Chapter Summaries

At Konoha’s elementary school, Qingcheng asked the students about their dreams and then demonstrated his powerful Uchiha Fire Release Ninjutsu. The flames destroyed the nearby training ground, leaving the students stunned and Naruto determined to train harder to surpass Sasuke.

• Qingcheng asked the students about their dreams, and they said they wanted to protect Konoha, become elite ninjas, support their families, or become Hokage.
• Kiba Inuzuka joked about becoming Hokage and making everyone raise dogs before changing his ambition to leading the Police Force.
• Toraji and the other students asked Qingcheng to demonstrate his Fire Release, while Principal Kankan warned that ninjutsu should not be revealed casually.
• Qingcheng told everyone to move to the edges of the field and unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, engulfing the field in flames and melting the ground.
• Qingcheng’s fire spread into the neighboring training ground and reduced it to ruins, shocking Principal Kankan, Iruka, and the students.
• Naruto wondered how he could counter Sasuke if Sasuke learned such a powerful technique and resolved to ask Kakashi to teach him stronger Wind Release.

Qingcheng extinguished his Great Fire Annihilation with a massive Water Release, flooding the Ninja Academy training grounds. He left Kankan with new plans for the academy before Ino rejected Sasuke’s refusal to date her by declaring she would marry Qingcheng instead.

• Qingcheng unleashed Great Fire Annihilation, burning the training grounds and part of the school wall, while Sasuke admired its power.
• Qingcheng used Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave to extinguish the flames, leaving the low-lying training grounds flooded.
• Qingcheng told Kankan to keep the flooded grounds for Fire and Water Release practice and to raise graduation standards, add combat drills, and make low-level Ninjutsu available to students.
• Naruto cheered at the chance to learn more Wind Release, while Sasuke dismissed the D-rank techniques and praised Qingcheng’s powerful jutsu.
• Ino asked Sasuke to date her, but Sasuke rejected her, so she vowed to marry Qingcheng and become Sasuke’s sister-in-law.
• Teacher Mayumi returned with tea, mistook the damaged, flooded school for the aftermath of rain or an attack, and learned from Iruka that Qingcheng had already left.

Qingcheng’s new ninjutsu training policy drew a flood of applicants, while the ANBU and Police Force hunted spies trying to steal Konoha’s secrets. Shouhon Yihan exposed Mizuki’s treachery and ordered his arrest despite his attempt to pose as a loyal Konoha ninja.

• Kakashi and Yamato struggled to teach the many Apprentice Jonin and civilian jonin seeking guidance on ninjutsu form transformations.
• Konoha ninjas submitted applications to study ninjutsu, while the ANBU caught forged applicants and joined the Police Force in interrogating spies.
• Shouhon Yihan’s forces hunted spies from several villages and identified Mizuki as a Konoha Chunin who had sold intelligence and planned to defect to Otogakure.
• As Police Force members and ANBU surrounded Mizuki’s house, Mizuki killed an Otogakure spy and carried the body outside, claiming he had exposed Konoha’s spy.
• Shouhon Yihan ordered Mizuki arrested and sent to the Police Force prison, dismissing his denials and promising to make him remember his crimes.

Qingcheng offered Kakashi an Uchiha Enhancement Vaccine to counter the Chakra drain from Obito’s Sharingan, then injected him and used Medical Ninjutsu to help him adapt. Kakashi’s eye awakened into a Mangekyō Sharingan as the vaccine began taking effect.

• Kakashi reported that 532 people had come to choose Ninjutsu and followed Qingcheng into the Hokage’s Office.
• Kakashi insisted he would not return the Sharingan Obito had entrusted to him, and Qingcheng explained that it constantly drained his Chakra.
• Qingcheng offered Kakashi an Uchiha Enhancement Vaccine and promised to deduct its cost from his salary.
• Qingcheng injected Kakashi with the Hashirama Vaccine, causing a fleshy growth to appear and Kakashi’s Sharingan to transform into a Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Qingcheng used the Mystical Palm Technique to help Kakashi fuse with the vaccine, and Kakashi remarked on Qingcheng’s Medical Ninjutsu.

Qingcheng watched Kakashi begin merging the First Hokage Vaccine, then summoned Yamato and appointed him Minister of Agriculture while keeping him in ANBU. The chapter ended with Yamato embracing Qingcheng’s suggestion that he could rob people off duty without implicating Konoha.

• Kakashi began merging the Chakra from the First Hokage Vaccine while Qingcheng considered using him to lead the Fat Water Plan.
• Qingcheng summoned Yamato from the ninjutsu study room after Yamato instructed the Apprentice Jonin to keep practicing.
• Qingcheng appointed Yamato Minister of Agriculture, assigning him to oversee construction and crop production while retaining his ANBU captain role and salary.
• Yamato asked whether he could skip Qingcheng’s wedding gift because he had lent his salary to Kakashi, and Qingcheng told him to find money, even by robbing the Land of Fire off duty.
• Yamato concluded that he could rob employers and bandits outside the village on his own time without involving Konoha.

