Recaps

Naruto assembled a four-person squad to confront the mastermind behind the alien threat, while Deidara prepared to leave Iwagakure and face the danger. After warning Kurotsuchi to begin evacuations if the squad failed to return, Deidara donned his Akatsuki cloak and departed.

• Sasori volunteered to represent Sunagakure, and Naruto named himself, Sasuke, Deidara, and Sasori as the decapitation squad.
• Gaara warned Naruto not to underestimate the unknown enemy, while Darui concealed a strange expression as he stayed behind.
• Deidara and Kurotsuchi discussed the Jashinist Cult’s expansion and learned that Haimā and Klee were settling in well in Konoha.
• Deidara told Kurotsuchi to evacuate Battle City if the squad did not return, but she rejected his defeatist words and urged him to stay confident.
• Deidara put on his old Akatsuki cloak, recalled Nan’s words about dawn following the dark night, and left for battle.

Deidara prepared to join Naruto, Sasuke, and Sasori in a mission against the aliens, while Iwagakure’s people and Ōnoki acknowledged him and wished him victory. The four entered Sasuke’s space-time passage, as Darui weighed a decision at a hidden Kumogakure position and Demiurge approached him with a whisper.

• Deidara reunited with Sasori, Naruto, and Sasuke outside Iwagakure and wore his old Akatsuki robe; Sasori put one on too.
• Ōnoki tried to join the mission, but Deidara insisted he stay behind as Iwagakure’s residents gathered to see them off.
• Akatsuchi and the villagers knelt and wished Ōnoki victory, and Naruto told Deidara to take time to say goodbye to the people who acknowledged him.
• Deidara calmed the villagers and Ōnoki, then joined Sasori, Naruto, and Sasuke as Sasuke opened a space-time passage and the four stepped through.
• At a hidden Kumogakure forward position, Darui considered a decision as his guard Demiurge approached and whispered to him.

Demiurge and Darui advanced a plan tied to the Jashinist Cult, while Ōnoki watched Deidara depart and regretted his future role in creating dangerous weapons. After their failed attempt to stop Naruto, Obito and Black Zetsu decided to seek out Lord Jashin, and Obito joined Hidan’s cult to learn its ritual.

• Darui approved Demiurge’s plan, and Demiurge flew away from the battlefield.
• Ōnoki watched Deidara leave with Naruto, Sasuke, and Sasori, then blamed himself for future forbidden research that endangered the Shinobi World.
• Obito and Black Zetsu discussed Lord Jashin and agreed to bring him into the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Obito adopted Tobi’s persona and told Hidan he wanted to join the Jashinist Cult.
• Hidan performed the cult’s blood ritual and handed Tobi the spike, telling him to follow the steps to communicate with Lord Jashin.

Obito Uchiha tried Hidan’s Jashinist ritual, realized Hidan had misled him, and left. Pain and Konan hoped for a better future for Amegakure before the Canopy Screen showed Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Deidara, and Sasori launching an assault inside an alien fortress.

• Obito Uchiha wounded himself and performed Hidan’s ritual, but received no answer from Lord Jashin.
• Hidan offered Obito Uchiha the title of First Elder, but Obito healed himself and left with Black Zetsu following him.
• Pain asked Konan whether Amegakure’s rain would ever stop, and Konan said they could work together to reach a brighter future.
• The Canopy Screen showed Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Deidara, and Sasori appear inside an enormous alien fortress and kill the patrolling soldiers.
• Naruto Uzumaki declared they would force their way in, and the four unleashed their powers against a charging horde of monsters.
• Deidara’s Clay Giant struck the leading monster, which caught the punch with a thick forelimb.

Deidara, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sasori's Gundam overwhelmed the Alien Civilization's Monsters with explosive attacks, the Nine-Tails, Susanoo, and heavy weapons. The enemy deployed energy grids and floating combat units, and Deidara raised a clay wall to shield the group from their particle barrage.

• Deidara detonated the Clay Giant's trapped fist, blasting a Monster into a metal wall.
• Naruto Uzumaki's Nine-Tails smashed three Monsters and destroyed them with a Tailed Beast Ball, while Sasuke Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo cut down more attackers.
• Sasori's Gundam fired missiles and a chest cannon, and Deidara's Clay Giant unleashed a chain of powerful explosions that devastated the battlefield.
• The Alien Civilization opened concealed energy weapons and sent dark-blue grids sweeping toward the four invaders.
• Sasuke Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo used Amaterasu flames to destroy the energy grids, while Deidara built a clay wall to block the floating units' particle beams.

