Chapter Summaries

Hanzō ambushed Yahiko and Nagato’s organization, and Yahiko died after taking a poisoned sickle wound meant to kill him. Grief-stricken, Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to slaughter their attackers, while Hanzō escaped.

• Hanzō demanded that Yahiko kill himself, then ordered his forces to attack when Yahiko and Nagato refused to surrender.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to repel the attackers, but Hanzō struck Yahiko with a poisoned sickle while Nagato was pinned down.
• Nagato blasted away the surrounding ninja and kicked Hanzō aside, then learned that Yahiko could not be saved.
• Yahiko died in Nagato’s arms after asking him to carry on their dream.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which drained the Chakra and souls of those it struck, while Hanzō fled.

After Yahiko's death, Nagato joined forces with Obito Uchiha to reshape the Akatsuki Organization around collecting the tailed beasts and pursuing peace through overwhelming power. The organization gained powerful members and reclaimed Amegakure, while Hyuga Matsuba reassured Tsunade that Nawaki was safe and dodged questions from the women about his recent absences.

• Obito Uchiha recruited Nagato and explained his plan to gather the tailed beasts, while Nagato warned him not to deceive him.
• Obito Uchiha declared that the Akatsuki Organization would be disbanded and rebuilt with elite rogue ninjas, then left for the Land of Water.
• The new Akatsuki Organization recruited Sasori of the Red Sands, Kakuzu, Nawaki, and Hyuga Hamura, while Nagato created the Six Paths of Pain and killed Hanzō to retake Amegakure.
• Hyuga Matsuba told Tsunade not to worry about Nawaki because Hyuga Hamura was watching over him.
• Sara, Mei Terumi, and Kushina questioned Hyuga Matsuba about his frequent outings, but he diverted their attention rather than reveal where he had gone.

After the Third Shinobi World War ended, Konoha chose Namikaze Minato as its next Hokage. Meanwhile, Anko’s disciples returned with four captured girls as a gift for Hyuga Matsuba, leaving him to deal with the misunderstanding.

• Sunagakure surrendered after Ōnoki abandoned it and Konoha counterattacked.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped down, and Namikaze Minato became Hokage after Jiraiya withdrew from the vote.
• Danzo and Orochimaru failed to gain enough support, while Uchiha Fugaku received votes only from his clan.
• Anko brought Hyuga Matsuba to the courtyard, where he found four girls captured by his disciples.
• Anko said she had captured the girls as a gift for Hyuga Matsuba, and the other women blamed him before leaving.

Hyuga Matsuba captured Yugito, Samui, Mabui, and Pakura, then used gravity to subdue them and declared that he would keep them as maids. After sending his students away, he left the captives with a knife and the choice to accept or die.

• Hyuga Matsuba scolded Yūhi Kurenai, Nohara Rin, Uzuki Yugao, and Anko for capturing only four women, while the other girls listened angrily nearby.
• Hyuga Matsuba crushed Yugito, Samui, Mabui, and Pakura to the ground with gravity, then ordered his students to explain who had captured them.
• Yūhi Kurenai, Nohara Rin, and Anko claimed that Anko had captured the four, so Hyuga Matsuba dismissed the other three and sent Anko away without a reward.
• Hyuga Matsuba boasted to Pakura about making the Third Kazekage kneel, then forced Pakura to kneel as well.
• Hyuga Matsuba told the four captives they would become his maids, threw a knife into the Stone Cage, and left them to choose whether to comply or die.

Hyuga Matsuba ignored the girls’ insults and teased Mei Terumi, while the imprisoned women debated whether to accept becoming maids or choose death. Pakura decided to become a maid, and Samui reluctantly agreed to endure captivity while hoping Kumogakure would rescue them.

• Kushina pulled Hyuga Matsuba back beside her after telling him to leave, and he joked about women being contradictory.
• Hyuga Matsuba tricked Mei Terumi into checking her teeth, then kissed her; Sara insulted the other women’s figures and drew Tsunade’s glare.
• Yugito, Mabui, Samui, and Pakura discussed their three- and ten-month imprisonments and doubted whether their villages would rescue them.
• Pakura decided that becoming a maid was preferable to dying, then threw a blade to Samui and challenged her to kill herself instead.
• Mabui restrained Samui and threw the blade away; Yugito persuaded her to endure captivity and hope the Fourth Raikage would come, and Samui agreed.

