Recaps

After thirty-six days trapped in the Spacetime Tower, Utsusemi rescued the dying Itama Senju from a battlefield and formed a sharing contract with him. The contract healed Itama and granted Utsusemi new abilities, giving her the strength to enter the Warring States world.

• Utsusemi watched five shinobi attack the young Itama Senju and rushed to save him before he died.
• She carried Itama to the bronze mirror in the Spacetime Tower, which marked him with Ōtsutsuki crests and formed a contract between them.
• The contract caused time outside the tower to race forward ten years and gave Utsusemi access to Itama's memories and bloodline powers.
• Utsusemi used Yin-Yang Release to heal Itama's wounds, while their contract granted her Flower Release and the Sage Body.
• Utsusemi gained the ability to understand the Warring States languages and decided she was now strong enough to leave the tower.

Tobirama Senju investigated Utsusemi, a veiled noblewoman who came to pay respects to his father, Butsuma Senju, while claiming he had once helped her. Her vague story and the suspicious behavior of her young guard left Tobirama alert as he recognized the guard’s old scar.

• A clansman told Tobirama Senju that an unidentified noblewoman had arrived at the mourning hall to pay respects to Butsuma Senju.
• Tobirama went to the mourning hall and found Utsusemi, whose beauty and unusual fragrance briefly softened his vigilance.
• Tobirama suspected that Utsusemi’s fragrance was a Genjutsu and questioned her about the favor Butsuma had supposedly done for her.
• Utsusemi refused to give details, while her young household retainer kept a guarded hand on his sword.
• Tobirama saw a crescent-shaped scar on the retainer’s arm and recognized it as familiar.

At Butsuma Senju’s funeral, Hashirama sensed that the young guard hiding behind Utsusemi was his long-lost younger brother, Itama, who had traveled ten years into the future. Hashirama recognized their shared blood but could not tell whether the child before him was truly Itama or an illusion.

• Hashirama noticed tension near the side entrance and positioned himself between Tobirama and Utsusemi.
• Itama remembered that an Ōtsutsuki ritual had sent him and Utsusemi ten years forward, and that he had learned Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima had killed each other.
• Itama feared his powerful older brothers but stayed at the funeral, reminding himself that they were family and that he had to protect Utsusemi.
• Hashirama touched Itama’s shoulder and felt the unmistakable resonance of their shared Senju blood.
• Hashirama remembered giving Itama three Military Rations Pills before his final mission and struggled to understand how his dead brother could be standing before him.

Utsusemi revealed that she had saved Itama Senju by freezing him outside time, and the Senju brothers were reunited with their younger brother after ten years. Hashirama thanked her and promised the Senju would honor her, while Itama stayed behind to speak with Tobirama.

• Tobirama recognized Itama at the memorial and drew a Kunai as he and Hashirama struggled to believe their brother had returned.
• Utsusemi explained that her time Ninjutsu had kept Itama near death outside time until she could release him.
• Hashirama broke down over Itama’s return and grief that their father had died without knowing his youngest son was alive.
• Hashirama invited Utsusemi to the tearoom, and Itama made him swear not to harm her before she left with him.
• Tobirama gently asked Itama to talk, and Itama agreed while keeping his distance.
• Hashirama thanked Utsusemi, learned Itama would grow normally outside the barrier, and said he would have waited for him there every day.

Utsusemi traded glassware, jewelry, and candy to the Senju brothers for land and their help building a house. At lunch with the Senju family, she brought out fried chicken and teased Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, leaving the meal in awkward disarray.

• Utsusemi showed the Senju brothers her glassware, enamel jewelry, and fruit candies, and Tobirama Senju inspected the goods before agreeing to a twenty percent commission.
• Tobirama Senju offered fifty acres of wasteland, and Utsusemi asked Hashirama Senju to help build a house and furniture from her plans.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju invited Utsusemi to lunch at the Senju Clan's home, where she shared grilled fish with Itama.
• Utsusemi disliked the traditional meal and brought out fried chicken, which Hashirama Senju and Itama eagerly ate before Tobirama Senju tried it.
• Utsusemi teased Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju by saying their looks made up for the food, prompting Hashirama Senju to spit out rice and Tobirama Senju to frown.

Utsusemi settled into the new Senju house, where Hashirama and Tobirama grew attentive to her unusual designs and quiet preferences. After dinner with the brothers and Itama, she returned to the Spacetime Tower, which remained her private refuge.

