Chapter Summaries

Back in Konoha, Yagami learned that the Yellow Dog Squad would soon deploy to the Land of Whirlpools, where Alligator Turtle had been killed and tensions between the Hokage and Danzo were rising. Yellow Dog and Kuroari discussed the ANBU leadership struggle and considered Yagami for promotion, while Yagami prepared his squad for the next battlefield.

• Yellow Dog gave Yagami a scroll containing seven ninjutsu techniques for his squad and told him to prepare for deployment to the Land of Whirlpools.
• Yagami supported Yellow Dog's possible advancement and suspected that a crisis involving Danzo or the Alligator Turtle Squad had prompted the deployment.
• Kuroari told Yellow Dog that Alligator Turtle had died, the Hokage had rejected Danzo's candidate for the vacant Captain Commander post, and Root's experiments were worsening tensions with the ANBU.
• Yellow Dog proposed that Yagami take over his squad, and Kuroari agreed to recommend Yagami for Jonin status before considering him for Captain Commander.
• Yagami distributed the ninjutsu scroll's techniques for copying, ordered intensive training, and focused on learning the Demonic Illusion: Nirvana Temple Technique.

Yagami learned Demonic Illusion: Nirvana Temple Technique and taught Purple Cat how to strengthen it. Yellow Dog then brought him to take the Jonin examination, which began with a question about how he would carry out an order to kill Mitokado Homura’s daughter.

• Yagami mastered Demonic Illusion: Nirvana Temple Technique and tested it on Purple Cat, who fell asleep under his genjutsu.
• Yagami showed Purple Cat how to target the hypothalamus with the genjutsu and then teased her about using it to hypnotize her.
• Yellow Dog told Yagami that Fox had been recommended for the Jonin examination and explained the promotion process.
• Nara Shikatsuno reviewed Yagami’s mission record, approved it as sufficient for promotion, and began the interview examination.
• Nara Shikatsuno asked Yagami how he would complete an order from the Hokage to kill Mitokado Homura’s daughter.

Yagami completed an ANBU interview by giving ruthless answers to hypothetical missions, then passed a combat assessment against three Jonin without damaging the meeting room. Nara Shikatsuno approved him to meet the Hokage.

• Yagami said he would secretly kill Mitokado Homura's daughter and erase all evidence, then explained how he would prioritize a protection mission over rescuing another squad.
• Yagami described spending thirty years taking control of the Land of Bears and turning it against the Land of Earth, prompting Nara Shikatsuno to recommend that he remain in ANBU.
• Nara Shikatsuno began the practical assessment, and Yagami fought three Jonin while carefully avoiding damage to the meeting room.
• After five minutes, Nara Shikatsuno stopped the fight, declared that Yagami had passed, and told him he could go meet the Hokage.

Yagami passed the Jonin assessment, received a Jonin promotion and permission to learn a Sealing Jutsu, and was promised a future ANBU Captain Commander position if he helped Yellow Dog become Deputy Director. Back at the ANBU Base, he got a private office, appointed Purple Cat as his assistant, and they celebrated in its private rest room.

• Yellow Dog brought Yagami to the Hokage's Office, where Sarutobi Hiruzen confirmed that Yagami had passed his Jonin assessment and asked how he would serve as an ANBU Captain Commander.
• Yagami pledged to carry out Sarutobi Hiruzen's orders and obey Yellow Dog, and Sarutobi Hiruzen approved his Jonin promotion while making a future Captain Commander post conditional on helping Yellow Dog advance to Deputy Director.
• Yagami chose the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal from Sarutobi Hiruzen's catalog, and Sarutobi Hiruzen authorized him to learn it despite warning that it was difficult without the Uzumaki Clan's Chakra.
• At the ANBU Base, Butterfly showed Yagami his private office, and Yagami appointed Purple Cat as his assistant and told her to make the antelope her squad captain.
• After Hippopotamus and Yak Bull congratulated him and left, Purple Cat arrived excitedly, and Yagami joined her in the office's rest room.

