Chapter Summaries

Tobirama and Minato prepared to undo the seal binding Shukaku inside Gaara, who agreed to cooperate in exchange for his companions’ release. Naruto arrived at the laboratory to help, recognizing something familiar about the sealing as the experiment began.

• Tobirama told Hashirama that an Akatsuki member had tested Konoha’s security and sent a Shadow Clone to summon Naruto and the Nine-Tails to the laboratory.
• Minato assured Gaara that Konoha would release his companions and resume peace talks with Sunagakure if he cooperated, and Gaara agreed.
• Gaara questioned Shukaku, who said he had regained his memories after seeing an Ōtsutsuki and promised to protect Gaara and the other tailed beasts.
• Minato and Kushina prepared to release Shukaku from Gaara’s seal while the Two-Tails and Three-Tails remained restrained nearby.
• Tobirama summoned Naruto, who left his packed belongings behind and traveled to the laboratory with the Second Hokage’s Shadow Clone.
• Naruto arrived as Minato and Kushina worked on the seal and said it looked familiar.

Minato and Kushina broke the seal on Shukaku, releasing a chakra figure who identified herself as Himawari Uzumaki, Naruto’s daughter from the future. Meanwhile, Kisame spotted Boruto, Hinata, and Neji near Konoha, and the chapter ended as Hinata and Neji noticed him hiding nearby.

• Naruto and Tobirama recognized that the seal on Shukaku resembled the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and discussed its connection to Ōtsutsuki power.
• Shukaku lashed out during the unsealing, but Naruto and Kurama restrained him while Minato continued the jutsu.
• Minato shattered the seal, releasing a surge of chakra that formed a woman who introduced herself as Himawari Uzumaki, Naruto’s daughter and Boruto’s younger sister.
• Kisame escaped his pursuers and spotted Boruto walking with Hinata and Neji near Konoha’s Shopping Street.
• Boruto asked Neji to teach him the Divine Empty Strike and Byakugan, and Hinata and Neji sensed Kisame hiding nearby.

Hinata realized Neji might have unspoken hopes and tried to learn what he wanted, while Neji and Boruto grew close during their time together. After Adult Sasuke explained that Boruto and Neji would eventually have to part, Neji reacted angrily when someone interrupted their remaining time.

• Naruto told Hinata he worried Neji might have regretted sacrificing himself, since others rarely asked what Neji wanted.
• Hinata resolved to discover Neji's dream and help him, then spent time with him while training Boruto.
• Neji and Boruto became close, and Boruto was impressed by Neji's strength and regretted that his uncle had died young in the future.
• Adult Sasuke explained that Boruto and Neji would have to return to their own timeline, leaving them with fewer days together.
• Neji felt anger when someone appeared to interrupt his time with Boruto.

Neji fought Kisame after exposing his attempt to enter the village, but Samehada let Kisame keep fighting despite Neji sealing his chakra points. As Hashirama approached and Boruto watched the battle, a hidden consciousness inside Boruto began to awaken.

• Neji spotted Kisame with his Byakugan, and Kisame demanded that the group hand over the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Neji struck Kisame with the Eight Gates Released Formation and Gentle Fist, then crushed him with Divine Sora Strike, but Kisame drew chakra from Samehada and survived.
• Neji deduced that Kisame and Samehada shared a chakra source, then countered Kisame's attempted distraction and ambush with shadow clones.
• Hinata warned Boruto about Kisame and encouraged him to observe Neji's shadow-clone fighting style.
• Hashirama watched the battle and wondered whether to intervene, while a consciousness inside Boruto began to awaken.

Himawari Uzumaki appeared as a fragment of chakra sealed inside Shukaku and delivered a warning from her brother about Momoshiki. Minato and Tobirama realized Shukaku's claim that this was the future might explain why people from different eras had arrived in their time, but they still needed to learn why events had initially resembled the past.

• The Nine-Tails explained that Himawari was a fragment of chakra, and she recognized Naruto as her young father before realizing the seal had opened too early.
• Himawari told Minato, Tobirama, Naruto, and the others that her brother had sealed her chakra inside Shukaku as a backup plan after divine Jutsu altered memories and tailed-beast minds.
• Himawari relayed her brother's message that Momoshiki was Peach, an Ōtsutsuki, and their only hope.
• Minato questioned why a seal made by twenty-year-old Himawari existed on Shukaku in their era, and Naruto asked the Nine-Tails to release Shukaku.
• Shukaku explained that they had not traveled to the past; their era was actually the future, prompting Minato to connect the arrivals and altered events.

