Recaps

Shinsei revealed that he had anticipated Toneri’s attack and used a sealed Shadow Clone to protect Hinata, then fought Toneri with Sage Mode and lightning-enhanced speed. Toneri escaped to the moon after being badly beaten, and Shinsei reunited with Hinata and his injured companions.

• Shinsei explained that Hinata had carried a sealed Shadow Clone as a precaution against Toneri and entered Sage Mode.
• Toneri blasted away the moisture in the air to prevent Shinsei from using Flying Thunder God, then unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Shinsei used Fivefold Rashomon to shield his companions from Toneri’s storm, then struck Toneri repeatedly for hurting Kurenai Yuhi, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, and Hinata.
• Toneri escaped into the sky toward the moon after Shinsei’s final punch sent him crashing into a rock.
• Shinsei returned to Hinata, told her to call him sooner next time, and received approving gestures from Kurenai, Kiba, and Shino.

Shinsei brought Hinata, Kurenai, Kiba, and Shino back to Konoha Hospital after their fight with Toneri, who had tried to take Hinata as his bride. As rumors about Shinsei and Hinata spread, Ino visited Hinata and proposed a barbecue outing for just the three of them, leaving Shinsei so embarrassed that he quietly walked away.

• Shinsei used Flying Thunder God to bring his injured teammates back to Konoha Hospital, where Tsunade questioned him about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and treated his wounds.
• Konoha villagers spread wild rumors about Shinsei's battle and his return with Hinata in his arms.
• Ino visited the injured Hinata and teased her about Shinsei carrying her, then suggested the two of them invite him to barbecue after her recovery.
• Hinata agreed to Ino's plan, while Shinsei overheard them and quietly walked away from the hospital room.

Shinsei returned home to share a peaceful dinner with his parents before Hinata visited with records about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and the moon. After giving Shinsei the information, Hinata insisted on joining his mission to the moon, but he objected because she had recently been injured.

• Shinsei came home to Riya and Nobita, and his family shared dinner together after closing their shop.
• Hinata visited with a package of gifts, and Riya invited her to eat with the family.
• Hinata gave Shinsei secret scrolls from her father detailing the Hyuga Clan's origins and the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon.
• Shinsei read the records and thanked Hinata, saying they would help him deal with Otsutsuki Toneri.
• Hinata asked to go with Shinsei to the moon, but Shinsei refused because her injuries had not healed.

Shinsei agreed to take Hinata to the moon after Little Nine gave her Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, then used Flying Thunder God to bring them closer. As they prepared to fly toward the moon, Shinsei spread his chakra wings while Hinata stared at him in a daze.

• Little Nine gave Hinata Nine-Tails chakra, enabling her to use Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and greatly increasing her strength.
• Shinsei tried to receive Little Nine's chakra, but Xiaobai's chakra drove it out and the two forces clashed.
• Shinsei sent an order to Tsunade through an Anbu ninja, then transported himself, Hinata, and Little Nine outside Konoha.
• Shinsei threw a Flying Thunder God kunai toward the moon and teleported the group to where it landed.
• Shinsei unfolded enormous white chakra wings as Hinata blushed and stared at him.

Shinsei, Hinata, and Little Nine traveled to the moon and found the entrance to the artificial world inside it. After Hinata used her new Nine-Tails Mode to destroy the defending puppets, they prepared to approach the castle and its enormous Tenseigan.

• Shinsei carried Hinata through the sky to the moon, with Xiaobai supplying air as they flew.
• Shinsei and Little Nine sensed traces of Toneri's chakra and led Hinata to a fissure marked on the Hyūga secret scroll.
• Shinsei sent a Shadow Clone into the fissure to check the passage, then led Hinata and Little Nine down into the moon's artificial world.
• Shinsei identified the white figures charging from the castle as puppets and urged Hinata to test her Nine-Tails Mode.
• Hinata activated her golden Chakra Cloak and destroyed the puppets, while Shinsei watched and the Tenseigan waited deep inside the castle.

Shinsei and Hinata explored the moon’s ancient palace and discovered the history of Hamura’s Tenseigan and Toneri’s upbringing. They found Toneri waiting beneath the giant Tenseigan.

