Recaps

Hinata sealed the newly born Bizarre Creature inside her sword and continued to Sunagakure while Kakashi and the others pursued their own mission. In Sunagakure, she met Rasa and toured the village, drawing attention from its residents.

• Hinata condensed the energy around the newly born Bizarre Creature, sealed it into her longsword, and named the weapon the Demon Suppressing Sword.
• Kakashi sent Hinata's account of the Bizarre Creature's birth back to the Hidden Leaf Village, then continued his journey with Nagai Ukaku and Hyuga Soki.
• Hinata lent Kakashi the Demon Suppressing Sword, whose blade could immobilize anything it touched, and went on to Sunagakure with Nara Takumi and the others.
• Sunagakure's shinobi welcomed Hinata, and she met Kazekage Rasa, whose exhaustion reflected the burden of supporting his village.
• Hinata toured Sunagakure with a guide, attracted admiring looks from residents, and the guide warned them not to stare at the Hidden Leaf Village's guest.

Hinata toured Sunagakure, sensed an unseen watcher, and realized she could use the Tenseigan to create powerful self-aware puppets to protect Hanabi. Meanwhile, Kakashi's team remained trapped in a desert affected by a Bizarre Creature, unable to find its true body as night approached.

• Hinata sensed someone watching her in Sunagakure but found no suspicious person while touring the village.
• Hinata read Puppet Basics and considered using the Tenseigan to make powerful puppets to protect Hanabi.
• Nara Takumi told Hinata that negotiations had gone smoothly and trade would begin the next day, after which their group could return to the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Hinata realized Sunagakure's puppet techniques could help her learn to make advanced puppets and decided to investigate them.
• Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku searched a desert trapped in a Bizarre Creature's Alternate Dimension but could not find their target as evening fell.

Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku reached Sanshi Village, where they fought their way past powerful Puppet Corpses with Hinata’s Demon Suppressing Sword. They continued toward the village center, where the Bizarre Creature might be waiting.

• Kakashi led the team toward Sanshi Village after they realized they could not escape the ghostly domain and might be surrounded by Puppet Corpses.
• Hinata used the Tenseigan to locate Kakashi and discovered the team was close to Sanshi Village, where dozens of powerful Puppet Corpses roamed.
• Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku entered Sanshi Village and saw Puppet Corpses outside the Alternate Dimension.
• Kakashi split a charging Puppet Corpse with the Demon Suppressing Sword, and Hyuga Soki sealed its halves in a scroll.
• The team relied on the sword to survive repeated Puppet Corpse attacks as they advanced through the village.

Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku found a powerful oni hidden in the village and worked together to restrain it. They left with the oni wrapped in a sealing scroll, but its strength continued to threaten the seal.

• Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku found an old woman-like oni in a patch of darkness and confirmed it was not a Puppet Corpse.
• Kakashi trapped the oni in a swamp while Hyuga Soki and Nagai Ukaku bound it with ropes, but the oni snapped many of them with its scissors.
• Nagai Ukaku seized the oni’s arm as Kakashi thrust the Demon Suppressing Sword into its chest, giving them time to wrap it in a sealing scroll.
• The oni began tearing through the scroll around its right hand, so Kakashi drove the Demon Suppressing Sword into its arm and stopped the damage.

Hinata severed the connection between an Alternate Dimension and reality, then returned to the Hidden Leaf Village with Kakashi's team. After the team reported their mission and the gold they had obtained, the Third Hokage read their account of Hinata's Demon Suppressing Sword and wondered how the demon had escaped its seal.

• Hinata used her spatial abilities to close the connection between the Alternate Dimension and reality, then returned to Sunagakure.
• Hinata made a chibi doll modeled after herself for her younger sister.
• Hinata teleported her team to the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village after Sunagakure delivered the negotiated funds.
• Nara Takumi and the others reported the mission to the Third Hokage and handed over ten crates of gold.
• The Third Hokage asked Hinata about her first mission, then read Kakashi's report and wondered whether the demon's scissors had let it break free from Sealing Jutsu.

Hinata returned from her mission with a demon sealed in her sword, then helped the Third Hokage investigate a mysterious corpse and discovered Kumogakure ninja lying in ambush on the road to the Land of Wind. She worried that Kakashi and his companions might encounter them.

