Recaps

After returning to the Land of Night, Yayoi organized disaster relief for the devastated Land of Fields while his subordinates processed the consequences of Madara's defeat. The chapter ended with Yayoi discovering Kicho's unusual preparations in their bedroom.

• Yayoi compensated the innkeeper for the suite Irori had damaged and arranged a new room for himself, Irori, and Yaya.
• Yayoi and his companions left the inn the next morning and returned to the Land of Night, noting the Land of Fields' continuing rain and likely flood damage.
• At the Tenshu Tower, Irori briefed the Military Bureau executives on the battle involving Hashirama, Madara, and the Nine-Tails; Hokuto and Kakuzu reacted with complicated feelings to Madara's death.
• Yayoi assigned Jizomaru to oversee disaster relief and refugee resettlement in the Land of Fields, and told Iron Sparrow to coordinate the necessary funding.
• Yayoi finished some office work and returned to his bedroom, where he found straps hanging above the bed for Kicho's Aerial Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven.

After Hashirama and Madara’s battle devastated parts of the Land of Fields and the Land of Fire, Konoha prepared disaster relief and faced pressure to address the Uchiha Clan’s standing. Tobirama proposed easing tensions without a punitive meeting, while Hashirama considered stepping down as Hokage, and Tobirama urged him to remain.

• Intelligence agents from the great nations investigated the battle’s aftermath and found vast craters, missing land, vanished islands, and a massive rift across the border.
• Tobirama brought Hashirama Konoha’s disaster relief plan for the Land of Fields and confirmed that the Land of Night had sent aid as well.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that the clans wanted a high-level meeting about the problems Madara had left behind and proposed that Hashirama publicly recover for a month while Konoha let tensions subside.
• Hashirama agreed with Tobirama’s approach but suggested that Tobirama become Second Hokage after the crisis passed.
• Tobirama rejected Hashirama’s attempt to resign, defended his record as Konoha’s leader, and left to handle the village’s affairs.

Yayoi and Nene tested Hashirama Cells in the laboratory and saw them overwhelm a mouse, while Nene continued cultivating Nine-Tails Chakra Meat and developing a new medicine. Months later, Uchiha Izayoi was stuck managing a remote mining base, far from the general she had hoped to seduce.

• Nene used a filtered Hashirama Cells injection on a mouse, and a sapling grew from its back until it consumed the mouse and filled the observation chamber with greenery.
• Yayoi and Nene discussed the cells’ extreme corrosiveness, and Nene warned that finding a breakthrough would be difficult while promising to continue her research.
• Yayoi told Nene to keep cultivating the Nine-Tails Chakra Meat and left the laboratory after she asked for further funding for her new medicine.
• Yayoi spent two or three months developing his sealing and sensory skills with Hisana while overseeing the General’s Residence through a Shadow Clone.
• Uchiha Izayoi served as a squad captain at the remote Black Mountain Mining District’s Base 3, where she managed prisoners and had little work but could not leave without authorization.
• Uchiha Izayoi regretted that her comfortable mining-base assignment kept her far from Yayoi and prevented her from carrying out her clan’s task of seducing him.

Izayoi endured her isolated posting at Base 3 of the Black Mountain Mining District and sent Yayoi an unusually self-congratulatory report. Meanwhile, Yayoi learned that Tobirama had quietly crushed the rumors targeting the Uchiha and focused on integrating refugees from the Land of Fields; he ended the chapter puzzled by Izayoi’s letter.

• Izayoi wrote her work report and a letter to Hokuto while reflecting on her remote assignment and her plans to transfer after six months.
• Yayoi learned that Tobirama had eliminated the operatives spreading rumors against the Uchiha Clan, and he decided to leave Yuroketsu in the Land of Fields to guard against their return.
• Irori reported that the Land of Night had sheltered about three hundred thousand refugees from the Land of Fields, and Yayoi ordered that they be made self-sufficient as soon as possible.
• Yayoi read Izayoi’s report from Base 3, found her claims of diligence and her advice to drink hot water bewildering, and wrote a brief reply.

Izayoi received Yayoi’s reassuring reply to her report from Nightview City and planned to pursue him romantically. In the Inner Court, Kicho decided to put the lazy Hisana through practical combat training, persuading her with promises of special techniques.

• Izayoi repeatedly asked Sirius about the report sent to Nightview City, then hurried away when its reply arrived.
• Izayoi read Yayoi’s warm message and believed her efforts had earned his admiration, resolving to make a romantic advance.
• Hisana wondered what the approaching snowfall would look like as Kicho returned from training.
• Kicho admitted she wanted to become strong enough to help Yayoi and thanked Hisana for teaching her Monster Strength techniques.
• Kicho caught Hisana trying to flee and insisted on teaching her practical combat, while Oboro agreed that Hisana needed stricter training.
• Kicho promised to teach Hisana special techniques, and Hisana eagerly accepted the training.

