Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhang Yu charged Orochimaru three hundred ryo for cola and then demanded another ten thousand for a supposed special edition, while Orochimaru endured the public humiliation to protect his plans. Orochimaru returned to the Kusagakure group, secretly vowing to get revenge, and Zhang Yu confirmed that his cola was no different from everyone else's.

• Zhang Yu stopped Orochimaru from leaving and charged him three hundred ryo for the cola he had already drunk.
• Orochimaru paid after sensing powerful watchers in the trees and deciding not to risk exposing his identity or ruining his plans.
• Zhang Yu claimed Orochimaru had received a special-edition cola and demanded ten thousand ryo, drawing laughter from the other examinees when Orochimaru's voice briefly turned feminine.
• Orochimaru paid the extra ten thousand ryo rather than provoke the watchers, then left while promising himself he would deal with Zhang Yu later.
• Kiba asked whether Orochimaru's cola was truly special, and Zhang Yu said it cost the same as the others' cola.

Zhang Yu explained that Orochimaru had paid ten thousand ryo for a bottle of cola, then returned the other examinees to their teams as Anko explained the Forest of Death test. After the other teams entered, Zhang Yu went to receive his scroll and Anko privately asked about his background and role in the exam.

• Zhang Yu said Orochimaru had willingly paid ten thousand ryo for the cola, and the system rewarded him with 50,000 gold coins for tricking everyone present.
• Zhang Yu told Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata to return to their teams, and they left after reminding him to be careful.
• Mitaraishi Anko explained the Forest of Death rules: teams had five days to obtain both scrolls and reach the central tower with all three members intact.
• The teams received scrolls and entered the forest in batches, while Zhang Yu noticed Karin was absent and decided he would recruit her when he found her.
• After the other examinees entered, Zhang Yu went to the tent to receive his scroll, where Mitaraishi Anko asked about his background and what he would do as the person in charge.

Zhang Yu used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to take the Heaven Scroll from Anko after she challenged him to retrieve it without Ninjutsu. He left her immobilized and flustered, and Anko called out to stop him as he headed for the exam.

• Anko offered to work as Zhang Yu's right-hand woman, then challenged him to take the Heaven Scroll from her using only Taijutsu.
• Zhang Yu used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique without Hand Seals and immobilized Anko, explaining that Genjutsu was not Ninjutsu.
• Zhang Yu took the Heaven Scroll from Anko and told her the Genjutsu would wear off in two minutes as punishment for disrespecting her superior.
• Anko blushed and struggled to decide whether to confess her feelings while Zhang Yu teased her.
• Zhang Yu started to leave for the exam, and Anko called out, telling him to wait.

Anko questioned Zhang Yu about how he cast Genjutsu without Hand Seals, then he entered the Forest of Death with Haku and Uzuki Yugao for the second exam. Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju followed him, but Tobirama Senju arrived to assign them a search for cocktail and kitchen ingredients.

• Anko asked Zhang Yu why he could cast Genjutsu without Hand Seals, and he explained that a glance or a raised hand was enough before her paralysis wore off.
• Zhang Yu gave Haku the Heaven Scroll and warned him to keep it safe from other examinees.
• Zhang Yu, Haku, and Uzuki Yugao entered the Forest of Death through entrance seventeen and walked straight into the forest.
• Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju followed Zhang Yu through the trees and received a message from Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama used Flying Thunder God to reach Hashirama and gave him illustrated guides to herbs, flowers, and fruits to collect for the tavern and kitchen.

Zhang Yu and his companions headed toward the central tower, where three Sunagakure ninja ambushed them. After a system mission offered rewards for stealing and selling scrolls, Zhang Yu let Haku and Uzuki Yugao fight the attackers.

• Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna coordinated gathering materials while Zhang Yu continued toward the central tower.
• Zhang Yu caught a Kunai between two fingers when three Sunagakure ninja surrounded his group and demanded their scroll.
• Zhang Yu received a mission to steal Heaven and Earth Scrolls from people who rubbed him the wrong way and sell them publicly near the central tower.
• Uzuki Yugao and Haku offered to handle the Sunagakure ninja, and Zhang Yu agreed.
• Haku attacked with Ice Release: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death, while Uzuki Yugao used Dance of the Crescent Moon to kill two attackers.