Chapter Summaries

Samui persuaded the Fourth Raikage and Darui not to target Naruto Uzumaki, urging them to gather intelligence and strengthen Kumogakure instead. In Amegakure, Pain questioned whether his plan for peace had failed, and Konan helped him consider how fragile peace remained.

• Samui concluded that future Naruto Uzumaki might be powerful enough to threaten the entire Shinobi World and warned that attacking him could cause unpredictable consequences.
• Darui suggested killing Naruto while he was young, but Samui argued against it because of the risks and Kumogakure's exposed military strength.
• Fourth Raikage A agreed to postpone action against Naruto and ordered Darui and Samui to gather the highest-priority intelligence about him.
• Pain asked Konan whether they had been wrong, reflecting that the Fourth Shinobi World War had spread pain but that the later peace depended on Naruto's overwhelming strength.
• Konan told Pain that peace was fragile and that powerful nations would resist anyone who ruled over them, leading Pain to reconsider whether his idea of peace could end human conflict.

Pain reconsidered Naruto Uzumaki as a possible path to peace, while Obito Uchiha planned to kill him during the Konoha Crush Plan. Naraka and Mahito then offered Orochimaru information about Naruto's Dog Talisman, revealing its power of immortality and eternal youth.

• Pain learned that Naruto Uzumaki was Jiraiya's disciple and wondered whether Jiraiya had chosen him as a new path to peace.
• Black Zetsu warned Obito Uchiha that Naruto would become a major obstacle to the Eye of the Moon Plan, and Obito vowed to kill him during Konoha's coming turmoil.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Orochimaru planned to attack Konoha with Sunagakure during the Chunin Ninja Exams, creating an opportunity to strike Naruto.
• Naraka and Mahito met Orochimaru at his underground base and offered information about the Dog Talisman Naruto had used in the Land of Waves.
• Naraka told Orochimaru that the Dog Talisman granted immortality and eternal youth, and Orochimaru reacted with intense interest.

Naraka and Mahito formed an alliance with Orochimaru to recruit Sunagakure for the Konoha Crush Plan, while Jiraiya identified Naruto as the Child of Prophecy and began teaching him the Rasengan. As Hiruzen tightened Konoha’s defenses, Sasuke wondered whether Naruto would ultimately stop his revenge, but resolved to follow his own path.

• Naraka told Orochimaru that the Dog Talisman was in Konoha, and Orochimaru agreed to cooperate in exchange for a chance to obtain it.
• Orochimaru proposed visiting the Fourth Kazekage, then taking his place to lead Sunagakure in the Konoha Crush Plan, and Naraka and Mahito agreed to join him.
• Jiraiya told Naruto that he was the Child of Prophecy and began teaching him the Rasengan, the Fourth Hokage’s signature technique.
• Hiruzen watched Naruto train, then ordered an ANBU Ninja to strengthen Konoha’s defenses and check outsiders strictly.
• Sasuke considered a future in which Naruto might defeat him, but gripped his Zanpakuto and resolved to keep following his own will.

Deidara and Kurotsuchi confronted Ōnoki about his secret experiment, but he feigned a heart episode to avoid answering. Kurotsuchi proposed surveilling him under the guise of protection and using family visits to keep tabs on him, while Deidara resolved to find his hidden laboratory.

• At dinner, Ōnoki criticized Deidara and Kurotsuchi for appeasing Kumogakure and insisted Iwagakure needed its own strength.
• Deidara and Kurotsuchi confronted Ōnoki about contacting former subordinates for a secret experiment and urged him to retire.
• Ōnoki became furious when Deidara compared him to Danzo, then clutched his chest and was taken to the hospital.
• After doctors found no serious problem, Deidara suspected Ōnoki had faked his illness to avoid questioning.
• Kurotsuchi proposed placing trusted ANBU around Ōnoki’s home and using visits with Haimā to monitor him.
• Deidara agreed to arrange the surveillance and said they still needed to find Ōnoki’s secret laboratory.

Kurotsuchi and Deidara planned to uncover Ōnoki’s secret experiment by tracking supplies and associates, then baiting him with a false rumor about abnormal Chakra fluctuations. At Ōnoki’s home, Kurotsuchi defended her faith in Deidara and the younger generation, leaving her grandfather speechless and frustrated.

• Kurotsuchi outlined plans to audit specialized supply transfers, track Ōnoki’s old associates, and search abandoned sites near Iwagakure’s edge.
• Kurotsuchi proposed leaking a vague rumor about abnormal Chakra fluctuations to lure Ōnoki to his hidden experiment, with ANBU and Deidara’s clay creatures watching suspected areas.
• Ōnoki angrily confronted Kurotsuchi for helping Deidara investigate him and criticized her for opposing her own grandfather.
• Ōnoki warned that Iwagakure’s prosperity and art would not protect it from Kumogakure, while Kurotsuchi insisted she believed in Deidara and their ability to make the village strong.
• Ōnoki fell silent at Kurotsuchi’s response, then huffed and turned away.

