Recaps

Senju Kenya overwhelmed Kakuzu, who abandoned the seven-hundred-million-ryo bounty and fled in terror. Kenya struck Kakuzu’s five hearts as he escaped.

• Senju Kenya taunted Kakuzu while pinning Hidan beneath his foot.
• Kakuzu unleashed Earth Grudge Fear and four masked chakra monsters to attack Kenya and clear a path to escape.
• Kenya’s Conqueror’s Haki destroyed the tendrils and drove the masked monsters back into Kakuzu.
• Kakuzu tore up the bounty notice and fled at full speed, abandoning the reward.
• Kenya tapped the mud and struck Kakuzu’s five hearts with five finger strikes.

Senju Kenya caught Kakuzu as he fled and destroyed four of his hearts with finger strikes. Kakuzu survived the fall with only his original heart remaining as Kenya confronted him about his savings.

• Kakuzu raced through the forest, hoping to escape underground, but Kenya caught up with him while floating beside him.
• Kakuzu attacked Kenya with an Earth Spear punch, but Kenya shattered his arm and destroyed his Earth Release heart with one finger strike.
• Kenya dodged Kakuzu's lightning attack and destroyed the Lightning Release heart with a compressed air projectile.
• Kakuzu's Wind and Fire masks combined their attacks, but Kenya pierced both masks and destroyed their hearts with two finger strikes.
• Kakuzu fell into a crater with his original heart still beating, and Kenya asked whether he had been saving money for over a hundred years.

Senju Kenya defeated Kakuzu and demanded the money and hidden accounts he had accumulated as a century-long bounty hunter. After Kenya exposed Kakuzu’s secret assets, Kakuzu realized his savings had been uncovered and asked what Kenya wanted.

• Kakuzu lay badly wounded in the crater with only his original heart still beating as Kenya taunted him from the rim.
• Kakuzu claimed he had once attempted to assassinate Hashirama Senju, but Kenya mocked the failed attempt and demanded to know where he had hidden his money.
• Kakuzu frantically insisted he was broke and had spent his bounty earnings funding the Akatsuki.
• Kenya pressed his foot over Kakuzu’s surviving heart and revealed detailed records of his gold, chakra-stone certificates, and casino holdings.
• Kakuzu asked Kenya what he wanted after realizing his hidden assets had been exposed.

Senju Kenya forced Kakuzu to surrender his hidden bankbooks and seized his entire fortune. After Kato Yosuke verified the accounts totaled 155 million ryo, Kenya also took Kakuzu’s remaining cash and coins, leaving him penniless in the mud.

• Kenya threatened to crush Kakuzu’s heart unless he handed over his bankbooks, property deeds, and passwords, and Kakuzu agreed to give up everything.
• Kakuzu tore open hidden compartments in his body and produced three wax-sealed ledgers and two keys.
• Kenya called Kato Yosuke into the crater, where Yosuke inspected the ledgers and confirmed they held 155 million ryo in liquid assets.
• Kenya took the ledgers and confiscated Kakuzu’s remaining banknotes and coins.
• Kakuzu collapsed in despair after Kenya stripped him of the fortune he had spent a century accumulating.

After Kenya defeated Kakuzu and took his hidden fortune, Kakuzu broke down over losing the savings he had scraped together across a century. His grief and anger triggered a fatal collapse, leaving him sprawled in the crater.

• Kakuzu twitched in the muddy crater, then wailed over the loss of all his money.
• Kenya ate an apple and mocked Kakuzu, who recounted a century of frugality and secretly paying the Akatsuki's expenses.
• Kakuzu cursed Kenya for taking his life savings, while the guards and Zabuza listened in disbelief.
• Kenya claimed he would spend the money on meat for Konoha's children and subsidies for orphanages.
• Kakuzu's remaining heart convulsed, and he collapsed into the mud after vomiting a mass of black blood.

Senju Kenya spared Kakuzu after taking his fortune and ordered him back to the Akatsuki to keep earning money for another robbery. Kakuzu fled with Hidan’s scattered body, while Kenya’s convoy headed back to Konoha and Pain and Konan appeared in Amegakure.

