Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke defeated the Mist Ninja, seized their ships and treasure, and prepared to escort the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers to the Land of Fire. At the Daimyo’s Palace, Shakuran Hōjō approached him with a private deal to bring Pakura back, while Sasuke hinted that Sandstorm Gale had traded Wind Release inheritances for political reasons.

• Umino Sasuke used Shadow Clones and Puppets to wipe out the Mist Ninja, then looted gold, silver, and jewels from a sunken ship as the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad took control of the fleet.
• Umino Sasuke left the ships with Tejudo, Hagane Senkichi, and the others, then rode Big White toward the Land of Rivers Daimyo's Palace to escort the Daimyo and officials back to the Land of Fire.
• Inuzuka Ryo reported that some nobles refused to leave, and Umino Sasuke told him to ignore them; defeated Mist Ninja later looted the remaining nobles and their hidden treasures.
• Umino Sasuke sensed Shakuran Hōjō's Sand Ninja squad approaching and met Shakuran privately after Kaihane and Sabaku Dake withdrew.
• Shakuran Hōjō asked Umino Sasuke to make a deal to bring Pakura back, and Sasuke suggested that Sandstorm Gale had traded Wind Release inheritances to eliminate political opponents.

Umino Sasuke negotiated Pakura’s return by trading Shakuran Hōjō Earth Release techniques, Sealing Techniques, and the Kekkei Genkai Fusion Scroll, while exchanging intelligence that revealed Konoha’s political schemes. After the Hidden Sand shinobi rescued Pakura, the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad sailed for the Land of Fire with the River Daimyo and thousands of civilians, leaving Sandstorm Gale furious behind them.

• Umino Sasuke used intelligence about the Third Kazekage’s plans for Pakura to raise the price of her return from Shakuran Hōjō.
• Shakuran Hōjō traded inherited Earth Release ninjutsu, Sealing Techniques, and the Kekkei Genkai Fusion Scroll for Pakura, then exchanged intelligence with Umino Sasuke.
• Shakuran Hōjō revealed that Konoha clans were plotting to obtain Umino Sasuke’s ninjutsu, prompting Sasuke to resolve to keep the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad under his control.
• A Hidden Sand squad rescued Pakura that night without causing casualties among the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad.
• The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad sailed for the Land of Fire with the River Daimyo and thousands of displaced civilians, while Sandstorm Gale arrived too late and grew more extreme.

Umino Sasuke encountered the Undead Sea Monster, a water-adapting Sea Monk that could recover from damage and create clones. After driving it off with Samehada, he tracked it to an ancient sunken ship and discovered valuable antiques inside.

• Umino Sasuke learned that the Undead Sea Monster had troubled sailors in the Land of Seas for years, and he refused their suggestion to sacrifice ninja corpses and gold.
• Umino Sasuke attacked the Sea Monk with Water Release, but the creature absorbed the currents and grew larger.
• Umino Sasuke damaged the Sea Monk with Wind Release and a Rasengan, but it quickly recovered by absorbing water.
• Samehada threatened the Sea Monk, which escaped by sacrificing part of its body, and Umino Sasuke noticed that it could create clones.
• Umino Sasuke and Samehada tracked the Sea Monk to an ancient sunken ship, where Umino Sasuke spotted a trove of valuable antiques.

Umino Sasuke subdued the Sea Monk, then staged an attack to convince the fleet that it could only be appeased with sacrifices. He left the sailors preparing to surrender the fleet’s valuables to the creature.

• Umino Sasuke drove the Sea Monk from its sunken ship with an ultrasonic technique, drained its chakra with Samehada, and bound it using an Intermediate Summoning Scroll.
• Umino Sasuke took valuable jewels from the wreck and hid the rest of the treasure, then returned to find the sailors demanding sacrifices to appease the Sea Monk.
• Umino Sasuke transferred chakra to the Sea Monk and ordered it to attack the fleet, while his ninjas staged a failed defense with combined Water, Wind, and Fire Release techniques.
• Umino Sasuke threw corpses into the sea as a sacrifice, and the Sea Monk absorbed them and calmed down.
• At a ship steward’s urging, Umino Sasuke ordered the gold, silver, and jewels in the Number Two ship’s warehouse sacrificed, and the sailors agreed.