Ōnoki secretly oversaw a cloning experiment that produced powerful, destructive Clones, but Kurotsuchi discovered the laboratory and confronted him. When the Clones awakened and attacked, Ōnoki escaped with Kurotsuchi as the laboratory erupted into chaos.

• Ōnoki slipped past his guards and traveled to a hidden laboratory, unaware that Kurotsuchi was following him with Sasori's optical camouflage tool.
• Dr. Kinos told Ōnoki that the Clone had perfectly replicated its original but had awakened with a destructive urge, and Ōnoki named it Land of Earth Person.
• Kurotsuchi revealed herself and demanded that Ōnoki stop the experiment and apologize to Deidara.
• The experimental subjects reacted to Kurotsuchi's Chakra, burst from their tanks, and one Clone killed Dr. Kinos with Dust Release.
• Ōnoki and a Clone clashed with Dust Release as explosive clay centipedes disrupted the fight, allowing Ōnoki to grab Kurotsuchi and flee.

Deidara arrived to help Kurotsuchi and Ōnoki fight two clones capable of using Dust Release and explosive clay. He destroyed both clones with overwhelming clay techniques, leaving Ōnoki and Kurotsuchi watching as the footage ended.

• Kurotsuchi and Ōnoki prepared to fight again after two clones survived their attack, but the clones dodged a rain of clay explosives.
• Deidara landed beside Kurotsuchi and told her to take Ōnoki to safety while he faced the clones.
• Deidara used three C2 clay dragons to destroy one clone and silently reduced another clone and two dragons to dust.
• The remaining clone formed a massive Dust Release barrier, but Deidara flooded it with explosive clay until the barrier vanished.
• Deidara trapped the last clone inside a sphere of clay and detonated it, then taunted Ōnoki about the clones being inferior imitations.

After Deidara defeated the Dust Release Clone, Orochimaru prepared to meet the Kazekage and set a trap with Kabuto Yakushi, Naraka, and Mahito. Rasa accepted Orochimaru’s request for a secret meeting and left Sunagakure with two elite guards.

• Ōnoki, Kurotsuchi, Deidara, A, Darui, Samui, and Mei Terumi reacted to Deidara’s overwhelming victory and reassessed his strength.
• Orochimaru reflected on the future’s scientific advances, then ordered Kabuto Yakushi, Naraka, and Mahito to prepare for a visit to the Kazekage.
• Orochimaru set out with Kabuto Yakushi, Naraka, and Mahito, intending to attack when he gave the signal.
• Rasa received a secret report that Orochimaru wanted to meet at a Sandstone Gorge and decided to go in person.
• Rasa quietly left Sunagakure with two of his elite guards.

Orochimaru's party killed Rasa and took his appearance, setting a plan in motion to infiltrate Konoha during the Chunin Ninja Exams. Hiruzen agreed to hold the joint exams, while the Canopy Screen showed a powerful figure emerging from the Land of Earth laboratory ruins.

• Orochimaru, Naraka, Mahito, and Kabuto Yakushi ambushed Rasa and his guards at Agreed Canyon.
• Kabuto Yakushi severed Rasa's Chakra connection to his Gold Dust, allowing Orochimaru to trap and kill him.
• Orochimaru transformed himself into Rasa and ordered Kabuto Yakushi to enter Konoha with the Four Sound Ninja as Otogakure Genin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted the proposal to hold the Chunin Ninja Exams jointly with Sunagakure and invited other friendly villages.
• The Canopy Screen showed Ōnoki warn Deidara that the real Land of Earth Person was emerging from the laboratory ruins.

Ōnoki revealed that Land of Earth Person was a powerful Naruto Uzumaki clone, and the clone attacked Ōnoki, Kurotsuchi, and Deidara. Deidara sacrificed a clay clone to unleash his nuclear-powered C10: Annihilation Rebirth, leaving everyone unsure whether Land of Earth Person had survived.

• Land of Earth Person appeared and greeted Ōnoki, who revealed that he had created the figure from Naruto Uzumaki's cells.
• Deidara urged Kurotsuchi to flee with Ōnoki, but Land of Earth Person summoned more than a hundred Shadow Clones to attack them.
• Deidara, Kurotsuchi, and Ōnoki destroyed many clones with their techniques, then Land of Earth Person revealed his golden chakra cloak and tails.
• Ōnoki explained that he had fused active cells from the Ten-Tails' husk into Land of Earth Person, giving him an immense chakra reserve.
• Land of Earth Person punched through what he thought was Deidara, but the target was a clay clone that detonated with Deidara's C10: Annihilation Rebirth.
• The explosion flattened and began to glass the surrounding area as the real Deidara, Kurotsuchi, and Ōnoki watched from afar and wondered whether Land of Earth Person had survived.

