Chapter Summaries

Tobirama Senju fought the Gin-Kin Brothers as a transformed giant, and the Nine-Tails revived him after the battle left him near death. Tobirama returned to Konoha, where Hiruzen’s urgent request for reinforcements was mistaken for a spy’s lie.

• Tobirama Senju attacked Ginkaku and Kinkaku, then used a Light Sword to sever Kinkaku’s mechanical tentacles.
• The Gin-Kin Brothers worked together to knock Tobirama down and wound his shoulder, but he drove them back with his swordsmanship.
• The brothers fired a Super Tailed Beast Ball, and Tobirama countered with a golden beam that caused a devastating explosion.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku survived and found Tobirama apparently dead, but the Nine-Tails used its clone’s Chakra to revive him, damaging the Transformation Bracelet.
• Tobirama recovered, realized the explosion had destroyed the brothers’ sealing formula, and used Flying Thunder God to return to Konoha.
• Hiruzen and five companions reached Konoha seeking reinforcements, but the gate guard sounded the alarm after they claimed Tobirama was still in danger.

Tobirama Senju returned to Konoha with a broken Transformation Bracelet, while Uchiha Gin encouraged Kagami Uchiha and later met Uchiha Izuna and his pregnant wife. At home, Gin discovered that Senju Itama had transformed into a woman and was wearing a new dress.

• Uchiha Madara told Tobirama Senju that Hashirama Senju was out of danger, and Tobirama accused Madara of abandoning him during his fight with the Gin-Kin Brothers.
• Tobirama Senju tried to take apart and repair Kagami Uchiha’s broken Transformation Bracelet, but ended up with a spare screw and resolved to ask Uchiha Gin for help.
• Tobirama Senju’s disciples checked on him, then left to train after recalling how easily the Gin-Kin Brothers had defeated them.
• Uchiha Gin gave Kagami Uchiha a sour lollipop and urged him not to despair over his progress toward awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Gin met Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Mihui Zi, learned they were expecting another child, and suggested a name in exchange for choosing the child’s future son’s name.
• Uchiha Gin returned home and found Senju Itama transformed into a woman, posing in a new white dress.

Uchiha Gin used a Never-Fading Flower and was transported to the Rain Country during the Second Ninja World War, where his abilities were weakened. He found a starving young Konan, who fainted twice after mistaking him for a corpse and then waking in his arms.

• Uchiha Gin acquired Konan’s Paper Ninjutsu from his daily random skill refresh and tested it on a backyard target.
• Uchiha Gin used the Never-Fading Flower and arrived in the Rain Country in Year 37 of Hokage, with his status and System Backpack locked.
• The starving Konan and Yahiko stole moldy clay oven rolls, then fled when the stall owner caught them.
• Konan tried to soften a roll with rainwater and prayed for food on her birthday before Uchiha Gin fell from the sky nearby.
• Konan mistook the motionless Uchiha Gin for a corpse and searched his clothes, but fainted when he woke up.
• Uchiha Gin discovered his weakened abilities and carried Konan, who woke briefly and then fainted again from hunger and exhaustion.

Uchiha Gin discovered that the system had made Konan his secret-technique instructor and tried to keep her safe while finding a way to learn Paper Ninjutsu. After he rescued her from a violent stall owner, he offered her his hand in the rain.

• Uchiha Gin woke Konan with Medical Ninjutsu after feeding her Strawberry Milk, then learned that she was an orphan in the Rain Country during the Second Ninja World War.
• Uchiha Gin discovered that the system had assigned Konan to teach him Paper Ninjutsu and hired her as a guide to the nearest town.
• Konan asked Uchiha Gin to teach her Ninjutsu so she could avoid being bullied and have enough to eat.
• A clay oven roll stall owner accused Konan of stealing, grabbed her, and threatened to cut off her hands as the crowd cheered him on.
• Uchiha Gin blocked the stall owner's knife with his Wooden Sword and drove him and the crowd away.
• Uchiha Gin crouched beside Konan in the rain and reached out his hand after she began searching the mud for her ruined food.

