Chapter Summaries

Black Zetsu gave Obito the Mangekyo Sharingan and told him about a mysterious figure and the Dragon Pulse in Rōran. In Konoha, Hoshi attended Ichiraku Ramen’s grand opening, then received an urgent summons from the Fifth Hokage.

• Black Zetsu gave Obito the Mangekyo Sharingan and said they would be central to his next mission.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that a mysterious figure had appeared in Rōran and that the country held a strange underground Chakra torrent called the Dragon Pulse.
• Hoshi followed the crowds to Ichiraku Ramen’s grand opening, where he met Might Duy, Might Guy, Kakashi, and others.
• Teuchi told Hoshi that he had inherited his father’s shop, expanded it, and renamed it Ichiraku Ramen, and Hoshi praised the tonkotsu ramen.
• Two Anbu arrived and told Hoshi that the Fifth Hokage wanted to see him in the Hokage’s Office.

Hoshi learned that Rōran’s queen had asked Konoha to investigate the suspicious Anrokuzan and eagerly took the mission himself. He flew toward Rōran, confident he could quickly capture Mukade and uncover what was happening.

• Minato summoned Hoshi to discuss a letter from Rōran’s queen asking Konoha to investigate Anrokuzan.
• Minato said Anrokuzan had appeared out of nowhere, and Pakura had never seen him or his unusually powerful puppets in Sunagakure.
• Hoshi recognized the Rōran incident from Lost Tower and volunteered to handle the mission alone.
• Hoshi left Konoha on his Flying Sword without saying goodbye to Tsunade, asking Minato to tell her he would return in a couple of days.
• Hoshi planned to find Naruto, capture Mukade, question him about the future, and kill him.

Hoshi arrived in Rōran to investigate whether Naruto had traveled there, but found the city still full of people and Naruto absent. After evading Mukade’s puppet patrols, he entered Queen Sara’s chambers unseen, where she heard someone applaud.

• Hoshi flew into Rōran and entered its unusual tower-filled city, unaware that someone watched him from the central tower.
• Hoshi surveyed Rōran in Sage Mode, found no sign of Naruto, and identified Mukade and Queen Sara in the palace.
• Hoshi concluded that Mukade controlled Rōran and that the previous queen was dead.
• Hoshi cut down a puppet, drew a swarm of flying puppets, then used Transparency Release to avoid fighting near the city’s residents.
• Hoshi slipped into Sara’s chambers as she hummed her mother’s song, and Sara heard applause from the apparently empty room.

Hayate Hoshi secretly met Sara and persuaded her that Anrokuzan might be responsible for her mother's death, then asked about Naruto and learned that Rōran's events had diverged from what he expected. The meeting ended when attackers blasted through Sara's bedroom doors and called out Hoshi's name.

• Sara mistook Hoshi for an assassin, but he evaded the puppet guards and revealed that he had come at her mother's request.
• Hoshi showed Sara her mother's letter and convinced her to question Anrokuzan's role in her mother's death.
• Sara agreed to answer Hoshi's questions, but said she had not encountered Naruto or attended a parade.
• Hoshi realized that Naruto and Yamato had not followed Anrokuzan to Rōran and that he would have to handle the mission alone.
• When the bedroom doors were blasted apart, Hoshi seized Sara and shielded her as attackers announced they had found him.

Hoshi confronted Mukade in Rōran and destroyed his Puppet Army, while Sara helped evacuate the people to safety. Mukade regenerated using the Dragon Pulse and transformed into a giant puppet, preparing to counterattack.

• Mukade recognized Hoshi as the famous Konoha Silver Moon and summoned his Puppet Army in the bedchamber.
• Hoshi cut down the Puppet Army with a single sword strike, but Mukade used the Dragon Pulse to reassemble the puppets and fire Chakra beams.
• Sara warned Hoshi that their fight could harm the people below, so Hoshi carried her out of the bedchamber and told her to evacuate Rōran's people.
• After the people fled, Hoshi destroyed the airborne Puppet Army with his Sky-Rending Iai Slash and attacked Mukade.
• Mukade regenerated from Hoshi's strike, gathered the destroyed puppet parts, and transformed into a giant puppet.

Hoshi destroyed Mukade’s giant puppet and tracked down his hidden core in the Dragon Pulse chamber, where Sara joined him. As Hoshi charged Mukade and Sara tried to shut down the Dragon Pulse, Sara suddenly screamed.

