Recaps

Hyuga Kei watched Sasori fall in battle, then took Sasori’s puppets and regeneration core while allowing Chiyo and Sakura to leave. Deidara escaped with Gaara’s body, but Kakashi saved Naruto and Gaara from an explosion, and Naruto vowed revenge after discovering Gaara had died.

• Kisame told Pain that Hyuga Kei’s younger brother had attacked and defeated his clone, while Kei pretended the boy was simply mischievous.
• Naruto, Kakashi, and Sai pursued Deidara and Gaara’s body as Chiyo and Sakura fought Sasori to a standstill.
• Sasori deliberately exposed an opening and died when his father and mother puppets pierced his regeneration core.
• Hyuga Kei sealed Sasori’s puppets, regeneration core, and human puppet body into a scroll, then let Chiyo and Sakura leave.
• Deidara released four puppet Flying Eagles, and Naruto grabbed Gaara as the eagle carrying him neared detonation.
• Kakashi stopped the explosion and saved Naruto and Gaara with Sai’s help, but Naruto found that Gaara had stopped breathing and vowed revenge.

Chiyo sacrificed her life with One's Own Life Reincarnation to revive Gaara, then died as Temari and the others watched. After Gaara mistakenly blamed Hyuga Kei, Naruto and Temari explained the sacrifice, and Gaara accepted Chiyo’s wishes and reconciled with Hyuga Kei, beginning cooperation between their nations.

• Chiyo began One's Own Life Reincarnation, explaining that she had created the jutsu to revive Sasori’s parents and intended to trade her life for Gaara’s.
• Temari rushed to stop Chiyo, but Chiyo continued and asked Hyuga Kei to care for Temari while reflecting on the ninja world’s future.
• Chiyo’s chakra faded as Gaara revived, and Temari caught Chiyo as she died.
• Gaara suspected Hyuga Kei had killed Chiyo and attacked him, but Naruto restrained Gaara while Temari explained that Chiyo had sacrificed herself to save him.
• Hyuga Kei urged Gaara to honor Chiyo by leading Sunagakure, and Gaara accepted her wishes and clasped Hyuga Kei’s hand in reconciliation.

Hyuga Kei helped Naruto search for leads on Sasuke and Obito, returned to the Land of Rain after Sunagakure's rescue, and shared a parting kiss with Temari. The chapter ended with him repairing Deidara's arm and preparing to capture the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Hyuga Kei told Naruto that following the Akatsuki Organization might lead him to Sasuke and Uchiha Obito.
• Chiyo died bringing Gaara back, and Sunagakure welcomed Hyuga Kei as a hero before its leaders offered concessions in talks with the Federation.
• Temari thanked Hyuga Kei as he left Sunagakure, and he kissed her before departing; she resolved to become stronger and find him again.
• Hyuga Kei transplanted a new arm for Deidara, who accepted Sasori's ring and spoke of Sasori's death.
• Hyuga Kei told Deidara that the Five-Tails Jinchuriki had appeared in the Land of Earth and left to capture a Tailed Beast.

Hyuga Kei and Deidara headed to the Land of Tea, where the Three-Tails battle would bring together several factions, while Neji returned to Konoha and faced Tsunade’s suspicions. Neji left the Hokage’s office after warning Tsunade not to provoke Hyuga Kei, and Tenten took him to her home.

• Deidara joined Hyuga Kei on the mission to capture the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and they learned that Itachi and Kisame were heading to capture the Three-Tails.
• Kabuto Yakushi informed Hyuga Kei that Kirigakure, Konoha, and Takigakure were involved in the Three-Tails battle, with Sasuke and his subordinates joining the operation.
• Hyuga Kei and Deidara decided to head to the Land of Tea and watch the factions clash instead of intercepting the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.
• After returning to Konoha with Team 3, Neji faced Tsunade’s accusation that he had joined the Akatsuki Organization.
• Neji warned Tsunade that Hyuga Kei could destroy Konoha if angered, then left the office despite the surrounding Anbu.
• Tenten followed Neji out and took him by the hand, inviting him to stay at her home.

