Chapter Summaries

Shikajiro Nara decided to send Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi to join Rinto’s Team Eleven. Meanwhile, Rinto and Tsunade watched Team Eleven’s brutal assault on Kusagakure, where Tsunade scolded Rinto for his reckless training methods.

• Shikajiro Nara reflected on Hiruzen Sarutobi’s political maneuvering and recognized that Rinto’s name had helped silence Danzo.
• Shikajiro Nara decided that Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi would join Rinto’s Team Eleven.
• In Kusagakure, Teuchi opened the Third Inner Gate and charged the enemy with his wolf-tooth club while Rinto and Tsunade watched from a rooftop.
• Rie used Shadow Clones and combined Earth, Fire, and Wind techniques to trap and burn the Kusagakure ninjas.
• Uchiha Fugaku cut down fleeing enemies as Tsunade berated Rinto for exhausting and endangering Team Eleven.

Hatake Sakumo arrived at burning Kusagakure to bring Rinto and Tsunade back to Konoha, and Rinto announced that Team Eleven would disband after the mission. Sakumo warned Rinto about the children’s heavy killing intent, then became the center of a humiliating misunderstanding over a forbidden-love book.

• Hatake Sakumo found Rinto, Tsunade, and Team Eleven near the burning Kusagakure and delivered Lord Hiruzen’s order for them to return.
• Rinto agreed to go back and said Team Eleven would disband now that the Land of Grass mission was complete.
• Hatake Sakumo warned Rinto that Rie and the other children had dangerously heavy killing intent, and Rinto said he had a method to help them maintain Steadfast Belief.
• Hatake Sakumo tried to blame Rinto for the book Forbidden Love, Butsuma Senju VS Tajima Uchiha, but Rinto called it a greeting gift for Uchiha Fugaku.
• Uchiha Fugaku reacted dramatically to the book, and Tsunade sat beside Rinto to keep Hatake Sakumo away from him.
• Hatake Sakumo prepared to kill himself from embarrassment, but Rinto tossed him a dog-head mask and mouthed that it did not count as social death if his face was unseen.

After returning to Konoha, Fugaku faced the Uchiha Clan Head and elders, then revealed the power and hardships he gained during three years of training with Rinto. He challenged the clan’s isolation and questioned whether the Uchiha could love and protect the village as they did their own kin.

• Rinto returned to Konoha with Rie, Teuchi, and Fugaku, and the three youngsters celebrated together before receiving their mission rewards and parting ways.
• Fugaku returned to the Uchiha Compound, where the Clan Head and elders berated him for spending three years on one mission and accused Rinto of leading him astray.
• Fugaku defied the Uchiha leaders, awakened Susanoo, and sent the Clan Head flying when he charged at him.
• Fugaku described Rinto’s brutal training, the group’s dangerous battles against Kusagakure ninja, and the scars they had endured.
• Fugaku said he valued love and protecting others over the Uchiha’s eyes, and asked why the clan could not love the village as it loved its own members.

As the joint Chunin Exams approached, Fugaku, Rie, and Teuchi gathered at Teuchi’s ramen shop and agreed to take the exams together. A confrontation with A was interrupted by Rinto, who pressured Teuchi into making him ramen.

• More than a month after Fugaku’s speech, Rie asked Teuchi if he would take the Chunin Exams, and he agreed to join Fugaku and Rie.
• Several people from the Land of Lightning entered the shop, and A insulted Teuchi’s business as he left.
• Rie challenged A for muttering insults, and Teuchi instinctively prepared for a fight.
• Rinto arrived, recognized A as the Raikage’s son, and introduced him to Tsunade.
• Rinto ordered ramen, and when Teuchi said the shop was closed, he threatened to train him until Teuchi agreed to cook.

Rinto served as a proctor for the Chunin Exams’ first round, where his students used their abilities to cheat on the intelligence test. Jiraiya suspected them but failed to uncover how they did it, and the chapter ended with him finding Teuchi writing on a blank test paper.

• Sarutobi assigned Rinto to proctor all three rounds of the Chunin Exams, and Jiraiya announced the written test’s rules.
• Jiraiya and Rinto watched Rie sleep, Teuchi pretend to write, and Uchiha Fugaku copy an planted answer sheet.
• Fugaku used Tsukuyomi to make Teuchi memorize answers, but Jiraiya noticed their exhausted expressions without proving they had cheated.
• Teuchi used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to send his answers to Rie, who sent him a blank paper in return.
• Jiraiya checked Teuchi’s paper and discovered that it was completely blank.

