Chapter Summaries

Shinki fought Danzo at Naka Bridge, resisting Kotoamatsukami and killing Root Ninja with powerful Wood and Fire Release techniques. Danzo repeatedly vanished after being cut apart, and Shinki ended the chapter baffled after confirming he was not under a Genjutsu.

• Shinki escaped Kotoamatsukami and attacked Danzo, who retreated as Root Ninja rushed to help him.
• Shinki summoned a giant Wooden Man and burned most of the approaching Root Ninja with Great Dragon Fire Technique.
• Danzo revealed ten Sharingan on his right arm and attacked Shinki with Vacuum Wave, but the Wooden Man blocked the blades.
• Shinki used Deep Forest Emergence to trap the Root Ninja and impaled Danzo, splitting his body in two.
• Shinki sensed Danzo's Chakra elsewhere and found him alive, then pursued him as Danzo tried to reach the village.
• Shinki cleaved Danzo in two with a gigantic Chakra Scalpel, but Danzo's corpse vanished again; Shinki dispelled Genjutsu and confirmed he was not being deceived.

Shinki fought Danzo through repeated deaths and revivals, discovering that each Sharingan on Danzo’s arm powered one use of Izanagi. After Danzo offered Shisui Uchiha’s eye in exchange for his life, Shinki stabbed him in the heart, leaving Danzo’s final fate unresolved.

• Danzo attacked Shinki from behind, but Shinki sensed him, struck back with a Bone Blade, and noticed a Sharingan on Danzo’s arm had closed.
• Danzo summoned Baku and used Wind Release against Shinki, but Shinki protected himself with an Ice Release barrier and destroyed Baku with a Great Fireball.
• Shinki trapped Danzo in a vast swamp, where Danzo suffocated, then revived behind Shinki; Shinki realized each closed Sharingan represented one exhausted Izanagi life.
• Shinki repeatedly killed Danzo until all the Sharingan on his arm had closed, leaving Danzo with one final life.
• Danzo offered Shisui Uchiha’s eye to spare himself and revealed the Four Symbols Cursed Seal, but Shinki used the Body Flicker Technique and stabbed him in the heart.

After Shinki killed Danzo, he explained the circumstances to the Third Hokage, and Konoha’s senior officials debated whether Shinki was guilty and what should happen to Shisui Uchiha’s eye. The meeting turned in Shinki’s favor when Sai testified against Danzo, and Shinki asked for the eye as compensation.

• Shinki killed Danzo, brought his corpse to the Third Hokage, and recounted what had happened.
• The Third Hokage agreed to help Shinki, while village meetings began debating Shinki’s guilt and Shisui Uchiha’s eye.
• Tsunade defended Shinki and argued that Danzo’s Root members could not be trusted, but the senior officials refused to clear him without a witness.
• Shinki entered the meeting with Sai, who testified that Danzo had targeted Shinki and arranged attempts on the Third and Fifth Hokages.
• Shinki asked for Shisui Uchiha’s eye as compensation, leaving the senior officials to weigh the request against his power.

Shinki received Shisui's Sharingan and discovered he could turn it on and off at will despite not being an Uchiha. He agreed to leave Konoha with Jiraiya and Naruto for three years of training, while Jiraiya revealed the Akatsuki might strike again after that time.

• Tsunade and the Third Hokage backed giving Shinki Shisui's eye, and Shinki underwent the transplant the next day.
• Shinki's body accepted the Sharingan without rejection, and Tsunade removed the bandages five days later.
• Shinki activated and deactivated the Sharingan at will, astonishing Kakashi, who left after learning of his control.
• Jiraiya asked Shinki to train with him, and Tsunade and Naruto encouraged Shinki to travel beyond Konoha; Shinki agreed to leave with Jiraiya and Naruto the next day.
• Jiraiya told Shinki that the Akatsuki sought the Tailed Beasts and might make another move in three years, so he planned to use that time to train Shinki and Naruto.

Three years after Shinki left Konoha, several villagers heard that he would return within days and reflected on his achievements and influence. The chapter ended with Kiba Inuzuka and Shino discussing how Shinki’s Genjutsu had driven Kurenai Yuhi to train harder.

• Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon caught the Daimyo's wife's cat and delivered it to the Hokage's Office, where Shizune told Konohamaru that Shinki would return within days.
• Tsunade praised Shinki’s medical and scientific achievements to new medical-nin, then told Ino that he was expected back that week and teased her about the Gelel Stone he had given her.
• Kakashi complained that Jiraiya had not published a sequel to "Icha Icha Paradise" and planned to ask him about it when he returned.
• Neji told Rock Lee and Tenten that Shinki was coming back, and Lee trained harder because he saw Shinki as a role model.
• Kiba Inuzuka and Shino said Kurenai Yuhi had devoted herself to Genjutsu training since Shinki had injured her with one, and Kiba joked that Asuma must resent him.

