Chapter Summaries

Kenichi Amamiya fed Naruto, asked him to become his student, and persuaded him to leave Konoha with him. Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered Naruto was gone and realized Kenichi had taken the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Naruto endured villagers' hatred and went fishing because he was hungry, until Kenichi Amamiya invited him to eat hot pot.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched Naruto struggle to refine Chakra and found no sign of the Nine-Tails' aura.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Naruto to become his student, then offered to take him somewhere he could eat well and avoid rejection.
• Naruto agreed to leave with Kenichi Amamiya after asking to say goodbye to Teuchi, and Kenichi carried him away.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi saw Kenichi take Naruto through his spying technique, rushed to the river, and found only unconscious Anbu and the abandoned hot pot.

Kenichi Amamiya took Naruto by airship toward the Land of Rice Fields and revealed that Naruto's parents were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, and that Naruto carried the Nine-Tails. After learning that an unknown man had caused his parents' deaths, Naruto grew distraught, and Kenichi took him to the snow mountain to cheer him up.

• Kenichi Amamiya camouflaged his airship and flew with Naruto toward the Land of Rice Fields, avoiding detection along Konoha's border.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Naruto that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were his parents and showed him a photograph of them together.
• Naruto cried as he studied the photograph, then asked Kenichi Amamiya about Jinchuriki and the Nine-Tails.
• Kenichi Amamiya explained that the Nine-Tails was sealed inside Naruto and that an unknown man had caused his parents' deaths.
• Naruto became angry and dispirited, and Kenichi Amamiya reassured him before taking him to the snow mountain for some fun.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tsunade discussed Naruto Uzumaki’s abduction by Kenichi Amamiya and Akatsuki’s threat, while Jiraiya returned with a dire prophecy from the Great Toad Sage. Kenichi brought Naruto to his teacher, Orochimaru, who saw a use for the boy in her recent experiments.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tsunade concluded that Kenichi Amamiya had taken Naruto and identified Akatsuki as a major threat to Konoha.
• Tsunade told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Akatsuki’s leader was Yahiko, Jiraiya’s presumed-dead disciple, and Hiruzen planned to send Jiraiya to investigate with her.
• Jiraiya returned to Konoha after the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy changed to foretell a demon god from the stars destroying the Shinobi World.
• After learning Naruto had been taken and mistreated in Konoha, Jiraiya suppressed his anger and began considering how to investigate Yahiko and Akatsuki.
• Kenichi Amamiya told his teacher that Naruto was talented, and Orochimaru realized Naruto could be useful for her experiments.

Kenichi Amamiya considered researching Orochimaru’s changing nature while working on cold-resistant wheat and plans to persuade Nagato that shared identities could bring peace. He left the chapter still weighing how to improve the wheat’s slow growth and high water needs.

• Kenichi Amamiya left Orochimaru’s laboratory, unaware that she felt intense discomfort whenever she considered leaving because of a three-year limit on Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Kenichi Amamiya asked Naruto whether he had met a white-eyed girl, and Naruto said he had met a girl who cried often.
• Uchiha Hikari said the Hyuga Clan was strong but had limited fighting methods, and Kenichi Amamiya explained how former clan enemies had become fellow citizens through Konoha and the Land of Fire.
• Kenichi Amamiya reviewed his wheat research and considered improving its yield and flaws or breeding wheat that could withstand colder temperatures.
• Kenichi Amamiya noted that the wheat grew slowly and required much water, then wondered whether his Wood Release research was still progressing.

Kenichi Amamiya met Nagato in the Land of Snow and argued that unifying the Shinobi World could bring lasting peace, using the clans’ integration into Konoha as evidence. Nagato agreed to try Kenichi’s plan, though he reserved the right to return to his own method if it seemed unlikely to succeed.

• Kenichi Amamiya contacted Nagato through his ring and met him in the Land of Snow, where Black Zetsu could not spy on them.
• Kenichi Amamiya argued that clans once locked in deadly conflict had become part of Konoha, then proposed uniting the Shinobi World under the Flame Nation.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Nagato that a hidden observer with powerful intelligence-gathering abilities had prevented him from speaking freely before, and Nagato considered the possibility that the figure was near Akatsuki.
• Kenichi Amamiya outlined a plan to seize Kirigakure with a Ninja Legion and airships, then use it as a foothold to expand across the other nations.
• Nagato weighed Kenichi Amamiya’s plan against Yahiko’s goal of ending war and agreed to give it a try, while keeping his own method as a fallback.

Nagato recovered from speaking with Kenichi Amamiya and waited for the plan to unify the Shinobi World to begin. In the Land of Snow, Kenichi Amamiya adapted the Rain Tiger at Will Technique into Tranquility, a Sage Art that rapidly grew crops, and prepared to use it again to mature the wheat.

