Recaps

Sasuke attacked the body Black Zetsu controlled after learning Itachi might still be alive, but Itachi briefly regained control and cast Tsukuyomi. Indra revealed that Sasuke had been under genjutsu and that Black Zetsu possessed a clone, while the real Itachi was nearby and close to death.

• Black Zetsu pleaded with Sasuke to make peace, but Sasuke refused and Shino blocked the window.
• Black Zetsu claimed Itachi was still alive inside the body and warned Sasuke that killing him could kill Itachi too.
• Sasuke stabbed the body in the chest, intending to make Itachi feel the pain of being killed.
• Itachi briefly regained control, praised Sasuke, and cast Tsukuyomi.
• Indra revealed that Sasuke had been under genjutsu and that Black Zetsu had possessed Itachi's clone, while the real Itachi was nearby and had little time left to live.

Sasuke confronted Itachi after breaking free of the genjutsu, while Indra warned him not to let emotion control him. As Itachi reflected on the Uchiha massacre and prepared to face Sasuke’s judgment, Sasuke asked why he had been spared, and Itachi accidentally laughed.

• Indra told Sasuke to stay calm and pointed out that Itachi was exhausted and vulnerable.
• Itachi considered how history and perspective shaped judgments of Naruto’s war and his own role in the Uchiha massacre.
• Itachi remembered choosing to kill the Uchiha Clan to protect Konoha and Sasuke, and decided he should pay for the innocent lives he had taken.
• Sasuke asked Itachi why he had not killed him that night.
• Itachi recalled Sasuke begging for his life and let out a faint laugh, which Sasuke and Shino noticed.

Sasuke overwhelmed Kirigakure with his Susanoo and its newly revealed Takemikazuchi power, forcing the village’s ninja to abandon resistance. He flew away with Shino and Itachi, leaving the shaken village behind.

• Sasuke summoned Susanoo in the Mizukage's Office as Shino captured Black Zetsu in a sealing scroll and withdrew.
• Shino joined Sasuke inside Susanoo, and Sasuke warned the gathered Kirigakure ninja that Naruto had ordered him to spare their lives.
• Sasuke unleashed Takemikazuchi, transforming Susanoo with thunder armor and lightning that terrified Chojuro and the other Kirigakure ninja.
• Sasuke asked whether anyone still intended to oppose him, and the village answered with silence.
• Sasuke's Susanoo spread its wings and flew toward the outskirts with Shino and Itachi, leaving Kirigakure behind.

A Naruto clone completed a human-compatible Sage Mode and demonstrated its stable effects to a scholarly clone. The scholarly clone reported progress with Dust Release and said he had also figured out crude Explosion Release and Boil Release, while Storm Release remained out of reach.

• The Sage Mode clone woke after long isolation and told the scholarly clone that his training had succeeded.
• The Sage Mode clone activated his form, demonstrating greatly enhanced perception, chakra quality, recovery, and control without visible physical changes.
• The Sage Mode clone asked about the scholarly clone’s work on Dust Release and Storm Release.
• The scholarly clone explained that he could barely replicate Dust Release’s Atomic Dismantling but lacked control, and that his Storm Release experiments remained unstable.
• The scholarly clone revealed that he had figured out crude Explosion Release and Boil Release.

Zabuza and Haku joined Konoha's assault on Kirigakure, and Kisame revealed he had been serving Konoha all along. With the former Kirigakure fighters arriving, Kakashi ordered Konoha to attack the village's right flank.

• Kakashi defended himself from a water snake until Haku froze it with Ice Release.
• Zabuza and Haku arrived and said they had come to help on the Sixth Hokage's orders.
• Kisame appeared wearing Konoha's uniform and announced that he had been with Konoha all along.
• Kakashi ordered Konoha's forces to coordinate with Zabuza, Haku, and Kisame and break through Kirigakure's right flank.
• Mei Terumi grimly watched the three former Kirigakure fighters join Konoha.

Sasuke Uchiha attacked Kirigakure’s coastal defenses with his Susanoo and Lightning Release: Takemikuraiko, throwing the defenders into chaos while Shikamaru Nara got Konoha’s troops out of the electrified water. As Kirigakure began retreating and Konoha prepared to finish the fight, Shikamaru called out to the Kirigakure ninja.

