Chapter Summaries

Nagato and the Third Raikage opened the first gate, while Dana used Lightning Chakra to adapt the Eight Gates Formation and gained a powerful boost. Minato had Orochimaru revive Tobirama for an urgent mission, and after they left, Orochimaru entered a hidden laboratory containing a white-haired man in a glass tank.

• Nagato opened the first gate and estimated that it increased his strength by about thirty percent.
• The Third Raikage opened the first gate and found that it increased his strength by about sixty percent, while Dana failed to open a gate conventionally.
• Dana guided Lightning Chakra into the Gate of Opening, triggering lightning and a magnetic field that nearly doubled his strength.
• Dana punched the air with his enhanced strength, then told Might Guy to aim his future kicks at people's heads.
• Minato asked Orochimaru to use Impure World Reincarnation on Tobirama Senju, who appeared and immediately vanished without answering their questions.
• After Minato left, Orochimaru entered a concealed laboratory and looked at a white-haired man floating in a glass tank.

Dana and the Third Raikage trained in the Eight Gates Formation while Jishi demonstrated a transformed body capable of opening seven gates. Meanwhile, Tobirama Senju helped Tsunade attempt to awaken Dan Katō, who regained consciousness with red pupils and an unsettlingly blank expression.

• Dana and the Third Raikage advanced to the Third Gate, while Jishi opened seven gates after transforming his body and then left the training group.
• The Third Raikage and Yotsuki Ki mistakenly thought Satomi was pregnant before Satomi revealed that Natsu was expecting a child.
• Tobirama Senju met Tsunade at the Federation First Laboratory and offered to release her, but she refused to leave while Dan remained unconscious.
• Tsunade persuaded Tobirama Senju to modify Impure World Reincarnation and try to pull Dan Katō's soul back into his body.
• The modified technique drew Dan Katō's soul into his body, and he awakened, recognized himself, and revealed red pupils.

Tsunade and Tobirama Senju grew suspicious of Dan Katō after he awoke with red eyes and unusually strong physical condition, so Jishi proposed testing him with Impure World Reincarnation. Meanwhile, Orochimaru secretly performed a modified resurrection experiment that succeeded, and the revived man opened red eyes.

• Dan Katō attacked Tobirama Senju when he awoke, but Tsunade calmed him by explaining that the war was over.
• Tsunade examined Dan Katō and found that his vital signs were normal, though his irises had changed color.
• Jishi found Dan Katō's recovery and stored Chakra unusually good and proposed testing him with the normal Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru secretly used a modified Impure World Reincarnation on a tall, white-haired man in a glass tank.
• The experiment succeeded, and the revived man opened his red eyes.

Dana learned that Dan Katō had awakened with confused memories and aggression, while Tsunade refused to let Tobirama detain him. After Dana took over as daimyo of the Land of Lightning and returned to Cloud Capital, Hirohiko reported that the Bandit Group had found its target at a Sunagakure camp and needed support.

• Tobirama Senju told Dana that Dan Katō had awakened unusually and that Jishi doubted his condition was consistent with a long coma.
• Tobirama said Tsunade refused to let him detain Dan, so he planned to place Flying Thunder God marks on both of them while Dana sent people to follow Dan.
• Natsu announced her pregnancy and prepared to pass the Land of Lightning's daimyo position to Dana.
• Dana accepted the daimyo's seal in a brief ceremony, rejected the traditional hat and robes, and returned to Cloud Capital.
• Dana trained at the Training Ground and later came home to find Natsu talking with Kagari and Maki about the baby's size.
• Hirohiko contacted Dana and reported that the Bandit Group had located its target at a Sunagakure camp and needed support.

Kakuzu waited for support before attacking a Sunagakure camp, only to find that Minato, Nagato, and Konan had already overwhelmed the enemy by the time he arrived. Nagato captured Huoguang and learned that Ōnoki had taught him the Added-Weight Rock Technique, not the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique they had sought.

• Kakuzu watched a Sunagakure camp of roughly two dozen ninja while Hirohiko and the Bandit Group left, promising that support would arrive.
• Kakuzu saw a Transport Pod land with only a kunai inside, then spotted Minato fighting the Sunagakure forces and stopped trying to flee.
• Nagato and Konan arrived in two more Transport Pods, and Konan bombarded the camp while Nagato fought and searched for their target.
• Minato, Nagato, and Konan defeated the camp and captured Huoguang before Kakuzu could contribute to the battle.
• Nagato used genjutsu to question Huoguang, who denied knowing the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and confessed that Ōnoki had taught him the Added-Weight Rock Technique.

