evasion, concealed income, and bribes, and Konoha seized their hidden wealth.
• Rumors blamed Sarutobi Hiruzen for the attacks and claimed he ate children, leaving him furious but unable to defend himself.
• Uchiha Genya announced that Konoha would protect noble heirs, and Konoha Shinobi pressured them into signing agreements that placed their estates under Konoha’s management.
• The young heirs watched Konoha’s Shinobi take over their homes with fear and hatred, while Xuanye treated them as tools for making the takeover legally defensible.

Konoha tightened its control over the Land of Fire while the young Daimyo suspected Uchiha Genya of murdering his family and decided to act. Meanwhile, Orochimaru convinced Xuanye to use an Illusion Technique to trap Kabuto, who sensed danger but did not know what was planned.

• Konoha replaced dead nobles with compliant heirs and expanded its hold over the Land of Fire, assigning Shinobi to manage cities and finances.
• The young Daimyo suspected Uchiha Genya had killed his family and resolved to make a decision about his worsening situation.
• Tsunade visited Konoha with her apprentices while Orochimaru brought Xuanye a plan to force Kabuto to take his work seriously.
• Xuanye approved Orochimaru's plan to put Kabuto under an Illusion Technique when he returned, and Orochimaru promised to make the trap convincing.
• Kabuto felt an impending disaster but believed that diligent work would keep him safe.

Tsunade toured a prosperous, expanding Konoha and saw how Uchiha Genya had transformed the village. When she asked to visit the casino, Anko told her Genya would not pay for gambling, and Tsunade angrily cursed him as Security Division patrols chose to ignore her.

• Tsunade toured Konoha with Shizune and admired its new shops, growing population, and thriving businesses.
• Tsunade saw Konoha's expanded Security Division patrolling the streets and learned how Genya's policies had made the village safer and wealthier.
• Mitaraishi Anko met Tsunade and said the Hokage Office would cover her expenses while showing her around.
• Tsunade asked Anko to take her to the village casino, but Anko said Genya would not cover gambling.
• Tsunade cursed Genya, and the Security Division patrol that approached her pretended not to hear.

Tsunade toured Konoha with Hong Dou and saw how Uchiha Genya had developed the village before meeting him at the Hokage Office. Genya appointed her head of the Medical Department and Konoha Hospital, and Tsunade left the appointment unrefused as he declared she had already decided to return.

• Hong Dou explained that Konoha had increased patrols to watch for spies and troublemakers, and Tsunade praised Uchiha Genya's reputation as Hokage.
• Hong Dou showed Tsunade, Shizune, and Kaho Konoha's new shops, food stalls, and water park, while Tsunade bought souvenirs and sampled treats.
• Hong Dou reminded Tsunade that Genya was waiting, and Tsunade sent Shizune and Kaho to the hotel before going to see him alone.
• Genya gave Tsunade an appointment scroll naming her head of the Medical Department and placing Konoha Hospital and several institutions under her.
• Tsunade recalled how Sarutobi Hiruzen had dismissed her medical reforms over funding, while Genya promised to give her what the Third had not.
• Genya said Tsunade's visit meant she had decided to return, and she kept the appointment document instead of rejecting it.

Xuanye discussed Tsunade’s role in Konoha, offered her Yakushi Nonō as a medical assistant, and hinted at his ambitions for the coming era. The chapter left Tsunade listening as Xuanye declared the Daimyo and nobles useless and said greatness required sacrifice.

• Tsunade asked Xuanye for the Hokage Assistant position and Kabuto, but he explained the role would have little authority and that Orochimaru was best suited to train Kabuto.
• Xuanye offered Tsunade an exceptionally skilled former Root agent as an assistant, and Tsunade agreed to observe her while insisting that her Medical Department’s funding remain intact.
• Tsunade asked Xuanye about the rumors surrounding Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Xuanye pointed out that his actions funded her department.
• Xuanye asked whether he could trust Tsunade, then described an approaching new era in which the Daimyo and nobles would be swept aside as useless.

Xuanye told Tsunade he planned to abolish the nobility and unite the Ninja World under Konoha, insisting that his ambitions surpassed those of every Hokage. After leaving the Hokage Building, Tsunade worried that his plan could plunge the world into chaos unless he built enough strength and support to govern it.

