Chapter Summaries

Hizashi rushed to the eastern battlefield after Danzo refused to act immediately, while Konoha’s forces fought the Cloud shinobi. Fugaku, Hiashi, and Shikaku confronted the Fourth Raikage Ay, but Ay overwhelmed Hiashi before Shikaku moved to restrain him.

• Hizashi rejected retreat and hurried toward the eastern battlefield with two Hyuga clansmen.
• Fugaku rescued a Nara Chunin, then killed a skilled Cloud Village Jonin by reading his swordsmanship with the Sharingan.
• The Fourth Raikage Ay arrived, boosting the Cloud shinobi’s morale, and shattered Fugaku’s katana with a punch.
• Fugaku and Hiashi attacked Ay together while Shikaku searched for an opening, but Ay’s Lightning Armor let him evade their techniques and overpower them.
• Ay broke through Hiashi’s Rotation with a Lariat and sent him flying, then Shikaku used the Shadow Neck Bind Technique.

Shikaku, Fugaku, and their allies battled Raikage Ay until Killer B joined the fight, but Genya’s surprise attack disrupted the Cloud forces. Genya and Shisui teamed up against Killer B and briefly caught him in Shisui’s genjutsu before the Eight-Tails awakened him.

• Shikaku caught Raikage Ay in his Shadow Possession Jutsu, but Ay broke free and emerged unharmed from Fugaku’s Great Fire Dragon Technique.
• Killer B arrived to support Raikage Ay, and Hizashi Hyuga, Shisui, and other Konoha fighters joined the battle.
• Genya disguised as a Cloud ninja, punched Killer B, and revealed himself before challenging him over his rap.
• Raikage Ay urged Killer B to focus on the battlefield, and Killer B charged Genya as Shisui joined him.
• Genya and Shisui coordinated their attacks, suppressed Killer B briefly, and Shisui caught him in genjutsu before the Eight-Tails woke him.

Konoha defeated the Cloud Village forces after Genya and Shisui helped hold off Killer B, and Genya later saved Hyuga Hiashi from severe injuries. The chapter ended with Genya demanding five million ryo for the treatment while Hiashi pretended to be asleep.

• Genya blasted Killer B with Fire Style: Rasengan Crimson Flame Burst, while Konoha's forces restrained Raikage Ay and Choza struck his neck; Killer B carried Ay away, and the demoralized Cloud ninjas fled.
• Fugaku thanked Shisui for supporting the Eastern Front, and Shisui praised his teamwork with Genya, who claimed he had created his powerful fire technique himself.
• Hyuga Deren asked Genya to save the gravely injured Hiashi, and Genya treated Hiashi's internal injuries with the Mystical Palm Technique for several hours.
• After Hiashi woke, Genya demanded five million ryo for his treatment, and Hiashi pretended to fall asleep as Genya repeatedly patted and slapped his face.

Cloud Village revealed that the Fourth Raikage had faked his death and launched a surprise attack on Konoha’s Western Front. Danzo’s dismissal of Shisui and confidence in Konoha’s defenses left the camp unprepared as the Raikage’s forces arrived.

• The Fourth Raikage ordered Cloud Village’s forces to attack Konoha’s Western Front after using Killer B’s Tentacle Substitution Technique to fake his death.
• Yugito and Killer B led Cloud shinobi in wiping out Konoha’s reconnaissance squads before they could report the attack.
• Danzo relieved Uchiha Shisui of his captaincy and ordered him returned to Konoha for trial, despite Orochimaru’s argument that Shisui should remain.
• Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu dismissed Orochimaru’s warnings and believed Cloud Village was too weakened to threaten them.
• Two hours later, thousands of Cloud shinobi attacked Konoha’s Western Front under the supposedly dead Fourth Raikage, shocking Danzo.

Cloud Village launched its full assault on Konoha’s Western Front, revealing that its earlier attack on the Eastern Front had been a feint. As the defenders were overwhelmed, Danzo sent Konoha’s advisors to seek help from Shikaku and the clan heads, who prepared to respond.

• Danzo realized Cloud Village had used its Eastern Front attack as a feint and was targeting the Western Front to open a path to Konoha.
• Killer B transformed and fought Orochimaru, whose Eight Branches Technique clashed with the Eight-Tails Gyuki.
• The Fourth Raikage Ay overwhelmed Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura, while Might Guy opened the Sixth Gate and knocked Yugito’s Two-Tails form to the ground before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Cloud’s larger force pushed Konoha’s defenders back and killed many clan ninja, so Danzo told the two advisors to seek help from Nara Shikaku and the others.
• Shikaku, Hiashi, Fugaku, and the other clan heads learned of the attack and calmly prepared to respond.

