Recaps

Tobitake Tonbo visited Yakumo Kurama at Seeing Hill Manor, reflecting on the Yin-Yang technique that had made her a real but frail person. He practiced his nearly completed Genjutsu: Deception — Celestial Phenomenon as Yakumo painted, and a warm breeze appeared after dark clouds gathered over the manor.

• Tobitake Tonbo brought food to Yakumo Kurama and reassured her that she did not need to pressure herself to become a ninja.
• Tobitake Tonbo reflected that Illusion Reincarnation used Yin-Yang Nature Transformation to create Yakumo Kurama, with severe side effects.
• Yakumo Kurama told Tobitake Tonbo she still wanted to help her family, and he encouraged her to focus on living well.
• Tobitake Tonbo took Yakumo Kurama to the mountain peak behind Seeing Hill Manor to practice his nearly finished Genjutsu: Deception — Celestial Phenomenon.
• Dark clouds gathered over Seeing Hill Manor while Yakumo Kurama painted, and a gentle breeze carrying a faint warm aura swept over them.

Tobitake Tonbo completed a Nature Transformation that deceived celestial phenomena, then reconsidered its uses after Yakumo Kurama encouraged him to look beyond combat. He later searched geographical intelligence for natural phenomena to study and reproduce, determined to find a battle use for his invention.

• Tobitake Tonbo showed Yakumo Kurama the rain created by his new Celestial Phenomenon Ninjutsu and worried that it had little combat value.
• Yakumo Kurama pointed out the technique could help in everyday life, and Tobitake Tonbo dispelled the clouds before painting with her.
• A braided-haired child took the sudden rainbow as encouragement to keep training and surpass the geniuses.
• Tobitake Tonbo showed Tenyu a painting of himself and Yakumo Kurama, then promised to buy Tenyu snacks if he became Hokage.
• Tobitake Tonbo went to the Intelligence Division and searched geographical records for natural celestial phenomena he could study and reproduce.

Tobitake Tonbo learned that Windrest Valley, an ideal site for his weather-based ninjutsu research, belonged to the Hagoromo clan and was normally closed to outsiders. Yamanaka Inoichi told him a Konoha mission would soon let him enter the valley, and Tonbo planned to apply for it.

• Tobitake Tonbo researched Windrest Valley and discovered it was Hagoromo clan territory, while learning that the clan had declined from its Warring States strength and become focused on business.
• Tobitake Tonbo told Yamanaka Inoichi he needed a special region to research a new ninjutsu and explained why Windrest Valley suited his work.
• Yamanaka Inoichi revealed that the Hagoromo clan had hired Konoha to supervise children training in Windrest Valley because much of its combat strength was escorting a shipment.
• Yamanaka Inoichi advised Tobitake Tonbo to apply to the Third Hokage for the mission, and Tonbo thanked him and resolved to pursue the opportunity.

Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to arrange teammates for Tobitake Tonbo, then spent time with Konohamaru, who had been lonely since his parents died. At the Ninja Academy, Kiba Inuzuka revealed that older students had learned a counter to Iruka’s punishment ninjutsu, while Naruto spoiled Kiba’s attempt to make them call him Big Brother.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to notify Tobitake Tonbo after deciding on teammates for him.
• Konohamaru visited Hiruzen, who reflected on his grandson’s loneliness after Shinnosuke and his wife died.
• Kiba Inuzuka told the students that Tokuma Hyuga had discovered and spread a counter to Iruka’s ninjutsu, the Throat Protection Technique.
• Kiba tried to make the students call him Big Brother before teaching them, but Naruto pointed out that they could learn the technique from other older students.

At the Ninja Academy, Shikamaru dismissed the idea of becoming Hokage while Kiba explained the Throat Protection Technique to his classmates. Tobitake Tonbo then escorted Hagoromo Ken and his clan’s procession toward their territory, where his sensory team found no threats and accepted the employer’s grilled meat.

