Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Shinichi reassured Uzumaki Mito that he did not regret risking his life to save the Uzumaki Clan, then proposed training its members as medical ninja and establishing a hospital in Konoha. The plan could help the clan earn the village’s acceptance while expanding medical care.

• Tsunade told Hyuga Shinichi he would recover, and Uzumaki Kushina promised to learn how to care for him.
• Uzumaki Mito worried that Shinichi’s dangerous plan had nearly cost him his life, and he explained that he had acted to save her clan and spare her grief.
• Uzumaki Mito comforted Shinichi and told him she wanted him to live as much as she wanted to protect the Uzumaki Clan.
• Hyuga Shinichi told Tsunade that the Uzumaki Clan’s vitality and chakra made its members well suited to becoming medical ninja.
• Hyuga Shinichi proposed that the Uzumaki Clan staff and manage a hospital, giving Konoha better medical care and helping the clan gain the villagers’ acceptance.
• Uzumaki Mito recognized that the hospital plan could give her clan a secure place in Konoha while benefiting the village’s existing clinics.

Tsunade and Uzumaki Mito began training the Uzumaki Clan in medical ninjutsu, while Shinichi recovered in the hospital. As the clan members integrated into Konoha and gained the villagers’ trust, Mito urged Tsunade to wait before opening a hospital until the trainees were ready.

• Tsunade proposed creating a hospital and medical training center, and Mito agreed to help the Uzumaki Clan learn medicine.
• After eating, Shinichi fell asleep and dreamed that he spent his life looking after the children of Minato, Kushina, Naruto, and Hinata.
• Mito and Tsunade taught the Uzumaki Clan medical skills, and Hiruzen supported their training by assigning retired medical ninjas to assist.
• More than a dozen Uzumaki Clan members learned the Mystical Palm Technique in under half a month, but Mito warned Tsunade not to open a hospital before they were sufficiently trained.
• Former Uzumaki patrol members passed Konoha’s ninja exams, earned forehead protectors, and formed friendships with Konoha ninjas during missions.

Uzumaki Mito reflected on the Uzumaki Clan settling into Konoha, Nawaki’s growing closeness with Uzumaki Michiko, and Uzumaki Kushina’s fear of becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. She brought Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi to a familiar tower and hinted that she would show them something there.

• Uzumaki Mito heard from Hyuga Shinichi that Nawaki and Uzumaki Michiko appeared to have mutual feelings, and she hoped they would marry someday.
• Uzumaki Kushina learned she would become the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and grew more dependent on Uzumaki Mito.
• Uzumaki Mito told Kushina that a Jinchuriki could still find happiness through love, but that love had to be pursued rather than simply awaited.
• Uzumaki Mito took Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi through Konoha, where they saw Uzumaki Clan members mixing happily with villagers.
• Uzumaki Mito brought them to the tower where she had taken Hyuga Shinichi as her student and remarked that she had not visited in a long time.

Uzumaki Mito showed Uzumaki Kushina the tower’s seals and explained the difference between a whirlpool and a rising spiral as they climbed to the rooftop. Looking out at Senju Hashirama’s Kage Rock, Kushina took Mito’s words about finding love and seeing a different future to heart.

• Uzumaki Mito explained how the Uzumaki Clan’s power had drawn hostility and how the tower’s crest strengthened a Jinchūriki’s seal.
• Uzumaki Kushina worried that she would be kept in the tower as the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and Uzumaki Mito comforted her.
• Uzumaki Mito led Uzumaki Kushina and Hyuga Shinichi up the spiral staircase, explaining how its rising path differed from a flat whirlpool.
• At the tower’s rooftop, Uzumaki Mito showed Kushina the view of Senju Hashirama’s Kage Rock and recalled coming there when she was sad.
• Uzumaki Mito urged Uzumaki Kushina to keep climbing toward love and a different view of life, and Kushina promised she would.

Hyuga Shinichi brought Uzumaki Kushina to her first day at the Ninja Academy, where his legendary reputation drew the class’s attention. Kushina entered Namikaze Minato’s class and stood ready to be introduced.

• Uzumaki Mito told Hyuga Shinichi that he was the same and reflected that she hoped to watch him grow up.
• Hyuga Shinichi escorted Uzumaki Kushina to her assigned class, where the students recognized him as an Academy prodigy.
• Hyuga Shinichi tried to calm Kushina by suggesting she imagine her classmates as tomatoes, but she laughed after picturing their heads as bowls of ramen.
• The teacher welcomed Kushina, and she entered the classroom after Hyuga Shinichi encouraged her.
• Uzumaki Kushina recognized Namikaze Minato, remembered running away from him before, and blushed as the teacher began introducing her.

