Recaps

Tsunade treated Fuga by starving him, forcing the parasites into his stomach with a poison pill, then removing them surgically and healing his wounds. Fuga was expected to recover, and Yuri Inuzuka and the clan pledged their gratitude to Tsunade.

• Yuri Inuzuka accepted Fuga’s choice to undergo Tsunade’s treatment and provided samples of the parasites.
• Tsunade ordered Fuga to go without food or water for three days while she tested poisons to prepare a lethal medicine.
• Tsunade made Fuga swallow the pill, then monitored the parasites as they moved into his stomach.
• Tsunade cut open Fuga’s abdomen and stomach, removed the mass of parasites, and healed his wounds with the Mystical Palm Technique.
• Tsunade assured Yuri Inuzuka that Fuga would recover, and Yuri and the Inuzuka clan bowed and pledged their support.

Tsunade followed Orochimaru to his laboratory after he announced a breakthrough in his serum experiment. As Orochimaru prepared to inject her and restrain her for safety, Jiraiya secretly watched and misread the scene, growing furious and jealous.

• Tsunade spotted Orochimaru waiting outside her home, and he told her that his experiment had made progress.
• Tsunade hurried with Orochimaru to his underground laboratory while Jiraiya, carrying wildflowers to confess his feelings, followed them in secret.
• Orochimaru showed Tsunade version 1.3 of his serum and warned that she might temporarily lose control after the injection.
• Tsunade agreed to be strapped to the experimental table, while Jiraiya watched through a ventilation shaft and misunderstood what was happening.
• Orochimaru pressed a leather strap against Tsunade's wrist as Jiraiya panicked over what he thought Orochimaru was doing to her.

Orochimaru injected Tsunade with Hashirama Serum, Version 1.3, while Jiraiya burst into the laboratory and fought him. Tsunade’s transformation unleashed immense strength, and after she regained awareness, she turned her anger toward the battered men.

• Orochimaru injected Tsunade with the serum and recorded her rapidly rising heart rate, chakra levels, and cell division.
• Jiraiya stormed in, saw Tsunade restrained and suffering, and attacked Orochimaru when he tried to stop him from interfering.
• As Jiraiya and Orochimaru fought, Tsunade’s body repeatedly broke down and rebuilt itself until she entered a berserk state and broke her restraints.
• Tsunade punched the floor, shattering the laboratory and blasting Jiraiya and Orochimaru through a wall.
• Tsunade recovered her awareness, saw the wreckage and the injured men, and walked toward them as they prepared to run.

After Tsunade beat Jiraiya and Orochimaru, Orochimaru examined the effects of version 1.3 and found that Tsunade's cells had reached one-tenth of Hashirama's activity. Tsunade learned that her Yin Seal was gathering chakra ten times faster and left with the Strength of a Hundred technique closer to completion.

• Tsunade dragged Jiraiya back to Orochimaru's ruined laboratory after the security officers mistook their fight for sparring.
• Orochimaru recovered the core data and examined Tsunade using backup equipment.
• Orochimaru reported that Tsunade's cell activity had reached one-tenth of First Hashirama's level.
• Tsunade found that her Yin Seal was gathering chakra ten times faster and ordered Orochimaru to study version 1.3's data and possible side effects carefully.
• Tsunade carried the unconscious Jiraiya out and warned Orochimaru not to give Root anything they could use against him.

After hearing that villagers were insulting Tsunade, Uchiha Mikoto visited her at dawn to check on her and asked to become her apprentice. Tsunade accepted, leaving Mikoto as her student despite anticipating objections from the Uchiha clan.

• Jiraiya was hospitalized with severe injuries after Tsunade struck him, and rumors about her spread through Konoha.
• Mikoto visited Tsunade early in the morning, worried because villagers were calling Tsunade violent and saying she would never marry.
• Tsunade comforted Mikoto and told her that the gossip did not bother her.
• Mikoto asked Tsunade to train her so she could become strong enough to protect others.
• Tsunade accepted Mikoto as her apprentice and told her to call her Master.

