Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Shixia forced Kusagakure’s leaders to accept his demands by demonstrating his power, then teamed up with Mui to bring them under control. After capturing Chenye, Shixia and Mui pursued the fleeing Elder Ghost Horse, who was left paralyzed by Shixia’s lightning.

• Uzumaki Shixia destroyed a forest with his Thunder Dragon technique, prompting Kusagakure’s leaders to agree to punish those responsible for Karin’s mother and accept his demands.
• Hatta Shinichi executed the shinobi who had exploited Karin’s mother, and Karin decided to follow Uzumaki Shixia.
• Uzumaki Shixia sent Kakuzu to discuss Kusagakure becoming Amegakure’s vassal and offered Mui help capturing a tailed beast in exchange for controlling the village’s leaders.
• Uzumaki Shixia and Mui captured Chenye at night, and Mui sealed Chenye’s chakra with Fire Release: Heavenly Prison.
• Elder Ghost Horse tried to flee Kusagakure after learning of Mui’s betrayal, but Uzumaki Shixia struck him with Lightning Finger and left him unable to move.

Uzumaki Shixia and Kakuzu returned to Amegakure after subjugating Kusagakure in less than three days, shocking Nagato and the Akatsuki members with their speed. Zetsu questioned whether Mui and Kusagakure’s leaders were only pretending to submit and might be seeking help.

• Mui sealed Kusagakure’s high-ranking officials under his control, and Uzumaki Shixia told him to keep watch over them.
• Uzumaki Shixia, Karin, and Kakuzu left Kusagakure, and Shixia brought Mui back to Amegakure as an envoy.
• Nagato and Konan noticed Shixia and Kakuzu returning unusually quickly, then waited to hear whether their mission had succeeded.
• Uzumaki Shixia reported how he and Kakuzu subjugated Kusagakure and presented the signed agreement to Pain.
• Nagato and the Akatsuki members were shocked by the report, while Orochimaru and Itachi grew more interested and wary of Shixia.
• Zetsu suggested that Mui and Kusagakure’s leaders could be faking their submission while seeking reinforcements.

Uzumaki Shixia completed his commission to bring Kusagakure into submission and used the reward for thirty-six ten-pulls, gaining Wood Release: Grand Villa Technique. He accepted Nagato’s mission to capture the Three-Tails and secured a long-term paid contract from Mui before setting out.

• Uzumaki Shixia explained that Mui, Kusagakure’s actual ruler, had come to Amegakure, and Pain sent Konan to negotiate with the envoy and paid Shixia for the completed mission.
• Uzumaki Shixia spent 36,000 commission points on thirty-six ten-pulls and gained Wood Release: Grand Villa Technique, among other abilities.
• Uzumaki Shixia persuaded Pain to commission the capture of a wild tailed beast, and Pain offered 10,000,000 ryō and 10,000 commission points.
• Uzumaki Shixia asked Pain to send Kisame with him because the tailed beast was in the Land of Water, and Pain agreed.
• Uzumaki Shixia convinced Mui to hire him long-term to capture a tailed beast for 2,000,000 ryō per month, earning a Super Draw upon completion and doubled commission points from the contract payments.

After completing a mission, Uzumaki Shixia recruited Kisame for another job and traveled with Karin and Kakuzu to Kirigakure. At the Kirigakure black market, he turned in completed missions, found bounties on Genji, Mei Terumi, and Chojuro, and decided to accept them all under Kakuzu's name.

• Uzumaki Shixia woke Kakuzu to take another mission, then recruited Kisame after Kakuzu refused to go.
• Uzumaki Shixia and his companions joined a merchant caravan, completed an escort mission on the way, and entered Kirigakure safely.
• Kisame went to explore Kirigakure, Kakuzu chose to rest, and Uzumaki Shixia took Karin to the black market.
• Uzumaki Shixia turned in completed mission sheets and proofs for 2.2 million ryo while Karin counted the payment.
• Uzumaki Shixia read bounty sheets targeting Genji, Mei Terumi, and Chojuro, then decided to accept every bounty under Kakuzu's name.

Uzumaki Shixia left the black market with mission requests while Kisame fought Mei Terumi, Chojuro, Gonbei, and Ao near Kirigakure. Shixia arrived to demand the ninja be kept alive, but Kisame attacked him, and Shixia overwhelmed Kisame’s water technique with his Thunder Dragon.

• Uzumaki Shixia left the black market with Karin and a stack of mission requests.
• Mei Terumi led Chojuro, Gonbei, Ao, and other Kirigakure ninja in an attack on Kisame, who overpowered them with his water techniques.
• Mei Terumi used a Water Prison Technique to protect herself from Kisame’s Exploding Water Colliding Wave and fell into the lake.
• Uzumaki Shixia arrived and ordered Kisame to leave the Kirigakure ninja alive, but Kisame ignored him and unleashed Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
• Uzumaki Shixia countered Kisame with 60 Million Volts: Thunder Dragon, whose lightning remained strong as Kisame’s water attack began to fade.

