Chapter Summaries

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha's advisors learned that Kenya had become a powerful overseas tycoon known as the Iron Fist Emperor after defeating a Kumogakure squad. They chose to avoid provoking him while preparing for the Chunin Ninja Exams, unaware that his carriage was already approaching Konoha.

• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi with a newspaper report about the Iron Fist Emperor's rise in the Land of Waves.
• Mitokado Homura reported that Kenya controlled the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce, had Zabuza Momochi under his command, and maintained a fortified overseas base.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized the Iron Fist Emperor as Kenya, the Senju who had defected from Konoha two years earlier.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected taking military action against Kenya and ordered the advisors to monitor the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce while Konoha focused on the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Kenya's luxurious carriage, pulled by armored foreign beasts, stopped on the border highway leading through the Land of Fire toward Konoha.

The Third Hokage learned that Kenya had built a powerful overseas empire in the Land of Waves and that Tsunade had joined his leadership. As he ordered Konoha to avoid provoking the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce, Senju Kenya appeared outside the village gate with a large group.

• An Anbu squad leader delivered the Third Hokage a report detailing the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce’s control over the Land of Waves’ ports, trade, and currency.
• The Third Hokage learned that Zabuza Momochi served as the chamber’s chief of security and that Tsunade was among its highest-ranking commanders.
• The Third Hokage regretted allowing Danzo to pressure Kenya and realized that Kenya and Tsunade together could pose a serious threat to Konoha.
• The Third Hokage ordered increased border surveillance and security for the Chunin Ninja Exams, warning his forces not to provoke the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce without his orders.
• A panicked Chunin reported that Senju Kenya had appeared outside the Konoha Gate with a huge group of people.

Itachi struggled between his clan and Konoha as the Uchiha coup drew closer. Hearing that Senju Kenya had returned, he decided to meet him, hoping he might change the clan’s fate.

• Itachi watched Uchiha clansmen leave a secret meeting and recognized their growing resentment toward Konoha’s leadership.
• Fugaku ordered Itachi to monitor the higher-ups and report any moves against the Uchiha Clan.
• Itachi declined Sasuke’s request to practice shuriken with him and worried that the coup could put his younger brother in danger.
• Itachi overheard clansmen say Senju Kenya had returned and was blocking the village entrance with a group of people.
• Remembering Kenya’s defiance of the Third Hokage, Itachi decided to meet him.

Kenya defeated Itachi’s Tsukuyomi with Conqueror’s Haki and told him he had returned to reclaim the Senju’s standing and purge Konoha’s corrupt leadership. He offered to protect the Uchiha Clan and said he intended to involve himself in their affairs.

• Kenya sensed Itachi hiding nearby while he grilled fish beside a stream outside Konoha.
• Itachi used Mangekyō Sharingan and Tsukuyomi to test Kenya, but Kenya broke the genjutsu with Conqueror’s Haki, leaving Itachi injured and stunned.
• Kenya told Itachi he intended to reclaim what belonged to the Senju and remove Konoha’s corrupt leaders.
• Itachi warned Kenya that the Third and Danzo controlled Konoha’s forces, but Kenya dismissed their power and urged Itachi to stop letting Danzo use him.
• Kenya revealed he knew Danzo had pushed Itachi toward slaughtering his clan and promised to protect the Uchiha Clan.

Kenya recruited Itachi and then devised a way for the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce to enter Konoha openly by sponsoring the Chunin Ninja Exams with 200 million ryo. He set off with Tsunade and Zabuza toward the village, carrying a gold sponsor plaque and a convoy of supplies.

• Itachi accepted Kenya's offer and left with a renewed hope of saving the Uchiha Clan.
• Kenya returned to the secret camp, where Tsunade and Zabuza discussed how to enter Konoha.
• Zabuza proposed fighting through the main gate, but Tsunade rejected the plan to avoid harming civilians and turning them into enemies of the Shinobi World.
• Kenya revealed a gold plaque naming the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce a super sponsor and proposed offering Konoha 200 million ryo and building materials.
• Tsunade agreed to Kenya's plan, and the convoy set off for Konoha's main gate under Iron Fist and Senju flags.