Qingcheng ordered Yamato to build a Ninja Academy and explained his scheme to finance Konoha by disguising Police Force members as rogue ninjas. He then revealed that Kakashi’s Mangekyō Sharingan had been awakened by someone else and named its dojutsu Kamui.

• Qingcheng told Yamato to build the Konoha Ninja Academy and training grounds, then have students collect trash around the village.
• Qingcheng praised Shouhon Yihan and the Police Force for demolishing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Hokage Rock, while Kakashi questioned the plan to rob the Land of Fire.
• Qingcheng explained that Shouhon Yihan would lead disguised Police Force members in the Fat Water Plan, and that Aburame Torune’s team was scouting wealthy regions.
• Qingcheng instructed Kakashi to collect mission rewards by taking ANBU through the Land of Fire and delivering the heads of foreign spies from Konoha Prison.
• Kakashi described his newly empowered Mangekyō Sharingan, and Qingcheng told him that Obito’s eye had not been awakened by Kakashi and that its dojutsu was called Kamui.

Uchiha Qingcheng told Kakashi that Obito had survived and was helping Madara pursue the Eye of the Moon Plan. Qingcheng prepared Kakashi’s eye against Obito and sent him to train as Konoha braced for trouble from other villages.

• Qingcheng revealed that Obito had survived, caused Minato’s death, and helped Itachi exterminate the Uchiha Clan.
• Qingcheng ordered Shouhon Yihan and the Police Force to dig up Obito’s grandmother’s grave and dispose of her ashes.
• Qingcheng explained Madara’s survival and the Eye of the Moon Plan to Kakashi, then warned him to protect his Mangekyō Sharingan from Obito.
• Qingcheng inscribed Izanagi onto Kakashi’s eye, making it go blind if someone removed it.
• Qingcheng gave Kakashi five days off to train and master the Hashirama Vaccine, and Kakashi vowed to protect Konoha from threats within and beyond the village.

The Fourth Raikage planned to exploit Konoha’s upheaval by targeting its bloodline clans and jinchūriki, but the Jōzen Clan’s defection exposed the damage caused by Hidden Cloud Village’s Strengthening Plan. After Dodai warned that the policy was driving clans and civilians away, the Raikage suspended it and ordered the defectors hunted down.

• The Fourth Raikage announced plans to send an envoy to Konoha and seize its bloodline clans, including the Byakugan and Nine-Tails jinchūriki, while Dodai warned that Uchiha Qingcheng’s power could spark a war.
• Darui reported that the Jōzen Clan had defected, and the Fourth Raikage ordered their techniques and savings seized and the clan killed.
• Dodai warned that the Strengthening Plan had prompted three clans to defect and driven civilians from Hidden Cloud Village, calling it a plan that could ruin the village.
• The Fourth Raikage suspended the Strengthening Plan but refused to refund the fines already spent, then ordered his forces to deal with the rogue ninja first.

The Hidden Stone and Hidden Sand villages assessed Konoha’s turmoil and their own problems, while Terumi Mei prepared to overthrow Yagura in the Hidden Mist. The chapter ended with Ao suspecting that someone controlled the Fourth Mizukage and proposing to examine him with his Byakugan.

• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi discussed Konoha’s upheaval and decided to wait for the Hidden Cloud to act before seeking an opportunity to plunder them.
• The Fourth Kazekage lamented the Hidden Sand Village’s destruction and lack of funds, then ordered Baki to intensify the search for Kakuzu.
• Kakuzu fled through the desert after losing four hearts to Rasa, Chiyo, and the other Sand shinobi, and vowed to take revenge.
• Terumi Mei called for a coup to remove Yagura and elect a new Mizukage.
• Ao warned Terumi Mei that the Fourth Mizukage might be controlled and offered to examine him with his Byakugan.

Obito controlled Yagura and ordered the Hidden Mist Village to attack Konoha, while Terumi Mei and her allies fled after their coup plot was discovered. In Konoha, Director Manato delivered intelligence to Qingcheng, who continued studying the Scroll of Seals as his Shadow Clones handled paperwork.

• Yagura ordered ANBU to arrest Terumi Mei and the other coup plotters, but Obito then controlled him and commanded the Hidden Mist Village to attack Konoha.
• Terumi Mei suspected there was a spy among the conspirators and led them toward the docks as ANBU closed in.
• Director Manato reviewed intelligence from the ninja villages and confirmed that Konoha would stop sending agents into the sealed Land of Water.
• Qingcheng studied the Scroll of Seals while more than forty Shadow Clones processed documents in the Hokage's Office.
• Manato reported to Qingcheng and marveled at his use of Shadow Clones to manage Hokage duties.