• Sasuke Uchiha arrived behind Kirigakure’s defenses in his complete Susanoo and unleashed Lightning Release: Takemikuraiko.
• The thunder drums’ chakra-infused shock waves paralyzed Kirigakure’s defenders, disrupted their chakra, and spread toward Konoha’s troops in the sea.
• Shikamaru Nara recognized the danger and ordered Konoha’s troops to leave the water and get ashore.
• Mei Terumi ordered Kirigakure to tighten its formation and retreat as Sasuke’s Susanoo advanced through the defenses.
• As Konoha prepared a final assault, Shikamaru stood on a broken wall and called for the Kirigakure ninja to listen.

Shikamaru and Shino tried to make Kirigakure’s remaining forces surrender, but Mei Terumi demanded to know what had happened to Lord Genji. Sasuke and Shino’s confusion gave her hope that Kirigakure might still be resisting, until Shino claimed Genji may have died when they destroyed the Mizukage Building.

• Shikamaru offered Kirigakure’s forces safety and help rebuilding if they surrendered and joined Konoha.
• Shino told the surrounded ninja that Sasuke and he had taken Kirigakure and that they had nowhere left to retreat.
• Mei Terumi asked what Konoha had done to Lord Genji and demanded to see him.
• Sasuke and Shino exchanged confused looks, leading Mei Terumi to suspect that Kirigakure might still be intact and Genji might be organizing resistance.
• Shino said they had destroyed the Mizukage Building and that Genji might have died in the rubble.

Shino and Sasuke convinced Mei Terumi and the remaining Kirigakure forces that Genji had died when the Mizukage Building was destroyed, breaking their will to fight and prompting Mei to surrender. Meanwhile, Naruto, Hinata Hyuga, and Hanabi Hyuga found Kaguya Otsutsuki sealed deep within the moon.

• Shino Aburame told the Kirigakure forces that the Mizukage Building had been destroyed and Genji might have died in the rubble.
• Sasuke reinforced Shino’s claim, and the news of Genji’s presumed death plunged Mei Terumi and the Kirigakure forces into despair.
• Shikamaru demanded that Mei Terumi surrender, and she agreed before collapsing to the ground.
• Naruto, Hinata Hyuga, and Hanabi Hyuga reached the Sealing Space deep within the moon and saw Kaguya Otsutsuki sitting motionless at its center.
• Hanabi compared Kaguya’s appearance to the snow woman from legends, while Hinata moved closer to Naruto.

Naruto brought Hinata and Hanabi into the moon’s innermost sealing grounds because Hinata’s bloodline was needed to open the passage. Hamura warned them about Kaguya and urged Naruto to leave, but Naruto remained intent on dealing with him so he could speak with Kaguya.

• Naruto brought Hinata and Hanabi to the moon after discovering that Hamura’s bloodline was needed to open the passage to the sealing grounds.
• Hamura appeared and insisted the sisters enter with Naruto, then accepted Naruto’s insistence that he was Konoha’s Sixth Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki.
• Hamura warned Hinata and Hanabi not to approach or awaken the sealed figure and revealed that she was his mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Hamura explained that Naruto had killed the last descendant of his branch and asked him to leave descendants to guard Kaguya, but said Naruto worried him more than his mother did.
• Naruto tried to touch Hamura and considered using Kamui on him, but Hamura said the technique could not affect a dead man and warned Naruto he was no match for him.

Naruto challenged Kaguya's belief that Otsutsuki could not be killed by revealing that he had killed Urashiki. Kaguya and Hamura were left shocked as Naruto declared that she had underestimated the life born on their world.

• Naruto asked Hamura whether he wanted to know the real reason Kaguya had cast Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Naruto told Kaguya that he had met and killed one of her clan, and Kaguya insisted that killing a true Otsutsuki was impossible.
• Naruto released Urashiki Otsutsuki's corpse from a Sealing Scroll, shocking Hamura and Kaguya.
• Hanabi and Hinata recognized Urashiki and realized Naruto had killed a being on Kaguya's level.
• Naruto told Kaguya that she had overestimated her clan and underestimated life born on this land.

