Recaps

The Shinobi Grand Tournament opened in Torrent City as Naruto met Sasuke and other old friends, unaware of Amegakure’s secret million-ninja force. The gathering was still waiting for Hashirama when another guest arrived, while Naruto concealed the truth about Sasuke’s daughter, Sarada.

• Torrent City prepared for the Shinobi Grand Tournament, whose rules allowed Eternal Earth Shinobi to challenge the ten Heaven Shinobi for their titles.
• Amegakure used Amado’s Mind Monitor to screen visitors and its Flying Thunder God Squad to escort the Five Great Nations’ daimyo, while Naruto remained unaware that Amamiya Ruri had built a force of one million ninja.
• Naruto met Sasuke at the teahouse and heard that Sasuke had accepted Sakura’s refusal and was content alone.
• Naruto kept secret that Karin had used Sasuke’s genetic material to have a daughter named Sarada, who planned to enter the tournament.
• Madara arrived and asked whether Hashirama had come yet, then a man in a black trench coat appeared as Naruto hinted that Madara might not be the last guest.

Ten years later, Naruto and the others discussed the upcoming Grand Tournament and caught up on the lives of several shinobi before Hashirama arrived with a prank for Madara. As the tournament’s written exam began, Hitomi faced a question about how contestants would respond to an Ōtsutsuki invasion.

• Madara and Naruto discussed Ōnoki’s bid to earn lifetime rank, while Obito explained that Mei Terumi was still competing and that Haku had become Mizukage and married Zabuza.
• The group discussed A’s withdrawal, Buroi’s rise to become Fifth Raikage and his marriage to Samui, and Obito’s engagement to Rin.
• Hashirama disguised himself as Madara’s stool and startled everyone, then Madara tricked him with a story about farting against him.
• Naruto wondered what Hitomi would write for Shikaku’s tricky tournament exam as the first round began.
• Hitomi read the exam’s open-ended question about responding to an invasion by two Ōtsutsuki and muttered about their dog ears.

Hitomi and the other contestants completed the Grand Tournament’s written test, which challenged them to respond to the Ōtsutsuki based on their own abilities. While grading, Shikaku passed Rock Lee and praised Hitomi’s practical plan, but left him a reminder not to give up his life lightly.

• Hitomi noticed Sarada Uchiha struggle with her eye drops, then focused on the test and checked that she had capped the bottle before leaving.
• Kakuzu scheduled the second round for the following day, and Shikaku began grading the written tests that evening.
• Shikaku failed Ninja who proposed using ninjutsu against Momoshiki without accounting for his ability to absorb and return it.
• Shikaku passed Rock Lee after reading his plan to keep attacking with Taijutsu through hard work.
• Shikaku praised Hitomi’s plan to escape the Ōtsutsuki, aid civilians, and counterattack Kinshiki if necessary, but deducted a point and urged him never to give up his life lightly.

Shikaku passed Sarada after reviewing her cautious answers, while Naruto praised Hitomi’s reasoning and urged him to value life and bonds with comrades. The hundred qualifiers began the second round, an island survival contest that would be broadcast across the Shinobi World.

• Shikaku reviewed Sarada’s answers, judged her decision-making immature but sensible, and stamped her sheet as passed.
• Naruto read Hitomi Shikaku’s advice to value survival, then discussed with Hitomi how feelings and bonds with comrades shaped a shinobi.
• Naruto gave Hitomi the second-round rules and revealed that Heaven-Earth Illusion would broadcast the contest live across the Shinobi World.
• The hundred qualifiers boarded Amado’s airship and learned they had to reach the island’s safe zone while poisonous mist engulfed the terrain.
• Amado opened the airship’s rear door over the island, and the shinobi leaped out to begin the Island Battle Royale.

Hitomi helped Sarada overcome her fear of jumping from the airship, and the two landed alongside Mitsuki. Mitsuki proposed that the three newcomers team up for the battle royale, and Hitomi agreed while keeping his Sharingan trained on him.

