Recaps

Senju Chen killed Tsukiki after Tsukiki tried to flee, despite the instructors demanding an investigation. Students then revealed that Tsukiki had killed Zabuza Momochi, leaving the instructors stunned and ashamed as Senju Chen asked whether anyone still thought he had killed the wrong person.

• Nakamura urged Senju Chen and Tsukiki to stand down and let the Anbu investigate, while Tsukiki agreed and prepared to escape.
• Senju Chen bypassed the instructors and killed Tsukiki as he fled.
• The instructors attacked Senju Chen, believing he had murdered a colleague to silence him.
• Students arrived and testified that Tsukiki had killed Zabuza Momochi in front of them.
• The instructors realized they had tried to protect Zabuza Momochi's killer, and Senju Chen asked if anyone still believed he had killed the wrong person.

Senju Chen was taken to the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad headquarters after killing Tsukiki, whom he accused of murdering Zabuza Momochi. During questioning, he urged Hozuki Anyue to investigate Tsukiki’s suspicious reputation, and Anyue began to reconsider the case.

• Hozuki Anyue arrived at the alley and ordered Senju Chen and the witnesses to accompany him for questioning.
• Hozuki Anyue examined Tsukiki and Zabuza Momochi’s bodies and heard students confirm that Tsukiki had attacked Zabuza.
• At headquarters, Hozuki Anyue questioned Senju Chen about his relationship with Zabuza and why he had killed Tsukiki.
• Senju Chen claimed he had witnessed Tsukiki trying to silence the students and argued that Tsukiki’s murder might have concealed a secret.
• Senju Chen pointed out that Tsukiki’s long-standing popularity and lack of ambition were suspicious, prompting Hozuki Anyue to reconsider the investigation.

After Tsukiki was exposed as an Iwagakure spy, Kirisame Ryo was cleared and Zabuza Momochi was secretly transported to a safe house as an investment project. Zabuza accepted his helpless position and began following his handlers’ orders while awaiting his departure from the Land of Water.

• Hozuki Anyue ordered a search of Tsukiki’s residences and contacts, especially former High Tower director Aoki.
• The Special Assassination and Tactical Squad announced that Tsukiki was the Iwagakure spy Yamano, that he had killed Zabuza, and that Kirisame Ryo had killed him; Aoki was removed and investigated.
• Hozuki Anyue escorted Senju Chen from headquarters and praised his accurate intuition, while Senju Chen said he had only done his duty.
• A white humanoid creature transported Zabuza Momochi to a dim room, where Aying told him to stay quiet and wait two days before leaving the Land of Water.
• Zabuza understood that he was an investment project in his new lord’s hands, then ate the food and resigned himself to obeying.

Senju Chen secured his authority over Kirigakure’s tower and began plotting to recruit promising young ninja by having them declared dead. Meanwhile, Obito consolidated control of Kirigakure, but turned his attention back to Rin Nohara’s death.

• Senju Chen returned to the tower, where its instructors greeted him with fear and deference after he killed Tsukiki.
• Instructor Nakamura gave Senju Chen the graduating students’ assessment reports, including Zabuza Momochi’s falsified death report.
• Senju Chen considered Kirigakure’s talented young ninja potential recruits for his future force and planned to bring them under his control.
• Obito Uchiha used the Special Assassination and Tactical Squad to eliminate or recruit the remnants of Genji’s faction and consolidate his rule over Kirigakure.
• Black Zetsu urged Obito to move forward with the Eye of the Moon Plan, but Obito asked whether Kirigakure had forced Rin Nohara to become the Three-Tails Jinchūriki before she died.

Obito questioned whether Rin had truly died, but Black Zetsu suppressed his doubts and redirected him toward Madara's plan. Obito recommitted himself to the Eye of the Moon Plan and agreed to retrieve the Rinnegan from Nagato.

• Obito challenged Black Zetsu over the Three-Tails’ failure to reappear and wondered whether Rin had survived.
• Black Zetsu insisted Rin was dead, citing the evidence Obito had seen and the lack of news from Konoha.
• Black Zetsu reminded Obito that he had caused the deaths of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, provoking Obito to seize him and defend his actions.
• Black Zetsu promised that the Eye of the Moon Plan could create a world where Rin, Minato, and Kushina could return, and Obito renewed his resolve to bring Rin back.
• Black Zetsu steered Obito toward retrieving Madara’s legacy, and Obito agreed to take the Rinnegan from Nagato.

