Chapter Summaries

Soji shocked Konoha’s leaders and spectators by overwhelming Killer B, while the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon sensed a resemblance between Soji and the legendary Otsutsuki Hamura. Killer B recovered using the Eight-Tails’ chakra and prepared to continue fighting as Soji remained wary.

• Soji’s effortless suppression of Killer B stunned the Hokage, the elders, and the gathered spectators.
• Danzo urged Hiruzen to investigate Soji, but Hiruzen rebuked him and defended the Hyuga Clan.
• Neji, Hiashi, Shisui, and other spectators reacted to Soji’s strength, while Hiashi considered asking whether Soji would share his chakra-infused Gentle Fist method.
• Soji recognized Killer B’s octopus-like tentacles as power from the Eight-Tails and regarded the tailed beast’s chakra reserves with envy.
• Killer B recovered from his injuries with the Eight-Tails’ chakra, and the Eight-Tails warned him that Soji was dangerous and resembled someone from legend.
• The Eight-Tails dismissed its suspicion that Soji resembled Otsutsuki Hamura, who had left the Ninja World.

Hyuga Soji used his Gentle Fist and water-enhanced strikes to strip Killer B of the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon’s Chakra Cloak and dominate the fight. Killer B realized Soji had learned to counter the cloak from fighting Kushina, while Soji anticipated that Killer B might escalate to a Half-Tailed Beast Transformation.

• Killer B borrowed the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon’s Chakra and charged at Soji under a red Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak.
• Soji struck an acupoint on Killer B’s arm, dispelling the cloak there, then sent him flying with a water-powered palm strike.
• Killer B tried to retreat and counterattack, but Soji’s speed and swirling water repeatedly thwarted him as he sealed the cloak across Killer B’s body.
• Soji explained that he had learned to counter the cloak while fighting Kushina, and Killer B recognized why Soji knew its weakness.
• Soji warned Killer B that removing the sealed acupoints would require more power and suggested his next step might be Half-Tailed Beast Transformation.

Killer B recognized Hyuga Soji as the person Abdō feared, but underestimated him and began a Tailed Beast Transformation to turn the match around. Soji punched out Killer B’s sunglasses before the transformation finished, and the Third Hokage ordered a barrier around the arena as the crowd watched the fight intensify.

• Killer B and the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon concluded that Soji was probably the person Abdō feared, but believed Killer B could defeat him with Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Killer B asked the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon for more Chakra, which reopened the acupoints Soji had sealed and covered Killer B in a Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak.
• Soji charged the transforming Killer B and punched him twice in the eyes, shattering his sunglasses just before he completed Half-Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Dodai warned the Third Hokage that Killer B’s transformation endangered the spectators, and the Third Hokage ordered four Anbu to form the Four Violet Flames Formation around the arena.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura worried that Soji could not handle a Perfect Jinchuriki, while the Third Hokage praised what Soji had already revealed about Konoha’s strength.
• The arena barrier heightened the crowd’s excitement as Killer B faced Soji in his transformed state.

Soji fought Killer B in the arena, using water and wind techniques to match the half-transformed jinchūriki. After Killer B injured him with a roar and a crushing blow, Soji countered by shifting his wind chakra into an attack as Killer B pressed forward.

• Killer B charged Soji, and their water-and-tailed-beast-chakra clash sent both fighters flying into the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Soji briefly hovered with wind chakra, astonishing the spectators and making Hyuga Soji famous throughout Konoha.
• Soji used Gentle Fist: Water—Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but Killer B blocked the blows with his eight tails.
• Killer B blasted Soji away with a close-range roar, then struck his raised arms and corroded them with Tailed Beast Chakra.
• Killer B swung his tails to attack again, but Soji shifted wind chakra to his arm and unleashed Gentle Fist: Wind—Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.

Soji used a reversed wind-and-water combination to badly injure Killer B, forcing him into the second stage of Half-Tailed Beast Transformation. Soji then tested his new elemental Gentle Fist techniques against Killer B and gained a small advantage, intending to use the match to support reforms to the Hyuga Clan’s fighting style.

• Soji reversed the roles of wind and water and struck Killer B with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, tearing open his body and pinning him against the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• The Eight-Tails Ox-Demon healed Killer B at a heavy Chakra cost, and Killer B chose to enter the second stage of Half-Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Killer B charged Soji and landed a powerful kick, but Soji used Wind Release Revolving Heaven to send him skidding away and shatter the bone armor on his fist.
• Soji slowed Killer B with water, increased his own speed with wind, and struck him with Four Sky Palms and Hundred Strikes Palm.
• Soji used the fight to demonstrate his elemental Gentle Fist techniques as preparation for reforming and promoting a new Gentle Fist within the Hyuga Clan.

