Chapter Summaries

Hatake Kakashi joined the Ninja Academy’s second-year class after scoring full marks on the entrance exam, drawing attention from his classmates. A few days later, the Third Hokage discussed Kakashi’s record-breaking results with Mirai.

• Hatake Kakashi introduced himself to his new classmates, and the teacher explained that he was four years old and had skipped the first year after earning full marks on the entrance exam.
• Hatake Kakashi interrupted the teacher when he began to mention Kakashi’s father, then took his assigned seat beside Nohara Rin.
• Nohara Rin greeted Hatake Kakashi, but he barely acknowledged her before the teacher began the lesson.
• Mirai met with the Third Hokage, who asked whether Jiraiya had contacted her during his six-month absence; Mirai said he had not.
• Mirai and the Third Hokage discussed Hatake Kakashi’s record-setting academy results, while the Third Hokage noted that his talent still needed time to be assessed.

Mirai learned that the Third Hokage wanted him to assess the Ninja Academy students and serve as an example for them. After visiting his former teacher Narita with Kushina Uzumaki, he studied the academy register and saw Kakashi at the top of the evaluations.

• The Third Hokage asked Mirai to inspect the students’ abilities and explain that he wanted Mirai to set an example for them.
• Mirai agreed and recognized that he still had much to learn beyond strength.
• Mirai visited Narita at the Ninja Academy, where he reunited with his former teacher and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Mirai explained that Lord Hawkeye had asked him to teach and assess the students, and Narita gave them the academy register.
• Mirai reviewed the register at home and found Kakashi ranked first by a wide margin.

Namikaze Mirai reviewed the Ninja Academy student roster and was pleased to see Rin and Obito, vowing to fulfill his duties as their teacher. When he introduced himself at the training grounds, the students doubted his age until Kakashi and another teacher explained his role as a hero of the Second Shinobi World War.

• Namikaze Mirai noticed Rin and Obito on the student roster and resolved to teach them properly.
• Namikaze Mirai introduced himself as the students’ teacher, surprising them because he looked so young.
• Kakashi defended Namikaze Mirai and described how he had helped save Konoha’s forces and end the Second Shinobi World War.
• Nohara Rin questioned Kakashi’s account, while Uchiha Obito asked a nearby teacher to confirm it.
• The teacher confirmed Namikaze Mirai’s reputation, leaving the students staring at him in disbelief.

Mirai taught the Academy students the fundamentals of throwing ninja tools, demonstrating his remarkable speed and precision. The students admired him, while Kakashi recognized how difficult it was to control wooden weapons so accurately.

• Kakashi told the students that Mirai had accomplished extraordinary things while still a child, and the students began to admire him.
• Mirai encouraged the students to work hard and said they would achieve things of their own.
• Mirai appeared at the training ground and explained that accurate throwing relied on insight, technique, and control of strength and movement.
• Mirai threw wooden shuriken and kunai so precisely that they collided and formed straight lines in the air.
• Kakashi recognized the exceptional control Mirai displayed with wooden ninja tools.

Mirai taught the youths that precise control mattered more than the tools themselves, demonstrating how he could make kunai fall from wooden stakes by striking them with stones. He then began a lesson on taijutsu, explaining that it did not require chakra.

• Mirai showed the youths how controlling his strength let him strike several stakes with stones and make their kunai fall at nearly the same time.
• Kakashi asked Mirai how he had done it, and Mirai explained that he had created different vibration frequencies in the stakes.
• Mirai told the youths to focus on their throwing technique rather than their weapons and urged them to develop their own strengths.
• Mirai began the physical-training lesson by explaining that taijutsu could be learned by anyone able-bodied, unlike ninjutsu, which required chakra.

Mirai taught the Academy students about taijutsu and called for two students to spar. Kakashi easily defeated Obito, who charged at him again after being humiliated.

• Mirai explained that chakra gave ninjas greater physical abilities and invited two students to demonstrate taijutsu.
• Kakashi stepped forward, and Obito challenged him while Might Guy also tried to volunteer.
• Obito rushed Kakashi with a punch, but Kakashi dodged and struck him beneath the chin, knocking him down.
• Kakashi proposed changing opponents because Obito was outmatched, but Obito stood up and charged again with his attention focused.

Mirai helped Obito adjust his approach against Kakashi during their sparring match. Obito and Kakashi ended up on even footing, while the students wondered what Mirai had told him.

