Chapter Summaries

Mei Terumi agreed to marry Xia Yu while secretly planning with the Land of Water's Daimyo to use a divorce demand as a pretext for Kirigakure to seize the Land of Sea. She ordered the ninja to prepare for war the next morning, then spoke with Chōjūrō before changing for the wedding.

• Mei Terumi accepted Xia Yu's marriage proposal and told the Land of Water's Daimyo she would return to the ship to change.
• Mei Terumi told the Kirigakure ninja that she and the Land of Water's Daimyo had planned to demand a divorce and use the resulting breach of agreement to justify invading the Land of Sea.
• Mei Terumi ordered Ao to divide the ninja into four teams to occupy Mother Island, Demon Island, and Jiro Island, while the remaining team stayed on Dalang Island with her.
• Mei Terumi said Xia Yu would likely reject the divorce demand and that Kirigakure would seize the Land of Sea after he broke the Alliance Pact.
• Chōjūrō told Mei Terumi he had noticed her sacrifices as Mizukage and vowed to protect her, and Mei Terumi went to change into her wedding dress.

Xia Yu waited at the Daimyo Mansion for Mei Terumi, only for the wedding to surprise everyone with a third bride: Orochimaru in the form of a woman. Xia Yu offered Orochimaru Funato Clan prisoners as experimental subjects in exchange for marrying him, leaving her response unresolved.

• Xia Yu told the Daimyo of the Land of Water and Uzumaki Honoka that he had thousands of wives, astonishing the Daimyo.
• Mei Terumi arrived in a wedding dress, and Hai Xing prepared to begin the ceremony before Xia Yu said another bride was still coming.
• Orochimaru appeared, revealed a female form, and drew alarm from the Kirigakure ninja when Mei Terumi recognized her as the legendary Sannin.
• Mei Terumi congratulated Orochimaru on her recent appointment as the Fifth Mizukage, and Orochimaru said she knew through her intelligence network.
• Xia Yu offered Orochimaru Funato Clan prisoners, including a pureblood with gills, if she agreed to marry him.

Xia Yu persuaded Orochimaru to marry him by promising her the Funato pirates as research subjects, and the unusual wedding went ahead alongside his marriages to Uzumaki Honoka and Mei Terumi. After the guests left, Xia Yu headed back with his two other wives, while Orochimaru vanished to collect prisoners.

• Xia Yu announced that the Funato pirates were Orochimaru’s betrothal gifts, then revealed her pregnancy to the watching crowd.
• Xia Yu persuaded Orochimaru to marry him by appealing to her interest in studying the Funato and their Pureblood, and she agreed on the condition that she would not wear a wedding dress.
• Hai Xing ordered a larger bed prepared for the bridal chamber as the wedding began with Uzumaki Honoka, Mei Terumi, and Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru took a wedding photo and left to collect prisoners, refusing Xia Yu’s offer of the prison keys and brushing off his question about consummating the marriage.
• After the Land of Water’s Daimyo and other guests departed, Xia Yu invited Uzumaki Honoka and Mei Terumi back to their room for the night.

Xia Yu kissed Mei Terumi while she tried to avoid intimacy, as Kirigakure’s leaders secretly prepared to attack the Land of Sea. After Ao received alarming intelligence about Xia Yu, the Daimyo of the Land of Water canceled the planned surprise attack.

• Mei Terumi said she was unwell, but Xia Yu kissed her after asking her to call him her husband.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water revealed that he was not drunk and summoned Kirigakure’s senior officials.
• Ao explained that Mei Terumi planned to seek a divorce and provoke Xia Yu into dissolving the alliance, giving Kirigakure a pretext to attack the Land of Sea and other islands.
• Ao and Chōjūrō said they would keep Orochimaru occupied while Kirigakure’s forces confronted Xia Yu.
• A Kirigakure ninja brought Ao intelligence on Xia Yu, and the report shocked Ao and the Daimyo of the Land of Water.
• After reading the report, the Daimyo of the Land of Water canceled the surprise attack planned for the next day.

After learning Xia Yu was an Uchiha from Konoha, the Land of Water’s Daimyo canceled Kirigakure’s planned surprise attack and ordered the troops to withdraw. That night, as Mei Terumi fumed over Xia Yu and Uzumaki Honoka through the thin walls, Ao appeared outside her window with a message.

