Chapter Summaries

Team 7 sealed Kaguya, and the four reincarnated Hokage returned to the Pure Land after Minato wished Naruto a happy seventeenth birthday. As the Shinobi World reckoned with how young Naruto and Sasuke were, a dark figure suddenly rose above the battlefield and Sasuke’s Rinnegan power surged.

• Sakura struck Kaguya in the head, giving Naruto and Sasuke the opening to seal her with Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei.
• Minato wished Naruto a happy birthday before fading away with the other three Hokage and returning to the Pure Land.
• The people watching the Sky Screen realized Naruto and Sasuke had ended the war while still seventeen.
• Black Zetsu despaired as his thousand-year plan to resurrect Kaguya ended in failure, while Kaguya watched the Sky Screen from her sealed space and welcomed its company.
• A dark figure shot into the sky above the battlefield, and Sasuke’s Six-Tomoe Rinnegan unleashed immense power across the Shinobi World.

Sasuke sealed all nine tailed beasts and declared that he would rule the shinobi world through fear, bearing its hatred alone to impose peace. Naruto rejected Sasuke’s plan, and the Sky Screen shifted to the Valley of the End as their final battle approached.

• Sasuke used his Rinnegan to restrain the nine tailed beasts and seal their chakra inside his Susanoo.
• Sasuke announced that he would become the shinobi world’s sole villain and ruler, using absolute power to end conflict.
• Naruto told Sasuke that forced peace would only suppress hatred and eventually plunge the world into chaos again.
• Sasuke challenged Naruto to defeat him if he wanted to change his conviction.
• The Sky Screen showed the Valley of the End, and the shinobi world anticipated Naruto and Sasuke’s decisive battle.

Naruto and Sasuke fought their final battle at the Valley of the End, each using all his strength to uphold his path. They collapsed in a draw, and Sasuke admitted defeat in conviction as Naruto reached out to him, leaving their bond renewed.

• Naruto and Sasuke began their battle at the Valley of the End after losing their Six Paths Power.
• They fought with taijutsu, ninjutsu, Perfect Susanoo, and Naruto's Nine-Tails Sage Mode until both were gravely wounded and nearly out of chakra.
• Sasuke demanded to know why Naruto kept pursuing him, and Naruto answered that Sasuke was his brother and he would not let him bear the world's hatred alone.
• Naruto and Sasuke unleashed one final strike, then collapsed with neither able to stand.
• Sasuke conceded that he had lost in conviction, while Naruto called the result a draw and said they were finally equal.
• Sasuke saw Naruto's gentleness and felt the coldness in his heart begin to thaw.

After Naruto and Sasuke reconciled at the Valley of the End, Sakura healed them and Sasuke apologized to her, completing Team 7’s reconciliation. Indra and Asura’s chakra disappeared, Sasuke dispelled the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and after the war he returned to Konoha to face judgment for his crimes.

• Sakura treated Naruto and Sasuke, and Sasuke sincerely apologized to her as she cried; Team 7 reconciled while Kakashi watched.
• Sasuke explained that Indra and Asura’s chakra had vanished because their obsessions and thousand-year conflict were resolved.
• Naruto accepted that he was no longer bound to Asura’s chakra, and Sasuke dispelled the Infinite Tsukuyomi, waking the people and ending the war.
• After the war, Sasuke returned to Konoha and willingly went to prison to answer for his past crimes.
• People across the Shinobi World discussed Sasuke’s atonement and connected Naruto’s calmer nature to the disappearance of Asura’s chakra.

After serving his sentence, Sasuke left Konoha to secretly protect the Shinobi World while Kakashi prepared Naruto to become Hokage. As Naruto remained oblivious to Hinata’s feelings, Otsutsuki Toneri returned, lost a fight with Naruto, and abducted Hanabi Hyuga to the moon.

• Sasuke finished his prison sentence, then traveled alone to eliminate threats and protect the Shinobi World from the shadows.
• Kakashi became the Sixth Hokage and began preparing Naruto to lead Konoha as the Seventh Hokage.
• Grown-up Naruto failed to notice Hinata’s affection, and she walked home alone after Sakura urged him to escort her.
• Otsutsuki Toneri returned to Konoha to abduct Hinata, but Naruto easily defeated him and drove him away.
• Toneri sent his Puppet Army to attack the Hyuga estate, abducted Hanabi Hyuga, and escaped with her to the moon.

Toneri awakened the Tenseigan using Hanabi’s Byakugan, alarming the shinobi world and prompting Orochimaru to covet its secrets. As Naruto’s team entered an ancient cave to rescue Hanabi, a genjutsu trapped them, leaving Naruto to witness Hinata’s memories and long-held love for him.

