Recaps

Mu Yue taught the students how the Senju-Uchiha rivalry and the Konoha Police Force shaped the Uchiha Clan’s standing in the village. Shisui grew concerned about the Police Force’s effect on his clan, while Obito learned that his own popularity came from his kindness.

• Mu Yue asked the students why Hashirama Senju became Hokage instead of Uchiha Madara, and explained that the Senju were the victors and had a better reputation.
• Obito questioned why the clans still cared about past victories after reconciling, and Mu Yue explained that their interests remained in conflict.
• Mu Yue asked the students to analyze how the Konoha Police Force affected the Uchiha and why villagers disliked them; Kakashi and Shisui discussed the clan’s authority and its rebellion.
• Obito suggested that the Police Force isolated Uchiha from outsiders, and Mu Yue explained how that separation, the clan’s arrogance, and suspicion from other groups worsened its reputation.
• Shisui realized that the Police Force might have harmed the Uchiha despite its prestige, while Mu Yue explained that he gave each student training suited to their ability.

Mu Yue read Konoha’s newspaper coverage of the war and saw that his battlefield achievements had earned him recognition, while the report also drew attention from his colleagues and disciples. After discussing the article and the upcoming graduation exams with his students, Mu Yue encountered Minato on his way home.

• Mu Yue read the newspaper’s report on Konoha’s victories against Iwagakure and found that it credited him with defeating Hori and helping drive back the Jinchuriki.
• Teachers at the Ninja Academy learned of Mu Yue’s battlefield contribution, and he humbly credited Jiraiya with doing most of the work.
• Obito complained that villagers were talking about Jiraiya rather than Mu Yue, then read the newspaper with Nohara Rin and discovered that their squad was mentioned without names.
• Mu Yue encouraged Obito to train for the graduation exams, which were two weeks away and would test a basic Ninjutsu rather than theory.
• Mu Yue finished training with his disciples and encountered Minato talking with his teammates on the way home.

Minato returned from the front after Konoha drove Iwagakure's forces out of the Land of Grass, and he reunited with Mu Yue before helping him prepare food for Kushina. A conversation about the danger Kushina faced as a Jinchuriki inspired Minato to pursue developing a human version of the Tailed Beast Bomb.

• Minato returned to Konoha with Dekai and Ueyama Sokuhei after the fighting in the Land of Grass reached a temporary halt, and Mu Yue praised their work.
• Three female ninja approached Minato and Mu Yue, but both declined their invitation to eat together.
• Minato and Mu Yue went home, where Minato helped prepare Kushina's favorite braised pork belly and thanked Mu Yue for supporting them.
• Mu Yue and Minato discussed the Tailed Beast Bomb and the danger Kushina might face if she were sent to battle as a Jinchuriki.
• Minato embraced Mu Yue's suggestion to develop a human version of the Tailed Beast Bomb, then left with the food for Kushina.

Obito, Nohara Rin, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Shisui planned a thank-you party for Mu Yue before their graduation exams, hoping to show their gratitude with thoughtful gifts. They settled on holding it after the exams, but left the group gift undecided as Obito wondered how graduation would affect his time training with Mu Yue.

• Obito gathered the others at a dango shop to secretly discuss a thank-you party for Mu Yue, and Shisui stopped Obito and Kakashi from arguing so they could plan.
• The group agreed to hold the party after the graduation exams and decided that everyone would give Mu Yue an individual gift as well as a group gift.
• Shisui suggested calligraphy and teaching as Mu Yue's interests, while Might Guy proposed cooking him an egg dish; the group dropped the cooking idea because most of them could not cook.
• Nohara Rin reassured Obito that they had a week to ask Mu Yue's colleagues and friends for gift ideas, and Shisui reminded Obito that they could still train with Mu Yue after graduating.
• Obito asked Kakashi about newly graduated genin life and hoped for an instructor who would let him keep training with Mu Yue, then argued with Kakashi about their future teammates.

