Chapter Summaries

Kamiya Keiyun sought a way to secretly communicate with Uzumaki Kagura while avoiding the cautious ninja guarding her. Kamiya Yunxiao developed Secret Sound Transmission and discovered that focus and intention shaped Chakra, opening a new path for creating ninjutsu.

• Kamiya Keiyun considered poisoning the guards but rejected poisoning the water because Uzumaki Kagura would drink it too.
• Kamiya Keiyun summoned Kamiya Yunxiao to develop Secret Sound Transmission so he could speak to Uzumaki Kagura without being overheard.
• Kamiya Yunxiao experimented in the mountain wind and created a narrow air channel that transmitted sound up to seventeen meters.
• Kamiya Yunxiao realized that Chakra with purpose persisted outside the body and theorized that thought and intention were part of ninjutsu.
• Kamiya Yunxiao concluded that concentration strengthened ninjutsu and devoted himself to developing Secret Sound Transmission.

Kamiya Keiyun used Secret Sound Transmission to contact Uzumaki Kagura and told her he would poison the Kusagakure ninja’s water. After the ninja ate and planned their next moves, their chunin announced he would teach the genin the Clone Technique, disappointing Kamiya Keiyun.

• Kamiya Keiyun received Kamiya Yunxiao’s Secret Sound Transmission technique and contacted Uzumaki Kagura, who answered with a cough.
• Kamiya Keiyun told Uzumaki Kagura to eat the food but avoid the water, and she watched him poison the ninja’s supplies.
• Uzumaki Kagura hid her reaction as the Kusagakure ninja drank hot water and finished their meal.
• A genin asked the chunin whether they would recruit more bandits, and the chunin decided they would wait two days.
• The chunin offered to teach the three genin a ninjutsu, then revealed it was the Clone Technique, frustrating Kamiya Keiyun.

Kamiya Keiyun observed a Kusagakure chunin struggle to teach the Clone Technique and secretly spoke with Uzumaki Kagura from outside the house. Their conversation revealed that Kagura’s sensory ability far surpassed his own, and she began to feel warmth and trust toward him.

• Kamiya Keiyun watched three genin fail to learn the Clone Technique because they lacked basic training.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Uzumaki Kagura how she had detected him, and she revealed her Mind's Eye could sense people and Chakra within one kilometer.
• Kamiya Keiyun admitted his Spiritual Sense reached only five meters and learned that Uzumaki Kagura was fourteen.
• Uzumaki Kagura asked whether Kamiya Keiyun intended to bite her, and he said he wanted to save her from traffickers and believed she was talented.
• Uzumaki Kagura felt reassured and valued by Kamiya Keiyun, though he did not notice her growing emotional attachment.

Uzumaki Kagura recovered her confidence under Kamiya Keiyun’s guidance, began training in basic leg techniques, and stayed under guard with the Grass ninja. Meanwhile, Kamiya Yunxiao devised an umbrella-based flying idea and returned with the Purple Jade Umbrella, which Kamiya Keiyun concealed on his back.

• Uzumaki Kagura followed Kamiya Keiyun’s advice and accepted the chunin’s offer of a bath and clean clothes.
• Uzumaki Kagura changed into a purple dress, and Kamiya Keiyun reassured her about her bite marks before teaching her basic leg techniques.
• Uzumaki Kagura spent the night under the female genin’s watch and silently practiced while the genin began coughing from the poison.
• Kamiya Yunxiao proposed using an umbrella with High Heaven Long Song, then flew away to make one from purple bamboo.
• Kamiya Yunxiao returned by dawn with the Purple Jade Umbrella, and Kamiya Keiyun tested it before wrapping it in cloth and carrying it on his back.

A chunin and three genin discovered that they had been poisoned, while Uzumaki Kagura remained unharmed. Kamiya Bian Que revealed that he had poisoned them to test antidotes, leaving the four stunned by his claims that their suffering would benefit humanity.

• The chunin and his three disciples woke with painful mouth sores and burning lungs, then realized they had all been poisoned.
• The chunin suspected Uzumaki Kagura because she was the only one without symptoms and raised his blade against her.
• Kamiya Bian Que appeared at the stronghold entrance, and the chunin demanded that he hand over an antidote.
• Kamiya Bian Que unpacked antidotes and explained that he planned to use the mountain bandits to test them.
• Kamiya Bian Que said the bandits deserved death under Great Xia law but claimed he was sparing them so they could help develop treatments for poison.

Kamiya Keiyun forced the poisoned Kusagakure team to test antidotes while keeping Uzumaki Kagura close and concealing her unusual abilities. The chunin and three genin began taking the antidotes and writing down their reactions, while the chunin remained wary and tried to protect Kagura.