Uchiha Gin fed Konan, took her to Yahiko’s hidden cave, and began training her in chakra and paper folding. Yahiko returned and asked Gin to teach him ninjutsu too, and Gin began showing him how to extract chakra.

• Konan asked to take food back for Yahiko, so Gin bought supplies that would keep and brought them to her cave.
• Gin agreed to become Konan’s teacher, taught her how to extract chakra, and had her practice folding paper for Paper Ninjutsu.
• Yahiko returned with charred bread and reacted warily to Gin, but Konan explained that Gin had saved and trained her.
• Yahiko thanked Gin and asked to learn ninja techniques, and Gin agreed to teach him how to extract chakra.

Uchiha Gin trained Konan and Yahiko in ninjutsu while caring for them in the cave. Konan began learning Paper Ninjutsu, Yahiko practiced the Three Body Technique, and the chapter ended with Gin cooking them a fish dinner as he wondered why Konan’s paper flower seemed familiar.

• Uchiha Gin taught Konan and Yahiko the twelve hand seals after Yahiko learned to refine Chakra, then teased Yahiko into setting a goal of helping others and sent him to buy chicken wings.
• The next day, Uchiha Gin used a Shadow Clone to teach Yahiko the Three Body Technique while guiding Konan to practice controlling a paper rose with Chakra.
• Konan made the rose bloom but exhausted herself, while Yahiko overworked himself practicing; Uchiha Gin caught Konan and carried Yahiko to bed.
• When Konan asked for fish, Uchiha Gin woke Yahiko and sent him to buy some by promising to teach him a unique ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Gin cooked sweet-and-sour fish for Konan and Yahiko, then studied Konan’s paper flower and felt that it seemed familiar.

Uchiha Gin helped Yahiko and Konan train, taught them techniques, and spent his remaining time with them before his countdown ended. After taking them to stock up on supplies, he returned with them as a cloaked figure watched Gin and wondered if they had met before.

• Yahiko passed Gin's tests in the Transformation, Substitution, and Clone Techniques, while Konan kicked Gin after he teased her about her figure.
• Gin taught Yahiko a body-altering survival technique and learned Paper Ninjutsu from Konan, completing his system mission.
• Gin chose to wait out his remaining time with Yahiko and Konan, and he read that the three-country war had begun in Rain Country.
• Gin bought fish and other supplies for Yahiko and Konan, filling several Storage Scrolls before the three returned to the cave in silence.
• A cloaked figure watched the trio leave and wondered whether Gin's fluffy curly hair looked familiar.

Uchiha Gin fought off a disguised White Zetsu sent by Uchiha Madara to assess him, while protecting Konan and Yahiko. Madara recognized Gin as a possible descendant of an old friend and decided not to involve him in Nagato Uzumaki’s training; back at the secret base, Gin faced the children’s insistence that they could protect themselves and avoided giving them an answer.

• Uchiha Madara sent Spiral White Zetsu to investigate Uchiha Gin and consider him as a teacher for Nagato Uzumaki.
• Uchiha Gin sensed an ambush, sent Konan and Yahiko away, and fought White Zetsu, who had disguised himself as an Iwa Ninja.
• Konan and Yahiko returned to the battle, and Uchiha Gin protected them before using Uchiha-style Nintaijutsu: Halo Dance against White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Madara recognized Gin’s Uchiha technique and suspected he was the descendant of his late cousin, then ordered Tobi to end the fight and find someone else to guide Nagato Uzumaki.
• Uchiha Gin returned to the secret base with Konan and Yahiko, who demonstrated their resolve and Konan’s paper wings as Gin avoided answering whether he would keep teaching them.

