Chapter Summaries

Naruto visited Kaguya on the moon, where she settled into family life with Minato and Kushina, and learned that Kushina was pregnant with his little sister. He then asked Kaguya about her past with Isshiki, and she agreed to tell him the truth.

• Kaguya asked Naruto for seeds so she could grow flowers and plants in the courtyard, and Naruto brought Minato the range hood he had requested.
• Kaguya asked to meet Hinata, and Naruto explained that Hinata was pregnant; Kushina then revealed that she was expecting a daughter, whom Minato and Kushina planned to name Namikaze Nayuta.
• Minato offered to suggest a name for Naruto and Hinata's baby, but Kushina firmly rejected the idea.
• Minato carried Kushina out for their usual post-meal walk, while Naruto stayed behind with Kaguya.
• Naruto told Kaguya that he had killed Isshiki and asked about her past in Takamagahara and her journey to this land with Isshiki; Kaguya agreed to tell him her true past.

Kaguya's transformation into human form began her training with Aiki, who taught her to fight so she could protect what mattered to her. Years later, as Kaguya grew skilled with chakra, she began to question whether Aiki was human.

• At ten, Kaguya transformed from a jade rabbit into a human girl and surprised Aiki in the snow.
• Aiki showed Kaguya two snakes fighting and persuaded her to learn to fight so she could protect Aiki.
• Aiki taught Kaguya about chakra, then secretly used a wild beast attack to awaken Kaguya's chakra and Byakugan.
• Kaguya embraced Aiki after learning that Aiki had arranged the attack, and she continued improving her chakra skills as she grew up.
• Kaguya asked Aiki whether she was human.

Kaguya learned that the Ōtsutsuki demanded she kill Aiki as a ritual to sever her compassion, but Aiki took her own life to protect her from the clan. After Aiki's death, Kaguya became cold and emotionless, then faced Momoshiki and Kinshiki as they came to take her to Takamagahara.

• Aiki told Kaguya that she would eventually have to leave her and explained that Kaguya was an Ōtsutsuki princess whose father was Taren.
• As Kaguya neared adulthood, Aiki revealed that the Ōtsutsuki required her to kill her attendant as a ritual, or the messengers would kill Kaguya.
• Kaguya refused to harm Aiki and tried to flee with her, but Aiki stabbed herself to spare Kaguya from the consequences of refusing the ritual.
• Aiki died in Kaguya's arms, warning her against compassion, and Kaguya emerged from the temple changed and unable to smile.
• Momoshiki and Kinshiki met Kaguya on the snowfield, and Momoshiki announced that they would take her to Takamagahara to hear the king's decree.

Kaguya arrived in Takamagahara, where Isshiki explained the Ōtsutsuki clan’s hierarchy, evolution, and history. As they left to collect their saplings, the Upper God Ryūshiki appeared and descended before them.

• Kinshiki left Kaguya at Awa no Kihara, where Isshiki arrived three days later and declared himself her master and partner.
• Isshiki showed Kaguya the Heavenly Pillar and explained the clan’s ranks, its pursuit of the Supreme God, and how Chakra Fruits and God Trees enabled evolution.
• Isshiki petitioned the Heavenly Pillar for God Tree saplings, and two juvenile Ten-Tails descended onto the altar.
• Isshiki recounted how Ōtsutsuki Taitō became the first Ten-Tails and how the first Chakra Fruit led to the clan’s rule over Takamagahara.
• Kaguya and Isshiki saw Ryūshiki, whom Isshiki identified as an Upper God and the dragon of Chen; Kaguya was the rabbit of Mao.
• Ryūshiki descended in golden light, forcing Isshiki to his knees and prompting him to prostrate himself in respect.

Ryūshiki took Kaguya away from Isshiki, explaining that he had come because her mother, Nayotake, once helped him. As he led her to Watatsumi Shrine, he comforted her over Aiki's death and praised her compassion, leaving Kaguya curious about him.

• Ryūshiki interrupted Isshiki and took Kaguya with him, saying he would train her for a few days.
• As they walked beside the River of Heavenly Peace, Ryūshiki told Kaguya that Nayotake had once saved him from despair.
• Ryūshiki guessed that Kaguya was grieving Aiki and revealed that Aiki's mother had served Nayotake.
• Kaguya asked what her mother had been like, and Ryūshiki described Nayotake as gentle and praised Kaguya's compassion.
• Ryūshiki brought Kaguya to Watatsumi Shrine and opened the palace doors.

Ryūshiki showed Kaguya his mechanical inventions and explained his views on Kāma, humans, and the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s obsession with evolution. Kaguya learned that Kāma offered a path of coexistence and heard Ryūshiki warn that the clan’s pursuit of a Supreme God would leave the world lifeless.

