Chapter Summaries

Kushina Uzumaki was mocked by her classmates after joining Kamimura Ichiki’s class, then erupted in anger and beat the children who had insulted her. The chapter ended with the teacher returning to find the classroom wrecked, while Yagami Chiyue quietly kept his distance and concealed that he was also a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Kamimura Ichiki introduced Kushina Uzumaki to the class, where students mocked her red hair and she sat beside Yagami Chiyue.
• Chiyue gave Kushina a brief greeting but avoided getting close to her because he feared attracting the attention of Konoha’s authorities.
• After class, students called Kushina insulting names until she punched one boy and unleashed traces of the Nine-Tails’ Chakra.
• Kushina beat the classmates who had mocked her, while Chiyue watched calmly and reflected on his own hidden white Nine-Tails.
• Kushina threatened Minato when he smiled, then returned to her seat as Kamimura Ichiki rushed in and the beaten students blamed her.

Kushina fought classmates who mocked her, and Tsunade came to the academy when the school summoned her guardian. After the incident, Kushina began settling into class and invited Chiyue to lunch, but he declined and followed Minato.

• Kushina beat classmates who laughed at her and gave her insulting nicknames, so Kamimura Ichiki sent her, Chiyue, and Minato to the teachers' office.
• Chiyue explained that the classmates had provoked Kushina, and Kamimura Ichiki asked her to bring her guardian to the school.
• Tsunade arrived at the academy, confronted Kamimura Ichiki and the other students' parents, and defended Kushina.
• Minato feared Kushina would retaliate for his remarks and ran from the classroom with Chiyue after school.
• Kushina invited Chiyue to share her lunch, but he declined her rice balls and sashimi and went after Minato.

Yagami Chiyue’s Sharingan evolved to two tomoe, while Kushina’s attempt to thank him brought them under the Hokage’s scrutiny because of Chiyue’s Uchiha blood. As the Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to prevent them from growing close, Chiyue’s White Nine-Tails warned him that someone nearby meant him ill.

• Yagami Chiyue discovered that his Sharingan had evolved from one tomoe to two and resolved to keep his abilities hidden.
• Kushina returned to the Senju Ancestral Home after Chiyue rejected her lunch, and Tsunade learned that he was also known as Uchiha Chiyue.
• Kushina passed Chiyue a note during class, and Kamimura Ichiki scolded them for disrupting the lesson.
• The Anbu reported Kushina’s interest in Chiyue to the Third Hokage, who ordered them to stop Chiyue if he responded to the Jinchuriki.
• Chiyue’s White Nine-Tails warned him that people outside seemed to harbor ill will toward him.

Chiyue rejected a girl’s lunch invitation by calling her too ugly, leaving Kushina and her family stunned when she recounted it. The next day, Chiyue agreed to picnic with Minato, and someone asked to join them.

• An Anbu watched Chiba because of Kushina while Chiyue talked with the Nine-Tails about its slow growth.
• Chiyue rejected a classmate’s lunch invitation by calling her too ugly, and Kushina felt relieved he had not insulted her the same way.
• Kushina told Tsunade and Nawaki about Chiyue’s rejection, and Tsunade advised Kushina not to get too close to him.
• Tsunade planned to take Nawaki to meet Orochimaru about becoming his student.
• Chiyue agreed to Minato’s picnic plan for their day off, and an unidentified person asked to join them.

Minato agreed to let Kushina join the picnic, and Kushina persuaded Tsunade to come along by threatening to reveal her gambling loss. At the riverside, Tsunade learned that Chiyue had Uchiha blood but refused to join the clan, and the group settled in for a meal that impressed both Kushina and Tsunade.

• Kushina persuaded Minato to include her in the picnic, then forced Tsunade to come by threatening to tell Nawaki about her lost allowance.
• Minato admitted to Chiyue that he had agreed to Kushina's request because he was afraid of being beaten.
• Chiyue and Minato met Kushina and Tsunade at the school entrance, and Tsunade sent the Anbu guarding Kushina away for the day.
• At the riverside, Tsunade asked Chiyue about his Uchiha heritage, and he said he had no intention of joining the clan.
• Minato returned from hunting with rabbits and a wild boar, and Chiyue grilled the meat until Kushina and Tsunade eagerly watched him cook.

