Chapter Summaries

Mimi began Tsunade’s special training by taking her to find Jiraiya as a training target. Tsunade caught Jiraiya peeping at the women’s bathhouse and attacked him, and Jiraiya began forming hand seals to escape.

• Mimi told Tsunade that her special training would begin now, and Mito urged Tsunade to treat the Nine-Tails kindly and eventually free it when its power was no longer needed.
• Mimi and Tsunade left the Senju residence to find Jiraiya, whom Mimi planned to use as a punching bag.
• Tsunade argued that Jiraiya was a dead last, but Mimi said he might be the strongest of their group and could use Sage Mode.
• Tsunade and Mimi found Jiraiya peeping into the women’s bathhouse, and Tsunade kicked him hard enough to send him flying.
• Jiraiya apologized to Tsunade, then began forming hand seals to flee as Tsunade charged at him.

Mimi gathered Orochimaru, Tsunade, Jiraiya, White Fang, Hitomi, and Chiri to train Tsunade and prepare them to stop the Nine-Tails if it rampaged. After confirming the Nine-Tails’ healing power, Tsunade began developing the Hundred Healings Technique using its chakra.

• Orochimaru arrived at the training ground last, and Mimi straightened his clothes and reminded him to take his medicine.
• Mimi told the group to spar with Tsunade for her special training and to stop the Nine-Tails if it rampaged.
• Tsunade stabbed her arm with a kunai, and her wound healed almost immediately through the Yang Nine-Tails’ chakra.
• Mimi explained that Tsunade should turn her passive healing into active healing, and Tsunade connected the ability to her plans for the Hundred Healings Technique.
• Mimi told Tsunade she could use the Nine-Tails’ abundant chakra instead of relying on the Yin Seal, exciting Tsunade and catching the Nine-Tails’ attention.

Tsunade used the Nine-Tails' Chakra to master a powerful healing technique and demonstrated a massive Chakra weapon, further establishing her strength. White Fang reacted to the display by leaning back, while the story ended before anyone tested Tsunade in battle.

• Tsunade cut off her arm and demonstrated Creation Rebirth, reattaching it with precise Medical Ninjutsu.
• Tsunade used the Yin Seal, filled with the Nine-Tails' Chakra, to regenerate a brand-new arm with Creation Rebirth: Hundred Healings Technique.
• Mimi declared Tsunade the strongest in the Shinobi World in Medical Ninjutsu and advised her to develop wide-area attacks.
• Tsunade enlarged her Super Strength Technique into giant fists, then transformed them into a massive Chakra Wolf Fang Mace.
• White Fang leaned back tactically as the others reacted to Tsunade's intimidating weapon.

Mimi taught Tsunade new ways to shape Nine-Tails Chakra, including a biomimetic running technique, then had her demonstrate the immense scale of her Multiple Shadow Clone Technique. The chapter ended with Mimi telling Tsunade that the technique suited her and that she should make good use of it.

• Tsunade expanded her spiked club with Nine-Tails Chakra, and she and Mimi named the technique Thunderclap Eight Trigrams.
• Mimi showed Tsunade how to shape Chakra into a springy, bird-inspired Biomimetic Exoskeleton and explained how animal abilities could inform techniques.
• Tsunade practiced the Precise Stealth Footwork Technique, while Mimi told Jiraiya to figure out what frogs could do for himself.
• Mimi asked Tsunade to use Multiple Shadow Clone with all her strength, and Tsunade filled the field with thousands of clones.
• Mimi told Tsunade that Multiple Shadow Clone was the technique best suited to her and urged her to use it well.

Mimi arranged special training to help Tsunade master the Nine Tails Chakra and made Jiraiya spar with her so she could witness Sage Mode. Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima and entered Sage Mode, but Tsunade launched a crushing first attack as the battle began.

• Mimi prohibited Tsunade from using Shadow Clones and explained that everyone had to stop her if the Nine Tails Chakra drove her berserk.
• When no one volunteered to spar, Mimi selected Jiraiya, who agreed to fight Tsunade after preparing a summoning technique.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, then used Sage Art: Twin Life Technique to enter Sage Mode.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya traded taunts as Tsunade's crimson chakra cloak and Jiraiya's Sage transformation took effect.
• At Mimi's signal, Tsunade used Stealth Footwork Technique to rush Jiraiya and bring her spiked club down with Ninjutsu: Super Strength: Thunderclap Eight Trigrams.

