Chapter Summaries

Pakura exhausted herself sparring with Senju Jueming while Baki arranged payment and asked when Karura’s treatment would begin. Rasa secretly visited Karura in Konoha before departing on a mission with Shimura Danzō, and Natsu Hyuga arrived at Jueming’s home for another eye treatment.

• Senju Jueming taunted Pakura during their sparring until she collapsed, then told Baki he would begin treatment after studying Monster Strength and handling other patients.
• Baki said Sunagakure could transfer the treatment money within three days, and Jueming said he would master Monster Strength in a few days.
• Rasa secretly visited Karura in Konoha, confirmed she would receive treatment, and then left to join Shimura Danzō’s mission involving the Third Raikage.
• Senju Jueming returned home to breakfast prepared by Sayuri, and Natsu Hyuga arrived to continue treating Sayuri’s eyes.
• Natsu Hyuga reassured Sayuri that her dealings with Jueming were only a transaction, then followed him to the renovated underground treatment space.

Jueming began Natsu Hyuga’s final treatment for her Byakugan defect, while Mikoto Uchiha and Kushina discussed their pregnancies and the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha clans. Mikoto suspected Kushina had been asked to help fight Senju Jueming and hoped her Adamantine Sealing Chains could defeat his wood golem.

• Jueming welcomed Natsu into a private room, and she drank the water he gave her before losing consciousness as he began her treatment.
• Mikoto noticed painful marks on her body while doing laundry, then concealed her pain when Kushina visited.
• Kushina found a risqué magazine at Mikoto’s home, but Mikoto stayed composed and dismissed it as improper reading.
• Mikoto asked whether Kushina could use her Adamantine Sealing Chains against Jueming’s wood golem, and Kushina froze.
• Mikoto inferred that Danzō had asked Kushina and Minato to act against Jueming and imagined Kushina helping bring him down.

Senju Jueming mastered Monster Strength and agreed to pursue Shikkotsu Forest’s inheritance. He examined Gekko Hayate and said he could be saved, but the surgery required a lung donor and payment, leaving Uzuki Yugao silent.

• Jueming practiced Monster Strength among the abandoned buildings, and Tsunade praised his progress.
• Jueming and Tsunade discussed Shisui Uchiha’s physical strain and arranged regular examinations for Tekka Uchiha.
• Tsunade explained that Shikkotsu Forest’s strong acid made it deadly to ordinary people, and Jueming decided to go there after treating Gekko Hayate and the others.
• Uzuki Yugao welcomed Jueming to examine the gravely ill Gekko Hayate, and he confirmed that Hayate could still be saved.
• Jueming said Hayate needed a lung transplant and asked for a donor and payment, leaving Uzuki Yugao unable to answer.

Jueming planned to raise money for Hayate Gekko’s surgery by secretly hunting bounty targets, while Anko helped him influence Uzuki Yugao’s view of him. The chapter ended with Anko reporting that she had carried out Jueming’s instructions, and Jueming promising her a reward.

• Jueming told Uzuki Yugao that Konoha Hospital’s surgery costs could not be covered by a personal loan and proposed earning bounty money at the underground black market.
• Uzuki Yugao offered to go after wanted Ninjas herself, but Jueming said he would handle the dangerous work and asked her to keep it secret, even from Hayate.
• Rin Nohara and Anko Mitarashi visited Hayate, and Anko later told Uzuki Yugao that Jueming had accidentally touched her hand at Ichiraku Ramen and seemed lecherous.
• Uzuki Yugao dismissed Anko’s complaint as youthful awkwardness and wondered whether Jueming had a girlfriend.
• Anko visited Jueming at the Senju Clan compound and confirmed that she had acted as he instructed, and he promised to reward her.

Jueming visited the awakened Momoka Senju and assured her that he could cure her Mutation within half a year. Momoka suggested that the Senju Clan choose a new clan head, leaving Jueming with what sounded like her final arrangements.

• Jueming returned home after sparring with Anko through the night and rested before Sayuri prepared breakfast.
• The Great Elder told Jueming that Momoka Senju had awakened after a month of sleep.
• Jueming and Sayuri visited Momoka in the Senju Clan Forbidden Ground, where the Mutation had spread further across her body.
• Jueming promised Momoka that he could find a way to treat her Mutation within half a year.
• Momoka told Jueming that the Senju Clan should choose a new clan head.