• Sarada hesitated to jump because she was afraid of heights, but remembered her promise to prove herself to her absent father and called Hitomi back.
• Amado explained that two children could share a parachute, so Hitomi carried Sarada out of the airship and jumped with her.
• Hitomi and Sarada landed safely, then met Mitsuki, who said he was Orochimaru's child and had no intention of fighting Hitomi.
• Mitsuki argued that the three inexperienced newcomers should pool their supplies and work together against veteran contestants.
• Hitomi agreed to team up but warned Mitsuki that his three-tomoe Sharingan would watch him, and Mitsuki called Hitomi his “sun.”

Hitomi, Sarada, and Mitsuki learned how the tournament’s Battle Royale worked and headed inland to prepare for the poison mist. They found a two-seat escape vehicle, and Mitsuki’s suggestion about who should ride where left Sarada furious.

• Mitsuki explained the tournament’s history and named Naruto Uzumaki, Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and Sasuke Uchiha as the five top ninja.
• Sarada wondered whether her father was an Uchiha and whether Hitomi’s father was Naruto Uzumaki; Hitomi said his father had Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki powers.
• Mitsuki explained that a randomly centered Safe Zone would determine where the poisonous mist spread, and the three agreed to move inland while gathering supplies.
• Hitomi ran behind Sarada and Mitsuki, keeping watch on them, especially Mitsuki.
• The three found a two-seat Scientific Ninja Tool Vehicle, and Mitsuki suggested that Sarada ride on Hitomi’s lap; Sarada angrily refused.

Hitomi, Mitsuki, and Sarada traveled through Zone G in a Scientific Ninja Tool Vehicle, collecting supplies from houses along the way. When three enemy ninja ambushed them and destroyed the vehicle, Hitomi countered their attacks and forced them to retreat.

• Mitsuki drove Hitomi and Sarada toward Zone G, and the three stopped at a house so Sarada could use the bathroom.
• Sarada found supplies in the house, and Hitomi realized that the houses served as supply caches, so the team searched others along their route.
• At the edge of Zone G, Mitsuki and Hitomi switched places, but enemy ninja threw explosive-tagged kunai at the car and destroyed it.
• Mitsuki rescued Sarada with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, and Sarada used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to locate the three attackers.
• Hitomi fought the attackers with shadow clones, Sharingan genjutsu, Fire Release, Earth Release, and Chidori: Lightning Conduction.
• One enemy used a Ninja Smoke Bomb to help the three attackers escape, while Sarada watched Hitomi in amazement.

Hitomi, Mitsuki, and Sarada searched for supplies after their car was destroyed, then learned that airdrops could contain powerful Dream Cards. Their search was interrupted when Mitsuki realized they had entered a Bombing Zone and Deidara attacked from the sky.

• Hitomi, Mitsuki, and Sarada discovered their car and supplies had been destroyed, but Hitomi had memorized the map with his Sharingan.
• Sarada checked a nearby house for enemies, and Hitomi sent in a Shadow Clone that triggered traps and exploded.
• Mitsuki explained that the participants' watches could detect deaths and that specialists could revive them, while Hitomi revealed he had killed people before.
• Mitsuki described the rare supplies and ninjutsu Dream Cards available in airdrops as the group spotted a white figure in the sky.
• Mitsuki identified the area as a Bombing Zone and urged the others to return to the last house as Deidara targeted them from atop a strange white bird.

Hitomi, Sarada, and Mitsuki escaped Deidara’s bombs by combining their techniques, but poison mist reached the house where they were hiding and knocked Hitomi and Sarada unconscious. Mitsuki remained with them as the mist engulfed the house.

• Hitomi countered Deidara’s first Clay Spiders with Chidori Senbon, but pottery-armored bombs resisted his lightning and a shard struck his shoulder.
• Hitomi pierced Deidara’s Flying Pig bomb with Chidori Sharp Spear, then Deidara unleashed C3 No. 18 at the group.
• Mitsuki linked Hitomi and Sarada with snake hands, and they combined Fire Release and Wind Release to propel themselves into the protected house before the bomb exploded.
• Sarada learned that Deidara had been banned from the sixth Grand Martial Arts Tournament after blowing himself up to eliminate dozens of contestants.
• A light froze Deidara and transported him away, but poison mist spread over the house, and Hitomi and Sarada collapsed as Hitomi lost consciousness.

