Chapter Summaries

After Shingetsu woke, she claimed the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura Otsutsuki had visited her and warned that Hamura’s descendants would come for her, though the others doubted her story. Two Ōtsutsuki family factions arrived from the moon to claim her, and the Branch Family’s attempt to break into Konoha triggered an alarm.

• Madara and the others panicked over Shingetsu’s unconsciousness until Tobirama’s loud clap woke her, and she blamed two old men for frightening her.
• Shingetsu told the group she had met the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura Otsutsuki, who had strengthened the rabbit’s seal and said Hamura’s descendants would invite her to the moon.
• The leaders of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family and Branch Family ordered their sons to prepare to travel to the Shinobi World and welcome Shingetsu.
• After leaving Tobirama’s laboratory, Shingetsu and the others saw an unusually large moon, and Madara decided to stay awake and keep watch.
• The Main Family chose to enter Konoha through its checkpoint, while the Branch Family tried to break through the barrier and triggered the village alarm.
• Tobirama, the Senju brothers, and Konoha’s forces responded to the intrusion, and Tobirama mistook the Byakugan-wielding visitors for Hyuga rebels.

Two Ōtsutsuki father-and-son pairs arrived in Konoha from the moon seeking Shingetsu, whom they called the Princess of the God Tree. After Shingetsu rejected their appearance and tried to leave, the Uchiha brothers continued beating them.

• A Combat Shinobi at Konoha's gate learned that Ōtsutsuki Terukuru and Ōtsutsuki Takayuki had come from the moon to find Shingetsu and raised the alarm.
• Tobirama and Hashirama captured the pair, and a Yamanaka Anbu discovered through their memories that they were from the moon.
• Hashirama woke Madara and Izuna, but Izuna stopped Shingetsu from following them until the Ōtsutsuki father and son escaped their escort and rushed toward her.
• Ōtsutsuki Takayuki tried to propose to Shingetsu, and Madara, Izuna, and Hōkaku joined in beating the two Ōtsutsuki.
• Shingetsu lost interest when she mistook the moon people for Hyuga and headed home, prompting the Uchiha brothers to resume the beating when the Ōtsutsuki reached for her.

Madara and Izuna interrogated the Ōtsutsuki Main Family father and son, learned that Hamura had arranged a marriage between Shingetsu and an Ōtsutsuki, and resolved to visit the moon. Hashirama reassured Shingetsu that he and Madara would protect her, while Madara threatened to dig up Hamura's grave.

• Ōtsutsuki Terukuru said the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had broken free on the moon and begged Madara and the others for help.
• Madara learned from Terukuru's memories that Hamura had arranged a marriage with Shingetsu, became enraged, and beat Terukuru and his son.
• Madara demanded to know where Hamura's grave was so he could dig it up and flog the corpse.
• Hashirama comforted Shingetsu after she said her suitors wanted her kekkei genkai rather than her, and promised that he and Madara would protect her.
• Izuna proposed visiting the moon, and Madara agreed; Izuna then declared he would join Madara in digging up the ancestors' graves.

Tobirama, Madara, and their companions traveled to the moon with the Ōtsutsuki father and son, making the shinobi world's first moon landing. On the moon, Shingetsu revealed signs that she was about to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and the group followed Ōtsutsuki Terukuru toward the sealed Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Tobirama kept Ōtsutsuki Terukuru and Ōtsutsuki Takayuki in custody while they waited for the journey to the moon.
• Hashirama spread word of the moon trip, prompting children, disciples, and students to beg Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama to take them along.
• Madara agreed to take Hinata Kotoma to the moon, then beat the students who crowded around him and tripled their homework and training.
• Madara used Perfect Susanoo to carry the spring outing party into space, where Shingetsu asked what color her Susanoo would be and nodded when Madara asked if she was awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The party landed safely on the moon, and Ōtsutsuki Terukuru told Shingetsu that Hamura Otsutsuki had altered its environment before leading everyone to the sealed Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Madara Uchiha sealed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path inside the moon and forced Ōtsutsuki Terukuru to lead him to Hamura Otsutsuki's grave. As the group explored the Ōtsutsuki clan's hidden paradise, Tobirama proposed placing a Byakugan-destroying seal on every member of the clan.

• Madara Uchiha restrained the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with Chakra Black Rods and Wood Release, then sealed it inside a massive sphere with Planetary Devastation.
• Madara rejected Ōtsutsuki Terukuru's thanks and demanded to know where Hamura Otsutsuki's grave was; Terukuru's clanspeople caused trouble, and Terukuru eventually agreed to lead the way.
• Madara, Shingetsu, and the others passed through a barrier into the lush world Hamura Otsutsuki had created inside the moon.
• Tobirama privately told Ōtsutsuki Terukuru about an improved Caged Bird Seal that destroyed a person's Byakugan upon death or removal, then said he intended to place it on everyone in the clan.

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.