Chapter Summaries

Kenichi Amamiya continued his Sharingan experiments in the Land of Snow and considered developing Uchiha Hikari’s Yachihoko marks into a communications network. Nagato summoned Akatsuki to announce Shin Uchiha’s membership and a new requirement for members to take war missions, leaving Kenichi Amamiya’s attempt to buy an exemption rejected.

• Kenichi Amamiya calculated that awakening the implanted ninjas’ Sharingan would take roughly a week and left his Shadow Clones to continue the experiments.
• Uchiha Hikari gave Kenichi Amamiya another handmade pair of gloves and offered to replenish his Chakra, prompting him to consider using her Yachihoko marks to develop a network.
• Kenichi Amamiya felt his Gyokunyo ring warm and joined Nagato and the other Akatsuki members in the space of Thought Waves.
• Nagato announced that Shin Uchiha had officially joined Akatsuki, and Orochimaru challenged Obito after he revealed that he had introduced Shin.
• Nagato ordered Akatsuki members to accept war mercenary missions unless they had completed one or paid ten billion ryo, and he rejected Kenichi Amamiya’s request for a discount.

Kenichi learned that Obito had brought Shin Uchiha into the Akatsuki and was targeting him, then decided to continue building strength in the Land of Snow while developing rocket weapons. He began sketching a simple rocket launcher and gathering materials for explosives.

• Nagato allowed Orochimaru and Shin Uchiha to settle their dispute privately as long as it did not hinder the Akatsuki, and offered a reward for the member who completed the most missions.
• Kenichi suspected Obito had recruited Shin Uchiha, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and intended to use him against Kenichi.
• Kenichi resolved to convert the ninjas in the Land of Snow to his cause before confronting his enemies, then took Uchiha Hikari to eat and sent her back to study with Uchiha Shiori.
• Kenichi began designing a simple, durable rocket launcher and considered using Chakra to increase the power of its rockets and explosives.
• Kenichi gave Kazahana Koyuki a list of materials for making trinitrotoluene, and she reported that the Land of Snow could supply them, though one material was scarce.
• Kenichi ordered Koyuki to bring him the available materials and obtain or mine more of the scarce material.

Kenichi Amamiya made TNT and experimented with fusing it with Chakra, discovering that Magnesium slowed Chakra dissipation while unstable batches eventually exploded. After the blasts caused chaos at Kazahana Koyuki's estate, he arranged for Uchiha Shiori to train Hikari, who had already mastered everything she could teach.

• Kazahana Koyuki gathered Kenichi Amamiya's materials and took his blueprint to find a skilled blacksmith, while Kenichi returned to his laboratory to make TNT.
• Kenichi tested a TNT charge near the Capital City of the Land of Snow, then began experimenting with Fire Release Chakra and found that excessive Chakra caused an explosion.
• Kenichi found that Chakra quickly dissipated from TNT, but adding Magnesium greatly slowed the process across different Chakra natures.
• Several unstable TNT Chakra Explosives detonated at Kazahana Koyuki's Daimyo's Estate, and Hikari extinguished the resulting fire before Kenichi recorded the explosions' timings.
• Hikari brought Kenichi another pair of gloves, and he asked Uchiha Shiori to teach her basic ninja knowledge.
• Uchiha Shiori told Kenichi that Hikari had already learned everything she could teach, leaving him to consider who could train her next.

Kenichi Amamiya began teaching Uchiha Hikari through a Shadow Clone while developing a Katyusha Rocket Launcher for the Land of Snow. After reviewing successful Uchiha gene experiments, he considered how bloodline might determine whether someone could awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Kenichi Amamiya created a Shadow Clone to teach Uchiha Hikari ninja skills and returned to his laboratory, keeping her away from the dangers of Sage Mode training.
• Kenichi Amamiya planned a Katyusha Rocket Launcher using chemical propellant and calculated trajectories, while noting that accurate guidance against moving ninjas remained a challenge.
• Kazahana Koyuki agreed to provide materials for Kenichi Amamiya's propellant experiments.
• Kenichi Amamiya reviewed successful experiments that implanted Uchiha genes from Obito, Shisui, and Itachi into ninjas, but he avoided using Sasuke's genes because he feared attracting the Sage of Six Paths' attention.
• Kenichi Amamiya planned to continue the experiments until Land of Snow's ninjas awakened stronger Sharingan, then use the data to pursue his own Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kenichi Amamiya concluded that Indra's reincarnations might possess the bloodline needed to awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Kenichi Amamiya theorized about the genes needed to awaken the Mangekyo and began experimenting with rocket propellant after Kazahana Koyuki brought him a scroll. Meanwhile, Nagato sensed an intruder in Amegakure and sent Pain and Konan to investigate, where they found Jiraiya.

