Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze followed Jiraiya on a mission and used a new Earth Release technique to help local farmers, triggering a system that rewarded him with increased chakra for inspiring agricultural change. The system left him eager to test how far reformation could strengthen him, while Jiraiya continued his shameless bathhouse peeping.

• Minato Namikaze found Jiraiya peeping into a women's bathhouse and stood watch while reminding him to return to the village.
• Jiraiya declared Minato the Child of Prophecy and said he expected him to transform the Ninja World.
• Minato revealed that he had developed Earth Release: Overclocked Seismic Fracturing, One-Day Thousand-Acre Plowing, First Form to help local farmers.
• The system announced that Minato's work had inspired Guangxia to pursue agricultural innovation and awarded Minato 10 units of chakra, raising his total from 32 to 42.
• Jiraiya advised Minato to practice the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, and Minato suddenly vanished, moving faster than before.

Minato Namikaze helped Guangxia with spring farming and taught him to refine chakra and use Earth Release for tilling. After Guangxia mastered the technique, Minato gained a surge of chakra that let him escape Tsunade with his teammates, while Jiraiya mistakenly credited him for aiding his peeping.

• Minato Namikaze found Guangxia and offered to guide him through farming, then used Earth Release to till fields and teach him about seasonal work.
• Minato offered to teach Guangxia ninjutsu if he could refine chakra within three days, and Guangxia eagerly accepted.
• Akimichi Jirokuma and Haneina arrived and watched Minato till fields while remarking on his strange habits.
• Five nights later, Tsunade caught Jiraiya peeping at the Women's Bathhouse and chased him and his disciples after smashing through the walls.
• Guangxia mastered Minato's Earth Release tilling ninjutsu, earning Minato a chakra reward that nearly doubled his reserves.
• Minato carried Akimichi Jirokuma and Haneina away from Tsunade at tremendous speed, and Jiraiya praised him for supposedly helping with his peeping.

Minato persuaded Jiraiya to return to Tsunade and confess that he had waited for her, hoping to change their relationship and earn Power of Reformation. Tsunade beat Jiraiya and took his wallet, while Minato gained one unit of chakra; Jiraiya escaped with a broken chest as Tsunade pursued him.

• Minato urged Jiraiya to apologize to Tsunade and claim he had waited for her, and Haneina tentatively supported the advice.
• Jiraiya used the Transformation Technique to approach Tsunade at a tavern and told her he had come to Nuanhe Town early to see her.
• Tsunade took Jiraiya's wallet to cover the tavern's damages, then punched him through the window and chased after him.
• Minato received one unit of chakra when Tsunade's anger toward Jiraiya eased slightly, leaving him with 96 units.
• Haneina treated Jiraiya's fractured chest, and Minato helped carry him away as Tsunade landed behind them.

Minato Namikaze earned money by using Earth Release to till farmers’ fields as he traveled with Jiraiya, Akimichi Jirokuma, and Haneina. The Reformation System gradually increased Minato’s chakra, and he returned to Konoha Village determined to gain strength and find people who could reform the ninja world.

• Jiraiya discovered that Minato had given away his money, Akimichi Jirokuma had spent his on potato chips, and Haneina had kept hers, while Jiraiya had lent his money to Tsunade.
• Minato advertised affordable field-tilling services outside a town, and Jiraiya, Akimichi Jirokuma, and Haneina helped attract farmers.
• Minato used a powerful, wide-ranging Earth Release to till fields rapidly, earning 34,000 ryo in one morning and impressing Jiraiya with his chakra reserves.
• The Reformation System rewarded Minato with chakra after his work influenced a farmer’s son, and Minato’s chakra reserve eventually reached 101 units.
• Minato reached Konoha Village and regretted losing the chance to travel freely, resolving to gain strength and cultivate people who could reform the world.

Jiraiya defended the delay in completing his mission by explaining that he had encountered Tsunade, then praised Minato Namikaze's ninjutsu talent to Hiruzen Sarutobi. Minato improvised a flashy variation of Hiruzen's Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, impressing Hiruzen and leaving Minato relieved that he had passed the test.

• Jiraiya told Hiruzen Sarutobi that his mission had taken longer because he had repeatedly run into Tsunade, and Hiruzen stopped him from describing the encounters in front of his students.
• Jiraiya claimed that Minato Namikaze had mastered Hiruzen's Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, and Hiruzen took the group to the courtyard to see Minato demonstrate it.
• Minato used the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique while accidentally cloning drifting leaves, concealing the shuriken among a swirling mass of leaves.
• Hiruzen blocked Minato's attack with Water Formation Wall, while Jiraiya praised Minato for improving the technique.
• Hiruzen silently approved of Minato, and Minato felt relieved that he had talked his way through the demonstration.

