Chapter Summaries

Naruto and his companions broke into Otsutsuki Toneri’s castle, subdued his combat puppets, and convinced him they had come to help. Neji proved his connection to Hamura through his eyes, and Toneri learned that the monsters could finally be killed, which made him fear that Hamura’s memories had disappeared.

• Naruto blasted open Toneri’s door after Toneri refused to let the group in, and his combat puppets attacked before Naruto, Hinata, and Boruto subdued them.
• Neji told Toneri that their visit concerned Hamura’s will, and Toneri recognized Neji’s eyes as those of their ancestor and accepted his identity.
• Naruto noticed the tomoe necklace Toneri wore, but neither he nor the Nine-Tails could recall where they had seen it.
• Toneri led the group to a balcony, where he saw Naruto’s Shadow Clones defeating the monsters while Neji’s and Hinata’s clones cleared the castle.
• Neji explained that the monsters had been reborn from Hamura’s memories, and Toneri wondered whether their deaths meant those memories had vanished.

Toneri discussed Hinata’s Tenseigan and Boruto’s connection to the Ōtsutsuki, then helped Naruto draw Momoshiki out of Boruto. Naruto trapped Momoshiki’s soul with the Modified Reincarnation Seal, leaving him unable to retreat into Boruto’s consciousness.

• Toneri welcomed Naruto and the others and agreed to share the Moon branch’s knowledge of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Toneri speculated that Naruto’s stored natural energy might explain Hinata’s unusual constitution and Tenseigan, and said he needed time and equipment to examine her.
• Toneri identified Momoshiki as an awakened Ōtsutsuki inside Boruto and began a secret technique to force him out.
• Momoshiki possessed Boruto, broke Toneri’s restraining rings, and realized he had been tricked.
• Naruto used the Modified Reincarnation Seal to bind Momoshiki’s soul and stop him from retreating into Boruto’s consciousness.

Toneri and Naruto confronted Momoshiki, who was trapped inside Boruto and answered Naruto’s questions under his influence. Momoshiki revealed that he obeyed Naruto because Naruto bore the aura of a god, though he could not explain what that meant.

• Momoshiki hurled insults at Toneri until Naruto slapped Boruto’s possessed body and made him fall silent.
• Toneri explained that he had suspected Boruto’s Kāma and had tested whether Naruto could restrain the Ōtsutsuki inside him.
• Momoshiki told Naruto that he could not leave Boruto without dying and described how the Ōtsutsuki chose vessels through Kāma.
• Naruto pressed Momoshiki for clan secrets, and Momoshiki answered whenever Naruto insisted.
• Momoshiki said Naruto bore the aura of a god and confirmed that he regarded Naruto as a god by instinct, but he did not know what the aura meant.

Naruto questioned Momoshiki about the Ōtsutsuki and negotiated terms to protect Boruto, but Momoshiki returned to Boruto without agreeing to obey him. Toneri explained Hinata and Neji’s awakened tenseigan and prepared training materials, leaving Naruto to question whether Hinata had to stay on the moon.

• Momoshiki said he sensed a divine aura on Naruto and explained that he would answer questions because of Naruto’s status, while the Nine-Tails wondered whether Urashiki had come from another timeline.
• Momoshiki revealed that he and Boruto shared a symbiotic bond and that either one would die if the other died, so Naruto agreed to let him return to Boruto for now.
• Naruto released the Reincarnation Seal’s restrictions, and Momoshiki returned to Boruto, who woke up and resolved to work hard to catch up with his father.
• Toneri confirmed that Hinata and Neji had awakened tenseigan from exceptionally pure Byakugan and said Hinata would need targeted training to master its power.
• Toneri recounted how his branch had destroyed itself over its beliefs about the shinobi world and said he had arranged for puppets to deliver training texts to Hinata’s room.
• Naruto asked Toneri whether Hinata had to stay on the moon.

Toneri struggled to define his duty as the last member of the lunar branch and agreed that its knowledge could help Neji and Hinata. Naruto suggested Toneri return to Konoha with them, and Neji challenged him to a spar.

• Toneri told Neji that inheriting Hamura’s eyes gave him a responsibility to carry on their ancestor’s legacy, but he could not explain what that responsibility required.
• Toneri realized the lunar branch had failed to observe or protect the Shinobi World and had nearly destroyed itself, leaving him alone.
• Toneri offered to help Neji and Hinata study the lunar branch’s heritage and the Byakugan, and Naruto suggested they bring the knowledge and Toneri back to Konoha.
• Naruto pointed out that Toneri was unlikely to defeat future Ōtsutsuki attackers by staying on the moon, and Toneri weakly insisted he could train.
• Neji recognized Toneri had trained alone since childhood and invited him outside to spar.

