Chapter Summaries

Izayoi repelled Root’s attacks while Danzo’s forces tried to uncover the limits of his power. As Danzo prepared to act himself, Izayoi secretly collected valuable Perks from the Root members attacking him.

• Fuu Yamanaka’s attempt to seize Izayoi with Yin Release backfired, leaving him screaming in pain.
• Danzo ordered Root to attack with area techniques, but Izayoi’s Shinra Tensei destroyed the Four Violet Flames Formation and killed its casters.
• Torune Aburame and Fuu reported that Izayoi’s repulsion technique had a charging weakness, though his defenses and chakra made exploiting it difficult.
• Danzo removed the seal from his Sharingan and signaled Fuu and Torune to move before preparing to intervene himself.
• Izayoi let Root’s attacks continue while converting the Perks that entered his body into Points, delighted by the valuable drops.

Izayoi defeated Danzo Shimura after Danzo’s Kotoamatsukami backfired against the power of Izayoi’s Tenseigan. With Danzo incapacitated, Izayoi joined the battle against Root using Human Puppets and discovered why they could improve his drop rate.

• Izayoi repelled Torune Aburame and exposed Fuu Yamanaka as a puppet before Danzo Shimura attacked him with Izanagi.
• Danzo Shimura used Kotoamatsukami, but the Tenseigan overwhelmed the genjutsu and destroyed Danzo’s mind and will.
• Izayoi tore off Danzo Shimura’s arm as Hashirama Cells began to run wild, leaving Danzo vacant and incapacitated.
• Izayoi summoned Human Puppets and supported their assault on the Root members with Almighty Pull and Shinra Tensei.
• Izayoi deduced that Human Puppets could raise the drop rate because their corpses and hearts gave them a quality absent from his other techniques and puppets.

Izayoi killed Root, incapacitated Danzo Shimura, and raided Danzo’s hidden archive for secret techniques and intelligence. After reading Danzo’s memories and killing him, Izayoi left with the stolen scrolls and turned his attention toward Central Street.

• Izayoi and the Kurosuki Clan killed nearly all of Root while Izayoi disassembled the fallen members’ traits and gained Points.
• Izayoi carried the incapacitated Danzo Shimura to his hidden chamber, where he found scrolls containing intelligence, ninjutsu, and clan secret techniques.
• Izayoi learned the Yamanaka Clan’s Mind Reading Technique and used it to read Danzo’s memories.
• Izayoi had a Human Puppet kill Danzo, disassembled the traits from his corpse, and took the chamber’s scrolls with him.
• Izayoi left the underground base and vanished toward Central Street.

Izayoi’s Shadow Clone infiltrated the Hokage Building, disabled its sensors, and fought Anbu Captain Tenzō with overwhelming repulsion and gravity techniques. Jiraiya arrived to find Tenzō missing and a vast crater, convinced the intruder was Yahiko wielding Nagato’s Rinnegan and fearing what had happened to his former disciple.

• Izayoi destroyed the Sensor Team’s equipment, knocked the ninjas unconscious, and let his puppets enter after the Perception Barrier fell.
• Tenzō and another Anbu trapped Izayoi in an underground base, but Izayoi blasted through their defenses with Shinra Tensei.
• Izayoi used Almighty Pull to seize Tenzō, who escaped with Wood Release and transformed the underground base into a forest.
• Izayoi unleashed a powerful Shinra Tensei that shattered the forest and knocked Tenzō unconscious inside his wooden barrier.
• Jiraiya reached the underground base and found a huge crater, then concluded that the Rinnegan-wielding intruder was Yahiko and worried that his former disciple had gone astray.

During the Konoha Crush, Izayoi captured Gaara and his siblings, destroyed the Three-Headed Snake after it wrecked his home, and helped take advantage of the chaos. The invasion ended with Konoha driving off the Sand Ninja, Hiruzen dying while sealing the First and Second Hokage and Orochimaru's arms, and Izayoi emerging as the biggest winner.

