Chapter Summaries

Genma worried that Yana’s hidden power would attract dangerous attention, especially from Danzo’s Root, and planned to help her learn to control it while keeping her with Riya. He told Riya that he had rescued Yana from Orochimaru’s laboratory and warned that she might have a special ability, but had not yet explained the connection to the First Hokage.

• Yana rejected Genma’s hope that she would call him her older brother, insisting that she only wanted Riya as her mother.
• Genma considered the risks of Yana’s uncontrolled power and Danzo’s interest, then planned to tell Riya and later teach Yana to control her abilities.
• Genma failed to speak privately with Riya that evening because Yana insisted on sleeping beside her.
• The next morning, Riya apologized to Genma for troubling him, and he encouraged her to complete Yana’s adoption.
• Genma told Riya that he had rescued Yana from Orochimaru’s laboratory and discovered her special ability there; when he brought up the First Hokage, Riya demanded that he explain the connection.

Genma and Riya investigated Yana’s health and discovered she had no free First Hokage cells, while Genma warned that her abilities could make her a target. Five months later, Genma had learned to transport another person with Flying Thunder God, but his progress in both that technique and swordsmanship had stalled.

• Genma told Riya that Yana’s experiment involved First Hokage Lord’s cells and warned that revealing a successful fusion could make Yana too important to remain with their family.
• Riya decided to adopt Yana and, with Genma’s help, set up a laboratory to examine her while keeping her condition private.
• Riya’s examination found no free First Hokage cells in Yana’s body, only unusually lively cells; Genma and Riya agreed to limit her outings and help her control her power.
• Genma continued studying Flying Thunder God, training in the Land of Iron, and caring for Yana as he worried that Kakashi’s disappearance meant Kushina might be pregnant.
• Five months later, Genma mastered using Flying Thunder God to transport another person, but his technique and swordsmanship reached a plateau, and his mentors advised him to fight for a breakthrough.

Genma spent five months developing his Flying Thunder God skills and expanding his ninjutsu while preparing for Nine-Tails Night. After training, Minato asked him for ideas on how to use Flying Thunder God, leaving Genma at a loss for words.

• Genma continued training in the Land of Iron’s absence and acquired five more Flying Thunder God Kunai while preparing for Nine-Tails Night.
• Genma considered how difficult it would be to create original ninjutsu and focused instead on expanding his available techniques.
• Genma’s Spiral Drill reached B-rank power and rose to A-rank when he added Fire Style.
• Genma and Minato spent months practicing Flying Thunder God techniques, including transporting people and letting Genma fight alongside Minato.
• After training, Minato asked Genma for particularly good ideas for using Flying Thunder God, and Genma could not think of an answer.

Genma asked Minato to demonstrate his Flying Thunder God techniques, then proposed using the String Control Technique to make the technique more flexible. Minato began brainstorming with Genma about combining kunai attacks, teleportation, and seals.

• Genma asked Minato about improving his Flying Thunder God skills, and Minato demonstrated Spiral Super Whirl Dance Roar Style Two.
• Genma suggested adapting Sunagakure’s String Control Technique to add flexibility and enable close-combat use of the Flying Thunder God.
• Minato agreed to search Konohagakure’s records and invited Genma to research possible applications with him.
• Minato interpreted Genma’s rough diagrams as a plan for chained kunai attacks and Flying Thunder God strikes from blind spots.
• Genma raised the problem of endless teleportation becoming a battle of attrition, and Minato proposed adding seals; Genma asked about combining them with the Three-Tailed Seal and Shadow Clones.

Genma discussed sealing and space-based attacks with Minato, then demonstrated how Shadow Clones could add Fire Style to his Spiral Cone. After returning home, he found that Yana’s power had erupted and learned from Riya that Yana was unconscious despite being temporarily stabilized.

• Genma asked Minato whether sealing techniques or space ninjutsu could be used to attack an opponent, and Minato explained the limitations of both ideas.
• Genma and Minato compared their Spiral Cone and Rasengan, then Genma demonstrated Flame Cone by destroying a tree with a fire-infused technique.
• Minato thanked Genma for inspiring him and arranged to continue exchanging ninjutsu ideas in a few days.
• Genma returned home and found a tree growing through the floor, then hurried to check on Riya and Yana.
• Riya told Genma that Yana’s power had temporarily stabilized but that Yana had fallen unconscious.

