Chapter Summaries

Yayoi saw Nene’s experiments showing that his chakra healed a gravely wounded mouse far more effectively than Seven-Tails or Nine-Tails Chakra. Nene proposed that Yayoi was a second, immature source of chakra, and they concluded that the Ten-Tails might be key to fulfilling his goal of turning everything within himself into chakra.

• Nene showed Yayoi comparative chakra data and tested Seven-Tails, Nine-Tails, and Yayoi’s chakra on a nearly severed mouse.
• Yayoi’s chakra rapidly regenerated the mouse’s wound, outpacing the other chakra mixtures.
• Nene suggested that Yayoi’s chakra was closer to the source of chakra and that he might be a second, immature source.
• Nene connected Yayoi’s chakra to his ability to create Puppet Lifeforms and explained that he could manifest jutsu without mastering their foundations.
• Yayoi and Nene independently concluded that the Ten-Tails could help him turn everything within himself into chakra.

Yayoi and Nene discussed using Tailed Beast Chakra to pursue greater strength and developing life-extending medicine, while Yayoi restarted a search for ancient ruins. The chapter left Yayoi beginning Yin-Yang Release experiments on Unit Zero Puppet in hopes of giving it human-level intelligence.

• Nene proposed developing life-extending medicine, and Yayoi agreed to supply his Chakra for her research.
• Yayoi focused more heavily on Yin-Yang Release training while avoiding experiments on his own fragile body.
• Yayoi assigned Hokuto to lead a five-person team searching ancient ruins and gave him maps of the locations to investigate.
• Yayoi went underground to use Unit Zero Puppet as his first Yin-Yang Release test subject and began infusing it with Chakra.

Yayoi’s Hidden Sand Village students completed their final Puppet Technique examination, and he gave them guidance before they returned home. He then awakened the newly grown chakra lifeform Komurasaki, leaving her ready for her final transformation with the Seven-Tails.

• Formless defeated Chiyo in the final puppet battle by controlling eight puppets against her six, and Chiyo surrendered after losing three puppets.
• Yayoi congratulated the ten Hidden Sand Village students, gave them personalized scrolls with advice for their future development, and told them their village’s Jonin would collect them the next morning.
• Yayoi, Irori, Yaya, Nene, and the Seven-Tails gathered in the cultivation chamber to witness the completion of the chakra lifeform’s growth.
• Irori drained the cultivation tank, and Yayoi used Chakra Threads to awaken the girl, who opened her golden eyes and was dressed in a light-purple kimono.
• The Seven-Tails descended beside the newly awakened Komurasaki as Yayoi prepared to speak.

Yayoi successfully created a new chakra lifeform, Komurasaki, using chakra drained from the Seven-Tails, but her first appearance led to a clash with Yaya. He decided to let the two settle their rivalry themselves.

• Yayoi finished absorbing the Seven-Tails' chakra, leaving the beast diminished and asleep.
• Yayoi used Secret Art: Life Creation to form Chakra Circuits and infuse a new girl with the stored Tailed-Beast Chakra.
• The girl appeared lifeless until her Genjutsu projection vanished, revealing that Komurasaki had concealed herself and fooled the others' senses.
• Komurasaki hugged Yayoi from behind, provoking Yaya, and teased her while Yaya demanded a one-on-one fight.
• Yayoi withdrew from the confrontation and told Irori not to interfere, saying he found watching women fight interesting.

Yaya and Komurasaki fought in the forest, where Komurasaki used deceptive Genjutsu to challenge Yaya. Yayoi stopped Komurasaki before she could use a dangerous technique, gave her a Chakra Blade, and the sisters resumed their quarrel.

• Yaya and Komurasaki began a sparring match, and Komurasaki used the Worldly Wanderer Technique to hide herself and attack through false projections.
• Yayoi explained that Komurasaki cast Genjutsu on herself, and Yaya closed her eyes to find an opening and strike Komurasaki out of hiding.
• Komurasaki prepared a more dangerous Genjutsu, but Yayoi stopped her before she could use it on Yaya.
• Yayoi ended the fight and gave Komurasaki a purple Chakra Blade, which she happily accepted.
• Komurasaki teased Yayoi by asking for his more powerful Chakra Blade, and Yaya chased her while the sisters traded insults.