Soji continued his match against Killer B, using new Gentle Fist techniques to showcase the style’s potential to the Hyuga Clan. After surviving Killer B’s attacks and learning that a controlled Tailed Beast Ball would not endanger the spectators, Soji prepared to counter it with Threefold Void Strike.

• Soji saw the Hyuga Clan members studying his techniques and hoped his demonstration would encourage them to adopt new forms of Gentle Fist.
• Neji admired Soji, and Hizashi promised to begin training his son after the year ended.
• Killer B attacked Soji from underground with extended chakra claws, but Soji seized one and pulled him out before the two exchanged crater-making slams.
• Killer B used Lightning Release through the water beneath Soji to paralyze him, but Soji escaped with Gentle Fist—Wind: One Strike Body.
• The Eight-Tails Ox-Demon told Soji that Killer B had controlled his Tailed Beast Ball and challenged him to withstand it.
• Soji chose to answer the Tailed Beast Ball with Threefold Void Strike, and both attacks began gathering power.

Soji matched Killer B’s Tailed Beast Ball with Void Strike, then faced him after he transformed completely into the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon. The chapter ended with Soji striking Killer B with Gentle Fist Ultimate Technique—Eight Trigrams Palm: Return to One, sealing his Acupoints and forcing him back into human form.

• Soji’s Void Strike clashed with Killer B’s Tailed Beast Ball, and the resulting energy storm shattered two Four Violet Flames Formation barriers before the fighters emerged from underground tunnels.
• Killer B and Soji stopped using their matched attacks, and Killer B transformed completely into the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon as the audience panicked.
• Soji remained confident, claiming that his next move would send Killer B out of the ring, while Danzo waited for a chance to act against Kumogakure.
• Soji used the Body Flicker Technique to appear behind Killer B, who swung his tentacles toward his own neck to defend himself.
• Soji struck Killer B with Gentle Fist Ultimate Technique—Eight Trigrams Palm: Return to One, sealing every Acupoint in his body and returning him to human form.

Soji defeated Killer B by sealing all 361 of his Chakra acupoints with Eight Trigrams Palm: Return to One, then confronted the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon in Killer B’s consciousness. After Soji’s Byakugan frightened the Ox-Demon into backing down, Killer B conceded the match.

• Soji explained how he developed Eight Trigrams Palm: Return to One to seal an opponent’s Chakra acupoints with one strike.
• Soji held Killer B at swordpoint after sealing his Chakra acupoints, but Killer B waited for the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon to free him.
• Soji entered Killer B’s consciousness and threatened the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon, which mistook his Byakugan for Otsutsuki Hamura’s power.
• Soji clarified that he was not Otsutsuki Hamura and secured the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon’s promise not to undo the seals, along with its agreement to help him in the future.
• Soji returned to Killer B and confirmed that the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon had not restored his Chakra, so Killer B conceded the match.

Hyuga Soji defeated Killer B in the friendship tournament, shifting the balance of Konoha’s negotiations with Kumogakure. Konoha and Kumogakure signed a peace agreement in November of Konoha Year 50, bringing the Third Ninja World War to an end about a year early.

• The referee declared Hyuga Soji the winner after Killer B admitted defeat, and the Konoha spectators erupted into cheers.
• The Third Hokage praised Soji and offered him a position, but Soji declined and returned to the Hyuga Clan’s section.
• After seeing Soji’s strength, Dodai became eager to secure peace, while Shikaku Nara delayed negotiations and pressed Kumogakure for better terms.
• The Fourth Raikage raised Kumogakure’s offer to twenty percent of mission commissions for three years, and Konoha agreed to sign the peace treaty.
• Konoha and Kumogakure officially signed the agreement in November of Konoha Year 50, ending the Third Ninja World War.

After withholding his new Gentle Fist techniques for a month, Soji called a Hyuga Clan meeting to push for reforms that would let the Main House and Branch House learn together. The meeting began with the clansmen too hesitant to ask him for the techniques, until Soji urged them to speak.

• Soji gave the Hyuga Clan his new Gentle Fist techniques but asked Hyuga Hiashi not to distribute them yet.
• Soji explained to Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga that he wanted the clan to reform together rather than forcing change through his own strength.
• Soji, Hyuga Hiashi, and Hizashi Hyuga went to the Clan Head's residence to hold the long-delayed clan meeting.
• Hyuga Hiashi opened the meeting, where the gathered Main House and Branch House representatives waited nervously to discuss Soji's techniques.
• Soji broke the silence by telling the clansmen to ask their questions or let him leave.

