Chapter Summaries

After Chiyue routed the remaining Sunagakure ninja, he treated the wounded Konoha survivors and buried the dead. He then hunted a wild boar to give the exhausted group a hot meal.

• The Sunagakure ninja fled after Masa's death, and Konoha's fighters pursued them while Chiyue rested in the rain.
• Minato returned supporting the wounded Nawaki, and Chiyue built a shelter and treated the survivors, teasing Minato about a wound near his kidney.
• Chiyue gathered and buried the fallen ninja when the wounded were too exhausted to help.
• Chiyue hunted a wild boar, and the surviving Konoha ninja eagerly anticipated roast meat.

After Chiyue’s group ate and waited for news, Sunagakure’s army launched a surprise night raid on Konoha’s camp while Konoha’s main force fought Amegakure. The sensory ninja detected the attackers, and the chapter ended with the camp awakened and Danzo rushing to understand the alarm.

• Chiyue told the recovering Konoha ninja to wait for news from the front lines and withdraw if Sunagakure attacked.
• As Amegakure retreated against Konoha at the front, Chiyo and Ebizo led Sunagakure’s army toward Konoha’s camp.
• Chiyo ordered the raid to begin around three in the morning, believing the sleepy defenders would be caught off guard.
• Danzo received reports of fighting at the rear and waited in the command center for updates from the front lines.
• A sensory ninja detected Sunagakure’s Chakra signatures, raised the alarm, and the night watch fired a signal flare.
• Sunagakure’s ninja charged the camp as Konoha’s defenders scrambled out of their tents, waking Danzo.

Chiyo led Sunagakure in a surprise attack on Konoha’s camp, exploiting the unprepared defenders to breach its walls and inflict heavy casualties. As Danzo organized a counterattack, Chiyo targeted the medical division, hoping to make Konoha suffer even more before Sunagakure withdrew.

• Danzo ordered Konoha’s ninja to engage when he learned that Chiyo had led Sunagakure forces around the rear to attack the camp.
• Ebizo directed Sunagakure ninja to use a combined Wind Style technique that tore through Konoha’s wooden walls and killed defenders.
• Chiyo sent Sunagakure’s Puppet Force into the breached camp, where poisoned weapons caused heavy casualties among Konoha’s disorganized ninja.
• Danzo confronted Chiyo, who mocked him and said Sunagakure had already achieved its goal by making Konoha suffer losses.
• Danzo ordered a counterattack, but Chiyo redirected the Puppet Force toward the medical division and prepared to withdraw after seizing it.

Chiyo led Sunagakure’s attack on Konoha’s camp, devastating its medical division and drawing Danzo into a reckless pursuit. Danzo escaped Chiyo and Ebizo’s encirclement badly wounded, while word of the attack reached the exhausted fighters on the front lines, where Hanzō still stood against Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade.

• Chiyo’s Puppet Force attacked Konoha’s medical division, killing many patients and medical ninja while Chiyo held Danzo back.
• Chiyo ordered a retreat, but the furious Danzo led Konoha’s ninja in pursuit, forcing Sunagakure to turn and fight.
• Ebizo joined Chiyo against Danzo, who found himself isolated and surrounded by Sunagakure’s elite ninja.
• Danzo summoned Baku and escaped the encirclement, but Chiyo’s puppet nearly severed his arm and a poisoned needle pierced his eye.
• Chiyo withdrew her forces, and Konoha discovered that too few medical ninja remained to treat Danzo’s serious injuries.
• A message about the attack and Danzo’s injuries was sent to the front lines, where Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade were exhausted and still faced Hanzō.

Hanzō defeated Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru but recognized that Amegakure had lost the war and proposed peace talks. Chiyue learned that Konoha had won at the front, while Sunagakure had raided its camp and devastated the medical division, leaving Danzo badly injured.

• Hanzō spared the Three Sannin, gave them their title, and asked them to tell Danzo that he would await peace negotiators in Amegakure.
• Chiyue received a message confirming that Tsunade was safe, Amegakure had been defeated, and Hanzō had requested peace talks.
• Chiyue announced that Sunagakure had breached Konoha's camp, killed most of its medical ninja, and left Danzo without an eye and with a crippled arm.
• Chiyue ordered the ninja in his group to withdraw to the camp and help strengthen its defenses.

