Chapter Summaries

Minato traded He Yuyi’s corpse with Orochimaru for research scrolls, then focused on developing his chakra natures and improving the Rasengan. He created a Wind Release-powered kunai technique and, feeling uneasy about the village’s secretive higher-ups, prepared to investigate their plans.

• Minato visited Orochimaru’s laboratory and traded He Yuyi’s corpse for scrolls on chakra nature development and Bloodline Ninja dissections.
• Orochimaru explained how bodily mutations could produce Kekkei Genkai, while Minato revealed his interest in Lava Release: Limestone Congealing for building roads.
• Three days later, Minato learned that his mission against more than a hundred Cloud ninja had been rated A-rank, and Nara Shikaku offered no explanation.
• Minato trained to develop Lightning nature and transform the Rasengan, while the village’s higher-ups continued to act secretly.
• After a week, Minato developed the Wind Release Kunai: Detonation Overload Superpressure Spiral Propulsion Turbo Engine Boost Cannon, which he shortened to Turbocharged Kunai Cannon.
• Minato tested the technique’s force and speed, then looked toward Hokage Rock and prepared to investigate what the village higher-ups were planning.

Minato learned that rumors blamed him for casualties and thefts in the Land of Waves, and he realized the village’s higher-ups were using them to pressure him. Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo discussed managing the rumors until Minato submitted and could be drawn into ANBU.

• Minato noticed villagers pointing at him and whispering, then learned from Great Axe that rumors accused him of stealing a ship and a Summoning Beast and causing heavy Konoha casualties in the Land of Waves.
• Great Axe told Minato that the Land of Lightning daimyo’s anger had led the Cloud Hidden Village and Mist Hidden Village to launch a surprise attack on the Land of Waves.
• Minato considered how village orders and rumors had been used against the Uchiha Clan, then decided the rumors could harm his reputation but not his foundation outside Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shimura Danzo to control the rumors and described a plan to make Minato submit before clearing his name and bringing him into ANBU.
• Shimura Danzo argued that Minato’s actions threatened the village and left the Hokage Office without stating whether he agreed to Hiruzen’s plan.

Minato faced escalating rumors blaming him for theft and shinobi deaths, but he stayed confident in his reforms and continued making Battery Talismans. Jiraiya returned just as the harassment reached his home, and Minato prepared to confront the people behind it.

• Minato completed a Battery Talisman using his newly developed Lightning-nature chakra and went to Ichiraku Ramen with Kushina, where Teuchi warned him about rumors targeting him.
• Hatake Sakumo urged Minato to contact Jiraiya or Tsunade as the turmoil worsened, while Kushina offered to ask Tsunade to return.
• A grieving child accused Minato of causing his father’s death and threw a persimmon at him as the gathered crowd turned against him; Aburame Ryūma watched and planned to intensify the rumors for Danzo.
• Minato declined the Uchiha Clan’s offer to investigate the rumor-spreaders and stayed home drawing Battery Talismans, receiving system rewards for reforms by Summer Cicada and Nara Shikaku.
• Jiraiya caught a persimmon thrown at Minato’s window and entered the house, and Minato welcomed him as they prepared to confront their enemies.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha and took Minato away, publicly backing his disciple against the rumors and village leadership. At Dadu Port, Minato used the Flying Thunder God to bring them to the eastern edge of the Land of Fire, near the Land of Waves.

• Nara Shikaku told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Jiraiya had returned and was leaving Konoha with Minato, showing the village his support for his disciple.
• Danzo urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to stop Jiraiya, but Hiruzen refused and let them leave.
• Jiraiya and Minato walked through Konoha as ninja greeted Jiraiya and recognized his support for Minato.
• At the village gate, Jiraiya told Minato he no longer respected the Hokage Building's higher-ups and promised to help him before the next Ninja World War.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God to transport himself and Jiraiya to Dadu Port, near the Land of Waves.

Minato and Jiraiya confronted Hiruma’s delegation in the Land of Waves, where Minato used Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder to redirect the Six-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball. Hiruma erupted with six tails, and Minato prepared for the Six-Tails to emerge further.

