Recaps

Hinata celebrated her victory over Sasuke at home and taught Gentle Fist to Hanabi. Naruto finally told Hinata he wanted to be her friend, and she accepted, leaving him overjoyed and determined to protect her.

• Hinata confirmed to Hanabi that she had beaten Sasuke and blocked his ninjutsu with Rotation.
• Hinata played at teaching Hanabi Gentle Fist after dinner while Hyuga Hiashi let them spend time together.
• Sasuke returned to class still bruised and silently accepted his defeat as Choji revealed Hinata behind him.
• Naruto rushed into class, and the chapter recalled how he had nervously confessed to Hinata two years earlier that he wanted to be friends.
• Hinata accepted Naruto as her friend, wiped away his tears, and told him to protect himself before promising to protect her.

Hinata detected a demon approaching the Ninja Academy, and the students realized the late teacher might be part of a test. As the demon moved toward the upper grades, Sasuke struggled with whether to ask Hinata to team up with him.

• Hyuga Hiashi accepted Hinata's friendship with Naruto and believed she would become Hokage.
• Naruto mocked Sasuke for his bruised face, and the two resumed their usual arguments over Hinata.
• Hinata sensed a demon approaching the school, prompting Shikamaru and Sakura to suspect the village had arranged a test.
• Hinata could not identify the demon through the black mist, while students considered how to protect themselves.
• The demon headed toward the upper grades, and Sasuke resolved to put aside his pride rather than disgrace the Uchiha.

Hinata arranged for Naruto and Sasuke to team up, then helped their classmates survive a ghost attack at the school. She escaped the building by smashing through a window and heading straight for the field.

• Hinata told Naruto and Sasuke to team up, and they reluctantly accepted her decision.
• A ghost overwhelmed the upperclassmen, while Neji struggled to track its attacks through the black mist.
• Rotting arms emerged throughout the classroom and began dragging students away.
• Hinata sealed Kiba Inuzuka and his dog's sense of smell after the stench made them dizzy.
• Sasuke used Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique to clear a path, and the students ran from the classroom.
• Hinata smashed through a window and ran toward the field while the others took the corridor to the main entrance.

Hinata headed back into the school building to investigate the students taken to the rooftop, and her classmates followed despite her warnings. By the end, Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Shikamaru, and the others were converging on the building, which Shikamaru believed was safest with Hinata there.

• Shikamaru carried Naruto out through a window as Puppet Corpses began emerging from the classroom, and the students regrouped with Neji and Shino.
• Neji and Shino explained that Puppet Corpses weakened anyone who touched them, though a layer of cloth prevented the effect.
• Hinata left to investigate whether the unconscious students on the rooftop could still be saved, and asked Neji to keep Naruto safe.
• Naruto followed Hinata, prompting Sasuke and Neji to go after him, while Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino also headed for the school building.
• Sakura joined Rock Lee and another girl in following the others, believing the school building would be safer with Hinata there.

Hinata's classmates reached the rooftop after fighting through the Puppet Corpses, where they were trapped in an apparent alternate dimension and faced a Skeleton Giant. Sasuke damaged the giant, and Naruto pinned its severed arm before it could rejoin the body.

• Sakura and the others fought their way through the corpse-filled school and found Hinata resting on the rooftop.
• The sun vanished, the students on the field disappeared, and Shino noticed that their Chakra was slowly draining away.
• A bone-armored Skeleton Giant emerged from the rooftop floor and advanced on the group.
• Shino's insects severed the giant's left leg, and Sasuke used his Great Fireball Technique to blast off its right arm.
• Naruto threw himself onto the severed arm to stop it from crawling back to the giant.

The students defeated the Skeleton Giant with a sealing jutsu and returned from the alternate dimension, where Iruka told them the test was over and results would be announced the next day. After Hinata revealed how easily she had fought through the Puppet Corpses, Naruto invited her, Shikamaru, and Choji to a riverside barbecue.

• Naruto and Choji pinned the Skeleton Giant's arm while Shikamaru, Sakura, and the others prepared a Sealing Jutsu, and Rock Lee kicked off its remaining arm.
• Shikamaru and the others sealed the Skeleton Giant, and the students returned to the school rooftop as the test ended.
• Iruka told the students that their results would be announced the next morning and that their unconscious classmates would wake up soon.
• Kiba asked Hinata if she was even human, and she restored his sense of smell, making him and his dog gag at the lingering stench.
• Naruto invited Hinata and Shikamaru to go out, then Choji agreed to join them for a riverside barbecue when Naruto mentioned meat.