After learning that Chiyo had overrun Konoha’s camp and devastated the medical division, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru returned to help the wounded while condemning Danzo’s blunders. Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan took the leftover rations, and Jiraiya learned Orochimaru had spared them because Chiyue believed children were innocent victims of war.

• An Anbu ninja brought Orochimaru news that Chiyo had breached the camp, destroyed the medical division, and left Danzo badly injured.
• Tsunade denounced Danzo’s failures and refused to treat him, but decided to return to camp to save the wounded.
• Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya left the cave, with Orochimaru knowingly leaving food behind for three children hiding nearby.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan emerged and ate the leftover rations, reminiscing about Chiyue’s grilled meat.
• Jiraiya asked about the children, and Orochimaru explained that Chiyue had said children were innocent and the war was to blame.

After Sunagakure’s raid devastated Danzo’s camp and destroyed its medical department, the Third Hokage abandoned plans to give Danzo another battlefield and ordered help for the wounded. Chiyue joked with Nawaki and Minato before receiving a mission scroll from Danzo that would send his team out in two hours.

• Orochimaru admitted Chiyue had influenced him, while Jiraiya wished Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan luck as they continued training.
• The Third Hokage condemned Danzo’s mishandling of the camp, including the loss of the medical department and his injuries, and ordered wounded ninja sent home and medical support dispatched.
• The Third Hokage rejected plans to put Danzo in charge of the Land of Rivers battlefield after the disaster in the Land of Rain.
• Nawaki lamented the lack of medical treatment, then asked Chiyue to train him in Taijutsu and swordsmanship after they returned to the village.
• An Anbu ninja delivered Danzo’s mission scroll to Chiyue and told him his team would depart in two hours.

Chiyue’s squad escorted wounded soldiers from the Land of Rain to Konoha, where they received military merit and finally got to rest. After returning, Chiyue reunited with Kushina and was surprised to see many red-haired members of the Uzumaki Clan.

• Chiyue told Nawaki that their new mission was to escort wounded soldiers back to Konoha, and the squad set out with the wounded.
• Chiyue, Minato, and Nawaki safely led the slow-moving group through the Land of Fire and reached Konoha after seven days.
• Minato and Nawaki submitted the mission scroll to the Third Hokage, who awarded the squad military merit while Chiyue went home to wash and rest.
• Minato persuaded Nawaki to buy groceries so Chiyue would cook dinner, and the three later went to an inn to soak in the hot springs.
• Kushina welcomed Chiyue back and took him to meet her clansmen, where he saw a group of red-haired people and wondered why so many Uzumaki Clan members were in Konoha.

Chiyue explained why Danzo had rescued the Uzumaki survivors, while Kushina welcomed their chance to rebuild in Konoha. After teasing Minato about Miko’s interest in him, Nawaki led Chiyue and Minato to drink stolen liquor, and the chapter ended with Chiyue making a drunken scene.

• Chiyue told Kushina that Danzo had brought the Uzumaki survivors to Konoha to keep them from Iwagakure and undermine other villages, not out of kindness.
• Kushina accepted that the surviving Uzumaki would need to marry outside the clan if they hoped to rebuild.
• Chiyue and Kushina saw Miko circling Minato, and Kushina suggested she might marry him someday.
• Nawaki accused Minato of being an animal for attracting a little girl, while Minato denied any romantic intentions.
• Nawaki took Chiyue and Minato to the Senju Ancestral Home and shared liquor he had hidden from his sister.
• After one cup, Chiyue got drunk and complained that no girl liked him and that even his sister found him disgusting.

Nawaki got drunk during a secret drinking session with Chiyue and Minato, then caused trouble after Minato hung him from a tree. He woke the next day remembering that he had insulted the Third Hokage and feared Tsunade would beat him.

• Nawaki drunkenly complained to Minato about his looks and mocked Minato's old crush on Kushina, so Minato tied him up and hung him from a tree.
• Anbu patrolmen found Nawaki hanging at the Senju Ancestral Home and brought him to the Third Hokage's office.
• Nawaki recognized the Third Hokage and drunkenly repeated his sister's accusation that Hiruzen Sarutobi had tried to peek at her bathing.
• The furious Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to hang Nawaki up again, and they stuffed a filthy sock in his mouth.
• Nawaki woke the next day with rope marks, recalled being taken to the Hokage's office, and worried that Tsunade would beat him.

