Recaps

Yanbai tried to heal a wounded Uchiha so he could copy the man’s abilities, but Tobirama Senju killed him before Yanbai could finish. Back in Senju territory, Tobirama confronted Yanbai over aiding their enemy, and Yanbai remained silent as Tobirama demanded an answer.

• Yanbai found a badly wounded Uchiha and began healing him with his unusual power.
• The Uchiha realized Yanbai’s healing was extraordinary and decided to take him back to his clan.
• Tobirama Senju appeared, killed and mutilated the Uchiha, and destroyed his eyes before scolding Yanbai for helping an enemy.
• Yanbai ran from Tobirama, who caught him and dragged him back to Senju territory.
• At dinner, Tobirama questioned Yanbai about healing the Uchiha and warned him of the consequences, but Yanbai stayed silent.
• Tobirama slammed his palm on the table and demanded that Yanbai answer him.

Yanbai explained to Tobirama Senju why he had gone to the battlefield, while privately planning to keep copying other clans’ abilities despite his broken system. Butsuma Senju put Tobirama in charge of keeping Yanbai inside the clan grounds as Hashirama Senju’s meeting with Madara Uchiha drew closer.

• Yanbai told Tobirama Senju he had gone to the battlefield to heal Senju clan members and protect Kawarama and Itama from being sent to fight.
• Tobirama Senju softened, ordered Yanbai to eat, and warned him not to leave the clan grounds again.
• Yanbai inspected his garbled system panel and recalled that he had killed the Cross-Dressing System, leaving him trapped in the virtual Naruto world with a healing shield and an ability to copy injured people’s traits.
• Yanbai resolved to train his copied abilities and seek opportunities to copy the Uchiha Clan’s bloodline or other clans’ traits before Hashirama Senju met Madara Uchiha.
• Tobirama Senju told Butsuma Senju and his brothers that Yanbai was willful and naive, and Butsuma assigned Tobirama to watch Yanbai because his ability was unusual.
• Butsuma Senju’s anger had previously led him to strip Yanbai of the name Kashima Senju, but Yanbai’s healing talent allowed him to keep the Senju surname and remain in the clan head’s residence.

Yanbai kept Hashirama under constant healing and planned to copy Madara Uchiha’s abilities without triggering Tobirama’s suspicion. He began healing animals around the Senju grounds, and Tobirama finally understood that Yanbai was doing it to gain their skills.

• Yanbai insisted on healing Hashirama every day, whether his older brother was injured or not.
• Yanbai wondered whether Hashirama had already met Madara Uchiha and planned to follow him to copy Madara’s bloodlines.
• Yanbai realized Tobirama was monitoring him and devised a way to shake him off.
• Yanbai healed hens and gained the Chicken Language skill, then continued healing the clan’s dogs, stray cats, and birds.
• After an hour of watching Yanbai heal animals, Tobirama figured out his purpose.

Yanbai escaped Tobirama Senju with help from animals and hurried through the forest to find Hashirama Senju. He found Hashirama with Madara Uchiha at a stream, where the two boys began their first meeting over skipping stones.

• Yanbai distracted Tobirama Senju while birds covered him in poisonous droppings that paralyzed him, and cats and dogs dragged him back to the clan grounds.
• Yanbai used his ability to communicate with animals and plants to locate Hashirama Senju and conceal their tracks, while planning to build ties with Hashirama and Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha tried and failed to skip a stone across a stream, then hesitated before attempting another throw.
• Hashirama Senju arrived and showed Madara how to skip a stone across the water.
• Madara Uchiha asked who Hashirama was, then criticized his bowl cut and flashy clothes.

Madara Uchiha tried to skip stones while Hashirama Senju watched, but his frustration turned into an argument and Hashirama’s tale about his clingy little sister. The two returned to competing over stone-skipping, with Hashirama again disarming Madara by acting pitiful.

• Madara Uchiha failed to skip a stone and blamed Hashirama Senju for distracting him.
• Hashirama Senju apologized, then criticized Madara Uchiha’s inability to relieve himself when someone was nearby.
• Hashirama Senju described how his little sister followed him everywhere after their mother died, even monitoring him through the toilet door.
• Madara Uchiha asked whether Hashirama Senju had escaped his little sister to get some fresh air, and Hashirama confirmed that his little brother was watching her.
• Hashirama Senju challenged Madara Uchiha to skip stones, and when Madara threatened to skip him across the water, Hashirama slumped into a pitiful pose.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha met by the river before parting after discovering a Hagoromo Clan corpse. Yanbai then found Madara, healed his hidden injuries, and left while lamenting the useless reward he received from the system.

• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha argued until a Hagoromo Clan ninja's corpse drifted into view, prompting Hashirama to warn Madara that the area was becoming a battlefield.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha exchanged names and hurriedly said goodbye before going their separate ways.
• Yanbai arrived at the riverside and approached Madara Uchiha after he threw a stone at the bushes.
• Yanbai introduced himself as Hashirama's little sister and healed Madara Uchiha's hidden injuries by touching his arm.
• Yanbai left to catch up with Hashirama, then complained that the system had rewarded him with the Beginner Skipping Stone Skill.

Yanbai reunited with Hashirama and followed him and Tobirama to the Senju cemetery, where the clan buried its dead. Expecting Butsuma to strike him, Yanbai approached his father but dodged the slap, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yanbai caught up with Hashirama, teased him about touching chicken poop, then told him he had found Madara and wanted to meet him again.
• Tobirama told Yanbai and Hashirama that Butsuma wanted them, and the three brothers went to the clan cemetery.
• Yanbai saw the coffins of those killed in battle and remembered that the scene had originally taken place during Senju Kawarama's burial.
• Yanbai hugged Hashirama and Tobirama, then walked toward Butsuma, expecting to be hit in Hashirama's place.
• Butsuma swung at Yanbai, but Yanbai dodged the slap and admitted he did not want to be hit.

Yanbai confronted Butsuma Senju over being expected to heal wounded clansmen, explaining the mental suffering his healing caused and arguing that the adults’ wars were responsible for the deaths. After his brothers defended him, Yanbai urged them to reject cycles of revenge and pursue peace, leaving Hashirama to consider whether an alliance was possible.

• Butsuma Senju rebuked Yanbai for being absent while injured clansmen died, but Yanbai challenged his father’s expectations and explained the suffering he experienced when healing people.
• Butsuma Senju insisted that healing was Yanbai’s duty as a Senju, and Yanbai accused the adults who waged war of causing the tragedies.
• The other brothers shielded Yanbai from Butsuma Senju, and Tobirama Senju asked their father to forgive him; Butsuma told them to take Yanbai away to calm down.
• Yanbai told his brothers to express their hatred rather than force themselves to love, then argued that revenge only created more grudges and deaths.
• Tobirama Senju supported peace through treaties and rules, while Yanbai reminded Itama Senju that the dead of past generations were already forgotten.
• Hashirama Senju wondered whether a true alliance was possible, and Yanbai urged him to become strong enough to force the other side to accept peace.

Yanbai slipped out at night to help a hen lay eggs and made egg fried rice with Tobirama, then drew attention away from Hashirama’s secret meetings with Madara. At the river, Hashirama told Madara Yanbai’s outrageous plan for ending their clans’ conflict by surrendering and forcing their enemies to feed and house them.

• At dinner, Yanbai gave his dried fish to Hashirama and Kawarama, and told Tobirama he healed animals because they soothed his wounded heart.
• Yanbai snuck into the chicken coop at night to help Harusame lay an egg and gave the hen a necklace of cabbage worms.
• Tobirama caught Yanbai leaving the coop with eggs, then followed him to make egg fried rice as a midnight snack.
• Yanbai kept the clan occupied with his antics so Hashirama could meet Madara secretly by the river.
• Hashirama told Madara that Yanbai had proposed forcing their enemies to accept the Senju surrender and support them until the clans became one family.

Yanbai used his strength to “correct” Tobirama Senju’s teeth and other supposed physical flaws, repeatedly beating and healing him. By dusk, Itama Senju and Senju Kawarama had also been subjected to the same treatment, and all three younger brothers begged Hashirama Senju to take Yanbai away.

• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha discussed how strength let the strong impose rules on the weak, and Hashirama reflected on Yanbai’s antics.
• Yanbai told Tobirama Senju that his crooked teeth caused his lack of facial expression and offered to straighten them.
• Yanbai punched Tobirama, knocked out his teeth, healed him, and then repeatedly “corrected” his body while Tobirama screamed.
• Yanbai also beat and healed Itama Senju and Senju Kawarama as he corrected their supposed physical flaws.
• At dusk, Hashirama returned home and found his three younger brothers pleading with him to take Yanbai away.