Kicho pushed Hisana through practical combat training and decided she should focus on Taijutsu until she learned to fight effectively. Meanwhile, Tobirama visited Yayoi to request a venue for a leaders' conference where Konoha planned to distribute the Tailed Beasts, revealing that it had captured all but the One-Tail and Seven-Tails.

• Kicho criticized Hisana for repeatedly panicking and closing her eyes during sparring, despite her strong physical abilities and chakra reserves.
• Hisana explained that she had only practiced Sealing Jutsu on unmoving rocks, so Kicho ordered her to focus on Taijutsu and keep training under supervision.
• Kicho warned Hisana that she could not use her husband until she mastered Taijutsu, prompting Hisana to take the training seriously.
• Tobirama told Yayoi that Konoha wanted the Land of Night to host the Second Ninja Village Leaders Conference.
• Tobirama revealed that Hashirama hoped to distribute the Tailed Beasts to balance the countries' military power, and that Konoha had captured all of them except the One-Tail and Seven-Tails.

Yayoi rejected Tobirama’s offer of a second Tailed Beast and asked Konoha to trade him Yin-Yang Release instead. After Konoha invited the ninja villages to a conference in the Land of Night, the Hidden Cloud Village debated the risks, and First Raikage A decided to attend.

• Yayoi told Tobirama that Hashirama’s plan to distribute Tailed Beasts would not guarantee peace, then declined the offer of another Tailed Beast.
• Yayoi asked Tobirama to trade Konoha’s Yin-Yang Release knowledge for the Tailed Beasts intended for other nations, and Tobirama realized why he wanted it.
• Tobirama returned to Konoha, which sent invitations to the ninja villages for a conference in the Land of Night one week later.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku argued with Hidden Cloud executives over Konoha’s plan and their own past actions.
• First Raikage A decided to attend the conference, while Hidden Cloud executives urged him to bring guards and prepared support forces in case of danger.

Mu learned that Ishikawa had decided to attend Konoha’s Five Kage Summit, while Yayoi prepared Three Wolves Mountain as the venue. Hashirama arrived with Konoha’s captured Tailed Beasts, leaving Yayoi to face the task of dividing them.

• Mu encouraged Ōnoki to keep training toward Dust Release and urged him not to let fear undermine his resolve.
• Ishikawa told Mu he would attend the Five Kage Summit, and Mu agreed to arrange security after reading Yayoi’s message to divide the Tailed Beasts and prepare money.
• Yayoi explained to Kakuzu that Three Wolves Mountain would host the summit because its terrain was defensible and remote.
• Kurobei reported that the leaders of Frost Village and Yugakure had already arrived at Three Wolves Mountain.
• Yayoi welcomed Hashirama, and Tobirama presented six captured Tailed Beasts hauled on carts for the planned division.

Hashirama subdued the six Tailed Beasts at the castle, while Tobirama delivered Yin-Yang Release scrolls to Yayoi and proposed a deal for his artificial-life research. After Yayoi asked for Hashirama’s complete Senjutsu cultivation method in exchange, he studied the scrolls and realized Yin-Yang Release could strengthen his Active Chakra and the artificial lifeforms he had created.

• Hashirama bound and suppressed the six Tailed Beasts with Wood Release, then joined Yayoi and Tobirama inside the castle.
• Hashirama went to the hot springs with the leaders of Frost Village and Yugakure, while Tobirama visited Yayoi and gave him three Yin-Yang Release scrolls.
• Tobirama asked Yayoi for his artificial-life research materials, but Yayoi warned that Tobirama would fail and demanded the complete method for cultivating Senjutsu in return.
• Tobirama left to discuss Yayoi’s demand with Hashirama, and Yayoi began studying the scrolls in his room.
• Yayoi found the Yin-Yang Release inheritance more than ninety percent complete and concluded that it could enhance his Active Chakra and improve Irori and Yaya.

Yayoi studied the Yin-Yang Release and planned to strengthen Irori and Yaya, while Yaya insisted on staying in his room overnight. The next day, delegates from numerous small ninja villages arrived at Three Wolves Mountain, where Yayoi checked that they were housed and behaving peacefully.

