Chapter Summaries

Chinatsu decided to become a rogue ninja so she could enter the Akatsuki without disguising herself, and ordered Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū to spread posters announcing her supposed crime. Hiruzen Sarutobi sent the Anbu to tear the posters down, leaving the two sides battling across Konoha through the night.

• After deciding a false identity would not fool the Sharingan, Chinatsu accepted Hidan's suggestion to change her public image and become a rogue ninja.
• Chinatsu ordered Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū to make her rogue-ninja status official by the next day, then headed to Naruto and Sasuke's room to talk with them.
• Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū printed stacks of publicity posters and plastered them around Konoha.
• Anbu members brought a poster to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who ordered them to tear down every copy before sunrise.
• The Anbu tore down posters as Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū continued putting them up, until the exhausted teams met amid the shredded posters.

Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fū from putting up flyers that declared Chinatsu had killed Danzo, mistakenly believing they meant to ruin her reputation. After learning they worked for Chinatsu, he heard why she needed to become a rogue ninja and warned that her departure could leave Konoha vulnerable to other villages.

• Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fū fought the Anbu after the Anbu caught them putting up flyers, until Hiruzen Sarutobi intervened.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accused Torune and Fū of trying to turn Konoha against Chinatsu and threatened to stop them.
• Torune told Hiruzen he had misunderstood, and three hours later Chinatsu confronted Hiruzen in his office for tearing down her flyers.
• Chinatsu said she needed to become a rogue ninja to accomplish her goal and was willing to risk ruining her reputation.
• Hiruzen warned Chinatsu that Konoha depended on her strength and that her becoming a hostile rogue ninja could invite attacks from other villages.

Chinatsu abandoned her plan to become a rogue ninja after negotiating with Hiruzen Sarutobi for compensation, including a plot of land in the Land of Fire. After returning home and putting exhausted Naruto and Sasuke to bed, she realized she had forgotten the Chunin Ninja Exams finals.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi pleaded with Chinatsu not to become a rogue ninja, but she rejected his emotional appeal and demanded compensation.
• Chinatsu asked for a plot of land in the Land of Fire and pressured Hiruzen Sarutobi into negotiating with the daimyo for the location marked on her map.
• Chinatsu returned to the Uchiha Residence, where exhausted Naruto and Sasuke collapsed after hearing they were not leaving.
• Chinatsu carried Naruto and Sasuke to their beds, then rested on the couch and reconsidered her plan to deal with the Akatsuki.
• Chinatsu remembered that the Chunin Ninja Exams semifinals and finals were taking place that day.

Chinatsu disguised herself as Naruto and Sasuke with Wood Release clones so they could take part in the Chunin Ninja Exams while they slept. After the semifinal draw paired her disguised Naruto with Tenten, Chinatsu misunderstood Tenten’s hints and promised to shine in Naruto’s place.

• Chinatsu failed to wake Naruto and Sasuke, so she created Wood Release clones and transformed them into the two boys.
• Chinatsu’s disguised Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the exam venue just before the matches began, though Gaara sensed that something was off about them.
• The semifinalists drew lots, and Tenten was delighted when her opponent turned out to be Naruto.
• Tenten hinted that she wanted Naruto to spare her dignity, but Chinatsu mistook her signals and gave her an OK gesture.

Chinatsu, disguised as Naruto, defeated Tenten by destroying her thrown weapons with an enormous one-handed Rasengan. Gaara recognized that the contestants posing as Naruto and Sasuke were impostors and entered the next match determined to defeat the counterfeit Sasuke and find his missing sister Chinatsu.

• Tenten attacked Chinatsu with a huge barrage of kunai and shuriken, and Chinatsu formed a one-handed Rasengan that crushed them all.
• Tenten surrendered after realizing Chinatsu was sparing her an embarrassing defeat, and the crowd cheered for the disguised Naruto.
• Chinatsu announced that she and Gaara were next, then headed toward the arena disguised as Sasuke.
• Gaara attacked Chinatsu with a sand blade, but stopped it and claimed he had only wanted to loosen up before their match.
• Gaara concluded that both Naruto and Sasuke were impostors and worried that Chinatsu was missing too.
• Gaara entered the arena, resolved to defeat the counterfeit Sasuke and protect his big sister, while sand swirled around him.

