Chapter Summaries

Shunren and Pakura discovered four Mist Ninja trying to assassinate Mei Terumi and watched as she fought them, revealing her Boil Release. After one attacker poisoned Mei and another moved to kill her, Shunren killed all four, then sensed someone hidden nearby and declared Mei a hostage.

• Shunren sensed four Mist Ninja Chunin approaching Mei Terumi's room, and he and Pakura concealed their Chakra to observe them.
• The intruders triggered Mei's alarm and attacked her, but she dodged their strikes and defeated them with Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique.
• One of the injured Mist Ninja poisoned Mei with a dart while she was distracted, and the four prepared to kill her.
• Shunren used Yin Release: Projection to kill all four attackers and landed beside Mei.
• Pakura urged Shunren not to kill Mei, and Shunren activated his Sharingan and challenged an unseen figure who had blocked his senses.

Shunren used Mei Terumi as a hostage to force Ao to send false information that would draw the Mist Ninja away from their location. After confirming the deception worked, Shunren released Mei, who bit his wrist in anger.

• Ao emerged from hiding and identified Shunren and Pakura near Kirigakure.
• Shunren held the poisoned Mei Terumi hostage and ordered Ao to report that they were on the Land of Water's southern border.
• Ao agreed to pass along the false information to protect Mei, and Shunren checked that the Mist Ninja were moving south.
• Shunren lowered Mei to the ground, and she bit his wrist before calling him a liar.

Shunren and Pakura escaped the Land of Water and parted ways at a northern harbor, with Shunren heading toward Konoha and Pakura choosing to travel alone. After reaching the Land of Hot Water, Shunren reflected on his growing strength before spotting two girls near the spring.

• Shunren and Pakura evaded the Mist Ninja patrols and reached a harbor in the northern Land of Water.
• Shunren told Pakura he planned to return to Konoha to claim his promised spoils, while Pakura said she would travel for a while rather than return to the Sand Ninja.
• Shunren and Pakura clasped hands and went their separate ways.
• Shunren traveled through the Land of Hot Water and soaked in a hot spring, noticing that his chakra had grown after his battles with the Mist Ninja.
• Shunren sensed someone by the spring wall, hid beneath the water, and saw two naked little girls.

Shunren secretly watched Yugito and Mabui sneak into a hot spring, where their intimate play caused Yugito’s Tailed Beast chakra to break through its seal. The chapter ended with Yugito losing control and binding a terrified Mabui with a chakra tail.

• Yugito and Mabui sneaked into a hot spring without the owner’s permission.
• Yugito confided that she resented being kept isolated and blamed the Two-Tails for the loss of her friends, and Mabui comforted her.
• Yugito began touching Mabui intimately, while Shunren watched through a Stealth Ward.
• Yugito’s excitement loosened her Iron Wall Seal, and the Two-Tails’ chakra surged into the hot spring.
• Yugito transformed with glowing blue eyes, fangs, and a chakra tail, then wrapped Mabui in the tail as she lost control.

Shunren stopped Yugito’s rampage, subdued Matatabi with his Sharingan, and entered Yugito’s consciousness to drive the Two-Tails’ escaped chakra back into its seal. Matatabi began to suspect Shunren might be someone extraordinary, but the chapter ended before she could finish her thought.

• Shunren deployed an anti-sensing formula and confronted the rampaging Yugito as Mabui realized he was a boy.
• Shunren used a dagger and rapid movement techniques to evade Yugito’s attacks and pin her down.
• Shunren threatened Matatabi, lied that he was Hagoromo’s reincarnation, then used the Sharingan to trap her with the Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Shunren entered Yugito’s consciousness, picked her up, and blasted apart the chakra Matatabi had released through the seal.
• Matatabi recognized Shunren’s spiritual strength and wondered whether he might be someone other than Hagoromo.

Shunren subdued Yugito’s Tailed Beast rampage, then gave her and Mabui magical outfits before fleeing the approaching Cloud Ninja. He escaped the Land of Hot Water and reached the border of the Land of Fire.

