Chapter Summaries

Kitsuchi led Iwagakure’s jonin and Special Jonin outside the village to face Saiki Yuu, while urging the Daimyo’s Mansion to pressure Konoha. After the devastation subsided, Saiki Yuu emerged from the dust, leaving the Stone Ninja braced for battle.

• Kitsuchi gathered several hundred jonin and Special Jonin, knowing that sending chunin against Saiki Yuu would only feed his corpse-powered sword techniques.
• Kitsuchi urged the Stone Ninja to protect Iwagakure and its villagers, then ordered continued messages to the Daimyo’s Mansion to pressure Konoha.
• A Stone Ninja replied that the Land of Earth’s Daimyo’s Mansion was panicking and would keep pressuring the Land of Fire’s Daimyo’s Mansion.
• Kitsuchi led the ninja outside Iwagakure and saw that Saiki Yuu’s attack had left only a few boulders and mountain peaks.
• Saiki Yuu emerged unsteadily from the dust as the Stone Ninja watched with grim resolve.

Drunk Saiki Yuu reached Iwagakure and demanded booze from its ninja, leaving them stunned. Kitsuchi approached him despite the danger, realizing how terrifying Yuu was at close range.

• Yuu demanded that the Iwagakure ninja hand over their booze or be chopped up.
• The Iwagakure ninja froze in confusion because they had expected Yuu to fight them, not ask for alcohol.
• Kitsuchi ignored his people’s warnings and walked toward Yuu, accepting responsibility for facing him.
• Kitsuchi stood before Yuu and feared that Yuu could cut him down in a moment.

Saiki Yuu ignored Kitsuchi’s attempt to discuss mediation and brutally beat him with his scabbard. Kitsuchi’s Iwagakure companions watched from a distance, leaving him to endure the assault.

• Kitsuchi steadied himself and told Saiki Yuu that the Land of Earth Daimyo’s Mansion had requested mediation and asked whether he had received Konoha’s orders.
• Saiki Yuu suddenly struck Kitsuchi with his scabbard, then repeatedly beat him with it.
• The Iwagakure group shouted for Yuu to let Kitsuchi go, but fell silent and looked away when he turned toward them.
• Kitsuchi lay on the ground clutching his head, badly hurt and resentful that Yuu had attacked him while he was there to negotiate.

Saiki Yuu beat Kitsuchi at Iwagakure's entrance and demanded to know where Ōnoki was. Kitsuchi tried to keep his father's unconsciousness secret, but the beating forced him to give in.

• Saiki Yuu beat Kitsuchi before learning who he was.
• Kitsuchi identified himself as Iwagakure jonin and the Third Tsuchikage's son.
• Saiki Yuu asked where Ōnoki was, and Kitsuchi stayed silent to protect the secret that his father was unconscious.
• Saiki Yuu continued striking Kitsuchi with his black scabbard until Kitsuchi surrendered and offered to talk.

Yuu subdued Kitsuchi and demanded that Iwagakure hand over its finest wine while Tsunade and Minato arrived. Kitsuchi asked whether Konoha had ordered a ceasefire, and Tsunade confirmed it had.

• Kitsuchi told Yuu that his father, Ōnoki, was still unconscious.
• Yuu demanded all of Iwagakure’s good wine and threatened to cut down anyone who hid any.
• Tsunade, Minato, and the others arrived, and Kitsuchi looked to them for help.
• Kitsuchi asked Tsunade whether Konoha had issued a ceasefire order, and she confirmed it had.

Tsunade told Kitsuchi that Saiki Yuu had flattened the surrounding mountains because they displeased him, then Yuu demanded Iwagakure hand over its best wine. Kitsuchi was bewildered when Konoha appeared to ask for nothing else, while Minato and the others knew the Elder Council's scroll contained extortionate demands.

• Tsunade told Kitsuchi that Yuu had flattened the rocks and mountains because they were an eyesore.
• Yuu ordered Kitsuchi and the stone ninja to bring out all their good wine, threatening to flatten them if any bottles were missing.
• Kitsuchi asked whether Konoha had any other demands, since Iwagakure expected to pay a huge price after its defeat.
• Kitsuchi reflected that Iwagakure had suffered an unprecedented loss and that the Land of Earth Daimyo's Mansion had sought mediation from the Land of Fire Daimyo's Mansion.
• Minato and the others exchanged uneasy glances because they had read the Elder Council's scroll, which included extortionate demands involving the Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka Clans.

Yuu forced Kitsuchi and the Konoha ninja to move Iwagakure’s liquor, while Minato and the others competed for the chance to receive Yuu’s personal guidance. Kitsuchi was left to face questions from his fellow Iwagakure shinobi.

