Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gen defeated Shibi Aburame’s Battle Bug No. 9527 during Team 8’s assessment, while Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma Sarutobi also earned praise for their techniques. Shibi formed the new team by treating them to barbecue, where Asuma ate enough to leave him speechless.

• Uchiha Gen knocked Kazzek away and immobilized it with a powerful Lightning Release technique.
• Shibi Aburame emerged from the ground, absorbed the lightning with his insects, and recalled Kazzek into his gourd.
• Shibi praised Uchiha Gen’s combat skills and commended Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma Sarutobi for their performance in the assessment.
• Asuma Sarutobi asked why Uchiha Gen’s test differed from theirs and whether Kazzek was an Aburame Clan weapon of war.
• Shibi explained that Kazzek was a half-finished insect specimen and invited the exhausted team to celebrate their formation with barbecue.
• At the Akimichi Clan’s barbecue restaurant, Asuma Sarutobi devoured most of the meat, leaving Shibi Aburame wondering if the Hokage usually starved his son.

After their celebratory barbecue, Shibi Aburame assessed his new students for Hiruzen Sarutobi, describing Asuma and Kurenai before revealing that Uchiha Gen had a Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Hiruzen was stunned by the news that Gen had awakened it at only nine years old, or possibly earlier.

• Asuma Sarutobi enthusiastically accepted Shibi Aburame as his teacher, and Shibi told Asuma, Kurenai Yuhi, and Uchiha Gen to meet at the training ground the next morning.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked the jonin to assess their new students, and Shibi described his three as excellent.
• Shibi told Hiruzen that Asuma had talent for compound ninjutsu but lacked patience, while Kurenai skillfully used the Phantom Eye Kekkei Genkai and favored genjutsu.
• Shibi hesitated when discussing Uchiha Gen, recalling his unusual abilities and unusually durable Susanoo.
• Shibi finally revealed that Uchiha Gen had the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, leaving Hiruzen shocked.

Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that nine-year-old Uchiha Gen had a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and worried about what might have caused it, asking Shibi Aburame to help Gen bond with his teammates. The team gathered for its first mission, which Shibi described as a test of whether they could truly become ninja.

• Shibi Aburame told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Uchiha Gen had used Susanoo armor that covered his whole body, indicating a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi tasked Shibi Aburame with helping Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai form strong bonds with Uchiha Gen, fearing Gen might become another Madara Uchiha.
• After Shibi left, Hiruzen Sarutobi reflected on the emotional upheaval needed to awaken the Sharingan and wondered whether Gen might be different, like Kagami.
• At the ninja building, Uchiha Gen used his newly acquired Observation Haki to sense three hidden observers, including one he perceived as hostile.
• Shibi Aburame arrived and announced that the team had a D-rank mission, but said it would test whether they could truly become ninja.

Uchiha Gen, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kurenai Yuhi accepted a mission to wipe out bandits near Cihang Town, with Shibi Aburame accompanying them. They reached the town by riding Shibi’s giant beetle, and the team faced the start of their first mission involving killing people.

• Uchiha Gen, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kurenai Yuhi read the mission scroll and agreed to carry out the order to leave no survivors.
• Shibi Aburame explained that a bandit group led by an onmyoji was raiding Cihang Town and that they had to exterminate the group.
• Shibi Aburame summoned Walking Insect No. 12138 and flew the team out of Konoha toward Cihang Town.
• Uchiha Gen used Observation Haki to assess the small settlement after the beetle arrived above it.
• Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi looked down at Cihang Town and realized that the mission’s killing would soon begin.

Uchiha Gen led Team 8 into a bandit stronghold, where he confronted Jigumi, an A-rank Onmyoji who fed on fear. The mission’s true danger became clear as Jigumi summoned three undead samurai to fight him.

• After Shibi Aburame explained that the mission was to leave no survivors, he dissolved into insects and left Team 8 to decide how to proceed.
• Uchiha Gen chose to attack openly, covered himself in Susanoo Armor, and crashed into the stronghold from the sky.
• Jigumi emerged from a ruined tower, and Shibi Aburame recognized him as an A-rank Onmyoji wanted in the Land of Nō.
• Jigumi explained that he used fear to strengthen his cursed power and declared that he wanted to absorb Uchiha Gen’s fear.
• Jigumi ignited three Yellow Talismans and summoned the three samurai, who were revealed to be undead.

Uchiha Gen defeated the onmyoji Jigumi after his ocular technique disrupted Gen’s lightning, and completed the mission by killing him before his Curse Power could fully transform him. Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi arrived during the fight, while Gen faced the reality of killing for the first time.

