Recaps

Neji Hyuga returned to the Hyuga Clan compound and offered to remove the Caged Bird Seal from Branch Family members who chose freedom. After the clan divided over his offer, Neji ordered the Main Family and its supporters, including their descendants, to receive the seal instead, leaving them protesting.

• Neji Hyuga told the gathered Hyuga Clan that he had solved the Caged Bird Seal and created a new taijutsu system, and several Branch Family members revealed their unmarked foreheads.
• Takashi Hyuga invited Branch Family members who wanted freedom to stand with Neji, and the Fifth Elder attacked them by trying to activate their seals.
• Takashi broke the Fifth Elder's arm, and Branch Family members chose sides, with many joining Neji and others remaining with Hiashi Hyuga.
• Hiashi Hyuga asked Neji not to harm their clansmen, but Neji ordered Takashi to seal the Main Family, its supporters, and their descendants.
• Neji said he would give Branch Family members the ninjutsu to apply the seal and let them decide whether to use it, prompting protests from the Main Family and its supporters.

As the reformed Hyuga Clan settled into a new era, Neji Hyuga entered the Jonin vote to compete with Tsunade for Hokage. Kakashi Hatake worried that the election concealed Neji’s larger ambitions, while Might Guy decided to support him; the chapter ended with Tsunade confronting Neji.

• The Hyuga Clan abolished the distinction between its main and branch houses, and branch members used the Caged Bird Seal against former main-house members.
• News spread that Tsunade would return to run for Hokage against Neji Hyuga, whose power and reputation still seemed small beside hers.
• Neji told Takashi Hyuga that the election would gather Konoha’s Jonin and give them a chance to change their destinies.
• Kakashi Hatake suspected Neji’s candidacy was tied to his stated goal of conquering every country and making their shinobi villages as peaceful as Konoha.
• Might Guy decided to vote for Neji, and Neji entered the Hokage Building as the Jonin gathered.
• Tsunade confronted Neji, asking if he was the brat trying to take the Hokage position from her.

Tsunade confronted Neji Hyuga over his bid for Hokage, and he condemned Konoha’s leadership before promising to unite the Shinobi World by force. Tsunade rejected his candidacy and entered the election square, leaving the Jonin divided over Neji’s accusations.

• Tsunade arrived with Jiraiya and demanded to know why Neji Hyuga wanted to become Hokage.
• Neji Hyuga blamed the Third Hokage and the clans around him for Konoha’s corruption and the Uchiha Clan’s destruction.
• Neji Hyuga said he would conquer the Sand Village and other shinobi villages to end war, while Tsunade and the Jonin dismissed his plan.
• Tsunade refused to let Neji Hyuga become Hokage, and Neji accused her of preserving the system she despised.
• Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado escorted Tsunade into the election venue as the Jonin reacted to Neji’s accusations.
• Kakashi Hatake brought Might Guy into the election square, and Neji Hyuga entered with Takashi Hyuga.

At Konoha’s Hokage election, Hyuga Neji objected to an immediate vote and demanded that the candidates present their policies first. His challenge exposed how his candidacy could change who was allowed to compete for Hokage, while Shikaku Nara arranged a cautious show of support for Neji from the Akimichi Clan.

• Koharu Utatane began the vote after Tsunade and Hyuga Neji arrived, but Neji objected and called for candidates to explain their policies before voting.
• A Jonin agreed that Neji’s request was reasonable, as Konoha’s past Hokage selections had largely excluded open competition.
• Shikaku Nara realized that Neji’s candidacy could break the traditional monopoly on the Hokage position, and Inoichi Yamanaka asked him what troubled him.
• Shikaku Nara and the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans decided that Choza Akimichi would cast a vote for Neji as a precaution and a gesture of goodwill.
• Shikaku Nara considered whether Neji might seize power if he lost, then wondered if choosing Neji outright could lead Konoha into a new era.

Neji Hyuga and Tsunade presented their plans for becoming Hokage, and Neji’s hardline promises won over the Jonin. The chapter ended with Tsunade, Jiraiya, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado reacting in alarm to Neji’s speech.

• Homura Mitokado announced that Tsunade and Neji Hyuga would give speeches before the Hokage election, and Tsunade spoke first.
• Tsunade promised to protect Konoha with her life, and her supporters cheered her enthusiastically.
• Neji Hyuga promised to make Sand Village pay reparations for the Konoha Crush and threatened to incorporate it into Konoha if it could not pay.
• Neji Hyuga promised Uzuki Yugao that he would execute Maki for killing Hayate Gekko, moving Yugao and the Jonin with his pledge to defend Konoha’s people.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado reacted in alarm to Neji Hyuga’s words.

