Chapter Summaries

Torikaze and the Third Raikage fought a devastating battle in Kumogakure, with the Raikage ultimately piercing Torikaze's heart with One-Finger Nukite. The Raikage celebrated Torikaze's apparent death, but a crisp cracking sound rang out in his mind.

• Torikaze used Crystal Release—Ten Thousand Swords Return to One to drain the Third Raikage's stamina, but the Raikage smashed through most of the swords and interrupted Torikaze's mist transformation with Lightning Armor.
• Torikaze blocked the Raikage's Three-Finger Nukite with a crystal shield, then detonated it and unleashed Sage Art: Crystal Release—Crystal True Self Technique, damaging much of Kumogakure.
• Torikaze formed a giant crystal statue and battled the Raikage, but the Raikage's dark-red lightning destroyed Torikaze's crystal swords and overwhelmed his defenses.
• The Raikage pierced Torikaze's heart with One-Finger Nukite, and Torikaze lost consciousness as the crystal statue shattered.
• The Raikage laughed over Torikaze's corpse, then heard a crisp cracking sound in his mind.

Torikaze killed the Third Raikage with his genjutsu, returned to Konoha, and reported the mission to Tobirama Senju. After receiving the Sage Body reward, he went home to rest and reflected on how he had ended the First Great Ninja War.

• Torikaze used Crystal Release: Joy to overwhelm the Third Raikage’s mind and kill him, then looted his office and residence while leaving the body as a warning to Kumogakure.
• Torikaze flew back to Konoha with Seiryu and received the Sage Body reward for completing the First Great Ninja War event.
• Torikaze reported the Raikage’s death to Tobirama Senju and handed over the Kumogakure wealth and ninjutsu scrolls he had taken.
• Torikaze returned home exhausted and fell asleep, missing Amado’s attempt to show him an alarm clock.
• Torikaze woke the next morning refreshed and reflected on how he had ended the war he had once feared.

Ten years later, Amado had transformed Konoha with inventions based on Torikaze’s blueprints, while the shinobi world had settled into relative peace after Kumogakure’s fall. Torikaze learned that Qingyun Liufeng were incubating eggs and, while walking through the village, asked Mamiko whether Dan was away on a mission.

• Over ten years, Amado’s inventions brought electricity and modern appliances to Konoha, while Tobirama remained Hokage and Hashirama retired from fighting.
• Torikaze gave Amado a cellphone blueprint and challenged him to develop it, then relaxed while Amado went to research it.
• Kumogakure fell from the ranks of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and Uzushiogakure rose to take its place.
• Torikaze learned from A-Bai that Qingyun Liufeng were incubating eggs, and A-Bai worried about whether she would be their grandmother or maternal grandmother.
• Torikaze walked through the village, greeted the villagers, and asked Mamiko whether Dan had gone on a mission.

Torikaze visited the Senju Clan Grounds, where Tsunade asked him about Dan Katō and revealed her interest in him. After Torikaze offered to introduce them, Hashirama confronted him about what Tsunade had said.

• Torikaze chatted with Mamiko, then met Maruboshi Kosuke, who mentioned that he had started dating someone and was leading a team.
• Torikaze arrived at the Senju Clan Grounds, where Tsunade rushed to greet him and asked whether he knew Dan Katō.
• Tsunade defended Dan’s abilities when Torikaze teased her, and Torikaze offered to introduce them after revealing that Dan was his younger brother.
• Tsunade ran off excitedly after learning Dan would return from a mission in a few days.
• Hashirama called Torikaze inside and sternly asked what Tsunade had said to him.

Torikaze gave Hashirama and Mito rare fruits that restored their youthful vitality, helping Hashirama reconsider his ambitions. He left another fruit for Tobirama.

• Hashirama told Torikaze to keep Dan Katō away from Tsunade, but Torikaze and Mito challenged Hashirama for trying to control her.
• Hashirama admitted he would try to accept Tsunade choosing whom she liked, then welcomed Torikaze, who had come to visit and eat.
• Torikaze gave Hashirama and Mito fruits he claimed were a secret medicine from his family's scrolls.
• Hashirama and Mito ate the fruits and regained their youth and vitality, while Hashirama felt inspired to pursue his ambitions again.
• Torikaze placed another fruit on the table for Lord Tobirama.

