Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Asura calls Dave for help with his grandmother’s ambitious attempt to boil lumps of dough using a huge supply of flour. Dave evades the request by suggesting other people help instead.
• Kakuzu storms into Dave’s office, alarmed that Kumogakure has launched its own phone and that sales of Dave’s “Love Kidney Phone” have dipped slightly. Dave dismisses the rival device as obsolete, but learns that Kumogakure is enforcing local-product patriotism by punishing users of foreign phones. Other villages may follow.
• Dave devises a response and persuades Kakuzu to carry it out by promising him a larger share of company profits. Kakuzu departs in disguise on the Akatsuki’s motorcycle, eager to add schemes of his own until Dave tells him not to overcomplicate the plan.
• Dave receives a call that sounds like a kidnapping threat, but it is actually Mikoto’s after-school instructor: Dave has forgotten to pick her up. He rushes over and finds Fugaku with her.
• When Fugaku begins to speak, Dave sends him flying. Mikoto explains that Fugaku has joined her girls’ dance class, run by an instructor formerly in the Uchiha Girl Group. Fugaku begged to be admitted and, despite being a boy, wears a skirt and dances with the girls. He is apparently exceptionally good at it, though he has been limping lately.
• Dave suspects Fugaku has been beaten or otherwise hurt and decides to confront him later, but ultimately gives up for the moment.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave remains shrewd in business but easily irritated and impulsive in family matters. He avoids Asura’s messy request, dismisses the phone threat with confidence, then realizes he has neglected his parenting duties. His rough treatment of Fugaku contrasts with his affection and guilt toward Mikoto.
• Kakuzu is fiercely protective of the company’s market share, yet his outrage quickly gives way to self-interest when Dave offers him more profit. His eagerness to expand the plan shows his instinct for elaborate schemes.
• Fugaku is portrayed as unusually determined and open to embarrassing himself: he persistently persuades the dance instructor to let him join, and excels at the class. Dave’s hostility toward him, and Fugaku’s attempt to approach Dave, frame their relationship as tense and comically adversarial.
• Mikoto cheerfully reveals Fugaku’s secret and appears fond of teasingly recounting his dancing.
• Asura is anxious and flattering as he tries to recruit Dave to help with his grandmother’s cooking experiment.

Significant themes

• Satire of corporate competition and protectionism: Kumogakure’s outdated phone is less threatening than its nationalist policies, which could prompt other villages to imitate it.
• Scheming and self-interest: Dave and Kakuzu treat business maneuvering as routine, with profit serving as Kakuzu’s chief incentive.
• Comedic family neglect and affection: Dave can manage corporate crises but forgets to pick up his daughter, then overreacts to the boy accompanying her.
• Dedication and social expectations: Fugaku’s persistence in joining a girls’ dance class challenges assumptions about what boys should do, while his skill makes the situation even more amusing.

Plot points and events

• Mikoto returns home late after causing a village-wide commotion. Tsukimi, Mito, and Jiaoyue had been preparing to search for her.
• At home, Hashirama, Tobirama, Dave, and Daiyue are all kneeling as punishment for separate disasters: Hashirama fought Madara and wrecked the area around an Internet café; Tobirama blew up Hokage Rock; and Daiyue’s delivery of Jiraiya’s Valentine’s gift to Tsunade sparked a chase through the village because the gift box contained underwear.
• In Kumogakure, Kakuzu breaks into the Raikage’s office to sell him the manufacturing process for Konoha’s Love Kidney phone. The Raikage initially attacks him over an old Akatsuki scandal involving the “Water God Gun,” but Kakuzu threatens to grenade the village and insists he has come to do business.
• Kakuzu introduces Orochimaru, who demonstrates that the phone and its production plans are genuine. The Raikage agrees to buy them, though he is outraged by the price. Kakuzu leaves with two billion, and Kumogakure announces it will compete with Love Kidney.

Character developments and interactions

• The four kneeling family members reveal their individual mishaps, trading explanations with Dave and each other; Daiyue particularly resents Jiraiya for the disastrous gift.
• The Raikage is furious and suspicious, but his desire to obtain the phone technology eventually outweighs his anger. Kakuzu uses intimidation and negotiation, while Orochimaru supplies the proof that closes the deal.
• Orochimaru seems uncomfortable with Kakuzu’s pricing tactics and quickly departs after the Raikage protests the cost.

Significant themes

• Absurd comedy and escalating mishaps: Everyday misunderstandings and experiments cause outsized destruction and chaos.
• Business through coercion: Kakuzu’s “friendly” deal depends on a threat, exposing the farcical overlap between commerce and force.
• Rivalry and ambition: Kumogakure’s purchase is framed as a bid to challenge Konoha’s phone company.

Plot points and events

• Kakuzu reveals that Kumogakure’s locally manufactured phones still secretly run Konoha’s operating system, ensuring that phone-related profits flow back to Konoha while Kumogakure receives only a small share. Orochimaru is unnerved by Kakuzu’s ruthlessness and calls him a “no good person.”
• Hashirama announces that he will reassert his authority as a husband, but Dave later finds him kneeling by the pond after apparently failing. Mito tells him he can get up once the fish fall asleep.
• Dave also finds Tobirama kneeling beside Jiaoyue’s doghouse. Tobirama blames a book by “Your White-Haired Lover” for leading him and Hashirama astray. The chapter jokes about the Senju family’s power hierarchy, which places even a stray dog and pond fish above the two men.
• Dave reads the book and discovers it is full of chauvinistic complaints about women and violence. He calls Jiraiya, learns that the author has been hospitalized with severe injuries, and visits him.
• Jiraiya insists on continuing his writing as a protest against women’s violence and a call to restore men’s “glory.” Kagami, hospitalized in the next bed, supports him. Dave orders Jiraiya to stop, warning that his writing is disrupting public order, and reprimands Kagami for backing a suspected criminal.