Qingcheng reviewed intelligence about crises in the major shinobi villages and joked with Torishi Manato about exploiting their troubles. After Manato left, Qingcheng learned that the Police Force had desecrated Obito’s grandmother’s grave and planned to use photographs to torment Obito.

• Torishi Manato gave Qingcheng reports describing the Fourth Raikage’s extortion campaign and the defection and destruction of three Hidden Cloud clans.
• Qingcheng and Manato discussed Deidara’s explosions in Hidden Stone Village and Kakuzu’s attack on Hidden Sand Village, which had burned much of the village before he escaped.
• Manato reported that scouts sent to Hidden Mist Village had vanished, and Qingcheng said its Bloody Mist policies had driven away most capable ninja.
• Qingcheng claimed Danzo was a spy because he copied the Bloody Mist system for Root trainees, and Manato accepted the accusation.
• Shouhon Yihan told Qingcheng that the Police Force had dug up Obito’s grandmother’s remains, ground the bones into powder, and dumped them in Konoha’s toilets.
• Qingcheng learned that the Police Force had photographed the desecration and said he would use the pictures to break Obito when he appeared.

Sasuke and Toraji headed out to pick up trash for Principal Kankan’s class activity while Qingcheng reflected on the unpaid student labor. Ashimoto Mirei returned to the lavishly renovated Uchiha compound and learned that Qingcheng’s wedding, identified as the Fifth Hokage’s, was scheduled for next Tuesday.

• Sasuke complained about having to pick up trash, and Toraji followed him with lunch and reminders that their class had to join the activity.
• Sasuke and Toraji argued about the Uchiha, their ambitions to become Hokage, and who would serve as Danzo.
• Qingcheng watched Sasuke and Toraji leave and thought that student trash pickup would beautify the village without requiring wages.
• Ashimoto Mirei returned to find the Uchiha compound greatly expanded and renovated, with a backyard, swimming pool, and ten training grounds.
• Yamahuku told Meiling that Qingcheng was choosing formal attire and that the wedding would take place next Tuesday.
• Yamahuku explained that the wedding was the Fifth Hokage’s and that guests’ seating would depend on their status and gift money.

Qingcheng and Kurenai Yuhi chose their wedding outfits while Yugao and Anko discussed their training and Meiling’s return. The Police Force announced Qingcheng and Kurenai Yuhi’s wedding across Konoha, prompting villagers and clan members to think about wedding gifts.

• Qingcheng picked a red God Robe wedding outfit, and Kurenai Yuhi chose a red-and-white gown with Anko’s praise.
• Qingcheng teased Anko about eating dango, while the women continued cultivating the Strength of a Hundred Seal and improving their abilities with enhancement vaccines.
• Yugao told Qingcheng that Meiling was returning from her family home, and they joked about Meiling’s mahjong losses.
• Police Force members announced that Qingcheng would marry jonin Kurenai Yuhi next Sunday and urged Konoha residents to attend the banquet at the Uchiha Clan.
• Villagers worried they could not afford wedding gifts, clan members planned generous red envelopes, and elementary school students lamented that they had no money to give.

Qingcheng left the Uchiha compound for the Hokage Building after tending to his household and discussing Konoha’s recovery. He announced another two billion Ryo in support for Konoha’s ninja and prepared to launch the Fat Water Plan by targeting the Land of Fire’s wealthy.

• Meiling avoided mahjong with Yugao, Anko, and Kurenai Yuhi, then thanked Qingcheng for renovating the compound and making her father principal of the Ninja Academy.
• Qingcheng departed for the Hokage Building as Kameida Meikai and the Police Force announced his wedding and demanded wedding gifts from villagers.
• Villagers congratulated Qingcheng, who urged them to train harder and pledged two billion Ryo from the Uchiha Clan to support Konoha’s ninja.
• After Konoha’s economy began recovering, Qingcheng prepared the Fat Water Plan to seize wealth from the Land of Fire’s magnates and affluent families for Konoha.

Kakashi struggled with the heavy workload and Konoha’s financial crisis while serving as Assistant Hokage, with Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu helping manage village affairs. Qingcheng arrived as they discussed funding medical repairs, and he recognized the danger of delaying mission rewards for civilian ninja.

• Kakashi complained that Qingcheng left him to handle the Hokage’s paperwork, ANBU, and ninja training, while Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu had been recalled from retirement to assist him.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu compared Kakashi’s responsibilities to the Second Hokage’s work under the First Hokage, who spent his time gambling.
• Kakashi reviewed the Medical Department’s request for one billion Ryo to repair equipment and said the village could not afford it.
• Utatane Koharu proposed using mission rewards to pay for the repairs, but Kakashi rejected the idea because it would harm the ninja who relied on those payments.
• Qingcheng entered the office and considered how withholding mission rewards from civilian ninja could cause unrest and cripple Konoha.