Neji Hyuga defended a hard-line response to Sand Village and proposed uniting the shinobi world under one country. He ended his speech by declaring that he was stronger than Hashirama Senju.

• Tsunade, Jiraiya, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado challenged Neji Hyuga’s proposal, warning that war with Sand Village could ignite a Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Neji Hyuga accused the leaders of disregarding the deaths of civilian shinobi and small-clan members, and vowed that Sand Village’s crimes would not go unpunished.
• Tsunade condemned Neji Hyuga’s plan to annex Sand Village, but Jiraiya restrained her as she tried to confront him.
• Neji Hyuga announced that he would merge Sand Village into Konoha and unite the Land of Rivers with the Land of Wind.
• Neji Hyuga outlined a plan to conquer the remaining shinobi villages and establish a single country with unified systems, declaring that he was stronger than Hashirama Senju.

Neji Hyuga laid out his plans for unifying the Shinobi World and investigating corruption before losing the Hokage election to Tsunade. After the vote, he revealed his Sage Mode and summoned a colossal Steel Colossus, leaving the Jonin in fear.

• Neji Hyuga promised to unify the Shinobi World and investigate positions controlled by the Sarutobi Clan, Utatane Clan, and Mitokado Clan.
• The Jonin voted, and the ballots gave Tsunade seventy-five percent and Neji Hyuga about twenty-five percent.
• Koharu Utatane announced Tsunade as the Fifth Hokage, and the Jonin celebrated her victory.
• Neji Hyuga unleashed crushing pressure, entered Sage Mode, and slammed his palms into the ground.
• A Steel Colossus over a thousand meters tall rose behind Neji Hyuga and blocked out Konoha's sun.

Neji Hyuga revealed a Steel Colossus towering over Konoha, confirming that he possessed the power to pursue the Hokage position. As Konoha’s shinobi prepared to evacuate and fight, Jiraiya and the toads recognized Neji’s Sage power as beyond anything they had encountered, and they could not say whether they could win.

• The Jonin saw Neji Hyuga’s Steel Colossus overshadow Konoha, and Shikaku Nara ordered an evacuation and prepared the squads to restrain him.
• Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy reacted in shock as they realized how powerful Neji was.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta and prepared to enter Sage Mode, but Gamabunta warned that the Steel Colossus seemed stronger than the Great Toad Sage.
• Jiraiya summoned Shimakage and Shima, who identified Neji as an Eternal Sage embodying nature itself.
• Jiraiya asked whether they could defeat Neji, and Shimakage and Shima fell silent.

Tsunade and Jiraiya confronted Neji Hyuga and his Steel Colossus, believing they could stop the summon by defeating Neji. After the Steel Colossus effortlessly battered Gamabunta, Katsuyu hesitated to attack Neji and addressed him as her lord, leaving Tsunade frightened.

• Tsunade summoned Katsuyu while Jiraiya and the toads assessed the Steel Colossus, and they decided to target Neji Hyuga.
• Neji ordered the Steel Colossus to avoid excessive damage to Konoha, and the colossus reluctantly agreed to fight.
• Gamabunta struck the Steel Colossus's toe with his blade, but it remained unharmed and kicked Gamabunta into the air.
• The Steel Colossus pierced Gamabunta's stomach with a steel hair and pinned him in the forest outside Konoha.
• Tsunade ordered Katsuyu to attack Neji with Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid, but Katsuyu asked Neji for permission and called him her lord, frightening Tsunade.

Neji Hyuga used the Steel Colossus to overwhelm Konoha’s forces during his coup, defeating Tsunade’s attack and explaining that he intended to rule through fear rather than seek acknowledgment. As Might Guy confronted him over his betrayal, Neji said that the ruthless person before him was his real self.

• Katsuyu’s Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid only left temporary marks on the Steel Colossus, which then transformed the plaza floor into steel and raised spikes that scattered Konoha’s forces.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya attacked Neji Hyuga while Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado launched a combined assault, but Neji’s steel defenses disrupted their attacks and sent Kakashi Hatake flying.
• Neji Hyuga blocked Tsunade’s Monster Strength Fist with his metallic palm and knocked her onto a steel spike, where she activated Ninja Art: Creation Rebirth: Strength of a Hundred Technique to heal herself.
• Neji Hyuga told Tsunade that he would rule through fear and force obedience rather than seek acknowledgment, while Danzo Shimura retreated among the spikes.
• Might Guy opened the Fifth Gate and caught the unconscious but living Kakashi Hatake, then demanded to know why Neji was hurting Konoha.
• Neji Hyuga told Might Guy that the Neji he saw was real and that Guy had never reached his deeper layers.

