Chapter Summaries

Hagoromo and Kushina opened the Sealing Scroll in the Hokage’s office and hurried to memorize its techniques. The Third Hokage traced the disturbance to them, surrounded the building, and found them with the scroll.

• Kushina examined and released the seal on the Sealing Scroll, then spread it open for Hagoromo to memorize.
• Hagoromo scanned the scroll for techniques while Kushina urged him to hurry.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen sensed the seal being tampered with, ordered Anbu to surround the Hokage Office Building, and rushed there.
• A guard told Hiruzen that Kushina had entered the office and had not left.
• Hiruzen entered the office, found four Anbu collapsed and Hagoromo bent over the Sealing Scroll, and Kushina awkwardly greeted him.

After four months of home confinement for investigating the Sealing Scroll, Kushina and Hagoromo were released. Kushina’s persistence won her a short-term mission escorting Medical Ninja to Konoha’s front-line command post, where the Anbu were primarily tasked with protecting and monitoring her.

• The Hokage overruled his advisors and sentenced Kushina and Hagoromo to four months of confinement at home.
• Hagoromo spent the confinement training and studying, while an Anbu ninja watched him and delivered his meals.
• After their confinement ended, Kushina told Hagoromo she felt unused to sunlight and insisted on going to the front lines.
• Kushina sent the Hokage fifty petitions a day until he approved a short-term front-line mission for her.
• The Hokage assigned Kushina and Hagoromo to escort twenty non-combat Medical Ninja to Konoha’s command post against Sunagakure, accompanied by four Anbu teams.
• The Anbu received orders to prioritize Kushina’s safety, while Hagoromo was left to fend for himself.

Hagoromo traveled with Kushina’s group toward Konoha’s front lines, studying how to reduce the range of the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique. At their night camp, he detected four enemy targets approaching from the woods.

• Hagoromo prepared ninja tools, Soldier Pills, a black cloak, and a white mask before departing Konoha with a group of about forty people.
• After nearly six days of travel, the group reached the Land of Fire’s border, where the Anbu leader warned Kushina that Sand Ninja might infiltrate the area.
• Hagoromo showed Kushina his plans to reduce the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique’s range, and she allowed research but required her approval and presence for any experiments.
• Hagoromo continued studying sealing formulas by moonlight while the camp slept.
• Hagoromo noticed enemies approaching and signaled the Anbu on duty that four targets were in the woods four hundred meters away in the six o’clock direction.

Kamishiraishi Hagoromo ambushed the enemy squad hiding near the Konoha camp, killing three before drawing out the remaining Jonin. The Jonin struck at Hagoromo while his arm was trapped in a tree, and Hagoromo prepared to exploit the opening.

• Hagoromo persuaded the Anbu captain to stay behind and guard the camp while he handled the enemies in the woods.
• Hagoromo approached the first enemy and killed him with three Shuriken, then killed a second enemy hiding in a tree with a kunai.
• Hagoromo used Chidori Current to pierce a tree and kill a third enemy, but realized the victim had likely been a Chunin rather than the Jonin he sought.
• The remaining Jonin stabbed toward Hagoromo's forehead as Hagoromo's arm remained embedded in the tree, entering the opening Hagoromo had deliberately created.

Hagoromo defeated three Sand Ninja and wounded a Jonin during his first real battle, but exhausted much of his chakra and seriously injured his hand. After Kushina brought him back to camp for treatment, she asked how the battle had felt.

• Hagoromo used Chidori Current and Chidori Sharp Spear, killing three enemies and severing one Jonin's arm before the Jonin escaped.
• Kushina arrived with Anbu and found Hagoromo alive, while he recovered from the strain of the fight and admitted he could not defeat the Jonin.
• Kushina discovered Hagoromo's deep left-hand wound, made him disperse Lightning Release, and took him to camp for medical treatment.
• Anbu identified the enemies as Sand Ninja and reported that Hagoromo had killed a Chunin and two Genin and wounded a Jonin.
• Kushina praised Hagoromo but warned him not to rush into danger alone, then asked how his first real battle had felt.

