Chapter Summaries

Jingyi secured the Daimyo's Court of the Land of Rain, then tracked down Jiraiya in a secluded valley where he was raising Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan. Jingyi met the three children and shared fruit with them, leaving them eager for Jiraiya's permission to eat.

• Jingyi met the young daimyo of the Land of Rain and stationed himself at the Daimyo's Court while the Anbu cleared out dangerous intruders.
• After the Anbu restored order, Jingyi left the Daimyo's Court and searched several Rogue Ninja hideouts before finding Jiraiya's valley.
• Jingyi triggered Jiraiya's traps, then greeted Jiraiya and met his students Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan.
• Jiraiya invited Jingyi into the wooden house and served him grilled fish, which Jingyi praised as much improved.
• Jingyi shared fruit with the three children, who looked to Jiraiya for permission before taking any.

Jingyi visited Jiraiya in the Land of Rain to deliver the Third Hokage’s request that he return to Konoha, but Jiraiya chose to remain with Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato. After giving Jiraiya the supplies he had asked for, Jingyi prepared to leave while Jiraiya worried that he might have noticed Nagato’s Rinnegan.

• Jiraiya encouraged Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato to accept fruit, then reassured them that he would stay with them until they grew up.
• Jiraiya asked Jingyi why he had come, and Jingyi explained that he had completed the Rain Daimyo’s protection mission and brought the Third Hokage’s message urging Jiraiya to return to Konoha.
• Jingyi told Jiraiya that he would not force him to return, and Jiraiya decided to remain with the children.
• After the children left, Jiraiya asked for the supplies in the scroll, and Jingyi gave it to him.
• Jingyi prepared to return to Konoha, while Jiraiya asked him not to tell the Third Hokage where he was and worried that Jingyi had noticed Nagato’s eyes.

Jingyi told Jiraiya to ask the toads of Mount Myoboku about the origins of Nagato’s Rinnegan, then left him to move the three Akatsuki children to a safer hideout. Jiraiya traveled to Mount Myoboku to seek answers, where Gamabunta greeted him with complaints about their last dangerous summoning.

• Jingyi told Jiraiya that the Uzumaki Clan was known for its vitality and chakra, not unusual eyes, and urged him to ask the toads of Mount Myoboku about the Sage Eye.
• Jiraiya moved Konan and the other two Akatsuki children from their valley hideout and built them a crude underground base.
• Jingyi returned to the border camp and sent the Third Hokage a message saying his mission had gone smoothly and Jiraiya refused to return to the village.
• Jiraiya used the Summoning Technique to travel to Mount Myoboku and greeted Gamabunta.
• Gamabunta reminded Jiraiya that his last summoning had left him surrounded by Kumogakure shinobi and asked whether he had come because enemies had surrounded him again.

Jiraiya asked the Great Toad Sage about the Sage Eye, but the old toad fell asleep after mentioning the Sharingan, leaving Jiraiya worried about a connection to the Uchiha Clan. Back in the Land of Rain, Jiraiya sent Jingyi a letter asking for answers, while Jingyi noticed an unusual number of toads near him on the road to Konoha.

• Jiraiya asked the Great Toad Sage about the Sage Eye, and the Sage murmured about the Sharingan before falling asleep.
• Jiraiya wondered whether the Sage Eye was connected to the Sharingan and feared a conspiracy involving Nagato and the Uchiha Clan.
• Jiraiya returned to the underground base and found Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato safe.
• Jiraiya summoned a small toad and sent a letter asking Jingyi about the Sage Eye.
• Jingyi rested by a river on his way back to Konoha and noticed many toads hopping nearby.

Jingyi refused to help Jiraiya understand the connection between the Sage Eye and the Sharingan, and Jiraiya returned to Mount Myoboku before being sent back to Konoha. The Third Hokage learned that Jiraiya had refused to return to the village and was staying in the Land of Rain to care for three war orphans.

• Jingyi received Jiraiya’s letter by toad messenger and told the little toad to report that he did not know the answer.
• Jiraiya was summoned to Mount Myoboku, accidentally ate Shima’s insect feast, and learned Jingyi had no explanation for the Sage Eye and Sharingan.
• Jiraiya asked Fukasaku to send him back to Konoha and refused Shima’s offer to stay for a meal.
• Jingyi returned to Konoha, checked that the Anbu base was operating properly, and went home.
• The Third Hokage told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that Jiraiya refused to return and wanted to care for three war orphans.
• Utatane Koharu condemned Jiraiya’s decision, while the Third Hokage said he would make Jiraiya compensate for it when he returned.

