Recaps

Shinki rescued Roshi from the Akatsuki, extracted the Four-Tails with Roshi’s consent, and gave Kimimaro’s Bone Blade to Jūgo. After Roshi returned to Iwagakure, the village learned that Han might have been targeted, while Shinki spotted Naruto talking with a girl in the Land of Birds.

• Shinki’s Dust Release blast stopped the Masked Man’s escape, though the Masked Man and the other captives vanished in the explosion.
• Shinki gave Kimimaro’s Bone Blade to Jūgo, who let go of his hostility toward Shinki.
• Shinki treated Roshi, then extracted the Four-Tails after Roshi agreed to give it to him.
• Roshi returned to Iwagakure, where Ōnoki angrily confronted him about surrendering the Four-Tails to Konoha.
• An Iwagakure Ninja reported a fire near Han’s home and cloaked figures with red clouds, so Ōnoki flew to the scene.
• In the Land of Birds, Shinki spotted Naruto chatting with a young girl as he prepared to return to Konoha.

Naruto, Tenten, and Neji met Shinki in the Land of Birds while investigating reports of a ghost at the Daimyo’s residence. Shinki joined their mission and used the Four-Tails to carry them to the capital, where rumors linked the ghost to the deaths of Ōsagi and Benisagi and suspicion fell on Kōmei.

• Naruto ran into Shinki in town, and Shinki explained he had come to the Land of Birds to handle something.
• Over a meal, Neji told Shinki that their mission was to investigate a ghost reportedly seen in the Daimyo’s residence.
• Naruto claimed the ghost might be the dead Daimyo Ōsagi, and Tenten invited Shinki to join their trip to the capital.
• Shinki summoned the Four-Tails, Son Goku, and rode him with Naruto, Tenten, and Neji to the capital.
• The group entered the capital and heard residents spreading rumors about the ghost, the deaths of Ōsagi and Benisagi, and Kōmei’s possible involvement.

Shinki and the Konoha team investigated the Land of Birds’ ghost incident, but Shinki realized the eminent monk Mōsō was an impostor and that the Daimyo, Sagi, reacted oddly to him. The chapter ended with the fake Mōsō urgently ordering his people to flee because he feared Shinki and his companions.

• Shinki learned that Sagi had become Daimyo after his sister died and that Kōmei was suspected of causing her death.
• Chishima brought the Konoha team to meet Mōsō, and Shinki recognized that the monk was a Ninja using the Transformation Technique.
• Mōsō trembled when Shinki introduced himself, then tried to conceal his fear by praising Shinki’s reputation.
• Chishima took the team to meet Sagi, who first rejected their help but changed his attitude after seeing Shinki and asked him to stay.
• Shinki refused Sagi’s request, while Mōsō hurriedly packed and ordered his people to flee from the Konoha team.

Shinki and his companions returned to the Mōsō Residence, where Shinki took Mōsō’s packed valuables and learned that Mōsō was a Wandering Ninja trying to protect his false identity. While Shinki’s team waited at the Kōmei Residence, the Ghost Samurai attacked, but Shinki let him escape after recognizing his Chakra.

• Shinki and his companions teleported to the Mōsō Residence and caught Mōsō carrying bundles of valuables, which Shinki seized from him.
• Shinki estimated the valuables were worth one or two hundred million and told Naruto and Neji that Mōsō had been preparing to flee.
• Mōsō told his accomplices that he was a Wandering Ninja using a false identity and planned to deceive the Konoha Ninja into leaving.
• Shinki and his companions kept watch at the Kōmei Residence, where the Ghost Samurai appeared and attacked Kōmei.
• Shinki recognized the Ghost Samurai’s Chakra but let him fly away, telling Tenten that they would be in trouble if he died.

Shinki tracked the Ghost Samurai to the Daimyo’s Residence and discovered that the Land of Birds’ Daimyo, Sagi, was actually Benisagi, who had disguised herself as her brother while investigating her family’s deaths. After Shinki captured assassins sent to kill her, one began revealing their leader’s identity, leaving the culprit’s explanation unfinished.