• Shikamaru thought being Hokage sounded like a troublesome burden as Kiba and Naruto discussed it.
• Kiba explained how to practice the Throat Protection Technique before Iruka ordered the class back to work.
• Tobitake Tonbo set out with Hyuga Chō, Inuzuka Gō, and Aburame Shikyō to escort Hagoromo Ken’s group.
• Hagoromo Ken criticized the ninja for being slow, then led them to a procession of carriages bound for the Hagoromo clan’s territory.
• Hyuga Chō, Aburame Shikyō, and Inuzuka Gō reported no threats, and Tobitake Tonbo scolded Gō after learning he had only smelled steak cooking in the carriage.
• Hagoromo Ken offered the escort grilled meat, and the ninja ate after Aburame Shikyō tested it for poison.

Tobitake Tonbo’s squad arrived at the wealthy Hagoromo Clan to protect participants in a dangerous Windrest Valley trial. Meanwhile, rogue ninja prepared to attack, believing the clan’s strongest fighters had been drawn away by a scheme involving Gato.

• Hagoromo Ken’s escort team handled threats during the journey while Tobitake Tonbo’s squad took turns keeping watch and Tonbo studied the phenomena of Windrest Valley.
• Two days later, Tonbo’s squad entered Hagoromo territory, where Hagoromo youths boasted about their wealth and dismissed the Konoha ninja they had hired.
• Hagoromo Ken told Tonbo’s squad to rest until the month-long trial began and warned them not to wander around the clan grounds.
• Tonbo explained that the squad’s mission was to rescue trial participants when they ran out of stamina inside Windrest Valley.
• Rogue ninja gathered at night and confirmed that most Hagoromo combatants had left; an Amegakure rogue ninja dismissed a Grass Hidden rogue ninja’s concern about facing a Konoha Jōnin and three Chunin.

Tobitake Tonbo monitored a group targeting the Hagoromo and returned to brief his team. He left them with a detailed map of the Hagoromo compound and joked about becoming rich through a wealthy wife.

• Tobitake Tonbo watched a group discuss intelligence about the Hagoromo and worried that their employer might be killed before paying for the mission.
• Tobitake Tonbo returned to Hyuga Chō, Inuzuka Gō, and Aburame Shikyō, who had been unable to detect him despite Hyuga Chō's Byakugan.
• Tobitake Tonbo explained that he had surveyed the terrain, then teased his team that they could afford a lavish lifestyle by becoming Jōnin or marrying a rich woman.
• Tobitake Tonbo drew a detailed map of the Hagoromo compound, marking terrain features, distances, coordinates, and places suited to different techniques.

Tobitake Tonbo’s squad learned that the Hagoromo faced a dangerous corporate rival and prepared to protect the family’s young members during their trial. The chapter ended as the group set out for Windrest Valley, with Tonbo warning his squad that the Hagoromo’s specialized equipment hinted at serious dangers ahead.

• Tobitake Tonbo told his squad about the Hagoromo’s enemy and explained that they should be ready to respond if the threat escalated, while prioritizing their own safety.
• Tobitake Tonbo’s squad informed Hagoromo Ken that the family had enemies, and Hagoromo Ken thanked them and considered raising the mission rank.
• Hagoromo Qi introduced himself as the guide for the Hagoromo juniors’ trial at Windrest Valley, and the children inspected and quietly mocked the Konoha shinobi.
• Inuzuka Gō, Hyuga Chō, and Aburame Shikyō noted the Hagoromo’s advanced protective gear, summoning formulas, and radios.
• Tobitake Tonbo warned his squad to prepare supplies and expect bodily hazards and communication failures at Windrest Valley.

Tobitake Tenyu and Tobitake Maki were bored without their father, so they joined Naruto’s search for Iruka-sensei’s teacher by promising him a Ninja Essential Manual. They led Naruto to Tobitake Tonbo’s study and found a huge intelligence-gathering book, leaving Naruto overwhelmed by its size and weight.

