Chapter Summaries

Kushina Uzumaki decided to take Uchiha Chiga as her disciple after he graduated from the Ninja Academy, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo to debate whether it was safe. Danzo left opposing the plan, while Hiruzen continued studying Chiga’s file.

• Kushina Uzumaki said she would formally meet Chiga after his graduation and teased Uchiha Mikoto about her wedding.
• Kushina complained that Minato spent too much time training Kakashi, while Uchiha Fugaku explained that Chiga had been assigned to Minato Squad because it was short-handed.
• Uchiha Mikoto diverted Kushina by pointing out that taking Chiga as a disciple would make Mikoto her junior, and the two women playfully tickled each other.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed reports on Chiga and considered Kushina’s wish to take him as her disciple acceptable, though potentially troublesome.
• Shimura Danzo burst into the Hokage Office and opposed the plan, but Hiruzen defended Kushina’s right to choose her disciple.
• Shimura Danzo left warning Hiruzen that he would regret the decision, and Hiruzen studied Chiga’s file in thought.

Chiga struggled to control his Chakra while practicing walking on water, with Shisui accompanying him and learning quickly. After Danzo’s Root agents watched them train, Danzo ordered a Water Release ninja to ensure Chiga failed his graduation exam.

• Chiga’s uncontrolled Chakra launched him out of the river, while Shisui demonstrated that he could walk and jog on the water.
• Chiga realized Shisui was disappointed that they might not attend the Ninja Academy together, so he taught him a prank song to persuade him not to mind Chiga graduating early.
• Chiga continued training his Chakra control and gave Shisui pointers in swordsmanship before noticing someone watching them in the forest.
• Danzo’s Root agents reported Chiga’s poor Chakra control and Shisui’s exceptional talent, and Danzo ordered a Root chunin skilled in Water Release to examine Chiga and prevent his graduation.

On the day of Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto’s wedding, Chiga met Minato and Kushina, who offered to become his Jonin Instructor and promised to protect him when he stirred up trouble. After spending his saved Emotion Points to improve several skills, Chiga took Shisui to his first day at the Ninja Academy and warned him not to blindly accept the Third Hokage’s teachings.

• Chiga attended Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto’s wedding, where he met Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Kushina told Chiga she wanted to become his Jonin Instructor and promised to protect him from most of Konoha’s famous shinobi.
• After the wedding, Chiga spent his Emotion Points to improve his Wind Release, Fire Release, Genjutsu, and Sharingan before planning to apply for early graduation.
• The next morning, Chiga took Uchiha Shisui to the Ninja Academy and learned that Obito was helping an old woman sell flowers.
• While Hiruzen Sarutobi addressed the new students, Chiga warned Shisui not to be swayed by the Third Hokage’s words and to judge people by their actions.

Chiga applied for early graduation and was led to a combat-focused examination, while Hiruzen Sarutobi watched as Danzo’s apparent attempt to block him unfolded. Asuma warned Chiga about Kushina’s explosive experiments, then revealed his father had beaten him so badly he could not get out of bed for three days.

• After Hiruzen Sarutobi finished his speech, Chiga told Ryōichi-sensei he wanted to graduate early, and Ryōichi-sensei agreed to submit the application.
• Ryōichi-sensei introduced Murata-sensei as Chiga’s chief examiner and led Chiga toward the examination grounds.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi joined them, recognized Murata as part of Danzo’s attempt to stop Chiga, and said he would observe the exam.
• Kushina encouraged Chiga and hurried ahead to tell Hiruzen Sarutobi she wanted to take him as her disciple.
• Asuma told Chiga that Kushina’s Sealing Technique tests had caused explosions near his home and recalled getting beaten by his father after copying her behavior.

Uchiha Chiga faced Murata in a graduation examination that required him to win or survive for ten minutes, while Murata used mist and sword attacks to counter him. As Murata reappeared behind Chiga, Chiga prepared to respond, and Kushina accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of arranging the difficult test, though Hiruzen blamed Danzo instead.