• Shinki teleported to the Daimyo’s Residence using the Flying Thunder God mark he had placed on the Ghost Samurai and accidentally found Benisagi bathing.
• Benisagi explained that she had disguised herself as her brother Sagi and as the Ghost Samurai to investigate her father’s and brother’s deaths, which she suspected Kōmei had caused.
• Shinki suggested that High Priest Mōsō might have benefited from the deaths, but Benisagi rejected the possibility because Mōsō had supported her brother’s rise to power.
• Assassins attacked Benisagi, and Shinki blocked their shuriken with an Ice Release shield before binding them with Wood Release vines.
• Shinki questioned the captured assassins, and Jinkō said their boss had impersonated High Priest Mōsō and brought them to the Land of Birds before beginning to explain the assassination attempt.

Shinki and his companions exposed Mōsō’s role in the Land of Birds’ crisis and captured him, bringing the Ghost Samurai mission to a close. As they departed, Benisagi asked Shinki to govern alongside her, but he declined and left her with an unnamed keepsake.

• Mōsō tried to flee his residence, but Naruto and Neji revealed they had stayed behind as the real Ninja and stopped him.
• The Imperial Guard surrounded the Mōsō Residence, and Naruto and Neji escorted Mōsō out for arrest.
• Benisagi thanked Shinki and his companions, then welcomed them before they prepared to leave the next day.
• Benisagi asked Shinki to govern the Land of Birds with her, but Shinki declined because he did not want the responsibility.
• After Shinki left, Benisagi realized he had left something at her lower back, while Naruto asked whether the village would make him village chief too.

After Iwagakure asked Shinki to help recover the captured Five-Tails, he traveled there and learned the village would pay him 150 million. The chapter ended with Shinki ready to help after Kitsuchi offered the reward.

• Shinki received Iwagakure's request for help with the Five-Tails and agreed to go after learning he had taken the Four-Tails.
• Shinki used Flying Thunder God to bring Naruto, Neji, and Tenten to the Hokage's Office, where Tsunade and Konoha's senior officials learned he had the Four-Tails.
• Shinki teleported to Iwagakure's hospital, landed on a patient's broken leg, and healed it after knocking him unconscious.
• Kitsuchi met Shinki in the Tsuchikage Office because Ōnoki did not want to meet him, and offered him 150 million for his help.

Shinki joined Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi to retrieve Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, from Akatsuki in the Land of Rain. After arriving at the Amegakure Ruins, the team discussed how to search for Han, and Kurotsuchi proposed capturing an Akatsuki member for information.

• Kitsuchi assigned Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi to accompany Shinki, while Ōnoki secretly sent Iwagakure's Pursuit Unit after them.
• Zetsu alerted the Masked Man that Iwagakure had asked Shinki to help, but the Masked Man expected Akatsuki to finish extracting Han's Tailed Beast first.
• Kurotsuchi told Shinki that Han had disappeared after a fire in Iwagakure and that the trail led into the Land of Rain.
• Shinki used Flying Thunder God to take Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi to the Amegakure Ruins, where they were amazed by the forest he had created with Wood Release.
• Shinki considered using countless Shadow Clones or sensing across the entire Land of Rain to find Han, and Kurotsuchi suggested capturing an Akatsuki member for information.

Shinki and his companions searched the Land of Rain for Akatsuki bases after extracting information from intelligence chief Chiba. They began checking the bases from the air, leaving Kurotsuchi stunned by Shinki’s power and confidence that he could save the Five-Tails Jinchuriki under almost any circumstances.

• Shinki, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi left the ruins of Amegakure to search for Akatsuki members, while a white snake slithered away from the ruins.
• Shinki’s group found Chiba, an Akatsuki intelligence chief, and Shinki knocked her unconscious and used the Soul Search Technique to learn the locations of several extraction bases in the Land of Rain.
• Shinki offered Kurotsuchi a Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawing and flew with her and Akatsuchi toward the bases in his Chakra-powered plane.
• Shinki cut open the ground beneath an apparently empty base with a gigantic Chakra blade, shocking Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi.
• Shinki told Kurotsuchi he could save the Five-Tails Jinchuriki even if the Jinchuriki died, and mentioned using Impure World Reincarnation or making him a body from a lotus flower and root.

Shinki and Kurotsuchi searched the Land of Rain for bases holding captured Tailed Beasts, while a hidden follower watched their progress. They found a base with someone inside and prepared to investigate quietly, leaving Kurotsuchi explaining Ōnoki’s Rock Technique to Shinki as they hovered above the forest.

