Recaps

Madara Uchiha led the group to Hamura Otsutsuki’s tomb, where his attempt to break into the main chamber summoned Hamura’s apparition. Hamura revealed that an exceptionally high-grade God Tree was inside Uchiha Shingetsu, leaving Madara and the others demanding answers that Shingetsu did not have.

• Tobirama told Ōtsutsuki Terukuru that the Main Family would receive the Caged Bird Seal, while Izuna accepted wine and shared food from the moon’s commoners with the group.
• Uchiha Kazuma drew portraits for the children and Madara, then announced that he would charge for any more drawings.
• Madara ordered Ōtsutsuki Terukuru to lead the group to Hamura Otsutsuki’s tomb, where the group found countless Byakugan and Terukuru admitted the eyes were gathered for offerings.
• Madara used Susanoo to smash the sealed door to the main tomb chamber, prompting Hamura Otsutsuki’s apparition to appear and demand that he stop.
• Hamura told Madara that an exceptionally high-grade God Tree was inside Uchiha Shingetsu, and Shingetsu said she had sometimes dreamed of a tree.
• Madara remembered Shingetsu telling him about the tiny tree in a dream when she was three.

Hamura Otsutsuki warned Shingetsu and the others that the true Ōtsutsuki Clan would come for the God Tree, then vanished after giving Shingetsu power to awaken her Mangekyō Sharingan. As the God Tree began blooming, the Ōtsutsuki Branch Family gathered to attack the burial chamber, leaving Ōtsutsuki Terukuru furious at their rebellion.

• Tobirama confronted Shingetsu for hiding her visions of the God Tree, and Madara angrily ordered her not to keep secrets from him again.
• Before disappearing, Hamura Otsutsuki gave Shingetsu power to hasten her Mangekyō Sharingan and warned that the true Ōtsutsuki Clan would come to reclaim the God Tree.
• Shingetsu saw flower buds forming on the God Tree, and its fragrance drew the others into a lively gathering around her.
• Hinata Kotoma detected a crowd outside the burial chamber, while Ōtsutsuki Terukuru saw that the Branch Family had taken most of the puppets and prepared to attack.
• The Branch Family elder rallied his clansmen to seize the Byakugan and create a Tenseigan, and Ōtsutsuki Terukuru shouted furiously at their rebellion.

Madara and Hashirama defeated the moon’s puppet army, and Tobirama forced the Ōtsutsuki Clan to accept seals and a harsh treaty with Konoha. After the group returned to Konoha and the moon expedition became famous, Izuna and Shingetsu went out together, where Shingetsu noticed Izuna’s unease around children.

• Madara sent the excited Ninja Academy students back into the burial chamber, then took Hashirama to fight the puppet army.
• Hashirama bound the puppets with a Wood Dragon, and Madara burned them all with his flames, leaving Ōtsutsuki Terukuru devastated over the destroyed relics.
• Tobirama applied the improved Caged Bird Seal to the Ōtsutsuki Clan and made Terukuru accept a treaty requiring the clan to provide resources, watch for extraterrestrial threats, send students to Konoha, and host Konoha shinobi.
• The group returned to Konoha in Susanoo, and news of their moon expedition spread across the shinobi world.
• Izuna took Shingetsu to a dessert shop, then stiffened as preschool children passed them, prompting Shingetsu to ask why he did not go play with them.

Shingetsu brought Izuna to volunteer at the Konoha Orphanage after learning that his memories of children dying in the Warring States Period still troubled him. As Izuna resolved to care for the children, the elderly matron recognized him as Uchiha Izuna, leaving him startled and trying to deny his identity.

• Izuna explained that Shinobi were kept away from young children because people feared their bloodstained presence, and Shingetsu suggested he volunteer at the Orphanage.
• Shingetsu showed Izuna the expanded Orphanage and explained that children from nearby countries were often abandoned there by parents who hoped they would have a better life in Konoha.
• Moved by the children's circumstances, Izuna decided to help care for them.
• The old matron welcomed Shingetsu, then shifted into a battle-hardened manner when she recognized Izuna.
• Izuna recognized the matron as Senju Anxiko and denied being Izuna, but she guessed he was Izuna's son or grandson.

