Chapter Summaries

Tobirama and Torikaze stayed overnight with young Mifune in the Land of Iron, then left him a blade, money, and an encouraging note before heading to a port village. While waiting for a ship to the Land of Hot Water, Torikaze revealed his newly developed Ice Release as they discussed how to fight the Six-Tails.

• Mifune welcomed Tobirama and Torikaze into his home and shared food and shelter with them.
• Tobirama and Torikaze departed before dawn, leaving Mifune a fine samurai blade, a pouch of money, and a note encouraging him to follow his path.
• Mifune found the gifts and resolved to befriend the travelers if they met again and were not enemies of the Land of Iron.
• Tobirama and Torikaze reached a port village and learned that their ship to the Land of Hot Water would leave in the afternoon.
• While waiting for their food, Tobirama and Torikaze discussed strategies for defeating and sealing the Six-Tails.
• Torikaze told Tobirama he had developed Ice Release and demonstrated it by freezing the wine in his glass.

Torikaze and Tobirama Senju reached the Land of Hot Water and tracked the Six-Tails through a cave using Torikaze’s mist. The Six-Tails ambushed them with acid, swallowed Torikaze, and began filling the cave with explosive bubbles as Tobirama fought back.

• Torikaze and Tobirama Senju sailed safely to the Land of Hot Water, checked into an inn, and set out the next morning toward the Six-Tails’ territory.
• Torikaze used mist to search the cave region and found a Chakra trail in a medium-sized cave.
• Torikaze and Tobirama followed the Six-Tails’ mucus trail deeper into the cave until the beast ambushed them with a torrent of acid and swallowed Torikaze.
• Tobirama attacked the Six-Tails with a Water Dragon Bullet, while Torikaze emerged from the acid with a Crystal Release serpent and poisoned the beast.
• The Six-Tails shed its crystallized mucus without injury, then filled the cave with explosive bubbles, prompting Tobirama to warn that it meant to collapse the cave.

Torikaze and Tobirama Senju fought the Six-Tails in a karst cave, and Torikaze neutralized its Tailed Beast Ball with a reversed Cloud Release technique. The Six-Tails recognized Torikaze’s clan connection but resisted after learning Konoha intended to capture every Tailed Beast.

• Torikaze supported the collapsing cave and struck the Six-Tails with crystal flower buds, while Tobirama Senju followed with a Water Dragon attack.
• The Six-Tails formed and fired a Tailed Beast Ball, but Torikaze erased it with Cloud Release—Reverse—Crane Cry Scattering Flower Technique.
• Tobirama Senju asked about Torikaze’s technique, and Torikaze explained that he had reversed a Cloud Release travel ninjutsu.
• The Six-Tails recalled seeing a cloud-manipulating ancestor with the old man of Six Paths and asked why Torikaze had come.
• Torikaze said Konoha needed the Six-Tails’ power, and Tobirama Senju revealed that they had captured the Nine-Tails.
• The Six-Tails attacked with corrosive acid mist after Torikaze declared Konoha would capture all the Tailed Beasts.

Tobirama and Torikaze battled the Six-Tails in its cavern, using Impure World Reincarnation and Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags to wear it down. Tobirama captured the defeated beast with the White Jade Block, then asked Torikaze to keep his secret use of the forbidden technique from Big Brother.

• The Six-Tails peppered Tobirama and Torikaze with miniature Tailed Beast Balls, forcing them to dodge as their Chakra reserves dwindled.
• Tobirama summoned four Impure World Reincarnation ninja and used them to unleash Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags on the Six-Tails.
• Torikaze used crystals to support the collapsing cavern and block the Six-Tails from escaping during the twenty-minute bombardment.
• The Six-Tails collapsed, and the White Jade Block absorbed it and gained the image of a white slug with six tails.
• Tobirama returned the four ninja to their coffins and told Torikaze not to tell Big Brother about the secret technique.

After completing the mission to capture the Six-Tails, Tobirama and Torikaze headed to the capital of the Land of Hot Water to buy a gift for baby Tsunade. Meanwhile, Hashirama’s team found the Eight-Tails and began fighting it.

