Chapter Summaries

Hane reorganized Konoha’s government and military, expanding civil service recruitment, education, immigration, and the Hokage’s forces. Meanwhile, Jiraiya and Tsunade argued over the Uchiha’s rule, and Jiraiya was arrested after Tsunade mistook his explanation for spying for an admission of peeping.

• Konoha established seven civil service departments, announced free compulsory education for children, and opened the village to immigration under a five-year expansion plan.
• Hane withdrew most troops from the borders, replaced the Anbu with the Hokage’s Twelve Direct Squads, and organized the remaining forces into four military regions overseen by six departments.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade discussed Konoha’s new leadership, and Jiraiya said the village was no longer a place to stay because of the Uchiha’s power.
• Tsunade assumed Jiraiya had been peeping on women, punched him through the tavern wall, and left him injured in the street.
• The Military Police Force recognized Jiraiya and took him into custody for violating Konoha’s law against peeping on women bathing.

Tsunade healed Jiraiya before the Military Police Force took him away, then resolved to leave Konoha. Hane broke through to the Dao-Integration Stage, learned he had fused 1% with the world’s Deva Path, and considered the path toward becoming a Heavenly Immortal.

• Tsunade healed Jiraiya and told him she planned to leave Konoha, while Jiraiya accepted that the Military Police Force would imprison him.
• Tsunade ordered the Military Police Force to take Jiraiya away, leaving the Sannin separated.
• Hane used his accumulated Fortune Points to advance his cultivation, causing a strange celestial phenomenon over Konoha.
• Uchiha Retsuyō blocked Hiashi and the other villagers from approaching the Hokage Building while Hane made his breakthrough.
• Tsunade realized Hane wielded the mysterious power she had studied and concluded that the Uchiha’s power came from him.
• Hane reached the Dao-Integration Stage with 1% fusion with the world’s Deva Path and learned that reaching 100% would require 10,000 Destiny Coins.

Hizashi asked Hane to protect his son Neji from being assigned to the Hyuga Branch Family and receiving the Caged Bird Seal. Hane brought Neji to the Hokage Building and summoned Hiashi and the Hyuga elders, leaving them to face his intervention.

• Hizashi knelt before Hane and begged him to save Neji from the Caged Bird Seal, which was to be placed on him the next day.
• Hane agreed to intervene and had Hizashi bring Neji to the Hokage Building, where he kept the boy with him.
• At the Hyuga Clan, Hiashi told the elders that Hane was sheltering Hizashi, and an Uchiha from the 12th Division summoned Hiashi and the elders.
• The Hyuga elders arrived at the Hokage Building and found Hizashi and Neji with Hane, who said he knew why they had come.
• Hyuga Seigan objected that the matter was an internal affair of the Hyuga Clan.

Hane persuaded the Hyuga elders to consider replacing the Caged Bird Seal with his Bloodline Extraction Seal, which he claimed could preserve and strengthen the Byakugan. He removed Hizashi’s seal and awakened new powers in his eyes, leaving the elders to decide whether to accept his proposed path.

• Hane offered to make Neji his first disciple, then argued that the Caged Bird Seal prevented the Hyuga Branch Family from reaching its potential.
• Hane revealed the Bloodline Extraction Seal, which he said could preserve a deceased Hyuga’s Byakugan power for a direct relative and help the eyes evolve.
• Hane told the elders he would remove Hizashi’s Caged Bird Seal because Hizashi held public office, and the elders did not dare object.
• Hane used his golden Nine-Tomoe Sharingan to remove Hizashi’s seal and left a golden mark on his forehead.
• Hizashi’s Byakugan awakened with pale blue irises, increased vision, a beam attack, and limited control over gravity.
• Hane showed the elders Hizashi’s new abilities and asked them to decide whether to adopt the Bloodline Extraction Seal method.

Hiashi and the Hyuga elders agreed to lift the Caged Bird Seal after Hane offered the clan a new seal and a way to enhance the Byakugan. As Hane prepared to punish the Land of Rain, Obito proposed using the Three-Tails and One-Tail while provoking a conflict between Kirigakure and Konoha, but Nagato sensed a powerful force disrupting his Rain Tiger at Will Technique.