• After investigating Xia Yu, Ao revealed that Xia Yu was an Uchiha from Konoha, alarming the Daimyo of the Land of Water and Kirigakure’s leaders.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water called off the surprise attack, ordered Kirigakure to meet Xia Yu’s demands, and told Ao to inform Mei Terumi and withdraw the troops.
• Mei Terumi lay awake next door, irritated by Xia Yu and Uzumaki Honoka’s wedding-night noises, and wondered whether she was jealous.
• Mei Terumi heard someone outside her window and called out, and Ao identified himself from within the mist.

Ao told Mei Terumi that the Daimyo had canceled the plan to kill Xia Yu after learning of his strength and Uchiha origins. As Mei Terumi lay awake, intrigued by Xia Yu and unsettled by their marriage, he knocked on her door and called himself her husband.

• Ao sneaked into Mei Terumi’s room and informed her that the Daimyo had canceled tomorrow’s plan.
• Mei Terumi agreed that Kirigakure could not yet challenge Konoha and ordered Ao to leave before Xia Yu noticed him.
• Ao offered Mei Terumi paper earplugs, but she declined and listened to Xia Yu and his wife next door.
• Mei Terumi reflected on her inexperience with romance and grew interested in Xia Yu, who would no longer die by her hand the next day.
• After the noises next door stopped, Xia Yu knocked on Mei Terumi’s door and asked if she was still awake because of the noise.

On their wedding night, Xia Yu entered Mei Terumi’s room with a key and tried to rest beside her, while she insisted she did not accept him as her husband. Mei Terumi demanded a divorce, and Xia Yu threatened to use force, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xia Yu visited Mei Terumi’s room late at night and left after she warned him not to force his way inside.
• Mei Terumi listened through the wall, then Xia Yu returned and unlocked her door with a key.
• Xia Yu offered Mei Terumi hot water and lay down on her bed, asking her to massage his back.
• Mei Terumi said she did not recognize Xia Yu as her husband and demanded a divorce.
• Xia Yu refused to agree to a divorce and threatened to use force.

Xia Yu used the Heart-to-Heart Technique on Mei Terumi after she rejected his advances, and she became eager to be with him. The next morning, Mei Terumi returned to the harbor, where a female elder suspected she had become Xia Yu’s wife.

• Mei Terumi mistook Xia Yu’s promise to get rough for a challenge, but he clarified that he meant intimacy rather than a fight.
• Xia Yu used the Heart-to-Heart Technique on Mei Terumi, and she threw herself into his arms.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water and the Kirigakure ninja waited at the harbor, wondering why Mei Terumi had not returned.
• Chōjūrō rushed toward the Daimyo Mansion to find Mei Terumi, but encountered her on the way back.
• Mei Terumi returned to the harbor with Chōjūrō, and a female elder concluded that she looked like a young wife after her wedding night.

Mei Terumi returned to Kirigakure without divorcing Xia Yu, believing their marriage would help protect the village. Three days later, Funato Aopon arrived at the Land of Sea port with giant pufferfish to kill Xia Yu and avenge her brother.

• Mei Terumi told the Land of Water's Daimyo and the Kirigakure ninja that she had chosen not to divorce Xia Yu and would remain in Kirigakure.
• The Land of Water's Daimyo left for home, privately vowing to make Xia Yu pay for slighting him.
• Hai Xing warned Xia Yu that giant pufferfish were approaching the port, and Hai Shen reported that their owner was a young, pureblood Funato woman.
• Funato Aopon learned that Xia Yu had killed her brother and other clan members, then came to the port with her inherited immortality and threatened to kill him.

Xia Yu confronted Funato Aopon as she sought revenge for her brothers, but the Yingying Beast emerged from seclusion and joined the battle. The Yingying Beast devoured the giant pufferfish and ate Aopon’s Chakra arrow, leaving Aopon stunned.

• Xia Yu met Funato Aopon and explained that her brothers had attacked the Land of Sea first, but Aopon insisted on revenge and ordered her pufferfish to attack him.
• The sea shook as the Yingying Beast awakened on Mother Island, and Xia Yu summoned her to face the pufferfish.
• The Yingying Beast ate several pufferfish while their bites failed to pierce her skin.
• Funato Aopon fired a Chakra arrow at the Yingying Beast, who caught it in her mouth, used it to pick her teeth, and ate it.

