Chapter Summaries

Nagato and Konan reflected on Sarada’s future and the possibility that she could change the Land of Rain, while Konoha reacted to the revelation that she was Itachi’s daughter. Jiraiya learned that Nagato and Konan were alive but was persuaded by Tsunade not to rush into danger, and Naruto realized his future self had broken a promise to Sarada.

• Nagato and Konan discussed Sarada’s possible future and hoped she could lead a new generation of Akatsuki toward a better future for the Land of Rain.
• Itachi and Sasuke recognized Sarada as Itachi’s daughter, and Itachi marveled at her strength and independence.
• Jiraiya learned that Yahiko had died and Nagato and Konan were still alive, then urged Tsunade to let him visit them.
• Tsunade warned Jiraiya that Akatsuki posed an unknown danger and convinced him to wait for the Sky Screen to reveal more.
• Konoha’s leaders dismissed Sarada’s accusation that Naruto had abandoned the Land of Rain, while Naruto realized his future self had broken his word.

Sarada and Kisame rebuilt the Land of Rain and quietly formed a new Akatsuki from among the refugees. A mysterious envoy from the Veil Organization offered supplies and claimed a shared hatred of Konoha before vanishing, leaving Sarada to inspect the gift while questioning his motives.

• Sarada and Kisame helped refugees restore farmland, establish a guard unit, and build a secure base in the Land of Rain.
• Sarada recruited resolute young people into the new Akatsuki and told them they would help restore their homeland.
• A masked stranger named Chou introduced himself as a member of the Veil Organization and gave Sarada sealed scrolls as a welcoming gift.
• Sarada accepted the supplies but rejected cooperation, while Chou claimed the Veil Organization shared the Akatsuki's hatred of Konoha.
• Chou vanished after citing vengeance for a slaughtered clan and a destroyed nation, and Kisame confirmed that his hatred seemed genuine.
• Sarada decided the Veil Organization's grudges did not concern her and eagerly opened the scrolls.

Tsunade ordered Konoha to investigate its buried crimes after learning the Veil Organization sought revenge for a destroyed country. On the Sky Screen, Sarada recruited Langwei, whose extraordinary strength baffled Kisame when he revealed he could not extract chakra.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya to demand that the Third Hokage reveal Konoha’s hidden crimes and ordered Shikaku to review sealed files for leads on the Veil Organization.
• Sarada welcomed Langwei to her base after he rescued a supply team from rogue ninja, and he agreed to join her efforts in the Land of Rain.
• Sarada introduced Langwei to Kisame, who noticed he had no signs of chakra training despite defeating a Chunin.
• Sarada and Langwei sparred, and his toughness and strength impressed her even though she relied on speed to avoid his punches.
• Kisame offered to teach Langwei chakra extraction, but Langwei said he had tried and could not extract any chakra, leaving Kisame stunned and Sarada questioning whether he had been taught incorrectly.

Sarada’s Akatsuki grew into a powerful force in the Land of Rain with Kisame’s and the Veil Organization’s help. Chou revealed that the Veil Organization and Nagato once nearly destroyed Konoha, and Kisame confirmed he had heard of the village’s catastrophic collapse.

• Kisame failed to help Langwei extract chakra, so he trained him in taijutsu, and Langwei became a core fighter in Sarada’s Akatsuki.
• Sarada expanded her control over the Land of Rain, while Kisame’s reputation and the Veil Organization’s supplies helped stabilize and strengthen her faction.
• Sarada thanked Chou for the Veil Organization’s support, and Chou explained that it backed factions able to resist Konoha.
• Chou revealed that the Veil Organization and Nagato had once destroyed Konoha, killing most of its villagers and ninja, before Nagato revived them at the cost of his life.
• Kisame confirmed he had heard that Konoha collapsed into ruins after the battle, though he had already left the Akatsuki at the time.

Sarada and Kisame discussed the Veil Organization’s history and Chou warned them not to trust Naruto, the Seventh Hokage. Kisame then began piecing together the organization’s connection to the Uzumaki Clan and the mystery of Chou’s true identity.

• Chou told Kisame that Nagato had led the attack on Konoha, revived Chou’s parents, and left no descendants, then warned Sarada not to trust Naruto.
• Sarada promised not to betray her allies and said she wanted only to stabilize the Land of Rain before Chou vanished into the rain.
• Sarada, Kisame, and Langwei debated whether Konoha intended to dominate the Shinobi World, while Sarada worried that Naruto was weakening the other villages.
• Kisame said the meeting had revealed clues about Chou and the Veil Organization, then explained that Chou’s concealed body and powerful seals suggested a connection to the Uzumaki Clan.

