Chapter Summaries

Fugaku and the Uchiha escorted Kaguya Ōtsutsuki around a prosperous Konoha, where they compared their clan’s strained finances with the Hyuga clan’s wealth. The group encountered people from other worlds and heard that Momochi Zabuza had stronger political connections than Hozuki Mangetsu in the contest to become Sixth Mizukage.

• After passing through the space-time gate, Fugaku, the Uchiha, and their companions arrived in a crowded Konoha and took turns guarding Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Black Zetsu watched Hyuga Neji order food, clothes, and ninja tools, prompting the Uchiha to complain about their own clan’s limited public funds.
• Uchiha Mikoto explained that the Uchiha’s many members and Fugaku’s policies left the clan’s communal finances strained, while Second Pillar took satisfaction in their predicament.
• Hozuki Suigetsu spotted Hozuki Mangetsu, and the Uchiha said Mangetsu was seeking the Fifth Hokage’s support against Momochi Zabuza for the Sixth Mizukage position.
• Jūgo recognized Kimimaro, but an Uchiha warned that Kimimaro would avoid speaking with him because he feared for his friends in Sunagakure.
• The Uchiha mocked Hozuki Suigetsu’s hopes for his brother and claimed Momochi Zabuza’s connections gave him the advantage.

Sasuke Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi explored a Konoha where legendary figures and their ancestors appeared in everyday life. They watched Otsutsuki Hagoromo leave after Otsutsuki Kaguya ordered the guards to drive him away, while the pitcher plant Zetsu learned that its counterpart had once schemed to revive her.

• Uchiha Itachi spotted his favorite Three-Color Dango shop and saw a young woman in line, while Uchiha Mikoto offered to ask Izumi to buy some.
• Sasuke Uchiha recognized the Third Hokage and learned that he was still being questioned over Orochimaru's case.
• Karin sensed a powerful chakra at Konoha Plaza, and the pitcher plant Zetsu identified the phantom as the Sage of Six Paths.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya ordered the Uchiha guards to drive Otsutsuki Hagoromo away, but Hyuga Neji politely asked him to stop bothering his mother.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo accused the pitcher plant Zetsu of creating another Zetsu and departed, while Hyuga Neji warned it about the schemes of its counterpart.

Fugaku Uchiha and his group arrived at Konoha Hospital with a seriously ill Uchiha Itachi from another world, where Director Karin took charge of his treatment. Team Taka's Karin learned about Director Karin's past and envied the childhood she had received, while Sasuke's head injury sparked another confrontation.

• Director Karin sent a disruptive local noble to the Police Force, then welcomed Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto and agreed to examine Uchiha Itachi.
• Director Karin knocked Sasuke unconscious after he grabbed her sleeve and demanded she save Itachi, prompting Team Taka's Karin to challenge her.
• Fugaku Uchiha explained that the relationship between Director Karin and Sasuke was complicated, and Otsutsuki Kaguya revealed Karin had beaten Sasuke since they were children.
• Hyuga Neji described Director Karin's rescue from Kusagakure, but the Uchiha corrected him and Jugo explained she had been raised as a human medicine bottle until Orochimaru rescued her.
• Team Taka's Karin praised the other Karin's happier upbringing, while Director Karin joked that she would beat Sasuke until Karin went bankrupt.

Kaguya Otsutsuki and the others discussed Itachi’s power and the future of Konoha before Uzumaki Naruto arrived to assess Team Hawk’s intentions. Naruto warned Sasuke that he could be expelled or killed if he posed a threat, and left Team Hawk alarmed after snapping Sasuke’s sword apart.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki said Itachi’s power could let him outlive the world, prompting the group to speculate about him serving as Hokage indefinitely.
• Sasuke woke up and vowed to kill the woman who had attacked him.
• Uzumaki Naruto arrived at the hospital, explained that Itachi had ordered him to assess Team Hawk, and handed them entry forms.
• Sasuke cut up his form, and Naruto warned that he could use force to expel or kill anyone who threatened their world.
• Karin warned Sasuke not to challenge Naruto, who then snapped Sasuke’s Kusanagi Sword into fragments with two fingers.
• Karin rebuked Naruto for throwing his official authority around inside the hospital.

Karin let Fugaku Uchiha, his wife, and their companions visit the patient while Naruto waited outside, but Kaguya followed the visitors anyway. As Team Hawk asked about the other world's Sasuke, the Uchiha recounted their Sasuke's unruly history and frightened Karin and Suigetsu with stories of his violence in another world.

