Recaps

Hinata studied Natural Energy with Orochimaru, secured a deal to strengthen the Hyuga Clan, and helped Hiashi prepare the clan for Akatsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki. Konoha grew wary of Hinata and the clan as Hiashi traveled to meet Orochimaru and checked for surveillance.

• Hinata learned that her Natural Energy reserves were held in a Yin-Yang Release Sealed Space and planned to strengthen her constitution through careful, long-term accumulation.
• Hinata and Orochimaru captured Garaga, and Orochimaru tested ways to use snake meat to help people absorb Sage Chakra safely.
• Hinata offered Orochimaru Urashiki’s Rinnegan in exchange for improving the snake meat, and he accepted while Hinata planned to use the results to strengthen the Hyuga Clan.
• Tsunade and Shikamaru grew suspicious of Hinata’s connections and intentions, while Hiashi and Hizashi discussed the clan’s future, Akatsuki, and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Hinata gave Hiashi Body Tempering Pills, and he began testing them on selected Hyuga Shinobi while arranging cooperation with Orochimaru.
• Hinata agreed to accompany Shikamaru to the Joint Chunin Exam in Sand Village and secretly met Black Zetsu, who warned her about the Three-Tails, Orochimaru’s disappearance, and Konoha’s suspicions.
• The first Hyuga Shinobi improved after taking the pills, and Hiashi won the Main Family Elders’ support for Hinata’s plan as Tsunade ordered a mission that included Hinata.
• In late May, Hiashi traveled toward the Land of Fire Capital with four guards, sent them ahead, and activated his Rinnegan to check for surveillance.

Hinata and Hyuga Hiashi strengthened the clan through a deal with Orochimaru while the Five Great Shinobi Villages edged toward conflict over Impure World Reincarnation. As the Joint Chunin Exam began in Sunagakure, Hinata agreed to help Orochimaru’s plans but prepared to deceive him about a restriction he believed she had placed on him.

• Hyuga Hiashi revealed his Rinnegan to Orochimaru and negotiated five hundred doses of secret medicine each month in exchange for Urashiki’s cells, while Hinata considered how to obtain them.
• Hinata studied Orochimaru’s research and discussed with Hiashi the Hyuga Clan’s growing strength, its plans to avoid fighting Konoha, and the threat posed by Akatsuki and Black Zetsu.
• Hinata traveled to Sunagakure with Shikamaru and arranged with Gaara to watch for Kumogakure’s attempt to steal Impure World Reincarnation or turn the villages against each other.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto infiltrated a Kumogakure team, then Orochimaru arranged with the Raikage to exploit the villages’ pursuit of Impure World Reincarnation and provoke conflict.
• As the Joint Chunin Exam began, Hinata learned that Kumogakure might act during the Second Exam and that Orochimaru had exposed himself in the Land of Wind to draw her away from Sunagakure.
• Tsunade saw through Orochimaru’s attempt to lure Hinata away and had Shikamaru tell her to remain in Sunagakure and watch Kumogakure.
• Hinata contacted Orochimaru, agreed to buy him ten minutes during an attack on Sunagakure, and discussed his plan to provoke Kumogakure and Iwagakure over Impure World Reincarnation and the Byakugan.
• Orochimaru offered to help Hinata against Kumogakure if she removed the restriction he believed she had placed inside him, and Hinata agreed while planning to fool him about it.

Hinata helped Orochimaru unleash the resurrected Kage in Sunagakure, then returned to Konoha as the villages mobilized over the Impure World Reincarnation. While the Hyuga Clan weighed its place in the growing conflict, Orochimaru revealed that he was targeting Ao’s Byakugan.

• Hinata helped Orochimaru resurrect six Kage, then fought the Fourth Kazekage, Minato Namikaze, the Second Tsuchikage, and the Third Hokage as they attacked Sunagakure.
• Hinata refused Shikamaru’s request to pursue Cloud Ninja who stole the Impure World Reincarnation scroll, and Gaara’s standing suffered after his squads failed to recover it.
• Hinata returned to Konoha, delivered Urashiki’s corpse to Orochimaru, and agreed with Hyuga Hiashi to keep one of Urashiki’s eyes as leverage.
• Tsunade and Shikaku examined Orochimaru’s schemes as Kumogakure and Iwagakure mobilized, while Tsunade prepared a mission to protect Kirigakure’s copy of the jutsu.
• Hinata developed a plan to cultivate vitality and soul energy in her Sealed Space, while Orochimaru resolved to use Urashiki’s cells to transform a Byakugan into a Rinnegan.
• Hyuga Hiashi urged Konoha to stay out of the conflict, and Tsunade used Hinata’s agreement to end a Jonin meeting while testing the clan’s attitude toward the village.
• Orochimaru told Kabuto Yakushi that their real target was Ao of Kirigakure and his Byakugan, then ordered him to tell the Cloud Ninja and Stone Ninja that the operation could begin.

Hinata joined Team 7 to rescue Gaara, confronting Akatsuki members and helping uncover Obito’s space-time abilities. After Chiyo revived Gaara and the team returned to Konoha, Obito advanced his plans with Sasuke while Tsunade investigated the masked man.

• Orochimaru abducted Ao after defeating his team, while Kirigakure’s conflict with the Cloud and Stone villages over Impure World Reincarnation deepened.
• Hinata warned Hyuga Hiashi that Naruto’s Asura chakra could influence others, then returned to Konoha and defeated Naruto in Kakashi’s bell test.
• Hinata agreed to work with Team 7, and Tsunade sent them to Sunagakure after Orochimaru and Sasori captured Gaara.
• Hinata helped save the poisoned Kankuro, then joined Kakashi, Naruto, and Chiyo in pursuing the Akatsuki captors.
• Hinata and Team 7 fought Itachi and Kisame’s substitutes, then faced Obito, whose Kamui allowed him to trap and evade them.
• Hinata broke the barrier at Gaara’s cave, where Naruto and Kakashi battled Sasori while Hinata waited outside with Orochimaru.
• Naruto defeated Sasori’s Third Kazekage puppet, and Chiyo later sacrificed her life to revive Gaara as Hinata recognized and resisted Asura’s influence on her emotions.
• Obito recruited Sasuke into Akatsuki’s plans, while Tsunade investigated the masked man and summoned Hinata and Naruto to the hospital.