Torikaze visited Hashirama and Mito, then ran into Hiruzen and Shinnosuke in Konoha. He stopped Hiruzen from taking Shinnosuke to the bathhouse and learned that Hiruzen had taught the young Hiruko how to peep.

• Torikaze ate with Hashirama and Mito, praised Amado's inventions, and learned that Nawaki was away on a mission.
• Torikaze left the Senju Clan Grounds and imagined Amado developing mobile phones so he could play Naruto Mobile Game.
• Shinnosuke ran up to Torikaze, who greeted him and asked Hiruzen where they were going.
• Shinnosuke revealed that Hiruzen planned to take him to the bathhouse, and Torikaze stopped him by glaring at him with the help of his clones.
• Torikaze accused Hiruzen of teaching Jiraiya and Hiruko to peep, and Hiruzen admitted he had given seven-year-old Hiruko pointers.

Torikaze discussed Konoha’s peaceful times with Hiruzen, who mentioned that Jiraiya had gone missing, then decided to seek out new disciples. After reflecting on Nawaki’s growth, Torikaze planned to visit the Ninja Academy and ask Chisato to join him.

• Torikaze and Hiruzen talked about their former disciples, Konoha’s easy missions, and Jiraiya’s disappearance.
• Torikaze suspected Jiraiya had gone to Mount Myōboku to learn Senjutsu and considered visiting one of the Sacred Grounds himself.
• Torikaze recalled that Nawaki had awakened Wood Release under his instruction and was now capable of handling missions in the Land of Fire.
• Torikaze decided to look for talented students at the Ninja Academy and thought of asking Chisato to come with him.
• Torikaze set out to find Chisato, who was often away from home taking missions.

Torikaze visited Chisato at the Uchiha Compound, where he teased Aika and made up with Chisato after she complained he had not visited in days. He then asked Chisato whether she had considered taking on an apprentice.

• Torikaze arrived at the Uchiha Compound and spoke with Kagami, who said Aika was inside with Chisato.
• Torikaze teased Aika at the door, and she led him to Chisato in the living room.
• Aika left to find her mother, leaving Torikaze and Chisato alone.
• Chisato scolded Torikaze for not visiting, then accepted his offer to take her out for barbecue.
• Torikaze asked Chisato whether she had considered taking on an apprentice.

Torikaze asked Chisato about taking on apprentices and learned that she had become a Jonin Instructor for Uchiha Fugaku and two other talented Genin. After Chisato left for a mission, Torikaze visited the Ninja Academy to look for promising students.

• Torikaze asked Chisato whether she planned to take on new apprentices, and she said she was leading a team instead.
• Chisato told Torikaze that her students were Uchiha Fugaku and children from the Inuzuka and Hyuga Clans, and that she would take them on a mission for about a week.
• Torikaze left Chisato and made snow clouds to cool villagers as he walked through the heat.
• Torikaze reflected that peace would not last forever and that he would not face the next war alone.
• Torikaze arrived at the Ninja Academy, greeted the patrolling ninjas, and said he was only looking around.

Torikaze visited the Ninja Academy to find an apprentice and chose Shin'er, an Aburame girl who was allergic to Kikaichū but could command moths and butterflies. He asked her father, Aburame Genma, for permission, and Genma was left considering the offer.

• Torikaze toured the six-year-old classes with Sensei Mizuya to look for a potential apprentice.
• Torikaze noticed Shin'er and learned she could not use the Aburame Clan's Secret Technique because she was allergic to Kikaichū.
• Mizuya explained that Shin'er could command moths and butterflies without Chakra, though the Aburame Clan did not specialize in controlling them.
• Torikaze visited Aburame Genma and said he wanted to take Shin'er as his apprentice.
• Torikaze praised Shin'er's character and persistence as Genma hesitated over the request.