• Qingyan Hyuga urged Hiashi to accept Hane’s offer, and the Hyuga clan announced that it would lift the Caged Bird Seal.
• A Branch Family elder volunteered to pass the Pupil Power Orb to his son, whose enhanced Byakugan pierced a massive tree with a beam of light.
• Hane learned that he could not improve his perfected skills further until he achieved complete Dao Integration, so he planned to focus his remaining Destiny Coins on cultivation.
• Obito joined Nagato and Konan in the Land of Rain and proposed capturing the Three-Tails and One-Tail while using the Fourth Mizukage to provoke conflict between Kirigakure and Konoha.
• Nagato sensed an immense force dividing his Rain Tiger at Will Technique and warned that something was wrong.

Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, Hane, attacked Nagato, Konan, and Obito in Amegakure, overwhelming Nagato’s Six Paths with his sword and elemental incarnations. He left Nagato with a choice: submit to him or watch Konan suffer.

• Hane split Amegakure’s central tower and the clouded sky with a gigantic sword, then confronted Nagato, Konan, and Obito.
• Hane invited Nagato to join Konoha, but Nagato rejected him and defended his plan to become a god and impose peace.
• Hane attacked Konan and forced Nagato to send the Six Paths to defend her.
• Hane summoned four magical swords and created five elemental incarnations, which destroyed four of Nagato’s Six Paths.
• Hane lifted the injured Konan and threatened her, offering to spare her if Nagato submitted.

Hane defeated Nagato’s massive Shinra Tensei, protected Amegakure’s civilians, and captured Konan while Obito escaped with Nagato. He promised the survivors new lives under a new nation and flew away with Konan as relief supplies were prepared.

• Nagato used an immense Shinra Tensei that devastated Amegakure, but Hane shielded the civilians inside bubbles and contained the force with his Golden Body Dharma Form.
• Hane overwhelmed Nagato, then reached into the Kamui Dimension and attacked Obito and Nagato, forcing Obito to flee with Nagato as the dimension shattered.
• Nagato blamed Obito for abandoning Konan, while Obito warned that neither of them could defeat Hane.
• Hane reassured Konan that he would not harm her and told Amegakure’s civilians that they would receive new identities and homes in a powerful nation.
• Hane receded the flood, ordered the civilians to wait for relief supplies, and flew away with Konan.

Hane annexed the Land of Rain after defeating Sunagakure’s invasion and imposed Konoha’s military and political control while pursuing assimilation through education. In Konoha, he explained to Konan that he believed peace could be built by teaching children to reject war and hatred.

• Hane ordered Konoha’s departments to supply Amegakure’s reconstruction, while Ōnoki chose to wait and see how Konoha would respond to challenges.
• Rasa sent Sunagakure forces into the Land of Rain, but Konoha’s divisions and two Uchiha Twelfth Division captains defeated them, forcing Sunagakure to surrender.
• The daimyo of the Land of Rain surrendered to the Land of Fire, and Hane sent the Southern Army to impose military control and suppress resistance.
• Hane used conciliatory policies, resource redistribution, and education reforms to assimilate the Land of Rain and extend his authority there.
• Konan questioned Hane’s plans to shape the Rain citizens’ thoughts, and Hane argued that peace education could prevent future hatred and war.

Konan accepted Hane’s plan to erase hatred through conciliatory policies and education, while the Raikage, Ōnoki, and Rasa formed an alliance to contain Konoha. Five years later, Konoha had become an industrial power, and Hane prepared to claim the Land of Fire outright to advance his cultivation.

• Hane persuaded Konan that his approach could achieve lasting peace, and she returned to work under him.
• The Raikage, Ōnoki, and Rasa met in the Land of Iron and agreed to a military alliance against Konoha, along with an economic blockade that exempted Recovery Pills.
• Hane focused on consolidating his strength while Konoha and the annexed Land of Rain developed under his Five-Year Plan.
• Five years later, a train traveled from Konoha to the capital of New Rain Province as the region’s technology and industry rapidly advanced.
• Hane’s cultivation reached forty-nine percent of the Dao-Integration Stage, and he decided to establish himself as the true ruler of the Land of Fire.

After five years of reforms, Hane had built Konoha into a powerful military and political force and called a meeting to announce that he would replace the Land of Fire’s daimyo. The chapter ended with Konoha preparing Hane’s coronation and a Chunin Ninja Exams to display its strength to the other villages.