• Kenya told Kakuzu he would spare him and explained that he wanted him to return to the Akatsuki and build up more savings for future raids.
• Haku and two guards brought Hidan’s scattered body to Kakuzu, and Kenya gave Kakuzu two moldy rice balls as travel food.
• Kenya threatened Kakuzu into returning to work for the Akatsuki, and Kakuzu bound Hidan’s body to his back and fled with the rice balls.
• Kenya led his convoy back toward Konoha with the stolen funds and treaty, while Pain and Konan stood inside Amegakure’s central tower.

Kakuzu and Hidan returned to the Akatsuki base defeated and impoverished after Senju Kenya overwhelmed them and extorted their money. Pain fell silent as he tried to process their report, while a green pitcher plant emerged in the hall.

• Konan told Pain that Kakuzu and Hidan were approaching after their assassination mission.
• Kakuzu stumbled into the hall, with Hidan's severed head and scattered limbs in a sack.
• Kakuzu and Hidan recounted how Senju Kenya broke their weapons and bodies, destroyed four of Kakuzu's hearts, and robbed them.
• Kakuzu said Senju Kenya had sent him back to keep earning money and threatened to inspect and rob the Akatsuki in a year.
• Pain fell silent in apparent shock as an enormous green pitcher plant emerged from a dark corner.

Zetsu reported Senju Kenya’s overwhelming feats in Konoha, leaving Pain and Black Zetsu alarmed by a power that defied their understanding of chakra. Obito Uchiha appeared as Black Zetsu warned that Kenya could destroy their plans to resurrect Otsutsuki Kaguya.

• White Zetsu recounted how Senju Kenya defeated the rampaging One-Tail Shukaku, destroyed Orochimaru’s reanimated Hokage, and humiliated Orochimaru before attacking the daimyo’s palace for sponsorship money.
• Kakuzu stopped grieving over his lost savings and felt fortunate compared with Orochimaru and Shukaku.
• Pain was shaken by Kenya’s seemingly pure physical strength, which challenged his understanding of divine power and chakra.
• Black Zetsu said Kenya’s abilities had no known connection to Asura’s bloodline or the God Tree’s chakra, and warned Pain not to confront him rashly.
• Obito Uchiha emerged from the Kamui dimension after hearing the report and Black Zetsu’s warning, reflecting on his plan to collect the Tailed Beasts and create a dream world.

Obito realized Senju Kenya had wrecked Akatsuki’s plans and ordered the organization to avoid Konoha and target other Tailed Beasts instead. As Obito fled Amegakure, a huge tribute convoy arrived at Konoha.

• Obito reviewed how Kenya had thwarted Akatsuki’s schemes by strengthening the Uchiha, removing Danzō, empowering Naruto, defeating Shukaku, and disrupting Kakuzu’s finances.
• Pain asked Obito how Akatsuki should counter Kenya, and Obito proposed using Kamui to trap him.
• Black Zetsu warned that Kenya might punch through the Kamui passage and destroy Obito and his other dimension.
• Obito ordered Akatsuki to avoid the Land of Fire and Konoha, and to pursue Two-Tails and Four-Tails in the Land of Lightning and Land of Earth.
• Obito fled through Kamui as a convoy carrying gold, bearer bonds, and tribute entered Konoha to cheers from its ninja and civilians.

Senju Kenya returned to Konoha with billions of ryo in gold and cash, then announced lavish funding for the village and a payout for every resident. The chapter left Konoha celebrating its new wealth and Naruto Uzumaki energized for special training.

• Senju Kenya arrived in Konoha with thirty carriages loaded with gold, cash, chakra gems, and other valuables.
• Kato Yosuke and the chamber of commerce enforcers opened the crates, revealing a massive fortune to the gathered villagers and leaders.
• Kenya ordered money allocated to the village treasury, hospitals, orphanages, veterans, and the Uchiha and Akimichi clans.
• Kenya promised every Konoha resident a cash envelope of one hundred thousand ryo, prompting the crowd and clan heads to celebrate and bow to him.
• The next morning, Naruto Uzumaki began training in the woods with a heavy iron shuriken after receiving a special-training bonus and deep-sea beast meat.

Naruto Uzumaki grew dissatisfied with ordinary shuriken and learned from Senju Kenya that mass and velocity made a weapon more powerful. After Kenya demonstrated the destructive force of a gigantic iron shuriken, Naruto began training with them, shocking Kakashi Hatake and Sakura Haruno as they passed by.