Sasori, Naruto, Sasuke, and Deidara fought through the alien ship’s defenses and followed Sasori’s scouts toward a likely command center. A colossal Monster ambushed them, cracked Sasuke’s Susanoo, and neutralized Deidara’s C4 attack with infrasound.

• Sasori used his puppet swarm and Resonance Disintegration Cannon to destroy the ship’s energy nodes, while Naruto’s Nine-Tails broke the gravity trap and Deidara’s C4 clay countered the nanoscale decomposition swarm.
• After becoming lost in the vast ship, the four followed a passage where Sasori’s reconnaissance puppets had tracked fleeing alien soldiers.
• Sasuke sensed danger and used Perfect Susanoo to shield the group when a massive laser blasted through the wall.
• A gigantic armored Monster struck Susanoo hard enough to crack its wings and stagger it backward.
• Deidara launched a C4 clay doll at the Monster, but its infrasound disrupted the bomb’s Chakra structure and reduced it to ordinary clay.

Naruto, Sasuke, Deidara, and Sasori defeated a colossal beast by discovering and attacking the crystal in its forehead. After the monster exploded, the four remained standing in the devastated passage, while Samui presented the Fourth Raikage with analysis reports about the battle.

• Naruto, Sasuke, Deidara, and Sasori found their attacks ineffective against the colossal beast and adapted their strategy.
• Deidara restrained the beast with a clay swamp while Naruto bound its arms and head, and Sasori identified the forehead crystal as its energy core and weakness.
• Sasuke drew the beast's attention with Indra's Arrow as Deidara struck the crystal with his concentrated clay explosion, cracking it.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sasori hit the cracked crystal together, destroying the beast and leaving a massive crater.
• Naruto congratulated the others, and Samui presented the Fourth Raikage with reports about the battle.

Fourth Raikage A considered the threat of future-level power and chose to pursue cooperation with Konoha rather than destructive conflict. Meanwhile, Deidara and Sasori argued over whether explosive power or sustained combat strength made better art.

• Samui told Fourth Raikage A that Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Deidara, and Sasori displayed power comparable to or greater than Hashirama Senju at his peak.
• Samui explained that future military technology could make war catastrophic, and Fourth Raikage A warned Darui that ruling should serve the people rather than become an end in itself.
• Fourth Raikage A ordered Samui to send aid to Konoha and establish closer ties with Tsunade.
• Deidara celebrated his future self’s explosive attack on the Canopy Screen, while Sasori criticized its high cost and praised the endurance of his own future combat methods.
• Deidara and Sasori argued over whether explosive destruction or durable, sustained combat represented true art.

Naruto, Sasuke, Sasori, and Deidara encountered Boros, the alien leader who claimed Iwagakure had invited him to rule the Shinobi World. Naruto rejected Boros’s demand to leave, but Boros offered to spare their planet if they supplied him with ten thousand intelligent beings every month.

• Sasori left the tea stall in disgust, and Deidara hurried after him while continuing to argue about art.
• Naruto sensed a powerful presence, and the four giants broke through alloy walls into a vast command hall.
• Boros introduced himself as leader of the Wugululu Tribe and declared that the Shinobi World belonged to him.
• Boros said his signal analysis traced the invitation to Iwagakure, prompting Sasuke and the others to suspect Deidara and his village.
• Naruto identified himself as the Seventh Hokage, said no faction had invited Boros, and asked him to leave.
• Boros offered to appoint them rulers of the planet and overlook the damage to his ship if they provided ten thousand intelligent beings each month.

Naruto, Sasuke, Sasori, and Deidara refused Boros’s offer to sell their people, so Boros challenged them and swiftly defeated Naruto and Sasuke. Sasori and Deidara then trapped Boros inside the Steel Gundam and detonated it, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Naruto refused Boros’s offer to sell his people, and Sasuke, Sasori, and Deidara prepared to fight beside him.
• Sasuke attacked Boros with Perfect Susanoo, but Boros shattered it and knocked Sasuke unconscious.
• Naruto sent the Nine-Tails’ tails at Boros, but Boros broke through its defenses and knocked Naruto out of Nine-Tails Mode.
• Sasori fired every weapon on the Steel Gundam, but Boros forced his way through the barrage and tore into the Gundam’s chest.
• Deidara wrapped the Steel Gundam in clay, and Sasori and Deidara propelled the sphere away before detonating it.

