Chapter Summaries

Itachi subdued Deidara, who had come to Konoha seeking Genitsu, and Minato sent the young Iwagakure ninja to Root. Genitsu dismissed Deidara’s artwork but arranged for him to enter the Chūnin Exams, then ordered Wind to protect Uchiha Izumi at any cost.

• Itachi defeated Deidara with his Sharingan, and Yashiro handed the matter to the ANBU after Itachi pointed out that it involved diplomacy and Genitsu.
• Minato ordered the ANBU to send Deidara to Genitsu and Root, cautioning them not to provoke another war.
• Genitsu criticized Deidara’s clay artwork, neutralized its explosive chakra, and challenged him to consider the meaning and style of his creations.
• Genitsu arranged for Deidara to participate in the Chūnin Exams, then had Root throw him out into the street.
• Genitsu told Wind to protect Uchiha Izumi, even if it meant sacrificing his life.

Genitsu assigned Fū to protect Izumi and summoned Kabuto while teams prepared for the Chūnin Exams. The first round began with a written test, where Deidara confronted Itachi before Genitsu’s chicken-and-rabbit questions left him stunned.

• Genitsu ordered Fū to join Yamato and Izumi’s team and protect Izumi, then remembered Torune’s clone and summoned Kabuto.
• Kurenai trained Kabuto, Itachi, and Inuzuka Hana, and a Root ninja summoned Kabuto to see Genitsu.
• The Chūnin Exams began on September 12 with 129 participants gathered for the first written test.
• Deidara charged at Itachi, but Yamato bound him with Wood Release before Hayama Shirakumo arrived and started the exam.
• Deidara opened the test written by Genitsu and froze at its first chicken-and-rabbit problem.

Deidara and the other examinees struggled through Genitsu’s written test, which mixed unfamiliar math and intelligence-analysis questions with opportunities to cheat. After the results eliminated many candidates, Genitsu prepared to begin the second examination in the deadly Dark Forest.

• Deidara was baffled by the written questions, while Itachi calmly worked through the test and made Deidara feel pressured.
• Deidara laughed at an intelligence-analysis question, and Hayama Shirakumo warned him to remain quiet.
• Examinees from several villages tried to cheat with ninjutsu; Kimimaro failed to use his bones to contact his teammates until Haku sent him a test-paper image through an ice mirror.
• Proctors expelled 37 of the 129 examinees during the test, and the results eliminated 30 more of the 92 who remained.
• Genitsu gathered the successful candidates at the Dark Forest and considered how deadly a squad battle there would be.

Genitsu began the second Chūnin Exam in a deadly Wood Release forest while Shin boasted about the Eye Organization and unsettled Konoha’s leaders with hints of hidden ocular-jutsu members. As the examinees fought, Hyuga Huomen prepared to use a stolen Caged Bird Seal source scroll to free himself and the branch-family members he had recruited.

• Genitsu explained the rules for the forest test, warned that examinees could die before calling for rescue, and sent the teams into the forest with specially made kunai.
• Shin told Minato and the other village leaders that the Eye Organization had powerful ocular-jutsu users, hinted that Uchiha and Hyuga members belonged to it, and questioned Otogakure’s jonin about Orochimaru.
• Kimimaro’s team killed two Kusagakure examinees, and the village leaders watched the forest’s dangerous battles on unreliable screens.
• Hyuga Huomen learned that Hinata’s whereabouts had been found but that Hanabi remained inaccessible, then gathered more than twenty branch-family members with the stolen Caged Bird Seal source scroll.
• Huomen promised the branch-family members freedom and healthier Byakugan, then led them out to put his plan into action.

Huomen led controlled branch family members in an attempt to seize Hinata’s eyes and evolve his Byakugan, but Hiashi stopped the raid and subdued the rebels. Huomen used the Sealing Scroll to break through Hiashi’s control long enough to take a pair of main family Byakugan, though he was gravely injured.

• Huomen told the branch family members that he wanted Hinata’s eyes to obtain a Byakugan beyond its current level, and claimed he had a scroll capable of controlling the Caged Bird Seal.
• Huomen knocked Tokuma unconscious after Tokuma encountered him, then waited for Hinata to return to the compound.
• Naruto escorted Hinata home and left, after which Huomen ordered the branch family members to attack her.
• Hiashi activated the Caged Bird Seal to stop Huomen and the rebels, while Kuanren turned against Huomen and the clan guards arrived.
• Huomen used the Sealing Scroll to disrupt Hiashi’s control, endured Hiashi’s Gentle Fist, and seized a bloodied pair of main family Byakugan.

