Recaps

Madara Uchiha wandered the Clan Grounds after Yanbai's departure, then Yanbai summoned him with his left-eye Dōjutsu, Heavenly Descent. Yanbai teased Madara after he checked whether Yanbai was male or female, leaving Madara embarrassed and insisting he had not been fooled by genjutsu.

• Madara Uchiha told Izuna that Yanbai would not return, but that he could go find him, and sent Izuna home.
• Madara noticed a huge swarm of Night Butterflies and let them envelop him after Yanbai called out to him.
• Yanbai explained that Heavenly Descent used reverse Pathfinding to summon Madara into a moonlit forest.
• Madara caught Yanbai when Yanbai toppled over, then lifted his skirt to verify Yanbai's sex.
• Yanbai teased Madara, who covered him and claimed the Sharingan would expose any genjutsu.

Yanbai rejected Madara Uchiha’s confession, insisting that their clans’ enmity had to be resolved before he would consider any request. He explained how the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan evolved and reassured Madara that going blind would not greatly weaken him, leaving Madara worried about Yanbai’s eyes.

• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha argued about Madara lifting Yanbai’s skirt, and Madara apologized.
• Madara asked about Yanbai’s map of the Naka River Forest, and Yanbai challenged him to attack his loved ones if he wanted their clans to become permanent enemies.
• Madara confessed his feelings, but Yanbai refused and said he would not entertain Madara’s request until the Senju and Uchiha conflict was resolved.
• Yanbai explained that the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan required Madara’s brother’s and father’s eyes to evolve into Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Yanbai told Madara not to worry about his possible blindness, and Madara urged him to use his Mangekyō Sharingan techniques less.

Yanbai told Madara Uchiha that the Uzumaki Clan had come to the Senju Clan seeking a marriage alliance, then returned to the Clan Grounds with Tobirama Senju. Madara followed Tobirama into his room and immobilized him, saying he wanted to talk.

• Yanbai explained that the Uzumaki Clan had spent three days feasting at the Senju Clan Grounds after proposing a marriage alliance, and said he planned to send them away.
• Madara Uchiha asked whether the alliance concerned Yanbai or Hashirama, and Yanbai suggested Hashirama would attract attention once he gained a reputation.
• Tobirama Senju met Yanbai at the Clan Grounds entrance and grew angry when Yanbai claimed Madara had lifted her skirt to confirm her gender.
• Yanbai and Tobirama discussed the chance that Madara would appear, and Tobirama prepared for a fight while relying on Yanbai's protection against genjutsu.
• Madara Uchiha ambushed Tobirama at his room, dragged him inside, and pinned a blade to his neck before announcing that they would talk.

Madara Uchiha restrained Tobirama Senju and demanded to know why the Uzumaki Clan had visited. Tobirama revealed they had proposed an engagement between Uzumaki Aizen and Yanbai, but the Senju family had rejected it before Madara's father's letter angered their father.

• Madara Uchiha immobilized Tobirama Senju and tormented him over their earlier conflict involving Yanbai.
• Tobirama Senju tried to persuade Madara Uchiha to spare him, but Madara threatened to make him castrate himself as punishment.
• Madara Uchiha changed the subject and asked Tobirama Senju about the Uzumaki Clan's visit.
• Tobirama Senju explained that Uzumaki Aizen had sought an engagement with Yanbai before marrying him when he was older.
• Tobirama Senju said the Senju family had rejected the proposal, but Madara's father's letter claiming Yanbai was pregnant had enraged their father.

Uzumaki Aizen tried to sneak into Yanbai’s courtyard, hoping to get closer to the Senju princess he intended to marry, but the animals stopped him. Yanbai found him injured and asked if he was all right.