Yayoi tested Komurasaki’s Worldly Wanderer Technique against sensory ninjas and Uchiha and Hyuga observers, who struggled to distinguish its illusions from reality. He ended the test after seeing how easily the Genjutsu could leave its victims vulnerable to Komurasaki’s Taijutsu.

• Yayoi gathered fifteen ninjas, including sensory specialists and Uchiha and Hyuga clan members, to test Komurasaki’s Genjutsu.
• Komurasaki made the ground split and fireballs fall, convincing the participants they were facing real danger despite leaving them unharmed.
• Komurasaki’s illusions confused the sensory ninjas and created false meridian projections that defeated the Three-Tomoe Sharingan’s insight.
• The Hyuga ninja spotted Komurasaki’s faint outline with his Byakugan, while Kicho and Yayoi observed that only a few sensory specialists could track her movements.
• Yayoi explained that Komurasaki’s Genjutsu was designed to disrupt enemies before her powerful Taijutsu overwhelmed them, then stopped the test.

Yayoi reviewed the Land of Night’s military growth and plans for retiring older fighters while Komurasaki and Yaya competed for his attention. With his wedding to Izayoi two weeks away, Irori brought him the guest list, which included delegations from the great nations and ninja villages.

• Yayoi reviewed reports showing the Land of Night had grown to more than two thousand ninja and six thousand five hundred samurai, and he anticipated slower growth and waves of retirements.
• Yayoi told Irori to publish trial measures for supporting retiring fighters and adjust them according to the response.
• Komurasaki sat on Yayoi’s lap while Yaya tried to draw his attention, and Yayoi kept Komurasaki beside him as a guard to redirect Yaya’s focus.
• Yayoi let Aoi and Rinko leave early to check on their children, then finished their remaining work himself.
• Irori gave Yayoi the guest list for his wedding to Izayoi, scheduled for late April, and Yayoi saw that Mu and Tobirama were among the expected guests.

On the eve of Yayoi and Izayoi’s wedding, Hisana and Kicho lured Yayoi to the hot spring for a provocative evening. Meanwhile, Izayoi reflected on her future with Yayoi and stayed up reading, wondering what he was doing.

• Oboro told Yayoi that Hisana was waiting for him, and he followed her to the hot spring after learning his bath and meal were already prepared.
• Yayoi found Hisana and Kicho dressed as shrine maidens and teasingly asked whether he wanted to soak in the hot spring or “soak” in it first.
• Izayoi lay awake before her wedding, considering her feelings for Yayoi and how her role might change as his wife.
• Unable to sleep, Izayoi picked up a book and wondered whether Yayoi was also awake thinking about their wedding.

Izayoi married Yayoi in a ceremony attended by powerful guests, including Tobirama, who assessed the Land of Night’s growing strength. After the wedding, Izayoi and Yayoi began their wedding night, with Izayoi turning Yayoi’s teasing into a bold move of her own.

• Izayoi calmly dressed for the wedding and attended the shrine ceremony with Yayoi.
• Tobirama observed Yaya, the unfamiliar red-haired girl, and Kakuzu, and worried over the Land of Night’s growing military strength.
• The wedding ceremony continued smoothly and ended at dusk.
• Yayoi entered the bridal chamber and teased the bashful Izayoi.
• Izayoi shoved Yayoi down and began undoing her kimono sash, taking the lead on their wedding night.

After their wedding, Yayoi and Izayoi spent a week indulging in their new marriage, keeping Izayoi from training or leaving her room. When Izayoi finally insisted on training, Yayoi claimed he would teach her a Byakugan-free version of the Hyuga Clan’s Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven, but his ropes made her suspect another bedroom lesson.

