Chapter Summaries

Gekkō Raito confronted Shinji Otsutsuki, who invited him to join the Ōtsutsuki Clan and remake the world. Raito refused, and their clash of Conqueror’s Haki and Six Paths ocular power devastated the area around the Mizukage Building, leaving both fighters standing against each other.

• Gekkō Raito took over the fight from Hinata, who begged him to avenge the Hyuga Clan.
• Gekkō Raito learned from the Great Sage that Shinji carried Black Zetsu’s aura and realized Black Zetsu had gone to the moon for Ōtsutsuki reinforcements.
• Shinji invited Gekkō Raito to join the Ōtsutsuki Clan and help remake the world, but Raito insulted him and refused.
• Gekkō Raito and Shinji unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and Six Paths ocular power against each other, creating a violent storm and causing many ninja in Kirigakure to collapse unconscious.
• Their powers escalated into a clash of Six Paths strength that evaporated the lake, while Shinji’s repulsive-force barrier resisted Raito’s Haki lightning.

Gekkō Raito and Shinji unleashed overwhelming attacks in Kirigakure, with their clash devastating the area and creating a tsunami. Gekkō Raito controlled the wave and attacked again, but Shinji countered and sent Truth-Seeking Orbs toward him.

• Gekkō Raito used ROOM: Shambles and the Five Releases to attack Shinji, who activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode to withstand the blow.
• Gekkō Raito and Shinji's collision destroyed buildings around the Mizukage Building and sent powerful shock waves across Kirigakure.
• Madara and Hashirama stopped fighting to watch the clash, and Madara declared that he would never lose to anyone.
• Energy from the battle exploded over the sea, raising a towering tsunami that surged toward Kirigakure.
• Gekkō Raito expanded ROOM over Kirigakure and the coastal waters, subdued the tsunami, and shaped its water into a giant Water Dragon Bullet.
• Shinji shredded the Water Dragon Bullet with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, blocked Gekkō Raito's Haki-coated punch, and sent Truth-Seeking Orbs at him.

Gekkō Raito fought Shinji Otsutsuki in the sky above Kirigakure, but Shinji’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion shattered Raito’s Ninja Blade. Furious over the loss, Raito handed control of his body to the Great Sage, which activated combat mode and began attacking Shinji.

• Raito deflected Shinji’s Truth-Seeking Orbs, transferred away a massive rock, and struck Shinji with a laser before unleashing Getsuga Tenshō.
• Shinji split Raito’s Getsuga Tenshō with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and sent the golden blade of light toward him.
• Raito poured his Haki and Tailed Beast Chakra into his Ninja Blade, but the weapon cracked as he clashed with Shinji’s attack.
• Raito survived the clash, but his Ninja Blade crumbled into dust, and Shinji resumed bombarding him with attacks.
• Raito asked the Great Sage to take over and kill Shinji, and it activated combat mode and sent Haki tentacles at him.

The Great Sage took control of Gekkō Raito and overwhelmed Shinji with a precise series of attacks, pinning him down and draining his Tenseigan chakra. Before Shinji could be eliminated, a powerful new threat appeared: Toneri awakened the Tenseigan.

• Gekkō Raito feinted, burned, and wounded Shinji before piercing him with a Truth-Seeking Orb and firing nine Tailed Beast Bombs at him.
• The Great Sage took control of Gekkō Raito, struck Shinji out of the sky, pierced his chest with a High-Energy Particle Beam, and restrained him with Wood Release and sealing techniques.
• Gekkō Raito stomped Shinji into a crater and pinned him with black chakra rods while Lord of Gluttony began devouring his Tenseigan chakra.
• A golden strike hit Gekkō Raito from the battlefield, and he detected a new high-risk threat with powerful Six Paths chakra.
• Toneri rose from the Ōtsutsuki Clan crowd glowing green, and the clan members realized he had awakened the Tenseigan.

With Great Sage controlling his body, Gekkō Raito defeated and bound Shinji Otsutsuki and Otsutsuki Toneri, then began absorbing their power. Great Sage evolved into Wisdom King, leaving Gekkō Raito encased in a cocoon of black substance as his allies watched anxiously.

• Great Sage overwhelmed Toneri, breaking his Truth-Seeking Orbs, countering his repulsive force, and striking him down with Haki and Getsuga Tenshō.
• Gekkō Raito's Haki interrupted Shinji's attempted ambush, and sealing mist restrained him again.
• Lord of Gluttony began devouring Shinji Otsutsuki and Otsutsuki Toneri as Great Sage returned control of Gekkō Raito's body.
• Great Sage integrated Ten-Tails, Tenseigan, and Rinnegan data and successfully evolved into Wisdom King.
• Wisdom King began absorbing energy from the three powers, while Lord of Fertility and Lord of Gluttony also supplied it.
• A black cocoon formed around Gekkō Raito in the sky, and Mei Terumi, Hinata, Kyuji, Haku, and Chōjūrō gathered below in worry.