Minato Namikaze considered how to gain more Power of Reformation while living in Konoha, and began looking for ways to apply ninjutsu to farming. After reconnecting with Kushina Uzumaki, he planned to develop practical agricultural techniques with her and Uchiha Mikoto.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to let Minato read the Book of Sealing once he became a jonin, while Jiraiya planned to teach him the Mount Myōboku Summoning Technique.
• Minato Namikaze met Hatake Sakumo and his son Hatake Kakashi, and praised Sakumo's goal of raising Kakashi to protect Konoha.
• Minato returned home and found Kushina Uzumaki waiting after she had cleaned his house and forgotten to close the window.
• Minato and Kushina discussed his travels, and Minato decided that changing Kushina's fate would require gaining more Power of Reformation.
• Minato asked Kushina to help him develop practical ninjutsu, and she suggested involving her friend Uchiha Mikoto, whose chakra nature was fire.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Jiraiya about refusing missions and Minato Namikaze allegedly leaking ninjutsu, then assigned Orochimaru to investigate. The chapter ended with Hiruzen wondering whether Hatake Sakumo, a powerful Commoner Ninja, should become the Fourth Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Jiraiya about refusing C-Rank missions, and Jiraiya explained why he had not been training his disciples through them.
• Hiruzen told Jiraiya that Minato Namikaze had been reported for teaching ninjutsu to outsiders, and Jiraiya agreed to speak with Minato.
• Hiruzen said Minato's actions required a formal investigation because clan leaders might see them as a political shift.
• Orochimaru arrived, and Hiruzen assigned him to investigate Minato's alleged ninjutsu leak.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru left the Hokage Office after suggesting the investigation could be handled lightly, and Hiruzen wondered whether Hatake Sakumo should become the Fourth Hokage.

Guangxia and two companions arrived to learn agricultural ninjutsu from Minato Namikaze, but Orochimaru intervened to investigate Minato’s lessons and explain the political restrictions around teaching ninjutsu. Minato was left trying to defend his actions after Orochimaru bluntly described the Sarutobi Clan’s ties to Jiraiya and himself.

• Guangxia and his companions went to Minato Namikaze’s farmland for their final lesson in agricultural ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru attacked Guangxia with a snake, but Minato Namikaze seized it before it could bite him.
• Kushina Uzumaki and Jiraiya arrived and questioned Orochimaru, who said he was investigating Minato on Hiruzen Sarutobi’s orders.
• Orochimaru explained that the major ninja clans had long resisted teaching ninjutsu to commoners and suspected Minato’s lessons were a test of their stance.
• Kushina Uzumaki asked whether Orochimaru and Jiraiya were vassals of the Sarutobi Clan, and Orochimaru said they were nominally so until the clan was exterminated.
• Minato Namikaze tried to change the subject and asked Orochimaru to let him explain himself.

Minato Namikaze demonstrated his agricultural ninjutsu to Orochimaru and Konoha’s clan leaders, but they dismissed the techniques as useless. The farmers remained determined to promote agricultural ninjutsu, while Minato gained chakra from the system and Jiraiya proposed taking the squad on a difficult mission.

• Minato Namikaze had Guangxia and two other farmers demonstrate their earth- and water-based agricultural ninjutsu before Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, and the clan leaders.
• Orochimaru called the techniques garbage and ended the investigation, while the Nara Clan head agreed that the matter was not worth attention.
• Guangxia resolved to promote agricultural ninjutsu, and Minato Namikaze received a 20-unit chakra reward from the system.
• Hatake Sakumo praised Minato Namikaze’s Body Flicker Technique talent and offered to discuss its techniques with him.
• Jiraiya said he would find the squad an extremely difficult mission outside the village, then joked with Minato Namikaze about spying on female ninja.

Minato comforted Guangxia after Jiraiya’s criticism and gave him a scroll of agricultural ninjutsu before Guangxia and his companions left Konoha. At the desolate Senju Clan Grounds, Minato learned how the Senju Clan had been devastated and was being pressured to sell its vacant homes, then decided to change the clan’s fate and asked Kushina to take him to Mikoto.

• Minato encouraged Guangxia, gave him an agricultural ninjutsu scroll, and promised to provide funding when he could.
• Minato and Kushina discussed Jiraiya’s reputation and strange habits as he walked her home.
• Kushina told Minato that the Senju Clan had lost most of its members while helping the Uzumaki Clan during its destruction.
• Minato used Earth Release to turn over the weeds along the path into the Senju Clan Grounds.
• Senju Takeoto told Kushina that Tsunade had agreed to sell some Senju houses after the Third Hokage urged her to do so.
• Minato resolved to change the Senju Clan’s fate and asked Kushina to take him to Mikoto.