Uzumaki Kushina introduced herself to her class, announced her dream of becoming Konoha’s first female Hokage, and settled into school with encouragement from Hyuga Shinichi and Namikaze Minato. Shinichi left the Academy after telling Kushina to stand up for herself if anyone bullied her.

• Uzumaki Kushina introduced herself, but her classmates focused on her red hair and made her lower her head.
• Hyuga Shinichi used his Byakugan to pressure the students into silence, then encouraged Kushina with a gentle smile.
• Uzumaki Kushina declared that she wanted to become Konoha’s first female Hokage, and Namikaze Minato shared his own Hokage dream.
• The teacher seated Kushina in front of Minato, and Shinichi asked Minato to look after her during class.
• Shinichi left the Ninja Academy after telling Kushina to hit back if anyone picked on her and promising to handle any trouble.

Uzumaki Kushina fought back against classmates who mocked her red hair and dream of becoming Hokage, earning the nickname “Bloody Habanero.” Meanwhile, Hyuga Shinichi found himself with nothing to do because his friends had gone on a mission and Tsunade had ordered him to rest.

• Uzumaki Kushina’s classmates called her Tomato and mocked her ambition while Namikaze Minato watched from nearby.
• When a student grabbed her hair, Uzumaki Kushina seized his hand, threw the surrounding students, and beat the green-clad student who had led the teasing.
• Namikaze Minato watched Uzumaki Kushina defend herself, while she mistook his smile for mockery and shouted at him.
• Uzumaki Kushina beat up the classmates who had mocked her and gained the nickname “Bloody Habanero.”
• Hyuga Shinichi learned that Inuzuka Gai and Aburame Tomohiro had recovered enough to go on a mission, but he had to rest as Tsunade had instructed, leaving him with nowhere to go.

Hyuga Shinichi found Might Duy collapsed after an intense workout and discovered the enormous weights he was training with. After sealing the weights into a scroll, Shinichi carried Duy toward Uncle Maruda’s ramen cart.

• Hyuga Shinichi spotted a green-clad man collapse and recognized him as Might Guy’s father, Might Duy.
• Might Duy mumbled about completing thousands of push-ups, squats, and laps while unconscious.
• Hyuga Shinichi failed to lift Duy and discovered he wore four-hundred-pound weights on each leg.
• Hyuga Shinichi sealed the weights into a scroll using the basic Sealing Jutsu he had learned from Uzumaki Mito.
• Hyuga Shinichi carried Might Duy toward Uncle Maruda’s ramen cart.

Hyuga Shinichi and Might Duy recovered from their earlier ordeal over a ramen-eating contest at Maruda’s cart. Afterward, Shinichi returned Duy’s 800-pound weights, and Duy explained that he trained with them to keep improving and reach his goal.

• Hyuga Shinichi brought the unconscious Might Duy to Maruda’s ramen cart, where Duy woke to the smell of ramen and began eating.
• Might Duy and Hyuga Shinichi competed to see who could eat more, and Duy won by a landslide.
• Maruda told them not to overeat, and Shinichi refused Duy’s offer to pay for the meal.
• Shinichi unsealed Duy’s 800-pound weights, and Duy strapped them back onto his legs.
• Might Duy said the heavy weights helped him improve and reach his goal, and Shinichi wished him success.

Might Duy recalled how he found and trained to master the Eight Inner Gates, then received encouragement from Hyuga Shinichi. Xiao Chun arrived and invited Duy to dinner, leaving him yet to answer while Shinichi anxiously watched their exchange.

• Might Duy remembered finding a scroll about the Eight Inner Gates and spending years training despite people mocking him for remaining a Genin.
• Hyuga Shinichi encouraged Might Duy, who was delighted to receive his support.
• Xiao Chun arrived to thank Might Duy for helping her grandmother, and Shinichi suspected she had a crush on him.
• Might Duy mistook Xiao Chun's blushing for a sign that she was overheated and advised her to avoid the sun.
• Xiao Chun invited Might Duy to her grandmother's home for a meal, while Hyuga Shinichi worried that he had accidentally interrupted their chance to meet.

