Recaps

Senju Kenya awakened the memories of his previous life and received a powerful Garp-based taijutsu template along with mutated Wood Release Cells. After defeating a Root jonin who tried to take him to Danzo’s research base, Kenya looked toward Hokage Rock with a malicious smile.

• Senju Kenya learned that he had transmigrated into the Naruto world as the last publicly known Senju orphan, targeted by Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.
• The Super-Dimensional Template System gave Kenya the Monkey D. Garp template and Wood Release Cells, then went dormant as the powers transformed his body.
• Three Root ninja arrived to take Kenya to Danzo’s underground research base, and their leader threatened to bring him back by force if he refused.
• Kenya punched the Root jonin through the house and into a distant rock face, leaving the two remaining Root ninja terrified.
• Kenya walked to the hole in the wall and fixed his gaze on Hokage Rock with a malicious smile.

Kenya confronted Shimura Danzō and proved immune to Danzō’s Wind Release before sending him flying with a single slap. As Root’s ninja prepared to attack, Kenya ripped off his Konoha Forehead Protector.

• Kenya waited at the old residence after sending two Root ninja back to report.
• Shimura Danzō arrived with Root elites and accused Kenya of treason, demanding he surrender.
• Kenya said he had only defended himself from Root’s attempt to abduct him for human experimentation.
• Shimura Danzō attacked Kenya with Wind Release: Vacuum Wave, but the blades bounced off Kenya’s hardened body.
• Kenya struck Shimura Danzō with a Haki-coated slap, sending him into a wall and leaving him battered beneath rubble.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Root to kill Kenya, and Kenya tore off his Konoha Forehead Protector.

Kenya confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Danzo’s attempt to dissect him and condemned Konoha’s treatment of the Senju Clan. Declaring that he was defecting, Kenya prepared to strike Hokage Rock with his hardened fists.

• Kenya left the old Senju estate after ripping off his Konoha forehead protector, and Root’s ninja let him pass.
• Kenya went to the Hokage Building rooftop, where Hiruzen tried to justify Danzo’s actions with the Will of Fire.
• Kenya accused Hiruzen and Danzo of using the Will of Fire to conceal their abuse of power and pointed out that he was the last Senju in the village.
• Hiruzen ordered Kenya not to leave Konoha, and the surrounding Anbu prepared to attack.
• Kenya declared that he was defecting, coated his fists in Armament Haki, and aimed them at Hokage Rock.

Senju Kenya attacked Hokage Rock with enormous Haki-infused Black Iron Wood Release fists, destroying half the mountain and leaving Konoha in shock. Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Anbu found Kenya had escaped, with a taunting note promising he would return.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi struck at Kenya with the Adamantine Staff, but Kenya knocked it aside and sent the Hokage reeling.
• Kenya launched himself above Konoha and formed two gigantic Black Iron Wood Release fists as villagers, ninja, and Uchiha Itachi watched.
• Kenya slammed the fists into the First Hokage's statue, destroying its head and collapsing half of Hokage Rock while damaging the Second and Third Hokage statues.
• Hiruzen fell to his knees as Konoha's Anbu rushed to the ruins, but Kenya had vanished.
• An Anbu found Kenya's note pinned to rubble, and Hiruzen read its threat that the old men should wait for his return.

Kenya faced Konoha’s Anbu pursuit squad in the forest after defecting from the village. He crushed their attacks and knocked several members down with mud pellets hardened by Armament Haki, while the squad leader reached for a distress flare.

• The Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to pursue Kenya after reading his taunting note.
• More than a dozen Anbu surrounded Kenya and announced orders to bring him back or kill him if he resisted.
• The Anbu attacked with Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, Fire Style, and Wind Release, but Kenya casually formed mud pellets.
• Kenya hardened the pellets with Armament Haki and flicked them like cannonballs, destroying the attacks and striking several Anbu.
• The shaken Anbu squad leader saw his fallen subordinates and pulled out a red distress flare.

Kenya reached the Land of Fire’s border and faced a combined Konoha Anbu squadron in a canyon. He destroyed their coordinated attacks with one punch, then studied his map while the squadron was left helpless.

• The Anbu squad leader sent up a signal flare, and Kenya continued toward the border as the squad followed at a distance.
• More than fifty Anbu ninja ambushed Kenya in a canyon, trapping him with an Earth Release wall and attacking with a combined Fire Style technique.
• Kenya endured the flames and declared that the Anbu would have to block one basic punch to defeat him.
• Kenya’s punch extinguished the flames, shattered the earthen wall, and widened the canyon, scattering the Anbu ninja.
• The Anbu squadron commander dropped to his knees as Kenya brushed off his clothes and studied a map.

Kenya sold a log of extraordinarily durable Black Iron Hardwood to a black-market broker for ten million ryo. As Kenya headed to buy food, he overheard talk of Kumogakure using an incident at its Konoha embassy to extort the village.

