Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gin explained his plan to profit from the war to Uchiha Tajima, then received the children back from their mission and began training them after they asked to become stronger. His attempt to encourage Hizashi ended with Hiashi killing a sparrow, and Gin ordered him to practice throwing at a dummy instead.

• Uchiha Gin told Uchiha Tajima how the Wave Country Chamber of Commerce could profit from Sunagakure’s subsidies, Iwagakure’s financial troubles, and high-interest loans.
• Uchiha Tajima agreed to let Gin handle the plan but warned him not to lead Fugaku astray before leaving.
• Nawaki, Fugaku, the Hyuga Brothers, and Mikoto returned from their mission, and Mikoto brought the group sweet drinks and Gin’s signed Mission Request Forms.
• Mikoto asked Gin to train the children so they could grow stronger, and he brought out a Training Dummy to teach them the basics of throwing hidden weapons.
• Uchiha Gin tried to encourage Hizashi by comparing him to a free bird, but Hiashi hit a sparrow with a kunai and presented it to Gin.
• Uchiha Gin confiscated the sparrow and ordered Hiashi to throw at the Training Dummy ten thousand times.

Hiashi and Hizashi impressed Hyuga Hiten with the concealed-weapon techniques they had learned from Uchiha Gin, then returned Fugaku’s novel after their father defeated them in a wager. Gin later met Hiten, took on D-rank missions with the children, and mistakenly warned Hiashi to practice moderation after noticing the brothers’ exhaustion.

• Hiashi and Hizashi attacked Hiten with shuriken and a fast kunai throw, impressing Tenyo with their training under Gin.
• Hiten wagered that the brothers could not make him move before they ran out of concealed weapons, while the brothers asked for Fugaku’s confiscated novel back if they won.
• The brothers lost the contest and returned Fugaku’s novel at school, then agreed to continue training with him after dinner.
• Gin encountered Hiten, who thanked him for helping his sons, before Gin handed a D-rank mission to Fugaku and the other children.
• Gin examined the exhausted Hiashi and Hizashi and told Hiashi to stop masturbating so he would not harm his future health.

Uchiha Gin agreed to teach the Hyuga Brothers Gentle Fist and help Jiraiya and his companions prepare for a long-term mission by addressing their individual training needs. When Jiraiya brought Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima over, Gin revealed his Sage Mode aura and offered a method that would use up a few toads.

• The Hyuga Brothers asked Uchiha Gin to guide them in the Gentle Fist Eight Trigrams Palm, and he agreed in exchange for twice as many Outsourced Missions.
• Jiraiya and his companions told Gin they worked for Root and needed special training before leaving Konoha on a mission lasting one to five years.
• Gin offered Jiraiya help with Natural Energy, gave Orochimaru a Soft Body Modification manual and Dan Katō the Spiritualization Technique, advised Tsunade and Hatake Sakumo, and handed Might Duy the Eight Inner Gates manual.
• Jiraiya brought Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima to Gin, who promised to help Jiraiya master Sage Mode and claimed his method would use up a few toads.

Uchiha Gin demonstrated mastery of Sage Modes from three sacred lands, then gave Jiraiya a technique that let Mount Myōboku’s toads help him learn Sage Mode. He later trained the Hyuga brothers in different Gentle Fist styles, leaving Hyuga Tenyo furious at Hiashi’s lesson.

• Uchiha Gin transformed through Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest Sage Modes, shocking Fukasaku and Shima.
• Jiraiya begged Uchiha Gin to teach him Sage Mode, and Gin gave him the Two Lives Technique for Fukasaku to help him train.
• Jiraiya said his team was heading to the Rain Country while Sakumo and the others were going to the Wind Country; Sakumo returned from his sword training with sharpened Sword Intent.
• After Fugaku and the others returned, the Hyuga brothers asked Gin to teach them the Gentle Fist Eight Trigrams Palm, and he trained Hiashi and Hizashi in different styles.
• Hiashi demonstrated his lesson to Hyuga Tenyo, who recognized the technique and angrily called it a girly Gentle Fist.

