Recaps

Shinsei defeated and captured three wandering ninja, then continued traveling with his students and clients. The students reflected on their first real battle, and Shinsei checked Konohamaru’s progress with Fire Style training.

• A middle-aged wandering ninja attacked Shinsei with wind blades, but he blocked them with a water wall and captured her along with her two defeated subordinates.
• Shinsei took the three prisoners to Konoha, leaving Konohamaru disappointed that he had not questioned them for intelligence.
• Shinsei and his students resumed the unfinished mission, while the students discussed their shortcomings in the fight.
• At a midday stop, Shinsei asked Konohamaru about his chakra nature training and advised him to ask Sasuke for help with Fire Style.

Shinsei trained his disciples in chakra control and chakra strength as they traveled toward their destination. When they reached a town, samurai serving the lord of Mima surrounded the group and demanded that Momotaro and Maritaro come with them, while Konohamaru refused to let them take the clients.

• Shinsei gave Moegi and Udon water spheres to maintain with their chakra and taught Hanabi how to train her chakra strength.
• Shinsei demonstrated using chakra to lift himself off the ground and assigned Hanabi to try the same.
• The disciples practiced their assigned exercises as they traveled, and Shinsei replenished their chakra when they ran low.
• After two days, the group reached a town, where samurai surrounded them and demanded that Momotaro and Maritaro appear before the lord of Mima.
• Konohamaru told the samurai that the clients were under Konoha's protection and warned them to leave or face an attack.

Shinsei and his students encountered poverty and fear in the town near Momotaro’s village, where a little girl revealed that the lord had taken her mother. After refusing the lord’s steward’s invitation, the group continued toward the remote village while Lord Yamagami Mima ordered a warning sent to Lord Shin.

• Hanabi gave food to a starving little girl, and an old man told the Konoha group that the girl’s mother had been taken to the lord’s residence.
• The steward invited the ninja to visit Lord Yamagami Mima’s estate, but Konohamaru and Hanabi refused and asked him to return the girl’s mother.
• The steward told Lord Yamagami Mima that the group included four Genin and a teenage ninja, and Mima suspected they might be investigating something.
• Lord Yamagami Mima ordered the steward to warn Lord Shin to be careful and leave no evidence for Konoha’s ninja.
• Shinsei’s group continued on without further interruption and reached a remote village.

Shinsei and his students learned that the villagers of Mima were starving under their lord’s crushing demands, and the four students went to confront him. The lord recognized their connection to Shinsei, but the chapter ended before they explained why they had come.

• Momotaro welcomed Shinsei and his students to the village, where the villagers served them their meager food.
• Momotaro’s wife revealed that the village had spent its last food hiring Konoha’s help, and Maritaro described the lord’s taxes, forced labor, and punishment of escapees.
• Hanabi declared that they would demand a fair agreement from the lord, while Shinsei let his students act so they could witness the village’s plight firsthand.
• After leaving the little girl with Momotaro’s family, Konohamaru, Hanabi, Moegi, and Udon hurried to the lord’s residence.
• The lord received the four students and said he knew Lord Shinsei, then asked whether they had come because they needed his help.

Konohamaru confronted a local lord over the villagers’ harsh grain agreement, but Shin arranged to send the young ninja after bandits so a Senju girl could be captured. In an underground chamber, Shin and a white-haired man discussed using Senju and Uchiha bloodlines for their plans, while Shin vowed to become a true Uchiha.

• Konohamaru asked the lord to give the villagers a fairer agreement, and the lord had samurai drive the four young ninja out.
• Shin ordered the lord to pretend to accept the villagers’ request, then send the young ninja to eliminate the bandits on Tangerine Mountain so the Senju girl might be captured in an accident.
• The lord agreed to Shin’s plan, and Shin vanished.
• In an underground chamber, Shin confirmed to the white-haired man that the girl was from the Senju Clan because her chakra exceeded her companions’.
• The white-haired man said Senju blood could improve his Chimera Technique and help Shin claim the Sharingan, but Shin insisted he wanted Uchiha blood and would become a true Uchiha.

