Chapter Summaries

Hoshigaki Chenling and his son Shizuma plotted to seize a supposed Sage Mode training method from Aoi Rokushō, while Kisame and Itachi watched their scheme unfold. The item they stole turned out to be the Sword of the Thunder God, which Shizuma insisted was a Konoha training tool.

• Hoshigaki Chenling showed Shizuma Konoha’s wanted notice for Aoi Rokushō and proposed killing him before he could betray them.
• Shizuma argued that Aoi had stolen Konoha’s Sage Mode training method and urged his father to take it for their cause.
• Kisame asked Itachi whether they should intervene, and Itachi chose to wait and watch as the rebels entered Aoi’s room.
• The villagers stole the Sword of the Thunder God from Aoi while he slept and handed it to Hoshigaki Chenling.
• Shizuma claimed the sword was a Konoha tool for speeding up Sage Mode training, and Chenling began to believe him.

Hoshigaki Chenling tried to use Aoi Rokushō’s stolen Sword of the Thunder God, but Tobirama Senju arrived and turned the confrontation into a deadly fight. Chenling passed the sword and his resolve to his son, Hoshigaki Shizuma, whom Tobirama killed before escaping.

• Hoshigaki Chenling sent his son and the villagers to watch Aoi Rokushō while he tested the Sword of the Thunder God.
• Aoi Rokushō woke, discovered the sword was missing, and headed back to retrieve it.
• Hoshigaki Chenling fed Chakra into the sword, suffered its painful effects, and was interrupted by Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju covered the room with Explosive Tags as Hoshigaki Shizuma and Aoi Rokushō shouted outside.
• Hoshigaki Chenling hurled the sword through the wall to Hoshigaki Shizuma and urged him to bring back the Blood Mist.
• Tobirama Senju detonated the tags, used Flying Thunder God, and killed Hoshigaki Shizuma with Flying Thunder God Slash.

Tobirama Senju killed Hoshigaki Shizuma and destroyed Hoshigaki Chenling’s room with Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, leaving Kisame to discover that his mission’s targets were already dead. Kisame and Itachi learned about Hoshigaki Nanami and the villagers’ plans, then Itachi identified the attacker as the Second Hokage and suggested he had abandoned the Sword of the Thunder God because it was filthy.

• Tobirama Senju used Flying Thunder God to kill Hoshigaki Shizuma, then detonated Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags and destroyed Hoshigaki Chenling’s room.
• Kisame Hoshigaki reached the ruins, found the Sword of the Thunder God, and told the villagers he had not killed Chenling and Shizuma.
• The villagers told Kisame about Hoshigaki Nanami, her position in Kirigakure, and Chenling’s hopes for his son Shizuma.
• Kisame called Itachi, who persuaded the villagers to return to the Mizukage’s rule and promised they would be assigned work.
• Itachi told Kisame that the Second Hokage had likely killed Chenling and Shizuma and left the sword behind because it had something filthy on it.

Kisame discovered that Samehada wanted the Sword of the Thunder God and let it absorb and activate the weapon. Meanwhile, Mei Terumi assigned Nanami and Chojuro to stop Konoha’s Bonds ideology from spreading in Kirigakure, but they soon caught Shira and Might Guy fighting over Kakashi.

• Kisame gave Samehada the Sword of the Thunder God’s hilt, and Samehada swallowed it and powered it with Chakra.
• Kisame willingly gripped the electrified Samehada, while Uchiha Itachi watched in disbelief.
• Hoshigaki Nanami was relieved to learn that her father and younger brother had been killed, freeing her to serve the Mizukage and train in Sage Mode without guilt.
• Nanami and Chojuro told Mei Terumi about Ao’s confession to Kakashi, and Mei assigned them to curb the spread of Konoha’s Bonds ideology in Kirigakure.
• Nanami and Chojuro found Shira and Might Guy tugging at Kakashi, and Nanami recorded that Shira had fallen under Konoha’s Bonds influence.

Shira tried to find inspiration for advancing his Seven Days Breathing by listening to Kakashi’s breathing, while Might Guy imitated him with a Kakashi Shadow Clone. Their increasingly bizarre training left Hoshigaki Nanami appalled, and Kakashi screamed when he received the clone’s memories.

• Kakashi made Shadow Clones to accompany Shira and Might Guy while he read and watched Obito’s monitored world.
• Shira meditated as Kakashi’s clone breathed close to his ear, hoping the sound would inspire his Seven Days Breathing.
• Might Guy ran with his Kakashi clone, then wiped its sweat with a clean bodysuit he had brought as a change of clothes.
• Tenten returned with ice cream as Shira rushed at Kakashi’s clone and used artificial respiration to absorb its breath, causing it to vanish.
• Kakashi received the clone’s memories and screamed, while Hoshigaki Nanami caught Tenten’s ice cream and Might Guy prepared to follow Shira’s signal.