Hizashi kept Neji away from the Hyuga Clan’s fighting while Tagorihime assured him that Huomen’s rebellion was proceeding as planned. At the clan compound, Huomen stole Hiashi’s eyes and revealed that the Sealing Scroll stored the branch family’s suppressed ocular power, while Genitsu received Tagorihime’s report.

• Hizashi told Neji that his actions were for his son and hoped Neji could gain eyes surpassing the Byakugan.
• Tagorihime visited Hizashi, confirmed Huomen had launched the rebellion, and warned that the Hyuga Clan’s future depended on Genitsu.
• Huomen used ocular power from the Sealing Scroll to overpower Hiashi and take his eyes.
• Huomen revealed that the Caged Bird Seal had been channeling the branch family’s ocular power into the Sealing Scroll.
• Huomen replaced his own eyes with Hiashi’s and drew more power from the scroll as Genitsu received Tagorihime’s message.

Minato grew suspicious that Shin of the Eye Organization was connected to Konoha after noticing his hand seals and familiarity with the village. Meanwhile, Huomen’s rebellion against the Hyuga main family drew Konoha’s forces to the compound, where he revealed a seal that poured accumulated ocular power into the eyes he had taken from Hiashi.

• Minato noticed Shin secretly forming hand seals to activate and deactivate his Mangekyō Sharingan, and began suspecting Shin had lived in Konoha.
• Shin denied the Eye Organization’s involvement in the Hyuga incident, while Minato connected Shin’s familiarity with Konoha to the mystery of his identity.
• ANBU, Root, and the Konoha Police Force arrived at the Hyuga compound and found Hiashi blinded and Huomen gravely wounded while holding the removed eyes.
• Uchiha Yashiro surrounded the Hyuga clansmen, but Hiashi and a main family elder insisted the rebellion was an internal clan matter.
• Huomen mocked the Hyuga clan’s Caged Bird system, thanked Hiashi for the main family’s eyes, and activated a complex seal that flooded them with stored ocular power.

Huomen used the Sealing Scroll’s ocular power to transform Hiashi’s Byakugan and fought off the Hyuga Clan when they tried to stop him. Just as Jiraiya moved to capture him, a masked man appeared and claimed Huomen and his eyes.

• Huomen transplanted Hiashi’s eyes, and the stored ocular power changed them into a faintly blue form that surpassed ordinary Byakugan.
• The main family elder ordered the Hyuga clansmen to attack Huomen, but Huomen repelled them with enhanced vision and powerful Gentle Fist techniques, killing Kuanren and injuring the elder.
• Jiraiya arrived and told Huomen to surrender, while Hiashi offered to spare his life if he gave up the eyes.
• Hiashi refused to abolish the Caged Bird Seal or the main and branch family system, and Jiraiya prepared to kill Huomen and reclaim the eyes.
• Huomen split Jiraiya’s fireball with one hand, then a masked man appeared and declared that he would take Huomen and his interesting eyes.

Iroha intervened in the Hyuga Clan’s conflict, exposed the limits of Huomen’s evolved eyes, and tried to bring him into the Eye Organization. Huomen escaped through a space-time passage, while Isshiki headed for Kusagakure after sensing an Ōtsutsuki descendant there.

• Iroha struck the Hyuga main family elder for probing his Caged Bird mark and warned that the seal no longer worked on him.
• Iroha called Huomen’s scroll-powered eyes crude, identified them as a weak form of Jōgan, and offered him a place in the Eye Organization.
• Jiraiya fought Iroha, but Iroha’s Divine Vacuum Strike sent him flying and gave Iroha an opening to reach Huomen.
• A space-time passage appeared, and Huomen escaped through it despite Iroha’s attempt to stop him.
• Isshiki sensed an Ōtsutsuki descendant in Kusagakure and traveled there to find a vessel.

Huomen arrived on the moon and learned from Toneri that the Ōtsutsuki Clan had sacrificed itself to create the Tenseigan. As Toneri kept Huomen there to monitor the Shinobi World, Shiranui Genitsu emerged from Huomen’s body and revealed that his cells had infected him.

• Huomen arrived on the moon and was escorted by puppets to the empty city, where he met the blind Toneri.
• Toneri explained that his clan had died in a sacrifice to create the Tenseigan and revealed that Huomen’s eyes lacked the Ōtsutsuki bloodline needed to surpass the Byakugan.
• Toneri showed Huomen the Tenseigan, warned him not to look at it, and said Huomen would stay on the moon as his agent monitoring the Shinobi World.
• Huomen suspected Toneri might want his eyes, but Toneri left him in the city and focused on training.
• Shiranui Genitsu grew out of Huomen’s shoulder, resisted Huomen’s attack, and revealed that his cells had spread throughout Huomen’s body.

