Chapter Summaries

Goten revived Gaara by pouring golden life energy into him, astonishing the gathered ninja. After Gaara and the Sunagakure ninja thanked him, Temari embraced and kissed Goten, choosing him as the man she wanted to spend her life with.

• Goten ignored Granny Chiyo's protest and infused Gaara with golden energy, restoring his color and breath.
• Gaara woke, and the Sunagakure ninja erupted in cheers as Temari embraced her brother.
• Gaara bowed to Goten, and the Sunagakure ninja, including Granny Chiyo, knelt in gratitude.
• Goten dismissed the formal thanks, pulled Temari into his arms, and said he had come to find his wife and saved his brother-in-law along the way.
• Temari decided to spend her life with Goten, kissed him in front of everyone, and Goten deepened the kiss while Sakura watched.

After Goten saved Gaara and Sunagakure, the village celebrated him as a hero. Temari thanked him privately that night, and their relationship turned intimate.

• Sunagakure’s ninja welcomed Goten back as a hero, and Gaara thanked him and promised the village’s loyalty.
• Goten teased Temari and told Gaara to call him brother-in-law; Sakura then clung to Goten when she saw them together.
• At the victory banquet, Goten sat between Sakura and Temari, brushed off questions about his power, and declined Granny Chiyo’s offer to stay in Sunagakure.
• Temari escorted Goten to his room and asked him to wait for her that night, while Sakura returned ahead of them.
• Temari later brought Goten sake, thanked him for saving her and Sunagakure, and kissed him before he carried her toward the bed.

Temari chose to leave Sunagakure and return to Konoha with Goten after the two married, and Gaara supported her decision. As the group headed home, Goten noticed evidence that the Akatsuki prisoners had been modified, while Temari and Sakura began adjusting to their new family arrangement.

• Temari woke beside Goten, agreed to return to Konoha with him, and was discovered by Gaara and Kankuro, who learned they were married.
• Goten asked Gaara whether Temari could leave with him, and Gaara said Temari could choose her own happiness and would always have Sunagakure's support.
• The Konoha group discovered that Deidara and Kisame had escaped after Samehada chewed through their Sealing Tag, and Goten sensed energy resembling that in Sasori's core.
• Goten traveled toward Konoha with Sakura and Temari beside him, while Naruto sulked behind them and the two women began accepting each other's presence.

Son Goten brought Temari to Konoha and introduced her to his family at the Ichiraku Ramen Shop as his wife. After settling her in, he left to report to Tsunade and face Sakura's questions.

• Goten entered Konoha with Sakura and Temari, announced Temari was his wife, and had the gate guards arrange her long-term visa.
• Goten brought Temari to Ichiraku, where he introduced her to Teuchi and Ayame as his daughter-in-law.
• Goten showed Temari the ramen shop and its upstairs rooms, introducing her to Haku and Tayuya along the way.
• Goten shared ramen with Temari, then left for the Hokage's office to report to Tsunade.
• Ayame helped Temari settle into her room and asked whether Goten treated her well; Temari said he had saved her and her village.

Kakashi resigned as Team 7's Jonin leader to train after recounting Goten's overwhelming feats in Sunagakure, and Tsunade approved his request. After Goten and Tsunade reunited, they reviewed Team 7's new arrangements before Goten revealed that his chip was reacting intensely to something beneath Konoha.

• Kakashi asked Tsunade to let him step down as Team 7's Jonin leader, citing Goten's destruction of the barrier and puppets, defeat of Kisame and Sasori, and revival of Gaara.
• Tsunade approved Kakashi's resignation and left Team 7's Jonin leader position temporarily vacant so Kakashi could train.
• Goten reassured Tsunade that she was special to him, and the two reunited affectionately before Tsunade asked whether the woman from Sunagakure had been with him.
• Tsunade handed Goten a document naming Yamato and Sai in Team 7's revised arrangements.
• Goten placed his rapidly flashing chip on the desk and asked Tsunade what was hidden beneath Konoha.

Goten reunited with Tsunade, and the two spent the night together before discussing a sealed area beneath Konoha. In the morning, Goten discovered that the crystal chip reacted to a pattern on an old document about the Sage of Six Paths Ruins, leaving him intent on investigating what lay underground.

