Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya traveled to Ou Castle to recruit Sarutobi Shinnosuke for the Akatsuki Organization, while Uchiha Tokimitsu planned a military response to activity by Iwagakure and Kumogakure. Shinnosuke delayed his decision until noon the next day, and Tokimitsu chose the Konoha-occupied area in the southeastern Land of Lightning as the target of an anti-terrorism war.

• Jiraiya explored the chaotic Ou Castle and learned that Sarutobi Tomoaki could lead him to Shinnosuke.
• Tomoaki guided Jiraiya through hidden routes to an underground safe house and explained that the exiled ninja feared the Internal Affairs Department and had families held hostage in Konoha.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke met Jiraiya using a Shadow Clone and said he would decide by noon the next day whether to join the Akatsuki Organization.
• Jiraiya revealed that he too had used a Shadow Clone, while Tomoaki emerged from a concealed passage and cursed them for speaking in riddles.
• Hatake Sakumo warned Uchiha Tokimitsu about Iwagakure and Kumogakure, and Tokimitsu announced an anti-terrorism campaign in the Konoha-occupied southeastern Land of Lightning.

Uchiha Tokimitsu sent the Anti-Terrorism Unit into the southwestern Land of Lightning, where it crushed the remaining Iwagakure garrison under a counterterrorism pretext. Kitsuchi demanded a military response, but Jonin Kensei and the Frontier Army refused to obey, leaving Kitsuchi politically isolated.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Anti-Terrorism Unit to cross into the southwestern Land of Lightning while the Eastern Border Defense Force redeployed elsewhere.
• Uchiha Yashiro's detachment blew open a Black Market Stronghold, arrested its occupants, and reported the raid as a valid target.
• Uchiha Shiina's Anti-Terrorism Unit captured or killed the scattered Rock Ninjas, with commanders expected to find or manufacture evidence linking them to terrorist organizations.
• Kitsuchi ordered the Frontier Army to assemble for war after learning that more than two hundred of his five hundred garrison troops had been killed.
• Jonin Kensei and the other Stone Village Jonin refused Kitsuchi's order, insisting that only a formal order from the Tsuchikage could authorize war.
• Jonin Kensei revealed that the Frontier Army had detained Kitsuchi's accompanying troops and had been warned through United Company that the abandoned Rock garrison would be targeted.

Uchiha Tokimitsu used a secret transaction with Iwagakure Jonin Kensei to deepen divisions within the Frontier Army, then ordered a purge of black market and foreign spy networks in the eastern occupied territory. He returned to the Land of Whirlpools laboratory, where Uzumaki researchers continued experiments on Sage Chakra and Natural Energy, and ended the chapter contemplating the Otsutsuki clan.

• Uchiha Shiina gave Jonin Kensei one hundred thousand Uchiha-made Explosive Tags in exchange for his cooperation and arranged for the prisoners to remain in camp.
• Uchiha Shiina approved a further public-relations expense of three hundred thousand specially made Explosive Tags after learning Tokimitsu had authorized the barter deal.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Anti-Terrorism Unit to purge black market strongholds and foreign spies in the eastern occupied area, and to inspect and arrest suspicious exiled ninja.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu visited the secret laboratory beneath the Governor-General's Office and urged the Uzumaki researchers to accelerate their Sage Chakra and Natural Energy experiments.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu approved additional research funding and looked up at the moon, thinking of the Otsutsuki clan.

Jiraiya and Sarutobi Shinnosuke planned to target United Company as the foundation of the Shogunate’s power, while Uchiha Shiina completed his anti-terrorism sweep in the Land of Lightning. The chapter ended with Shiina discovering fighting at the Sarutobi and Shimura camps and leading Konoha forces to suppress what he called a rebellion.