• Shinsei explained that chakra kept the moon’s environment and buildings unchanged, while Little Nine noted the absence of other living creatures.
• Shinsei activated the palace’s carved patterns, revealing murals of Hamura, a moon war, and the creation of the Tenseigan.
• Hinata and Shinsei found rooms filled with braille stones and read Toneri’s father’s message describing his blindness and plan to obtain pure Byakugan for him.
• Shinsei, Hinata, and Little Nine reached the temple, where they found Otsutsuki Toneri standing beneath the enormous Tenseigan.

Otsutsuki Toneri offered Shinsei Senju a place in his plan to destroy the old world and create a new humanity, but Shinsei refused. Toneri drew power from the Tenseigan and overwhelmed Shinsei, Hinata Hyuga, and Little Nine, leaving the battle raging inside the damaged temple.

• Otsutsuki Toneri welcomed Shinsei Senju, Hinata Hyuga, and Xiaobai to the Tenseigan Temple and proposed that Shinsei help him start humanity anew on the moon.
• Shinsei rejected Toneri's plan, arguing that humanity's flaws also drove people to survive and improve.
• Toneri infused himself with the Tenseigan's power and attacked Shinsei, striking him through several pillars with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Hinata fought Toneri with Little Nine's chakra, but Toneri dodged her punch and sent an emerald chakra blade across the temple floor.
• Little Nine fired a Tailed Beast Bomb despite Shinsei's warning, damaging the temple and carving a huge crater in its floor, while Toneri's barrier re-formed.
• Toneri declared that his Tenseigan's chakra would outlast theirs, and Shinsei questioned whether Toneri was trying to convince himself they could not win.

Shinsei fought Toneri inside the moon as the battle devastated its interior, then used Hinata’s Byakugan resonance with the Tenseigan to create an opening and destroy it. Shinsei and Hinata escaped as the moon split apart, carrying gathered Byakugan with them.

• Toneri’s Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion cut Shinsei’s Susanoo apart, but Shinsei rebuilt it with senjutsu and Storm Release chakra and fought back with help from Little Nine and Xiaobai.
• As the battle wrecked the moon’s interior, Hinata sensed the Tenseigan calling to her and believed she could control it through her Byakugan.
• Shinsei flooded the moon’s interior with chakra-infused water and used Flying Thunder God to evade Toneri and move closer to the Tenseigan.
• Toneri began charging the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and Shinsei teleported Hinata to the Tenseigan so she could disrupt it through their chakra resonance.
• Shinsei punched and shattered the Tenseigan, causing Toneri and the sphere’s remains to disappear as the moon began collapsing.
• Shinsei and Hinata gathered nearby Byakugan and escaped with Flying Thunder God while the moon split in half.

Shinsei and the shinobi of the major villages fought to stop the shattered moon from destroying the Shinobi World. After the meteor shower ended and the villages survived, Shinsei prepared to return home with Hinata, reflecting on the damage his reckless act could have caused.

• Shinsei sent Little Nine to destroy falling moon fragments with Tailed Beast Bombs while Konoha mobilized to protect the Land of Fire.
• Minato, both Tsunades, and Sasuke coordinated to reach and shatter dangerous meteorites, while Naruto and other Konoha ninja destroyed fragments near the village.
• Gaara, Ōnoki, Raikage A, and Mei Terumi led their villages in stopping the falling rocks, and the meteor shower gradually ended at dawn.
• Shinsei found Hinata awake beside him, gathered the exhausted Little Nine and Xiaobai, and decided they should return.
• Shinsei looked at the empty space where the moon had been and resolved not to underestimate others again.

Shinsei accepted responsibility for the moon’s destruction and searched for a way to restore the balance it had disrupted. Nagato could not use Chibaku Tensei without the Rinnegan, but he suggested Shinsei might awaken one through his own bloodline and warned that Madara and Obito were likely preparing to act.

• Shinsei apologized to Konoha’s Jonin, and a wanted notice for Otsutsuki Toneri was issued.
• Reports from the Land of Water described still seas, disappearing fish, and other effects of the moon’s absence, prompting Shinsei to seek Nagato.
• Shinsei found Nagato and learned that he could no longer use Chibaku Tensei because he had lost the Rinnegan.
• Nagato suggested Shinsei might discover his own path to awakening the Rinnegan and reassured him that nature could gradually restore balance.
• Nagato warned that Madara and Obito would adapt their plans and might exploit Shinsei’s divided attention, then agreed to help him if asked.