Naruto explained to Hamura that Kaguya had tried to protect herself from the Ōtsutsuki Main Family by turning people into White Zetsu, which led her sons to oppose her. The discussion ended when Kaguya admitted she had forgotten she could rely on her sons, leaving Hamura stunned by the possibility that she was simply an airhead.

• Naruto told Hamura his theory that Kaguya feared retaliation from the Ōtsutsuki Main Family and created an army of White Zetsu to defend herself.
• Hamura said Kaguya should not have sacrificed ordinary people and should have trusted her sons to face the threat with her.
• Kaguya lowered her head and murmured that she had forgotten.
• Hamura was left in shock as he wondered whether his seemingly inscrutable mother was actually a beautiful airhead.

Hamura learned that Kaguya’s thousand-year separation from her sons and the sacrifices made to guard her seal had begun with her forgetting to explain her plan. After Kaguya apologized, Hamura’s anger gave way to helpless sorrow, leaving them in silence.

• Hamura broke down as he realized his and his descendants’ thousand-year vigil had stemmed from a misunderstanding about Kaguya’s plan to create a White Zetsu army.
• Hamura demanded to know why Kaguya had not trusted him and his brother enough to share the truth.
• Kaguya raised her head, saw Hamura’s pain, and awkwardly apologized.
• Hamura’s fury faded into exhaustion, and he sat silently before Kaguya inside the seal.

Otohime appeared after Urashiki’s death and revealed her power to Naruto and Kaguya. Hamura restored his complete soul to a prepared puppet body and allied with Naruto against her, while Otohime tried to recruit him.

• Otohime emerged from Urashiki’s corpse, and her power caused Hamura’s soul to be sealed inside Naruto’s scroll.
• Otohime saw through Naruto’s Kamui hiding place and explained that Ayekashikone used death to rebirth a person through a chosen vessel.
• Hamura attacked Otohime, then retrieved the scroll and released the part of his soul trapped inside it.
• Hamura’s restored soul awakened nine Truth-Seeking Orbs in his puppet body, and he joined Naruto to face Otohime.
• Otohime offered Hamura a resurrection technique, but he rejected it and declared that the dead should not disrupt the living world.

Otohime used Susanoo to trap Naruto and Hamura in the Dragon Palace Mirage Sea, a lifelike genjutsu that could inflict real harm. Kurama warned Naruto about the illusion, and Naruto alerted Hamura just as Otohime sent a phantom whale charging at them.

• Hamura refused Otohime's offer to recruit him and prepared to fight.
• Otohime activated Susanoo, transporting Naruto and Hamura into her Dragon Palace Mirage Sea domain.
• Otohime declared that she controlled the domain and challenged Naruto and Hamura as the phantom whale turned toward them.
• Kaguya watched from the sealing space and desperately tried to warn Hamura, but her voice could not reach him.
• Kurama told Naruto that the Dragon Palace was an unusually sophisticated genjutsu and that Naruto would need to escape it himself.
• Naruto realized he and Hamura were under genjutsu and told Hamura as Otohime sent the phantom whale charging at them.

Naruto broke free of Otohime’s Dragon Palace Mirage Sea and shattered her wrist when she tried to seize him for the Nine-Tails chakra. As Otohime prepared to use Shinkōsanrei, a space-time dōjutsu, the chapter left her silver light erupting from her eye.

• Otohime discovered the Nine-Tails within Naruto and tried to seize him so she could devour its power.
• Naruto revealed Urashiki’s Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and caught Otohime’s wrist.
• Naruto crushed Otohime’s wrist, then pulled her off balance and forced her to the ground.
• Otohime realized Naruto might have broken free of her illusion and threatened to kill him.
• Otohime activated Shinkōsanrei, a dōjutsu that traveled through time and space.

Otohime attempted to escape Naruto by using Shinkōsanrei to exile them through space-time, but Naruto held on and followed her into a strange realm filled with drifting stone blocks. There, Otohime transformed into a silver dragon and tried to throw him off, but Naruto mounted her back and seized her horns.

