Chapter Summaries

Kushina Uzumaki led Konoha’s team to capture the revived Three-Tails, while Yuhara questioned whether the village planned to keep it. Kushina drained and restrained the beast, but after she realized they had no container ready, Tenzo opened the wrong scroll and released Tigo’s Reanimation Jutsu.

• Uchiha Shisui watched Kushina Uzumaki’s group leave Konoha and decided to wait before approaching her.
• Yuhara asked Kushina whether Konoha would keep the Three-Tails, and she explained that the village had neither a reason nor a practical way to claim it.
• Kushina detected the Three-Tails, ordered the sealing team to set up the Water Prison Binding Seal Formation, and assigned Yuhara and Shibi Aburame to draw its attention.
• The Three-Tails rolled into Yuhara and tore his clothing before Kushina bound it with Adamantine Sealing Chains and pulled its Chakra out.
• Kushina realized she had brought no sealing container, so Yuhara told Tenzo to retrieve a Sealing Scroll from his Ninja Tool Bag.
• Tenzo opened the scroll without checking it and released Tigo’s Reanimation Jutsu.

Tenzo opened the wrong Sealing Scroll, releasing Tigo’s spirit into Kushina’s Chakra sphere and transforming it into a sentient mass of pure energy. Yuhara and Kushina accepted that Tigo had partly returned to life, but they still needed to find a way to restore her more fully.

• Tenzo opened the scroll containing the latter half of Living Corpse Reincarnation, and its released spiritual energy entered Kushina’s Chakra sphere through the Water Prison Binding Seal Formation.
• The sphere rippled and spoke Yuhara’s name, then asked whether it was Tigo, leaving Yuhara stunned.
• Yuhara privately told Kushina how he had extracted and sealed Tigo’s spirit when she died at thirteen, and showed her Tigo’s remains.
• Kushina concluded that Tigo had reincarnated as a being of pure Chakra, but warned that she could disappear if her energy ran out.
• Tigo recognized Yuhara by sensing his distinctive Chakra and remembered being mortally wounded by Mist ninjas before he tried to save her.
• Yuhara introduced the sphere as Tigo, and Kushina accepted her as a person who had returned to life, though not completely.

Yuhara and Kushina found a way to keep Tigo from disappearing by sealing her together with one of the Three-Tails’ severed tails inside the Kōtanuki. They left the Three-Tails unconscious in Konoha’s custody, planning to contain it in a sealing formation before eventually returning it to the Mist Village.

• Kushina told Yuhara that Tigo would probably struggle to regain a human body and suggested binding her to a Tailed Beast’s Chakra so she would not vanish.
• Kushina ordered Yuhara and Kakashi to saw off one of the Three-Tails’ tails, and they cut it away while the beast remained unconscious.
• Yuhara brought out the Kōtanuki and Hōrin Kagami, and Kushina removed their summoning mark and prepared them to hold Tigo.
• Kushina sealed Tigo and the severed tail inside the Kōtanuki with an open restraint seal, and Tigo confirmed she could communicate from within it.
• Kushina and the others decided to keep the Three-Tails under Konoha’s control in a sealing formation until they could return it to the Mist Village.

Kushina and the squad sealed the Three-Tails inside a mountain and returned to Konoha, where Yuhara learned more about Tigo’s new existence as a Chakra-based life-form. After Tigo converted his Chakra into a crystal that restored it, Yuhara began planning a network to strengthen civilian Ninja and build the Crimson Crown organization.

• Kushina led the squad to a remote mountain, where Konoha Ninja hollowed out a chamber and she forcibly summoned the unconscious Three-Tails inside.
• The sealing teams bound the Three-Tails, while Tenzo reinforced the chamber with Wood Style and Kushina concealed the site with barriers powered by the beast’s Chakra.
• Aoba Yamashiro, Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami took turns guarding the sealed Three-Tails as Kushina and Yuhara returned to Konoha.
• Yuhara told Tigo that her resurrection had made her a Chakra-based life-form, and she explained that she could sense information but could no longer see.
• Tigo absorbed Yuhara’s Chakra and produced a pale-blue crystal through the mysterious technique on the Kōtanuki; Yuhara swallowed it and recovered the Chakra he had lost.
• Yuhara wrote down ideas for an Information Integration Mental Body, an Infinite Chakra Library, and a Flying Thunder God Circuit Network.

Yuhara arranged for Tigo’s corpse to be rebuilt as a Chakra-conducting puppet, and she awoke to discover how much of her body had been altered. Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui presented Kushina with a proposal to establish a new police division, arguing that the Uchiha needed to change.

