Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke’s unit defeated the Sand Hidden Jonin left behind, captured and killed the injured Desert Giant Falcon, and salvaged Sandstorm Gale’s severed arm. After continuing south and stopping to rest, Sasuke reorganized the force into four brigades, while the Sand Ninja Corps resumed its pursuit.

• Sandstorm Gale and his wife escaped an explosive-tag trap using a defensive Puppet, while Umino Sasuke’s unit defeated the two Sand Hidden Jonin who had stayed behind.
• Fujin and Raijin fought the crippled Desert Giant Falcon until Sasuke’s subordinates trapped it in a chain net and beat it to death.
• Umino Sasuke ordered his subordinates to collect the falcon’s valuable remains and preserved Sandstorm Gale’s severed arm in a nutrient culture bottle.
• The Sand Ninja Corps circled around the misty forest and continued pursuing the Umino Unit as Sasuke led his force south.
• After stopping to rest, Umino Sasuke reorganized the unit into Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Tool Manipulation, and Auxiliary Brigades.

Umino Sasuke healed Big White and helped restore his unit’s strength as they continued fleeing the Hidden Sand forces. When Uchiha Shun joined Big White in the air, he revealed a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and demonstrated a highly precise kunai-throwing technique against the pursuing falcons.

• Umino Sasuke used the Water Transformation Healing Technique to heal Big White and explained how his healing work had helped the unit recover physically and emotionally.
• Uchiha Shun volunteered to fight the Hidden Sand’s aerial scouts, and Umino Sasuke agreed to take him aboard Big White.
• Umino Sasuke coated himself and Uchiha Shun with Sticky Candy Armor as Big White flew into the falcon flock.
• Uchiha Shun revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and threw eight kunai, redirecting them with precise ricochets to strike eight falcons in the eyes.
• Umino Sasuke activated the Sonic Radar Technique to study Uchiha Shun’s kunai-throwing technique.

Umino Sasuke and Uchiha Shun routed the Hidden Sand’s Summoned Falcons and hunted down their handlers in the forest. They lured the falcon force’s Elite Jonin into a trap and struck him with a Rasengan, leaving him crashing into a tree.

• Uchiha Shun, Umino Sasuke, and Big White killed nearly half the Summoned Falcons and chased the survivors across dozens of li.
• Big White used the Infrasonic Radar Technique’s range to help Umino Sasuke and Uchiha Shun ambush hidden Hidden Sand ninja and falcons in the forest.
• Umino Sasuke identified a powerful Wind Release user as the likely commander and disguised himself with the Transformation Jutsu to approach him.
• Umino Sasuke and his Shadow Clones pretended to flee toward the Elite Jonin, while Big White and a clone drew out his defenses.
• A Shadow Clone interrupted the Elite Jonin’s Wind Release, and Uchiha Shun trapped him with Demonic Illusion: Binding Stakes Technique.
• Umino Sasuke hit the immobilized Elite Jonin with a Rasengan, sending him crashing into a giant tree.

Umino Sasuke learned that Sunagakure had used Poison Gas Bombs and Jinchuriki deterrence to defeat Konoha’s forces, while the Umino Unit remained trapped behind enemy lines. After clearing the Sand Ninja’s aerial scouts, Sasuke realized the growing pursuit would catch them soon and decided they had to strike back.

• Umino Sasuke and Uchiha Shun restrained and interrogated a dying Sand Elite Jonin, learning that Poison Gas Bombs and Monk Funpuku’s Jinchuriki deterrence had helped Sunagakure defeat Shimura Danzō’s forces and encircle the Uchiha Army.
• Umino Sasuke learned that Uchiha Shun was Kagami Uchiha’s posthumous son and promised to become a teacher to Shun’s young son if they returned safely.
• Umino Sasuke and his unit spent nearly half a day eliminating nearby Sand Ninja scouts and Summoned Falcons, depriving the pursuing corps of aerial reconnaissance.
• The Sand Ninja pursuit force grew as it drove back Konoha’s main force and defeated the Uchiha Army, while the Umino Unit continued retreating through the forest.
• Umino Sasuke realized the Sand Ninja would catch the unit in less than a day and said they had to strike hard to break the pursuit’s momentum.