Neji visited Tenten’s family and then tried to persuade Hanabi to abandon her hatred of Hyuga Kei, but she refused to listen. On his way back, he rescued a child from a desperate ninja holding him hostage.

• Tenten’s father questioned Neji about his work and savings, while Tenten and her mother welcomed him into their home.
• Neji visited Hanabi and urged her to learn the truth about the Hyuga clan’s destruction, but she insisted she would seek revenge on Hyuga Kei.
• Neji left Hanabi and headed back, intending to say goodbye to familiar people before traveling through the ninja world.
• Neji found a Leaf Village ninja threatening to kill a child during a hostage standoff as Tenten’s family watched.
• Neji used his Byakugan to anticipate the attack, disarmed the man, rescued the child, and kicked the man to the ground.

Neji and Tenten left Konoha together to travel through the ninja world, while Hyuga Kei learned of their departure and arranged for White Zetsu to protect them. In the Land of Tea, Kei prepared to intensify the coming struggle over the Three-Tails by sending Obito into the conflict.

• Neji rescued a hostage, and Tenten's parents accepted him as a suitable partner for their daughter.
• Neji and Tenten departed Konoha together, carrying supplies from Tenten's family, while White Zetsu followed them.
• Hyuga Kei learned that Neji had left and ordered White Zetsu to protect him and Tenten.
• Kei reviewed the forces gathering in the Land of Tea to capture the Three-Tails, including teams from Konoha, Kirigakure, Iwagakure, Sasuke, and Akatsuki.
• Kei summoned Obito and ordered him to disrupt the coming battle, offering the possibility of reviving him and Rin while threatening to use Impure World Reincarnation on Rin if Obito exposed his plans.

Obito freed and controlled the Three-Tails, drawing rival shinobi forces to the lake as the battle began. Hyuga Kei arrived with Deidara and confronted Hinata, who demanded to know why he had slaughtered the Hyuga clan.

• White Zetsu reminded Sasuke that Hyuga Kei would appear as an Akatsuki member the next day and that someone Sasuke longed to see would be there too.
• Obito killed a Konoha Anbu ninja maintaining the seal, freed the Three-Tails, and used his Sharingan to control it as he fought the Leaf shinobi.
• Obito fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at a hill, signaling the Three-Tails' location to Han, Mei Terumi, Itachi, Kisame Hoshigaki, Sasuke, Hyuga Kei, and Deidara.
• Kakashi urged the Konoha group to withdraw, but Naruto rushed toward Sasuke when he appeared at the lake.
• Hyuga Kei and Deidara arrived, and Hinata confronted Hyuga Kei about his role in the Hyuga clan's slaughter.

Hyuga Kei explained that he spared Hinata so she could experience the hatred he had endured, then trapped her in a genjutsu while he left with Deidara. Elsewhere, Sasuke confronted Itachi over the Uchiha clan’s destruction, but Itachi defeated him and Naruto intervened to protect him.

• Hyuga Kei seized Hinata, forced her to relive his parents’ deaths through a genjutsu, and warned Kurenai Yuhi not to break it.
• Hyuga Kei passed Kakashi’s group with Deidara and headed toward the lake, saying Konoha was not his target.
• Sasuke confronted Itachi, accused him of killing the Uchiha clan for the Mangekyō Sharingan, and attacked him with his Kusanagi Sword and Chidori.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, blocked Sasuke’s Chidori Stream with skeletal armor, and struck him down with a skeletal hand.
• Naruto caught Sasuke, but Itachi restrained Sasuke with Tsukuyomi and threw him toward Naruto.
• Naruto caught Sasuke again and told Itachi that their friendship was a bond he could never understand.

Hyuga Kei arrived at the Three-Tails battle and demonstrated a lethal ability that killed several Kirigakure ninja, forcing Mei Terumi to retreat. As Naruto’s group withdrew and Kisame took over the fight against Obito, Hyuga Kei set out to capture the Five-Tails.

