Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kagami and the Third Hokage fought as the Hokage countered Ice Release with Earth Release and a close-range attack. Hyuga Kagami blocked the Hokage’s multiplying, wind-enhanced shuriken behind layers of ice mirrors.

• Hyuga Kagami sent a vast barrage of ice senbon at the Third Hokage, who shielded himself inside a self-repairing Earth Prison Dome.
• A Kumogakure Jonin decided to report Hyuga Kagami’s strength to the Raikage, while Guy and Kakashi watched the battle.
• An Uchiha clansman told Shisui that the Police Force’s Jonin squad was pursuing the bounty ninja and that the Third Hokage had gone after him personally, so Shisui raced toward the village outskirts.
• The Third Hokage trapped Hyuga Kagami in a swamp, but Hyuga Kagami froze it and escaped before the Hokage struck him with the Adamantine Staff and sent him flying.
• Hyuga Kagami raised layers of Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals against the Third Hokage’s shuriken, which multiplied and appeared to carry Wind Release power.

Hyuga Kagami used a Water Clone to escape the Third Hokage’s trap, but remained surrounded and cornered. Shisui arrived, decided to prevent the Ice Release shinobi’s capture to protect the village, and attacked the battlefield with Great Fire Annihilation.

• The Third Hokage and Enma shattered Hyuga Kagami’s ice mirrors and restrained what they thought was Hyuga Kagami, but it turned out to be a Water Clone.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed himself and assessed that the Third Hokage, the surrounding Anbu, and the spent rain clouds left him with few ways to escape.
• Shisui learned that the Third Hokage was pursuing an Ice Release shinobi and suspected the shinobi was helping Hyuga Kagami conceal Geluoya’s corpse.
• Shisui decided to stop the Ice Release shinobi from being captured, used genjutsu to incapacitate two perimeter guards, and took up a position in a tree.
• Shisui shouted Great Fire Annihilation and sent a massive wave of flames toward the battlefield.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui used a coordinated Fire and Water Release attack to create mist and escape the Third Hokage’s encirclement. As Konoha investigated the escape, Fugaku arrived with the Police Force and wondered whether the Fire Release and genjutsu expert was Uchiha Shinichi.

• Hyuga Kagami used the Great Waterfall Technique against Shisui’s Great Fire Annihilation, filling the battlefield with mist.
• Hyuga Kagami found Shisui and led him away, warning that their actions could endanger the Hyuga and Uchiha Clans.
• The Third Hokage scattered the mist with Wind Release: Vacuum Jade and learned that an enemy had controlled two Anbu with genjutsu.
• The Third Hokage ordered Kakashi to contact Shisui and Kagami, then learned that Fugaku had arrived with the Police Force.
• Fugaku heard that one attacker used genjutsu and Fire Release and suspected the ninja might be Uchiha Shinichi.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui escaped pursuit while discussing the Uchiha Clan’s growing plans to rebel. Hyuga Kagami offered Shisui a way to save the clan by recruiting him into the God Organization as the Flame Demon.

• Fugaku asked the Third Hokage to let the Uchiha Police Force join the pursuit, and the Third Hokage accepted.
• Shisui asked Hyuga Kagami how he could use Ice Release, then worried that the Third Hokage had noticed his involvement in their escape.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui that the village already had evidence of the Uchiha Clan’s rebellion preparations, including frequent meetings and purchases of weapons and Explosive Tags.
• Shisui explained that Uchiha Shinichi’s defection had convinced the clan that rebellion could succeed, and admitted the clan wanted to bring Shinichi back.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed that Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and said the clan’s rebellion seemed imminent.
• Hyuga Kagami gave Shisui a black cloak and flame-patterned mask, naming him the God Organization’s Flame Demon and calling it a way to save the Uchiha Clan.

Hyuga Kagami persuaded Shisui to wear the Flame Demon mask and help the God Organization provoke both Konoha’s leaders and the Uchiha radicals, hoping to delay the clan’s rebellion. They set out to claim Geluoya’s bounty, while Hyuga Kagami planned to target radical Uchiha siblings for experiments.

• Shisui questioned whether Hyuga Kagami’s plan could save the Uchiha, and Hyuga Kagami proposed giving the village and clan a common enemy by making the God Organization antagonize both sides.
• Hyuga Kagami urged Shisui to eliminate the Uchiha radicals, warning that a failed rebellion could lead to the clan’s extermination; Shisui reluctantly accepted the plan.
• Hyuga Kagami offered to kill the radicals himself if Shisui could not bring himself to act, and Shisui put on the Flame Demon mask.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui headed to the black market to exchange Geluoya’s corpse for a bounty.
• Hyuga Kagami suggested prioritizing radical Uchiha brothers because he wanted to test whether their Mangekyō Sharingan could be used to create Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Hyuga Kagami delivered Geluoya’s body to the black market to strengthen the God Organization’s cover and shift blame away from Konoha. As Sasori and Kakuzu confronted Shisui outside, Hyuga Kagami spotted the Third Hokage and a group of Konoha shinobi approaching.

