Chapter Summaries

Guy entered Iwagakure disguised as a merchant and learned that the young Deidara was setting off explosions on his own land. He found Deidara at a rubble field and approached him, confident that his Fury Release Device would persuade the boy to come with him.

• Guy entered Iwagakure using merchant papers and a travel permit from the Hidden Spirit Village's merchant association.
• After hearing an explosion, Guy learned from a passerby that orphaned Deidara spent his dwindling inheritance making explosions on his family's land.
• Guy headed to the rubble field at the edge of the village despite a passerby's warning about Deidara's blasts.
• Guy found the seven-year-old Deidara testing clay explosives and celebrating as a rock burst apart.
• Guy picked up his Fury Release Device and walked toward Deidara, confident he could get the boy to come with him.

Guy challenged Deidara’s clay explosions and took him outside Iwagakure to demonstrate a Fury Release Device. He used Sage Mode to charge it and unleashed a spectacular blast, leaving Deidara transfixed by what he saw as the ultimate art.

• Guy took Deidara’s Clay Spider and detonated it in his bare hand without being hurt, stunning the boy.
• Guy invited Deidara to witness a “super invincible ultimate mega-explosion,” and Deidara followed him out of Iwagakure.
• At a remote wasteland, Guy revealed the Fury Release Device and entered Sage Mode to charge it rapidly with natural energy.
• Guy controlled the device’s power and threw it into the sky as Deidara watched its light gather into a blazing sphere.
• Guy shouted that this was true art, and the Fury Release Device detonated in an enormous explosion.

Guy demonstrated the Fury Release Device to Deidara, whose fascination with its explosion persuaded him to follow Guy. After completing a hidden mission, Guy continued toward the home of a neglected clan in the Land of Earth.

• Guy detonated the Fury Release Device in an uninhabited wasteland, and its blast devastated the surrounding terrain.
• Deidara became entranced by the explosion, so Guy protected them both with the Golden Bell and stopped Deidara from rushing into the blast.
• Guy recovered the dormant device and promised to give it to Deidara if he came along and did well.
• Deidara agreed to follow Guy, and Guy received 200 Monk Points for changing Deidara's fate.
• Guy and Deidara set off toward the home of a neglected clan in the Land of Earth.

Guy brought Deidara to the remote Kamizuru Clan courtyard to recruit its remaining members for Spirit Mountain, initially claiming he had come to buy honey. He met Suzumebachi and her younger brothers, Kurobachi and Jibachi, and realized their parents were likely dead, leaving only four clan members.

• Guy identified the Kamizuru Clan as a neglected Iwagakure clan whose honeybee skills and honey he wanted for Spirit Mountain.
• Guy led Deidara to a remote courtyard near Iwagakure's outskirts, where honeybees patrolled under the Kamizuru Clan's Bee Manipulation Technique.
• Suzumebachi mistook Guy for a merchant seeking honey and let him into the courtyard.
• Kurobachi and Jibachi joined Suzumebachi and asked how much honey Guy wanted to buy.
• After hearing their grandmother coughing inside, Guy questioned Suzumebachi about the household and suspected she was lying about their parents being away.

Guy visited the Kamizuru Clan to taste their honey and examine Suzumebachi’s grandmother, then revealed that he was Tathagata, leader of Hidden Spirit Village, and invited the clan to join for their beekeeping. The grandmother refused, but Guy challenged her to consider the children’s future and the fate of the Kamizuru name.

• Suzumebachi showed Guy and Deidara the clan’s ninja bees and gave them honey, which both enjoyed and Guy recognized as unusually nourishing.
• Guy told Suzumebachi he wanted to examine her grandmother, diagnosed her with accumulated old injuries, and gave her an initial treatment with Yang Release Chakra.
• Guy revealed that he had come specifically to find the Kamizuru Clan, prompting Suzumebachi, Kurobachi, and Jibachi to grow wary of their disgraced surname.
• Guy identified himself as Tathagata, leader of Hidden Spirit Village, and invited the Kamizuru Clan to join so their beekeeping and honey could become a specialty industry.
• Suzumebachi’s grandmother declined, saying the clan wanted a peaceful, stable life, and Guy challenged her to consider the children’s future and the Kamizuru name.