• Jiraiya and Sarutobi Shinnosuke reviewed intelligence showing cooperation between Konoha and Iwagakure and identified United Company as the source of the Shogunate’s strength.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke persuaded Jiraiya to make United Company the Akatsuki Organization’s first target and took charge of its finances and intelligence analysis.
• Uchiha Shiina reviewed the sweep report, ordered a bounty placed on the escaped Xuanyuan Group, and sent the report to Fubo Castle.
• Explosions broke out near the Sarutobi and Shimura camps, and Uchiha Shiina gathered his forces and led them to attack the camps.

Uchiha Tokimitsu demonstrated his mastery of Water Style and Fire Style to Uchiha Shisui, then taught him to embrace the Uchiha Clan and his own desire for revenge. A report of another failed rebellion led Tokimitsu to order the remaining Sarutobi and Shimura prisoners imprisoned, completing the destruction of their clans.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu rapidly mastered Water Severing Wave, slicing and shattering iron dummies, then converted the technique into Fire Style and demonstrated other Water Style jutsu.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu told Uchiha Shisui that acknowledging what he did not know was a virtue, and Shisui passed his first test.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu examined Shisui's Two-Tomoe Sharingan and urged him to destroy the Mount Myōboku lineage and punish those who threatened the Uchiha.
• An Attendant Ninja delivered a report that the Anti-Terrorism Unit, Border Defense Force, and Garrison Army had crushed a Sarutobi and Shimura rebellion in the Land of Lightning.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the remaining Sarutobi and Shimura prisoners in the village imprisoned, bringing their clans to an end.

Uchiha Tokimitsu taught Shisui about the art, method, and way of ninjutsu, then manipulated his emotions to awaken his Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Shisui fainted, and Tokimitsu celebrated him as his future Body Flicker Shisui.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu demonstrated powerful Five Element and Fire Style techniques to Shisui, then showed him a lifelike Chakra cat as an example of precise Chakra control.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu advised Shisui to develop his Body Flicker Technique alongside swordsmanship and suggested the Flying Thunder God Technique as a possible fit.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu reminded Shisui of his hatred of Mount Myōboku and used Ōkuninushi to intensify his emotions.
• Shisui's Two-Tomoe Sharingan awakened into Three-Tomoe, and he nearly fainted from the strain.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu caught the unconscious Shisui and called him his Body Flicker Shisui.

Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed publishing a White Paper to build support for Konoha’s anti-terrorism operations and advised Hatake Sakumo to fund a new district through a joint-stock company. The chapter ended as Tokimitsu began explaining how to separate the district’s operating rights from its ownership.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo discussed the Anti-Terrorism Unit’s raids, the Black Market’s powerful backers, and whether to depose the Daimyo of the Land of Fields.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed turning the anti-terrorism report into a public White Paper, including fabricated claims against the Mount Myōboku lineage, and Hatake Sakumo recommended review by the Upper and Lower Houses.
• Hatake Sakumo warned that declining mission revenue could leave Konoha’s budget short, so Uchiha Tokimitsu suggested developing a new district with long-term land leases and business taxes.
• Hatake Sakumo secured preliminary approval from the House of Representatives to develop the district, but returned to report that Konoha lacked funding.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed establishing a Konoha Village Investment Company with the United Company and interested ninja clans, then began explaining how ownership and operating rights could be separated.

The White Paper sparked a Ninja World-wide frog extermination campaign after its claims about Mount Myōboku’s Intelligence Toads proved true, forcing Sarutobi Shinnosuke and Jiraiya to plan an attack on the United Company. Meanwhile, Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned Might Duy to train Uchiha Shisui and, later, the young Uchiha Obito.

• Daimyo, nobles, and ninja villages used the White Paper’s claims to justify killing frogs, and researchers confirmed that some corpses contained image data from Mount Myōboku’s Intelligence Toads.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke noticed that the Akatsuki Organization’s surveillance network was collapsing and urged Jiraiya to launch an attack before they lost support and influence.
• Jiraiya agreed to target the United Company first and planned to requisition another unit of Ninja Toad Troops from Mount Myōboku.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke asked Jiraiya whether he could accompany him to Mount Myōboku and seek an audience with the Great Toad Sage, and Jiraiya said he would ask Sage Fukasaku.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu recruited Might Duy to train Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Obito, telling him to focus on Shisui first because Obito was still very young.

Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that the Uzumaki Research Institute had discovered a way to propagate Sacred Particles during fusion with Sage Chakra, though the particles weakened and stopped propagating after three generations. After authorizing further testing and injections, he planned to use Yin Fire to refine Tailed Beast Chakra, starting with the Nine-Tails inside Uzumaki Kushina.

• A messenger brought Uchiha Tokimitsu news that the Uzumaki Research Institute had discovered a method for propagating Sacred Particles, and Tokimitsu ordered the Dark Guard to return with him to Fubo Castle.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu brought Makoto to the institute, where the Uzumaki Research Director reported that simulations supported the propagation method.
• The researchers used the Chakra Reactor to propagate Sacred Particles, finding that each generation multiplied the supply fivefold while suffering about ten percent degradation.
• After four propagation cycles, Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that propagation stopped at the third generation, which produced 125 doses at roughly half the original potency.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered a Dark Guard member to receive an injection of third-generation particles and offered willing researchers the same dose if testing found no adverse reactions.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu decided to try refining Tailed Beast Chakra with Yin Fire, beginning with the Nine-Tails inside Uzumaki Kushina.

Uchiha Yashiro’s squad discovered a cave guarded by Mount Myōboku Toads and called other squads to approach, but Yashiro unexpectedly held off on attacking. Inside, Sarutobi Shinnosuke prepared a barrier to summon Toads against the United Company while clashing with the Toads guarding the cave.

• Uchiha Yashiro scolded his squad as they searched for Jiraiya, whose visits to a border-town tavern had prompted a large-scale search.
• A Hyuga ninja spotted a cave surrounded by frogs, and close reconnaissance confirmed they were Toads.
• Uchiha Yashiro notified four squads and ordered them to approach in concealment, then canceled an imminent attack after feeling strange physical symptoms.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke prepared a barrier to summon Mount Myōboku Toads for an assault on the United Company.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke questioned the Toads’ guards, who dismissed him and complained about taking orders from him.

Uchiha Yashiro’s Anti-Terrorism Unit trapped a Mount Myōboku toad force inside a cave and launched an assault. Sarutobi Shinnosuke rallied the toads into a counterattack, and the opposing forces prepared for a major clash in the tunnel.

• Uchiha Yashiro watched the undisciplined ninja toads and ordered his units to seal the area and prepare a coordinated attack.
• Hizashi Hyuga arrived, used his Byakugan to identify 170 toads in the cave, and reported that reinforcements had taken position.
• Uchiha Yashiro ordered five Sealing Barriers activated together, blocking the toads’ Summoning Technique and underground escape before the Anti-Terrorism Unit attacked.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke formed a Tailed Beast Cloak, rallied the panicked toads, and led them into a counterattack formation.
• Hizashi Hyuga identified Sarutobi Shinnosuke, the Great Strength Toad, and the Iron Arm Toad as the toads advanced through the cave.
• Uchiha Yashiro organized nearly five hundred soldiers into an assault team and Ninjutsu support ranks as both sides prepared to fight in the tunnel.

The Anti-Terrorism Unit overwhelmed Sarutobi Shinnosuke and the Ninja Toad forces, but Jiraiya broke the sealing barrier before they could finish the battle. Sarutobi Shinnosuke was captured for the Uzumaki Clan’s research institute, while Jiraiya escaped and the unit lamented its failure to secure the Chief Police Superintendent position.

• Uchiha Yashiro led the Anti-Terrorism Unit through the tunnel, driving Sarutobi Shinnosuke and the Ninja Toad forces back into the cavern.
• Hizashi Hyuga directed the Anti-Terrorism Unit’s attack as Uchiha Yashiro and his clan fought Sarutobi Shinnosuke, while the toads suffered heavy losses.
• The Yamanaka ninja reported that Jiraiya had destroyed a Sealing Squad barrier, prompting Hizashi Hyuga to send reserve teams to reinforce the surface.
• The Ninja Toads began escaping with the Summoning Technique as the barrier weakened, but Uchiha Yashiro and Hizashi Hyuga subdued Sarutobi Shinnosuke and captured him alive.
• The Yamanaka shinobi reported that Jiraiya had escaped, and Uchiha Yashiro lamented that the unit had failed to secure the Chief Police Superintendent position.

