Chapter Summaries

Neji received the Flying Thunder God Technique from Uchiha Toko and was assigned to train with the Anbu before joining Naruto and Sasuke. Meanwhile, Toko told Iwata Sawaki that Konoha would push for a ceasefire between the Land of Waterfall and the Land of Earth, then contacted Ōnoki to discuss the war.

• Uchiha Toko gave Neji a copy of the Flying Thunder God Technique as a graduation gift and a loan against future mission merit.
• Toko ordered Neji to bring Kakashi to the Hokage’s office and said it was time to end the war between the Land of Waterfall and the Land of Earth.
• Iwata Sawaki asked Konoha for more aid, but Toko and Kakashi urged him to accept mediation and a ceasefire.
• Kakashi rebuked Iwata for demanding support and warned him not to gamble with the lives of millions; Toko promised Konoha would protect the Land of Waterfall’s interests in negotiations.
• After Iwata left, Toko said Konoha would pressure Ōnoki to agree to a ceasefire, then contacted him to ask about Iwagakure’s military operation.

Uchiha Toko mediated an end to the war between Iwagakure and Takigakure, then Ōnoki tried to bring Deidara home from Konoha. Deidara refused after becoming a celebrated demolition engineer, but Ōnoki ultimately took him away as conflict and defections continued between the northern and southern Hidden Mist.

• Uchiha Toko threatened to have Konoha join the war unless Ōnoki agreed to negotiations, and Ōnoki ordered a temporary halt to Iwagakure's offensive.
• Ōnoki and Iwata Sawaki negotiated in Konoha and signed a ceasefire after Uchiha Toko promised Konoha would help Iwagakure recover the Five Tails from Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki asked Uchiha Toko to send Deidara back to Iwagakure, but Deidara replied that he preferred Konoha and praised its people.
• Ōnoki found Deidara demonstrating controlled explosions at a Yamato Construction Group worksite, where workers praised him as their engineer.
• Deidara refused Ōnoki's offer to return to Iwagakure, but Ōnoki eventually took him away after the two argued.
• Residents continued defecting between the northern and southern Hidden Mist as hardship and resentment persisted on both sides.

The chapter described how Uchiha Toko’s schemes kept the great nations divided and how Kirigakure’s two factions struggled under Takagi Shoban and Mei Terumi. A year later, Naruto, Sasuke, and their classmates graduated, and Uchiha Toko challenged his team to prove they could skip ordinary Genin missions.

• Takagi Shoban tightened his control over Southern Hidden Mist while Mei Terumi used a wave of personality worship to stem defections from Northern Hidden Mist.
• White Zetsu fueled racial unrest in the Land of Lightning, while Uchiha Toko’s tariffs forced Rasa and the Land of Wind to abandon plans to enter the Land of Waterfall conflict.
• After the Land of Earth and Land of Waterfall war ended, Nagato kept the Akatsuki hidden, and Jiraiya decided to volunteer for a mission to the Land of Rain.
• Naruto and Sasuke’s class graduated, with Kakashi leading Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino, Shisui leading Kiba, Shino, and Hinata, and Uchiha Toko leading Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji.
• Uchiha Toko told Naruto that Genin usually began with D-Rank missions, then ordered his team to meet at Training Ground Three the next morning to prove they deserved higher-level missions.

Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto prepared for Uchiha Toko’s bell-grabbing test, using traps and teamwork to challenge him at Training Ground Three. After Toko countered their attacks and forced Sasuke and Neji to keep him occupied, Naruto began his next surprise with the Super Sexy Jutsu.

• Uchiha Toko warned Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto that failing his test would bring personalized punishments, and Neji asked to enlist Tenten’s help.
• The team planned to gather intelligence and set traps at Training Ground Three, while Neji secretly watched Toko near the Hokage Building.
• Toko set the test: one of them had to touch the bell at his waist within two hours, and Sasuke confronted him with Purple Lightning as Naruto and Neji moved into position.
• Naruto attacked with a Super Big Ball Rasengan, but Toko dispelled it with a sealing technique before Neji hit him with a chakra-powered sniper rifle.
• Toko survived the blast by manifesting the first stage of his Susanoo, then countered Neji’s techniques as Tenten supported Neji with ninja tools.
• Sasuke joined Neji against Toko, and Naruto launched a Super Sexy Jutsu while the others kept Toko occupied.