After the village's test against Puppet Corpses, Hinata and her classmates planned a riverside barbecue while their families assessed the danger and prepared for stronger enemies. The Third Hokage reviewed Hinata's abilities and recognized that her Bloodline Ancestor Regression had made her a remarkable fighter, leaving him to decide how to handle the Hyuga Clan's hidden genius.

• Naruto, Shikamaru, Ino, Neji, Rock, Tenten, Kiba, Sakura, and others joined Hinata's plan for a riverside barbecue, while Sasuke protested that he had not agreed to come.
• Hinata returned home, told Hyuga Hiashi that the Puppet Corpses had seemed vulnerable but that their controller had held back, and asked him for gloves and gauntlets.
• Neji told Hizashi Hyuga that the Puppet Corpses had overwhelmed him in numbers, while Uchiha Fugaku warned Sasuke that the test was only the beginning.
• Hinata's classmates recovered from the test, and Shino worried that the insects that had touched the Skeleton Giant might not survive.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen read a report revealing Hinata's strength and suspected Bloodline Ancestor Regression, then considered how to treat the Hyuga Clan's genius.

Hinata spent a happy afternoon barbecuing with her friends before returning to Ninja Academy the next day. After the Third Hokage summoned her, he offered to take her as his disciple, leaving Hinata to consider his proposal.

• Hinata woke Naruto and went with him to join Choji, Shikamaru, Ino, Rock, and Tenten for a riverbank barbecue.
• Hinata and Naruto caught fish while Shikamaru and Ino hunted rabbits and birds, and the group ate and packed up at dusk.
• Iruka announced the students' test results, then told Hinata that the Third Hokage wanted to see her.
• Hinata considered graduating early and forming a ghost-hunting squad and a research team to study Bizarre Creatures.
• The Third Hokage told Hinata that he intended to take her as his disciple and asked what she thought.

Hinata became a Genin after earning an S on her test, and accepted the Third Hokage’s offer to become his disciple. She brought an apprenticeship gift to the Hokage Building, where villagers and ninjas took notice of the Hokage’s new student.

• Hinata accepted the Third Hokage’s offer to teach her, and he gave her a whirlpool-patterned forehead protector after explaining she had passed the test with an S.
• Iruka told the class that Hinata had become a Genin, while Naruto learned he had scored C and Sasuke vowed to catch up to her.
• Hinata decided to tie her forehead protector around her arm, but it would not stay fastened, so she planned to modify it at home.
• Hinata told Hyuga Hiashi that she had accepted the Third Hokage as her teacher, and he celebrated the news before giving her an apprenticeship gift.
• Hinata arrived at the Hokage Building with the gift, drawing attention as the Third Hokage’s new disciple and the eldest daughter of the Hyuga Clan.

Hinata told the Third Hokage that she used Nature Energy as True Qi and asked to learn every kind of ninjutsu. The Third Hokage recognized her as an immortal and planned to bring Jiraiya back to teach her.

• Hinata delivered tea from her father to the Third Hokage and said she was stronger than her father.
• Hinata asked to learn everything, then explained that she had no Chakra and refined the energy around her into True Qi.
• Hinata demonstrated that she could transform True Qi into different elemental forms, and the Third Hokage identified its source as Nature Energy.
• The Third Hokage decided Hinata was the Child of Destiny and called her an immortal.
• Hinata chose the title Great Void Immortal, and the Third Hokage resolved to summon Jiraiya to teach her.

Hinata studied the Third Hokage’s scrolls, memorized the Scroll of Seals, and met Jiraiya, who took her to Mount Myōboku to meet the Great Toad Sage. As they arrived, Hinata wondered about the Summoning Jutsu’s spatial power and her growing resemblance to Otsutsuki Kaguya.

