Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Land of Whirlpools, Masahiko formally accepted Nagato as his fourth disciple and began teaching him ninjutsu. Nagato quickly extracted Chakra, and Masahiko gained Witness Points for changing the storyline of Nagato's teacher.

• Masahiko returned to the Land of Whirlpools with Nawaki, who was training to defeat Fugaku and win Mikoto.
• Masahiko learned that Yuna's Kunai Cutting Machine required a Chunin-level Chakra control to operate, though she planned to keep improving it.
• Masahiko told Iko that Nagato would become his fourth disciple, then took the boy aside to begin his training.
• Nagato learned Chakra extraction in about ten minutes, and Masahiko sensed that his Chakra natures were wind, earth, and fire.
• Masahiko formally accepted Nagato as his fourth disciple and received Witness Points for changing the storyline of Nagato's teacher.

Masahiko took Nagato to the Land of Rain to find Yahiko and Konan, hoping to make them his disciples. He found Konan near a bun shop, where Nagato rescued her from the shopkeeper, and Yahiko remained unaccounted for.

• Masahiko praised Nagato's mastery of Fire Release and told him that Nawaki had returned home to pursue a possible wife.
• Masahiko decided to seek out Yahiko and Konan as potential disciples and traveled with Nagato to the Land of Rain.
• Masahiko showed Nagato his old home in the rebuilt Slums before they continued to the Civilian District.
• Nagato spotted Konan hiding near a bun shop, and she grabbed two buns and ran from the shopkeeper.
• Masahiko prompted Nagato to help, and Nagato rescued Konan before the shopkeeper caught her.

Masahiko took Konan as a disciple and searched the Land of Rain for Yahiko, but found no trace of him. After visiting Hanzō’s residence and warning him about a possible enemy, Masahiko returned to the Land of Whirlpools with Konan and Nagato, planning to investigate again around Konoha Year 49 or 50.

• Masahiko learned that Konan had wandered alone for about a year, then agreed to take her along and teach her ninjutsu after Nagato asked.
• Konan called Masahiko “Uncle,” and he told her to call him “Teacher”; taking her as a disciple earned him fifty Witness Points.
• Masahiko searched the Land of Rain with Nagato and Konan but found no sign of Yahiko.
• Masahiko toured Hanzō’s residence, encountered Hanzō, and warned him to watch out for a strange enemy.
• Masahiko suspected the Akatsuki Organization had not yet chosen the Land of Rain as its base and decided to return around Konoha Year 49 or 50 to investigate.

Masahiko discovered that Konan could infuse paper with Fire Release Chakra to make powerful, inexpensive explosive tags. He recognized her ability’s potential value to the Land of Whirlpools and took her to the training ground to check her and Nagato’s progress.

• Masahiko raised Gentle Fist to level nine and reflected on the increase in his strength.
• Konan showed Masahiko how she folded paper with Chakra and explained that adding another Chakra type made it explode.
• Masahiko tested Konan’s explosive paper behind a Four Violet Flames Formation and confirmed its blast was comparable to an Explosive Tag.
• Masahiko sealed the explosive paper with a basic sealing formula, making it safe to handle without Konan maintaining control.
• Masahiko told Konan to keep the ability secret and train hard, then took her to see how she and Nagato had improved.

Masahiko went to Konoha to help with the third expansion of its ninjutsu library and negotiated with Hiruzen over which techniques to add. The collection reached one thousand techniques, and Masahiko left with copies of the ordinary ninjutsu and Hiruzen’s newly developed techniques.

• Masahiko arrived in Konoha and learned that Hiruzen had sent the elders to collect ninjutsu from clans that had gained spoils during the war.
• Masahiko read the Ninjutsu Encyclopedia and found many techniques he had not known, including Hiruzen’s Rasengan variations.
• Hiruzen asked Masahiko to contribute his advanced techniques, and Masahiko agreed to give Konoha Chidori while refusing to hand over his other S-rank techniques.
• Hiruzen offered Masahiko his own roughly hundred developed ninjutsu, and the two exchanged techniques.
• Masahiko handed over the Chidori series, and Konoha’s expanded ninjutsu library reached one thousand techniques.

After organizing Uzumaki’s ninjutsu and sealing techniques, Masahiko returned to teaching Konan and Nagato, giving Konan advice on developing her paper-based abilities and preparing to teach Nagato the Shadow Clone Technique. Nanako arrived to ask about visiting Kushina in Konoha, leaving Masahiko embarrassed that he had forgotten to tell her about Kushina’s situation.