• Tobitake Tenyu and Tobitake Maki complained that they were bored and wanted to fly around like their father.
• Naruto arrived at Ichiraku Ramen to search for Iruka-sensei’s teacher, and the siblings recognized that he meant their father, Tobitake Tonbo.
• Tenyu and Maki offered to help Naruto find Tonbo’s Ninja Essential Manual, and Naruto made them members of his Ninja Intelligence Squad.
• Ayame reluctantly allowed Naruto to take the children to Tonbo’s house, while Teuchi worried that they would get into trouble.
• Tenyu found the book titled Intelligence Gathering: From Beginner to Burial, and Naruto struggled to lift the enormous volume.

Orochimaru learned that Tobitake Tonbo had left Konoha on a mission and decided to meet the shinobi who had caught the Akatsuki leader’s attention. At Windrest Valley, Tonbo’s team learned how they would help the Hagoromo clan’s children survive their month-long training.

• Kabuto informed Orochimaru that Tobitake Tonbo had left Konoha on a mission for the Hagoromo clan, and Orochimaru resolved to meet him.
• Orochimaru recalled Tonbo’s old Konoha file and admitted that he had underestimated Tonbo’s abilities.
• Tobitake Tonbo and his teammates reached Windrest Valley and faced the violent hurricanes surrounding the training grounds.
• Hagoromo Qi explained that the valley’s winds would weaken for a month and that Tonbo’s team would rescue the children when they needed rest, then send them back into the trial.
• Tobitake Tonbo praised the Hagoromo clan’s preparations, including the children’s supplies stored with Summoning Technique formulas.

Naruto admitted he could not understand Tobitake Tonbo’s book and decided to recruit someone smart to help him find the Great Demon King’s teacher. Meanwhile, Tobitake Tonbo accompanied Hagoromo Qi’s children into Windrest Valley for wind training, and Naruto went to ask Shikamaru to become his strategist.

• Naruto failed to understand the book, and Tenyu advised him to delegate tasks and find teammates to help.
• Tobitake Tonbo observed the Hagoromo clan’s wind affinity as Hagoromo Qi led him and the others into Windrest Valley.
• Hagoromo Qi assigned Tobitake Tonbo and the other sensory ninjas to rescue the children whenever the gale exhausted them.
• Naruto asked Shikamaru to be his teammate and chief strategist, but Shikamaru refused.
• Shikamaru suggested Naruto ask Shino for help, and Naruto asked who Shino was.

At Windrest Valley, Tobitake Tonbo used an expensive meteorological instrument to gather data for developing a powerful wind-related ninjutsu while his team protected the Hagoromo clan members. Elsewhere, Naruto asked Shino to help him, but Shino declined because he had to care for his breeding insects, frightening Naruto and his companions with a swarm.

• Hyuga Chō and his teammates rescued Hagoromo members swept away or injured by Windrest Valley’s violent winds, while Aburame Shikyō and Inuzuka Gō discussed Tobitake Tonbo’s work.
• Aburame Shikyō inferred that Tobitake Tonbo was using the meteorological instrument to develop a wind-related ninjutsu.
• Tobitake Tonbo monitored weather data and sensed the valley’s winds as he worked on the technique, which he intended to use as a chakra-intensive trump card.
• Naruto asked Shino Aburame to become his temporary subordinate, but Shino refused because his baby insects were in their breeding period.
• Shino showed Naruto, Tenyu, and Maki the insects crawling from his clothes, and all three recoiled in fear.

Naruto gathered Choji, Tenyu, and Maki to search for Iruka’s teacher, while Tenyu and Maki secretly tried to keep Naruto from discovering the teacher’s identity. That night, masked intruders infiltrated the Hagoromo clan grounds and attacked its guards and sentries.

