Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng told Naruto to use the books he had provided to entice Jiraiya into exchanging Sage Mode for more chapters. Naruto copied the first chapter of Young Something Something Jie and handed it to Jiraiya for review.

• Lin Feng instructed Naruto to copy one chapter of each book per day and refuse Jiraiya's requests for extra chapters until he offered Sage Mode.
• Naruto doubted that Jiraiya would enjoy the books, but Lin Feng assured him that mature men would like them.
• Jiraiya returned to the inn drunk and asked Naruto whether he had found any trace of Tsunade.
• Naruto pretended to write furiously, finished copying the first chapter of Young Something Something Jie, and gave it to Jiraiya, claiming it was better than Intimate Paradise.
• Jiraiya accepted the chapter, intending to teach Naruto that writing novels was difficult.

Jiraiya read Naruto’s first chapter and praised his writing, then told him to focus on writing instead of searching for Tsunade or practicing the Rasengan. Naruto stuck to Uncle’s advice to publish only one chapter a day, while Jiraiya took over the search for Tsunade.

• Jiraiya read Naruto’s first chapter and abruptly left the inn, shaken by what he had read.
• Naruto waited for Jiraiya’s feedback and wondered whether the novel had failed to appeal to him.
• Jiraiya returned and enthusiastically praised Naruto’s first chapter.
• Naruto told Jiraiya he would not write the second chapter until the next day.
• Jiraiya told Naruto to leave the search for Tsunade and Rasengan practice to him and focus on writing.

Jiraiya took Naruto out to relax after arranging for him to keep writing one chapter a day. They encountered a drunken Tsunade at an izakaya, and Jiraiya greeted her after finally finding her.

• Jiraiya urged Naruto to finish each new chapter before dark so he could find people afterward.
• Jiraiya prepared Naruto's meals and left early, while Naruto continued writing only one update a day.
• Jiraiya took Naruto to the city's busiest street and brought him into an izakaya for dinner.
• Tsunade drunkenly demanded sake while Shizune tried to stop her and threatened to marry Shizune off.
• Jiraiya spotted Tsunade and exclaimed that they had finally found her.

Jiraiya asked Tsunade to return to Konoha and become the Fifth Hokage, but Naruto objected that she did not care about the village. The chapter ended with Tsunade facing Naruto’s challenge.

• Jiraiya realized Tsunade had likely encountered Orochimaru and asked what had happened.
• Tsunade dismissed the encounter and asked Jiraiya why he had come looking for her.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Konoha wanted her to return and become the Fifth Hokage.
• Naruto choked in surprise, then protested that Tsunade could not become Hokage because she was not wearing a forehead protector and did not care about Konoha’s honor.

Jiraiya asked Tsunade to become the Fifth Hokage, but she refused because accepting the position would prevent her from helping Orochimaru restore his arms and reviving Nawaki and Dan. Jiraiya continued to urge her, while Naruto pressed to leave and return to his writing.

• Naruto anxiously questioned Jiraiya's decision to ask Tsunade to become Hokage.
• Tsunade learned that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and wondered why Whirlpool Maple Forest had spared Konoha's Nine-Tails.
• Tsunade considered her clan's future and her chance to revive Nawaki and Dan before refusing the Hokage position.
• Jiraiya recalled Tsunade's past rejection of his confession, and Naruto urged him to leave so they could update Chapter Two.
• Jiraiya insisted that Tsunade was the only person qualified to become Hokage and invoked her duty to inherit the First Hokage's Will of Fire.

Tsunade refused Jiraiya’s request to become Hokage, citing the deaths of several Hokage in her family and her lack of interest in risking her life. Naruto challenged her after she insulted the Hokage, and the chapter ended as he prepared to use his Reverse Harem Technique against her.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya she would not become Hokage because the position had cost the lives of several of her relatives and teachers.
• Jiraiya scolded Tsunade for rejecting the Will of Fire, but she dismissed the Hokage as a foolish and dangerous position.
• Naruto angrily confronted Tsunade for looking down on the Hokage and called her an old woman.
• Tsunade challenged Naruto to fight her in an empty street, boasting that one finger would be enough to defeat him.
• Naruto accepted and announced his Reverse Harem Technique.

