Chapter Summaries

Chiyo returned to Rōran after two years and reunited with Sara, while Naruto and Sasuke had been sent back to their own time. When the Dragon Vein’s power vanished and Rōran began to collapse, Chiyo used Susanoo to rescue Sara and the city’s people, leaving the kingdom in ruins.

• Chiyo awoke in Rōran, checked his character panel, and reunited with Sara, who told him two years had passed since the Dragon Vein swallowed him.
• Sara explained that Naruto and Sasuke had disappeared when the Dragon Vein shook, and Chiyo concluded they had returned to their own time.
• Chiyo learned that Sara knew nothing about the wider Shinobi World and said he needed to return to Konoha; Sara chose to go with him.
• As Sara began to confess her feelings, an explosion shook Rōran, and Chiyo recognized that the Dragon Vein’s power was gone and the city was collapsing.
• Chiyo summoned his Complete Body Susanoo, sheltered Rōran’s citizens, and carried them and Sara out as the kingdom crumbled.

After Rōran was destroyed, Sara chose to lead its people to the Land of Fire, and Chiyo sent word to Konoha for help. When Sunagakure patrols surrounded the oasis, Pakura intervened and offered to escort Chiyo and the refugees out of the Land of Wind.

• Sara told Chiyo she planned to take the people of Rōran to the Land of Fire, and Chiyo summoned a hawk to notify Konoha.
• Sara asked Chiyo to be her King, and he accepted before she embraced him.
• A Sunagakure patrol surrounded the oasis and attacked Chiyo, but his chakra sent the approaching ninja flying.
• Pakura arrived, stopped the patrol, and dismissed the captain's objections to helping Chiyo and the refugees.
• Pakura offered to escort the group out of the Land of Wind, and Sara gathered the people of Rōran to depart for the Land of Fire.

Qianye returned to the Border Line with Sara, Pakura, and the people of Rōran, where he learned the Uchiha clan was stable and received Hatake Sakumo’s plan to resettle Rōran near Konoha. Meanwhile, the Third Kazekage secured an alliance among the Four Great Shinobi Villages to attack Konoha in half a year.

• Qianye reunited with Mashiki, who reported that Mikoto oversaw the Guard Unit and Fugaku had married Rinbi Uchiha, who was pregnant.
• Mashiki gave Qianye Hatake Sakumo’s Temporary Resettlement Plan, which proposed establishing a permanent Rōran Town near Konoha after temporary resettlement.
• Sara kissed Qianye in gratitude, then said goodbye to Pakura as the group prepared to travel to Konoha.
• The Third Kazekage and Chiyo persuaded representatives from the other great villages to join an alliance against Konoha.
• The Four Great Shinobi Villages agreed to attack Konoha in half a year, with Sunagakure set to provoke a border conflict as the signal.

Chiyo returned to Konoha after helping the people of Rōran settle in, leaving Sara to lead them. He reunited with Kushina, Mikoto Uchiha, and Yakushi Nonō, and the chapter ended with the four sharing a warm welcome-home dinner.

• Chiyo told Sara he was returning to Konoha, and Sara kissed him before accepting responsibility for Rōran Town.
• Chiyo left ten Anbu ninja with the people of Rōran and returned to Konoha with Maki Uchiha and the others.
• Kushina, Mikoto Uchiha, and Yakushi Nonō welcomed Chiyo at the village entrance, and he embraced them.
• Kushina, Mikoto, and Nonō prepared a welcome-back dinner at Chiyo's house while he helped in the kitchen.
• During dinner, Chiyo learned that Kushina had improved her Sealing Jutsu and could suppress the Nine-Tails, while Mikoto described her work in the Guard Unit.
• Chiyo promised not to disappear again, and Kushina, Mikoto, and Nonō jokingly threatened to restrain him if he did.

Chiyo reunited with Tsunade after returning from Rōran, explained his two-year absence, and reassured her that his eyes no longer had weaknesses. As they watched Konoha from Hokage Rock, Tsunade warned that war was approaching and asked him to stay safe.

• Chiyo left Mikoto sleeping and met Tsunade beneath a cherry blossom tree, where she nearly struck him before he embraced her.
• Tsunade led Chiyo to Hokage Rock, shared liquor with him, and asked where he had been for the past two years.
• Chiyo explained that the Dragon Vein in Rōran had swept him to another place and that two years had passed before he returned.
• Tsunade described rising border tensions and losses among Konoha's shinobi, warning that the village might face war again.
• Tsunade urged Chiyo not to overuse his eyes, and he showed her his Mangekyō Sharingan and said they no longer had weaknesses.
• Tsunade asked Chiyo to promise he would not die, and they sat together overlooking Konoha.

