Chapter Summaries

Boruto mistook a real encounter with Mitsuki for a dream and tried to get intimate with her, until Hinata broke into his room and struck him. Hinata approved of Mitsuki as Boruto’s partner before Mitsuki revealed her identity, leaving Boruto unconscious and desperate for the dream to end.

• Boruto led the girl to his room while his family and the visiting Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya watched in shock.
• As Boruto began tugging at the girl’s kimono, Hinata smashed through the locked door and hit him with the Gentle Fist.
• The injured Boruto realized the pain was real, while Hinata asked the girl whether he had mistreated her.
• The girl declared her devotion to Boruto, and Hinata said she approved of their relationship.
• When Hinata asked the girl’s name, she pointed to her amber snake eyes and revealed that she was Mitsuki.
• Boruto passed out, thinking that the dream needed to end as soon as possible.

Hinata learned that Mitsuki was female and that Boruto had chosen her appearance, then accepted their relationship as Boruto’s family. Boruto woke believing it had all been a dream, but found Mitsuki waiting in the living room and decided this must be another dream, leaving the family stunned by his response.

• Hinata questioned Mitsuki about her gender and appearance, then accepted her relationship with Boruto and told Jiraiya they would become in-laws.
• Hinata ordered Sakura to treat Boruto and Naruto to repair Boruto’s room and its door.
• Boruto woke in his restored room and convinced himself that his encounter with Mitsuki had been a dream.
• Boruto found Mitsuki sitting with his family and pulled her toward his room, believing he had entered a third dream.
• Hinata confirmed that Boruto knew his fictional wife was Mitsuki, and Boruto said he knew everything and told her to stop meddling.
• Jiraiya placed a hand on Boruto’s shoulder and told him that his daughter was in his hands.

Tahm left Sarada and Sasuke’s training to assist Orochimaru in researching Rōran, leaving Plankton in their care. After Sarada’s teasing drove Sasuke away, she asked Plankton to deliver her apology, but her vague request prompted it to devise its own solution with its Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Tahm told Sarada and Sasuke he would stop accompanying their training and work as Orochimaru’s experimental assistant in Rōran, leaving Plankton to follow their orders.
• Sarada teased Sasuke about Orochimaru biting his rear and the Cursed Seal, and Sasuke smashed Plankton’s wooden table before leaving in anger.
• Sarada regretted upsetting Sasuke and asked Plankton to take him a note apologizing for her joke.
• Sarada added that Plankton should make sure Sasuke did not hate her, and Plankton struggled to understand the vague instruction.
• Plankton activated its Mangekyō Sharingan as it came up with a plan.

Plankton used Kotoamatsukami on Young Sasuke, making him confess romantic feelings to Sarada, who began to accept his advances. Sakura saw them together and fled the courtyard, unable to face what was happening.

• Plankton delivered Sarada’s apology note to Young Sasuke, then caught him in its Sharingan and used Kotoamatsukami.
• Young Sasuke greeted Sarada warmly, apologized, and began pursuing her while the genjutsu amplified his feelings.
• Sarada resisted because they were considered father and daughter, but Sasuke argued they were unrelated across worlds, and she softened toward him.
• Sasuke pulled Sarada into his embrace while wondering whether his feelings were genuine or caused by the genjutsu.
• Sakura and Ino discussed Boruto and Mitsuki’s relationship before Sakura spotted Sarada with Young Sasuke through her window.
• Sakura escaped her courtyard by claiming she needed to get her hair done, leaving Ino confused.

Tahm and Orochimaru investigated the Dragon Vein in Rōran, and Orochimaru concluded that it was a scar left by the God Tree after it took root there. When Tahm proposed that the planet might have an earth consciousness, he distracted Orochimaru with an elaborate explanation about Ultraman Gaia.

• Tahm described how the Five Nations' researchers found little evidence about the Dragon Vein, while Orochimaru excavated the desert and studied its geology.
• Orochimaru's Snake Clones mapped the underground layers and delivered data that let him build a three-dimensional model of the Dragon Vein sinkhole.
• Orochimaru linked Rōran's ancient legends, mass animal deaths, and rapid environmental change to the God Tree's arrival in the region.
• Orochimaru showed Tahm that the buried underground structure resembled giant tree roots and suggested the Dragon Vein was a scar left when the God Tree departed.
• Tahm wondered whether an earth consciousness called Gaia could explain chakra within the planet, then described Ultraman Gaia until Orochimaru told him to stop.

Tahm and Orochimaru theorized that powerful chakra might restart the Dragon Vein, and Tahm went to find Hinata to test the idea. Instead, he found Sasuke and Sarada seeking refuge after their family members threatened to break their legs.

