Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Hane learned that a large bounty had been placed on him and went to the black market to find out more. After revealing his identity, he was caught in a fight among the bounty hunters, and the chapter left his fate unclear as multiple ninjutsu struck him and two Jonin.

• Uzumaki Hane survived the fat ninja’s earth attacks and killed him with Great Eruption after learning the ninja would not explain the bounty.
• Uzumaki Hane traveled to the black market in disguise to investigate the bounty on his head.
• A stranger exposed Uzumaki Hane’s identity, and Hane struck him with a lava fist, only for the man to vanish as a clone.
• Shimada and Ishikawa argued over Uzumaki Hane, then worked together to wall off the other bounty hunters and claim him.
• Ten Chunin’s ninjutsu destroyed the wall and engulfed Uzumaki Hane, Shimada, and Ishikawa, who vanished in clouds of smoke.

Uzumaki Hane lured Ishikawa and Shimada out of the black market and killed them, then faced the pursuing Chunin and three Jonin. After killing one Chunin and enduring a barrage from the remaining nine, he remained hidden inside a sphere of magma as they assumed he was dead.

• Ishikawa and Shimada chased Uzumaki Hane outside the black market, where he killed Ishikawa with a punch through the chest and Shimada with Hell Hound.
• The Chunin and three Jonin arrived, and the Chunin charged Uzumaki Hane after one of them urged the others to attack.
• Uzumaki Hane used a magma clone to evade Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spear, then killed the Chunin who had cast it.
• The remaining nine Chunin sent clones forward and launched Water, Wind, and Fire Ninjutsu at Uzumaki Hane.
• Uzumaki Hane formed a sphere of magma around himself to withstand the attacks, while the Chunin discussed whether he was dead and worried about the bounty.

Uzumaki Hane slaughtered the Chunin with his Lava Release and faced three Jonin who joined forces to fight him. After their mudslide swallowed him, the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Uzumaki Hane emerged unharmed from his lava sphere and killed the Chunin who had attacked him.
• Uzumaki Hane formed a lava fire dragon that swallowed the seven remaining Chunin and continued toward the three Jonin.
• Nakamura, Tsuruta, and Kimura agreed to work together and sent clones to test Uzumaki Hane.
• Tsuruta attacked Uzumaki Hane with Earth Release techniques, but Uzumaki Hane broke through his defenses and escaped the Mountain Earth Technique.
• Uzumaki Hane’s Great Eruption shattered the Jonin’s three defensive walls, but their combined Water and Earth Release formed a mudslide that swallowed him.

Uzumaki Hane survived the three Jonin’s mudslide and defeated all three after emerging from a lake of lava. He escaped with his Chakra exhausted, and arriving ninjas found Tsuruta’s body amid the ruined battlefield.

• Nakamura noticed the mudslide’s debris melting into lava, and the three Jonin fought off the lava hounds that emerged from the lake.
• The Jonin prepared to attack Uzumaki Hane, but he burst from the lava and shattered Tsuruta’s hardened body with a lava fist.
• Uzumaki Hane engulfed Kimura and Nakamura with a gigantic lava fist, killing them before collapsing from Chakra exhaustion.
• Uzumaki Hane left the battlefield, and arriving ninjas found Tsuruta’s body and debated the power of the destruction.

After learning that the black market had placed a 35-million-ryo bounty on him because he was listed as a Chunin, Uzumaki Hane tracked down the nearest black market. There, he encountered Uesugii disguised as him and revealed himself after Uesugii pointed him out, leaving the ninja gathering to surround him.

• Uzumaki Hane learned from a defeated ninja that the black market had offered 35 million ryo for him because his bounty listing identified him as a Chunin, then killed the ninja after learning where the nearest black market was.
• Uzumaki Hane disguised himself in a black robe and headed for the black market, where he found a crowd chasing someone who looked like him.
• The disguised man revealed himself as Uesugii, and the ninja recognized him as a fugitive worth five million ryo and prepared to attack.
• Uesugii spotted Uzumaki Hane in the crowd and pointed him out, correctly guessing his identity.
• Uzumaki Hane removed his robe and mask, and the ninja turned toward him and began surrounding him.

