Chapter Summaries

Dōmeki and Ringo Ameyuri discovered that Kisame had turned against Kirigakure and that Yagura was under Genjutsu, while Kakashi denied Konoha’s involvement. As Zabuza and Dōmeki rushed toward Yagura, Kakashi and Ameyuri faced Kisame, who unleashed a massive wave at them.

• Dōmeki won over Ringo Ameyuri with a candy apple, but Kisame appeared and accused her of betrayal.
• Ameyuri realized Kisame had turned against Kirigakure, and Zabuza revealed that Yagura was under someone’s Genjutsu.
• Zabuza accused Kakashi of controlling Yagura, but Kakashi denied it and refused to join the Kirigakure conflict.
• Zabuza headed for the Mizukage Building and urged Dōmeki to help him deal with Yagura; Orochimaru’s snake urged Dōmeki to assist because of the Three-Tails.
• Dōmeki ran up the building toward Yagura while Kakashi and Ameyuri stayed to confront Kisame.
• Kisame unleashed Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave at Kakashi and Ameyuri.

Dōmeki challenged Karatachi Yagura for a share of the Three-Tails’ Chakra, but their fight escalated until Yagura fully transformed into Isobu. Dōmeki restrained the beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains and struck it down, but his vibrating blade shattered after cutting off Isobu’s armored tail.

• Dōmeki found Karatachi Yagura alone atop the Mizukage Building and asked for some of the Three-Tails’ Chakra in exchange for leaving.
• Yagura attacked Dōmeki, and the two fought across the roof with their weapons.
• Dōmeki destroyed Yagura’s coral attack with lightning snakes, prompting Yagura to enter a partial Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Yagura struck Dōmeki with Coral Palm, but Dōmeki shattered the coral and forced Yagura to transform fully into Isobu.
• Dōmeki bound Isobu with black Adamantine Sealing Chains, interrupted its Tailed Beast Bomb, and kicked it into the air before slamming it through the Mizukage Building.
• Dōmeki cut off Isobu’s armored tail with a high-frequency blade, which shattered and left his right hand bloodied.

Dōmeki defeated the Three-Tails and helped free Yagura from the Uchiha's Genjutsu, but Yagura died before the Mist Ninja arrived. After Dōmeki revealed Yagura's final words, the Mist Ninja attacked him, and he escaped by flying away.

• Obito Uchiha wanted to kill Dōmeki for disrupting his plan, but White Zetsu relayed Black Zetsu's order to spare the Uzumaki boy.
• Yagura thanked Dōmeki for freeing him from the Genjutsu and named Genji as acting Mizukage and Mei Terumi as the future Fifth Mizukage before dying.
• The Mist Ninja surrounded Dōmeki, and Mei Terumi questioned Ringo Ameyuri about Zabuza, Kisame, Kakashi, and the masked man who had taken them.
• Dōmeki told Mei Terumi that an Uchiha had controlled Yagura and that Yagura wanted Mei Terumi to become the Fifth Mizukage.
• Mei Terumi's order to attack sent Water Release techniques and Kunai toward Dōmeki, but he flew into the night and escaped.

Obito spared the unconscious Kakashi despite blaming him for Rin’s death, then left him alone in the Land of Water. Days later, Kakashi learned the Fourth Mizukage was dead and ran into Dōmeki, who teased him about his sore backside.

• Obito confronted the unconscious Kakashi and stopped himself from killing him after Kakashi murmured Rin’s name.
• Tobi visited Obito, urged him to reclaim his other Mangekyō, and was told to relay that Obito would make his own decisions.
• Kakashi woke in the forest with a sore backside and later heard that the Fourth Mizukage was dead and Genji was acting Mizukage.
• Kakashi spotted Dōmeki in town and hurried over to ask about what had happened.
• Dōmeki joked that Kakashi had been assaulted by a long-lost male friend, making Haku recoil and Kakashi lament the Shinobi World.

Dōmeki told Kakashi about Zabuza’s failed coup in Kirigakure and revealed that an Uchiha with one Mangekyō Sharingan had controlled Yagura. After Kakashi wondered whether the Uchiha could be Obito, Dōmeki set off with Haku and claimed they would travel through the Land of Grass.