• Goten entered Tsunade's room through an unlocked window, and she insisted that she would always come first among his women.
• Goten and Tsunade reconciled intimately, and she admitted she had been unable to sleep soundly while he was away.
• Tsunade showed Goten an old document stating that an ancient sealed area beneath Konoha had been off-limits to every Hokage.
• Goten left Tsunade a note about breakfast, then brought the crystal chip near the document and saw it flash faster.
• Goten noticed that the document's sealing pattern mirrored the pattern on Sasori's core fragment and decided to investigate beneath Konoha.

At a celebratory dinner, Ino watched Sakura and Temari’s closeness with Goten and struggled with jealousy and fear of being left behind. Goten called Ino his wife-to-be and challenged her to come to him willingly, leaving her resolved to pursue him.

• Naruto gathered the teams for a celebration at Yakiniku Q, where Goten sat between Sakura and Temari as they competed to feed him.
• Ino arrived dressed up, learned that Temari was one of Goten’s wives, and grew jealous when she saw Sakura’s intimacy with him.
• Goten beckoned Ino to sit beside him, put an arm around her waist, and called her his meal ticket while Sakura and Temari challenged his behavior.
• Naruto let slip that Goten had treated Sakura, prompting Sakura to frighten him into fleeing from the room.
• After the party, Goten called Ino his little wife-to-be and told her he would wait for her to come to him of her own accord.
• Walking home, Ino recalled Goten’s words and resolved that she could pursue him just as Sakura had.

Ino tried to get closer to Son Goten by bringing flowers to the ramen shop, where she clashed with Sakura over his attention. After Goten complimented and helped her at the flower shop, Ino decided to make her own opportunity and headed to Ichiraku late that night.

• Ino dressed up and went looking for Goten, first waiting at Training Ground Three and then bringing seedlings to Temari at Ichiraku Ramen.
• Goten helped Ino carry the flowerpots, teased her, and brought her downstairs for noodles, where Temari noticed their closeness.
• Sakura arrived and argued with Ino over Goten, then the two women each grabbed one of his arms and tried to claim his help.
• At the Yamanaka Clan flower room, Goten complimented Ino and helped her move heavy pots, leaving her moved by his concern.
• Ino drank some fine liquor, put a purple iris in her hair, and set out for Ichiraku Ramen late at night.

Ino went to Goten’s room in the middle of the night and began a relationship with him. The next morning, Sakura found them together and angrily confronted Ino.

• Jealous of Sakura, Ino entered Goten’s room and climbed onto the bed with him.
• After Goten asked if she was sure, Ino said she had come because he told her to come to him, and they kissed.
• Ino told Goten she was his woman and demanded that he call her prettier than Sakura at least once.
• The next morning, Sakura entered Goten’s room and saw Ino in bed beside him.
• Sakura accused Ino of stealing Goten, and Ino retorted that Sakura should have locked the door.

Tsunade reorganized Team 7 and established an independent Konoha Special Reinforcement Squad led by Goten, who chose Temari as its first member. The chapter ended with Goten receiving the mission scroll for Team 7’s investigation of Orochimaru’s agent at Tenchi Bridge and a possible attempt to bring Sasuke back.

• At the Ramen Shop, Shizune delivered Tsunade’s summons to Goten, and Sakura and Ino learned that Team 7 was being reorganized and a new squad was forming.
• Tsunade assigned Yamato to lead Team 7 with Naruto, Sakura, and Sai, while Goten was appointed captain of the Hokage’s independent Special Reinforcement Squad.
• Goten kissed Tsunade on the forehead, prompting her to punch him, then named Temari as the squad’s first recruit and said the unit would give him cover when he caused trouble.
• After the others left, Tsunade gave Goten the mission scroll for Team 7 to investigate Orochimaru’s agent at Tenchi Bridge and, if possible, bring back Sasuke Uchiha.
• Goten wondered whether Orochimaru might know something about the crystal chip’s origins.

