Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Chen advanced his Chakra control training under Tsunade’s methods while enduring her relentless ambushes and pranks. After a week of intense practice, he returned to his room and found Tsunade was out gambling again.

• Uchiha Chen completed the fourth stage of Chakra control by dividing Chakra into five streams and guiding them through Kunai holes.
• Uchiha Chen practiced controlling Chakra’s direction with a leaf and made gradual progress toward the precision needed for the Rasengan.
• Uchiha Chen decided that developing the Rasengan would not meaningfully improve his current strength or Chakra control.
• Uchiha Chen endured Tsunade’s increasingly bizarre surprise attacks and sparring, improving his Chakra control, trap awareness, tactics, and ability to run away.
• Uchiha Chen returned to his room, found Tsunade absent, and suspected she had gone gambling after previously stealing his money and planting an Explosive Tag in his bedding.

Uchiha Chen mistook the girl in his darkened room for Tsunade and startled her with Mini Explosive Tags. He discovered he had frightened Uzumaki Kushina, whose anger gave way to tears as she said she wanted to go home.

• Uchiha Chen used a Shadow Clone to distract the person in his room while he slipped inside through a window.
• Uchiha Chen threw Mini Explosive Tags onto the bed, thinking Tsunade was pretending to sleep.
• Uchiha Chen turned on the light and realized the person on the bed was the young Uzumaki Kushina.
• Uzumaki Kushina recovered from her shock, threatened Uchiha Chen, and then broke down in tears, saying she hated ninjas and wanted to go home.

Tsunade returned home and found Kushina missing from her room, then misread what she overheard in Uchiha Chen’s room. The misunderstanding ended with Tsunade punching Chen unconscious as Kushina tried to stop her.

• Tsunade came home in a good mood after winning money and went to check on Kushina.
• Tsunade found Kushina’s bed cold and heard a girl crying in Uchiha Chen’s room.
• Tsunade overheard Chen apologizing and promising to take responsibility, then assumed he had harmed Kushina.
• Tsunade kicked open Chen’s door and saw Kushina crying beside a kunai while Chen wiped away her tears.
• Tsunade attacked Chen, knocking him into the air and leaving him unconscious as Kushina lunged toward him.

Uchiha Chen dreamed he had reached the afterlife, then woke after Tsunade revived him with Lightning Release. He recovered in Kushina’s room, where they made peace and learned Tsunade had gone gambling again.

• Uchiha Chen crossed the Naihe Bridge in a dream and fled when the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, and Uchiha Kagami called him toward the afterlife.
• Uchiha Chen woke after Tsunade used Lightning Release to restart his stopped heart, then fainted again when he reached for his kunai.
• Uchiha Chen woke to find Kushina beside him, and they apologized to each other and introduced themselves as friends.
• Kushina told Uchiha Chen that Tsunade had gone gambling while his luck was bad and hers was good.
• Kushina explained that she had entered Uchiha Chen’s room by mistake after getting lost, and that Tsunade’s punch had smashed him through the house.

Uchiha Chen woke to Kushina and Tsunade preparing him for the final day of training, then learned Kushina would begin the Ninja Academy the next day. At the Training Ground, he demonstrated his Chakra control and argued with Tsunade over her beating him the night before.

• Kushina struggled to wake Uchiha Chen, who sprang up when she threatened to hit him with Water Release, and found Tsunade waiting to start his final day of training.
• Tsunade warned Kushina about entering a boy's room and showed her Nawaki's comic book, leaving Kushina blushing and Uchiha Chen embarrassed.
• After breakfast, Kushina said she would study with Grandma Mito before entering the Ninja Academy the next day.
• Tsunade took Uchiha Chen to the Training Ground and asked him to demonstrate his Chakra control, promising to teach him a powerful Ninjutsu if he satisfied her.
• Uchiha Chen explained that he had only promised to help Kushina teach Nawaki a lesson, but Tsunade dismissed her misunderstanding and he threatened to send her to the Land of Water to cut sugarcane.