Might Guy opened the Eighth Gate to confront Neji Hyuga over his coup, while Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shikaku Nara tried to restrain Neji. The Steel Colossus broke their efforts, and the chapter ended as Guy launched Night Guy against Neji’s Iron Body.

• Might Guy opened the Sixth and then the Seventh Gate, demanding to know why Neji Hyuga had chosen a coup despite having the ability to become Hokage.
• Shikaku Nara took the injured Kakashi Hatake away for treatment as Neji warned Guy that he could not withstand the Eighth Gate’s toll.
• Might Guy opened the Eighth Gate, and Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shikaku Nara attempted to restrain Neji while the Steel Colossus attacked them.
• The Steel Colossus broke the restraints and fought Jiraiya and Tsunade, while Katsuyu rustified beneath Neji’s feet.
• Might Guy used Night Guy, and Neji Hyuga met the attack with Iron Body.

Might Guy unleashed Night Guy against Neji Hyuga, devastating Voting Square and much of Konoha. Neji survived without injury, while Might Guy’s body was destroyed by the attack’s recoil and he fell with his life nearly extinguished.

• Might Guy opened the Eight Gates and charged Neji Hyuga with Night Guy, shattering the steel spikes around them.
• Neji braced himself and took Might Guy’s full-force kick to the chest, triggering a massive shockwave that wrecked buildings and cracked the ground across Konoha.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shikamaru protected the Konoha ninja from the debris and flying steel.
• Might Guy’s body fractured and burned from the recoil, and he fell to the ground as a charred shell with his life nearly extinguished.
• Neji Hyuga recovered from his red-hot state without a trace of injury, leaving the assembled Jonin stunned.

Neji Hyuga defeated Tsunade and Jiraiya after surviving Might Guy's Night Guy, then declared that he was becoming Hokage. The battlefield fell silent as Tsunade writhed under the Five Elements Seal and Jiraiya lay restrained.

• Might Guy's Night Guy kick destroyed the Hokage Building and cracked the surrounding ground, but Neji Hyuga emerged unharmed.
• Neji Hyuga ordered Tsunade to keep Might Guy alive, and Katsuyu reported that it could sustain him for only five minutes.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya attacked Neji Hyuga with steel, Sage Art: Goemon, and close combat, but he repelled their attacks.
• Tsunade restrained Neji Hyuga so Jiraiya could use Sage Art: Ultra Five Elements Seal on them both.
• Neji Hyuga transferred the seal from himself to Tsunade, leaving her convulsing in agony while he bound Jiraiya with molten steel.
• Neji Hyuga asked the silent battlefield who objected to him becoming Hokage.

Neji Hyuga secured the position of Hokage after defeating Konoha’s challengers and ordered Tsunade to save Might Guy. The Great Slug Sage asked to become his disciple, but Neji refused and offered her a place under his command, which she eagerly accepted.

• Neji Hyuga declared that he would fulfill his duties as Hokage and gave Tsunade medical techniques to preserve Might Guy’s life.
• Tsunade recovered from Neji’s seal and treated Might Guy, while Jiraiya warned her not to challenge Neji again.
• The Great Slug Sage spoke through Katsuyu, praised Neji’s power, and asked to become his disciple.
• Neji rejected the Great Slug Sage as too weak for discipleship but offered to let her work under his command.
• The Great Slug Sage happily agreed to follow Lord Neji.

Neji Hyuga took control of Konoha and issued his first orders as the newly appointed Hokage, including a campaign against the Land of Wind. Jiraiya warned that Neji’s actions could provoke a wider war, and Neji began to challenge Jiraiya’s belief in peace.

• The Great Slug Sage became Neji Hyuga’s subordinate, and Shimakage and Shima delivered the Great Toad Sage’s greetings before leaving.
• A Chunin reported that Sand Village ninjas had escaped from the Anbu prison, and Neji ordered Shikaku Nara to pursue them and prepare to seal Shukaku.
• Neji ordered Danzo Shimura to lead five powerful Hyuga members in taking control of the Land of Wind and killing its daimyo and ministers.
• Neji dismissed Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado as advisers and appointed Jiraiya and Tsunade to replace them.
• Jiraiya objected that attacking the Land of Wind could trigger a war, and Neji asked why Jiraiya had never achieved the peace he sought.