• Jigumi sent three corpse puppets at Uchiha Gen, but Gen destroyed them with lightning.
• Jigumi used the Demonic Marionette Calamity Eye to disrupt Gen’s lightning field, then attacked with Ghost Fang Heaven-Crushing.
• Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi arrived, and Asuma moved to help Gen while Kurenai dealt with the approaching bandits.
• Uchiha Gen blocked Jigumi’s spectral fang with a punch, burned his soul with Sharingan power, and struck him with a Susanoo arm blade.
• Jigumi’s fear-driven Curse Power backfired and began mutating him, so Uchiha Gen pierced his chest and declared the mission complete.

After killing Jigumi, Uchiha Gen and Team 7 learned that a ritual array had intensified Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi’s fear, then returned to Konoha. There, they met Minato Namikaze and his team, and Gen asked Obito Uchiha about the claw marks on his face.

• Shibi Aburame identified Jigumi as an A-rank onmyoji and said he would request a higher mission rank and payment.
• Uchiha Gen confirmed that Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi had the same cursed energy fluctuations as Jigumi, and Shibi explained how onmyoji used cursed energy and ritual arrays.
• Shibi Aburame sent insects to destroy Jigumi’s ritual array, causing the black mist around Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi to dissipate.
• Team 7 returned to Konoha, where they encountered Minato Namikaze, Obito Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, and Rin Nohara.
• Obito Uchiha eagerly asked Uchiha Gen about the mission, and Gen asked how Obito had gotten the claw marks on his face.

Uchiha Gen discussed sword force with Kakashi, then learned that the Hokage had taken notice of his strength after his battle with Jigumi. Hiruzen assigned Shibi Aburame and Gen to a special mission while sending Asuma and the Yuhi girl to Team 7.

• Obito Uchiha said Team 7 had failed Minato Namikaze’s assessment mission and blamed Kakashi Hatake for exposing how a cat had scratched him.
• Kakashi Hatake passed on his father’s advice that Uchiha Gen should set aside the Sharingan and pursue sword force; Gen expected to awaken it before Kakashi.
• Kakashi Hatake challenged Uchiha Gen to another fight, but Gen declined and went to collect his share of the mission payment.
• Shibi Aburame reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi that Uchiha Gen had defeated the A-rank Onmyoji Jigumi and was close to elite jonin strength.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Shibi Aburame to keep Team 8 in the village and prepare for a special mission with Gen, while Asuma and the Yuhi girl temporarily joined Team 7.

Uchiha Gen received an emergency B-Rank mission and met Maruboshi Kosuke at Training Ground Three, where Kosuke insisted on testing his strength. Their spar began with Kosuke launching a lethal sword attack, and the chapter ended as his concealed strike targeted Gen’s back.

• Uchiha Gen received an order to assemble at Training Ground Three for an emergency B-Rank mission.
• Uchiha Gen met Maruboshi Kosuke, who said they should learn each other’s abilities before the mission.
• Maruboshi Kosuke drew his sword and attacked Uchiha Gen with a high-speed slash.
• Uchiha Gen activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and evaded Kosuke’s slash.
• Maruboshi Kosuke used Konoha-Style Swordsmanship: Three-Month Concealment and struck at Uchiha Gen from behind.

Uchiha Gen fought Maruboshi Kosuke at Training Ground Three, countering his swordsmanship and ninjutsu with his own blade, Sharingan, and abilities. After Kosuke ended the spar, Shibi Aburame emerged from hiding and said they would leave for the mission now.

• Uchiha Gen used Observation Haki to detect Maruboshi Kosuke’s attack from behind and parried it with the Demon Blade Thousand Blades.
• Uchiha Gen and Maruboshi Kosuke exchanged sword strikes, and Gen used Uchiha-Sword Leaping Flame to match Kosuke’s attacks.
• Maruboshi Kosuke attacked with three water dragons, but Uchiha Gen pierced them with electromagnetic cannon shots from fragments of his blade.
• Maruboshi Kosuke sent a barrage of water-bladed shuriken, and Uchiha Gen burned them away with Crimson Red Lotus.
• Maruboshi Kosuke tried Konoha Style: Swordsmanship-Willow, but Uchiha Gen saw through the genjutsu and stopped his attack.
• Maruboshi Kosuke praised Uchiha Gen and ended the spar; Shibi Aburame emerged from hiding and said the mission would begin now.

