Recaps

Kei stopped to face Rock Lee on the way to the Central Tower, but Lee withdrew before they could fight at full strength. Inside, Team 8 and the other Konoha genin discussed Kei’s strength before Karui provoked Naruto and Sasuke.

• Rock Lee challenged Kei to a fight while Kiba, Hinata, and Shino continued on to the Central Tower.
• Kei caught and flung Lee’s opening kick, then told him that his speed and strength were not enough to challenge him without special techniques.
• Neji and Tenten stopped Lee from removing his leg weights, and Lee apologized for ending the spar before fighting at full strength.
• Team 8 entered the Central Tower, where Naruto called Kei “Brother Kishu” and Shino recounted Kei’s clash with Gaara’s team.
• The Konoha genin reacted to learning that Kei’s techniques had caused a vast sandstorm, and Karui mocked them as Naruto and Sasuke bristled.

Hyuga Kei intervened when Atsui insulted him and the Konoha group, then swiftly defeated Atsui and Karui. After Jiraiya dismissed Karui’s complaint, Kei returned to his room, where Karin helped restore his strength.

• Hyuga Kei arrived as the Konoha Twelve Shinobi and three Kumogakure ninja faced off, and Atsui insulted him as a Konoha lackey.
• Hyuga Kei stopped the Konoha group from attacking, shattered Atsui’s blade, and knocked him unconscious with his bracer.
• Omoi caught Atsui as he fell from the tower, while Hyuga Kei punched Karui and left her badly hurt.
• Karin Uzumaki and Uchiha Hikari joined Hyuga Kei, and the Konoha group watched him leave, with Neji admitting that Kei was faster and stronger than he was.
• Karui complained to Jiraiya, who blamed the Kumogakure team for starting the conflict and said he would report what happened to the Raikage.
• Back in the resting room, Karin urged Hyuga Kei to bite her arm, and he regained strength from her life force.

The Chunin Exams preliminary matches began, with several examinees advancing or being eliminated. Neji defeated Hinata, and Hyuga Kei healed her before she was taken for a medical examination.

• Karin Uzumaki and Uchiha Hikari withdrew from the preliminaries, following Hyuga Kei's order.
• Sasuke defeated Atsui with a copied version of Hyuga Kei's Chiba Consecutive Strikes, while Naruto beat Kiba using a foul fart.
• Omoi easily defeated an unknown opponent, and Aburame Shino and Kankuro eliminated each other after Kankuro poisoned his tools.
• Neji defeated Hinata after trying to persuade her to quit, and Hyuga Kei healed her burns and revived her.
• Hyuga Kei persuaded Hinata to undergo another examination before returning to the stands.

After the preliminaries ended, Hinata wrestled with Neji’s advice to focus on rebuilding the Hyuga clan and accepted Hanabi’s encouragement to pursue someone she liked. Hyuga Kei received Hinata’s dinner invitation and used his false identity and a charm-enhancing technique to strengthen her feelings for him, then returned to the inn where Karin greeted him resentfully.

• Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka drew, Temari, Tenten, Gaara, and Rock Lee won their matches, and Shikamaru Nara advanced after Choji Akimichi surrendered first.
• Gekko Hayate assigned the ten successful candidates to groups for the third stage, which would begin in a month.
• Hinata worried over Neji’s advice, and Hanabi persuaded her that she could pursue love while Hanabi trained to avenge their family.
• Hanabi invited Hyuga Kei to dinner on Hinata’s behalf, and he planned to use his false identity to make Hinata fall for him before revealing who he was.
• Hyuga Kei used Bewitching Sage Mode, brought white roses and fruit to Hinata’s home, and shared dinner with her.
• Hyuga Kei returned to the inn, where Karin looked at him resentfully for flirting with other women.

A wounded Anbu told Naruto that Sarutobi Hiruzen had concealed his identity and arranged his parents’ deaths, then left him documents as evidence. After Anbu came to question him, Naruto read the papers and vowed to avenge his parents, deciding to destroy Konoha.

