Chapter Summaries

Senya began training at Cloud-Thunder Ravine, where he sensed Yugito Nii and the Two-Tails nearby. Inside her sealing space, Yugito lost another block-removal game with Matatabi and became distraught, leaving Matatabi to calm her down.

• Jiraiya took Fuzishou Tingxiang and Shizuka to Konoha, while Senya made a drinking bet with A and won the chance to train at Cloud-Thunder Ravine.
• Senya reached Cloud-Thunder Ravine and sensed both the area’s dense lightning-natured Natural Chakra and Yugito Nii’s Jinchuriki aura.
• Senya chose not to disturb Yugito and began cautiously absorbing lightning-natured Natural Chakra.
• Matatabi sensed Senya’s powerful Chakra nearby while Yugito was removing a block, startling her and causing the tower to collapse.
• Yugito lamented losing for the six hundred and fifty-fourth time, and Matatabi reassured her that she could win if she stayed calm.

Yugito Nii sensed a powerful stranger absorbing chakra from thunderclouds and went to investigate, where she recognized him as Senya Uchiha and felt unexpectedly drawn to him. Senya warned her to keep her distance as his training intensified, but Yugito bristled at the caution.

• Matatabi told Yugito that someone nearby was absorbing chakra from thunderclouds and urged her to leave her block-stacking training to investigate.
• Yugito stepped outside and saw Senya seated in the training ground, surrounded by blue lightning and powerful winds.
• Yugito recognized Senya as a young Uchiha from Konoha and silently admitted Matatabi was right that she had taken a liking to him.
• Yugito noticed the lightning around Senya intensifying and felt uncomfortable as charged particles made her hair stand apart.
• Senya opened his eyes, warned Yugito to stay farther away, and stirred her pride as a Jinchuriki.

Senya used his Rinnegan to cast the Fire-Thunder Jaw-Bite hexagram and decided to keep Yugito Nii nearby while he absorbed lightning Chakra. His cultivation drew down a massive lightning pillar, leaving Yugito Nii and Matatabi desperate to attempt a Tailed Beast Transformation to survive the aftershocks.

• Senya cast the Fire-Thunder Jaw-Bite hexagram, took its auspicious reading as guidance, and used his Demon Flame Susanoo to draw lightning from the thunderclouds.
• Yugito Nii covered herself in a Tailed Beast cloak and became angry when Senya appeared to mock her cat ears.
• Senya absorbed and refined Lightning Release Sage Chakra, then drew down a lightning pillar large enough to engulf his Susanoo.
• A watched the lightning pillar from the Raikage's office, envied Senya's cultivation, and worried about Yugito Nii.
• Matatabi scolded Yugito Nii for staying too close and urged her to attempt a Tailed Beast Transformation as their last chance to survive.

Senya absorbed the thunderclouds over Cloud-Thunder Ravine while interpreting his hexagram, but the yin-yang alignment with Yugito Nii triggered an uncontrollable reaction. The chapter ended with Senya restraining and tearing Yugito Nii’s clothing as he struggled to regain control.

• Yugito Nii completed her Tailed Beast Transformation and endured the lightning while Senya absorbed the thunderclouds above.
• Senya realized Yugito Nii’s fire and his lightning might complete the hexagram’s yin-yang alignment, and he urged her to step back.
• Yugito Nii dismissed her Tailed Beast Transformation after the lightning weakened, and Senya descended once he absorbed the remaining clouds.
• Yugito Nii asked whether the Raikage had approved Senya’s cultivation, and Senya confirmed that Big Brother A had agreed.
• Senya’s Sage Chakra became unbalanced, his reason was overwhelmed, and he bound Yugito Nii with chains before tearing her clothing.

Hidden Cloud’s leaders debated whether to attack Senya in Cloud-Thunder Ravine, but A ordered them to withdraw and avoid provoking Konoha. After Yugito woke beside Senya, the two watched the sunrise together, and Senya began to consider what would happen next.

• A rejected the proposal to ambush Senya, citing Konoha’s strength, Impure World Reincarnation, and Hidden Cloud’s ties to the Ninja Association.
• A ordered every Hidden Cloud ninja near Cloud-Thunder Ravine to withdraw at least ten kilometers away.
• The one-eyed jonin secretly hid a coded note and blamed A for opposing the daimyo and favoring Konoha.
• Senya helped the unconscious Yugito change into Hikari’s clothes, then spent the night outside the ancient building.
• Yugito woke, discovered she was wearing Senya’s clothes, and joined him outside as the sun rose.
• Senya apologized and considered how to make things right, while Yugito asked what would happen next.