Character developments and interactions

• Kakuzu is shown as calmly calculating and willing to deceive a rival village for profit; Orochimaru’s fearful reaction provides the chapter’s comic judgment of his character.
• Hashirama and Tobirama are reduced to absurdly low standing within their households, while Mito and the women retain authority.
• Dave acts as a practical mediator: he delivers food, checks on his relatives, and intervenes when Jiraiya’s writing causes trouble.
• Jiraiya is passionately committed to his writing despite its consequences, and Kagami becomes his enthusiastic ally, prompting Dave’s rebuke.

Significant themes

• Satire of power and authority: Kakuzu’s business scheme and the Senju household hierarchy both mock conventional ideas of control.
• Gender politics as comedy: The chapter ridicules male chauvinism through Hashirama and Tobirama’s humiliations and Jiraiya’s overheated manifesto.
• Profit and manipulation: Kakuzu’s phone scheme highlights how technology and business arrangements can conceal who truly benefits.
• Public consequences of expression: Dave frames Jiraiya’s writing not merely as personal venting but as something that can affect social order.

Plot points and events

• Dave convinces Jiraiya to stop writing the sort of books that got him into trouble, but not to give up writing altogether. After paying Jiraiya’s overdue hospital bills, Dave helps him brainstorm new provocative book titles.
• Kagami catches Dave and Jiraiya discussing the books. Though he threatens them as the Military Police director, he ultimately allows Jiraiya to write—provided he does not sell the books in Konoha and lets Kagami review the first copy.
• Meanwhile, Kakuzu infiltrates Sunagakure’s Kazekage office to propose business. The Kazekage traps him with sand, but Kakuzu escapes by tearing his trousers, revealing his rabbit-embroidered underwear.
• The Kazekage mocks Kakuzu’s underwear, and the two begin fighting. Chiyo arrives, mistakes Kakuzu for a woman in an unusual outfit, and assumes she has interrupted a private encounter with the Kazekage. She tactfully leaves, offering awkward advice about their “adventurous tastes” and the stocking on Kakuzu’s head.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave shows concern for Jiraiya by covering his bills and guiding his writing, while keeping his involvement secret.
• Jiraiya is grateful for Dave’s help and eager to pursue the new ideas, though his enthusiasm alarms Kagami.
• Kagami balances his authority with friendship: he restricts Jiraiya’s publishing rather than shutting it down entirely.
• Kakuzu and the Kazekage move quickly from a failed business meeting to a fight, sparked by Kakuzu’s unexpected underwear.
• Chiyo acts cautiously and politely, but her mistaken assumptions leave the Kazekage bewildered and embarrassed.

Significant themes

• Comedy built on misunderstanding, especially Chiyo’s misreading of the fight and Kakuzu’s clothing.
• Friendship and practical support, shown through Dave’s help for Jiraiya.
• Authority tempered by compromise: Kagami imposes limits rather than forbidding Jiraiya’s writing outright.

Key plot points and events

• After securing a lucrative deal with Sunagakure, Kakuzu returns to Konoha with three billion.
• Jiraiya rushes into Orochimaru’s lab, excited because Tsunade invited him to a movie. Orochimaru explains that Tsunade offered him a ticket too—one Shukaku had effectively won her—so the invitation is no proof of romantic interest. Jiraiya refuses to accept this and insists she is using Orochimaru to learn about him. Orochimaru has a snake throw him out.
• Jiraiya dresses up for his date, but greets Tsunade with an awkward, overly theatrical embrace and attempted kiss. She responds by beating him into the air. His excuse—that he copied a romantic move praised by Tsukimi—only provokes her further when he insults her by comparing her to a man.
• At the theater, Tsunade discovers Jiraiya has come in his boxers, complete with a hole, because he forgot to change and had been walking in the dark.
• Hashirama appears in boxers too, claiming he and Jiraiya are following the latest fashion. Madara explains that Mito kicked Hashirama out.
• At the theater’s opening, Kakuzu—working as cashier and ticket seller—demands payment even from Hashirama, despite his status as the First Hokage and a star of the movie. Madara pays for both tickets. Kakuzu then realizes Hashirama’s apparent “furry pants” are actually his exposed, hairy legs beneath the boxers, and tactfully lets him inside.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiraiya is exuberant and hopeful about Tsunade’s invitation, but his confidence and romantic fantasies repeatedly collapse into slapstick humiliation. He tries to impress her, then scrambles to save face over his underwear.
• Tsunade remains blunt and physically forceful, but she does accept the movie outing and restrains herself from seriously harming Jiraiya. Their exchanges combine familiarity, teasing, and irritation.
• Orochimaru acts as the practical voice of reason, recognizing that Tsunade’s invitation has an ordinary explanation. His patience with Jiraiya quickly runs out.
• Hashirama is cheerful and oblivious, treating his boxers as fashionable attire and expecting recognition for his movie role.
• Madara is dry and pragmatic: he supplies the ticket money and matter-of-factly explains Hashirama’s predicament.
• Kakuzu is unfazed by rank or reputation, enforcing the theater’s ticket policy and prioritizing payment.

Significant themes

• Romantic delusion versus reality: Jiraiya reads too much into Tsunade’s invitation and repeatedly misjudges what will impress her.
• Comic humiliation and irony: Jiraiya’s attempt to look charming—and his claim to be fashion-forward—are undermined by his forgotten boxers; Hashirama makes the same mistake.
• Money and practical rules: Kakuzu’s businesslike insistence on ticket fees contrasts with Hashirama’s fame and status.
• Familiarity expressed through teasing: The violence and insults between Jiraiya and Tsunade are presented as part of their comedic, long-standing rapport.