Uchiha Toko tested Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji, then passed Sasuke and Neji and took Naruto to the Sealing Space to tell him about his parents. Naruto met Minato, the Fourth Hokage and his father, and punched him in the stomach.

• Naruto's Sexy Jutsu failed to distract Uchiha Toko, who punished him while Neji used a grappling hook to take the bells.
• Uchiha Toko passed Sasuke and Neji, named Neji team captain, and took Naruto to the Hokage Office.
• Uchiha Toko entered the Sealing Space with Naruto and told him it was time to learn about his parents.
• Naruto reached for the sealing talisman, but Minato stopped him and revealed that he was Naruto's father.
• Naruto recognized Minato as the Fourth Hokage and punched him in the stomach.

Naruto met Minato Namikaze and Kushina in the Sealing Space, where they reassured him and urged him to choose his own path as a ninja. The next day, Gato asked Uchiha Toko to send a stronger team to the Land of Waves, and Team 7 was present as Toko considered their first mission.

• Naruto confronted Minato Namikaze about sealing the Nine-Tails inside him, and Minato apologized and embraced his son.
• Uchiha Toko explained that Naruto needed guidance and a goal, so Minato summoned Kushina to speak with him.
• Kushina and Minato told Naruto they believed in him and loved him before their Chakra faded away.
• Naruto apologized to the Nine-Tails for Kushina binding him, and the Nine-Tails told Naruto to call him Lord Kurama.
• The next morning, Team 7 arrived at Uchiha Toko's office for its first mission, and Gato requested a stronger team to deal with Hidden Mist ninja disrupting his businesses in the Land of Waves.

Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto accepted Gato’s mission to protect his bridge in the Land of Waves, where Zabuza was helping local opponents sabotage it. As Gato offered coastal villagers work in exchange for information, Tazuna learned people were heading to the bridge, while Konoha’s planned role in Kirigakure’s military parade caused Uchiha Toko alarm.

• Uchiha Toko assigned Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto to guard Gato’s bridge despite the reported involvement of Zabuza Momochi, and made Neji mission commander.
• Gato offered to provide supplies, and the group arranged to meet at Konoha’s south gate before setting out.
• Uchiha Inaho told Uchiha Toko that Konoha’s garrison would march in Kirigakure’s military parade, prompting Toko to send Fugaku in his place as his representative.
• At the bridge, Sasuke and Neji reasoned that coastal villagers resented the tolls and unequal access to jobs, so Sasuke asked Gato to offer them work in exchange for information about the saboteurs.
• At Tazuna’s home, Zabuza demanded Kirigakure receive a forty percent share of the replacement bridge, and a young man warned that villagers were heading to Gato’s bridge to reveal the hired ninja’s whereabouts.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji defeated and captured Zabuza in the Land of Waves, then demanded that Northern Hidden Mist exchange its stolen Byakugan for his life. Mei Terumi faced pressure from Zabuza’s gathered subordinates and had to decide how to respond.

• Zabuza shielded Tazuna from a Chakra laser cannon, then confronted Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji as they arrived on a giant serpent.
• The three Konoha Genin attacked Zabuza; Sasuke’s lightning and Naruto’s Shadow Clones forced him to abandon the Hidden Mist Technique.
• Sasuke electrified the water around Zabuza, and Neji’s sealing trap drained his Chakra and bound him after he tried to flee.
• Zabuza attacked Sasuke while restrained, but Sasuke subdued him with his Sharingan; the team secured him and left the village’s aftermath to Uncle Gato.
• A week later, Uchiha Toko demanded that Northern Hidden Mist return its Byakugan in exchange for Zabuza’s life, leaving Mei Terumi under pressure from Zabuza’s subordinates.
• Mei Terumi learned that three Konoha Genin had defeated Zabuza and suspected they were Uchiha Toko’s direct disciples.

Sasuke received a mission to escort Yukie Fujikaze to the Land of Snow and a test from Uchiha Toko: secure the country's accession to Konoha's covenant while gaining additional benefits. He formed a plan to become involved in the Land of Snow's royal conflict, then met the client with Naruto and Neji to present Team 7 as capable escorts.