Hyuga Matsuba brought food and maid uniforms to the four captured girls, who agreed to serve as his maids under protest. He extracted the Two-Tails from Yugito but kept her alive, then led the uneasy maids away.

• Hyuga Matsuba brought roast ducks to Samui, Mabui, Yugito, and the fourth girl and teased them about agreeing to become his maids.
• Hyuga Matsuba gave the four girls maid uniforms, and they changed and ate while doubting that he had not watched them.
• Hyuga Matsuba extracted the Two-Tails from Yugito and punched the beast away, while Yugito survived because he had saved her.
• Konan came out after hearing the commotion, and Hyuga Matsuba told her he had thrown away a little cat before leading the maids back.
• Kushina offered Anko a reward, but Anko declined and decided she would just watch from the side.

Hyuga Matsuba escaped Kushina and the others, then met Nawaki, who tried to recruit him into the Akatsuki Organization. Matsuba refused, demanded that its leader repay a debt, and left as Kakuzu revealed that Orochimaru might join the organization.

• Anko slipped away to train, while Hyuga Matsuba teased Kushina and scolded his students and the four maids.
• Mikoto intervened when Matsuba berated the maids, and Kushina pulled him away from Mikoto before the two women began arguing.
• Hyuga Matsuba left while everyone was distracted and found Nawaki waiting with a Flying Thunder God Kunai and Kakuzu.
• Nawaki invited Matsuba to join the Akatsuki Organization, but Matsuba refused and demanded that its leader repay the money he owed him.
• Kakuzu told Nawaki that their leader expected Orochimaru, Nawaki's former teacher, to join the organization.

After fleeing Konoha, Orochimaru encountered Pain and the Akatsuki, joined the organization to gain access to the Rinnegan, and immediately clashed with Sasori. Their fight continued as Orochimaru’s snakes overwhelmed Sasori’s scorpions.

• Hyuga Matsuba secretly followed Kakuzu and his companion after Orochimaru became a rogue ninja.
• Pain, Sasori, Nawaki, Kakuzu, Hyuga Hamura, and Zetsu waited for Orochimaru, while Sasori grew impatient.
• Orochimaru recalled how Danzo’s betrayal exposed his laboratory and forced him to flee Konoha after confronting Hiruzen and Jiraiya.
• Pain offered Orochimaru a place in Akatsuki, but Orochimaru attacked him after seeing his Rinnegan; Pain quickly defeated Orochimaru’s summoned snakes.
• Orochimaru accepted Pain’s offer and took the ring engraved with Kong, then fought Sasori after they traded insults.
• Orochimaru’s snakes overwhelmed most of Sasori’s scorpions, though Sasori had not yet used his Third Kazekage puppet.

Sasori and Orochimaru fought until Pain intervened and assigned them to the same team. Hyuga Matsuba then appeared to collect a debt from Pain and greeted Orochimaru, who had left the village.

• Sasori used his Hundred Puppets Technique, and Orochimaru summoned Manda to crush many of the puppets.
• Pain pulled Manda toward him with Banshō Ten'in and blasted it away with Shinra Tensei, stopping the fight.
• Pain ordered Sasori and Orochimaru to work together, though both objected to the arrangement.
• Pain assigned Hyuga Hamura to be with him, and Hyuga Matsuba appeared, claiming Pain owed him money.
• Orochimaru greeted Hyuga Matsuba, who asked whether he had left the village for new scenery, and Orochimaru said he felt freer outside it.

Hyuga Matsuba effortlessly overwhelmed Pain and revealed that the other Rinnegan users were puppets, while his clone destroyed half of the Six Paths. Nagato appeared to protect Yahiko's corpse, and Orochimaru began to suspect the Rinnegan concealed a dangerous secret as Hyuga Matsuba left.

• Nagato sent Deva Path Pain to attack Hyuga Matsuba, who kicked Pain away and stood unharmed through Shinra Tensei.
• Hyuga Matsuba used Banshō Ten'in to drag Pain back, then explained to Orochimaru that the other Rinnegan users were lifeless puppets.
• Hyuga Matsuba summoned a Mirror Clone, which destroyed the Asura Path and two other Pain bodies with a Light Speed Kick.
• Nagato appeared to fight the clone to protect Yahiko's corpse, but Hyuga Matsuba dismissed it and warned Nagato to repay his debt.
• Orochimaru suspected Nagato's Rinnegan had another owner and decided that pursuing the eyes was too dangerous, while Hyuga Matsuba sensed his realization and walked away.