Tsunade gathered women from Konoha’s major clans and founded the Konoha Women's Mutual Aid Association, drawing their families’ influence into a new network. As she walked home with Uchiha Mikoto, Tsunade hinted that the association was part of a larger plan and looked forward to completing her Yin Seal.

• Tsunade introduced her student, Uchiha Mikoto, to the women gathered at the Yamanaka flower shop, where Yuri Inuzuka arrived with the recovered Fuga and Hoshina Hyuga arrived with her healthy baby, Hiumi.
• The women chatted about family, clan news, and Mikoto’s demanding training under Tsunade.
• Tsunade proposed a women's mutual aid association to provide medical care and share connections, resources, and information when members faced hardship.
• Hoshina Hyuga, Yuri Inuzuka, Yamanaka Sora, Lola Akimichi, Ria Nara, and Mikoto agreed to join, and Tsunade declared the Konoha Women's Mutual Aid Association founded with herself as president.
• On the way home, Mikoto suspected Tsunade was pursuing a larger plan, and Tsunade told her to remember everyone at the gathering before hinting that her Yin Seal was nearly complete.

Tsunade completed her Strength of a Hundred Seal and tested the immense vitality and power it granted her. After confirming the seal could sustain her complete Hashirama State for at least three hours, she opened the Eight Gates.

• Tsunade completed the Strength of a Hundred Seal in less than half a year.
• She tested her enhanced normal strength and learned her Hashirama Cells were active at ten percent.
• Tsunade released the seal, reaching one hundred percent cellular activity and entering Hashirama State.
• She healed a deep cut in three seconds and a fractured forearm in fifteen seconds.
• Tsunade estimated that her stored Chakra could maintain the complete state for at least three hours.
• Tsunade opened the Eight Gates.

Tsunade used the Strength of a Hundred to open the Sixth Gate and reached Blue Steam, unleashing enough power to devastate Konoha's Back Mountain. Hiruzen ordered the incident concealed, while Tsunade reaffirmed her ambition to become Fourth Hokage.

• Tsunade opened the first five Eight Gates, then opened the Sixth Gate and entered Blue Steam despite having opened only six gates.
• Tsunade rushed to an empty valley in Konoha's Back Mountain and demolished its cliffs and floor with her punches.
• The tremors alarmed Konoha's residents and led Hiruzen Sarutobi to send an ANBU operative to investigate.
• Hiruzen found Tsunade in the ruined valley, and she told him she had gained this power about ten minutes earlier.
• Hiruzen ordered the ANBU to report a landslide and keep the incident secret, while Tsunade said she would become the Fourth Hokage.

Tsunade realized that Mito was preparing to transfer the Nine-Tails and would die within several years, and promised to care for Nawaki and protect the Uzumaki. Kushina Uzumaki arrived at the Senju residence with her family, and Tsunade met her at the gate.

• Tsunade trained Nawaki and Uchiha Mikoto, then Mito told them an important guest was coming.
• Tsunade realized that the guest was Kushina Uzumaki and that Mito was arranging the Nine-Tails transfer, which would end Mito's life within several years.
• Mito told Tsunade that the transfer was her responsibility and choice, and Tsunade promised to care for Nawaki, learn every Sealing Jutsu, and protect the Uzumaki.
• Nawaki announced that visitors had arrived, and Tsunade went to open the gate.
• Kushina Uzumaki introduced herself to Tsunade and brought forward her daughter, whom she also introduced as Kushina Uzumaki.

Tsunade welcomed Yui and young Kushina Uzumaki to the Senju home, where Kushina met Nawaki and Mikoto. After Mito hinted that she wanted Nawaki and Kushina to grow close, Tsunade resolved to prevent the match and pursue Kushina herself.

