Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Kagami recovered the genuine Chimera Technique Scroll and learned that Shennong’s aerial fortress, Ancor Vantian, could be repaired and powered by Moryo’s chakra. After discovering the fortress’s cannon could threaten Konoha, Hyuga Kagami planned to seal Moryo and Shennong inside its power room, while Shisui worried that handing Shennong over would expose the God Organization.

• Shennong revealed the hidden genuine Chimera Technique Scroll, and Hyuga Kagami compared it with the altered copy.
• Shennong identified the location as Ancor Vantian and led Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Itachi to the fortress’s power room.
• Hyuga Kagami examined the damaged chakra-gathering formulas and concluded they should be replaced with a new design.
• Under genjutsu, Shennong admitted that the Sky Ninja planned to destroy Konoha with the fortress’s energy cannon and intended to use Moryo’s chakra as its power source.
• Hyuga Kagami decided to seal Moryo in the power room to contain him and power the fortress, while Shisui warned that Shennong might reveal the God Organization’s secrets if turned over to Konoha.

Hyuga Kagami explained that Lord Kagami had planned the operation to seize Sky Ninja Village’s fortress, then let Itachi and Shisui interrogate Shennong about Akatsuki. Shennong revealed that Pain possessed the Rinnegan, leaving Shisui and Itachi stunned and uncertain about the legendary eyes.

• Shisui questioned Hyuga Kagami about taking control of the fortress, and Hyuga Kagami said Lord Kagami had planned the operation.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui and Itachi that Uchiha Shinichi had helped Lord Kagami but had not joined the God Organization, and he refused Shisui’s request to meet him.
• Itachi interrogated Shennong about Akatsuki, who described its members and identified Pain as its leader.
• Shisui asked Shennong about the masked space-time user, but Shennong said no such person was in Akatsuki.
• Shennong said Pain possessed the Rinnegan, and Shisui used a stronger genjutsu to confirm that Shennong had seen the eyes himself.

Hyuga Kagami planned to seize Sky Ninja Village’s aerial fortress and use Shennong’s chakra to power it, while keeping the attack secret. He began preparing a vast sealing array to contain Shennong in his fully transformed state.

• Shisui and Itachi learned from Hyuga Kagami that Akatsuki possessed the Rinnegan and was far more dangerous than they had realized.
• Hyuga Kagami sent Itachi to check the situation and told Shisui to make Shennong locate Sky Ninja Village’s hidden supplies.
• Hyuga Kagami chose the Four Symbols Seal as the foundation for an array that could both contain Shennong and extract his chakra.
• Hyuga Kagami created four Shadow Clones and arranged five hundred Four Symbols Seals across the engine room.
• Hyuga Kagami stopped after maintaining all five hundred seals neared his limit, judging the array strong enough to hold Shennong in his fully transformed state.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui found Sky Ninja Village’s remaining stockpile of flying ninja tools and learned how they worked, while Hyuga Kagami considered using puppets to form an air force. After Itachi reported that survivors had escaped, Hyuga Kagami decided they had to repair and move the flying fortress before the news reached Akatsuki.

• Shisui escorted Shennong back to the power room, where Hyuga Kagami showed Shisui the Four Symbols Seals and explained that the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan had been lent to him.
• Shisui said he had no desire to take the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and he told Hyuga Kagami that Shennong had revealed the locations of three secret storehouses.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui inspected the uncleared storehouse and learned from Shennong that it held one hundred mostly usable flying ninja tool sets and how their launch and flight systems worked.
• Hyuga Kagami considered using Tenseigan chakra-powered puppets to operate the flying ninja tools and form an air force.
• Itachi reported that Sky Ninja survivors had escaped, so Hyuga Kagami ordered the flying fortress repaired and moved quickly to keep the news from reaching Akatsuki.