After returning to Konoha, Shinki and Naruto reunited with their friends, and Shinki agreed to face them in a group spar. Meanwhile, Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed the Akatsuki and their leader, Pain, as Tsunade feared the organization would soon act again.

• Shinki and Naruto returned to Konoha with Jiraiya and ate ramen at Ichiraku, where Teuchi treated them to a meal.
• Kiba and Akamaru found Shinki and Naruto, and Naruto greeted Hinata while Shinki reunited with the others.
• Neji, Rock Lee, Kiba, and Shino challenged Shinki to spar, and Naruto recruited Shikamaru and Choji to join their side.
• Shinki agreed to fight the group at the Fifth Training Ground without using Wood Release, Ice Release, or Flying Thunder God.
• Tsunade asked Jiraiya about the Akatsuki, and he said he had learned that its leader in Amegakure was Pain but had found no other information.

Sasori and Deidara approached Sunagakure, while Shinki overwhelmed Naruto and the other Konoha rookies in a training match using his Sharingan and Susanoo. The rookies eventually surrendered, and Deidara flew toward Sunagakure on a clay eagle.

• Sasori and Deidara discussed their competing ideas of art as they neared Sunagakure, and Deidara flew ahead on a giant clay eagle.
• Naruto warned Shinki not to open the Eight Gates beyond the Sixth Gate, and Shinki agreed before beginning the match.
• Shinki trapped the rookies in a Sharingan Genjutsu and struck their minds with Kotoamatsukami: Radiance.
• Shikamaru used the Shadow Imitation Technique to restrain Shinki, but Shinki summoned a skeletal Susanoo with one eye and broke the attack.
• Shinki countered the rookies’ attacks for half an hour until they surrendered.

Deidara attacked Sunagakure but was driven off by Gaara and the village’s Chakra Cannon. Back in Konoha, Shinki and Naruto joined Kakashi and Sai’s squad, while Shinki continued searching for the person who had saved him from Danzo.

• Deidara flew into Sunagakure and attacked Gaara, but Gaara’s sand shielded him from an explosive clay bird.
• Gaara used the Chakra Cannon to destroy the wing of Deidara’s bird, then pursued him as Deidara escaped on another bird.
• Tsunade praised Shinki’s Susanoo, confirmed Sasuke had sent no word, and assigned Shinki and Naruto to Kakashi’s squad with Sai.
• Shinki gave Kakashi an unreleased volume of Icha Icha Paradise, and Kakashi read until evening.
• Shinki returned home with Naruto and wondered who had sent the crow that saved him from Danzo, considering Uchiha Itachi as a possibility.

Tsunade changed Shinki and Naruto’s routine B-rank assignment into an S-rank mission after Sunagakure reported that Gaara had been captured. Shinki’s squad and Might Guy’s squad set out to rescue the Kazekage, leaving Konoha after Iruka gave Shinki and Naruto new Forehead Protectors.

• Tsunade summoned Shinki and Naruto for their first mission after three years of training, and Naruto complained that the B-rank assignment was too easy.
• A messenger hawk brought Sunagakure’s level-one emergency request, reporting that Gaara had been captured by Deidara, an Akatsuki member.
• Shinki pointed out that Akatsuki members operated in pairs, so Tsunade assigned Shinki’s squad and Might Guy’s squad to the S-rank rescue mission.
• Iruka gave Shinki and Naruto new Forehead Protectors and wished them well as they departed Konoha.
• Naruto said Hinata would make a good wife, delighting Shinki and the others.

Shinki and the Konoha team reached Sunagakure to treat Kankuro, who had been poisoned by Sasori, and Shinki began an operation after requesting rare medicinal ingredients. The operation was still underway when Sunagakure elders arrived, and one of them mistook the Konoha Ninja for attackers.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed the danger of sending Naruto and Shinki after the Akatsuki, and Tsunade questioned how Shinki could use Susanoo.
• Shinki remembered the Flying Thunder God Mark he had placed on Kankuro's clothes and used it to take the Konoha group directly to Sunagakure.
• Temari brought out Kankuro's old clothes, which still carried Shinki's mark, while Kankuro's Sasori-inflicted poison caused him severe pain.
• Shinki examined Kankuro, requested precious medicinal ingredients, and began an operation after sending the others outside.
• Temari and Sunagakure guards returned with the ingredients, and an arriving elder mistook the Konoha Ninja for an attacking force.