The Land of Earth Person survived Deidara's nuclear blast and overwhelmed Deidara, Ōnoki, and Kurotsuchi before Deidara forced him to retreat by threatening mutual destruction. Deidara sought Konoha's aid, believing the real Naruto Uzumaki might be the only one able to stop him, while Ōnoki accepted that he would no longer interfere in village affairs.

• The Land of Earth Person regenerated from his wounds, then defeated Deidara, Ōnoki, and Kurotsuchi with overwhelming speed and strength.
• The Land of Earth Person grabbed Kurotsuchi and declared that he would destroy and remake the Shinobi World.
• Deidara threatened to use the mouth on his chest to annihilate them both, frightening the Land of Earth Person into releasing Kurotsuchi and retreating.
• Deidara helped Kurotsuchi and ordered an urgent request for aid sent to Konoha, naming the real Naruto Uzumaki as their likely hope.
• Deidara told Ōnoki to retire and stay out of village affairs, and Ōnoki silently accepted.

After the Canopy Screen battle, the shinobi world reevaluated Deidara, Ōnoki, and Naruto Uzumaki’s power, with Naruto’s clone judged to have reached a legendary level. The chapter left several villages and Akatsuki members reconsidering their plans and the future threat posed by Naruto.

• Ōnoki regretted his future self’s choices and resolved to let go of his distrust of the younger generation.
• Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure to suspend plans against Iwagakure and Konoha and reassess the shinobi world’s balance of power.
• Pain questioned whether Naruto Uzumaki could be the key to peace, while Obito and Black Zetsu discussed Naruto’s unexpected strength and the need to assassinate him.
• Ao told Mei Terumi that Naruto’s clone and the original likely belonged to the Sage of Six Paths level of power.
• Deidara celebrated his future C10, while Sasori considered nuclear energy as a possible power source for his puppets.
• Hidan mocked Kakuzu for underestimating Naruto, and Kakuzu wondered whether his future decision to teach assassination arts had been a wiser way to survive.

Naruto complained to Jiraiya about villagers secretly touching him and taking his hair, and Jiraiya taught him the Summoning Technique, leading him to win Gamabunta’s approval and sign a Mount Myoboku contract. The next day, the Canopy Screen showed a futuristic Konoha where Sasuke and Sakura walked together and began discussing their past and Sarada’s questions about Sasuke’s childhood.

• Naruto told Jiraiya that people in Konoha had been whispering about his cells, brushing against him, and stealing his hair.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta and challenged Naruto to prove himself worthy of signing a Mount Myoboku contract.
• Naruto eagerly acknowledged Gamabunta as his boss, and Gamabunta agreed to sign the contract.
• The Canopy Screen showed a future Konoha with six faces on Kage Rock, including Kakashi’s, and Sasuke and Sakura walking through the village.
• Sasuke and Sakura discussed Boruto and Himawari’s card-game quarrel, then held hands as they remembered their past and talked about Sarada asking about Sasuke’s childhood.

Sasuke gave Sakura a handmade Clay Ring to make up for what he could not give her when they married. Their peaceful outing ended when Kakashi summoned Sasuke to meet with Iwagakure about an unspecified problem.

• Sasuke gave Sakura a handmade Clay Ring and placed it on her finger, and she tearfully told him she loved it.
• Sasuke and Sakura continued their walk together and planned to bring Sarada dumplings.
• An ANBU summoned Sasuke to the Hokage's Office, where Kakashi told him Kurotsuchi had requested Konoha's help.
• Sasuke suspected Kumogakure had attacked Iwagakure and offered to deal with them, but Kakashi told him to learn the facts first.
• Sasuke agreed to go to Iwagakure, leaving Kakashi to complain about his readiness to wipe out a village.

Hiruzen Sarutobi admired Konoha’s prosperous future on the Canopy Screen, while the sight of adult Sasuke marrying Sakura shocked their younger selves and their friends. Kakashi realized he would become Hokage and dreaded the work, while Naruto reluctantly accepted Sakura’s happiness.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised the future Konoha and imagined Kakashi and Naruto surpassing his expectations.
• Sasuke Uchiha saw his future self marry Sakura and vowed to sever the bonds he believed had made him weak.
• Kakashi Hatake saw himself as Hokage and worried about political burdens, endless paperwork, and losing time to read Make-Out Paradise.
• Haruno Sakura rejoiced at seeing her future marriage to Sasuke, while Ino Yamanaka felt happy for her friend but slightly envious.
• Naruto Uzumaki angrily protested Sakura’s future marriage to Sasuke, then accepted it when he saw how happy she was.

