Recaps

After learning he had failed the Ninja Academy entrance exam, six-year-old Might Guy was comforted by his father, Might Duy, and awakened a Monk System that gave him Shaolin arts. He invested all his Monk Points in Yijin Jing and left with Duy, determined to grow stronger through Taijutsu.

• Might Guy realized he had reincarnated as the six-year-old who had failed the Ninja Academy entrance exam.
• Might Duy embraced Guy, encouraged him to rise after failure, and invited him to share Red Bean Dumpling Soup before they trained together.
• Guy formed a father-son bond with Duy, earning 50 Monk Points, and activated the Monk System.
• Guy claimed the Beginner's Gift Pack and received 300 Monk Points, Vajra Leg, Vajra Finger, and Yijin Jing.
• Guy spent all 350 Monk Points to raise Yijin Jing to Well-Rounded proficiency, then followed Duy home for dumplings.

Might Guy began training under Might Dai, completing five thousand kicks before dawn and improving his Vajra Leg. After meeting Hatake Sakumo and young Hatake Kakashi, Guy resolved to grow strong enough to intervene before Sakumo's future death.

• Might Dai woke Might Guy before dawn and encouraged him after Guy heard villagers mock their family.
• Might Dai told Guy about the Eight Inner Gates and urged him to master taijutsu to protect those he cared about.
• Might Guy completed five thousand front kicks, raising his Vajra Leg proficiency to 5/99, then continued practicing Diamond Finger.
• Hatake Sakumo brought Kakashi to the training grounds and told him that Guy might one day surpass him.
• Might Guy remembered Sakumo's impending suicide and resolved to become strong and influential enough to change that fate.

Might Guy trained his Vajra Finger until he encountered bullies attacking Kurenai Yuhi and drove them off. After returning home, he rested while Dai treated his wound, and Dai quietly left that evening after deciding something.

• Might Guy completed thousands of painful finger strikes, reaching initial mastery of Vajra Finger.
• Might Guy rescued Kurenai Yuhi from four older boys, who had tried to steal her hair tie, and received a handkerchief from her.
• Might Guy completed the justice mission, received Golden Sore Medicine, and invested his Monk Points in the Yijin Jing.
• Might Guy told Dai about the fight, and Dai proudly treated his injured arm before explaining he would leave on a two-to-three-day C-rank escort mission.
• Might Guy chose to rest and sleep instead of training, and Dai tucked him in before leaving the house that evening.

Might Duy persuaded Hiruzen to give Might Guy a chance to enter the Ninja Academy through a special recommendation if he demonstrated Genin-level taijutsu. Guy and his father began preparing for an examination by Hatake Sakumo in twenty days.

• Might Duy waited outside Hiruzen Sarutobi's office all night, then pleaded for a chance for Guy to attend the Ninja Academy.
• Hiruzen agreed to have Hatake Sakumo examine Guy in twenty days and promised to admit him if his taijutsu reached Genin level.
• Might Duy rushed home and woke Guy to tell him about the special recommendation and the upcoming examination.
• Guy's system issued a quest to train two martial skills to Minor Accomplishment within twenty days, with academy eligibility at stake.
• Guy calculated that his training could earn enough proficiency and headed out to practice while Might Duy prepared breakfast and promised to train with him.

Guy trained under Dai for the Leaf Hurricane, enduring brutal practice and questioning why he pushed himself so hard. Dai shared his conviction that protecting loved ones mattered more than becoming a Jonin, and Guy mastered the technique, advancing his quest.

• Dai began Guy’s special training and demonstrated the Leaf Hurricane, which Guy imitated after seeing it once.
• Guy endured escalating kicks, one-finger push-ups, and waterfall training, continuing alongside Dai despite their bloody injuries.
• Dai told Guy he regretted not realizing sooner that protecting loved ones mattered more than becoming a Jonin, and Guy decided to train harder.
• After fifteen days of practice, Guy used the Leaf Hurricane to break a thick tree trunk, reaching Some Mastery with Vajra Leg and progressing the main quest to 1/2.
• Dai tearfully hugged Guy as the two celebrated his achievement.

