Chapter Summaries

Aburame Tetsumaru convinced Orochimaru to build an operation around his secret Mushroom Insect, and Konoha lured the Iwa Ninja into Mount Akagi’s tunnels. The insect’s sealed device detonated, destroying the mountain in a massive blast, and Tetsumaru proudly called the resulting cloud their planted mushroom.

• Aburame Tetsumaru demonstrated the Mushroom Insect and refused to test it, but Orochimaru trusted him and approved Shikaku’s plan to use it.
• Jiraiya led Konoha’s dawn attack, drove the Iwa Ninja into their tunnels, and covered Tetsumaru as he planted the concealed Mushroom Insect inside.
• Tetsumaru signaled the retreat while his enormous Insect Swarm advanced into the tunnels, and Jiraiya ordered the Konoha Ninja to withdraw without changing the plan.
• Orochimaru gathered the Konoha army at a safe distance, and Tetsumaru commanded the Mushroom Insect to open its scroll and trigger a chain reaction.
• The blast erupted through Mount Akagi, sending flames and a towering red-black mushroom cloud into the sky, and Tetsumaru said it was the mushroom they had planted.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Mushroom Insect devastated Mount Akagi, prompting the Hokage to leave Konoha and take command of the army at Dan-no-Ura Valley. As the Konoha and Iwa forces prepared for their decisive battle, the Five-Tails Jinchūriki entered the field.

• Aburame Tetsumaru’s Mushroom Insect destroyed Mount Akagi and killed the ninjas trapped there, leading Orochimaru to declare the mountain forbidden because of its lingering poison.
• Orochimaru redirected the Konoha army to Dan-no-Ura Valley after learning Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen was bringing reinforcements from Konoha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen reached the front, took command from Orochimaru, and rallied the Konoha Ninja before the decisive battle.
• Aburame Tetsumaru detected the Third Tsuchikage, the Third Raikage, and the Third Kazekage near the battlefield, along with a Jinchūriki in the Iwa camp.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Konoha Ninja displayed their Summoning Animals as Ōnoki raised earth mountains to bolster Iwa’s formation.
• Jonin Kuroiwa stepped from Ōnoki’s rock and released the Five-Tails Jinchūriki onto the battlefield.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Konoha’s summoned beasts battled the Five-Tails after Iwagakure unleashed it at the start of the confrontation. The fight remained unresolved, and Tetsumaru and Orochimaru considered how to overcome the beast’s stamina and recovery.

• The Five-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Aburame Tetsumaru’s Wind Giant Insect, which survived behind its defensive Wind Release but suffered severe damage to its shell.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used repeated Wind Cannons to batter and wound the Five-Tails, then struck Iwa Ninja who had intervened to help it.
• The Five-Tails charged through a wind vortex and impaled the Wind Giant Insect with its horns, while Aburame Tetsumaru was thrown into the air.
• Gamabunta, Manda, and Baku joined the Wind Giant Insect against the Five-Tails, while Konoha and Iwagakure forces began fighting along the sides of the valley.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told Orochimaru they would lose without a healer, and Orochimaru asked whether he had any Mahākāla Insects; Tetsumaru said he had Mushroom Insects instead.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Konoha’s summoned beasts used a Mushroom Insect to destroy the Five-Tails, turning the battle against the Iwa Ninja into a decisive defeat. The Iwa forces retreated, while the Hokage chose not to pursue them through Iwagakure’s dangerous mountain passes.

• Jiraiya and Gamabunta fought the Five-Tails while Orochimaru told them to hold it off until Aburame Tetsumaru could finish his plan.
• Jiraiya trapped the Five-Tails in Yomotsu Hirasaka as Tetsumaru’s Wind Giant Insect charged in with a Mushroom Insect in its mouth.
• The Mushroom Insect detonated inside the Five-Tails, creating a nuclear flash and a giant mushroom cloud that blinded observers from Suna and Kumogakure.
• Tetsumaru and Orochimaru collected the Five-Tails’ blood before leaving with Jiraiya to join the northeastern battlefield.
• Konoha’s forces routed the Iwa Ninja, who retreated toward the northwest and into the surrounding mountains.
• The Hokage declined to pursue the retreating Iwa Ninja through the mountain passes, judging that Konoha’s army could not conquer Iwagakure there.