Senya took responsibility for Yugito Nii after their encounter in Cloud-Thunder Ravine, and she eventually accepted his help and became a Perfect Jinchuriki. They left for the Raikage’s office, where Yugito credited Senya with her success and surprised A.

• Senya insisted he would take responsibility for Yugito Nii, then admitted his relationships with other women were real and defended himself as responsible.
• Senya overpowered Yugito Nii, while Matatabi was prevented from watching; Yugito eventually begged him to stop and accepted his promise to take responsibility.
• After Yugito rested and Senya healed her, they left Cloud-Thunder Ravine and went to the Raikage’s office.
• A asked Senya about his training, and Senya said Cloud-Thunder Ravine had helped him improve his lightning ability.
• Yugito told A that Senya had helped her become a Perfect Jinchuriki, leaving A surprised and suspecting something had happened between them.

Senya explained Yugito Nii’s breakthrough to A, while Yugito concealed what had happened between them. The Raikage used his guilt to press for better trade terms, and Senya later instructed Ibiki on how to regulate trade with Hidden Cloud.

• Senya told A that he had accidentally helped Yugito Nii become a Perfect Jinchuriki, and Yugito later recounted a version of events that hid what had happened between her and Senya.
• A mistook Yugito’s shame and anger for resentment over her near-death experience, apologized that the village could not seek justice, and told her to rest for two months.
• After Yugito left, A directed Mabui to demand higher profits and expand trade with Konoha, using Senya’s guilt as leverage.
• Ibiki reported that he had blocked Hidden Cloud’s attempts to raise prices and expand trade, and Senya approved limited price increases while ordering higher tariffs on luxury goods and restrictions on returns and cultural materials.

Senya gave Ibiki instructions for expanding Konoha’s trade and cultural exports to Kumogakure, then reflected on his growing bonds in the Shinobi World while speaking with Qianyue. He embraced his feelings and ended the night by promising to settle things with her once and for all.

• Senya told Ibiki to keep tariffs unchanged, limit new merchant caravans to a fifteen percent increase, and promote Konoha’s goods and culture in the Land of Lightning.
• Senya assigned Hyuga Hiashi to compete in luxury goods, ordered mass production of Orochimaru’s inventions, and directed Uchiha Izumi and the Uchiha boy and girl groups to create and train in music and dance.
• Ibiki recorded Senya’s instructions, sorted them into sealed scrolls for delivery, and fell asleep exhausted after finishing late at night.
• Qianyue appeared beside Senya on a mountain and teased him about thinking of Yugito Nii, then asked why he had hesitated over his feelings for her.
• Senya reflected on the relationships he had formed in the Shinobi World, recited a poem about Qianyue helping forge his heart, and pulled her into his arms.
• Senya told Qianyue they would settle things once and for all, and she embraced him.

Tsunade examined Fuzishou Tingxiang and found her body was failing after years of overusing Chakra, leaving her only four months to live without treatment. Tingxiang chose a risky operation, and Tsunade gave Nadeshiko Shizuka the Medical Transfer Technique to learn so she could help keep her master's heart beating during surgery.

• Tsunade told Fuzishou Tingxiang that her weakened organs, stiff muscles, and incompletely healed fractures left her with at most four months to live.
• Tsunade called Nadeshiko Shizuka into the ward, then teased Jiraiya about his concern for Tingxiang and shut him outside.
• Tsunade injected Tingxiang with Konoha's treatment serum, which briefly restored some strength but could only ease her symptoms.
• Tsunade explained that Tingxiang could wait for an organ transplant or undergo surgery with about a fifty percent chance of success, and Tingxiang and Shizuka chose surgery.
• Tsunade gave Shizuka the Medical Transfer Technique scroll and told her to learn it to maintain Tingxiang's heartbeat during the operation.

Shizuka learned the limitations of the Medical Transfer Technique while Kurotsuchi visited Tsunade to invite Senya to Hidden Stone Village. After exploring Konoha, Kurotsuchi ran into Kisame working at a grilled fish restaurant and was surprised when Deidara arrived.

• Tsunade explained that the Medical Transfer Technique only worked between people with matching Chakra, and Shizuka began training in it.
• Tsunade told Kurotsuchi that Senya was in Kumogakure and that his decision to visit Hidden Stone Village was up to him.
• Kurotsuchi decided to travel to Hidden Cloud with her teammates, then spent the evening exploring Konoha while they rested.
• Kurotsuchi followed a scent into an Uchiha Specialty Grilled Fish restaurant and found Kisame preparing fish.
• Deidara entered the restaurant and greeted Kisame, and Kurotsuchi exclaimed in surprise at seeing him.

Deidara told Kurotsuchi he had found acceptance and work he enjoyed in Konoha, and refused to return to Iwagakure. He ended the evening by putting on a free fireworks show for Konoha’s residents, which Tsunade noticed from her office.