• Yuhara kept Tigo’s Chakra-crystallizing ability confidential and received the Third Hokage’s approval to obtain technical support.
• Yuhara asked a Konoha Hospital doctor to implant Chakra-conducting metal into Tigo’s corpse, allowing her body to be controlled through its meridian network.
• The doctor completed the procedure, and Tigo awakened, realizing that her organs had been removed and her body repaired.
• Uchiha Shisui met Kushina and submitted a proposal for Konoha to establish a new police division with clearer authority and broader duties.
• Shisui told Kushina that he and a small group of Uchiha Ninjas supported the proposal because the Uchiha had to change.

Uchiha Shisui rallied a small group of Konoha-supporting Uchiha and sought Uchiha Fugaku’s backing for a new village security department. Kushina persuaded the Third Hokage to try the proposal, and he appointed himself department head and Shisui deputy head while retaining the Police Force for now.

• Uchiha Shisui told his supporters that Kushina Uzumaki would present their proposal to the Third Hokage and warned them that the Uchiha might brand them rebels.
• Uchiha Shizukiyo and the others affirmed their support for changing the Uchiha’s control of public security, and Shisui set out to ask Uchiha Fugaku for his backing.
• Kushina Uzumaki urged the Third Hokage to support Shisui’s gradual approach to governing the Uchiha Clan.
• After learning Danzo was away, the Third Hokage decided to establish a village security department while keeping the Konoha Police Force in place.
• The Third Hokage appointed himself head of the new department and named Uchiha Shisui its deputy head.

Yuhara introduced Tigo, now a gourd-backed puppet with a humanlike interface, to the Third Hokage, who recognized her as a Konoha Ninja but chose to keep observing her. While arranging Tigo’s new role and home, Yuhara began developing technology for long-distance Chakra transmission and successfully built a working prototype.

• Yuhara watched Tigo practice controlling her puppet body, then took her to meet the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage recognized Tigo as a Konoha Ninja after confirming her intelligence seemed intact, but decided to observe her further.
• Tigo began working as a receptionist at the Small Earth Building of the Crimson Crown and settled into a room there.
• Yuhara began developing basic materials and a method for transmitting Chakra over long distances.
• Yuhara built a Chakra transmitter and simple receiver, then was astonished when his test worked.

Konoha established a new security department, prompting fierce opposition from the Uchiha Clan, while Uchiha Shisui revealed that he had proposed the department and urged the clan to integrate with Konoha. The clan’s internal division stalled any rebellion, but some Uchiha members traced Shisui’s choices to a Small Earth Building and set out to confront whoever they believed had influenced him.

• The Third Hokage announced a new security department, reserved thirty of its eighty positions for the Uchiha, and appointed Uchiha Shisui deputy chief.
• Uchiha clan members demanded that Uchiha Fugaku resist the new department, while Fugaku remained silent and Uchiha Itachi watched with his baby brother.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived at the clan meeting and said that he and others had signed up for the new security department.
• Shisui revealed that he had submitted the department proposal and argued that the Uchiha should remain part of Konoha rather than rebel.
• The clan’s disagreement prevented an immediate revolt, while Uchiha Fugaku privately felt relieved that the clan would not act as one.
• Some Uchiha ninjas tracked Shisui’s visits to a Small Earth Building and decided to confront the people there for leading him astray.

Yuhara watched the Uchiha Ninja protest outside the Small Earth Building, where Tigo used the Six Paths Tool Banjō Senshi and accidentally unleashed a huge fire tornado that injured them. After Uchiha Shisui arrived with the new Police Department, Kushina Uzumaki assigned Kakashi to join the Bright Division, leaving him with yet another duty.

• Yuhara stopped Kushina Uzumaki from confronting the protesting Uchiha Ninja and suggested that the new Police Department handle them.
• Tigo faced the Uchiha Ninja outside the Small Earth Building and swung Banjō Senshi three times.
• Banjō Senshi unleashed fire and wind techniques that formed a massive fire tornado and scorched the Uchiha Ninja.
• Kakashi extinguished the fire and rescued the injured Uchiha Ninja before Uchiha Shisui arrived with the new Police Department.
• Kushina Uzumaki told Kakashi to join the Bright Division in support of the Third Hokage's policy and the Uchiha Ninja who could still be saved.

Uchiha Shisui and his allies tried to bring the Uchiha Clan closer to Konoha despite growing hostility within the clan. When investigators following clues about a missing Uchiha were mistaken for enemies, the confrontation ended with Uchiha Shizukiyo dying in Shisui’s arms.

• Uchiha Shisui endured abuse from clan members, while Uchiha Shizukiyo urged him to keep working for the clan’s future.
• Shisui learned that more Uchiha members supported his effort to integrate the clan into Konoha and recorded their names.
• Tsuchimon and Kamakiri found underground clues to the missing Uchiha, including a forehead protector, then emerged inside Uchiha territory.
• Uchiha members surrounded Tsuchimon and Kamakiri, accused them of kidnapping the missing ninja, and attacked despite Uchiha Shizukiyo’s attempt to stop them.
• Uchiha Shizukiyo and two companions shielded the Konoha ninjas, and three Uchiha fell; Shisui arrived as Shizukiyo died, urging him to keep going.

