Chapter Summaries

Yakushi Kabuto visited the Sunagakure Puppet Shop while posing as a S.H.I.E.L.D. ninja, and secretly signaled Temari and Pakura that he was on a mission from Lord Charlotte. He rejected Pakura’s offer to join Sunagakure, and Temari took over his case after Pakura left.

• Yakushi Kabuto arrived at the Sunagakure Puppet Shop, where Pakura and Temari recognized his ninja headband and his connection to Otogakure.
• Yakushi Kabuto used a coded hand signal to tell Temari and Pakura to pretend they did not know him and that Lord Charlotte had sent him.
• Yakushi Kabuto introduced himself as a Rogue Ninja from the Land of Fire who had joined S.H.I.E.L.D., while Pakura challenged his allegiance.
• Pakura invited Yakushi Kabuto to join Sunagakure, but he refused and said switching allegiances would go against his nindo.
• Pakura left Yakushi Kabuto’s matter to Temari, who mocked him for claiming to have a nindo despite his Genin-level strength.

After Sunagakure failed to recruit Yakushi Kabuto, he visited its puppet shop to ask about buying the secret of using Energy Blocks. Temari offered to buy any new use he had discovered instead, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. to conclude that the villages were hiding the blocks’ true purpose.

• Nick Fury rejected Coulson’s suggestion to reward Yakushi Kabuto with more Energy Blocks and ordered a closer investigation of his motives.
• Yakushi Kabuto gave Temari ten Energy Blocks as a gift and followed her to the sofa area to discuss business.
• Kankuro demonstrated his control over ten decorative puppets while taking over the puppet shop’s service desk.
• Yakushi Kabuto asked how many Energy Blocks Sunagakure wanted in exchange for teaching him how to use them.
• Temari said Energy Blocks served only as payment and offered to buy any other use Yakushi Kabuto had discovered.

Yakushi Kabuto negotiated to buy Ninja Tools from Sunagakure and warned S.H.I.E.L.D. not to mistreat him. Nick Fury and Coulson speculated about why Sunagakure wanted to recruit him and planned to ask Tony Stark about Kankuro and puppet mastery.

• Yakushi Kabuto failed to learn how to use Energy Blocks from Temari but secured permission to purchase Ninja Tools from Sunagakure.
• Temari warned Yakushi Kabuto that S.H.I.E.L.D. had considered sending Sunagakure ninja to investigate him, and offered him a place to turn if he wanted to leave.
• Yakushi Kabuto told Temari he would stay unless S.H.I.E.L.D. wronged him, then took his remaining Energy Blocks and drove to Otogakure's base on Staten Island.
• Coulson questioned why Sunagakure was trying to recruit Yakushi Kabuto, and Nick Fury suggested that travel from the Ninja World to Earth might be costly and that Kabuto could be useful there.
• Coulson identified Kankuro as a likely Puppet Master and said S.H.I.E.L.D. could not observe him when he was with Tony Stark.
• Nick Fury decided to contact Tony Stark for information about Kankuro.

Yakushi Kabuto visited Otogakure’s outpost on Earth, where the Sound Five welcomed him while pretending not to know him at the gate. His questions about Otogakure’s survival and its attack on Konoha led to Tayuya striking him with a sound-wave attack, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. stunned by his account of the Konoha Crush.

• Tony grew furious with S.H.I.E.L.D. over its handling of Howard Stark’s estate, and Nick Fury’s explanations failed to build the partnership he wanted.
• Yakushi Kabuto arrived at Otogakure’s base, and Tayuya recognized him before following his order to treat him as a stranger.
• Kidomaru intercepted Kabuto, took his suitcase of ten Energy Blocks, and let him into the base.
• Kabuto met Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon and Ukon, Kidomaru, and Kaguya Kimimaro, then questioned why Konoha had not wiped out Otogakure.
• Tayuya blasted Kabuto with a sound-wave attack, but he got back up and cited Otogakure’s assault on Konoha during the Chunin Exams.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson were shocked to hear that Otogakure had attacked Konoha and that Orochimaru had killed Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Yakushi Kabuto negotiated with the Sound Village for Ninja Tool supplies and tried to learn how Energy Blocks could be used to strengthen a ninja, but the Sound Ninja could not or would not provide the method. After he left, Tayuya revealed that their exchange had been a double act and that Kabuto had given the Sound Five instructions to explore the area and report useful discoveries for Lord Charlotte.