• Naruto and his companions encountered Ino, Shikamaru, and Kakashi while returning to Konoha with Zabuza, and Kakashi warned Naruto that Kirigakure could summon back the Kubikiribōchō.
• Uchiha Toko and Mei Terumi completed negotiations, exchanging Zabuza for Ao's Byakugan, while Sasuke's team undertook two more C-Rank missions.
• Uchiha Toko assigned Sasuke the mission to escort Yukie Fujikaze to the Land of Snow and challenged him to win the Feudal Lord's signature on a Konoha Covenant Plan agreement.
• Sasuke learned that Yukie was Kazahana Koyuki, an exiled princess, and devised a plan to draw Team 7 into the royal conflict without making Konoha appear to interfere directly.
• Sasuke recruited Neji and Naruto, then told Asama Santarou that Team 7 had the strength and experience to complete the escort mission.

Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto traveled with Asama Santarou and Kazahana Koyuki to the Land of Snow, suspecting the A-rank mission concealed a political plot. Their journey ended in an ambush by thirty Snow ninja, and Sasuke and Naruto began fighting back.

• Asama Santarou hired Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto to protect the film crew, while Kazahana Koyuki resisted traveling to the Land of Snow.
• Neji threatened to end the mission when Koyuki refused to go, prompting Asama Santarou to persuade her to depart within three days.
• After leaving the hotel, Sasuke explained that he had used the threat of withdrawal to gain leverage, and the Nine-Tails warned Naruto that Asama Santarou was plotting against them.
• Asama Santarou persuaded Koyuki to join the expedition, and the crew traveled from Konoha to the Land of Snow.
• Thirty Snow ninja trapped the convoy with ice walls and attacked Koyuki's carriage.
• Sasuke destroyed the leader's ice dragon and charged into the enemy formation as Naruto attacked with clones and Rasengan.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji defeated the Snow ninja ambush, then confronted Asama Santarou and Kazahana Koyuki over the concealed mission details. After verifying Koyuki’s identity with Kakashi and securing the Hokage’s approval, Sasuke offered Konoha’s help restoring her throne in exchange for friendly cooperation with the Land of Snow.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji killed the Snow ninja attackers and questioned Asama Santarou about the crew’s concealed mission.
• Asama Santarou admitted he had hoped to use the mission to help Kazahana Koyuki reclaim her throne, while Sasuke warned that deceiving Konoha could have endangered a weaker team.
• Sasuke sent a message to Konoha and received Uchiha Toko’s reply, which confirmed Kakashi had rescued Koyuki from the Land of Snow’s Imperial Palace.
• Sasuke told Asama that the crew must pay five times the mission reward and that the mission was terminated.
• Sasuke announced that the Hokage would send a special operations force under his command to help Koyuki reclaim her country.
• Sasuke offered Konoha’s assistance on the condition that the restored Land of Snow establish friendly cooperation with Konoha.

Sasuke and his allies planned to help Kazahana Koyuki reclaim the Land of Snow’s throne while keeping Snow City and its palace safe. The teams prepared to draw Kazahana Dōtō out of the palace, and Hinata went to give Naruto a bento, much to Neji’s dismay.

• Kazahana Koyuki agreed to join the Konoha Covenant and asked that the palace, Snow City, and its civilians be protected during the restoration.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived with Teams 10 and 8, and Sasuke led a strategy meeting to plan how to capture Kazahana Dōtō while minimizing damage.
• Sasuke and Shikamaru arranged to move the film crew and have Shino’s insects monitor them for a mole who might be informing Kazahana Dōtō.
• Shikamaru planned to provoke public debate over Koyuki’s identity, then have her appear with her pendant and announce that she would open the treasure at Rainbow Glacier to lure Dōtō out.
• Sasuke assigned Shisui and Team 8 to protect and scout for Koyuki, while Team 10 and Team 7 prepared to stir up public opinion in Snow City before departing at dawn.
• Hinata gave Neji a scroll from Tenten and a bento, then admitted she had made another for Naruto; Neji watched her leave and grumbled inwardly about Naruto.

