Recaps

Tsunade explained her findings on kekkei genkai diseases and discussed ways to treat Kimimaro and Itachi. Yuzuru planned to seek help on the moon for Itachi, whose Mangekyō Sharingan was damaging his body, while Tsunade proposed temporarily sealing or removing his eyes if necessary.

• Tsunade advised the Kaguya Clan to avoid using their bones and told Yuzuru that Kimimaro would need about a year of treatment and should not use his bones afterward.
• Tsunade said she was using Sasuke's blood to strengthen Itachi, whose genes deteriorated faster when he activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade considered whether the two divine artifacts in Itachi's Susanoo were overwhelming his still-developing body.
• Yuzuru said he would visit the moon to ask the progenitor of chakra for a solution to Itachi's condition.
• Tsunade suggested sealing Itachi's Mangekyō temporarily, or surgically removing his Sharingan as a last resort, until he reached adulthood.

Yuzuru returned home and spent the next day teasing Tsunade into calling him “hubby” instead of “little bastard.” Tsunade gave in, though she remained anxious that Kurenai, Hikari, or Shizune might discover their relationship.

• Tsunade and Yuzuru bought groceries and returned home, where Yuzuru cooked dinner for Tsunade, Kurenai, Hikari, and Shizune.
• That night, Kurenai and Hikari joined Yuzuru in his bedroom, while Shizune blushed at breakfast the next morning and hurried out.
• With the house empty, Yuzuru entered Tsunade’s bedroom, and they spent the day together.
• Yuzuru pressed Tsunade to stop treating their relationship as a secret and to call him “hubby.”
• Worried that Kurenai and the others might return, Tsunade finally called Yuzuru “hubby,” then yielded again when he asked her to repeat it.

After reuniting with Tsunade, Yuzuru spent time with her before visiting Kaguya, who asked about his Nine Tomoe Sharingan. Yuzuru demonstrated its Space-Time Body abilities and explained that they let him create powerful copies of himself and teleport through space.

• Yuzuru teased Tsunade after their encounter, kissed her, and left her to rest; she later cleaned up and acted as if nothing had happened when the others returned.
• Yuzuru spent time with the others, then visited Kaguya on the weekend after handing his work to Mikoto and Mabui.
• Kaguya explained that only Main Family members could switch between the Byakugan and Rinnegan, and said Yuzuru's Nine Tomoe Sharingan surpassed the Rinnegan.
• Yuzuru used Space-Time Body to create a near-perfect copy of himself from two months earlier, explaining that he could make up to three copies.
• Yuzuru told Kaguya that Space-Time Body also let him teleport to visible places or existing spatial coordinates, and Kaguya compared it favorably to Isshiki's black eye.

Yuzuru asked Kaguya how to treat Itachi's Kekkei Genkai Disease, and she explained that his three divine artifacts were damaging his developing body. After Kaguya helped revive her chakra and revealed she had broken free of the seal, Yuzuru returned home exhausted, leaving Tsunade, Kurenai, and Uchiha Hikari stunned by his account of their encounter.

• Yuzuru asked Kaguya whether she could seal a Sharingan and explained Itachi's condition.
• Kaguya concluded that Itachi's divine artifacts were breaking down his body and warned that awakening the third would make it worse.
• Kaguya said she could help only if Yuzuru paid a price, then drew chakra from the Ten-Tails inside him and revealed that she had broken the seal.
• Kaguya explained that she was staying hidden to avoid drawing the Main Family's attention, while Yuzuru endured her prolonged advances.
• Yuzuru returned home half a month later looking exhausted, and Tsunade learned that Kaguya had kept him occupied.
• Kurenai and Uchiha Hikari questioned Yuzuru about Kaguya as he ate ravenously and described her as a vampire who would not let him rest.

Yuzuru resigned as Sea Capital president, made Mei Terumi his successor, and put Konan in charge of the new academy’s preparations. Kaguya repeatedly summoned him to train and examine him, leaving him stronger but subject to her demands every week.

• Kaguya used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to observe the Shinobi World and decided she wanted Yuzuru as a companion.
• Yuzuru resigned as president and handed the role to Mei Terumi, then became minister of education and principal of the Sea Capital Institute.
• Yuzuru assigned Konan the academy’s teacher list and told her to admit the people on his predetermined student list.
• Kaguya pulled Yuzuru through a spatial rift, checked his condition, and taught him the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Kaguya made Yuzuru agree to return weekly, and he realized he would need her guidance to keep growing stronger.

