Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kō shared lunch with Torifu Akimichi, assessed Akimichi Qingqiu, and accepted him into the Police Force. He then led his six disciples to practical combat class and had them describe the ninjutsu they knew.

• Torifu Akimichi shared lunch with Uchiha Kō and explained that the students received the same food.
• Torifu Akimichi introduced Akimichi Qingqiu and recommended him for the Police Force.
• Uchiha Kō tested Akimichi Qingqiu, found him capable, and told him to report for work the next day.
• Uchiha Kō went to Class S, took his six disciples to Training Ground Four, and asked them to name the ninjutsu they had mastered.
• Namikaze Minato, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Uchiha Fugaku, and Hyuga Hiashi described their techniques, and Uchiha Kō noted that Hyuga Hiashi did not know his younger brother had learned Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.

Uchiha Kō began practical combat training by pitting Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Fugaku, and Akimichi Choza against Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Hyuga Hiashi, and Yamanaka Inoichi. The battle remained unresolved as Minato broke Shinnosuke’s staff attack, leaving both boys wary of the other’s strength.

• Uchiha Kō divided the six boys into two teams and started their practical combat match.
• Yamanaka Inoichi attempted his Mind Body Switch Technique, but Akimichi Choza warned his teammates, and Hyuga Hiashi used Rotation to deflect Uchiha Fugaku’s shuriken.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Namikaze Minato combined fire and wind techniques, while Sarutobi Shinnosuke raised an Earth Style Wall to protect his team.
• Inoichi recovered from his failed technique as Minato charged Shinnosuke, who used an iron staff to fend off Minato’s kunai attack.
• Minato pressed his advantage and broke Shinnosuke’s spinning staff technique with a flying kick, forcing Shinnosuke to stagger back.

The teams’ matches continued as Namikaze Minato, Akimichi Choza, and Uchiha Fugaku faced Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Hyuga Hiashi. The Minato group won, and Uchiha Kō sent the winners home while assigning the losers laps.

• Akimichi Choza interrupted Hyuga Hiashi’s Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms to save Namikaze Minato, then Yamanaka Inoichi broke Hyuga Hiashi out of Uchiha Fugaku’s genjutsu.
• Namikaze Minato defeated Sarutobi Shinnosuke after breaking through his Fire Release and Earth Release techniques, and Sarutobi Shinnosuke conceded.
• Akimichi Choza beat Yamanaka Inoichi after more than twenty minutes of close-range combat.
• Uchiha Fugaku used the Sharingan to evade Hyuga Hiashi’s attacks and caught him with a feint, but Uchiha Kō stopped their match.
• Uchiha Kō praised Hyuga Hiashi and promised to teach him more moves, then let the winners go home and ordered the losers to run laps.

Uchiha Kō treated Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Hyuga Hiashi, and Yamanaka Inoichi to ramen after training, then gave each a scroll of a technique tailored to their performance. Sarutobi Hiruzen and Hyuga Akagi praised Kō’s instruction, while Shinnosuke began learning the powerful Red Lotus Staff.

• Uchiha Kō bought ramen and lemonade for the three students at Ichiraku, where they thanked Teuchi and ate with him.
• Uchiha Kō gave Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Hyuga Hiashi, and Yamanaka Inoichi individual scrolls containing techniques he had developed for them.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke showed his scroll to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who tested the Fire Release: Red Lotus Staff and praised its power.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen encouraged Shinnosuke to respect and learn from Uchiha Kō, then guided him in practicing the technique.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Hyuga Akagi about the day’s training, and Akagi urged him to learn from Kō’s fighting skill and conduct.

Hyuga Akagi studied Uchiha Kō’s Tai Chi Fist scroll and decided the Hyūga Clan needed permission before passing the technique on. He taught the core forms to Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga, who secretly memorized the entire set.

• Hyuga Akagi read the Tai Chi Fist scroll, copied it, and judged the technique far superior to the Hyūga Clan’s existing taijutsu.
• Hyuga Hiashi urged his father to ask Uchiha Kō before sharing the technique, and Hyuga Akagi agreed to visit him with Hiashi.
• Hyuga Akagi invited Hizashi Hyuga to learn Tai Chi Fist alongside Hiashi, despite Hizashi’s status as a branch-family member.
• Hyuga Akagi demonstrated the core thirteen forms and gave Hizashi a copy to burn after learning.
• Hizashi Hyuga claimed to have memorized only four moves, though he had already learned every move and mnemonic.