Uchiha Tokimitsu appointed Uchiha Yashiro to lead the new area's police station and arranged for him to work with Namikaze Minato while building a village investment company to develop Konoha New Area. After securing clan support for the plan, Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo set August fifteenth as the official start of development.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu reviewed the Anti-Terrorism Unit's report, noted its heavy losses and the capture of twelve Mount Myōboku toads, and offered Uchiha Yashiro an acting chief's post at the New Area Police Station.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu explained the Village Investment Company's ownership structure and said Namikaze Minato would establish the new police station alongside Yashiro.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu persuaded the Uchiha Clan to accept its share concessions by pointing to future development opportunities and promising equal per-person shares in Naka River land profits.
• Great Elder Setsuna supported Tokimitsu's approach, while Hatake Sakumo urged him to begin New Area development.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu scheduled the project's official start for August fifteenth and planned to use real-estate profits to expand the clan's control over arms businesses.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Konoha’s clans turned Earth Style ninja and construction techniques into valuable assets as they competed to build Konoha New Area. Meanwhile, the Third Raikage pushed Kumogakure to expand its military, and Ōnoki handed the question of responding to Kumogakure’s buildup to the Jonin Squad.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo funded the new area’s construction and insisted on high standards for Earth Style materials.
• Konoha’s clans recruited Earth Style ninja and developed construction methods, including the Senju Clan’s Concrete Technique and the Uchiha Clan’s Fire Bricks.
• The Hyuga Clan Head joined with the Aburame and Inuzuka Clan leaders to establish Hyuga Construction, which renovated the Hyuga Clan Compound as its first model project.
• The Third Raikage ordered A to seek more military funding from the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning so Kumogakure could prepare for a decisive battle.
• Ōnoki reviewed intelligence on Konoha’s expansion and Kumogakure’s military plans, then assigned the response to Kumogakure’s buildup to the Jonin Squad.

The Uchiha conducted a Chakra-less isolation experiment that mentally broke Sarutobi Shinnosuke and prepared to interrogate him the next morning. The Uchiha youths learned that Uchiha Shisui had devised the experiment, then spotted him doing embarrassing training with Might Duy.

• Sarutobi Shinnosuke endured sensory deprivation and irregular feeding until voices about village life briefly restored his hope.
• Uchiha ninja reviewed the experiment data and concluded that isolation had broken Sarutobi Shinnosuke's mind, then planned to interrogate him the next morning.
• The Uchiha Jonin revealed that Uchiha Shisui had originated the experiment, despite Lord Tokimitsu overseeing it.
• The Uchiha youths saw Uchiha Shisui running through humiliating exercises and shouting slogans under Might Duy's instruction.
• The Uchiha youths convinced themselves that Shisui's embarrassing training strengthened his mind and helped his Sharingan evolve.

After Mount Myōboku’s forces suffered heavy losses, the Great Toad Sage agreed to support Jiraiya’s effort to change the Ninja World, but capped the toads’ casualties at five thousand. Sage Fukasaku and Jiraiya left to seek a way to counter Konoha’s barriers that blocked summoning.

• Sage Shima urged Sage Fukasaku to reconsider Mount Myōboku’s involvement, but he insisted the fallen ninja toads deserved vengeance.
• Sage Fukasaku brought Jiraiya to the Great Toad Sage, who asked whether Jiraiya would continue pursuing peace after his defeat.
• The Great Toad Sage authorized more than five thousand combat-capable ninja toads, including some forces reserved against Ryūchi Cave, while setting a maximum of five thousand casualties.
• The Great Toad Sage said the White Snake Sage might support Orochimaru if he left Konoha, but Sage Katsuyu would not deeply intervene.
• Sage Fukasaku and Jiraiya went to find the Barrier Toad and work on overcoming Konoha’s space-time-sealing barriers.

Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned Namikaze Minato to lead a confidential investigation into twelve unexplained disappearances, with Orochimaru among the suspects. Minato accepted the task and prepared to pursue the case under Tokimitsu’s direct oversight.

• Minister Morino reported that interrogation of rogue ninja Sarutobi Shinnosuke had succeeded, and Tokimitsu ordered him kept for observation and research.
• Minato reviewed the disappearance reports and learned that twelve former Land of Rain Expeditionary Force ninja had vanished in unmonitored alleys within seven days.
• The investigation’s suspect list included Orochimaru, though Tokimitsu said the suspicion was only an inference and not supported by evidence.
• Tokimitsu told Minato to join the case under the New Area Police Station’s name, then gave him confidential records of Orochimaru’s human experiments.
• Tokimitsu placed Minato in charge and demanded a swift, airtight investigation; Minato agreed to investigate Orochimaru and the disappearances.

Jiraiya framed Orochimaru by placing twelve missing Konoha ninja in his home and tried to recruit him to rebel against the village. When the Military Police Force arrived, Orochimaru reported Jiraiya as a rogue ninja.

• Jiraiya used a toad to confront Orochimaru and demanded that he leave Konoha with him.
• Orochimaru rejected Jiraiya’s call to avenge their teacher and argued that Jiraiya’s rebellion could not defeat the village.
• Jiraiya insisted that restoring order was his ninja way, but Orochimaru prepared to fight rather than be forced into defection.
• Namikaze Minato arrived at Orochimaru’s residence with more than twenty Military Police Force ninja.
• Orochimaru interrupted Minato and reported that the rogue ninja Jiraiya was inside his house.

Orochimaru turned the Military Police Force’s operation against him into a pursuit of Jiraiya, who escaped with Toad Gamabunta using a Reverse Summoning talisman. The missing Konoha ninja were rescued from Orochimaru’s ruined home, leaving Namikaze Minato unsure how to report the chaotic events and Orochimaru suggesting they consult Uchiha Tokimitsu.

• Jiraiya’s report prompted Namikaze Minato and the Military Police Force to surround Orochimaru’s home, while Orochimaru exposed Jiraiya as a rogue ninja and removed his barriers.
• Jiraiya summoned Toad Gamabunta and fought the Military Police Force as Orochimaru told Minato that Jiraiya had hidden the missing ninja in his home.
• Minato raised the highest alert after Jiraiya summoned through the blocking barrier, and reinforcements arrived as sealing chains bound Gamabunta.
• Jiraiya let the chains bind Gamabunta, then used a talisman to escape with the toad through Reverse Summoning.
• Hatake Sakumo arrived, and the Military Police Force rescued the unconscious missing ninja from Orochimaru’s ruined home.
• Minato lifted the alert and struggled to write his report, so Orochimaru suggested they go see Uchiha Tokimitsu.

After Namikaze Minato mishandled the operation involving Orochimaru and Jiraiya, Uchiha Tokimitsu withheld his promotion but gave him the Flying Thunder God Technique. Tokimitsu then secured Orochimaru’s cooperation by offering trust, resources, and research work, while secretly sending an order to Fubo Castle.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu reprimanded Namikaze Minato for mishandling the operation and delayed his promotion, but gave him the incomplete Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Namikaze Minato reported that Orochimaru was waiting in the lobby, and Uchiha Tokimitsu summoned him to the office.
• Orochimaru said he had reported Jiraiya because Jiraiya was a rogue ninja, and asked Uchiha Tokimitsu for trust.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu agreed to withdraw the Konoha Military Police Force’s surveillance and offered Orochimaru funding and equipment for his experiments.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu offered Orochimaru research on captured Mount Myōboku toads and Sage Chakra, and Orochimaru accepted the assignment.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu issued a secret order and sent an Attendant Ninja to Fubo Castle in the Land of Whirlpools.