Chapter Summaries

After returning to Konoha, Aburame Tetsumaru established his own household and prepared a secure place to investigate the growing connection with his Avatars. He discovered that the connection created a shared Soul Sanctuary where he and his Avatars could meet, and learned they could leave it freely.

• Aburame Tetsumaru led two million insects to Konoha, bought a vacant house, and visited his family for dinner.
• Aburame Tetsumaru settled into Konoha and monitored Namikaze Minato while preparing a protected house for his investigation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru activated the mysterious connection with his Avatars and found himself in a void with hundreds of their figures.
• Aburame Tetsumaru imagined a Pantheon, and a palace with seats for all 339 Avatars appeared around him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru identified the place as their Soul Sanctuary, then discovered that Avatars could enter and exit it freely.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Insect Swarm forced the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon to surrender after mushroom bombs devastated the lunar surface, and he learned that a civil war had left their young critically injured. He arranged their rescue and began planning a zero-gravity laboratory and giant warship factory using the Tenseigan’s power.

• Aburame Tetsumaru confirmed that time passed normally in the Soul Sanctuary and continued investigating how its spirit-based existence might relate to immortality.
• In July of Konoha Year 42, Aburame Tetsumaru brought over a million Sky Insects and three thousand Thunder Giant Insects to lunar orbit and offered the Otsutsuki Clan generous surrender terms.
• The Otsutsuki Clan refused to surrender, so Aburame Tetsumaru planted two Mushroom Bombs on the moon; after the resulting quakes shattered the surface and damaged the Castle, the clan surrendered unconditionally.
• The Otsutsuki elders told Aburame Tetsumaru that a Branch Family uprising had killed the Main Family and left twenty-seven young people critically injured by the Tenseigan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru moved the young Otsutsuki to the Shinobi World and placed them in the Mother Hive’s blood pools, where their condition improved.
• Aburame Tetsumaru planned to use the Otsutsuki laborers and the Tenseigan to build a zero-gravity laboratory and a factory for giant warships at the Earth-moon Lagrange Point.

Aburame Tetsumaru oversaw the growing Spherical Sea, calibrated its zero-gravity laboratory, and reflected on his Avatars’ shared identity. As his Soul Orb expanded far beyond an ordinary person’s, the chapter left him increasingly distinct from everyone else in the Shinobi World.

• One hundred ants delivered seawater to the Spherical Sea, bringing it to five kilometers across, while Aburame Tetsumaru told the five Otsutsuki Elders that the project would require much more work.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the moon and considered visiting Might Duy after realizing how long it had been since he last checked on him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and two Avatars calibrated the zero-gravity laboratory, and their calculations eventually produced a formula that matched all three hundred measured coordinates.
• The exhausted Avatars left to rest, while Aburame Tetsumaru reflected on their independent personalities and confirmed that their core beliefs remained unified with his own.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that his Soul Orb had grown to nearly one hundred times an ordinary person’s size, lifting several closely connected Soul Light Orbs with it.

Aburame Tetsumaru welcomed Might Duy and his son Might Guy, then agreed to join Duy on a high-paying escort mission so Duy could support his family. After discovering the mission had also served as a test of his loyalty, Tetsumaru secured it directly from the Hokage and returned home to study Minato’s Flying Thunder God improvements.

• Aburame Tetsumaru hosted Might Duy and Might Guy, who visited him after he returned to Konoha.
• Might Duy told Tetsumaru that he could not afford the weighted steel ingots he had promised Guy and needed a Jonin teammate for a well-paid escort mission to Takigakure.
• Tetsumaru agreed to team up with Duy and examined his battered body, considering whether his Eight Inner Gates might inspire a technique for insects.
• Tetsumaru learned that an Anbu had reported his meeting with Duy to the Hokage, and he concluded that Konoha’s leaders were testing and monitoring him.
• The Hokage approved Tetsumaru’s mission team despite Shimura Danzō’s objections, and Tetsumaru returned home with the assignment secured.
• Tetsumaru planned to continue studying Namikaze Minato’s improved Flying Thunder God Technique.

