Chapter Summaries

Senju Tobirama and his Shadow Guard Squad fled Kumogakure while Kinkaku and Ginkaku pursued them, killing and injuring their allies along the way. When Tobirama chose to stay behind alone to cover the retreat, Chiba arrived and joined him for the coming fight.

• Senju Tobirama and his companions escaped the Raikage Building as Kinkaku and Ginkaku blamed them for the Second Raikage’s death and led the Cloud Ninja in pursuit.
• Third Raikage A ordered the Cloud Ninja to stop chasing Tobirama, but Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s supporters attacked their comrades and continued after the fleeing group.
• Tobirama, Kagami Uchiha, and other members of the Shadow Guard Squad repeatedly stayed behind to delay the pursuers, suffering injuries and exhausting their strength as Kinkaku and Ginkaku recovered with Nine-Tails Chakra.
• After a night battle and a renewed pursuit at dawn, Tobirama decided to sacrifice himself so the others could escape, and he gave Sarutobi Hiruzen a letter for Chiba.
• Chiba descended beside Tobirama and revealed himself, then joined him to face the approaching enemies.

Chiba reunited with Senju Tobirama and helped him fight Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and their Cloud Ninja forces. After Chiba devastated the enemy ranks, he and Senju Tobirama coordinated Flying Thunder God attacks against the brothers, leaving their battle underway.

• Chiba told Senju Tobirama about his abilities, including Flying Thunder God and Wood Release, and learned that Kinkaku and Ginkaku would eventually die.
• Kinkaku sent the Cloud Ninja to attack first, and Chiba used Fire Release and Ice Release to kill them.
• Chiba and Senju Tobirama faced Kinkaku and Ginkaku as the brothers charged with Six Paths Tools and attacked with the Bashōsen.
• Chiba summoned Quintuple Rashomon to block the Bashōsen’s attack, then used Magnet Release to spread Flying Thunder God marks across the battlefield.
• Chiba and Senju Tobirama used Flying Thunder God to attack the brothers; Tobirama attached an Explosive Tag to Ginkaku’s sword, while Chiba struck Kinkaku with an Ice Release: Rasengan.

Chiba and Senju Tobirama defeated Kinkaku and Ginkaku with Mutual Exploding Tag Technique and Wood Release, then concealed the battlefield. Senju Tobirama accepted that he could not return to Konoha, and he and Chiba left together to find a secluded place.

• Senju Tobirama's Mutual Exploding Tag Technique badly injured Kinkaku and Ginkaku, but both brothers survived and Ginkaku urged Kinkaku to devour him.
• Kinkaku swallowed Ginkaku, regained his strength, and transformed into a False Nine-Tails, but Chiba blocked his Tailed Beast Ball with a Wood Golem.
• Chiba used a Wood Dragon and Wood Golem to restrain and pummel Kinkaku, then killed him with his Kekkei Tōta's Annihilation Power.
• Senju Tobirama sealed Kinkaku's corpse for research, and he and Chiba thoroughly cleaned up the battlefield.
• Senju Tobirama told Chiba he would conceal his identity and stay away from Konoha, then left with him to find a secluded place.

Chiba built a cottage for Senju Tobirama, and the two discussed Chiba’s future, bloodline, and Golden Mangekyō Sharingan. Tobirama became eager to study Chiba’s powers, and they settled in together for the years ahead.

• Chiba built a furnished wooden cottage for Senju Tobirama and told him about his engagement to Tsunade and plans for their future.
• Chiba explained that he had abandoned his surname while intending to let his descendants choose their own names, and Tobirama recognized his ambition to found a clan.
• Chiba showed Tobirama his Golden Mangekyō Sharingan and described his Sage Body, Sage Eye, and divine eye techniques.
• Chiba said he would remain in the past rather than risk returning through the unstable Ryūmyaku, and Tobirama offered to study his body and help his eyes evolve.
• Tobirama urged Chiba to delay having children until his eyes reached their peak, and Chiba agreed that his eyes had time to evolve first.
• Chiba and Tobirama planned to retrieve Tobirama’s hidden research equipment and went hunting before sharing a meal at the cottage.