After the second exam, four teams advanced to the arena round, where Rinto watched the first match and stopped the Iwagakure contestant after his victory. The next match began with Sakuta Rie facing A.

• Tsunade explained the scroll-and-tower rules for the second exam, and the Genin entered Training Ground 13.
• Rinto stayed outside with Tsunade, who explained that students could graduate early or remain at Ninja School after qualifying as Genin.
• Four teams passed the second exam and advanced to the arena round after a three-day rest.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi opened the matches at the Konoha Arena, while Meiko and Konoha Infinite Unlimited Company staff managed the spectators and Rinto ran the betting pools.
• An Iwagakure contestant defeated a Sunagakure contestant, and Rinto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to stop the winner and declare the match over.
• Orochimaru watched Rinto use the Flying Thunder God Technique, and the next match began between Sakuta Rie and A.

Rie defeated A in a one-move clash during the Chunin Exams, and Team Eleven’s members advanced to Chunin. Three days later, Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed the team’s records and wondered how Teuchi’s dream of opening a ramen shop fit with his extraordinary ninja training.

• Rie and A activated Lightning Style Chakra Mode and agreed to settle their match with one move.
• Rie activated the Third Inner Gate and defeated A with Lightning Scythe, sending him crashing into a wall.
• Rie celebrated with Teuchi and Fugaku, while Fugaku’s opponent collapsed under his genjutsu as soon as their match began.
• The third assessment ended, and Rie and two other finalists became Chunin before the visiting ninja returned home.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read Team Eleven’s records and noted Teuchi’s combat skills, loyalty, and stubborn dream of opening a ramen shop.

Hiruzen Sarutobi worried that Rinto was turning promising young people into oddballs, while Rinto played a prank on Jiraiya and a blond boy before visiting Danzo to claim the Earth Grudge Fear technique. Danzo denied having it and refused to hand it over, leaving Rinto threatening to take it by force.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi read about Uchiha Fugaku forcing two villagers to reconcile and resolved to keep Rinto away from promising youngsters.
• Rinto and Jiraiya challenged a blond boy to a takoyaki-eating contest, then Rinto used Transformation to embarrass him and make Jiraiya blush.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the prank through his crystal ball and wiped away a nosebleed.
• After saying goodbye to Jiraiya, Rinto traveled to Root Organization's underground base to demand the Earth Grudge Fear technique from Danzo.
• Danzo dismissed the Root members surrounding Rinto, denied possessing the technique, and refused to give it to him.
• Rinto noticed Danzo's black threads and threatened to use force if Danzo kept refusing.

Sakuta Rinto broke free of Shimura Danzō’s Shadow Binding Technique and defeated him with a punch, then made him Daimyo of the Land of Grass. Danzō realized the appointment would make him appear responsible for the Land of Grass mission and resolved to create a world without Rinto.

• Shimura Danzō used Earth Grudge Fear and the Shadow Binding Technique to immobilize Rinto, then tried to pierce his chest with black threads.
• Rinto’s Lightning Style Chakra Mode protected him from the threads, and he broke Danzō’s shadow control before striking him with a Serious Punch.
• Danzō’s hearts were destroyed by the blow, and he recoiled when Rinto offered to punch him again.
• Rinto pressed Danzō’s bloodstained hand onto a scroll appointing him Daimyo of the Land of Grass.
• Danzō realized the appointment could make him appear to have orchestrated the mission against the Land of Grass and resolved to create a world without Rinto.

Rinto used Earth Grudge Fear to open the first seven Inner Gates and briefly opened the Eighth Gate before the black threads burned away and his body sealed it shut. Three days later, he sensed the Third Mizukage heading toward the Land of Iron and suspected he was going to the Graveyard of Mountains, where Madara Uchiha might still be powerful.

• Rinto studied Danzo’s Earth Grudge Fear scroll and used its black threads to open the first seven Gates with Tsunade’s help.
• Rinto opened the first seven Gates in a deserted forest, then used Earth Grudge Fear to open the Gate of Death.
• Rinto’s black threads burned to ashes, his regenerative cells sealed the Gate of Death, and he collapsed into Tsunade’s arms.
• Three days later, Rinto sensed the Third Mizukage traveling toward the Land of Iron and connected his destination to the Graveyard of Mountains.
• Rinto recalled that Madara Uchiha could already have the Rinnegan and prepared for the possibility that Madara still had fighting strength.