Hyuga Matsuba confronted Nagato and demanded repayment of an old debt, prompting Nagato to declare Pain the Akatsuki Organization’s new leader. Matsuba returned home to find Tsunade still losing at dice, and she forced Mikoto to keep playing.

• Hyuga Matsuba demanded that Nagato repay thirty billion within three days, and Nagato agreed.
• Hyuga Matsuba told Nagato to send Nawaki to him with the money, then vanished.
• Nagato named Pain the Akatsuki Organization’s leader and left, while Orochimaru showed interest in Sasori and Zetsu.
• Hyuga Matsuba returned home, where Mei Terumi checked him for strange scents and the girls played dice.
• Tsunade smashed another table after losing, then grabbed Mikoto to keep the game going.

After the girls spent the day playing and training, Mabui’s disastrous dinner prompted Hyuga Matsuba to tease and punish the others. The evening ended with him relaxing among the girls while Konan was told to throw the food away.

• The girls played until eight in the evening, leaving Kushina exhausted while Tsunade remained eager to win back her losses.
• At dinner, Hyuga Matsuba mocked Mabui’s burnt chicken and murky soup, then teased her about surpassing Kushina and Tsunade at cooking.
• Hyuga Matsuba grabbed Kushina and Tsunade by the cheeks until they apologized and called him their dear brother.
• Hyuga Matsuba told the four maids to eat the dark cuisine or warm his bed, but Yūhi Kurenai, Anko, and Nohara Rin objected to his threat.
• Hyuga Matsuba buried his head first in Tsunade’s chest and then in Mikoto’s, before telling Konan to throw the meal away.

Hyuga Matsuba demanded kisses from the four maids as their punishment, and Samui reluctantly went first, gradually enjoying the kiss. After the others left, Matsuba settled back with tea, leaving the remaining maids disappointed that their turn had not come.

• Hyuga Matsuba told the four maids that they could avoid further punishment by kissing him, while Yūhi Kurenai offered to take their place.
• Yūhi Kurenai pretended to cry in Matsuba’s arms, but Anko, Uzuki Yugao, and Nohara Rin pulled her away.
• Hyuga Matsuba blocked the four maids when they tried to leave and insisted that one of them go first.
• Samui accepted the kiss, gradually relaxed, and hurried away afterward, embarrassed.
• The remaining three maids left feeling disappointed, and Hyuga Matsuba drank tea made by Mikoto.

Hyuga Matsuba visited Yuki and Ralts before discovering that the girls had left on a trip and taken all the maids with them. He went to the moon, freed Otsutsuki Kaguya from her seal, and brought her out, leaving her eager to reclaim her power and confront her former enemies.

• Kurenai argued with Anko, Yugao, Rin, and Shizune before leaving in a huff, while Hyuga Matsuba watched and Kushina returned to her card game.
• Hyuga Matsuba visited Yuki and Ralts in the system interface, appeased their complaints, and spent the night with them.
• Hyuga Matsuba found a letter saying the girls had gone traveling without him or the maids, so he returned to the moon to find a new maid.
• Hyuga Matsuba opened Otsutsuki Kaguya's seal and took her out of her prison.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya celebrated her freedom and declared that she would reclaim her power and deal with her former enemies, but Hyuga Matsuba warned her about her frightening expression.

Hyuga Matsuba warned Otsutsuki Kaguya not to reclaim the tailed beasts’ Chakra and revealed that Black Zetsu intended to take control of her and the Ten-Tails. Kaguya agreed to train under Matsuba, then vented her anger by damaging the moon before he took her to find Hagoromo Otsutsuki.

• Hyuga Matsuba told Otsutsuki Kaguya to abandon the tailed beasts’ Chakra and rely on her own training.
• Hyuga Matsuba explained that Black Zetsu had become independent and planned to take control of Kaguya and the Ten-Tails.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya agreed to follow Hyuga Matsuba’s arrangements, though she accused him of stealing her Rinne Sharingan.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya battered the moon with her fists, and Hyuga Matsuba stopped her from destroying it further.
• Hyuga Matsuba told Otsutsuki Kaguya that Hagoromo Otsutsuki was still alive and took her away from the moon.