Izuna helped care for the children at the Orphanage, then spoke with Anxiko Senju about his father, their time as enemies, and the guilt he still carried. He left after thanking her, while Anxiko watched him with concern.

• Anxiko Senju welcomed Izuna to the Orphanage and promptly fell asleep, leaving the children to swarm him.
• Izuna charmed the children, learned their names, and played hawk and chicks with Shingetsu, helping fill the playground with laughter.
• After Shingetsu and the children left, Anxiko told Izuna that his father had been kind and recalled nearly killing him on the battlefield.
• Anxiko explained that the battlefield had forced people to do whatever they could to survive, and suggested that Izuna's father had been kind because Izuna was alive.
• Anxiko urged Izuna to stop dwelling on the past and find meaning in caring for the children, and Izuna left after quietly thanking her.

Shingetsu brought Izuna to the Orphanage, where he helped the children and found comfort in joining their family dinner. They left late at night, but Shingetsu still worried that Izuna had not let go of his past.

• Shingetsu noticed Izuna's hidden sadness, but he brushed off her concern and joined the children at the Orphanage.
• Izuna met former battlefield enemies who had become caregivers and learned that the Senju brothers had sent Anxiko Senju to protect the Orphanage.
• Yakushi Chan welcomed Izuna's offer to volunteer, and he promised to help the Orphanage.
• The Orphanage children kept Shingetsu away from the cooking, while Izuna prepared dinner and delighted everyone with his food.
• Madara blamed Hōkaku for Izuna and Shingetsu's absence, then complained about the noodles Hōkaku cooked.
• Izuna remembered Madara was waiting at home for dinner and sprinted back, while Shingetsu wondered if he still carried pain from the past.

Shingetsu realized Izuna was struggling to adjust to life in Konoha and urged Madara to comfort him. Madara and Izuna reconciled through an all-night conversation, which ended with Izuna learning that Black Zetsu had manipulated the shinobi world for a thousand years.

• Shingetsu worried that Izuna's abrupt return to a peaceful new era had left him lonely and burdened by memories of war.
• Izuna visited the Konoha Orphanage regularly while also handling clan and government duties and caring for his family and disciples.
• Madara invited Izuna to drink and talk, abandoned a prepared cheat sheet, and apologized for assuming Izuna would adapt without difficulty.
• Izuna admitted he felt lonely and insecure about no longer being needed, and Madara promised to stop hiding things from him.
• Madara recounted his life after Izuna's death, including raising Shingetsu and his disillusionment with Konoha.
• Madara revealed Black Zetsu's thousand-year conspiracy, leaving Izuna furious and wondering whether their past struggles had been a joke.

After learning how war and Black Zetsu had manipulated the Uchiha and Senju for generations, Izuna blamed himself and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. Shingetsu later helped him ease his guilt by taking him out to enjoy Konoha’s entertainment and games.

• Madara comforted Izuna after revealing that Black Zetsu had manipulated generations of Indra and Asura’s reincarnations and fueled the clans’ wars.
• Izuna blamed himself for failing to see the forces controlling events, and his grief awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The next morning, Shingetsu found Izuna at the Orphanage and reassured him that the past was not his fault and that he could not have done what she had done.
• Shingetsu took Izuna to a theatrical show, where he laughed at the melodramatic performance and blamed Tobirama for it.
• Izuna visited Kazuma’s shop, took a few toys, and became engrossed in playing Konoha Cards with Shingetsu.

Shingetsu helped Izuna make up for his lost childhood with a day of play, easing his grief and drawing Madara closer to him. The story then moved to the Five Kage Summit, where the expanded Shinobi Alliance began tense economic negotiations while the Kage watched from the sidelines.