• Shinki sensed someone following them, but told Kurotsuchi that they had already passed the pursuers and continued toward another base.
• Ōnoki learned that his pursuit team had lost track of Shinki and ordered them to keep searching for him and Kurotsuchi.
• A hooded figure appeared at the ruined base and said Shinki’s search made it convenient to act, then vowed to advance Orochimaru’s research.
• Shinki and his companions destroyed several empty bases and flew toward an underground base where Kurotsuchi spotted a black-robed person.
• Kurotsuchi stopped Shinki from attacking the occupied base, and Shinki agreed to investigate quietly rather than risk losing Han.
• Shinki dispelled the plane and used Ice Release to keep himself, Kurotsuchi, and Akatsuchi hovering; Kurotsuchi praised Ōnoki’s Rock Technique, and Shinki asked her to explain it.

Shinki learned Iwagakure’s Light-Weight Rock Technique almost instantly and joined Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi in approaching the Akatsuki hideout. There, Kabuto Yakushi trapped them in a Gelel Stone-powered formation and revealed that he had allied with the Akatsuki to delay Shinki while they extracted the Tailed Beast.

• Kurotsuchi explained the Light-Weight Rock Technique, and Shinki quickly learned to float and used Wind Release to speed through the air.
• Shinki killed the hideout’s lookout by extending the Kusanagi Sword from nearly a hundred meters away.
• Shinki sensed an unusual Chakra presence and tried to flee with Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi, but Formation Barriers enclosed them.
• Kabuto Yakushi used a special potion in rain to drain Chakra and explained that Gelel Stones powered the formation, which was designed to suppress Shinki’s Wood Release.
• Kabuto revealed that he had allied with the Akatsuki and intended to hold Shinki off until they finished extracting the Tailed Beast.

Shinki broke free of Kabuto’s formation with Susanoo and Amaterasu, then reached the Akatsuki’s second-to-last hideout. He captured Sasori without killing him, but Han’s Tailed Beast extraction was still underway.

• Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi tried to use Earth Release inside Kabuto’s formation, but the potion-soaked ground drained their Chakra and weakened their techniques.
• Shinki revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan, summoned Susanoo, and shattered the barrier with its Amaterasu-coated Spiral Sword.
• Shinki flew with Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi to the hideout where the Akatsuki were extracting Han’s Tailed Beast.
• Shinki pierced Sasori’s puppet body but spared him, then placed Sasori’s exposed core in a medical container.
• Shinki saw that Han’s Tailed Beast Chakra was still being extracted.

Shinki rescued Han from the Akatsuki’s extraction ritual, saved his life, and brought him back to Iwagakure. After receiving his promised payment, Shinki agreed to stay in the village, where Kurotsuchi showed Ōnoki a drawing of the Flying Chicken and he jokingly asked if she had used a honey trap to obtain it.

• Shinki sealed the cave with Gelel Stones, stopping the Demonic Statue from extracting Han’s Tailed Beast Chakra.
• Shinki used Medical Ninjutsu to save Han, who later woke and learned how Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and Shinki had rescued him.
• Shinki used Flying Thunder God to bring Han and the others to Ōnoki’s office in Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki gave Shinki the promised 150 million and invited him to stay; Shinki accepted.
• Kurotsuchi showed Ōnoki a drawing of Shinki’s Flying Chicken, and Ōnoki teased her about using a honey trap to get it.

Ōnoki and Iwagakure’s leaders tested the steel plane Shinki had given Kurotsuchi, but none of them knew how to operate it. Shinki brought Sai to simplify its controls, and Kurotsuchi took the upgraded plane for its first flight.

• Ōnoki mistook Shinki’s gift to Kurotsuchi for a honey trap and happily imagined him becoming Iwagakure’s son-in-law.
• Ōnoki gathered Kurotsuchi and Iwagakure’s higher-ups to summon and inspect the steel plane, but they could not understand its cockpit controls.
• Kurotsuchi brought Shinki to the mountain, where he realized the hidden leaders were secretly watching and proposed simplifying the plane’s control system.
• Shinki used a Flying Thunder God Kunai to bring Sai from Konoha and asked him to redraw the plane’s control panel with six directional buttons.
• Shinki and Sai produced the upgraded plane, and Kurotsuchi boarded it and took off while Shinki sat behind her.

Shinki and Sai sold a hundred Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings to Iwagakure before returning to Konoha. After learning Kabuto Yakushi might have mastered Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu, Shinki decided to visit Ryūchi Cave himself.

