Recaps

Issui helped Kazahana Koyuki take her place as daimyo of the Land of Snow, then began a secret relationship with her before leaving for Konoha. After reporting his mission to Tsunade, he was assigned a reconnaissance mission with Shizune.

• Issui and Sandayū’s forces defeated Kazahana Dōtō’s remaining troops, and Kazahana Koyuki formally became the Land of Snow’s daimyo.
• Koyuki confessed her love to Issui and asked him to visit her; Issui returned her feelings, and they began a secret relationship.
• The next morning, Issui and Koyuki agreed to keep their relationship private, then he boarded the director’s boat and left the Land of Snow.
• Issui arrived in Konoha on October 8 and reported the mission’s outcome to Tsunade through Shizune.
• Tsunade assigned Issui and Shizune to scout the Land of Fire’s border and the area around Konoha.

Issui took time off to reunite with Hinata, who fainted from embarrassment when he affectionately greeted her at training. After bringing her home, he promised to include Haku and Fini on an upcoming mission, then agreed to keep secretly making baby dragons with Fini.

• Issui persuaded Tsunade to give him time off to visit Hinata and return on October 10 for a mission with Shizune.
• Issui arrived at Hinata's training session, apologized for being away, and embraced her; Hinata fainted while Kurenai, Shino, and Kiba watched.
• Issui gave Kurenai an A-rank Genjutsu scroll he had created before carrying Hinata home.
• Issui invited Haku and Fini to join his upcoming mission, then Haku helped Hinata prepare a meal.
• Fini asked Issui to secretly make baby dragons with her again, and he agreed on the condition that Hinata and the others never find out.

Issui spent the night with Hinata, who fainted during their intimacy, then secretly joined Fini in her room. He reassured Fini that she was important to him before returning to Hinata.

• Issui and Hinata went to bed together, while Haku secretly watched them through a hole in the window paper.
• Hinata fainted, and Fini, who had been watching from the roof, persuaded Issui to leave and come to her room.
• Issui and Fini were intimate, and Fini asked him not to send her away.
• Issui told Fini that she and Hinata were both important to him and promised to raise any child they had.
• Fini agreed not to object to Hinata but urged Issui to stay with her longer before he returned.

After leaving Fini’s room, Issui returned to Hinata and tried to conceal his affair, but Hinata confronted him over the perfume on his clothes. He knelt on a washboard until dawn, then fell asleep; when he woke, Hinata was still furious.

• Issui left Fini’s room after tenderly tucking her in, while Fini was pleased that he still cared for her.
• Hinata grew suspicious as Issui stayed away and got out of bed to find him.
• Issui claimed he had only gone to the bathroom and asked Fini for paper, but Hinata noticed that he smelled of perfume.
• Issui embraced Hinata and begged her forgiveness, then knelt on a washboard while she ignored him.
• At dawn, Hinata tried to forgive Issui, but found him asleep and drooling on the washboard, so she slapped him awake.
• Issui woke, forgot the night’s events, and headed out to eat before noticing Hinata’s angry expression.

After Hinata discovered Issui’s betrayal, he stabbed himself in the heart, and the pair confessed their love as he died in her arms. Hinata’s grief transformed her eyes into a seven-colored Mangekyō-like pattern.

• Hinata’s eyes developed black Tomoe as she grieved, while Issui resolved to atone by dying.
• Fini, Haku, Mei Terumi, and Kazahana Koyuki each sensed an ominous change.
• Issui stabbed himself in the chest, and Hinata stopped blaming him and begged him to live.
• Issui confessed his love and urged Hinata to find someone else before losing consciousness.
• Hinata felt Issui’s heart stop and her eyes changed into a pattern of two spinning, seven-colored petals.

After Hinata accidentally stabbed Issui, she discovered her Byakuringan and used its Tsukuyomi ability to enter his mental world and try to revive him. Issui confessed to his relationships with several women and still believed he deserved to die, leaving Hinata struggling to respond.

• Haku found Issui bleeding and reminded Hinata that his Ice Heart could revive him, but his heart did not respond because he seemed to have chosen death.
• Hinata explained how she had stabbed Issui after believing he had betrayed her with Fini and seeing him asleep on a washboard.
• Haku told Hinata to reach Issui mind to mind, and Hinata noticed her newly awakened Byakuringan.
• Hinata used Mangekyō Byakuringan-Tsukuyomi to bring Issui into her mental world and urged him to return to life.
• Issui refused to revive himself, then confessed that he had slept with Fini, entered a relationship with Mei Terumi, and slept with Kazahana Koyuki.
• Hinata was shaken by Issui's confessions as he declared that he loved her most and still believed he deserved to die.