• Itachi escaped after trapping Naruto in a genjutsu, while Sasuke’s allies used a giant snake to swallow Sasuke and flee from Naruto.
• Mei Terumi and Han allied against Obito, but Hyuga Kei and Deidara’s arrival interrupted their attack on the Three-Tails.
• Hyuga Kei warned Ao about the Byakugan, then burst the heads of Kirigakure Anbu who stood between them and demanded Ao’s eye.
• Mei Terumi’s surviving ninja shielded her as she retreated, while Kakashi’s group found Naruto and persuaded him to leave by mentioning Sasuke.
• Kisame took over the mission to deal with Obito, and Hyuga Kei went to capture the Five-Tails.

Hyuga Kei battled Han and the Five-Tails, forcing Han to release Kokuō and transform into the complete Tailed Beast. Kei stopped the beast’s charge and hurled it across the battlefield, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Hyuga Kei attacked Han with a storm of spinning Truth-Seeking Orbs, and Han escaped underground using his steam armor and Earth Release.
• Han asked whether Kei had killed Roshi, then released the seal binding Kokuō so they could fight together in a complete Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Kokuō transformed into the Five-Tails and charged Kei with Horn Break, but Kei caught its longest horn and halted its attack.
• Kakashi, Naruto, Itachi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and the Three-Tails witnessed Kei’s strength as the battle continued elsewhere.
• Hyuga Kei lifted the Five-Tails by its horn and threw its massive body across the battlefield, carving a deep trench through the earth.

Hyuga Kei helped the Akatsuki capture the Five-Tails and Three-Tails, then agreed to Itachi’s request to guide Sasuke toward protecting Konoha and reviving the Uchiha clan. Itachi gave Kei Fugaku’s Sharingan, while Kei secretly planned how to shape Sasuke’s future.

• Hyuga Kei bound the Five-Tails with sealing chains and knocked it and Han unconscious with a powerful strike.
• Itachi told Hyuga Kei that Uchiha Obito had escaped, and Kei remarked that Sasuke had grown stronger without understanding Itachi’s intentions.
• Itachi asked Hyuga Kei to guide Sasuke after his death, and Kei agreed in exchange for a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi handed Hyuga Kei a sealed container holding Fugaku’s Sharingan, which Kei accepted.
• Deidara finished tying up the unconscious Three-Tails and dragged it across the lake with his clay bird.

Hyuga Kei left the Tailed Beast operation, dealt with Obito, and turned to his plans for the moon and Sasuke. After Hinata struggled with the memories imposed by genjutsu, Sasuke asked for a Sage Mode organ transplant, and Hyuga Kei prepared Kabuto Yakushi to perform it.

• Hyuga Kei told Deidara he was too exhausted to continue, then entered Kamui's dimension and praised Obito for carrying out his plan.
• Hyuga Kei placed Obito back in his coffin beside Rin's remains and considered his remaining plans to capture the other Tailed Beasts and reach the moon.
• Hinata woke from the genjutsu, remembered experiencing Hyuga Kei's past, and struggled to reconcile his suffering with her hatred for him.
• Hyuga Kei disguised himself as Chiba Kishu and met Sasuke, who requested a Sage Mode organ after his defeat by Itachi.
• Hyuga Kei brought Sasuke and his subordinates to Sound Village and learned from Kabuto Yakushi that Sasuke's organ was ready with Hashirama Cells and Naruto's blood.
• Hyuga Kei instructed Kabuto Yakushi to prepare for the transplant, intending the organ to help Sasuke tolerate Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan.

Hyuga Kei traveled to the moon to take its two Tenseigan, but Otsutsuki Toneri ambushed him with a huge puppet army and the purple Tenseigan's power. A golden beam struck Hyuga Kei and blasted a massive crater into the moon, leaving his fate unclear.