• Naruto Uzumaki complained that ordinary shuriken were too weak to harm powerful opponents.
• Senju Kenya explained that a thrown weapon's killing power came from its kinetic energy and called for Haku to bring Naruto's training equipment.
• Haku brought a cart of enormous, forty-kilogram iron shuriken, and Kenya hurled one hard enough to shear apart a distant hill.
• Naruto started throwing the heavy shuriken under Kenya's threat to throw him like one if he failed to shatter five peaks in ten minutes.
• Kakashi Hatake and Sakura Haruno witnessed the shuriken smashing the mountainside, while Sasuke Uchiha watched from behind a tree.

Sasuke asked Senju Kenya for brutal special training and endured an hour of beatings, which awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Kenya rewarded him with a chicken drumstick and ordered him to finish his remaining push-ups.

• Sasuke watched Naruto train with a giant shuriken and asked Kenya for the harshest special training.
• Sasuke attacked Kenya with a Chidori Sharp Spear, but Kenya dodged and struck him down.
• Kenya repeatedly beat Sasuke as he kept getting up and attacking, while Naruto watched in shock.
• Sasuke awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan during Kenya's final headbutt, which stopped just short of his face.
• Kenya gave Sasuke a roasted chicken drumstick and told him to finish his remaining thousand push-ups.

After days of beatings and heavy meals, Sasuke awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and gained tremendous physical strength, which he demonstrated in a spar with Kakashi. As Sasuke and Naruto began another intense training session, a secret letter arrived for Senju Kenya.

• Sasuke's Sharingan fully awakened to three tomoe, and his body and chakra capacity grew stronger after repeated beatings and restorative meals.
• Sakura and Kakashi arrived, and Kakashi was shocked to see Sasuke's Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Sasuke challenged Kakashi and used his new perception and brute strength to drive him backward in a close-range spar.
• Sasuke ordered Naruto to bring over a heavy training log and declared that neither of them would eat until they completed five hundred squats.
• A white snake delivered a sealed top-secret letter, and Kato Yosuke picked it up and hurried to Senju Kenya.

Senju Kenya received a groveling cooperation offer from Orochimaru, who promised research assets and White Zetsu in exchange for protection and a role in Kenya’s organization. Kenya decided to visit Orochimaru’s hidden laboratory, bringing Zabuza with him.

• Kato Yosuke delivered Orochimaru’s snakeskin letter to Kenya, and Sasuke and Naruto stopped their training when they heard Orochimaru’s name.
• Kenya read Orochimaru’s apology and pledge of allegiance, then laughed at the Sannin’s sudden submission.
• Orochimaru offered his laboratories, Hashirama-cell research, sword blanks, forbidden techniques, and captured White Zetsu as part of a collaboration proposal.
• Yosuke warned Kenya that Orochimaru’s offer could be a trap, but Kenya dismissed the danger and threatened to destroy the laboratory if Orochimaru betrayed him.
• Kenya told Yosuke to watch the house and ordered Zabuza to accompany him; half a day later, they reached a hidden cavern near the Land of Rice Fields’ border.

Senju Kenya broke into Orochimaru's underground base, where the terrified Orochimaru showed him a dangerous living specimen called White Zetsu. Kenya studied the creature with interest, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Senju Kenya kicked through the sealed basalt entrance to Orochimaru's base, sending rubble crashing into the laboratory.
• Orochimaru recognized Kenya, trembled in fear, and bowed while Kabuto Yakushi stared in shock.
• Kenya criticized the filthy laboratory, took Orochimaru's chair, and demanded to see the specimen from Orochimaru's letter.
• Orochimaru opened a sealed chamber and showed Kenya White Zetsu, a pale humanoid made of rapidly proliferating plant cells.
• Kenya watched White Zetsu writhe in its tank with a gleam of interest in his eyes.

White Zetsu’s cells ran wild during Orochimaru’s experiment, threatening to destroy the underground laboratory. Kenya subdued the monster with brute force and Senju life force, leaving it transformed into a docile lump of pure living flesh and Orochimaru stunned.