Sarada, Mitsuki, and Hitomi escaped the poisonous fog and regrouped in Zone D, where Mitsuki explained Hitomi’s violent past and Sarada learned why he had protected the other children. An airdrop landed on their hiding place and raised a red signal, marking them as the focus of the coming storm, so Hitomi used Wood Release to defend them.

• Sarada woke behind a boulder with a gas mask as Mitsuki used a snake to draw poison from Hitomi and explained his resistance to the fog.
• Mitsuki recalled Orochimaru telling him that he and Tōjin Uzumaki should become each other’s sun, then told Sarada how Hitomi awakened his Sharingan and killed the Violent Troupe to save children.
• Hitomi woke, recognized that they had reached Zone D, and accepted Mitsuki’s offer of help and trust.
• An airdrop crate landed on their boulder and released a red smoke signal that alerted nearby ninjas to their location.
• Mitsuki warned Hitomi that they would become everyone’s target, and Hitomi used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.

Hitomi, Sarada, and Mitsuki fought off rival teams at an airdrop site, while Ōnoki counterambushed Mei Terumi’s scouts and eliminated Mei and her disciple. After the poison zone’s second wave ended the airdrop battle, the three-day Battle Royale reached its final circle.

• Hitomi used Wood Release to conceal the airdrop crate, but Temari and Kankuro found the grove and attacked; Hitomi destroyed their car with a Vulcan Chakra Machine Gun, and they escaped.
• The Leo Brothers trapped Hitomi inside a lightning barrier and destroyed his machine gun, but his armor protected him; Sarada and Mitsuki joined him as the fight resumed.
• Hanabi recognized Hitomi from afar, while Rock Lee and Tenten rushed toward the battlefield and Ōnoki’s clone drew Mei Terumi’s disciple into revealing their position.
• After Mei’s disciple shot Ōnoki’s clone, the real Ōnoki and Akatsuchi launched a counterattack, and Ōnoki used Dust Release to destroy their mountaintop and kill Mei and Mizuura Mikawa.
• Hanabi and Konohamaru intercepted Rock Lee and Tenten; Hitomi, Sarada, and Mitsuki defeated the Leo Brothers and stole their packs before the poison zone’s second wave ended the airdrop battle.

As the final circle formed, Temari, Rock Lee, Tenten, and Kankuro fought amid a clash between Kimimaro and Tayuya’s forces and Ōnoki’s team. Hitomi, Mitsuki, and Sarada approached the island after Suigetsu reached it, but Shikadai caught Hitomi with the Shadow Imitation Technique.

• Temari fought Rock Lee while Tenten destroyed Kankuro’s puppets, prompting him to deploy an army controlled through Sasori’s puppet.
• Kimimaro used bone manipulation to break apart Kankuro’s puppet attack, and Tayuya’s Cursed Seal Stage Three flute genjutsu incapacitated Tenten and Kankuro.
• Rock Lee opened the Sixth Gate and attacked Tayuya, but Kimimaro blocked Morning Peacock with a wall of bones.
• Tenten disrupted Tayuya’s flute with an Oval Object, allowing Ōnoki and Akatsuchi to attack; Tayuya shoved Kimimaro clear of Ōnoki’s Dust Release and died.
• Suigetsu dragged a Kusagakure ninja underwater and reached the island, while Hitomi, Mitsuki, and Sarada followed after confirming the route was safe.
• Shikadai caught Hitomi with the Shadow Imitation Technique as the group headed toward the final circle.

Nara Shikadai proposed using a smuggled bomb to eliminate the adults and secure the children’s advancement, but Hitomi rejected the plan and chose to prove a child could qualify through fair competition. The Battle Royale ended with the survivors crowded into the final safe zone, and the Shinobi Grand Tournament advanced to its final round.