• Uzumaki Aizen prowled outside the Senju Clan Leader’s Residence, believing this was his last chance to approach the princess before the Uzumaki Clan was expelled.
• Uzumaki Aizen climbed the courtyard wall, but snakes hooked his foot and sent him crashing into watermelons.
• The animals erupted into noise after Uzumaki Aizen fell, while Yanbai understood their chatter as they returned to their usual activities.
• Yanbai closed his backend and went outside, where he found Uzumaki Aizen struggling by the wall and asked if he was all right.

Tobirama Senju told Madara Uchiha that Uzumaki Aizen pursued beautiful women and enjoyed taking what others treasured, prompting Madara to threaten him over wearing Yanbai’s clothes. Yanbai used his red eyes to compel Aizen to run fifty laps, and the exhausted Aizen encountered a black-clad Uchiha who confronted him about leaving Princess Senju’s courtyard.

• Tobirama Senju warned Madara Uchiha about Uzumaki Aizen’s interest in beautiful women, and Madara stabbed Tobirama’s leg and ordered him never to wear Yanbai’s clothes again.
• Yanbai listened as Uzumaki Aizen described his past with Yuna, while inwardly condemning his conduct toward her.
• Uzumaki Aizen moved close to Yanbai and asked the Princess to spend the lonely night with him.
• Yanbai used his red eyes to command Uzumaki Aizen to run fifty laps around the Senju Clan Compound, and Aizen obeyed before collapsing outside it.
• A black-clad youth with Sharingan confronted the exhausted Uzumaki Aizen about leaving Princess Senju’s courtyard, and Aizen nervously explained that Yanbai had lent him gauze and water.

Uzumaki Aizen fought Madara Uchiha after Madara warned him not to pursue the Princess, then used his chains and sensory technique while trying to survive. The chapter left Yanbai facing Madara, who suspected he had used his dōjutsu to stop Madara from killing Aizen.

• Madara Uchiha confronted Uzumaki Aizen and claimed the Princess was his, warning Aizen not to take her away.
• Uzumaki Aizen unleashed his Adamantine Sealing Chains, but Madara's bound figure scattered into Black Butterflies.
• Uzumaki Aizen swept the forest with his chains and used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to search for Madara.
• Uzumaki Aizen sensed Butsuma Senju and many Senju clansmen rushing toward him, while Madara was nowhere to be found.
• Madara Uchiha held his Worn Blade to Yanbai's neck and accused him of using his dōjutsu to prevent Aizen's death.
• Yanbai denied the accusation, but Madara said he did not believe him.

Yanbai met with Madara Uchiha and sent him away after stirring his memories and asking about his wishes. Meanwhile, Tobirama Senju explained how the Senju Clan had framed Uzumaki Aizen for destroying its cemetery and planned to demand Uzumaki techniques as compensation.

• Madara Uchiha remembered Yanbai's wish to die, dropped his blade, and apologized before telling Yanbai that he hated Uzumaki Aizen.
• Yanbai gripped Madara Uchiha's shoulders, showed him his Mangekyō Sharingan, and asked whether he had a wish he wanted fulfilled.
• Hours later, Yanbai escorted Madara Uchiha out through the woods, and Tobirama Senju confronted Yanbai about what he had done.
• Tobirama Senju told Yanbai that Uzumaki Aizen had devastated the Senju cemetery and that Butsuma Senju had sent Uncle Longshu to demand an explanation from the Uzumaki Clan.
• Tobirama Senju explained that he and Yanbai had maneuvered events so the Senju clansmen would catch Uzumaki Aizen destroying the cemetery and blame him for the damage.
• Tobirama Senju planned to demand Uzumaki techniques as compensation and make the Uzumaki Clan direct its hatred toward the Uchiha Clan.

After Uzumaki Aizen destroyed the Senju Clan’s ancestral graves, the Uzumaki Clan compensated them with sealing jutsu, and Yanbai continued training his brothers as the clans returned to war. During a quiet New Year’s snowfall, Yanbai told Butsuma Senju he had postponed his plan to make money with ninjutsu until his eldest brother could force the shinobi clans to unite.