Yagami attended his first Jonin Council meeting as an ANBU Jonin, where Konoha reviewed its victory in the Land of Rivers and debated battlefield reforms. Tsunade was appointed deputy commander for the Land of Whirlpools, and Hatake Sakumo asked to join the front line.

• Yagami went with Yellow Dog, Kuroari, and Lynx to the Jonin Council meeting, where 121 Jonin gathered with Konoha's higher-ups.
• Nara Shikatsuno reported Konoha's gains in the Land of Rivers and announced plans to send a deputy commander, twenty Jonin, and one thousand shinobi to the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tsunade argued that Konoha should invest more in medical care, while Hatake Sakumo urged the village to expand the Jutsu Examination System; the higher-ups resisted both proposals.
• Nara Shikatsuno appointed Tsunade deputy commander of the Land of Whirlpools battlefield and read the names of the mobilized Jonin, excluding Yagami and Yellow Dog.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Sarutobi Hiruzen and Nara Shikatsuno to send him to the front line, even if he only commanded a squad.

Tsunade led Konoha forces toward the Land of Whirlpools and mourned the ruined Uzu Hidden Village while Yagami secretly watched her. After Yagami escaped her detection, Yellow Dog ordered his team to gather intelligence on the Mist Ninja and target the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

• Nara Shikatsuno explained that Konoha needed Hatake Sakumo as a contingency against Kumogakure, so Hatake Sakumo sat back down.
• Tsunade led one thousand Konoha Ninja toward the Land of Whirlpools and stopped outside the ruins of Uzu Hidden Village.
• Yagami watched Tsunade mourn the ruins and suspect that Konoha ANBU and Root had taken Uzumaki corpses to study their sealing techniques.
• Tsunade sensed Yagami and rushed to the mountaintop, but Yagami escaped down the mountain with Water Body Flicker.
• Yagami told Yellow Dog that Tsunade had detected him from far away, and Yellow Dog ordered his team to gather intelligence on the Mist Ninja and target the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Yellow Dog briefed Yagami on Kirigakure’s Seven Ninja Swords and proposed seizing one to inflame the village’s internal divisions. After Danzo approved the operation and disputed appointments with Yellow Dog, Yagami deployed his unit along the coast to search for the swords.

• Yellow Dog explained the dispute over the Seven Ninja Swords and proposed using them to provoke conflict within Kirigakure.
• Tsunade arrived at the frontline camp and took charge of the medical station while Danzo met with Yellow Dog and Uchiha Zhong.
• Yellow Dog presented Sarutobi Hiruzen’s mission order to Danzo, who approved the operation and pressed for Yi to become a formal ANBU Captain Commander.
• Yellow Dog said Yi would serve only as interim Captain Commander until after the war, and Danzo sent Yellow Dog to carry out the Hokage’s mission.
• Yagami ordered White Ram, Antelope, and Flower Deer to patrol the coast, search for the swords, and report any Seven Ninja Swordsmen they encountered.
• Yagami watched the sea from a reef and remembered his earlier coastal patrols under Brown Bear and Kurozaru.

Yagami intervened when Hozuki Ringo and Kushimaru Kuriarare attacked Shirakumo Hayama’s squad, then fought Hozuki Ringo to study his abilities. Yagami deliberately let a Water Gun pierce his temple, triggering the Arc of the Crescent Moon System.

• Purple Cat and Yagami discussed their dangerous pasts in ANBU before Flower Deer reported that Kirigakure was waging irregular harassment attacks along the coast.
• Tekuno warned Shirakumo Hayama that the eleven Special Jonin recommended by Hatake Sakumo had all been sent to the front, but Shirakumo ordered him to focus on the mission.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare and Hozuki Ringo ambushed Shirakumo Hayama’s squad, and Yagami arrived to stop Hiramekarei’s Chakra blade with his bare hands.
• Yagami sent Shirakumo after Kushimaru while he fought Hozuki Ringo, using the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal to immobilize him before Hozuki escaped with Water Transformation.
• After testing Hozuki Ringo’s abilities, Yagami dispelled his defense and let a Water Gun pierce his temple, activating the Arc of the Crescent Moon System.