• Hinata finished the Third Hokage’s scrolls in three days and asked to read the Scroll of Seals, memorizing its forbidden techniques.
• Jiraiya arrived at the Hokage Building, met Hinata, and told the Third Hokage he would take her to Mount Myōboku.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and identified Hinata as the Child of Destiny from the prophecy.
• Hinata wrote her name on Jiraiya’s summoning scroll, and Sage Fukasaku used Reverse Summoning Jutsu to bring them to Mount Myōboku.
• Hinata considered the spatial power behind the Summoning Jutsu and realized she now resembled Otsutsuki Kaguya by at least thirty percent.

On Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya tried to teach Hinata Senjutsu but discovered that her True Qi could not work with ordinary ninjutsu. The Great Toad Sage awakened Hinata’s Tenseigan, and she displayed its powers before him.

• The Great Toad Sage recognized Hinata’s resemblance to someone from his past and predicted she would reach the pinnacle of the Shinobi World, then privately wondered about her bloodline and ability to use Nature Energy.
• Hinata gathered Nature Energy from a hundred-meter radius and compressed it into a crystal, leaving Jiraiya unable to teach her more about its use.
• Jiraiya spent two days teaching Hinata Senjutsu but found that her True Qi could not be used like Senjutsu Chakra, so he apologized for being unable to help her further.
• The Great Toad Sage summoned Hinata and sent a power into her eyes, which she recognized as an opportunity to awaken her Tenseigan.
• Hinata’s eyes became brilliant sapphire blue, and she floated in the air surrounded by sky-blue energy and three Truth-Seeking Orbs.

Hinata left Mount Myōboku with her newly awakened Tenseigan and returned to Hidden Leaf Village with Jiraiya. She decided to keep her eyes active and show them off, while the Tenseigan on the moon remained occupied protecting the moon from a strange energy.

• The Great Toad Sage gave Hinata a scroll about the Tenseigan and let her leave Mount Myōboku.
• Hinata sensed that her Tenseigan had awakened the giant Tenseigan on the moon, but decided not to pursue it.
• Jiraiya saw Hinata's Tenseigan and asked her to change them back, but she refused because doing so felt uncomfortable.
• Hinata used her spatial ability to bring herself and Jiraiya back to Hidden Leaf Village within a day.
• Jiraiya asked whether keeping the Tenseigan active burdened Hinata, and she explained that her reserves easily covered the cost.

Hinata returned to Hidden Leaf Village with Jiraiya and showed her father and the Hyuga elders that her eyes had evolved into the Tenseigan. The chapter ended with the elders witnessing her overwhelming defenses and a trembling courtyard after she formed a golden longsword from a Truth-Seeking Orb.

• Hinata and Jiraiya arrived at Hidden Leaf Village, where the Third Hokage spoke with them and sent Hinata home to her waiting father.
• On her way through the village and the Hyuga Clan Compound, Hinata drew attention because of her azure Tenseigan eyes.
• Hinata explained her new eyes to Hyuga Hiashi, demonstrated their power, and revealed Tenseigan Mode to him and the elders.
• Hyuga Hiashi sparred with Hinata, but her blue energy cloak neutralized his Gentle Fist strike and four Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palms.
• Hinata formed a golden longsword from a Truth-Seeking Orb, then put it away as the courtyard began to tremble.

Hinata revealed the Tenseigan to the Hyuga Clan, drawing attention from the other clans and Danzo. After sensing Danzo’s hostility at his Root base, she decided to kill him.

• Hinata demonstrated the Tenseigan’s power, and Hyuga Hiashi and the elders decided to reveal it to the clan.
• The Hyuga clansmen witnessed Hinata’s abilities, and news of the Tenseigan spread through the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Danzo learned about Hinata’s Tenseigan and resolved to seize power and claim the Hokage position.
• Hinata tested her new gauntlets, played with Hanabi, and decided to investigate the suspicion that Danzo was plotting against her.
• Hinata teleported into a Root base and sensed Danzo’s clear hostility toward her, so she decided not to let him live.

Hinata raided Root’s base, stole three unregistered Bizarre Creatures, and arranged Danzo’s death during the chaos. After she destroyed Danzo’s soul and returned home, the Third Hokage arrived and ordered an autopsy because Danzo’s death seemed suspicious.

