Chapter Summaries

Chiri used her Yang Release Clone to help her work despite her blindness and suspected that her increased Chakra and resilience came from awakening Senju blood. When Haruno reported that a Senju child had awakened the Sharingan, Chiri ordered the matter concealed and the child transferred to the Uchiha clan.

• Chiri maintained two Yang Release Clones to see and work, and wondered whether her changing body had awakened Senju blood.
• Haruno told Chiri that a child from the Senju Clan had awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan, leaving the child's parents devastated and suspecting infidelity.
• Chiri learned that Mimi had left the matter to her and ordered Haruno to seal the information and bring the child to the Uchiha clan.
• Chiri instructed Haruno to handle similar cases by transferring the children to the Uchiha clan, then searched the Uchiha records for a foster family.

Danzo urged the Third Hokage to reopen Tobirama-sensei's laboratory and use forbidden research to strengthen Konoha, but the Third Hokage rejected his proposal to use Impure World Reincarnation. Danzo then proposed experiments with Hashirama's cells, and the Third Hokage left without refusing outright, giving Danzo hope that the plan might proceed.

• Danzo led the Third Hokage into Tobirama-sensei's sealed laboratory and proposed reopening it to pursue the Second Hokage's research.
• Danzo described Impure World Reincarnation as a way to return dead shinobi to battle, but the Third Hokage angrily refused to allow the technique's use.
• Danzo suggested researching Hashirama's cells to restore Wood Release, and admitted he was not confident the experiments would succeed.
• The Third Hokage left without explicitly rejecting the Hashirama-cell proposal, and Danzo celebrated his chance to gain Wood Release and become Hokage.

Orochimaru completed his cloning research and began planning experiments to achieve immortality, while Jiraiya questioned his prophecy and Tsunade trained and learned the Hokage’s work. The years passed peacefully on the surface until Konoha Year 31, when the characters were twenty-two and upheaval was about to sweep across the world.

• Orochimaru successfully raised cloned Ninja Cats to adulthood and decided to clone himself for experiments toward an immortal Substitution Technique.
• Jiraiya wandered Konoha, doubting the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy and wondering what purpose he should pursue.
• Tsunade trained in Sage Technique, worked in the Hokage Office, and learned about Konoha’s financial troubles, often falling asleep at her desk.
• The Third Hokage found Tsunade asleep, let her rest, and resolved to raise her into a leader worthy of Tobirama-sensei’s trust.
• In Konoha Year 26, Mimi, Chiri, Hitomi, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya turned seventeen as the world remained outwardly peaceful.
• Five years later, in Konoha Year 31, the group was twenty-two, and turbulent undercurrents were about to sweep across the world.

White Fang visited Mimi to have his berserk Living Ninja Prosthetic Arm adjusted and saw Uchiha Chiri test living Kunai. Mimi gave Chiri the specialized weapons, which Chiri liked, before taking White Fang away for his examination.

• White Fang headed to Mimi's laboratory because his Living Ninja Prosthetic Arm had gone berserk after a covert mission.
• White Fang observed how Ninja Cats had spread across the Shinobi World and suspected their mysterious company concealed something sinister.
• White Fang arrived at Mimi's testing ground, where Uchiha Chiri used living Kunai to overwhelm her younger brother Jubei.
• Mimi explained that the Kunai were specialized living weapons with many combat functions and offered to equip members of White Fang's Undead Squad.
• Chiri pointed out the Kunai's weight inconsistency, then called them a good gift and said she liked them.
• Mimi took White Fang with her for his examination.

Mimi brought White Fang to a transplant room to replace his bloodthirsty Ninja Prosthetic Arm with a newer model. The surgery began as Mimi restrained him and prepared to remove the old arm.

• Chiri asked whether her living Kunai produced waste, and Mimi explained how it worked and that it needed watering.
• Mimi led Chiri, White Fang, and Jubei through a biological passage to a transplant room filled with intimidating creatures called Autumn Tiger Elephant.
• White Fang lay on the experimental bed while Mimi prepared the room and restrained his limbs for surgery.
• Mimi examined White Fang's Ninja Prosthetic Arm and explained that it had gone berserk because it was starved and had an innate bloodlust.
• Mimi told White Fang that the arm's model was too wild and offered to replace it with a newer model without those proclivities, which he eagerly accepted.