After a tense standoff over two Konoha ninjas who entered Uchiha territory, the Uchiha returned them, but three Uchiha were killed and Konoha withdrew its search for the missing clan members. Uchiha Shisui remained committed to changing his clan, though its future stayed uncertain.

• Yuhara learned that the Uchiha had detained two Konoha ninjas, and Konoha surrounded the Uchiha Residential Area with torches before Uchiha Fugaku returned the unharmed prisoners.
• Kakashi explained that three Uchiha had been killed while protecting the two ninjas, and Kushina said further clashes were inevitable while tensions persisted.
• Konoha abandoned the search for the missing Uchiha, while the clan split between those supporting and opposing Konoha and filled its reserved Security Department positions.
• The Uchiha Security Department sentenced one Uchiha to life imprisonment for the deaths, and the missing-ninja case again went unresolved.
• Kakashi told Uchiha Shisui that only the Uchiha could change and save their clan, and Shisui reaffirmed his resolve.

Yuhara tested a two-way Chakra communications system that let Tigo relay sensory information and combat advice to Kakashi and Tenzo, though its Chakra-support function remained slow and limited. The signal disrupted Konoha’s barrier, prompting the monitoring ninjas to warn the Third Hokage that a possible threat was inside the village.

• Yuhara set up a giant antenna and energy signal generator on the Small Earth Building to test long-distance communication with Tigo.
• Kakashi tested the link and received Tigo’s sensory report identifying Tenzo nearby, along with Tenzo’s abilities and combat evaluation.
• Tigo estimated Kakashi’s standard combat power at 750 and advised him to engage Tenzo at close range.
• Tigo sent Kakashi a small Chakra supply after a five-minute delay, while Tenzo’s Chakra aura surged as well.
• Kakashi found Tenzo wearing a matching device and asked what combat advice Tigo had given him.
• Konoha’s barrier monitors detected high-frequency Chakra interference and reported the possible information transmission or enemy guidance to the Third Hokage.

The Third Hokage learned that Yuhara’s Chakra-transmission experiment had interfered with Konoha’s barrier and told him to conduct future tests either inside the village or completely outside it. Yuhara left planning to strengthen himself, and settled on developing a forbidden technique called Simulated White Scale Great Serpent.

• A Barrier Monitoring Unit ninja reported a brief anomaly in Konoha’s barrier, and the Third Hokage assured him it was connected to a village secret.
• The Third Hokage summoned Yuhara and explained that his Chakra-transmission experiment between urban and rural areas had interfered with the barrier.
• Yuhara told the Third Hokage that his experiment was less capable than the Yamanaka clan’s Secret Techniques, while withholding how it truly differed.
• Yuhara concluded that his plans to improve civilian ninjas depended on his own strength, which he believed was limited by his Chakra reserves.
• After Tigo’s rebirth showed him a possible way to gain permanent power, Yuhara planned to develop a forbidden technique based on Living Corpse Reincarnation called Simulated White Scale Great Serpent.

Orochimaru received a request for the Eight Branches Technique and realized that his theft might soon be exposed, while Danzō returned to Konoha and sought to join forces with him over the Uchiha. Meanwhile, Kakashi asked the Third Hokage for Minato’s records, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Orochimaru received a message asking for the Eight Branches Technique, sent the scroll in reply, and concluded that he might have to leave Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō returned from his diplomatic mission and lamented that the Third Hokage had let the Uchiha unrest subside without exploiting it.
• Shimura Danzō deduced that Orochimaru was behind the Uchiha kidnapping and went alone to Orochimaru’s hidden lair.
• Orochimaru and Shimura Danzō discussed the Uchiha incident and joined forces to establish the “Uchiha Research Alliance.”
• Kakashi asked the Third Hokage for Minato’s records of missions and activities, and the Third Hokage agreed.

Yuhara confirmed a mission in the Fourth Hokage's records and devoted himself to developing a new technique as Konoha rebuilt after the war. In Konoha Year 50, Kakashi visited the Three-Tails before it was returned to Kirigakure, while Danzo ordered his people to move against Orochimaru.

• Yuhara used Kushina Uzumaki's permission to find the Fourth Hokage's mission record involving Kakashi, then began researching a new technique.
• Konoha's postwar reconstruction continued as the Uchiha quieted down, and another year passed.
• Kakashi brought a red Kōtanuki to the Three-Tails' cave to replenish his Chakra and told Shiranui Genma he probably would not return.
• The Third Hokage considered replacing himself and continued trying to make Jiraiya or Orochimaru the next Hokage, while Jiraiya refused the position.
• Danzo learned that his subordinates had obtained the required technical information and ordered them to ensure Orochimaru could not remain.