• Kakashi grabbed Dōmeki and accused him of luring Haku away, then learned Haku was a boy.
• Kakashi questioned Dōmeki about the clash in Kirigakure, and Dōmeki explained that Zabuza’s coup against Yagura had nearly succeeded before Kirigakure shinobi intervened.
• Dōmeki told Kakashi that Yagura had revealed his controller was an Uchiha with a Mangekyō Sharingan in his right eye, making Kakashi wonder if Obito was still alive.
• Dōmeki sensed a frigid aura from Kakashi’s left eye and identified it as Yin Release.
• Kakashi offered Dōmeki a favor, then proposed traveling together when Dōmeki said he was taking Haku home through the Land of Grass.

Dōmeki and Haku entered the Land of Grass and saw the stark divide between its impoverished outer city and wealthy inner city. Haku intervened when a Grass Ninja tried to seize a girl for unpaid fees, and Dōmeki whisked everyone away before more ninja arrived.

• Kakashi bid Dōmeki and Haku farewell at the Land of Grass's border, lamenting that their travels had emptied his wallet.
• Dōmeki and Haku crossed the desolate Land of Grass and reached its capital, where the poor outer city contrasted with the prosperous inner city.
• Haku heard a Grass Ninja dragging a girl away over unpaid fees and saw the ninja threaten the girl's mother with a kunai.
• Haku froze the Grass Ninja's hand and kunai with his icy power, then looked to Dōmeki in alarm.
• Dōmeki summoned chains to bind the people and made them vanish before other ninja could respond.

Haku struggled with what to do after rescuing a mother and daughter, and Dōmeki sent him to escort them to the Land of Rice Fields as a test. Dōmeki learned that the Grass Ninja held Uzumaki prisoners at the royal palace, where Horii Tarō and the daimyō were abusing an Uzumaki woman and threatening her daughter, Karin.

• Dōmeki urged Haku to use his power to protect people and gave him training instructions, Explosive Tags, and Kunai before sending him with the mother and daughter to the Land of Rice Fields.
• Dōmeki secretly sent a Shadow Clone after Haku to protect him, then questioned the captured Grass Ninja, Jirō, about the Uzumaki prisoners.
• Jirō revealed that the Uzumaki clanspeople were held at the royal palace in the Castle of Grass, and Dōmeki killed him and disposed of his body.
• At a palace banquet, the daimyō complained about his declining stamina, and Horii Tarō claimed an Uzumaki woman’s life energy could restore him.
• Horii Tarō presented a battered Uzumaki woman, then revealed that she had a daughter named Karin as the daimyō and ministers eyed her hungrily.

Dōmeki rescued Karin Uzumaki from a Grass Ninja and entered the palace hall where her mother was being held by Horii Tarō and the nobles. He stood with Karin and her mother as he remarked that a storm was coming.

• A Grass Ninja led Karin Uzumaki from her dungeon, telling her she could see her mother, who was being abused by Grass Ninja and nobles.
• Karin sensed a warm Chakra presence, and Dōmeki appeared, killed the Grass Ninja, and promised to bring her mother home.
• Dōmeki took Karin by the hand and led her toward the palace hall.
• The wind blew open the hall doors, revealing Dōmeki beside Karin and her red-haired mother, covered with a coat.
• Dōmeki looked toward the night sky and said, "Looks like a storm tonight!"

Dōmeki confronted the Land of Grass’s nobles and shinobi after discovering how they had treated Karin and her mother. As hundreds of Grass Ninja attacked, he unleashed a Kirin that obliterated them.

• Dōmeki arrived at the royal palace with Karin and confronted Horii Tarō and the Land of Grass’s nobles.
• Horii Tarō attacked Dōmeki, who crushed his hand and let him summon reinforcements.
• Dōmeki raised a forest of black weapons from the ground, killing the nobles and suspending the daimyo above them.
• Horii Tarō summoned hundreds of Grass Ninja, and Dōmeki sent a Shadow Clone to escort Karin and her mother away.
• Dōmeki rose above the palace and summoned a lightning-clad Kirin that obliterated the incoming ninjutsu and its attackers.

Dōmeki returned to Otogakure with Uzumaki Kana and Karin after destroying the Land of Grass’s palace and rescuing them. At Orochimaru’s laboratory, he reunited with Haku and Kimimaro, and Orochimaru gave him a birthday present.

• Sakamoto told an inn’s guests that a lightning-wielding divine beast had destroyed the Land of Grass’s palace, and he hinted that a red-haired boy had summoned it.
• Dōmeki arrived at the inn with Kana and Karin, and Karin realized the guests were talking about him.
• Dōmeki and his companions rested before continuing their slow journey toward Otogakure.
• Sakata and Katsura welcomed Dōmeki back to the Sound Ninja base, where he learned that Orochimaru was waiting for him.
• Dōmeki reunited with Orochimaru, Kimimaro, and Haku in the laboratory, and Orochimaru presented him with a long box as his birthday gift.

