Chapter Summaries

Ming Jing and Mirai examined Fuma Yami and learned that his Chakra had helped her survive, then tried to transfer more Chakra to her. Ming Jing’s crude method got him kicked into a wall by Mirai, while Fuma Yami happily concluded that his blood was now inside her.

• Mirai reviewed Fuma Yami’s test results and explained that her white blood cells had accepted Ming Jing’s Chakra during her recovery.
• Fuma Yami smiled warmly at Ming Jing and said she would do anything if he thought she could be useful to him.
• Mirai told Ming Jing to transfer more Chakra, and he entered Sage Mode before putting his bleeding finger into Fuma Yami’s mouth.
• Mirai kicked Ming Jing into a wall and scolded him for misunderstanding how Chakra was transferred.
• Fuma Yami wiped her lips and said Ming Jing’s blood was inside her, prompting Mirai and Ming Jing to argue over who was the pervert.

Ming Jing and Mirai discovered that Fuma Yami could not use ninjutsu despite receiving Chakra, so they planned to seek the Third Hokage’s help. The next morning, Ming Jing brought lunchboxes to the school and delighted Hinata with one of her own.

• Mirai taught Ming Jing how to transfer Sage Chakra into Fuma Yami, but Yami still could not perform the Wind Severing Technique.
• Ming Jing decided to ask the Third Hokage for help and proposed having Might Guy teach Yami to use Chakra in her Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• Ming Jing made lunchboxes for Yakumo, Shikouin, Xiangling, and Hinata, then waited outside the school.
• Ming Jing greeted several of the Konoha 12, pinched Uchiha Sasuke’s cheek, and chatted with Naruto.
• Ming Jing gave Hinata a lunchbox, and the delighted Hinata thanked him before hurrying into school.

Ming Jing asked the Third Hokage to have Might Guy teach someone with Chakra in the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and the Hokage agreed in exchange for Ming Jing teaching a class. Ming Jing prepared a lesson about peace and the world beyond the village, while Iruka announced that a new substitute teacher would take over the next two periods.

• Ming Jing told the Third Hokage about the unusual Chakra condition and asked him to send Might Guy to the Kurama Clan compound for guidance.
• The Third Hokage agreed to arrange for Might Guy to visit that afternoon, provided Ming Jing taught the children a class first.
• Ming Jing planned a lesson about international conflicts and peace, and decided to use Genjutsu to hold the students' attention.
• Naruto's prank with a chalkboard eraser hit Iruka, who sent Naruto outside and made Kiba stand at the back of the classroom.
• Iruka told the class that a new substitute teacher would teach the third and fourth periods, while Sasuke remained angry at Akira Kurama for pinching his face.

Ming Jing met Iruka before taking over his class as a substitute teacher. He disarmed the students’ door prank and introduced himself as Akira Kurama, leaving Shikouin and the rest of the class surprised by his arrival.

• Iruka welcomed Ming Jing as the substitute teacher and spoke about hoping his students would live without shame toward themselves or the village.
• Naruto set up a chalkboard eraser prank, and Shikouin and Kiba added a bucket, rope, and broom to make a trap for the new teacher.
• Ming Jing spotted the trap, praised its design, and entered the classroom without triggering it.
• The students reacted with surprise as Ming Jing took charge, and he woke Shikouin with a piece of chalk.
• Shikouin recognized Ming Jing as Young Master, then greeted him as her teacher after Yakumo explained he was the substitute.
• Ming Jing wrote Akira Kurama on the blackboard and told the class he would teach their next two lessons.

Ming Jing introduced himself as chancellor and taught the class about the Five Great Nations, their villages, and notable ninja. He revealed the students with Kekkei Genkai as the lesson continued, while the Third Hokage watched and considered creating a course about the world beyond.

• Ming Jing told the class that he was chancellor of the Land of Fire and the Land of Grass, then used Genjutsu to display a map of the world.
• Ming Jing explained the Five Great Nations and identified Iwagakure and Kumogakure as Konoha’s main opponents, describing Kumogakure’s powerful ninja.
• Ming Jing introduced the Third Tsuchikage and explained Kekkei Genkai, naming Sasuke, Hinata, and Yakumo as students who possessed special abilities.
• The Third Hokage watched Ming Jing’s lesson through the Telephoto Jutsu and considered establishing a course about the world beyond.

Ming Jing finished teaching the academy students about intelligence and later welcomed Might Guy to the Kurama Clan. Guy arrived after completing a handstand run around Konoha, and Ming Jing prepared to discuss the matter the Third Hokage had sent him for.

