Chapter Summaries

Liumu fought off the Uchiha Police Force after they tried to seize him over Madara Uchiha’s statue, but Uchiha Fugaku arrived and ended the confrontation. Fugaku protected Liumu and later warned Uchiha En that the boy’s strength and killing intent far exceeded what he had shown.

• Liumu taunted the Uchiha Police Force, then slapped away a member’s ninjutsu and sent him flying.
• Uchiha En ordered his men to capture Liumu and planned to fabricate charges against him.
• Liumu gathered killing intent and prepared to attack the surrounding Uchiha members before Uchiha Fugaku intervened.
• Uchiha Fugaku stopped the fight, praised Liumu’s skill, and escorted him back to the village without holding him responsible for destroying Madara Uchiha’s statue.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha En that Liumu had graduated at five, trained under Jiraiya, and possessed a chilling killing intent.

Liumu received a brief good-luck message from Jiraiya before leaving with Kakashi and Suiguang for the Chunin Exams in the Land of Lightning. As their team traveled north, they grew acquainted, and Kakashi studied their route while the identity of their watchful Jonin leader remained unknown.

• Toad Wu told Liumu that Jiraiya was training at Mount Myōboku and delivered his good-luck letter for the Chunin Exams.
• Liumu and Kakashi received cheers from their former classmates before joining Suiguang as teammates.
• Suiguang introduced her earth-release skin-hardening ability, Kakashi recognized her, and the three agreed to do their best in the exams.
• During a rest on Emerald Mist Mountain, Suiguang shared oversized rice balls, and Kakashi estimated they would enter the Land of Lightning in three days.
• Suiguang asked about their stern Jonin leader, but neither Liumu nor Kakashi recognized him.

Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang arrived in Kumogakure for the Chunin Exams and discussed their abilities and concerns about working as a new team. That night, Liumu encountered a boy with a huge tail in the mountains, and the boy attacked him while he was lost.

• Suiguang told Liumu and Kakashi that Shinku Yuhi was a Chunin instructor, and Kakashi said he had heard that Shinku was very strong.
• A greeted the Konoha party at the Land of Lightning border and escorted them to Kumogakure, accompanied by a blonde Cloud Ninja who scolded him for being reckless.
• After arriving in Kumogakure, Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang discussed the three stages of the Chunin Exams and shared their abilities.
• Suiguang worried that the newly formed squad would struggle, but Liumu reassured her and left the room.
• At midnight, Liumu approached a boy bathing by a waterfall, and the boy’s huge tail struck him into the riverbed before Liumu called out that he had been lost.

Liumu encountered Killer B in Kumogakure, tested his strength, and absorbed a Tailed Beast Bomb before leaving to avoid drawing attention. He returned to his team, and two days later the Chunin Exams began under the Third Raikage, A.

• Liumu was ambushed by Killer B and recognized him when he activated his red chakra cloak and grew additional tails.
• Liumu dodged Killer B's attacks, punched him away, and absorbed the Tailed Beast Bomb with Taotie's Gluttony.
• Liumu ended the fight and left before Killer B's unusual chakra could attract Kumogakure's attention.
• Liumu returned to the Konoha lodgings, where Suiguang and Kakashi were waiting, and the team spent the next two days reviewing for the Chunin Exams.
• A, the Third Raikage, announced the start of the Chunin Exams at Cloud Shadow Ninja Academy, prompting cheers from the crowd.

Liumu finished the Chunin Exam theory test early, then deliberately planted wrong answers for other candidates to copy before correcting his own paper. He left the exam laughing with Suiguang and Kakashi, and they arrived at Thunder Warrior Valley as a Kumogakure ninja began explaining the second exam.

• Liumu answered the theory questions, then noticed candidates using ninjutsu and other tricks to cheat.
• After a Suna ninja's puppet appeared beside him, Liumu realized candidates might copy his paper and deliberately changed many correct answers to wrong ones.
• Liumu loudly claimed he would get full marks and went to sleep, prompting other candidates to copy his altered answers.
• After the exam, the Suna ninja told Liumu that he had copied the answers and spotted the mistake in the war date, while many others had copied too.
• Liumu revealed to himself that he had changed his answers back before time ran out, then laughed as he met Suiguang and Kakashi.
• Liumu, Suiguang, and Kakashi went to Thunder Warrior Valley, where a Kumogakure ninja began explaining the second exam.