• Nagato told Konan that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was weakening him and kept his discussion with Kenichi Amamiya secret while awaiting their next move.
• Kenichi Amamiya's Shadow Clone reported that Wood Release and Sage Art Wood Style could not safely stimulate crop seeds when used directly.
• Kenichi Amamiya created a huge number of Shadow Clones and dispersed Sage Art Wood Style energy through rain over a field of cold-resistant wheat.
• The rain rapidly grew the wheat and weeds, confirming that the adapted technique could accelerate crop growth.
• Kenichi Amamiya's Shadow Clones cleared the weeds, and he named the ninjutsu Tranquility before preparing to use it again.

Kenichi Amamiya tested how his Wood Release ninjutsu Tranquil Rain affected crops and found that intense use accelerated growth but left plants unable to bear fruit. Back in the Capital City of the Land of Snow, he learned Anko Mitarashi had fled to Konoha, while his research into Uchiha Shiori’s Mangekyō Sharingan suggested he had discovered a clue to its nature.

• Kenichi Amamiya experimented with different strengths of Tranquil Rain, and only a full-power casting made his wheat begin forming ears while growing a forest of plants without fruit.
• Kenichi Amamiya collected plant samples to compare with ordinary plants and returned to the Capital City of the Land of Snow.
• Orochimaru told Kenichi Amamiya that Anko Mitarashi had escaped to Konoha with knowledge of her Lab Bases, then flew off to deal with her.
• Kenichi Amamiya had Uchiha Shiori move nearly all the equipment from his laboratory to protect it and analyzed her Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kenichi Amamiya noticed that the Chakra inside Uchiha Shiori’s Mangekyō formed its own cycle and seemed to grow denser, inspiring a new idea about the eye’s nature.

Kenichi Amamiya studied how repeated Mangekyō use changed Uchiha Shiori’s eyes and considered how the Mangekyō might develop into the Rinnegan. After seeing Naruto admire his eyes, Kenichi offered to help Naruto awaken similar powers when he was older and began considering how to free him from the Nine-Tails seal.

• Kenichi Amamiya examined Uchiha Shiori’s Mangekyō and recorded that its Chakra thickened with repeated use.
• Kenichi Amamiya wondered whether accumulating Chakra attributes could explain the Mangekyō’s progression into the Rinnegan, then went to find Uchiha Hikari.
• Kenichi Amamiya’s Mangekyō activated while he inspected Hikari and Naruto’s fish, startling Hikari and destroying one fish.
• Kenichi Amamiya told Naruto that he could eventually develop eyes like his through a technique that did not require taking anyone else’s eyes.
• Kenichi Amamiya sensed the Nine-Tails’ ominous Chakra in Naruto and decided to investigate undoing the Reaper Death Seal and reviving the Fourth Hokage Couple.

Kenichi Amamiya checked on the gifted offspring and organized guards and farmers to manage the valley’s forest and wheat fields. In his laboratory, he examined the Shinigami mask, discovered it formed a dimensional gateway, and began considering how to use it to free the Fourth Hokage.

• Kenichi Amamiya learned from Kazahana Koyuki that the offspring had adapted, though the larvae needed two more days to mature.
• Kenichi Amamiya ordered Kazahana Koyuki to assign gifted juniors and experienced farmers to guard and tend the valley’s forest and wheat fields.
• Kenichi Amamiya examined the masks Uchiha Shiori had brought and identified the Shinigami mask by its unusual energy.
• Kenichi Amamiya’s Mangekyō Sharingan revealed purple-black energy forming a patterned door on the mask, and looking at it made his eyes bleed.
• Kenichi Amamiya concluded the mask could summon the Shinigami from another realm and considered sacrificing a ninja’s soul to free the Fourth Hokage.
• Kenichi Amamiya found parts of the Fourth Hokage Couple’s body tissue in his bag and planned to use them as a biological gift for Naruto.

Kenichi Amamiya considered how to revive Minato Namikaze and began leaning toward Impure World Reincarnation as a safer first step. In Amegakure, Tsunade and Jiraiya investigated Akatsuki and Naruto’s whereabouts, while Obito and Black Zetsu watched them and continued their plan.

• Kenichi Amamiya decided to seek a talented Sealing Jutsu ninja through Kazahana Koyuki before using Impure World Reincarnation to assess Minato Namikaze’s views.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya watched Amegakure from a cave, and Jiraiya explained that the rain could detect outsiders entering the village.
• Jiraiya revealed that his Orohime novel earned over a hundred million ryo a year, and Tsunade negotiated a thirty-million-ryo share from him.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya that Anko Mitarashi had returned to Konoha, prompting his concern that the village might provoke Orochimaru and Kenichi Amamiya.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode, and he and Tsunade headed into Amegakure to investigate Akatsuki and look for clues about Naruto.
• Obito and Black Zetsu observed the pair and discussed how Naruto’s disappearance and Kenichi Amamiya’s involvement affected their plan.