• A wounded Anbu visited Naruto, claimed Sarutobi Hiruzen had orchestrated his parents’ deaths, and gave him documents before disappearing.
• Several Anbu questioned Naruto about seeing anyone, and he denied it while hiding the documents.
• Naruto read the papers, which accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of coveting power and Uchiha Obito of causing the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.
• Naruto mourned his parents, swore to avenge them, and resolved to destroy Konoha.

Hyuga Kei manipulated Naruto into believing Konoha had wronged him, setting him up to make a scene during the Chunin Exams. He reunited with Neji and prepared to meet Danzo, while planning to take Neji away the next day.

• Naruto agreed with the Nine-Tails to cause trouble in Konoha during the following day's important event, unaware that Hyuga Kei had fabricated much of the intelligence he saw.
• Hyuga Kei praised Kabuto Yakushi's performance, promised him a chance to deal with Danzo, and went to visit Neji.
• Hyuga Kei showed Neji through a genjutsu how the Hyuga Main House had forced his parents into their deaths, then told him he would take him away.
• Neji agreed to leave with Hyuga Kei and planned to act normally until Hyuga Kei came for him the next day.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Hyuga Kei that Danzo had agreed to meet them, and the two went to see him.

Hyuga Kei and Kabuto Yakushi attacked Danzo in Root’s underground base, where Hyuga Kei tore out Shisui’s Sharingan and fought Danzo while Kabuto faced Torune. Danzo used Izanagi to survive repeated lethal attacks, but Hyuga Kei overwhelmed him and ended the chapter claiming he had already seen how Danzo would die.

• Danzo prepared to negotiate with Orochimaru’s subordinate, but Hyuga Kei burst into his room and stole Shisui’s Sharingan.
• Kabuto Yakushi joined Hyuga Kei and confronted Danzo, who activated Izanagi and ordered Torune to fight Kabuto.
• Hyuga Kei repeatedly killed Danzo, forcing him to spend Sharingan on Izanagi, while Kabuto fought Torune.
• Danzo summoned the Baku, but Hyuga Kei knocked it down and detonated the Explosion Release chakra he had planted inside it.
• Danzo survived the blast with Izanagi, and Hyuga Kei told him he had already seen how he would die.

Hyuga Kei killed Danzo after exhausting the Sharingan revivals in his arm, then took Danzo’s stored Sharingan and forged a treasonous treaty to frame him. As the Chunin Exams approached, Sarutobi Hiruzen sensed danger and ordered extra security.

• Hyuga Kei killed Danzo seven more times, exhausted his revivals, and prevented him from using the Reaper Death Seal: Four Symbols.
• Hyuga Kei handed Danzo to Kabuto Yakushi, then raided the Root base’s secret chamber and took its stored Sharingan.
• Hyuga Kei ordered Kabuto Yakushi to forge a humiliating alliance treaty that implicated Danzo and could be revealed to Konoha during their plan.
• Hyuga Kei returned to his room to wash, while Kabuto Yakushi continued preparing for the next day’s events.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen woke with a sense of dread and ordered the Anbu to reinforce security at the Chunin Exams.

At the Chunin Exams, Naruto fought Gaara while Hyuga Kei’s plan pushed him toward losing control of the Nine-Tails’ chakra. Naruto’s transformation escalated from one tail to four, and he attacked the Konoha Sealing Force as the spectators fled.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen received the visiting nobles and Raikage A while the disguised Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi sat as the Kazekage.
• Shikamaru Nara noticed Naruto seemed gloomy, and Gekko Hayate announced that Sasuke would forfeit if he did not arrive by the second match.
• Naruto and Gaara began their match, and Naruto called on the Nine-Tails to lend him chakra.
• Naruto’s enhanced speed broke through Gaara’s sand defenses, while Gaara attempted to awaken One-Tail Shukaku.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered the spectators evacuated and sent the Sealing Force to contain Naruto as his chakra formed multiple tails.
• Naruto transformed into a four-tailed beast and hurled the approaching Sealing Force ninja away.

