Chapter Summaries

Soji stopped the Nine-Tails from killing Minato, Kushina, and Naruto, then helped the dying couple carry out their plan. He sealed Minato and Kushina in a suspended state and prepared to seek ways to bring them back.

• Minato used the Reaper Death Seal to take the Nine-Tails’ Yin half, but its remaining half tried to kill Naruto and was blocked by Soji’s ice bone spur.
• Soji arrived, sealed the Nine-Tails’ remaining half with Ice Release Gentle Fist—Two Forms Sealing, and checked on Minato and Kushina.
• Minato sealed the Yang half of the Nine-Tails into Naruto, and he and Kushina entrusted Naruto and their Return Plan to Soji.
• Soji used Sage Art: Life Preservation Seal to halt Minato and Kushina’s decline, leaving them alive but unable to awaken.
• Soji planned to seek the Dragon Vein from Queen Sara to restore Kushina and Orochimaru’s help to free Minato’s soul from the Death God.

After Minato and Kushina died during the Nine-Tails Attack, Soji explained to Uchiha Homura that they could return through a plan they had prepared. He promised to preserve their bodies and left Homura with hope, though their revival would take years.

• The Third Hokage arrived too late to save Minato and Kushina, took Naruto into his care, and ordered their bodies returned to Konoha.
• Soji returned to the damaged Hyuga Clan compound and checked that his basement equipment had survived the attack.
• Uchiha Homura arrived before dawn and learned that Soji had fought beside Minato and Kushina but had been unable to save them.
• Soji revealed that Minato and Kushina had asked them to care for Naruto until they returned, then explained the two revival plans he had made with Minato.
• Soji told Homura that reviving Kushina with the Dragon Vein's life force and freeing Minato from the Death God's stomach could bring them back, but the process would take years.
• Soji promised to take Minato and Kushina's bodies after the Third Hokage buried them and preserve them properly.

After Konoha held a funeral for those killed during the Nine-Tails Attack, Soji secretly took Minato and Kushina’s bodies and preserved them in Ice Coffins. At a meeting to redistribute clan territories, Danzo accused the Uchiha Clan of plotting against the village, and Soji challenged him over his absence during the attack.

• Soji attended Konoha’s funeral, where he saw Iruka grieving for his parents and mourned the many villagers who had died.
• That night, Soji stole Minato and Kushina’s bodies and sealed each in an Ice Coffin to preserve them.
• At a jonin meeting to reassign clan territories, Danzo proposed moving the Uchiha Clan from the central district to the outskirts.
• Fugaku appealed to the Third Hokage, who rejected Danzo’s proposal and defended the Uchiha Clan’s contributions during the attack.
• Danzo accused the Uchiha Clan of staging the attack, but the Third Hokage and the other elders refused to support him.
• Soji asked Danzo where he had been on Nine-Tails Night while everyone else risked their lives for Konoha.

At the jonin assembly, Danzo tried to blame the Uchiha Clan for controlling the Nine-Tails, but Uchiha Homura challenged him and displayed his Mangekyō Sharingan. Homura’s pattern differed from the one seen in the Nine-Tails’ eyes, clearing him of suspicion while leaving the others curious about his Mangekyō’s ability.

• Soji and the jonin condemned Danzo for failing to appear during the Nine-Tails’ attack, but Danzo excused himself by claiming he was old and Root had been abolished.
• Danzo continued targeting the Uchiha Clan and accused Uchiha Homura of possibly controlling the Nine-Tails because Homura had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Homura challenged Danzo to become a test subject for his Mangekyō, then activated his eyes when Danzo hesitated.
• Homura showed the assembly his Mangekyō pattern, and the jonin saw that it differed from the three-bladed shuriken mark in the Nine-Tails’ eyes.
• The assembly accepted that Homura had not secretly controlled the Nine-Tails, while Homura kept his Mangekyō ability undisclosed.

Uchiha Homura refused to reveal his Mangekyō abilities, and the Third Hokage backed his right to keep them secret while Danzo reluctantly stood down. A month later, Soji learned that Hyuga Ryusuke was dying, and Ryusuke asked him to become the next Hyuga Clan Head.

• Danzo pressed Uchiha Homura to reveal his Mangekyō abilities, but the Third Hokage ended the dispute and declared that Homura did not have to disclose them.
• The Uchiha Clan received fair treatment when choosing its new grounds, while Soji warned Homura that Danzo might target his Mangekyō.
• After recovering from his injuries and building an underground laboratory, Soji learned from Hyuga Kiyoka that Hyuga Ryusuke was critically ill.
• Hyuga Ryusuke explained that his fight with the Second Elder of the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family had exhausted his remaining vitality.
• Soji told Hyuga Ryusuke that he had avenged the attacked Hyuga Clan members, and Ryusuke asked him to become the next Clan Head.