• White Zetsu’s uncontrolled growth shattered its cultivation tank and sent thorny tentacles thrashing through the laboratory.
• Kabuto urged Orochimaru to activate the laboratory’s self-destruct barrier and release poison gas, but Kenya stepped in before Orochimaru could act.
• Kenya blocked White Zetsu’s attacks with his body, grabbed its head, and beat it with repeated slaps.
• White Zetsu’s malignant growth receded under Kenya’s force until it shrank into a harmless, fist-sized lump of living flesh.
• Orochimaru sank among the broken glass, stunned by Kenya’s transformation of the specimen.

Orochimaru joined Iron Fist Heavy Industries after Kenya purified the White Zetsu cells, and Kenya assigned him ambitious medical, armor, and anti-stealth projects. As Kenya prepared to return to Konoha, Zabuza received an urgent plea for help from Mei Terumi.

• Kenya purified the White Zetsu cells, and Orochimaru recognized their regenerative potential.
• Orochimaru signed a lifetime contract with Iron Fist Heavy Industries, while Kabuto handed over Otogakure’s secret-base keys, files, and plans.
• Kenya tasked Orochimaru with developing healing products, biological exoskeleton armor, and anti-stealth radar to counter the Akatsuki.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto began work with startup funds from Kenya, who promised bonuses and apartments for successful results.
• A messenger gull delivered Mei Terumi’s blood-written plea for help to Zabuza, who warned Kenya that Kirigakure’s future Mizukage was in trouble.

Zabuza brought Kenya Mei Terumi’s blood-written plea for help, revealing that Yagura’s tyranny had driven Kirigakure’s resistance to the brink of annihilation. Seeing an opportunity to secure the Land of Water’s ports and shipping routes, Kenya ordered preparations to sail to Mei’s aid.

• Zabuza told Kenya that Yagura had persecuted the Land of Water’s kekkei genkai clans and driven Zabuza into exile.
• Kenya read Mei Terumi’s letter describing the resistance’s losses, its retreat to remote islands, and its lack of supplies.
• Mei offered an alliance and tax-free harbor access in exchange for Kenya’s help, and promised to serve him if that was not enough.
• Kenya recognized Obito Uchiha’s control of Yagura and decided to intervene for the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce’s benefit.
• Kenya ordered Kato Yosuke to prepare the Iron Fist flagship and told Haku to pack provisions for the voyage.

Kenya prepared a self-funded voyage to the Land of Water after receiving Mei Terumi’s plea for help, bringing Zabuza, Haku, and Shizune while leaving Naruto and Sasuke behind to train. The group boarded the Iron Fist at the Land of Waves’ harbor and set sail for Kirigakure.

• Kenya told Tsunade he was taking paid leave and showed her Mei Terumi’s blood-written plea about Karatachi Yagura and Kirigakure’s massacres.
• Kenya refused Konoha funding and promised Tsunade trade privileges and dividends from the expedition.
• Kenya chose Zabuza, Haku, and Shizune to accompany him to the Land of Water.
• Naruto and Sasuke asked to join the voyage, but Kenya struck them with his pipe and assigned them punishing training under Kakashi’s supervision.
• Kenya and his companions boarded the Iron Fist at the Land of Waves’ royal harbor and prepared to depart.

Senju Kenya sailed toward the Land of Water aboard the Iron Fist with Shizune and Haku, while Zabuza warned that the route passed through a deadly barrier. The Iron Fist smashed through the Forbidden Black Sea’s beasts, reefs, and mines, as the Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, appeared ahead.

• Kato Yosuke launched the Iron Fist from the Land of Waves, and Kenya relaxed on deck while Haku served chilled juice and Shizune examined the ship’s astonishing finances.
• Zabuza warned Kenya that the Iron Fist was approaching the Forbidden Black Sea, which Karatachi Yagura had sealed with mines, reefs, and mutated beasts.
• Three enormous black-striped sharks attacked the Iron Fist, and Zabuza killed them with a single swing of his greatsword.
• The Iron Fist smashed through the reef formation and sea mines, then charged through the mist toward the heart of the Land of Water.
• Karatachi Yagura appeared in the shadow of an island ahead.

Senju Kenya arrived at the beach where Mei Terumi and her allies were cornered by the controlled Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura. After Ao revealed that an Uchiha Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu had made Yagura a puppet, Kenya shattered the control with a single slap and sent him crashing into a cliff.