Dana received the Super Weighted Rock Jutsu and arranged for Tobirama Senju to lead a new research institute focused on ninjutsu. Meanwhile, Tsunade took the recovering Dan Katō outside, where Cloud Capital’s grandeur shocked them both and left Dan wondering whether he was still in the Shinobi World.

• Minato gave Dana a scroll containing the Super Weighted Rock Jutsu, which had been obtained from an Iwagakure captive through genjutsu interrogation.
• Dana asked Tobirama Senju to examine the technique and established the Federation Fourth Research Institute under his direction.
• Dana told Tobirama Senju that work on the Gravity Room could begin with Mine Taro’s team at the Third Research Institute.
• Tsunade took the recovering Dan Katō for a walk through Cloud Capital while a surveillance ninja followed them.
• Tsunade and Dan Katō saw Cloud Capital from the cliff, and Dan stared in disbelief and asked whether it was the Shinobi World.

Tsunade and Dan Katō explored Cloud Capital, and Dan asked to remain there despite Tsunade reminding him of Shizune. At the end of March, the Cloud-Lightning Federation began testing agricultural ninjutsu, and Dan watched the work with intense interest.

• Tsunade and Dan Katō toured Cloud Capital, where its modern streets and Chakra streetlights amazed them.
• Dan Katō asked Tsunade to stay in Cloud Capital and start over, but she reminded him that he had a niece, Shizune, in Konohagakure.
• The Federation established an Experimental Field to test farming applications of ninjutsu and crop breeding, with Tobirama Senju and Anzai Mamoru leading the two efforts.
• Yotsuki Dana explained to the Third Raikage that ninja could help villages with sowing and harvesting so farmers could tend more land without being pushed out of their livelihoods.
• Tsunade and Dan Katō arrived at the fields, where Dan watched the ninja working and then smiled at Yotsuki Dana.

Dana and the Third Raikage visited the First Research Institute to see new progress in Chakra-assisted crop ripening. Anzai Mamoru showed them an underground rice field, where the Third Raikage discovered the rice grains contained Chakra.

• The Third Raikage asked Dana about Chakra-assisted ripening, and Dana explained that it could mature crops in an hour but severely damaged the soil.
• Dana received a message from the First Research Institute and left the fields with the Third Raikage to inspect its new research.
• Anzai Mamoru led Dana and the Third Raikage to the institute’s lowest underground level, where researchers had created a simulated sunlit rice field.
• Anzai Mamoru explained that the giant rice was the thirteenth generation of the experiment and invited them to examine it.
• The Third Raikage crushed a rice grain and realized that it contained Chakra.

Dana and the Third Raikage learned that Chakra Rice could improve animals and might help people without Chakra aptitude develop the ability to become shinobi. Anzai Mamoru warned that cultivating such crops on a large scale could irreversibly damage the environment.

• Dana crushed and tasted rice grains containing faint Chakra as Anzai Mamoru explained how researchers bred the Chakra Rice.
• Anzai Mamoru showed Dana and the Third Raikage a hidden laboratory where Chakra Rice had improved the intelligence and abilities of test animals, including the marten Bru.
• Anzai Mamoru revealed a talking monkey named Sasuke, who had developed Chakra and human-level intelligence after eating Chakra Rice.
• Anzai Mamoru explained that long-term Chakra Rice consumption might slightly improve existing abilities, while short-term consumption could give people without Chakra aptitude the capacity to cultivate Chakra.
• Anzai Mamoru speculated that other crops might be bred to grant powerful abilities, but said the method could cause severe environmental damage if widely used.

Dana considered whether the Cloud-Lightning Federation could expand Chakra Rice production without exhausting the Shinobi World's Chakra, then ordered the research kept secret and suggested renaming it Spirit Rice. Meanwhile, Orochimaru’s successful attempt to revive Jiraiya left him with confused memories, and Jiraiya wandered through the Land of Fire despite Orochimaru’s warnings.

• Dana reasoned that the God Tree had altered life on the planet to enable Chakra cultivation and concluded that Chakra was probably not a fixed resource.
• Anzai Mamoru explained that Chakra Rice required rapid Chakra-assisted growth and could not be stored long without losing its effect.
• Dana told Anzai Mamoru to keep the research within the First Research Institute and proposed calling Chakra Rice Spirit Rice.
• Orochimaru recalled that his attempt to revive Jiraiya had unexpectedly succeeded, though Jiraiya initially appeared dull-witted and resisted his attempts to release or control him.
• Jiraiya’s condition gradually improved, but his memories remained confused as Orochimaru warned him about the danger of being discovered.

Jiraiya left Konoha to wander through the Shinobi World, while Orochimaru reluctantly followed him in a white snake split body. Dana oversaw secret Spirit Rice experiments and established Chakra Technology Company to bring civilian Chakra products to market.