• Tobirama told Torikaze to keep their secret, then used his technique to take them out of the ruined Karst Cave.
• Tobirama and Torikaze went to the capital to shop for Tsunade, and Torikaze received the system reward for completing the Six-Tails capture mission.
• Other ninja squads searched the cave but found only rubble, since Torikaze had taken the Crystal.
• Hashirama’s team reached the Eight-Tails’ habitat, where its tentacles ambushed them and the Konoha ninja fought back.
• The Eight-Tails revealed itself and attacked with a torrent of ink, prompting the Konoha team to use Earth Release: Earth Flow Rampart.

Konoha’s forces fought the Eight-Tails, with Sarutobi Sasuke and Hashirama combining their strength to defeat it. Hashirama sealed the Eight-Tails in the White Jade Block, ending the battle and bringing it under Konoha’s control.

• Sarutobi Sasuke raised an Earth Wall and platform, then summoned Enma to help fend off the Eight-Tails’ attacks.
• Sarutobi Sasuke struck the Eight-Tails with Enma and followed with combined Earth, Fire, and Wind Release techniques, while the others attacked its wounds.
• The Eight-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Ball, and Sarutobi Sasuke’s earth and fire dragons met it in a massive explosion that injured several ninjas.
• Hashirama used the Wood Golem Technique to catch another Tailed Beast Ball and shove it into the Eight-Tails, leaving it badly wounded.
• Sarutobi Sasuke scorched the Eight-Tails with another combined attack, and Hashirama restrained it with Wood Release—Tree World Birth.
• Hashirama healed the Eight-Tails with the White Jade Block, then sealed it inside.

Hashirama’s teams captured and sealed all nine Tailed Beasts without losing any ninjas, and the clan leaders gathered to discuss Konoha’s future. After Hashirama explained how he obtained the White Jade Blocks, Tobirama urged him to return home with them, while Torikaze checked whether the Crane Egg had hatched.

• Sarutobi Sasuke’s team sealed the Eight-Tails, and Hashirama’s teams returned to Konoha without any ninja casualties.
• Hashirama showed the clan heads the nine White Jade Blocks and promised that the Senju Clan would cover injured ninjas’ expenses for a year.
• Tobirama questioned Hashirama about the White Jade Blocks, and Hashirama explained that the Ancestor of the Clouds had given them to him and advised him to capture the Tailed Beasts.
• Tobirama confronted Hashirama about his original plan to give the captured Tailed Beasts to other villages, and Hashirama admitted that the idea had been inappropriate.
• Tobirama urged Hashirama to go home, so Hashirama packed the White Jade Blocks in a sack and left the Hokage Office with him.
• Torikaze returned to the clan grounds and went to check whether the Crane Egg had hatched.

Torikaze discovered that the Crane Eggs had hatched and began developing a large-scale technique before visiting Chisato. Over lunch, he recounted his mission and gave her a mysterious gift whose pale-green glow startled the restaurant.

• Torikaze found two healthy crane chicks sheltering beneath the old hen and decided to wait until they were bigger before forming a contract.
• Torikaze fed the hen, spent hours exhausting himself while sketching out a new technique, and then went to meet Chisato.
• Torikaze and Chisato ate at the Akimichi Barbecue Restaurant, where the Boss treated Torikaze like the shop's God of Wealth.
• Torikaze told Chisato about his journey, including meeting Mifune in Amata Village, and said he planned to visit Tsunade afterward.
• Torikaze gave Chisato a wooden box; when she opened it, a pale-green glow soothed her aches and drew the other diners' attention, so she quickly shut it.

Torikaze and Chisato visited the Senju Clan Grounds to give Tsunade gifts, including a Healing Necklace disguised as a family heirloom. The necklace delighted Hashirama and Tobirama, while Torikaze reassured Chisato about accepting credit for it.

• Torikaze persuaded Chisato to accept a Healing Necklace, which he claimed was a family heirloom.
• Torikaze and Chisato visited the Senju Clan Grounds, where they helped Hashirama sort through Tsunade’s many gifts.
• Hashirama told Torikaze that Hayama had gone to visit his father-in-law with his wife and would not return soon.
• Torikaze gave Tsunade a cloth doll, and Chisato presented the Healing Necklace and explained its benefits.
• Hashirama and Tobirama praised the necklace, and Torikaze reassured Chisato that she could choose a better gift next time.

Hashirama and Tobirama assigned the captured Tailed Beasts to themselves and several clans, then decided to convene the first Five Kage Summit in Konoha. The summit was set for three months later, as tensions rose over Konoha’s capture of the Eight-Tails.