• Orochimaru proposed injecting chakra into the earth to try to reopen the Dragon Vein, and Tahm agreed to bring someone for an experiment.
• Orochimaru told his clone that chakra from another world had briefly activated the Dragon Vein, giving him a factual basis for his theory.
• Tahm used Abyssal Dive to travel to the Hyuga residence, intending to ask Hinata to help restart the Dragon Vein.
• Tahm found Sasuke and Sarada at the Hyuga residence with Hinata and Karin, and learned they had come seeking refuge.
• Sarada told Tahm that her father had threatened to break her legs, and Sasuke said his brother had threatened him the same way.

Tahm and Orochimaru tested whether chakra could activate the Dragon Vein, and Hinata’s immense power triggered it after a delay. The Dragon Vein erupted and killed Tahm and both Orochimarus as Tahm protected Hinata and her Giant Tenseigan.

• Tahm attacked the ground with a Rasengan, but it only blasted a pit and produced no sign of Dragon Vein activity.
• Hinata fired the Giant Tenseigan’s full-power chakra beam into the ground, and the Dragon Vein absorbed it without damaging the earth.
• Tahm and Orochimaru waited for ten minutes, then concluded that the Dragon Vein needed even more chakra and planned to continue testing.
• The Dragon Vein suddenly activated, and Tahm swallowed Hinata and stored the Giant Tenseigan to protect them.
• The Dragon Vein’s chakra pillar filled the pit, turned both Orochimarus to ash, and killed Tahm.

After Tahm revived with Guardian Angel, he and Hinata realized the Dragon Vein’s eruption had resembled their arrival in this world. In World Line Alpha, Hiruzen Sarutobi learned Tahm and the others might have crossed through time and space and ordered an investigation, while weighing whether to attempt a rescue.

• Tahm revived a few seconds after the Dragon Vein vanished, and Hinata embraced him in relief.
• Tahm found no trace of Orochimaru and wondered whether he had died in the eruption.
• Hinata said the Dragon Vein’s eruption felt like the one they experienced when they arrived in this world, prompting Tahm to connect it to their crossing.
• In World Line Alpha, an Anbu shinobi reported battle traces in Rōran and gave Hiruzen Sarutobi a scroll describing the Dragon Vein and a space-time technique.
• The Anbu shinobi confirmed residual space-time fluctuations and a still-active but weakening Dragon Vein beneath the altar.
• Hiruzen ordered space-time ninjutsu specialists to investigate Rōran and study the scroll, while considering whom to send on a rescue attempt.

Tsunade accepted the mission to Rōran to rescue Jiraiya and the others, then assembled Hidan, Kakuzu, Nagato, and Konan as her teammates. The group set out for Rōran, while Tsunade remained curious about their shared past and matching black robes.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi hesitated over whom to send on the dangerous rescue mission until Tsunade demanded that he entrust it to her.
• Hiruzen agreed and let Tsunade choose her own teammates from Konoha's ninjas.
• Tsunade found Hidan at a barbecue restaurant and recruited him by telling him that Jashin Tahm was calling from another space-time.
• Kakuzu volunteered to find Tahm, while Nagato and Konan asked to search for their teacher Jiraiya.
• Tsunade accepted all three volunteers and led the four teammates toward Rōran.
• Tsunade noticed that the group knew one another and wore similar black robes, and Konan said they had once run a club researching rare wild animals.

Tsunade’s rescue team activated the Dragon Vein as Zetsu attacked the Roran Ruins, and the space-time crossing brought them together with Tahm in Worldline Beta. Obito joined the group after hunting Zetsu, and Tahm prepared to have the reinforcements capture wild Pokémon if the Dragon Vein needed more chakra.

• Tsunade began the Space-Time Technique at the Dragon Vein Altar despite Kakashi warning that the nearly depleted Dragon Vein might allow only one attempt.
• Zetsu sent a massive force of White Zetsu clones to attack the Roran Ruins, and Kakashi, Konan, Kakuzu, Hidan, and Nagato defended the altar while Tsunade activated the Dragon Vein.
• In Worldline Beta, Tahm questioned Jūzō Biwa about following the group and learned that he had come searching for Itachi before jumping into the Dragon Vein’s light.
• Tahm confronted Uchiha Obito, who said he had been hunting Zetsu and asked Tahm to kill him as atonement; Tahm left Obito’s fate to Kakashi.
• Tahm told the assembled reinforcements that they might need to rely on their old trade and capture wild Pokémon to provide enough chakra for the Dragon Vein.

Tahm brought the Dragon Vein travelers to the parallel world's Konoha, where they encountered Itachi and Sasuke searching for Sasuke. At the courtyard, they found the younger Sasuke with Sarada, and the one-armed Sasuke revealed himself as her father.

