Recaps

Naruto sold the bear pelt, then used a disguise and the Nine-Tails’ chakra to help Tsunade win back her gambling losses. Back at the inn, Mikoto Uchiha woke from her severe injuries, and Naruto rushed to greet her.

• Naruto sold the bear pelt, carried the unconscious pair to an inn, and left to explore the village disguised as C.C.
• Naruto went to a gambling house and used chakra to change the dice, helping Tsunade recover the money she had lost.
• Tsunade asked C.C. to take her as an apprentice, but C.C. admitted she had cheated and advised Tsunade to gamble less.
• Naruto returned to the inn and waited beside the unconscious pair as rain clouds gathered.
• Mikoto Uchiha woke up and wondered whether she had died, and Naruto ran over to greet her.

Mikoto Uchiha woke after Naruto saved her and learned that her family believed her dead. As Mikoto considered staying with Naruto, she and Naruto discovered Yakushi Nonō, who learned Danzo was dead and had nowhere to go, so Naruto invited her to join them.

• Naruto told Mikoto Uchiha that she had rescued her, and Mikoto learned her husband and children were alive but believed she was dead.
• Naruto admitted she feared thunder, and she and Mikoto slept together through the storm.
• Mikoto Uchiha recognized Yakushi Nonō and drew a fruit knife, but Naruto woke and disarmed them with a tail of Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Naruto told Yakushi Nonō that she had killed Danzo, and Yakushi Nonō confirmed his Curse Mark was gone.
• Yakushi Nonō confessed she did not know what to do next, and Naruto invited her to stay by her side as a Rogue Ninja.

Naruto left Konohagakure with Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha while Kakashi and Haruki Hyuga led separate teams in pursuit. When Haruki's squad caught up with them, Mikoto offered to hold the pursuers back, but Naruto dispelled her disguise and stopped her.

• Naruto resented Danzo for forcing her to leave Konohagakure before she became a Genin, and Yakushi Nonō promised to stay by her side.
• Naruto, Yakushi Nonō, and Mikoto Uchiha changed clothes, gathered supplies, and left the village with Naruto disguised as Genkai.
• Kakashi's team learned Naruto had left the village and used Pakkun to track her by the scent of her underwear.
• Haruki Hyuga's team lost Naruto's scent in the rain, so Haruki continued searching with his Byakugan to capture her before Kakashi did.
• Naruto, Yakushi Nonō, and Mikoto Uchiha traveled through the forest, but Haruki's squad caught up with them at night.
• Mikoto offered to hold off Haruki's squad while Naruto escaped, but Naruto dispelled her Transformation Jutsu and angrily cut her off.

Naruto used the Nine-Tails' Three-Tails power to fight the Konohagakure ninja sent to capture her. After Naruto killed Nozawa, Mikoto Uchiha escaped her captors with her Sharingan and killed two of them.

• Naruto and the Nine-Tails agreed she could use up to Three-Tails of its power, and Naruto charged the pursuing Konohagakure ninja.
• The ninja used water and lightning techniques to restrain Naruto, while Haruki Hyuga struck her with the Gentle Fist and Rotation.
• A Konohagakure ninja hit Naruto with Lightning Style: False Darkness, but her Tailed Beast Cloak and the Nine-Tails' healing kept the wound from being serious.
• Naruto killed Nozawa and warned the remaining ninja that she would show them no mercy.
• A Konohagakure ninja threatened the women as hostages, but Mikoto Uchiha used her Three Tomoe Sharingan to trap the captors in genjutsu and slit two of their throats.

Naruto and Mikoto Uchiha defeated Haruki Hyuga’s squad, and Naruto prepared to take Haruki’s Byakugan before Kakashi arrived. Kakashi confronted Naruto and questioned why Mikoto and Yakushi Nonō were with her, while Yamato’s arrival left Naruto under heavy pressure.

• Mikoto Uchiha defeated two Konohagakure ninjas, and Naruto’s Wind Release wounded Haruki Hyuga after he tried to retreat with Kimura.
• Kakashi rushed toward the battle after Pakkun detected blood and Kimura’s cries.
• Naruto checked Haruki for a Caged Bird Seal and decided to take his Byakugan; Mikoto questioned her plan, and Nonō offered to help.
• Kakashi arrived as Naruto was about to remove Haruki’s eyes and challenged her actions.
• Naruto explained that Nonō had been abandoned by Danzo and Konohagakure, then Yamato arrived and Naruto recognized him.

Naruto fought Yamato’s Wood Style while protecting Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha, then unleashed four tails and escaped with them. Kakashi sent Pakkun to track Naruto and find a chance to rescue the missing Haruki Hyuga.