Uzumaki Shixia defeated Kisame and rescued Mei Terumi, Chojuro, Ao, and Gonbei, then revealed that all four were listed on bounty commissions. The chapter ended with the four Kirigakure shinobi realizing Shixia might take them in for their combined 53-million-ryo bounty.

• Kisame used Samehada to absorb part of Shixia’s Thunder Dragon, but Shixia struck him with Four-Finger Nukite and left him defeated.
• Mei Terumi freed Chojuro from the Water Prison Technique, and she, Chojuro, Ao, and Gonbei thanked Shixia for saving them.
• Mei recognized Shixia from intelligence reports as a powerful Amegakure Black Market mission operative who had defeated numerous S-rank missing-nin.
• Shixia checked his commission sheets and identified Mei Terumi, Gonbei, Ao, and Chojuro, whose listed bounties totaled 53 million ryo.
• Shixia said he was pleased with their combined bounty, making Ao, Gonbei, Mei, and Chojuro fear that he intended to capture them.

Mei Terumi tried to stop Uzumaki Shixia from threatening Kirigakure by hiring him to capture Kisame, but Shixia demanded more money after claiming Kisame was his trusted partner. He weighed the payment against the risk of angering the Akatsuki and the future profits of capturing tailed beasts, leaving Kisame’s fate undecided.

• Mei Terumi warned Gonbei, Chojuro, and Ao not to attack Uzumaki Shixia and told them about his flawless record as a mission-taking ninja.
• Ao urged Mei Terumi to retreat while he, Gonbei, and Chojuro held Shixia off, but Mei Terumi offered Shixia eight million ryo to capture Kisame.
• Shixia accepted the commission in principle but protested that eight million was too little because Kisame was his trusted partner.
• Mei Terumi agreed to increase the payment, and Shixia seriously considered handing Kisame over despite Kisame’s objections about the Akatsuki.
• Shixia weighed the increased payment against the danger of provoking the Akatsuki and the profits he might earn from future tailed beast missions.

Sixia failed to sell Kisame and instead negotiated a long-term commission from Mei Terumi to suppress Kirigakure’s Blood Mist remnants. He accepted ten million ryo per month for a year, along with permission to take Kirigakure missions, and looked forward to steady work.

• Mei Terumi hired Sixia to recover Samehada for five million ryo, but Kisame refused to hand over the sword.
• After Mei Terumi explained Kirigakure’s instability, Sixia offered to suppress the Blood Mist remnants for one hundred million ryo.
• Mei Terumi said Kirigakure could not afford the fee, and Sixia threatened to take missions from the opposing faction.
• Mei Terumi offered installments of ten million ryo per month for a year and permission for Sixia to accept Kirigakure missions.
• Sixia accepted Mei Terumi’s long-term commission and welcomed the steady income and access to more missions.

Uzumaki Shixia accepted Kirigakure’s commission to help Mei Terumi suppress the Blood Mist faction and proposed using the four officials as bait to locate its leaders. After demonstrating that he could hide as lightning inside Mei Terumi’s ring, he won their reluctant agreement and prepared to head to the black market with Kisame.

• Mei Terumi paid Shixia ten million ryo, and the system confirmed Kirigakure’s commission to help suppress destabilizing elements.
• Mei Terumi and Ao proposed that Shixia confront the Blood Mist faction, but they admitted they lacked intelligence about where its leaders were hiding.
• Shixia proposed capturing Mei Terumi, Gonbei, Ao, and Chojuro and letting the Blood Mist take them so he could follow them to its leaders.
• When Chojuro objected, Shixia transformed into lightning and concealed himself inside Mei Terumi’s ring to show he could follow them safely.
• Mei Terumi and the others agreed to the plan, and Shixia created Wood Clones to guard them while he went to fetch Kisame.
• Shixia found Kisame and told him they had another mission before they headed to the black market.

Sixia dragged Kakuzu and Kisame into a mission to deliver Mei Terumi and her companions to the Blood Mist, while secretly sensing the operation’s surroundings. After the Blood Mist leaders received the prisoners at their base, Karatachi Takiichi asked to see them.

• Sixia woke Kakuzu and recruited him and Kisame for a mission, then led the group to the Kirigakure Black Market with Karin asleep on his back.
• The Black Market manager paid Sixia to deliver Mei Terumi and three others, whose chakra had been sealed, to a valley outside Kirigakure.
• Sixia sensed the Blood Mist operatives in the valley but followed their instructions, and Kakuzu collected the mission payment from Kondo Takashi.
• Kondo Takashi brought Mei Terumi and the others to the Blood Mist base, where Karatachi Takiichi and Hozuki Mugetsu were waiting.
• Kondo Takashi reported that the prisoners were verified and their chakra sealed, and Karatachi Takiichi ordered him to bring them in.