• Jiraiya recognized the Flying Thunder God Technique, then traveled with Minato to the Land of Waves to prevent Konoha ninja deaths.
• Minato and Jiraiya encountered Hiruma’s Mist Hidden Village delegation, which planned to divide the Land of Waves’ mission quota with the Cloud Hidden Village.
• Minato attacked Hiruma with Turbocharged Kunai Cannons and tried to mark him with a Flying Thunder God formula, but the Six-Tails’ chakra tails knocked the kunai away.
• The Six-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Ball, and Minato redirected it through Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder, destroying Hiruma’s fleeing guards.
• Hiruma erupted with a sixth tail as Minato watched, expecting the Six-Tails to emerge further.

Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya confronted Cloud Hidden Village advisor Dodai after Jiraiya helped kill Mist Hidden Village advisor Hiruma. Dodai died, and Minato returned with the corpses to reclaim Konoha's share of the Land of Waves missions while Jiraiya departed with money and a Flying Thunder God Kunai.

• Information-gathering ninja found evidence that Hiruma and the Six-Tails Saiken had likely died, and the news reached Dodai's Cloud Hidden Village team.
• Minato ambushed Dodai's group, killing the guards and confronting Dodai with Flying Thunder God.
• Jiraiya arrived and joined Minato, declaring that they would kill Dodai despite the risk of war between Konoha and Cloud Hidden Village.
• Dodai fought Minato and Jiraiya but was killed after his Lava Release: Rubber Ball was cut apart and Minato slit his throat.
• Jiraiya told Minato to take Dodai's and Hiruma's corpses back to Konoha to intimidate the advisors and reclaim Konoha's share of the Land of Waves missions.
• Jiraiya accepted ten million ryo and a Flying Thunder God Kunai from Minato, then left.

Minato and Jiraiya defeated the Six-Tails Jinchuriki Hiruma with help from the Mount Myōboku sages and toads, then Minato used the Contract Seal to free the Six-Tails. With the Mist Hidden Village's delegation wiped out, Jiraiya proposed going after the Cloud Hidden Village's delegation next.

• Minato evaded the Six-Tails Jinchuriki's attacks until Jiraiya arrived and interrupted his attempt to form a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Minato and Jiraiya entered Sage Mode, summoned Boli G Lang, and forced the Six-Tails to reveal its true form, Saiken.
• Minato, Jiraiya, and the sages used Sage Art: Goemon to overpower Saiken's Corrosive Mist, while Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro pinned the beast down.
• Minato and Jiraiya struck Saiken with giant Rasengan, exposing Hiruma, and Minato used the Contract Seal to free the Six-Tails before rescuing Hiruma from the acid.
• The Mist Hidden Village delegation was wiped out, and Jiraiya suggested that he and Minato seek out the Cloud Hidden Village delegation.

Minato returned to Konoha after he and Jiraiya killed the Six-Tails Jinchuriki and Cloud advisor Dodai, reclaiming the Land of Waves mission share. He presented their corpses to the Third Hokage and advisors, making clear that even powerful village officials were vulnerable to the Double Sages.

• Mist Hidden Village learned that Jiraiya and Minato had killed the Six-Tails and focused on resealing it after it revived.
• The Third Lightning Kage called for war against Konoha, but Cloud Hidden Village's leaders hesitated because their forces were depleted and agreed to wait until Bubi became a Perfect Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ōnoki ordered stronger protection for Rōshi and Han, while the Third Kazekage told Sand Hidden Village to lie low and guard its rice fields.
• Minato returned to Konoha after an eight-day journey and was greeted with respect as news of the Double Sages spread.
• Minato met Great Axe and saw the child who had once thrown a persimmon at him, then blamed Konoha's higher-ups for the deaths in the Land of Waves.
• At the Hokage Office, Minato presented the bodies of Hiruma and Dodai and recounted how he and Jiraiya had killed them.