• Xuanye told Tsunade that noble families had to pay for generations of privilege and that the old order had no place in the future.
• Xuanye asked Tsunade to help Konoha prepare for the wars ahead and declared that Konoha would spread its banner across the world.
• Tsunade noticed Xuanye's face was absent from Kage Rock, and he said the monument was unworthy of him and that future Hokage would be proud he had once held the office.
• Xuanye declared that the Ninja World had never been united and that he would stand above the heavens.
• Tsunade reflected that destroying the villages would restore the chaos of the Warring States Period, and concluded that unification required preserving Konoha's strength and maintaining order among civilians.
• Tsunade realized Xuanye was strengthening Konoha for a coming war, which seemed likely to break out soon even if he did not provoke it.

Tsunade visited Konoha’s Finance Department to obtain money after becoming head of the Medical Department, only to discover that Kakuzu ran the department and that she needed approval for funding. She left empty-handed and furious at Uchiha Genya for assigning Yakushi Nonō to oversee her spending.

• Tsunade recognized Kakuzu as the head of Konoha’s Finance Department and lowered her fist after he warned that any injuries would come out of her salary.
• Kakuzu explained that Uchiha Genya had recruited him and showed Tsunade that the Medical Department and Konoha Hospital had a quarterly budget of two billion ryō.
• Kakuzu told Tsunade that Yakushi Nonō had to review every resource request and would serve as her deputy alongside managing the Konoha Orphanage.
• Tsunade learned that Nonō was Kabuto’s adoptive mother and had taught him the basics of Medical Ninjutsu.
• Tsunade left without money, complained to Shizune that Uchiha Genya did not trust her, and headed off in anger.

Tsunade returned to Konoha, established its Medical Department, and introduced medical training at the Ninja Academy as Konoha consolidated its growing power. Sasuke and Boruto then arrived from the future, finding a transformed Konoha while pursuing Urashiki Otsutsuki, who was targeting the Nine-Tails.

• Tsunade went to her accommodations after Shizune told her that Kaho had visited the Uchiha compound and that a welcome banquet was planned.
• After Tsunade got drunk, Konoha High Command postponed the banquet until the next day and welcomed her return and appointment.
• Tsunade established the Medical Department and added fine chakra control to the Ninja Academy curriculum, creating a path for promising students to train as medical Shinobi.
• Xuanye and Konoha consolidated their territory and resources as Konoha's Shinobi numbers and Anbu strength grew, prompting Ōnoki to consider following Xuanye's example.
• Sasuke and Boruto arrived in the past while pursuing Urashiki Otsutsuki, who intended to capture the Nine-Tails and use its power to return to their time.
• Sasuke and Boruto found that Konoha had grown into a modern city where Shinobi escorts and anti-bandit operations kept trade routes safe.

Sasuke and Boruto learned they had arrived in the fifty-third year of Konoha, after the Nine-Tails Incident and around the time Orochimaru was expected to defect. Sasuke weighed the danger of approaching young Naruto in a village that might oppose him and prepared Boruto for the possibility of taking Naruto away by force.

• Konoha's campaign against bandits and Rogue Ninja left the merchant caravan confident as it traveled under Shinobi escort.
• Sasuke asked the merchants for the year and learned it was the fifty-third year of Konoha.
• Boruto realized Sasuke's family would still have been alive at that time, and Sasuke told him to shut up.
• Sasuke considered Konoha's weakened defenses, Danzo's likely interference, and the risk that Urashiki could seize the Nine-Tails during a confrontation.
• Sasuke told Boruto they might have to take Naruto from Konoha by force, and Boruto eagerly asked what Naruto had been like as a child.
• Sasuke said Naruto had been a troublemaker and ranked last in his Ninja Academy class, leaving Boruto wondering whether his father had lied to him.

Sasuke and Boruto posed as wandering Shinobi and tried to enter Konoha, where a new security scanner detected Sasuke’s Kusanagi Sword. After the gate guards summoned the Security Division, Sasuke was stunned to see the Uchiha force working alongside Shinobi from other clans.

• Sasuke told Boruto to pose as his son while they entered Konoha as tourists.
• At the village gates, Kotetsu Hagane and Kamizuki Izumo required Sasuke and Boruto to register as Shinobi and fill out forms.
• Kotetsu Hagane scanned Sasuke and Boruto with a device developed by Orochimaru’s Research Department, and it detected Sasuke’s Kusanagi Sword.
• Sasuke refused to surrender the sword, so Kotetsu Hagane and Kamizuki Izumo secretly sounded the alarm.
• A Security Division squad surrounded Sasuke and Boruto, and Sasuke saw that Uchiha Shinobi served alongside a Hyuga and a civilian chunin.
• Sasuke wondered what had changed in Konoha, the Uchiha clan, and Orochimaru’s standing in the village.