Neji quickly defeated Toneri, who accepted the gap between them and asked to see the shinobi world. After Naruto and the others finished clearing the moon of monsters, Toneri took Naruto to the Hamura Shrine while Hinata and the rest explored the castle records.

• Neji interrupted Toneri’s challenge and defeated him in three brief exchanges, exposing Toneri’s lack of combat experience.
• Toneri asked whether Neji was the strongest Hyuga, then agreed to rest before visiting the shinobi world with him.
• Naruto said his shadow clones would finish dealing with the monsters by nightfall, and Toneri offered rooms and meals to the group.
• The next day, Toneri brought Naruto alone to the Hamura Shrine while Hinata and the others searched the castle records and Boruto stayed under a shadow clone’s watch.
• Naruto wandered through the spotless shrine, marveling at its chakra-powered cleaning system and thinking of telling his parents about it.

Toneri brought Naruto to the moon temple, where the Giant Tenseigan revealed a seal left by Hagoromo Otsutsuki. Toneri gave Naruto the tomoe necklace to activate it and sent him onward, while the Nine-Tails recognized the Sage’s chakra.

• Toneri explained that the Giant Tenseigan stored and circulated energy across the moon and had been formed from his clan’s Byakugan.
• Toneri activated a pattern on the Giant Tenseigan by feeding chakra into his tomoe necklace.
• The Nine-Tails recognized the pattern as a seal left by Hagoromo Otsutsuki and sensed the Sage’s chakra within the Tenseigan.
• Toneri found that the necklace fit a gap in the pattern but could not place it there himself, so he handed it to Naruto and told him to proceed alone.
• The Nine-Tails manifested as Little Nine-Tails on Naruto’s head, and Toneri felt an unexplained certainty that no one else could take the necklace.

Naruto and the Nine-Tails activated a mysterious tomoe necklace at the Giant Tenseigan, which Toneri later remembered was a trap left by Hagoromo Otsutsuki. Naruto remained unharmed, but the Nine-Tails vanished from his Inner World, leaving Naruto fearing Kurama had been caught.

• Toneri gave Naruto the tomoe necklace, and Naruto fitted it into the Giant Tenseigan.
• The necklace and Tenseigan produced a Yin-Yang light that enveloped Naruto and the Nine-Tails before fading.
• Toneri recovered a suppressed memory of Hagoromo placing the necklace on him and warning that it would trap a future threat.
• Toneri realized Naruto was in danger, but Naruto was still beside the Tenseigan and did not understand what had happened.
• Naruto discovered that the Nine-Tails was missing from his Inner World and feared the trap had captured him.

Kurama was transported with his original body into a strange space, where he fought a Susanoo that could control his chakra. After destroying it, he met Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, who was surprised to find Kurama there.

• Kurama's original body reappeared in a strange space, where a gigantic Susanoo attacked him without warning.
• Kurama entered Baryon Mode and battered the Susanoo's forehead until its crystal cracked.
• Kurama's chakra control turned the Susanoo against itself, and it punched its own head before its sword severed it.
• Kurama ended Baryon Mode, noted that it had consumed about a twentieth of his size, and recognized the Susanoo's ability to control his chakra.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki appeared as the Susanoo vanished and asked Kurama why he was there.

The Nine-Tails met a remnant of the Sage of Six Paths inside a trap meant to counter the God of Ōtsutsuki, and learned how Naruto’s world recreation and the Sage’s contingency had unfolded. The Sage explained that his original body and Asura’s had vanished as the price of recreating the world, then began describing how the God’s divine Jutsu corrupted his memories.

• The Nine-Tails reunited with the Sage of Six Paths and explained how it and Naruto had entered the trap through Shukaku.
• The Sage revealed that the trap was a contingency against the God of Ōtsutsuki and explained that the “Scum” were remnants of the god’s divine Jutsu.
• The Sage told the Nine-Tails that the God’s Jutsu had tried to alter memories when Naruto recreated the world, but the God remained asleep.
• The Sage explained that Naruto had used chakra from the Sage and Asura to recreate the world, leaving their original bodies effectively nonexistent.
• The Sage said his remaining chakra had been left behind to warn people if the world was recreated, but the God’s Jutsu scrambled his memories.
• The Sage recalled that he eventually stopped trusting his own mind when he realized he had forgotten the God of Ōtsutsuki’s name.

