Recaps

Uchiha Yao surveyed Heavenly Imperial Space as its town and population grew, then watched Naruto and Gaara train. Elsewhere, Obito brought Orochimaru a scroll of collected remains, and Orochimaru began identifying its contents.

• Uchiha Yao sensed that Heavenly Imperial Space was expanding by more than 1,100 meters each day and saw its town, fields, and population of over a thousand residents.
• Kurenai Yuhi told Uchiha Yao that the Nara Clan had organized the town and that water facilities and food production were progressing.
• Uchiha Yao watched Naruto and Gaara spar and noted their rapid growth.
• Obito arrived at Orochimaru's underground base and handed him a sealing scroll containing most of the materials he had requested.
• Orochimaru opened the scroll and recognized the Third Raikage's cellular tissue.

Obito rejected Orochimaru’s suggestion to revive Rin with Impure World Reincarnation, then reaffirmed his plan to create a world through Infinite Tsukuyomi. Months later, Naruto and Gaara fought in the Heavenly Imperial Space, where Uchiha Yao watched as the young shinobi demonstrated Kage-level strength.

• Obito threatened Orochimaru for suggesting that he use Impure World Reincarnation to bring Rin back, then took Rin’s cellular tissue into Kamui.
• After Obito left, Orochimaru resumed researching Impure World Reincarnation and considered how to control Obito’s obsession.
• In Kamui Space, Obito mourned Rin and vowed to create a world without war or pain through Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Several months later, Naruto and Gaara clashed with a Big Ball Rasengan and a massive sand wave in the Heavenly Imperial Space.
• Uchiha Yao appeared beside Temari and Hinata, who greeted him respectfully as he watched the battle.

Uchiha Yao unlocked a Heavenly Imperial Space upgrade and a time-stopping ocular technique, then tested it on Naruto and Gaara. Elsewhere, Orochimaru used a talisman to awaken Munashi Jinpachi’s Impure World Reincarnation body.

• The system rewarded Uchiha Yao with Living Being Resonance, allowing willing residents to strengthen the Heavenly Imperial Space and boost his power.
• The system evolved Uchiha Yao’s right-eye technique into Kamui Six Paths: Temporal Domain, granting time reversal and a ten-second time stop within ten kilometers at a cost of half his Chakra.
• Uchiha Yao froze time in the training ground, briefly touched Naruto’s cheek, and let time resume before Naruto could understand what had happened.
• Naruto and Gaara resumed fighting while Uchiha Yao’s Sage Body rapidly replenished the Chakra he had spent.
• Orochimaru placed a talisman on Munashi Jinpachi, and the reincarnated swordsman sat up with unusually fluid movements.

Uchiha Yao used the Dragon Vein to travel back in time to Rōran, where he saved Queen Sara from falling and encountered a Naruto Uzumaki who did not recognize him. He questioned Naruto about his identity, confirming that he had arrived in the past.

• Uchiha Yao dismissed the ANBU and used a Truth-Seeking Orb to break the seal at the Rōran Ruins, releasing the Dragon Vein's power.
• The Dragon Vein carried Uchiha Yao through time to the prosperous city of past Rōran during Queen Sara's celebration.
• Someone shoved Sara from a tower, and Uchiha Yao caught her before Naruto Uzumaki could reach her.
• Sara thanked Uchiha Yao, while Naruto mistook him for a threat until Sara explained that he had saved her.
• Uchiha Yao recognized Naruto as his disciple, but Naruto introduced himself as a Konoha ninja and showed no sign of knowing him.

Uchiha Yao confronted Namikaze Minato and his team in Rōran, claiming to be Konoha’s Fifth Hokage from another world. When Naruto challenged him, Yao repelled Naruto’s shadow clones and sent him flying, leaving Minato to catch him.

• Minato, Kakashi, Choza, and Shibi confronted Uchiha Yao and demanded his identity and purpose in Rōran.
• Uchiha Yao introduced himself as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, and Naruto insisted that Tsunade held that position.
• Yao explained that in his world Tsunade led the Medical Department, prompting Naruto to accuse him of lying and attack with shadow clones.
• Yao used Shinra Tensei to dispel Naruto’s clones and send Naruto flying.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to catch Naruto, who said he was all right.