Hyuga Matsuba brought Otsutsuki Kaguya home, where his companions reacted with hostility until they learned she was the Sage of Six Paths’ mother and heard about her imprisonment. The next morning, Tsunade and Mikoto took Kaguya away to teach her, while Kushina stayed behind to travel to Konoha with Matsuba.

• Kushina, Mikoto, and the others confronted Hyuga Matsuba about bringing Otsutsuki Kaguya home, and Matsuba declared that she would be their head maid.
• Hyuga Matsuba introduced Otsutsuki Kaguya as the origin of Chakra, and the girls softened toward her after learning she had been sealed away for a long time.
• Hyuga Matsuba asked Mikoto to teach Otsutsuki Kaguya the Chakra Extraction Technique.
• Tsunade and Mikoto left the next morning and took Otsutsuki Kaguya with them, while Kushina stayed with Hyuga Matsuba to travel to Konoha.

Mikoto taught Otsutsuki Kaguya the basics of Chakra, and Kaguya quickly regained extraordinary power. Meanwhile, Hyuga Matsuba and Kushina visited Uzumaki Tomoko in Konoha, where Tomoko’s apparent attraction to Matsuba made Kushina suspicious.

• Mikoto taught Otsutsuki Kaguya how to extract Chakra, and Kaguya surpassed Kage-level after three days of training.
• Hyuga Matsuba secretly traveled to Konoha with Kushina at her request, taking half a month to complete the journey.
• Uzumaki Tomoko welcomed Kushina and Hyuga Matsuba, who noticed Asura’s power in her pregnant stomach.
• Kushina criticized Namikaze Minato for leaving Tomoko in a shabby home, and Matsuba joked about Kushina’s old ambition to become Hokage.
• Uzumaki Tomoko shyly brushed Matsuba’s hand and later fed him pineapple, leading Matsuba to suspect she was interested in him.
• Kushina snatched the pineapple away from Matsuba and eyed Tomoko warily.

Kushina and Hyuga Matsuba returned to their Konoha shop after an awkward visit with Uzumaki Tomoko, then spent time together inside the system. Their stay was interrupted when Uchiha Izumi came to buy a kunai, and she confronted them after Kushina threw her out.

• Uzumaki Tomoko suggested that Hyuga Matsuba stay with her, angering Kushina, who later warned Matsuba to have nothing to do with Tomoko.
• Kushina and Hyuga Matsuba returned to their dusty shop, where Kushina cleaned it with clones and then massaged Matsuba's back.
• Hyuga Matsuba brought Kushina and other girls into the system, where they spent time together before some of them left to rest.
• Kushina and Hyuga Matsuba decided to stay in Konoha for a while, but Uchiha Izumi arrived at their shop wanting to buy a kunai.
• Kushina lifted Uchiha Izumi and tossed her outside, so Izumi went back in and demanded an explanation.

Uchiha Izumi waited outside Hyuga Matsuba’s shop all night after he threw her out, then told him and Kushina about her parents’ constant arguments. Kushina offered to arrange for Mikoto to teach Izumi, but Izumi left without taking the offer seriously.

• Hyuga Matsuba used a mysterious force to throw Uchiha Izumi out of his shop, and she waited at the entrance overnight.
• Kushina carried the sleeping Izumi inside, where Matsuba and Kushina learned that her parents were alive but often argued.
• Izumi explained that her mother was Uchiha and her commoner father had taken the Uchiha surname after marrying her.
• Matsuba gave Izumi two kunai as compensation for her wait, and Izumi paid him for them.
• Kushina offered to ask Mikoto to teach Izumi, with herself as a backup teacher if Mikoto refused.
• Izumi left the shop, seemingly unconcerned about Kushina’s proposed teaching arrangement.

Kushina and Hyuga Matsuba were interrupted by Uzumaki Tomoko, whose growing interest in Matsuba made Kushina suspicious. After Matsuba left for a stroll, he attracted attention on the street and was stopped by a strikingly masculine woman.

• Hyuga Matsuba and Kushina lounged together until Uzumaki Tomoko called for them.
• Kushina welcomed Tomoko reluctantly and suggested she stay home because of her condition.
• Hyuga Matsuba left the shop, and Kushina questioned Tomoko about her attention toward him.
• Uzumaki Tomoko admitted that she found Hyuga Matsuba handsome, while Kushina remarked that Tomoko had changed.
• Hyuga Matsuba walked outside and was stopped by a woman whose appearance startled him.