The Third Hokage and the elders settled on Jingyi Hyuga as the best candidate to carry out Tsunade's plan to destroy Sunagakure's oasis, but they struggled to get him to the Hokage Office. Jingyi arrived after a long delay, leaving the Hokage and elders to make their request.

• The Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura agreed that Tsunade's oasis retaliation plan was feasible and chose Jingyi as its strongest, safest candidate.
• Mitokado Homura explained that Jingyi's strength, Anbu authority, and puppets made him the best fit, while the Third Hokage accepted that he would have to persuade him personally.
• Jingyi used prepared soil and other materials to create new puppets and animate them with the Tenseigan.
• Shikaku Nara told Jingyi that the Third Hokage wanted to speak with him, and Jingyi continued working before heading to the Hokage Office.
• Jingyi arrived after the Third Hokage and the two elders had waited for two hours, then asked what they needed.

The Third Hokage summoned Jingyi to discuss a retaliatory mission against Sunagakure, but Jingyi refused to lead it without suitable support. He left the elders with an ultimatum: send Earth Release specialists and have the two elder advisors accompany him, or choose someone else.

• The Third Hokage explained that the daimyo wanted the village to retaliate against Sunagakure and give the Daimyo's Court an explanation.
• Jingyi approved the plan but cut off the Third Hokage before he could propose assigning him the mission.
• Mitokado Homura asked Jingyi to lead the mission because Orochimaru was at the front lines, but Jingyi refused and suggested the Sarutobi Clan instead.
• Jingyi offered to send the Anbu or Uchiha if the elders rejected the Sarutobi Clan, prompting the Third Hokage to say the mission needed a powerful leader.
• Jingyi told the Third Hokage to provide Earth Release specialists from clans such as the Sarutobi and Shimura and require Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to accompany him, or find another candidate.

Jingyi Hyuga provoked Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura into joining a dangerous retaliation mission to the Land of Wind, despite the Third Hokage's warnings. He reassured Shikaku Nara that he would not attack them himself, but expected Sunagakure to hunt down the mission team once the retaliation began.

• Jingyi Hyuga taunted Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura until Utatane Koharu agreed that both advisors would join the mission to the Land of Wind.
• After Jingyi left, the Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura warned Utatane Koharu that Jingyi had deliberately provoked her and that the mission could be dangerous.
• Utatane Koharu realized that backing out would make the advisors look cowardly, so she wondered what they should do now.
• Jingyi laughed about the advisors' predicament and reasoned that Sunagakure might hunt down the team after the Land of Wind's daimyo punished it for the retaliation.
• Jingyi told Shikaku Nara that he would not sabotage the advisors because it would ruin his reputation, though he would not casually risk himself to save them.

Jingyi told Kushina, Nawaki, and Minato that he would soon leave the village for a troublesome mission against Sunagakure. Kushina worried about the danger, while Jingyi reassured her that the mission posed little threat to him, though the other participants would face serious risks.

• Shikaku Nara discussed Jingyi's retaliation mission and feared the Sarutobi and Shimura clan ninjas sent into the Land of Wind would be hunted down.
• Jingyi told Kushina, Nawaki, and Minato over dinner that he would leave the village in a few days.
• Nawaki criticized Kushina's concern for Jingyi, and Jingyi calmed Kushina before she could attack him.
• Kushina asked Jingyi whether the mission was dangerous, while the Nine-Tails tried to warn her that Jingyi was the most dangerous one.
• Jingyi told Kushina the mission was only troublesome for him, though the other participants would need to watch their backs.

Jingyi prepared to leave the village and made Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Nawaki promise to stay safe and keep training. As the three days before his departure passed, Minato helped Nawaki understand why Jingyi kept them from taking missions: many of their classmates had already died.