Key plot points and events

• Dave, Tsukimi, and the others attend a movie. Dave reveals that Daiyue and Mikoto are at home with Tobirama and Izuna, then grows uneasy when he realizes Tobirama may be left unsupervised with Daiyue.
• At the Senju Compound, Tobirama takes Daiyue to test his new “Mutually Multiplying Grenades,” secretly built in Hokage Rock. Izuna is left to cook for Mikoto, who politely asks for fried eggs.
• The movie retells a romantic, tragic version of the Uchiha–Senju feud. Madara enters a Senju banquet intending to see Mito, but falls in love with Hashirama instead. After a chain of duels, deaths, and exile, the lovers reunite and elope—but both die in the ending.
• The film moves the audience to tears and inspires several couples to kiss or cuddle. Jiraiya tries to share a romantic moment with Tsunade, but she is picking her nose and bluntly asks what he is staring at.
• As the theatergoers leave, a series of explosions erupts from Hokage Rock and the Senju Compound, strongly suggesting Tobirama’s experiment has gone disastrously wrong.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave’s confidence about leaving the children with Tobirama quickly gives way to worry, especially when Madara points out the danger.
• Tobirama’s enthusiasm for forbidden inventions draws Daiyue into another risky escapade; Izuna, though helpless to stop it, stays behind to care for Mikoto.
• Madara and Hashirama’s theatrical counterparts turn a story of clan hatred into one of love and sacrifice. In the audience, Hashirama rests on Madara’s shoulder, though Madara is asleep and unaware.
• Jiraiya longs for romance with Tsunade, but her unromantic behavior leaves him exasperated.

Significant themes

• Love amid conflict: The film transforms the Uchiha–Senju feud into a romance that crosses clan boundaries.
• Tragic devotion: The lovers’ deaths frame love as powerful but costly.
• Romantic idealism versus reality: The movie’s sentimentality contrasts with Tsunade’s bluntness and the audience’s comic reactions.
• Recklessness and comic consequences: Tobirama’s secret experiments—and Dave’s misplaced reassurance—set up the closing explosions.

Summary

The chapter follows two absurd accidents caused by characters taking ordinary or experimental activities to extremes, then shifts to a comic confrontation at the Military Police Force.

• Izuna destroys the compound while trying to cook. Hoping to make Mikoto a fried egg, Izuna repeatedly rejects eggs that spread in the pan. He blames the heat and unleashes Fire Release, then decides the kitchen itself is the problem and activates Susanoo. The house is destroyed—but he proudly presents Mikoto with an egg he believes is perfectly cooked. Mikoto is left speechless.
• Tobirama and Daiyue’s experiment damages Hokage Rock. In Tobirama’s supposedly secure laboratory inside the monument, Daiyue suggests combining Mutually Multiplying Grenades with explosive tags. Their new technique triggers a blast that knocks a huge piece of Hokage Rock onto the ground, damaging Hashirama’s statue. Tobirama and Daiyue flee, while Hashirama mourns the damage. Days later, Tobirama uses shadow clones to repair the statue, and Madara pays Hashirama five million in compensation for the destruction of the Senju compound.
• Izuna and Hiruzen face detention. Izuna is released after five days in custody; his sentence had been shortened after Madara beat up the clan elders who demanded punishment. Hiruzen, meanwhile, tries to bargain his way out of a fifteen-day sentence for repeatedly getting caught in anti-pornography raids. Kagami insists he is an honest and impartial director, but Hiruzen threatens to reveal Kagami’s Bathhouse visits to his wife. Kagami immediately becomes cooperative, and Hiruzen presses his advantage by asking to go home.

Character developments and interactions

• Izuna is comically perfectionistic and reckless: his desire to cook a flawless egg escalates into destroying a home. His earnest pride in the result contrasts with Mikoto’s stunned reaction.
• Mikoto acts as a bemused witness to Izuna’s escalating antics.
• Tobirama and Daiyue share an inventive, enthusiastic partnership, but their confidence in dangerous experiments proves misplaced. Tobirama’s quick escape also shows his instinct to evade the consequences.
• Hashirama is both the victim of the explosion and the self-important owner of the damaged statue; he insists its reconstruction be imposing and detailed.
• Madara pays for the damage and condemns Izuna’s egg-frying fiasco as disgraceful to the Uchiha.
• Kagami and Hiruzen engage in a comic power struggle: Kagami invokes duty and integrity, while Hiruzen uses embarrassing personal information to overcome his resistance.

Significant themes

The chapter uses comic escalation to turn mundane tasks and clever inventions into disasters. It also pokes fun at overconfidence, bureaucratic authority, and hypocrisy: characters proclaim safety or integrity even as their actions undermine those claims. Beneath the jokes, the characters’ family and clan ties shape the fallout, from Mikoto’s concern to Madara’s intervention and Hashirama’s compensation.

Key plot points and events

• Hanzō declares the Second Shinobi World War in Konoha Year 30, seven years earlier than expected, saying Amegakure is too small to meet its ambitions.
• Konoha learns it faces Amegakure and Sunagakure. Iwagakure had considered fighting Konoha but is drawn into conflict with Kumogakure instead.
• Danzo eagerly assigns Dave full authority over Konoha’s response. Dave organizes two campaigns:
  • Sakumo, Kimima, and Might Duy lead 2,000 shinobi against Sunagakure, with Sakumo in command.
  • Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya lead 1,000 against Amegakure, under Orochimaru’s command.
• Dave offers overwhelming reinforcements if the Kazekage appears, but Sakumo asks to let their team gain experience. Dave agrees to keep the strongest fighters out unless needed.
• Dave arranges wartime supplies through Jijibo, who promises to mobilize his delivery network.
• Dave visits the elderly Might Wei and Aunt Cai. Wei still trains despite old injuries, while Dave urges him to rest and enjoy the prospect of becoming a grandfather.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave takes charge of Konoha’s war effort, balancing military readiness with restraint. He shows concern for the younger fighters and affection for aging friends.
• Sakumo accepts command of the Sunagakure mission and reveals that his wife is pregnant, but puts the village’s safety first.
• Might Duy is eager to go to war, while Kimima celebrates the chance to fight alongside old comrades.
• Orochimaru is especially eager to test his latest experiments in battle; he, Tsunade, and Jiraiya are excited to see action after years of routine missions.
• Jijibo remains loyal and energetic despite his age, planning to pass his delivery business to his grandson Yahiko.
• Might Wei insists on training so he can teach his future grandson, provoking Aunt Cai’s sharp rebuke. Dave’s visit highlights the warmth and humor among the older generation.