• Izayoi and the Little Strong Ones defeated Temari and Kankuro, captured Gaara, and Hinata sealed Gaara's Chakra.
• Red Yuhi led the group and their prisoners toward the Hidden Leaf Interrogation Department, while Izayoi used Judgement to defeat attacking Sand Ninja and Sound Ninja.
• Izayoi abandoned the group to destroy the Three-Headed Snake after it demolished his home, then recovered scrolls and photographs from the ruins as Hinata defeated more Sound Ninja.
• After the villagers reached shelters, Konoha's returning ninja overwhelmed the attackers, and Maki led the Sand Ninja in retreat after learning Orochimaru had impersonated the Fourth Kazekage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sacrificed himself to seal the First and Second Hokage and take away Orochimaru's arms, while Izayoi profited from the chaos.

After the Third Hokage and Danzo died in the Konoha Crush, Jiraiya rejected the Fifth Hokage position and urged the elders to choose Tsunade. Following the memorial service, Izayoi bought the ruined Hot Spring Pavilion and neighboring plots to build a larger home.

• Jiraiya told Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane that an Akatsuki figure with purple ripple-patterned eyes had killed Danzo, destroyed Root, abducted Tenzō, and stolen scrolls, while Sasori had taken corpses for puppets.
• Jiraiya refused to become the Fifth Hokage, citing the threat posed by Akatsuki, and persuaded the elders to consider Tsunade instead.
• Izayoi attended the memorial service for the fallen, privately vowed to make Root great again, and then went looking for a new home site.
• Izayoi offered to buy the ruined Hot Spring Pavilion, and Hinata brought Ino Yamanaka to help oversee the sale and assess the deal.
• Izayoi bought the pavilion land for 66,660,000 ryo and later purchased several neighboring plots, spending 280 million ryo in total before commissioning plans for his new home.

Konoha and the Sand Village publicly blamed Akatsuki for the Konoha Crush, putting Nagato and Sasori at the center of the Ninja World’s attention. Meanwhile, Izayoi left his inn with Sasuke, who had persuaded him to teach him his Ultimate Techniques.

• Konoha and the Sand Village released accounts of the Konoha Crush, and Konoha placed bounties on Sasori of the Red Sand and Deva Path Pain while exposing Akatsuki’s base in the Rain Hidden Village.
• Obito Uchiha, Black and White Zetsu, and Konan confronted Deva Path Pain, who denied killing Danzo Shimura and said he had not left the Rain Hidden Village.
• Obito and Black Zetsu suspected that the Mysterious Man had watched them unseen, while Sasori praised Izayoi’s puppet technique and Deva Path Pain refused to move Akatsuki’s base.
• Sasuke Uchiha visited Izayoi and offered him a place to stay in exchange for learning his Ultimate Techniques; after Izayoi teased him, Sasuke agreed to become his student.
• Izayoi and Sasuke packed their belongings, checked out of the inn, and set off to buy food and kitchen supplies for Sasuke’s home.

Izayoi and Sasuke encountered Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, and Sasuke attacked his brother before Itachi overwhelmed him. Izayoi intervened with a devastating new energy technique, forcing the fighters to flee and leaving a vast crater that began filling with river water.

• Izayoi told Sasuke that Itachi had been eating dango nearby, prompting Sasuke to rush after him while Kakashi, Asuma, and Red pursued the Akatsuki members.
• Asuma and Red confronted Itachi and Kisame by the river, but Sasuke arrived and attacked Itachi, who seized him and dislocated his wrist.
• Itachi incapacitated Red and prepared to use Tsukuyomi on Sasuke, but Izayoi interrupted with a laser attack and then formed a powerful energy sphere.
• Izayoi threw the sphere at Itachi and Kisame, and its expanding light forced them, Asuma, Red, Izayoi, and Sasuke to flee.
• Itachi used Susanoo to slow the light while Kisame escaped underwater with him, but the technique engulfed the river and forest, leaving a smooth crater that began filling with water.

After Sasuke Uchiha vowed to gain the power to kill Itachi Uchiha, Izayoi accepted him as a subordinate and warned him to temper his mindset before pursuing greater strength. The next day, Izayoi supervised Sasuke’s training, gave both Sasuke and Hinata scrolls to study, and ended the day by recruiting Sasuke for demolition work.