• Hinata killed a Root member and took a sealed snake-like Bizarre Creature that could control Puppet Corpses.
• Hinata found that Root’s experiments combining three Bizarre Creatures had caused an explosion, then altered the laboratory’s seals so the creatures escaped.
• Hinata used spatial transfer to put Danzo in danger and staged his death as a casualty of the escaped Bizarre Creatures.
• Hinata destroyed Danzo’s soul with a Truth-Seeking Orb and returned home.
• The Anbu resealed the escaped creatures and found Danzo dead, while some Root shinobi lost their resolve or committed suicide.
• The Third Hokage examined Danzo’s corpse, confirmed his death, and ordered medical shinobi to perform an autopsy.

After Danzo's death, the Third Hokage and his advisors uncovered records of experiments fusing Bizarre Creatures and discovered Sharingan implanted in Danzo's arm, which remained alive and produced a rapidly growing sapling when its blood touched Chakra. The Hokage sent Anbu to search Root's bases for research on First Hokage's Cells, while Hinata's morning tea interrupted their exhausted investigation.

• Hinata decided against researching Bizarre Creature fusion because she did not know how to control the creatures' power.
• The Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura reviewed Root's fusion experiments and ordered the records sealed.
• A ninja showed the Hokage and advisors Danzo's Sharingan-filled arm and reported that it was still alive and that its blood grew into a sapling when it touched Chakra.
• The Third Hokage assigned the ninja to investigate Danzo's body, and the advisors suspected the arm contained First Hokage's Cells.
• The Third Hokage dispatched Anbu to search Root's bases for research materials on First Hokage's Cells.
• Hinata brewed tea for the exhausted Hokage and advisors, and the Third Hokage complained that she had used too many tea leaves.

Hinata helped the Third Hokage search Root documents and learned he was looking for records about the First Hokage’s Cells. Meanwhile, Naruto and his classmates went to the village hot springs, where they caught Jiraiya peeking over the partition and claiming he was doing research.

• Hinata brewed an overly strong pot of tea with two scoops of the Third Hokage’s rare tea leaves, and he locked the remaining tea away.
• The Third Hokage told Hinata that Danzo’s Root had conducted a deadly experiment and that he was searching for records about the First Hokage’s Cells.
• The Third Hokage sent Hinata to fetch Jiraiya while he and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura continued reviewing Root documents.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Shino, Sakura, Kiba, Neji, Rock, and Tenten went to the Hidden Leaf Village Hot Springs together.
• The boys caught Jiraiya peering over the partition, and he insisted he was conducting research as the others moved toward him.

Jiraiya was summoned to help investigate the missing research materials Danzo had left behind, and Hinata accompanied him to the Hokage Building. Before they left, Hinata reunited with Naruto and her classmates, while Sasuke felt helpless about how far she seemed to be pulling ahead of him.

• Naruto and the other children restrained Jiraiya at the hot spring until a waiter said Hinata was looking for him, and Jiraiya freed himself to find her.
• Hinata told Jiraiya that Danzo had died and that the Hokage wanted him to search for the missing materials from Danzo's alarming research.
• Jiraiya recognized Uzumaki Naruto as Minato's child after learning his name and seeing his whisker marks.
• Jiraiya waited with Hinata for Naruto and the others, and Hinata promised to spend time with them soon.
• Sasuke saw Hinata's Tenseigan and felt helpless about catching up to her as she and Jiraiya departed for the Hokage Building.

Hinata helped the Third Hokage process village documents while Jiraiya was sent to bring Tsunade back. More than twenty days later, Hinata joined the Hokage and clan heads to watch the Ninja Academy test through a crystal ball, realizing it had secretly been observing her.

• The Third Hokage told Jiraiya that Danzo had researched First Hokage's Cells and ordered him to bring Tsunade back to the village.
• Hinata agreed to help the Third Hokage process documents and handled them so efficiently that her workload gradually increased.
• Hinata spent more than twenty days helping at the Hokage Building, learning about Hidden Leaf Village through its routine documents.
• Hinata, the Third Hokage, and the clan heads gathered to watch the Ninja Academy test through a crystal ball.
• Hinata recognized the crystal ball as the source of the strange gaze she had sensed during an earlier test.

The students faced a new test in which Puppet Corpses and severed limbs fell from the sky, forcing them to use a planned defense inside the school. An upgraded Skeleton Giant crashed through the ceiling, separated Naruto and Akimichi from the others, and captured Sakura.

