Chapter Summaries

Kyosuke freed Mito Uzumaki and threatened to keep her until the Uzumaki withdrew, joking that he would make her bear his child. After Uzumaki Ashina arrived at the front, Kyosuke and Madara prepared to face the approaching battle.

• Kyosuke removed Mito's restraints and told her he wanted the Uzumaki to withdraw their troops, then threatened to keep her and have a child with her.
• Maya agreed to guard Mito while Kyosuke left to greet the arriving Uzumaki Ashina.
• Kyosuke used his Space Coordinates to reach the front line, where Hiroki and Madara questioned him about abducting Mito and his Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Kyosuke claimed he had created the Flying Thunder God Technique, while Hiroki prepared the commanders for battle against Uzumaki Ashina.
• Kyosuke and Madara voiced confidence that they could face Ashina, and Kyosuke relied on having Mito as leverage.

Kyosuke and the Uchiha faced Uzumaki Ashina’s army on the Southern Border, where Kyosuke’s Chidori formation tore through the enemy ranks. When an Uzumaki jonin stopped the formation’s next charge, Kyosuke fought him alone and ended the chapter surrounded by lethal weapons.

• Uzumaki Ashina confronted Kyosuke and Madara with his overwhelming presence, then threatened to crush the Uchiha unless they released Mito.
• Hiroki Uchiha ordered an attack, and the Uchiha and Uzumaki armies clashed with coordinated Fire Release and Water Release techniques.
• Kyosuke led eighty-odd shinobi in a synchronized Chidori charge that pierced the Uzumaki formation.
• An unknown red-haired Uzumaki jonin interrupted Kyosuke’s plan, so Kyosuke ordered Maya to withdraw and prepare another mass charge.
• Kyosuke fought the jonin with Uchiha Style: Sword Leap Flame, landing seven slashes but failing to kill him.
• The wounded jonin trapped Kyosuke among two kunai and three long swords and shouted for him to die.

Kyosuke and Madara fought through the Uzumaki ranks, helping the Uchiha forces break through and drive their enemies back. As Hiroki Uchiha and Uzumaki Ashina clashed, Kyosuke and Madara headed toward the central battlefield, where Ashina intended to use himself as bait for a hostage exchange to bring his daughter home.

• Kyosuke escaped an encirclement with Flying Thunder God and killed an Uzumaki Clan jonin, then withdrew to recover his depleted chakra.
• Madara defeated a veteran Uzumaki jonin and four of his subordinates before leading the Uchiha forces in another charge.
• Kyosuke and Madara fought through the Uzumaki formation together, forcing the enemy to retreat.
• Uzumaki Ashina personally entered the battle, but Hiroki Uchiha stopped his advance and engaged him in a fierce duel.
• Kyosuke moved toward the central battlefield, and Madara left his troops to go there alone.
• Ashina forbade his clan members from approaching the battlefield because he planned to lure important Uchiha fighters into a hostage exchange and bring his daughter home.

Kyosuke, Elder Hiroki, and Madara failed to defeat Uzumaki Ashina, whose sealing techniques and chains overwhelmed their attacks. Kyosuke negotiated a one-year delay for Mito’s return and planned to find outside allies to counter Ashina.

• Uzumaki Ashina extinguished Hiroki Uchiha’s Fire Release, deflected his sword strike, and knocked him back with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Kyosuke used a Special-Made Kunai and Flying Thunder God to attack Ashina, but Ashina’s chains repeatedly repelled him and Hiroki.
• Madara Uchiha arrived and recognized how difficult Ashina would be to defeat.
• Kyosuke showed Ashina an object taken from his tent, proving he could infiltrate the Uzumaki camp, and proposed that Mito return safely after one year.
• Ashina accepted the delay but threatened to destroy the Uchiha if anything happened to Mito.
• Kyosuke told Madara and Hiroki they would need outside help to find a way to defeat Ashina.

Kyosuke explained why the Uzumaki needed protection and took Mito with him while seeking powerful clans to ally with the Uchiha against the Senju. Mito remained under his watch as they traveled, and their uneasy relationship continued at a mixed bathing hot spring.

• Mito told Kyosuke that the Uzumaki's valuable constitutions made them targets, explaining why her clan needed a powerful protector.
• Kyosuke released Mito's restraints and marked her arm with the Flying Thunder God's Space Coordinates so she could not escape.
• Kyosuke took Mito along as he set out to seek alliances with powerful clans in the Land of Fire.
• Mito asked to wash up in a hot spring, then discovered Kyosuke had entered the mixed bathing area too.
• Mito considered attacking Kyosuke while he appeared to sleep, but his muttered warning made her give up and sulk.

