Naruto roman - Kakashi Retsuden

Kakashi Hatake arrives in the once-peaceful Land of Redaku to find its streets lined with bodies and its people gripped by suspicion and drought. A year after her father's death, young Queen Manari is too afraid to use the Shuigu, the sacred artifact meant to summon rain, after a prior attempt caused a catastrophic flood. Searching for another path forward, Kakashi tracks down the exiled prince dismissed as a "failure" and takes it upon himself to train the boy, uncovering a much larger conspiracy tying Redaku's fate to Konoha's along the way.

Jun Esaka, with art by series creator Masashi Kishimoto, delivers a Naruto tie-in novel centered on Kakashi navigating politics, grief, and mentorship far from home.