Konohamaru and his teammates accepted the lord’s condition to clear bandits from Tangerine Mountain in exchange for a new village contract. Before they set out the next morning, Shinsei taught them new ninjutsu and explained Tsunade’s Chakra Enhanced Strength Technique, which Hanabi immediately demonstrated.

• Konohamaru, Hanabi, Moegi, and Udon rejected violent or illegal ways to make the lord sign a new contract and resolved to handle the test themselves.
• The lord’s steward offered the villagers a new contract if the students cleared bandits from Tangerine Mountain, and Konohamaru accepted.
• Konohamaru told Shinsei about the condition, and the students decided to attack the bandits the next morning.
• Shinsei hunted a wild boar and shared the meal with a few children, while the villagers kept their distance.
• Shinsei gave Moegi and Udon Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet, taught Konohamaru Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Fire, and explained Tsunade’s Chakra Enhanced Strength Technique to Hanabi.
• Hanabi used the Chakra Enhanced Strength Technique and cracked the earth beneath her foot, surprising her teammates.

Konohamaru and his fellow students reached Tangerine Mountain to clear out the bandits, but the quiet stronghold turned out to be prepared for them. The bandit leader revealed that she also served the lord who commissioned their mission, leaving the young ninja facing a deeper conflict.

• Konohamaru, Udon, Moegi, and Hanabi climbed the cliff to avoid the bandits guarding the mountain's entrance.
• The bandits spotted Konohamaru and pinned the four students behind trees with a barrage of arrows.
• Hanabi scattered dirt among the bandits while Konohamaru attacked with Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Fire.
• A woman in a white dress stopped Konohamaru's flames and identified herself as the bandit leader.
• The woman told Konohamaru that she was also one of the lord's people.

A beautiful missing-nin from Konoha revealed that the lord had used bandits to eliminate villagers, then attacked Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon, and Hanabi with powerful Wind Release. Moegi’s Water Formation Wall protected the students, but after learning Shinsei was their teacher, the woman realized he was not nearby and prepared to kill them quickly.

• The woman told Moegi and Udon that the lord had kept the bandits to dispose of villagers who disobeyed him.
• Konohamaru defended Konoha, and the woman revealed she had once been a Konoha ninja whom the village had abandoned.
• The woman attacked the students with invisible wind blades, killing several bandits in the process.
• Moegi used Water Release: Water Formation Wall to shield the students from the wind blades.
• Hanabi told the woman that Shinsei was their teacher, and the woman searched for him before deciding he was not present.
• The woman prepared to kill the students quickly and flee before Shinsei could intervene.

Hanabi Hyuga and her teammates fought the beautiful woman, enduring her wind attacks and defeating her through a coordinated close-range assault. Hanabi sealed the woman’s chakra points before collapsing from her wounds, and Moegi cradled her.

• Moegi maintained a Water Formation Wall while Konohamaru and Udon attacked the beautiful woman with fire and water techniques, which she easily countered.
• Hanabi Hyuga struck the woman with Chakra Enhanced Strength, sending her into a tree, but the woman recovered and unleashed a barrage of wind blades and whip attacks.
• Hanabi charged through the wind blades, and Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon joined her in closing in on the woman despite their injuries.
• Moegi and Udon grabbed the woman’s legs as Hanabi struck her, breaking her ribs, while Konohamaru held a kunai to her neck and forced her to surrender.
• Hanabi sealed the woman’s meridians and chakra points, then collapsed; Moegi cradled her as blood flowed from her wounds.

Shinsei healed his injured students, had them sign the Summoning Contract with Katsuyu, and questioned Onihime about her past as one of Danzo's former Root shinobi. The chapter ended with Shinsei producing a bandaged man and demanding that Onihime explain who he was.

• Moegi called for Shinsei when she could not treat Hanabi, Konohamaru, and Udon's severe injuries, and the students volunteered to sacrifice themselves so the others could be saved.
• Shinsei summoned his original body, which used Yomi-tsu to heal all four students completely.
• Shinsei summoned Katsuyu and had Hanabi, Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon sign the Summoning Contract.
• Shinsei learned that Onihime had served in Danzo's Root and refused to return to Konoha after Danzo traded her group for intelligence.
• Shinsei suddenly reappeared holding a pale, bandaged man and asked Onihime to explain him.