• Hane’s reforms had expanded Konoha’s forces, strengthened the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, and turned the village into a major power.
• Hane had accepted Hinata as his second disciple, while Naruto and Third Pillar ranked among the Ninja Academy’s top students.
• Hane told Konan to summon department heads for a meeting, dismissing the Land of Water as a minor concern.
• At the meeting, Hane proposed that the daimyo abdicate and that he become king of the Land of Fire, winning the officials’ support.
• Hane ordered an abdication edict and invitations to the other major ninja villages for his coronation and a Chunin Ninja Exams.

Naruto and Sasuke formed a team with Hinata to enter the Chunin Ninja Exams and prove their strength to Hane. The chapter ended with the trio celebrating as Konoha’s education system continued to connect academic credentials with ninja careers.

• News of Hane’s planned overthrow of the daimyo and the coming Chunin Ninja Exams unsettled Konoha.
• Naruto told Sasuke about the exams, then discovered he had been scammed out of a thousand ryō by a white-haired man.
• Naruto invited Sasuke to enter the exams with him, and Sasuke agreed after Naruto explained that Hane would allow it.
• Naruto revealed Hinata as their third teammate, forming a team with Sasuke and celebrating at the Four Seasons Restaurant.
• The chapter described how Konoha’s academy separated ninja rank from education and how ninjas used their skills in careers throughout the village.

Hane returned home and discovered Itachi had grown close to Yumiko, whom he invited to dinner with the family. Meanwhile, Konoha’s announcement that its Kage would become the Land of Fire’s daimyo alarmed the other nations, whose leaders headed to Konoha for the Chunin Ninja Exams intending to pressure it.

• Hane came home to find Nine-Tails and Matatabi fiercely competing in a video game.
• Hane spotted Itachi walking with Yumiko, teased his brother, and invited them both home for dinner.
• The Kage of the other four great nations received Konoha’s invitation to the Chunin Ninja Exams and news of Hane’s coming ascension as daimyo.
• The other nations’ daimyo and Kage grew wary of one another, and the four villages sent elders to negotiate with their rulers.
• The major villages’ Kage led promising Genin and Elite Jonin to Konoha, planning to unite and pressure it, while three of Konoha’s old acquaintances arrived.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and was stunned by how much the village had changed. Meanwhile, Jiraiya encountered Naruto, learned he was the Fourth Hokage’s son, and was left facing the anger of the gathered civilians.

• Tsunade and Shizune arrived in Konoha and saw its towering buildings and bustling streets.
• A local guide took Tsunade and Shizune to the Hokage Building on his Chakra Motorcycle for eight hundred ryo.
• Jiraiya returned to Konoha after hearing that the Child of Prophecy’s circumstances had changed, then spotted Naruto walking with Sasuke and Hinata.
• Naruto recognized Jiraiya as the man who had cheated him and demanded ten thousand ryo to avoid reporting him.
• Sasuke told Jiraiya that Naruto was the Fourth Hokage’s son, and Jiraiya apologized while rubbing Naruto’s hair.
• Naruto protested that Jiraiya had ruined his copied hairstyle, prompting the surrounding civilians to threaten to call the police.

After learning that Jiraiya had been his father’s teacher and had never visited him, Naruto confronted him over his abandonment. Naruto agreed to let Jiraiya teach him Ninjutsu, while leaving forgiveness to his father.

• Inoichi Yamanaka arrived with the Military Police Force and revealed that Jiraiya had been the Fourth Hokage’s teacher.
• Sasuke and Hinata challenged Jiraiya for failing to visit or protect Naruto, and Jiraiya tearfully begged Naruto for a chance to make amends.
• Naruto told Jiraiya that his father was the one Jiraiya had truly wronged and that forgiveness depended on his father.
• Jiraiya pleaded to teach Naruto everything he knew, and Naruto agreed to learn his Ninjutsu.
• Jiraiya resolved to train Naruto into the finest ninja.

Kurama and Matatabi brought Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata home for dinner, where Jiraiya saw how united and content Konoha had become under Hane. At the Uchiha home, Sasuke found everyone paired off and resolved not to remain the only one suffering through their affectionate behavior.

• Kurama and Matatabi told Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata that Mikoto had called them home to meet important guests.
• Kurama teased Naruto about Hinata, while Hinata took his words as proof that Naruto liked her.
• Jiraiya asked Inoichi whether Konoha was good now, and Inoichi praised Hane and urged Jiraiya to reconsider opposing his succession as Daimyo.
• Sasuke returned home and found his brothers chatting with Yumiko, who greeted him and Hinata.
• Sasuke sat beside Yumiko, watched his family welcome Naruto and Hinata, and swore he would end his lonely predicament.