• Tsunade asked Tahm where they had arrived, and Tahm explained that they were in a parallel world before leading the group toward Konoha.
• Tahm had Obito use Kamui to transport everyone, but the final jump left Tahm, Hinata, Kakashi, and Jūzō Biwa at the Hyuga Compound.
• Itachi and a one-armed adult Sasuke appeared at the compound, and Itachi asked Tahm to take them to Sasuke.
• Before the group reached the courtyard, the younger Sasuke reassured Sarada about their relationship and defended their choice to be together.
• The group found the younger Sasuke and Sarada holding hands, and Jūzō tried to comfort Itachi by assuming Sasuke had found a girlfriend.
• The one-armed Sasuke revealed that he was Sarada’s father, identified himself as Second Pillar, and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Adult Sasuke confronted his younger self and Sarada over their relationship, while Tahm explained the Uchiha’s supposed hereditary basis for incest to a disturbed Itachi. At Kakashi’s graduation exam, Obito emerged from a spatial vortex alone and found himself separated from his teammates.

• Adult Sasuke identified himself as Second Pillar and ordered Sarada to return, but she refused and accused him of abandoning her for years.
• Young Sasuke stood with Sarada, while she challenged her father by bringing up his past plan to destroy Konoha and kill the Five Kage.
• Itachi asked Tahm to persuade Sasuke, but Tahm argued that Sasuke should make his own choice and jokingly traced Uchiha incest to Izanagi and Izanami.
• Kakashi waited to examine the Ninja Academy students and worried that Sarada would miss the graduation exam, while Boruto and Mitsuki’s changed relationship unsettled him.
• Obito emerged from a spatial vortex at Kakashi’s exam site without his teammates, and Kakashi recognized him.

Tsunade, Nagato, and Konan arrived in a parallel Konoha and went to find Jiraiya, only for Tsunade to catch him embracing another Tsunade and mistake them for lovers. Enraged, she demolished the Hokage family mansion with Jiraiya inside, and the incident was reported to Seventh Hokage Uzumaki Naruto.

• Tsunade, Nagato, and Konan found themselves in a wealthy Konoha home and realized Tsunade's face had been carved into Hokage Rock as the Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade led Nagato and Konan toward the Hyuga residence, hoping to reunite with the others and find Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya said goodbye to the alternate Tsunade with an affectionate embrace just as the other Tsunade arrived through the Rōran Dragon Vein.
• Jiraiya mistook Tsunade for his alternate world's companion and pulled her into his arms, while she saw him embracing the blond woman and grew furious.
• Tsunade threw Jiraiya through the Hokage family mansion with her Monstrous Strength Fist, destroying the house as Konan carried Nagato out of danger.
• A messenger told Seventh Hokage Uzumaki Naruto that the Fifth Hokage had demolished his house with the Akatsuki.

Boruto and his temporary teammates faced Konohamaru in the graduation exam, but the fight was interrupted when Kakuzu and Hidan appeared. Hidan used his ritual technique to incapacitate Konohamaru, then revealed that his pain came from recently donating two kidneys.

• Boruto brought Shikadai Nara, Inojin Yamanaka, and Chocho Akimichi along to improve his chances in the graduation exam, while Mitsuki reassured the boys about her relationship with him.
• Konohamaru met the group and began the exam, but defeated the students despite their coordinated attacks.
• Hidan and Kakuzu appeared in the forest, and Hidan accused Konohamaru of mistreating children before striking him with a flying blade.
• Hidan entered his ritual form and linked his damage to Konohamaru, leaving the examiner in pain and unable to stand.
• Hidan explained that he had donated two kidneys at Konoha Hospital, which was why Konohamaru was suffering.

Shikamaru brought Hidan, Kakuzu, and the otherworldly youths to the Hokage’s Office, where their ties to Tsunade and Konoha were confirmed. Tsunade learned that Mitsuki was Jiraiya’s daughter from another world, then discovered Mitsuki’s mother was Orochimaru.

• Shikamaru stopped Shikadai, Boruto, and Mitsuki from defending Hidan and took the group to the Hokage’s Office for investigation.
• Naruto met Tsunade, who held an unconscious Jiraiya after beating him over his affairs.
• Hidan and Kakuzu arrived in restraints, and Tsunade confirmed that they were her temporary Konoha workers from another world.
• Mitsuki examined Jiraiya and called him her father, prompting Tsunade to question her about her mother.
• Mitsuki said her mother was Orochimaru, leaving Tsunade stunned to learn she meant Tsunade’s former classmate.

Naruto gathered the visitors and witnesses in Konoha to investigate the mansion’s destruction, while Tsunade learned that Jiraiya and Orochimaru had a daughter named Mitsuki. After Jiraiya mistook Tsunade for her gentler counterpart and grabbed her, the Hokage’s Office was destroyed again, leaving Tsunade No. 2 searching the rubble for him.