• Ryōichi-sensei began Chiga's practical graduation examination, and Murata immediately covered the field in thick mist with Water Release Mist Technique.
• Chiga tried to disperse the mist with Wind Release, but Murata attacked from behind and forced him to suppress the technique, leaving his Chakra disrupted.
• Hyuga Toji used his Byakugan to describe the fight to the students, while Minato and Kushina worried that Chiga would fail.
• Kushina accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of tampering with Chiga's examination, and Hiruzen denied it while privately suspecting Danzo was responsible.
• Chiga drew his samurai sword and challenged Murata to attack before the ten minutes ended; Murata used the Body Flicker Technique to appear behind him.

Uchiha Chiga defeated Murata in the assessment after revealing his Wind Release cutting nature transformation, and Ryōichi-sensei declared that he had passed. Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Chiga, who celebrated becoming a genin with his classmates.

• Murata attacked Chiga through the mist, but Chiga countered and broke Murata’s sword with Wind Release-enhanced cutting power.
• Chiga struck Murata in the chest, leaving him unconscious as the Hidden Mist Technique dispersed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Jonin recognized Chiga’s Wind Release nature transformation, while Minato asked Kushina to let him become Chiga’s instructor and provoked her anger.
• Ryōichi-sensei declared that Chiga had passed, and a medical ninja began treating Murata.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Chiga and left the academy; Chiga’s classmates congratulated him, and he asked them for gifts like the ones they had given Kakashi.

After graduating, Chiga became Kushina’s student and earned the Flying Thunder God Technique from Minato’s negative emotions. Kushina formed a squad with Chiga and began training him through sewer-cleaning missions around Konoha.

• Chiga asked his classmates for graduation gifts, but they left without giving him anything, and Kushina scolded him for pretending to be pitiful.
• Kushina took Chiga and Minato to celebrate at an expensive barbecue restaurant, where Minato’s irritation awarded Chiga the beginner-level Flying Thunder God Technique.
• After Minato left, Kushina and Chiga introduced themselves at the Training Ground and officially established Kushina Squad.
• Chiga demonstrated his swordsmanship and Wind and Fire Release techniques, impressing Kushina with his abilities and chakra reserves.
• Kushina began taking Chiga on missions, and he ended up cleaning trash from a filthy river near Konoha.

Kushina took Chiga from D-Rank work to a C-Rank mission after realizing he was content with easy assignments. Hiruzen Sarutobi gave them a mission to investigate a man-eating creature near a village, and Chiga asked how much it paid.

• Kushina watched Chiga calmly pick up sewer trash and admitted defeat when he showed no frustration with the D-Rank work.
• Kushina used her Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to clear the sewer, then proposed taking a C-Rank Mission with Chiga.
• Chiga revealed the sewer mission paid by the hour to help rookie genin practice water walking, and he and Kushina went to the mission hall to turn it in.
• Kushina barged into Hiruzen Sarutobi's office and demanded the list of C-Rank and higher missions, then took his pipe as he scolded her for entering without knocking.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned them a mission to deal with a man-eating creature near a village, while Kushina asked about missions toward the Land of Lightning.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said the creature mission had the highest reward among C-Rank Missions, and Chiga asked how much it paid.

Kushina Uzumaki and Uchiha Chiga accepted a C-Rank mission to investigate a creature that had killed hunters near a village outside Konoha. They reached the village and began gathering information, with Chiga watching the nearby mountains as they waited for a surviving hunter.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi raised the mission payment to one hundred thousand ryō, and Kushina accepted the mission with Chiga.
• Hiruzen ordered two Anbu to secretly protect Kushina and prioritize bringing her back if danger arose.
• Chiga prepared his ninja tools and Soldier Pills, then met Kushina at Konoha's main gate to depart.
• Kushina explained that a strange creature in the mountains had killed several hunters from the village seeking help.
• Kushina and Chiga reached the village, where chief Takemura Katsumi welcomed them and arranged for a surviving hunter to speak with them.
• While Kushina waited with Takemura Katsumi, Chiga stood by the door and watched the mountains.

Chiga and Kushina discovered that the Katsumi Village mission involved a dangerous fire-breathing beast and that the village had concealed the mission’s true rank. Kushina drew the creature’s likeness, while Chiga tended to an injured crow that attacked Konoha ninja.