Mimi replaced White Fang’s Ninja Prosthetic Arm with an improved version and explained its abilities and risks. White Fang reported a failed Land of Water mission against Snow Princess, and Mimi sent him back with new equipment for the Undead Squad.

• Mimi removed White Fang’s old Ninja Prosthetic Arm and connected a new one with improved transformations, a Sleeve Arrow, Shikotsumyaku, and a body-enhancing function.
• Mimi warned White Fang that overusing the arm’s enhancement could cause severe bodily damage, and he agreed to use it carefully.
• White Fang reported that Snow Princess had defeated his team’s mission in the Land of Water with powerful Water, Wind, and Ice Release; three shinobi were killed and two were missing.
• Mimi recognized Snow Princess as a Ryūchi Cave contractor and told White Fang to stop infiltrating the Land of Water and continue monitoring it instead.
• Mimi gave White Fang equipment for the Undead Squad, including a maggot-based health identification device that signaled injuries and toxins.

Mimi demonstrated skull-shaped helmets that gave Konoha ninja advanced night-raid vision, battlefield awareness, and communications. White Fang and Jubei tested the features and were left marveling at Mimi’s inventions as she hinted that the helmets had more capabilities.

• Mimi gave White Fang a skull-shaped helmet that let him see through walls and distinguish living things by their heat.
• White Fang discovered the helmet’s dynamic vision, which made movement appear slower and clearer.
• Mimi gave Jubei a helmet, and White Fang and Jubei tested linked vision and image recording with the Swarm Instant Replay System.
• Mimi demonstrated the helmet’s real-time battlefield map, which tracked allies, neutral parties, enemies, hazards, buildings, and facilities.
• Mimi explained that the helmets used the Slug’s encrypted communications method, and White Fang asked what else they could do.

Mimi showed White Fang several pieces of Autumn Tiger Elephant equipment, including a strobe marker, friend-or-foe identification blocks, restraint ties, and a safety rope for aerial transport. White Fang appreciated Mimi’s attention to practical battlefield details.

• Mimi explained that the Strobe Marker Indicator could mark targets and allies for the Zerg swarm without being visible to human eyes, then showed White Fang how to activate and throw it.
• White Fang tested the marker and understood that its flashes could distinguish allies from enemies during battle.
• Mimi gave White Fang Friend or Foe Identification Blocks that could be recognized under night vision and by the Zerg swarm.
• Mimi showed White Fang compact zip-tie handcuffs for restraining many prisoners.
• Mimi explained that the Bio-Steel Safety Rope could hang Autumn Tiger Elephant beneath flying insects for transport or rescue, and White Fang admired her thoughtfulness.

Mimi assessed how the shinobi villages were adapting to her Summer Red Soldier attacks and developing countermeasures, while she considered the limits of conventional weapons and the rapid evolution of shinobi warfare. Intelligence from across the nations suggested that each village was preparing for conflict, and Mimi sensed that the Ninja World War was near.

• Mimi equipped shinobi with auxiliary supplies, including Special Energy-Compressed Soldier Pills, but decided against giving them conventional battlefield weapons because individual shinobi prowess mattered more.
• Mimi observed that the other Great Nations had developed defenses against her Summer Red Soldier attacks, including insect poison, underground travel, and electric nets.
• Mimi discovered that the Earth Country had copied her aerial tactics with its Clay Small Bird Swarm, and she identified weaknesses in its command system and storage.
• Mimi noted that Danzo was obsessively guarding against insects while the Third Hokage remained unconcerned about her surveillance.
• Mimi received reports of a cannon project in the Land of Lightning, a strange talking puppet in the Wind Country, and new funding and recruitment in the Rain Country.
• Mimi sensed that the villages were preparing for a war that would determine the future of the Shinobi World.

Seven-year-old Minato impressed his class with his kunai skills and was sent to meet a prospective master. After Mimi tested his ability to evade her insects, she claimed him as her disciple and learned that his dream was to support the Hokage and help everyone be happy.

• Minato's teacher sent him to Training Ground 7, explaining that an adult wanted to take him as a disciple.
• Mimi formed a figure from Kikaichū and sent the swarm after Minato, who escaped through the woods with his Stealth Footwork Technique.
• Mimi praised Minato's technique but criticized his stamina, introduced herself as the Aburame Insect Princess, and declared herself his master.
• By the river, Mimi and Minato exchanged introductions, and Minato said he wanted a carefree life rather than becoming Hokage.
• Mimi called Minato's wish for everyone to be happy childish and said happiness was difficult without money, leaving Minato unsure about his new master.

