Chapter Summaries

Naruto and Sasuke became friends after agreeing to keep Sasuke’s tears secret, while Fugaku and the Third Hokage united against a monster attacking Konoha. The chapter ended with Obito watching the destruction and realizing events had not gone as planned.

• Naruto asked Sasuke to be his friend, and Sasuke agreed in exchange for Naruto keeping his crying secret.
• Fugaku led the Uchiha to the Hokage Building, where the Third Hokage explained that Naruto had been abducted and an attacker had tried to frame the Uchiha.
• A purple-black, multiheaded dragon-like monster began ravaging Konoha, and a Chunin reported that a Police Force squad captain was holding it off.
• The Third Hokage led Konoha and Uchiha ninja to confront the monster, while Obito watched from a nearby rooftop and remarked that the situation differed from what he had intended.

Hyuga Kagami fought Shennong after he transformed into the Moryo Jinchuriki and unleashed Terracotta Puppets across Konoha. When Shennong swallowed him, Hyuga Kagami activated an incomplete Susanoo and began burning him from within with golden flames.

• Hyuga Kagami ordered the Konoha shinobi to retreat while he stalled Shennong, who had transformed into a multi-headed monster covered in black chakra.
• Shennong used his black chakra to create Terracotta Puppets, and Hyuga Kagami found that his Fire Release could not penetrate Shennong's protective chakra.
• Hyuga Kagami decided to end the fight quickly and approached Shennong, who charged at him in a rage.
• Hyuga Kagami activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and Susanoo just as Shennong swallowed him whole.
• Hyuga Kagami used Susanoo's golden flames to burn Shennong's body from the inside.

Hyuga Kagami defeated Shennong’s transformed rampage and escaped before Konoha shinobi arrived, while Hiruko and Zetsu worried that Shennong’s capture could expose Akatsuki. After the Third Hokage identified Shennong as the monster that had attacked the village, he asked Fugaku to arrange a meeting with the Police Force squad captain.

• Hyuga Kagami burned Shennong with Susanoo’s golden flames, cut open a dragon head, and escaped as Shennong reverted to his unconscious original form.
• Hyuga Kagami chose to leave Shennong behind, suspecting Hiruko and Obito were also involved, and vanished when his lookout crow warned him that shinobi were approaching.
• Hiruko called Shennong useless and left to rescue him, while Zetsu and Obito discussed the failed plan and Obito’s desire to recruit Hiruko.
• The Third Hokage’s shinobi found Shennong, and the Sensor Division captain confirmed he was the monster that had rampaged through the village.
• The Third Hokage suspected Shennong had become the demon’s Jinchuriki and asked Fugaku to let him meet the Police Force squad captain.

Hiruko attacked the Konoha forces and revealed that he had stolen Sharingan from Uchiha Hiiragi. After rescuing Shennong, he fought Fugaku in the ruins.

• The Third ordered Yamanaka Inoichi to read Shennong’s memories and identify the Uchiha who had fought him.
• Hiruko’s explosive feathers struck the ruins, and he descended on his fused summoned beast to rescue Shennong.
• Hiruko absorbed the chakra sustaining Shennong’s earthen shelter and killed an Anbu who ambushed him.
• The Third recognized Hiruko, who admitted he had taken Sharingan from Uchiha Hiiragi and used them in the earlier attack.
• Fugaku charged Hiruko, and the two began clashing with Kunai in the ruins.

Fugaku and Hiruko fought while the Third Hokage and his allies realized Hiruko had acquired multiple Kekkei Genkai through his experiments. Hiruko’s Storm Release overwhelmed Konoha’s forces, but the Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura caught him off guard, forcing him to escape on his summoned beast.

• Fugaku and Hiruko struggled to track each other’s movements as they fought.
• The Third Hokage concluded that Hiruko’s forbidden technique had let him steal Kekkei Genkai, including Swift Release, Dark Release, Steel Release, and Storm Release.
• Hiruko unleashed Storm Release against the Konoha ninjas, striking many of them with lightning.
• The Third Hokage struck Hiruko with the Adamantine Staff, and Mitokado Homura restrained him with chains while preparing a Sealing Jutsu.
• Hiruko cut off his legs to escape the chains, leaped onto his fused summoned beast, and ordered it to retreat.

Kakashi and Guy escaped Danzo’s Root pursuit while trying to save the poisoned Shisui, and Hiruko fled after battling the Third Hokage and Fugaku. The Third Hokage ordered Danzo brought back and Anbu sent to support Team 11, while Hyuga Kagami remained unaware of what had happened to his team.