• Izayoi woke embarrassed by the previous night, bathed with Yayoi, and changed into an ornate kimono before breakfast.
• Yayoi dismissed work on the first day of their marriage and persuaded Izayoi to stay with him in her quarters.
• For the following week, Yayoi and Izayoi spent most of their time together in the room, and Izayoi neglected training.
• Izayoi pushed Yayoi away and asked to train, but he offered to teach her the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven without the Byakugan.
• Yayoi tied prepared ropes to the ceiling beam, and Izayoi suggested discussing tabi socks and sashes instead.

After half a month with Yayoi, Izayoi returned to training and encountered Hisana practicing in the General's Residence. Izayoi challenged her to spar, but Hisana asked whether they had ever met before.

• Izayoi left the house to resume training while Iori teased her about her married life.
• Izayoi went to the training ground and saw Hisana practicing taijutsu alongside a masked red-haired woman.
• Izayoi judged Hisana's movements to be inexperienced and learned that Kicho had assigned her a training task.
• Izayoi proposed sparring with Hisana to test her abilities, but Hisana wondered if they had met before.

Hisana and Izayoi fought after Izayoi took offense at Hisana’s words, and Hisana’s overwhelming strength left Izayoi battered. Just as Izayoi prepared to use Genjutsu, Hisana collapsed unconscious, leaving her opponent stunned.

• Izayoi challenged Hisana to a fight, while Oboro refused to intervene and agreed to referee.
• Hisana used Adamantine Sealing Chains to deflect Izayoi’s shuriken and force her to evade.
• Hisana charged Izayoi, then smashed the ground with a powerful punch that sent Izayoi tumbling through the dust.
• Hisana asked if Izayoi was all right, and Izayoi rejected her concern while planning to use Genjutsu.
• Before Izayoi could finish forming her Fire Release hand seals, Hisana fell face-first and lost consciousness.

Izayoi defeated Hisana with Sharingan Genjutsu, though Hisana’s easy defeat left her suspicious. Yayoi confirmed that Hisana was hiding a savage true form and said Kicho was helping keep it suppressed, leaving Izayoi eager to witness it.

• Izayoi’s Sharingan Genjutsu knocked Hisana unconscious, and Oboro dispelled it and declared Izayoi the winner.
• Hisana praised Izayoi’s Sharingan and asked her to use it as a sleep aid, so Izayoi knocked her unconscious again and left.
• That evening, Izayoi told Yayoi she suspected Hisana had deliberately lost the spar, and Yayoi confirmed that Hisana was hiding things.
• Yayoi hinted that Hisana had an extremely savage form and said Kicho was helping suppress it.
• Izayoi resolved to witness Hisana’s true form and felt confident that she and her allies had the advantage.

Izayoi began a rigorous training routine after realizing she needed to improve her Taijutsu, then met Kicho, Yayoi’s principal wife. Kicho welcomed Izayoi into the family and gave her the Oda Clan’s secret Living Chakra Technique, leaving Izayoi to study it later.

• Izayoi woke to find Yayoi had left and resolved to focus more on Taijutsu training.
• Izayoi spent the morning strengthening her body, then planned to train in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu that afternoon.
• Kicho visited Izayoi’s private training ground and invited her to call her big sister.
• Kicho gave Izayoi a scroll containing the Living Chakra Technique and warned her not to share it without permission.
• Kicho told Izayoi she could come to her for help before leaving to attend to her training and young son.

Izayoi asked Kicho to teach her Taijutsu, while Yayoi watched the samurai test their newly developed long-range sword technique. After Kurobei proposed an open tournament to attract samurai from across the Ninja World, Yayoi considered naming its winner the Ninja World's Greatest Swordsman.

• Izayoi asked Kicho to teach her Taijutsu, and Kicho agreed to begin with Gentle Fist the next day.
• Twenty samurai tested their Sword Cannon-like slashes against Irori, blasting through her massive ice wall and carving a deep trench in the ground.
• Yayoi praised the samurai's stable new technique and said they could now work on increasing its power and range.
• Kurobei proposed holding an open samurai tournament to attract skilled fighters from other countries and share their experience.
• Yayoi considered the tournament and suggested that its final victor could receive the title of the Ninja World's Greatest Swordsman.