Naruto defeated Tsunade with his Reverse Harem Technique, but Jiraiya discovered that her reaction came from hemophobia rather than attraction. Tsunade left without agreeing to become Hokage, while Jiraiya questioned Naruto about his new technique.

• Naruto used his Reverse Harem Technique to distract Tsunade and Shizune, then held a kunai to Tsunade’s throat and declared victory.
• Shizune helped Tsunade recover, and Tsunade revealed that Dan’s death had left her terrified of blood.
• Tsunade asked whether she was still qualified to become Hokage, then left with Shizune after Jiraiya urged her not to give up.
• Jiraiya concluded that Tsunade’s hemophobia made her unfit to lead Konoha, while Naruto said he had already thought the same.
• Jiraiya asked Naruto about the Reverse Harem Technique, and Naruto explained that it was the opposite of the normal Harem Technique.

Naruto exchanged lessons with Jiraiya, teaching him the Harem Technique in return for training in Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode. Jiraiya agreed, but insisted Naruto provide at least three updates each day, then became absorbed in Naruto's demonstrations.

• Naruto explained how he developed the Harem Technique by combining Shadow Clones and Transformation, and Jiraiya praised his talent.
• Jiraiya brought Naruto back to the inn and asked him to demonstrate his Ninja Way instead of urging him to write.
• Naruto offered to teach Jiraiya the Harem Technique if Jiraiya taught him how to train in Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya agreed to teach Sage Mode after learning the technique and demanded at least three daily updates from Naruto.
• Naruto demonstrated the Harem Technique, and Jiraiya excitedly examined the different blonde clones.

Jiraiya learned that Tsunade would meet Orochimaru again and promised Shizune he would protect Tsunade without giving up on her. Meanwhile, Orochimaru completed a Living Corpse Reincarnation but still needed Tsunade's help to restore his arms for combat.

• Shizune secretly told Jiraiya that Tsunade would meet Orochimaru again and asked him to protect her.
• Jiraiya warned that he might kill Tsunade if she betrayed Konoha, but promised he would not give up on her and would stop Orochimaru.
• Naruto asked whether Jiraiya would really kill Tsunade, and Jiraiya knocked him on the head before returning to his research.
• Over the next few days, Jiraiya failed to learn what Orochimaru had offered Tsunade or what she intended to do.
• Orochimaru completed Living Corpse Reincarnation in his nearby secret laboratory, but his new arms remained too slow for effective combat, so he still needed Tsunade's aid.

Orochimaru accepted Kimimaro’s body for Living Corpse Reincarnation and considered the power of the Shikotsumyaku, while admitting he feared Lin Feng and had given up on Sasuke. Jiraiya woke to discover Tsunade had drugged him and left to meet Orochimaru, and Shizune began preparing an antidote so they could pursue her.

• Orochimaru reflected that Kimimaro’s Shikotsumyaku gave him Kage Level strength, though he regretted losing Sasuke and feared confronting Lin Feng.
• Yakushi Kabuto questioned why Lin Feng had stayed in Konoha, and Orochimaru speculated that Lin Feng’s power came from a secret rather than his bloodline.
• The tavern owner woke Jiraiya, whose headache helped him realize Tsunade had drugged his alcohol and prevented him from using Chakra.
• Jiraiya found Tsunade gone and Shizune unconscious, then learned Tsunade had left to accept Orochimaru’s proposal.
• Jiraiya insisted on pursuing Tsunade, but Shizune began making an antidote because Tsunade’s medicine had left him unable to use Chakra.
• Naruto woke and worried that Jiraiya had run away rather than teach him Sage Mode.