• Naruto failed to recruit most of his classmates, who rejected and insulted him, but he was cheered by the classmates who treated him like an ordinary person.
• Choji joined Naruto’s intelligence squad and suggested visiting Iruka to find a photograph of his former teacher.
• Naruto agreed to Choji’s plan and sent Tenyu and Maki to search Iruka’s home, where the boys planned to act cute if necessary.
• At night, shadows used ninjutsu to slip past the Hagoromo clan’s patrols and killed guards and sentries, staining the grounds with blood.

Tobitake Tonbo uncovered an attack on the Hagoromo Clan and killed the Amegakure ninja pursuing Hagoromo Ken. He learned that the clan’s grounds had been targeted in a planned assault, while the fate of the remaining Hagoromo members was still unclear.

• Amegakure attackers killed the Hagoromo elder and slaughtered clan members and guards at the Hagoromo Clan Grounds.
• The attack leader decided to ambush the ten Hagoromo youths training in Windrest Valley, while an unknown figure appeared among the corpses.
• Hagoromo Ken fled toward Windrest Valley to seek Konoha’s help as four Amegakure ninjas pursued him.
• Tobitake Tonbo sensed danger, packed his research away, and had Inuzuka Gō and Aburame Shikyō gather the ten Hagoromo trainees.
• Tobitake Tonbo killed three pursuers, captured the Amegakure captain, and used the Mind Reading Technique to learn about the coordinated assassination of the Hagoromo Clan.
• Tobitake Tonbo snapped the captain’s neck, verified the information from the other bodies, and sealed all four corpses in a scroll.

Tobitake Tonbo accepted Hagoromo Ken’s request to escort the Hagoromo clan survivors and led his team through an ambush by rogue ninja. His Genjutsu and his teammates’ attacks overwhelmed the attackers, but a signal flare summoned attention as Aburame Shikyō’s insects struck another enemy.

• Tobitake Tonbo treated Hagoromo Ken, agreed to raise the mission to S-rank for double pay, and prepared to escort the clan’s ten children.
• Tobitake Tonbo led his team and the Hagoromo clan members along the road, where he detected an ambush and used Earth Release to expose the hidden attackers.
• Tobitake Tonbo hid Hagoromo Ken and the ten clan members inside a summoned Chopped Pepper Fish Head, then supported his teammates as they attacked.
• Tobitake Tonbo’s Genjutsu misdirected the enemies’ attacks while Inuzuka Gō and Hyuga Chō killed several attackers, leaving eight beside their leader.
• The enemy leader fired a signal flare, and Aburame Shikyō’s insects emerged from a rogue ninja’s body and continued attacking the remaining enemies.

Tobitake Tonbo and his team defeated the Kusagakure traitors and escorted the Hagoromo clan members toward Konoha. Tonbo stayed behind to set a trap, where Orochimaru approached him and asked how he had detected a technique that even the Byakugan had missed.

• Aburame Shikyō, Hyuga Chō, and the two Inuzuka Gō attacked the traitors while Tobitake Tonbo used Genjutsu to distort their perceptions and weaken their attacks.
• Inuzuka Gō killed the former Kirigakure Jōnin leader, and Aburame Shikyō's insects devoured another Jōnin as the rest of the enemy team fell.
• Tobitake Tonbo sealed the corpses for Konoha and released the Hagoromo clan members from the Chopped Pepper Fish Head.
• Tobitake Tonbo sent Hyuga Chō, Aburame Shikyō, and the Inuzuka Gō with the Hagoromo clan toward Konoha, then stayed behind to set a trap.
• Orochimaru emerged from a small green snake and asked Tobitake Tonbo how he had detected a technique the Byakugan could not see through.
• Tobitake Tonbo recognized Orochimaru from their past meeting and the Third Shinobi World War, while suspecting that Akatsuki had learned about his battle with Pain.

Tobitake Tonbo rejected Orochimaru’s offer and returned the surviving Hagoromo clan members to Konoha, where Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to persuade them to join. Tonbo headed to Windrest Valley, while Naruto discovered a photograph at Iruka’s home and angrily confronted Tenyu and Maki.