Uzumaki Hane fought off a group of bounty hunters while protecting Uesugi I, then encountered Kakuzu, who had come for his heart and thirty-five million ryo. Kakuzu attacked the hunters, leaving only a few Jonin alive.

• Uzumaki Hane confronted Uesugii about abandoning him before and dismissed the surrounding bounty hunters as no threat.
• Uzumaki Hane killed a Chunin instantly, then shielded Uesugi I inside a lava sphere from the hunters' combined attack.
• Uesugi I fled while the hunters watched Uzumaki Hane emerge unharmed from the lava.
• Uzumaki Hane sent lava hounds against the Chunin, burning two of them alive before the others destroyed the hounds.
• Kakuzu arrived seeking Uzumaki Hane's heart and bounty, then killed most of the hunters with Fire Style: Searing Migraine.

Kakuzu killed the four Jonin who attacked him, leaving Uesugii terrified and Uzumaki Hane preparing to flee. Hane challenged Kakuzu with five Great Eruptions, and the chapter ended as his lava fists broke through Kakuzu’s combined water-and-wind defense.

• Uzumaki Hane told Uesugii that Kakuzu was a powerful ninja from the First Hokage’s era who hunted bounties.
• The four Jonin attacked Kakuzu with Earth Release techniques, but he survived their assault and killed each of them.
• Uesugii urged Uzumaki Hane to run, and Hane agreed before stepping forward to test his limits against Kakuzu.
• Uzumaki Hane fired five Great Eruptions at Kakuzu, who combined Water Release and Wind Release to form a massive wave.
• The wave swallowed the first three lava fists, broke apart against the fourth and fifth, and was finally shattered by the fifth.

After escaping Kakuzu, Uzumaki Hane learned why Uesugii had impersonated him and decided to investigate who had placed the bounty on his head. As they traveled to a distant black market, four attackers ambushed them and dropped them into a hollow beneath the ground.

• Uesugii carried the exhausted Uzumaki Hane away from Kakuzu, then explained that he had impersonated Hane while searching for bounty information and fled after seeing Hane’s thirty-five-million-ryo bounty.
• Uzumaki Hane asked Uesugii to take him to a black market so he could learn who had placed the bounty on him, despite Uesugii’s warning that the market’s hidden power might include a Kage Level expert.
• The next day, Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii traveled toward a distant black market to avoid Kakuzu.
• Attackers threw explosive-tag kunai at the pair, then four figures used Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm to split the ground beneath them.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii fell through the broken ground and landed safely below.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I fought off the ninja who trapped them in a hole, with Uesugi I defeating his attackers and Uzumaki Hane killing the ambushers with lava. Uzumaki Hane confronted the mysterious ninja who had exposed his identity, but the man revealed that he had planted Explosive Tags in the cave before Uzumaki Hane pierced his chest.

• Uzumaki Hane threw Uesugi I out of the swamp, but shifting earth separated them as Uesugi I fought off the ninja below.
• Uesugi I used his sensory skills and Ninjutsu to defeat several attackers, then burned the stone-armored ninja alive with Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Uzumaki Hane let the swamp swallow him until he erupted from it in lava and killed the ninja waiting above.
• Uzumaki Hane melted the ground to kill two ninja who fled underground, then faced the mysterious ninja who had exposed his identity.
• The mysterious ninja said he had planted Explosive Tags in the cave, and Uzumaki Hane drove his hand through the man's chest.

Uzumaki Hane survived a devastating explosion and returned the next day with Uesugi I to the black market, where he confronted its manager over the bounty on his life. The manager triggered a trap and sent five ninja after him, but Uzumaki Hane’s counterattack destroyed the outpost.

• Uzumaki Hane survived a five-minute barrage of explosions by turning into magma, then emerged from the crater and apologized to Uesugi I for dragging him into danger.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I postponed their trip to the black market until the next day, then reached the outpost without incident.
• Uzumaki Hane seized the black market manager and demanded to know who had placed the bounty on him, but the manager claimed he did not know.
• The manager offered the five ninja an additional thirty-five million to kill Uzumaki Hane, then triggered a poisoned hidden-weapon trap and escaped through a floor opening.
• Uzumaki Hane turned into magma and destroyed the black market outpost, leaving Uesugii outside to watch the devastation.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I headed for another black-market hideout but were ambushed by Hidan. Uzumaki Hane avoided Hidan’s ritual and struck him with a massive magma fist, leaving Hidan sprawled on the ground.

