Chapter Summaries

Mu Yue and his disciples fought Iwagakure ninja in a massive battle, where Kakashi, Obito, and Might Guy worked together to defeat a jonin and rescue a Konoha comrade. After Iwagakure retreated, Mu Yue left a Shadow Clone with his disciples and went to support Jiraiya on the top-tier battlefield.

• Might Guy and Obito killed an Iwagakure ninja, and Kakashi urged them to conserve their chakra and stamina for the prolonged battle.
• Four Iwagakure ninja attacked the disciples, but the trio coordinated their techniques to defeat them and save an injured Konoha chunin.
• Kakashi used Thunder Breathing to save Ryuken, his former teammate, before returning to check on Might Guy’s injured hand.
• A huge explosion drew attention to the top-tier battlefield, while Iwagakure ninja tried to rescue the badly wounded Kari; Mu Yue fought more enemies as Konoha gained the advantage.
• The Iwagakure commander ordered a retreat, and Mu Yue left a Shadow Clone to protect his disciples before heading to support Jiraiya.

Mu Yue joined Jiraiya's battlefield and witnessed Rōshi and Han unleash the Four-Tails' and Five-Tails' terrifying chakra in paired Tailed Beast Bombs. After Minato evacuated the Konoha shinobi, Mu Yue's earlier victory over Explosion Release User Hori earned him a place in the coming fight, and Minato returned the group to the crater's edge.

• Mu Yue and the Konoha jonin arrived to support Jiraiya after repelling Iwagakure's forces on another battlefield.
• Rōshi and Han unleashed their tailed-beast chakra and began charging Tailed Beast Bombs as Mu Yue assessed their immense reserves.
• Jiraiya ordered a retreat, and Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to evacuate the group before the bombs devastated the battlefield.
• Mu Yue volunteered to stay and fight, and a Konoha jonin told Jiraiya that Mu Yue had defeated Explosion Release User Hori and killed many Iwagakure shinobi.
• Jiraiya accepted Mu Yue's help, Minato gave him a Flying Thunder God Kunai, and Minato transported the group back to the battlefield's crater.

Jiraiya, Minato, and Mu Yue fought the Iwagakure Jinchuriki Rōshi and Han, using Sage Mode, Water Release, and Flying Thunder God to withstand their attacks. After both sides launched Tailed Beast Bombs, the Konoha team withdrew to camp, leaving the battle as a victory for Konoha despite the Jinchuriki escaping.

• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima and drove Rōshi back with Sage Art, while Minato and Mu Yue supported the fight.
• Han used Boil Release and partial Tailed Beast power to overpower Konoha teammates, but Minato and Mu Yue coordinated an attack that struck Han with Mu Yue’s Phoenix Sage Fire.
• Han survived behind a Tailed Beast Cloak, while Rōshi entered Lava Release Chakra Mode and resisted Jiraiya’s attacks.
• Mu Yue and Minato switched Jiraiya’s position with Flying Thunder God, allowing him to ambush and injure Han as Mu Yue used Water Release to counter Rōshi.
• Rōshi and Han regrouped and fired Tailed Beast Bombs together, so Minato teleported the Konoha team away; Jiraiya then chose to return to camp rather than pursue them.

Jiraiya reported that Konoha had won a major victory despite only slightly injuring one of Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki, while Mu Yue recognized that Ōnoki was concealing much of Iwagakure’s strength. After treating his students and encouraging Obito, Mu Yue joined the camp’s celebration, where Obito photographed Minato to send to Kushina.

• Jiraiya told the Konoha jonin that the Five-Tails Jinchuriki was seriously injured but the Four-Tails Jinchuriki was mostly unharmed, and he announced an overall major victory.
• Mu Yue realized that Ōnoki had hidden a large Iwagakure force, including more than ten thousand ninja and elite fighters such as Kitsuchi.
• Mu Yue treated Obito, Kakashi, and Might Guy, then encouraged Obito to grow strong enough to help end the war.
• Konoha celebrated with a feast, and Mu Yue told Minato that Kushina missed him and suggested sending her photographs.
• Obito photographed Minato smiling naturally while Jiraiya bragged about his S-rank missions and his title as the Toad Sage.

Mu Yue impressed Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima with his cooking, earning an invitation to visit Mount Myōboku and potentially explore its sage arts. After staying several days at the war camp, Mu Yue departed for Konoha with his students and the grain transport team, carrying Minato’s message to Kushina and leaving the story with Obito looking through photos from their trip.

• Obito questioned Jiraiya about his abilities as a sage, and Jiraiya proposed a fight with Minato before turning to Mu Yue with an invitation to meet Mount Myōboku’s sages.
• Mu Yue agreed to cook for Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, and the sages summoned by Jiraiya held a cooking contest with the others as judges.
• Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima were astonished by Mu Yue’s cooking and invited him to visit Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya.
• Mu Yue remained at the war camp for several days, then said goodbye to Minato and Jiraiya and promised to deliver Minato’s message to Kushina.
• Mu Yue led Obito, Kakashi, Might Guy, and the grain transport team back to Konoha while Obito examined their photographs and asked whether Minato’s smiling picture should go to his girlfriend.

