Chapter Summaries

Izayoi Sakamaki struggled to get the Hokages to take their harsh training and upcoming competition seriously, so he asked Uchiha Kyu for advice. Uchiha Kyu proposed changing the rewards, but Izayoi rejected the idea and continued searching for another way to motivate them.

• Izayoi Sakamaki pushed the exhausted Hokages to keep training, taught them a new technique, and urged them to prepare for powerful enemies and their competition.
• Izayoi Sakamaki met Uchiha Kyu by a river and asked him how to make the Hokages train more seriously.
• Uchiha Kyu advised Izayoi Sakamaki to proceed gradually and suggested rewarding only Hokages who excelled in training.
• Izayoi Sakamaki refused to cancel rewards he had already promised and sat down to think of another solution.
• Izayoi Sakamaki called Kagami Uchiha over to discuss the problem, but Kagami Uchiha again suggested canceling the rewards and warning the Hokages.

Izayoi Sakamaki rejected Kagami Uchiha’s suggestion to cancel the Hokages’ rewards, while the Hokages confronted Madara Uchiha over rumors that he had caused their prizes to be withdrawn. Izayoi restored the rewards, reconciled with Madara, and promised the Hokages an additional reward as compensation.

• Izayoi Sakamaki and Kagami Uchiha discussed punishing the Hokages for failing to train properly, but Kagami argued that added punishments would only waste time and worsen their resistance.
• The Hokages confronted Madara Uchiha, who denied canceling their rewards and directed them to speak with Izayoi Sakamaki instead.
• Izayoi Sakamaki arrived, criticized the Hokages for confronting their elder, and assured them that he had never canceled their rewards and would honor his promise.
• The Hokages returned to training and warned Izayoi Sakamaki that taking away their rewards would undermine their motivation; Madara apologized for blaming Izayoi, and Izayoi forgave him.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told the Hokages he understood how much the rewards mattered to them and promised an additional reward to compensate for the scare.

Izayoi Sakamaki took the Hokages to a laboratory for a test of their observational skills, asking them to find nonpoisonous medicine among poisonous substances. He warned that the air was poisonous and left them to persist, while the Hokages feared the danger and questioned his methods.

• Naruto promised Izayoi Sakamaki that the Hokages would train hard and prove themselves through their actions.
• Izayoi Sakamaki offered the exhausted Hokages a break, then discussed testing their observation skills at a laboratory with Madara Uchiha, who warned the test might discourage them.
• Izayoi Sakamaki proposed that the Hokages find a nonpoisonous medicine among poisonous substances, and they reluctantly agreed to go.
• Izayoi Sakamaki encouraged the Hokages and told them they had to complete the test, warning that the laboratory's air contained poisonous gas.
• The Hokages questioned Izayoi Sakamaki's harsh methods, and he told them to persist through the test.

Izayoi Sakamaki trapped the Naruto people in a poisonous room to make them search for an item and vent their anger, but one of them broke a bottle containing a poison with no antidote. The exposed Naruto person collapsed unconscious, and his companions gathered around him as Izayoi Sakamaki realized how quickly the poison had taken effect.

• Izayoi Sakamaki left the Naruto people locked in the room while they complained, and he watched and heard them from outside.
• The Naruto people grew furious, smashed the laboratory bottles, and threatened Izayoi Sakamaki, who told them their outburst had been expected.
• Izayoi Sakamaki warned a Naruto person not to touch a colored bottle, but the man smashed it and touched the glowing liquid to spite him.
• Izayoi Sakamaki revealed that the liquid was highly poisonous and that he had no antidote, but the Naruto person dismissed his warning.
• The Naruto person collapsed unconscious within minutes, and the Naruto people gathered around him as Izayoi Sakamaki watched.

After a Hokage was poisoned by a broken toxin vial in Izayoi Sakamaki’s laboratory, Kagami Uchiha rushed in to treat him while Izayoi forced the others to continue training. The Hokages demanded to stop the challenge, but Madara Uchiha refused, leaving their participation in future challenges uncertain as they waited for their companion to recover.