Konoha pressured Ōnoki into surrender negotiations by displaying its strength and convincing him that Iwagakure could not keep fighting. The other Kage joined the talks, and the Dan-no-Ura Treaty ended the war, though Aburame Tetsumaru saw no meaningful limits on the other villages' ability to rebuild.

• The Hokage's Jonin Assembly failed to find a way to defeat Iwagakure outright, so Konoha sent Ōnoki an ultimatum demanding surrender.
• Ōnoki arrived at Konoha's camp, where Aburame Tetsumaru displayed seven fake Mahākāla Insects and nearly three hundred Jonin to intimidate him.
• Ōnoki realized Iwagakure could not continue the war, but negotiations were interrupted when the Kazekage and Raikage arrived and demanded to join them.
• The Hokage agreed to negotiate with all three villages, and the Tsuchikage welcomed the added pressure on Konoha.
• The three nations signed the Dan-no-Ura Treaty, formally acknowledging defeat and agreeing to compensation and other terms.
• Aburame Tetsumaru found no treaty provisions restricting the defeated villages' ninja numbers, academies, education, or ninja-tool production.

After returning to Konoha, Aburame Tetsumaru met with Elder Shihui and decided to leave for the Land of Tea. Root followed him to a vast island filled with strange insects, where Tetsumaru confronted the invading ninja and welcomed them to his territory.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected Shimura Danzō's demand to take control of Aburame Tetsumaru, recognizing both Tetsumaru's power and the difficulty of even finding his real body.
• Aburame Tetsumaru returned to Konoha, visited Elder Shihui, and said he would return to the Land of Tea to avoid conflict with Shimura Danzō.
• Aburame Tetsumaru encountered Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina, then spent the night talking with his parents before receiving an appointment order and leaving Konoha.
• Sixteen Root Ninja tracked Aburame Tetsumaru to an island in the Land of Tea and discovered immense insect swarms, strange pillars, and numerous giant insects.
• Aburame Tetsumaru appeared behind the Root Ninja holding the heads of their three support members and welcomed them to his territory.

Aburame Tetsumaru captured Root Ninja who trespassed on his territory, reorganized the Insect Swarm’s major projects, and transformed southern Land of Tea with special fungi. After learning that Aburame Aiko was pregnant, he planned to return to Konoha for the birth of his younger sibling.

• Aburame Tetsumaru defeated the Root Ninja, killing five and capturing eleven, including an Aburame clansman he wanted to study.
• Aburame Tetsumaru consolidated his work into five plans covering the Purple Tea Garden, aerospace, the Inner World, Insect Swarm units, and Bio-Armor.
• Four months later, Shimura Danzō demanded that the Hokage take action against Aburame Tetsumaru, but the Hokage revealed he had already approved Tetsumaru’s Land of Tea transformation plan.
• The Hokage explained that Tetsumaru’s fungi had helped transform southern Land of Tea and brought Konoha valuable income.
• Aburame Tetsumaru received a letter saying Aburame Aiko was pregnant and decided to arrange his work so he could return to Konoha for the birth.

Aburame Tetsumaru completed the first live test of his Katsuyu Bio-Armor, discovering severe control, joint, and weapon problems while exploring how the armor might support his Shadow Clones. He escaped only after the armor trapped him for twenty hours, then ordered the next test in ten days.

• Aburame Tetsumaru let the Mimic Bio-Cells cover him, then used the Eye of Truth, Chakra, and his Shadow Clones to tame them and form the bio-armor.
• The armor sealed Aburame Tetsumaru’s mouth and nose and fused at the joints, so he broke free and identified problems with its breathing holes and protein armor.
• Aburame Tetsumaru tested the Streamer Sword, Vibration Sword, Sonic Wave weapon, Spray Bugs, and Wing-Flapping Bugs, but rejected the Thunder Serpent Bug as a weak main weapon.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that he wanted Katsuyu Bio-Armor to provide Chakra and protection for his Shadow Clones, enabling the Avatar Plan and further research into External Incarnations.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clones failed to open the armor for twenty hours, then dissolved it with a backup solution and freed him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered his clothes had also been dissolved, put on a lab coat, and ordered the Shadow Clones to prepare a new test in ten days.