Naruto went with Jiraiya to seek out Orochimaru, despite fearing the danger, while Tsunade remained torn over Orochimaru’s offer to revive Nawaki and Dan. Orochimaru arrived with Kabuto and revealed that he had partially restored the use of his arms, leaving Tsunade surprised.

• Naruto found Jiraiya recovering in Tsunade’s room and mistakenly suspected something between Jiraiya and Shizune.
• Jiraiya recruited Naruto to help find Orochimaru, and Naruto objected that he was only an ordinary Genin.
• Jiraiya claimed that a Konoha Genin had once kicked three of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to death with one kick, but Naruto did not believe him.
• Tsunade waited in the alley, still unable to decide whether to cooperate with Orochimaru and revive Nawaki and Dan.
• Orochimaru arrived with Yakushi Kabuto and asked Tsunade to help revive the two men she loved.
• Tsunade noticed Orochimaru could move his arms again, and he explained that his life-related Forbidden Techniques had partially restored them.

Tsunade agreed to heal Orochimaru’s arms after he assured her he would not attack Konoha. Before she could examine him, Jiraiya attacked, and Orochimaru greeted him with a mocking remark.

• Tsunade questioned whether Orochimaru would leave Konoha alone if she healed his arms, and Orochimaru insisted he had told her the truth.
• Tsunade agreed to treat Orochimaru and went to examine his arms as Kabuto watched.
• A Great Fireball Technique descended, forcing Tsunade and Orochimaru to dodge.
• Jiraiya appeared and addressed Orochimaru, who mocked him by comparing their meeting to a class reunion.

Jiraiya confronted Tsunade and Orochimaru, who had joined forces to restore Orochimaru’s arms, and learned Orochimaru had perfected Living Corpse Reincarnation using Kimimaro’s body. Orochimaru demanded Tsunade help him kill Jiraiya, but she hesitated, leaving Orochimaru to call on Kabuto for support.

• Jiraiya appeared and condemned Tsunade for cooperating with Orochimaru, while Tsunade blamed Shizune for interfering.
• Orochimaru attacked Jiraiya in his white-snake form, and Jiraiya defended himself with Needle Jizo.
• Orochimaru used Shikotsumyaku, revealing to Jiraiya and Tsunade that he had developed Living Corpse Reincarnation and taken over Kimimaro’s body.
• Jiraiya denounced Orochimaru’s body-taking technique as evil, while Orochimaru defended his experiments as necessary for scientific progress.
• Orochimaru demanded that Tsunade help kill Jiraiya, but she hesitated, so Orochimaru told Kabuto he might need his help.

Orochimaru and Jiraiya began a fierce battle, while Tsunade chose not to interfere and Kabuto abandoned the idea of joining the fight. Kabuto then turned his attention to Naruto and challenged him.

• Shizune attacked Kabuto, but Tsunade stopped her and said they would not interfere in Jiraiya and Orochimaru's affairs.
• Orochimaru unleashed Ten Thousand Snake Net, and Jiraiya countered with Goemon, whose flames overwhelmed the snakes despite Orochimaru's Water Release.
• Kabuto watched the battle and realized he could not interfere in a fight between Sannin-level opponents.
• Kabuto taunted Naruto about their past and challenged him to fight, leaving Naruto speechless.

Naruto used Lin Feng’s improved seal to enter Three-Tails State and confronted Yakushi Kabuto. After Kabuto’s Chakra Scalpel failed to pierce Naruto’s cloak, Naruto suddenly appeared in front of him with a raised Chakra hand.

• Naruto entered Three-Tails State and taunted Yakushi Kabuto about being Shimura Danzō’s pawn.
• Yakushi Kabuto attacked Naruto with Chakra Scalpels, but the Nine-Tails’ Chakra cloak burned his palm and kept him from reaching Naruto.
• Yakushi Kabuto began forming hand seals to attack Naruto with Water Dragon Bullet.
• The ground beneath Naruto collapsed, and he vanished before Kabuto could finish his seals.
• Naruto reappeared in front of Yakushi Kabuto with a massive scarlet Chakra hand raised.

