Chapter Summaries

Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to drain Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s chakra while she considered how to find and eliminate him. A mysterious woman named Uchiha Hikari then appeared, drawing chakra from the reincarnated Uchiha and asking Kaguya whether she knew Boruto.

• Kaguya concluded that the God of Ōtsutsuki was dead and realized she had lost track of Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen judged Kaguya inexperienced and prepared to drain her chakra using the reincarnated Uchiha.
• The reincarnated Uchiha recognized a mark associated with a woman they called the Demoness and found their chakra being pulled away.
• Kaguya tracked the gathering chakra to a woman who rose into the sky, introduced herself as Uchiha Hikari, and asked whether Kaguya knew Boruto.

Uchiha Hikari challenged Kaguya Ōtsutsuki while asking about Boruto, but Kaguya ignored her until she heard the name Naruto Uzumaki. Kaguya drained Hikari’s chakra and scattered her body, yet Hikari reappeared and struck Kaguya with summoned lightning.

• Uchiha Hikari grabbed Kaguya’s sleeve and demanded an answer, then caught Kaguya’s chakra strike with her bare hand.
• The ninjas questioned who Hikari was, while chakra-linked figures muttered that she had caused chaos searching for Boruto Uzumaki.
• Kaguya heard the name Boruto, asked Hikari about Naruto Uzumaki, and attacked when Hikari said she did not know him.
• Uchiha Hikari used Amaterasu, but Kaguya absorbed her chakra and made her body scatter into scraps of paper.
• Uchiha Hikari reappeared opposite Kaguya and summoned a bolt of lightning that struck her.

Uchiha Hikari used Yachihoko to drain chakra from the reincarnated Ninja and fight Kaguya with their abilities. Kaguya adapted, gained the advantage, and ended the battle of attrition by striking at the Ninja sustaining Hikari.

• Uchiha Hikari marked the reincarnated Ninja and drained their chakra, while they explained her Yachihoko ability to the others.
• Hikari used the gathered chakra and the Ninja's kekkei genkai to battle Kaguya, regenerating through Impure World Reincarnation and returning to the fight through White Zetsu bodies.
• Kaguya recognized Hikari's Susanoo and fought her in a prolonged battle, gradually improving her taijutsu and conserving chakra.
• The Ninja noticed Hikari's chakra reserves dwindling as Kaguya relied on All-Killing Ash Bones and became the stronger fighter.
• Kaguya intercepted Hikari's soul before it could possess another White Zetsu and used Dance of the Seedling Fern to impale the fallen Ninja with a forest of bones.

Uchiha Hikari helped Hiruzen Sarutobi drain Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s chakra before Hiruzen emerged from Hikari’s shadow and revealed their plan. Hiruzen took over as Kaguya’s opponent and charged at her, but she answered with her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

• Kaguya used All-Killing Ash Bones to destroy the Impure World Reincarnation bodies, spending roughly half her chakra.
• Uchiha Hikari revealed that Kaguya had drained her own chakra while trying to stop Hikari.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi emerged from Uchiha Hikari’s shadow in Sage Mode and explained that he had hidden there using the Nara Clan’s Shadow Ghost Hiding Technique.
• Hiruzen told Uchiha Hikari what he knew about Boruto Uzumaki, fulfilling their agreement.
• Hiruzen declared that he would take over as Kaguya’s opponent and charged at her.
• Kaguya attacked Hiruzen with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Hiruzen Sarutobi opened the Gate of Death and overwhelmed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki with his taijutsu, forcing her to unleash a wide-ranging Truth-Seeking Orb attack. As Hiruzen's body cracked and bled gold, Kaguya realized it belonged to an Ōtsutsuki, and he began his final strike, Night Ape.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi opened the Gate of Death and charged Kaguya Ōtsutsuki with the Konoha Dragon God.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used Evening Elephant to pin Kaguya Ōtsutsuki down and continued attacking her at full strength.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki blasted Truth-Seeking Orbs in every direction, interrupting Hiruzen Sarutobi's assault.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared above Kaguya Ōtsutsuki with a cracked body and golden blood, and she realized he had an Ōtsutsuki body.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi launched Night Ape toward Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

Naruto appeared during Hiruzen's fight with Kaguya, revealed that the God of Ōtsutsuki had tried to intervene, and helped bring the battle to an end. After Hiruzen sealed Kaguya, Naruto explained that the Shinobi War was taking place inside his Mental Space.