Hyuga Kagami moved the secret vault’s supplies to the Aerial Fortress and sealed Shennong inside the power room as he transformed into a Tailed Beast. Meanwhile, a thief stole a pair of Byakugan from the Hyuga restricted area, prompting Hiashi to seal off the clan grounds.

• Hyuga Kagami used his Susanoo to transport the supplies from the secret vault to the Aerial Fortress.
• Shisui used genjutsu to provoke Shennong into transforming, and Hyuga Kagami sealed him with the Four Symbols Seal array.
• Hizashi urged Hiashi to consider changing Hyuga traditions, but Hiashi refused to challenge the Gentle Fist or the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hiashi and Hizashi found a dead Main Branch elder in the restricted area with his Byakugan stolen.
• Hiashi ordered the clan grounds sealed and went to inspect the restricted area, where the Caged Bird Seal scroll was also at risk.

Hiashi discovered that an intruder had stolen ancient texts about the Byakugan and the Caged Bird Seal, though the seal’s application Scroll remained secure. The theft and the murdered elder’s suspected snake poisoning fueled Main Branch suspicions of the branch family, and Hiashi agreed to investigate with Hizashi.

• Hiashi found that the Caged Bird Seal Scroll remained in its chest, but at least three ancient texts about the Byakugan and the seal were missing.
• Hiashi learned that a venomous snake had likely killed the Main Branch elder guarding the vault, while Hizashi objected when the Main Branch suspected the branch family.
• Hiashi told the Main Branch members that the stolen texts concerned the Caged Bird Seal and rejected their claim that a branch family member must be responsible.
• A Main Branch member suggested Orochimaru might have used a branch family collaborator, prompting the group to suspect the branch family.
• Hiashi said Hizashi could be trusted because he had been with him during Orochimaru’s earlier attack, and he proposed that Hizashi help investigate the branch family.
• A Main Branch member reported that some branch family members had recently questioned the clan’s traditions and the Gentle Fist.

Hyuga Kagami activated the Aerial Fortress, moved his secret laboratory aboard it, and returned to Konoha. There, Rin warned him that the Hyuga Main Branch might suspect him of stealing a Byakugan and use his past connection to Orochimaru against him.

• Hyuga Kagami activated the Aerial Fortress with Shisui and Itachi, and it rose into the clouds.
• Hyuga Kagami moved his secret laboratory and the Third Kazekage Human Puppet aboard the fortress, leaving a Shadow Clone and the puppet to guard it.
• Hyuga Kagami returned to Konoha because the village was under heightened surveillance after Akatsuki's attack.
• Rin told Hyuga Kagami that a culprit had broken into the Main Branch Estate's secret vault, killed an elder, and stolen a Byakugan.
• Rin warned Hyuga Kagami that the Main Branch suspected a branch family member and might target him because he had questioned Hyuga traditions and once served under Orochimaru.

Hyuga Kagami considered the threat the Caged Bird Seal posed to Rin and investigated who had tried to steal its scroll. Meanwhile, a shadowy figure studied an ancient book revealing the seal’s origins and the Hyuga Clan’s forgotten catastrophe.

• Rin warned Hyuga Kagami that the Main Branch might use her to control him, and he reassured her that his Anbu status offered some protection.
• After Rin left, Hyuga Kagami suspected the spy who had previously aided Kumogakure and considered whether the snake venom was meant to implicate Orochimaru.
• Hyuga Kagami reasoned that the spy might still seek revenge because Kumogakure’s plot had failed, and resolved to draw him out before he disrupted his plans for the clan.
• In a dark chamber, a shadowy figure read an ancient book describing how the Hyuga Clan’s protective Curse Mark evolved into the Caged Bird Seal.
• The figure wondered what catastrophe had led the Hyuga ancestors to create the Curse Mark and why the clan had concealed it.

A Hyuga clan member searching forbidden records found a hidden map while discovering that the Byakugan had never evolved. Hyuga Kagami studied the Chimera Technique and realized that pursuing Kekkei Mōra required him to succeed on his first attempt or face the Demon Bud’s deadly backlash.

