Chapter Summaries

Hidan was welcomed as a generous medical volunteer at Konoha Hospital, while Zabuza trained under Jūzō Biwa in Kirigakure and explained that bonds mattered more to him than killing intent. The chapter ended with Jūzō discovering that Zabuza had a wife and son, leaving the single swordsman stunned and envious.

• Hidan arrived at Konoha Hospital with his scythe, but the staff restrained a wary jōnin and welcomed Hidan as a valued blood donor and volunteer for medical experiments.
• Tahm, carrying Hinata on his head, sneezed and wondered how he could have caught a cold.
• Jūzō Biwa defeated Zabuza in their tenth training match and told him he still lacked killing intent.
• Zabuza told Jūzō that he had found bonds worth protecting and suggested that Jūzō cared about the crow he carried.
• Xue brought lunch to Zabuza, who introduced her as his wife and revealed that they had a son, shocking Jūzō.

Tahm, Hinata, and Kakuzu met Tenten, Konan, and Nagato at a tea house, where business talk exposed old Akatsuki resentments and Tenten showed off her weapon. The weapon’s Gun Spirit turned out to be Sasori, who recognized Kakuzu and Konan and begged them to free him.

• Tahm and Hinata met Kakuzu at an upscale tea house, where Kakuzu presented the company’s financial report and scolded Tahm for not understanding it.
• Tahm, Hinata, and Kakuzu joined Tenten, Konan, and Nagato in the neighboring room and learned that Konan was supplying Tenten’s company with one million Explosive Tags each year.
• Kakuzu confronted Konan over her ability to produce Explosive Tags and mocked Nagato for living off Konan after the war.
• Tenten showed the group her large ninja weapon and connected an external listening device to demonstrate its Gun Spirit.
• Sasori’s voice emerged from the weapon, recognized Kakuzu and Konan, and begged them to get him out.

Temari opposed Rasa’s secret plan to attack Konoha, while Rasa insisted the threat from Konoha made war necessary. Temari left the Kazekage’s office with Gaara and Kankuro, found comfort in Gaara’s promise to protect her, and agreed to try a new restaurant.

• Temari told Rasa she considered the Konoha Crush Plan unfeasible, and Gaara said he would follow whatever his Big Sister decided.
• Kankuro also questioned whether Sunagakure could defeat Konoha, but Rasa argued that Konoha’s growing power and intelligence network made a preemptive attack essential.
• Rasa cited Konoha’s cooperation with the Hidden Mist and its list of Akatsuki-linked spies as reasons for concern, then ordered his children to reconsider the plan.
• Temari left the office troubled by the prospect of war, and Gaara took her hand and promised to protect her.
• Kankuro suggested they visit a new restaurant called Sage's Hua Country Cuisine, and Temari agreed to go.

Tahm met Temari and her brothers at his Sunagakure restaurant, where a friendly meal gave him a chance to assess their strength. After Hinata confirmed the siblings were far stronger than their ranks suggested, Tahm realized Orochimaru was still preparing the Konoha Crush Plan and decided to pursue him.

• Temari encountered Tahm at his restaurant in Sunagakure and learned that he had brought Hanabi along while Hinata shopped.
• Hinata arrived with more than a hundred shopping bags, and Tahm introduced her to Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara.
• Tahm treated the siblings to dinner and questioned Temari about her rank; she said she had stayed a genin to advance together with her brothers.
• After Temari and her brothers left, Hinata assessed their strength and noted that all three were far stronger than genin.
• Tahm connected their delayed advancement to Orochimaru's Konoha Crush Plan and told Hinata they needed to catch a snake.

Orochimaru prepared to provoke a war by attacking the Fourth Kazekage’s route, while Tahm assembled a team to stop him. Before the mission, Tahm helped Itachi awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and gave Sasuke a copied pair of the upgraded eyes.

• Kabuto warned Orochimaru that targeting Konoha was dangerous, but Orochimaru chose to pursue his obsession and took a map of the Fourth Kazekage’s route through the Land of Wind.
• Tahm briefed Uchiha Itachi, Hinata Hyuga, Karin, Sasuke, Jiraiya, Naruto, and Sakura on the mission to stop Orochimaru before it sparked a wider war.
• Tahm told Itachi and Sasuke that he planned to awaken Itachi’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan by transplanting a second pair of his own eyes.
• Itachi agreed to Tahm’s proposal and performed the transplant on himself, awakening the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Tahm copied Itachi’s upgraded eyes and transplanted the pair into Sasuke.