Jueming prepared to build his reputation as a medical ninja and inherit the Senju Clan leadership, while Danzo’s team launched a covert assault on Kumogakure to reach the Third Raikage sealed in the Amber Purifying Pot. The chapter ended with Danzo’s team preparing to fight the mutated Raikage.

• Jueming told Momoka Senju he would prove he had surpassed Tsunade through several remarkable surgeries, and Momoka left the decision to him.
• The Great Elder said Jueming would become head of the Senju Clan once he had established his medical reputation, while Jueming considered how to approach Tsunade.
• Jueming spent several days gathering Yin Attribute, reporting to Utatane Koharu, visiting the orphanage, training with Yakushi Nonō and Kurenai Yuhi, and discussing Hayate Gekko’s surgery with Rin Nohara.
• Danzo and his team used Hyuga Hiashi’s Byakugan and the Yamanaka Clan’s Secret Technique to enter Cloud Thunder Gorge without alerting the Fourth Raikage or Killer B.
• Danzo’s team found the Amber Purifying Pot and learned that the mutated Third Raikage was likely still inside it.
• Danzo assigned Fugaku and Shisui, Shikaku and Inoichi, Jiraiya, and Minato roles in weakening and removing the Third Raikage before he struck.

Uzuki Yugao saw Anko slap Senju Jueming after he asked her about sex, then learned that he had quickly earned millions of ryo through bounty hunting. Jueming treated Yugao to dinner and offered to help her and Hayate, leaving Yugao troubled by his kindness and apparent loneliness.

• Uzuki Yugao saw Anko slap Senju Jueming in an alley, and Anko told her that he had asked what it felt like for a man and woman to sleep together.
• Senju Jueming told Yugao that he had finished the bounty hunt and earned several million ryo.
• Senju Jueming offered to use his earnings to help Yugao and Hayate, then invited her to dinner and ordered food to take home for Hayate.
• At the restaurant, Senju Jueming asked Yugao about the Anbu and said that underground black-market ninjas mocked him for lacking experience with women.
• Senju Jueming left after drinking, and Yugao watched him secretly wipe his face as he walked away.

Uzuki Yugao struggled with the debt she felt she owed Senju Jueming after he arranged care and a transplant for Gekko Hayate. At the hospital, she followed Jueming and found Mitaraishi Anko berating him for not having a girlfriend.

• Uzuki Yugao considered finding Senju Jueming a girlfriend, then wondered whether she should instead become his secret romantic experience.
• Uzuki Yugao brought Jueming’s packed dinner home and told Gekko Hayate how Jueming had helped them; Hayate said the kindness could never be repaid.
• The next morning, Senju Jueming and Rin Nohara took Hayate to the hospital, where Jueming arranged the best room, nurses, and transplant care.
• Uzuki Yugao followed Jueming through the hospital and saw Mitaraishi Anko angrily taunt him for not having a girlfriend.

Senju Jueming led the first stage of Hayate Gekko’s lung transplant, which succeeded and gave Uzuki Yugao hope, though she still struggled with the debt she felt she owed. Two days later, Shimura Danzō’s group returned with news of the Third Raikage’s death while concealing their plan to turn him into a mutated weapon.

• Uzuki Yugao and Hayate Gekko sat in silence after Jueming and the medical staff left, both burdened by the surgery and Yugao’s gratitude.
• Senju Jueming led the operation with Tsunade, Yakushi Nonō, and Rin Nohara assisting, and transplanted one of the donor’s lungs into Hayate Gekko.
• The transplanted lung began working, and Rin Nohara told Uzuki Yugao that the first stage had succeeded; Hayate was sent to intensive care while the second stage was postponed.
• Jueming invited Rin and Nonō to celebrate, but both declined, leaving him alone as Yugao watched from a corner.
• Shimura Danzō returned with news that the Third Raikage was dead, while concealing that he intended to turn the sealed, mutated Raikage into a weapon.
• The Fourth Raikage arrived and fought Danzō, who defeated him and cost him one arm.

After Danzo captured the Third Raikage, Jueming feared the Raikage would become a powerful Mutation Weapon and ordered Hayate Gekko’s second lung transplant. As the news reshaped the clans’ calculations and personal lives, Minato weighed whom to follow, while Hiashi found hope that Jueming might cure Hazuki.

