Chapter Summaries

After receiving five guaranteed high-rank rewards, Hongshi created Nuclear Release and chose powerful Naruto abilities, but his low speed and missing prerequisites altered several selections. The Main God sent him off to transmigrate despite his protests, leaving him to complain about his rough opening.

• The Main God told Hongshi that helping the old lady had prevented World War III and gave him five treasure chests with guaranteed S-rank rewards.
• Hongshi opened the chests and received two Kekkei Mōra Furnaces, a chakra furnace, exchange vouchers, and extraordinary fixed attributes except for D-rank speed.
• Hongshi smelted seven Earth Release portions into Cinder Release and seven Lightning Release portions into Generator Release, then fused them into Nuclear Release with 2SSR+ growth potential.
• Hongshi used his exchange vouchers to choose a Rinnegan, the Eight Gates, several powerful techniques, and Mount Myōboku Sage Art.
• The system granted Hongshi the Rinnegan but adapted several other choices into unnamed techniques because he lacked the required speed, chakra, or abilities.
• The Main God sent Hongshi to the Naruto world while he protested, and Hongshi complained that his opening was slapdash.

Hongshi and Naruto failed the genin exam, but Mizuki persuaded Naruto to steal the Scroll of Seals that night. While Naruto searched Hiruzen Sarutobi’s room, Hongshi secretly transported Konoha’s ninjutsu scrolls to a cave and copied them before leaving with Naruto.

• Hongshi and Naruto joked together after failing the genin exam, then Mizuki approached them and told them there was another way for Naruto to graduate.
• Mizuki revealed a secret to Naruto and Hongshi, leading Naruto to sneak into Hiruzen Sarutobi’s room that night while Hongshi kept watch.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi caught Naruto, but Naruto used Sexy Jutsu to make him collapse; Hongshi entered and joined the search for the Scroll of Seals.
• Hongshi used Flying Thunder God to transport Konoha’s ninjutsu scrolls to a cave, where his shadow clones copied them using Nuclear-Powered Lightning Armor.
• Hongshi found Five Releases Chakra Conversion Theory, while Naruto located the Scroll of Seals; they left without Naruto noticing that the other scrolls were gone.

Naruto and Hongshi faced Mizuki and Tetsukado after learning Mizuki had tricked them into taking the Scroll of Seals. Naruto defeated Mizuki with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, while Hongshi survived his staged sacrifice and the two became genin.

• Hiruzen sent teams of chunin to search for Naruto and recover the stolen scrolls, while Iruka found Naruto and Hongshi practicing in the forest.
• Iruka learned Mizuki had given Naruto the Scroll of Seals, then protected the boys from an attack by Tetsukado and Mizuki.
• Hongshi fought Tetsukado and told Naruto to keep pursuing his dream, then trapped Tetsukado underground with Earth Release.
• Mizuki revealed that Naruto housed the demon fox and blamed him for the deaths of their parents, but Hongshi called Naruto a hero.
• Naruto used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to overwhelm Mizuki, while Hongshi defeated Tetsukado underground and emerged unharmed.
• Naruto and Hongshi received their genin forehead protectors, Mizuki was imprisoned, and the stolen scrolls were recovered from Tetsukado's home.

Hongshi finished training in Nuclear Release and ordinary ninjutsu before joining Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha on Team 7. Kakashi Hatake introduced their wilderness survival exercise for the next day, warning that most graduates would fail, and the team went to Ichiraku Ramen afterward.

• Hongshi practiced absorbing his Nuclear Release attacks with a Shadow Clone, then used Shadow Clones to master copied ninjutsu and taijutsu scrolls.
• Hongshi left his cave after seven more days of training and went to the Ninja Academy, where Iruka assigned him temporarily to Team 7 with Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha.
• Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, and Hongshi introduced themselves to Kakashi Hatake, sharing their interests and ambitions.
• Kakashi announced that Team 7 would face him in a wilderness survival exercise the next day and warned that only nine of twenty-eight graduates would be recognized as genin.
• Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, and Hongshi went to Ichiraku Ramen together.

Team 7 attempted Kakashi’s bell test, and Hongshi revealed impressive Earth Release skills while helping Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura obtain the bells. Kakashi announced that all four had passed, despite Hongshi not having a bell.

• Kakashi arrived late and explained that Team 7 had to take three bells from him by noon or face being sent back to the Academy.
• Naruto attacked Kakashi before the start, then the team scattered; Hongshi stayed behind and pretended to sleep as Kakashi searched for them.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura each confronted Kakashi, while Hongshi trapped him with Earth Release techniques and helped free Sasuke.
• Naruto took all three bells and gave one each to Sasuke and Sakura as Hongshi held Kakashi with earthen pillars.
• Kakashi’s shadow clone vanished after Hongshi struck it, and when noon rang, Kakashi told the team that all four had passed.

