Recaps

Rikuto gave Hanabi a protective pendant and promised Hinata he could undo the Hyuga Clan’s Huixu B from the inside. After spending the morning with Hinata, Hanabi, and Tenten, he visited Uzuki Yugao, where their growing attraction became clear over a meal she had prepared.

• Rikuto explained that Hanabi’s pendant could create a barrier strong enough to withstand her father’s attacks.
• Hinata told Rikuto that the Hyuga Clan planned to place the Huixu B on Hanabi, and he promised he could remove it from the inside.
• Rikuto spent the morning showing Tenten, Hinata, and Hanabi around Konoha, then escorted the sisters home.
• Rikuto used Flying Thunder God to appear at Uzuki Yugao’s home, where she had prepared lunch for him.
• Rikuto kissed Yugao, who blushed and told him to eat before the food grew cold.

Rikuto reassured Uzuki Yugao that he understood her fear of being ordered to spy on him, then took her to the Root base and revealed his research into sealing Ninjutsu for others to use. Yugao was left stunned by the forbidden technique’s potential.

• Rikuto asked Uzuki Yugao whether he should ask the Third Hokage to release her from the Anbu, and she declined because she feared being assigned to spy on him.
• Rikuto recognized Yugao’s concern and promised to handle the situation himself.
• Rikuto took the astonished Yugao to the Root base, where more than a hundred copies of him worked on formulas.
• Rikuto explained that his forbidden technique could seal Ninjutsu into a medium so someone could use it by supplying Chakra, even without training or talent.
• Uzuki Yugao stared in shock and asked whether such a technique was really possible.

Rikuto revealed that he controlled Root and showed Uzuki Yugao its files documenting the Third Hokage and other leaders’ misconduct. After reading them, Yugao asked Rikuto to seal her memories so she could face the leaders without giving away what she knew, and Rikuto said he hoped Tsunade would become Hokage.

• Rikuto brought Uzuki Yugao into Root’s archive and revealed that he had taken control of Shimura Danzō and Root two years earlier.
• Rikuto gave Yugao Root’s files on the Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and their associates.
• Yugao read the files and concluded that the Third Hokage and other leaders had benefited from their secret abuses of power.
• Yugao asked Rikuto to seal her memories because she could no longer face the Third Hokage and the others without revealing her knowledge.
• Rikuto reassured Yugao and said he wanted Tsunade to become Hokage, giving Yugao hope for Konoha’s future.

Rikuto asked the Third Hokage to lend him Uzuki Yugao for medical ninjutsu research and offered Wind Release: Rasenshuriken in exchange. After Rikuto demonstrated five completed Rasenshuriken at once, the Third Hokage and the Hokage Advisors were stunned, and the Anbu stood down at the Third's order.

• Rikuto went to the Hokage's office and asked the Third Hokage to lend him Uzuki Yugao long-term to help with medical ninjutsu research.
• The Third Hokage began to refuse, but Rikuto placed a scroll before him and offered Wind Release: Rasenshuriken unconditionally.
• Rikuto explained that he had developed the S-rank technique by adding wind nature transformation to the Rasengan.
• Rikuto formed five Wind Release: Rasenshuriken on vines growing from his fingers, alarming the Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and the Anbu.
• The Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to stand down and stared at Rikuto's devastating demonstration.

Chiya Rikuto demonstrated his mastery of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to classify the technique as forbidden and approve Rikuto’s request to have Uzuki Yugao assist him and Tsunade. After Rikuto left, Hiruzen warned Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu not to interfere, revealing that Rikuto had also mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Chiya Rikuto formed five Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and dissolved them without harming himself, astonishing Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi added the Rasenshuriken to the Scroll of Seals as a forbidden technique, and Rikuto suggested Naruto Uzumaki might learn it when he grew older.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved Rikuto’s request for Uzuki Yugao to join him and Tsunade as a Konoha Special Jōnin.
• After Rikuto left, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura complained about his arrogance, but Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered them not to meddle.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told his advisers that Rikuto had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, alarming them and reinforcing Hiruzen’s concern that the village could not control him.

