Chapter Summaries

After escaping Sunagakure, Deidara and Sasori planned to recover and meet Orochimaru, who was building a mechanical jinchūriki and needed Sasori’s expertise. In Konoha, Hinata confronted Hanabi’s hatred of Neji, and Hanabi then accused Miki Yūya of causing her father’s death.

• Sasori told Deidara that Chiyo had deliberately left him a way out of her cage puppet, though he had been too weary to escape without Deidara’s help.
• Sasori and Deidara agreed to rest in the Land of Snow, where Sasori planned to repair and upgrade his puppets before meeting Orochimaru at Tenchi Bridge next month.
• Orochimaru tested Mechanical Naruto, a replica designed to hold Nine-Tails chakra, and concluded that he needed Sasori’s Puppet Technique to create a stable vessel.
• At Hyuga Hiashi’s mourning hall, Hanabi vowed to kill Neji, and Hinata slapped her and urged her not to perpetuate the Main Family–Branch Family hatred.
• Hanabi ran to the woods and blocked Miki Yūya as he returned to Konoha, accusing him of causing her father’s death; Miki Yūya asked whether she had invited him to the funeral feast.

Miki Yūya publicly blamed Hanabi for the Hyuga Clan’s misfortunes, then beat her when she attacked him. Konohamaru urged her to flee the angry villagers, and she escaped Konoha while he watched from the village wall.

• Miki Yūya mocked Hanabi over her father’s death and accused her of bringing ruin on the Hyuga Clan, while villagers joined in condemning her.
• Hanabi charged at Miki Yūya, who kicked her down and continued beating her as she tried to get back up.
• Konohamaru shouted for Hanabi to run, and she fled through the village as the crowd chased and threw stones at her.
• Hanabi escaped beyond the village, while Konohamaru watched from the wall and felt relieved to have someone else share his burden.

Tsunade sent Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata to protect Shion in the Land of Demons while Miki Yūya took Konohamaru to intercept Moryo’s advancing army. The young ninja left Konoha amid rising political danger, while Yūya leisurely traveled with Tsunade’s money and joked about living off a woman.

• Tsunade assigned Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata to protect Shion, explaining that Moryo’s resurrection threatened to destroy the world and Shion was the only one who could seal him again.
• Tsunade revealed that Miki Yūya had already left with Konohamaru to intercept Moryo’s army, and that she had paid him to take his time.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata left the Hokage’s Office and passed Danzo in the corridor, sensing an unsettling chill from him.
• Miki Yūya traveled toward the Land of Demons with Konohamaru and reflected that Tsunade’s three million ryo meant he was living off a woman.
• Konohamaru mistook Yūya’s remark for a confession that he liked Tsunade, so Yūya punched him and called Tsunade a vintage treasure.

Miki Yūya realized Tsunade had sent Konohamaru away to protect him while she prepared a purge in Konoha, but Konohamaru mistook Yūya’s remarks for a threat to kill him. When bandits ambushed them, their mockery pushed Konohamaru to fight back and reveal his strength.

• Miki Yūya told Konohamaru that Asuma’s bounty was thirty million ryo, prompting Konohamaru to vow he would one day be worth three hundred million.
• Miki Yūya inferred that Tsunade had sent Konohamaru away to keep him safe while she purged Root and other entrenched figures in Konoha.
• Konohamaru mistook Miki Yūya’s warning to stop for a threat, begged for his life, and offered his savings before Yūya revealed that bandits were nearby.
• Dozens of bandits emerged from the woods, recognized Konohamaru as the Hokage’s grandson, and threatened to harm him while mocking his fear.
• Konohamaru confronted the bandits, used Shadow Clone Technique and Konoha-style Taijutsu-Konoha Gale, and blasted through half the forest.

Miki Yūya used Observation Killing to evade Shion’s fate-reading, then confronted Moryo’s messengers and defeated Yitai and Dī with Haki. The other two messengers were still unaccounted for.