Hinata used Tsukuyomi Space to bring Issui back from the brink of death and confronted him about his affairs. Issui confessed and offered to follow eight rules to earn her forgiveness, and Hinata agreed to give him another chance.

• Hinata told Issui she would forgive him only if he came back to his senses, then ended the Genjutsu world and returned him to the spiritual space.
• Hinata returned to reality, where Haku reported that Issui’s heart was slowly repairing; Issui soon regained consciousness.
• Issui admitted he had slept with Fini and Kazahana Koyuki and had agreed to become lovers with Mei Terumi, while Hinata threatened to break off their engagement.
• Issui proposed eight rules for himself, including reporting his missions and dates to Hinata and handing over his money and possessions.
• Hinata forgave Issui on the condition that he follow his rules, then told him to make breakfast and feed her.

Hinata persuaded Haku to become Issui’s woman, hoping to strengthen her position alongside Fini and Koyuki, and Issui accepted after Hinata assured him she agreed. Over the next two days, Haku joined the household, though Hinata and Fini continued to clash while Issui focused on caring for Hinata.

• Issui made breakfast for Hinata, while Haku admitted she envied their relationship and longed for someone to care for her.
• Hinata asked Haku to become Issui’s woman so they could support each other against Fini and Koyuki, and Haku agreed.
• Issui brought Hinata egg soup, and Hinata told him she wanted him to take Haku as his woman too.
• Issui accepted Hinata’s proposal, and Hinata, Haku, and Issui agreed to become a family.
• Over the next two days, Issui summoned Fini and spent his time with the three women, while Hinata and Fini kept clashing and Haku sided with Hinata.

Issui, Shizune, and Haku began a reconnaissance mission along the Land of Fire’s borders, and Shizune and Haku discussed Issui and the meaning of bonds and peace. Issui argued that lasting peace required understanding between people rather than forcing them under one person’s rule.

• Tsunade sent Shizune on a border reconnaissance mission with Issui and Haku, hoping to assess Issui while Shizune learned from him.
• Issui led Shizune and Haku west to the Land of Fire’s border with the Land of Wind and arranged their food, traps, and watches for the night.
• Haku told Shizune that Issui was insightful and caring, though lecherous, and described his attentiveness toward Hinata.
• Shizune spoke about losing her family in the war, and Haku comforted her by talking about comrades, bonds, and shared ideals.
• Issui explained that people could pursue peace through mutual understanding or impose a false peace by suppressing everyone else, distinguishing those paths as justice and evil.

Issui told Shizune about Akatsuki and its threat, then intercepted Orochimaru's Sound Four while they were taking Sasuke Uchiha away. When Kimimaro arrived to hold Issui off, Haku tried to show him that bonds and comrades could give his life meaning beyond serving Orochimaru.

• Issui explained to Shizune that Akatsuki, led by Pain, was gathering intelligence and fueling conflict between countries, and said they should build their strength and stay on guard.
• After circling the Land of Fire, Issui spotted Orochimaru's subordinates and pursued them with Shizune and Haku.
• Issui confronted Sakon, Tayuya, Kidomaru, and Jirobo, who had Sasuke Uchiha in a barrel, and the Sound Four entered Curse Mark Stage Two.
• Kimimaro appeared and ordered Sakon and Kidomaru to take Sasuke ahead while he stayed to fight Issui.
• Issui and Haku spoke to Kimimaro about his similarities to Haku and the happiness and support that could come from bonds with comrades.

Kimimaro and Issui continued their deadly battle, with Issui using deceptive ice attacks and mist to exploit Kimimaro’s senses. Kimimaro entered Curse Mark Stage Two and tried to adapt, but Issui’s combined Water and Lightning techniques left him numb as the fight continued.

• Kimimaro revealed the Cursed Seal of Earth and told Issui he would fight to the death for Orochimaru.
• Issui praised Kimimaro’s resolve, then rushed him and blocked his bone-blade strike with Ice Creation-Heart-Protecting Glazed Armor.
• Issui used hidden ice fragments to attack Kimimaro from behind, and Kimimaro recognized that Issui had been testing him.
• Issui unleashed Fire Style-Great Dragon Fire Technique, but Kimimaro transformed into Curse Mark Stage Two and evaded the flames.
• Issui covered the battlefield in mist and attacked with ice snakes and arrows; Kimimaro defended himself but was struck by a concealed arrow.
• Kimimaro decided to close his eyes and rely on his bodily senses, but Issui’s Exploding Water Colliding Wave and Earth Flow left him numb.