Jiraiya and the two toad sages fought Tsunade, but her Nine-Tails-enhanced strength overwhelmed their techniques. As Tsunade continued beating Jiraiya, Mimi sent Orochimaru to intervene, promising to turn the power on when they returned.

• Tsunade survived Jiraiya's Yellow Springs Swamp and Sage Art: Five Right Guards, then charged through the flames toward him.
• Sage Shima bound Tsunade with her tongue while Sage Fukasaku attacked with Toad Water Slash, but Tsunade used Jiraiya's spinning body to send the water blades wildly across the battlefield.
• Hitomi, Chiri, Orochimaru, and Mimi each avoided or blocked the stray water blades while Mimi challenged Orochimaru for refusing to help Jiraiya.
• Tsunade slammed Jiraiya into the ground, then pinned him down and punched him repeatedly as the toad sages watched.
• Mimi told Orochimaru to take his turn and promised to turn the power on when they got back, so Orochimaru reluctantly approached Tsunade.

Mimi watched Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya spar as Orochimaru used his modified snakes to restrain Tsunade. Tsunade escaped with a spiked Tailed Beast Cloak and prepared to fight Orochimaru, while Hitomi and Chiri remarked on the gathering of animal-themed fighters.

• Mimi reflected on how Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade were still kind and lively before the Second Ninja World War changed them.
• Orochimaru demonstrated his new techniques by attacking Tsunade with a Flame Bullet and summoning modified giant snakes that constricted her.
• Jiraiya escaped the snakes’ attack while Tsunade struggled to breathe and became trapped.
• Tsunade transformed her Tailed Beast Cloak into crimson spikes, pierced the snakes, and broke free.
• Tsunade faced Orochimaru with a spiked club as Hitomi and Chiri commented on the animal-themed fighters.

Tsunade’s battle with Jiraiya and Orochimaru stalled until the Nine-Tails’ influence drove her into a four-tailed transformation. Hitomi opened seven of the Eight Gates and blasted Tsunade through the forest with a series of sword strikes, while Chiri moved in to continue the assault.

• Tsunade suppressed Jiraiya and Orochimaru as they fought her in a rotating war of attrition.
• The Nine-Tails’ malice eroded Tsunade’s consciousness, bringing out four tails and filling her with killing intent.
• Mimi ordered Hitomi to use Quick Battle, and Hitomi opened seven of the Eight Gates before facing Tsunade.
• Hitomi countered Tsunade’s chakra claw with Super Secret Sword: Buzzard and followed with repeated slashes that drove Tsunade through the forest.
• Hitomi closed the Eight Gates and collapsed to recover, while Chiri advanced through the forest and began throwing wire-connected kunai.

Chiri and White Fang tried to contain Four Tails Tsunade, but her immense Chakra made their attacks ineffective and forced them to dodge. When Tsunade began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, Mimi stepped forward to face her while the others retreated.

• Chiri tried to seal Four Tails Tsunade with Bio-Steel wire, but the wire burned away on contact with her Chakra.
• White Fang joined Chiri, and they agreed to keep Tsunade distracted while avoiding close combat.
• Four Tails Tsunade attacked with enormous Chakra claws, but Chiri and White Fang dodged her relentless pursuit.
• Tsunade began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, and Chiri warned White Fang to retreat rather than try to stop it directly.
• Mimi walked toward Tsunade and told Chiri and White Fang to stay back; Chiri and White Fang withdrew.

Mimi trapped Four Tails Tsunade in a layered, rotating Barrier and stopped the Nine Tails Chakra from sustaining her transformation. After Tsunade was left unconscious but healing, Jiraiya and Orochimaru argued about how dangerous Mimi was.

