Chapter Summaries

Wang Chuan died after slipping on a banana peel and transmigrated into the Naruto world as five-year-old Nishu Tamagawa. In Konoha Year 39, Tamagawa weighed his chances of survival and settled on becoming a medical-nin, though he still had to study the family’s medical books.

• Wang Chuan celebrated his thirtieth birthday and considered buying a car and finding a partner.
• Wang Chuan slipped on a banana peel at the mall, fell down three steps, and died as an ambulance arrived.
• Nishu Tamagawa recalled his transmigration and confirmed that he had been reborn in the Naruto world.
• Tamagawa reviewed his family’s history: his father Nishu Hayashi died on a reconnaissance mission, while his mother Futate Shizuka treated patients at their herb shop.
• Tamagawa considered becoming a medical-nin like his eldest uncle Ichite Ki, since the work could offer better prospects for survival than being a civilian.

Tamaki joined the Ninja Academy in Konoha, reflecting on the dangers of the Shinobi World and the abilities he hoped to acquire. He left the enrollment ceremony resolved to study Medical Ninjutsu and befriend Might Guy.

• Tamaki spent the evening with his family, then visited Nishu Hayashi's shrine with Futate Shizuka and decided to make a life for himself in the Shinobi World.
• Tamaki attended the Ninja Academy enrollment ceremony and listened to the Third's speech while spotting Obito Uchiha and Asuma among his classmates.
• Tamaki considered Konoha's bloodlines and secret techniques, then noticed Might Guy and wondered if medicine could help him learn the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• After the Third declared the children members of the Ninja Academy, Tamaki decided to study Medical Ninjutsu and build a friendship with Might Guy.

Tamaki trained with Guy, Obito, and Asuma before encountering a fleeing spy pursued by Anbu on his way home. He tried to escape the spy’s Hidden Mist Technique but was stabbed through the chest, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Tamaki declined Guy’s invitation to train and advised him to moderate his exercise while he was still growing.
• Tamaki parted ways with Obito and Asuma at the Konoha Gate and headed home, while Guy continued training.
• Komura Tarō fled from a dog-masked Anbu, and Tamaki crossed his path and narrowly avoided a tachi strike with the Substitution Technique.
• Komura Tarō used the Hidden Mist Technique, and Tamaki created two clones to confuse him and escape.
• Komura Tarō caught Tamaki from behind and pierced his chest with a tachi as he continued fleeing.

After being cut down while helping Konoha intercept a spy, Tamaki discovered a space where he could share memories and supernatural power with alternate selves from other worlds. He returned to his recovering body and learned about the lives and plans of the two Wang Chuan counterparts, then prepared to return to the space.

• Tamaki followed a gray path through the fog and found a chamber where two Wang Chuan counterparts explained the life-and-death-triggered cheat and its limits.
• Tamaki returned to his injured body and woke in the hospital as his mother, Futate Shizuka, and uncle, Ichite Ki, cared for him.
• Ichite Ki said Tamaki would recover with rest and promised to handle compensation for helping the village intercept the spy.
• Tamaki reviewed Shinigami Wang Chuan's memories and learned that he was about to graduate from Shin'ō Academy and intended to join the Fourth Division.
• Tamaki reviewed Pirate Wang Chuan's memories and learned that he had escaped Kaido's attack on Wano Country, built up the Wang family's holdings, and risen to Marine captain.
• After eating the meal Futate Shizuka prepared, Tamaki planned to return to the shared space and learn more about the cheat.

Tamaki, the Navy Wang Chuan, and the Soul Reaper Wang Chuan discussed how their shared space distorted time and space, then planned Tamaki’s growth in the Naruto world. They agreed to meet every three days and explore ways to synchronize time between their worlds.

• The three Wang Chuan compared how time and movement behaved in their shared space and speculated that their cheat might be incomplete or restoring its original form.
• The Soul Reaper Wang Chuan and the Navy Wang Chuan questioned Tamaki’s possible Senju heritage, discussed the Senju Clan’s medical traditions, and identified Katsuyu and Tsunade as potential routes to Sage Mode.
• The group discussed the Ōtsutsuki Clan, Kāma, and Natural Energy, while Tamaki weighed the limited time before the Naruto story’s major threats arrived.
• Tamaki chose to improve his Medical Ninjutsu and study Earth and Water Release, while the Soul Reaper Wang Chuan planned to join the Fourth Division and study healing Kidō.
• The Navy Wang Chuan explained that he had to keep growing stronger to kill Kaido, and the three agreed to meet every three days and consider building a synchronization relay station.

While recovering in the hospital, Tamaki used his growing Chakra reserves to reveal his potential to his uncle, Ichite Ki, and ask about their connection to the Senju. Ichite Ki reported that Tamaki might have awakened an Uzumaki bloodline, prompting the Hokage to arrange support for his medical training and future instruction; Tamaki left focused on learning the Rasengan and the Eight Gates Released Formation.