Yamanaka Inoichi brought the scroll Uchiha Kō had given him to the heads and heirs of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans, who discovered it contained a powerful soul technique. They agreed to keep its origins discreet, share an incomplete version with trusted Yamanaka clan members, and have Yamanaka Unkai seek the Hokage’s approval.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga practiced Tai Chi together in a secret chamber.
• Yamanaka Inoichi returned home and told Yamanaka Unkai, Nara Rokumei, Torifu Akimichi, and their successors about the spar and the scroll he had received.
• The six read the scroll and recognized that the Soul Battle Technique could strengthen the Yamanaka clan’s offensive abilities.
• Nara Rokumei warned Yamanaka Unkai to treat the technique as a Hokage-bestowed ninjutsu and restrict the complete version to Unkai and his descendants until they received approval.
• Nara Shikaku found an incomplete version hidden in the scroll, and Nara Rokumei advised Unkai to teach it only to trusted Yamanaka clan members.
• Yamanaka Unkai and Inoichi thanked the Hokage, and Unkai promised to visit him with Inoichi that weekend to seek his instructions.

Uchiha Kō received Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, who apologized for their past conduct and returned money taken by their clans' officials. He accepted their submission and left them in their positions, while insisting they serve Konoha's villagers rather than him.

• Uchiha Kō found Tsunade away on a trip to Kumogakure when he returned home.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura visited Uchiha Kō and offered to make amends for their disrespect at the previous meeting.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura handed over the money their clan members had withheld and said they had removed those officials from their posts.
• Uchiha Kō accepted their apology and the returned money, then called for the matter to be left in the past.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura pledged their clans' loyalty to Uchiha Kō, who told them their duty was to the villagers.
• Uchiha Kō decided to keep the advisers because they were capable and had shown political judgment by aligning themselves with him.

Uchiha Kō accepted Mitokado and Utatane’s pledge of loyalty, then sent their corruption evidence to Mitokado Homura while ordering monthly audits to continue. The next day, he spoke with Nara Rokumei about village affairs and accepted an invitation to a Nara family banquet.

• Uchiha Kō sent Mitokado and Utatane away after they pledged to follow his commands, then told Uchiha Kiyoshi not to underestimate them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi gave Uchiha Kō evidence of corruption among the Mitokado and Utatane clans, and Uchiha Kō ordered him to send the scrolls to Mitokado Homura and continue monthly audits.
• Uchiha Kō read Jiraiya’s Icha Icha Paradise until midnight and joked that he should urge Jiraiya to release more chapters.
• Uchiha Kō called Nara Rokumei while heading to the school, accepted his invitation to a family banquet, and asked about village affairs.
• Nara Rokumei praised Uchiha Kō’s merit-based appointments and reflected on Konoha’s improving prosperity.

Uchiha Kō visited the school, met the dedicated teacher Umino Ikkaku, and asked Shimura Danzō to reward his work. After Danzō expressed his gratitude and renewed loyalty, Kō encouraged him to make decisions as the school’s vice principal, leaving Danzō eager to act.

• Uchiha Kō met Umino Ikkaku at the school entrance and learned that the teacher did not recognize him.
• Uchiha Kō secretly watched Umino Ikkaku rehearse his lesson and decided he deserved a raise.
• Uchiha Kō shared breakfast with Shimura Danzō, who thanked him for his trust and said he had let go of his ambition to become Hokage.
• Uchiha Kō told Shimura Danzō about Umino Ikkaku, and Danzō decided to raise the teacher’s pay and make him head of instruction.
• Uchiha Kō told Shimura Danzō he trusted him to make school decisions, and Danzō hurried off to handle the appointment.

Uchiha Kō used a discounted roulette to obtain powerful techniques and a Caged Bird Removal Pill formula, then gave Namikaze Minato a pseudo-A-rank Wind Release ninjutsu. Minato gratefully accepted the scroll and pledged himself to Uchiha Kō as his disciple.

• Uchiha Kō asked the system for rewards for the children who had won their matches, and the system offered a limited-time discount roulette with boosted prize rates.
• Uchiha Kō spent 1.2 million points on sixty draws and obtained S-rank ninjutsu, a Rinnegan skill, medical ninjutsu, and other rewards, including the Caged Bird Removal Pill formula.
• Uchiha Kō endured a painful flood of knowledge from the draws, then copied down two pseudo-A-rank ninjutsu and prepared a hard qigong technique for his students.
• Namikaze Minato arrived early to review his lessons, and Uchiha Kō gave him a scroll containing a pseudo-A-rank Wind Release ninjutsu.
• Namikaze Minato thanked Uchiha Kō and pledged to follow him as his disciple, while Uchiha Kō encouraged him to keep working hard.

Uchiha Kō distributed powerful techniques to his students, then left class to train with the Blazing Heaven Fan. The chapter ended with him demonstrating the fan’s destructive power on a wooden post.