After returning to Konoha, Mu Yue reported his team’s wartime mission to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who upgraded their work to S-rank and rewarded Mu Yue for his battlefield achievements. Mu Yue left with a large commission, permission to choose ten Ninjutsu, and Hiruzen’s promise to teach him two more techniques.

• Obito, Might Guy, and Kakashi returned to Konoha, and Kakashi and Might Guy headed to the Southern Forest to train with Mu Yue.
• Mu Yue went to the Hokage’s Office and reported how his team’s grain transport mission had led them into a major battle with Iwagakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Mu Yue for defeating Kari, killing enemy ninja, and protecting Konoha’s forces, then upgraded the grain transport mission to S-rank and counted the battle against the Jinchuriki as a separate S-rank mission for Mu Yue.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi awarded Mu Yue 1,250,000 Ryo for the grain transport mission and 1,200,000 Ryo for repelling the Jinchuriki.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi also let Mu Yue choose ten Ninjutsu from Konoha’s library and offered to personally teach him the Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique and Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique.

After completing an S-rank mission, Mu Yue reviewed his growing skills and trained his disciples, who celebrated their success and teased one another. He later arranged to meet Kushina and bring her Minato’s photos, leaving him waiting at their agreed location.

• Mu Yue reached 50,200 Chakra and reviewed his skills, noting that disciple feedback had fueled much of his growth.
• Mu Yue told his disciples their mission had become S-rank, and Kakashi and Obito debated whose contributions and abilities deserved credit.
• Mu Yue trained Kakashi and Might Guy in Total Concentration Breathing: Constant, while Obito told Nohara Rin about the battle and promised to share photos once they were developed.
• Kakashi explained that he had bought his camera because it was on sale, then joked about giving Obito test papers as a gift.
• After learning the photos would be ready in two days, Mu Yue arranged a meeting with Kushina through the meal-delivery ninja and later waited at the agreed location with Minato’s photos and pastries.

Mu Yue shared Minato’s photos and message with Kushina, then studied Sealing Jutsu under her guidance and successfully performed the Four Symbols Seal. He discussed his idea for expanding the Ninja Academy, then returned to training Shisui and Obito with greater intensity.

• Kushina laughed at Minato’s awkward photo and reflected on how war had destroyed her homeland, the Land of Whirlpools.
• Mu Yue passed on Minato’s message of concern, then concealed some of his progress as Kushina assessed his Sealing Jutsu studies.
• Mu Yue proposed turning the Ninja Academy into a school with advanced courses, but he recognized that wartime needs and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s cautious leadership made the plan unlikely for now.
• With Kushina’s guidance, Mu Yue successfully used the Four Symbols Seal and asked her questions about sealing Chakra.
• Mu Yue shared lunch and pastries with Kushina, then returned to train Shisui and Obito and decided to increase the training intensity.

Obito and Nohara Rin shared their dreams of ending war, while Obito hoped they would be assigned to the same team after graduation. Mu Yue increased Obito and Shisui’s training difficulty, leaving both with a large backlog of questions.

• Obito showed Nohara Rin photographs of wildflowers, and they discussed how cameras preserved beauty but could not capture dreams.
• Nohara Rin said she dreamed of saving the wounded and making war disappear, and Obito declared that he wanted to end war as Hokage.
• Obito prayed to be assigned to the same team as Nohara Rin after graduation, while Kakashi expected to leave their team and the students promised to keep visiting Mu Yue.
• Mu Yue increased the Shadow Clone’s speed during Obito and Shisui’s special training, but both failed to dodge any attacks and received thirty-three questions each.
• Kakashi suggested doubling Obito’s questions, but Mu Yue kept the rules unchanged and told Obito to complete his questions.

Mu Yue selected ten advanced Ninjutsu at the Ninjutsu Library and quickly learned the basics of techniques taught by Hiruzen Sarutobi. After seeing Mu Yue demonstrate the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, Hiruzen Sarutobi offered him a Jonin instructor position, but Mu Yue chose to remain at the Ninja Academy.

• Mu Yue used his permit to select ten advanced Ninjutsu, including Water Severing Wave, Whirlwind, Thunderclap, Mud Wall, and Mystical Palm Technique.
• Mu Yue trained in Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique and learned its basics in about a week.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi demonstrated the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique to Mu Yue and Asuma, then watched Mu Yue create dozens of Shuriken clones after only a few days of practice.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi offered Mu Yue a Jonin instructor position, but Mu Yue declined and said he enjoyed teaching at the Ninja Academy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi taught Mu Yue how to create more Shuriken clones, and Mu Yue asked him questions about Great Waterfall Technique.
• The next day, Mu Yue explained some of Shisui's training problems to his students.

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.