• Puppet Corpses and Hinata's severed limbs fell onto the training ground, frightening and injuring several students.
• Shikamaru led the students toward the school, where they crippled Puppet Corpses by targeting their legs and barricaded the entrances and stairways with furniture.
• The students set up scattered furniture in the second-floor corridor, then rested on the third floor while waiting for the Skeleton Giant.
• A Giant Bone Sword repeatedly pierced the ceiling before the Skeleton Giant crashed into the group.
• The Skeleton Giant collapsed part of the floor, sending Naruto and Akimichi down to the second floor, then grabbed Sakura and placed her inside its empty chest.

Naruto and the others failed their test when the Skeleton Giant overwhelmed them, despite their attempts to rescue Sakura and use a sealing scroll. Two days later, the Third Hokage remained troubled by Jiraiya’s silence and told Hinata he had another mission for her instead of sending her to find him and Tsunade.

• Ino and Sasuke attacked the Skeleton Giant to rescue Sakura, but it knocked them aside, and Naruto’s Human Boulder also failed to stop it.
• Shikamaru prepared a sealing scroll while Neji and Rock tried to distract the giant, but their attacks could not harm it, and the team was swallowed by its shadow.
• Hinata and the clan heads watched the test, and the Third Hokage showed no concern when the group failed and later recovered.
• Naruto complained about the test, while Shikamaru warned him to stop before the teacher punished him again.
• Two days later, the Third Hokage worried that Jiraiya had not sent word and refused Hinata’s offer to find him and Tsunade, saying he had another mission for her.

Hinata joined a mission to Sunagakure, where a powerful Bizarre Creature had defeated several teams sent to seal it. On the journey, she detected and attacked a White Zetsu clone, triggering an extreme reaction in Kakashi's Sharingan.

• The Third Hokage told Hinata that Sunagakure had requested help sealing a powerful Bizarre Creature and assigned her to accompany the mission team while negotiations took place.
• Hinata left the Hidden Leaf Village with Kakashi Hatake, Hyuga Soki, Nagai Ukaku, Nara Takumi, and civilian staff bound for Sunagakure.
• Hinata spotted a White Zetsu clone spying from a tree and considered whether she could use it to locate Black Zetsu's true body.
• Hinata attacked the White Zetsu clone with the Tenseigan's Dojutsu Power and Great Void Sword Intent.
• Kakashi clutched his left eye in pain as his Sharingan spun frantically, and he suspected Hinata was connected to its sudden abnormality.

Hinata sealed Kakashi’s Sharingan, then brought a White Zetsu clone to the Third Hokage for study. Black Zetsu’s attempt to spy on the Hidden Leaf Village ended with his clone dead and his own body badly injured by Hinata’s distant mental attack.

• Hinata sealed Kakashi’s Sharingan with a complex Sealing Jutsu, letting him control its power without draining his Chakra.
• Hinata retrieved the White Zetsu clone and vanished with it, leaving Kakashi and Hyuga Soki unable to track her.
• Hinata appeared in the Third Hokage’s office and explained that she had killed the spying creature and brought its body back for research.
• Black Zetsu spotted Hinata’s Tenseigan through his Hidden Leaf Village clone and recognized that she had detected him.
• Hinata’s mental attack killed White Zetsu and struck Black Zetsu through the clone, forcing his body to the surface in agony.

Hinata and her companions discovered a Bizarre Creature gathering energy in the forest near the Land of Wind and waited nearby as it neared birth. Hinata prepared a specially forged, seal-inscribed sword but chose not to let the creature take it as its vessel, and she prepared to act before it emerged.

• Black Zetsu absorbed White Zetsu's corpse and sought a safe place to recover from Hinata's mental attack.
• Hinata returned to Kakashi and the others, and they continued toward the Land of Wind with a new awareness of her power.
• Hinata sensed a Bizarre Creature being born and led the group to a forest clearing where distorted energy was gathering.
• The group camped nearby for several days as the accumulating energy oppressed them and disturbed their sleep and Chakra training.
• Hinata forged a sword from special metal from Mount Myōboku and carved Sealing Jutsu onto its blade.
• When Hinata sensed the energy reaching a critical point, she decided not to offer the sword as the creature's vessel and prepared to intervene.