Chapter Summaries

Uya single-handedly wiped out Iwagakure’s surprise attack unit, earning Jiraiya’s admiration and leaving him puzzled about the Anbu ninja’s identity. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki learned of the unit’s destruction but received no information about who Uya was.

• Jiraiya arrived at the battlefield, comforted Uya, and watched him leave after he declared the mission complete.
• Jiraiya discovered the surprise attack unit’s captain’s corpse and used Earth Release to uncover the remains of the other nineteen members.
• Jiraiya and the Konoha ninja realized Uya had annihilated the entire unit, and Jiraiya wondered who the Anbu ninja codenamed Ten'u was.
• A scout reported the unit’s destruction to Ōnoki, who was shocked and asked for the Konoha Anbu ninja’s identity.
• The scout told Ōnoki that Iwagakure had no intelligence on the ninja, and Ōnoki dismissed him and pondered the report.

Ōnoki prepared Iwagakure for a head-on decisive battle after the losses caused by an unidentified Konoha ninja, while Konoha's leaders anticipated the coming clash. Uya searched for Konan and Yahiko in the Land of Rain without finding them, then unexpectedly encountered Orochimaru in disguise.

• Ōnoki concluded that Iwagakure had to force a head-on decisive battle because it kept losing the localized fighting.
• Jiraiya delivered a report on the destruction of the Iwagakure Surprise Attack Force, and Hatake Sakumo kept Uya's identity secret while predicting a decisive battle.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi worried about trusting Uya, and Danzo warned him not to give Uya power.
• Uya searched nearby towns for Konan and Yahiko but found no trace of them and eventually abandoned the search.
• Uya encountered Orochimaru, who was using a flawless Transformation Technique, in a small town.

Uya encountered Orochimaru outside a small town, where Orochimaru revealed his interest in Uya’s Kusanagi Sword and challenged him to a fight. Uya overwhelmed Orochimaru’s attacks with his tremor-based Kekkei Genkai, and the chapter ended as Uya struck back against a massive wave of snakes.

• Uya followed Orochimaru out of town, then revealed himself when Orochimaru called him out.
• Orochimaru asked about Uya’s Kusanagi Sword, and Uya warned him that nearly everyone who had seen it was dead.
• Orochimaru challenged Uya to test his abilities and attacked with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands.
• Uya shattered the snakes and blasted Orochimaru apart with his tremor power, but Orochimaru re-formed nearby.
• Orochimaru used Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes, and Uya punched into the oncoming wave, shattering the air ahead.

Uya defeated Orochimaru’s snake formation, then received the second-stage Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique from him. As Konoha prepared for the decisive battle, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Uya to fight openly as a Genin instead of under his Anbu codename Ten'u.

• Uya shattered Orochimaru’s Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes with the Power of Tremors, but Orochimaru emerged unharmed and warned that Uya’s growing strength could alarm Konoha’s leaders.
• Orochimaru gave Uya a scroll containing the second stage of the Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique, which also confirmed that the technique had a third stage.
• Uya wondered why Orochimaru had kept the scroll from the village and given it to him, then set the question aside as the decisive battle approached.
• Iwagakure and Sunagakure gathered their ninja, while Sunagakure’s forces began fighting the Rain Ninja amid the chaos in the Land of Rain.
• Uya returned to Konoha’s camp and learned from an order passed down by Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had to join the main battlefield openly as a Konoha Genin, not as the Anbu member Ten'u.

Uya understood that Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent him to the front lines to keep him from gaining authority as Anbu Captain, but he cared more about strength than rank. After leaving the Anbu, he joined the genin gathering and was appointed temporary captain of the third column.

• Uya realized that earning military merit could make him the next Anbu Captain, but Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi had transferred him to the front to limit his authority.
• Uya removed his Anbu mask, shattered it with the power of tremors, and went to join Konoha's genin.
• Senju Nawaki greeted Uya and encouraged him, easing his earlier vexation as he joked about becoming Hokage.
• Jiraiya fell off the makeshift platform while addressing the genin, then recovered and began assigning temporary captains.
• Jiraiya appointed Uya temporary captain of the third column on Hatake Sakumo's orders.

Uya led Konoha’s Genin force toward the battlefield, where Konoha and Iwagakure prepared to pit their Genin against one another. As the battle began, Uya rushed to the front, drawing the attention of Jiraiya, Hatake Sakumo, Orochimaru, and others.