Kyosuke and Mito were attacked by robbers, and Kyosuke discovered their leader was a Sarutobi Clan ninja ordered to kill merchants for war funds. After killing him, Kyosuke continued toward the eastern Land of Fire with Mito, unaware that someone was following them.

• Kyosuke packed his lavish breakfast into a Sealing Scroll while Mito ate dry rations.
• A band of robbers surrounded Kyosuke and Mito, and Mito charged in and quickly defeated them.
• The middle-aged robber revealed Elite Chunin-level strength and took Mito hostage, but Kyosuke trapped him in genjutsu.
• Under genjutsu, Sarutobi Jiichiro confessed that the Sarutobi Clan had ordered him to kill traveling merchants to raise war funds.
• Kyosuke killed Sarutobi Jiichiro and warned Mito against provoking the powerful Sarutobi Clan.
• Kyosuke and Mito continued toward the eastern Land of Fire as an unseen pursuer followed them, and Mito asked what help Kyosuke intended to find.

Uchiha Kyosuke visited the Hyuga Clan with Mito Uzumaki to seek help in his war against the Uzumaki. After explaining how he had used Mito as a hostage to stop Uzumaki Ashina's attack, he asked Hyuga Tennin to speak with him alone.

• Kyosuke entered Hyuga territory and told a Branch Family guard that he wished to meet Hyuga Tennin.
• Yayoi Hyuga escorted Kyosuke and Mito Uzumaki to the main hall, where they met Tennin.
• Kyosuke introduced Mito as his captive and recounted how he had used her to force Uzumaki Ashina to abandon an attack.
• Tennin asked whether Kyosuke wanted the Hyuga to intervene in his war with the Uzumaki.
• Kyosuke nodded and asked to speak with Tennin alone.

Kyosuke revealed the Hyuga Clan’s ancestral connection to the Tenseigan and secured Hyuga Tennin’s agreement to ally with him if he could prove his plan. After Uchiha Maya located a space-time barrier leading to the moon, Kyosuke traveled to the cave to study it.

• Kyosuke questioned Hyuga Tennin about the Tenseigan and explained that the Hyuga descended from Ōtsutsuki Hamura, whose other branch had inherited his body.
• Kyosuke offered to take Tennin to meet the other branch if the Hyuga agreed to ally with his clan, and Tennin accepted on the condition that Kyosuke prove the plan feasible.
• Uchiha Maya found a starlit Space-Time Barrier in a cave in the northern Land of Fire, concealed the location, and sent Kyosuke its coordinates.
• Kyosuke used Flying Thunder God Kunai to reach the cave and began studying the barrier so he could replicate it and take the Hyuga to the moon.

Kyosuke modified the passage to the moon and led Hyuga Tennin and five trusted jonin there to investigate the Ōtsutsuki. They arrived at the palace, where Tennin began surveying the weakened lunar clan.

• Kyosuke secretly modified the Space-Time Barrier, restricting access to the moon and concealing the passage.
• Kyosuke told Hyuga Tennin that the passage was open, and Tennin assembled five trusted jonin for the expedition.
• Kyosuke activated the barrier and transported the group from the Hyuga Clan's forbidden grounds to the moon.
• Hyuga Kenji killed the guards who detected the group's arrival, and Hyuga Tennin sealed three Ōtsutsuki corpses in a scroll.
• Hyuga Tennin inspected the palace with his Byakugan, realized the lunar Ōtsutsuki had neglected ninjutsu, and exclaimed that he had found something.

Ōtsutsuki Sugito sent human puppets to stop the Earth intruders after his son Taito was killed, then headed for the Forbidden Land to seek Hamura’s ultimate weapon. Kyosuke and the Hyuga forces fought their way toward the archives, but a huge chakra presence approached as the decisive battle began.

• Ōtsutsuki Sugito ordered his subordinates to suppress news of the intruders and deploy the Main Family’s human puppets.
• Ōtsutsuki Taito led followers to intercept the intruders, but a Hyuga struck his vital point and killed him.
• Ōtsutsuki Sugito learned of Taito’s death, then went to the Forbidden Land to seek the weapon left by Ōtsutsuki Hamura.
• Kyosuke waited outside the archives while Hyuga Tennin searched inside for information about the Tenseigan, and the Hyuga jonin fought the puppet forces.
• Hyuga Kenji sensed an enormous approaching chakra presence with his Byakugan and recalled the remaining jonin for the decisive battle.