• Tsunade introduced Kushina Uzumaki to Nawaki and Mikoto, and Nawaki eagerly promised to protect her.
• Yui told Mito that life for the Uzumaki clan was stable but that tensions in the surrounding region were rising.
• Nawaki chatted with Kushina through dinner, gradually drawing her out of her shyness.
• Mito suggested that Tsunade take Nawaki and Kushina to the Ninja Academy together so they could spend more time with each other.
• Tsunade realized Mito was considering a match between Nawaki and Kushina and decided to intervene, imagining Minato Namikaze as Kushina's future partner and herself pursuing Kushina.

Tsunade sought a long-distance warning system to alert her if the Uzumaki came under attack. After Sora suggested using Aburame sensing insects, Tsunade went with Yuri Inuzuka to meet the Aburame clan.

• Tsunade asked Yamanaka Sora how she could receive a warning from the Land of Whirlpools, and Sora proposed using Rinkaichū to transmit a sense of danger.
• Sora advised Tsunade to ask Yuri Inuzuka for an introduction to the Aburame clan, and Tsunade hugged and kissed her in thanks.
• Tsunade found Yuri feeding the Ninja Hounds and asked her to arrange a meeting with the Aburame clan.
• Yuri took Tsunade to the Aburame compound on Fuga.

Tsunade visited the Aburame compound to borrow Sensing Parasitic Insects, then promised Shikuro she would invite his wife Ichika to the next Women's Mutual Aid Association gathering. Ichika and Shikuro were left hoping Tsunade would remember, after people had repeatedly forgotten to include Ichika.

• Tsunade and Yuri visited Shikuro Aburame, and Tsunade asked to borrow Sensing Parasitic Insects.
• Shikuro gave Tsunade one mother insect and two child insects, explaining how they worked.
• Shikuro asked Tsunade to invite his wife to the Women's Mutual Aid Association, and Tsunade agreed to invite her to the next gathering.
• Shikuro brought Ichika Aburame to meet Tsunade, who promised to remember her.
• After Tsunade left, Ichika worried she would be forgotten again, and Shikuro reassured her while privately sharing her concern.

Tsunade gave Kushina Uzumaki a Sensing Insect so she could call for help if the Land of Whirlpools was attacked, then watched Kushina Uzumaki leave her daughter behind in Konoha. As Kushina mourned at the village boundary, Tsunade realized that an alarm would be useless unless she could reach the Land of Whirlpools quickly and began thinking of a jutsu that could cross space.

• Tsunade returned to the Senju estate as Kushina Uzumaki prepared to leave Konoha and comforted her daughter, Kushina, before departing.
• Tsunade gave Kushina Uzumaki an Aburame Sensing Insect and promised to bring help if its young insect was crushed in an emergency.
• Kushina Uzumaki formally entrusted her daughter to Tsunade and left Konoha with two clansmen while Kushina cried at the village boundary.
• Tsunade realized that reaching the Land of Whirlpools would still take days after an alert and concluded that she needed a jutsu capable of crossing space.

Tsunade brought Kushina Uzumaki to the Ninja Academy, where the girl was mocked by her classmates but received support from Nawaki. Tsunade discovered Minato Namikaze independently deriving a space-time formula and headed to the Hokage Building to obtain the Book of Seals so she could help him master Flying Thunder God and reach the Land of Whirlpools.

• Tsunade enrolled Kushina Uzumaki in second grade while Nawaki went to his own class.
• Kushina’s classmates mocked her red hair, but Nawaki joined her at lunch and promised to protect her.
• Tsunade watched Minato Namikaze leave lunch and follow him to the Academy library.
• Minato studied a book about Senju Tobirama and worked out the beginnings of a Flying Thunder God coordinate formula.
• Tsunade decided to help Minato master Flying Thunder God and went to the Hokage Building to get the Book of Seals.

Tsunade obtained the Flying Thunder God Technique scroll and gave it to Minato, who learned the jutsu almost instantly. Nawaki then copied the technique and teleported beside Minato, leaving Tsunade stunned.