After discussing his first battle with Kushina, Hagoromo recovered and set out with the medical team toward Konoha's Frontline Command Post. The group reached the command post's vicinity by early afternoon without encountering further enemies.

• Hagoromo assessed his lightning-strike battle against four Sand Ninja and recognized that his limited Chakra was a weakness.
• Kushina praised Hagoromo's performance and laughed at his frustration over exhausting his Chakra with powerful ninjutsu.
• The Anbu searched the battlefield, increased the camp watch, and let the group return to sleep.
• Hagoromo woke at six, joined the others for breakfast, and traveled with the medical team under Anbu protection.
• The group crossed the border region without further encounters and approached Konoha's Frontline Command Post by early afternoon.

After reaching Konoha’s command headquarters, Kushina completed the escort mission but refused to return to the village before meeting Tsunade. Hagoromo had secretly copied the forbidden techniques he memorized from the Sealing Scroll, and the chapter ended with Kushina taking him toward Tsunade’s tent as the Anbu followed.

• After leaving Konoha, Hagoromo recorded the forbidden techniques he had memorized from the Sealing Scroll onto a scroll protected by a chakra-sensitive sealing formula.
• An Anbu Captain halted the squad at Konoha’s command headquarters security perimeter, where a guard checked their Mission Scroll and let them proceed.
• The group reached the Field Hospital, and Kushina completed the A-rank escort mission without casualties beyond Hagoromo’s minor injury.
• An Anbu ninja urged Kushina to return to Konoha now that the mission was complete, but she insisted on meeting Tsunade first.
• Kushina led Hagoromo toward Tsunade’s tent while the Anbu followed, unable to stop her.

Tsunade reviewed Konoha’s war against the Sand Ninja, lamented the loss of Hatake Sakumo, and decided she would leave Konoha after the war. After Kushina reported that medical reinforcements had arrived, Tsunade noticed Hagoromo and questioned why a recently graduated child was on the battlefield.

• Tsunade told the meeting that Konoha had pushed the Sand Ninja back but lacked the troops and supplies to launch a decisive attack.
• Tsunade smashed the table in anger over Konoha’s upper ranks causing Hatake Sakumo’s loss and resolved to leave Konoha after the war.
• Nara Shikaku explained that the Sand Ninja’s peace faction was gaining support, while Konoha lacked the troops for an offensive and enough medical ninjas to produce antidotes at scale.
• Kushina told Shikaku that twenty medical ninjas from Konoha had arrived, and the meeting concluded with Konoha preparing for a prolonged campaign.
• After the meeting, Tsunade greeted Kushina and questioned why Hagoromo, whom she recognized as a newly graduated student, had come to the battlefield.

Kushina introduced her student, Kamishiro Hagoromo, to Tsunade and praised his strength and talent. After Hagoromo evaded Tsunade’s test with his self-created technique, Tsunade recognized his exceptional speed and potential.

• Kushina defended bringing Hagoromo along and compared him to Shizune, whom Tsunade kept at her side.
• Tsunade criticized Kakashi for fighting recklessly, while Kushina insisted Hagoromo was smarter and stronger than Minato’s student.
• Kushina told Tsunade that Hagoromo had defeated a Sand Ninja team, killing three and seriously injuring one.
• Tsunade tested Hagoromo with a finger flick, but he dodged it using a burst of crackling chakra.
• Kushina revealed that Hagoromo had created the high-level technique himself, impressing Tsunade with his talent.

Tsunade treated Hagoromo’s wound and asked Kushina to stay on the front lines, but an Anbu Squad Leader objected under the Hokage’s orders. After Hagoromo threatened him for openly identifying Kushina as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Tsunade warned that a leak could endanger the entire mission.

• Tsunade healed Hagoromo’s hand and confirmed that his wound was recovering well.
• Tsunade asked Kushina to stay and help with front-line matters, and Kushina eagerly accepted.
• Two Anbu entered the tent and insisted that Kushina had to return to Konoha under the Hokage’s orders.
• Hagoromo used Lightning Blade to cut the Anbu Squad Leader’s mask and scratch his face, then warned him that he would remember him.
• Tsunade reprimanded the Anbu Squad Leader for revealing Kushina’s identity where enemy spies might hear, and warned that the mission’s Anbu could all be killed if the information leaked.