• Chiga controlled an injured crow with his Sharingan, but it attacked again after he released it and stopped once he and Kushina hid their Konoha Headbands.
• Kushina examined the crow’s kunai wound as Katsumi Keito described a rock-covered, fire-breathing beast that had killed his companion.
• Kushina confronted the Katsumi Village Chief for hiding the mission’s rank, and he admitted the village could not afford a Rank B Mission after five hunters died.
• Kushina began drawing the beast while Chiga mocked her drawing and earned 20 Emotion Points.
• Keito said Kushina’s drawing was close to the creature, leaving her visibly annoyed.

Chiga and Kushina identified the Red Rock Boar as an Iwagakure summoning beast and reasoned that Rock Shinobi had entered the Land of Fire to gather intelligence. As Kushina considered their next move, Chiga revealed that he had another reason to believe the enemy might not be very strong.

• Kushina recognized the Red Rock Boar as a summoning beast from Iwagakure and suspected a team of Rock Shinobi was nearby.
• Kushina vented her anger at the border patrols while Chiga concluded that the Rock Shinobi had likely been waiting for intelligence operatives.
• Kushina jokingly threatened Chiga with a kunai, then praised his analysis after he saw through her act.
• Chiga said the enemy might not be very strong, surprising Kushina.

Kushina and Chiga figured out how a Rock Shinobi squad had used a Red Rock Boar to evade detection near Konoha. Kushina decided to confront them and brought two ANBU along as backup, while Chiga learned that they had been assigned to monitor her.

• Kushina explained that the Red Rock Boar could sense even tiny amounts of Chakra, which let the Rock Shinobi avoid the border ninjas.
• Chiga said he liked the crow as a potential Summoning Beast, but Kushina offered to ask Tsunade or Jiraiya for a summon instead.
• Kushina resolved to pursue the Rock Shinobi squad despite Chiga warning that they were outnumbered.
• Kushina left the house and returned with two ANBU from Konohagakure to back them up.
• Kushina told Chiga that the Third Hokage had assigned the ANBU to monitor her because of her reputation as Konoha's Second Generation Demon King.

Kushina, Chiga, Heiha, and Kazuma planned to capture a Rock Shinobi group and the spy expected to meet them, while Chiga trained a crow to scout the mountains. The crow flew off as Heiha and Kazuma went to wait for the spy, and the Rock Shinobi were shown arguing while they waited for their contact.

• Kushina introduced her ANBU allies Heiha and Kazuma and told them that Chiga had deduced the Rock Shinobi's situation.
• Kushina assigned herself to capture the intelligence agent and Chiga to handle the ninja who summoned the Red Rock Boar, but Chiga urged the team to first determine how many Rock Shinobi were in the mountains.
• Chiga taught a crow to use pebbles to indicate the number of people it saw, and the crow placed two pebbles before flying into the mountains to scout.
• Heiha and Kazuma went to wait for the intelligence agent on the road into the village, while Heiha warned Kushina not to enter the mountains.
• Captain Sida restrained Yosuke's anger toward the rookie whose Summoning Beast had killed villagers, as the Rock Shinobi waited for their contact after five days.

Chiga and Kushina discovered that Rock Shinobi had stolen Konoha’s Grass Country border defense deployment map and planned how to trap the squad pursuing it. The group prepared to use Kushina’s Shadow Clones to steer the Rock Shinobi into an ambush.

• A flock of ravens returned to Chiga with four stones, while the Rock Shinobi squad debated whether to stay on its mission or withdraw.
• Kushina chose to kill the Rock Shinobi, and ANBU Kazuma and Heiha arrived carrying an unidentified Konoha shinobi’s corpse.
• Kushina found the Grass Country border defense deployment map on the corpse and realized the Land of Earth might be preparing for war.
• Chiga reasoned that the Rock Shinobi would flee once they discovered Konoha had found them and proposed using Kushina’s Shadow Clones to mislead them into a chosen route.
• Kushina and the ANBU approved Chiga’s plan to funnel the Rock Shinobi into an ambush.

Kushina and Chiga’s group prepared an ambush for Sida’s Iwa ninja team, but Sida detected their trap before entering the area. As the two sides faced off, the Red Rock Boar sensed that the pursuers behind Sida had vanished.

• Kushina created more than a hundred Shadow Clones to make the Iwa ninja team believe a large force was surrounding them.
• The Red Rock Boar detected the approaching ninja, and Sida led his team toward a route it found through the encirclement.
• Kushina and two ANBU prepared traps and assigned targets while Chiga struggled with the thought of killing someone for the first time.
• Kushina encouraged Chiga, and he steadied himself as Sida’s team approached through the forest.
• The Iwa ninja discovered Kushina’s group and charged, but Sida stopped before the trap and spotted its wire.
• The thin figure reported that the pursuers behind Sida had disappeared.

