Chapter Summaries

Rasa explained to Kabuto that Sunagakure would build ties with the Land of Rain by exchanging people rather than going to war. In Sunagakure, Pakura comforted Temari over her rivalry with Daimaru, then discovered Rasa had apparently kept the gifts she sent for Temari.

• Rasa told Kabuto that Sunagakure would send people to the Land of Rain while the Land of Rain sent people to Sunagakure to study and work.
• Temari complained to Pakura that Daimaru was also called a genius despite seeming foolish and following her around.
• Pakura offered to teach Temari, but Temari refused, repeating Rasa and Ebizo's criticisms of Pakura.
• Pakura said she had sent Temari two gifts worth one hundred thousand ryo each, and Temari realized she had never received them.
• In the Land of Rain, Rasa sneezed as an attendant offered him a thick padded coat.

Rasa inspected Moomu’s mining operation in the Land of Rain, then gave him a stern lecture after Moomu asked about Rasa’s red-haired child. Meanwhile, Kabuto fed the captive Sasori drugged porridge and planned to refine the drug after Sasori detected it.

• Rasa visited Moomu’s mine and praised his management, while discussing the need to bring workers and metal back to Sunagakure.
• Moomu reminisced about Sunagakure and Rasa, then asked about Rasa’s red-haired child.
• Rasa told Moomu to keep working diligently and scolded him for treating his duties carelessly.
• Sasori woke after being unconscious for a day, bound and unable to sense his Chakra, and asked Kabuto whether he would try to escape.
• Kabuto fed Sasori drugged porridge; Sasori noticed the drug and fell asleep, so Kabuto resolved to improve it and try again tomorrow.

Rasa checked the recruitment effort in the Land of Rain, then decided Sasori would remain in Sunagakure and be cared for by Kabuto. Recruitment drew a long line of applicants, including an excited young man named Fei.

• Rasa confirmed that Moomu and Konan were managing affairs in the Land of Rain and prepared to return to Amegakure.
• Kabuto brought food for Sasori and asked Rasa how the village planned to deal with him.
• Rasa decided Sasori would stay in Sunagakure for life and placed him in Kabuto's care.
• Rasa and Kabuto agreed to blame Konoha for the Third Kazekage's disappearance and Sasori's death.
• Sand and Rain ninjas promoted recruitment outside Amegakure, where villagers and ninjas lined up to register.
• A young man introduced himself to the registrar as Fei, the Fei in Little Fei Fei.

Rasa returned to Sunagakure with a large group of Rain civilians and ninjas, along with ore, while Kabuto watched over the bound Sasori. Sunagakure expanded and began planning reforms, until news arrived that the Nine-Tails' Rampage had killed Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.

• Rasa led nearly a thousand Rain civilians and a few rain ninja toward Sunagakure, leaving Moomu at the mine and placing Sasori in Kabuto's care.
• Rasa questioned Kabuto about Sasori's poor condition, but Kabuto insisted nothing was wrong as the group continued its uneventful journey.
• In late August of Year 48 of Konoha, Rasa returned to Sunagakure, increasing the village's population and its factories' workforce.
• Sunagakure began planning infrastructure and zoning reforms, including electrical lines, Grass Grid, factory relocation, and repairs to the village walls.
• In mid-September, Sunagakure allowed children of outside workers to attend its schools in exchange for tuition and fees, drawing more interest from people in the Land of Rain.
• On October 10, the Nine-Tails' Rampage broke out, and Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze died in the line of duty.

Rasa reviewed Sunagakure’s projects and discussed Sasori’s captivity and forbidden human-puppet technique with Ebizo, then asked whether his gift had reached Konoha. Danzo received the statue and activated it, causing it to proclaim, “I’m doing all this for Konoha!”

• Ebizo reported that the Grass Grid installation was nearly complete and that some fruit pits could help plants grow in the desert.
• Rasa told Ebizo to keep Sasori hidden and contained, and Ebizo admitted Sasori wanted to turn himself into a puppet.
• Ebizo gave Rasa Sasori’s Human Puppet scroll, and Rasa decided to preserve its useful knowledge while sealing the technique and secretly burying Third Kazekage.
• Ebizo confirmed that Rasa’s gift for Shimura Danzō had been delivered to Konoha after the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.
• Danzo admired the glass statue, ordered a Root subordinate to press its button, and heard it announce, “I’m doing all this for Konoha!”