Neji Hyuga argued that his plan to unify the Shinobi World could end the cycle of war and extend the age when children were sent to battle, while Jiraiya feared it would bring greater conflict. Neji ordered Jiraiya to recruit Orochimaru and make the Sand Village surrender or be destroyed.

• Neji Hyuga challenged Jiraiya’s claim that Hashirama Senju had brought peace, arguing that Konoha’s system had only raised the age at which children went to war.
• Neji Hyuga said he would unify the Shinobi World before the Fourth Shinobi World War and keep children from fighting until adulthood, but Jiraiya accused him of seeking conquest.
• Jiraiya warned that Neji Hyuga’s order for Danzo Shimura to kill the Land of Wind’s Daimyo and nobles would trigger a wider war.
• Neji Hyuga argued that a country’s foundation was its people rather than its Daimyo and nobles, and told Jiraiya his heart was too narrow.
• Neji Hyuga ordered Jiraiya to find Orochimaru, offer him immortality, and persuade the Sand Village ninjas to surrender to Konoha or kill those who refused.

Neji Hyuga established a temporary Hokage office in the Hyuga compound and began reorganizing Konoha while assigning Tsunade responsibility for medical planning across a future unified Shinobi World. The chapter ended as Shikaku Nara reported a protest from Sand Village’s acting Kazekage.

• Jiraiya left Konoha without accepting or defying Neji Hyuga’s order, intending to reflect while searching for Orochimaru.
• Neji Hyuga took office as Fifth Hokage, moved the administration into the Hyuga compound, and ordered sweeping changes across Konoha.
• Shikaku Nara led the Jonin Squad and Sealing Squad to capture fleeing Sand Village ninja, and Neji Hyuga suppressed Sand Village’s request to ransom them, including Gaara.
• Neji Hyuga punished the Utatane, Mitokado, and Sarutobi clans for corruption and staffing abuses, while appointing Hiashi Hyuga to investigate and record clan populations.
• Tsunade complained about her extensive medical planning workload, but Neji Hyuga insisted she was suited to the role and could leave if she wished.
• Shikaku Nara informed Neji Hyuga that Sand Village’s acting Kazekage had sent a letter of protest.

Neji Hyuga ordered the conquest of the Land of Wind and the execution of the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Fire, while Amegakure and Akatsuki destroyed Iwagakure. The chapter ended with Konoha's forces invading Sand Village and capturing its resistance leaders.

• Neji Hyuga dismissed Shikaku Nara's warning about provoking other nations and revealed that his forces had already taken control of the Land of Fire and were moving against the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.
• Neji Hyuga ordered the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Fire killed, and Takashi Hyuga left to carry out the order.
• Amegakure and Akatsuki purged the Land of Earth's Daimyo and nobles, then used the Steel Colossus to defeat Iwagakure, kill Ōnoki and its Jinchuriki, and occupy the Land of Earth.
• Danzo Shimura dealt with the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Wind, while Neji Hyuga ordered Sand Village's participating ninjas executed.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru summoned Konoha's Steel Colossus into Sand Village, where Chiyo, Ebizo, and other resistance members were captured.

Neji Hyuga conquered the shinobi world and founded Sky Country, ruling through brutal centralization while Tenten won the people's support. The chapter ended with Tenten assassinating Neji, becoming Heavenly Emperor, and guiding the country toward peace and prosperity.

• Neji Hyuga conquered the remaining nations, including the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, and unified the shinobi world as Sky Country.
• Neji Hyuga became emperor, made Konoha the Imperial City, and centralized the government while abolishing the shinobi system.
• Neji Hyuga's oppressive rule made the people resent him and favor Empress Tenten, while repeated assassination attempts failed.
• Tenten assassinated Neji Hyuga, became Heavenly Emperor, and preserved the stability of Sky Country.
• The Heavenly Emperor soothed the people, developed education and livelihoods, and helped Sky Country prosper.

Neji Hyuga brought Otsutsuki Kaguya from the Naruto world to He-El's universe, where He-El welcomed her to New Krypton. Kaguya learned she was far from the Otsutsuki Clan but remained uneasy about its power as He-El reassured her.

• He-El considered how the World Tree could help reveal the operating logic of different universes.
• Neji Hyuga brought Otsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage through a Traversal Vortex into He-El's universe.
• He-El introduced himself and told Kaguya she was now Otsutsuki Kaguya of New Krypton.
• Kaguya recalled how she betrayed Isshiki Otsutsuki, ate the Chakra Fruit, and was later sealed by her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura.
• He-El reassured Kaguya that the Otsutsuki Clan was no match for New Krypton, while the Great Slug Sage happily climbed onto his hand.