The Sage of Six Paths explained how the God of Ōtsutsuki’s Divine Art had corrupted his and Hamura’s memories, and why he created a seal as a trap. After learning Kurama could control chakra with a Divine Art, the Sage asked him to corrode his chakra.

• The Sage of Six Paths said Hamura had moved the Scum from his memories into his own memory world and used it to shield them from the Divine Art.
• The Sage explained that Hamura’s memories would eventually succumb, so he used his chakra as bait and prepared a sealing trap around Toneri’s necklace.
• Kurama asked how he could escape the seal, and the Sage admitted he had designed it so no one could leave.
• The Sage asked whether Kurama’s ability to control his Susanoo was a Divine Art, and Kurama confirmed that it was.
• The Sage asked Kurama to corrode his chakra as the God of Ōtsutsuki’s Divine Art had intended.

Naruto finally reunited with Kurama inside a space left by the Sage of Six Paths, where Kurama revealed the Sage had left Naruto the complete Six Paths power. Naruto stood before the yin and yang energies, moved by their familiar presence.

• After failing to reopen the seal, Naruto prepared to return to the village for help, but Toneri sensed the Tenseigan’s golden light growing brighter.
• Naruto recognized Kurama’s voice in the light, confirmed Kurama’s identity through his chakra, and touched the light as it engulfed the temple.
• Naruto and Toneri were transported to a water-like space, where Toneri stood motionless and Kurama told Naruto the Sage of Six Paths was no longer there.
• Kurama warned Naruto that Toneri’s memories could bring out the Scum, then directed Naruto toward something the Sage had left for him.
• Naruto found two streams of yin and yang energy, and Kurama identified them as the complete Six Paths power and told him to touch them.

Kakashi lured Obito into confronting him, then agreed to return Obito’s eye. As Obito stared at Kakashi’s Sharingan, it transformed into Kotoamatsukami.

• Konoha ninja praised Kakashi’s skill and wondered why he had been taking so many missions.
• After his teammates left, Kakashi waited alone for Obito, who appeared through a space-time distortion.
• Obito explained to himself that Konoha’s strength and the Akatsuki’s losses had put his plans in danger, so he needed to secure Nagato and retrieve his other eye.
• Obito revealed his face, and Kakashi pretended to mistake him for an ally working with Itachi and Minato’s plan.
• Obito demanded his eye back, and Kakashi agreed, exposing his Sharingan.
• Kakashi’s Sharingan changed into Kotoamatsukami, startling Obito and Black Zetsu.

Kakashi used Kotoamatsukami on Obito, who withdrew and spent three days with Black Zetsu searching for changes to his will but found none. Obito later arrived at the delayed meeting with Nagato, blamed Konoha for a conspiracy, and headed toward Itachi’s Secret Base to give Nagato an answer.

• Kakashi briefly showed Kotoamatsukami’s pattern, prompting Obito to withdraw; Black Zetsu and Konan left to report what they had witnessed.
• Obito told Black Zetsu that Kakashi had hit him with Kotoamatsukami and asked him to investigate for altered thoughts or perceptions.
• After nearly three days of examination, Obito and Black Zetsu found no changes, and Black Zetsu suggested Obito’s Mangekyō power might have resisted the technique.
• Konan told Nagato that Obito had missed their meeting and that the New Member had remained quiet; Nagato’s doubts and failing health weighed on him.
• As Pain approached Itachi’s Secret Base, Obito appeared and declared that he was certain Konoha had orchestrated a conspiracy.
• Obito accepted Nagato’s demand for an answer and headed toward Itachi’s base, while Pain sent Zetsu to check on the impending confrontation.

Adult Sasuke watched Itachi’s choices before departing, leaving Itachi to face Obito. Obito and Itachi appeared to destroy each other with concealed explosive tags, but a figure emerged from the inferno.

• Adult Sasuke declined to interfere with Itachi’s wishes and vanished, leaving everything in Itachi’s hands.
• Obito attacked Itachi with Wood Release and a powerful Fire Release, but Itachi escaped the assault using a crow clone.
• Adult Sasuke pinned Black Zetsu to a rock with his Kusanagi Sword while Obito searched for Itachi.
• Itachi fought Obito inside the inferno with Susanoo, but Obito exploited his intangibility and seized Itachi’s arm.
• Obito revealed triggered explosive tags beneath his mask, and the blasts appeared to blow both him and Itachi to pieces.
• A figure suddenly emerged from the flames.

Itachi used Izanami to trap Obito, then approached Izumi and asked to join Reshape. Izumi demanded a reason not to kill him as Itachi warned that Konoha had begun a full investigation against her organization.