Minato accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s offer to become a guiding teacher and learned that his assigned students were Hatake Kakashi, Obito Uchiha, and Nohara Rin. He discovered that all three were Mu Yue’s disciples and asked Mu Yue to teach him how to guide students.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Minato to become a guiding teacher and assigned him Hatake Kakashi, Obito Uchiha, and Nohara Rin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained Kakashi’s troubled past and asked Minato to keep an eye on him.
• Minato visited Mu Yue and told him that Kakashi and Obito would be on his team.
• Mu Yue revealed that Nohara Rin was also his disciple, meaning all three of Minato’s students had trained under Mu Yue.
• Minato asked Mu Yue to teach him how to guide students, and Mu Yue agreed to help when he had time.

Obito tried to design and make a personal inkstone gift for Mu Yue, using Shadow Clones to practice drawing and improve his design. He and his friends still had not chosen their group gift, and they agreed to decide the next day.

• Obito abandoned his idea of making Mu Yue a calligraphy brush and bought stones so he could craft an inkstone instead.
• Unable to draw a suitable design, Obito used two Shadow Clones to practice with him, and their returned memories improved his drawing skills.
• Obito met Nohara Rin on the way to training, where Kakashi teased him for distracting her.
• Obito trained Armament Haki with Shisui, while the group continued practicing Constant Concentration in the Breathing Technique.
• Shisui reported that the academy teachers knew little about Mu Yue, and the group rejected Might Guy's bodysuit idea before agreeing to choose a gift the next day.

Shisui and Kakashi prepared thoughtful gifts for Mu Yue ahead of their team’s impending disbandment, while Mu Yue suspected his disciples were planning a celebration and adjusted their training to give them more free time. He ended the chapter by testing Shisui and Obito in an attack-focused exercise, where neither could land a hit on his Shadow Clones.

• Shisui collected a custom red katana from the young owner of Spin Spin Spin, tested its cutting power, paid the remaining 640,000 Ryo, and began making a gift box for Mu Yue.
• Kakashi finished making a goat-hair brush for Mu Yue and, after meeting Minato Namikaze on his way to training, decided to give the gift he had already chosen.
• Mu Yue asked Obito and Might Guy about their recent training progress, noticed their evasive answers, and guessed they were preparing a graduation celebration and gifts for him.
• Mu Yue introduced an attack-focused exercise in which Shisui and Obito could use any means to strike his nonattacking Shadow Clones, and he removed the question-based punishment to give them more free time.
• Shisui and Obito attacked for ten minutes without hitting a Shadow Clone; Shisui inferred that the exercise tested his timing with Ninjutsu, while Mu Yue urged Obito to improve his combat thinking.

Obito, Kakashi, Nohara Rin, Might Guy, and Shisui finished a group statue for Mu Yue and hid it in the Southern Forest. Meanwhile, Ōnoki explained Iwagakure’s plan to feign weakness and let the other villages exhaust themselves before striking.

• Kakashi told the others that Minato Namikaze had no special insight into Mu Yue’s preferences, and they agreed that the gift should express their feelings.
• Nohara Rin suggested making individual statues and combining them into a scene of the students training with Mu Yue, and the group approved the plan.
• The five students brought their statues to Kakashi’s house, where Kakashi added goggles to Obito’s rough sculpture with Earth Release.
• The students combined their work into a statue of Mu Yue surrounded by scenes of their training, then hid it in a large box in the Southern Forest.
• Ōnoki told Iwagakure’s elders to keep fighting while concealing an army of more than ten thousand ninja, expecting Kumogakure to focus its forces against Konoha.

Obito headed to the Ninja Academy with Nohara Rin for his graduation exam, confident in his basic Ninjutsu but uneasy about theory tests. The exam began with Iketani Isamu announcing that students would be tested on the Clone Technique.