• Kushina promised to stay within the places Jingyi had allowed while he was away, and Jingyi warned Minato Namikaze and Nawaki not to leave the village.
• Jingyi forbade Nawaki from forming a team to take missions and promised that a puppet would break his legs if he disobeyed.
• Jingyi spent the next three days taking Kushina shopping and having fun, while Nawaki and Minato Namikaze continued training.
• Nawaki asked Minato Namikaze why Jingyi insisted that they train in the village, and Minato said it was to protect them.
• Minato reminded Nawaki that several of their classmates were missing or had died, showing him the dangers beyond the village.

Jingyi joined a clan-led mission into the Land of Wind but refused to take part in planning so he could avoid responsibility if it failed. The team entered the Land of Rain, where Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu took charge.

• Jingyi watched Nawaki and Minato Namikaze bicker, then three days later joined around fifty clan elites and the two elder advisors at an Anbu passageway.
• The Third Hokage named Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu as commanders, and Jingyi accepted without objection.
• Mitokado Homura led the team out of the village at night and routed them through the Land of Rain to avoid the war and defenses in the Land of Rivers.
• Utatane Koharu questioned whether they needed to consult Jingyi, but Mitokado Homura insisted that he remain involved as a team member.
• At a rest stop, Jingyi enjoyed breakfast and the sunrise, then refused Mitokado Homura's invitation to discuss the mission plan.
• Utatane Koharu mocked Mitokado Homura after Jingyi walked away without getting involved.

Mitokado Homura led the team on a long detour through the Land of Grass, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Birds to infiltrate the Land of Wind, while Jingyi stayed uninvolved in planning. After the team reached the Land of Wind’s border, Homura suggested that they disguise themselves before entering.

• Mitokado Homura chose a roundabout route through several small countries to avoid Sunagakure’s defenses, and Utatane Koharu agreed.
• Jingyi followed the team through the Land of Grass without questioning the route.
• Jingyi refused the Land of Rain daimyo’s request for Anbu help suppressing domestic unrest and told the Anbu to focus on protecting him.
• Mitokado Homura sent two Jonin squads ahead to scout the Land of Wind after the team reached the Land of Birds’ border.
• Jingyi put on a sun hat and veil, prompting Mitokado Homura to suggest that the team change clothes and disguise themselves.

Jingyi and the elder advisers agreed to split their forces and attack targets in the Land of Wind, with Jingyi taking the more dangerous southern route alone. He contacted Tsunade from his desert camp, and she questioned the plan and warned that the team should concentrate its strength for quick raids.

• Mitokado Homura proposed splitting the group along two routes, and Jingyi volunteered to take the route with fewer targets alone.
• Jingyi had the three of them sign a written plan requiring both groups to withdraw after completing their missions, then sent it to Konoha by ninja eagle.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura led the elite unit north along the coastline while Jingyi headed south toward the Land of Rivers battlefield.
• Jingyi rested in a concealed desert camp and contacted Tsunade through the Puppet Crow, waking her from a brief rest.
• Tsunade learned Jingyi was in the Land of Wind and objected to the split, arguing that they should concentrate their forces and launch swift raids.

Jingyi realized that Tsunade and the elders had split their forces to avoid being set up, but he was confident he could handle his route toward Sunagakure and the Land of Rivers battlefield. Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura struggled through the desert toward their targets, and Koharu resolved to stop accepting such missions and focus on helping Hiruzen in the village.

• Jingyi reassured Tsunade that the split-force plan posed little danger to him, and she fell asleep after asking him to take over her duties when he arrived.
• Jingyi withdrew his consciousness from the puppet and rested comfortably in an insulated tent in the desert.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura pressed onward under the blazing sun to reach their first attack site before dawn.
• Mitokado Homura explained that Jingyi was unlikely to deliberately endanger them because it could harm Tsunade and damage his own reputation.
• Utatane Koharu studied the map, accepted Mitokado Homura's reasoning, and vowed to stop picking fights with Jingyi and taking missions like this.

Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu led Konoha ninja in attacks on villages and an oasis in the Land of Wind, while Jingyi secretly followed their progress and set the destroyed sites ablaze. After a Sunagakure patrol found the devastation, the Third Kazekage suspected Konoha.