Significant themes

• War and ambition: Hanzō’s declaration shows how smaller villages’ ambitions can ignite conflict across the shinobi world.
• Duty versus personal life: Sakumo leaves his pregnant wife to serve Konoha, while Dave worries about the costs of war and age.
• Experience and restraint: The younger shinobi want to prove themselves, so Dave holds back powerful reinforcements unless the situation demands them.
• Aging, legacy, and family: Jijibo and Wei confront the passage of time while thinking about what they will pass on to the next generation.

Plot points and events

• In Kirigakure, the Third Mizukage asks his designated successor, Yagura, what the village should do in the war. Yagura proposes ambushing Konoha’s supply routes rather than fighting its powerful forces head-on. The attacks are meant to intimidate Konoha, not kill its personnel.
• Yagura receives intelligence from a planted informant and sends the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to intercept a supply convoy. He then leaves, saying he intends to take revenge on Konoha.
• Away from the group, Yagura excitedly reunites with Dave, who reveals the larger plan: Yagura will become Fourth Mizukage, while covertly remaining aligned with Konoha. Dave says the hidden goal is to form friendly ties between the villages, though Yagura wonders whether he must stay in Kirigakure permanently.
• Several other former orphans—Pakura, Rasa, Karura, Shū, and Yugito—arrive to congratulate Yagura. Dave reflects that his gathered orphans have risen to senior positions across the great villages, whose leaders do not realize they are connected to Konoha.
• Meanwhile, the Seven Swordsmen confront the convoy. Their attempt to look intimidating turns comic when six expose tattoos but Ringo keeps her clothes on.

Character developments and interactions

• Yagura appears cool and commanding in public, earning the Third Mizukage’s trust and support. In private, he is warm and enthusiastic with Dave, while his desire for revenge conflicts with the broader undercover mission.
• The Third Mizukage accepts Yagura as his successor and is impressed by his tactical proposal, though the eccentric group’s mannerisms leave him uneasy.
• Dave acts as mentor and coordinator, keeping former orphans embedded in rival villages and encouraging Yagura to serve Kirigakure.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen show loyalty to Yagura and tease one another with mock-profound sayings. Juzo stops them from following Yagura, respecting his need to pursue revenge alone.
• The reunion among the former orphans is affectionate and celebratory, emphasizing their shared history and covert ties.

Significant themes

• Undercover allegiance and divided loyalties: Senior figures in enemy villages secretly remain connected to Konoha.
• Revenge versus duty: Yagura’s personal anger motivates him, while Dave reminds him that Kirigakure is now also his home and responsibility.
• Power through strategy: Rather than challenge Konoha directly, Yagura uses supply-line raids and psychological pressure.
• Comedy amid political tension: The Swordsmen’s grandstanding and the awkward tattoo reveal undercut the chapter’s military seriousness.

Key plot points and events

• On the Sunagakure battlefield, Sakumo assigns Kimima to disrupt an enemy supply route. Distracted by Kakuzu’s advice on postwar negotiations, Kimima is sent off with a squad.
• Kimima’s team sets an ambush using landmines, AK-47s, and a Hyuga sniper. The enemy force is quickly defeated, including its escaping veteran leader, and Kimima reports a complete victory.
• On the Amegakure battlefield, Orochimaru briefs Hiashi and Hizashi: they are to snipe enemy elites and target the retreating or demoralized troops.
• Jiraiya protests when he learns that he, Orochimaru, and Tsunade must face a thousand enemies. Tsunade and Orochimaru are confident; Jiraiya tries to steel himself.
• As the enemy charges, the Hyuga brothers kill its leading officer with sniper fire. Orochimaru summons grenade-carrying snakes, while Tsunade summons a huge mechanical slug equipped with a Gatling gun and lasers.
• Jiraiya has barely finished his summoning seals when he realizes the battle may be over before he can enter Sage Mode. He tells Fukasaku and Shima they need not prepare.

Character developments and interactions

• Kimima is capable and tactical, though easily sidetracked; he uses intelligence, traps, and coordinated fire to win quickly.
• Sakumo directs the campaign pragmatically, while Might Duy eagerly wants to fight but accepts Sakumo’s decision to hold him back.
• Orochimaru is calm and confident, coordinating the attack and demonstrating powerful, unconventional techniques.
• Tsunade is enthusiastic and competitive, matching Orochimaru’s force with an enormous mechanized summon.
• Jiraiya shifts from alarm to stunned resignation as he sees how dramatically his teammates’ abilities have grown.
• Hiashi and Hizashi act as disciplined, highly effective snipers under Orochimaru’s command.

Significant themes

• Modern weapons and shinobi techniques combined: rifles, mines, grenades, and mechanical equipment transform the battlefield.
• Planning and intelligence over numbers: both engagements show how ambushes, reconnaissance, and coordination can defeat larger forces.
• Powerful allies and comic contrast: Orochimaru and Tsunade’s overwhelming confidence highlights Jiraiya’s nervousness, ending the chapter on a joke about his Sage Mode arriving too late.