Senju Chen decided to send Mei Terumi, Chōjūrō, and Zabuza Momochi to the experimental base in the Land of Waterfalls for training. After learning that she could not change Kirigakure while she was weak, Mei agreed to leave the Land of Water with Chōjūrō and set out to become stronger.

• Senju Chen concluded that Mei Terumi had no political future in Kirigakure after Genji's death and ordered her, Chōjūrō, and Zabuza Momochi transferred to the Land of Waterfalls.
• Senju Chen sent Mei Terumi a letter telling her to leave the Land of Water and return only when she was strong enough to change Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi initially refused to leave, but Aying warned her that Yagura's purge put her at risk and that she was too weak to accomplish anything by staying.
• Mei Terumi told Chōjūrō to pack for their departure, saying they were going somewhere that could make them stronger.
• Mei Terumi packed her notes from Senju Chen's lessons and her wooden guest-room token, keeping both close as she prepared to leave.

Aying brought Mei Terumi, Zabuza Momochi, Chōjūrō, and the rescued Kekkei Genkai orphans to Senju Chen’s underground base in the Land of Waterfalls. Senju Chen welcomed them as residents and assigned Yamato and Amado to handle their examinations, lodging, and training, while Orochimaru and Sasori showed interest in the newcomers.

• Aying told Zabuza Momochi they would move in two days, and Zabuza agreed to remain an obedient project until he received the promised power.
• A month later, Aying led Mei Terumi, Chōjūrō, Zabuza Momochi, and more than twenty Kekkei Genkai orphans through a passage behind a waterfall to the underground base.
• Senju Chen introduced himself and told the newcomers that the base would be their home, where they could pursue strength in exchange for effort.
• Yamato took the group for medical examinations and lodging after Senju Chen ordered him to prepare their accommodations.
• Orochimaru asked about Mei Terumi and assessed Zabuza Momochi, while Senju Chen stopped Sasori from treating Zabuza as puppet material.
• Senju Chen instructed Amado to create training plans for the children based on their abilities and medical data.

Senju Chen brought Mei Terumi, Zabuza Momochi, Chōjūrō, and the Kekkei Genkai orphans to his underground laboratory and assessed their potential. He revealed Rin Nohara’s control of the Three-Tails to demonstrate what they could gain, then declared the laboratory their future and the start of their path to strength.

• Amado presented Senju Chen with the newcomers’ physical data, and Chen assessed Mei Terumi’s dual Kekkei Genkai potential, Zabuza Momochi’s combat talent, and Chōjūrō’s room for improvement.
• During her examination, Mei Terumi demanded to know where she was and who had taken her, but Yamato told her the laboratory was her new home.
• Senju Chen welcomed the group to the lounge, where they saw advanced chakra-threaded puppets, and Mei asked him about Gonbei.
• Senju Chen introduced Rin Nohara as a senior colleague and asked her to demonstrate thirty percent of her results.
• Rin Nohara revealed a controlled Three-Tails chakra cloak, terrifying the newcomers before she dismissed it at Senju Chen’s request.
• Senju Chen called the laboratory their future and himself their investor, welcoming them to his “god-making” factory.

Senju Chen’s base impressed the displaced Kirigakure group with its facilities, technology, weapons, and promises of extraordinary growth. He ended the tour by warning them that they would have to prove their worth because the base did not keep dead weight.

• Rin Nohara unleashed overwhelming chakra, leaving Mei Terumi and Zabuza Momochi shaken, before Senju Chen sent Yamato to show the newcomers around.
• Yamato showed the group their private dorm rooms and Amado explained how the base used personal data to design training and nutrition plans.
• Amado showed Yukimura Ryota’s progress, including his increased chakra reserves and precise Ice Release control, astonishing Mei Terumi.
• Yamato led the group to an armory displaying all seven legendary Kirigakure ninja blades, and Zabuza Momochi resolved to obtain them.
• Senju Chen promised powerful resources and abilities to members who proved valuable, then declared that the base would not keep dead weight.

Over five years, Senju Chen’s experimental base trained Mei Terumi, Zabuza Momochi, and dozens of other powerful ninja while his businesses and intelligence network expanded across the shinobi world. The chapter leaves the base and Food Is Heaven prospering, with its costly Flying Thunder God takeout service earning enormous profits.

• Mei Terumi demonstrated her acidic Lava and Boil Release techniques, destroying the simulated battlefield’s alloy trees and puppets.
• Zabuza Momochi and his White Zetsu Clone puppet fought in perfect coordination, cutting down dozens of enemy puppets.
• Amado reported that Mei Terumi and Zabuza Momochi had reached S-rank combat strength and all thirty first-intake trainees had reached A-rank jonin strength.
• Senju Chen’s base grew to over a hundred trainees as his allies recruited gifted young ninja and trained them with tailed beast cells, scientific tools, and customized plans.
• Food Is Heaven expanded to over a hundred branches, and Senju Chen’s Flying Thunder God takeout service earned nearly a hundred million in its first month of trial operations.

