Recaps

Neji recognized the tavern’s bartender as Tobirama Senju, while Team 3 visited the Undead Tavern to ask about their missing jonin leader, Might Guy. Zhang Yu confirmed their free-meal coupon was valid, and Neji stopped him to ask something further.

• Neji identified the powerful bartender as the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, after recalling an old photograph.
• Sakura appeared in a pink qipao and fox-ear ornaments, and Zhang Yu complimented her and adjusted one of her hair ornaments.
• Tenten grew interested in working at the tavern and felt disappointed when Sakura sat close beside Zhang Yu.
• Neji introduced himself, Tenten, and Rock Lee as members of Team 3 and explained that they had not seen Might Guy for a week.
• Zhang Yu confirmed Tobirama had verified Team 3’s coupon and told them their snacks and drinks would be free.
• As Zhang Yu got up to leave, Neji stopped him before he could go.

Neji and his teammates suspected that Tobirama was the Second Hokage after learning he worked at the Undead Tavern, while Jiraiya was digging a pool in the backyard. Tenten and Rock Lee later found Kakashi and Might Guy at the tavern, where Guy admitted he had forgotten to lead his team’s training after joining the pool project.

• Neji questioned whether Tobirama was the Second Hokage, and Zhang Yu pointed him toward the Undead Tavern’s name rather than answering directly.
• Neji concluded that Jiraiya and possibly Konoha High Command knew the tavern’s secret, while Tobirama confirmed Jiraiya was digging a pool for drinks and snacks.
• Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee enjoyed snacks and cola delivered by Haku, and Tenten regretted using most of her free-meal voucher.
• Kakashi returned from the backyard to request a case of cola, and Tenten and Rock Lee recognized him and Might Guy as their missing teachers.
• Might Guy admitted he had joined Kakashi’s pool party challenge and forgotten the special team training, while Kakashi insisted they had only been digging a pool.

Kakashi and Might Guy cleared up the misunderstanding about their week of digging, but Tenten still misread their closeness. Neji then recognized Tobirama Senju behind the counter, and Kakashi confirmed his identity as Konoha's Second Hokage while warning the others to keep it secret.

• Tenten, Rock Lee, and Neji questioned Kakashi about his week with Might Guy, and his explanations only made them more suspicious.
• Might Guy explained that he and Kakashi had spent the week digging a pool by hand as part of a special training challenge.
• The students understood the pool-digging explanation, but Tenten again misunderstood Kakashi and Might Guy when they clasped hands.
• Neji asked whether Kakashi had called the person at the counter Lord Tobirama, and Kakashi admitted that he had.
• Kakashi confirmed to Neji, Tenten, Rock Lee, and Might Guy that the man behind the bar was Tobirama Senju, Konoha's Second Hokage.

Kakashi revealed that Tobirama was the Second Hokage and warned Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee to keep the tavern's secrets. The chapter ended with Might Guy realizing that Hashirama, who had spent the week digging a swimming pool with him, was the First Hokage.

• Kakashi confirmed that Tobirama was the Second Hokage and told Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee to keep his return secret.
• Kakashi tried to scare the three Genin by talking about undead, and Zhang Yu turned off the tavern lights to play along.
• Sakura hugged Zhang Yu in the dark, and he reassured her that he had turned off the lights himself.
• The lights came back on, and Kakashi told the Genin not to make a fuss about strange things at the Undead Tavern.
• Might Guy recognized Tobirama and realized that he had spent the past week digging a swimming pool with Hashirama, the First Hokage.

Might Guy tried to recruit his students for a Chakra-free pool-digging challenge, but Tenten instead asked Zhang Yu for a job at the tavern. Zhang Yu hired her as a server, and she quickly learned the work; by evening, the tavern closed and the construction workers returned from the courtyard.

• Might Guy invited Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee to join his pool-digging challenge as training for the Chunin Ninja Exams, but Neji carried Rock Lee away and Tenten left with them.
• Tenten asked Zhang Yu about fencing and then asked whether the tavern was hiring; Zhang Yu agreed to assess her for a server position.
• Tenten qualified to join the Undead Tavern as a server, and Sakura explained the job's duties to her.
• Zhang Yu taught Tenten the tavern's service procedures, and she soon helped Haku welcome guests and deliver drinks without mistakes.
• The tavern closed for the evening, Izuna prepared dinner, and the construction workers returned to the main hall.