• Kenya learned that high-grade building materials, especially hundred-year ironwood, commanded a high price on the black market.
• Kenya created a massive log with Wood Release and Armament Haki, naming it Black Iron Hardwood.
• The broker tested the log with a steel blade and Explosive Tags, but could not damage it.
• The broker bought the Black Iron Hardwood from Kenya for ten million ryo.
• Kenya heard customers say the Kumogakure delegation had caused an incident at the Konoha embassy and that Lord Raikage planned to extort Konoha.

Kenya intercepted a Kumogakure squad carrying abducted Hyuga Clan members and defeated all six ninjas. He opened one sack and found a captive marked with the Hyuga branch-family cursed seal.

• Kenya recalled Kumogakure’s attempt to seize the Byakugan and decided to rescue the Hyuga captives for his own plans.
• Kenya traveled to a secluded trail on the Land of Fire–Land of Lightning border and waited for the Kumogakure squad.
• The squad’s leader attacked Kenya with Lightning Release: False Darkness after Kenya guessed the sacks held Hyuga Clan members.
• Kenya dodged the lightning spear and shattered the jonin’s Lightning Release Armor with an Armament Haki forehead smash.
• Kenya beat all six Kumogakure ninjas unconscious, then opened a sack and saw a captive bearing the Hyuga branch-family cursed seal.

Kenya rescued Hizashi Hyuga from the Kumogakure squad and brought him to an abandoned cabin. When a powerful Kumogakure tracker attacked, Kenya killed him with a single finger, leaving Hizashi stunned by his strength.

• Kenya found Hizashi Hyuga among the decoys, carried him away, and took him to an abandoned cabin.
• Hizashi woke up, questioned Kenya, and learned that Kenya had stopped the Kumogakure squad from taking him.
• A Kumogakure elite tracker burst into the cabin and threatened to kill Kenya and Hizashi.
• Hizashi tried to protect Kenya, but Kenya pulled him aside and stopped the tracker's Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop with one finger.
• Kenya pierced the tracker’s chest with Shigan and offered his crumbled rice cracker to the stunned Hizashi.

Senju Kenya saved Hizashi Hyuga from the Kumogakure delegation and convinced him that Konoha’s willingness to sacrifice him was no destiny he had to accept. Hizashi pledged to follow Kenya, returned to Konoha with a cover story, and Kenya vowed to come back in two years to break the Caged Bird Seals and seize power.

• Kenya introduced himself to Hizashi as Senju Kenya after defeating the Kumogakure elite who had attacked him.
• Kenya condemned Konoha’s leaders for agreeing to hand Hizashi over and urged him to reject the Branch Family’s supposed destiny.
• Kenya promised he could smash the Caged Bird Seal and ordered Hizashi to return to Konoha claiming a mysterious powerhouse had killed the Kumogakure delegation.
• Kenya told Hizashi to lie low, train, and watch Konoha’s leaders while he spent two years becoming strong enough to return.
• Hizashi swore that he and the Branch Family would serve Kenya, then hurried back toward Konoha as Kenya watched the sea.

Kenya traveled to a remote island to find a quiet place to integrate the Garp template and Wood Release Cells and improve his Taijutsu. After defeating the island’s beasts and flattening a mountain summit into a base, he awakened Conqueror’s Haki and settled in for training.

• Kenya reached a deserted island off the Land of Waves and decided to make it his training base.
• Kenya killed a giant saber-toothed tiger with one punch and crushed a hundred-meter azure python with Tempest Kick: Heavy Stomp.
• Kenya chose a granite peak for his base and used Fist Bone: Mountain Splitter to flatten its summit into a broad platform.
• Kenya’s newly awakened Conqueror’s Haki spread across the island and knocked the surrounding beasts unconscious.
• Kenya roasted and ate the python, then rested beneath the stars on his new mountain platform.

Kenya sought a harder workout and swam through the sea before seizing a Kirigakure patrol ship’s anchor chain and dragging the warship across the water. As the frightened crew realized he was pulling them toward a deserted island, their captain ordered the bow cannon aimed at him.

• Kenya decided that running and carrying boulders no longer challenged him, so he plunged into the sea to train against its currents.
• A Kirigakure patrol ship lost its way in the fog and spotted Kenya swimming rapidly toward it.
• Kenya greeted the crew, grabbed the warship’s anchor chain, and began towing the vessel while swimming.
• The Kirigakure ninjas panicked as Kenya dragged their ship faster than it could sail toward the deserted island.
• The captain ordered the crew to aim the bow cannon at Kenya.

Kenya trained by pulling a Kirigakure warship, then ate a giant octopus and found his Armament Haki beginning to fuse with his body. His island solitude ended when the waves washed a dying boy ashore, still clutching a huge block of ice.

