Chapter Summaries

Feng An evaded the Konoha Security Force and left Shimura Shunta convinced that he had an important background. After Feng An, Yudzuki, and Fūka made plans to eat ramen, Shimura Shunta hurried away, leaving Yudzuki wondering whether Feng An knew him.

• Feng An used the Body Flicker Technique to dodge the Security Force member sent to seize him, impressing Yudzuki and Fūka.
• Shimura Shunta cleared the crowd and suspected Feng An belonged to the Sarutobi Clan, so he abandoned his plan to lecture him.
• Fūka grew upset, believing Feng An had helped her only as a casual favor, but she argued with him after he touched her forehead.
• Feng An and the sisters discussed their team name and decided to eat at Ichiraku Ramen.
• Feng An asked why Shimura Shunta and his subordinate were still standing there, and Shimura Shunta took it as a hint to leave.
• Yudzuki watched the two men hurry away and asked Feng An whether he knew Shimura Shunta.

Feng An ate ramen with Yudzuki and Fūka, then dueled Fūka in an isolated spot and beat her by revealing an extra Shadow Clone. After she admitted defeat, he asked about her Chakra nature.

• Feng An, Yudzuki, and Fūka went to Ichiraku Ramen, where Feng An asked Yudzuki about her abilities and learned she was an ordinary genin.
• Fūka challenged Feng An to a duel, and Yudzuki failed to stop either of them from agreeing.
• Fūka attacked Feng An with Ice Shuriken, but Feng An dodged and used Shadow Clones to close in on her.
• Fūka tricked Feng An with a Clone Jutsu and pinned a Shadow Clone with a kunai, believing she had won.
• Feng An revealed that Fūka had captured a Shadow Clone and explained that she had mistaken his clone limit, so Fūka conceded.
• Feng An asked Fūka what her Chakra nature was.

Feng An revealed that he recognized Fūka’s Ice Release and agreed to team up with her and Yudzuki, while Kurenai pushed Hinata through intense training. The next day, Hinata spotted Feng An shopping with the two sisters, and the sight hurt her.

• Feng An recognized Fūka’s Ice Release, and she explained that she and her sister had been raised by their grandmother.
• Shino told Kiba that Kurenai carried anger and resentment, so Kiba and Akamaru attacked her; Kurenai trapped them in her Fox Heart Illusion.
• Kurenai realized Hinata was exhausted and apologized for pushing her too hard, while Hinata said she wanted to become stronger for the Chunin exam.
• Feng An met Fūka and Yudzuki the next day, and Yudzuki persuaded him to join them on a shopping trip as teamwork practice.
• Kurenai took Hinata, Kiba, and Shino out to relax, and Hinata saw Feng An walking and laughing with Fūka and Yudzuki, which made her heart ache.

Feng An reunited with Hinata and cleared up her misunderstanding about his teammates, but their walk through the Commercial Street ended when masked attackers ambushed them. Feng An shielded Hinata from their weapons and began fighting back with his hardened body and Illusion Technique.

• Hinata felt upset after seeing Feng An with Yudzuki and Fūka, but Feng An embraced her and reassured her that they were only his teammates.
• Feng An and Hinata walked through the Commercial Street together while Yudzuki quietly compared herself to Hinata and left with Fūka.
• More than a dozen masked men surrounded Feng An and Hinata in a secluded alley and attacked them with shuriken.
• Feng An shielded Hinata, and the shuriken only tore his clothes and left white marks on his body.
• Feng An used Illusion Technique, Darkness Technique to blind the attackers, then killed one with a shuriken to the head.

Feng An defeated a group of masked attackers and spared them at Hinata’s request, leaving them trapped underground. One attacker escaped by loosening the soil with his Water Release, but his attempt to sell the others’ freedom ended in betrayal and his own death.

• Feng An used Darkness Manipulation and shuriken to kill several masked men as the rest tried to flee.
• Feng An created clones and engulfed the fleeing attackers in fire, then buried the surviving men with Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu.
• Hinata asked Feng An to spare the trapped men, and he left the alley with her.
• A masked man escaped by dampening and loosening the soil with his Water Release, then killed a trapped man who offered him money.
• The escaped man demanded bids to free one captive, but an unseen speaker stabbed him in the back of the head.

Feng An killed the men who had attacked him and learned that Ibe Keichu had connections in Konoha. Taimeng and Ibe later confronted each other, but Shimura Shunta intervened and killed Ibe, leaving Taimeng to take responsibility for the plot.