• Nick Fury reacted to news about the Sound Village by comparing it to the Pearl Harbor attack, while Kimimaro said the village had already made peace with Konoha.
• Yakushi Kabuto offered the Sound Village information about his teleportation in exchange for a long-term Ninja Tool supply partnership, and Tayuya accepted the deal.
• Kimimaro left to handle the information, and Kabuto asked Tayuya to sell him the proper method for using Energy Blocks, but she said she did not know whether they could increase a ninja's strength.
• Kabuto gave up on the inquiry and left the base with Tayuya, who later revealed that their conversation had been a double act and that he had passed the Sound Five instructions to explore and seek things useful to Lord Charlotte.
• Yakushi Kabuto returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. in a car, sounding tired and disappointed.

Nick Fury and Phil Coulson planned how S.H.I.E.L.D. would gather intelligence on the ninja villages and prepare to trade with them, while Fury considered Yakushi Kabuto’s possible role in researching the Tesseract. Fury then summoned Grant Ward, who was pleased to receive the notice.

• Nick Fury ordered Phil Coulson to investigate the ninja villages’ relationships and commission Konoha to verify Yakushi Kabuto’s identity.
• Coulson proposed trading selected 084 Objects with the ninja villages to obtain useful items and recruit potential allies, and Fury approved a trial.
• Fury wondered how ninjas used Energy Blocks and considered letting Yakushi Kabuto join the Tesseract research team if he passed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s investigation.
• After reviewing Melinda May and Grant Ward’s files, Fury summoned Grant Ward to his office.
• Grant Ward smiled when he received Fury’s notice.

Nick Fury assigned Grant Ward to supervise Yakushi Kabuto, teach him S.H.I.E.L.D.'s rules, and investigate whether he was a spy. Meanwhile, Coulson brought 200 Energy Blocks to the Charlotte Agency to commission a mission, but Charlotte Doyle was absent.

• Nick Fury gave Grant Ward Yakushi Kabuto's dossier and tasked him with guiding and monitoring the newly recruited agent.
• Grant Ward accepted both assignments without objection and left Nick Fury's office.
• Coulson arrived at the Charlotte Agency carrying two suitcases of Energy Blocks and asked to commission a mission.
• Selene told Coulson that Charlotte Doyle was away and offered to have another Ninja confirm the mission.
• Selene asked Michael to escort Coulson to the conference room.

Coulson visited Charlotte Agency to commission an investigation into Yakushi Kabuto, a Rogue Ninja from the Land of Fire. Kakashi accepted the B-Rank Mission, and Coulson left after learning that Physical Enhancement Serum was temporarily out of stock.

• Michael Corvin escorted Coulson to the Reception Room after Selene alerted Kakashi Hatake to his visit.
• Coulson asked Michael why he had left medicine in London to join Charlotte Agency, but Michael did not answer and left the room.
• Kakashi met with Coulson, who requested detailed intelligence on Yakushi Kabuto and provided his photograph.
• Kakashi classified the investigation as a B-Rank Mission, quoted 200 Energy Blocks plus possible additional fees if combat occurred, and registered the request after Coulson agreed and paid the deposit.
• Coulson asked to buy Physical Enhancement Serum, but Kakashi said it was out of stock and promised the agency would notify him when it arrived.

Kakashi and Coulson discussed a future trade involving S.H.I.E.L.D.'s 084 Objects, and Coulson realized Kakashi was the same Ninja from a file despite having grown much older. Yakushi Kabuto reported his failed investigation into Energy Blocks to Nick Fury, who offered him a dedicated space for research.