• Masahiko expanded Uzumaki’s ninjutsu collection and established rules limiting access to techniques, especially Sealing Jutsu.
• Masahiko checked Konan’s basic training and advised her to develop her paper abilities, improve Chakra control, and practice making explosive tags in greater quantities.
• Masahiko confirmed that Nagato had mastered his Fire Release and Earth Release techniques and planned to teach him the Shadow Clone Technique.
• Masahiko sensed Nanako approaching and introduced her to Konan and Nagato as their senior sister.
• Nanako told Masahiko she wanted to visit Kushina in Konoha, and Masahiko realized he had forgotten to tell her about Kushina for over two years.

Masahiko took Konan and Nagato to Konoha, where he reunited with Mito, Nanako, and Kushina. Kushina and Minato’s graduation assessment went badly because both acted so nervously that Masahiko suspected they wanted to repeat a grade.

• Konan practiced making Paper Wings for five months, gradually learning to stay aloft longer as her Medical Ninjutsu and Chakra control improved.
• Masahiko took Konan and Nagato to Konoha, hoping Tsunade could help Konan and planning to watch Kushina graduate.
• Mito and Nanako welcomed Masahiko and his disciples at the Senju Clan Compound, where Nanako praised Minato but worried that he was a commoner.
• Kushina returned from school, and Masahiko teased her about her graduation exam the next day; she insisted she was not nervous.
• Kushina and Minato made repeated mistakes during the graduation assessment while Konan and Nagato cheered Kushina on, and Masahiko called them idiots bent on repeating a grade.

Masahiko arranged for Kushina to return to the Land of Whirlpools after graduation, but Jiraiya objected to taking Minato because he had made him his disciple. Masahiko then worried over Nawaki and Uchiha Mikoto’s relationship, and learned Kagami had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Nanako and Mito discussed Kushina’s schooling, and the elders agreed she would graduate and return to the Land of Whirlpools for sealing instruction.
• Masahiko proposed bringing Minato along, but Jiraiya revealed that Minato was his disciple, so Masahiko decided Kushina would go without him for now.
• Masahiko discovered that Nawaki had seemingly won Uchiha Mikoto’s affection and worried about the consequences for the clans, the plot, Akatsuki, and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Masahiko watched Nawaki and Uchiha Fugaku fight to another draw at the Konoha Training Ground and spoke with Kagami Uchiha.
• Kagami revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan during the final battle against Sunagakure, and Masahiko warned him that using it could damage his eyesight.

Masahiko encountered Kakuzu in Konoha and bought intelligence about the Akatsuki Organization, learning about its members and the leader's strange orders. He asked Kakuzu for the organization's base location, but Kakuzu had not answered yet.

• Masahiko sent Nagato back to the Senju Clan and took Kakuzu to a teahouse after recognizing him in the street.
• Kakuzu told Masahiko that he had left the Akatsuki Organization because its members were strange and its purpose was unclear.
• Kakuzu described a member codenamed Santai, who followed the Jashin Cult and threatened to kill him.
• Kakuzu said a child codenamed Zero stayed near the leader, who concealed his identity and issued troublesome orders.
• Kakuzu explained that the leader had ordered him to provoke conflict between the Land of Water and the Land of Earth and stop Iwagakure from attacking Kumogakure.
• Masahiko offered Kakuzu more money and asked where the Akatsuki Organization's base was.

Masahiko watched Nawaki and Fugaku’s rivalry lead to a public confrontation over Mikoto, whose dramatic choice and pursuit of Nawaki left the clans on the verge of conflict. As Mito stepped in to mediate, Masahiko encountered a familiar young man gathering ingredients who mentioned his pregnant wife and plans to open a shop.

• Masahiko learned from Kakuzu that the Akatsuki Organization had approached him in Takigakure and that he knew little about its members or base.
• After Nawaki defeated Fugaku, he went to the Uchiha compound, where the Uchiha elders refused to let him pursue Mikoto and the Senju gathered to protest.
• Hiruzen and Danzo tried to mediate as Kagami emerged, and Mikoto named Fugaku after her parents threatened to disown her if she chose Nawaki.
• Nawaki gave up and left, but Mikoto chased after him while Fugaku followed, escalating the turmoil between the clans.
• Mito arrived to mediate, and Masahiko left the crowd before meeting a young man with a basket of ingredients who said his wife was pregnant and asked whether villagers liked ramen.

Masahiko learned that Mikoto had chosen Nawaki, and the Senju and Uchiha negotiated a marriage alliance with conditions for their descendants. He also asked the Uchiha to find Fugaku a bride, hoping the world’s corrective force would preserve his future.