Minato brought Kushina to the Uchiha compound to persuade Fugaku that the village’s pressure on the weakened Senju Clan threatened the Uchiha Clan as well. Fugaku asked Minato to explain his warning in detail.

• Mikoto fetched Fugaku after Minato and Kushina arrived at the Uchiha compound entrance.
• Minato told Fugaku that the village intended to make the Senju Clan sell some of its land and properties.
• Fugaku described the Uchiha Clan’s divided views on the Senju Clan’s decline, while Kushina grew distressed over the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction and the lack of aid from Konoha.
• Minato took Kushina’s hand to calm her, then argued that the Senju and Uchiha were like lips and teeth and that the Senju Clan’s crisis endangered the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku took Minato’s warning seriously and asked him to explain further.

Minato urged Fugaku to help the Senju Clan, arguing that reconciliation between the Senju and Uchiha was Konoha’s founding legal foundation and that the Uchiha could face similar dangers if the Senju fell. Fugaku persuaded his father that the clans should cooperate, and Uchiha Ishijima decided to seek Tsunade’s view.

• Minato warned Fugaku that the Senju Clan’s destruction could leave the Uchiha exposed, and Fugaku questioned whether the Third Hokage’s Will of Fire was becoming Konoha’s new foundation.
• Fugaku objected that the Senju had suppressed the Uchiha and that his uncle Uchiha Kagami had died under unclear circumstances; Minato left the choice of reconciliation to him.
• Minato returned home, and the system rewarded him with 5 units of chakra because the Senju and Uchiha had shown signs of reconciliation, raising his total to 127 units.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Ishijima that the Uchiha should help the Senju rather than take advantage of their weakness, explaining that Minato had given him the argument.
• Uchiha Ishijima decided to find Tsunade the next day and determine whether the Senju would cooperate.

Jiraiya accepted a mission to travel with Uchiha Ishijima to the Empty District and then taught Minato Namikaze the Mount Myōboku Summoning Technique. Minato completed the contract and summoned Gamabunta, who arrived in Konoha and wondered why Jiraiya had called him.

• Uchiha Ishijima posted a C-Rank mission to accompany and protect him on his trip to the Empty District, and Jiraiya accepted it.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi heard that Jiraiya was leaving with Uchiha Ishijima, considered the Uchiha Clan's possible motives, and sent an ANBU to deliver a letter to Tsunade.
• Jiraiya told Minato Namikaze that he would teach him ninjutsu and brought him to the training ground to learn the Mount Myōboku Summoning Technique.
• Minato signed the Mount Myōboku Toad Clan's contract, performed the hand seals, and summoned Gamabunta with his chakra.
• Gamabunta looked around Konoha, asked whether Jiraiya had gotten into trouble, and wondered who was standing on Jiraiya's head.

Minato Namikaze summoned the adult Gamabunta, who reported the Child of Prophecy to the Great Toad Sage and heard a vague prophecy of upheaval. Back in Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Jiraiya over his choices, but ultimately gave up on grooming him for leadership.

• Minato Namikaze summoned Gamabunta, who learned that Jiraiya had chosen him as the Child of Prophecy.
• Gamabunta returned to Mount Myōboku and told the Great Toad Sage and Sages Fukasaku and Shima about Minato; the Great Toad Sage predicted drastic changes across Konoha, the Land of Fire, and the ninja world.
• Jiraiya went to the Women's Bathhouse, where Hiruzen Sarutobi found him peeping and fought him briefly.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi criticized Jiraiya for accepting Uchiha Ishijima's mission and teaching Minato the Summoning Technique inside the village.
• Jiraiya defended his decisions, and Hiruzen Sarutobi abandoned the idea of grooming him for the village's upper ranks.

Jiraiya escorted Uchiha Ishijima, Fugaku Uchiha, and their companions toward the Empty District, with the Uchiha covering his expenses along the way. In Tanzaku Street, the group found Tsunade gambling, and Jiraiya offered to have the Uchiha pay her expenses.

• Jiraiya joined Uchiha Ishijima, Fugaku Uchiha, and two Uchiha jonin at Konoha's gates, then escorted the group out of the village.
• Uchiha Ishijima treated Jiraiya to entertainment venues along their journey while Fugaku Uchiha arranged respectable lodging for the others.
• The group arrived in Tanzaku Street, where Jiraiya eagerly admired the swimsuit-clad women and Minato Namikaze recognized the famous location.
• A black crow landed briefly on Fugaku Uchiha's shoulder, after which Uchiha Ishijima suggested that the group visit a casino.
• Minato Namikaze spotted Tsunade gambling, and Jiraiya announced that the Uchiha would cover all her expenses that day.

Minato Namikaze explained to Tsunade that the village’s pressure to make the Senju Clan sell its properties could hasten the clan’s decline, and said he had sought out the Uchiha Clan to help Kushina. The chapter ended with Tsunade asking what the Uchiha Clan intended to do.