Sasori and Deidara’s combined attack blasted a hole through the alien ship, but Boros survived and quickly defeated them. Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha then rose with transformed powers, ready to face Boros as he welcomed a more challenging fight.

• Sasori explained that his Gundam’s Miniature Nuclear Reactors and Deidara’s Chakra-infused Explosive Clay had powered their combined blast, which Deidara named C12: Starfall Combo Blast.
• The alien ship repaired the hole, and Boros emerged from the blast with his armor broken and his power unrestrained.
• Boros attacked at incredible speed, knocked Deidara unconscious, and shattered Sasori’s puppet, but Sasori transferred his consciousness and rescued Deidara.
• Naruto Uzumaki stood again with twelve glowing Talismans and animal phantoms appearing on his Chakra cloak.
• Sasuke Uchiha rose beside Naruto with cherry blossom petals swirling around him, and Boros welcomed their renewed strength as a chance for a more interesting fight.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha combined their powers to wound Boros and push him into using his strongest attack. The chapter ended as Naruto charged Boros and Sasuke tried to seal the planet-destroying Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon before it could fire.

• Naruto used the Rabbit and Ox Talismans to meet Boros’s punch head-on, while Sasuke attacked with Amaterasu-infused Senbonzakura petals.
• Naruto and Sasuke coordinated a Dragon Rasenshuriken and Senbonzakura sword formation, forcing Boros to unleash Meteoric Burst and counter with a storm of punches.
• The three attacks collided and devastated the flagship’s core hall, leaving Boros with cuts and burns that quickly began to heal.
• Boros joyfully acknowledged Naruto and Sasuke as worthy opponents, then began charging his Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon.
• Naruto launched a Twelve Talismans Barrage at Boros as Sasuke used Planetary Devastation to wrap and seal the cannon’s growing energy sphere.

Naruto and Sasuke combined their remaining powers to exploit a brief opening in Boros’s defenses and seal him inside a massive cube. After Boros was contained, both exhausted fighters collapsed to their knees amid the ruined ship.

• Naruto disrupted Boros’s Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon while Sasuke’s Planetary Devastation bound the unstable energy, leaving both fighters drained.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought Boros together with their remaining abilities, but Boros overwhelmed them as their powers dwindled.
• Sasuke pierced an energy node in Boros’s arm, creating an opening for Naruto to enter Boros’s mind and shake his resolve by asking whether he was lonely.
• Naruto formed a sealing sphere as Sasuke struck Boros’s weakened energy core with four Tsukuyomi clones, disrupting Boros’s power.
• Naruto and Sasuke completed a sealing technique that trapped Boros inside a black cube, then collapsed from exhaustion.

Boros escaped Naruto and Sasuke’s sealing technique by using Aether Particles spread throughout his ship, making the vessel his self-repairing domain. Sasuke discovered that destroying the ship could break Boros’s connection, but Naruto could not damage it fast enough, leaving the two facing a nearly hopeless battle as Deidara awoke and learned what was happening.

• Red Aether light restored Boros and shattered Naruto and Sasuke’s sealing cube, and Boros explained that the particles let him rewrite reality throughout the ship.
• Naruto recovered with the Horse and Dog Talismans and faced Boros while Sasuke, exhausted, stayed back to search for an opening with his Rinnegan.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones attacked Boros with Talisman-powered beams, but Boros repelled the assault as Sasuke spotted the ship as the source of his power.
• Naruto attacked the ship on Sasuke’s advice, but Aether light repaired the damage while Boros struck Naruto and stopped him from destroying more of the vessel.
• Deidara woke after Sasori’s treatment, and Sasori used a reconnaissance puppet to explain Boros’s power and the Aether Particles’ effect on the ship.

As Naruto struggled against Boros, Deidara revealed a dangerous experimental substance sealed inside his body and resolved to use it to destroy the colossal ship, even if it cost his life. Sasuke prepared to evacuate Naruto and Sasori, but Sasori chose to stay with Deidara, and Naruto protested that he had not yet been defeated.

• Sasuke warned Deidara that Naruto would eventually lose unless someone could destroy the moon-sized ship and its divine foundation in an instant.
• Deidara told Sasuke to use his Rinnegan to evacuate Sasuke, Sasori, and Naruto, and revealed that he planned to take Boros down with him.
• Sasori explained that he and Deidara had created and sealed about one kilogram of an unstable substance made from several Chakra transformations, Yin Release, and Yang Release.
• Deidara removed his robe and opened the seal on his chest, while Sasori declared that he would remain beside him until the end.
• Sasuke summoned one of Naruto's Shadow Clones to help with the evacuation, and Naruto shouted that Deidara would die and insisted he still had other moves to try.