Rikuto reunited with his young cousin Moegi and gave her an Artificial Devil Fruit cultivated from a Senju clansman who had undergone a failed Hashirama Cells experiment. After Rikuto demonstrated its flower-growing ability, Moegi ate the whole fruit, and he prepared to let her sleep.

• Rikuto ran into Moegi Kazamatsuri on the street and carried her to a salon, where he changed her hair into two pigtails.
• Rikuto took Moegi to Training Ground 7 using teleportation.
• Rikuto explained that he had cultivated an Artificial Devil Fruit from the corpse of a Senju clansman who had nearly survived an experiment with Hashirama Cells.
• Rikuto showed Moegi flowers growing from his palm and persuaded her to eat the foul-tasting fruit.
• Moegi finished the fruit, and Rikuto told her to sleep.

Rikuto cared for Moegi as her Senju bloodline and Wood Release awakened, then directed his Wood Clones to develop medical ninjutsu tags and considered ways to resurrect the dead. After Danzo returned with Takumi Village’s Ultimate Weapons and Seimei’s remains, Rikuto planned to revive Seimei and learn his resurrection technique, while a Mystical Palm Tag reached a successful test.

• Rikuto sent a leaf crane to Kazamatsuri Reiko, brought the sleeping Moegi to the Root base, and left her to complete her transformation under genjutsu.
• Rikuto assigned his Wood Clones to develop medical ninjutsu tags and considered combining One's Own Life Reincarnation with Sage techniques to revive the dead.
• Aburame Ryoma reported that Shimura Danzō had returned with Takumi Village’s Ultimate Weapons and Seimei’s remains, so Rikuto went to examine them.
• Shimura Danzō explained the weapons’ names and said Seimei’s reincarnation tool could revive him by absorbing Chakra and sacrificing a life.
• Rikuto tested the Peacock Whirlwind and Rising Sword, then considered reviving Seimei to obtain his resurrection technique and help build a powerful mecha.
• Rikuto received his Wood Clones’ shared research memories and learned that the A-rank Mystical Palm Tag could quickly heal ordinary injuries.

Rikuto visited Shizune at an inn in Maple Leaf City, where they shared an intimate reunion before Tsunade and Karin returned. He revealed he had brought two talismans for them, but their purpose remained unknown.

• Rikuto left the Root base and appeared in Shizune's inn room, startling her while she was in the bathroom.
• Rikuto and Shizune reunited privately, and she agreed to his request after he told her he had missed her.
• Shizune told Rikuto that Tsunade had taken Karin to the casino because it was payday.
• Tsunade and Karin returned to the inn, and Rikuto teased Karin by messing up her hair and restraining her with vines.
• Rikuto gave Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin two talismans to guess the purpose of.

Rikuto showed Tsunade, Karin, and Shizune a reusable tag that let its user teleport to a matching coordinate tag using the Flying Thunder God Technique. After explaining how it worked and how many times it could be used, he revealed more tags marked with the character for “medicine.”

• Rikuto handed Tsunade the Flying Thunder God Teleportation Tag, and she activated it, teleporting several meters into his arms.
• Tsunade, Karin, and Shizune realized the tag used Space-Time Ninjutsu, and Rikuto confirmed he had reproduced the Flying Thunder God Technique on paper.
• Rikuto explained that the reusable tag could be replenished with chakra and used dozens of times, while Tsunade considered its potential impact on warfare.
• Rikuto pulled out several more tags marked with the character for “medicine.”

Rikuto demonstrated a Mystical Palm Tag that let Shizune heal a serious cut quickly, then shared two forbidden medical techniques he had recovered from a hidden Sky Ninja. He planned to combine them with the Yin Seal and Strength of a Hundred Technique to create a combat technique that could rival and stack with Sage Mode.