• A figure in the Hyuga Clan’s forbidden archive learned that an ancient calamity had involved Byakugan extraction and that the Byakugan had never evolved or awakened.
• The figure began burning ancient texts, noticed hidden patterns appear on their scorched pages, and pieced them together into an incomplete map.
• Hyuga Kagami set aside his search for the clan’s spy and focused on studying the Chimera Technique as part of his plan to attain Kekkei Mōra.
• Hyuga Kagami learned that the Chimera Technique’s Demon Bud was difficult to cultivate and would cause deadly backlash unless he attained Kekkei Mōra.
• Hyuga Kagami concluded that he had to succeed in attaining Kekkei Mōra on his first attempt, since failure would leave the Demon Bud as a death sentence.

Hyuga Kagami began cultivating Demon Buds using Shennong's materials and experimental records while repairing the aerial fortress he had made his secret base. After two weeks of work, the fortress's structure was stable, but its faulty power system still made travel risky.

• Hyuga Kagami reviewed the Chimera Technique records and decided to cultivate Demon Buds without experimenting directly on his Yin Release true body.
• Hyuga Kagami flew to the aerial fortress, inspected its decay and malfunctioning magnetic drives, and organized Shennong's laboratory equipment.
• Hyuga Kagami planted Demon Bud seeds in samples of his cellular tissue across one hundred culture dishes.
• Hyuga Kagami monitored the cultures and surveyed the fortress for a week, then bought construction materials and landed it in a remote desert in the Land of Wind.
• Hyuga Kagami and the Third Kazekage Human Puppet repaired the fortress's damaged structure, but Hyuga Kagami left its power system untouched and decided to keep it in place.

After Team 11 received a mission to investigate Hiruko, the shinobi world reacted to his Kekkei Genkai-stealing Chimera Technique, while the Hyuga Clan stalled in its investigation of the elder’s murder. Shisui urged Hyuga Kagami to report Akatsuki’s location and organize a joint attack, but Kagami explained why the plan was unlikely to destroy Akatsuki completely.

• The Third assigned Team 11 to investigate Hiruko and privately ordered Kakashi to look into the Chimera Technique as other shinobi villages also investigated it.
• The Hyuga Clan held meetings about the threat the Chimera Technique posed to its Byakugan, but its investigation into the Main Branch elder’s murder and the forbidden vault breach found no leads.
• Hiashi rejected a proposal to investigate Hyuga Kagami, and the Main Branch backed down after learning of his influential connections to the Uchiha, Kakashi, Guy, and the Miko’s orphan.
• Shisui visited Hyuga Kagami and proposed revealing Akatsuki’s headquarters in the Land of Rain so the major villages could launch a surprise attack.
• Hyuga Kagami agreed that such an attack might destroy Akatsuki’s base, but warned that Pain and Zetsu could evade the assault and that the villages would not unite yet.

Hyuga Kagami agreed to help Shisui act against Akatsuki, but insisted they plan carefully to prevent the intelligence from leaking. He intended to limit the alliance to Konoha, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure, leaving Hyuga Kagami to reorganize his already crowded plans.

• Shisui urged Hyuga Kagami to act on the intelligence about Akatsuki, and Hyuga Kagami agreed to move forward.
• Hyuga Kagami told Shisui to wait until Team 11's intelligence-gathering mission the next day so they could explain how they learned Akatsuki's location.
• Hyuga Kagami argued that involving too many villages risked leaks and that Iwagakure and Kirigakure should not be contacted.
• Hyuga Kagami said Konoha should secretly warn the Fourth Kazekage about Sasori's spies and enlist Kumogakure and Sunagakure against Akatsuki.
• Hyuga Kagami proposed falsely telling Konoha that Iwagakure and Kirigakure had private dealings with Akatsuki, and Shisui accepted the plan.
• After Shisui left, Hyuga Kagami worried that the attack would disrupt his schedule and began reconsidering his plans.