• Izayoi Sakamaki ordered the Hokages away from the unconscious man and contacted Kagami Uchiha for help after explaining that a Hokage had touched the toxin from a broken bottle.
• Kagami Uchiha arrived and began treating the poisoned Hokage inside the locked laboratory while Izayoi ordered the others to keep training.
• The Hokages gathered and decided to protest the dangerous challenge and ask to withdraw.
• Madara Uchiha rejected their request, accused them of giving up too easily, and insisted the challenge continue.
• Izayoi Sakamaki stopped the argument and said saving the poisoned Hokage came first, while the Hokages postponed deciding whether to join later challenges.

Izayoi Sakamaki clashed with the Hokage over the dangerous challenge and struggled to treat the poisoned Hokage after learning Madara Uchiha had eaten the stored Universal Antidote Pills. After the Hokage apologized, Madara proposed replacing the challenge with a task to research and make the pills, and Izayoi Sakamaki decided to discuss it with them.

• Izayoi Sakamaki visited the hospitalized Hokage, apologized for his part in the mission, and argued with him about whether the team should continue with the challenge.
• A medical worker warned Izayoi Sakamaki that the Hokage’s old illness had been triggered by the poisoning and could not be treated at the hospital.
• Izayoi Sakamaki discovered Madara Uchiha had eaten all the Universal Antidote Pills and angrily explained that they were needed to treat the Hokage.
• The Hokage confronted Izayoi Sakamaki about the danger of the challenge, and Madara Uchiha defended him before the Hokage apologized and left.
• Madara Uchiha suggested having the Hokage research and refine Universal Antidote Pills instead of continuing the dangerous challenge, and Izayoi Sakamaki agreed to propose the plan.

Izayoi Sakamaki persuaded the Hokages to search for an antidote to save their poisoned companion, while Madara Uchiha helped slow the patient’s worsening condition with the antidote he had kept. Izayoi went to check on the Hokages and learned they had spent days searching the forest without finding any information about the formula.

• Izayoi Sakamaki proposed that the Hokages prepare an antidote as both training and a way to save their companion, but they initially refused because they distrusted him.
• The Hokages discussed the request and agreed to search for the antidote, asking Izayoi Sakamaki to care for their ill companion.
• Izayoi Sakamaki reassured the Hokages and thanked Madara Uchiha for helping change their minds, while Madara Uchiha took responsibility for the earlier trouble.
• As the poisoned Hokage’s condition worsened, Madara Uchiha used some of his remaining antidote to delay the illness.
• Izayoi Sakamaki went into the forest to check the Hokages’ progress, leaving Madara Uchiha to watch over the patient.
• The Hokages told Izayoi Sakamaki they had searched the forest for days but found no information about the antidote formula.

Izayoi Sakamaki joined the Hokages to search for an antidote, found three ingredients by defeating dangerous creatures, then lost them when a venomous snake destroyed them. Naruto comforted him, and Izayoi Sakamaki resolved to recover from the setback and continue the search.

• Izayoi Sakamaki reprimanded the Hokages for failing to find clues, then agreed to focus on locating the antidote formula with them.
• Izayoi Sakamaki defeated a lion and a crocodile, finding two ingredients, and later found a third while leading the Hokages away from another crocodile.
• Izayoi Sakamaki explained that only one ingredient remained, and the Hokages praised him and apologized for doubting him.
• Izayoi Sakamaki fought a powerful venomous snake, which destroyed all three ingredients with its venom.
• Naruto comforted Izayoi Sakamaki, who accepted the encouragement and decided they could search for the ingredients again.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the Hokage escaped a venomous snake and a swarm of bats, then emerged from a cave and encountered bandits. After Izayoi defeated two bandits, their leader brought reinforcements, and Izayoi hid Naruto's group while preparing to face them; the bandits arrived and found them missing.

• Izayoi Sakamaki fought the venomous snake until the Hokage persuaded him to retreat, and he led the group to a cave.
• A swarm of bats attacked them inside the cave, but Izayoi guided the Hokage and the others through winding passages and escaped them.
• Izayoi led the group out of the cave, where two bandits demanded toll money, and he defeated them when they threatened the group.
• The defeated bandits found their leader and urged him to avenge them, while Naruto's group warned Izayoi that reinforcements might come.
• Izayoi told Naruto's group to hide in the grass, and the bandit leader arrived with his men but could not find them.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Hokage’s group escaped the bandits and obtained one ingredient for the antidote, but a bear pack forced them into a river where they encountered a school of piranhas. They reached the shore safely, though they still had to find two ingredients and remained worried about their sick companion and their lost contact with Madara Uchiha.