Key plot points and events

• Konoha’s battles are broadcast live, and villagers gather in the square to cheer Orochimaru, Tsunade, and the Hyuga twins, Hizashi and Hiashi, for their effectiveness.
• Danzo and Dave discuss Orochimaru as a possible future leader. Dave thinks he could be suitable, though still young; Danzo decides to remain in his role for a few more years. Hashirama and Madara interrupt, borrow sniper rifles, and set off on a contest to see who can kill more enemies without using chakra. Madara summons a Lamborghini; Hashirama summons an electric scooter, which runs out of charge partway through the trip.
• Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen confront a Konoha supply squad. Rather than kill them, Yagura plans to frighten them. The Swordsmen perform a practiced “Flower Hand Dance” while the squad’s leader pretends to panic. One delivery worker ruins the illusion by staying to film them.
• The Swordsmen take the captured supplies back to Kirigakure. The Third Mizukage assumes the haul is strategically valuable, but the boxes turn out to contain condoms. Yagura explains that Konoha shinobi have brought their families to the front, so the supplies might help them cope with a long war. The Mizukage accepts this as evidence of Konoha’s arrogance and praises Yagura.

Character developments and interactions

• Danzo is considering his eventual retirement and appears satisfied with Orochimaru as a potential successor, though he believes Orochimaru needs more time to mature.
• Dave advises Danzo on Orochimaru and supplies weapons to Hashirama and Madara.
• Hashirama and Madara reveal their competitive, playful sides by turning the mission into a sniper contest. Their contrasting vehicles—Madara’s sports car and Hashirama’s slow, uncharged scooter—provide the chapter’s comic setback.
• Yagura shows strategic ingenuity by avoiding a direct fight and using a staged performance to secure supplies. When the act falters, he quickly shifts focus to the mission.
• The Third Mizukage becomes increasingly confident in Yagura’s leadership, praising him even though the captured supplies are not what he expected.
• The Swordsmen follow Yagura’s plan, while their exchange with the delivery worker exposes the gap between their self-confidence and the performance’s actual effect.

Significant themes

• War as spectacle: Battles and military exploits are broadcast for public entertainment.
• Comedy amid conflict: Absurd vehicles, theatrical intimidation, and the unexpected contents of the supply boxes undercut the seriousness of war.
• Strategy and deception: Yagura succeeds through misdirection and exploiting the enemy’s assumptions rather than through violence.
• Leadership and succession: Danzo’s discussion with Dave and the Mizukage’s praise of Yagura both point to questions of who should lead in the future.

Plot and key events

• Frustrated by the lack of combat, Madara asks Orochimaru about enemy activity. Orochimaru explains that Hanzō’s forces have only been sending occasional squads, which the Hyuga brothers, Hiashi and Hizashi, have dealt with.
• Madara sends the brothers away and waits alone in a tree with a sniper rifle for a two-hundred-man enemy force. The squad leader boasts that their earlier attacks were a diversion and that this time they will strike the rear.
• Madara kills the leader and several soldiers from long range with special armor-piercing bullets. As the remaining men creep toward him, he steadily reduces their numbers.
• Noticing that the fight is being broadcast to Konoha, Madara switches to close-quarters combat, using a pistol and dagger to move unseen through the forest. He kills nearly everyone; the frightened squad leader flees, and Madara kills him with a thrown dagger.
• The final survivor crawls away, but Madara fires a bullet into the sky and uses his Rinnegan to send it through a black hole that appears in front of the man, killing him. Madara reports that all two hundred enemies are eliminated.
• Konoha’s villagers cheer Madara’s performance. Meanwhile, Hashirama watches the broadcast on his phone, resents Madara stealing the spotlight, and urges his piglet mount toward Sunagakure—only for the piglet to head into a mud pit.

Character developments and interactions

• Madara is impatient to fight and compete with Hashirama. He proves ruthless, resourceful, and theatrically skilled, adapting his tactics once he realizes he has an audience.
• Hashirama is competitive and eager to outdo Madara, but his hurried journey ends in slapstick mishap. The piglet reacts to his orders with irritation.
• Orochimaru and Tsunade serve as Madara’s exasperated but practical advisers; Tsunade addresses him as “Grandpa Madara.”
• The enemy squad’s confidence collapses into fear as Madara picks them off. Their leader’s bravado gives way to panic and flight.
• Madara’s final look at the camera is aimed at Hashirama, turning the massacre into a public challenge and a show of one-upmanship.

Significant themes

• Competition and pride: Madara and Hashirama measure themselves against each other, even from afar.
• Spectacle and reputation: The broadcast transforms Madara’s battle into entertainment, earning him admiration from Konoha’s crowd.
• Power and intimidation: Madara’s overwhelming skill and unpredictable tactics turn a numerical disadvantage into a one-sided rout.
• Comic contrast: The deadly battlefield drama is undercut by Hashirama’s ridiculous struggle with the piglet.

Key plot points and events

• On the Sunagakure battlefield, Hashirama arrives to help Sakumo, claiming to be an excellent sniper. Sakumo sends him to assist Kimima, then checks with Dave, who tells him to let Hashirama “fool around.”
• Dave arranges help for the Land of Iron against Hanzo by persuading Black Zetsu to go, appealing to the prospect of future business ties. Danzo is left confused by Dave’s unexplained confidence.
• Hashirama persuades Kimima to withdraw his men and let him handle an approaching Sunagakure supply escort of one hundred soldiers. Sakumo later instructs Kimima to hide nearby and observe.
• Hashirama’s attempts to snipe the escort fail spectacularly: his shots hit a branch, then the ground, and his improvised automatic rifle fire misses everyone. The escort’s leader mocks him and orders his men to capture him.
• Hashirama tries to scare them with grenades. One produces a powerful explosion, but the next turns out to be a singing toy—apparently the gift Hashirama bought for Nawaki. The chapter ends with Hashirama realizing he has thrown the wrong item.