Hashirama Senju became Yanbai’s minder, while Yanbai quietly trained by pushing his body to its limits and healing himself. As Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha continued meeting and sparring, Yanbai cooked for them and kept working on his own plans.

• Tobirama Senju decided Hashirama Senju should keep Yanbai company, and stopped following them after Yanbai repeatedly corrected him with his fists of love.
• Madara Uchiha told Hashirama Senju that Yanbai had healed his injuries, and Hashirama Senju explained Yanbai’s unusual behavior and his brothers’ painful makeovers.
• Yanbai called for Black Zetsu to help fix his garbled system, but Black Zetsu did not appear.
• Yanbai trained himself nearly to death, healed himself, and repeated the process after copying physiques and bloodlines, including Hashirama Senju’s sage body and asura chakra.
• After Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha finished sparring, Yanbai built a smokeless stove in under three minutes and began cooking for them.

Yanbai cooked for Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha while secretly trying to gain their abilities, then worked to keep their friendship intact. In spring, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha raced up a cliff and left Yanbai behind below.

• Yanbai grilled boar and served Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha a feast that helped restore their strength.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha discussed getting stronger and overcoming their weaknesses, while Madara Uchiha worried about Yanbai's habit of following Hashirama Senju everywhere.
• Yanbai continued observing the two boys and trying to delay their coming rupture, though touching Madara Uchiha still gave him none of the abilities he wanted.
• In spring, Hashirama Senju excitedly described his taijutsu to Madara Uchiha, who refused to practice it and proposed a race up a cliff instead.
• Hashirama Senju used a flashy move to gain an early lead and beat Madara Uchiha, then realized he had left Yanbai at the bottom of the cliff.

Yanbai revealed that Madara’s family had discovered his meetings with Hashirama and warned that Madara’s father would order him to kill Hashirama. After admitting he had known Madara’s identity from their first meeting, Yanbai urged them to find a way through the danger and left them wondering what he had planned.

• Yanbai appeared at the summit, startling Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha after they had assumed he was below.
• Madara Uchiha grew uneasy when he nearly revealed his Sharingan in front of Yanbai, then spoke sadly about his dead brothers and his promise to protect his last younger brother.
• Hashirama Senju shared his dream of building a village while Yanbai watched the forest where Konoha would one day stand.
• Before they descended, Yanbai warned Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha that Madara’s younger brother had discovered their meetings and that Madara’s father would likely order him to kill Hashirama.
• Yanbai confessed that he had known Madara’s identity from their first meeting, affirmed their friendship, and urged them to overcome the predicament.
• When Hashirama Senju asked whether he had a solution, Yanbai answered with a wicked smile.

Yanbai persuaded Madara Uchiha to help pursue peace between the Senju and Uchiha Clans, proposing a cover story to hide their friendship. The chapter ended with Madara realizing Yanbai might know how to awaken the Sharingan.

• Yanbai asked Madara whether he hated the Senju Clan and learned that Madara had been happy with him and Hashirama despite their clans’ feud.
• Yanbai proposed disguising their friendship as a rebellious teenager’s first-love story to explain their closeness and protect their secret.
• Yanbai urged Madara and Hashirama to grow stronger, lead their clans, and work together to establish a safe Shinobi Village.
• Yanbai told Madara to awaken his Sharingan and teased that he could make it happen by toying with him.
• Madara asked whether Yanbai knew how to awaken the Sharingan, and Yanbai answered with a brighter, ill-intentioned smile.

Yanbai staged an intimate embrace with Madara to provoke Izuna, then pushed Madara into awakening his Sharingan. Yanbai left after warning Madara to keep their connection secret, while Izuna ran to report the silver-haired girl to Tajima.

• Yanbai embraced Madara and coached him to look embarrassed as Izuna watched from the shadows.
• Izuna realized the silver-haired girl had been drawing him away from Madara and believed she was why his brother kept leaving home.
• Yanbai tightened his hold until Madara’s pain and fear prompted him to try forming hand seals.
• Madara’s Sharingan awakened, but Yanbai released him and healed the injuries caused by the embrace.
• Yanbai promised to find a safe way for Madara to communicate with him and warned him to hide their connection from their clans.
• Yanbai left, and Izuna ran toward the clan compound to tell Tajima about the silver-haired girl.

Yanbai prepared a cover story before returning to the Senju compound, but Butsuma, Tobirama, and Hashirama found him in the forest and confronted him. Butsuma accepted Yanbai’s explanation about the food while making clear that he still doubted him, then arranged a separate kitchen for him.