• Ming Jing taught the class how knowledge of enemy villages and ninja abilities could help keep them safe, then dismissed the students.
• Yakumo told her classmates that Ming Jing had a fiancée, while Karin declared that Ming Jing had her and Hinata responded with quiet determination.
• Yakumo tried to redirect the girls’ attention to Sasuke, Naruto volunteered himself, and Shikouin’s lunch brought the conversation back to Ming Jing.
• Ming Jing waited at the Kurama Clan for Might Guy, who arrived by crawling up the mountain on his hands after completing one hundred handstand laps around Konoha.
• Ming Jing introduced himself as Akira Kurama, and Guy recognized him from Kakashi’s stories before asking why the Third Hokage had sent for him.

Ming Jing arranged for Might Guy to train Fuma Yami once she recovered, then learned from Hyuga Hiashi that Uchiha Itachi had joined the Anbu. The news suggested events had advanced further than Ming Jing expected.

• Ming Jing brought Might Guy to meet Fuma Yami, who confirmed she still wanted to become a ninja.
• Might Guy examined Yami and agreed to teach her how to use the Chakra contained in her Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• Ming Jing planned a picnic with Hinata and sent an invitation to Hyuga Hiashi.
• Hyuga Hiashi summoned Ming Jing and told him that Uchiha Itachi had joined the Anbu.
• Ming Jing questioned whether the report was reliable, and Hyuga Hiashi insisted the Hyuga Clan's information was trustworthy.

Akira discussed the Uchiha Clan’s growing influence with Hiashi Hyuga, who agreed to wait and prepare while sending Hanabi to the Royal Capital with Akira. On his way, Akira was caught in a genjutsu and attacked by Uchiha Shisui, then broke free and met him properly.

• Hiashi Hyuga explained that the Uchiha Clan could use Itachi’s position in the Anbu to expand its power, while Akira argued that Danzo and the Ino-Shika-Cho clans had more reason to worry.
• Akira and Hiashi Hyuga agreed that their clans should wait and see, and Hiashi decided Hanabi would travel with Akira to the Royal Capital.
• Akira sensed an unusually bright full moon and found himself unable to move as a genjutsu took hold.
• Uchiha Shisui emerged from the woods and attacked Akira with a short blade, then escaped through the Crow Clone Technique.
• Akira shattered the genjutsu, and Shisui apologized and introduced himself before Akira greeted him.

Akira met Shisui in the Forest of Death, where Shisui asked for his view on the Uchiha Clan’s future. Akira advised the clan to look beyond Konoha and build influence through the Police Department, then agreed to help if needed.

• Shisui led Akira into the Forest of Death and revealed that he had leaked news of Itachi joining the Anbu to draw Akira out and confirm the Kurama-Hyuga alliance.
• Shisui praised Akira’s work and asked where the Uchiha Clan’s way out lay.
• Akira said the Uchiha had been removed from the village’s center for too long and advised them to shift some strength to the Police Department.
• Shisui thanked Akira and asked him to lend the Uchiha a hand if matters came to that, and Akira agreed.
• Shisui left by scattering into crows, while Akira flew home and reflected on the Uchiha’s devotion to Konoha.

After returning to the Royal Capital, Ming Jing reviewed the Land of Fire’s rising revenues and decided to launch the Konan Plan by establishing state-run Children’s Welfare Institutes. He planned to begin with trials in key cities and now needed to choose the chief director.

• Ming Jing returned to the Prime Minister's Residence and spent a day reviewing the Land of Fire’s commercial, agricultural, and tax records.
• Ming Jing showed Zuo Yang Kurama a chart of rising revenues and declared that he would implement the Konan Plan in the Land of Fire.
• Ming Jing explained that state-run Children’s Welfare Institutes would care for unsupported orphans, abandoned infants, and disabled children until age fourteen, while Zuo Yang Kurama cautioned him about costs.
• Ming Jing proposed letting compassionate citizens contribute funds, supplies, scholarships, tutoring, and sponsorships, and asked Zuo Yang Kurama to gather the girls recruited by the Inner Study Hall to manage the institutes.
• Ming Jing decided to test the program in several key cities before expanding it and began considering who should lead the Children’s Welfare Institute.

Ming Jing recruited Nanakusa Kanae to lead the Children's Welfare Institute project, while Oono Natsuyu and his chief steward plotted to keep Yuexi in the Land of Rice. The chapter ended with the chief steward serving Yuexi tea as he prepared to sound her out.