• Utsusemi showed Hashirama her plans for a three-story house, and he raised it with Wood Release.
• Tobirama discovered the house’s clever furniture mechanisms and suspected Utsusemi’s designs came from beyond their world, but Hashirama told him not to question her origins.
• Utsusemi prepared a hot pot dinner, and Hashirama secretly hid some of the unfamiliar mushrooms while Tobirama noticed her aversion to fish.
• The Senju brothers said goodbye, while Itama explored the house’s mechanisms and Hashirama’s hidden flowers were scattered across the floor.
• Utsusemi teleported back to the Spacetime Tower and rested in her suite, reassured that Itama could safely return to her.

Utsusemi began cultivating the Spacetime Tower’s seeds and met Izuna in a neutral town, where their exchange over a dirty silver coin challenged her fear of filth. After he left, she recognized that her obsession with cleanliness came from guilt over watching people die on the battlefield, and the coin no longer disgusted her as much.

• Utsusemi used Flower Release to cultivate fifty mu of wasteland and plant the Spacetime Tower’s seeds, then arranged for the Senju to water the fields.
• Utsusemi went to a nearby neutral town with silver coins from the pawnshop owner.
• Izuna retrieved a silver coin Utsusemi had abandoned in a drain and questioned her about its unusual design and her bracelet.
• Utsusemi and Izuna exchanged remarks about the coin, craftsmanship, and the value of enduring hardship before he returned it wrapped in a handkerchief.
• After Izuna left, Utsusemi connected her fear of dirt to her guilt about closing her eyes while people died on the battlefield, and found that the stained coin no longer repelled her as much.

Utsusemi confronted her fear of the polluted Naka River and met Izuna’s older brother, Madara, who challenged her and warned her to stay away from Izuna. After she healed his hidden injuries, Madara introduced himself as the Uchiha clan leader and invited her to come with him, but she chose to remain free.

• Utsusemi tried to overcome her revulsion toward the Naka River but recoiled from its filth and the corpses in the water.
• Madara appeared, mocked Utsusemi’s fear, recognized the handkerchief as Izuna’s, and warned her to stay away from his brother.
• Utsusemi stepped into the rotting mud despite her fear, then taunted Madara by offering free treatment and implying Izuna might learn about him.
• Madara threatened Utsusemi with his scabbard, but released her after learning she had come from another world and noticing that she smelled like Izuna.
• Utsusemi healed Madara’s old injuries with chakra, and he identified himself as Madara and revealed that only he and Izuna remained.
• Madara invited Utsusemi to come with him, but she refused; he left after telling her to call his name if wild dogs attacked her.

Hashirama and Tobirama tested Utsusemi’s extraordinary chakra and Limitless Cursed Technique, then watched her struggle with basic ninjutsu. The chapter ended with her surviving a misfired Fire Style technique thanks to Limitless.

• Tobirama measured Utsusemi’s chakra and found every nature, including Yin Release, flowing in harmony.
• Hashirama attacked Utsusemi with shuriken, but Limitless erased them before they could touch her.
• Utsusemi used Flower Release: Strangler Fig to crush Hashirama’s wooden post and briefly bind Hashirama, while Tobirama noted the brothers’ unusual emotional response to her chakra.
• Utsusemi attempted the Clone Technique, but her misshapen clone vanished almost immediately.
• Utsusemi’s Great Fireball Technique misfired and exploded nearby, but Limitless shielded her from the blast.

Hashirama and Tobirama tested Utsusemi’s abilities and discovered that she was immune to Genjutsu but unable to use it, while her Taijutsu remained wildly uncoordinated despite her extraordinary strength. The chapter left the Senju brothers baffled by the gap between her physical power and basic fighting skills.

• Hashirama’s explosion failed to harm Utsusemi because Limitless protected her.
• Hashirama and Tobirama tested Genjutsu on Utsusemi, but her Tenseigan dispelled every technique; they discovered she could neither use Genjutsu nor perform the basic Transformation Technique.
• Tobirama examined Utsusemi’s Chakra and found its density and energy pattern abnormal, while suspecting she was concealing the Tenseigan’s full power.
• Hashirama and Tobirama tried to teach Utsusemi basic Taijutsu, but she stumbled, fell, and accidentally launched herself across the training ground.
• Utsusemi easily lifted the weighted stone, then broke an iron-bound training post with a badly misaligned side kick.

Utsusemi mastered Shadow Clones but struggled with basic Taijutsu, revealing that her body’s immense Chakra operated independently of her near-dormant consciousness. As she fell into a deep sleep, Hashirama and Tobirama questioned what kind of being she was, while Itama kept her secrets.