• The Nine-Tails warned Naruto that Yamato’s Wood Style could overpower her and urged her to run rather than break the seal.
• Yamato used Wood Style to bind Naruto, Yakushi Nonō, and the injured Mikoto Uchiha, and his vines caused Mikoto to bleed.
• Naruto transformed to four tails, broke free, shielded Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto with the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, and destroyed Yamato’s wooden barrier with a powerful blast.
• Naruto fled with Yakushi Nonō, Mikoto Uchiha, and Haruki Hyuga, while leaving the unconscious Kimura behind.
• Kakashi asked Pakkun to track Naruto from a distance and look for a chance to rescue Haruki Hyuga.

Naruto escaped with Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō after using the Nine-Tails Chakra to survive, while Kakashi’s team pursued them. She left the chapter by tearing out Haruki Hyuga’s eye to retaliate against Konohagakure’s pursuit.

• Naruto recovered from her injuries with the Nine-Tails Chakra and urged Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō to flee with her and Haruki Hyuga.
• Mikoto Uchiha carried Naruto away while Yakushi Nonō carried Haruki Hyuga, and Kakashi’s team followed Pakkun’s trail.
• Yamato shielded Pakkun from a hidden Explosive Tag as the pursuit continued.
• Naruto stopped Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō and ordered Yakushi Nonō to open Haruki Hyuga’s eyes.
• Yakushi Nonō severed Haruki Hyuga’s tendons when he struggled, and Naruto tore out one of his eyes.

Naruto escaped Konohagakure with Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha after maiming Haruki Hyuga, using clones to mislead Kakashi and Yamato. Days later, Haruki remained hospitalized, consumed by hatred toward Naruto and Kakashi.

• Naruto told Mikoto Uchiha she could leave, then accepted her motherly affection as Mikoto carried her away.
• Kakashi and Yamato found Haruki Hyuga with one eye gouged out, then pursued Naruto's group.
• Naruto's clones lured Kakashi and Yamato away while the real group escaped; exhausted, Naruto transformed into a hamster and fell asleep in Mikoto Uchiha's embrace.
• Several days later, Haruki Hyuga angrily rejected Kimura's concern at the hospital and blamed Naruto and Kakashi for his loss.

Haruki Hyuga received a Curse Mark from Orochimaru, gained new power, and fled Konohagakure seeking revenge on Naruto Uzumaki. Meanwhile, Naruto dressed in a skirt to go out with Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō, who revealed that a Hyuga clan ninja had become a Rogue Ninja.

• Orochimaru placed a Curse Mark on Haruki Hyuga, and Haruki vowed to kill Naruto Uzumaki.
• Haruki injured the gate guards and fled Konohagakure, prompting the Third Hokage to suspect Orochimaru was responsible.
• Mikoto Uchiha dressed Naruto in a skirt and fixed her hair, and the Nine-Tails initially failed to recognize her.
• Naruto met Yakushi Nonō, who shared dumplings and told her that a Hyuga clan ninja had become a Rogue Ninja.
• Naruto asked Yakushi Nonō for the name of the Hyuga ninja who had defected.

Naruto learned that Haruki Hyuga had become a Rogue Ninja and decided to visit the black market to earn money by collecting bounties. Disguised as Lucy, she killed a Rogue Ninja and demanded the bounty list, declaring that nobody there would leave.

• Yakushi Nonō told Naruto that Haruki Hyuga had become a Rogue Ninja, and Naruto suspected he might be seeking revenge.
• Naruto learned that only fifty thousand ryo remained from the money she had given Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha, so she asked Nonō to take her to the black market.
• Naruto transformed into a red-haired girl named Lucy before entering the black market with Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha.
• When a Rogue Ninja from Kusagakure harassed Mikoto Uchiha, Lucy killed him with a pellet of Wind Release Chakra.
• Yakushi Nonō collected Eikura’s five-hundred-thousand-ryo bounty, and Lucy demanded the bounty list, saying nobody present would leave.

Naruto, Mikoto Uchiha, and Yakushi Nonō earned more than three million ryo by killing rogue ninja, then Naruto examined the black-market bounty list and discussed the Hyuga Clan’s bounty on Haruki Hyuga. Mikoto Uchiha chose not to return to her family yet, while Naruto admitted she wanted the Uchiha Clan to reward her with money.