• Jiraiya slipped out of Konoha and wandered through the forest despite Orochimaru's objections and warnings.
• Jiraiya survived a tiger attack, sold its hide in a village, and continued his journey with Orochimaru's white snake split body.
• Dana kept the Spirit Rice experiments secret and explained why Chakra cultivation talent was uncommon even among ninja clans.
• Dana decided to commercialize civilian Chakra technology separately from United Steel Company.
• Chakra Technology Company appeared within Cloud Peak Tower.

Dana established Chakra Technology Company to adapt the Shinobi World's combat-focused techniques for civilian use, and oversaw the creation of practical Chakra-powered products. He prepared a prominent Cloud Capital storefront to launch the company and gather customers, feedback, and revenue.

• Dana argued that the Shinobi World's technology was specialized around combat and that the Federation could repurpose centuries of killing techniques for civilian technology.
• Dana assigned civilian applications of Bionic Metal and Chakra to the Federation's Third Research Institute and regularly visited to support its work.
• Researchers developed products including Chakra-powered household appliances, water-generating devices, and simplified prosthetic limbs.
• Dana selected a three-story Yotsuki Clan building on Cloud Capital's main road for Chakra Technology Company's directly operated store.

Chakra Technology Company opened in Cloud Capital, and Kuroki Ryosuke and Mihara Yuu bought several chakra-powered home appliances for their new home. Dana checked the shop’s success, then began the Thunder Roar Project’s second phase by preparing to teach the Third Raikage Lightning Sage Mode, summoning Ichikishimahime as his assistant.

• Chakra Technology Company opened in Cloud Capital and attracted curious customers with products designed with Dana Yotsuki’s involvement.
• Kuroki Ryosuke and Mihara Yuu visited the shop for renovation ideas and bought a Chakra Energy Stove, water heater, air conditioner, and two Chakra Vibrating Wands.
• Dana monitored the shop’s reception while training for the Seventh Gate, and the Third Raikage praised the vibrating wand as he used it to ease muscle fatigue.
• Dana proposed beginning the Thunder Roar Project’s second phase, in which the Third Raikage would learn Dana’s Lightning Sage Mode.
• Dana summoned Ichikishimahime to assist, and she greeted him as her husband before formally introducing herself to the Third Raikage as his future daughter-in-law.

Dana began teaching Third Raikage to sense Natural Energy, using Sage Lightning Armor and Ichikishimahime’s Inorganic Reincarnation to make cultivation easier. He left Third Raikage meditating inside the layered aids and asked Ichikishimahime to teach him Inorganic Reincarnation.

• Dana explained the risks and stages of Sage Mode cultivation and said he had devised a safer method for teaching it.
• Third Raikage admitted that sensing was not his strong suit, and Dana reassured him that sensing Natural Energy was different from sensing Chakra.
• Dana entered Sage Mode and covered Third Raikage in Sage Lightning Armor to help him sense Natural Energy, though the armor restricted his movement.
• Ichikishimahime used Inorganic Reincarnation to wrap Third Raikage in Natural Energy-rich earth, and Dana planted Sage Lightning Staffs around him as further aids.
• Dana told Third Raikage to calm his mind and imagine himself as a rock, then asked Ichikishimahime to teach him Inorganic Reincarnation while he watched over his father.

Dana and the Third Raikage continued Sage Mode training, but the Third Raikage still could not sense Natural Energy. Their training was interrupted by the arrival of Genji, a secret envoy from the Mist Village, who proposed that the village join the federation and revealed that its Mizukage had been attacked with genjutsu.

• The Third Raikage failed to sense Natural Energy during his first day of Sage Mode training and ended the session when he needed to use the restroom.
• Dana sent Ichikishimahime back to Ryūchi Cave after training and gave her snacks and candy.
• Genji arrived secretly at Lightning Capital with a document bearing the Third Raikage's seal, and Dodai escorted him to Cloud Peak Tower.
• Dana met Genji, who proposed that the Mist Village join the federation on the Mizukage's behalf.
• Genji told Dana that an unknown person had previously attacked the Mizukage with genjutsu.

Dana learned that an attacker’s genjutsu had caused the Mizukage, Kagura Tachibana, to secretly send Kirigakure’s military supplies, including Healing Tags, toward Sunagakure and Iwagakure before he broke free. Meanwhile, the Third Kazekage ordered attacks in the Land of Rain while serving Madara Uchiha, who discovered that Kagura’s genjutsu had been removed.