Mimi gave Minato basic cultivation notes and summoned him a week later for a survival exercise in a radiation-damaged forest. She left him hungry and alone until nightfall, while he struggled to find food and survive.

• Mimi sent Minato away with cultivation notes, then focused on her experiments and worried that war was approaching.
• A week later, Mimi called Minato to a restricted forest and made him run for five hours to reach it.
• Mimi rejected Minato’s gentle smile, dismissed his questions, and ordered him to survive in the forest until nightfall without checking his training.
• Minato entered the forest hungry and found that he could neither hunt successfully nor locate edible food.
• Mimi watched Minato struggle and considered the hunger and hardship useful training.

Minato struggled through Mimi’s survival training, repeatedly collapsing from heatstroke and hunger while Insect Sister secretly cared for him. After he showed unexpected strength at school, the insects led him to Mimi’s home, where he met Chiri, who reacted with suspicion to the news that he was Insect Princess’s disciple.

• Minato collapsed during Mimi’s training, and Mimi called him weak and told him to train harder.
• Minato followed the insects into the forest for a survival exercise, collapsed again, and Insect Sister fed and treated him under Mimi’s instructions.
• Minato woke confused and returned home, where insects covered him overnight as Kikaichū died in large numbers.
• Minato went to school feeling refreshed and knocked down a classmate in combat class, convincing himself he was a genius.
• The insects led Minato to Mimi’s residence, where he introduced himself to Chiri as Insect Princess’s disciple.
• Chiri eyed Minato suspiciously, then called him cute while Minato wondered if she disliked him.

Namikaze Minato waited for his new master and met Uchiha Chiri and Hinata Hitomi, who gave him conflicting descriptions of Insect Princess. Hitomi’s illness and Minato’s uncertainty about being chosen surfaced before he left the conversation trying not to smile.

• Chiri offered Minato pastries and fruit juice while he waited for his master.
• Hitomi arrived, met Minato, and told him he could ask her for advice during training.
• Hitomi warned Minato that Insect Princess was frightening, while Chiri insisted she was gentle.
• Minato asked about his master’s strength and achievements, and Hitomi boasted about her own legendary feats.
• Hitomi coughed blood, then said she did not know why Insect Princess had chosen Minato.
• Minato admitted nothing aloud but felt uneasy about his sudden new place in someone’s life, then smiled at Hitomi and was scolded for it.

Minato asked Hitomi and Tsunade to teach him powerful techniques, but their drunken display of bizarre abilities left him wondering if he was surrounded by demons. The two women ended the chapter in a draw and glared at each other.

• Minato told Hitomi that Mimi's survival exercise had exhausted him without teaching him anything, and asked Hitomi to seek a powerful lesson for him.
• Tsunade returned with alcohol and food, met Minato, and offered to teach him taijutsu while Hitomi insisted he learn swordsmanship.
• Tsunade and Hitomi argued over which technique Minato should learn, and Tsunade showed him a gigantic chakra fist.
• Tsunade removed her own head to demonstrate her Undying Body, and Hitomi exposed and struck her bone to demonstrate her Indestructible Body.
• Chiri called their contest a draw, and Tsunade and Hitomi glared at each other while Minato wondered if he was in a demon's den.

Tsunade, Hitomi, and Chiri competed to teach Minato by showing off their techniques. Their demonstrations escalated into bizarre transformations, and Chiri finished by turning herself into a flock of blue butterflies.

• Tsunade and Hitomi pressured Minato to choose between them until Chiri offered to teach him Ninjutsu, and Minato accepted.
• Chiri proposed that each woman demonstrate a specialty and let Minato choose the winner, while Tsunade warned him to use good judgment.
• Hitomi demonstrated a Chakra Clone, and Chiri revealed a black clone of her own.
• Tsunade split into many small versions of herself before combining them into a giant, golden-furred Nine-Tails fox.
• Hitomi activated her Eight Gates Armored Form and flew, drawing Minato's admiration as she and Tsunade roared at each other.
• Chiri transformed into a swirling flock of blue butterflies, prompting Hitomi and Tsunade to call her cunning.