• Orochimaru asked Tobitake Tonbo for information about the Rinnegan and offered immortality and forbidden ninjutsu, but Tonbo refused and tried to capture him before leaving.
• Tobitake Tonbo rejoined his team, and they escorted the eleven surviving Hagoromo clan members to Konoha for Hiruzen Sarutobi to oversee.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised the team, raised their mission to S-rank, and approved Tonbo taking time to rest as he planned to persuade the Hagoromo clan to stay in Konoha.
• Tobitake Tonbo rode his flying eagle to Windrest Valley instead of returning home to focus on researching ninjutsu.
• Naruto found a photograph at Iruka’s home and angrily accused Tenyu and Maki of hiding it from him while Choji ate potato chips nearby.

Naruto, Choji, Tenyu, and Maki visited Iruka and discovered that Iruka’s teacher was Tobitake Tonbo. Two and a half years later, Tobitake Tonbo completed his S-rank ninjutsu, Hurricane Celestial Phenomenon, though he could only use a miniature version with his current chakra.

• Tenyu and Maki hid Iruka’s graduation photo, but Naruto asked Iruka about it and led him to find it in the cabinet.
• Naruto chased Tenyu and Maki after leaving Iruka’s home, and Ayame punished the children with a bamboo whip when they returned.
• Naruto learned that Tobitake Tonbo was Iruka’s teacher and planned a prank, but his attempt failed and Tobitake Tonbo’s return gift kept him away for a week.
• Kiba Inuzuka and Sasuke Uchiha outshone Naruto’s intelligence, while the Hagoromo clan joined Konoha after its high-level fighters were wiped out in Gato’s trap.
• Tobitake Tonbo tested Hurricane Celestial Phenomenon in an uninhabited area of the Land of Fire and concluded that its full-scale version required more chakra.

Itachi Uchiha began a confrontation with a masked man while Uchiha Tong studied and listened to his grandmother tell stories about Madara Uchiha. At the Ninja Academy, Sasuke felt uneasy during nighttime training and hurried home as soon as class ended.

• Itachi Uchiha met a masked man on the Uchiha clan grounds and drew his tachi to begin their confrontation.
• Uchiha Tong studied late, then asked his grandmother to tell him about Madara Uchiha.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, and their classmates struggled through nighttime training at the Ninja Academy.
• Mizuki praised Kiba and Sasuke, then dismissed the class.
• Sasuke hurried away, unsettled, while Naruto wondered why he had left so quickly.

Itachi Uchiha massacred the Uchiha clan with help from a masked man, while Danzo’s forces surrounded the compound. Sasuke survived, learned that he was the last Uchiha, and vowed to kill his brother as Itachi fled Konoha.

• Itachi Uchiha and the masked man cut through the Uchiha clan, and Itachi killed Uchiha Tong’s grandmother and Tong himself.
• Danzo waited outside the compound as his forces sealed off the area.
• Sasuke returned to the compound, found the dead, and collapsed after witnessing Itachi kill their parents.
• Itachi Uchiha left Konoha with the masked man without fighting the pursuing forces.
• Sasuke awoke in the hospital and learned that Itachi had massacred the clan and defected, leaving him as the sole survivor.
• Sasuke tried and failed to destroy a figurine of Itachi, then vowed to grow stronger and kill his brother.

Tobitake Tonbo learned that Itachi Uchiha had massacred the Uchiha clan and returned to Konoha to confront its leaders over the security failure. The Hokage meeting ended with Hiruzen Sarutobi disbanding Danzo’s ANBU training department and ordering Root members to become regular ninja.