• Mikoto Uchiha trapped the attacking rogue ninja in her Sharingan genjutsu, and Lucy killed them with Wind Release: Finger Bullet Barrage.
• Naruto’s group collected the rogues’ bounties, increasing their funds from fifty thousand to more than three million ryo.
• Yakushi Nonō dried Naruto’s hair as Naruto looked through the bounty list and found a three-hundred-and-fifty-million-ryo bounty on the Third Hokage.
• Naruto found Haruki Hyuga’s ten-million-ryo bounty and criticized the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal and its treatment of the Branch Family.
• Naruto urged Mikoto Uchiha to return to her family because she expected a reward, but Mikoto said she did not want to go back yet.

Naruto left the inn with Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō after they forced her into a dress, then worried that leaving Konohagakure had made her a likely target for the Akatsuki Organization. She asked the Nine-Tails about sensing other tailed beasts and began sharing what she knew of the future, while Haruki Hyuga targeted Nonō.

• Mikoto Uchiha and Yakushi Nonō restrained Naruto, dressed her in a skirt, and tied her hair into twin ponytails.
• Naruto fretted that the Akatsuki Organization might target her now that she had left Konohagakure and lacked the village’s protection.
• Naruto asked the Nine-Tails whether it could sense other tailed beasts, and the Nine-Tails said it could detect them within a certain range.
• Naruto told the Nine-Tails selected details about future events, prompting it to ask what she planned to do.
• Haruki Hyuga, covered in Curse Marks, spotted Yakushi Nonō by the river and vowed to kill her.

Naruto and the Nine-Tails reaffirmed their bond before Naruto sensed sinister Chakra outside and found Haruki Hyuga attacking Yakushi Nonō. Naruto fought Haruki while Mikoto Uchiha tried to save Nonō, but Haruki unleashed a barrage of Chakra needles as the battle continued.

• Naruto promised the Nine-Tails he would protect it and agreed to try to help the other Tailed Beasts if he could.
• Naruto sensed ominous Chakra near the river and ran toward it, followed by Mikoto Uchiha.
• Haruki Hyuga demanded to know Naruto's location, struck Yakushi Nonō with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, and pierced her chest with his tail after she detonated Explosive Tags.
• Naruto told Mikoto to treat Nonō and attacked Haruki with Wind Release: Finger Gun and Wind Release: Finger Bullet Barrage, but Haruki's scales and Rotation deflected the attacks.
• Haruki unleashed Curse Mark-enhanced Chakra needles, and Mikoto Uchiha raised an Earth Flow Wall to defend against them.

Naruto defeated Haruki Hyuga with a new Wind Release technique, while Orochimaru learned that she was Minato’s daughter. After Yakushi Nonō woke, Naruto practiced the Body Flicker Technique and ended the chapter fighting with the Nine-Tails over its laughter.

• Naruto used the Nine-Tails' Chakra to create Wind Release: Nine-Tails Ball and fatally wounded Haruki Hyuga.
• Orochimaru sensed Haruki Hyuga's death and used the Curse Mark to learn that Naruto was Minato's daughter.
• Yakushi Nonō woke at the campfire and asked Mikoto Uchiha whether Naruto was safe.
• Naruto practiced the Body Flicker Technique, crashed into a tree, and was struck by a falling fruit.
• Naruto entered her inner world and bit the Nine-Tails' nose after it laughed at her mishap.

Naruto recovered from the fight with Haruki Hyuga while wondering about Orochimaru’s intentions and considering whether to find Karin. Meanwhile, Shisui Uchiha led the Uchiha Clan to Crow Mountain, where they began building a settlement and found new hope.

• Naruto told Mikoto Uchiha that her facial mark came from practicing the Body Flicker Technique and checked on Yakushi Nonō’s injuries.
• Naruto considered why Orochimaru had given Haruki Hyuga a Curse Mark, then thought about finding Karin in Kusagakure.
• Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha took turns caring for the sleeping Naruto by the campfire.
• Shisui Uchiha led the Uchiha Clan to Crow Mountain and explained how its mist and crows could protect their settlement.
• Shisui Uchiha used Earth Style: Iron Prison and stored timber to help build homes, and the Uchiha Clan began to feel hopeful about their new village.

After Mikoto was presumed dead, Fugaku buried the Uchiha dead and began building a village while concealing the life-threatening toll of his Susanoo. As the Uchiha sought to expand and recruit war orphans, the chapter ended with an injured girl desperately eating stolen food.

