Recaps

Adult Sasuke watched Jiraiya’s Hokage succession ceremony and recognized Naruto and his younger self in the crowd, while wondering how this timeline differed from his own. As the ceremony ended, he planned to investigate the timeline and saw Shikamaru approach Naruto.

• Adult Sasuke left Boruto in the crowd and used Body Flicker to get a closer look at the person cheering for Jiraiya.
• Adult Sasuke spotted Naruto and his younger self, then avoided meeting them as Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju sensed his brief appearance.
• Tsunade, Kushina, Hinata, Rock Lee, Tenten, Neji, Karin, Kakashi, and Might Guy gathered around the Hokage succession ceremony as it ended.
• Adult Sasuke considered Urashiki Otsutsuki’s plans, the strange golden-red light, and the threat he faced, then decided to investigate the timeline.
• A Blond Pineapple Head approached Naruto with a bewildered look as Adult Sasuke was about to leave.

Boruto appeared in the past and struggled to hide his identity from Naruto and the others. Kushina and Minato helped pass him off as a distant relative, while adult Sasuke followed the group to keep him safe; later, Sasuke and Neji entered the Hokage Office and found nearly every Hokage gathered there.

• The Nine-Tails recognized Boruto and told Naruto that the boy was his future son.
• Sasuke questioned Boruto, and Naruto nearly revealed their relationship before Kushina covered for him by calling him a distant relative.
• Minato recognized Boruto as Naruto’s son and invited him and Hinata to dinner, while Karin persuaded Sasuke to visit a vegetable shop.
• Adult Sasuke followed Naruto and the others after they took Boruto with them.
• That night, Sasuke and Neji entered the Hokage Office and found every Hokage except Minato, including the newly appointed Fifth Hokage, Jiraiya.

Jiraiya and the other Hokage summoned Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuga, promoted them to chunin, and ordered them to lead a new Anbu unit spying on Naruto and Kurama. Sasuke and Neji resisted, and after a fight erupted in the Hokage Office, Kakashi revealed that the confrontation had been a test.

• Jiraiya told Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuga that they had been promoted to chunin and handed them a secret mission brief.
• Sasuke asked why Konoha wanted them to spy on Naruto, and Tobirama Senju said they had been provisionally chosen to captain a new Anbu unit monitoring Naruto and the Nine-Tails.
• Hashirama Senju explained that the village feared the Nine-Tails might go berserk, but Sasuke and Neji refused to cooperate and prepared to fight the Hokage.
• Neji urged Sasuke to tell Naruto to leave Konoha as the Hokage Office erupted and a barrier blocked their escape.
• Kakashi called up to Sasuke from below and said the confrontation had been a test.

After Sasuke and Neji’s fight with the Hokage, Tobirama and Jiraiya explained that their clash had been a test of a barrier technique and of the two youths’ convictions. They revealed plans for an independent, secret New Anbu organization, leaving Sasuke questioning why Konoha would create it.

• Kakashi dispelled the barrier, and Hashirama raised a wooden fence around the destroyed Hokage Building to conceal the damage.
• Hashirama and Tobirama explained that the barrier used chakra interference to affect its targets, though it had only influenced Sasuke and Neji’s thoughts and actions.
• Tobirama teased Neji for striking first, and Jiraiya revealed that establishing the New Anbu and naming Sasuke and Neji its captains were genuine plans.
• Tobirama explained that the New Anbu would operate separately from the ninja village, answer to its own leader equal in standing to the Hokage, and require captains with independent convictions.
• Tobirama said the New Anbu would be formed before the Shinobi World Conference and remain entirely secret, while Sasuke questioned how the organization could benefit Konoha or its Hokage.

Tobirama explained that the tailed beasts may have been driven mad by a hidden power that altered their wills, and the Hokage debated how to handle the danger. The chapter ended with Jiraiya revealing that Minato had chosen to report them.

• Tobirama said past Hokage decisions had failed because their plans lacked an organization to correct events when they went astray.
• Tobirama proposed that a power greater than the Mangekyō Sharingan might have altered the tailed beasts' wills without their knowledge.
• Hashirama, Jiraiya, and Tobirama reasoned that the tailed beasts may have gone mad during their fight in Konoha, raising fears that Kurama could suffer the same change.
• Hashirama called for protecting the tailed beasts, while Tobirama favored surveillance and the Fifth Hokage proposed strengthening the Jinchūriki's seals.
• Jiraiya told Sasuke that Minato had chosen to report them.