The Third Hokage refused Danzo’s push to place Kushina under Root’s control, while Kushina spent a picnic with Tsunade, Minato, and Chiyue. After Chiyue and Minato left to train, Kushina asked Tsunade for a Shadow Clone lesson for Chiyue, and Tsunade bargained for four hundred thousand.

• The Third Hokage dismissed the Anbu surveillance detail because Tsunade was watching Kushina, then rejected Danzo’s demand to take Kushina into Root’s custody.
• Kushina, Tsunade, Minato, and Chiyue ate grilled meat together before Chiyue and Minato went into the woods to train.
• Tsunade told Kushina to work on controlling her Chakra and warned her not to let the Nine-Tails influence her.
• Kushina asked Tsunade to teach Chiyue the Shadow Clone Jutsu as thanks for helping her.
• Tsunade agreed to teach Chiyue if Kushina paid four hundred thousand, arguing that she could present the lesson as repayment for the grilled meat.

Chiyue sparred with Minato and explained that his Uchiha swordsmanship came from his parents, then returned home with him. Tsunade visited Chiyue, ate dinner, and tried to offer him a reward, but he refused, leaving her frustrated because she needed him to accept it.

• Chiyue easily defeated Minato during their sparring, and Minato complained that he always lost.
• Minato asked whether the Uchiha Clan would object to Chiyue practicing its swordsmanship, and Chiyue explained that his mother had taught him.
• Chiyue returned home and found Tsunade waiting outside; she followed him in and stayed for dinner.
• Tsunade tried to make Chiyue guess why she had visited, but he refused to play along and dismissed the idea that she had come to warn him about Kushina.
• Tsunade offered Chiyue a reward for the two meals he had served her, but he refused, so she insisted that he had to take it.

Chiyue refused the Shadow Clone Technique scroll Tsunade brought on Kushina’s behalf because he suspected Anbu were watching him. Tsunade discussed the surveillance with the Third Hokage and arranged for him to offer the scroll to Chiyue and Minato, while Kushina worried that Chiyue would cut ties with her; later, Uchiha Mikoto visited Chiyue with food.

• Chiyue guessed Kushina had paid Tsunade to deliver the Shadow Clone Technique scroll and refused to accept it.
• Chiyue told Tsunade he had noticed someone watching him whenever Kushina visited, and Tsunade promised to pass his concerns along.
• Tsunade confronted the Third Hokage about the surveillance of Kushina and recommended that Yagami Chiyue and Minato Namikaze be cultivated.
• The Third Hokage agreed to consider Tsunade’s proposal and ordered an Anbu shinobi to investigate Yagami Chiyue’s connection to the Uchiha Clan.
• Tsunade told Kushina that Chiyue had refused the scroll, then explained that the Third Hokage might offer it to Chiyue and Minato instead.
• Uchiha Mikoto visited Chiyue with a lunch box and asked whether he had missed her.

Chiyue urged Uchiha Mikoto to avoid joining the Police Force and revealed that he had awakened a Two-tomoe Sharingan. When she worried about his early graduation, he proposed skipping a grade so she could repeat one and they could graduate together.

• Uchiha Mikoto said she was unsure whether to join the Uchiha Clan's Police Force or accept the village's squad assignment, and Chiyue advised her to join a squad first.
• Chiyue offered to graduate early so he could join Uchiha Mikoto's squad, but she warned that they might not be assigned together and worried about his safety.
• Chiyue showed Uchiha Mikoto his Two-tomoe Sharingan and said he had awakened it the previous year, but refused her suggestion to return to the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Mikoto asked Chiyue to wait a year before graduating, and he proposed skipping a grade while she repeated one so they could graduate together.
• Chiyue threatened to beat up a teacher's son if the teacher refused, making Uchiha Mikoto laugh before he headed toward the bedroom.

Chiyue threatened Uchiha Mikoto into staying at his house, then announced he wanted to skip a grade so he could graduate and join the same team as her. Their applications, along with Mikoto’s request to repeat a year, caused a stir at the Ninja Academy, and Kushina decided to apply to skip a grade too.

• Chiyue threatened to tell Uchiha Mikoto’s classmates he was looking for his wife if she left, so Mikoto stayed the night at his house.
• On the way to the Ninja Academy, Chiyue told Minato he planned to skip a grade to graduate with Mikoto, prompting Minato to decide he wanted to skip one too.
• Chiyue and Minato applied to take grade-skipping assessments while Mikoto applied to repeat a year, leaving Kamimura Ichiki and Ono bewildered.
• Chiyue told the teachers he wanted to skip a grade because Mikoto had promised to marry him and he feared she would find someone else.
• After hearing that Chiyue and Minato planned to skip a grade, Kushina worried she would be left behind and ran to apply for a grade-skipping assessment.