Jiraiya successfully mastered the Two-Lives Technique and Sage Mode, but its unstable power transformed him into a grotesque toad. As Jiraiya and his companions prepared to leave for a dangerous infiltration mission, Uchiha Gin recruited the younger Konoha children to bring more trainees to his training ground.

• Jiraiya fused with Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, successfully entering Sage Mode but beginning to transform into a toad as Natural Energy ran wild.
• Uchiha Gin arrived, and Jiraiya learned from a mirror that Sage Mode had changed his face and body; Sage Fukasaku ended the transformation before it consumed him.
• Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Dan Katō, Hatake Sakumo, and Might Duy prepared to leave on their dangerous overseas infiltration mission, while Uchiha Gin praised their training progress.
• After the group departed, Uchiha Gin urged the remaining children to bring reliable friends to train, and Nawaki offered to invite Choza and the others.
• Fugaku asked to bring his young little brother Minato, boasting that Minato was only half a step behind him in looks.

Fugaku recruited Minato as his underling and invited him to eat ramen, while Nawaki was tricked into eating Mikoto’s lunch. The chapter ended with Shikaku refusing to share Choza’s chocolate with Nawaki, saying dogs died if they ate it.

• Minato tried to avoid Fugaku, but Fugaku caught him, called him his underling, and invited him to Ichiraku for ramen.
• Minato learned Fugaku’s name and recognized him as the legendary Fierce Eyes Fugaku before heading to class worried about his new senior.
• Fugaku told Nawaki and Mikoto that he had recruited Minato, and Uzumaki Miro warned his graduating class that the graduation exam was next week.
• Uzumaki Miro discovered he had spent his savings on Orochimaru’s livestream and wrote to his sister Uzumaki Mika asking for help.
• Fugaku persuaded Mikoto to give her lunch to Nawaki, who ate both boxes so he could please her, then went with Fugaku and Mikoto to get ramen.
• Choza offered to share snacks with Nawaki, but Shikaku refused to enter the classroom and said dogs died if they ate chocolate.

Fugaku invited Nawaki, the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio, and the Hyuga Brothers to ramen while Minato waited outside the academy and spoke with Aburame Shibi. When three bullies confronted Minato, Shibi tried to fight them but was easily knocked aside, leaving Minato to face them.

• Fugaku invited the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio to ramen, and Choza accepted before Nawaki, the Hyuga Brothers, and the others joined them.
• Minato spoke with Aburame Shibi, who had followed him because he wanted to learn how to strengthen his weak presence.
• Minato told Shibi that Fugaku wanted him as an underling, and Shibi advised him to drop out rather than challenge the Uchiha Clan.
• Cock's Comb Head and his two lackeys cornered Minato, but they failed to notice Shibi standing beside him.
• Shibi charged the bullies and struck Cock's Comb Head's knee, but the boy casually kicked Shibi away.
• Minato helped Shibi up, then faced the bullies and said he would not let them do as they pleased.

Minato defeated Fatty after awakening an uncanny ability to read and evade his attacks, then held him at bay with a chopstick. When Cock's Comb Head and Bucktooth attacked the exhausted Minato, Fugaku made a dramatic entrance and rescued him.

• Fugaku and his companions mistook Cock's Comb Head, Fatty, and Bucktooth for Fugaku's new underlings while Minato faced them at the school gate.
• Minato dodged Fatty's attacks, and after Fatty used Chakra to strike again, Minato countered and restrained him with a chopstick.
• The Byakugan-wielding Hyuga Brothers recognized Minato's extraordinary speed, while Cock's Comb Head demanded to know what Minato wanted.
• Minato demanded that Cock's Comb Head apologize to his friend Shibi, but Cock's Comb Head and Bucktooth used the distraction to attack him.
• Fugaku dropped in and sent Cock's Comb Head and Bucktooth flying, saving the exhausted Minato.

After Minato encouraged the bullies he had helped defeat, Fugaku introduced him to his friends, and the group went to Ichiraku Ramen. The meal ended with Ichiraku's Father discovering nine more bowls on the bill than anyone could account for.