Aburame Tetsumaru escorted Minister Fujiga Chikamoto and Konoha representative Yamanaka Sake toward Takigakure, but a group of elusive insect-using ninja attacked them. Tetsumaru identified the attackers as the Xuanyuan Clan and discovered their parasites could consume Chakra and explode inside their hosts, leaving the escort facing a dangerous new enemy.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and Might Duy accepted an A-rank escort mission to protect Fujiga Chikamoto and his letter of state, and Tetsumaru told Duy to stay quiet so he would seem intimidating.
• Tetsumaru's party joined Yamanaka Sake and the next generation's Ino-Shika-Cho, along with a hidden Anbu escort, after Tetsumaru recognized the mission had been deliberately arranged around him.
• After the group left the Land of Fire, Tetsumaru summoned thirty giant mantises to pursue five insect-using ninja who attacked them, but the enemies escaped using unusual secret techniques.
• Tetsumaru discovered that the mantises had been infected by parasites that consumed their Chakra and caused internal explosions, then removed the parasites and tested how they grew.
• Tetsumaru identified the attackers as the Xuanyuan Clan, mercenary ninja known as ninja who hunt ninja, and warned that their parasites were deadly to anyone they infected.

Aburame Tetsumaru subdued five rogue ninja, named them the Xuanyuan Clan, and ordered them to gather information on their explosive insects. When Root tried to seize the group and attack him, Tetsumaru fought back and unleashed more than a hundred Mantis, leaving the Xuanyuan Clan surrounded and terrified.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used a Shadow Clone to ambush the five rogue ninja and forced them to join the Xuanyuan Clan under his command.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gave the Xuanyuan Clan a Snail Phone and ordered them to collect information about the explosive insects planted on his insects.
• Root ninja confronted Aburame Tetsumaru and demanded that he hand over the Xuanyuan Clan, threatening his family.
• Aburame Tetsumaru killed four Root ninja with his armor and chain swords, then endured the Root team's coordinated ninjutsu attack.
• Aburame Tetsumaru summoned more than a hundred Mantis, which overwhelmed the Root ninja while the Xuanyuan Clan trembled amid the insects.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Avatar helped secure an alliance between Konoha and the Land of Waterfalls, then joined the return journey with a Takigakure delegation. Near the Land of Fire’s border, a rogue Takigakure ninja killed two Jonin and threatened the group, leaving the Takigakure Elder to recognize him in terror.

• Aburame Tetsumaru’s Avatar reunited with the Konoha squad after driving off the Koga Clan without killing anyone.
• Yamanaka Yu and Fujiga Chikamoto finalized an alliance treaty with the Land of Waterfalls, and Yamanaka Sake later visited Takigakure with the Ino-Shika-Cho trio.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Might Duy accompanied Fujiga Chikamoto while watching Takigakure’s secret entrance and shopping in the capital.
• Yamanaka Sake returned with a Takigakure Elder and two Jonin, whose dismissive conduct toward Aburame Tetsumaru angered Might Duy.
• Near the Land of Fire’s border, Jonin Aoki and Shasui attacked a rogue Takigakure ninja, but he killed them with strange threads and declared the rest of the group his mission targets.
• The Takigakure Elder recognized the rogue ninja, who recalled Takigakure’s past and said he might return to kill everyone there.

Aburame Tetsumaru and the Konoha ninja fought Kakuzu, whose bounty and powerful ninjutsu overwhelmed the Ino-Shika-Cho trio. As Tetsumaru’s original body joined the battle, Kakuzu unleashed his masks, and Might Duy opened the Seventh Gate and struck him, destroying two masks and crippling his chances of victory.