Yamato led Naruto, Sakura, and Sai through a chaotic first team-training session, while Goten demonstrated his overwhelming strength and helped the new teammates begin coordinating. After training, Goten sensed Sai’s suppressed emotions, and Sai was left alone with an unfinished portrait of his brother.

• Yamato began team training, but Naruto, Sakura, and Sai’s attacks lacked coordination and nearly clashed with one another.
• Goten arrived, easily shattered Sai’s ink dragon, and offered to help Sai with future missions.
• Goten challenged the three teammates to make him move; their teamwork improved, but his ki sent them sprawling.
• After training, Goten questioned Yamato about his Wood Release and learned Orochimaru had modified him.
• Goten sensed faintly suppressed emotions in Sai, then later saw Sai alone with a portrait labeled “Big brother” as Sai wiped away a tear.

Goten learned that Team 7 would investigate Orochimaru’s spy at Tenchi Bridge without reinforcements, while he sensed a strange underground presence linked to the Chip Fragment. The team departed from Konoha, and Goten worried that the mission would be more dangerous than expected.

• Tsunade gave Yamato the Tenchi Bridge mission scroll and decided Team 7 would go without a reinforcement squad, while Goten noticed a strange resemblance between Yamato’s Wood Style energy and the Sasori Core Fragment markings.
• Goten told Temari about the mission and asked her to manage the noodle shop’s accounts while he watched over Team 7 from afar.
• Goten visited Sakura and Ino to say goodbye and reassure them before the mission.
• Goten sensed a cold, breathing-like fluctuation deep beneath Konoha, and the Chip Fragment pulsed in the same rhythm.
• Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato departed for Tenchi Bridge as Goten and Temari saw them off, with the fragment hotter than before.

Goten and Temari followed the Chip Fragment’s signal to a sealed chamber beneath Konoha, where a being behind a stone door recognized Goten as one of its kind. They returned to the surface with the mystery unresolved, and Goten asked Temari to keep their discovery secret.

• Goten sensed the Chip Fragment growing more active in Konoha and took Temari to investigate beneath Hokage Rock.
• Goten and Temari entered an abandoned underground passage marked with powerful, decaying seals and murals that Temari suspected depicted the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• They found a vast chamber and a stone door whose sealing patterns matched the Chip Fragment and markings from the Sage of Six Paths Ruins.
• The door activated, and a weak voice behind it asked whether Goten was one of its kind before fading away.
• Goten and Temari left the chamber, and Goten told her not to tell anyone, including Tsunade.

Son Goten treated Anko after her Cursed Seal began acting up, using golden ki to suppress Orochimaru’s chakra. He cleared most of the seal, but residue remained, and Anko reluctantly agreed to let him remove her clothes so he could continue.

• At the Dango Shop, Son Goten and Anko traded teasing remarks and shared dessert before walking through Konoha.
• Anko’s Cursed Seal flared, and Son Goten sensed Orochimaru’s chakra as black markings spread from her neck.
• Son Goten carried Anko to a bedroom at Ichiraku Ramen Shop and sealed the room off from outside sound.
• Son Goten used golden ki flames to burn away most of the Cursed Seal, but a stubborn residue remained.
• Son Goten said Anko needed to remove her clothes to let him finish treating her, and she agreed after warning him not to look at anything he shouldn’t.

Goten removed Orochimaru’s soul residue and Cursed Seal from Anko, then forced their relationship into a passionate encounter. Anko ended the night clinging to Goten and telling him he could never shake her off.

• Goten channeled Ki into Anko’s Cursed Seal and discovered that Orochimaru had hidden a piece of his soul inside it.
• Goten destroyed the soul residue and the Cursed Seal, and Anko cried with relief when she found the mark was gone.
• Anko worried that she was unworthy of Goten, but he kissed her and declared that she was his woman.
• Anko and Goten kissed and struggled playfully while Tayuya swept the hallway outside the soundproof Ki barrier.
• Anko clung to Goten beneath the moonlight and told him not to think he could shake her off for the rest of her life.

Goten spent the morning with Anko and Temari before sensing New Team 7 confronting Orochimaru and Kabuto near Tenchi Bridge. As Naruto’s Nine-Tails chakra began overwhelming him, Goten left to intervene.

