Chapter Summaries

Naruto subdued the six Reincarnators, who quickly pledged their loyalty and received their first mission: draw out the God of Machines. Though they feared the task with their powers gone, they set off after Naruto warned them not to object.

• Li Mu offered Naruto a cigarette, then quickly covered his failed attempt to please him by praising his decision not to smoke.
• The six Reincarnators served food to Naruto, Sasuke, and the Third Hokage and declared themselves Naruto's loyal employees.
• Naruto updated the Reincarnator shop and assigned the six a mission to draw out the God of Machines, promising to restore their power afterward.
• The six saw the mission and panicked because they had lost their strength, but Li Mu agreed to get moving after Naruto questioned their hesitation.

Naruto’s group faced a million Mechanical Troops gathered outside Sunagakure, while his subordinates panicked over their chances of surviving the battle. After Naruto killed an injured subordinate and promised to resurrect him, the Third Hokage misread Naruto’s signal to leave.

• The God of Machines gathered a million Mechanical Troops outside Sunagakure to eliminate Naruto and Thin Ice Brother.
• Naruto scolded his trembling subordinates, while Li Mu pleaded for help for the badly wounded Nas.
• Naruto twisted Nas’s neck and killed him, shocking the other subordinates.
• Naruto explained that he had marked Nas’s soul and could resurrect him from the Pure Land, easing his subordinates’ fears.
• The Third Hokage decided not to warn the group about resurrection and misunderstood Naruto’s look as something other than a signal to leave.

Naruto sent five Reincarnators against the God of Machines, and they charged fearlessly before being killed almost instantly. The God of Machines then confronted Naruto and Sasuke with coffins meant to seal them, leaving Naruto furious at the robot’s taunt.

• Naruto’s Reincarnators embraced their new identity as the Fourth Calamity and charged the Mechanical Troops with oversized firearms and grenades.
• Li Mu and four others fired and detonated explosives, but the God of Machines’ troops killed all five in a single exchange.
• Sasuke asked Naruto whether he had brainwashed the Reincarnators, and Naruto declared that they were the Fourth Calamity.
• The God of Machines accused Naruto of turning the five against it and ordered Naruto and Sasuke to stop resisting.
• The God of Machines brought out two custom-made coffins and prepared to seal Naruto and Sasuke inside them.
• Naruto recognized the coffins as a taunt and grew furious at the God of Machines.

Naruto and Sasuke prepared to destroy the God of Machines with their strongest attacks, but its bizarre phone-call-and-ear-digging maneuver left them too confused to strike. The God of Machines registered its plan as a success, believing rules had immobilized the pair.

• Naruto drew his Zanpakuto while Sasuke formed a powerful golden Strange Fire, and they agreed to try to kill the God of Machines in one exchange.
• The God of Machines' puppet flew into the air and began glowing as if preparing an ultimate attack.
• The puppet descended, took a communication device from its chest, and pretended to make a call while digging its ear.
• All one million robots copied the gesture as they advanced, leaving Naruto and Sasuke stunned and unwilling to attack in case it was a trick.
• The God of Machines' Database reported that its plan had immobilized Naruto and Second Pillar, and the AI felt triumphant.

Naruto and Sasuke overwhelmed the God of Machines with a brutal beating, causing its systems to fail and the mechanical villagers across the New Shinobi World to collapse. They took the disabled God of Machines and planned to ask Sakura-ge to rescue the people left behind.

• Naruto and Sasuke ignored their usual techniques and pummeled the God of Machines while its million robots continued attacking them.
• The God of Machines failed to analyze Naruto and Sasuke, suffered a computing collapse, and shut down the surrounding robots.
• Mechanical villagers across the New Shinobi World lost connection and collapsed, leaving people such as the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki grieving for their mechanical partners.
• Naruto and Sasuke continued beating the God of Machines until the lights in its eyes went out.
• Sasuke checked whether the God of Machines was broken, and Naruto suggested taking it along and asking Sakura-ge to rescue the people.

Naruto and Sasuke brought the God of Machines back after it recited increasingly obscene stories from its Database, which left them furious and embarrassed. They told the Third Hokage that the crisis had been handled and no one had died, though they remained shaken by the machine’s stories.