Konoha’s western forces suffered heavy losses under Shimura Danzō, while Shikaku and the eastern clans held back before eventually joining the fight. Sarutobi Hiruzen and Jiraiya turned the tide against Kumogakure, and the chapter ended with Hiruzen stripping Danzō of Root’s leadership and placing him under house confinement.

• Shikaku and the clan leaders refused to act until they had investigated the intelligence, and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura arrived to demand reinforcements after being injured by the Raikage.
• Shikaku told the two advisors that Konoha was still preparing, while the clan leaders watched them coldly and the clans’ emerging alliance grew more distinct from Sarutobi Hiruzen’s faction.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned Jiraiya, and they led Konoha troops against Kumogakure, forcing the Fourth Raikage, Killer B, and their forces to retreat from the Land of Fire.
• Konoha and Kumogakure entered a temporary ceasefire as other villages threatened to take advantage of the war’s aftermath.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen blamed Shimura Danzō for the heavy casualties and removed him as Root’s leader, ordering three years of house confinement.

Danzo accepted his punishment, and Sarutobi Hiruzen gave Shisui a short confinement for disobeying orders. The village gathered to mourn its fallen ninja, while Genya offered to teach Itachi his powerful Fire Style technique.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen removed Danzo as Root's leader and confined him to his home for three years, and Danzo accepted the decision.
• Fugaku asked Sarutobi Hiruzen to release Shisui, who received ten days of confinement and had to write a letter of guarantee.
• Konoha's leaders arranged a memorial ceremony for the ninja killed in the war against Kumogakure.
• Genya met Itachi on the way to the memorial, told him his technique was called Fire Style: Crimson Flame Burst, and offered to teach it to him.
• Genya and Itachi joined the solemn crowd gathered at the Memorial Stone, where Sarutobi Taro wept.

At Konoha’s memorial service, Genya honored his parents and spoke with Kakashi, Might Guy, Orochimaru, and Itachi. After Genya left flowers at Obito’s grave, Obito appeared at the empty cemetery and saw the bouquet.

• Genya greeted Kakashi and befriended Might Guy, then asked him to teach Shimura Danzo a lesson; Kakashi led Guy away before he could agree.
• Genya placed chrysanthemums at his parents’ grave while Itachi reflected on Genya’s hardship and resentment toward Konoha’s leaders.
• Orochimaru approached Genya and Itachi, spoke bitterly about being unappreciated, and declared that only eternal life had meaning before leaving.
• Genya placed flowers at Uchiha Obito’s grave and told Itachi he admired Obito for sacrificing himself to save his comrades.
• After Genya left, Obito appeared at the cemetery in a Tiger-Pattern Mask and looked at the flowers beneath his gravestone.

After the war with Cloud Village, Genya trained Itachi and Sasuke while developing a more powerful Rasengan, then accepted money from Hyuga Hiashi for saving his life. The next day, Genya returned to the Ninja Academy despite having far surpassed its students and teachers.

• Genya rested after the war, checked his Sharingan progress, and decided that upgrading his Sage Body was too costly compared with improving his other abilities.
• Genya taught Itachi how to learn Fire Style: Rasengan Crimson Flame Burst while assigning Sasuke physical and throwing practice.
• Genya began developing a Rasengan infused with lightning-nature chakra, gradually learning how to keep the chakra integrated for ten seconds.
• Hyuga Hiashi visited Fugaku to thank Genya for saving him and offered several hundred thousand ryo, which Genya promptly took despite Fugaku's polite refusal.
• Genya returned to the Ninja Academy the next day, though his strength had already surpassed that of his Chunin teacher, Watanabe Yu.

Genya welcomed the Academy students’ gratitude by charging them for training at a Uchiha construction site, while Danzo warned Orochimaru that his secret experiments might soon be exposed. The chapter ended with Orochimaru promising to clean up before leaving the village and insisting it would not affect Danzo’s ambition to become Hokage.

• Genya returned to class to a celebration, then asked the grateful students to pay him two hundred ryo each.
• Sarutobi Taro asked Genya for training advice, and Genya persuaded him to gather more than a hundred Academy students for a training session.
• Genya charged the students two hundred ryo each to work at a Uchiha construction site, then auctioned the last three spots to the highest bidders.
• Hiashi and Fugaku watched as the students worked, while Hiashi remarked on Genya’s business sense and Fugaku felt embarrassed.
• Danzo warned Orochimaru that Hiruzen would reclaim control of Root in three days and urged him to hide his experiments.
• Orochimaru criticized Danzo’s wartime decisions and promised to handle the evidence before leaving the village, leaving Danzo shocked.