• Mitokado Homura led Konoha ninja in wiping out a small village, and Utatane Koharu confirmed that none of them had been injured.
• Jingyi watched the attack through his Puppet Eagle and planned to let the force rest before striking the remaining targets.
• The Konoha force attacked an oasis guarded by Sunagakure ninja, then buried its vegetation and blocked its groundwater with Earth Release.
• Jingyi's Puppet Eagle secretly set the oasis and the earlier village on fire after the force had moved on.
• A Sunagakure patrol found a burning village full of corpses and reported the attack to the Third Kazekage.
• The Third Kazekage read the report and wondered whether Konoha was retaliating for Sunagakure's raids on the Land of Fire.

The Third Kazekage organized Sunagakure’s response to a series of attacks across the Land of Wind, ordering his forces to search for and encircle the suspected Konoha attackers. Jingyi continued his own sabotage from the air, destroying an oasis with a Tenseigan Truth-Seeking Orb.

• The Third Kazekage suspected Konoha was behind the attacks and led an elite force into the Land of Wind.
• After hearing that villages and outposts had also been attacked, the Third Kazekage ordered patrols to search for the enemy and asked Chiyo to send reinforcements from the front lines.
• Jingyi stopped setting fires, packed his camp, and flew toward his targets on a giant Puppet Eagle.
• Jingyi dropped a Tenseigan Truth-Seeking Orb from the sky and continued toward his next target.
• A green sphere struck an oasis and its explosion destroyed the plants, animals, and people there.

Jingyi destroyed several Sunagakure-controlled oases with Tenseigan Truth-Seeking Orb explosions, prompting Sunagakure to mobilize and investigate. The Third Kazekage abandoned his slow encirclement and ordered an immediate pursuit, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura learned they were being hunted in the northwest.

• Jingyi used Tenseigan Truth-Seeking Orbs as bombs and destroyed all his mission targets in less than half a day.
• Ebizo investigated a vast crater at the Number Six plantation and ordered Sunagakure to identify the culprit and inform the Kazekage.
• The Third Kazekage found a destroyed oasis, lost his composure, and ordered his forces to surround and crush the enemy immediately.
• Sunagakure ninja pursued Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, who discussed the encirclement inside a concealed cave.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura weighed escape routes from Sunagakure’s encirclement while regretting their lost chance to work with Jingyi. Jingyi withdrew from the battlefield and headed toward the Land of Bears to observe events from a safer distance.

• Utatane Koharu outlined north and west escape routes, and Mitokado Homura hesitated over which to take.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura discussed Jingyi’s mission and regretted not securing his flying puppets for their plan.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura blamed Shimura Danzō for the rift with Jingyi and the Hokage Faction’s troubles.
• Jingyi watched Sunagakure’s forces from Eagle’s back, then withdrew from the dusty wind and chose to head toward the Land of Bears.
• Jingyi considered the Land of Bears’ poisonous forests and Hoshigakure, whose leader called himself the Star Kage.

Jingyi watched Sunagakure pursue Konoha shinobi through the Land of Wind while enjoying a meal from the safety of his camp. A report revealed that attacks were devastating another part of the country, prompting the Third Kazekage to abandon the pursuit and seek prisoners for intelligence.

• Jingyi camped in the Land of Bears, cooked grilled venison and rice, and used his puppet to watch the fighting.
• Sunagakure caught and defeated a Konoha rear guard, though the squad inflicted casualties before falling.
• The Third Kazekage ordered his shinobi to continue pursuing the attackers and inspect the dead for intelligence.
• After reading a report about even more destructive attacks elsewhere in the Land of Wind, the Third Kazekage cursed Konoha and realized his forces were pursuing blindly.
• The Third Kazekage flew off alone atop Iron Sand to capture prisoners and uncover who was attacking the country.

Jingyi's intervention helped Sunagakure capture a Konoha scout, whose intelligence revealed that Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Jingyi Hyuga had entered the Land of Wind to carry out sabotage. The Third Kazekage mobilized a large force to hunt them down, while Homura and Koharu chose to withdraw north.

• The Third Kazekage captured a Konoha scout with Iron Sand and ordered his subordinates to extract the intelligence.
• The Third Kazekage learned that Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Jingyi Hyuga had infiltrated the Land of Wind and split up to attack targets.
• The Third Kazekage ordered Sunagakure to mobilize reinforcements and capture all three Konoha officials.
• Mitokado Homura warned Utatane Koharu that their hidden sentries were missing and that their identities might be exposed.
• Utatane Koharu agreed to withdraw with Mitokado Homura, who chose a northern route to escape.