• Uchiha Yashiro arrested Cock's Comb Head and his two companions for assault, while Cock's Comb Head revealed that past bullying had driven them to bully younger students.
• Minato called Cock's Comb Head a senior and encouraged him not to give up, prompting him to abandon his hostile attitude before Yashiro took the trio away.
• Fugaku introduced Minato to Mikoto, the Hyuga Brothers, Nara Shikaku, Choza Akimichi, and Yamanaka Inoichi; Choza ate Minato's lunch of Scrambled Eggs with Tomato.
• Fugaku introduced Nawaki as a nobody by the roadside, and Minato's sincere misunderstanding led Nawaki and Fugaku to fight before everyone went to Ichiraku Ramen.
• Fugaku paid for the meal, but Ichiraku's Father counted eighty-eight bowls and noticed nine extra bowls in the records.

Minato helped Aburame Shibi become more visible by giving him a gourd to house his Kikaichū, deepening their friendship. Later, Minato stayed loyal to Fugaku despite Nawaki trying to recruit him, and Fugaku invited him to join the group’s after-school training.

• Fugaku discovered that Shibi had eaten nine bowls of ramen through his Kikaichū, then used his Sharingan to see the otherwise nearly invisible boy.
• Shibi explained that the bugs inside his body concealed his Chakra and weakened his presence, so Minato obtained a gourd and suggested that he keep some Kikaichū in it.
• Shibi moved most of his bugs into the gourd, and his presence grew strong enough for Mikoto and the others to notice him.
• Shibi declared Minato his lifelong friend, while Minato replied that they already were friends.
• At lunch, Nawaki tried to recruit Minato away from Fugaku, but Minato refused and Fugaku challenged Nawaki to another training-ground match.
• Minato asked about Fugaku’s after-school training, and Fugaku promised to take him somewhere he would enjoy.

Fugaku brought Minato to meet Uchiha Gin at the training ground, where Minato discovered Gin had given him the humiliating nickname Goudan and attacked him. Gin dodged Minato’s blow, noticed his unusual spatial talent, then pretended Minato had badly injured his knee to earn Heart Power Points.

• Fugaku led Minato through West Street to reach the western training ground and helped him enter using his Uchiha connections.
• Fugaku introduced Minato to Uchiha Gin, who revealed that he had once held Minato as a baby and had given him the nickname Goudan.
• Minato recognized Gin as the source of his embarrassing nickname and charged at him, while Fugaku tried to protect Gin.
• Gin dodged Minato’s headbutt and knee strike, then noticed signs of Minato’s rare spatial talent.
• Gin feigned a serious knee injury after Minato’s punch, and the system awarded him 40 Heart Power Points.

Minato accidentally paid Uchiha Gin for a staged injury, then recognized him as the longtime friend who had supplied his family with lollipops. At the training ground, Fugaku broke through while fighting the Training Dummy, and Minato prepared to try it next.

• Uchiha Gin pretended Minato had injured him, took Minato's pocket money, and arranged for him to pay the remaining compensation in installments.
• Fugaku explained that Gin had scammed Jiraiya into surrendering most of his book royalties, while Minato accepted his own loss as a relief that nobody was hurt.
• Gin revealed that he had known Minato's grandfather, and Minato remembered him as Gin-san, the source of the lollipops from his childhood.
• Gin gave candy to Choza and the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio, and Minato accepted him as Gin-grandpa after recognizing the familiar strawberry lollipop.
• Fugaku trained against the Training Dummy until he collapsed and felt he had improved his taijutsu, while Nawaki waited for his turn.
• Gin sent Minato to try the dummy, and Minato drew a three-pronged Kunai to use his strongest move.

Minato and the other children tested Uchiha Gin’s Training Dummy and found that sparring with it rapidly improved their abilities. After Shikaku experienced the effect himself, he asked whether anyone could use it, and Gin urged the children to keep helping him test the prototype.