Tsunade taught Uchiha Chen her Monstrous Strength techniques and warned him not to let clan ties distract him from the people he cared about. After Chen said he only wanted to protect those he loved, Tsunade ended their week of training and offered to keep her Slug summoning contract for him.

• Tsunade demonstrated Monstrous Strength and Heavenly Foot of Pain, then spent the day teaching Uchiha Chen how to gather and release his Chakra.
• Uchiha Chen gradually grasped the technique, and Tsunade told him to continue practicing on his own.
• Tsunade warned Uchiha Chen against becoming fixated on his clan and urged him to value his companions.
• Uchiha Chen told Tsunade he wanted only to protect the people he loved and those who loved him.
• Tsunade ended the week of training, offered to keep her Slug summoning contract for Chen, and asked whether he had a message for Kushina.
• Uchiha Chen asked Tsunade to tell Kushina, "see you tomorrow."

Uchiha Chen went back to school after a week of exhausting training and learned about Minato and Nawaki’s recent troubles. When Uzumaki Kushina was mocked for saying she wanted to become Hokage, Chen publicly supported her, shifting the class’s attention away from her.

• Uchiha Chen met Minato at school and heard that the Police Force had detained him after Jiraiya fled while gathering material.
• Uchiha Chen learned that Tsunade had taken Nawaki away after catching him reading Jiraiya’s comics.
• Teacher Nishimura introduced Uzumaki Kushina as a transfer student from another village.
• Uzumaki Kushina announced that she wanted to become the first female Hokage, and her classmates mocked her for being an outsider.
• Uchiha Chen declared that he supported Kushina becoming the Fourth Hokage, prompting several girls to support her too.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen watched the classroom settle and then quietly left.

Kushina joined Uchiha Chen’s class and took Nawaki’s seat, while Chen and his classmates joked with her and wondered where Nawaki had gone. Nawaki arrived wrapped in bandages, took the seat beside Minato, and Teacher Nishimura left to replace a lectern that broke during class.

• Teacher Nishimura welcomed Kushina and warned her to avoid the class’s problem children before she took the empty seat in front of Uchiha Chen.
• Chen, Minato, Mikoto, and Kushina greeted one another, and Chen asked Kushina whether Nawaki had been sent to the Land of Earth.
• Nawaki entered the classroom covered in bandages, and Chen teased him about his appearance and joked that Uchiha Liang was interested in him.
• Teacher Nishimura ordered the students to quiet down, but the lectern broke into pieces when he struck it.
• Teacher Nishimura left to fetch a replacement, and Nawaki sat beside Minato after Kushina took his seat.

Uchiha Chen spent his Ninja Points to raise his Taijutsu to Level 8, completing a system task that triggered a twelve-hour panel upgrade. During class, Minato demonstrated his newly learned Summoning Jutsu, but summoned a tiny, half-grown tadpole-like Toad that caused Chen and Nawaki trouble.

• Uchiha Chen spent 12,000 Ninja Points to raise his Taijutsu to Level 8 and completed the system's task before graduation.
• The system announced that his panel would upgrade for twelve hours and unlock more attributes and Nature Transformation Fusion functions.
• Uchiha Chen guessed that Jiraiya had taught Minato the Summoning Jutsu, and Minato showed off his attempt to summon a Toad.
• Minato summoned a palm-sized creature that looked like a tadpole with legs, and Chen struggled to avoid mocking it.
• Nawaki asked if the tadpole could be eaten, so Chen hit him with a Great Fireball and the Toad spat water at Nawaki before dispelling the Summoning Jutsu.

Uchiha Chen, Minato, and Mikoto compared what they had learned from the Sannin before their class took a shuriken-throwing test. Kushina performed poorly, and Teacher Nishimura struggled to decide what score to give her.

• Minato lamented that his tadpole had undone the Summoning Jutsu, while Mikoto told Uchiha Chen that Orochimaru had taught her Ninjutsu and survival skills.
• Teacher Nishimura announced that the class’s final outdoor training session would test shuriken throwing, and Uchiha Liang earned an A.
• Uchiha Chen noticed Kushina’s nervousness and asked whether she had practiced throwing shuriken.
• Kushina threw wildly and nearly hit Teacher Nishimura, who used the Substitution Jutsu to avoid being struck.
• Teacher Nishimura considered giving Kushina an A to honor the Hokage’s request, while Kushina walked away dispirited.