Yagami returned to the previous full moon, gained the instant-cast Water Bullet Technique, and prepared a Lightning Style Sealing Scroll for his next encounter with Hozuki Ringo. After becoming a Jonin and collecting the scroll, he set out for the Land of Whirlpools front line.

• Yagami used his lottery reward to learn the instant-cast Water Bullet Technique.
• Yagami left Chisa, became a Jonin, and planned how to prepare for Hozuki Ringo.
• Yagami visited a scroll shop and asked Uzumaki Kushina to make a Lightning Style Sealing Scroll.
• Yagami received Kushina's scroll, which she said could release a technique at Special Jonin level.
• Yagami followed the Yellow Dog Squad Leader toward the Land of Whirlpools front line.

Yagami ambushed Kirigakure’s Seven Ninja Swordsmen, using a Lightning Style sealing scroll and his squad’s attacks to capture Hozuki Ringo and take Twin Blades: Hiramekarei. He reached Shirakumo Hayama’s squad after Kushimaru Kuriarare fled into the sea, and ordered the wounded rescued.

• Yagami formed a specialized squad and sent its Lightning Style and Fire Style ninja to help seize a Seven Ninja Sword.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare and Hozuki Ringo ambushed Shirakumo Hayama’s squad, but Yagami arrived and told Hayama to seize Nuibari.
• Yagami trapped Hozuki Ringo with a Lightning Style sealing scroll, then helped his squad restrain and burn him before taking Twin Blades: Hiramekarei.
• Yagami crippled Hozuki Ringo with an Obsidian Kunai, applied a sealing curse, and ordered the antelope and three Lightning Style ninja to guard him.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare saw Yagami carrying Hiramekarei and escaped into the sea, leaving five Konoha ninja pierced by Nuibari’s wires.
• Yagami told the surviving ninja to carefully free the wounded without letting the wires injure them again.

Yagami killed Hozuki Ringo and claimed the Water Gun Technique as his reward while encouraging Kirigakure’s internal divisions. After Yellow Dog sealed Twin Blades: Hiramekarei, Yagami revealed that he had obtained a secret technique of his own.

• Shirakumo Hayama thanked Yagami for saving his squad and explained that Hatake Sakumo had rewarded him with the Vacuum Sword technique.
• Yagami practiced the Water Gun Technique in front of the disabled Hozuki Ringo, who concluded that Kirigakure had betrayed him and the Hozuki Clan.
• Yagami told Hozuki Ringo he had been hired to kill him, then shot him through the forehead with the Water Gun Technique.
• Yagami brought Hozuki Ringo’s corpse and Twin Blades: Hiramekarei to Yellow Dog, whose assistant Butterfly helped seal the blade against the Hozuki Clan’s Summoning Scroll.
• Yellow Dog proposed using Twin Blades: Hiramekarei as bait to lure Mist Ninja into a trap, and Yagami said he had interrogated a secret technique that was now his.

Yagami used the Water Gun Technique and learned that Yellow Dog planned to ambush Kirigakure forces while Yagami carried the captured Twin Blades: Hiramekarei along the coast. In Kirigakure, Genji ordered a village mission to recover the blades, challenging the Hozuki Clan’s control over them.

• Yagami demonstrated his hand-signless Water Gun Technique, and Yellow Dog planned to spread word that Hozuki Ringo had leaked a Hozuki secret technique.
• Yellow Dog promised Yagami an S-rank Mission reward and ordered him to carry the sealed Twin Blades: Hiramekarei along the coast while the unit prepared an ambush.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare reported to Genji and Kirigakure’s clan heads that Copper Fox had defeated Hozuki Ringo and taken the twin blades.
• Hozuki Miyazuki confirmed the blades could not be summoned, while Genji ordered an S-rank mission for three Jonin to retrieve them and compete to become their next wielder.
• Genji gave the Hozuki Clan the right to nominate two Jonin but warned that the village would take control if they failed; Miyazuki privately vowed revenge on Copper Fox.