• Kenichi Amamiya reasoned that his own genes might include Asura's and Uchiha genes, and considered seeking relics from the Sage of Six Paths or the Ōtsutsuki to advance his eyes.
• Kazahana Koyuki brought Kenichi Amamiya a scroll while dressed provocatively, and he returned to his laboratory to test rocket propellant ratios.
• Nagato told Konan that he distrusted Orochimaru but believed his Sage Eyes could keep Akatsuki's plan safe.
• Nagato detected an outsider with the Rain Tiger at Will Technique and sent Deva Path Pain and Konan to confront the intruder.
• Jiraiya noticed the chakra in Amegakure's rain and wondered whether Akatsuki was watching him as Nagato and Konan recognized him.

Kenichi Amamiya tested a Chakra-infused rocket bomb, measured its range and power, and built a six-by-six rocket launcher array. Nagato assigned him a mission to attack Sunagakure, giving him a chance to test the cluster strike, while Kenichi renewed his argument that villages and countries had to be erased to end war.

• Kenichi Amamiya fired a rocket bomb toward distant woods, then inspected its crater and recorded its 9,348-meter range and 425-meter-per-second speed.
• Kenichi Amamiya reviewed his Chakra-fusion experiments and identified Wind, Fire, and Lightning as the strongest attributes for improving the rocket bomb's explosive power.
• Kenichi Amamiya built a simple six-by-six artillery array and prepared to test its firing speed, intervals, and accuracy.
• Nagato told Kenichi Amamiya that Iwagakure had commissioned him to attack Sunagakure and cause destruction for a reward of one hundred million ryō.
• Kenichi Amamiya accepted the mission as an opportunity to test the rocket launchers, then urged Nagato to erase villages and countries to prevent war from returning.

Kenichi Amamiya prepared to travel toward Sunagakure while Nagato and Konan monitored Jiraiya’s presence in Amegakure. Jiraiya’s clash with Orochimaru disrupted the village, and the chapter ended when Uchiha Hikari summoned her enormous Ninja Cat, Boss Cat, aboard the airship.

• Kenichi Amamiya decided to take Uchiha Hikari on a trip toward Sunagakure and considered bringing Sasori along.
• Nagato and Konan chose not to intervene when Orochimaru attacked Jiraiya in Amegakure, fearing they would expose Akatsuki’s true base.
• Jiraiya led Orochimaru away from the village as the two Sannin fought, and Nagato hoped he would not have to oppose his former teacher.
• Uchiha Hikari gave Kenichi Amamiya another pair of gloves and explained that she was knitting with Ninja Cat fur.
• Uchiha Hikari summoned Boss Cat, whose immense size made the airship sink slightly.

Kenichi Amamiya introduced Uchiha Hikari to Boss Cat, who recognized Kenichi's Sage Mode and apologized for questioning his strength. After landing in the Land of Rice Fields, Kenichi recruited Sasori for the mission against Sunagakure and learned about Sasori's new automated puppet technology.

• Kenichi met Hikari's enormous Summoning Beast, Boss Cat, aboard his airship.
• Boss Cat recognized Kenichi's Sage Mode and explained that it had once witnessed Hashirama Senju fight Madara Uchiha, then apologized for its earlier doubts about him.
• Kenichi reassured Hikari and learned that she had formed a contract with Boss Cat after studying Summoning Jutsu with Uchiha Shiori.
• After landing in the Land of Rice Fields, Kenichi invited Sasori to join the mission against Sunagakure, and Sasori agreed so he could test his research and take revenge on his former village.
• Sasori showed Kenichi a robot controlled by Amado Sanzu's Puppet Automation device and said that Sanzu wanted Kenichi to visit his lab.