Kakashi appointed Sasuke and Neji as the first captains of Kindling, a new Anbu unit tasked with protecting Kurama and Naruto for life. As Boruto struggled to hide his identity while meeting his future family, Minato sought Sasuke at Kurama’s request, and a Black-Robed Man appeared at Naruto’s door.

• Kakashi named Sasuke and Neji Kindling’s first members and assigned them to protect Kurama and Naruto and prevent Kurama from going berserk.
• Kurama grew angry at the new organization’s plans, then asked Minato to find Sasuke so he could learn what Sasuke knew about Boruto’s trip to the past.
• Kushina welcomed Boruto as her grandson while Naruto offered to teach him Ninjutsu and Hinata blushed at learning he was their future son.
• Minato returned and asked Boruto where Sasuke was, leaving Boruto convinced that Sasuke’s secret was exposed.
• Naruto opened the door and found a Black-Robed Man with black hair covering his left eye.

Adult Sasuke brought Boruto to Naruto’s home, where he learned about Kurama’s rebirth and the future threat of Isshiki. Minato and Sasuke debated why changes to the past had not altered their future, but they reached no conclusion.

• Adult Sasuke pretended to be a stranger while asking Naruto to return Boruto, but Naruto noticed Sasuke’s missing arm and questioned whether his younger self had caused it.
• Boruto rushed out and revealed that Naruto knew about his identity, while Minato addressed Adult Sasuke by name and invited him inside.
• Adult Sasuke was shocked to see the reborn Kurama, who explained that Naruto had survived his disappearance and that the enemy who forced his sacrifice had likely been defeated.
• Minato described Naruto’s earlier time-travel encounter with Sara, and Adult Sasuke and Minato compared it with the warning that changing history could damage time.
• Naruto learned that Adult Sasuke had married Sakura and had a daughter, Sarada, while Minato and Sasuke continued debating how space-time worked without reaching an answer.

Naruto, Adult Sasuke, and the Hokage investigated an attack on the Tailed Beasts in the Forest of Death. Adult Sasuke identified the attacker’s space-time disturbance as Urashiki Otsutsuki’s work.

• Kushina offered to make food for Boruto while Minato and Adult Sasuke discussed space-time ninjutsu.
• Naruto and Adult Sasuke sensed trouble at the Forest of Death and rushed there, where an explosion had destroyed Hashirama’s Wood Release Clone guarding the Tailed Beasts.
• Naruto told Tobirama and Hashirama that the attacker had exchanged a blow with him, absorbed chakra from his Rasengan, and escaped.
• Adult Sasuke and Kakashi arrived, and Kakashi went to keep other villagers away from the scene.
• Adult Sasuke recognized the space-time disturbance and said Urashiki Otsutsuki was responsible.

After Urashiki Otsutsuki fled his encounter with Naruto, the group prepared to protect the tailed beasts by moving them into Sasuke’s sealed independent space. The night ended with Sasuke returning home and finding another version of himself waiting inside.

• Adult Sasuke and Naruto told the others that Urashiki Otsutsuki had appeared and fled after Naruto confronted him.
• Naruto and the Little Nine-Tails described Urashiki’s retreat, while Adult Sasuke wondered why the arrogant Ōtsutsuki had avoided fighting Naruto.
• Sasuke proposed moving the tailed beasts into the Tsukuyomi Barrier, and he opened the independent space sealed within himself.
• Tobirama and Hashirama agreed to transfer the transformed jinchūriki, while Naruto and Kurama discussed the possibility of housing the tailed beasts inside Naruto.
• Adult Sasuke followed Sasuke home, and Sasuke found a black-cloaked, one-armed version of himself sitting on the sofa.

Sasuke spent the morning training and walking through Konoha while his adult counterpart followed him. After buying chrysanthemums, Sasuke handed them to the adult and told him to find somewhere secluded.

• Sasuke trained through the night while Adult Sasuke watched and recovered his chakra.
• Karin delivered Sasuke a lunchbox, and Shikamaru told him the chunin exam results would be announced that afternoon.
• Sasuke asked Shikamaru for directions to a flower shop, then told Kazahana Koyuki he would collect Izumi's debt when she left Konoha.
• Sasuke passed Rock Lee and Tazuna without stopping to talk about their debts.
• Sasuke bought white and yellow chrysanthemums at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, handed them to Adult Sasuke, and asked him to find somewhere private.