• Kakuzu attacked the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, but Yamanaka Inoichi, Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, and Yamanaka Sake repeatedly restrained him before Kakuzu scattered them with Wind Release.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used an Insect Torrent to protect Nara Shikaku while the others escaped with the mission’s important passengers.
• Tetsumaru summoned his original body and three hundred Mantis, and the two Tetsumarus wounded Kakuzu and severed his arm and leg.
• Kakuzu drove back the insects with combined Wind and Fire Release, while Tetsumaru’s Avatar arranged to preserve Kakuzu’s severed hand as research material.
• Kakuzu revealed his five masks and bombarded the battlefield with elemental ninjutsu, forcing Tetsumaru to consider summoning larger insects.
• Might Duy opened the Seventh Gate and charged Kakuzu, tearing away his right shoulder and shattering his Fire Release and Lightning Release masks.

Aburame Tetsumaru rescued Might Duy, then tracked down and captured Kakuzu for research after a battle that nearly burned him to death. Kakuzu described the loneliness and loss of taste that came with his immortality, but Tetsumaru still smiled, leaving his intentions unchanged.

• Aburame Tetsumaru stabilized Might Duy's injuries and arranged to take him back to Konoha for treatment.
• Aburame Tetsumaru pursued Kakuzu for three days and cornered him in the Land of Grass with the help of aerial surveillance and fifteen Avatars.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus immobilized Kakuzu with Sonic Cannons and struck him with a Plasma Lightning Orb, then sealed his surviving body in Nutrient Solution.
• Kakuzu awakened in the container and asked Aburame Tetsumaru why he had captured him; Tetsumaru said he wanted the hope of immortality.
• Kakuzu recounted how Earth Grudge Fear had made him a lonely monster who could taste only blood, then asked whether Tetsumaru still wanted that immortality.
• Aburame Tetsumaru grinned at Kakuzu's warning.

After completing the mission and rewarding Might Duy, Aburame Tetsumaru’s group committed to beginning interplanetary travel while preparing the infrastructure to support it. Meanwhile, Kakuzu regained a faint sense of hope in captivity, prompting the Aburame Tetsumarus to narrowly approve telling him the truth and offering him a place among them.

• Aburame Tetsumaru closed out the A-rank mission for 260,000 ryo, then gave Might Duy his share and weighted metal, delighting Duy and Might Guy.
• Aburame Tetsumaru reflected on the worsening conditions among ordinary people as the Third Shinobi World War approached and concluded that his group should focus on leaving the Shinobi World.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus approved a maiden voyage to the nearest planet and assigned the rest of their group to expand their space infrastructure.
• Kakuzu overheard the Aburame Tetsumarus discussing their plans while confined in a container, and his fading will to live began to return.
• After monitoring Kakuzu’s improving mental state, the Aburame Tetsumarus narrowly voted to stop pretending and reveal their plans to him, hoping he would join them.

Aburame Tetsumaru showed Kakuzu the Aburame civilization’s vast insect forces, space station, and Spherical Sea, then asked him to join them. Kakuzu was left facing a new life among them while Tetsumaru returned to struggling to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Aburame Tetsumaru revived Kakuzu, introduced himself, and led him through a living passage into the purple insect world.
• Kakuzu witnessed a Thunder Giant Insect emerge and feed, then rode a Rocket Insect into space, where the Aburame Tetsumarus accidentally exposed him to vacuum before rescuing him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sent Kakuzu toward the moon, and Kakuzu discovered the enormous Spherical Sea and its insect-maintained ecosystem.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the Spherical Sea shielded their space facilities from dangerous Meteors and showed Kakuzu a growing biological spacecraft.
• Aburame Tetsumaru asked Kakuzu to join them, while another Tetsumaru considered recruiting members of Akatsuki and then returned to studying Namikaze Minato’s Flying Thunder God Technique.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s first interplanetary spaceship launched successfully and carried Dice and the expedition crew to Purple Thunder Star. After satellite deployments failed in the planet’s violent lightning storms, the landing pods reached the surface, where Dice confirmed the landing and described the orange-red sky.

• Aburame Tetsumaru launched the first spaceship as the gathered members of his system watched and celebrated its successful departure.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Aerospace Group monitored the voyage toward Purple Thunder Star, whose thick, electrically charged atmosphere gave it a vivid purple appearance.
• Dice reported that the spaceship’s speed, heading, energy reserves, and hull condition were normal while complaining about the cramped cockpit.
• The spaceship reached Purple Thunder Star, adjusted into orbit, and failed nine times to deploy remote-sensing satellites because of the planet’s dense lightning.
• Dice landed successfully in a landing pod and reported that Purple Thunder Star had an orange-red sky lit by constant lightning.