• Tsunade lost two million ryo gambling, and Uchiha Ishijima paid the debt with money brought by an Uchiha jonin.
• Tsunade left the casino and joined the others at the inn, where she demanded to know why they had sought her out.
• Tsunade cleared the room of everyone except Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Ishijima, and Fugaku Uchiha.
• Minato Namikaze told Tsunade that the village wanted the Senju Clan to sell properties and warned that this could accelerate the clan’s decline.
• Minato Namikaze said he had approached Fugaku Uchiha because he could not bear to see Kushina hurt, then invited the Uchiha Clan to explain its plans.
• Tsunade asked Uchiha Ishijima and Fugaku Uchiha what the matter had to do with their clan.

Uchiha Ishijima persuaded Tsunade to reconcile the Senju and Uchiha clans and cooperate against Konoha’s rising clans. After Tsunade agreed, Minato’s system confirmed that the clans’ extermination crises had eased, but Jiraiya sensed someone spying on their meeting.

• Uchiha Ishijima explained to Tsunade that the Senju and Uchiha clans depended on each other and should reconcile against the influence of Konoha’s rising clans.
• Tsunade asked Ishijima for a concrete plan and insisted the Senju Clan would not dishonor its predecessors.
• Ishijima proposed that the Uchiha Clan secure leases on Senju properties, support Senju Takeoto at the Jonin Meeting, and seek Senju backing for Uchiha control of the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Tsunade accepted the proposal and said she would write to Takeoto, while leaving future minor matters to him.
• Minato’s system awarded him five chakra units after confirming the clans’ reconciliation had eased their extermination crises.
• Jiraiya criticized Hiruzen, then sensed someone watching from the roof, and Minato realized their meeting had been secretly monitored.

Minato and the others chased three masked ninjas spying on Tsunade’s meeting, but the spies killed themselves with Exploding Tags before they could be questioned. After returning to the inn, Tsunade called Minato over to talk because he was clever and Kushina’s boyfriend.

• Jiraiya and Minato joined Uchiha Ishijima and Fugaku in pursuing the masked spies, while Tsunade told Akimichi Jirokuma and Haneina to stay behind.
• Uchiha Ishijima confronted one spy, while the other two attacked Jiraiya and Minato’s group; one spy tried to take Minato hostage.
• Fugaku’s Great Fireball Technique and the spy’s Water Release filled the forest with steam, and Minato summoned Toad Hiro to stop an enemy from approaching underground.
• The three spies detonated Exploding Tags strapped to their bodies, killing themselves and leaving no useful intelligence behind.
• Minato suspected the squad had been monitoring Tsunade, and Jiraiya told the others to share his guess with her.
• Back at the inn, Tsunade summoned Minato to talk because he was clever and dating Kushina.

Tsunade revealed that Kushina was tied to the missing Uzumaki Clan's Book of Sealing and asked Minato to protect her, while Jiraiya kept her secret as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from him. The chapter ended with Minato describing Jiraiya as secretly pessimistic, leaving both Jiraiya and Tsunade stunned.

• Jiraiya stopped Tsunade from revealing Kushina's Nine-Tails secret to Minato and urged her to focus on who had been spying on her.
• Tsunade asked Minato how close he was to Kushina, and he said she was his best friend and girlfriend and vowed to protect her secrets.
• Tsunade explained that the Uzumaki Clan had been slaughtered for its sealing techniques and that its missing Book of Sealing might be wrongly believed to be with her or Kushina.
• Minato promised to protect Kushina, especially if she ever left the village, and Tsunade said she felt reassured.
• Tsunade asked Minato what he thought of Jiraiya, and Minato called his teacher secretly pessimistic, surprising Jiraiya and Tsunade.

Minato challenged Jiraiya’s faith in prophecy, arguing that anyone who strives to change the ninja world can be the Child of Prophecy. The next morning, Tsunade collected three million ryo from Uchiha Ishijima before leaving, while Jiraiya set off with Fugaku toward the Empty District.

• Minato called Jiraiya a pessimist because he relied on Mount Myōboku’s prophecy, and argued that change came from the efforts of many people rather than one chosen person.
• Jiraiya accepted that Minato might be right, while Tsunade asked Minato to describe Orochimaru, whom Minato called an optimist focused on his research.
• Uchiha Ishijima prepared to return to Konoha, but Tsunade demanded an advance on the Senju Clan lease and took all three million ryo he had brought.
• Jiraiya asked Ishijima for an advance on his mission payment, but Minato hurriedly stopped him and led the group toward the Empty District.
• Ishijima sent Fugaku with Jiraiya’s team, hoping Fugaku would build ties with Jiraiya and Minato.