Umino Sasuke led the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad safely past the Mist Ninja and into the Land of Waves, where he planned how to bring civilians from the Land of Rivers to Konoha. He left the chapter arranging low-interest resettlement loans and allowing young Genin to seek wives among the displaced people.

• Tejudo mourned the treasure lost to the Undead Sea Monster, but Xiao Xiao and Inuzuka Ryo urged him to focus on survival and strength as Umino Sasuke led the fleet away.
• The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad defeated nine Mist Ninja disguised as pirates, took their ship, and departed the Land of Seas before Karatachi Yagura arrived to intercept them.
• Karatachi Yagura pursued the fleet but stopped short of the Land of Waves to avoid provoking a war between the Land of Water and the Land of Fire.
• Merchants and slave traders approached Umino Sasuke in the Land of Waves, but he refused to sell the captured civilians and planned to resettle skilled people in Konoha using low-interest loans.
• Young Genin protested that only adult ninja could choose wives, and Umino Sasuke allowed them to court women from the Land of Rivers if they could persuade them to go willingly.

Umino Sasuke used the spoils from the Land of Rivers campaign to reward his squad and resettle refugees, then began planning a maritime trading company with Gato. When Kakuzu arrived to collect a bounty on him, the two became business partners instead, with Kakuzu taking a share in exchange for security and financial oversight.

• Umino Sasuke organized donations and corpse sales to fund rewards for the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad and resettle the Land of Rivers refugees.
• Gato asked Umino Sasuke to lease him a ship and proposed monopolizing Land of Waves maritime trade, so Umino Sasuke recruited him to help plan the company.
• Umino Sasuke discovered that Kakuzu had assassinated one of his Shadow Clones and summoned Might Duy before Kakuzu attacked.
• Umino Sasuke, Might Duy, and the Mecha Puppets displayed enough strength to make Kakuzu abandon his bounty mission.
• Umino Sasuke persuaded Kakuzu to join the maritime trading company, granting him twenty percent of the shares for security and financial management.

Umino Sasuke blocked rival clans from claiming the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers and arranged for Ebisu and Shiranui Mada to guard him. He deliberately turned the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad against the Uchiha Clan, and Uchiha Fugaku confronted him with a drawn sword.

• The Mitokado Clan's ninja tried to seize the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers, but Uchiha Shun and the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad drove them from the camp.
• Umino Sasuke arranged for Ebisu and Shiranui Mada to guard the Daimyo and planned to discuss their guardian ninja positions with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• After the Mitokado Clan's ninja attacked the Land of Waves Ocean Trade Company, Kakuzu drove them off, and the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad arrested them.
• Other Konoha clans, including the Uchiha, sought to take the Daimyo, but he refused to leave the squad's protection.
• Umino Sasuke ordered the arrest of Uchiha Fugaku and his ninja to make the Uchiha Clan a political opponent and strengthen the squad's unity.
• Uchiha Fugaku drew his longsword and challenged Umino Sasuke.

Umino Sasuke defeated and detained Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Mikoto, and two other Uchiha ninja after they challenged his squad. Uchiha Shun later agreed to cooperate with Sasuke, who said the arrests would curb the clan’s hawkish members and preserve Konoha’s unity.

• Umino Sasuke accepted Uchiha Fugaku’s challenge and defeated him by draining his chakra with Samehada.
• Umino Sasuke subdued Uchiha Mikoto with Samehada after she attacked him, and her Sharingan evolved to Three-Tomoe before he knocked her out.
• Shirakumo Hayama and Heizo Raido stopped and captured the two remaining Uchiha ninja.
• Umino Sasuke ordered all the Uchiha ninja detained, making the other Konoha ninja more obedient.
• Uchiha Shun came to plead for Fugaku and the others, but agreed to cooperate after Sasuke warned him about hawkish Uchiha members and talk of seizing power.