Orochimaru and Kabuto trapped Sarutobi Hiruzen on the rooftop while the invasion and Tailed Beast battle erupted below. Chiba Kishu confronted Konoha’s shinobi and defended his decision to fight for the oppressed people of the Land of Rice.

• Orochimaru bound Sarutobi Hiruzen and sealed the rooftop with the Four Violet Flames Formation, then summoned Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama warned Sarutobi Hiruzen that Kabuto Yakushi controlled Orochimaru, but Kabuto took control of Tobirama before he could finish.
• Gaara’s False Awakening Technique summoned Shukaku, who attacked Naruto as Naruto fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at him.
• Hatake Kakashi directed the shinobi to evacuate civilians and seek reinforcements while Hyuga Kei’s Shadow Clone took Neji and Tenten away on puppet Flying Eagles.
• Chiba Kishu identified himself as the Sound Village leader and told Hinata, Jiraiya, and the Konoha shinobi that he was fighting for the people of the Land of Rice, whom Konoha had oppressed.

Hyuga Kei fought Konoha’s strongest shinobi in Sage Mode, refusing Jiraiya’s offer to settle the conflict peacefully. After Tsunade’s attack buried him, he survived and counterattacked, while privately wondering why Kabuto Yakushi had not brought the alliance recruiters.

• Hyuga Kei rejected Jiraiya’s offer and entered Ryūchi Cave’s Perfect Sage Mode as Jiraiya began preparing his own Sage Mode.
• Guy and Kakashi attacked Hyuga Kei, but he countered their moves until Tenzo arrived and tried to restrain the Nine-Tails.
• Hyuga Kei used Sage Art: White Surge Technique to blind, deafen, and paralyze the Konoha ninja, then fought off Jiraiya and Guy’s attacks.
• Tsunade struck Hyuga Kei with Painful Heavenly Footkick, burying him beneath the rubble, but he emerged alive and used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation to attack Konoha’s shinobi.
• Sasuke admired Hyuga Kei’s strength, while Hyuga Kei privately blamed Kabuto Yakushi for failing to bring the alliance recruiters.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sealed the reanimated Senju brothers but died after Orochimaru escaped Hyuga Kei’s control and Kabuto Yakushi intervened. As Yamato and Tsunade restrained Naruto’s Nine-Tails transformation, Jiraiya and the two sages battled Hyuga Kei, ending with Jiraiya closing in with a Great Ball Rasengan.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen used the Reaper Death Seal on Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju, then pulled the souls from Orochimaru’s arms, letting Orochimaru escape Hyuga Kei’s control.
• Kabuto Yakushi activated Orochimaru’s curse mark, took Orochimaru’s corpse and a piece of Sarutobi Hiruzen’s flesh, and ordered the Sound Four to retreat.
• Naruto entered his Seven-Tails state and rampaged until Yamato bound him with Wood Release, aided by Tsunade’s chakra.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku and confronted Hyuga Kei, whose attacks and genjutsu kept them at a distance.
• Sage Fukasaku pulled Jiraiya toward Hyuga Kei, and Jiraiya launched a Great Ball Rasengan at him.

Naruto’s father, Minato Namikaze, helped him regain control and urged him to tell Jiraiya the intelligence implicating Sarutobi Hiruzen and Uchiha Obito. After Naruto stopped transforming, Tsunade discovered Danzo’s agreement with Sound Village and headed to join the fight between Hyuga Kei and Jiraiya.

• Inside Naruto’s mental world, Minato Namikaze stopped him from removing the Nine-Tails’ seal and listened as Naruto explained the claims against Sarutobi Hiruzen and Uchiha Obito.
• The Nine-Tails showed Minato scenes of Naruto’s mistreatment, prompting Minato to believe Naruto’s concerns and send him to Jiraiya to investigate.
• Naruto regained control, his tails and chakra receded, and Tsunade caught him as he fell.
• An Anbu gave Tsunade a scroll showing Danzo had promised Sound Village support, including leasing Naruto as a weapon, in exchange for help becoming Hokage.
• Tsunade accepted that Konoha might have to honor some terms to limit its losses, handed Naruto to two Anbu, and rushed toward Hyuga Kei and Jiraiya’s fight.