Character developments

• Hashirama is eager to prove himself and imitate Madara, but his poor aim and misplaced confidence make him comically inept. His embarrassment turns into panic when the enemy charges.
• Sakumo is baffled by Hashirama’s arrival but pragmatically assigns him a task and follows Dave’s advice to allow him to proceed.
• Kimima initially hesitates to obey Hashirama but withdraws when Sakumo confirms the plan.
• Dave remains casually in control, using persuasion and future commercial prospects to recruit Black Zetsu.
• The Sunagakure commander moves from caution to mockery after realizing Hashirama’s shooting is ineffective, then reacts urgently when he believes Hashirama has a real grenade.

Significant themes

• Competence versus confidence: Hashirama’s bold claims sharply contrast with his inability to hit his targets.
• Comedy through misunderstanding and mishap: The failed shots and toy-grenade reveal turn a dangerous ambush into farce.
• Reputation and comparison: Hashirama measures himself against Madara, whose success makes his own failure more humiliating.
• Pragmatic alliance-building: Dave treats the Land of Iron’s request as an opportunity to strengthen future relations.

Character interactions

• Sakumo directs Hashirama toward Kimima, then checks with Dave about the unexpected situation.
• Hashirama pressures Kimima to let him handle the escort alone; Kimima complies after Sakumo’s message.
• Madara watches Hashirama’s performance remotely and silently judges him, intensifying Hashirama’s desire to prove himself.
• Dave persuades reluctant Black Zetsu to assist the Land of Iron by linking the mission to possible business opportunities.
• Hashirama tries to intimidate the escort, while its leader alternates between suspicion, ridicule, and alarm.

Plot points and events

• During the Second Shinobi World War, Danzo learns that Yuner is pregnant by Daiyue, Dave’s son. He erupts in fury, and Hiruzen and Kagami repeatedly have to restrain him from attacking Dave.
• Danzo tries to confront Dave calmly, but loses his temper again before Dave even understands what has happened. Once Hiruzen explains the pregnancy, Danzo blames Dave for his son’s actions and fights him for three days and nights, leaving Dave badly beaten with a broken leg.
• Hiruzen argues that the young couple should marry before the pregnancy becomes public. Danzo protests that Yuner is only sixteen, while Kagami treats that as a reasonable marrying age—prompting the others to recall his own questionable past.
• The men take Dave to the hospital, where their argument shifts to family and grandchildren. Dave is appalled to be a grandfather at thirty-four, but also pleased that Daiyue’s future troubles may no longer be his responsibility.
• The conversation turns to Hiruzen’s son, Shinnosuke, who is apparently the only young man without a girlfriend. Hiruzen phones him to complain; Shinnosuke is stunned that Yuner and Daiyue are already expecting a child, and feels betrayed that Kagami’s son Shuiwen has found a girlfriend despite their supposed pact to stay single.

Character developments

• Danzo is furious and protective of Yuner, but eventually accepts that the pregnancy has happened and that the families must arrange a marriage.
• Dave moves from confusion and fear to reluctant acceptance—and even some amusement—at becoming a grandfather.
• Hiruzen acts as mediator, trying to contain Danzo and turn the crisis into a practical family arrangement. He also reveals an unexpectedly competitive concern about his son’s romantic status.
• Kagami plays the comic foil, offering blunt observations and laughing at the situation, though the others suggest he is no model of virtue himself.
• Shinnosuke remains focused on fighting and shows little interest in romance, until he hears that his peers have moved on without him.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter uses exaggerated anger and physical comedy to turn an unexpected pregnancy into a family dispute.
• It explores parental responsibility, generational expectations, and the awkward transition from raising children to becoming grandparents.
• Danzo and Dave’s conflict is repeatedly interrupted by Hiruzen and Kagami, whose efforts to restrain or reassure them drive much of the humor.
• The closing phone call extends the family comedy into friendly rivalry, as Hiruzen compares his son unfavorably with the other young men.

Key plot points

• In the hospital, Danzo, Kagami, and Hiruzen confront Daiyue and Yuner after learning Yuner is pregnant. Daiyue agrees to take responsibility, and the family decides to hold their wedding next Sunday, when more relatives will be present.
• Dave, supposedly recovering from his injuries, abruptly bolts from the hospital when he learns Fugaku is involved. Kagami is left to deal with the unpaid medical bill after the others leave.
• That night on Hokage Rock, Daiyue comforts Yuner and promises to stay by her side. They share a romantic moment beneath the moon.
• Fugaku flies past them, repeatedly taking off after landing. Daiyue confidently predicts his father will catch him and send him flying again.
• Yuner suggests naming their expected son Obito, based on a doctor’s prediction that the baby is likely a boy. Daiyue agrees, then calls Tobirama to share the news. After an initial misunderstanding, Tobirama excitedly learns he will be a great-grandfather.

Character developments and interactions

• Daiyue accepts responsibility for the pregnancy and reassures Yuner with affection and steady support. He also shows confidence in his father’s predictable behavior.
• Yuner begins the scene frightened but relaxes with Daiyue’s comfort, laughs, and becomes excited about choosing a name.
• Danzo is stern about the couple’s responsibilities and wedding plans, but his anger at Dave’s escape—and later at the couple’s romance—adds comic frustration.
• Dave shifts from urging patience to erupting in anger when he hears Fugaku’s name, then escapes the hospital despite his injuries.
• Kagami is left behind and mistakenly charged for Dave’s hospital bill, while Hiruzen quietly slips away.
• Tobirama goes from confusion to delighted excitement when Daiyue announces the coming baby.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and family: Daiyue embraces fatherhood and marriage, echoing the lessons he learned from his own father.
• Love and reassurance: The moonlit scene emphasizes the couple’s affection and Yuner’s need for security.
• Generational joy: The pregnancy news brings the extended family into the couple’s future, especially through Tobirama’s reaction.
• Comedy amid major life events: The chapter balances romance and family milestones with exaggerated anger, misunderstandings, and Fugaku’s absurd repeated flights.