• Hashirama gave Tsunade an emerald necklace, and Mito sealed it to extend its power and protect her.
• Hashirama entrusted the Nine-Tails to Mito and the Three-Tails to Tobirama, then outlined plans to assign other Tailed Beasts to Konoha clans.
• Hashirama’s distribution plan was announced to the clan heads, who accepted it and were told to choose candidates for the Tailed Beasts.
• Tobirama reported that the Land of Lightning, Land of Earth, and Land of Water objected to Konoha’s capture of the Eight-Tails.
• Hashirama ordered Tobirama to invite the other four Kage to a summit in Konoha three months later.

Tobirama organized preparations for Konoha’s first Five Kage Summit and arranged for ninja to deliver invitations to the other villages. Hiruzen and his companions accepted the remaining delivery mission to the Land of Wind.

• Hashirama ordered Tobirama to invite the other Kage to Konoha in three months for the first Five Kage Summit.
• Tobirama drafted the invitations, sent them for delivery, and began organizing the summit venue and welcoming ceremony.
• Torikaze encountered Hiruzen, Danzo, Koharu, and Kagami, then joined them to look for a mission.
• Hiruzen learned that ninja were needed to deliver summit invitations and agreed with his companions to take the mission.
• Hiruzen accepted the last available delivery mission, which was to the Land of Wind.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's team accepted an S-rank mission to deliver a letter to the Land of Wind and collected it from Tobirama Senju. They planned to depart the morning after tomorrow, while Torikaze stocked up on food for the journey.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi's team accepted the last available mission, an S-rank delivery to the Land of Wind.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and his companions visited the Hokage Office, where Tobirama Senju gave Hiruzen a wooden box containing the letter for the Kazekage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Hashirama and Tobirama Senju that the team planned to leave the morning after tomorrow along a familiar route.
• Kagami raised whether Chisato should join them, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others agreed she could come.
• Torikaze bought dried meat and other food for the team, returned home, and went to sleep.

Torikaze and his companions set out from Konoha to deliver a letter to Sunagakure for the Five Kage Summit. After a night’s rest on the road, they reached the valley near the Land of Wind and prepared to cross the border.

• Torikaze met Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo at the village gate, where Hiruzen showed off a bento from Biwako and Danzo revealed Hiruzen’s embarrassing past.
• Chisato joined the team, excited that the journey would be her first S-rank mission.
• Hiruzen led the group out of Konoha and assigned them positions as they traveled toward the Land of Wind.
• The team rested overnight at an inn in a village they had visited the previous year, then continued their journey the next morning.
• The group reached the valley where they had once defeated mountain bandits, and Hiruzen warned everyone to stay alert before crossing into another country.

Torikaze and Hiruzen’s group crossed into the Land of Wind, killed two wandering ninja, and struggled against the desert heat before Torikaze cooled them with water and cloud garments. They were then ambushed by Sunagakure rogue ninja, and a battle began with Torikaze’s Crystal serpent binding one of them.

• Kagami spotted two ninja hiding behind a rock, and Danzo killed them with Wind Release.
• Danzo suspected the ambushers had been sent to wear the group down as they continued through the desert toward Sunagakure.
• Torikaze used his Space Ring to provide water and created cooling garments with Cloud Release, helping the group recover and travel faster.
• Kagami and Chisato attacked a sand dune, exposing four Sunagakure rogue ninja who accused the group of coming to start a war.
• Danzo and Hiruzen attacked the rogue ninja, while Torikaze’s ice spikes were dispersed by one enemy’s Wind Release.
• Torikaze summoned a Crystal serpent that bound the enemy in the sandstorm.

Torikaze and his companions defeated a group of Sunagakure Rogue Ninjas and continued across the desert to Sunagakure. After proving their mission to Ebizo, Hiruzen's group entered the village and learned they would meet the Kazekage the next day.

• Torikaze killed the Rogue Ninja leader with Crystal Release, then froze the remaining attackers with Ice Release and destroyed their bodies with Chisato's help.
• Hiruzen's group traveled through the desert, spent the night at an oasis, and spotted Sunagakure the next afternoon.
• Sunagakure ninjas halted the group at the village's outskirts, and Hiruzen showed them a letter inviting the Kazekage to the Five Kage Summit.
• Ebizo identified himself as a Sunagakure Jonin, accepted the letter, and escorted Hiruzen's group through the Sand Defense Wall into the village.
• Ebizo arranged accommodations for the Konoha guests and said their audience with the Kazekage would take place the next day.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Konoha delegation arrived in Sunagakure and met First Kazekage Retto to discuss the proposed Five Kage Summit. Retto listened to Hiruzen’s explanation but doubted that peace could be achieved just by gathering the five Kage.