Uchiha Yao defeated Kakashi with a single kick, then explained to Namikaze Minato that he came from a parallel world where he was the Fifth Hokage. He revealed that Naruto in his world had been his personal disciple, and Minato asked why he had come to Rōran.

• Uchiha Yao sent Kakashi crashing into a tower wall with a fast, powerful kick, then stopped Choza Akimichi and Shibi Aburame from escalating the fight.
• Uchiha Yao told Namikaze Minato that he came from a parallel world where he had become the Fifth Hokage after purging corruption and killing obstructive elders.
• Uchiha Yao called Naruto too weak to protect himself, then revealed that Naruto was his personal disciple in his world.
• Namikaze Minato asked Uchiha Yao what his original purpose had been in coming to Rōran.

Tianyu Naruto and Gaara emerged into a world where they met Naruto Uzumaki and the others, revealing that parallel-world counterparts existed. Tianyu Naruto recognized Namikaze Minato as his father and embraced him, leaving Naruto Uzumaki stunned to learn that Minato would become the Fourth Hokage and father a version of him.

• Tianyu Naruto and Gaara appeared before Naruto Uzumaki, Minato, Kakashi, Chōza, and Shibi, and everyone was shocked by the two Narutos.
• Tianyu Naruto asked Uchiha Yao who the other boy was, and Uchiha Yao explained that he was Naruto Uzumaki from a parallel world.
• Tianyu Naruto called Minato "Dad" and rushed to embrace him, while Minato stood confused because he was not yet married or a father.
• Uchiha Yao explained that Tianyu Naruto came from the future, where Minato became the Fourth Hokage, married Kushina Uzumaki, and had a son.
• Naruto Uzumaki realized that Minato was the future Fourth Hokage and that Tianyu Naruto was his son.

The two Narutos reunited with Namikaze Minato before he warned Queen Sara that Anrokuzan was secretly Mukade, a rogue ninja seeking the Dragon Vein. Sara refused to believe him, so Uchiha Yao carried her into the sky to make her witness the truth.

• The two Narutos argued over who could call Minato their father until Minato welcomed them both as his sons.
• Minato told Sara that Anrokuzan was actually Mukade, a rogue ninja planning to exploit the Dragon Vein and conquer the world.
• Sara rejected Minato's warning and headed back to the palace, insisting that Anrokuzan was trustworthy.
• Uchiha Yao blocked Sara and, when she refused to believe what she had been told, lifted her into the sky.
• Tianyu Naruto and Gaara leaped after Uchiha Yao and Sara.

Uchiha Yao revealed to Sara that Anrokuzan had abducted the kingdom’s men and used them to build a weapons factory, but Sara doubted him when she saw the festival crowd cheering for her. He brought her closer to the crowd and began using Banshō Ten'in on the cheering civilians.

• The women confronting Sara revealed themselves as Rōran citizens and demanded that she return their husbands.
• Uchiha Yao told Sara that Anrokuzan, actually Mukade, had abducted the able-bodied men and forced them to make puppets in an underground factory.
• Sara promised the women she would rescue their relatives if Yao’s accusations were true.
• Uchiha Yao carried Sara above Rōran’s festival, where she saw thousands of people cheering her name and took it as proof that her subjects were happy.
• Yao landed with Sara near the crowd and used Banshō Ten'in to pull the nearest cheering civilians toward him.

Sara learned that Mukade had enslaved Rōran’s citizens beneath the city, and Uchiha Yao agreed to help rescue them in exchange for control of the Dragon Vein and its people. At the underground chamber, Yao sent Naruto and Gaara to fight the puppet guards as Sara’s people remained trapped among the machinery.

• Sara begged Uchiha Yao to save Rōran’s citizens after learning they were laboring underground.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Tianyu Naruto volunteered to help, and Yao agreed on the condition that the Dragon Vein and Rōran’s people would belong to him afterward.
• Yao led Sara and the others down the ventilation pipes to a cavern where shackled citizens worked among enormous gears under puppet guard.
• Sara tried to call to the workers, but the puppets detected the intruders and prepared to attack.
• Yao ordered Naruto and Gaara to clear the puppets, and they attacked with Rasengan, sand techniques, and Shadow Clones.