Ebizo’s pursuing Sand Ninja force caught up with the Umino Unit, only to be drawn into a planned ambush using a flood from upstream. Umino Sasuke and Might Duy prepared to unleash their attack as Ebizo withdrew behind a Puppet formation.

• Ebizo led his three-hundred-strong force rapidly after the Umino Unit and discovered them fishing and cooking in a river valley.
• The Sand Ninja caught the Umino Unit by surprise, and Sasuke and Duy rode Big White into the air to delay the pursuit.
• The Umino Unit stopped fleeing and used a Combined Earth Release to block the valley, while Sasuke’s Shadow Clone disrupted the Sand Ninja’s attempt to form a defensive jutsu.
• Sasuke used the river’s force to send a massive flood toward the Sand Ninja, while Ebizo ordered his Puppets to form the Thousand Faces Puppet Formation.
• Duy opened the Sixth Gate and kicked Ebizo away from Sasuke; Ebizo retreated behind the Puppet formation as the flood bore down.

Umino Sasuke’s flood and the Umino Unit’s coordinated attacks devastated the Sand Ninja Corps, leaving Ebizo leading a small elite group into the mist. There, Umino Sasuke’s forces ambushed them as Might Duy fought Ebizo, who recognized his own modified puppets.

• Umino Sasuke blasted through the Thousand Faces Puppet Grand Formation with Hard Vortex Water Blade, and his nine Shadow Clones followed with Water Dragon Bullet Technique, collapsing the formation and exposing the Sand Ninja Corps to the flood.
• The Umino Unit attacked the flooded survivors with combined ninjutsu and a barrage of Explosive Tag Kunai, while Umino Sasuke filled the upper valley with mist and used Shadow Clones’ Infrasonic Shock to hinder escape.
• Ebizo rescued some survivors and led fewer than twenty elite Sand Ninjas upstream into the mist to break through.
• Umino Sasuke, his Shadow Clones, and ten Mecha Puppets ambushed Ebizo’s group, and Might Duy engaged Ebizo after opening the Gate of View.
• Umino Sasuke sent two Mecha Puppets to help Might Duy defend against Ebizo’s puppet attacks, and Ebizo recognized them as modified Mirror Matrix Puppets and grew furious.

Umino Sasuke and Might Duy’s ambush overwhelmed Ebizo’s Sand shinobi in the mist, and Might Duy struck Ebizo with Morning Peacock. Ebizo survived badly injured and blocked Sasuke’s follow-up attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Umino Sasuke used the Mecha Puppets and Infrasound shock to trap the Sand shinobi in the mist while his Mecha Puppets killed several of them.
• Umino Sasuke used Fatal Ambush and Water Blade Slash to kill a taijutsu Sand Hidden Jonin.
• Ebizo noticed that most of his subordinates had fallen and led Qianyue to rescue other Sand shinobi, pursued by Might Duy and two Mecha Puppets.
• Four rescued Sand Puppeteers revealed themselves as Umino Sasuke’s Shadow Clones, and Ebizo narrowly avoided their Spiral Drill Wave.
• The two Mecha Puppets damaged Ebizo’s defensive Puppet, then Might Duy hit him with Morning Peacock and left him severely injured.
• Umino Sasuke attacked Ebizo with Water Blade Slash, but Ebizo blocked it and nearly struck Sasuke with a blade formed from his armor.

Umino Sasuke and his allies fought Ebizo and the trapped Sunagakure shinobi in Misty River Valley, wearing Ebizo down until he fled. After eliminating the remaining enemies, Sasuke pursued Ebizo with Uchiha Shun and Shirakumo Hayama, catching up to him aboard Big White.

• Umino Sasuke treated Might Duy and sent him away while Ebizo fought off the Mecha Puppets and exposed several Shadow Clone disguises.
• Ebizo accidentally wounded a real Sunagakure Puppet Master, who was then cut in half by a Mecha Puppet, and his injuries began to flare up again.
• Ebizo abandoned the trapped Sunagakure shinobi and fled Misty River Valley, overcoming Sasuke's attempts to stop him.
• Umino Sasuke and his forces eliminated the remaining Sunagakure shinobi, with Sasuke using Ebizo's appearance to launch sneak attacks.
• Umino Sasuke pursued Ebizo with Uchiha Shun and Shirakumo Hayama aboard Big White and caught up to him less than twenty kilometers later.

