Chapter Summaries

Yayoi gave Kicho a valuable chakra-refinement technique, while Kicho arranged for Aoi and Rinko to attend him in bed as his concubines. Later, Yayoi reviewed reports on the emerging ninja ranks and the growing villages and clans across the Ninja World.

• Yayoi gave Kicho the Living Chakra Technique and explained how it strengthened a ninja’s abilities and recovery.
• Kicho told Yayoi she had bought a special outfit, and he put off explaining the technique’s limitations until the next day.
• Aoi and Rinko brought Kicho lunch, and Kicho revealed that Yayoi had left her too sore to get up unaided.
• Kicho told Aoi and Rinko they would attend Yayoi in bed as his concubines and urged them to call her Sister Kicho.
• Yayoi read reports about Konoha’s new ninja ranking system and reviewed the Land of Night’s Jonin-level forces.
• Yayoi noted the other great nations were preparing their villages and that the Uzumaki Clan was building Uzushio, and he considered future marriage alliances.

Yayoi took Aoi and Rinko as concubines, then registered them alongside Kicho as ninjas of the Land of Night. He explained that their Byakugan and Gentle Fist made them capable Chunins in a force where most ninjas were only Genin, and encouraged them to help build the country; the chapter ended with Kicho teasing them and the three women laughing together.

• Yayoi spent the night with Aoi and Rinko after Kicho encouraged them to become his concubines.
• Aoi and Rinko woke the next morning, bashfully discussed their experience, and found Kicho training in the courtyard.
• Yayoi gave Kicho, Aoi, and Rinko ninja forehead protectors and registration documents, assigning them ranks and identification numbers.
• Yayoi explained that the Land of Night’s S-prefixed identification numbers were reserved for his family, while Kicho teased him for favoring them.
• Aoi worried that she and Rinko were unqualified Chunins, but Yayoi and Kicho explained that their Byakugan and Gentle Fist made them stronger than most of the Land of Night’s ninjas.
• Yayoi encouraged Aoi and Rinko to be confident, and Kicho’s teasing prompted the three women to laugh together.

Kakuzu fought Kurobei in the General's Residence and demonstrated the power of a stolen Water Release technique. Yayoi arrived to recruit them for trouble at the Land of Grass's border, but Kurobei stayed behind with his newborn son, Mifune.

• Kakuzu and Kurobei sparred, and Kakuzu used his Earth Release and newly acquired Water Release: Tengu Cannon to gain the advantage.
• Kurobei ended the fight and recognized that Kakuzu's powerful Water Release technique had come from someone else.
• Kakuzu explained that Lord Yayoi had given him a forbidden technique that let him use stolen Ninjutsu, while Kurobei voiced concern about its risks.
• Yayoi arrived with Kicho and invited Kakuzu and Kurobei to help him handle trouble at the Land of Grass's border.
• Kurobei declined because his newborn son needed him, then told Yayoi that he had named the boy Mifune.

Yayoi, Kicho, and Kakuzu traveled to the Land of Night’s southwestern border to confront the Kusanagi Clan, whose rogue ninja had devastated a border force and sought to establish a base. After Aburame Yuto and Kicho located the clan’s camp, Yayoi began the operation against its forty-seven ninja.

• Yayoi explained that intelligence traced the border attack to the Kusanagi Clan of the Land of Grass, and Kicho recounted a legend about a spiritual Kusanagi Sword sealed within the Uchiha bloodline.
• Yayoi said the Kusanagi Clan’s attack had badly wounded two of his trusted Jonin’s forces, and Kakuzu asked whether they would leave no survivors.
• Yayoi, Kicho, and Kakuzu met Aburame Yuto in a forest, where he reported that the Kusanagi Clan had stayed and seemed intent on making the area its headquarters.
• Yayoi ordered Kicho to scout with her Byakugan, and she found the clan’s gathering point ten kilometers away, with forty-seven ninja, including two Jonin-level fighters.
• Yayoi ordered the operation to begin, and the four set off toward the Kusanagi Clan’s camp.

Kusanagi Seiryu began establishing the Kusanagi Clan’s new settlement, but Yayoi’s forces launched a surprise attack and destroyed the clan. Yayoi’s group burned the stronghold, eliminated its survivors, and took the Kusanagi Sword.

• Kusanagi Seiryu oversaw construction of the clan’s new camp and planned to scout the surrounding terrain as he considered expanding his power in the Land of Night.
• Yayoi’s forces attacked the camp with Explosive Tags and Ninjutsu, catching the Kusanagi Clan by surprise despite its perimeter traps.
• Kicho fought Kusanagi Seiryu, but he used the Kusanagi Sword to absorb her Chakra and counter her techniques.
• Yayoi secretly controlled Kusanagi Seiryu with Chakra Threads, allowing Kicho to seal his Chakra and kill him with a Gentle Fist strike.
• Yayoi used Seiryu’s corpse as a puppet while Kicho and the others finished off the Kusanagi Clan; Kakuzu confirmed that no survivors remained.
• Yayoi’s forces burned the stronghold, gathered the clan’s valuables, and kept the Kusanagi Sword.