After the Sky Screen revealed that the Veil Organization would destroy Konoha over the Uzumaki Clan, Tsunade confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi, who suspected Shimura Danzō had acted behind his back. Tsunade ordered an investigation into Konoha’s history with the Uzumaki while Danzō watched the revelations from the shadows.

• Kisame and Sarada concluded that Chou’s regret over Nagato suggested a close blood connection to the Uzumaki Clan and feared the Veil Organization’s survivors were in danger.
• People across the shinobi world panicked over the future destruction of Konoha and suspected the village had committed a hidden atrocity against the Uzumaki Clan.
• Tsunade confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi at the Sarutobi Clan compound and accused him of concealing Konoha’s role in the Uzumaki Clan’s fate.
• Hiruzen denied ordering anything beyond refusing to intervene, then suggested someone might have acted behind his back; Tsunade suspected Shimura Danzō.
• Tsunade said she had ordered the Anbu to investigate Konoha’s past dealings with the Land of Whirlpools and the Uzumaki Clan, while Hiruzen questioned his failures as Hokage.
• Shimura Danzō watched the Sky Screen’s revelations from the shadows while lying low under restrictions.

The Sky Screen showed Konoha’s prosperity under the Seventh Hokage, Naruto, and revealed how Naruto and Shikamaru used trade agreements to make other nations dependent on Konoha. The shinobi world realized that Konoha’s economic policies could weaken their countries and leave them at its mercy.

• Sarada sent trusted subordinates to neighboring countries to recruit merchants and revive trade in the Land of Rain.
• The Sky Screen showed Konoha more than twenty years later, and young Naruto bragged to Sakura about becoming Hokage before she punched him for proposing to her.
• Shikamaru reported that Konoha had secured favorable trade deals with the major nations and expanded its influence over smaller countries.
• Naruto told Shikamaru to keep imports cheap and exports flowing, explaining that controlling trade would prevent other nations from building wealth or military strength.
• Shikamaru agreed that the policy would make Konoha safe from future wars, while viewers across the shinobi world feared the consequences of Konoha’s economic control.

Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed Naruto’s future rule and whether the Third Hokage had known about Danzo’s crimes. On the Sky Screen, Sai reported that Naruto had ordered the Shimura Clan’s destruction, leaving Sai’s revenge and the clan’s fate exposed to the Shinobi World.

• Tsunade concluded that Naruto and Sasuke’s strength had made the other nations too afraid to resist Konoha’s economic dominance.
• Jiraiya suggested Danzo had acted behind the Third Hokage’s back, and Tsunade agreed that the Third would not knowingly endanger Konoha to protect someone.
• At the Ninja Academy, Shikamaru complained about becoming Naruto’s adviser and handling paperwork.
• Sai told Naruto that he had eliminated the Shimura Clan’s adults and placed its remaining orphans with civilian families after erasing their memories.
• Naruto comforted Sai over his brother’s death and blamed Danzo for forcing the brothers to fight, while viewers across the Shinobi World condemned Danzo.

Naruto ordered Sai to secretly encourage the Sarutobi Clan’s ambition and isolate it from Konoha, terrifying Hiruzen as the plan echoed the Uchiha Clan’s downfall. Naruto then asked about the Akatsuki’s efforts to improve the Land of Rain, but learned it had little to offer.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya ordered a search for Sai’s brother, while Sasuke grew more determined to take revenge on the Shimura Clan.
• Sai reported that the Sarutobi Clan was acting arrogantly, and Naruto ordered him to inflame its ambition and turn the clan against villagers and other clans.
• Hiruzen watched Naruto’s scheme and feared it repeated the methods used to isolate the Uchiha Clan.
• Sai told Naruto that Konoha faced no serious threats outside the village and that Sarada’s trade efforts in the Land of Rain had achieved little.
• Naruto asked about the Land of Rain’s local products, and Sai explained that it had few resources and little trade value.

Naruto arranged for Konoha merchants to support the struggling Land of Rain, where Sarada had failed to attract any traders. Sarada welcomed the caravan and signed a trade agreement, choosing the country’s survival over old grudges.

• Naruto told Sai to have Shikamaru send a Konoha merchant caravan to trade with the Land of Rain and open shops there.
• Sarada and Kisame discussed how repeated rejections from foreign merchants had left the Land of Rain with few ways to improve its economy.
• A patrol boy announced that a Konoha caravan had arrived to buy local goods and establish shops in the Land of Rain.
• Sarada set aside her concerns about Konoha and welcomed the caravan, deciding that the people’s needs mattered more than grudges.
• Sarada and the Konoha caravan leader agreed to trade waterproof cloth and local remedies for goods from the Land of Fire, then signed a formal agreement.

