Ghosts!!

Tenten cooks up a scheme to frighten Guy by throwing on a ghost costume, recruiting Mirai to keep the man occupied while she slips off to prepare. As Guy and Kakashi rally a ping-pong match, Mirai doubts the seasoned jonin could ever be fooled by such a stunt. Her mind wanders to the day she visited her father Asuma's grave after clearing the Chūnin Exams, when she asked Shikamaru whether spirits truly existed. She figured they could not, since otherwise Asuma would surely have shown himself to her by now. Shikamaru offered no firm answer, but he passed along the chakra blades her father once fought with, judging she had earned them, and she swore to honor his memory.

Guy interrupts her memories to ask the score, and Mirai confesses she lost track, which annoys him; Kakashi reports edging the game by a single point, prompting Guy to declare it a tie before the two leave for the bath. Tenten finally springs her costume on Mirai, who barely reacts, having already sensed it was her. Guy is another matter: stepping out of the spring, he is so terrified by the apparition that he cracks his skull against the wall and passes out. Kakashi scolds Tenten for setting a poor example and hauls Guy away.

Tenten regrets not pushing the gag further, perhaps by pinning charms around the men's quarters, only for Mirai to admit she had stripped those very talismans off on arrival, worried they might be exploding tags. The wards, it turns out, were the inn's own protection against spirits. Nothing stirs overnight and Tenten heads home the next morning, yet Guy stays rattled, swearing the figure he glimpsed was a blood-soaked warrior in armor gliding through the walls, not Tenten at all. The claim leaves Mirai and the staff shaken, while a well-rested Kakashi simply guides everyone toward their next stop. The chapter runs in volume 2.