• Obito repeatedly attacked Itachi through Kamui, but Itachi used Izanami to trap him in a repeating cycle.
• Black Zetsu realized Itachi had used Izanami and suspected Kotoamatsukami had helped create the conditions for it.
• Itachi's right eye went blind after Izanami, and he put on the glasses Tsunade had prescribed for him.
• Itachi called out to Izumi, who revealed herself after he mentioned joining Reshape.
• Itachi told Izumi that Hiruko belonged to Reshape and that Konoha had begun mobilizing against the organization.

Izumi offered Itachi a place in Reshape and the chance to revive his family, but he refused while waiting for Sasuke’s answer about his fate. Adult Sasuke honored his younger counterpart’s decision not to intervene, leaving Itachi and Sasuke’s confrontation for the future.

• Izumi relayed Reshape’s offer to Itachi, who refused to join and said he was waiting for Sasuke to answer him.
• Itachi explained that he intended to make Obito accept his own punishment willingly and had left his fate to Sasuke.
• Adult Sasuke stayed hidden because he believed capturing Izumi would not reveal Reshape’s leader and because he had promised to honor his counterpart’s wishes.
• Sasuke told Adult Sasuke he would not decide Itachi’s fate until he could confront his brother openly and see their futures clearly.
• Adult Sasuke recalled Sasuke’s reasoning and understood that he would not let anyone else choose his actions.

Nagato learned that Akatsuki’s base and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had been lost, while Itachi stayed behind to deal with Obito and keep Akatsuki under his control. Reshape’s leader moved the statue to Otogakure, where he and Uchiha Izumi prepared to wait for their plans to advance.

• Nagato sent Pain and Hiruko toward the base, but Konan’s Paper Clone was destroyed and Pain arrived too late to stop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from being stolen.
• Hiruko helped Reshape’s leader access Akatsuki’s base, and the leader transported the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path away using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Nagato realized Akatsuki had been reduced to an organization in name only and decided to return to Amegakure with Konan before attending a meeting in Konoha.
• Itachi told Adult Sasuke that Uchiha Izumi had left and stayed behind with Obito, asking Sasuke to take Black Zetsu back to the village.
• Reshape’s leader delivered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to Orochimaru in Otogakure, while Orochimaru reported that his experiment with Urashiki’s Rinnegan had failed and endangered his body.
• Uchiha Izumi reported that Itachi had used Izanami on Obito and that an unfamiliar Sasuke Uchiha with the Rinnegan had captured Black Zetsu; Reshape’s leader refused to pursue him and said they would wait for their forces to grow.

Konoha rapidly transformed after its restrictions were lifted, with moon missions and other extraordinary changes becoming part of everyday life. Tobirama’s reforms advanced with little resistance, while the chapter left the village dominant over the shinobi world and the Hyuga Clan embracing its new opportunities.

• Konoha ninja shared stories of missions to the moon, and villagers treated such tales as merely unusual amid the village’s many changes.
• Tobirama Senju began overhauling the ninja system after recognizing that traditional ninshu training would not prepare Konoha for the coming conflict.
• Hyuga Hiashi ended the distinction between the Main and Branch Families and opened the clan’s training resources to the village, despite the elders’ anger.
• Otsutsuki Toneri praised Hanabi’s aptitude, and Hiashi welcomed the Hyuga Clan’s access to resources brought from the moon.
• Konoha’s military dominance and improved living conditions kept resistance to Jiraiya’s reforms and the village’s rapid development to a minimum.

Adult Sasuke and Boruto prepared to use the Treasure Plow to return to the past, with Naruto and Nine-Tails offering a theoretical Flying Thunder God safeguard. As the device activated, it unexpectedly ranked Naruto above Momoshiki and refused to scan the space-time, warning that doing so could trigger its self-destruction.

• Adult Sasuke told Naruto that the Treasure Plow had fully replenished its energy, and Boruto said he would return with Sasuke to change the past.
• Naruto encouraged Sasuke and Boruto to travel safely, while Nine-Tails warned that they might not be able to return to their original space-time.
• Naruto and Nine-Tails explained that Boruto could use the six-path-powered Flying Thunder God Mark to alert them if anything went wrong.
• Sasuke activated the Treasure Plow, and Tobirama ordered his staff to record and track its activity.
• The Treasure Plow identified Naruto as its highest-ranking authority despite detecting Momoshiki, then refused Sasuke's request to scan the space-time because the scan could reveal dangerous risks and cause self-destruction.