• Nara Shikadai revealed that he had smuggled a powerful bomb into the Battle Royale by sealing it in a scroll and swallowing it.
• Shikadai proposed having Hitomi carry the bomb to the final safe zone and detonate it when the contestants gathered there.
• Naruto and the tournament officials decided to let the plan play out because the inspection loophole was their oversight.
• Hitomi refused Shikadai’s plan, arguing that gaining a title through a trick would not improve the ninja world, and ran toward the final safe zone with Mitsuki and Sarada.
• Naruto found Shikadai after the poison mist spread and took him away with the Flying Thunder God technique.
• The Battle Royale ended with nine adults and three children packed into the final safe zone, and the tournament’s final round was set to begin.

On the eve of the Grand Martial Arts Tournament’s final arena battles, Naruto urged Hitomi to pursue the championship and gave him a rare Flying Thunder God Dream Card. Sarada’s suspicions about Hitomi’s father deepened as she learned Chidori and awakened her Sharingan, while Mitsuki chose to support Hitomi and awakened his Mangekyō Tomoe; the three prepared to face the final round.

• Naruto gave Hitomi the only Flying Thunder God Dream Card and explained that the arena champion could challenge a Heaven Shinobi and achieve Instant Ascension.
• Naruto told Hitomi that Kakashi Hatake had won the arena battles and replaced the Heaven Shinobi in the Tenth Seat the previous year.
• Sarada questioned Karin about her father and her surname, then worried that Hitomi might be her brother while preparing to make her father recognize her.
• Sarada used the Chidori Dream Card Hitomi had given her, and her Sharingan activated as she slept.
• Mitsuki told Orochimaru he had confirmed Hitomi’s strength, then awakened Mangekyō Tomoe in both eyes and called Hitomi his brother.
• Naruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki each carried their own concerns as they welcomed the tournament’s final round.

At the Grand Martial Arts Tournament finals, Naruto and Shixiu negotiated a deal while the hosts entertained the crowd with a Poop Bag demonstration announcement. The Heaven Ranking was unveiled, and the first match was set as Tōjin Uzumaki versus a feverish Sarada Uchiha.

• Shixiu praised Naruto for the tournament and negotiated an internal rate for defensive fortification gold.
• Naruto and Shixiu discussed Asura’s New Luo Country, whose Ninshu followers had grown to nearly one billion people.
• Tobi and A-Juan joked about Poop Bags, and Tobi announced that Konan would demonstrate how to use one.
• The Heaven Ranking was lowered from a hidden spaceship, displaying the ten Heaven Shinobi.
• Hitomi discovered that Sarada had a high fever, and the board announced her match against Tōjin Uzumaki.

Tōjin and Sarada faced off in the tournament arena, where Sarada’s determination and newly awakened Sharingan earned Tōjin’s respect. As Sasuke learned that Sarada was his daughter, the two fighters charged at each other with Chidori and Rasengan.

• The tournament board matched Tōjin Uzumaki against Sarada Uchiha, and Sasuke questioned Sakura about Sarada’s identity.
• Sarada attacked Tōjin with shuriken and Fire Release, but he hesitated to fight her until she challenged his pity and indulgence.
• Tōjin countered Sarada’s Great Fireball with Wind Release and knocked her down, drawing accusations of favoritism from the stands.
• Sakura told Sasuke that Sarada was his daughter with Karin and urged him to accept the present rather than cling to their past lives.
• Sarada rose despite her fever, awakened her Two-Tomoe Sharingan, and dodged Tōjin’s Wood Release, earning his apology and respect.
• Tōjin revealed the Rasengan, and he and Sarada charged at each other with Rasengan and Chidori.

Sasuke reunited with Sarada after her match against Hitomi, promising to stay by her side, while the next tournament match began between Ōnoki and Konohamaru. Konohamaru narrowly escaped Ōnoki’s Dust Release and activated Sage Mode.