Danzo brooded over Konoha’s lack of recognition and decided to meet the Kazekage, while Konoha faced renewed threats after the Nine-Tails’ Rampage. In Sunagakure, Ebizo asked Rasa to find Sasori a wife, and Rasa instead offered to introduce him to Kabuto.

• Danzo listened to the statue’s recorded voice, resented Hiruzen and the Uchiha Clan, and resolved to meet the Kazekage.
• After Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki died, Kumogakure attacked Konoha and Kirigakure began harassing it, while Sunagakure remained uninvolved.
• Ebizo told Rasa that Sasori wanted to turn himself into a puppet and asked the Kazekage to help him continue the family bloodline.
• Rasa refused to play matchmaker with a village girl and suggested that Ebizo visit the red-light district in the Capital of the Land of Fire.
• When Ebizo asked who could help him, Rasa named Kabuto.

Rasa inspected Ebizo’s concrete building and fruit-tree research site, then assigned him to oversee the North Water South Transfer Project. Ebizo named Fei as his temporary replacement, while Tobi, working at the composting plant, decided he was a genius.

• Ebizo showed Rasa the costly three-story concrete building he had built to house workers, and Rasa resolved to cut his funding.
• Rasa inspected the fruit saplings and told Ebizo to focus on circuit installation and prepare to oversee the North Water South Transfer Project in the Land of Rain.
• Ebizo said he would leave someone in charge of the research site and named Fei, a talented tree planter who often disappeared to draw.
• Tobi shivered at the composting plant, chose not to tell Zetsu, and proudly admired his drawing.

Rasa assigned Kabuto to investigate Fei, whom he suspected of being a dangerous spy, and keep him from going out at night. By early Konoha Year 49, Sunagakure was nearing the age of electricity, while Ebizo left to oversee the North Water South Transfer Project in the Land of Rain.

• Rasa told Kabuto to investigate Fei's background, discover whether he had accomplices or plans in Sunagakure, and prevent him from going out at night.
• Kabuto revealed he had known Fei for nearly a month through visits to Ebizo's workplace and agreed to investigate him.
• Kabuto left to meet Ebizo and Chiyo Teacher, leaving Rasa uneasy about his interest in Fei.
• At the end of Konoha Year 48, the war between Konoha and Kumogakure intensified, while Kirigakure occasionally harassed Konoha's borders.
• By the beginning of Konoha Year 49, circuit installation had reached half of Sunagakure, bringing the village close to the age of electricity.
• In March, Ebizo traveled to the Land of Rain to oversee the North Water South Transfer Project.

Kabuto struggled to determine whether Fei was a spy while Fei happily pursued his poop-themed art in Sunagakure. Months later, Rasa tasked Chiyo and Sasori with developing a Xiaobawang game console, while Jiraiya arrived somewhere crowded and questioned whether it was Sunagakure.

• Kabuto investigated Fei and found no evidence of espionage, despite suspecting that he was concealing a secret.
• Fei wondered why White Zetsu had sent him to Sunagakure, then decided that making art mattered more than investigating.
• Rasa told Chiyo to develop a Xiaobawang game console with Sasori and promised the village's support.
• Jiraiya, disguised beneath a hood, saw a crowd of people and ninja and wondered whether he had reached Sunagakure.

Jiraiya infiltrated a Glass Factory near Sunagakure, mistaking it for an evil experiment, while Rasa tested a new toy car and assigned further toy development to a worker. The chapter left Jiraiya stuck working at the factory, wondering whether he would be paid.

• Jiraiya sneaked into a building near Sunagakure, changed into workers' clothes, and followed an older man through the facility.
• The older man led Jiraiya to the furnace area, where Jiraiya realized the supposed secret laboratory was a Glass Factory.
• Rasa tested a four-wheel-drive toy car, which sank into the sand before racing across flatter ground.
• A worker explained that voice control and other features still needed research, and Rasa promised to make him Toy Factory director if he succeeded.
• Jiraiya made a lifelike glass toad statue and wondered whether the Glass Factory would pay him.

Rasa and Kanna confronted Jiraiya over taking Kabuto to a brothel, and Kanna refused his offer to return to Konoha. She accused Konoha of sending ninja to hunt Nagato, while Fei headed toward a meeting arranged by a White Zetsu at Sunagakure’s Astronomical Observatory.

