Chapter Summaries

Kushina, Yan, and Rin fought off Kumogakure and Kirigakure Ninja until Black and White Zetsu ambushed Kushina with a wooden dragon. They escaped with stolen Nine-Tails chakra, leaving Kushina swallowed by the dragon.

• Kushina used the Kongou Seal chains to shield herself and restrain a Kumogakure Ninja while Rin and Yan fought the attackers.
• A Kumogakure Ninja identified Kushina as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, drawing nearly half the enemy force toward her.
• Yan used her Sharingan and purple flame to break through the attackers as Rin wielded her flaming sword against the Kirigakure Ninja.
• A wooden dragon arrived and smashed Kushina's barrier after a black hand grabbed her ankle and sent chakra into her seal.
• The wooden dragon swallowed Kushina and White Zetsu's arm, allowing Black and White Zetsu to steal Nine-Tails chakra before escaping with the Mayfly Technique.

Yayoi rescued Kushina after pursuing Black Zetsu, then traveled to the Land of Fire’s capital for a meeting with the Daimyo. The chapter ended with Yayoi relaxing in a hot spring while Rin and Yan bathed nearby.

• Kushina recovered inside the Wood Dragon, and Yayoi arrived and confirmed she was unharmed.
• Yayoi explained that Uchiha Madara’s summoning contract with the Nine-Tails had caused Kushina to feel as if the beast were being pulled from her.
• Yayoi’s attack devastated Kirigakure’s Assassination Force, killed many bounty hunters, and cost Kumogakure dozens of Jonin, while reports spread that he had awakened Wood Release.
• Leaders across the Ninja World held meetings about Konoha and preparations for war after hearing of Yayoi’s strength.
• Yayoi arrived in the Land of Fire’s capital and went to a hot spring with Rin and Yan before his meeting with the Daimyo.

Yayoi met the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and gained his support for Konoha’s recovery and reforms. After their public meeting, they discussed policy in private, leaving Yayoi on friendly terms with the Daimyo and planning to give him a life-extending Hybrid Curse Seal.

• Yan, Kushina, and Rin relaxed in the hot springs, where Rin teased Yan about her changing body.
• Yayoi asked Yan, Rin, and Kushina to serve as her Shadow Guard, and they accompanied her toward her meeting with the Daimyo.
• Yayoi met the Daimyo publicly and received his approval for her plan to let the Land of Fire recover.
• Yayoi and the Daimyo discussed Konoha’s foreign policy, economic development, and technology reforms in private.
• Yayoi recognized that the Daimyo would support her so long as his rule was not threatened, and planned to give him a life-extending Hybrid Curse Seal.

Yayoi offered the Daimyo a life-extending potion made with the Hybrid Gene, transforming him into a younger and healthier man while secretly tying him to Yayoi. The Daimyo agreed to invest five billion, and news of his rejuvenation drew powerful officials from across the Ninja World to Konoha seeking the secret.

• Yayoi offered the Daimyo a life-extending potion and explained that it could restore his health.
• The Daimyo drank the potion, and Yayoi used his Golden Eye to accelerate the Hybrid Gene’s transformation of the Daimyo’s body.
• The rejuvenated Daimyo praised Yayoi and agreed to invest five billion in exchange for more potions.
• The Daimyo’s sudden return to youth became public, prompting aging officials to send heirs and money to Konoha in hopes of finding immortality.
• Yayoi had Tsunade take the other potions back to test her improved Regeneration Potion instead of distributing his rare Hybrid Potion.

Yayoi funded Orochimaru’s research into elemental power and gave him access to vast resources, including five billion and dungeon test subjects. As Orochimaru began developing new applications, he resolved to prepare the elements and Yayoi’s implied war plans, moved by the trust Yayoi had placed in him.

• Foreign nations poured funds into Konoha’s Research Department after learning about Tsunade’s Regeneration Potion, and Yayoi used the money to expand village research and manufacturing.
• Yayoi gave Orochimaru simplified elemental symbols and directed Konoha’s research toward combining the Divine Tree with Dragon Blood.
• Yayoi showed Orochimaru an elemental stone that converted chakra into concentrated Wind Blades using less chakra than before.
• Yayoi handed Orochimaru five billion in funding and access to dungeon test subjects to research five elemental inscriptions and prepare for war.
• Orochimaru accepted Yayoi’s support and vowed to develop elemental power and ready the preparations for war, even if he had to neglect his reincarnation techniques.