Might Guy imitated Shira's Seven Heavens Breathing Method by using Kakashi's sweat, then opened the Seventh Gate to perform a sweat-powered technique. He collapsed afterward, and Sakura and Ino arrived to treat him while Naruto misunderstood the situation.

• Might Guy asked Kakashi for more sweat so he could imitate Shira's Seven Heavens Breathing Method during their spar.
• Guy used Kakashi's sweat-soaked jumpsuits to power a combination technique with Neji and Rock Lee, horrifying Hoshigaki Nanami.
• After Guy collapsed from closing the Seventh Gate, Sakura and Ino arrived to treat his injuries and practice their Medical Ninjutsu.
• Naruto mistook Guy's collapse for a life-threatening emergency and claimed that treating people to death improved a Medical Ninja's skill.

Kimimaro arrived with a scroll from Orochimaru for Might Guy, and Kakashi discovered that its research challenged the way Guy and Rock Lee trained. The group was left stunned by evidence that Akimichi Rianko’s extraordinary eating had strengthened her body.

• Shira shouted that he had finally understood something, while Kakashi checked on Might Guy and complained about Shira destroying his Shadow Clone.
• Kimimaro arrived and said Orochimaru had sent him to deliver a scroll to Might Guy as he sought to improve his Taijutsu.
• Kakashi read the scroll and told Guy and Rock Lee that Orochimaru’s research showed their training methods were inefficient.
• Kakashi explained that Akimichi Rianko’s bone strength rivaled theirs, then revealed that she ate enormous meals and even treated pork-trotter rice as a snack.

Kimimaro introduced Orochimaru’s Big Stomach Pouch Set, and Rock Lee tried it as a new form of weight training. After Might Guy ignored medical advice to rest, Sakura knocked Lee down and anesthetized Guy, leaving Lee responsible for keeping his master sedated for three days.

• Kimimaro explained that Orochimaru’s Big Stomach Pouch Set simulated the Akimichi Clan’s body-weight training, and Rock Lee put one on.
• Rock Lee tested the set and praised how its constant, all-around pressure differed from his usual weights.
• Might Guy sat up and moved around despite Kakashi and Ino warning that he needed three days of rest, prompting Sakura to punch Rock Lee by mistake.
• Sakura injected Guy with an anesthetic and ordered Rock Lee to keep him sedated before meals for the next three days.
• Rock Lee accepted the anesthetic case but hesitated, asking whether keeping Guy sedated could put his safety at risk.

Sakura, Ino, and Tenten went to a resort while Guy recovered, but Tenten dreaded their choice of movie because it was the same film that had prompted Rock Lee’s embarrassing concern for his teacher. The chapter left them watching the sequel as Uchiha Xiazhu returned to seek out Great Python Dumpling.

• Tenten took over anesthetizing Guy after Rock Lee’s plea embarrassed her, and Sakura and Ino invited her to visit the resort.
• The three Konoha kunoichi went to the resort and decided to watch the sequel to the film that had inspired Rock Lee’s worry.
• Tenten realized Sakura and Ino would discover the reason behind Rock Lee’s plea, but she was dragged into the theater and endured their explanations.
• Sakura reacted to Great Python Dumpling’s teacher-student romance with Uchiha Xiazhu while Tenten silently suffered through the familiar plot.
• Uchiha Xiazhu discovered his new master Shinoya’s lecherous behavior and returned to the Ancient Tomb Sect to seek Great Python Dumpling.

Kakashi learned that Shira’s discovery could help Guy and Rock Lee cultivate Sage Mode, then received the Second Hokage’s mission to address bullying in Konoha. Reflecting on Obito’s past, Kakashi concluded that Obito’s worldview collapsed after he witnessed Rin’s death and recognized the bullying he had previously failed to understand.

• Tenten told Sakura and Ino she had already seen the film and suggested that Uchiha Xiazhu and Great Python Dumpling might represent Sasuke and Orochimaru.
• Shira discovered Natural Energy in the aura he had absorbed from Kakashi, prompting Kakashi to reconsider why Guy had not been taught Sage Techniques.
• Shira began training in Sage Mode, and Guy encouraged Rock Lee to try cultivating it as well.
• Kimimaro delivered Kakashi a secret mission from the Second Hokage to solve Konoha’s bullying problem.
• Kakashi connected Obito’s former innocence and his later understanding of Konoha’s bullying to the collapse of Obito’s worldview after Rin’s death.