• Yanbai hunted a wild boar, cooked it in the forest, and used a song and story to draw Butsuma, Tobirama, and Hashirama to him.
• Butsuma asked Yanbai whether he had been going out with Hashirama because he disliked the compound’s food, and Yanbai agreed.
• Yanbai explained that he preferred Hashirama’s company because Hashirama indulged him, easing the tension among the brothers.
• Butsuma said the food was an effective excuse and challenged Yanbai to avoid disappointing him; Yanbai promised he would not.
• Butsuma offered to set up a separate kitchen for Yanbai and asked him to be more accommodating when other clan members requested food.

Yanbai’s deception helped Madara Uchiha return to the Uchiha compound with his Sharingan awakened, while Uchiha Tajima questioned him about the silver-haired girl he had been meeting. Madara concealed Yanbai’s identity and left the interrogation facing his father’s advice to kill or bring the girl into the clan.

• Madara realized Yanbai had tricked him after night birds dropped a taunting message, then hurried back to the Uchiha compound to find Izuna.
• Izuna showed Uchiha Tajima and the clan members a portrait of Yanbai, but none of them recognized him, so Tajima sent a subordinate to investigate.
• Tajima questioned Madara about meeting a silver-haired girl, and Madara followed Yanbai’s plan by denying that she belonged to a clan.
• Madara admitted he had awakened his eyes, and Tajima attributed it to the girl and advised him to kill her or bring her back to the clan.
• Izuna called the girl wicked for tricking ducks out of their eggs, leaving Madara to wonder whether Izuna thought he was less clever than a duck.

Yanbai explained to Butsuma Senju that paymasters were driving shinobi clans into deadly conflicts through competing missions. Butsuma agreed that Yanbai’s analysis made sense but questioned what the Senju Clan could do to change the cycle.

• Hashirama Senju left on a mission with the clan elders while Yanbai stayed behind to speak with Butsuma Senju.
• Tobirama Senju told Hashirama that Yanbai had urged him to be careful and not go hungry.
• Butsuma Senju asked Yanbai what he had learned from the clan dossiers about the reasons adults fought and killed.
• Yanbai argued that paymasters had set the Senju Clan against the Hagoromo Clan and later hired the Uchiha Clan to weaken their rivals.
• Butsuma Senju acknowledged Yanbai’s reasoning but said the clans depended on missions and could not easily escape the cycle of fighting.

Yanbai reviewed intelligence on the Hagoromo, Uchiha, and Uzumaki clans while reflecting on how the Warring States Period forced clans to fight and sent children on missions. He searched the Uzumaki records for Mito Uzumaki but found no women listed, leaving Butsuma Senju baffled by his remark.

• Yanbai considered how hostile missions and clan rivalries drove shinobi children to fight and shaped powerful figures like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
• Yanbai complained about politics and worried that Hashirama Senju would be forced to kill on missions, with Kawarama and Itama facing the same fate soon.
• Butsuma Senju gave Yanbai a scroll containing intelligence on the Hagoromo and Uchiha clans, including details about Madara Uchiha and Uchiha Izuna.
• Yanbai read the Uzumaki Clan records and searched for Mito Uzumaki, but found only an entry for Uzumaki Aizen.
• When Butsuma Senju asked what he was looking for, Yanbai said there were no women on the list, and Butsuma replied that there would not be.

Butsuma Senju explained why Yanbai’s sex and healing ability made him crucial to the Senju Clan’s survival, then urged him to learn about other clans and protect himself. When Butsuma asked who Yanbai and Hashirama had met at the Naka River, Yanbai concealed that they had met Madara Uchiha.

• Yanbai understood that women in the Warring States Period had little control over their lives, and thanked Butsuma for his care.
• Butsuma explained that he had secretly watched Yanbai, recognized his unusual strength and healing ability, and feared that Yanbai’s adult-like thinking made him vulnerable.
• Butsuma told Yanbai that his beauty and healing technique could secure the Senju Clan’s survival, and instructed him to study important figures from other clans.
• Butsuma asked who Yanbai and Hashirama had met at the Naka River, naming the Hagoromo and Uchiha Clans as possibilities.
• Yanbai decided not to reveal his connection to Madara Uchiha and told Butsuma that he and Hashirama had gone out for food and training.

