Chapter Summaries

Ye learned that Plow was hidden beneath Konoha and returned from the Land of Wind with Urashiki captured. He brought Urashiki into the Hokage's Office during preparations for the Chunin Ninja Exams, where Sasuke, Naruto, and Minato reacted with alarm while Obito dismissed the threat.

• Urashiki confessed that Plow was beneath Konoha and that he had gone to the Land of Wind to capture Tailed Beasts.
• Ye kicked Urashiki, sealed him in a scroll, and sent a message to the Kazekage saying he was leaving for urgent business in Konoha.
• Ye returned to Konoha by Railcar and went directly to the Hokage's Office, where Naruto and the others were discussing security for the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Ye released the injured, sealed Urashiki onto the office floor, prompting Sasuke, Naruto, and Minato to ready themselves for a fight.
• Obito told Sasuke to put away his sword and said Urashiki was like a stray dog in Ye's hands.

Ye captured Urashiki to find the Plow, a space-time artifact that could return him and the others to their original timeline. Urashiki revealed its location beneath Konoha, but as the group found the artifact, he broke through part of his seal and prepared to act.

• Ye reminded Minato and Naruto that they needed to return to their own timeline, then forced Urashiki to reveal the Plow's location.
• Urashiki gave underground coordinates, and Shikamaru identified the site as Konoha's Research Department storage facility.
• Ye and the others took Urashiki to the warehouse, where Urashiki spotted the turtle-shaped Plow.
• While everyone's attention was on the Plow, Urashiki broke a gap in his sealing chains and laughed at them.

Urashiki tried to escape with the Stone Tortoise, but Ye trapped him in a Mangekyō genjutsu and exposed his escape as an illusion. After learning Momoshiki and Kinshiki would attack Konoha in half a month, Ye gave Naruto time to prepare and left Urashiki for interrogation.

• Urashiki used a spatial rift and his fishing line to seize the Stone Tortoise, then threatened Naruto and Sasuke with Momoshiki and Kinshiki’s coming attack.
• Ye’s Mangekyō genjutsu shattered Urashiki’s illusion of escape and left him pinned in the corridor, where he broke down in fear.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and the others realized Ye had controlled Urashiki’s perception without moving.
• Ye recovered the Stone Tortoise and gave it to Minato, while keeping the Plow.
• Ye questioned Urashiki, who revealed Momoshiki and Kinshiki would arrive in Konoha in half a month to target the Nine-Tails.
• Ye told Naruto to hand Urashiki to Sasuke and the Interrogation Department, and Naruto agreed to prepare for the invasion.

Naruto and Sasuke confined Urashiki, whose lingering Genjutsu-induced terror drove him to reveal the Otsutsuki’s plans and abilities. The chapter ended with them realizing Momoshiki could absorb and return ninjutsu, forcing Konoha to rethink its prepared attacks.

• Sasuke chained Urashiki to a sealed interrogation chair while Naruto raised a barrier to contain Chakra fluctuations.
• Urashiki, trapped in Ye’s lingering Genjutsu, injured himself and begged Naruto and Sasuke to stop torturing him.
• Urashiki confessed that Momoshiki and Kinshiki would arrive in a few days and revealed their fighting methods, Chakra traits, tactics, and weaknesses.
• Urashiki offered the Stone Tortoise Plow and argued that Konoha needed him alive to return to its original time-space.
• Naruto and Sasuke read Urashiki’s report that Momoshiki’s palm Rinnegan could absorb ninjutsu, amplify it, and return it, threatening most conventional attacks.

Naruto and Sasuke prepared the villages for an Otsutsuki attack by sharing intelligence about Momoshiki’s ability to absorb Ninjutsu. Half a month later, Boruto won his Chunin Exams match through Taijutsu, just as Momoshiki and Kinshiki appeared above the venue and encountered a prepared, unpanicked crowd.

• Naruto sent Sasuke’s intelligence about Momoshiki’s palm eye to the other villages and ordered an urgent revision of the ambush plan.
• At the Joint Chunin Exams, Minato noticed the venue’s physical projectile defenses, and Boruto entered his match without the Scientific Ninja Tool.
• Boruto defeated a Hidden Cloud Genin by using pure Taijutsu to break through fire and lightning attacks.
• The crowd celebrated Boruto’s victory before a spatial rift opened above the venue and Momoshiki and Kinshiki appeared.
• The Five Kage and the villages’ forces calmly initiated their defenses and moved spectators to shelters, while Momoshiki raised his palm eye to absorb any Chakra used below.

