Chapter Summaries

Hagoromo used the Yata Crow to infiltrate Sunagakure from the undefended sky and launch an air raid while the village’s forces were deployed to war. He destroyed the Kazekage Office Building after his bombs broke through its defensive barrier.

• Hagoromo flew toward Sunagakure at high altitude, avoiding detection as he approached the village.
• Hagoromo descended to about five hundred meters and circled above Sunagakure while remaining above the suspected defensive range.
• Hagoromo chose the Kazekage Office Building as his target and dropped pale white bombs onto it.
• The building’s barrier withstood the first wave but weakened with each explosion.
• Hagoromo’s third wave broke the barrier, and further strikes demolished the Kazekage Office Building.

Hagoromo bombed Sunagakure from the air before returning to Konoha’s camp, where the battle had ended and the Kazekage had returned to find his village damaged. As the Yata Crow’s summoning expired during its descent, Hagoromo suddenly began to fall.

• Hagoromo used the exhausted Yata Crow to bomb several major buildings in Sunagakure, then flew back toward Konoha’s camp.
• Konoha defeated Sunagakure’s forces on the battlefield, while the Kazekage escaped with support from Chiyo, Ebizo, and the Sand Ninja.
• The Kazekage saw smoke rising over Sunagakure, returned to the village, and learned that Hagoromo had carried out the aerial attack.
• Sunagakure’s attack led it to develop stronger aerial defenses, which later shot down Deidara’s Clay Bird.
• Hagoromo returned to Konoha’s camp aboard the Yata Crow, but its summoning was released as it descended, leaving him falling toward the ground.

After returning from his sabotage mission in Sunagakure, Hagoromo landed awkwardly before Tsunade, Minato, and the Third Hokage. He marked the facilities he had destroyed on an intelligence map, and the Hokage concluded that the losses would force the Kazekage to seek peace with Konoha.

• Hagoromo fell from the Yata Crow and rolled to a stop at Tsunade's feet, aggravating his injuries.
• Tsunade explained to Minato and the Third Hokage that Hagoromo had flown to Sunagakure to sabotage the enemy.
• Hagoromo reported that his attack had broadly succeeded but that he could not assess the exact damage without intelligence.
• The Third Hokage gave Hagoromo an intelligence map, and Hagoromo marked the facilities he had destroyed.
• The Third Hokage judged that the damage would compel the Kazekage to seek peace and said the fighting on that front was about to end.

After Konoha’s battlefield victory and Hagoromo’s sabotage pushed Sunagakure to its limit, the Third Hokage kept Konoha’s forces in the Land of Wind to demand surrender without advancing deeper. At camp, Rin treated Kakashi’s severe injuries and Hagoromo’s minor wounds, while Hagoromo noticed Kakashi’s indifference to Rin’s concern.

• The Third Hokage concluded that Sunagakure’s battlefield defeat, compounded by Hagoromo’s destruction, left the village with little choice but to compromise.
• Konoha withdrew a short distance and established a camp inside the Land of Wind, signaling that Sunagakure had to surrender or face another attack.
• Hagoromo waited for medical treatment and found Rin tending to a badly wounded Kakashi.
• Hagoromo noticed that Kakashi’s trembling, damaged arm had been injured by repeatedly using Lightning Blade before he had mastered it.
• Rin treated Kakashi first, then replaced Hagoromo’s bandages and applied fresh medicine.
• Hagoromo found Kakashi sitting by a bonfire and reflected that Kakashi did not seem to notice Rin’s concern for him.

Hagoromo explained Lightning Blade’s risks and offered Kakashi advice on using the technique more efficiently. After Rin joined them, they discussed Obito’s absence and learned he was recovering from an injury caused by a hunter’s trap.

• Hagoromo told Kakashi that Lightning Release’s physical strain could only be reduced through gradual adaptation and that Kakashi’s repeated use of Lightning Blade was dangerous.
• Hagoromo explained that his own resistance to Lightning Release was innate and advised Kakashi to control his chakra output rather than overuse power.
• Rin finished her medical work, and Hagoromo gave her food he had saved for her.
• Hagoromo asked why Minato had not brought Obito, and Kakashi said Obito would be useless at their location.
• Rin explained that Obito was recovering at the Iwagakure front after a large hunter’s trap injured his thigh, leaving him unable to serve for two months.