Chiyue and Minato passed their grade-skipping assessments, and Kushina sought permission to join them in the upper years. The Third Hokage approved her request despite Danzo's objections, while Tsunade later asked Kushina whether she liked Yagami Chiyue.

• Chiyue and Minato passed their grade-skipping assessments, and Uchiha Mikoto's request to repeat a grade was approved.
• Kushina told the Third Hokage she wanted to skip grades so she would not be separated from Chiyue and Minato, and he approved her application.
• Danzo confronted the Third Hokage over giving Kushina too much freedom, but the Third Hokage insisted that he would decide how to handle the Jinchuriki.
• Tsunade criticized Kushina for joining the grade-skipping assessment, while Nawaki complained about Chiyue and Mikoto before Tsunade sent him away.
• Tsunade asked Kushina whether she liked Yagami Chiyue.

Chiyue’s Nine-Tails, White, grew rapidly through the night, leaving Chiyue exhausted for school. When Chiyue, Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto gathered in the upper-grade classroom, the Nine-Tails sealed inside Kushina sensed another of its kind on Chiyue and tried to tell Kushina about it.

• Kushina explained that she wanted to skip grades so she could remain classmates with Chiyue and Minato, and Tsunade supported her decision.
• Mikoto explained to her mother that she had agreed to repeat a grade so Chiyue would stay at the Shinobi School, while her mother teased her about rumors that she would marry him.
• White grew from the size of a water buffalo to nearly fill Chiyue’s room, surging with Chakra until close to dawn.
• Minato teased Chiyue about his dark circles, and Chiyue told him he had been unwell and unable to sleep.
• Kushina revealed that she had skipped grades too, then saw Chiyue and Mikoto eating breakfast together and declined Minato’s offer of food.
• The Nine-Tails inside Kushina sensed the scent of another Nine-Tails on Chiyue and asked Kushina to loosen its chains so it could share a secret.

Kushina dismissed the Nine-Tails’ warning that Chiyue carried a tailed beast’s Chakra, while she and the other transfer students joined their new fourth-year class. Chiyue reignited his feud with Uchiha Shikabane and threatened to confront him after school.

• The Nine-Tails told Kushina it sensed the Chakra of one of its kind on Yagami Chiyue, but Kushina accused it of trying to trick her and was expelled from the consciousness space.
• Uchiha Mikoto, Yagami Chiyue, Minato Namikaze, and Uzumaki Kushina introduced themselves as the class’s four transfer students.
• After the teacher announced an outdoor shuriken lesson, Uchiha Shikabane glared at Chiyue, who challenged him and threatened to block the gate after school.
• Uchiha Mikoto stopped the confrontation, and Chiyue told Minato and Kushina that Shikabane had once tried to bully him and that Chiyue had struck him with a rock.

Chiyue decided to scare Uchiha Shikabane after he provoked him at school, and recruited Minato to help block the school gate with bricks. They chased Shikabane and his lackeys until a teacher intervened, then escaped without hitting anyone; the next day, the teacher only warned them not to start fights.

• Chiyue proposed blocking the school gate to teach Uchiha Shikabane a lesson, and Minato agreed to join him.
• Chiyue, Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina took a ninja tool throwing test, with Chiyue and Mikoto scoring full marks, Minato scoring nine, and Kushina scoring lower.
• After school, Chiyue gave Minato a brick and charged at Uchiha Shikabane and his lackeys, who panicked and ran.
• A teacher stopped the chase, scolded the older boys for bullying others, and Chiyue and Minato fled before they could be punished.
• Chiyue assured Minato they had not hit anyone, and the teacher only warned them the next day to get along with their classmates and not chase people with bricks.

Chiyue discovered that Little White could leave his body and fight as a pet, then advanced to the fifth year alongside Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto. After Chiyue and Minato received a Shadow Clone Technique scroll as a supposed Hokage reward, Chiyue told Minato that Tsunade had arranged it and warned him not to thank the Third Hokage.

