Recaps

After retreating from Nagato’s Deva Path, Yuhara recognized that his vast Chakra had outgrown his ability to use it effectively. He went to the mountain where the Three-Tails was held and filled a cave with shadow clones to train his control.

• Yuhara tried to talk his way out of fighting the Deva Path, but Nagato attacked, so Yuhara dodged behind obstacles and escaped by flying away.
• Nagato identified Yuhara as a Konoha Magnet Release Ninja, while Black Zetsu recognized the unconscious Kakuzu and proposed recruiting him.
• Yuhara returned to his mount and reflected that he needed to master his excess Chakra before facing opponents like Nagato again.
• Yuhara traveled to the Three-Tails’ mountain, summoned Gan, Wen, and Cui to live there, and entered a cave.
• Yuhara used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to fill the cave with clones and began training his Chakra control.

Kakashi went to Nameless Mountain to retrieve the Three-Tails and found Yuhara had stabilized the Dragon Vein’s power after a month of training. Yuhara agreed to return to Konoha, learned the Great Fireball Technique from Kakashi, and showed off his newly mastered Fire Release.

• Kakashi and Tenzo discussed Konoha’s recent peace, the Three-Tails’ return to Kirigakure, and Yuhara’s training near Nameless Mountain.
• Kushina gave Kakashi a mission to retrieve the Three-Tails, and he left Konoha carrying a special sealing jar.
• At the cave, Kakashi found Yuhara with a huge gray beard and learned he had made the Dragon Vein’s power his own.
• Yuhara asked Kakashi to teach him a Fire Release technique and learned the Uchiha Clan’s Great Fireball Technique.
• Yuhara teased Kakashi about using the Uchiha technique, and Kakashi reacted angrily to the jab.

Yuhara and Kakashi sealed the dormant Three-Tails and found the Loulan Remnants settling near its former location. Yuhara gave Queen Sarah forty million ryō to help build the village, then claimed he was twenty-four after she asked his age.

• Kakashi used Kushina's prepared sealing formula to place the weakened Three-Tails in the Octopus Jar, while Yuhara worried about finding a new source of Chakra for Tigo.
• Kakashi and Yuhara set off to escort the Three-Tails to Konoha and discovered that Kushina had settled the Loulan Remnants in a nearby village.
• Yuhara demonstrated his Clustered Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu and then decided to visit the village and help its residents.
• Queen Sarah thanked Yuhara for Konoha's support, and Yuhara gave her forty million ryō as construction funds.
• Sarah asked Yuhara how old he was, and he said he was twenty-four.

Yuhara broke the genjutsu controlling the Fourth Mizukage and withdrew from the Land of Water with Kakashi and Tenzo. After learning his plan had failed and his presence was exposed, Obito decided to leave the Mist Village for the Rain Village.

• Yuhara freed the Fourth Mizukage from Obito's genjutsu by striking him, then left with Kakashi and Tenzo as Suikazan Fuguki fled.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Hozuki Mangetsu arrived and protected the injured Fourth Mizukage.
• Yuhara told Kakashi and Tenzo that the Mizukage had been controlled by genjutsu, while keeping Obito's identity secret.
• White Zetsu reported that Yuhara had thwarted Obito's plan and dispelled the genjutsu on the Fourth Mizukage.
• Obito accepted that he needed to avoid conflict with the great villages and decided to go to the Rain Village to meet his ally.

Kakashi reported the mission’s strange return journey, and Kushina gave him a scroll containing a technique Minato expected him to learn. Two days later, Anko joined the Crimson Crown, while Yuhara assigned Kakashi and Tenzo a massive tunneling project.

• Kakashi told the Third Hokage that the Fourth Mizukage had pursued them and that he had dispelled the genjutsu controlling him.
• Kakashi gave Kushina a detailed account of Yuhara using the Eight Branches Technique, and Kushina concluded that Yuhara was not a threat despite his connection to Orochimaru.
• Kushina gave Kakashi a scroll with a technique Minato had intended to teach him and insisted that he learn it.
• Kushina announced that Mitaraishi Anko had joined the Crimson Crown after other village departments had shunned her as Orochimaru’s abandoned disciple.
• Yuhara pulled Kakashi and Tenzo aside and ordered them to dig a tunnel from Konoha to Nameless Mountain for a special Chakra energy pathway.

Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo secretly excavated and outfitted a deep underground tunnel for Konoha’s future infrastructure project. During a break, Yuhara hinted at a plan to make a place disappear by making it unreachable, then sent the others back to work.

• Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo began digging the concealed underground tunnel, with Kakashi using Earth Style and Tenzo reinforcing the walls with Wood Style.
• Yuhara installed Chakra-transmitting conduits and added techniques and physical mazes to hide the tunnel from detection.
• Kakashi asked whether the three major institutions would operate smoothly, and Yuhara said the project would bring changes to Konoha.
• Kakashi rested with a Sage's Crystal under his tongue, then answered Yuhara’s question about making a place disappear with an explosion gesture.
• Yuhara explained that unreachable places had disappeared, said Kakashi would understand his plan later, and told him to resume digging.

Yuhara arranged for Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami to add a teleportation defense to Kushina’s barrier around Nameless Mountain. After returning to Konoha, he was summoned by Danzo and followed a Root Ninja into the village’s underground.

• Yuhara explained Kushina’s barrier formation and asked Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami to use the Flying Thunder Array Technique to keep intruders from reaching Nameless Mountain; they agreed to try.
• Yuhara left the three shinobi to work on the formation and returned to Konoha.
• Kakashi and Tenzo encountered the azure serpent while digging, and it recognized them before turning back the way it came.
• A Root Ninja told Yuhara that Danzo wished to see him, and Yuhara agreed to follow him.
• The Root Ninja led Yuhara into Konoha’s underground.

Yuhara confronted Shimura Danzō in Root Organization's underground base and refused to reveal the village's secret plans. He left after his hidden ally incapacitated Danzō's subordinates, leaving Danzō to discover that he had been surrounded.

• Yuhara met Shimura Danzō, who demanded to know what he had been planning since the Ninja World War ended.
• Yuhara said his confidential plan had been approved by the Third Hokage and challenged Danzō's authority to order him around.
• A hidden Yamanaka Clan ninja tried to use Mind Transfer Jutsu on Yuhara, but Yuhara resisted it.
• Yuhara offered to carry out an assassination if Danzō issued a formal written order, and Danzō called him insane before ordering his capture.
• Yuhara told Danzō to look behind him and left as an iron-tentacled figure revealed that it had bound Danzō's subordinates.

Yuhara and his team completed the barrier preparations at Nameless Mountain and returned to Konoha, where he recruited Jingū Maki for a secret project. The chapter ended as Jingū read the trial plan for the Information Integration Mental Body and Infinite Chakra Library.

• Yuhara finished digging the route from Penglai East Road to the Southern Heavenly Gate, then joined Shiranui Genma and the others to complete the barrier array and add a torii gate decoration at Nameless Mountain.
• The team reported their completed preparations to Kushina Uzumaki, who warned Yuhara to avoid further contact with Shimura Danzō.
• Yuhara commissioned Tsume Inuzuka to recruit as many dispatch agents as possible.
• Three days later, Yuhara approached Chunin Jingū Maki and brought her to review documents for a Hokage-authorized secret project.
• Jingū signed the confidentiality agreement and opened the trial operation plan for the Information Integration Mental Body and Infinite Chakra Library.

Yuhara’s team began testing Tigo’s Chakra library with nearly a hundred Konoha ninja, while the Third Hokage remained reluctant to provide it with ninjutsu. Jingū Maki joined the trial and made her first Chakra deposit at the library, which returned only half of what it collected.

• Yuhara planned to use Kakashi Hatake’s copied ninjutsu to start the library if the Third Hokage refused to supply techniques.
• Jingū Maki agreed to join the official trial, judging that the risks were low and the project worthwhile.
• Three days later, Tigo guided Jingū to a large building where the organization collected Chakra.
• Tigo told Jingū to refine and release Chakra as usual, explaining that the library would return half of the Chakra deposited.
• Yuhara dubbed the new enterprise the Leek Cultivation Industry and declared that it merely carried Chakra.

Tigo’s trial operation continued smoothly as Kushina supplied her with Nine-Tails Chakra, while Yuhara asked Kakashi to help him learn Water Release through a method he claimed to have developed. The chapter ended with Kakashi realizing Yuhara’s “Perception Method” was a dubious excuse to use Kakashi’s expertise.