Sarada learned that hundreds of miners died under brutal conditions at a Konoha-controlled mine in the Land of Wind, and that Konoha demanded the execution of the miners who revolted. The chapter left Sarada confronting the injustice behind Konoha’s demand: this time, people from Konoha had died.

• Konoha expanded trade with the Land of Rain, creating jobs and reliable markets that made Sarada pleased with the rising profits.
• Kisame told Sarada that Konoha’s mine managers had worked miners to death and concealed hundreds of deaths with the cooperation of Sunagakure’s High Command.
• After Konoha pressured Sunagakure to conscript replacement miners, the workers revolted, killed the mine managers, and exposed the cover-up.
• Kisame revealed that Konoha called the 836 miners who joined the uprising rebels and demanded that Sunagakure execute them all.
• Sarada protested the demand, and Kisame explained that Konoha’s response was different because people from Konoha had died.

Sarada learned that Konoha forced Sunagakure to execute more than eight hundred miners who had rioted against their exploitation, then made the Land of Wind send more civilians into the mines. As Sunagakure erupted in anger, Tsunade and Jiraiya questioned why the Naruto shown on the Sky Screen had become so cruel and began investigating when the change had started.

• Kisame explained to Sarada that Konoha controlled the Shinobi World's resources and would force Sunagakure to execute the miners to deter other resistance.
• Sarada asked whether the Land of Rain would also have to surrender its people if they rebelled, and Kisame fell silent because he knew they could not resist Konoha.
• Konoha publicly executed more than eight hundred Sunagakure miners and pressured the Land of Wind to conscript replacement workers.
• Viewers across the Shinobi World condemned Konoha's actions, while the people of Sunagakure erupted in anger at Gaara.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya suspected something was wrong with Naruto's character, and Jiraiya recalled that Naruto had already seemed similarly cruel when Kakashi was Hokage.

Jiraiya and Tsunade wondered what had changed Naruto into a ruthless future ruler, while young Naruto reacted to his classmates’ opinions of that future. As the Shinobi World fell silent under Konoha’s oppression, Sarada continued rebuilding the Land of Rain and welcomed Chou’s understanding.

• Jiraiya and Tsunade suspected that something during Naruto’s unseen years had transformed him and ordered Anbu to protect him.
• Young Naruto was shocked by his future self, while his classmates either feared or admired the ruthless power he represented.
• After Konoha crushed unrest in the Land of Wind, the shinobi villages and smaller nations stopped protesting its exploitation.
• Sarada apologized to Chou for partnering with Konoha despite the Veil Organization’s support, and Chou said they did not mind.
• Chou observed that the Land of Rain’s people had changed, and Sarada explained that stable work, food, and lives had given them hope.

Chou warned Sarada that resentment toward Konoha could soon spark upheaval across the Shinobi World. Because the Land of Rain depended on Konoha to survive, Sarada chose to warn Konoha, and Naruto received her intelligence without showing concern.

• Chou told Sarada that Konoha’s harsh rule had fueled growing resentment and warned that the Land of Rain should avoid the coming unrest.
• Sarada relayed Chou’s warning to Kisame and explained that the Land of Rain could collapse if turmoil disrupted its trade and supplies from Konoha.
• Sarada decided to stand with Konoha and send it the warning, despite understanding that Konoha’s aid might serve its own interests.
• Sarada dispatched a confidential letter to Sai, who brought it to Naruto and reported her suspicions that factions were uniting against Konoha.
• Naruto read Sarada’s warning and remarked that she was interesting, while Sai said she had acted mainly to protect the Land of Rain’s livelihood.

Naruto discussed keeping the Shinobi World stable while Konoha grew stronger, then focused on the Sarutobi Clan’s growing factional conflict. He ordered Sai to expose the clan’s moderates and neutrals to the Veil Organization, intending to leave the ambitious faction unchecked until it lost public support and became vulnerable to Naruto’s plans.

• Naruto rewarded the Land of Rain with a larger share of profits and asked Sai about factions testing Konoha’s power.
• Sai reported that the major factions were staying quiet, and he argued that gradually weakening them was safer than destroying their structures outright.
• Sai explained that the Sarutobi Clan had split into moderate, neutral, and ambitious factions, with the ambitious members pushing Konohamaru to seek the Eighth Hokage position.
• Naruto learned that Konohamaru opposed the clan’s power grab but could not control its ambitious members.
• Naruto ordered Sai to record when Sarutobi moderates and neutrals left on missions and secretly pass the information to Veil Organization infiltrators.
• Sai recognized that Naruto intended to weaken the moderates and neutrals, allowing the ambitious faction to overreach before Naruto acted against the Sarutobi Clan.