Genma and Riya examined Yana after her uncontrolled Wood Style left her unconscious, but her cells appeared mostly normal. They decided she needed to learn Chakra control before attending school, leaving Riya to consider keeping her home longer.

• Genma returned and used Flying Thunder God to take Riya and the unconscious Yana to his laboratory, where Riya explained that she had bought Yana a Konoha Goose.
• Genma examined Yana's cells through repeated observations and found only minor changes, though her earlier loss of control still suggested a problem.
• Riya questioned the normal test results and worried that Yana had not awakened, so Genma asked what had triggered her Wood Style.
• Riya recalled that Yana's expression had seemed complicated when her power erupted after the goose purchase, leading Genma to suspect something had stimulated her.
• Genma proposed delaying Yana's schooling until she was seven or eight so she could first strengthen her body and learn to control Wood Style, and Riya questioned whether that meant keeping her home for two more years.

Genma delayed Yana’s schooling out of caution about Bloodline Disease and prepared for Nine-Tails Night by stockpiling missions and leave. During his sleepless vacation, he spoke with Hatake Sakumo about family and began to suspect Sakumo might have a prospective partner.

• Genma convinced Riya to let Yana start school later by claiming that early training could increase her risk of Bloodline Disease.
• Genma completed five B-rank, five A-rank, and three S-rank missions with help from Hatake Sakumo, earning ten days of leave to stay alert for Nine-Tails Night.
• Genma began his vacation fifteen days into the month and spent his nights anxiously awake, leaving him exhausted during daytime sword practice with Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Genma whether he was sleeping poorly, and Genma explained that his adopted sister had brought happiness back to his mother.
• Genma suggested that Hatake Sakumo remarry and have another child, then wondered whether Kakashi’s possible unhappiness was keeping Sakumo from doing so.
• Hatake Sakumo reacted uneasily to the suggestion, leading Genma to suspect he already had a prospective partner.

Genma persuaded Hatake Sakumo to help Kakashi become more interested in romance by finding him love stories, then sparred intensely with Sakumo. After returning home, Genma overheard a conversation about marriage before Riya caught him bathing and demanded to know whether he had heard her.

• Genma suggested that Kakashi read romance novels, and Hatake Sakumo asked him to find suitable books.
• Genma and Hatake Sakumo resumed their sword sparring until their wooden swords broke.
• Genma returned home, heard guests discussing marriage, and went to take a bath without learning who was visiting.
• Riya heard Genma arrive, hurried to the bathroom, and asked whether he had heard what she said.

Genma met his Aunt, Ayabu Haruko, who asked to speak with him privately after he promised to help her. The chapter ended with Haruko revealing that she wanted him to help arrange her marriage to someone else.

• Genma hesitated outside the living room before Riya opened the door and scolded him for making her wait.
• Genma entered and found Ayabu Haruko acting unusually bashful and girlish.
• After Genma offered to help Haruko, she asked Riya to leave so they could talk alone.
• Genma mistakenly asked whether Haruko wanted to marry him, and she told him an aunt and nephew could not be together.
• Haruko confessed that she wanted Genma to help get someone else to marry her.

Genma learned that his Aunt Haruko had fallen in love with Hatake Sakumo and agreed to help her pursue him. Haruko remained determined despite Genma's concerns about their age difference and Sakumo's late wife.

• Haruko told Genma that Hatake Sakumo had rescued her and that she had fallen in love with him.
• Genma was shocked to learn Haruko loved Konoha's White Fang, but after weighing his misgivings, he agreed to help.
• Genma asked whether Haruko's family might interfere or arrange a political marriage, and Haruko said they had no control over her.
• Genma warned Haruko that Sakumo was much older and that she might have to wait years, but she said she was willing to wait until she was thirty to marry him.
• Genma pointed out that Sakumo had been married before, but Haruko said she knew his wife had died and did not care.