Might Duy accepted Xiao Chun’s invitation to lunch, and Hyuga Shinichi left them alone before summoning Ao Qing at his training spot. Ao Qing confronted Shinichi over being reverse-summoned away during their last battle, while Shinichi tried to explain why he had done it.

• Might Duy agreed to have lunch at Xiao Chun’s home, and Hyuga Shinichi excused himself and wished her good luck.
• Hyuga Shinichi went to his waterfall training spot and summoned Ao Qing.
• Ao Qing wrapped around Shinichi’s face and angrily demanded to know why he had sent it away without asking.
• Shinichi explained that he had reverse-summoned Ao Qing during the battle in the Land of Whirlpools to help his teammates escape.
• Ao Qing recalled returning to the battlefield, finding Shinichi unconscious and learning he was safe, then waiting in vain for him to summon it.
• Ao Qing threatened to strangle Shinichi with its coils the next time he summoned it.

Hyuga Shinichi made peace with Ao Qing after she got angry that he had not summoned her to fight beside him, then asked her to demonstrate her Wood Style. When Ao Qing quickly ran out of chakra, Shinichi offered her an experimental Military Ration Pill he had made.

• Hyuga Shinichi apologized to Ao Qing for not summoning her, and she forgave him after warning him not to do it again without asking.
• Ao Qing denied caring about Shinichi and insisted she only wanted his help becoming a dragon; Shinichi promised to take her somewhere that might help in a few years.
• Ao Qing told Shinichi she was ten years old, then demonstrated her Wood Style by growing small roots and saplings and spitting wooden spikes.
• Ao Qing said her Wood Style exhausted her chakra after only a few uses, so Shinichi gave her an untested prototype Military Ration Pill to try.

Hyuga Shinichi gave Ao Qing a Military Ration Pill, helping him grow a huge tree with Wood Style before he passed out from chakra exhaustion. The next morning, Shinichi went running with Might Duy, and Xiao Chun arrived with rice balls she had made for Duy.

• Hyuga Shinichi explained that the Military Ration Pill could replenish Ao Qing's chakra and help strengthen his Wood Style.
• Ao Qing swallowed the pill, grew a large tree, and then passed out from using too much chakra.
• Hyuga Shinichi took Ao Qing home, where Ao Qing coiled around Shinichi until he gave him his pillow.
• Hyuga Shinichi met Might Duy on an early morning run and asked about his lunch with Xiao Chun.
• Xiao Chun found Might Duy and gave him rice balls she had prepared for his breakfast.

Xiao Chun gave Might Duy rice balls, and his enthusiastic praise made her believe he had accepted her feelings. As the Senju Compound prepared for a New Year's Eve celebration, Hyuga Shinichi took charge of cooking and began making fried pork patties and fries.

• Xiao Chun gave Might Duy rice balls, and he praised them as the best in the world, delighting her.
• Hyuga Shinichi encouraged Xiao Chun and told her she had made progress toward winning Might Duy's heart.
• Uzumaki Mito arranged a New Year's Eve celebration at the Senju Clan Compound to comfort the Uzumaki Clan after its move to Konoha.
• Hyuga Shinichi, Nawaki, and Namikaze Minato returned from shopping with ingredients and seasonings for the celebration.
• Hyuga Shinichi and Namikaze Minato carried supplies to the plaza, where Hyuga Shinichi began preparing fried pork patties with his secret spice blend.

Hyuga Shinichi prepared fried pork patties and potato sticks for the New Year's Eve gathering, winning over the guests and teaching the volunteer cooks about white pepper and ketchup. He then led everyone in preparing a feast, which Uzumaki Mito welcomed them to enjoy as the celebration began.

• Hyuga Shinichi served fried pork patties and potato sticks with homemade ketchup, and the children and adults praised the food.
• Hyuga Shinichi explained how he used white pepper in the pork and how he made the ketchup to the interested cooks.
• Hyuga Shinichi organized the volunteers as they prepared ingredients and cooked a variety of dishes.
• The guests gathered around the tables, and Uzumaki Mito welcomed everyone and invited them to enjoy the meal.
• Everyone sampled the feast and filled the gathering with cheerful conversation and praise for Hyuga Shinichi and the cooks.

At a New Year's Eve banquet, Hyuga Shinichi faced elders trying to introduce him to potential partners, while Uzumaki Michiko's father worried about her feelings for Nawaki. Watching Michiko care for him reminded Uzumaki Gangwu of his late wife, and he accepted that Nawaki could make his daughter happy.