Soji offered the Hyuga Clan his new Gentle Fist techniques, but insisted that qualified Main House and Branch House members learn them together. The clan accepted his terms, and the chapter left the Hyuga Clan beginning a broad transformation through training and missions.

• Soji agreed to teach his new Gentle Fist techniques to the Hyuga Clan, and the clansmen celebrated.
• Main House members objected to letting the Branch House learn the techniques, while Branch House ninja asked Soji for a chance to study them.
• Soji declared that any qualified member could learn the techniques regardless of house, and Hyuga Hiashi explained that the methods could injure anyone too weak to master them.
• The Main House members voted to learn alongside the Branch House, and Hiashi urged them to improve their strength.
• After the meeting, Main House members began training and taking low-level missions, while qualified Hyuga ninja started learning Soji's techniques.

The Kumogakure Envoy Group departed after signing a peace agreement with Konoha, and the Third Hokage appointed Hyuga Soji Minister of Education. Soji accepted the post despite dreading the workload, while the Hyuga Clan celebrated its growing influence.

• Killer B reassured Abdō that Soji was not a bad person, and the Kumogakure Envoy Group left Konoha with Dodai.
• Hyuga Hiashi claimed the Third Hokage’s promise and told Soji that he would be appointed Minister of Education.
• Soji objected because he was already busy, but Hyuga Hiashi insisted that he was suited to the position.
• At the jonin meeting, the Third Hokage praised Soji and Uchiha Homura, awarded reparations to their clans, and appointed Soji Minister of Education.
• Soji accepted the appointment, and the jonin recognized that the role gave him significant influence over the Ninja Academy and its mentor assignments.

After Shikaku Nara confirmed that Soji had manipulated the Cloud Hidden Envoy Group’s plans to secure compensation for the Hyuga Clan, Soji turned to his new duties as Minister of Education. He drafted competitive Ninja Academy regulations based on rewards, punishments, and public rankings, while planning a future deal with the Uchiha Clan to make Shisui Uchiha principal.

• Shikaku Nara asked Soji whether he had been behind the Cloud Hidden Envoy Group’s failed plans, and Soji admitted that he had.
• Shikaku Nara deduced that the Third Hokage’s compensation for the Hyuga Clan was the Minister of Education position and offered to cover for Soji in future plans.
• Soji planned to assign Hyuga Clan members to the Ninja Academy and eventually trade the principal position to the Uchiha Clan for a Hyuga squad in the Konoha Police Force.
• Soji chose Shisui Uchiha as his intended future principal but decided to wait several years because Shisui was only eleven.
• After nearly a week of work, Soji completed new academy rules featuring competitions, rewards and punishments, publicly posted rankings, and parent-teacher meetings.

Soji drafted sweeping new Ninja Academy regulations based on his prediction that the Ninja World would enter a long period of peace. The Third Hokage approved the reforms, increased funding, and gave Soji broad authority, leaving Soji considering whether to begin reforming the academy’s staff as well.

• Soji added specialized training, elective courses, ranking penalties, a ban on early graduation, and graduate speeches to his proposed Ninja Academy regulations.
• Soji presented the regulations to the Third Hokage and explained that Konoha’s peace agreement with Kumogakure suggested the Ninja World would remain peaceful for years.
• The Third Hokage was shocked by Soji’s reasoning and by the detail of the proposed reforms, then approved the regulations and increased the Ministry of Education’s funding by fifty percent.
• The Third Hokage granted Soji broad authority over the Ministry of Education and asked him to develop reforms for teachers and Mentor Teachers.
• Soji considered advancing his plans for the teaching staff, encouraged by the Third Hokage’s support.

Soji secured the Third Hokage’s approval and funding for reforms that hired disabled ninja as theory instructors and evaluated Academy teachers. He then blocked Itachi Uchiha’s early graduation and made skipping class nearly impossible, leaving Itachi stuck at the Ninja Academy for all six years.

• Soji proposed employing injured ninja as theory instructors and evaluating teachers, and the Third Hokage approved the reforms and increased the Ministry of Education’s funding.
• Soji announced the reforms at the Ninja Academy, then spotted Itachi Uchiha training with Izumi Uchiha and privately resolved to prevent his early graduation.
• Soji settled into a routine of arriving late and leaving early while the reforms took hold, and he rejected Itachi Uchiha’s early graduation application at year’s end.
• Soji warned Uchiha Homura about Itachi’s character, and Uchiha Homura, Fugaku Uchiha, and his wife agreed that Itachi should stay at the Academy for all six years.
• Soji caught Itachi Uchiha trying to skip class with a Shadow Clone and arranged for instructors to watch him, making further attempts to skip school futile.