• Four Tails Tsunade prepared to fire a Tailed Beast Ball at Mimi, who raised her hands and activated Winter Storm Chariot Dance: Multiple Barriers.
• Mimi's rotating Barriers deflected and weakened Four Tails Tsunade's blast until it subsided, then froze into a massive ice-crystal Barrier.
• Mimi activated the seal within Tsunade, cutting off the Nine Tails Chakra, and waited until Tsunade was unconscious and healing before carrying her from the pit.
• Chiri returned to Hitomi while Jiraiya praised Mimi and Orochimaru pointed out the advantages she had gained through preparation and Tsunade's immobility.
• Jiraiya conceded that facing Mimi would be dangerous, and Orochimaru walked away determined to take his medicine every day.

Mimi explained how Tsunade could safely use Nine-Tails Chakra after her first training session and ordered Jiraiya and Orochimaru to help her practice. She then began Tsunade’s second round of training, a brutal physical regimen called Bone Method.

• Tsunade woke after being frozen and complained that Mimi had nearly frozen her to death.
• Mimi told Tsunade to remember the sensation she felt before losing consciousness as a warning of her limit.
• Mimi assigned Jiraiya and Orochimaru to help Tsunade adapt to using Nine-Tails Chakra and scheduled special training once a week.
• Mimi explained that physical hardship could strengthen Tsunade’s mental will and introduced Bone Method.
• Tsunade worried that Mimi would make her soak in a cesspit, but Mimi told Jiraiya and Orochimaru to handle the training and started the second round.

Two-year-old Namikaze Minato tried to join a group of children playing in a stream and declared that he would become Hokage. After Inuzuka Mao rescued him from drowning and invited him to play, Minato jumped back into the water, leaving Mao to rescue him again.

• Namikaze Minato approached the children playing in the woods and asked to join them.
• Inuzuka Mao challenged Minato to a fight over who would become Hokage, but Minato sank in the stream because he could not swim.
• Inuzuka Mao rescued Minato, who refused to become Mao’s underling and started to leave.
• Inuzuka Mao relented and invited Minato to play, so Minato stripped and jumped into the deep water.
• Inuzuka Mao rescued Minato again, then noticed that someone had urinated in the stream and ordered the children ashore.

Insect Sister spent the day playing with dogs and gathering nectar for Mimi, eager for the head-patting reward she would receive at home. She returned at sunset and shared the nectar with Mimi, while Hitomi watched enviously.

• Insect Sister fought a pack of Inuzuka dogs in a playful battle, then flew away after knocking them dizzy.
• Insect Sister gently licked nectar from flowers and stored some in a Bio-Steel Plastic bottle for Mimi.
• Insect Sister waited for sunset, then flew home as Mimi returned with Hitomi.
• Mimi patted Insect Sister's head and tasted the nectar before feeding the rest to her.
• Hitomi asked for nectar, but Insect Sister glared at her while Mimi playfully hit Hitomi with a cushion.

Tsunade endured grueling physical training and then pushed through Shadow Clone exercises that repeatedly left her unconscious. Mimi began a new confinement exercise, sealing Tsunade inside a dark cave with only one meal a day planned.

• Tsunade dragged a huge boulder through the woods while Jiraiya accompanied her, then completed the day's exercises despite her exhaustion.
• Mimi had Tsunade create one thousand Shadow Clones to repeat the physical exercises and temper her will through the accumulated fatigue.
• Tsunade repeatedly collapsed as her clones disappeared, then regained consciousness and began another round without stopping.
• Jiraiya wondered why Tsunade had changed, while Mimi said she had simply grown up.
• Mimi began confinement training, warned Tsunade that she would receive one meal a day, and sealed her inside a narrow cave.

Tsunade endured a dark, cramped confinement exercise until fear overwhelmed her and she broke out, collapsing into Mimi’s arms. Mimi comforted her while considering how to expand the Eve Swarm underground and into underwater environments.

• Tsunade grew increasingly anxious in the dark confinement room, calling for Mimi, demanding to pee, and singing until her voice went hoarse.
• Mimi observed that Goliath Dung Beetles had begun working alongside the Eve Swarm, improving transport efficiency and the beetles’ larvae survival rate.
• Mimi considered bringing the beetles under her control and planned to develop larger digging insects and geothermal energy use to expand the Eve Swarm underground.
• Tsunade broke out of the Confinement Room at night, ran to Mimi, and sobbed in her arms as Mimi comforted her.