• Mukade transformed Rōran’s puppet soldiers into a giant scorpion, but Hoshi cut the puppet apart with his sword techniques.
• Hoshi used Perfect Sage Mode to locate Mukade’s hidden core and found Sara and the citizens sheltered in a chamber beneath the central garden.
• Sara led Hoshi into the Dragon Pulse chamber and agreed to help him stop Mukade by shutting down the Dragon Pulse.
• Hoshi and Sara found Mukade’s core embedded in a wall beside the Dragon Pulse’s energy core, and Mukade threatened to kill them both.
• Hoshi charged Mukade as he formed a Super Dragon Pulse Great Fireball, but Sara suddenly screamed behind him.

Obito used Danzo's corpse and a new Mangekyō Sharingan ability to trap Hoshi and trigger the Dragon Pulse's collapse. Hoshi vanished in the resulting purple Radiance, leaving Obito convinced he was dead.

• Obito appeared in Danzo's body, seized Sara, and revealed himself to Hoshi.
• Obito immobilized Hoshi with spatial distortion from his Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that he had planned the trap with Mukade.
• Obito used genjutsu to control Mukade, whose actions caused the Dragon Pulse Core to tremble as it began to destabilize.
• Obito explained that the Dragon Pulse's collapse would combine with his spatial distortion and destroy Hoshi.
• The Dragon Pulse Core collapsed, purple Radiance engulfed Hoshi, and Obito found no trace of him in the chamber.

A Konoha research team witnessed Hoshi emerge from the revived Dragon Pulse, while Hoshi recalled how he escaped Obito and found himself in an unknown era. After evading a relentless pursuer, Hoshi set off toward Konoha to learn where and when he had arrived.

• Morishita Yusuke recorded that the Dragon Pulse revived and brought a mysterious traveler into the ruins, prompting the expedition team to request help from the village.
• Hoshi recalled using Extreme Intent: Heavenly Dragon Flash and Sky Rift Flowing Light to escape Obito's Oblivion Star through the Dragon Pulse's temporal turbulence.
• Hoshi sensed a fast-moving pursuer near his campfire, mounted the Sword of Kusanagi, and fled through the desert.
• A white-robed figure found Hoshi's abandoned fire and pursued him for nearly two hours.
• Hoshi used the second stage of Dance of the Startled Swan to return to his former campsite, then activated Transparency Release and headed southeast toward Konoha.

Hoshi reached a modernized town and discovered that its history matched the original Naruto timeline, not the one he remembered. The shopkeeper had never heard of Hayate Hoshi, leaving Hoshi wondering whether he had arrived in a parallel world and how he could return.

• A white-robed figure failed to understand how Hoshi had escaped and decided to search near the expedition camp for several more days.
• Hoshi reached a town and saw Scientific Ninja Tools, large screens, and other signs of a modernized Ninja World.
• Hoshi asked a shopkeeper whether he knew Hayate Hoshi, but the man said he had never heard of him.
• The shopkeeper described the original history of the Second and Third Great Ninja Wars, contradicting Hoshi's memories.
• Hoshi asked about the Fourth Shinobi World War, then left the shopkeeper's stall in a daze.

After Hoshi disappeared, Black Zetsu and Obito planned to expand Akatsuki by seizing control of Kumogakure, while Konoha’s leaders searched for Hoshi in Rōran. The Sannin believed Sara’s altered account and stayed near the Dragon Pulse, leaving Konoha weakened as Hoshi remained missing.

• Black Zetsu confirmed Hoshi’s apparent death with Obito and ordered Akatsuki to avoid drawing Konoha’s attention while it developed.
• Black Zetsu offered Obito a plan to control the injured Fourth Raikage and the Two-Tails Jinchūriki, and Obito agreed to target Kumogakure.
• Namikaze Minato concealed Hoshi’s disappearance from the public and sent Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya to investigate Rōran.
• The Sannin questioned Sara, who remembered Obito’s false account that the rampaging Dragon Pulse had swallowed Hoshi after he defeated Mukade.
• Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya stayed by the Dragon Pulse, hoping to use Sara’s control of it to summon Hoshi or locate him.

Hoshi investigated the strange history of this world and concluded that Kimimaro was likely a fellow transmigrator. The white-robed pursuer found him again, and their chase ended in the desert with both preparing to fight.

