Chapter Summaries

Naruto used Rinne Rebirth to restore Madara’s loved ones and many fallen shinobi to life, but the technique began consuming his own life force. As Sasuke carried the dying Naruto away from the crowd, Naruto opened the seal on his abdomen and released a surge of crimson chakra.

• Naruto summoned Izuna and asked Madara what she would choose if she could start over with her loved ones restored.
• Naruto and Snake Aunt brought the Uchiha, former Konoha clans, Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, and other fallen shinobi to the battlefield.
• Naruto performed Rinne Rebirth, restoring the reanimated people to living bodies as they reunited with their loved ones.
• Sasuke sensed Naruto’s life force draining and carried him away in his complete Susanoo after awakening a Rinnegan.
• Naruto apologized to Sasuke and unraveled the Eight Trigrams Seal, releasing crimson chakra.

Naruto used Rinne Rebirth to free Kurama and restore Madara’s younger sister, sacrificing his life force. As his family and friends gathered around him, Madara explained that the forbidden technique could not be reversed, and Naruto asked her what she would choose now that everything she cared about had returned.

• Naruto freed Kurama from his body, and the Nine-Tails warned that Naruto would die.
• Sasuke brought Naruto to Minato and Kushina, who learned he was their son and wept as he apologized for sealing Kurama inside him.
• Tsunade tried to heal Naruto but found his life force draining too quickly to stop; Sasuke, Haku, Shikamaru, Deidara, and others grieved beside him.
• Madara and Izuna approached Naruto’s family and friends, and Madara explained that Rinne Rebirth consumed the user’s life force and could not be reversed.
• Naruto asked Madara what she would choose now that everything she cared about had returned.

Naruto asked Madara and Hashirama to reconcile before his apparent death, and Madara agreed to fulfill her old promise with Hashirama. Snake Aunt then used the Soul Reincarnation Technique to move Naruto’s soul into a new body, leaving him alive and well as Kushina and Sasuke rushed to him.

• Naruto urged Madara and Hashirama to make up and fulfill their promise, and Izuna encouraged Madara to follow her heart.
• Madara agreed to fulfill the promise she had made with Pillar, and Naruto appeared to die after wishing them happiness.
• Snake Aunt revealed that Naruto could transfer his soul into a new body, then performed the Soul Reincarnation Technique.
• Naruto’s soul entered the new body, and Snake Aunt placed his Mangekyo eyes into it.
• Naruto awoke in full health and told Kushina not to be angry, while she and Sasuke rushed toward him.

Naruto’s return brought joy and reconciliations across the Shinobi World, as old friends and couples acknowledged their feelings. The celebrations were interrupted when Sasuke continued chasing Naruto to punish him for lying.

• Kushina and Sasuke chased and beat Naruto after he revived, while Snake Aunt reassured them that his new body could take it.
• Haku resolved to pursue Naruto after Zabuza encouraged her, and Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto celebrated that their families would become in-laws with Minato’s family.
• Jiraiya asked Tsunade to marry him once the Shinobi World was at peace, and Tsunade bashfully accepted without pulling her hand away.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya greeted Hashirama, Madara, and Izuna, and Tsunade called Izuna her uncle.
• Minato separated Kushina and Sasuke from Naruto, but Sasuke kept chasing Naruto and threatening to beat him.

Naruto and Madara agreed on how to handle Obito and the Ten-Tails, while Naruto moved Kurama to the Genesis World and sent the gathered allies back to the real world. Madara and Naruto remained to deal with the remaining threats outside.

• Naruto joked with Madara, then asked how she planned to deal with Obito and the Ten-Tails.
• Madara explained how she had manipulated Obito into following her plan and gathering the tailed beasts.
• Naruto agreed to split the Ten-Tails before it transformed and said he would handle Obito, while Madara would deal with Black Zetsu.
• Naruto sent Kurama into the Genesis World, where the tailed beasts could live freely.
• Naruto told the gathered allies the fighting was over and sent them back to the real world, leaving Madara and himself to handle the remaining threats.

Naruto and Sasuke joined Madara and Hashirama to attack the Ten-Tails with two Susanoo-clad Buddhas. The Ten-Tails was pinned and battered, and the allied forces watched from a safe distance as Hinata and Neji reported its condition.

• Naruto ended the Illusory Destruction World, and Jiraiya and Tsunade led the army toward the Land of Shadow while Naruto, Sasuke, Madara, and Hashirama stayed behind.
• Madara and Hashirama combined Hashirama’s Thousand-Armed Kannon with Madara’s Perfect Susanoo, while Naruto and Sasuke formed a second Susanoo-clad Buddha.
• The Ten-Tails prepared to fight, but Naruto and Hashirama summoned eighteen red gates that pinned its body and tails.
• Naruto and Hashirama led both Buddhas in a massive barrage that battered the Ten-Tails and filled the battlefield with smoke and dust.
• Jiraiya asked Hinata and Neji to use their Byakugan, and they reported that the Ten-Tails was pinned by the gates and nearly torn apart.