• Naruto proposed moving the crowded investigation from the Hokage’s Office to the conference room, and Shikadai and Boruto defended Hidan.
• Mitsuki called Naruto her father-in-law and confirmed that she was Boruto’s girlfriend, shocking Tsunade, Nagato, and Konan.
• Jiraiya woke beside Tsunade No. 2 and apologized for touching her, while she responded gently and left to fetch hot water.
• Jiraiya mistook Tsunade for her gentler counterpart, pulled her into his arms, and asked to resume their intimate conversation.
• Tsunade struck Jiraiya and destroyed the Hokage’s Office, leaving Naruto, Shikamaru, the students, shinobi, and visitors buried in rubble.
• Tsunade No. 2 searched the ruins and found a human-shaped crater as Tsunade stood nearby with smoke curling from her fist.

Itachi used Izanami to trap young Sasuke in an effort to make him reconsider his choices, while Tahm repaired Itachi’s blinded eye. The chapter left Sasuke trapped in a repeating illusion, still defying Itachi despite its repeated attempts to change his mind.

• Young Sasuke and adult Sasuke faced off over Sarada until Itachi stepped in to mediate.
• After the argument continued, Itachi used Izanami on young Sasuke, leaving him motionless and unconscious in reality.
• Itachi explained that Izanami would make Sasuke reach his own realization, while Tahm repaired the Mangekyō Sharingan Itachi had sacrificed.
• Itachi warned Sarada that Sasuke might wake as an entirely different person, and adult Sasuke reacted with alarm about Itachi’s eye.
• Inside the repeating illusion, young Sasuke resisted Itachi’s appeals and declared that he would never listen, even if he remained trapped forever.

Two versions of Tsunade confronted each other over Jiraiya after their clash destroyed the Hokage's Office. At the Hyuga Clan courtyard, Itachi, adult Sasuke, Sakura, and Sarada observed young Sasuke's Izanami and decided to free him after seeing what he had experienced.

• Hidan shielded the Ninja Academy students as the Hokage's Office collapsed, and the onlookers found two Tsunades in the rubble.
• The two Tsunades argued over who would treat Jiraiya, while Naruto summoned Sakura and ordered his subordinates to fetch Tahm.
• Sakura went to the Hyuga Clan courtyard, where Tahm watched over young Sasuke as he remained trapped in Itachi's Izanami.
• Itachi connected the Uchiha family's minds so adult Sasuke, Sarada, and Sakura could observe the illusion with him.
• After witnessing the illusion, adult Sasuke agreed to stop interfering in Sarada's affairs, and Itachi asked Tahm to release young Sasuke.
• Tahm used Mikael's Crucible to free young Sasuke, who asked what had happened.

Sarada and the others watched teenage Sasuke endure countless cycles of Izanami, where he remained determined to find a way back to her. Tahm freed him from the Genjutsu, but the onlookers mistook Sasuke’s resolve for genuine love, and he ended the chapter unable to explain himself as Sarada clung to him.

• Itachi explained that the spectators could not affect Izanami and that Sasuke had endured thousands of cycles without waking.
• Teenage Sasuke rejected the illusion's attempts to make him give up and promised Sarada he would find a way out.
• Sarada’s resolve strengthened as she saw Sasuke’s persistence, while Adult Sasuke asked Tahm to free him from the illusion.
• Tahm removed Izanami and Kotoamatsukami, and teenage Sasuke awoke with memories of the illusion still intact.
• Adult Sasuke, Sakura, and Itachi each accepted the apparent relationship between teenage Sasuke and Sarada, leaving him bewildered.
• Teenage Sasuke tried to clarify that he had come to his senses, but Sarada thought he was under Genjutsu and vowed not to abandon him, so he decided to explain later.

Kakashi and Obito arrived at the ruined Hokage's Office, where Naruto warmly welcomed Obito from another world and Kakuzu questioned why former villains were treated as allies. Meanwhile, the two Tsunades competed over the injured Jiraiya, leaving him trapped between their affection and their anger.

• Kakashi and Obito reached the Hokage's Office ruins and found Naruto, the rescue team, and two Tsunades there.
• Naruto warmly greeted Obito and explained his identity, while Obito chatted with Naruto and Kakashi.
• Kakuzu asked Shikamaru whether Nagato and Obito were good people in this world, then learned that Konoha had killed Kakuzu and Hidan in its version of events.
• Jiraiya regained consciousness in the rubble and realized that both Tsunades were confronting each other.
• Tsunade Number Two treated Jiraiya and challenged Tsunade, who joined in treating him rather than letting her rival hold him alone.
• Jiraiya lay between the two Tsunades, overwhelmed by their competing affection and fearing for his life.