• Hiruzen's attack left Kaguya badly injured, but cracks opened in the Shinobi War's barrier and hostile chakra began rushing toward her.
• Naruto emerged from Hiruzen, grabbed the invading chakra, and identified its source as the God of Ōtsutsuki.
• Naruto explained that Uchiha Hikari's forgotten memories of Boruto had been altered by space-time, but she chose to leave without restoring them.
• Naruto told Kaguya that the Shinobi War was a real war, prompting her to denounce the God of Ōtsutsuki and ask to be killed.
• Hiruzen sealed Kaguya while Naruto watched, then Naruto revealed that the barrier was his Mental Space.

Naruto showed Hiruzen how he could recreate Konoha and its people inside his Mental Space, then revealed that he wanted a real war. Hiruzen sensed Naruto’s fierce fighting spirit and began to understand what might be behind his declaration.

• Naruto transformed his Mental Space into a convincing recreation of Konoha, including its streets and residents, and showed Hiruzen places from the village’s future.
• Hiruzen praised Naruto’s power, and Naruto mistook Hiruzen’s restored younger appearance for a masterful Transformation Technique.
• Hiruzen explained that Tobirama had restored his body to its younger condition, then asked Naruto what he was trying to do.
• Naruto told Hiruzen that he wanted a real war, leaving Hiruzen shocked.
• Hiruzen sensed the fighting spirit in Naruto’s Gold-Red aura and recalled what had happened, beginning to understand.

Naruto explained that the Shinobi Wars were tests in a parallel space-time and clarified why the God of Ōtsutsuki had appeared. As the Eighth Shinobi War began, Might Guy and Rock Lee set out to face the Reshape Organization, with Minato Namikaze also listed for Konoha.

• Hiruzen mistook Naruto’s explanation of the Shinobi War for a plan to gather allies against the God of Ōtsutsuki, but Naruto corrected him.
• Naruto told Hiruzen that his memories had been altered and that splitting off the space-time had allowed the God of Ōtsutsuki to be reborn there.
• Naruto explained that the wars tested the Shinobi World and that two rounds remained before he needed a complete victory.
• Tobirama assigned Might Guy and Rock Lee to stop the Reshape Organization from winning the Eighth Shinobi War.
• Might Guy and Rock Lee raced off in outlandish poses as Tobirama reviewed the match list, which named Minato Namikaze for Konoha and Jet Black Dancing Wheel for the Reshape Organization.

Minato Namikaze entered the eighth match against the Reshape Organization’s Jet Black Dancing Flying Wheel, while the other factions lost their nerve after learning Konoha had chosen him. On the bridge arena, Minato confronted his opponent’s identity and saw him unleash Baryon Mode.

• Ninja from different factions debated whether to enter the arena, but many gave up after hearing Minato Namikaze was Konoha’s participant.
• A confident faction leader abandoned his plan to fight and encouraged his subordinates to wait for another match.
• Minato met Gamabunta in the Plaza and explained that he had kept Guy and Rock Lee out of the match to avoid an unpredictable fight.
• Minato and Jet Black Dancing Flying Wheel were transported to a bridge, where Minato erased his opponent’s attempt to place a mark.
• Jet Black Dancing Flying Wheel revealed himself as another Minato Namikaze and activated Baryon Mode with the Nine-Tails’ power.

Minato Namikaze confronted Jet Black Dancing Wheel, learned why Reshape had disrupted the Shinobi War, and summoned an unexpected ally when he refused to surrender. Kushina Uzumaki joined the battle, leaving Flying Wheel startled.

• Minato found that Jet Black Dancing Wheel’s Nine-Tails chakra and space-time seals made him impossible to defeat or escape.
• Flying Wheel lifted the seals and explained that Konoha’s tournament could establish lasting peace by letting the victorious side gain influence without an all-out war.
• Minato asked why Reshape wanted to stop Naruto from bringing peace, but Flying Wheel said he had to finish his mission first.
• Flying Wheel formed a Rasengan and demanded Minato surrender the Shinobi War victory.
• Minato used the Summoning Technique, and Kushina Uzumaki appeared, calling him bold and darling.

Minato Namikaze reflected on his orphanhood, empathy, and dream of bringing peace to the world, deciding he would become Hokage to pursue it. When Kushina Uzumaki transferred into his class, he tried to support her, but she misread his smile as mockery and fought off boys who harassed her.