• Hanabi welcomed Hinata home, and Hinata told her family she had sealed a newly born demon inside a sword.
• Hizashi explained that demons belonged to the village, though Hinata would likely be allowed to keep the demon she had sealed.
• Hinata returned to helping the Third Hokage process documents and asked about Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the research on the corpse she had brought back.
• The Third Hokage said the corpse's cells resembled the First Hokage's Cells but were more stable, and Hinata denied finding any companions nearby.
• Hinata used the Tenseigan to spot Kumogakure ninja ambushing the road to the Land of Wind and realized they might be targeting her.
• Hinata remembered Kakashi and the others were taking the same road and worried they could run into the ambush.

Hinata brought Kakashi and his team back to the Hokage’s office after sensing a large group of Cloud ninja ahead, then agreed to help the village make weapons that could safely seal oni. The Third Hokage set her up with a workshop, where she began planning a weapon for Nagai Ukaku and the Water Oni sealed inside him.

• Hinata sensed twenty-four ninja, including five Jonin, lying in ambush and used her space-time ability to bring Kakashi, Hyuga Soki, and Nagai Ukaku back to the Hokage’s office.
• Kakashi reported that the mission was complete and handed over the bound oni; the Third Hokage asked Hinata to lend her Demon Suppressing Sword until the village found another way to contain it.
• The Third Hokage asked whether Hinata could reproduce the method for sealing oni inside weapons, and Hinata said she could, though the weapons would require rare materials and might last only a few years.
• The Third Hokage showed Hinata a warehouse of metals and ores, then asked her to make several oni-sealing weapons for the village.
• Hinata established a secluded workshop and learned that Nagai Ukaku’s Water Oni coated him in black water that enhanced his defense, suppressed other oni, and let him survive in the Alternate Dimension.

Hinata began preparing armor to seal the Water Oni, but realized the village blacksmiths needed to make a full-body suit before she could add the spell inscriptions. The Third Hokage was left considering whether to abandon the armor and make other weapons first.

• Hinata began forging armor from chakra-conducting metal, then decided her apprentice-level skill was not enough and asked the Third Hokage to find craftsmen to finish it.
• Hinata organized her basement into a workshop and warehouse, then collected ore from Mount Myōboku while searching for harder metals for future Immortal Artifacts.
• The Third Hokage brought Hinata a suit of armor forged overnight by the village blacksmiths.
• Hinata rejected the armor because its uncovered areas would let the Water Oni erode the wearer's life force, and explained that it needed to cover the wearer completely.
• The Third Hokage wondered whether the village could make full-body armor or whether they should forge other weapons instead.

Hinata showed Tsunade and Jiraiya the Demon Weapons she had made by sealing oni, including a blade that controlled the dead and a bow that never missed. The Third Hokage led them to a training ground to witness the weapons’ power, where skeletons began emerging from the spreading darkness.

• The Third Hokage had Hinata examine the village’s Oni People, and over half a month she made two Demon Weapons and began a third.
• Jiraiya returned to the village with Tsunade and Shizune, and Tsunade met Hinata in the Hokage’s office.
• Hinata presented a Katana that could turn slain ninja into powerful Puppet Corpses and a bow that sealed a guaranteed-hit slingshot.
• The Third Hokage took the group to a training ground and asked Hinata to demonstrate the weapons.
• Hinata planted the blade in the ground, and darkness spread as skeletons crawled out of the earth.

Hinata completed a powerful Demon Weapon armor that used the Water Oni’s black water and First Hokage’s Cells. Nagai Ukaku demonstrated how it enveloped him, leaving the gathered Hidden Leaf leaders to see the finished armor for the first time.

• Hinata demonstrated a blade that turned an Oni into piles of bones, and the Third Hokage decided the blade and bow should go to their original owners.
• Hinata told the Third Hokage that Naruto and the Nine-Tails had been cooperative, and Tsunade realized Naruto was Minato’s child.
• Hinata continued crafting Demon Weapons and designed armor that could withstand the Water Oni’s corrosive black water by incorporating First Hokage’s Cells.
• After completing the armor, Hinata arranged for Nagai Ukaku to demonstrate it before the Third Hokage, Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Jiraiya, and Tsunade.
• Red lines spread from Nagai Ukaku’s gauntlet across his body, and the armor appeared around him.

Nagai Ukaku tested the powerful living armor Hinata had made from First Hokage's Cells, and the Third Hokage was impressed by its defense. A year later, Naruto and his classmates graduated after blowing up the Ninja Academy during their test.