• Shizune tested Rikuto’s Mystical Palm Tag on a cut to her forearm and healed completely in less than a minute.
• Tsunade examined the tag and praised Rikuto’s invention.
• Rikuto showed Tsunade and Shizune scrolls containing the forbidden medical techniques Body Activation and Body Revival, which Root had taken from a remnant of the Sky Ninja.
• Tsunade recognized that the techniques could complement the Strength of a Hundred Technique, while Shizune noted that they would require vast Chakra reserves.
• Rikuto said he wanted to develop a new forbidden medical technique that would greatly boost strength, speed, and neural response, potentially matching and stacking with Sage Mode.
• Tsunade cautioned Rikuto that creating such a technique would take considerable time and effort.

Rikuto proposed settling in the Land of Whirlpools to develop a forbidden medical technique with Tsunade, who agreed rather than return to Konoha. Shizune and Karin planned to return to Konoha temporarily, while Shizune accepted Rikuto's invitation to live at his house.

• Rikuto invited Tsunade to help develop a forbidden medical technique and suggested they settle down.
• Rikuto proposed establishing their research base in the Land of Whirlpools and bringing experimental materials from Root, and Tsunade agreed.
• Tsunade decided to end their travels and settle in the Land of Whirlpools, while Shizune would take Karin back to Konoha.
• Rikuto invited Shizune to live at his house, and she shyly accepted.

Tsunade brought Rikuto, Shizune, Karin and the others back to the Land of Whirlpools and built them a temporary wooden house. After Shizune and Rikuto spent the night together, Rikuto slipped into Tsunade’s bedroom, where she scolded him with a hint of jealousy.

• Tsunade used Wood Release to build a house and light the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tsunade told Rikuto to take Shizune and Karin back to Konoha in the morning, and Rikuto offered to train Shizune.
• Karin went to sleep while Shizune trained with Rikuto and accepted his invitation to spend time together.
• Shizune left Rikuto’s room after bathing, and Rikuto went to Tsunade’s bedroom.
• Tsunade found Rikuto beside her and teased him for fooling Shizune, while showing jealousy over his attention to her.

Tsunade grew more comfortable with Rikuto as his lover, and he shared breakfast with her, Shizune, and Karin. After they discussed clearing the ruined Land of Whirlpools, Rikuto drew a design for the island and prepared to help them move their belongings.

• Tsunade woke in Rikuto's arms and chose to stay close to him before Karin's knock sent them out of bed.
• Rikuto greeted Shizune and Karin, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to fetch breakfast for everyone.
• After breakfast, Tsunade said they should clear the island's ruins and remains before remaking the land.
• Rikuto drew a design that turned the area into a plain, and Tsunade approved it, suggesting they later add a forest, flowers, grass, and small animals.
• Shizune and Karin brought their luggage out of the wooden house, and Rikuto said he would handle it.

Rikuto transformed the Land of Whirlpools into a lush landscape and built Tsunade a grand courtyard for her to live in. After touring the new home, Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin received Flying Thunder God Teleportation Tags from Rikuto.

• Rikuto leveled the island and used his Chakra to cover it with grass, flowers, and forests.
• Rikuto built a grand courtyard with gardens, lakes, and buildings, then asked Tsunade whether she was satisfied.
• Tsunade happily accepted the courtyard and blushed at the thought of living there with Rikuto.
• Rikuto showed Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin around the courtyard, and Karin chose a room for weekend visits.
• Shizune unpacked Tsunade's luggage and prepared her room while recalling how Tsunade had begun to recover after taking Rikuto as her disciple.
• Rikuto gave Shizune and Karin four Flying Thunder God Teleportation Tags with the courtyard's coordinates already set.

Rikuto returned Shizune and Karin to Konoha, where the Third Hokage and his advisors worried that Tsunade might be preparing to seize power. At the Root base, Moegi woke after a day-long transformation and began training to use her newly awakened Wood Release.

• Rikuto took Shizune and Karin from Tsunade in the Land of Whirlpools back to Konoha, and Shizune and Karin said goodbye to Tsunade.
• Shizune told the Third Hokage that Tsunade had sent her and Karin back to work at Konoha Hospital, while Tsunade had refused to return.
• The Third Hokage and the Hokage Advisors felt relieved that Tsunade was absent but wondered whether she was preparing to seize power.
• Moegi woke at the Root base after sleeping for a day and learned that the Devil Fruit had awakened her Wood Release.
• Rikuto used Tsukuyomi to give Moegi three months of Wood Release instruction in an instant.