• Tamaki told Ichite Ki that his Chakra reserves had grown and asked whether their family was connected to the Senju.
• Ichite Ki sensed Tamaki's reserves, found them close to two-thirds of his own, and went to report a possible Uzumaki bloodline to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Ichite Ki and Hiruzen discussed Tamaki's training, possible instructors, and the prospect of earning Katsuyu's recognition through medical ninjutsu.
• Ichite Ki returned to Tamaki and said he would begin teaching him medical ninjutsu and help him qualify as a medical-nin.
• Tamaki considered how the village's support and his ties to the Senju could protect him, then resolved to focus on the Rasengan and the Eight Gates Released Formation.

After completing a preliminary version of Life Return, Tamaki returned to the Academy and approached Guy about his demanding Taijutsu training and medicinal baths. Ichite Ki agreed to help Tamaki refine Life Return and advised him to build a relationship with Guy by helping him rather than simply trading for the Eight Gates Released Formation.

• Tamaki completed a preliminary Life Return technique that used nutrition to increase cellular activity and roughly halve recovery time, then returned home after being discharged.
• Tamaki examined Guy's training and medicinal bath formula, offered to have his uncle review it, and invited Guy and Duy to visit the Sanshou Medicinal Herb Shop.
• Guy told Duy about Tamaki's offer, and Duy decided the two of them should meet the Medical Special Jōnin.
• Tamaki proposed to Ichite Ki that he assess the Eight Gates Released Formation and seek permission for Tamaki to practice it in exchange for Life Return.
• Ichite Ki read Tamaki's notes, recognized the technique's promise, and offered to help refine it while advising Tamaki to involve Guy as a collaborator rather than treat the exchange as a business deal.

Ichite Ki examined Might Guy and Might Duy, learned that Duy could open the Seventh Gate, and helped them bring the Eight Gates Released Formation before Hiruzen Sarutobi. Duy agreed to help improve Tamaki’s Life Return technique, and the chapter ended with Hiruzen learning that Tamaki had created it.

• Ichite Ki examined Might Guy and found him physically gifted, then discovered that Might Duy’s condition was poor and that Duy could open the Seventh Gate.
• Duy showed Ichite Ki the Eight Gates Released Formation and agreed to help improve Tamaki’s Life Return after seeing its potential to heal injuries caused by the gates.
• Duy handed over the complete Eight Gates Released Formation, and Ichite Ki said only Tamaki would learn it before taking Duy and Guy to meet Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Ichite Ki presented the technique to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who ordered Fukurou to arrange a strength test for Duy and asked Ichite Ki to attend.
• Ichite Ki presented Life Return and explained its healing effects, then revealed that Tamaki had created the technique and that it was still incomplete.

Tamaki attended the Ninja Academy, where the students were tested on the Three Basic Techniques, then visited Might Duy to receive detailed guidance on the Eight Gates Released Formation. He left with a plan to study the technique and explore whether it could be adapted to spiritual energy.

• Guy told Tamaki that Might Duy was recovering, had become an elite Chunin, and had received money and medicinal herbs as a reward for submitting the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Teacher Shinichi tested the students on the Three Basic Techniques; Asuma and Kakashi earned excellent ratings, while Obito and Guy struggled.
• Tamaki teased Obito after he failed the test, prompting Obito to complain that he had embarrassed himself in front of Rin.
• Guy took Tamaki to visit Might Duy, who warned him that the Eight Gates Released Formation required grueling training and shared his experience and key training details.
• Tamaki considered whether a spiritual version of the Eight Gates Released Formation could be developed and resolved to focus on learning the technique, training in the Rasengan, and refining Life Return.

Tamaki and the Marine and Soul Reaper compared their progress and plans, then Tamaki asked Ichite Ki to help refine a spiritual-power version of the Eight Gates Released Formation. After graduating, Tamaki prepared to meet his Jonin instructor, Hatake Sakumo, and teammates Asuma and Kurenai.

• Tamaki, Wang Chuan, and the Soul Reaper discussed their training, ambitions, and the need to keep building strength while staying cautious.
• Wang Chuan weighed Marine factions and ways to gain influence so he could eventually fight Kaido himself.
• Tamaki brought Ichite Ki a first draft of the spiritual-power Eight Gates Released Formation and asked him to seek help from the Yuhi, Yamanaka, and Nara clans.
• Ichite Ki helped arrange for the technique to be reviewed, and it was preliminarily refined over the following half month.
• Tamaki graduated and prepared to become a Genin under Hatake Sakumo, alongside Asuma and Kurenai.