Soji refused Hyuga Ryusuke’s offer to become Clan Head and encouraged Hyuga Hiashi to take on the role instead. Ryusuke then revealed that Soji’s mother had been his biological younger sister, leaving Soji to discover that he was Hiashi and Hizashi’s cousin and to reflect on the Hyuga Clan’s tangled family ties.

• Hyuga Ryusuke proposed that Soji become the next Clan Head, but Soji firmly refused and urged Hiashi to believe in himself and lead the clan.
• Ryusuke accepted Soji’s refusal, and Soji promised to support Hiashi as Punishment Elder.
• Ryusuke said Soji’s fear of trouble resembled his mother’s and explained that Soji’s parents had loved him before dying in battle.
• Ryusuke revealed that Soji’s mother had been his biological younger sister, making Soji the cousin of Hiashi and Hizashi.
• Ryusuke explained that resentment over the Main House and Branch House system had kept the siblings apart, strengthening Hiashi’s desire to change the system.

Soji learned that he was related to Hyuga Ryusuke’s family and promised to protect Hiashi and Hizashi, while still refusing to become Clan Head. After Ryusuke died and Hiashi took over, Soji focused on researching the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family’s Gene Fluid and reflected on the formidable abilities he had developed.

• Hyuga Ryusuke told Soji that Soji’s mother had been his younger sister, and Soji again refused to accept the position of Hyuga Clan Head.
• Soji remembered his promise to help Hiashi and Hizashi if they ever faced danger, and Ryusuke reassured himself that his children would have Soji’s protection.
• Ryusuke declined to explain the matter to Hiashi and Hizashi, and Soji left after talking with the family.
• Ryusuke died five days later, and Hiashi became the new Hyuga Clan Head; afterward, Soji’s family grew closer to the Clan Head’s family.
• Soji turned to researching the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family’s Gene Fluid and considered his Ice Release, Yin Release, and mutated Shikotsumyaku, which could freeze bodies and souls and disrupt Chakra.

Soji developed Gene Fluid from the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family and injected it, but after weeks without changes, he became convinced his research had failed. Just as he gave up hope, his Byakugan began gaining Dojutsu Power, suggesting the Gene Fluid had finally taken effect.

• Soji spent six or seven months researching the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family's genes and produced a tube of Gene Fluid.
• Soji injected the Gene Fluid, but repeated examinations showed no changes, leaving him deeply dispirited.
• Hyuga Kiyoka asked Soji to handle clan matters, but he handed the work over to her and told her not to disturb him before the Fourth Ninja World War.
• After giving up on the Gene Fluid, Soji went to sleep, then woke around midnight with heat in his eyes and rapidly increasing Byakugan Dojutsu Power.

Soji’s Byakugan underwent its third evolution, allowing his left eye to see inside the moon and locate the Giant Tenseigan. His eye absorbed its power before the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family sealed it, leaving Soji with a major increase in Dojutsu Power.

• Soji’s third Byakugan evolution greatly increased the purity and power of his eyes without causing him pain.
• Near dawn, Soji’s left eye saw through the moon’s interior and found Otsutsuki Toneri, two Branch Family elders, and the Hamura Shrine.
• Soji’s left eye found the Giant Tenseigan, which reacted to his gaze and began shining power toward it.
• The Third Elder and Fourth Elder went to the shrine after noticing the Giant Tenseigan’s change, and the Third Elder proposed sealing it.
• Soji absorbed the Giant Tenseigan’s power for about fifteen minutes before the elders sealed it, boosting his left eye’s Dojutsu Power by nearly a night’s worth of growth.

Soji’s left eye awakened Otsutsuki Hamura, who recognized that Soji’s Byakugan could eventually evolve into a Tenseigan but chose not to interfere. Soji’s right eye led him to the Hyuga Clan’s territory from the Warring States Period, where his instincts warned him that something terrifying remained.

• Soji’s left eye glimpsed a burial chamber on the moon and awakened Otsutsuki Hamura’s soul.
• Hamura recognized the Tenseigan potential in Soji’s eye, reflected on his descendants, and returned to slumber without intervening.
• Soji used his right eye to observe ruins and found a torii gate marked Asuka Residence and a Hyuga Clan crest.
• Soji retrieved a scroll left by Hyuga Kumokawa and confirmed that the ruins were the Hyuga Clan’s territory during the Warring States Period.
• Soji recalled that even thinking about exploring the territory had once triggered an overwhelming sense of danger, convincing him that something terrifying was there.