• Kakashi agreed to consider trading with S.H.I.E.L.D. after inspecting its 084 Objects and asked Coulson to contact Charlotte Agency when they were ready.
• Coulson learned Kakashi's name and, after comparing him with a file photo, realized he was the same Ninja who had appeared as a child about a year earlier.
• Yakushi Kabuto returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and went to Nick Fury to report on his visits to Konoha, Sunagakure, and the Sound Ninja.
• Kabuto told Nick Fury he had not learned how to use Energy Blocks but would continue investigating their purpose.
• Nick Fury encouraged Kabuto to research the Energy Blocks and offered him a dedicated place to conduct experiments.

Yakushi Kabuto secured a reward from Nick Fury to buy D-rank Ninjutsu and accepted a S.H.I.E.L.D. supervisory officer, while Kakashi sent Charlotte Doyle reports and Energy Blocks. Charlotte received several scrolls in the Summoning Realm and learned that Kabuto had quickly infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Yakushi Kabuto explained the scarcity and ranks of Ninjutsu, and Nick Fury awarded him 200 Energy Blocks to buy a D-rank technique.
• Nick Fury told Yakushi Kabuto that S.H.I.E.L.D. would assign him a supervisory officer, and Kabuto accepted the arrangement.
• Yakushi Kabuto left Nick Fury's office, confident that his supervisor would not uncover his identity as a Root-trained spy.
• Kakashi Hatake recorded the day's events and Coulson's report about an 084 Object, sealed 229 Energy Blocks in a scroll, and sent both to Charlotte Doyle with Bull.
• Charlotte Doyle used the Reverse Summoning Jutsu to reach the Summoning Realm, where the ninja dogs delivered scrolls from Kakashi, the Sand Ninja, and the Sound Ninja.
• Charlotte Doyle read Kakashi's report and realized that Yakushi Kabuto had already infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.

Charlotte reviewed Yakushi Kabuto’s proposed Ninjutsu trade and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s offer to exchange 084 Objects, then handled Energy Blocks and expanded his Deployment Slots. He returned to Jotunheim, where Thor questioned whether Charlotte had planned to leave him behind.

• Charlotte considered exploiting Yakushi Kabuto’s Ninjutsu proposal and told Kakashi that S.H.I.E.L.D. had to present its 084 Objects for evaluation before any trade.
• Charlotte recharged 249 Energy Blocks, then sent Bull to deliver Kakashi instructions to contact him a day before the trade.
• Charlotte planned to travel between Earth and Jotunheim using Ninjas and Summoned Beasts so he could handle the trade while Thor waited safely.
• Charlotte recharged ten Hearts of the Earth and fifty New Element Arc Reactors, undid another layer of the Grimhold’s seal, and spent Gold Coins to open three Deployment Slots.
• Charlotte returned to Jotunheim, and Thor asked whether he had left to return to Earth without him.

Charlotte and Thor sparred on Jotunheim, testing their techniques and toughness until Charlotte broke his Tanto and cut Thor with its fragments. Thor offered to have the Dwarf King forge Charlotte a new weapon after the rebellion was put down, then urged him to show his true strength; on Earth, Kakashi and Coulson arranged a possible trade involving S.H.I.E.L.D.’s 084 Objects.

• Charlotte and Thor began sparring outside the Jotun Royal Court, where Charlotte used his Byakugan and Gentle Fist to knock Thor down and test how quickly his divine power healed him.
• Thor threw Mjolnir at Charlotte, who resisted its lightning and used a substitution before the two resumed their close-range fight.
• Charlotte brought out the Gold-Titanium Alloy Tanto and used White Fang: White Light Blade, while Thor blocked the attacks with Mjolnir.
• Thor’s lightning cracked the Tanto, so Charlotte shattered it and sent its chakra-wrapped fragments through Thor’s armor, wounding him and collapsing the ground beneath him.
• Thor charged back out of the ground, offered to have the Dwarf King forge Charlotte a new weapon after the rebellion, and asked Charlotte to show his true strength.
• Kakashi told Coulson that S.H.I.E.L.D. could trade 084 Objects for items including the Physical Enhancement Serum, and Coulson selected objects to send to a secret base in New York.