Might Guy impressed Hatake Sakumo during his Ninja Academy assessment, earning approval to enroll despite his poor chakra control and ninjutsu talent. The next day, Guy found his name on the accepted students list and celebrated with Dai by heading off for extra training.

• Might Guy completed one thousand precise front kicks and broke a wooden target with two kicks during his assessment.
• Guy sparred with Hatake Sakumo, landing powerful attacks and forcing him to use the Substitution Technique before the assessment was paused.
• Hatake Sakumo told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Guy's taijutsu had reached genin level and recommended that he be allowed to enroll.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen approved Guy's enrollment, and Sakumo praised Guy's Leaf Hurricane and encouraged him to keep training.
• The next day, Guy and Dai found Guy's name on the Ninja Academy acceptance list, and Guy received a green school uniform from his system.
• Dai celebrated by declaring they would do extra training, and he and Guy ran toward the back mountain together.

Might Guy joined his first Ninja Academy class, where he met Konoha’s future shinobi and discovered that Ikkaku Umino was Iruka’s father. Uchiha Obito arrived late and declared he would become Hokage, and the class began its first lesson on the Will of Fire.

• Might Guy observed his classmates, including Kakashi, Rin, Kurenai, Asuma, and Ibiki, as Ikkaku Umino introduced himself as their homeroom teacher.
• The students introduced themselves, and Ikkaku confiscated Asuma’s cigarettes while Anko denied eating snacks.
• Might Guy introduced himself with a shout about youth, and Uchiha Obito burst in late, fell, and announced he would become Hokage.
• The system awarded Might Guy 50 Monk Points for the gathering of stars, while Obito mistook Guy’s laughter for mockery and challenged him.
• Ikkaku ended the introductions and began the class’s first lesson by writing “Will of Fire” on the blackboard.

At the Ninja Academy, Might Guy failed the Clone Technique and encouraged Obito to train instead of dwelling on failure. Obito joined Guy at the Back Mountain Training Ground, triggering a bond reward that advanced Guy’s Yijin Jing, while a girl approached them after Obito collapsed.

• Kakashi impressed the class with three perfect clones, while Obito made two crooked clones and Guy failed to produce any.
• Obito confronted Guy about the students mocking them, and Guy urged him to work hard at other skills rather than get angry.
• Obito followed Guy to the Back Mountain Training Ground, where they began an intense training session.
• Obito pushed himself to keep training and declared that he would become Hokage, triggering the Resonance of the Underdog bond reward.
• Guy spent the 30 Monk Points to master Yijin Jing, expelled impurities, and gained greatly enhanced stamina recovery and physical strength.
• Obito collapsed as Guy continued training, then noticed an approaching girl and wondered why she had come.

Kurenai brought Guy food after training, and the two shared a warm moment before he continued working toward his goal. The next day, Guy learned that Kakashi’s father, White Fang, had abandoned an important mission to save his comrades and was being condemned by the village, leaving Guy determined to intervene.

• Kurenai brought Guy a bento, and he let her know she could bring extra food for Obito next time.
• Kurenai defended Guy’s smell as the smell of a real man, then left while Guy went to train beneath the waterfall.
• Guy kept practicing Vajra Finger and saw that his proficiency had reached 493.
• At the Ninja Academy, Guy noticed the silent classroom and Kakashi’s reddened eyes.
• Obito told Guy that White Fang had failed an important mission to save his comrades and that villagers were saying he had shamed Konoha.
• Guy recognized the incident from the original story and resolved to do something before White Fang killed himself.

Guy challenged Kakashi to a fight so Kakashi would confront his feelings about his father, Sakumo. After they fought to exhaustion, Kakashi admitted that he believed his father had been right to save his comrades, and Guy comforted him.