Uchiha Gen, Maruboshi Kosuke, and Shibi Aburame traveled to Chuntai City to investigate the disappearance of children and the deaths of Konoha ninja. In Chuntai City, Mayor Fujii Sakura confronted a cloaked accomplice over their crimes and warned that Konoha could uncover their secret.

• Shibi Aburame explained that the mission had been raised to B-rank after a Chunin squad disappeared and Anbu found their bodies in a sewer.
• Uchiha Gen, Maruboshi Kosuke, and Shibi Aburame set out at night in secret, leaving the Anbu stationed in Chuntai City as decoys.
• Fujii Sakura endured severe pain, then ate a blood-red piece of flesh from a box to ease it.
• Fujii Sakura berated a cloaked man for abducting 108 children in one month and attacking Konoha ninja, while the man insisted they could use a scapegoat.
• Fujii Sakura learned that Konoha had found the bodies of three ninja and warned the cloaked man that the Yamanaka Clan could read their memories.

Fujii Sakura argued with a cloaked branch elder over the deaths of Konoha ninjas and chose poor residents near the Land of Hot Water as new targets. Two days later, Maruboshi Kosuke, Shibi Aburame, and Uchiha Gen reached the outskirts of Chuntai City and prepared to investigate discreetly.

• Fujii Sakura ordered the cloaked man to sacrifice the attackers, destroy their bodies, and keep their organization hidden.
• The cloaked man admitted he had personally killed three Konoha ninjas and insisted they needed a child blessed by God to cure Fujii Sakura's Bloodstain Disease.
• Fujii Sakura sent the cloaked man to target poor communities near the Land of Hot Water, where disappearances would attract little attention.
• Maruboshi Kosuke, Shibi Aburame, and Uchiha Gen arrived near Chuntai City two days later.
• Maruboshi Kosuke rejected meeting the client or the exposed Anbu and asked whether Uchiha Gen could use his Three-Tomoe Sharingan genjutsu to gather information.

Uchiha Gen, Maruboshi Kosuke, and Shibi Aburame planned to investigate the killings in Chuntai City, where the victims’ memories had been mysteriously erased. Kosuke suspected that a cult empowered by a vanished god was responsible, and the team prepared to search cautiously.

• Maruboshi Kosuke planned to disguise the team and infiltrate Chuntai City's Security Office, while Shibi Aburame contacted the Anbu Ninja with his insects.
• Uchiha Gen asked why Konoha’s Yamanaka Clan could not learn more from the dead Chunin, and Kosuke explained that their memories had been forcibly removed.
• Maruboshi Kosuke recalled how the Three-Crow Church had used the power of Yatagarasu to devour memories during an earlier mission in the Land of Demons.
• Maruboshi Kosuke said Lady Mito had learned from the Uzumaki Clan’s Reaper that the god’s power had erased the victims’ memories, suggesting a similar cult was behind the current killings.
• Uchiha Gen expressed excitement about investigating the possible cult, while Maruboshi Kosuke resolved to proceed cautiously to protect his teammates.

Shibi Aburame discovered that Chuntai City’s mayor had replaced the security guards with outsiders, leading Maruboshi Kosuke and Uchiha Gen to suspect the city’s leaders were provoking Konoha. At the mayor’s residence, Fujii Sakura revealed that he had already escaped and abandoned Heizhi and his cultists to be sacrificed.

• Shibi Aburame reported that the new guards smelled of blood and that the mayor had transferred them from the Land of Fire’s border prefecture.
• Maruboshi Kosuke grew furious over the enemy’s apparent provocation, while Uchiha Gen suggested fighting their way into Chuntai City.
• Fujii Sakura told the cloaked man that Konoha would soon expose him and ordered him to keep abducting children while Fujii escaped.
• Fujii Sakura revealed that he had already left and switched partners to Elder Yuzuki, telling Heizhi that the Jashin Cult had abandoned his branch.
• Heizhi protested that his uncle, the deputy cult leader, would not agree to the decision, but Fujii Sakura’s clone dispersed in a cloud of smoke.

Uchiha Gen confronted Kuroji at the Town Mayor's Residence while Shibi Aburame’s insects restrained the Public Security Officers and Maruboshi Kosuke hurried to rescue the captive children. Kuroji revealed his Jashin Cult powers and fought back, while Uchiha Gen prepared to test his abilities.