Kenya led the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce convoy toward Konoha, accompanied by Tsunade, Shizune, and Haku. He announced that the Senju Clan was returning and that the delegation would sponsor the Chunin Ninja Exams with two hundred million ryo and building materials, as the convoy approached the village gates.

• Kenya arrived near Konoha in a lavish convoy of twenty carriages, guarded by over a hundred fighters and flying Iron Fist and Senju banners.
• Tsunade urged Kenya to dress and act more respectably, but he said the delegation was there to spend money and unsettle Konoha’s leaders.
• Kenya greeted the villagers and identified himself as Senju Kenya, the defector who had once shattered Hokage Rock.
• Kenya announced the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce’s sponsorship and declared that the Senju Clan was officially returning to Konoha.
• The villagers reacted with shock, Tsunade laughed at Kenya’s tactic, and patrol ninjas followed the convoy as it neared Konoha’s gates.

Senju Kenya returned to Konoha with Tsunade and a huge convoy, claiming he had come to sponsor the village with two hundred million ryo. After he bribed and confused the gate guards, the convoy entered Konoha, leaving Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki to discover that their forehead protectors had been altered.

• Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki spotted Senju Kenya’s convoy approaching Konoha and recognized Tsunade beside him.
• Kenya greeted the frightened guards like old friends, gave them gold coins and senbei, and said he was returning as a major sponsor.
• Kenya ordered his convoy into Konoha, and Tsunade watched as the guards let them pass.
• Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki realized their Konoha forehead protector emblems had been replaced with a clenched iron fist.

Danzo’s Root agents trapped Kenya’s convoy at Konoha’s gate with a Purple Lightning Seal and accused him of crimes, but Kenya shattered the barrier and blasted a huge hole through the gate with one punch. The Root agents’ concealed post collapsed in the shockwave, leaving them injured and exposed.

• Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki discovered that Kenya had switched their Konoha forehead protectors for Iron Fist ones.
• Root agents activated the Purple Lightning Seal, trapping Kenya’s convoy inside the gate and demanding that he surrender.
• Tsunade recognized the barrier as Root’s handiwork, while Kenya blamed Danzo for obstructing their business.
• Kenya refused Zabuza’s offer to break the barrier and punched through the seal, iron bars, and Konoha’s gate.
• The shockwave collapsed the Root agents’ concealed post, sending them tumbling into the rubble.

Senju Kenya smashed through Konoha’s gate, then claimed he had returned peacefully as a wealthy sponsor accompanying his aunt. Tsunade appeared and confirmed his identity, turning the hostile standoff into a welcome for her return to the village.

• Kenya apologized for destroying the gate and claimed it had been flimsy while Root agents lay injured in the rubble.
• Konoha ninja surrounded Kenya and prepared to attack, but he raised his hands and insisted he was a law-abiding businessman.
• Kenya presented his Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce credentials and announced a two-hundred-million-ryo donation to the Chunin Ninja Exams, saying he had brought his aunt home.
• Tsunade stepped down from the carriage, and the Konoha ninja recognized and welcomed the legendary Sannin.
• Tsunade vouched for Kenya as her nephew and the exams’ biggest sponsor, ending the confrontation; Kenya returned to the carriage.

After Senju Kenya returned to Konoha with Tsunade and immense financial backing, Danzo realized he could no longer target him openly. Danzo ordered Root to enlist Orochimaru in a plot against Kenya, unaware that Orochimaru already feared him.

• Kenya led his convoy into Konoha as hundreds of ninja escorted him toward the old Senju estate.
• Root ninja reported to Danzo that Kenya had shattered the Purple Lightning Seal and punched a hole through the village gate.
• Danzo concluded that Tsunade’s return and Kenya’s two hundred million ryo sponsorship made an open attack too risky.
• Danzo ordered a Root ninja to contact Orochimaru and offer Root’s Hashirama-cell research in exchange for help killing Kenya during the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Orochimaru, far away in his hidden base, still felt pain in his reattached neck whenever he heard Kenya’s name.