Deidara sacrificed himself to unleash C-Negative: Return of All Things to the Void, after Naruto vowed to protect Iwagakure. The attack erased Boros and the moon-sized warship, leaving an expanding Patrick Star-shaped void in space.

• Deidara asked Naruto to protect Iwagakure after his death, and Naruto swore as Hokage to keep the village safe.
• Naruto returned to Sasuke, who opened a Rinnegan portal and took them away while Deidara stayed behind.
• Deidara transformed into a black sphere and unleashed C-Negative: Return of All Things to the Void.
• Boros tried to flee and resist, but the spreading void swallowed him and his Aether Particles.
• Sasori's puppet recorded Deidara's Ultimate Art before the void consumed it and the entire warship.
• The Canopy Screen showed an immense Patrick Star-shaped darkness expanding through space where the warship had been.

The Canopy Screen showed Deidara sacrificing himself to destroy Boros’s warship, while the resulting darkness plunged the Shinobi World into panic. After witnessing the loss, Ōnoki pieced together a conspiracy involving Nine Nether, Darui, Demiurge, and the Jashinist Cult, and concluded that they had maneuvered an alien into eliminating Deidara.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and the villagers outside Iwagakure were engulfed in seven minutes of unnatural darkness that spread across the Shinobi World.
• In Konoha, Klee wept as she felt that something important had been lost, while Darui and Demiurge discussed Deidara’s death and their plans against Konoha.
• Sunlight returned, and the people outside Iwagakure saw Naruto and Sasuke grieving as the Canopy Screen showed Deidara vanishing with Boros’s warship.
• Ōnoki and Kurotsuchi mourned Deidara after watching his sacrifice.
• Ōnoki connected the future’s events and concluded that Nine Nether and its collaborators had used Boros to eliminate Deidara because they feared his Ultimate Art.

Ōnoki learned that Nine Nether had helped attack Konoha and ordered Akatsuchi to contact Deidara, but Naruto later revealed that Deidara had died defeating Boros. When Boros revived and attacked again, Naruto activated Baryon Mode to face him.

• Ōnoki learned that Nine Nether had joined forces with Orochimaru's followers and the Naraka monsters to attack Konoha and kill Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Ōnoki ordered Akatsuchi to contact Deidara and urge him to leave Akatsuki and return to Iwagakure.
• Naruto told Ōnoki that Deidara had sacrificed himself with his Ultimate Art to defeat Boros, and Ōnoki fainted.
• Boros regenerated, threatened to enslave the people of Iwagakure, and struck Naruto while Sasuke was too exhausted to fight.
• Naruto summoned Kurama and activated Baryon Mode.

Naruto Uzumaki defeated Boros in Baryon Mode, but as he stood weakened after the battle, Dao Long began a ritual and struck him with a soul-rending beam.

• Naruto used Baryon Mode to wear down Boros's life force and prevent him from gathering energy for his Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon.
• Naruto drove Boros into the ground, and Boros withered away before dying after Naruto rejected his offer to sell the people of the Shinobi World.
• Bakura watched the battle end from a barren rise outside Iwagakure beside Dao Long, then told him to begin the ritual.
• Dao Long chanted and performed an ancient ritual, sending a ghostly blue beam from his staff into the weakened Naruto.
• Naruto screamed and convulsed as the beam struck him and began tearing at his existence.

Dao Long used a Separation Spell to strip the Twelve Talismans from Naruto Uzumaki and explained their connection to the Eight Immortals. Bakura and Dao Long fled as Sasuke Uchiha reached the unconscious Naruto.

• Twelve colored beams burst from Naruto Uzumaki as the Talismans were torn from his body, and he collapsed.
• Dao Long told Bakura that Naruto had survived because the Nine-Tails sustained him and that the separated powers would seek out twelve spiritually attuned animals.
• Dao Long revealed that the Twelve Talismans were fragments of the Fire Immortal Shendu's power and named the eight Immortals who once ruled the planet.
• Dao Long and Bakura sensed Sasuke Uchiha approaching, then vanished in black smoke to report to Leader Hidan.
• Sasuke Uchiha reached the unconscious Naruto and lifted him, urgently asking him to wake up.