• Izayoi Sakamaki killed several bandits, defeated the remaining attackers, and let the bandit leader and his men leave.
• Izayoi Sakamaki found one glowing ingredient, then drove away a Giant Bear that had charged at him.
• A pack of bears surrounded Izayoi Sakamaki and Hokage’s group, so they fled toward a river and decided to swim across.
• A crocodile appeared in the river, followed by more piranhas, and Izayoi Sakamaki urged Hokage’s group to swim for shore.
• Izayoi Sakamaki and Hokage’s group escaped the piranhas and reached the shore, where Hokage asked what they should do next.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the Hokage survived a violent gale, and Izayoi obtained a material needed for the sick Hokage’s antidote after defeating a gorilla. Masked ninjas then attacked them, and after Izayoi captured one who poisoned himself, a powerful black-clad ninja arrived to explain that someone had hired them to kill Izayoi.

• Izayoi Sakamaki and the Hokage clung to a tree until the gale passed, and the wind left behind a material needed for the antidote.
• A huge gorilla appeared, and Izayoi defeated it despite being exhausted from the storm.
• Several masked ninjas blocked Izayoi and the Hokage, threatened to kill them, and attacked after refusing to explain their hostility.
• Izayoi drove the ninjas back and captured one, but the captive bit down on hidden poison and died before revealing anything.
• Izayoi buried the ninja, and a powerful black-clad ninja appeared with more men and said they had accepted a paid assignment to kill Izayoi.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Naruto escaped the trapped ninjas and continued searching the mountain for materials, but a venomous snake bit Izayoi and left him unconscious. A young herb gatherer named Xiao Meng saved him, and he awoke in her home grateful for her help.

• Izayoi Sakamaki trapped the black-clothed ninjas in a pit, but spared them after they refused to reveal their organization.
• Izayoi Sakamaki and Naruto climbed a cliff, found a needed material, and reached the mountain path above.
• Izayoi Sakamaki avoided fighting a venomous snake, but it chased him and bit him as he fled.
• Xiao Meng found the poisoned Izayoi Sakamaki and brought him to her home, where she treated him with her grandmother's help.
• Izayoi Sakamaki woke after several days and thanked Xiao Meng for saving his life.

Izayoi Sakamaki protected the little girl and her grandmother from bandits, then chased after the bandit who stole his bag of antidote materials. He tracked the thief to the bandits’ hideout, where the thief showed the bag to the leader as he begged to be spared.

• Izayoi Sakamaki repaid the little girl’s debt and taught her self-defense before setting out to continue his mission to find antidote materials for Naruto.
• Bandits returned to abduct the little girl and her grandmother, but Izayoi Sakamaki defeated them and ordered them to leave the family alone.
• Izayoi Sakamaki returned for his forgotten bag, discovered a bandit had stolen it, and chased after him to recover the materials.
• Izayoi Sakamaki tracked the bandit to the hideout and held back from attacking because the bandits outnumbered him.
• The bandit knelt before the leader and revealed that he had stolen Izayoi Sakamaki’s bag, hoping its contents would persuade the leader to spare him.

Izayoi Sakamaki reclaimed his stolen materials from the bandits, then outwitted a group of monkeys to obtain the final ingredient needed to save the sick Naruto. As he hurried back, men in black attacked him and blocked his way.

• Izayoi defeated the bandits sent against him, but the bandit leader forced him back and challenged him for the materials.
• Izayoi beat the bandit leader, then learned that the sick Naruto was near death and persuaded the bandits to return his bag.
• Izayoi found the last material in a monkey's hand, but fled when a troop of monkeys appeared; Naruto encouraged him to keep trying.
• Izayoi lured the monkeys with bananas laced with sleeping drug and took the material while they slept.
• Men in black attacked Izayoi as he hurried back, and he dodged their charge and blocked their swords.

Izayoi Sakamaki escaped the men in black with the apes’ help, but the apes then claimed the materials he needed and chased him away. After failing to lure them with hypnotic bananas, he rested and set out at night to recover the materials, leaving him at the sleeping apes’ cave.