Soji used his evolved right eye to uncover an underground temple beneath the Hyuga Clan’s Warring States-era territory and learned from its murals that the Hyuga descended from the Otsutsuki Main Family that fled the moon. He found eight skeletons seated on pillars, each holding a dish containing a pair of Byakugan, and the chapter left their purpose unexplained.

• Soji traced his vision beneath the ruins and discovered a deep staircase leading to a massive stone door and an illuminated temple.
• Soji examined the temple murals and learned that Hagoromo and Hamura sealed Kaguya Otsutsuki in the moon, where Hamura’s descendants later divided into Main and Branch Houses.
• Soji learned from the murals that the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family destroyed the Main Family and that survivors fled to the Ninja World and founded the Hyuga Clan.
• Soji inspected the temple’s eight pillars and discovered a skeleton atop each one, with every skeleton holding a dish containing a pair of Byakugan.

Soji’s right-eye vision reached the Hyuga Clan’s ancestral shrine, where the Reincarnation Mirror shared its power with him and revealed the fate of his ancestors. He vowed to return and free their trapped souls, while his right eye’s power rose to match his left.

• Soji saw the Reincarnation Mirror held by a statue of Otsutsuki Hamura and began absorbing its purple power through his right eye.
• Soji learned that the Hyuga Clan’s ancestors had used the mirror to help clan members reach Kage-level, but a hidden controller had caused those members to become puppets and be devoured.
• The ancestors’ lingering wills told Soji that his absorption was safe and asked him to free their souls from the mirror’s internal space.
• Soji accepted the request and resolved to visit the ancestral grounds, also coveting the mirror and the eight pairs of pure Byakugan.
• The mirror’s power stopped flowing, bringing the Dojutsu Power in Soji’s eyes back into balance, and he promised to free his ancestors before his right-eye vision faded.

Soji discovered that his Byakugan had evolved again, gaining powerful genjutsu and gravitational abilities, while Otsutsuki Genji secretly plotted to lure him to the Hyuga Clan's old territory and seize his body. Soji decided to test his new powers on Uchiha Homura, who had recently awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and risen in standing.

• Otsutsuki Genji revealed that he had sent harmless Reincarnation Mirror power to Soji to trick him into visiting the old Hyuga territory, where Genji planned to take his body.
• Soji activated his Byakugan and found that its pupils glowed yellow and purple as its power continued to grow toward the Tenseigan.
• Soji gained genjutsu in both eyes, naming them Dovanten and Void Mirror, and also learned rudimentary Repulsion Palm and Absorbing Palm.
• Soji chose Uchiha Homura as a target for testing his new abilities and wondered about Homura's Mangekyō powers.
• Soji noted that Homura's recent Mangekyō awakening had made him a clan idol, though he remained the squad's bottom-ranker because only Soji and Homura were left.

Soji tested his new Absorbing Palm and Repulsion Palm against Uchiha Homura, who fought back with his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Metsuke. The sparring ended with Soji revealing that his techniques controlled gravitational and repulsive force, while Homura emerged wary of their power.

• Soji and Uchiha Homura traveled outside the village to test Soji’s new ninjutsu in a fight.
• Soji used Absorbing Palm to pull Homura toward him, but Homura activated Metsuke and redirected Soji’s strike back toward his own arm.
• Soji and Homura exchanged attacks, with Homura noting that his Mangekyō ability consumed far more chakra than Soji’s techniques.
• Homura launched a Great Fireball Technique, but Soji dispersed it and blasted Homura into a boulder with Repulsion Palm.
• Homura climbed from the rubble and asked about the attack, and Soji explained that Absorbing Palm and Repulsion Palm used gravitational and repulsive force.

Soji tested his gravity and repulsion abilities against Uchiha Homura, combining them with Gentle Fist to keep Homura on the defensive. Homura used his right-eye Mangekyō ability, Takamagahara, to become invincible for three seconds, and Soji mocked the ability’s short duration as the fight continued.

• Soji and Uchiha Homura resumed their fight, and Soji tested Repulsion Palm and Absorbing Palm while holding back his other abilities.
• Soji combined the two techniques with Gentle Fist, repeatedly pulling Homura close or pushing him away and landing Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• Homura realized Metsuke could not redirect attacks whose trajectories he could not perceive, and he remained frustrated by Soji’s overwhelming advantage.
• Homura activated Takamagahara on himself, causing Soji’s Repulsion Palm to curve around him and miss.
• Soji retreated during Homura’s three seconds of invulnerability, praised Takamagahara, then told Homura he could only be a real man for three seconds.