• Hoshi tried to summon Robb, but an invisible barrier between worlds blocked the summoning and he broke the inn bed in frustration.
• Hoshi found a biography explaining that Kimimaro had been taken in by Tsunade, joined Konoha, and become a savior during the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Hoshi sensed the white-robed figure approaching, fled town on his Flying Sword, and drew the figure away into the desert.
• Hoshi entered Sage Mode, left a Sword Shadow, and turned to attack the pursuer with Sword Qi.
• The white-robed figure shattered Hoshi's Sword Qi with a jade-like short sword and announced that it was his turn.

Hoshi fought the white-robed figure in midair, testing his strength and forcing him to defend against a series of attacks. After Hoshi’s blows seemed to injure the figure, the opponent revealed a transformed body with fused blades and surged back at him.

• The white-robed figure charged Hoshi, and their first sword clash sent Hoshi tumbling backward before he retreated on the Sword of Kusanagi.
• Hoshi launched a full-strength Sword Qi attack, which the white-robed figure dodged in midair.
• Hoshi rushed in with Dragon's Nest Flash, and the white-robed figure drew a second short sword to defend against the barrage.
• Hoshi kicked the figure in the waist and slashed him as he fell, but noticed that neither blow had felt like it struck flesh.
• Hoshi sensed danger and pulled away as the figure burst from the dust transformed, with white armor-like skin and both short swords fused into his body.

Hayate Hoshi fought a white-robed opponent whose bone-based techniques revealed him to be from the Kaguya Clan. After Hoshi shattered his opponent’s weapons with Moon Shadow Flash, the boy surrendered and introduced himself as twelve-year-old Kaguya Ling Yi.

• The white-robed fighter transformed his hands into blades and attacked Hoshi with bone bullets and Dance of the Willow.
• Hoshi struggled against Ling Yi’s bone-spiked, spinning taijutsu, then drew the Sword of Kusanagi and fought with two blades.
• Hoshi used Moon Shadow Flash, but Ling Yi defended himself with Dance of the Larch.
• Ling Yi’s bone weapons shattered, so he surrendered to Hoshi.
• Ling Yi removed his hood, revealed he was twelve, and introduced himself as Kaguya Ling Yi.

Hoshi traveled with Kaguya Ling Yi toward the Dragon Pulse Expedition Team's former campsite, hoping to meet Kimimaro and learn how to return to his own time. Ling Yi mistook Hoshi's remarks about his wife and family, and concluded that Hoshi was his adoptive grandfather whose son Hayate had died young.

• Hoshi introduced himself to Ling Yi as someone from Konoha's forty-seventh year and agreed to visit Kimimaro in Konoha.
• Ling Yi said that Kimimaro, Naruto, and Sasuke had killed four members of the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Ling Yi wondered whether Hoshi had a wife and children, and Hoshi said he was married to Tsuna but had no children.
• Ling Yi confused Hoshi's surname with Hayate Gekko's and assumed Hayate was Hoshi's dead son.
• Ling Yi recognized Tsuna as Granny Tsunade and concluded that Hoshi was his adoptive grandfather.

Hoshi returned to Konoha with Ling Yi and was introduced to the village’s advanced technology and its young ninja generation. Ling Yi brought him to meet the Seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki, who sensed that Hoshi was powerful but not hostile.

• Hoshi and Ling Yi left the Dragon Pulse Expedition Team’s base before dawn and returned to Konoha in just over a day.
• Hoshi was amazed by Konoha’s advanced facial-recognition gate, which Ling Yi said his father had designed with Orochimaru’s help.
• Ling Yi greeted Uzumaki Boruto, Uchiha Sarada, and Mitsuki, then kept Hoshi’s identity secret while they headed to the Hokage Building.
• Ling Yi introduced Hoshi to Naruto Uzumaki, and Kurama warned Naruto that Hoshi was powerful but did not seem hostile.
• Hoshi introduced himself as Hayate Hoshi, and Naruto welcomed him as the Seventh Hokage.

Hoshi told Naruto that he came from a different version of Konoha Year 47, and Naruto believed him for the time being. Tsunade burst into the Hokage's Office after misunderstanding Ling Yi's remark about Hoshi being her husband, but seeing Hoshi made her anger fade.