• Rasa reassured Jiraiya that Sunagakure would not hold him accountable for taking Kabuto to a brothel, while Jiraiya recalled being surrounded by Sand shinobi.
• Jiraiya explained that he had come to Sunagakure because he recognized Uzumaki Fuinjutsu on a prospector’s bag and wanted to bring Kanna Uzumaki back to Konoha.
• Kanna thanked Jiraiya for caring for Nagato, then rebuked him for taking Kabuto to a brothel.
• Jiraiya invited Kanna to return to Konoha, but she declined and accused Konoha of sending ninja to hunt Nagato and nearly killing him and Yahiko.
• Fei noticed Kabuto had not come to discuss art and recalled a White Zetsu’s invitation to meet at Sunagakure’s Astronomical Observatory.

Rasa kept Kaguya Otsutsuki under watch in Sunagakure while she observed the changed world, and she sensed two intruders approaching. Rasa discovered that Black Zetsu and Fei had arrived alongside White Zetsu, bringing the Shinobi World's ancient conspirators together in Sunagakure.

• Rasa wrapped his sleeping daughter Temari in his cloak and spoke with Kaguya Otsutsuki, who remarked on how hard children in this era had to work.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki sensed two intruders, while Fei admitted to Black Zetsu that he had forgotten his intelligence-gathering mission.
• White Zetsu Main Body detected someone approaching through nearby spores.
• Rasa recognized Black Zetsu, Fei, and the black-and-white pair beside Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, Fei, and Kaguya Otsutsuki gathered in Sunagakure.

Rasa invited Jiraiya to become a Sunagakure agent, promising he could earn money while continuing his travels and research. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu accepted his mother’s decision not to seize the Constellation Legend Simulator and wondered whether she could only emerge at night.

• Jiraiya thanked Rasa for Sunagakure’s help in protecting Yahiko, and Rasa confirmed that Sunagakure and Amegakure were allies.
• Rasa hinted that a hidden mastermind’s alliance might change their plans, then learned Jiraiya intended to leave that afternoon.
• Black Zetsu told White Zetsu that his mother had refused to let them seize the simulator, since it was only a projection, and said they would follow her instructions.
• Rasa reassured Jiraiya that he would not have to work for Sunagakure or betray Konoha, then pitched an agent business built around reselling Gold Prospector Gift Packages.
• Rasa claimed Sunagakure had earned ten billion from the product and offered Jiraiya training and protection if he joined as an agent.

Rasa turned Black Zetsu’s attempt to establish a base in Sunagakure into an opportunity to recruit White Zetsu laborers, while the village expanded its trade and technology. As Konoha and Kumogakure grew exhausted by years of fighting, they agreed to an alliance that ended their war without either side surrendering.

• Jiraiya signed Sunagakure’s agreement, departed with goods, and spread the village’s products to remote countries and small ninja villages.
• Rasa discovered Black Zetsu had brought White Zetsu to Sunagakure and welcomed them as workers after learning they needed no food or rest.
• Sunagakure produced a large black-and-white digital arcade machine, and Rasa asked Chiyo to make it smaller, cheaper, and more advanced.
• Konoha and Kumogakure grew too exhausted to continue their nearly decade-long war and reached a stalemate.
• Kumogakure proposed an alliance with Konoha, and both villages agreed, ending the war without either side surrendering.

Hiruzen comforted a lonely Naruto with a toy and encouraged him to earn recognition, while Fugaku noticed Uchiha children playing with four-wheel-drive cars. Rasa prepared a Shinobi World Mini 4WD Tournament and welcomed news that Shimura Danzō was coming to Sunagakure.

• Hiruzen visited Naruto and listened as the boy asked why everyone hated him and refused to play with him.
• Hiruzen told Naruto to earn people's recognition through his own efforts, and Naruto declared that he wanted to become Hokage.
• Hiruzen gave Naruto a Charge God of War toy, while Fugaku observed Uchiha children shouting as they played with four-wheel-drive cars.
• Rasa planned qualifying rounds for the first Shinobi World Mini 4WD Tournament to promote the cars and Sunagakure.
• A Konoha Anbu ninja informed Rasa that Shimura Danzō was coming to Sunagakure, and Rasa felt relieved.