Naruto and the Five Kage ambushed Momoshiki and Kinshiki with physical artillery, then transported the battered Otsutsuki to the moon. Naruto and Sasuke began fighting them while Ye and the others watched, and Kinshiki immediately smashed through the Kage’s defenses.

• Naruto ordered Konoha’s hidden anti-aircraft guns to fire on Momoshiki and Kinshiki, whose Rinnegan could not absorb the chakra-free shells.
• Minato activated a Flying Thunder God array that transported the falling Otsutsuki from the venue to a wasteland, while Naruto’s Shadow Clone told the audience the attack was a fireworks display.
• Sasuke opened a portal to the moon, and the Five Kage, Naruto, and Sasuke pursued Momoshiki and Kinshiki through it.
• Naruto and Sasuke asked Ye, Minato, and the others to let them handle the fight, and Ye agreed to watch.
• Kinshiki formed a giant axe and charged the Five Kage, shattering the Tsuchikage’s rock wall and the Kazekage’s sand shield and knocking both Kage away.

Ye and the other five fighters defeated Momoshiki and Kinshiki after the Otsutsuki overwhelmed the Five Kage and their allies. With Momoshiki broken in a deep crater, Ye activated the Stone Tortoise, the Plow, to return home.

• Momoshiki and Kinshiki outmatched the six fighters from this timeline, and Kinshiki struck Naruto while Momoshiki nearly killed Sasuke.
• Ye ended the test, and Obito, Kakashi, Minato, Kushina, and Rin joined the battle to trap the Otsutsuki and break Kinshiki's axe.
• Momoshiki sacrificed Kinshiki, ate the resulting scarlet fruit, and transformed, but Ye disabled his energy absorption with Takemikazuchi.
• Rin and Kushina restrained Momoshiki as Obito and Minato enabled Kakashi to sever his hand, then Ye drove him deep into the moon with Amenominaka.
• Ye took out the Stone Tortoise, the Plow, and activated its time-space pulse to return home.

Ye and the others returned to their own time after defeating Momoshiki, arriving at the Loulan Ancient City Ruins. Minato chose to keep their knowledge of the Otsutsuki threat instead of sealing their memories, and the group raced back toward Konoha.

• Naruto thanked Minato for his role in the future, while Sasuke silently bid farewell to Kakashi and Obito.
• Ye used Urashiki's Chakra to activate the Plow and transport himself, Minato, Kakashi, Obito, Rin, and Kushina away from the moon.
• The group arrived at the Loulan Ancient City Ruins in the Land of Wind and realized they had returned to their own time.
• Minato began forming a Sealing Jutsu to erase their memories of the future, but stopped after recalling the Otsutsuki's overwhelming power.
• Minato declared that they would keep the information and hurried with the others toward Konoha, while Kushina held his sleeve as they ran.

After learning from Minato that the Otsutsuki were real and would return, Konoha's leaders considered how to prepare for their overwhelming power. Minato rejected reliance on cooperation among the nations and declared that Konoha would unify the Shinobi World under its authority.

• Minato summoned ancient texts and told Fugaku and Orochimaru about the Sage of Six Paths, the God Tree, and the Otsutsuki they had encountered in the future.
• Fugaku urged Konoha to strengthen its defenses and convene a Five Kage Summit to share the threat with the other nations.
• Minato argued that the nations' mistrust made an alliance inadequate and announced that Konoha would abandon its former strategy of balance.
• Minato declared that he would unify the Shinobi World by forcing the other nations' resources and strength under Konoha's command.
• Fugaku and Orochimaru were shocked by Minato's resolve, while Ye welcomed the change and watched his system points increase.

Minato laid out how Konoha could secure food, funding, and equipment for a war to unite the continent against the Otsutsuki. He left Orochimaru with unlimited Marrowstone Sand and ordered Kakashi and Obito to buy up strategic supplies in other nations’ Black Markets.

• Minato revealed Konoha’s geothermal farms could produce enough food to withstand blockades and prolonged war.
• Fugaku questioned how Konoha could fund a large-scale war, and Minato showed him a ledger of cash earned by selling old grain to the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.
• Minato ordered unrestricted mining of Marrowstone Sand in the Land of Birds and promised Orochimaru an unlimited supply for equipment development.
• Minato ordered Kakashi and Obito to use Konoha’s new funds to buy all Explosive Tag materials and Chakra-Conductive Metal in the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water.
• Orochimaru welcomed Minato’s demand to rapidly produce transitional enhanced defense equipment.

The Land of Fire’s Daimyō tried to punish Konoha for its financial independence, then conspired with the four other great villages to attack it and replace Minato Namikaze. He ended the chapter celebrating in luxury, unaware that his threats had little power over Konoha.