Qingcheng faced Konoha’s unpaid bills and ordered the Police Force to rob wealthy towns in the Land of Fire under the guise of rogue ninjas. The chapter ended with Aburame Torune leading the disguised force out of the village to begin the Fat Water Plan.

• Kakashi presented Qingcheng with requests totaling 3.8 billion ryo for medical equipment, infrastructure, and overdue wages.
• Qingcheng rebuked Kakashi and Mitokado Homura, then said he would consider a coup against the Land of Fire when the timing was right.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu warned Qingcheng about the risks of attacking the daimyo and his allies.
• Qingcheng revealed that Police Force members had disguised themselves in Root uniforms and ordered Aburame Torune to lead them in robbing wealthy towns.
• Aburame Torune led the Police Force out of the village, while Qingcheng instructed them to spare victims and pose as rogue ninjas from major villages.

Qingcheng laid out an economic expansion plan for Konoha built around legal casinos, population growth, trade, and missions. He also proposed monitoring foreign spies for mass arrests, exploiting their labor, and establishing a military ration factory.

• Qingcheng ordered Shouhon Yihan to raid Konoha's existing casinos and move their money to the Hokage Building.
• Qingcheng told Shouhon Yihan to establish a legal casino district on Food Street to attract visitors and stimulate business.
• Qingcheng proposed attracting immigrants and wealthy merchants, exporting surplus grain, and creating more high-paying missions for Konoha.
• Qingcheng warned that incoming civilians must not become ninja and proposed watching spies until they gathered, then capturing them and putting them to work in a factory.
• Qingcheng proposed opening a military ration factory and selling Konoha's rations to the major ninja villages.

Shouhon Yihan led the Police Force in raiding Gouju's casino, arresting its owner and seizing billions in cash and evidence of his ties to Minister Matsutan. Qingcheng read the letters exposing Matsutan's opposition to Konoha and considered the money raised through confiscation.

• Shouhon Yihan brought the Police Force to Gouju's casino and ordered its staff to seize everything and capture the owner.
• Gouju claimed the casino was legal and invoked his ties to the Daimyo's Estate, but a Police Force officer knocked him unconscious and arrested him.
• Shouhon Yihan fined the gamblers, then had the Police Force strip the casino and seize over five billion in cash and usury notes, including Tsunade's.
• Shouhon Yihan ordered the Police Force to destroy the usury notes and send the money to the Hokage Building.
• Qingcheng received the seized funds and letters linking Gouju to Minister Matsutan and Konoha intelligence, while Kakashi remarked that the raid had brought in 5.7 billion Ryo.

Qingcheng allocated Konoha’s new wealth to village development, shinobi subsidies, and plans to recruit villagers and orphans. He also arranged new work for Yamato and set Naruto and Sasuke on a path to compete, leaving Kakashi shocked that Qingcheng knew Chidori through Danzo’s inheritance.

• Qingcheng gave Kakashi control of the village treasury and assigned him to strengthen Konoha, while Shouhon Yihan offered casino equipment for the planned Konoha Casino.
• Qingcheng set aside 2 billion Ryo for mission shinobi and criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi for burdening the village with Sarutobi Clan debts.
• Qingcheng tasked Mitokado Homura with bringing in villagers and orphans, then learned Yamato was recovering at Konoha Hospital and ordered him to build military-ration factories and an Explosive Tag research hall.
• Qingcheng promised Kakashi free access to Icha Icha Paradise and suggested that he teach Naruto the Rasengan while Qingcheng taught Sasuke Chidori.
• Qingcheng demonstrated Chidori to a stunned Kakashi and explained that he had learned it from Danzo’s inheritance.

Qingcheng enjoyed his time with Tsunade and oversaw the Police Force's hugely profitable raid in the Land of Fire, easing Konoha's financial crisis. He arranged for the seized supplies to help villagers and shinobi families, then announced a grand wedding feast at the Uchiha Clan estate.

• Qingcheng beat Tsunade at mahjong, and Tsunade returned to the Senju Clan with Shizune to study how to win.
• Kurenai Yuhi and the others discussed Qingcheng and Tsunade's relationship and the child they had conceived.
• Aburame Torune returned with the Police Force carrying about 2.7 billion Ryo worth of gold, 6.9 billion Ryo, and large quantities of supplies seized in the Land of Fire.
• Qingcheng praised the Police Force, rated the mission S-rank, promised each member one million Ryo, and asked Torune to lead the next side hustle.
• Qingcheng ordered the seized food and necessities distributed to shinobi in training, bereaved families, and orphanages.
• Qingcheng announced a grand wedding feast, and Kakashi promised to arrange leave so shinobi on duty could attend.