Shinsei ate ramen with Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino, then walked with Ino through Konoha’s newly lit streets. Ino confessed that she liked him and kissed his cheek, leaving Shinsei alone with his complicated feelings as he walked home.

• Shinsei met Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino at Ichiraku Ramen, where they discussed the moon’s disappearance and the village’s new chakra-powered streetlights.
• Ino gave Shinsei half her chashu and remarked that he had not been eating properly.
• Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto deliberately fell behind, leaving Shinsei to walk alone with Ino.
• Ino asked whether Shinsei would have been as anxious to protect her as he had been to protect Hinata, and Shinsei said he would have been.
• Ino told Shinsei she liked him, kissed his cheek, and ran off before he could answer.
• Shinsei touched the place she had kissed and walked home, unsure what to make of her confession.

Shinsei proposed delegating the Land of Fire's civil administration to a five-person team so he could focus on core matters. At Konoha Hospital, he learned Hinata's Byakugan was slowly fusing with eyes recovered from the moon and asked Tsunade if she wanted immortality.

• Shinsei asked Shikaku to help establish a five-person team to handle the Land of Fire's civil affairs, and Shikaku recommended finding a suitable official through Fujiwara Munetsugu.
• Shinsei decided Naruto was too young to take part in the government's highest affairs and said he should gain more experience on the front lines first.
• Shinsei visited the hospital basement and learned from Orochimaru that Hinata's Byakugan was slowly absorbing some of the Byakugan recovered from the moon.
• Tsunade explained that the process was a rejection response and that they would let Hinata absorb the eyes naturally before considering medical help.
• Shinsei told Tsunade that their clans shared ancestry with Otsutsuki Kaguya and asked if she wanted immortality.

Shinsei proposed researching Kaguya’s immortality through gene expression, and Tsunade agreed to help under strict supervision. Afterward, he walked Hinata home through the moonless village and reflected on wanting his loved ones to live longer.

• Shinsei and Orochimaru theorized that Kaguya’s immortality came from her genes rather than chakra, and discussed combining bloodline traits to isolate lifespan-related expressions.
• Shinsei told Tsunade he wanted to extend the lives of the people he cared about, and she agreed to join the research while overseeing Orochimaru’s experiments.
• Shinsei took Hinata home, and she recalled practicing Gentle Fist alone as a child beneath the moon.
• Shinsei and Hinata encountered Kiba and Akamaru, then continued to the Hyūga Clan compound, where they parted for the night.
• Walking alone beneath the dark Hokage Rock, Shinsei imagined that immortality would be worthwhile if Ino, Hinata, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura remained by his side.

Obito Uchiha and Madara attacked the guarded Rōran Ruins and began restoring the Dragon Vein Platform. Madara chose to travel to an era when Hashirama Senju was alive but Shinsei Senju was absent.

• Obito approached the Rōran Ruins, and the twelve Land of Wind guards confronted him.
• Obito used Kamui and chakra chains to kill the guards, leaving only one alive long enough to identify him.
• Madara arrived and examined the faint purple light remaining in the Dragon Vein altar.
• Obito unsealed the Dragon Vein energy, causing the ruins to glow and the ground to shake.
• The Snake Sage warned Madara that Shinsei was growing stronger, and Madara said he wanted an era with Hashirama but without Shinsei.
• The Dragon Vein Platform began to take shape as purple-white light filled the ruins.

Shinsei left his Hokage paperwork to check on Hinata, whose Byakugan fragments were triggering the first stage of her Tenseigan’s evolution. After Orochimaru explained the gaps in their Ōtsutsuki genetic inheritance, Katsuyu summoned Shinsei, Hinata, and Tsunade to meet the Katsuyu Sage.

• Shinsei avoided routine paperwork and went to the laboratory beneath Konoha Hospital.
• Tsunade explained that Hinata was in a self-protective hibernation while her body integrated the Byakugan fragments, and that her eyes would advance when she woke.
• Orochimaru described how Senju, Hyūga, and Uchiha bloodlines held incomplete fragments of Kaguya’s genetic code and said they needed a closer Ōtsutsuki reference.
• Katsuyu delivered the Katsuyu Sage’s invitation for Shinsei and Hinata, with Tsunade also welcome to join.
• Shinsei carried Hinata as he and Tsunade followed Katsuyu’s messenger to Shikkotsu Forest.