• Toneri tore out Hanabi’s pure Byakugan and used them to awaken the Tenseigan, declaring that he would control the shinobi world.
• Orochimaru became fascinated by the Tenseigan, while Konoha’s leaders discussed the threat Toneri posed and the Hyuga Clan’s lack of records about the eye.
• Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Sai tracked the Ōtsutsuki Puppet’s chakra to an ancient cave and stepped into a spring.
• The spring’s genjutsu trapped the team, but Naruto gained an observer’s perspective and began seeing Hinata’s memories.
• Naruto watched Hinata’s childhood memories, including her secretly writing his name as her dream and offering him healing ointment after his defeat in the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Hinata’s memories showed her charging toward Pain to protect Naruto during the attack on Konoha.

Naruto saw Hinata’s memories and finally understood her longstanding love for him, strengthening his resolve to protect her and rescue Hanabi. On the moon, Toneri confronted Naruto’s group and revealed that his Branch Family had wiped out the Main Family in a brutal civil war.

• Hinata’s memories showed her quietly loving Naruto for more than a decade, and Naruto finally understood her devotion.
• After the illusions faded, Naruto led Hinata, Sakura, and the others through the Otsutsuki Space-Time Passage to the moon to rescue Hanabi.
• Toneri confronted Naruto’s group with the Tenseigan, and Naruto condemned him for stealing Hanabi’s eyes.
• Toneri revealed that Hamura’s descendants had split into Main and Branch Families, with the Main Family protecting the shinobi world and the Branch Family seeking to destroy it.
• Toneri admitted that the Branch Family developed the Tenseigan using Byakugan and slaughtered every member of the Main Family.

The Hyuga Clan feared that their Main Family and Branch Family system could lead to the same bloodshed as the lunar Otsutsuki, while Naruto and Hinata confronted Toneri over his plan to destroy the world and his use of Hanabi's eyes. Naruto kept Toneri occupied as Hinata withdrew, and their full-power battle began with Toneri's Tenseigan revealed to be unstable.

• The Hyuga Clan's Main Family members panicked after learning that the lunar Otsutsuki's Branch Family had slaughtered its Main Family and seized power.
• Toneri explained that he planned to use the Giant Tenseigan to destroy the Shinobi World and create a new one.
• Hinata confronted Toneri for taking Hanabi's eyes, and Toneri claimed Hanabi's sacrifice had awakened his Tenseigan.
• Naruto blocked Toneri so Hinata could retreat, then both fighters activated their strongest forms and began battling across the moon.
• Toneri repeatedly suppressed Naruto with the Tenseigan, but the power he had created by fusing Hanabi's Byakugan with his chakra had an unstable foundation.

Naruto and Hinata defeated Toneri, destroyed the Giant Tenseigan, and left the moon after becoming a couple. As the Shinobi World reacted to the Tenseigan’s requirements, Hiashi considered Hinata’s future while the young Naruto and Hinata in Konoha struggled with the Sky Screen’s revelation.

• Naruto exhausted Toneri with a Senjutsu Rasengan, while Hinata destroyed the Giant Tenseigan and ended the moon’s attack on the Shinobi World.
• Toneri declared that he would return someday, then died; Hinata recovered Hanabi’s Byakugan before she and Naruto left the moon.
• Naruto and Hinata became a couple after returning to Konoha.
• The Sky Screen revealed that awakening the Tenseigan required a pure Byakugan and Otsutsuki chakra, prompting ambitious discussions among the Hyuga Clan.
• Hiashi decided that Naruto’s protection would spare Hinata and her descendants from the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and family system.
• At the Ninja Academy, the young Hinata blushed over the Sky Screen’s future, while the young Naruto felt flustered and admitted he barely knew her.

Sasuke returned to Konoha and warned Naruto that the secretive Veil Organization included Uchiha Sen and the Uzumaki Clan remnants who had attacked the village. After receiving the organization’s invitation, Naruto and Sasuke secretly went to its meeting place, where they found Uchiha Sen waiting.

• Sasuke secretly returned to Konoha and told Naruto about the Veil Organization, which he had investigated while traveling.
• Sasuke revealed that Uchiha Sen and the Uzumaki Clan remnants who had infiltrated Konoha belonged to the organization and harbored hatred toward the village.
• Naruto and Sasuke received a message inviting them to meet the Veil Organization alone, and they chose not to inform Kakashi.
• Naruto and Sasuke secretly left Konoha and traveled to the deserted valley named in the invitation.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the valley and found Uchiha Sen waiting for them.

Uchiha Sen met Sasuke and Naruto to warn them that the Celestial Dragons, who had ruled the Shinobi World a thousand years earlier, might invade. Naruto was shocked by the revelation, which contradicted what he knew about Kaguya Otsutsuki.