Sunagakure staged an extravagant welcome for Shimura Danzō, who suspected a trap and ordered Root to dismantle it before Rasa intervened. At the banquet, Danzō rejected the meager food and pressed Rasa to speak, so Rasa prepared to use DIO’s Villain’s Submission skill.

• Sunagakure decorated its entrance and arranged a grand welcome for Shimura Danzō, including statues, music, a banner, and children with plastic flowers.
• Shimura Danzō suspected Sunagakure was plotting against Konoha and signaled Root to take down the welcoming display.
• Rasa separated the Sand and Konoha ninjas with a wall of sand, warmly greeted Danzō, and escorted the delegation to a banquet.
• Rasa served Danzō boiled water and sparse dishes, but Danzō refused to eat and demanded that Rasa state his purpose.
• Rasa decided to use DIO’s Villain’s Submission skill after Danzō rejected the meal.

Rasa used a persuasive card to convince Shimura Danzō that Konoha had failed to recognize his service and that he needed his own wealth to help the village. Danzō agreed to a commercial alliance with Sunagakure, but left suspicious of Rasa’s motives.

• Rasa praised Danzō’s sacrifices for Konoha and criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi for taking credit and obstructing progress.
• Danzō admitted that he felt powerless to help Konoha’s poor and realized that making money could free Root from the village’s financial control.
• In early winter of Konoha Year 51, Danzō established a Commercial Alliance with Sunagakure to share resources and develop trade.
• After Danzō departed, Rasa wondered whether the card’s influence would last and ordered a sand ninja to bring Kabuto to him.
• Far from Sunagakure, Danzō looked back at the village and resolved to find out what Rasa was planning.

As Year 51 of Konoha ended, Rasa considered the difficulties of bringing water from the Land of Rain to Sunagakure and planned to speak with the One-Tail. In Konoha, Naruto prepared to spend New Year alone, hoping to find a new outfit for his toy car, Charge.

• Ebizo returned from overseeing the water diversion project, and Rasa approved his leave before Ebizo went to have dinner with Sasori.
• Rasa went home and reflected on the expense and difficulty of laying buried pipes from the Land of Rain to Sunagakure.
• Rasa decided to find time to improve his relationship with the One-Tail, while Karura told him that Kana, Kabuto, and Kaguya would join their year-end celebration.
• Naruto walked home through snowy Konoha after declining to stay at Ichiraku's, feeling lonely because he expected to spend New Year alone.
• Naruto looked at his toy four-wheel drive car, Charge, and wondered whether the shop owner would let him go in to get it a new outfit.

At the New Year celebration, Rasa tried to stop Black Zetsu from giving Kaguya powerful jutsu, then asked him to obtain Uzumaki sealing techniques from Konoha. By spring of Year 52, Rasa had put Black Zetsu in charge of monitoring Sunagakure’s troubled business in the Land of Water.

• Black Zetsu gave Kaguya the Uchiha Fire Style collection and forbidden jutsu, and revealed he had copied them for the academy.
• Rasa asked Black Zetsu about the Uzumaki Clan’s secret jutsu, but Black Zetsu said the complete techniques were probably sealed in Konoha.
• Black Zetsu suggested Rasa attack Konoha to create an opening, but Rasa refused and told him to handle the matter himself.
• Black Zetsu considered asking Obito to help infiltrate Konoha’s sealed vaults.
• In spring of Year 52, Rasa assigned Black Zetsu to oversee Sunagakure’s business in the Land of Water as Kirigakure tightened inspections of foreign ninja.

Shisui Uchiha witnessed villagers mistreat Naruto and struggled with whether to approach the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while Naruto found a shop that allowed him to enter and shop for four-wheel-drive car parts. The shop’s Sunagakure representative prepared to promote a major tournament across the Shinobi World.

• Shisui Uchiha reflected on the Uchiha Clan’s worsening relationship with Konoha and his hope of rebuilding trust with the village.
• Shisui saw villagers drive Naruto away from a shop, but stopped himself from approaching because the Uchiha Clan had been ordered to avoid the Jinchuriki.
• Shisui found Naruto entering a four-wheel-drive car shop and wondered why the boy was allowed inside.
• Naruto excitedly asked the clerk for new motors, and the clerk pointed him toward the merchandise despite his dislike of Naruto.
• The Sunagakure representative instructed the staff to put up promotional posters for a major tournament.