• Nagai Ukaku wore the biological armor and told the Third Hokage that he felt great.
• The Third Hokage tested the armor with ninjutsu, then a ninja struck it with Hinata's black blade, but it remained undamaged.
• Tsunade questioned the Third Hokage for having Hinata handle documents, and Hinata said the work had trained her judgment despite making her hands tired.
• A year later, the Third Hokage gave Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura Haruno, and their classmates their ninja forehead protectors after they graduated.
• Naruto proposed blowing up whoever ran the tests, and Shikamaru came up with a plan that the others agreed to.
• The students blew up the Ninja Academy during their test, so the Third Hokage gave them all Cs and the major clans pooled money to renovate the building.

The Hidden Leaf Village prepared to assign its newly graduated students to teachers as Hinata explored a remote volcano for rare ores. Naruto and Sasuke were assigned to Jiraiya, while Hinata continued her journey beyond the village.

• Sasuke awakened his Sharingan during a test after seeing a massive bone Puppet Corpse, then was knocked unconscious by a skeleton.
• The Third Hokage told Tsunade that Jiraiya would train Naruto and Sasuke and assigned Sakura Haruno to her.
• Tsunade asked whether the Third Hokage was comfortable letting Hinata travel alone, and he explained that she could traverse space and returned monthly to maintain the Demon Weapons.
• Hinata entered a remote volcano and used her Tenseigan to search beneath the lava for rare, unmelted ores.

Hinata discovered lava-dwelling creatures in a volcano, named them Fire Dragons, and taught them to refine True Qi. Meanwhile, Obito learned from White Zetsu that the person he had asked about had left the Hidden Leaf Village.

• Hinata found horned creatures living in the volcano's lava and realized they absorbed Nature Energy without having Chakra.
• Hinata gathered the creatures, bound them to a summoning scroll with her blood, and named them Fire Dragons.
• Hinata taught the Fire Dragons to refine True Qi and used the Tenseigan to implant knowledge in their minds.
• Hinata left the volcano after confirming that she had found every Fire Dragon, and some of the stronger ones felt growth beginning near their horns.
• Obito met White Zetsu in a cave in the Land of Rain, where White Zetsu confirmed that the person Obito had asked about had left the Hidden Leaf Village.

Obito and White Zetsu postponed trying to capture the Nine-Tails, while Jiraiya trained Naruto and Sasuke to sense Nature Energy at Mount Myōboku. Hinata returned to train the Fire Dragons, and a fleeing figure crossed the Land of Rain's border with two pursuers following.

• Black Zetsu hid inside the Ten-Tails' shell to recover, while White Zetsu warned Obito that Hinata's Tenseigan could detect and defeat him.
• Obito suggested capturing the Nine-Tails while Hinata was away, but White Zetsu chose to pursue the other tailed beasts first.
• Jiraiya brought Naruto and Sasuke to Mount Myōboku, where both boys sensed Nature Energy and nearly turned to stone while trying to absorb it.
• Naruto used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to train Senjutsu with several clones, and Sasuke asked Jiraiya to teach him the technique.
• Hinata returned to the volcanic crater, discovered that her Tenseigan power was changing the Fire Dragons, and began training them.
• A figure ran toward and crossed the Land of Rain's border, followed by two pursuers.

Nagato moved the Akatsuki Organization’s tailed-beast plan forward while Hinata trained the Fire Dragons and resumed mining. After learning that One-Tail had been captured, Hinata suspected the Akatsuki Organization and left for the Land of Rain.

• Nagato dismissed Orochimaru’s defection and prepared to begin the Akatsuki Organization’s plan, wary of Hidden Leaf Village and the unknown intentions of Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, and Madara.
• Hinata taught the Fire Dragons to speak and use weakened True Qi techniques, then left them to continue training on their own.
• Hinata traveled farther from human territory and found Nature Energy growing denser, which she attributed to the Divine Tree’s damage to the planet near the Land of Wind.
• The Third Hokage told Hinata that Hidden Sand Village had reported One-Tail captured by two powerful ninja beneath Rasa’s watch.
• Hinata suspected the Akatsuki Organization had taken One-Tail to the Land of Rain and vanished to investigate.