• Uchiha Kō gave Namikaze Minato a Wind Release: Wind Dagger scroll, which Minato put away instead of immediately studying.
• Uchiha Kō gave Uchiha Fugaku a genjutsu scroll, but Fugaku initially threw it into the trash before Minato explained its value.
• Uchiha Fugaku retrieved the scroll and read about Genjutsu: Heaven and Hell, a Sharingan technique Uchiha Kō had created.
• Uchiha Kō gave Akimichi Choza the Iron Body Technique, which Choza gratefully accepted.
• Uchiha Kō left Shimura Danzō to teach the class and went to the training ground to practice with the Blazing Heaven Fan.
• Uchiha Kō struck a wooden post with the fan, then turned the splinters into burning projectiles that embedded themselves deep in the ground.

Uchiha Kō practiced his fan and sword techniques, but his blade broke and nearly killed Mitokado Homura, who had come to report the finances. That afternoon, Kō led his six young students away from the academy toward Konoha’s execution grounds for a necessary ninja experience, while Danzō worried they were too young.

• Uchiha Kō practiced with the Blazing Heaven Fan, then used the Divine Blade Gale Slash until his sword snapped and flew toward Mitokado Homura.
• Uchiha Kō caught and crushed the broken blade with Susanoo, then pretended he had saved Mitokado Homura from an unknown culprit.
• Mitokado Homura thanked Uchiha Kō, reported the finances, and left after Uchiha Kō ordered Hatake Sakumo to investigate the broken blade.
• Uchiha Kō told Hatake Sakumo to conclude that the culprit had fled Konoha, then trained his taijutsu and recovered his strength over lunch.
• Uchiha Kō took his six students away from the academy toward the execution grounds, assuring Shimura Danzō that he would protect their mental state.

Uchiha Kō took his six young students to Konoha’s execution ground and forced them to kill death-row inmates as preparation for future battles. After each child killed ten prisoners, he took the exhausted group to bathe and buy new clothes.

• Uchiha Kō brought Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Fugaku, Hyuga Hiashi, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza into the execution ground and ordered them to practice their techniques on death-row prisoners.
• Namikaze Minato learned Wind Release: Wind Dagger, killed the first prisoner, and vomited after seeing the body.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke killed five prisoners with the Crimson Lotus Staff, then cried as Uchiha Kō comforted and praised him.
• Uchiha Kō had more prisoners brought in while the six children continued killing until each had killed ten.
• Hyuga Hiashi killed the final prisoner around five in the afternoon, and Uchiha Kō caught him as he collapsed.
• Uchiha Kō praised the children and said he would treat them to a hot spring bath and buy them clothes.

Uchiha Kō took his six young students to bathe after their first kills, then led them out on a C-rank mission to exterminate bandits. On the way, a Land of Rain ninja attacked him and revealed a personal grudge, then reached for a jar that alarmed Uchiha Kō because the students were nearby.

• Uchiha Kō took the bloodied children to a private hot spring, reassured them, and told them to rest before their next mission.
• Uchiha Kō sent the six students home, explained the training to their parents, and arranged for Shimura Danzō to excuse them from duty the next day.
• Uchiha Kō assigned Namikaze Minato to captain the group and Sarutobi Shinnosuke to assist as they set out to kill bandits and rescue captives.
• A Land of Rain ninja attacked Uchiha Kō with a kunai, but Uchiha Kō blocked it with the Blazing Heaven Fan and pulled the attacker toward him with Banshō Ten'in.
• The Land of Rain ninja accused Uchiha Kō of killing his father and took a jar from a Storage Scroll, causing Uchiha Kō to worry about the six genin-level students beside him.

Uchiha Kō led six young ninjas toward Kemo Mountain to eliminate the bandits and rescue the villagers’ abducted women and girls. After discovering that three Amegakure ninjas organized the bandits, he left the six children to plan their attack, with Namikaze Minato weighing the danger.

• Uchiha Kō used genjutsu to immobilize an Amegakure ninja, and Namikaze Minato killed him before Uchiha Kō burned the body.
• Uchiha Kō led the six children to a village, where the chief explained that organized bandits had been raiding nearby settlements and abducting women and girls, including his daughter.
• Uchiha Kō refused the villagers’ payment and promised to wipe out the bandits and bring back any captives still alive.
• On the way to Kemo Mountain, Sarutobi Shinnosuke condemned the bandits, Yamanaka Inoichi noted their sudden organization, and Namikaze Minato deduced that Amegakure ninjas were behind it.
• Uchiha Kō sensed three Amegakure ninjas on the mountain, identified them as one chunin and two genin, and vanished to oversee the children’s battle.
• The six young ninjas considered how to face the three enemy ninjas and hundreds of bandits, while Namikaze Minato began planning under pressure.