Shinsei, Tsunade, and Hinata visited the Katsuyu Sage, who warned that the Shinobi World would end in three years if Shinsei stayed in Konoha. She revealed that the Snake Sage was acting at Rōran’s Dragon Vein, and Shinsei chose to go there.

• Shinsei and Tsunade met the Katsuyu Sage in Shikkotsu Forest, with Hinata accompanying them.
• The Katsuyu Sage explained that she sensed calamities through premonitions and had foreseen the world’s end if Shinsei remained in Konoha.
• She told Shinsei that going to Rōran was the other path and that the Snake Sage had hidden the place from her perception.
• The Katsuyu Sage warned that the Snake Sage and Madara were driving a threat into the Dragon Vein, which connected to rifts in time and space.
• Shinsei decided to go to Rōran, and the Katsuyu Sage entrusted the matter to him.

Madara Uchiha used the Dragon Vein at the Rōran Ruins to fuse chakra from the One-Tail through the Nine-Tails into a new Tailed Beast, intending to become its Jinchūriki and travel between parallel worlds. Shinsei arrived as the fusion began, and Madara entered the vortex, challenging him to follow.

• The White Snake Sage told Madara Uchiha that the spacetime fissure would soon stabilize and reminded him that she was helping him to protect Ryūchi Cave from Shinsei.
• Madara Uchiha released chakra from the One-Tail through the Nine-Tails and used the Dragon Vein to bind and fuse the nine masses.
• Madara Uchiha explained that he planned to create a new Tailed Beast, become its Jinchūriki, and use it to travel between parallel worlds.
• Shinsei arrived alone at the Rōran Ruins with Little Nine and saw the chakra fusion underway.
• Madara Uchiha walked into the half-fused vortex and challenged Shinsei to follow him, while Shinsei dove toward the ruins.

Shinsei followed Madara through the Dragon Vein into a distant age, where he encountered a gentle, bewildered Otsutsuki Kaguya being attacked by a crowd. After defending her, he followed her into the forest, where she asked whether he had come to kill her.

• Madara activated the New Ten-Tails to travel to the past, but Shinsei and Xiaobai altered his destination and followed him through the Dragon Vein.
• Shinsei and Madara arrived in a distant, primal forest; Madara named his unstable tailed beast Hashirama, then left Shinsei to explore alone.
• Shinsei followed a path to a small city and found a crowd throwing stones at Otsutsuki Kaguya.
• Shinsei protected Kaguya from the crowd, and she invited him to follow her out of the city.
• In the forest, Kaguya asked Shinsei whether he had come to kill her.

Shinsei spared Kaguya and used chakra to stop the emperor’s guards from seizing him, then accepted the emperor’s offer of shelter for the night. At the palace, Kaguya questioned the source of Shinsei’s chakra and concluded that he was not from her world.

• Shinsei told Kaguya he had not come to kill her, and she moved closer to him as the emperor and his guards arrived.
• The emperor invited Kaguya to his palace, then ordered his guards to seize Shinsei when he saw her relying on him.
• Shinsei used water and fire chakra to frighten off the guards, prompting the emperor to apologize and offer them shelter.
• Shinsei and Kaguya went to the palace, where he said he needed to find someone and work out how to return.
• Kaguya said chakra belonged to the Ōtsutsuki Clan, noticed the white chakra inside Shinsei, and told him he was not from this world.

Shinsei learned from Kaguya that the God Tree’s presence had trapped him in this world, and he decided to find it or someone like Madara to get home. After the emperor tried to claim Kaguya and then sent assassins to kill Shinsei, the chapter ended with Shinsei calmly inviting the guards to strike again.

• Kaguya told Shinsei that outsiders could enter the world containing the God Tree but could not leave, and Shinsei resolved to search for a way home.
• Shinsei and Kaguya attended a banquet where the emperor tried to persuade Kaguya to move into his inner quarters and become his empress.
• Shinsei rejected the emperor’s advances on Kaguya’s behalf, and Kaguya recognized that the emperor wanted to imprison her.
• After the pair returned to their rooms, someone slipped poison smoke beneath Shinsei’s door, but he was unaffected.
• Seven or eight guards rushed into Shinsei’s room and repeatedly hacked at his bed, and Shinsei told them to keep slashing.