• Jiraiya named Uya captain of the Genin force, dismissing Senju Nawaki’s hopes of taking the position.
• Uya led the Genin out of the Konoha camp and toward the battlefield in the Land of Rain.
• Hatake Sakumo and Iwagakure’s Ōnowa ordered their Genin forces into the fight while holding back the Chunin forces.
• More than a hundred Genin from each side entered the central battlefield, and Uya moved to the very front of Konoha’s formation.
• Jiraiya questioned Uya’s bold advance as Hatake Sakumo and Orochimaru watched, and the battle erupted.

Uya stood alone between the Konoha and Iwagakure Genin units as both sides unleashed combined Ninjutsu. He shattered the flames and waves with his tremor power, revealing to Jiraiya that the Anbu ninja codenamed Ten'u was Uya.

• Uya rushed ahead of Konoha's Genin unit and faced Iwagakure's formation alone.
• Iwagakure Genin combined Fire and Wind Release to send a towering wave of flames toward Uya.
• Konoha Genin launched a combined Water Release, trapping Uya between the flames and the water.
• Uya struck the air on both sides and used tremor power to shatter both attacks.
• Jiraiya recognized Uya as the Anbu ninja codenamed Ten'u after Hatake Sakumo confirmed his suspicion.

Uya shattered Iwagakure’s attacks and killed dozens of Stone Ninja, turning the battlefield in Konoha’s favor. Iwagakure Jonin arrived to face him while the Genin forces clashed, leaving Uya to confront them alone.

• Uya accelerated into the Iwagakure ranks and killed a Genin by slamming him into the ground.
• Uya unleashed the power of tremors, destroying the Stone Ninja’s attacks and killing dozens of them.
• Ōnowa’s Iwagakure Jonin reached the battlefield and ordered their Genin to engage Konoha while they attacked Uya.
• Konoha’s Genin gained the upper hand against Iwagakure’s Genin, but Senju Nawaki and the others worried as Uya faced several Jonin without support.

Uya used his Body Flicker Technique, Soru, to kill an Iwagakure Jonin with one punch, shocking both armies. Ōnowa recognized Uya as the Konoha Anbu who had repeatedly thwarted Iwagakure, and both commanders mobilized their forces for battle.

• Orochimaru told Jiraiya that Iwagakure's Jonin could not even hold Uya off, while Jiraiya doubted he was that powerful.
• Uya used Soru to cross the battlefield instantly and killed an Iwagakure Jonin with a single punch.
• The watching ninjas, including Senju Nawaki, Jiraiya, and Hatake Sakumo, were shocked by Uya's speed and strength.
• Ōnowa recognized Uya as the Konoha Anbu who had repeatedly ruined Iwagakure's plans and ordered powerful Elite Jonin to attack.
• Hatake Sakumo ordered Konoha's Jonin to intercept Iwagakure's reinforcements, and Ōnowa mobilized Iwagakure's units and Anbu.
• Hatake Sakumo ordered Konoha's forces to mobilize, and both armies prepared to clash.

Uya killed several Iwagakure ninja before leaping above their force and unleashing a devastating punch against the Stone Ninja. As the battlefield watched, Hatake Sakumo advanced on Ōnowa, setting up their fight.

• Uya killed three Jonin, including one who had burrowed underground, and shattered the battlefield with a punch.
• Uya launched himself into the sky with Soru as the Konoha and Iwagakure forces prepared to clash.
• Uya punched down at the Iwagakure force of over a thousand ninja, attacking them alone.
• Ōnowa mocked Uya's move while Hatake Sakumo calmly defended his decision to trust him.
• Hatake Sakumo walked toward Ōnowa and prepared to fight him.

Uya attacked a vast force of Iwagakure Ninja, shattering their incoming ninjutsu but failing to break their combined Earth Release dome with his first strikes. He drew the Kusanagi Sword and unleashed a relentless series of tremor attacks, leaving the dome’s defenders facing a far greater assault.