Uchiha Tajima and Hagoromo Nobuyuki discussed joining forces against the Senju Clan, while Madara Uchiha missed Yanbai and their time together. Cherry Ink visited Yanbai with news of Madara’s loneliness, and Yanbai sent him biscuits and promised presents for Madara.

• Hagoromo Nobuyuki told Uchiha Tajima that Lord Saionji had agreed to let the Uchiha and Hagoromo Clans divide the spoils from the Date House, and Uchiha Tajima rejected the idea of cooperating with the Senju Clan.
• Uchiha Tajima and the other Uchiha grew eager to fight Senju Longshu, and their late-night Fire Release frightened animals throughout the compound.
• Madara Uchiha tried to send a message to Yanbai through a mouse, then lamented missing Yanbai’s cooking and their time with Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Izuna watched Madara and wrongly concluded that his brother was pining for a silver-haired woman, deciding to find her.
• Cherry Ink visited Yanbai and reported that Madara missed him and that Uchiha Izuna was spying on him; Yanbai gave Cherry Ink biscuits and told him to take Madara presents.

Madara Uchiha realized Yanbai had turned even cooking into rigorous chakra training and resolved to grow stronger. Meanwhile, Senju Longshu faced an Uchiha ambush in the Pine Forest and braced to fight Uchiha Tajima’s advancing force.

• Madara Uchiha read Yanbai’s detailed, violent cooking notes and understood how Yanbai trained through every action.
• Madara Uchiha renewed his determination to become stronger and rushed to the Uchiha Clan’s main kitchen.
• Senju Longshu waited outside Pinefrost City while Hashirama Senju went to collect supplies.
• Senju Longshu sensed an ambush and used Mountain-Cleaving Hand to strike several Uchiha clansmen.
• An Uchiha clansman countered with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, while Uchiha Tajima advanced through the blaze.
• Senju Longshu drew his saber and prepared to meet Uchiha Tajima’s attack head-on.

Senju Longshu escaped Uchiha Tajima after a fierce fight, while Yanbai’s scheme framed the Hagoromo Clan for the murder of Saionji Kaede. Butsuma Senju told Yanbai that rumors had ruined the Hagoromo Clan’s reputation.

• Senju Longshu fought Uchiha Tajima, was wounded by the Great Fireball Technique, and escaped through a secret tunnel beneath a tent.
• Uchiha Tajima found the tunnel entrance collapsed and decided the Uchiha Clan could destroy Pinefrost City to force the Senju Clan’s hand.
• The Hagoromo Clan’s shinobi stormed the courtyard where Saionji Kaede’s corpse lay and realized they had been framed for her murder.
• Yanbai received a message from a bird, and Butsuma Senju told him that rumors had ruined the Hagoromo Clan’s reputation.

Yanbai helped Butsuma Senju frame the Hagoromo Clan for Saionji Kaede’s murder, disrupting the Senju Clan’s enemies and hoping to protect Itama Senju and Senju Kawarama. At the Naka River, Yanbai confronted Uchiha Izuna, who had been searching for her, and seized him by the throat.

• Butsuma Senju told Yanbai that his plan to frame the Hagoromo Clan had succeeded and that the Saionji House heir would likely move to eliminate the Hagoromo Clan.
• Yanbai reflected that he wanted the Hagoromo Clan gone so Itama Senju and Senju Kawarama would have more time to grow before entering battle.
• Several days later, Uchiha Izuna searched the Naka River for the silver-haired girl his brother Madara had met.
• Yanbai appeared before Uchiha Izuna after the animals revealed that he had been looking for her.
• When Uchiha Izuna insulted her, Yanbai seized him by the throat and asked whether Madara had not warned him against provoking her.

Yanbai accidentally trapped Uchiha Izuna's Great Fireball in his mouth, then repeatedly healed him while putting out the flames, causing Izuna unbearable pain. Izuna awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan during the ordeal, and Yanbai knocked him unconscious before worrying about how to keep him from telling Madara Uchiha what happened.

• Uchiha Izuna tried to use the Great Fireball Technique, but Yanbai clamped his mouth shut and the flames burned him from within.
• Yanbai healed Uchiha Izuna while extinguishing the fire in the Naka River, but Izuna continued to suffer intense pain.
• Uchiha Izuna awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan while screaming in agony, and Yanbai realized he could not let Madara Uchiha find out.
• Yanbai slapped Uchiha Izuna unconscious after Izuna babbled for his big brother.
• Yanbai considered how to wake Izuna and prevent him from going home and telling on him.