Chapter Summaries

Tsunade confronted Yamanaka Fu and the Police Force after they tried to fine her, while Utatane Koharu fled and agreed to help publicize Hiruzen Sarutobi's crimes. The clash left Tsunade stunned to learn that Qingcheng had become the Fifth Hokage.

• Yamanaka Fu and the Police Force threatened to fine Tsunade and arrest her, while Utatane Koharu apologized and hurried away to help expose Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tsunade prepared to fight the Police Force, but Shizune warned her that she was pregnant.
• Yamanaka Fu insulted Tsunade and threatened to fine her masked ANBU companions, prompting Tsunade to split the street with a kick.
• Qingcheng watched from the Hokage's Office window and denied responsibility, blaming the Third Hokage.
• Yamanaka Fu addressed Qingcheng as the Fifth Hokage and urged the Police Force to arrest Tsunade, leaving her shocked that Qingcheng had taken the position.

Tsunade confronted Qingcheng over his coup, the Police Force’s arrests, and the Sarutobi Clan’s destruction. Qingcheng defended his rule and invited her to appear with him at his inauguration ceremony.

• Tsunade watched ANBU ninjas flee from the Police Force, while Yamanaka Fu checked their names against a roster and ordered Yamanaka Fuuma arrested.
• Tsunade demanded that Qingcheng stop the Konoha Beautification Plan, but Qingcheng claimed the Police Force was simply enforcing the law.
• Tsunade asked what had happened to the Third Hokage and Sarutobi Clan; Qingcheng said the Third Hokage had died using the Reaper Death Seal and most Sarutobi ninjas had died in battle.
• Tsunade blamed Qingcheng for Konoha’s ruin, but he insisted he sought to make Konoha powerful and promised to gradually end the Konoha Beautification Plan.
• Qingcheng asked Tsunade what else she wanted and invited her to join him at his inauguration ceremony.

Konoha gathered for Uchiha Qingcheng’s inauguration as Fifth Hokage, while Naruto and Sasuke quarreled over who would become Danzo. The Police Force moved to arrest them as Yunye prepared a band to welcome Qingcheng’s appearance.

• Villagers and shinobi gathered at the Hokage Building for Uchiha Qingcheng’s inauguration, while Shouhon Yihan warned the crowd to support the new Hokage.
• Hinata spotted Naruto, who argued with Sasuke about who would become the Sixth Hokage and make the other take the blame as Danzo.
• Naruto and Sasuke challenged each other to a fight, with the loser agreeing to become Danzo.
• Kameida Meikai sent Police Force members to arrest Naruto and Sasuke, while Hinata warned Naruto about them.
• Yunye arrived with a band and prepared to play the Konoha Battle Song when the Fifth Hokage appeared.

Qingcheng prepared for his inauguration as the Fifth Hokage, trading teasing remarks with Tsunade and Shizune while they dressed him in his ceremonial robe. As the villagers and clan leaders gathered, Qingcheng headed to the Hokage Building rooftop, with Tsunade vowing to keep watch over him.

• Shizune arranged Qingcheng’s hair and prepared his Hokage robe while he and Tsunade argued about his promised compensation and her hemophobia treatment.
• Shizune added golden epaulets bearing the Uchiha Clan crest to Qingcheng’s robe, and he admired his appearance in the mirror.
• Tsunade warned Qingcheng not to fool around with female ninja and threatened to kill him if he did.
• Mitokado Homura told Qingcheng that the villagers and major ninja clans had gathered, and Tsunade ordered the inauguration ceremony to begin.
• Qingcheng put on the Hokage robe and walked toward the rooftop with Kakashi following, while Tsunade said she would keep an eye on him.

Uchiha Qingcheng’s inauguration as Fifth Hokage began with a huge crowd cheering as a stirring Konoha Battle Song played. The ceremony left Tsunade bewildered by Qingcheng’s influence and scolding Shizune for shouting her admiration.

• Qingcheng arrived on the rooftop with Kakashi and Tsunade as villagers hailed him as the Fifth Hokage.
• Yunye ordered the band to play the Konoha Battle Song, and the music sent villagers, ninja, and Police Force members into an ecstatic frenzy.
• Kurenai, Yugao, Anko, Meiling, Naruto, and Sasuke celebrated Qingcheng’s appointment, while Kankan admitted he no longer held prejudice against the Uchiha Clan.
• Police Force members calmed the overwhelmed Might Guy, who wept and vowed to burn with youthful passion like Qingcheng.
• Tsunade marveled at Qingcheng’s charm, then rebuked Shizune for shouting that she loved him.