• Masahiko gave Teuchi startup capital, then returned to the Senju compound and saw that Mikoto had likely chosen Nawaki.
• Masahiko congratulated Nawaki while Hiruzen arrived from the Uchiha compound with news that the Uchiha had agreed to the match, provided descendants who awakened the Sharingan would be considered Uchiha.
• Kenji rejected the Uchiha condition, but Masahiko argued that Sharingan-awakening descendants would belong to the Uchiha anyway.
• Kagami revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, and the clans agreed that the eldest child would bear the Senju name while later children who awakened the Sharingan before Ninja Academy graduation would bear the Uchiha name.
• The clans set Mikoto’s marriage to Nawaki for the beginning of Konoha’s thirty-eighth year, and Masahiko asked the Uchiha to find a bride for Fugaku.

Masahiko stayed secretly in Konoha to watch for trouble from Akatsuki and the village leadership while investigating Teuchi’s suspiciously timed plans to open Ichiraku Ramen. When the shop opened, Masahiko gained a large number of Witness Points for altering the Naruto World’s main storyline.

• Masahiko sent a Shadow Clone home with Nawaki and Konan, then told Mito he would remain hidden in Konoha under a different appearance.
• Masahiko visited Teuchi’s ramen shop and realized Kakuzu had kept most of his money, so he went to the casino to earn more.
• After half a month, Masahiko took over a storefront beside Ichiraku Ramen and began renovating it without deciding what to sell.
• Teuchi invited Masahiko to Ichiraku Ramen’s opening and promised him free ramen.
• When Ichiraku Ramen opened to a crowd of villagers, Masahiko received 250 Witness Points and concluded the shop held major importance in the Naruto World.

Masahiko visited Ichiraku Ramen on its opening day, then opened his own Taobao Shop selling wooden figurines of famous ninjas. He left the shop damaged after Jiraiya’s remark angered Tsunade, and set a price of one million ryo per figurine.

• Masahiko spent the morning eating slowly at Ichiraku Ramen while Teuchi served the shop’s long line of customers.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru arrived, and Masahiko suggested that Teuchi offer delivery to expand his business.
• Masahiko told the Sannin that his new Taobao Shop would sell wooden figurines, then later displayed carvings of famous ninjas.
• Tsunade and the others visited Taobao Shop, where Tsunade found a figurine of her grandfather Hashirama but no figure of herself.
• Masahiko explained that he only carved men unless a woman came to order her own figure, prompting Tsunade to attack Jiraiya and break a hole in the shop wall.
• Tsunade asked the price of the Hashirama figurine, and Masahiko quoted one million ryo each before offering the first customers a discount.

Masahiko watched Konoha and secretly helped the Anbu capture Biwa Juzo, an Akatsuki rogue ninja sent to break up Senju Nawaki and Uchiha Mikoto. Biwa Juzo was arrested after Masahiko drugged his ramen, and Masahiko began planning to take Kubikiribōchō from Konoha’s Anbu.

• Tsunade and Orochimaru bought six figurines from Masahiko, spending all the money they had earned from their recent missions.
• Masahiko restocked his shop and posted a sign setting each item’s price at one million ryo.
• Biwa Juzo infiltrated Konoha on an Akatsuki mission to break up Senju Nawaki and Uchiha Mikoto, but Sakumo and several Anbu tracked him.
• Masahiko used Gravity Pull to stir up wind and added something to Biwa Juzo’s ramen, causing him to collapse into the bowl.
• Sakumo’s Anbu arrested Biwa Juzo and took Teuchi in for questioning, while Masahiko resolved to take Kubikiribōchō.

Masahiko's cover was exposed by Hatake Sakumo, who told him that Biwa Juzo had been sent to sabotage the Senju-Uchiha marriage alliance. Later, Masahiko pursued Land of Water envoys to take Kubikiribōchō, only to discover his Shadow Clone had already stolen it.

• Teuchi was released unharmed, and Masahiko comforted him before Hatake Sakumo visited his shop.
• Sakumo deduced that Masahiko had drugged the ramen and stirred up the wind, then explained that Biwa Juzo was an Akatsuki member sent to sabotage the Senju-Uchiha marriage alliance.
• Masahiko spent the following half month carving figurines as Ichiraku Ramen's business slowly recovered and his own shop remained quiet.
• Masahiko spotted Hozuki Hangetsu and other Land of Water envoys returning with Biwa Juzo and Kubikiribōchō, then followed them after they left Konoha.
• Masahiko's Shadow Clone knocked out the envoys and took Kubikiribōchō before Masahiko could act.
• Sakumo confronted Masahiko outside his shop, and Masahiko denied stealing the sword while privately blaming his Shadow Clone.