Kenichi Amamiya met Amado Sanzu to discuss Akebi’s happiness and Amado’s stalled effort to fully resurrect her. Kenichi promised to bring back a resurrection ninjutsu from Sunagakure and suggested Amado arrange for a ninja to learn it.

• Kenichi Amamiya found Amado Sanzu helping Akebi become more human while Deidara caused an explosion nearby.
• Kenichi arranged for Uchiha Hikari and Akebi to walk together, and Amado was moved by seeing his daughter genuinely happy.
• Kenichi and Amado discussed the limits of Impure World Reincarnation and other resurrection techniques that demanded a life in exchange.
• Kenichi suggested transferring Akebi’s soul into a pure clone, but Amado said his experiments had shown her soul could not inhabit a clone body.
• Kenichi promised to bring Amado a resurrection ninjutsu after his mission to Sunagakure, and Amado pledged to remember the favor.

Kenichi Amamiya tested his new rockets by launching a devastating attack on Sunagakure, whose defenses and buildings were destroyed. The chapter ended with Rasa and Chiyo witnessing the destruction while Kenichi watched from a distance.

• Kenichi Amamiya traveled toward Sunagakure with Uchiha Hikari, Sasori, and Deidara, intending to test his new weapon.
• Kenichi Amamiya landed outside the village and assembled two launch matrices loaded with seventy-two rockets.
• Kenichi Amamiya fired the rockets at Sunagakure, and Deidara recognized that he was testing a long-range explosive attack.
• Rasa rushed outside after hearing that the village was under attack, but the rockets shattered Sunagakure's Defense Barrier and devastated the village.
• Chiyo left her grief-stricken seclusion and saw the burning homes as Rasa vowed to protect Sunagakure.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched a massive black wall rise around Sunagakure and praised Rasa.

Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori encountered Chiyo and a Sunagakure squad after attacking the village, then fled to a cemetery and used Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation to raise the dead. The revived dead attacked Chiyo’s group, allowing Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori to escape.

• Kenichi Amamiya discussed the future of warfare with Deidara and Sasori as they left the wounded Sunagakure behind.
• Sasori sensed pursuers, and Kenichi Amamiya hid Uchiha Hikari and Deidara before facing Chiyo and Sunagakure ninjas.
• Chiyo accused Kenichi Amamiya of attacking Sunagakure and attacked with her puppets while the squad joined the fight.
• Kenichi Amamiya grabbed Sasori and fled toward a cemetery, pursued by Chiyo and the Sunagakure ninjas.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation to raise the cemetery’s dead, who attacked Chiyo’s group as he and Sasori escaped.

Kenichi Amamiya left Sunagakure after testing his resurrection technique and decided to seek the village’s records of One’s Own Life Reincarnation. He recruited Deidara and Sasori to help stage a diversion, but their preparations ended with Uchiha Hikari accidentally detonating Deidara’s bomb.

• Kenichi Amamiya left Sunagakure with Sasori after observing the Sunagakure ninja struggle against the Resurrected Dead, and he considered whether human souls could improve his resurrection technique.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided not to pressure Sasori for Chiyo’s One’s Own Life Reincarnation and realized Sunagakure likely kept records of the forbidden jutsu in its Kazekage Building.
• Kenichi Amamiya planned to infiltrate Sunagakure using a diversion and asked Deidara to use a remote-controlled bomb developed by Amado Sanzu.
• Sasori agreed to help settle matters from his past, while Deidara explained that he could detonate the bomb from about seven hundred meters away.
• Uchiha Hikari poked Deidara’s bomb, causing it to explode and blast a crater into the sand dune.

Kenichi Amamiya sent Sasori, Deidara, and Uchiha Hikari to distract Sunagakure while he infiltrated the Kazekage Building to steal its Forbidden Jutsu Scroll. As Rasa rushed to defend a secret storehouse from a giant iron puppet, Kenichi hurried through the enraged village toward his objective.