Kakashi asked Shirozumi for help addressing Konoha’s villagers’ relentless bullying, but Shirozumi concluded that no ordinary reform could stop it. He replied that the only solution was to kill the villagers, leaving Kakashi to consider an extreme answer to the problem.

• Kakashi recognized that Konoha’s bullying had helped drive Obito toward despair and decided he had a duty to protect others like him.
• Kakashi wrote to Shirozumi, his former mentor, asking for a solution to Konoha’s bullying problem.
• Shirozumi dismissed laws, punishments, and appeals to fear or authority, reasoning that Konoha’s villagers bullied people regardless of their status or circumstances.
• Shirozumi sent Kakashi a brief reply proposing killing the villagers, not as a deterrent but as a way to reduce the number of people who could continue the bullying.

After reading Shirozumi's analysis, Kakashi realized that Tyrant's Will had become fused with Konoha's Will of Fire, making bullying seem beneficial and revenge seem wrong. He saw Naruto, the Child of Prophecy, as the key to changing Heaven's Will and overturning Tyrant's Will.

• Kakashi received Shirozumi's letter and rejected its proposal to kill bearers of Tyrant's Will as an endless, unjustifiable solution.
• Shirozumi's analysis showed Kakashi that victims who continued to protect Konoha reinforced a system where bullies benefited and victims were praised for their loyalty.
• Kakashi concluded that figures such as Orochimaru, Kabuto Yakushi, and Obito were not counterexamples, since they had ultimately returned to protecting Konoha.
• Kakashi blamed Naruto's opposition to revenge and insistence on forgiveness for allowing the cycle of bullying to continue.
• Kakashi realized that changing Naruto, the Child of Prophecy, might change Heaven's Will and overturn Tyrant's Will.

Kakashi developed a theory that Naruto’s identity as the Child of Prophecy and Asura’s reincarnation could be used to break the Tyrant’s Will, and sought Itachi’s help. Itachi’s reminder about Sasuke led Kakashi to consider whether Sasuke could change Naruto in turn.

• Kakashi reasoned that Shirozumi had not suggested changing Naruto because he believed Naruto’s nature could not be altered.
• Kakashi found Kisame in Kirigakure, used a crow to locate Itachi, and explained his plan to him.
• Itachi noted that bullying affected other villages too, but Kakashi insisted Konoha’s problem still had to be addressed.
• Kakashi explained that Naruto’s identities as Asura’s reincarnation and the Child of Prophecy might be shackles that could be broken to challenge the Tyrant’s Will.
• Itachi said Sasuke had changed him as well as being changed by Naruto, prompting Kakashi to ask whether Sasuke could influence Naruto.

Kakashi explained why Kotoamatsukami could not directly change Naruto and persuaded Itachi to stay with him instead of using a drastic solution. While Itachi went to meet Naruto, Kakashi read a suggestive novel and discovered his own name at the bookmark’s place.

• Kakashi warned Itachi that Kotoamatsukami could not override Naruto’s identity as the Child of Prophecy, so they needed to influence him through concrete actions.
• Kakashi feared Itachi might kill everyone with Tyrant’s Will, and Itachi agreed to stay with Kakashi and help him.
• Itachi told Kisame he would spend time with Kakashi, and Kisame furtively gave him a book before leaving.
• Kakashi found that the book, Awesome Night, was an adult-themed knockoff of Martin’s Morning, about Awesome B gaining different ninja abilities each day.
• After reading all afternoon, Kakashi reached the bookmarked passage and saw his name appear in the book.

Kakashi read a lurid story that recast Konoha White Fang as a Bonds Ninja who used Thousand Years of Death to conceal his preferences, causing Grandma Chiyo's family tragedy and ultimately dying after a mistaken advance on a teammate. The story ended with Grandma Chiyo calling White Fang out, while Kakashi feared readers might believe it.

• Awesome Night transformed into Konoha White Fang and lost interest in Grandma Chiyo, who waited outside his door seeking revenge.
• Grandma Chiyo's tale claimed White Fang used Thousand Years of Death on her son and daughter-in-law, whose deaths exposed the technique and ended the Heart's Steel Judgment Method.
• White Fang later mistook his teammate's medical condition for proof that he was a Bonds Ninja and tried to claim repayment after saving him.
• The teammate rejected White Fang, and the story said White Fang killed himself under pressure before faking his death and hiding.
• Grandma Chiyo called for White Fang to come out, while Kakashi worried the plausible story could be mistaken for truth.

