Chapter Summaries

Hinata kept Naruto and Sasuke in line during class, then Naruto left with Karin, who revealed their childhood engagement. Later, Hinata visited Yuzuru at his office, where Konan reflected on the suffering in the Land of Rain, and Yuzuru promised to change its future.

• Hinata stopped Naruto and Sasuke from fighting, and Kurenai reminded the class to use Scientific Ninja Tools only at the training grounds.
• Karin announced that she was Naruto's fiancée because their parents had arranged their engagement when they were little, and she left with him.
• Kurenai took Hinata back to the Sea Capital, where Hinata bought groceries with her before visiting Yuzuru's office.
• Hinata sat on Yuzuru's lap while Konan thought about the hopelessness of the Land of Rain.
• Yuzuru told Konan that the Land of Rain would not suffer forever and promised to change things.

As winter break began, Yuzuru explained the academy’s anti-shinobi stance to Shikamaru and invited the Nara Clan to join. After returning home, Shikamaru discussed the Shinobi World’s corruption with Shikaku and suggested that Minazuki Yuzuru was trying to change it.

• Yuzuru invited Shikamaru and the Nara Clan to become part of the Sea Region Academy, and Shikamaru agreed to tell his father.
• Shikamaru asked whether the academy shared Yuzuru’s views on shinobi, and Yuzuru said it would not intervene if shinobi faced extinction.
• Shikamaru left the academy with the other students and returned to his village on foot before going home to the Nara Clan.
• Shikaku played shogi with Shikamaru and noticed that his son had become more mature and skilled.
• Shikamaru described the Shinobi World as ugly, evil, and beyond saving, then told Shikaku that someone was trying to change it.
• Shikaku identified Minazuki Yuzuru as the person Shikamaru meant.

Shikamaru told Shikaku about Mr. Arashi and the Sea Region Academy, prompting his father to reconsider the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ future. After learning that Naruto Uzumaki had short blond hair, Shikaku agreed to join the academy and seek help leaving Konoha, while Shikamaru realized Naruto’s connection to the Fourth Hokage.

• Shikaku explained to Shikamaru why the Nara Clan had to prioritize survival despite seeing the Shinobi World’s flaws.
• Shikamaru recounted his conversation with Mr. Arashi and asked whether the Nara Clan should join the Sea Region Academy; Shikaku raised the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ longstanding bond.
• Shikamaru asked whether Uchiha and Hyuga members had gone missing, then told Shikaku about Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuga, and Naruto Uzumaki at school.
• Shikaku learned Naruto had short blond hair and told Shikamaru that the Ino-Shika-Cho clans would join the academy if Mr. Arashi helped them leave Konoha.
• Shikamaru recognized Naruto’s connection to the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki, while Shikaku went to discuss the matter with Inoichi and the others.

Yuzuru explained why he believed the Nara Clan might join the Sea Region Academy and suggested the Ino-Shika-Cho clans could follow. The chapter ended with Shikaku proposing to Choza, Inoichi, and Torifu Akimichi that their three clans join the Academy.

• Yuzuru told Kurenai, Tsunade, and Hikari that the Nara Clan had learned to avoid trouble because it lacked the strength to change the Shinobi World's harsh order.
• Yuzuru said he hoped all three Ino-Shika-Cho clans would join the Sea Region Academy and noted he could use a spatial passage to bring people over.
• Tsunade privately planned to find an opportunity to be alone with Yuzuru during Kurenai's winter break.
• Shikaku gathered Choza, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Torifu Akimichi for a meeting and proposed that their three clans join the Sea Region Academy.

Shikaku warned Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu that the Sea Region Academy and Minazuki Yuzuru posed a force that could end the age of ninja. Convinced Konoha was doomed, the Ino-Shika-Cho leaders agreed to join the academy and began planning their clans’ departure.

• Shikaku told Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu that Shikamaru’s conversation with Mr. Arashi revealed the Sea Region Academy’s opposition to the Shinobi World’s existing order.
• Shikaku explained that Hinata Hyuga, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki were at the academy, leading the elders to realize Minazuki Yuzuru had gathered powerful allies there.
• Shikaku revealed that Tsunade and Orochimaru were also at the academy, and Torifu decided the three clans should join it.
• Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu accepted that Konoha could not protect their clans and agreed to leave rather than stay.
• Torifu tasked Shikaku with devising a way to move the clans and their assets out of Konoha without attracting attention.

Yuzuru accompanied Tsunade to the Void Bamboo Sea, where they spent two days together before Otsutsuki Kaguya took him away. Tsunade followed them through a spatial rift, and after the three spent several days together, Kaguya ordered Yuzuru to train with her every day.