• The Kusagakure chunin weighed fighting Kamiya Keiyun against testing the antidotes, while worrying that Uzumaki Kagura's healing blood might be exposed.
• Kamiya Keiyun noticed Kagura had not been poisoned and threatened to use her as a hostage, prompting the chunin to agree to test the antidotes.
• The chunin divided the antidotes among his team, and Kamiya Keiyun ordered them to take one type every ten minutes.
• Kagura asked why the team was obeying, and Kamiya Keiyun explained that he had pressured the chunin into believing he had no other choice.
• The chunin asked Kamiya Keiyun for paper and pens to record their reactions, hoping to distract him from Kagura's condition.
• Kamiya Keiyun handed writing materials to the chunin and the three genin, who cooperated while trusting their captain's composure.

Kamiya Keiyun watched the four captured ninjas fail to find relief after testing every antidote and learned that Tsunade was renowned for treating poisons. He recognized that his Paraquat was poorly suited to assassination and told Uzumaki Kagura he would question the captives further before killing them.

• Kamiya Keiyun searched the empty supply cave and found scrolls marked for sealing, grain, and gold in the ninjas’ bedroom.
• The chunin captain exhausted twenty-four medicines without curing the poison, while Kamiya Bian Que explained how valuable the antidotes were.
• The chunin described Tsunade as the greatest medical ninja and demanded that Kamiya Bian Que provide an antidote.
• Kamiya Keiyun read the chunin’s notes about the poison’s progression and realized Paraquat caused prolonged suffering and might not work as an assassination poison.
• Uzumaki Kagura suggested killing the suffering captives, and Kamiya Keiyun agreed to question them first and then finish them off.

Kamiya Bian Que interrogated Tanzaburo, a Land of Grass chunin, and learned that his squad had robbed and massacred villages for Kusagakure. After recording the crimes and extracting information about techniques, sealing scrolls, and Tsunade, Kamiya revealed he had no antidote, and Tanzaburo attacked him.

• Kamiya Bian Que persuaded Tanzaburo to answer questions by making him believe he could earn an antidote, while Uzumaki Kagura recorded the answers.
• Tanzaburo identified himself as a twenty-three-year-old Land of Grass chunin and described Kusagakure’s forces, his techniques, and the mission to raid settlements for supplies and money.
• Tanzaburo recounted the squad’s thirty-one raids, which killed 1,186 civilians and stole nearly forty-seven million ryo; Uzumaki Kagura grew furious as she recorded the details.
• Tanzaburo explained that poor victims could not afford missions to stop the raids and that the squad transported their loot with Sealing Scrolls, whose instructions he also wrote down.
• Tanzaburo said Tsunade was in Konoha and was renowned as the world’s greatest medical ninja and an expert in detoxification.
• When Tanzaburo asked for the antidote, Kamiya Bian Que admitted he had none, and Tanzaburo drew his sword and attacked.

Uzumaki Kagura escaped Tanzaburo while he realized the squad had targeted Kusagakure’s robbery records rather than his life. Believing he would be captured and used as a sparring target, Tanzaburo killed himself before learning who his enemies were.

• Tanzaburo struck down Kamiya Bian Que, only to discover he had killed a weak clone.
• Uzumaki Kagura used her Basic Leg Techniques to flee beyond Tanzaburo’s reach.
• Tanzaburo realized the squad had taken the interrogation record documenting Kusagakure’s crimes, while leaving his manuals behind.
• Tanzaburo guessed that a powerful Jonin led the squad and believed they planned to use him for Genin training.
• Tanzaburo declared that Kusagakure ninja would not be toyed with and cut his own throat.

Kamiya Keiyun and Uzumaki Kagura confirmed that Tanzaburo had died and confronted the three Genin at the mountain stronghold. Keiyun killed two of them and tested Kagura’s blood on the remaining female Genin, but it could not stop the poison from killing her.

• Kamiya Keiyun revealed that Kamiya Bian Que had been his clone, and Uzumaki Kagura confirmed that Tanzaburo was dead.
• Kamiya Keiyun questioned Kagura about the remaining Genin’s Chakra and learned that her impressions of Chakra differences were only intuitive.
• Kamiya Keiyun and Uzumaki Kagura reached the stronghold, where the three Genin admitted they knew no useful Ninjutsu or swordsmanship.
• Kamiya Keiyun killed two Genin by kicking stones into their foreheads while the poison left them unable to move.
• Kamiya Keiyun had Uzumaki Kagura give her blood to the surviving female Genin, but it only briefly slowed her decline and could not cure the poison.

Kamiya Keiyun examined Tanzaburo’s weapons, swordsmanship manual, and sealed supplies, then hid the recovered money and food underground. Uzumaki Kagura failed to learn Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique but chose to follow Kamiya wherever he went.