• Tsunade persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to let her copy the Flying Thunder God Technique records from the Book of Seals.
• Tsunade gave the copied scroll to Minato Namikaze in the Ninja Academy library and urged him to try the technique.
• Minato drew a Flying Thunder God Mark, formed the Snake hand sign, and teleported to the marked paper atop a distant bookshelf.
• Nawaki arrived with Kushina and asked Tsunade to teach him the technique, but she refused.
• Nawaki copied the hand sign and teleported beside Minato on the distant bookshelf.

After Nawaki showed an extraordinary talent for the Flying Thunder God Technique, Tsunade made Minato and Nawaki train it together. She also took Kushina as her disciple and promised to teach her sealing jutsu, leaving the three children under her guidance.

• Nawaki easily learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Tsunade realized he had exceptional talent for space-time ninjutsu.
• Tsunade made Minato her disciple, and Minato eagerly accepted.
• Tsunade ordered Minato and Nawaki to practice the Flying Thunder God Technique together and master long-distance teleportation within six months.
• Tsunade called Kushina over, made her a disciple, and promised to teach her sealing jutsu.
• Kushina accepted Tsunade as her master, and Tsunade celebrated her three gifted students.

Tsunade brought Ichika Aburame into the Konoha mutual aid group and introduced her student Kushina to the clan wives. She proposed a weekend training class for the village clans’ children, and the women eagerly signed their children up.

• Tsunade escorted Ichika Aburame to the Yamanaka Flower Shop, where the clan wives welcomed her into their mutual aid group.
• Tsunade introduced Kushina Uzumaki as her new student, and Ria Nara offered to help her settle in Konoha.
• Tsunade announced a weekend training class for her students and Nawaki, with Jiraiya and Orochimaru assisting.
• Tsunade offered the clan wives’ children training in medical first aid, physical conditioning, chakra control, combat, and jutsu analysis.
• Lola Akimichi, Ria Nara, and the other women eagerly volunteered their children, while Ichika asked whether her six-year-old could attend.

Tsunade recruited Jiraiya and Orochimaru as instructors for her Special Training Class on Back Mountain. Jiraiya realized too late that Tsunade had manipulated him, while Orochimaru agreed after learning the class served her future Hokage campaign.

• Tsunade used a nurse’s uniform and flattery to persuade Jiraiya to teach at her Special Training Class twice a month.
• After Tsunade left, Jiraiya realized the job meant unpaid babysitting and rushed into the empty corridor to take back his promise.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru to finish Hashirama Serum 2.0 within a year and demanded that he teach at least three times a week.
• Orochimaru inferred that Tsunade was building support for her Hokage campaign by training the heirs of Konoha’s major clans.
• Orochimaru agreed to teach during the first three weeks of each month unless he was away on a mission.

Tsunade began a Special Training Class on Konoha's Back Mountain, introducing the children and Might Duy to their instructors. She and Jiraiya and Orochimaru demonstrated the Summoning Technique, leaving three enormous shadows looming through the smoke.

• Tsunade had the students introduce themselves and state their goals, including Nawaki, Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Mikoto, and the other young shinobi.
• Might Duy joined the group, and Tsunade considered the class a way to win over Konoha's next generation and repay Duy for taking his Eight Gates.
• Tsunade announced she would teach Taijutsu, Sealing Jutsu, and Medical Ninjutsu, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru described their own specialties.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru performed the Summoning Technique together, shaking the ground and revealing three enormous shadows in the smoke.

Tsunade used the promise of legendary summoning beasts and forbidden techniques to motivate the children in her Special Training Class. After Minato and Nawaki demonstrated the Flying Thunder God, the eager students rushed off to train, while Orochimaru approached Tsunade with something to discuss.

• Tsunade summoned the giant slug, toad, and snake, then promised summoning contracts to students who performed well.
• Tsunade assigned the children their training tasks and told Minato and Nawaki to practice the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Minato and Nawaki teleported fifty meters to kunai they had thrown, astonishing Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and the students.
• Tsunade promised to teach the students even forbidden techniques if they performed well and survived her training.
• The children eagerly rushed to their assigned tasks, and Orochimaru quietly approached Tsunade to talk.