After Ōtsutsuki Sugito awakened a pair of incomplete Tenseigan, Hyuga Kenji and Hyuga Tennin fought him while Kyosuke realized the eyes had not reached their full power. Sugito survived their escape and resolved to evolve the Tenseigan and take revenge on the Hyuga Clan.

• Grieving his dead son, Ōtsutsuki Sugito unleashed the incomplete Tenseigan and fired a massive green chakra sphere at Hyuga Kenji and Kyosuke.
• Hyuga Kenji destroyed the sphere with Eight Trigrams: Mountain-Crushing Strike, and Sugito appeared before them in a surge of power.
• Kyosuke recognized that Sugito's Tenseigan lacked its advanced abilities and concluded that the eyes were not fully evolved.
• Hyuga Tennin arrived carrying the Clan Heir's corpse and said his research showed that awakening the Tenseigan required direct Ōtsutsuki bloodline.
• Hyuga Tennin used Eight Trigrams: Mountain Crusher to shatter Sugito's attack and destroy the palace, then escaped with Kenji and Kyosuke.
• Sugito vowed to avenge his son by advancing the Tenseigan and attacking the Hyuga Clan.

Kyosuke left Hyuga Tennin to research the Ōtsutsuki cells while he returned to Mito, and Tennin’s experiments failed until he found that the Caged Bird Seal could restrain the cells. Unable to preserve them otherwise, Tennin chose his disciple Yayoi Hyuga as a living vessel, and her screams rang through the forbidden land.

• Hyuga Tennin thanked Kyosuke for helping him discover that the Tenseigan’s key lay on the moon and said he would join the Uchiha alliance after making arrangements.
• Kyosuke returned to his room, startled Mito while she drank milk, and provoked her into attacking him.
• Tennin and Yayoi Hyuga tested Ōtsutsuki blood on prisoners, but the subjects suffered fatal breakdowns within seconds.
• Tennin discovered that the Caged Bird Seal could stop the Ōtsutsuki cells from spreading, though preserving them required a living vessel and regular chakra and sealing support.
• Tennin assigned the vessel mission to Yayoi, whose screams echoed through the forbidden land that night.

Kyosuke traveled with Hyuga Tennin and the bandaged Yayoi Hyuga, while Mito misread his alliance with the Hyuga as a marriage arrangement and grew hurt. Tennin encouraged Kyosuke and Yayoi to grow close, but the group treated the proposed union as a joke as they continued toward the battlefield.

• Hyuga Tennin brought Yayoi Hyuga along to gain battlefield experience, and Kyosuke promised to protect her.
• Mito concluded that Kyosuke had secured Hyuga Tennin’s support through a marriage alliance and became upset.
• Kyosuke threatened Mito with missing dinner when she accused him of wanting to marry into the Hyuga Clan.
• Hyuga Tennin suggested that Kyosuke spend more time with Yayoi, hoping they might become a couple and benefit the Hyuga Clan.
• Kyosuke and the others laughed off the idea of a Uchiha-Hyuga union, while Yayoi secretly looked toward Kyosuke’s back.

Madara and Izuna fought on a failing Uchiha front until a sealing ambush trapped them, forcing Madara to unleash the S-rank Garuda Flame. As enemies closed in and Madara stayed behind to cover Izuna's retreat, a strange kunai appeared, signaling Kyosuke's return.

• Uchiha Izuna arrived with reinforcements, but Hiroki's army remained on course for defeat.
• Madara and Izuna charged the Uzumaki line together, cutting through enemy ranks before being trapped by a sealing jutsu.
• Madara unleashed the forbidden Garuda Flame, breaking the seal and destroying the Uzumaki ambush squad.
• The blast drew more enemies, and Madara, badly burned, told Izuna to retreat while he covered him.
• A strange kunai landed nearby, and Madara and Izuna recognized that Kyosuke had returned.

Kyosuke reunited with Madara Uchiha and Izuna, then redeemed the Shadow Clone Technique to accelerate his training toward mastering all chakra natures and creating Truth-Seeking Orbs. Meanwhile, Hyuga Tennin and Uzumaki Ashina repeatedly fought to a draw, and their rivalry captivated the Shinobi World as a year passed.

• Kyosuke found Madara Uchiha and Izuna alive, while Hyuga Tennin praised their abilities and went to seek out Uzumaki Ashina.
• Kyosuke used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return with the brothers and considered how powerful sealing techniques might threaten his escape.
• Kyosuke spent 7,500 points to redeem the Shadow Clone Technique, planning to use clones to train toward mastering all chakra natures.
• Hyuga Tennin and Uzumaki Ashina clashed repeatedly, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• The Shinobi World followed the rivals' battles, and a year passed.