After Team 7 passed Kakashi’s test, Hongshi trained Naruto and Sakura, helping them identify their chakra natures and learn new ninjutsu. Kakashi secretly watched their training and wondered whether Hongshi was a genius.

• Kakashi reported that Team 7 had passed, and Hiruzen decided to keep observing Hongshi instead of forming Team 13.
• Hongshi taught Naruto to test his chakra nature, and Naruto discovered he could use Wind Release.
• Sakura tested her chakra and found she had water and earth natures, while Hongshi noted that Team 7 collectively covered all five natures.
• Hongshi gave Naruto and Sakura techniques to practice, and Sakura learned six ninjutsu while Naruto eventually mastered his two.
• Sakura invited Hongshi to ramen, and Hongshi offered to teach her monstrous strength after their next mission.
• Kakashi watched from a shadow clone and wondered whether Hongshi was a genius.

Hongshi joined Team 7 on a C-rank escort mission to protect Tazuna, and Kakashi used the journey to push the young ninja to train. As Team 7 ran ahead, Kakashi remembered Rin, Obito, and his younger self, while Hongshi’s slow pace left him carried by Naruto.

• Naruto complained about D-rank missions, so the Third Hokage assigned Team 7 to escort Tazuna on a C-rank mission.
• Tazuna insulted Naruto and questioned whether Hongshi was awake, then met Team 7 at Konoha’s gate an hour later.
• Hongshi walked so slowly that Kakashi ordered Naruto to carry him and train along the way.
• Naruto and Sasuke carried Hongshi and Tazuna while running, and Sakura overtook them after saying she wanted to become a ninja who could stand on her own.
• Kakashi watched the three run ahead and remembered Rin, Obito, and his younger self, shedding a tear.

During training, Sakura fought off two Mist Ninja chunin while Hongshi and Kakashi protected the team. After lunch, Kakashi prepared Naruto and Sasuke to continue training.

• Hongshi gave Naruto and Sasuke restorative Super Military Rations Pills, and they passed out while their bodies recovered.
• Two Mist Ninja attacked the group, but Hongshi stopped their cable from harming him and Sakura fought the attackers.
• Sakura trapped one Mist Ninja underground and defeated the other with a powerful punch, while Kakashi revealed he had escaped the first attack with the Substitution Technique and killed the remaining attacker.
• Naruto woke and learned Sakura had defeated both Mist Ninja, while Hongshi used Medical Ninjutsu to help Sasuke recover from the pill.
• Kakashi served lunch and told Naruto and Sasuke that training would continue afterward.

During the Land of Waves escort mission, Hongshi helped Naruto overcome the Nine-Tails’ interference with water-walking training and demonstrated a fast, self-created Water Release technique. After Tazuna explained Gato’s grip on the country’s shipping, Hongshi agreed to teach him the technique, and began considering how ordinary people might use it.

• Kakashi taught Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to walk on water, and Hongshi briefly used his Rinnegan to make Kurama stop disrupting Naruto’s chakra control.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura struggled across the water while Hongshi carried Tazuna and used Water Release: Water Glide; Kakashi copied the technique and joined him.
• Sakura ran out of chakra after two hours, Sasuke fell into the water after three, and Naruto reached shore after four, prompting Kakashi to explain their weaknesses.
• Sasuke asked Hongshi for a Super Military Rations Pill, and Tazuna told the group that Gato controlled shipping in the Land of Waves and wanted the bridge stopped.
• Hongshi agreed to teach Tazuna Water Glide, but Kakashi warned that learning ninjutsu would be difficult for an ordinary person, leaving Hongshi to consider a way civilians could use it.

Kakashi’s team was ambushed by Zabuza after reaching Tazuna’s home, and Hongshi repeatedly disrupted Zabuza’s techniques and fought his clones. After Zabuza tried to attack Tazuna, Hongshi saved the group and Sakura struck Zabuza, but a masked Mist Ninja named Haku intervened and Kakashi warned the others to stay back.

• Naruto found a snow hare near Tazuna’s home, and Zabuza emerged from the bushes to attack Kakashi.
• Zabuza spread thick mist and used clones to conceal his position, but Hongshi’s wind technique cleared the mist and exposed him.
• Hongshi fought Zabuza’s clones, escaped a Water Prison, and claimed Zabuza’s blade was not sharp enough.
• Kakashi and Zabuza countered each other’s Water Dragon Bullet techniques, then Hongshi struck Zabuza with another water dragon.
• Zabuza used the Body Flicker Technique to attack Tazuna, but Hongshi raised the earth to deflect his slash and Sakura punched him.
• A masked Mist Ninja named Haku struck Zabuza with needles, and Kakashi warned Naruto and the others not to move rashly.