At his succession ceremony, Qingcheng addressed Konoha as its Fifth Hokage and promised prosperity, shared Uchiha ninjutsu, jobs, and reforms to make the village the strongest among the Five Great Nations. The villagers enthusiastically backed him and condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.

• After the Konoha Battle Song, Naruto and Sasuke bickered until villagers and clan ninjas told them to quiet down for Qingcheng's speech.
• Qingcheng saw the gathered villagers, clans, and Konoha 12 Genin, while Tsunade lamented that she had no supporters at the ceremony.
• Qingcheng told the crowd that they had thwarted the Sarutobi Clan's Konoha Crush Plan and intercepted one hundred billion Ryo, prompting villagers to curse Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.
• Qingcheng promised to help villagers escape poverty and become prosperous, and the crowd thanked him and cheered.
• Qingcheng pledged to share Uchiha ninjutsu with Konoha ninjas, and civilian ninjas and academy students celebrated the chance to learn it.
• Qingcheng promised to create jobs and restore Konoha as the strongest ninja village among the Five Great Nations, and villagers cheered while blaming Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo for the village's troubles.

Uchiha Qingcheng concluded his succession ceremony with a speech urging Konoha to enrich itself at the expense of other villages, and the crowd enthusiastically embraced his rule. The ceremony ended with fireworks and Explosive Tags lighting up the village.

• Nara Shikadai, Nara Ji, and Yamanaka Inoichi regretted not supporting Qingcheng earlier as villagers loudly cursed Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō.
• Yamanaka Inoichi recalled Yamanaka Fu's raid on Yamanaka Fuuma's home and offered to help Yamanaka Jieyi meet Qingcheng, but Jieyi said Fu would introduce her.
• Qingcheng delivered his Will of Fire speech, urging Konoha's people to bring wealth from other villages into Konoha, while Tsunade listened with mixed feelings and Kakashi worried about Konoha's reputation.
• Qingcheng promised Konoha's residents a path to prosperity and declared the succession ceremony concluded as the crowd voiced support for him.
• ANBU shinobi launched Fire Release into the sky, Police Force members detonated Explosive Tags, and Uchiha One-Dragon Company played the Konoha Battle Song as villagers admired the spectacle.

Qingcheng took charge of Konoha’s administration as the Fifth Hokage, overturning Hiruzen Sarutobi’s policies and rejecting the village’s debts. When Tsunade warned that the clans who lent Konoha money would lose trust in its leadership, Qingcheng proposed having them arrested.

• Qingcheng vetoed plans to rebuild Root and buy expensive ninja tools, then ordered Shouhon Yihan to collect Police Force ninja tools and make them available to civilian ninja at low prices.
• Qingcheng sorted Konoha’s paperwork by priority while Tsunade watched him handle the Hokage’s duties.
• Qingcheng tore up the debts Hiruzen Sarutobi had incurred in Konoha’s name, and Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu blamed Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō.
• Tsunade warned Qingcheng that the lending clans would not accept their debts being erased, so Qingcheng suggested having the Police Force arrest them.
• Tsunade objected that arresting the clans would destroy their trust in Konoha’s leadership.

Qingcheng stopped Tsunade’s attack and revealed that he had mastered several techniques associated with the Senju Clan. The chapter ended with Tsunade asking him to teach her Wood Release ninjutsu.

• Tsunade attacked Qingcheng after he challenged her authority, but Qingcheng caught her fist with the Mystical Strength Technique.
• Tsunade recognized Qingcheng’s Yin Seal and sensed that his chakra and vitality resembled hers and her grandfather’s.
• Mitokado Homura explained that Qingcheng was a pure-blooded Uchiha, and Qingcheng said he had adopted Senju techniques because his clan could not defeat theirs.
• Qingcheng revealed that he had mastered the Strength of a Hundred Technique and secretly practiced Wood Release ninjutsu.
• Shizune asked Qingcheng to teach her the Yin Seal, and Tsunade asked him to teach her Wood Release.

Qingcheng claimed he had awakened Wood Release through training, while Tsunade and Konoha’s elders reacted with shock. When Qingcheng tried to send Tsunade away with the promised money, she decided to stay in Konoha and keep watch over him.

• Qingcheng told Tsunade he had mastered Wood Release, then renamed Tenzō Yamato and appointed him captain of the ANBU First Division.
• Yamato explained that Orochimaru had implanted him with Hashirama Senju’s cells, while Qingcheng claimed he combined Water, Earth, and Yang Release to awaken Wood Release.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu praised Qingcheng’s powers, and Tsunade recalled how Hashirama had taught her gambling instead of Wood Release.
• Qingcheng held Tsunade’s hand until she promised not to attack him, then offered her twenty billion and urged her to leave Konoha.
• Tsunade refused to leave, saying she would stay to watch Qingcheng and protect the village her grandfather had founded.