Yayoi tested the Kusanagi Sword’s chakra-absorbing and shockwave abilities, then traveled with Kicho to Silent Forest to retrieve a Chakra Crystal containing an embryo for a new Automated Puppet. The Chakra Tree that had sustained the crystal died after they removed it, and Yayoi planted the seed it left behind before they departed.

• Yayoi tested the Kusanagi Sword and discovered that it absorbed chakra and Ninjutsu, then released stored chakra as a powerful lightning shockwave.
• Yayoi and Kicho reached Silent Forest, where Kicho sensed violent chakra and guarded against natural Genjutsu as Yayoi led her deeper into the woods.
• Yayoi found a Chakra Crystal hidden inside a massive, leafless Chakra Tree and explained that it held the embryo for his next Automated Puppet.
• After Yayoi removed the crystal, the Chakra Tree burned away as its vitality ran out, leaving a seed behind.
• Yayoi buried the seed in fertile soil, thanked the tree, and left Silent Forest with Kicho.

Yayoi considered how to ease his paperwork burden and learned that many members of the Military Bureau were still unmarried. He decided to arrange a match between Kakuzu and one of the Land of Song daimyo’s daughters, leaving Irori doubtful about Kakuzu’s romantic interest and embarrassed by Yayoi’s account of his past.

• Yayoi wished he had the Shadow Clone Technique and planned to seek another opportunity to trade with Tobirama Senju.
• Irori told Yayoi that the Land of Song’s daimyo and his family had safely arrived in Nightview City, and Yayoi ordered the protection fee distributed among the mission’s ninja and samurai.
• Irori raised the issue of unmarried members of the Military Bureau, and Yayoi noticed that Kakuzu was nearing thirty without starting a family.
• After learning there were no suitable unmarried women among the bureau’s female ninja and samurai, Yayoi proposed showing Kakuzu photos of the Land of Song daimyo’s unmarried daughters.
• Irori questioned whether Kakuzu cared about romance, and Yayoi revealed that Kakuzu had once secretly spent a day and night at a brothel.

After his secret marriage to the three daughters of the Land of Song daimyo became public, Kakuzu returned from leave and received a diplomatic mission from Yayoi to attend the founding celebration of Uzushiogakure and explore a possible marriage alliance. The chapter ended with Kakuzu accepting the mission but declining to bring his new wives on a honeymoon because the journey could be dangerous.

• Kakuzu's colleagues teased him after news spread that he had married three sisters, and he learned that a messenger from the Intelligence Division had leaked the story.
• Kakuzu decided to confront Yuroketsu, but his colleagues told him the messenger had already volunteered for mining work in the frozen northeast.
• Kakuzu returned to Yayoi after his wedding leave, and Yayoi congratulated him on marrying all three daughters of the Land of Song daimyo.
• Yayoi assigned Kakuzu to attend the Land of Whirlpool's founding celebration and assess whether the Uzumaki Clan would consider a marriage alliance.
• Yayoi suggested Kakuzu take his three wives along as a honeymoon, but Kakuzu declined because the trip might put them in danger.

Yayoi showed Kicho the developing Chakra life-form and the Seven-Tails he had imprisoned beneath the General's Residence. The Seven-Tails offered a summoning contract in exchange for eventual freedom, and Yayoi left the proposal undecided.

• Yayoi brought Kicho to a hidden chamber and showed her a Chakra Crystal embryo designed to become his second puppet doll, an extreme taijutsu master.
• Kicho examined the embryo with her Byakugan while Yayoi explained that it would take about two years to develop fully.
• The imprisoned Seven-Tails spoke from its heavily reinforced cage, and Yayoi ordered it to recover its Chakra for his use.
• The Seven-Tails recognized that Yayoi's technique had taken more than its Chakra and proposed supplying Chakra and battle assistance in return for freedom.
• Yayoi said he would consider the Seven-Tails' offer, while the beast complained about its miserable captivity.

Yayoi and Kicho discussed the risks of contracting with the Seven-Tails before revealing Kicho’s pregnancy and preparing for the child. Later, Aoi and Rinko helped Irori process documents at the Tenshu Tower and returned exhausted but eager to continue working.