Senju Kenya returned to the Hokage Building with Tsunade and rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attempt to welcome him back with talk of the village’s affection. He offered Konoha 200 million ryo in exchange for official recognition of the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce and the return of the Senju estate, leaving Hiruzen struggling over whether to accept.

• Tsunade brought Senju Kenya into Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office after returning to Konoha.
• Hiruzen welcomed Tsunade and tried to reconcile with Kenya by apologizing for Danzo and appealing to the Will of Fire.
• Kenya dismissed Hiruzen’s speech and accused him of playing good cop while Danzo played bad cop.
• Kenya presented Hiruzen with a 200-million-ryo bank draft as sponsorship for Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Kenya demanded legal commercial status for the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce and the return of the Senju estate and the surrounding two-kilometer territory.
• Hiruzen hesitated over the demands, and Kenya fixed his gaze on Hiruzen’s white jade pipe.

Senju Kenya mocked Hiruzen Sarutobi’s hesitation over the two hundred million ryo draft, then stole his treasured pipe and claimed it as compensation. Kenya left with Tsunade after threatening Hiruzen to meet their conditions by sundown, while Shizune struggled to hide her laughter.

• Hiruzen hesitated to accept Kenya and Tsunade’s demands, torn between the costs of refusing and granting Kenya a private territory in Konoha.
• Kenya mocked Hiruzen’s indecision, then snatched his white jade pipe before Hiruzen could react.
• Kenya smoked the pipe, blew a heart-shaped cloud around Hiruzen’s hat, and pocketed it as civil compensation for damage and distress.
• Kenya warned Hiruzen to fulfill their conditions by sundown or face a demolition crew at the Hokage building, then left with Tsunade.
• Hiruzen stood stunned over the loss of his pipe as Shizune hid her laughter behind Tonton.

Kenya swaggered through Konoha with the Third Hokage’s white jade pipe, forcing an Anbu member to light it for him. As he headed toward the old Senju residence, he spotted a lonely golden-haired boy sitting on a swing.

• Kenya and Tsunade parted ways after leaving the Hokage Building, with Tsunade taking Shizune to inspect the Senju Clan’s old residence.
• Kenya walked down Konoha’s shopping street with the Third Hokage’s pipe and a formation of Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce bodyguards, shocking the villagers.
• An Anbu patrol recognized the pipe and prepared for a fight, fearing the Third Hokage had been killed.
• Kenya asked the Anbu to use Fire Style to light his tobacco, and a frightened young Anbu member did so.
• Kenya praised the young Anbu member and walked away smoking, then noticed a forlorn golden-haired boy alone on a swing.

Senju Kenya found young Naruto Uzumaki alone in the park and protected him from villagers who insulted him. He gave Naruto a giant rice cracker and left for the old Senju residence, while Naruto watched him go and called out to ask his name.

• Kenya teased Naruto on the swing, and Naruto insisted he would become Hokage.
• When villagers called Naruto a demon fox and told Kenya to stay away, Kenya held Naruto in place and drove them off with Conqueror's Haki.
• Kenya gave Naruto an oversized rice cracker from the Land of Waves and told him to grow strong enough to shatter Hokage Rock.
• Kenya headed toward the old Senju residence with his bodyguards, and Naruto hugged the rice cracker and shouted after him to ask his name.

Senju Kenya used Armament Haki to suppress the Nine-Tails chakra tormenting Naruto, and Naruto begged to become his disciple. Naruto left determined to complete Kenya’s training regimen, while the Nine-Tails awoke, startled by the strange power that had forced its chakra back.

• Naruto followed Kenya after receiving a rice cracker and told him he wanted to become as strong as him.
• Kenya sensed the Nine-Tails chakra inside Naruto and used Armament Haki to drive it back into the seal, relieving Naruto’s exhaustion and pain.
• Naruto begged Kenya to teach him, and Kenya agreed on the condition that he run a hundred laps and do five hundred push-ups and sit-ups each day.
• Naruto vowed to complete the training and ran home to begin, while the Nine-Tails opened its eyes and recalled the power that had invaded the seal.