Funato Aopon unleashed her Chakra Arrow Rain against Xia Yu, but his Susanoo blocked the attack. Orochimaru captured Aopon for study, then offered Xia Yu a future reward that revealed he had been developing cloning technology.

• Funato Aopon summoned giant pufferfish for the Yingying Beast and then fired thousands of chakra arrows at Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu summoned his Blue Giant Susanoo, which blocked Funato Aopon's arrows and left her unable to defeat him.
• Before Funato Aopon could attack again, Orochimaru's giant snake emerged from the sea and swallowed her.
• Xia Yu dismissed Susanoo and confronted Orochimaru for stealing his captive.
• Orochimaru asked to study Funato Aopon and offered to repay Xia Yu double, prompting Xia Yu to ask whether his cloning research had succeeded.

Orochimaru offered Xia Yu Karin in addition to Funato Aopon, while Obito considered recruiting Xia Yu into the Akatsuki. Pain summoned the Akatsuki when Konan went into premature labor, only to discover that none of them knew how to deliver a baby.

• Orochimaru told Xia Yu he would give him Karin as well as Funato Aopon, and Xia Yu agreed to let him take Funato Aopon.
• Obito discussed meeting Xia Yu and potentially recruiting him, but Pain urgently summoned all Akatsuki members to the base.
• Pain told the gathered Akatsuki that Konan was about to give birth, and the members argued while waiting beside her bed.
• Pain asked whether anyone knew how to deliver a baby, and Konan cried out in labor.

Konan went into premature labor, and the Akatsuki members scrambled to help despite having no experience delivering a baby. Pain took charge of the birth while Kakuzu carried the noisy Hidan out to buy baby supplies.

• The Akatsuki members admitted they had little or no experience with babies as Konan's labor pains worsened.
• Itachi and Kisame went to boil water after Deidara mistook Konan's amniotic fluid for a problem Water Release could fix.
• Pain took charge as the baby's head appeared, while Deidara wiped Konan's sweat and Sasori offered her an experimental painkiller.
• Pain blasted Hidan out of the bedroom after Hidan tried to watch the delivery and demanded that Konan's blanket be lifted.
• Pain ordered Kakuzu to buy baby supplies, and Kakuzu bound and gagged Hidan before carrying him out of the base.

Konan safely gave birth to a boy while the Akatsuki members helped, but the baby’s resemblance to Uchiha Itachi sparked awkward suspicions. Hidan returned with baby supplies and mistook the child for Itachi’s, leaving the room in silence.

• Kisame Hoshigaki and Uchiha Itachi entered Konan’s room as Pain, Deidara, and Sasori helped with the birth.
• Pain delivered Konan’s baby boy, and Sasori cut the umbilical cord before Konan met her son.
• Deidara and Sasori noticed the baby looked familiar, and Kisame said the child resembled Uchiha Itachi.
• Pain questioned Itachi, while Tobi defended him and privately recognized the baby as an Uchiha who was not Itachi’s child.
• Kakuzu returned with Hidan carrying baby supplies, and Hidan mistook Konan’s baby for Itachi’s, making the room awkward again.

The Akatsuki members argued over whether Itachi was the baby’s father, but Konan declared the child a heavenly gift and named him Akatsuki. As the members fought outside her room, Pain planned for Akatsuki to unite the organization’s strength when he grew up.

• Hidan accused Itachi of being the baby’s father, and Konan angrily denied having been with anyone, calling the child a gift from heaven.
• Pain apologized to Konan and suggested naming the baby Yahiko, but Konan said she would feel uncomfortable using her deceased friend’s name for her son.
• Pain proposed the name Akatsuki, and Konan accepted it, saying the child belonged to the whole organization and hoping he would live peacefully.
• The members eavesdropped outside Konan’s room, where Kakuzu and Kisame began fighting before Hidan attacked Itachi and Deidara and Sasori joined in.
• Pain told Konan he believed Akatsuki would eventually bring the members together, with each one teaching the child and Pain’s Rinnegan passing to him.