Kenichi Amamiya attended Nagato’s meeting, where Akatsuki announced a move to the Land of Waterfalls and permission to raid wealthy merchants and Daimyo. Back in the Land of Snow, Kenichi continued his research and spent time with Naruto and Uchiha Hikari before Konan detected Orochimaru and Tsunade arriving in the village.

• Nagato rebuked Shin Uchiha and announced that Akatsuki would relocate to the Land of Waterfalls, divert Konoha’s attention, and allow members to raid wealthy merchants and Daimyo for funds.
• Kenichi Amamiya returned to the Land of Snow, gave a Sealing Squad shinobi the Reaper Death Seal technique to study, and checked on Naruto and Uchiha Hikari as they practiced tree climbing.
• Kenichi Amamiya encouraged Naruto’s chakra control and shared hot pot with him and Hikari, while recognizing Naruto still remembered his parents’ deaths.
• Konan’s Paper Kite detected Orochimaru and Tsunade in the village, and Nagato stood up after hearing that his teacher had arrived.

Kenichi Amamiya tested whether the Reaper Death Seal summoned a Shinigami and whether Amado Sanzu’s Soul Restraint Device could preserve the caster’s soul. The device failed to revive the ninja through Impure World Reincarnation, and Kenichi turned to the Fourth Hokage Couple’s remains to investigate the Fourth’s intentions.

• Kenichi Amamiya had a parasitized Sealing Squad ninja perform the Reaper Death Seal while Amado Sanzu monitored him.
• The ninja saw a white-clothed Shinigami and described souls escaping from its stomach after the seal was released.
• Kenichi Amamiya ordered the ninja to kill himself, and the Parasite Larva destroyed his brain when Kenichi commanded it to die.
• Kenichi Amamiya used Impure World Reincarnation on the dead ninja, but the Soul Restraint Device did not bring him back.
• Kenichi Amamiya took out test tubes containing remains of the Fourth Hokage Couple to investigate what the Fourth had thought.

Kenichi Amamiya revived Minato Namikaze with Impure World Reincarnation and showed him the life Naruto had endured in Konoha. After learning that Kenichi had taken Naruto to the Land of Snow, Minato asked what Kenichi intended to do.

• Kenichi summoned Minato Namikaze using a Genin’s body and told him that Naruto had been ostracized and neglected in Konoha.
• Kenichi brought Minato to see Naruto sleeping, and Minato connected to the seal to witness his son’s memories of loneliness and mistreatment.
• Minato emerged and accepted Kenichi as Naruto’s teacher, though he remained hurt by the Third Hokage’s choices and Naruto’s childhood.
• Kenichi told Minato that he wanted to create a world without war, and Minato asked what he intended to do.

Kenichi Amamiya planned to revive Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki while preparing to conquer Kirigakure, and Minato agreed to help him. The chapter ended with Minato meeting Naruto at dawn, no longer as the Fourth Hokage but as his father.

• Minato Namikaze questioned Kenichi Amamiya's ambition to unite the Shinobi World, and Kenichi explained that he planned to revive him directly rather than rely on Impure World Reincarnation.
• Minato thanked Kenichi for looking after Naruto, and Kenichi praised Naruto's resilience.
• Kenichi outlined his plan to take Kirigakure using airships, parasites, and control over ninjas' families, while Minato offered to help despite his weakened body.
• Minato asked whether Kushina Uzumaki could also be revived, and Kenichi agreed to revive her as well.
• Kenichi left to conduct experiments and told Minato to look after Naruto, who then woke and saw his father waiting by the window.

Kenichi Amamiya checked on Naruto’s training with Kushina Uzumaki, continued experiments on Land of Snow jonin, and prepared to research nuclear weapons. He then took Minato Namikaze aside for a private conversation while Kushina resumed teaching Naruto.

• Uchiha Shiori reported that Kushina Uzumaki was teaching Naruto alongside Minato Namikaze, and Kenichi Amamiya noted that Kushina’s intense lessons both exhausted Naruto and eased the pressure from Kurama.
• Kenichi Amamiya finished the latest Mangekyo-opening experiments on Land of Snow jonin and planned to continue after observing the test subjects.
• Uchiha Shiori reported that most of the materials Kenichi Amamiya had ordered had arrived, and he planned to use them to build a uranium detection and purification device for nuclear weapons research.
• Kenichi Amamiya found Naruto exhausted after Kushina’s training and listened as she taught him to communicate with Kurama by beating him if necessary.
• Kenichi Amamiya invited Minato Namikaze out for a meal, and Minato followed him while Kushina continued teaching Naruto.