• Ming Jing recalled how he had persuaded Nanakusa Kanae to join the Inner Study Hall, where she studied five specialties for two years.
• Ming Jing offered Nanakusa Kanae responsibility for overseeing the Children's Welfare Institute, and she eagerly accepted the project.
• Nanakusa Kanae left to draft a plan and assemble a team, while Ming Jing hoped she and Yuexi would manage the Konan Plan together.
• After Yuexi efficiently settled affairs in the Land of Rice, Oono Natsuyu and his chief steward decided to try to persuade her to stay.
• The chief steward brought Yuexi tea and offered her a rest, while planning to sound her out about remaining in the Land of Rice.

Yuexi deflected the head steward’s hints that she should become the future daimyo’s wife and wrote Ming Jing a playful report about the conversation. Meanwhile, Ming Jing inspected a site for a state-run orphanage and learned that its low price came from the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs selling land once owned by the Kazuki Clan.

• The head steward praised Yuexi’s service to the Land of Rice and hinted that she would make a suitable future daimyo’s wife.
• Yuexi credited Ming Jing for her work, ended the conversation, and wrote him a note joking that she would switch jobs unless her benefits increased.
• Ming Jing and Nanakusa Kanae’s team of fifteen girls inspected a site for a Children’s Welfare Institute planned to serve about fifteen hundred orphans.
• Ming Jing questioned why the land was so cheap, and Nanakusa Kanae explained that the Kazuki Clan had been its original owner and the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had sold it.
• Ming Jing awkwardly praised the retired official’s contribution and approved the site, telling Nanakusa Kanae to finish the blueprints.

Oono Natsuyu oversaw Oono Yuichi’s funeral as Yuexi and her companions assessed the Land of Rice’s leaders and public support. In the Royal Capital, Ming Jing began investigating former Six Great Clans land for possible Children's Welfare Institutes.

• Oono Natsuyu learned that Yuexi did not intend to stay and tried to persuade her by offering her the position of Prime Minister.
• Yuexi, Qing Yan, and Asuma attended Oono Yuichi’s funeral, and Yuexi asked Qing Yan to invite Mugen because they needed a Genjutsu specialist.
• Oono Yuichi’s funeral procession and burial drew the Land of Rice’s leaders and a large crowd of citizens, after which Yuexi and her companions planned to leave.
• Ming Jing ordered clerks to locate land once owned by the Six Great Clans of Mt. Akina and found thirty-five plots across the country.
• Ming Jing gave the land records to Masamune Yagyu and asked him to investigate how the plots and their surrounding areas were being used.

Sakai and Matsumoto encountered difficult mountain and marsh terrain while planning a railway, so Sakai proposed tunneling through the mountain. Ming Jing received their report and planned to use his own ninjutsu to solve the construction problems, then asked Zuo Yang Kurama to summon Takuo from the Land of Rice.

• Sakai and Matsumoto found that their railway route crossed a mountain, river, and marshland, and Sakai proposed digging a tunnel through the mountain.
• Sakai learned the mountain was mostly unsuitable red soil and worried about the tunnel and the marshland beyond it.
• Ming Jing read Yuexi's letter about the Land of Rice trying to recruit her, then opened Sakai's official report.
• Ming Jing considered possible ninjutsu solutions, decided to test his own Wind Style: Storm Hammer, and sent Sakai and Matsumoto his ideas for the tunnel and marshland.
• Ming Jing learned from Zuo Yang Kurama that Takuo had withdrawn to the Land of Grass and asked him to summon Takuo to the Land of Rice.

Mugen traveled toward the Royal Capital, where Yuexi asked her to activate a genjutsu left by Ming Jing, but she tried to flee after fearing its side effects. Meanwhile, Koji Kurama returned to the Land of Fire, reunited with Ming Jing and Uncle Sakyo, and learned that Lord Xiang Meng’s notebook—and its genjutsu Tōshō Daigongen—had been recovered.

• Mugen used the Mist Servant Technique and an illusion to frighten off men who tried to kidnap her, then continued toward the Royal Capital in their ox cart.
• Yuexi met Mugen on the road and explained that Ming Jing needed a genjutsu-type ninja to activate a technique he had left behind.
• Remembering that Ming Jing’s previous S-rank genjutsu had left her blind for over a month, Mugen turned the cart around and announced she was returning to the Land of Grass.
• Koji Kurama returned to the Royal Capital with Hisashi Kurama and visited the Zhonghua Grand Hotel, where he praised its preparations and tried its new dishes.
• Ming Jing and Uncle Sakyo joined Koji Kurama for lunch, and Ming Jing told him that Sakura had returned and left Lord Xiang Meng’s notebook behind.
• Koji Kurama and Uncle Sakyo celebrated when Ming Jing revealed that the notebook contained the genjutsu Tōshō Daigongen.

