Chapter Summaries

Tianyun Hyuga, Hinata Hyuga, and Kimura Kokomi met their new Squad Leader, Kakashi, and left Konoha for their first mission together. Kakashi assigned them three days of weeding Medicine Mountain, while Tianyun objected to the menial work.

• Tianyun arrived at the village gates and proposed getting breakfast with Hinata and Kimura while they waited for their late Squad Leader.
• Kakashi appeared, introduced himself as their Squad Leader, and led the three genin out of Konoha.
• After traveling through the Land of Fire for several hours, Kakashi stopped near a mountain covered in medicinal herbs.
• Kakashi told the team to weed the herb fields within three days, and Tianyun protested that he expected more exciting missions.
• Kakashi explained that they had to complete twenty D-rank missions before taking C-rank missions and offered two million for clearing the weeds.

Tianyun Hyuga avoided the hard parts of a weeding mission, asked Kakashi to teach him Lightning Blade, and spent the rest of the day eating and sleeping. After a month of D-rank missions, the team took five days off so Tianyun could see his little brother start at the Ninja Academy.

• Tianyun sent a Shadow Clone to weed Medicine Mountain while he rested, then asked Kakashi to teach him Lightning Blade; Kakashi refused and told him to ask Lord Hokage.
• Tianyun went hunting, ate three rabbits, and returned with a boar, which Kimura Kokomi cooked for the team.
• Kakashi led the three genin through a month and six days of dull missions, including their thirteenth D-rank mission.
• Tianyun told Kakashi he wanted five days off to see his little brother start at the Ninja Academy, and Kakashi gave the whole team the same break.
• Hinata followed Tianyun toward the Hyuga Clan, while Kimura Kokomi returned to Root to report.

Tianyun Hyuga visited Naruto Uzumaki and promised to take him to the Ninja Academy, then treated him to dinner. At the barbecue restaurant, Tianyun learned that his classmates had graduated after training in the New Gentle Fist Technique, while Neji Hyuga and Tenten had been assigned to teach new students.

• Tianyun Hyuga visited Naruto Uzumaki and agreed to take him to the Ninja Academy after taking five days off.
• Tianyun Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki headed to the barbecue restaurant, with Tianyun agreeing to pay for the meal.
• Tianyun Hyuga met Daishi Akimichi, Heigui Inuzuka, Jiro Kamata, and Shizuka KImori at the restaurant.
• Daishi Akimichi told Tianyun Hyuga that his classmates had graduated after training in the New Gentle Fist Technique.
• Daishi Akimichi explained that Neji Hyuga and Tenten were staying at the academy and had been assigned to teach new students.

On the first day of school, Tianyun Hyuga waited outside the Konoha Ninja Academy, where he learned Tenten had become a temporary teaching assistant and encountered the new students and Uchiha Itachi. The chapter ended with Sasuke Uchiha angrily entering school after Tianyun told him he was too inexperienced to compare himself to him.

• Tenten told Tianyun Hyuga that her Elite Class had been disbanded and that she and the remaining students had to serve as teaching assistants for a year.
• Tenten grabbed Tianyun Hyuga to avoid welcoming students, but let go after Naruto Uzumaki mistakenly asked if she was going to be his sister-in-law.
• Naruto Uzumaki entered the school, and Tianyun Hyuga stayed at the gates to watch for Uchiha Sasuke.
• Shikaku Nara greeted Tianyun Hyuga as he arrived with Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi; Sakura Haruno, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame also arrived with their mothers.
• Uchiha Itachi brought Sasuke Uchiha to school, and Sasuke challenged Tianyun Hyuga to a future contest.
• Tianyun Hyuga told Sasuke Uchiha he first had to surpass Uchiha Itachi, prompting the angry Sasuke to storm into the school.

Tianyun Hyuga ate with Naruto Uzumaki, then learned that Hyuga Hiashi had arranged to pay him five million a month to teach Hinata Hyuga. He agreed to give Hinata pointers, but Meicun Hyuga’s lecture about his attitude toward the clan left him uninterested as she finally gave up scolding him.

• Tianyun returned to Naruto at the barbecue restaurant and watched him eat more than twenty plates of meat.
• Tianyun told Naruto to meet him at six in the morning on the day school started, and they went their separate ways.
• Tianyun found Hinata at home with Meicun, who explained that Hiashi had sent five million a month for Tianyun to teach Hinata.
• Tianyun reluctantly agreed to teach Hinata after Meicun revealed she had already accepted the money.
• Meicun escorted Hinata home, then scolded Tianyun for dismissing his duty to help her, but eventually left when she realized he would not share her loyalty to the Hyuga Clan.