Aburame Tetsumaru tested the completed Katsuyu Bio-Armor, then collapsed under the mental burden of a returning soul’s memories and used a conference to reorganize his projects. After launching the Avatar Project and planning heavy-industry reforms, he learned that foreign ninja had killed everyone in Awaji Village.

• Aburame Tetsumaru tested the Katsuyu Bio-Armor, confirmed its strength and speed, and named the finalized suit Bio-Armor I.
• Aburame Tetsumaru collapsed after receiving the memories of Angela von Altenburg, whose life spanned decades of industrial work and ended during a zombie outbreak in Japan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and his Shadow Clones concluded that returning memories had overwhelmed him and made reducing the number of active Shadow Clones necessary.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s conference approved the Avatar Project as a top priority, assigned twenty Shadow Clones to it, and began planning heavy-industry and Mother Hive redesigns.
• Several elderly farmers told Aburame Tetsumaru that foreign ninja had killed everyone in Awaji Village.

Aburame Tetsumaru investigated a massacre in Awaji Village and found a rogue Kirigakure Shinobi carrying Kubikiribōchō, whom he killed with his Mantises. He then fought a masked Ice Release shinobi and survived being frozen, leaving him shaken by how close his anger and overconfidence had brought him to death.

• Aburame Tetsumaru heard that people in Awaji Village had been killed and set out to find the culprit.
• Aburame Tetsumaru followed the rogue Kirigakure Shinobi’s tracks and crushed him beneath a charge of giant Mantises in the Hidden Mist Technique.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decapitated the rogue shinobi with Kubikiribōchō, then faced a masked Kirigakure Anbu who attacked with Ice Release.
• Aburame Tetsumaru smashed through the Anbu’s Ice Clones, but the Anbu’s freezing ninjutsu turned him into an ice sculpture as he struck back.
• Aburame Tetsumaru thawed after five minutes and realized his anger and carelessness had nearly gotten him killed.

After a reckless battle, Aburame Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clones forced him into seclusion and helped conceal the Land of Tea incident. While tracking Kirigakure traces, Tetsumaru discovered that a disguised young ninja was Shennong, a surviving Sky Ninja with access to an enormous Aerial Fortress, and prepared a careful ambush.

• Three hundred and seven Shadow Clones held an assembly, blamed Tetsumaru’s recklessness on possible mental contamination, and voted to confine him until he recovered.
• Tetsumaru sealed the Ice Release ninja’s corpse in a crystal coffin, destroyed the battlefield evidence, and altered witnesses’ memories of when the incident occurred.
• After emerging from seclusion, Tetsumaru tracked Kirigakure traces along the coast and noticed a disguised young man’s hatred of Konohagakure.
• Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clone followed the young man into the Land of Fire, where he introduced himself as Shennong after treating a wounded hunter.
• Tetsumaru learned Shennong was a surviving Sky Ninja and found an enormous Aerial Fortress, then used assembly authorization to resume surveillance without violating his clones’ restrictions.
• After locating Shennong’s hidden cave and inspecting the fortress’s master control system, Tetsumaru positioned two Insect Clones and created a Shadow Clone to help ambush him.

Aburame Tetsumaru killed Shennong, destroyed the Sky Village, and secured the Aerial Fortress core, but his long-lived Shadow Clones discovered that their accumulated emotions were pushing him toward schizophrenia. After agreeing to focus on a shared dream of reaching the moon, Tetsumaru began organizing the effort, only for the clones to propose founding a communications company instead.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used clones to kill Shennong, while his Mantises and Shadow Clones captured and destroyed the Sky Village.
• Aburame Tetsumaru established a concealed base on Sky Ninja Island and found that he could use the Aerial Fortress core's gravity-defying power, though he could not understand its workings.
• At their Third Aburame Tetsumaru Conference, the Shadow Clones concluded that their long-term emotional experiences were driving the original body toward schizophrenia and proposed uniting around a shared ideal.
• After receiving the clones' consensus, Aburame Tetsumaru recognized that his behavior had changed and decided to prioritize a moon landing, even if it meant fighting the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Shadow Clones agreed to concentrate their efforts on the moon, then answered Aburame Tetsumaru's question about their next step by proposing the Land of Fire Unicom Company.