Minato and Tobirama realized that the events they had thought were the future had already happened twice, and Shukaku began recounting what he remembered after his final battle with Isshiki Otsutsuki. Shukaku described Boruto's later struggles and the peace that followed, then began to explain how strange events appeared across the Shinobi World.

• Minato explained that the events from Kurama's previous life were their past, not their future, and Tobirama activated monitoring equipment to study Shukaku's divine art.
• Shukaku said Boruto had prepared for the possibility of defeat and that Himawari's seal had been placed before the final battle against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Naruto reminded Shukaku that they had fought Urashiki Otsutsuki, and Shukaku recalled his last battle alongside Naruto, Sasuke, and others against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Shukaku recounted that Momoshiki Otsutsuki awakened inside Boruto, that an Ōtsutsuki divine art altered people's memories and perceptions, and that Boruto eventually resolved the crisis using Momoshiki's power.
• Himawari confirmed that Boruto had been treated as an enemy despite saving the Shinobi World, and Shukaku said peace followed before strange events began occurring in various places.

Shukaku recounted how an Ōtsutsuki-related Divine Art corrupted people across the shinobi world and made the tailed beasts its targets. He revealed that Sasuke died investigating the threat and left Naruto a warning about stopping a returning god; Naruto’s past self had used his Rinnegan ability before learning who the enemy was.

• Shukaku said corrupted Ninja and Commoners worshipped an Ōtsutsuki god, while the Five Kage tried to contain the spreading chaos.
• Shukaku explained that Naruto had borrowed most of the tailed beasts’ chakra to fight alongside Boruto, and that the enemy had targeted the tailed beasts.
• Shukaku revealed that Sasuke had investigated the anomaly, discovered the tailed beasts were targets, and returned to Konoha mortally wounded with coded intelligence.
• Sasuke told Naruto he had found the rest in his eye before collapsing, and Naruto later wept at his funeral.
• The Ninja deciphered Sasuke’s warning to prevent the tailed beasts from becoming a fruit and use his eye to annihilate the returning god’s soul.

Shukaku explained that the future Naruto used Six Paths Samsara to recreate the world after the tailed beasts were defeated, and Tobirama questioned what memories and safeguards had survived. The chapter ended with Minato, Tobirama, and Kurama realizing that the enemy might also have escaped the reset.

• Shukaku revealed that future Naruto used Sasuke's Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken Six Paths Samsara and recreate the world.
• Naruto briefly saw an image of his future self and found himself crying, while Kurama reassured him that he would not have to suffer that future.
• Shukaku explained that the tailed beasts who had linked chakra with Naruto might retain his memories, though the Two-Tails and Three-Tails remained asleep.
• Tobirama questioned the power of Naruto's Rinnegan and whether preserving the tailed beasts' memories had been part of Naruto's plan.
• Shukaku said the memories were likely preserved by accident, prompting Minato, Tobirama, and Kurama to fear that the enemy might also have survived the reset.

Naruto and the others left to investigate the tailed beasts and search for the hidden enemy called Reshape, while Tobirama secretly tested Shukaku’s claims with a lie-detection device. Tobirama grew alarmed when Minato confirmed that Naruto and Kurama shared a chakra link but not their memories.

• The Nine-Tails identified Reshape as a possible threat, and Naruto agreed to find and kill him while Minato and Tobirama assigned the Shinobi World to gather information.
• Minato sent Kushina, Naruto, Himawari, and Shukaku to visit Boruto, and Naruto used Flying Thunder God to take them away.
• Tobirama privately showed Minato a lie-detection scanner and revealed that some of Shukaku’s statements had triggered it, though Himawari’s had not.
• Tobirama asked whether Kurama had a chakra link with Naruto and whether they shared memories; Minato confirmed the link but denied that they shared memories.
• Tobirama concluded that the situation was more troublesome than the conflict with Madara.

Momoshiki took control of Boruto and fought Kisame, alarming the shinobi who recognized the possession. Naruto ended the battle with a single blow, knocking both fighters down and leaving Boruto alive but unconscious.