Hinata confronted Nagato in the Land of Rain, seeking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while the Akatsuki extracted the One-Tail elsewhere. She overwhelmed Deva Path Pain with her Tenseigan, leaving Nagato badly hurt and the avatar useless.

• Hinata realized the One-Tail was being extracted outside the Land of Rain, where the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was present.
• Hinata found Nagato, demanded the statue's location, and discovered White Zetsu clones throughout the Land of Rain.
• Nagato attacked Hinata with Deva Path Pain, while the Akatsuki continued extracting the One-Tail in a hidden cave.
• Hinata repelled Pain's attacks and formed Truth-Seeking Orb gauntlets as Nagato declared himself stronger than her.
• Hinata struck Deva Path Pain, destroying its black rods and its Rinnegan-powered control personality.
• Nagato caught the falling avatar with Jigokudo and suffered the loss of at least thirty percent of his Rinnegan's Dojutsu Power.

Hinata overwhelmed Nagato’s Six Paths bodies and forced him to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which she also easily countered. She then stabbed Nagato in the chest, and Konan arrived to find him gravely wounded.

• Hinata cut a huge fissure through Amegakure with a Truth-Seeking Orb sword, forcing Nagato to abandon his attempt to repair Deva Path Pain.
• Nagato used Planetary Devastation, but Hinata pierced its core and caused the rocks to fall.
• Hinata destroyed Nagato’s remaining Six Paths bodies and flew at him, prompting him to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Hinata stopped the statue’s palm with one hand, evaded its attempt to grab her, and stabbed Nagato in the chest.
• Konan rushed to Nagato’s side after the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path disappeared and found him gravely wounded.

Hinata froze Amegakure to stop Konan from sacrificing herself, took Nagato, Konan, and Deva Path Pain, then tracked the Akatsuki's One-Tail extraction site in the Land of Wind. She attacked the gathered Akatsuki members with Void Sword God and turned her attention to Uchiha Obito.

• Hinata gouged out Nagato's Rinnegan, then froze Konan, Nagato, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the explosive tags throughout Amegakure.
• Hinata left Amegakure with the unconscious Konan, the badly injured Nagato, and Deva Path Pain, while the returning Akatsuki members found the village buried in snow.
• Hinata used her Tenseigan to locate the hidden cave where the Akatsuki were extracting the One-Tail and collapsed it to confront them.
• Zetsu recognized Hinata and canceled the Phantasmal Body Technique, but Hinata attacked with Void Sword God before he could escape.
• Hinata slapped Hidan unconscious, then told Uchiha Obito that he was next.

Hinata defeated the remaining Akatsuki phantoms and used her summoned Fire Dragon to destroy Kakuzu and Hidan. She then checked Gaara and found Shukaku cowering inside him, while judging his seal unsafe.

• Hinata used Void Sword God to eliminate the phantoms of Kisame Hoshigaki, Sasori, and Uchiha Obito.
• Hinata summoned the Fire Dragon, which spewed magma and struck Kakuzu with an exploding magma sphere.
• Hinata burned Kakuzu to ashes, then pierced Hidan’s skull with a Truth-Seeking Orb and burned him to ashes.
• Hinata checked Gaara and saw that his injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
• Hinata saw Shukaku trembling inside Gaara and noticed that his seal had become badly damaged.

Hinata recovered Obito’s corpse and returned to the Hidden Leaf Village, while Black Zetsu died and Kaguya’s awakening was suppressed. Nagato awoke after Tsunade’s surgery and explained his goal of bringing peace; Hinata then revealed that he and Konan should call her Uncle.

• Hinata found Obito’s corpse on an island in the Land of Water, took it, and returned to the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Black Zetsu died in a hidden cave in the Land of Earth, and a ripple calmed Otsutsuki Kaguya before she could awaken.
• Nagato woke without his eyes, learned Konan was safe, and was taken to meet Hinata.
• Hinata questioned Nagato while the Third Hokage and other Hidden Leaf Village leaders watched from the neighboring room.
• Nagato said he sought true peace, and Jiraiya asked how he had changed before Nagato rejected Yahiko’s ideals.
• Hinata called Jiraiya her senior disciple brother and told Nagato and Konan that they should call her Uncle.

Hinata kept the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path hidden while the Third Hokage decided to seal away Nagato’s Rinnegan and manage the turmoil in the Land of Rain. In her basement, Hinata experimented with a piece of the statue, discovered that Chakra revived it, and began treating the statue as a source of materials.