• Uchiha Sen greeted Sasuke and Naruto, then provoked Sasuke by bringing up his severed arm and the Uchiha Clan massacre.
• Sasuke suppressed his anger and told Uchiha Sen to stop dredging up old grievances.
• Naruto interrupted their confrontation and asked why the Veil Organization had requested a meeting.
• Uchiha Sen said the Veil Organization had no interest in the Shinobi World's conflicts and that only its leader knew its true plans.
• Uchiha Sen warned Naruto and Sasuke to stay alert because the Celestial Dragons might invade the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Sen said the Celestial Dragons had been the world's supreme rulers a thousand years earlier, leaving Naruto shocked because he had thought Kaguya Otsutsuki was the only supreme being then.

Naruto and Sasuke learned that the Veil Organization had privately sent Uchiha Sen to warn them about the Celestial Dragons, a mysterious force that may have ruled the Shinobi World before Kaguya. They concluded the Sage of Six Paths had deliberately hidden this history and could only wait for Uchiha Sen to uncover more.

• Uchiha Sen revealed that an elder in the Veil Organization, not its leader, had privately sent him to warn Naruto about the Celestial Dragons.
• Naruto asked Uchiha Sen to investigate the Celestial Dragons and pass along any information, and promised to pay whatever price was demanded.
• Uchiha Sen warned Naruto that the Veil Organization operated through equivalent exchange, then vanished from the valley.
• Naruto and Sasuke agreed that Uchiha Sen seemed truthful and that the Veil Organization regarded the Shinobi World as insignificant.
• Sasuke questioned why the Sage of Six Paths had never mentioned the Celestial Dragons, and Naruto concluded that he had deliberately concealed their history.
• Naruto and Sasuke decided to wait for Uchiha Sen to find more information within the Veil Organization.

Naruto and Sasuke agreed to trade information about foreign enemies, then watched the Sky Screen show their marriages, children, and peaceful lives after the war. Naruto later explained that peace enforced by their strength was temporary and began outlining the causes of war, leaving the two considering how to prevent the Shinobi World from returning to conflict.

• Naruto told Sasuke he would trade whatever information they could afford for intelligence about foreign enemies, and Sasuke accepted his decision.
• Naruto announced that he would marry Hinata, and the Sky Screen showed Naruto and Hinata’s wedding alongside Sasuke and Sakura finding happiness together.
• The Sky Screen showed Naruto and Hinata, and Sasuke and Sakura, welcoming children, leaving the young Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata in the Ninja Academy embarrassed and stunned.
• Itachi watched the babies on the Sky Screen and felt relieved that the next generation of the Uchiha could grow up in peace in Konoha.
• Naruto told Sasuke that greed, inequality, and the powerful nations’ oppression of weaker countries caused wars, and that their strength alone was keeping the current peace in place.
• Sasuke agreed that if Naruto and he grew old or stepped aside, hidden conflicts would erupt and the Shinobi World could fall back into war.

Naruto told Sasuke how he planned to make Konoha dominate the Shinobi World through economic influence rather than force, beginning with industrial factories and control of trade. The Sky Screen’s viewers recognized the strategy as a plan to exploit and weaken other nations, while Naruto began explaining its first steps.

• Naruto told Sasuke he would use Konoha’s economic reach to replace the daimyō and nobles’ control of the Land of Fire and eventually the Shinobi World.
• Sasuke warned that shinobi could not seize power without provoking other nations and civilian resistance, then questioned how Konoha would finance Naruto’s plan.
• Naruto said Konoha would expand its economy and influence until people depended on it, making the daimyō and nobles figureheads without a violent takeover.
• Viewers across the Shinobi World recognized Naruto’s approach as a scheme to penetrate other nations through trade and industry, and joked that Asura’s chakra should be put back into him.
• Naruto outlined a plan to establish factories across the Shinobi World, buy resources cheaply, process and sell them at a profit, and use the returns to make Konoha economically self-sufficient.

Naruto outlined a plan for Konoha to dominate the shinobi world and prevent future wars, with Sasuke agreeing to protect the village from threats in secret. Their discussion was interrupted when Sakura discovered that an unknown force had possessed Hinata.

• Naruto described how Konoha would monopolize resources and talent while weakening other villages, establishing itself as the shinobi world's sole power.
• Sasuke approved the plan and agreed to eliminate threats that Naruto could not handle publicly.
• The other villages' leaders and citizens reacted with fear as they realized Naruto and Sasuke's plan could leave Konoha unchallenged.
• An unfamiliar chakra suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and Sakura carried the children to safety.
• Sakura warned Naruto and Sasuke that someone had possessed Hinata, whose body was surrounded by eerie chakra.