• Ryūshiki welcomed Kaguya to his palace, where she examined his Asura Mecha Men, tools, blueprints, and the damaged turtle Pear.
• Ryūshiki told Kaguya about his research into expanding the Rinnegan’s applications and his creation of the Asura Path Armory.
• Ryūshiki asked Kaguya about her mission with Isshiki, and she confirmed that they were to turn the Ten-Tails into a God Tree and harvest its Chakra Fruit.
• Kaguya said she would not find a vessel for her resurrection because she did not want an innocent person to die.
• Ryūshiki revealed that he created Kāma and built in an option for a marked human and the god who bestowed it to coexist.
• Ryūshiki argued that the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s relentless evolution would end with one Supreme God in a lifeless world, while humans were better able to grasp life’s meaning.

After Ryūshiki persuaded Kaguya to abandon suicide and seek her own way to survive, she asked him to help her become stronger. In the accelerated world of Tsukuyomi, she mastered Rabbit Hair Needle, and Ryūshiki began teaching her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

• Ryūshiki shared his fears about the clan’s evolution and urged Kaguya to stay alive and find her own path.
• Kaguya told Ryūshiki she wanted to become stronger, and he took her into the courtyard to begin helping her.
• Ryūshiki brought Kaguya into the world of Tsukuyomi, where time passed thousands of times faster than outside.
• Ryūshiki taught Kaguya to control, harden, and fire her hair, then helped her refine her Byakugan attacks against chakra points.
• Kaguya mastered Rabbit Hair Needle after a month of training in Tsukuyomi, and Ryūshiki began teaching her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.

Ryūshiki taught Kaguya the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, then explained how Byakugan mutations produced different dōjutsu. He traced the Sharingan’s origins to an ancient inherited mutation and revealed that Ōtsutsuki Taitō became the first person in Takamagahara to awaken the Rinnegan.

• Ryūshiki demonstrated the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and explained how the Byakugan activated chakra circulation, while disguising his ability to keep it running in the background.
• Kaguya practiced the technique in the Tsukuyomi World for three months and mastered it, producing fifty-seven fists with one strike.
• Ryūshiki said Isshiki’s unusual right eye came from a favorable Byakugan mutation and described mutations as distinct from the Byakugan’s evolution into the Tenseigan.
• Ryūshiki told Kaguya that the Sharingan originated from an inherited mutation that weakened the Byakugan and diverged over generations.
• Ryūshiki revealed that Ōtsutsuki Taitō awakened the first Rinnegan in Takamagahara after his Sharingan underwent a qualitative transformation in war.

Ryūshiki explained how the Rinnegan became an inherited power and why he refused to eat a Chakra Fruit, though he kept his suspicions about the fruit secret from Kaguya. After teasing each other about dōjutsu and talent, he began teaching her All-Killing Ash Bones.

• Ryūshiki told Kaguya how Taitō became the Ten-Tails and how a clansman who ate its Chakra Fruit became the First Hanging Root King, passing the Rinnegan into the clan’s bloodline.
• Kaguya asked why Ryūshiki had not eaten a Chakra Fruit, and he stayed silent while privately considering his theory that the fruit contained the wills of those who became Ten-Tails.
• Ryūshiki kept his unverified suspicions about the fruit and the clan’s chakra dependence from Kaguya, then offered to answer another question.
• Kaguya asked whether Ryūshiki had the Tenseigan, and he explained that he had chosen to focus his dōjutsu power on the Rinnegan instead.
• Ryūshiki and Kaguya joked about Shinshiki’s abilities and Ryūshiki’s talent, leaving Kaguya secretly pleased.
• Ryūshiki began teaching Kaguya Shikotsumyaku’s All-Killing Ash Bones as her trump card.

Ryūshiki taught Kaguya to use Shikotsumyaku and create All-Killing Ash Bones during their time in the Tsukuyomi World, while helping her confront her conflicting feelings about humanity and her mission. After returning to reality, he caught her off guard with a surprise attack and called it a lesson.

• Ryūshiki helped Kaguya overcome her fear of pain and master Shikotsumyaku.
• Ryūshiki showed Kaguya how the Gray Cursed Seal transformed bones into All-Killing Ash Bones, and she learned to make the seal herself.
• Kaguya tried to test her ash bones on herself, but Ryūshiki redirected her to test them on him.
• Kaguya and Ryūshiki returned to reality after over a year in the Tsukuyomi World, though only a day had passed outside.
• Kaguya hinted that she wanted to coexist with humans, and Ryūshiki warned her that planting the God Tree would threaten humanity.
• Ryūshiki pretended to fall asleep, then pinned Kaguya to the ground and named his surprise move the Surprise Killing Technique.

