Chapter Summaries

Hinata returned to the Hyuga Compound with Himawari after their home was destroyed, frustrated by the chaos the people from another world had brought to her family. Near her old courtyard, she overheard a fierce argument and realized a new scandal might take her place in Konoha’s headlines.

• Hinata soothed Himawari’s questions about their demolished home by saying they were building a new one and would stay with Grandpa Hiashi for a few days.
• Hinata reflected on how teenage Naruto and Sakura’s affection, Jiraiya’s book, and the scandal involving Boruto and Mitsuki had unsettled her family and made her Konoha’s gossip target.
• Hinata walked with Himawari toward her old courtyard in the Hyuga Compound, which Hiashi had placed inside a restricted area.
• Hinata overheard a fierce argument inside the courtyard, stopped to listen, and smiled as she realized another story might displace her from the headlines.

Young Sasuke struggled with Sarada’s clingy devotion while her parents tried to persuade her to let him go. Sakura and adult Sasuke left Sarada with him, but Sakura’s relief vanished when she encountered Hinata in the corridor.

• After Sakura informed them of Tsunade’s destruction and Jiraiya’s trouble, Tahm, Itachi, and the others went to the Hokage’s Office, leaving young Sasuke with Sarada and her parents.
• Adult Sasuke told Sarada to go home, but she refused to leave young Sasuke while he was still affected by the Genjutsu.
• Adult Sasuke and Sakura urged Sarada to separate from young Sasuke, but she argued that her feelings were being misunderstood.
• Young Sasuke asked Sarada to stay with her parents, but she continued clinging to him, so Sakura and adult Sasuke eventually left without her.
• As Sakura and adult Sasuke walked away, Sakura remarked that young Sasuke was better than her husband had been before spotting Hinata in the corridor.

Hinata overheard Sarada and young Sasuke discussing their relationship and learned that Sakura was involved with Naruto, leaving her convinced that her marriage and family life had been built on deception. She concealed her shock and left with Himawari to find her son, while Naruto remained unaware that trouble was brewing.

• Hinata met Sakura at the Hyuga estate, confirmed that adult Sasuke had come from another world, and promised not to spread the secret.
• Sakura admitted Sarada had skipped school and graduation exams, while Hinata warned that the truth could not stay hidden for long.
• Hinata overheard Sarada insist that she would not give up on young Sasuke and accuse Sakura of being involved with Lady Hokage.
• Hinata became convinced Sakura had stolen Naruto and reinterpreted his absences and past behavior as evidence of an affair.
• Hinata decided to hide her suspicions to protect her children and left with Himawari to find her son.
• Naruto sneezed during an emergency meeting and dismissed his sudden bad feeling, believing he had already survived the worst of his son's romance.

Tahm and the others gathered two Nine-Tails and Hinata’s Giant Tenseigan to restart the Dragon Vein experiment and return to their original world. The foxes’ insults escalated into a fight, which Hinata ended by trapping Kurama Number Two with Chibaku Tensei.

• Karin sensed the immense chakra of two Nine-Tails and the Giant Tenseigan as they assembled around the Dragon Vein.
• Tahm explained to Tsunade that the Dragon Vein’s power could support the Space-Time Technique and that they did not know how much chakra the experiment would require.
• Kurama and Kurama Number Two traded taunts about being domesticated, while both Narutos tried to restrain their foxes.
• Tahm insulted both Nine-Tails, provoking Kurama Number Two to charge at him.
• Hinata used Tenseigan: Chibaku Tensei to seize Kurama Number Two and bury him beneath a mass of rocks.

Tahm’s experiments showed that the Dragon Vein reacted to powerful chakra but did not open, so he considered seeking a qualitatively stronger source. After teasing Kurama Two with a cute childhood figure, Tahm accepted the fox’s challenge and prepared to reveal his Bewitching Demon Technique.

• Tahm had Hinata and the two Kuramas repeatedly attack the Dragon Vein, but their blasts produced only brief chakra feedback and left the sinkhole unchanged.
• Tahm’s experiments showed that adding more attackers barely changed the Dragon Vein’s response, while weaker attacks produced almost none.
• Tahm asked Kurama Two where the other Tailed Beasts were, but Kurama Two knew only that the Eight-Tails was with Killer B and said the Tailed Beasts rarely contacted one another.
• Tahm produced a giant cute figure of the Nine-Tails as a child, embarrassing Kurama Two and amusing the gathered ninja.
• Kurama Two challenged Tahm to fight without relying on women, and Tahm stepped forward and announced his Bewitching Demon Technique.