• Hyuga Kagami explained to Shisui that turning in Geluoya’s body would make their bounty hunter identities credible and help direct suspicion toward the God Organization and Iwagakure.
• Sasori and Kakuzu arrived by boat near the bounty exchange with a corpse, and Sasori recognized the cloaked figure outside as River Lord.
• Hyuga Kagami presented Geluoya’s body to the exchange owner and collected the fifty-million bounty, checking that the money was intact with his Byakugan.
• Sasori and Kakuzu confronted Shisui outside the exchange, and Shisui cautiously prepared to defend himself.
• Hyuga Kagami emerged and saw the Third Hokage leading a large group of Konoha shinobi toward the exchange.

Hyuga Kagami used Sasori and Kakuzu’s crimes to turn the Third Hokage against them while he and Shisui escaped with the Uchiha Police Force in pursuit. Once the groups were separated, Hyuga Kagami launched a counterattack against Uchiha Fugaku, and Shisui rushed at his clan head.

• Hyuga Kagami sealed the money chest into a Scroll as the Third Hokage, Uchiha Fugaku, Anbu, and Police Force arrived to confront the group.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed Kakuzu’s attempt to assassinate the First Hokage and accused Sasori of killing the Third Kazekage, prompting the Third Hokage to order that no one escape.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui broke away, drawing Fugaku and the Uchiha Police Force after them while the Third Hokage pursued Sasori and Kakuzu.
• Sasori and Kakuzu fled downstream, with Kakuzu abandoning the corpse he had been carrying.
• After reaching a dense forest, Hyuga Kagami used Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique, and Shisui charged across the waves toward Uchiha Fugaku.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui, disguised as the God Organization’s River Lord and Flame Demon, fought Fugaku and seventeen Uchiha Police Force elites. The battle remained deadlocked in thick mist, with Fugaku expecting the Uchiha’s Sharingan to give them the advantage.

• Shisui clashed blades with Fugaku while Hyuga Kagami froze the waterfall into an icy field.
• Hyuga Kagami taunted the Uchiha elites by saying they could profit from taking their Sharingan, then identified himself and Shisui as bounty ninja from the God Organization.
• Fugaku mistook Shisui for Shinichi, but Hyuga Kagami denied that anyone by that name belonged to their organization, and Fugaku ordered his elites to attack.
• Three Uchiha elites unleashed Fire Release techniques, and Hyuga Kagami raised a Water Wall before the resulting steam filled the battlefield with mist.
• Hyuga Kagami caught a kunai and knocked an attacker away with a sweeping kick, while he and Shisui dodged an aerial attack and were separated in the fog.
• Fugaku observed that his seventeen Jonin-level elites had failed to overwhelm the two opponents and trusted the Uchiha Sharingan to prevail in the mist.

Hyuga Kagami trapped Fugaku’s Uchiha forces inside Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals and defeated several of them before Fugaku intervened. Fugaku caught Hyuga Kagami in a powerful genjutsu, where a familiar purple, dragon-headed sphere appeared.

• Hyuga Kagami used Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals to enclose the battlefield and track the Uchiha elites, while Shisui struggled to fight his clansmen at full strength.
• The Uchiha elites combined Fire Release and Wind Release to break an opening in the ice dome, but Hyuga Kagami used the mirrors to ambush and take down several of them.
• Fugaku melted the top of the ice dome with Majestic Destroyer Flame, entered the battlefield, and ordered his defeated clansmen to stand aside.
• Fugaku cast a genjutsu that instantly trapped Hyuga Kagami, who realized his resistance had weakened while he controlled a clone.
• A purple sphere with a dragon-shaped head formed in Hyuga Kagami’s black-and-white genjutsu, and the surrounding scene began to recede.

Fugaku trapped Shisui in a Mangekyō genjutsu and accused the masked Flame Demon of being the Nine-Tails' attacker, while Shisui fought back with his own ocular power. Downstream, Sasori and Kakuzu fled separately as the Third Hokage's forces pursued them.

• Fugaku used his Sharingan to trap Hyuga Kagami and Shisui in a genjutsu, then demanded Shisui reveal his identity.
• Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan summoned black crows that resisted Fugaku's black-and-white genjutsu, and Shisui identified himself as the Flame Demon of the God Organization.
• Fugaku suspected Shisui was the Mangekyō wielder behind the Nine-Tails attack and intensified his genjutsu as blood tears ran from Shisui's eyes.
• Sasori used his red-robed puppets to block the pursuers' weapons and fire poisoned senbon at the Konoha Anbu.
• The Third Hokage ordered the Shadow Guard to stay and confront Sasori while the other Anbu pursued Kakuzu, who escaped into the riverside forest.