• Utsusemi saw the Senju brothers’ Chakra networks with her eyes closed and discovered that her own Chakra was vastly more powerful and chaotic.
• After Tobirama’s instruction, Utsusemi mastered the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and assigned four clones to bookkeeping, cooking, cleaning, and reading.
• Utsusemi struggled with basic Taijutsu, repeatedly tripped, and questioned the value of weighted squats despite completing two hundred.
• Tobirama’s measurements showed that Utsusemi’s body barely reacted to exertion, and Hashirama ended the training session.
• Utsusemi’s eyes went dark and she collapsed into a deep dormancy, while a net of flowers caught her and the monitoring device showed almost no neural activity.
• Itama silently guarded his secrets as Hashirama and Tobirama wondered what kind of being lived inside Utsusemi’s body.

On her nineteenth birthday, Utsusemi accepted Itama’s suggestion to hold a cocktail party with the Senju brothers. The celebration ended with Tobirama inviting her to join his research and a drunken Hashirama pulling them both into an embrace.

• A birthday notification reminded Utsusemi that it was her nineteenth birthday, and Itama persuaded her to celebrate with a party.
• Itama brought Hashirama and Tobirama to the living room, where they gave Utsusemi birthday wishes and gifts.
• Utsusemi made cocktails while Itama prepared fruit, and Tobirama discussed spacetime coordinates and Flying Thunder God with her.
• Tobirama adjusted Utsusemi’s Hand Seals and invited her to join his research, and she agreed.
• Hashirama, tipsy and overjoyed, embraced Utsusemi and Tobirama, leaving Utsusemi pinned between them.

After Hashirama accidentally trapped Utsusemi in a drunken embrace, she forgave him and acknowledged the warmth she felt with him. She and Tobirama reconciled through her help with his Flying Thunder God experiments and a gift of laboratory equipment, leaving their estrangement behind.

• Hashirama's drunken embrace trapped Utsusemi, Tobirama, and Itama until a chakra shockwave separated them, and Utsusemi slapped Hashirama before fleeing to her room.
• At dawn, Hashirama apologized, and Utsusemi forgave him and embraced him after asking him to seek her permission before hugging her again.
• Utsusemi apologized to Tobirama for scratching him, and he said she had only been struggling because she was suffocating.
• Utsusemi used the Spacetime Tower computer to calculate Tobirama's Flying Thunder God parameters and gave him the corrected data.
• Utsusemi gave Tobirama a complete set of laboratory equipment, and their wariness and estrangement came to an end.

Utsusemi, Itama, and Tobirama surprised Hashirama with a birthday celebration, cake, and gifts when he returned from a mission. The gathering ended in warm laughter, with Hashirama asking Utsusemi for a hug and Tobirama stepping in to manage the rowdy celebration.

• Utsusemi and Itama prepared a cake, flowers, and a childhood-memory scroll for Hashirama’s twenty-third birthday.
• Tobirama and Utsusemi decorated the Senju residence before Hashirama returned from a mission carrying a box of mushrooms.
• Hashirama admired the cake, made a wish, and shared it with his brothers and Utsusemi.
• Utsusemi gave Hashirama a succulent, Itama gave him a scroll, and Tobirama presented a wooden carving after Hashirama teased him for having no gift.
• Hashirama asked Utsusemi for a friendly hug, and Tobirama stepped forward to take control as the celebration grew rowdy.

Utsusemi pushed Tobirama Senju’s Flying Thunder God research into a dangerous spatial experiment, then vanished in a jump while delirious. She returned the next day, having experienced a moment of freedom in a valley.

• Utsusemi used her Tenseigan, Limitless Cursed Technique, and Yin-Yang Release to help Tobirama Senju refine the Flying Thunder God’s spatial coordinates, despite his warnings that the experiment was damaging her body.
• Itama entered the laboratory as the space began to distort, and Tobirama stopped the phenomenon with a burst of blue light after touching the coordinates.
• Utsusemi collapsed from overheating after completing seven unstable jumps, while Tobirama recorded the experiment and Itama showed him her crayon safety manual.
• Utsusemi’s Shadow Clone disappeared, revealing that she had jumped away from the laboratory while delirious.
• The following day, Hashirama told Tobirama that Utsusemi had returned on her own, while Utsusemi laughed beside a stream, feeling free.