Hyuga Kagami returned to the Aerial Fortress and began testing the Fire Clone Technique while investigating how to develop Blaze Release. The chapter left him producing a small portion of golden flames through the Great Fireball Technique, giving him a possible foundation for further experiments.

• Team 11 split up to investigate the Land of Rain, the Land of Grass, the Land of Rivers, and the Land of Waterfalls.
• Hyuga Kagami secretly returned to the Aerial Fortress and found that more than forty of the Demon Bud culture vessels had developed severe rejection reactions.
• Hyuga Kagami used the Tenseigan's Soul Descent Technique to enter the Fire Clone Technique and recorded its physical data.
• Hyuga Kagami reasoned that Blaze Release might require Fire-nature chakra, Lightning-nature chakra, and the Sharingan, then tried combining the chakra natures in a Great Fireball Technique without success.
• Hyuga Kagami activated Susanoo, used its golden flame as a foundation, and changed a small portion of his Great Fireball Technique's flames into gold.

Hyuga Kagami trained his Fire Clone Technique to develop Blaze Release, but found that his current ocular power only let him use it while maintaining Susanoo. He suspected his eyes were less compatible and powerful than Sasuke’s and considered the few ways to strengthen them.

• Hyuga Kagami struggled to practice Blaze Release because it required him to maintain Susanoo and consumed too much of his Fire Clone Technique’s strength.
• Hyuga Kagami used an incomplete Susanoo and carefully fused Fire-nature chakra, Lightning-nature chakra, and ocular power to perform the Blaze Release: Flame Dragon Technique.
• Hyuga Kagami realized the technique was not true mastery of Blaze Release because he could already control golden flames through Susanoo.
• Hyuga Kagami concluded that his ocular power was likely weaker than Sasuke’s had been when Sasuke developed Blaze Release.
• Hyuga Kagami considered evolving his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan into Rinnegan, but recognized that the process required prolonged accumulation even with Sage Body power.

After two weeks of training, Hyuga Kagami returned to Konoha with Team 11 and reported that Akatsuki controlled the Land of Rain after killing Hanzo. The Third Hokage began seeking an alliance with Kumogakure and Sunagakure to confront Akatsuki.

• Hyuga Kagami spent two weeks training his Fire Clone Technique before rejoining Team 11, where Kakashi mentioned a Rogue Ninja with a seemingly immortal body had injured him.
• Hyuga Kagami told Team 11 that Akatsuki's base was in the Land of Rain and that its leader had killed Hanzo.
• Shisui noticed that Hyuga Kagami seemed spiritually exhausted as Team 11 returned to Konoha.
• Hyuga Kagami told the Third Hokage that Akatsuki controlled the Land of Rain and might be cooperating with Iwagakure and Kirigakure.
• Shisui suggested that Konoha, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure unite against Akatsuki, and the Third Hokage wrote letters for Kakashi to deliver to the Raikage and Kazekage.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui traveled through a sandstorm on a secret mission to contact Sunagakure about Akatsuki. They reached a Sunagakure patrol and were escorted onward, while Hyuga Kagami remained concerned about the unexplained stagnation of his Tenseigan.

• The Third Hokage entrusted Team 11 with secretly contacting Kumogakure and Sunagakure, splitting Kakashi and Guy from Hyuga Kagami and Shisui.
• Hyuga Kagami used his Tenseigan Chakra Mode to create a windless zone and scout their direction through the sandstorm.
• Shisui asked whether Hyuga Kagami's Tenseigan or Akatsuki's Rinnegan was stronger, and Hyuga Kagami said the outcome depended on their users.
• Hyuga Kagami reflected that his Tenseigan's development had stagnated and suspected something was restricting the Hyuga Clan.
• After crossing the sandstorm, Hyuga Kagami and Shisui identified themselves to a Sunagakure patrol, whose captain escorted them onward.