Tsunade agreed to help Orochimaru see the Book of Seals and said they would ask the Third Hokage for permission rather than steal it. Jiraiya joined them, and the three entered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office, where he feared they had come to stage a coup.

• Orochimaru asked Tsunade to let him see the Book of Seals, and Tsunade immediately agreed.
• Tsunade explained that she would ask the Third Hokage for the book instead of trying to steal it.
• Tsunade invited Jiraiya to go with them, and he overcame his reluctance and followed.
• Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya kicked open the door to Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office, alarming him.

Tsunade persuaded Hiruzen to let her, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya study the Book of Seals. Hiruzen agreed to allow each of them to choose one jutsu and led them to the scroll.

• Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya demanded to see the Book of Seals, but Hiruzen initially refused.
• Tsunade argued that their service to Konoha and the coming war justified letting them study the scroll.
• Tsunade privately reminded Hiruzen about Hashirama Senju's remains and offered not to pursue the matter if he granted their request.
• Hiruzen agreed to let each person choose one jutsu from the Book of Seals.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya rejoiced at the opportunity, and Hiruzen put on his Hokage hat and told them to follow him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi showed Orochimaru and Jiraiya the Forbidden Jutsu they could choose from, while hiding several of the most dangerous techniques. Orochimaru selected the Eight Branches Technique, and Tsunade forced Jiraiya to choose Dragon Flame Song instead of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique he wanted.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi listed the techniques in the Book of Seals but concealed several supreme Forbidden Jutsu from Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
• Tsunade acknowledged Hiruzen Sarutobi's warning not to reveal the hidden techniques, especially Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru chose the Eight Branches Technique, hoping its regeneration would help him attain immortality.
• Tsunade selected the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, leading Jiraiya to believe they shared the same choice.
• Tsunade grabbed Jiraiya by the collar and announced that he chose Dragon Flame Song instead.

Tsunade arranged for Jiraiya and Orochimaru to learn Forbidden Jutsu, choosing techniques to strengthen them for her planned fight to save the Land of Whirlpools. The chapter ended with Orochimaru asking Jiraiya to cut off his head so he could test the Eight Branches Technique.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya she could teach him the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, and Hiruzen Sarutobi tacitly allowed them to learn additional jutsu.
• Orochimaru tried to persuade Jiraiya to choose Fivefold Rashomon by offering to teach him the Eight Branches Technique, but Jiraiya rejected the offer.
• Jiraiya chose Dragon Flame Song, which Tsunade believed would fill a gap in his combat skills and help him support her plans for the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tsunade resolved to push Jiraiya and Orochimaru beyond their limits so they could help her confront the forces threatening the Land of Whirlpools.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave them hand-copied scrolls and ordered them to memorize the jutsu and destroy the copies that night.
• Orochimaru asked Jiraiya to cut off his head so he could test how quickly his nerves reconnected after learning the Eight Branches Technique.

Orochimaru unleashed the Eight Branches Technique and overwhelmed Jiraiya with his enormous serpent form and rapid regeneration. After buying time while retreating, Jiraiya summoned two toads and revealed that he had mastered Senjutsu, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Tsunade started the battle between Jiraiya and Orochimaru as the Special Training Class watched.
• Orochimaru transformed into an enormous eight-headed serpent and shattered Jiraiya's Needle Jizō, sending him crashing through trees.
• Jiraiya burned two of Orochimaru's heads with Fire Style: Dragon Flame Song, but Orochimaru regenerated them almost immediately.
• Jiraiya evaded Orochimaru's attacks while secretly preparing a Summoning Jutsu, and Tsunade realized he was buying time.
• Jiraiya stopped running, told Orochimaru he would show him his Senjutsu, and summoned two toads as toad-like features appeared on his face.