Recaps

Hyuga Mirai helped Konoha through the final battles of the war while building his companies and aiding Uzumaki Ayaka. After killing Hyuga Hirin and joining Orochimaru, Mirai became an S-rank rogue ninja, while Orochimaru gave him an improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

• Hyuga Mirai helped Konoha survive the Iwa-nin’s attacks, and the Iwa-nin withdrew after Konoha destroyed Kannabi Bridge and won the final battle.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen appointed Hyuga Mirai medical leader against Kumo, and Mirai supported Orochimaru’s campaign until Kumo agreed to peace.
• Uzumaki Ayaka rescued Nohara Rin from Kirigakure, while Hyuga Mirai returned to Konoha as the war ended and the village began choosing a Fourth Hokage.
• Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru over his experiments, and Hyuga Mirai appeared, killed Hyuga Hirin, and attacked Kakashi and Hyuga Kiyomi.
• Hyuga Mirai fought Jiraiya and the arriving Konoha forces alongside Orochimaru, then escaped with him before Sarutobi Hiruzen could capture them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen named Orochimaru and Hyuga Mirai S-rank rogue ninja, while Konoha debated Mirai’s defection and Hyuga Kiyomi vowed not to give up on him.
• Namikaze Minato visited Mount Myoboku to learn about Mirai’s Sage Mode, and Uzumaki Ayaka briefly restrained Orochimaru before Mirai identified him as an ally.
• Orochimaru apologized to Hyuga Mirai and gave him a scroll containing an improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

Hyuga Mirai recruited Sasori, expanded his organization’s reach, and was thrown into a parallel time space where he influenced his younger self before returning to his own era. As Rōran joined his plans, Konoha’s investigation of Root’s attack on a merchant mission brought Namikaze Minato into confrontation with Danzo.

• Hyuga Mirai recruited Sasori after defeating his Third Kazekage puppet, while Konan failed to persuade Sasori to join Akatsuki.
• Hyuga Mirai developed a way to absorb Natural Energy, gave his surviving test subjects Soul Cursed Seals, and summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju with Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Hyuga Mirai used the Yasunori Trading Company to secure a supply and mining agreement with Rasa, then entered Rōran to study the Dragon Vein.
• The Dragon Vein sent Hyuga Mirai to a parallel time space, where he met his younger self, gave him a ring, made a deal with Orochimaru, and became his disciple’s younger counterpart’s teacher through the planned arrangement.
• Hyuga Mirai returned to his own time after the Dragon Vein broke his seal, learned that Android 18 had brought Rōran under her control, and secured Queen Sara’s cooperation by offering support against desertification.
• Namikaze Minato assembled Kaminari Kaede, Yuhi Kurenai, Sarutobi Asuma, and Kinoshita Hikaru for a merchant-protection mission, where Konan attacked and Yuhi Kurenai trapped her in an illusion.
• Konan escaped after injuring Sarutobi Asuma, and Namikaze Minato later demanded that Danzo explain Root’s attack on the merchant company.

Hyuga Mirai and Uzumaki Ayaka intervened when the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha, leaving Minato dead and Kushina alive with the beast sealed inside Ayaka. Mirai expanded his reach through the moon, Rōran, and the Yasunori Trading Company as Ayaka trained and was sent to assist Orochimaru.

• Hyuga Mirai and Uzumaki Ayaka followed the rampaging Nine-Tails, and Ayaka helped Minato seal half of it into Naruto before sealing the rest into herself.
• Hyuga Mirai killed Namikaze Minato during their confrontation, then restored Kushina with Chakra and left Konoha with Ayaka as Sarutobi Hiruzen took charge of the aftermath.
• Hyuga Mirai defeated Tsunade and implanted her with a Sage Chakra Curse Mark, while Jiraiya later brought her back to Konoha after Minato’s death.
• Tsunade and Kushina consulted Sage Katsuyu, who warned that Kushina would die in about six years unless she found a way to preserve her life.
• Hyuga Mirai reached the moon, subdued Otsutsuki Toneri, and brought the Giant Tenseigan to Rōran to research its ocular power.
• Hyuga Mirai expanded the Yasunori Trading Company’s reach through Medical Talismans, Medical Machines, and partnerships with Sunagakure and the Uchiha Clan.
• After more than a year of training, Uzumaki Ayaka showed Hyuga Mirai her Nine-Tails Mode but lost their sparring match, so he sent her and Bai to assist Orochimaru in the Land of Rice Fields.

Hyuga Mirai exploited Konoha’s political failures and Sunagakure’s crisis to expand his influence, helping Pakura reshape the Land of Wind into a federation. After witnessing Konoha’s treatment of Hizashi and questioning its purpose, Tsunade joined Mirai’s organization, while Jiraiya left to investigate Sunagakure.

• Kimura sold Medical Machines to Konoha and Amegakure, while Orochimaru told Tsunade about the Curse Mark and urged her to look beyond Konoha.
• Kumo-nin attempted to abduct Naruto and target the Hyūga clan, but Kushina and the Hyūga defenders killed or captured the intruders, prompting a crisis that ended with Hizashi volunteering to die for peace.
• Kiyomi took responsibility for Neji’s future and challenged the Hyūga clan’s reliance on the Caged Bird Seal, while Mirai and Sasori worked to undermine Rasa’s position in Sunagakure.
• Danzo spread rumors that Naruto was the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki as unrest grew in Sunagakure, where Rasa faced public anger, financial pressure, and conflict with the Daimyo.
• Rasa tried to secure Sunagakure’s future through an alliance with the Yasunori House, but Akatsuki assassinated him, and Sasori rescued a surviving Anbu before taking Rasa’s corpse.
• Pakura became the Fifth Kazekage and, with Android 18 posing as the Yasunori House patriarch, began reforms that established the Saudi Federal Republic State and brought new territories and groups under its government.
• Mirai persuaded Tsunade and Shizune to join his organization, then released Hashirama and Tobirama from their confinement, while Pain paused Akatsuki’s activities as bounty hunters pursued its members.
• Hiruzen sent Jiraiya to investigate Rasa’s death and Sunagakure’s reforms, and Jiraiya left Konoha as Pakura and Elder Yasunori continued developing the federation and its administration.