Chapter Summaries

After Cloud Ninja attacked Bieshu Feifan’s group inside Konoha, Bieshu Feifan and Danzo pressured Hiruzen Sarutobi to respond firmly while the Kumogakure envoys denied responsibility. Hiruzen arrested the envoys and handed them to Danzo for interrogation, but was left feeling outmaneuvered by both Danzo and Bieshu Feifan.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Cloud Ninja had attacked in the village, while Bieshu Feifan blamed his lax security and urged war against Kumogakure.
• Danzo joined Bieshu Feifan in pressing Hiruzen to retaliate, but Hiruzen initially refused to commit to war.
• At a meeting with Konoha’s leaders, the Kumogakure envoys denied wrongdoing as Bieshu Feifan, Might Guy, and Might Duy beat and interrogated the captured Cloud Ninja.
• The envoys continued accusing Konoha, and Hiruzen silently let the prisoners be interrogated until he ordered the delegation arrested and assigned their interrogation to Danzo.
• Danzo and Bieshu Feifan criticized Hiruzen for being indecisive, leaving him privately wondering if there had been two of each of them in the office.

Kumogakure’s failed delegation and Konoha’s public accusation brought the two villages closer to war. Danzo maneuvered Hiruzen Sarutobi into assembling troops against Kumogakure, hoping to secure command and advance his bid to become Hokage.

• The Third Raikage learned that Konoha had killed half of Kumogakure’s delegation and captured the rest after they attacked three Konoha men, then received Konoha’s demand for an explanation under threat of war.
• Danzo summoned Bieshu Feifan and brought him to Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office, where Bieshu Feifan joked about becoming Hokage and competing with Danzo for the role.
• Danzo urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to prepare for war with Kumogakure and argued that he should become the Fourth Hokage if Hiruzen could no longer lead.
• Bieshu Feifan and Danzo argued over who should command the campaign, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered them to stop and told Danzo to assemble the troops while he considered a commander.
• Danzo left confident that Hiruzen Sarutobi’s decision had moved him closer to commanding the campaign and eventually becoming Hokage.

Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy sought Chunin promotions but learned they needed a third teammate, and their recruitment notices attracted no volunteers. Feifan then approached Richuan Taiban for help, only to find the teacher furious and unsettled by the trio’s visit.

• Bieshu Feifan decided to take the Chunin exam with Might Duy, while Might Guy agreed to wait two years before attempting it.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy visited Hiruzen Sarutobi, who evaded their attempts to corner him and explained that the Chunin exam required a team of three.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy advertised for a teammate in Konoha Plaza, but Genin avoided signing up because of their reputations.
• Bieshu Feifan proposed another plan after more than ten days passed without applicants.
• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy confronted Richuan Taiban at the Ninja Academy and asked him for help, leaving him grim and wary.

Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy sought Richuan Taiban’s help finding a third teammate for the Chunin exam, but their prospective recruit Jujian Xinshu insulted them and was beaten. Still without a teammate, they turned to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who promised to arrange one for them when the exam came.

• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy asked Richuan Taiban to find them a Genin teammate, and Richuan agreed to contact someone.
• Richuan introduced them to Jujian Xinshu, but Jujian insulted the group and rejected them as teammates.
• Bieshu Feifan broke Jujian’s wrist, and Might Duy and Might Guy knocked him unconscious.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy complained that Jujian was unsuitable and urged Richuan to find someone else.
• Might Duy and Bieshu Feifan went to Hiruzen Sarutobi for help, and Hiruzen promised to arrange a teammate for them at exam time.

Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi clashed over Konoha’s peace treaty with Kumogakure, while Bieshu Feifan was assigned to escort the Kumogakure envoys back to the Land of Lightning. Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy beat and chained the envoys, and Jiraiya allowed their rough treatment as the escort set out.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi signed a non-aggression treaty with Kumogakure, and Danzo spread rumors that the Hokage had been too afraid to fight.
• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy received orders to escort the Kumogakure Envoy Mission back to the Land of Lightning.
• Jiraiya arrived to lead the escort, and Feifan recognized the wounded Kumogakure envoys as the men who had caused trouble in the Hokage's Office.
• When one envoy threatened them, Feifan kicked him, Might Duy broke the other envoys' hands, and Might Guy knocked them unconscious with his nunchaku.
• Feifan urinated on the unconscious envoys to wake them, and the three Konoha Shinobi chained them up and dragged them along while Jiraiya let them proceed.
• Feifan urged Jiraiya to choose him as the next Hokage, and Jiraiya told him to focus on completing the mission safely.

Bieshu Feifan and Jiraiya escorted four Kumogakure envoys toward the Land of Lightning while Bieshu Feifan repeatedly beat them, and Jiraiya chose not to intervene. At the Land of Hot Water border, the group stopped at an inn, where Bieshu Feifan ordered the prisoners tied up in the stable and argued that they did not need to keep them alive.

• Bieshu Feifan asked Jiraiya about the Great Toad Sage and Senjutsu, then offered to support Jiraiya as Hokage in exchange for lessons.
• Bieshu Feifan took Might Guy’s whip and beat the four Cloud Ninja, then told Might Guy to keep whipping them without killing them.
• Jiraiya told a Chunin that he would not stop Bieshu Feifan, criticizing Hiruzen Sarutobi for sending Konoha’s own Shinobi to Kumogakure for a dubious peace treaty.
• The Land of Hot Water Shinobi refused the group passage, so Bieshu Feifan persuaded Jiraiya to submit an application and pay for their food and lodging.
• At an inn near the border, Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy beat the four Cloud Ninja unconscious and ordered the waiter to tie them up in the stable.
• Bieshu Feifan said Hiruzen Sarutobi had only ordered them to deliver the prisoners, not to keep them alive, and Jiraiya and the others did not object.

Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy fed the four captive Cloud Ninja a mixture of slops and Oligei, then ignored their worsening illness until a doctor diagnosed them with acute gastroenteritis and serious infections. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi received a complaint that the envoys had not reached the Land of Lightning, though Jiraiya had reported that everything was normal.

• Bieshu Feifan and his companions made the four Cloud Ninja eat a bucket of slops mixed with Oligei, then returned to the inn while Jiraiya and the others watched.
• Jiraiya delayed the transit-paper mission and spent Bieshu Feifan's money as the group remained in the Land of Hot Water.
• When a guard reported that the Cloud Ninja were sick, Bieshu Feifan and his companions dismissed the concern and waited until the next day to check on them.
• After seeing the Cloud Ninja vomiting and suffering diarrhea, Bieshu Feifan sent Might Duy to fetch a doctor, who diagnosed acute gastroenteritis, infected wounds, and necrotic hands.
• The doctor learned that the captives had been fed feces mixed with swill, while Hiruzen Sarutobi received a letter asking why the envoys had not arrived at the Land of Lightning's border.

Jiraiya and Bieshu Feifan’s escort mission ended with the four Kumogakure envoys dead and their bodies dumped near the Land of Lightning. When Kumogakure demanded answers from Hiruzen Sarutobi, Bieshu Feifan arrived to give his own account, treating the envoy as an enemy to defeat.

• Jiraiya delayed the escort at the Land of Hot Water border, then agreed with Bieshu Feifan and the others to bury the four dead Cloud Ninja before continuing the mission.
• Bieshu Feifan argued that delivering the envoys’ bodies still fulfilled the mission, so Jiraiya used Earth Release to dig them up and the group dumped them at the Land of Lightning border.
• A Kumogakure envoy showed Hiruzen Sarutobi photographs of Jiraiya dumping the bodies and demanded an explanation for the deaths, delay, and detour.
• Jiraiya and the other Konoha mission participants gave matching accounts blaming Danzo’s severe beating and the envoys’ illness, prompting the envoy to ask for testimony from Bieshu Feifan and the other two.
• Bieshu Feifan burst into the Hokage’s Office, clung to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and urged him to team up against the Kumogakure envoy, who struggled to question him.

Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy frustrated a Kumogakure envoy who sought an account of their mission, while Hiruzen Sarutobi enjoyed watching the envoy struggle. Later, Bieshu asked Jiraiya to teach him senjutsu, and Jiraiya agreed after receiving a box of coveted books.

• Bieshu Feifan charged the Kumogakure envoy three million ryo for mission information, then left after making him buy paper and a pen.
• Might Duy demanded three million ryo for his account, accepted the envoy's Chakra Metal knuckle blades instead, and rambled about food during the mission.
• Might Guy refused to tell the envoy anything because he had no money, and the envoy left the Hokage's Office furious.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi worried that Jiraiya had disobeyed orders and that Konoha had offended Kumogakure, but Kumogakure made no response.
• Bieshu Feifan visited Jiraiya to learn senjutsu, and Jiraiya agreed after opening the box of books Bieshu brought as a gift.

Bieshu Feifan asked Jiraiya to teach him Senjutsu, but failed Jiraiya’s test of mental stillness and was left to practice on his own. He then began repeatedly examining Hiruzen Sarutobi’s nose wart, disrupting the Hokage’s work.

• Jiraiya agreed to consider teaching Bieshu Feifan Senjutsu after checking his chakra and promised to keep his information secret.
• Jiraiya sensed that Bieshu Feifan had chakra reserves greater than most Jōnin, but explained that Senjutsu also required an affinity for natural energy and a calm mind.
• Bieshu Feifan failed to quiet his thoughts during Jiraiya’s test, so Jiraiya took the porn books and shut himself inside his house.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi celebrated the Shinobi World’s apparent peace, unaware that other villages had their own reasons for avoiding war.
• Bieshu Feifan grabbed Hiruzen Sarutobi, studied the wart on his nose, and sat down to meditate; after Hiruzen moved to another room, Bieshu Feifan returned to inspect the wart again.

Bieshu Feifan kept using Hiruzen Sarutobi’s face to meditate, leaving the Hokage exhausted, then challenged Minato Namikaze after learning he had mastered Flying Thunder God. Minato demonstrated the technique, but Bieshu Feifan’s superior physical strength let him pin Minato to the ground.

• Bieshu Feifan repeatedly grabbed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s face and touched the growth on his nose to help himself meditate, while Hiruzen gradually stopped resisting.
• Jiraiya spent his days absorbed in “Oniichichi” until Minato Namikaze came to say he had completed his Flying Thunder God training.
• Bieshu Feifan reminded Jiraiya that he had promised to teach him Senjutsu, then agreed to spar with Minato Namikaze.
• Bieshu Feifan attacked Minato with a kunai and a kick, overwhelming him with speed and strength.
• Minato used Flying Thunder God to appear beside Bieshu Feifan, but Bieshu pinned him to the ground and declared that his stats beat Minato’s execution.

Bieshu Feifan defeated Minato Namikaze, proved he could meditate steadily, and earned Jiraiya’s approval to begin learning senjutsu. After bonding with Sage Fukasaku, he prepared for a possible trip to Mount Myōboku, while Minato asked if he was Hatake Kakanan.

• Bieshu Feifan defeated Minato Namikaze in a spar and explained that he recognized Flying Thunder God, though Minato could not explain how he sensed space.
• Jiraiya tested Bieshu Feifan’s ability to calm his mind and found his chakra remained steady even when leaves fell on him.
• Bieshu Feifan signed the Summoning Contract, met Sage Fukasaku, and struck up an unusually friendly conversation with him.
• Sage Fukasaku agreed to summon Bieshu Feifan to Mount Myōboku, and Jiraiya invited Minato Namikaze to learn senjutsu as well.
• Bieshu Feifan left to prepare for the trip, and Minato Namikaze asked whether he was Hatake Kakanan; Bieshu Feifan gave no answer.