• Hashirama Senju angrily confronted Uzumaki Aizen for digging up the Senju ancestors’ graves, and Butsuma Senju gathered and burned the remains before scattering the ashes in the Naka River.
• The Uzumaki Clan compensated the Senju Clan with valuable jutsu, giving Tobirama Senju sealing books to study.
• Yanbai trained relentlessly and shared ideas for the Flying Thunder God technique with Tobirama Senju, while Itama Senju and Senju Kawarama grew old enough to go to war.
• The Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan resumed clashes over missions, with Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fighting so destructively that both clans watched from a distance.
• On New Year’s Day, Butsuma Senju argued that war gave shinobi their purpose, while Yanbai said he had paused his plan to profit through ninjutsu until his eldest brother could force the clans to unite.

Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna clashed in a strange battle of teleportation and theft while Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fought overhead. Meanwhile, the Uzumaki Clan arrived at the Senju Clan Grounds and pursued a marriage alliance with Hashirama Senju.

• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha traded powerful attacks as members of both clans watched from hiding places.
• Uchiha Izuna repeatedly stole Tobirama Senju's ninja tools whenever Tobirama caught up to him with his early Flying Thunder God technique.
• Tobirama Senju lost all the tools he had marked and vowed to develop a way to place Flying Thunder God Marks directly on people.
• The Senju Clan's guide warned the Uzumaki Clan visitors not to touch Yanbai's giant hogweed plants along the road.
• The Uzumaki Clan reconsidered its marriage alliance and came to discuss Hashirama Senju's marriage.

The Uzumaki Clan visited the Senju Clan to discuss a marriage alliance, and the grandeur of the Senju Clan Grounds left Uzumaki Ashina humbled. Yanbai watched from his courtyard and continued scheming about how to obtain Indra's Chakra from Madara Uchiha.

• The Uzumaki Clan arrived at the Senju Clan Grounds and marveled at the mountain palaces and other facilities Yanbai had built.
• Uzumaki Ashina realized the Senju Clan held the upper hand in the marriage discussion and could refuse the match between Mito Uzumaki and Hashirama Senju.
• Yanbai watched the visitors with Senju Toka and said Hashirama could decide for himself whether to marry Mito.
• Yanbai briefly observed Mito, then returned to his usual work and thoughts about gaining Indra's Chakra from Madara Uchiha.
• Yanbai considered drawing Madara's blood and injecting it into himself, but worried Hashirama's cells might cause Madara's face to grow on his body.

The Senju and Uzumaki Clans hurriedly arranged Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki’s marriage, with Yanbai tasked with preparing the bride. When Mito met Yanbai, she sensed that the beautiful Princess was actually a man dressed as a woman.

• Uzumaki Ashina asked Butsuma Senju to honor the clans’ marriage agreement, and they agreed to hold the wedding immediately while completing the proper formalities.
• Butsuma Senju arranged for the Uzumaki Clan to stay in the guest quarters so Hashirama could present betrothal gifts and escort Mito from there.
• Hashirama Senju returned home after fighting Madara and discovered that he had unexpectedly acquired a bride.
• Senju Toka told Yanbai to help Mito bathe and dress, and Yanbai agreed to lend her his bath, clothes, and jewelry.
• Senju Toka brought Mito to meet Yanbai, and Mito suspected that the beautiful Princess was a handsome man dressed as a woman.

Yanbai suspected Mito Uzumaki had sensed that he was a man, and her tense reactions while he helped her prepare for the wedding seemed to confirm it. After Mito returned to the Uzumaki Clan’s lodgings, Yanbai watched her leave and wondered what she would do next.

• Yanbai sent Mito Uzumaki to bathe with a maid and suspected she was uncomfortable because she sensed he was a man.
• Yanbai arranged wedding clothes, jewelry, and makeup for Mito, following Butsuma Senju’s instructions.
• Mito tensed whenever Yanbai touched her while applying makeup, confirming his suspicions.
• Mito dressed in her signature hairstyle and left with a ninja to wait for Hashirama Senju at the Uzumaki Clan’s lodgings.
• Mito gave Yanbai a meaningful look as she departed, and Yanbai watched to see what she would do next.