Naruto sent Yakushi Kabuto flying and continued his destructive rampage, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru fought fiercely on a distant hill. The battle left both men exhausted, and Jiraiya summoned a host of toads to try to kill Orochimaru.

• Naruto struck Yakushi Kabuto into a distant forest, then charged after him in a ball of crimson fire and continued his rampage.
• Orochimaru used Shikotsumyaku: Early Fern Dance, forcing Jiraiya into the air to face a field of bone spikes.
• Jiraiya destroyed the spikes with Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan and followed with Sage Art: Goemon.
• Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon, which absorbed Jiraiya's toad-oil attack, while Fukasaku warned that Orochimaru would be even more dangerous if he had Ryūchi Cave's Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, Gamaken, Gamatadatsu, Gamahiro, Iron Arm Toad, and Great Strength Toad to help eliminate Orochimaru.

Jiraiya summoned Mount Myōboku’s toads to confront Orochimaru, who answered by summoning an army of snakes. Orochimaru then used the Eight Branches Technique and transformed into a colossal, eight-headed serpent.

• Gamabunta quieted the arguing toads and called on Fukasaku and Shima to explain that Jiraiya had summoned them to deal with Orochimaru.
• Gamabunta said it was time for Jiraiya and Orochimaru to settle their conflict.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda and an army of snakes to face the toads.
• Orochimaru performed the Eight Branches Technique and transformed into a huge serpent with eight heads.

Orochimaru transformed into a colossal Eight-Headed Serpent covered in bone spikes and led the great serpents into battle against Jiraiya’s frogs. After Naruto defeated Yakushi Kabuto, Tsunade decided to wait until Jiraiya and Orochimaru were exhausted before intervening and healing Orochimaru’s arms.

• Orochimaru used his technique and Shikotsumyaku to become a bone-spiked Eight-Headed Serpent.
• Gamabunta led the frogs into battle against Orochimaru’s great serpents.
• Naruto defeated Yakushi Kabuto and returned to Tsunade and Shizune, questioning whether Tsunade was really one of the Three Sannin.
• Tsunade watched Jiraiya and Orochimaru fight and planned to wait until they were exhausted before healing Orochimaru’s arms.

Lin Feng arrived while Tsunade, Shizune, and Naruto watched the Sannin-level battle, and he claimed he had planned to wait before intervening. Tsunade warned him about the villages hunting him, but his growing power made her reconsider how serious a threat he posed.

• Tsunade decided she would not care whether Orochimaru was evil as long as Jiraiya survived and Konoha remained standing.
• Lin Feng arrived and said he had intended to let the fighters wear each other down before teaching them a lesson.
• Naruto suppressed his excitement and pretended not to know Lin Feng, who silently approved of his performance.
• Tsunade and Shizune doubted Lin Feng's claims of being upright, and he reminded them that he had not taken advantage of them when they were drunk.
• Tsunade warned Lin Feng that several villages were hunting him, but he replied that he could swallow them up and revoke their warrants.
• Tsunade dismissed Lin Feng's confidence, then recalled his control of Amegakure, conquest of Kusagakure, and command of two Perfect Jinchuriki.

Lin Feng tried to dissuade Tsunade from relying on Impure World Reincarnation by claiming that Nawaki and Dan had built new lives in the Pure Land. He explained that the technique summoned souls back to the suffering ninja world, leaving Tsunade questioning what the Pure Land was.

• The major ninja villages watched Amegakure grow stronger because they lacked a good reason to attack and feared Lin Feng’s retaliation.
• Lin Feng told Tsunade not to put too much hope in Orochimaru and Impure World Reincarnation.
• Lin Feng claimed that Nawaki and Dan had spent decades in the Pure Land and might have new lives and families there.
• Tsunade asked Lin Feng what he meant by the Pure Land, new lives, and impure land.
• Lin Feng explained that Impure World Reincarnation summoned souls from the Pure Land back into the suffering ninja world.