Uchiha Gin said goodbye to Konan and Yahiko, vanished when his countdown ended, and left Konan with a secretly empowered Paper Flower. The children later found Nagato, set out to grow stronger and search for Gin, and survived a battlefield encounter that revealed Nagato’s Rinnegan and Yahiko’s apparent survival thanks to Gin’s ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Gin refused Konan and Yahiko’s pleas to stay, gave them supplies and money, and used his remaining time to answer their training questions.
• Konan asked Uchiha Gin to put a Paper Flower in her hair, and he restored it and inscribed a trigger-based ninjutsu before vanishing at the end of his countdown.
• Konan and Yahiko found Nagato and a puppy, while Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to watch the children and search for Uchiha Gin.
• Yahiko and Konan decided to travel with Nagato to become stronger and gather information about Uchiha Gin, then began following Jiraiya and the other Sannin after witnessing their encounter with Hanzo.
• During a battlefield ambush, Nagato’s Rinnegan repelled the incoming weapons, and the children fell into the water before reaching shore.
• Yahiko sat up despite a Kunai lodged in his chest, pulled it out, and said Gin’s exclusive ninjutsu had saved him.

After returning from the Kamui Dimension, Uchiha Gin met Senju Itama for barbecue and learned that Hashirama Senju had awakened. Gin examined Hashirama and revealed that he had lost more than half his strength, then argued that his reduced power could help preserve peace by discouraging other villages from starting a war.

• Uchiha Gin returned from the Kamui Dimension and met Senju Itama at Uchiha Dairou's Barbecue Restaurant, where she noticed a tiny lip print on his cheek.
• Uchiha Gin told Senju Itama that Hashirama Senju would awaken soon and that his recovery would have a minor aftereffect.
• Hashirama Senju woke in Konoha Hospital, asked after his missing chips, and heard Tobirama Senju recount the Knight War in the Rain Country.
• Uchiha Madara used his Sharingan to show Hashirama the battle, and Hashirama questioned why the recording showed Tobirama being chased instead of transforming.
• Uchiha Gin examined Hashirama and said he had less than half his former strength, then explained to Tobirama Senju that Hashirama's reduced power could deter other villages from breaking the peace.

Tobirama Senju discovered that his hundred-billion-ryo investment had vanished and began seizing Senju Clan assets to cover the loss. Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara asked Uchiha Gin whether Hashirama Senju could recover, then accidentally revealed that he had secretly awakened Wood Release.

• Tobirama Senju learned from a newspaper that the Wave Country shipping company had denied taking foreign investment, and his attempt to track down its official failed when the Flying Thunder God Seal was found sunk in the sea.
• Hashirama Senju urged Tobirama Senju to deal with the missing funds before Uchiha Madara took office, and Tobirama Senju began confiscating Senju Clan assets from its wealthy branches.
• Uchiha Gin told Senju Itama that Tobirama Senju was selling clan property to cover the village's losses, then realized Tobirama Senju's false rumors about Hashirama Senju had helped provoke war between the ninja villages.
• Uchiha Madara visited Uchiha Gin and asked whether Hashirama Senju could regain his former strength; Uchiha Gin said he had an idea but needed time to verify it.
• Uchiha Gin noticed Uchiha Madara was hiding something, and Uchiha Madara accidentally admitted that he had awakened Wood Release before apologizing for keeping it secret.

Uchiha Madara revealed that he had awakened Wood Release and explained that Hashirama Senju’s manual helped him master it, while Uchiha Gin considered how to restore Hashirama’s health. Gin then arranged for Wave Country and Whirlpool Country buyers to acquire the Senju Clan’s property, leaving Tobirama Senju frustrated by the sale and suspecting the Uchiha Clan had interfered.

• Uchiha Madara demonstrated his newly awakened Wood Release to Uchiha Gin and Senju Itama, then said he had learned to use it from a manual Hashirama Senju wrote.
• Uchiha Gin discussed Madara’s growing power and Hashirama’s condition, then traveled to Wave Country and persuaded Uchiha Tajima to buy Senju Clan assets through merchants or a shell company.
• Uchiha Gin told Uzumaki Mito about the Senju Clan’s troubles, and she agreed to help with the acquisitions.
• Representatives of Wave Country and Whirlpool Country bought up the Senju Clan’s farmland and real estate while Konoha’s other clans held back, fearing a trap.
• Tobirama Senju reviewed the low sale proceeds and concluded that the Uchiha Clan must have interfered.