• Deidara met Kurotsuchi in a Konoha restaurant and showed her his Konoha forehead protector.
• Kurotsuchi asked why Deidara had joined Konoha instead of returning to Iwagakure, and he explained that the village’s people had feared and rejected him.
• Deidara described how Senya had given him work on the Konoha–Kirigakure bridge, where people appreciated his art.
• Deidara told Kurotsuchi he planned to stay in Konoha, gave her his address, and left the restaurant.
• Kurotsuchi accepted that Deidara was happier in Konoha and returned to the Iwagakure Embassy.
• Deidara announced a free fireworks show in Konoha’s plaza and launched colorful clay fireworks as Tsunade watched from her office.

Senya accepted Ōnoki’s invitation to visit Iwagakure and planned to tell him about Deidara. Yugito volunteered to travel with Senya, while Senya asked her to help Killer B train Naruto before he left Turtle Island.

• Kurotsuchi and Yugito argued over who could invite Senya to visit their village, until Senya arrived and read Ōnoki’s invitation.
• Senya agreed to visit Iwagakure so he could speak with Ōnoki about Deidara, and he brushed off Kurotsuchi’s questions about the Akatsuki Organization.
• Senya teased Yugito about missing him, and she blushed while claiming she had only come to revisit Turtle Island.
• Senya asked Yugito to help Killer B teach Naruto to control Tailed Beast Chakra and said he planned to return to Konoha after visiting Iwagakure.
• Yugito said she would accompany Senya to Iwagakure and then visit Konoha during her vacation.

Senya, Kurotsuchi, and Yugito Nii traveled through the Land of Earth toward Iwagakure and encountered Earth Cakes, a food once eaten in the village’s early days. They ended the night at an inn, where Senya and Kurotsuchi tricked Yugito Nii into tasting the awful cakes too.

• Senya, Kurotsuchi, and Yugito Nii reached a village on their way to Iwagakure and saw an old woman baking Earth Cakes.
• Senya paid the old woman for a cake and took it with him despite her warning that it was hot.
• At a nearby inn, Kurotsuchi explained that people in remote parts of the Land of Earth still ate Earth Cakes when roads made food deliveries difficult.
• Kurotsuchi tasted the cake, spat it out, and warned Yugito Nii that it tasted worse than Ration Pills.
• Yugito Nii forced Senya to eat a piece, and he then persuaded her to try one by claiming it was only slightly worse than Ration Pills.
• Yugito Nii spat out the cake and accused Senya of lying, while he insisted the difference was tiny.

Senya arrived in Hidden Stone Village and discussed a valuable plot of land with Ōnoki, who learned that Deidara had joined Konoha and nearly suffered a heart attack. The chapter ended with Ōnoki hiding his distress while claiming he hoped Deidara would return to the right path.

• Senya stayed awake talking with Yugito Nii, then woke to find Kurotsuchi clinging to him, leaving all three embarrassed.
• Senya, Kurotsuchi, and Yugito Nii arrived in Hidden Stone Village, where Kurotsuchi and Yugito Nii began getting along better.
• Ōnoki showed Senya the open land by the new gate and offered it to Konoha for merchants to lease.
• Ōnoki thanked Senya for lifting Deidara's wanted status and explained that Deidara had once been his disciple.
• Senya told Ōnoki that Deidara had joined the Ninja Association and become an official jōnin in Konoha, causing Ōnoki to swallow several heart pills.

After completing his mission, Chiba left Kirigakure with Mei Terumi’s promise and returned to Konoha, where he received permission to study Tobirama’s Water Release. He warned Minato about Kushina’s role as the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki and trained him in new techniques, while Chiba continued strengthening his Sage Body and nearing mastery of Water Release.

• Mei Terumi kissed Chiba, gave him a kunai bearing her Flying Thunder God mark, and declared that she would become Mizukage and marry him.
• Terumi Kazuki revealed that he knew Chiba’s identity, accepted his relationship with Mei, and warned him not to betray her; Chiba then collected Mikoshiya En’s intelligence and left for Konoha.
• Chiba reported Kirigakure’s internal strife to Hiruzen Sarutobi, received an S-rank mission reward, and asked to study the Second Hokage’s Water Release techniques.
• Chiba returned home, teased Minato about rescuing Kushina from Hidden Cloud, and told him that Kushina was the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki and could be sent to fight in a future war.
• Minato asked Chiba to teach him, and after training developed the Wind Release technique Spiraling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Style Three and learned the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Chiba raised his Sage Body to 40% and nearly finished learning the Second Hokage’s Water Release.

