Chapter Summaries

Chiyu ordered Uchiha Kyosuke and three others to ambush a resting Cloud Ninja squad, secretly watching to make sure they survived. After a successful opening attack, the Uchiha were overwhelmed in the ensuing battle and regrouped in desperation, with Chiyu still absent.

• Chiyu sent Uchiha Kyosuke, Uchiha Keiichi, Uchiha Ryuhei, and injured Uchiha Jinno to attack the Cloud Ninja, while secretly resolving to keep them from serious harm.
• The four Uchiha ambushed the resting squad, killing three Cloud Ninja Genin and one Chunin with projectiles, fire, explosive tags, and Uchiha Jinno's Sharingan genjutsu.
• The remaining Cloud Ninja charged, and the Uchiha split up to divide their opponents, leaving Uchiha Kyosuke to face the Tokubetsu Jonin alone.
• The Tokubetsu Jonin wounded Uchiha Kyosuke and pressed him with lightning attacks as the other Uchiha also fell into unfavorable fights.
• The injured Uchiha regrouped under the Cloud Ninja's pressure and feared Chiyu had abandoned them as the enemy closed in.

Chiyu defeated a Cloud Ninja squad and forced Uchiha Kyosuke and the others to follow his orders as the Land of Hot Water front settled into a standoff. Three years later, Chiyu and Minato Namikaze were Jonin, and Chiyu anticipated earning Witness Points from Hatake Sakumo’s suicide the following year.

• Chiyu killed the Cloud Ninja Genin and Chunin with his speed and Thunder Breathing, then struck down the fleeing Tokubetsu Jonin and ordered Uchiha Kyosuke and the other three to collect the enemy heads.
• After Konoha reinforcements arrived, the fighting across the four battlefields eased, and Konoha began sending Genin to the front for training.
• Three years passed, during which Minato Namikaze learned the Flying Thunder God Technique and both he and Chiyu reached a one hundred percent mission success rate and became Jonin.
• Chiyu accumulated more than 6,000 Witness Points by taking credit for missions Minato Namikaze should have earned, while only Uchiha Kyosuke, Uchiha Ryuhei, Uchiha Keiichi, and Uchiha Jinno continued to follow him.
• Kakashi Hatake graduated from the Ninja Academy at age five, joined Hatake Sakumo on the battlefield, and became a Chunin the following year.
• Chiyu remembered that Hatake Sakumo would die by suicide next year and expected the event to earn him Witness Points.

Chiyu considered Hatake Sakumo’s expected suicide a likely trigger for the Third Great Ninja War and decided to travel to the Land of Grass. He also planned to search for Karin’s future mother and prepare a backup plan involving awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Chiyu reasoned that Hatake Sakumo’s suicide would likely shatter Konoha’s battlefield stability in the Land of Grass and prompt Iwagakure to attack.
• Chiyu anticipated that a move by Iwagakure would draw in Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure, accelerating the outbreak of all-out war.
• Chiyu decided to go to the Land of Grass, where he hoped to find the Uzumaki Clan survivor who would become Karin’s mother.
• Chiyu considered exchanging 10,000 Witness Points to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan if he could not find Karin’s mother, and he was a little over 3,000 points short.

After three years in the Land of Hot Water, Chiyu requested a transfer to the Land of Grass to search for an Uzumaki Clan orphan and prepare for Kushina Uzumaki’s future. He told his Uchiha squad he was leaving and ended Kyosuke’s hopes of matching his Thunder Breathing.

• Chiyu asked Orochimaru to transfer him to the Land of Grass, and Orochimaru agreed to submit the application while warning he could not help with Chiyu’s backup plan.
• Chiyu told Uchiha Kyosuke, Uchiha Keiichi, Uchiha Ryuhei, and Uchiha Jinno that he would soon leave their squad.
• Chiyu advised the four Uchiha not to follow Uchiha Kazuo and suggested they serve under Minato Namikaze instead.
• Uchiha Kyosuke asked why he could not master Thunder Breathing to Chiyu’s level, and Chiyu replied that people had different constitutions.

Chiyu prepared to leave the Land of Hot Water for the Land of Grass, while Minato Namikaze visited him and challenged him to a spar. Their fight began with Chiyu baiting Minato into a trap, and Minato recognizing the feint before teleporting.

• Chiyu completed his handover, rested for three days, and waited for transfer orders to the Land of Grass.
• Uchiha Kyosuke and his companions accepted Nara Shoji's assignments and were sent to separate teams.
• Minato Namikaze appeared beside Chiyu and asked why he was leaving, then revealed he had come to challenge him to a spar.
• Chiyu refused to lead a Genin team and agreed to fight Minato, despite rejecting his talk of their past.
• Minato threw two Flying Thunder God Kunai, and Chiyu attacked one while secretly hurling Shuriken toward the other.
• Minato stayed in place instead of teleporting, avoiding Chiyu's trap, and Chiyu concluded that he had seen through the feint.