Orochimaru and Guren ambushed Rasa in the Land of Wind, and Orochimaru overwhelmed the Kazekage with Sage Chakra while Manda and Guren attacked his guards. High above them, Tahm’s group spotted the battle and Hinata prepared to redirect a small natural satellite toward Orochimaru.

• Rasa detected a suspicious metal field in the dunes, but Orochimaru and Guren emerged atop Manda and attacked him and his guards.
• Orochimaru sent Guren and Manda after Rasa’s jōnin, then defeated Rasa’s Gold Dust defenses with Sage Art: Chaotic Snake Annihilation.
• Rasa watched his subordinates fall and feared he would die as Orochimaru pursued him through the air.
• Tahm’s group stopped their games after Tahm detected Orochimaru, their target, below them.
• Hinata sensed a small natural satellite overhead and said she could alter its trajectory with gravity, so Tahm agreed to drop it on Orochimaru.

Orochimaru survived a meteor attack and confronted Tahm, Jiraiya, and their allies, then summoned the First Hokage, Second Hokage, and Third Kazekage with Impure World Reincarnation. After revealing his Sage Mode, Orochimaru abruptly fled, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• A meteor wiped out Rasa’s forces, but Guren survived inside a crystal cocoon, Rasa escaped on his sand cloud, and Orochimaru emerged unharmed using his substitution technique.
• Tahm arrived with Jiraiya, Uchiha Itachi, and the five children, while Rasa realized Konoha had discovered the Konoha Crush Plan.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hashirama Senju, Tobirama, and the Third Kazekage, while Tahm closed two coffins before their occupants emerged.
• Orochimaru inserted control talismans into the three reincarnated shinobi, and Tahm found that his support skills could not target them.
• Orochimaru revealed his Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode, then suddenly turned and ran.

Orochimaru fled the battlefield, leaving his reanimated Hokage and other allies to hold off Naruto’s group while Hinata confronted Guren. Hinata overwhelmed Guren’s Crystal Release and urged her to surrender, as the battle continued elsewhere.

• Orochimaru escaped Tahm’s Devour with a substitution, then raced away while Tahm, Sasuke, Itachi, and Jiraiya pursued him.
• Orochimaru left Guren behind, and Hinata approached her while the reanimated Hokage engaged Naruto and Sakura.
• Karin and Rasa fought the Third Kazekage as Naruto and Sakura faced Hashirama and Tobirama; Sakura cut through Tobirama with a Sage Art: Chakra Scalpel.
• Hinata deflected Guren’s crystal attacks and disintegrated her crystal constructs with her Tenseigan’s power.
• Hinata explained that she could disrupt matter and urged Guren to give up, but Guren had said she would not betray Orochimaru.

After sealing the First and Second Hokage, Hinata and the others flew to support Tahm’s team against Orochimaru. Tahm transformed into a giant slug to trap Orochimaru and ordered Sasuke and Itachi to burn the mass of his body with Amaterasu.

• Karin, Sakura, Naruto, and Hinata sealed Hashirama Senju and Tobirama, then Karin sensed Tahm’s group fighting nearly twenty kilometers away.
• Hinata carried Karin, Sakura, and Naruto on Big Rice toward the fight after telling Rasa that the arrangements were complete and he could proceed to Konoha.
• Tahm’s team struggled to hit Orochimaru, whose Senjutsu-enhanced skin-shedding technique let him evade their attacks and escape Tahm’s spatial marks.
• Tahm transformed into a giant slug and enveloped Orochimaru, trapping him inside its regenerating body.
• Tahm revealed that he could survive as long as any of his split bodies remained and told Sasuke and Itachi to use Amaterasu on him.
• Sasuke and Itachi activated Amaterasu as Orochimaru warned that the flames would burn Tahm to death.

Tahm and his allies drove Orochimaru from his Eight Branches Technique into eight fleeing white snakes, but could not identify his true body. Itachi proposed tracking the snakes until their chakra ran out, and Tahm located the surviving marker before the group raced after it.

• Orochimaru transformed into the Eight-Headed Serpent to escape Tahm's Amaterasu, then cloaked himself in Sage Chakra and healed his burns.
• Tahm ordered Sasuke and Itachi to keep attacking with Amaterasu, and Orochimaru charged them using a giant shed skin as a decoy.
• Orochimaru split into eight white snakes and fled in different directions, leaving Tahm, Itachi, Sasuke, Karin, and Hinata unable to distinguish his true body.
• Itachi suggested tracking the snakes until the energy-consuming clones dispersed, and Tahm watched their markers vanish one by one until he found Orochimaru's remaining location.
• Tahm sent the group after Orochimaru, while Sasuke carried them in dragon form and Hinata used the Tenseigan to guide their flight.