• Kakashi split from Guy and Shisui to hold off Danzo’s pursuing Root ninja, then used a Shadow Clone to divert them.
• Guy treated Shisui’s injuries at Rest Site No. 4 and gave him an antidote, while Kakashi worried that Danzo had attacked him for his Sharingan.
• Kakashi and Guy decided to return to the Third Hokage for help, despite not knowing whether the standard antidote would work.
• Hiruko escaped on his fused summoned beast after severing his chained legs, leaving the Third Hokage and Fugaku unable to capture him.
• Utatane Koharu urged the Third Hokage to join forces with other villages against Hiruko, and Mitokado Homura reported that Akatsuki had stolen Storm Release.
• The Shadow Guard reported Danzo’s attack on Shisui, so the Third Hokage ordered Danzo brought back and Anbu sent to support Team 11; meanwhile, Hyuga Kagami wondered what had happened to them.

Hyuga Kagami returned to Konoha, learned that Team 11 had concealed his absence, and checked on the injured Shisui. Meanwhile, rumors about a secret Uchiha division stirred anger in the clan, and Fugaku called Itachi over.

• Hyuga Kagami returned to his home and gave Shion the gourd artifact so she and Ashiho could meet Miko’s spirit.
• Rin told Hyuga Kagami that Danzo had attacked Team 11, Kakashi and Guy had been badly injured, and Mitokado Homura had rescued them.
• Hyuga Kagami confirmed through Shisui that Team 11 had told the Third Hokage he was separated from them, then disguised himself and entered Konoha through the main gate.
• The Third Hokage questioned Hyuga Kagami, who then visited the recovering Shisui at the Uchiha Compound.
• Uchiha elites confronted Fugaku over rumors of a secret Police Force division, and Fugaku called Itachi over after dismissing them.

Fugaku thanked Itachi for rescuing Sasuke, while Hyuga Kagami pieced together the conspiracies behind the attack on Konoha. Itachi revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and believed he had killed Orochimaru with Amaterasu, but Hyuga Kagami doubted Orochimaru was truly dead.

• Fugaku praised Itachi for protecting Sasuke and warned him that the area around the village was under martial law.
• Hyuga Kagami reviewed how Obito, Orochimaru, Shennong, and Danzo had each exploited the chaos for their own aims.
• Hyuga Kagami told the injured Shisui to recover before they discussed their next steps.
• Itachi told Hyuga Kagami that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and rescued Sasuke after using Amaterasu to burn Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kagami questioned whether Orochimaru had really died, suspecting his techniques and body modifications could have let him survive.

Hyuga Kagami accepted Itachi into the God Organization after learning he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Itachi kept the ability secret to avoid upsetting the balance between the Uchiha Clan and the village. Meanwhile, Danzo’s examination of Hiruko’s severed feet failed when they exploded, leaving him desperate to obtain Hiruko’s technology.

• Itachi told Hyuga Kagami that only he knew about Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and explained why he had kept it from Shisui and his father.
• Hyuga Kagami revealed that Uchiha Homura was an orphan from outside the village, then suggested that her supposed identity as a secretly cultivated Uchiha might make the Hokage more wary.
• Hyuga Kagami welcomed Itachi into the God Organization under the codename Flame Demon and said Uchiha Homura had passed under the same codename.
• Danzo’s researcher reported that Hiruko’s severed feet had cellular properties unlike normal human tissue.
• Hiruko’s severed feet swelled and exploded inside their container, destroying the samples, so Danzo ordered Root to obtain Hiruko’s technology rather than assassinate him.
• Danzo demanded to know why Orochimaru had not completed his assignment.

Hyuga Kagami brought Shion and Ashiho to Konoha for protection and visited the injured Kakashi and Guy at the hospital. Kakashi warned him about Naruto’s abduction and said the village had not yet decided how to strengthen Naruto’s protection.

• Hyuga Kagami returned the gourd artifact to Ashiho and learned that the Miko’s spirit had dispersed after seeing Shion.
• Hyuga Kagami gave Ashiho the bell artifact to protect Shion from being sensed by Shennong, and arranged for them to stay at his home while Shion would attend the Ninja Academy next year.
• Hyuga Kagami went to Konoha Hospital, where Guy exercised with one arm while Kakashi read in bed.
• Kakashi asked Hyuga Kagami where he had been, and Hyuga Kagami said he had gone to the Land of Demons because Team 11 shared responsibility for the Yomi Cult’s rebellion.
• Kakashi urged Hyuga Kagami to tell Team 11 if he left on a mission again, then warned him that Naruto’s abductor had used a strange method.
• Kakashi said the village had not decided how to protect Naruto after learning Akatsuki knew his identity, and that one Anbu squad was not enough.