Torikaze arranged to take Shin'er as his disciple and planned to use the Summoning Seed to strengthen moths and butterflies. He contacted Kakuzu with a new assignment to find Chakra-using moths or butterflies, while Kakuzu brought a bereaved blond boy toward Konoha.

• Torikaze convinced Yuan Zhen to let Shin'er become his disciple, and Yuan Zhen agreed to bring her to Torikaze's home the next day.
• Torikaze decided that the Summoning Seed could help evolve moths and butterflies, and he thought Kakuzu could find suitable specimens during his travels.
• Kakuzu reassured the orphaned blond boy he had found in a destroyed village that someone in Konoha might take him in.
• Torikaze appeared through a puppet, demonstrated Dust Release, and asked Kakuzu to find Chakra-using butterflies or moths across the Shinobi World.

Torikaze asked Kakuzu to find chakra-using butterflies and moths for his future Aburame apprentice, then learned Kakuzu had brought back an orphan boy. The boy revealed he was Minato, leaving Torikaze shocked and determined to raise him himself.

• Torikaze asked Kakuzu to collect chakra-using butterflies and moths in all life stages for his future apprentice.
• Kakuzu brought an orphan boy from the Land of Waves border and said he would send him to Konoha the next day.
• Torikaze frightened the boy by joking that he liked eating children, then asked his name before leaving through the mark on Kakuzu's arm.
• The boy said his name was Minato, and Torikaze screamed when he realized the child was Minato Namikaze.
• Torikaze reassured Konoha with a cloud-smoke message, then decided that Minato would stay with him.

Torikaze recognized Minato Namikaze as the child Kakuzu had brought him and rewarded Kakuzu before taking Minato toward Konoha. He encouraged Minato to believe he could make a name for himself, leaving the boy hopeful about the future.

• Amado came to check on Torikaze after hearing him shout, and Torikaze asked him to keep working on the phone blueprint.
• Torikaze realized the blond child he had seen was Minato Namikaze and met Kakuzu the next morning.
• Torikaze gave Kakuzu one million ryo for bringing Minato and asked him to find a suitable moth.
• Torikaze took Minato toward Konoha and told him that an orphan like him had grown into a renowned inventor.
• Minato asked whether he could achieve something similar, and Torikaze assured him that his name would one day resound throughout the Shinobi World.

Torikaze brought the orphaned Minato to Konoha and registered him as a citizen, reassuring him that the village would be his home. Minato began to realize that Torikaze was well known and close to Hokage Tobirama, while still wondering about the name Namikaze.

• Torikaze encouraged Minato and brought him through Konoha's gate, where the guards welcomed them.
• Torikaze led Minato toward Hokage Tower and spoke with Koharu, who asked about the boy.
• Torikaze introduced Minato to Tobirama, who recalled Torikaze bringing Amado to register years earlier.
• Torikaze named the boy Minato Namikaze, and Tobirama registered him as a legal citizen of Konoha.
• Minato learned that Torikaze had a close relationship with the Hokage and wondered whether Namikaze was his new surname.

Torikaze told Tobirama he planned to train Minato to become Konoha’s future Hokage, but Tobirama instead maneuvered Torikaze into accepting the position himself. Torikaze reluctantly accepted and was told to give Tobirama his thoughts on the Hokage robe by the next night.

• Torikaze told Tobirama that Minato would be trained to become Hokage, and Tobirama suggested Torikaze take the position until Minato was old enough.
• Tobirama listed Torikaze’s accomplishments, prompting Torikaze to declare that Hiruzen Sarutobi did not deserve to be Hokage and accidentally claim the role for himself.
• Torikaze tried to persuade Tobirama to choose Hiruzen instead, but Tobirama said Torikaze’s record made him the only suitable successor.
• Minato realized that Torikaze had fought in the Great Ninja War, killed thousands of ninja and the Third Raikage, and might become Konoha’s Hokage.
• Tobirama said he would retire and ordered Torikaze to give him his thoughts on the Third Hokage’s robe by the next night.