• Sasuke woke after surgery with a specially made Sage Mode organ containing Senju Hashirama's cells, and Hyuga Kei told Kabuto Yakushi to keep him from seeking revenge.
• Hyuga Kei traveled through the underground lake to the moon, captured its genjutsu-casting crab, and set out to claim the purple and Golden Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Kei emerged before tens of thousands of puppets and the sealed purple Tenseigan, while Otsutsuki Toneri watched him through the Golden Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Kei activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and charged toward the sealing stone as puppet warriors and Dojutsu Power lasers attacked him.
• The sealing stone released a golden beam that hit Hyuga Kei and pierced the moon's outer shell, creating an enormous crater.

Hyuga Kei absorbed the purple Tenseigan, gained control over his ability to see the future, and pursued Toneri into the artificial sun. Toneri emerged with the Golden Tenseigan fused into his eye, but his life force was rapidly draining as he vowed to kill Kei and destroy the shinobi world.

• Toneri attacked Hyuga Kei with the Golden Tenseigan, but Kei used Kamui to pass through the golden beams and reach the sealing stone.
• Hyuga Kei broke the sealing stone and absorbed the purple Tenseigan with the Ghost Blood Seizing Technique.
• Hyuga Kei's eyes turned purple, granting him the ability to see ten seconds into the future and glimpse more distant possibilities by spending Dojutsu Power.
• Hyuga Kei entered the artificial sun and fought through Toneri's puppets, but Toneri's Silver Storm blasted him through the Moon's shell and into outer space.
• Toneri emerged from Hamura Shrine with the Golden Tenseigan in his right eye socket, while his chakra and life force drained away; he vowed to kill Kei and destroy the shinobi world.

Hyuga Kei overpowered Toneri in their Tenseigan battle on the moon, but Toneri used his remaining life force to trigger a final clash of their Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosions. The moon shattered in the resulting blast, leaving the fate of both fighters unclear.

• Hyuga Kei and Toneri fired their Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosions at each other, and neither gained an advantage.
• Hyuga Kei struck Toneri with a chakra fist and then overwhelmed him in close combat, explaining that his greater experience let him master the Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Kei prepared a finishing attack while Toneri tore through the moon's crust and fled to its far side.
• Hyuga Kei used Kamui to draw the temple sealing Kaguya into his space, then fired through the moon toward Toneri.
• Toneri spent his remaining life force and chakra to unleash another Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and the beams collided inside the moon.
• The accumulated energy erupted and shattered the moon into countless fragments.

Hyuga Kei defeated Toneri, absorbed the Golden Tenseigan, and awakened the Rinnegan before using his powers to rebuild the shattered moon and stop most debris from reaching the ninja world. After nearly exhausting his chakra, he used Kamui repeatedly to return to the ninja world.

• The moon shattered, sending fragments toward the ninja world, and Kabuto Yakushi and the village leaders organized shelters and defenses while Sasuke offered to intercept meteors.
• Hyuga Kei seized Toneri, took his Golden Tenseigan, and devoured him, gaining purer Otsutsuki chakra.
• Hyuga Kei fused Otsutsuki chakra into his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and awakened the Rinnegan, greatly enhancing his Time Eye.
• Hyuga Kei placed Hamura Shrine at the center of the moon's remains and drew in fragments and meteors to form a smaller new moon.
• Hyuga Kei used his remaining chakra to activate Kamui repeatedly and return to the ninja world.

After the moon was shattered and rebuilt, the ninja world feared an unknown force, while Black Zetsu rushed to the Sound Village to learn whether Kaguya Otsutsuki was safe. Hyuga Kei trapped him in a staged interrogation, and Black Zetsu revealed that Kaguya was his mother, sealed on the moon by Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki.

• Survivors and the Five Kage saw a new moon form from the scattered meteors and believed the Sage of Six Paths had rebuilt it after a battle with an alien enemy.
• Kabuto Yakushi had Sasuke carried away unconscious, while Tsunade prepared a Six Nations Summit and leaders across the nations worried about the threat.
• Black Zetsu feared for Kaguya Otsutsuki and hurried to the Sound Village to find Hyuga Kei.
• Hyuga Kei, appearing injured, activated sealing arrays around Black Zetsu and demanded to know what was sealed on the moon and why Black Zetsu had lied about being Uchiha Madara's manifested consciousness.
• Black Zetsu admitted he was the manifestation of his mother Kaguya Otsutsuki's will and said Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki had sealed her on the moon.