Chinatsu, disguised as Sasuke, fought Gaara in the arena and overwhelmed him with Chidori and Great Fire Annihilation. Gaara recognized the likely trick behind the disguise and staged his own defeat, leaving Chinatsu to advance while Hiruzen Sarutobi grew suspicious.

• Gaara attacked Chinatsu's disguised Sasuke with sand whips, and she countered with Chidori.
• Chinatsu blasted Gaara with Great Fire Annihilation, but he survived behind a sand shield.
• Gaara sensed Chinatsu's overwhelming strength, figured out her disguise, and decided to fake a loss.
• Chinatsu kicked a small rock toward Gaara, and he hopped out of the arena while pretending to be unconscious.
• Chinatsu noticed Gaara's ruse with her Sharingan, and he secretly gave her a thumbs-up from the stretcher.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi wondered whether Chinatsu had disguised herself as both Sasuke and Naruto, but dismissed the thought.

Chinatsu struggled to choose a winner for the final between Naruto and Sasuke, but both woke up in time, letting her avoid impersonating them during the match. After sending them to compete, she told Hidan, Kakuzu, Aburame Torune, and Yamanaka Fū that she would not join the Akatsuki and ordered them to obtain information about the other teams' tailed beast hunts.

• Chinatsu agonized over whether Naruto or Sasuke should win the final while both boys slept through the intermission.
• Naruto and Sasuke woke after falling out of bed, realized the final was underway, and rushed to the exam venue.
• Chinatsu dragged the boys backstage before they could expose her impersonation, then told them to prepare for the final.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered the arena confidently when the intermission ended, while Chinatsu stayed backstage.
• Chinatsu summoned Hidan, Kakuzu, Aburame Torune, and Yamanaka Fū, announced she would not join the Akatsuki, and ordered Hidan and Kakuzu to gather details about the other teams' tailed beast hunts.

Chinatsu managed the aftermath of the Chunin Ninja Exams after Naruto and Sasuke destroyed the arena, and the match ended in a draw. Later, as she searched for a name for Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū’s organization, Tenten recognized her and asked for a favor.

• Chinatsu instructed Hidan and Kakuzu to reconcile and told Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū to recruit honest, loyal people.
• An explosion destroyed the arena during Naruto and Sasuke’s match, but both emerged unharmed and tried to keep fighting.
• Chinatsu stopped Naruto and Sasuke when she saw the arena had been reduced to rubble, and Hiruzen Sarutobi declared the match a draw.
• After the exams, Hiruzen Sarutobi left to request land from the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, while Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū began recruiting for Chinatsu’s organization.
• While Chinatsu wandered Konoha considering names for the organization, Tenten recognized her and asked her for a favor.

Chinatsu helped Tenten improve her ninja-tool fighting style, then joined her at Might Guy’s training grove, where Sakura struggled with the Fourth Gate and the Green Leotard. Meanwhile, Hidan and Kakuzu returned to the Akatsuki hideout while forcing themselves to act like friends.

• Tenten asked Chinatsu to inspect her family’s ninja tools and suggest improvements.
• Chinatsu advised Tenten to combine shuriken techniques with explosive tags to confuse and attack opponents.
• Tenten rushed to the training grove, where Might Guy taught Sakura about the Fourth Gate and tried to persuade her to wear a Green Leotard.
• Sakura pushed herself to take more steps under the weights, while Neji struck a tree imagining it was Naruto.
• Might Guy recruited Chinatsu to endorse the Green Leotard, and Tenten began testing her explosive-tag tactics in the grove.
• Hidan and Kakuzu returned to the Akatsuki hideout, pretending to be close friends.

Pain launched the Akatsuki's tailed-beast capture operation and assigned teams to their targets. After Hidan and Kakuzu reported the plan, Chinatsu set out for the Land of Water to stop Deidara and Sasori from capturing the Three-Tails.