Granny Chiyo mistook Kakashi for Konoha's White Fang and threatened Shinki when she learned he was treating Kankuro. After Shinki cured Kankuro's poison and puppet-related meridian damage, Chiyo apologized, and Shinki collected the requested ingredients as his medical fee.

• Granny Chiyo confronted Kakashi, then realized she had mistaken him for the White Fang and learned that Sasori had poisoned Kankuro.
• Chiyo demanded to inspect Kankuro, but Shinki came out of the hospital room after completing his surgery and challenged her criticism of his skills.
• Temari found Kankuro stable and free of poison, while Chiyo discovered Shinki had also repaired damage to his meridians.
• Chiyo admitted she was wrong and apologized to Shinki for underestimating him.
• Temari brought the medicinal ingredients Shinki had requested, and he stored them in a scroll as his medical fee.

Konoha and Sunagakure sent a small team to the Land of Rivers to rescue Gaara, while the Akatsuki continued extracting the One-Tail and prepared an interception. The chapter ended with Shinki’s group encountering two Akatsuki members at the border.

• Kakashi learned from Pakkun that the Akatsuki had taken Gaara to the Land of Rivers, and Might Guy, Granny Chiyo, and Temari volunteered to join the rescue.
• Sunagakure’s leaders kept Temari behind, so Might Guy, Team Kakashi, and Granny Chiyo set out as a group of nine.
• Granny Chiyo explained how Gaara had protected Sunagakure with a sand barrier, while Shinki questioned whether the village valued Gaara as Kazekage.
• The Akatsuki extracted the One-Tail from Gaara and decided to send four members using the Shapeshifting Technique to intercept the approaching ninja.
• At the Land of Rivers border, Shinki’s group met two Akatsuki members, and Kakashi warned everyone not to underestimate them.

Shinki faced Hidan and Kakuzu with a powerful new Multi-Release Shuriken and obliterated them in a massive explosion. The Konoha group saw how much Shinki had grown, while Granny Chiyo concluded that Sunagakure needed to maintain good relations with Konoha.

• Shinki prepared a giant chakra Fūma Shuriken as Might Guy urged his team to hang back, and the Konoha ninja retreated far from its expected blast zone.
• Kakuzu recognized Shinki and warned Hidan about his strength, but Hidan dismissed the danger and invited Shinki to join the Jashin Cult.
• Shinki pretended to accept Hidan’s invitation, hurled the shuriken, and used Flying Thunder God to teleport away as Kakuzu tried to flee with Hidan.
• The Multi-Release Shuriken exploded, leveling a hill and leaving a huge crater; Shinki explained that he had combined Wind, Fire, and Lightning chakra in the technique.
• Shinki said Hidan and Kakuzu had likely been burned and crushed beyond recognition, and Granny Chiyo voiced her agreement with keeping Sunagakure on good terms with Konoha.

Shinki’s group confronted Itachi and Kisame, and Shinki displayed his Mangekyō Sharingan, Susanoo, and Wood Release. Inside Itachi’s genjutsu, he confirmed that he had sent the crow that saved Shinki and asked him to protect Sasuke and guide him if he turned against Konoha.

• At the Akatsuki hideout, Hidan admitted that Shinki had defeated him and Kakuzu with a devastating explosion.
• Itachi and Kisame waited in the Land of Rivers, where Itachi warned Kisame that his health was worsening.
• When Shinki’s group arrived, Might Guy failed to remember Kisame’s name, provoking Kisame into attacking.
• Shinki greeted Itachi, activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, formed his third-stage Susanoo, and used Wood Release to create a forest.
• Inside Itachi’s genjutsu, Shinki asked whether Itachi had sent the crow that saved him, and Itachi confirmed it.
• Itachi asked Shinki not to hurt Sasuke and to guide him back to the right path if he acted against Konoha.

Shinki defeated the transformed Itachi and Kisame, then helped his group reach the cave where the Akatsuki had completed extracting Gaara’s Tailed Beast. He broke the Five-Seal Barrier and revealed three figures inside.

• Itachi gave Shinki a crow before collapsing, and his body changed into another person; Shinki then learned Kisame had created a lake for his fight with Might Guy.
• Shinki froze the lake with Ice Release, shattered the ice to kill Kisame, and discovered that both Kisame and Itachi had been transformed substitutes carrying part of the originals’ Chakra and will.
• In the Akatsuki cave, Sasori and Deidara discussed confronting Shinki as Gaara’s Tailed Beast extraction finished.
• At the cave entrance, Shinki explained the Five-Seal Barrier, sent four Shadow Clones to remove the distant seals, and had all five seals pulled at once.
• Shinki smashed the boulder blocking the cave, revealing three figures inside.