Namikaze Minato organized a pre-dawn assault on a bandit stronghold after Hyuga Hiashi scouted its defenses and captives. The team began the attack, but the chapter ended as Yamanaka Inoichi prepared to enter the bandits’ house with Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s support.

• Hyuga Hiashi scouted the stronghold and reported its guards, bandits, and abducted women to Namikaze Minato.
• Namikaze Minato assigned the team roles for a coordinated attack, and the group gathered dry grass before resting in a cave.
• At three in the morning, Namikaze Minato led the team toward the camp, where he and Hyuga Hiashi silently killed the gate guards and watchtower sentries.
• Uchiha Fugaku spread dry grass inside the bandits’ house and ignited it, while Sarutobi Shinnosuke sealed the doorway with an Earth Style Wall and Akimichi Choza blocked the chimney.
• Yamanaka Inoichi arrived beside Sarutobi Shinnosuke, who supported him as he prepared to enter the burning house.

Yamanaka Inoichi, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and Uchiha Fugaku completed their attack on the bandits in the right-side wing while Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hiashi rescued more than a hundred captive women from the left-side wing. Minato sent the women toward safety as his team prepared to finish wiping out the bandits.

• Yamanaka Inoichi used a fire and his soul form to kill the bandits trapped inside the Earth Style Wall, while Sarutobi Shinnosuke and Uchiha Fugaku waited outside.
• Yamanaka Inoichi returned to his body and told Sarutobi Shinnosuke and Uchiha Fugaku that every bandit inside had been dealt with.
• Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hiashi killed the guards at the left-side wing entrance, then met up with Akimichi Choza.
• Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hiashi opened the hidden cellar and found more than a hundred captive women inside.
• Namikaze Minato revealed that he and Hyuga Hiashi were ninjas from Konoha, gave the women black cloaks, and directed them to leave the mountain quietly while the team dealt with the bandits.

After rescuing the captive women, Namikaze Minato granted the injured women’s pleas for a painless death and emerged consumed by grief and hatred. He ordered the group to kill every bandit on Kemo Mountain, and Uchiha Kō recognized that Minato had become obsessed and prepared to intervene.

• Namikaze Minato escorted the rescued girls from the cellar, sealed away the villagers’ food, and killed the women who begged him to end their suffering.
• Namikaze Minato burned the cellar and told Akimichi Choza to lead the rescued women down the mountain, but one woman insisted on staying to guide him to the bandit leader.
• Namikaze Minato ordered his companions to kill every mountain bandit, including the elderly and children, and the woman offered to guide them to the bandits and their families.
• Uchiha Kō noticed Namikaze Minato’s altered state of mind and prepared to step in if necessary.

Namikaze Minato and his allies stormed the bandits’ hidden chamber, killing Third Brother and defeating Second Brother. A woman who had joined them died shielding Minato from Second Brother’s final attack, leaving him stunned.

• Namikaze Minato, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and Uchiha Fugaku killed the guards at the entrance, and the woman refused to leave before seeing her enemies die.
• Namikaze Minato’s group entered the secret chamber, where Yamanaka Inoichi silently killed Third Brother.
• Big brother slit the throats of three captive women and escaped through a hidden passage, while Uchiha Kō detected and waited for him.
• Namikaze Minato fought Second Brother, and Uchiha Fugaku briefly stopped Second Brother’s technique with Sharingan Genjutsu: Heaven and Hell.
• Namikaze Minato cut Second Brother in half, but Second Brother threw a kunai at him with his final strength.
• The woman took the kunai through her heart while shielding Namikaze Minato, then died in his arms.

After a rescued woman died protecting him, Namikaze Minato tortured Second Brother and continued toward the bandit leader until Uchiha Kō stopped him. Uchiha Kō comforted Minato as he broke down over the horrors he had witnessed.

• The woman died after saving Namikaze Minato, who stabbed Second Brother and tortured him while Yamanaka Inoichi kept him alive with the Mystical Palm Technique.
• Namikaze Minato asked Uchiha Fugaku to burn Second Brother and Sarutobi Shinnosuke to prepare the woman's ashes for burial.
• Namikaze Minato led Hyuga Hiashi and Yamanaka Inoichi onward, where they found three dead bodies and encountered the bandit leader after Uchiha Kō arrived.
• Namikaze Minato seized the bandit leader and severed his limbs, but stopped when Uchiha Kō called out to him.
• Uchiha Kō embraced Namikaze Minato, who cried and told his teacher about the women he had killed and the woman who died protecting him.