• Kitsuchi realized the liquor demands were Yuu’s personal demands, not Konoha’s.
• Yuu struck Kitsuchi with his scabbard and ordered him to move the liquor.
• Yuu sent Minato and the other Konoha ninja to help, warning them not to lose a single crate.
• Minato prepared his Flying Thunder God kunai, determined to secure the most liquor and win Yuu’s guidance.
• Shikaku, Choza, Inoichi, and the other Konoha ninja watched the competition with intense interest.
• Iwagakure shinobi asked Kitsuchi whether the Konoha people had made outrageous demands.

Kitsuchi relayed Saiki Yuu's demands to the Iwagakure forces and ordered them to open the village gates so Konoha could move the liquor. Outside the gates, Minato Namikaze led more than six thousand Konoha ninja as the stone doors began to open.

• Kitsuchi returned to the Iwagakure ranks, endured the other jonin's concern, and quickly reported Yuu's demands.
• Kitsuchi ordered the Stone Ninjas to open Iwagakure's gates and let the Konoha people move the liquor.
• The Stone Ninjas agreed, judging the arrangement better than paying enormous war reparations.
• More than six thousand Konoha ninja gathered outside Iwagakure's massive stone gates under Minato Namikaze's leadership.
• Iwagakure's gates slowly opened as the Konoha ninja watched, ready for what they believed was the start of the war.

As Iwagakure's gates opened, Minato and the Konoha Jonin raced to claim the fine wine offered as a prize. The Jonin used ninjutsu to speed toward the village, while one Sarutobi Clan Jonin decided to propel himself with Fire Style.

• The Konoha Jonin stared at Iwagakure's gates, eager to win Lord Yuu's guidance by snatching the most fine wine.
• When the gates opened, Minato used Flying Thunder God Technique to race ahead, and the other Jonin cursed him for using Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• A Konoha Jonin used Earth Style to travel underground toward Iwagakure, while a Water Style Jonin sped forward on water dragons.
• The remaining Jonin used Wind Style and Lightning Release to increase their speed.
• A Sarutobi Clan Jonin realized he could use Fire Style as propulsion and launched a Great Fireball Technique.

Konoha's jonin used high-level ninjutsu to speed up the transportation of alcohol through Iwagakure, astonishing the village's shinobi. Yuu found Kitsuchi and ordered him to come along, while a fight broke out over the alcohol.

• Konoha's jonin hurled powerful ninjutsu to move alcohol faster, leaving Iwagakure's jonin stunned by how freely they spent their chakra.
• An Iwa shinobi pointed out that Konoha's people were only moving alcohol, despite making a spectacle worse than a battlefield clash.
• Yuu appeared before Kitsuchi and asked if he was Ōnoki's son.
• Kitsuchi confirmed his identity and endured Yuu insulting his father.
• Yuu told Kitsuchi to come with him.
• Two shinobi argued over the alcohol, and one threatened the other over an old beating at the Ninja Academy.

Kitsuchi feared Saiki Yuu's overwhelming strength as he led the way, but Yuu sensed his hostile thoughts and beat him for them. Kitsuchi was left trembling and desperate to avoid angering Yuu.

• Kitsuchi realized the Konoha ninja were fighting frantically to earn Saiki Yuu's personal guidance by obtaining the most fine wine in Iwagakure.
• Kitsuchi reflected on Saiki Yuu's terrifying swordsmanship and taijutsu and speculated that his ninjutsu might also be powerful.
• Yuu lashed Kitsuchi to the ground after sensing that he was thinking something unfavorable.
• Kitsuchi tried to deny it, but Yuu struck him repeatedly, leaving him clutching his head and trembling.

Yuu forced Kitsuchi to lead him to Ōnoki’s home in Iwagakure, where he broke through the gate and searched out the Third Tsuchikage’s hidden wine collection. The chapter ended with Yuu ordering Kitsuchi to pack every bottle into a sealing scroll.

• Kitsuchi apologized to Yuu and continued leading him through Iwagakure.
• Kitsuchi brought Yuu to the residence of the Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki.
• Yuu shattered Ōnoki’s stone gate with a kick and rushed inside to search for alcohol.
• Yuu cut open hidden compartments and found Ōnoki’s treasured wine, including bottles Kitsuchi had never known about.
• Yuu took out a sealing scroll and ordered Kitsuchi to pack every bottle or be chopped down.

Saiki Yuu helped Kitsuchi seal Ōnoki’s entire wine collection into a scroll, leaving the house ransacked. Yuu then asked about the Land of Earth Daimyo’s rare Nectar, and Kitsuchi realized Yuu seemed to have tasted it before.

• Yuu spread a sealing scroll across the floor and directed Kitsuchi to seal Ōnoki’s bottles of wine.
• Kitsuchi saw that Yuu had cleared out Ōnoki’s entire collection and worried about his father’s reaction.
• Yuu praised Kitsuchi for helping and asked whether Ōnoki also had the Land of Earth Daimyo’s special supply wine.
• Kitsuchi explained how scarce the Nectar was and wondered how Yuu knew about it.
• Kitsuchi saw Yuu lick his lips as if recalling the Nectar’s taste and realized Yuu might have drunk it before.