• Shunren suppressed Yugito’s Tailed Beast chakra and restrained Mabui when she attacked him.
• Shunren released Mabui and gave her and Yugito clothes he created with Yin Release.
• Mabui admired Shunren’s outfit and the new clothes, thanking him as a handsome big brother.
• Shunren sensed Yotsuki Teki and other Cloud Ninja approaching, then used the Body Flicker Technique to avoid them.
• Shunren left the Land of Hot Water safely and reached the border of the Land of Fire.

Shunren returned to the Land of Fire and defeated the Anbu sent to capture him without killing any of them. Hiruzen and Danzo recognized that he had shown restraint and agreed to give him the White Fang Blade Technique to avoid antagonizing the Uchiha before the coming war.

• Shunren reached the Land of Fire, where eight Anbu accused him of selling intelligence and tried to arrest him.
• Shunren ignored their demands and fought back when the Anbu attacked.
• Hiruzen and Danzo discussed Shunren's escape from the Land of Water and the failed plan to capture him at the border.
• An Anbu reported that all eight survived Shunren's attack with only minor injuries.
• Hiruzen decided Konoha had to give Shunren the White Fang Blade Technique, despite Danzo's objections, to preserve the Uchiha's support for the coming war.

Shunren negotiated with Konoha High Command and received the White Fang Blade Technique without exposing their attempt to get him killed. As the Cloud Ninja rose to dominance in the Third Shinobi World War, Konoha, the Mist Ninja, and the Stone Ninja began secretly planning against the Third Raikage.

• Shunren chose not to break with Konoha or report the ambush to the Uchiha, and the Third agreed to give him the White Fang Blade Technique as his mission reward.
• Shunren returned to the Uchiha settlement, rested, and resumed his peaceful routine and training.
• The Sand Ninja and Stone Ninja ended their war badly battered after Shunren prevented an alliance between the Sand Ninja and Mist Ninja, while the Cloud Ninja exploited the conflict.
• The Third Raikage defeated the Mist Ninja and Stone Ninja, killing the Third Mizukage and crippling the Four-Tails Jinchūriki.
• Konoha grew wary of the Cloud Ninja's rising power and joined the Mist Ninja and Stone Ninja in a secret plan to kill the Third Raikage.

After the war with the Sand Ninja, Fugaku convened the Uchiha leadership and asserted his control over both the clan and the Konoha Military Police Force. The meeting turned to Shunren’s secret mission to save Pakura, and Fugaku ended by offering him a position as either personal guard or squad captain.

• After the Uchiha withdrew from the war, Fugaku succeeded Uchiha Kyosho as clan head and called a leadership meeting at Naka Shrine.
• Yashiro challenged Fugaku’s plan to remain captain of the Konoha Military Police Force, but only three of the twenty attendees voted against him.
• Elder Kokuyō questioned Shunren about his whereabouts on October 11, and Shunren said he had been in Kirigakure on a top-secret mission.
• Kokuyō revealed that Shunren had helped Pakura escape the Land of Water, angering Yashiro and shocking the meeting.
• Shunren denied knowing who had ambushed Uchiha Kyosho, and Fugaku defended him by saying he had acted on the Hokage’s orders.
• Fugaku offered Shunren a choice between becoming his personal guard and serving as a squad captain in the Konoha Military Police Force.

Shunren rejected Fugaku’s offer to become his personal guard and chose to serve as a squad captain in the Konoha Military Police Force, giving him a legitimate way to seek combat and train. He set out for his new post, continuing to sharpen his Kagami-Style Body Flicker Technique on the way.

• Fugaku offered Shunren a position as his personal guard, but Shunren chose the squad captain post in the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Shunren put on his new uniform, accepted the lunch Hezi had prepared, and left for work carrying the Heavy Black Iron Ruler.
• Shunren considered how the police force’s authority had isolated the Uchiha Clan from Konoha’s people, despite the clan’s pride in the institution.
• Shunren used the journey through the forest to practice the Body Flicker Technique while carrying the heavy ruler.
• Shunren reflected that he had advanced the technique to three flickers but remained far from mastering Clear Mirror, Still Water.