Hyuga Kagami visited Orochimaru to obtain the Chimera Technique after losing Shennong as a route to it, and learned that Hiruko had also relied on a Dark Medical Ninjutsu. Meanwhile, Obito and Pain discussed their failed operation and the threat of the God Organization.

• Hyuga Kagami decided to seek the Chimera Technique from Orochimaru after Shennong became an enemy, then left Konoha with a Shadow Clone behind.
• Yakushi Kabuto led Hyuga Kagami to Orochimaru, whose body showed signs of a mismatch between body and soul after his encounter with Uchiha Itachi.
• Hyuga Kagami asked Orochimaru for the Chimera Technique, and Orochimaru revealed that Hiruko had used a Dark Medical Ninjutsu from the Yomi Cult to survive the fusion ritual.
• Hyuga Kagami asked what he would need to pay for the Chimera Technique and the Dark Medical Ninjutsu.
• Obito blamed Shennong for the failed operation, while Pain ordered Hiruko to investigate and declared that Akatsuki would claim the ninja world once the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was ready.
• Obito warned Pain not to forget the troublesome God Organization.

Hyuga Kagami refused Orochimaru’s demand to bring him Uchiha Itachi and decided to target Shennong instead. At Hiruko’s base, Shennong recognized a dangerous flaw in Hiruko’s bloodline fusion ritual just as Shinichi arrived.

• Orochimaru demanded that Hyuga Kagami bring him Uchiha Itachi in exchange for forbidden techniques, but Hyuga warned him to give up the plan and left without agreeing.
• After Hyuga departed, Orochimaru admitted to Yakushi Kabuto that Hyuga had seen through his bluff and said he needed a new body before challenging Danzo.
• Hyuga decided to seize the Chimera Technique from Hiruko or Shennong, chose Shennong as the easier target, and sent a letter to Shinichi.
• At Hiruko’s base in the Land of Rain, Shennong listened to Hiruko’s screams and concluded that Hiruko’s bloodline fusion ritual—not the Chimera Technique itself—had a dangerous flaw.
• Shinichi arrived at the corridor, and Shennong reacted coldly to the Uchiha spy as Hiruko screamed again.

Shinichi pressured Shennong over his secrets, prompting Shennong to decide to leave Akatsuki and flee the Land of Rain. Hyuga Kagami received Shinichi’s report in Konoha and planned to track Shennong through Shion before moving against him.

• Shinichi confronted Shennong about his plans for Shion and his dealings with Orochimaru, then left after warning that he could expose him.
• Shennong decided to abandon Akatsuki, secretly moved experimental supplies, and used Hiruko’s illness as an excuse to ask Pain to leave the Land of Rain.
• Konan questioned Shennong’s nervousness, but Pain allowed him to go, and Shennong immediately fled toward the Land of Fire.
• After Shennong left, Shinichi concluded that his bluff had exposed Shennong’s disloyalty.
• Hyuga Kagami read Shinichi’s Scroll and planned to use Shion’s ability to sense Shennong’s location before gathering people to act against him.

Hyuga Kagami took Shion and Ashiho around Konoha and arranged for Shion to attend the Ninja Academy, then brought them to the Hyuga compound. After watching Hinata and Neji spar, Kagami challenged the clan’s rigid training and urged Neji to value effective attacks over perfect form.

• The Third Hokage granted Team 11 half a month off, and Hyuga Kagami proposed sending Shion to the Ninja Academy; the Hokage agreed and promised her extra care.
• Hyuga Kagami showed Shion and Ashiho around Konoha, then brought them to the Hyuga compound, where Hizashi welcomed Shion.
• Hinata and Neji demonstrated the Gentle Fist for Shion, but Hinata hesitated, took Neji’s strike, and struggled to get back up under Hiashi’s stern gaze.
• Hyuga Kagami sparred with Neji and evaded his Eight Trigrams Palms, then advised him that speed mattered if his attacks could not reach an opponent.
• Hyuga Kagami reflected that the Hyuga Clan’s rigid training held back its members, especially Hinata, and that the clan had fallen behind.

Hyuga Kagami urged Hizashi to reform the Hyuga Clan by developing ways to fight powerful enemies beyond the Gentle Fist, then quietly asked about the Spirit Transformation Technique. Meanwhile, Shennong prepared to activate Ancor Vantian and resume the Sky Ninja Village’s revenge against Konoha.