• Ebizo welcomed Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Konoha delegation to Sunagakure and brought them to guest lodgings.
• Hiruzen, Koharu, Danzo, Torikaze, and the others discussed the Kazekage and prepared for their meeting the next day.
• Ebizo summoned the Konoha delegation to meet Kazekage Retto at the Kazekage Tower.
• Retto welcomed the delegation and asked Hiruzen to explain their purpose.
• Hiruzen described Lord Hokage’s plan to convene a Five Kage Summit to discuss peace, and Retto questioned whether a meeting could bring about true peace.

Hiruzen delivered Hashirama’s invitation, and Retto agreed to attend the Five Kage Summit, though he worried about Sunagakure’s lack of resources and the limits peace placed on expansion. Torikaze and the others decided to return to Konoha the next morning, while Retto looked to a new technique as a possible source of strength.

• Retto accepted the invitation to the Five Kage Summit, and Hiruzen gave him Hashirama’s letter before the Konoha delegation left the Kazekage Building.
• Retto told Chiyo that Hashirama hoped to discuss peace and trade, but he feared Sunagakure’s scarce resources would leave it unable to develop or annex land.
• Retto asked Chiyo about Shamon’s new technique, and she said it was nearly complete; she also urged Retto to come home early to see Little Sand.
• Koharu and Chisato decided they had seen enough of Sunagakure, so Torikaze’s group planned to leave for Konoha the next morning.
• Torikaze unlocked Retto and Chiyo in the Character Compendium and received 1,700 Tranquility Points.
• Ebizo arrived early the next morning as Torikaze and the others packed to return to Konoha.

Hiruzen and his companions left Sunagakure and crossed the sandstorm to reach an oasis, where they encountered a disguised group of rogue ninjas. The group’s ambush failed, and Kagami revealed that their leader had been caught in his Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu.

• Ebizo saw Hiruzen and the others off, and Hiruzen asked him to convey their thanks to the Kazekage and reminded him of the promised summit.
• Hiruzen led the group through the sandstorm to the oasis, where they found a suspicious group occupying its water source.
• Hiruzen posed as a traveler named Fujimoto and accepted Heiluo’s hospitality while the group pretended to become drunk.
• Heiluo stabbed at Hiruzen, but the apparent victim shattered as a clone, and Kagami’s Sharingan was revealed.
• Torikaze gathered the mist around him after Heiluo’s companions fell, and Kagami said Heiluo had been under his Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu since they met.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's team escaped Heiluo's sandstorm, returned to Konoha, and reported the successful delivery mission to Hashirama. After receiving their rewards and a day off, the exhausted teammates went their separate ways.

• Heiluo used a sandstorm to cover his escape, and Torikaze's Ice Release cleared the storm but failed to reveal him.
• Torikaze encased the fallen enemies in Crystal and sank them underground before the team rested and set out for Konoha the next morning.
• After two and a half days of nonstop travel, Hiruzen Sarutobi's team reached Konoha and reported their mission to Hashirama.
• Hashirama recorded the team's names as proof of the S-rank mission's success, and Torikaze received Tranquility Points for completing it.
• Hashirama gave everyone their mission pay and a day off, and the team members left the Hokage Office separately.

Torikaze returned home and found that the two Cranes he had left with Auntie Kato had grown almost as large as he was. After they accepted him and formed a Summoning Contract, he let them roam the Cloud Clan Grounds alongside the old hen.

• Torikaze returned home and asked Auntie Kato how the two Cranes were doing.
• Auntie Kato showed Torikaze that the Cranes had grown dramatically and were perched on the room’s rafters.
• The two Cranes flew down to greet Torikaze and showed that they wanted to bond with him.
• Torikaze signed the family Summoning Scroll, and both Cranes pressed their bloody claws onto it to complete the contract.
• Torikaze let the Cranes and the old hen roam the Cloud Clan Grounds and told them not to relieve themselves wherever they pleased.