Rinto traveled to the Land of Wind to request the One's Own Life Reincarnation technique, despite a black monster in his mental world struggling to stop him. At the Kazekage Building, he pressured the Third Kazekage into agreeing to hand over the secret technique by threatening to cut off the canal's water and demand the return of a hundred thousand people.

• Rinto recognized that the black monster was reacting to his plan to seek the One's Own Life Reincarnation and imprisoned it in a cage in his mental world.
• Rinto introduced himself to the Third Kazekage and asked to see the secret technique invented by the Second Kazekage.
• The Third Kazekage and Chiyo rejected Rinto's request and argued that the Land of Wind would not pay for the canal or return the workers.
• Rinto threatened to block or reroute the river, poison the water, and move the Land of Rain's defense and foreign affairs under Konoha's control.
• Rinto demanded the return of all hundred thousand people and an annual water fee of Three Hundred Million Ryo, while the Third Kazekage agreed to give him the technique in exchange for a discounted water fee.

Rinto returned to Kumogakure after securing a secret technique and an annual water-fee agreement in Sunagakure. He demonstrated Absolute Lightning Scythe with the Third Raikage, then told him he planned to send Matatabi back to the Temple of Wind and Thunder.

• Rinto obtained One's Own Life Reincarnation and agreed to pay the Third Kazekage 150 million Ryo annually for water before teleporting away.
• Rinto returned to Kumogakure and told Matatabi she would stay there while he traveled to Kirigakure, but she hesitated at his request.
• Rinto arrived at the Raikage's Office and found the Third Raikage, A, Blue B, Dodai, Yawai, and other Kumogakure officials preparing a Lightning Scythe demonstration.
• Rinto and the Third Raikage moved the demonstration outside and used Absolute Lightning Scythe together to cut off the rubber dummy's head.
• Rinto told the Third Raikage he planned to send Matatabi back to the Temple of Wind and Thunder, and the Raikage eagerly misunderstood his intentions.

Rinto arranged for Matatabi to stay at the Temple of Wind and Thunder while he undertook a secret mission, then requested a long leave from Konoha to travel to the Land of Water. Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the leave and told Rinto to send back important intelligence, while Rinto headed for the archive room to study forbidden techniques.

• Rinto persuaded the Third Raikage to let Matatabi stay at the Temple of Wind and Thunder for fifty million Ryo per year, with a Shadow Clone to keep her company.
• Rinto returned Matatabi to the Temple of Wind and Thunder and left a Shadow Clone with her before heading back to Konoha.
• Rinto asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for leave of three to nine years to expand his pig iron business in the Land of Water, investigate Kirigakure, and handle a matter in Amegakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved Rinto's leave and told him to send important intelligence back to Konoha.
• Rinto asked to visit the archive room, and Hiruzen Sarutobi warned him not to learn the Reaper Death Seal recklessly.

Rinto read the Scroll of Seals, memorized several forbidden techniques, and chose Water Release scrolls before visiting Danzo to announce he would leave the village for three to nine years. He rejected the prospect of becoming Hokage for several generations but left Danzo hopeful about claiming the Eighth Hokage position, while warning him not to involve Rinto’s people.

• Rinto returned to the library, memorized forbidden techniques from the Scroll of Seals, and took several Water Release scrolls.
• Rinto considered teaching Water Style: Heavenly Weeping to Rie after realizing it was essentially spitting water.
• Rinto visited Danzo and announced he planned to leave the village for three to nine years.
• Danzo asked whether Rinto would compete for the Fourth Hokage position, but Rinto rejected that and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh positions while saying he might consider the Eighth.
• Rinto warned Danzo not to involve his people in anything, and Danzo’s hopes of becoming Hokage reignited.

Rinto held a farewell barbecue before leaving for the Land of Water to investigate the Third Mizukage, telling Tsunade he might be gone for years. After Tsunade got drunk and revealed that Tobirama Senju had once asked her to watch Rinto, he carried her home to the Senju Main House.

• Rinto took Rie, Teuchi, and Uchiha Fugaku to an upscale barbecue restaurant to say goodbye before his departure.
• Tsunade joined them, and Rinto told her he planned to travel to the Land of Water to investigate the Third Mizukage and could be away for three to nine years.
• Teuchi shared his new ramen idea, and Rinto promised to try it when he returned.
• After the others left, Rinto supported a drunken Tsunade, who complained that he had not let her watch him as Tobirama Senju had requested.
• Rinto carried Tsunade to the Senju Main House, where an elderly woman ushered him inside and left him to take Tsunade to her bedroom.

