Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu and his allies disguised themselves as Pain and Konan to surprise Kakuzu and Hidan at their inn. Kakuzu handed over the organization’s mission money to Tsunade, leaving the group in control of the cash box.

• Kakuzu claimed the bedroom and gave Hidan bedding for the sofa, prompting Hidan to say Kakuzu was a good person.
• Zhang Yu sensed the cash box next door and gathered everyone to disguise themselves as Pain and Konan.
• The group entered Kakuzu and Hidan’s room, where the two initially prepared to fight before recognizing their supposed leader.
• Zhang Yu ordered Kakuzu to give Konan the money owed to the organization, and Kakuzu handed Tsunade the cash box.

Zhang Yu and his companions tricked Kakuzu and Hidan into handing over their money, then followed Tsunade to the gambling hall, where Zhang Yu let her gamble with millions of ryo. By the end, they had lost ten million ryo, and Zhang Yu had realized the gambling hall was cheating.

• Zhang Yu ordered Kakuzu and Hidan to investigate the Six-Tails Jinchuriki in the Land of Water, then returned to the inn with Tsunade and the others.
• Tsunade opened the stolen money box, and Zhang Yu received a reward of 200,000 gold coins for completing his mission.
• The next morning, Hashirama told Zhang Yu that Tsunade had taken several hundred thousand silver taels to the Quick Money Entertainment Hall, so Zhang Yu went after her with Hashirama and Madara.
• Kakuzu and Hidan left the hot spring town to take assassination missions before heading to the Land of Water.
• At the gambling hall, Tsunade lost her money, and Zhang Yu joined her, losing ten million ryo as he watched the dealer and the others cheat.

Zhang Yu exposed a rigged gambling hall, won back the money he had lost, and forced the hall to close. After spending a week in the hot spring town, his group joined Kakuzu and Hidan on their journey to the Land of Water to search for the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Zhang Yu revealed the gambling hall’s dice and table mechanisms, defeated its dealer and attendants, and won twenty million ryo in the final round.
• Zhang Yu drove off men who pursued them for the money and ordered the gambling hall to shut down, which it did that evening.
• Zhang Yu, Tsunade, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, Izuna, Kurama, Kakuzu, and Hidan spent a week in the hot spring town.
• Zhang Yu’s group met Kakuzu and Hidan as they prepared to travel to the Land of Water, and both groups agreed to go together.
• Zhang Yu and the others reached a bustling market town near Kirigakure.

Zhang Yu and his companions stayed at an inn near Kirigakure, where Hashirama and Madara and Tobirama and Izuna were assigned to share beds. After bringing Tsunade back from a gambling hall, Zhang Yu recruited her to the Undead Tavern and restored her youthful appearance.

• Tsunade assigned Hashirama and Madara to one room, Tobirama and Izuna to another, and herself and Zhang Yu to a third.
• Hashirama found that his room with Madara had only one bed, while Tobirama and Izuna discovered their room was decorated for couples and agreed to share its large bed.
• The next morning, Hashirama and Madara told Zhang Yu that Tsunade had taken hundreds of thousands of silver taels to a gambling hall.
• Zhang Yu passed Kakuzu and Hidan as they set out to gather information, then found Tsunade at the gambling hall and brought her back to the inn.
• Zhang Yu offered Tsunade a job at the Undead Tavern and explained that he could restore her youth, so she signed the employment contract.
• Zhang Yu paid 500,000 gold coins to switch Tsunade to her Konoha Sannin era form, and she thanked him excitedly after regaining her youthful appearance and vitality.

Zhang Yu reassured Tsunade that her restored youthful form was permanent, while his companions learned that Kirigakure was struggling to contain the rampaging Three-Tails. Zhang Yu chose to wait and watch Kirigakure’s efforts, then brought Tsunade to the inn’s rooftop.