Qingcheng joked with Tsunade about her authority and proposed marrying her to collect wedding gifts from Konoha’s leaders. The chapter left Kakashi and the village elders worrying about the cost of Qingcheng’s planned weddings.

• Qingcheng offered Tsunade an absurdly grand title after she threatened to hit Tomoki, but Tsunade preferred to remain Minister of Medical Affairs.
• Qingcheng complained about Hiruzen Sarutobi and threatened to resurrect Danzo with Impure World Reincarnation; Tsunade believed Danzo had caused Nawaki’s death.
• An ANBU ninja reported that Konoha’s clans, jonin, and department heads had gathered for the village-wide assembly.
• Qingcheng told Tsunade he would announce their marriage and demand wedding gifts, threatening to seat stingy guests with the dogs.
• Tsunade cursed Qingcheng for trying to fleece the villagers, while Kakashi asked how many weddings he would have to fund.

Uchiha Qingcheng held his first meeting as Fifth Hokage and announced plans to make lower-ranked Ninjutsu freely available to Konoha ninjas. When he learned Might Guy had been excluded because he was only a Chunin, Qingcheng promoted him to Special Jonin and prepared to explain Guy’s importance.

• Shouhon Yihan apologized to the gathered Konoha jonin for the Police Force’s past actions, and Hayamoto Kumo-ma publicly asked to join the force.
• Uchiha Qingcheng entered the conference room with Tsunade, Kakashi, and others, then called for Might Guy.
• Shouhon Yihan explained that Might Guy had not been invited because he was only an ordinary Chunin.
• Uchiha Qingcheng promoted Might Guy to Special Jonin and ordered that he be summoned to future meetings.
• Uchiha Qingcheng told the puzzled jonin that he would explain Might Guy’s significance by mentioning someone they knew.

Qingcheng explained Might Duy’s feat against the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, then addressed Konoha’s debts and promised to rebuild the village. He left the clan heads relieved and ready to support his plans, before signaling that he still had more to say.

• Qingcheng told the gathered ninja that Might Duy had opened the Eight Gates and killed four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist while protecting Konoha’s supplies.
• Tsunade praised Might Duy as a worthy Konoha ninja, and the jonin recognized the Eight Gates Formation’s power.
• Qingcheng accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of embezzling village funds, prompting the clan heads to condemn him and ask about their loans to Konoha.
• Hizashi Hyuga and Tsume Inuzuka argued that the clans should not demand repayment from Qingcheng, while Shouhon Yihan began recording which clans had lent money.
• Qingcheng said he had destroyed the debt notes and would not pursue the clans over their past dealings, and the relieved clan heads promised to help rebuild Konoha.
• Qingcheng waved for everyone to sit down and said he still had something to tell them.

Qingcheng denounced Konoha’s treatment of White Fang, cleared Hatake Sakumo’s name, and ordered changes to the village’s memorials, school, and ninja training. He left the conference room with Hizashi Hyuga and Shouhon Yihan assigned to the memorial work, Iruka promoted to a full-time teacher, and Kakashi overseeing a new Ninjutsu study room.

• Qingcheng declared that Hatake Sakumo had been right to abandon his mission to save his companions and blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for his death and Konoha’s wartime troubles.
• Kakashi thanked Qingcheng for clearing his father’s name and asserted that Hatake Sakumo had been Konoha’s Elite Jonin, the White Fang.
• Hizashi Hyuga offered to replace Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Hokage Rock and burn books about him, and Qingcheng assigned him to handle the work with the Police Force.
• Shouhon Yihan volunteered the Police Force to carve Qingcheng’s Hokage Rock, and Qingcheng ordered the memorial work completed quickly.
• Qingcheng ordered White Fang’s words added to student textbooks, assigned a jonin teacher to find a new academy principal, and promoted Iruka to a full-time homeroom teacher.
• Qingcheng established a Hokage Building study room where ninjas could learn one B-rank Ninjutsu each month and put Kakashi in charge of the program.

Qingcheng announced that Konoha ninjas could study Uchiha and Root ninjutsu under strict safeguards, then introduced changes to the Beautification Plan and mission costs. He aimed to make ninja tools more affordable for ordinary ninjas, and the meeting ended with an invitation for further questions.