Bieshu Feifan arrived at Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze and began training to sense natural energy. Though he failed to detect it through ordinary practice, he used his innate ability to absorb natural energy and create senjutsu chakra, just as the Great Toad Sage requested to meet the newcomers.

• Bieshu Feifan was summoned to Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze, where he met Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima.
• Bieshu Feifan gave Sage Shima a snakeskin rope and joined the others for a meal of bugs, which he made more palatable by frying them.
• Sage Fukasaku explained senjutsu training, and Bieshu Feifan and Minato Namikaze used toad oil to try sensing natural energy.
• Bieshu Feifan failed to sense natural energy normally, then used his Innate Divine Ability to absorb it and form senjutsu chakra.
• A toad arrived and told Sage Fukasaku that the Great Toad Sage wanted to meet the newly arrived cultivators.

Bieshu Feifan waited with Sage Fukasaku for the Great Toad Sage to wake, then met with him alone. When the Great Toad Sage tried to discuss his dream of the Child of Prophecy, Bieshu Feifan drowned him out with jokes and an elaborate made-up tale, leaving the sage speechless.

• Bieshu Feifan and Sage Fukasaku waited for the Great Toad Sage to wake and passed the time playing cards.
• The Great Toad Sage woke and struggled to remember Bieshu Feifan, who introduced himself with a string of confusing jokes.
• After Sage Fukasaku left them alone, Bieshu Feifan climbed onto the Great Toad Sage and presented him with a black leather coat.
• The Great Toad Sage said he had dreamed of the Child of Prophecy, but Bieshu Feifan interrupted and mocked the idea.
• Bieshu Feifan spun a long, absurd tale and told the Great Toad Sage to use it when speaking to A Lai, leaving the sage unable to respond.

Bieshu Feifan trained at Mount Myōboku for months, while the Great Toad Sage warned Fukasaku that Bieshu Feifan seemed to exist beyond his ability to perceive. After returning to Konoha, Bieshu Feifan learned the Chunin Ninja Exams were approaching and met the teammate Hiruzen Sarutobi had chosen for him and Might Duy.

• Bieshu Feifan left the Great Toad Sage’s temple after talking mostly by himself, and Fukasaku later heard the Great Toad Sage describe Bieshu Feifan as someone he could not truly feel or perceive.
• Bieshu Feifan trained in senjutsu at Mount Myōboku, eventually sensing natural energy without toad oil after nearly three months.
• Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya left Mount Myōboku before Bieshu Feifan, who departed after finally making progress with natural energy.
• Bieshu Feifan returned to Konoha, where Might Duy reminded him about the Chunin Ninja Exams and took him to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi introduced Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy to their assigned teammate, who saw them, dropped to his knees, and tearfully protested that he was innocent.

Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy struggled to find a teammate for the Chunin Joint Exam until Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned them Uchiha Zhongfen. As the exam began, Zhongfen realized the first rule could eliminate their entire team if either of his teammates failed.

• Genin after genin refused to team up with Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy, so they joked about taking a pig as their teammate.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi brought in Uchiha Zhongfen, and after the three argued, they accepted the forced team assignment.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy assured Zhongfen that they would get him through the written test, leaving him convinced they would fail it themselves.
• The trio arrived at the Five Great Nations' Chunin Joint Exam and traded insults with a team from Kumogakure.
• The Konoha examiner announced that a team would be eliminated if any one member was eliminated, and Uchiha Zhongfen collapsed in despair.

Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy used a hidden earpiece to pass the written Chunin exam, but their teammate Uchiha Zhongfen scored only two points and disqualified the whole squad. After the examiners revealed Zhongfen’s answers, the two left lamenting that an Uchiha had made them fail.