Rikuto brought Moegi to the Land of Whirlpools and asked Tsunade to train her Wood Release control for two days. Back in Konoha, Shizune and Karin returned to the village, and Anko sensed that another woman had become close to Rikuto.

• Rikuto introduced Moegi Kazamatsuri to Tsunade as his cousin and a descendant of the Senju Clan.
• Tsunade agreed to teach Moegi for two days so the young girl could control her Wood Release safely.
• Kurenai and Anko ran into Shizune and Karin after the two returned from the Hokage building.
• Karin told Kurenai that Tsunade had ended her travels, while Shizune clarified that she and Karin would stay in Konoha but Tsunade would not return.
• Anko joked with Shizune about their shared ties to the Sannin, then sensed another woman’s familiar scent and suspected Rikuto had gained another sister.

Rikuto restored Uzuki Yugao’s memories, learned that Utatane Koharu had asked her to spy on him and Tsunade, and made her his assistant. He then traveled to the Land of Fire’s border and revealed a new chakra-wing technique, the Mysterious Peacock Method: Wings of Wind and Lightning.

• Rikuto visited Uzuki Yugao after she left the Anbu and became a Special Jōnin.
• Rikuto released the seal on Yugao’s memories, and she recalled Utatane Koharu asking her to secretly watch him and Tsunade.
• Yugao told Rikuto about Koharu’s request, and Rikuto told her to work as his assistant.
• Rikuto kissed Yugao and fed her an Artificial Devil Fruit before leaving.
• Rikuto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Land of Fire’s border and displayed chakra wings crackling with lightning.

Rikuto used his speed, concealment, and Mangekyō Sharingan to locate and capture Chiyo and Ebizo in the Land of Wind. Disguised as a masked man, he demanded that they hand over the Forbidden Technique One's Own Life Reincarnation.

• Rikuto tested his Chakra wings, then combined them with the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and Dustless Bewildering Cover to fly undetected toward the Land of Wind.
• Rikuto subdued a Sunagakure ninja with his Sharingan and learned that Chiyo and Ebizo were living in seclusion at an oasis.
• Chiyo and Ebizo attacked the figure who arrived at their courtyard, but Rikuto remained hidden in the Kakuriyo Space and restrained them with Cursed Seals.
• Rikuto appeared disguised in a spiral mask and black cloak, and Chiyo and Ebizo recognized his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Rikuto demanded that Chiyo and Ebizo surrender the Forbidden Technique One's Own Life Reincarnation.

Disguised as the Masked Man, Rikuto used the Sealing Technique Seal and his Sharingan to subdue Chiyo and Ebizo, then took the scroll containing One's Own Life Reincarnation. He returned to the Root base and began studying the forbidden technique.

• Rikuto ambushed Chiyo and Ebizo, whose sensory abilities could not detect him in Kakuriyo Space.
• Rikuto placed Chiyo under his ocular control and learned that the forbidden technique was hidden in her prosthetic arm.
• Rikuto removed Chiyo's prosthetic arm, learned the hand seals to open its trapped scroll, and retrieved One's Own Life Reincarnation.
• Rikuto revealed that he had planned to tell Chiyo and Ebizo where Sasori was, then vanished before they could ask him for the location.
• Rikuto used Flying Thunder God to return to the Root base and began studying One's Own Life Reincarnation.

Rikuto mastered One's Own Life Reincarnation and prepared to use it with a clone to revive Senju Nawaki. The chapter ended with Nawaki waking up in Rikuto's training room, confused that he was alive.

• Rikuto mastered One's Own Life Reincarnation and considered improving it with Senjutsu Chakra.
• Rikuto revealed to Shinnō that he controlled Root and ordered him to study the forbidden technique.
• Rikuto showed Aburame Ryoma a clone grown from Senju Nawaki's preserved organs and planned to restore Nawaki's soul to it.
• Rikuto used Impure World Reincarnation and One's Own Life Reincarnation to bring Nawaki back in the clone's body.
• Nawaki woke in Rikuto's training room and wondered whether he had died.