• Yayoi decided that releasing the Seven-Tails without powerful sealing techniques would be too dangerous, and he hoped Kakuzu would bring back news from the Land of Whirlpool.
• Yayoi realized Kicho was a month pregnant, told her to stop training, and discussed their hopes for their first child.
• Kicho teased Yayoi about making up for their time apart after the child was born and said her lifelong hobby was making him happy.
• Aoi and Rinko helped Irori stamp documents at the Tenshu Tower for hours, then returned to the Inner Court mentally exhausted.
• Yayoi offered to let Aoi and Rinko quit the work, but they chose to continue, and he agreed to tell Irori.

Kakuzu proposed a marriage alliance between the Land of Night and the Uzumaki Clan, and Uzumaki Ashina brought the offer before the clan elders. They agreed to pursue an engagement with Shumei’s granddaughter Hisana, leaving the alliance dependent on preparing her for a marriage in the future.

• Kakuzu told Uzumaki Ashina that Oda Yayoi wanted a marriage alliance with the Uzumaki Clan, while Ashina wondered whether the Land of Night also wanted Sealing Jutsu to seal the Seven-Tails.
• Ashina convened the Uzumaki elders, who discussed Yayoi’s power and the advantages of gaining support from the Land of Night.
• The elders generally supported an alliance, but most had no daughters or granddaughters of suitable age and status.
• Ashina proposed an engagement to Hisana, Shumei’s sixteen-year-old granddaughter, with marriage to follow in two or three years.
• Ashina asked Shumei to prepare Hisana for the engagement, explaining that the alliance could help the Land of Whirlpool develop.

Uzumaki Hisana, a lazy but gifted shrine maiden, learned that the Uzumaki Clan planned to marry her to the shogun of the Land of Night. She was less concerned about leaving the shrine than whether the shogun was rich.

• Hisana complained about shrine duties and irreverently questioned the legend of the Uzumaki Great Wisdom King, so Chief Priest Uzumaki Dōmei struck her with a fan.
• Dōmei challenged Hisana to recite the legend backward after she pretended to admire hearing it again, but Uzumaki Shumei arrived before she could answer.
• Shumei told Hisana and Dōmei that the clan had agreed to form a marriage alliance with the shogun of the Land of Night.
• Hisana panicked at the thought of being driven from the shrine, then learned she was to marry the shogun.
• Shumei and Dōmei offered to refuse the marriage if Hisana opposed it, but she asked whether the shogun was rich.

Yayoi learned that the Hyuga Clan had joined Konoha and discussed the clan’s politics with Kicho, then received the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Art: Seven-Star Seal. He began training to master it so he could suppress the Seven-Tails without creating a Jinchūriki.

• Yayoi told Kicho that the Hyuga Clan had joined Konoha after Hashirama Senju visited them three times, and she explained that her father, Hyuga Hideto, hoped to use her ties to the Land of Night to preserve his standing.
• Yayoi and Kicho discussed Uzumaki Hisana, the proposed bride, and imagined her as a tall, imposing girl after hearing that she could eat an enormous amount.
• After sending Kicho back to rest, Yayoi went to the training ground and studied the Sealing Art: Seven-Star Seal scroll Kakuzu had brought from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yayoi recognized that he could potentially cast the seal alone because he possessed all seven chakra attributes, though his limited mastery of chakra nature transformations would weaken it.
• Yayoi decided that the seal suited his goal of controlling the Seven-Tails without creating a Jinchūriki, and he estimated that he could learn it within two months.

Yayoi arranged for the Uzumaki Clan to help build the Land of Night’s medical system, while he began writing training materials to develop its puppet masters. The chapter ended with Yayoi returning to his official duties after Aoi and Rinko praised his work.

• Uzumaki Ashina discussed the clan’s financial strain and reviewed Yayoi’s unconventional Life-Saving Rebirth Technique with the elders.
• Uzumaki Kano volunteered to lead medical ninjas to the Land of Night and help train its medical personnel.
• Yayoi reflected on the Land of Night’s understaffed Medical Division and wrote puppet-master training materials emphasizing taijutsu and coordination with puppets.
• Hyuga Aoi and Hyuga Rinko praised Yayoi’s teaching materials, and Aoi explained that Irori had gone to the Intelligence Division to handle important intelligence.
• Yayoi had Aoi put the scroll away and returned to his official duties.

Yayoi welcomed the Hoshigaki Clan into the Land of Night, agreeing to observe them for three months before completing their incorporation. After Hoshigaki Kairyu presented a sealed gift, Yayoi uncovered the legendary blade Samehada and recognized it.

• Irori told Yayoi that the Hoshigaki Clan had left the Land of Water because of discrimination and feared joining Kirigakure.
• Yayoi agreed to receive the Hoshigaki Clan and required a three-month observation period before incorporating them.
• Hoshigaki Kairyu presented a scroll and explained that the clan had sixty-one ninjas, including five Jonin, and over four hundred non-ninja members.
• Aoi and Rinko guessed what the scroll contained, and Yayoi unsealed it to reveal a massive bandage-wrapped blade.
• Yayoi recognized the blade as Samehada and wondered whether its arrival would leave Hidden Mist Village with only six of its Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Uzumaki Kano arrived in the Land of Night and saw its prosperity before agreeing to help Yayoi establish a medical system. After leaving the Medical Division in Kano’s hands, Yayoi went to the underground levels to practice sealing jutsu on the Seven-Tails.