• Qingcheng allowed qualified Konoha jonin to study powerful ninjutsu once a month and warned them against leaking it to foreign spies.
• The ninjas and the Ino-Shika-Cho trio praised Qingcheng’s generosity and leadership.
• Qingcheng declared that Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Konoha Beautification Plan would end, but Shouhon Yihan argued for keeping it.
• Qingcheng compromised by halving fines and property and garbage management fees, while reducing A-rank and S-rank mission rewards by twenty percent.
• Qingcheng said the village would sell ninja tools at half price and use the reduced high-rank mission rewards to keep purchasing tools for ninja teams.
• Qingcheng asked whether anyone had more questions before adjourning the meeting.

Qingcheng and Tsunade argued over the terms of marriage, including her monthly allowance and control of the Uchiha Clan’s finances, before reaching a tentative agreement. Tsunade resented Qingcheng’s plans to return to his other wives as he left.

• Tsunade demanded twenty billion ryo and control of the Uchiha Clan’s finances, but Qingcheng rejected her terms and their first marriage negotiation collapsed.
• Tsunade and Qingcheng sparred at the Senju Clan Compound, after which Qingcheng praised her and resumed trying to persuade her to marry him.
• Shizune revealed that Tsunade had changed her bathing, drinking, and grooming habits since falling in love, but Tsunade denied it and scolded her.
• Tsunade agreed to be Qingcheng’s principal wife for five hundred million ryo in monthly spending money, after warning him not to embezzle village funds or be too rough.
• As Qingcheng prepared to leave, Tsunade complained that he was eager to visit his other wives and asked how he managed them all.

Qingcheng left Tsunade in Shizune’s care and visited the Ninja Academy, where Principal Kankan warned students about the dangers of being ninja. Naruto and Sasuke argued over who would become Hokage, and Kankan scolded them for fighting instead of valuing their companions.

• Tsunade decided to return to sleep after Shizune reminded her she had already received twenty billion in compensation.
• Qingcheng asked Shizune to look after Tsunade, then headed to the Ninja Academy.
• Principal Kankan addressed the students and warned them that becoming a ninja could cost them their lives.
• Naruto declared he would become Hokage and protect Konoha and his companions, while Sasuke mocked him.
• Naruto and Sasuke argued over who would become Hokage and who would become Danzo before Ino and Sakura stopped them.
• Kankan reprimanded Naruto and Sasuke for fighting and asked whether they wanted to be trash by failing to value their companions.

Principal Kankan disciplined Naruto and Sasuke, then prepared the Ninja Academy students for the Fifth Hokage’s visit. Qingcheng arrived without guards and explained that he did not need them in Konoha, where the village’s ninjas were his protectors.

• Principal Kankan stopped Naruto and Sasuke from arguing and announced that their first lesson would train them to run away and survive on the battlefield.
• A teacher told Kankan that the Fifth Hokage was coming, and the students excitedly praised Qingcheng’s strength, deeds, and kindness.
• Kankan ordered the students to clap for the Hokage and led the teachers to the Academy gate to greet him.
• Naruto asked Sasuke about Qingcheng and showed off his hairstyle, but Sasuke mocked him and praised his older brother.
• Qingcheng arrived alone, and when the teachers asked about his guards, he said that carrying guards in Konoha would distance him from the villagers.

Qingcheng visited the Ninja Academy, where the Publicity Department staged a campaign praising him and attacking Hiruzen Sarutobi. On the way to the training ground, he received new rewards and considered using them to pursue Shikkotsu Forest senjutsu.

• Fujikawa directed the Publicity Department to photograph Qingcheng and publish flattering coverage while comparing him with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Qingcheng told Iruka that eligible students and teachers could learn village ninjutsu after following the required confidentiality procedures.
• The system rewarded Qingcheng with four sets of abilities and techniques after detecting four Uchiha Clan members.
• Qingcheng realized the Heaven's Curse Mark energy could help him cultivate Sage Mode and reasoned that Hashirama's senjutsu came from Shikkotsu Forest.
• Qingcheng decided to seek Shikkotsu Forest's senjutsu and its Seal-less Healing, thinking Tsunade's contract scroll could help him.

Qingcheng visited the Konoha Ninja Academy and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of embezzling funds meant to repair its aging teaching building. He promised five hundred million ryo for renovations, inspiring the students, and then returned to greet them.

• Qingcheng walked past the assembled students and teachers, then claimed Hiruzen Sarutobi had embezzled the Academy’s maintenance funds.
• The teachers and students condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Fujikawa and the Publicity Department members vowed to publicize the alleged corruption.
• Qingcheng pledged five hundred million ryo to renovate and expand the Academy, and the students cheered his promise.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino praised Qingcheng, while Rock Lee resolved to train in taijutsu and Neji admired Qingcheng’s treatment of the Hyuga branch family.
• Sashin, Sai, and Toraji called out to Qingcheng, and he returned to the crowd, asking the students and teachers to be less reserved.