Uchiha Gin reluctantly returned to work while Konoha’s Senju clan struggled to cover the losses caused by Tobirama Senju. After Senju Itama gave her brothers her savings, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju set out to earn money as bounty hunters, leaving Konoha’s affairs to clones.

• Senju Itama forced Uchiha Gin out of the house and sent him back to the Dungeon, where he planned to keep working toward collecting Steel.
• Uchiha Gin saw Whirlpool Zhou Xuan settling on Whirlpool Culture Street and learned that Wave Country had opened a building-materials street with promotional giveaways.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju realized they were still short several tens of billions and asked Senju Itama to lend them three hundred billion.
• Senju Itama refused at first but threw her savings to her brothers as they left, explaining that she had planned to use the money for her dowry.
• Tobirama Senju decided that he and Hashirama Senju would make up the losses themselves by becoming bounty hunters, and they left Konoha while clones handled their duties.

Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju infiltrated the Exchange Office, registered as bounty hunters, and quickly earned enough money by completing dozens of bounties. Their rise drew attention from Kakuzu and became a sensational story among Konoha’s young ninja, while the brothers began choosing more prominent targets.

• Tobirama Senju disguised himself as Takasugi Shinsuke and registered with Hashirama Senju, who used the name Sakamoto Tatsuma; they chose the team nickname Black and White Duo.
• After the Exchange Office gave them only low-level bounty sheets, Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju returned hours later with dozens of corpses and collected two million five hundred and eighty thousand ryo.
• Hashirama Senju discovered the enormous bounties on himself, Uchiha Madara, and Tobirama Senju, and Tobirama Senju selected targets connected to Konoha while accidentally setting aside Madara’s notice.
• Kakuzu learned that two newcomers had overwhelmed the bounty-hunting business and refused to take jobs targeting Hashirama Senju and other powerful ninja.
• Jiraiya exaggerated the duo’s abilities to Might Duy, Hatake Sakumo, Hiruko, Orochimaru, and Tsunade, who remarked that splitting mountains and shattering rocks was basic ninja stuff.

Tsunade asked Uchiha Gin to investigate why Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju had stopped spending time with her, and Gin discovered they were using clones while secretly working off a huge debt. The exhausted Senju brothers continued their bounty-hunting work and ran into Kakuzu, whose teasing nickname angered Tobirama.

• Tsunade punched Jiraiya into a wall after he used her insulting nickname, and Hatake Sakumo apologized to Uchiha Chiri for the damage.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Gin that Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju had been neglecting her and staying awake, so Gin went to investigate and sensed they were clones.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju revealed that they were using clones to work in the Hokage's Office while their real selves hunted bounty targets to repay a debt of nearly ten billion.
• The exhausted Senju brothers visited an Exchange Office and met Kakuzu, who called Hashirama Senju “Brainless,” prompting Tobirama Senju to accuse him of provoking them.

Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju discovered an ancient missing-person mission whose target may be a thousand-year-old monk, while Uchiha Fuyuu proposed a plan to profit from Madara’s inauguration and was tasked with negotiating with Wave Country merchants. Fuyuu sought help from Uchiha Gin, asking whether he knew the people from Wave Country.

• Kakuzu heeded Chomei’s warning and left before Tobirama Senju could attack him.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju found a thousand-year-old missing-person notice and accepted the mission after learning the monk had been seen fifty-two years earlier.
• Uchiha Fuyuu proposed selling merchandise themed around Uchiha Madara’s inauguration and partnering with Wave Country merchant guilds to expand production.
• Uchiha Izuna assigned Fuyuu to negotiate with Wave Country despite Madara’s concern that his great-nephew was too young.
• Uchiha Gin greeted Fuyuu and gave him a gold brick, and Fuyuu asked whether Gin knew people from Wave Country.

Uchiha Fuyuu secured a favorable business partnership with Wave Country, while Uchiha Gin uncovered clues about a woman searching for her child's father and went to confront Konoha's Anbu. The chapter ended with Gin revealing that he had trapped Hiruzen and the Anbu in a Sharingan genjutsu.