Kimimaro and Issui fought to test their Kekkei Genkai, with Issui using ice swords and autonomous shields against Kimimaro’s bone techniques. Kimimaro discovered how Issui’s ice could pass through its own shields, and Issui challenged him to show the full strength of his Taijutsu.

• Kimimaro decided to fight for Orochimaru one last time, and Issui summoned ice swords to face his Shikotsumyaku.
• Kimimaro’s bone attacks clashed with Issui’s ice swords, and Issui explained how controlling ice density made it strong enough to match bone.
• Issui summoned four autonomous ice shields, which blocked Kimimaro’s rapid Dance of the Willow attacks.
• Issui extended and bent an ice sword to cut Kimimaro, who defended with bone techniques and counterattacked with the Dance of the Camellia.
• Kimimaro studied Issui’s attacks and discovered that Issui melted parts of the shields into water to let his sword pass through.
• Issui praised Kimimaro’s insight, raised an ice sword, and challenged him to demonstrate his Taijutsu.

Kimimaro fought Issui, but Issui’s Flame Body made him immune to Kimimaro’s bone attacks. Haku asked Issui to spare Kimimaro, but Kimimaro refused to stop fighting and died in Issui’s black flames.

• Kimimaro used a feint to bind Issui and attacked with his bone drill, but Issui transformed his body into flames and survived.
• Issui explained that Flame Body nullified most physical attacks and urged Kimimaro to stop, while Kimimaro continued fighting despite his illness.
• Kimimaro said he would live on in Orochimaru’s heart, and Haku asked Issui to spare him because she remembered meeting him during the Kaguya Clan rebellion.
• Issui told Haku to let Kimimaro fight for his beliefs, then struck him with the Amaterasu Great Fireball Technique.
• Kimimaro silently watched the birds as the black flames consumed him, and he died beside Issui and Haku.

Issui joined Shizune and Naruto’s team as they pursued Sasuke, while secretly allowing the chase to slow because he wanted Sasuke to reach Orochimaru. As the exhausted group stopped to rest, Orochimaru’s worsening condition made his need for a new vessel urgent.

• Issui explained Haku’s account of the departed man’s sacrifice, and Shizune joined him after defeating another enemy.
• Naruto, Shikamaru, Kiba Inuka, Akamaru, Neji, and Choji arrived while pursuing Sasuke; Haku took the unconscious Tayuya back to the Fifth Lord Hokage, and Issui and Shizune joined the pursuit.
• Sakon and Kidomaru learned the pursuers were closing in and fled toward the Land of Fire’s border, while Issui cleared traps along the route.
• Orochimaru suffered severe pain and learned from Kabuto that he might die before Sasuke arrived, prompting Kabuto to prepare another vessel.
• Shizune stopped the exhausted team to rest, and Issui argued that continuing immediately could endanger them while concealing that he could defeat the pursuers himself.
• Issui shared Hinata’s rice balls with the team, and Naruto drew confidence from his comrades’ promises to help bring Sasuke back.

Issui and Shizune defeated Sakon, Ukon, and Kidomaru, but Sasuke rejected Naruto’s pleas and chose to leave the village to gain power. Issui let Sasuke go and gave him a scroll about Itachi, while Naruto and the others continued after him.

• Issui and Shizune defeated Sakon, Ukon, and Kidomaru after Neji freed the group from Kidomaru’s webs.
• Sasuke emerged from the barrel and rejected Naruto’s request to return to the village.
• Issui acknowledged Sasuke’s choice, gave him information about Itachi, and let him leave.
• Shizune questioned Issui’s decision, but he explained that Sasuke would keep trying to escape unless they killed or imprisoned him.
• Naruto pursued Sasuke, and Shikamaru and the others followed.

Issui returned to Konoha after letting Sasuke leave with Orochimaru, and explained his decision to Tsunade, who forgave him but assigned him a pile of missions. He decided to head to the underground ruins in the Land of Wind to investigate the Stone of Gelel.