• Kenya yanked a Kirigakure warship into a wild drift, causing its cannon to miss, then released the chain and told the shaken crew to leave.
• Kenya dived underwater, found a giant octopus sea beast, and knocked it unconscious for food.
• Kenya roasted and ate most of the octopus, replenishing his energy and noticing dark Armament Haki merging with his flesh.
• Kenya celebrated his progress toward constant Haki coverage and anticipated the next two years of training.
• Kenya spotted a pale, dying boy in a tattered white kimono washed onto the beach, still gripping a huge block of ice.

Kenya rescued Haku after the waves swept him onto a deserted island and helped him overcome his despair over his Ice Release Kekkei Genkai. Haku accepted Kenya’s offer to become his cook, but a blade rang out from the fog as Kenya went to fetch more seafood.

• Kenya found Haku unconscious on the beach, carried him to his campfire, and revived him with hot octopus soup.
• Haku told Kenya he believed himself to be a cursed, worthless monster who had caused his parents’ deaths.
• Kenya rejected Haku’s self-loathing, gave him rice crackers, and declared that he would be Kenya’s number one chef.
• Haku accepted Kenya’s offer and smiled as he promised to learn how to cook.
• Kenya headed to the sea for more seafood when a blade rang out from the fog.

Haku recovered under Kenya’s care and prepared lunch, then witnessed Kenya’s extreme training on the island. Kenya had Haku create an iceberg and used it as a training weight, leaving Haku stunned by his uncle’s strength.

• Haku recovered quickly on Kenya’s nutritious food and became a skilled cook.
• Haku carried prepared ingredients to the summit and saw Kenya doing one-handed handstand push-ups while dragging a boulder with a chain held in his teeth.
• Kenya asked Haku to create an iceberg for him to carry as a training weight.
• Haku used Ice Release: Iceberg Jutsu, and Kenya stood up beneath the iceberg, which weighed dozens of tons.
• Kenya began frog-jumping across the peak with the iceberg on his back and asked Haku to add two roast pigs to lunch, while Haku wondered if he had joined a monster’s camp.

Haku encountered Zabuza Momochi, who tried to claim him as a weapon, but Kenya arrived to protect him. Zabuza attacked Kenya with the Kubikiribōchō, and the chapter ended as the blade swung toward Kenya's head.

• Kenya completed his training while Haku went into the woods to gather berries.
• Zabuza ambushed Haku, identified his Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, and demanded that Haku become his tool.
• Haku refused Zabuza, declaring that he was Kenya's number one chef.
• Kenya arrived after hearing the commotion and dismissed Zabuza's threats.
• Zabuza introduced himself, demanded Haku and the island, and attacked Kenya with the Kubikiribōchō.

Senju Kenya stopped Zabuza's killing strike by smashing his Armament Haki-hardened forehead into Kubikiribōchō, leaving Zabuza injured and his sword badly damaged. Zabuza realized the patrol boat had fled because of Kenya and asked whether he was even human.

• Zabuza swung Kubikiribōchō at Kenya while Haku watched in terror.
• Kenya hardened his forehead with Armament Haki and charged headfirst into the blade.
• The collision sent Zabuza flying into a reef and left him injured, while Kenya remained unharmed.
• Kenya mocked Zabuza and showed that his forehead had smashed a large notch into Kubikiribōchō.
• Zabuza recognized that Kenya had frightened off the patrol boat and asked if he was human.

Kenya overwhelmed Zabuza by using a steel-hard version of Wood Release to destroy his Water Dragon Bullet Technique and pin him to a cliff. Zabuza remained trapped and injured as Kenya explained that his black iron wood was reinforced with Armament Haki.

• Zabuza rejected Kenya’s confidence and launched a Water Dragon Bullet Technique at him.
• Kenya summoned Black Iron Thorns that pierced through the water dragon and pinned Zabuza’s limbs to the cliff.
• Zabuza tried to break free and struck a black iron spike with a refined-steel kunai, but the weapon snapped without damaging it.
• Kenya approached Zabuza and explained that his black iron wood was an improved form of Wood Release infused with Armament Haki.

Kenya spared Zabuza and recruited him as a laborer, while Haku helped build and feed the group. Half a month later, their fortress-like island base was taking shape, and Kenya began forming a plan after spotting merchant ships.

• Kenya freed Zabuza and offered him food, lodging, and occasional Taijutsu lessons in exchange for manual labor.
• Zabuza accepted Kenya's offer and joined him and Haku beside the campfire.
• The next morning, Kenya directed Zabuza as he carried heavy black iron wood for the island base.
• Over half a month, Kenya supplied building materials, Zabuza hauled and assembled them, and Haku prepared seafood meals.
• The black iron wood fortress began to take shape, and Kenya watched passing merchant ships as a bold plan formed in his mind.