Shinki and the others confronted Sasori and Deidara in the Land of Rivers cave, where Deidara escaped with Gaara’s body. Shinki pursued him using Sai’s Scroll and summoned a fighter jet, then fired a missile that tracked Deidara as he fled.

• Deidara took Gaara’s body in a giant Clay Bird and flew out of the cave while Sasori attacked the group with Hiruko’s poisoned chain blade.
• Shinki used Kimimaro’s bone whip to pull Hiruko into the air, and Naruto shattered the puppet with a Rasengan, revealing Sasori’s real body.
• Granny Chiyo stayed behind to fight Sasori, while Shinki and Naruto went after Deidara; Shinki told Kakashi that Gaara was already dead.
• Shinki leaped after Deidara, shielded himself from the explosions of Deidara’s Clay Spiders, and used Sai’s Scroll to summon a fighter jet.
• Shinki fired a missile from the fighter jet, and Deidara discovered that it tracked him as he tried to escape.

Shinki fought Deidara, surviving his C4 Karura attack and using torrential rain to wash its microscopic explosives from the air. He found the badly burned Gaara afterward and worried that bringing him back in that condition would cost him the mission reward.

• Shinki's homing missile struck Deidara, who retaliated with Number Eighteen, but Shinki trapped its explosion inside an Ice Release cube.
• Shinki charged Deidara in his fighter jet, and Deidara unleashed C4 Karura before flying away from its blast radius.
• Shinki escaped the explosion with Susanoo, detected the microscopic explosive particles, and sealed himself inside ice.
• Shinki used Torrential Rain to wash the particles from the air, flooding the cave where Kakashi and his companions were sheltering.
• Shinki searched the flooded area and found Gaara alive but severely burned, then decided he had to find a way to save him to protect the mission reward.

After Granny Chiyo prepared to sacrifice her life to revive Gaara, Shinki proposed using a turtle’s life force and a Wood Release Clone in his One Life for One Life Technique. The Death God appeared to inspect the exchange, then vanished as color returned to Gaara’s face.

• Kakashi, Granny Chiyo, and the others found that Sasori had escaped capture because his core was still missing, while Shinki healed Gaara’s damaged skin.
• Granny Chiyo decided to use Sunagakure’s forbidden Reincarnation Technique, which would trade her life for Gaara’s.
• Shinki told Granny Chiyo he had a different plan and explained that he would transfer a turtle’s life force through a Wood Release Clone into Gaara.
• Shinki performed the One Life for One Life Technique, and the turtle died as its life force passed into the clone and then toward Gaara.
• The Death God appeared before Shinki to inspect the clone, then disappeared without being seen by the others.
• The life transfer neared completion, and color returned to Gaara’s face.

Gaara reunited with Shinki after being revived, and Shinki used Flying Thunder God to bring him and a huge crowd back to Sunagakure. The group arrived directly in the packed Kazekage's Office, leaving the village's higher-ups alarmed and Kakashi crushed in the crowd.

• Gaara awakened after Shinki's technique exchanged his life with the turtle's, and the gathered ninjas marveled at the successful revival.
• Gaara thanked Shinki, and the two shook hands for the first time since they had last met three years earlier.
• Temari, Kankuro, and nearly a thousand Sunagakure ninjas arrived to find Gaara safe, while Neji discovered an Akatsuki ring near the cave.
• Shinki used Flying Thunder God to transport the entire crowd to Sunagakure, placing them in the Kazekage's Office.
• The Sunagakure higher-ups panicked at the sudden arrival, while Kakashi complained that the crowd was crushing him.

Shinki returned from helping Sunagakure after placing a Flying Thunder God Mark in the Kazekage's Office, and Gaara affirmed the villages’ friendship and gifted him rare herbs. Back in Konoha, Shinki received an Akatsuki ring to investigate, while Sasori searched for his missing ring in the Land of Rivers.

• Sunagakure's senior officials confronted Shinki about the Flying Thunder God Mark, but Granny Chiyo defended him and reminded them that a Konoha Ninja had saved Gaara and helped revive him.
• Gaara declared Konoha Sunagakure's friend forever, welcomed Shinki to visit, and gave him a scroll of Sunagakure herbs, including Crystal Orchid and Dragon Worm Grass.
• Shinki returned to Konoha with his companions, and Tsunade warned him to stop using the technique that risked drawing the Death God's attention.
• Neji gave Tsunade a ring he had found near the battlefield, and Tsunade asked Shinki to study it at the Konoha Research Institute.
• In a cave in the Land of Rivers, Sasori searched for his missing ring as Tobi teased him and Deidara, prompting Deidara to attack Tobi with Deadly Scissor Legs.