• Hidan and Kakuzu made up, and Pain announced that the Akatsuki's tailed-beast capture plan had begun.
• Pain assigned Kakuzu and Hidan to the Two-Tails and Seven-Tails, Deidara and Sasori to the One-Tail and Three-Tails, and Itachi and Kisame to the Five-Tails.
• Nagato returned to his real body, struggled to breathe, and reassured Konan that he would live to see their dream come true.
• Hidan and Kakuzu sent Chinatsu a carrier-pigeon message about the Akatsuki's plan.
• Chinatsu read Kakuzu's letter, concluded that Deidara and Sasori would target the Three-Tails, and left for the Land of Water.

Chinatsu entered the Land of Water to find Isobu before Deidara and Sasori could capture him. After summoning Isobu from the lake, she used her Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to draw him into a mental space and insisted that she was a good person.

• Chinatsu slipped past the Land of Water’s border guards and used a map to locate a large lake where Isobu might be hiding.
• Chinatsu reached the lake ahead of Deidara and Sasori, then shouted Isobu’s name to draw him out.
• Isobu burst from the lake and demanded to know how Chinatsu knew his name.
• Chinatsu claimed she was a good person, then used her Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to pull Isobu into a mental space.
• Isobu shuddered under Chinatsu’s gaze and struggled to trust her because of his former Jinchūriki’s experiences with those eyes.

Chinatsu persuaded Isobu to work with her against the Akatsuki members coming to capture him. When Deidara and Sasori arrived at the lake, Isobu attacked them, and Deidara was dragged into the forest by an unseen assailant.

• Chinatsu explained Isobu’s past jinchūriki and why she had avoided confronting Nagato directly.
• Chinatsu told Isobu the tailed beasts’ names and warned him that Deidara and Sasori would soon come to capture him.
• Chinatsu proposed that she and Isobu team up to defeat the Akatsuki members, and Isobu agreed.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived at the lake, where Isobu burst from the water and attacked them.
• Isobu fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Deidara praised the explosion as art before an unseen figure seized him and dragged him into the forest.

Chinatsu subdued Deidara with Kotoamatsukami while Sasori struggled against Isobu. She rushed to help Sasori, who mistook her for Deidara before recognizing her as an enemy.

• Sasori summoned a hundred puppets and fought Isobu, but the tailed beast overwhelmed him with repeated Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Chinatsu ambushed Deidara, neutralized his clay bombs with Lightning Release, and restrained his Giant Dragon with trees.
• Chinatsu used Kotoamatsukami to alter Deidara’s loyalties, making him serve her Three-Question Organization.
• Chinatsu left Deidara on standby and hurried to the lake, where she found Sasori surrounded by broken puppets and losing to Isobu.
• Sasori mistook Chinatsu for Deidara, then realized she was an enemy and attacked her; Chinatsu struggled to keep a straight face after he remarked that she had gotten shorter.

Chinatsu stopped Sasori from escaping by using her Complete Body Susanoo to destroy the Third Kazekage Puppet. After reassuring him that she had spared Deidara and wanted to talk, she overwhelmed Sasori with what he perceived as maternal radiance.

• Chinatsu confronted Sasori, who summoned the Third Kazekage Puppet and tried to force his way past her.
• Chinatsu manifested her Complete Body Susanoo and crushed the Third Kazekage Puppet, leaving Sasori trapped between her and Isobu.
• Chinatsu dismissed her Susanoo and told Sasori she had no intention of killing him or harming Deidara.
• Deidara arrived unharmed, surprising Sasori, and Chinatsu invited Sasori to listen to her before he died.
• Chinatsu spread her arms and radiated a warm golden light that made Sasori wonder if he was experiencing maternal radiance.

Chinatsu persuaded Sasori to return with her to see Granny Chiyo and brought him and Deidara back to Konoha. She went to Hiruzen Sarutobi to ask about the land she had requested, but he told her he had not secured it.

• Chinatsu persuaded Sasori to return with her to see Granny Chiyo, while Deidara prepared a C2 Dragon to carry them home.
• Chinatsu received a small amount of chakra from Isobu before she and her companions flew toward the Land of Fire.
• Hidan and Kakuzu arrived in the Land of Lightning and waited for Chinatsu while Hidan drew a crooked picture of her.
• Chinatsu brought Sasori and Deidara into the Uchiha Residence through a side entrance, leaving them with Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fū.
• Chinatsu went to the Naruto's office, where Hiruzen Sarutobi told her he had failed to secure the land she wanted.