• Hitomi defeated Sarada, and Sasuke caught her as she fell; Sarada recognized him as her father and asked why he had left her and Karin.
• Sasuke promised Sarada he would stay by her side, praised her skills, and carried her away with Karin.
• Tobi announced the next match, and Konohamaru faced Ōnoki while joking with Hanabi about winning.
• Konohamaru and Ōnoki traded feints and techniques until Ōnoki trapped Konohamaru in a depression and launched Dust Release.
• Konohamaru summoned Enma to break through the surrounding rock, dodged the Dust Release, and activated Sage Mode.

Konohamaru defeated Ōnoki in a hard-fought tournament match, though Ōnoki survived his final attack and lost when his Dust Release Chakra Mode ran out. The crowd honored both fighters as the board announced Kimimaro Kaguya versus Rock Lee as the next match.

• Konohamaru entered Sage Mode, prompting Ōnoki to reveal his Dust Release Chakra Mode and its ability to pulverize attacks.
• Konohamaru bombarded Ōnoki with Sage Art techniques, but Ōnoki dodged and countered by using his reduced weight for speed.
• Konohamaru struck Ōnoki with Toad Sniper, but Ōnoki survived by making himself extremely heavy at the last moment.
• Ōnoki's chakra cloak dissipated, and he collapsed from exhaustion, conceding the match to Konohamaru.
• Konohamaru helped Ōnoki leave the arena as the audience applauded, and the board announced Kimimaro Kaguya versus Rock Lee.

Rock Lee and Kimimaro fought fiercely in the Grand Martial Arts Tournament, with both revealing powerful new abilities. The chapter ended as Kimimaro unleashed his Sage Art and Rock Lee answered with Lion's Lament.

• Rock Lee opened the Sixth Gate and clashed with Kimimaro's Bone Asura armor, leaving both injured and the armor shattered.
• Kimimaro formed a colossal bone giant while Rock Lee opened the Seventh Gate and activated Might Guy's Small Heavenly Cycle Breathing Method.
• Rock Lee's enhanced Seventh Gate let him batter the bone giant, repel its attacks with Daytime Tiger, and defend against a bone barrage with Explosive Burst.
• Kimimaro revealed that his Cursed Seal had merged with his body and entered Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode after training at the sacred land.
• Kimimaro used Sage Art: Shikotsumyaku: Inorganic Reincarnation to raise a Bone Colossus, and Rock Lee switched to burst mode and unleashed Lion's Lament.

Rock Lee and Kimimaro fought fiercely in the tournament until they abandoned the match to go drinking together, leaving it without a winner. The next bout was announced as Temari versus Tenten.

• Rock Lee and Kimimaro's attacks sent bone fragments toward the stands, and Gaara, Haku, Kakashi, Kurotsuchi, and Buroi protected the spectators.
• Naruto enclosed the arena in a Sixteen Red Yang Formation to prevent further damage from escaping.
• Rock Lee's Pre-Death Serenade shattered Kimimaro's bone spear and chest armor, but Kimimaro's bone bullets injured Lee as they both retreated.
• Kimimaro withdrew from Sage Mode, and he and Rock Lee ended their fight to go drinking together.
• Tobi announced that the match had no winner or loser, and Tenten worried about losing the prize money.
• The scrolling board announced Temari versus Tenten as the fourth bout.

Tenten and Temari fought to a double knockout after unleashing powerful tools, scrolls, and Wind Release, leaving both declared losers. Suigetsu then won his match against Akatsuchi by default when Akatsuchi was unable to compete, and the tournament advanced to Hanabi Hyuga versus Mitsuki.

• Tenten used a living Mangekyō Sharingan scroll to direct waves of ninja tools at Temari, who destroyed them with powerful Wind Release.
• Temari released the Yin Seal and unleashed a massive fan technique, but Tenten survived behind a Yata Mirror summoned from a Susanoo scroll.
• Tenten used the scroll’s Yasaka Magatama and a tailed beast chakra cloak, then fired a Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb from a scientific ninja tool cannon.
• The explosion knocked out both fighters, and Obito ruled that they both lost; Tenten revealed she had also brought a Kamui Spacetime Secret Key Scroll.
• Akatsuchi failed to appear after collapsing in the restroom, so Hozuki Suigetsu won the fifth match by default.
• The tournament moved on to the sixth match, Hanabi Hyuga versus Mitsuki.