Minato defended Jiraiya’s actions in the Land of Waves before Konoha’s advisors, arguing that the village’s failure to act had forced them to intervene. Hiruzen sent Mitokado Homura to negotiate with the Land of Waves, while Shikaku worried the advisors were overlooking the danger.

• Utatane Koharu condemned Jiraiya for killing advisors from Cloud Hidden Village and Mist Hidden Village, and Minato argued that the village’s inaction had endangered its mission quota in the Land of Waves.
• Nara Shikaku concluded that Jiraiya’s intervention had saved Minato and prevented a rupture within Konoha, while Minato repeated Jiraiya’s unconventional reasons for believing a Third Ninja World War was unlikely.
• Minato challenged Danzo to reveal where the other Thunder Kage Advisors were so he could assassinate one, but Hiruzen rejected further attacks and ordered the bodies returned in exchange for a promise not to escalate the conflict.
• Minato left the Hokage Building with Kushina as Danzo and Homura continued demanding his punishment, while Shikaku believed the village should consider rewarding him instead.
• Hiruzen assigned Homura to meet the Land of Waves’ daimyo and warned him to beware of retaliation from Cloud Hidden Village and Mist Hidden Village; Homura dismissed the danger, leaving Shikaku uneasy.

Nara Shikaku expanded the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ livestock gigantification research and showed Minato its successful giant pig results. That night, Minato learned that the Cloud Hidden Village wanted to join forces to assassinate Mitokado Homura, and gave Suikazan Fuguki an inscrutable order about protecting him.

• Nara Shikaku told Nara Shikatsu he wanted a fifty-person livestock research team because he feared Minato Namikaze viewed the senior advisors as enemies, and his father authorized him to recruit as many people as needed.
• Nara Shikaku secured the Akimichi Clan’s support, then invited Minato and Kushina to Deer Forest to inspect the breeding center.
• Shikaku showed Minato the Summoning Pig’s artificial insemination process and explained that Giant Pig Number One grew larger and reached market weight much faster than ordinary pigs.
• Minato praised the breeding results and ordered Shikaku to send piglets to Liangju Town, gaining 30 units of chakra and reaching 1502 units.
• Suikazan Fuguki told Minato that the Cloud Hidden Village wanted to help assassinate Mitokado Homura, and Minato told him to protect the advisor with seawater from twenty thousand meters deep.

Mitokado Homura and his guards were ambushed by Cloud and Mist ninja in the Land of Waves. After revealing the weapons in his scroll and fighting off the attackers, Mitokado Homura trapped Suikazan Fuguki in Darkness Genjutsu, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Suikazan Fuguki sent Biwa Juzo and Kisame Hoshigaki to eliminate Mitokado Homura’s intelligence squads while Cloud ninja prepared an ambush.
• A Hyuga guard detected enemy squads surrounding Mitokado Homura, who summoned a scroll of weapons and prepared his guards for battle.
• Mitokado Homura fought the Cloud ninja with powerful Chakra Metal weapons, breaking several of their lightning-infused blades.
• Suikazan Fuguki joined the fight with Samehada, but Mitokado Homura met his attack and recognized the Mist and Cloud alliance.
• Suikazan Fuguki attacked a Konoha guard, then lost his sight when Mitokado Homura ensnared him with Darkness Genjutsu.

Suikazan Fuguki killed Mitokado Homura in the depths of the sea after Minato Namikaze marked Homura with Flying Thunder God. Fuguki killed the surviving Cloud ninja, recovered the weapons, and refused to let Kisame Hoshigaki take the Chakra Metal broadsword.

• Suikazan Fuguki used the Darkness Genjutsu's cover and his red-haired technique to locate Mitokado Homura underwater, while Samehada blocked Homura's attack.
• A hand emerging from Samehada's mouth marked Homura with Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God seal, transporting him into the Great Waterfall Technique's crushing depths.
• Mitokado Homura died in the Mariana Trench, and Suikazan Fuguki recovered the weapons and Homura's Armory Scroll.
• Suikazan Fuguki killed the two surviving Cloud ninja after Samehada drained their chakra.
• Kisame Hoshigaki declined to take the Chakra Metal broadsword, and Fuguki considered distributing the recovered weapons to avoid drawing danger to himself.