• Hyuga Kagami told Hizashi that the Hyuga Clan needed stronger techniques, giant summoned beasts, and offensive Sealing Jutsu to face Tailed Beasts and Susanoo.
• Hizashi agreed to think over Kagami’s suggestions, and Kagami asked whether anyone in the clan knew the Spirit Transformation Technique without revealing what he had seen.
• Kagami left with Shion and Ashiho, aware that the Hyuga Clan’s conservative forces made reform difficult.
• In the Land of Hot Water, a Sky Ninja reported that the supplies Shennong had ordered were aboard Ancor Vantian.
• Shennong said the Sky Ninja Village would soon rise again and planned to use Ancor Vantian’s superweapon to destroy Konoha.

Hyuga Kagami took Shion to locate Shennong and discovered a Sky Ninja supply base in the Land of Hot Water. He recruited Shisui and Itachi for God Organization’s attack, assigning Blaze to lead while he stayed behind.

• Hyuga Kagami flew with Shion out of the village and asked her to sense the monster Moryo connected to Shennong.
• Shion sensed east, leading Hyuga Kagami across the sea to the Land of Hot Water, where she detected Moryo nearby.
• Hyuga Kagami found Sky Ninja outposts and a large supply depot, then returned to the village with Shion.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui and Itachi that God Organization would attack Shennong and that both of them would join the operation.
• Hyuga Kagami named Blaze as the team leader and said he would not take part in the operation.

Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi set out as the Flame Demons to attack Shennong’s Sky Ninja stronghold. Hyuga Kagami cornered Shennong at the hidden aerial fortress Ancor Vantian, where Shennong offered him the Chimera Technique scroll.

• Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi left their grove in Fire Clone Techniques, with Hyuga Kagami announcing their mission as the Flame Demons.
• Shennong learned that a Flame Demon had overrun fourteen Sky Ninja sentry posts and decided to launch Ancor Vantian before the attacker reached its core.
• Shennong hurried to the buried aerial fortress, where Hyuga Kagami blocked his way and asked what he was seeking.
• Shennong offered to cooperate and led Hyuga Kagami into Ancor Vantian, believing he wanted Hiruko’s Chimera Technique.
• Shennong retrieved a scroll from a hidden compartment and handed it to Hyuga Kagami.

Hyuga Kagami confronted Shennong over the altered Chimera Technique Scroll, but Shennong recognized Kagami’s sword and mistook him for Uchiha Homura. Shennong transformed with Moryo’s chakra and opened the Eight Inner Gates up to the sixth, leaving Hyuga Kagami facing a powerful opponent.

• Hyuga Kagami inspected Shennong’s Chimera Technique Scroll but rejected it as untrustworthy.
• Shennong threatened Hyuga Kagami, who drew his sword and revealed the weapon Shennong recognized as Uchiha Homura’s.
• Shennong assumed Hyuga Kagami was Uchiha Homura impersonating the Flame Demon and vowed to defeat him.
• Shennong covered himself in Moryo’s black chakra, transformed his body, and opened the first four Eight Inner Gates.
• Shennong opened the fifth and sixth gates, while Hyuga Kagami was surprised by how far he had mastered the technique.

Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi confronted Shennong, who revealed that he could open the seventh of the Eight Inner Gates. The chapter left Shennong facing three Susanoo inside the hall.

• Shennong overwhelmed Hyuga Kagami with his strength, breaking his sword and sending him crashing into a wall.
• Hyuga Kagami avoided Shennong’s next attack with the Crow Substitution Technique as Shisui and Itachi arrived.
• Shisui and Itachi attacked Shennong, but his hardened body repelled their weapons and broke Itachi’s Steel Wire.
• Shennong opened the seventh gate, the Gate of Wonder, and claimed his body could survive even the eighth gate.
• Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi each manifested a Susanoo, surrounding Shennong with golden, green, and crimson warriors.

Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi overwhelmed Shennong with their Susanoo and Amaterasu, then subdued him with genjutsu. After seeing Shennong recover from severe injuries almost instantly, Hyuga Kagami began questioning him about the complete Chimera Technique.

• Shennong recognized the three Susanoo as proof that he faced three Mangekyō Sharingan users and realized he could not escape.
• Shennong pieced together the connection between Uchiha Shinichi, Uchiha Homura, and the God Organization, then attacked Hyuga Kagami with his full power.
• Shennong shattered the outer armor of Hyuga Kagami’s Susanoo, but Itachi set him ablaze with Amaterasu, which continued burning despite Shennong’s Water Release.
• Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi attacked Shennong with their Susanoo, inflicting severe injuries until he collapsed.
• Itachi extinguished the flames, Shisui trapped Shennong in a genjutsu, and Hyuga Kagami saw that Shennong had rapidly regenerated his severed limbs.
• Hyuga Kagami asked the genjutsu-bound Shennong where the complete Chimera Technique was.