As enrollment at the Sea Region Academy approached, the Land of Waves filled with applicants from across the Shinobi World. Yuzuru and Mei Terumi prepared to limit admission to five hundred students and test applicants, while acknowledging that expanding education would take years.

• Villages and nations gathered eligible children to compete for places at the academy, crowding the Land of Waves with visitors and tents.
• Yuzuru entrusted the treasury and the new order to the Uchiha, while inspection corps members used the Ketsuryūgan, Sharingan, and Byakugan to expose misconduct.
• Mei Terumi told Yuzuru that Kisame, Zabuza, and Ameyuri had left to maintain order during enrollment.
• Yuzuru set the academy's intake at five hundred and ordered Orochimaru and the others to test unlisted applicants' intelligence.
• Yuzuru and Mei Terumi agreed that expanding universal education across the Land of Water would take about three more years.

Yuzuru oversaw Konoha’s enrollment at the Sea Region Academy and brought the selected children through a spatial passage to the school. After discovering that two seven-year-olds had been sent as Root tools, he rejected them and left Shikaku to report the matter to the Hokage.

• Yuzuru corrected the Mist swordsmen about his title, then ordered them to help maintain order during enrollment.
• Konoha’s eligible children passed the examinations, including Rock Lee, and nearly thirty students prepared to leave for the academy.
• Yuzuru told Shikaku that the academy would remain independent of factions, then opened a spatial passage and led the children through it.
• Yuzuru returned with two seven-year-old Root trainees and rejected them because the academy would not accept children sent as tools.
• Shikaku took the two children away to inform the Hokage, while Yuzuru paused enrollment until the afternoon.

Yuzuru welcomed the Shinobi World's next generation to the Sea Region Academy, where Orochimaru and Tsunade would help reshape their understanding of the world. He explained that the academy was part of his plan to unify the Shinobi World and prepare for future enemies from space.

• Yuzuru introduced the Sea Region Academy to more than three hundred new students and announced that classes and dorm assignments would begin.
• Yuzuru revealed that Orochimaru and Tsunade had both abandoned their identities as shinobi and invited the students to discover why.
• Yuzuru told Orochimaru that gathering talented children from across the Shinobi World would help unify it and prepare a new generation to govern.
• Orochimaru said the Sea Capital and Land of Water had overwhelming military strength, while Yuzuru explained that he was waiting for future wars to reduce the number of shinobi.
• Yuzuru urged Orochimaru to continue developing weapons for threats from space and said that a healthy civilization should inspire people to explore the sky.

Konan began her work as Sea Region Academy's principal and reunited with Ajisai, encouraging her to study so she could change Amegakure. At the academy, the Konoha 12 met Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, whose presence left Shikamaru wondering about the school's connections.

• Tsunade and Orochimaru decided to visit Kurama Yakumo after Yuzuru noted her extraordinary Genjutsu talent and difficulty controlling her Yin Release.
• Konan accepted documents from Yuzuru and traveled through the Flying Thunder God Formation to Sea Region Academy to take up her duties as principal.
• Konan recognized Ajisai among the students, embraced her, and urged her to study hard and make her dreams for Amegakure come true.
• Konan told the teachers to finish showing the students around and prepare for a new student assembly at three that afternoon.
• The teachers brought the Konoha 12 to the training grounds, where they saw Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha sparring.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha introduced themselves, prompting Shikamaru to wonder about their presence and Ino and Sakura to admire them.

Hinata arrived at the new academy with Naruto and Sasuke, where her formidable Byakugan and aloof manner drew attention from the other students. After the new student assembly, she returned to Sea Capital each night using her emerging spatial abilities, while the academy began introducing the newcomers to its modern facilities.

• Hinata brought milk tea for the new classmates, and the teacher explained that her eyes were the Byakugan.
• Neji questioned Hinata about having the Byakugan, and she said she was Hinata Ōtsutsuki and had been separated from the Hyuga Clan seven years earlier.
• Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke attended the new student assembly at the academy's expansive sports field, where Konan and the college heads gave speeches.
• The students settled into dorm rooms, while Naruto and Sasuke received a private room and Hinata chose to return to Sea Capital at night.
• Hinata used her developing spatial abilities to travel between fixed locations and could summon Kaguya through the mark Kaguya had left on her.