Shinsei captured Shin and Onihime, learned about Shin’s connection to Orochimaru, Danzo, and Hiruko, and sent his students to clear out the bandits. Konohamaru put the corrupt lord on trial in the town square, where a girl’s plea led to a reunion with her mother.

• Shinsei subdued Shin and discovered the Sharingan implanted in his body, then learned that Orochimaru had experimented on him and that he had joined Hiruko to study bloodline transplantation.
• Shinsei took Shin and Onihime into custody and ordered his students to deal with the remaining bandits, who were defeated and whose stronghold Konohamaru burned down.
• Konohamaru confronted the lord, captured him, and brought him to the town square despite his threats to complain to the Hokage.
• Konohamaru invited the townspeople to bring forward their grievances while Udon brought the lord’s steward and guards out to kneel.
• A little girl called for her mother, and a woman from the lord’s residence rushed out to embrace her daughter.

Shinsei sentenced Yamagami Mima, his daughter, and his guards to death after villagers testified to their crimes, then recruited Hiruko and settled the aftermath by redistributing the estate's land. After leaving the village, Shinsei returned to Konoha and headed for the Hokage Building.

• Momotaro accused Yamagami Mima of ordering the murder of his eldest son, and villagers testified to the lord's crimes as Konohamaru recorded them.
• Shinsei announced death sentences for Yamagami Mima, Yamagami Kinuko, and the lord's twenty guards, then beheaded Mima when he demanded to see the daimyo.
• Shinsei spared Hiruko and invited him to join his research team, persuading him by comparing him to another world's Orochimaru.
• Shinsei reassured Shin about his transplanted Sharingan and interest in the Uchiha bloodline, then spent two days helping distribute the lord's land and establish Momotaro as administrator.
• The villagers saw Shinsei's group off, and later people commemorated their deeds with a stele and temple.
• Shinsei returned to Konoha and hurried toward the Hokage Building after greeting Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki.

Tsunade set Shinsei’s Hokage inauguration for fifteen days later and left him to handle her paperwork. As the daimyo’s envoy waited in Konoha and grew alarmed at being ignored, Shinsei rejected the idea that the Land of Fire’s ruler should invest him with authority.

• Tsunade ordered Shizune to notify the villages that Shinsei would become Hokage in fifteen days.
• Tsunade welcomed Hiruko as a friend, invited her to drink with Jiraiya, and left Shinsei to handle the documents.
• Konoha’s villagers discussed Shinsei’s succession as the daimyo’s envoy complained that Shinsei would not meet him.
• After Anbu turned away the envoy’s official, the envoy feared Konoha could defy the daimyo and decided to meet Shinsei before his investiture.
• Shinsei continued receiving visitors but had no intention of accepting the daimyo’s investiture, believing the strongest military force should rule.

Shinsei celebrated his impending appointment as Hokage with his classmates, then visited Shikaku Nara at Shikamaru’s home. Shikaku asked Shinsei to explain his vision for Konoha and the world.

• Shinsei explained that many people had been visiting to pledge allegiance and gauge his position as the future Hokage.
• Naruto declared he wanted to become Hokage, and Shinsei encouraged him by saying he might make him his successor.
• At Yakiniku Q, Ino and Hinata competed to serve Shinsei food until Naruto unknowingly broke the tension by eating the meat from Shinsei’s bowl.
• Shikamaru took Shinsei to his home, where Shikaku privately asked what Shinsei wanted Konoha and the world to become.

Shinsei explained to Shikaku Nara that he intended to change the unjust, war-torn world and worked with him to refine a plan. He was inaugurated as Konoha’s Sixth Hokage and promised the villagers peace and happiness.

• Shinsei argued that ninja should correct the suffering and injustice they encountered, and Shikaku agreed to help him develop his plan.
• Visitors from other villages arrived in Konoha for Shinsei’s inauguration, including Gaara, Mei Terumi, Killer B, Kitsuchi, and Kurotsuchi.
• Riya helped Shinsei dress in his Sixth Hokage robe, and his classmates gathered to congratulate him before the ceremony.
• Tsunade placed the Hokage’s hat on Shinsei’s head and entrusted Konoha to him.
• Shinsei declared himself the Sixth Hokage and promised to protect the villagers and bring them peace and happiness.

