Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Chen challenged Uchiha Itachi at Training Ground No. 7 and completed his mission by defeating Itachi’s Shadow Clone, earning Uchiha Shurikenjutsu. After the reward helped him surprise Itachi and Shisui with a wire-and-Kunai attack, Chen appeared behind Itachi, leaving both Uchiha watching him with suspicion and surprise.

• Uchiha Chen set a trap for Uchiha Itachi, but Itachi appeared behind him and held a Kunai to his throat.
• Chen pretended to surrender, then used Itachi as a shield when an Explosive Tag ignited, only to discover he had defeated a Shadow Clone.
• The system declared the challenge complete and rewarded Chen with Uchiha Shurikenjutsu.
• Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui arrived, and Chen attacked them with a Shadow Shuriken technique and wire-guided Kunai.
• Chen used a smoke-producing substitution to appear behind Itachi, surprising him and drawing Shisui’s suspicion.

Uchiha Chen and Uchiha Itachi’s fight was interrupted by Uchiha Izumi, and an explosion left Itachi blushing after he accidentally landed on her. Chen’s system then assigned him a mission involving Uchiha Shisui, and Chen began planning how to beat him.

• Uchiha Izumi’s arrival distracted Uchiha Chen and Uchiha Itachi as their Explosive Tags went off, and both were thrown clear without injury.
• Uchiha Itachi accidentally landed on Uchiha Izumi, and Uchiha Chen noticed Itachi blush before explaining that he had challenged Itachi because Izumi often praised him.
• Shisui ended the training, and Uchiha Izumi took Uchiha Chen home while the system assigned Chen a challenge mission against Uchiha Shisui and an affection mission involving Itachi and Izumi.
• The system threatened Chen with a harsher punishment after he insulted it, and Chen apologized to avoid further changes to the mission.
• Uchiha Izumi confiscated Chen’s Explosive Tags, and Chen began considering an unconventional way to defeat Uchiha Shisui.

Uchiha Chen set a trap to challenge Uchiha Shisui and managed to catch him by combining transformation, smoke, and a wired substitution log. The chapter ended with Uchiha Shisui bound and slammed to the ground.

• Uchiha Shisui investigated Uchiha Chen and secretly watched him prepare traps at Training Ground No. 7.
• Uchiha Shisui offered to adjust Chen’s traps, but Chen revealed that he had set them to challenge Shisui instead of Itachi.
• Uchiha Chen challenged Uchiha Shisui, who agreed and moved away using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Uchiha Chen used a transformed wire, Kunai, and poisonous smoke to make Shisui believe he was facing a suspicious attacker.
• Uchiha Shisui tossed away the Explosive Tags, but Uchiha Chen grabbed him and substituted a wired wooden log into the fight.
• Uchiha Chen pulled the wires tight, binding Uchiha Shisui and dragging him heavily to the ground.

Uchiha Chen learned that the system had revoked its Flying Thunder God reward after revealing that he had only defeated Uchiha Shisui’s Shadow Clone. Shisui remained suspicious of Chen’s skills and went with him to inspect the materials his parents had left behind.

• The system awarded Chen Flying Thunder God for defeating Shisui, then revoked it when Shisui revealed he had fought with a Shadow Clone and changed the reward to Great Fireball Technique.
• Chen explained that his supposed poison smoke was only a dyed smoke bomb, while Shisui admitted he had been testing Chen’s intentions by pretending to lose.
• Shisui questioned Chen’s polished kunai skills, and Chen said his parents’ books and Izumi’s pointers had taught him.
• Chen left with Shisui before Itachi and Izumi could speak with them, saying he wanted to give Izumi and Itachi time together.
• Chen and Shisui returned to Chen’s home, where Chen brought out notes and other items his parents had left behind.

Uchiha Shisui tested Uchiha Chen’s chakra nature, cleared his suspicions, and gave him training materials for the Great Fireball Technique. After Shisui left, Chen learned how the system’s ability levels worked, then received a hunt mission targeting an unspecified person.