Utsusemi ran out of Chakra and was ambushed by rogue ninja, but Izuna intervened and witnessed her use powerful space-manipulating abilities. Madara arrived and brought her to the Uchiha grounds so she could treat three clansmen the next morning, while he and Izuna reconciled through their familiar teasing.

• Three rogue ninja tried to capture Utsusemi, but Izuna used his Sharingan to stop them and Utsusemi's Limitless repelled their poison and destroyed their barrier.
• Utsusemi recognized Izuna's red eyes as matching Madara's and collapsed, so Izuna carried her toward an inn.
• Madara arrived after the silver chain alerted the Uchiha sentries and explained that three clansmen needed Utsusemi's medical Ninjutsu.
• Utsusemi grabbed Madara's sleeve, resisted being moved, and vomited on his clan-crest cloak when the brothers stumbled together.
• Madara ordered Izuna to carry Utsusemi to the clan grounds for treatment the next morning, then told him he had done well.
• Izuna asked to sleep with Madara as they had when they were children, and Madara gently agreed.

Utsusemi woke in the Uchiha clan grounds and accepted a job healing Uchiha members whose Chakra had run out of control. After treating the injured, she wandered into a field of cosmos flowers, carrying a new handkerchief Izuna had given her.

• Utsusemi woke in Izuna's room, where Madara told her the Uchiha would hire her to heal in repayment for dirtying his collar.
• Izuna brought Utsusemi medicine, noticed her Chakra Threads reaching toward Madara, and pinned her sleeve with a Kunai before Madara stopped him.
• Izuna offered Utsusemi paid work treating Uchiha patients, and she accepted.
• Utsusemi teased Izuna about his agitated Chakra and the handkerchief embroidered with the Flying Thunder God Formula.
• Utsusemi used her Tenseigan and Chakra Threads to heal injured Uchiha members in the medical unit.
• Utsusemi wandered into a mountain field of cosmos flowers, pleased to notice the new handkerchief Izuna had left her.

Utsusemi treated Madara and Izuna’s matching curse and gave Madara a special communication tablet before visiting the Uchiha compound. Back at the Spacetime Tower, she studied the fused curse and wondered what the Uchiha had provoked.

• A training post exploded during Izuna’s Fire Style practice, and Madara shielded him, taking debris through his shoulder.
• Utsusemi noticed Madara’s healed scar had returned and discovered that he and Izuna shared a curse that consumed chakra and life forces.
• Utsusemi drew the corrupted energy from the brothers, healed their wounds, and gave Madara a tablet that could contact her.
• Madara showed Utsusemi around the Uchiha compound, while Izuna and the clan’s watchful presence made her uneasy.
• Utsusemi accepted payment and medicinal herbs from the brothers, then returned to the Spacetime Tower with a silver coin tied to their shared memory.
• Utsusemi examined the fused curse in her laboratory and suspected that one relative’s life was being transferred to another.

Utsusemi showed Hashirama and Tobirama the extraordinary harvest produced by her modern seeds and cultivation methods. Tobirama wanted to transplant the crops to Senju experimental fields, but Utsusemi insisted they finish harvesting first, leaving him to temper his curiosity and enjoy working alongside her.

• Utsusemi inspected the thriving crops and harvested them with Itama and seven Senju children.
• Hashirama arrived with Tobirama, who documented the new cultivation methods and produce.
• Hashirama eagerly ate raw sweet corn, then sampled a moonlight pear while Tobirama recorded its qualities.
• Utsusemi stopped Hashirama from picking more fruit with a Flower Release anti-theft jutsu and said seeds would require a trade of Ninjutsu manuals.
• Tobirama asked to transplant the crops to Senju experimental fields, but Utsusemi told him they first needed to finish harvesting.
• Tobirama restrained his impatience and gradually began enjoying working alongside Utsusemi.

Utsusemi hosted the Senju brothers for a harvest feast and exchanged seeds with them for clan Ninjutsu scrolls, explaining that her contract let her share Flower Release with Itama. After they played her ninja-themed board game, Tobirama won but was left troubled by its grim resemblance to a future war.

• Utsusemi invited Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to dinner after the harvest and served them a feast with Itama’s help.
• Hashirama Senju offered clan Ninjutsu scrolls in exchange for seeds, and Utsusemi said her contract allowed her to share abilities such as Flower Release with Itama.
• Utsusemi introduced a ninja-themed version of Monopoly, and the group played through rounds of cheating, failed missions, betrayal, and death.
• Tobirama Senju won the game with the “God of Shinobi” card but later sat alone, troubled by the game’s allegory of future war.