Minato returned to Konoha and sought Hatake Sakumo’s support for changing the village’s leadership after Mitokado Homura’s death. Sakumo realized Minato was proposing an alliance and was inclined to accept, though he had not yet answered.

• Minato returned to Konoha and reflected on the village’s stagnation after Mitokado Homura’s death.
• Hatake Sakumo came home and found four-year-old Hatake Kakashi practicing walking upside down on his hands.
• Minato secretly visited Sakumo, revealed himself to Kakashi, and offered to become his jonin instructor when Kakashi graduated from the Ninja Academy.
• Minato told Sakumo that Mitokado Homura had been killed on the Land of Waves mission and offered Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan support if Sakumo pursued the Foreign Affairs Advisor position.
• Minato urged Sakumo to help change Konoha, and Sakumo recognized how radical Minato’s proposal was and felt ready to agree.

ANBU summoned Konoha’s jonin after news of Mitokado Homura’s death returned to the village. At the meeting, Hiruzen and Danzo debated replacements for Homura and prepared to discuss his funeral and the village’s response.

• Minato and Kushina saw ANBU rushing through Konoha, then an ANBU summoned the Senju jonin and Minato to the Hokage Building.
• Kushina asked how she could become a jonin, and Minato offered to help her control the Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Senju and Uchiha jonin returned to the village, while Hiruzen, Danzo, Koharu, and Torifu mourned Homura and debated who should fill his vacant posts.
• Danzo proposed making Torifu the Kyoto Advisor and Senju Takeoto the Foreign Affairs Advisor, blaming Minato and Jiraiya’s actions for Homura’s death.
• The village’s jonin gathered for a meeting, where Minato took his seat beside Orochimaru and noticed Homura’s vacant Foreign Affairs Advisor seat.

At a Jonin Meeting after Mitokado Homura’s death, the village debated who should replace him as Foreign Affairs Advisor. Hatake Sakumo’s nomination passed the jonin vote, leaving the final ruling to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

• The jonin held a moment of silence for Mitokado Homura, and Hatake Sakumo outlined the agenda, including his burial and the search for a new Foreign Affairs Advisor.
• Senju Takeoto nominated Akimichi Torifu, but Hiruzen Sarutobi urged the jonin to wait until Torifu recovered his strength, and the proposal failed by a vote of 33 to 139.
• Shimura Danzo proposed that Senju Takeoto become Foreign Affairs Advisor and Akimichi Torifu become Kyoto Advisor, but that proposal also failed, 78 to 94.
• Senju Takeoto nominated Hatake Sakumo, and Minato defended Takeoto against Danzo’s proposal while encouraging Orochimaru to support Sakumo in exchange for Chakra Metal.
• Orochimaru raised his hand to support Sakumo, helping the nomination pass by a vote of 132 to 40, and Hatake Sakumo asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to make the final ruling.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzo argued over the Senju Clan’s continued influence and Konoha’s shifting political balance. After Nara Shikaku delivered Minato Namikaze’s report that Kushina Uzumaki’s seal had loosened, Hiruzen approved support for Minato to help her control the Nine-Tails.

• Shimura Danzo confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after the Jonin Meeting and blamed the Senju Clan’s survival for Konoha’s political weakness.
• Danzo argued that Tsunade’s influence, Senju Takeoto’s standing, and Minato Namikaze’s ties to the Senju Clan had undermined Hiruzen’s authority.
• Hiruzen rejected Danzo’s suggestion that the Senju Clan could still be eliminated and said they needed to cooperate with Hatake Sakumo and reclaim the Land of Waves’ mission share.
• Nara Shikaku brought Hiruzen a highly classified report from Minato about Kushina Uzumaki’s loosening seal and his request to take her outside the village.
• Hiruzen ordered two ANBU squads and a Sealing Squad to assist Minato and Kushina in controlling the Nine-Tails Chakra.