Mukade revealed that he had murdered Sara’s mother to seize the Dragon Vein’s power, prompting Naruto Uzumaki and Tianyu Naruto to attack him. Tianyu Naruto entered a rational Six-Tails transformation and launched a Big Ball Rasengan at Mukade.

• Mukade descended into the underground chamber and admitted he had never been loyal to Rōran and had murdered Sara’s mother.
• Naruto Uzumaki charged Mukade in anger, and Tianyu Naruto pulled him out of the way of poisoned needles.
• Tianyu Naruto unleashed a controlled Six-Tails transformation, startling Naruto Uzumaki and Namikaze Minato.
• Mukade fired a barrage of poison-coated missiles at Tianyu Naruto, but Tianyu Naruto burst through the explosion and formed a Big Ball Rasengan.

Yamato joined Minato and the others in the underground ruins, where he built a wooden escape route as Naruto and Tianyu Naruto rushed to evacuate the civilians. After everyone escaped and the tower collapsed, Mukade rose again inside a colossal puppet powered by the Dragon Vein.

• Yamato emerged into the underground space, mistook the intense Nine-Tails Chakra for Naruto going berserk, and was shocked to see two Narutos and a living Namikaze Minato.
• Minato warned that Mukade had fallen into the abyss but the Dragon Vein remained unstable, and Uchiha Yao ordered Yamato to build an escape route.
• Yamato used Wood Release to create a wooden staircase, while Sara organized the civilians and the structure began to collapse.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Tianyu Naruto summoned shadow clones and competed to carry the civilians to safety, getting everyone out before the tower collapsed.
• The ground shook, and Mukade rose from the ruins in a colossal Dragon Vein-powered puppet, declaring himself immortal and a god.

Uchiha Yao stepped in against Mukade after Naruto and Tianyu Naruto failed to overcome the Dragon Vein puppet’s regeneration. He summoned Susanoo, withstood Mukade’s attacks, and left everyone stunned as it caught the puppet’s massive fireball.

• Mukade revealed that the Dragon Vein kept resurrecting him, and Uchiha Yao concluded that he had to be cut off from its power or obliterated in one strike.
• Uchiha Yao recalled Naruto and Minato’s original victory but called Tianyu Naruto back from the fight.
• When Naruto Uzumaki refused to retreat, Tianyu Naruto dragged him back to the safe zone.
• Mukade charged a powerful attack, but Uchiha Yao stopped Minato from evacuating everyone and summoned his third-stage Susanoo.
• Mukade’s laser failed to pierce Susanoo, and Yamato shielded the group from the puppet’s Great Fireball.
• Susanoo grabbed Mukade’s enormous fireball in its left hand.

Uchiha Yao destroyed Mukade and demanded that Sara honor her promise by handing over the Dragon Vein and Rōran’s people. As the travelers prepared to leave for their own era, Naruto Uzumaki struggled to part from his living father, Minato.

• Uchiha Yao erased Mukade and his giant puppet with the Susanoo Collapsing Sphere, and Rōran’s survivors celebrated their rescue.
• Sara thanked Uchiha Yao, who told her to arrange things within half an hour before he took the Dragon Vein and Rōran’s people.
• Tianyu Naruto and Naruto Uzumaki bonded while trading insults, and Tianyu Naruto advised his other self to train harder and think before charging in.
• Namikaze Minato told Naruto Uzumaki and Captain Yamato that it was time to return to their own era, and Naruto asked to stay longer.

After Naruto returned to his own time, Minato prepared to leave Rōran with his team while Uchiha Yao claimed the city and the Dragon Vein. Minato said farewell to Naruto, encouraging him to overcome the hardships ahead and become Hokage.

• Minato mourned Naruto's departure, then told Uchiha Yao that his team would leave and that he intended to seal the Dragon Vein.
• Uchiha Yao claimed Rōran and its people, dismissed Minato's warning about a spacetime paradox, and intimidated Minato and his teammates.
• Minato agreed to leave rather than risk his team's lives and said they would forget what happened in Rōran.
• Minato encouraged Naruto to face the pain and darkness ahead, and Naruto vowed that he would become Hokage.
• Minato and Naruto exchanged a final fist bump, and Minato turned away to leave.