Tsunade, Hitomi, and Chiri competed to demonstrate their techniques, leaving Minato stunned by their abilities. After Tsunade showed off her blue-flame Fire Release and Hitomi unveiled her invisible poisonous fire, Chiri prepared to demonstrate a combination Fire Release.

• Chiri argued that her butterfly illusion counted as a Transformation Technique, and Minato’s silence let her claim the win.
• Tsunade demonstrated Sage Art: Fire Release: Super High-Density Scale Fire, producing ghostly blue flames that Chiri sealed away.
• Tsunade explained that she developed the technique using bone scale and insights from Shikkotsu Forest and the Slug Sage.
• Hitomi demonstrated Exploding Shatter Stream, an invisible fire-like technique that reduced a flower to ash and left her coughing.
• Chiri accepted Hitomi’s technique as Fire Release, then pulled out a Kunai to show her own combination Fire Release.

Chiri demonstrated her space-time ninjutsu to Minato and discovered that he could sense the spatial connection between marked kunai. After Mimi arrived, she told Minato to walk confidently beside her and warned him about the dangers of the future training.

• Chiri showed Minato how her Flying Thunder God Three Styles folded space, then challenged him to transfer a kunai using his senses.
• Minato eventually transferred the kunai to the courtyard wall, revealing an extraordinary sensitivity to space and earning Chiri's approval as a student.
• Tsunade and Hitomi abandoned the contest and went inside to celebrate, while Chiri greeted Mimi as she returned home.
• Mimi told Minato to eat well for the difficult training ahead and pushed him to walk with his head held high beside her.
• Minato promised to protect Mimi, but her warning about him and his future wife dying after having a child left him confused.

At dinner, Tsunade revealed that Mito wanted her to consider marriage, and the conversation exposed Hitomi’s own arranged marriage within her clan. Mimi promised to help Hitomi refuse, and Tsunade proposed an alliance against marriage, which Chiri accepted.

• Hitomi cooked dinner, and Tsunade announced that Mito had urged her to look for someone to marry.
• Tsunade said she did not like any men in the village and asked her friends for help avoiding marriage.
• Minato asked Tsunade why she did not want to marry, leaving her unable to answer before she snapped at him.
• Mimi noticed Hitomi’s drinking and learned that Hitomi’s clan had arranged for her to marry a man she did not know.
• Mimi told Hitomi to refuse the arrangement and promised she would not abandon her; Hitomi asked Mimi to take her away.
• Tsunade proposed that they form an alliance in which whoever married would be a puppy, and Chiri agreed.

Minato completed a month of survival training and learned that the Aburame insects had treated his injuries. Meanwhile, a Konoha spy in Kirigakure was killed after passing on intelligence that Kirigakure was preparing to attack the Whirlpool Country, and Mimi ended an experiment as the threat emerged.

• Mimi taught Minato sealing techniques, and his routine of school, lessons, and weekend survival training continued as he grew faster and stronger.
• After Minato endured the full survival course, Insect Sister told him he no longer needed to return; he thanked the Kikaichū that had treated him and buried their shells, keeping one.
• A long-term Konoha spy fled Kirigakure's pursuit squad, telling them it was too late before they killed him on the beach.
• A Ninja Eagle delivered the spy's encrypted intelligence to Konoha, where the Third Hokage learned Kirigakure was massing forces against the Whirlpool Country and sent a copy to Lady Mito.
• Mimi ordered the experiment terminated, and the chapter ended as she emerged to find the wind rising.

Mimi attended a Jonin meeting where the Third Hokage announced that Kirigakure was preparing to invade the Whirlpool Country and urged Konoha to help its ally. Danzo questioned the risks of sending troops, and the meeting turned toward whether Konoha should enter the war.

• Mimi arrived at the Jonin meeting and realized the Third Hokage had summoned the Uchiha clan head, Chiri, as well as other senior figures without telling her why.
• The Third Hokage announced that Kirigakure was massing forces to invade the Whirlpool Country.
• The Third Hokage argued that Konoha had a duty to help the Whirlpool Country, an important ally.
• Danzo asked how Konoha would defend itself against the Wind, Lightning, and Earth Three Countries if it sent troops.
• Other attendees echoed Danzo’s concern that aiding the Whirlpool Country could drag Konoha into war.