• Mei Terumi learned that Kirigakure’s seal on the rampaging Three-Tails could hold for only about a week and that the cause of its rampage was unknown.
• Zhang Yu learned through the system that Tsunade’s youthful form had been fixed permanently and reassured her she would not change back.
• Hashirama and Tobirama noticed Tsunade’s restored youth, and Tobirama confirmed that her body and Chakra had returned to their peak.
• Tobirama reported that Kirigakure had sent Anbu toward the Three-Tails, and Zhang Yu ordered the group to rest for three days while monitoring events.
• Tsunade ate dinner with Zhang Yu, then he took her to the inn’s rooftop terrace to enjoy the breeze.

Tsunade persuaded Zhang Yu to accept that Konoha belonged to him, and he became Acting Hokage to pursue a system quest to form an alliance among the Five Great Nations. As the Three-Tails neared a rampage in Kirigakure, Hashirama and Madara debated how to seize it, leaving their plan unresolved.

• Tobirama reported that the Three-Tails would break free within three days and head for Kirigakure, but Zhang Yu urged everyone to keep a low profile.
• Tsunade argued that Konoha belonged to its Hokage and therefore belonged to Zhang Yu, who reluctantly agreed to help the village.
• Tsunade proposed visiting the Five Great Nations to negotiate an alliance, and Zhang Yu accepted the system quest by becoming Acting Hokage.
• The system recognized the Land of Fire alliance and awarded Zhang Yu one million gold coins, leaving four nations to visit.
• Hashirama reported that the Three-Tails would go berserk within two days, and Madara proposed overwhelming Kirigakure with Perfect Susanoo and Wood Release.

Zhang Yu prepared to travel alone to the Land of Water to find the Three-Tails, bringing the Nine-Tails along to meet its younger brother. After the Nine-Tails sensed Isobu, they headed toward a valley near Kirigakure, where the Three-Tails was already fighting a squad of sealing ninjas.

• Zhang Yu refused Tsunade’s offer to accompany him and said he would leave for the Land of Water the next morning.
• Zhang Yu told the Nine-Tails that the other Tailed Beasts were its younger brothers and planned to visit the Three-Tails first.
• The Nine-Tails explained that it knew the Three-Tails, Isobu, from when they were young and asked to fight it again.
• Zhang Yu left town with the Nine-Tails the next morning and traveled southeast toward Isobu.
• The Nine-Tails sensed Isobu, and Zhang Yu detected a squad of sealing ninjas suppressing the Three-Tails.
• At a lake in a valley near Kirigakure, the Three-Tails thrashed through the water as its tails sent waves crashing toward shore.

Mei Terumi and Kirigakure’s Sealing Squad struggled to contain the rampaging Three-Tails until Zhang Yu’s Nine-Tails intervened and overpowered it. When the sealing chains broke and the Three-Tails charged ashore again, Mei attacked it while Zhang Yu chose to let the battle continue.

• Mei Terumi ordered Kirigakure’s exhausted Sealing Squad to keep suppressing the Three-Tails, but Isobu broke through the seal and shattered their chains.
• Zhang Yu allowed the Nine-Tails to attack, and it sent the Three-Tails flying with one swipe before dragging it into the lake and pinning it down for the sealing squad.
• Mei ordered the squad to bind the Three-Tails while the Nine-Tails held it underwater, but a surge of Chakra snapped the chains and knocked the Nine-Tails’ paw aside.
• Zhang Yu explained that the seal had broken and the Three-Tails was completely berserk, then told the Nine-Tails to wait and let them fight.
• Mei Terumi ordered the Sealing Squad to retreat and struck the charging Three-Tails with Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique, but the attack barely moved it and enraged it further.

Zhang Yu sent Kurama to stop the rampaging Three-Tails while Mei Terumi’s strength ran out. Kurama beat the Three-Tails into submission and ordered him to wait in the valley as Zhang Yu and Mei watched.