Orochimaru escaped death by reincarnating into Mukade and absorbing his memories, which revealed the Dragon Vein and a space-time technique. As Tahm and his group closed in, Orochimaru activated the technique, engulfing everyone in a burst of chakra and space-time power.

• Near death in the desert, Orochimaru found Mukade at the ruins of Rōran and swallowed him to perform Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru used the Soul Fusion Technique to absorb Mukade’s soul and memories, learning about the Dragon Vein and the space-time technique.
• Orochimaru examined the sealing array at the Dragon Vein Altar and touched it while considering the space-time paradox.
• Tahm identified Orochimaru, and Sasuke dove toward him from the sky as Tahm’s group arrived.
• With his strength diminished, Orochimaru unveiled the seal and activated the space-time technique, releasing pillars of chakra that enveloped everyone.

Orochimaru emerged from the Dragon Vein into a technologically advanced future in the Rōran ruins, where he killed a Sunagakure tour group and absorbed the captain’s memories. He learned that this world had no Tahm and looked toward New Rōran, curious about the unfamiliar era.

• A Sunagakure Security Force tour group visited the Dragon Vein Altar in the Rōran ruins and complained about the trip and its lack of phone signal.
• Orochimaru appeared in a flash of white light and realized he might have traveled to the future.
• Orochimaru transformed into a White Phosphorus Snake and killed the tour group, leaving the jōnin captain severely injured.
• The captain recognized Orochimaru, who swallowed him and used the Soul Fusion Technique to absorb his memories.
• Orochimaru learned that the future had no Tahm and saw New Rōran’s skyscrapers and electric train.

Gaara ordered an investigation into the massacre of a Sunagakure security squad near Rōran and planned to go there himself. Meanwhile, Orochimaru discovered a parallel-world version of himself in his secret chamber, who offered to explain his research into immortality.

• Kankuro told Gaara that twelve chūnin and a veteran jōnin had been killed near Rōran and that online images had drawn frightened civilians and foreign reporters to the area.
• Gaara sent the second Anbu squad to investigate Rōran and decided to travel there the next day.
• Orochimaru entered his hidden chamber and found another person accessing his encrypted research files.
• The visitor revealed that he was Orochimaru from a parallel world and proved his identity by transforming into the White Phosphorus Snake.
• Orochimaru proposed immortality as an interesting research subject, and Orochimaru No. 2 agreed to hear more.

Sasuke, Tahm, and their companions emerged from the Dragon Vein altar in a changed Rōran and fought the Sunagakure Anbu who mistook them for the attackers. After learning that Gaara and Uzumaki Naruto were the current Kage, Tahm realized they might have traveled through time, and the group went to investigate the modern city.

• Sunagakure Anbu investigated the dead security squad and sensed a powerful chakra pulse at the Dragon Vein altar.
• A white light brought Sasuke, Tahm, and their companions to the ruins, where the Anbu attacked them.
• Sasuke repelled the Anbu's wind blades, and Hinata incapacitated four of them with her powers.
• Tahm questioned the squad leader and learned that they were in Rōran and that Gaara and Uzumaki Naruto were the current Kage.
• Jiraiya found that the altar's sealing formula had been damaged for many years and could not explain the chakra pulse.
• Tahm told the group to visit the nearby city so they could understand what had happened.

Tahm and his companions arrived in a modern Rōran and discovered that they were in a parallel world where Tahm had never existed. Meanwhile, Gaara learned that a black dragon and a speaking black-skinned toad were linked to the attack at the Rōran Ruins and ordered a search for them.

• Tahm led Hinata, Jiraiya, Itachi, Sasuke, Naruto, Karin, and the others into a McDonald's, where he bought a large meal and used his fortune to acquire phones, tablets, and laptops.
• Hinata searched online for major historical events and found that the Konoha Crush Plan had killed the Third Hokage despite the group's earlier interference.
• Karin noticed that Akatsuki had emerged three years later in the records, and Itachi concluded that they had entered a parallel world where Tahm had never existed.
• Gaara and Kankuro arrived at the Rōran Ruins, where a revived squad captain reported that a giant black dragon and a speaking black-skinned toad had been involved.
• Gaara ordered a portrait of the toad and directed the Kazekage Guard to prepare for battle and issue a wanted notice throughout the cities along the railway.

Tahm and the others searched for a way back to their world, then learned that a mysterious incident in the Rōran Ruins might offer a lead. The chapter ended when an emergency broadcast identified a black toad matching Tahm as the suspect in the deaths there.