• Guy followed Kakashi from school and asked whether he thought his father was wrong to save his companions.
• Kakashi agreed to fight Guy, and the two battled at the training ground until they both collapsed.
• Kakashi admitted that he believed his father had not been wrong, though he was hurt by people calling Sakumo a disgrace.
• Guy told Kakashi that Sakumo was a hero and promised to save his own comrades, even if others condemned him.
• Kakashi cried with Guy beside him, then learned Guy was helping because they were classmates and Sakumo had once praised his kick.
• Guy triggered the Genius and the Underdog bond and received 30 Monk Points.

Guy helped Kakashi find a way to draw White Fang out of his room and bring him to the academy. As White Fang struggled with the villagers’ whispers, a loudspeaker crackled to life with Guy’s voice.

• Guy told Kakashi that White Fang needed to take a first step out of his pain, then explained a plan to get him to the academy.
• Kakashi used his injuries from fighting Guy to persuade White Fang to leave his room and accompany him to the academy.
• White Fang arrived at the academy gate and faltered as villagers whispered about his failed mission.
• White Fang noticed Might Duy waiting at the gate and slowly walked toward him.
• A loudspeaker crackled overhead, and Guy’s voice rang out across the academy entrance.

Might Guy publicly defended Hatake Sakumo for saving Tobitake Tonbo, turning the crowd’s hostility into sympathy and giving Sakumo the strength to return home. Guy then received weighted leg wraps as a reward and resolved to change his father Might Duy’s fate before the Third Shinobi World War.

• Might Guy used the loudspeaker to explain that Hatake Sakumo had failed a mission to save Tobitake Tonbo, and challenged the crowd’s condemnation of him.
• Dai comforted Sakumo and told him that Guy’s words expressed his own feelings; Ikkaku Umino acknowledged that Sakumo had been treated unfairly as the crowd began to reconsider.
• Kakashi thanked Guy, and the two agreed to meet in the mountains after school to fight again.
• Sakumo watched Guy’s class from outside the school, then headed home with steadier steps.
• Might Guy received a pair of leg wraps that could adjust their weight from zero to 10,000 jin and resolved to change Might Duy’s fate.

Two months into training, Might Guy hit a bottleneck in his secret techniques, and he and Kakashi decided to seek a real fight against a Ninja Bear. Kurenai, Rin, and a reluctant Obito agreed to go with them that night.

• Might Guy completed ten thousand side kicks, but his Vajra Leg and Vajra Finger proficiency remained stuck at 999.
• Obito struggled through mountain training while Rin brought water and Kurenai brought food for Guy.
• Kurenai warned the group that a huge Ninja Bear had been spotted in the mountains and village ninja had not found it.
• Might Guy and Kakashi decided to hunt the bear that night to test their training and seek a breakthrough.
• Kurenai insisted on joining to watch over them, and Rin agreed to go as well.
• Obito initially refused, but agreed after Rin said she and Kurenai would go without him.

Guy, Kakashi, and the others found a giant bear in the back mountain, and Guy knocked it unconscious with one kick. As they reacted to his strength, an even larger bear emerged from the woods.

• Guy, Kakashi, Obito, Kurenai, Rin, and Ebisu entered the back mountain to search for a bear.
• Kakashi and Guy found a sleeping bear over three meters tall and planned for Kakashi to distract it while Guy attacked.
• Kakashi’s clones woke the bear, but their weapons failed to pierce its fur.
• Guy struck the bear with a Leaf Hurricane and knocked it unconscious with one kick.
• A nearly ten-meter-tall bear burst out of the woods and confronted the group.

Might Guy awakened the perfected Vajra Leg technique while protecting Kurenai and defeated the giant bear with a single kick. The group survived, and they began calling Guy Konoha’s Vajra Beast.

• The giant bear attacked the group, shrugging off Kakashi’s techniques and sending Guy crashing through trees with a powerful blow.
• As the bear prepared to strike the helpless Guy, Kurenai stood in front of him to protect him.
• Guy’s Yijin Jing healed his injuries, and he unleashed the perfected Vajra Leg, kicking the giant bear into a hillside and leaving it motionless.
• Kurenai hugged Guy in relief, while Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and Ebisu reacted with shock at his strength.
• The group dubbed Guy Konoha’s Vajra Beast, and Guy accepted the nickname while resolving to reclaim his future title as the Blue Beast.