• Minato used his Flying Thunder God Kunai and Space-Time Power to attack the dummy, discovering that the training made his movements smoother and strengthened his abilities.
• Fugaku congratulated Minato, who thanked his boss and said he would train with the dummy every day.
• Nawaki trained until he could control Strength of a Hundred more freely, while Shikaku prepared to test the dummy for the first time.
• Shikaku repeatedly used Shadow Imitation Technique on the dummy and found that his technique had become smoother and his understanding had improved.
• After Choza took his turn, Shikaku asked Uchiha Gin whether the dummy had restrictions; Gin said it was only a prototype and asked the children to help provide data each day.

Uchiha Setsuna and Senju Hi Shin clashed over who would lead Team 7, but agreed on Maruboshi Kosuke after Hi Shin recognized him as someone connected to Uchiha Gin. Fugaku, Mikoto, and Nawaki met Kosuke at the academy, uncertain of their plain-looking new Jonin leader.

• Uchiha Setsuna demanded that a Uchiha Jonin lead Fugaku's team, while Senju Hi Shin refused to let an Uchiha supervise Nawaki.
• Hiruzen proposed Maruboshi Kosuke as Team 7's leader, and Hi Shin approved after recognizing his connection to Uchiha Gin.
• Hiruzen appointed Maruboshi Kosuke as Team 7's Jonin team leader.
• Uzumaki Miro visited Fugaku, Mikoto, and Nawaki, teased them, and said he had encountered a capable Jonin carrying a sword.
• Maruboshi Kosuke arrived at the academy, introduced himself to Fugaku, Mikoto, and Nawaki, and described his Water Release and swordsmanship as ordinary.

Maruboshi Kosuke introduced himself to Fugaku, Nawaki, and Mikoto as their Guidance Jonin, but the children doubted his abilities and challenged him to prove himself. At the training ground, Fugaku and Nawaki fell for his Water Clone while Kosuke secretly ate hot pot with Gin-san.

• Maruboshi Kosuke told the children his dream was to open a large bathhouse, while Mikoto dreamed of becoming a wandering heroine, Nawaki wanted to become Hokage, and Fugaku wanted to defeat Uchiha Fuyou.
• Fugaku, Nawaki, and Mikoto refused to accept Kosuke as their Guidance Jonin without seeing his strength, so he arranged to meet them at the training ground that evening.
• Hiruzen told Kosuke to keep a close eye on Fugaku and Nawaki, while the children returned home to prepare for their test.
• Fugaku and Nawaki met Minato and the Ino-Shika-Cho Trio at the training ground, where Shikaku recognized Kosuke as a recently promoted Jonin with a high mission completion rate.
• Kosuke arrived carrying groceries and faced the children; Nawaki attacked with the Strength of a Hundred while Fugaku caught Kosuke in a Sharingan genjutsu.
• Nawaki struck Kosuke, whose body burst into water, revealing that he had used a Water Clone while he and Gin-san ate hot pot in the rest area.

Maruboshi Kosuke returned to the training ground after his Water Clone was defeated and quickly subdued Nawaki and trapped Fugaku in a genjutsu. Mikoto revealed her Three Tomoe Sharingan and secret sword technique, then launched a surprise attack on Kosuke.

• Uchiha Gin and Maruboshi Kosuke ate hot pot while Kosuke's Water Clone assessed Fugaku, Nawaki, and Mikoto.
• Fugaku, Nawaki, and Mikoto searched for Kosuke, and the real Kosuke appeared and redirected Nawaki's attack before tying him up and ensnaring Fugaku in a genjutsu.
• Kosuke questioned whether he should continue leading Team 7, but Mikoto stayed composed and insisted her companions would recover.
• The Hyuga Brothers identified Kosuke as an Elite Jonin, while Mikoto revealed her Three Tomoe Sharingan to the stunned spectators.
• Mikoto used the Shadow Clone Technique and launched Dance of the Crescent Moon, sending her clones forward with Kidney-Liver Snatch and Chidori.

Mikoto, Nawaki, and Fugaku fought Maruboshi Kosuke during Team 7’s assessment, each revealing powerful techniques and tricks. Just as Nawaki prepared to unleash his infamous Poop Style, someone with a hotpot skimmer stopped him.