• Kenichi assigned Sasori and Deidara to draw Sunagakure's attention while he searched the Kazekage Building for the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll, and he told Uchiha Hikari to accompany them.
• Uchiha Hikari agreed to fight alongside Sasori and Deidara, eager for her first battle since being released from the seal.
• Kazekage Rasa ordered Sunagakure to compensate victims and maintain overnight patrols, then considered which village might have hired Heavenly Demon to attack.
• An explosion struck Sunagakure's secret storehouse, and a huge iron puppet appeared and attacked the Defense Barrier as Rasa rushed to stop it.
• Kenichi headed for the Kazekage Building while Sunagakure's frightened, furious ninja and Civilians rushed toward the attack site.

Kenichi Amamiya infiltrated Sunagakure’s Kazekage Building to retrieve a forbidden resurrection jutsu, but Gaara’s Shukaku and Chiyo obstructed his escape. He reunited with Sasori, Uchiha Hikari, and Deidara after securing the jutsu, while Chiyo was left suspecting that Sasori had been involved.

• Kenichi Amamiya used genjutsu to incapacitate two guards in the Kazekage’s office, but Gaara resisted and Shukaku took control, attacking him.
• Kenichi Amamiya drove Shukaku outside, found the Forbidden Jutsu Scroll, and copied One's Own Life Reincarnation before fleeing as the One-Tail rampaged.
• Kenichi Amamiya sent the agreed retreat signal, and Rasa chose to deal with Shukaku rather than pursue him.
• Chiyo confronted Kenichi Amamiya with her ten puppets, but he mentioned Sasori of the Red Sands and slipped away without attacking her.
• Chiyo found a small bottle left behind and returned to Sunagakure with suspicions about Sasori.
• Kenichi Amamiya copied the jutsu onto a scroll and reunited with Sasori, Uchiha Hikari, and Deidara; Sasori showed relief when Kenichi said he had avoided harming Chiyo.

Kenichi Amamiya gained Wood Release and considered using it to accelerate crop cultivation while traveling with Sasori and their companions. A fleeing spy led Sunagakure pursuers to them, and Kenichi recognized the spy as Kabuto Yakushi after asking about Nonō.

• Kenichi Amamiya gained memories of Wood Release and considered using it to shorten crop cultivation cycles and improve food production.
• Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori heard fighting nearby, then watched a spy and Sunagakure ninjas approach their position.
• The Sunagakure Jonin recognized Kenichi Amamiya and Sasori as members of Akatsuki and attacked them in anger over his wife's death.
• Sasori summoned his enormous puppet to fight the Sunagakure ninjas while Kenichi approached the fleeing spy.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected the spy was Kabuto Yakushi, confirmed it by asking about Nonō, and asked whether she was still alive.

Kenichi Amamiya revealed his identity to Kabuto Yakushi, recruited him with the promise of reuniting him with Yakushi Nonō, and sent him back to Konoha to spy on Root. After Kabuto left, Kenichi and Sasori prepared to report to the leader in Amegakure.

• Kenichi Amamiya removed his mask in front of Kabuto Yakushi, who recognized him as the Heavenly Demon and feared he would be killed.
• Kenichi Amamiya offered to bring Yakushi Nonō to Kabuto if he worked for him, and Kabuto agreed.
• Kabuto explained that Sunagakure ninja had pursued him after he gathered intelligence about Kenichi Amamiya's attack on Sunagakure.
• Kenichi Amamiya ordered Kabuto to send the intelligence back and stay in Konoha to gather information, especially about Root, then injected him with harmless glucose solution and let him go.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Sasori he was not worried about Kabuto revealing his identity, and they set off to report to the leader in Amegakure.

Kenichi Amamiya set out with Uchiha Hikari and Sasori to find Nagato while Konoha’s leaders considered reports linking him to Heavenly Demon. Tsunade diagnosed lung tumors in Hiruzen Sarutobi and Asuma and prepared to operate on Hiruzen, while Kenichi’s arrival in Amegakure brought him face-to-face with Obito and Shin Uchiha.