• Mei Terumi lured the rampaging Three-Tails away from Kirigakure while Zhang Yu watched with Kurama.
• Zhang Yu told Kurama to beat the Three-Tails, and Kurama transformed into the Nine-Tails and confronted him.
• Kurama knocked the Three-Tails into the lake, pinned him down, and repeatedly battered him until he submitted and called Kurama big brother.
• Mei ran to Zhang Yu for shelter, and Zhang Yu said he was Konoha’s Acting Hokage and told her to rest.
• Kurama ordered the subdued Three-Tails to lie down in a nearby valley and wait for his big brother to lecture him.

Zhang Yu cared for the exhausted Mei Terumi after the Three-Tails was subdued, then fed her while she recovered. The two went to speak with the Three-Tails, and Zhang Yu revealed that he had come to seek an alliance with Mei Terumi, though not simply an alliance between villages.

• After the Three-Tails was subdued, Mei Terumi lost her strength and fainted, so Zhang Yu carried her to the lakeside, cleaned her, and made a place for her to rest.
• Mei Terumi woke to find Zhang Yu had washed and dried her clothes, and she angrily demanded that he bring them to her.
• Zhang Yu teased Mei Terumi about having seen her naked, but she held back her anger because she was still weak.
• Mei Terumi joined Zhang Yu by the fire, ate his grilled fish, and gradually recovered as dawn approached.
• Zhang Yu and Mei Terumi went to speak with the Three-Tails, and Zhang Yu told her he was the Acting Hokage who had come to find her and seek an alliance.

Zhang Yu proposed trade cooperation between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water, then tried to recruit the Three-Tails as the Undead Tavern’s mascot. After demonstrating his overwhelming power, he got the Three-Tails interested by claiming the Sage of Six Paths was at the tavern, while Mei questioned whether the Three-Tails belonged to Kirigakure.

• Zhang Yu proposed that the Land of Fire and the Land of Water trade resources to benefit their people and reduce warfare, and Mei Terumi cautioned that cooperation would be difficult after the Bloody Mist Village’s chaos.
• Zhang Yu asked the Three-Tails, Isobu, to become the Undead Tavern’s mascot, but Isobu refused.
• Zhang Yu activated the Rinnegan and used Shinra Tensei to hurl Isobu deep into a mountainside, startling Mei and Kurama with the force of the attack.
• Zhang Yu repeated his invitation, and Kurama persuaded Isobu by saying the Sage of Six Paths was at the tavern.
• Mei said the Three-Tails belonged to Kirigakure, and Kurama replied that the Tailed Beast belonged to no ninja village.

Zhang Yu chose to create a Three-Tails clone rather than make Mei Terumi a Jinchūriki or remove the Three-Tails from Kirigakure. In return for solving the threat, Mei signed an alliance agreement with the Land of Fire, and Zhang Yu took the miniature clone with him to mind his shop.

• Mei Terumi offered to become the Three-Tails' Jinchūriki to protect Kirigakure, but Zhang Yu chose the option to create a clone while leaving the original Three-Tails in its lake.
• Zhang Yu asked Mei to form an alliance between the Land of Water and the Land of Fire, and Mei read and signed the agreement.
• Zhang Yu told Isobu to remain in his lake and not attack Kirigakure, and Isobu promised to obey.
• Zhang Yu used Six Paths Power to separate a miniature Three-Tails clone without weakening Isobu's original body.
• Zhang Yu told the miniature Three-Tails to mind his shop and placed him in his ninja tool pouch.

Zhang Yu brought a mini Three-Tails back after securing Mei’s agreement to an alliance between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water. After waiting two weeks without news from Kakuzu about the Six-Tails, Zhang Yu and Tsunade arrived in Kirigakure to finalize the alliance.

• Mei thanked Zhang Yu for keeping the Three-Tails calm and agreed to consider giving him a special thank-you gift.
• Zhang Yu returned to the inn with the mini Three-Tails, who became frightened by Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Uchiha Izuna before agreeing to call Zhang Yu boss.
• Zhang Yu showed Tsunade the signed alliance document, which set out trade, supply, and intelligence-sharing arrangements between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water.
• Zhang Yu waited two weeks in the Land of Water without receiving news from Kakuzu about the Six-Tails.
• Zhang Yu and Tsunade traveled to Kirigakure, where Mei’s reception arrangements placed them in a guarded residence for high-ranking guests.