Rikuto revived Nawaki, who had been dead for almost thirty years, and explained that he was Tsunade’s disciple and husband. He showed Nawaki the Fourth Hokage’s face on Hokage Rock, leaving Nawaki stunned that Minato Namikaze had achieved the dream he once held.

• Rikuto revived Nawaki in a younger body and told him that he had been dead for almost thirty years.
• Rikuto explained his relationship with Tsunade and transformed into her to show Nawaki how she looked.
• Rikuto took Nawaki to a rooftop, where Nawaki saw the Fourth Hokage’s face carved into Hokage Rock and lamented that someone else had become Hokage.
• Rikuto identified the Fourth Hokage as Minato Namikaze and mentioned his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, whom Nawaki remembered from before his death.

Rikuto brought the resurrected Nawaki back to the Root base and explained his new Tag Formation system, which could let people activate inscribed techniques by supplying Chakra. Nawaki learned that his sister Tsunade had spent years grieving him, and Rikuto planned to take him to see her the next morning.

• Rikuto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return with Nawaki to the Root base and told him that Tsunade had mourned him for years.
• Nawaki awkwardly accepted Rikuto as his brother-in-law and agreed to wait until morning to see Tsunade, though he could not sleep.
• Rikuto showed Nawaki a Mystical Palm Tag and explained how Tag Formations could inscribe techniques onto tags and scrolls for later use.
• Rikuto described single-use, reusable, and permanent Tag Formations and said the system could create a new profession in the Shinobi World.

Rikuto brought Nawaki back to life and reunited him with Tsunade in the Land of Whirlpools. Tsunade wept with relief and learned that Nawaki had become younger, while he said Rikuto had revived him.

• Nawaki admired Rikuto's Flying Thunder God seal and asked to learn seal arrays, so Rikuto told him to wait until he became a Jonin.
• Rikuto took Nawaki to the Land of Whirlpools to meet Tsunade and Moegi.
• Tsunade recognized Nawaki and rushed to embrace him, crying and scolding him for charging into danger on the battlefield.
• Tsunade asked why Nawaki looked younger, and Nawaki said he did not know but had become smaller after Rikuto brought him back to life.

Rikuto told Tsunade that Root had kept Nawaki’s internal organs and explained how he had prepared and sacrificed a spy to revive him. Tsunade learned that Nawaki may have survived the Explosive Tags and turned against Hiruzen’s circle, while Rikuto returned to Konoha with Moegi.

• Rikuto told Tsunade that Danzo’s Root had kept Nawaki’s internal organs, and Tsunade erupted in rage, frightening Nawaki and causing Moegi to faint.
• Nawaki explained that he had used Earth Release: Earth Spear Jutsu after stepping on Explosive Tags, leading Tsunade to suspect the Konoha higher-ups had killed him and to lose her remaining affection for Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Rikuto explained that he had used Nawaki’s cells to grow a body and combined forbidden techniques with Impure World Reincarnation to revive him, sacrificing a spy from the Village of the Sky Ninja.
• Tsunade thanked Rikuto, who left breakfast for her and Nawaki before taking Moegi back to Konoha.
• Moegi woke in a forest, and Rikuto told her to control her Wood Release and avoid using it openly.

Chiya Rikuto returned to the village and visited the Ninja Academy, where he reunited with Iruka and drew the attention of the students. As Iruka continued the practical lesson, Sakura and Ino argued over which of them Rikuto had been looking at.

• Moegi returned to the village, and Rikuto sensed that she had gone to the Ninja Academy's training ground.
• Rikuto used his Red Eye to observe the students, then walked to the Academy to watch their practical combat lesson.
• Iruka announced that students could choose whom to challenge, but the class's girls were distracted when Rikuto arrived.
• Rikuto greeted Iruka and nodded to Shikamaru, Ino, Hinata, Amaru, and the others before asking Iruka to continue the lesson.
• Sakura told Ino that Rikuto had looked at her, and Ino insisted that he had been looking at her instead.