Senya negotiated with Ōnoki over Konoha’s share of the land set aside for shops in Iwagakure, then proposed building roads to improve trade. Ōnoki resisted the cost and was left unsure whether he could meet Senya’s demands.

• Senya and Ōnoki accepted that Deidara would remain in Konoha and could live as he wished.
• Senya asked for half the empty land, but Ōnoki argued that Iwagakure needed space for other countries and villages to trade.
• Senya suggested that building roads could change Iwagakure’s situation, but Ōnoki laughed and questioned their usefulness.
• Senya insisted that Iwagakure build roads and threatened to give its reserved shops to nearby small villages instead.
• Ōnoki worried that Iwagakure could not afford road construction and hesitated to ask the Land of Earth’s daimyo for more funding.

Senya offered Ōnoki a way to earn money for Iwagakure by taking a commission from Nadeshiko Village, after learning that the Land of Earth was nearly broke. Ōnoki agreed to discuss the job with Fuzishou Tingxiang, while Senya expected Konoha to shape the deal’s terms.

• Senya explained that Konoha could offer Iwagakure low-interest loans to build roads, but Ōnoki admitted that the village and the Land of Earth were nearly out of money after wars and failed operations.
• Ōnoki said Iwagakure could not risk borrowing more from Konoha because it might never repay the debt.
• Senya proposed that Iwagakure take a commission from Nadeshiko Village to clear rogue shinobi from land between the Land of Iron and the Land of Fire.
• Senya explained that Konoha was short on shinobi because of construction work and a surge in commissions after the Chunin Exams.
• After haggling over the price, Ōnoki said he would discuss the commission with Fuzishou Tingxiang, who was in Konoha.

Ōnoki summoned nearly every jōnin in Iwagakure with a signal used when the village stood on the brink of war, while Yugito and Kurotsuchi went to see a movie. The chapter ended as Ōnoki began addressing the assembled shinobi, leaving the reason for the emergency undisclosed.

• Ōnoki called an emergency assembly of every jōnin in Iwagakure, and Kitsuchi hurried to the Iwagakure Building after hearing the four eagle cries.
• Jōnin across the village abandoned their activities and used hidden routes to gather beneath the Iwagakure Building.
• Yugito noticed Chakra fluctuations around the street while Kurotsuchi excitedly took her to see a movie starring Fujikaze Yukie.
• Kurotsuchi bought Yugito iced bubble milk tea, which Yugito enjoyed before the two entered the theater.
• Nearly two hundred jōnin, including Kitsuchi, Han, Fumya, and Roshi, assembled as Akatsuchi confirmed their attendance and Ōnoki began speaking.

Ōnoki addressed Iwagakure’s jōnin about strengthening the village and explained that Konoha had offered Iwagakure Nadeshiko Village’s war commission. He left the meeting insisting the offer proved Konoha feared Iwagakure, while Roshi remained skeptical.

• Ōnoki urged Iwagakure’s jōnin to unite and grow stronger against Uchiha Obito and his accomplices.
• Roshi challenged Ōnoki’s emotional rhetoric, and Ōnoki told him to wait until he had finished speaking before making his case.
• Ōnoki revealed that Senya Uchiha had rejected Iwagakure’s request to expand commercial operations, provoking angry complaints from the jōnin.
• Kitsuchi quieted the room, and Ōnoki explained that Iwagakure lacked funds to build roads because its new commercial district and the Ninja Association had consumed too much money.
• Ōnoki said Senya had offered Iwagakure Nadeshiko Village’s war commission because Konoha lacked enough personnel, and he argued that the offer showed Konoha feared Iwagakure’s strength.
• Roshi dismissed the offer as implausible, but Ōnoki insisted it was evidence of Iwagakure’s leverage rather than Konoha’s charity.

Ōnoki explained the commission for Nadeshiko Village and argued that Hidden Stone Village should accept it, while Roshi remained uneasy and Fumya questioned Konoha’s motives. After Kitsuchi defended Konoha’s intentions, the ninja reflected on their losses, and Ōnoki called for an anonymous vote on whether to accept the commission.

• Roshi kept his doubts to himself as Ōnoki described the land Nadeshiko Village wanted Hidden Stone Village to help seize.
• Fumya warned that Konoha might be using Hidden Stone ninja to test the region’s strength before taking the spoils.
• Kitsuchi argued that Tsunade and Senya Uchiha would not betray the Ninja Association’s principles for a deceptive advantage.
• Fumya remembered losing his former teammates to Minato Namikaze, while Akatsuchi offered him quiet comfort.
• Roshi stopped wanting to argue as the ninja mourned the dead and thought of the people they hoped to protect.
• Ōnoki instructed the ninja to cast anonymous yes-or-no votes on accepting the commission.