He-El brought the Great Slug Sage back from the Naruto universe and explained how her Nature Energy system differed from the Otsutsuki Clan’s Chakra. He decided to test planting a World Tree in the Naruto universe and suggested that Otsutsuki Kaguya could later use one to destroy her clan, leaving her alarmed and distrustful.

• He-El recalled that Neji Hyuga had brought the willing Great Slug Sage from the Naruto universe to the He-El Universe.
• He-El compared the Otsutsuki Clan’s Chakra system with the Great Slug Sage’s Nature Energy and predicted that Nature Energy could lead to a new Otsutsuki supreme god.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya asked He-El what he wanted her to do, and he told her to study New Krypton’s history and future.
• He-El decided to begin testing World Tree planting in the Naruto universe because he had gained inspiration there.
• He-El explained that World Trees would help universes grow instead of consuming their life, then suggested Otsutsuki Kaguya could plant one in her universe and destroy her clan.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya doubted she could defeat the Otsutsuki Clan and grew more uneasy about He-El’s plan.

He-El received reports on Zero’s and Ciri’s campaigns in the Transformers and Pacific Rim universes, then learned that the Transformers universe was drawing the attention of other multiverses. He ordered Zero to retreat if necessary and brought Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to the Pacific Rim universe.

• Lucy reported that Zero had occupied the Transformers universe’s Solar System and begun building armories, researching its underlying logic, and exploring beyond the system.
• Lucy reported that Ciri had turned the Pacific Rim universe’s Solar System into a Life Creation Chamber, while Doctor Manhattan helped her create a logic-detecting organism and rescue Dawn.
• The Great Slug Sage urged Kaguya to overcome her fear of the Otsutsuki Clan and recognize that He-El’s power and plans offered her a chance to break free of her past.
• He-El learned that Zero had dismantled Unicron, built armories, and discovered that the Transformers universe was a multiverse attracting the attention of others.
• He-El told Zero to act according to the situation and retreat if necessary, then took Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to the Pacific Rim universe.

He-El brought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to Pacific Rim, where he assigned Ciri to study and train them. After deciding that a World Tree could help universes reveal their underlying operational logic without provoking resistance, He-El ordered Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to research its creation, then departed for the DC Universe as its third Parallel Universe fusion began.

• He-El warned Zero to return rather than force a fight if trouble arose in the Transformers multiverse.
• He-El brought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to Pacific Rim and asked Ciri to study their genes, teach them New Krypton's rules, and train them for future missions.
• He-El asked Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to help research a universal instrument for detecting the underlying operational logic of universes.
• He-El proposed creating a World Tree that would support each universe's growth and gather its underlying operational logic without directly inspecting it.
• He-El ordered Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to focus on physical and spiritual energy, using Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's constitution as a reference, then went to the DC Universe as its third Parallel Universe fusion began.

He-El learned that more than eighteen parallel universes were merging into the New Krypton Universe and ordered New Krypton to prepare its defenses. He dismissed the commanders and turned to Clark Kent.

• Athena, Kal-El, Zero's avatar, and Clark Kent arrived to pay their respects to He-El.
• Kal-El reported that the Moon Base had detected more than twelve Cosmic Base String vibrations, and Athena revealed that the Main God's Light Orb had detected conflicts among more than eighteen universal pantheons.
• He-El ordered Zero's avatar to connect Proton ID Cards and prioritize communications and computing power by combat level.
• Athena, Kal-El, and Zero's avatar accepted He-El's orders and departed.
• He-El waved them away and turned to look at Clark Kent.

Clark Kent worried that the Parallel Universe merger threatened New Krypton and Earth, then prepared to defend the planet as He-El went to inspect the damaged Miracle Wish Machine. Scarface told He-El that the machine still worked, but every wish now came at an unknown price.

• Clark Kent asked He-El whether New Krypton could survive the crisis, and He-El ordered him to use his authority to help defend Earth against the merged universes’ dangerous anomalies.
• Clark Kent vowed to protect Earth, then flew down to prepare for battle after telling He-El, “Don’t die!”
• He-El went to the Seven Lantern Corps’ base satellite, where Scarface greeted him and led him to the Miracle Wish Machine.
• Scarface explained that the merged machine remained usable but was incomplete, and that nobody knew what price its wishes would demand.