Yagami lured three Mist Ninja squads into an ambush, where he and Yellow Dog fought them and killed two Hozuki Jonin. One Hozuki Jonin escaped to the sea and reported Yellow Dog’s powerful Fire Style, while Kushimaru Kuriarare dismissed his warning.

• Yagami used himself as bait to draw the Mist Ninja toward the shore, then led them inland through the fog.
• Two Mist Ninja attempted to trap Yagami with the Water Prison Technique, but he drove them back with Earth Release as Konoha Ninja attacked from the coconut grove.
• Yagami suppressed a Hozuki Jonin with Water Severing Wave, allowing Yellow Dog to kill him with a Great Fire Dragon Bullet.
• Yagami and Yellow Dog counterattacked, killed another Hozuki Jonin, and drove the Mist Ninja back to the shore.
• One Hozuki Jonin escaped into the sea and warned that Yellow Dog’s Fire Style rivaled the Uchiha’s, but Kushimaru Kuriarare mocked him.

Yellow Dog secured approval for a five-squad ambush using Twin Blades: Hiramekarei, while Danzo secretly activated a spy in Kirigakure. Yagami trained his squad to use reinforced trapezoidal Earth Flow Walls against Water Release and ended the chapter awaiting another full-moon resurrection.

• Yellow Dog reported Hozuki Ringo's death and requested a five-squad ambush to lure out Mist Ninja seeking Twin Blades: Hiramekarei, and Danzo approved the plan.
• Danzo ordered B to activate the Wandering Miko and have her contact Suikazan Fuguki, a Kirigakure informant.
• Yellow Dog and Uchiha Zhong met with four Jonin to plan the ambush, deciding that Fox would lure the Mist Ninja inland.
• Yagami took his squad to training and demonstrated that trapezoidal Earth Flow Walls resisted Water Release better than vertical walls.
• Yagami warned his squad against carving dog heads into Earth Flow Walls, then awaited the full moon and another chance at resurrection.

Yagami trained Uchiha Fugaku and two other Uchiha genin to prepare them for Mist Ninja tactics, exposing Fugaku’s overly cautious fighting style. After the sparring, Uchiha Toka explained that Fugaku had become cautious after Senju Nawaki’s death, while Yagami warned him that a ninja also needed resolve or ruthlessness.

• Yellow Dog sent Yagami to train Uchiha Fugaku and two other Uchiha genin in Mist Ninja techniques.
• Yagami overwhelmed the genin in their first sparring session, demonstrating how Water Release, Water Gun, and dense mist could counter their tactics.
• Yagami asked Uchiha Toka why Fugaku fought so cautiously, and Toka explained that Fugaku had changed after Senju Nawaki died on the front lines.
• Yagami attacked more fiercely in the next sparring session, defeated Fugaku, and told him that he needed resolve to sacrifice himself for comrades or ruthlessness to sacrifice them for the mission.
• Uchiha Toka told Fugaku that his caution was understandable but that he also needed ruthlessness to face enemies as ruthless as Yagami.

Yagami investigated the Land of Whirlpools front and learned which local ninja supported Hatake Sakumo, then signed a summoning contract with the Stone Panda tribe. After meeting Bai Ci, he continued toward the planned battlefield.

• Hozuki Murgetsu examined a Mist Ninja's corpse and concluded that Copper Fox had used the Water Gun Technique nearby, then ordered the Jonin to search for him.
• Yagami summoned Pakkun and learned that Yamashiro Tera and Gekko Sō supported Hatake Sakumo, while Shirakumo Hayama and others were willing to grow closer to him.
• Yagami received Uzumaki Yuka's letter and discovered that she had found the intelligent Stone Panda tribe and obtained its summoning contract.
• Yagami signed the contract, met Bai Ci, and told him that Yuka could use Reverse Summoning to call for his help in mortal danger.
• Bai Ci returned to the bamboo grove, and Yagami continued toward the predetermined battlefield.