Namikaze Minato advanced his Flying Thunder God training while the Aburame Tetsumarus planned new research into basic science and Uchiha bloodlines. After discovering a dead God Tree on Purple Thunder Star, they recognized the threat of cosmic Otsutsuki and chose to continue exploring bravely.

• Namikaze Minato practiced his modified Flying Thunder God Technique, and he told Uzumaki Kushina he would propose once he could use it in battle.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus agreed to expand microscopic research and create astronomy and life-secrets groups.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus proposed recruiting Uchiha through a hidden system or mentor and studying bloodline diseases through a public medical research project.
• The Space Group alerted the Aburame Tetsumarus that explorers had found a dead God Tree on Purple Thunder Star, confirming that cosmic Otsutsuki had once visited the planet.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus recognized the possibility of an Otsutsuki attack but agreed to continue exploring without hesitation.

Aburame Tetsumaru tested interstellar summoning and the Flying Thunder God Technique to overcome Purple Thunder Star’s supply problems, then calculated a new teleportation formula. He recognized it as resembling the mathematics of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge and was left questioning how the techniques could cross such a space.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and his counterparts accelerated their expansion after learning of the Otsutsuki threat, but the spacecraft’s slow unloading of supplies on Purple Thunder Star became a major obstacle.
• An Avatar successfully summoned a small Locust across forty-three million kilometers, while Aburame Tetsumaru used a large Chakra expenditure to summon a Mantis from Purple Thunder Star to the Valley of the End.
• Dice began building Sealing Arrays on Purple Thunder Star and the Moon, and Aburame Tetsumaru used the Flying Thunder God Technique to cross fifty-three million kilometers to Purple Thunder Star, arriving at the recorded time with severe injuries.
• Dice and the Avatars began constructing a Mother Hive beneath the remains of the God Tree while Aburame Tetsumaru recovered, and he watched the planet’s lightning tide illuminate the cloud dome.
• Aburame Tetsumaru tested summoning, analyzed the interstellar teleportation data, and derived a formula that guided a new approach to the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Aburame Tetsumaru recognized the formula as the mathematical description of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge and wondered how he could have passed through a region that theory suggested was impassable.

Aburame Tetsumaru refined the Flying Thunder God Technique, checked the Moon Base, and organized plans to train young Uchiha and Hyuga candidates. Uchiha Sanae then activated a blood-bound magatama that revealed a personal system listing her condition, points, and purchasable techniques.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used his improved Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Moon, inspected the Moon Base and its Mass Driver construction, then returned to Konoha.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Avatars selected Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Qian, and Uchiha Sanae as Old Man Plan candidates, assigning Politician to educate Itachi.
• Aburame Tetsumaru claimed responsibility for Hyuga Hinata's education, while an Avatar volunteered to educate Hyuga Neji if they could address the Caged Bird seal.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus formed a Game Planning Group to design missions and rewards for their systems before the exhausted Aburame Tetsumaru left to rest.
• Uchiha Sanae finished shuriken practice with injured hands, and her blood activated the magatama she had bought, displaying a personal system with her status, points, and purchasable skills.

Uchiha Sanae and Uchiha Qian gained mysterious help that advanced their training, while Aburame Tetsumaru expanded his preparations against the Otsutsuki threat by moving his base underwater. The chapter ended with the deep-sea Mother Hive nearing maturity as Tetsumaru awaited nuclear reactors for the site.