• Yuzuru told Kurenai he was taking Tsunade to the Void Bamboo Sea to help her train with natural energy.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade went to the bamboo house, where Tsunade pinned him down and they spent two days together.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya appeared through a spatial rift and took Yuzuru away, prompting Tsunade to follow her through it.
• Tsunade and Kaguya confronted each other, then joined Yuzuru; Kaguya later asked to experience being tired.
• After several days together, Kaguya told Yuzuru to visit her daily to train his taijutsu and develop his Rinne Sharingan.

Yuzuru visited Orochimaru's laboratory and learned about his experimental mechanical prostheses, a new mechanical body, and weapons under development. Orochimaru's aerial battleship had completed over-ocean flight trials, but its enormous energy requirements remained a problem.

• Yuzuru found Orochimaru developing powerful mechanical prostheses and advised him to weaken them for civilian use.
• Orochimaru showed Yuzuru his prototype prosthetic leg and revealed that he had tested it on himself.
• Orochimaru showed Yuzuru a new mechanical body that could use every chakra nature and many bloodline ninjutsu, but needed better eyes.
• Yuzuru agreed to help Orochimaru obtain Byakugan and Sharingan eyes, though not immediately.
• Orochimaru reported that the new chakra-guided cannon had a combat range of about two kilometers and a lethal radius exceeding five meters.
• Orochimaru said the hundred-thousand-ton aerial battleship had completed over-ocean flight trials, but charging its enormous power reserves remained difficult.

Yuzuru inspected Orochimaru’s completed warship and learned about its enormous chakra demands, then decided to postpone unification until he had addressed the costs and practical challenges. He turned his attention to Sunagakure and the desert as a possible energy solution.

• Orochimaru reported that the Land of Water’s four power stations had switched to chakra and explained the warship’s massive energy requirements.
• Yuzuru and Orochimaru visited the hidden seabed facility, where Yuzuru examined the completed warship and praised Orochimaru’s research.
• Orochimaru said two motherships were ready and credited the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique with simplifying their construction.
• Yuzuru toured the warship, noting its futuristic design and its mix of conventional science with chakra-based workarounds.
• Yuzuru returned to the Sea Capital and restrained his urge to unify the region, deciding to account for administration and energy needs first.
• Yuzuru considered the energy problem and turned his gaze toward Sunagakure and the desert.

Yuzuru secretly secured crude oil beneath the Land of Wind and put it to use developing the Sea Capital, while the academy’s students returned with their faith in the Shinobi World beginning to weaken. The chapter left Yuzuru training in Taijutsu with Kaguya on the moon.

• Mei Terumi secretly sent investigators to the Land of Wind, and they found flammable black liquid underground; Yuzuru arranged to extract it and sent it to Orochimaru for processing.
• The academy’s winter break ended, Shikamaru returned with a changed attitude, and Hikari began teaching as Kurenai resumed work.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade enjoyed private time together at home after the others left for work.
• Yuzuru considered how the academy could broaden its students’ views and planned to have Tsunade challenge their idealized image of ninja when they were older.
• Yuzuru and Kaguya exchanged Ōtsutsuki Taijutsu techniques and practiced the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack on the moon.

Kaguya explained her history with Isshiki and trained Yuzuru in Ōtsutsuki Taijutsu, revealing how far his body had progressed. After describing how easily she could defeat Isshiki now, she stopped Yuzuru from leaving until he paid his tuition.

• Kaguya recalled how she developed the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, ambushed Isshiki, and ate Earth's God Tree fruit after realizing she could not return to the Ōtsutsuki Clan safely.
• Kaguya explained that the fruit gave her overwhelming power, and that she later stopped relying on Taijutsu because her strength made it unnecessary.
• Kaguya trained Yuzuru by sparring with him across worlds, and he eventually ended up exhausted and injured on the ice.
• Kaguya told Yuzuru his body might one day become stronger than hers and agreed to teach him everything except Amenominaka and the World-Destroying Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Kaguya said she could defeat Isshiki with ease and urged Yuzuru to master the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and All-Killing Ash Bones.
• When Yuzuru tried to leave, Kaguya pressed him back down and reminded him that he had not paid his tuition.

Yuzuru received visions of Sasuke, Boruto, and Urashiki arriving from the future, which he believed had been thrown off course by his actions. He prepared his allies to confront Urashiki and seize his eyes while keeping his own power concealed.