Mitsuki battled Hanabi in the arena and revealed Sage Mode, the Mangekyō Sharingan, and his lethal Mizuhanome dōjutsu. Hanabi survived his attack and awakened the Tenseigan’s power, leaving both fighters prepared to continue at full strength.

• Hitomi encouraged Mitsuki to fight Hanabi honestly, and Mitsuki promised to do his best.
• Mitsuki attacked Hanabi with snake hands, Wind Release, and Lightning Release, but Hanabi countered his techniques and recognized him as Orochimaru’s child.
• Mitsuki activated Sage Mode and the Mangekyō Sharingan, then traded taijutsu blows with Hanabi.
• Mitsuki used Mizuhanome to create lethal black water, but Hanabi escaped with Rotation and the Substitution Technique.
• Hanabi revealed her awakened Tenseigan and entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

Mitsuki defeated Hanabi in the tournament match with a carefully prepared Reaper Death Seal, but Hanabi survived through the Tenseigan’s Life-and-Death Seal and withdrew, allowing Mitsuki to advance. As the next round was announced, Shinshiki Ōtsutsuki appeared in the arena, terrifying Naruto.

• Hanabi overwhelmed Mitsuki with her Tenseigan abilities and absorbed his Sage Power, but Mitsuki continued fighting to meet Hitomi’s expectations.
• Mitsuki used the Reaper Death Seal and a hidden black-water trap to seize Hanabi’s soul, then escaped the technique’s cost with the Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique.
• Hanabi revived with the Tenseigan’s Life-and-Death Seal, and Mitsuki admitted defeat; Hanabi withdrew from the tournament and asked him to be a good companion to Hitomi.
• Hitomi, Konohamaru, Suigetsu, and Mitsuki advanced to the second round, where Hitomi was set to face Suigetsu.
• Shinshiki Ōtsutsuki emerged from a Yomotsu Hirasaka, and Naruto recognized him in terror.

Naruto and Kaguya staged a frightening appearance by Shinshiki to show the tournament crowd the threat of an Ōtsutsuki, then the martial arts matches resumed. Hitomi faced Hozuki Suigetsu, but Kuiba suddenly crashed into the arena with a strange two-horned man on his shoulder.

• Shinshiki appeared to attack Naruto and the tournament crowd, but Naruto and Kaguya revealed that the encounter was a staged performance.
• The crowd reacted with relief, while Madara, Hinata, and others explained how they had realized the danger was an act.
• Minato carried the exhausted Kaguya back to the moon, and Naruto said the performance was meant to leave everyone with a lasting sense of an Ōtsutsuki’s power.
• Hitomi entered the arena to fight Hozuki Suigetsu, and the two exchanged greetings before taking fighting stances.
• Kuiba dropped into the arena and crushed Suigetsu into a puddle, while Hitomi stared at the two-horned man standing on Kuiba’s shoulder.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki appeared at the arena as Naruto and Obito confirmed Madara had vanished under a power beyond Obito’s time reversal. Naruto entered the Netherworld with Sasuke and Hashirama to find Madara, leaving Hitomi to confront the Ōtsutsuki.

• Hitomi realized Momoshiki and Kinshiki were real and used a flash bomb as Naruto prepared to capture them.
• Ali reported that Madara had disappeared, and Obito’s Omodaru reversed time without bringing him back.
• Naruto concluded that the King of the Netherworld had intervened and summoned the Naraka Path’s Enma statue to open the Netherworld gate.
• Sasuke and Hashirama joined Naruto, and Naruto told Hinata to capture Momoshiki and Kinshiki alive and watch for Urashiki.
• Hitomi blocked Momoshiki and Kinshiki from pursuing Naruto, then used Flying Thunder God: Pursuing Wind Purple Lightning to attack Kinshiki.