• Asuma Sarutobi and Red Yuhi returned to the battlefield, marveled at Izayoi’s power, and discussed Red retiring once the Fifth Hokage took office.
• Izayoi brought Sasuke Uchiha back to the city, reset his wrist, and agreed to help him grow stronger after Sasuke promised to devote himself to killing Itachi Uchiha.
• Izayoi spent the next day at the Naka River with Hanabi and Hinata while Hinata sparred with Sasuke and defeated him after training his Chakra Control.
• Izayoi rebuked Sasuke for letting hatred distort his judgment, ordered him to study a scroll of books for half a month, and told him the knowledge would form the basis of an S-Rank Secret Technique.
• Izayoi gave Hinata another scroll, then asked Sasuke to help demolish his old house the following day and bring Choji to clear rubble.

Izayoi used ninjutsu and shadow clones to demolish and clear the houses he had bought, while secretly observing White Zetsu infiltrators in the village. In the Land of Waves, he finally obtained the Wood Release trait by having Ranmaru repeatedly fight Tenzō, then sealed Tenzō away and returned to the Ninja Continent.

• Izayoi destroyed the cordoned-off houses with Storm Release, then used two hundred shadow clones and help from the Little Strong Ones to clear the rubble in less than two days.
• After the Little Strong Ones helped lay the foundation, Izayoi sensed an observer on his way home and identified the hidden presence as a White Zetsu Clone, though he concealed that he had noticed it.
• In the Land of Waves, Ranmaru repeatedly defeated Tenzō inside a Four Violet Flames Formation while Karin treated him and gave him Soldier Pills.
• Izayoi told Karin that the Fifth Hokage would soon take office and that he might recommend her for the Hidden Leaf Village, so she left to prepare.
• After Ranmaru's next fight caused Wood Release to drop, Izayoi sealed Tenzō's consciousness, confined him in a Stone Coffin inside a cave, and returned to the Ninja Continent.

Izayoi fused the Wood Release perk and used it to capture a White Zetsu Clone, forcing Black and White Zetsu to rethink their infiltration plans. Half a month after the Konoha Crush Plan, rumors that Tsunade had returned to become Hokage revived Konoha’s morale.

• Izayoi fused the Wood Release perk, studied techniques from Danzo Shimura’s scroll, and used a Wood Clone to locate and seal a White Zetsu Clone hiding underground.
• Black and White Zetsu realized the Mayfly Technique had been countered, suspected someone in the Hyuga Clan had awakened a powerful ocular ability, and decided to infiltrate Konoha using the Impersonation Technique.
• Izayoi tried to read the captured White Zetsu Clone’s mind but found its brain hollow, then sealed it away and returned home with fish for Sasuke Uchiha.
• On August 22nd of Konoha Year 60, rumors spread that Tsunade had arrived in Konoha to succeed as Hokage, and the village’s morale surged.

Izayoi and Hinata attended Tsunade’s inauguration as Fifth Hokage, and the village resumed missions under its new leader. Tsunade summoned them and promoted both Genin to Chunin.

• Hinata and Hanabi brought Izayoi and Sasuke clothes for Tsunade’s inauguration, where Sasuke and Izayoi traded jokes and Sasuke was briefly paralyzed by Izayoi.
• Izayoi, Hinata, Hanabi, and Sasuke watched Tsunade become the Fifth Hokage, and Izayoi told Hinata and Hanabi that he planned to teach them the Yin Seal.
• After the mission system reopened, Sasuke left to take missions, and Hinata told Izayoi that Tsunade wanted to see them.
• Izayoi carried Hinata through the air to the Hokage Building, where they met Tsunade in her office.
• Tsunade praised Izayoi and Hinata for their Chunin Exam performances and promoted them both to Chunin.

Izayoi and Hinata received their Chunin promotions, and Izayoi revealed his Uzumaki and Senju heritage and genuine Wood Release to Tsunade. Tsunade pledged to protect him and personally vouched for Karin’s return to the Hidden Leaf Village, while Izayoi and Hinata left together to celebrate.