• Hatake Sakumo and Ōnowa prepared to clash, but a tremendous roar from Uya’s distant battlefield drew their attention.
• Uya’s punch shattered the Iwagakure Ninja’s incoming attacks, though their combined Earth Release dome withstood the blow.
• Iwagakure jonin rallied their troops, insisting that Uya was only one person and ordering them to prepare for battle against Konoha.
• Uya used brief bursts of tremor power to remain suspended in the air and struck the dome again with the Kusanagi Sword, but the first follow-up attacks only cracked it.
• Uya continued swinging the Kusanagi Sword and unleashed a multi-hit barrage of tremor attacks against the dome.

Uya repeatedly struck the Stone Ninja’s defensive dome with the power of tremors, forcing nearly a thousand of them to pour in chakra to keep it intact. He stopped the assault, but as the Stone Ninja relaxed, he raised his sword again and unleashed a different power.

• Uya’s consecutive Air Shatter strikes spread cracks across the Stone Ninja’s dome until nearly a thousand Stone Ninja joined forces to repair and maintain it.
• Hatake Sakumo and Ōnowa watched as Uya and the Stone Ninja reached a stalemate, while the Konoha Ninja stayed back to avoid Uya’s attacks.
• Uya rejected the stalemate and continued attacking, determined to smash through the defense and make the Stone Ninja his first step toward renown.
• Uya stopped swinging, allowing the dome to heal, and the exhausted Stone Ninja believed the assault was over.
• The sensory ninja detected Uya raising his sword again and sensed that his next attack carried a completely different power.

Uya used consecutive Shockwave Slashes to split the Stone Ninja’s dome and kill dozens of defenders, breaking the Iwagakure forces’ morale. He then charged through the battlefield with the Kusanagi Sword as Konoha’s counterattack routed the Stone Ninja.

• Uya unleashed consecutive Shockwave Slashes that cut through the dome and split several Stone Ninja apart.
• Ōnowa and Hatake Sakumo watched in shock as Hatake Sakumo realized Uya’s attacks had decided the battle.
• Konoha’s ninja charged while the Stone Ninja’s morale collapsed, and Uya killed a commander who shouted for them to hold the line.
• Uya fought through the close combat with the Kusanagi Sword and Shockwave Slash, killing Stone Ninja of several ranks.
• The Stone Ninja were routed by the Konoha forces led by Uya.

Uya and Konoha routed the Stone Ninja, with Uya slaughtering enemies across the battlefield while Hatake Sakumo defeated Ōnowa and severed his arm. After Konoha counted its prisoners and casualties, Hatake Sakumo asked how many Stone Ninja Uya had killed.

• Uya cut through the Stone Ninja as Hatake Sakumo held Ōnowa back, then severed Ōnowa’s arm when he tried to flee.
• Ōnowa escaped using his Earth Body Flicker Technique, but the Stone Ninja suffered a crushing defeat and Konoha’s losses remained very low.
• Uya stopped fighting and joined Hatake Sakumo, who praised his performance and discussed why Ōnowa had been difficult to kill.
• A Konoha ninja reported that about 1,219 of the roughly 1,400 Stone Ninja had been killed and 37 captured, with a little over a hundred escaping.
• Hatake Sakumo asked how many Stone Ninja Uya had killed as Jiraiya and several Konoha fighters listened.

A battlefield report revealed that Uya had killed seventeen Iwagakure Jonin and more than six hundred Chunin, leaving Hatake Sakumo and the Konoha Jonin stunned. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki reckoned with the loss of nearly half the Stone Ninja available for deployment and faced Ōnowa’s question about what to do next.

• A Konoha ninja reported that Uya had killed seventeen of the twenty-one Iwagakure Jonin who died in the battle.
• The reporter said Uya had killed at least six hundred Chunin, a conservative estimate that left Hatake Sakumo and the gathered Jonin in shock.
• Ōnoki acknowledged that Uya had exceeded his expectations and that the Stone Ninja force in the Land of Rain had been nearly annihilated.
• Ōnowa asked Ōnoki what they should do next, and Ōnoki rose into the air and stared out the window with a cold glint in his eyes.

The Third Kazekage learned that Konoha had nearly wiped out Iwagakure’s force with almost no casualties, and that a young Genin named Uya wielded the Kusanagi Sword. Reports of Uya’s feat reached Kirigakure and Kumogakure, where the Mizukage prepared defenses and the Third Raikage concealed his unease about Uya’s age.