Mei Terumi and her allies confronted Karatachi Takiichi and Hozuki Mugetsu, who revealed their plan to seize power and kill Genji’s supporters. Uzumaki Shixia intervened to free the captives, then denied any connection to Kakuzu’s mission.

• Karatachi Takiichi and Hozuki Mugetsu defended restoring the Blood Mist, while Mei Terumi argued that Genji’s reforms were improving Kirigakure.
• Hozuki Mugetsu demanded that Mei Terumi and the others choose between submission and death, but Mei Terumi and Gonbei refused to betray Genji.
• Hozuki Mugetsu ordered Kondo Takashi to kill Gonbei, but Uzumaki Shixia struck Kondo Takashi away before he could attack.
• Uzumaki Shixia freed Mei Terumi, Gonbei, Ao, and Chojuro from their restraints and restored their chakra.
• Uzumaki Shixia claimed that Kakuzu had accepted the bounty mission and denied having any arrangement with Karatachi Takiichi and Hozuki Mugetsu.

Uzumaki Shixia overwhelmed the Blood Mist faction in Kirigakure and helped Mei Terumi secure their promise to restrain their followers. After returning to Kirigakure, he accepted Mei Terumi’s banquet invitation but was reminded that his group still had business to attend to.

• Hozuki Mugetsu ordered Kondo Takashi and the other Blood Mist ninja to attack Uzumaki Shixia, who defeated them with ease.
• Hozuki Mugetsu and Karatachi Takiichi pleaded for their lives, and Mei Terumi offered to spare them if they kept their followers from harming the village.
• Hozuki Mugetsu and Karatachi Takiichi agreed to restrain their subordinates while maintaining their commitment to the Fourth Mizukage’s will.
• Mei Terumi and her companions returned to Kirigakure with Uzumaki Shixia, who had completed his mission to suppress the Blood Mist faction.
• Mei Terumi invited Uzumaki Shixia and his friends to a banquet, but Kisame reminded him that their tailed-beast-related business remained unfinished.

Uzumaki Shixia discovered Kondo Yano’s plan to provoke the Three-Tails and followed the Blood Mist ninja to the lake. After Isobu rampaged, Mei Terumi hired Shixia to defeat it and protect Kirigakure, while the village’s ninja struggled to slow the beast.

• Kondo Yano planned to provoke the Three-Tails into rampaging so the Blood Mist ninja could control it and regain influence in Kirigakure.
• Shixia overheard the plan, led Kisame and Mei Terumi’s group to the lake, and revealed what Kondo Yano intended to do.
• Kondo Yano and his companions used a secret technique to enrage Isobu, which emerged from the lake and threatened the village.
• Mei Terumi hired Shixia for ten million ryo to defeat Isobu and return it to the lake, then ordered Kirigakure’s ninja to retreat and evacuate villagers.
• Some Kirigakure ninja stayed and attacked Isobu with Water Release: Water Shockwave, but their waves barely affected it, so Mei Terumi and Gonbei urged them to flee.

Uzumaki Shixia confronted the rampaging Three-Tails, Isobu, while Kirigakure’s leaders and the Blood Mist faction watched. Shixia overwhelmed the beast with his strength and Lightning Release Armor, then hurled it into the lake; Isobu surfaced and prepared a powerful Water Release attack.

• Isobu’s waves swept Kirigakure shinobi, boulders, and trees away as Mei Terumi and Gonbei urged the survivors to retreat.
• Mei Terumi told Genji that the Blood Mist had provoked Isobu and that she had hired a powerful shinobi to handle him.
• Kondo Yano admitted he had caused Isobu’s rampage, and Hozuki Mugetsu and Karatachi Takiichi approved of his actions.
• Uzumaki Shixia pushed Isobu from the shore back into the lake with one hand and endured the beast’s claw strike using Lightning Release Armor.
• Shixia caught Isobu’s claw, swung the beast around, and hurled him into the lake, stunning the watching shinobi.
• Isobu emerged and formed a chakra-charged Iron Cannonball in his mouth.

Uzumaki Shixia defeated the Three-Tails, forced it into a summoning contract, and sent it back to the lake. Kirigakure’s leaders praised Mei Terumi for hiring him and discussed using commission missions to work with him, while Shixia remained unwilling to join the village.