San Xiao kept Anbu guards at the command post despite Tsunade's objections, while Kushina chose to stay with Hagoromo. Hagoromo settled into life on the front lines and worked on sealing techniques as the chapter described Konoha's defensive deployment against Sunagakure.

• San Xiao sent one Anbu team to report to the Third Hokage and kept twelve as Kushina's guards after Tsunade ordered them out of her sight.
• Kushina decided to remain at the command post, trusting its defenses and believing Hagoromo had figured out her Jinchuriki identity over time.
• Tsunade praised Hagoromo for defending Kushina, and Kushina refused his request to teach him the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
• Hagoromo spent his free time improving the Reverse Four Symbols Seal while Kushina stayed at the command post and helped Tsunade with documents.
• Konoha's defenses against Sunagakure consisted of a 600-ninja warning line, a 1,500-ninja mobile force, and a 500-ninja-guarded command post.

Konoha maintained a defensive position against Sunagakure while the Staff Headquarters rejected Tsunade’s proposal to launch an attack. Hagoromo asked Kushina to let him go to the front lines, and she agreed to tell Tsunade and arrange it.

• Tsunade proposed attacking Sunagakure after learning that it had transferred another thousand shinobi to the Iwagakure front, but Shikaku argued that Konoha lacked the troops, intelligence, and supply lines for a successful strike.
• Tsunade accepted the Staff Headquarters’ preference to maintain defensive counteroffensive operations.
• After the meeting, Hagoromo asked Kushina to send him to the front lines because he wanted to experience a large-scale battle.
• Kushina warned Hagoromo about the dangers and his limited combat ability, but he insisted that shinobi eventually had to face battle.
• Kushina agreed to inform Tsunade and arrange for Hagoromo to go forward.

Hagoromo joined Team 132 on the Land of Rivers front and prepared for his first battle as a large Sand Ninja force attacked Konoha’s defensive line. As the armies met, he summoned a weapon from a scroll.

• Hagoromo served as a replacement in Team 132, where he and Captain Hyuga conducted reconnaissance along Konoha’s defensive line.
• Konoha’s signal calls warned that around a thousand Sand Ninja were approaching, and Captain Hyuga told Hagoromo to prepare to engage in thirty minutes.
• The Sand Ninja charged openly across the wasteland in a wedge formation, while the Third Battalion occupied the enemy’s flank.
• The Sand Ninja unleashed a barrage of wide-area ninjutsu, and Captain Hyuga told Hagoromo to use a long-range attack if he had one or follow him.
• As the two sides made contact, Hagoromo opened a scroll marked with the character for “sword” and summoned something into his hand.

Hagoromo used a giant shuriken and Lightning Release to cut through the enemy ranks during a melee, but a skilled Sand Ninja wounded his shoulder and forced him to retreat. As three kunai struck the corpses he had used as shields, Hagoromo leapt away, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Hagoromo unleashed the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, scattering the charging enemies and helping Konoha ninja engage them at close quarters.
• Hagoromo slit the throat of an enemy pinned between two giant shuriken, then charged a burly Sunagakure ninja.
• Hagoromo evaded the Sand Ninja's blade and pierced his chest with Chidori, using the corpse as cover while attacking another enemy.
• A fourth enemy stabbed Hagoromo's shoulder through the two bodies, forcing him to pull back.
• Three kunai struck the corpses, and Hagoromo immediately leapt away.

Hagoromo fought a dangerous Sand Ninja who used Exploding Tags, a thrown longsword, Wind Cutter, and Earth Flow Wall to attack and defend. After taking shuriken wounds and using supplies to recover, Hagoromo accelerated with Chidori Current and charged to end the fight quickly.

• Hagoromo evaded an Exploding Tag ambush, then killed three Sand Ninja with Chidori Shadow Leaf Dance.
• Hagoromo removed shuriken from his wounds and took pills and antidotes before facing the Sand Ninja again.
• The Sand Ninja threw his longsword and followed with Wind Cutter, but Hagoromo dodged by tripping himself.
• Hagoromo used Dragon Flame Jutsu to buy time, while the Sand Ninja defended with Earth Flow Wall.
• Hagoromo threw two shuriken and activated Chidori Current as he charged at the Sand Ninja.