Zhang Yu assigned Tenten, Sakura, and Haku to wear maid outfits for the tavern’s new theme, though Tenten did not know what kind of clothes he had chosen. The three went to change, leaving Zhang Yu to order a martini while Tobirama suspected the outfits were not ordinary uniforms.

• After dinner, Zhang Yu arranged for the construction workers to stay in the backyard apartments, paid the day’s wages through the Tavern Chat Group, and went to bed.
• The next morning, Tenten greeted Zhang Yu and told him she had cleaned the front room, drawing on her experience helping at her family’s ninja tool shop.
• Zhang Yu announced that the tavern would have a maid theme and told Tenten, Sakura, and Haku to serve customers in maid outfits.
• Tenten agreed to wear the outfit without knowing its design, while Sakura looked forward to it and Haku reluctantly accepted.
• Zhang Yu bought three outfits from the System Shop and gave a gift box to each of them to open in their rooms.
• After the three went upstairs to change, Tobirama asked whether the clothes were ordinary servant uniforms, and Zhang Yu admitted they were not before ordering a perfect martini.

Zhang Yu recruited Tobirama to train as the Undead Tavern’s bartender and bought professional equipment and supplies. Meanwhile, Tenten discovered the revealing maid outfit she had agreed to wear and reluctantly came out of her room dressed in it.

• Zhang Yu explained bartending to Tobirama and recruited him to learn the job while continuing to handle the tavern’s accounts.
• Tobirama accepted the position and said he would master the recipes and techniques in a week.
• Zhang Yu bought Tobirama a bartending guide, professional tools, drinks, and ingredients, filling the bar with supplies.
• Tenten opened the gift box in her room, saw the maid outfit, and regretted agreeing to wear it.
• Tenten decided to go through with it and emerged in the maid outfit, feeling self-conscious about its short skirt.

Tenten began her first shift as a maid-dressed server at Zhang Yu’s tavern, where Ino arrived and mistook the uniforms for a cosplay shoot. After seeing Kakashi and Might Guy digging a swimming pool as part of their training, Ino asked Zhang Yu to let her work at the tavern too.

• Zhang Yu checked Tenten, Sakura, and Haku in their maid outfits and told Sakura and Haku to guide Tenten through her first shift.
• Tenten welcomed Ino Yamanaka, who mistook the matching uniforms for a cosplay shoot and complained that she had not been invited.
• Tenten explained that she had taken a temporary server job instead of helping Guy-sensei dig a swimming pool, while Sakura said tavern work was part of her training under Zhang Yu.
• Ino argued with Sakura over joining the training and insisted she could work at the tavern too.
• Zhang Yu showed Ino Kakashi and Might Guy digging the pool, and Ino asked him to let her stay and work as a temporary server.

Ino joined Sakura and Tenten at the tavern, where she learned the job and discovered Sakura’s Chakra control training involved massaging Zhang Yu. Three days before the Chunin Ninja Exams began, Jiraiya told Hiruzen that Zhang Yu and the resurrected First and Second Hokage were occupied with the tavern and its new pool.

• Zhang Yu accepted Ino’s request to train and work alongside Sakura, earning 2,000 gold coins from the system.
• Ino began learning tavern service from Sakura and moved into Sakura’s room with her and Tenten.
• Sakura revealed that her Chakra control training involved channeling Chakra through her fingers while massaging Zhang Yu.
• Three days before the Chunin Ninja Exams, Jiraiya reported to Hiruzen that Zhang Yu showed no interest in the exams.
• Jiraiya told Hiruzen that the First Hokage was digging a pool while the Second Hokage learned to mix drinks.

Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi discussed how to get Hashirama and Tobirama to protect Konoha during the Chunin Ninja Exams, while Zhang Yu prepared the Undead Tavern’s new pool for a midnight party. The party staff finished their setup, and Tobirama proved his bartending skills by making Zhang Yu a martini.

• Jiraiya told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Hashirama and Tobirama would not act without Zhang Yu’s approval, and the two began discussing another approach to enlist them for the exams.
• A week later, the outdoor pool was complete, and Zhang Yu received 100,000 gold coins from the system.
• Zhang Yu sent Tenten and Ino to invite Kurenai Yuhi and Hinata Hyuga to the midnight pool party.
• Zhang Yu assigned party duties to the tavern staff, including music for Hashirama and Madara, lighting for Zabuza, drinks for Tobirama, snacks for Izuna, and a dance performance for Haku.
• The staff set up the party equipment, and Tobirama made a martini that Zhang Yu praised as master-level.