Aburame Tetsumaru established a communications company to raise money for his research and negotiated Phone Snail sales with Konoha and Root. After Root tried to detain him, he used the Hokage’s intervention to secure purchases from both organizations, leaving him with money and research supplies.

• Aburame Tetsumaru completed the satellite network and planned to sell long-range, private-call Phone Snails to fund his research and black-market connections.
• Aburame Tetsumaru returned to Konoha after the Hokage approved his report about killing a Kirigakure rogue ninja and taking Kubikiribōchō.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gave his classmates new Phone Snails, then realized they preferred the old models because the new ones lacked group chats.
• A Root ninja summoned Aburame Tetsumaru in the Hokage’s name, but Tetsumaru sent a Shadow Clone home with Aburame Aiko and let the clone vanish from Root’s interrogation room.
• Aburame Tetsumaru confronted Shimura Danzō in Sarutobi Hiruzen’s office and presented Phone Snail purchasing plans, including a monthly prepaid option.
• Root bought six hundred Phone Snails on prepaid terms, while Sarutobi Hiruzen separately purchased Snails for the Anbu with money and supplies.

Aburame Tetsumaru returned to the Land of Tea after his younger brother was born and took charge of Aburame Masao and a group of abandoned children at the Mother Hive. After testing the Sage Art Bio-Armor, he began advancing plans for an eventual war against the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon, where transport capacity and overwhelming firepower remained major problems.

• Aburame Aiko gave birth to a boy, and Aburame Kazekazu struggled through the first month of caring for him before Aburame Tetsumaru left Konoha for the Land of Tea.
• Aburame Tetsumaru returned to the Purple Fungal Grassland and accepted Aburame Masao, a Root Ninja and his missing cousin, as a worker at the Mother Hive.
• Aburame Tetsumaru assigned Aburame Masao responsibility for more than a hundred abandoned children and promised to send him trained assistants.
• Aburame Tetsumaru's Shadow Clones tested the improved Sage Art Bio-Armor and confirmed that it could replenish Chakra, though the test subject could not use Wood Release afterward.
• Aburame Tetsumaru prioritized the Lunar War Plan, outlining satellite deployment, lunar exploration, and an invasion whose success depended on transporting troops and firepower to the moon.

Aburame Tetsumaru solved the lunar invasion’s transport problem with the Summoning Technique and expanded industrial production to prepare the army. After the Otsutsuki Clan destroyed several satellites, the Aburame Tetsumarus voted unanimously to retaliate, beginning a fierce battle for lunar orbit that left both sides short of weapons and supplies.

• Aburame Tetsumaru’s team chose to launch him into orbit by rocket so he could summon the Insect Swarm there, then repeat the process from the Moon to deliver the main force.
• Aburame Tetsumaru led the Industrial Group in improving Mother Hive production, raising Mantis output to twelve hundred per day while Giant Insect production remained insufficient.
• An avatar from the Satellite Group informed Aburame Tetsumaru that the Otsutsuki Clan had shot down three satellites and sent a puppet into orbit to hunt the survivors.
• Aburame Tetsumaru convened a call with his avatars, and all three hundred and forty-eight participants voted to retaliate and begin the war.
• An armed satellite destroyed an Otsutsuki puppet with a Railgun shot, then collapsed from recoil as lunar weapons attacked the remaining satellites.
• After six hours of fighting, both sides had lost most of their orbital forces and firepower, but continued rushing supplies in hopes of gaining orbital control.

The Otsutsuki clan and Aburame Tetsumaru’s insect forces began a turn-based war in orbit, trading attacks and adapting their weapons after each battle. The Otsutsuki achieved a major victory with coordinated ground-and-sky combat, while Tetsumaru’s side remained confident as the Mother Hive rapidly increased production.

• The Otsutsuki Grand Elder discovered monsters approaching the moon and ordered the clan to prepare for battle, though their Tenseigan could no longer attack.
• The Otsutsuki used the Seven-Colored Light Platforms and puppets to defeat the first wave of monsters, but four clan members died and the platforms were damaged.
• Aburame Tetsumaru summoned Work Insects, Satellite Insects, and 113 Armed Insects, then began building a temporary space station in orbit.
• Both sides revised their forces after successive battles: the Otsutsuki adapted their puppets for aerial combat, while Tetsumaru adjusted the Armed Insects’ armor, mobility, and firepower.
• The Otsutsuki won a later battle using coordinated heaven-and-earth combat, while Tetsumaru and his Avatars remained confident as insect production surged.