• Kamiya Keiyun burned the ninja tool bags and found that Tanzaburo’s ordinary steel sword could not conduct Chakra.
• Kamiya Keiyun tried to learn Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique but discovered he lacked fire nature, and Uzumaki Kagura could produce only black smoke.
• Kamiya Keiyun studied the Grass Style Swordsmanship manual and learned its basic forms, ultimate techniques, and secret Crescent Moon Consecutive Form.
• Kamiya Keiyun opened the sealed scrolls and found grain and about one million four hundred thousand taels in money.
• Kamiya Keiyun buried the remaining scrolls in a sealed underground tunnel and urged Uzumaki Kagura to leave with him.
• Uzumaki Kagura said she would follow Kamiya Keiyun wherever he went.

Kamiya Keiyun learned about Uzumaki Kagura’s past and the destruction of the Land of Whirlpools, then trained her in several techniques during their journey toward Konoha. He left her in Kiso County with money and instructions to wait, while she vowed to make Konoha suffer if anything happened to him.

• Kamiya Keiyun asked Uzumaki Kagura about her origins, and she explained that the Land of Whirlpools had been destroyed after Konoha failed to aid its ally.
• Uzumaki Kagura recounted how her father died while they were wandering, and how she eventually settled in Kami Tree Village before the Grass ninja took her to the mountain.
• Kamiya Keiyun comforted Uzumaki Kagura and taught her Catching Wind and Shadow, the Shadow Clone Technique, and the Bright Virtue Method as they traveled.
• Uzumaki Kagura quickly mastered several techniques and used her large Chakra reserves to create powerful Mud to Stone constructs, though she could not learn Wind Moves Clouds Flow.
• Kamiya Keiyun gave Uzumaki Kagura five hundred thousand ryo in Kiso County and told her to leave if he did not return within two months.
• Kamiya Keiyun went on alone toward Konoha, and Uzumaki Kagura vowed to make Konoha suffer if anything happened to him.

Kamiya Keiyun returned home and learned that Tsunade had likely left Konoha with Kato Shizune, easing his worry that she might cure his poison. He also heard that Hatake Sakumo had been reassigned and began outlining a new plan involving Kamiya Hiromi and Shimura Ken.

• Kamiya Keiyun returned to the Training Room, where Sanyō, Ruri, and Hei Bei had been waiting for him.
• Sanyō told Kamiya Keiyun that Hatake Sakumo had been reassigned to the Jonin Squad and that Tsunade had apparently left Konoha with Kato Shizune.
• Sanyō explained that Hei Bei’s relatives had found the Senju Ancestral Home empty, strengthening the report that Tsunade had left the village.
• Ruri said a child at school had looked at her strangely, then transformed into Sarutobi Asuma’s lackey for Kamiya Keiyun to identify.
• Kamiya Keiyun wrote down Kamiya Hiromi and Shimura Ken as he prepared to explain his plan.

Kamiya Keiyun reassured Kamiya Sanyō that he would use his poison to force Shimura Ken to end their engagement, then recruited her and their animal companions into the Cloud Leaf Society. The new organization began forming its departments as Keiyun prepared to confront Shimura Ken.

• Kamiya Keiyun explained that he would poison Shimura Ken if he refused to call off his engagement to Kamiya Sanyō.
• Kamiya Sanyō agreed to support her brother and help investigate Konoha's hidden secrets.
• Kamiya Keiyun founded the Cloud Leaf Society, named Sanyō head of its Information Department, and declared its goal was the sea of stars.
• Hei Bei and Ruri both chose to join the Information Department rather than the Engineering or planned Medical Department.
• Kamiya Sanyō trusted that Keiyun could overcome the final hurdle of Shimura Ken.

Kamiya Keiyun prepared to use the presumed-dead Tsukishina Teru as a disguise for his planned operation involving Shimura Ken. He designed a backstory and combat abilities for the identity, leaving a new Primordial Spirit Jade Edict in his Mental Space.

• Kamiya Keiyun studied Konoha’s layout, patrol schedule, and Shimura Ken’s nightly route to plan an operation without implicating the Kamiya Family.
• Kamiya Keiyun altered his clones’ Chakra presence and learned from Sanyō that Tsukishina Teru had supposedly died when Moon Shrine Palace was burned.
• Kamiya Keiyun chose Tsukishina Teru, a priest from Moon Shrine Palace who had once loved Sanyō, as his cover identity.
• Kamiya Keiyun developed Tsukishina Style Swordsmanship and the techniques Curtain of Night, Silent Domain, and Holy Light Mist for Tsukishina Teru.
• Kamiya Keiyun created a Primordial Spirit Jade Edict for sixteen-year-old Tsukishina Teru, listing Curtain of Night, Tsukishina Style Swordsmanship, and Holy Light Mist as his skills.