Chiyo reviewed the Uchiha Guard Unit’s records as reports warned that Sunagakure and Kirigakure were preparing for conflict. After discussing Konoha’s preparations with Hatake Sakumo, Chiyo was asked whether he had ever considered becoming Hokage.

• Chiyo spent the morning reviewing Guard Unit records and noted the Hyuga Clan’s growing activity and cooperation with the Uchiha.
• Fugaku told Chiyo that Sunagakure’s forces were gathering at the Land of Rivers border, and Chiyo said the war had not truly begun yet.
• Mikoto brought Chiyo lunch, and he thanked her for managing the Guard Unit’s affairs.
• Chiyo met Hatake Sakumo at a barbecue restaurant, where Sakumo reported Sunagakure’s mobilization and clashes with Kirigakure’s Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Chiyo said the Uchiha had prepared for war since the Second War, and Sakumo asked whether he had considered becoming Hokage.

Chiya reunited with Shisui, tested his progress, and urged him to protect both the Uchiha clan and Konoha. In Sunagakure, young Sasori overheard the Third Kazekage and Chiyo discuss the war and turned toward a dangerous plan involving poison.

• Chiya found Shisui training, sparred with him, and healed his swollen ankle.
• Shisui awakened his Three Tomoe Sharingan while reflecting on the bond between clan and village, and he said he would mediate if they ever clashed.
• Chiya praised Shisui’s resolve and promised to revise his training plan.
• The Third Kazekage told Chiyo that Konoha’s Hyuga-led forces kept retreating, making the fighting difficult.
• Sasori overheard their discussion, remembered his parents’ deaths in the previous war, and blamed the Third Kazekage for failing to protect people.
• Sasori entered Chiyo’s medicine room and resolved to end the war, eyeing the poisons and antidotes.

Chiyo organized a covert mission to investigate child disappearances that might be connected to Orochimaru and ordered Anbu to assist the Guard Unit. Meanwhile, Scorpion arranged to meet the Third Kazekage that night, intending to kill him and turn him into a puppet.

• Fugaku told Chiyo that sixty children had vanished from towns near the borders of the Land of Frost, the Land of Waterfalls, and the Land of Rice Fields.
• Chiyo decided not to inform the Third Hokage, summoned the Guard Unit's elites, and asked Hatake Sakumo to send Anbu, hoping to expose the Hokage Faction if Orochimaru's experiments were involved.
• Chiyo instructed Tekka Uchiha to prioritize rescuing surviving children and warned the Guard Unit that Orochimaru's bases were dangerous.
• Hatake Sakumo's Anbu joined the Guard Unit, and the combined teams headed toward the village outskirts to investigate.
• The Third Kazekage fumed over the Sand Ninja's defeats and dwindling resources as Scorpion asked him to spar that night.
• Scorpion left the Kazekage Building with the intention of killing the Third Kazekage and making him a puppet.

Tekka Uchiha and Konoha’s Anbu raided Orochimaru’s laboratory, where they found dozens of dead children and rescued one survivor, but Orochimaru escaped. Tekka planned to use the evidence to undermine the Third Hokage and strengthen his Clan Leader’s claim to the position, while Orochimaru renewed his resolve to pursue eternity.

• Tekka Uchiha led Guard Unit elites and Hatake Sakumo’s Anbu to the hidden laboratory and launched an attack on its Root guards.
• Orochimaru ordered his subordinates to destroy records and flee, then escaped the Anbu using a Substitution Technique and a snake summon.
• Tekka Uchiha’s forces searched the laboratory and found dozens of dead children in cultivation tanks.
• A Medical Ninja found one boy still alive, and Tekka Uchiha ordered the medical team to save him.
• Tekka Uchiha ordered the evidence and fallen comrades brought back to Konoha, intending to use the massacre to challenge the Third Hokage’s standing.
• Orochimaru watched from the forest and declared that Konoha and its ideals were burdens on his path to eternity before disappearing.

After the border mission exposed Orochimaru’s crimes, the major clans pressured Hiruzen Sarutobi to declare him a rogue ninja, weakening the Hokage faction. In Sunagakure, Chiyo discovered Scorpion had recreated his parents as puppets and feared he hated her, while Scorpion quietly promised the puppets that they would soon have to wait no longer.

• Tekka Uchiha reported that Orochimaru had escaped the raided laboratory and that the surviving child, Yamato, had been brought back, so Chiyo ordered him sent to the protected Konoha Orphanage.
• The major clans presented their complaints to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and he declared Orochimaru a rogue ninja to be hunted immediately.
• Chiyo reflected that the Hokage faction’s prestige had suffered lasting damage as word of Orochimaru’s status spread through Konoha.
• An Anbu delivered Chiyo a message from the Kazekage saying that Scorpion’s strikes during their spar had seemed intended to kill him.
• Chiyo found Scorpion embracing lifelike puppets he had made of his parents, then left without confronting him.
• Chiyo wondered whether Scorpion hated her and the village, while Scorpion stroked the puppets and murmured that they would soon have to wait no longer.