After Uchiha Itachi’s genjutsu nearly exposed Tianyun Hyuga’s secrets, Tianyun realized he could enhance ninjutsu used against him and went to Hinata Hyuga to test the ability. His attempt to enhance her Binding Technique failed, leaving him to suspect that the system could not enhance ninjutsu that did not belong to him.

• Uchiha Itachi questioned Tianyun Hyuga, who noticed and called out the genjutsu Itachi had cast on him.
• Uchiha Itachi withdrew the genjutsu, apologized to Tianyun Hyuga, and left; Tianyun realized the system had warned him about it and saw that enhancing his soul would cost one billion.
• Tianyun Hyuga decided to investigate whether he could enhance an enemy’s ninjutsu and returned to the Hyuga Clan grounds to find Hinata Hyuga.
• Tianyun Hyuga asked Hinata Hyuga to take him to a secluded place, and she led him to the Meditation Room.
• Hinata Hyuga cast her Binding Technique on Tianyun Hyuga, but his attempt to enhance it for one hundred thousand yuan failed and the cost was refunded.
• Tianyun Hyuga concluded that the system could not enhance ninjutsu that was not part of him.

Tianyun Hyuga discovered that enhancing an enemy's Genjutsu could make it break on its own, then arranged to refine thousands of Ninja Tools to raise money quickly. He locked himself in the shop's warehouse to begin refining the batch.

• Tianyun Hyuga finished testing Hinata Hyuga's Genjutsu and secretly enhanced one of her Ninjutsu as a reward.
• Tianyun Hyuga visited Tiesheng at Tenten's family Ninja Tools Shop to discuss increasing production and earning more money.
• Tiesheng explained that the warehouse held three thousand ordinary Ninja Tools, which could bring in around two hundred million after refinement.
• Tianyun Hyuga said he would refine all three thousand tools that day and told Tiesheng to obtain high-grade Soldier Pills.
• Tiesheng went to buy Special Soldier Pills from the Akimichi Clan, while Tianyun Hyuga locked himself inside the warehouse.

Tianyun Hyuga finished enhancing the Ninja Tools Shop’s weapons, then waited outside the Ninja Academy to pick up Naruto Uzumaki. After Naruto described clashing with Sasuke Uchiha, the two headed to Ichiraku Ramen to celebrate his first day of school.

• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced roughly three thousand ninja tools, pretended to be exhausted, and told Tiesheng to sell them and deliver the money to his home.
• Tianyun Hyuga ate at Ichiraku Ramen, then waited at the Ninja Academy and noticed that no Uchiha parents had come to collect their children.
• Tianyun Hyuga speculated that the Uchiha Clan massacre was near and considered how he might obtain a pair of Sharingan without confronting the powerful figures behind it.
• Tianyun Hyuga called Naruto Uzumaki over after class, and Naruto said he had made friends but had argued with Sasuke Uchiha.
• Tianyun Hyuga suggested celebrating at Ichiraku Ramen, and Naruto agreed after Tianyun joked that he could pay for a barbecue restaurant.

Tianyun Hyuga realized he could enhance Soldier Pills and sell them for a profit, then prepared a thousand pills for a deal with the Third Hokage. He arrived at the Hokage Building to negotiate while the Third Hokage remained preoccupied with the Uchiha Clan crisis.

• Tianyun Hyuga planned to monitor the Uchiha Clan with Shadow Clones and find a way to obtain Sharingan without attracting the attention of Uchiha Itachi, Obito Uchiha, or Shimura Danzō.
• Tianyun Hyuga enhanced ten Soldier Pills and discovered that one doubled his chakra after he took it.
• Tianyun Hyuga decided to sell enhanced Soldier Pills to the Third Hokage and sent Shadow Clones to buy a thousand Intermediate Soldier Pills from the Nara Clan's shops.
• The Third Hokage handed the Uchiha Clan matter to Shimura Danzō after the clan withdrew its children from Konoha's schools.
• Tianyun Hyuga brought the thousand pills to the Hokage Building and told the Third Hokage he had come to discuss business.

Tianyun Hyuga sold the Third Hokage 999 enhanced soldier pills for 700 million, leaving payment to be arranged in three days. After the Hokage ordered an investigation into the pills, Tianyun left to look for other ways to make money and planned to teach Hinata Hyuga.

• Tianyun Hyuga demonstrated an enhanced soldier pill that increased the Third Hokage’s chakra by a fifth, then haggled with him over its price.
• The Third Hokage agreed to buy 999 soldier pills for 700 million and told Tianyun Hyuga to return for payment in three days.
• The Third Hokage summoned an Anbu ninja to invite the major clan heads to inspect the pills and investigate their source without alerting Tianyun.
• Tianyun Hyuga browsed the Nara Clan’s medicinal herb shop but found nothing worthwhile to enhance.
• Tianyun Hyuga planned to seek higher-ranked missions after getting paid and headed back to the Hyuga Clan to teach Hinata Hyuga.