• Obito woke early, ate breakfast, and left with Nohara Rin after she came to make sure he would not be late.
• Obito and Nohara Rin discussed the exam and his dislike of theory tests before Anko, Izumo Kamizuki, and Kotetsu Hagane joined them on the way.
• Anko chased Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane after they teased her about her exam scores.
• Obito, Nohara Rin, and Might Guy encouraged one another and entered the Ninja Academy, where students watched Obito and Might Guy with interest.
• Iketani Isamu began the graduation exam and announced that the topic was the Clone Technique.

Obito, Might Guy, and Nohara Rin passed their Clone Technique graduation exams and became genin, then trained with Mu Yue and celebrated their new ranks. After Shisui returned from his exam, the students gathered around Mu Yue and asked him to close his eyes for a surprise.

• Might Guy created three clones during his exam, passed, and received his Ninja Headband.
• Obito created eight perfect clones, earned a perfect score, and passed his graduation exam.
• Obito, Nohara Rin, and Might Guy met outside, and Nohara Rin helped Obito straighten his headband.
• The three students thanked Mu Yue for teaching them, then joined him for training in the Southern Forest, where Obito and Kakashi teased each other about their ranks.
• Shisui returned from his exam and joined the training before Mu Yue called an end to the session.
• Obito asked Mu Yue to close his eyes, and the students gathered around him to present their surprise.

Mu Yue’s five disciples presented him with a shared sculpture and individual gifts, then celebrated with dinner at his home alongside Minato. After Mu Yue gave them calligraphy, Kakashi’s gratitude triggered a major reward: Mastery Level Wind Release Chakra Nature Transformation.

• Mu Yue opened the disciples’ shared sculpture gift and praised how thoughtfully they had depicted him and their daily training.
• Obito, Shisui, Might Guy, Nohara Rin, and Kakashi each thanked Mu Yue for his guidance and gave him an individual gift.
• Mu Yue brought Shisui and Kakashi home, where they met Minato; the other disciples arrived later, and everyone shared a lavish dinner.
• Mu Yue opened Shisui’s flaming katana, Obito’s dragon-carved inkstone, Kakashi’s brush, Might Guy’s illustrated diary, and Nohara Rin’s flower.
• Mu Yue gave each disciple calligraphy, and Kakashi’s gratitude triggered a reward granting Mu Yue Mastery Level Wind Release Chakra Nature Transformation.

As the graduates waited for their class assignments, Mu Yue resumed Obito and Shisui’s demanding training and gave Obito new history questions. Obito struggled through the work and spent the night before the assignment announcement fretting over Senju Tobirama’s motives.

• Obito and his classmates took their ninja record photos and graduation pictures, then returned to training with Mu Yue while waiting for the assignment list.
• Mu Yue made Obito and Shisui evade his Shadow Clone, with questions as a penalty; Shisui used falling trees to land a hit after five minutes, while Obito failed to hit it in ten.
• Mu Yue gave Shisui twenty-five questions and Obito fifty, then explained that Obito’s new papers would focus on history and the significance of village institutions.
• Obito tried to make two Shadow Clones do his homework, but they refused, so he spent the night answering questions about Senju Tobirama and the Ninja Academy.
• Mu Yue announced that the students would have the next day off before their exam results and class assignments were revealed, but Obito stayed up worrying about Tobirama’s intentions.

Obito woke late and learned that Nohara Rin had collected his graduation documents and been assigned to his team, though she kept their third teammate's identity secret until their meeting the next morning. Mu Yue reviewed the rewards and Chakra he had gained over the school year as the students said goodbye and looked ahead to the next term.

• Obito woke near noon, rushed outside, and found Nohara Rin waiting with his graduation documents.
• Nohara Rin told Obito they were assigned to the same team, then teased him by withholding the identity of their third teammate and setting their meeting at Training Ground Twelve for the next morning.
• Obito celebrated the team assignment and assumed their other teammate would not be Kakashi.
• Mu Yue received system rewards for Shisui Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, and Might Guy, including a Ninjutsu Mastery Scroll, and noted that his Chakra had reached 53,200.
• Anko said goodbye to Mu Yue, who told her he would lead special training next term, while Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane discussed trying to make B group.