• Mei Terumi, Ao, and Chōjūrō faced Karatachi Yagura and hundreds of Kirigakure Anbu as Yagura prepared to kill them.
• Senju Kenya arrived aboard a massive black warship with Zabuza Momochi and Haku, crushing three Kirigakure blockade ships on the way to shore.
• Ao used his Byakugan to discover that an Uchiha Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu had sealed Yagura's mind and warned that releasing it could trigger the Three-Tails.
• Yagura rampaged and charged Kenya with his coral staff, but Kenya shattered the weapon and struck Yagura across the face with a haki-coated slap.
• Kenya's blow destroyed the genjutsu and hurled Yagura into a cliff, leaving both sides stunned.

Senju Kenya fought the berserk Karatachi Yagura after Isobu’s chakra overwhelmed the Mizukage and threatened to destroy the island. Kenya smashed Yagura’s cloak and beat him until he broke Obito Uchiha’s genjutsu, leaving Yagura and Isobu suffering under his relentless blows.

• Isobu’s rage transformed Yagura, whose chakra raised towering waves and waterspouts around the island.
• Ao warned that Isobu had suppressed Yagura’s consciousness, while Mei Terumi ordered Chōjūrō and Ao to help restrain him.
• Kenya dismissed the danger and charged Yagura, declaring that he would keep punching until the beast submitted.
• Kenya shattered Yagura’s Tailed Beast Cloak with his first punch and struck his jaw with his second.
• Kenya’s successive punches destroyed Obito Uchiha’s genjutsu chakra and battered Yagura and Isobu with overwhelming physical force.

Senju Kenya punched Isobu, the Three-Tails, out of Karatachi Yagura without killing him, freeing the Mizukage from the beast and the Mangekyō Sharingan’s control. Isobu hid in his shell as Kenya sat on top of him and surveyed the stunned Kirigakure forces, his gaze finally settling on Mei Terumi.

• Senju Kenya struck Yagura’s sealing core with a punch that forced the Three-Tails’ chakra out through Yagura’s mouth.
• Isobu emerged in his full form, while Senju vitality kept Yagura alive and his eyes returned to normal.
• Isobu cried out in pain and withdrew his head, legs, and tails into his shell.
• Ao, Chōjūrō, and the Kirigakure Anbu stared in disbelief as the Mizukage regained consciousness and Isobu cowered.
• Senju Kenya sat atop Isobu’s shell, accepted his pipe from Haku, and looked toward Mei Terumi.

Mei Terumi approached Senju Kenya after he defeated the Three-Tails and tried to entice him with the terms of her offer, but he focused on securing the Land of Water’s ports, tax exemptions, and shipping rights. Karatachi Yagura confessed that Madara Uchiha had controlled him, relinquished the Mizukage position, and Mei accepted the hat and formally sealed an alliance with Kenya.

• Mei Terumi approached Senju Kenya and teased him about his domineering rescue, while Ao warned her to conduct herself with dignity.
• Mei offered Kenya the Land of Water’s trade concessions and herself as part of the deal, but Kenya rejected her advances and demanded that the financial terms be honored.
• Karatachi Yagura emerged from the mud, confessed that Madara Uchiha had controlled him and ordered the bloody purges, and apologized to Kirigakure.
• Yagura gave Mei the Mizukage hat and entrusted the Land of Water’s future to her.
• Mei accepted the hat, knelt before Kenya, and presented her diplomatic letter, sealing the alliance between their nations.

After Karatachi Yagura abdicated, Mei Terumi signed a permanent nonaggression and trade treaty with Senju Kenya and became Mizukage. At the victory banquet, Mei proposed a marriage alliance, but Kenya bluntly rejected her and asked for more food, while she continued to pursue him.

• Karatachi Yagura abdicated, and Mei Terumi presented Senju Kenya with the Land of Water's alliance treaty.
• Kenya signed the treaty, granting the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce access to the Land of Water's ports, zero tariffs, and exclusive black iron divine timber contracts.
• At Kirigakure's victory banquet, Kenya feasted while Shizune arranged to move the Land of Water's treasury gifts into her chests.
• Newly inaugurated Mizukage Mei Terumi sat beside Kenya, fed him, and proposed a marriage alliance between their nations.
• Kenya rejected Mei's proposal because he did not want the trouble of raising a child, then asked for tuna.
• Mei continued to flirt with Kenya and poured him sake, leaving Ao aghast.