Chapter Summaries

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.

The Seventh Hokage revealed that a young Naruto from another timeline had helped eliminate Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. After the other Kage doubted his strength, the young Naruto seized Darui through a space-time rift and declared that he had unified the shinobi world in his own timeline.

• The Seventh Hokage told the Kage that Isshiki had been eliminated and credited himself from another timeline.
• The young Naruto introduced himself as Konohagakure's Sixth Hokage from a parallel timeline, but Darui challenged his claim that he could defeat Isshiki.
• The young Naruto opened a space rift into Kumogakure, grabbed Darui, and bound both Darui and Karui with Wood Release.
• The young Naruto told the Kage that he had conquered three great nations and that his forces were attacking the Land of Water.
• The young Naruto declared that he had unified the shinobi world and that the other Kage were no obstacle to him.

Young Naruto explained that he had come to this world while pursuing Urashiki’s companion, then revealed Otohime’s subordinate status and subdued her when she spoke out of turn. He saved a screenshot of the Kage and prepared to leave, asking Shikamaru to get him a tablet to take home.

• Young Naruto told the Kage that he had unified the shinobi world but had no intention of attacking this world’s Konoha.
• Gaara asked why Naruto had come, and Naruto explained that he had followed Urashiki’s companion across worlds after it revived from Urashiki’s corpse.
• Otohime announced that Urashiki had been her servant, so young Naruto grabbed her antlers and threatened her until she stopped struggling.
• Young Naruto took a screenshot of the video conference, intending to show the future versions of Gaara and Kurotsuchi to their younger selves.
• Adult Shikamaru called after Naruto to retrieve the Hokage’s tablet, and Naruto returned it while asking Shikamaru to buy him one for photos.

Young Naruto negotiated access to Konoha’s research and offered valuable training methods and knowledge in exchange, then visited Orochimaru’s laboratory with Sasuke and Boruto. He left Orochimaru stunned by revealing that in his world Jiraiya was alive, served as Fifth Hokage, and was expected to marry Orochimaru.

• Young Naruto threatened to take Konoha’s research by force, then offered training methods, Orochimaru’s research, and a chance to bring back Jiraiya; Shikamaru agreed to a partnership.
• Young Naruto, Adult Sasuke, and Boruto met Orochimaru in Konoha’s underground laboratory.
• Young Naruto explained that his world’s Orochimaru had remained in Konoha and might soon marry the Fifth Hokage.
• Orochimaru assumed the Fifth Hokage was Tsunade and asked whether Jiraiya was dead in young Naruto’s world.
• Young Naruto revealed that Jiraiya was alive and was the Fifth Hokage, leaving Orochimaru shocked.

Young Naruto visited Konoha with Boruto and Otohime, using the name Yōya to pass as Boruto’s cousin while they made their way toward Naruto’s house. He fed Otohime dango and gave Boruto a skewer for his little sister as Boruto worried about what the two Narutos might discuss.

• Young Naruto asked Boruto who led his team, then decided to go to Boruto’s house while Sasuke went to buy food.
• Young Naruto introduced himself to curious villagers as Yōya, Boruto’s distant cousin, and explained to Boruto why he avoided revealing his true identity.
• Otohime spotted a dango stall, and young Naruto bought her several skewers, delighting her.
• Boruto worried that young Naruto might discuss his romantic relationships with Naruto and Hinata.
• Young Naruto handed Boruto a skewer of dango for his little sister and told him to lead the way.

Yōya brought Otohime to Naruto’s home and introduced himself to the Seventh’s family. He then revealed that he had kept young Hinata and Hanabi safe in the Kamui Dimension, leaving the family stunned by their arrival.

• Boruto brought Yōya and Otohime home, where Naruto, Hinata, Himawari, and Kawaki were waiting.
• Yōya offered Himawari dango and asked Naruto’s family to call him Yōya while he stayed in their world.
• Naruto introduced Hinata, Himawari, and Kawaki, and Yōya explained that Otohime would stay with him so she could help him return home.
• Kawaki warned Yōya that he would watch him and Otohime, but Yōya calmly brushed aside the hostility.
• Yōya opened a Kamui portal and brought out young Hinata and Hanabi, shocking the family.
• Yōya explained that he had placed the girls in the Kamui Dimension for safety, and Naruto and Hinata exchanged a knowing glance.