Kamiya Keiyun sent his high-Chakra clone, Tsukishina Teru, to persuade Shimura Ken to cancel his wedding to Kamiya Sanyō. Shimura Ken refused and drank the poisoned ritual wine Tsukishina Teru had brought, leaving the outcome of the poisoning unknown.

• Kamiya Keiyun used patrol intelligence gathered by Sanyō to choose a night when Shimura Ken would be away from the Shimura compound.
• Tsukishina Teru met Shimura Ken near the compound and claimed to be Kamiya Sanyō's former lover, asking him to annul the marriage.
• Shimura Ken mocked Tsukishina Teru, refused to cancel the wedding, and agreed to drink with him.
• Tsukishina Teru and Shimura Ken drank the ritual wine, which contained Paraquat, while Shimura Ken believed he had won their rivalry.
• After Tsukishina Teru left, Shimura Ken told a Shimura Chunin about the encounter and noticed a burning sensation in his chest.

Tsukishina Teru used Curtain of Night to escape four Uchiha guards at Konoha’s gate after poisoning Shimura Ken. Shimura Ken’s family raised the alarm and requested a village lockdown, while the Uchiha captain set out to report the mysterious technique to his clan head.

• Tsukishina Teru cast Curtain of Night over Konoha’s gate, and the four Uchiha guards took a defensive formation until the darkness faded and he had escaped.
• The Uchiha captain ordered three guards to stay at the gate and went to report the incident to his clan head, suspecting the technique was meant to counter the Sharingan.
• Shimura Ken realized the wine Tsukishina Teru had given him was poisoned and called for help, prompting guards to summon a medical ninja and sound the alarm.
• Shimura Kuma arrived with Shimura Clan Jonin, confirmed that Shimura Ken was poisoned, and learned the attacker’s name and alleged motive.
• Shimura Kuma ordered the Hokage and Danzo to be notified and requested a village lockdown, then asked for Tsunade before learning she had left Konoha more than half a month earlier.

After Tsukishina Teru escaped Konoha following his poisoning of Shimura Ken, Sarutobi Hiruzen sent newly promoted Jonin Namikaze Minato to capture him. Minato quickly tracked Teru down, and their confrontation began when Teru refused to surrender.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Tsukishina Teru had escaped through Konoha's gate and ordered Minato to pursue him.
• Hiruzen assigned Minato an A-rank mission to capture Teru before three more ninja squads departed.
• Minato followed Teru's obvious trail and found him leisurely roasting a rabbit less than eight kilometers from Konoha.
• Teru admitted that he had poisoned Shimura Ken but said he would not surrender, prompting Minato to attack.

Tsukishina Teru tested his combat strength against Namikaze Minato, but Minato’s speed and skill overwhelmed him. Minato exposed a flaw in Curtain of Night, leaving Tsukishina Teru surprised by how quickly he found the technique’s weakness.

• Tsukishina Teru recognized that Minato’s wind-assisted movements resembled Catching Wind and Shadow, then struggled to defend against his rapid kunai attacks.
• Tsukishina Teru cast Curtain of Night to obscure the battlefield and asked Minato to rank his combat strength among Konoha Jonin.
• Tsukishina Teru attacked Minato with Crescent Slash, but Minato blocked the strike and threw an explosive talisman at him.
• Minato used the talisman’s firelight to see through Curtain of Night and deduced that it changed the environment rather than affecting vision.
• Tsukishina Teru asked how Minato had noticed his earlier sword attack in the darkness, and Minato refused to reveal his method.

Minato tried to recruit Tsukishina Teru after mistaking his crude, self-developed techniques for the work of an undiscovered genius, but Teru refused because his poison had no antidote. Teru’s clone escaped, leaving Minato and the reinforcements unable to find his real body, and Minato concluded that Konoha’s conflict with him might now be impossible to resolve.

• Minato explained that he had sensed the wind around Tsukishina Teru’s sword and encouraged him to keep developing his swordsmanship.
• Minato offered to seek leniency and recruit Tsukishina Teru, but Teru said his poison had no antidote and refused to join Konoha.
• Tsukishina Teru revealed that his real body had already escaped, and Minato killed the figure in front of him, which turned out to be a clone.
• Kamiya Keiyun received the clone’s returned Chakra while Kamiya Ishiku worked to conceal the underground escape route and its scent.
• Minato failed to find any traces of Tsukishina Teru, and the arriving tracking squads could not pursue him without knowing where he had gone.
• Minato told the Jonin that Tsukishina Teru was probably a Chunin and regretted underestimating him on his first Jonin mission.