• Naruto failed to find Blood Pressure Medication in Sunagakure, while Sasuke listened as the God of Machines began reciting a story about Second Pillar and Itachi Uchiha.
• Sasuke ordered Naruto to smash the machine, but Naruto carried it outside and turned up its volume so he could keep listening.
• Naruto and Sasuke chased each other before Naruto used the Light Gate to return the God of Machines to the Orochimaru Base.
• The Third Hokage asked Naruto and Sasuke what had happened, and Naruto recoiled at the sight of the medicine in his hand.
• Sasuke told the Third Hokage that the crisis was handled and no one had died, while he and Naruto remained visibly distressed.

The Third Hokage and others fled after the God of Machines humiliated them with scandalous stories, while Sakura and Hinata brought three thousand Reincarnators to the Underground City. The Reincarnators were stunned by the settlement’s monsters, bizarre residents, shops, and dungeon parties.

• The Third Hokage listened to the God of Machines turn his friendship with Danzo into a forbidden romance and nearly collapsed after taking blood pressure medication.
• Naruto dragged Sasuke away, while Konohamaru and Mitsuki followed after hearing that the God of Machines had told stories about them and other Kage.
• Sakura and Hinata brought three thousand Reincarnators to the Underground City’s second floor, where they were assigned as laborers.
• The Reincarnators entered the Human Settlement and encountered Minecraft-like monsters, a massive city wall, Death Gods, adventurers, and mechanical figures.
• The Reincarnators recognized Seria selling goods and saw the settlement’s unusual shops and Chakra-tech weapons.
• The Reincarnators watched people recruit dungeon parties and were left bewildered by the Underground City.

Konohamaru and Mitsuki met a silver-haired young man in the Underground City and both fell for him, only to learn he was a man. As Naruto and Sasuke started fighting nearby, the young man invited them to sit at his place.

• Konohamaru and Mitsuki approached the silver-haired young man and tried to help him by offering money, but their weapons resisted his attempts to break and enhance them.
• Mitsuki learned the young man also had two fathers and became heartbroken when he discovered the young man was male.
• Naruto stopped Sasuke from interrupting the pair, then wondered aloud whether Sasuke had feelings for him.
• Sasuke beat Naruto with the Mystic Heavy Ruler, frightening nearby vendors and residents into fleeing the street.
• The silver-haired young man warned that his fathers would be furious if they learned he had met Naruto, then invited Konohamaru and Mitsuki to sit at his place as Naruto and Sasuke fought.

Konohamaru discovered that Zabuza and Haku’s teenage son, Tao Yue, had been created using Orochimaru’s genetic technology, while Sasuke and Naruto abandoned their plan to visit them. At Zabuza’s home, Mitsuki recognized a reforged Kubikiribōchō and became captivated by the blade.

• Konohamaru was stunned to learn that Zabuza and Haku were Tao Yue’s two fathers, and Tao Yue explained that Orochimaru’s genetic technology had made his birth possible.
• Sasuke realized Naruto’s supposed good news was a visit to Zabuza’s family, and he left with Naruto rather than risk arriving with the Mystic Heavy Ruler.
• Zabuza questioned why Konohamaru and Mitsuki had returned early, while Haku welcomed them inside and offered to make more food.
• Mitsuki spotted a Kubikiribōchō in the hallway and became fixated on the blade he had long imagined using on his own future son.
• Konohamaru asked whether the blade was fake, and Zabuza explained that Mei Terumi had arranged to have it reforged stronger than the one he had lost.

After Naruto and Sasuke reached the Shinobi Alliance headquarters, Tobirama confronted Kakashi over rumors that he kept an Uchiha lover at home, while both men misunderstood what the other meant. Sasuke discovered the rumor had spread across the forum, where Fugaku had even liked and commented on it.

• Zabuza lamented that Sasuke's son had taken the Kubikiribōchō, but was relieved he had commissioned two extra swords in advance.
• Naruto and Sasuke reached the Shinobi Alliance headquarters on the Fifth Layer and encountered Kakashi, Tobirama, and another white-haired companion.
• Tobirama accused Kakashi of keeping an inherently evil Uchiha lover at home, and Kakashi blamed the rumor on misleading marketing videos.
• Kakashi said he was partly at fault, thinking Tobirama meant Obito's past actions, while Tobirama took his words as confirmation of a disturbing relationship.
• Naruto asked whether the internet was back, and Sasuke checked his phone and found sensational rumors about Kakashi topping the forum.
• Sasuke saw that Fugaku had liked and commented on the rumor, apparently supporting the relationship.