Ming Jing and Koji Kurama planned a grand clan return to display the Kurama Clan’s strength and discourage threats. Meanwhile, Yuexi challenged Mugen to keep her from leaving, and won by escaping Mugen’s school-themed Genjutsu through her academic skill.

• Ming Jing told Koji Kurama that Uchiha Itachi had joined the Anbu and proposed a show of force to deter people with ulterior motives.
• Koji Kurama agreed to make the clan’s return more grand, and Ming Jing set December tenth as the return date with Taichi and Chiyo.
• Yuexi asked Mugen to help with a Genjutsu, but Mugen insisted on returning to the Land of Grass.
• Mugen and Yuexi agreed to a match, and Mugen trapped Yuexi in the Storyteller Spirit Genjutsu.
• Yuexi escaped the Genjutsu by passing its school exams, pinned Mugen, and won the match.

Yuexi learned that Takuo Kurama had arrived to help resolve Oono Natsuyu’s growing opposition, and Takuo and Mugen used a Genjutsu on the Daimyo that left him unconscious. The next morning, Yuexi left the Land of Rice with Qing Yan and Asuma while Oono Natsuyu struggled to process his altered memories.

• Takuo Kurama chastised Yuexi and Mugen for their handling of Genjutsu before learning why Yuexi had summoned him.
• Yuexi showed Takuo Kurama the scroll Ming Jing had left, and Takuo agreed to use its Genjutsu plan against Oono Natsuyu that night; Mugen volunteered to join him.
• Takuo Kurama and Mugen infiltrated Oono Natsuyu’s bedchamber, where Takuo knocked out the head steward and activated Genjutsu: Mother-Child Green Coins on Oono Natsuyu.
• After the green coin vanished, Takuo and Mugen escaped the city and returned to their own countries after spending the night outside it.
• The head steward told Yuexi that Oono Natsuyu had been attacked and remained unconscious, but refused to let her visit him.
• Yuexi arranged her work and left with Qing Yan and Asuma; after waking, Oono Natsuyu heard of her departure and gave a bitter smile.

Ming Jing reunited with Yuexi and Qing Yan in the Royal Capital, spent a snowy day celebrating with them, and thanked them for their years of loyalty. Before returning to Konoha, he arranged for the Prime Minister's Residence to continue its work and left Yagyu Masamune and Nanakusa Kanae in charge.

• Ming Jing met Yuexi and Qing Yan in the Royal Capital and took them to eat, play, and enjoy the snowfall until evening.
• Ming Jing thanked Yuexi and Qing Yan for staying by his side and told them they would return to Konoha the day after tomorrow.
• Ming Jing arranged for Sakai and Matsumoto to return to Konoha for the holiday while ordering Nanakusa Kanae to shelter more orphans and homeless children.
• Ming Jing appointed Nanakusa Kanae deputy officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to help Yagyu Masamune manage the Royal Capital while other officials returned to Konoha.
• Yagyu Masamune offered to handle public security matters, allowing Nanakusa Kanae to devote more attention to the Children's Welfare Institute.

The Kurama Clan’s return stirred concern among Konoha’s leaders and major families, while Hinata, Neji, Itachi, and the Ino-Shika-Cho families reacted to the news. The chapter ended with Shikaku concluding that his family only needed to follow the Hokage’s lead.

• The Third Hokage learned that Kurama Koji’s party and several other Kurama Clan members were arriving at Konoha’s gates, while Danzo received the same news in Root’s secret base.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Hinata that Akira Kurama was returning and sent Neji home, where Neji realized a surprise awaited him.
• Fugaku Uchiha questioned Itachi about the Kurama Clan’s return, and Itachi argued that the clan posed no threat; Fugaku ordered future intelligence about them classified as black.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi discussed why the Kurama Clan had returned, and Choza said their families would be fine as long as they followed the Hokage.

The Kurama Clan returned to Konoha, where Ming Jing arranged for the gate guards to inspect their convoy while Koji Kurama carried Yakumo home. The procession secretly brought the supposedly dead Hizashi Hyuga into the village, and the chapter ended with the group continuing to the clan compound after the mission went smoothly.

• Naruto recognized the arriving procession's pear blossom crest as the Kurama Clan's and excitedly greeted Yuexi when he saw her.
• Koji Kurama reunited with Yakumo at the gate and carried her toward the clan compound as Ming Jing asked Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane to inspect the convoy instead of stopping him.
• Ming Jing used his influence to get the guards to inspect the convoy, then let Yuexi go speak with Naruto.
• Koji Kurama moved into a blind spot and revealed Hizashi Hyuga, who had been smuggled into Konoha using the Shadow Walking Technique.
• Hizashi left without revealing his identity, and Ming Jing, Koji Kurama, Yakumo, and the others continued home.