Obito joined his new team with Nohara Rin and Kakashi under Minato Namikaze, then began a bell test that required teamwork. The team’s coordinated attack drew Minato into their traps, and the chapter ended as two wooden pillars crashed down toward him.

• Obito stopped to help an elderly woman by sending a Shadow Clone to carry her home, then hurried to the training ground.
• Obito discovered that Kakashi was once again his teammate, and Minato led the team introductions before explaining the two-bell test.
• Kakashi planned the team’s approach while Obito and Nohara Rin helped prepare traps around the woods.
• Obito and Kakashi attacked Minato with fire and shuriken, then drew him toward the trap zone as Nohara Rin triggered hidden weapons.
• Minato countered the traps and caught Obito, but Obito revealed he was a Shadow Clone as Kakashi and the others sent two wooden pillars crashing toward Minato.

Minato tested Kakashi, Obito, and Nohara Rin in a bell-stealing exercise, but the three coordinated their abilities and Kakashi ultimately took the bell. Minato praised their teamwork and planned to take them on a mission the next day.

• Minato fought Kakashi and Nohara Rin, then evaded their explosive trap by using Flying Thunder God.
• Obito and Nohara Rin attacked alongside Kakashi, who inferred that Minato teleported to marked kunai and set a Shadow Clone trap.
• Kakashi used Thunder Breathing to reach Minato’s kunai, then detonated an explosive tag on his Shadow Clone as bait.
• Kakashi caught Minato off guard with Purple Electricity and took the bell from his waist.
• Minato praised the squad’s performance, and Nohara Rin resolved to train harder after Obito and Kakashi reassured her.
• Minato scheduled more teamwork practice and a mission for the next day.

Genma Shiranui, Ebisu, and Might Guy met their instructor, Teacher Chen, whose bell test required one of them to take a bell from him or return to the Ninja Academy. After he effortlessly destroyed their traps with the Konoha Dragon God technique, Might Guy prepared to face him.

• Genma Shiranui met Might Guy on the way to the training ground and asked him about learning taijutsu.
• Teacher Chen introduced himself and warned the three genin that failure in his bell test would send them back to the Ninja Academy.
• Ebisu recognized Teacher Chen as Konoha's strongest taijutsu user, and the three planned traps with Might Guy as their main attacker.
• Genma Shiranui and Ebisu attacked Teacher Chen with shuriken, but he dodged them and followed the team to their trap area.
• Teacher Chen unleashed the Konoha Dragon God, destroying the traps and leaving Genma Shiranui and Ebisu stunned.
• Might Guy praised Teacher Chen's taijutsu, focused his breathing, and prepared to attack.

Might Guy, Genma Shiranui, and Ebisu challenged Teacher Chen in a bell test, with Might Guy pushing his taijutsu to new heights while his teammates found a way to help. After they stole the bell through teamwork, Teacher Chen accepted them as his students and told Might Guy he could learn Konoha Dragon God once he became stronger.

• Might Guy attacked Teacher Chen with increasingly powerful taijutsu, but Teacher Chen easily countered him and sent Genma Shiranui and Ebisu flying when they joined the fight.
• Genma Shiranui and Ebisu used clones to distract Teacher Chen while Might Guy tried to steal the bell, but Teacher Chen saw through their plan and stopped them.
• Might Guy opened the first and second gates and used Midday Leopard, forcing Teacher Chen to meet his strongest attack before defeating him again.
• Ebisu used Deception Technique to distract Teacher Chen, Genma Shiranui knocked the bell loose with a senbon, and Might Guy caught it.
• Teacher Chen declared that Ebisu, Genma Shiranui, and Might Guy had passed and became their instructor.
• Teacher Chen revealed that Konoha Dragon God was his own advanced taijutsu technique and told Might Guy he needed more training before he could learn it.