Gekkō Raito completed a godlike transformation after the Wisdom King explained that he needed to devour the moon to gain Kaguya Otsutsuki’s power. He restored and redesigned Kirigakure, freed the allied forces from Ōtsutsuki control, and began demanding recompense, ending with Ōnoki offering Iwagakure as Kirigakure’s vassal.

• The Wisdom King finished integrating Gekkō Raito’s skills and said he had to devour the moon to plunder Kaguya Otsutsuki’s power and complete his transformation.
• Gekkō Raito emerged after devouring Shinji and Toneri, then used his power to reconstruct Kirigakure as a city inspired by Water Seven.
• Gekkō Raito freed the Three Great Ninja Villages’ forces from Ōtsutsuki control and told them that Kirigakure’s destruction and the war would not be dismissed as a misunderstanding.
• The Fourth Raikage offered compensation, and Ōnoki declared that Iwagakure would become Kirigakure’s vassal.

Gekkō Raito ended the war by forcing Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure to accept crippling terms, then offered the Ōtsutsuki Clan a choice between death and joining Kirigakure. Before leaving for a month, he empowered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and entrusted the village to them, while the defeated leaders wondered whether they could exploit his absence.

• Gekkō Raito ordered Iwagakure to isolate itself for twenty years and pay Kirigakure tribute, and Ōnoki accepted.
• Gaara and the Third Raikage agreed to Raito's terms on behalf of Sunagakure and Kumogakure, leaving Kirigakure the Shinobi World's dominant power.
• Raito gave the Ōtsutsuki Clan the choice of dying or joining Kirigakure, and they realized he was offering them a chance to live.
• Raito told Mei Terumi that the war was over and he would be away for about a month, then empowered Kyuji, Ming, Ameyuri, Chōjūrō, Haku, Zabuza, and Kisame.
• The defeated leaders considered whether Raito's absence offered an opportunity to break their agreements, but Gaara doubted the gamble was worth risking their villages.

Gaara ordered Sunagakure to honor its agreement with Kirigakure and isolate itself for twenty years, while the other villages weighed the danger of defying Kirigakure during Gekkō Raito’s month-long absence. Gekkō Raito traveled to the moon to find Kaguya Otsutsuki and began drilling through it, leaving Kyuji in charge until his return.

• Gaara ordered Sunagakure to send Kirigakure everything promised and officially close the village for twenty years, and Rasa explained that Kirigakure remained too powerful to challenge.
• The Fourth Raikage considered fortifying Kumogakure to resist Kirigakure, but the Third Raikage warned him that opposing Gekkō Raito was hopeless.
• Ōnoki considered sealing off Iwagakure and strengthening its defenses while the leaders of the three villages departed with their own plans.
• Gekkō Raito told Kyuji he was going to the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s home on the moon to eliminate hidden threats, then left him in charge for a month.
• Gekkō Raito reached the moon, sensed Kaguya Otsutsuki’s presence, and used Truth-Seeking Orbs to drill into its surface.

Gekkō Raito reached Kaguya’s lunar seal and began devouring her power, revealing himself as the Sixth Mizukage with two Ten-Tails inside him. As Kaguya recognized his potential to surpass the Ōtsutsuki Clan, Gekkō Raito anticipated her warning that other Ōtsutsuki would come to the world.

• After three days of drilling, Gekkō Raito reached the moon’s core and used Lord of Gluttony to devour a passage through the seal.
• Gekkō Raito encountered Kaguya, then began devouring her power until she screamed and accused him of stealing it.
• Gekkō Raito told Kaguya that Hagoromo and Hamura had died and described the Shinobi World and its five great ninja villages.
• Gekkō Raito identified himself as the Sixth Mizukage of Kirigakure and admitted he had come for Kaguya’s power to complete his transformation.
• Kaguya sensed two Ten-Tails within Gekkō Raito and realized he could surpass the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya began to tell Gekkō Raito something important, and he guessed that other Ōtsutsuki would descend upon the world.

Gekkō Raito agreed to protect the planet from future Ōtsutsuki threats, and Kaguya’s remaining power completed his transformation. He became a higher-dimensional life-form with God Tree Power and an internal God Tree that could restore him after death.