• Uchiha Shisui explained chakra natures, and Uchiha Chen’s chakra paper showed wind, fire, and lightning affinities.
• Uchiha Shisui stopped suspecting Uchiha Chen of being a spy, warned him to hide his three natures, and gave him a scroll with the Great Fireball Technique and training advice.
• Uchiha Chen accepted the scroll and resolved to save Shisui and the others during the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Uchiha Chen asked Shisui to give Itachi and Izumi time together before visiting Itachi, and Shisui agreed.
• Uchiha Chen learned from the system how abilities gained levels, argued with it over missions, and received a hunt mission with its target left unrevealed.

Uchiha Chen accepted a system mission to kill twenty bandits and left Konoha to hunt them. After killing nineteen, he discovered that Orochimaru had been hiding among them.

• Uchiha Chen received a mission to kill twenty bandits within 72 hours, with death as the penalty for failure.
• Uchiha Chen saw Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Izumi returning hand in hand, then received a complete set of Icha Icha Paradise as a reward for completing an affection mission.
• Uchiha Chen prepared weapons and traps, then used the system to travel outside Konoha.
• Uchiha Chen ambushed the bandits with traps, a Great Fireball Technique, and shuriken, killing most of them before overcoming his shock at taking lives.
• Uchiha Chen found that the mission counter showed 19/20, and Orochimaru emerged from the ground.

Uchiha Chen encountered Orochimaru after killing the bandits and had to fight to escape. Orochimaru left believing Chen was dead, while the system erased the Cursed Seal and hinted it could make further adjustments.

• Orochimaru confronted Uchiha Chen, and the system activated a mission requiring Chen to escape or die.
• Uchiha Chen attacked Orochimaru with a Great Fireball Technique and ran, but Orochimaru pursued him and questioned his connection to Konoha.
• Orochimaru offered Chen power and attempted to place a Cursed Seal on him.
• Uchiha Chen endured the attack, grabbed Orochimaru, and covered him with Explosive Tags, triggering an explosion that wounded them both.
• The system erased the Cursed Seal's abnormal energy and blocked Orochimaru's senses, allowing Chen to pretend to be dead until Orochimaru left.

Uchiha Chen received an Asauchi and the Shadow Clone Technique after escaping Orochimaru, then impressed Shisui and Itachi by using an unusually large Great Fireball. The chapter ended as Shisui asked how much chakra Chen had left and the system began a new notification.

• The system revealed it had marked Orochimaru, increased the failure rate of his experiments, and secretly saved pictures of Itachi and Izumi.
• Chen completed the escape mission and received the Soul of the Blade, the Shadow Clone Technique, and a pair of worn panties.
• The system explained that the Soul of the Blade was an Asauchi from outside the Naruto World, and Chen chose to keep it.
• Chen returned home while Orochimaru vowed to find him; Orochimaru's activity made Sarutobi Hiruzen watch him more closely.
• Chen went to Training Ground No. 7 and demonstrated a five-meter Great Fireball to Shisui and Itachi.
• Shisui asked Chen how much chakra he had left, and the system began another notification.

Uchiha Chen received a mission to defeat the Third, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and began devising a way to complete it despite the overwhelming gap in strength. Meanwhile, Orochimaru demanded more test subjects from Danzo to improve his Cursed Seal, and Danzo resolved not to remain dependent on him.

• The system assigned Uchiha Chen a mission to defeat Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Chen learned it had no time limit.
• Shisui and Itachi trained Chen in chakra control, while Shisui suggested he enroll in the Ninja Academy and then left for a mission.
• Chen examined his system abilities, considered using his Asauchi to gain Shikai, and came up with a possible way to defeat the Third.
• Orochimaru asked Danzo for more test subjects to improve the Cursed Seal, and Danzo told him to lie low because Sarutobi was suspicious.
• Orochimaru reminded Danzo that he needed his medicine, then left, and Danzo vowed to stop relying on him.

Uchiha Chen challenged the Third Hokage to complete his system mission, then fought him at the Hokage's training ground. The Third Hokage easily countered Chen's opening attacks, but Chen's Shadow Clone attack began to reveal a surprise.

• Danzo gave Hiruzen Sarutobi evidence of Orochimaru's human experiments, prompting the Third Hokage to go arrest his former student.
• Uchiha Chen ignored the system's advice to wait and infiltrated the Hokage Office Building to challenge the Third Hokage.
• Chen attacked with Shuriken, but the Third Hokage dodged, grabbed him, and took him to a training ground.
• Chen used the Great Fireball Technique and threw more Shuriken, which the Third Hokage blocked and evaded with ease.
• Chen created a Shadow Clone and attacked alongside it, just as an unexpected development appeared.