The Konoha Hundred-Man Squad returned with the Land of Rivers Daimyo and thousands of refugees, and Konoha High Command celebrated them as heroes. Uchiha Fire Nucleus tried to arrest Umino Sasuke, but Sasuke turned the confrontation against the Uchiha and won the villagers’ support.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s leaders welcomed the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad, whose captive offering ceremony and rescued refugees impressed the villagers.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus led the Konoha Military Police Force in confronting Umino Sasuke over allegedly imprisoning Konoha Ninja, while the squad answered with accusations of Uchiha misconduct.
• Umino Sasuke handed the unconscious Uchiha ninja and shackled Mito Gate Clan Ninja over to Fire Nucleus, who was forced to take them into custody.
• Sasuke defended his ninjutsu training and the sale of spoils by citing Shimura Danzō’s frontline policy and showing accounts that the proceeds had funded refugee settlement.
• The villagers saw the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers and thousands of refugees and sided with the Konoha Hundred-Man Squad, while some Uchiha ninja began to waver.

After returning from the Land of Rivers, Umino Sasuke learned that his mother had fallen gravely ill and stayed home to nurse her. Hiruzen Sarutobi then made him a jonin and offered to help establish and expand the Umino Clan, leaving Sasuke with new S- and A-Rank techniques.

• Umino Sasuke reunited with his siblings and learned that their mother had become bedridden after a false report of his death triggered old health problems.
• Umino Sasuke stabilized his mother with the Water Transformation Healing Technique, and Nara Shikasuke brought nourishing medicine to the family.
• Umino Sasuke cared for his mother and siblings as his mother's health began to improve.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi visited the Umino family and appointed Umino Sasuke a jonin.
• Umino Sasuke submitted the Puppet Technique and an S-Rank Sound Release genjutsu, then chose the Flying Thunder God Technique, Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, and the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi proposed that the Umino family establish a ninja clan and offered to relocate villagers with Umino blood ties from Akinahara Fishing Village to Konoha.

Umino Sasuke accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s proposal to establish the Umino Clan while privately worrying that the clan and its relatives would be used as wartime cannon fodder. After gene sequencing revealed many relatives in Akime Plains, the family chose a hundred clan members and developed a Black Rope Secret Technique to complement the Water Candy Secret Technique.

• Umino Sasuke acted grateful for Hiruzen Sarutobi’s offer, met Orochimaru, and received a Gene Technology scroll in exchange for an Earth Release scroll.
• Umino Sasuke traveled to Akime Plains with his parents and Tejudo's Three Youngsters, exchanging valuables for cash along the way.
• Umino Sasuke and Umino Ikaku sequenced local residents’ bloodlines and discovered that far more people were related to the Umino Clan than expected.
• Umino Sasuke limited the clan roster to one hundred people, but their families brought the total number relocating to more than three hundred.
• Umino Sasuke accepted his parents’ plan to move their relatives to Konoha and developed the Black Rope Secret Technique as a second clan jutsu alongside the Water Candy Secret Technique.

Umino Sasuke developed new plans for the Umino Clan’s techniques and used his Shadow Clone Cooperation Flying Thunder God Technique to manage its growing trade in the Land of Waves. The Umino Clan arrived in Konoha with more than three hundred members, and its first merchant caravan began changing how other clans viewed the newcomers.

• Umino Sasuke asked Umino Kozue and Umino Ikaku to develop a sealing application for Active Water Candy, while seeking Kozue’s help with the Sealing Techniques needed for the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Umino Sasuke used three Shadow Clones to cooperate in teleporting his main body and traveled between the Land of Waves and the relocation convoy to handle business.
• Umino Sasuke persuaded Gato to build sustainable trade by selling fish inland and developing the Land of Waves into a port city, then contracted the Sea Monk as the Umino Clan’s Summoning Beast.
• Umino Sasuke and Kakuzu moved valuable antiques from the sunken ship through the ocean-going fleet, earning substantial profits.
• More than three hundred Umino Clan members arrived in Konoha, where the first Land of Waves merchant caravan impressed some ninja clans and alarmed clans invested in the fish market.

Umino Sasuke expanded the Umino Clan’s businesses and strengthened its ninjas, then studied the Sealing Techniques in the Seven Ninja Swords. While practicing Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, he used Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole’s spatial fluctuation to send more than a hundred thousand tags to whoever had summoned the blade, possibly an enemy of Suikazan Fuguki.