• Uzumaki Hane persuaded Uesugi I to continue toward another black-market hideout, warning him that they were both implicated.
• Hidan ambushed Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I with his Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe and announced his plan to offer Uzumaki Hane to Jashin.
• Uzumaki Hane fought Hidan, dodging and blocking his attacks while keeping out of reach of the scythe’s ritual bloodletting.
• Hidan managed to splash liquid from Uzumaki Hane’s arm onto the scythe, but Uzumaki Hane charged before Hidan could begin the ritual.
• Uzumaki Hane revealed the liquid was not blood, transformed his right hand into magma, and punched Hidan ten meters away.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I fought Hidan, whose immortality let him survive being stabbed and decapitated, while Hane prevented him from completing his ritual. Kakuzu arrived and rescued Hidan from Hane’s magma attack, leaving both enemies ready to continue the fight.

• Uesugi I stabbed Hidan through the heart, but Hidan survived, cut Uesugi I, and began a blood ritual to curse him.
• Uzumaki Hane stopped Hidan from stabbing himself with a spear and hurled him out of the ritual circle before attacking him with magma techniques.
• Uesugi I trapped Hidan in a swamp, and Uzumaki Hane cut off his head.
• Kakuzu emerged, and his black threads pulled Hidan’s head and body away as Uzumaki Hane launched Great Eruption at them.
• Kakuzu appeared with Hidan intact after surviving the magma attack, and Hidan declared he would use Uzumaki Hane for the ritual.

Uzumaki Hane fought Kakuzu and Hidan, then collapsed after unleashing a barrage of magma fists, and Uesugii carried him to safety. When they learned Hidan might still be alive, they hurried back, but Hidan began his ritual and stabbed himself through the heart, causing Uesugii to collapse in pain.

• Kakuzu and Hidan attacked Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I, with Kakuzu summoning four masked monsters and Hidan trying to draw Uesugi into his blood circle.
• Uzumaki Hane drove Hidan away from Uesugi, then unleashed nine enormous magma fists before passing out.
• Uesugii carried Uzumaki Hane away from the burning battlefield, and Hane woke after dark and warned that Hidan’s forbidden technique could still endanger Uesugii.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii returned toward the battlefield as Hane explained Hidan’s ability, while Kakuzu and Hidan survived the attack.
• Hidan drew his ritual circle, stabbed himself through the heart, and caused Uesugii to feel a sharp pain in his own heart and fall from a tree trunk.

After Uesugii died, Uzumaki Hane vowed to avenge him and spent three months hunting for Kakuzu and Hidan through the black market. He learned that Hidan had recently visited Samura’s casino, then killed Samura after questioning him.

• Uesugii died after warning Uzumaki Hane not to search for the others, and Uzumaki Hane vowed to avenge him.
• Uzumaki Hane returned to the battlefield, found Kakuzu and Hidan gone, and began searching for them through the black market.
• Over the next three months, Uzumaki Hane killed ninja who attacked him and gained a fearsome reputation in the black market.
• Uzumaki Hane went to the White Chrysanthemum Casino to find Samura, a Jonin who had seen someone with an immortal body.
• Samura told Uzumaki Hane that Hidan and a masked companion had visited three days earlier, and that Hidan had killed a Jonin and taken his body.
• After Samura begged for his life, Uzumaki Hane pierced his chest and killed him.

Uzumaki Hane lured Hidan and Kakuzu into a prepared battlefield and fought them using lava, traps, and explosive tags. He trapped Hidan in lava again and drew him into the woods, while Kakuzu repaired his damaged limbs and pursued them.

• Uzumaki Hane delivered his latest bounty to the black market and learned that Hidan and Kakuzu had recently passed through the next town.
• Uzumaki Hane prepared a battlefield, and Hidan and Kakuzu followed a lead about his whereabouts to a barren forest.
• Hidan charged at Uzumaki Hane, who trapped him between walls of lava before attacking Kakuzu.
• Kakuzu fought back with Earth Release and Lightning Release, but Uzumaki Hane used lava streams and explosive tags to injure him and blast off his right hand and left foot.
• Hidan escaped the lava and attacked again, but Uzumaki Hane surrounded him with more lava and lured him into the woods.
• Kakuzu reattached his severed limbs with black threads and charged into the woods after them.