At Sea Region Academy, the students learned to view chakra as an energy source rather than merely a tool for ninjutsu, while Yuzuru reorganized classes according to exam results and arranged for Orochimaru to examine Neji’s Caged Bird Seal. At home, Yuzuru and Tsunade grew closer, and Tsunade noticed her vitality increasing as her Senju and Uzumaki bloodlines began to merge.

• The Konoha 12 and their classmates studied chakra’s broader uses as energy at Sea Region Academy.
• Yuzuru reviewed the monthly exam results, noted Ajisai’s second-place ranking and Rock Lee’s strong physical-education scores, and ordered students divided into rotating classes of thirty.
• Yuzuru asked Orochimaru to investigate Neji Hyuga’s Caged Bird Seal so Neji would not remain under outsiders’ control.
• Yuzuru spent an intimate evening and the following day with Tsunade, while Kurenai, Hikari, and Shizune returned home and joined the household.
• Tsunade noticed her vitality improving and her Senju and Uzumaki bloodlines beginning to merge toward their ancestral state.

Yuzuru led Class One in questioning what shinobi were and what they did for ordinary people. He challenged the students’ assumptions about shinobi missions, then began a discussion about the relationship between daimyo, shinobi villages, and their countries.

• Yuzuru asked the students to set aside their backgrounds and define what a shinobi was, and they offered praise as well as insults.
• Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke condemned shinobi, prompting arguments with classmates who dreamed of becoming powerful shinobi.
• Yuzuru said he was not a shinobi despite possessing power greater than the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and he agreed with the three students’ harsh descriptions.
• Yuzuru asked how villagers robbed by bandits could afford to commission shinobi missions, leaving Kurotsuchi and the class unable to answer.
• Yuzuru asked about the relationship between daimyo, shinobi villages, and their countries, and a student answered that daimyo ruled while villages protected the country in exchange for money.

After Yuzuru challenged his students to question the Shinobi World, Shikamaru read critical accounts of its history and began to understand his father’s distance from the village. He continued studying late into the night, while Yuzuru and his household spent the evening together over barbecue.

• Yuzuru asked his students whom shinobi villages protected and how they viewed the Shinobi World, and Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke called it backward and primitive.
• Shikamaru went to the library with Ino and Choji, borrowed five books about shinobi and the Shinobi World, and began reading them; Ajisai also borrowed books.
• Yuzuru took Hinata home for barbecue, and the family ate with Hyuga Karen until everyone but Yuzuru and Hinata drank too much.
• Shikamaru read late into the night and concluded that the Shinobi World was a painful cage, which helped him understand why his father and the Nara Clan avoided involvement in village affairs.

Shikamaru reflected on the Nara Clan’s powerlessness in the Shinobi World before falling asleep. The next day, Yuzuru cared for the hungover household, spent time with Tsunade, and asked Kurenai to teach at the Sea Region Academy; she agreed.

• Shikamaru realized the Nara Clan’s preference for avoiding village affairs was an escape from a world they understood but could not change, then fell asleep.
• Yuzuru served hangover tea and breakfast to the household, and everyone went back to rest.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade discussed her Ōtsutsuki heritage and his plans to target members of the Hyuga Main Family.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade prepared dinner, and the others later came downstairs to eat.
• Yuzuru invited Kurenai to become Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke’s homeroom teacher at the Sea Region Academy, and she agreed.

Kurenai led Class One through its first practical combat lesson, introducing Scientific Ninja Tools that let students release ninjutsu by feeding chakra into them. The students kept their tools, but Kurenai warned them not to use ninjutsu at school or risk expulsion.

• Kurenai took Class One to the training ground for its first practical combat lesson and handed out experimental wristbands and ninjutsu cartridges.
• Kurenai demonstrated how to charge the wristband with chakra and release a fireball, then explained how Scientific Ninja Tools bypassed the need to learn individual chakra natures.
• Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke demonstrated the tools by striking wooden targets with electric, stone, and wind attacks.
• The students took turns trying the tools, and nearly half the class lacked enough chakra to meet the minimum requirement for a C-rank ninjutsu.
• Kurenai let the students keep their Scientific Ninja Tools and warned them that using ninjutsu at school would lead to mandatory expulsion.

Hinata kept Naruto and Sasuke in line during class, then Naruto left with Karin, who revealed their childhood engagement. Later, Hinata visited Yuzuru at his office, where Konan reflected on the suffering in the Land of Rain, and Yuzuru promised to change its future.