Seven-year-old Sasuke Uchiha trained his Fire Style and dismissed Naruto Uzumaki’s new mentor, Kenya, as a poser. Kenya slapped Sasuke into a sand pile, and Sasuke drew a kunai to attack him before suddenly freezing.

• The Nine-Tails sensed the strange black aura that had forced its chakra back and decided to watch the young man responsible.
• Sasuke practiced the Great Fireball Technique beside a river, determined to earn his father and Itachi’s recognition.
• Naruto brought Kenya to meet Sasuke and praised Kenya’s strength and promise to teach him.
• Sasuke mocked Kenya as a fraud and claimed ninjutsu and Uchiha kekkei genkai were true power.
• Kenya appeared beside Sasuke and slapped him into a sand pile, then mocked his boasting.
• Sasuke crawled out, drew a kunai, and prepared to attack Kenya, but suddenly froze.

Kenya knocked out three Konoha chunin with a single punch after they attacked him, leaving Naruto and Sasuke stunned. Sasuke dropped his kunai, still unable to believe what he had witnessed.

• Three Konoha chunin saw Kenya with Sasuke and wrongly accused him of bullying the Uchiha boy.
• Naruto tried to defend Kenya, but the lead chunin insulted him and threatened Kenya.
• Kenya invited the chunin to attack, and they launched a coordinated assault with shuriken and ninja blades.
• Kenya punched once, shattering the shuriken and blasting all three chunin into trees, where they passed out.
• Naruto praised Kenya as invincible, while Sasuke stared in shock and dropped his kunai.

Kenya left Sasuke humbled after demonstrating his overwhelming physical strength, then arrived at Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams as the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce’s sponsor. He declared himself a special supervisor for the written exam, leaving the gathered candidates wary of what would come next.

• Sasuke left his kunai behind and ran toward the Uchiha compound, shaken by Kenya’s strength and determined to gain power.
• Naruto hurried after Kenya with his half-eaten rice cracker.
• A few days later, elite genin from several villages gathered in Konoha for the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Kenya arrived at the examination gates in a flashy sponsored carriage, and Ibiki respectfully welcomed him.
• Kenya introduced himself as the exam’s financial backer and special discipline supervisor, while team leaders warned the candidates about his fearsome reputation.

During the written Chunin Exam, Kenya intimidated the candidates after catching an Amegakure ninja cheating, declaring his fists the rules. The room fell silent and orderly again, while Kenya turned his attention toward the Forest of Death.

• Ibiki Morino announced the written exam rules as Kenya lounged beside him, drinking juice.
• Candidates began using covert techniques to cheat, and an Amegakure candidate tried to copy answers with a wire and mirror.
• Kenya broke the cheating device with his pointer and struck the Amegakure candidate, who protested that Kenya was breaking the rules.
• Kenya crushed the candidate’s solid-iron desk with one hand and declared that his fists were the rules.
• The frightened Amegakure candidate fled, the other candidates stopped cheating, and Kenya returned to his chair and looked toward the Forest of Death.

After the first Chunin Exam went smoothly under Kenya’s intimidating presence, Tsunade warned him that Orochimaru might be conspiring with Sunagakure and planning an attack in the Forest of Death. Kenya welcomed the threat and declared that the second exam would be his solo show.

• Kenya’s presence kept the first written exam orderly, and the remaining candidates left after surviving Ibiki Morino’s tenth-question test.
• Tsunade told Kenya that Orochimaru had been active and in private contact with Sunagakure’s higher-ups.
• Tsunade warned that Gaara carried Shukaku and that the Forest of Death offered an ideal opportunity for an attack during the second exam.
• Kenya dismissed Tsunade’s concerns and vowed to crush Orochimaru and Sunagakure’s forces with his physical strength.
• Kenya announced that he would use the Forest of Death exam to stage a solo show and proclaim the king’s return to the Shinobi World.