Liumu Squad began the second Chunin Exam in Thunder Warrior Valley, where teams had to collect both Heaven and Earth scrolls. Liumu confronted an Iwagakure team and asked whether they had an Earth Scroll.

• The examiners explained that teams needed both scrolls to qualify and had seven days to reach the next stop.
• Suiguang proposed hiding and waiting for other teams to fight, but Liumu argued they should head for the finish and steal a scroll there.
• Suiguang sensed a nearby team, and Liumu went ahead to approach them while Kakashi and Suiguang followed.
• Liumu found three Iwagakure ninja and asked to borrow their Earth Scroll.
• An Iwagakure kunoichi recognized Liumu from the Written Exam, and Liumu insulted her appearance.
• An Iwagakure man demanded to know whether Liumu was from Konoha, and Liumu confirmed it before asking which scroll they had.

Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang fought three Iwagakure shinobi over a stolen scroll, and the Iwagakure team unleashed a giant stone statue that trapped their opponents. Kakashi outmaneuvered them with a Water Clone and threatened the yellow-haired woman, but the Iwagakure shinobi answered with faint sneers.

• An Iwagakure shinobi trapped Liumu in a swamp, but Kakashi and Suiguang arrived and attacked the three shinobi.
• The Iwagakure shinobi broke through Suiguang's walls with a massive stone giant, forcing Kakashi to defend against its attacks while Suiguang tried to free Liumu.
• The yellow-haired Iwagakure woman surrounded Kakashi with deadly scorpion venom as the burly shinobi declared victory.
• Kakashi appeared behind the yellow-haired woman with a shuriken at her throat, revealing that the Kakashi trapped in the venom had been a Water Clone.
• Kakashi demanded that the Iwagakure shinobi release his teammates and return the scroll, but they only sneered.

Liumu escaped the swamp, rescued Kakashi, and defeated the Stone ninja with a single punch that blasted a passage through the mountains at Thunder Warrior Valley. The explosion stunned the village teams gathered at the Raikage's Office, who wondered which Chunin had caused the destruction.

• Suiguang cried that the team’s Chunin Exams run was over, so Liumu absorbed the chakra sustaining the swamp and walked out.
• Liumu rescued Kakashi from the Stone ninja and asked him to wash his muddy clothes with Water Release.
• Liumu endured the Stone Giant’s attack and shattered it with a Normal Punch, knocking out the three Stone ninja and blasting a passage through the mountains.
• Kakashi could not find the Stone team’s scroll, and Suiguang gave one of the unconscious Stone ninja an outer garment before Liumu urged her to remove another.
• The village Jonin gathered at the Raikage’s Office and wondered whether one of the Chunin had caused the destruction at Thunder Warrior Valley.

Liumu stopped Kakashi and Suiguang from intervening in a battle between Konoha and Kirigakure, explaining that the Chunin Exams tested whether candidates could survive without protection. Meanwhile, the Third Raikage learned that the person who clashed with Gyuki in its four-tailed form was supposedly a child and set out to question him.

• Liumu, Suiguang, and Kakashi found Aburame Clan insects before hearing an explosion and rushing toward a battle between Konoha and Kirigakure ninja.
• Liumu stopped Kakashi and Suiguang from joining the fight, explaining that the exam needed to reveal whether candidates were strong enough to survive as chunin.
• Liumu noticed that a white-haired Kirigakure girl had not fought and predicted that the Konoha team would lose.
• Kumogakure's investigation found no confirmed deaths or enemy invasion in Thunder Warrior Valley, but two teams had abandoned the exam after a powerful explosion.
• The Third Raikage heard that the person who had clashed with Gyuki in its four-tailed form was a child, activated his lightning armor, and went to confront him.

During the Chunin Exams, Liumu confronted a Mist team whose white-haired member used Ice Release and persuaded her to free three frozen Konoha ninja. After warming the rescued ninja, Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang continued searching for an Earth Scroll and waited in ambush near the finish.