After the Giant Bear fled, Kakashi suggested selling its captured cub, and Kurenai offered to buy it for three hundred thousand ryo. As the group dragged the bound cub back to the village, Kakashi told Guy he planned to apply for early graduation.

• The Giant Bear escaped, leaving its unconscious cub behind, and the children debated what to do with it.
• Kakashi proposed selling the living Ninja Bear, estimating that each of the six children could receive fifty thousand ryo.
• Kurenai offered to buy the cub for three hundred thousand ryo, and Guy agreed to the arrangement.
• The children tied up the cub and dragged it toward the village.
• Kakashi pulled Guy aside and revealed that he planned to apply for early graduation.

Kakashi applied for early graduation, while Guy chose to remain at the academy so he could keep training and avoid losing track of his father’s future sacrifice. After Kakashi passed his test and left, Guy’s system panel revealed that he had begun learning the Precept-Breaking Blade.

• Guy turned down Kakashi’s invitation to graduate early, explaining that he still had more to learn and would graduate in a year.
• Kakashi asked the Third Hokage for early graduation, and the Third Hokage scheduled a test for three days later.
• The Third Hokage agreed to graduate Kakashi if he passed his test, and Kakashi told him Guy planned to graduate in a year.
• Three days later, Kakashi said goodbye to Guy and their friends before leaving the academy.
• Guy watched Kakashi disappear, then checked his system panel and saw the Precept-Breaking Blade listed at 0 proficiency.

A month after earning fifty thousand ryo, Guy had spent it all on food and could no longer afford a blade for his training. He decided to find work at the Uchiha blacksmith shop, and Obito agreed to take him there.

• Guy broke another wooden sword while practicing the Precept-Breaking Blade and realized he had made little progress because he lacked a proper blade.
• Guy counted his remaining forty-three ryo and recalled that his increased appetite had consumed the fifty thousand ryo he earned a month earlier.
• Guy decided to seek work at a blacksmith shop but did not know where to find one.
• Obito told Guy that his second uncle worked at the Uchiha Clan's blacksmith shop and agreed to ask about a job.
• Guy and Obito headed for the Uchiha district, then joked about proving Kakashi wrong after hearing that he had joined Minato Namikaze's squad.

Guy followed Obito to Uchiha Tao Ye’s forge and insisted on working despite having no blacksmithing experience. After Guy showed unusual strength, endurance, and an ability to learn quickly, Uchiha Tao Ye watched him forge a kunai blank and asked if it was really his first time.

• Guy comforted Obito about being scolded by the clan elders and joked that Obito could claim to be the Hokage’s brother someday.
• Obito brought Guy to Uchiha Tao Ye’s forge, where Guy asked to work for a meal instead of wages.
• Guy moved ten iron ingots and worked the bellows for an hour without tiring, convincing Uchiha Tao Ye to let him try forging.
• Uchiha Tao Ye demonstrated how to forge a kunai blank and told Guy to make ten of them.
• Guy corrected his hammering after an awkward first attempt and forged a blank identical to Uchiha Tao Ye’s, leaving him stunned.

Might Guy proved himself during a one-month trial at Uchiha Tao Ye's smithy, producing an astonishing number of high-quality ninja tool blanks while working late and practicing with scrap. Tao Ye kept him on and gave him a usable short sword for practice, leaving Obito convinced Guy had earned the help people offered him.

• Might Guy agreed to work after school for meals, practice with scrap, and a one-month trial; he then ate ten bowls of food at Uchiha Tao Ye's smithy.
• Guy came to the smithy every day, forged blanks, and practiced the Precept-Breaking Blade late into the night.
• After a month, Obito saw Guy finish a short sword and learned from Tao Ye that Guy had forged 824 blanks with a 97.3 percent acceptance rate.
• Tao Ye told Guy he had passed the trial and should return the next day, then gave him a usable short sword for practice.
• Guy accepted the sword and returned to forging, while Obito realized Guy deserved the kindness people showed him.