After becoming Hokage, Shinsei issued sweeping orders to raise mission payments, expand the Ninja Academy, and let Konoha missions confront officials who oppressed common people. Shizune realized he intended to challenge the daimyo’s rule, while Tsunade supported his bold approach to changing the country.

• Shinsei ordered mission payments increased by 50% and told Shizune to request the funds from the daimyo despite lacking formal appointment.
• Shinsei ordered the Ninja Academy to admit any Konoha villager’s child, teach general knowledge, and add twenty C-rank or B-rank Ninjutsu to the upper-grade curriculum.
• Shinsei ordered missions against officials who oppressed common people to proceed with increased pay and told the Jonin Commander to establish a code of conduct.
• Shizune confronted Shinsei, recognized that he planned to replace the daimyo, and left after recording his orders.
• Tsunade teased Shinsei about his authority, then told him his bold ideas might have achieved the peace her grandfather had failed to secure.

Kazuma persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to let him attempt to arrest Shinjō after Shinjō rejected the daimyo’s investiture and demanded more funding. Meanwhile, Shinjō met with Gaara and asked about the daimyo’s relationship with Sunagakure, leaving their discussion focused on the Daimyo of the Land of Wind’s interference.

• Villagers debated whether Shinjō’s orders would lead Konoha into conflict with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire angrily demanded that his ministers propose a response to Shinjō, but they urged caution.
• Kazuma called for Shinjō to be stripped of the Hokage position and arrested, then offered to act in his own name.
• The daimyo approved Kazuma’s plan to go to Konoha and arrest Shinjō.
• Shizune brought Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro to meet Shinjō, and Shinjō and Gaara agreed to address each other by name.
• Shinjō asked Gaara about the daimyo’s role in Sunagakure, and Gaara said the Daimyo of the Land of Wind had grievances against the village.

Gaara asked Shinsei for Konoha’s support in pushing reforms through Sunagakure, and Shinsei arranged closer cooperation between the villages with Temari as a liaison. After reviewing intelligence about the Land of Fire’s daimyo, Shinsei told Shikaku Nara to keep watching the daimyo’s allies, then went to the hospital basement to meet the Dragon Princess.

• Gaara asked Shinsei to issue a cooperation document that would help him overcome Sunagakure’s elders’ resistance to adopting Konoha’s approach, and Shinsei agreed.
• Shinsei and Gaara agreed to establish offices to improve communication between Konoha and Sunagakure, and Shinsei proposed Temari as the liaison in Konoha.
• After Gaara and his group left, Shikaku Nara brought Shinsei intelligence about the Land of Fire’s daimyo and ministers, and Shinsei ordered him to keep watching them.
• Shinsei used the Flying Thunder God Technique to visit the Dragon Princess in Konoha Hospital’s basement, where she asked whether he had come to test the Descent of the Thunder God.

Shinsei continued developing the descent of the thunder god project before receiving intelligence that the Daimyo of the Land of Fire planned to assassinate him. He sent Kakashi and Team 7 to thwart the plot, confident that the daimyo’s forces posed no real threat to him.

• Shinsei converted neural signals into Lightning Release power during his work on the descent of the thunder god project, then left the laboratory and reflected on his responsibilities as Hokage.
• An Anbu ninja delivered intelligence that the Daimyo of the Land of Fire intended to assassinate Shinsei.
• Shinsei summoned Team 7 to his office and ordered Kakashi Hatake to lead the team in stopping the assassination plot.
• Naruto Uzumaki volunteered to fight the daimyo’s allies, while Kakashi accepted the mission and left with Team 7.
• Shinsei watched Team 7 depart and considered the few powerful figures who could truly threaten him.

Shinsei sent Minato to secretly protect Naruto while Team 7 departed for the capital to expose Kazuma’s allies and purge the Daimyo’s inner circle. In the capital, Kazuma demonstrated that his son Sora wielded the Nine-Tails’ chakra, giving Fuen reason to fear the planned operation.

• Shinsei gave Minato an S-rank mission to watch Naruto from the shadows and paid him two million.
• Team 7 set out for the capital, where Kakashi understood that Shinsei’s mission could bring the Daimyo’s court under Konoha’s influence.
• Kazuma reassured Fuen that he had a plan and introduced his son Sora.
• Sora unleashed red chakra that shattered the tea table and floor, and Fuen recognized it as the Nine-Tails’ chakra.