Senju Chen sent Zabuza Momochi and Yukimura Ryota, codenamed Haku, out as the base’s first field operatives and paired them as bounty hunters. The base’s operatives also departed with White Zetsu clone puppets, helping rumors of a mysterious organization called the “Twins” spread across the Shinobi World.

• Senju Chen ordered Zabuza Momochi to become a field operative, hunt black-market bounties, and report intelligence to the base.
• Senju Chen introduced Yukimura Ryota, codenamed Haku, as Zabuza’s partner, but Zabuza objected and called him dead weight.
• Haku demonstrated his Ice Release with Thousand Flying Bird Kills, convincing Zabuza that he had ability despite his lack of combat experience.
• Senju Chen ordered Zabuza and Haku to work together, and the reluctant pair set out for a black-market bounty exchange.
• Other operatives left the base with White Zetsu clone puppets, and stories spread about a powerful group called the “Twins.”

After five years of research and expanding his influence, Senju Chen decided to return to Konoha and see how Naruto and Sasuke had grown up in their altered circumstances. The chapter left off with the two boys bickering and wrestling over stolen dango and shuriken practice.

• Senju Chen learned that Amado, Sasori, and the two Orochimarus had deciphered sixteen God Masks and could summon their gods using White Zetsu life energy.
• The Orochimarus reported that Kekkei Genkai experiments had reached a fifty-percent success rate for one bloodline, while only three subjects had awakened two.
• Senju Chen reviewed how Kabuto Yakushi, Uchiha Fugaku's Konoha Military Police Force, and Food Is Heaven had improved public safety and the Uchiha Clan's reputation across the Land of Fire.
• Senju Chen decided to return to Konoha after five years and wondered how Naruto and Sasuke would turn out without the hardships of their original lives.
• Naruto and Sasuke argued over tricolor dango and Sasuke's demand that Naruto call him big brother, then quarreled about practicing Shurikenjutsu.

After five years away, Senju Chen returned to Konoha and reunited with his sister Tsunade and Shizune. He reassured them that his health was fine, gave them gifts, and left to prepare dinner so they could catch up that night.

• Senju Chen and Yamato arrived at Konoha, where the gatekeepers recognized Chen and welcomed his return.
• Chen sent Yamato home and went to the Hokage Building, where he found Tsunade asleep at her desk while Shizune sorted documents.
• Tsunade awoke, embraced Chen, and scolded him for being away for five years before happily checking that he was safe.
• Chen praised Tsunade’s leadership and said he had helped support Konoha and the Land of Fire through the Public Security Department.
• Chen reassured Tsunade that his health problem was resolved and gave her and Shizune gifts.
• Chen left for home to prepare dinner, and Tsunade felt relieved that he had returned safely.

After returning to Konoha, Senju Chen strolled through the village and visited the Uchiha compound, where its members welcomed him warmly. He reunited with Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto and found Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha sparring like brothers.

• Senju Chen and Yamato finished sorting the classified scrolls and local specialties at the Senju residence.
• Senju Chen walked through Konoha, where villagers greeted him with awe and curiosity.
• Uchiha clan members welcomed Senju Chen as he arrived at their compound.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto joyfully invited Senju Chen into their home.
• Senju Chen watched Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha spar, argue over who was the older brother, and help each other up.

Senju Chen met with Uchiha Fugaku and heard how the Uchiha Military Police Force had thrived under his earlier plans. He asked Fugaku to help support reforms at the Ninja Academy, leaving the details of his request unfinished.

• Senju Chen watched Naruto and Sasuke roughhouse while Uchiha Mikoto described their close bond.
• Uchiha Fugaku reported that the Military Police Force had completed every mission and that its members had benefited from training exchanges with the Public Security Department.
• Fugaku said his son Itachi served as a squad captain in the Public Security Department and admired Senju Chen.
• Senju Chen credited Fugaku for the Uchiha's success and asked him to help with several matters.
• Senju Chen revealed that he planned to reform the Ninja Academy and wanted Uchiha teachers there to speak up for him.

Senju Chen returned to Konoha, reconnected with Kakashi, and reviewed the Public Security Department’s growth with Kabuto Yakushi. He ordered the department to begin the Purification plan, targeting 371 officials across the nations for replacement within a year.