• Maruboshi Kosuke outmaneuvered Mikoto’s attacks and defeated her, but she had already hidden a Shadow Clone underground that struck him with a Rasengan.
• Kosuke revealed that his apparent defeat was a Water Clone and caught Mikoto by surprise, while Nawaki broke free and Fugaku escaped Kosuke’s genjutsu.
• Nawaki and Fugaku challenged Kosuke again, and he blocked Fugaku’s Great Fireball with a Water Formation Wall before tricking Fugaku with a Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
• Nawaki defended his Poop Style Jutsu, prompting Mikoto and the spectators to flee as Fugaku warned Kosuke that Nawaki’s technique resembled the village’s foul latrine.
• Kosuke declared the assessment over, but Nawaki began his Sea of Feces technique and was struck on the head with a hot skimmer by an arriving figure.

Uchiha Gin punished Nawaki for his foul-smelling biological-fertilizer technique while the group shared a hot pot, then promised to teach Maruboshi Kosuke a technique after Kosuke mastered a six-seal Water Dragon Bullet. Gin demonstrated how Kosuke could combine his Willow Flow illusion with swordsmanship, and Kosuke grasped the idea as Gin pretended the demonstration had exhausted him.

• Minato joined the hot pot gathering and initially pitied Nawaki, but changed his mind after Gin explained that Nawaki had nearly turned the training ground into a cesspit with his secret technique.
• Gin ordered Nawaki to keep holding a concrete block, then told Kosuke to train Fugaku without treating him like one of his own.
• After the meal, the children cleaned up while Nawaki ate Mikoto's leftovers and bragged to Fugaku about her bite marks; Shikaku decided to recommend Minato as an investment to his father.
• Gin praised Kosuke for simplifying Water Dragon Bullet to six hand seals and promised to teach him a ninjutsu, then suggested combining Kosuke's Willow Flow illusion with his sword.
• Gin demonstrated the technique, trapping the children in an illusion of steel willow leaves until Kosuke understood how it worked; Gin then pretended the display had drained his Chakra.

In Konoha Year 33, Uchiha Gin learned that Nonō had been promoted to Chunin and wanted to apply to Root, so he offered to put in a good word for her. Nonō kissed him in thanks, but the moment ended with Mito appearing outside the shattered window, ready to confront him.

• Uchiha Gin watched a Wind Country caravan load goods and worried that Sunagakure's economic pressure could drive Iwagakure into war.
• Nonō brought Uchiha Gin the mission payment and told him that Minato and the others had recruited several young girls for training.
• Nonō told Uchiha Gin she had been promoted to Chunin and showed him a recruitment flyer for Root, whose workplace was on West Street.
• After recognizing Konan on the flyer, Uchiha Gin promised Nonō that his connection to Root's leadership would help her get the position she wanted.
• Nonō kissed Uchiha Gin on the cheek, and Mito appeared outside the cracked window as he tried to explain himself.

Uchiha Gin and Uzumaki Mito welcomed Kushina to Konoha as an exchange student, while Nonō learned about Gin’s complicated romantic life and befriended the young girl. Mito then told Gin that Ōnoki had secretly offered the Hozuki Clan help overthrow Kukachiyuu Tatsumaki, but assured him that the Kukachiyuu still controlled Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Gin repaired the cracked cake-shop window while Uzumaki Mito questioned Nonō, who was shocked to learn Mito was Gin’s girlfriend and heard that Gin thought she would become a good mother.
• Kushina arrived with Mito, ate Nonō’s cake, and greeted Gin, who learned that she had come to Konoha as an exchange student and would be looked after by Miro.
• Gin asked Nonō to show Kushina around Konoha, and Nonō took the eager young foodie to the snack street with spending money from Gin.
• Mito confronted Gin about neglecting his visits and suspected his correspondence with Fubuki meant he had become involved with her, but Gin insisted they were only pen pals.
• Mito told Gin that Ōnoki had promised the Hozuki Clan help overthrow Kukachiyuu Tatsumaki in exchange for a maritime trade route, then assured him Kirigakure remained under the Kukachiyuu surname.