Chiba and Senju Tobirama hid in a secret base inside the Hokage Rock Mountain Range, believing their survival would not alter the future as long as they stayed out of sight. While they lived in seclusion, Chiba trained and Tobirama researched; in Konoha Year 31, Chiba sensed that his timeline was about to return.

• Chiba and Senju Tobirama discussed how Tobirama’s hidden survival and Chiba’s time travel would leave the future timeline unchanged if they did not interfere.
• Chiba persuaded Tobirama to establish a secluded base in the Hokage Rock Mountain Range, hoping Tobirama could work with a future scientific genius after the timelines reunited.
• Chiba and Tobirama erased the traces of their former hideout, secretly entered Konohagakure, and built a base stocked with supplies and research equipment.
• Chiba and Tobirama watched Tobirama’s funeral from above Konoha, then settled into a routine of training, research, and observing Chiba’s younger self.
• In Konoha Year 31, Chiba sensed that his timeline was about to return.

Chiba overcame the timeline’s attempt to reject him by evolving his Golden Mangekyo Sharingan into the Golden Rinnegan, which revealed two powerful divine arts and allowed him to return to his companions. He reunited with Tsunade and revealed his new eyes, while Reki’s Sunagakure squad continued investigating the forest in the Country of Roran.

• Reki and Dai led twenty Sunagakure Ninja into the Country of Roran and found Chakra in the forest and soil, leading Reki to suspect Konoha had created it with Wood Release.
• Chiba became trapped in a time-distorting halo as two versions of his body merged, and he realized the timeline might exile him.
• Chiba evolved his Golden Mangekyo Sharingan into the Golden Rinnegan and shattered the time barrier, ending the timeline’s rejection of him.
• Chiba learned that his left-eye divine art could manipulate other people’s timelines at the cost of his lifespan, while his right-eye divine art could replenish it by taking half of someone else’s life.
• Chiba used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the Four Red Yang Formation, and Tsunade embraced him and scolded him for making her worry.
• Hatake Sakumo, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya noticed Chiba’s golden Rinnegan, and Chiba confirmed the eyes and said he had more to tell them.

Chishima Chiba told Tsunade and the others that Senju Tobirama was alive and prepared to take them back to Konoha for a reunion. After meeting Sunagakure’s delegation in the Country of Roran, Chiba returned to Konoha with Tsunade and the others, and Tsunade eagerly asked him to take her to see Second Grandfather.

• Chishima Chiba told Tsunade, Hatake Sakumo, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya that he had traveled back in time and saved Senju Tobirama, and they hurried to leave for Konoha.
• As Chiba prepared to use the Flying Thunder God Barrier, he sensed Sunagakure Ninja approaching and decided to hear them out.
• Queen Roran worried that Sunagakure might threaten her country, and Chiba reassured her while saying any help for the Land of Wind would require suitable benefits and diplomatic negotiations.
• Reki and Dai led twenty Sunagakure Ninja into the palace, and Reki confirmed that Chiba had transformed the Country of Roran’s landscape before accepting that negotiations should proceed through diplomatic channels.
• Reki shook hands with Chiba and left with the Sunagakure delegation, and Chiba took Tsunade and the others back to Konoha using the Flying Thunder God Barrier.
• Tsunade excitedly asked Chiba to take her to see Second Grandfather.

Chiba brought Tsunade to the Konoha Research Department, where she reunited with her long-missing grandfather, Senju Tobirama. Tobirama returned to the Senju compound and met his family and clan before keeping Sarutobi Hiruzen and other leaders for a private discussion; afterward, Chiba told Tsunade how he had saved Tobirama and confessed to his past mischief.