Ryūshiki showed Kaguya the All-Seeing Eye and revealed the Ōtsutsuki clan’s devastation of Ashihara Country, including the destruction of her mother Nayotake’s home realm. He then offered to teach Kaguya a technique that could hide a realm from the clan, leaving her with a last-resort means of protecting one.

• Ryūshiki took Kaguya to a canyon and raised the All-Seeing Eye, showing her the realms destroyed or targeted by the Ōtsutsuki clan.
• Ryūshiki showed Kaguya Shinshiki tending a God Tree in Izumo Country and explained that the tree had consumed Hashiki; Kaguya learned that nearly all the realm’s inhabitants, including its branch family, had been wiped out.
• Ryūshiki explained the branch family’s low status and warned Kaguya to avoid Shinshiki, while defending the rules her father had established against clansmen killing and devouring one another.
• Ryūshiki explained how natural moons could nurture gentler God Trees, then revealed that Nayotake had died after refusing to sacrifice a vessel in Mino Country.
• Ryūshiki saw Kaguya’s despair, lowered the All-Seeing Eye, and offered to teach her the All-Seeing Eye Rift as a way to hide a realm from detection.

Ryūshiki told Kaguya about the auspicious members of his clan as they spent their last hours together, then gave her his Black Tomoe when she left for Mitsuki Country. Kaguya reunited with Isshiki, who took her onward despite her cold silence.

• Ryūshiki gave Kaguya a rejected baby monkey to release into the wild in Mitsuki Country.
• Ryūshiki described the ten other auspicious clan members and explained how Chakra Fruits and other methods affected their strength.
• At dawn, Ryūshiki placed his Black Tomoe around Kaguya's neck as a parting gift, and Kaguya reluctantly left.
• Kaguya reunited with Isshiki at Awa no Kihara, ignored his question about the monkey, and went with him to Mitsuki Country.

Kaguya refused to let Isshiki sacrifice the humans of Mitsuki Country, so she ambushed him and escaped with the help of Ryūshiki’s gift. She concealed Mitsuki Country from the All-Seeing Eye, while Ryūshiki faced suspicion from Ōtsutsuki Chito.

• Isshiki explained the Heavenly Compass and White Zetsu to Kaguya, then ordered her to find a vessel for the Ten-Tails in Mitsuki Country.
• Kaguya released her pet monkey and asked Isshiki to spare the humans, but he refused and commanded her to return with a vessel to be sacrificed.
• Kaguya feigned collapse and attacked Isshiki, but he overpowered her, sealed her chakra, and threw her toward the Ten-Tails.
• Ryūshiki’s tomoe necklace transported Kaguya behind Isshiki, allowing her to pierce him with an All-Killing Ash Bone before he escaped by shrinking himself.
• Kaguya used her heavenly eye to conceal Mitsuki Country and change its spatial coordinates, and Ryūshiki’s sister Ōtsutsuki Chito accused him of helping Kaguya betray their clan.

Kaguya recounted how she became the God Tree’s protector, ate its fruit, and was sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura after using Infinite Tsukuyomi. Naruto comforted her, then promised to train her after Hinata gave birth, before Kushina caught him breaking the courtyard table and chased him with a frying pan.

• Kaguya told Naruto that she ate the God Tree Fruit to end human warfare, later used Infinite Tsukuyomi, and was sealed after a month-long battle with her sons.
• Kaguya explained that the original moon had crumbled, Hagoromo and Hamura created the later moon to seal her, and her horns returned after she ate the fruit.
• Naruto hugged Kaguya and then surprised her with a body slam, leaving the stone table broken.
• Kaguya described her changing power rank and admitted she was not skilled at fighting, so Naruto offered to teach her in her Amenominaka space after Hinata had the baby.
• Kushina returned and revealed Kaguya wanted to hold Naruto and Hinata’s baby, then pursued Naruto with a frying pan over the broken table while Minato watched.

After returning from the moon, Naruto negotiated Amado’s cooperation and secured promises to purify Neji’s Kāma and deal with Daemon’s ability. Naruto then moved against Kara’s remaining Outer Circle members, while the Five Great Nations’ Daimyo prepared to discuss a restructuring.

• Naruto asked Obito to accompany him to meet Amado and act if Eida’s Heartsteal affected him.
• Naruto confronted Amado over his past actions and agreed to protect him in exchange for purifying Neji’s Kāma and restraining Eida and Daemon.
• Amado shut Daemon down, while Naruto revealed that Eida’s ability did not work on him and offered to protect Daemon after his ability was removed.
• Naruto used Amado’s list to dispatch forces against Kara’s remaining Outer Circle members and bring peace to Amegakure.
• After the Five Kage Summit, the Five Kage consulted their Daimyo, who jointly convened a Five Daimyo Summit to consider restructuring.

