Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Hane and Deidara fought through repeated explosions and close-range attacks, with Hane’s magma abilities and regeneration keeping him in the battle. Deidara took to the air on his C2 Dragon and climbed higher after Hane’s long-range lava javelin nearly struck him.

• Deidara’s explosive bird blasted Uzumaki Hane into a crater, but Hane regenerated his destroyed right arm and charged at him.
• Uzumaki Hane pressed Deidara with enormous magma fists, forcing him to retreat until Deidara’s Clay Spiders gave him a chance to escape.
• Deidara summoned his C2 Dragon, and its small clay dragons exploded against Hane as the two continued fighting.
• A small clay dragon blasted Uzumaki Hane into a tree, allowing Deidara to fly upward on the C2 Dragon.
• Uzumaki Hane survived another explosion and hurled a gigantic lava javelin at the C2 Dragon, but Deidara narrowly dodged it and flew higher.

Uzumaki Hane and Deidara continued their fierce battle, trading lava attacks and explosive clay techniques. After surviving Deidara’s Clay Clone explosion and striking the real Deidara, Hane faced him as he prepared another attack, while Guren watched from a distance, shaken by the blasts.

• Deidara sent explosive clay dragons at Uzumaki Hane, who used lava fists and a lava sphere to withstand their attacks.
• Deidara drove Hane into a field of land mines and bombarded him from the air, but Hane answered with Great Eruption and destroyed the white dragon.
• Deidara attacked Hane with an explosive giant bird, then used a Clay Clone that wrapped around Hane’s arm and exploded, destroying his right arm.
• Uzumaki Hane regenerated, burst from the smoke, and punched Deidara, burning his arm with the heat of the magma.
• Deidara declared that his art would win and began eating clay again, while Guren watched from afar after fleeing the explosions.

Deidara and Uzumaki Hane fought through a series of explosive techniques, clones, and deceptions, with both fighters exhausting their Chakra. As Uzumaki Hane closed in, Deidara ate another lump of clay and prepared to unleash one more ultimate technique.

• Deidara escaped Uzumaki Hane's magma attacks, ate clay, and used a giant clay construct and C4 to cover the forest in microscopic bombs.
• Uzumaki Hane survived by hiding near Deidara and revealing that the figure destroyed by C4 had been a clone, then struck Deidara from behind.
• Deidara revealed that his apparent body was a Clay Clone and trapped Uzumaki Hane, but the bird's explosion damaged Deidara while Hane returned to his original form.
• Uzumaki Hane punched Deidara into a tree, and Deidara realized he was too depleted to retrieve the ring and needed to escape.
• Deidara announced another ultimate art and ate a lump of clay.

Uzumaki Hane survived Deidara’s explosion but was badly hurt and found Guren unconscious, so he carried her away from the battlefield. When he failed to return to the palace, Shion defied Taruho and Gozu to search for him, then joined Taruho’s search party after soldiers reported finding the battlefield but no trace of him.

• Deidara’s explosion knocked Uzumaki Hane unconscious, and he later realized Deidara might still be alive and Sasori of the Red Sand had not appeared.
• Uzumaki Hane found the injured Guren and carried her away from the battlefield before Sasori of the Red Sand arrived and searched for Deidara.
• Soldiers sent by Taruho found the devastated battlefield but could not locate Uzumaki Hane.
• Shion restrained Taruho and Gozu with her Sealing Jutsu and set out to find Uzumaki Hane, but a soldier’s report led her to release them.
• Taruho organized a search party and led Shion and the soldiers to the battlefield, where they searched for Uzumaki Hane while Shion remained worried.

After escaping Sasori of the Red Sand with the injured Guren, Uzumaki Hane recovered and returned to the palace, where Shion and the soldiers had been searching for him. He realized Akatsuki would attack again and resolved to separate Deidara and Sasori so he could defeat them one at a time.

• Uzumaki Hane used a sudden downpour to hide his tracks, sheltered with the feverish Guren in a tree hollow, and replenished his Chakra.
• Guren woke the next morning, and Uzumaki Hane let her leave after she promised to repay him.
• Uzumaki Hane found the palace soldiers searching the battlefield, then reunited with a tearful Shion and returned to the palace with her and Taruho.
• Uzumaki Hane rested while the palace was repaired, then reflected that Akatsuki would return and planned to separate Deidara and Sasori in their next encounter.