Nagato’s Pain Six Paths killed Hanzo, ending Nagato’s long wait for revenge. As Akatsuki prepared to recruit new members, Obito asked Nagato to help create chaos in Kirigakure and eliminate Mizuki Ember, whom he feared.

• Nagato used the Pain Six Paths to kill Hanzo and avenge Yahiko.
• Konan told Nagato that Madara Uchiha had returned, and they went back to meet Obito and Zetsu.
• White Zetsu named Kakuzu, Sasori, and Orochimaru as potential Akatsuki recruits, and Nagato ordered him to keep watching them.
• Obito asked Nagato how much of the Rinnegan’s power he could use, then proposed sending the Pain Six Paths to Kirigakure.
• Obito revealed that he wanted to weaken Kirigakure and eliminate Mizuki Ember, who had once defeated him and was now away from the village.

Obito and Nagato agreed to target Mizuki Ember, and Obito seized control of Karatachi Yagura after Pain and his group traveled to the Land of Water. Finding an official recall letter for Mizuki Ember, Obito decided to use it to lure him back into an ambush.

• Obito told Nagato that Mizuki Ember was the enemy who required Pain Six Paths to act, and Nagato agreed to consider the operation after handling Amegakure's affairs.
• At the beginning of Konoha Year 51, Obito, the Deva Path, and Konan traveled to the Land of Water, while Zetsu secretly followed them.
• Karatachi Yagura went alone to confront the strangers, and Obito and Pain defeated him before Obito controlled him and returned him to Kirigakure.
• Obito found an official letter recalling Mizuki Ember to Kirigakure and realized it could help lure him into a trap.
• Obito decided to coordinate an ambush with Nagato and delay sending the recall letter until the trap was ready.

Soji received a recall letter for his Mizuki Ember identity and decided to return to Kirigakure, suspecting Obito was targeting him and the Yuki and Kaguya Clans. He asked the Third Hokage for leave to recruit children from those clans, leaving the Hokage to weigh the risk of provoking another war.

• Soji received a recall letter from Kirigakure and suspected either Karatachi Yagura or Obito had sent it.
• Soji decided to return to Kirigakure and help the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan escape the renewed Blood Mist.
• Soji told the Third Hokage he wanted to recruit children from the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan, shocking him with the plan.
• Soji revealed that the Blood Mist had risen again and that both clans were targets, then assured the Third Hokage the intelligence was accurate.
• The Third Hokage questioned whether recruiting from Kirigakure's clans could cause an international dispute or restart the war.

Soji returned to the Land of Water in secret to investigate Kirigakure and protect the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan. He learned that Obito had used Karatachi Yagura to revive the Blood Mist policy and turn the village against Kekkei Genkai users, leaving Soji to weigh intervening against his plan to recruit both clans.

• Soji persuaded the Third Hokage to approve his trip to Kirigakure and arranged for Pakura and Snow Ninja to help receive the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan when they relocated.
• Soji left Konoha with the Golden Eagle and chose to return to Kirigakure quietly so Obito would not target the Yuki Clan because of his arrival.
• Soji found that people in towns near Kirigakure reacted suspiciously when he disguised himself as a Yuki Clan or Kaguya Clan member, but not when he posed as a Hozuki Clan ninja.
• Soji learned that three months earlier Karatachi Yagura had reinstated the Blood Mist policy and declared Kekkei Genkai ninja dangerous, provoking civilians and jealous ninja to persecute them.
• Soji realized Obito was laying the groundwork to attack the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan, and chose not to free Karatachi Yagura from genjutsu because their disillusionment could help him recruit them.

Soji stumbled upon Mei Terumi being hunted by Kirigakure ninja who wanted to eliminate all Kekkei Genkai users. As Mei Terumi collapsed from exhaustion, Soji rescued her with Ice Release and greeted her.

• Soji left town to return to Kirigakure and contact the Yuki and Kaguya Clan Heads, but battle sounds drew him into the forest.
• Soji found Mei Terumi surrounded by Kirigakure ninja who had killed her Anbu escorts and intended to murder her.
• Mei Terumi used Lava Release to kill or injure several attackers, then collapsed after exhausting her Chakra.
• The remaining ninja charged at Mei Terumi as she lost consciousness and thought of Genji and her Elder Brother.
• Soji used Ice Release—Ice Tomb to intervene, then greeted Mei Terumi after she recognized his voice.