• Shinki sold Iwagakure a hundred Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings for a million each, then paid Sai ten million for helping make them.
• Shinki returned to Konoha and refused Tsunade's offer to succeed her as Hokage.
• Shinki told Tsunade that Kabuto Yakushi had seemed different and that he sensed senjutsu chakra when Kabuto used Ninjutsu.
• Tsunade explained that Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu required passing a dangerous trial and meeting the White Snake Sage.
• Shinki remembered that he had taken Manda as a summoning beast and decided to go to Ryūchi Cave to learn Senjutsu.

Ōnoki’s test of Shinki’s Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings failed when the pilots’ Chakra ran out, while Shinki summoned Manda to take him to Ryūchi Cave so he could learn its Senjutsu. Manda warned that combining it with Mount Myōboku’s Senjutsu could be dangerous, but Shinki insisted on going.

• Ōnoki tested five planes made from Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings, but they vanished when their pilots ran low on Chakra, forcing him to catch the falling pilots.
• Kitsuchi questioned the pilots, and Kurotsuchi recalled that Shinki had flown the plane without tiring because he supplied the Chakra himself.
• Shinki returned home, greeted Naruto, and went to a clearing outside Konoha to perform the Summoning Technique.
• Manda was summoned from Ryūchi Cave while boasting to the Divine Princesses that he had become Shinki’s summon.
• Shinki asked Manda to take him to Ryūchi Cave to learn its Senjutsu, and Manda warned him that learning it alongside Mount Myōboku’s Senjutsu could have unknown, dangerous consequences.
• Shinki dismissed Manda’s warning and insisted that he take him to Ryūchi Cave.

Shinki entered Ryūchi Cave to learn Senjutsu and faced the trials set by its Divine Princesses. After defeating Tagorihime’s illusion, he subdued Ichikishimahime during the second trial.

• Manda brought Shinki to Ryūchi Cave, where the Three Divine Princesses prepared the trials.
• Shinki followed a misty path to Ryūchi Cave and refused Tagorihime’s food, drink, and advances.
• Tagorihime revealed her snake form and attacked, but Shinki punched her through the illusory palace.
• Shinki found himself in a cavern facing Ichikishimahime’s puzzle trial, which required fitting thousands of stone blocks into holes in a door.
• Shinki used Sage Art: Binding Sage Vine to restrain Ichikishimahime before attempting her puzzle.

Shinki passed Ryūchi Cave’s trials and met the White Snake Sage. She recognized him and compared him favorably to the previous visitor, while Shinki’s reason for seeking her remained ahead.

• Tsunade learned that Shinki had left the village after summoning a giant snake and suspected he had gone to Ryūchi Cave.
• Shinki forced Ichikishimahime to help him open the stone door, then passed Mizutsuhime’s trial after reflexively punching her during her sneak attack.
• Mizutsuhime led Shinki past the Ryūchi Cave monument and through the snake-filled cavern to the temple.
• Shinki met the White Snake Sage, who quieted the divine maidens and said he looked better than the previous visitor.

Shinki visited Ryūchi Cave to learn Snake Senjutsu, but mistook the White Snake Sage’s attempt to inject chakra for an attack and punched her into a wall. After she injected him with a hundred times the usual amount of Senjutsu Chakra, purple Sage Face Markings appeared on his face.

• The White Snake Sage praised Shinki’s strength and warned him that learning Senjutsu from two places could make his body explode, but Shinki insisted on proceeding.
• The White Snake Sage lunged at Shinki to inject Snake Senjutsu Chakra, and Shinki struck her with an enlarged Sage Mode punch that sent her crashing into the wall.
• Shinki apologized after learning the White Snake Sage had not tried to eat him, then refused her demands for a Tailed Beast or Mount Myōboku toads and promised her pigs, cattle, and sheep instead.
• The White Snake Sage injected Shinki with a hundred times the usual amount of Senjutsu Chakra, while the Three Divine Princesses discussed whether he would survive.
• Purple Sage Face Markings appeared on Shinki’s face.

Shinki mastered Ryūchi Cave’s Snake Senjutsu and returned to Konoha, where he searched for Naruto before Tsunade summoned him over Iwagakure’s Chakra-hungry Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings. The chapter ended with Shinki asking Tsunade if she knew where Naruto was.