Uzumaki Hane arranged to confront Deidara and Sasori, recruiting Guren and preparing Shion and Gozu to help. When the enemies approached the palace, Hane lured Deidara away while Sasori stayed behind to fight him.

• Deidara told Sasori that Uzumaki Hane had survived his greatest masterpiece and vowed to kill him in their next encounter.
• Uzumaki Hane asked Taruho to send soldiers to locate Deidara and Sasori, and warned him that they were exceptionally dangerous missing-nin.
• Gozu, Shion, and Guren offered to help; Hane agreed to Guren’s offer, while Shion and Gozu planned to occupy Deidara.
• A soldier reported that Deidara and Sasori were heading toward the palace, so Hane and the others went to meet them.
• Hane attacked the pair with a lava fist, then lured Deidara away as Sasori stayed behind and struck at him with a scorpion tail.

Uzumaki Hane battled Sasori of the Red Sand, enduring his poisoned attacks and destroying Hiruko. Sasori revealed his true body and summoned a puppet made from the Third Kazekage, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Sasori of the Red Sand revealed Hiruko and attacked Uzumaki Hane with its poisoned tail and needles.
• Uzumaki Hane dodged and blocked the poisoned attacks with kunai and lava shields, then charged at Sasori.
• Uzumaki Hane grabbed Sasori's tail despite being stabbed, pulled him off balance, and smashed Hiruko apart.
• Sasori of the Red Sand emerged from Hiruko and summoned his puppet made from the Third Kazekage.
• Uzumaki Hane attacked with Lava Shuriken, while the Third Kazekage puppet blocked them and sent a mass of arms toward him.

Guren, Shion, and Gozu trapped Deidara in a crystal barrier and used Guren’s clones to stall him while he fought back with explosive clay. Deidara’s dolls multiplied as Guren cut them apart, and the chapter ended with him detonating one and preparing to blow up two more.

• Guren, disguised as Uzumaki Hane, lured Deidara into a trap, where Shion restrained him with a sealing technique and Gozu exposed his clay clone.
• Guren attacked Deidara with a crystal blade, then enclosed him in a one-kilometer crystal barrier and created clones to hold him there until Uzumaki Hane could arrive.
• Deidara destroyed several Guren clones and summoned clay dolls, while Guren’s clones cut the dolls apart to stall him and drain his Chakra.
• Deidara detonated a doll beside one Guren, blowing off her arm, then prepared to detonate two more dolls as they charged at her.

Deidara overwhelmed Guren’s crystal clones and destroyed the barrier with C4, then pursued Guren, Shion, and Gozu. Shion’s tentacles briefly dragged Deidara underground, but he escaped and struck Gozu with an explosion while protecting Shion.

• Guren’s crystal clones attacked Deidara, but he detonated his puppets and destroyed the clones with explosions.
• Deidara used C4 Karura to destroy the remaining Gurens and animals inside the barrier, shattering the barrier itself.
• Deidara pursued Guren, Shion, and Gozu, while Guren used a crystal dragon to confront him in the air.
• Shion’s pitch-black tentacles seized Deidara and dragged him into a crater, but he escaped before they could pierce him.
• Deidara sent explosive birds toward Shion, and Gozu stepped in front of her and took the blast.

Uzumaki Hane battled Sasori of the Red Sand and gradually overwhelmed the puppet’s weapons with his lava abilities. Sasori then revealed the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand and attacked Hane with Iron Sand Shigure, leaving Hane amid a cloud of dust.

• Sasori of the Red Sand discovered that the Uzumaki Hane he had impaled was a lava clone, then dodged Hane’s enlarged-fist attack.
• Sasori released poisonous mist, but Uzumaki Hane transformed into lava, charged through it, and counterattacked with lava.
• Uzumaki Hane fought back against the puppet’s blades, extending arms, shuriken, kunai, and circular saw, destroying or burning many of its weapons.
• Sasori of the Red Sand summoned the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand and explained its power to Uzumaki Hane.
• Sasori used Iron Sand Shigure to fire countless iron particles at Uzumaki Hane, filling the area with dust.

Uzumaki Hane battled Sasori of the Red Sand and his Third Kazekage puppet, dodging and regenerating through repeated Iron Sand attacks. After Hane damaged the puppet, Sasori unleashed Iron Sand World Method, covering the area around Hane with a vast web of piercing branches.