Key plot points and events

• At a meeting in the Hokage Building, Danzo reports that Hanzō has been driven back from the Land of Iron and may now turn his attention toward Konoha. Dave, Kagami, and Hiruzen believe Orochimaru’s forces can handle the threat.
• Sunagakure has been stockpiling supplies without launching a major offensive. Dave suspects it is preparing for a large-scale attack, and Kagami and Hiruzen agree.
• Dave uses phone-location data displayed on a satellite map to reveal that roughly ten thousand Iwagakure troops are concentrated near Kumogakure. He concludes Ōnoki is trying to bait the hot-tempered Raikage into an ambush. Danzo orders the situation monitored.
• Danzo announces an ANBU Special Forces program: squads of five specialists, annual selection of one hundred recruits, better benefits, and an initial training class led by Sakumo. Hiruzen angrily objects to being assigned as instructor, then learns Sakumo will take the role instead.
• Danzo proposes evaluating Sakumo by watching his coming fight against Chiyo. The meeting ends, with Dave inviting Danzo for drinks and Danzo telling him to go away.
• At the Senju compound, Tobirama prepares thousands of forbidden-technique scrolls to teach his unborn great-grandchild. Hashirama eventually talks him out of the especially absurd idea of collecting Byakugan techniques in case the child wants to wear a stolen eye.

Character developments and interactions

• Dave contributes strategic analysis and technology-based intelligence, though Danzo often dismisses him until his assessment of Iwa’s trap proves compelling. He is also Sakumo’s boastful mentor.
• Danzo takes a pragmatic, sometimes irritatingly casual approach to wartime planning and organizational reform.
• Hiruzen arrives late because his wife is pregnant, then reacts furiously when Danzo seems to extend his ANBU responsibilities just as he expects to retire.
• Kagami largely supports Dave’s assessments and shares Hiruzen’s confidence in the battlefield commanders.
• Tobirama shows enthusiastic, excessive devotion to shaping his future great-grandchild; Hashirama serves as the voice of reason.
• The chapter also briefly establishes Hiruzen’s new family news and Dave’s joking familiarity with Danzo, whom he calls his in-law.

Significant themes

• Strategic intelligence and uncertainty: Leaders interpret enemy movements and use unconventional data to anticipate battlefield plans.
• Institution-building: The ANBU program emphasizes specialization, training, recruitment, and improved benefits.
• Duty versus retirement: Hiruzen resents being burdened with a major new project late in his career.
• Generational legacy: Tobirama’s plans for his unborn descendant turn the desire to pass on knowledge into comic overreach.
• Humor amid conflict: Banter and exaggeration soften discussions of war, politics, and family expectations.

Key plot points and events

• Sakumo takes on Chiyo, who seeks revenge for her son and grandson. Sakumo initially forgets who her son was, prompting Kimima to remind him that Sakumo accidentally injured him years earlier.
• Kimima and Might Duy handle the rest of the enemy forces. Duy opens the Fourth Gate and charges into battle, while Kimima remarks that he is as reckless as ever.
• Sakumo demonstrates a hybrid combat style combining blades, firearms, a transforming sniper rifle, lightning techniques, and a stimulant injection. Dave presents each capability as a different kind of “soldier”; Hiruzen objects to the injection as doping.
• Chiyo summons increasingly powerful puppet forces, including ten imitations of the legendary Ten Elite Puppets. Sakumo secretly attaches a smart adhesive bomb to one puppet. Its explosion devastates Chiyo’s forces and ends the duel.
• Chiyo orders a retreat. Kimima’s side pursues with cannons, leaving only three of the original five hundred Sunagakure fighters alive.

Character developments

• Sakumo is revealed as a versatile, technologically equipped fighter who can adapt between close combat, sniping, medical self-preservation, ninjutsu, and explosives. He remains composed and faintly amused throughout the fight.
• Chiyo is driven by grief and vengeance, but her confidence gives way to a desperate retreat after Sakumo defeats her puppets and destroys much of her force.
• Might Duy remains impulsive and eager for combat, accepting Kimima’s kill-count challenge before rushing in with the Eight Gates.
• Dave is proud of the new equipment and uses Sakumo’s performance to demonstrate its battlefield value.
• Hiruzen moves from skepticism about the unusual tactics to excitement at the prospect of equipping the ANBU with similar technology.

Character interactions

• Sakumo awkwardly explains his past injury to Chiyo, who rejects the apology and declares her intent to kill him.
• Kimima warns Sakumo about Chiyo’s grievance, then exchanges a competitive challenge with Duy.
• Dave narrates Sakumo’s techniques to Hiruzen, who questions the ethics and practicality of some methods but recognizes their military potential.
• Chiyo’s taunts and attacks are answered by Sakumo’s calm, tactical counters; her failed assault ultimately forces her to order a retreat.

Significant themes

• Technological change in warfare: Modern weapons and equipment reshape combat and offer a major advantage over traditional tactics.
• Adaptability and versatility: Sakumo’s success comes from combining multiple roles and methods rather than relying on one fighting style.
• The cost of vengeance and war: Chiyo’s pursuit of revenge ends in catastrophic losses for her forces.
• Military power and escalation: The chapter celebrates new tools while showing how dramatically they increase the scale of battlefield destruction.