• Shingetsu took Izuna around Konoha to read, play cards, swing, and shop, while Madara watched with Hashirama and wept over Izuna’s lost childhood.
• Shingetsu encouraged Izuna to treat their play as making up for his childhood, and he bought toys and dolls before asking her to make him one.
• Madara and Hashirama built swings at the Uchiha clan grounds and pushed Izuna and Shingetsu, after which Izuna became more cheerful and playful.
• The Five Kage Summit began as a much larger Shinobi Alliance gathering, and the other villages noticed Konoha’s unfamiliar delegate and Madara’s Rinnegan.
• Village deputies and economic specialists argued over resource exchanges while the Five Kage sat back and left the negotiations to them.

At the Five Kage Summit, A won Hashirama’s favor by presenting letters from Kumogakure’s children, while the villages’ leaders debated Konoha’s economic influence and trade. Tobirama approved Shamon’s proposal for shared product-quality regulations, which all the villages supported.

• Hozuki Gengetsu and Ishikawa tried to flatter Hashirama, while Madara and Izuna privately found the Kage ridiculous.
• A and the Blond Deputy presented children’s thank-you letters to Hashirama and Madara, earning their gratitude and giving A an advantage in the Kage’s contest.
• The chapter described Konoha’s trade, the popularity of its clans’ luxury goods, and the frustration of other villages at losing customers and residents to Konoha.
• Shamon proposed village quality-control departments, penalties for fraud, and a Konoha headquarters to oversee inter-village trade.
• Tobirama approved the proposal and offered Konoha’s regulatory experience, after which Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure also agreed.

At the Five Kage Summit, the villages approved Tobirama’s annual Scientific Ninja Tool Exchange proposal before Madara demanded that everyone stay for an urgent warning. Izuna and Shingetsu showed the Kage evidence of the Ōtsutsuki’s threat, leaving them shocked as Hashirama confirmed it was true.

• Tobirama agreed to Mu’s proposal to regulate the Courier Shinobi and offered Konoha’s regulations.
• Tobirama proposed an annual Scientific Ninja Tool Exchange, and the villages unanimously approved it after Shingetsu explained its purpose.
• As the summit was ending, Madara ordered everyone to remain and told them the Ōtsutsuki Clan would threaten their planet.
• When the Kage dismissed Madara’s warning, Izuna revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and showed them Kaguya’s memories of an Ōtsutsuki draining a planet to produce a Chakra Fruit.
• Shingetsu explained that the Ōtsutsuki brought chakra to their world and that shinobi descended from them, while Hashirama confirmed the warning was true.

Shingetsu persuaded the Four Kage to support using the moon as an outpost after revealing that Kaguya and Hagoromo Otsutsuki were real. At Konoha’s expanded summit for small nations, Hashirama hosted a noisy gathering that Izuna found more entertaining than the Five Kage Summit.

• Shingetsu told the Four Kage that Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed on the moon and that Hagoromo Otsutsuki was the Sage of Six Paths, prompting the villages to unanimously support the lunar outpost.
• Raikage A asked Sandai about his efforts to win Shingetsu over, and Sandai admitted he had made no progress while his rivals also struggled.
• Hashirama hosted the Hundred Kage Summit, where Princess Mito, Hanzō, Uchiha Yan, and leaders of small countries gathered to discuss aid and cooperation.
• Madara, Shingetsu, and Izuna attended the summit, where the small-country leaders argued and competed for support under Hashirama’s supervision.
• After the meeting, Izuna told Shingetsu that he had found the Hundred Kage Summit more entertaining than the Five Kage Summit.

Izuna reflected on the Uchiha-Senju feud and considered claiming a fief, while Shingetsu took Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru to the Five Kage Summit festivities. Orochimaru asked Shingetsu for a job to help his exhausted parents, but his father reassured him that studying was his responsibility.

• Izuna recalled how hired conflicts had turned the Uchiha and Senju into hereditary enemies, then decided to choose a fief of his own.
• Shingetsu explained that Mito had offered her the Land of Whirlpools, and suggested Izuna claim a general's title and territory.
• Shingetsu took Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru to the festival, where Tsunade and Shingetsu sampled food while Orochimaru stayed quiet.
• Orochimaru asked Shingetsu to arrange a job for him and impressed her by listing his abilities and ideas.
• Orochimaru explained that he wanted to help pay for his training courses because his parents were overworked, but Daijamaru told him to focus on studying and leave the rest to them.