• Chiba led Tsunade into a hidden passage at the Research Department, where she found Senju Tobirama alive and reunited with him.
• Tobirama greeted Chiba, Hatake Sakumo, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, while Orochimaru ordered Hiruko to keep Tobirama's return secret.
• Uzumaki Mito confronted Tobirama at the Senju compound, then Tobirama embraced Senju Nawaki and announced his return to the gathered Senju clan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and other officials arrived for the family banquet, after which Tobirama kept them behind and summoned Uchiha Hei to the study.
• Chiba explained to Tsunade how he had used Ryūmyaku to save Tobirama, and admitted he had stolen her panties in the past before burning them.

Chiba and Tsunade finalized the design for their red wedding attire with Senju Tobirama and Uzumaki Mito, leaving only the outfit’s completion and their wedding date. Meanwhile, Sunagakure proposed a friendly treaty with Konohagakure, and Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Chiba for his opinion.

• Chiba and Tsunade visited the Senju compound, where Senju Tobirama told them the wedding date had been set and asked about their plans for the ceremony.
• Chiba sketched and described the Phoenix Coronet and Robes of Rank, and Tsunade joined him and Uzumaki Mito in settling the wedding attire’s design.
• Senju Tobirama went to the Research Department, where his presence strengthened Konoha’s research efforts and he guided Orochimaru and Hiruko.
• Sunagakure sent a diplomatic document proposing a friendly cooperation treaty with Konohagakure after ending its partnership with Iwagakure.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen opposed cooperation with Sunagakure, summoned Konoha’s senior officials to discuss the proposal, and asked Chiba what he thought.

Chiba rejected helping the Land of Wind destroy the Transverse Mountain Range without securing the Land of Fire’s interests, and Konoha drafted demands in exchange for delayed assistance. Sarutobi Hiruzen then revealed his hope that Hanzō the Salamander would provoke the Second Great Ninja War, and Chiba agreed with the plan while insisting that underage ninja stay off the battlefield.

• Chiba argued that improving the Land of Wind could eventually make it a rival to the Land of Fire, so Konoha should not accept the alliance on the Wind Country’s terms.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen showed the blank alliance document signed by Third Kazekage Kawai and the Fire Country Daimyo, and Konoha’s leaders proposed immediate benefits in return for assistance delayed over twenty years.
• Chiba agreed to the proposed terms, while Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned future negotiations to Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura so Chiba could prepare for his wedding with Tsunade.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen showed Chiba intelligence from Amegakure about Hanzō the Salamander and explained that he hoped Hanzō’s arrogance would help trigger the Second Great Ninja War and restore Konoha’s authority.
• Chiba accepted Sarutobi Hiruzen’s plan, saying he understood the world was not simply black and white, but insisted that underage ninja must not be sent to battle.

After Tsunade discovered she was pregnant, Chiba became excessively protective, while she tried to reassure him that she could manage normally. They shared the news with Uzumaki Mito and Senju Tobirama, then went shopping before returning home, where they reaffirmed their affection and looked forward to their wedding in two months.

• Tsunade told Chiba she was pregnant, and he immediately began fussing over her food, washing, clothes, and household chores.
• Chiba and Tsunade visited the Senju Compound and told Uzumaki Mito, who shared pregnancy advice and warned Chiba to control himself.
• Senju Tobirama arrived and declared that he should raise his great-grandchild, prompting an argument with Uzumaki Mito while Senju Nawaki left in frustration.
• Chiba took Tsunade to the commercial district and bought supplies for the baby despite her objections.
• Back at home, Tsunade asked Chiba whether he loved her or the baby more, and he reassured her before they discussed their wedding in two months.

Chiba and Tsunade discussed their unborn child and upcoming wedding, while preparations for their grand celebration brought delegations and guests to Konohagakure. Faced with an overwhelming guest list, Chiba proposed a Flowing Feast and began arranging the expanded venue.

• Chiba and Tsunade discussed baby names, wondered whether they might be having twins, and reaffirmed their excitement about their wedding in two weeks.
• Two weeks later, delegations from the Land of Wind, Rōran, and the Land of Rivers, along with merchants, arrived in crowded Konohagakure for the wedding.
• Hatake Sakumo and Jiraiya watched over the busy village and joked about Jiraiya's romantic pursuits.
• Chiba discovered that the guest list and gifts were too numerous to accommodate easily, so Orochimaru helped him consider a solution.
• Chiba proposed holding a Flowing Feast by opening up his house and the Uchiha and Senju clan compounds, then followed Orochimaru to begin organizing the arrangements.