Zhang Yu and Tsunade finalized an alliance between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water, completing several missions and earning system rewards. After Tsunade turned down Mei Terumi’s offer to show them around, Mei quietly began planning how to keep Zhang Yu from leaving so easily.

• Tsunade and Zhang Yu reviewed and signed trade, intelligence-sharing, and other cooperation agreements with Mei Terumi, completing the alliance between the two countries.
• Zhang Yu received system rewards for completing the Five Great Nations visit and Three-Tails collection missions, leaving the Six-Tails as his remaining Land of Water target.
• Mei Terumi invited Zhang Yu and Tsunade to stay in Kirigakure, but Tsunade declined and Zhang Yu confirmed they would leave.
• Tsunade held Zhang Yu’s arm as they left and admitted she was afraid someone would steal him away, then made him say she was prettier, cuter, and had a better figure than Mei Terumi.
• Mei Terumi sent an Anbu to find nearby luxury inns and vowed that Zhang Yu would not flirt with her and run away so easily.

Zhang Yu added Tsunade to the Undead Tavern chat group, then received Kakuzu and Hidan's location for the Six-Tails and set out with her. Mei Terumi met them on the road and offered to guide them toward Mount Katsuragi, while Tsunade questioned her private agreement with Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu added Tsunade to the Undead Tavern chat group, where she chatted with Hashirama and Madara and learned that the tavern had expanded.
• Zhang Yu messaged Haku, who said Yugao might come looking for him if he stayed away from the tavern much longer.
• Zhang Yu received a scroll from Kakuzu and Hidan marking the Six-Tails' location in a valley southeast of the Land of Water.
• Zhang Yu told Tsunade to prepare to leave the next morning so they could reclaim the Six-Tails.
• Mei Terumi met Zhang Yu and Tsunade on the road, reminded Zhang Yu of his agreement to invite her to the tavern, and offered to take them near Mount Katsuragi.

Zhang Yu traveled with Mei Terumi and the others toward Mount Katsuragi, where he learned that Hotaru was being pursued for the Tsuchigumo Clan’s forbidden technique. He intervened when the pursuers cornered her and faced their attack alone.

• Mei Terumi led Zhang Yu’s group through the forest toward Mount Katsuragi and explained the Tsuchigumo Clan’s history and Kirigakure’s search for the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Madara Uchiha sensed a dozen people heading toward Mount Katsuragi, so Zhang Yu flew off alone to investigate while the others continued to the castle.
• Hotaru fled through the forest as Shiranami’s men chased her for the Tsuchigumo Clan’s forbidden technique, then they surrounded her on a grassland.
• Zhang Yu appeared behind the pursuers’ leader, learned they wanted Hotaru’s secret technique, and knocked the leader away with one punch.
• Several of the remaining ninjas threw axes at Zhang Yu from behind.

Zhang Yu defeated the Tsuchigumo Clan ninjas pursuing Hotaru and accepted her as a probationary disciple, giving her a task to complete before he would take her on officially. As Hotaru led him toward the castle, Mei Terumi learned that Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju were alive and that Hashirama was Zhang Yu’s younger brother.

• Zhang Yu used wind blades and a Water Dragon Bullet Technique to defeat the ninjas attacking Hotaru.
• Hotaru asked Zhang Yu to take her as his disciple, and he chose to accept her provisionally after warning her that training would be difficult.
• Zhang Yu assigned Hotaru a task before he would officially take her as a disciple, and she eagerly agreed.
• Hotaru invited Zhang Yu and his companions to rest at the castle and led him toward them.
• Hashirama told the group that Hotaru would be joining them, and Mei Terumi learned that Hashirama Senju was alive and Zhang Yu’s younger brother.