Dōmeki gave Kimimaro’s bloodline disease a possible explanation: an imbalance between Yang and Yin Release. Orochimaru became fascinated by the idea of using Sharingan to treat it, while Dōmeki considered how to pursue his own experiments.

• Orochimaru gave Dōmeki the treasured blade Futsunomitama for his birthday and praised him for finding people with rare bloodlines.
• Haku and Kimimaro reunited with Dōmeki, who saw how danger had hardened Haku while Kimimaro remained solemn and reserved.
• Orochimaru explained that Kimimaro’s unusually pure Shikotsumyaku carried destructive Yang Release Chakra that damaged his body’s cells.
• Dōmeki suggested Kimimaro’s illness came from an imbalance between Yang Release and Yin Release, and Orochimaru excitedly proposed giving him Sharingan.
• Dōmeki considered the Kaguya and Hyuga clans’ distant relation and thought about obtaining Byakugan and asking Kimimaro to help with his experiments.

Kakashi reported major upheavals in the Land of Water to Hiruzen, who assigned him to lead a team of young ninjas. Meanwhile, Dōmeki trained against Haku and Kimimaro until Orochimaru summoned him to the Northern Base.

• Kakashi gave Hiruzen classified intelligence about the Fourth Mizukage, the Kaguya Clan, Zabuza, and the Three-Tails, and Hiruzen ordered the report sealed and recorded the operation as an S-rank mission.
• Hiruzen persuaded Kakashi to become a team leader, and Kakashi accepted after securing the right to fail students.
• Might Guy challenged Kakashi outside the Hokage Building, while Hiruzen received news that the Land of Grass had been destroyed.
• Dōmeki fought Haku and Kimimaro in training and used chains to drain their Chakra, but the chains crumbled before he could hold them.
• Xiaobai delivered Orochimaru's order for Dōmeki to go to the Northern Base.

Dōmeki traveled with Haku and Kimimaro to the Land of Hot Water to capture a wooden monster for Orochimaru’s experiments. After arriving in Yugakure, he spotted a familiar-looking target at a crowded gambling den and decided to make a fortune.

• Orochimaru showed Dōmeki an experiment involving natural energy and asked him to bring back a rampaging humanoid monster made of wood.
• Dōmeki invited Haku and Kimimaro on the mission, while Karin promised to train hard so she could help him in the future.
• The three reached the peaceful Land of Hot Water and noticed the lively tourist trade and lightly dressed young women.
• In Yugakure, Dōmeki led Haku and Kimimaro into a crowded gambling den after spotting a possible extraordinary person.
• Dōmeki saw a large mound of snowy-white fullness at the gambling table and called its owner a fair fat sheep.

Dōmeki Shun challenged Tsunade to gamble, expecting the Legendary Sucker to lose, but she won three million ryō from him. He left the gambling den after giving her his name.

• Dōmeki called Tsunade the Legendary Sucker, angering her and prompting her to smash the gambling table.
• Shizune stopped Tsunade from punching Dōmeki, who caught her fist with ease.
• Dōmeki offered to gamble with Tsunade and had Haku bring out his cash.
• Tsunade won all of Dōmeki’s money, taking three million ryō while Shizune smiled behind her.
• Dōmeki fled the gambling den, and Tsunade asked his name; he called back, “Dōmeki Shun.”

Dōmeki met Tsunade at the hot spring before taking Haku and Kimimaro to an island base to investigate a dangerous forest monster. In the forest, he found an orange-haired child feeding birds and a dog, recognized him as the monster’s true form, and sent Kimimaro to meet him.

• Dōmeki teased Haku after he emerged from the women’s bath, then encountered Tsunade and declined her offer to gamble again because his group had a mission.
• The next day, Dōmeki, Haku, and Kimimaro arrived at the island base and learned that a wood-bodied monster had repeatedly injured the base’s members.
• Dōmeki led Haku and Kimimaro into a forest rich in natural energy and wondered whether the monster was connected to it.
• Dōmeki spotted an orange-haired child feeding birds and playing with a white dog, identified him as the monster’s true form, and told Kimimaro to go meet him.

Kimimaro found Jūgo hiding in a cave and helped him control his berserk transformation, becoming his self-proclaimed cage. Dōmeki diagnosed Jūgo’s condition and sealed him to suppress his uncontrolled absorption of Natural Energy.