• Kaguya asked Gekkō Raito to protect the planet from future Ōtsutsuki enemies, and he agreed.
• Kaguya’s power finished transferring to Gekkō Raito, triggering his transformation.
• Gekkō Raito’s soul grew a ten-meter tree, while his body was remade with jade-like bones, golden blood, silver-white hair, and black markings.
• Wisdom King explained that Gekkō Raito had become a higher-dimensional life-form, not an Ōtsutsuki, and that his power had become God Tree Power.
• Wisdom King told Gekkō Raito that his internal God Tree could rebuild his body after death and that he could still use his mastered abilities freely.

Gekkō Raito returned to the Shinobi World after a month on the moon and discovered that the Second Mizukage was pushing Mei Terumi to start a war. He arrived in Kirigakure as Mei resisted the Second’s attempts to dictate village policy.

• Gekkō Raito learned that he could strengthen the God Tree by absorbing natural energy and ordered Wisdom King to repair an Unknown Skill that would take decades.
• Gekkō Raito returned from the moon after one month and three days and worried that his delayed return had caused trouble in Kirigakure.
• Gekkō Raito flew to Kirigakure and saw that the village was on alert, preparing to send a large ninja force to war.
• Gekkō Raito appeared inside the Mizukage Building and overheard the Second Mizukage urging Kirigakure to attack Kumogakure and Iwagakure.
• Mei Terumi rejected the Second Mizukage’s calls for war and asserted that he had no authority over Kirigakure’s decisions.

Gekkō Raito returned to the Mizukage's Office just as the Second Mizukage and the elders tried to take supreme command from Mei Terumi. He crushed the elders' defiance with his presence and forced one veteran to address him as Mizukage Lord Mizukage.

• The Second Mizukage and several elderly Mist Ninja pressured Mei Terumi to surrender supreme command, but she refused and defended her plan for a peaceful transition.
• The elders declared that they had transferred Kirigakure's command to the Second Mizukage and argued that Raito would understand when he returned.
• Raito appeared in the Mizukage's Office, silencing the room, and Mei Terumi joyfully threw herself into his arms.
• Raito confronted the veteran who had defended the takeover, and his pressure drove the man to his knees and shattered the floor tiles.
• Raito corrected the man for addressing him as Lord Sixth, and the frightened veteran called him Mizukage Lord Mizukage.

Gekkō Raito returned to Kirigakure, removed the elder from political authority, and stripped the Second Mizukage of his power. After taking his seat as Mizukage, he received a report on the other villages and learned that Kumogakure and Iwagakure were reinforcing their defenses.

• Gekkō Raito dismissed the elder from Kirigakure’s affairs and sent the other elders out of the office.
• Gekkō Raito forced the Second Mizukage to kneel and drained his chakra as punishment for calling him “Sixth.”
• Kyuji and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist welcomed Gekkō Raito, who explained that his changed appearance came from increased strength.
• Gekkō Raito sat in the Mizukage’s chair and asked Mei Terumi for a report on the Shinobi World.
• Mei Terumi reported that Tsunade had asked Gekkō Raito to visit Konoha, Sunagakure had signed a treaty and begun paying compensation, and Kumogakure and Iwagakure were strengthening their defenses.

Gekkō Raito gave Kumogakure and Iwagakure three days to honor their agreements after he returned to Kirigakure. His return transformed the Shinobi World, prompting Kumogakure to yield while Ōnoki prepared to resist.

• Gekkō Raito approved Kyuji's plan to strike Kumogakure but instead ordered him to announce his return and give Kumogakure and Iwagakure three days to comply.
• News of Gekkō Raito's return spread across the Shinobi World, boosting Kirigakure's mission business and drawing crowds to see him.
• Rasa asked Gaara how he had predicted Gekkō Raito's return, and Gaara explained that he had chosen the safest path for Sunagakure.
• The Fourth Raikage accepted the Third Raikage's warning and decided to honor Kumogakure's agreement and seal off the village.
• Ōnoki rejected the prospect of surrender and vowed to use Iwagakure's defenses and a two-hundred-thousand-shinobi army against Gekkō Raito.

After Kumogakure surrendered, Gekkō Raito attacked Iwagakure with a colossal meteor and lightning, declaring that the village would cease to exist. He flew back toward Kirigakure as the meteor descended on Iwagakure.

• Kyuji reported that Kumogakure had knelt, while Iwagakure continued reinforcing its troops, and Gekkō Raito vanished without a trace.
• Ōnoki explained to Mu that Iwagakure could not survive Gekkō Raito’s treaty and chose to resist with an army of two hundred thousand.
• A gigantic meteor appeared above Iwagakure, leaving Ōnoki and the villagers in despair.
• Mu urged Ōnoki to help stop the meteor, and both rose toward it to defend the village.
• Gekkō Raito struck the meteor with lightning that spread through Iwagakure and paralyzed the Stone Ninja.
• Gekkō Raito declared that Iwagakure would no longer exist and flew toward Kirigakure as the meteor plunged toward the village.