• Naruto sent Ling Yi out so he could question Hoshi privately about his origins and threat to Konoha.
• Hoshi explained that he came from a different Konoha Year 47 and did not exist in this world's history.
• Naruto and Kurama sensed no lies or malice from Hoshi, so Naruto chose to believe him for the time being.
• Outside the office, Ling Yi worried about telling Hoshi that his wife and child had died young, then accidentally called Hoshi Tsunade's husband.
• Tsunade heard Ling Yi's remark, smashed through the wall of the Hokage's Office, and confronted Hoshi.
• Hoshi recognized that this Tsunade was not his wife, while Tsunade's anger faded when she met his gaze.

Hoshi left the Hokage’s Office with Ling Yi after Tsunade reacted bashfully to meeting him, and Naruto accepted that Hoshi came from another world. At the Kaguya family home, Hoshi and Kimimaro recognized each other as fellow transmigrators through a passcode and embraced.

• Tsunade confronted Hoshi about spreading rumors, then blushed and hurried out of the Hokage’s Office.
• Ling Yi left Naruto and Hoshi alone, and Naruto said Tsunade’s reaction convinced him Hoshi was from another world.
• Naruto sent Hoshi with Ling Yi to meet Kimimaro, and Ling Yi asked Hoshi if he had caused trouble.
• Ling Yi brought Hoshi to the Kaguya family home, where Ino greeted her son and Kimimaro sized up Hoshi.
• Kimimaro and Hoshi exchanged their passcode, confirmed they were fellow transmigrators, and embraced.

Hoshi and Kimimaro discovered that they were fellow transmigrators and went to Kimimaro’s secret cave to share their histories. Kimimaro explained how he developed his abilities and revealed that he had gained his awakened eyes through Toneri’s blood, while Hoshi shared details of his Sword Heart System.

• Ino asked whether Hoshi had also come from Mist Village, and Kimimaro explained that he and Hoshi had connected over a nursery rhyme from their shared hometown.
• Kimimaro teleported Hoshi to his secret cave, which he identified as the passage between the Ninja World and the moon.
• Hoshi and Kimimaro learned they had transmigrated from Earth in 2020 and 2017, respectively, and compared what they remembered about Earth.
• Kimimaro told Hoshi that he had met Toneri, gained his eyes through Toneri’s blood, and left him alive on the moon.
• Hoshi revealed his Sword Heart System, and Kimimaro described surviving Orochimaru’s capture and developing his Ōtsutsuki bloodline through Hashirama, Hinata, and Toneri’s blood.

Hoshi explained how Black Zetsu and Obito had sent him through the Dragon Pulse to Kimimaro’s world, and the two agreed that he needed to return before their worlds risked overlapping. Kimimaro proposed recreating the spatial fluctuations to send him home, while Hoshi realized he could use Kimimaro’s strength to gain experience rapidly before returning.

• Kimimaro warned Hoshi that staying together too long might cause their worlds to attract and overlap, and Hoshi agreed that they should prevent that risk.
• Hoshi recounted his Rōran mission, Black Zetsu and Obito’s plot, and his escape through a spacetime passage using Sky Rift Flowing Light.
• Kimimaro reasoned that they could recreate the spatial fluctuations and locate Hoshi’s Ninja World coordinates to send him back.
• Kimimaro learned that Sky Rift Flowing Light came from Hoshi’s system and suggested that his arrival could help him grow stronger.
• Hoshi realized that challenging Six Paths-level Kimimaro could let him farm experience and potentially reach Six Paths-level before returning home.

Hoshi settled in at Kimimaro’s home and learned that returning through the Dragon Pulse could take months or even years. The next day, Kimimaro brought him to meet a crowd of familiar figures, including people who had died in Hoshi’s world, and Sasuke eagerly awaited news of the Uchiha Clan in the parallel world.

• Kimimaro told Hoshi that the Dragon Pulse needed time to recharge and invited him to stay with his family.
• Ino welcomed Hoshi with a lavish dinner, and Kimimaro arranged for him to sleep in a guest room.
• Hoshi encountered Rock Lee and Might Guy during morning training and avoided joining their outrageous exercise routine.
• After breakfast, Kimimaro took Hoshi to a barbecue gathering where Naruto introduced him as a visitor from a parallel world.
• Jiraiya eagerly asked Hoshi about his counterpart, while Itachi prompted Sasuke to ask about the Uchiha Clan in Hoshi’s world.