• Fugaku buried the Uchiha dead with Explosive Tags and resolved to lead the clan despite his grief and failing health.
• Naruto noticed Mikoto sneezing at the restaurant, where she suspected someone was thinking about her.
• Sasuke named his rescued white crow Snow and practiced Crow Ninjutsu under Shisui's guidance.
• Fugaku proposed expanding the Uchiha settlement, founding a Ninja Academy, and recruiting displaced children; Sasuke asked that the crows remain undisturbed.
• Fugaku secretly considered making Shisui the village's First Hokage while Shisui traveled to the Artisan Ninja Village.
• A battered girl guarded and ate stolen food after a villager kicked her, and someone called out to her.

The Uchiha Clan expanded its new settlement at Crow Mountain by taking in homeless people, while Pain and Konan discussed recruiting the clan into Akatsuki. Naruto's group reached Kusagakure, where Naruto planned to find Karin, and they left off preparing to approach her.

• Uchiha Thirteen Nights and other Uchiha clan members brought homeless people, including children, to Crow Mountain, where the village’s population doubled.
• Konan reported the Uchiha Clan’s growth to Pain, and they decided to consider inviting the clan to join Akatsuki after learning more about its movements.
• Naruto learned from Yakushi Nonō about Hozuki Castle and Mui’s Fire Style: Heavenly Prison, including its weakness underwater.
• Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha disguised themselves as a traveling merchant couple and brought Naruto, disguised as Shinobu Oshino, into Kusagakure.
• Naruto told Mikoto that he had come to find Karin, another Uzumaki, and wondered whether she would agree to leave Kusagakure with him.

Shinobu Oshino and her companions found Karin in Kusagakure, where the village had abused her as a source of healing. After protecting Karin from a Grass Ninja, Naruto declared that he would take her away despite the village’s opposition.

• At a barbecue, Shinobu Oshino snapped out of her thoughts as Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha teased her with a mountain of grilled meat.
• Shinobu noticed Karin leaving the Ninja Academy with a wounded wrist and stopped her to ask who had hurt her.
• Naruto’s Transformation Jutsu wore off, and a Grass Ninja attacked him after demanding that he release Karin.
• Mikoto used Great Fireball Jutsu to burn the attacker while Yakushi Nonō treated Karin’s bite wounds.
• Kusagakure ninja surrounded the group, but Naruto condemned their treatment of Karin and refused to leave without her.
• Karin recalled her mother’s death and clenched her fists as Naruto used Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Naruto and his companions killed the Kusagakure ninja who had abused Karin and tried to take her away. After discovering that the village had buried a dog in place of Karin’s mother, Naruto urged Karin to reclaim her mother’s remains, but his anger overwhelmed him and he slapped her.

• Naruto, his clones, and Mikoto killed the Kusagakure ninja, while Naruto tortured and killed the man who had bitten Karin.
• Naruto asked Karin to leave with him, and she asked to take her mother’s body along.
• Naruto uncovered Karin’s supposed grave and found a dead Ninja Hound buried there instead.
• Karin realized the village had lied about her mother’s burial, and Naruto became enraged as the Nine-Tails held back its chakra.
• Naruto pulled Karin up and urged her to retrieve her mother’s remains, then slapped her when she doubted they could fight the village.
• Karin pushed Naruto away and fell to the ground, frightened by his blood-red, slit-pupiled eyes.

Naruto found Karin’s mother’s mutilated corpse in Kusagakure and, unable to contain her fury, transformed under the Nine-Tails’ chakra and began destroying the village. She left Mikoto Uchiha, Yakushi Nonō, and Karin outside as the rampage spread, with Kusagakure’s ninjas facing Naruto’s next attack.

• Naruto, Mikoto Uchiha, and Karin set out to retrieve Karin’s mother, killing the Kusagakure ninjas they encountered.
• Karin led them to a hidden room, where Naruto found her mother’s corpse mutilated and being dissected.
• Naruto killed the person operating on the corpse, while Mikoto sealed Karin’s mother’s body in a scroll and Yakushi Nonō carried the unconscious Karin outside.
• Overwhelmed by anger at the corpse and the organs stored in the room, Naruto warned Mikoto Uchiha, Yakushi Nonō, and Karin to flee before the Nine-Tails’ chakra engulfed her.
• Naruto transformed into a five-tailed Nine-Tails form, blasted apart the building, and began leveling Kusagakure with chakra beams.
• As Kusagakure’s ninjas scattered, Naruto formed a dense black chakra sphere in her mouth and aimed it at them.

Shisui Uchiha rescued Mikoto Uchiha, Yakushi Nonō, and Karin from Naruto’s Tailed Beast Bomb, then used Kotoamatsukami to enter Naruto’s inner world. Naruto revealed that he had deliberately destroyed Kusagakure, and Shisui left unable to take Mikoto back to Fugaku Uchiha.