Chinatsu rejected the Land of Fire’s Daimyo’s refusal to grant her the land she wanted and considered the abandoned Land of Whirlpools as a possible base. She sent Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū to investigate it, then ignored a carrier pigeon’s message so she could bathe first.

• After Hiruzen Sarutobi failed to secure her preferred land, Chinatsu considered confronting the Daimyo but agreed to review the alternatives on a map.
• Chinatsu spotted the unclaimed Land of Whirlpools and considered making it her future base, then told Hiruzen Sarutobi he no longer needed to negotiate with the Daimyo.
• Chinatsu returned to the Uchiha Residence, where she told Sasori to stay until Granny Chiyo arrived from Sunagakure.
• Chinatsu ordered Torune Aburame and Yamanaka Fū to investigate the Land of Whirlpools and let Sasori and Deidara remain at the residence.
• As Chinatsu headed to the bathhouse, a carrier pigeon arrived, but she went inside and decided to read its message after her bath.

Chinatsu received a request for guidance from Hidan and Kakuzu in the Land of Lightning, but decided to travel there herself. Meanwhile, Yugito encountered Hidan’s drawings and recognized a familiar figure in them.

• Chinatsu read Hidan and Kakuzu’s letter, abandoned her reply, and decided to go to the Land of Lightning in person.
• Hidan and Kakuzu waited in a restaurant, where Hidan ate while Kakuzu worried about the expense.
• Yugito led a Kumogakure squad back toward the village after a completed mission and stood guard while her companions rested.
• Yugito reflected on Chinatsu’s apparent death four years earlier and how it had driven her to train relentlessly.
• Yugito found Hidan’s drawings in the dirt and thought the person depicted looked familiar.

Yugito followed footprints left near Hidan’s drawing, hoping to learn about the girl from her past, Chinatsu. She lost the trail in the street, but then encountered a cloaked girl whose presence felt familiar and asked to see her face.

• Yugito debated whether to follow the footprints, and her Kumogakure teammates offered to submit the mission report for her.
• Yugito followed the faint footprints but lost them when they reached the street.
• Yugito’s teammates mistook Hidan’s drawing of Chinatsu for an ancient evil god and hurried back to report it to the Raikage.
• Yugito decided to return, then spotted a cloaked girl whose familiar presence made her stop.
• Yugito caught the girl’s arm and asked her to remove her cloak.

Chinatsu tried to avoid being recognized by Yugito, but Hidan intervened and started a fight after mistaking Yugito for someone threatening his mistress. Yugito summoned Matatabi, leaving Chinatsu to find a way out without revealing her abilities or harming anyone.

• Yugito grabbed Chinatsu and invited her to talk, despite Chinatsu disguising her voice and denying they knew each other.
• Hidan rushed out of a nearby restaurant and grabbed Yugito, demanding that she let Chinatsu go.
• Yugito recognized Hidan as an Akatsuki member and attacked him, but he endured her punch and pressed forward.
• Yugito used a Tailed Beast Cloak to block Hidan, then summoned Matatabi after the pedestrians fled.
• Kakuzu emerged and silently explained to Chinatsu that he had been paying while Hidan charged outside.
• Matatabi raised a paw and swiped at Chinatsu and the others.

Chinatsu used Flying Thunder God to escape with Hidan and Kakuzu after fighting Yugito, who mistook their abilities for powers from Jashin. Back in Kumogakure, Yugito found an obsolete bounty notice identifying Chinatsu as a living Uchiha survivor from Konoha, and her mind crashed.

• Chinatsu dodged Yugito's attacks and struck her with Lightning Release: Black Panther.
• Chinatsu marked Hidan and Kakuzu with Flying Thunder God and teleported them away before Yugito could find them.
• Yugito mistook their escape for a Jashin Cult ability and decided to add the Akatsuki and the cult to Kumogakure's Bounty List.
• Fourth Raikage A sent two elite squads to search for Yugito and the supposed Jashin cultists, although Yugito had already returned to the village.
• Yugito found an obsolete bounty notice identifying Chinatsu as a 17-year-old Uchiha survivor from Konoha and realized the woman she had met was still alive.