• Shimura Danzō reviewed intelligence about Tigo’s return and obtained the trial-operation plan, suspecting Orochimaru’s involvement.
• Kushina visited Tigo, transferred Nine-Tails Chakra to her, and gave her Naruto so she could extract another portion sealed within him.
• Kakashi found Tsume and Hana Inuzuka raising a pack of puppies inside the Small Earth Building and recognized them as ninja hounds.
• Yuhara told Kakashi he wanted to learn Water Release because he felt uneasy lacking one of the five nature transformations.
• Yuhara gave Kakashi a Chakra Crystal and asked him to transform Yuhara’s Chakra into Water Release, presenting the process as his new Perception Method.
• Kakashi saw through Yuhara’s explanation and silently mocked his supposed method.

Kakashi reviewed the Library’s proposed mission-point exchange system while helping Yuhara learn Water Release and catalog techniques. After a month of study, Yuhara turned to expanding his ninja animals and planned to ask Uchiha Shisui for help finding someone to raise ninja cats.

• Kakashi judged the Library’s proposed point system too crude because it tied technique rank to usefulness, and he already had many points from contributing Ninjutsu.
• Kakashi helped Yuhara study Water Release while transcribing techniques, and Yuhara expected to master his final chakra nature within two months.
• After a month of studying, Yuhara decided he needed a break and watched two-year-old Naruto Uzumaki chase the ninja hounds.
• Yuhara decided to add ninja cats to his animals and planned to ask Uchiha Shisui to help find a cat breeder.

Yuhara and Shisui traveled north while discussing the Uchiha Clan’s growing division and Shisui’s struggle to prevent a rebellion. They reached an abandoned-looking city where the Nyan-nin Clan lived, the destination of their mission.

• Yuhara asked Shisui about the Uchiha Clan, and Shisui explained that many lower-ranking ninjas supported reconciliation while most powerful clansmen opposed the village.
• Shisui told Yuhara that his faction had stopped finding new supporters and that the clan was watching Jiraiya’s movements.
• Yuhara offered to help Shisui by gradually opening the Crimson Crown to his Uchiha faction, and Shisui thanked him.
• Yuhara and Shisui arrived at the city where the Nyan-nin Clan lived, known for forging ninja tools.

Yuhara and Uchiha Shisui visited Cat Grandma to hire a trainer for Konoha’s messenger cats, and Yuhara secured Morishimo for 200,000 ryo a month. Afterward, Tigo urgently called Yuhara to reinforce a Konoha ninja in the Land of Hot Water, and Yuhara set out at once.

• Yuhara captured six attacking ninja cats with iron sand, then released them after they surrendered.
• Uchiha Shisui explained Konoha’s need for ninja cats trained to carry messages and transport items, and Yuhara offered a monthly salary of 200,000 ryo.
• Cat Grandma introduced Morishimo, a ninja cat willing to train the others, and Yuhara agreed to hire her.
• Tigo contacted Yuhara and asked him to reinforce a Konoha ninja in the Land of Hot Water.
• Yuhara identified the direction and rushed toward the Land of Hot Water.

Konoha captain Jingū Maki learned that the Kirigakure missing-nin Kaguya Jukki was pursuing her squad and ordered her teammates to escape while she prepared to fight alone. Jingū swallowed the Chakra Crystals she had saved, and her Chakra began to rise as Kaguya approached.

• Jingū Maki’s squad finished an escort mission in the Land of Hot Water and started back toward the Land of Fire.
• Tigo warned Jingū that one hostile person had been following them since the capital, and the squad accelerated toward the border.
• Tigo identified their pursuer as Kaguya Jukki, an elite Jōnin missing-nin with the Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai and exceptional taijutsu.
• Jingū ordered her teammates to withdraw while she held Kaguya off, invoking the ninja code to make them obey.
• Jingū summoned a ninja hound, took the Chakra Crystals from its pouch, and swallowed them as Kaguya approached.

Yuhara arrived too late to save Jingū Maki, who had died holding off a powerful Mist Village rogue ninja so her team could escape. After learning how she had used accumulated Chakra to buy time, Yuhara set out to confront the enemy, who had chased her subordinates into the Land of Fire.