Sasuke brought his adult counterpart to the Uchiha Clan's shrine and showed him their parents' frozen bodies. They discussed Itachi's possible plan to resurrect the Uchiha, and Sasuke ended by admitting that hearing about his counterpart's suffering made him hate him even more.

• Sasuke led Adult Sasuke to the Naka Shrine and brought him into the Tsukuyomi dimension.
• Adult Sasuke saw Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku preserved inside the Giant Ice and placed chrysanthemums beside Izumi's bouquet.
• Sasuke and Adult Sasuke discussed the surviving Uchiha, Itachi's death, and why Sasuke had not buried their parents.
• Adult Sasuke suggested Itachi wanted to atone by resurrecting their parents and explained the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
• After hearing about Adult Sasuke's past, Sasuke said he could not have endured the same suffering, then told him that was why he hated him even more.

Sasuke confronted his adult self about abandoning his strength and learned that the Uchiha Stone Tablet had been altered again, possibly by Shisui Uchiha. In the Forest of Death, Hashirama Senju finished preparing a trap and Urashiki Otsutsuki appeared.

• Sasuke explained how Naruto's kunai and strength had changed his outlook, then challenged Adult Sasuke over refusing to restore his arm despite loving his family.
• Adult Sasuke admitted he had lost his drive to seek strength and recognized that Sasuke was stronger in spirit than he had been at that age.
• Sasuke dispelled the Tsukuyomi Barrier, and Adult Sasuke noticed new warnings about the Tailed Beasts on the Uchiha Stone Tablet.
• Sasuke recalled that Shisui Uchiha may have altered the tablet after the massacre.
• Hashirama Senju set Wood Release traps in the Forest of Death and began gambling with his clones while standing guard.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki emerged from a black alternate dimension in the Forest of Death.

Hashirama Senju ambushed Urashiki Otsutsuki, but Urashiki escaped and tried to steal tailed beast chakra from the giant Zongzi. Tobirama Senju’s repeated explosive traps left Urashiki poisoned, injured, and convinced the past had been prepared to ambush him.

• Hashirama Senju attacked Urashiki Otsutsuki with Sage Art: Gate of the Great God and a barrage of Wood Release techniques.
• Urashiki transformed his Byakugan into a Blue Rinnegan, escaped Hashirama’s attacks, and struck back with his fishing rod.
• Urashiki abandoned the fight and hooked a giant Zongzi, but Tobirama Senju’s explosive trap engulfed him.
• Urashiki tried to collect chakra from several Zongzi, triggering repeated explosions and even detonating the chakra clump he had obtained.
• Hashirama and Tobirama noticed Urashiki’s worsening poisoning and injuries as he grew enraged at the traps.

Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze’s trap forced the poisoned Urashiki Otsutsuki to retreat before he could steal Hashirama’s chakra. Tobirama Senju joined them afterward, and the group headed toward the Hokage Office as Hashirama wondered how Urashiki had been injured so badly.

• Urashiki Otsutsuki pierced Hashirama Senju with his Red Light Fishing Rod but failed to steal chakra because Hashirama’s body had a sealing jutsu.
• Hashirama’s poisonous pollen worsened Urashiki Otsutsuki’s condition, and Minato Namikaze sealed the space-time rift Urashiki tried to use to escape.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki exhausted his eye power while rewinding time, then escaped through a shrinking Yomotsu Hirasaka before Minato could stop him.
• Tobirama Senju arrived by Flying Thunder God and told Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze that Urashiki had been severely wounded.
• Minato Namikaze said Naruto and the others were at the Hokage Office for the Chunin Ninja Exams results, and Tobirama Senju agreed to go there with them.

Jiraiya promoted Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru, Neji, and Rock Lee to Chunin, then surprised Naruto by making him a Jonin. As the village celebrated, Adult Sasuke sensed Urashiki Otsutsuki returning to the Forest of Death and saw the First, Second, and Fourth Hokage arrive.

• Jiraiya announced that Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru, Neji, and Rock Lee had earned promotions to Chunin and presented them with vests and appointment letters.
• Jiraiya called Naruto forward and promoted him to Jonin, prompting the assembled ninja to applaud.
• Sasuke vowed to close the gap with Naruto, while Hinata celebrated and Shikamaru wondered about the missing Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
• Adult Sasuke sensed Urashiki Otsutsuki's space-time ability near the Forest of Death and prepared to enlist Naruto's Flying Thunder God ability.
• Adult Sasuke saw the Second Hokage and Fourth Hokage arrive at the building with the First.