• The Senju and Uzumaki elders tried to introduce young clan girls to Hyuga Shinichi, but Uzumaki Mito told them to let the children find their own happiness.
• Hyuga Shinichi said he was too young for matchmaking and suggested introducing someone to Nawaki, who said he already liked someone.
• Uzumaki Michiko overheard the exchange and felt relieved when the elders dismissed Nawaki, then struggled to hold back her laughter.
• Uzumaki Gangwu watched Michiko's reactions and worried that Nawaki might fail to notice her feelings and hurt her.
• When Michiko wiped sauce from her father's mouth, Uzumaki Gangwu remembered how his late wife had cared for him and decided that love could help Nawaki and Michiko manage together.

Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki performed a comedy routine at the New Year’s Eve celebration, then Shinichi unveiled colorful fireworks that amazed the crowd. Grandma Mito and Tsunade confronted him about the surprise, praised his work, and everyone welcomed the new year together.

• Hyuga Shinichi and Nawaki performed a humorous story about Shinichi’s mission, earning laughter and applause from the audience.
• Shinichi and his companions placed boxes of fireworks in the plaza as midnight approached.
• Namikaze Minato used Fire Style to light the fuses, and Shinichi’s modified fireworks burst into brilliant colors above Konoha.
• Shinichi watched the crowd’s delighted reaction as the fireworks filled the sky.
• Grandma Mito and Tsunade found Shinichi and asked him about the fireworks, then praised the wonderful memory he had created.
• Everyone enjoyed the fireworks and welcomed the new year together.

After New Year's Eve, Hyuga Shinichi began teaching Uzumaki Kushina Wind Style ninjutsu. Three months later, Kushina ran into trouble when two brothers confronted her, and Brown Brother threw a kunai at her as she fled through the trees.

• Hyuga Shinichi praised Namikaze Minato's Fire Style and agreed to teach Uzumaki Kushina ninjutsu after she asked him.
• Hyuga Shinichi tested Kushina's chakra affinity and began teaching her the C-rank Wind Style: Gale Palm.
• Three months later, Kushina encountered Green Brother and his older brother, Brown Brother, in a cherry grove on her way to train.
• Brown Brother claimed he would teach Kushina a lesson, and she tried to escape by leaping between trees.
• Brown Brother chased Kushina and threw a kunai at her as she jumped through the air.

Uzumaki Kushina fought back against two brothers who mocked her red hair, but their taunts about her being an outsider reopened old wounds. She accused Namikaze Minato of treating her like an outsider too, ran off crying, and wondered whether becoming Hokage would make everyone accept her.

• Uzumaki Kushina dodged a real kunai and attacked Brown Brother, but he used the Substitution Technique to strike her from behind and grab her by the hair.
• Uzumaki Kushina revealed she had used the Shadow Clone Technique, then hit Brown Brother with Wind Style: Gale Palm and beat him while declaring that her red hair was part of her.
• Brown Brother called Uzumaki Kushina an outsider and said outsiders could never become Hokage before fleeing, leaving her reminded of friends who had abandoned her.
• Uzumaki Kushina saw Namikaze Minato nearby and accused him of watching instead of helping her, then ran away in tears.
• Uzumaki Kushina stopped near Kage Rock and wondered whether becoming Hokage would make everyone accept her.

Hyuga Shinichi helped Uzumaki Mito and Tsunade plan Konoha’s first hospital and proposed medical insurance to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who agreed to discuss it with the village’s senior officials. Shinichi and Mito then attended Hatake Sakumo and Inuzuka Oto’s wedding, where the couple stood before the guests amid warm congratulations.

• Uzumaki Mito, Tsunade, and Hyuga Shinichi chose a site near the Senju Clan Compound and finalized plans for Konoha’s first hospital.
• Hyuga Shinichi proposed a medical insurance fund to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who said he would raise it at a meeting with senior officials.
• Hyuga Shinichi and Uzumaki Mito went to Hatake Sakumo’s home to attend his wedding to Inuzuka Oto.
• Hyuga Shinichi teased Inuzuka Gai about looking downhearted, and Gai said he worried his sister would be mistreated after marrying.
• Hatake Sakumo led Inuzuka Oto into the wedding venue, where the guests congratulated them and the couple stood beside the officiant.