Shingetsu arranged paid work for Orochimaru at the Konoha Orphanage, while Hashirama, Mito, and the Uchiha brothers dealt with problems in their territories. Tsunade began grueling shinobi training, and lonely Jiraiya ran away from home before recognizing a would-be mentor as a scammer.

• Orochimaru asked Shingetsu to help him find work, and she introduced him to Chinatsu, who offered him a paid job sorting documents at the Orphanage.
• Hashirama heard Hanzō describe the Land of Rain’s improved peace and living conditions, while Mito vented to Shingetsu about Hozuki Gengetsu stealing the Land of Whirlpools’ business and Shingetsu suggested selling sealing-jutsu products.
• Madara and Izuna beat Uchiha Yan for becoming overweight and calling himself the Grass Shadow.
• Madara and Tobirama began supervising Tsunade’s demanding shinobi training, leaving her exhausted and in tears.
• Jiraiya ran away from home, declared that he would become a combat shinobi, and wandered alone until a suspicious man tried to sell him a Summoning Technique scroll.
• Jiraiya recognized the man’s offer as a scam and ran away without buying the scroll.

Four-year-old Jiraiya bought a Summoning Technique scroll from Uzumaki Ashina and accidentally summoned himself to Mount Myōboku. He fainted after landing on Gamabunta, and the Toad Sages realized the Child of Prophecy had arrived far younger than expected.

• Uzumaki Ashina convinced Jiraiya to buy a Summoning Technique scroll, claiming the boy had an extraordinary physique.
• Jiraiya won enough money from Tsunade in Konoha Cards to pay Ashina for the scroll.
• Uzumaki clansmen caught Ashina, whom they believed had dementia, and Mito Uzumaki dragged him away to Konoha Hospital.
• After Ashina taught him how to use the scroll, Jiraiya performed the Summoning Technique and vanished to Mount Myōboku.
• Jiraiya landed on Gamabunta, vomited on him, and fainted after mistaking the giant toad for a monster.
• Gamabunta brought Jiraiya to Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, who were surprised by how young the Child of Prophecy was.

Four-year-old Jiraiya was taken to Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage named Madara, Hashirama, and Shingetsu as guests he should invite. Back in Konoha, Tsunade awakened her Sharingan after losing a hundred card games, while Jiraiya’s parents and the police searched for him until he suddenly reappeared holding a tadpole.

• Fukasaku and Shima scolded and struck Jiraiya, who burst into tears and demanded to go home.
• Fukasaku brought Jiraiya to Gamamaru, who asked him to invite Indra, Asura, and the God Tree—Madara, Hashirama, and Shingetsu.
• Tsunade lost a hundred games in a row, awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan in anger, and was discovered by her family and the Uchiha and Senju clans.
• Tatsuki confronted Hashirama for taking Tsunade gambling, while Momoka chased and scolded Tsunade for gambling.
• Jiraiya’s parents reported him missing, prompting the Konoha Military Police Force and Sensor Shinobi to organize a search.
• Jiraiya suddenly reappeared where he had vanished, holding a tadpole.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha and was punished for running away, while Tsunade was grounded after Hashirama tried to teach her gambling. Orochimaru and Jiraiya brought Shingetsu and her companions to Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage evaded Madara’s questions about the future.

• Jiraiya reappeared in Konoha with a tadpole and was soundly spanked by his parents while the Military Police watched.
• Tatsuki took Tsunade home and barred Hashirama from looking after her after he tried to teach her gambling.
• Orochimaru visited the grounded Jiraiya, who summoned a tadpole and then introduced Toad Kōsuke, the messenger from Mount Myōboku.
• Toad Kōsuke asked Shingetsu to visit Mount Myōboku, and Fukasaku arrived to invite her and her companions there to learn senjutsu.
• Shingetsu, Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, and Tobirama traveled to Mount Myōboku, where Gamamaru recognized them as the God Tree, Indra, and Asura.
• Madara demanded to know what the future held, but Gamamaru refused to answer and tried to redirect the conversation to senjutsu.