• Karin ordered Naruto to wait outside with the irrelevant visitors while she escorted Fugaku Uchiha, his wife, and the others to the emergency room.
• Kaguya ignored Naruto's attempt to stop her and followed the group, while Team Hawk's Karin and Suigetsu asked about Sasuke in Naruto's world.
• The Uchiha mocked their Sasuke's devotion to taijutsu and recalled his arguments, pranks, and the trouble Naruto and Kakashi had to clean up.
• The Uchiha claimed Sasuke had killed another world's Karin and destroyed Kusagakure, leaving Team Hawk's Karin and Suigetsu alarmed and wary.

Uchiha Itachi from another world told Fugaku Uchiha and Uchiha Mikoto about his past, while they explained how their world's Uchiha had avoided the coup and entered Konoha's government. After Sasuke left, Karin tried to arrange for Itachi to stay temporarily, but Kaguya revealed a rumor that exposed Karin's secret visit to another world.

• Uchiha Itachi said he had believed the Uchiha could not become Hokage after the Nine-Tails incident, and Fugaku Uchiha described how his world's clan had won political influence.
• Fugaku Uchiha asked whether Uchiha Itachi had intended to give his eyes to Sasuke, but Itachi said Sasuke was still too weak.
• Uchiha Itachi asked if Sasuke could stay in their world, but Karin refused because Itachi-sama had banned people from entering their ninja world.
• Second Pillar left the hospital, vowing to return to his world and revive the Uchiha clan, while Kaguya noticed he was crying blood.
• Karin offered to apply for Uchiha Itachi to stay temporarily and explained she had brought back another world's Itachi to study his illness and treat him.
• Kaguya revealed that Sasuke had told her Karin brought back Itachi because of improper feelings for him, prompting Karin to write in her notebook as killing intent filled the room.

Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto emerged from Konoha Hospital as Naruto tried to deflect questions about Sasuke, while Karin learned she could ask Ōtsutsuki Kaguya for his whereabouts. Naruto then took Team Taka and Black Zetsu to meet Itachi, whose plans to obtain a Chakra Fruit from another world were complicated by Black Zetsu’s history of failed partnerships with other Itachis.

• Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto came out of Konoha Hospital, and Fugaku warned Naruto to take care of himself.
• Karin grabbed Naruto, but Ōtsutsuki Kaguya told her that Black Zetsu could reveal Sasuke’s location, so Karin ordered Naruto to tell Sasuke to return to Konoha.
• Naruto told the Uchiha he could not discuss Konoha’s secrets, then asked Fugaku and Mikoto to let him take Team Taka and Black Zetsu to see Itachi.
• On Hokage Rock, Itachi told Black Zetsu to negotiate with the other world’s Black Zetsu and discussed obtaining a Chakra Fruit or Ten-Tails.
• Black Zetsu objected to Itachi’s suggestion of recruiting another world’s Itachi, recalling that other Itachis had repeatedly betrayed their plans.

Team Hawk met Uchiha Itachi, the Fifth Hokage of another world, who explained why he protected Shimura Danzō and told them they needed to return home. Before they left, Itachi offered Sasuke and his companions a task with a generous reward.

• Uchiha Itachi sent Black Zetsu through a space-time portal, then welcomed Team Hawk and had Hinata escort Naruto away.
• Itachi told Sasuke he regarded alternate-world Sasukes as younger brothers, and revealed that Konoha’s Uchiha tried to assassinate Shimura Danzō every month.
• Itachi explained that he protected Danzō because Root’s theft of Kumogakure’s research helped Konoha keep pace with new technology.
• Itachi warned Sasuke that the alternate-world Sasuke had made a dangerous enemy who might target the visitors, and Sasuke agreed to return home.
• Itachi stopped Sasuke from leaving immediately and offered the group a task with a generous reward.

Uchiha Itachi’s plan to obtain a Chakra Fruit led Black Zetsu to turn Uzumaki Naruto against the Shinobi Allied Forces, ending in a devastating war. Itachi collected the Ten-Tails as a Chakra Fruit, promised Naruto help reviving Jiraiya, and left after declaring the war over.

• Uchiha Itachi offered Second Pillar an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan transplant in exchange for bringing back the Ten-Tails, and Second Pillar accepted the mission with pitcher plant Zetsu.
• Second Pillar’s attempt to capture the Eight-Tails ended with him nearly killed by the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, after which pitcher plant Zetsu gave him First Hokage cells and he massacred Kumogakure.
• Black Zetsu manipulated Uzumaki Naruto by promising he could meet or revive Jiraiya if Naruto helped seize the tailed beasts.
• Two months later, Uchiha Itachi arrived after the Fourth Shinobi World War, subdued the Ten-Tails, condensed it into a Chakra Fruit, and gave it to the Red Eye crow.
• Uchiha Itachi promised Sasuke an explanation and offered to help Uzumaki Naruto revive Jiraiya, then sent Black Zetsu away and assured Naruto that the war was over.