Chiyu used Observation Haki to defend against Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God attacks while waiting for him to run low on kunai. After revealing that he had collected most of Minato Namikaze’s teleportation markers, Chiyu left him with only two usable Flying Thunder God Kunai.

• Minato Namikaze attacked Chiyu with repeated Flying Thunder God teleports and feints, but Chiyu blocked or dodged each strike without using Thunderclap and Flash.
• Chiyu waited until Minato Namikaze began retrieving kunai from the ground, then attacked with Thunder Breathing: First Form: Thunderclap and Flash: Eightfold, but Minato Namikaze evaded him.
• Chiyu counted eighteen Flying Thunder God Kunai and revealed that a transparent thread connected him to the seventeen kunai on the ground.
• Chiyu pulled the seventeen kunai together and created a Shadow Clone, leaving Minato Namikaze with only two Flying Thunder God Kunai as teleportation mediums.

Chiyu outmaneuvered Minato Namikaze in their battle by controlling his Flying Thunder God Kunai and catching him in a genjutsu, then reflected on the fight. Two days later, Orochimaru told Chiyu his transfer to the Land of Grass had been approved and warned him to lead Genin and build influence if he wanted Konoha to consider his candidate as a Nine-Tails Container.

• Chiyu used his Shadow Clone to guard Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Kunai while his real body pressured him, then revealed Minato Namikaze had been trapped in a genjutsu.
• Minato Namikaze realized Chiyu had caught him when he instinctively looked at him after hearing there were only eighteen Flying Thunder God Kunai, and he retrieved his weapons before leaving.
• Chiyu reviewed the fight and concluded Minato Namikaze would be even harder to face after correcting his mistakes and potentially learning Sage Mode.
• Orochimaru told Chiyu his transfer request had been approved and instructed him to see Sarutobi-sensei upon returning to Konoha before traveling to the Land of Grass.
• Chiyu objected to leading Genin, but Orochimaru warned that he needed to appear obedient and build influence if Konoha was to consider his candidate as a backup Nine-Tails Container instead of Kushina.

Chiyu agreed to take a Genin as his disciple and returned to Konoha with Minato, rejecting Minato’s hope that they might become friends. After delivering Orochimaru’s scroll to Hiruzen, Chiyu encountered Danzo in the Hokage’s office.

• Orochimaru explained why Chiyu should take a Genin disciple, and Chiyu agreed before setting off for Konoha with Orochimaru’s scroll.
• Minato joined Chiyu on the journey, but Chiyu told him they would never become friends and that he had been glad Minato did not help Kushina.
• Chiyu traveled through the night and reached Konoha the next day, intending to deliver Orochimaru’s scroll and collect his appointment letter for the Land of Grass.
• Chiyu entered the Hokage’s office and found Hiruzen Sarutobi with Danzo, whom he recognized and greeted.

Chiyu delivered Orochimaru’s intelligence report to Hiruzen Sarutobi, where Danzo questioned him about the Uchiha Clan and tried to recruit him into Root. Hiruzen assigned Chiyu to the Land of Grass battlefield and approved his plan to take a disciple, while Danzo pressed Hiruzen to consider dealing with the Uchiha Clan after the war.

• Chiyu gave Hiruzen Sarutobi Orochimaru’s scroll about the situation in the Land of Hot Water.
• Danzo questioned Chiyu about his conflict with the Uchiha Clan and invited him to join Root, but Hiruzen refused on Chiyu’s behalf.
• Danzo warned that Iwagakure might ally with Kirigakure, while Hiruzen argued that Kirigakure’s lack of deployable forces could give Konoha an opportunity.
• Hiruzen gave Chiyu deployment orders for the Land of Grass battlefield and approved his plan to take a graduating Genin as his disciple.
• After Chiyu left, Danzo asked whether he was suitable for dealing with the Uchiha Clan, and Hiruzen insisted that Konoha needed the clan during the war.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo agreed to consider elevating Chiyu after the war to restrain the Uchiha Clan. Chiyu asked Mito Uzumaki to support him if a chance arose to prevent Kushina Uzumaki from becoming a Jinchuriki, and revealed that his transfer to the Land of Grass was tied to finding someone who could create that chance.