• Issui gave Sasuke a scroll revealing the truth behind the Uchiha Clan Massacre and hoped Sasuke would understand Itachi’s motives.
• Issui returned home, where Haku told him that Tsunade wanted to see him and that Tayuya was being interrogated by the Intelligence Division.
• Issui told Tsunade that he had defeated Orochimaru’s subordinates but let Sasuke go, arguing that Sasuke would otherwise escape and that Orochimaru posed no immediate threat.
• Tsunade warned Issui that Sasuke might become Orochimaru’s vessel or ally, but ultimately forgave Issui and gave him numerous missions.
• Issui left the Hokage building and decided to visit the underground ruins in the Land of Wind to search for the Stone of Gelel.

Issui followed a soul-deep pull to the underground ruins and discovered the Gelel Vein, which his Eye of Heaven absorbed. The power unlocked the Eye of Heaven’s fourth stage, Dust, leaving Issui with a new set of formidable abilities and Chakra beyond Kage Level.

• Issui traveled south through the Land of Wind and learned from a teahouse owner that the sea lay southeast, near villages recently attacked by bandits.
• After his Eye of Heaven opened on its own, Issui felt compelled to run through the desert until he reached a collapsed ruin.
• Issui used his Byakugan to find the underground passages, descended into the ruins, and learned from the wall pictures about the Stone of Gelel.
• Issui’s Eye of Heaven fired a beam that absorbed the Gelel Vein, strengthening his body and Chakra while a seven-colored chakra wheel appeared.
• After the Gelel Vein was fully absorbed, the Eye of Heaven unlocked its fourth stage, Dust, granting Issui the Sumeru World, Earth Comprehension, Myriad Transformations, and Kitsuchi War God abilities.

Issui read the fourth-stage Eye of Heaven scroll and learned that two worlds were destined to merge, bringing powerful magical beasts and Abyssal Demons into conflict with humanity. He decided to travel to the other world to gather intelligence, but after leaving the ruins he encountered Temari, who had followed him across the Land of Wind.

• Issui used the fourth-stage Eye of Heaven to read a secret scroll explaining that the Eye came from another world and that its creator, Argus*Philia, had brought the Flying Dragon Clan to this world.
• The scroll revealed that the worlds were drawing together, that Abyssal Demons had entered the underground, and that the creator left a magic array for traveling between the worlds.
• Issui accepted that he needed to scout the other world, left the Phantom Underground Ruins without the Gelel Vein, and headed back toward the village to request an extended leave.
• Two days later, Issui stopped at the Land of Fire's border and confronted Temari, who had followed him from the Land of Wind.
• Issui disarmed Temari with his speed, touched a Shuriken to her neck, then told her he had only traveled in the Land of Wind and vanished after patting her cheek.
• Temari shouted after Issui in anger as he left.

Issui returned to Konoha and persuaded Tsunade to let him leave for up to two years to investigate Akatsuki, concealing his real reason for the long absence. At home, he shared an intimate evening with Hinata before preparing to depart.

• Issui learned from Izumo and Kotetsu that Sasuke Uchiha had defected and then visited Tsunade, who offered him an S-rank mission.
• Issui told Tsunade he wanted to investigate Akatsuki and demonstrated a bird transformation that concealed his presence; she approved his departure for up to two years as a super S-rank mission.
• Issui went home and told Hinata he would be away for a year or two, and she asked him to take Haku along to discourage him from flirting with other women.
• After dinner, Issui washed Hinata's feet, then kissed and embraced her in bed.

Issui left Konoha with Haku, told her that the worlds were merging and demonic beasts threatened both worlds, and revealed his Sumeru World. After preparing the small world and activating a spatial teleportation array, Issui was transported to the other world.

• Issui left Hinata a farewell note, woke Haku, and departed Konoha with her.
• Issui told Haku about his origins in another world, the coming threat of demonic beasts, and asked her to become his wife and assistant; Haku agreed.
• Issui brought Haku into the Sumeru World, gave her a mark that let her enter it, and showed her how it was expanding.
• Issui and Haku transplanted flowers and plants into the Sumeru World, then rested overnight.
• Issui inscribed and activated a spatial teleportation array, which transported him away as strange cries and roars sounded around him.

Issui saved Bruton and his villagers from Demonic Wind Dire Wolves, then learned that the people believed him to be a divine child descended from Auguste Philia. After demonstrating his power at Blue Mountain City, he entered with the villagers and asked Yis Mark Haku to tell him about the world.

