Chapter Summaries

Team 7 fought Boro, a Kara Inner who could regenerate and release a debilitating black mist virus, but he escaped before Itachi and Konohamaru could catch him. Back in the Hokage's Office, Kawaki explained Boro's abilities, Mitsuki shared the antibodies he had made, and Meihui mocked Boruto for getting beaten.

• Mitsuki, Kawaki, and Sarada attacked Boro, but his wounds healed instantly and his black mist incapacitated Boruto and Sarada.
• Boro stomped on Boruto and broke his arm, while Mitsuki held him back and Kawaki blew off his head with a Chakra Energy Cannon.
• Boro regenerated his head, but Mitsuki used antibodies made from Boro's blood to restore Boruto and Sarada's mobility.
• Boro sensed approaching ninja and fled; Itachi and Konohamaru arrived with the ANBU but found no trace of him.
• Team 7 reported to Kakashi, and Kawaki warned the group about Boro's virus as Kakashi ordered medical ninja to develop Mitsuki's antibodies.
• Meihui visited the injured Boruto and mocked him for losing to Boro.

Boro wiped out the Konoha Ninja pursuing him, then clashed with Uchiha Itachi and Konohamaru Sarutobi after turning back toward Konoha. Boro captured Konohamaru and demanded Kawaki, while Itachi sent word to Sasuke and continued after them.

• Boro killed the Konoha Ninja chasing him, then decided to return toward Konoha and seize hostages to force them to surrender Kawaki.
• Uchiha Itachi and Konohamaru Sarutobi found the pursuit team’s remains, but Boro returned and attacked them with Lava Release.
• Konohamaru rushed Boro with a Rasengan, was incapacitated by the black mist, and was captured.
• Itachi used Tsukuyomi on Boro and tried to rescue Konohamaru with Susanoo, but Boro escaped by destroying and regenerating his brain.
• Boro demanded that Itachi bring Kawaki to save Konohamaru and headed toward Konoha with him.
• Itachi summoned a Ninja Cat to send his findings to Sasuke, then pursued Boro to protect Konohamaru.

Boro brought the battered Konohamaru to Konoha’s gates to trade him for Kawaki, while Sasuke delivered Itachi’s warning and Konoha prepared to face the enemy. Meihui swapped places with Konohamaru during the exchange, leaving Boro stunned.

• Boro carried the poisoned Konohamaru toward Konoha as Itachi followed, and passersby mocked Konohamaru’s miserable state.
• Tianhuo delivered Itachi’s scroll to Sasuke, who learned Boro wanted to exchange Konohamaru for Kawaki and brought the message to Kakashi.
• Kakashi led Konoha’s group to the main gates, where Boruto reassured Kawaki that they would not let Boro take him.
• Boro demanded Kawaki and displayed Konohamaru as his hostage, while Meihui challenged him to prove Konohamaru was alive.
• Boro slapped Konohamaru until he cried out, then Meihui used Flying Thunder God Guiding Spirit to switch places with him.

Meihui immobilized Boro with a sealing technique, then crushed the regeneration core that sustained Boro’s healing and triggered his monstrous transformation. He ordered Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, and Kawaki to fight Boro while the others stood aside.

• Meihui kicked Boro away, then used an ink-filled Rasengan to seal his body and prevent him from moving.
• Meihui stole and crushed Boro’s regeneration core, causing Boro to mutate into a tentacled, berserk form.
• Meihui silenced Boro with a slap and ordered Team 7 to defeat him without interference.
• Kakashi worried that Meihui was treating him like a figurehead, then saw Konohamaru sitting in despair after his rescue.
• Uchiha Itachi guarded Team 7 as Naruto cheered Boruto on, and Boruto prepared to fight the rampaging Boro.

Team 7 defeated Boro, but Kawaki felt excluded until Naruto publicly credited him for the victory. Meanwhile, Kara’s scheme against Kawaki began, and Jigen dreamed of his first mission alongside a young Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.

• Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki created an opening for Kawaki, whose powerful attack badly wounded Boro before the team finished him off.
• Sasuke burned Boro’s corpse with Amaterasu after Meihui warned him that Kara agents might try to retrieve it.
• Villagers praised Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki while overlooking Kawaki, leaving him feeling unwelcome until Naruto told everyone Kawaki had played a major role.
• Meihui suspected someone had manipulated the villagers, and Kakashi assigned people to investigate the incident.
• Amado received word that Kara’s plan to cause problems for Kawaki was underway.
• Jigen dreamed of meeting Ōtsutsuki Kaguya on the Homeworld before their first mission together.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki recalled how Kaguya’s repeated sacrifices led to her ambush and his near death, then reacted to news that Kawaki could use Kāma. Jigen sent the Masked Man to stir up trouble in Kirigakure, where he targeted Chōjūrō.

• Isshiki remembered Kaguya’s suffering and how she ambushed him, leaving the Ten-Tails to bite off half his body.
• Jigen raged over Boro acting on his own until Amado reported that Kawaki had successfully activated Kāma.
• Amado warned Jigen that Kawaki remained in Konoha with Naruto Uzumaki and Meihui Uzumaki, whom Amado feared.
• Jigen summoned the Masked Man and assigned him to create trouble in the shinobi world.
• The Masked Man traveled to Kirigakure and set his sights on Sixth Mizukage Chōjūrō.

The Masked Man attacked Kirigakure and defeated Chōjūrō after his attacks repeatedly passed through the Masked Man’s intangible body. As the Masked Man prepared to take the unconscious Mizukage, an ANBU girl stood in his way and a middle-aged woman arrived to confront him.

• The Masked Man killed most of the Kirigakure ANBU who tried to stop him at the village outskirts.
• Chōjūrō arrived and attacked the Masked Man with Hiramekarei and several Water Release techniques, but the attacks passed through him.
• Chōjūrō managed to catch the Masked Man briefly, then fought him until the Masked Man kicked him unconscious.
• An ANBU girl stood between the Masked Man and the unconscious Chōjūrō despite her fear.
• The Masked Man sensed someone approaching, and a middle-aged woman used Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique to force him to dodge.

Mei Terumi arrived to rescue Chōjūrō and battled the Masked Man, whose intangibility let him evade her attacks. As the fight continued, Mei recognized his ability and vented her anger while the Masked Man searched for a way to overcome her relentless assault.

• Mei Terumi arrived as the Masked Man prepared to take Chōjūrō, and she ordered Xiao Qiao to carry the injured Chōjūrō away.
• Mei Terumi concealed the area with Hidden Mist and Boil Release mist, forcing the Masked Man to retreat from the corrosive fog.
• Mei Terumi tricked the Masked Man with a prepared Lava Release attack and a water whip, but his intangibility let him escape unharmed.
• The Masked Man called Mei Terumi an old hag, provoking her to bombard him with Lava Release and Boil Release attacks.
• Mei Terumi recognized the Masked Man's ability from the Fourth Shinobi World War, while he worried that his five-minute limit on intangibility would leave him vulnerable.
• As Mei Terumi kept attacking, she brooded about her failed romantic prospects and her disappointment in Chōjūrō.

Mei Terumi's fight against the Masked Man left her nearly out of chakra, so Chōjūrō called Konoha for help. Meihui arrived just in time to save her, then threw her aside as she tried to confess her feelings.

• Mei Terumi's barrage forced the Masked Man's intangibility into cooldown and wounded him, but she soon ran out of chakra.
• Xiao Qiao stopped Chōjūrō from returning to the fight and suggested that he request help from Konoha.
• Chōjūrō contacted Konoha, and Kakashi sent Meihui, Naruto, and Sasuke to support Kirigakure.
• Meihui used Flying Thunder God to reach Kirigakure and rescued the exhausted Mei Terumi from the Masked Man.
• Mei Terumi began to tell Meihui she could still have children, but he tossed her aside without hearing her.

Meihui fought the Masked Man and recognized his intangibility as the same ability Obito had used. After transforming into Rin Nohara and calling the man by Obito’s name, Meihui stirred painful, confused memories in him, leaving their identities unresolved as the Masked Man demanded to know who Meihui was.

• Meihui attacked the Masked Man, whose intangibility let him evade the blows and a Big Ball Rasengan.
• Meihui recognized the ability from Obito and transformed into Rin Nohara to provoke the Masked Man.
• Meihui called the Masked Man “Obito,” triggering painful memories and a glimpse of red in his eyes.
• Meihui tried to remove the Masked Man’s mask, but the man caught his wrist and demanded to know who he was.

