Chapter Summaries

Hibari won Uzumaki Mito’s approval to learn the Yin Seal after Senju Tobirama recognized his sealing skills, while Tobirama made teaching him Flying Thunder God depend on a performance at tomorrow’s assessment. The chapter left Hibari preparing to prove himself, with Tobirama also confronting him over sneaking into his laboratory and discovering his research into a technique that manipulates the dead.

• Senju Tobirama explained that Hibari needed exceptional reflexes to use Flying Thunder God safely and said he would assess him the next morning.
• Senju Hashirama suggested testing whether Hibari had kept up his training, and Senju Tobirama agreed to take him to the Back Mountain.
• Hibari asked Senju Tobirama to teach him the Yin Seal, Flying Thunder God, and the technique involving the dead, then revealed he had secretly entered Tobirama’s laboratory several times.
• Senju Tobirama judged that Hibari had met the standard for learning the Yin Seal and asked Uzumaki Mito to teach him.
• Uzumaki Mito agreed to teach Hibari the Yin Seal and welcomed him to learn her other Sealing Jutsu as well.

Hibari discussed Flying Thunder God and Impure World Reincarnation with Senju Tobirama, who set a performance assessment before teaching the former and allowed him to study the latter’s research materials. The family then joked about Hashirama’s plans to develop the Land of Fire before Mito called the gathering to an end.

• Senju Tobirama explained that Flying Thunder God required exceptional neural reactions and said Hibari’s performance in the next day’s assessment would determine whether he qualified to learn it.
• Senju Hashirama questioned Tobirama’s research into the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and Tobirama explained that he had stopped because the experiments cost lives, he had let go of his old obsession, and his duties as Hokage took priority.
• Tobirama refused to teach Hibari the unfinished technique but gave him permission to study its research materials in the laboratory and warned him never to misuse it or treat lives as disposable.
• Hashirama asked Hibari to fund a new town, arguing that developing the Land of Fire would also benefit Konoha, and Hibari teased him about becoming more persuasive after visiting the capital.
• Mito noticed that it was getting late and told everyone who needed rest to go.