• Kakashi struck Obito in the abdomen and sent him flying with a kick.
• Mirai caught Obito, stopped him from charging again, and whispered advice to him.
• Obito rushed Kakashi again, and Kakashi dodged his attacks without countering.
• Obito crouched to sweep Kakashi’s leg as Kakashi punched him, leaving both boys staggered without either gaining the upper hand.
• Mirai praised Obito, who smiled after noticing Nohara Rin’s hopeful expression.

Mirai stopped Kakashi and Obito’s sparring match, then explained how understanding an opponent’s strengths and weaknesses shaped their fight. He began teaching the class to compare strength and speed, identifying Obito as physically stronger than Kakashi.

• Kakashi exploited Obito’s repeated attack and kicked him, sending him flying.
• Mirai stopped Obito from attacking again and sent him back to the line.
• A student asked Mirai why Obito had suddenly fought more fiercely, and Mirai explained that he had described both fighters’ strengths and weaknesses.
• Mirai told the class that taijutsu had no fixed formula and that fighters should compare their strength and speed.
• Kakashi and Obito gave their names, and Mirai said Obito’s greater strength and age gave him an advantage.

Mirai explained how Kakashi and Obito’s sparring match demonstrated the importance of using one’s strengths and managing a battle. He left the students with the lesson that observation was a shinobi’s most fundamental priority.

• Mirai explained that Kakashi’s speed and endurance helped him outlast Obito’s strength and direct fighting style.
• He described how Obito followed his advice to use brute force, while Kakashi adapted after one round and exploited his skill.
• Mirai told the students to capitalize on their strengths, avoid their weaknesses, and control the course of a fight.
• Genma Shiranui eagerly reacted to Mirai’s lesson, and Mirai asked the students what Kakashi had done well.
• Sarutobi Asuma recognized that Kakashi had understood Mirai’s ideas and used his own advantages, prompting Mirai to explain the importance of observation.

Mirai gave the Ninja Academy students a lesson about loyalty, personal growth, and the Ninja Way, then discussed his speech with the Third Hokage. The chapter ended with Kakashi defeating Obito in training.

• Mirai delivered a speech urging the students to grow strong enough to protect the village and follow their own Ninja Way.
• The Third Hokage watched Mirai's speech through a crystal ball and praised his insight, while Mirai explained why he had chosen to speak from the heart.
• The Third Hokage and Mirai watched the students and spoke of nurturing them into protectors of the village.
• Kakashi defeated Obito in a training match, formed the seal of reconciliation, and offered Obito a hand.

After reconciling with Kakashi at the Ninja Academy, Obito left alone and trained deep into the night. Mirai rescued him when he nearly fell, then offered him food and urged him to take care of himself.

• Obito formed the Seal of Reconciliation with Kakashi, then broke it and returned to the line while Lin looked on happily.
• At the end of the school day, Obito walked away alone, and Mirai watched him leave instead of returning to Elm Fortress.
• Obito trained by himself in Konoha’s back mountain while Lin secretly watched before heading home.
• After hours of training, Obito tripped and nearly struck his head on a rock, but Mirai appeared and pulled him to safety.
• Mirai shared food with Obito and told him that eating well would help him train better, bringing tears to Obito’s eyes.

Mirai encouraged Obito to keep pursuing his dream of becoming Hokage and protecting Konoha. The two agreed to work toward that dream, with Obito promising to take the Hokage position from Mirai one day.

• Mirai urged Obito to eat and regain his strength, and Obito finished his meal feeling better.
• Obito asked why Mirai had come to the training ground, and Mirai said he had once trained there alone.
• Mirai asked Obito about his dream, and Obito said he wanted to become Hokage to protect Rin and the village.
• Mirai reassured Obito that his dream was possible and shared that he also wanted to become Hokage and protect Konoha.
• Mirai and Obito agreed to pursue their dreams, and Obito vowed to succeed Mirai as Hokage.

Five-year-old Hatake Kakashi passed the Ninja Academy graduation exam by creating five clones with the Clone Technique. Obito heard the news from Rin and reacted with frustration.

• Hatake Kakashi took the graduation exam despite being younger than the other candidates.
• Kakashi created two clones, which each made two more, and passed the Clone Technique exam.
• Kakashi received his Leaf forehead protector and left the examination room.
• Rin told Obito that Kakashi had passed and graduated early.
• Obito clenched his fists after hearing the news.