Zhang Yu hosted the Undead Tavern’s first giant pool party, where the guests celebrated until noon. The morning after, he woke beside four sleeping girls while Kurenai Yuhi still hesitated to ask him to let Hashirama and Tobirama guard the Chunin Ninja Exams.

• Tobirama filled the pool with Water Release, and Haku welcomed the arriving guests as the party began.
• Hashirama and Madara DJed while the guests danced, ate, drank, and celebrated around the pool.
• Zhang Yu woke in a room with Ino, Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten, who had fallen asleep after practicing Chakra control and fingertip massage.
• Kurenai Yuhi recalled Hiruzen Sarutobi’s request for Hashirama and Tobirama to secretly guard the Chunin Ninja Exams but did not ask Zhang Yu for permission.
• Zhang Yu saw that it was noon, went into the backyard, and jumped into the pool.

Zhang Yu showed off his new martial arts outfit before the tavern’s guests, then agreed to meet the Third Hokage about the Chunin Ninja Exams. A new system mission tasked him with bringing two or three tavern employees to witness the exams’ iconic moments.

• Zhang Yu emerged from the pool in a black martial arts outfit, drawing admiring comments from the people watching through the windows.
• As the Chunin Ninja Exams drew near, Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata left the tavern to prepare with their teams, while Kurenai Yuhi concealed her reason for visiting.
• Jiraiya told Zhang Yu that Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted the First and Second Hokage to watch over the exam grounds, and Zhang Yu invited the Third Hokage to discuss it at the tavern that afternoon.
• Zhang Yu opened the system panel and received a mission to take two or three tavern employees to witness the Chunin Ninja Exams’ iconic moments.

Zhang Yu negotiated with Hiruzen Sarutobi over hiring Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to guard the Chunin Ninja Exams in secret. Zhang Yu demanded twenty million ryo for the month, and Hiruzen questioned whether the price was too high.

• Zhang Yu summoned the Tavern Chat Group members to the office before two that afternoon.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Jiraiya to withdraw five million ryo for negotiations at the Undead Tavern.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Zhang Yu to have Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju secretly protect the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Tobirama Senju reported the tavern's average daily net profit, and Zhang Yu estimated the business losses at 500,000 ryo per day.
• Zhang Yu quoted Hiruzen Sarutobi twenty million ryo for the month, and Hiruzen asked whether the price was too high.

Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to pay Zhang Yu twenty million ryo for Hashirama and Tobirama to protect the Chunin Ninja Exams, despite Konoha’s strained finances. After Tobirama verified the five-million-ryo first payment, Hiruzen and Jiraiya left the Undead Tavern, with the remaining fifteen million due the next day.

• Zhang Yu quoted Hiruzen Sarutobi twenty million ryo for protection during the Chunin Ninja Exams, and Hiruzen accepted the price.
• Hiruzen gave Zhang Yu five million ryo as a first payment and promised the remaining fifteen million the next day.
• Tobirama recorded the payment and carefully checked the banknotes before confirming the full five million ryo.
• Zhang Yu planned to use the protection fee to expand the tavern with game rooms and other attractions.
• Hiruzen and Jiraiya left the Undead Tavern, and Jiraiya asked where Hiruzen would find the remaining fifteen million ryo.

Hiruzen Sarutobi borrowed fifteen million ryo from Jiraiya to cover Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams expenses, while Zhang Yu organized the Undead Tavern’s staffing and accepted payment for guarding the exams. When the exams began, Zhang Yu, Madara, Hashirama, and Haku arrived at the venue, where Hiruzen and the exam staff were waiting.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi persuaded Jiraiya to lend Konoha fifteen million ryo from his Icha Icha Paradise royalties, leaving Jiraiya distressed about the money.
• Zhang Yu assigned Tobirama, Izuna, and Zabuza to run the tavern while he took Madara, Hashirama, and Haku to supervise the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Two days later, Jiraiya brought the remaining fifteen million ryo to the tavern, and Tobirama confirmed that the exam-guarding fee was paid in full.
• Jiraiya complained about losing his savings and decided to leave the village to clear his head.
• When the Chunin Ninja Exams began, Zhang Yu, Madara, Hashirama, and Haku walked through Konoha to the venue, and Zhang Yu stopped the others from reminiscing.
• The group arrived at the first examination venue, where Hiruzen Sarutobi, Ibiki, Mitaraishi Anko, and the exam's jonin staff were waiting.