Mu Yue checked his students’ Life Mission progress, sought Hiruzen Sarutobi’s advice on the Great Waterfall Technique, and began teaching Asuma Wind Release Chakra Nature Transformation. Meanwhile, Obito’s new team was restricted to D-rank missions, so Obito and Kakashi raced through thirty of them in one day, earning Mu Yue system rewards.

• Mu Yue noticed Obito’s Life Mission progress had risen to three percent and suspected Minato’s connection to Jiraiya was influencing it.
• Mu Yue asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for guidance on the Great Waterfall Technique, and Hiruzen praised Mu Yue’s talent while considering but postponing taking him as a disciple.
• Mu Yue agreed to teach Asuma Wind Release Chakra Nature Transformation after Hiruzen left.
• Minato’s team learned they could only accept D-rank missions, and Obito persuaded the team to take ten missions and clear them quickly.
• Obito and Kakashi competed to complete missions, and their team finished thirty D-rank missions in a day.
• Mu Yue received Chakra growth rewards from Kakashi and Obito’s mission work while relaxing at home.

Obito persuaded the Third Hokage to let Minato's Team accept C-rank missions, and Minato took them on an escort mission to the Land of Hot Water. As the team traveled, Obito proposed ways for Minato to use Flying Thunder God to return home during fights, while Kakashi's confident prediction that the mission would be uneventful made Obito expect trouble.

• Obito asked for more D-rank missions, but Sawada Kazuya said none were available, so Obito appealed to the Third Hokage for permission to take C-rank missions.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Minato whether the team was ready, and Minato agreed; Hiruzen then exempted Minato's Team from the usual restrictions for new genin.
• Minato chose an escort mission to the Land of Hot Water after Obito requested a route with beautiful scenery, and the registration ninja warned them that Kumogakure ninja had been active there.
• Minato's Team met the client, Izumi Muneki, and set off on foot; Obito suggested using Flying Thunder God to return home and surprise enemies, but Minato explained its range and Chakra limits.
• At night, Obito warned Nohara Rin that Kakashi's confident predictions tended to precede accidents, and Kakashi insisted that this mission would be uneventful.

Minato’s team encountered Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage A and Killer B while escorting Izumi Muneki, and Minato fought the A-B Combo with Flying Thunder God. The fight left Mortem and three Kumogakure ninjas charging at Obito’s group, while Minato prepared to help them.

• Minato sensed a group of powerful ninjas nearby and tried to hide his team, but the enemy’s sensory ninja detected them.
• Fourth Raikage A recognized Minato as the Yellow Flash, and Obito recognized A and Killer B from his earlier encounter with them.
• Fourth Raikage A charged Minato in Lightning Release Chakra Mode, but Minato used Flying Thunder God to evade and counterattack.
• Killer B deduced that Minato could teleport to his marked kunai and warned Fourth Raikage A, who memorized the kunai’s locations.
• Mortem and three Kumogakure ninjas charged at Obito’s group, and Minato sensed that they would be outmatched.

Kakashi, Obito, and Rin fought Fourth Raikage A’s Kumogakure unit while escorting a client, and Minato intervened to keep the clash from becoming a full-scale battle. After both sides withdrew, Minato hurried his team back to the Land of Fire once the escort mission was complete.

• Obito and Kakashi engaged the four approaching Kumogakure ninja while Rin retreated with the client, and Kakashi identified their leader Mortem as a jonin.
• Kakashi used a Flying Thunder God Kunai to let Minato appear behind Mortem, injure him, and move him away from the fight.
• Obito held off two Kumogakure ninja while Kakashi fought another, and Rin defeated the ninja who tried to capture her with a Super Strength Punch.
• Minato appeared beside Killer B and threatened him with a kunai, but Killer B reacted in time, prompting Minato and Fourth Raikage A to agree to stop fighting.
• Fourth Raikage A took his injured subordinates away, and Minato continued the escort before quickly leading his team back to the Land of Fire.