Yayoi left important tasks to Tsunade and Orochimaru, then struggled to find a way to fuse the hostile bloodlines in his body. In the forest, he met young Uchiha Obito and heard why the boy wanted to become Hokage.

• Yayoi trusted Orochimaru with a task and left him to handle it.
• Yayoi considered how his dominant Ten-Tails and black dragon bloodlines might reject each other, but found no solution.
• Yayoi encountered a goggle-wearing Uchiha boy trespassing near his secret base and recognized him as Obito.
• Yayoi asked Obito why he wanted to become Hokage, and Obito said he wanted to protect his grandmother.
• Yayoi departed to continue thinking, while Obito offered to help him solve his problem.

Obito’s simple drawing gave Yayoi an idea for fusing the Divine Tree and Dragon Clan bloodlines, while Kushina asked to leave the village and was refused. Yayoi gave her a sealed Nine-Tails doll to keep her occupied and insisted she stay where he could protect her.

• Yayoi drew two fighting monsters, and Obito connected the lines into a circle, prompting Yayoi to consider the Street Serpent legend as a model for bloodline fusion.
• Yayoi thanked Obito and privately resolved to protect him in the future.
• Kushina complained to Yayoi that she was bored and asked for an overseas mission, but he refused to let her leave the village.
• Yayoi gave Kushina a doll containing sealed Nine-Tails chakra and warned her not to make a mess.
• Kushina accepted the restriction and happily cuddled the doll, while Yayoi looked forward to a week of peace and quiet.

Yayoi planned a mission to the Land of Wind to harness the Dragon Vein as an artificial Tailed Beast and study the Dragon Blood in his female body. He recruited Rin and Kushina for the trip, which began with teasing and awkwardness among the team.

• Yayoi agreed to give Kushina a mission in the Land of Wind, and she happily left without asking what it involved.
• Yayoi planned to use the Dragon Vein as a power source for Rin and to study how Dragon Blood interacted with the Divine Tree Bloodline.
• Rin trained by repeatedly cleaving the waterfall with her greatsword until Yayoi arrived in his female body and told her about the mission.
• Rin agreed to leave that night, and she and Yayoi prepared for the journey despite arguing over tents and Yayoi's disguise.
• Yayoi and Rin met Kushina, who greeted Yayoi warmly and reached for her hand before Rin coughed and told her to behave.

Yayoi, Rin, and Kushina left Konoha on a back-road journey toward the Dragon Vein, with White Zetsu and Kushina’s exhausting enthusiasm complicating the trip. After reaching the Land of Wind, they stopped to camp, where Rin proposed sharing a tent with Yayoi.

• Rin spotted a White Zetsu near Konoha and killed it with a chakra spear before an ANBU retrieved its body.
• Yayoi chose a back-road route through the Land of Rivers to avoid exposing Kushina, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, to danger.
• Kushina’s nonstop exploring left her exhausted as Yayoi and Rin traveled at a punishing pace toward the Land of Wind.
• Yayoi agreed to stop and rest, partly so he could focus on clues that Dragon Blood was taking control of his body.
• Kushina unpacked two tents, and Rin insisted that Kushina take one while she shared the other with Yayoi.

Yayoi, Kushina, and Rin traveled to Rōran, where Yayoi uncovered Anrokuzan’s origins as a time-displaced outsider seeking the Dragon Vein’s power. He confronted Anrokuzan and the Queen of Roran, intending to use them to investigate and seal the Dragon Vein.

• Yayoi and Kushina discussed Konoha’s recent changes while they camped in the desert with Rin.
• Anrokuzan persuaded the Queen of Roran to let him use the Dragon Vein to power his puppets.
• Yayoi revealed himself and accused Anrokuzan of coming from another world through the Dragon Vein.
• Yayoi refused Rin’s suggestion to kill Anrokuzan and the queen, saying they were still useful.
• Yayoi promised the Queen of Roran that her people would be safe if she cooperated, then spread a Black Tide that swallowed the light.

Yayoi reached the Dragon Vein beneath Roran and learned from Anrokuzan that it transported people between worlds rather than through time. The Queen of Roran released the Dragon Vein at Yayoi’s command, and its awakening began shaking the land before a mysterious woman’s voice stopped the wind.