Umino Sasuke and his allies drove Ebizo to the brink, but Ebizo injected an Explosive Forbidden Drug and outran them. Umino Sasuke caught up after the drug wore off and discovered Sandstorm Gale and Lapis Lazuli waiting to rescue Ebizo, who was unconscious and critically injured.

• Uchiha Shun, Shirakumo Hayama, Umino Sasuke, and Big White harassed Ebizo with coordinated attacks until he exhausted his Arm Shield Armor Blades.
• Ebizo injected an Explosive Forbidden Drug, gaining a burst of speed that let him outrun Big White as Umino Sasuke retreated into the sky to wait out its effects.
• Umino Sasuke left Shirakumo Hayama and Uchiha Shun behind, pursued Ebizo alone, and found him unconscious in a forest.
• Umino Sasuke exposed Sandstorm Gale's ambush, and Big White blocked Sandstorm Gale's wind-blade attack.
• Lapis Lazuli treated Ebizo and prepared to retreat with him inside the Lizard Puppet while Sandstorm Gale argued with Umino Sasuke.

Umino Sasuke failed to kill Ebizo after Sandstorm Gale and his wife stopped his pursuit, then negotiated with Lapis Lazuli for Sandstorm Gale’s severed arm in exchange for Sunagakure techniques. Sandstorm Gale destroyed the recovered arm and left more furious than before.

• Sandstorm Gale and his wife blocked Umino Sasuke’s attacks with the Aurora Shield Seal and returned to the Sand Ninja Corps with Ebizo.
• Lapis Lazuli’s Sand Clone approached Umino Sasuke to bargain for Sandstorm Gale’s severed arm, and they settled on Sunagakure Wind Release Ninjutsu and Basic Sealing Technique.
• Umino Sasuke and Lapis Lazuli exchanged the custom-made scroll of techniques for the nutrient bottle containing the arm and a severed finger.
• Lapis Lazuli brought the arm to Sandstorm Gale, who smashed the bottle and shredded the arm with his mechanical claws.
• Lapis Lazuli watched Sandstorm Gale leave, realizing that recovering the arm had made him more extreme rather than easing his hostility.

Umino Sasuke’s unit salvaged intelligence and Ninjutsu from the defeated Sand Ninja, though the flood damaged many valuable spoils. He distributed stolen elemental techniques and gave Shirakumo Hayama and Uchiha Shun the Vacuum Wind Release Series, leaving the unit stronger as it continued its mission behind enemy lines.

• Umino Sasuke lamented that the flood had damaged many Puppets and Sand Ninja corpses, reducing the value of the spoils.
• Yamashiro Ryūba used the Mind Reading Technique, and her Intelligence Support Squadron organized the recovered information into a database that revealed maps, supply routes, and deeper intelligence.
• Umino Sasuke distributed recovered C-rank and D-rank elemental Ninjutsu to his subordinates as mission merit rewards, strengthening the Umino Unit.
• Umino Sasuke gave Shirakumo Hayama and Uchiha Shun a scroll containing the Vacuum Wind Release Series, including Vacuum Great Ball and Vacuum Consecutive Waves.
• Uchiha Shun and Shirakumo Hayama swore loyalty and began practicing the techniques, which Umino Sasuke had obtained from Lapis Lazuli in exchange for Sandstorm Gale’s severed arm.

Umino Sasuke pursued the Ice Release Bloodline Limit while leading the Umino Unit south through the Land of Rivers under the guise of a tea merchant caravan. They reached a city controlled by Sunagakure, while the real Daimyo's Palace remained on the Shinano Great Plain.

• Umino Sasuke resolved to master Wind and Water Release transformations so he could fuse the Ice Release Bloodline Limit and increase his chakra reserves.
• Umino Sasuke used a feint in the Shinano Forest Mountains to mislead the Sand Ninja, then guided the Umino Unit south on rafts while evading patrols.
• Umino Sasuke disguised the unit as a tea merchant caravan and dealt with bandits and toll collectors along the route.
• Umino Sasuke had some subordinates pose as Sand Ninja escorts, intimidating security units into letting the caravan pass without extra tolls.
• The Umino Unit arrived at the southern Land of Rivers' largest city, a false capital controlled by Sunagakure.