Guy tried to persuade Grandma Jakuho and the remaining Kamizuru Clan to leave Iwagakure and join Spirit Mountain, promising to revive their name through honey sales and protect them from Ōnoki. After Guy left, Grandma and her grandchildren cautiously hoped that he meant what he said.

• Grandma Jakuho refused Guy’s offer, but Guy pointed out that the Kamizuru Clan had dwindled to four people and was forgotten in Iwagakure.
• Guy argued that the clan could not revive itself with its bee techniques alone and needed a powerful backer.
• Guy promised to sell Kamizuru honey across the Shinobi World and let the clan develop its techniques at Spirit Mountain.
• Guy assured Grandma Jakuho that Ōnoki could not threaten Spirit Mountain, and Grandma asked to discuss the offer with her grandchildren.
• Outside, Deidara asked whether Guy was stronger than Ōnoki, and Guy answered mysteriously before walking away.
• Suzumebachi told Grandma Jakuho she believed Guy meant his offer, and Grandma quietly agreed.

Guy planned to make Kamizuru honey a major Spirit Mountain industry and explained how he wanted ninjutsu to support ordinary people’s lives. Tsuchibachi agreed to lead the Kamizuru Clan in submitting to Spirit Mountain, and a system notification sounded.

• Guy recognized ninja bee honey’s potential as a valuable specialty product and planned to expand its production through the Kamizuru Clan.
• Guy reflected on how Spirit Mountain used ninja abilities to develop the land and improve people’s lives.
• Guy told the Kamizuru Clan he would promote their honey under their name and help them rebuild their fortunes.
• Tsuchibachi agreed to lead her clansmen in submitting to Spirit Mountain, and she and her grandchildren bowed to Guy.
• Guy helped Tsuchibachi up, and a system notification sounded.

Guy triggered two quests to restore the Kamizuru Clan's glory and devised a plan to promote the clan through his upcoming book. He also set Kakuzu and Kagero to work on another task and began considering how to recover the clan's ancient scroll.

• Guy triggered quests to make at least 100,000 people know the Kamizuru Clan and recover its ancient Insect Master Secret Technique Scroll.
• Guy used the Incense White Jade Statue to tell Moyochi En to find Editor-in-Chief Takizawa Sakurako in Yugakure and delay the release of his new book for revisions.
• Guy planned to promote Kamizuru honey in Kunoichi Bai Jie by linking it to beauty and skin care, hoping the book would quickly spread the clan's name.
• Guy gave Kagero and Kakuzu another assignment, then returned his attention to the quest panel and considered how to find the ancient scroll.

Guy offered to help the Kamizuru Clan recover its lost Ancient Insect Master Secret Techniques Scroll by seeking the Aburame Clan’s help to find a Rinkaichū. After sending a letter to Aburame Shikuroo, Guy suspected the scroll was inside Iwagakure and considered traveling there.

• Guy asked Tsuchibachi whether the Kamizuru Clan still possessed its ancient secret techniques, and she showed him the sole surviving fragment of their lost scroll.
• Guy asked Tsuchibachi and her grandchildren how they felt about the Aburame Clan, and they admitted they held no deep hatred despite their clan’s defeat.
• Guy proposed using a Rinkaichū to track down the lost scroll, and Tsuchibachi recognized the insect and agreed to try seeking the Aburame Clan’s help.
• Guy summoned Trust Turtle and sent a letter to Aburame Shikuroo asking for information about finding a Rinkaichū.
• Guy suspected the lost scroll was inside Iwagakure and considered making another trip there.

Guy learned from Shibi that Rinkaichū might be hatching at a location in the Land of Rice Fields, so he set out to find them with Suzumebachi. Ninkame had grown dramatically and escorted Tsuchibachi, Kurobachi, Jibachi, and Deidara toward Spirit Mountain with the Kamizuru Clan’s belongings.

• Guy received a letter confirming that the Aburame Clan had no Rinkaichū in reserve but had provided a likely hatching site.
• Guy chose Suzumebachi to accompany him and sent the others with Ninkame, leaving Deidara behind at first until he was told he could learn something fun if he behaved.
• Guy summoned Ninkame and discovered that the turtle had grown to three meters tall and five meters wide, which Ninkame attributed to the Heavenly Dragon Mark.
• The Kamizuru packed their belongings and loaded them onto Ninkame and a handcart for the journey toward the Land of Rice Fields.
• Suzumebachi secured the fragment of the Ancient Insect Master Secret Technique scroll, then left with Guy for the location Shibi had given him.