Meihui forced the masked man to remove his mask and recognized him as a clone resembling Obito Uchiha, though the man called himself Mask and had no knowledge of Obito. After Mask escaped, Meihui tracked him to Amado’s hidden facility and confronted them both.

• Meihui sealed the space around Mask, preventing him from escaping until he removed his mask.
• Meihui recognized Mask’s face as Obito Uchiha’s and suspected Amado had created an Obito clone.
• Mask returned to Amado and reported his encounter with Meihui, including the power of Meihui’s Sealing Jutsu.
• Meihui followed Mask to Amado’s facility by marking him with the energy sealing the space.
• Meihui confronted Amado and Mask, immobilized them, and demanded an explanation.

Meihui Uzumaki forced Amado to explain Kara and the Masked Man's origins, then heard why Amado wanted to defect to Konoha. He accepted Amado's proposal provisionally but questioned whether the Masked Man truly obeyed him.

• Meihui restrained Amado and the Masked Man and demanded that Amado explain who the masked man was.
• Amado revealed that the Masked Man was a clone made from Obito Uchiha's cells, and explained how Jigen had founded Kara to develop a vessel for his reincarnation.
• When the Masked Man asked whether he was merely a copy, Meihui and Amado reassured him that he was an independent person whom Amado had come to regard as his child.
• Amado asked to leave Kara and seek Konoha's protection, explaining that Jigen suspected him and that he had arranged Naruto's encounter with Kawaki.
• Meihui provisionally accepted Amado's defection but asked how he could prove the Masked Man obeyed him, pointing out that the masked man had reacted when Meihui called out Obito's name.

Meihui discovered that Mask reacted violently to the faces of Rin and Kakashi, apparently recalling Obito’s memories despite Amado’s denial that he had implanted any. After explaining Obito’s tangled feelings for Rin and Kakashi, Meihui agreed to work with Amado, who would stay in Kara as Konoha’s spy.

• Meihui transformed into Rin, causing Mask to convulse in pain until Meihui ended the transformation.
• Meihui transformed into Kakashi, and Mask charged at him, demanding that Kakashi give Rin back.
• Mask said that Kakashi’s face brought back images of the person who killed a girl, making him feel pain and want to attack but unable to do so.
• Meihui explained Obito’s history and feelings for Rin and Kakashi, and Amado realized that Mask’s behavior reflected Obito.
• Amado assured Meihui that he could control Mask, and Meihui told Amado to remain in Kara as Konoha’s spy.
• Amado reluctantly agreed to Meihui’s plan, and they toasted their partnership.

Amado and Mask agreed to spy for Konoha, while Jigen planned to distract the shinobi villages with Kara’s tailed-beast search before taking Kawaki. Meihui learned of the plan and persuaded Konoha’s leaders to send Team 7 out with Kawaki as bait.

• Amado agreed to Meihui’s demands, and he and Mask decided to remain in Kara as Konoha spies.
• Mask reported his defeat in Kirigakure to Jigen, who suspended Mask’s mission and later sent Kara members to search for tailed beasts as a diversion.
• Amado passed Jigen’s strategy to Meihui, who told Mask to stay undercover and report important information.
• Mask asked Meihui to transform into Rin Nohara so he could see her face again, then left using Phantom.
• Meihui returned to Konoha and convinced Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, and the others to send Team 7 on a mission with Kawaki exposed as bait for Jigen.

Meihui traveled to Kara's Alternate Dimension to steal Jigen's Ten-Tails while Kara launched attacks on the ninja villages. He took the Ten-Tails without waking Code and left a disguised Shadow Clone behind.

• Meihui gave each squad a Flying Thunder God Kunai and set off alone for Kara's Alternate Dimension, while Naruto and Sasuke stayed in Konoha as backup.
• Kara members attacked Sunagakure for its tailed beast, but Gaara killed them all with his sand.
• Sensory ninja detected Kara forces advancing toward the ninja villages as a major battle loomed.
• Meihui entered Kara's Alternate Dimension, put the sleeping Code into a dream, and teleported the Ten-Tails away.
• Meihui left a Shadow Clone disguised as the Ten-Tails to conceal the theft.