Uchiha Chen defeated Sarutobi Hiruzen with a foul-smelling weapon and earned the system’s challenge rewards, but an explosion from his newly strengthened fire technique left him unconscious. He woke in the hospital, where Sarutobi Hiruzen concealed his embarrassing defeat and offered to advise Chen on ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Chen’s clones threw ceramic spheres that Sarutobi Hiruzen destroyed, releasing a stench that knocked him unconscious.
• Uchiha Chen claimed victory, and the system awarded him Fire Style Mastery LV1 and upgrades to the Great Fireball Technique and Shadow Clone Technique.
• Uchiha Chen tested his strengthened Great Fireball Technique at the training ground, where the flames triggered an explosion that knocked him unconscious.
• Uchiha Chen woke the next day in the hospital, and Uchiha Izumi told him that Sarutobi Hiruzen had found and rescued him.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen offered to advise Uchiha Chen on ninjutsu, and Chen agreed while keeping quiet about the stench that had defeated him.

Uchiha Chen considered leaving Konoha to grow stronger and protect the people he cared about. After recovering, he intervened when three older boys bullied Hinata, then sensed killing intent as one of them charged at him.

• The system assigned Uchiha Chen a mission to ask the Third for instruction and learn Fire Release: Flame Bullet, with no penalty for failure.
• Chen worried that siding with the Third would worsen his standing with the Uchiha and wondered whether staying in Konoha would hinder his progress.
• Chen decided he might leave Konoha eventually, but first needed to settle matters there, and he did not visit the Third during his recovery.
• Half a month later, Chen had recovered, Uchiha Itachi had graduated early, Uchiha Shisui had become an elite jonin, and Izumi continued attending the Ninja Academy.
• Chen found three older boys bullying Hinata and threatened to report them for coveting the Hyuga House's Byakugan.
• One of the boys charged at Chen, who sensed killing intent and suspected someone had sent them.

Uchiha Chen rescued Hinata from a group of attackers and brought them to the Third Hokage, claiming they planned to steal her Byakugan. His account led Sarutobi Hiruzen to suspect Shimura Danzō, while Chen believed he had successfully turned suspicion against him.

• Chen stopped the children attacking Hinata, urged her to stand up to bullies, and escorted her to the Hyuga estate.
• The system teased Chen about Hinata’s affection for him, but Chen said he had no interest in pursuing her.
• Chen realized the attackers were ordinary children whose attempt to take Hinata’s Byakugan had been orchestrated by Danzo.
• Chen tied up the attackers and brought them to the Hokage Office Building, where he reported their plan to the Third Hokage.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen suspected Shimura Danzō had arranged the attack to weaken the Hyuga Clan’s ties to him, and Chen saw that his plan had worked.

Uchiha Chen obtained Flame Bullet from the Third Hokage and prepared to leave Konoha secretly to earn money and build a power base. Outside the village, he received bounty missions from the system and argued with it over the targets’ unreliable rank listings.

• Chen asked the Third Hokage for Flame Bullet, and the Hokage granted his request as a reward for catching a criminal.
• Chen asked the system to help him leave Konoha unnoticed, and it created a teleportation barrier that left him immobilized for ten seconds after use.
• Chen prepared Shadow Clones to cover his absence and told Uchiha Izumi he would be busy devising traps before leaving Konoha.
• Chen headed for the Underground Bounty Association, and the system offered him bounty missions with targets listed as Elite Chunin or stronger.
• The system explained that shinobi ranks varied between factions, and Chen realized the listed ranks did not reliably indicate a target’s strength.
• Chen fell out of a tree after the system joked about assigning him a mission to kiss Danzo, then called the system awful.

Uchiha Chen accepted a mission to protect Shion and her bell in the Land of Demons in exchange for the Flying Thunder God Technique, despite the system’s grotesque failure penalty. He reached an Underground Bounty Station and gained entry after defeating its guard, then followed a powerful, concealed observer inside.