Guy met Shibi at Miasma Insect Valley, where they joined Suzumebachi to search for Rinkaichū. Suzumebachi’s Ninja Bees found a possible lead, and the three set off to investigate it.

• Guy arrived at Miasma Insect Valley and reunited warmly with Shibi, who had come to help him find Rinkaichū.
• Guy introduced Shibi to Suzumebachi, the young Kamizuru Clan head, and the two greeted each other despite their clans’ history.
• Shibi gave Guy a leaf to counter the valley’s poisonous miasma, while Suzumebachi used her own honey-based remedy.
• Shibi released scouting insects, and Suzumebachi summoned her Ninja Bees to help search for Rinkaichū.
• Suzumebachi’s bees found a possible target, and Shibi warned that it might be a Fake Bikōchū before the three followed her to check.

Guy, Shibi, and Suzumebachi searched Miasma Insect Valley for a Rinkaichū, growing closer as they fought dangerous insects together. Shibi finally found one entering its egg-laying period, and the group prepared to give its hatchlings Guy’s scent.

• Shibi identified a supposed Rinkaichū as a Fake Bikōchū, then shielded Suzumebachi when a huge swarm of venomous mosquitoes attacked.
• Suzumebachi summoned combat hornets and a giant honey-spraying bee, while Shibi’s insects helped defeat the mosquitoes.
• Over the next three days, Shibi and Suzumebachi fought through the valley together, including surviving an Earth Mole Cricket attack, and became more coordinated.
• Shibi found a real Rinkaichū and explained that its hatchlings had to smell Guy’s scent as soon as they emerged.
• Suzumebachi readied the Kamizuru Clan’s cloth-scroll fragment, Shibi set insects around the tree, and Guy concealed himself nearby as they waited.

Guy, Suzumebachi, and Shibi used a newly hatched Rinkaichū to trace the Ancient Insect Master Secret Techniques Scroll to Iwagakure. The insect led Guy and Suzumebachi to the Third Tsuchikage’s heavily guarded residence, where they realized the scroll’s scent was coming from inside.

• The Rinkaichū hatched, smelled the scroll fragment Shibi had cleaned, and flew off with Guy and Suzumebachi following it.
• Shibi wished Guy and Suzumebachi well before they pursued the Rinkaichū through the night toward the Land of Earth.
• After two days, Guy and Suzumebachi entered Iwagakure in disguise and let the Rinkaichū guide them through the village.
• The Rinkaichū stopped at the Third Tsuchikage’s residence, and Suzumebachi recognized the heavily guarded compound.

Guy infiltrated Ōnoki’s residence and recovered the Kamizuru Clan’s lost secret technique scroll along with valuables from a hidden vault. As he escaped, Ōnoki and his guard Akatsuchi ambushed him, leaving Guy facing the Third Tsuchikage’s deadly Dust Release.

• Guy concluded that Ōnoki had hidden the Kamizuru Clan’s lost scroll and told Suzumebachi to wait at the beekeeping grounds while he investigated alone.
• Guy watched Ōnoki’s residence for three days, then entered it at night and followed the Rinkaichū to a concealed underground chamber.
• Guy used the Stake-Walking Afterimage Step to bypass the chamber’s barrier and took the ancient scroll, armor, a large iron object, and valuables from Ōnoki’s private vault.
• As Guy emerged from the hidden passage, Ōnoki’s Dust Release destroyed the entrance, and Guy teleported clear of the attack.
• Guy saw Ōnoki hovering above him with Akatsuchi at his side, ready to fight.

Guy battled Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi after they caught him stealing, then dodged Ōnoki’s Dust Release and appeared behind the Tsuchikage with a lightning-charged strike aimed at his lower back. Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi realized the attack too late.