Sasuke and Boruto were stopped by Konoha's Security Division, and Sasuke's immense Chakra triggered a village-wide lockdown. As Konoha's Shinobi mobilized, a powerful Chakra surge erupted from the Hokage's office.

• Boruto urged Sasuke to avoid fighting the Uchiha Jonin and the gathering Security Division squad.
• The Uchiha Jonin recognized Sasuke's Kusanagi Sword and learned that Orochimaru had once been Sasuke's teacher.
• A Hyuga Shinobi detected Sasuke's vast Chakra and warned the Uchiha Jonin to notify the Hokage.
• The Uchiha Jonin sounded the alarm, sending Konoha's residents to shelters and placing the village under lockdown.
• Sasuke considered escaping with Amenotejikara as an immense surge of Chakra erupted from the Hokage's office.

Xuanye confronted Sasuke and Boruto after they arrived in his era, and Sasuke revealed that they had come from the future. Xuanye brought them before Konoha’s leadership, where Fugaku recognized Sasuke as his future son.

• Xuanye considered attacking the Akatsuki for Nagato’s Rinnegan, but Konoha’s alarm interrupted him.
• Xuanye teleported to the village gate and found adult Sasuke and Boruto facing Konoha’s ninja.
• Xuanye recognized the visitors as time travelers and suspected that Otsutsuki Urashiki had come with them.
• Sasuke identified himself as an Uchiha from the future and explained that he and Boruto had traveled through time.
• Xuanye brought Sasuke and Boruto to a meeting with Konoha’s leaders, and Fugaku recognized Sasuke as his son.
• Fugaku brought young Sasuke and Naruto to meet the visitors, and the boys stared at their older counterparts in confusion.

Sasuke explained that he had traveled from the future and warned that the Ōtsutsuki were hunting Naruto, but Uchiha Genya refused to hand over the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Genya then confronted Sasuke with a vision of Uchiha Itachi.

• Orochimaru compared Sasuke's Kusanagi Sword with his own and concluded that Sasuke was likely from the future.
• Sasuke warned Fugaku and Uchiha Genya that the Ōtsutsuki were powerful outsiders who posed a threat to Naruto.
• Uchiha Genya refused Sasuke's request to take Naruto, saying he did not believe Sasuke was strong enough to face the enemy.
• Uchiha Genya used a strange gesture that made everyone disappear, leaving Sasuke facing Uchiha Itachi seated on a throne.

Xuanye used an illusion to expose Sasuke’s deepest fear and unsettle him, then challenged Sasuke’s confidence in his Rinnegan. Sasuke realized the eye had been given to him by the Sage of Six Paths rather than awakened through his own power.

• Xuanye ended Mirror Flower, Water Moon, leaving Sasuke shaken by an illusion of Itachi and uncertain whether his reality was genuine.
• Fugaku and Itachi reassured Sasuke that Xuanye had played a trick, but Sasuke grew wary of Xuanye’s ability to affect him despite his Rinnegan and Eternal Mangekyō.
• Xuanye dismissed the others from the Hokage Office, while Fugaku stayed with young Sasuke and Naruto.
• Xuanye told Sasuke not to rely on an eye that was not truly his and pointed out that Sasuke could not turn off his Rinnegan.
• Sasuke recognized that the Sage of Six Paths had given him the Rinnegan, unlike Madara, who had awakened his own and could switch it on and off.

Sasuke told Xuanye about Urashiki Otsutsuki’s dangerous abilities, and Xuanye decided to use Naruto as bait to trap him. Sasuke agreed to cooperate on the condition that Konoha help him return to his own time, while Xuanye claimed Urashiki’s body and Rinnegan.

• Xuanye used his Illusion Technique to subdue Sasuke, who acknowledged him as Hokage and agreed to share what he knew.
• Sasuke explained that Urashiki could rewind time, travel through space, and steal Chakra, ninjutsu, and Kekkei Genkai with his fishing rod.
• Sasuke warned Xuanye to move Naruto, Yugito, and Hong Dou somewhere safe because Urashiki would target them.
• Xuanye refused to hide Naruto and planned to use him as bait, confident Konoha could defeat Urashiki.
• Xuanye claimed Urashiki’s body and Rinnegan after the battle, and Sasuke agreed in exchange for the Flying Shuttle back to his own time.