Hatake Sakumo recalled how the Third had assigned him to train Asuma Sarutobi, Kurenai Yuhi, and Nishu Tamagawa, a gifted student who had created Life Return. After introductions, Sakumo gave the new team a two-bell test, and Tamaki ended the chapter by trapping him with Earth Release: Earth Prison Technique.

• The Third explained that Tamaki had created Life Return, mastered Earth and Water Release, and learned the Eight Gates Released Formation, then assigned him alongside Asuma and Kurenai to Sakumo.
• Sakumo struck Asuma for whispering and told Tamaki to heal him before the team introduced themselves.
• Asuma said he wanted to surpass the Third, Kurenai shared her interest in Genjutsu, and Tamaki said he wished to live peacefully.
• Sakumo set a test in which only two of the three Genin could pass by taking one of his two bells before sunset.
• Tamaki questioned whether the test was really about teamwork, then used Earth Release: Earth Prison Technique to trap Sakumo.

Team Sakumo fought their teacher in a test of their individual abilities and teamwork, using coordinated attacks to trap him briefly before he revealed that he had been fighting with a clone. Sakumo praised and advised the team, then declared that all three had passed and treated them to barbecue.

• Tamaki directed Asuma and Kurenai as they used Ninjutsu, clones, and Genjutsu to interfere with Sakumo and create openings.
• Asuma and Tamaki unleashed their strongest attacks, but Sakumo evaded them and defeated Asuma in close combat.
• Tamaki opened three Eight Gates and created two solid Shadow Clones, coordinating their attacks to restrain Sakumo while Kurenai cast Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death.
• Sakumo's trapped form vanished as a clone, and the unharmed Sakumo emerged to praise the team and advise Tamaki to choose a clearer focus.
• Sakumo declared that Asuma, Kurenai, and Tamaki had all passed their test and offered to treat them to barbecue.

After months of odd jobs and training under Sakumo, Tamaki’s team accepted a mission to leave Konoha and defeat a bandit group. Back home, Tamaki discussed his ambitions with Ichite Ki and learned that elder Senju clan members were considering investing resources in him.

• Sakumo trained Asuma in hand seals, chakra control, and swordsmanship, helped Kurenai improve her ability to face Genjutsu, and guided Tamaki in refining his techniques.
• The Third gave Sakumo a mission scroll, and Team Sakumo accepted a mission to take down a group of bandits outside the village.
• Sakumo told the three Genin to go to bed early before the mission, then left them to discuss the assignment over dango.
• Tamaki brought dango home and told his family he would leave the village on a mission the next day.
• Ichite Ki asked Tamaki about his plans, advised him to focus on developing his Uzumaki Kekkei Genkai, and revealed that elder Senju clan members might offer him resources.
• Tamaki agreed to pursue his goals and welcomed the possibility of support from the Senju clan.

After Team Sakumo completed a series of bandit missions, Sakumo signed Tamaki, Asuma, and Kurenai up for the Chunin Ninja Exams and sent them home to train. That night, Tamaki met three new arrivals in the shared space, including a potted Fire Spirit Tree whose awakening began in the cultivation world.

• Tamaki, Asuma, and Kurenai waited out the rain, then killed the bandits at their hideout and burned the building to conceal their work.
• Over the next half month, Team Sakumo defeated four more groups of bandits, including a large band led by the Bandit King, and Sakumo praised the youngsters’ growing resolve.
• Sakumo told the team he would enter them in the Chunin Ninja Exams in two months, then gave them three days off after they returned to the village.
• Tamaki reunited with his worried mother, Futate Shizuka, and later spoke with Ichite Ki about his training.
• Tamaki entered the shared space and met an eight-year-old boy, a poor farmer from the Douluo world, and a potted Fire Spirit Tree called Little Fusang.
• Little Fusang absorbed spiritual energy in the Fire Spirit Sect’s warehouse, turning red as a disciple went to alert the steward.

Wang Chuan led a Fourth Division sewer-cleaning team that discovered a Garganta and fought off Hollows until a Gillian emerged. The chapter left him facing the powerful Hollow while waiting for the Second Division to arrive.

• Wang Chuan attended the Fourth Division's induction of new recruits and was assigned to clean the sewers again.
• Wang Chuan led Sugimoto Sōta, Asakura Sumino, and Mizuno Chizu through the sewers, where the recruits repeated a rumor that Captain Unohana had singled him out after he rejected her confession.
• Wang Chuan sensed an abnormal Spiritual Pressure and discovered a Garganta; Sugimoto sent Hell Butterflies to summon support and warn the other teams.
• Wang Chuan ordered Sugimoto and the recruits to retreat, then killed six Hollows that emerged from the Garganta.
• Wang Chuan watched a Gillian step out of the still-open Garganta and cursed the Seventh Division.