Yuhara planned to leave Konoha to search for Summoning Beasts as cover for his Ninja Completion Plan. Before he could depart, Orochimaru was declared a traitor, and Yuhara and Tenzo prepared to join the operation while waiting for someone else to weaken him first.

• At Ichiraku Ramen, Yuhara read a book linking the origins of Chakra beasts to tailed beasts and told Tenzo he planned to leave Konoha to search for Summoning Beasts.
• Yuhara left the restaurant without paying for Tenzo's ramen, and Ichiraku confronted Tenzo about the bill.
• That night, Tigo informed Yuhara that Orochimaru had rebelled and that the Crimson Crown had been ordered to capture or kill him.
• Yuhara met Tenzo at Konoha's outer wall and explained that Orochimaru's experiments had forced him to flee the village.
• Yuhara and Tenzo decided to repay Orochimaru's past kindness, but agreed to wait until someone else had fought him because neither could defeat him.

Yuhara and Tenzo pursued the gravely wounded Orochimaru as he fled Konoha, and ambushed him near the village’s border. Orochimaru survived their attack and, after a strange surge of Chakra, spat out an egg.

• Yuhara and Tenzo found Mitaraishi Anko unconscious and suffering from a Cursed Seal, but left her behind to continue pursuing Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru struggled toward the edge of Konoha while reflecting that the people he expected had come after him.
• Yuhara and Tenzo ambushed Orochimaru, trapping him with plants and stabbing him with their swords.
• Orochimaru caught Yuhara’s Mercury Longsword and tried to persuade Yuhara to leave Konoha with him, but Yuhara refused.
• Orochimaru’s body swelled as his Chakra surged, then he stretched out his neck and spat out an egg.

Orochimaru used Wood Style cells and Nature Energy to create a new body and reincarnate, then escaped Yuhara by summoning a massive sea of snakes. Yuhara escaped the swarm while Tenzo remained buried beneath it, and the Third Hokage arrived and ordered the snakes cleared with Fire Style.

• Orochimaru emerged from a giant egg in a new body formed from Wood Style cells and Nature Energy, and Yuhara realized he had completed a new Reincarnation Technique.
• Orochimaru recognized that Yuhara used Nature Energy and proposed a contest, but Yuhara powered up with the Arc Gradual Sevenfold Rhythm: Third Turn.
• Orochimaru summoned the Ten Thousand Snakes Formation, engulfing Yuhara and Tenzo before fleeing and telling Yuhara not to die.
• Yuhara blasted through the snakes and escaped the forest, while Tenzo remained buried beneath the swarm but protected himself with Wood Style.
• The Third Hokage arrived with Anbu, learned Orochimaru had fled naked, and ordered the ninjas to clear the snakes with Fire Style.

Yuhara and Tenzo returned to the forest after Orochimaru escaped, and the Third Hokage ordered Yuhara to handle Orochimaru’s underground laboratory. When they went back for Mitaraishi Anko, they found her apparently dead, and Tenzo collapsed after being bitten by a poisonous snake.

• Yuhara told the Third Hokage that Orochimaru had escaped using a Reincarnation Technique, and the Hokage led ANBU in pursuit.
• The Third Hokage ordered Yuhara to gather ninja and have the Crimson Crown handle Orochimaru’s underground laboratory.
• Yuhara and Tenzo remembered Mitaraishi Anko and returned to where she had been left unconscious.
• Tenzo found that Mitaraishi Anko had no heartbeat or breathing, while the Cursed Seal’s traces had faded from her body.
• Tenzo collapsed after Yuhara found two snakebite marks and purple lips, so Yuhara carried him and Mitaraishi Anko toward Konoha.

Yuhara and Kushina searched Orochimaru’s laboratory, uncovering evidence of his experiments on Sand Village and Uchiha ninjas. Meanwhile, Shimura Danzō ordered the countries notified that Orochimaru had become a missing-nin.

• Yuhara brought Kushina and her subordinates to Orochimaru’s laboratory to carry out the Third Hokage’s order.
• Kushina brushed aside two Anbu guards’ demand for written authorization, and Yuhara led the group inside.
• Kushina found corpses identified as Sand Village ninjas and decided they had to be destroyed to protect Konoha’s alliance.
• Kakashi showed Kushina four Uchiha corpses, including the missing ninja and three who had died in an earlier incident, then sealed them in a scroll.
• Kushina ordered the group to collect the remaining corpses and Orochimaru’s research materials.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Root to notify all countries that Orochimaru had defected from Konoha.