Recaps

Nara Kaikei advanced through missions, developed his unusual shadow-based abilities, and earned access to Nara Clan secrets. He traveled with Nara Shikano toward Kyoto, where he was offered a possible place among the Twelve Guardian Shinobi as bounty hunters searched for a Chinoike Clan descendant.

• Nara Kaikei killed the Iwagakure Jonin Oishi with Tsunade’s help and earned an A-Rank Ninja Scroll.
• Nara Kaikei joined Tsunade in capturing Iwagakure spies, then completed missions while learning that Tsunade had transferred his ninja file out of the Beast Taming and Rehabilitation Class.
• Nara Kaikei learned Super Beast Imitation Painting, acquired new techniques from scrolls, and discovered that his Chakra had four balanced natures.
• Nara Kaikei demonstrated Lacquer Eye to Nara Shikano, submitted its scroll, and earned access to Nara Clan secret techniques and records.
• Nara Kaikei learned Shadow Clone Technique and received research funding and Chakra Metal from Nara Shikano.
• Nara Shikano took Nara Kaikei on an A-Rank mission to transport medicinal herbs and seek the daimyo’s support, with additional escort missions attached to the journey.
• Nara Shikano offered Nara Kaikei a position with the Twelve Guardian Shinobi, while Inoichi Yamanaka discovered that the attackers were hunting a Chinoike Clan descendant.
• Nara Kaikei continued toward Kyoto with the caravan, raised his Precision with a Soldier Pill, and used Lacquer Eye to count suspicious campers.

Nara Kaikei helped escort Oyashiro En to Kyoto, where he received a Chakra Crystal that greatly expanded his combat abilities. After fighting Kakuzu and returning to Konoha, Kaikei developed Nature Masks, arranged a wakizashi commission, and defeated Uchiha Inaho in a duel.

• Nara Kaikei restrained Oyashiro En, whose memories showed that he had killed the Chinoike Clan to avenge his wife, and the Konoha team escorted him to Kyoto.
• Nara Shikano took Nara Kaikei to the Temple of Fire, where they retrieved a Chakra Crystal that raised Kaikei’s usable Chakra to A-rank.
• Nara Kaikei tested the crystal, created Shadow Piercing Bullet, and defeated Chiriku and other temple monks in sparring missions before Kazuma was driven away.
• Kakuzu attacked the returning Konoha team, and Nara Kaikei’s Shadow Clone pierced his chest before Kaikei destroyed more of Kakuzu’s hearts with Spiral Shadow Piercing Bullet.
• Nara Kaikei learned Earth Style: Earth Spear, Flame Wind Barrage, and the Nature Mask Forging Method from his mission scrolls as the team resumed hunting bounty hunters.
• After returning to Konoha, Nara Kaikei learned Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, bought a Divine Tree Branch, and crafted Nature Masks that let his clones use nature-based ninjutsu.
• Nara Kaikei commissioned a wakizashi through Lady Cat, learned Mist Servant Technique and Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique, and heard that a Chakra Crystal had been bought by northerners.
• Uchiha Inaho challenged Nara Kaikei, who thwarted his Sharingan genjutsu, trapped him with Shadow Binding Technique, and made him admit defeat.

Nara Kaikei defeated Shisui and outmaneuvered Minato, then developed new shadow techniques while building a fried-chicken business with Yakushi Nonō. When Root targeted Nonō and Kaikei, the clans confronted Hiruzen and Danzō, and Kaikei later faced Orochimaru over the orphanage’s missing Fat Nun.

• Nara Kaikei defeated Uchiha Shisui in their arranged fight, earned a B-Rank Ninja Scroll, and discovered it contained a genjutsu-reflecting technique he thought his Lacquer Eye could use.
• Nara Kaikei proposed selling fried chicken to support Kikyo Orphanage, taught Yakushi Nonō how to make it, and accepted a challenge from Minato Namikaze at the Third Training Ground.
• Nara Kaikei trapped Minato with his shadow techniques, prompting Minato to concede, and later received scrolls from Minato and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Nara Kaikei developed the Rasengan-based Shadow Spiral and new shadow bullets as Root targeted Yakushi Nonō, then exposed the impostor and fought off the attackers sent against them.
• Nara Kaikei killed Shimura Shin, captured Yamanaka Hayari, and joined Nonō and the clan leaders in confronting Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō over the attack.
• Nara Kaikei helped Nonō leave Root, developed Shadow Beast Imitation Painting from her technique, and earned the Shadow Transformation Technique after giving the new jutsu to the Nara Clan.
• Nara Kaikei rejected Oyashiro En’s offer to invest in the orphanage’s business, then learned that Fat Nun was missing and followed Orochimaru’s coded message with Nonō.
• Orochimaru admitted Danzō had ordered a mission against them, offered to take Kaikei under his command, and attacked after Kaikei refused, but Kaikei caught him with Shadow Binding before Orochimaru escaped by shedding his body.

Nara Kaikei defended Kikyo Castle from Sunagakure, captured Ebizo and Pakura, and rose to Special Jonin and squad captain. After taking Kabuto into the orphanage and forming a team with Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Kiyoshi, and Shizune, he tested their abilities.

• Nara Kaikei defeated Orochimaru’s attacks and escaped with Yakushi Nonō, then opened the B-Rank scroll Orochimaru had left behind.
• Tsunade challenged Nara Kaikei to spar, then assigned him daily taijutsu training until she approved of his progress.
• Nara Shikano revealed that Oyashiro En wanted Yakushi Nonō to foster Chiyo, and Nonō refused to return her to a plan that would raise her as a weapon.
• Sunagakure attacked Kikyo Castle, and Nara Kaikei scattered the Puppet Force, captured Ebizo and Pakura, and forced the surviving attackers to retreat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi appointed Nara Kaikei a Special Jonin, gave him access to the Flying Thunder God Technique, and made him a squad captain.
• Nara Kaikei persuaded Pakura to explain Scorch Release, while Yakushi Nonō rescued an amnesiac boy whom Kaikei named Kabuto.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi introduced Nara Kaikei to his new subordinates, Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Kiyoshi, and Shizune.
• Nara Kaikei defeated Uchiha Shisui with the Shadow Binding Bullet, assessed Hyuga Kiyoshi’s techniques, and defeated Shizune.