• Hinata and Jiraiya left Nagato and Konan, and the Third Hokage’s group decided to seal away the Rinnegan because no one suitable could bear it.
• The Third Hokage visited Hinata’s basement, saw the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and left it in her care while he worked to secure Amegakure.
• Hinata shaved a fragment from the statue and found that it absorbed First Hokage’s Cells, developing a faint green trace.
• Hinata extracted some of the One-Tail’s Chakra from the statue and injected it into the fragment, bringing the fragment to life.

Hinata gave the Third Hokage gauntlets powered by the Rinnegan, then traveled to Otogakure to propose a partnership with Orochimaru. She presented him with several powerful materials and shared her plan to change a world ruled by bloodlines.

• Hinata gave the Third Hokage gauntlets made from First Hokage's Cells and fragments of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, with the Rinnegan embedded in them.
• The Third Hokage accepted the gauntlets and agreed to provide Hinata with advanced research equipment and the village's research materials on First Hokage's Cells.
• Hinata went to Otogakure and found Orochimaru studying Kimimaro's Bloodline Disease.
• Hinata used spiritual pressure to subdue Orochimaru, then proposed a partnership and showed him her blood, a fragment of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, First Hokage's Cells, and a fragment of a Rinnegan.
• Hinata told Orochimaru that she had an idea for making the Shinobi World more than a world ruled by bloodlines.

Half a year after Hinata came to Orochimaru, they created Stigmata that could grant their bearers powers resembling those of the First Hokage, the Tailed Beasts, and Madara Uchiha. Hinata took the Three-Tails Stigmata back to her laboratory and began making copies, using Tailed Beast source Chakra she had extracted from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Orochimaru's subordinates worried that his relentless research and lack of sleep would harm him, while Kabuto cultivated a clone intended as Orochimaru's transitional body.
• Orochimaru and Hinata successfully created the First Hokage's Stigmata, a seed that could gradually give its bearer Hashirama Senju's physique and power.
• A month later, Hinata and Orochimaru had also created Stigmata for the Three-Tails, Five-Tails, Seven-Tails, Nine-Tails, and Madara Uchiha.
• Orochimaru took the Three-Tails Stigmata to test its abilities, and Hinata returned to her Hidden Leaf Village laboratory.
• Hinata extracted source Chakra from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and started making more copies, planning several for most Stigmata but only one for the Nine-Tails.

Konoha prepared for Hyuga Hinata’s succession as Fifth Hokage after the Third Hokage stepped down, while Naruto struggled with feeling left behind. Neji reflected on Hinata’s reforms to the Caged Bird and watched the village’s celebrations continue as delegations arrived.

• The Third Hokage chose Hyuga Hinata to succeed him, and the village began preparing her Hokage succession ceremony after the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire approved.
• On Hokage Rock, Naruto told Neji that he felt useless and worried he was growing farther from Hinata; Neji encouraged him to keep pursuing strength to protect her.
• Naruto renewed his determination to become Hokage, and Sasuke arrived to summon him on Jiraiya’s orders.
• Neji remembered that Hinata had removed the Main Family’s ability to control the Branch Family’s curse marks, and he saw Branch Family members happily helping with the preparations.
• Delegations from other ninja villages arrived in the Hidden Leaf Village to celebrate Hinata becoming the Fifth Hokage.

After becoming the Fifth Hokage, Hinata offered the other Great Shinobi Villages the Demon Weapon manufacturing method in exchange for exorbitant supplies and payments. She revealed to Tsunade that she was also using the Daimyos’ interest in Demon Weapons to draw money from the major nations, while hinting at a deeper plan for an approaching age of chaos.

• Hinata met with envoys from the Great Shinobi Villages and offered to exchange the Demon Weapon manufacturing method for supplies and money.
• The envoys rejected Hinata’s demands, including a condition requiring the Kazekage to work as a miner, and took the terms back to their villages.
• Tsunade questioned Hinata’s excessive demands, and Hinata explained that the villages would eventually develop Demon Weapons themselves, so she wanted their research funds instead.
• Hinata told Tsunade that she had given the Daimyo a Demon Weapon and spread the claim that weapons could be modified for ordinary people to use.
• Hinata hoped her seeds would grow quickly and said the coming age of chaos would be the other villages’ stage.