After Minato sent Obito, Kakashi, and Nohara Rin home to rest after their dangerous mission, the three planned to spend their break training. Meanwhile, Teacher Chen learned about Mu Yue from Might Guy and decided to meet him, while Guy’s relentless training impressed Genma Shiranui and Ebisu.

• Minato gave Obito, Kakashi, and Nohara Rin four days off and went to report the new A-B Combo in the Land of Hot Water to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Obito, Kakashi, and Nohara Rin discussed their plans for the break, and Obito and Kakashi decided to train with Mu Yue.
• Teacher Chen warned Might Guy that his training was excessive, but Guy explained that Mu Yue had helped him adjust his routine.
• Teacher Chen recognized Hanyu Muyue’s name from the Konoha Newspaper and asked Might Guy to arrange a meeting with him.
• Might Guy told Genma Shiranui and Ebisu that Teacher Chen had advised him to rest more, and both began training after Teacher Chen caught them relaxing.

Obito returned home, heard about a Uchiha young ninja exchange meet, and decided to attend for its rewards before heading to train with Mu Yue. After Obito and Kakashi recounted their dangerous mission, Mu Yue taught Obito Fire Dragon Flame Bullet and invited his disciples to dinner, where Minato and Might Guy also arrived.

• Obito returned home, learned that Uchiha Yashiro had invited him to a young ninja exchange meet with prizes, and told his grandmother he would go.
• Obito shared what he had heard about the Land of Hot Water with his grandmother, then went to the Southern Forest and met Kakashi on the way.
• Obito and Kakashi told Mu Yue about their mission and their encounter with Fourth Raikage A, after which Mu Yue assigned Kakashi Constant Concentration training and began teaching Obito a new Fire Release.
• Mu Yue demonstrated and taught Obito Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, earning Water Release: Water Prison Technique as a reward.
• Mu Yue invited Obito, Kakashi, and Shisui to dinner, and Minato and Might Guy arrived at his home that evening.

Obito and Shisui agreed to attend the Uchiha Young Ninja Exchange Meeting after learning it might offer advanced Fire Release techniques. After dinner, Might Guy told Mu Yue that his instructor, Teacher Chen, wanted to meet about training, and Mu Yue agreed, leaving the prospect of a taijutsu meeting between the two.

• Minato and Might Guy arrived at Mu Yue's home, where Guy told Obito that Genma and Ebisu were his teammates.
• Shisui explained that the Uchiha Young Ninja Exchange Meeting might offer advanced techniques and other rewards, and Obito agreed to attend with him.
• Shisui resolved to use the meeting to gauge whether the younger Uchiha generation favored peace or a coup.
• Mu Yue agreed to meet Teacher Chen after Might Guy said his instructor wanted to discuss training.
• Kakashi listed several of Konoha's notable powerhouses, and Mu Yue said he probably would not lose to Teacher Chen in taijutsu.

Genma Shiranui asked Teacher Chen about missions, and Teacher Chen arranged a meeting for Might Guy and Mu Yue. At the Uchiha exchange gathering, Obito learned that defeating Uchiha Inabi could earn him advanced Fire Release, giving him a clear target for the event.

• Genma Shiranui asked Teacher Chen why he and Ebisu had not received missions, and Teacher Chen claimed he had planned to assign them after prioritizing their training.
• Might Guy told Teacher Chen that Mu Yue had agreed to meet, and Teacher Chen set the meeting for the next day at the training ground after two in the afternoon.
• Obito and Shisui arrived at the Uchiha exchange gathering, where Uchiha Tekka introduced them to Uchiha Inabi as promising young clan members.
• Uchiha Inabi offered to answer their training questions and guide them in combat, while Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yashiro opened the gathering.
• Obito asked how to win advanced Fire Release, and Uchiha Inabi told him that defeating him in battle would earn the reward from Fugaku.