Chiba organized an elaborate wedding procession and banquet for his marriage to Tsunade, with help from the Uchiha and Senju clans. After the ceremony and celebrations ended, the newlyweds rode off together on Chiba’s white horse.

• Chiba asked Uchiha Hei and Uzumaki Mito to tear down the courtyard walls, connecting the Uchiha, Senju, and Chiba compounds, and the Uchiha Clan agreed to help prepare the feast.
• Chiba and Senju Tobirama completed the wedding preparations, including obtaining a pure-white horse for the procession.
• Chiba led a grand procession through Konoha to collect Tsunade, while Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Hatake Sakumo released flower petals over the village.
• Chiba and Tsunade returned to their mansion, bowed to Heaven and Earth and their elders, exchanged nuptial wine, and began the banquet.
• After the guests departed, Chiba and Tsunade ran hand in hand to the white horse and rode off together.

Chiba and Tsunade settled into married life as Tsunade carried twins, and Chiba cared for her through the pregnancy. On February 14, Konoha Year 32, Tsunade safely gave birth to a daughter and a son, but Chiba thought the newborns looked ugly.

• After their wedding, Chiba and Tsunade spent the night together and saw off the Fire Country Daimyo and Senju Ziharu the next morning.
• The Fire Country Daimyo warned Chiba about the Land of Wind and invited him and Tsunade to visit their residence in the Capital.
• Six months into Tsunade's pregnancy, Chiba learned she was carrying twins, and Tsunade continued working in Konoha's Medical Department despite his protests.
• Chiba cared for Tsunade as her pregnancy advanced, taking her to work, bringing her home, and tending to her needs.
• When Tsunade's water broke, Chiba used Flying Thunder God to take her to Konoha Hospital, where Senju Tobirama, Uzumaki Mito, and others waited anxiously.
• Tsunade safely delivered a daughter and a son, and Chiba joined her in the nursery before commenting that the babies looked ugly.

After Tsunade gave birth to twins Yanlin and Maoyuki, Chiba and their family cared for the newborns and helped Tsunade recover. The family left the hospital and returned home, where Senju Ziharu welcomed Tsunade and met the babies.

• Chiba and Tsunade carried the crying twins from the delivery room to the ward, where Tsunade began feeding them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Senju Tobirama visited Chiba, then left after discussing family matters and the twins’ hundred-day celebration.
• Chiba helped Tsunade when her milk supply caused painful swelling, and later changed Yanlin’s diaper while Tsunade fed the babies.
• Yanlin choked briefly while feeding, but Tsunade reassured Chiba, and Uzumaki Mito brought Tsunade a meal and chicken soup.
• Tsunade left Konoha Hospital with Chiba and Uzumaki Mito, then embraced Senju Ziharu at home as the women gathered around the twins.

Chiba left Konoha for the Land of Wind, where he was asked to help with the Transverse Mountain Range and visit Uzushiogakure amid threats from three hidden villages. After reaching Sunagakure and meeting the Third Kazekage Kawai and other leaders, Chiba pushed them to discuss the mountain range plans, wary of their motives.

• Chiba said goodbye to Tsunade and their family before meeting Sarutobi Hiruzen, who briefed him on the alliance with the Land of Wind and the danger facing Uzushiogakure.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen explained that Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure were preparing to attack Uzushiogakure, whose leaders hesitated to accept Konoha's military aid.
• Chiba agreed to visit Uzushiogakure without making a political display, then left Konoha and used the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to travel toward the Land of Wind.
• Chiba flew from the Transverse Mountain Range to Sunagakure, leaving Flying Thunder God marks along the way, and arrived at the village gates.
• The Third Kazekage Kawai greeted Chiba warmly, and Chiyo, Ebizo, Reki, and Dai joined them in the Kazekage Building.
• Chiba asked to discuss the Transverse Mountain Range, and Kawai and the others unfolded a map and explained their plans.