After months of relentless training, Guy perfected Vajra Finger and received Golden Bell Shield, a defensive secret art. Kurenai then summoned him to an urgent Ninja Academy assembly, and they hurried to the school without knowing why.

• Guy spent a day under the waterfall repeatedly poking a rock until his Vajra Finger broke through to Mastery of Perfection, splitting the waterfall with a giant golden phantom finger.
• The system awarded Guy a random martial arts gift pack, which contained the low-grade defensive secret art Golden Bell Shield.
• Guy read that Golden Bell Shield improved through enduring blows and guiding true energy around the body, and decided it suited his needs.
• Kurenai arrived to tell Guy that Teacher Umino had ordered every student to attend an urgent assembly at the Ninja Academy.
• Guy and Kurenai ran toward the school, while Guy wondered if the emergency was connected to a particular event.

Ikkaku Umino told the Academy students that the Third Kazekage had gone missing and warned them to prepare for a possible war. Guy recognized the crisis that would ignite the Third Shinobi World War, then led his friends to train as Asuma hoped the conflict would be delayed.

• Guy, Kurenai, and Obito joined the crowd gathered outside the Academy, where Asuma's silence suggested he knew bad news was coming.
• Ikkaku Umino gathered the students and announced that the Third Kazekage had gone missing, explaining that the tense situation could lead to war.
• Ikkaku doubled the students' training and canceled all leave, warning them to prepare for the battlefield.
• Guy confirmed to Kurenai that war would come, promised to protect her, and urged Rin to focus on becoming stronger.
• Guy left to train, followed by Obito, Kurenai, Rin, and Ebisu, while Asuma agreed with Guy's words and hoped the war would hold off.

After learning that war had begun, Guy and his classmates were told their graduation had been moved up to less than a year away, meaning they would soon be sent into combat. Guy resolved to grow strong enough to protect them, and after reading Kakashi’s warning from the battlefield, he met Might Duy, who announced he would teach him a forbidden technique.

• Ikkaku Umino told the students that Kumogakure and Iwagakure had declared war and that Sunagakure had assembled troops at the border.
• Ikkaku Umino announced that the students’ graduation had been moved up to less than a year away and that they would be assigned to combat units afterward.
• Guy checked his system panel and decided he needed to become stronger to protect his classmates.
• An Anbu delivered Guy a letter from Kakashi, who said he had been promoted to Chunin and urged Guy to get stronger before they met on the battlefield.
• Might Duy found Guy and said he had decided to teach him a forbidden technique.

Might Duy secretly taught Guy the Eight Inner Gates, demonstrating the first three gates and their overwhelming power. He warned Guy that the forbidden technique brought him closer to death with every gate, leaving him to consider it a last resort for protecting someone.

• Dai led Guy to a secluded valley and explained that he had spent twenty years mastering the Eight Inner Gates.
• Dai opened the Gate of Opening and used the Front Lotus to shatter a boulder.
• Dai opened the Gate of Healing and pulverized another boulder with the Hidden Lotus.
• Dai opened the Gate of Life, surrounded himself with green steam, and split a huge boulder with a punch before shattering it with the Konoha Great Whirlwind.
• Dai told Guy he had mastered all eight gates but stopped demonstrating because opening more would damage his body.
• Dai warned Guy that the higher gates brought him closer to death and said the technique should be a final trump card when protecting someone.

Might Duy taught Guy the Eight Inner Gates and asked him to open the Eighth Gate only as a last resort, because he wanted to see his son grow up. After three days of intense training, Guy opened the first three gates, and Duy recognized how quickly he was becoming stronger.

• Might Duy told Guy he was teaching him the Eight Inner Gates so Guy could choose, and made him promise not to open the Eighth Gate unless there was no other choice.
• Guy opened the Gate of Opening after training through the night, and Duy celebrated his son's progress.
• Guy and Duy trained in the valley for three days, with Guy opening the second gate on the second day.
• Guy opened the Gate of Life on the third day and split a boulder with a kick.
• Duy told Guy he was stronger than him and predicted he would become a powerful ninja, then they decided to eat.