• Miki Yūya sensed someone tracing his fate and erased his presence from the timeline with Observation Killing.
• Shion foresaw her own death and the destruction of the Land of Demons, but Miki Yūya’s Haki severed the fate that had sealed her ending and shattered the Sealing Divine Bell.
• After Moryo sent four ninja to meet Miki Yūya, Yitai and Dī found him and Konohamaru beside a river and demanded that he come with them.
• Miki Yūya insulted Yitai and Dī, then stopped Yitai’s punch with Armament Haki and sent him flying into a rock face.
• Dī liquefied herself to escape, but Miki Yūya’s Armament Haki solidified her body and slammed her into the ground.

Miki Yūya fought off Yitai, Kusuna, and Setsuna, then unleashed a devastating attack that left them defeated and the battlefield in ruins. Konohamaru survived the blast, while Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin arrived and witnessed Miki Yūya’s power.

• Yitai, Kusuna, and Setsuna attacked Miki Yūya together with puppets, Wind Release, and a swamp technique, but he broke their assault and was trapped in an airtight wind cage.
• Konohamaru remembered Miki Yūya could walk through the air, broke free from his earthen seal, and fled as Miki Yūya prepared to strike.
• Miki Yūya unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and formed eighteen enormous black-and-red lightning fists before attacking with “Eighteen Heavens Thunderclap.”
• The attack destroyed Kusuna’s puppets and defenses, knocked Yitai unconscious, buried Setsuna in a ravine, and left Kusuna’s fate unknown.
• The shock wave injured Konohamaru, who survived and saw Miki Yūya hovering over the ruined battlefield.
• Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin arrived and witnessed the aftermath, and Sasuke warned Karin not to anger Miki Yūya.

Karin met Miki Yūya and explained how his defiance of the ninja world inspired her to choose taijutsu, but her attempt to embrace him convinced him she was a pervert. Miki Yūya fled the courtyard with Konohamaru, leaving Karin, Sasuke, and Suigetsu behind.

• Karin recalled how Miki Yūya’s photographs and his rejection of the ninja world inspired her to pursue taijutsu, and Sasuke recognized their shared hatred of being exploited.
• Miki Yūya greeted Sasuke, who admitted he still could not defeat Uchiha Itachi and showed the burn Itachi had left on his shoulder.
• Karin confessed her admiration for Miki Yūya and explained that he had given her hope, then threw her arms toward him.
• Miki Yūya kicked Karin away and called her a pervert, but Karin said she was willing to let him take out his pain on her.
• Suigetsu called Karin a pervert, Sasuke disowned responsibility, and Miki Yūya told Karin to stay away from him.
• Miki Yūya grabbed Konohamaru and ran from the courtyard, warning him that a pervert was there.

Sasuke questioned the surviving Dī and revealed that he had begun mastering haki, a power he associated with Miki Yūya. Meanwhile, Sasori challenged Pain to consider a world without chakra, prompting Pain to head for the Land of Demons to meet Yūya while Deidara followed to warn him.

• Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin searched the devastated battlefield and found the badly injured Dī alive in a ravine.
• Sasuke used a small black sphere of projected armament haki to frighten Dī into revealing that Moryo was traveling to the Land of Demons and had canceled the plan to assassinate its priestess.
• Sasuke explained that he had begun mastering haki and admired Miki Yūya for reaching great strength without chakra, ninjutsu, or inherited powers.
• Sasori asked Pain why he would not gather and destroy all chakra to end ninjutsu, the ninja system, and war.
• Pain recognized that Sasori's idea came from Miki Yūya, then decided to visit him in the Land of Demons.
• Deidara followed Pain on his Clay Bird to warn Yūya, while Sasori returned to the Akatsuki base.

Konohamaru Sarutobi saved the Land of Demons' samurai by smashing Moryo's stone army with his physical strength. On the mountaintop, Miki Yūya rejected Moryo's claim that they were alike and unleashed a devastating clash of chakra-less powers, leaving Deva Path Pain questioning whether eliminating chakra could bring peace.