Hyuga Kei deceived Black Zetsu about the moon and Kaguya Otsutsuki, then used fabricated evidence to prepare for the Six Nations Conference. Meanwhile, Nagato received Hyuga Kei’s false intelligence and considered accelerating the Akatsuki Organization’s Tailed Beast plan.

• Black Zetsu explained his role in manipulating Madara Uchiha and Uchiha Obito, while Hyuga Kei pretended to believe him and promised to release Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Hyuga Kei fabricated an account of fighting Hamura Otsutsuki on the moon and showed Black Zetsu his Golden Tenseigan before removing the Fuinjutsu restraining him.
• Hyuga Kei told Black Zetsu to use the Federation’s name to spread the alien story and distract the Five Great Nations while the Akatsuki Organization continued hunting Tailed Beasts.
• Kabuto Yakushi gave Hyuga Kei forged photographs of the Sage of Six Paths fighting a horned man, and Hyuga Kei ordered the Six Nations Conference to take place in Sound Village.
• Hyuga Kei learned that Sasuke had awakened and gone to find Uchiha Itachi, and ordered White Zetsu to watch him and report before the brothers’ final battle.
• Nagato trusted the false intelligence Chiba Kishu sent him and began considering using it to complete the Akatsuki Organization’s collection of the Tailed Beasts.

Hyuga Kei hosted the Six Nations Summit and presented fabricated evidence of the Sage of Six Paths battling an alien, steering the Five Kage toward his version of the ninja world's origins. The Kage left the meeting considering that several prominent clans descended from aliens.

• Hyuga Kei welcomed Gaara and Temari to Sound Village and secured Gaara's support ahead of the summit.
• Hyuga Kei opened the Six Nations Summit, then had Kimimaro distribute forged photographs and show fabricated footage of the Sage of Six Paths fighting a Byakugan-wielding enemy.
• A identified the black spheres in the footage as Truth-Seeking Orbs and revealed that the Eight-Tails had explained them to his brother.
• Tsunade and Gaara speculated that Hyuga Kei sought to become a second Sage of Six Paths, while A asked how Hyuga Kei had persuaded him to fight for the Federation.
• Hyuga Kei claimed that he had exchanged Kaguya and Uzumaki blood for Hyuga Kei's help, then argued that the Hyuga, Uchiha, Senju, Uzumaki, and Kaguya clans descended from aliens.

At the Five Kage Summit, Pain revealed himself as Yahiko’s puppet and demanded the remaining Tailed Beasts to revive the Ten-Tails, but the assembled leaders rejected his plan. After Pain’s clone was destroyed, Hyuga Kei led the Five Kage to the Federation’s secret underground research base to continue their discussions.

• Jiraiya told the meeting that his former student had possessed the Rinnegan, and Pain soon entered the summit room wearing Yahiko’s face and an Akatsuki robe.
• Pain explained his plan to revive the Ten-Tails and use its power to force peace, demanding that the Five Kage surrender the remaining four Tailed Beasts.
• Chiba Kishu and Raikage A rejected Pain’s proposal, and A attacked him but was thrown back by Pain’s repulsion.
• Tsunade ordered everyone to attack Pain, and their combined ninjutsu destroyed the figure, which Hyuga Kei identified as a clone.
• Hyuga Kei promised to search for the Akatsuki Organization and led the Five Kage to the Federation’s underground research base.

Jiraiya received a warning that Orochimaru had become Chiba Kishu’s puppet eight years earlier, but he suspected it was an Akatsuki ploy. At the Kage meeting, the leaders debated protecting the remaining Tailed Beasts before learning that Akatsuki had abducted the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.