• Konan told Yuzuru that the Ino-Shika-Cho families wanted to enroll their children, and that Shikamaru had skipped four grades and begun studying under Kabuto Yakushi.
• Yuzuru's Nine Tomoe Sharingan showed him fragments of the future, including adult Sasuke, Boruto, and Urashiki Ōtsutsuki.
• Kaguya sensed Urashiki's spacetime arrival, and Yuzuru spotted Sasuke and Boruto landing on Earth.
• Yuzuru returned to the Sea Capital, told Mei Terumi, Mikoto, and Mabui about the visitors, and said he wanted Urashiki's eyes.
• Minato, Kushina, Shisui, and Itachi joined the preparations after Yuzuru revealed that they were dead in Sasuke's future spacetime.

Yuzuru led Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata to face Urashiki, whose attacks they countered with their unusual abilities. Adult Sasuke and Boruto arrived as the battle continued, leaving Adult Sasuke confused by how different this past was from what he remembered.

• Yuzuru brought Naruto and Sasuke to a training ground outside the Sea Capital, where Urashiki tracked them down and discovered Hinata’s powerful Byakugan.
• Hinata attacked Urashiki while Naruto and Sasuke entered Tailed Beast Chakra Mode and joined the fight.
• Hinata dodged Urashiki’s sand attack, and Naruto sealed the Amaterasu flames he set on him.
• Naruto and Sasuke tried to strike Urashiki with a Rasengan and Lightning Blade, but Urashiki escaped using his ability to see the future.
• Hinata noticed Sasuke and Boruto hiding by a tree, and Adult Sasuke agreed to help after Naruto asked him.

Adult Sasuke, Itachi, Kushina, Minato, Guy, Naruto, Kakashi, Shisui, and Hikari joined forces against Urashiki Otsutsuki. Urashiki transformed after consuming his stored chakra and eyes, but the group continued attacking him as the chapter ended with Kakashi and Minato striking from behind.

• Itachi arrived and joined Adult Sasuke, while Kushina attacked Urashiki with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Adult Sasuke prevented Urashiki from escaping, and Minato, Guy, Naruto, and Kakashi coordinated attacks that broke through Shinra Tensei.
• Urashiki ate the chakra in his fishing basket and his own eyes, transforming into a stronger form.
• Sasuke and Shisui summoned Susanoo, and Hikari arrived with Uchiha Mikoto to support the group.
• Kushina restrained Urashiki with her chains, and Minato and Kakashi appeared behind him to launch a combined attack.

After Urashiki was defeated, Yuzuru used Infinite Tsukuyomi to show everyone the grim timeline adult Sasuke came from. The vision left Naruto’s parents and the others furious and shaken, while Yuzuru explained that he and Kaguya had sensed the alternate timeline when Sasuke arrived.

• Guy and Naruto struck Urashiki, Hikari bound and sealed him with the Totsuka Blade, and Yuzuru took him away before he could leave a Karma mark.
• Yuzuru brought everyone, including adult Sasuke and Boruto Uzumaki, back to the presidential building to discuss their time travel.
• Yuzuru explained that adult Sasuke came from a different timeline where Minazuki Yuzuru had never existed, and adult Sasuke confirmed it.
• Kaguya and Yuzuru used Infinite Tsukuyomi to show everyone the alternate timeline, including Naruto’s miserable childhood.
• Kushina and Minato reacted furiously to what Naruto had suffered, while Itachi, Shisui, Mikoto, Orochimaru, and Tsunade were deeply affected.
• Yuzuru told Tsunade that he and Kaguya had sensed the space-time anomaly and seen scenes from another timeline when Sasuke arrived.

Yuzuru condemned Adult Sasuke and Naruto’s world for relying on strength rather than fixing the shinobi system, and Orochimaru agreed that Konoha should fall. Sasuke and Boruto were allowed to stay in the Sea Capital and the Land of Water, while Boruto went with Minato to meet his grandparents and Itachi invited Sasuke home.

• Mei Terumi lamented that she had ended up old and single, then resolved to learn from Tsunade.
• Yuzuru argued that Kakashi, not Naruto, had driven Konoha’s progress and that the peace in Adult Sasuke’s world depended on Naruto and Sasuke’s strength.
• Orochimaru said Konoha should fall, and Tsunade neither refuted nor agreed with him.
• Yuzuru said he would end the age of shinobi by killing every shinobi, but reassured Sasuke and Boruto that he was not interested in them.
• Yuzuru let Sasuke and Boruto stay in the Sea Capital and the Land of Water, warning them to hide their forehead protectors.
• Minato invited Boruto to visit, and Itachi asked Adult Sasuke to go home with him.

Yuzuru discussed the Uchiha clan’s fate with Sasuke and outlined his plans to destroy Konoha alongside Orochimaru. He later reassured Hinata about Boruto and revealed that he intended to use Black Zetsu as an unwitting pawn.