Sora gained control of the Nine-Tails Chakra, strengthening Kazuma's resolve to assassinate Hokage Shinsei, while Fuen agreed to support him. Elsewhere, Kakashi's team rested during their journey to the capital, and the hidden Minato used Flying Thunder God to bring himself a pot of milk and fruit.

• Sora drew the Nine-Tails Chakra back into his body, and Fuen celebrated his success at controlling it.
• Kazuma told Fuen he intended to kill Hokage Shinsei and restore power to the daimyo, and Fuen agreed to join him.
• Kakashi's team paused in the forest, where Naruto, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke prepared a meal while Sasuke brooded about Shinsei and Naruto's strength.
• Minato watched Kakashi's team from hiding, then used Flying Thunder God to bring himself a pot of milk and fruit.

Kazuma gathered his remaining allies at the Fire Temple to ambush Kakashi’s team and lure Shinsei into a trap. Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura reached the temple and began their infiltration, with Sakura taking down two sentries as Kakashi surveyed the hall.

• Kazuma learned that most of the Twelve Guardian Ninja would not support him, so he ordered his followers to assemble at the Fire Temple.
• Kakashi received intelligence about Kazuma’s plan and redirected Team 7 to arrest him at the Fire Temple, where the abbot Chiriku might oppose Kazuma.
• Kazuma prepared an ambush with Fuen, Fudo, Fuka, and Sora, intending to capture Kakashi and draw Shinsei into a confrontation.
• Kakashi led Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to the temple, where Sasuke identified traps and hidden sentries.
• Sakura silently knocked out the two sentries while Kakashi used his Sharingan to inspect the main hall.

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi defeated Kazuma and the Fire Temple’s fighters in the main hall. The fighting ended with Kakashi restraining Kazuma as the other enemies lay defeated.

• Naruto burst into the hall with Shadow Clones and struck Fudo with a Rasengan, breaking his stone shield and driving him back.
• Sasuke entered through a window, disabled Fuen’s traps, and pinned him against a pillar with a kunai at his throat.
• Sakura used her chakra perception to counter Fuka’s speed, then knocked her unconscious with two punches.
• Kakashi dismantled Kazuma’s flaming sword attack with Lightning Blade, dislocated his wrist, and forced him to his knees.

Kakashi’s team captured Kazuma and his subordinates, but learned that Kazuma’s son Sora was heading to Konoha to assassinate Shinsei. Kakashi declared the conspirators missing-nin and ordered the team to take them before the daimyo, while demanding that Kazuma identify their accomplices.

• Sasuke tied up Fudo, Fuen, and Fuka while Kakashi checked Kazuma’s injuries and asked where his son Sora was.
• Kazuma revealed that Sora was on his way to Konoha to kill Shinsei as part of the Heavenly Punishment Operation.
• Naruto defended his trust in Shinsei, saying he would choose the person who had stood beside him over a daimyo he had never met.
• Sasuke and Naruto restrained Kazuma, and they agreed Shinsei could handle Sora without their help.
• Kakashi declared Kazuma and his followers missing-nin and ordered Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to accompany him to the daimyo to publicly try them.
• Kakashi urged Kazuma to name every ninja who had betrayed Lord Hokage so the daimyo would not be implicated.

Kakashi brought Kazuma and his accomplices before the Fire Daimyo, who denied the assassination plot and accused Konoha of overstepping its authority. Sasuke seized the Daimyo and openly challenged the ministers, leaving the confrontation on the brink of revolt.

• Kakashi presented Kazuma and his accomplices to the Daimyo and offered letters as evidence of the Heavenly Punishment Operation.
• The Daimyo rejected the accusation, denied knowing about the plot, and condemned Kakashi for arresting his Guardian Ninja.
• The Daimyo insulted Kakashi and complained that Shinsei had refused his investiture and demanded more funding.
• Sasuke seized the Daimyo by the collar and pulled him from his throne, then defied the ministers who accused him of treason.
• Sasuke released the Daimyo back onto the throne, leaving him shaken as the hall fell silent.