• Hinata stopped Naruto and Sasuke from fighting, and Kurenai reminded the class to use Scientific Ninja Tools only at the training grounds.
• Karin announced that she was Naruto's fiancée because their parents had arranged their engagement when they were little, and she left with him.
• Kurenai took Hinata back to the Sea Capital, where Hinata bought groceries with her before visiting Yuzuru's office.
• Hinata sat on Yuzuru's lap while Konan thought about the hopelessness of the Land of Rain.
• Yuzuru told Konan that the Land of Rain would not suffer forever and promised to change things.

As winter break began, Yuzuru explained the academy’s anti-shinobi stance to Shikamaru and invited the Nara Clan to join. After returning home, Shikamaru discussed the Shinobi World’s corruption with Shikaku and suggested that Minazuki Yuzuru was trying to change it.

• Yuzuru invited Shikamaru and the Nara Clan to become part of the Sea Region Academy, and Shikamaru agreed to tell his father.
• Shikamaru asked whether the academy shared Yuzuru’s views on shinobi, and Yuzuru said it would not intervene if shinobi faced extinction.
• Shikamaru left the academy with the other students and returned to his village on foot before going home to the Nara Clan.
• Shikaku played shogi with Shikamaru and noticed that his son had become more mature and skilled.
• Shikamaru described the Shinobi World as ugly, evil, and beyond saving, then told Shikaku that someone was trying to change it.
• Shikaku identified Minazuki Yuzuru as the person Shikamaru meant.

Shikamaru told Shikaku about Mr. Arashi and the Sea Region Academy, prompting his father to reconsider the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ future. After learning that Naruto Uzumaki had short blond hair, Shikaku agreed to join the academy and seek help leaving Konoha, while Shikamaru realized Naruto’s connection to the Fourth Hokage.

• Shikaku explained to Shikamaru why the Nara Clan had to prioritize survival despite seeing the Shinobi World’s flaws.
• Shikamaru recounted his conversation with Mr. Arashi and asked whether the Nara Clan should join the Sea Region Academy; Shikaku raised the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ longstanding bond.
• Shikamaru asked whether Uchiha and Hyuga members had gone missing, then told Shikaku about Sasuke Uchiha, Hinata Hyuga, and Naruto Uzumaki at school.
• Shikaku learned Naruto had short blond hair and told Shikamaru that the Ino-Shika-Cho clans would join the academy if Mr. Arashi helped them leave Konoha.
• Shikamaru recognized Naruto’s connection to the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki, while Shikaku went to discuss the matter with Inoichi and the others.

Yuzuru explained why he believed the Nara Clan might join the Sea Region Academy and suggested the Ino-Shika-Cho clans could follow. The chapter ended with Shikaku proposing to Choza, Inoichi, and Torifu Akimichi that their three clans join the Academy.

• Yuzuru told Kurenai, Tsunade, and Hikari that the Nara Clan had learned to avoid trouble because it lacked the strength to change the Shinobi World's harsh order.
• Yuzuru said he hoped all three Ino-Shika-Cho clans would join the Sea Region Academy and noted he could use a spatial passage to bring people over.
• Tsunade privately planned to find an opportunity to be alone with Yuzuru during Kurenai's winter break.
• Shikaku gathered Choza, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Torifu Akimichi for a meeting and proposed that their three clans join the Sea Region Academy.

Shikaku warned Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu that the Sea Region Academy and Minazuki Yuzuru posed a force that could end the age of ninja. Convinced Konoha was doomed, the Ino-Shika-Cho leaders agreed to join the academy and began planning their clans’ departure.

• Shikaku told Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu that Shikamaru’s conversation with Mr. Arashi revealed the Sea Region Academy’s opposition to the Shinobi World’s existing order.
• Shikaku explained that Hinata Hyuga, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki were at the academy, leading the elders to realize Minazuki Yuzuru had gathered powerful allies there.
• Shikaku revealed that Tsunade and Orochimaru were also at the academy, and Torifu decided the three clans should join it.
• Inoichi, Chōza, and Torifu accepted that Konoha could not protect their clans and agreed to leave rather than stay.
• Torifu tasked Shikaku with devising a way to move the clans and their assets out of Konoha without attracting attention.