• A scout told the Third Kazekage that Iwagakure had lost more than a thousand ninja while Konoha’s casualties were practically zero.
• The Third Kazekage learned that one Konoha ninja had crushed the Stone Ninja force and apparently carried the Kusanagi Sword, leading him to suspect Senjin had been killed.
• The Third Kazekage read Uya’s detailed record and discovered that the supposed battlefield monster was a Konoha Genin who had topped his academy’s combat assessment.
• The Mizukage rejected the report at first, then ordered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to eliminate Uya if he came to the Land of Water.
• The Third Raikage dismissed Uya’s battlefield feat publicly but privately felt alarmed that someone so young had achieved it.

Konoha’s elders debated whether Uya’s battlefield power made him a threat that needed to be controlled, but Hiruzen Sarutobi decided not to recall him while he remained useful and manageable. News of Uya’s victory spread across the Shinobi World, and Minato Namikaze heard the talk in Konoha’s intelligence office just as he asked what had happened to Uya.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura met to discuss Uya’s astonishing battlefield achievements.
• Shimura Danzō urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to hand Uya over so he could turn him into a weapon, while Hiruzen chose to leave him at the front under Hatake Sakumo’s supervision.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Shimura Danzō about his interest in controlling Uya and the new Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and Mitokado Homura warned Danzō not to overstep.
• The battle’s outcome spread across the Shinobi World, earning Uya the title Konoha Shura and bringing Hatake Sakumo renewed fame as Konoha’s White Fang.
• Minato Namikaze arrived at Konoha’s intelligence office for a mission and asked the gathered ninjas what had happened to Uya.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina learned that Uya had single-handedly routed Iwagakure’s forces, while Uya settled into his new role as a jonin at Konoha’s frontline camp. He began training in the second stage of Orochimaru’s Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique, but his limited chakra reserves slowed his progress.

• An intelligence division chunin told Minato Namikaze that Uya had slaughtered over a thousand Iwagakure ninja, and Minato realized Uya had been the Anbu who defeated the Iwagakure Surprise Attack Force.
• Mirei Uzumaki told Kushina that Uya had earned the title Konoha Shura, and Kushina expressed happiness and anticipation at his achievement.
• After Konoha advanced its camp into the Land of Rain, Uya was promoted directly from genin to jonin and stationed among the camp’s elite.
• Uya studied the second stage of the Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique, which focused on tempering the muscles, but his jonin-level chakra reserves were insufficient for the Kage-level technique.

Uya trained in the second stage of the Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique, then learned that Iwagakure was sending nearly two thousand ninja back to the Land of Rain. Konoha and Stone forces began clashing again, and Hatake Sakumo escalated the battle by deploying Konoha’s jonin.

• Uya used the second stage of the Lightning Release Body Tempering Secret Technique and felt his body grow stronger after half a day of training.
• Tsunade found Uya with his clothes shredded, and Uya joked that they were even before she told him Iwagakure was reinforcing the battlefield under Ōnowa.
• Uya said he was not worried about Iwagakure targeting him, while Tsunade warned that the Stone forces’ renewed attack suggested something was wrong.
• In the Land of Rain, Ōnowa and a masked Iwagakure Anbu Captain faced Hatake Sakumo as Konoha and Stone ninja fought in probing clashes.
• Hatake Sakumo sent more than a dozen Konoha jonin and two units of over a hundred chunin into the battle, intensifying the fighting.

Konoha and Iwagakure’s encounter escalated into a decisive battle, and Iwagakure’s underground Surprise Attack Forces turned the tide against Konoha. Hatake Sakumo and Jiraiya struggled to hold their positions while waiting for Uya, whose identity as the Anbu Ninja “Ten’u” remained secret from most Konoha shinobi.

• Ōnowa sent Iwagakure’s Jonin into battle as Hatake Sakumo’s forces clashed with the larger Stone Ninja force.
• Iwagakure deployed its two remaining Surprise Attack Forces, whose underground strikes disrupted Konoha’s lines and shifted the battle in Iwagakure’s favor.
• Hatake Sakumo led Konoha’s Anbu into battle and fought Ōnowa and Iwagakure’s Anbu Captain, but neither side could break the stalemate.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru struggled against the underground attacks, while Jiraiya told a Jonin that Uya might be able to turn the battle around.
• A Jonin wondered whether the absent Anbu Ninja Ten’u could help, and Jiraiya recognized that Ten’u was Uya.