Chapter Summaries

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.

Captain Tonbo studied neurology while serving in the pursuit force, and Konoha’s propaganda made him famous as the village restored its institutions. Sasuke worried Tonbo would die pursuing Itachi, while Itachi joined Akatsuki and accepted an assassination mission in the Land of Birds.

• Captain Tonbo hid in Konoha Hospital and studied neurology and Yin Release to develop his jutsu.
• Tenyu and Maki heard villagers praising their father and decided to promote Ichiraku Ramen to earn more pocket money.
• Sasuke heard that Captain Tonbo was leading the pursuit force, feared he would be killed by Itachi, and resolved to grow stronger; Naruto challenged him as he passed by.
• Konoha’s propaganda suppressed the fallout from the Uchiha massacre, Root shinobi joined village forces, and the Military Police Force was reinstated under a Hyuga Jōnin.
• Zetsu warned Itachi that Captain Tonbo was leading the pursuit force, but Itachi said he knew Tonbo would not come after him.
• Zetsu assigned Itachi and Jūzō Biwa to assassinate a guarded noble in the Land of Birds.

Tobitake Tonbo trained his young children at sea while testing the first step of a powerful new ninjutsu. At the Ninja Academy, Kiba Inuzuka and Sasuke battled as their classmates watched.

• Tobitake Tonbo had Tenyu and Maki surf enormous waves as part of their training, with a summoned whale ready to rescue them if they fell.
• Tobitake Tonbo tested his new nerve-based technique on a piece of wood and assessed its research potential and combat flaws.
• Tenyu fell into the sea again while Tobitake Tonbo checked on him.
• At the Ninja Academy, Sasuke used Shuriken and the Great Fireball Technique against Kiba, who dodged his attacks with the Four Legs Technique.
• Kiba tricked Sasuke with Clone Technique and used a Kunai tied with Shiso to wrap him up.

Kiba defeated Sasuke in another spar, then challenged Naruto’s ideas about becoming Hokage while Naruto claimed he had developed a new technique. At the Academy, Tobitake Tonbo teased Guy and Kakashi about their lack of girlfriends before deciding to give the students a lecture.

• Iruka declared Kiba the winner after Sasuke escaped his restraint and recognized how Kiba had blocked his Sharingan’s view.
• Kiba taunted Naruto for being lazy, while Hinata defended Naruto’s hard work and Naruto bragged about a new ninjutsu.
• Kiba told Naruto that Hokage needed theoretical knowledge, but Naruto insisted strength mattered more.
• Shikamaru surrendered his match against Choji, prompting Iruka to consider new ways to motivate the students.
• Tobitake Tonbo joked with Guy and Kakashi about their marriage prospects, then decided to apply to lecture the students.

Tobitake Tonbo visited the Ninja Academy to answer the fifth-year students’ questions, encouraging them to study and pursue their ambitions. The session ended when Rock Lee asked whether someone who could not use ninjutsu could become an outstanding ninja.

• The students discussed Tobitake Tonbo’s visit, while Rock Lee hoped to ask whether a person unable to use ninjutsu could become a great ninja and Neji attended without interest.
• Tobitake Tonbo entered the classroom, impressing the students with his intimidating presence and chakra; he withdrew his defensive ninjutsu after sensing Neji’s Byakugan.
• Tobitake Tonbo began the Q&A session and told a student who wanted to become Hokage to study hard and grow stronger.
• Tobitake Tonbo answered the students’ questions about romance and flying, affirming their curiosity and keeping their enthusiasm alive.
• Rock Lee introduced himself and asked Tobitake Tonbo whether someone who could not use ninjutsu could become an outstanding ninja.

At the Ninja Academy, Tobitake Tonbo answered Rock Lee’s doubts about becoming a ninja without ninjutsu by telling a story of a Taijutsu fighter who saved his country. The other students dismissed it as fiction, but Tobitake told them that believing in miracles could make them candidates to become outstanding ninjas.

• Rock Lee asked Tobitake Tonbo whether someone who could not use ninjutsu could still become an outstanding ninja, while Hyuga Neji insisted that fate could not be changed.
• Tobitake Tonbo told the class about Nameless, who took up Milong’s name and developed the Eight Extremes Heaven Taijutsu technique to defeat the Black Flag Group and save the Land of Stars.
• The students and Neji rejected the account as an implausible story, leaving Rock Lee discouraged.
• Tobitake Tonbo said that believing in miracles was itself a step toward becoming an outstanding ninja, regardless of one’s potential to use ninjutsu.