People across the Shinobi World feared that future Naruto planned to weaken every village but Konoha, while Konoha watched his scheme to destroy the Sarutobi Clan. Tsunade sent Jiraiya to warn Hiruzen and uncover what he had done, leaving Hiruzen to wonder whether his small compromises had changed Naruto.

• Shinobi across the world realized Naruto intended to quietly cripple every village except Konoha, but they hesitated to kill him because he might be needed to face a future catastrophe.
• Konoha residents watched Naruto manipulate the Sarutobi Clan into becoming more reckless, though they questioned why he wanted to destroy it.
• Tsunade ordered Jiraiya to warn Hiruzen to control his clan and to investigate what he had hidden or done to Naruto.
• Jiraiya found a bewildered Hiruzen, who insisted that he had treated Naruto well and could not understand the future Naruto's hatred.
• Jiraiya urged Hiruzen to consider the many compromises and tolerated wrongs he had dismissed as trivial, and Hiruzen began to suspect they had shaped Naruto's view of the world.

Naruto escalated his covert campaign against the Sarutobi Clan, planning to isolate its radical faction and strip it of public support. Sasuke returned to Konoha, recognized Naruto’s strategy, and questioned why Naruto’s hostility toward the clan was so intense, causing Naruto’s expression to turn cold.

• Naruto learned that the Sarutobi Clan’s radicals did not care about the deaths of their moderate and neutral clansmen, and he ordered Sai to stir up conflict between the clan and Konoha’s villagers.
• Naruto planned for the Anbu to ease their pressure on the Sarutobi Clan so its ambitious faction would grow arrogant and lose public support.
• Naruto revealed that he maintained a gentle public image while secretly directing political schemes to eliminate threats.
• Sasuke returned from his travels, and Naruto welcomed him warmly after sensing his presence.
• Sasuke identified Naruto’s plan to let the Sarutobi radicals gain power before crushing them, then warned that purges could destabilize Konoha.
• Sasuke said he had let go of the Uchiha’s past and did not want Naruto to seek revenge on his behalf, and Naruto’s smile vanished as the office turned cold.

Naruto’s furious hatred of Hiruzen Sarutobi shocked Sasuke and the Shinobi World, who concluded that a deep personal grudge explained Naruto’s future attack on the Sarutobi Clan. Hiruzen could not recall what he had done, while young Naruto insisted the future shown on the Sky Screen was wrong.

• Sasuke asked Naruto why he hated the Sarutobi Clan, and Naruto slammed his fist into the desk and cursed Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• The people watching the Sky Screen erupted in speculation, believing Naruto’s hatred came from a serious personal betrayal by Hiruzen.
• Tsunade accused Hiruzen of causing Naruto’s hatred, while Hiruzen insisted he could not remember doing anything wrong.
• Jiraiya suggested Hiruzen might have hurt Naruto without recognizing it, and Hiruzen resigned himself to waiting for the truth to be revealed.
• At the Ninja Academy, Naruto’s classmates pressed him about his future actions, and he denied hating Hiruzen or intending to wipe out the Sarutobi Clan.

Naruto calmed down and confided in Sasuke about his hidden pain and the childhood memories that first drew him to Sasuke. Meanwhile, Kakashi noticed a dumpling shop owner's reaction when he said Sarada probably would not exist, leaving their unspoken connection unresolved.

• The children crowded around Naruto and teased him about his apparent hatred of the Sarutobi Clan.
• Kakashi reflected on the Uchiha Clan's destruction and the future shown on the Sky Screen, then noticed the dumpling shop owner twitch at his remark that Sarada probably would not exist.
• Naruto told Sasuke that learning the truth had left him sleepless and hurt, and said Sasuke was the only person he trusted with his secrets.
• Naruto explained that even Shikamaru and Sai did not know the true reason he targeted the Sarutobi Clan.
• Naruto told Sasuke that he had watched and envied him as a child, wishing to become his friend.

Naruto told Sasuke how Hiruzen Sarutobi had concealed his parentage and allowed Konoha to ostracize and neglect him throughout childhood. As the shinobi world learned Naruto was Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki’s son, Konoha’s villagers felt ashamed and blamed Hiruzen.

• Naruto confessed that he had watched Sasuke from the shadows as a child, and Sasuke said he had known.
• Naruto described how Konoha’s hostility and exploitative shopkeepers left him hungry and neglected despite receiving a monthly allowance from Hiruzen.
• Naruto revealed that he was Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki’s son and said he could not forgive Hiruzen for hiding the truth and letting his suffering continue.
• Sasuke recalled how Minato learned of Naruto’s childhood through his chakra during the Fourth Shinobi World War and struck Hiruzen in anger.
• People across the shinobi world learned Naruto’s parentage, while Konoha villagers remembered their treatment of him and shifted the blame onto Hiruzen Sarutobi.