At the Five Daimyo Summit, Mifune challenged the leaders for refusing to address the Kage’s request and declared that the samurai would support Naruto Uzumaki. The Daimyo began discussing negotiations, but the arrival of Yamashita Cixin, Dodai, and Sasuke Uchiha left the summit’s decision unresolved.

• The four attending Daimyo put off the summit’s business to play cards, soak in hot springs, and eat before discussing the Kage’s petition.
• The Daimyo doubted the threat from beyond the sky and questioned Naruto Uzumaki’s motives, while Mifune urged them not to obstruct the ninja.
• Mifune drew his sword and announced that the samurai would stand with the ninja and support Naruto Uzumaki’s position.
• Uekawa Shikyu said he was willing to negotiate but demanded answers about the costs of supporting ninja and how their power would be controlled.
• Fujiwara Daichi rejected the threat as nonsense, Abe Kazutaka called for the nations to decide together, and Uesugi Kenwa reserved his opinion.
• Yamashita Cixin arrived with Dodai and Sasuke Uchiha as the Daimyo discussed the absent Land of Lightning representative.

At the Five Daimyo Summit, Sasuke Uchiha asked the leaders to support Naruto and prepare the ninja villages for future threats. The daimyo agreed to help the villages, and Mifune cut off his own arm to atone for allowing Sasuke into the meeting.

• Yamashita Cixin confronted the daimyo over their opposition to restructuring the ninja villages and revealed that Sasuke Uchiha was supporting him.
• Dodai identified Sasuke, alarming the daimyo, and Sasuke challenged Fujiwara Daichi and Abe Kazutaka over their motives and hostility toward Naruto.
• Sasuke recounted Naruto's sacrifices and pleaded with the daimyo to trust him and help the ninja prepare for future enemies; Dodai and Cixin also bowed in support.
• Shikyu, Fujiwara Daichi, Abe Kazutaka, and Uesugi Kenwa each pledged assistance to the ninja villages and withdrew their earlier insults.
• Mifune cut off his left arm to take responsibility for his earlier disrespect, bringing the summit to a close.

Asura and a group of Amegakure ninja traveled through the Shinobi World to warn people about the Ōtsutsuki threat, but villagers rejected them and most of his companions gave up. After Asura used Ninshu to help villagers feel connected, they embraced his message, and he continued the journey with a growing group.

• Asura and the Amegakure ninja began spreading warnings about the Ōtsutsuki, but the first village mocked and rejected them.
• Asura persisted despite his companions’ doubts, and Tōru chose to stay with him after the others decided to return home.
• Tōru explained that he hoped to accomplish something that might make Konan notice him, and Asura promised to teach him some ninjutsu.
• Asura connected the villagers through chakra and Ninshu, giving them a sense of peace and connection.
• The villagers apologized and asked to become Asura’s disciples, and Tōru reminded him to keep the mission focused on the Ōtsutsuki threat.

Amamiya Ruri killed the Land of Rain’s daimyo and announced a plan to make the country’s population into ninja in service of the Ninja King. She assigned Violet to form a unit to police the newly empowered population while Kabuto Yakushi continued researching how food could awaken ordinary people’s chakra.

• Amamiya Ruri visited the daimyo’s residence with Violet and Kabuto Yakushi and killed the daimyo, taking revenge for her mother’s death.
• Amamiya Ruri and her followers bowed before the empty throne and declared their loyalty to the Ninja King.
• Amamiya Ruri outlined a plan to teach practical ninjutsu to the Land of Rain’s nearly ten million people and require healthy citizens aged fourteen or older to complete two years of ninja service.
• Amamiya Ruri ordered Violet to assemble the Blood Drippers to stop ninja from abusing their power, and Kabuto Yakushi said he would seek help from a renowned chef in Konoha with his chakra research.
• Amamiya Ruri vowed to place the entire world in the Ninja King’s hands.

Naruto and Shikaku planned a new system to prepare the Five Great Shinobi Villages for future wars, including Combat Advisors, a Shinobi Grand Tournament, and new Ninja ranks. Naruto assigned himself and four others to advise the villages, then the story jumped ahead ten years to Year 75 of Konoha.

• Shikaku visited Naruto in Amegakure and discussed the villages’ preparations after the Five Daimyo Summit.
• Naruto proposed appointing five Combat Advisors, holding an annual Shinobi Grand Tournament in Amegakure, and replacing the old Ninja ranks with Mortal Shinobi, Earth Shinobi, and Heaven Shinobi.
• Naruto persuaded Hashirama and Madara to become Combat Advisors and summoned Obito and Sasuke to join them.
• The five drew lots, assigning Hashirama to Sunagakure, Madara to Iwagakure, Sasuke to Kumogakure, Obito to Kirigakure, and Naruto to Konoha.
• Naruto told the advisors to begin their assignments, and the story skipped ahead ten years to Year 75 of Konoha.