Yagami and the Flower Deer Squad reached the planned ambush site, only to find that the Mist Ninja had discovered the operation and turned it into an ambush against Konoha’s forces. After finding the Yellow Dog Squad slaughtered, Yagami went alone into the fog while Flower Deer led the squad to rescue the wounded and hide.

• Yagami found no Konoha guides at the planned battlefield and realized the ambush site had changed while the Mist Ninja pursued them.
• The Mist Ninja surrounded the mountain with the Mist Concealment Technique, and Yagami concluded that the five Konoha squads were retreating under attack.
• Yagami and Flower Deer’s squad came under fire from hidden Mist Ninja, and Yagami accidentally severed an Uchiha ninja’s legs with Water Release: Water Severing Wave.
• Yagami led the Flower Deer Squad to the summit and found Kurozaru, Horned Bull, and other ANBU dead from Kushimaru Kuriarare’s steel-wire traps.
• Yagami ordered Flower Deer to rescue the wounded and hide, then disappeared alone into the thick fog.

Yagami fought through Mist Ninja harassment in the fog while trying to reach the southwest battlefield. After defeating a squad with Water Severing Wave, he evaded the Mist Ninja Captain Commander's traps and struck him from behind.

• Yagami encountered three Konoha Ninja who reported that the Mist Ninja had scattered their brigade, and he ordered them to retreat from the coast.
• A Mist Ninja squad attacked Yagami for the Twin Blades: Hiramekarei, but he evaded their combined Water Shockwave and killed their commander with Water Severing Wave.
• Yagami continued southwest despite the Mist Ninja Captain Commander's efforts to track and block him.
• The Captain Commander trapped Yagami's Shadow Clone in a Water Prison, but Yagami used Water Body Flicker through the murky water and stabbed him from behind with Blade Technique: Thousand Years of Death.

Yagami wiped out a Mist Ninja unit, then found Uchiha Toka and Uchiha Fugaku retreating from Hozuki Murgetsu’s explosive Steaming Danger Tyranny. He drew out Murgetsu by abusing Twin Blades: Hiramekarei and ended the chapter confronting two Kirigakure powerhouses while the surviving Uchiha withdrew.

• Yagami ambushed the Mist Ninja Captain Commander with Thousand Years of Death, killed most of the unit, and continued toward the explosions.
• Yagami discovered Steaming Danger Tyranny overwhelming Uchiha Toka’s unit, and watched its blast kill four Uchiha ninja.
• Yagami searched for the hidden Hozuki controller by striking Hiramekarei against a stone until Hozuki Murgetsu emerged with Suikazan Fuguki and Samehada.
• Yagami signaled Uchiha Toka to retreat, and Toka led Uchiha Fugaku and the surviving Uchiha away.
• Yagami taunted Hozuki Murgetsu about Kirigakure taking the Seven Ninja Swords from the Hozuki Clan.

Yagami fought Hozuki Murgetsu and Suikazan Fuguki, discovering their abilities and learning that Fuguki was connected to Danzo. He let Steaming Danger Tyranny kill him, and the Arc of the Crescent Moon System activated so he could begin another life with what he had learned.

• Yagami clashed with Hozuki Murgetsu and Suikazan Fuguki, while the two Mist ninja argued over their plan and the Twin Blades: Hiramekarei.
• Yagami struck Hozuki Murgetsu, who used the Water Transformation Secret Technique and Water Reconstitution Healing to recover from his shattered shoulder.
• Yagami questioned Suikazan Fuguki about the Great Sword: Samehada, and Fuguki assumed Yagami was another of Danzo's men helping him seize it.
• Hozuki Murgetsu used Samehada to drain Yagami's Chakra and break through his Absolute Defense: Bronze Radiance.
• Yagami pretended to run out of Chakra, let Steaming Danger Tyranny kill him, and triggered the Arc of the Crescent Moon System.