• Chiyue woke to find Little White outside his body, realized it had reached level thirty, and went back to sleep with it.
• Nawaki and the other fifth-year students graduated, while Chiyue, Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto advanced to the fifth year.
• A teacher summoned Chiyue and Minato to the office and presented them with a Shadow Clone Technique scroll as a reward from the Third Hokage.
• Chiyue took Minato aside and told him that Tsunade had delivered the scroll to the Hokage, so he should thank her instead.

Chiyue and Minato learned the Shadow Clone Technique, and Chiyue used a clone to attend class while he trained by the river. Tsunade told Chiyue that she and Jiraiya might become Jonin Instructors, but when Chiyue learned Mikoto would not be considered for his team, he chose to form a team with her himself after graduation.

• Chiyue persuaded Minato to learn the Shadow Clone Technique and skip class with him to practice it.
• Chiyue mastered the technique and sent a shadow clone to class while he stayed home and trained.
• Tsunade found Chiyue by the river and told him the Third Hokage wanted her and Jiraiya to become Jonin Instructors for him and Minato.
• Tsunade explained that Mikoto was not being considered for Chiyue's team because she belonged to the Uchiha Clan.
• Chiyue decided that he and Mikoto would form their own team after graduation rather than accept an arrangement that separated them.

Chiyue rejected the prospect of Tsunade becoming his Jonin Instructor and decided to form a two-person team with Mikoto instead. As graduation approached, Minato wondered about his future teammates while Kushina grew upset at the thought of being left behind in Konoha.

• Tsunade teased Chiyue, then kicked at him when he flirted back, and Chiyue escaped into the woods.
• Chiyue told Mikoto that Tsunade might become his Jonin Instructor and proposed forming a two-person team with her rather than accepting the village's assignment.
• Chiyue explained that he wanted to avoid the Hokage's factional struggles and decided not to tell Minato about his plan.
• Minato wondered whether he would be teamed with Chiyue and Mikoto, and Chiyue warned him not to provoke Kushina.
• Chiyue noted that Kushina was a Jinchuriki who could not easily leave the village, while Kushina grew upset as graduation drew near.

As graduation approached, Yagami Chiyue and Uchiha Mikoto passed the assessment at the top of their class and asked to form their own squad rather than accept the village’s arrangements. The Third Hokage was furious at their request, while Jiraiya refused to take responsibility for the situation.

• Yagami Chiyue attended the academy through a Shadow Clone while he trained or slept, and the students completed their graduation assessments.
• Uchiha Mikoto and Yagami Chiyue told Teacher Odawara they wanted to form their own squad and refused to be separated.
• Teacher Odawara reported their request to the Third Hokage, who choked on his smoke and angrily called it nonsense.
• The Third Hokage asked Jiraiya how to handle the two students, but Jiraiya refused to advise him and said he would take Minato as his student.
• The Third Hokage recalled that Tsunade thought highly of Yagami Chiyue and considered training him despite his Uchiha blood.

The Third Hokage considered the political consequences of Chiyue becoming Tsunade’s disciple while Danzo pressed him to distrust the Uchiha and expand Root. He approved Chiyue and Mikoto’s request to form a two-person team, then handed Tsunade the completed application.

• Jiraiya told the Third Hokage that Tsunade favored Chiyue because his cooking was delicious, then left the Hokage’s office.
• Danzo arrived and warned the Third Hokage that the Uchiha Clan could not be trusted, while the two discussed Amegakure’s growing strength under Hanzō.
• The Third Hokage ordered Danzo to monitor Amegakure and declared that the Uchiha were also Konoha’s people.
• Danzo asked to expand Root, and the Third Hokage said he would discuss the request with Koharu and Homura.
• Tsunade arrived, and the Third Hokage gave her the application concerning Yagami Chiyue and Uchiha Mikoto.

Tsunade rejected the Third Hokage’s plans for Yagami Chiyue and let him pursue his own path. Chiyue and Mikoto began their first D-Rank mission, where Chiyue encountered and knocked down a huge tiger.

• Tsunade told the Third Hokage to stop trying to make Yagami Chiyue into another Kagami Uchiha and refused to take on students.
• Chiyue and Mikoto accepted a D-Rank mission to drive wild beasts away from a ranch.
• Chiyue and Mikoto entered the forest, and Chiyue sent Mikoto to search one direction while he used Shadow Clones to cover more ground.
• Little White sensed strong Chakra to the southeast, leading Chiyue to a giant orange tiger.
• The tiger attacked Chiyue, who dodged its claw and kicked it so hard that it crashed through trees and ended up bleeding and whimpering.