• Tsunade gave Izayoi and Hinata their Green Vests, explained their new Chunin privileges, and told them to decide who would lead their squad.
• Izayoi recommended that Tsunade admit Karin to the Hidden Leaf Village and revealed that he was an Uzumaki descendant who could use Physical Stamina Healing.
• Izayoi demonstrated Wood Release, and Tsunade confirmed it was genuine before promising to support and protect him.
• Izayoi explained that Karin was a red-haired Uzumaki descendant exploited by the Grass Ninja, and Tsunade ordered him to bring her back so she could personally vouch for her.
• Hinata celebrated the couple’s promotion and their newfound freedom to be together, then she and Izayoi planned to eat barbecue and visit Hanabi.

After returning to Konoha with Karin, Izayoi arranged for her to become Tsunade’s disciple while hiding the origins of the Uzumaki sealing scroll. He then reunited with Hinata and Shino for their first mission as Chunin, leaving Shino worried he would be stuck watching Izayoi and Hinata act affectionate.

• Izayoi and Hinata spent over a week traveling to Sakura Street, taking photos and enjoying local food before meeting Karin.
• Izayoi gave Karin a copied scroll of Uzumaki sealing techniques and instructed her to claim it was an inheritance from her mother.
• After returning to Konoha, Karin became Tsunade’s disciple and chose to live with Izayoi; Tsunade ordered her to begin training the next morning.
• Izayoi, Hinata, Karin, and Hanabi celebrated Karin’s arrival with a banquet at Sasuke Uchiha’s home while Sasuke remained away on a mission.
• Izayoi and Hinata met Shino Aburame to accept their first mission as Chunin, and Shino realized he might have to watch the pair’s affection during the trip.

After Eighth Squad’s missions and Karin’s training, Izayoi gave Sasuke Uchiha scrolls to celebrate his Three-Tomoe Sharingan. The chapter ended as the Sound Four came to abduct Sasuke Uchiha, with Kimimaro Kaguya staying behind to confront Izayoi and another powerful chakra presence.

• Eighth Squad completed three missions, and their arrogant client raised the last one to an A-rank mission after Hinata and Shino Aburame defeated the bandits.
• Orochimaru’s body began collapsing, so he ordered Yakushi Kabuto to have the Sound Four bring Sasuke Uchiha to him within three days.
• Karin accidentally struck Sasuke Uchiha with her Super Strength Fist during training, then went fishing with Izayoi.
• Izayoi gave Sasuke Uchiha genjutsu and Fire Release scrolls, including the Darkness Genjutsu, as a gift for awakening his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Izayoi sensed the approaching Sound Four and left with Sasuke Uchiha, while Karin followed in her battle uniform.
• Kimimaro Kaguya told the Sound Four to continue after Sasuke Uchiha while he stayed to confront the two enormous chakra signatures.

Izayoi fought Kimimaro Kaguya, unveiled Wood Release on a massive scale, and destroyed him with a powerful energy attack. He won a gamble for two Perks and fused them as Sasuke Uchiha and Karin's battle against the Sound Four ended.

• Kimimaro Kaguya transformed into Cursed Seal Second State and attacked Izayoi, who overwhelmed him with Wood Release and a powerful shockwave.
• Kimimaro used Dance of the Larch, while the Leaf's Sensor Team detected the chakra and dispatched ninjas toward the Uchiha Clan Estate.
• Izayoi unleashed Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees, creating a vast forest that swallowed the battlefield and damaged part of the Uchiha Clan Estate.
• Izayoi struck the branch-bound Kimimaro with Narukōhō, reducing him and the surrounding trees to dust.
• Izayoi received the Otsutsuki Bloodline and Corpse Bone Pulse Perks, chose to fuse them, and celebrated winning his gamble.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Karin's battle against the Sound Four came to an end.

Sasuke Uchiha and Karin helped defeat the Sound Four before Izayoi overwhelmed them with Wood Release, revealing his Senju heritage and legendary kekkei genkai to Konoha. The revelation sent the Hyuga Clan scrambling to welcome Izayoi as Hinata’s match, and Hyuga Hiashi left a clan meeting delighted at the prospect of gaining a powerful future son-in-law.