Hashirama Senju returned to the Senju Clan Grounds to discover that his wedding was being celebrated without his knowledge. Tobirama Senju sought comfort from Yanbai, who told him that Mito Uzumaki’s visit to borrow clothes had left him feeling disliked; Tobirama ended the chapter thinking about Mito.

• Hashirama Senju returned to a decorated Clan Grounds and learned from the celebrating clansmen that he was getting married.
• Butsuma Senju’s clansmen hurried Hashirama Senju off to wash and dress, while Tobirama Senju bathed and changed after returning home.
• Mito Uzumaki borrowed an outfit from Yanbai because her own clothes were unsuitable for the wedding festivities.
• Tobirama Senju found Yanbai watching the festivities from his viewing terrace, and Yanbai said their new sister-in-law did not like him.
• Tobirama Senju suggested Mito might have felt jealous or humiliated, then promised to help if she caused Yanbai trouble.
• Yanbai offered to cook for Tobirama Senju, who accepted and watched him head to the kitchen before quietly thinking, “Mito Uzumaki...”

At the wedding feast, Mito Uzumaki publicly insisted that Yanbai was a man, but Tobirama Senju explained that Yanbai had been raised as a boy and had mistaken his own gender. After Yanbai privately proved he was a woman, Mito apologized, and Yanbai speculated that Hashirama and Mito were too young and unprepared for their wedding night.

• Mito Uzumaki announced at the Senju family gathering that she believed Yanbai was a man, but the family dismissed her claim.
• Butsuma Senju told Hashirama Senju to keep his wife in line, while Tobirama Senju shielded Yanbai from Mito.
• Tobirama explained that Yanbai had been raised as a boy and had once believed himself to be one, then took Yanbai and Mito behind a screen to settle the matter.
• Mito confirmed Yanbai was a woman and apologized to him, Hashirama, and Tobirama before leaving with Hashirama.
• Yanbai teased that Hashirama and Mito were too young and unprepared for their wedding night, then invited Tobirama to his home for dessert.
• Tobirama accepted and complained to Yanbai about his encounter with Uchiha Izuna.

After seven days apart, Yanbai advised Mito Uzumaki about her troubled marriage to Hashirama, then went to observe an eagle’s nest. Madara Uchiha surprised him at the cliff and fell under Yanbai’s Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Yanbai to carry him safely to the bottom and wait for the dōjutsu to wear off.

• Mito Uzumaki visited Yanbai and confided that she and Hashirama had failed to consummate their marriage after seven days.
• Yanbai reassured Mito and offered advice to ease her anxiety, and she left with a plan.
• Yanbai went to the cliff to watch an eagle’s nest, where the father eagle accidentally crushed an egg and ate it.
• Madara Uchiha appeared behind Yanbai, but Yanbai’s Mangekyō Sharingan caught him in a dōjutsu and sent him falling.
• Yanbai carried the dazed Madara to the bottom of the cliff and waited for the dōjutsu to wear off.

Yanbai used his Mangekyō Sharingan to deceive Madara Uchiha with a realistic dream and left him covered in rose hydrosol. When Yanbai returned home, Tobirama Senju confronted him about the deception and warned that Madara would eventually discover the truth.

• Yanbai coated Madara Uchiha with rose hydrosol while keeping him trapped in the illusion created by his right-eye dōjutsu, Kaleidoscope of Moonlight.
• Yanbai woke Madara, hinted that they should bring their dream closer to reality, and left him behind.
• Madara woke, recognized Yanbai's scent on his body, and reflected on his growing attraction to Yanbai despite knowing his dangerous nature.
• Yanbai returned from the cliff with wild chicken eggs and encountered Tobirama Senju, who revealed that he had followed him to the secret meeting place.
• Tobirama warned Yanbai that Madara would discover the deception and demanded to know how Yanbai would deal with the consequences.