• Sixia overwhelmed the Three-Tails’ Iron Cannonball and Shadow Fear with his Thunder Beast and Lightning Release: Lariat.
• When the Three-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, Sixia countered with 200 Million Volts: Thunder Dragon, blasted it into the forest, and won the fight.
• Sixia imposed a Summoning Contract Formula on the Three-Tails and beat it until it obeyed his command to return to the lake.
• Genji and Kirigakure’s senior officials praised Mei Terumi for preventing a disaster and asked whether Sixia would join the village.
• Mei Terumi suggested working with Sixia through commission missions, since he reliably accepted and completed official assignments.

Mei Terumi brought Uzumaki Shixia to confront the Blood Mist elders over the Three-Tails incident, and Shixia intimidated them into backing off. He collected his ten-million-ryo payment from Genji and promoted his services to Kirigakure’s leaders, then eyed Mei Terumi’s money as they left.

• Mei Terumi accused Hozuki Mugetsu, Karatachi Takiichi, and the Blood Mist faction of causing the Three-Tails rampage, but they denied responsibility and argued over who should guard the beast.
• Kondo Yano challenged Mei Terumi’s authority to oversee the Three-Tails, and Shixia warned the Blood Mist elders that anyone undermining Kirigakure would become his enemy.
• Shixia asked Mei Terumi whether his commission was complete, and she took him to Genji to collect his payment.
• Shixia pitched his mercenary services to Genji and Kirigakure’s senior officials, and Genji paid him ten million ryo for completing the Three-Tails mission.
• As Shixia left with Mei Terumi, he asked whether anything was troubling her and eyed the money she carried.

Sixia finished clearing out Kirigakure’s black-market missions and left the village with Karin, Kakuzu, and Kisame. Though Kakuzu and Kisame thought the Three-Tails mission remained unfinished, Sixia insisted it was complete and kept his secret Summoning Contract with the beast hidden.

• Sixia rejected Mei Terumi’s offer to hire her as a guide, then reassured Karin that he had never planned to use her as a tailed-beast vessel.
• Sixia left Kakuzu and Kisame uncertain about the Three-Tails mission while the Blood Mist members gathered to discuss stopping him.
• Sixia and Kakuzu took nearly all the Kirigakure Black Market’s missions, then announced that Sixia would leave the next day.
• Sixia, Karin, Kakuzu, and Kisame left Kirigakure, and Sixia claimed the Three-Tails mission was already complete.
• Kisame boarded the carriage with Sixia, while Kakuzu remained skeptical about how they would explain the mission to Pain.

Sixia brought the Three-Tails to Amegakure, revealed that he had made Isobu his summon, and set out for Kusagakure to complete Mui’s commission. After Mui prepared to use the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Sixia warned him that it would bring destruction rather than grant his wish.

• Kisame told Pain and Konan that the mission had failed because Sixia defeated Isobu but let him return to the lake.
• Sixia summoned Isobu before Pain and Konan, then dismissed him and said he needed to use the Three-Tails before handing him over.
• Pain agreed to wait while Sixia traveled to Kusagakure with Kakuzu and Karin.
• Sixia told Mui he had completed the tailed-beast commission, and Mui led him to the prepared site for the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• Sixia warned Mui that opening the Box of Ultimate Bliss would bring destruction and fear, not grant a wish.

Uzumaki Shixia helped Mui use the Three-Tails’ Chakra to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss and wish for his son’s resurrection. Muku emerged, but Karin sensed that he was not truly Mui’s son, and Shixia stopped Mui from rushing toward him.

• Shixia summoned the Three-Tails into Mui’s sealing formula, where it was bound and drained of Chakra.
• Shixia intimidated the struggling Three-Tails into cooperating, while Mui channeled its Chakra into the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• As the box neared activation, Shixia assured Kakuzu that he would handle whatever happened.
• Mui opened the box and wished for his son Muku to be resurrected.
• Karin sensed that the figure emerging from the box was not truly Muku, but Mui ignored her warning.
• Shixia stopped Mui from embracing the figure and told him to look closely at whether it was really his son.

Sixia defeated Gō after the Box of Ultimate Bliss transformed Muku, then persuaded Mui and Kusagakure’s elders to let him take the dangerous tool. After completing his mission and returning to Amegakure, Sixia presented the emaciated Three-Tails Isobu to the gathered Akatsuki members.

• Gō emerged from the Box of Ultimate Bliss in Muku’s form, and Sixia overwhelmed it with lightning attacks until it fled back inside.
• Mui and Kusagakure’s elders agreed to leave the Box of Ultimate Bliss in Sixia’s custody, and Mui paid him twenty million ryō for the completed mission.
• Sixia stored the Box of Ultimate Bliss, dismissed the Three-Tails, and left Kusagakure with Kakuzu and Karin.
• Sixia returned to Amegakure and presented Three-Tails Isobu to Pain and the other Akatsuki members.
• Konan and the Akatsuki members reacted with bewilderment to Isobu’s drastically shrunken, emaciated appearance.