After Gekkō Raito annihilated Iwagakure with a meteor, the Shinobi World feared his power and accepted him as its ruler. Back in Kirigakure, he dismissed Madara Uchiha’s former ambitions, then learned that the daimyō of the Land of Earth and Land of Water had come to meet him.

• Gekkō Raito returned to Kirigakure as news spread that a meteor had erased Iwagakure and killed everyone there.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju learned of Iwagakure’s destruction and feared that no one could stop Gekkō Raito.
• The Third Raikage warned the Fourth Raikage that Kumogakure had escaped destruction by listening to him, while Gaara accepted Gekkō Raito’s dominance over the Shinobi World.
• Mei Terumi asked Gekkō Raito why he had punished Iwagakure so severely, and he said he wanted to prevent challenges to Kirigakure for twenty years.
• Gekkō Raito told Madara Uchiha to abandon his old plans and behave, and Madara acknowledged him as the ruler of the Shinobi World.
• Gekkō Raito learned that the daimyō of the Land of Earth and the Land of Water were waiting to meet him.

Twenty years after Gekkō Raito reshaped the Shinobi World, the sealed villages reopened and the world’s leaders gathered in Water Seven. As Gekkō Raito prepared to meet them, he reflected on practicing his newly developed power, [Rebel].

• Gekkō Raito spent twenty years bringing peace to the Shinobi World and transforming the Land of Earth into a territory of the Land of Water connected by a vast canal.
• Sasuke led the Otsutsuki Branch Family and the Uchiha in building a second shinobi village, where he ruled as the Mist Shadow.
• Kumogakure and Sunagakure ended their twenty-year isolation, while Water Seven prospered as the Shinobi World’s trade center.
• Naruto became Konoha’s Sixth Hokage, and Sasuke returned to report on his completed term as guardian of the Land of Earth.
• As the Raikage, Kazekage, Naruto, and Sasuke gathered in Water Seven, Gekkō Raito listened to Hinata’s report beside a lake and tested his new power, [Rebel].

Gekkō Raito prepared to receive Gaara and Darui as they sought permanent seats in the Shadow Palace, while sensing a faint presence near Konoha. Three white-clad figures arrived above Konoha and surveyed the world Kaguya and Isshiki had failed to harvest.

• Kyuji told Gekkō Raito that Gaara and the newly appointed Fifth Raikage, Darui, were approaching.
• Gekkō Raito considered how his decrees and the Shadow Palace had secured Kirigakure's dominance over the Shinobi World.
• Gekkō Raito agreed to appear before the visiting leaders and the participants in the joint Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Gekkō Raito sensed a fleeting presence near Konoha, then wondered if he had imagined it.
• Three white-clad figures stood on a cliff outside Konoha and questioned whether this was the world Kaguya and Isshiki had failed to harvest.

Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki surveyed Konoha and considered the possibility that its people had killed Kaguya. Meanwhile, Naruto arrived in Kirigakure for the Chunin Ninja Exams and marveled at Water Seven’s rapid technological growth.

• Momoshiki watched Konoha from afar, and Hashirama, Tobirama, and Minato sensed an unsettling gaze but could not locate its source.
• Momoshiki concluded that Kaguya had likely been annihilated and considered clearing out the thriving settlement below.
• Hashirama wondered whether Naruto was safe in Kirigakure, and Tobirama reasoned that Gekkō Raito had no cause to harm him.
• Kirigakure villagers argued about the Mizukage giving missions to outsiders before an announcement declared Naruto’s arrival.
• Naruto arrived at Water Seven with Sakura and Sai, and the three admired the city’s towering buildings, busy harbor, and chakra-powered high-speed ships.

Naruto arrived in Kirigakure for the Joint Chunin Ninja Exams and saw how the village’s scientific weapons and eight perfect Jinchūriki reflected its overwhelming power. As Kumogakure’s delegation arrived under Fifth Raikage Darui, Haku greeted them at the harbor, where Kirigakure’s confidence and old rivalries were on display.

• Haku greeted Naruto and led him toward the Mizukage Building, but Naruto chose to go ahead while Haku prepared to welcome the other villages.
• Kirigakure residents dismissed Naruto’s status as a perfect Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, noting that their village had eight perfect Jinchūriki under Raito’s tutelage.
• A visiting minor-village ninja accused Kirigakure of stealing tailed beasts, and a Kirigakure Chunin argued that their seizure had helped maintain peace and support smaller villages.
• Kumogakure’s flagship entered the harbor, and onlookers identified Darui as its Fifth Raikage, speculating that the village had sent him because of its past conflict with Raito.
• Darui disembarked and remarked that he had not expected Haku to meet him; Haku welcomed him as an old friend and guest.