Code discovered that the Ten-Tails had vanished from its confinement and fought Meihui over it through a Claw Mark, ultimately tearing the beast in two before passing out. Meihui brought the remaining half back to Konoha, sealed it in his Alternate Dimension, and turned his attention to Uchiha Sasuke’s weakening Rinnegan.

• Code found the Ten-Tails gone from its confinement and realized it had become a moving smoke-like decoy while the real beast was being carried away.
• Code used his Claw Marks to reach the Ten-Tails, and Meihui recognized his attempt to reclaim it and stabbed through Code’s hand with a kunai.
• Code ignited his Cosmos, cracked his Limiter, and tore the Ten-Tails in two, taking half before passing out.
• Meihui brought the remaining half of the Ten-Tails to Konoha, transformed into Kaguya’s likeness, and sealed it in his Alternate Dimension.
• Meihui decided to focus next on helping Uchiha Sasuke, whose Rinnegan had been steadily weakening.

Meihui brought Sasuke to the Alternate Dimension to strengthen his Rinnegan using chakra taken from the Ten-Tails. Sasuke began refining a chakra pill made for him, while Meihui watched over him.

• Meihui returned to Konoha, told Sasuke he had found a way to evolve his Rinnegan, and brought him into the Alternate Dimension.
• Meihui explained that the Ten-Tails was the key to strengthening Sasuke's Rinnegan and released part of its seal.
• Meihui extracted chakra from the Ten-Tails and refined it into a blood-red pill, which he ate himself.
• Meihui made a smaller chakra pill for Sasuke and told him to refine it.
• Sasuke sat down and began refining the pill, soon becoming drenched in sweat.

Meihui helped Sasuke channel the Ten-Tails chakra in a refined Chakra Pill, allowing Sasuke's Rinnegan to evolve and awaken a new version of Limbo: Border Jail. After Meihui revealed he knew Moon God Mode was turning him into an Ōtsutsuki, he left with Sasuke, unaware Team 7 was already in a fierce battle.

• Meihui gave Sasuke a refined Chakra Pill, then used his chakra to control the Ten-Tails chakra overwhelming Sasuke's body and guide it toward his Rinnegan.
• Sasuke's condition stabilized, and after Meihui fell asleep while keeping watch, Sasuke woke him with news that his Rinnegan had evolved.
• Sasuke demonstrated his new Limbo: Border Jail, which let him use a shadow to swap places with his real body and absorb limited damage.
• Sasuke discovered that Meihui's Moon God Mode was gradually changing his body into that of an Ōtsutsuki, but Meihui said he already knew.
• Meihui used Yomotsu Hirasaka to leave with Sasuke, while neither knew Team 7 was already fighting a bitter battle.

Code recovered half of the Ten-Tails and went searching for whoever had stolen the rest. Delta ambushed Team 7, wounded Kawaki, and repeatedly beat Boruto, leaving the team facing a powerful Kara enemy.

• Code woke up, confirmed that half of the Ten-Tails remained secured, and left to find the thief who had taken the other half.
• Delta spotted Team 7, recognized Kawaki, and blocked their path while demanding that he return with her.
• Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki attacked Delta, but she absorbed their ninjutsu and blasted off Kawaki's right hand with her Destruction Laser.
• Kawaki tried to heal his arm with Kāma, but Delta's laser wound would not recover, and he warned Boruto to let him explain before attacking.
• Delta kicked Boruto, absorbed his Rasengan, and kicked him again, swelling both sides of his face.

Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki fought Delta, but she overpowered them and used Boruto as leverage to make Kawaki surrender. Just as Kawaki was bound and approached Delta, Uchiha Itachi returned and protected the others with Susanoo.

• Boruto insulted Delta by calling her an old hag, and she attacked him with a laser before pursuing him with a scythe-legged kick.
• Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki coordinated attacks and trapped Delta with Mitsuki's snakes, but Delta broke free, kicked Sarada away, and absorbed Boruto's Rasengan.
• Delta pinned Boruto under her foot and threatened to kill him unless Sarada and Mitsuki brought her Kawaki.
• Kawaki surrendered, and Mitsuki bound him with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands as he approached Delta.
• Uchiha Itachi returned with Susanoo, forcing Delta to leap away and shielding Boruto and Kawaki.