Hi Sage and Pervy New Year to you.
As usual, great chapter, incredible mix of interweaving plotlines with Kumo, the Daimyos, more women wanting to be bound by Naruto's Universal Tamer, Kuroshige being up to no good and probably more things that I missed - hey, reading this monster of a chapter took me hours.
On a minor note, you sometimes wrote Hanare instead of Haruna, which was confusing at times.