Shunren began his work as a Konoha Military Police Force squad leader and selected patrol missions that would let him train while searching for suspicious chakra. He left his subordinates to their own activities and planned to patrol both inside and outside the village.

• Six members of Shunren’s squad doubted their new ten-year-old leader until he appeared without them noticing and revealed his squad-leader armband.
• Shunren assessed his subordinates’ abilities and told them he would not interfere with their activities or rely on them for missions.
• Shunren reviewed mission scrolls for apprehending criminals, patrolling the village, and patrolling outside it.
• Shunren chose the two patrol missions so he could practice the Body Flicker Technique and sense abnormal Chakra fluctuations.

Shunren tested the range of his Mind’s Eye while capturing a group of retired ninja, then sensed a fight involving prominent clans on his way back to Konoha. He found Furuta Akimichi confronting Might Duy and Might Guy over an alleged attack during the Chunin Exams, and Furuta swung at Duy.

• Shunren tracked down and defeated the thieves, using the One-Handed Blade to cut through one thief’s Lightning Release barehanded.
• Shunren used the Mind Transmission Technique to leave the captured thieves’ cleanup to his subordinates, then returned to Konoha.
• Shunren sensed a disturbance near the prominent clans and found Furuta Akimichi accusing Might Guy of injuring Daiji during the Chunin Exams.
• Daiji claimed that Guy had attacked him after he had spared Guy in the Forest of Death, while Guy and Might Duy insisted the accusation was false.
• Furuta ignored Duy’s attempt to talk and swung a fist at him.

Might Duy stopped Furuta Akimichi’s attacks and overpowered him in a Taijutsu clash, even after opening the Second Gate. As Furuta prepared to swallow the Akimichi Clan’s forbidden Spinach Pill, Shunren reached for his iron ruler and unleashed a killing-intent technique.

• Might Duy caught Furuta Akimichi’s punch and blocked his enlarged strikes with Taijutsu while encouraging Might Guy.
• Furuta Akimichi used Human Bullet Tank, but Might Duy opened the Second Gate and stopped the attack with his bare hands.
• Might Duy sent Furuta Akimichi tumbling and asked to end their clash, but Furuta became enraged.
• Daiji Akimichi tried to stop his father from taking the Spinach Pill, while Shunren reached for his iron ruler.
• Shunren used White Fang Style: Blade of Killing Intent.

Shunren used his killing intent to knock Furuta Akimichi unconscious, then forced Might Duy into a fight. Duy opened the Sixth Gate to counter Shunren’s sword assault, and their battle continued with both unleashing rapid attacks.

• Shunren overwhelmed Furuta Akimichi with killing intent, causing him to collapse unconscious.
• Shunren claimed the Konoha Military Police Force was arresting Might Duy, then attacked when Duy obediently tried to comply.
• Might Duy caught Shunren’s Heavy Black Iron Ruler strike with his hands, prompting Shunren to switch to his swords.
• Shunren and Might Duy exchanged swift attacks, and Duy opened the Fifth Gate to evade Shunren’s airborne slash.
• Shunren unleashed Raging Spirit Rending Slash as Might Duy opened the Sixth Gate and countered with Morning Peacock.

Shunren sparred with Might Duy, then kept a low profile as Orochimaru returned to Konoha and took an interest in him. When Shunren sensed a strange presence inside the Military Police Force headquarters, he discovered an apparent prisoner being tortured and went to investigate.

• Shunren sparred with Might Duy, stopped before either used their full strength, and gave him a medical scroll as compensation.
• Shunren continued patrolling and practicing, earning recognition from the Konoha Military Police Force while rumors spread about his willingness to challenge powerful clans.
• Orochimaru returned to Konoha, having learned about Shunren from Danzo and become interested in his Sharingan and Yin Release skills.
• A girl in a vermilion kimono used Genjutsu to infiltrate the Konoha Military Police Force headquarters and was taken to the interrogation room.
• Shunren sensed Chakra in the interrogation room, initially stayed at his desk, then went to investigate after detecting signs of torture.