Tahm repeatedly used the Bewitching Demon Technique to humiliate Kurama Two on camera while Hinata reflected on her marriage after watching young Naruto and Sakura interact. The chapter left Hinata resolved to become more assertive, while adult Naruto remained unaware of her thoughts.

• Tahm used Time Warp to repeatedly cast the Bewitching Demon Technique on Kurama Two while Hinata and Karin restrained him with their abilities.
• Tahm filmed Kurama Two performing humiliating, affectionate gestures until the fox curled up in distress, and then told everyone to wrap it up.
• Hinata sat with Sarada and young Sasuke, reflecting on her relationship with adult Naruto and the complicated connections between them.
• Young Naruto and young Sakura arrived at the Hyuga residence, bickering about Jiraiya and their living arrangements.
• After watching their closeness, Hinata resolved to become stronger and use taijutsu and the Gentle Fist again.
• Adult Naruto sneezed at the Hokage's Office, wondered if he was getting old, and added more goji berries to his tea.

Tahm gathered the travelers in the Hyuga dojo to plan their return home, then revealed a plan to capture the Tailed Beasts and revive the Ten-Tails. Obito, who had just repented of that very scheme, was stunned by Tahm’s announcement.

• Tahm convened the travelers in the Hyuga clan dojo and said they needed to find a way home despite being unable to open the Dragon Vein across worlds.
• Jiraiya, Sasuke, Itachi, Kakuzu, and others supported Tahm’s call to act quickly, each for personal reasons.
• Obito and Kakashi arrived late after visiting the memorial stone, and Obito apologized to the group and asked for a chance to atone.
• Obito declared that his plans involving Infinite Tsukuyomi and reviving the Ten-Tails had been ridiculous delusions.
• Tahm announced that his plan was to capture the Tailed Beasts and revive the Ten-Tails, leaving Obito shocked.

Tahm persuaded the time travelers to revive the Ten-Tails so they could activate the Dragon Vein and return home, arguing that a world-ending war was coming regardless. The group agreed to capture the wild Tailed Beasts first, and Tahm chose the Four-Tails because it had revealed its location.

• Tahm argued that reviving the Ten-Tails was necessary to activate the Dragon Vein and insisted the group would only be borrowing the Tailed Beasts.
• Nagato and Obito raised concerns about restarting a war and reviving Kaguya, but Tahm reassured them, and Nagato agreed to help.
• Tahm proposed capturing the seven wild Tailed Beasts before approaching the Eight-Tails and Kurama, who were with their Jinchuriki.
• Tsunade questioned why Tahm wanted to start with the Four-Tails, and Tahm revealed that it had given out its home address.

The narrator drove back to their hometown for New Year while Dad had them practice driving on a long expressway trip. At a highway service area, Dad watched Tiger's Roar, Dragon's Chant on his phone instead of monitoring the road.

• The narrator set off for their hometown to celebrate the New Year.
• Dad made the narrator, a novice driver, drive the expressway during the Spring Festival travel rush to practice.
• The narrator said the long drive felt difficult, and Dad promised to watch from the passenger seat.
• Dad held his phone and watched several hundred kilometers of Tiger's Roar, Dragon's Chant.

Tahm’s group found the Four-Tails beneath Flower Fruit Mountain, but tourists and Land of Earth shinobi made a direct attack too risky. Tahm proposed disguising themselves as villains to stage a public incident, and the chapter ended as Hinata and Tahm began their act as Momoshiki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki.

• Kurama explained that he did not know Flower Fruit Mountain’s location, and Tsunade scolded Tahm for having no workable plan.
• Hinata found an online listing for Flower Fruit Mountain, and the group traveled to the tourist attraction in the Land of Earth.
• Karin sensed the Four-Tails underground, while Hinata spotted shinobi stationed aboveground and tourists carrying cameras and phones.
• Nagato warned that attacking openly would alert the Five Great Nations and make finding the remaining Tailed Beasts harder.
• Tahm decided the group would pose as upstanding citizens by staging a villainous performance, with Plankton disguising him through Wood Release.
• At the attraction’s entrance, Tahm and Hinata introduced themselves as Kinshiki Otsutsuki and Momoshiki Otsutsuki.

Tahm and Hinata staged a dramatic appearance as Otsutsuki deities at Flower Fruit Mountain, but the tourists initially treated them as entertainment. Tahm unleashed Plankton’s powerful Wood Release to capture the crowd and the Iwagakure observation post, turning the incident into a Shinobi World-wide livestream that ended with his declaration to the assembled audience.