Nawaki was summoned and reprimanded by the Third Hokage for his drunken insults, while Jiraiya was blamed for spreading the bathing accusation. In the Land of Rain, Tsunade was left as the only willing representative to negotiate with Hanzō, and she reluctantly considered meeting him alone.

• The Third Hokage summoned Nawaki, forbade him from drinking until he came of age, and ordered him to stop talking nonsense.
• The Third Hokage realized Jiraiya had reported the peeping accusation to Tsunade and vowed to deal with him when he returned.
• Tsunade explained that Danzo’s injuries prevented him from joining negotiations with Hanzō and asked Jiraiya and Orochimaru to represent Konoha.
• Jiraiya refused to negotiate and learned that his plan to gather material in the village had been ruined by the Telescope Technique’s exposure.
• Orochimaru also refused, saying he wanted to return to the village and rest, so Tsunade stormed out and collapsed their tent with her anger.
• Tsunade treated wounded soldiers and considered negotiating with Hanzō alone, though she did not want to meet him by herself.

The Third Hokage struggled to find someone to negotiate with Hanzō after Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru all avoided the task, then left the decision to Tsunade. Meanwhile, Nawaki complained that Chiyue and Minato had tied him up and hung him from a tree after he got drunk, and Kushina threatened to tell Tsunade.

• Tsunade reported that she was too busy with wounded soldiers to negotiate, and the Third Hokage asked Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to help choose a representative.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura suggested Jiraiya and Orochimaru, but the Third Hokage revealed that both refused to go.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura said they could not leave their duties, so the Third Hokage told an Anbu ninja to let Tsunade decide how to handle the negotiations.
• Nawaki confronted Chiyue and Minato for tying him up and hanging him from a tree after he got drunk and caused a scene.
• Uchiha Mikoto and Kushina came in, and Nawaki explained what had happened; Kushina then scolded him for secretly taking Chiyue drinking and threatened to tell Tsunade.

Chiyue began training Nawaki in taijutsu and swordsmanship through punishing, no-warning combat, arguing that the battlefield never gave anyone time to prepare. After Nawaki limped off to the hospital, Chiyue reminded Minato that Nawaki’s carelessness could have gotten him killed.

• Uchiha Mikoto scolded Nawaki and Minato for drinking, but Chiyue talked her and Kushina into dropping the matter by promising to bring them along next time.
• After lunch, Chiyue and Minato took Nawaki to the river for training while Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto went shopping.
• Chiyue attacked Nawaki without warning and repeatedly knocked him around, insisting that combat began as soon as they arrived and enemies would not wait for him to prepare.
• Minato watched while reading a Sealing Scroll, envied Chiyue’s physical strength, and worried that Chiyue had beaten Nawaki too harshly.
• When Minato questioned the beating, Chiyue pointed out how often Nawaki had let his guard down on the battlefield and asked whether he could have survived without their help.

Chiyue’s Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo, granting him the Lightning Burst ability. At the Land of Rain camp, Tsunade decided to ask the Third Hokage to promote Chiyue to jonin so he could accompany her to negotiations in Amegakure.

• Chiyue agreed that Nawaki’s carelessness needed correcting, and Minato arranged for him to train with Nawaki the next day.
• Chiyue’s vision blurred as his Sharingan began to evolve, so he went to bed while White guarded him.
• Chiyue awakened his six-hook Mangekyo Sharingan and gained the Lightning Burst skill, then collapsed into bed from exhaustion.
• Tsunade complained that the Third Hokage had left her to handle negotiations, and Jiraiya suggested sending Chiyue with her.
• Tsunade decided to request Chiyue’s promotion to jonin and sent the Third Hokage an intelligence scroll asking him to arrange an assessment or send another negotiator.

The Third Hokage ordered Yagami Chiyue to take an individual Jonin exam so Tsunade could proceed with negotiations in the Land of Rain. Chiyue passed the theoretical test and began the intelligence-gathering assessment in the Forest of Death with White’s help.

• The Third Hokage reviewed Tsunade’s message and ordered an individual Jonin exam for Yagami Chiyue.
• An Anbu ninja informed Chiyue that the exam was starting, and Chiyue reluctantly went to the examination site.
• Chiyue passed the theoretical assessment despite writing a poor answer about the Will of Fire.
• The Anbu ninjas took Chiyue to the Forest of Death and explained that he had to find at least seven of eleven hidden intelligence scrolls.
• Chiyue sent White to follow the scents, and White quickly led him around traps and toward the hidden scrolls.