• The system offered Chen the Flying Thunder God Technique as a reward for a mission he could choose, and Chen requested one in the Land of Snow or the Land of Demons.
• The system assigned Chen the Land of Demons commission to protect Shion and her bell, with failure meaning Shion’s death, the bell’s destruction, or Shion using her hidden power; the penalty was a passionate kiss with Orochimaru.
• Chen accepted the mission and hurried to the nearest Underground Bounty Station to take the commission.
• Chen found the station’s entrance in a restroom and learned that newcomers had to kill its guard to join.
• Chen killed the guard with his Great Fireball Technique, after which a powerful man appeared and invited him inside.

Chen accepted the Land of Demons mission and several bounties, then intimidated the daimyo after arriving to escort the Shrine Maiden and retrieve the previous Shrine Maiden’s token. The daimyo offered an elite samurai unit, but Chen rejected them and warned the samurai not to draw their swords.

• Chen accepted the Land of Demons mission and several target bounties at the Bounty Station.
• Four rogue ninja ambushed Chen outside, but he killed them and collected their bounties.
• Chen traveled to the Land of Demons, completing several more bounty missions along the way.
• Chen threatened Kurai Seiichi when the daimyo questioned his age, then learned he had to escort the Shrine Maiden to Moryo’s shrine and retrieve the previous Shrine Maiden’s token.
• Kurai Seiichi offered an elite samurai unit, but Chen rejected them and warned the samurai not to draw their swords.

Chen met Shion and tried to persuade her to go to Moryo’s shrine by explaining that her mother, Miroku, had sacrificed herself above all to protect her daughter. Shion reconsidered, and a special system mission appeared, requiring Chen to kiss her to obtain the Sexy Technique.

• Chen introduced himself as Blood Moon, and Kurai Seiichi ordered samurai to escort him to Shion.
• Shion refused to go to Moryo’s shrine, but Chen entered her room and showed her that he was a ninja.
• Chen told Shion that Miroku might be waiting for her and urged her to retrieve her mother’s belongings.
• Chen shared that he had lost his parents and argued that Miroku had sacrificed herself primarily to save Shion.
• Shion was moved by Chen’s explanation, and the system activated a mission for him to kiss her.

Chen took Shion to the Shrine so she could see her mother, Miroku, but Yomi and his subordinates ambushed them on the way. Chen fought back and killed Banner with a Great Fireball Technique.

• Shion asked to see her mother, and Chen agreed to take her to the Shrine despite the system's mission to kiss her.
• Shion left with Chen, and he carried her through the trees when she grew tired.
• Chen sensed Yomi and his subordinates following them and rejected Yomi's demand to hand over Shion.
• Yomi sent Kusuna, Banner, Shizuku, Setsuna, and Yoshitai to attack Chen.
• Chen's Great Fireball Technique overwhelmed Banner's Water Formation Wall and killed him, earning Chen one hundred points of proficiency.

Chen fought Yomi’s group while protecting Shion, killing Kusuna and persuading Yomi to kill his own subordinates before turning on him. After Chen wounded Yomi, the system ordered him to kill Yomi or be buried alive.

• Chen killed Kusuna with Flame Bullet after his clone’s Great Fireball Technique broke through Kusuna’s earth defenses.
• Shizuku, Setsuna, and Yoshitai attacked Chen, but Chen dodged their ninjutsu and caught them in a genjutsu that Yomi dispelled.
• Yomi offered Chen power and a place at his side, and Chen pretended to accept while suggesting Yomi kill his three subordinates.
• Yomi killed Shizuku, Setsuna, and Yoshitai, after which Chen attacked him and severed one of his arms.
• The system raised Chen’s Great Fireball Technique to LV3, granted it a Scorch effect, and ordered him to kill Yomi or suffer the penalty of being buried alive.

Chen fought Yomi while protecting Shion, but Yomi escaped after Chen cut him down and triggered an explosion that dropped them into a chasm. Chen and Shion woke trapped beneath earth and rocks, with Chen holding her and warning her not to move.

• Yomi charged at Chen with Moryo's power, and his severed arm grabbed Shion and pulled her away.
• Chen rescued Shion from Yomi's flames using a Shadow Clone and the Substitution Technique, then cut Yomi with his new Flowing Fire Blade.
• Chen told Shion to climb onto his back, but Yomi revived and fled before Chen could stop him.
• The system announced that Chen had failed the mission to kill Yomi, and an explosion collapsed the ground beneath Chen and Shion.
• Chen and Shion fell unconscious, then woke trapped under earth and rocks, where Chen held Shion close and told her not to move.