Chapter Summaries

Hatake Sakumo’s ANBU squad discovered that Takahashi Yū had taken their ship, while Yū and the Kaguya clansmen drifted off course and landed in the Land of Wind. The chapter left Yū leading the battle-hungry Kaguya toward a Sand Shinobi border garrison.

• Hatake Sakumo found the ship gone and read Yū’s note saying he had taken it back to the village, so Sakumo rallied his squad to attack the Mizukage Building.
• Takahashi Yū realized that Kaguya Ichifuku had no idea how to navigate and had mistaken sleeping for a plan to reach the Land of Fire.
• Yū led the Kaguya clansmen ashore in the Land of Wind and set out across the desert for water and directions.
• Yū spotted a Sand Shinobi flag at a distant oasis, recognized it as a likely border garrison, and ordered the Kaguya to charge.

Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya clansmen overwhelmed a Sand Shinobi outpost, where Yū discovered they had only sixty-one survivors and planned to rest before crossing the Land of Wind. As Rasa arrived at the unlit outpost, Yū eagerly prepared to use the unexpected visitor as a local guide.

• Takahashi Yū led the Kaguya clansmen in wiping out the Sand Shinobi guards at the oasis outpost while they fought among themselves.
• Takahashi Yū searched the outpost and found a map, but the communications equipment had been damaged by a bone spike.
• A Kaguya clansman told Takahashi Yū that only sixty-one of them remained, and Yū ordered Afu to check the fresh water while the others settled in.
• Afu warned Takahashi Yū that someone was approaching from the sky, so Yū ordered the clansmen to hide the corpses and prepare for a local visitor.
• Rasa flew to the oasis with a scroll of mined gold dust, found the outpost dark, landed at its entrance, and shouted for someone to open the door.

Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya clan mistook Rasa for a Sand Shinobi at their outpost, beat him, and took his gold dust. After Rasa agreed to guide them through the Demon Desert, Takahashi Yū set out with the group and kept him on a leash.

• Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya clan members dragged Rasa into the outpost and took his gold dust scroll.
• The Kaguya clan members beat Rasa until he agreed to lead them through the desert.
• Takahashi Yū stopped the beating, tied Afu’s spine around Rasa’s neck, and ordered him to guide the group.
• Rasa led Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya clan members across the scorching Demon Desert with Afu holding his leash.

Takahashi Yū led the Kaguya clan and their captive Rasa to Rōran, where the city’s guards mistook the group for dangerous intruders. After the queen was notified, Rōran’s captain ordered the gates opened, while Rasa prepared to use the dragon vein to escape.

• Rasa guided Takahashi Yū’s group through the desert to Rōran, intending to use the city and its dragon vein to turn the situation in his favor.
• Takahashi Yū recognized Rōran and confronted Rasa about bringing the group there, but continued toward the city after checking his map.
• A Rōran soldier spotted the group through a telescope and raised the alarm after seeing Rasa’s Sunagakure forehead protector.
• Takahashi Yū told the guards that Rasa was their prisoner and was guiding them out of the desert.
• After confirming that the queen had been notified, Rōran’s captain ordered the guards to let the group in.

Rasa triggered the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran while trying to kill Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya brutes, then passed out when the expected explosion never came. In Konoha, Yūma sensed that his connection to Takahashi Yū had vanished and rushed to the Shimura Compound, where Uchiha Delia and Uchiha Kenichi were fighting with Susanoo.

• Rasa secretly drilled gold dust toward the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran while the Kaguya brutes watched over him.
• After the brutes threatened to beat him, Rasa escaped underground and used Gold Dust World Method to pierce the Dragon Vein.
• White light enveloped Rōran, but no explosion followed, and Rasa collapsed beyond the light's reach.
• Nara Yūma sensed that the Killing Intent Seed had lost its connection to Takahashi Yū and suspected Takahashi Yū had left on a mission for Danzo.
• Yūma ran toward the Shimura Compound as Uchiha Delia's red Susanoo rose above it and Uchiha Kenichi's blue Susanoo blocked her attack.

After Shunji’s Mangekyō Sharingan failed to reach Takahashi Yū, Orochimaru prepared a new combat unit while Konoha’s leaders gathered to search for the missing shinobi. Danzo placed the village on wartime footing, and Uzumaki Shui Ling arrived to represent Takahashi Farm.