• Danzo urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to use Chiyu to check the Uchiha Clan, and Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to revisit the plan after the war.
• Chiyu visited Kushina Uzumaki, spent the day with her in Konoha, and carried her home at night.
• Chiyu asked Mito Uzumaki how much time she had left, and she said she could hold on for at least three more years.
• Chiyu asked Mito Uzumaki to stand with him if a turning point arose around Kushina Uzumaki becoming a Jinchuriki.
• Chiyu revealed that he had been transferred to the Land of Grass to find someone who could create that turning point, and Mito Uzumaki realized he meant a surviving member of their clan.

Chiyu tried to convince Mito Uzumaki to help prevent Kushina Uzumaki from becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but Mito refused to support his plan. Chiyu left after arranging to take Kushina into his care the next day, convinced Konoha’s interests mattered more to Mito than her clan.

• Mito Uzumaki hesitated to support Chiyu’s plan, arguing that Kushina Uzumaki’s Sealing Jutsu training made her a suitable Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Chiyu asked Mito to let Kushina live with him, promising to protect her and criticizing Mito for treating her as a vessel for the Nine-Tails.
• Mito insisted her affection for Kushina was genuine and said Kushina could control the Nine-Tails, but Chiyu warned that becoming its Jinchuriki would put her in danger.
• Chiyu asked Mito to consider Kushina’s own wishes and said he would come the next day to take her away.
• After leaving, Chiyu reflected that Mito had put Konoha first and recalled that Konoha had failed to aid the Uzumaki Clan when the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed.

Chiyu took Kushina Uzumaki away from Mito Uzumaki after Kushina learned Konoha had brought her to become the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki. After Chiyu explained what being a Jinchuriki meant, Kushina said she was willing to become one.

• Chiyu decided he had to find Karin's mother himself and planned to take Kushina Uzumaki away from Konoha.
• Chiyu found Kushina crying because she had used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to overhear his conversation with Mito Uzumaki.
• Kushina learned Konoha had brought her to become the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, and Chiyu promised no one would force her into it.
• Chiyu took Kushina to his dusty apartment, where they cleaned the room together and settled in.
• Chiyu explained tailed beasts and Jinchuriki to Kushina, and she told him she was willing to become one.

Chiyu refused Kushina Uzumaki’s offer to become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and promised to take her away from Konoha once things settled. At the Ninja Academy’s graduation assignment, he came to select a disciple and noticed Kakashi Hatake among the new Genin.

• Kushina Uzumaki offered to become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but Chiyu rejected the idea and reassured her that she was never a burden to him.
• Chiyu told Kushina Uzumaki he planned to leave Konoha with her, and she promised to follow him.
• After spending two days together, Kushina Uzumaki left for a mission while Chiyu went to the Ninja Academy to choose a disciple.
• Chiyu encountered Minato Namikaze and his former teacher Shota Hayabusa at the graduation assignment, where Shota Hayabusa criticized Chiyu for being ungrateful.
• Chiyu spotted Kakashi Hatake among the graduating Genin and realized Kakashi needed to take part in the assignment to become one of Minato Namikaze’s subordinates.

Chiyu interrupted the Genin assignments to offer Kakashi Hatake a chance to become his disciple, promising to teach him the perfected Thunder Breathing. Kakashi followed Chiyu into the woods and watched him demonstrate a Thunderclap and Flash powerful enough to sever a huge tree, leaving Kakashi stunned.

• Chiyu interrupted Kakashi's assignment to Minato Namikaze's team and offered to take Kakashi as his disciple.
• Chiyu told Kakashi he had perfected Thunder Breathing and asked him to meet in the woods east of Konoha before deciding.
• Kakashi left the Ninja Academy to follow Chiyu and asked whether Thunder Breathing was incomplete.
• Kakashi demonstrated Thunderclap and Flash, and Chiyu judged his technique merely watchable.
• Chiyu demonstrated Thunderclap and Flash by charging at blinding speed and cutting through a huge tree, shocking Kakashi.

Chiyu demonstrated his superior Thunder Breathing to Kakashi and offered to train him as his disciple. Kakashi accepted, and the two left Konoha for the Land of Grass, where Chiyu began explaining how breathing strengthened the technique.

• Chiyu showed Kakashi Thunderclap and Flash and described his faster, unfinished Thunderclap and Flash: Godspeed, which he could follow with his Sharingan.
• Chiyu offered to make Kakashi his disciple and train him in Thunder Breathing, Ninjutsu, and combat; Kakashi accepted and agreed to travel to the Land of Grass.
• Kakashi returned to the Ninja Academy and told Minato Namikaze, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara that he would study under Chiyu instead of joining their team.
• The vice principal added another Genin to Minato Namikaze's team, while Chiyu left a letter for Kushina Uzumaki before departing the next morning.
• Chiyu and Kakashi left Konoha for the Land of Grass, and Chiyu told Kakashi that Thunder Breathing's power depended on coordinating it with his breathing.