• Shinki completed Snake Senjutsu training, developed horns and pale, patterned skin, and left Ryūchi Cave after the White Snake Sage confirmed his success.
• Manda arrived and learned that Shinki had mastered the Senjutsu in less than three minutes and had even punched the White Snake Sage.
• Shinki returned to Konoha, looked for Naruto at home and the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, and encountered Ino and other familiar faces.
• Shizune brought Shinki to Tsunade, who told him Iwagakure had asked why its Steel Super Beast Imitating Drawings consumed so much Chakra.
• Shinki agreed to investigate the drawings and asked Tsunade if she had seen Naruto.

Shinki traveled from Iwagakure to Sunagakure to help find the missing-nin Mukade at the Rōran Ruins. After Naruto and Yamato failed to locate him, Shinki sensed Mukade’s enormous chakra underground.

• Tsunade told Shinki that Mukade had appeared near Rōran and that Naruto, Sai, and Yamato had gone to help Sunagakure.
• Shinki found that Iwagakure’s planes could not stay airborne because its pilots lacked enough chakra, then left for Sunagakure.
• Gaara welcomed Shinki and arranged for Matsuri to guide him to the Rōran Ruins.
• Shinki arrived at the ruins and joined Naruto and Yamato, who had searched for Mukade without success.
• Shinki sensed a massive chakra presence underground and told Naruto and Yamato that he had found Mukade.

Shinki was swept into the past when Mukade removed the Sealing Kunai from Rōran’s platform. After meeting Sara and defending her from attacking puppets, he encountered a group of Konoha ninja, including a much younger Akimichi Chōza.

• Mukade pulled the Sealing Kunai from the platform, triggering a surge of chakra that swept Shinki away while Naruto and the others watched helplessly.
• Shinki woke in a cavern and met Sara, who told him he was in Rōran and that she was its queen.
• Shinki confirmed he had arrived in an earlier era by seeing Rōran as a thriving city.
• A Puppet Golem attacked Sara and Shinki, and Shinki split it in two with Wind Release.
• More puppets appeared, but Konoha ninja arrived, and Shinki recognized a younger Akimichi Chōza among them.

Shinki rescued Sara after discovering he had traveled to Rōran’s past and met Minato Namikaze. The chapter ended with Minato stunned to see Shinki use Wood Release to catch the falling queen.

• Shinki destroyed the puppets attacking Rōran with a powerful Great Fireball Technique.
• Shinki told Minato and his companions that he had traveled from the future, and Minato advised him to find Mukade and repair the damaged seal.
• Minato removed his mask, revealing himself as the future Fourth Hokage, and Shinki told him that his son would be a troublemaker.
• Shinki searched Rōran for Mukade but could not find his Chakra.
• At Sara’s celebration, the Chakra amplifier crackled and she fell from the platform, so Shinki reached out with a Wood Release vine to catch her.
• Minato saw Shinki’s Wood Release and wondered whether he was truly from the future.

Shinki rescued Sara from the puppet attack and accepted her commission to protect her for two hundred million, then escorted her into the palace. There, ordinary people accused Sara of ordering their male relatives to be taken away.

• Shinki caught Sara as she fell, then saved her from puppets that attacked her and suspected Anrokuzan was behind the assault.
• Sara insisted Anrokuzan would not harm her, but asked Shinki to protect her; Shinki defeated the attacking puppet and accepted her offer of two hundred million.
• Shinki escorted Sara toward the palace and suggested confronting Anrokuzan, but Sara refused to believe he was responsible.
• Anrokuzan realized Shinki had returned to Rōran and declared that the Ryūmyaku’s power would let him defeat him.
• Shinki led Sara through the palace past unconscious guards, where a crowd of townspeople accused her of ordering their husbands, brothers, and sons taken away.

Sara and Shinki searched beneath Rōran and found a factory where enslaved workers powered the production of war puppets. Sara was left confronting the truth that Anrokuzan, whom she had trusted, was responsible for the suffering of her people.

• After the people accused Anrokuzan of taking workers to build war machines, Sara agreed to investigate with Shinki.
• Shinki sensed the Ryūmyaku’s Chakra underground, and Sara told him Anrokuzan had appeared in Rōran six years earlier and encouraged her mother to use its power.
• Shinki suspected Anrokuzan might be Mukade and decided to investigate his identity.
• Shinki and Sara descended underground, where they found a factory assembling clay puppets and enslaved workers pushing a machine to power production.
• Shinki asked Sara whether she believed the people now, and Sara stood frozen as she struggled to accept that Anrokuzan was evil.