Hagoromo reflected on his inability to change events he barely understood as Konoha and Sunagakure began peace negotiations after Konoha's victory. Tsunade left the battlefield and Konoha, with Hagoromo seeing her off as she set out alone.

• Hagoromo considered how little he could do to protect Rin or prevent Obito's future, and acknowledged that war could claim any ninja.
• On the fifth day of Konoha's occupation of the Land of Wind, Sunagakure sent an envoy to seek peace, and both sides dispatched negotiating teams.
• After completing her mission in the war, Tsunade handed over her duties and decided to leave Konoha.
• Tsunade departed early in the morning, and Hagoromo alone came to see her off.
• Hagoromo warned Tsunade that enemy territory surrounded the Land of Fire, but Tsunade said her disguise techniques would keep her unrecognized.

Tsunade left Konoha’s wartime camp for good, while Konoha and Sunagakure negotiated the terms of peace after the Sand Ninja’s surrender. The talks produced several harsh treaty conditions, but the ban on Sunagakure accepting missions from neighboring small countries remained contentious.

• Tsunade bid farewell to Hagoromo and departed Konoha, leaving the battlefield without looking back.
• The Third Hokage kept Tsunade’s departure secret to protect morale and prevent Sunagakure from exploiting her absence.
• Konoha and Sunagakure held five meetings in seven days and agreed on surrender, peace, alliance, border, prisoner, and reparation terms.
• Sunagakure accepted the first three treaty clauses despite their restrictions on its forces and activities.
• Konoha and Sunagakure clashed over a clause barring Sunagakure from accepting missions from neighboring small countries for ten years.

Konoha and Sunagakure settled the terms and security arrangements for a peace agreement between the Hokage and the Kazekage. Hagoromo was chosen as one of the Hokage’s thirty-two guards, and his flying Summoning Beast was set to aid surveillance.

• Konoha and Sunagakure agreed to a ten-year ban on Sunagakure accepting commissions from other countries, while the Land of Fire and Land of Wind Daimyo would negotiate reparations.
• The villages struggled to choose a signing location because neither the Hokage nor the Kazekage would enter the other’s territory, then agreed to meet midway between Sunagakure and Konoha’s camp.
• Konoha and the Sand Ninja designated a fifty-kilometer restricted zone and each assigned five hundred ninja to guard its outer perimeter without entering it.
• Each Kage was permitted thirty-two guards inside the restricted zone, with sixteen remaining close and sixteen conducting a sweep before the meeting.
• Hagoromo became the only Chunin among the Hokage’s thirty-two guards because of his battlefield performance and flying Summoning Beast.

Hagoromo joined a high-stakes mission to guard the Third Hokage during a peace treaty signing with Sunagakure. After Konoha and Sunagakure’s guards identified one another, Hagoromo and Hizashi Hyuga began surveying the restricted zone from the air.

• The Third Hokage assigned thirty-two ninjas to protect the peace treaty summit, with sixteen from Konoha and sixteen from Sunagakure.
• Minato Namikaze led Konoha’s advance team into the restricted zone three hours before the ceremony.
• The two teams met briefly, where Hagoromo recognized Sunagakure’s leader, Ebizo, and memorized the Sand ninjas’ identifying features.
• Konoha’s ninjas split into pairs, and Hagoromo was assigned to work with Hizashi Hyuga using an aerial platform and the Byakugan to survey the area.
• Hagoromo summoned a high-altitude platform and took Hizashi into the air to search the fifty-kilometer restricted zone for danger.

Hagoromo and Hizashi monitored the restricted zone as the Fourth Kazekage and his guards arrived for the talks. After following the Kazekage's group, Hizashi noticed something suspicious and ordered Hagoromo to stay still.

