Chapter Summaries

Shinsei considered developing a Lightning Release ninjutsu that could replace nerve signals and greatly accelerate his reactions, but recognized that the idea required extensive research. He obtained the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique from Hiruzen Sarutobi and was attacked by a shuriken on his way home.

• Shinsei reasoned that Lightning Release Chakra might replace the body's nerve signals, though he acknowledged that developing the technique would require detailed knowledge of nerves and human experimentation.
• Shinsei practiced activating cells with Lightning Release in his basement.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shinsei he needed two more days to experiment with the sensory ninjutsu and offered him a choice from the Scroll of Seals.
• Shinsei reviewed the scroll's contents, selected the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, and received Hiruzen's transcription of it.
• As Shinsei headed home, a shuriken flew toward him, and he dodged it before turning to look.

Sasuke challenged Shinsei to test the power of his cursed seal, but Shinsei easily overcame him. Sasuke recognized how large the gap between them remained, then asked Shinsei whether he knew about the cursed seal.

• Sasuke brought Shinsei to an abandoned training ground and challenged him to a fight.
• Shinsei dodged Sasuke's shuriken and fire-style attacks, then defended himself with a Water Formation Wall.
• Sasuke activated the cursed seal and attacked at greater speed, but Shinsei caught him and overwhelmed him with lightning chakra.
• Sasuke used a cursed-seal-enhanced Chidori, but Shinsei caught his wrist and left him unable to continue.
• Shinsei called off the fight, and Sasuke asked how he knew about the cursed seal.

Shinsei reassured Sasuke that Konoha could help him grow stronger without surrendering himself to Orochimaru, and explained Kakashi's history and ties to the Uchiha Clan. He demonstrated his self-developed Lightning Release: Lightning Sword and offered to teach Sasuke.

• Shinsei told Sasuke that Orochimaru had failed to place a cursed seal on him and offered to help him because Shisui Uchiha had once taught him.
• Sasuke admitted he could see no path to revenge except accepting Orochimaru's instruction, even if Orochimaru took over his body.
• Shinsei argued that Konoha could train Sasuke and explained Kakashi's achievements, Sharingan, and connections to Obito Uchiha and the Konoha White Fang.
• Shinsei demonstrated Lightning Release: Lightning Sword by slicing a shuriken in half and offered to teach Sasuke.
• Sasuke eagerly agreed, and Shinsei told him to call him teacher.

Shinsei began teaching Sasuke Lightning Release control and examined the Cursed Seal, while the Great Toad Sage summoned Jiraiya. Jiraiya met Naruto while peeping at a bathhouse, then vanished when Shima's toad told him she was looking for him.

• Shinsei demonstrated Lightning Release chakra to Sasuke and assigned him practice burning characters into wood as preparation for Lightning Sword.
• Shinsei briefly examined Sasuke's Cursed Seal and theorized that it stored natural energy, telling Sasuke to strengthen his body.
• The Great Toad Sage woke from a dream and asked Shima to bring Jiraiya, but fell asleep before explaining the dream.
• Jiraiya was peeping through a bathhouse window when Naruto confronted him, and he introduced himself as the Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku.
• Shima's toad told Jiraiya that Shima was looking for him, so Jiraiya vanished in a cloud of smoke as the bathers called for the pervert to be caught.

Jiraiya visited Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage warned him of a malicious sage with purple eyes. Shinsei developed the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and received Hiruzen Sarutobi’s written ideas for his sensory ninjutsu.

• Jiraiya ate Sage Shima’s insect dishes before meeting the Great Toad Sage.
• The Great Toad Sage told Jiraiya he had dreamed of a faceless sage with purple eyes and sensed immense malice.
• Shinsei practiced the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, successfully blinding a shadow clone while leaving its hearing and smell intact.
• Shinsei identified protecting allies within the darkness and reducing the technique’s hand seals as his next goals.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Shinsei a scroll containing ideas for improving his sensory ninjutsu, and Shinsei hurried home to read it.

Shinsei developed a mist-based sensory ninjutsu by combining water and lightning chakra, then prepared to test its range. Sakura Haruno asked him to guide her training, but an enormous noise interrupted their conversation.