Rinto infiltrated the Land of Water disguised as a sailor while Kirigakure’s Anbu investigated the cargo owner and his hired ninja. After assessing Kirigakure’s security, Rinto refined his plan to find Madara Uchiha and target his eyes.

• Rinto helped sail a cargo ship to an island near Kirigakure and joined the sailors as they went ashore.
• Reo, an Anbu member, questioned the captain and took his intelligence report on the cargo owner and the hired ninja.
• Rinto pretended to get drunk at an izakaya, then slipped out at night and went to the Sea Flower bathhouse inn.
• Rinto recalled that Kirigakure was much harder to infiltrate than Konoha or Kumogakure because of its many powerful clans.
• Rinto reviewed Madara Uchiha’s history and reasoned that Madara had likely awakened the Rinnegan before his claimed near-death fusion with Hashirama’s cells.

Rinto investigated Kirigakure and chose Suikazan Fuguki as his target while preparing to infiltrate the village. In Konoha, Danzo copied Rinto’s tactics to undermine the Uchiha Clan, and the resulting conflicts turned villagers against them.

• Rinto received a report that Kirigakure was closely watching his ship and detaining its cargo, then selected Suikazan Fuguki as his infiltration target.
• After a week, Rinto returned to the Land of Waves and began infiltrating Kirigakure, where he trained in the fog and tracked Suikazan Fuguki’s habits.
• Danzo decided to revive his plan to control the Uchiha Clan by praising them publicly, withdrawing Root surveillance, and letting the Konoha Guard Division handle conflicts without Anbu intervention.
• Over the following week, some Uchiha clansmen mishandled disputes, while those who acted fairly faced cold treatment from their clan.
• Konoha’s villagers grew so disgusted by the Uchiha-related conflicts and praise that the village’s food consumption fell by more than ten percent.

Danzō used the Uchiha dispute to avoid taking responsibility, then visited the Uchiha Clan Head to claim Root would not oppose the clan. He left smugly, unaware that someone watched him from the shadows.

• In the Hokage's Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Danzō about the Uchiha matter, and Danzō apologized and offered to resign as Root's manager.
• Hiruzen rejected Danzō's resignation because he could not easily replace him, so Danzō refused to advise or act against the Uchiha.
• The meeting ended without a decision, as the other Konoha leaders avoided risking their political reputations.
• Danzō went to Naka Shrine and told the Uchiha Clan Head that Root had ended its surveillance and would not become the clan's enemy while he remained in charge.
• Danzō left the shrine feeling pleased with himself, while a pair of blood-red eyes watched him from the shadows.

The Uchiha Clan Head confronted Kagami about his failure to secure more positions for clan members, then called a meeting to question whether Kagami deserved to bear the Uchiha name. Fugaku interrupted the Clan Head’s accusations, leaving the clan gathered at Naka Shrine as the dispute continued.

• The Uchiha Clan Head asked Kagami to request more patrol squad positions or Anbu placements, but Kagami said he had little influence and suggested clan members take missions.
• The Clan Head summoned the Uchiha Clan to Naka Shrine and questioned whether Kagami was a qualified clan member entitled to the Uchiha surname.
• The Clan Head accused Kagami of neglecting ordinary clan members despite his status as a Konoha High Council advisor.
• Fugaku objected when the Clan Head dragged him into the accusations, and the clan members turned to look at him.

Fugaku watched Kagami Uchiha get expelled from the Uchiha Clan, while Kagami resigned as Konoha High Council Advisor and resolved to focus on raising his child. Back in Konoha, Fugaku asked Rinto how to undermine the clan head, and Rinto advised him to strip away the man's veil of mystery.

• Fugaku dismissed the Uchiha Clan dispute as a struggle over power and left without taking sides when a Clan Elder asked for his support.
• The Uchiha Clan expelled Kagami Uchiha without punishing his wife, child, or supporters, though the decision divided the clan.
• Kagami told Hiruzen Sarutobi he understood the Hokage's constraints and resigned as Konoha High Council Advisor to raise his child.
• Rinto returned from Kirigakure to Konoha and found Rie and Fugaku waiting in his tea room.
• Fugaku asked Rinto how to strip the clan head of his power and influence, and Rinto told him to expose the man by removing his veil of mystery.