Tobitake Tonbo encouraged his students to believe in miracles and cited Might Guy as proof that hard work in Taijutsu could produce an outstanding ninja. When Neji asked whether fate could be changed, Tonbo offered two competing views and said people could choose their own course through their will and efforts.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi heard Tobitake Tonbo’s words about miracles and left with a satisfied smile.
• Tobitake Tonbo told Rock Lee and the class that Konoha’s Blue Beast had become an outstanding Jōnin through Taijutsu and hard work, while stressing the importance of studying.
• Tenten asked how to become a powerful female ninja like Tsunade, and Tobitake Tonbo told the girls to believe in miracles and work hard.
• Neji asked whether fate could be changed, and Tobitake Tonbo acknowledged the limits of effort but said the future could also be decided by personal will and hard work.

Jiraiya learned from Gamamaru that a beneficial variable had appeared in the Shinobi World, while Orochimaru prepared a perfected technique and Akatsuki searched for him. In Konoha, Tobitake Tenyu and Tobitake Maki used lessons from their father’s manual to get out of dishwashing, as Tobitake Tosei offered to take their place.

• Gamamaru told Jiraiya that a new variable had made the Child of Prophecy’s path smoother and warned him not to be affected by it.
• Orochimaru heard news from a blue python, trusted it for now, and waited for an opportunity to use his perfected technique.
• Pain asked Akatsuki’s members and Zetsu for news of Orochimaru, but they had been unable to find him.
• At Ichiraku Ramen, Tenyu and Maki complained about washing dishes while Teuchi credited the restaurant’s popularity to his cooking.
• Tenyu and Maki used what Maki had learned from Tobitake Tonbo’s Ninja Essential Manual to persuade their mother and grandfather to let them rest.
• Tobitake Tosei took over the chores, while Tenyu decided to study the manual and use its lessons on his father.

Tobitake Tonbo used a chakra-transmission technique to help his father, Tobitake Tosei, relearn ninjutsu and practice one-handed hand seals. The training continued as Tonbo struggled to process and transmit his father’s insights.

• Tobitake Tosei asked Tobitake Tonbo to teach him one-handed hand seals, and Tonbo agreed.
• Tobitake Tonbo took Tosei, Tenyu, and Maki to a mountain peak, where he gave the children chakra-control training.
• Tobitake Tonbo placed a mark on Tosei and set up barriers to transmit insights while Tosei recalled and practiced ninjutsu.
• Tobitake Tosei began forming one-handed hand seals as memories and ideas flooded his mind.
• Tobitake Tonbo strained to process Tosei’s developing insights and send them back into his mind.

Tobitake Tonbo caught Jiraiya peeping at women in a Konoha hot spring and used his Genjutsu to distract him before heading to work. On the way to the Analysis Division, Tonbo wondered whether his actions had changed events enough to bring Jiraiya back to Konoha early.

• Tobitake Tonbo found Jiraiya peeping at the hot spring and introduced himself as a Konoha Jōnin Captain.
• Tonbo shouted that a peeping tom was on the roof, and Jiraiya escaped as a toad while Tonbo followed.
• Jiraiya tried to trade a volume of Icha Icha Paradise for Tonbo’s Genjutsu, but Tonbo refused and exposed him again when Jiraiya grabbed him.
• Tonbo used Blissful World on Jiraiya, then left while Jiraiya remained excited by the illusions.
• Tonbo headed to the Analysis Division and considered whether his actions, or those of Itachi or Orochimaru, had changed the course of events.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha to investigate a variable in the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy, and Hiruzen briefed him on Amegakure’s Rinnegan-wielding leader and a clandestine organization. Meanwhile, Tobitake Tonbo reviewed intelligence about Gato’s costly conflict with the Land of Hot Water, including a cult involving Hidan.

• Jiraiya told Hiruzen that the Great Toad Sage had prophesied a variable in the Child of Prophecy’s path and asked for help investigating it.
• Hiruzen described Amegakure’s leader, who called himself God and possessed the Rinnegan, and a clandestine organization active in neighboring countries.
• Hiruzen explained that Tobitake Tonbo had gathered intelligence on Amegakure and escaped a fight with its leader by setting a trap.
• Jiraiya wondered whether Nagato or the Akatsuki could be connected to the prophecy’s variable.
• Tobitake Tonbo reviewed reports that Gato had regained control of the Land of Waves’ port after a costly conflict with a Land of Hot Water company whose hired shinobi included cult-linked immortals.