Sasuke used a public speech in Kazahana Koyuki’s guise to rally Snow City’s citizens and lead them toward Rainbow Glacier, where she would prove her identity by opening the country’s treasure. Kazahana Dōtō realized he had to act before she could succeed and decided to kill her and suppress the people.

• Sasuke and Neji spread news that Yukie Fujikaze was the returning princess, prompting Kazahana Dōtō to send an armored jonin to assassinate her; Shisui silently defeated the attacker.
• Asama Santarō publicly claimed Yukie was not the princess, leaving Kazahana Dōtō unsure whether Koyuki had fallen out with the Konoha ninjas.
• When Kazahana Koyuki hesitated to address the people, Sasuke transformed into her, took the Hexagonal Crystal, and delivered a speech promising fairness and a better future.
• Sasuke confronted the samurai sent to disperse the crowd, displayed the Hexagonal Crystal, and announced that he would open the treasure at Rainbow Glacier.
• Neji urged the real Kazahana Koyuki to follow Sasuke, and Shisui escorted her as the crowd and samurai headed for Rainbow Glacier.
• Kazahana Dōtō learned that Koyuki was going to Rainbow Glacier and decided to kill her before she could prove her identity, then suppress the people and label the gathering a rebellion.

Shikamaru’s team prepared traps to protect civilians and help Kazahana Koyuki confront her uncle, Kazahana Dōtō. The Konoha team defeated Dōtō’s forces and captured him, while Sasuke rejected his offer and ordered a dignified death.

• Shikamaru explained that the traps would shield civilians at Rainbow Glacier, while Naruto and the others prepared to intercept Dōtō’s forces.
• Sasuke and Neji guided Kazahana Koyuki and the civilians to the glacier as Naruto’s Rasengan triggered the hidden traps and exposed the Snow ninja.
• Choji triggered an avalanche, and Sasuke, Ino, Shino, Shikamaru, Neji, Hinata, Kiba, and Naruto’s clones overwhelmed the Snow ninja and immobilized Kazahana Dōtō.
• Kazahana Dōtō offered Konoha double what Koyuki had promised, but Sasuke refused, explaining that Konoha had chosen Koyuki for her loyalty to her people.
• Sasuke ordered that the captured Kazahana Dōtō be given a more dignified death.

Sasuke helped Kazahana Koyuki restore the Land of Snow and secure an alliance with Konoha, while Uchiha Toko prepared sweeping reforms for Konoha’s ninja forces. News of Rasa’s death and Deidara’s failed promotion heightened Toko’s fears of a coming war, and he learned that court officials planned to impeach him.

• Neji sealed Kazahana Dōtō’s chakra, and Sasuke arranged for him to face a public trial and execution.
• Kazahana Koyuki unlocked the Land of Snow’s treasure, revealing a geothermal generator that could support agriculture and the country’s recovery.
• Sasuke represented Konoha at Koyuki’s coronation, negotiated an economic alliance, and promised help training a defensive ninja force.
• Uchiha Toko set a high championship standard for Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto to earn promotion in the upcoming Joint Chunin Exams.
• After Rasa was killed by Gaara and Deidara became a rogue ninja following his failed jonin promotion, Toko prepared a plan to professionalize Konoha’s ninja forces.
• Toko learned that civil officials planned to impeach him and force him to return power to the Feudal Lord.

Uchiha Toko uncovered a faction of young officials plotting against him and ordered Miura Kazuo to find evidence against them before the next court session. As the Military Police Force arrested the officials, Minamoto Mikoto rejected Prince Noda’s attempt to turn him against Uchiha Toko and ordered Noda killed.

• Uchiha Toko summoned Miura Kazuo, learned the officials were backed by nobles angered by his policies, and ordered Miura to produce evidence against them by morning.
• Uchiha Toko sent the officials’ list to the Military Police Force, and Kakashi dispatched Sakurai Hideaki and his men to investigate.
• Sakurai Hideaki arrested the officials gathered at a tavern after they denounced Uchiha Toko, and their leader revealed that Prince Noda supported them.
• Minamoto Mikoto was tending to his cricket when Prince Noda requested an audience and tried to portray Uchiha Toko as a traitor.
• Minamoto Mikoto ordered Noda killed and questioned why he would need to discuss killing him with his teacher.