• Momoshiki awakened inside Boruto and fought Kisame after mistaking the situation, while Neji, Hinata, and Hashirama prepared to intervene.
• Adult Sasuke and Uchiha Itachi arrived, and Sasuke recognized that Momoshiki had taken up residence inside Boruto.
• Hidan rushed toward Kisame with shinobi wearing Chakra Armor, then Naruto arrived as the Nine-Tails warned him about Ōtsutsuki power.
• Naruto struck Kisame and Momoshiki into the ground just as their attacks were about to collide, knocking Boruto unconscious.
• Naruto checked that Boruto was still alive, while Hashirama's wood bound Kisame as he tried to escape.

Boruto woke in the hospital with no memory of Momoshiki’s possession, while Tsunade and the others struggled to find a way to detect or remove the Ōtsutsuki. Naruto decided to seek answers from Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon, and Neji and Hinata prepared to go, with Hiashi entrusting them to represent the Hyuga Clan.

• Adult Sasuke questioned Boruto about Momoshiki, but Boruto remembered only Kisame charging before everything went blank.
• Tsunade and Kushina scolded Naruto for injuring Boruto, then learned Kurama had sensed Momoshiki possessing him.
• Tsunade admitted that her examinations had found no unusual chakra in Boruto and that she had no clear way to deal with the possession.
• Naruto decided to change their destination and visit Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon to learn more about the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Neji invited Hiashi to join the trip, but Hiashi said Neji and Hinata should represent the Hyuga Clan instead.

Naruto, Neji, Hinata, and Boruto set out for the moon after Naruto obtained permission to leave Konoha. Meanwhile, the diminished Akatsuki gathered and learned that Kisame had been captured, but Itachi revealed he had obtained intelligence from the mission.

• Naruto secured permission for the team to leave Konoha and led Neji, Hinata, and the injured Boruto toward the moon.
• Kushina saw them off and urged them to stay safe, while Minato privately worried about Kurama's hidden plans and resolved to support Naruto's generation.
• Obito observed that only Pain, Konan, Zetsu, himself, and Itachi remained in the Akatsuki.
• Pain asked about Kisame, and Itachi said Konoha had captured him.
• Obito challenged Pain over sending members to investigate Konoha, and Pain reminded him that Obito had planned to attack Konoha first.
• Obito asked Itachi whether the mission had produced any intelligence, and Itachi confirmed that it had.

Itachi accused Obito of being the spy who had revealed the Akatsuki’s plans to Konoha, identifying him as Obito Uchiha, Minato Namikaze’s former student. Obito tried to preserve his standing in the organization by questioning Itachi’s loyalty, and Konan challenged Itachi about how he obtained the secret intelligence.

• Itachi told Pain that the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze had returned and had helped Konoha foil the Akatsuki’s plans.
• Itachi claimed that a spy within the Akatsuki had leaked its movements to Konoha.
• Itachi pointed to Tobi and identified him as Obito Uchiha, Minato Namikaze’s former student.
• Obito denied that his concealed identity proved disloyalty and reminded Pain that he still supported the Akatsuki’s goals.
• Obito accused Itachi of being the real spy, while Itachi replied that Konoha was also collecting the Tailed Beasts.
• Konan questioned how Itachi had obtained such classified intelligence and what he had done in Konoha.

Itachi explained that Konoha’s operation involving Deidara had targeted everyone and accused someone within the Akatsuki of leaking information. After presenting evidence about the organization’s failed missions, he revealed that he had brought Sasuke back as proof.

• Itachi claimed Konoha had trapped the Akatsuki and described how Kisame was captured after fighting the First and Naruto Uzumaki.
• Itachi said he encountered Sasuke Uchiha in Konoha, lured him away, and questioned him under genjutsu.
• Itachi challenged Zetsu’s assessment of Sasuke and questioned Obito about sparing Sasuke during the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Itachi linked Konoha’s past operations against Akatsuki members to information he said Sasuke had learned, arguing that an insider had tipped them off.
• Obito demanded proof that Itachi had obtained Sasuke’s memories, and Itachi revealed that he had brought Sasuke back as evidence.

Itachi persuaded the Akatsuki that Obito might be a traitor by claiming Sasuke had revealed the organization’s secrets, and Pain ordered everyone to gather at Itachi’s location. Itachi then revealed to Adult Sasuke and Kakashi that the plan was proceeding smoothly and Obito would likely arrive before the others.