Chiyu assessed Kakashi and planned his training, deciding that mastering Total Concentration Breathing and Thunder Breathing would be more useful than pursuing a Sharingan. After they reached the Land of Grass, Hatake Sakumo accepted Chiyu as Kakashi’s master and entrusted Kakashi’s training to him.

• Chiyu explained Total Concentration Breathing to Kakashi and said he would teach it after they reached the Land of Grass.
• During the journey, Chiyu assessed Kakashi’s abilities and planned training focused on breathing techniques, reflexes, vision, and advanced Lightning and Earth Release ninjutsu.
• Chiyu decided that Kakashi should avoid transplanting a Sharingan because its Chakra drain would outweigh its benefits.
• Chiyu and Kakashi arrived at the Konoha outpost in the Land of Grass and visited Hatake Sakumo.
• Kakashi told Hatake Sakumo that he had taken Chiyu as his master, and Hatake Sakumo accepted the arrangement and asked Chiyu to look after him.

Chiyu arranged a reconnaissance mission with Hatake Sakumo and began training Kakashi in Total Concentration Breathing by making him wear a mask stuffed with cloth. After planning his search for Karin's mother, Chiyu found Kakashi collapsed from the mask's restricted airflow and insisted he join the mission.

• Chiyu asked Hatake Sakumo for reconnaissance assignments and permission to attack Iwagakure's ninja at his discretion, and Sakumo assigned him and Kakashi to investigate hidden outposts in the Land of Grass.
• Chiyu stuffed Kakashi's mask with cloth and ordered him to keep wearing it as the first step in training his breathing.
• Chiyu obtained a map of the Land of Grass and marked areas where he thought Karin's mother was unlikely to be.
• The next morning, Chiyu found Kakashi collapsed outside his door, pale and struggling to breathe.
• Chiyu refused Kakashi's request to remove the mask and ordered him to get up and accompany him on the mission.

Chiyu pushed Kakashi through intense breathing training and sent him to fight three Stone Ninja despite his exhaustion. Kakashi avoided their first attack but collapsed, leaving the Stone Ninja surrounding him.

• Chiyu made Kakashi rest briefly, explained how he was adapting to the thickened mask, and ordered him to continue training.
• Chiyu sensed three Stone Ninja nearby and sent Kakashi to engage them, warning that he would not intervene unless Kakashi was about to die.
• Kakashi approached the Stone Ninja quietly, but his heavy breathing drew their attention and he realized they had discovered him.
• One Stone Ninja used Earth Release: Earth Core Movement to sink the ground beneath Kakashi, who dodged but collapsed from exhaustion.
• The three Stone Ninja surrounded Kakashi and wondered why the Konoha ninja looked so weak.

Kakashi fought three Stone Ninja while struggling to breathe through his thickened mask, gradually regaining his combat instincts before collapsing. Chiyu intervened, killed the Stone Ninja, and taught Kakashi to breathe slowly as he recovered.

• Three Stone Ninja attacked the weakened Kakashi, who could barely move or breathe through his mask.
• Kakashi resisted taking off his mask to avoid disappointing Chiyu and fought back with Thunder Breathing, kunai, and his short blade.
• As the fight continued, Kakashi relied on instinct and gradually regained his movements, but soon collapsed from suffocation.
• Chiyu removed Kakashi's mask, instructed him to breathe slowly, and killed all three Stone Ninja with his ninja blade.
• Kakashi's breathing steadied, but when Chiyu asked how the experience felt, Kakashi began vomiting.

Chiyu continued training Kakashi while searching the Land of Grass for someone important to him, and the pair returned to the Konoha encampment. There, Chiyu learned that Hatake Sakumo was preparing a mission to intercept a Stone Ninja scroll.

• Kakashi described the strength he felt from Total Concentration Breathing, and Chiyu urged him to remember the sensation and eventually master Total Concentration Breathing: Constant.
• After seven months of searching the Land of Grass for someone, Chiyu told Kakashi that she was important to him; during their travels, Chiyu also found hidden Stone Ninja strongholds and reported them to Hatake Sakumo.
• Chiyu explained that Kakashi could not use the Seventh Form: Fire Thunder God because he had not fully mastered the first six forms, and assigned him training for Total Concentration Breathing: Constant.
• Two days after returning to the Konoha encampment, Chiyu joined Hatake Sakumo's meeting while Kakashi stayed outside.
• Hatake Sakumo briefed the jonin on secret meetings between Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure, then prepared to lead a mission to intercept the Stone Ninja's scroll in the Land of Grass.