Naruto and Sasuke confronted Kakashi about rumors of an improper relationship with Obito, but Kakashi denied them and hurried away. Naruto noticed a kiss mark on Kakashi’s neck, and Sasuke said it came from a woman, leaving Naruto eager to learn her identity.

• Naruto and Sasuke showed Kakashi forum rumors linking him romantically to Obito, but Kakashi dismissed the gossip and blamed his Ninja Dogs for spreading it.
• Kakashi denied that he and Obito were unusually close and headed toward the Shinobi Alliance gates.
• Naruto spotted a kiss mark on Kakashi’s neck and accused him of doing something to the sleeping Obito.
• Sasuke told Naruto the mark was from a woman, then entered the Shinobi Alliance gates and suggested Naruto ask Sakura about her.
• Naruto accused Sasuke of secretly wanting to ask Sakura first, and Sasuke reacted with surprise at being found out.

Naruto offered Minato some help finding people to work in the Pure Land, then proposed that the Third Hokage take up a Hokage role there. He left Minato to consider Grandpa’s suitability for the position.

• Minato complained to Jiraiya and Tsunade that the Pure Land was overwhelmed by incoming souls and asked them for staff.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade refused, explaining that the Shinobi World had no spare manpower.
• Naruto overheard Minato’s request and stepped out, offering to provide people.
• Naruto told Minato that he and Sasuke were taking a break while handling other matters.
• Naruto asked Minato what he thought of the Third Hokage serving as Hokage in the Pure Land.

Naruto, Minato, and Jiraiya argued over who would be sent to the Pure Land, but Sakura assigned the captives to Minato and ordered Naruto to prepare the handover. When they reached the sixth level of the Underground City, they discovered Hashirama performing on a huge open-air stage.

• Jiraiya and Minato each pleaded with Naruto to spare them from the personnel assignment, but Sakura, Hinata, and Karin arrived and demanded that the Sage of Six Paths matter be handled.
• Haruno Sakura assigned the Third Hokage and the captives held by the God of Machines to Pure Land leader Minato Namikaze.
• Naruto directed Jiraiya to Nagato at the Orochimaru Base, warning that Nan Jie was pregnant and might not help him.
• Naruto and the others went to the sixth level of the Underground City to prepare the handover ceremony.
• Sakura, Naruto, and their companions found the gathering area transformed into an open-air stage, where Hashirama Senju was performing as part of the Konoha Handsome Group.

Naruto and Tsunade watched Hashirama and Madara Uchiha perform a concert on the sixth floor, prompting Tsunade to summon Tobirama. Tobirama carried Hashirama offstage, but Madara confronted him, and Hashirama stepped between them as they prepared to fight.

• Naruto and Sasuke watched Hashirama, Madara Uchiha, and Yamato sing onstage, while Sasuke rejected Madara as an Uchiha Clan ancestor.
• Tsunade asked Sakura to send Hashirama and Madara Uchiha to conquer lower floors, then called Tobirama to the sixth floor.
• Tsunade told Tobirama that Hashirama and Madara Uchiha had stripped off their clothes, and Tobirama rushed to the sixth floor.
• Tobirama saw that Hashirama and Madara Uchiha were only singing, then carried Hashirama off the stage despite his protests.
• Madara Uchiha challenged Tobirama for interfering in Hashirama's choices, and Hashirama broke free to stand between them.

The Third Hokage enjoyed his vacation at Orochimaru’s base until Naruto and Minato arrived to recruit him. Minato asked him to become Hokage of the Pure Land, leaving him despairing at the thought that neither life nor death would free him from the job.

• Jugo and Kimimaro served the Third Hokage tea and snacks before leaving to tend to Otsutsuki Park.
• The Third Hokage relaxed and congratulated himself on escaping the Hokage position, crediting Orochimaru for giving him a peaceful vacation.
• Naruto appeared through a purple Light Gate with Minato and showed him how freely the Third Hokage was spending his time.
• Minato bowed to the Third Hokage and asked him to become Hokage of the Pure Land.
• The Third Hokage tried to refuse, then realized that dying would not spare him from the position and fell into despair.