Genitsu confronted Huomen on the moon, then fought Toneri, who wielded the Giant Tenseigan and Hamura’s statue. As Genitsu’s clones kept returning, Toneri unleashed a meteor shower across the lunar city, while Huomen fled with the scroll.

• Genitsu revealed that his cells had spread through Huomen’s body, took the sealing scroll, and warned Huomen that Konoha and the Eye Organization could hunt him.
• Huomen deduced that Iroha was the Eye Organization’s Ghost and that Genitsu had arranged for his cells to reach the moon; Genitsu confirmed Iroha’s identity and claimed Huomen as his own.
• Toneri sensed Genitsu, recognized him as the man who killed his father, and attacked him with the Giant Tenseigan and Hamura’s statue.
• Genitsu evaded Toneri’s attacks, regenerated after being crushed, and used radiation to destroy the statue’s palm while Huomen fled wrapped in the scroll.
• Toneri continued fighting Genitsu’s multiplying clones, then drew meteors from space and unleashed a destructive barrage across the lunar city.

Nagato, Obito, and others watched a fierce battle erupt on the moon, while Konoha’s Chūnin Exams continued amid deadly fights in the forest. Deidara attacked Yamato’s team to draw out someone he sought, and the chapter ended as Uchiha Itachi confronted him.

• Nagato identified the flashes on the moon as impacts from Tengai Shinsei, while Black Zetsu feared Hamura’s Descendants were fighting members of his mother’s clan.
• Obito and Void discussed investigating the moon, and Minato left the gathering after learning Huomen had escaped through space-time ninjutsu.
• Shin eyed Hozuki Mangetsu’s sword and planned to take it and Chōjūrō’s sword after the Chūnin Exams.
• Yamato, Izumi, and Fū encountered Deidara in the forest, and he attacked them with swarms of explosive clay creations.
• Deidara struck Fū while targeting Izumi, then said he wanted to capture her to find the person he was looking for.
• Uchiha Itachi appeared and challenged Deidara by asking who he was looking for.

Itachi fought Deidara after Deidara injured Izumi and Kaze, while Yamato helped contain the blast from Deidara’s Nuclear Peace Dove. As the Chūnin Exam geniuses prepared to clash, a colossal Hamura statue began falling from the moon.

• Itachi stopped Yamato from joining the fight and confronted Deidara, using genjutsu and shuriken to counter his explosive clay attacks.
• Deidara rode into the sky and dropped his Nuclear Peace Dove, a powerful bomb with a half-kilometer blast radius.
• Itachi called on Yamato, who used Wood Release techniques to shield the others and block the explosion’s aftermath.
• The explosion alarmed the Chūnin Exam participants, and Kimimaro led Haku and Chōjūrō toward the battle while Temari stayed back.
• Team-leading jōnin watched the exam screens and feared Deidara’s potential as a wide-area threat.
• Observers noticed a black object descending from the moon and realized it was the colossal Hamura statue.

Toneri brought the Hamura Statue down from the moon and attacked Obito and Void, mistaking Obito for the man who had stolen the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As Toneri pressured Obito’s Kamui, Obito joined forces with Tobi to unleash True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha.

• Toneri redirected the Hamura Statue toward the Shinobi World, and its descent caused widespread alarm.
• Obito and Void went to investigate the statue, while Toneri guided it toward Konoha and sensed them nearby.
• Toneri attacked Obito, whose intangibility was countered by Toneri’s space-time ocular technique.
• Toneri recognized Obito as Madara Uchiha and accused him of stealing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito called on Tobi’s power and unleashed Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha.

Obito and Tobi used True Several Thousand Hands to battle Toneri’s Hamura Statue, overwhelming it with a barrage of punches. Toneri repaired the statue with the Giant Tenseigan, and the clash continued as a powerful ocular force descended from space.

• Konoha patrol ninja encountered the rampaging Hamura Statue, and Obito and Tobi summoned a wooden Thousand Hands Buddha to block its attack and face it.
• Obito drew Chakra from Tobi and used Top Transformed Buddha, pinning the Hamura Statue down and pounding it into the ground.
• Toneri endured the assault and restored the damaged Hamura Statue with the Giant Tenseigan, leaving Obito exhausted and alarmed by its recovery.
• A tremendous ocular power descended from space, while Toneri believed he could defeat Madara Uchiha and reclaim the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Obito defeated Toneri after using Izanagi to survive a fatal counterattack, then took Toneri’s corpse for study. Genitsu followed Toneri’s soul to the Pure Land, where the Sage of Six Paths awaited him and welcomed the powerful new arrival.