• Tourists at Flower Fruit Mountain dismissed Tahm and Hinata’s claims of being Otsutsuki, and Tahm abandoned the script.
• Tahm and Plankton unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, transforming the mountain and binding the fleeing tourists without killing them.
• Hinata struggled to maintain her cold, heartless role while Tahm arranged the captives’ positions and camera angles for publicity.
• The Wood Release roots overwhelmed the Iwagakure observation post, captured its ninja, and carried them to Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Civilians and disguised cameras livestreamed the event across the Shinobi World as Hinata resumed her role and Tahm proclaimed that their deity had returned.

Hinata and Tahm used a colossal Super Chibaku Tensei to expose the Four-Tails’ underground home, then subdued him before a massive livestream audience. Tahm punished him for answering to “Goku” and forbade him from using the name, leaving the confused Four-Tails facing another hammer blow.

• The Four-Tails awoke to digging above his lava cavern and watched Hinata and Plankton tear away the ground with Super Chibaku Tensei.
• Millions of viewers saw the Four-Tails exposed in a crater beneath a moon-sized rocky sphere and feared the power of the supposed deities.
• After the Four-Tails answered to “Goku,” Tahm struck him with a Wood Release hammer, while Plankton restrained him with wood dragons and Hinata immobilized him.
• Tahm repeatedly called the Four-Tails “Goku” and hammered him whenever he answered, until the Four-Tails stayed silent.
• Tahm told the Four-Tails he could no longer use the name “Goku,” and struck him again when he asked why.

Tahm and Hinata staged a terrifying public spectacle while capturing Four-Tails, then brought him to the Kamui Dimension for sealing. The world was left shaken by the supposed gods’ power as the former Akatsuki members prepared to seal their old target again.

• Tahm battered Four-Tails until he still refused to change his chosen name, then mocked him for expecting reinforcements.
• Hinata declared that Four-Tails would be returned to his place, and Tahm used the Kamui Dimension to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• The statue’s chakra tendrils bound Four-Tails and dragged him into the Kamui Dimension, while the two Otsutsuki announced that eight Tailed Beasts remained.
• Tahm and Hinata departed as a huge stone star fell toward the ground, terrifying the watching crowds without causing casualties.
• Nagato, Konan, Obito, Itachi, Jūzō Biwa, Kakuzu, and Hidan gathered around Four-Tails in the Kamui Dimension and began preparing to seal him.

Kurama celebrated Four-Tails’ capture, then Tahm and Itachi infiltrated Konoha’s preparations by offering to help Naruto and steering him toward contacting the remaining Tailed Beasts. Naruto’s group chat unexpectedly gathered all nine beasts, including two Kuramas, leaving them confused about how Four-Tails was present.

• Kurama mocked Four-Tails as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path drained his strength, then agreed with Tahm to help capture the other Tailed Beasts.
• Konoha mobilized after the Otsutsuki invasion, and Naruto and Sasuke discussed the threat in the Hokage’s Office.
• Tahm and Itachi offered Naruto their help and guided him to contact the remaining Tailed Beasts through the Sage of Six Paths’ connection.
• Naruto and Kurama Two sent an invitation to the Tailed Beasts, and Naruto found all nine gathered in his mental space.
• Shukaku noticed two Kuramas, and the two foxes argued over who had summoned the other.

Naruto’s meeting with the Tailed Beasts ended without their agreeing to assemble or revealing their locations, leaving Tahm and Itachi to find another way to draw them out. Kurama obtained Shukaku’s address by provoking him, and Tahm and Kurama headed for the desert as two giant birds approached Shukaku.

• Naruto told Tahm, adult Sasuke, and Itachi that the Tailed Beasts had decided to stay hidden and would only contact him if something happened.
• Tahm and Itachi concluded they needed to target a wild Tailed Beast quickly to make the others believe the Otsutsuki could locate them.
• Tahm scolded Kurama for returning from the meeting without information, but Kurama revealed that he had tricked Shukaku into giving up his address.
• Tahm and Kurama agreed to give Shukaku a proper welcome and set out for his home in the Land of Wind’s desert.
• Shukaku relaxed in the desert, reliving his verbal victory over Kurama, until two giant birds approached and blocked the sun.

Tahm and Hinata attacked Shukaku in the desert, but Kurama intervened after helping them capture him. Kurama betrayed Shukaku and joined Tahm and Hinata, leaving Naruto to watch the three torment the trapped tailed beast.