Jiraiya rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s offer to lead Root and confronted Kakashi over Naruto’s neglect before being suddenly transported to Mount Myōboku. The Great Toad Sage tasked him with finding a handsome Child of the Ninja World who would threaten the Shinobi World.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen urged Jiraiya to stay in Konoha and become the Fifth Hokage, but Jiraiya refused and left.
• Jiraiya found Kakashi watching Naruto and criticized him for letting Minato and Kushina’s son suffer, then kicked him into a wall.
• A mysterious force transported Jiraiya to Mount Myōboku, where Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima greeted him.
• The Great Toad Sage told Jiraiya to find and change the thinking of a future enemy called the Child of the Ninja World.
• The Great Toad Sage described the child as very handsome and insulted Jiraiya by calling him extremely ugly.

Jiraiya returned from Mount Myōboku and was accidentally struck by Itachi’s Fire Style: Crimson Flame Burst after appearing near the Uchiha children. After Genya talked his way out of trouble, Jiraiya learned that Genya had created the technique and was left astonished.

• The Great Toad Sage tasked Jiraiya with finding the Child of the Ninja World, and Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima tested Jiraiya by beating him before sending him to Konoha.
• Itachi’s Fire Style: Crimson Flame Burst hit Jiraiya as he fell out of the void near Genya, Itachi, and Sasuke.
• Itachi and Sasuke tried to help Jiraiya, but they nearly tore off his pants before he woke up and demanded to know who had attacked him.
• Genya distracted Jiraiya with flattery and praise for Icha Icha Paradise, then explained that Itachi had used Fire Style: Crimson Flame Burst.
• Jiraiya recognized the technique’s resemblance to one created by his deceased disciple, Namikaze Minato, and shared his guilt over failing to reach him in time.
• Genya revealed that he had created Fire Style: Crimson Flame Burst, shocking Jiraiya.

Genya treated Jiraiya, Sasuke, and Naruto to an enormous barbecue meal by making Jiraiya pay, then collected training fees from Ninja Academy students at his construction site. The next morning, Genya completed a powerful Lightning-Attribute Rasengan that pierced through two boulders.

• Jiraiya invited Genya, Sasuke, and Naruto to barbecue, and Genya ordered nearly everything on the menu for Jiraiya to pay for.
• Genya brought Jiraiya past his construction site, where Ninja Academy students paid him training fees while working.
• Genya used Shadow Clones to experiment with adding lightning nature to the Rasengan, failing repeatedly through the morning.
• Genya compressed the Lightning-Attribute Rasengan into a dark-blue sphere and pierced two boulders with it.

Genya agreed to escort an Uchiha shipment after learning the clan’s business was under attack, while Utatane Koharu secretly ordered another assault. In the Land of Fire’s capital, Genya watched masked warriors attack Princess Yunji’s carriage and grew interested after hearing about her generosity.

• Obito confronted Genya over revealing their earlier encounter, but Genya explained that the Uchiha-Konoha conflict would benefit Obito, and Obito warned him not to do it again.
• Fugaku asked Genya to escort an important construction-material shipment after repeated attacks, and Genya accepted for a reward.
• Utatane Koharu ordered her clan to hire black-market experts to stop Uchiha shipments from reaching Konoha.
• Genya’s group reached the capital and learned from Uchiha Kinmo that the Toyotomi Clan was obstructing the Uchiha’s construction project.
• Masked warriors attacked Princess Yunji’s carriage while Genya watched from a hotel, then asked Kinmo to repeat what he had said about her.

Genya rescued Princess Yunji from masked attackers and negotiated a reward, while discovering Toyotomi Shunxiu was behind the ambush. After Toyotomi threatened him and left, Genya secretly struck him in the knees with stones.

• Genya leaped into the fight, killed one masked warrior, and defeated the rest of the attackers.
• Genya questioned the surviving masked leader, but Toyotomi Shunxiu attacked him before Princess Yunji stopped the confrontation.
• Princess Yunji thanked Genya and agreed to pay him 250,000 ryo if he came to the Daimyo Residence the next morning.
• Toyotomi Shunxiu urged Princess Yunji to imprison Genya, but the surviving attacker killed himself before revealing who had sent him.
• Toyotomi threatened Genya after Princess Yunji departed, and Genya secretly hit Toyotomi's knees with two stones, making him fall.