Hagoromo helped Konoha’s forces defeat the Sand Ninja, but realized their desperate resistance was meant to hold the main force in place while headquarters came under attack. He rushed back to reinforce headquarters, worried about Kushina.

• Hagoromo killed a Sand Ninja with a Shadow Clone and Transformation Technique ambush, then retreated to recover chakra.
• He fought from Konoha’s rear ranks until reinforcements arrived, but noticed the Sand Ninja kept fighting despite overwhelming odds and heavy casualties.
• Hagoromo heard a monster-like roar from the direction of the Land of Fire, and Captain Hyuga sensed an enormous amount of chakra near headquarters.
• Konoha’s emergency flares revealed that headquarters was under attack, and Hagoromo realized the Sand Ninja had been holding the main force in place.
• Hagoromo received the order to return to headquarters and sprinted back, fearing for Kushina.

Hagoromo rushed back to Konoha’s command headquarters as Sunagakure launched a surprise assault with Shukaku. With Kushina restraining the tailed beast and Tsunade occupied fighting Chiyo, Hagoromo charged across the battlefield toward Kushina with his last reserves of Chakra.

• Hagoromo and other Konoha ninja hurried back to the headquarters while Sand Ninja delayed the defenders with a feint.
• Hagoromo learned that Sunagakure had secretly moved its forces through the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers to attack Konoha’s headquarters.
• Hagoromo reached the battlefield and saw Shukaku attacking as Kushina restrained it with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Tsunade fought Chiyo and her Ten Puppets while Kushina held Shukaku in place.
• Hagoromo leaped into the battlefield and charged toward Kushina with Lightning Release.

Hagoromo returned to the Konoha command center and found Kushina fighting off Sand Ninja while suppressing Shukaku. With his chakra exhausted and Konoha outnumbered, he activated his Electromaster ability and prepared to fight without holding back.

• Hagoromo pulled metal fragments from his wounds and reunited with the battered Kushina, whose protecting Anbu squads had been wiped out.
• Kushina urged Hagoromo to stay beside her after his Lightning Release failed, but he announced he would enter Chidori Current Second Stage.
• Hagoromo revealed his Electromaster ability and unleashed powerful electric arcs despite having no chakra fluctuations Kushina could sense.
• Hagoromo used an electric field to pull the Iron Sand Sword from the ground as the Sand Ninja targeted both Konoha's command center and Kushina, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Hagoromo used his Iron Sand Sword to cut through the attacking Sand Ninja and create an opening around Kushina and Shukaku. He returned to Kushina’s side, but she remained unable to seal Shukaku while also suppressing the restless Kurama inside her.

• Hagoromo charged into the Sand Ninja ranks with an electrified Iron Sand Sword, cutting down enemies and turning back their advance.
• Hagoromo reshaped the Iron Sand Sword into a spear, hurled it toward the densest enemy group, and scattered its iron sand into a storm of needles.
• Hagoromo returned to Kushina and asked whether she could use a sealing technique on Shukaku.
• Kushina explained that restraining Shukaku already exhausted her, while her dwindling chakra also forced her to suppress Kurama.

Hagoromo rejected sealing Shukaku and used a full-power Railgun to blast the Tailed Beast apart, shocking both armies. As Shukaku began to reform and Konoha reinforcements arrived, Chiyo ordered the Sand Ninja to recover it and attack Kushina.

• Hagoromo decided that sealing Shukaku into a Jinchuriki or killing it with the Reverse Four Symbols Seal would not work.
• Hagoromo unleashed a full-power Railgun attack on Shukaku while Kushina restrained it with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Hagoromo fired repeatedly, blasting Shukaku into a pile of sand as the ninja on both sides watched in shock.
• Kushina withdrew her Adamantine Sealing Chains, and Shukaku began reforming from the sand.
• Konoha's reinforcements arrived, and Chiyo ordered the Sand Ninja to recover Shukaku and attack Kushina.