• Otohime activated Shinkōsanrei, engulfing herself and Naruto in silver light and warping space-time.
• Naruto recognized her attempt to strand him in a lifeless place and threatened to survive by consuming her if necessary.
• Otohime intensified the technique and cast them into a silent, dark realm filled with enormous drifting stone blocks.
• Otohime transformed into a silver dragon and tried to fling Naruto into the Space-Time Graveyard.
• Naruto seized Otohime's wooden horns with a golden chakra hand, pulled himself onto her back, and held on as she thrashed.

Naruto subdued Otohime in the strange space until she asked to make peace, then questioned whether she cared that he had killed Urashiki. Otohime said Urashiki had been a disposable pawn and agreed to leave the Shinobi World, but asked Naruto to lend her chakra.

• Naruto clung to Otohime as she struggled, then tormented her by prying at her scales until she grew exhausted and asked to make peace.
• Naruto asked whether Otohime could forgive him for killing Urashiki.
• Otohime explained that Urashiki had been a fisherman she turned into an Otsutsuki as a pawn and said his death did not matter to her.
• Naruto offered to send Otohime back if she left the Shinobi World and pretended they had never met.
• Otohime agreed to leave but asked Naruto to lend her chakra, making him immediately distrust the request.

Naruto refused to lend Otohime chakra, but her reckless charge into a Space-Time Rift forced him to agree too late to stop their plunge inside. The story then shifted to Isshiki pinning Adult Sasuke and Boruto in another dimension, with Boruto facing death.

• Otohime claimed she needed Naruto's chakra to return to normal space-time, while secretly planning to drain him and escape alone.
• Naruto distrusted Otohime and challenged her story, prompting her to abandon negotiation and charge toward a Space-Time Rift.
• Naruto agreed to lend Otohime his chakra, but she could not stop and plunged into the rift with him.
• The rift swallowed Naruto and Otohime, then closed and vanished.
• In another dimension, Isshiki pinned Adult Sasuke with Black Rods and held Boruto down beneath his foot.
• Isshiki told Boruto that he seemed ready to die.

Naruto and the badly injured Otohime fell through a space-time rift into Isshiki’s dimension, where Isshiki was preparing to sacrifice Boruto to the Ten-Tails. Otohime begged Naruto to protect her, and Naruto faced Isshiki while Sasuke and Boruto remained trapped.

• Isshiki told Boruto that the Ten-Tails would eat him to nourish a God Tree.
• A space-time rift opened, and Naruto and Otohime fell into Isshiki’s dimension.
• Otohime reverted to a young human form after cushioning their fall, while Naruto recognized Isshiki and saw Sasuke pinned down and Boruto under Isshiki’s foot.
• Isshiki recognized Otohime and Naruto, and Kurama sensed another version of himself and Naruto’s chakra.
• Otohime hid behind Naruto and begged him to protect her, claiming Isshiki meant to feed her to the Ten-Tails.

Young Naruto opened the Seventh Gate, took Otohime’s Rinnegan, and attacked Isshiki, who used Boruto as a hostage before discarding him. Naruto’s strongest kick barely affected Isshiki, who dismissed him as weak.

• Young Naruto created two Wood Clones to evacuate noncombatants and opened the Seventh Gate against Isshiki.
• Naruto took Otohime’s Rinnegan, and a Wood Clone carried her away as Isshiki recognized the danger of Naruto’s eye-stealing ability.
• Isshiki grabbed Boruto and demanded that Naruto gouge out his eyes, but Naruto mocked the idea that Boruto was his son.
• Isshiki threw Boruto aside, and Naruto seized the opening to strike him with Leaf Strong Whirlwind.
• Isshiki remained unmoved by Naruto’s kick and asked whether that was all he had.

Naruto used Kamui and Flying Thunder God to evade Isshiki and attack him with a flurry of teleporting strikes. After Isshiki scattered Naruto’s wallet clones with a hurricane, Naruto charged through the smoke with lightning-enhanced speed as Isshiki prepared a counterattack.