• Hinata found no records of Tahm online, and Itachi realized the parallel world's history differed from their own.
• Tahm suggested searching for Rōran's descendants, while Jiraiya noted that Orochimaru might also have arrived in this world.
• Naruto celebrated seeing an alternate version of himself become Hokage, then Sakura knocked him out after he commented on the family portrait.
• Tahm pretended that his group was a professional cosplay club when a Konoha reporter photographed them.
• The reporter told Tahm that fourteen people, including thirteen Sunagakure ninja, had died in the Rōran Ruins.
• An emergency broadcast named the Rōran suspect as a black toad, whose portrait appeared to match Tahm.

Tahm and his companions were wrongly blamed for killings in Rōran and confronted by Gaara and the Kazekage Guard Unit. Tahm led them outside the city to force a meeting with Gaara, while reporters livestreamed the battle and mistook a badly beaten Gaara for one of the criminals.

• Restaurant patrons fled when they recognized Tahm’s group as wanted killers, and Tahm realized Sunagakure had blamed them for the murders.
• Gaara and the Kazekage Guard Unit surrounded the restaurant, so Tahm decided to take the fight outside the city and use the confrontation to reach an agreement about searching for Rōran survivors.
• Sasuke transformed into a giant black dragon and carried Tahm’s group out over the desert, where Hinata’s Tenseigan forced Gaara down from the sky.
• Tahm told Gaara they needed to reach a consensus, and the two sides began fighting as Kankuro and the guards watched from outside the sandstorm.
• More than a hundred reporters arrived to livestream the battle, and they mistook the badly beaten Gaara for a criminal after he flew into a crater.

Hinata and Tahm’s group overwhelmed Gaara and captured him in front of reporters, using the livestream to deny killing Sunagakure shinobi and ask for information about Rōran’s queen’s heir. Hinata identified herself as Hinata Hyuga as the group prepared to leave with the Kazekage.

• Gaara unleashed Sand Waterfall Funeral, but black flames from the fake Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke turned the sand into glass.
• Hinata used her Tenseigan’s gravitational power to break Gaara’s sand defenses, bind him, and pull him toward her.
• Naruto launched Sakura, whose amplified Monstrous Strength Fist smashed Gaara across the battlefield and left him badly injured.
• Gaara warned Kankuro and the civilians to retreat, but Hinata’s power restrained Gaara and prevented Kankuro from intervening.
• Hinata told the reporters that her group had not killed the Sunagakure shinobi, announced they would keep Gaara, and sought information about Rōran’s queen’s heir.
• When Kankuro asked who she was, Hinata revealed her name.

Naruto, Shikamaru, and Kakashi investigated Gaara’s kidnapping and the mystery of Rōran while Konoha prepared for combat. At the Academy, a terrorist group photo sparked rumors about Naruto and Sakura, leaving Boruto and Sarada imagining scandals about their parents.

• Naruto, Shikamaru, and Kakashi watched news that Gaara had been kidnapped by someone appearing as a young Hinata Hyuga, and they connected the attack to the lost history of Rōran.
• Kakashi and Naruto recalled separate missions to Rōran in which their teams mysteriously lost their memories, and Naruto mentioned meeting a supposed Rōran descendant.
• Shikamaru proposed finding the Rōran royal descendants before the enemy could use Gaara to mobilize the Shinobi World, while Naruto warned that the impostor seemed to wield the Tenseigan; Shikamaru placed the villages on emergency readiness.
• At the Academy, Sarada, Boruto, and their classmates watched footage of Gaara’s kidnapping and saw a group photo identifying several apparent terrorists, including their parents as young people.
• Boruto and Sarada were stunned by the photo of Naruto lying in Sakura’s arms, and Inojin claimed Naruto had pursued Sakura for ten years.
• Boruto and Sarada denied the rumors aloud but privately imagined that their parents’ relationships might involve a love triangle.

Sarada learned about Sasuke’s older brother and imagined a scandal involving her father and Karin before Shikamaru arrived with Anbu to take Sasha, a descendant of the Rōran princess, into protective custody. Boruto opposed the order and, after the Anbu took Sasha away, decided he would interfere.

• Chocho noticed Uchiha Itachi and Karin in a photograph, and Shino told Sarada that Itachi was Sasuke’s older brother and Karin had once been Sasuke’s companion.
• Shikamaru entered the academy with Anbu and identified Sasha as a descendant of the Rōran princess Sara, whose kidnapping terrorists had demanded.
• Sasha confirmed her heritage, and Shikamaru ordered her to come with the Anbu for protective measures.
• Boruto blocked the Anbu and challenged Shikamaru, but they escorted Sasha away while Shino explained that the Hokage had ordered it.
• Boruto argued with Shino about the order and decided to cause trouble to intervene.