• Uzumaki Kano and his delegation arrived in Nightview City, where the capital’s development impressed them.
• Yayoi welcomed Uzumaki Kano, discussed history and culture with him, and hosted a banquet for the visiting Uzumaki Clan ninja.
• Yayoi brought Uzumaki Kano and two Uzumaki ninja to the Medical Division, where Kano saw its lack of trained medical ninja.
• Yayoi assigned Keika to assist Kano with the Medical Division, and Kano agreed to help train medical ninja using the Uzumaki Clan’s methods.
• Yayoi left the Medical Division and practiced the Seven-Star Seal on the Seven-Tails until he was exhausted.

Yayoi traveled to Konoha for Hashirama Senju’s alliance summit and met Mu and young Ōnoki on the way. The four took shelter in an abandoned temple, where an unknown figure with scarlet eyes appeared.

• Yayoi decided to attend Hashirama Senju’s summit and left the Land of Night with Kakuzu, leaving Irori behind to care for Kicho and the capital.
• At the Land of Fire’s border, Yayoi and Kakuzu encountered Mu and Ōnoki, who were also traveling to Konoha as representatives of the Land of Earth.
• Yayoi invited Mu and Ōnoki to travel with them, and the four headed toward Hidden Leaf Village together.
• After nightfall, Yayoi led the group to an abandoned temple to rest.
• Mu sensed someone inside the temple, and a scarlet-eyed figure emerged and addressed the group.

Madara Uchiha confronted the delegates who had come to Konoha for an alliance meeting and demanded their countries surrender. Mu and Yayoi chose to fight him, leaving the group facing Madara’s Susanoo.

• Madara interrupted Yayoi and attacked Ōnoki with a sword strike, but Mu pulled him to safety and was wounded.
• Madara revealed his Susanoo and demanded that the delegates submit letters of surrender on behalf of their countries.
• Ōnoki refused to surrender, and Mu declared that he would challenge Madara to test whether he truly stood at the pinnacle of the shinobi world.
• Madara asked Yayoi and Kakuzu to choose, and Yayoi summoned Irori before announcing that they would fight at full strength.
• Irori prepared to battle alongside Yayoi as Madara welcomed the five opponents and invited them to dance.

Irori, Mu, Yayoi, and Kakuzu attacked Madara with coordinated techniques, but his Susanoo endured their assaults and unleashed devastating sword waves. As Madara’s Susanoo grew into a complete giant, Yayoi and Irori remained ready to fight despite their injuries.

• Irori bombarded Madara’s Susanoo with ice weapons and froze it inside a massive block, but Madara shattered the ice with four sword waves that devastated the surrounding land.
• Mu warned Ōnoki to retreat, then joined Yayoi and Kakuzu in attacking Madara as Irori countered his Great Fire Annihilation with a Water Release technique.
• Mu tried to hit Madara with Dust Release, but Madara evaded the attack; Yayoi then directed Irori to slow Madara’s Susanoo with freezing vapor.
• Irori’s freezing vapor hindered the Susanoo, but Madara swept out a powerful sword wave that knocked Mu from the sky and tore apart the landscape.
• Madara’s Susanoo became a towering, four-armed giant, and he praised the group for making him use it to this extent.
• Yayoi entered Chakra Armament Mode and began regenerating from a severe chest wound while Irori stood ready to fight, her chakra body repairing an abdominal cut.

Yayoi survived Madara’s assault, and Madara praised his seal-less Medical Ninjutsu before withdrawing when Tobirama appeared. Yayoi healed Mu’s nearly fatal injuries, and the group headed for a Senju outpost while Tobirama grew wary of Irori and Yayoi.

• Madara recognized Yayoi’s Medical Ninjutsu as comparable to Hashirama’s, and Yayoi revealed he had witnessed Madara’s earlier battle in the Land of Night.
• Madara ended the fight and vanished, confirming Yayoi’s suspicion that he had been a Shadow Clone.
• Tobirama appeared, and Yayoi stopped Ōnoki from straining himself before treating Mu’s severe wounds.
• Yayoi healed Mu, while Irori helped Kakuzu out from beneath the rubble.
• Tobirama led Yayoi, Ōnoki, Mu, and Kakuzu toward a Senju outpost, and Yayoi sent Irori back to the Land of Night.
• Tobirama considered Irori’s abilities and concluded that she might be a Tailed Beast in human form, marking Yayoi as someone to watch closely.