• The Queen of Roran agreed to cooperate with Yayoi in exchange for Roran’s safety, while Anrokuzan lamented losing control of the Dragon Vein.
• Yayoi questioned Anrokuzan about the Fourth Hokage and learned that his other world had Minato Namikaze as Konoha’s Fourth Hokage.
• Yayoi concluded that the Dragon Vein enabled travel between worlds, then ordered the Queen of Roran to release it.
• The Queen activated her contract with the Dragon Vein, causing the altar to crack and the land to tremble as the Dragon Vein broke free.
• A cold, majestic female voice ordered the wind to stop, and the gale died immediately.

Yayoi began absorbing the Dragon Vein’s chakra into a sealed vessel while the Queen of Roran restrained it through their contract. The vessel expanded rapidly, but a crack sounded as it devoured the Dragon Vein recklessly.

• Kushina witnessed Cai Yin dispel a hurricane with a word, while the Nine-Tails warned her that Yayoi and Cai Yin were dangerous.
• Yayoi ordered the Queen of Roran to unleash the Dragon Vein, which erupted from underground as a vast pillar of blue chakra.
• When the Dragon Vein began forming a body, Yayoi shattered its eyes with Black Tide and attached black threads to its chakra.
• Yayoi opened the sealed vessel and began drawing the Dragon Vein’s chakra into it as the Queen of Roran struggled to restrain the enraged force.
• The Queen of Roran invoked her contract to calm the Dragon Vein, allowing Yayoi to accelerate the absorption until the vessel cracked.

Yayoi and her companions completed the artificial Tailed Beast project by sealing the Dragon Vein’s chakra into a small orb. The orb transformed into a chubby baby dragon, which Yayoi kept for now rather than making Rin its Jinchuriki immediately.

• Rin told Kushina that the mission was to create an artificial Tailed Beast using the Dragon Vein’s power.
• As the orb’s seal began to crack under the Dragon Vein’s chakra, Rin asked Kushina to reinforce it with her Kongou Seal.
• Kushina’s golden chains merged with Yayoi’s, allowing Yayoi to absorb and seal the Dragon Vein’s chakra while leaving a little behind underground.
• Yayoi fused her Kongou Seal with the orb’s formula, completing the artificial Tailed Beast and shrinking the orb back down.
• The orb trembled and transformed into a chubby little dragon, which Kushina and Rin examined and petted.
• Yayoi attached the baby dragon to her horn and told everyone the mission was complete, while postponing Rin becoming its Jinchuriki.

Yayoi paid the Queen of Roran for the Dragon Vein, turned Anrokuzan into a Death Warrior with a flawed Hybrid Gene experiment, and took Rin to an oasis to seal the Dragon Vein inside her. The chapter ended with Rin facing the Dragon Vein in her mental space as Feng arrived to meet Yayoi.

• Yayoi gave the Queen of Roran thirty million and promised that someone from Sunagakure would protect Rōran.
• Yayoi injected Anrokuzan with her Hybrid Gene, transforming him into a weak Death Warrior who obeyed her and guarded the Dragon Vein.
• Yayoi gave the Queen of Roran additional banknotes and flew with Rin, Kushina, and the chubby little dragon to an oasis away from Sunagakure.
• Yayoi began the Eight Trigrams Sealing ritual, and Rin entered her mental space to face the Dragon Vein.
• Feng arrived at the oasis on his iron sand and bowed to Yayoi.

Yayoi met Feng to hear about Sunagakure, while Rin slept as she adapted to the Dragon Vein’s chakra. After learning that Sunagakure faced financial collapse and was weighing Sasori and Rasa as the next Kazekage, Yayoi told Feng to support Rasa’s bid.

• Rin fused with the Dragon Vein, sent Yayoi information about its origins, and fell into a deep sleep while her body adapted to its chakra.
• Yayoi summoned Feng, renewed their contact by implanting a Hybrid Curse Seal, and asked him about Sunagakure’s situation.
• Feng reported that Sunagakure faced a severe shortage of funds and that its leaders feared war within two years.
• Feng named Sasori of the Red Sands and Rasa as the village’s leading candidates for Fourth Kazekage, noting that Rasa’s Gold Dust could help the village survive.
• Yayoi told Feng to support Rasa’s bid for Kazekage so she could benefit from the gold he would help Sunagakure produce.