Genma told Ayabu Haruko about Kakashi’s exceptional abilities and ruthless reputation, hoping she would reconsider marrying Hatake Sakumo, but she remained enthusiastic. When Haruko asked how to get along with Kakashi, Genma thought of a solution and promised to handle it.

• Genma explained that Hatake Sakumo had a son, Kakashi, who had become a Jonin at twelve and now served in the Anbu.
• Haruko was delighted to learn Kakashi was outstanding because she would not have to give birth herself.
• Genma warned Haruko that Kakashi was called Cold-Blooded Kakashi, but she treated his conduct as sensible for a ninja and warned Genma not to die young.
• Haruko asked Genma how she could get along with Kakashi after marrying Hatake Sakumo.
• Genma thought of giving Kakashi books like Make-Out Paradise and promised Haruko he would take care of the problem.

Genma tried to help Haruko get closer to Sakumo, but his delayed efforts and a poorly planned coincidence led to Haruko and Yana making his life miserable. He explained that Sakumo kept his distance because he worried about how Kakashi’s trauma affected his son, and Haruko demanded that Genma find a faster solution.

• Haruko asked Genma to arrange coincidences so she could run into Sakumo, and Genma agreed.
• Genma failed to arrange any meetings for several days and missed the Nine-Tails Night he had been waiting for.
• After Genma returned from a mission, Haruko enlisted Riya and Yana to punish him for neglecting his promise.
• Genma arranged one coincidence, but Haruko later confronted him because Sakumo continued to avoid her.
• Genma explained that Sakumo’s concern for Kakashi, who kept away from girls after killing a girl he liked, influenced his behavior.
• Haruko asked Genma to speed up his plan and said she might handle the matter herself.

Genma tried to convince Haruko that a romance novel could change Sakumo and Kakashi, then prepared for the crisis he suspected was approaching. After the village banned people from leaving, he concluded that Nine-Tails Night might be near and readied weapons and a way to reach Sakumo.

• Genma told Haruko that a specially prepared romance novel might help change Sakumo and Kakashi, and she asked him to arrange more chance encounters.
• Haruko left after warning Genma to take her business seriously, and he returned to planning the novel.
• Half a month later, the village banned anyone from leaving, and Genma went to Sakumo for information.
• Genma suspected the village lockdown was connected to the weakening seal after the Jinchuriki's birth and prepared Chakra Cannons and more than a million Exploding Tags.
• Genma relied on the Flying Thunder God Kunai he had placed on Sakumo and resolved to do what he could to change the coming night.

As the Nine-Tails attacked Konohagakure, Genma brought Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi to Minato, who initially asked them to protect Kushina and the child. Minato then took Genma and Hatake Sakumo to the battle, where Sakumo struck at a distortion in space behind Minato.

• Genma sent Riya and Yana to the Capital of the Land of Fire and waited in Konohagakure for the Nine-Tails crisis.
• After the Nine-Tails roared in the village, Genma brought Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi to Minato.
• Minato asked Hatake Sakumo to protect Kushina and the child, but Sakumo offered to fight while Kakashi guarded them.
• Minato agreed and went to confront the Nine-Tails, with Genma transporting Hatake Sakumo to join him.
• Minato stopped a Tailed Beast Ball with a Flying Thunder God Kunai, and Hatake Sakumo slashed at a space distortion behind him before another blade of light collided with his attack.

During the Nine-Tails attack, Genma and Hatake Sakumo fought Obito while Minato went to confront the Nine-Tails. Genma and Hatake Sakumo nearly trapped Obito, but he escaped by sacrificing part of his body with Kamui, leaving the village quieter and Obito badly wounded.

• Minato identified the masked man as the culprit behind the Nine-Tails attack, then assigned Hatake Sakumo and Genma to face Orochimaru while he went after the Nine-Tails.
• Obito ambushed Genma and Hatake Sakumo, but Genma used Divine Concealment to deflect Obito's flames and pierce his chest.
• Genma told Hatake Sakumo that Obito's ability had limits, and Hatake Sakumo attacked Obito continuously to keep him from becoming intangible again.
• Obito endured the attacks for five minutes, then destroyed more than half his body and escaped with Kamui.
• Genma saw that the Nine-Tails had vanished and concluded that the wounded Obito was unlikely to cause more trouble.