• Itachi told the Akatsuki that Sasuke had exposed Obito as a Konoha agent and offered to let them verify Sasuke’s memories.
• Pain said he trusted neither Itachi nor Obito and ordered the organization to gather at Itachi’s location, bringing the New Member as a surprise force.
• Obito agreed to go and confront Itachi, while Zetsu questioned whether he could defeat him.
• Itachi ended the Magic Lantern Body Technique and told Adult Sasuke and Kakashi that Obito would likely come ahead of the others.

Naruto and his team searched a vast forest for the cavern leading to the moon, but made little progress on foot. Naruto took Hinata flying to scout from above, and she found the cavern within hours.

• Neji and Hinata returned from scouting, but neither had found the cavern that Kurama vaguely remembered.
• Naruto decided the team would return to the village to rest, using his Flying Thunder God to travel between home and the forest.
• The next day, Naruto carried Hinata through the sky using Metamorphosis Mode while she searched the ground with her Byakugan.
• Hinata found the underground cavern in less than a few hours and was reluctant to leave Naruto's arms.

Naruto, Boruto, Neji, and Hinata traveled through a strange underground spring to the moon, where Neji encountered puppets that called him the Prince of the Byakugan. A light from the puppets entered Neji and brought him face-to-face with the voice of Hamura Otsutsuki.

• Naruto and the others explored the underground spring, and Kurama warned them about its genjutsu bubbles and a giant crab.
• The group descended through the spring and arrived on the moon, where Naruto realized he could no longer pinpoint his Flying Thunder God marks.
• Neji went to scout and found himself separated from the others by an unseen barrier.
• Masked puppets surrounded Neji, called him the Prince of the Byakugan, and asked him to save their master, but then fell apart.
• A strange light from the puppets entered Neji, and Hamura Otsutsuki asked him where he came from.

Naruto and his family were attacked by invisible enemies near the coast, while Neji was drawn into Hamura Otsutsuki’s memory world. Naruto’s shadow clone found Neji there and met Hamura, who said he had once foreseen their meeting.

• Naruto sensed an approaching presence, entered Fox Sage Mode, and used the Great Waterfall Technique to expose invisible enemies in the sea.
• Hinata spotted disturbances in the water column as the enemies moved, and Naruto asked Boruto to help capture them with Lightning Release.
• Naruto’s shadow clone found Neji standing among destroyed puppets, but a mysterious light engulfed them both and transported them away.
• The clone dodged a purple beam in an alternate dimension and detected Neji approaching.
• Neji told Naruto they were in the memory world of Hamura Otsutsuki, who appeared and said he had foreseen meeting Naruto.

Naruto learned that formless beings had escaped Hamura Otsutsuki’s memory world and threatened Otsutsuki Toneri in reality. Hamura began passing his remaining legacy and selected memories to Neji, while Naruto left to alert his original.

• Hamura Otsutsuki explained that formless beings had attacked his memory world for over a decade, draining his power and beginning to enter reality.
• Hamura asked Naruto to save Otsutsuki Toneri, who was in grave danger from the beings.
• Naruto questioned whether Neji was safe, then vanished to notify his original and bring him over.
• Hamura told Neji he would pass on the remainder of his legacy and selected memories before fading away.
• Hamura withdrew his power from the battle and prepared to give Neji a gift, as his Byakugan began to change.

Neji returned with Hamura’s legacy and warned Naruto that the Scum were attacking Otsutsuki Toneri’s palace over something connected to Naruto. Naruto, Hinata, Boruto, and Neji fought through the monsters and reached Toneri’s sealed room, where Naruto sent Boruto to knock.

• Neji returned to the forest and told Naruto that Hamura’s legacy identified the invisible monsters as Scum, remnants of an Ōtsutsuki, and that they were attacking Toneri over something connected to Naruto.
• Naruto demonstrated that the Scum absorbed chakra and ninjutsu, then agreed with Neji, Hinata, and Boruto to find Toneri.
• Toneri hid in a sealed room as the Scum overwhelmed his puppets, while he regretted opening the palace to the monsters and wondered about his inherited mission.
• Naruto, Hinata, and Boruto swept through the palace, with Hinata and Boruto rescuing puppets as Naruto destroyed the Scum.
• Naruto found Toneri behind a closed door, and after Hinata suggested knocking, Naruto told Boruto to do it because he was the youngest.