Uchiha Hikari tried to use Yachihoko to control Naruto, but the technique failed, while Hyuga Kei defeated Jiraiya and forced Tsunade to negotiate. Tsunade became Konoha's Fifth Hokage and secured the Otogakure ninja's withdrawal, leaving Hyuga Kei alone to negotiate.

• Uchiha Hikari rescued Naruto from two Anbu agents, but Naruto rejected Hyuga Kei's offer to join his plan and ran toward Jiraiya.
• Hikari's Yachihoko failed against Naruto's Pure Yang chakra, and she followed Hyuga Kei's order to abandon the plan.
• Hyuga Kei's Sage Art: Bone Drill Wind Bullet overpowered Jiraiya's Rasengan and left Jiraiya helpless before him.
• Tsunade offered to accept several alliance conditions, including war compensation and an Otogakure orphanage, to save Jiraiya.
• An Anbu agent brought Tsunade the Hokage's hat, and she swore as Konoha's Fifth Hokage to uphold the agreement.
• Hyuga Kei ordered his Otogakure ninja to retreat and stayed behind alone to negotiate with Tsunade.

Hyuga Kei and Tsunade negotiated an alliance between Sound Village and Konoha, with the Land of Fire and neutral witnesses present. After signing the treaty and agreeing to Jiraiya’s ransom, Kei accepted an invitation to stay in Konoha for Tsunade’s inauguration.

• Hyuga Kei released Jiraiya after placing a Ryūchi Cave curse mark on him, then followed Tsunade to the Hokage’s Office.
• Hyuga Kei and Konoha’s representatives disputed the terms of the alliance, eventually agreeing that Sound ninja would support Konoha as paid reinforcements and that Konoha would pay Kei fifty million for his services.
• Hyuga Kei demanded a ransom for Jiraiya, and the parties agreed on fifty million before Tsunade ordered the alliance treaty drafted.
• Hyuga Kei signed the treaty as Chiba Kishu, and the feudal lords and neutral witnesses signed afterward.
• Mitokado Homura invited Hyuga Kei to remain in Konoha for Tsunade’s inauguration, and Kei accepted.
• Hyuga Kei went with Tsunade to the hospital to remove Jiraiya’s curse mark, where Jiraiya’s sleep-talking annoyed Tsunade.

Hyuga Kei’s attempt to turn Naruto against Konoha failed because Asura’s chakra protected Naruto from Yachihoko, so Kei shifted his plans toward Sasuke and arranged to keep Orochimaru under control. After helping Tsunade take office and bidding farewell to Konoha’s young ninja, Kei prepared to leave, then asked Hinata to see him off alone.

• Hyuga Kei removed Jiraiya’s curse marks, and Tsunade punched Jiraiya after he admitted he wanted My Snake Spirit Cry to gather material for his writing.
• Uchiha Hikari told Hyuga Kei that Naruto resisted Yachihoko because warm chakra blocked her dojutsu, and Kei concluded that Asura’s reincarnated chakra was protecting Naruto.
• Hyuga Kei told Kabuto Yakushi to resurrect Orochimaru with Impure World Reincarnation and keep him controlled, and he asked Uzumaki Yuka to look after Neji and Tenten.
• Naruto told Jiraiya and Tsunade the fabricated account of the Third Hokage’s schemes, and Tsunade later publicized Naruto’s role in stopping Shukaku without revealing he was Minato’s son.
• Hyuga Kei attended Tsunade’s inauguration and, before leaving Konoha, encouraged Naruto to earn the people’s trust if he wanted to become Hokage.
• As the Konoha 11 said farewell, Hyuga Kei asked Hinata to see him off alone, delighting her.

Hyuga Kei exposed Sarutobi Hiruzen's dark history and revealed Uchiha Obito's role in the Nine-Tails' Rampage, causing Konoha and Akatsuki to face the fallout. Nagato broke with Obito, who resolved to continue the Ten-Tails plan from the shadows.