Madara pressed Gamamaru to reveal the future, and the Great Toad Sage showed the grim timeline that would have followed without Shingetsu. After Shingetsu reassured everyone, Gamamaru asked her to train in senjutsu at Mount Myōboku, but she wanted to leave when she saw Shima’s insect feast.

• Madara demanded that Gamamaru explain what he knew about the future, and Izuna deduced that the toad’s foresight had stopped working fourteen years earlier because of Shingetsu.
• Gamamaru revealed that Shingetsu had been fated to die young and projected visions of Madara leaving Konoha, fighting Hashirama, and dying under Black Zetsu’s watch.
• Madara, Hashirama, and Izuna grieved over the futures they saw, but Shingetsu reassured them that she would prevent those events from happening.
• Gamamaru said Hagoromo had asked him to bring Shingetsu to Mount Myōboku to learn how to absorb natural energy, and Madara agreed to let Hashirama teach her.
• Fukasaku offered Shingetsu the Mount Myōboku Summoning Contract, but she refused to summon toads and screamed to go home when Shima brought out an insect feast.

Shingetsu avoided eating Sage Shima’s insect feast and began senjutsu training at Mount Myōboku, where she absorbed natural energy with ease while Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama struggled. After a day of training, the God Tree inside Shingetsu bloomed, and her eyes appeared to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Shingetsu rejected Sage Shima’s insect dishes, and Madara burned the feast before Tobirama offered Shingetsu homemade candy.
• Fukasaku began senjutsu training for Shingetsu, Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama beneath Mount Myōboku’s waterfall.
• Shingetsu entered meditation almost instantly as the God Tree absorbed the natural energy flowing into her, while Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama struggled to stay calm and avoid transforming.
• Hashirama laughed at the others as Fukasaku struck them with his rod, until Madara hurled a stone frog at Hashirama and made him apologize.
• At night, Shingetsu opened her eyes as the God Tree’s buds bloomed, and Madara wondered whether she had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Shingetsu awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and discovered eye techniques that could grant others new powers and glimpse the dangerous Root beneath the God Tree. After giving fruits to her companions and accidentally awakening Tobirama's Sharingan, she began testing Susanoo on Mount Myōboku.

• Shingetsu awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and learned that Kuraokami could plant power-granting fruits while Kuninotokotachi let her perceive the Root.
• Shingetsu nearly lost herself when she used Kuninotokotachi to look into the Root, but the God Tree severed the connection and saved her.
• Shingetsu gave Madara a fruit, accelerating the awakening of his second Rinnegan, then distributed fruits to the others.
• Tobirama's fruit awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan, prompting Izuna to attack him and Tobirama to demand answers from Shingetsu.
• Sage Fukasaku led the group to an open plain, where Shingetsu summoned Susanoo and began forming its towering silver-white body.

Shingetsu awakened a heavenly form of Susanoo, reforged Futsunomitama, and sparred with Madara until she began to master her new power. Back in Konoha, she celebrated with her family and gave Tōka and Hōkaku God Tree Fruits, while the nature of her protective Mangekyō ability was revealed.

• Shingetsu manifested a radiant, heavenly Susanoo and advanced it into a feather-robed form that astonished Madara, Izuna, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Sage Fukasaku.
• Shingetsu used [Kuninotokotachi] to uncover Futsunomitama's history as Indra's sword, then reshaped it into a lightning-wreathed weapon for her Susanoo.
• Madara taught Shingetsu through a Susanoo sparring match, and she gradually improved her control while their battle devastated Mount Myōboku.
• Izuna suggested returning to Konoha for a feast, where Tobirama and Izuna cooked while Shingetsu showed Hōkaku and Tōka her Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shingetsu gave God Tree Fruits to Tōka and Hōkaku, and [Kuraokami] was revealed to preserve the lives of her Divine Apostles at the cost of their fruits' energy.