Masahiko’s carving shop grew popular, bringing him into contact with Dan Katō and several familiar families. A year and a half passed peacefully, and preparations began for Nawaki and Mikoto’s wedding.

• Jiraiya brought Minato to Masahiko’s shop, where Masahiko carved a figurine of Kushina from Minato’s graduation photograph.
• Dan Katō visited and commissioned a life-sized carving of his deceased father, whom Masahiko remembered from Konoha’s early rank evaluations.
• Masahiko reflected on the many familiar figures and families he had encountered through his shop and Ichiraku Ramen.
• After a year and a half without major trouble from Hiruzen, Danzo, or the Akatsuki Organization, Masahiko kept his shop-owner identity as another safeguard.
• Preparations began for Nawaki and Mikoto’s wedding, a major alliance between the Senju and Uchiha clans.

Masahiko carved a statue for Nawaki and Mikoto’s wedding and watched the high-profile ceremony in Konoha, anxiously expecting an attack. The wedding passed peacefully, leaving Masahiko relieved that the story had changed beyond repair.

• Tsunade revealed that she and Orochimaru had recognized Masahiko’s disguise and asked him to carve statues of Nawaki and Mikoto.
• Masahiko carved the couple making a heart gesture, and Daimyo and clan representatives gathered in Konoha for the wedding.
• Masahiko asked Hiruzen to disable Konoha’s sensory alarm and repeatedly scanned the village for threats.
• Tsunade hosted Nawaki and Mikoto’s wedding, which proceeded without disruption or an attack.
• After the newlyweds thanked their guests, Masahiko and his Shadow Clone relaxed, concluding that the altered story was unlikely to return to its old course.

After returning to the Land of Whirlpools, Masahiko reunited with Nagato and Konan and assessed their training. He ended the chapter preparing to test their ninjutsu after realizing his long-lived Shadow Clone had affected his memory.

• Masahiko received the Shadow Clone’s memories and was pleased by Nagato’s and Konan’s progress.
• Masahiko and Gensuke returned to the Land of Whirlpools, where Nagato and Konan welcomed their teacher.
• Masahiko brought Nagato and Konan to the training grounds to assess their cultivation.
• Hitomi demonstrated his training on the pull-up bar, then broke the equipment and left after Masahiko suggested he visit Konoha.
• Nagato and Konan ran the hundred-meter dash, and Masahiko noted their results had barely changed since the previous week.
• Masahiko suspected maintaining his Shadow Clone for a year and a half had affected his memory and began preparing to assess the children’s ninjutsu.

Masahiko helped Konan overcome her limited Chakra reserves so she could mass-produce Explosive Tags, then sought a safer way to sell the surplus. After confirming that the world was round and the Land of Earth could be reached by sea, he planned an escorted shipping route and intended to accompany its first voyage.

• Yuna connected Masahiko and Konan with a device that converted Masahiko's Chakra into Konan's, allowing him to replenish her reserves as she made Explosive Tags.
• Over two months, Masahiko and Konan produced nearly ten million Explosive Tags, and Konan's Chakra reserves doubled before Iko persuaded them to stop.
• Masahiko proposed selling the surplus Explosive Tags and considered how to transport them safely to distant countries.
• Masahiko flew southeast across the ocean, reached the Land of Earth, and raised stone monuments along his return route to guide ships.
• Masahiko told Iko that the sea route to the Land of Earth would take about half a month and proposed an S-rank escort mission led by at least two Elite Jonin.
• Masahiko said he would accompany the first shipment and named the new sea route the Explosive Tag Route.

Masahiko took a shipment of Explosive Tags by ship from the Land of Whirlpools to the Land of Earth, where he met Ōnoki to discuss a deal. The voyage ended safely, and Masahiko began negotiating with the wary Tsuchikage.

• Masahiko sent five hundred thousand Explosive Tags to the Land of Earth and led the ship with Patrol Squad elites, Nagato, and Konan.
• Giant Summoning Beasts attacked during the voyage, but Nagato and Konan fought them while Masahiko protected the ship and killed the monsters.
• After seventeen days, the ship reached the Land of Earth, and Masahiko used Dust Release to draw Ōnoki to him.
• Ōnoki arrived with the Tsuchikage Guard, but Masahiko reassured him that he had come with something good and pointed out the shipment.