The Third Hokage chose to stay with Minato rather than return with Jiraiya, while Jiraiya failed to persuade Nagato to become Hokage. Konan prepared to take the Amegakure villagers to the Underground City, but they resisted leaving Orochimaru Base.

• The Third Hokage clung to Minato and chose to stay with him, rejecting Jiraiya's attempt to take him back.
• Naruto, Minato, and the Third Hokage accused Jiraiya of trying to trick his disciples and teachers.
• Nagato told Jiraiya that he would not become Hokage, and Jiraiya tried to change the subject by asking about the child Konan was expecting.
• Konan arranged for the Amegakure people to move into the Underground City.
• The Amegakure villagers protested leaving Orochimaru Base, and Yakushi Kabuto threatened to call Naruto if they continued yelling.

Boruto appeared during Zabuza’s prayer, took his Kubikiribōchō, renamed it the Mystic Heavy Ruler, and rewarded him with weapon-forging knowledge. Naruto then led Jiraiya and the Amegakure villagers into the Underground City, where he wondered whether his Research Shadow Clone Whirlpool Stark could repair the God of Machines.

• Boruto emerged from Zabuza’s altar, ate a chicken leg, and took the Kubikiribōchō, declaring that it would be called the Mystic Heavy Ruler.
• Boruto gave Zabuza Jade Slips containing weapon-forging knowledge and told him that the food had been too salty.
• Tao Yue noticed that the Kubikiribōchō was missing, and Haku dragged Zabuza outside by the ear after he yelled at Tao Yue.
• Jiraiya led Naruto, Konan, Nagato, and the Amegakure villagers to the second floor of the Underground City, bringing the God of Machines for Sakura-ge to examine.
• Naruto asked Jiraiya whether he had seen Whirlpool Stark, and Jiraiya said he might be working at a Research Base while remarking that Naruto overworked his Shadow Clones.

Naruto showed Nagato and the Amegakure villagers around the Underground City, where its residents had grown accustomed to its dangerous life. When Nagato questioned whether the city was truly warm and hospitable, Naruto broke up a bloody street fight and sent the brawlers away chastened.

• Naruto pointed out how the Underground City’s residents had adapted to life among monsters, while Nagato sensed that even its weakest people were unusually powerful.
• Jiraiya told Nagato not to overthink the city and advised him to give himself time to adapt.
• Naruto invited Nagato and Nan Jie to settle in, calling the Underground City warm and its folkways simple and honest.
• Several adventurers fought over loot and a dangerous technique while bystanders egged them on, frightening the newly arrived Amegakure villagers.
• Nagato challenged Naruto’s description of the city, and Naruto intervened by smashing the brawlers into the ground until they apologized.

Naruto and Jiraiya left Nagato to enjoy his warm welcome in the Underground City while Naruto and Sasuke returned to the surface. Hinata revealed Sasuke’s secret to Sakura and Karin, then claimed Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru had discovered it so Sasuke would not blame Naruto.

• The crowd celebrated Nagato, while Naruto and Jiraiya agreed the Underground City was in good hands as Naruto headed to the surface with Sasuke.
• Sakura and Karin confronted Sasuke about secretly finding women, after Hinata noticed another woman’s scent on him.
• Naruto joined Hinata to watch the argument and learned she had already identified Sasuke’s secret.
• Naruto admitted he had promised to keep Sasuke’s secret, and Hinata reassured him that she had blamed Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru for sniffing it out.

Sasuke tried to shift blame for a rumor onto Naruto, who covered for him by claiming they had lost a cross-dressing bet. As Sasuke led Sakura and Karin away, Naruto gave Sakura the shrunken God of Machines, whose scandalous story immediately enraged the women.

• Sasuke blamed Naruto for their supposed cross-dressing, and Naruto angrily objected as Sakura, Karin, and Hinata stared at him.
• Sasuke silently threatened Naruto with his knowledge of Naruto’s secret habit and promised him more pictures, so Naruto agreed to help.
• Naruto told Hinata they had only lost a bet, and Hinata realized he was covering for Sasuke.
• Sasuke put his arms around Sakura and Karin and led them away to eat, while Naruto handed Sakura the shrunken God of Machines.
• The God of Machines began narrating a scandalous story about Naruto and Uchiha Sako, prompting Hinata, Sakura, and Karin to attack it.