• Yayoi decided to use the Yin-Yang Release to address the chakra-core weakness in Irori and Yaya’s bodies.
• Yaya surprised Yayoi in his room, but he caught her in a golden sealing sphere before letting her go and allowing her to stay overnight under strict conditions.
• Kurobei reported that rooms remained available for the arriving delegates from small ninja villages.
• Yayoi learned that some villages had come without invitations and that their delegates had only traded cold remarks, with no violence.
• Yayoi concluded that the delegates were restrained by the Land of Night’s strength and the six Tailed Beasts guarded in the courtyard.

Yayoi arrived with Yaya and Kakuzu as Mu and Hozuki Gengetsu fought at Three Wolves Mountain, then stopped the battle before it could escalate. Ishikawa and Byakuren entered the talks arguing over which of their subordinates had been winning.

• Yayoi sensed the battle at an entrance to Three Wolves Mountain and went there with Yaya and Kakuzu, while Kurobei stayed behind.
• Mu and Hozuki Gengetsu exchanged explosive attacks, and Mu tried to counter with Dust Release as Gengetsu prepared a Summoning Jutsu.
• Hashirama and Tobirama arrived, restrained the fighters, and Hashirama urged Mu and Gengetsu to stop fighting.
• Kakuzu released Gengetsu from the swamp, and Yayoi invited Ishikawa, Byakuren, and their entourages inside to rest.
• Ishikawa and Byakuren argued over who had the advantage in the fight, then pressed their foreheads together and traded insults.

The Five Kage Summit began in the Land of Night, with the leaders of the great villages meeting to discuss the Tailed Beasts. Hashirama’s unexpected bow and offer to give the beasts away for free made the other Kage suspicious, leaving the talks at an uneasy standstill.

• Ishikawa and Byakuren saw the six subdued Tailed Beasts and realized the Hokage was serious about their power.
• Retto and A arrived with their delegations, and all invited villages assembled at Three Wolves Mountain before the summit.
• The Five Kage and their advisers gathered around the conference table while Yayoi opened the summit as host.
• Hashirama slammed his forehead onto the table in gratitude, startling the other leaders and prompting them to question his intentions.
• Tobirama tried to explain that Konoha would sell the Tailed Beasts, but Hashirama suggested giving them away for free and Tobirama silenced him.
• The Kage grew wary of a possible conspiracy, and the summit stalled as their suspicion turned toward Yayoi.

Hashirama and Tobirama presented the Tailed Beast distribution agreement at the Five Kage Summit, but Retto demanded compensation for the Land of Wind and nearly clashed with Byakuren. Hashirama’s plea for peace softened the other Kage, though Retto still insisted that the Land of Wind receive support before he signed.

• Yayoi urged Hashirama to control his emotions, and Hashirama apologized to the other Kage for his excitement.
• Tobirama distributed the agreement, and A supported its goal of creating stability among the nations.
• Retto objected that the Land of Wind would gain nothing from another Tailed Beast and demanded fertile land from the Land of Fire and thirty percent of the payments made to Konoha.
• Byakuren and Retto erupted into a chakra-fueled confrontation until Hashirama struck his head on the table and pleaded for the Kage to take a first step toward peace.
• Ishikawa and A voiced support for Hashirama’s efforts, while Retto maintained that the Land of Wind needed support before he would sign.

Yayoi and Tobirama discussed Hashirama’s decision to break the deadlock at the Five Kage Summit by making concessions to prevent further sacrifices. The Kage finalized and signed an agreement for cooperation and the exchange of Tailed Beasts, and Yayoi declared it in effect.

• Yayoi questioned why Hashirama had lowered his stance so far, and Tobirama explained that his brother wanted to avoid needless sacrifices caused by nations probing one another.
• The second half of the summit began with Hashirama leading the talks, and the Kage revised the agreement while keeping to its general framework.
• Retto refused to take more Tailed Beasts and jokingly offered to sell Shukaku to A, who rejected the idea of Hidden Cloud Village taking a third beast.
• The Kage agreed that Hidden Mist Village would receive the Three-Tails and Six-Tails, Hidden Rock Village the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, and Hidden Cloud Village the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, in exchange for resources and other concessions.
• The five Kage approved and signed the agreement, and Yayoi declared it officially in effect.

After the Five Kage Summit, the nations began organizing cooperation while Konoha received payment for the Tailed Beasts. Yayoi visited Nene’s laboratory and tested her new Tailed-Beast Chakra drug, which gave Tetsujuro a tremendous surge of Chakra.