After Haku revealed himself as a Mist Hunter-nin and claimed Zabuza’s body, Hongshi’s attempt to dismember it exposed Haku’s deception and led to a battle. Hongshi used his Mental World to force Haku and Zabuza into becoming his subordinates, then collapsed from the chakra strain as the others headed for Tazuna’s house.

• Haku told Kakashi and the others that he was a Hunter-nin and said he needed to dispose of Zabuza’s body.
• Hongshi tried to chop off Zabuza’s head, but Haku blocked him and attacked with ice needles while Kakashi collapsed from chakra exhaustion.
• Hongshi trapped Haku and Zabuza inside an earth prison and used his Rinnegan ability to keep them in a mental world for a month, where he made them accept him as their boss.
• Haku and Zabuza awoke in the real world and agreed to serve Hongshi, while Haku used Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals to destroy the prison and carry Zabuza away.
• Kakashi collapsed unconscious, and Hongshi also toppled over from exhaustion as Naruto and Sasuke helped Kakashi toward Tazuna’s house.

Kakashi began recovering while he prepared Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura for the possibility that Zabuza and Haku would return. Meanwhile, Hongshi confronted Gato, used Mental World to make him hand over his wealth, and left Haku a scroll of techniques.

• Kakashi warned the group that Zabuza might have survived and gave them a week before he could recover.
• Kakashi took Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to train chakra control through weighted tree climbing.
• Gato arrived at Zabuza's hideout with Waraji and Zori, but Haku disarmed the samurai and Zabuza held Gato at kunai point.
• Hongshi appeared, healed Zabuza with a Super Military Rations Pill, and used Mental World to make Gato promise him all his money.
• Hongshi left a Flying Thunder God Formula on Gato, gave Haku a scroll of techniques, and vanished after revealing he had been a Shadow Clone.

Hongshi protected Tazuna in the Land of Waves, rescued a starving boy named Kamiaka Hieimon from danger, and took him on as a disciple. Three days later, Naruto and the others had completed their intense training, while Kakashi warned that Zabuza might soon attack again; Hongshi fell asleep instead of answering.

• Hongshi protected Tazuna from a falling iron pillar without waking up, then saw how poverty and despair had overtaken the town under Gato’s rule.
• Hongshi blasted a disguised man who had touched him, and Kamiaka Hieimon asked him to teach him how to become strong so he could protect people.
• Hongshi accepted Kamiaka Hieimon as his disciple and told Tazuna that finishing the bridge could restore the people’s courage.
• Three days later, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke trained while holding heavy rocks over water, then fell in after Hongshi and Kakashi teased them with roasted rabbits.
• Kakashi warned Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke that Zabuza had likely recovered and might attack Tazuna again, while Hongshi slept through the conversation.

Hongshi created a living thermonuclear bomb named Yuhan and sealed it inside Haku, making him a Jinchūriki. He then sealed another life-form, Shelin, inside Hieimon before collapsing from chakra exhaustion.

• Hongshi tested Hieimon's chakra and training progress, then summoned Haku and his Shadow Clone for an experiment.
• Hongshi created a thermonuclear life-form with Yin-Yang Release and Senjutsu, then sealed it inside Haku with the Phantom Nine Dragon Sealing.
• Haku tested his enhanced Ice Release against Hongshi's Shadow Clone and trapped Hongshi with his strongest technique, but Hongshi broke free with Shinra Tensei.
• Hongshi chased down Hieimon and sealed a second thermonuclear life-form named Shelin inside him.
• Hongshi gave Hieimon instructions, then collapsed after the two sealings exhausted his chakra.

Hongshi prepared Gato, Zabuza, Haku, and the mercenaries to stage an attack on Kakashi’s group, then left as the battle began on the Land of Waves Bridge. Sasuke quickly destroyed Zabuza’s water clones and faced Haku, who trapped him with an Ice Release technique, but Sasuke escaped and got behind him.

• Hongshi ordered Gato to reform the Land of Waves after the planned attack and punished Zabuza for striking his shadow clone.
• Haku warned Hongshi that Kakashi’s group had arrived, so Hongshi departed and Zabuza rallied the mercenaries to attack.
• Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, Tazuna, and Hieimon found injured men at the bridge entrance before Zabuza’s mist appeared.
• Sasuke destroyed four of Zabuza’s water clones and challenged Haku while Kakashi told Sakura to protect Tazuna and Hieimon.
• Haku used Ice Release: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death, but Sasuke leaped clear, dodged the attack, and landed behind him.