Genya collected his payment from Princess Yunji, agreed to investigate Toyotomi Shunxiu’s retainers for two million ryo and future business support, and then began a solo night raid on their courtyard. He discovered a Kaguya Clan member among the retainers and left the raid underway after killing two men.

• Genya collected his payment from Princess Yunji and declined her offer to become a retainer of the Daimyo Residence.
• Princess Yunji asked Genya to eliminate Toyotomi Shunxiu’s retainers, and Genya agreed to investigate in exchange for two million ryo upfront and the Daimyo Residence’s future help with Uchiha business.
• Genya returned to the Uchiha outpost and ordered intelligence gathered on the Toyotomi Clan’s retainers.
• Genya learned that the group included around twenty retainers, among them seven or eight ninjas and a member of the Kaguya Clan.
• Genya entered the Toyotomi courtyard alone at night, killed two retainers, and knocked an innocent songstress unconscious.

Genya fought through the Toyotomi Clan's retainers and defeated Kaguya Chokū, a Kaguya Clan warrior with Shikotsumyaku. After revealing his Sharingan, Genya persuaded Kaguya Chokū to submit, healed him, and brought him to the Uchiha outpost.

• Genya killed the Toyotomi Clan's retainers with his Sharingan, Fire Style, and Wood Style techniques.
• Kaguya Chokū ambushed Genya and fought him with Shikotsumyaku, but Genya overwhelmed him with Wood Release and Fire Style: Rasengan Crimson Flame Burst.
• Genya offered Kaguya Chokū the choice to follow him or die, then removed his mask and revealed his Sharingan.
• Kaguya Chokū agreed to submit, and Genya treated his injuries before they left together.
• Genya returned to the Uchiha outpost with Kaguya Chokū, who introduced himself to Uchiha Kinmo.

Genya escorted a convoy of building materials back toward Konoha after securing Princess Yunji’s payment and leaving the injured Kaguya Chokū at the Uchiha outpost. When enemies approached the convoy’s camp at night, Genya sounded the alarm and attacked first.

• Genya treated Kaguya Chokū’s wounds and left him in Uchiha Kinmo’s care at the Capital City outpost.
• Princess Yunji praised Genya for eliminating the Toyotomi Clan’s retainers, offered him a place in the Daimyo Residence, and paid him as promised.
• Genya set out for Konoha with a convoy of building materials and ordered Uchiha Tekka to scout ahead.
• Genya led the convoy across a stone bridge after checking it for danger, then kept watch through the night.
• Genya sensed twenty or thirty approaching enemies, shouted an alert, and hurled kunai with Explosive Tags into the forest.

Genya defended the Uchiha convoy from the Utatane Clan, defeating their summoned spider and many of their fighters. After Kakuzu appeared to protect Utatane Renpo, Genya prepared to fight him.

• Genya and Uchiha Tekka guarded the convoy as the Utatane Clan attacked with a summoned giant spider, Yatsukahagi.
• Genya drew Yatsukahagi away from the horses and killed it with fire techniques and Explosive Tags.
• Genya joined the battle against the Utatane Clan and helped his Shadow Clone overpower Utatane Renpo.
• Kakuzu appeared after Utatane Renpo called for help and agreed to fight Genya for ten million ryo.
• Genya dispelled his Shadow Clones and charged at Kakuzu to test himself in battle.

Genya fought Kakuzu after the mercenary attacked the Uchiha and Utatane forces, then killed their employer, Utatane Renpo, to end the conflict. Kakuzu withdrew without payment, and Genya checked that his people were safe before continuing his mission to escort construction materials to Konoha.

• Genya and Kakuzu traded powerful taijutsu blows before Kakuzu revealed his Earth Grudge Fear hearts and unleashed Fire Style attacks.
• Genya countered Kakuzu with a fire technique, dodged his severed-hand attack, and slammed him into a rock wall.
• Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear monsters attacked with Wind Style, and Genya struck back with Lightning Style: Rasengan Wild Lightning Spear.
• Genya evaded Utatane Renpo's Wind Style attack, injured him, and killed him after taking him hostage.
• Genya told Kakuzu that his employer was dead, and Kakuzu withdrew after handing him a card offering his services as an assassin.
• Genya asked Uchiha Tekka to assess their people, and Tekka reported that four were injured but none were in immediate danger.