Chiyue passed the jonin assessment after easily beating its tracking and combat challenges, then returned home to celebrate with his friends. He pulled Kushina aside and urged her not to always be the one giving to others.

• Chiyue passed the intelligence assessment by using a scent-tracking Summoned Beast to find the scrolls quickly.
• Chiyue trapped the Anbu jonin in a Genjutsu that made him dance, then left as the other Anbu carried him to the hospital.
• Chiyue returned home and told Kushina, Uchiha Mikoto, Minato, and Nawaki that the Third Hokage had ordered his assessment and that he had passed.
• Kushina offered to treat everyone to barbecue, but Chiyue insisted on paying for the celebration himself.
• Chiyue asked Kushina to stay behind and told her she should not always be the one giving to others.

Chiyue warned Kushina against supporting her clansmen without limits and urged her to arrange jobs for them. At the Hokage's Office, Koharu challenged the Third Hokage over Tsunade's decisions and Chiyue's jonin exam, then fell silent when he asked her to handle the Amegakure negotiations herself.

• Chiyue explained to Kushina that repeated, one-sided support could create dependence and resentment, and urged her to find paid work for her clansmen.
• Kushina thanked Chiyue for warning her, and the two ran off to join the barbecue celebration after joking and chasing each other.
• Koharu and Mitokado Homura confronted the Third Hokage over Tsunade's actions and Chiyue being allowed to take the jonin exam.
• The Third Hokage showed Koharu Chiyue's mission contributions and battlefield merits, leaving her unable to object to his exam eligibility.
• Koharu criticized Tsunade for pressuring the village over negotiations with Amegakure, and the Third Hokage asked Koharu if she would go in Tsunade's place.

The Third Hokage settled on sending Tsunade to negotiate with Hanzō, while Konoha’s elders accepted that the defeated Amegakure had little to offer. After returning to Konoha, Chiyue, Minato, and Nawaki relaxed at a hot spring and discussed how long they might stay before returning to the front.

• Mitokado Homura calmed Utatane Koharu and persuaded her to let Tsunade handle negotiations with Hanzō in the Land of Rain.
• The Third Hokage and the elders concluded that Konoha would gain few benefits from Amegakure and needed to focus on Sunagakure.
• Chiyue told Kushina to help her clansmen become self-sufficient rather than supporting them indefinitely.
• Chiyue, Minato, and Nawaki went to a hot spring, where Nawaki agreed that Kushina should help her clansmen without supporting them forever.
• Chiyue told Minato and Nawaki that their return to the front lines was uncertain, though Konoha might send them to the Land of Rivers.

Kushina asked the Third Hokage to arrange stable ordinary jobs for the Uzumaki Clan, while he ordered covert surveillance of them. Chiyue received his jonin vest and a solo mission to deliver a scroll to Tsunade at Konoha’s camp in the Land of Rain, then went to tell Minato.

• Kushina asked the Third Hokage to find ordinary, stable work for her clan members, and he agreed to arrange it.
• After Kushina left, the Third Hokage questioned an Anbu ninja about the Uzumaki Clan and ordered surveillance alongside their job assignments.
• An Anbu ninja told Chiyue that he had passed his jonin examination and gave him a mission to take a scroll to Tsunade in the Land of Rain.
• Chiyue collected his jonin vest and updated his records, then returned home and left the vest aside.
• Chiyue went to tell Minato about the solo mission, arriving while Minato was still groggy from studying Sealing Jutsu late into the night.

After passing his jonin exam, Chiyue received an individual mission and left Konoha, while Minato was told to prepare for a possible deployment to the battlefield. Tsunade learned that Chiyue was heading to the Land of Rivers and told Orochimaru and Jiraiya to return to the village, but Orochimaru refused to leave before he had rested.

• Chiyue told Minato that his mission was for him alone and asked Minato to pass the news to Nawaki and the others.
• Minato agreed to relay the message and resolved to train harder so he could keep up with Chiyue.
• Chiyue registered at Konoha’s gate and left with his mission scroll.
• Tsunade read the village’s intelligence and learned that Chiyue had passed his jonin exam and was likely to reach the Land of Rivers camp in about two days.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru and Jiraiya that the Third Hokage wanted them back in the village to reinforce the Land of Rivers.
• Orochimaru refused to return immediately, saying he needed to rest, and walked out of the tent.