• Isshiki shrugged off Naruto’s kick and tried to grab him, but Naruto escaped into the Kamui Dimension.
• Naruto reassured Hinata and Hanabi, then used Flying Thunder God-marked wallet clones to teleport around Isshiki and land repeated strikes.
• Boruto watched Naruto’s technique while Sasuke recovered and compared their strength to the younger Naruto’s.
• Isshiki unleashed a hurricane that destroyed the wallet clones, and Naruto caught the original wallet.
• Naruto charged through the lingering smoke with Fierce Lightning Flash, while Isshiki used his Byakugan to track him and ready a punch.

Naruto used Otohime’s genjutsu and Amenotajikara to shatter Isshiki’s body, then thwarted his attempt to implant Kāma and took the dōjutsu from his eyes. Isshiki’s body turned to stone and shattered, leaving Naruto as the victor.

• Naruto trapped Isshiki in Otohime’s genjutsu, bestowed the ground’s brittle properties on his body, and kicked him apart.
• Isshiki crawled away and planned to implant Kāma in Naruto, but discovered Sasuke Uchiha and Boruto were gone.
• Naruto appeared behind Isshiki and gouged out both of his eyes.
• Isshiki grabbed Naruto’s wrist and tried to implant Kāma, but the figure he seized was a shadow clone that vanished in a puff of smoke.
• Naruto used Banshō Ten'in to draw Isshiki’s eyes toward him and Amenotajikara to absorb their dōjutsu.
• Isshiki turned into a stone statue and shattered.

After killing Isshiki, young Naruto returned Otohime’s Rinnegan and explained how his Amenotajikara had let him take Isshiki’s eye and alter his defenses. Sasuke warned Boruto not to imitate Naruto’s dangerous experiment with Orochimaru as the group considered how Naruto had awakened the dōjutsu.

• Naruto ended his temporary borrowing of Otohime’s golden Rinnegan, and Otohime regained her sight and reacted with disbelief at Isshiki’s defeat.
• Boruto rushed to Naruto and greeted him excitedly, while Naruto warmly praised him and warned Otohime with a glance.
• Sasuke approached after Naruto’s Wood Clone helped remove the Black Rods, and Naruto explained how Amenotajikara let him borrow Isshiki’s eye and make Isshiki’s body brittle.
• Naruto revealed that Orochimaru had grown Sharingan from his and Uchiha Hikari’s genes, and that the implanted eyes had awakened as Mangekyō Sharingan with Amenotajikara.
• Boruto asked whether Orochimaru could grow him a Mangekyō Sharingan using his and Sasuke’s blood, but Sasuke warned him against trusting Orochimaru or copying Naruto’s experiment.

After Isshiki was defeated, Naruto from another timeline freed the Seventh Hokage and the two versions of Naruto met. The Seventh reunited with Boruto, reassured him of a father's duty to protect his son, and young Naruto declared his faith in Boruto despite Momoshiki's Kāma.

• Young Naruto used his newly acquired Black Eyes to shrink and remove the cube pinning the Seventh Hokage.
• Young Naruto introduced himself as Naruto Uzumaki from Another Timeline and the Sixth Hokage, and the Seventh introduced himself as this world's Seventh Hokage.
• Adult Sasuke removed the Black Rods from the Seventh, who recovered enough strength to stand and move again.
• Boruto rushed into his father's embrace, and the Seventh comforted him before insisting that protecting him was a father's responsibility.
• Otohime warned young Naruto that Boruto's Kāma marked him as Momoshiki's destined vessel, but young Naruto said he believed in Boruto.

Young Naruto used Yomotsu Hirasaka to bring the group back to the shinobi world, where they returned to Konoha. They entered the Hokage's Office and found Shikamaru in an emergency conference with the other Kage.

• Adult Sasuke urged the Seventh and Boruto to leave the alternate dimension and return to Hinata and Himawari.
• Otohime suggested that young Naruto use the Yomotsu Hirasaka he had gained from Urashiki's eyes.
• Young Naruto sent a shadow clone through a space rift to confirm the route led safely to the Land of Fire near Konoha.
• Young Naruto, the Seventh, Boruto, Sasuke, and Otohime crossed the portal and arrived in a forest near Konoha.
• The group entered Konoha and found Shikamaru attending an emergency video conference with the Kage of the other four great Shinobi Villages.