Chiga fought his first battle against a Rock ninja and killed him with his One-Tomoe Sharingan. The battle left him shaken, while Kushina and Sida remained locked in combat and Kazuma went to help Heiha.

• Sida realized Kushina had lured him into a trap, and Kushina blocked his retreat as Heiha engaged the other Rock ninjas.
• Chiga faced a Rock ninja and his Red Rock Boar, dodging their attacks and using his Wind Release-enhanced sword to pierce the boar's armor.
• Chiga used Sharingan genjutsu to immobilize the Rock ninja, then killed him with a kunai.
• Kazuma warned Chiga to stay out of the Jōnin battles and went to help Heiha.
• Chiga watched as Kushina and Sida continued fighting without either gaining the advantage.

Kushina fought Iwa captain Sida while Chiga watched, but Sida’s desperate attack left Kushina rushing to protect her disciple. The chapter ended with Sida’s whereabouts unknown and danger bearing down on Chiga.

• Kushina introduced herself to Sida as the “Konoha Scarlet Elegy” before trapping him with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Sida escaped the chains with the Substitution Technique, and his Exploding Tag blast sent Kushina tumbling without seriously injuring her.
• Chiga spotted Sida hiding in the grass with his Sharingan and warned Kushina, allowing her to counter his ambush.
• Sida charged Kushina with two Earth Clones and an Earth Flow Spears Technique, but her Chakra chains destroyed the attack.
• Sida and his Earth Clones vanished, and Kushina turned toward Chiga and shouted for him to run.

Chiga used the Flying Thunder God Technique to kill the Rock jonin Sida while Kushina was held back by Earth Clones. After Chiga reunited with Kushina and his teammates, they agreed to keep his technique and victory secret.

• Two Earth Clones restrained Kushina and swept her away with Earth Flow River, preventing her from reaching Chiga.
• Sida attacked Chiga, who used a flock of crows and a marked kunai to teleport behind the jonin with the Flying Thunder God Technique and stab him.
• Kushina broke free after Sida died and feared Chiga had been killed, but Chiga dispersed the crows and revealed he was unharmed.
• Kushina praised Chiga for killing a jonin, while Heiha and Kazuma wondered how he had done it.
• Kushina told Heiha and Kazuma not to tell anyone about the fight, and the two ANBU agreed.

Kushina and Chiga reported their mission to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who confined them for engaging the Rock Shinobi and revealed that the map they recovered was false intelligence he had drawn himself. The chapter left them facing the revelation that the mission had been shaped by Hiruzen’s deception.

• Kushina and Chiga returned to Konoha after cleaning up the battlefield, and Kushina told Kazuma she would embellish the ANBU’s involvement in her report.
• Kushina gave Hiruzen Sarutobi the scroll and recounted how she and Chiga had encountered and defeated the Rock Shinobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sentenced Kushina to three months of confinement and Uchiha Chiga to one month for fighting instead of retreating.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed that the ANBU had never been bought off and had only acted as though Kushina controlled them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Kushina and Chiga that the supposed Grass Country border deployment map was false intelligence that he had drawn himself.

Hiruzen Sarutobi explained how Kushina and Chiga had accidentally ruined his two-year plan to feed false intelligence to the Land of Earth, then confined them for three months. After Kushina apologized and left the Hokage Office, she returned to her usual anger and Chiga asked about the reward for their C-Rank Mission.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that Ichiro was a Land of Earth spy he had controlled and that Kushina and Chiga had interrupted his plan to deliver false intelligence to Ōnoki.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi scolded Kushina for disregarding the risks and sacrifices behind the operation, then ordered her confined for three months.
• Kushina apologized to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he secretly instructed Zero to begin Plan B and assign ANBU to supervise Kushina and Uchiha Chiga.
• Outside the Hokage Building, Kushina blamed Heiha and Kazuma for deceiving her, and Chiga agreed they should teach them a lesson.
• Chiga asked whether their C-Rank Mission counted as completed and where their reward was, reminding Kushina why they had originally set out.