Minamoto Mikoto punished Minamoto Noda for plotting against Uchiha Toko, who confronted him over his efforts to undermine the Land of Fire’s preparations for war. At court, Mikoto and Toko turned accusations against Toko into a purge of the conspirators, and Mikoto asked Toko to keep serving the Land of Fire.

• Minamoto Mikoto ordered Asuma to take Minamoto Noda to Uchiha Toko and demanded that Noda lose his titles.
• Uchiha Toko accused Minamoto Noda of opposing reforms to protect his land rents, threatened him with Swift Lightning, and had Uchiha Inaho send him to the Military Police Force.
• At court, Minamoto Mikoto assigned Miura Kazuo to investigate accusations against officials who had confronted Uchiha Toko.
• Nishiyama Jirosuke called Uchiha Toko a traitor, but Kakashi brought in evidence extracted from the arrested conspirators’ memories.
• Minamoto Mikoto ordered Nishiyama Jirosuke and the other conspirators punished, then asked Uchiha Toko to continue serving the Land of Fire.

Uchiha Toko tried to persuade Minamoto Mikoto to study governing and ninjutsu, but the young Feudal Lord preferred cricket fighting and left the work to his teacher. As Konoha prepared for the Joint Chunin Exams and Nagato agreed to attend, Naruto rushed Toko home, where he found the wanted Deidara eating instant noodles.

• After Minamoto Mikoto's cricket Amenominaka lost to Konohamaru's chakra-nourished Great Enma, Uchiha Toko offered to ask the Aburame Clan how to raise a stronger cricket.
• Uchiha Toko offered to teach Minamoto Mikoto governing or ninjutsu, but Minamoto Mikoto refused both and said he trusted Toko and his senior brothers to handle the work.
• Uchiha Toko returned to his office and refined a military reform proposal, which Konoha's jonin council approved for trial after the Joint Chunin Exams.
• Takagi Shoban arrived in Konoha with a Southern Hidden Mist team, while Jiraiya returned with Nagato's invitation and news that Nagato would attend the exams.
• Uchiha Toko asked Jiraiya to take Naruto to Mount Myoboku to learn Sage Mode, but Naruto rushed in and brought Toko home to see Deidara, the wanted former Tsuchikage disciple, eating instant noodles.

Deidara returned to Konoha after fleeing Iwagakure and was offered a possible job with a new employer. Nagato then met with Uchiha Toko to ask about Konoha’s tailed-beast plans, and their discussion ended with Toko beginning to explain how Konoha intended to pursue peace.

• Deidara told Uchiha Toko that he had fled because Ōnoki’s construction company gave him work demolishing and repairing ordinary houses instead of pursuing ambitious projects.
• Uchiha Toko told Deidara to stay hidden in Kakashi’s home and promised to introduce him to a potential employer.
• Konan arrived in Konoha with the Rain genin, while Nagato secretly watched before meeting Uchiha Toko in a private tea room.
• Nagato explained that Akatsuki had planned to use the tailed beasts to deter nations from waging war, and Uchiha Toko argued that such a weapon would not create lasting peace.
• Uchiha Toko admitted Konoha was gathering the tailed beasts and preparing for war, then said peace required confronting the political causes of war.

Uchiha Toko persuaded Nagato to ally the Land of Rain with Konoha, promising eventual unity and reforms to improve Rain’s climate. As the Joint Chunin Exams approached, Ōnoki and A arrived in Konoha, where Toko welcomed them and warned them against causing trouble; A then snubbed Takagi Shoban at the welcome banquet.

• Uchiha Toko told Nagato he intended to unify the Ninja World through a swift war, and Nagato agreed that Akatsuki would cooperate with Konoha.
• Nagato offered to return the Five Tails to Konoha and told Toko about the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Toko invited him to receive a physical examination after the exams.
• Ninja from Iwagakure and Kumogakure arrived in Konoha with Ōnoki and A, while Sunagakure stayed away amid leadership and financial troubles.
• Uchiha Toko and Sarutobi Hiruzen welcomed Ōnoki and A at Konoha’s entrance, and Toko and A tested each other’s strength in a tense handshake.
• At the welcome banquet, A ignored Takagi Shoban’s offered hand and walked toward the center of the gathering.