• Bieshu Feifan gave Might Duy a wooden earpiece to help him during the written exam, while Uchiha Zhongfen grew convinced their squad would fail.
• Bieshu Feifan fed Might Duy answers through the earpiece, and the two earned passing scores as Zhongfen wrote irrelevant Uchiha boasts on his paper.
• Bieshu Feifan struck a taunting Kumogakure ninja, and Might Duy kicked him back before an examiner intervened and announced the squad’s scores.
• The examiner revealed that Bieshu Feifan scored sixty-three, Might Duy scored sixty-one, and Uchiha Zhongfen scored two, eliminating all three.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy read Zhongfen’s answers, offered him sympathetic advice, and watched him leave alone.
• The injured Kumogakure leader learned that Zhongfen’s failure had prevented a rematch, while Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy went home lamenting their elimination.

After Kumogakure broke the peace and attacked Konoha’s border, Hiruzen and his advisers prepared for war and decided to court the Uchiha. Danzo brought Bieshu Feifan and the Might family to Uchiha Fugaku’s clan head succession celebration, where their antics disrupted the gathering and Hiruzen learned Fugaku had named his newborn son Uchiha Itachi.

• The Five Great Nations enjoyed a brief period of peace after the joint Chunin Ninja Exams, while Bieshu Feifan cursed Uchiha Zhongfen and resumed training in senjutsu.
• Kumogakure shinobi attacked Konoha’s border outposts after the Third Raikage finished raising ransom money and closed his lawsuit, prompting Hiruzen, Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura to prepare for war and seek the Uchiha’s support.
• Danzo invited Bieshu Feifan to accompany him to Uchiha Fugaku’s clan head succession ceremony, and Bieshu excitedly declared he would build a faction and become Hokage.
• Hiruzen and Danzo arrived at Fugaku’s celebration, where Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy grabbed Fugaku’s hands and foot and dragged him into a seat.
• Might Duy teased Uchiha Zhongfen and offered him bitten pieces of food, while Might Guy asked Hiruzen how long Obito Uchiha’s prison sentence had left.
• Hiruzen asked Fugaku whether he had named his newborn son, and Fugaku answered that the baby was named Uchiha Itachi.

At Uchiha Fugaku’s succession banquet, Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy embarrassed Fugaku with absurd gifts, while Danzo grew alarmed over what he believed the Uchiha knew about his experiments. Konoha mobilized for war, and as the three prepared to deploy without a captain, they spotted Teacher Richuan approaching.

• Danzo concluded that the Uchiha knew about his human experiments and ordered Kōichi to relocate the laboratory and Yiyi to investigate Uchiha Yellow Weasel and the clan.
• Might Duy gave Uchiha Fugaku a green jumpsuit, Might Guy gave him false teeth, and Bieshu Feifan gave him toothpicks, humiliating Fugaku at his succession banquet.
• Uchiha opponents mocked Fugaku with the gifts during his first clan meeting, while Konoha High Command issued a mobilization order to the Uchiha and Hyuga clans.
• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy received orders to join the second deployment to the northeastern Land of Fire and assembled at Konoha Gate without a captain.
• As the main force departed, the three accepted that no captain had been assigned to them, then recognized the approaching Teacher Richuan and called out to him.

Richuan Taiban led Bieshu Feifan, Might Guy, and Might Duy to the northeastern border, where he secured a mission protecting Daquan Noble instead of fighting at the front. The three genin disrupted the noble’s formal reception and questioned why he had stayed near the battlefield, prompting Daquan Noble to say the mission should never have existed.

• Richuan Taiban reluctantly took charge of Bieshu Feifan, Might Guy, and Might Duy as they set out with Konoha’s main force.
• At the border camp, Richuan Taiban distributed supplies and told the team their assignment was to protect a noble in a nearby town.
• Richuan Taiban met Daquan Noble, but Bieshu Feifan and the two Might shinobi barged into the reception room with strange poses and then helped themselves to food and cards.
• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Might Guy questioned Daquan Noble about staying in the border town instead of fleeing the fighting.
• Daquan Noble agreed with the genin and told Richuan Taiban that the protection mission should never have existed.