Tobirama Senju concluded that Urashiki Otsutsuki could briefly rewind time, but the injured Urashiki escaped and was consumed by another version of himself. The surviving Urashiki vowed to change events, while Tobirama began searching for a way to track him.

• Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha and explained that his clones were tracking Urashiki, who had escaped their trap despite being badly injured.
• Poisoned by Wood Release pollen, Urashiki Otsutsuki fled to a river channel and tried to understand how the Leaf had prepared for him.
• Another Urashiki Otsutsuki emerged from a space-time rift, turned the injured Urashiki into a red fruit, and consumed it to gain power.
• Tobirama Senju found traces of pollen at the river but no sign of Urashiki, and decided to search nearby and develop a tracking ninjutsu.
• Tobirama Senju told the gathered allies that Urashiki could briefly rewind time or foresee the future, and judged that he most likely rewound time without affecting his own body.

The Hokage analyzed Urashiki Otsutsuki’s abilities while Naruto struggled to follow their discussion. Kurama’s question to Adult Sasuke led them to suspect that a Rinnegan ability had erased memories and might be affecting the tailed beasts.

• The Hokage discussed how Urashiki stole chakra and rewound time, and Minato Namikaze suggested his sealing formula had prevented Urashiki from stealing their chakra.
• Naruto asked Kurama for information, and Kurama realized Naruto knew little about the Ōtsutsuki because Sasuke had only given him brief explanations.
• Kurama asked Adult Sasuke whether he could erase memories without sealing or genjutsu, and Sasuke confirmed that his Rinnegan could.
• Naruto explained that Sasuke had erased Kurama’s memories of Urashiki’s defeat and shared Kurama’s theory that a Rinnegan ability might be altering the tailed beasts’ memories.
• Minato Namikaze suggested that another Ōtsutsuki might be secretly influencing the tailed beasts, and the others could not rule it out.

The Hokage agreed on preparations to find Urashiki Otsutsuki, strengthen their forces, and protect the tailed beasts. Their plans made Adult Sasuke reconsider the burdens he and Naruto had carried in his own timeline, and he vowed to prevent their sacrifices if he could return.

• The Hokage discussed the tailed beasts’ abnormal state and planned for the possibility that Urashiki Otsutsuki was behind it.
• The Hokage assigned Hashirama and Minato to search the shinobi world for Urashiki, while Tobirama organized a team to develop ninjutsu against the Rinnegan.
• Jiraiya directed Sarutobi and himself to strengthen Konoha and unite the shinobi factions, while Naruto, Sasuke, and Kurama prepared to defend the village.
• Adult Sasuke reflected on how Naruto and he had struggled alone against the Ōtsutsuki and wondered whether the shinobi world deserved his sacrifice.
• Adult Sasuke told Kurama that if he could return to his own time, he would never let Kurama and Naruto sacrifice themselves again.

Kimimaro woke in Konoha after Neji saved his life, then learned he had been placed in a special prison where his cooperation with experiments would count as labor. He remained a guarded prisoner and research subject, confused by Konoha’s regulations.

• Kimimaro remembered how Neji hid until his illness weakened him, then asked Lady Katsuyu to keep him alive.
• Tsunade told Tobirama that Kimimaro had a congenital hereditary disease and that she had used methods to prolong his life.
• Tobirama had Kimimaro reinforced with shackles and seals, then took the bloodied cloth Tsunade handed him.
• Konoha staff placed Kimimaro in a nutrient pod at a laboratory and identified him as prisoner number seven.
• A Konoha staff member explained that prison labor could include experiments, leaving Kimimaro baffled by his sentence and the costs of his care.

Kimimaro questioned Konoha’s new prisoner regulations, while Tobirama explained the reforms to Ibiki and prepared for the coming Shinobi World Conference. At Ichiraku Ramen, Hidan was escorted back to prison after a supervised meal, and Teuchi welcomed Naruto.

• Kimimaro learned that Konoha had introduced new rules for prisoners and doubted the village’s reasons for treating captives differently.
• Ibiki told Tobirama that the Interrogation Department was struggling to abandon torture and other established methods.
• Tobirama urged Ibiki to help Konoha adapt to new regulations ahead of the Shinobi World Conference and handed him a test tube containing blood from the burlap.
• Hidan ate ramen at Ichiraku, lamented his treatment and the study of Jashin, then returned to prison with a Konoha Ninja.
• Teuchi greeted Naruto when he arrived at Ichiraku.

