Recaps

Shinki’s astonishing talent carried him from a struggling Academy student to a graduate who mastered techniques on his own and helped Naruto and Konohamaru improve. The arc left him on Team 7, where he took Kakashi’s bells with the Flying Thunder God Technique during the team test.

• Shinki transformed into a towering Nine-Tails Demon Beast at the Academy, then revealed the Shadow Clone and Multiple Shadow Clone Techniques and several elemental clones.
• Shinki’s nighttime training with Yamato escalated into a huge crater, and the Third Hokage arranged for him to stay with Naruto and urged him to focus his training.
• Shinki taught Naruto shuriken techniques, learned Wood Release from Yamato, and accidentally raised a forest across Konoha before helping rebuild the village with Shadow Clones.
• Shinki developed a teleportation technique resembling the Flying Thunder God Technique and mastered Wood Release techniques faster than Yamato could teach them.
• Shinki opened five of the Eight Gates in just over a week, while Might Guy and Rock Lee recognized the technique and reacted to his rapid progress.
• Shinki agreed to teach Konohamaru, guided him through the Rasengan, and helped him complete the A-rank technique in less than eight hours, prompting Ebisu to apologize.
• Shinki and Naruto passed the graduation exam, received their Forehead Protectors, and were assigned to Team 7 with Sasuke.
• Kakashi tested Team 7 by setting two bells as the goal, and Shinki used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take them from him.

Team 7 escorted Tazuna to the Land of Waves, where Shinki’s strength helped defeat Zabuza and protect the bridge workers. Back in Konoha, Shinki trained for the Chunin Exams and began the written test with Naruto and Sasuke.

• Shinki helped Team 7 pass Kakashi’s bell test, then joined Sasuke and Naruto on routine missions before they received a C-rank escort assignment to protect Tazuna.
• On the road to the Land of Waves, Shinki killed two Assassin Ninjas with Fire Release, accidentally started a forest fire, and extinguished it with Water Release.
• After Tazuna revealed Gato’s threat and the team chose to continue, Shinki and Team 7 confronted Zabuza, whom Shinki restrained with a Water Prison Technique.
• Shinki aided the bridge workers, encouraged Inari, and later fought Haku while Kakashi battled Zabuza, and Shinki’s attacks helped turn the fight in Team 7’s favor.
• Haku died protecting Zabuza, who killed Gato and left to bury Haku, while Inari brought villagers to the bridge and the Land of Waves completed its bridge.
• Back in Konoha, Kakashi reported Shinki’s abilities to the Third Hokage, who confirmed Yamato had secretly taught him Wood Release and persuaded Kakashi to train him.
• As the Chunin Exams approached, Shinki freed Konohamaru from Kankuro, impressed Gaara, and defeated Rock Lee’s challenge after opening the Fifth Gate.
• Ibiki began the written exam with Team 7 seated together, and Shinki saw that Naruto’s strong scores had eased his concern about Naruto failing.

Shinki helped Naruto and Sasuke through the Chunin Exams, confronted Orochimaru, and suppressed Sasuke’s Cursed Seal. After the preliminaries, Jiraiya agreed to train Shinki and Naruto, while Shinki’s summoning awakened the Great Toad Sage, who foresaw troubled times.

• Shinki completed the written exam, copied Naruto’s answers into his paper with the Mind Body Switch Technique, and helped him pass Ibiki Morino’s first round.
• Shinki, Sasuke, and Naruto entered the Forest of Death, where Shinki exposed impostors, collected scrolls, and sold surplus ones to other teams.
• Shinki rescued Naruto and Sasuke from Orochimaru, then helped the other examinees escape the Sannin’s attacks and suppressed Sasuke’s Cursed Seal of Heaven.
• Shinki gave up selling his extra scrolls to escort Sasuke and Naruto to safety, and seven teams eventually passed the second exam.
• Shinki defeated Kankuro in the preliminaries, while Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke, and six others also qualified for the final round.
• Shinki’s newly created Genjutsu left Kurenai unconscious, and he later encountered Jiraiya while out with Naruto.
• Jiraiya learned Naruto was Minato’s son and heard about Shinki’s abilities, then agreed to train both boys.
• Shinki signed the Mount Myōboku Summoning Scroll and summoned there, awakening the Great Toad Sage, who warned Fukasaku and Shima that troubled times were coming before disappearing.

Shinki mastered Mount Myōboku’s Senjutsu, helped stop Orochimaru’s invasion of Konoha, and drew the attention of powerful enemies. After leaving with Jiraiya and Naruto to find Tsunade, he survived attacks from Root and Kumogakure and captured the assassins sent after him.

• Shinki and Naruto trained in Senjutsu at Mount Myōboku, where Shinki mastered Sage Mode and defeated Gamabunta.
• Shinki returned to Konoha for the Chunin Ninja Exams, defeated Gaara during Orochimaru’s invasion, and used Wood Release to break the barrier trapping Hiruzen and stop Shukaku.
• Konoha promoted Shinki to Chunin, while other villages ordered his assassination because of his Wood Release and Flying Thunder God.
• Shinki and Naruto encountered Itachi and Kisame in Konoha, and Shinki helped drive them off before refusing Root’s offer to join.
• Jiraiya left Konoha with Naruto and Shinki to find Tsunade, while Danzo ordered Root to attack Shinki outside the village.
• Shinki escaped Kabuto’s recruitment attempt and ambushed Kumogakure assassins, trapping the squad and demanding a ransom for its members.
• Shinki brought the captives to Hiruzen, who confronted Danzo over Root’s actions, and Jiraiya identified the blond woman Naruto had seen as Tsunade.