Madara Uchiha admitted to Tajima that he had visited Yanbai, who had taught him about the Mangekyō Sharingan and encouraged him to question the rules. At Yanbai’s courtyard, Senju Kawarama confessed that his eight lovers had discovered one another and were hunting him down.

• Madara Uchiha told Tajima that he had gone to see Yanbai again and revealed that she had discussed evolving the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Tobirama Senju stayed at Yanbai’s courtyard while Senju Kawarama hid there from his lovers.
• Yanbai and Tobirama watched Kawarama devour his food, then pressed him to explain why his lovers were after him.
• Kawarama recounted how his sweetheart on the Uchiha battlefield was exposed, leading his seven other lovers to join forces and track him down.
• Kawarama defended having a male Uchiha lover by pointing out that Yanbai pursued both men and women, while Yanbai wondered what trouble awaited Itama Senju.

Yanbai learned that Senju Kawarama had pursued eight formidable women during espionage missions and left Kawarama to Tobirama Senju’s supervision. Butsuma Senju then grounded Yanbai with a collection of Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu scrolls, which Yanbai planned to memorize and hand over to Tobirama.

• Tobirama Senju wrote down the names of Senju Kawarama’s eight lovers, and Kawarama explained that he had seduced them during espionage missions to survive.
• Yanbai realized the women came from powerful clans and asked whether Kawarama could win them back, while Tobirama ordered Kawarama to marry Ai Senju and settle down.
• Tobirama Senju told Butsuma Senju about Yanbai’s secret meetings with Madara Uchiha, and Butsuma publicly grounded Yanbai.
• Mito Uzumaki moved her clan’s Sealing Jutsu scrolls into Yanbai’s room as Butsuma intended to keep Yanbai occupied with study.
• Yanbai decided to memorize the Sealing Jutsu and pass them to Tobirama Senju, while Mito Uzumaki watched his increasingly unsettling smile.

Yanbai quickly mastered Mito Uzumaki’s Sealing Jutsu and gave her an outrageous illustrated return gift, then spent his days pestering Tobirama Senju and helping inspire the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique. The Senju Clan’s encounter with the Balance Clan disrupted Hashirama Senju’s plan to accompany Mito home, and Yanbai wondered whether the conflict would lead Hashirama to learn Sage Mode.

• Yanbai mastered the Sealing Jutsu Mito Uzumaki taught him, then made her a collection of explicit illustrated guides as a return gift.
• Mito showed the gift to Hashirama Senju, who was shocked and speculated that Yanbai’s knowledge explained Madara’s romantic attachment to him.
• Yanbai continually followed Tobirama Senju and offered ideas as Tobirama researched forbidden techniques.
• Tobirama completed the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique during Yanbai’s relentless pestering.
• The Senju Clan encountered the Balance Clan, whose members transformed into mindless monsters and caused trouble during a mission.
• The Balance Clan conflict delayed Hashirama’s planned trip with Mito, and Yanbai wondered whether Hashirama might learn Sage Mode while resolving it.

While Hashirama Senju handled clan affairs away from home, Yanbai spent a quiet evening learning that Tajima and Izuna had awakened Mangekyō Sharingan. Senju Kawarama then barged in asking Yanbai for more copies of the Man-Taming Technique to use with his many new brides.

• Hashirama Senju left for the Tanzaku Clan while the Senju family divided its busy clan duties among themselves.
• During the rainy-season mist, Yanbai learned from Cherry Ink that Tajima and Izuna had awakened Mangekyō Sharingan after Madara Uchiha used his dōjutsu on them.
• Yanbai sent Madara Uchiha a bottle of rose hydrosol and a short letter through Cherry Ink's descendants.
• Senju Kawarama burst into Yanbai's room with the Man-Taming Technique and asked for more copies for his brides.
• Yanbai learned that at least four of Senju Kawarama's eight lovers were pregnant, then scolded him as Kawarama begged for more illustrated guides.