Uchiha Yao relocated the surviving people of Rōran to Heavenly Imperial Space and appointed Sara as their queen under his rule. He then returned to the ruins and began pulling the Dragon Vein from beneath the earth, opening a rift to take it into his space.

• Uchiha Yao opened Heavenly Imperial Space and led Sara to a lush new home, where she thanked him for saving her people.
• Uchiha Yao brought several hundred Rōran survivors into Heavenly Imperial Space and demanded their absolute loyalty and faith.
• Uchiha Yao appointed Sara queen and told her to manage the residents and rebuild their community.
• Kurenai Yuhi welcomed the survivors and began showing Sara how Heavenly Imperial Space was run.
• Uchiha Yao returned to Rōran's ruins, dragged the Dragon Vein from underground, and opened a spatial rift beside it.

Uchiha Yao brought the Dragon Vein from his time-space into the Heavenly Imperial Space, where Sara helped merge it with the Dragon Vein already there. After Sara confessed her love and kissed him, Uchiha Yao asked if she wanted to be with him.

• Uchiha Yao drew the Dragon Vein out of his time-space and sent its energy through a spatial rift into the Heavenly Imperial Space.
• As the two Dragon Veins clashed, Uchiha Yao brought Sara to the mountaintop and told her to calm and merge them.
• Sara used her bloodline power and her mother's technique to guide the Dragon Veins together, with Uchiha Yao steadying her.
• After the Dragon Veins fused, Sara fell into Uchiha Yao's arms, kissed him, and confessed that she liked him.
• Uchiha Yao ruffled Sara's hair and asked if she wanted to be with him.

Uchiha Yao brought Sara and Kurenai Yuhi together in his residence, and Sara submitted to him as the Dragon Vein linked with him. The connection triggered Heavenly Imperial Space’s first realm leap, which would expand it to the size of the Land of Grass over 30 days; the next morning, Yao woke with both women beside him.

• Uchiha Yao used Banshō Ten'in to pull Kurenai Yuhi into his arms beside Sara.
• That night, Kurenai Yuhi brought Sara to Uchiha Yao, and Sara accepted his advances.
• The Dragon Vein formed a deep link with Uchiha Yao, triggering a boost to Heavenly Imperial Space’s foundation.
• Heavenly Imperial Space began its first realm leap and was set to expand to the size of the Land of Grass over 30 days.
• The next morning, Uchiha Yao woke with Kurenai Yuhi and Sara sleeping in his arms.

Uchiha Yao learned from Kakuzu that Pain had summoned the Akatsuki’s core members to Amegakure and decided to strike while they were gathered. He traveled to the Land of Grass–Fire border to bring Jiraiya along, arriving as his sudden approach startled the Konoha forces.

• An ANBU delivered Kakuzu’s intelligence to Uchiha Yao, revealing that Pain had summoned the Akatsuki’s core members to Amegakure.
• Uchiha Yao reasoned that the Akatsuki’s Tailed Beast plan was blocked and decided to wipe out or recruit the gathered members.
• Uchiha Yao used Heavenly Might to travel to a spatial coordinate in the Land of Earth, then flew toward the border where Jiraiya was stationed.
• Jiraiya drank alone at the border outpost, brooding over Tsunade and Uchiha Yao, until he sensed a terrifying presence approaching.
• Uchiha Yao arrived at the outpost, and the force of his approach knocked nearby Konoha shinobi off balance.

Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya that Tsunade was not suited to him, then revealed that Nagato and Konan were alive and ruling Amegakure after killing Hanzo. Jiraiya learned that his former student Yahiko was dead, and the chapter left him reeling from the news.

• Uchiha Yao mocked Jiraiya for being too soft to win Tsunade's affection, and Jiraiya accepted that he had lost.
• Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya to come with him to the Land of Rain to meet an old friend.
• Uchiha Yao revealed that Akatsuki had killed Hanzo, and that its leader had once been Jiraiya's student.
• Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya that Nagato and Konan were alive and ruled Amegakure.
• Uchiha Yao revealed that Yahiko was dead, leaving Jiraiya shocked.