• Umino Sasuke built up the clan’s seafood trade and restricted its Ninja Academy recruits to two promising members.
• Umino Sasuke forged weapons from Broken Sword Metal and gave longswords to Shirakumo Hayama, Heizo Raido, and Uchiha Shun.
• Umino Kozue explained that Exploding Blade Shibuki could imprint Explosive Tags, but those tags had a short shelf life, and she continued researching the blades.
• Umino Sasuke sensed a spatial fluctuation from Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole while practicing ninjutsu.
• Umino Sasuke used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags on the summoned blade’s tag, then used Exploding Blade Shibuki and Samehada’s Chakra to send over a hundred thousand tags through it.
• Umino Sasuke suspected that the person who summoned Twin Swords: Flounder and Sole was a political enemy of Suikazan Fuguki.

After Kirigakure was devastated by a summoning disaster, the Yuki Clan demanded compensation, the return of its ninja swords, and the release of its prisoners from Konoha. Umino Sasuke traded three swords for 120 million ryō and received Senju Tobirama’s Thunder God’s Sword, whose power surprised him when he tested it at home.

• Kirigakure’s summoning disaster crippled the village, weakened its clans, and let the Third Mizukage advance the Blood Mist Policy amid worsening internal conflict.
• Mizuki Kiyoshi arrived in Konoha to protest the bombing, reclaim Kirigakure’s swords, and seek the ransom of Mizuki Yuki and the others.
• Umino Sasuke denied responsibility for the bombing, and Hiruzen Sarutobi negotiated over the swords with Mizuki Kiyoshi.
• Hiruzen gave Umino Sasuke the Thunder God’s Sword in exchange for one ninja sword and arranged for Mizuki Kiyoshi to ransom three others for 120 million ryō.
• Mizuki Kiyoshi reclaimed the damaged Exploding Blade Shibuki, and Umino Sasuke left with the money and Thunder God’s Sword.
• Umino Sasuke tested the Thunder God’s Sword at home and discovered it was more powerful than he had expected.

Umino Sasuke studied the Thunder God Sword, strengthened his body, and helped improve the Land of Waves’ fishing industry with liquid nitrogen technology. As the Second Great Ninja War spread, he reorganized his unit into a two-hundred-member mobile support force and prepared to reinforce the Land of Rain.

• Umino Sasuke tested the Thunder God Sword, found its amplification formulas, and lent it to Umino Kozue to study.
• Umino Sasuke trained with electric eels, raised his taijutsu to jonin level, and opened the Fifth Gate of the Eight Inner Gates.
• Umino Sasuke asked Orochimaru about liquid nitrogen, received two sets of equipment blueprints, and built the equipment in the Land of Waves.
• Orochimaru returned to the Land of Rain battlefield, and Konoha ordered its Hundred-Man Squad to deploy as the war widened.
• Umino Sasuke’s force expanded into the two-hundred-member Frontline Mobile Support Force, gained new recruits and promotions, and was organized into three brigades and seven auxiliary squads.

Umino Sasuke avoided interfering with Madara Uchiha’s plan for Nagato Uzumaki, then secretly captured a White Zetsu and studied it at the Land of Waves Laboratory. After nearly being absorbed into a tree while sensing its energy, he awakened Earth Release chakra and gained White Zetsu’s Spore Technique.

• Umino Sasuke ordered Hyuga Asuka to arrest Konoha deserters who were robbing Land of Rain villagers, then withdrew the Umino Unit from the village.
• Umino Sasuke used Shadow Clones to observe as Konoha deserters killed Nagato Uzumaki’s parents, triggering Nagato’s Rinnegan and his slaughter of the deserters.
• Umino Sasuke tracked Nagato and the pursuing White Zetsu, then disguised himself as a deserter and killed one White Zetsu with a Rasengan.
• Umino Sasuke brought the White Zetsu corpse to the Land of Waves Laboratory, where its chakra-infused arm sprouted a growing tree that seemed to attract mysterious energy.
• Umino Sasuke transformed into a leaf and became absorbed into the tree until Samehada sent him chakra and woke him.
• Umino Sasuke escaped the tree’s grasp and discovered that he had awakened Earth Release chakra and acquired White Zetsu’s Spore Technique.

Umino Sasuke led a counteroffensive that broke the Rain Ninja lines, then supported Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru against Hanzo. He froze Salamander Ibuse with Liquid Nitrogen and killed it, leaving Hanzo enraged.