Kakashi ambushed Kakuzu while the Konoha Anbu focused on the battle by the river, but Kakuzu’s monsters attacked after he appeared dead. Meanwhile, the Ryumyaku helped Hyuga Kagami break free of Fugaku’s genjutsu, and Hyuga Kagami escaped with the exhausted Shisui.

• Kakuzu fought off the Konoha Anbu as they hurried to support the Third Hokage at the river.
• Kakashi pierced Kakuzu’s chest with his lightning-charged arm, and the Anbu left Kakuzu for dead.
• Masked monsters emerged from Kakuzu’s body and attacked the nearby Anbu with lightning.
• The Ryumyaku helped Hyuga Kagami escape Fugaku’s genjutsu space.
• Fugaku warned Shisui that his genjutsu would not be easily dispelled, but Hyuga Kagami grabbed Shisui and vanished.

Fugaku stopped the Uchiha elites from pursuing Hyuga Kagami and Shisui after realizing their enemies could break his Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu. As Hyuga Kagami and Shisui continued on, they encountered the battered Akatsuki members Sasori and Kakuzu.

• Fugaku identified Flame Demon as a possible mastermind behind the Nine-Tails Incident and ordered the Uchiha to gather Shisui and hunt down the God Organization.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui escaped without pursuit, and Hyuga Kagami explained that Fugaku had likely been deterred by their ability to break his genjutsu.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed that Shisui had spent most of his ocular power breaking Fugaku's genjutsu, while the Ryumyaku's chakra had eventually dispelled it for him.
• Hyuga Kagami detected two powerful chakra signatures ahead and recognized them as Sasori and Kakuzu.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui met Sasori and Kakuzu in the forest, where both Akatsuki members appeared badly injured.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui encountered the injured Sasori and Kakuzu in the forest and pretended to let them pass before both sides launched a surprise attack. After realizing the Third Hokage might be nearby, they called the clash a misunderstanding and went their separate ways, leaving the Third Hokage and Fugaku to find the bone forest.

• Hyuga Kagami assessed Sasori and Kakuzu’s injuries and found Kakuzu’s chakra reserves greatly reduced.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui agreed to let Sasori and Kakuzu pass, but all four attacked as they crossed paths.
• Sasori used Bracken Dance to raise a forest of bone spears, while Hyuga Kagami protected himself and Shisui with Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
• Hyuga Kagami spotted Kakuzu and his masked monsters, then invoked the Third Hokage’s possible presence to propose that both groups leave.
• Sasori accepted Hyuga Kagami’s claim that the clash had been a misunderstanding, and both groups vanished in opposite directions.
• The Third Hokage and Fugaku arrived with their forces, found the bone forest, and lamented that the bounty ninja had escaped.

After the battles, the Third Hokage and Fugaku assessed the threat posed by the God Organization and the bounty ninja, while the Uchiha hid the Flame Demon’s identity. Hyuga Kagami and Shisui planned how to conceal their own roles, leaving Hyuga Kagami ready to stage an ambush.

• The Third Hokage regretted fighting conservatively and failing to capture any bounty ninja for intelligence.
• Fugaku resolved to discover the Flame Demon’s identity, while the Uchiha elites kept the Flame Demon’s Uchiha origins secret.
• Hyuga Kagami dispelled Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals after escaping Sasori and Kakuzu, then reassured Shisui that Hiashi would not pursue the suspicious details.
• Shisui said Fugaku might have sensed his Mangekyō-level ocular power, and Hyuga Kagami proposed staging an encounter with the River Lord and Flame Demon to clear their names.
• Hyuga Kagami began devising a plan to make it look as though the Flame Demon had ambushed Shisui.

Guy found Hyuga Kagami and Shisui frozen in ice after they failed to return from their mission. The Third Hokage questioned Team 11’s account, and Hyuga Kagami urged Shisui to commit a crime as the God Organization to distract him from their suspicions.

• Guy searched for Hyuga Kagami and Shisui, then found them frozen in a grove outside the village.
• The Third Hokage questioned Team 11 about Geluoya’s death and whether one attacker had possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui confirmed the Mangekyō Sharingan but said he could not identify the Flame Demon as Uchiha Shinichi.
• Kakashi pointed out that the River Lord and Flame Demon had killed only Geluoya, unlike other bounty ninja who had killed Konoha Anbu.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui to choose a target for the God Organization, preferably a pair of blood brothers, to dispel the Third Hokage’s suspicions.

Hyuga Kagami met Hiashi after the failed attempt to capture the bounty ninja and warned him that someone inside the Hyuga Clan had helped Geluoya infiltrate the Main Branch Estate. They found no clear suspect, but Kagami concluded the conspirator wanted to destroy both the Hyuga Clan and Konoha.