• The smaller nations accepted the Five Great Nations’ proposal, and the summit ended with Hidden Mist Village, Hidden Rock Village, and Hidden Cloud Village taking home two weakened Tailed Beasts each.
• Yayoi and Tobirama discussed Konoha’s payments and the failed Senjutsu trade, then considered further cooperation between the Land of Fire and the Land of Night.
• Half a month later, payments and delegations arrived at Konoha, while Yayoi visited Nene’s laboratory to examine her new drug made with Tailed-Beast Chakra.
• Yayoi checked the drug’s composition and brought Nene to the Outer Court training grounds to observe a live test.
• Tetsujuro swallowed the red pill and gained a huge surge of Chakra, becoming so confident that he claimed he could challenge Lord Kurobei.

Yayoi and Nene tested a Tailed-Beast Chakra drug that let ordinary Jonin overpower stronger opponents for a short time, though it caused severe exhaustion afterward. After confirming its limits and discussing its cost and future use, Yayoi escorted Nene back to her laboratory, where they began her promised second reward.

• Kazama fought Tetsujuro, whose drug-enhanced chakra gave him superior speed, strength, and self-healing until the drug wore off after about five minutes.
• Yayoi examined Tetsujuro and found no meridian damage, then tested the drug on another pair and concluded that it could help ordinary Jonin gain the upper hand against slightly stronger opponents.
• Yayoi tried the drug himself and found that it barely affected him, while Nene explained that its ingredients were too rare and costly for broad distribution but sufficient for fewer than a hundred Jonin and Upper Samurai.
• Yayoi and Nene agreed to develop the drug gradually, and he escorted her back to the laboratory.
• Nene set a half-hour alarm in the laboratory lounge, and she and Yayoi began her second reward.

Yayoi continued his experiment with Nene, while Kicho trained Hisana in taijutsu and discovered that Hisana had made enough progress to begin adapting to killing intent. Kicho gave Hisana three days to rest before that next stage, promising that Lord Husband would belong to her during the break.

• Yayoi praised Nene’s expressive reactions, then extended their experiment after sealing her voice again.
• Hisana fought Kicho with powerful chakra-fueled punches, but smashed the ground beneath herself and got trapped in a fissure.
• Kicho ended training for the day, judging that Hisana’s taijutsu had reached the point where practice and experience would improve it further.
• Kicho released her killing intent, and Hisana broke free of its pressure with an uncontrolled burst of chakra.
• Kicho told Hisana she would train to adapt to killing intent after a three-day break, and Hisana eagerly asked her to keep training.

Oboro challenged Kicho to a sparring match to defend the Uzumaki Clan’s dignity, but Kicho defeated her with overwhelming force and sealed her chakra. Kicho returned Oboro’s mask and left, while Oboro vowed to do better next time.

• Oboro found the Seven-Tails sleeping at the training ground and saw Kicho practicing Gentle Fist while Hisana remained asleep.
• Oboro asked Kicho to spar and insisted that Kicho use her full strength.
• Oboro charged Kicho with her sword while forming one-handed seals, but Kicho blasted her across the training ground with Divine Rend.
• Kicho appeared behind the wounded Oboro, subdued her with a kunai, and sealed her chakra points.
• Kicho removed Oboro’s mask, teased her about her appearance, then returned the mask and walked away.
• Oboro took back her mask and promised herself she would not lose so badly next time.

Yayoi sent Uchiha Izayoi a camera and photo paper after interpreting her report as flirtation, then visited the Seven-Tails and told it the other Tailed Beasts had been sealed. The Seven-Tails joined their mental gathering and laughed at Kurama, leaving the Nine-Tails irritated.

• Yayoi read Izayoi’s report, mistook its personal remarks for flirtation, and prepared a camera and photo paper to send her.
• Yayoi summoned Yukino and tasked the cat-faced spider with delivering the package to Izayoi.
• Yayoi visited the Seven-Tails and learned it disliked the Nine-Tails’ chakra in its honey lemon tea.
• Yayoi told the Seven-Tails that the Nine-Tails and the other Tailed Beasts had been sealed, shocking it.
• The Seven-Tails sensed a mental summons, asked Yayoi to seal it, and joined the other Tailed Beasts in their shared space.
• The Seven-Tails laughed at Kurama for being sealed by humans, and the irritated Nine-Tails demanded to know what was funny.

The Tailed Beasts discussed their failed attempts to escape their seals and realized that the ninja villages’ powerful forces made them far more difficult to overcome than the clans of the past. The Nine-Tails proposed that whichever beast escaped first should help free the others, but they left the space without showing how committed they were to the agreement.