Zhang Yu took charge of supervising Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams as powerful hidden examinees, including Gaara, gathered for the first stage. Hashirama mistook Zhang Yu’s presence for concern about Konoha, while Zhang Yu was mainly there for gold coin rewards and iconic events.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi appointed Zhang Yu to oversee the exams, and the Jonin accepted his authority.
• Anko introduced herself to Zhang Yu, shook his hand, and left to prepare the Forest of Death stage.
• Madara and Hashirama sensed unusually powerful examinees, and Madara identified Gaara as the One-Tail Jinchuriki.
• Madara warned that Gaara’s seal was unstable and Shukaku might emerge if the boy was provoked.
• Hashirama concluded that Zhang Yu had come to protect Konoha, but Zhang Yu privately focused on earning gold coins and witnessing the exams’ major events.
• Madara told Hashirama that Zhang Yu’s real reason was gold coins.

Zhang Yu decided to enter the Chunin Ninja Exams as a candidate so he could keep watch on Orochimaru without alerting him. Hiruzen Sarutobi added Uzuki Yugao to Zhang Yu and Haku’s team, and Yugao grew tense when Zhang Yu examined her Anbu gear on the way to the exam hall.

• Zhang Yu left Hashirama and Madara in the proctors’ room to monitor the exam while he and Haku joined the candidates.
• Zhang Yu used the Body Flicker Technique to reach the Hokage’s office building and asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to arrange a third teammate.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Uzuki Yugao, an elite Konoha Anbu Ninja, to Zhang Yu’s team and ordered her to follow Zhang Yu’s instructions.
• Zhang Yu, Haku, and Yugao headed for the examination room, and Yugao stopped nervously when Zhang Yu sighed and looked her over.

Zhang Yu helped Yugao change out of her conspicuous Anbu gear before the Chunin Ninja Exams, then chose to take Haku and Yugao to breakfast despite the risk of arriving late. The chapter ended with the breakfast shop owner asking why they were not hurrying to the exam.

• Yugao realized she could not attend the exam in her Anbu armor, so Zhang Yu produced a purple qipao from the System Shop for her to wear.
• Yugao changed into the qipao, and Zhang Yu supplied and fastened a portable ninja tool pouch to her leg.
• With only three minutes left before the exam, Zhang Yu decided that being a few minutes late made no difference and suggested they eat breakfast first.
• Zhang Yu took Haku and Yugao by the hand and led them into a nearby breakfast shop.
• The shop owner asked Zhang Yu, Haku, and Yugao whether they were not in a hurry because the Chunin Ninja Exams were taking place that day.

Zhang Yu arrived five minutes late to the Chunin Ninja Exams after stopping for breakfast, and Ibiki Morino backed down when he realized who Zhang Yu was. The written exam continued with Zhang Yu, Haku, and Yugao seated in the back, while several Konoha girls each assumed he had come to protect them.

• Zhang Yu, Haku, and Yugao ate breakfast after the first exam had begun, and Zhang Yu dismissed Yugao’s concern that Ibiki might throw him out.
• Ibiki Morino explained the written exam’s point-deduction rules and began the test while Naruto struggled to understand the questions.
• Zhang Yu arrived late with Haku and Yugao and claimed they had stopped to help an old lady cross the road.
• Ibiki started to scold Zhang Yu but recognized him as the person in charge of the exams and pretended he had only been testing the desk’s sturdiness.
• Zhang Yu sat between Haku and Yugao in the back row, while Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata each privately thought he had come because of her.
• Zhang Yu glanced at the test paper and wondered what the questions meant.

Zhang Yu disrupted the candidates’ cheating methods throughout the Chunin Exam written test and earned gold coins for each interruption. As Yugao worried that their squad would be eliminated because Zhang Yu and Haku had barely answered anything, Zhang Yu insisted that even a blank paper would not stop them from passing.

• Zhang Yu fell asleep after Yugao urged him to answer the exam questions, then secretly touched her fingers beneath the desk and later claimed the hall was too hot when she blushed.
• Gaara sent a sand Third Eye toward another candidate’s paper, but Zhang Yu froze it with Ice Release and earned 20,000 gold coins.
• Zhang Yu froze Shino Aburame’s insects before they could reach an exam paper and received another reward.
• Zhang Yu used ice to disrupt Kiba, Ino, Neji, Tenten, and Sasuke as they tried to gather answers, while the proctors watched without stopping him.
• Yugao warned Zhang Yu that his blank paper and Haku’s few answers could cost their squad the exam, but Zhang Yu said they could still pass even if they all handed in blank papers.