The Fourth Raikage raged at Sasuke’s threat to Kumogakure, while Danzō and Itachi watched the broadcast and reacted to Sasuke’s future. The next day, Sasuke shopped in Iwagakure until someone greeted him from behind.

• The Fourth Raikage threatened Sasuke, but Darui and Mabui urged him to gather more information from the Canopy Screen.
• Shimura Danzō admired Sasuke’s willingness to protect Konoha from the shadows, then became furious when he saw Kakashi as the future Sixth Hokage.
• Itachi watched future Sasuke return to Konoha, marry Sakura, and find happiness, and felt relief that his brother had escaped hatred.
• The Canopy Screen showed Sasuke shopping in Iwagakure for incense Sakura might like and a puppet-tech pencil case for Sarada.
• A smiling voice greeted Sasuke from behind, saying it had been a long time.

Sasuke took over Iwagakure’s effort to stop the rogue Land of Earth Person and told Kurotsuchi to discuss compensation with Kakashi. Meanwhile, the Land of Earth Person massacred a village, but Dr. Kinos’s surviving clone persuaded him to talk.

• Kurotsuchi told Sasuke that Ōnoki’s experiment had produced a powerful clone of Naruto that had gone out of control.
• Sasuke dismissed Iwagakure’s claim that the clone possessed all of Naruto’s power and left through a black void to take over the situation.
• Deidara complained about Sasuke, while Kurotsuchi said Ōnoki had recovered and was spending his time playing Yu-Gi-Oh! with Haimā.
• The Land of Earth Person destroyed a village and killed Dr. Kinos with a Rasengan when the researcher tried to stop him.
• Another Dr. Kinos appeared, revealed that the dead researcher had been one of his clones, and convinced the Land of Earth Person to hear him out.

Dr. Kinos warned the Land of Earth Person that Sasuke Uchiha was coming and recruited him into Nine Nether’s plan to destroy the world. After learning why the Clone hated the world while Naruto Uzumaki had chosen peace, the Land of Earth Person headed to Orochimaru’s new base to meet another Kinos Clone.

• Dr. Kinos told the Land of Earth Person that Sasuke Uchiha was on his way and warned that the Clone might not be strong enough to defeat him.
• Dr. Kinos revealed that he was from Nine Nether and sent the Land of Earth Person to Orochimaru’s new research base as the first step in their plan.
• The Land of Earth Person demanded to know why he and Naruto Uzumaki had opposite personalities despite sharing the same memories, and blamed his hatred on his painful childhood.
• Dr. Kinos speculated that Jiraiya was the key difference that had led Naruto to embrace love and peace, then the Land of Earth Person killed the Kinos Clone.
• The Land of Earth Person vowed to destroy the ideas Jiraiya had taught Naruto and traveled to Orochimaru’s base, where another Kinos Clone appeared.

Kinos explained to Land of Earth Person that Nine Nether planned to use Orochimaru’s Gravitational Wave transmitter to summon an alien civilization and destroy the world. Land of Earth Person attacked Orochimaru’s base to seize the equipment, but Orochimaru confronted him with a snake attack.

• Kinos told Land of Earth Person that alien civilizations could be lured to the world through a signal sent by Orochimaru’s Gravitational Wave transmitter.
• Land of Earth Person agreed that aliens would likely plunder the world and declared that he would deal with Orochimaru.
• Land of Earth Person knocked out the Konoha jonin guarding the base and blasted through its alloy doors.
• Orochimaru questioned Land of Earth Person through the base’s speakers and sent a flood of venomous snakes to test his strength.
• Land of Earth Person destroyed the snakes with a Big Ball Rasengan and challenged Orochimaru to settle their dispute with their fists.

The Land of Earth Person and Orochimaru moved their fight from Orochimaru’s base to the Valley of the End, where Orochimaru unleashed a succession of powerful techniques against the Nine-Tails-powered clone. After escaping Orochimaru’s trap and regenerating his severed arm, the Land of Earth Person revealed a new form and fired beams of light.

• The Land of Earth Person challenged Orochimaru to fight at the Valley of the End, and Orochimaru ordered the base evacuated while Mitsuki left with the other evacuees.
• Orochimaru blasted Dr. Kinos to pieces, then went to the Valley of the End to face the Land of Earth Person.
• The Land of Earth Person opened with a Rasenshuriken, while Orochimaru countered with Sage Mode and a series of defenses and attacks, including Rashomon, ice mirrors, trees, Iron Sand, and acid mist.
• The Land of Earth Person used a Nine-Tails Chakra cloak and Shadow Clones to break through Orochimaru’s attacks, but Orochimaru caught his arm with regenerating white snakes after taking a Rasengan to the chest.
• The Land of Earth Person destroyed the snakes and his own right arm with a second Rasengan, regenerated the arm, and transformed as three beams of pure light shot from his eyes and mouth.