Karin arrived during a war between Konoha and Amegakure, where she killed Danzo’s agents and encountered Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato. She protected the children from Nagato’s uncontrolled power and began planning to teach him Uzumaki sealing techniques while considering the danger ahead in Amegakure.

• Karin questioned two Konoha ninja, learned Danzo had sent them to sabotage Amegakure’s supply lines, and killed them.
• Karin recognized Konan and tried to kill her, but she protected Konan and Yahiko when Nagato’s uncontrolled repulsive force erupted and rebounded it against him.
• Karin healed Nagato, explained that she had targeted Konan because she would later fall in love with a man who had not yet been born, and asked Nagato about his Uzumaki heritage.
• Karin told Nagato to study Uzumaki sealing techniques with her, then learned the children planned to find Jiraiya and wondered whether he was with Tsunade and Orochimaru in Amegakure.

Karin reached the center of the battlefield and protected Tsunade from Hanzo of the Salamander. She revealed her Sage Mode and Uzumaki sealing chains, destroyed Ibuse with one punch, and left Jiraiya and Tsunade stunned.

• Karin carried Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan across the dangerous battlefield toward Hanzo of the Salamander.
• Karin found Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya facing Hanzo and healed Tsunade while refusing to treat her companions.
• Karin pushed Tsunade aside as Ibuse attacked with poison gas.
• Karin activated Sage Mode, restrained Ibuse with Adamantine Sealing Chains, and shattered the summoning beast with a single punch.
• Jiraiya stared at Karin in shock and asked Tsunade whether Karin's strength was the Strength of a Hundred.

Karin defeated Hanzo of the Salamander and threatened to destroy Amegakure, but let him live after he promised to send her money. She left Hanzo alive and explained to Tsunade that the money was needed to support her expensive lifestyle.

• Hanzo of the Salamander attacked Karin with a Water Dragon Bullet, but she matched his technique with only three hand seals.
• Karin shattered Hanzo's sickle with a punch, overcame his poison, and captured him as he tried to flee.
• Karin threatened to slaughter everyone in Amegakure until Hanzo offered to send her money whenever she needed it.
• Karin accepted Hanzo's promise, struck the ground to form a lake, and let him return to Amegakure.
• Tsunade questioned why Karin spared Hanzo, and Karin reflected that she needed money to pay for Tsunade's expenses.

After Hanzo of the Salamander left Amegakure, Karin introduced herself to Tsunade and told her she had come to support her. Yahiko, Nagato, and their companion asked Jiraiya to teach them, while Karin’s reaction to Tsunade mentioning Fugaku Uchiha’s young girlfriend left her stunned.

• Orochimaru hinted that Tsunade and Jiraiya still owed him money, but they failed to understand.
• Karin told Tsunade she was an Uzumaki descendant named Karin and said she had come because she admired Tsunade.
• Karin threatened Orochimaru and Jiraiya, then promised Tsunade she would protect her until she had to leave.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and their companion found Jiraiya and asked him to teach them ninjutsu.
• Karin admitted she had considered killing the orphans because the blue-haired girl might compete with her for men.
• Tsunade mentioned that Fugaku Uchiha’s girlfriend was five years younger than him, and Karin crushed her biscuit after realizing Mikoto was still a child.

Tsunade and Orochimaru returned to Konoha with Karin, who explained Sage Mode and demonstrated the Power of Yang by cutting off and regenerating Orochimaru’s arm. Orochimaru asked how he could obtain that power, and Karin said it depended on his sincerity toward her lord.

• Jiraiya stayed in Amegakure to teach Yahiko and the other two and to watch whether Hanzo kept his promise to end the war.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru brought Karin back toward Konoha, and Karin told them about a Sage Mode suited to Tsunade.
• Karin explained that her Yin Seal stored natural energy and showed Orochimaru the Power of Yang on her forehead.
• Karin severed Orochimaru’s arm, then used the Power of Yang to regenerate it in front of him and Tsunade.
• Orochimaru asked how he could gain the same power, and Karin told him it depended on his sincerity toward her lord.

Karin joined Tsunade on a visit to the Ninja Academy, where she met young Fugaku Uchiha, Mikoto, and Nawaki. On the way to the training ground, Fugaku and Mikoto sweetly discussed their future together, leaving Karin frustrated and revealing the reason their children would be kept from eating sweets.