Charlotte defeated Thor in a sparring match and told him that his true power as the God of Thunder had not awakened yet. Later, Hydra completed a serum trade at the Sunagakure Puppet Shop just before Coulson and Barton arrived to make their own deal.

• Charlotte used Genjutsu and Chidori: Prelude to paralyze Thor, then explained that Thor’s power would truly awaken when he could wield thunder without Mjolnir.
• Over the following week, Charlotte trained and sparred with Thor, who grew envious of Charlotte’s summons and said he would find a war beast after the rebellion was quelled.
• Nick Fury sent Coulson and Barton to the Sunagakure Puppet Shop with Vibranium to trade for Physical Enhancement Serum, while keeping Yakushi Kabuto off the mission.
• Temari and Pakura traded a vial of Physical Enhancement Serum to three Winter Soldiers for Secondary Adamantium, Vibranium, and Adamantium, with the extra materials reserved for another serum.
• Coulson and his team arrived as the Winter Soldiers left, then entered the shop to begin their own trade.

Coulson and Barton bought Sunagakure’s Physical Enhancement Serum with Vibranium, and Coulson invited the shop to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s planned trade with the Ninja Villages. After Coulson left without learning what the previous customers had bought, Pakura focused on whether S.H.I.E.L.D.’s 084 Objects would be valuable.

• Coulson ordered an agent to investigate the three men who had visited the Sunagakure Puppet Shop, then entered with Barton.
• Coulson traded fifteen kilograms of Vibranium for Sunagakure’s Physical Enhancement Serum, and Temari warned that different serums could not be injected into the same person.
• Coulson explained S.H.I.E.L.D.’s 084 Objects to Pakura and invited Sunagakure to attend a future trade with Charlotte Agency; Pakura agreed to send someone.
• Coulson tried to learn what the three previous customers had bought, but Temari refused to reveal their information, so he apologized and left with Barton.
• Pakura told Temari to send the metal back and destroy the boxes, saying she cared more about whether S.H.I.E.L.D.’s 084 Objects were valuable.

Coulson and Barton pursued three Hydra Winter Soldiers carrying Physical Enhancement Serum after learning their case matched Coulson’s. Dr. Zola and Pierce ordered the pursuers stopped, and Winter Soldier Number Two attacked their armored vehicle with a grenade launcher.

• Coulson told Barton that the three people leaving the Puppet Shop had carried a case identical to his, and Barton urged him to intercept them.
• Coulson and Barton followed the Winter Soldiers toward the suburbs while S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters searched for their identities without finding any records.
• Dr. Zola warned Pierce that Coulson’s group was following the Winter Soldiers, and Pierce ordered them to destroy the pursuers’ vehicle and erase their traces.
• Winter Soldier Number Two and Number Three left their vehicle to ambush Coulson’s armored car while Number One continued toward the base with the serum.
• Winter Soldier Number Two fired several grenades at the armored car, overturning and tearing it apart, then watched the burning wreck for survivors.

After Winter Soldiers No. 2 and No. 3 ambushed Coulson and Barton, they escaped with the Physical Enhancement Serum while Coulson and Barton survived. At the Triskelion, Coulson told Nick Fury that a rival organization had obtained the serum, and Fury ordered a broad investigation and surveillance of the ninja village bases.

• Winter Soldiers No. 2 and No. 3 attacked Coulson and Barton’s vehicle, then withdrew after no one emerged.
• Barton cut a way out of the wreckage with his Vibranium Saber and escaped with Coulson, while the rest of their team had been killed.
• Winter Soldiers No. 2 and No. 3 reported the vehicle destroyed, and Dr. Zola erased traces of their squad online as they returned the serum to Hydra’s base.
• Coulson discovered that surveillance footage of the attack and the three people from the Sunagakure Puppet Shop had been deleted, and ordered agents to search for them.
• Coulson briefed Nick Fury on the ambush and suspected serum deal, and Fury ordered Yakushi Kabuto to seek information from the shop and deployed twelve teams to watch the three ninja village bases.