• Uchiha Gin arranged for Uchiha Fuyuu to meet Uchiha Tajima, who negotiated a partnership that gave Uchiha eight shares and Wave Country two.
• Uchiha Tajima learned that Mihui Zi was pregnant again and pressed Uchiha Gin about the family having more children.
• Hagoromo told Hamura that he had not found their mother but had discovered a human who had lived for over a thousand years.
• Uchiha Madara urged Hashirama Senju's Wood Clone to take a break, while the clone and Tobirama Senju struggled to maintain their deception.
• Uchiha Gin met Mihui Ya, who was searching for her child's father, Nohara Hiroshi, and gave her money while he investigated.
• Uchiha Gin kicked open the Anbu duty room door and appeared to be struck by blades, then revealed that he was unharmed and had trapped Hiruzen and the Anbu in a Sharingan genjutsu.

Uchiha Gin told Shimura Shinji that Danzo was going to become a grandfather, then discovered Danzo had never been with Mihui Ya and heard how they first met. The chapter left Danzo stepping in when two men tried to take Mihui Ya away.

• Uchiha Gin searched the Anbu lounge for Danzo, then visited Shimura Shinji and claimed Danzo had gotten a woman pregnant.
• Uchiha Gin found Danzo training in the forest, praised his new visual genjutsu, and told him he was going to be a father.
• Danzo denied ever being with anyone and recalled an assassination mission in River Country where he met Mihui Ya, who had saved his life.
• A year earlier, Danzo met Mihui Ya at her noodle stall, rejected her offer of food, and left after eating plain noodles.
• Two men tried to force Mihui Ya to come to their master's inn, and Danzo stepped between them after one man stepped on his luggage.

Uchiha Gin uncovered that Danzō had fathered Mihui Ya’s child during the three days he was unconscious, then helped the couple reunite and arranged for them to live in Konoha under the Nohara name. The chapter ends with a monk visiting Hoshigakure to inspect its Meteorite and dismissing it as useless scrap.

• Danzō recounted his mission in River Country, where he killed his target and defeated Cloud and Iwa Jonin before Mihui Ya found and cared for him.
• Uchiha Gin questioned Mihui Ya, learned that Danzō had impregnated her while under the influence of boar-breeding ointment, and confirmed the child’s paternity with a DNA test.
• Shimura Shinji learned the truth and ordered Danzō to take responsibility for Mihui Ya and their child.
• Danzō reunited with Mihui Ya, apologized, and decided to marry her, while Uchiha Gin suggested they use her husband’s name, Nohara Hiroshi, to protect Danzō’s career.
• Danzō settled Mihui Ya and their son in Konoha, named the child Shinnosuke, and arranged for his own identity as Nohara Hiroshi to be kept secret.
• In Bear Country, the Hoshigakure leader brought a monk to see the Meteorite, but the monk called it useless scrap.

Jigen left Hoshigakure after healing the Star Ninja Leader and began considering how to find helpers and a new Vessel. In Konoha, the Hokage handover preparations were tangled up in Uchiha Gin’s profitable photo-book schemes, while the Senju brothers tracked a mysterious monk in Bear Country and Hashirama was stranded in a canyon until a familiar stranger appeared.

• Jigen gave the Star Ninja Leader a Chakra Pill, then left after concluding that his current body would not last until the Divine Tree’s Fruit ripened.
• Uchiha Fuyuu’s Hokage merchandise made a fortune, and Uchiha Izuna confronted him before Uchiha Gin took credit for organizing the business.
• Uchiha Madara rejected an embarrassing endorsement, but Tobirama Senju accepted a photo-book contract after Uchiha Gin offered him a share of the profits.
• Tobirama returned to Konoha, filled the hole in the village treasury through a Wave Country buyer, and told Hashirama’s Wood Clone that the brothers had found clues to the monk’s whereabouts.
• Tobirama sent a Shadow Clone to help Hashirama in Bear Country, where the starving Hashirama met a stranger who asked whether he needed help.