Hyuga Kagami and Shisui arrived in Sunagakure and waited for the Fourth Kazekage, who secretly tested the village’s dangerous young jinchuriki. After Yashamaru died, the child headed toward the guesthouse, where the Konoha envoys saw him.

• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui entered Sunagakure and requested an audience with the Fourth Kazekage.
• Hyuga Kagami explained to Shisui that Sunagakure was impoverished and that the Land of Wind’s daimyo had cut its funding.
• The Fourth Kazekage told Chiyo he would test the jinchuriki that night, with Yashamaru carrying out the test.
• Hyuga Kagami and Shisui waited at the guesthouse as a vast, violent chakra approached.
• An Anbu reported that Yashamaru was dead, and the Fourth Kazekage ordered the Konoha envoys evacuated.
• Hyuga Kagami saw a red-haired six-year-old child with a love character on his forehead and dark circles beneath his eyes enter the guesthouse.

Gaara lost control and entered the guesthouse where Hyuga Kagami and Shisui were staying, prompting the Fourth Kazekage and Sunagakure’s leaders to rush after him. Hyuga Kagami deliberately wounded Gaara, causing him to lose consciousness and allowing Shukaku to emerge in the middle of the village.

• Pakura returned to Sunagakure and learned that Gaara had lost control again after the Fourth Kazekage’s test, with Yashamaru dead.
• Chiyo, Ebizo, Pakura, and the Fourth Kazekage learned that Gaara had entered the guesthouse where Konoha’s envoys were staying.
• Hyuga Kagami repelled Gaara’s attacking sand while Shisui remained on guard.
• Hyuga Kagami knocked away Gaara’s sand armor and stabbed him in the shoulder with a kunai.
• Gaara saw his own blood, lost consciousness, and triggered Shukaku’s full transformation, which burst through the guesthouse roof.

After Hyuga Kagami and Uchiha Shisui subdued One-Tail Shukaku, the Fourth Kazekage received news that Akatsuki had taken over the Land of Rain and agreed to join a secret surprise attack. The chapter ended with Sunagakure committing to the operation while delaying its investigation into the suspected spy Yura.

• The Fourth Kazekage and his group saw One-Tail Shukaku shrink and disappear, then found Gaara asleep and the two Konoha envoys unharmed at the ruined guesthouse.
• Pakura recognized Uchiha Shisui and Hyuga Kagami, and the Sunagakure group realized the envoys had subdued One-Tail Shukaku.
• The Fourth Kazekage thanked the envoys, while Hyuga Kagami apologized for injuring Gaara and Sunagakure's leaders reassessed Gaara's strength.
• Hyuga Kagami gave the Fourth Kazekage the Third Hokage's letter, which revealed that Hanzo was dead and Akatsuki controlled the Land of Rain.
• Hyuga Kagami told the Fourth Kazekage that Konoha, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure would attack Akatsuki, while Iwagakure and Kirigakure were suspected of private contact with Akatsuki.
• Hyuga Kagami warned that Yura was likely Sasori's spy in Sunagakure, and the Fourth Kazekage agreed to keep the plan secret and meet the Hokage to coordinate the attack.

After Gaara lost control and was defeated, Rasa ordered his execution, but Hyuga Kagami secretly rescued him. Gaara woke in a remote cave and asked whether he was already dead.

• Rasa visited the imprisoned Gaara, decided to end his life, and had Sunagakure Anbu take him to an execution site in the desert.
• Sunagakure's leaders watched as hundreds or thousands of Explosive Tags detonated around Gaara, and Anbu reported that the Jinchuriki had been erased.
• Rasa ordered a reconnaissance unit to watch for Shukaku's revival, then told Chiyo and Pakura to prepare for a secret meeting with the Hokage.
• Hyuga Kagami tended a campfire in a distant cave beside the unconscious Gaara, who woke and asked whether he had already died.