Mimi ended Tsunade’s grueling mental training after she failed to meet the passing mark, then took her to bathe and eat. After Tsunade drank herself unconscious at an izakaya, Mimi hauled her through the deserted streets on a handcart.

• Mimi told Tsunade she had lasted thirteen hours in the cave, ended the day’s training, and led her away to rest.
• Mimi kicked Tsunade into a cold stream to make her bathe, and Tsunade retaliated by splashing Mimi with water before washing herself.
• Mimi and Tsunade went to an izakaya, where Tsunade drank heavily while Mimi stuck to tea.
• Tsunade passed out beneath the table, and Mimi carried her out as she sobbed and babbled in her sleepiness.
• When Tsunade clung to Mimi with her Monster Strength, Mimi pried her off, found a handcart, and hauled her home.

Hanzo tried to strengthen the Rain Country ahead of war by creating an elite poison-based assassination unit and planning to seize the Seven-Tails, but he knew his nation could not match the great powers. Sunagakure’s Chiyo wounded him in battle, then the Earth Country’s Explosion Corps ravaged the village before withdrawing, leaving Hanzo to demand more power from Uchiha Madara.

• Hanzo began forming the Pufferfish Demon Child by implanting Poison Sacs into village boys, while considering a secret attack on Takigakure to capture the Seven-Tails Chomei.
• Hanzo detected intruders and defeated four attackers, discovering they were corpse puppets controlled by Chiyo of Sunagakure.
• Hanzo fought Chiyo in the rain, but she escaped after wounding him with poison, and he survived only because of the power Madara had given him.
• The Earth Country’s Explosion Corps attacked from the sky, damaged the village, and withdrew after gathering intelligence, while Hanzo could not stop them.
• Hanzo asked Madara for more power, but Madara told him to find a way to grow stronger himself.

Chiri confronted Uchiha Kama and his fellow young militants, then beat them to discourage their rowdy behavior in the village. Kama ordered the group to keep the incident secret, but he was left furious and wondering how he could ever surpass her.

• Chiri watched Uchiha Kama and the young militants swagger through Konoha, then decided to confront them and redirect the clan’s resentment toward herself.
• Chiri led Kama and his companions into the woods and asked them to behave more respectfully in the village, but Kama and the others mocked her and attacked.
• Chiri used Medical Ninjutsu: Ranshinshō to incapacitate Kama and defeat the rest of the youths.
• Chiri warned Kama to behave and left under Genjutsu, preparing for the trouble her actions might cause within the clan.
• Kama ordered the others to keep the beating secret, then cursed Chiri and wondered how he could surpass her.

Mimi led Chiri, Hitomi, and White Fang on an open-ended intelligence mission, using the trip to investigate the Shinobi World and visit the Land of Wind. In the River Country, White Fang left the inn to investigate, and a mature woman wearing a Sunagakure shinobi outfit arrived.

• Chiri wondered why the Militant faction had not reacted after Kagami was beaten before an Anbu mission interrupted her thoughts.
• White Fang explained the vague mission, and Mimi set the team’s objectives and chose the Land of Wind as their first destination.
• The team reached the River Country that night, where White Fang left the inn to investigate the place.
• Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi discussed the River Country’s Red-Light District and suspected White Fang had gone to meet someone he knew.
• A mature woman wearing a Sunagakure shinobi outfit entered the inn and noticed Mimi and the others.

Mimi, Chiri, and Hitomi clashed with Chiyo, a formidable Sunagakure ninja who fought through a humanoid puppet before escaping. Chiyo hurried back toward Sunagakure to prepare an antidote for Hanzo’s poison and consider Konoha’s intentions.

• Chiyo attacked Mimi’s group at the inn, and Chiri and Hitomi countered her with their swords.
• Chiyo revealed that she was using a humanoid wooden puppet, which Mimi’s Genjutsu disabled.
• Mimi chose not to pursue Chiyo, and the group left the inn as Chiyo watched from above before fleeing.
• Chiyo reflected on Hanzo’s threat, her failed poison, and the danger Konoha’s stance posed to Sunagakure.
• Chiyo used Chakra threads to control her weakened body and rushed toward Sunagakure to prepare an antidote.