Kyosuke demonstrated Chidori Stream and Chidori Sharp Spear while sparring with Mito, revealing a new training goal for his legion. He took Mito away to remove her Flying Thunder God mark, while Yayoi Hyuga remained trapped in a secluded cave, consumed by hatred.

• Kyosuke reflected on his legion’s training and his own physical limitations as Madara’s strength continued to grow.
• Mito attacked Kyosuke, but he used Chidori Stream to destroy her sealing markings and then cut a lock of her hair with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Kyosuke’s demonstration surprised Mito and the watching legion shinobi, giving his subordinates a new technique to pursue.
• Mito showed Kyosuke the Flying Thunder God coordinates on her arm and refused to let him remove them at camp.
• Kyosuke used Flying Thunder God to take Mito to a secluded cave, where Yayoi Hyuga pounded the rock and screamed in hatred.

Yayoi Hyuga endured the Ōtsutsuki cells’ torment while Kyosuke and Mito stabilized her with medical ninjutsu and a Four Symbols Seal. After more than half a year of studying cell cultivation, she demonstrated her talent by successfully growing Ōtsutsuki cells, giving Kyosuke reason to consider freeing her from the Caged Bird Seal.

• Yayoi Hyuga endured severe pain as the Ōtsutsuki cells spread through her body and vowed to kill those who had hurt her.
• Kyosuke and Mito arrived and used the Mystical Palm Technique to stabilize Yayoi.
• Mito placed a Four Symbols Seal over Yayoi’s face because the Caged Bird Seal could no longer contain the cells.
• Kyosuke recalled that he had given Yayoi two years to learn basic cell cultivation before he would agree to remove her Caged Bird Seal.
• Yayoi led Kyosuke and Mito to her secret laboratory and revealed a vessel of Ōtsutsuki cells she had cultivated, completing the test more than a year early.

Kyosuke freed Yayoi Hyuga from the Caged Bird Seal but placed a new life-threatening curse on her, recruiting her to help control the Hyuga Clan. Mito returned to Uzumaki territory after confronting Kyosuke over a pregnancy rumor, and she asked her father to teach her the Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• Kyosuke removed Yayoi’s Caged Bird Seal, placed a new curse on her, and gave her research documents about the cells behind her Tenseigan.
• Kyosuke urged Yayoi to grow stronger and turn the Hyuga Clan into a tool for their plans, and she vowed not to disappoint him.
• Mito accused Kyosuke of spreading a rumor that she was returning home to await childbirth, bit his wrist, and warned she would defeat him when they met again.
• Mito returned safely to Uzumaki territory, where Uzumaki Ashina learned she had not come home to await a child.
• Mito asked Ashina to teach her the Adamantine Sealing Chains, and he celebrated her resolve before calling for the troops to celebrate.

Elder Hiroki assigned Kyosuke and Madara a mission to destroy the Land of Whirlpools’ supply convoys and attack its homeland, with Yayoi joining them. The three set out east, hoping to force Uzumaki Ashina to pull his army back.

• Elder Hiroki revealed his plan to strike the disguised supply convoys and invade the Land of Whirlpools, and Madara agreed that he and Kyosuke could carry it out.
• Hyuga Tennin suggested Yayoi accompany them, and Elder Hiroki entrusted the mission to the three.
• Kyosuke left Maya in charge of the army and met Madara at the rendezvous point, where they argued about rumors concerning Mito.
• Yayoi arrived, and Madara led the team east through the Land of Fire to destroy the convoys and attack the enemy’s home base.

Kyosuke, Yayoi Hyuga, and Madara Uchiha finished disrupting supply routes and reached the Land of Whirlpools to prepare a surprise attack on Uzushiogakure. As they waited for nightfall and a way past the village’s defenses, Kyosuke told Madara that Hashirama Senju had awakened Wood Release and killed three Uchiha jonin.

• Yayoi Hyuga helped the squad destroy more than twenty suspicious merchant caravans, completing their mission to cut off supplies.
• The trio sailed to the Land of Whirlpools and discussed looting Uzumaki Ashina’s possessions while Madara scouted important facilities.
• Kyosuke noticed inspection convoys at Uzushiogakure’s entrance and planned to sneak in by placing a Flying Thunder God Kunai on a wagon.
• Kyosuke told Madara that Hashirama Senju had awakened Wood Release and, using a Wood Release Clone, killed three Uchiha jonin sent to assassinate him.