• Tobi took control of Obito and used the Thousand-Armed Buddha Statue’s five Release techniques to destroy Toneri’s Hamura Statue.
• Obito used Kamui to attack Toneri from behind, but Toneri crushed him with the statue; Obito used Izanagi to rewrite his death and impaled Toneri with Kamui.
• Obito snapped Toneri’s neck, killing him, and absorbed Toneri’s corpse and the bloodstains into Kamui before leaving with Tobi.
• Void explained that Toneri’s death might not be permanent because Ōtsutsuki souls could survive bodily death, while Genitsu arrived and tracked Toneri’s soul toward the Pure Land.
• The Sage of Six Paths welcomed Toneri’s soul, pleased that the powerful descendant of Hamura would strengthen the Pure Land.

Genitsu pulled Toneri’s soul from the Pure Land and imprisoned him in Takamagahara despite the Sage of Six Paths watching. Back in Konoha, Genitsu suspected Toneri had left Karma on Huomen, while Huomen approached the Giant Tenseigan on the moon and wondered why it had stopped moving.

• The Sage of Six Paths met Toneri at the Pure Land and explained that Obito, not Madara, had killed him.
• Genitsu used his Rinnegan to pull Toneri’s soul toward Takamagahara, revealing that he had killed Toneri’s father and used the corpse in experiments on Iroha.
• Toneri resisted Genitsu and accused him of killing his father, but Genitsu overpowered him and imprisoned his soul in Takamagahara with a God of Reversal.
• The Sage of Six Paths let Genitsu take Toneri, reasoning that Toneri could eventually be resurrected through another form.
• Genitsu returned to Konoha and suspected Toneri had placed Karma on Huomen, while Huomen approached the Giant Tenseigan on the moon and wondered why it had stopped moving.

After defeating Toneri, Genitsu approached the Giant Tenseigan and forced Huomen to awaken the Karma Toneri had planted in him, letting him connect to the eye. The Shinobi World reeled from the celestial battle as Minato tried to restore order and Shin prepared to act.

• Huomen watched the battle's aftermath on the moon and realized Genitsu had defeated Toneri.
• Genitsu revealed his Rinnegan and tested it against the Giant Tenseigan, which barely responded to him.
• Genitsu forced Huomen to try controlling the Giant Tenseigan and threatened to kill him if he failed.
• Huomen's Karma awakened enough to connect him to the Giant Tenseigan, and Genitsu made him a reluctant candidate for the organization.
• Genitsu left Huomen stranded alone on the moon, and Huomen realized he had no way to return to the Shinobi World.
• Minato struggled to contain the panic and disruption caused by the battle while Shin welcomed the chaos and prepared to make his move.

During the Chūnin Exam’s final battle, Fū Yamanaka and Kabuto killed Chōjūrō through a soul-exchange trap, and Genma ended the exam before the remaining fighters could continue. Eleven examinees emerged, while Hozuki Mangetsu took the Blunt Sword and Monster quietly postponed his attack until his target left Konoha.

• Kabuto and Chōjūrō feigned a stalemate until Fū used the Mind Puppet Curse Mark Technique to exchange souls with Chōjūrō, trapping him in a straw doll.
• Kabuto severed Chōjūrō’s limbs and killed him, while the injuries transferred to Fū’s body; Izumi blocked Kimimaro as he tried to intervene.
• Genma arrived with two others, stopped Kimimaro’s attack, and declared the exam over, promoting all survivors to Chūnin.
• The examinees emerged from the forest, and only eleven remained, including Temari as Sunagakure’s sole survivor.
• Hozuki Mangetsu took the Blunt Sword from Haku, while Monster recognized him and decided to wait until his target left Konoha before attacking.

After Huomen’s rebellion deepened the divide between the Hyuga main and branch families, Hizashi pushed Hiashi to make Hinata a branch family member and mark her with the Caged Bird Seal. Hinata sought comfort from Naruto, while Genitsu decided Root had no reason to intervene because it already knew how to break the seal.

• The Hyuga elders questioned Hizashi about Huomen’s rebellion, and Hiashi ended the argument by ordering the clan to move on and keep the branch family under control.
• Hizashi demanded that Hiashi designate Hinata as a branch family member and place the Caged Bird Seal on her, and Hiashi agreed.
• Hiashi told Hinata she would leave the main family, and Hinata ran away in tears.
• Hinata found Naruto at his training ground and told him about the seal; Naruto considered asking the Third Hokage for help while the Nine-Tails urged him to challenge the Hyuga Clan.
• At Root, Genitsu heard Iroha’s report and said they would not intervene because they already had a way to break the Caged Bird Seal.