• Senju Chen met Kakashi at the Memorial Stone, where Kakashi was visiting Minato’s name, and invited him to come over the next day.
• Senju Chen visited the Public Security Department, where Kabuto Yakushi reported that it had absorbed Root’s assets, expanded its intelligence network, taken control of major economic channels, and gained influence over the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Senju Chen and Kabuto Yakushi surveyed a chakra map of the Shinobi World in the strategic planning office.
• Senju Chen ordered Kabuto Yakushi to begin the Purification plan, arranging plausible deaths for 371 blacklisted daimyos, nobles, and local officials and installing prepared proxies within a year.

Senju Chen welcomed Tsunade, Shizune, and Yamato home with a family dinner, then told Tsunade his bloodline conflict had been resolved. He proposed reforms to Konoha’s medical system and Ninja Academy, leaving Tsunade ready to seek Elder Council approval for medical reform and review his education plans.

• Senju Chen prepared a lavish welcome-home dinner, and Tsunade teased him about Shizune having waited five years for him.
• Tsunade asked where Senju Chen had been, and he claimed he had spent five years with his teacher resolving his bloodline conflict at a secret overseas base.
• Senju Chen proposed a new Ninja Academy curriculum focused on theory, teamwork, intelligence analysis, and Scientific Ninja Tools.
• Senju Chen told Tsunade that he and his teacher had developed a way to reattach and regenerate severed limbs, and said Maruboshi Kosuke’s lost leg had been healed.
• Tsunade agreed to medical reform in principle and called for Maruboshi Kosuke to return so the Elders could verify the results.
• Tsunade asked Senju Chen to write detailed plans for his Ninja Academy reforms before she submitted them to the Council of Elders.

Senju Chen revealed to Kakashi that Hatake Sakumo had been framed by Danzō and that the village had pressured him into taking his own life. As Kakashi reeled from the truth and learned Danzō was already dead, Chen told him that his father was still alive.

• Kakashi came to the Senju residence for breakfast, and Senju Chen asked about Naruto's happy childhood in the Uchiha Clan.
• Senju Chen challenged Kakashi's beliefs about Hatake Sakumo's death, prompting Kakashi to insist that his father had been a sinner.
• Senju Chen showed Kakashi a secret Root report proving that Danzō had arranged to frame Sakumo and recommended forcing him to take his own life.
• Kakashi collapsed in shock as he realized his father had been betrayed and his own code of putting rules first had rested on a lie.
• Senju Chen told Kakashi that Danzō was dead, then revealed that Hatake Sakumo was still alive.

Senju Chen revealed that Hatake Sakumo had survived his staged death and spent years secretly serving Konoha as a bounty hunter and informant. Kakashi learned his father was now undercover in the Land of Rain, protecting the Akatsuki, and was left alone to process the news.

• Kakashi seized Senju Chen and demanded to know whether his father was alive and where he had gone.
• Senju Chen explained that he had arranged with Orochimaru to fake Hatake Sakumo’s death and help him escape Konoha.
• Senju Chen told Kakashi that Sakumo had operated in the Land of Rain as the bounty hunter Fang and secretly helped Konoha during the war and other missions.
• Senju Chen revealed that Sakumo had joined the mission to kill Shimura Danzō five years earlier.
• Senju Chen relayed Sakumo’s concern for Kakashi and explained that his disappearance had been meant to let Kakashi grow up as a hero’s son rather than a sinner’s son.
• Senju Chen said Sakumo was undercover with the Akatsuki in the Land of Rain, then left Kakashi alone with the news.

Kakashi regained his resolve and agreed to travel to Takigakure to reunite with his father and undergo an upgrade arranged by Senju Chen. That evening, Senju Chen hosted a dinner that grew unexpectedly crowded when Mitaraishi Anko and Kurenai Yuhi joined Tsunade and Shizune, leaving the atmosphere at the table peculiar.

• Kakashi emerged from his room with renewed clarity and thanked Senju Chen for helping him reconsider his past.
• Kakashi asked to visit the Land of Rain to see his father, but Senju Chen explained that Sakumo’s infiltration mission meant they could not meet there directly.
• Senju Chen arranged for Kakashi to travel to his base in the Land of Waterfalls, reunite with Sakumo, and undergo a transformation; he also asked Kakashi to escort Amado back afterward.
• Senju Chen told Kakashi to study teaching materials on modern Scientific Ninja Tools at Takigakure so he could later teach students in Konoha.
• Senju Chen invited Kakashi to dinner, then found Mitaraishi Anko and Kurenai Yuhi joining Tsunade and Shizune at the table.
• Senju Chen cooked additional dishes, and the dinner’s atmosphere turned peculiar once everyone began eating.