• Hyuga Kagami learned that Fugaku had hidden that “Flame Demon” possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan from the Third Hokage.
• Hyuga Kagami treated the Water Release clone’s superficial wounds at the hospital before switching back to his Yin Release true body.
• Hiashi questioned Hyuga Kagami about the two bounty ninja, and Kagami said they had attacked him and Shisui and taken Geluoya’s corpse.
• Hyuga Kagami warned Hiashi that an insider must have helped Geluoya enter the Main Branch Estate, and Hiashi said his initial investigation had found nothing.
• Hyuga Kagami ruled out Danzo and reasoned that the culprit intended to destroy the Hyuga Clan and provoke Konoha into civil war.

Hyuga Kagami asked Hiashi to move Rin into the clan grounds after she was nearly killed, while Fugaku ordered Shisui to help hunt down Flame Demon. At an Akatsuki meeting, Pain sent Hiruko and Shennong to the Land of Fire to investigate the God Organization, and Obito planned to inflame tensions involving the Uchiha.

• Hyuga Kagami asked Hiashi to transfer Rin into the Hyuga clan grounds, and Hiashi agreed to speak with the Third Hokage.
• Fugaku questioned Shisui about losing to Flame Demon, then ordered him to stay on standby while the clan searched for the God Organization.
• Kakuzu told Akatsuki that River Lord and another God Organization member had escaped pursuit by the Third Hokage and Fugaku.
• Uchiha Shinichi revealed that River Lord and Flame Demon had killed Geluoya and sold his corpse for a bounty.
• Pain ordered Hiruko and Shennong to assist Sasori and Kakuzu in the Land of Fire, eliminate Orochimaru, and investigate the God Organization.
• Obito told Pain he would go to the Land of Fire and add fuel to the fire concerning the Uchiha.

Shisui resolved to protect the Uchiha Clan after recalling Hyuga Kagami’s warning, while his clash with Uchiha Ryota raised the possibility that Ryota’s Mangekyō Sharingan could fuel a rebellion. At home, Hyuga Kagami moved Rin to the clan compound for her safety and reflected on the dangers of becoming a target as he considered his growing power.

• Shisui decided he could not let the Uchiha Clan be destroyed alongside its ambitious schemers.
• Uchiha Ryota taunted Shisui over losing to a bounty ninja and vowed to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui worried that Ryota awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan could prompt the Uchiha Clan to rebel, and remembered Ryota’s older brother Uchiha Hideki.
• Hyuga Kagami told Rin he had arranged for her transfer to the Hyuga clan compound, and Rin quietly agreed.
• Hyuga Kagami considered the risks of stepping into the spotlight and noted that his Water Release clone had grown stronger through improved soul compatibility and mastery of Ice Release.

Hyuga Kagami considered the qualities needed for his next clone while refining his plans for developing Kekkei Genkai suited to different chakra natures. Shisui chose two Uchiha radicals as targets, and Hyuga Kagami questioned whether Shisui could recruit Itachi, whom Shisui trusted completely.

• Hyuga Kagami concluded that his next clone would need a suitable Kekkei Genkai to approach the strength of his Yin Release original body.
• Shisui told Hyuga Kagami he had chosen Uchiha Ryota and Uchiha Hideki as targets.
• Shisui explained that Ryota was a violent Uchiha operative suspected of killing missing Anbu, while Hideki managed the clan's war supplies.
• Hyuga Kagami learned that most Uchiha Jonin supported rebellion, though some Chunin and Genin opposed it.
• Shisui insisted that Itachi would never harm his clansmen, and Hyuga Kagami silently doubted his judgment.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui planned an ambush on Uchiha Hideki and Uchiha Ryota, intending to capture them and make the attack appear to be the work of the God Organization. As Shisui went to investigate Hideki, Hyuga Kagami considered how to imprison the Uchiha and rejected a cruel scheme to force a Mangekyō awakening.

• Hyuga Kagami suggested that Shisui recruit Itachi, but Shisui refused because the attempt could expose their actions, and Hyuga Kagami stopped pressing him.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui planned to attack the Uchiha brothers in the name of the God Organization and leave an Uchiha witness to redirect the clan’s hostility.
• Because Uchiha Ryota and Uchiha Hideki rarely met, Hyuga Kagami chose Hideki as the first target, expecting Ryota to investigate his brother’s fate.
• Shisui left to learn Hideki’s movements and find a suitable location while Hyuga Kagami studied a map for a secluded prison site.
• Hyuga Kagami considered using Kotoamatsukami to intensify an Uchiha’s love before killing their beloved to provoke a Mangekyō awakening, but rejected the plan as too cruel.