• Kenichi Amamiya called Uchiha Hikari and Sasori aboard his airship to search for Nagato.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Kakashi about Kenichi Amamiya, then Tsunade dismissed Kakashi and showed Hiruzen Asuma’s medical report.
• Tsunade told Hiruzen that he and Asuma had lung tumors and recommended surgical removal; Hiruzen agreed and named Tsunade his successor if he died.
• Kenichi Amamiya arrived over Amegakure with Deidara and Sasori and spotted Obito and Shin Uchiha below.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered asking Sasori to make a silicone doll of Rin Nohara for sale across the Shinobi World.

Kenichi Amamiya met Obito and the newly recruited Shin Uchiha near Amegakure, then followed Nagato into a cave to report on his mission. He buried his report in rambling complaints in an attempt to drive Black Zetsu away, but could not tell whether the spy was still listening, and left considering another way to communicate with Nagato.

• Kenichi Amamiya met Obito and Shin Uchiha near Amegakure, and Shin Uchiha nearly attacked him with Susanoo before Nagato stopped the confrontation with Shinra Tensei.
• Nagato warned them not to cause conflicts within Amegakure, and Kenichi Amamiya asked to report privately about his completed mission.
• Kenichi Amamiya followed Nagato and Konan into a cave, where he complained about Akatsuki's choice of meeting places before beginning his report.
• Kenichi Amamiya prolonged his report with complaints and digressions, hoping to drive away Black Zetsu, while Nagato and Konan grew increasingly exasperated.
• Nagato blasted Kenichi Amamiya away with Shinra Tensei, said Akatsuki would consider his suggestion if he could prove it would create greater value, and left with Konan.
• Kenichi Amamiya could not determine whether Black Zetsu was still listening and began considering another way to communicate with Nagato.

Kenichi Amamiya used a staged airship explosion to speak privately with Nagato about replacing his Peace Plan with a unified country, while warning him that hidden observers could be listening. Nagato agreed to communicate through Thought Waves and the Magic Lantern Body Technique in a safer place, though he remained uncertain about Kenichi’s warning.

• Kenichi Amamiya offered to supply Akatsuki with his Fat Demon weapons so he could contribute without taking missions, and Nagato agreed to a demonstration aboard the airship.
• Kenichi Amamiya caused the airship to explode and noticed a black figure falling away, while Nagato survived by using Shinra Tensei.
• As they descended by parachute, Kenichi Amamiya argued that Nagato’s Peace Plan would fail and proposed unifying the Shinobi World into one country.
• Kenichi Amamiya explained that concealed observers could hide in the earth, trees, or airship, and Nagato suggested they communicate later through Thought Waves and the Magic Lantern Body Technique.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Nagato to keep their conversation secret, then explained how to use an ordinary thermobaric bomb.

Obito and Black Zetsu dismissed Kenichi Amamiya’s strange behavior as a lunatic’s attempt to annoy Nagato, while Nagato remained shaken by Amamiya’s warnings. After reconnecting with his companions and delivering One’s Own Life Reincarnation to Amado Sanzu, Amamiya faced Amado’s request to find someone who could revive him.

• Black Zetsu returned to Obito and complained that Kenichi Amamiya had spent over twenty minutes telling Nagato nonsense about bombing Sunagakure.
• Obito suspected Amamiya might have acted deliberately but decided that his erratic behavior was impossible to judge by normal standards, and he left with Black Zetsu to plan.
• Kenichi Amamiya departed after trading with Konan, while Nagato told Konan that Amamiya’s words had shaken his confidence in his ideals and made him eager to meet again.
• Kenichi Amamiya joined Uchiha Hikari, Sasori, and Deidara for barbecue, then took Sasori and Deidara back to the Land of Rice Fields and brought Hikari to Amado Sanzu.
• Kenichi Amamiya gave Amado Sanzu the One’s Own Life Reincarnation scroll, and Amado asked whether Amamiya could find someone capable of reviving him.