• Hyuga Asuka told Umino Sasuke that Hanzo and Salamander Ibuse had poisoned the northern battlefield, where Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru were holding out.
• Umino Sasuke ordered an immediate counterattack, and the Umino Unit broke through the Rain Ninja defenses with coordinated attacks.
• Umino Sasuke reached Hanzo’s battlefield, discovered he was resistant to Salamander Neurotoxin, and used Shadow Clones and Mecha Puppets to support the fight.
• Umino Sasuke cast the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique on Hanzo, allowing Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru to strike and separate Hanzo from Salamander Ibuse.
• Umino Sasuke froze Salamander Ibuse with Liquid Nitrogen and combined Wind and Water Release, then killed it with a Wind Release: Vacuum Great Ball.
• Hanzo roared furiously after Salamander Ibuse died.

Umino Sasuke helped Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru defeat Hanzo by trapping him with Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, forcing him to flee after losing a leg. The group celebrated the rise of the Konoha Three Legendary Ninjas, while Sasuke learned that political rumors in Sunagakure had implicated him in an affair with Lapis Lazuli and claimed Scorpion was his illegitimate child.

• Hanzo mourned Salamander Ibuse and attacked Jiraiya's group with Explosive Flame Formation, but Jiraiya shielded Tsunade while Orochimaru escaped.
• Hanzo feinted against Jiraiya and Orochimaru, then rushed Umino Sasuke; Sasuke's Shadow Clone trap detonated Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags around Hanzo's ankle.
• Hanzo cut off his lower leg to stop the explosions, then fled, and Jiraiya's group lost his trail.
• Jiraiya praised Sasuke, and the group agreed that defeating Hanzo established them as the Konoha Three Legendary Ninjas.
• Tsunade asked Sasuke about his girlfriends while eyeing the cost of his Explosive Tags, and Jiraiya claimed he had romantic ties to Lapis Lazuli and Kirigakure women.
• Jiraiya explained that Shakuran Hōjō's rumor about Lapis Lazuli's Wind Release deal had fueled conflict in Sunagakure, where gossip also cast Sasuke as Scorpion's father.

Shimura Danzō condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi’s lenient surrender terms for Amegakure, while Hiruzen defended his plan to bind the Land of Rain through cooperation. As the Land of Earth invaded through the Land of Rain and into the Land of Grass, Umino Sasuke prepared Senju Nawaki for the battlefield with survival training.

• Shimura Danzō confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over the Amegakure surrender agreement and urged him to occupy the Land of Rain and brutally suppress its people.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended the agreement’s economic and educational provisions, and Shimura Danzō left after warning that he would regret his decision.
• The Land of Earth declared war on the Land of Fire, while Hanzo let foreign ninja cross the Land of Rain and Kusagakure gave Iwagakure intelligence support.
• Senju Nawaki said goodbye to Umino Sasuke before heading to the Land of Grass battlefield and teased him about being his favorite brother-in-law.
• Umino Sasuke had trained Senju Nawaki in Water Release, Earth Release, Explosive Tag detection, and the Earth Replacement Technique, greatly improving his survival skills.

Umino Sasuke obtained Orochimaru’s Snake Flow Replacement Technique and remained in the Land of Rain after Konoha sent its main forces to the Land of Grass. He returned to the flourishing Land of Waves to oversee research aimed at mass-producing Salamander Neurotoxin.

• Umino Sasuke recalled the abilities and limits of Orochimaru’s Snake Flow Replacement Technique, which he had obtained using Kaguya Hyakusen’s blood and bone marrow.
• Senju Nawaki called Umino Sasuke his brother-in-law and repeated rumors that he had Ice Release, while Tsunade and Jiraiya reacted to their conversation before the main force departed.
• Umino Sasuke watched Konoha’s forces leave for the Land of Grass and noted that his Umino Unit had been left to guard the Land of Rain.
• Umino Sasuke criticized the ceasefire agreement as supplies from the Land of Fire went to help restore the Land of Rain, then teleported to the Land of Waves.
• Umino Sasuke told Hiruko to prioritize mass-producing Salamander Neurotoxin, and Hiruko promised to make progress within a week.