• Hizashi used his Byakugan to spot the Third Hokage's forces and identify the approaching Kazekage's group and its key members.
• Hagoromo reported Hizashi's observations to Yamanaka Inoichi, who relayed Minato's order to watch the Kazekage closely.
• Hagoromo and Hizashi approached the Kazekage's group openly and followed it from a safe distance until another Konoha team arrived.
• As Hagoromo prepared to climb higher, Hizashi grabbed his shoulder, warned that something was wrong, and told him not to move.

Hizashi Hyuga detected sixteen concealed Amegakure ninja beneath the route of the Kage peace talks, and Hagoromo considered how to eliminate them without causing a commotion. The chapter left Hagoromo asking Hizashi to mark their exact positions and depths so he could use a suitable technique.

• Hizashi Hyuga detected four squads of ninja hidden underground and warned that they might have already sensed the Yata Crow.
• Hagoromo questioned whether the concealed ninja were Sunagakure operatives, since their presence could threaten the peace talks and the Hokage.
• Hizashi identified the ninja as likely subordinates of Hanzō the Salamander, leading Hagoromo to suspect they planned to attack both Kage.
• Hizashi said they needed to eliminate the enemies quietly but could not force all four squads from the ground at once, and wondered whether to await Minato's instructions.
• Hagoromo asked Hizashi to mark each enemy's position, depth, and distance from the others so he could use a technique to bury them all at once.

Hagoromo and Hizashi Hyuga prepared to use a large-scale Sealing Technique against sixteen hidden enemy ninja. After Hagoromo and Hizashi forced one team out of the ground and knocked them toward the scroll, Hagoromo began activating the Reverse Four Symbols Seal.

• Hizashi Hyuga used his Byakugan to map the sixteen enemies and gave Hagoromo their positions and depths.
• Hagoromo unsealed a large scroll, dropped it within range of the enemy teams, and explained his plan to Hizashi through coded sign language.
• Hagoromo asked Hizashi to kick one team toward the scroll because they were just outside the technique's range.
• Hagoromo used Chidori Sharp Spear Second Stage to drive four enemies out of the ground, and Hizashi struck them toward the scroll with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palms.
• Hagoromo completed the hand sign for the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, causing the scroll to stir.

Hagoromo used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique to annihilate an infiltrating Amegakure force, despite the risks and his nearly depleted Chakra. Minato arrived after the attack and questioned Hagoromo, who had no information about the enemy’s plans because none had survived.

• Hagoromo chose to test his Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique instead of waiting for Minato’s instructions, and coordinated with Hizashi Hyuga to lure the hidden enemies into range.
• Hizashi blasted four enemies toward Hagoromo’s prepared scroll with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palms as Hagoromo completed the hand seals.
• Hagoromo’s technique formed a black sphere that annihilated all sixteen enemy ninjas, leaving Hizashi relieved that he had not pursued them.
• Hagoromo’s Chakra was nearly depleted, and Minato arrived using a Flying Thunder God Mark to investigate the enormous crater.
• Minato asked about survivors and the enemy’s arrangements, but Hagoromo said no one had survived and he knew nothing about their plans.

After Hagoromo and his team found no further infiltrators, the Third Hokage and Fourth Kazekage signed a treaty ending the Konoha–Sunagakure conflict on this battlefield. The Hokage praised Hagoromo for stopping a possible disruption to the talks, and Konoha began withdrawing from the Land of Wind.

• Konoha's shinobi searched the restricted zone for more enemies but found none and regrouped with Minato's Team.
• The Third Hokage and Fourth Kazekage exchanged treaty documents and shook hands, ending the conflict between Konoha and Sunagakure on this battlefield.
• Minato told the Third Hokage about the suspected Amegakure infiltrators, and the Hokage said Hagoromo had done well.
• The Hokage's group rejoined the Konoha shinobi in the outer blockade zone and announced the peace.
• Konoha began withdrawing from the Land of Wind, sending the medical units, severely wounded, and their protectors ahead.

After Konoha and Sunagakure signed a peace agreement, both villages withdrew troops and the other nations reconsidered their wartime strategies. Hagoromo returned to Konoha with a group of wounded ninja, went home to rest, and discovered that Kushina had cleaned his house rather carelessly.