• Shisui Uchiha rescued Mikoto Uchiha, Yakushi Nonō, and Karin as Naruto’s Tailed Beast Bomb destroyed Kusagakure.
• Shisui used Kotoamatsukami on Naruto and entered his inner world, where he met Naruto and the Nine-Tails.
• Naruto told Shisui he had wanted to destroy Kusagakure and confirmed that Mikoto and the others were safe.
• Shisui explained that he had used Kotoamatsukami on Fugaku Uchiha, and Naruto realized that was how Shisui had persuaded him.
• Naruto asked Shisui to take Mikoto to Fugaku and seek compensation, then kicked Shisui out of his inner world when Shisui could not do so.

Naruto reunited with Mikoto after destroying Kusagakure and decided to leave the Land of Grass to grow stronger. Mikoto stayed with him to care for him, while Shisui returned to tell the Uchiha clan that she was alive.

• Mikoto covered Shisui's eyes while Naruto got dressed, then Yakushi Nonō treated the wound on Mikoto's shoulder.
• Naruto apologized to the Nine-Tails for causing trouble, then defended his destruction of Kusagakure as punishment for how its people treated Karin and her mother.
• Naruto fell over his dress, then asked Karin whether she was happy that Kusagakure had disappeared and promised to help bury her mother properly.
• Mikoto refused Shisui's invitation to return to the Uchiha village, choosing to stay with Naruto, and Shisui agreed to tell the clan head she was alive.
• Naruto told Shisui he planned to leave the Land of Grass and find a safe place to increase his strength.

Naruto refused Shisui Uchiha’s offer to leave with him, while Mikoto Uchiha kept her close and scolded her for reading Kakashi’s book. Meanwhile, Kakashi investigated Haruki Hyuga’s murder, and Obito Uchiha ordered the news of Naruto’s destruction of Kusagakure spread as he planned to recruit her into Akatsuki.

• Naruto declined to go with Shisui Uchiha, who left after she teased him about his future wife.
• Mikoto Uchiha questioned Naruto about Make-Out Paradise, and Naruto blamed Kakashi for the book.
• The Third Hokage told Kakashi that Haruki Hyuga’s body had been found with his eyes missing, and Kakashi asked to examine it.
• Obito Uchiha and Zetsu inspected the crater Naruto had made, and Obito ordered the villages informed that the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki had destroyed Kusagakure.
• Obito Uchiha decided to join Akatsuki under another identity and planned to make Naruto Uzumaki hate the Nine-Tails so he could recruit and use her.

Naruto killed bounty hunters who mistook her for an easy target while rumors about her destruction of Kusagakure spread, deepening the danger around her. At Crow Mountain, Shisui told Fugaku and his sons that Mikoto was alive, while Naruto prepared to seek Sage Mode at Ryūchi Cave.

• Rumors spread that Naruto Uzumaki had destroyed Kusagakure, and the news caused villages to tighten their control over their Jinchuriki.
• A group of wandering ninja ambushed Naruto's party, but Naruto killed them and found a bounty listing her at fifty million.
• Kakashi found Naruto's name on the bounty list and burned it, fearing a conspiracy was pulling her deeper into hatred.
• Fugaku Uchiha entrusted Rogue Ninja Kiryū Kawa with teaching at Crow Mountain's new Ninja Academy.
• Shisui Uchiha told Fugaku, Itachi, and Sasuke that he had met Mikoto, and Fugaku privately rejoiced that his wife was alive.
• Naruto asked Mikoto whether she knew how to reach Ryūchi Cave so Naruto could learn Sage Mode.

Naruto sought to learn Sage techniques at Ryūchi Cave and told the Nine-Tails she planned to restore its missing half by summoning Minato Namikaze with Impure World Reincarnation. Orochimaru appeared and offered to take Naruto to Ryūchi Cave, but she exposed his clone and demanded to know what he wanted.

• Naruto told Mikoto Uchiha she wanted to visit Ryūchi Cave to learn Sage techniques, and the Nine-Tails grew jealous.
• Naruto explained that the Nine-Tails was incomplete and said she planned to use Impure World Reincarnation to retrieve its other half from Minato Namikaze.
• Karin sensed Orochimaru approaching and warned Naruto and Mikoto, who prepared to face him.
• Orochimaru offered to take Naruto to Ryūchi Cave on one condition, but Naruto used her Three-Tailed Nine-Tails Transformation to decapitate his clone.
• Naruto used Karin's warning to identify Orochimaru's hidden real body, threatened him against attacking Mikoto, and asked what he wanted from her.