• Sasuke Uchiha and Karin fought the Sound Four, but Izayoi swept them up in a forest created by Wood Release and bound them in its branches.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Karin finished off the captured Sound Four, and Shizune arrived to escort them to Tsunade.
• News spread across Konoha that Izayoi was a Senju descendant who had awakened Wood Release, drawing attention from civilians, ninja clans, and village leaders.
• Hyuga Hiashi attended a clan meeting where the Clan Elders praised him for allowing Hinata and Izayoi to remain close and urged him to welcome Izayoi into the family.
• Hyuga Hiashi proposed inviting Izayoi to Hinata’s birthday banquet, and the Clan Elders eagerly agreed to make the celebration grand.

Izayoi faced the Leaf’s intense public attention after revealing his Wood Release, then showed Sasuke Uchiha Hashirama Cells and explained how they could help a Mangekyo Sharingan. News of Izayoi spread across the Ninja World, leaving other villages wary and debating how to respond.

• Villagers celebrated Izayoi as the Leaf’s new Wood Release Ninja, so he flew away with Sasuke Uchiha and Karin while Sasuke teased him about becoming a public spectacle.
• Izayoi revealed Hashirama Cells to Sasuke Uchiha and explained the Mangekyo Sharingan’s blindness risk and possible remedies, including transplanting the cells.
• Sasuke Uchiha concluded that Itachi Uchiha had spared him to preserve a future source of replacement eyes, and agreed to undergo a Hashirama Cell transplant despite the risk of death.
• Izayoi told Sasuke Uchiha they would seek someone to perform the injection after clearing the clan grounds and the forest by the Naka River.
• Konoha publicized Izayoi’s abilities, and reports of the new Wood Release Ninja spread through the Land of Fire and across the Ninja World.
• Ōnoki worried over the threat Izayoi posed, the Fourth Raikage dismissed his power as a bluff, and Chiyo warned Gaara not to make an enemy of the Hidden Leaf Village.

Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu recognized Izayoi as a major threat, while the Black Market placed a massive bounty on him. After clearing the Uchiha estate, Izayoi took Sasuke Uchiha to the Land of Rice Fields to seek Orochimaru’s help with a Hashirama Cell transplant, and arrived at Orochimaru’s underground base.

• Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu discussed Izayoi’s Wood Release and feared he could threaten the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan.
• The Black Market issued a 180-million-ryo bounty for Izayoi, putting him at the top of its list.
• Izayoi, Karin, Hinata, and the visiting Little Strong Ones cleared trees around the Uchiha estate, and Izayoi gave Naruto Uzumaki a Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere scroll.
• Izayoi repaired the Uchiha estate, told Hinata to supervise work on his new home, and left with Sasuke Uchiha for the Land of Rice Fields.
• Sasuke Uchiha realized Izayoi planned to meet Orochimaru, but Izayoi reassured him that Orochimaru was weakened and brought him to the underground base.
• Izayoi entered the base and told Sasuke Uchiha to defeat the Sound Ninja while he went ahead to greet Orochimaru.

Izayoi confronted Orochimaru, offered him a White Zetsu Clone as a new body, and revealed how to undo the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. After Orochimaru accepted the body and learned the method, Izayoi asked him to perform an operation on Sasuke using Hashirama Cells.

• Orochimaru deduced that Izayoi had Senju and Uzumaki blood and had concealed his Wood Release, while Izayoi praised his insight.
• Yakushi Kabuto attacked Izayoi, but Izayoi bound him with wooden vines and drained his chakra as Orochimaru confirmed the Wood Release could absorb chakra.
• Sasuke Uchiha arrived, and Izayoi gave Orochimaru a White Zetsu Clone, allowing Orochimaru to reincarnate into it without his usual side effects.
• Izayoi told Orochimaru that the Death God Mask could be used to retrieve souls sealed by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
• Izayoi showed Orochimaru Hashirama Cells and asked him to operate on Sasuke, warning that he would kill them all if Orochimaru tried any tricks.