• Uchiha Sanae activated the magatama’s healing effect, recovering from accumulated injuries and deciding to hold onto the object that had changed her fate.
• The Aburame Tetsumarus assessed their handmade system and planned upgrades so the magatama could monitor and assist Sanae without their manual intervention.
• Uchiha Qian began sneaking out at night to train under a retired ninja who had noticed his talent and hinted at knowing how to awaken the Sharingan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru chose the deep seabed near the Land of Water as a fallback base against possible Otsutsuki attacks and prepared spacecraft as an escape route.
• Aburame Tetsumaru descended to the undersea construction site, where a Mother Hive was developing near a volcanic vent, and learned its main body would mature in two days.
• The construction Avatar reported that nuclear fuel reactors would arrive in ten days to power the underwater Mother Hives at sites without volcanoes.

Aburame Tetsumaru redirected his Mother Hive expansion toward the Land of Water and discovered a way to detect White Zetsu with selenium-iron Mycelium. After capturing one of White Zetsu’s hands, he decided to use Uchiha Obito as bait to catch a living specimen.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and his Avatars planned to expand Mother Hives around the Land of Water and seek its powerful Kekkei Genkai.
• Aburame Tetsumaru traced White Zetsu’s underground route through Konoha to the Uchiha Clan compound, Uchiha Obito’s house, and Rin’s house.
• Aburame Tetsumaru tested selenium-iron alloy and confirmed it could interfere with White Zetsu’s Mayfly Technique, but White Zetsu escaped after leaving behind a hand.
• Aburame Tetsumaru abandoned the slow process of laying Mycelium filaments and greeted Namikaze Minato, intending to use Uchiha Obito as bait.
• Namikaze Minato recognized Aburame Tetsumaru and told Uchiha Obito that he was a powerful Elite Jonin with a notable war record.

Aburame Tetsumaru monitored Namikaze Minato’s squad while waiting for White Zetsu to appear, and White Zetsu’s trail finally led him toward the squad’s first mission with Hatake Kakashi. The mission ended with Minato swiftly killing the fleeing bandits, leaving Kakashi stunned by his captain’s speed.

• Aburame Tetsumaru watched Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Obito, and Rin and arranged for his Avatars and Shadow Clones to monitor them, especially Obito.
• Namikaze Minato brought Hatake Kakashi into his squad, and the team left Konoha for a C-rank mission against mountain bandits.
• Aburame Tetsumaru followed the squad and found fresh underground Mycelium traces of White Zetsu, confirming that White Zetsu had been following Obito.
• Kakashi and Obito charged into the bandits while Rin killed several, but their disorganized fighting let many bandits flee and left Obito wounded and Rin vomiting.
• Namikaze Minato killed the remaining bandits in moments, and Hatake Kakashi reevaluated his captain after failing to see his movements.

Aburame Tetsumaru captured two White Zetsu but lacked the manpower to study them, so he brought one to Orochimaru and negotiated an exchange. He left with Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu research and a communication snake, while Orochimaru refused the Snail Phone.

• Minato led Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Rin back toward Konoha, unaware that Aburame Tetsumaru had captured White Zetsu beneath the battlefield.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s Avatars realized they had no one available to research the two captured White Zetsu and agreed to seek outside help from Orochimaru.
• A few days later, Aburame Tetsumaru met Orochimaru and showed him a living White Zetsu that could use Wood Release.
• Orochimaru agreed to give Aburame Tetsumaru the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and his White Zetsu research data in exchange for money, materials, and supplies.
• Aburame Tetsumaru left with two scrolls and a small snake for communication after Orochimaru firmly rejected his offer of a Snail Phone.

Uchiha Sanae won first place at the Ninja Academy’s public graduation tournament, defeating Hyuga Deyuan in the opening match and overwhelming every subsequent opponent. Sarutobi Hiruzen offered her a B-rank ninjutsu, and she asked to learn Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.

• Konoha turned the graduation exam into a public arena tournament and offered prizes to raise morale during the ongoing war.
• Aburame Tetsumaru watched the tournament alongside Konoha’s leaders while other Aburame Tetsumarus complained from the crowd.
• Shimura Danzō showed hostility toward Uchiha Sanae, and the opening match paired her with Hyuga Deyuan.
• Sanae used her speed and unusual weapons to defeat Deyuan instantly, then swept through the tournament without using ninjutsu.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen offered Sanae a B-rank ninjutsu as her first-place reward, and she requested Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.