• Liumu recognized the white-haired Mist ninja's Ice Release and stopped her team from leaving with three Konoha ninja trapped in ice.
• The white-haired girl released the frozen Konoha ninja, and Liumu let the Mist team pass.
• Liumu, Kakashi, and Suiguang warmed the rescued ninja with a fire and joked about Jiraiya's books.
• After nearly three days without finding an Earth Scroll, Liumu's team hid near the finish and discussed the Ice Release team.
• Suiguang sensed an approaching team, and Liumu told Kakashi and Suiguang to rob the rich and help the poor.

Liumu's team reached the exam rendezvous point first after coercing the Iwa ninja into giving them an Earth Scroll. The Iwa team arrived third, while Konoha's Jonin praised Kakashi's team for completing the second exam so quickly.

• Liumu's trio encountered the Iwa ninja again, and Liumu threatened to strip them in public unless they handed over an Earth Scroll.
• The big Iwa ninja gave Liumu the scroll, and Liumu's team left for the rendezvous point.
• Kakashi submitted both scrolls to the Kumogakure examiner, completing his team's second exam as Konoha's first team to arrive.
• Konoha Jonin congratulated Kakashi's team, while Kakashi kept quiet about what he had witnessed earlier.
• Liumu joked with Suiguang about Jiraiya and his moves while they waited.
• The Iwa ninja arrived third and submitted the scrolls they had obtained anew.

Liumu recognized Yugito Nii as Kumogakure’s Two-Tails jinchūriki and warned his teammates to be cautious of the Land of Crafts’ ninja tools. The third exam began with Kakashi fighting an Iwagakure kunoichi whose earth-hardened skin and explosive clone put him under pressure.

• Liumu saw Yugito Nii arrive with Kumogakure’s squad and realized she was the Two-Tails jinchūriki.
• Eighteen ninja qualified for the third exam, including a squad from the Land of Crafts, whose weapons concerned Liumu.
• The Kumogakure jonin explained the one-on-one combat rules and began the matches.
• Kakashi faced the blonde-haired Iwagakure kunoichi and dodged her Earth Dragon Bullet before attacking with an explosive-tagged shuriken.
• The kunoichi’s earth-hardened skin withstood the explosion, and her exploding clone blasted Kakashi into the air.
• The kunoichi fired another Earth Dragon Bullet at Kakashi, but he substituted a section of dead wood.

Kakashi, Han, and Cheng won the first three matches of the Chunin Exams through strategy, Ice Release, and a lightning-absorbing sword. Liumu then stepped onto the stage for his match against Hashimoto Asuka.

• Kakashi defeated Xing by using a clone and explosive tags, winning the first match.
• Han froze Lantu and his Stone Giant with her Ice Release kekkei genkai, winning the second match.
• Cheng absorbed Zoromu's lightning with a blunt sword and used it against him to win the fourth match.
• Liumu entered the arena for his match and complained that his opponent, Hashimoto Asuka, was a guy with a girl's name.

Liumu defeated Hashimoto Asuka after accidentally discovering she was a girl and dodging her lethal Senbon attack. Asuka warned Han that Liumu was hiding his true strength.

• Liumu evaded Asuka’s opening attacks and accidentally fell against her, realizing she was a girl.
• Asuka attacked Liumu with Hidden Mist and Senbon, but he escaped the needles by clinging to the ceiling.
• Liumu restrained Asuka with a submission hold, and the referee declared him the winner after she failed to break free before the countdown ended.
• Suiguang checked on Liumu, while Asuka told Han that Liumu had dodged her Senbon technique and was stronger than he appeared.

Yugito Nii defeated Shinrō’s armor strategy by attacking him with Matatabi’s Claws, forcing him to surrender before his armor was destroyed. Suiguang then faced Aburame Kō and was poisoned by Kō’s insects, leaving her badly injured as the match continued.

• Shinrō used Lion-Headed Armor to absorb Yugito Nii’s Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder.
• Yugito Nii formed Matatabi’s Claws and overwhelmed Shinrō in close combat, cracking his armor until he surrendered.
• Suiguang learned that her opponent, Aburame Kō, was a prodigy recruited into Root by Danzo after graduating from the Ninja Academy.
• Suiguang rushed Kō with hardened fists, but the apparent target turned out to be an Insect Clone.
• Kō’s poisonous kikaichū blackened Suiguang’s arm, and Suiguang plunged a kunai into it as her vision blurred.