Haku trapped Sasuke and Naruto inside the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, while Kakashi battled Zabuza in the mist. Sakura broke one of Haku’s mirrors, but Haku’s ice clone exploded and wounded Naruto and Sakura; Kakashi pinned Zabuza with his ninja dogs before Haku intervened, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Haku trapped Sasuke in the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals and attacked him with senbon, while Sakura tried to help and Naruto arrived.
• Naruto jumped into the mirrors, and he and Sasuke failed to break them with their attacks until Sakura shattered one with Rock Gauntlet.
• Haku’s ice clone exploded, sending Naruto and Sakura flying and leaving Sasuke alone to face Haku.
• Kakashi revealed his Sharingan, fought Zabuza through the Hidden Mist, and used his ninja dogs to pin him down.
• Kakashi prepared to strike Zabuza with Lightning Blade, but Haku raised an ice wall and struck down Kakashi’s ninja dogs with Ice Senbon.

Sasuke awakened his Sharingan and was badly wounded protecting Naruto, whose Nine-Tails chakra erupted against Haku. Hongshi arrived, freed Naruto, and overwhelmed Haku and Zabuza’s forces with powerful combination techniques, leaving the battle nearly won while Hongshi fell asleep during the fight.

• Sasuke awakened his Sharingan, dodged Haku’s attacks, and took a barrage of senbon while shielding Naruto.
• Naruto awakened the Nine-Tails chakra and was frozen inside Haku’s ice dragon, while Sakura struggled against Haku’s ice clones.
• Hongshi arrived on the bridge, sent shadow clones to help Naruto and Sasuke, and challenged Zabuza as Kakashi and Hieimon fell back.
• Hongshi’s shadow clone freed Naruto and drove Haku back with lightning, earth, and water techniques.
• Haku unleashed three ice dragons, but Hongshi melted them with a fire-and-wind technique and blasted Haku toward Zabuza.
• Kakashi restrained Zabuza after Hongshi’s clone held him off, but Hongshi fell asleep, prompting Zabuza to curse him.

Hongshi and the others staged Zabuza and Haku’s deaths to fool Kakashi’s group, then reunited with them and revealed Haku’s disguise. Haku accepted Hongshi’s offer to become his disciple, while Sasuke recovered from his injuries.

• Haku pretended to be killed by a barrage of weapons, and Kakashi’s group believed Zabuza had lost him.
• Gato and his mercenaries arrived, and Zabuza pretended to charge into battle while Kakashi’s group withdrew; the group later learned the apparent fight had been staged.
• Zabuza, Haku, and Gato arranged corpses on the bridge to cover up their deception, then left for the Land of Snow.
• Hongshi’s group returned to Tazuna’s home, where Haku appeared disguised and reunited with Hieimon as his supposed sister, Yuhan.
• Sasuke woke after Hongshi’s Shadow Clones treated him, and Haku agreed to become Hongshi’s disciple.

After joining Konoha as Team 13, Hongshi trained Yuhan and Hieimon while pretending to sleep, and the group met Naruto’s team at the training grounds. Hieimon demonstrated a chakra-powered weapon that caught Sasuke and Naruto’s interest, while Kakashi broke its prototype and hurried off.

• Hongshi, Haku, and the others mourned Zabuza and Haku, and Naruto vowed to follow his own ninja way.
• Kakashi announced that Yuhan and Hieimon had been approved as Konoha residents and that they, Hongshi, and Kamiaka Hieimon would form Team 13 under Goshi Hyuga.
• Hongshi and his companions returned to Konoha, where he handled Team 13’s teaching while Root watched Yuhan and Hieimon.
• Yuhan and Hieimon met Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke at the training grounds, where Hieimon demonstrated his Five Release Blade and Sasuke and Naruto asked him to make them one.
• Kakashi tested the prototype with his Lightning Release Chakra and broke its formula, then left after spotting a Ninja Hawk.
• Sasuke criticized Sakura’s training, and Hongshi joked that Sasuke’s bluntness would keep him single.

Yuhan and Naruto encountered Gaara's team while the village's jonin recommended twelve rookies for the Chunin Ninja Exams. After the Sand siblings explained they had come to participate, Naruto and Hongshi looked forward to the exams, while Yuhan hoped to avoid Gaara.

• Hongshi and Konohamaru played at being Hashirama and Madara, then chased each other into the forest as Naruto and Yuhan headed back to Konoha.
• Yuhan told Naruto she wanted to protect the people important to her, and Naruto said he wanted to become Hokage before they met Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari.
• Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma, and Goshi Hyuga recommended their rookie genin teams for the Chunin Ninja Exams, but Iruka objected that the students were too young.
• Gaara stopped Kankuro from fighting Naruto, then threatened to kill Kankuro if he spoke again.
• Hongshi chased Konohamaru's trio past Gaara's team, and Yuhan challenged the Sand siblings to explain why they had come to Konoha.
• Temari showed their papers proving they had come for the Chunin Ninja Exams, Naruto announced he would enter, and Hongshi told Konohamaru to practice until the exams.