Otsutsuki Toneri possessed Hinata and awakened the tenseigan using her Byakugan, then fled when Naruto and Sasuke confronted him. Naruto and Sasuke pursued him to rescue Hinata, while onlookers speculated that she might eventually master the tenseigan.

• Naruto recognized Otsutsuki Toneri's chakra in Hinata, and Hinata's eyes transformed into the tenseigan as Toneri revealed he had hidden a wisp of chakra inside her.
• Toneri claimed Hinata's Byakugan had revived him, but he fled rather than fight Naruto and Sasuke.
• Naruto entrusted Sakura with protecting the children, then joined Sasuke in pursuing Toneri to bring Hinata back.
• People watching the Sky Screen reacted to Toneri's return and speculated that Hinata might someday wield the tenseigan as a hidden trump card.

Naruto and Sasuke defeated Toneri and freed Hinata, who discovered she could absorb the Otsutsuki chakra left inside her and might awaken the Tenseigan again. Sasuke suggested that Hinata could establish a stable Tenseigan-bearing bloodline within the Hyuga Clan, sparking intense discussion across the Shinobi World.

• Naruto and Sasuke intercepted Toneri in the Dense Forest and gradually depleted his strength while Naruto held back to protect Hinata.
• Sasuke used Sharingan Genjutsu to destroy Toneri’s lingering consciousness, allowing Hinata to regain control of her body.
• Naruto took Hinata to Konoha, where Sakura found her physically safe but mentally exhausted, with unconscious Otsutsuki chakra remaining inside her.
• Hinata told Naruto and Sakura that she could absorb the gentle chakra and might use it to evolve her Byakugan into the Tenseigan again.
• Sasuke suggested that Hinata’s success could create a Hyuga bloodline that passed the Tenseigan down through generations, prompting heated debate across the Shinobi World.

Hinata’s potential Tenseigan awakening stirred greed among the Hyuga elders, whom Hiashi warned against challenging Naruto and Sasuke. Years later, Naruto became the Seventh Hokage and told Sasuke that Konoha owed the Uchiha recognition, arguing that their desire for the Hokage position had always been about belonging rather than power.

• The Hyuga elders discussed claiming Hinata’s future Tenseigan for the clan, but Hiashi warned that Sasuke would kill anyone who tried to interfere.
• Several years passed, and Kakashi stepped down as Hokage after seeing Naruto’s maturity, strength, and sense of responsibility.
• Naruto was inaugurated as the Seventh Hokage, then stood with Sasuke above Konoha and suggested that Sasuke’s child should become Hokage next.
• Naruto told Sasuke that Konoha owed the Uchiha a chance at the Hokage position because none of the seven Hokage had been Uchiha.
• Naruto explained that the Uchiha had sought recognition and belonging, not power, and that accepting them could have prevented years of suspicion and tragedy.

Naruto’s defense of the Uchiha made the Shinobi World reconsider the clan’s history and left Itachi questioning whether the massacre had been a terrible mistake. In Konoha, Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Jiraiya acknowledged that their inherited prejudice had helped lead the village down the wrong path.

• Naruto’s words convinced people across the Shinobi World that the Uchiha had sought acceptance and belonging rather than power.
• Viewers speculated that an Uchiha Hokage might have prevented Danzo’s rise, Sakumo’s death, and Minato’s death during the Nine-Tails’ Attack.
• Itachi recalled his clan’s sacrifices and Fugaku’s refusal to accept their mistreatment, then wondered whether he had been wrong about the Uchiha’s intentions.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya admitted that they had failed to understand the Uchiha and that Konoha owed the clan a great deal.
• Hiruzen confessed that the village had guarded against and suppressed the Uchiha because of the Second’s rules and their own preconceptions.

Hiruzen admitted that the Uchiha had sought recognition and belonging rather than power, while Tsunade rebuked him for regretting their destruction only after it was too late. Naruto promised Sasuke they would honor the Uchiha in the future, then learned from Konohamaru that Kushina had knitted him a scarf before he was born.

• Hiruzen recognized that the Uchiha had pursued bonds, recognition, and dignity, and Tsunade told him his regret came too late.
• Naruto promised Sasuke they would make amends for Konoha's past treatment of the Uchiha and help Sasuke's child stand proudly in the village.
• Sasuke accepted Naruto's plans, trusting him not to endanger Konoha.
• Konohamaru brought Naruto a wooden box containing belongings of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki and revealed that Kushina had knitted the red scarf for Naruto before his birth.
• Naruto lifted the scarf and quietly thanked Konohamaru.