Kushina failed the shuriken-throwing test, while Mikoto and Uchiha Chen impressed the academy with powerful demonstrations. Chen’s single shuriken punched through the target and buried itself in a distant wall, earning him an A+ overall.

• Teacher Nishimura gave Kushina a failing grade after her poor shuriken throwing, and Kushina resolved to practice with help from Mikoto and Uchiha Chen.
• Mikoto threw six shuriken using Uchiha Throwing, landing all of them on the target and earning an A+ overall.
• Uchiha Chen stepped up to the test with a single shuriken, infused it with Chakra, and launched it through the target and into the far wall.
• Teacher Nishimura gave Chen A+ marks for accuracy and destructive power, a C for quantity, and an A+ overall.

Uchiha Chen demonstrated his Chakra-control-based Super Strength Throw to Minato, Mikoto, Nawaki, and Kushina, then discussed ways to improve it. As Chen and Mikoto walked home together, Mikoto asked if they would always stay together, and Chen promised they would.

• Uchiha Chen explained that he developed Super Strength Throw while training Chakra control with Tsunade and demonstrated how it propelled a Kunai with an explosive burst.
• Uchiha Chen described the technique’s difficult Chakra control and timing, and suggested combining multiple Kunai with the Uchiha Kunai Throwing Technique to increase its power.
• Minato showed Chen his early attempts at rotating Chakra and asked about the technique’s Chakra cost.
• After the test ended, Nawaki and Kushina went toward the Senju Clan Grounds, Minato headed home, and Mikoto walked with Uchiha Chen toward their Clan Grounds.
• Mikoto asked Uchiha Chen whether they would always be together, and Chen answered that they would before she called it a promise.

Uchiha Chen learned that his system’s new abilities had strict limits, then saw Kushina fight classmates who had mocked her. Kushina asked him to tutor her, and Uchiha Chen agreed.

• Uchiha Chen learned that Nature Transformation Fusion required two attributes at Level 11 and that he had to awaken the Sharingan himself.
• Uchiha Chen decided to stay in Second Grade rather than skip ahead, despite his slow accumulation of points.
• Uchiha Chen arrived early at the academy and found Kushina’s classmates beaten up and the classroom in disarray.
• Uchiha Chen realized that Kushina had been fighting students who mocked her poor academic performance.
• Kushina asked Uchiha Chen to tutor her, and he agreed.

Uchiha Chen took Kushina to train and explained that her greatest advantage was her enormous chakra reserves, while chakra control was the key skill she needed to develop. He demonstrated tree climbing with chakra and set it as her first exercise.

• Uchiha Chen waited for Kushina, then met her when she arrived late after Tsunade had held her back to give her precautions about perverts.
• Uchiha Chen took Kushina through Commercial Street, bought her ice cream, and promised to treat her to something better after training.
• Uchiha Chen brought Kushina to his training spot in the forest behind Hokage Rock and heard that she wanted to learn his kunai-throwing technique.
• Uchiha Chen told Kushina that her kunai skills only needed to reach an ordinary level and that her great chakra reserves were her real advantage.
• Uchiha Chen explained the importance of chakra control, demonstrated walking up a tree by focusing chakra beneath his feet, and told Kushina to practice it.

Uchiha Chen taught Kushina to climb trees by controlling Chakra, then encouraged her to use her large Chakra reserves to become stronger. He introduced a Ninjutsu developed by the Second Hokage for her, but had not yet named it.

• Uchiha Chen explained Chakra adhesion to Kushina, and she fell while trying to climb the tree.
• Uchiha Chen clarified how to adjust Chakra output, and Kushina accused him of peeping on the women's bathhouse.
• Kushina mastered tree climbing within a few hours and enjoyed the quiet view from the treetop.
• Kushina asked to learn powerful Ninjutsu so she could impress those who had mocked her, and Uchiha Chen told her that strength alone would not earn acknowledgment.
• Uchiha Chen pointed out Kushina's large Chakra reserves and promised to teach her a Ninjutsu developed by the Second Hokage for an outstanding junior.