• Shukaku redirected Hinata and Tahm’s attack back at himself, then recognized Hinata as the Otsutsuki who had captured the Four-Tails and lost his will to fight.
• Tahm and Hinata restrained Shukaku with Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique and Chibaku Tensei, but Kurama fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that destroyed the restraints and freed him.
• Shukaku ran to Kurama, believing his old enemy had come to save him, and reunited with him in relief.
• Kurama knocked Shukaku down, bound him with his nine tails, and revealed that he had been working with Tahm and Hinata.
• Tahm finished Kurama’s forgotten taunt, while Naruto watched from a distance as Kurama began beating Shukaku.

Gaara witnessed “Momoshiki” and “Kinshiki” capture Shukaku and realized the enemy could strike across great distances with overwhelming power. He ordered Sunagakure’s forces to warn Konoha and hurry to join the war, while Shukaku’s attempts to communicate remained misunderstood.

• Gaara traveled by Lightning Train toward Konoha for the emergency Five Kage Summit and reflected on the unexpected alliance with the otherworldly fighters.
• Shukaku crashed into the desert before the train, bound by wood dragons, and tried to warn the passengers about the enemy’s plans.
• Hinata and Tahm appeared as “Momoshiki” and “Kinshiki,” suppressed Shukaku, and captured him through a spatial vortex despite Gaara’s presence.
• Gaara ordered his subordinates to inform Konoha of Shukaku’s capture and told the train driver to proceed at full speed.
• Gaara recalled Shukaku’s cries but could only interpret them as a string of censored insults.

After Shukaku’s capture, Naruto persuaded the wild Tailed Beasts to cooperate with humans, but they decided to travel to the hidden villages themselves instead of revealing their locations. Kurama returned to Tahm with the news that Naruto planned to ask him and Obito to help bring the Tailed Beasts to Konoha, disrupting Tahm’s plan to ambush them.

• Kurama urged the wild Tailed Beasts to form an alliance with humans, and Naruto warned them that the enemy could strike anywhere using long-distance space ninjutsu.
• Matatabi announced that the Tailed Beasts agreed to cooperate and would travel to the nearest major hidden villages, leaving Kurama without their addresses.
• Naruto realized his side also had someone with spatial abilities and considered asking Tahm for help.
• Tahm waited at the Hyuga residence, plotting to use Kurama’s intelligence to send Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki after the remaining wild Tailed Beasts.
• Kurama returned and told Tahm that Naruto was coming to ask him and Obito to help bring the Tailed Beasts to Konoha.

Tahm tried to keep adult Naruto from discovering that Obito was sealing Shukaku in the Kamui Dimension, but Naruto proposed using the dimension to shelter the Tailed Beasts. Tahm agreed to take Naruto to Obito, then opened Plankton’s spatial vortex and nearly lured Naruto inside before Naruto’s instincts made him hesitate.

• Adult Naruto arrived at the Hyuga residence and asked Tahm and Obito to help gather and protect the five wild Tailed Beasts.
• Naruto suggested moving all the Tailed Beasts into Obito’s Kamui Dimension, while Tahm hid that Obito was already there sealing Shukaku.
• Tahm claimed Obito had gone out with Kakashi and agreed to take Naruto to find him, while Hinata understood that Tahm intended to confront him.
• Tahm used Plankton’s spatial ability to open a black vortex and urged Naruto to enter, explaining that it was not Obito’s Kamui.
• Naruto recognized that the vortex resembled the Otsutsuki Clan’s spatial abilities, then paused when his instincts warned him of danger.

Naruto became distracted by memories while Tahm stalled him as Hinata slipped into the Kamui Dimension to prepare an ambush. Hinata alerted the assembled team that an enemy was about to arrive, and they formed a trap around the spatial vortex, though they did not know who was coming.

• Hinata secretly asked Tahm to keep Naruto occupied while she went ahead to dig a hole for him.
• Tahm called Naruto over and made awkward conversation, unaware that Naruto thought Hinata's glance had been meant for him.
• In the Kamui Dimension, Karin and the others waited for news as Jiraiya hoped the Tailed Beast operation might be canceled.
• Plankton and then Hinata emerged from the spatial vortex, and Hinata ordered everyone to prepare for an enemy entering the dimension.
• Hinata assigned the team their positions, transformed, and set a gravitational field around the entrance while Karin sealed it with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• When Karin wondered whether a Tailed Beast could fit through the entrance, Hinata said the enemy could fit.