Shunren exposed Orochimaru’s disguise in the Konoha Military Police Force and followed him into the woods for a fight. After learning Orochimaru had already used Living Corpse Reincarnation, Shunren opened the battle with a powerful Getsuga Tensho.

• Shunren found Konoha Military Police Force members stabbing a girl and cut her body in two, then dispelled the Genjutsu controlling them.
• The girl’s body reassembled, and Shunren recognized her as Orochimaru, who revealed he had come to test him.
• Shunren realized Orochimaru had locked onto his presence and went with him to an open stretch of woods.
• Shunren asked about Living Corpse Reincarnation and learned Orochimaru had used it on his first experimental body, while being unable to reincarnate again for three years.
• Orochimaru drew the Kusanagi Sword and charged Shunren, who unleashed a Getsuga Tensho to begin their fight.

Uchiha Shunren fought Orochimaru, who was impressed by Shunren’s power and pressed him with summons and strange body techniques. Shunren was swallowed by Orochimaru’s sea of sword-spitting snakes, leaving his fate unclear.

• Shunren struck Orochimaru with Getsuga Tensho, injuring his hands and sending him flying.
• Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon to trap Shunren, then attacked him with the Kusanagi Sword as Shunren tried to escape.
• Shunren used sword techniques, a dagger, Shunpo, and Arcane Shift to counter Orochimaru’s attacks, but Orochimaru evaded them with his abnormal body.
• Orochimaru summoned a sea of black snakes that spat swords, and Shunren raised an ice pillar with First Dance: White Moon to avoid them.
• Orochimaru fired a giant sword from his mouth, forcing Shunren into the sea of snakes, which swallowed him.

Shunren used the Bloodthirsty Bead and Sode no Shirayuki to fight Orochimaru, who tested the limits of both weapons. Orochimaru grabbed the bead with his Five Elements Seal, but it resisted the sealing technique, leaving him startled.

• Orochimaru unleashed a sea of snakes that overwhelmed Shunren, who summoned the Bloodthirsty Bead to protect himself with a crimson barrier.
• Orochimaru attacked the barrier with giant snakes, and Shunren froze the surrounding snakes and earth with Sode no Shirayuki.
• Shunren used his Sharingan and White Fang Style to wound Orochimaru, but Orochimaru escaped his frozen body with the Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique.
• Orochimaru circled Shunren and reached for the Bloodthirsty Bead, while Shunren intensified its crimson light.
• Orochimaru caught the bead with his bare hand and used the Five Elements Seal, but the bead resisted the seal and stirred his blood and vitality.

Shunren survived his battle with Orochimaru, who revealed that he would need a new body in one year. Shunren left determined to surpass Orochimaru before then, while Orochimaru looked forward to claiming him as his next vessel.

• The Five Elements Seal collapsed, and Orochimaru praised Shunren for exceeding his expectations.
• Shunren asked when Orochimaru would next use Living Corpse Reincarnation, and Orochimaru answered that it would be in one year.
• Shunren said he would surpass Orochimaru within that year, but refused Orochimaru's offer of a Cursed Seal.
• Orochimaru dismissed the Triple Rashomon as Konoha forces approached, and Shunren left without lowering his guard.
• Orochimaru suspected his current body had begun rejecting him and said he would wait for Shunren as his next vessel.

After Orochimaru’s attack forced Shunren to abandon his gradual training, he resolved to leave Konoha on another journey. At Naka Shrine, Fugaku’s clan debated joining the allied hunt for the Third Raikage and considered Shunren as an elite candidate.

• Shunren recalled how Orochimaru had nearly captured him and concluded that he needed to grow stronger by taking a long trip.
• At Naka Shrine, Fugaku asked the Uchiha leaders whether the clan should join the plan to hunt the Raikage.
• The Uchiha debated the operation’s potential war merit and heavy casualties, while Fugaku rejected sending many clan members.
• Tekka suggested Shunren as a candidate, and Fugaku noted that Shunren already served in the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Yashiro argued that Fugaku could order Shunren to participate, but the other Uchiha recognized that Shunren’s strength made him difficult to command casually.