Umino Sasuke and his squad scouted the Daimyo's Mansion in the Land of Rivers, where Sunagakure's occupation forces exploited civilians and invoked the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad to justify new taxes. Sasuke exposed a Guardian Ninja's false offer to help and led the squad in a surprise assault on the mansion.

• Umino Sasuke, Uchiha Shun, and Yamashiro Ryūba entered the city disguised as villagers and were charged taxes for being barefoot.
• Umino Sasuke explained that the Sand Ninja used the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad as an excuse to tax civilians and divert their anger.
• Umino Sasuke chose to attack the Daimyo's Mansion that night, aiming to draw out reinforcements from the Sea Defense Fortress.
• Yamashiro Aoba contacted Kawakawa Akira, who offered to coordinate from inside, but Umino Sasuke detected that Kawakawa Akira had defected to Sunagakure.
• Umino Sasuke contacted the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad with Shadow Clones, and the squad seized the city gates and stormed the Daimyo's Mansion.

Umino Sasuke fought the Sand Ninja logistics unit and cornered Pakura in a warehouse filled with poison gas bombs. Pakura surrendered rather than risk breaking the bombs and poisoning the civilians, and Umino Sasuke restrained her instead of striking.

• Kawakawa Akira tried to seize the daimyo but Chakage Ryusuke blocked him while Kagami Kawa Momoyo watched.
• Umino Sasuke sent his Shadow Clone and allies to attack the remaining Guardian Ninja while he ambushed the Sand Ninja logistics unit.
• Umino Sasuke killed the Sand Hidden Jonin, but Pakura dispelled his mist and engaged him and the Mecha Puppets.
• Fuki Maru tried to release poison gas throughout the Daimyo's Mansion, but Pakura knocked him unconscious before he could detonate the bombs.
• Umino Sasuke drove Pakura against the poison gas bombs, and she closed her eyes and accepted her apparent death rather than risk harming civilians.
• The Mecha Puppets' greatswords stopped at Pakura's neck and restrained her.

Umino Sasuke captured Pakura and secured Sunagakure’s poison gas bombs before heading to support the others. Yamashiro Ryūba stopped a fleeing Sand Hidden Guardian Ninja with his Scattering Thousand Crows Technique and Stone Needle secret technique.

• Umino Sasuke restrained Pakura, sealed her chakra, and revealed that Shadow Clones had protected the poison gas bombs inside a water prison.
• Tejudo arrived with the bladed weapons unit and sealed the poison gas bombs into a Sealing Scroll while Umino Sasuke ordered him to guard Pakura.
• Umino Sasuke went to the other battles, where Uchiha Shun and Shirakumo Hayama had already defeated their opponents, while Heizo Raido continued fighting a Sand Hidden Jonin.
• Wind God and Thunder God left the encirclement to collect Sugar Energy Blocks from Umino Sasuke, giving the remaining Sand Hidden Guardian Ninja a chance to flee.
• Yamashiro Ryūba blocked the escape, disoriented the Sand Hidden Guardian Ninja with Scattering Thousand Crows Technique, and immobilized him with Stone Needle.

Umino Sasuke seized the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers’ mansion and used captured Hidden Sand ninja to gather information and force Kaihane into cooperation. The chapter left Chakage Ryusuke and Kaihane heading to the Sea Defense Fortress to request aid, while Kaihane considered moving the Kugutsu Clan to Konoha.

• Umino Sasuke sent Uchiha Shun to meet the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers, then led the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad in taking control of the Daimyo’s Mansion and capturing or killing the Hidden Sand ninja there.
• Umino Sasuke’s interrogators uncovered Mist Village Spies, who killed themselves with poison, while one captured Hidden Sand Chunin wrote insulting essays and killed two fellow ninja to prove his allegiance.
• Uchiha Shun returned with the Daimyo’s written request for aid and reported that Chakage Ryusuke had volunteered to seek reinforcements with Kaihane.
• Umino Sasuke threatened Kaihane with the danger to his Kugutsu Clan and offered him two Jonin-level Puppets and the prospect of joining Konoha, persuading him to cooperate.
• Chakage Ryusuke and Kaihane departed for the Sea Defense Fortress, and Umino Sasuke told Uchiha Shun that Kaihane’s loyalty was secured by the threat to his clan rather than a curse seal.