• The men in black trapped and wounded Izayoi Sakamaki, but awakened apes killed them before he could retrieve his materials.
• Izayoi tried to sneak past the apes, was surrounded, and escaped through an opening before hiding in a tree hollow.
• Izayoi prepared hypnotic bananas to lure the apes, but they rejected the bait and his plan failed.
• Izayoi rested until night, then headed for the apes’ cave to reclaim the materials; a black rabbit followed him, and he found the apes asleep.

Izayoi fought his way out of the apes’ cave after recovering his materials, then woke beside a river under the care of a mysterious woman named Hei. After Hei healed him and disappeared, the ground shook as Izayoi tried to leave the forest, and he was struck by flying stones.

• Izayoi sneaked into the apes’ cave to retrieve his materials, but accidentally woke an ape and was surrounded by the others.
• Izayoi fought the apes, drank from his wine flask to regain strength, and collapsed from exhaustion while trying to escape.
• Izayoi woke beside a river, where Hei told him she had rescued him and then treated his injuries.
• Hei disappeared after Izayoi confirmed he had recovered, and he checked that all his materials were still with him.
• Izayoi set off through the forest, but the earth shook and flying stones struck him as trees collapsed around him.

Izayoi Sakamaki fought and defeated a giant centipede, then sent Naruto back with the materials he had gathered to help the poisoned Naruto. After a masked woman saved him, Izayoi resumed searching for the final ingredient and found only half of it.

• Izayoi Sakamaki encountered a giant centipede, failed to injure its hard shell, and fled as it pursued him.
• The centipede trapped Izayoi Sakamaki and nearly swallowed him, but Naruto urged him to keep his promise and fight back.
• Izayoi Sakamaki broke free and defeated the centipede, though the battle left him too exhausted to continue searching.
• Naruto took the materials back to help his poisoned companion, while a masked woman appeared and gave the unconscious Izayoi medicine.
• Izayoi Sakamaki recovered, searched the forest for the last material, and found only half of what he needed.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the Narutos split up to take half of the medicinal material back to the critically ill Hokage while the others searched for the rest. After rescuing a missing Naruto from a python, they reached a strange peach grove as mist began to cover it.

• Izayoi Sakamaki divided the Narutos, sending half back with the material and taking the rest to find the remaining half.
• When one Naruto went missing, Izayoi Sakamaki paused the search and led the group to look for him.
• A group of bears surrounded Izayoi Sakamaki and the Narutos, but they hid in the grass until the bears left.
• A python coiled around one Naruto, and Izayoi Sakamaki and the others worked together to free him before Izayoi Sakamaki killed the python with an arrow.
• Izayoi Sakamaki and the Narutos reached a peach grove that he had never seen before, and a thin mist spread across it.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the Hokages became trapped in a mist-covered maze and were attacked by a shadowy assassin. After Izayoi and the Hokages captured him, the assassin refused to reveal who had sent him and challenged Izayoi to kill him.

• Izayoi led the Hokages through the mist, where they argued over getting lost and grew frightened by sounds in the valley.
• Izayoi told the group to stay calm, follow his instructions, and run if they noticed danger.
• A shadow grabbed someone and fought Izayoi, overpowering him in several exchanges as Izayoi tried to learn the attacker’s identity.
• Izayoi secretly ordered the Hokages to set traps, and they bound the shadow with ropes during the fight.
• Izayoi removed the shadow’s mask and saw that the man was disfigured; the captive refused to name his employer and taunted Izayoi to kill him.

Izayoi and the Hokages searched for their missing comrade, found him tied beside a giant, and fled when the giant attacked. Izayoi stayed behind to protect the others, discovered the giant’s weakness, and killed him with his sword.

• Izayoi tortured the captured man in black, but the man killed himself with poison rather than reveal who had sent him.
• After the fog cleared, Izayoi led the Hokages through the forest to search for their missing comrade, following notes and a massive footprint.
• Izayoi and the Hokages found their comrade tied beside a ten-meter giant, who noticed them and chased them through the forest.
• Izayoi told the Hokages to flee and faced the giant alone, enduring repeated blows as he fought back.
• Izayoi found the giant’s weakest point and stabbed him in the chest, killing him.