Zhang Yu bet Yugao that their team would pass the first exam with blank papers, wagering a tavern meal pass against her taking promotional photos. Ibiki announced that the tenth question could permanently bar anyone who answered incorrectly from future Chunin Exams, and Zhang Yu told Yugao to go back to sleep.

• Yugao doubted Zhang Yu could get their team through the exam with blank papers, while Haku trusted him.
• Zhang Yu bet Yugao a free month of meals and drinks at the Undead Tavern against her posing for a promotional photo album if she lost.
• Yugao accepted the bet, and Zhang Yu listed numerous outfits and accessories for the photo shoot.
• Ibiki announced that candidates who refused the tenth question would fail the exam, while those who answered incorrectly would cost their whole team the exam and lose the right to take future Chunin Exams.
• Yugao asked Zhang Yu what they should do, and he told her to go back to sleep.

Zhang Yu kept Haku and Yugao in the Chunin Exam after the tenth-question bluff, and they passed the first exam when Naruto refused to give up. After Mitaraishi Anko announced the Forest of Death as the second exam, Zhang Yu told Yugao to stay at the tavern.

• Yugao worried about the exam, but Haku said he would follow Zhang Yu’s decision, and Zhang Yu told them to wait.
• Several examinees withdrew until Naruto declared that he would not give up, encouraging others to stay and earning Zhang Yu a system reward.
• Ibiki announced that everyone who remained had passed, explaining that the tenth question tested their willingness to face unknown risks.
• Yugao admitted she had lost her bet with Zhang Yu, who reminded her about the picture book.
• Mitaraishi Anko announced that the second exam would begin at Training Ground 44, the Forest of Death, at noon the next day.
• Zhang Yu left with Haku and Yugao and told Yugao to stay at the tavern instead of returning to the Anbu.

After Yugao lost the bet, Zhang Yu had her and Haku pose in numerous outfits for a photo album, keeping them shooting until three in the morning. The next Forest of Death exam was due to begin at noon, and Yugao ended the night exhausted.

• Ibiki collected Naruto's blank paper and the nearly blank papers turned in by Zhang Yu, Haku, and Yugao.
• Zhang Yu returned to the Undead Tavern and told Yugao to honor their bet by trying on the outfits he had prepared.
• After Zhang Yu left, Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama speculated that the boss might have more than one wife and agreed to avoid offending any of them.
• The tavern residents ate dinner together, while Hashirama and Madara argued over the meat.
• Zhang Yu took Haku and Yugao to the photography room and photographed them in several outfits through the early morning.
• At three in the morning, Haku and Yugao finished the shoot, and Yugao rested in her purple qipao.

Zhang Yu entered the second Chunin exam to protect Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten in the Forest of Death. As the candidates gathered at the entrance, Hashirama and Madara secretly watched over Zhang Yu and his group.

• Zhang Yu told Haku and Uzuki Yugao that he would join the girls in the Forest of Death, while Hashirama and Madara followed in secret as guards.
• At the exam entrance, Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata asked Zhang Yu why he was taking the exam, and he admitted he wanted to protect them.
• The four girls reacted warmly to Zhang Yu's explanation, while Ino and Sakura playfully argued over which of them he cared about most.
• Hashirama teased Madara about being single, and Madara tricked him into thinking he meant Hashirama before revealing he had meant Izuna.

Hashirama and Madara sensed Orochimaru disguised as a Kusagakure examinee and suspected an attack on Konoha, but agreed Hashirama could intervene only if the village was attacked. Orochimaru kept his identity hidden after Zhang Yu helped explain away his accidentally revealed woman's voice.

• Hashirama and Madara detected Orochimaru's powerful Chakra and realized he wore a human skin mask.
• Hashirama suspected the gathered outsiders were preparing to attack Konoha, and Madara agreed not to stop him if an attack began.
• Orochimaru suppressed his Chakra and continued posing as a Kusagakure examinee despite sensing the two powerful watchers.
• Zhang Yu offered Orochimaru cola, and Orochimaru accidentally spoke in a woman's voice after taking a sip.
• Zhang Yu claimed Orochimaru had choked on the drink, giving Orochimaru a chance to maintain his disguise.