• Temari brought ramen to Goten and Anko, who learned that Temari was not angry about their relationship.
• Goten jokingly assigned Anko the role of Konoha’s dango envoy while the three ate together.
• Goten sensed Yamato, Naruto, Sakura, and Sai near Tenchi Bridge, along with Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi.
• Goten realized Kabuto had likely switched sides and sensed the confrontation escalating after Naruto heard about Sasuke.
• Naruto’s Nine-Tails chakra broke through Yamato’s restraints and began forming a fourth tail, so Goten left to help him.

Goten monitored Naruto’s battle with Orochimaru from Konoha while eating ramen, using his Ki-sensing to track the fight and shield Temari and Anko from its distant pressure. As Naruto’s Nine-Tails power grew out of control and Yamato’s defenses broke, Goten decided it was time to intervene.

• Goten sensed Yamato, Sakura, Naruto, and Sai taking positions at Tenchi Bridge, then detected Kabuto and Orochimaru arriving.
• Goten concluded that Kabuto had switched sides and that Orochimaru had a way to undo Sasori’s puppet control technique.
• Naruto’s anger surged into a violent Nine-Tails transformation, and Goten shielded Temari and Anko with a golden Ki barrier while following the battle.
• Orochimaru countered with the Kusanagi Sword as Yamato tried to contain Naruto, but Goten judged that the Wood Release blockade would not hold.
• Naruto formed a second and then a third tail, broke Yamato’s blockade, and began losing consciousness as Orochimaru’s defenses cracked.
• Goten set down his empty ramen bowl and said it was about time to act because Naruto would otherwise be done for.

Goten sensed Naruto’s four-tailed rampage at Tenchi Bridge and watched Sakura rush in, where Naruto wounded her and Orochimaru prepared to strike. Goten flew from Konoha to save her, arriving just as Orochimaru’s sword neared her heart.

• Goten sensed Naruto’s chakra transform as the fourth tail emerged, and Naruto fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that battered Orochimaru and the Triple Rashomon.
• Goten noticed Sai briefly move toward Orochimaru, while Yamato’s Wood Release failed to suppress Naruto’s chakra.
• Sakura charged toward Naruto, and his claw struck her shoulder, though Goten’s ki protected her from lethal toxins.
• Orochimaru emerged and aimed his Kusanagi Sword at the wounded Sakura, prompting Goten to fly toward Tenchi Bridge in a burst of golden ki.
• As Orochimaru’s sword neared Sakura’s heart, Goten arrived with a furious shout.

Son Goten crushed Orochimaru and healed Sakura at Tenchi Bridge, then confronted Four-Tailed Naruto as it attacked. The chapter left Goten slapping the transformed Naruto and demanding to know why it no longer recognized him.

• Son Goten crashed down on Orochimaru, creating a massive crater and smashing his body.
• Orochimaru tried to escape as a white snake, but Son Goten blasted him with a Ki Blast and left him helpless.
• Son Goten healed Sakura and comforted her while Yamato kept his distance.
• Four-Tailed Naruto charged Son Goten, but its attack rebounded without harming him.
• As Four-Tailed Naruto began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb, Son Goten appeared before it and slapped its head, dispersing the energy.

Goten subdued Naruto’s Nine-Tails transformation and confronted Orochimaru, Kabuto Yakushi, and Sai at Tenchi Bridge. After they escaped with Konoha’s Anbu roster, Goten revealed he had tracked Orochimaru’s snake and led the others toward his hideout.

• Goten drove the Nine-Tails Chakra back into Naruto’s seal, then handed the unconscious Naruto to Yamato and told him to make Naruto wash dishes at the Ramen Shop for a month.
• Goten found Kabuto Yakushi supporting the injured Orochimaru beneath the rubble and called them out of hiding.
• Sai delivered Konoha’s latest Anbu personnel roster to Orochimaru on Danzo’s orders, prompting Yamato to accuse Sai of betraying the village.
• Orochimaru summoned a giant snake that swallowed him, Kabuto Yakushi, and Sai before fleeing underground with the roster.
• Goten stopped Yamato from pursuing and said he would take the wounded to Orochimaru’s hideout, revealing he had placed a tracking mark on the snake.