Torikaze accepted Tobirama’s decision that he would become the Third Hokage and chose a gold-threaded robe design. He made Minato his disciple, brought him to the Windcloud Clan home, and welcomed him as family.

• Torikaze agreed to become Hokage and asked for a robe styled like his own, with “Third Hokage” embroidered in gold thread.
• Torikaze realized he was still carrying Minato, healed him, and told him he would become his disciple.
• Minato happily accepted and began calling Torikaze “Big Brother.”
• Torikaze introduced Minato to the villagers as his adopted little brother, and they welcomed him because of his connection to Torikaze.
• Torikaze brought Minato to the Windcloud Clan home and told him it would be his home from then on.

Torikaze welcomed Minato into his home as his disciple and arranged for him to settle in. He then persuaded Yuan Zhen and Shin'er to agree to Shin'er becoming his disciple by promising to use a Secret Medicine on her moth, leaving the medicine’s effects yet to be tested.

• Torikaze brought Minato into the courtyard, introduced him to A-Bai and Amado, and helped him choose a room and learn to use the household appliances.
• Yuan Zhen arrived at the Cloud Clan Grounds with Shin'er, and Torikaze described his clan’s Secret Medicine as a way to purify genes in animals and insects.
• Torikaze told Shin'er that people he had sent to gather unusual Moths and Butterflies would return in about a week, exciting her.
• Yuan Zhen agreed to Torikaze becoming Shin'er's shishou after asking for her opinion, and Shin'er agreed as well.
• Torikaze said he would give the moth perched in Shin'er's hair a Secret Medicine, which was actually a Summoning Seed, to test its effect.

Torikaze evolved Shin'er's moth with a Summoning Seed and taught it a secret Senjutsu technique so it could protect her. The transformed moth gained speech and a new name, Lan Ling, and Shin'er began adjusting to her new companion.

• Yuan Zhen left after Torikaze confirmed that Shin'er had become his disciple.
• Torikaze gave Shin'er her moth and sent her to meet her new Senior Brother, Minato.
• The moth consumed a Summoning Seed, evolved, and learned to speak.
• Torikaze taught the moth a Summoning Beast cultivation technique and instructed it to protect Shin'er in secret.
• Shin'er named the transformed moth Lan Ling.

Torikaze gave Shin'er a Summoning Scroll and advised her to use Slave Contracts for future moths and butterflies, while promising Minato a crane from Seiryu and Ryuufuu's eggs. Tobirama discussed his upcoming retirement as Hokage with Hashirama and Mito, with the ceremony planned for two or three months later.

• Torikaze named Shin'er's evolved moth Lan Ling and gave her a Summoning Scroll, explaining that she should use Slave Contracts for future moths and butterflies.
• Shin'er asked to call Torikaze Big Brother like Minato did, then went home and was told to return in two or three days to collect her moths and butterflies.
• Torikaze taught Minato basic Chakra knowledge and promised him one of Seiryu and Ryuufuu's gifted crane hatchlings as a Summoning Beast.
• Amado stayed in the backyard Lab working until nightfall, while Torikaze hoped he would soon finish making a mobile phone.
• Tobirama told Hashirama he planned to step down as Hokage, and Mito asked when the ceremony would take place.
• Tobirama said the ceremony would be in two or three months, and Hashirama learned that preparations for the Hokage Robe and Tobirama's Hokage Rock portrait were already underway.

Hashirama, Tobirama, and Mito discussed Torikaze’s new student and his plan to train the boy to become the Fourth Hokage. Mito also arranged to take in her six-year-old niece Kushina, who was being sent from Uzushiogakure to escape a succession struggle.

• Tobirama told Hashirama that Torikaze had brought a boy back from outside the village and wanted to train him to become the Fourth Hokage.
• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed Torikaze’s accomplishments and whether he could defeat Hashirama in a fight.
• Mito explained that her older brother Ashina was sending his youngest granddaughter Kushina to Konoha because Ashina’s sons were fighting over the Daimyo position.
• Mito said Kushina would arrive the next day and live with her and Hashirama.