Chiyo discovered that Scorpion had disappeared with his puppets, including the human puppet made from his friend, on the same night the Third Kazekage vanished. With evidence of a battle and foreign spies entering Sunagakure, Chiyo convened the village leaders and arranged for the Elder Council to assume temporary authority.

• Chiyo found Scorpion's Parents puppets destroyed, his workshop emptied, and the sealed Komushi puppet missing.
• An Anbu reported that the Third Kazekage had gone out and failed to return, prompting Chiyo to seal the village exits and search for him.
• Foreign spies noticed Sunagakure's nighttime mobilization, sent a coded message, and slipped into the village disguised as merchants.
• Chiyo's searchers found signs of battle and the Kazekage's blood at a hidden Training Ground, so she ordered the news kept secret.
• Pakura was blocked from seeing the Kazekage, then attended a sealed emergency meeting where Chiyo revealed that both the Kazekage and Scorpion had disappeared.
• After an Anbu reported spies near the village entrance, Chiyo declared that the Elder Council would temporarily take the Kazekage's authority and ordered external operations suspended.

Chiyo discussed Sunagakure’s sudden withdrawal with Hatake Sakumo and advised Konoha to let the Hyuga Clan take on dangerous frontline reconnaissance missions. He then visited the orphanage, identified Yamato’s Wood Release potential, and arranged for Nonō to train him.

• Hatake Sakumo told Chiyo that more than half of Sunagakure’s forces had withdrawn from the border, and Chiyo urged Konoha to remain alert.
• Chiyo advised Sakumo to give the Hyuga Clan more dangerous frontline reconnaissance missions, allowing their Byakugan to stand out while exposing them to greater risk.
• After Sakumo left, Chiyo told Mikoto Uchiha that Sunagakure would soon fall into chaos and departed for the Konoha Orphanage.
• Chiyo met Yakushi Nonō and learned that Yamato was recovering but sometimes caused saplings to grow unconsciously.
• Chiyo told Nonō that Yamato was the sole survivor of Orochimaru’s experiments with Hashirama Cells and gave her Scrolls so she could train him in Chakra Control and Wood Release.

Yakushi Nonō helped Yamato awaken Wood Release, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to investigate the boy and summon Jiraiya. Chiyo reflected on Kaguya and vowed to reunite with her, then reassured Fugaku about the Hokage’s interest in Yamato and told him to focus on his soon-to-be-born son, Itachi Uchiha.

• Yakushi Nonō guided Yamato as he manifested a small wooden branch with Wood Release and promised to train him.
• An Anbu ninja reported Yamato’s Wood Release to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who reviewed the ninja roster and summoned Jiraiya.
• Chiyo remembered meeting Kaguya in another world and resolved to gain enough strength to free her and stay with her.
• Fugaku told Chiyo that the Hokage Guard had noticed Yamato, and Chiyo said the Third Hokage would not make a major move while he remained in Konoha.
• Chiyo urged Fugaku to focus on his pregnant wife, and Fugaku revealed that he had chosen the name Itachi for their son.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya agreed that Minato Namikaze should become Konoha’s future leader and arranged for him to see the Sealing Book. Three days later, Chiyo visited Fugaku and Rinbi Uchiha’s newborn son Itachi, hoping he and Shisui would become the Uchiha Clan’s new pride.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Jiraiya to become his successor, but Jiraiya declined and recommended Minato Namikaze.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed that Minato was a promising candidate but said he needed more experience and strength.
• Jiraiya told Minato he could see the Sealing Book, and Minato accepted the responsibility that came with it.
• Three days later, Fugaku and Rinbi welcomed their newborn son, Itachi, at Konoha Hospital.
• Chiyo visited the family with Shisui and Mikoto, gave Itachi a charm, and asked Shisui to guide him as his older brother.

Iwagakure operatives attacked Sara in Rōran Town to lure Chiyo into a staged conflict, but Konoha forces defeated them and exposed the plot. After Chiyo comforted Sara and helped the villagers, the two shared a kiss by the river, leaving their relationship closer.