• Kuroji resolved to escape Chuntai City, but Uchiha Gen arrived at the Town Mayor's Residence and confronted him alone.
• Uchiha Gen said Shibi Aburame was handling Kuroji’s men, while Maruboshi Kosuke and two Anbu Ninja rushed toward the children’s prison.
• Uchiha Gen slashed Kuroji’s cheek, and Kuroji’s wound healed as he unleashed the Blood Prison technique and formed a Blood Scythe.
• Uchiha Gen used his Sharingan to read Kuroji’s attack and clashed with the scythe using his Flame Leaping Sword.
• Kuroji concluded that Fujii Sakura had set him up, and Uchiha Gen advanced, eager to test the Jashin Cult follower.

Uchiha Gen defeated Heizhi and broke his faith in Jashin, leaving him barely able to regenerate. Afterward, Maruboshi Kosuke confirmed that Fujii Sakura had escaped and arranged for the village to take over the investigation.

• Heizhi healed from Uchiha Gen’s blade wounds and attacked with blood spikes, but Uchiha Gen destroyed them with lightning.
• Uchiha Gen struck Heizhi with flaming blade fragments, collapsing the Blood Domain, then battered him into the courtyard wall.
• As Heizhi’s blood ran dry and his regeneration slowed, Uchiha Gen taunted him to call on Jashin, and Heizhi cried out for help before taking another blow.
• Maruboshi Kosuke asked about Fujii Sakura, and Uchiha Gen identified him as the scapegoat and likely killer of the Chunin Squad.
• Maruboshi Kosuke said he had sent Anbu Ninja to report the situation to Lord Third and that other personnel would take over.

After Uchiha Gen’s squad completed its mission in Chuntai City, Hiruzen Sarutobi raised its rating to A-rank and ordered the details sealed. He questioned Maruboshi Kosuke about Gen and the Uchiha, while Gen headed home through the clan compound.

• Shibi Aburame reported the mission to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who praised the squad, classified the mission as A-rank, and sealed its records.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi kept Maruboshi Kosuke behind and asked for his assessment of Uchiha Gen.
• Maruboshi Kosuke described Gen as a capable, restrained comrade who enjoyed fighting, and defended the Uchiha as loyal to the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned Kosuke that the Second had instructed them to watch the Uchiha, whom he viewed as a dangerous double-edged sword.
• Uchiha Gen walked back to the Uchiha Clan Compound and reacted strangely as he passed Obito Uchiha’s house.

Uchiha Gen teased Obito and received a new power from his daily check-in before time passed peacefully. In Sunagakure, Sasori poisoned the Third Kazekage and blamed him and Hatake Sakumo for his parents’ deaths.

• Uchiha Gen caught Obito trying to kiss Rin’s picture, teased him, and left using the Clone Technique.
• Uchiha Gen checked in and gained the special talent Blue Sentinel’s Might, which strengthened his stamina.
• Shibi Aburame assigned his team mostly easy missions, and about two peaceful months passed.
• Sasori brought tea to the Third Kazekage in his office, and the Kazekage drank it.
• Sasori revealed that he had poisoned the Third Kazekage, blamed him and Hatake Sakumo for his parents’ deaths, and summoned something with a strike to the floor.

Sasori used his human puppets and incurable poison to defeat and kill the Third Kazekage, then concealed the bodies and evidence. He left Sunagakure behind and became the missing-nin known as Sasori of the Red Sands.

• Sasori’s human puppets resisted the Third Kazekage’s iron sand, and Sasori revealed that he had secretly mastered the forbidden technique.
• Sasori poisoned and overwhelmed the Third Kazekage, binding him with iron chains while declaring he would turn him into a human puppet and use his Magnet Release against Hatake Sakumo.
• Sasori killed the Third Kazekage and sealed his body in a scroll.
• Sasori collected the ANBU corpses and erased the signs of the killings from the Kazekage’s Office.
• Sasori watched Chiyo’s home from a cliffside platform, then left Sunagakure as a missing-nin.

The Third Kazekage’s disappearance stirred the other ninja villages to consider war, while Sunagakure continued searching for him. Chiyo gave Ebizo three more days to find the Kazekage before they prepared for what might follow.

• Ōnoki wondered who had made the Third Kazekage disappear and considered how Iwagakure might benefit from a war.
• Third Raikage A asked Dodai about attacking the Land of Wind, and Dodai warned that Chiyo’s poison would make conquering Sunagakure difficult.
• White Zetsu, possessing the Third Mizukage, ordered troops to be assembled and killed an Anbu ninja who had reported the Kazekage’s disappearance.
• Chiyo asked Ebizo whether the search had found the Third Kazekage, and Ebizo suspected that Sasori might be involved.
• Chiyo told Ebizo to search for three more days while she suppressed rumors, then prepare for the consequences if the Kazekage remained missing.