Naruto and Sasuke destroyed the Ten-Tails, freeing the eight tailed beasts, and Naruto sent them to the Genesis World to reunite with Kurama. The four shinobi then gathered and stored the Ten-Tails' shell fragments to prevent Black Zetsu from reviving Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

• Naruto entered Sage Mode while Sasuke formed a massive bow with his Susanoo, and they fused their attacks into a black cone that struck the Ten-Tails.
• The Ten-Tails shattered under the attack, and the eight tailed beasts re-formed from the chakra released by its body.
• Naruto promised the tailed beasts freedom and told them Kurama was waiting for them in the Genesis World; Gyuki convinced the others not to resist.
• Naruto opened eight space-time vortices with his Mangekyō Sharingan and transported the tailed beasts into the Genesis World.
• Naruto gathered every fragment of the Ten-Tails' shell with Green Serpent Dragon Vines and stored them in the System Space.

Naruto and Madara pursued Obito and Black Zetsu, while Naruto completed the fusion of his Creation Eye’s final two tomoe. They reached God’s Hall in the Land of Rain, where Madara prepared to confront the targets herself.

• Naruto sent Sasuke and Hashirama to join the main force, then tracked Obito using a Flying Thunder God Mark.
• Naruto asked Madara about Uchiha who had awakened Mangekyo during the Warring States Period and learned that his Creation Eye needed an ordinary one-tomoe and three-tomoe Sharingan to complete its fusion.
• Naruto fused the two Sharingan into his Creation Eye, revealing its ten tomoe to Madara and explaining that the eyes had not been forcibly taken from any Uchiha.
• Naruto and Madara arrived in the divided, bloodstained Land of Rain and located Obito and Black Zetsu in the lowest level of God’s Hall.
• Madara stopped Naruto from acting and used Wood Release: Hotei Technique.

Naruto captured Obito and brought him to an island, where he confronted him over the Nine-Tails' Rampage and summoned Rin's reanimated body to force him to face his past. Obito removed his mask, and Naruto began explaining why he could forgive Madara but not him.

• Madara destroyed God's Hall and cornered Obito and Black Zetsu beneath it.
• Naruto appeared beside Obito, sent him away through a space-time vortex, and left Black Zetsu for Madara.
• Obito escaped Naruto's Genesis World restraints on an island in the East Sea and demanded to know why Naruto had brought him there.
• Naruto confronted Obito about his childhood, Minato, Kushina, and the Nine-Tails' Rampage, but Obito denied responsibility for their deaths.
• Naruto summoned Rin's reanimated body, ordered Obito to remove his mask, and asked why he could forgive Madara but not Obito.

Naruto revealed to Obito that the Infinite Tsukuyomi would turn everyone into White Zetsu and that Black Zetsu had manipulated him to resurrect Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. After killing Obito, Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation to bring him back and prepared to reunite him with Rin.

• Naruto asked Obito why he had targeted Konoha and Minato before the Lands of Rain and Earth, and Obito explained that he wanted to remove obstacles to creating a world with Rin.
• Obito asked whether the Infinite Tsukuyomi was real, and Naruto explained that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had cast it before and that its victims became White Zetsu.
• Naruto told Obito that Black Zetsu had manipulated him and Madara to resurrect Kaguya, leaving Obito devastated by the truth.
• Obito accepted responsibility for his actions and asked Naruto to kill him, so Naruto snapped his neck and took his Kamui Mangekyo.
• Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Obito from a White Zetsu, then placed formula slips and chakra-sealing formulas on Obito and Rin.

Naruto gave Obito and Rin a peaceful life together, then returned to the Land of Shadow and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War over. As Wind City’s delegation arrived, Naruto and Sasuke began discussing its place in the new order and their upcoming wedding.

• Naruto used Six Paths Kotoamatsukami to make Rin forget her past except for her memories with Obito, then left them to live together on an island.
• Naruto returned to the Land of Shadow, announced the war’s end, and invited people to join while warning that settlements outside it could not become independent countries.
• Naruto and the Land of Shadow’s leaders met to establish laws for new cities, and Nagayama announced that Wind City’s delegation had arrived.
• Naruto welcomed Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro, while Haku gave them the plan to phase out the ninja profession and standardize chakra training.
• Kankuro asked when Naruto and Sasuke would marry, and Naruto said they had been discussing it and would wed soon.
• Naruto and Sasuke went to the Genesis World, where Hashirama Senju, Madara, their families, and members of the Seven Great Families had returned.

Naruto and Sasuke’s families planned their wedding, while news spread across Genesis World that the ceremony would take place in ten days. Their clans and the tailed beasts prepared to celebrate, and Kakashi, Haku, Deidara, Sasori, and Snake Aunt accepted that Sasuke would marry Naruto.