Minato took Kushina beyond Konoha to train her in controlling the Nine-Tails’ chakra, with Hiruzen Sarutobi and other senior ninja observing. Kushina successfully manifested one tail, and Minato sealed that chakra before urging her to draw out more.

• Hatake Sakumo left for the Land of Waves while Senju Takeoto returned to Kyoto, strengthening Minato’s position among Konoha’s leaders.
• Minato took Kushina out of the village to train her in using the Nine-Tails’ power, explaining that mastering it could help her become a jonin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzo, Orochimaru, and a large ANBU force accompanied them to a remote mountain valley.
• Orochimaru questioned Danzo about supporting Hatake Sakumo, then watched Minato enter Sage Mode and remarked on his immense chakra.
• Kushina loosened her seal and formed a one-tailed chakra cloak, then attacked Minato, who caught her fist and confirmed her increased strength.
• Minato used Sage Art: Five Elements Seal to suppress the Nine-Tails chakra and told Kushina to loosen the seal further.

Minato trained Kushina to control the Nine-Tails Chakra, using a sealing technique to steady her cloak as she practiced with Adamantine Sealing Chains. When the Nine-Tails forced out more chakra and Kushina reached four tails, she lost control and attacked with Tailed Beast Balls, leaving Minato to redirect them while the observers watched.

• Kushina developed a three-tailed Chakra Cloak, and Minato urged her to combine the Nine-Tails Chakra with her own abilities.
• Minato entered Kushina's sealing space and used Sage Art: Ten Lines Sealing to calm the Nine-Tails' chakra, allowing Kushina to control it and practice her Adamantine Sealing Chains against him.
• The Nine-Tails overwhelmed Minato's seal with more chakra, pushing Kushina into her Four-Tails State and eroding her rationality; she struck Minato and began forming a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Kushina fired a Tailed Beast Ball at Minato, who redirected it with a Flying Thunder God formula, and then redirected a second one as it detonated far from the group.
• Kushina spotted Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others on the mountain and fired another Tailed Beast Ball toward them.

Minato used a powerful sealing technique to stop Kushina’s Four-Tails rampage and helped her regain control, while Danzo and Orochimaru watched. After Kushina asked about becoming a jonin, Danzo visited Orochimaru’s laboratory and offered test subjects, but Orochimaru said White Zetsu was more useful for his Wood Release research.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon to divert Kushina’s Tailed Beast Ball, and Orochimaru reflected on his limits and the possibility of immortality.
• Minato used the Four Symbols Seal and Five Elements Seal to suppress Kushina’s Nine-Tails Chakra and stop her from forming another Tailed Beast Ball.
• Kushina regained her senses, restrained her four tails with Adamantine Chains, and held control until she exhausted herself.
• Minato supported the injured Kushina and planned training every three days so she could master the Four-Tails State; the Third Hokage said she could become a jonin once she controlled it steadily.
• Danzo offered Orochimaru Senju Clan corpses as test subjects, but Orochimaru said White Zetsu bodies were better for his Wood Release research.

Minato learned that the First Hokage's Armory Scroll, containing six Chakra Metal Weapons, had reached Mist Hidden Village and planned to retrieve it. As the Third Mizukage’s brutal purge began, Minato watched the contest from nearby, waiting for a chance to intervene.

• Hatake Sakumo returned to Konoha after renewing the Land of Waves mission quota agreement, and Minato greeted him at the Senju Clan Grounds.
• Minato continued Kushina’s training, and she mastered the Nine-Tails’ Four-Tails State with a protective chakra cloak.
• Minato met Suikazan Fuguki in Mist Hidden Village, learned the Armory Scroll had been given to the ANBU commander, and asked Fuguki to notify him when the commander left the village.
• Suikazan Fuguki told Minato that the Third Mizukage was intensifying conflict against bloodline clans, and Minato suspected the Mizukage had been controlled by genjutsu.
• Bai Li brought the Armory Scroll to an island and ordered twelve Mist ANBU jonin to fight until only six survived and could become the Mizukage’s Armory Six.
• Minato watched the jonin attack one another and waited for their numbers to fall before entering.