• Genji told Dana that Kagura Tachibana had broken free of an unidentified attacker’s genjutsu and that Kirigakure had discovered he had secretly ordered supplies sent toward Sunagakure and Iwagakure.
• Genji admitted that the transported supplies included more than half of Kirigakure’s Healing Tags and offered compensation to Dana and Dodai.
• The Third Kazekage ordered Pakura’s squad to infiltrate the Land of Rain and sabotage it, dismissing concerns that the attacks would drive Amegakure toward the Cloud-Lightning Federation.
• The Third Kazekage met Madara Uchiha in secret and suggested using genjutsu to control Sunagakure’s elders.
• Black Zetsu informed Madara that Kagura Tachibana’s genjutsu had been removed and that a White Zetsu near him had been eliminated.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu to investigate what had happened and asked about an earlier matter; Black Zetsu said he already had news.

Pakura and Sasori received orders forbidding them from returning to Sunagakure, just as Hirohiko's Bandit Group surrounded them and offered Sasori a deal. Meanwhile, Genji's negotiations put the Land of Water's possible entry into the Cloud-Lightning Federation on the table, and Dana connected Black Zetsu to Hanzo of the Salamander.

• Pakura read a message denying her return to the village and ordering her to the Land of Rain border within three days or be branded a deserter.
• Sasori and Pakura struggled to decide what to do as they realized they could not reach Elder Chiyo or understand the crisis in Sunagakure.
• Hirohiko and the ten other members of the Bandit Group surrounded Sasori and Pakura, and Hirohiko offered Sasori a deal.
• Genji discussed Kirigakure joining the Cloud-Lightning Federation with Dana, shifting pressure onto the Federation to find terms Kirigakure could accept.
• Dana told the Third Raikage about Genji's visit, then asked whether Hanzo of the Salamander had been corresponding with him after connecting him to Black Zetsu.

After learning that genjutsu might have compromised more than the Mizukage, Dana tightened security and set out for the Land of Rain to investigate Hanzo and discuss Federation membership. He departed with a team of powerful sensory specialists, while the mysterious bald traveler continued toward the Land of Wind.

• Kagura Tachibana thanked the bald man who had freed him from genjutsu, but the man declined to stay in Kirigakure and sailed away.
• Orochimaru questioned the bald man’s identity as the boatman told the story of his father’s search for a moving island; after reaching land, the traveler transformed his hair and continued on.
• Dana required Federation leaders to undergo genjutsu examinations every seventy-two hours and contacted Hanzo about a visit to the Land of Rain.
• Dana left the Third Raikage to continue training in sensing Natural Energy with Ichikishimahime’s help, then gathered Nagato, Kushina, and Kagari for the mission.
• Dana and the team prepared to use their combined sensory abilities to investigate the Land of Rain, while Kushina carried a pack of sealing scrolls she had bought with borrowed money.

Yotsuki Dana visited Amegakure to warn Hanzo of the Salamander about genjutsu powerful enough to control a Kage and to discuss the Land of Rain joining the Federation. Their meeting was interrupted by news that several southern villages had been nearly wiped out.

• Yotsuki Dana arrived in the Land of Rain with Kushina, Nagato, and Kagari, and the group found no signs of genjutsu among them or Hanzo of the Salamander.
• Dana inspected Hanzo of the Salamander for genjutsu and told him that Kagura Tachibana, the Fourth Mizukage and a perfect Jinchuriki, had been controlled.
• Hanzo of the Salamander took Dana's warning seriously and agreed to arrange regular genjutsu examinations for himself and other officials.
• Dana raised the possibility of Amegakure and the Land of Rain joining the Federation, and Hanzo recalled postponing the decision because of the Anti-Cloud Alliance's threat.
• Salamander Rain Scorpion reported that several southern villages had been attacked and nearly slaughtered, enraging Hanzo of the Salamander.

After Hanzo of the Salamander retaliated against Sunagakure for massacring a southern village, Dana explained why the Federation would continue its steady strategy and ordered precautions against Black Zetsu’s plans. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha found Monk Bunpuku in the desert and discovered that he was a perfect Jinchuriki who had hidden his ability out of love.

• Hanzo of the Salamander returned after killing Sunagakure infiltrators, but warned Dana that the massacre marked the start of greater trouble for the Land of Rain.
• Dana sent the Bandit Group to contact Sasori and ordered Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s remains recovered so Tobirama Senju could reincarnate and secure them.
• Dana ordered a barrier during the reincarnation and requested a report on Dan Katō’s recent movements.
• Madara Uchiha entered a ruined temple after his men slaughtered its guards and confronted Monk Bunpuku.
• Madara Uchiha recognized that Monk Bunpuku was a perfect Jinchuriki, and Bunpuku said he had concealed his use of Shukaku’s power out of love.