• Shinsei studied Hiruzen Sarutobi’s notes and realized his sensory technique needed chakra-created mist and a way to sense through it.
• Shinsei combined water and lightning chakra to create a mist that let him sense his surroundings and a shadow clone in the basement.
• Shinsei noted that the mist consumed too much chakra and planned to test its range in the woods, but his mother stopped him for lunch.
• After lunch, Sakura Haruno asked Shinsei to guide her training, and he agreed he was only surprised by the request.
• An enormous noise sounded in the distance, and Shinsei leaped onto the roof to investigate.

Shinsei agreed to guide Sakura and Sasuke and taught them how a ninja’s strength depended on Ninjutsu, chakra, experience, speed, defense, and chakra control. After demonstrating his techniques, he explained that constant chakra-control training let him use Ninjutsu more efficiently and powerfully.

• Sakura asked Shinsei to guide her, and he brought her to the training ground where Sasuke was practicing.
• Shinsei began teaching Sakura and Sasuke, asking them to identify the qualities that made a ninja strong.
• Shinsei demonstrated Lightning Release: Lightning Sword and showed how quickly he could retrieve the branch he had cut down.
• Shinsei used Water Release: Water Formation Wall to shield them, then turned it into an attack that cut down surrounding trees.
• Shinsei explained that strong chakra control made Ninjutsu more flexible and powerful while reducing the hand seals needed.

Shinsei demonstrated chakra control and trained Sakura and Sasuke while his original body tested a new sensory ninjutsu in the woods. After refining the technique to filter the flood of information it gathered, he detected a man hiding behind a tree.

• Shinsei showed Sakura and Sasuke how precise chakra control could shape water and help with everyday tasks.
• Shinsei taught Sakura water-release techniques and planned to teach her Subterranean Voyage, while he trained Sasuke in chakra control and Lightning Release: Lightning Sword.
• Shinjō went to a grove away from Konoha to test his sensory ninjutsu and reflected on his ambition to develop a human system for senjutsu cultivation.
• Shinsei combined water and lightning to spread a mist across the grove, but the information it gathered overwhelmed him.
• Shinsei adjusted his focus to prioritize important information and sensed a man peeking from behind a large tree.

Shinsei completed the first version of Heavenly Net, a vast mist-based sensing technique, then returned to training and meditation. During meditation, a violent energy suddenly entered his body.

• Jiraiya caught Shinsei practicing and left to teach Naruto after showing off his giant toad summon.
• Shinsei tested his mist technique, named it Heavenly Net, and measured its range at a radius of one kilometer and over two hundred meters high.
• Shinsei concluded that Heavenly Net could detect moving targets within its area, but he could not yet manipulate the chakra in the mist.
• Shinsei ended the day’s training with Sakura and Sasuke, then saw Jiraiya, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, and their exhausted genin returning from a field-plowing mission.
• Shinsei meditated at home, and a violent energy suddenly burrowed into his body.

Shinsei returned to Anbu duty after a dangerous meditation session exposed him to natural energy, then guarded the third round of the Chunin Ninja Exams. Sasuke pierced Gaara’s defenses before a genjutsu began, signaling that the invasion was underway.

• Shinsei expelled the natural energy he had absorbed while meditating, suffered hair loss, and decided not to pursue Sage Mode training alone.
• Shinsei, Hashihime, and Sai disguised themselves as civilians and took positions near the Hokage at the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Naruto defeated Neji, and Shikamaru forfeited his match against Temari.
• Sasuke fought Gaara and pierced his sand defenses with Chidori.
• Feathers fell over the arena, and Shinsei recognized the genjutsu as the start of the attack.

During Orochimaru’s attack on Konoha, Shinsei hunted down Kabuto Yakushi, then rushed home to protect his mother and father from the rampaging snakes. After defeating nearby threats and forcing Sand ninja to surrender, he received an emergency mission from Wood Kite.