• Feng An and his Shadow Clones killed the attackers, then buried the bodies and the last survivor using Earth and Water Release.
• Feng An received his Shadow Clones’ memories and realized someone in Konoha had helped Ibe Keichu enter the village.
• Taimeng met Ibe Keichu at night, and Ibe demanded 1.5 million ryo for the deaths of his men.
• Ibe attacked Taimeng, but Shimura Shunta appeared and fought him with Water Release.
• Taimeng trapped Ibe in a Water Prison Technique, and Shimura Shunta ordered Taimeng to claim sole responsibility before killing Ibe with a kunai.

Feng An told Team 8 and the Yudzuki sisters how he expected the Chunin Selection exam’s written test to work and advised them to submit blank papers rather than risk wrong answers. He spent the rest of the day training Hinata, who managed to land one palm strike before falling asleep on his shoulder.

• Feng An gathered Team 8 and the Yudzuki sisters and explained that the written test would assess intelligence gathering and willpower, advising them not to answer questions unless they were sure.
• Feng An revealed the proctor, scoring rules, and consequences of the tenth bonus question, and asked everyone to keep his information secret.
• Feng An left with Hinata to train, while Kiba Inuzuka tried to recruit Fūka and was left alone after she went shopping with Yudzuki.
• Feng An used four Shadow Clones to help Hinata practice, encouraging her to keep going despite her difficulty handling them.
• Hinata trained until nightfall, struck Feng An once, and fell asleep on his shoulder as he settled her against a tree.

Feng An and Hinata arrived at the Chunin exam venue, where a confrontation erupted after three ninja tried to force Fūka and Yudzuki to team up with them. Kiba charged in to protect Akamaru, but the attackers threw explosive-tagged kunai at him, leaving his friends fearing he would die.

• Hinata misunderstood Feng An's comment about a confession, then watched Rock Lee ask Sakura Haruno out and get rejected.
• Neji Hyuga noticed Hinata leaving with Feng An but did not approach her, while Feng An declined Kabuto Yakushi's offer to sell intelligence.
• Fūka teased Feng An and Hinata, and Feng An reassured Hinata that he liked larger breasts.
• A ninja harassed Yudzuki and Fūka, prompting Fūka to kick him and Yudzuki to attack with a kunai; Akamaru then bit the ninja.
• The ninja grabbed Akamaru, but Kiba fed him a Military Rations Pill, causing him to grow and attack; two accomplices then joined the fight and stabbed at Akamaru.
• Kiba charged at the three attackers, who threw explosive-tagged kunai at him as he flew through the air, while Fūka and the others shouted his name.

Feng An protected Kiba from an attack and impressed the other candidates before Ibiki Morino began the Chunin Exam’s first round. As the written test revealed its strange questions and hidden cheating rules, Feng An watched the examinees while Naruto prepared to copy from Hinata.

• Shino and Feng An shielded Kiba from the kunai, then Feng An’s wind technique sent the attackers crashing into a wall, where an Explosive Tag detonated.
• Kiba tried to thank Feng An and Shino by hugging them, but they both avoided him, and the other candidates began guessing Feng An was Neji or Second Pillar.
• Ibiki Morino appeared and explained the exam rules, which matched what Feng An had already told Hinata and the others.
• Feng An and the other candidates received a test paper featuring calculus, while Ibiki warned them to stay quiet and the examinees began using covert ways to cheat.
• Naruto struggled with the test, worried he would get Sasuke and Sakura eliminated, then decided to cheat by copying from Hinata.

Hinata and Naruto passed Ibiki Morino’s written exam despite turning in blank papers, and Anko Mitarashi introduced the Forest of Death exam. Feng An warned his teammates to avoid Orochimaru and Gaara before they entered the forest.

• Hinata left her test paper blank because she was not completely certain of her answers, while Naruto saw her paper and despaired.
• Ibiki Morino announced a high-stakes tenth question, but Naruto’s speech persuaded the remaining examinees to stay, and Ibiki declared them all to have passed.
• Anko Mitarashi burst through the window to announce the second exam, and Feng An met Hinata, Yudzuki, and the others after learning that several of them had submitted blank papers.
• Ibiki Morino found seven blank papers and wondered whether the examinees were unusually perceptive or his questions were poorly written.
• Anko explained the Forest of Death scroll challenge after a Grass ninja nearly struck Naruto; Feng An recognized the ninja as Orochimaru.
• Feng An warned his teammates to avoid Orochimaru and Gaara of the Sand Village, and they trusted his advice before entering the forest.