Shinsei left the Land of Ancestors with Kaguya after using lightning to punish the emperor and frighten the guards. The emperor turned Shinsei’s mockery into a court hairstyle called the chonmage, while Shinsei and Kaguya continued toward the God Tree.

• Shinsei used lightning to kill one attacker and cow the remaining guards, but Kaguya asked him to spare them.
• Shinsei and Kaguya left for the God Tree, stopping first at the emperor’s bedchamber.
• Shinsei shaved a bare strip down the emperor’s head with lightning and told him to wear a hat.
• The humiliated emperor ordered everyone at court to copy his hairstyle, which became known as the chonmage.
• Shinsei and Kaguya traveled through the forest toward the God Tree.

Shinsei and Kaguya traveled through the forest to the God Tree, where they encountered two ancient beings who intended to take them to Takamagahara for questioning. Shinsei recognized Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto as gods from the world's ancient records.

• Kaguya told Shinsei she trusted him because she sensed no killing intent or malice in him.
• Shinsei and Kaguya flew together, and Kaguya explained that the God Tree drained the chakra and vitality of anyone lacking an Ōtsutsuki aura.
• They reached the wasteland surrounding the God Tree and approached it until they noticed two figures standing beneath it.
• Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto identified Kaguya as someone from the heavens and said they would take both travelers to Takamagahara for interrogation.
• Shinsei recognized the pair as ancient gods recorded in Konoha's library, the Hyuga Clan's records, and Orochimaru's texts.

Shinsei confronted the Takamagahara gods, who wanted to use Otsutsuki Kaguya to stop the God Tree, and fought them when they tried to take her. He had knocked both gods down, but they rose and prepared to continue the battle.

• Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto told Shinsei they had come from Takamagahara to destroy the God Tree, which was draining the earth and their realm.
• Shinsei said destroying the tree could draw the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Sarutahiko revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had once appeared and proved too powerful for them to kill.
• Ame no Uzume no Mikoto and Sarutahiko proposed using Otsutsuki Kaguya's blood to control the God Tree, but Shinsei refused to let them take her.
• Ame no Uzume no Mikoto attacked Shinsei with her sword while Sarutahiko struck the ground with natural energy, but Shinsei caught and disarmed her blade, then knocked Sarutahiko face-first into the dirt.
• The two gods got back up and chose to keep fighting for the dignity of the gods, with Ame no Uzume no Mikoto raising her sword and gathering natural energy around herself.

Shinsei and Kaguya traveled with Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto to Takamagahara, where they discovered that powerful monsters threatened its sages. Sarutahiko explained that the creatures could use senjutsu, leaving the group facing a danger that had already injured one of Takamagahara’s people.

• Shinsei overwhelmed Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto with his senjutsu aura, and they abandoned their fight.
• Sarutahiko asked Shinsei to visit Takamagahara to help find a solution to the God Tree draining their world, and Kaguya agreed to go in hopes of finding clues to return home.
• Shinsei and Kaguya followed Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto north to Takamagahara, a floating land of white roads, lanterns, and robed sages.
• Kaguya sampled cloud dew at a market while the group traveled through Takamagahara.
• A wounded sage named Izumo collapsed in the market, missing his right hand, and warned the gathered sages about monsters.
• Sarutahiko explained to Shinsei that some monsters born from the spiritual essence of heaven and earth could use senjutsu and attack people.

Shinsei and Kaguya learned about Takamagahara’s war against the yōkai and traveled to its sacred center, where Ninigi-no-Mikoto invited Shinsei to stay. As they were led to rest, Kaguya warned Shinsei that the gods harbored ill will toward him.

• Sarutahiko explained that Takamagahara had nearly defeated the yōkai, and Kaguya sensed that the yōkai were frightened.
• Shinsei and Kaguya followed pilgrims toward Takamagahara’s center and heard their reverence for Amaterasu.
• Shinsei and Kaguya passed through Ame-no-Iwato and reached Amaterasu Palace.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto introduced himself as Amaterasu’s grandson and invited Shinsei to stay in Takamagahara.
• After Ninigi-no-Mikoto left, Kaguya warned Shinsei that the gods harbored ill will toward him.