Obito reacted to Kakashi’s graduation by pushing himself through training, while Mirai recognized the source of his distress. As Mirai prepared for the evening, a mysterious rumble shook the world and frightened both him and the weakened Nine-Tails.

• Rin told Obito that Kakashi would graduate from the Ninja Academy the next day, and Obito ran back toward the classroom in distress.
• That evening, Obito ignored Rin and the others and disappeared before they could stop him.
• Obito trained obsessively in Konoha’s back mountain, and Mirai realized Kakashi’s graduation had upset him before leaving him food.
• Mirai sensed a world-spanning rumble while opening his wardrobe, and the Nine-Tails inside his soul reacted with panic.

Mirai suffered a painful time-and-space disturbance that felt like the one that brought him and half of the Nine-Tails into the past ten years earlier. He suspected someone else had traveled through time and space, and the disturbance had likely occurred in the west.

• Mirai doubled over in pain as faint voices sounded within his soul.
• An ancient voice sensed that the disturbance was stronger than the one ten years earlier and wondered if it had happened in the Land of Wind.
• After the pain subsided, Mirai recognized the disturbance as the force that had brought him and half of the Nine-Tails back to this era.
• Mirai reasoned that someone else might have traveled through time and space, despite that possibility not appearing in his memories.
• Mirai asked the Nine-Tails what it had sensed, but it did not answer.
• Mirai concluded the disturbance had probably occurred in the west.

Ye Han joined Kushina in celebrating Kakashi’s graduation, while the weakened Nine-Tails sensed that its other half was near. Kakashi remained focused on the gap between himself and Ye Han despite receiving congratulations and a gift.

• Ye Han set aside his doubts and went with Kushina to celebrate Kakashi’s graduation.
• The weakened Nine-Tails trembled after sensing its other half.
• Ye Han and Kushina arrived at the barbecue restaurant, where Kakashi and his peers welcomed them.
• Kushina gave Kakashi a graduation gift and introduced herself to his classmates.
• Ye Han congratulated Kakashi, who compared himself unfavorably to Ye Han.
• Ye Han told Kakashi not to put too much pressure on himself.

A blond Konoha ninja awoke in an intact Rōran and realized he might have arrived in the city’s past. When guards discovered him, he fought back with shadow clones and a Spiral Pill.

• The blond ninja woke in an unfamiliar place and suspected it was Rōran, though he remembered the city as ruined.
• He left his chamber and marveled at the intact hexagonal buildings, then sensed guards hiding nearby.
• A guard spotted him, and the patrol surrounded the blond ninja.
• The ninja used Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, but the guards’ armor repelled his clones and its blades destroyed many of them.
• Blue chakra flickered as the ninja launched a Spiral Pill.

Yuweizhen fought off Rōran’s armored guards, then discovered that someone was using the Dragon Vein to locate him across the city. He hid by masking himself with natural energy, but remained anxious about the vanished city’s return and its unknown controller.

• Yuweizhen’s Rasengan damaged the armored guards, but purple lightning from a building repaired their armor.
• Yuweizhen used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to scatter the guards and escape amid the chaos.
• Yuweizhen hid in another building and sensed a powerful force flowing beneath all of Rōran.
• Yuweizhen recognized the force as the Dragon Vein’s power and realized it was being used to find him.
• Yuweizhen covered his body with chakra infused with natural energy to conceal himself.

Mirai and Kushina planned to leave Konoha on a mission to investigate a strange feeling they both seemed connected to. Just as they set out to find the Hokage, a member of the secret division summoned Mirai for an urgent mission.

• After Kakashi's celebration, Kushina told Mirai that she had felt something important calling to her and asked to leave the village on a mission.
• Mirai agreed to accompany Kushina and planned to investigate the feeling's connection to the change in space and time.
• The next morning, Kushina met Mirai at his home, and they prepared to go to the Hokage Building.
• A member of the secret division appeared and told Mirai that the Hokage wanted him for an urgent mission.

Mirai was urgently summoned to the Hokage’s office, where the Third Hokage showed him intercepted Sunagakure intelligence about Roran, an isolated desert country in the Land of Wind. The report revealed that Roran’s queen had died months earlier, and the chapter ended as Mirai and the Third Hokage considered the unexpected news.

• Mirai received an urgent summons and left Kushina to report to the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage gave Mirai a scroll containing intelligence intercepted from Sunagakure.
• Mirai read that Roran’s queen had suddenly died several months earlier.
• The Third Hokage explained that Sunagakure also seemed unaware of the queen’s death.