Kakashi finished reading a book that blamed his father, then went to check on Itachi, who needed help because he no longer had Tsukuyomi. Before heading out, Kakashi was asked to buy frozen treats for Naruto, Konohamaru, Might Guy, and Grandma Chiyo.

• Kakashi saw that Grandma Chiyo was thanked in the book and decided not to hold her responsible for its rumors about White Fang.
• Kakashi went to the shore, where Itachi said Naruto’s persistence had exceeded his expectations and that he needed help with a solution.
• Naruto asked Kakashi to buy treats because Kirigakure’s rules prevented him and Neji from going out; Kakashi realized Itachi’s lost Tsukuyomi was a serious problem.
• Konohamaru, Naruto, Might Guy, and Grandma Chiyo asked Kakashi to buy them frozen treats, and Kakashi questioned whether any of them were over ten.
• Might Guy warned Kakashi that anything under ten years old was illegal, leaving Kakashi completely dumbfounded.

Kakashi sought equipment and help for a plan to change Naruto, settling on an Engraved Tsukuyomi device and Kushina's support. He asked Kushina to join him, arguing that they needed to stop the cycle of villagers bullying children.

• Kakashi considered using Engraved Tsukuyomi on Naruto but realized the Nine-Tails could disrupt the Genjutsu, so he decided to seek its cooperation and Kushina's help.
• Kakashi went to Amegakure and asked Orochimaru for equipment; Orochimaru adjusted its parameters for Naruto and gave Kakashi a tool and manual for further changes.
• Kakashi planned how to persuade Kushina and decided to focus on preventing future bullying rather than appealing to the greater good.
• Kakashi told Kushina that Naruto's and Sasuke's children would also be bullied in the future, then formally asked her to help change Naruto and the world.

Kushina agreed to help Kakashi change Naruto, and the Nine-Tails quickly joined their plan to oppose Heaven's Will. The Nine-Tails offered his support on the condition that Kakashi use Engraved Tsukuyomi to add events that would change Naruto as the Tailed Beasts wanted.

• Kushina agreed to help Kakashi change Naruto after learning that Naruto's future children and Sasuke's daughter could be bullied.
• Kushina secretly passed Kakashi's arguments to the Nine-Tails through Naruto, but the Nine-Tails ignored the essay and agreed immediately.
• Naruto relayed the Nine-Tails' agreement to Kakashi, who gave Naruto a pile of ice pops to distract him.
• Kakashi and Kushina left to meet Itachi, and Kushina explained that the Nine-Tails had agreed because he and the other Tailed Beasts also wanted to oppose Heaven's Will.
• Kushina revealed that the Nine-Tails wanted Kakashi and the others to use Engraved Tsukuyomi to create events that would change Naruto as the Tailed Beasts desired.

Kushina designed a trial storyline in Engraved Tsukuyomi to address the Tailed Beasts’ concerns and Naruto’s bullying. Kakashi tricked Naruto into entering the genjutsu, where Naruto reached the character creation stage.

• Kushina asked the Nine-Tails whether Naruto had started liking small animals, then decided her proposed storyline could be used.
• Kushina spent the night setting up fate nodes and prepared the device for Kakashi.
• Kakashi gave Naruto the device and falsely promised that Naruto could turn off outside monitoring with two safety phrases.
• Naruto memorized the phrases with shadow clones, then put on the device and entered Engraved Tsukuyomi.
• Kakashi left Konohamaru to watch the equipment while other monitors tracked Naruto, who fell through darkness and reached character creation.

The Sage of Six Paths contacted Naruto through the Engraved Tsukuyomi to warn him that Kaguya’s revival threatened the Shinobi World and ask him to stop it. Naruto mistook the encounter for a game tutorial and, despite the Sage’s explanations, eagerly anticipated his mission.

• The Sage of Six Paths used the Engraved Tsukuyomi to contact Naruto because he feared waiting to guide him and Sasuke would be too late.
• The Sage explained that Naruto was the Child of Prophecy and asked him to join Indra’s reincarnation in preventing Kaguya’s seal from being undone.
• Naruto assumed the Engraved Tsukuyomi’s world had settings opposite to reality and mangled the story of the Sage, Kaguya, and Hamura.
• The Sage was baffled by Naruto’s accurate knowledge of key events and his strange explanations about furries.
• Naruto decided his enemies were the Akatsuki Organization and Shirozumi’s group, then grew impatient when the Sage’s explanation delayed his game.