• A disguised researcher slipped Jiraiya a note warning that Orochimaru had been Chiba Kishu’s puppet for eight years and that Chiba Kishu had greater plans.
• Jiraiya destroyed the note and returned to the conference room, unsure whether the warning was genuine.
• Hyuga Kei urged the leaders to prioritize stopping Akatsuki from gathering the Tailed Beasts and proposed supplying the nations with technological ninja tools.
• Mei Terumi revealed that the Six-Tails Jinchuriki had fled Kirigakure, and the leaders agreed to search for the Jinchuriki and protect the remaining Tailed Beasts.
• A Kumogakure ninja reported that Akatsuki had attacked a border outpost and abducted the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.

Hyuga Kei helped the Five Kage establish the Twilight Squad to fight the Akatsuki Organization, which Nagato dismissed as inadequate. In Konoha, Naruto won permission to join the squad by transforming into Naruko, so he could search for Sasuke.

• Hyuga Kei proposed a fifteen-member joint unit under the Six Kage's command, and the nations agreed to form the Twilight Squad.
• Hyuga Kei offered technological ninja tools instead of Federation personnel, and the Six Great Nations announced their cooperation to the ninja world.
• Nagato ordered Konan to find the Six-Tails before the Five Great Nations and planned to attack Konoha and Kumogakure after capturing it.
• Naruto pleaded with Tsunade to let him join the Twilight Squad so he could find Sasuke, then used Transformation Jutsu to appear as Naruko.
• Jiraiya supported Naruto's request, and Tsunade allowed him to join on the condition that he retreat if he encountered danger.

Jiraiya told Tsunade that Orochimaru might be controlled by Chiba Kishu, and they tested the theory by trying to revive Orochimaru through Anko Mitarashi’s curse mark. The attempt produced only an empty body, so Jiraiya planned to infiltrate the Federation’s underground base to find evidence.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade about a warning note and the suspicious circumstances surrounding Chiba Kishu and Orochimaru.
• Tsunade agreed to let Jiraiya use Anko Mitarashi’s curse mark to try to revive Orochimaru, with precautions in place.
• Hyuga Kei and Kabuto Yakushi watched Orochimaru’s consciousness awaken in the Sound Village, then Kabuto sealed the coffin and extinguished it again.
• Anko’s curse mark produced Orochimaru’s soulless body, leading Jiraiya and the others to suspect someone had stopped his revival.
• Jiraiya rejected publicly condemning the Federation and proposed infiltrating its underground base with help from an inside contact.

Hyuga Kei learned that Sasuke and Itachi would fight in three days and secretly planned to exploit Sasuke’s grief after the battle. At the Uchiha hideout, Sasuke ambushed Itachi with a sword, but Itachi’s body dispersed into black crows.

• White Zetsu told Hyuga Kei that Sasuke had arranged to fight Itachi at the Uchiha hideout in three days, and Hyuga Kei went to meet Sasuke.
• Hyuga Kei questioned Sasuke’s resolve, and Sasuke insisted he would kill Itachi before helping Hyuga Kei obtain the Ten-Tails’ power in exchange for reviving his parents.
• Sasuke left to complete his final training while Hyuga Kei planned to reveal the truth after Itachi’s death and use Sasuke’s remorse for his own plan.
• Three days later, Itachi waited in the hideout and hoped the coming battle would help Sasuke return to Konoha and become strong.
• Sasuke arrived and confronted Itachi, then used a second version of himself to thrust a sword through Itachi from behind his chair.
• Itachi showed little surprise as his pierced body transformed into a flock of black crows.

Sasuke fought Itachi, matching his genjutsu before pressing him with ninja tools and powerful Fire Style techniques. Sasuke’s fire dragon broke through the ceiling as he prepared the conditions for his next ninjutsu.

• Sasuke and Itachi clashed through genjutsu, with neither gaining the upper hand in their Three Tomoe Sharingan battle.
• Itachi revealed his plan to take Sasuke’s eyes for the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and attacked with ninja tools.
• Sasuke countered Itachi’s barrage with Chidori Stream, then used Shadow Clones to launch a close-range assault.
• Sasuke unleashed repeated Great Dragon Fire Techniques, whose strength exceeded Itachi’s and whose flames broke through the ceiling.
• Sasuke used the rising heat from the fire dragon to prepare for his next ninjutsu.