• Kurama and Shukaku argued over games until Shukaku and two other tailed beasts ganged up on Kurama.
• Naruto and Sasuke discussed wedding plans with Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Mikoto, who divided up preparations.
• The seven great clans began preparing wedding gifts, and Madara went with Hashirama to choose gifts for Naruto and Sasuke.
• A Yamanaka clansman announced to the tailed beasts that Naruto and Sasuke would marry in ten days, and Naruto arranged to take them out to dine instead of bringing gifts.
• Kakashi, Haku, Deidara, Sasori, Snake Aunt, and the others heard the news and accepted that Sasuke would marry Naruto.

Naruto and Sasuke took wedding photos before Naruto revealed his plan to give soul-bearing clones to Snake Aunt and others who loved him. With Snake Aunt's help, he successfully split his soul and placed fragments in four clones, then invited her to choose one.

• Naruto and Sasuke posed for wedding photos in a variety of outfits at the Eternal Memories studio.
• Naruto told Sasuke that Snake Aunt, Kakashi, Shikamaru, and Haku had feelings for him, and Sasuke trusted him to handle the situation.
• Naruto went to Snake Aunt's secret laboratory and began the dangerous Soul Reincarnation Technique with four prepared clones.
• Snake Aunt used the Soul-Splitting Blade to divide Naruto's soul into six fragments, and Naruto sent four into the clones while returning the other two to his original body.
• Naruto and Snake Aunt confirmed the procedure had worked, and Snake Aunt chose the black-haired clone.

Naruto prepared a black-haired soul clone for Snake Aunt, named Night Shadow, and chose recipients for two of his other clones while leaving the last undecided. As the day of Naruto and Sasuke’s wedding arrived, the Land of Shadow celebrated, and New City opened its festivities to invited residents.

• Naruto used his Rinnegan to erase Night Shadow’s memories of Sasuke, Haku, Kakashi, and others while preserving his memories of Snake Aunt, then named him Night Shadow.
• Naruto told Snake Aunt he planned to give soul clones to Haku and Shikamaru, while he had not decided whether Kakashi or Deidara would receive the last one.
• Naruto marked Snake Aunt’s laboratory with a Space-Time Mark so people could travel between it and the outside world, then returned through a Space-Time Vortex.
• News spread that Naruto and Sasuke’s wedding would take place in ten days, and governors from across the region sent gifts to Shikamaru.
• Haku and other officials had a vast estate built in New City and recruited thirty staff members to maintain it.
• On the wedding day, the Land of Shadow celebrated with fireworks and firecrackers, while residents from the former Land of Waves, Land of Fields, and Land of Fire were allowed into New City to attend.

Naruto arranged an extravagant wedding feast for his marriage to Sasuke, while Sasuke prepared to leave his family home and join the procession. Naruto brought the Tailed Beasts to a remote clearing, fed them, and returned to Bright Moon Manor just as the wedding procession reached the entrance.

• Hongle and Aunt Ichiraku oversaw preparations for Naruto and Sasuke’s enormous wedding banquet at Juxia Tower.
• Karin reunited with Kushina Uzumaki at Bright Moon Manor, while Uchiha Mikoto comforted Sasuke as he prepared for the wedding.
• Uchiha Mikoto, Fugaku, and the clan saw Sasuke off as the bridal procession carried him toward Naruto and Sasuke’s new home.
• Naruto summoned the nine Tailed Beasts in a remote woodland clearing and served them thirty-eight dishes prepared by Juxia Tower.
• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God to return to Bright Moon Manor, where Minato Namikaze spotted him above the estate as the procession neared the entrance.

Naruto and Sasuke celebrated their wedding surrounded by family and friends, while Itachi watched from a distance to avoid disrupting the day. After the long banquet, Naruto returned to Sasuke, and the two began their wedding night together, bringing the main story to a close.

• Kushina scolded Naruto for disappearing, and he explained that he had gone to welcome the nine tailed beasts.
• Naruto helped Sasuke from the bridal sedan, then vowed before their loved ones to cherish him for life.
• Itachi watched the ceremony from afar and exchanged a silent toast with Naruto through the Yamanaka Secret Technique.
• Naruto hosted the wedding banquet and outdrank the guests before returning to Sasuke late that night.
• Naruto lifted Sasuke's veil, and the two embraced and went to bed together as the wedding candles went out.

Three years after the Land of Shadow restored peace, Naruto and Sasuke raised their son Wuji while their friends prepared for weddings. After receiving a wish from the system, Naruto used it to eliminate all potentially existing life-forms in the Shinobi Galaxy, then declared the world perfect.

• The Land of Shadow’s reforms spread peace, education, and development across the shinobi world.
• Aunt Mei cared for Uzumaki Wuji, and Naruto sent him through a Space-Time Vortex to visit Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Naruto and Sasuke planned to attend Haku and Kakashi’s wedding and have Naruto officiate, while Sasuke would officiate at Karin and Suigetsu’s wedding.
• Naruto revealed that Aunt Mei was Uchiha Itachi in disguise and that Haku’s and Kakashi’s partners were his soul clones.
• Naruto officiated at Haku and Kakashi’s wedding, then drank with Snake Aunt beneath the stars.
• The system granted Naruto one wish, and he used it to eliminate all potentially existing life-forms in the Shinobi Galaxy before returning to the Land of Shadow.