• Shukaku mocked the other Tailed Beasts for being sealed by humans, then argued with the Nine-Tails until Saiken and the others intervened.
• Gyūki and the Two-Tails described being quickly suppressed by powerful ninja, while the other beasts silently confirmed they had faced similar resistance.
• The Tailed Beasts worried that the ninja villages could keep them imprisoned indefinitely, and the Nine-Tails grew especially troubled by Mito Uzumaki and Hashirama Senju.
• The Seven-Tails trembled while recalling his days in the Land of Night, and the other beasts blamed Hashirama Senju for their situation.
• The Nine-Tails proposed that the first beast to escape should help rescue the others, and the Tailed Beasts vanished from the shared space.

Yayoi tested the Star meteorite’s energy and successfully completed the Mysterious Peacock Method, gaining the ability to shape chakra into a dragon and fly. He left the experiment considering which Land of Night ninja could safely learn the technique and regretting the limitations of samurai.

• The Seven-Tails returned from communicating with its old friends, and Yayoi removed the Seven-Star Seal after confirming that the Tailed-Beast Drug had caused no noticeable change.
• Yayoi considered the Tailed Beasts’ distant connection and wondered whether their means of communication could help him, Irori, and Yaya communicate over long distances.
• Yayoi visited the sealed storage room and drew energy from the Star meteorite to prepare for testing the Mysterious Peacock Method.
• Yayoi formed a chakra dragon and then chakra wings, successfully controlling the manifestations and learning to fly.
• Yayoi judged that fewer than twenty Land of Night ninja could withstand the meteorite’s side effects and reflected that samurai lacked the techniques needed to master the method.

Izayoi trained in a snow-covered forest before Yukino, a summoned beast contracted to Yayoi, delivered a folder and camera. Yayoi’s messages and request for photos left Izayoi mortified, and she ended the chapter trying to forget her own flirtatious letter.

• Izayoi used her Sharingan, weapons, and Fire Release to complete a demanding battlefield-style training exercise.
• Yukino introduced herself as Yayoi’s summoned beast and gave Izayoi a folder after she checked it for traps.
• Izayoi returned to her room, opened the folder, and learned how to use the camera inside.
• Izayoi read Yayoi’s messages asking for photos of her and blushed as she remembered her own romantic words.
• Izayoi grew embarrassed, slammed her forehead against the desk, and muttered for her past self to die.

Yayoi brought Kicho, Hisana, and Oboro to watch the samurai test a new force-based swordsmanship inspired by Gentle Fist techniques. Kicho reproduced and vastly amplified the attack, leaving the samurai stunned and agreeing to guide them.

• Kicho demonstrated her early progress with the Mysterious Peacock Method, and Yayoi discussed how he might promote the flight technique.
• Yayoi asked Kicho to advise the samurai on their swordsmanship reforms because their new methods resembled the Gentle Fist.
• Yayoi took Kicho, Hisana, and Oboro to watch Kurobei strike a reinforced boulder with an experimental blast of chakra released through his blade.
• Kicho recognized the technique's similarities to the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and identified its weaknesses, especially the hardness of the chakra.
• Kicho copied Kurobei's method with Kumokiri and destroyed the boulder and the earth beneath it, astounding the samurai.

Yayoi brought Kicho to help Kurobei and the samurai develop a new swordsmanship using principles from Gentle Fist. Shamon of Sunagakure then visited Yayoi and asked to trade for the Land of Night’s advanced Puppet Jutsu.

• Yayoi explained that Kicho’s Byakugan had let her quickly understand and master the samurai’s swordsmanship.
• Yayoi arranged for Kicho to exchange techniques with Kurobei and support the samurai’s effort to reform their swordsmanship.
• Irori informed Yayoi that Shamon of Sunagakure had arrived to discuss an important matter, and Yayoi agreed to meet him.
• Shamon told Yayoi that Sunagakure urgently needed the Land of Night’s Puppet Jutsu and asked to trade for the technique.

Yayoi and Shamon negotiated a trade involving the Land of Night’s Puppet Technique system and Sunagakure’s Wind Release Ninjutsu, with Magnet Release research added as a possible bargaining chip. Shamon left to seek Kazekage Retto’s approval, and Yayoi began preparing a version of Puppet Technique that excluded secrets involving Active Chakra.

• Yayoi explained the scope and value of his complete Puppet Technique system to Shamon, who asked informed questions about its techniques.
• Shamon offered a complete Wind Release Ninjutsu system and proposed adding Sunagakure’s ongoing Magnet Release research to the trade.
• Yayoi learned that Sunagakure had not yet developed Magnet Release and asked to assess the research materials before agreeing.
• Shamon said Kazekage Retto’s approval was required to share the top-secret research, so he left to report back.
• Yayoi told Irori to gather Puppet Technique scrolls and began sorting out the parts that could be traded without revealing Active Chakra secrets.