Pain told the Akatsuki that Konan’s child belonged to every member and had been named Akatsuki, then assigned Uchiha Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki to investigate Uchiha Xia Yu’s intentions as the Daimyo of the Land of Sea. They were to recruit him if he shared their aims or kill him otherwise.

• Pain told Black and White Zetsu that Konan’s child was everyone’s, then discussed Obito’s concerns about Xia Yu becoming the Daimyo of the Land of Sea.
• Obito ordered Pain to have the Akatsuki investigate Xia Yu and decide whether to recruit or assassinate him.
• Pain halted the members’ brawling with Shinra Tensei and gathered them for a meeting.
• Pain announced that all Akatsuki members were the fathers of Konan’s child, who would be named Akatsuki.
• Pain assigned Itachi and Kisame to investigate Xia Yu and recruit him or kill him depending on his allegiance.

Xia Yu gained the Copy skill from the birth of an SSS-rank child and copied Shisui Uchiha’s Kotoamatsukami with his right eye. Uchiha Itachi warned him that Akatsuki was investigating him, and Xia Yu declared that his only goal was to restore the Uchiha.

• A notification revealed that Xia Yu’s newborn child had SSS potential and granted him the Copy skill, which could permanently copy Mangekyō Sharingan abilities.
• Xia Yu used Shisui Uchiha’s preserved eye to copy Kotoamatsukami into his right eye.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived as a crow and told Xia Yu that he and Kisame Hoshigaki were coming to investigate him for Akatsuki.
• Itachi explained that Pain would either recruit Xia Yu or eliminate him depending on whether he had betrayed Konoha.
• Xia Yu told Itachi that he was neither disloyal nor loyal to Konoha and that his sole goal was to restore the Uchiha.

After Uchiha Itachi noticed that Konan’s newborn resembled Xia Yu, Xia Yu began planning the Land of Sea’s islands and established a Hidden Sea Village on Dalang Island. He learned that Kirigakure had not sent its promised instructors or tribute, and ordered an inquiry into the delay.

• Uchiha Itachi told Xia Yu he would try to stall Pain and remarked that Konan’s baby resembled him before his projection vanished.
• Xia Yu decided to keep Jiro Island as the capital and reserve Mother Island as a habitat for Summoning Beasts.
• Xia Yu established the Hidden Sea Village on Dalang Island and planned for its ninjas to use Summoning Beasts as their main fighting force.
• Xia Yu left Demon Island untouched for the time being because the Land of Sea had few residents and Orochimaru’s research facility occupied it.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen reported that Kirigakure had sent neither ninja instructors nor the promised ten years of tribute.
• Xia Yu ordered a letter sent to the Land of Water and demanded a report within one day, whether a reply arrived or not.

Uchiha Xia Yu used Kotoamatsukami to control Kisame and told Itachi he would join the Akatsuki, then demanded Shisui Uchiha’s other Sharingan. In Amegakure, Konan urged Nagato to let their newborn become a source of hope as the Akatsuki prepared to admit Xia Yu.

• Xia Yu waited by the coast for Itachi and Kisame, then revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan when Kisame attacked him.
• Xia Yu used Kotoamatsukami to control Kisame and told Itachi he intended to join the Akatsuki.
• Xia Yu ordered Itachi to hand over Shisui Uchiha’s other Sharingan, and Itachi gave him the eye and its crow.
• Pain told Konan that Xia Yu would soon join the Akatsuki and that Madara seemed wary of him.
• Konan placed the newborn Akatsuki in Nagato’s arms and said their child represented new life and hope.

After learning that the Kaguya Clan rebellion had stalled Kirigakure’s promised compensation and put Mei Terumi in danger, Xia Yu set off for the Land of Water. Meanwhile, the Kaguya Clan released Kimimaro and prepared to use his power against Kirigakure.

• Konan’s words about new life stirred Nagato, who reflected on how their bond had changed since Yahiko’s death.
• Hai Xing told Xia Yu that the Kaguya Clan had occupied Kirigakure and that Mei Terumi was struggling to suppress the rebellion.
• Xia Yu read the Land of Water Daimyo’s request for help and decided to go because Mei Terumi was his wife and stabilizing Kirigakure would benefit the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu summoned Yingying Beast and rode her south toward the Land of Water.
• A Kaguya Clan leader released Kimimaro from a hidden dungeon and ordered him to kill Kirigakure’s ninjas.