• Jueming warned the Senju elders that Danzo might turn the captured Third Raikage into a Mutation Weapon and ordered Hayate Gekko to receive a second lung.
• Danzo confirmed the Third Raikage’s capture to Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, then returned to his underground laboratory to pursue the Chimera Technique.
• Fugaku returned home and reassured Mikoto that he was unharmed, while she hid her grief and Itachi watched them.
• Minato returned to Kushina and wondered whether to align himself with Senju Jueming or Shimura Danzō.
• Hiashi heard that Jueming had replaced Hayate’s lung and hoped he could also cure Hazuki; Hayate’s second operation was expected to let him become a ninja again.

Uzuki Yugao visited Hayate Gekko in the hospital and saw how Senju Jueming’s generosity had left them wondering how to repay him. After an encounter with Anko Mitarashi and an evening with Jueming, Yugao offered to teach him about girls.

• Senju Jueming gave Yugao fruit for Hayate, and she and Hayate wondered how they could repay his kindness.
• Yugao saw Anko threaten and slap a nurse for trying to get close to Jueming, then left without intervening.
• Jueming and Yugao ate ramen together, where Teuchi and Ayame praised his medical achievements, and Yugao admired him.
• Jueming promised Yugao that Hayate’s condition was stable and that he would transplant another lung lobe soon.
• As Jueming prepared to leave, Yugao offered to tell him about girls.

Senju Jueming comforted Uzuki Yugao while discussing his bleak prospects for love, then returned home to Sayuri and treated her. The next morning, he accepted a nominal position with Konoha Hospital’s Medical Unit and prepared to operate on Gekko Hayate, while Yugao silently made a decision.

• Senju Jueming told Uzuki Yugao that he feared his clan would arrange a political marriage, and Mito Uzumaki questioned his intentions toward Yugao.
• Senju Jueming returned home, picked up Sayuri, and took her to the bedroom for another treatment.
• Tsunade and the medical ninjas asked Senju Jueming to accept a flexible, nominal position in Konoha’s Medical Unit, and he agreed to let them study his cases.
• Senju Jueming assured Uzuki Yugao that Gekko Hayate would recover after another transplant surgery and told her he had paid the hospital fees.
• Uzuki Yugao looked at Gekko Hayate and silently made a decision.

Uzuki Yugao learned that Hayate Gekko’s surgery had succeeded and sought advice on how to repay Senju Jueming for his kindness. After hearing Kakashi Hatake and Tekka Uchiha describe their trust and gratitude toward Jueming, Yugao resolved to repay her debt to him.

• Senju Jueming told Uzuki Yugao that Hayate Gekko’s surgery had succeeded, and Yugao broke down in tears with relief.
• Yugao visited Hayate in the observation ward, then met Jueming that evening; he discreetly gave her money before leaving.
• The next morning, Yugao asked Kakashi Hatake how he repaid Jueming, and Kakashi said he trusted him completely and would brave anything for his friends.
• Yugao asked Tekka Uchiha the same question while visiting the villa he had arranged for Tsume Inuzuka and Hana Inuzuka.
• After hearing Tekka say he would repay Jueming even more than he had received, Yugao decided to repay her debt to Jueming in her own way.

After Hayate Gekko recovered from his lung transplant, Senju Jueming gained a position at Konoha Hospital and Uzuki Yugao went shopping for new clothes. That night, Yugao tried to repay Jueming by inviting him home, then suggested a hotel when he declined, leaving him startled by her offer.

• Hayate Gekko recovered well, and Senju Jueming obtained a nominal position in Konoha’s Medical Unit.
• Uzuki Yugao visited Hayate Gekko and later went to the shopping district to buy new clothes.
• Utatane Koharu told Yugao that Jueming had asked the elders to give her a raise and threatened to reprimand him for it.
• Jueming emerged from Utatane Koharu’s home looking chastened, and Yugao approached him in her new outfit.
• Yugao invited Jueming to her home, and when he declined, she suggested they go to a hotel.

Uzuki Yugao invited Senju Jueming home and confessed that she wanted to repay him, while Jueming tried to leave without answering her. As she claimed she had a hidden, promiscuous side even Hayate did not know about, Jueming turned back in shock.