• Konohamaru Sarutobi arrived on the battlefield and shattered the stone soldiers with powerful physical attacks, rallying the samurai guards.
• Miki Yūya confronted Moryo on the mountaintop, where Moryo explained that resentment had drawn him from the Otherworld and claimed their powers made them alike.
• Miki Yūya mocked Moryo as worthless and said his own strength came from hard work and his system, provoking Moryo into attacking with dark energy tentacles.
• Miki Yūya countered Moryo's attacks with Conqueror's Haki and fought through his resentment-made dragons as their powers shook the mountain and storm clouds gathered overhead.
• Moryo unleashed three black dragons, but Miki Yūya used Conqueror's Haki: Mountain Shatter to tear them apart and collapse the mountain peak.
• Deva Path Pain watched the destruction and wondered whether destroying all chakra could truly bring the world peace.

Moryo and Miki Yūya teamed up to attack Deva Path Pain, knocking him through the clouds before he retaliated with lightning. Miki Yūya charged through the storm with a Conqueror's Slash as Konohamaru watched in awe.

• Moryo and Miki Yūya spotted Deva Path Pain watching their battle and decided to attack him together.
• Miki Yūya launched Severance while Moryo's black dragons struck alongside him, blasting Deva Path Pain into the clouds.
• Moryo and Miki Yūya mocked Deva Path Pain, who declared that they would witness the power of a god.
• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in to draw lightning from the clouds and unleash it across the battlefield.
• Miki Yūya charged into the lightning and pierced the storm with Conqueror's Slash while Konohamaru watched.

Konohamaru overcame his despair over being weaker than Miki Yūya and protected the Land of Demons warriors with the Shadow Clone Technique and Rashomon. As Moryo fled the battlefield, he encountered Sasuke’s group and struck down his subordinate Dī to hide their connection.

• Konohamaru recalled how the villagers blamed his grandfather Hiruzen Sarutobi for failing to kill Orochimaru, then vowed to protect everyone in his own way.
• Konohamaru created nearly a hundred shadow clones and used Rashomon to shield the Land of Demons warriors from the battlefield’s shock wave.
• The Rashomon gates held against the blast, and Konohamaru declared that it was his turn to protect everyone.
• Moryo saw Miki Yūya falling from the sky, reverted to human form, and fled so he could find his body and grow stronger before fighting again.
• Moryo ran into Sasuke’s group at the edge of the battlefield and slapped Dī unconscious when she recognized him.

Sasuke delivered a White Zetsu vessel infused with Ryūchi Cave senjutsu to Moryo, which fused with it and transformed into the legendary Yamata no Orochi instead of a divine dragon. As the battlefield reeled from Moryo’s power, Miki Yūya woke up confused.

• Sasuke taunted Moryo into attempting to fuse with the White Zetsu vessel and warned that senjutsu could overwhelm it.
• Moryo absorbed the vessel, drew in natural energy and battlefield resentment, and grew into a giant monster as Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin fled.
• Moryo’s transformation created a gigantic white tree and a twisted fruit, which it swallowed to gain even greater power.
• The revived Moryo’s chakra terrified the Land of Demons’ guards, Konohamaru, Pain, and Deidara as they watched from across the battlefield.
• Moryo expected to become a divine dragon but instead transformed into the eight-headed, eight-tailed Yamata no Orochi.
• Miki Yūya woke near the battlefield and wondered whether he had transmigrated again.

Moryo overwhelmed the Six Paths of Pain with its enormous body and resentment-based powers, forcing Nagato to reconsider the Akatsuki’s plans. Rejecting Obito’s Infinite Tsukuyomi, Nagato embraced Sasori’s goal of destroying chakra and ordered the Akatsuki to seek the Chakra Progenitor.