• Hyuga Kei hugged Hinata goodbye, gave her a secret messenger puppet, and left as she watched him go.
• Hanabi teased Hinata about Hyuga Kei and decided that her future brother-in-law could help her train.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha to address the rumors about Sarutobi Hiruzen by revising textbooks and discussing his merits and faults.
• Hyuga Kei anticipated that Konoha would deny Obito's role and name him a rogue ninja after information about the Nine-Tails' Rampage and Kirigakure spread.
• Pain confronted Obito over his deception, declared that Akatsuki would no longer be used by him, and left with the other Paths.
• Obito met Black and White Zetsu, learned that Konoha had eliminated the Anbu who exposed his identity, and vowed to continue the plan as long as Nagato pursued the Tailed Beasts.

Hyuga Kei left the Land of Rain with his family and established himself in the Land of Rice, where he continued plotting to advance the Moon Eye Plan. He showed Neji his research and won his support for the plan to resurrect their parents, despite its expected sacrifices.

• Nagato told Konan he distrusted Obito and assigned her to build Akatsuki’s own intelligence network.
• Hyuga Kei prepared to leave the Land of Rain with his family, arranged for Tenten to return to Konoha, and erased her memories of recent events.
• Konan said Akatsuki would still welcome Hyuga Kei, but he left anyway and flew with his family to the Land of Rice.
• Black Zetsu told Hyuga Kei that Obito had been expelled from Akatsuki and asked him to monitor the group and advance the Moon Eye Plan.
• Hyuga Kei ordered Kabuto Yakushi to lure Second Pillar into joining them, then showed Neji the laboratory and described his plan to resurrect their parents.
• Neji worried that the plan would cause many deaths, but ultimately said he would stand with Hyuga Kei.

At the Valley of the End, Hyuga Kei recruited Sasuke after Naruto fell unconscious, offering him power and a chance to revive his parents. Sasuke agreed to join Hyuga Kei’s plan, and Hyuga promised to train him to surpass Itachi within three years.

• Sasuke defeated Naruto in their battle but could not bring himself to kill him.
• Hyuga Kei revealed himself as Chiba Kishu and persuaded Sasuke to leave with him instead of joining Orochimaru.
• On the Flying Eagle, Hyuga Kei told Sasuke that he sought power to oppose the entire shinobi world and that a resurrection jutsu had been completed, though it required one life for another.
• Hyuga Kei explained that Madara Uchiha gained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan by fusing his Mangekyō Sharingan with Uchiha Izuna’s, and Sasuke realized Itachi might want his eyes.
• Sasuke asked Hyuga Kei to train him so he could kill Itachi and revive his parents, and Hyuga promised to help him surpass Itachi within three years.

Hyuga Kei trained Sasuke and Neji, then attended an Akatsuki meeting where Pain confirmed Obito and Zetsu had been expelled. Pain assigned Hyuga Kei and Konan to capture Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, at Mount Buwei.

• Hyuga Kei gave Sasuke and Neji training scrolls and watched Neji defeat Sasuke in their second match.
• Hyuga Kei joined the Akatsuki meeting through the Phantasmal Body Technique as Pain addressed Obito and Zetsu's expulsion.
• Hyuga Kei, Itachi, and Kisame each said they would remain in the organization.
• Pain assigned Hyuga Kei to capture Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, and named Konan his temporary teammate.
• Hyuga Kei told Konan he would reach the Land of Rain that afternoon so they could depart together.

Hyuga Kei and Konan located Roshi, the Four-Tails jinchuriki, near Mighty Volcano, and Hyuga Kei challenged him alone. Roshi and Son Goku joined forces against Hyuga Kei, whose Truth-Seeking Orb attacks broke through Roshi’s lava defenses and left the battle unresolved.