Nick Fury visited Tony Stark to ask about the Sunagakure Puppet Shop, but Tony refused to share what he knew. Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury told Coulson they would have to trade Energy Blocks for intelligence and urged him to prepare the first trade meeting.

• Coulson told Nick Fury that Barton had protected the Physical Enhancement Serum, but the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had been killed in the attack.
• Nick Fury visited Tony Stark, who refused to join the Super Boy Band and rejected Fury's request for intelligence about the Sunagakure Puppet Shop.
• Tony revealed that he had visited another world, though he and Fury misunderstood which world they meant, and he refused to tell Fury what he had seen.
• Tony dismissed Nick Fury, then asked Pakkun about the ninja S.H.I.E.L.D. had recruited before returning to his lab to improve his armor.
• Nick Fury told Coulson that Tony had refused to help and ordered him to select 084 Objects for the first trade meeting; Fury said they would need Energy Blocks to obtain intelligence on Sunagakure's Puppet Master.

Pierce and Dr. Zola decided to wait for S.H.I.E.L.D. to research the Physical Enhancement Serum before attempting to replicate it. The next day, Ward sent Yakushi Kabuto to the Sunagakure Puppet Shop to investigate the three people Coulson had seen there, leaving Kabuto to negotiate alone.

• Pierce told Dr. Zola to use S.H.I.E.L.D.'s future research data to help replicate the Physical Enhancement Serum.
• Ward showed Yakushi Kabuto S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history museum and explained the Super Soldier Serum and Captain America's origins.
• Ward received a mission for Kabuto to investigate the identities of three people and their transactions at the Sunagakure Puppet Shop.
• Kabuto and Ward collected two hundred Energy Blocks, and Ward gave Kabuto a listening device so he could negotiate while Ward stayed outside.
• Kabuto stored the Energy Blocks in a Sealing Scroll and arrived at the Sunagakure Puppet Shop.

Tony Stark warned Kankuro that S.H.I.E.L.D. was probing for information about the Sunagakure Puppet Shop, and Kankuro reaffirmed the shop’s refusal to betray clients. Yakushi Kabuto then tricked S.H.I.E.L.D. into paying 300 Energy Blocks for the limited information Temari could provide, while Grant Ward listened in.

• Tony Stark told Kankuro that S.H.I.E.L.D. had asked about the Puppet Master and was investigating him.
• Kankuro told Tony Stark that the shop would protect its clients’ secrets and would resist any threats.
• Yakushi Kabuto offered Temari Energy Blocks for information about the Winter Soldier and his companions, and Temari agreed to a price of 300.
• Grant Ward overheard the deal and told Yakushi Kabuto to accept Temari’s price.
• Yakushi Kabuto paid Temari a 200-Block deposit, and Temari revealed that the group had bought a Physical Enhancement Serum but that she did not know their identities.
• Yakushi Kabuto pretended to be angry about the incomplete information, while Temari pointed out that he had agreed to the mission terms.

Yakushi Kabuto failed to persuade Temari to alert S.H.I.E.L.D. about the next buyer of the Physical Enhancement Serum, then returned to headquarters with Grant Ward. Coulson paid the Charlotte Agency the remaining 200 Energy Blocks and received a scroll containing Yakushi Kabuto’s intelligence.

• Temari rejected Yakushi Kabuto’s request to notify S.H.I.E.L.D. about the next trade, and he left the Puppet Shop without reaching an agreement.
• Ward told Yakushi Kabuto they had confirmed the buyer purchased Physical Enhancement Serum, then drove him back to Triskelion to report the mission.
• Coulson brought 200 Energy Blocks to the Charlotte Agency, where Catherine and the guards checked the payment.
• Selene sent Coulson to the Reception Room and notified Kakashi Hatake that the final payment had arrived.
• Kakashi gave Coulson a scroll describing Yakushi Kabuto’s background, including how he became a Rogue Ninja.