• Moryo fought all six Paths of Pain, resisting their attacks, destroying summoned beasts, and heavily damaging four Paths.
• Moryo unleashed its Demon Realm Net, trapping Sasuke, Karin, and Suigetsu in painful memories.
• Nagato watched the battle through the shared vision of the Paths and reflected on Yahiko’s death, his own past, and the Akatsuki’s purpose.
• Nagato rejected Obito’s Eye of the Moon plan and decided Sasori’s proposal to destroy chakra and seal techniques offered a truer path to peace.
• Nagato ordered the Akatsuki to keep gathering tailed beast chakra and search for traces of the Chakra Progenitor.

Nagato redirected the Akatsuki toward capturing the remaining Tailed Beasts and proposed destroying chakra and jutsu, winning Obito’s agreement. As Akatsuki members pursued their assignments, Konoha’s forces overwhelmed Kumogakure at the border, where Jiraiya confronted Killer B.

• Nagato ordered the Akatsuki to pursue the remaining Tailed Beasts, investigate the Sage of Six Paths, and monitor the standoff between Konoha and Kumogakure.
• Obito challenged Nagato’s interest in the Sage, but Nagato rejected the Eye of the Moon Plan and argued that chakra and jutsu had to be destroyed to end suffering.
• Remembering Rin’s death and his own despair, Obito agreed to Nagato’s plan and accepted responsibility for capturing the Nine-Tails.
• Nagato secretly sent Konan to Sunagakure to seek the Gelel Stone, hoping its life energy would restore his failing body so he could carry out his plan himself.
• Might Guy and Kakashi routed Kumogakure’s forces at the border, prompting their commander to order a retreat.
• Killer B prepared to use the Eight-Tails’ power, but Jiraiya appeared in Sage Mode and blocked his path, drawing a warning from Gyuki.

Kumogakure's leaders examined Konoha's political turmoil and decided to hold their forces at the border while keeping Shimura Danzō's role in the intelligence leak secret. In the Hyuga compound, Danzō confronted the clan elders, who blamed him for Hyuga Hiashi's death, and threatened to destroy them all with his Reverse Four Symbols Seal.

• Mabui reported to Raikage A that Konoha's upheaval had followed Hiruzen Sarutobi's death, the Uchiha Clan's extermination, and Hyuga Hiashi's fatal fight.
• Samui and Darui assessed that Konoha's public pressure had driven Hiashi into a fight to the death, while Mabui warned that full-scale fighting could begin once Konoha settled its internal affairs.
• Raikage A ordered Kumogakure to maintain its front-line standoff and keep Shimura Danzō's intelligence leak from Konoha, fearing the accusation could spark further violence.
• At the Hyuga Clan compound, the elders accused Danzō of leaking Neji's intelligence and causing Hiashi's death.
• Danzō revealed the cursed seals of his Reverse Four Symbols Seal and threatened to take the entire Hyuga Clan down with him.

Danzo confronted the Hyuga Clan, but Urashiki’s attempt to incite the clanspeople backfired before the Hokage’s orders interrupted the standoff. At Tsunade’s office, Konoha’s leaders considered a settlement with Kumogakure that excluded compensation for the Hyuga, while A prepared Kumogakure for future conflict.

• Danzo faced a gathering Hyuga Clan ready to attack until Urashiki Otsutsuki provoked them into turning their anger on him, then fled under their curses.
• Two of Tsunade’s Anbu summoned Danzo and the Hyuga leaders to the Hokage’s Office after a captured Kumogakure spy yielded classified intelligence.
• Tsunade told the assembled leaders that Kumogakure had agreed to compensate Konoha for the conflict’s losses, but not the Hyuga Clan, and asked whether anyone objected.
• Konoha withdrew its ninja from the Land of Lightning border, while A ordered Kumogakure to send people to the Land of Snow, raise its military budget, and stock up on supplies.

Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata tried to dissuade Shion from sacrificing herself to seal Moryo, but she insisted that protecting the world was her Miko duty. Miki Yūya arrived and mocked her resolve, only to reveal that he had not actually defeated Moryo, leaving everyone stunned.