• Issui killed several Demonic Wind Dire Wolves with Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation and rescued Bruton and his villagers.
• Bruton used a hide scroll to let Issui understand their language, then explained the world's danger from magical beasts and its belief in divine children from the Sacred Mountain Range.
• Issui named Auguste Philia as his ancestor, and Bruton and the villagers celebrated him as her divine descendant.
• At Blue Mountain City, a soldier doubted Bruton's claim, so Issui summoned a towering Flame Demon Descent before the walls.
• Yis Mark Haku recognized Issui as Auguste Philia's divine child, admitted him and the villagers into the city, and led Issui to a reception room to answer his questions.

Issui learned that humans lived under the magical beasts’ rule and offered them a new cultivation system based on ninja techniques. After Yis agreed to gather the leaders of the three human kingdoms, Issui asked Blue Stone City’s lord, Krasil Marco, to test the system.

• Yis explained the continents, power levels, and the imbalance between humans, magical beasts, elves, and dwarves, including the annual tributes of humans to magical beasts.
• Issui asked whether the world’s peoples cultivated Natural Energy and proposed a profession system that could strengthen humanity without it.
• Issui gave Yis a scroll of ninja cultivation methods, but Yis could not read its Japanese writing, so Issui told him to gather the three kingdoms’ leaders for an explanation.
• Issui brought Haku out of his Sumeru Space and told her about humanity’s plight; Haku said they should find a way to save the people.
• Krasil Marco, lord of Blue Stone City, arrived and offered Issui and Haku a place to stay; Issui asked Krasil to test the new cultivation system, and Krasil knelt in eager acceptance.

Issui taught Krasil how to extract Chakra, and Krasil succeeded, showing that warriors in this world could begin cultivating as ninjas. After the kings and Demigods of the three kingdoms arrived in Blue Mountain City, Issui met them to discuss the new cultivation system.

• Issui explained Chakra cultivation to Krasil, who extracted Chakra and gained the strength of a Genin.
• Krasil arranged a guest residence for Issui and Haku and promised to bring Haku a language scroll.
• Anuki Alexander and Celia discussed the Divine Son’s arrival and decided to summon the leaders of the other two kingdoms.
• Issui used the language scroll to teach Haku the local language, and they rested for the night.
• Krasil brought Issui to meet the kings and guardian Demigods who had arrived from the three kingdoms.

Issui introduced the ninja cultivation system to the human rulers and demonstrated its power, then planned to kill the Two-Headed Frost Wolf Xiaotian. He and Xiliya waited near Xiaotian’s territory for midnight while she explained his abilities and the risks of the attack.

• Issui gave the rulers scrolls describing ninja cultivation and Ninjutsu, and Krasil demonstrated the Substitution Technique.
• Issui said he could defeat a God Level magical beast and outlined a plan to distribute the ninja system, eliminate the beasts’ leaders, and ally with the elves and dwarves.
• Xiliya identified the Two-Headed Frost Wolf Xiaotian as the weaker target, and Issui ordered the rulers to spread the scrolls while he and Xiliya prepared to attack.
• As they waited on the mountain path, Xiliya explained that Xiaotian drew strength from moonlight and described his Frost World and Bloodthirsty Aura abilities.
• Issui considered his elemental resistances and feared the Blazing Liger Leins might intervene, but Xiliya said Leins lived too far away to arrive in time.

Issui attacked Xiaotian, the Two-Headed Frost Wolf God, hoping to defeat him and help humanity, but he discovered that the god’s power far surpassed his own. After Issui’s Amaterasu Great Fireball Technique injured Xiaotian, Xiaotian unleashed a freezing assault that trapped Issui in place.

• Xiliya told Issui that most demigod magical beasts had gone home, leaving only two God Level beasts to guard the area, and gave him a signal flare before he set out alone.
• Issui reached Xiaotian’s crystal hall, where Xiaotian appeared and overwhelmed him with godlike power, immobilizing him with sheer pressure.
• Issui used a substitution and Shadow Clone Technique to evade Xiaotian, then revealed himself and declared that he had come to kill the beast for humanity.
• Issui struck Xiaotian with the Amaterasu Great Fireball Technique, but Xiaotian countered the black flames with Absolute Freeze and survived with burned clothes and hair.
• Enraged, Xiaotian cast Extreme Ice Feast, surrounding Issui with falling ice blocks and frost while the freezing aura left him unable to move.