Chiba rejected Sunagakure’s plan to help destroy the Transverse Mountain Range and went with Chiyo and Ebizo to open a passage through it. After demonstrating his overwhelming power by carving through the mountains, he left Sunagakure to deal with the collapsing rock and vanished.

• Chiba refused to let Sunagakure Ninja assist him and agreed only to destroy the section of the Transverse Mountain Range that Third Kazekage Kawai indicated.
• Chiba traveled to the range with Chiyo and Ebizo, then summoned a golden Complete Body Susanoo more than three hundred meters tall.
• Chiba used a Kekkei Tōta beam from the Susanoo to split a towering peak and create a passage that let damp, salty air flow through.
• Chiba claimed he had run out of strength, then entered Sage Mode and used Sage Art: Dust Release: Sword Draw to cut through another massive section of the mountain.
• Chiba told Chiyo and Ebizo that Sunagakure had to clear the falling peak, then vanished with the Flying Thunder God as they fled the collapse.

Uchiha Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, gained enough life force to keep living, and created White Zetsu to help carry out his plan. Meanwhile, the moon’s Otsutsuki descendants discovered the statue had vanished and began investigating its theft.

• Uchiha Madara awakened his Rinnegan and decided he needed a Senju or Uzumaki child to use the Rinne Rebirth Technique and restore his youth.
• Uchiha Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, alerting the Otsutsuki descendants on the moon, who learned that someone had stolen it through a Summoning Jutsu.
• Uchiha Madara connected himself to the statue to sustain his life and used Senju Hashirama’s flesh and the statue’s energy to create White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to gather intelligence, especially about Konohagakure and the other Great Hidden Villages, and to find young Senju or Uzumaki clan members.
• White Zetsu used the statue to produce hundreds of Spore Clones, then sent them to carry out the missions while Uchiha Madara waited in the Mountain Graveyard.

Chiba tried to persuade the Third Uzukage that Uzushiogakure needed to change its isolated one-clan rule to survive the hostility of the Shinobi World, but the Uzukage refused. Chiba returned to Konoha and gained Uzumaki Mito’s approval to let Uzushiogakure face the crisis until it was ready to reconsider.

• Chiba visited the Third Uzukage and said he had come in a private capacity, but the Uzukage insisted Uzushiogakure could handle its own crisis.
• Chiba warned that Uzushiogakure’s small population could not withstand the Shinobi World’s combined pressure, but the Third Uzukage defended the Uzumaki Clan’s strength and its one-clan, one-village system.
• Chiba left a Flying Thunder God Kunai in the Uzukage’s office and said he would make Uzushiogakure feel the consequences before discussing matters again.
• Chiba returned to Konoha, told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he would wait for Uzushiogakure to suffer a major loss, and asked him to watch Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure.
• Chiba reunited with Tsunade and their children, then explained his plan to Uzumaki Mito, who approved of his approach.

Uchiha Madara learned about Chiba’s Rinnegan and ordered White Zetsu to investigate him and find a young Uzumaki child as turmoil approached Uzushiogakure. Chiba realized White Zetsu was serving Madara and planned to use the Uzumaki Clan to track them down, while forces from Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure prepared to attack Uzushiogakure.

• White Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that Chiba possessed Rinnegan-like eyes, could detect the Mayfly Technique, and might also have Wood Release.
• Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to gather detailed information about Chiba and find a pure-blooded Uzumaki child aged three to five during the coming turmoil.
• Chiba cared for Tsunade and their sleeping children, then regretted failing to capture White Zetsu after detecting him in Konoha.
• Chiba reasoned that Madara would seek an Uzumaki child to bear the Rinnegan and planned to watch the Uzumaki Clan to find White Zetsu and Madara.
• Five hundred Kumogakure shinobi, seven hundred Iwagakure shinobi, and five hundred Kirigakure shinobi anchored near the Land of Whirlpools and agreed to advance on Uzushiogakure.