• Shinsei broke free of the genjutsu, left the civilian evacuation to his teammates, and pursued Kabuto Yakushi.
• Shinsei tracked Kabuto through a cloud of mist and pierced his heart with a Lightning Sword, killing him.
• Shinsei raced toward home, rescuing a little girl from a giant snake along the way and killing other snakes in his path.
• Shinsei found his mother hiding at home, moved her into a basement for safety, and then brought his armed father there too.
• Shinsei cleared the area of giant snakes and defeated several Sand ninja, who surrendered to him.
• Wood Kite arrived and gave Shinsei an emergency mission.

Shinsei went after Naruto and Sasuke as they pursued Gaara, who transformed into the One-Tail Shukaku. Naruto asked to face Gaara himself, and Shinsei agreed before heading to help him.

• Wood Kite ordered Shinsei to check on Naruto and Sasuke after Gaara fled, and Shinsei set off toward the outskirts of Konoha.
• A wounded white-haired young man recovered in the woods and staggered toward the village outskirts while Hiruzen Sarutobi battled Hashirama Senju and another Hokage inside the barrier.
• Naruto and Sasuke attacked Gaara with a prank and Chidori, but Gaara awakened Shukaku and Sasuke ran out of chakra.
• Shinsei explained that killing Gaara would make the tailed beast disappear, but Naruto asked to fight Gaara because he was a Jinchūriki too, and Shinsei agreed.
• Shinjō carried the weakened Sasuke to Sakura, then left Pakkun to watch over Sakura and Temari before answering Naruto's call for help.

Shinsei, Naruto, and Gamabunta worked together to defeat Shukaku and wake Gaara, but Kakashi lured Shinsei away and trapped him in a Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique. The chapter ended with Naruto rushing toward the enormous pit where Shinsei had vanished.

• Shinsei fought Shukaku with Water Release techniques and cut off one of the beast's arms with a Chakra sword.
• Naruto summoned Gamabunta, who agreed to help after learning Shukaku had bullied his son, Gamakichi.
• Gamabunta and Shinsei restrained Shukaku while Naruto woke Gaara, ending the One-Tail's rampage.
• Gaara was detained in Konoha with his older brother and sister as the injured were gathered.
• Kakashi drew Shinsei aside, revealed black markings, and used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique to trap him in a collapsing sphere.
• Naruto rushed toward the enormous pit and shouted Shinsei's name.

After surviving a Root attack, Shinsei learned that the Third Hokage had died and Orochimaru had escaped, leaving Konoha to choose its next leader. He sought intelligence on Tsunade and Root, then entered a Root base under cover of night.

• Shinsei revealed that the Kakashi who attacked him was an impostor, and he reunited with Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Temari.
• Shinsei returned to Konoha, confirmed his parents were safe, and learned from Wood Kite that the Third Hokage had died while Orochimaru escaped.
• Wood Kite told Shinsei that the elders favored Jiraiya for Hokage, and Shinsei asked for intelligence on Tsunade's whereabouts.
• Shinsei recounted Root's attack and asked Wood Kite for Root intelligence, which Wood Kite gave him.
• Shinsei entered a Root base on Konoha's outskirts and heard a voice demand a password from behind a door.

Shinjō flooded a Root base, stole documents, and fought Danzo and his masked ninja before escaping. Back home, Shinsei examined the stolen research and was interrupted by someone knocking at his front door.

• Shinjō used Water Release to overwhelm Root ninja and reach the base’s equipment and documents.
• Shinjō and another masked Shinjō destroyed equipment, collected documents, and escaped through a hole in the ceiling.
• Danzo and fifty or sixty masked Konoha ninja confronted Shinjō, who fought them with a water dog until his chakra ran out.
• Shinjō discovered that the Danzo he had cut in half was a shadow clone, then returned home with stolen ninjutsu scrolls and experimental data.
• Shinjō sorted through the documents, including research on Wood Release and kekkei genkai, before someone knocked at his front door.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi’s funeral, Shinsei learned that Konoha would not let him leave to search for Tsunade, then received unexpected warmth from his neighbors. The chapter ended with him spotting two Akatsuki figures on Konoha’s outer wall.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura confronted Shinsei about attacking Root, but Shinsei denied it and challenged them over Danzo’s attacks; they agreed to rein in Danzo and left with Wood Kite.
• Shinsei’s parents, Nobita and Riya, comforted him after the elders left.
• Shinsei attended Hiruzen Sarutobi’s funeral, where he exchanged a silent glance with Danzo.
• At the Anbu basement, Wood Kite told Shinsei he could not leave Konoha, explaining that Tsunade was the only possible Hokage candidate and Jiraiya had been asked to find her.
• The next day, Shinsei received food from unusually warm neighbors and suspected they knew he was an Anbu member.
• Shinsei spotted two cloaked figures wearing red-clouded black cloaks atop Konoha’s outer wall and recognized them as Akatsuki.