Kenya went to the Land of Waves to seize Gato’s commercial network and establish the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce. After Zabuza defeated Gato’s samurai, Kenya forced Gato to surrender his businesses and property.

• After the island base was completed, Kenya left Haku to guard it and took Zabuza to the Land of Waves’ busiest port.
• Gato confronted Kenya in a tavern and demanded the island and its black iron wood in exchange for a hundred thousand ryo.
• When Gato ordered his samurai to attack, Zabuza smashed them with his heavy black iron wood greatsword.
• Kenya told Gato that his businesses would be taken over and operated as the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce.
• Under Zabuza’s threat, Gato surrendered his keys and property deeds.

After taking over Gato’s assets, Kenya built the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce into a booming business selling Black Iron Wood to nobles and merchants across the Shinobi World. The chapter ends with Kato Yosuke warning Kenya that Konoha’s higher-ups, especially Root, have become suspicious of the timber’s origins.

• Kenya took Gato’s property deeds and vault keys, then had Zabuza announce that he controlled the Land of Waves.
• Kenya made Kato Yosuke chief administrator of the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce and approved his plan to sell Black Iron Wood.
• Kenya produced Black Iron Wood with his Wood Release while Zabuza and the workers shipped it from the docks.
• After the Fire Daimyo tested the timber and bought half the chamber’s output at a hundred times the market price, nobles and merchants flocked to buy it.
• Kenya used the chamber’s profits to buy supplies for his base and recruit wandering ninja as guards.
• Yosuke warned Kenya that Konoha’s leaders, especially Root, were investigating the source of the Black Iron Wood.

Danzo discovered that Senju Kenya’s Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce was selling mutated black wood and ordered a Root squad to destroy its warehouses and capture Kenya. Kenya prepared a trap by moving the valuable goods to a deserted island, where Root’s masked elites approached through the sea fog.

• Kenya stopped counting his money when he learned that Danzo had traced the black wood to him.
• Danzo learned that the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce had seized the Land of Fire’s high-end building materials market with wood resembling Kenya’s mutated Wood Release.
• Danzo ordered Kinoe and Root’s elite assassins to burn the warehouses and capture Kenya alive.
• Kenya told Yosuke to move the valuable goods to the deserted island and make the warehouses appear weakly guarded.
• A few days later, more than twenty Root elites sailed through the sea fog toward the deserted island.

Kinoe led a Root squad to Kenya’s island hideout, where Zabuza and Kenya defeated them with their own poison gas. Kenya had the incapacitated ninja stripped of their equipment and clothes, then demanded a ransom from Danzo.

• Kinoe brought more than twenty Root ninja to the island and ordered them to find Kenya and burn the lumber warehouse.
• Zabuza ambushed the squad, smashed several ninja aside with his greatsword, and endured their fire and poison attacks.
• Kenya appeared above the beach and used a powerful blast of air to send the poison mist back over the Root ninja.
• Kenya, Zabuza, and Haku stripped the paralyzed Root squad of their valuables and left them in their underwear.
• Kenya told Kinoe to send Danzo a ransom demand of one million ryo per captive, threatening to spread photos of the squad if Danzo refused.

Kenya forced Danzo to pay twenty-five million ryo to ransom Root's captured squad, then humiliated the envoy who delivered the money. The chapter ended when Kato Yosuke reported that the chamber of commerce's fleet had found an enormous white snakeskin at sea.

• Kenya sent Danzo a ransom demand, threatening to spread Haku's indecent sketches of the captured Root squad around Konoha.
• Danzo ordered his subordinate to withdraw over twenty million ryo and ransom the captives rather than let the sketches become public.
• A few days later, the Root envoy brought twenty-five million ryo to Kenya and demanded the captives and pictures.
• Kenya smashed the table with a blow, frightened the envoy, and told him to warn Danzo never to threaten him again.
• The envoy collected the captives, and Kenya gave the money to Kato Yosuke to record and use for bonuses for Zabuza and Haku.
• Kato Yosuke told Kenya that the chamber of commerce's fleet had discovered an enormous white snakeskin near a deep-sea trench.

Kenya took Haku fishing off the Land of Waves to draw out the person behind the giant white snakeskin, and Orochimaru appeared, hoping to capture Kenya for experiments. As Orochimaru attacked with a swarm of venomous snakes, Kenya revealed his powerful Armament Haki and prepared to strike back.

• After hearing about a huge white snakeskin, Kenya decided to go fishing at sea with Haku and draw out whoever was responsible.
• A giant green summoned snake surfaced beside their boat, carrying Orochimaru, who said he wanted to study Kenya’s Senju bloodline and abilities.
• Orochimaru attacked Kenya and Haku with Multiple Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, releasing a swarm of venomous snakes.
• Kenya told Haku to stay calm, coated his right arm in Armament Haki, and challenged Orochimaru to withstand his punch.