Utsusemi prepared to take Itama away from the Senju clan as danger gathered, while Hashirama struggled to let her go. Tobirama helped them prepare for the journey, and Utsusemi and Itama finished making six thousand long-lasting medicinal ration pills before morning.

• Hashirama told Utsusemi that the Kaguya Clan had gathered at the border and attacked Senju branch-family granaries.
• Tobirama gave Utsusemi a map for a trip to the Land of Hot Water, and Utsusemi embraced Hashirama as they faced the threat of separation.
• Utsusemi and Itama spent the night in the Spacetime Tower making antibiotic and pain-relief pills into portable Military Rations Pills.
• Utsusemi and Itama delivered six thousand pills to Tobirama, who inspected their effects and approved their usefulness.
• Hashirama thanked Utsusemi while Itama happily circled them, and Tobirama recalled stopping Hashirama from breaking down Utsusemi's door the previous night.

Utsusemi and Itama left the Senju brothers and traveled to the Star Inn, where they found signs that war was approaching. Itama ended the night planning to stock up on supplies before shortages began.

• Hashirama gave Utsusemi and Itama a Wood Release warning charm, while Tobirama sent them off with money and an unspoken gift of sealing notes.
• Utsusemi reflected on how her bond with Hashirama and Tobirama had changed, then bought konpeito, luminous shells, and storybooks from Matsumura’s caravan.
• Utsusemi teased Itama about driving an off-road vehicle, but he kept guiding the ox cart toward their destination.
• Utsusemi and Itama arrived at the Star Inn, where Utsusemi noticed the innkeeper’s Senju crest tattoo had been disguised.
• Itama counted their money beneath the inn’s eaves, recognized that war was coming, and decided to buy supplies before shortages began.

Utsusemi aided refugees and treated a pregnant woman as the Senju-Uchiha battle shook the Land of Hot Water. After Tobirama Senju wounded Uchiha Izuna, Madara Uchiha carried his dying brother from the battlefield.

• Utsusemi used her medical skills and trade connections to build influence in the Land of Hot Water, while she and Itama distributed porridge to refugees.
• Tobirama Senju fought Uchiha Izuna, and their battle sent blasts and tremors across the region.
• Tobirama Senju struck Izuna across the chest, and Izuna urged Madara Uchiha not to accept the Senju's proposed pact before the Uchiha retreated.
• Utsusemi treated a pregnant woman's dangerous fever and raised a barrier that protected the mansion from a distant blast.
• Madara Uchiha carried the gravely wounded Izuna across the battlefield as foreign Chakra spread through Izuna's wound and his breathing weakened.

Madara asked Utsusemi to save Izuna after Tobirama’s Flying Thunder God left him with a worsening wound. Utsusemi sent medicine that stabilized Izuna, while Itama grew troubled by her connection to the Uchiha brothers.

• Madara showed Utsusemi Izuna’s wound and explained that spatial Chakra was worsening his internal bleeding.
• Utsusemi gave Madara a purifying-agent formula and requested blood samples, while Itama watched the call and reacted to seeing Uchiha clan clothing.
• Madara sent a Ninja Hawk with blood samples and ingredients to Utsusemi, who prepared medicine to counter the spatial backlash.
• Ten hours later, the medicine reached Izuna and steadied his pulse; Utsusemi said his treatment would take about ten days and could be monitored remotely.
• Itama asked Utsusemi whether the Uchiha were her friends and wondered why she had helped them, then hid his gloom over her giving them the Yin-Yang Release tablet.

Izuna’s sudden relapse led him to give his Mangekyō Sharingan to Madara before he died, while Utsusemi learned of the crisis through the tablet. Refusing to accept Izuna’s fate, she rushed to the Uchiha compound determined to save him and overturn the tragedy.

• Izuna’s recovery brought playful conversations with Madara and Utsusemi, and Utsusemi promised to prepare a gift for his eighteenth birthday.
• Under the full moon, Izuna’s wounds reopened and Yin Release chakra ravaged his pathways while Madara was away on a mission.
• As Izuna neared death, he gouged out his Mangekyō Sharingan and gave them to Madara, awakening Madara’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Utsusemi saw Izuna’s declining condition on the tablet and learned from Madara that Izuna would not survive until dawn.
• Utsusemi raced toward the Uchiha compound, determined to change Izuna’s fate and break the world’s chains of destiny.