• Shion told Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura that Moryo had fully resurrected and that she might have to sacrifice herself to seal him.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata urged Shion not to repeat her mother's sacrifice, but Shion argued that the Miko lineage had to protect the world.
• Miki Yūya and Konohamaru arrived, and Yūya ridiculed Shion's plan and berated Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata for accepting it.
• Yūya declared that the strong could defeat darkness without sacrifices and said he would show Shion the truth about strength.
• Sakura assumed Yūya had already defeated Moryo and asked if they could return to the village, but Yūya admitted he had not dealt with him.
• Naruto and the others were left stunned, and Sakura angrily cursed Yūya for boasting.

After revealing the devastation left by the battle against Moryo, Yamata no Orochi, and the Six Paths of Pain, Miki Yūya and the others received an urgent mission to stop Mukade from taking the dragon veins in Roran. Sai then revealed that Yūya's short sword gave him partial inheritance rights to the Rōran Royal Family, leaving him furious that Sunagakure might take what he considered his.

• Konohamaru explained that Yūya had faced Moryo in its Yamata no Orochi form, the Six Paths of Pain, and Sasuke's group in a chaotic three-way battle before the forces withdrew.
• After three days of recuperation, Yūya led Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Shion to the battlefield, where they saw the flattened land and understood the scale of the fighting.
• Sai arrived with Tsunade's orders for the group to pursue Mukade, a rogue ninja from Sunagakure, and stop him from taking the dragon veins beneath Roran.
• Sai explained that the injured Gaara could not pursue Mukade, prompting Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata to realize that Yūya had caused the Kazekage's injuries.
• Sai revealed that Yūya's short sword was a royal inheritance token that gave him partial inheritance rights to the Ancient Kingdom of Roran, and Yūya angrily accused Sunagakure's ninja of coveting his property.

Miki Yūya and his team stormed Mukade’s puppet defenses at Rōran, but Mukade unleashed the dragon veins as Obito appeared, sending Miki Yūya and Naruto into the past. Miki Yūya met Queen Sara and claimed Rōran’s throne; when the real Mukade arrived, he recognized the injured Miki Yūya and went pale.

• Naruto’s tailed-beast-powered shadow clones smashed through Mukade’s puppet army while Sakura and Hinata helped clear the ruins.
• Mukade fled to the Dragon Veins Sealing Altar, but Miki Yūya’s insults and reputation convinced him to reject surrender and activate the seal.
• Obito appeared as the dragon veins erupted, and the resulting chakra swallowed Miki Yūya and Naruto.
• Miki Yūya awoke in Rōran’s past, met Queen Sara, and demanded that she hand the kingdom over to him.
• Miki Yūya defeated Sara’s guards, put his sword to her throat, and carried her toward town.
• The Mukade living in that era heard that Rōran’s new heir had returned, then turned pale when he saw Miki Yūya.

After six years of hiding his identity and plotting to seize Rōran, Mukade was confronted by Miki Yūya and mistakenly believed Sara had exposed his crimes to avenge her mother. When he learned Miki Yūya had come to claim a share of the dragon veins, Mukade abandoned Sara and declared his loyalty to him.

• Mukade recalled how he had posed as Anrokuzan, served Rōran for six years, secretly killed the previous queen, and installed Sara as a puppet ruler.
• Miki Yūya appeared in the palace with Sara, and Mukade panicked at the sight of the man he had feared might pursue him from the future.
• Mukade assumed Sara had secretly planned her revenge, but Sara insisted she did not know Miki Yūya and pleaded with Anrokuzan to protect her.
• Miki Yūya said he was a rightful heir to Rōran and had come to claim his share of the dragon veins.
• Mukade knelt before Miki Yūya, claimed he had faithfully served Rōran, and urged him to take control from Sara.
• Mukade revealed his real name and said he had long considered himself a man of Konoha.