Senju Chen faced teasing and reproaches from Tsunade, Shizune, Anko, and Kurenai Yuhi over his five-year absence, then changed the subject by showing Tsunade a secret report about Hatake Sakumo. The report implicated Shimura Danzō in manipulating the villagers against Sakumo, and Tsunade erupted in fury.

• Anko, Kurenai Yuhi, and Shizune pressed Senju Chen about disappearing for five years without sending word, while Tsunade watched and Kakashi left to avoid the confrontation.
• Senju Chen apologized and presented Tsunade with a sealed top-secret scroll about the reinvestigation of Hatake Sakumo's failed mission.
• Tsunade read that Konoha's leadership had manipulated public opinion against Sakumo and that Shimura Danzō had recommended guiding the villagers' emotions.
• Tsunade condemned Shimura Danzō and Root, then shattered the ironwood table with a furious blow, startling Shizune, Anko, and Kurenai Yuhi.

Senju Chen calmed Tsunade after revealing evidence of Danzo’s crimes, then stunned her and Shizune by revealing that Hatake Sakumo had survived his supposed suicide. He explained that Sakumo’s escape had been staged with Orochimaru and that Sakumo had secretly served Konoha for years.

• Senju Chen reminded Tsunade that Danzo was dead, calming her fury over the scroll exposing his crimes.
• Kurenai Yuhi told Senju Chen that her new student was Kurama Yakumo, a gifted genjutsu user with a frail body.
• Anko and Kurenai Yuhi left after Anko reminded Senju Chen to host the promised apology feast.
• Senju Chen told Tsunade and Shizune that Hatake Sakumo had never died and that his escape had been staged with Orochimaru.
• Senju Chen recounted how Sakumo had lived under the alias Fang, earned secret wartime achievements, and helped kill Shimura Danzō.

Senju Chen reconciled with Tsunade over his secret role in clearing Hatake Sakumo’s name, and Tsunade planned to reveal Sakumo’s return as a cover for a classified mission. At the Public Security Department, Chen announced a new Purification plan and ordered senior officers to undergo three months of further training.

• Tsunade questioned Senju Chen about keeping his plan from her, and he persuaded her that the Hokage’s Office should publicly explain Hatake Sakumo’s supposed death as a cover for a secret mission.
• Tsunade devised a plan to release declassified files portraying Sakumo as a hero who had served Konoha in the Land of Rain and during the Third Shinobi World War.
• The next morning, Senju Chen left Tsunade asleep after she had drunk too much and went to the Public Security Department, where he gathered its squad leaders and senior officers.
• Senju Chen thanked the assembled officers for protecting Konoha during his five-year absence, then announced the Purification plan to remove corruption in the Land of Fire.
• Senju Chen ordered all Public Security Department officers at squad leader rank and above to attend three months of further training starting the following week, with Kabuto Yakushi arranging the batches.

Senju Chen met with Maruboshi Kosuke to review Food Is Heaven’s accounts and learn that Kosuke’s body and chakra had improved after his treatment. Tsunade examined Kosuke’s restored foot and was stunned by how perfectly it had fused with his body, leaving her questioning the limits of medicine.

• Maruboshi Kosuke delivered Food Is Heaven’s annual accounts and reported that three hundred security and intelligence personnel had completed basic training.
• Senju Chen asked about Kosuke’s recovery, and Kosuke said his restored body had far greater chakra reserves than before.
• Tsunade and Shizune arrived and saw Kosuke’s healed left foot, which Tsunade examined with medical chakra.
• Tsunade found no flaws in the foot’s fusion, sensation, or chakra flow, and Kosuke confirmed that it had caused him no problems.

Tsunade brought Senju Chen and Maruboshi Kosuke before Konoha’s Council of Elders to reveal a medical breakthrough that restored Kosuke’s lost foot. The elders witnessed the foot’s natural movement and chakra control, and Tsunade revealed that Senju Chen was responsible.

• Tsunade decided to convene a Council of Elders meeting and bring Senju Chen and Maruboshi Kosuke.
• Tsunade announced to Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Shikaku Nara that she had a medical breakthrough capable of changing the Shinobi World’s balance of power.
• Tsunade revealed that Maruboshi Kosuke’s left foot, lost in the Second Shinobi World War, had recovered.
• Maruboshi Kosuke curled the toes of his restored foot and used it to channel chakra and crack the conference room floor.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected the restoration was a new medical jutsu, but Tsunade said Senju Chen deserved the credit.