Shinsei intervened when Uchiha Itachi and Kisame tried to capture Naruto, protecting him and Sasuke as the Akatsuki duo attacked. Itachi and Kisame escaped when Jiraiya arrived, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Shinsei recognized Uchiha Itachi and Kisame in Konoha and sent a warning to Jiraiya.
• Kisame drained Naruto's chakra with Samehada until Shinsei struck the sword away and rescued Naruto.
• Shinsei confronted Uchiha Itachi and Kisame, then pulled Sasuke out of the room after Sasuke attacked Itachi.
• Itachi used his Sharingan on Sasuke while Shinsei shielded Sasuke and Naruto from Itachi's Phoenix Flower Fire.
• Itachi and Kisame fled without Naruto, and Jiraiya arrived and enveloped them in a mass of flesh.

Shinsei brought Sasuke to the hospital after Uchiha Itachi escaped Jiraiya’s trap using Amaterasu. As Sasuke recovered from Tsukuyomi, Shinsei explained the Mangekyō Sharingan and its power, then told him to kill Shinsei if he wanted to obtain it.

• Jiraiya sealed the Amaterasu flames into a scroll after Uchiha Itachi and his companion escaped Shinsei’s flesh trap.
• Might Guy accidentally kicked Jiraiya, then apologized when Naruto stopped him, while Kakashi arrived late with an excuse about a black cat.
• Jiraiya took Naruto to search for Tsunade, but Shinsei was ordered to remain in Konoha and brought Sasuke to the hospital.
• Sakura rushed to Sasuke, but he told her to leave after the doctor diagnosed a fractured wrist and mental damage.
• Shinsei warned Sasuke that Orochimaru wanted his body and explained the Mangekyō Sharingan’s history and power.
• When Sasuke asked how to obtain the Mangekyō Sharingan, Shinsei told him to kill him.

Shinsei encouraged Sasuke to look beyond his hatred and consider his future, then took him to welcome Tsunade back to Konoha. Tsunade arrived to a cheering crowd and proudly announced her return.

• Shinsei told Sasuke that he could help him defeat Itachi and asked whether he had considered restoring the Uchiha Clan after taking revenge.
• Sasuke left the hospital after three days, while Shinsei continued spending his free time at the training ground.
• Ino told Shinsei that Tsunade was returning, and Shinsei dragged Sasuke away from training to welcome her.
• Sakura joined Shinsei and Sasuke as Konoha residents gathered at the gate to await Tsunade.
• Tsunade arrived with Jiraiya and Naruto, and Shinsei led the crowd in shouting for the new Hokage.
• Tsunade spread her arms and declared that she had returned.

Tsunade visited Shinsei and his grandfather, agreed to take Shinsei as her apprentice, and persuaded him to hand over 200 million ryo for her gambling debts. After Tsunade left with the money, Shinsei suspected she would not repay her creditors and secretly followed her.

• Tsunade and Shizune arrived at Shinsei's grandfather's house, where Tsunade teased Shinsei about his role in the day's Hokage demonstrations.
• Shinsei's grandfather asked Tsunade to take Shinsei as her apprentice, and Tsunade agreed while demanding payment for her debts.
• Shinsei's grandfather revealed that Shinsei had kept Gato's money, and Tsunade decided to get it from him.
• Tsunsei took Shinsei as her apprentice and convinced him to give her 200 million ryo to pay her creditors.
• Tsunade left with Shizune and the money, and Shinsei used the Transformation Technique to follow them secretly.