• Shunji tore off his eye bandages and suffered as his Mangekyō Sharingan failed to reach Takahashi Yū, prompting Orochimaru to order the Chimera roster activated and prepare Explosion Release and Lava Release implants.
• Danzo learned that Takahashi Yū was missing and convened a meeting, where Nara Yūma reported that the last feedback from the captain’s blood traces came from southwest of Konoha.
• The Jonin demanded action against Sunagakure, but Danzo ordered them to stop shouting and placed the village on level-one alert and wartime footing.
• Most attendees left to carry out Danzo’s orders, while the Undying Squad, Orochimaru, Hiruko, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Sarutobi, and others remained in the conference room.
• Danzo summoned Minato, and Mizuki Uzumaki arrived with Uzumaki Shui Ling, who said she would participate on behalf of Takahashi Farm.

Danzo’s leadership discussed how to find the missing Takahashi Yū and prepared Konoha for a possible war. Minato revealed that he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Danzo planned to help him transport people by sealing Nine-Tails chakra inside him.

• Minato told Danzo he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique, though he lacked the chakra to transport others.
• Uzumaki Shui Ling agreed that she could use the Mangekyō Sharingan and Adamantine Sealing Chains to extract Nine-Tails chakra and prepare a seal for Minato.
• Danzo and the Nara Clan Head concluded that Takahashi Yū may have traveled from the Land of Water to the Land of Wind and encountered trouble there.
• Danzo asked Orochimaru about counteracting the Mangekyō’s side effects, and Fugaku volunteered to undergo the final experiment.
• Danzo ordered Konoha’s forces to prepare for war and vowed to find Takahashi Yū.

Rasa survived the Dragon Vein’s rampage in Rōran and returned to Sunagakure believing he had killed Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya group. The Third Kazekage realized Rasa’s actions could give Konoha an excuse to attack, and ordered Sunagakure to prepare for war while Pakura contacted Iwagakure.

• Rasa recovered food, water, and supplies in the deserted Rōran, then headed back to Sunagakure.
• The Third Kazekage struck Rasa for attacking Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya group despite Sunagakure’s need to avoid conflict.
• The Third Kazekage sealed the Kazekage's Office and ordered Chiyo to examine the officials’ memories, while he killed those whose loyalty wavered.
• Chiyo confirmed Rasa was telling the truth, but the Third Kazekage warned that Konoha would blame Sunagakure and use the incident as a reason for war.
• The Third Kazekage ordered Rasa to prepare Sunagakure for war and told Pakura to contact Iwagakure.

Sasori learned that Takahashi Yū had disappeared and decided to pursue human puppetry in search of eternal life. Meanwhile, Takahashi Yū woke in a ruined Rōran after the Dragon Vein erupted and began investigating whether he had been sent to another time or timeline.

• Sasori heard that Takahashi Yū was dead or missing and resolved to study human puppets to overcome the fragility of the human body.
• Takahashi Yū woke in the desert among the Kaguya clan and Rōran’s people, who had gathered around the ruins of their city.
• Kaguya Bujin told Takahashi Yū that the group had appeared there overnight after a child ran off, and that they had stopped the queen from waking him.
• Queen Salan explained that the Dragon Vein had erupted and transported them to a place whose ruins and wells matched Rōran, though she could not control the Dragon Vein.
• Takahashi Yū asked Salan to take him to the Dragon Vein’s entrance so he could investigate their displacement.
• Takahashi Yū realized he could sense no Wave Seed and feared he had either failed to return to his own timeline or landed in a world where he had never existed.

Takahashi Yū found the Dragon Vein’s underground seal damaged and realized he needed to establish when and where he had arrived. He tested the Kaguya clan members’ absolute trust with Wave Seeds, which triggered a strange change in them, then rallied them to search for an escaped prisoner.

• Takahashi Yū followed Salan to the Dragon Vein passage, cleared the buried entrance with his killing intent, and descended with her and the Kaguya brutes.
• Takahashi Yū found the broken Flying Thunder God Kunai on the seal platform, while Salan noticed that the Dragon Vein’s chakra had shrunk.
• Takahashi Yū told Salan to settle Rōran’s people and asked the sixty-one Kaguya clan members to prove their absolute trust in him.
• Takahashi Yū sent Wave Seeds into the Kaguya clan members’ hearts, and their bones and shared killing intent began to change.
• Takahashi Yū saw that the Kaguya clan members had passed the test and called for volunteers to find the escaped prisoner.

Takahashi Yū led the Kaguya hotheads away from Rōran toward Sunagakure, leaving Afu and two others behind to protect its residents. After Sara reunited with Salan, Takahashi Yū’s group ran out of the Land of Wind and spotted strange lightning beyond the mountains.