• Tobitake Tonbo sensed that the figurine he had made for Sasuke was being destroyed and inferred that the Uchiha Clan Massacre had happened.
• Tobitake Tonbo received Hiruzen Sarutobi’s message confirming that Itachi had massacred the clan and defected, then set out for Konoha.
• At the Hokage meeting, Tobitake Tonbo rebuked Konoha’s leaders for failing to detect the massacre and leaving the village’s defenses vulnerable.
• Utatane Koharu blamed Genjutsu on the Barrier Sensing Division, while Mitokado Homura said Danzo was responsible for Itachi’s missions and the exposed barrier weakness.
• Danzo accepted blame, called the Uchiha emotionally uncontrollable, and proposed taking Sasuke; Hiruzen Sarutobi refused and disbanded Danzo’s ANBU training department and Root.

After the Uchiha massacre, Konoha’s leaders strengthened village security and designated Itachi an S-rank rogue ninja, then discussed how to calm residents and merchants. Kakashi proposed promoting a new hero, and the meeting turned its attention to Tobitake Tonbo.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi removed Danzo from the center of power and approved stronger guards for the Sensory Division and adjustments to Konoha’s sensory barrier.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi designated Itachi an S-rank rogue ninja and ordered the other villages to be notified.
• Yamanaka Inoichi reported that residents were panicking and some merchants had withdrawn from Konoha’s market.
• Kakashi suggested creating a hero to divert attention from the Uchiha incident, and Might Guy volunteered before Tonbo teased him.
• Kakashi recommended Tobitake Tonbo as the hero, and Konoha’s leaders, including Danzo, approved the suggestion.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s leaders chose Tobitake Tonbo as the public face of the response to the Uchiha clan massacre, then planned to rebuild the Konoha Military Police Force under the village’s control. The new force was set to begin operating the next day, with members selected through examinations.

• Might Guy, Kakashi, and Konoha’s leaders praised Tobitake Tonbo as a suitable hero, and Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to give him the role despite Tonbo’s protests.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the leaders planned to publicize Tonbo’s record and appoint him captain of the pursuit force hunting Itachi Uchiha, without actually sending him after Itachi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi proposed rebuilding the Konoha Military Police Force because it had become ineffective after the Uchiha clan massacre.
• Konoha’s leaders decided the new force would serve the village rather than a single clan, use Konoha’s emblem, and recruit members through examinations.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the new force and Tonbo’s hero publicity to be put into motion by the next day.

After the Uchiha massacre, Konoha residents spread exaggerated stories about Tobitake Tonbo and his supposed ability to defeat Itachi Uchiha. Tonbo learned that Sheng Shimon had started calling him “Captain Tonbo” and confronted him in the Analysis Division.

• Konoha residents traded rumors about Tonbo’s achievements and claimed he would defeat Itachi Uchiha.
• Tonbo heard the increasingly absurd stories, removed his bandages, and used genjutsu to escape women who crowded around him.
• At an izakaya, Mibu Shinobu bragged that Tonbo was his teacher and insisted Itachi would lose to him.
• Dokuro Kei warned Sheng Shimon that Tonbo was petty about the nickname “Captain Tonbo,” which Shimon had helped spread.
• Tonbo appeared behind Shimon and tapped his shoulder as Shimon confidently claimed Tonbo would never discover who started the nickname.

Tobitake Tonbo punished Sheng Shimon with an enhanced Genjutsu, then learned that ANBU had handled the Uchiha corpses. At the memorial, Sasuke stood alone among the mourners and hardened his resolve.

• Tobitake Tonbo hit Sheng Shimon with an enhanced Genjutsu that overwhelmed his senses and briefly disrupted his ability to think.
• Tobitake Tonbo asked about Sheng Shimon’s unborn child, and Sheng Shimon said he and his wife had chosen not to learn the child’s sex.
• Tobitake Tonbo asked whether the Analysis Division had received any Uchiha corpses, but Dokuro Kei said ANBU had handled everything.
• Tobitake Tonbo abandoned the idea of analyzing Itachi Uchiha’s abilities after learning the corpses were unavailable.
• At the Memorial Stone, Sasuke watched people mourn the Uchiha, felt alone, and hardened his gaze.