Feng An’s team rested in the Forest of Death while Hinata, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino encountered Gaara and witnessed his brutality. Feng An let a weakened team flee, expecting to conserve his strength and wait for an opportunity to impress Hyuga Hiashi.

• Feng An led Yudzuki and Fūka to a quiet corner to rest, while Kiba Inuzuka took Hinata and Shino deeper into the forest looking for a fight.
• Hinata used her Byakugan to see Gaara surrounded by the bodies of a team he had killed, and she told Kiba Inuzuka and Shino that Gaara was staring toward their hiding place.
• Gaara left with two other ninjas, and Hinata, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino recovered from their fear and decided to find somewhere to rest.
• Feng An woke angrily at nearby screams, startling three ninjas who had taken scrolls from a defeated team into fleeing with two Earth Scrolls.
• Fūka challenged Feng An for letting the weakened team escape, but Feng An explained that he planned to conserve his strength and wait near the tower for an opportunity to impress Hyuga Hiashi.
• One of the fleeing ninjas concluded that Feng An’s team had not chased them because they were too strong, and the three rushed back toward them.

Feng An fought three ninjas who demanded the scrolls, surviving a powerful secret technique and killing its user with a Yin-Yang Release-enhanced fireball. He demanded the scrolls from the last remaining ninja.

• Three ninjas returned and demanded the scrolls, but Feng An knocked out the burly man with one punch.
• The thin ninja charged at Feng An, tripped, and fatally stabbed himself with his own kunai.
• The last ninja transformed with a secret technique and punched Feng An into a tree, but Feng An emerged unharmed.
• Feng An sensed the ninja was dying from the technique and pierced his heart with a Yin-Yang Release-enhanced fireball.
• Fūka and Yudzuki watched in shock as the ninja shriveled into a corpse, and Feng An demanded the scrolls from the burly man.

Feng An’s team collected the required scrolls but delayed handing them in so they could watch the Grass ninja fight Team 7. As Orochimaru overwhelmed Naruto and Sasuke with a giant snake, Naruto protected Sasuke and taunted him for being scared.

• The burly man surrendered two Earth Scrolls to Feng An, who returned to Yudzuki and confirmed that her scroll was a Heaven Scroll.
• Feng An persuaded Fūka and Yudzuki to postpone handing in their scrolls and watch the Grass ninja, whom Yudzuki recognized as the one Feng An had warned them about.
• Fūka and Yudzuki agreed to hide and watch as Orochimaru fought Naruto and Sasuke while Sakura stayed behind them.
• Sasuke tried to give Orochimaru a scroll, but Naruto intercepted it and accused Sasuke of acting like a cowardly fake.
• Orochimaru summoned a giant snake that knocked Naruto aside and charged at Sasuke, who froze in fear.
• Naruto returned to protect Sasuke, stabbed the giant snake through its mouth, and called him a scaredy-cat.

Orochimaru subdued Naruto and fought Sasuke in the Forest of Death until Feng An joined the battle. Feng An cut off Orochimaru’s tongue and took a Kusanagi Sword, but Orochimaru still branded Sasuke with the Cursed Seal and escaped.

• Orochimaru used the Five Elements Seal on Naruto, suppressing the Nine-Tails’ power and knocking him unconscious.
• Sasuke recovered his resolve and fought Orochimaru while Feng An nearly dozed in hiding, alerting Orochimaru to their presence.
• Feng An rushed into the fight despite Sasuke telling him to hide, then severed Orochimaru’s tongue with Yin-Yang Release and sealed away a Kusanagi Sword.
• Orochimaru bit Sasuke and planted the Cursed Seal as Feng An cut off his neck and stabbed his body with the Kusanagi Sword.
• Orochimaru emerged from another body and escaped, leaving Sasuke in pain while Feng An considered his objective accomplished.

Feng An carried a dead Grass ninja’s head through the Forest of Death while searching for Anko Mitarashi, frightening off rival teams along the way. He found Anko and claimed Orochimaru had asked to see her before Feng An killed him, leaving Anko shocked by Feng An’s brutality.

