Chapter Summaries

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.

Kakuzu defeated Hidan and bound him as a trophy after completing his mission for Hokage-sama. Meanwhile, Jiraiya faced Kisame Hoshigaki and Jūzō Biwa in the rain, and began preparing to fight seriously.

• Hidan charged Kakuzu, but Kakuzu paralyzed him with Lightning Release and overwhelmed him with a combined wind-and-fire attack.
• Kakuzu tore off Hidan’s limbs and bound them to his torso with Earth Grudge Fear tendrils, then silenced him and declared him a trophy.
• Kakuzu picked up Hidan and the money case, saying his old friend was taken care of and Hokage-sama’s mission was complete.
• Kisame taunted Jiraiya while Jūzō warned him not to underestimate one of the Three Sannin.
• Jiraiya stood atop a ruined watchtower, bit his finger, and began forming hand seals to get serious.

Jiraiya completed Sage Mode while fighting Kisame Hoshigaki and Jūzō Biwa, then used Sage Art: Goemon to defeat Jūzō and force Kisame to transform with Samehada. Kisame trapped Jiraiya in a giant water prison, where Jiraiya countered his charge with Sage Art: Frog Kata.

• Jiraiya gathered natural energy while Gamahiro held Kisame back, but Jūzō Biwa and Kisame attacked him from opposite sides.
• Jiraiya evaded Jūzō’s Kubikiribōchō and Kisame’s Water Shark Bullets, completing Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima on his shoulders.
• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Goemon to burn through Kisame’s Great Shark Bullet and severely burn Jūzō Biwa.
• Kisame fused with Samehada, took on a half-fishman form, and trapped Jiraiya inside a vast water prison with Water Style: Water Prison Shark Dance Technique.
• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Frog Kata and punched at Kisame as he charged underwater.

Uchiha Yao used the Eight Inner Gates to overwhelm Pain’s Six Paths, leaving only the Deva Path and Naraka Path standing. After witnessing the defeat, Konan began evacuating Nagato to a backup base while the villagers escaped through underground passages.

• Uchiha Yao opened the first five gates and dodged the Asura Path’s missiles with speed that Pain’s shared vision could not follow.
• Uchiha Yao opened the sixth gate and destroyed the Asura Path with a single kick.
• Uchiha Yao opened the seventh gate and used Daytime Tiger to destroy the Preta Path, Animal Path, and Human Path.
• Nagato watched the Six Paths fall and agreed to leave with Konan, who said she had arranged for the villagers to evacuate safely.
• Konan dismantled Nagato’s apparatus and carried him toward a backup base west of Amegakure.

Uchiha Yao unleashed the Eighth Gate and shattered Deva Path Pain’s Planetary Devastation with Evening Elephant. As Pain fled into the sky, Yao began charging another attack.

• Pain led Uchiha Yao to a desolate valley and used Planetary Devastation to draw up the surrounding earth and mountains.
• Kakuzu saw the attack while carrying money and the captive Hidan, then turned to flee.
• Uchiha Yao opened the Eighth Gate and used five Evening Elephant punches to shatter the forming sphere.
• Pain froze in disbelief, then tried to escape after Yao declared the warm-up over.
• Yao assumed a runner’s stance and began gathering power into a red dragon as Pain fled.

Uchiha Yao captured Hidan, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Jūzō Biwa, then led Kakuzu and Jiraiya to Nagato’s hideout. After confronting Nagato, Yao faced Konan, who prepared to fight to the death to protect him.

• Kakuzu delivered Hidan, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Jūzō Biwa to Uchiha Yao, who sealed them away and set out for Nagato’s base with Kakuzu and Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Yao kicked down the hideout’s iron door, revealing Nagato in a wheelchair with a frail, withered body.
• Jiraiya recognized Nagato and apologized, while Nagato blamed his late arrival for Yahiko’s death and his own condition.
• Uchiha Yao told Nagato that he had been blinded by hatred and used as someone else’s pawn, provoking Nagato’s anger.
• Konan stepped between Uchiha Yao and Nagato, formed paper wings laced with Explosive Tags, and vowed that no one would hurt Nagato unless they killed her first.

Uchiha Yao forced Konan to submit by threatening Nagato, then sealed Nagato in his Heavenly Imperial Space, claiming it would heal him. After defeating Amegakure’s leaders, Yao ordered Kakuzu and Konan to take control of the village as a subsidiary base of Konoha.

• Uchiha Yao threatened Nagato’s life to make Konan choose between submitting and watching Nagato suffer.
• Jiraiya stepped back after Kakuzu warned him that intervening would endanger everyone and could not save Nagato and Konan.
• Konan knelt and agreed to submit, asking Uchiha Yao to spare Nagato.
• Uchiha Yao sealed Nagato and his wheelchair in his Heavenly Imperial Space, saying its origin power would repair Nagato’s damaged body.
• Uchiha Yao declared that Konan belonged to him and ordered Kakuzu to help her take over Amegakure as Konoha’s subsidiary base.

After Uchiha Yao defeated the Akatsuki in Amegakure, Obito and Black Zetsu planned to revive Madara and provoke war to create new chances to capture the tailed beasts. Uchiha Yao then told Jiraiya that Kakuzu and Konan would handle the cleanup, leaving Jiraiya free to go.

• Obito fled Amegakure through the Kamui dimension after witnessing Uchiha Yao defeat the Six Paths of Pain and devastate the Akatsuki.
• Black Zetsu learned from White Zetsu that Nagato had been sealed and raged over the collapse of his plans.
• Black Zetsu urged Obito to have Orochimaru use Impure World Reincarnation on Madara, and Obito reluctantly agreed.
• Obito and Black Zetsu planned to disguise resurrected fighters as Konoha ninja and send them to attack Kumogakure and Iwagakure, hoping to spark war and exploit the chaos.
• Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya that Kakuzu and Konan would handle Amegakure's cleanup, so Jiraiya did not need to remain there.