• Minato Namikaze remembered how losing his parents shaped his empathy and his desire for world peace.
• Minato recognized his exceptional talent at the Academy but concealed it while planning to become Hokage.
• Kushina Uzumaki introduced herself as a future Hokage, and Minato spoke up to help her classmates accept her declaration.
• Several boys surrounded Kushina and called her Tomato, but she beat them in a fight.
• Kushina mistook Minato's smile for ridicule, and the boys later gave her the nickname Red-Hot-Blooded Habanero.

Minato Namikaze watched over Kushina Uzumaki as she faced hostility in Konoha and later became isolated as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. When Kumogakure shinobi kidnapped her, Minato rescued her, beginning the love between them.

• Minato overheard boys plotting to teach Kushina a lesson and followed their genin accomplice, but Kushina beat him herself.
• Kushina mistook Minato’s presence in the woods for more hostility and left before he could explain.
• After becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina lived alone and continued to feel like an outsider in Konoha.
• Three Kumogakure shinobi abducted Kushina from her home and beat her while forcing her to travel out of the village.
• Kushina dropped strands of her red hair as markers, but lost hope that Konoha would come for her.
• Minato appeared under the moonlight, defeated a Kumogakure shinobi, and caught the exhausted Kushina as he rescued her.

Minato and Kushina reunited inside the Shinobi War arena, where Minato discovered that the barrier separated matches by time and cut a way through it. Naruto stopped him from escaping, revealing that Minato had been acting and that the man Kushina recognized was not their real Minato.

• Minato recognized Kushina's genjutsu and realized she had been inside him as a chakra lifeform.
• Kushina suspected Minato's plan had failed and prepared to fight him so his will could prevail during their fusion.
• Minato regained his memories and deduced that the barrier separated matches by stretches of time, making time rather than space the key to escaping.
• Minato used the Ninja Love Sword kunai to cut a slit in the barrier and offered to send Kushina out first.
• Naruto caught Minato's hand and revealed that Kushina had fallen for an act and that this was not the Minato they knew.

Naruto stopped Kushina and Minato, revealing that Minato had only pretended to be controlled so Kushina would leave and Konoha would lose the Shinobi War. After Naruto declared the Reshape Organization the winner, a chakra-filled blood-red sky spread across the world, sending the ninja into panic and reaching Mount Myōboku.

• Kushina attacked Minato with Adamantine Sealing Chains, but Naruto stopped both her chains and Minato's attempt to cut through space.
• Naruto reassured Kushina that Minato was still her husband and explained that Minato had chosen to side with Kurama after their memories merged.
• Kushina withdrew her chains and asked Naruto to send her out of the battle.
• Naruto revealed that he had played along with Minato's act because Minato wanted to bypass the rule requiring one person to remain, and said he had organized the Shinobi Wars because he had later seen what would happen.
• The Shinobi War was declared a victory for the Reshape Organization under the name Jet Black Dancing Wheel, leaving the spectators baffled by how quickly Minato had lost.
• A blood-red sky filled with chakra stirred negative emotions and sent ninja fleeing, while Gamabunta canceled his summoning and discovered that Mount Myōboku's sky had turned red too.

A planet-spanning blood-red chakra barrier appeared, and Tobirama discovered it was connected to the Nine-Tails and Urashiki Otsutsuki. At the Reshape Organization’s camp, Kurama in Menma’s form overwhelmed the nearby Anbu and waited for an answer from a dark space.

• Tobirama investigated the blood-red sky and found it covered the entire world, including the moon.
• A chakra face resembling Urashiki Otsutsuki trapped Tobirama on the moon, and he realized the chakra had sealed off Earth.
• Tobirama tried to escape the moon by building up speed, then heard someone greet him as the Second Hokage.
• Hiruko asked whether the ninth match would be skipped, and Kurama said it would proceed as usual.
• Kurama left the camp and incapacitated the Anbu monitoring the Reshape Organization.
• Kurama stood alone in the plaza, waiting for an answer from the pitch-black space before him.

Naruto explained to Minato why he opposed peace and revealed that he had seen a vision of a degenerate, long-lasting peace he tried to destroy. After Minato signed a pact with Chōmei, he asked the tailed beasts who had been appearing as the Nine-Tails since Kurama left, keeping his eyes on Naruto.