• Feng An reassured Sakura that Sasuke would wake up and teased her about their old bet before leaving with Yudzuki and Fūka.
• Three Amegakure ninjas tried to rob Feng An’s team, but Feng An used the Grass ninja’s head to scare two of them away and kicked the third away.
• Fūka mistook Feng An’s actions for a deliberate intimidation tactic, and Feng An let her believe he had planned it.
• Feng An found Anko Mitarashi and told her that he had killed Orochimaru, who had supposedly wished to see her before he died.
• Anko reacted with shock and thought Feng An was cruel, though she was relieved that he belonged to Konoha Village.

Feng An and his teammates reached the tower after the second exam, and Hinata’s team arrived on the final day. The survivors gathered to hear Hiruzen Sarutobi explain the third exam.

• Anko doubted that Orochimaru was dead, learned Feng An’s name, and left to follow the Cursed Seal’s direction.
• Feng An, Fūka, and Yudzuki traveled to the tower, defeating or driving off teams they encountered and arriving second behind Gaara’s team.
• Feng An explained that Gaara’s siblings feared his strength and personality while the group waited at the tower.
• Hinata’s team arrived on the final day, and Feng An teased Hinata into checking his abs before Shino interrupted them.
• Anko welcomed the candidates, and Hiruzen Sarutobi began explaining the purpose of the third exam.

Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that the third exam would showcase each nation's ninja strength, and Gekko Hayate began one-on-one preliminaries. Feng An wagered with Ken Misumi on Sasuke's match, but Sasuke was weakened when Akado Yoroi revealed his ability to absorb Chakra.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi described the exam as a miniature of conflicts between allied nations and explained that feudal lords would judge the contestants' strength.
• Gekko Hayate announced one-on-one preliminary matches, and Kabuto Yakushi withdrew after recognizing Orochimaru.
• Feng An argued that Sasuke would defeat Akado Yoroi and wagered that Ken Misumi would reveal his body-stretching ability if Sasuke won.
• Sasuke gained an early advantage over Akado Yoroi, but Akado Yoroi absorbed his Chakra and broke free.
• Akado Yoroi grabbed Sasuke's head and began absorbing his Chakra.

Sasuke defeated Akado Yoroi with the Lion Combo, while Feng An collected Ken Misumi’s body-extension scroll by exposing his spy identity. Naruto then beat Kiba with a fart, and Hinata prepared medicine for the injured before facing Neji in the next match.

• Sasuke broke free from Akado Yoroi’s chakra absorption and knocked him unconscious with the Lion Combo, winning his match.
• Feng An confronted Ken Misumi over their bet and forced him to hand over a scroll about extending one’s limbs by threatening to expose him as Orochimaru’s spy.
• Shino Aburame defeated Zaku, Kankuro defeated Ken Misumi, Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka fought to a draw, Temari defeated Tenten, and Shikamaru Nara defeated Kin.
• Naruto Uzumaki defeated Kiba Inuzuka with a fart, and Hinata gave the stretcher-bound Kiba medicine she had prepared.
• Gekko Hayate announced Hinata Hyuga’s match against Neji Hyuga, and Feng An encouraged Hinata to show her brother how her training had paid off.

Hinata fought Neji in the Chunin exam and defeated him after using the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm she had learned with Feng An. The match ended with Neji surrendering, and Feng An left with Hinata, pleased by how she had changed.

• Feng An stopped Naruto from intervening while Hinata refused to surrender to Neji.
• Hinata and Neji exchanged Gentle Fist attacks, and Neji sent her flying when her stamina began to fail.
• Hinata told Neji she understood his pain, then struck him with the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and sealed a chakra point.
• Neji recognized Hinata’s new technique, accepted that he had lost, and surrendered, making Hinata the winner.
• Feng An asked Hinata what she wanted for dinner, then praised her progress as they embraced.
• Shino asked Feng An whether he had been looking for him.

Feng An defeated Funaha Yuta with powerful ninjutsu and a controlled punch, drawing the crowd’s admiration and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attention. The next match began as Gaara appeared in the arena to face Rock Lee.

• Feng An left Hinata to fight Funaha Yuta and broke through his opponent’s Mist Concealment Technique with a gust of wind.
• Feng An rushed Funaha Yuta and punched a hole in the wall, stopping short of seriously injuring him; Gekko Hayate declared Feng An the winner.
• Feng An returned to Hinata and embraced her while the crowd praised his strength.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned from Anko that Feng An had killed the Grass ninja disguised as Orochimaru and reviewed Feng An’s sparse mission records.
• The screen announced Gaara versus Rock Lee, and Gaara appeared in the arena and called for Rock Lee to come down.