Wang Chuan fought two Gillians in the sewers, awakened his Zanpakuto’s Shikai, and defeated one before being overwhelmed by the other’s Cero. After recovering and defeating the second Gillian, he demanded injury benefits, time off, and a reward from the arriving Second Division.

• Wang Chuan bound a Gillian with Bakudō and damaged its mask, but it used Sonído to evade him as a second Gillian emerged from the Garganta.
• Wang Chuan bound the second Gillian, blinded the first with Ōkasen, and split the first Gillian’s mask and head with a wave of sword pressure.
• The second Gillian struck Wang Chuan with a Cero, and he awakened his Zanpakuto’s Shikai, Surpass the Peak, after confronting its spirit.
• Wang Chuan used his Shikai’s soaring spiritual pressure to kill the second Gillian, then sealed it when he sensed the cleanup crew arriving.
• Marechiyo Ōmaeda and the Second Division arrived, and Wang Chuan demanded work-related injury benefits, time off, and a reward for facing six Hollows and two Gillians alone.

After Wang Chuan helped repel a Hollow invasion, Unohana questioned him about the suspicious attack and recognized that he had achieved Shikai. She promoted him to Eighth Seat and let him recover, but soon sent him to assist the short-handed Thirteenth Division.

• Wang Chuan asked Ōmaeda about rewards and time off, then returned to the barracks with Sugimoto after the Garganta disappeared.
• Unohana dismissed Sugimoto and took Wang Chuan to her office, where she gave him medicinal tea and asked about the battle.
• Wang Chuan pointed out suspicious details about the Garganta and the two Gillians, while Unohana raised Kobayashi's possible involvement; Wang Chuan privately suspected Aizen.
• Unohana concluded that Wang Chuan had achieved Shikai, appointed him Eighth Seat, and told him to heal before reporting back.
• Wang Chuan expected to enjoy time off after recovering, but less than two days later Unohana sent him to help the understaffed Thirteenth Division.

Wang Chuan was assigned to the Thirteenth Division for a four-month rotation, where he helped Jūshirō Ukitake and joined Kaien Shiba’s squad. After Kaien invited him to the Shiba residence, Wang Chuan met Kūkaku Shiba and began to feel welcomed into the family’s circle.

• Unohana told Wang Chuan that he had to serve in other divisions on a rotating four-month schedule, and he was assigned to the Thirteenth Division.
• Wang Chuan reported to Jūshirō Ukitake, used healing kido to ease his symptoms, and began following Kaien Shiba on missions.
• Wang Chuan met Kiyone Kotetsu, Sentarō Kotsubaki, Miyako Shiba, and Rukia Kuchiki while helping treat the squad’s wounded.
• Kaien Shiba invited Wang Chuan to the Shiba residence, where an explosion led Wang Chuan to meet Kūkaku Shiba.
• Wang Chuan shared tea and laughter with Kaien Shiba and Miyako Shiba, then watched more of Kaien’s invited guests arrive.

After learning of a mutant Hollow that killed every Shinigami it encountered and apparently destroyed their Zanpakuto, Wang Chuan warned Jūshirō Ukitake and Kaien Shiba to investigate it cautiously. He left intent on gaining the Captain-Commander's attention and strengthening his protection against Aizen, while the Shiba couple and their division remained in danger.

• At a gathering in Rukongai, Wang Chuan heard that a multi-armed mutant Hollow had killed the Shinigami sent against it and that few Zanpakuto had been found at the attack sites.
• Wang Chuan recognized the Hollow as likely Metastacia and considered how to prevent Kaien Shiba and Miyako Shiba from dying during the coming hunt.
• Wang Chuan told Jūshirō Ukitake and Kaien Shiba about the Hollow and warned that it might devour Zanpakuto, recommending a large force and long-range Kidō attacks.
• Jūshirō Ukitake agreed to verify the reports and told Kaien Shiba to prepare high-level contingency plans for similar threats.
• Wang Chuan decided to approach the Captain-Commander through Unohana so he could gain protection and support while preparing for the danger posed by Aizen.

Wang Chuan helped the Thirteenth Division hunt Metastacia, then returned to the Fourth Division and reported what he had learned. Unohana prepared to test his strength in a spar before the Captain-Commander summoned him.

• Kaien Shiba led the Thirteenth Division's fighters in trapping Metastacia, but the Hollow fused with A You despite the team's attacks.
• Wang Chuan confronted Metastacia with Surpass the Peak and killed him with a single strike, though A You's body and spirit faded away.
• Wang Chuan finished his four months with the Thirteenth Division and returned to the Fourth Division, where he told Unohana about Metastacia and the suspected connection to the sewer incident.
• Unohana told Wang Chuan that the Captain-Commander would summon him in half a month and recognized his Breath of All Things technique.
• Unohana took Wang Chuan to a deserted area for a spar, suppressing her spiritual pressure to Captain level as he activated Surpass the Peak.