Suiguang and Guang knocked each other unconscious in a match that ended in a draw, leaving Suiguang critically injured by Guang’s kikaichū. Liumu convinced Yuhi Shinku to let him try an unusual treatment, and prepared to treat Suiguang alone.

• Suiguang charged Guang and used an explosive tag to destroy her kikaichū, then detonated a second tag on Guang’s back.
• The Kumogakure jonin declared the match a draw, and medical ninja carried both unconscious fighters away for treatment.
• Kumogakure’s medical ninja found that Guang’s kikaichū inside Suiguang resisted poison and lightning release chakra while draining her chakra and carrying poison.
• Yuhi Shinku agreed to accompany Suiguang to the treatment room, and Liumu said he might be able to remove the kikaichū.
• Liumu asked to treat Suiguang alone with his unusual method, and Yuhi Shinku agreed after Liumu promised he would not risk his teammate’s life carelessly.

Liumu used the Samadhi Divine Fire and the Template System’s detoxification program to save Suiguang from the poison spreading through her body. After Kakashi defeated a Land of Crafts ninja in the arena, Tsunade appeared in the Medical Room disguised as a young Sound Ninja and took over Suiguang’s care, leaving Liumu to return to the exam grounds.

• Liumu sent the Samadhi Divine Fire through Suiguang’s chakra pathways to find the Kikaichū and contain their poison.
• The Template System detected toxins and, after Liumu activated its Detoxification Program, cleared the poison from Suiguang’s body.
• Kakashi defeated the Land of Crafts ninja by using close combat, the Substitution Technique, and the Clone Technique.
• A yellow-haired girl in the shadows said she would investigate the Land of Crafts’ Ninja Tools and went to check on the injured children.
• Tsunade arrived at the Medical Room disguised as a young Sound Ninja, examined Suiguang, and summoned Katsuyu to care for her.
• Tsunade told Liumu to return to the exam grounds and warned him that the disguised Konoha Ninja’s mission was more serious than it appeared.

Liumu defeated Cheng of the Land of Crafts with a single blow, then watched Han of Kirigakure and Yugito Nii battle with ice and fire techniques. The chapter ended with Yugito’s guided fireballs exploding around Han, leaving her hidden in smoke.

• Liumu explained Suiguang’s situation to Kakashi before learning that his next opponent was Cheng of the Land of Crafts.
• Liumu dodged Cheng’s blunt sword, pinned it under his foot, and knocked Cheng unconscious with a single palm strike.
• Han and Yugito Nii began their match, and Han used the Hidden Mist Technique before unleashing a frost dragon and raising an ice wall.
• Yugito dispersed the mist with a fireball, then used chakra threads to steer dozens of fireballs around Han’s ice wall.
• Yugito’s fireballs exploded around Han, and Liumu compared the technique to a fireball version of the Spirit Ball.

Yugito Nii conceded her match against Han rather than use the Two-Tails’ power, and Liumu began his bout with Kui. After Kui’s lightning attack burned off Liumu’s wig, an enraged Liumu struck back, but Minato appeared and whisked Kui away before the blow landed.

• Han’s ice techniques forced Yugito Nii into a precarious position, and the referee stopped her as she began to draw on the Two-Tails’ chakra.
• Yugito Nii honored her agreement with Kumogakure’s leaders and conceded the match to Han.
• The next match paired Liumu with Kui, while Kakashi received a bye.
• Kui’s Lightning Release destroyed his stone walls and set Liumu’s wig on fire, exposing his bald head.
• Liumu dodged Kui’s stronger lightning attack and punched toward him, but Minato flashed in and carried Kui away.

Liumu defeated Han in the Chunin Exam final but jumped out of the ring with her to force a draw, then received his mission rewards. At Konoha’s lodgings in Kumogakure, he drew a character card for Borsalino, whose recorded voice announced he would help someone become King of the Pirates.

• Kakashi surrendered to Han, setting up the final between Han and Liumu.
• Liumu drained Han’s chakra, knocked her unconscious, and jumped out of the ring with her, making the match a draw.
• Liumu received one Fate Roulette use and five Time House opportunities as his Chunin Exams mission rewards.
• Liumu considered learning forbidden ninjutsu and went with Kakashi to hear their team leader’s announcement at the lodgings.
• Liumu used the Fate Roulette and drew a card for Borsalino, whose voice played a declaration about helping someone become King of the Pirates.