Plot points and events

• Orochimaru tells Jiraiya that they’re returning from the Amegakure battlefield for Daiyue and Yuner’s wedding. Jiraiya is stunned to learn Yuner is pregnant and laments that Daiyue is marrying and becoming a father before him.
• Orochimaru teases Jiraiya about Tsunade, but Jiraiya refuses to pursue her. Orochimaru has already packed Jiraiya’s gear and transports them to the wedding using jet-powered backpacks. Jiraiya launches uncontrollably, but his backpack’s automatic navigation is expected to bring him back.
• At the venue, Kakuzu and Nan Xue register gifts. George offers an elaborate automatic waste collector, while Black Zetsu provides White Zetsu workers to help with chores. Kakuzu finds both gifts unsettling, though Nan Xue reminds him they were given with good intentions.
• The Senju and Uchiha guests bring more conventional presents: baby supplies and money, two houses, and—embarrassingly—a washboard from Hashirama.
• Butsuma and Tajima compete over their contributions. Tajima gives far more money, but Butsuma gets the last word by boasting about his many generations of descendants, leaving Tajima resentful of his unmarried sons.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiraiya’s envy of Daiyue’s marriage and impending fatherhood highlights his loneliness, while his awkwardness around Tsunade remains unchanged. Orochimaru shows practical consideration by packing for him and preparing his flight equipment.
• Tsunade briefly interrupts Orochimaru and Jiraiya, then travels with Orochimaru as Jiraiya flies off.
• Kakuzu takes his duties seriously but is repeatedly baffled by the bizarre gifts. Nan Xue offers a more charitable perspective, and Kakuzu eventually uses Black Zetsu’s simple command to clear away the White Zetsu.
• The older Senju and Uchiha men display contrasting personalities through their gifts and rivalry. Hashirama is modest and sheepish; Madara and Izuna are generous; Butsuma and Tajima turn the occasion into a competition.

Significant themes

• Family and generational change: Daiyue’s marriage and expected child contrast with Jiraiya’s lack of a partner and Tajima’s worry that his sons have no children.
• Generosity and good intentions: The guests’ gifts range from practical to absurd, but even the strangest are offered sincerely.
• Humor through contrast: Futuristic travel, unconventional presents, and the elders’ petty rivalry create a comic contrast with the formal occasion of a wedding.

Plot points and events

• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru arrive at Daiyue and Yuner’s wedding. Tsunade gives the unborn child gold-and-diamond dice, while Jiraiya presents an autographed collector’s edition of his own novel. Tsunade kicks Jiraiya into the venue after hearing what his “gift” is.
• Orochimaru says his gift will be ready during the ceremony.
• Hashirama presses Tsunade about finding a partner and suggests Orochimaru or Jiraiya. Tsunade rejects both suggestions and tells him to stop meddling.
• At the wedding, Dave cheerfully tries to get Danzo to drink with him. Hiruzen reminds Danzo that he can get even when Mikoto marries; Danzo’s mood improves.
• In Amegakure, Hanzō learns that Konoha’s leaders have left their camp. He sends 1,500 troops to attack, while choosing not to lead them himself.
• Orochimaru anticipated the attack. After Hiashi confirms the enemy’s movement and retreats with the Konoha force, Orochimaru has Mizuhime activate a device. A flaming object streaks toward the Amegakure troops, and an explosion fills the sky with a wedding message signed by Orochimaru.

Character developments and interactions

• Tsunade is generous but irreverent, and remains uninterested in the romantic prospects Hashirama proposes.
• Jiraiya’s attempt at a heartfelt wedding gift instead showcases his vanity and earns him Tsunade’s anger.
• Orochimaru appears calm and strategic: he uses the wedding gift to answer a military threat he had already anticipated.
• Hashirama’s affection for Tsunade comes with persistent matchmaking and hopes for a great-grandchild.
• Dave’s relentless friendliness irritates Danzo, whose resentment turns into amusement once Hiruzen suggests future payback.

Significant themes

• Humor and family: The wedding brings out affectionate teasing, awkward gifts, and generational meddling.
• Planning and power: Orochimaru turns an enemy’s opportunistic attack into a dramatic demonstration of preparation and technological force.
• Love and legacy: Hashirama’s concern about Tsunade’s future reflects the family’s interest in marriage, children, and the next generation.

Plot points and events

• After the wedding, Danzo jokes with Dave, then drags him off toward the Valley of the End for a private “chat.”
• The next day, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya receive a challenge from Hanzō: the three of them must fight him near Amegakure. Victory could effectively end the war. Jiraiya is eager, while Orochimaru mocks his reliance on summoned toads.
• Danzo assigns Dave responsibility for the approaching Kirigakure conflict. Dave avoids fighting by handing the entire operation to Kagami and the Uchiha Marine Corps.
• In Kirigakure, Yagura sends Juzo Biwa to Konoha with a peace-and-friendship agreement. He favors relations with Konoha for the village’s development, despite the Third Mizukage’s hostility toward it, and keeps the plan from him.
• Madara, eager to leave home, declares himself admiral of the Uchiha Marine Corps and prepares to join the naval battle. Hashirama asks to come along, claiming the title “Senju Water Demon.” Kagami explains that they have a fleet and will fight on the sea’s surface, not swim in the water. Madara and Hashirama bicker over who misunderstood the plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Danzo and Dave: Their joking, forceful relationship continues; Danzo exploits Dave’s reluctance to assign him the Kirigakure campaign, while Dave redirects it to Kagami.
• Kagami: Takes command of the Uchiha forces despite his exasperation with the senior leaders’ antics.
• Yagura: Shows himself to be pragmatic and focused on Kirigakure’s future, even while withholding his diplomatic strategy from the Third Mizukage.
• Madara and Hashirama: Both eagerly seek adventure, but their grand military personas clash comically with the practical reality of naval warfare.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya: Their rivalry surfaces again as they prepare for Hanzō’s challenge.

Significant themes

• Political pragmatism: Yagura prioritizes beneficial relations over old grudges.
• Duty versus personal motives: Leaders frame their actions as service, while Dave and Madara are also driven by avoidance or boredom.
• Comedy amid conflict: Serious military decisions are repeatedly undercut by teasing, bravado, and misunderstandings.