Soji defeated Uchiha Homura after Homura awakened Susanoo during their battle, shattering the skeletal defense with a single palm strike. With Homura’s other abilities exhausted, he challenged Soji to try breaking his Mangekyō genjutsu.

• Soji’s taunts enraged Uchiha Homura, who manifested a golden, incomplete Susanoo for the first time.
• Uchiha Homura attacked Soji with Susanoo, but his punch only blasted a crater into the ground as Soji evaded it.
• Soji struck the Susanoo with Void Strike and shattered its skeletal frame without injuring Uchiha Homura.
• Uchiha Homura lamented the gap between their strength, and Soji assured him that Soji was simply too strong.
• Uchiha Homura challenged Soji to break his Mangekyō-level genjutsu.

Soji accepted Uchiha Homura’s challenge to break his Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu, then secretly turned the contest against him. Homura’s illusion trapped him in a false reality where Minato and Kushina had returned, leaving Homura unable to tell whether he was dreaming or had lost his grip on reality.

• Uchiha Homura challenged Soji to break his Mangekyō genjutsu within ten minutes, and Soji agreed.
• Uchiha Homura cast a realistic illusion that made Soji believe their contest had ended and they had returned to the village.
• Homura let the illusion continue for a day, convinced Soji had not noticed, and then revealed that Soji was still trapped.
• Soji dismissed Homura’s claim and greeted Minato and Kushina, who appeared in the illusion and said their Return Plan had brought them back to life.
• Homura remembered that Minato and Kushina had died during Nine-Tails Night and mentally unraveled as Soji and the others insisted their revival was real.

Uchiha Homura tried to dispel what he believed was his genjutsu, but Soji, Minato, and Kushina remained, and the team's familiar mission gradually made the illusion feel real. When Homura questioned how Soji could have revived Minato and Kushina so quickly, Soji explained that he had spent the past half year preparing, leaving Homura increasingly convinced that the world was reality.

• Uchiha Homura used Release to dispel his genjutsu, but Soji, Minato, and Kushina stayed before him.
• Soji led Homura, Minato, and Kushina to the Third Hokage, and their team completed an S-rank mission together.
• On the way back to Konoha, Uchiha Homura questioned how Soji had revived Minato and Kushina in a single day and stopped walking.
• Uchiha Homura drew a kunai and demanded an explanation, but Soji calmed him and said he had spent the past half year seeking a way to revive Minato and Kushina.
• Minato and Kushina confirmed Soji's account, and Soji said their appearance after his match with Homura had been a surprise.
• Uchiha Homura increasingly believed that the world around him was real.

Soji trapped Uchiha Homura in Mirror Flower, Water Moon, a fused genjutsu that made its illusion feel real and even carried its injuries into reality. After keeping Homura imprisoned for about two hours, Soji released him, leaving him to treat his bleeding thigh and face the truth.

• Uchiha Homura stabbed his thigh in the illusion to test whether it was real, and the pain convinced him that he and his friends were in the real world.
• Soji revealed that he had trapped Homura with Dovanten and Void Mirror, then fused them into Mirror Flower, Water Moon after Homura accepted the illusion as reality.
• Soji explained that Homura's injury had also occurred in reality and that Homura could not escape the genjutsu after accepting its world as real.
• After Homura had spent months in the illusion while only about two hours passed outside, Soji released Mirror Flower, Water Moon.
• Soji tossed Homura a medical pack and told him to bandage his bleeding thigh, which Homura treated before looking at Soji with a complicated expression.

After Soji released Uchiha Homura from his genjutsu, Homura struggled to accept that the illusion had been unreal and that Soji had mastered such powerful techniques in only a few days. As they prepared to return to Konoha, Homura asked why the wound he suffered inside the illusion had remained in reality, prompting Soji to point him toward the Kurama Clan’s Five Senses Manipulation.

• Uchiha Homura asked Soji whether they were back in the real world, and Soji confirmed that only about two hours had passed during their genjutsu contest.
• Uchiha Homura learned that Soji had mastered genjutsu within the last three to five days and admitted that challenging him had been foolish.
• Soji teased Uchiha Homura, who suppressed his anger instead of challenging him again.
• Uchiha Homura asked why the wound he inflicted on himself inside Soji’s Mirror Flower, Water Moon genjutsu had carried over into reality.
• Soji asked how much Uchiha Homura knew about the Kurama Clan, and Homura wondered if they had taught Soji genjutsu.
• Soji recalled how Kurama Hachizo’s Five Senses Manipulation had once controlled him, and explained that the technique could only be escaped by sealing off all five senses.