Karuo led Hidden Sand reinforcements toward the Land of Rivers Daimyo's Palace, only to be trapped by the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad. Umino Sasuke unleashed poison gas, Rasengan, and Wind Release against Karuo's sand defense, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Karuo inspected Kaihane, then led 150 Hidden Sand ninja toward the Daimyo's Palace while leaving half his forces at the Sea Defense Fortress.
• Umino Sasuke and his Shadow Clones destroyed the Hidden Sand's summoned falcons, eliminating Karuo's aerial reconnaissance.
• Karuo cautiously checked a canyon for traps, then led his force through it after Sabaku Dake found no ambush.
• The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad blocked the canyon exit, and Karuo formed a defensive line instead of retreating.
• Umino Sasuke released Hidden Sand poison gas bombs at the formation, but Karuo raised a Sand Wall Defense.
• Umino Sasuke sent two Shadow Clones to strike the sand wall with Rasengan and attacked with Wind Release: Vacuum Great Ball.

Umino Sasuke and the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad devastated Karuo’s Sand Ninja Corps with poison, explosive tags, and coordinated ninjutsu. Karuo covered his subordinates’ retreat, but Konoha forces trapped the survivors in the canyon, bringing the corps close to total annihilation.

• Umino Sasuke shattered the Sand Wall Defense and used poisoned sand needles to inflict heavy casualties on the Sand Ninja Corps.
• The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad and several Wind Release Chunin bombarded the Sand Ninja position with explosive-tag kunai, while Karuo protected himself with Sand Armor and unleashed Flowing Sand Waterfall.
• Umino Sasuke countered Karuo’s sand waves with Water Release: Water Shockwave, and his Shadow Clones followed with a barrage of Great Sickle Weasel Technique that devastated the remaining Sand Ninja.
• Karuo ordered a retreat and stayed behind to cover his subordinates, using Sand Waterfall Burial to destroy the pursuing Shadow Clones.
• Umino Sasuke bombarded the canyon with explosive-tag kunai, while the Wind God, Thunder God, and other Konoha Ninja blocked the escape route and attacked the fleeing Sand Ninja.

Umino Sasuke and his allies cornered Karuo’s Sand ninja squad in a canyon, where Karuo’s Sand Release briefly overwhelmed their defenses. Umino Sasuke pierced Karuo with Water Release: Heavenly Cry, leaving Karuo fatally wounded and asking where Umino Sasuke learned his Wind Release.

• Karuo used Sand Release to block Umino Sasuke’s Explosive Tag Kunai and bind Wind God and Thunder God against the canyon walls as he and three subordinates tried to escape.
• Two Mecha Puppets and the freed Wind God and Thunder God surrounded Karuo, while Shirakumo Hayama, Uchiha Shun, Inuzuka Ryo, and the others dealt with the other Sand ninja.
• The Mecha Puppets destroyed Karuo’s Sand Eye, allowing Umino Sasuke to strike his Sand Shield with a Rasengan and expose Karuo.
• Karuo launched Desert Wave at Umino Sasuke, who retreated and pierced Karuo’s chest with Water Release: Heavenly Cry.
• Fatally wounded, Karuo praised Umino Sasuke’s Water Release and asked where he had learned his Wind Release.

Umino Sasuke let Karuo’s final message reach Sunagakure, intending to inflame the rivalry between Sandstorm Gale and Rasa, then watched his subordinates battle a Sand Hidden Jonin. The Jonin tried to escape, but Sasuke blocked his path with Wind Release: Grinding Gale.

• Karuo used a summoning technique to transmit intelligence before dying, while Umino Sasuke revealed he had anticipated the attempt.
• Umino Sasuke planned to connect Karuo and the Sand Ninja Corps’ destruction to Lapis Lazuli, hoping to worsen the political conflict between Sandstorm Gale and Rasa.
• Umino Sasuke sealed Karuo’s corpse in a scroll and stopped a Sand Hidden Jonin from killing himself, offering to spare him if he defeated three of Sasuke’s subordinates.
• Inuzuka Ryo and Akitaru attacked with Wolf Fang Over Fang, while Tejudo and Xiao Xiao combined their techniques against the Sand Hidden Jonin.
• The Sand Hidden Jonin repelled their assault with Water Release: Water Wall Technique and tried to escape, but Umino Sasuke struck his route with Wind Release: Grinding Gale.