• Takahashi Yū stopped the Kaguya hotheads from fighting over who would stay behind by separating them with Killing Intent, then told Salan he would take her people home and asked for clothes.
• Takahashi Yū rallied the Kaguya hotheads to head toward Sunagakure, while Afu and two others remained behind to guard Rōran’s residents.
• Salan’s guard worried that the group’s Rōran-style clothes would cause trouble, but Salan accepted that this world’s Rōran had likely been destroyed.
• Sara arrived at the ruins and recognized Salan as her mother; Salan realized from Sara’s words that Rōran’s people had survived and feared for their safety.
• Takahashi Yū sprinted through the desert with the Kaguya hotheads in tow, then stopped when he realized they had run beyond the Land of Wind.
• Takahashi Yū decided to turn back, but distant lightning and a foul-smelling wind reminded him of something familiar.

Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya clan found the Third Raikage surrounded by a massive Iwa Shinobi force in the Land of Earth. After learning why the Third Raikage refused to retreat, Takahashi Yū decided to charge into the battle and claim the Raikage for himself.

• Takahashi Yū surveyed the battlefield and saw the Third Raikage fighting nearly a thousand Iwa Shinobi under Ōnoki's watch.
• The Third Raikage kept fighting despite his dwindling chakra because he wanted to hold back Iwagakure's forces and protect Kumogakure's army from being overwhelmed.
• Ōnoki urged the Iwa Shinobi to continue attacking, hoping they would kill the Third Raikage before Konoha could turn its attention to them.
• The Kaguya clan members asked Takahashi Yū to join the fight, and he agreed, declaring that only he would kill the Third Raikage.

Takahashi Yū and 58 Kaguya clan fighters charged into a force of nearly ten thousand Iwa shinobi, breaking through Ōnoki’s attack and the defensive line. The chapter ended as Takahashi Yū unleashed his Landmine Fist against the Iwa formation.

• The Kaguya fighters joined Takahashi Yū on the ridge, and their combined murderous intent unnerved the Iwa shinobi surrounding the Third Raikage.
• Takahashi Yū rallied the Kaguya clan and led their charge down the mountain toward the Iwa forces.
• Ōnoki reorganized the Iwa formation and fired Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique at the charging group.
• Takahashi Yū linked the Kaguya fighters to his killing intent and leaped with them past Ōnoki’s attack toward the plain.
• Takahashi Yū smashed through the Iwa shinobi’s Earth-Style Walls and struck their defensive line with Landmine Fist.

Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya Clan tore through Iwa’s defensive line, forcing Ōnoki and the Third Raikage to confront them. Ōnoki realized the attackers did not fit anything known about the shinobi world, and the Raikage agreed that something was wrong.

• Takahashi Yū blasted a huge fissure through the Iwa forces with his punch, leaving many shinobi unconscious.
• Wuren and the Kaguya Clan slaughtered Iwa shinobi with bone weapons and close-combat attacks.
• Takahashi Yū attacked Ōnoki in the air, but the Third Raikage intercepted his punch.
• Takahashi Yū broke free of the Third Raikage’s grip and kicked him and Ōnoki backward.
• The Third Raikage urged Ōnoki to withdraw the troops, but Ōnoki warned that retreat would leave them vulnerable to pursuit.
• Ōnoki said Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya fighters were inexplicably unknown, and the Third Raikage agreed that something was wrong with them.

Takahashi Yū battered the exhausted Third Raikage while Ōnoki intervened to save him and carry him underground. The two Kage prepared to fight together as Takahashi Yū gathered his strength for another attack.

• Ōnoki warned the Third Raikage that the attackers' Rōran clothing looked genuine, then helped him brace as Takahashi Yū charged.
• Takahashi Yū struck the Third Raikage in the abdomen and followed with a powerful axe kick, but Ōnoki raised the ground to blunt the blow.
• Ōnoki trapped himself and the dazed Third Raikage in an enormous stone hand and carried them underground, avoiding Takahashi Yū's pursuit.
• The Third Raikage and Ōnoki agreed to cooperate, and Ōnoki used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to make the Raikage lighter.
• The Third Raikage activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode as Takahashi Yū tightened his killing intent and prepared to attack.

Takahashi Yū fought the weakened Third Raikage and Ōnoki, countering their coordinated attacks before asking about the current year and the Third Shinobi World War. After learning it was Konoha Year 49, he charged at the two old men, intending to beat them half to death.