Yuzuru accompanied Tsunade to the Void Bamboo Sea, where they spent two days together before Otsutsuki Kaguya took him away. Tsunade followed them through a spatial rift, and after the three spent several days together, Kaguya ordered Yuzuru to train with her every day.

• Yuzuru told Kurenai he was taking Tsunade to the Void Bamboo Sea to help her train with natural energy.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade went to the bamboo house, where Tsunade pinned him down and they spent two days together.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya appeared through a spatial rift and took Yuzuru away, prompting Tsunade to follow her through it.
• Tsunade and Kaguya confronted each other, then joined Yuzuru; Kaguya later asked to experience being tired.
• After several days together, Kaguya told Yuzuru to visit her daily to train his taijutsu and develop his Rinne Sharingan.

Yuzuru visited Orochimaru's laboratory and learned about his experimental mechanical prostheses, a new mechanical body, and weapons under development. Orochimaru's aerial battleship had completed over-ocean flight trials, but its enormous energy requirements remained a problem.

• Yuzuru found Orochimaru developing powerful mechanical prostheses and advised him to weaken them for civilian use.
• Orochimaru showed Yuzuru his prototype prosthetic leg and revealed that he had tested it on himself.
• Orochimaru showed Yuzuru a new mechanical body that could use every chakra nature and many bloodline ninjutsu, but needed better eyes.
• Yuzuru agreed to help Orochimaru obtain Byakugan and Sharingan eyes, though not immediately.
• Orochimaru reported that the new chakra-guided cannon had a combat range of about two kilometers and a lethal radius exceeding five meters.
• Orochimaru said the hundred-thousand-ton aerial battleship had completed over-ocean flight trials, but charging its enormous power reserves remained difficult.

Yuzuru inspected Orochimaru’s completed warship and learned about its enormous chakra demands, then decided to postpone unification until he had addressed the costs and practical challenges. He turned his attention to Sunagakure and the desert as a possible energy solution.

• Orochimaru reported that the Land of Water’s four power stations had switched to chakra and explained the warship’s massive energy requirements.
• Yuzuru and Orochimaru visited the hidden seabed facility, where Yuzuru examined the completed warship and praised Orochimaru’s research.
• Orochimaru said two motherships were ready and credited the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique with simplifying their construction.
• Yuzuru toured the warship, noting its futuristic design and its mix of conventional science with chakra-based workarounds.
• Yuzuru returned to the Sea Capital and restrained his urge to unify the region, deciding to account for administration and energy needs first.
• Yuzuru considered the energy problem and turned his gaze toward Sunagakure and the desert.

Yuzuru secretly secured crude oil beneath the Land of Wind and put it to use developing the Sea Capital, while the academy’s students returned with their faith in the Shinobi World beginning to weaken. The chapter left Yuzuru training in Taijutsu with Kaguya on the moon.

• Mei Terumi secretly sent investigators to the Land of Wind, and they found flammable black liquid underground; Yuzuru arranged to extract it and sent it to Orochimaru for processing.
• The academy’s winter break ended, Shikamaru returned with a changed attitude, and Hikari began teaching as Kurenai resumed work.
• Yuzuru and Tsunade enjoyed private time together at home after the others left for work.
• Yuzuru considered how the academy could broaden its students’ views and planned to have Tsunade challenge their idealized image of ninja when they were older.
• Yuzuru and Kaguya exchanged Ōtsutsuki Taijutsu techniques and practiced the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack on the moon.

Kaguya explained her history with Isshiki and trained Yuzuru in Ōtsutsuki Taijutsu, revealing how far his body had progressed. After describing how easily she could defeat Isshiki now, she stopped Yuzuru from leaving until he paid his tuition.

• Kaguya recalled how she developed the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, ambushed Isshiki, and ate Earth's God Tree fruit after realizing she could not return to the Ōtsutsuki Clan safely.
• Kaguya explained that the fruit gave her overwhelming power, and that she later stopped relying on Taijutsu because her strength made it unnecessary.
• Kaguya trained Yuzuru by sparring with him across worlds, and he eventually ended up exhausted and injured on the ice.
• Kaguya told Yuzuru his body might one day become stronger than hers and agreed to teach him everything except Amenominaka and the World-Destroying Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Kaguya said she could defeat Isshiki with ease and urged Yuzuru to master the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and All-Killing Ash Bones.
• When Yuzuru tried to leave, Kaguya pressed him back down and reminded him that he had not paid his tuition.