Naruto took Boruto to Ichiraku for ramen and encouraged him to focus on training while the adults handled village problems. At a Konoha training facility, Sasuke demonstrated his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan to Adult Sasuke, who discovered that Sasuke could use both Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi through one eye.

• Naruto and Boruto visited Ichiraku, where Boruto learned that both Sasuke and Adult Sasuke had gone away for special training.
• Naruto told Boruto to use the time when adults could protect him to improve his abilities and prepare for future problems.
• At a Konoha training facility, Sasuke asked Adult Sasuke to help him understand his Mangekyō Sharingan and described its unusual awakening.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu from his right eye, then made the black flames disappear with Kagutsuchi.
• Adult Sasuke realized Sasuke had both of his Mangekyō abilities in one eye and questioned why Sasuke had not instinctively understood them.

Adult Sasuke investigated why young Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan had awakened abnormally and suspected a connection to Indra’s chakra and Naruto. After training Sasuke in his eye abilities, they went to Naruto, where Adult Sasuke asked to see the Metamorphosis Mode Naruto had mastered on the day Sasuke’s eye awakened.

• Adult Sasuke noticed unusual chakra in Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan and suspected it might be Indra’s chakra.
• Sasuke failed to activate Susanoo with only one Mangekyō Sharingan, and Adult Sasuke concluded that his eye had not awakened normally.
• Adult Sasuke trained Sasuke in using Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi through the night.
• At Naruto’s training ground, Boruto fought Konohamaru while Hinata and Hanabi watched.
• Sasuke asked Naruto about the day his eye awakened, and Adult Sasuke asked Naruto to demonstrate his Metamorphosis Mode.

Naruto briefly demonstrated Metamorphosis Mode to the two Sasukes after getting Kurama’s permission, and Adult Sasuke was astonished by its power. Jiraiya then assigned Naruto a confidential mission to deliver information to Uchiha Itachi, but Naruto suggested someone else was better suited.

• Naruto explained that Metamorphosis Mode was classified as a Forbidden Technique, then asked Kurama for permission to use it briefly.
• Naruto activated Metamorphosis Mode while the two Sasukes watched, and Kurama warned him to stop when his chakra began burning too fiercely.
• Adult Sasuke could not identify the source of Naruto’s power with his Rinnegan and wondered why Naruto had sensed someone approaching before he had.
• A Konoha ninja summoned Naruto to the Hokage Office, where Jiraiya asked about news of Urashiki Otsutsuki and gave him a confidential mission for Uchiha Itachi.
• After reading the mission scroll, Naruto told Jiraiya that someone else was better suited to deliver it.

Uchiha Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki kept the Land of Fire's Daimyo and potential successors missing to force Konoha to send someone. As Adult Sasuke approached the Daimyo Mansion, Itachi noticed him among the crows overhead.

• The Daimyo Mansion's officials argued over the Daimyo's disappearance and the repeated disappearances of anyone who tried to take his place or wield his authority.
• Uchiha Itachi listened from the mansion roof as crows reported on the situation, confirming that events had followed the Fourth Hokage's prediction.
• Kisame Hoshigaki told Itachi that he had taken away another Daimyo candidate, and Itachi instructed him to keep the mansion leaderless until Konoha sent someone.
• Kisame explained that they planned to question whoever Konoha sent, while Itachi said he would assess that person first.
• Adult Sasuke stopped in the woods outside the Daimyo Mansion and looked up at the circling crows, and Itachi recognized him.

Adult Sasuke was assigned by Naruto and Jiraiya to a mission involving Itachi, then encountered Itachi and Kisame near the capital of the Land of Fire. Itachi recognized the older Sasuke in his Tsukuyomi and asked what he needed.

• Naruto and Jiraiya chose Adult Sasuke for a mission to approach Itachi, despite Sasuke wanting to refuse.
• Naruto gave Sasuke an activated sealing scroll connected to Shisui Uchiha.
• Sasuke spotted Kisame attacking him, then realized Kisame was trapped in a genjutsu and fighting an illusion.
• Itachi appeared beside Sasuke and used Tsukuyomi after noticing Naruto's chakra on him.
• Sasuke told Itachi he was his younger brother, and Itachi asked what he needed him to do.