• Iwagakure ninjas infiltrated Rōran Town and tried to capture Sara so they could draw out Chiyo and frame Sunagakure.
• A disguised Uchiha ninja intervened, and the Anbu and Uchiha forces defeated the attackers, killing five and capturing three.
• Chiyo arrived, used Genjutsu to learn that Iwagakure's leaders had ordered the attack, and identified and detained a spy hidden among the villagers.
• Chiyo arranged for the Guard Unit to help repair the town, then stayed with Sara when she asked him not to leave.
• At the riverbank, Sara confessed through a kiss, and she and Chiyo drew closer beneath the moonlight.

Chiyo received Storm Release as his reward for completing the mission involving Sara, then agreed to investigate Sunagakure with Minato after learning that its elite and Kekkei Genkai users were being targeted. At the border, Chiyo captured a masked Iwa Ninja leader with his Sharingan and escaped with Minato.

• Chiyo received Storm Release and saw his updated character panel on the road back to Konoha.
• An Uchiha reported that Iwagakure ninjas had disguised themselves as Sand Ninja to provoke conflict, and Chiyo ordered tighter security around Rōran Town and an investigation within Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Chiyo and Minato Namikaze that Sunagakure was facing internal turmoil and asked them to gather intelligence there ahead of the Chunin Exams.
• Chiyo agreed to go to Sunagakure with Minato after settling Uchiha affairs.
• At the border, Chiyo used a Shadow Clone and Sharingan genjutsu to capture a masked Iwa Ninja leader, then used Fire Style to overwhelm the pursuing squad and escaped with Minato.

Chiyo and Minato Namikaze entered Sunagakure under forged identities and found the village under martial law amid threats from other nations. Chiyo secretly met Pakura, who refused to abandon her home but asked him to save Sunagakure’s children if the village fell.

• Chiyo and Minato Namikaze discovered a Kumogakure ninja near the border, destroyed the body, and entered Sunagakure using forged identification.
• The pair noticed increased patrols and a tense atmosphere, then were ordered by an Anbu ninja to remain at their inn.
• Chiyo used a Shadow Clone to slip away at night, evaded patrols, and found three ninja secretly watching Pakura.
• Chiyo revealed his identity to Pakura, who told him that Sunagakure’s Jonin were restricted and that Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure were active near the village.
• Chiyo offered to help Pakura escape to Konoha, but she refused to leave Sunagakure and asked him to save its innocent children if the village could not hold on.

Chiyo and Minato infiltrated the Kazekage Building and uncovered Sunagakure’s plans to ally with other villages and wage war against the Land of Fire. After escaping with evidence, Chiyo decided to stay behind and cause Sunagakure more trouble.

• Chiyo used his Sharingan to enter the Kazekage Building with Minato and split up to search for intelligence.
• Chiyo learned from a Sunagakure elder that the Third Kazekage had secretly allied with Cloud, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure to attack the Land of Fire.
• Minato escaped the archives with a Scroll of secret letters, while Chiyo froze two pursuing Anbu and misdirected them by appearing to be from Kirigakure.
• Chiyo and Minato compared what they had found and concluded that Sunagakure’s elders might start a war to divert internal unrest and obtain resources.
• Chiyo told Minato to return to Konoha the next day and stayed behind to cause Sunagakure more trouble.

Chiyo staged an attack on Sunagakure as a Kirigakure Ice Release ninja, arranging for Pakura to defeat his Shadow Clone and gain prestige. His real body escaped, hoping the incident would drive Sunagakure and Kirigakure into conflict and protect Pakura from being secretly targeted.

• Chiyo disguised himself as a Kirigakure ninja and destroyed the Kazekage Building with Ice Release.
• Chiyo froze patrol squads and unleashed a blizzard, drawing Sunagakure's forces toward Pakura's plaza.
• Chiyo lured Pakura into battle and let her defeat his Shadow Clone in front of the Sand Ninja.
• Pakura ordered the supposed Kirigakure ninja's body disposed of, while Chiyo watched from hiding and considered his plan successful.
• Chiyo left Sunagakure, expecting the attack to worsen relations between Sunagakure and Kirigakure and raise Pakura's standing.

Chiyo and Minato Namikaze left Sunagakure after the attack and discussed what it meant to be a ninja. They returned to Konoha with Minato newly resolved to remember Chiyo’s lessons about protecting people and using wisdom to change harmful rules.

• Chiyo used Genjutsu to warn Pakura about Sunagakure’s leaders, prompting her to suspect he had been the Kirigakure ninja from the previous night.
• At an oasis, Chiyo told Minato that protecting people was the foundation of being a ninja and the Ninja World.
• Chiyo warned Minato that strength alone could not ensure true protection and mentioned Hatake Sakumo as an example of old history.
• Chiyo and Minato reached Konoha at sunset, where Minato thanked Chiyo for his guidance and Chiyo offered to treat him to Ichiraku Ramen.