• Kimimaro followed the frightened orange-haired boy to a secluded cave and learned that he feared hurting others.
• Kimimaro told the boy he had once been treated as a monster too, then restrained his transformation with a chain made from his vertebrae.
• The boy returned to normal and introduced himself as Jūgo, while Kimimaro promised to be his cage.
• Dōmeki identified Jūgo’s berserk episodes as incomplete Sage Mode caused by excessive Natural Energy and proposed three ways to address it.
• Dōmeki used Magnet Release: Eight Trigrams Sealing to temporarily suppress Jūgo’s absorption of Natural Energy.

Dōmeki followed Jūgo’s origins to a vast forest, where he found a tree bearing Senju and Uzumaki emblems and was transported to a shrine. There he discovered an ancient sword and struggled to lift it, ending as a mysterious voice told him he was using the Sage’s Blade incorrectly.

• Dōmeki searched the forest near Jūgo’s birthplace, following the dense Natural Energy until he found a massive tree radiating Yang Release.
• He recognized Senju and Uzumaki emblems on the tree and pressed his bloodied hand to them, causing the tree to glow and transport him away.
• Dōmeki woke in a shrine and sensed harmonious Natural Energy in a crystal offering table, briefly envisioning the God Tree spanning the Earth.
• He noticed an ancient black sword on a stand and struggled to lift its immense weight.
• Dōmeki activated Super Electromagnetic Release Mode One: Spiral Power as chakra poured from the sword, and a voice warned him that he was using the Sage’s Blade incorrectly.

Dōmeki met Asura’s lingering chakra spirit in the shrine and discussed the state of the Shinobi World and the fate of their clans. Asura judged Dōmeki capable of helping with the world’s crisis and asked what he had come to the shrine for.

• Dōmeki saw Asura emerge from the God Tree design on the crystal altar and claimed him as an ancestor, asking for powerful inheritances.
• Asura explained that his lingering chakra could not give Dōmeki the abilities or artifacts he wanted, then praised Dōmeki’s apparent Buddhist wisdom.
• Dōmeki said he was a materialist and argued that peace could not rest on understanding alone, pointing out that Asura and Indra had failed to understand each other.
• Asura recalled Hashirama Senju awakening Wood Release at the shrine and asked about his descendants; Dōmeki said the Senju and Uzumaki clans were nearly extinct.
• Dōmeki told Asura that Indra and Asura’s reincarnations had even shared their first kisses, leaving Asura distraught.
• Asura said he believed Dōmeki could help with the crisis in the Shinobi World and asked what he had come to the shrine for.

Dōmeki asked Asura about adding Yin and Yang Release traits to his Kekkei Genkai, and Asura warned him against following the path of Wood Release and the God Tree. Before disappearing, Asura gave Dōmeki the Sage’s Blade, which helped him enter a sustained state that could aid his Senjutsu training.

• Dōmeki asked Asura for advice about combining Yin and Yang Release with a self-created Kekkei Genkai, and Asura warned him that the God Tree was a threat to the Shinobi World.
• Dōmeki gave Asura a series of novels, and Asura secretly kept Icha Icha Paradise after criticizing it.
• Asura gave Dōmeki the Sage’s Blade in exchange for the books and taught him to accept its power with a calm mind.
• Dōmeki entered a state in which Natural Energy gathered around him and the Sage’s Blade resonated with an electromagnetic ring on his wrist.
• Asura praised Dōmeki’s clear gaze as he began to fade, then asked him to prevent his reincarnations from having a romantic relationship with his brother.
• Dōmeki promised to try and left the room with the Sage’s Blade.

Dōmeki brought Hozuki Suigetsu to Otogakure, where Suigetsu joined Karin and Jūgo as a future teammate, and four peaceful years passed. In Sunagakure, Fourth Kazekage Rasa agreed to Orochimaru’s plan and ordered Baki to travel to Otogakure.

• Dōmeki rescued Hozuki Suigetsu, who repeatedly tried to kill him while traveling with him toward Otogakure.
• Dōmeki brought Suigetsu to Orochimaru, then stopped Suigetsu and Karin from fighting and told them they were teammates alongside Jūgo.
• Dōmeki’s life remained peaceful for four years.
• Rasa reviewed Sunagakure’s financial decline and growing dependence on Konoha.
• Rasa ordered Baki to go to Otogakure and tell Orochimaru that he agreed to the plan.