• Yugao led Jueming through dark alleys to her home, where she told him she wanted to repay his kindness.
• At Jueming's house, his Grass Clone distracted Sayuri with rehabilitation exercises while his real body was away.
• Yugao grabbed Jueming as he tried to leave and asked for his answer, insisting she and Hayate had never kissed or been a couple.
• Yugao said she was the kind of person Jueming thought he was not, claiming she had hidden this side of herself from everyone, including Hayate.
• Jueming widened his eyes and asked Yugao to tell him she was only trying to provoke him.

Uzuki Yugao tried to repay Senju Jueming by pushing him away, then by pressuring him to come to her home, but he refused her advances and knocked her unconscious. After sharing expired cup noodles the next morning, Yugao began wondering whether she fit Jueming’s ideal type and returned to her Anbu post.

• Uzuki Yugao pretended to reject Senju Jueming, but he saw through her attempt to shoulder the blame and walked away.
• Uzuki Yugao twisted her ankle, then threatened to accuse Jueming of assault unless he went home with her; Jueming followed her and knocked her unconscious.
• The next morning, Jueming served Yugao cup noodles and asked her not to bring up the previous night again.
• Uzuki Yugao asked what kind of girl Jueming liked, memorized his answers, and began comparing his preferences to herself.
• Uzuki Yugao visited Hayate, returned to Anbu duty, and realized that Jueming’s stated preferences seemed to describe her.

Uzuki Yugao wore her Anbu uniform on patrol and decided to meet Jueming in that appearance, while Jueming discovered an anonymous challenge threatening the Senju Clan. That night, Yugao secretly followed him and staged an attack that led him to her home, where he found her in uniform and masked.

• Uzuki Yugao patrolled Konoha in her Anbu uniform and considered whether Jueming might accept her repayment if she met him dressed that way.
• Jueming visited Hayate Gekko, sensed someone’s hostility, and later received an anonymous challenge demanding he go to the Valley of the End or face action against the Senju Clan.
• Jueming sent a Grass Clone to the Valley of the End while his main body waited for Uzuki Yugao to arrive.
• Uzuki Yugao followed Jueming to the hospital, where he checked on Hayate Gekko, then continued tailing him as he left.
• Uzuki Yugao attacked Jueming with a shuriken and kunai, led him to her home, and revealed herself in Anbu uniform and a mask.

Uzuki Yugao tried to repay Senju Jueming by using her Anbu disguise and secretly drugging his tea, but the drug caused an unexpected reaction. Jueming attacked her, and the chapter ended with Yugao offering no resistance.

• Uzuki Yugao disguised herself as an Anbu and confronted Senju Jueming, but he removed her mask and urged her to stop.
• Yugao secretly poured a large amount of powder into Jueming’s tea, and he drank it before collapsing.
• Jueming briefly acted irrationally, then fell unconscious; Yugao checked his breathing and decided to proceed with repaying him.
• Jueming suddenly woke with a cold expression, grabbed Yugao, and attacked her while she did not resist.

Jueming used his new Grass Release ability to make Obito grow grass on his head when they met at the Valley of the End. Meanwhile, Yugao hid what had happened between them the previous night, and Hayate continued recovering in the hospital without her visit.

• Jueming pretended not to remember the previous night, while Yugao decided to conceal what had happened and rest at home.
• Jueming returned to his basement, found Sayuri recovering after training, and anticipated her becoming his capable assistant.
• Jueming visited Hayate at Konoha Hospital and told him he could try walking, while Hayate waited in vain for Yugao.
• Obito waited for Jueming at the Valley of the End, intending to defeat him and continue his plan to collect the Tailed Beasts.
• Jueming's Grass Clone approached Obito, and Obito suddenly grew grass on his head; Jueming denied causing it.

Jueming used his new grass-growing skill to overwhelm Obito, then met with the Kazekage Rasa, who asked him to treat Karura. The chapter left Karura’s condition uncertain, with the Nine-Tails warning that her situation could be serious.

• Jueming’s grass attack followed Obito into Kamui Space, forcing Obito and Black Zetsu to retreat.
• Tekka Uchiha celebrated with Kakashi and Jueming after getting together with Tsume Inuzuka.
• Rasa waited for Jueming outside a restaurant and asked him to name his price for treating Karura.
• Rasa assigned Baki and Pakura to watch over Karura, while Jueming teased Pakura about sparring again.
• Kakashi warned Jueming to be careful, and the Nine-Tails said Gaara would probably be all right but Karura’s condition was uncertain.