Uzumaki Hane trapped Hidan in an explosive pit and buried his surviving head in lava before facing Kakuzu in a devastating battle. Hane defeated Kakuzu but passed out from exhaustion, and a passing caravan found him and took him along.

• Uzumaki Hane lured Hidan into a pit covered with spikes and Explosive Tags, then detonated them and buried Hidan's surviving head in lava.
• Kakuzu arrived with all five hearts and attacked Uzumaki Hane with four masked monsters and a barrage of elemental Ninjutsu.
• After fighting for half an hour and nearly exhausting his Chakra, Uzumaki Hane challenged Kakuzu to settle the battle with one move.
• Uzumaki Hane's lava fists overwhelmed Kakuzu's combined Ninjutsu, engulfed Kakuzu in lava, and left Hane unconscious from the shockwave.
• Lord Jidairō's caravan found Uzumaki Hane unconscious and took him along.

After being rescued by Jidairō and Sayuri, Uzumaki Hane reached the Land of Demons and secretly entered Shion’s palace. When an intruder attacked Shion, Hane protected her with his lava ability, and Shion claimed he was a guard she had invited.

• Uzumaki Hane woke at Jidairō’s inn, met Sayuri and Jidairō, and learned that they had brought him to the Land of Demons.
• Uzumaki Hane asked about the events that had left him unconscious, then learned where Shion’s palace was and planned to visit it that night.
• Uzumaki Hane entered Shion’s bedroom and found her awake after a vision had left her grieving over another person’s death.
• An intruder attacked Shion, and Uzumaki Hane deflected the attacker’s wind-enhanced Shuriken and melted two others with his lava hands before throwing them back.
• Taruho arrived with guards, the intruder escaped, and Shion told Taruho that Uzumaki Hane was a guard she had invited.

Uzumaki Hane became Shion’s guard after she asked him to prove he could be trusted, then killed Setsuna when the intruder attacked him in the forest. Yomi assigned Fudō to avenge Setsuna while keeping his unfinished plan concealed.

• Taruho reported that Kimura had died, and Shion rejected Uzumaki Hane’s attempts to comfort her.
• Uzumaki Hane introduced himself and said he wanted to find the Sealing Shrine and confront Moryo; Shion appointed him as her guard.
• Taruho warned Uzumaki Hane not to harm Shion, and Uzumaki Hane agreed to protect her.
• The next morning, Uzumaki Hane left the palace and killed Setsuna after Setsuna attacked him with shuriken.
• Uzumaki Hane saw Jidairō and Sayuri’s caravan off before returning to the palace.
• Yomi ordered Kusuna and the other ninjas to keep his plan hidden and let Fudō avenge Setsuna.

Fudō attacked the palace complex where Shion lived, and Uzumaki Hane confronted him. After a fierce fight involving their Earth Release and magma abilities, Fudō trapped Uzumaki Hane inside a rock coffin and believed the battle was over.

• Fudō killed the soldiers guarding the palace gates and fought his way inside.
• Taruho led soldiers to protect Shion, who watched Fudō attack from the palace square.
• Uzumaki Hane kicked Fudō away and confronted him, then Fudō trapped them both underground with Earth Release: Moving Earth Core.
• Fudō and Uzumaki Hane exchanged attacks, with Uzumaki Hane using magma and Fudō using several Earth Release techniques.
• Fudō enclosed Uzumaki Hane in a Rock Coffin and marked it with a Konoha symbol, believing he had won.

Fudō broke through Shion’s guards and attacked her palace while Uzumaki Hane was trapped underground. Hane escaped and struck Fudō back, but Fudō retaliated with Earth Release: Antlion.

• Fudō emerged from the rock and crushed the soldiers who tried to stop him as he charged toward Shion.
• Taruho pushed Shion toward a secret passage, then fought Fudō and was badly injured.
• Uzumaki Hane broke free from the rock and returned to the palace, where Taruho told him Shion had escaped safely.
• When Fudō attacked Hane from behind, Hane pushed Taruho aside and punched Fudō through a wall into the square.
• Hane transformed his body into lava and charged Fudō, who avoided him and used Earth Release: Antlion to collapse the ground beneath him.