Uchiha Yao headed to the Land of Rain to confront the Akatsuki, allowing Jiraiya ten minutes to speak with his former students and promising to spare them if they could not be persuaded. Meanwhile, Akatsuki members gathered beneath Amegakure, unaware of what was approaching.

• Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya that Obito had influenced the Akatsuki and planned to make them submit or be suppressed.
• Jiraiya asked to speak with Nagato and Konan and requested that Uchiha Yao spare their lives if they refused to turn back.
• Uchiha Yao agreed to spare them if they still had value, then left for the Land of Rain and gave Jiraiya ten minutes to catch up.
• Hidan and Kakuzu arrived beneath Amegakure, where Kakuzu warned Hidan not to mention Uchiha Yao.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Jūzō Biwa joined Hidan and Kakuzu, and the four headed to meet the leader.

Pain and Obito laid out a plan to provoke a war among Konoha, Hidden Cloud Village, and Stone Village, then collect the tailed beasts amid the chaos. Akatsuki’s members reacted to the proposal, with Hidan and Hiruko eager to join and Kakuzu privately doubting they could survive Uchiha Yao.

• Hidan mocked Hiruko as weak, and Hiruko claimed his Chimera Technique would let him devour Uchiha Yao.
• Obito appeared and told the gathered Akatsuki members that his identity as Uchiha Obito did not change the Moon Eye Plan.
• Pain announced that Akatsuki would provoke Hidden Cloud Village, Stone Village, and Konoha into war before beginning to collect the tailed beasts.
• Jūzō Biwa objected that Konoha had already absorbed Hidden Sand Village and Hidden Mist Village, but Obito argued that the other nations’ fear of Konoha could be used to drain its strength.
• Hidan and Hiruko agreed to the plan because they welcomed killing and hoped to hunt Kekkei Genkai users, while Kakuzu also voiced no objection and privately dismissed their chances against Uchiha Yao.

Pain sensed intruders at Akatsuki’s headquarters, and Konan went to stop Uchiha Yao and Jiraiya. After recognizing her former teacher, Konan attacked them, but Yao protected them with Susanoo and prepared to confront her.

• Pain detected intruders during the Akatsuki meeting, and Konan volunteered to deal with them.
• Kakuzu feared that Uchiha Yao had come personally, while Jūzō Biwa worried that the organization was in danger.
• Konan confronted Uchiha Yao and Jiraiya, recognized Jiraiya as her former teacher, and ordered them to leave.
• Konan declared herself the Angel and attacked the pair with a storm of chakra-infused paper spears.
• Uchiha Yao activated Susanoo to shield himself and Jiraiya, then said they would settle the matter through strength.

Uchiha Yao confronted the assembled Akatsuki members and revealed that he had awakened the Rinnegan, shocking Pain, Nagato, and Obito. As the standoff continued, a masked man appeared beside Yao carrying a cash box.

• Pain's Six Paths and several Akatsuki members arrived, while Obito hid in the Kamui dimension and Hiruko prepared to flee if the battle turned against them.
• Jiraiya recognized Yahiko's body among the Six Paths, but Pain declared that Yahiko was dead and that he was Pain, a god.
• Uchiha Yao offered the Akatsuki members a chance to submit to Konoha, then challenged Pain's claim to godhood.
• Uchiha Yao revealed his Rinnegan, stunning Pain, Nagato, Hidan, and Obito.
• A masked man in an Akatsuki cloak used the Body Flicker Technique to appear beside Uchiha Yao with a cash box.

Kakuzu betrayed the Akatsuki and sided with Uchiha Yao, who demanded that Nagato and his forces surrender to Konoha. Pain ordered Amegakure evacuated and the battle began, leaving Uchiha Yao facing Pain’s Six Paths as the Animal Path prepared a summoning.

• Kakuzu warned Kisame and Jūzō to flee, then mocked Pain and hid behind Uchiha Yao.
• Uchiha Yao demanded that Nagato submit to Konoha or see Amegakure erased, and Pain ordered Konan to evacuate the villagers.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki members into battle as Kisame attacked Jiraiya, Jūzō charged, and Kakuzu interrupted Hidan’s ritual with a fireball.
• Uchiha Yao challenged Pain while the Asura Path fired missiles at him and the Animal Path began a summoning.