Uchiha Chen taught Kushina the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, joking that the Second Hokage had developed it especially for her. Kushina mastered it quickly and planned to use it as her signature technique, while Chen warned her not to abuse the Forbidden Jutsu.

• Uchiha Chen claimed the Second Hokage had personally developed a Ninjutsu for Kushina, but she dismissed the idea because he had been dead for years.
• Uchiha Chen taught Kushina the hand seals for the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, which he could not use himself because his Chakra was too limited.
• Kushina quickly created dozens of solid Shadow Clones and celebrated her new ability, prompting Chen to caution her about how her words might sound.
• Uchiha Chen explained that Shadow Clones divided her Chakra, required combat coordination, and could share their knowledge and experiences when they vanished.
• Kushina decided to use Shadow Clones to study multiple subjects and declared the technique her signature move, while Chen warned her not to abuse Forbidden Jutsu.

Uchiha Chen and Kushina finished training and headed into Konoha, where they talked about her hometown and her ambition to become Hokage. At Ichiraku Ramen, they ran into Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Chen questioned why the busy Hokage was waiting outside the shop.

• Kushina promised Uchiha Chen she would not overuse the Shadow Clone technique after he warned her about its effects.
• Uchiha Chen took Kushina into Konoha for ramen, and she pointed out the direction of her hometown as they walked.
• Kushina asked whether Chen truly supported her becoming Hokage, and he assured her that she had his vote.
• Uchiha Chen and Kushina found a long line outside Ichiraku Ramen and encountered Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen teased the pair about being on a date, and Chen asked why the Hokage was lurking outside the ramen shop.

Uchiha Chen and Kushina shared ramen with the Third Hokage, who asked about their dreams and encouraged them to become future pillars of Konoha. The Third Hokage left for his office, reassured by the children’s ambitions.

• The Third Hokage treated Uchiha Chen and Kushina to expensive ramen at Ichiraku and secretly spent money he had saved for manga.
• Uchiha Chen gave the Third Hokage one of his eggs, reminding him of Chen’s late father, Kagami.
• Kushina said she wanted to become Konoha’s first female Hokage, and Uchiha Chen said he wanted to protect the village and his companions like his father.
• The Third Hokage encouraged Chen and Kushina to inherit the Will of Fire and teased them about becoming lovers.
• The Third Hokage left the ramen shop for his office as nearby ninjas recognized and respectfully greeted him.

Kushina visited Uzumaki Mito after training, and Mito teased her about her date with Uchiha Chen before recalling her past. Mito asked Kushina what she thought of Konoha, leaving Kushina about to answer.

• Kushina entered the guarded courtyard and greeted Grandma Rei before visiting Mito.
• Mito teased Kushina about going on a date, and Kushina admitted she had enjoyed spending time with Uchiha Chen.
• Mito recalled that Izuna had tried to abduct her before her wedding to Hashirama and had died after Tobirama wounded him.
• Mito explained that she was nearing the end of her life despite maintaining her youthful appearance with the Strength of a Hundred Seal.
• Mito asked Kushina what she thought of Konoha, and Kushina began to answer.

Uzumaki Mito explained her feelings for Hashirama and asked Kushina to become the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki so she could protect the people she loved. Kushina agreed, while Mito teased her about liking Uchiha Chen and looked forward to meeting him.

• Kushina recalled how Mito had welcomed her in Konoha and how Uchiha Chen had comforted and supported her.
• Mito told Kushina that her love for Hashirama had grown from their shared hopes for peace and a village that embraced everyone.
• Mito revealed that her life was nearing its end and that she wanted to find Kurama a loving home and a protector for Konoha.
• Mito asked Kushina to become the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Kushina agreed.
• Mito teased Kushina about Uchiha Chen and encouraged her to boldly pursue the boy she liked.