• The Daimyō ordered Konoha’s military funding and supplies cut off, though he and his ministers knew Konoha had become financially independent.
• The Daimyō contacted Ōnoki, A, Rasa, and Yagura through a Chakra Water Mirror and offered territory, mines, and tax revenue in exchange for an attack on Konoha.
• A agreed to join the attack, Rasa offered three thousand Sunagakure troops, Yagura pledged Kirigakure’s help, and Ōnoki proposed sending envoys to test Konoha first.
• After the Water Mirror call ended, the Daimyō returned to the main hall and ordered the music and dancing to resume as attendants restored the room.

The Daimyō cut off Konoha’s funding and supplies while refugees froze outside his mansion, prompting Minato to declare Konoha fiscally independent. As Ye monitored the Daimyō and the Four Great Ninja Villages, their agents arrived at the Land of Fire’s border with permits to infiltrate Konoha.

• The Daimyō raised taxes and withheld food from refugees while indulging in luxury, then ordered Konoha’s military funding and trade supplies suspended.
• Fugaku urged Minato to negotiate and cut expenses, but Minato rejected the Daimyō’s edict and drafted the Konoha Complete Fiscal Independence Act.
• Minato signed the act and declared Konoha completely fiscally independent, ordering the village to proceed immediately.
• Ye learned that Obito had secured funds and mineral resources and that twelve spies from Iwa, Cloud, Sand, and Mist were approaching Konoha disguised as a royal merchant caravan.
• At a border relay station, a Daimyō envoy gave the twelve agents travel permits that would let them bypass checkpoints and survey Konoha’s defenses.

Ye monitored twelve disguised foreign spies infiltrating Konoha and let them discover convincing false evidence of the village’s shortages and failed projects. After Ye’s forces captured the Iwagakure team and replaced them with White Zetsu, the other spies escaped with fabricated intelligence, leaving Konoha’s secrets secure.

• An Iwagakure jonin used a Daimyō Mansion travel permit to get twelve disguised spies through Konoha’s gate without inspection, then ordered them to split up and gather intelligence.
• Ye watched the spies’ movements from the Strategic Investment Department and allowed the Sunagakure team to photograph an empty granary, unaware that Konoha’s real geothermal farm was hidden elsewhere.
• The Iwagakure team entered Orochimaru’s laboratory and photographed blueprints marked as a failed project before Ye and the White Zetsu captured them and copied their appearances.
• Fugaku used his Mangekyo to show the Kirigakure spies an illusion of Minato and Konoha’s officials lamenting their lack of money and supplies.
• The Kirigakure spies retreated believing they had seen Konoha’s true condition, while Fugaku dismissed their false impression.

Obito and Ye used White Zetsu to feed false intelligence to the Daimyō and the four villages, setting the stage for a coming war against Konoha. Meanwhile, Konoha’s geothermal farms defeated the food blockade, and the village began feeding refugees as the Daimyō’s subjects suffered in the snow.

• Obito captured twelve Hidden Cloud spies, and White Zetsu took their identities to spread fabricated reports of Konoha’s collapse.
• Ye sent twelve Specialized White Zetsu Clones back as the envoys, ordering them to return wounded so the Four Kage would believe their intelligence.
• The Daimyō believed the reports, ordered a three-day feast, and refused to release grain to starving refugees.
• The Daimyō’s carriages ran down and whipped refugees while carrying tribute animals through the snowy streets.
• Orochimaru, Minato, and Fugaku inspected Konoha’s geothermal farm, where wheat, rice, and sweet potatoes grew despite the blockade.
• Konoha prepared rice and meat for refugees, serving food in a peaceful line on Commercial Street.

Konoha kept its people fed and prepared to draw the allied forces of the Four Great Villages into a trap while Obito bought up weapons and military supplies across the region. The chapter ended with Obito offering a Kirigakure black-market shopkeeper three times the market price for everything in his warehouse.

• Kushina and Mikoto served food to Konoha residents as Ye and Kakashi watched, and Ye said the Daimyō Mansion expected Konoha to starve.
• Minato burned the Daimyō Mansion’s Famine Decree, and Obito reported that he had emptied Kirigakure’s black market of weapons and materials.
• Ye ordered Obito to buy military supplies in the Land of Lightning at double market price, aiming to cripple the other villages’ production.
• Minato and Ye discussed luring the Four Great Villages’ main forces to Konoha after their military supply lines failed.
• The daimyō boasted that the allied armies would destroy Konoha within three days while starving peasants froze outside his mansion.
• Obito displayed cases of gold to a Kirigakure weapons-shop owner and offered three times the market price for everything in the warehouse.