Shinjiro hunted down and killed a giant man-eating snake, then visited an underground Black Market mission station to ask about work. He learned that ninja villages had taken over many Black Market jobs, reflecting the decline that had driven him to leave the Land of Fire.

• Shinjiro traveled through a primeval forest and encountered a giant red-and-black snake.
• Shinjiro killed the snake with a single sword strike.
• Shinjiro visited a concealed Black Market mission station beneath an izakaya and spoke with Heijiang.
• Shinjiro asked Heijiang about bounty work, but she said ninja villages had taken many jobs and the Black Market mostly sold intelligence.
• Shinjiro recalled how ninja villages had displaced samurai, leading him to resign from service to the Land of Fire's daimyo.

Shinjiro learned about the Land of Night’s samurai tournament and considered entering for its valuable prizes. At the General’s Residence, Yayoi named his rapidly evolving steel creation Naraku and assigned it the underground renovation.

• Heijiang showed Shinjiro a flyer for the Ninja World’s First Samurai Tournament, whose champion would win fifty million ryo and a custom Chakra Blade.
• Shinjiro was tempted by the prizes and learned that the tournament was scheduled for mid-December.
• Heijiang said the Land of Night’s general was a legendary figure in the Black Market, leading Shinjiro to suspect she was an intelligence operative.
• Yayoi visited the steel brain, which spoke fluently and asked him for a proper name.
• Yayoi named the steel creation Naraku, which reported that it could control eight thousand puppets within a fifty-kilometer radius, or up to one hundred kilometers with Chakra receivers.
• Yayoi gave Naraku blueprints for an underground renovation, which Naraku estimated would take three months.

Yayoi welcomed the growing interest in the Land of Night’s Samurai Tournament as a chance to recruit samurai, and ordered an investigation into Hatake Shinjiro after recognizing his name. In Konoha, Hashirama decided to visit the tournament himself, leaving Tobirama unable to object.

• More than a hundred samurai registered for the December tournament, prompting Yayoi to reconsider his plans and hope to recruit them for the Land of Night’s understaffed Military Police Force.
• Yayoi noticed Hatake Shinjiro’s name and portrait on the registry and ordered Irori to have Yuroketsu investigate his family history.
• Komurasaki asked about Shinjiro, and Yayoi said he knew him from the future, believing the samurai was Kakashi Hatake’s grandfather.
• Hashirama proposed that Konoha hold a Ninja World Joint Chunin Exams, and Tobirama suggested visiting the Land of Night to study its tournament.
• Hashirama used his power to prevent Tobirama from objecting and announced that he would go to the Land of Night in December.

Uchiha Kūto learned that the clan’s rising income came from merchants influenced by Izayoi’s ties to the Land of Night, prompting him to send an elder to visit. At the General’s Residence, Yayoi agreed to let Sirius leave his post for the Samurai Tournament after Izayoi asked, then teased her about her request.

• Uchiha Kūto heard from Yehuo that merchants had increased their business with the Uchiha Clan because of the Land of Night’s influence, and he sent Yehuo to visit.
• Izayoi received Sirius’s letter asking to leave his mining post temporarily to compete in the December Samurai Tournament.
• Izayoi asked Yayoi to approve Sirius’s request, and Yayoi agreed to send a Jonin to cover his duties.
• Yayoi asked Izayoi to wear the cat outfit he had given her as the price for her pillow talk, and she agreed.

Kicho told Hisana that her training would move on to real combat, while Hisana prepared for a difficult night with Oboro. Yayoi then announced he would visit Hisana, and Izayoi armed herself to accompany him and protect him.

• Kicho ended Hisana's sparring session and said that her strong foundation meant she needed real combat to improve.
• Hisana learned that she would eventually face real opponents, while Kicho told her to rest and warned her that Yayoi would visit soon.
• Hisana asked Oboro to prepare tea at Kagura Hall and told her to imitate Kicho's pose from the hot springs.
• Yayoi told Izayoi he would visit Hisana instead of watching her perform backflips, and Izayoi became concerned about Hisana's lack of restraint.
• Izayoi changed into her ninja outfit, armed herself, and accompanied Yayoi to protect him.