Orochimaru entered Konoha with Kabuto and Otogakure’s ninja for the Chunin Ninja Exams, hoping to exploit the upheaval and pursue his own plans. Chika Uchiha defeated him with soul-based Genjutsu, left his right arm unusable, and had the Sound ninja confined to the exam reception area; Orochimaru ended the chapter coveting the Uchiha’s eyes.

• Orochimaru arrived in Konoha with Kabuto and Otogakure’s ninja, planning to watch for chaos and possibly rescue and kill his imprisoned teacher.
• Chika Uchiha and his squad confronted Orochimaru, who mocked Konoha and used a Kunai to threaten Chika.
• Chika escaped by transforming into crows and trapped Orochimaru in a soul-based Genjutsu that damaged his soul’s right arm.
• Chika ordered the Military Police Force to escort Orochimaru and the Sound ninja to the designated reception area and keep them there without the Hokage’s written order.
• Kabuto found Orochimaru’s arm physically intact, and Orochimaru realized the soul damage persisted and became determined to obtain the Uchiha’s eyes.

The four visiting Kage saw how far Konoha had outgrown their villages and plotted to disrupt Hane’s enthronement ceremony by uniting the smaller ninja villages. Hane learned of their plan through wiretaps and ordered preparations to keep the guests contained, while Konan worried that Nagato might be caught in the coming clash.

• Ōnoki, Raikage A, Rasa, and Karatachi Yagura discussed Konoha’s overwhelming growth and the restrictions placed on their movements.
• Raikage A proposed uniting the smaller ninja villages to oppose Hane’s enthronement, and the other Kage agreed.
• Yamanaka Inoichi reported the Kage’s plan to Hane, who ordered the 12th Division stationed around them and summoned Hizashi.
• Hane reassured Konan that he would spare Nagato if Nagato stayed out of the raid, and Konan promised to persuade him.
• Hane assigned Hizashi and the Hyuga Clan to secure Konoha’s perimeter, barring outsiders from leaving and enemies from entering without his orders.

Jiraiya taught Naruto the Summoning Technique, and Naruto summoned Gamabunta, whose insults provoked Kurama into a fight. Kurama began beating Gamabunta at the Ninja Academy training ground while Naruto and the students watched.

• Jiraiya had Naruto sign the toad summoning contract and taught him the Summoning Technique.
• Naruto summoned Gamabunta, criticized his appearance, and challenged his strength.
• Naruto summoned Kurama, who lost a game to Two-Tails after Gamabunta startled her and called her weak.
• Kurama grew larger, threatened Gamabunta, and confronted him while Jiraiya fled.
• Naruto told Kurama she had gotten fat, so Kurama declared she would lose weight and punched Gamabunta.

Tsunade sensed the Nine-Tails near the Ninja Academy and went there with a group of motorcycle enthusiasts, discovering that Konoha now accepted the beast as Naruto’s partner. She watched the Nine-Tails defeat Gamabunta, then heard Naruto and Kurama bargain over the Chunin Tournament prize money.

• Tsunade sensed the Nine-Tails at the Ninja Academy and prepared to investigate, but a motorcycle enthusiast explained that it was a trusted member of Konoha.
• Tsunade rode with the man and his friends to the Academy, where his younger brother used his student ID to bring them inside.
• The Nine-Tails pinned down Gamabunta and beat him in front of cheering students until he returned to the Summoning Realm.
• The Nine-Tails shrank and rested on Naruto’s head, then demanded that Naruto buy it new game cards and food.
• Naruto said he was broke but promised they could spend freely if they won the Chunin Tournament, and Kurama demanded half the prize money.

Jiraiya and Tsunade returned to Konoha and questioned Hane’s rule, while learning that the Land of Rain had been incorporated into the Land of Fire. The chapter left Jiraiya confronting Hane’s claim that a powerful nation could protect civilians and preserve peace.

• Jiraiya reunited with Tsunade, and they decided to ask Hane what path he intended for Konoha.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade saw how much Konoha had grown and entered the Hokage Building to meet Hane.
• Jiraiya recognized Konan working beside Hane and learned that Yahiko was gone and the Land of Rain had joined the Land of Fire.
• Jiraiya accused Hane of taking the Land of Rain, but Konan said it had become prosperous and safer under Hane’s policies.
• Hane argued that the Land of Rain had lacked the strength to protect its peace and that a powerful nation could provide civilians with stability.