Kenichi Amamiya investigated the strength requirements of One's Own Life Reincarnation and discovered a possible way to analyze ninjutsu with his Mangekyō Sharingan. Meanwhile, Jiraiya and Tsunade returned to Konoha, where Hiruzen revealed that Orochimaru had attacked the village and abducted Anko Mitarashi.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Minato Namikaze how Kage-level strength differed from ordinary Jonin, and Minato described Kage as the strongest Jonin who could easily defeat several ordinary Jonin.
• Kenichi Amamiya reviewed his One's Own Life Reincarnation research, tested the technique, and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to observe Chakra forming a structure resembling programming.
• Kenichi Amamiya recruited two Chunin from the Land of Snow hospital to learn One's Own Life Reincarnation for further experiments.
• Tsunade treated Jiraiya after he was badly wounded by Yahiko's puppet and Konan in Amegakure, and the two returned to Konoha.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade found Konoha's outer wall damaged, and Hiruzen Sarutobi told Tsunade that Orochimaru had attacked the village and abducted Anko Mitarashi.

Kenichi Amamiya investigated the effects of repeated One's Own Life Reincarnation, explored how its Chakra and soul exchange worked, and found that Number One had become unresponsive after several revivals. The chapter left him setting aside his experiments after Uchiha Shiori reported that Orochimaru was suspected of attacking Konoha.

• Kenichi Amamiya observed the seventh revival and noted that Number One no longer resisted the parasite's control.
• Kenichi Amamiya studied the technique's Chakra patterns and theorized that it opened a passage to the Pure Land in exchange for a soul.
• During the eighth trial, Kenichi Amamiya tested whether an ordinary person's soul could serve as extra payment, but the Chakra covering the civilian dispersed without changing the result.
• Kenichi Amamiya discovered that Number One's heart had restarted while his brain activity remained absent, leaving him in a vegetative state under the parasite's control.
• Uchiha Shiori brought Kenichi Amamiya a report saying Orochimaru was suspected of attacking Konoha.

Kenichi Amamiya placed a bounty on clues about Madara Uchiha while preparing to build a uranium detection and purification device. Kakuzu learned that capturing Madara carried a one-billion-ryo reward and set out to pursue the opportunity, while Obito worried the search could expose him.

• Kenichi Amamiya told Uchiha Shiori to place a bounty for information about Madara Uchiha in the Land of Earth, offering money and Ninjutsu for verified clues and a larger reward for proof of his identity.
• Uchiha Shiori posted the bounty through the Bounty Hunter Association, where Kakuzu overheard that it offered an A-Rank Ninjutsu and money for information about Madara.
• Kakuzu learned that capturing Madara Uchiha would earn one billion ryo and decided to pursue the bounty despite Obito's reluctance.
• Obito planned to contact Black Zetsu because he feared the search might uncover his Madara identity.
• Kenichi Amamiya inspected the materials for his uranium detection and purification device, then made Shadow Clones to help assemble it and planned to test radiation's effects on ninja.

Kenichi Amamiya built a uranium detection and purification device, found uranium ore in the Land of Snow, and considered using an atomic bomb in his plans to attack Kirigakure. At Konoha Hospital, Tsunade told Jiraiya that Anko Mitarashi had traveled to the past through the Dragon Vein, then began to explain what happened next.

• Kenichi Amamiya assembled a uranium detection and purification device while weighing gun-type and implosion atomic bomb designs.
• Kenichi Amamiya searched the Land of Snow, found uranium ore beneath a frozen mountain, and began digging it out.
• Kenichi Amamiya planned to use an atomic bomb as another advantage in his preparations to attack Kirigakure.
• At Konoha Hospital, Tsunade told Jiraiya that Anko Mitarashi had traveled through the Dragon Vein to the past and met Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.
• Jiraiya asked Tsunade what happened next, and Tsunade began to answer.

Kenichi Amamiya calculated the vast amount of Uranium Ore needed for an Atomic Bomb and planned an implosion design while arranging for the Land of Snow's ninjas to mine and study the ore. In the Capital City of the Land of Snow, Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze discussed Naruto's hardships, and Minato decided to help Kenichi.

• Kenichi Amamiya realized that refining enough uranium-235 required thousands of tons of Uranium Ore, so he chose an implosion-type Atomic Bomb rather than a gun-type design.
• Kazahana Koyuki reported that loyal Genin were mining with Shadow Clones and that the Land of Snow's mine held an estimated twenty thousand tons of ore.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered radiation's effects on ninjas, possible bomb defenses, and whether Chakra could increase nuclear weapon power before focusing on synchronizing the implosion explosives.
• Kushina Uzumaki told Minato Namikaze that Naruto had suffered and praised Kenichi Amamiya for treating their son kindly.
• Minato Namikaze acknowledged Kenichi Amamiya's help and decided to assist him.