Yayoi upgraded Feng’s Hybrid Genes and sensed that Rin had adapted to the Dragon Vein, so he sent for Rasa to help test her. While waiting for Rin to wake, Kushina persuaded the Nine-Tails to share golden chakra; Rin then briefly manifested Dragon Vein chakra before returning to normal.

• Yayoi injected Feng with the latest Hybrid Gene serum, strengthening his transformation and imprinting his neck with Yayoi’s mark.
• Yayoi sensed Dragon Vein chakra from Rin and ordered Feng to bring Rasa to serve as her practice opponent.
• Kushina grew hungry while waiting beside the sleeping Rin, and the Nine-Tails gave her some golden chakra to tide her over.
• Rin woke as Dragon Vein chakra surrounded her, briefly changing her eyes to blue dragon eyes before the effect faded.

Rin struggled to control the Dragon Vein chakra until Yayoi offered to stabilize it with a Senjutsu curse mark and help her awaken Dragon Vein Immortal Mode. Meanwhile, Rasa searched the desert for the Dragon Vein thief and headed toward a location spotted by his ninja hawk.

• Rin gradually absorbed and converted the Dragon Vein chakra, expanding her reserves and turning her Byakugan azure, but she could not maintain the power for long.
• Kushina showed Rin how she used the Nine-Tails' chakra, but Rin realized that her experience did not solve the problem of handling the Dragon Vein.
• Yayoi examined Rin's Sealing Space and decided to link a Senjutsu curse mark to the Dragon Vein so Rin could draw on its chakra safely.
• Yayoi implanted the curse mark in Rin and offered her an opponent so she could experience having unlimited chakra; Rin eagerly agreed.
• Rasa searched the desert for the Dragon Vein thief, received a signal from a ninja hawk, and rode Gold Dust toward the reported location.

Rin awakened Dragon Vein Immortal Mode and confronted Rasa, overpowering him with a colossal chakra sword. After severing his Gold Dust wings, she began a three-strike test and left him badly wounded after the first blow.

• Cai Yin and Rin agreed to return to the fight after Kushina finished her hot pot, while Yayoi checked on Rin.
• Rin awakened Dragon Vein Immortal Mode, and the Nine-Tails sensed that she had become a threat to him.
• Yayoi told Rin not to kill Rasa because Konoha could use his Gold Dust ability, and Rin flew off to face him.
• Rasa tried to escape a deep blue meteor, but Rin emerged from it and cut apart his Gold Dust wings.
• Rin told Rasa to survive three strikes to earn his life, then severed his remaining wing with the first strike, leaving him covered in blood.

Rin overwhelmed Rasa with Dragon Vein chakra, while Yayoi arranged for him to survive and planned to use him to bring Sunagakure under control. Back in Konoha, Yayoi forgot to change bodies before Cai Ling arrived and had to explain her years-long absence.

• Rin cut off Rasa’s Sand Wings, shattered his Gold Dust drill, and struck him with a barrage of azure swords until he was near death.
• Rin ran out of Senjutsu Chakra and left Dragon Vein Chakra Mode after using Rasa as a sparring partner.
• Yayoi told Rin that Feng would retrieve Rasa and revealed she had secretly branded him with a hybrid seal to make Sunagakure submit.
• Yayoi recorded her failed Dragon Blood fusion experiment and her findings that Dragon Vein chakra resembled Natural Energy.
• Cai Ling arrived at Yayoi’s laboratory and called her “Big sister,” prompting Yayoi to realize she had forgotten to switch bodies.
• Yayoi awkwardly told Cai Ling she had traveled around the Ninja World, gathered intelligence, and sent reports to the Hokage.

Yayoi reunited with Cai Ling but kept his identity and reasons for leaving secret, asking her to remain safely in Konoha. Over the next two years, he transformed Konoha’s production, defenses, and mission system in preparation for war.

• Cai Ling found Yayoi through the Mind's Eye of the Kagura network and tearfully reunited with him.
• Yayoi asked Cai Ling to stay in Konoha and promised to explain everything someday, while concealing that he was the Fourth Hokage.
• Yayoi told Cai Ling stories about faraway places from the Dragon Clan's world, and she asked him to take her there someday.
• Over two years, Yayoi used Dragon Script, alchemy, and ninjutsu to expand Konoha's food, medicine, and military production.
• Yayoi completed the Mind's Eye of the Kagura network, enabling Konoha to detect suspicious chakra, hunt spies, and deliver missions directly to ninja.