• Kitsuchi struck Guy with Earth Release: Rock Fist Technique, but Guy met the blow with Lightning Division: Lightning Fist, and both were driven back.
• Ōnoki accused Guy of being from the Land of Lightning and ordered Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi to capture him.
• Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi used Earth Release: Mountain Earth Technique to trap Guy while Ōnoki prepared Dust Release above him.
• Guy activated Seven Heavens Breathing and Lightning Armor, then charged at Ōnoki with One-Finger Nukite as Ōnoki fired Dust Release.
• Guy vanished just as the Dust Release struck and reappeared behind Ōnoki, aiming concentrated lightning at a point below his lower back.

Guy pierced Ōnoki’s layered lower-back defenses, but an explosive trap injured them both and sent them flying apart. Ōnoki recognized Guy as a supposed shinobi from the Land of Lightning, while Guy looked down at his bleeding wounds.

• Guy broke through Ōnoki’s Stone Armor and iron shield with an enhanced finger thrust, stabbing him in the lower back.
• Ōnoki’s shield detonated, blasting Guy backward and injuring him while propelling Ōnoki away.
• Akatsuchi and Kitsuchi rushed to guard the wounded Ōnoki as Guy landed nearby.
• After Guy’s hat and face covering were destroyed, Ōnoki mistook his disguise for a man from the Land of Lightning and vowed to kill him.
• Guy touched the blood on his chest and realized, “I’m bleeding...”

Guy fought Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi, unleashing a lightning technique that destroyed the Tsuchikage Mansion. Ōnoki ordered a pursuit, but Guy had already vanished.

• Guy healed his chest wound with Lightning Release, while Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi to kill him.
• Ōnoki altered the gravity around Guy as Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi attacked with rock fists.
• Guy used Lightning Division: Kirin Arm to repel Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi and blast apart Ōnoki's mansion.
• Ōnoki escaped with Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi, then ordered his forces to chase Guy, who had disappeared.

Guy escaped Iwagakure after fighting Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi, discovered his Lightning Division chakra had formed a kirin around his arms, and returned to Suzumebachi with the item he had retrieved. He carried her away at astonishing speed to find somewhere safe to inspect it.

• Guy fled Iwagakure after a brief clash with Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi, reflecting that he had protected the robe behind him during the explosion.
• Guy discovered that his Lightning Division chakra had formed a powerful kirin shape around his arms.
• Guy spotted pursuers and raced toward the Kamizuru Clan's beekeeping grounds.
• Guy revealed his true face to Suzumebachi and told her he had retrieved the item.
• Guy lifted Suzumebachi by the collar and carried her away at great speed, leaving her astonished.

Guy gave Suzumebachi the Kamizuru Clan's restored secret techniques scroll, revealing three powerful techniques and the dangerous transformation caused by its forbidden method. Suzumebachi vowed to master the techniques and restore her clan's standing, completing Guy's mission and earning him an advanced random gift pack.

• Guy stopped at a secluded stream and handed Suzumebachi the Kamizuru Clan's Ancient Insect Master Secret Techniques Scroll.
• Suzumebachi joined the scroll to the torn fragment she had kept and confirmed that the clan's inherited techniques were real.
• Guy examined the Bee-Switch Technique and Honey-Hiding Technique, which offered tactical movement and powerful sealing.
• Guy read about the forbidden Ten Thousand Bees Return to the Hive, which granted a powerful bee-human form at the cost of irreversible transformation.
• Suzumebachi vowed to master the techniques so her Grandma could rest easy and the Kamizuru Clan could hold its head high.
• Guy received a system notification that mission two was complete and an advanced random gift pack was available.

Guy received three adapted medicinal formulas and planned to turn Spirit Mountain’s herb industry into a producer of finished medicines. He warned Suzumebachi against sharing or carelessly using a harmful forbidden technique, then headed with her to Yugakure to visit its Publishing House.

• Guy opened an advanced random gift pack and received formulas for Black Jade Bone-Continuing Ointment, Shaolin Great Strength Vajra Pill, and Shaolin Wound Medicine.
• Guy assessed the medicines’ effects and planned to introduce the Wound Medicine and Vajra Pill first, reserving the bone ointment as a premium medicine.
• Guy ordered Suzumebachi not to teach Ten Thousand Bees Return to the Hive to her younger brothers and warned her that it could badly harm its user.
• Suzumebachi agreed not to share or use the forbidden technique lightly and followed Guy back through the mountains.
• After Suzumebachi questioned their route, Guy told her they were going to Yugakure and continued toward its Publishing House.