• The Third Raikage used his speed to land several blows on Takahashi Yū, who sensed his attacks with killing-intent spikes and countered with an uppercut.
• The Third Raikage turned his strike into a Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop while Ōnoki used Added-Weight Rock Technique, but the Raikage released his force and Ōnoki made him weightless to escape Takahashi Yū’s punch.
• The exhausted Third Raikage and Ōnoki argued over their teamwork and blamed each other for the fight.
• Takahashi Yū checked on his Kaguya subordinates, gathered them at the mountain’s foot, and asked what year it was and whether the Third Shinobi World War had ended.
• Ōnoki told Takahashi Yū that it was the end of Iwagakure Year 48, around Konoha Year 49, and that the war was still ongoing.
• Takahashi Yū called himself a passing brawler and charged at the Third Raikage and Ōnoki.

Higashishibito ordered Iwa troops to assemble after learning that Ōnoki and the Third Raikage were locked in battle, while Mimura Hamaki waited for reinforcements on Konoha’s Western Front. Minato arrived to find the Iwagakure forces had withdrawn, as Rasa led Sand shinobi across the desert to investigate an unidentified group.

• An Iwa shinobi told Higashishibito that Ōnoki and the Third Raikage were locked in battle and the reserve troops were routing, so Higashishibito ordered his troops to assemble.
• Mimura Hamaki learned that Minato Namikaze was coming to reinforce Konoha’s outnumbered Western Front and kept watch as the Iwagakure camp remained silent.
• Minato reached Konoha’s defensive line and learned from Hamaki that the Iwagakure troops had withdrawn without attacking or taking losses.
• Rasa led a Sand squad through the desert to track an unidentified group that had passed near Sunagakure, raising a cushion of sand to speed their journey.

Takahashi Yū continued battling the Third Raikage while Ōnoki and the arriving Iwa Shinobi struggled to understand the chaotic battlefield. Kaguya Bujin's clan ambushed Higashishibito's unit, and Minato revealed himself as Konoha's Yellow Flash.

• Kaguya Bujin and his clan members waited near the battlefield, then spotted Higashishibito's Iwa Shinobi unit approaching and prepared to attack.
• The Third Raikage and Ōnoki argued about Takahashi Yū as he charged them again, forcing the Raikage to keep dodging his blows.
• Higashishibito stopped his troops at the battlefield's edge and questioned a captured deserter, who described the powerful Rōran fighters and their red gas.
• Kaguya Bujin and dozens of Kaguya clan members launched a surprise attack on Higashishibito's unit with Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets.
• Minato deflected the finger bones aimed at Higashishibito and leaped down from his hiding place, where Higashishibito recognized him as Konoha's Yellow Flash.

Minato tried to stop Takahashi Yū from interfering in the battle between the Kaguya Clan and the Iwa Shinobi, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki sought to use the conflict to their advantage. The fighting continued as Takahashi Yū spoke with Minato, until Wuren spotted Rasa arriving with a Sunagakure squad.

• Minato told Higashishibito to deal with the Kaguya Clan, whose members were overpowering the Iwa Shinobi.
• Ōnoki rode on the Third Raikage and urged Minato to stop the Kaguya Clan, promising Iwagakure would end the war if he did.
• Takahashi Yū threatened Minato over Kushina and told him not to interfere with the Kaguya Clan's fight.
• Takahashi Yū asked Minato about Obito, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki listened from nearby.
• Wuren spotted Rasa arriving with a Sunagakure squad, and Takahashi Yū challenged him.

Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya Clan attacked Rasa after recognizing him as the man who had driven Yū from his homeland. As Minato spoke with Ōnoki and the Third Raikage about the war and the Rōran survivors, Rasa struggled to raise his squad above the charging attackers.

• Takahashi Yū recognized Rasa and sent a spike of killing intent through Rasa’s gold-dust platform, forcing him to bring his squad down.
• Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya Clan charged after Rasa, while Ōnoki and the Third Raikage discussed Sunagakure’s likely troubles and the end of their war.
• Minato Namikaze arrived and questioned Ōnoki and the Third Raikage about the Rōran survivors, but they exchanged no useful intelligence.
• Ōnoki ordered Higashi Shibito to return with the reserves, and the Third Raikage released his summoned creature as the leaders watched the attack.
• Rasa repeatedly failed to lift his squad above the attackers’ killing-intent spikes, then used Magnet Release: Gold Dust to turn the nearby ground into gold dust.