• Orochimaru asked Karin to report Amegakure's situation to their teacher, but Karin declined and agreed to go with Tsunade to the Ninja Academy.
• Tsunade introduced Karin to Fugaku Uchiha at the Academy, where Fugaku waited for Mikoto and Nawaki urged him to practice ninjutsu.
• Tsunade led the group toward the training ground while Karin watched the quiet, awkward Fugaku and Mikoto.
• Mikoto took Fugaku's hand and comforted him after he explained that extra shuriken practice had kept him from buying Three-Color Dango.
• Fugaku and Mikoto agreed that their future children should not eat too many sweets, and Karin realized this explained why Uchiha Itachi had been denied them.

Karin challenged Fugaku Uchiha’s faith in the Mangekyō Sharingan, then revealed her strength while discussing Hanzo and the First Hokage. Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared at the training ground and warned the young ninjas about the dangers of the battlefield.

• Fugaku Uchiha said he hoped to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Karin warned him that its power came with a serious flaw.
• Fugaku Uchiha challenged Karin to prove that another power suited the Uchiha better, but she refused to spar.
• Tsunade told Nawaki that Karin had defeated Hanzo of the Salamander, leaving Fugaku Uchiha and Nawaki surprised.
• Karin explained that Hanzo was far weaker than Hashirama and claimed she could defeat opponents like Hanzo in two or three moves.
• Karin sensed Hiruzen Sarutobi behind a tree and challenged him to demonstrate a real ninja battle for the students.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned Fugaku Uchiha, Nawaki, and the others to stay focused on the battlefield because mistakes could lead to defeat.

Karin and Hiruzen Sarutobi fought in a training ground, where she demonstrated the ability to create a Four Red Yang Formation alone and overwhelmed him with powerful close-range attacks. The battle reached a new stage when Hiruzen summoned Enma, who managed to withstand Karin’s punch but was still knocked flying.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi suggested using the Four Violet Flames Formation, but Karin created a Four Red Yang Formation by herself.
• Karin rushed Hiruzen and cut his hand with a palm strike, then knocked away his shuriken and crushed his Water Dragon Bullet barehanded.
• Hiruzen used Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, and Karin countered with Tobirama Senju’s Water Wall technique.
• Karin charged through the steam and struck Hiruzen, who summoned Enma to block her punch.
• Karin withdrew her fist in surprise after Enma withstood the blow, though the summon was sent flying.

Karin defeated Hiruzen Sarutobi in the Crimson Sun Array, then helped Tsunade treat his injuries. As Hiruzen recovered, a messenger reported that the Land of Wind had launched a large-scale invasion.

• Enma tried to intercept Karin but was knocked out of the fight with a single punch.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used his Five Elements: Great Combo Bullet Technique, but Karin blocked it with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Karin’s chains overwhelmed Hiruzen, who surrendered before one chain pierced and injured him.
• Karin shattered the Crimson Sun Array, and Tsunade began treating Hiruzen while criticizing his defeat.
• A middle-aged man arrived and told Hiruzen that the Land of Wind had launched a large-scale invasion.

Konoha mobilized after Sunagakure invaded the Land of Fire, and Tsunade and Orochimaru led reinforcements to join Hatake Sakumo’s assault unit. New intelligence revealed that Chiyo, the puppet master unit, and the One-Tail’s jinchūriki were approaching, while Karin confidently dismissed the tailed beast as a pet to discipline.

• Mitokado Homura confirmed that Sunagakure had invaded the Land of Rivers and targeted Konoha, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to mobilize the village’s ninja.
• Fugaku Uchiha left Mikoto to attend a clan meeting, while Konoha assigned the Uchiha to defend the eastern coast against Kirigakure.
• Tsunade and Karin saw Dan Katō and Hatake Sakumo depart with an assault unit, and Sakumo recognized Karin as a girl not to underestimate.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru led reinforcements toward the battlefield, where Sakumo reported that his unit had sabotaged Sunagakure’s supply lines and shared intelligence about approaching reinforcements.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru learned that Chiyo, Sunagakure’s puppet master unit, and the One-Tail’s jinchūriki were among the coming forces, and Karin called the One-Tail a disobedient pet.

Karin volunteered to confront Sunagakure’s forces and the One-Tail, while Konoha prepared for a major battle. She reached the Suna line and declared she would kill Shukaku, prompting Chiyo’s daughter to challenge her.

• Sunagakure launched a sudden assault with its puppet master unit, poisoning Konoha’s wounded and opening a breach in the defenses.
• Tsunade organized Konoha’s response, while Karin sensed Sunagakure’s reinforcements and the One-Tail Shukaku.
• Karin told Tsunade she would defeat a Sunagakure unit and went alone to face the Suna forces the following day.
• Karin demanded that Sunagakure hand over Shukaku, saying she would kill it to protect them.
• Chiyo ordered Bunpuku to release Shukaku, and Chiyo’s daughter leaped forward to confront Karin.