Obito bought the island’s entire supply of Explosive Tag materials and secured the shopkeeper’s promise to cut off Kirigakure. Kakashi seized a stockpile of Chakra-Conductive Metal in the Land of Lightning and planted false evidence implicating Ōnoki and Iwagakure.

• Obito paid the shopkeeper five times the goods’ value for every Explosive Tag-related material on the island and signed an exclusive supply contract.
• The shopkeeper emptied his warehouse, signed the contract, and promised not to withhold goods or reveal the deal.
• Kakashi inspected over a hundred crates of Chakra-Conductive Metal at a black market money house in the Land of Lightning.
• When the money house boss and his men tried to rob him, Kakashi used a lightning-fast sword strike to sever their blades and subdued the boss with a genjutsu.
• Kakashi implanted a false memory that Land of Earth warlords had sent the metal to Iwagakure, then had Konoha ANBU move the ore.

Ye and his allies used White Zetsu infiltration, stolen supplies, and false intelligence to provoke the Four Great Ninja Villages into attacking Konoha. As the villages’ forces converged on the Land of Fire, Ye ordered Orochimaru to accelerate preparations for the trap.

• Obito’s buying spree emptied the Black Markets of the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, and the seized materials were sent to Orochimaru’s laboratory to speed Chakra Armor production.
• Ye ordered Tobi to buy up the remaining supplies owned by corrupt officials and turn the materials into weapons to send back against them.
• White Zetsu infiltrators spread false reports and forged evidence across the Four Great Ninja Villages, deepening distrust between them.
• Ōnoki learned Iwagakure’s reserves had been secretly sold off and the Black Market was empty, then ordered his army to invade Konoha for supplies.
• Ye saw the Four Great Ninja Villages’ forces advancing toward the Land of Fire and told Tobi to inform Orochimaru to accelerate preparations.

After reports revealed Konoha's shortages and internal unrest, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and the Land of Fire's daimyō prepared to exploit the crisis and attack. Beneath Konoha, Ye and Minato watched their plans unfold, with Minato revealing that the other powers were walking into a trap.

• Ōnoki received reports of Konoha's food shortage and unrest, dismissed Kitsuchi's doubts, and ordered Iwagakure's forces to advance on every front.
• Raikage A learned that Konoha was short on food and ordered Darui to lead a thousand troops through the Land of Hot Water toward Konoha's northeastern defenses.
• The Land of Fire's daimyō celebrated the mobilization of four villages, expecting to weaken Konoha and force Minato Namikaze to beg for supplies.
• A pale humanoid creature watched the daimyō's celebration from beneath the palace.
• Ye and Minato watched footage of the enemy leaders' plans in Konoha's underground command room, and Minato said they were standing in a trap.

Minato and Konoha’s leaders staged a public panic to deceive the Land of Fire Daimyō’s spies while secretly preparing for war. When Hidden Cloud’s thousand-man vanguard approached, Minato declared a counteroffensive and prepared to lead the forces into the Land of Lightning.

• Fugaku reported that the Uchiha combat force had mobilized and Minato ordered a lockdown drill to make Konoha appear to be in chaos.
• The Daimyō’s spies witnessed the staged panic and sent a report that Konoha was weakened.
• Kushina oversaw the loading of Konoha’s extensive weapons and supplies as an ANBU delivered word that Hidden Cloud’s vanguard had advanced.
• Tobi reported that Darui was leading a thousand Hidden Cloud shinobi toward Konoha’s northeastern defenses.
• Minato donned his Hokage Haori, ordered a counteroffensive, and said he would lead the force through the Land of Lightning’s defenses using Flying Thunder God.
• The Land of Fire Daimyō celebrated the false report of Konoha’s weakness, unaware that Minato had placed the village on Level One combat readiness.

Darui led a thousand Hidden Cloud shinobi into a supposedly undefended valley, unaware that Ye and Konoha’s Special Defense Force had prepared an ambush. After the traps devastated the vanguard, Darui rallied the survivors to attack the cliffs.

• Darui dismissed Konoha’s defenses and led the Hidden Cloud force toward Kawamachi Akiha Town to loot it.
• Sato Ken and the Special Defense Force hid above the valley in their Chakra Armor as Ye watched the enemy enter the trap.
• Ye ordered his forces to close the trap and set off the explosives.
• Energy-Concentrating Bombs detonated through the valley, killing dozens of Hidden Cloud shinobi and leaving Darui’s force in chaos.
• Darui rallied hundreds of survivors, who combined their Lightning Release attacks against the cliffs.