• Hane dodged Sasori's Iron Sand spears and destroyed them with Great Eruption, but his lava fists could not break through the Iron Sand wall.
• Sasori attacked Hane with massive Iron Sand pillars and columns, while Hane repeatedly dodged and used Canine Red Lotus against the conical pillar.
• Sasori recognized Hane's regenerative ability and said he wanted to turn him into a puppet.
• Hane charged Sasori and used Great Eruption to shatter two Iron Sand masses before smashing the Third Kazekage puppet's right arm and sending it flying.
• Sasori retreated and activated Iron Sand World Method, spreading piercing Iron Sand trunks and branches across a hundred-meter radius around Hane.

Deidara attacked Shion and Guren with explosive clay dragons, while Guren and Shion fought to protect the wounded Gozu. The chapter ended with Guren trapping Deidara and his giant white dragon inside a mass of crystal.

• Shion's tentacles struck a Deidara clay clone, but the real Deidara detonated it and Gozu shielded Shion from the blast, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Guren enclosed Gozu in a Crimson Fruit crystal and asked Shion to stall Deidara while she prepared a sealing technique.
• Deidara used explosive clay dragons to destroy Guren's crystal dragon and repeatedly attack Guren and Shion from the air.
• Shion intercepted Deidara's attacks with her tentacles, even disrupting one clay dragon, but the explosions injured her and threw her into a tree.
• Guren completed her Hand Seals and used Crystal Release: Eight Crystal Walls Formation to encase Deidara and his giant white dragon in crystal.

Uzumaki Hane destroyed Sasori of the Red Sand’s Third Kazekage puppet and forced him to reveal his own puppet body. Sasori’s water blades then injured Hane and drove him into a running battle, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Sasori of the Red Sand trapped Uzumaki Hane in Iron Sand branches and sent the Third Kazekage puppet to attack him.
• Uzumaki Hane broke through the Iron Sand defenses and destroyed the Third Kazekage puppet with Great Eruption.
• Sasori of the Red Sand revealed his puppet body and attacked Hane with flames, which Hane absorbed without harm.
• Sasori of the Red Sand switched to water cannons, then shaped their streams into blades that severed Hane’s right arm.
• Uzumaki Hane regenerated his arm and dodged as Sasori of the Red Sand’s water blades cut through the ground after him.

Uzumaki Hane fought Sasori of the Red Sand, destroying his puppet body before Sasori escaped with his perpetual heart and unleashed the Performance of a Hundred Puppets. Hane battled the puppet horde with lava and brute force, but the fight remained underway as he sent a Great Eruption crashing into the puppets.

• Uzumaki Hane dodged Sasori of the Red Sand’s water blades and poisoned dart, then healed the graze on his arm with lava.
• Uzumaki Hane grabbed Sasori of the Red Sand’s abdominal rope and smashed his puppet body, but Sasori’s perpetual heart escaped through a fissure and reassembled him.
• Sasori of the Red Sand opened a scroll and used the Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets to send a horde of armed puppets after Uzumaki Hane.
• Uzumaki Hane crushed, cut apart, and hurled aside the attacking puppets while blocking their poisoned kunai and shuriken.
• Uzumaki Hane threw a lava blade through several puppets, then launched a Great Eruption that shattered and swallowed many more.

Uzumaki Hane fought Sasori of the Red Sand's puppet army and unleashed Meteor Volcano to destroy it, but the attack left him exhausted. When a pillar of fire rose where Shion and the others were fighting Deidara, Hane rushed to help them.

• Sasori sent waves of puppets against Hane, who used lava shuriken, javelins, and a Magma Wall to hold them off.
• Two water-equipped puppets sliced through Hane's Magma Wall and severed his right hand, which he restored with magma.
• Hane used Great Eruption to destroy more than twenty puppets, but Sasori had spread them out to blunt the attack.
• Hane destroyed the remaining puppets with Meteor Volcano, turning the battlefield into a sea of lava.
• Hane saw a pillar of fire rise near Shion and the others and rushed toward it despite his exhaustion.

Guren, Shion, and Gozu survived Deidara’s first explosion, but Deidara attacked them again after Gozu used Lightning Release to stop his Clay Spiders. Uzumaki Hane arrived in time to destroy Deidara’s final explosion and protect them.