Yanbai drew illustrations for Senju Kawarama and learned how the Senju Clan had persuaded several shinobi clans to unite through Tobirama Senju’s plans and Kawarama’s marriages. Yanbai worried over what the new alliance would mean for Konoha, then decided to leave the matter to Hashirama and Madara.

• Yanbai agreed to draw a set of pictures for Senju Kawarama but left out the diagram of the “equipment,” prompting Kawarama to complain.
• Kawarama flirted with one of his wives, and Yanbai teased him about having so many “babies.”
• Kawarama said Yanbai’s habit of giving animals unique names had inspired him to give each lover a different pet name, then admitted he was avoiding his pregnant wives and asked Yanbai for medicine.
• Yanbai asked how Kawarama had persuaded Hyuga Misumi’s clan to let her marry into the Senju Clan.
• Kawarama explained that Tobirama Senju had offered clans tailored benefits and that the Hyuga, Uchiha, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Sarutobi, and Shimura clans were joining the Senju-led village.
• Yanbai wondered whether the united clans would still form Konoha and decided to leave the question to Hashirama and Madara.

Hashirama Senju returned from Shikkotsu Forest with a Rashomon contract and senjutsu, while Yanbai refused to meet the Katsuyu Sage and continued helping clans prepare to merge. As Hashirama’s power threatened to outpace Madara Uchiha’s, Yanbai worried about keeping them evenly matched.

• Yanbai sent Senju Kawarama away after drawing plans and refused to make him more medicine.
• Hashirama Senju returned from the Uzumaki Clan with a Fivefold Rashomon contract and senjutsu learned at Shikkotsu Forest.
• Hashirama invited Yanbai to meet the Katsuyu Sage, but Yanbai refused and suggested other family members go instead.
• Yanbai designed new clan grounds as shinobi clans joined the Senju Clan’s ceasefire and merger efforts.
• Yanbai sent Madara Uchiha gifts while Madara and Izuna handled the Uchiha Clan’s affairs.
• Yanbai worried that Hashirama’s senjutsu would make him too strong for Madara and considered how Madara might obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Butsuma Senju died after years of exhausting himself with worry, leaving Yanbai grieving and unable to save him. After Hashirama Senju became clan leader, Yanbai learned the Senju and Uchiha had agreed to his marriage to Madara Uchiha and decided he would speak to Madara himself.

• Butsuma Senju collapsed, recognized that his life had reached its end, and asked Yanbai whether he wanted to marry Madara Uchiha or had any other wish.
• Yanbai told Butsuma Senju he had no wish to fulfill, and Butsuma Senju thanked him before asking to see Hashirama Senju.
• Butsuma Senju died peacefully the next morning, and Hashirama Senju succeeded him as clan leader and presided over his funeral.
• Yanbai informed Madara Uchiha of Butsuma Senju's death through the birds.
• Hashirama Senju told Yanbai that the Uchiha Clan had made his marriage to Madara a condition of jointly founding a village, and Yanbai said he would speak to Madara himself.

Yanbai met Madara Uchiha in the Cherry Blossom Grove and revealed that he had used dōjutsu to restrain Madara’s love. After Yanbai lifted the seal briefly, Madara felt his love turn into an overwhelming urge to kill him, and Yanbai explained the danger.

• Yanbai met Madara Uchiha in the Cherry Blossom Grove, where they spoke about both having lost their fathers on the same day.
• Yanbai told Madara that he had used dōjutsu to keep Madara’s love for him restrained.
• Yanbai explained that a rule imposed by the supreme god made mortals’ undying love for gods turn into murderous intent.
• Yanbai lifted the seal, and Madara experienced a violent urge to kill Yanbai as his love surged.
• Yanbai restored the seal with his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Madara asked in alarm what was happening.