Saiki Yuu took Kitsuchi to the Earth Shadow Building and searched it for Nectar. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi worried about Yuu returning to Konoha, and Yuu found a cabinet stocked with bottles of Nectar.

• Kitsuchi realized Yuu had likely robbed Hiruzen Sarutobi before and hurried to take him to the Earth Shadow Building.
• Yuu searched the Tsuchikage's office and other rooms while Kitsuchi watched in alarm.
• In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi sneezed and worried that Yuu would soon return and demand payment for the deception.
• Yuu found around forty bottles of Nectar in a cabinet and opened one, gaining a point in Swordsmanship.

Yuu drank Iwagakure’s Nectar and took the wine after Kitsuchi packed it for him. He agreed not to destroy Iwagakure, but then began striking Kitsuchi with his sword sheath.

• Yuu drank a bottle of Nectar and gained increases in swordsmanship comprehension, constitution, and Observation Haki.
• Yuu ordered Kitsuchi to pack the remaining Nectar into a sealing scroll, and Kitsuchi handed it over.
• Kitsuchi pleaded with Yuu to spare Iwagakure after Konoha ninja had entered the village and its gates stood open.
• Yuu said Kitsuchi’s performance had been good enough that he would not destroy Iwagakure.
• Yuu struck Kitsuchi repeatedly with his pitch-black sheath after saying, “However...”

Saiki Yuu beat Kitsuchi because he was angry at his fat and demanded that he train until he was muscular. He spared Kitsuchi after he promised to train, warning that he would cut him down if he remained flabby when they met again.

• Saiki Yuu blamed Kitsuchi's fat for the Stone Ninjas' flabby bodies and began striking him with his scabbard.
• Saiki Yuu coated his scabbard in Armament Haki and beat Kitsuchi until he pleaded for mercy.
• Kitsuchi promised to train and turn his fat into muscle, and Saiki Yuu stopped beating him.
• Saiki Yuu told Kitsuchi to train hard and warned that he would cut him down if he remained flabby.

Yuu left Iwagakure after forcing Kitsuchi to lead a village-wide fitness effort, then rushed to inspect the alcohol gathered at the gate. Shikaku and the others watched him go, prepared for the aftermath of his latest raid.

• Yuu appointed Kitsuchi Iwagakure's Fitness Captain and ordered him to rally the Stone Ninja into training.
• Kitsuchi reluctantly agreed and feared Yuu would return to judge their progress.
• Shikaku, Choza, and the others waited outside the Earth Shadow Building and found Kitsuchi and the wreckage inside.
• Shikaku told Yuu that Iwagakure's alcohol had been gathered at the gate.
• Yuu vanished before Shikaku could say who had obtained the most fine wine.

Shikaku delivered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s secret resource demands to Kitsuchi, while Konoha’s wine-gathering competition in Iwagakure left Minato outdone by Aozora Uzuki. Aozora held the most wine as the chapter ended.

• Shikaku handed Kitsuchi a scroll listing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s demands for resources from Iwagakure.
• Kitsuchi accepted the demands, and Shikaku said Konoha’s Sealing Corps would accompany him to secretly collect the resources.
• Konoha ninjas displayed the fine wine they had gathered at Iwagakure’s main gate, with Minato among those who had collected dozens of crates.
• Aozora Uzuki surpassed Minato after stumbling upon a major Iwagakure clan’s wine warehouse, and the other Konoha ninjas did not dare take his haul.

Yuu arrived to collect Iwagakure’s wine and learned that Aozora Uzuki had won the chance to receive his guidance. Aozora asked to give the opportunity to his daughter, Yugao Uzuki, and Yuu agreed.

• Minato showed Yuu the fine wines collected from Iwagakure and introduced Aozora Uzuki as the person who had found the most.
• Yuu praised Aozora for winning the opportunity, noting that he used a blade.
• Aozora asked Yuu to pass the opportunity to his daughter because he believed she had greater potential than he did.
• Yuu agreed and learned that Aozora’s daughter was named Yugao Uzuki.

Kitsuchi and Iwagakure’s shinobi surveyed the devastation left by Saiki Yuu and accepted that they would have to train their bodies to avoid his blade. The chapter ended as Hayama, who oversaw the shelters, rushed to report to Kitsuchi.

• Kitsuchi and Iwagakure’s shinobi watched the Konoha party leave and mourned the destruction of Iwagakure’s outer defenses.
• Kitsuchi reminded the shinobi that Iwagakure and its people had survived, and they agreed that the outcome could have been worse.
• Hikari asked whether Saiki Yuu had really ordered Iwagakure’s shinobi to build muscle.
• Kitsuchi warned that Saiki Yuu would return to inspect them, so the shinobi resolved to train rather than risk being killed by him.
• Hayama hurried over to Kitsuchi after managing Iwagakure’s shelters.