Naruto and Sasuke returned to Iwagakure after surviving the battle, where the villagers welcomed them as victors. Three days later, the allied Kage and Iwagakure mourned Deidara at his funeral, and Naruto stepped forward to speak.

• Naruto woke beside Sasuke, and Sasuke helped him walk back while insisting he stay alive to see Boruto and Himawari grow up.
• Naruto and Sasuke returned to Iwagakure, where the villagers cheered their victory and Darui concealed his disappointment that his scheme had failed.
• Three days later, Iwagakure held Deidara's funeral, attended by his family, the villagers, and Kage from other villages.
• Naruto stepped forward to address the mourners and looked toward Deidara's portrait, Kurotsuchi, Haimā, Klee, and the gathered villagers.

Kurotsuchi became the Fifth Tsuchikage after Deidara’s funeral, and Sasori left a recording of Deidara’s final art at his grave. When the Canopy Screen broadcast ended, Deidara celebrated the ultimate art he had seen in his future, even after Sasori pointed out that it had killed him.

• Naruto swore to protect Iwagakure and Deidara’s family, and Kurotsuchi accepted the Iwagakure hat and became the Fifth Tsuchikage.
• After the funeral, Sasori placed a crystal ball recording Deidara’s final work on his gravestone and acknowledged Deidara’s art before bidding farewell.
• The Canopy Screen broadcast ended after showing the crystal ball replaying Deidara’s final work for eternity.
• Deidara fell into raptures over the art he had seen his future self create and excitedly told Sasori it had erased the stars.
• Sasori reminded Deidara that his future self had been annihilated by his own art, but Deidara insisted that witnessing such art was worth dying for.

Sasori and Deidara argued over whether art’s eternity came from preserving life or from a brilliant moment remembered after death. Naruto provoked the Nine-Tails into reacting to the name Kurama, stirring buried memories and the thought that Naruto might be the one foretold by the Sage of Six Paths.

• Sasori and Deidara fiercely disputed whether true art required continued existence or could live on through a fleeting, memorable moment.
• Sasori warned Deidara that he would regret his belief when he faced the end of his existence, then returned to his puppet work.
• Naruto asked the Nine-Tails whether his name was Kurama, and the fox reacted angrily when Naruto called him by it.
• The Nine-Tails told Naruto that the Sage of Six Paths had given him the name Kurama, though he had never accepted it.
• Naruto kept taunting the Nine-Tails until the fox expelled him from the sealing space.
• Alone again, the Nine-Tails recalled his buried past and wondered whether Naruto was the one the Sage of Six Paths had foretold.

Darui hesitated to approve Nine Nether’s plan to target Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, suspecting the organization had hidden motives. Meanwhile, Hidan ordered the Jashinist Cult to spread chaos and bloodshed as its members prepared to advance their plans.

• Demiurge reported Deidara’s death to Darui and urged him to authorize the next phase against Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.
• Darui questioned why Nine Nether was supporting him, but Demiurge flattered his ambitions and compared him favorably to Obito Uchiha.
• Darui delayed making a decision, while Demiurge left the office hiding his impatience and calculations.
• Dao Long told Hidan that he had extracted the power of the Twelve Talismans from Naruto Uzumaki.
• Doma warned that Sasuke Uchiha’s Rinnegan remained a threat, and a man in a white kimono volunteered to settle an old score with him.
• Hidan ordered the cultists to spread chaos and shed blood, declaring that their sacrifices would prepare for Lord Jashin’s return.

After the broadcast ended, the Five Great Nations began investigating the Jashinist Cult, and Obito Uchiha decided to make use of it. He arrived at Hidan’s growing congregation and realized skilled ninja had infiltrated the crowd.

• Kakuzu walked away from Hidan after Hidan urged him to join the Jashinist Cult, while Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru over their teacher’s death.
• Tsunade ordered Shikaku Nara to investigate the cult, its size and hideouts, and whether an Evil God truly existed behind it.
• Leaders and intelligence chiefs across the other Great Nations also sent elite agents to investigate the Jashinist Cult.
• Obito and Black Zetsu discussed using the cult’s forces and the possibility that powerful figures from the broadcast might appear early.
• Obito used Kamui to reach the cult’s base and found Hidan preaching to a crowd of at least a hundred people.
• Obito spotted several wary, chakra-concealing ninja among the followers and recognized that skilled Jonin had infiltrated the gathering.