• Yuzuru told Sasuke that Uchiha Fugaku had died after contributing to the Uchiha clan’s destruction, and Sasuke redirected his anger toward his father.
• Tsunade suggested that Adult Sasuke help Itachi with his illness, and Itachi agreed to take him to the hospital the next day.
• Orochimaru asked Yuzuru to involve him in destroying Konoha, while Tsunade warned Yuzuru not to harm too many ordinary people.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade reassured Hinata that Boruto belonged to a parallel-world version of her, then took her to a barbecue restaurant.
• Yuzuru told Tsunade that Black Zetsu did not know Kaguya had been released and that he planned to use Black Zetsu to bring chaos to the Shinobi World.

Adult Sasuke explored the technologically advanced Sea Capital and reunited with the Uchiha family, while Boruto visited Minato and Kushina and explained how his world differed from theirs. The chapter ended with Minato crediting Minazuki Yuzuru with leading their world away from the ninja system.

• Adult Sasuke marveled at the Sea Capital’s technology and awkwardly settled in with Mikoto, Itachi, Shisui, and Young Sasuke.
• Adult Sasuke agreed to teach Young Sasuke Ninjutsu, then asked Itachi and Shisui about his world and Minazuki Yuzuru.
• Boruto went home with Minato and Kushina and envied the warm family life he had never known.
• Karin Uzumaki arrived, and Boruto revealed that Hinata Hyuga was his mother, shocking Karin and Naruto.
• Naruto and Karin learned about the different histories of Boruto’s world, and Minato said Minazuki Yuzuru had helped their world escape the ninja system.

Minato judged that Boruto’s Shinobi World was nearly impossible to save without sweeping reforms and overwhelming force, leaving Boruto discouraged. Later, Hinata asked Yuzuru whether they might be together in a parallel world, and he left her hopeful before walking home hand in hand with Tsunade.

• Minato explained to Boruto that Yuzuru’s plan combined technological strength with a new generation educated to build a reformed Shinobi World, while Boruto’s world had little hope without Naruto and Sasuke helping impose radical change.
• Minato told Boruto that opportunities to save the Shinobi World had likely passed, and Boruto fell silent as Kushina went to cook.
• Hinata asked Yuzuru whether a parallel world might have them ending up together, and Tsunade warned her not to be fooled by him.
• Yuzuru told Hinata that countless parallel worlds made anything possible, and she went home happily.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade teased each other as they walked home hand in hand, while Hinata watched them through her Byakugan and murmured, “Teacher...”

Sasuke helped Itachi begin treatment in the Sea Capital and resolved to use its reforms as a model for changing his own world. Meanwhile, his allies searched for a way to bring him and Boruto home, while Sasuke began training Young Sasuke and learned that the boy might awaken different Mangekyō abilities.

• Tsunade confirmed that Sasuke's blood was compatible with Itachi's and told him to rest before their next treatment course.
• Itachi showed Sasuke his office, and the brothers finished a day's work together in less than half a day.
• Sasuke decided to study the Sea Capital's transformation and try to reform his world before he and Naruto died, so Sarada would not have to go to war.
• Naruto and Orochimaru continued analyzing the Ōtsutsuki object and concluded that Sasuke and Boruto might have to open a passage from their side.
• Grown-up Sasuke began training Young Sasuke, telling him to prioritize skills other than Genjutsu because Naruto would resist it.
• Itachi explained that Young Sasuke's Mangekyō Dōjutsu might differ from Grown-up Sasuke's Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi, leaving both Sasuke's future abilities uncertain.

Future Sasuke trained his younger self in Lightning Blade and reflected on how different their worlds were. He recognized that young Naruto’s Uzumaki techniques could make him far more formidable than the Naruto Sasuke had faced.

• Sasuke learned that Kakashi in this world lacked a Sharingan and used Purple Lightning, while Obito’s Sharingan had been taken by Yuzuru.
• Shisui and Itachi told Sasuke that Yuzuru was extraordinarily powerful, and Sasuke said he wanted to test himself against him.
• Uchiha Izumi visited Itachi, and Sasuke realized his brother had found happiness with her after escaping Konoha and Fugaku’s control.
• After the others left, Sasuke demonstrated Lightning Blade and explained its connection to Purple Lightning and Chidori.
• Sasuke began teaching young Sasuke Chidori’s derivative techniques, but stayed silent when the boy asked whether they would let him defeat Naruto.
• Sasuke considered how Naruto’s Adamantine Sealing Chains, taught by Kushina, could overpower the Nine-Tails and surpass the Naruto from his own world.