• Konoha and Sunagakure’s peace agreement forced the nations involved in the war to reassess their deployments and reinforce other fronts.
• The Hokage and staff arranged Konoha’s withdrawal from the Land of Wind, sending some ninja to other fronts and others back to Konoha.
• Hagoromo received orders to return to Konoha with the final group, which included wounded soldiers and medical personnel.
• Hagoromo arrived safely in Konoha, escorted the wounded to the hospital, and postponed reporting his return until the next day.
• Hagoromo found his house unexpectedly clean, then sat on a chair that immediately fell apart and realized Kushina had tidied the place.

After returning to Konoha, Hagoromo reported in and wandered toward Kushina’s home, where he spotted Jiraiya spying on the women’s bathhouse. Hagoromo exposed him with a loud shout and disappeared into the crowd.

• Hagoromo submitted his Mission Scroll and registered his return to Konoha.
• With nowhere to go and no new mission, Hagoromo set out to visit Kushina.
• On Hot Springs Street, Hagoromo noticed Jiraiya hiding in a tree with binoculars and spying on the women’s bathhouse.
• Hagoromo shouted that someone was peeping, then slipped away into the crowd.

After Tsunade left Konoha, the Third Hokage began considering Jiraiya as his successor and summoned him back from the front lines. Hagoromo arrived at Kushina’s home to find Jiraiya being treated, where Jiraiya recognized him by his voice.

• Tsunade’s departure left the Third Hokage grieving and made him question his age and the village’s future leadership.
• The Third Hokage decided Jiraiya was his leading candidate for Fourth Hokage, while he expected Minato to succeed him later as Fifth Hokage.
• Hagoromo went to Kushina’s home and found Jiraiya and Minato there, realizing both had returned from the front lines.
• Kushina roughly treated Jiraiya’s minor injuries while he brooded over being set up and watching Kushina and Minato interact.
• Jiraiya recognized Hagoromo by his voice after Hagoromo pretended not to know who he was.

Hagoromo, Kushina, Minato, and Jiraiya put the peeping incident behind them before Kushina asked Hagoromo about his battlefield performance against the Kazekage. Hagoromo explained that his surprise attack had caused little damage and that he had not yet learned how his Summoning Beasts fought.

• Jiraiya felt frustrated after Kushina defended Hagoromo and Minato refused to speak up for him.
• Hagoromo apologized to Jiraiya and tried to settle the matter, but Jiraiya suspected he had exposed him on purpose.
• Kushina moved beside Minato and asked Hagoromo about his encounter with the Kazekage.
• Hagoromo said his attack had not seriously hurt the Kazekage and that he had lacked time to learn his Summoning Beasts’ abilities.

Hagoromo explained his bizarre battlefield tactic to Kushina, who tried to reform his approach to combat, while Jiraiya privately told Minato that he had refused the Third Hokage’s proposal to become the next Hokage and had recommended Minato instead. With no new missions, Hagoromo resumed training in Chakra nature transformation.

• Hagoromo told Kushina, Minato, and Jiraiya that he had intended the Yata Crow’s attack to humiliate the Kazekage, not knowing it would explode.
• Kushina lectured Hagoromo about his unorthodox thinking and sent him away after trying to reform his approach.
• Jiraiya told Minato and Kushina that the Third Hokage had considered him as the next Hokage, but Jiraiya had refused and recommended Minato.
• Hagoromo received no new missions and resumed training in Chakra nature transformation.

Hagoromo trained to convert his chakra into Water nature but found that he was still far from using Water Release ninjutsu. Jiraiya happened to stop by while preparing to leave Konoha, and refused to give Hagoromo any training tips.

• Hagoromo practiced Water-nature chakra conversion beside the Nanga River near the Uchiha district, but only managed to make the Chakra Paper wet.
• Hagoromo recalled that he had obtained powerful Water Release techniques and wanted to learn the nature transformation needed to use them.
• Jiraiya spotted Hagoromo while passing through Konoha on his way back to the Kumogakure front.
• Hagoromo asked Jiraiya for Water Release training advice, but Jiraiya said he would not tell him.