• Guren and Shion were thrown aside when Deidara broke free of Guren’s crystal and set off a massive explosion.
• Guren tried to retreat with the unconscious Shion and Gozu, but Deidara blocked their path and surrounded them with Clay Spiders.
• Gozu woke and used Lightning Release to disable the spiders and strike Deidara, then warned Guren and Shion that he was late.
• Deidara recovered and began another explosion, engulfing Guren, Shion, and Gozu.
• Uzumaki Hane arrived and destroyed the blast with an enormous lava fist, then asked Shion if she was all right.

Uzumaki Hane rescued Shion, Guren, and Gozu from Deidara’s explosion clone and brought them back to the palace for treatment. Shion asked to visit Konoha once she recovered, while Deidara found Sasori of the Red Sand’s surviving Perpetual Heart, and the two prepared to face Uzumaki Hane again.

• Uzumaki Hane reached Shion, Guren, and Gozu in time to destroy Deidara’s explosion, then took the injured group to a nearby cave.
• Uzumaki Hane returned to the palace for healers and soldiers, and Taruho led them to treat and escort Shion, Guren, and Gozu back.
• Shion thanked Uzumaki Hane for rescuing them by asking him to take her to Konoha after she recovered, and he agreed.
• Deidara searched the cooled volcanic rock and found a damaged puppet, then Sasori of the Red Sand’s Perpetual Heart entered it and restored him.
• Sasori of the Red Sand and Deidara admitted they needed time to prepare and left, vowing to face Uzumaki Hane again.

Uzumaki Hane learned that Kakashi had come to help hunt the wounded Deidara and briefed him on the Akatsuki and Danzo’s ties to Orochimaru. The next morning, Hane and Kakashi sparred, and Kakashi tested Hane’s lava-based Kekkei Genkai with a Water Release technique.

• Hane sent Taruho to organize a search for the wounded Deidara, while Guren quietly left the next morning.
• Kakashi arrived at the palace because Tsunade could not contact Jiraiya and wanted help with the Akatsuki threat.
• Hane told Kakashi that the Akatsuki sought the Jinchūriki and that Danzo’s people had worked with Orochimaru’s; Kakashi agreed to stay and help capture Deidara.
• Kakashi told Hane that Might Guy had missed the trip because he was on a mission with Neji and the others.
• Hane challenged Kakashi to a spar and showed that his Hell Hound technique could absorb Kakashi’s Fire Style attack.
• Kakashi launched a Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu at Hane after dodging his lava-enhanced strikes.

Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi fought a sparring match using lava, water, earth, and lightning techniques. Kakashi’s Great Waterfall Technique overwhelmed Hane’s lava defense, leaving him encased in cooled volcanic rock after the torrent passed.

• Uzumaki Hane shattered Kakashi’s water attacks, but Kakashi caught him with Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique after Hane hesitated.
• Uzumaki Hane broke free and launched barrages of Lava Shuriken, while Kakashi revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and evaded them.
• Kakashi combined Water Release and Lightning Release attacks, and Uzumaki Hane countered with lava techniques before Kakashi pierced a lava fist with Chidori.
• Uzumaki Hane’s lava palm exploded against Chidori, but his arm quickly healed, while Kakashi’s arm was burned.
• Kakashi unleashed Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique, and Uzumaki Hane formed a lava sphere that the torrent swept away and cooled into volcanic rock.

Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi pursued Deidara after learning that Jiraiya and Naruto were on their way to the Land of Demons. They found Deidara with Sasori, Itachi, and Kisame, and Hane attacked Kisame after he insulted Might Guy.

• Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi sparred, with Hane stopping Kakashi's Lightning Blade using lava defenses before their practice ended.
• Kakashi told Hane that Jiraiya and Naruto were coming to the Land of Demons after hearing about the Akatsuki.
• Ōnoki sent Akatsuchi and Kurotsuchi to investigate Moryo's destruction, Uzumaki Hane, and the suspected encounter with Deidara.
• Deidara and Sasori fled through the forest after killing two soldiers, and White Zetsu arrived with Itachi and Kisame as reinforcements.
• Taruho reported missing soldiers near the palace, and Kakashi summoned Pakkun to track Deidara's trail.
• Kakashi faced Itachi while Uzumaki Hane attacked Kisame with Canine Red Lotus after Kisame insulted Might Guy.