Genma interrupted Minato’s plan to use the Reaper Death Seal and offered to restore Kushina’s life force so Minato could seal the Nine-Tails back into her. As Genma went to find a solution, the Nine-Tails regained its senses and turned on those surrounding it.

• Genma and Hatake Sakumo used the Flying Thunder God to reach Minato, Kushina, Kakashi, and the restrained Nine-Tails.
• Minato asked Hatake Sakumo and Genma to leave him alone with Kushina, but Genma questioned whether Minato’s plan would cost him his life and proposed sealing the Nine-Tails back into Kushina.
• Kushina’s weakened condition and remaining life force made Minato doubt that she could survive, but he agreed to try if Genma could restore her life force.
• Genma vanished to find a solution while Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi guarded Minato, Kushina, and Naruto.
• Hatake Sakumo told Kakashi he trusted Genma, and Kakashi and Minato found comfort in that trust.
• The Nine-Tails regained its senses, flared its whiskers, and turned its blood-red eyes toward the people around it.

Genma brought Kana, an Uzumaki survivor, to restore Kushina’s vitality while the Nine-Tails threatened Minato’s group. As Kana helped Kushina recover, Genma and Kakashi prepared Chakra Cannons to face the beast.

• Kushina told Minato she might lose control of the Nine-Tails and offered to die with it, while Minato struggled to decide what to do.
• Genma returned with Kana, whom he identified as an Uzumaki Clan survivor capable of restoring Kushina’s vitality.
• Kana agreed to help Kushina and let her bite her arm, causing Kushina’s complexion and breathing to improve.
• Genma handed Kakashi a Chakra Cannon and an instruction manual, then used clones to ready another cannon against the Nine-Tails.

After Kana restored Kushina, Minato and the others debated how to deal with the Nine-Tails and whether to make Kushina or Naruto its Jinchuriki. Kushina stopped the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball herself and offered to have it sealed back into her, leaving Minato worried about her condition.

• Kana told Minato that Kushina was temporarily out of danger but might lose some lifespan as she recovered.
• The Nine-Tails grew enraged as Kushina's Adamantine Sealing Chains tightened and began forming a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Minato, Kakashi, Hatake Sakumo, and Genma discussed killing the Nine-Tails or sealing it into a Jinchuriki, with Kakashi and Genma warning of the consequences for Kushina and Naruto.
• Kushina's golden chains bound the Nine-Tails' mouth, causing its Tailed Beast Ball to explode inside it.
• Kushina offered to have the Nine-Tails sealed back into her, and Minato questioned whether her weakened condition could withstand it.

Minato, Kushina, and Genma agreed that Naruto should share the burden of containing the Nine-Tails, despite Kushina’s distress. The Nine-Tails resumed struggling, so Minato and the others subdued it and prepared to seal it again.

• Genma urged Minato to divide the Nine-Tails between Naruto and Kushina, and Minato agreed that their family should share the hardship.
• Kushina worried that Naruto was too young to bear the burden, but Minato comforted her and she accepted his decision.
• The Nine-Tails broke up the group’s tender moment by struggling violently against Kushina’s golden chains.
• Minato ordered Genma and Kakashi to attack, and their Chakra Cannons blasted the Nine-Tails before Minato and Hatake Sakumo assaulted it with Flying Thunder God techniques and swordsmanship.
• Kushina’s chains multiplied and bound the Nine-Tails tightly as Minato prepared an altar for its next sealing.

Minato, Kushina, and Kana sealed the Nine-Tails into Naruto, who was then held by his parents. After Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other ninja left, Minato and Kushina discussed how to thank Kana for saving their family.

• Minato split the Nine-Tails in two, and Kushina and Kana pulled one half toward Kushina while Minato bound the other half with chains from the altar.
• Minato sealed one half of the Nine-Tails into Naruto, while Kushina sealed the other half and then picked up her crying son.
• Genma cried with relief that Minato, Kushina, and Naruto were together, and Kakashi asked why he was not simply happy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived with reinforcements, learned that the Nine-Tails had been sealed, and ordered the ninja to return to the village.
• Kushina and Minato privately agreed to thank Kana later and let Genma look after her for the time being.