• Tigo reported that Jingū Maki had stayed behind to hold off the Mist Village rogue ninja while her teammates retreated.
• Yuhara reached the battlefield and found Jingū Maki’s mutilated corpse, then covered her with his shirt and recovered her equipment.
• Tigo explained that Jingū had used a month’s accumulated Chakra to hold the enemy back, and Yuhara questioned the restrictions on spreading offensive ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived and urged Yuhara to pursue the enemy, but Yuhara sensed that the rogue ninja had chased Jingū’s subordinates into the Land of Fire.
• Yuhara set off Explosive Tags as a signal, drawing the enemy back, and vowed to crush every bone in the next person who appeared.

Yuhara fought the Kaguya clan ninja who had returned to the battlefield, overwhelming her with precise taijutsu despite her Shikotsumyaku. After she tried to flee, he bound and crushed her with iron sand, leaving Shisui to collect their comrades’ remains.

• A Kaguya clan ninja arrived after hearing the Explosive Tag, and Obito offered to deal with her before Yuhara stopped him.
• Yuhara told Shisui to collect their comrades’ remains and approached the enemy alone.
• The Kaguya ninja attacked with her bone techniques, but Yuhara broke her wrist and ribs and paralyzed her legs in one exchange.
• The enemy regenerated her bones and fled, so Yuhara bound her with silver threads.
• Yuhara engulfed the Kaguya ninja in iron sand and crushed her before she could finish pleading.

After a teammate died, Yuhara and Shisui finished the mission and went to an exchange house, where Yuhara sought information about Orochimaru. Meanwhile, Orochimaru hid in the Land of Rain to evade Jiraiya, but a visitor with the Rinnegan found him.

• Yuhara released the enemy’s body, and Shisui gathered the corpses while Yuhara questioned him about feeling powerless.
• Yuhara and Shisui met three Konoha Ninja, handed them the bodies, and sent them back to report the incident.
• Yuhara led Shisui to an exchange house and asked whether it had news about Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru hid in the Land of Rain to escape Jiraiya’s pursuit and settled in a burrow in the mountains.
• A stranger entered Orochimaru’s burrow, identified him as a Konoha traitor, and revealed the Rinnegan.

Orochimaru joined the Akatsuki to investigate the Rinnegan, while Kakashi, Tenzo, and Shiranui Genma built a concealed test site on the Land of Fire's eastern border. Back in Konoha, Yuhara reported a Chunin's death and secured Kushina's contract with the ninja cat Morishimo, which immediately requested its first month's salary in advance.

• Orochimaru mistook Yahiko for a Madara-and-Hashirama-like composite and joined the Akatsuki to study the Rinnegan from close up.
• Kakashi, Tenzo, and Shiranui Genma buried a technique and Chakra receiver beneath a concealed test site near the Land of Rivers border.
• Yuhara told Kushina Uzumaki that a Chunin had died during an encounter with a Kirigakure rogue ninja, and Kushina saw the Chunin's resistance as evidence that the plan was working.
• Yuhara introduced Morishimo, and Kushina wrote the ninja cat an employment contract promising 200,000 ryo per month.
• Morishimo signed the contract with an inked paw print and asked Kushina for one month's salary in advance.

Morishimo settled into her Nameless Mountain home, trained ninja cats, and cared for Yuhara’s Summoning Beasts while Tigo’s Chakra continued to accumulate. Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo successfully tested the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network, transporting them from Konoha to a forest near the Land of Rivers, where Yuhara named the skyward trace “Tigo’s Majestic Radiance.”

• Namiashi Raidō and Iwashi Tatami brought Morishimo and several house cats to Nameless Mountain, where they spent ten days building her a treehouse.
• Morishimo began training the ninja cats and feeding Gan, Wen, and Cui, while she skimmed some of the tiger’s Chakra Crystals and repeatedly disciplined Cui for bothering the kittens.
• Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo joined Tigo, Kushina Uzumaki, and the Third Hokage for a secret test of the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network.
• The technique transported Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo from the Small Earth Building in Konoha to a forest near the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers.
• Yuhara and Kakashi watched a pillar of light mark the transmission and called the phenomenon “Tigo’s Majestic Radiance.”

Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo successfully tested the one-way Flying Thunder God Circuit Network, then returned to Konoha on foot. The village’s barriers were damaged by Tigo’s chakra, and the Third Hokage welcomed the system’s military potential; with the three new systems tested, the next step was moving Tigo’s main body to the Nameless Mountain Secret Realm.

• Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo completed a successful teleportation to the Land of Fire border, and Kakashi reflected on how the experience had helped him master Water Release chakra transformation.
• Yuhara explained that the Flying Thunder God Circuit Network only allowed one-way travel and required enormous amounts of chakra, so the group walked back to Konoha.
• Yuhara and the others learned that Tigo’s chakra had pierced holes through Konoha’s protective and sensing barriers during the experiment.
• The Third Hokage celebrated the successful test, valuing the network’s battlefield potential despite the damage to the barriers.
• The three major systems had completed basic testing, and the next task was moving Tigo’s main body to the Nameless Mountain Secret Realm.

The Third Hokage worried that Konoha was drifting off course as his authority weakened, while Danzo's Root watched Crimson Crown from the shadows. At Nameless Mountain, Yuhara tested Tigo's remote puppet body and prepared to return to Konoha, but Sarah vanished after rushing into the mountain's barrier.

• The Third Hokage read Crimson Crown's reports, handled routine work, and left the office as he reflected on his age and Konoha's uncertain leadership.
• Danzo's Root watched the Small Earth Building, while Kushina and Tigo left the watchers alone because the building's barriers could repel intruders.
• Yuhara brought Kōtanuki to Nameless Mountain and tested Tigo's remote control of her puppet clone in Konoha through an underground Chakra cable.
• Yuhara placed Tigo's main body in the cave and studied Dotonjutsu with plans to develop Five-Transformation Composite Ninjutsu.
• As Yuhara prepared to leave the Secret Realm, Sarah ran toward him, crossed Nameless Mountain's barrier, and abruptly disappeared.

Yuhara retrieved the injured Sarah from Location Four and sent her back to Rōran on a summoned eagle. Back in Konoha, he was assigned to help prepare the Chunin Ninja Exams and met Uchiha Izumi, a new Genin in the organization.

• Yuhara asked Tigo where Sarah had been sent and found her injured at Location Four after she got lost exploring.
• Yuhara summoned an eagle to carry Sarah back to her new home in Rōran.
• Tenzo registered for the upcoming Chunin Ninja Exams, and Yuhara was ordered to help organize the joint event while declining to serve as chief examiner.
• Yuhara returned to the Small Earth Building and met Uchiha Izumi, whom Kushina introduced as a Genin reporting to the organization.
• Yuhara mistook Izumi's name for Izuna's, and Kushina corrected him.

Tenzo entered the Chunin Exams alone while Yuhara and Kakashi patrolled the forest and discussed the uneasy atmosphere around Konoha. After explosions led them to several dead outsiders, a hidden trap released a vast cloud of poison mist, forcing Yuhara and Kakashi to retreat.

• Tenzo passed the first exam and entered the forest alone, confident he could handle the Chunin Exams by himself.
• Yuhara told Kakashi that Naruto was guarded at headquarters by a clone, Tigo, and multiple barriers.
• Yuhara and Kakashi rushed toward explosions in the forest and found several dead Ninja from other villages.
• A corpse slid aside and exposed a trap that rapidly filled the woods with purple poison mist.
• Yuhara shouted for Kakashi to retreat, and both men fled the spreading mist while suspecting the trap had been aimed at one of them.

Yuhara was attacked by a poison-wielding enemy who seemed specifically prepared to counter his defenses. After cutting poisoned flesh from his arm and failing to defeat the enemy with iron sand or Fire Release, he suspected the attacker was an Aburame Ninja using Kikaichū.

• Yuhara escaped the poison mist and dodged a kunai that pulled an enemy out of the mist on a steel wire.
• Yuhara pierced the attacker, but the enemy grabbed his arm and corroded its iron armor with poison.
• Yuhara cut away the poisoned flesh on his right arm, suffering severe bleeding.
• Yuhara trapped the attacker in iron sand, but the enemy rapidly corroded his way free.
• Yuhara struck the attacker with Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, but the enemy regenerated his lost body parts and made Yuhara suspect he was an Aburame Ninja using Kikaichū.