• Itachi asked where Orochimaru was, and Hyuga Kei told him Orochimaru could not transfer bodies again for three years.
• Hyuga Kei spoke with Deidara and Sasori, then left Otogakure aboard the puppet Flying Eagle for the Land of Rain.
• Four days later, Hyuga Kei and Konan found Roshi training near Mighty Volcano in the Land of Earth.
• Hyuga Kei told Konan to stay behind and descended to capture Roshi, who attacked with Lava Style.
• Son Goku warned Roshi that Hyuga Kei’s eyes and Truth-Seeking Orbs posed a deadly threat, so Roshi agreed to use the Four-Tails’ power.
• Hyuga Kei’s Truth-Seeking Orb attacks pierced Roshi’s lava defenses and fired a barrage of azure lasers toward him.

Hyuga Kei defeated Roshi and the Four-Tails with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, then brought Roshi to a cave with Konan to extract the Tailed Beast. The Akatsuki completed the extraction, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path opened its first eye.

• Roshi entered complete Tailed Beast Transformation after leaping into the magma, but Hyuga Kei overwhelmed his Tailed Beast Bomb with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Hyuga Kei caught the unconscious Roshi with a puppet Flying Eagle and left with Konan for a hidden cave.
• Hyuga Kei summoned the Akatsuki members while Konan summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• The Akatsuki members used Nine Phantom Dragon Sealing to extract the Four-Tails from Roshi and transfer it into the statue.

Tsunade overruled her advisers and kept Hinata and Hanabi on Konoha’s delegation to Sound Village, while Hyuga Kei prepared to welcome them and secure Konoha’s aid. After touring Sound Village with the delegation, Hyuga Kei heard from Shikaku Nara that the ninja world might soon face new turmoil.

• Tsunade rejected Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu’s objections and kept the Jinchuriki and the two Hyuga girls among the delegation.
• Hyuga Kei learned that Hinata and Hanabi would travel to Sound Village, told Kabuto Yakushi to hide Sasuke and Neji, and hurried back to Sound Village.
• Hyuga Kei and Sound Village officials welcomed Jiraiya and the Konoha delegation, which brought supplies, funding, teachers, and research equipment.
• Hyuga Kei showed the delegation Sound Village’s Ninja Academy and hospital, while Shikaku Nara praised the hospital and village.
• A Konoha Anbu delivered a letter to Shikaku Nara, who warned Hyuga Kei that the ninja world might soon become unsettled.

Hyuga Kei arranged for the Sound Village to support Konoha in the war against Iwagakure, then visited Hinata and gave her a chakra-made gemstone necklace. Their reunion was interrupted when Hanabi emerged from the bathroom, unaware that Hyuga Kei was in the room.

• Shikaku Nara told Hyuga Kei that Iwagakure had occupied the Land of Grass and could soon attack the Land of Fire.
• Hyuga Kei agreed to send Sound ninja to fight alongside Konoha, and Hirata Kōhiko negotiated the hiring fees with Shikaku.
• Hyuga Kei and Jiraiya signed an agreement and finalized the cooperation between their villages.
• Hinata worried that Kishu might have forgotten her, while Hanabi looked forward to meeting her brother-in-law.
• Hyuga Kei visited Hinata and gave her a necklace with a gemstone he had formed from chakra.
• Hanabi emerged from the bathroom, startling Hinata and Hyuga Kei.

Hyuga Kei soothed Hanabi after she accidentally saw him in the room, gave her a chakra-made pendant, and agreed to teach her training. Later, Sasuke encountered Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi at a noodle shop in Sound Village, where the reunion reminded him of their days in Konoha.

• Hanabi came out of the bathroom, discovered Hyuga Kei in the room, and fled back inside before Hinata explained the misunderstanding.
• Hyuga Kei apologized and gave Hanabi a chakra-made pendant, which he said he could make another copy of for her.
• Hanabi asked Hyuga Kei to teach her training and stay by his side, and he agreed on the condition that she listen to him.
• Hyuga Kei placed the pendant around Hinata's neck, and Hinata thanked him shyly as Hanabi watched them together.
• Sasuke visited Hyuga Kei's noodle shop in Sound Village and ordered zhajiang noodles.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi arrived at the noodle shop, and Sasuke listened to them as memories of Konoha came back to him.