Aburame Tetsumaru learned that the Otsutsuki were running short on supplies and prepared to counterattack, but an Otsutsuki elder fused with a puppet and devastated the Insect Swarm’s heavy weapons. The chapter left Tetsumaru’s side preparing its own hero unit by sending an Avatar to merge with Bio-Armor, risking the Avatar’s permanent loss.

• Kushina killed a Kumogakure kidnapper, and the conflict ended with Kumogakure releasing captives and Danzo securing compensation for Konoha.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that the Otsutsuki were buying huge quantities of supplies through the Earth-Moon Passage and offered a reward to locate it.
• The Great Elder allowed his hot-tempered brother to merge with a puppet and attack the Insect Swarm’s front line.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s forces discussed a counterattack, with reserves of Sky Insects and Thunder Giant Insects ready to deploy.
• The fused Otsutsuki puppet destroyed nine pairs of Thunder Giant Insects, forcing the Insect Swarm to retreat under heavy losses.
• An Avatar volunteered to merge with Bio-Armor and counter the Otsutsuki hero unit, leaving Aburame Tetsumaru facing the possibility of losing one of himself forever.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Avatars trapped and destroyed an Otsutsuki elder’s puppet with adhesive and coordinated Railgun fire, but a more powerful puppet emerged through a Portal as they withdrew. Two Avatars stayed behind to confront it while the other three fled.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and his Avatars assessed the elder puppet’s Tenseigan-enhanced Repulsive Force, armor, and support, then planned a glue trap and sniper attack.
• The Otsutsuki elder returned to battle, charged into a giant insect, and became trapped in an adhesive ball after the insect exploded.
• The Great Elder replenished the trapped puppet’s Repulsive Force, but five Avatars fired Streamers through the glue and destroyed it.
• The Avatars began withdrawing and collected the Otsutsuki corpse fragments and insect remains for recovery.
• A massive puppet with powerful Tenseigan energy stepped through a Portal, and two Avatars stopped to face it while the other three fled.

Aburame Tetsumaru and his avatars tested the Otsutsuki enemy’s abilities and devised a high-speed tungsten-rod attack while the Otsutsuki Grand Elder pressed toward their Space Station. The plan reached its decisive moment when the Grand Elder’s puppet suddenly exploded, killing him.

• Aburame Tetsumaru received intense impressions of other avatars’ wills and built deceleration rings to save three avatars returning at extreme speed.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered seven Rocket Insects to launch Mushroom Eggs, but only one detonated; it forced the enemy to retreat temporarily and destroyed thousands of puppets.
• The Tactical Group avatar sacrificed himself while testing the enemy’s Repulsive Force, allowing Aburame Tetsumaru’s team to measure its range and strength.
• The Otsutsuki Grand Elder returned to battle despite radiation damage, while Aburame Tetsumaru’s team planned a tungsten-rod strike delivered at extreme speed and sent the original body away from danger.
• After the Otsutsuki Grand Elder advanced toward the Space Station and prepared a powerful attack, his puppet exploded beneath its head, killing him without pain.

After the Otsutsuki lost their strongest puppets, the Insect Swarm pushed them into a prolonged stalemate, and the Aburame Tetsumarus reviewed the war and planned improvements. Aburame Tetsumaru then set out to complete a major Konoha mission to deliver Giant Insects, while keeping his larger plans against the Otsutsuki in motion.

• The Insect Swarm defeated the Otsutsuki puppets’ resistance and grew to five hundred thousand insects and three thousand Thunder Giant Insects, but the war settled into guerrilla attacks and a slow advance.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus held a delayed Snail Phone conference, praised their performance, and agreed to develop hero units, imaging radar, and better mobility through the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The group planned to expand its abilities and weapons, including biological computers, real Avatars, and research into Dust Release and high-energy particle cannons; they named the distant brother Dice.
• Aburame Tetsumaru learned that Konoha had assigned him a mission to deliver at least one million Giant Insects within two months, and he prepared to carry it out.
• Aburame Tetsumaru resolved to keep a low profile and continue pressuring the Otsutsuki until they submitted, hoping to obtain their Giant Tenseigan, techniques, and other inherited treasures.