Tobirama and Izuna's kitchen fight revealed that Izuna had awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, while the God Tree Fruits linked Shingetsu and the other Divine Apostles and greatly increased their power. After Madara gave Shingetsu his Mangekyō notes and sealed Izanagi into her eyes, Tobirama secretly confronted her about controlling his new Sharingan, and she offered to help if he returned her Rabbit.

• Tobirama and Izuna fought over their cooking, and their blades clashed until their God Tree Fruits resonated and Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan activated.
• Tobirama realized Izuna had awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and the two wrecked the kitchen before emerging with replacement dishes for Shingetsu and the others.
• Shingetsu and the six Divine Apostles who had received fruits felt their chakra connect, and Hōkaku, Tōka, Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama experienced increased power near her.
• Izuna and Tobirama recognized that Shingetsu could use [Kuraokami] to cultivate a powerful army, while Izuna began considering a roster of Divine Apostles.
• Madara gave Shingetsu his old Mangekyō Sharingan notebook and sealed Izanagi and most of his ocular power into her eyes.
• Tobirama secretly grabbed Shingetsu and demanded that she take back his Sharingan, and she offered to teach him to control it if he returned her Rabbit.

Tobirama asked Shingetsu to teach him to control his Sharingan, and she helped him understand that he needed to stop resisting it while the fruit transforming him continued to develop. After Shingetsu left with Kaguya Bunny, Tobirama accepted his new eyes, while Jigen entered Konoha claiming he had come to find his daughter.

• Tobirama returned Kaguya Bunny to Shingetsu and bribed her with sweets to teach him to use the Sharingan.
• Shingetsu admitted she could not explain how to control the Sharingan, since using it came naturally to her.
• Shingetsu sensed Tobirama's fruit and told him that rejecting the Sharingan made it run wild, and that he should be fine once the fruit sprouted.
• Shingetsu left the laboratory with Kaguya Bunny, and Tobirama accepted his Sharingan and felt his discomfort ease.
• Jigen entered Konoha as a traveling physician and told the gate shinobi that he had come to find his daughter.

Shingetsu continued Senjutsu and Mangekyō training as Jigen arrived in Konoha and told Izuna he had found his adopted daughter. Madara awakened his second Rinnegan, then exchanged eyes with Hashirama after beating him with Limbo Clones.

• Hashirama and Jiraiya disrupted the Senjutsu students’ meditation until Fukasaku sent Jiraiya back to Konoha to train under Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Shingetsu trained with Madara and tormented Tobirama by ordering him to make desserts, while Izuna worked at the orphanage and met its new volunteer, Jigen.
• Jigen told Izuna that he had found his daughter living with a new family and planned to welcome her after settling in Konoha.
• Madara completed his Senjutsu training and awakened his second Rinnegan, along with the ability Limbo: Border Jail.
• Hashirama interrupted Madara by throwing a fruit, so Madara used his Limbo Clones to beat him and crush the fruit.
• Madara gave Hashirama his second Rinnegan, and Hashirama exchanged one of his own eyes for it.

After Madara gave Hashirama one of his Rinnegan, Tobirama stabilized the transplant with Shingetsu’s cells, and Madara later trained Hashirama to use the eye. As they watched Konoha grow, Hashirama proposed that Madara become Hokage of a new Konoha Hidden Country.

• Izuna scolded Madara for giving Hashirama his Rinnegan, while Tobirama reprimanded Hashirama for recklessly implanting it.
• Tobirama brought Hashirama and Shingetsu to his laboratory, produced Shingetsu cells, and injected them into Hashirama to stop his body from rejecting the Rinnegan.
• Hashirama recovered, and Tobirama realized that transplanting Shingetsu cells required both Uchiha and Senju power.
• After Hashirama recovered, Madara tried to spar with him but ended up teaching him how to use the Rinnegan’s abilities.
• Shingetsu brought dinner to Madara and Hashirama, and they discussed how Konoha had grown beyond the size of a village.
• Hashirama suggested calling the expanded settlement the Konoha Hidden Country and urged Madara to become its Hokage.