• Minato asked Naruto about signing a pact with the Seven-Tails or Eight-Tails, and Naruto said the Shinobi War formalities still had to be completed.
• Naruto explained that the strong shaped the shinobi world's wars and peace, and told Minato he had seen a vision of lasting peace so degenerate that he tried to destroy it.
• The tailed beasts arrived, and Naruto told them Minato had joined Kurama's side, leaving them bewildered and arguing about the war's rules.
• Naruto arranged for Minato to complete the pact formalities with Chōmei, the Seven-Tails.
• Minato used his request under the rules to ask who had been appearing as the Nine-Tails since Kurama left, looking directly at Naruto.

Minato learned that the pact between a war victor and a tailed beast bound their lives together and required the victor to start the next Shinobi War. Naruto revealed that he and Kurama had made the same choice to leave the world, then described a future in which Kakashi unified the Shinobi World and Naruto became the First Fire God.

• The tailed beasts identified Naruto as the Nine-Tails, and Minato recognized that Naruto’s apparent Nine-Tails form was a Shadow Clone using the Transformation Technique.
• Minato warned Naruto that Kurama was planning something and explained that the Reshape Organization aimed to unite the Shinobi World, but he could not reveal Kurama’s plan.
• Naruto asked Minato to complete the process, and Minato received memories revealing that war victors’ lives were bound to their pacting tailed beasts and that they had to start the next Shinobi War.
• Minato realized Naruto had chosen to leave the world, just as Kurama had, because Naruto was too powerful.
• Naruto described a future in which Kakashi became Hokage, unified the Shinobi World, abolished the daimyo system, and established Shin to protect the tailed beasts and stop would-be conquerors.
• Naruto said that at twenty-two, after marrying, he would become known to later generations as the First Fire God.

Naruto chronicled centuries of leading the Spark Fleet against the Ōtsutsuki while returning less and less often to the Shinobi World. After a devastating battle on Saibo and a century spent escorting fallen comrades home, he returned to find Himawari unchanged and the Shinobi World frozen as it had been a hundred years earlier.

• Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Kakashi-sensei, and other Shin Organization members founded the thirteen-unit Spark Fleet to hunt the Ōtsutsuki across space.
• Naruto returned to the Shinobi World less often as the fleet’s journeys grew longer; Hinata died, Boruto joined the fleet, and Himawari became the second Fire God.
• Naruto defeated a powerful Ōtsutsuki on Saibo, but the planet’s inhabitants had lost the ability to think and continued building and digging after their oppressor was defeated.
• Naruto spent a hundred years escorting his fallen comrades from the Shinobi World back to their homes across Outer Space.
• Naruto returned to the Shinobi World with the coffins of his comrades and found Himawari unchanged and the world exactly as it had been a hundred years before.

Naruto told Minato how his future self became the Fire God, granted everyone's wishes, and ultimately concluded that gods should not exist. He explained that the Shinobi War was his answer to balancing conflict and peace, and said what came next was between him and Kurama.

• Naruto described how the Fire God used chakra and technology to meet people's needs, but his help made them dependent and unwilling to act for themselves.
• Naruto recalled that the future Fire God had ruled for eight hundred years before declaring that gods should not exist.
• Minato and the Tailed Beasts realized Kurama had left without knowing about Naruto's future memories, which were unlocked by his departure.
• Naruto told Minato that the Shinobi War would end when Kurama learned the truth, and explained that the war was meant to contain conflict while protecting the weak.
• Naruto said he had established the war's rules and safeguards, then declared that what came next was between him and Kurama.

Menma's Nine-Tails clone kept the Konoha camp trapped, and Guy discovered a new Ninth Gate that let him challenge it. The clone vanished as the blood-red sky cleared, leaving Guy and the others unsure what had happened.

• Guy and Rock Lee tried to leave the camp, but the Nine-Tails' clone struck them down before they could move, and Shizune treated them.
• Guy explained that the clone had incapacitated them with the pressure of its punch, and Kakashi urged everyone not to fight it.
• Guy opened all Eight Gates, but the steam around him turned purple as he unveiled the Eight Gates Released Formation: Ninth Gate, My Gate: Guy.
• Guy's attack forced the Nine-Tails' clone to dodge, and the clone praised him and invited him to join Reshape.
• The clone vanished in a puff of smoke, the blood-red sky turned blue, and Guy could no longer sense the Nine-Tails' chakra.